SECONDARY EDITORIAL Village Hall Should Also Fund Strong Merchants’ Association While we’re at it, downtown Coopers(ghost)town needs a strong merchants’ association. So far, it’s always been a Catch-22. The Cooperstown Area Chamber of Commerce has been adamant: We only serve our members. Unfortunately, too few of downtown businesses are members to make the chamber an empowered entity to promote downtown. The result: No coherent, year-‘round downtown strategy. Again, the Village Board has $400,000+ plus a year in found money to…
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MORELL, JENSEN LIFT TEAMS Oneonta, Cooperstown Shine At Don Howard Invitational Editor’s Note: With this report, Connie Herzig becomes the weekly sports columnist for AllOTSEGO.com, Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal. An Oneonta resident and retired 25-year elementary phys-ed teacher at Cooperstown Elementary, she is active in the life of both communities, and expert in both sports scenes. Send Connie news, story tips and any other inputs at herzig@stny.rr.com The 29th Annual Don Howard Track & Field Invitational last Saturday,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 9-10, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE New Oneonta Slogan: ‘We’re Onta Something’ Cooperstown Noise Law: 88 Decibels Is It Concertgoers To Help Pick New Conductor HoF President Mead’s Mantra: Teamwork Relay for Life Message: You Have Friends First UM May Vote To Reject Limits On Gays EDITORIAL Stop the Rot! Village Should Buy CVS, Redevelop It While At It, Fund Strong Merchants’ Association COLUMNS LANDERS: Key To Success:…
IN MEMORIAM: Gary A. Weaver, M.D; Bassett Gastroenterologist For 20 Years COOPERSTOWN – Gary A. Weaver, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Bassett Hospital for 20 years, passed peacefully on Sunday, May 5, 2019, at Mere Point Nursing Care Facility in Brunswick, Maine, where he lived. Gary was born Nov. 18, 1943, in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Velma and Alvin Weaver. He was a graduate of Goshen College and University of Kansas Medical Center. As a conscientious objector, he served…
Tree To Be Planted At 2 Walnut On Arbor Day, Cooperstown To Honor Homer Osterhoudt COOPERSTOWN – A tree will be dedicated to Homer M. Osterhoudt, who passed away last June 30 at age 100, at the Village of Cooperstown’s annual Arbor Day celebration at 1 p.m. next Monday, May 13, at 2 Walnut St., his home for many years. Homer, a retired mailman who walked more than 10 miles a day through village streets for decades, mixed concrete to…
Don Howard Meet Attracts 16 Schools From As Far As Tully Cooperstown Hawkeye Isaiah Johnson clears the bar easily at the pole vault event just wrapping up now at the Linden Avenue campus. Teams from 12 schools, as far away at Tully and Cazenovia, were attracted to today’s Don Howard Invitational, a regional highlight of the track and field season. Inset, Oneonta’s Maddy Hanson elicited oohs and aahs with this long jump. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)…
COOPERSTOWN TRADITION UNDERWAY 7th Graders Swirl Around Dance Floor At 61st Cotillion Ben Agostino escorts Tori France into The Otesaga’s grand ballroom this evening as the 61st annual Cooperstown Cotillion got underway. The annual May tradition follows six weeks of ballroom dancing, where Cooperstown Central seventh-graders learn steps that will serve them well throughout their lives to come. At right, Gina Geertgens leans on the arm of Henry Horvath, as he leads her on the promenade through the hotel’s lobby…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Teamwork: A Way Of Life Tim Mead’s Now Bringing Here L.A. Angels Communications/VP To Succeed Idelson After Induction By JIM KEVLIN • www.AllOTSEGO.com Exclusive COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead, who will become the seventh president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame following this year’s Induction on July 21, has been a team player in the front office at the Los Angeles Angels for four decades. But for the Angels’ vice president/communications, team playing didn’t start there. When young…
Very, Very Antique Cars Rallying Around County Janet and David Campbell of Pittsburgh pose alongside their 1912 Rolls Royce in downtown Cooperstown a few minutes ago, but their not alone. The Campbells are among 57 people driving 27 cars in the Friends of Ancient Road Transportation (figure out the acronym) who are using The Otesaga as a base of operations through Saturday. Today, they visited the Northeast Classic Cars Museum in Norwich. Tomorrow, they drive to Hamilton (home of Colgate…
