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Regatta, BASE Race, Hall of Fame Classic Weekend Highlights It’s a wet and wild weekend as the annual General Clinton Canoe Regatta brings everyone out to the shores – and waters – of the Susquehanna River. Though races run all weekend, the big one kicks off at 6 a.m. Monday, May 26. Follow the racers down the river, then enjoy a barbeque in Bainbridge. Brookwood Point, 6000 State Hwy 80, Cooperstown. Info www.canoeregatta.org. • The 11th annual Hall of Fame…
BOUND VOLUMES May 23, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – New School. The subscriber gives notice that he has opened a Private School, at his dwelling house in Fair Street, where he will devote his time, and use every exertion in his power to facilitate the improvement of the pupils entrusted to his care – whilst strict attention shall be paid to their manners and morals. His number will be select and limited. The advantages of such a school every…
from CATHE ELLSWORTH Trustees Should Help, Not Hinder Downtown Revival To the Editor: In last week’s newspaper, Cooperstown Village Trustee Richard Sternberg penned a column in which he went to great lengths to point out all the various village projects that need to be completed. Included on the list such things as the roads, not to mention other infrastructure needs, and the wastewater treatment plant as well as the Doubleday Field upgrade. When added to this list of needed undertakings,…
MISSION in TOKYO BAY MacArthur Wanted Surrender – And To Hear Army-Navy Game By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the end of World War II, Sgt. Wallace Low remembers a particular assignment while stationed with his communications unit in Yokohama Bay to handle communications during the Japanese surrender. “General (Douglas) MacArthur wanted to listen to the Army-Navy football game,” he said. “Our orders were to set up the receivers so that he could get the entire…
from RICK HULSE SR. Main Street In Trouble, Yet Housing In Demand To the Editor: Your editorial about Main Street is timely. When CVS and the General Store closed, businesses that remained experience a plunge in traffic and revenue. We are in a tragic situation with no apparent leadership equipped to deal with it. My advice to Matt Hazzard at the time was to go all out nationally to determine interest in the CVS space. Parking revenue is probably restricted…
ONAQUAGA REDISCOVERED • PART I Native Fled Iroquois HQ Year Before Dam Blew Up By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The more than 3,000 paddlers in this weekend’s 59th annual General Clinton Regatta can compete with a clear conscience. Its namesake Gen. James Clinton, who blew up the dam at Cooperstown in 1779 so the waters could carry his 200-bateaux flotilla swiftly down the Susquehanna to Onaquaga, didn’t destroy the Iroquois village there. He found one building…
CCS Budget For 2019-20 Passes Easily, By 305-46 COOPERSTOWN – The $19.8 million Cooperstown Central School 2019-20 passed by a vote of 305-46. Two school board candidates were unopposed, but incumbent Marielle Ainsworth led the polling with 295 votes, and newcomer Wendy Kiuber with 287.…
IN MEMORIAM: Jean Huntington, 86; Wife Of Trolley Line Road Developer COOPERSTOWN – Jean C. Huntington, 86, wife of the late Donald C. Huntington, developer of the Trolley Line Road neighborhood, Hartwick Seminary, died early Sunday morning, May 19, 2019, at Woodside Hall in Cooperstown. She was 86. Born Feb. 25, 1933, in Oneonta, Jean was a daughter of Raymond J. and Cassie (Fowler) Cower. Jean grew up in Oneonta and graduated from OHS in 1951.…
Speaking Of Sports Catan, Cooperstown Team Looking Forward To States ONEONTA – Oneonta’s Chris Catan and Cooperstown’s Will Weldon have a lot in common. They are both outstanding young tennis players with lots of talent and enthusiasm for their sport. They both play first singles for very successful high school teams. And both are looking forward to the State tournament. They happen to live about 20 miles away from each other, but play in different sections, Catan in Section IV and…
