MEAD TELLS FANS AT Q&A Leading Hall Of Fame Is About ‘We,’ Not ‘I’ By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In a Q&A this morning, Community Day at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Cooperstown’s two other museums, the Hall’s new president Tim Mead told of his humble beginnings. He was born in Greece, and adopted, along with his sister, when he was 6 months old. He joined the Los Angeles (then Anaheim) Angels as an intern…
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$100K Grant Spurs 2-Story Addition On Distillery Building Work To Begin This Month, Says Owner By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Having received word of a $100,000 grant, Cooperstown Distillery President Gene Marra says construction will begin, perhaps as soon as next week, certainly this month, on a 7,500-square-foot two-story addition off the back of its Railroad Avenue plant. “These funds will accelerate the construction of a new storage facility adjacent to our existing distillery in Cooperstown,…
SATURDAY, HALL ADMISSION FREE Hall Of Fame President Mead Plans Q&A With Community COOPERSTOWN – The Baseball Hall of Fame’s new president, Tim Mead, plans a Q&A with visitors at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday) during Community Day, where local fans will be admitted for free, (a $23 value for adults with drivers’ license or other ID). Mead , who succeeded Jeff Idelson at the end of the 2019 Induction, spent a career at the Los Angeles Angels, the last decade…
IN MEMORIAM Donald O. Pollock, M.D., 89; Half-Century Village Mainstay COOPERSTOWN – Donald O. Pollock, M.D., who led a lifetime of service to others, including a distinguished and wide-ranging medical career with Bassett Hospital that spanned several decades, passed away peacefully in his home Sunday evening, Sept. 29, 2019, surrounded by family and listening to the final Red Sox game of the season. He was 89. He was born in 1930 in East Orange, N.J., the oldest son of J.…
2nd Referendum Could See New Turf Field Baseball Field, Gym Slated For Repair In $5M CCS Project By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rehabbed gymnasiums, new LED lighting, enhanced security and enhanced draining on the “embarrassment” baseball field were all part of the $5 million Capital Project presented tonight at a forum by the Cooperstown Central school board. “The baseball field’s infield has been a real source of embarrassment and hard to maintain,” said Superintendent William Crankshaw. …
EXCERPT Is Impeachment Political, Or Legal? The House of Representatives doesn’t need to prove that a president committed a crime outlined in the federal code to pass articles of impeachment. They instead impeach based on whether the president committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” as outlined in Article II, Section 4 of the US constitution. …In all, former prosecutors told Insider, there are at least four areas where Trump could face legal jeopardy. ►Illegally soliciting campaign help…
LETTER from GERALD WEINBERGER Oust Trump, Focus On Problems To the Editor: Local Republicans should start petitions urging President Trump to resign. Senate Republicans will not convict him. Impeachment per se will not get rid of Trump, who obviously enjoys all the attention. Vice President Mike Pence is hardly a good Republican candidate because of sexual bigotry, but can be an improvement over Trump, who lost the popular election by 10 million votes. If Trump does not resign: incumbent Republicans or…
BOUND VOLUMES Oct. 3, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Ed. Note: October 4, 1819, a Monday, marks the first appearance in Cooperstown two centuries ago of the newspaper still known as “Freeman’s Journal.” John Prentiss the editor introduced the publication to the community as follows: “After a lapse of more than a year, we resume our editorial labors, and at a time, too, inauspicious to an extensive circulation of newspapers, because the pecuniary pressure upon the country is so great as…
Column Mother Steadfastly ‘True North’ I’ve just spent an hour upstairs in, so far, a fruitless search. The search was for an object about as round as a half dollar, and it weighs not much more. Olive drab, its metal case has a cracked glass face. Inside it, a needle trembles on a center post. The needle, as it has for over a century, points true north. You can’t fool that needle by turning the case so that the printed…
Is Delgado Risking Reelection Over Call For Impeachment? Within minutes of Antonio Delgado proclaiming his support for impeaching Donald Trump on Monday, Sept. 23, the National Republican Campaign Committee declared it is the freshman 19th District congressman’s “political death sentence.” It’s out of character, for sure. On issues to date, Delgado’s played it safe, focusing legislative efforts on agriculture, broadband and healthcare, knowing, regardless, little legislation sent from the Democratic House of Representatives to the Republican U.S. Senate is going…
