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The Cooperstown Sports Booster Club would like to thank the following people for their help with the 40th annual Dick White Holiday Basketball Tournament...…
In his program notes to the RCA recording of “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” Gian Carlo Menotti summarized his reason to portray King Kaspar as being slightly deaf. In Italy, he explained, Christmas gifts are not brought by Santa Claus, but rather by the Magi, the three kings mentioned in St Matthews’ Gospel.…
Although I’m not the biggest basketball fan, I learned a lot about the game by playing on the team last year. It definitely makes watching games seem so much more impressive.…
160 YEARS AGO
Standing on the threshold of a New Year, the mind naturally turns to a contemplation of the stirring events which marked the outgoing of the late Administration, and which have distinguished that of the present. The civil war which now devastates the land actually commenced in January 1861, when the rebels fired upon the vessel sent to provision and reinforce the little garrison in Fort Sumpter—now a heap of ruins. The early leaders in this wicked rebellion no…
90 Years Ago
Dr. Charles W. Letizell, President of Hartwick College, welcomed the members of the faculty and student body at the opening Chapel exercises of 1934 yesterday morning. “I trust,” he said, “that you have all had a happy and delightful Christmas season, and I wish you a happy and successful new year. I pledge you the best that is in me that this may be the most successful year in the history of the college. I think that one…
Cooperstown hosted the 40th annual Dick White Holiday Basketball Tournament on Wednesday and Thursday, December 27 and 28.…
Cooley was driving 26 students back from their morning classes at BOCES when a hornet flew in through the bus window and stung him in the back.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 Cherry Valley First Friday Events FIRST FRIDAY—5-8 p.m. “Winter Emporium.” Find art and gifts from more than 30 local artists and makers, and explore the new location for the 25 Main Collective. Refreshments served. 21 Main Street, Cherry Valley. (607) 264-5340 or visit https://www.facebook.com/25maincollective OPEN MIC—6 p.m. Share poetry, music, stories, comedy, dance, more. Admission by donation. Part of Cherry Valley First Fridays, featuring gallery openings, music, food, and fun. The Telegraph School, 83 Alden Street,…
The Otsego County Board of Representatives elected Edwin Frazier Jr., a Republican from District 1 (Unadilla) as board chair on Wednesday, January 3.…