2-Vehicle Crash Slows Cooperstown Rush Hour A collision between a pickup truck and a car at Railroad Avenue and Route 28 in Cooperstown 20 minutes ago slowed northbound rush-hour traffic. State police were at the scene, directing traffic, but the drivers were talking to each other and neither appeared to be injured. The car in the collision, inset, limped away from the scene, leaking gasoline, and parked in a nearby parking lot at 21 Railroad. No further details were immediately…
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FARMERS’ HOSTS STATEWIDE CONTEST 450 Contenders, Families In County For History Day Ethan Na, an eighth-grader from Jericho, L..I.,and mom Kim check the tally board outside The Farmers’ Museum’s Louis Jones Center a few minutes ago to see how his project, exploring the Flu Pandemic of 1919, is faring in competition. He was one of 450 students from around the state in Cooperstown today for New York History Day, where projects are judged by 100 historians to determine the best…
Cooperstown’s Bobby Walker Leads NY College Republicans COOPERSTOWN – Bobby Walker was elected president of the New York Federation of College Republicans at its annual convention over the weekend at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Albany. “The College Republicans will become a major fighting force in NY Politics,” the SUNY Albany undergrad from Cooperstown, who put together what he called the Restore NYFCR Campaign, declared after his victory. Walker’s Team Restore slate also carried all spots on the NYCFR…
HAZMAT TEAM SUMMONED Gasoline Spills From Tanker At Mirabito, Staff Contains It COOPERSTOWN – County Hazmat teams, the DEC and Cooperstown Fire Department were called to Cooperstown’s Mirabito station at Chestnut and West Broad at 11:10 a.m. yesterday after a tanker overfilled the gas well, causing a large spill. According to Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, employees the gas station quickly contained the spill using bumpers, and the gasoline did not get into storm or wastewater drains. “There was no need for…
A CCS Grad Herself, Principal ‘Dynamo,’ Superintendent Says Kristin Butler Just What’s Needed At High School, Crankshaw Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In second grade, Kristin Butler already knew what she wanted to do. “I wanted to be just like Mrs. Kiser,” the new CCS junior-senior high school principal said in an interview this afternoon. Deborah Kiser “was one of the kindest, most compassionate people I’ve ever known.” Butler, CCS ’99, a SUNY Geneseo graduate,…
5 Division III-Bound Seniors To Be Celebrated At Signings COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown High School is planning an NCAA Celebratory Signing Day Friday, May 3, including a 3:15 p.m. event in the library for students heading off to college sports careers. They included Upstate Sportswriters’ “Player of the Year” Jack Lambert, co-captain of the school’s first-ever Class C state championship basketball team, who will attended the Division III University of Scranton. Other honorees, all headed to Division III teams, are Baileigh…
IN MEMORIAM: Suzanne E. Wart, 71; Farmer’s Wife Devoted To Large Family COOPERSTOWN – Suzanne E. Wart, 71, who farmed with her husband on Christian Hill Road, Town of Otsego, and raised five daughters there, died peacefully on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, surrounded by her family. Born Feb. 11, 1948, in Cooperstown, Suzanne was the only child of Corlis and Joyce (Coleman) Sharp. She grew up on Glen Avenue in the village literally across the street from the “old high…
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FATE OF THE EARTH League Finds Downtown Easing Out Use Of Plastic Editor’s Note: This report was issued Monday, April 22, after the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area surveyed the use of plastics in downtown Cooperstown. By MELINDA HARDIN & MAUREEN MURRAY Special to The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERTOWN – Our Planet Earth cannot digest plastic. With that fact in mind the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area has partnered with other local environmentally…
LETTER TO CVS PRESIDENT Former Store An Eyesore, Please Help Cooperstown Editor’s Note: Bill Waller of Cooperstown sent this letter Monday, April 22, to Kevin Hourican, president, CVS, in Woonsocket, R.I., about the two-year vacancy of the company’s downtown Cooperstown store. Dear Mr. Hourican, I am writing to inform you of a situation with one of your properties located in Cooperstown, New York. You recently constructed a new CVS store in our Village and vacated your former location on our…
