Historian Bissell Tells Oneonta Story Through Tours Of Earliest Cemetery ONEONTA – Visit the gravesites of E. R. Ford, the Wilbers and Huntingtons and learn about Oneonta’s First Families. Lynn Bissell, local historian and member of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, is reprising his tours of historic city cemeteries: This Wednesday, beginning at 7 p.m., behind the First Presbyterian Church, 269 Main St., Bissell will tell the story of early Oneonta through the stories of early families while touring the Riverside…
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Mass For SUNY VP Carol Blazina Planned June 22 ONEONTA – A funeral mass for Carol A. Blazina, 70, the retired SUNY Oneonta vice president/communications, is being planned for 10:15 a.m. Monday, June 22, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the Bookhouse Funeral Home announced. She passed away on June 2, 2015, after a year-long battle with stomach cancer. Carol was born on July 29, 1944 to Mary and H. Enrico Blazina in New York City’s most ethnically diverse neighborhood where…
NATIONAL GUARD COPTERS TO TRAIN IN COOPERSTOWN COOPERSTOWN – Three New York Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters will be operating in the Cooperstown area on Saturday evening, in support of a Army Reserve training exercise. The three UH-60 helicopters, flown by Company A of the 3rd Battalion, 142nd Aviation Regiment, which is based at Albany International Airport in Latham, will be landing adjacent to Basset Medical Center at around 6 p.m. The helicopters will conduct training with 30 members of the…
Seward’s Heroin Task Force Sends Bill Package To House ALBANY – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who convened a session of the Joint Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction in Oneonta last year, today announced the Senate passage of the comprehensive package of bills that resulted. The goal, he said, is to help decrease heroin deaths and put more drug dealers behind bars for peddling dangerous opioids. As a member of the task for, the senator said, “I have…
WHITHER COOPERSTOWN? Attend Thursday’s Community Open House To Help Chart Future Of Baseball Town, USA By JIM KEVLIN • from The Freeman’s Journal COOPERSTOWN – Last October, a two-day “charrette” – a planning exercise – sought inputs from 60 participants on what Cooperstown’s future should hold. In the eight months since, Elan Planning staffers and a community advisory board have been reviewing the results, and will lay out preliminary conclusions at an all-day Community Open House, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday,…
ZONING BOARD REJECTS HOTEL HEIGHT VARIANCE FULL REPORT IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, ON NEWSSTANDS WEDNESDAY…
Oneontan Who Battled Schoharie Flood Promoted To Major General By Senate ALBANY – The state Senate has confirmed Air National Guard Brig. Gen. Anthony P. German of Oneonta as a major general, State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Oneonta, announced today. “I witnessed General German’s leadership skills first-hand in 2011 in Schoharie County,” said Seward, “as he helped coordinate the New York Air National Guard response to Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. His dedication and expertise helped save lives and property.” Seward…
Deputy, Dogs Safe After Entangled In Wires At Route 23 Crash Scene ONEONTA – County Sheriff’s Deputy Kristopher Solovitch and his dog, Mika, members of the K9 Unit, are safe after Solovitch’s vehicle became tangled in power lines following a tractor-trailer crash at 2 a.m. today on Route 23, Town of Oneonta. The rig, driven by Anthony Angona, Kirkville, was eastbound in heavy rain and failed to negotiate a sharp curve in the road, according to a press release. The…
Friends Of Otsego Lake Express Thanks To DOT At Debriefing…
Due To Demand, Hartwick Professor’s ‘Freedom Journey’ Out 6 Weeks Early ONEONTA – Hartwick College Professor of History Edythe Ann Quinn’s “Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, NY,” has just been published. It is the story of 36 African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War. The work was published by SUNY Press, and released six weeks ahead of schedule due…
