Memories Of Emmons Explosion Still Strong By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Retired Oneonta Fire Chief Norm Jacobson described the Colliersville train derailment as “like five nuclear bombs going off.” Last week’s garage fire in Middlefield, which sent five firefighters to the hospital, drew comparisons to the derailment on Feb. 12, 1974, near what is now the I-88 overpass. “I was on duty that day, and a number of departments responded,” he said. “Seven cars, each carrying…
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
MEM DAY - Page 54
Candidate Robbins Can Attend Thursday Debate League Event 7 p.m. In Village Hall COOPERSTOWN – Village trustee candidate Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns today said she will be able to attend the League of Women Voters’ debate at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Village Board’s meeting room at 22 Main. A Republican, she will join the two Democratic candidates, Joe Membrino and MacGuire Benton, sitting trustees who are running for their first full three-year terms. Robbins, whose first anniversary of a…
IN MEMORIAM Robert F. Fahey, 86, Richfield Springs; Veteran Worked At Bill’s Auto Auction RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Robert “Bob” Francis Fahey, 86, who worked for 24 years at Bill’s Auto Auction, passed away peacefully on Thursday morning Feb. 27, 2020, at Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown. He had the peace and comfort of his loving family at his side. Bob was born on Jan. 29, 1934, in Cooperstown, the son of the late Francis Joseph and Mildred Smith Fahey. A lifelong…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 Theatrical Production ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Presenting Shakespeare’s comedy ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ featuring a love quadrangle, magic, & mischievous fairies. General Admission, $5/person. Hamblin Theater, SUNY Oneonta.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, MARCH 3 Pops Concert At Oneonta High School POPS CONCERT – 7 p.m. Come support OHS students at final joint concert of the season featuring band, chorus. Auditorium, Oneonta High School, 130 East St, Oneonta. 607-433-8200 or visit www.oneontacsd.org…
In Memory of John, 46 Families Receive Ladders, Extinguishers Erika Heller, with son Rawley, shows off the 22 fire extinguishers and 26 emergency ladders the Valleyview Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization purchased with funds donated in memory of her brother-in-law, John Heller, the former fire fighter who died saving Rawley and his brothers Maddox, Donovan and Macall, as well as fiancee Amber Roe, from a fire in Dec. 2018. Over $1,500 was raised to purchase the fire safety equipment, meaning…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, MARCH 1 Maple Sugar Season Begins! SUGARING OFF – 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Enjoy full pancake breakfast in the morning then contemporary, historic demonstrations of maple sugar production. Admission, $10/adult. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450 or visit www.farmersmuseum.org/stec_event/sugaring-off-sundays/0…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 ‘Agrippina’ Streaming Live OPERA – 12:55 p.m. Performance of “Agrippina,” by Handel, streaming live from Metropolitan Opera House. Cost, $20/adult. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080 or visit www.foothillspac.org…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Fun With Oobleck OOBLECK – 6 – 7:30 p.m. Celebrate birthday of Dr. Seuss and make the mysterious substance from the book ‘Bartholomew and the Oobleck.’ Learn about the strange properties of non-Newtonian fluids. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980 or visit www.facebook.com/hmloneonta/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Showing ‘Road To Perdition’ FILM SOCIETY – 7 p.m. Cooperstown film society presents ‘Road To Perdition’ (2002) with special guest Rabbit Goody , textile historian/weaver, discussing her work on this & other films. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Visit www.facebook.com/FilmSocCoop/…
