THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 18-19, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK OTSEGO CHAMBER’S BEST of the BEST LES GRUMMONS, Distinguished Citizen PATHFINDER VILLAGE, Distinguished Business FRONT PAGE 2 Oneontas Dip Toe Into Geothermal Bassett Doctor Leads Top MD Association Russell, Dewey In Top 30% In Boston Marathon B&B Owner Drowns As Car Runs Into Lake New CSO Executive Seasoned On Opera Stage Main Street Finale Adds Futuristic Trash Cans Doubleday Redo Scales Back 3rd-Base Pavilion…
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from Pastor Joe Perdue Baptist Church Programs Reach Out To Kids, Moms To the Editor: I am excited to tell our friends and neighbors about two new programs that First Baptist Church is offering to our community. Both will meet Sundays at 9 a.m. at 21 Elm Street in Cooperstown. The first is “Spark: Activate Faith” for all kids through fifth grade. This is not your traditional, boring, or antiquated Sunday School. Each week we’ll learn something new about God…
B&B Owner Drowns As Car Runs Into Lake 2 Officers Injured In Rescue Attempt By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – It’s rare, but not unheard of, for a car to end up in a body of water, said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. after last week’s fatal submersion off the boat ramp into Otsego Lake at the end of Fair Street. “Before I was sheriff, someone drove into the Susquehanna River,” he said. “They were…
EDITORIAL With Brainy, Creative Execs, Otsego County’s Future Secure A couple of months ago, Gerry Benjamin, director of SUNY New Paltz’s Benjamin Center and an expert on Upstate New York, saw the region’s economic future in nurturing and growing what we have. Craft brewing and yogurt production, in particular, are developing nicely, he said, although neither is generating sufficient jobs at sufficient salaries to begin replacing the manufacturing behemoth that was the Mohawk Valley. The advantage to incremental growth, of…
Bassett’s Delong Leading 154,000 MDs Worldwide Cherry Valley Resident Chairman Of American College Of Physicians COOPERSTOWN – As of Saturday, April 13, 154,000 physicians from around the U.S. and the world are looking to Dr. Douglas M. DeLong for leadership. Bassett Hospital’s DeLong, MD, FACP, was elevated to chairman of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians during Internal Medicine Meeting 2019, ACP’s annual scientific meeting held last Thursday through Saturday in Philadelphia.…
THOMAS WOLF IN TOP JOB New CSO Exec Seasoned On Europe’s Opera Stage By JIM KEVLIN • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – A lyric tenor, Thomas Wolf’s operatic career was on the rise. Southwest Germany’s largest daily, Munchner Merkur, celebrated his “particularly beautiful and warm tenor” voice, “wonderfully controlled.” In 1992, when a headliner dropped out of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” at Munich’s opera house, it seemed like his big break had arrived. As the date approached, however, he…
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2 Oneontas Dip Toe Into Geothermal Consultant Explores Applying Method To Main St., Southside By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal WEST ONEONTA – Geothermal energy fever is sweeping Greater Oneonta. First the city and now the town are “seriously considering” going geothermal, using heat from beneath the earth to warm above-earth homes. Jay Egg, a geothermal system consultant, met at length with City Manager George Korthauer and other staffers Tuesday, April 9, and is due back at…
HOW SWEET IT IS! Jacob Russell, Patrick Dewey Among Top 30% Boston Marathon Finishers By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – Patrick Dewey knew just how to help Jacob Russell get up the Boston Marathon’s infamous Heartbreak Hill, the half-mile uphill stretch just past the 20-mile mark. “He was humming Led Zepplin’s ‘Heartbreaker’, appropriately,” said Russell. “It really gave me encouragement. It was a challenge, but it’s not as bad as the Sleeping Lion!” The…
Why Notre Dame Matters, The Facts From Wikipedia Editor’s Note: Here’s a just-the-facts recitation of why Notre Dame matters, from the Wikipedia entry. Notre-Dame de Paris, (“Our Lady of Paris”), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, Paris, France. The cathedral is consecrated to the Virgin Mary and considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. Its innovative use of the rib vault and flying buttress,…