$10K For Doubleday Baltimore Buddies Remember Friend Through Donation To Baseball Shrine By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Two weeks before his baseball buddy Richard Faust died, Steve Murfin and his pal were at the annual Baltimore Orioles “Dream Week” in Florida. “I was talking to my mother on the phone, and I handed the phone to him,” said Murfin. “He told her jokes and made her laugh for 10 minutes, and when she handed the phone…
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LOVEABLE LAB PROFIT CENTER FOR MUSKRAT HILL GIFT SHOP Love Of Henry Creates T-Shirts, Stickers, More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Most downtown stores were having a pretty soft Induction Weekend 2019, including Muskrat Hill, proprietor Neil Weiller reported the other day. Henry to the rescue! The first three boxes of new Henry T-shirts, based on Weiller’s loveable Golden retriever/shop mascot, arrived in the nick of time. “I sold four pieces as I was taking them…
IN MEMORIAM: Harold ‘Hal’ Slover, 77; Army Lieutenant Colonel, Vietnam Veteran COOPERSTOWN – Lt. Col. (ret.) Harold “Hal” L. Slover, 77, United States Army, passed away surrounded by loved ones on Sept. 12, 2019, in Fairfax, Va., where he lived. Fondly referred to as “Hal,” he grew up in Cooperstown, and graduated from Norwich University’s military college in Vermont. He joined the Army as a second lieutenant and served two tours in Vietnam. In all, he served 28 years in…
Column FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE The ORIGINATING Sin By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’ve been driven out of the house to the peaceful shade of the front porch by television news. The programs are crammed with vitriolic volleys between this faction and that, one candidate and another. Pushing the mute button wouldn’t quell the stridence. It would still be there in the images – puffed up pols and preachers and pundits, each mouthing their one and only truth. There’s…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept 20-21, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Sister, Seward Plan Parole-Reform Rally County Reps Consider E-Waste Recycling Fee Doubleday Field Receives $10K Memorial Gift TedX Talk: Upstate’s Water Can Save World Anti-Fracking Pioneer Retires At Ommegang Inn, 2 Homes Win Beautification Laurels EDITORIAL Will Downtown Upgrades Ever End? No! COLUMNS DiPERNA: How Did America Stray So Far ZAGATA: Don’t Blame Poverty On Rich, But Us MORGAN: U.S. Conceived In…
LAZAR MOST RECENTLY IN BUFFALO New Centers Executive Welcomed At County Site…
PIONEER STREET WINS 2 OF TOP 3 PRIZES Clark Foundation Announces 2019 Beautification Winners FOR COMPLETE RESULTS, MORE PHOTOS SEE THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
FROM CLARK FIELD TO WHITE HOUSE Trump Gives Rivera Presidential Medal COOPERSTOWN – Mariano Rivera, Class of 2019, honored as the only Hall of Fame inductee elected unanimously on the first ballot, is getting another honor today – at the White House. At a reception today, President Trump plans to honor Rivera, the Yankees vaunted relief pitcher, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here’s the complete citation. “During his 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, Mariano Rivera established himself as the…
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