Hundreds Throng 80 Booths At Cooperstown Spring Fling Taking advantage of the first fully sunny day in weeks, hundreds shoppers, strollers and the curious at this hour are making their ways through 80 booths of arts & crafts, books, handmade clothing and much more at the Cooperstown Rotary Club’s Spring Fling, underway until 5 on the Clark Sports Center’s front lawn. (Plenty of free parking.) Above, Rick Jagels of Cooperstown tries his luck at the rubber ducky pond being operated…
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CGP Grad Rob Katz’s Photo Picked For Film Fest Poster COOPERSTOWN – Rob Katz of Coopertown’s photo of a tree and its roots growing along and over stone steps has won the Glimmerglass Film Days Poster Image Contest as best representing the 2019 Film Days theme, “Adaptations.” The seventh annual film festival will be Nov. 7-11 in multiple Cooperstown locations. The films, selected by the Film Days Steering Committee led by Peggy Parsons, will show how nature, society, and individuals…
Delgado To Give Colgate Commencement Address HAMILTON – Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, will give the commencement address at his alma mater, Colgate University, this Sunday, May 19, the college announced today. A 1999 graduate of the college, Delgado majored in philosophy and political science, graduating magna cum laude and earning Phi Beta Kappa membership. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, receiving a second degree in the school’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, then returned to the United States to…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 16-17, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Newborns Died, Twins’ Mom Indicted OHS Schools Cutting Help For Neediest CCS Budget Focus: Kindergarten, Vaping PETS Task Force’s First Case: Pittsfield Pigs Fly Creek UM Letter ‘Dismayed’ At Gay Ban Widower, 3 Kids Homeless In Pittsfield Fire EDITORIAL Downtown Revival IS Exciting; Let’s ACT Excited COLUMNS TILLAPAUGH: Prosperity, Offerings About Here KUZMINSKI: Is 2-Party System Serving Nation? STERNBERG: Blame Businesspeople For…
BOUND VOLUMES, May 16, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Medical Meeting – An adjourned meeting of the Otsego County Medical Society will be held at the house of Joseph Griffin, in the Village of Cooperstown on Tuesday, the 25th, at 1 o’clock p.m. To Pomeroy, Secretary. Notice – Robert Campbell, Recording Secretary of the Otsego County Agricultural Society, has just received a variety of Foreign Seed Grains, to be delivered to such members of the Society as may call in time.…
…Away On A Hilltop: The Inn At Fly Creek By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to ALLOTSEGO.COM FLY CREEK – Kellie Dupuis and Kelly Hart don’t just want the Inn at Fly Creek to be for visitors. They want it to be for everyone. This summer, the Town of Otsego estate atop Bedbug Hill will be rented out to Dreams Park families. But “what interests us most about this property is hosting weekend events,” said Kellie. “Wine tastings, bridal fairs, Ommegang…
COLUMN Blame Businesspeople For Downtown Woes In response to last week’s editorial regarding Cooperstown purchasing the old CVS building … What rot! I can only believe that this is either sarcasm or your newspaper trying to roil the waters for the sake of selling more newspapers. It is not the position of a very small municipality that struggles to put together a balanced budget every year while maintaining an adequate reserve, to be buying up public property for the sake…
COLUMN Prosperity, Offerings About Cooperstown Editor’s Note: Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch delivered these welcoming remarks when NYCOM, the New York Conference of Mayors, convened Sunday, May 6, at The Otesaga, for its three-day annual conference. I have had the opportunity over the past year to welcome several groups to Cooperstown – but I have to say this is one of the more intimidating as I am facing a room of peers – elected officials who have all had to provide…
from PAULA DiPERNA You Ask: What Can I Do? Well, Here’s What To the Editor: I am often asked by people “what can we do?” about this or that, so I’ve begun a personal program called “Resist, Reject, Rebel.” Below is a list of simple acts we can all undertake that would ameliorate an assortment of problems we face as a society. 1) Plastics in the ocean: Reject all drinks with a plastic straw. Send back the straw and ask…
from GERRY WELCH Caped Crusaders Can Fight Ticks To The Editor, Here are suggestions for removing ticks from walking paths, yards, deer trails, etc. Attach to shoulder or waist a white bed sheet, and then walk or jog. Upon returning home, car or camp, quickly place sheet into a five-gallon pail of water with bleach, put lid on and leave sit overnight. Next day hang sheet out to dry to be used again next time.…
