Near-Record Cold Is Going, Going… Overnight Saturday, temperatures dropped to 23-below in Oneonta, but it wasn’t a record, according to Weather Watcher David Mattice. The record, minus-28, was set in the 1930s. Exceptional were the accompanying high winds, which pulled the wind-chill factor down to minus-40 to minus-45. “That IS dangerous,” Mattice said. Last night, the low was a relatively balmy minus-14. The cause was an Arctic front that settled over central Canada, and it is now moving off to…
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Skating In Badger Park Reopens COOPERSTOWN – At 10 a.m. Saturday, Badger Park will reopen its public ice skating rink. Staff is currently working to rebuild the ice after warm weather caused the rink to close on Jan. 30. The holiday schedule will be active for the week of Feb. 15 due to school vacation.…
Bernie’s Backers Organize Locally Petition Drives In Oneonta, Coop By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta ONEONTA – The night “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opened at the Southside Mall, Karen Anderson and Wendy Carrington were set up outside the theater, petitioning for their own hero – no, not Luke Skywalker. Bernie Sanders. “There was a long line at the movie theater, and we set all of our materials out so people waiting could look at everything,” said Harrington. Part of…
ANDREASSEN BORN AT BASSETT Singer Returns To Coop, ‘Mythical (Natal) Land’ COOPERSTOWN – For Kristin Andreassen, the singer, poet and dancer, her Cooperstown Concert Series performance at 7:30 this Saturday at The Otesaga will be something of a homecoming. “Point of interest – I was BORN in Cooperstown. (Yes, I’m a Bassett baby),” she wrote www.allotsego.com in an e-mail the other day. “So I’m extra psyched to be visiting.” She was raised in Portland, Ore., but “my dad was interning…
SLA Immediately Shuts Legends, Choice Ultra Underage Drinking Alleged After Raids ALBANY – The state Liquor Authority today issued two emergency suspensions of licenses of two Oneonta bars: Legends Filling Station at 84 Main St., Choice Ultra Lounge at 3-5 Market St. The suspensions were ordered today by Chairman Vincent Bradley and Commissioner Kevin Kim at a regular meeting of the full board. Effective immediately, no alcohol can be served or consumed on the premises. Following complaints of underage drinking…
IN MEMORIAM: Matthew Majewski, 99; Dairy Farmer Retired To Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Matthew Majewski, 99, who retired to Cooperstown from his Jordanville dairy farm, died Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, at Bassett Hospital. He was born on Oct. 6, 1916, in Ludz, Poland. During World War II, he traveled to Germany, then Belgium, where he was a coal miner, then to the United States. On Sept. 29, 1952, he married Mary Czubkowski, and they raised two sons on the farm that…
Huge Crowd Turns Out For Polar Bear Auction An hour into today’s Chinese auction to benefit the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump the crowd was still lined up down the hall from the Milford Central School gym to the door, waiting to buy tickets by the fistful and take a chance at getting a bargain on hundreds of donated items. In top photo, Lydia Garlick of Milford puts a ticket in one of the bags that lined the walls. At…
IN MEMORIAM: Rosanne Johnson, 77; Farmer Pursued Degree, Business Career ONEONTA – Rosanne Johnson, 77, who ran a farm with her husband, then obtained her college degree at age 52 and went on to a career in business, passed away Jan. 28, 2016, at Fox Nursing Home. She was born Oct. 4, 1938, in Brooklyn, the daughter of George and Rose (McCarthy) Brickwedde. Rosanne graduated from Millerton High School. She married Lloyd H. Johnson on Nov. 17, 1956, at St. Mary’s…