12 Lively Banners Counterbalance ‘Butterfly’ Tragedy At Glimmerglass By JIM KEVLIN for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – “Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival this afternoon. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him…
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Clark Sports Center To Double In Size By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN This fall, 15,000-square-feet will be added to the Clark Sports Center, “to almost double our capacity,” Jane Forbes Clark announced during a Tuesday, May 27, address to the Cooperstown Rotary Club.The construction is intended to strengthen what Miss Clark described as a tradition of community investment going back to her great-great grandfather, attorney Edward Clark, partner in Singer Sewing Machine Co. Already, she said, the multi-purpose gym on…
In Memoriam: Fred Driggs, 67; Amphenol Electric Truck Driver ONEONTA – Frederick B. “Fred” Driggs, 67, of Oneonta, an electric truck driver at Amphenol in Sidney for 34 years, passed away on Saturday, May 24, 2014, at Fox Hospital.…
Master Sgt. (ret.) Jim Peterson Speaks Of Sacrifice COOPERSTOWN – Since the draft ended in 1973, “the burden of sacrifice for our freedom falls on an ever smaller percentage of our society,” Marine Master Sgt. (ret.) Jim Peterson of Fly Creek told Cooperstown’s Memorial Day ceremony Monday at the Soldiers & Sailors’ Monument. Here is Sergeant Peterson’s Memorial Day speech…
52nd Clinton Regatta Under Way; Heading For Oneonta, Bainbridge COOPERSTOWN They’re off! For the 52rd time, canoeists from Oneonta to Montana and beyond departed at 6 a.m. today from Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park, bound for Bainbridge in the annual General Clinton Regatta. At Oneonta, watch for the pros – they depart from here at 8 – to pass through the city at about 11:30, according to Lori and Jon Michaels of Goodyear Lake, former longtime organizing committee members who were still helping…
In Memoriam: Betty Davis, 79; Retired Otego Elementary Teacher OTEGO – Elizabeth “Betty” Davis, 79, who was raised in Oneonta, then spent a career teaching first and second grade at Otego Elementary School, passed away on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at the Francis House in Syracuse. Most recently, she had lived in Liverpool.…
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Both Sides of Fracking Debate May Protest When Obama Visits By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN Along with the gawkers and the hand-shake hopefuls, it seems protesters on both sides of the fracking issue may be lining village streets when President Obama comes to town on Thursday, May 22 to speak on the importance of tourism in the nation’s economy. Otsego 2000 has organized a rally outside the Baseball Hall of Fame starting at 11:30 a.m. and will include members of Sustainable Otsego,…
Barbara Jane Deitch,87; Breeder of Standard Poodles ONEONTA – Barbara Jane Deitch, 87, a professional dog breeder who specialized in standard poodles, passed away on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at her residence. An Oneonta resident who formerly lived in Westford, Barbara was born on March 12, 1927, the daughter of the late Raymond W. and Alva C. (Muller) Kurz. She married Stratford F. Deitch on Aug. 26, 1949. He predeceased her on Dec. 29, 2013. A member of the…
In Grief, Mom Shares Heartbreak of Heroin By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA The downward spiral started with a trip to the dentist. “My son Jeremy had his wisdom teeth removed and the dentist prescribed him painkillers,” said his mother, Deb France of Oneonta. “Our world was turned upside down.” He first went to jail for theft at 18, and the family’s insurance wouldn’t cover his treatment. He tried to commit suicide, and he was committed to the psychiatric ward. “They said,…
