WKTV: 2 Officers Injured Trying To Rescue Driver COOPERSTOWN – A village police officer and a deputy sheriff were injured trying to rescue the driver of a car that ran off the end of the Fair Street boat ramp into Otsego Lake last evening, WKTV is reporting at this hour. In the first official information on the incident, a county 911 received a call at 8:31 p.m. from a woman who said she witnessed the car being driven into the…
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EMERGENCY IN COOPERSTOWN ‘SOMEONE DROVE INTO THE LAKE’…
PART TWO: DOUBLEDAY FIELD 3rd-Base Work Scaled Back To Preserve Historic Ambience By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Future brides, if you dreamed of taking your vows overlooking Doubleday Field and dancing in air-conditioned comfort until the sun comes up, set those dreams aside. A picnic might be more like it, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch suggested this evening at a public hearing on $5.8 million in improvements to Doubleday scheduled to begin this spring. Plans for a…
from ELLEN WHITE WEIR Swaying Corn, Buzzing Bees, Meandering Cows, And Now Deadly Poisons Everywhere To the Editor: My dad grew up on a farm out west of here. I remember my grandfather calling the cows as they followed him uphill to the barn. The fields waved corn in the wind, and it seemed all was right with the world. It felt balanced; the cows ate the corn, the bees loved the weeds, and we would eat the meat and…
HE FEARED FOR BASSETT’S FUTURE Zakrevsky: I Was Told, Don’t Pipe Any Gas To Cooperstown By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – When Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky arrived a year ago, he was told not to bring natural gas to Cooperstown, he said to a Cooperstown audience Monday, April 9, in one of several “Town Hall” meetings he’s convening around the county. Asked afterward who told him, he said the leadership of Otsego 2000, board…
Suspect In Food-Pantry Crime Arrested In ’99 Philly Area Con Same Modus Operandi: English Accent; Prep School, Links To Royalty Claimed By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – An English accent, a boarding school education, ties to royalty and a background in high-end home decorating. These were the lies Antoine Bourbon-Parme – also known as Anthony Cazzari – allegedly told around town. “He had everyone believing he was from England,” said District Attorney John Muehl.…
BOUND VOLUMES • April 11, 2019 200 YEARS AGO From official documents transmitted to Congress during the last session, it appears that the total amount of gold, silver and copper coinage of the mint of the United States, from the date of the establishment up to the end of the year 1807, was $14,183,768.36; and that the amount of gold coins made during the year 1818, was $242,940; of silver, $1,070,427.50; of copper, $52,,320, making a total amount of $1,365,687.50…
Fenimore Gives Champs Honorary Memberships…
PUBLIC BRIEFED TOMORROW NIGHT Main Street, Doubleday Work Under Way In Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – The long-awaited TEP (first contemplated in 2013) is underway. Two of 24 vintage-style lampposts planned for Pioneer Street were installed yesterday afternoon in front of the NBT Bank Branch, direct from Spring City Electrical Manufacturing Co. in Pennsylania. Tomorrow – that’s at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in the Village Hall Ballroom – Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is hosting an informational meeting on both the TEP…
Otsego Now CEO Zakrevsky Plans Cooperstown ‘Town Hall’ Tonight COOPERSTOWN – The next in Otsego Now’s series of public ‘Town Hall’ meetings is planned 5-6:30 p.m. this evening in Cooperstown Village Hall, 22 Main St. Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky will provide an overview of what the IDA does for Otsego County, discuss 2018 accomplishments, and outline what’s planned in 2019.…
