READ DETAILS ON ALL HONOREES SUNY Alumni Recognize General German, Others ONEONTA – The SUNY Oneonta Alumni Association today presented an award to Maj. Gen. Anthony German, ’81, adjutant general for the State of New York, and the first general from Oneonta since the Civil War, during the college’s Alumni Weekend brunch this morning at the Hunt Union. The Schoharie County native, SUNY Oneonta grad and Oneonta resident was appointed commander of the New York State National Guard by Governor…
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Toulouse Lautrec, Whistler Join Ansel Adams In Fenimore Line-Up MORE ON NEW EXHIBITIONS ON AllOTSEGO.life PAGE IN NEXT FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, HOMETOWN ONEONTA…
County Board Vote Fails To OK Tourism Contract By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Destination Marketing of Otsego County (DMOC) found itself in the middle of the political crossfire at today’s county Board of Representatives meeting. DMOC is led by a board of volunteer directors from the hospitality industry who contracted with the county to invest part of the county’s bed-tax revenues to put “heads in beds” – i.e., tourists in hotels and motels. The first three-year contract…
CONGRESSMAN IN COOPERSTOWN Gibson In Valedictory: Government Can Work COOPERSTOWN – In what may be his final appearance before Cooperstown Rotarians while a congressman, Chris Gibson, R-19, told club club members today that, despite widely heard predictions of gloom, the federal government can and is working. Gibson, who is retiring at the end of the year, pointed out that Congress, after all the threats of shutting down government in recent years, actually agreed on a two-year budget agreement that will…
IN MEMORIAM: Dorothy Bly, 98; Retired Little Falls Funeral Director COOPERSTOWN – Dorothy A. Bly, 98, who retired to Cooperstown with her husband after operating a funeral parlor in Little Falls for a quarter century, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 28, 2016, at Valley Health Services in Herkimer. She had been residing at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home. Born Oct. 7, 1917, in Rochester, she was a daughter of Dea W. and Hazel (Roberts) Hess. The first born of three…
MEMORIAL DAY 2016 Cooperstown Extends Tradition At Soldiers’, Sailors’ Monument SEE SLIDE SHOW OF TODAY’S COMMEMORATION…
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HALL OF FAME CLASSIC 5K, 10K BASE Race Leads To Main Event COOPERSTOWN – The fifth annual charity BASE race is underway at this hour, the first event in the Memorial Day Weekend that this afternoon will bring the eighth annual Hall of Fame Classic to Doubleday Field. LaTroy Hawkins of the Minnesota Twins and Andy Sonnanstine of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were on hand to encourage the runners. Josh Edmonds of Cooperstown and Amy Allen of Oneonta are…
IN MEMORIAM: John Dillenbeck, 74; Marine, Retired Amphenol Employee WEST ONEONTA – Funeral services for John C. Dillenbeck, 74, of West Oneonta at retired Amphenol employee, will be at 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Westcott-Madden Funeral Home in Unadilla. Mr. Dillenbeck died died Sunday, May 22, at Fox Hospital. He was born on June 25, 1941, in Binghamton, to Harold and Leah (Nichols) Dillenbeck. He married the former Viola M. (Brown) Butler on March 26, 1964.…
IN MEMORIAM Frederick L. Palmer, 74; Steeple Jack, Silo Builder MORRIS – Frederick L. Palmer, 74, a steeple jack and master silo builder whose clients included playwright Arthur Miller, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016, following a brief illness. Fred was born Jan. 3, 1942, to LeRoy and Laura (Eldred) Palmer of Morris, and was brother to Audrey (Dr. Peter) Gregory, Sharon (Charles Esq.) Bosco and James (Gina) Palmer. Fred graduated from Morris Central School in 1960 where he was…
