Yager Museum Restores Rockwell Kent Landscape ‘Winter In Berkshires’ Donated By IBM In 1953 ONEONTA – Hartwick College’s Yager Museum has announced the conservation of Rockwell Kent’s “Winter in the Berkshire Hills” has been complete. The museum contracted with the Williamstown (Mass.) Art Conservation Center, which relined, cleaned, refilled and revarnished the painting. In addition, the frame was stabilized and repainted, as recommended in a 2012 conservation survey of the museum’s collection, was made possible through funds granted by the Greater…
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Boston Globe Sportswriter Wins Spink Award COOPERSTOWN – Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy, who has been a voice on baseball in New England and nationally for 35 years, has been elected the 2016 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the Hall of Fame announced this evening. The award presented annually to a sportswriter “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing” during Hall of Fame Weekend, July 22-25, in Cooperstown. Shaughnessy will…
IN MEMORIAM: Bruce A. Shipman II, 55; Ancestor Model For Cooper’s Bumppo ILION – Bruce Andrew Shipman II, 55, of Ilion, passed away Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015, after a brief illness. He was born Aug. 23, 1960, in Ilion, the son of Bruce Shipman and the former Carole Watson, and was a graduate of Mohawk High School. On Oct. 1, 1988, he was united in marriage with Dawn Allen in Conklinville. His family is descended from David Shipman (1729-1813), the woodsman…
SUSPECT HELD IN SUNY THREAT ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta president Nancy Kleniewski announced at 7 p.m. that a suspect in Saturday’s YikYak threat has been taken into custody. “While the investigation will continue, UPD is confident that the message, which was reported to mention shooting tomorrow, does not present a threat,” Kleniewski said. “The last several hours have been tense on our campus, at Hartwick College, in the City of Oneonta, and in the homes of students’ parents near and…
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‘Yik-Yak’ Message Threatens Violence At SUNY, UPD Says ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta’s University Police Department over the weekend advised the campus community by e-mail that it had opened an investigation in response to reports of a message posted on the social medium YikYak threatening violence on Monday. UPD is working with YikYak, the State Police, the Oneonta Police Department, and Hartwick security to develop information about the origin of the message and the person who wrote it, according to the e-mail. It…
IN MEMORIAM: Glenn Wilson, 79; P&G Retiree, New Lisbon Fireman NEW LISBON – Glenn Robert Wilson, 79, a Procter & Gamble retiree and charter member of the Garrattsville Fire Department, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, at Fox with his family by his side. Survivors include a son in Oneonta.…
MEG KENNEDY, R-DISTRICT 5 Elected For First Time, Kennedy Aim: Bring Bed-Tax Money Home Editor’s Note: This is the second of six profiles, one each on the six new members of the Otsego County Board of Representatives elected Nov. 3, that will appear each Wednesday up until they take office Jan. 1. Next week, Peter Overacker, R-District 6 (Decatur, Maryland, Westford, Worcester) Special to AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK – Meg Kennedy, the representative-elect for District 5, wants to use her position in Otsego County…
IN MEMORIAM: Eleanore E. MacDougall; Traveled World With Diplomat Husband COOPERSTOWN – Eleanore (Ellsworth) MacDougall, 80, wife of Village Historian Hugh MacDougall, died of a sudden heart attack on Saturday evening, Nov. 21, 2015, at her home in Cooperstown. The couple were posted to Africa and Southeast Asia during his career with the Foreign Service. She was the daughter of the late Waldo and Dorris (Gouldhart) Ellsworth of Cooperstown, and granddaughter of the late Ralph Waldo Ellsworth, a founder of…
BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by TOM HEITZ with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library 200 YEARS AGO 175 YEARS AGO Latter Day Saints – The Liverpool Chronicle contains the following: “The New York packet ship North America, Captain Lowbar, sailed on Tuesday with 19 cabin passengers and 200 in the steerage. The whole of the…