American Legion Turns 100; Hall Collaborates With Vets By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – The American Legion, especially through American Legion Baseball, and The National Baseball Hall of have had a special relationship for over four decades. “American Legion Baseball was founded in 1925 to further citizenship through sportsmanship,” said Jeremy Field, director of communication at American Legion’s HQ in Indianapolis. “Every year our player of the year is honored at the Hall of…
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Father Rosson Retires From St. Mary’s April 1 COOPERSTOWN – Father John P. Rosson is retiring after 19 years as pastor at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown. Father Rosson is also well-known in Oneonta, where he was campus minister at Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta in the 1980s. CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY…
Alexandra F. Xanthaky, 75; Partner In Husband’s Practice ONEONTA – Alexandra Xanthaky, 75, an R.N. who was co-owner of Upper Main Street Associates, her husband’s medical practice, passed away Wednesday evening, March 20, 2019, at her home in the Town of Milford, surrounded by family. She was 75. Born Aug. 25, 1943, in Glasgow, Scotland, Sandra was a daughter of Alexander and Margaret H. (Morison) Findlay. Following World War II, the Findlay family emigrated to the United States and first…
KLUGO, ROUND 2 Entrepeneur Adding 5 Apartments In Former Stevens, Next To Bresee’s By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Third time’s the charm. “I fell in love with the Stevens (Hardware) building,” said Chip Klugo, who redeveloped Bresee’s Department Store, opening his Parkview Place apartments there in 2014. “We stayed on it and we didn’t give up.” It was the next year, 2015, nearly four years ago, that he set out to redevelop the…
COLUMN Donate! 25 Years Ago Kidney Saved My Life By STEVE BIERITZ • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta Every month of April, we celebrate National Donate Life Month. On April 17, I will celebrate the 25th year of my very successful kidney transplant. After battling the disease that caused a loss of kidney function over time, my energy level and quality of life were at a low point. That was truly a donation that changed my life and was…
COLUMN Press Ahead With Railyards, Or Oneonta, DRI In Doubt Editor’s Note: This is a comment on the DGEIS on the redevelopment of Oneonta’s D&H railyards, after the plan was pummeled at a March 5 public hearing at Foothills. Al Colone is founding president of Oneonta’s former National Soccer Hall of Fame. By AL COLONE • for Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal Dear Mayor Herzig and Common Council members: The 270 acres of the former D&H railyards are the…
CASALE: ‘Gotcha’ Politics May Backfire For Democrats By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – Democrats are in for “a huge beating,” Otsego County Republican Chairman Vince Casale said in the wake of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s non-indictment outcome of a two-year investigation of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. “They’ve hung everything they’ve had on ‘collusion’ over the past two years,” said Casale, who is also a political consultant in statewide campaigns in New York. “Now…
Cooperstown Distillery Unveils Plan To Double Its Plant, Hire 10 More By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – With five years of success behind it, the Cooperstown Distillery is looking ahead and planning to more than double the size of its plant on Railroad Avenue. “We outgrew our space many years ago,” proprietor Gene Marra told the Village Board on Monday, March 25. “Our production has been limited by our physical space.” The planned 7,500-square-foot…
The Young Turks Benton On Cooperstown Board; Oliver, Wells Aiming For County By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Community engagement doesn’t have a minimum age requirement. MacGuire Benton, 21, of Cooperstown, and two Oneontans, Clark Oliver, 21, and Wilson Wells, 23, have all thrown their hats into the ring of local politics. “Our age group is horrible about voting,” said Oliver. “And I think part of that is that we don’t have people who…
from ROBERT SEWARD Is Downtown Cooperstown Destined To Relive ‘Last Picture Show’ Fate To the Editor: “The Last Picture Show” was the last movie of the season in the film series sponsored by the Friends of the Village Library. The 1971 film is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, based on a Larry McMurtry novel. The black-and-white film is set in a small, dying, North Texas town. There is little to do, and the only movie house, on Main Street, is about…