Toss Old, Unused Prescriptions During Drug Take Back Week COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Healthcare Network is encouraging people to get rid of unused prescriptions at its three pharmacies during Drug Take Back Week, April 22-27. The disposal kiosks are available at Bassett, Foxcare and O’Connor pharmacies to help people avoid prescription misuse and help stem addictions tied to over-the-counter or controlled medication. These excess prescriptions can be managed easier with the help of pharmacy software development by SmartexLab or others, the…
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LATIN HERITAGE, GAME BOND THEM Edgar Martinez Honored To Be Inducted With Rivera Surrounded by a phalanx of TV cameras in the Hall of Plaques (and with Babe Ruth, inset, peeking over his shoulder), Edgar Martinez said he’s proud of the shared heritage he and Yankee superstar Mariano Rivera will bring to the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on July 21. He diplomatically side-stepped one reporter’s observation that Martinez batted 572 when facing Rivera on the mound. Martinez, who…
50 GATHER AT BEVERAGE EXCHANGE Democratic Candidates Kick Off Fall Campaign To applause, Democratic County Chairman Aimee Swan, standing at center, introduces city, town and county candidates from across Otsego County seeking office in the Nov. 5 local elections at a kick-off rally now underway at the Beverage Exchange in downtown Coopertown. (In the foreground are Oneonta Democrats Rick Pavlick, right, and Kate O’Donnell, left.) At right, Jill Basile, county rep candidate from District 14, Oneonta, attending with husband Vinnie,…
SIGN OF SPRING New Tug Breaks Ice On Otsego Lake There was a new Bubba on Otsego Lake this afternoon: “Bubba” the Tug Boat, that is, which Lakefront Hotel proprietor Paula Wickoff purchased from Seattle’s harbor last fall and was delivered to the docks at Cooperstown on Thanksgiving Weekend. Ice-breaking is a spring ritual, to avoid damage to the docks at the Lakefront or Landland Shores; last year, however, the ice was particularly thick, and Paula spent hours on end…
IN MEMORIAM: Irma Lorraine Sosnovik, 92; Burial Saturday In N.J. For Retired Nurse COOPERSTOWN – A memorial service is planned is Saturday, April 6, for Irma Lorraine Sosnovik, 92, who moved 15 years ago from New Jersey to Cooperstown, where one of her daughters resides, and passed away peacefully on Feb. 8, 2019. The service is schedule for 1 p.m. Saturday, at Devoe’s Funeral Home in Washington, N.J., with an internment ceremony to follow at the Pequest Union Cemetery of…
INTERIM TEAM IN PLACE AT ST. MARY’S In Retirement, Father Rosson Is Anticipating Travel, Service By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – On May 30, 1955, little John Rosson, 7, underwent his First Holy Communion at his hometown church, Immaculate Conception in Irvington, on the Hudson River. As the host – in Catholic doctrine, the small, round wafer is the actual Body and Blood of Jesus Christ – passed his lips, the boy immediately knew: He…
COLUMN ABOLISH OTSEGO NOW! By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta In my column of Aug. 9-10, 2018, I suggested that Otsego County might follow the example of Tompkins County and set up an Energy Task Force. I had little expectation that anything would come of it, but, thanks to a bipartisan effort led by county Representatives Michelle Farwell and Meg Kennedy, that Task Force is now a reality. The Task Force will have to face the…
Food Pantry’s Co-Director Charged In Theft Of $18K By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – The smallest check was for $825. The largest was for $4,997.90. In all, Antoine Bourbon-Parme, 59, the former co-director of the Cooperstown Food Pantry, allegedly stole $18,579 from the organization’s accounts over 16 months, beginning in October 2017 and ending in late January. According to the court documents filed in Otsego Town Court on Tuesday, April 2, Bourbon-Parme forged the names…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 4 – 5, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Food Pantry Co-Director Held In $18K Theft Delgado’s New Approach To Healthcare Hailed Ames, Mandigo New Oneonta Trailblazers Father Rosson Looks Forward To Retirement Business Patron, Now New Chamber Director 2,000 Children In Poverty, ‘And That’s High’ EDITORIAL ABOLISH OTSEGO 2000! COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: ABOLISH OTSEGO NOW! SEWARD: We’re Losing Generation MASKIN: 16.1% Of Us Live In Poverty CEACAREANU: Have Naloxone…
Already Business Patron, Tara Burke Now Chamber Of Commerce Director By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – Even before she was named executive director for the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, Tara Burke was a big fan of the business community. “My family loves the Fly Creek Cider Mill, and we always go to brunch at The Otesaga,” she said. “My brother is a big fan of ‘Game of Thrones,’ so we always have to go…
