Briefs include a breakfast/auction benefit this Saturday in Hartwick, in support of Marjorie Eldred, and blood drive dates for Otsego and Delaware counties.…
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James “Jimmy” Frazier died peacefully on July 17, 2024 at 84. He was born March 29, 1940 to Mabel and Leslie Frazier in Davenport, New York. James married the love of his life, Roberta (“Bobbie”), on January 2, 1962. Together, they built a thriving family business. James loved beauty. This passion led him to establish J.R. Frazier and Sons, a company that became a cornerstone of our community.…
AUTHOR—2 p.m. “Local Author Talk with Dana Cudmore.” Cudmore discusses his newest book, “The Cave Electrician’s Widow,” about a historic tragedy at Howe Caverns in 1930 and the courtroom battle that followed. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-1980 or visit https://hmloneonta.org/adult-programs/…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 25, 2024 Front Page Long-time Manager Leyland Steals the Show at 2024 Induction Laurens Grads Generating Buzz on Festival Circuit Inside Compost Service Finds Like-Minded Customer Briscoe-Dwyer Elected Just a Senator and His Shadows PSC Awards Mitchell Locals: People and Businesses in the News, July 25, 2024 The Ties that Bind: Historical Association Unveils D&H Marker Local, Regional Art Spotlighted at FAM ‘Art by the Lake’ Event Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’…
Widely respected and acknowledged as one of the best of his era, and all-time, Leyland won three Manager of the Year awards (1990 and 1992 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and 2006 for the Detroit Tigers), six division titles (1990-1992, with Pittsburgh and 2010-2013, with Detroit), three league pennants (1997 Florida Marlins, 2006 and 2012 in Detroit) and one World Series title with the 1997 Marlins.…
Spencer Sherry and Ryan Jenkins, LCS Class of 2012 and friends since the second grade, are behind the short-film “Anomaly,” which in May had its world-premiere showing at the Coney Island Film Festival in Brooklyn.…
The company’s web-site encourages visitors to “green your routine.” Instead of sending organic waste to the landfill, where it rots and produces methane gas, which warms the planet, people can compost kitchen scraps.…
This sobering incident—which left thousands of airline passengers stranded, caused municipal shutdowns across the world, including here in Otsego County, and disrupted worldwide commerce—has us all wondering what we can do to prevent such a crisis in future or, at the very least, plan for and mitigate the damage.…
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This annual garlic adventure of mine turns out to be a time to wrestle, without having to pin them down, some of the more worrisome problems we now face “in these United States.” It is easy to ignore unpleasantness; even harder to know what to do about it. As I was hanging up the last of the garlic, I was thinking of W.B. Yeats’ great poem, “The Second Coming.”…