IN MEMORIAM: Phyllis J. Edwards, 86; Worked At Cherry Valley Baseball Factory CHERRY VALLEY – Phyllis J. Edwards, 86, who worked in the local J.D. DeBeer baseball factory until it closed in the 1980s, passed away in Bassett Hospital after a brief illness. She was born Oct. 15,1932, to Carrie (Pitt) and Vernon Whiteman, and attended Cherry Valley Central School, graduating in 1952.…
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Suicide Bomb Kills 19th District Sailor Cryptologist Tech Shannon Kent, Pine Plains, Mourned In Congressman Delgado Statement A Navy sailor originally from Dutchess County, on the eastern end of Otsego County’s 19th Congressional District, is one of three Americans killed after a suicide bomber triggered a fiery explosion Wednesday in northern Syria, the Poughkeepsie Journal is reporting. Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon M. Kent, 35, a 2001 graduate of the Pine Plains Central School District, “provides an example to all of…
Delgado To Serve On Ag, Transportation Committees In the 116th Congress, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, will serve on the Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “From Day One I’ve said I want to focus on the priorities of our district, and these committee assignments will give me the ability to do that every day in Congress,” said Delgado.…
70-80 ATTENDEES FILL ROOM Energies Of Future Promoted At Forum Among Them, Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Pellets Seen As Fossil-Fuel Replacements By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Fossil fuels – gasoline, fuel oil, propane and natural gas – that power Otsego County today were like an unexpected inheritance, allowing the Industrial Revolution and the world as we know it. But 200 years later, Hartwick College Economics Professor Karl Seeley told 70-80 attendees at the Concerned Citizens of Oneonta…
IN MEMORIAM: ‘Lennie’ Bourgeois, 82; Navy Flight Engineer Raised In Laurens LAURENS – William L. “Lennie” Bourgeois, 82, raised in Laurens before embarking on a 20-plus year career as a Navy flight engineer, died at Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Jan. 12, 2019. Since 1981, he had lived in Valparaiso, Fla. He was born in Goodyear, Conn., on May 26, 1936, to Oliver J. and Julienne (Girard) Bourgeois. Lennie spent his youth in Upstate New York and graduated from Laurens…
United Way Drive Aims To Help Needy Stay Warm By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The season of giving may have officially ended, but United Way of Delaware & Otsego Counties is continuing it with a “Keeping You Warm Inside and Out!” donation drive. “The holidays when people donate a lot are over,” United Way Volunteer Coordinator Valerie Adams, who is overseeing the drive, said. “But there are still people who are hungry and need warm clothing,…
IN MEMORIAM: Roger J. Long, 85, Unadilla; Farm Credit Services Retiree, Avid Horseman UNADILLA – Roger J. Long, 85, a retired Farm Credit Services executive, passed away Tuesday evening, Jan. 15, 2019. He was also an avid horseman.…
‘Uxurious’ Misread Fateful Visit Painted As Figure Of Fun, Susan B. Anthony Went On To Make History Editor’s Note: Here is The Freeman’s Journal Feb. 9, 1855, account – in prose and poetry – of Susan B. Anthony’s appearance in Cooperstown, to be commemorated with a State Historical Marker that has just arrived at the village’s First Presbyterian Church. The tone marks the flippant attitude in some quarters at that time. Mr. Editor: Your readers should be apprised that last…
Majority Senate Democrats Begin Shutting Out GOP Voices And so it begins. Day one of the new Democrat majority in the state Senate began, in many ways, as expected. A new leader was elected (from just outside New York City) and immediately outlined the policies the Democrats would be pursuing in the coming year. This is how a change in majority works, and I take no issue with that. However, I was deeply concerned on several fronts. I have consistently…
BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz and Sharon Stuart, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 200 YEARS AGO Information Wanted. In the year 1814, a young man of the name of Carlos L. Mallory, a native of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and then resident with David Woodward, of that place, as an apprentice to the tanning and currying and shoemaking business, left his home, and has never been heard of by his friends since that period.…
