IN MEMORIAM: FULL OBITUARY Albert J. Read, 93; Physics Professor Active With SUNY, Community ONEONTA – Albert J. Read, 93, a SUNY Oneonta physics professor who founded the Science Discovery Center, died peacefully at home Saturday, June 29, 2019. He was the founding Director of the Science Discovery Center of Oneonta, renamed in his honor in 2015. Albert was born in Albany to Dr. Albert J. Read and Dana Weitzel Read. He was married to Hazel Roberts Read from 1953…
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IN MEMORIAM Albert J. Reid, 93; SUNY Professor Founded Science Discovery Center ONEONTA – Albert J. Read, 93, the SUNY Oneonta physics professor who founded the Science Discovery Center at the college, died Saturday, June 29. Read taught at SUNY Oneonta from 1957 until his retirement in 1985, serving as chair of the physics department from 1983-84. He founded the Science Discovery Center in 1985, serving as director until 2005.…
SSPCA’s PETS Team Rescues Cat ‘Birdie’, Speared Through Eye Staffer Showed How Trained Personnel Can Respond In Emergency, Director Says MARYLAND – Birdie the cat, stuck to a bird feeder with a wire piercing its eye, was rescued June 13 by the county’s new animal cruelty task force, PETS (Prevention, Education, Training and Systems), the SSPCA announced today. It was feared the cat would have to be put down but, with care and treatment at the Hartwick Seminary shelter, it…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Duck Derby For The Leo Club DUCK DERBY – 10 a.m. Help launch a flock of rubber duckies at the headwaters of the Susquehanna. Support Cooperstown Leo Club on day trip to the United Nations in NYC. Cost, $5/duck or $20/5-ducks at Otesaga, Mel’s @ 22, others. Finish line just South of Main St. Bridge, Cooperstown. 607-282-2956 or visit www.facebook.com/CooperstownLionsClub/…
IN MEMORIAM: Harold F. Lent, 96; Services Saturday For Bendix Retiree ONEONTA – The graveside service for Harold F. Lent, 96, who spent his career at Bendix Corp. (now Amphenol), will be 11 a.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Evergreen Cemetery in Otego. He passed away Nov. 4, 2018, at Fox Hospital. Harold was born Jan. 14, 1922, on Colburn Avenue in Otego, the son of Frank George and Nancy Ulena (Hammond) Lent. He graduated from Otego Central School in…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JUNE 22 Music Of West Africa WORLD MUSIC – 8 p.m. – Contemporary West African music performed by world-renowned vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh at West Kortright Center. $28 Non-members($32 day of); $24 Members ($28 day of); $10 under 19; free 8 and under. 49 W Kortright Church Rd, East Meredith. Info, (607) 278-5454, www.westkc.org…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JUNE 15 Lumberjacks, Rodeo, & Outdoor Games LUMBERJACK FEST – Cherry Valley Outdoor Games return with lumberjack competitions, a rodeo, music and more. Alden Field, Cherry Valley. Info, www.cherryvalleyoutdoorgames.com…
CCS Baseball Team In Final 4 By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BINGHAMTON For Coach Matt Hazzard, the Cooperstown Hawkeyes hard-won 8-7 victory over the Tioga Tigers was “surreal.” “You can’t make that stuff up,” he said. “It was just incredible.” The win – it came after a 4-7 deficit into the seventh inning – puts Cooperstown in the Class C Final Four for the second time in three years. At 5 p.m. Friday, June 14, the Hawkeyes play…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JUNE 8 FLAME Aids Family Network CONCERT – 3-5 p.m. FLAME performs a free concert as part of the Family Resource network’s 25th anniversary. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. www.foothillspac.org.…
Family-Fun Activities Shifted Cooptoberfest Out, Chamber Shifting Focus To Art Fest COOPERSTOWN – The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce has cancelled Cooptoberfest, and is shifting its focus on developing Labor Day Weekend’s Artisan Festival, chamber Executive Director Tara Burke said today. “It was a difficult decision to part ways with Cooptoberfest, and certainly not one we took lightly,” said Burke. “We spent time analyzing it from every angle, as well as talking to our event partners. It’s not financially viable for…