At Christ Church, ALL Hear The Word By JIM KEVLIN In the beginning was The Word, but not everybody could hear it. Until now. At Christ Episcopal Church over the past few days, a futuristic – in the U.S. if not in Europe – magnetic loop has been installed under the floorboards, allowing hearing-impaired parishioners with “T-coils” in their hearing aids to hear The Word with “incredible clarity.” Those are the words of Angela Plowden-Wardlaw, who convinced the vestry to…
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Induction Business ‘Inundates’ Oneonta, With More To Come By LIBBY CUDMORE The Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary weekend didn’t just stay confined to the streets of Cooperstown. “It had a very positive impact on our local merchants,” said Barbara Ann Heegan, executive director, Otsego County Chamber. “The restaurants were filled, the mall was very filled.” “We were super busy,” said Red Caboose owner Tim Masterjohn, who also serves as the board president of the newly formed Destination Oneonta. “When you…
Neighbors: Ban Buses, Trucks In ‘Village Core’ By JIM KEVLIN What began as a petition drive to divert tour buses from River and Lake streets has grown into an effort to ban not only heavy buses but heavy trucks from the “village core.” The scope widened over the course of collecting 57 signatures, Chip Northrup, River Street, told the Village Board at its July meeting on Monday the 28th. “The village has the opportunity, for the first time, to address…
Baseball’s Heroes Fly Into Oneonta Airport By LIBBY CUDMORE If you saw Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan or contender Don Mattingly at the 75th Induction Weekend in Cooperstown, you can thank Dennis Finn and the Oneonta Municipal Airport. Over the weekend, 28 corporate jets, plus two private planes, landed and took off, said Finn, city Airport Commission chairman. “This is our busiest time of the year,” he said, and this Induction Weekend was the second busiest, after the Ripken/Gwynn event…
Too Tiny To Live, But Not Forgotten By LIBBY CUDMORE Reflecting on the work she does for the Holy Sews ministry, Helen Reilly tears up. “When I think about how what I’m making is the only outfit this little baby will ever wear, I still cry,” said Helen. “You have to not think about it,” said Madeline Bagnardi, another parishioner at St. Mary’s Catholic Church who participates in the effort with Reilly. Oneonta’s Holy Sews provides hospitals and funeral homes…
AllOTSEGO EXCLUSIVE • THE FAIR FOODIE Best Pancakes Wind Down Otsego Fair By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com The best pancakes in Otesgo County can only be found during the best six days of summer. The Otsego County Maple Producers set up their all-day, all-you-can-eat pancake and French toast stand in the barn at the front of the midway. After all, breakfast – even if you eat it for dinner, like I did– is the most important meal of the day. For $7,…
Expert On Last Woman Hanged Speaks In Richfield Springs At 7 RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The Richfield Springs Historic Association will present a program on the The Druse Murder by Howard Greiner, author of “The Last Woman Hanged,” at 7 p.m. this evening at the museum on West Main Street. All are welcome. Greiner will recount the murder of William Druse of the Town of Warren by his wife Roxalana in a most unusual manner. Three years later she was the last…
Schenevus School Surpluses Too High, Taxpayers Kept In Dark, Auditors Find SCHENEVUS – The Schenevus Central school board hasn’t been straightforward with the taxpayers about district finances, according to an audit released in recent days by state Auditor Thomas DiNapoli’s office. “District officials have accumulated excessive fund balances and not adequately reported the District’s financial condition to the taxpayers,” the auditors found. Among other findings, the audit found unexpended surplus exceeded the 4 percent “allowable limit,” and that information provided…
IN MEMORIAM: Wilhelmus Pijnenburg, 78; Superintendent, Leatherstocking Golf Course COOPERSTOWN – Wilhelmus “Willy” Pijnenburg, a long-time resident of Cooperstown and retired superintendent of The Leatherstocking Golf Course, passed away Saturday morning, Aug. 2, 2014, at his home on Fair Street, surrounded by his family. He was 78.…
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