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“This year, the [COTH Festival] committee decided to kick off the festival with a block party at CANO Friday night,” said Von Stengel, “and limit the festival to Main Street only Saturday afternoon instead of hosting vendors, performances, and activities on Main Street and CANO simultaneously Saturday and Sunday. This way, our organizers and volunteers are not spread thin and we can focus our energies [on] bringing more attendees to Main Street on Saturday for businesses.”…
FESTIVAL—5-9 p.m. “City of the Hills Festival.” Block party at Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Avenue, Oneonta. Visit https://www.cityofthehillsfest.org/…
It’s especially exciting to see how the Downtown Renaissance has sparked a wave of community-driven initiatives, such as the Oneonta Storefront Project, which fills vacant storefronts with art, and downtown business owners collaborating on promotions like sidewalk sales. Organizers and artists already doing cool things like the second Saturday Nighttime Alley Market have been able to harness their efforts to something bigger with the Oneonta Downtown Renaissance, too.…
On Saturday, August 24 from 4-8 p.m., music, vendors selling arts and handmade goods, art installations created by Megan Joubert and other local artists, food by AJ’s Smokin’ BBQ and art activities for kids, like making fairy wands, will pop up outside on CANO grounds.…
News Briefs: June 6, 2024 Coop Sends Two to State Meet COOPERSTOWN—Juniors Annelise Jensen and Cooper Bradley will represent Cooperstown at the state track and field championships at Cicero-North Syracuse beginning on Friday, June 7. Jensen won the girls 800m finals by nearly a second in 2:22.32 at the qualifier meet on Thursday, May 30 and placed third in the 1,500m. Bradley finished first in boys high jump with a mark of 6 feet, 2 inches. Sentz Competes at States…
OTEGO—Gail Evelyn (Stimpson) Quick died peacefully with her family by her side on May 24, 2024 at the A.O. Fox Nursing Home, following a brief illness with cancer. She was born October 1, 1945 in Oneonta to Dorothy and Virgil Stimpson.
She graduated from Oneonta High School in 1963 and from SUNY Oneonta in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree. After teaching in New York and California, she worked as the director of the Delhi Campus Child Care Center for 16 years.…
POETRY—7:30 p.m. “Writers Salon.” An evening with Alex Alberto (non-fiction). Literary reading series for local writers held each Third Thursday through June. Free, open to the public. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Avenue, Oneonta. Visit https://www.canoneonta.org/writers-salon…
CANO Receives $5K Award Toward Juneteenth Celebration ONEONTA—The Community Arts Network of Oneonta has received a $5,000.00 award from the Community Foundation of Otsego County in support of the 2024 Juneteenth Celebration. The event will be held on Saturday, June 22 on Field Number 5 in Oneonta’s Neahwa Park. The free, family-friendly, Oneonta Juneteenth Celebration is a forum for celebrating Black joy and justice. In its fifth year in Oneonta, Juneteenth is a day filled with Black culture, community relationships,…
Opera singer and memoirist Kathleen Watt at CANO"s April Writers Salon and this weekend's SHIFT New York Psychic and Holistic Fair.…
People and businesses in the news include recipients of SUNY Oneonta's Susan Sutton Smith awards, Gold Artist Colors and New Berlin's Laurel Brigham.…