Copter Circles Cooperstown As K9s Acclimate To Flying COOPERSTOWN – Choppers have been circling Cooperstown all morning. Actually, it’s one chopper, landing and taking off and landing the taking off, getting K9s from the State Police Canine Unit on Chicken Farm Hill Road to overcome any fear of flying. Sgt. Jason Brewer, who has been with the unit for 13 years, explained that the K9s respond to situations around the state, and the training gets them used to the noise…
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Students Plan Substance-Free Walk By Libby Cudmore • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 With the local and national conversation focusing on college binge drinking, SUNY Oneonta students Gabriela Donato and James Dipaoli are hoping to show students and the community that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Donato, a member of the Sigma Gamma Phi sorority and Dipaoli, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, have teamed up to lead the Substance Abuse…
When Trouble Knocks, Perry, Nowak Answer By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 For Steve Perry, the lowest point in 30 years of trying to keep the student rowdiness under control came in the mid-1990s: One year, SUNY Oneonta “dismissed” 300 students at mid-year, sending them home for poor grades and out-of-hand behavior. That was a breaking point, the campus’ vice president/student development recalled in an interview in his office in the Netzer Administration Building. So…
Chickens a la Oneonta? Common Council Considers Putting Recipe On Books By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 It’s not a matter of which came first – the chickens or the ordinance. It’s about which one will go on the chopping block. “There’s a lot of concern about where our food comes from,” said City Council member Bob Brzozowski. “People want to know that their chickens are cared for, what they’re fed and the quality of their…
Planning Reunions Revived School Spirit By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 Getting active in the OHS Alumni Association was a chance for Kathy Hewlett to experience high school all over again. “I feel like I missed a lot, graduating early,” she said. “This is a way of redeeming myself.” Hewlett – Kathy Moore when she graduated in 1974 – is this year’s Alumni of the Year, to be fully recognized during the upcoming Alumni…
90 People Envision Future At Cooperstown ‘Charrette’ By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Close to 90 people spent two hours at this evening’s “Design Charrette,” detailing and discussing the pros, cons, dreams and fears of “America’s Most Perfect Village,” as a community visioning effort got underway. “A lot of community happened around this room,” declared Lisa Nagle, a principal in Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, when the session in the CCS cafeteria was over. The goal is to develop an updated…
For 2 Cooperstown Families, Chickens Help Children Learn By LIBBY CUDMORE•AllOTSEGO With four white and brown chickens quietly clucking and pecking in a sun-dappled yard, you might think that you’re on a country farm at harvest time. Nope – you’re in Cindy Falk’s backyard on Irish Hill. “We knew people had raised chickens in the village,” said Falk, a CGP professor who is also a village trustee. “My daughter Elizabeth wanted some, so we went down to ask.” In the…
Veterans Get VIP Treatment On Honor Flight By LIBBY CUDMORE•allotsego.com Edition Of Thursday-Friday, Sept. 2-3 Wherever George Voris and Harold Lamberton went, there were people waiting. “They had flags, signs welcoming us,” said Voris. “Everywhere we went, people were greeting us with banners.” “On the way to the airport, we had a motorcycle escort,” added Lamberton. “At the airport, they had an honor guard waiting for us.” Lamberton and Voris, both residents of St. James Manor, took part on Sept.…
Scots Terrified Establishment, In End, Establishment Won Edition of Thursday-Friday, Sept. 25-26 Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Scott Buchanan, formerly this newspaper’s graphic artist, is living in Scotland. EDINBURG, Scotland Forty-five percent of the electorate in the highest turnout in modern political history voted for change, and didn’t get it. Fifty-five percent voted in fear of change, but change for the worse is what they shall have. The political landscape of the U.K. has been fundamentally changed by the referendum debate. Questions…
Northern Eagle Plans Seek More Economic, Ag Growth Edition of Thursday-Friday, Sept. 25-26 Editor’s Note: Northern Eagle Beverages President George Allen delivered these remarks Thursday, Sept. 18, at the ground-breaking on an 82,000-square-foot brewery and warehouse on Browne Street, Town of Oneonta, a hops-to-taps collaboration of the Hager family’s Northern Eagle, Cooperstown Brewery Co. and Hager Hops. The vision for the future started in July 2012 when a new site was being considered in the Pony Farm Industrial Park. That…