Butterflies Replace Elephant On Glimmerglass Fest Lawn Edition: June 5, 2014 By Jim Kevlin ‘Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival Saturday, June 1. 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 glide.…
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Otsego Lake Association Plans First Fourth Of July Boat Show COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego Lake Association will sponsor its first annual “We Love Our Lake” decorated, judged boat parade at 6 p.m. Friday, July 4, rain or shine. Paticipating decorated boats will gather off-shore at Three Mile Point, three miles north of Cooperstown on West Lake Road, the start and finish of the parade route. The SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station’s research vessel, Anondontoides,which will serve as a committee barge of…
Tomorrow First Anniversary Of ‘Community Conversations’ ONEONTA – Tuesday, June 10, is the first anniversary of Common Council’s “Community Conversations,” weekly 8-9 a.m. meetings at the College Food Boutique in The Shops At Ford & Main where residents have a chance to chat with the city’s leadership. Ward 7 Council member Bob Brzozowski invites folks to stop by.…
BABE RUTH’S FAMILY TO ATTEND HALL’S 75TH BIRTHDAY PARTY COOPERSTOWN – Seventy-five years after Babe Ruth stood on the steps of the Baseball Hall of Fame and waved to the gathered crowd, his family will return to Cooperstown to celebrate his legacy as part of the Hall of Fame’s 75th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, June 12. The festivities will kick off at 11 a.m. on the steps of the Hall, with Hall of Famers Joe Morgan and Cal Ripkin Jr., as well…
Lumberjacks At Lakefront Park Qualifying For National Contest COOPERSTOWN – Before 150 spectators in Lakefront Park and against a stunning backdrop of sunny Otsego Lake, Cooperstown’s first Stihl Pro & Collegiate Lumberjack Legacy Invitational northeast qualifier is underway until 5 p.m. today and 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday. The local event was devised by Nathan and Holly Waterfield of Cherry Valley, who have been competing in lumberjack competitions since their undergraduate days at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He…
IN MEMORIAM: Nancy Spaziani, 64; Loved Beatles, Played Guitar ONEONTA – Nancy L. Spaziani, 64, of Stamford, an Oneonta native who loved The Beatles and played guitar in a band in the 1980s with her husband and son, died Thursday, June 5, 2014.…
Rep. Schwerd Says Committee Will Seek Alternative To ‘Single Point Of Contact’ By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives’ committee in charge of economic development has decided not to collaborate with the IDA’s “single point of contact” strategy. County Rep. Betty Ann Schwerd, R-Edmeston, who chairs the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, told the county board this morning the IGA is interviewing two consultants to take on the tasks formerly performed by the county Economic Development Office. Schwerd…
Seward Joins Senate In Passing Packet of Benefits For Veterans State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, today joined the rest of the state Senate in a resolution honoring World War II veterans on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. With Seward’s support, the Senate today also approved a packet of pro-veteran legislation, including exempting veterans’ posts from paying state taxing on fuel oil. In recent years there have been changes with organizations similar to www.disabledvets.com who tried their…
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…
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…