HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, FEB. 9 Learn, Discuss Civil Rights History FILM SERIES – 7-9 p.m. Celebrate Black History Month with a showing of “Palante, Siempre Palante.” Includes a presentation and a Q&A session. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Info, oneonta.collegiatelink.net/organization/oneonta/calendar/details/1206852 TOASTMASTERS – 6:15-7:30 p.m. Speech contest with free refreshments. Come practice your public speaking in a supportive environment. The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.toastmastersclubs.org or call (607)873-2070…
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Rev. Dane E. Boston Joining Christ Church As New Rector COOPERSTOWN – The Rev. Canon Dane E. Boston will join Christ Episcopal Church as its 23rd rector, the church’s vestry and wardens announced today. He succeeds the Rev. Mark Michael, who last year accepted a rector position at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Herndon, Va. His arrival will leave one pastor vacancy among the village’s five churches, at First Baptist Church, where the Rev. Douglas Deer retired to Cortland in 2014.…
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…