LETTER From STRASBOURG Day Begins With Baguette And Ends With A Bon Nuit Tuesday the 17th of March, a bright blue sky unlike the past two weeks is hovering over northern France, making the idea of a confinement even more difficult to understand. The world is continuing to breathe while its people are infected. The new virus, COVID-19, has taken more than 20,000 lives in France. The country’s president, Emanuel Macron, announced Monday night, that the country will have to…
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Expanded Cooperstown Distillery Setting Sights on ‘Legacy’ Level By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN –The rickhouse, where fine whiskey is aged, is bright, high-ceilinged, and there’s 7,000 square feet of it. And the 550 barrels of aged whiskey it stores today – en route to 1,500 – will allow Cooperstown Distillery’s brands to compete with the best whiskeys in the world, proprietor Gene Marra will tell you. “This elevates us to the status of the Big Boys,” said…
Buyers Fleeing New York But Homes For Sale Scarce By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The real-estate market in Margaretville and Andes, in southern Delaware County, are “on fire right now,” said Michele Stoeger, executive officer, Otsego-Delaware Board of Realtors. “Everyone’s working for downstate people.” And the flames are lapping into southern Otsego County, said veteran realtor Joan Fox. “I haven’t seen demand like this – ever. “We have agents in four counties – Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie and Chenango,”…
LETTER from ANDREW STAMMEL Cut Tourism Funding To Prevent Layoffs To the Editor: Last week, the Otsego County Board of Represent-atives made the tragic decision to terminate 59 employees, amounting to hundreds of years of institutional knowledge and public service. While the euphemism “layoff” continues to be used, it doesn’t accurately reflect what occurred. These jobs have been eliminated. To return, multiple committees and the full board would need to re-create, fund and then fill these jobs; an unlikely prospect…
BOUND VOLUMES June 5, 2020 205 YEARS AGO At the late Court of Oyer & Terminer, held in this county by His Honor Judge Spencer, Samuel McCollom was convicted of stealing a pocket-book from a Mr. Henry of Cherry Valley, and sentenced to four years imprisonment at hard labor in the State Prison. Intemperance, the father of much mischief and wickedness, seems to have led this man to his present disgraceful situation. It appeared from his own acknowledgement to one…
Horned Dorset’s Acclaimed Cuisine Delivered Locally By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Hot cheese dip, baked polenta, a rack of lamb and a chocolate bombe…the only thing the Horned Dorset can’t provide with to-go dinners is live jazz. “It would be hard to have a live band with social distancing!” said Chef Aaron Wratten. Reacting to COVID-10 stringencies, the French fine-dining establishment – famed for many miles around – has begun offering pick-up dinners, with weekly dropoffs in Cooperstown,…
What’s Fun In Otsego County Virtual Theater, Celebrate Pride, Or Go Camping It’s a virtual night at the theater as the Fenimore Art Museum presents the Glimmerglobe Theatre’s 2019 performance of “The Taming of the Shrew.” Friday, June 5, The Fenimore Art Museum. www.facebook.com/fenimoreartmuseum/ • Now that the weather is nicer, take a guided walking tour of Oneonta and learn the history of the Oneonta Hotel, The Fairchild Mansion and other buildings. Afterwards, tour some of the History Center’s past…
Money Talk Common Sense Ain’t So Common ’Tis early days, but what have we learned from the virus crisis? One thing is that we don’t know what we don’t know. And we are often not certain about what we think we do know. For instance, we don’t know whether we should tell people to stay home, inside. Or should we encourage them to get out in the fresh air. Some experts say stay inside. Others throw facts at us that…
OMG! Retired Maritime Lawyer Steers Cooperstown Diner By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Caspar Ewig met his wife, Patricia, in 1973, she had a condition for going steady with her. “She told me that if we started dating, Cooperstown was in my future,” he said. “She spent every summer up here, taking horseback riding lessons from the Moffats and staying with her aunt on Pioneer Street.” Now, 47 years later, he’s fulfilled that edict, taking over…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 28-29, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Sidewalk Sales All Summer In Cooperstown Imagine Dining Out In Middle of Main Street Auction Barn Exempt From Cuomo Order Numbers Show Oneonta DMV Had To Go Awaiting Sellers Market, Realtors Go Tech Andrew M. Blum; Many With Many Friends CCS To Name Principal For Lower Grades AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 ‘Chateau de Weeds’ Certified Wildlife Habitat Retired Lawyer To Run Cooperstown Diner Baseball Movies,…
