STATE CHAMPS WELCOMED BY ADORING CROWD Hawkeyes’ Team First To Win NY Hoop Title For Cooperstown CCS Hawkeye Ben Tafuro, Kyle Myer, Spencer Lewis and Ryan Burns (top photo) share cheers with enthusiastic fans – there may have been up to 1,000 – who gathered around the flagpole at Main and Pioneer a half-hour ago to welcome home the team that’s won the first-ever state basketball title for Cooperstown. On the aerial ladder behind the Cooperstown Fire Department’s 1952 vintage…
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HAWKEYES TAKE DOWN KATS FOR STATE TITLE THE MAKING OF A CHAMPIONSHIP By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BINGHAMTON – Hot on the heels of yesterday’s triple-overtime win against Greenport, the Hawkeyes made their 71-61 championship game against the Middle Early College Kats look easy, seizing a 10-point lead early on and never letting up. “A game like yesterday can drain you emotionally, but when I got on the bus this morning and saw them I knew they were…
Littlest Dancer Charms At St. Patrick’s Luncheon The littlest dancer, Ava Salzman, 7, of South Hartwick, performing with the Iona Troupe, charmed the crowd at the St. Patrick’s Day luncheon that followed Sunday mass at Christ Episcopal Church in Cooperstown at noon today. The full range of St. Patty’s cuisine was available, including two types of corned beef, one steeped in Fly Creek Cider Mill cider, according to chef Bill Waller. Inset, Ava receives congratulations from her brother Henry, 7…
THEME: ‘Water, Water Everywhere’ Fly Creek Philharmonic Again Packs The House As emcee Chris Kjolhede put it, tonight’s annual Fly Creek Philharmonic performance, “Water, Water Everywhere,” was “the hottest ticket in town – except for the Cooperstown boys’ basketball team,” and – as always happens – it packed the Fly Creek United Methodist Church. In top photo, the chorus performs “Under the Sea”; front, from left, are Julie Huntsman, Scottie Baker, Celeste Johns, Judy Grin, Joelle LaChance, Sharon Rankins-Burd, Ellen…
Step Dancers, Corned Beef Featured At St. Pat’s Dinner Hartwick’s O’Donnell-Kelly School of Dance brought the sounds and steps of Ireland to The Knights of Columbus Tekawitha Council 10968 annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner this evening at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Parish Hall in Cooperstown. High-stepping out front is Tess DiLorenzo. Behind her, from left, are McKenna Selleck, Morgan Kelley and Maya Stevens. Inset at right is Fred Lemister, the evening’s official Leprechaun. At left is Chef…
UPDATED ARTICLE HAWKEYES HEAD TO STATE FINALS CCS Topples Greenport, 108-98, in Triple Overtime…
IN MEMORIAM: Anne Frederick, 98; Irish Native Worked For Clark Estates ONEONTA – Anne Frederick, loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, went to be with the Lord March 13, 2019. She was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1921, the daughter of Miles and Mary (Rossiter) Doyle. Anne moved to London in 1938, where she served as an air raid warden during WWII.…
With Temperatures In 60s, Brush Fire Season Begins It didn’t take long. With temperatures in the 60s today for the first time since last fall, the Cooperstown Volunteer Fire Department was responded to the first brush fire of the season, near the intersection of Route 33 and Kraham Road just north of the Village of Cooperstown. No damage was reported. But be sure, more brush fires are to come. (Bill Waller/AllOTSEGO.com)…
IN MEMORIAM: James E. Wightman, 80; Oswego Native Pursued Insurance Career COOPERSTOWN – James E. Wightman, 80, died Monday, March 11, 2019, at Cooperstown Center. Jim was born May 25, 1938, in Colosse Hamlet, Oswego County, to Charles and Marie Wightman. He graduated from Cooperstown Central School, Class of 1956. Jim married Carol Payne of Watertown in 1963 and Linda Cartin in 1975. Both marriages ended in divorce, but the three of them remained lifelong friends.…
IN MEMORIAM Rev. Dr. Richard Stoll Armstrong, 95; Navy Veteran, Athlete, Eminent Cleric, Cooperstown Presbyterian Pastor’s Father COOPERSTOWN – The Rev. Dr. Richard Stoll Armstrong, 18 days shy of his 95th birthday, died peacefully at his home at the Princeton Windrows in Plainsboro Township, N.J., on March 11, 2019, surrounded by his children and beloved caregiver. Born in Baltimore, Md., on March 29, 1924, he was the second child of Elsie Stoll Armstrong and Herbert Eustace Armstrong, Sr. Dick, as…
