LIBBY’S BEST BETS Racing Season Starts Heal Your Soul, Or Learn About Voting Winter is behind us and two 5K/10K races ramp up Otsego County’s favorite warm-weather activity. First, enjoy a sweet treat on the course as part of the Oneonta Donut Dash to raise money for the Rebecca Douglas Siegfried Scholarship fund at Morris Central School. 9 a.m. Saturday, April 27 Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info Valery.Worden@oneonta.edu • If you prefer your race day treats in a glass, the annual…
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Assistant DA: We Have Truitt On Video Green: It Shows Suspect Carrying Accelerant By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Video evidence shows accused arsonist Gabriel Truitt, 33, with the accelerant found in front of Heather Engler’s apartment door in the Walling Avenue fire that killed former Oneonta firefighter John Heller, Assistant District Attorney Will Green said during this morning’s arraignment in Otsego County Court. “Video evidence shows the defendant with isopropyl alcohol going to and from the crime…
Village Board Hears Plans For NY Pizzeria Upgrades FULL DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL ON VILLAGE NEWSSTANDS WEDNESDAY…
Cooperstown Central Names Kristin Butler High School Principal Veteran Teacher, Administrator Succeeds Lucy COOPERSTOWN – Kristin Butler, veteran Cooperstown Central School teacher and administrator, has been appointed junior-senior high school principal, effective July 1. She will succeed Donna Lucy, who resigned last summer. In the interim, Jim Brophy, retired Edmeston Central School principal, has filled the role. A 1999 CCS graduate, Butler has served the district for the past 13 years in both instructional and administrative roles, most recently as…
IN MEMORIAM: Joseph R. Konchar, 91; Retired Farmer Owned Elm Inn In Heyday MILFORD – Joseph R. Konchar, 91, a retired farmer who owned the Elm Inn in its heyday, died Saturday, April 20, 2019, at Cooperstown Center. Born March 19, 1928, Joe was the youngest and last surviving of the 13 children of August and Antoinette (Ocaker) Konchar. At an early age, his family moved from the family’s Christian Hill farm in the Town of Otsego where he was…
IN MEMORIAM Bassett Scientist Len Sauer, 89; Retired To New Life In Montana COOPERSTOWN – Beloved, gentle Len Sauer, senior research physician emeritus at Bassett Research Institute since retiring in 1996, died April 15, 2019, at his home on the Bitterroot River in Montana. For 89 years, he was his own definite self, a quiet person of integrity and acceptance. He went to high school in Schenectady, but was a less-than-serious student: he skipped school to play pool. However, in 1948,…
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Fenimore Publishes Book On Its Hamilton Letters Hit Broadway Musical Elevated Interest In Correspondence Leading To Famed Duel COOPERSTOWN – The Fenimore Art Museum today announced the publication of “Your Obedient Servant: The Letters of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr,” built around the 35 letters between the two Founding Fathers leading up to their fatal duel on July 11, 1804. “Your Obedient Servant” includes 10 of the most significant letters that have never been illustrated. The text of the letters…
IN APPRECIATION Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Delong 1922-2019 COOPERSTOWN – Mary Elizabeth (Betty) DeLong, who just finishing up her 96th year, has passed away. Born in Bloomsburg, Pa., on May 1, 1922, an only child of Catharine Mason and H. Boyd Hagenbuch, she married Don DeLong and then began her travels around the country with her three children, Doug, Devon and Brian, settling in Silver Spring, Md. She moved to Cooperstown in 2014 to live very happily at the Clara Welch…
Egg Hunters Undeterred By Rain, Pack Hyde Hall Mira Aramini, 12, above, of Middlefield Center, was fast off the mark at 10 sharp this morning at Hyde Hall’s annual Easter Egg Hunt on the grounds of the National Historic Landmark above Otsego Lake. Undeterred by the rain, the Clements family of Hartwick, inset right, was first in line at 9:30, waiting on get onto the grounds: mom Fanny, dad Jonathan and, from left, Emma, 4, Xavier 10, and Lucas, 11. …
