Village Administrator Teri Barown Retires By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In 2016, administering a half-dozen major state and federal grants at the same time, Cooperstown’s part-time, unpaid village trustees concluded they needed more administrative firepower at 22 Main. A Village Board committee – Mayor Jeff Katz and Trustees (now mayor) Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Lou Allstadt – invited a team from NYCOM, the New York Conference of Mayors, to assess operations. When NYCOM recommended creating the…
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Route 205 Dedicated To Fallen Hartwick Marine By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK – The last weekend Michael Winslow spent with his brother, Marine Sgt. John Kempe Winslow, the two went hunting up on a hill overlooking their hometown of Hartwick. “We successfully hunted two bucks,” he said, pointing over his shoulder at the hill behind him. “We always enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping.” Now, in the valley below that hill, a sign dedicated to Winslow, who was…
Wenck: CCS Students ‘Happy To Be Here’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At Cooperstown Central School, it’s good to be back. “Last week, the faculty and staff were all saying, ‘We can’t wait until Monday,’” said interim Superintendent Ramona Wenck,. “The kids are happy to be here too. It’s like they say – you don’t know what you have until you’ve lost it.” Divided into “A” and “B” cohorts, students returned to the campus on Monday,…
Freeman’s Journal Village’s Official Paper COOPERSTOWN – At its reorganization meeting Monday, Oct. 5, the Village Board designated The Freeman’s Journal, which has been serving Coopertown since 1808, as an official newspaper. Watch for legal advertising and official notices to keep you apprised of happenings inside 22 Main.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY October 8, 2020 150 Years Ago The Oneonta Post Office is open for business from 7 o’clock a.m. to 8 o’clock p.m. On Sunday, from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and half an hour at Noon. Mails close as follows: First Railroad Mail East: 10 a.m.; Second Railroad Mail East: 4:10 p.m.; First Railroad Mail West: 11:15 a.m.; Mails for Morris Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mails for Laurens Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mail for Delhi via North Franklin, Tri-Weekly: 11:30 a.m.…
BOUND VOLUMES October 8, 2020 200 YEARS AGO The elephant Horatio has died. On dissection, his spine was found to be split and much fractured. The losses sustained by the owners, amounts to $18,000 or $20,000. It is said that when M. Robbin, the late owner, revisited the elephant after a long absence, this noble animal manifested the utmost joy at the sight of his old master. A girl, about 10 years of age, a native of the United States,…
It’s Beginning To Look Less Like Halloween By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Come late October, there will be no parade of ghosts and goblins haunting Cooperstown and Oneonta. The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce won’t be seeking a parade permit, Chamber Executive Tara Burke told Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. “But many businesses are going to continue giving out candy, as they have for the last decade,” the mayor said. For a second year in a row, Oneonta won’t have…
LETTER from CHEYENNE KLINE Law-Abiding Citizens, Criminals Different To the Editor: I was born and raised in Otsego County. My whole family are hunters, and therefore we all own firearms. My siblings and myself were taught at a young age and learned how to use them properly. I am a gun owner and hunter now. It is our Constitutional right to own and bear arms. I have taken safety courses that are required to hunt and also obtain my pistol…
Q&A WITH MIKE HENRICI This Year, How Do I Vote? Editor’s Note: With changes in voting procedures resulting from this year’s coronavirus threat, Maureen Murray and Aviva Schneider of the League of Women Voters, Cooperstown chapter, interview Michael Henrici, Democratic election commission at the county Board of Elections, to help clarify the options. Q: What should voters know about registration? The deadline to register is Oct. 9. To check to be sure you’re registered, go to www.voteotsego.com. You can also…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 1-2, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Trustee Mac Benton Wins Another Term 3 At Bassett Found COVID-19 Positive Bassett CEO’s Aim: Knit Network Together For Sheriff, Son’s Investigation Not Over Museum Hosts Safer, Longer Celebration Governor Appoints Casale To Election Board Repeat Offenders Have Oneonta On Edge It’s Beginning To Look Less Like Halloween EDITORIAL Trustees, Launch ‘Year Of Cooperstownian’ Was Polling Place Big Enough? LETTERS KLINE: Law-Abiding…
