FARMERS—9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “The Farmers’ Museum 76th Junior Livestock Show.” Featuring 160 youth handlers and 450 animals from a nine-county region. Iroquois Farm Showgrounds, 1659 County Highway 33, Cooperstown. (607) 547-2536 ext. 225 or visit https://cceschoharie-otsego.org/events/2023/07/09/the-farmers-museum-76th-junior-livestock-show…
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ONEONTA—Michael A Perry of Oneonta passed away on May 16, 2024 at home.
There will be a gathering on July 13 at 1 p.m. at Fortin Park in Oneonta to celebrate and honor Mike.
Arrangements are under the direction of Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.…
CONCERT—7 p.m. “Music at Meadow Links: The Tom Hovey Summer Music Festival.” Ruzich-Scranton duo performs jazz. Free; all welcome. Held rain or shine. Meadow Links Golf Pavilion, 476 County Route 27, Richfield Springs. (315) 858-1646 or visit https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552201194074 …
SUMMER SUNDAY—1-3 p.m. “2024 Summer Sunday Series: Civil War’s 121st NY Volunteer Regiment” presented by Frank Antonucci. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Avenue, Oneonta. (607) 287-7011 or visit https://swartwilcoxhouse.wordpress.com/calendar/…
PARADE—3 p.m. “Annual Decorated Boat Parade” All boats welcome, decorated, undecorated, powered unpowered, etc. This year’s theme is “Let’s Celebrate Scottie Baker.” Forms off 3-Mile Point and proceeds along the west side of the lake to the waters off Lake Front Park, Cooperstown. Visit https://otsegolakeassociation.org/…
In addition to perfecting a script, Phillips and Klein had to start a business, A Cooperstown Christmas Movie Inc. That led them to the summer Christmas in July fundraiser set for Sunday, July 7 at the Lake House Restaurant & Lodge in Richfield on Canadarago Lake.…
“It’s always such a thrill to bring world-famous art like “The Haight Street Rat” to Cooperstown,” said Dr. Paul S. D'Ambrosio, Fenimore Art Museum president and chief executive officer. “We are always on the lookout for artists you may not expect to find at other upstate museums—and Banksy, being such a force in today’s culture, was an obvious choice when we discovered this piece was available.”…
Thanks to my daughters, Tara and Kerry, my Doberman, Michelle, never left the house without all her feet beautifully adorned with nail polish.…
On June 21, the Musser family donated a large-framed collage of their military service to the Oneonta’s Veterans Museum, housed with American Legion Post 259. It features photographs of four servicemen pictured with three different U.S. presidents: President Ronald Reagan, President George H. W. Bush and President George W. Bush.…
“In our cemeteries are the stories of the people who built Otsego County, who had vision and acted upon it, despite, I have no doubt, people telling them their ideas wouldn’t work or were pipe dreams. Again, people fought a revolution! Imagine if they had listened to [those] who told them they’d never succeed. “This is the Otsego County history we should have in mind when we think about our present and future,” Katz emphasized.…