CAA, Smithy Agree On United Management Wright, Raddatz New Board’s Leadership Edition of: June 6, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN Cooperstown’s two premier arts organizations – the Smithy Pioneer Gallery and Cooperstown Art Association – have announced the formation of an alliance “for the purpose of enhancing the experience of the arts” locally. According to the announcement, the two entities’ boards on Friday, May 30, voted to create a “corporate union” with a single board and executive director, but the Smithy and…
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City of the Hills Edition Of: June 6, 2014 Summit Goal: Alignment Of Jobs, Studies An Education/Workforce Summit to look at aligning local colleges’ programs with jobs available in the region is planning 9 a.m.-noon Wednesday, June 18, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Hall. The program is planned by CORE,(Career Opportunities in Rural Education), a consortium of 20 businesses, school districts, colleges and state legislators. Those interested in attending should call Elizabeth Rickard at 286-7721, ext. 8421, or e-mail at erickard@milfordcentral.org by June…
Butterflies Replace Elephant On Glimmerglass Fest Lawn Edition: June 5, 2014 By Jim Kevlin ‘Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival Saturday, June 1. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him glide.…
Bearing Witness to D-Day Edition of: June 6, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN ‘An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon said, and he must have known. In Bonaparte’s view, then, Alex Bauer, a 22-year-old Army cook – “I looked like I was 12”; he is now 92 – played as critical a role as anyone in the successful D-Day assault on June 6, 1944, and subsequent battles that drove the Germans back into their Fatherland and, on May 8, 1945, to…
‘Friendliest Town’ Future Promising, Mike Long Says Edition of: June 6, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN Syracuse did it with Armory Square. Rochester, with Corn Hill. Buffalo and Albany are following suit. All these cities see quality housing in city centers as the key to downtown revivals, Oneonta’s first city manager, Mike Long, said in an interview on his last day in the city. If anything, Oneonta is ahead of the wave. “Projects like Bresee’s” – completed this spring and immediately fully…
Raise Bed Tax 2 Percent To Aid Municipalities, 3 Leaders Say Saying municipal finances are structurally flawed, the top political leaders of Cooperstown and Oneonta have issued a statement calling for a 2 percent bed-tax increase to benefit the communities that generate bed-tax revenues. Cooperstown Village Mayor Jeff Katz, Oneonta City Mayor Dick Miller and Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood provided the statement to Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal, which published it in full in the editions that arrive on…
COOPERSTOWN CHAMBER EXECUTIVE PAT SZARPA HANDS IN RESIGNATION COOPERSTOWN – Patricia Szarpa has resigned as executive director of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, effective immediately, it was announced a few moments ago. She has held the position since April 2012. “I thank the Cooperstown Chamber members and Board of Directors for their support during my tenure. I am now looking forward to pursuing new opportunities,” Szarpa said on tendering her resignation. Ken Meifert, president of the Chamber board, said, “The Board thanks…
Oneonta Rider Trombley Wins Top Award COOPERSTOWN Oneonta’s Taylor Trombley again won the John Moffat Perpetual Trophy at The Farmers’ Museum Benefit Horse Show Sunday, June 8, at Iroquois Farm. Trombley, who attended Hartwick College, also took first place in Open Equitation Over Fences/Class 11 and Open Equitation/Flat/Class 12. Another local rider, Avalon Kubis of Cooperstown, took first place in Open Equitation Over Fences/Class 9. The Farmers’ Museum released the list of local winners today.…
Otsego Lake Association Plans First Fourth Of July Boat Show COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego Lake Association will sponsor its first annual “We Love Our Lake” decorated, judged boat parade at 6 p.m. Friday, July 4, rain or shine. Paticipating decorated boats will gather off-shore at Three Mile Point, three miles north of Cooperstown on West Lake Road, the start and finish of the parade route. The SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station’s research vessel, Anondontoides,which will serve as a committee barge of…
Crash Closed Route 166 After Motorcyclist Injured CHERRY VALLEY – A Warnersville motorcyclist was flown by Life Net helicopter to Albany Medical Center after his southbound 2013 Kawasaki was struck from behind as it slowed to turn off Route 166 onto Route 33 at 3 p.m. Friday, the county Sheriff’s Department reports. Route 166 was closed for about two hours. The motorcyclist was Jason D. Wilber, 38. The driver of the delivery van that struck the bike was Todd J.…