THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 25-26, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE INDUCTION 2019: What A Crowd! Hughes, Venezuelan Teammate Connect Why Might C-V Ban Farm Animals? Avanzato Brothers Closing Stella Luna Parking Issue, Mayor Herzig Walks Walk Chamber To Honor Sports Center, ISD EDITORIAL No Land For Apartments? Harrumph! ‘Lofts’ May Make Dreams Come True COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: County Has Surplus, Or Deficit? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HAMMOND: Hospital, Country Going To Dogs DUNCAN:…
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What A Crowd! Induction Of Mariano Rivera, 5 Others Brings 55,000 Here By JENNIFER HILL & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Induction 2019 was notable for what didn’t happen as much as did. One, the folks who didn’t collapse from the heat. A violent storm late Saturday broke the humidity that created a steamy high of 88, making way for much drier Induction Day Sunday, July 21, with highs in the low 80s and a slight breeze keeping…
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Oneonta’s Joe Hughes Meets Teammate Again From Venezuela Season By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When OHS retired athletic director Joe Hughes discovered his former teammate, 16-season MLB shortstop Ozzie Guillén was in Cooperstown last weekend, he and wife Jane jumped in the car and drove up. “He was there to see Harold Baines get inducted in the Hall of Fame,” said Hughes, who continues as Oneonta Outlaws manager this season. “So,…
Why May C-V Ban Farm Animals? It’s Not Romeo, Mayor Says: Who Wants To Live Next To Barnyard? By JENNIFER HILL & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com CHERRY VALLEY – The good news is: Romeo will not be banished. Beyond that, it appears likely the Village Board at its next meeting, Monday, Aug. 19, will likely ban farm animals within village limits. The way Mayor Lou Guido sees it, chickens will stay, but roosters will go. Romeo is “grandfathered”…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Plenty Of Food – Who’s That At The Next Table? At Morey’s Family Restaurant, your booth neighbor might be a man dressed in a brocade jacket, pajamas and bedroom slippers, smoking a pipe and sitting in a high-back chair next to a roaring fire, a dog sitting at his feet. A girl with long blond curls in a long frilly nightgown stands next to him. The room he is in looks like a parlor room in…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS • THINGS TO DO Get Ya Baseball Here! Induction Weekend Here By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It’s the biggest weekend of the year, as the Boys of Summer return to Cooperstown for their Induction – the 80th – into the Hall of Fame at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in the field next to the Clark Sports Center. The induction is free; bring a lawn chair or blanket for comfortable viewing. Info www.baseballhall.org • In the…
SUMMER DREAMS From 15, Wax Museum Has Expanded Roster To 50 Heroes Of Game By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There’s only one place in the world where you can hang out with Ty Cobb, Derek Jeter, Shoeless Joe, Abbott and Costello and Marilyn Monroe. The Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum, 99 Main St. “We are the only baseball-themed wax museum in the world,” owner Perry Ferrara declares. The museum opened in 1994, the brainchild of Ferrara’s…
COLUMN VIEW FROM ALBANY No ‘Green Light’ Law As Loose As This One By State Sen. JIM SEWARD, R-Milford • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – While the 2019 state legislative session concluded several weeks ago, discussion continues to swirl around one of the more controversial new measures approved this year – the so-called “Green Light” law. he new law, which formally takes effect on Dec. 14, 2019, would permit illegal/undocumented immigrants to apply for standard driver’s licenses using forms of…
5 Applicants Want Funds In Round 2 Of DRI Effort ONEONTA – Five building owners in downtown Oneonta applied for $400,000 in Downtown Revitalization Funds aimed at creating affordable upper-floor housing. The deadline was Friday, July 12. Next, said Mayor Gary Herzig, the selection committee will meet and review the applications. “I hope we can fund them all,” he said.…
Friends Of Doubleday Present Doubleday Has A Friend MANY Friends Aim To Raise $800,000 To Complete Redo By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Where some people saw scraps, Jeff Katz and Quinton Hasak saw a fundraising opportunity. “When the demolition of the third-base bleachers started, the question arose about what we were going to do with them,” said former mayor Jeff Katz, now president of the Friends of Doubleday. “They’re not the original bleachers, but they’re still…
