IN MEMORIAM: James E. Wightman, 80; Oswego Native Pursued Insurance Career COOPERSTOWN – James E. Wightman, 80, died Monday, March 11, 2019, at Cooperstown Center. Jim was born May 25, 1938, in Colosse Hamlet, Oswego County, to Charles and Marie Wightman. He graduated from Cooperstown Central School, Class of 1956. Jim married Carol Payne of Watertown in 1963 and Linda Cartin in 1975. Both marriages ended in divorce, but the three of them remained lifelong friends.…
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IN MEMORIAM: Ralph Vanderlip, 71; Chef At Unadilla House For 26 Years UNADILLA – Ralph A. Vanderlip, 71, chef at the Unadilla House for 26 years, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. He was born on Dec., 13, 1947, the son of the late Harry and Jeanette Cook Vanderlip. Ralph married Martha Scott Vanderlip on June 24, 1972, in Unadilla.…
AT 5 TODAY, ZAKREVSKY IN WEST ONEONTA Ideas, Including Dome, Emerge At 1st ‘Town Hall’ ONEONTA – At his first “Town Hall,” Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky last evening asked a Shineman Chapel full of Hartwick College student for ideas, including what might keep them here after graduation, and they told him: How about turning the Oneonta area into a beacon for renewable energy, asked Will May, a freshman from Pittsburgh. Referring to the Green New Deal, he said, “We…
IN MEMORIAM Rev. Dr. Richard Stoll Armstrong, 95; Navy Veteran, Athlete, Eminent Cleric, Cooperstown Presbyterian Pastor’s Father COOPERSTOWN – The Rev. Dr. Richard Stoll Armstrong, 18 days shy of his 95th birthday, died peacefully at his home at the Princeton Windrows in Plainsboro Township, N.J., on March 11, 2019, surrounded by his children and beloved caregiver. Born in Baltimore, Md., on March 29, 1924, he was the second child of Elsie Stoll Armstrong and Herbert Eustace Armstrong, Sr. Dick, as…
IN MEMORIAM Joseph Paul Campbell, 91½ ; Teacher, Coach, Broadcaster ONEONTA – Joseph Paul Campbell, age 91½, passed away on March 6, 2019, at 4:05 p.m. after hearing “The Campbells are Coming” on the bagpipes while surrounded by family. A few days earlier, Pastor Eda Dorosky led a family prayer circle around Joe, welcoming him with grace to God’s table. A memorial service will be scheduled at a teacher-friendly time, with so many family members following in Joe’s footsteps. Joe,…
DOUBLE DEPOT ANNIVERSARIES 20 Years On Southside, Piers Also Mark Mega-Store’s Fifth Year By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA Come to Liquor Depot for the variety of wines and liquors, stay for the pterodactyl.On expanding from their smaller store next door into the defunct Blockbuster Video in 2013, owner Dwight Pier realized the new high ceilings left a lot of vertical space that he believed needed filling. So he bought a life-sized pterodactyl. “The pterodactyl arrived in a big crate,” Dwight remembered,…
DIVERSITY IMPRESSES COUNTIAN DiPerna, Back At Vatican: World Working Together On Climate Without U.S. By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – Back in Vatican City, Cooperstown’s Paula DiPerna looked around the Sala Regia Friday, March 8. There was a turbaned Sikh. There was Muslim. There was a shaman from the far reaches of Greenland. “All these different societies have a need to protect nature,” said DiPerna, special adviser, CDP North America, a non-profit that helps companies, cities and nations manage their environmental…
Please, County Reps And Trustees: Get Chief Covert Help He Needs How often do any of us, over the course of our lifetimes, get the opportunity to save another human life? But the Otsego County Board of Representatives and Cooperstown Village Board have been presented with that opportunity in the case of Mike Covert, 58. Covert, a 25-year county employee (mostly as a deputy sheriff) and village police chief since 2013, has suffered the health travails of a modern-day…
Hometown People – March 14 -15, 2019 CSO Conductor Contest Raises Record $46,321 PALS LIVE IT UP AT SNOMMEGANG Mancuso, Avolio, Named To Dean’s List…
BOUND VOLUMES: Mar. 14 – 15, 2019 200 YEARS AGO In the case of Sturges vs. Crowninshield – the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court dated February 25, is summarized as follows: “Discharges under state insolvent laws, exempt the body of the debtor from imprisonment. But his property, subsequently acquired, is liable to his creditors; or, in other words, the contract is discharged as to the person, but not as to the future state of the party.” It is further…
