Former Mayor Jim Georgeson, 95, Dies ONEONTA – Former Oneonta mayor James N. Georgeson, 95, passed away Wednesday at the Focus Otsego Manor. He served in 1960-62, before the mayoral term was extended to four years. Arrangements are pending with the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.…
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It’s No Svet, Accordionist Says As He Hits Heights By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com Edition of Thursday-Friday Oct. 16-17 When Frank Svet picks up his accordion, he’s fulfilling a promise he made to his mother, Millie Krish, years ago. “I was an electrical engineer, but I told my mother that I’d play polka music in my retirement.” Svet, a Richfield Springs native who now lives in Dayton, Ohio, was on hand Sunday, Oct. 12, to play Cleveland-style polkas at the…
Canadarago Lake Improvement Association Named OCCA’s ‘Conservationists Of Year’ COOPERSTOWN – Citing their commitment to protection and preservation, the Otsego County Conservation Association today announced the Canadarago Lake Improvement Association has been named OCCA” Conservationists of the Year.”…
Plan For 60 Dwelling Units In City Long In Gestation, Developer Says By LIBBY CUDMORE• allotsego.com ONEONTA – When Ben Lockwood, vice president of Housing Visions, came to Oneonta six years ago, he knew he had the tools to fill a need. “I saw the Oneonta really needed housing,” he said. “The student population puts a stress on low-income residents who need access to their jobs, services and shopping.” That project fell through. But Wednesday, at the city Planning Commission meeting,…
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250 Alumni, Spouses Due At 50th Fete By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 Louis C. Jones was on a Guggenheim in the Virgin Islands when Stephen C. Clark invited him to Cooperstown for “a chat.” According to one story, the Joneses hadn’t brought a can opener and were unable to find one in the Caribbean, and Louie off-handedly told wife Aggie this would be a chance to pick up one up. Interviewed on…
Left Alone, Yanks, Ukrainians Friends Edition of Thursday-Friday Oct. 9-10 To the Editor, With all that is going on in the Ukraine, this may be of interest to World War II buffs. My husband Jerry Waller was, for two and a half years, in the Eighth Air Force in England. Suddenly, a group from his squadron was sent by ship down the coast of France to Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to Cairo. From there they went by truck and…
Village Of Cooperstown CAN Be A Constructive Partner In Bassett’s Future Edition of Thursday-Friday Oct. 9-10, 2014 To the Editor, I would like to make a small contextual clarification to my published statement made after the no vote on the Hospital Zone. First, I don’t remember saying “forever” (but in the heat of the moment maybe I did). Second, I made that statement out loud to the mayor after I, and I believe Lou Allstadt (possibly others) wanted to have…
Reporter Libby Cudmore’s Novel Accepted By Top NYC Publisher By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA, The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday-Friday, Oct. 9-10, 2014 It had been a bad week, and suddenly Libby Cudmore was crying. But they were tears of joy. At the other end of the telephone Tuesday, Sept. 30, was Jim McCarthy, a vice president at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, the agency that, among other notable authors, represented President Obama in placing his memoir, “Dreams of…
At 15 Years, Artisans’ Guild Still Flourishing Downtown By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 Fifteen years ago, Deb Blake and Ellie Stromberg took a chance on an empty storefront and turned it into a mainstay of Main Street. “We wanted the Artisans’ Guild to be a place where local people could get beautiful handmade things,” said Blake. After UCCCA closed its gallery shop (where Razzle Dazzle is now located) Blake and Stromberg strongly urged…
