Glimmerglass Plans National Campaign On 40th Anniversary By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 COOPERSTOWN With the Glimmerglass Festival’s 40th Anniversary arriving, Joan Desens, director of institutional advancement, and June Dzialo, marketing director, want to make sure everyone is invited to the party. “We want to support the community that has supported us,” said Desens. The Festival was one of the relatively few local entities to receive one of Governor Cuomo’s economic-development grants Thursday,…
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UGLY Comes To Cooperstown: 87 Runners, Walkers, Plus Sweaters, Vie For Ugliest By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 COOPERSTOWN It was a wooly and wild weekend in Cooperstown. Things got pretty ugly for a bit, but everyone still had a great time. Some 90 runners and walkers, plus spectators aplenty, attended the belated Rockin’ Around Cooperstown Ugly Sweater Run Saturday, Dec. 13, bringing out their Santa Snuggies, reindeer sweatshirts and sweaters bedecked with…
State Funds Village Plan: Katz Says $58,000 Assures Comp Plan Update, Strategy Completion By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 COOPERSTOWN A $58,000 CFA grant announced Thursday, Dec. 11, assures the Village of Cooperstown can update its comprehensive master plan and craft a strategy for a prosperous future, Mayor Jeff Katz said in an interview. “We’re going to come out of this not only with a master plan, but with useful financial statistics and marketing…
68 Years Later, She Returns To Scene Of Triumph By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 COOPERSTOWN In 1946, 16-year-old Elaine Moore and her trainer’s horse, Power Plant, stood in the center of the ring at Madison Square Garden to receive the Maclay Trophy at the National Horse Show. And on Sunday, Nov. 2, 68 years later, she had the honor of presenting that same award to 17-year-old Tori Colvin as honorary chair of…
Letter Misleads On State Of Town Of Otsego Affairs The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 18-19, 2014 To the Editor: As supervisor, I wish to clarify some points in Sheila Ross’ letter of Nov. 21 implying the Town of Otsego awarded raises to many at the expense of the highway workers. The only raise awarded in the new budget was a cost-of-living 1.5 percent raise to the town clerk, whose office hours are 16 but who is on…
Search For ‘Unclaimed Funds’ Ends In Disappointment HOMETOWN ONEONTA/The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 18-19, 2014 To the Editor: If you received the giant postcard from state Sen. Jim Seward’s office stating you may have “New York State Unclaimed Funds waiting for you! …There’s never any charges to search or file for unclaimed funds.” Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it. I was surfing the Internet a while back and decided to look into that site. I put in the…
Letter To Governor: Science, Economics Don’t Support Allowing Fracking In NY HOMETOWN ONEONTA/The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 19-20 Editor’s Note: Governor Cuomo revealed Monday, Dec. 15, on WCNY TV’s “Capitol Pressroom” that a fracking decision may be forthcoming by the end of the month, prompting this letter signed by 140 members of Elected Officials to Protect New York, including 25 from Otsego County, to send this letter to the governor the following day. What has happened – what…
Fresh, Brainy Town Board Needs Issue: Create Greater Oneonta Editorial for The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 18-19 2014 Say you were elected to the Oneonta Town Board, determined to prevent fracking from happening in the town. Then, you discover, there’s no natural gas under the town. Now what? You’re bright, energetic. You get along well with your equally brainy and motivated colleagues, who find themselves in the same quandary. That came to mind Monday evening, Dec. 15,…
Friends Recall SUNY Oneonta Chronicler Dr. Carey W. Brush, 1920-2013 By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 At Dr. Carey Brush’s memorial service on Friday, Dec. 12, the truth finally came out: “His jokes were terrible,” said Dr. Vince Foti. “But because we were all below him, we laughed. Puns were his favorite.” It has been almost a year since Dr. Brush, 93, who wrote “In Honor and Good Faith” (1965), the first history of…
Arc’s Main Street Gallery To Close After Exhibition By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 The Main View Gallery & Studio’s seventh annual Holiday Gift Show’s opening Friday, Dec. 5, was also a farewell. Arc Otsego’s Center for Self Expression, which operates the Main View, is losing the $80,000 “Option for People Through Services” grant that has funded the gallery’s operating budget since 2007. “Ours is one of the last to close,” said Pat Knuth,…