BOUND VOLUMES – Feb. 14 – 15 2019 200 YEARS AGO News Items: It appears from the report of the Canal Commissioners that there can be but little doubt that boats will pass in the canal as early as November next from Utica to Seneca River. Forty witnesses have been subpoenaed from the City of New York to attend before the Committee of the Assembly appointed to enquire into the manner the drawing of the lotteries has been conducted. Georgia…
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Broadband Breakthrough Due For Otsego Electric Customers By PATRICK WAGER HARTWICK – Finally, more broadband is coming to Otsego County. This March, Otsego Electric Cooperative’s plans to bring the high-powered Internet to most of the western part of the county will begin with fiber broadband access in Laurens. “Be patient, we’re coming,” said Tim Johnson, CEO, Otsego Electric Cooperative. “We’re making rapid progress and we’ll get there.” Separately, by fall the Otsego Now hopes to launch its downtown Cooperstown WiFi…
Gladys G. Howe, 97; Retired Teacher Active In Grange WESTVILLE – Gladys G. Howe, 97, a native of Cooperstown and a lifelong educator, passed away peacefully Sunday night, February 10, 2019, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Westville. Born April 13, 1921, at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Hospital in Cooperstown, she was a daughter of Edwin N. and Blanche O. (Palmer) Bowen of Lentsville in the Town of Middlefield. She graduated from Cooperstown High School with the…
Hometown People: Feb. 14-15, 2019 Voting Now Open For CSO Conductor Contest Al Rubin, president, A&D Taxi, choral director Cindy Donaldson and Libby Cudmore, managing editor of the Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal and AllOTSEGO.com, have all been announced as the competitors in this year’s Catskill Symphony Orchestra conductor contest. One dollar equals one vote, and whoever raises the most money in the competition will win a chance to conduct the CSO in “Stars and Stripes Forever” during the Cabaret…
Hometown History – Feb 14-15 2019 150 Years Ago News Items from Elsewhere – The employment of a young colored mechanic in the clock factory at New Haven so hurt the dignity of a dozen Irishmen that they demanded his discharge. They obtained, instead, their own discharges and their places were supplied by more sensible men. Larry Larkin, an Irish boy who worked in the print works at Manchester enlisted in the 10th New Hampshire Regiment, fought bravely, was promoted…
REPAIR IT, ARDENT FAN SAYS 100 Years Later, Monument To Dedicated Lady Declines By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA – On Memorial Day 1922, Mayor C.C. Miller accepted the memorial to Ethel Scatchard, calling upon “all citizens to revere the name of Miss Scatchard and to take a lesson from her spirit of usefulness and service.” Now 100 years after her death in Paris, historian Robert Calendresa wants the city to honor that promise. “The monument, frankly, is deteriorating,” he said during…
Obama Stirred Excitement On Visiting Hall Of Fame In ’14 By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – The Friday before Thursday, May 22, 2014, then-mayor Jeff Katz was hanging out in the kitchen of his Chestnut Street home with son Robbie, who had just gotten home from SUNY Oswego, when the phone rang. It was Police Chief Mike Covert. With his son just having arrived, the mayor ignored it. The chief called “twice, three times… It had to be important for him…
FULL TEXT APPEARS HERE Renewable-Energy Stocks Keeping Up With Fossil Fuels’ Cooperstown’s DiPerna Testifies Before Congressional Committee Editor’s Note: This is the full written testimony submitted to the House Natural Resources Committee after Paula DiPerna of Coopertown, a CDP-North America special adviser, testified on Feb. 6 in Washington D.C. on the growing prowess of renewables in energy-related investments. A longtime local resident, DiPerna ran for Congress in 1992 for the district that included Otsego County. Thank you for the opportunity…
Congregation Gets Look At New Church’s Interior…
IN MEMORIAM: Edward V. Lynch, 47; Air Force Vet Dies Unexpectedly At Home MARYLAND – Edward Vincent Lynch, 47, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 2, 2019, with his family by his side. Edward was a 1989 graduate of Franklin Central School, then entered the Air Force. He met his wife, Michelle and her children, Jade and Cameron, while stationed in Arizona. Michelle and Edward were married on July 22, 1994.…
