OPERA REVIEW: Glimmerglass’ ‘Carousel’ Offers Talent, Verve, Fine Conducting, Etc. By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com The chief excellence of this production? The young cast members, their talent and verve – with fine orchestral conducting, dancing, and vocal performances – The Hammerstein dialogue, however, must have been written on his off days, with tedious near-rhymes and banalities meant to represent “the folk.”…
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Playwright (And Renaissance Man) Tom Morgan Taking Play On Road By LIBBY CUDMORE Tom Morgan, the former Oneonta financial adviser known for his one-man “Tales of the Empire” plays, has now turned an argument into art. In 2012, he and wife Erna Morgan McReynolds witnessed what Morgan described as “an obsessive amount of parental control.” “I began to wonder, ‘What would happen down the road’?” he said. “It served as a catalyst.” He began writing, and what came out was his…
Hartwick To Wall Street, Back To Otsego County By JIM KEVLIN When Bob Hanft was a Hartwick College senior in 1968-69, he met a fetching freshman, his future wife Patricia. A memorable courtship followed, much of it in Cooperstown: Friday excursions to “The Pit,” the Tunnicliff Inn’s basement hot-spot, sunny weekend trips to Glimmerglass State Park, the spring formal of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Bob’s fraternity, at The Otesaga. “We loved Upstate New York,” he recalled the other day. By 2006,…
Hartwick Historical Society Honors Prime Mover…
Arc Otsego’s 10th Annual Art Exhibit Opens 7/18 ONEONTA – Voice! 10, the 10th annual juried art exhibition of work by artists with intellectual and other developmental disabilities from across New York State, opens with a free, public reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, July 18, at the Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. During the reception, which includes music, refreshments, and art for sale, over $1,400 in prize money will be awarded and visitors will have the opportunity to…
Newly Formed Destination Oneonta Celebrates At First Get-Together…
Hundreds Attend 100th Celebration Of Springfield Parade At State Park The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Springfield Fourth of July Parade continued that evening with a Jeff Walton concert and fireworks at Glimmerglass State Park. “The turnout was incredible – the very large parking lots at the park were overflowed, and the entire park was full of people,” reports Andrea House, a member of the organizing committee who provided the photos accompanying this article. Fritz Henry also performed. “The…
Court Decision Renews Drive For Fracking Ban In Morris MORRIS – In the wake of the state Court of Appeals’ June 30 decision upholding local fracking bans, Town Board member Marilyn Roveland will make a motion at Tuesday’s town board meeting calling for a ban here. Advocates for Morris announced her intention in a press release asking ban supporters to attend the meeting and support Roveland. “Your presence and your voices are more important now than ever before,” the release…
BOUND VOLUMES, July 3, 2014 200 YEARS AGO At a circuit court holden in Delhi, in the County of Delaware, on Friday last, James Graham, was tried for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander M’Gilvery. The evidence was circumstantial, but of such a nature as to leave no doubt of his guilt. It appeared in evidence, that Graham, with the two for whose murder he was indicted, was at a raising at a Mr. Kellogg’s, in Delhi, on…
RETIRED FINANCIER BOB HANFT SUCCEEDS OBERRITER AT IDA Bob Hanft, Pierstown, the retired Wall Street banker, has been elected chairman of the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency board. Meeting yesterday, the IDA accepted “with regret” the resignation of Sharon Oberitter of Fly Creek, retired founder, with husband Don, of the Cooperstown Bat Co., who had shepherded the IDA through its dramatic transition.…