At Christ Church, ALL Hear The Word By JIM KEVLIN In the beginning was The Word, but not everybody could hear it. Until now. At Christ Episcopal Church over the past few days, a futuristic – in the U.S. if not in Europe – magnetic loop has been installed under the floorboards, allowing hearing-impaired parishioners with “T-coils” in their hearing aids to hear The Word with “incredible clarity.” Those are the words of Angela Plowden-Wardlaw, who convinced the vestry to…
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Induction Business ‘Inundates’ Oneonta, With More To Come By LIBBY CUDMORE The Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary weekend didn’t just stay confined to the streets of Cooperstown. “It had a very positive impact on our local merchants,” said Barbara Ann Heegan, executive director, Otsego County Chamber. “The restaurants were filled, the mall was very filled.” “We were super busy,” said Red Caboose owner Tim Masterjohn, who also serves as the board president of the newly formed Destination Oneonta. “When you…
AllOTSEGO EXCLUSIVE • THE FAIR FOODIE Best Pancakes Wind Down Otsego Fair By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com The best pancakes in Otesgo County can only be found during the best six days of summer. The Otsego County Maple Producers set up their all-day, all-you-can-eat pancake and French toast stand in the barn at the front of the midway. After all, breakfast – even if you eat it for dinner, like I did– is the most important meal of the day. For $7,…
IN MEMORIAM: Wilhelmus Pijnenburg, 78; Superintendent, Leatherstocking Golf Course COOPERSTOWN – Wilhelmus “Willy” Pijnenburg, a long-time resident of Cooperstown and retired superintendent of The Leatherstocking Golf Course, passed away Saturday morning, Aug. 2, 2014, at his home on Fair Street, surrounded by his family. He was 78.…
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…
By Dismantling Moreland Commission, Cuomo Attracts Prosecutor’s Attention By ALAN CHARTOCK • Capitol Connection The biggest story of the year in state politics is what happened to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Act Commission, which was supposed to look into corruption in state government. READ NEW YORK TIMES INVESTIGATIVE REPORT When Cuomo established the commission he said it would be independent and would follow the leads no matter where they led. He said that the commission, made up of outstanding members, including several…
BOUND VOLUMES, July 31, 2014 200 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 for which he was to suffer; and that if ever a murder was committed…
IN MEMORIAM: Joan Moyer, 80; Civic Leader Chaired Many Boards ONEONTA – Joan F. Moyer, former president of the Oneonta School Board who was active in many civic leadership roles, passed away Monday, July 28, 2014, at the Albany Medical Center after a brief illness. She was surrounded and embraced by her immediate family: her husband Bob, daughters Terri and Kathy, and son Scott. Born Feb. 14, 1934, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Fallon of West Stockbridge, Mass., Joan…
BOUND VOLUMES, July 10, 2014 200 YEARS AGO A new invented Torpedo Boat, resembling a Turtle floating just above the surface of the water, and sufficiently roomy to carry nine persons within, having on her back a coat of mail, consisting of three large bombs, which could be discharged by machinery, so as to bid defiance to any attack by barges, left this city (New London, Connecticut) one day last week to blow up some of the enemy’s ships.…
BOUND VOLUMES, July 24, 2014 175 YEARS AGO There is an admirable partition of qualities between the sexes, which the author of our being has distributed to each, with a wisdom that challenges our unbounded admiration. Man is strong – Woman is beautiful; Man is daring and confident – Woman is diffident and unassuming; Man is great in action –Woman in suffering; Man shines abroad – Woman at home; Man talks to convince – Woman to persuade and please; Man has a…
