Editorial Inspired By 5 Heroes At Fire Scene, Consider Joining Good Samaritans What’s happened in the past week is another opportunity to be impressed about the brave men and women who respond, in dark of night and bright of day, any hour, any day, when fires and accidents happen in Otsego County. Training and experience have made mishaps so rare, we forget – certainly the public, but volunteers and ambulance squad members, too – that every fire call and crash…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, MARCH 5 Cooperstown Trustee Candidates To Debate DEBATE – 7-9 p.m. Three candidates for two seats on the Cooperstown Village Board – Democrats MacGuire Benton and Joe Membrino, and Republican Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns – will debate in the Village Board room, lower level, at Village Hall, 22 Main. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Election is Wednesday, March 18.…
IN MEMORIAM: Shirley L. Bliss, 88; Enjoyed Long Life In Oneonta Area ONEONTA – Her family announces with great sorrow that Shirley L. Bliss, 88, joined her husband, Elmer; children, Sherry and Tommy; and many family and friends, in the home of our Lord in heaven, on Feb. 28, 2020. She passed peacefully, at home, with dignity, surrounded by her devoted and loving children. She was born on May 20, 1931, in Rome, the daughter of Florence (Cough) and Herbert…
Reprinted From Today’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal EMMONS MYSTERY 4 Horses Are Rescued, But Homeowner’s Body Found By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EMMONS – The Otsego County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of a well-known Oneonta area hairdresser who was found in his rural home late Monday evening alongside the Susquehanna River by firefighters responding to a report of a house on fire. “He didn’t die before the fire started,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “And…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 23-24, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE With Retirement Decision, Seward Era At End Schoharie’s Tague May Run To Succeed Seward At Anticipated, Derek Jeter To Enter Hall Of Fame County Treasurer Back From Djibouti Deployment FOTOT Aims To Buy, Revive Oneonta Theater Trial Of Truitt Begins In Oneonta Fatal Arson Schenevus Students May End Up At Milford Common Council Funds Destination Oneonta Finally, City Buys Oneonta Ford Property…
ERA ENDING Senator Seward, County Mainstay, Planning To Retire Will Serve Through End Of 17th Term ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, announced a few moments ago he will not seek reelection this year to the seat he has held since 1986. “I have decided not to seek reelection in 2020 and will retire from the Senate when my current term, my 17th, expires at the end of the year,” Seward said in a statement released at 11:54 a.m…
Christmas Bulbs On Beards Recall Heller’s Happy Life By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Last Christmas, Mike and Erika Heller bought a set of “beard ornaments” for John, Mike’s brother. “We thought they were hilarious,” said Erika. “He just started putting them on, and my kids” – Donovan, Maddox, Macall and Rawley – “were showing him where else on his beard he could hang them!” They found those beard ornaments, boxed up with the rest of his Christmas gifts,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 2-3, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Social Media Buoys ‘Gun Sanctuary’ Effort Catskill Symphony Picks Polish Conductor DOT Denied Grant; Now, Pedestrian Felled ‘Shelter Us’ Campaign Goal At $5 Million Public Hearing Set On Bassett Parking Lot EDITORIALS 2019 Full Of Oddities, But Things Change In New Decade, We’ll Get What We Expect COLUMNS SEWARD: Lawless Rewarded, Lives Endangered? ZAGATA: Save Eagles From Environmentalism LETTERS to the EDITOR…
IN MEMORIAM: Bill Peeters, 80; Worked For Town, County Highway Departments BURLINGTON FLATS – William “Bill” Myron Peeters, 80, former Town of Burlington highway superintendent and a 34-year employee of the county High Department, passed unexpectedly at his home in Burlington Flats, on Sunday Dec. 29, 2019. Bill was born May 31, 1939, in Westford. He was married to wife Linda Lee Peeters for 36 years, marrying her on March 26, 1983 in Milford. She and three children survive.…
IN MEMORIAM: William Rathbun IV, 59; Taught Trades At BOCES For 23 Years SPRINGFIELD – Williams “Bill” A. Rathbun, IV, 59, who taught manual trades at BOCES for almost a quarter-century, passed away Thursday morning, Dec. 26, 2019, at Bassett Hospital, surrounded by his family. Bill was born on Oct. 26, 1960, in Cooperstown, the son of Williams A. Rathbun III and Virginia (Marr) Rathbun of Springfield. He was raised in the Springfield area and graduated from the former Springfield…
