Across from the Dreams Park, the former DiMaggio’s hot dog restaurant has been reopened by Perry Ferrara, owner of Cooperstown’s Railroad Inn and Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum. The new Bambino’s Cantina menu includes tacos, burritos, quesadillas and nachos.…
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The Gilbertsville Historic District, which was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, was inspired by a plan to place dams that would flood the Butternut Valley, destroying the historic landscape. In the Village of Gilbertsville, this is just one example of the advocacy that has led to action in the areas of education, natural resources and human rights.…
An artisan fair, OLA's annual gathering, summer art camp for children and a Grammy-winning performer are among the topics in this week's "Summer Dreams" briefs.…
For several years, my wife Alice and I have been attending a summer concert that takes place at the Windfall Dutch Barn in Salt Springville, New York. There’s always a different group that comes to entertain, but musician and composer Carlton Clay usually enthusiastically presides over the event. One year, conductor and pianist Charles Schneider, accompanied by four singers, came to explain and then demonstrate how Leonard Bernstein almost mathematically put together “West Side Story”—not to mention words by Stephen…
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I was fortunate to work with Jim again in his role as a founding board member of the Community Foundation of Otsego County. He was an integral part of the CFOC family and always represented us well and with great enthusiasm.…
Jim was a devoted public servant who would cross the aisle to serve all the municipalities in his jurisdiction, regardless of political party.…
210 YEARS AGO
James Graham was executed at Delhi, Delaware County, on Friday last, pursuant to the sentence of the law, for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGillivray in July 1813. He ascended the scaffold with a firm and bold step, and before being turned off, declared, and called God to witness, that he was innocent of the crime; and that if ever a murder was committed in the State of New York, his executioners were now about to…
70 YEARS AGO
Lawrence “Butch” Gennarino, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gennarino, 29 Grand Street, returned home unexpectedly late yesterday. Gennarino was one of the more than 200 seamen critically injured on May 26 when an explosion occurred aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Bennington 75 miles off the coast of New England, killing 90 of his shipmates. Following the explosion Gennarino was placed on the critical list. With his family at his bedside at the U.S. Naval Hospital at…