Dreams Park Grad Signed For $330M COOPERSTOWN – Baseball star Bryce Harper, now 26, who played at Cooperstown Dreams Park in 2003-05, has just signed a 13-year, $330-million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. It is the largest contract in MLB and pro-sports history. WELCOME, DST: The long dark season ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 10, when we’re advised to turn our clocks forward one hour: Daylight Savings Time is here! ►OTSEGO COUNTY’S NEW “Energy Task Force” held its first…
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
This Week's Newspapers - Page 419
HANEYS TO ENTER CHAMBER HALL OF FAME At Cooperstown Bat, Best Yet To Come By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN – At Cooperstown Bat Company, it’s the sound of success. “We have noticed a difference in the sound of the ball coming off of our bats,” said owner Tim Haney. “We know that the process in how we slowly dry the wood gives the bat a different sound. You can hear the difference.” Cooperstown Bat is one of this year’s six…
Conductor Contest, Arts, Craft Shows And Irish Tunes! Will it be taxi king Al Rubin? Plucky reporter Libby Cudmore? Or musical maven Cindy Donaldson? Only you can decide as you vote for your favorite conductor and hear the Sultans of String at the annual Catskill Symphony Cabaret Concert, featuring guest conductor Paul Massey. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, www.catskillsymphony.net. • View the CAA’s latest exhibit, “An Artistic Discovery,” on display through March 29.…
Laurens’ Ric Brockway Challenges Kathy Clark By JIM KEVLIN LAURENS – Ric Brockway is used to climbing mountains. At 60, he put on a backpack and hiked the 120-mile Northville-Placid Trail through the Adirondacks. Two years ago, at 70, he climbed the 35 tallest Catskills, winning membership in the 3500 Club. This year, he’s taking on another challenge: Running against former county board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego-Laurens, in the June 25 Republican primary. With his wife, Laurens Town Justice Patricia…
Jane Higgins-Main, 60; Artist, Proprietor Of Gilbertsville Gallery GILBERTSVILLE – Jane Evelynne Higgins-Main, 60, an artist who ran the Hilton Bloom Art Studio here for 15 years, passed away on Friday, March 1, 2019, in the comfort of her home. Jane was born in Sidney on Feb. 20, 1959, the daughter of Edward A. and J. Louise (Williams) Higgins. A 1976 graduate of Sidney High School, Jane went on to study fine arts at SUNY Oneonta and the University of…
Virginia M. Gracey, 86; Church & Scott Clerk For 29 Years COOPERSTOWN – Virginia M. Gracey, long-time sales clerk at Church & Scott, passed peacefully Saturday afternoon, March 2, 2019, at Bassett Hospital. A native and life-long resident of Cooperstown, she was 86. Born Virginia Mae Potter on Oct. 16, 1932, in Cooperstown, she was one of five children of William Leigh Potter and Florence Elizabeth Smith Potter. Graduating from Cooperstown High School, Class of 1950, she joined Remington Rand…
While Others Dream, Kosmers Have Lived Energy-Efficiently For Decade By JIM KEVLIN FLY CREEK – To many, it’s a dream: a home heated by renewables. But John Kosmer and wife Linda have been living that dream for a decade and, if not pinching themselves, are still dreamily in love with the be-windowed and expansive – and, above all, cozy – south-facing house on a hilltop outside the Fly Creek hamlet.…
Hometown People: Feb. 28 – Mar. 01, 2019 Table Rock Bouldering Cuts Ribbon On Adventure HOLOQUIST ON LIST: Jennica M. Holoquist, Oneonta, has been named to the Dean’s List at Clemson University for the fall 2018 semester. She is majoring in Psychology. MANCUSO LAUDED: Logan J. Mancuso, Oneonta, is on the Fall 2018 Dean’s List at St. Lawrence University. He is a member of the Class of 2019 and is majoring in neuroscience. After 40 Years Town Clerk Is…
Trustees Intensify Noise Law Push The village trustees this week directed Zoning Enforcement Officer Jane Gentile to find noise ordinances in other municipalities so they can have a law in place in Cooperstown, perhaps by this summer. Click below for details. Objective Standards Sought To Control Noise Downtown …
BOUND VOLUMES: Feb. 28 – Mar. 01, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Music and Dancing are generally taught by masters who profess these arts; concerning which we shall only observe that they are frequently believed to be of too great importance in female education; and on that account that too much time is expended on their acquirement. It is perhaps more desirable, that young ladies should play, sing, and dance, so well as to amuse themselves and their friends, than to…