VILLAGE DECLARES EMERGENCY As Storm Looms, Schools To Close With heavy snows expected to begin at 11 p.m. in Otsego County, Oneonta, Cooperstown and other area schools are already announcing they will be closed Friday. Also, Cooperstown Public Works Superintendent Mitch Hotaling declared a state of emergency between 11 this evening and 10 a.m. Saturday, meaning on-street parking is prohibited.…
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IN MEMORIAM: Brian McMullen, 50; Loved Fishing, Hunting, Demo Derbies ONEONTA – Brian C. “Buzz” McMullen, 50, an outdoorsman who worked for Nelson’s Tree Service, passed away Feb. 24, 2018, at home after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born June 9, 1967, in Oneonta, the son of Robert A. and Janice E. (Alger) McMullen, Sr. Buzz was an avid hunter and fisherman. He loved both immensely, being in his boat out on the lake or in the woods,…
IN MEMORIAM: John ‘Jack’ Gardner, 72; Taught Communications At SUNY Oneonta ONEONTA – John “Jack” Gardner, 72, who spent his career in SUNY Oneonta’s Speech & Communications department, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, after a long battle with cancer, surrounded by loved ones. Jack was born in Donora, Pa., and graduated from Monongahela Valley Catholic, Class of 1963. He received degrees from St. Vincent College, Pittsburgh State University and Penn State, before moving with his family to Oneonta to…
Bob Hanft Due To Receive Hartwick Honorary Degree ONEONTA – Bob Hanft ’69 of Cooperstown, ’69, former chair of the Hartwick College trustees and an Otsego County community leader, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at the 2018 Commencement at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 19, on Elmore Field. Also at the graduation, Trustee Virginia (Ginny) Elwell ’77 will receive a honorary doctor of laws degree, and Linda Reckhow Thomson ’72, Ph.D., M.S.N., will be awarded the President’s Award…
IN MEMORIAM: Dorothy May Bolton, 90; Employed 3 Decades At Edmeston Central BURLINGTON – Dorothy May Benjamin Bolton, a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who worked at Edmeston Central School for three decades, passed away Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018 in Cooperstown. Dorothy was born Sept. 18, 1927, in Burlington, the daughter of the late Murray and Florence Stickles Benjamin. She was predeceased by her loving husband of 35 years, Bruce.…
Bill Parsons’ Funeral Service On April 28 At Christ Church COOPERSTOWN – William H. Parsons, Jr. of Farmington, Conn., passed away Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. He is survived by his daughter Sarah Parsons, his son Daniel Parsons, his daughter-in-law Sinead Parsons, his grandson Hunter Parsons, and his brother Gary Parsons, as well as hundreds of family members and friends. He was predeceased by his father, William H. Parsons Sr, his mother Therese A. Parsons, and his sister Claire A. Parsons. Bill grew up in Cooperstown, graduating…
2018 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Bassett Staff Warms Up For Goodyear Plunge It wasn’t formally associated with the 26th annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival, but it could have been. For the 15th year, Bassett Hospital doctors and staff – from left, Dr. Laura Kilty, R.N. Barbara Petersen and Dr. Bruce Kramer, and Ken Stanford, who works in the Cardiac Care Unit – plunged into the Susquehanna at Mill Street, Cooperstown, at 3:45 p.m. today, a “warm-up” to the main event, Goodyear Lake…
IN MEMORIAM: Mimi Lehman, 96; Taught At Cooperstown For 30 Years ONEONTA – Mildred W. “Mimi” Lehman, who taught for three decades at Cooperstown Elementary School, passed away Friday evening, Feb. 2, 2018, in her residence at St. James’ Manor in Oneonta. She was 96. A native of Delaware County, she was born Nov. 2, 1921, in Trout Creek, one of six children of Clair L. and Mildred (Drake) Whitaker.…
One Of Coldest Weekends Ideal For Hanford Mills’ Ice Harvest In it’s 29th year, the annual Hanford Mills Museum’s Ice Harvest Festival attracted hundreds of local families to East Meredith Saturday, eager to participate in the old fashioned ice harvest. Pictured above, Josh Coleman, 8, Windsor, helped cut ice blocks from the pond, pushed the blocks up a ramp on the bank, and pulled them on a sled to the ice house. Helping Josh in the photo is Milford resident…
IN MEMORIAM: Helen Mockovciak, 84; Retired From Kraft Foods After 37 Year EDMESTON – Helen P. Mockovciak, 84, of Edmeston, who retired from Kraft Foods after 37 years as a machine operator, passed away on Wednesday Jan. 24, 2018, in New Hartford. Helen was born on March 30, 1933, in Edmeston, the daughter of the late Julius and Susanna Chczakavitch Pylinski. A lifetime resident of the area, Helen married John Mockovciak at St. John’s Catholic Church on Feb. 17, 1951.…