AllOTSEGO EXCLUSIVE • THE FAIR FOODIE Deep-Fried Pop Tarts Savory, But Not For The Faint Of Heart By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com MORRIS – For some, the Otsego County Fair is all about the rides. For others, the games, the chance to win a giant plush tiger or a ribbon for the best cow. For me, this week, it’s all about the food. I’ve always been fascinated by fair food, the seemingly endless variety of deep-fried deliciousness, the kind…
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Deputies Say Teen Driver Under Influence Of Drugs, Speeding In Fatal Crash In May COOPERSTOWN – A teenager from Charlotteville, Schoharie County, is facing aggravated vehicular homicide and other felony charges after he was arrested this week by Otsego County Sheriff’s Deputies. Paul J. Clark, Jr., 18, was impaired by drugs and speeding when he crashed his Saturn into the back of a Fedex truck on Route 40 near South Worcester shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, May 16, Investigator Michael Ten…
Enso String Quartet To Open Coop Summer Music Fest ’14 COOPERSTOWN – Music by Puccini, Verdi and Tchaikovsky, performed by the Enso String Quartet, will open the 2014 Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at The Farmers’ Museum. Founded at Yale University in 1999, the Enso String Quartet has was Strad magazine as “thrilling” and praised by the Washington Post for its “glorious sonorities.” The Enso has won top prizes at the Concert Artists Guild competition…
Oneonta’s West Street Will Be Closed Saturday Morning ONEONTA – West Street will be closed to through traffic from Clinton Street to Ravine Parkway 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday while the Department of Public Service installs a storm pipe across the road. The West Street entrance to Hartwick College will remain accessible to northbound local traffic. Any questions, call the City Engineering Department at 432-6465.…
Gibson’s Anti-Lyme Disease Bill Over Hurdle In House Committee U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson’s anti-Lyme Disease legislation – the Tick-borne Disease Research Transparency & Accountability Act of 2014 – has been voted out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, his office announced today. H.R. 4701, introduced by the 19th District Republican in May, seeks to prioritize federal research on Lyme and related diseases and give patients a seat at the table.…
New Bank Of Cooperstown Taking Shape In Oneonta…
BOUND VOLUMES, July 10, 2014 200 YEARS AGO A new invented Torpedo Boat, resembling a Turtle floating just above the surface of the water, and sufficiently roomy to carry nine persons within, having on her back a coat of mail, consisting of three large bombs, which could be discharged by machinery, so as to bid defiance to any attack by barges, left this city (New London, Connecticut) one day last week to blow up some of the enemy’s ships.…
BOUND VOLUMES, July 17, 2014 200 YEARS AGO William Cheney informs his friends and the public in general, that he will communicate to any person, the art of breaking horses or cattle, so that they may be made docile and gentle, or will break them himself for a reasonable compensation. He can inform any person, so that they will be enabled to break a Horse, that can be rode, in the space of one hour – even the wildest…
IN MEMORIAM: Kathleen A. Bachand, 93; Cooperstown Realtor Margaret Savoie’s Mother COOPERSTOWN – Kathleen A. Bachand, 93, mother of Cooperstown realtor Margaret Savoie, passed away Sunday morning, July 27, 2014, at Otsego Manor. Kathleen was a kind and loving woman with a great sense of humor, and with a deep and abiding love of her family and many friends. She was born Dec. 18, 1920, in Hartford, Conn., a daughter of Anthony and Philomena (Vendetti) DiPaola. She married Edward A.…
Moonalice Band, Plus ‘Field Of Dreams’ Featured Saturday In Lakefront Park COOPERSTOWN – It’s no Boston Pops, Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope acknowledged to the Village Board last evening, but her organization is partnering with Glimmerglass Film Days, Brewery Ommegang and the Cooperstown Chamber to try to capture a little bit of that sizzle. This coming Saturday, the four organizations — with the trustees’ approval — are planning a free evening of movie and music in Lakefront Park. 7-9 p.m.,…