UGLY Comes To Cooperstown: 87 Runners, Walkers, Plus Sweaters, Vie For Ugliest By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 COOPERSTOWN It was a wooly and wild weekend in Cooperstown. Things got pretty ugly for a bit, but everyone still had a great time. Some 90 runners and walkers, plus spectators aplenty, attended the belated Rockin’ Around Cooperstown Ugly Sweater Run Saturday, Dec. 13, bringing out their Santa Snuggies, reindeer sweatshirts and sweaters bedecked with…
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The Goal: To Bring Sharon Springs Theater Back To Life By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com Edition of Dec. 11-12, 2014 SHARON SPRINGS ‘One brick at a time,” goes the song from the musical “Barnum.” And that’s just how Drew Taylor and Gail Luna are going to restore Sharon Springs’ old Klinkhart Hall. “You have to take short steps with a long view,” said Luna. It’s an enormous undertaking. The theater itself – a one-time Smalley’s cinema – hasn’t been used…
Christmas About To Become Ugly – For Fun Of It By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 Matt Hazzard still thinks fondly on the Ugly Sweater That Got Away. “It had Winnie the Pooh and Tigger in Christmas hats next to a tree,” he said. “It was fantastic.” It didn’t survive the trip from Colorado to Cooperstown, but it is in that holiday spirit that the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce and the Clark Sports…
All I Want For Christmas is Toys That Fascinate, Toys That Inspire By LIBBY CUDMORE • AllOTSEGO.life Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28, 2014 Kristian House at Oneonta’s Monkey Barrel Toys isn’t interested in being just another toy store. “We don’t carry the hot toys like one of the big box stores,” he said. “We carry the cool toys.” “We don’t want to give the same experience as you get everywhere else,” said Todd Gibbons, owner of Riverwood in Cooperstown. “It’s…
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Valerie Hitt Takes 3-Day Cancer Walk Off Bucket List By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 Valerie Hitt feels helpless no more. “I’ve had several personal losses from cancer,” she said. “And you feel so helpless. I wanted to do something different, something for a good cause. It seems like a good thing to do, since I can do it.” Hitt, the owner of Serenity Fitness, raised $2,300 to walk 60 miles around San…
Ag Commissioner Richard Ball: Farming Is Economic Development Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21, 2014 Agriculture is increasingly understood in New York State as economic development, Richard Ball, the recently appointed state agriculture commissioner, told 200 people at NYSHA’S “Celebration of Our Agricultural Community” Saturday, Nov. 15, at The Farmers’ Museum. “We get to work and farm a couple of hours away from the biggest appetite in the country,” said Ball, himself a Schoharie County farmer. He concluded, “If New York…
OPT Model For Handicapped Applauded At Two-State Transportation Conference By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 Every morning, Karen Schrader leaves her house, gets a bagel at the Latte Lounge, and gets on the OPT West End bus to go to work. “She’s just like everybody else,” said Paul Patterson, Oneonta Public Transit director. But Schrader isn’t like everybody else – she’s a shining example of how public transportation can help special needs citizens become…