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SSPCA’s PETS Team Rescues Cat ‘Birdie’, Speared Through Eye Staffer Showed How Trained Personnel Can Respond In Emergency, Director Says MARYLAND – Birdie the cat, stuck to a bird feeder with a wire piercing its eye, was rescued June 13 by the county’s new animal cruelty task force, PETS (Prevention, Education, Training and Systems), the SSPCA announced today. It was feared the cat would have to be put down but, with care and treatment at the Hartwick Seminary shelter, it…
IN MEMORIAM Frederick S. Veseley, 92; Former Farmer Tended Cooperstown Museums HARTWICK – Frederick S. Vesely, Sr., 92, former buildings and grounds superintendent at The Fenimore House and The Farmers’ Museum, passed away early this morning, June 28, 2019, at Fox Nursing Home. He lived in the Town of Burlington. He was born Feb. 24, 1927, in New Windsor, one of 10 children of Andrew and Matilda (Gaydos) Vesely. In his youth, Fred attended a one-room schoolhouse in Little Britain.…
Grown Here, Now Savored Here Green Cow Features Local Grass-Fed Beef By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Doug Thompson doesn’t have anything against toppings, but he believes, at least for the first bite, the meat should speak for itself. “It will really surprise you when you realize that meat has flavor,” he said. Monday, June 24, he and wife Carrie opened a butcher shop, The Green Cow, at 21 Railroad Ave., and for the first time local…
EDITORIAL Village Trustees: Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown A sitting-room-only-on-the-floor crowd Monday, June 24, at the Cooperstown Village Board’s monthly meeting had a point: Why put an apartment house in the middle of one of the village’s finest single-family-home neighborhoods? There it is. That said, who doesn’t have some mixed feelings, given that the developer, Josh Edmonds, intends to build a complex that is supremely energy efficient, as is his new home at 45 Delaware St., and to price it so young…
Emhof Leaves Cooperstown Center Administrator Named At Fox Nursing Home ONEONTA – Jeff Emhof, a veteran nursing home administrator at Focus Otsego and the Cooperstown Center, as well as Chase Memorial in New Berlin, is the new administrator at Fox Nursing Home, it was announced today. A licensed nursing home administrator in New York State for more than 11 years, comes to Fox from the Cooperstown Center, where the facility received state recognition for improvements over the past two years,…
BOUND VOLUMES June 27, 2019 200 YEARS AGO A new State: The bill providing for the erection of the District of Maine into a new State, has passed the Senate and House of the Assembly of Massachusetts, 193 to 50. Every member from Maine voted for the separation. The following toast was given at Athens in the State of Georgia at a dinner where the President of the United States was present: “The slave trade, the scourge of Africa, the…
‘Power Couple’ Of Methodist Ministry Wife Pastor At Oneonta’s First UM, Husband Takes Cooperstown Pulpit By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Call them a Power Couple of The Cloth. Rev. Dana Horrell begins his ministry Sunday, July 7, at Cooperstown United Methodist Church, while 32 miles down the road, his wife, Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell, the same day will celebrate her first anniversary as pastor of Oneonta’s First United Methodist Church. They’re the second such United Methodist husband-and-wife…
Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County Elderly By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – An 88-year-old Laurens woman got a call, purportedly from Cooperstown Police: Her granddaughter had been in an accident, she was fine, but her car had been impounded and she needed $4,000 in cash to get it out. The woman was instructed to wrap the money in a sweater and mail it to Staten Island. She did so, shipping the package overnight from The Shipping Room…
Antiquarian Book Fair At 25 A Million Books, Ready To Read At 139 Main St. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Dad Will Monie and son Willis don’t minimize challenges to the book business, but the Internet Age has also opened up opportunities. Willis Monie Books has one million volumes in its building at 139 Main St., easily available to the half-million visitors who come to Cooperstown annually, plus the 60,000 county residents. Of the total, 125,000…
