IN MEMORIAM: Donald J. Washburn, 94; Ran Feed Stores Near Saratoga DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Donald J. Washburn, 94, a member of the Cooperstown Methodist Church, passed away June 5, 2014, after a brief illness at the Pinecrest Hospice Center, Delray Beach, Fla. He also lived in Bacon Hill, Saratoga County.…
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Franklin Stage Will Again Be ‘A Beautiful Place’ Edition of: June 6, 2014 By LIBBY CUDMORE Remarkably, the Franklin Stage Company has survived 17 years on the kindness of strangers. There are no tickets. Audience members donate what they will. After each show, there’s a moment Carmela Marner, the Franklin Stage’s font of vitality, lives for. “We’ll get these envelopes that have been sealed and prepared before the show with just a few dollars in them and a note that…
Butterflies Replace Elephant On Glimmerglass Fest Lawn Edition: June 5, 2014 By Jim Kevlin ‘Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival Saturday, June 1. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him glide.…
12 Lively Banners Counterbalance ‘Butterfly’ Tragedy At Glimmerglass By JIM KEVLIN for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – “Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival this afternoon. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him…
Liberty Insurance, S.N. Phelps & Co. Chairs Honored At Hartwick; Mele Quads Graduate Also at Hartwick’s graduation, President Drugovich bestowed honorary doctorates on the commencement speaker, David H. Long ’83, Chairman and CEO of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, and Stanford Phelps P’86, Chairman of S.N. Phelps & Co., Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., and Clear Springs Land Company. Hartwick’s Val Capullo recaps …
In Memoriam: Betty Davis, 79; Retired Otego Elementary Teacher OTEGO – Elizabeth “Betty” Davis, 79, who was raised in Oneonta, then spent a career teaching first and second grade at Otego Elementary School, passed away on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at the Francis House in Syracuse. Most recently, she had lived in Liverpool.…
Digital Sign Ordered For Fire House COOPERSTOWN The illuminated sign in front of the Chestnut Street fire house is about to be replaced with a digital one from Stewart Signs, “America’s Premier Sign Company,” of Sarasota, Fla. At its April meeting on the 29th, the Village Board gave the go-ahead to the fire department, which is paying for the placard. The village is exempt from its sign law. Fire Chief Jim Tallman said the sign can play several messages sequentially,…