For a good part of his life, and to the benefit of his home county, Jim Seward was our state senator. First elected in 1986, when he was 38, he served 17 terms, and retired in 2020, after 33 years in Albany. He represented all of us in Otsego, Cortland, and Schoharie counties, and some of us in Chenango, Tompkins, Cayuga, Delaware, and Ulster counties, fighting hard for what he believed to be the right ideas and opportunities for our…
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My thoughts and prayers are with Cindy and the entire Seward family. May God bless them in their time of mourning and may God bless my friend, Sen. James Seward.…
I was fortunate to work with Jim again in his role as a founding board member of the Community Foundation of Otsego County. He was an integral part of the CFOC family and always represented us well and with great enthusiasm.…
210 YEARS AGO
James Graham was executed at Delhi, Delaware County, on Friday last, pursuant to the sentence of the law, for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGillivray in July 1813. He ascended the scaffold with a firm and bold step, and before being turned off, declared, and called God to witness, that he was innocent of the crime; and that if ever a murder was committed in the State of New York, his executioners were now about to…
COMMUNITY—8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lauren's Community Day, featuring the Bubble circus, Utica Zoo live animal booth, Laurens Fire House open house, more. Laurens Central School, 55 Main Street, Laurens. (607) 441-5431 or visit https://villageoflaurensny.gov/…
Briefs include a breakfast/auction benefit this Saturday in Hartwick, in support of Marjorie Eldred, and blood drive dates for Otsego and Delaware counties.…
Widely respected and acknowledged as one of the best of his era, and all-time, Leyland won three Manager of the Year awards (1990 and 1992 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and 2006 for the Detroit Tigers), six division titles (1990-1992, with Pittsburgh and 2010-2013, with Detroit), three league pennants (1997 Florida Marlins, 2006 and 2012 in Detroit) and one World Series title with the 1997 Marlins.…
Otsego County 4-H youth have been showing off their “projects”—animals, vegetables, baked goods, sewing, and many other areas—for generations. There are more than 200 youth registered in Cornell Cooperative Extension Schoharie and Otsego Counties’ Otsego County 4-H Youth Development program and the hard work of about 125 Otsego County 4-H members will be represented in over 1,100 4-H exhibit entries in Martin Hall and the barns nearby.…
90 YEARS AGO: An endeavor to introduce a new code of ethics for German business is one thing for which Adolf Hitler deserves credit. E. Lewis B. Curtis, head of the History Department at Oneonta State Normal School said in conversation yesterday.…
PARADE—6 p.m. “Hall of Fame Parade of Legends.” 2024 Hall of Fame inductees ride down Main Street to a private reception at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Main Street, Cooperstown. Visit https://baseballhall.org/news/inductions-adrian-beltre-todd-helton-jim-leyland-joe-mauer-hall-of-fame-weekend-2024…