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Frank Russo, Delaware Sheriff Mills Win United Way’s Donovan Award

Frank Russo, Delaware Sheriff Mills Win United Way’s Donovan Award ONEONTA – Frank Russo, Oneonta Family Y executive director, and Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills were recognized as recipients of the United Way of Delaware & Otsego Counties’ Alan Donovan Award at the 2014 campaign kickoff breakfast yesterday at the Plains at Parish Homestead. Other nominees – George Allen, Northern Eagle Beverages; Scott Clark of the Clark Companies, Delhi; Scott Davis of Country Club Automotive;  John Ray, general manager, Hannaford’s,…

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Bank of Cooperstown Opens

Bank of Cooperstown Cuts Ribbon On Branch In Oneonta, Its First Bank of Cooperstown President Scott White cuts the ribbon this afternoon on the 7-year-old bank’s first branch office, at 34 Main St., Oneonta.   Others, from left, are community board members Tony Casale, Cooperstown, and Mark D’Amico, Oneonta, bank Vice President Christine Amos, Oneonta; Lori White, Scott’s spouse; teller Evelyn Zuk, Oneonta; personal banker Jennifer Deleo, Delhi;  attorney Don Snyder, a community bank member; Gavin MacMillan, representing Eastman Associates, the builder; branch…

BOUND VOLUMES, May 15, 2014

BOUND VOLUMES, May 15, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Steam boat traveling has increased beyond all calculation on the Hudson since its introduction by Fulton and Livingston. There are now plying on the north river no less than five boats, four of which perform a passage from New York to Albany, and the other to Poughkeepsie and back again once in each week, several of which have carried upwards of two hundred passengers at a trip. Of the Armistice, nothing farther…

110 Hop-Growing Aficionados Tour Sites Of County Revival

110 Hop-Growing Aficionados Tour Sites Of County Revival   ONEONTA – Otsego County’s reputation as a hops-growing hub was further fertilized today at 110 hops growers, prospective hops growers and people interested in the revival of the historic local crop toured sites from Oneonta to Pierstown. Another 30 people tried to register for the Northeast Hops Alliance’s annual Field Day, but couldn’t be accommodated, said Alycia Schick, a staffer with the Madison County Cooperative Extension Service.  A smaller tour is…

Harvesters Turn County Into Hops Farming Hub

Harvesters Turn County Into Hops Farming Hub By JIM KEVLIN Two flatbeds from Harbor Freight Transport, Port Newark, N.J., arrived at the Cooperstown Brewing Co. here shortly before noon Monday, June 23, with the final pieces of the foundation needed to revive the crop that created Otsego County’s greatest period of prosperity. Hops, that is. The final pieces are two refurbished Wolf Harvesters, purchased in April and imported from Poland for Hager’s Hops, owned by Anheuser-Busch heir Lou Hager Jr.…

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Wind Project DEIS Misleading, Incomplete

New Leaf Energy, a developer based in Massachusetts, proposes to build two large wind turbines (each approximately 650 feet high and producing a total of approximately 10 Megawatts (MW) of energy when maximally productive—in New York state, this translates to 2-3 MW on average).…

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No Land For Apartment Complex? Harrumph!

EDITORIAL No Land For Apartment Complex? Harrumph! “The Grove” developer Josh Edmonds did the right thing Wednesday, July 17, in withdrawing his application for a 12-unit apartment building between Pine Boulevard, one of the Village of Cooperstown’s finest streets, and lower Chestnut. It promised to be a long fight, with no certain end. As reported here before, Edmonds has figured out the home of the future – energy efficient, bright, supremely comfortable – and has built a half-dozen of them…

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Supporters Hold Vigil For Indian Gas Protest

Supporters Hold Vigil For Indian Gas Protest By JASON BIRKELBACH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Susan Donegan was told to wait in the camp and pray the day the buffalo came over the hill. She had been staying at the Oceti Sakowin camp on the Sitting Rock reservation in North Dakota, where many are protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. “It felt like you were in a war-zone, and the war was coming right at you,” she said, “and there…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.