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911’s 18TH ANNIVERSARY NEAR Victim’s Sister’s Memories, 5-10K Honor That Fatal Day George Morell‘s sister, Cathy Raddatz of Cooperstown, recalls her brother’s heroism in 1993, at the first World Trade Center bombing, when he carried a frail sandwich vendor from the 70th floor to safety. Eight years later, on 9/11, he called his wife and said, “Robbie, I love you. It’s the big one.” He was one of 638 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who died that day. Cathy was speaking this…
Pupils Back In Classrooms After Alarm At CCS School…
GOP Chair: Hire Manager, But Shrink Government COOPERSTOWN – Reacting to the news a vote on creating a county administrator may come by December, Republican County Chairman Vince Casale said fine, but it should be done by shrinking county government in other ways. “I fully believe the addition of a county manager is a good idea and is needed,” Casale said. But “I believe it should come with additional reforms, such as term limits and reducing the size of the…
FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE But What’s Her Name? By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’m at ease on my front porch on a beautiful afternoon, admiring the perspective up tree-lined Delaware Avenue. As the long last block heads toward Chestnut Street, curbs and sidewalks seem to draw together, trees conspire more closely over the street, and the two rows of handsome house fronts, bedecked with flags and hanging planters, draw closer till the last ones opposite each other almost block…
Digital Sign, Baseball Field Part of $5M Capital Project By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Though the full scope of the $5 million capital project is still coming into focus, Supt. of Schools Bill Crankshaw gave the school board a sneak peak at some of the projects that could be in the plan during their meeting this evening. An exterior digital sign and reconstruction of the baseball field, including dugouts and a backstop, were recent additions to…
As NY State Spends, Counties Can Expect Cuts, Seward Warns Senator Briefs Reps, Q&A Follows By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The state Legislature’s ambitions are going to be paid for at the local level. That could be the lesson members of the Otsego County Board of Representatives took way from the Q&A this morning when state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, reported as follows at the board’s monthly meeting: • The state Legislature has reduced AIM funding…
Food Pantry Director To Repay $18,000 COOPERSTOWN – The Cooperstown Food Pantry will get back the $18,000 stolen by its former director as part of Antoine Bourbon-Parme’s guilty plea, according to District Attorney John Muehl. “He’s never been convicted of a crime and he’s making a payment up front,” said Muehl. “That’s what’s keeping him out of jail.” Bourbon-Parme, 59, was arrested in April after an investigation found $18,579 missing from the organization’s accounts over 16 months between October 2017…
LETTER from ROBERT MOYNIHAN To Predict Recession, Read Entrails To the Editor: Predicting an economic future? Just forget the past and reliable evidence. 1. No society has survived by increasing debt and reducing income – that is our present national pattern of lowering taxes and inflating expenditures. 2. Whatever minor tax relief given average citizens, increased fees and higher prices for goods limit their spending ability. 3. Because of new tariffs, U.S. farming communities already face depressed markets and massive…
‘Fairy Garden’ Delights In Cooperstown Collection By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If you drive past Bunny and Lewis Hamilton’s historic home on the corner of Main and River streets, you might just feel a little magic. “We had built a fairy garden for my own mother a few years back,” said Deb Ackerman. “She loved it, and we wanted to do something special for Bunny. It took a fair amount of work, considered bringing in professional…
