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Enthusiastic Frank Rollins Fans Find Mementos In His Archives COOPERSTOWN – Hundreds of Cooperstonians are taking trips down memory lane at this hour, looking through thousands of the remaining images from Frank Rollins photo archives and buying those memories for 25 cents apiece. Rollins, who was hired as a Cooperstown school teacher in the late 1950s, and for the next half-century took tens of thousands of photos – from street scenes, to school plays, to formal graduation portraits, to sporting…
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Frank Rollins’ Images Available To All By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 COOPERSTOWN Frank Rollins joined Cooperstown High School in 1957 as a vocal teacher. That was his career. But he also spent the next half-century with a camera around his neck recording village life, sports matches, graduations, school plays, weddings, community life, tens of thousands of images. That is his legacy. He retired in 1974 from teaching, but continued shooting, with negatives…
County Considers End To Cooperstown DMV By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 It may not happen, but one option on the table right now as the Otsego County Board of Representatives completes its budget deliberations is closing the Department of Motor Vehicles’ Cooperstown office and consolidating DMV operations in Oneonta. It’s one of a few unresolved issues – in addition to merging Oneonta’s two senior citizen sites into one, at Nader Towers, giving…
As Susquehanna’s Source, Pure Water Matters Here Most By SANDRA VITTI & LARRY BENNETT Edition of Thursday-Friday Nov. 13-14 The Susquehanna River is the longest river in the East, providing drinking water to millions of people and a place for residents across multiple states to boat, swim and fish. What’s more, Cherry Valley Creek, Moss Pond and other local waterways help support dozens upon dozens of small businesses that help New Yorkers use and explore their waterways. Brewery Ommegang, for…
Parents, Don’t Send Wrong Message About Gambling Editor’s Note: Dr. Dostal is executive director of the LEAF Council on Alcoholism & Addictions. As we gear up for the height of the football season and cheer of the holiday season, I want to take this time to remind parents that seemingly insignificant family happenings can have a lasting impact on children. If you want to gamble on sites like omi88.com, then that’s 100% fine! Just be aware of the surrounding impact…
Alas, Dear Citizens, Perhaps Some Of The Fault Is In Ourselves Edition of Thursday-Friday Nov. 13-14 It’s such a cliche we won’t even say it directly: all-ay, olitics-pay is-ay ocal-lay. Yes, such was certainly the case in the race for Congress in the 19th, the district that stretches along the Hudson River, then hooks over to, eventually, Otsego County. The incumbent running for his third term, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, was everywhere. And even after he soundly defeated…
Ag Commissioner, In Cooperstown, Hopes To Connect NY Products, Customers By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 13-14 2014 Richard Ball, commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture & Markets, wants to make sure everyone in the state has access to Upstate’s bounty. “We have a great resource here in central New York,” he said. “And we want more farmers to have New York State as a customer.” Ball, who is from neighboring Schoharie…
All Recall Former Mayor’s Vitality, Civic Duty, Humor Jim Georgeson, 1919-2014 By LIBBY CUDMORE Edition of Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 When Sam Nader succeeded Jim Georgeson as mayor in 1960, he found nothing that Georgeson had left behind. “I said to him, ‘You didn’t even leave me a sheet of paper’!” recalled Nader. “And he said, ‘I knew you were smart enough that you could figure it out’!” Georgeson, 95, died Wednesday, Oct. 22, at The Otsego Manor, three days before…