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Cyber-Attack Prompts County Site Shutdown

Cyber-Attack Prompts County Site Shutdown No Data Breached, IT Director Reports COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Government network has experienced a significant cyber attack believed to be due to a “zero-day”* vulnerability, Brian Pokorny, director/information technology, announced a few minutes ago. In an abundance of caution, the county’s website, as well as some other services, have been taken offline and are undergoing a rigorous security review, he said.…

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Full Obituary for Dorothy ‘Dot’ Smith, 79; Ran Spurbecks For 20 Years

IN MEMORIAM Dorothy ‘Dot’ Smith, 79; Ran Spurbeck’s For 20 Years COOPERSTOWN –  Dorothy Marie Vidosić Smith, 79, an accomplished painter and the matriarch of Spurbeck’s Grocery for 20 years, passed from this life on Saturday, Sept. 29. She was born in Atlanta, Ga. on May 5, 1939, the daughter of Joseph Paul Vidosić and Martha Marie Van den Bulck. She attended Georgia Tech and graduated in 1961. On June 16, 1961, she married Roger Smith, and in 1963, they…

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Dorothy ‘Dot’ Smith, 79; Spurbeck’s Matriarch

Dorothy ‘Dot’ Smith, 79; Matriarch of Spurbeck’s COOPERSTOWN – Dorothy “Dot” Smith, 79, who ran the venerable Spurbeck’s Grocery for two decades alongside her husband Roger, died Saturday, Sept. 29 after a long illness. In 1996, she and Roger took over the business, which his grandfather had opened in 1941, from Roger’s mother, Gert. In late 2017, they sold it to Michael Swatling and Carrie O’Brien.…

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Glimmerglass Film Days Feature Humans’ Connection To Nature

THIS YEAR’S FEST NOV. 8-12 Glimmerglass Film Days Feature Humans’ Connections To Nature COOPERSTOWN – Glimmerglass Film Days has announced its 2018 schedule, featuring films reflecting humans’ “complex relationship with the natural world” locally, throughout history and around the world. This year’s festival is Nov. 8-12.  Click here for full schedule and to buy tickets.…

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Judge, Coach John Lambert Wins 2018 Fetterman Award

Judge, Coach John Lambert Wins 2018 Fetterman Award COOPERSTOWN – County Judge John Lambert, who is also longtime assistant varsity basketball coach at Cooperstown Central School, has won this year’s Fetterman Award. The Fetterman Award is presented annually by the Clark Sports Center, recognizing service to youth in the field of athletics. Such Cooperstown legends as Beanie Ainslie, Ted Kantorowski, Don Howard and Dick White have won it, as did Lambert’s father Paul, the retired superintendent who passed away in…

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Community Cooks, Cooperstown Convenes

Community Cooks, Cooperstown Convenes The streets of Cooperstown were filled with friends, enticing aromas and music as the villagers gathered Sunday afternoon for the seventh annual Community Harvest Dinner. Above, Rebecca Weil, one of the organizers, greets guests at the dinner table that stretched along Main Street from Fair to River.   At right, Albany sisters Ayla and Thea Goldman, who were in town visiting their aunt Mary Ann Kehoe, Cooperstown, present a gluten-free skeleton cake made for the occasion. The…

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IN MEMORIAM: Phyllis Basile, 90; Bookkeeper Moved To Hartwick

IN MEMORIAM: Phyllis Basile, 90; Bookkeeper Moved To Hartwick COOPERSTOWN – Phyllis Basile, 90, mother of the longtime former Hartwick Fire Company #2 fire chief and a Queens native who relocated to Hartwick, passed away at Midnight on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing. Born Aug. 4, 1928, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Queens, she was one of seven children of Mauro and Marie (Croce) Maiorino.…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.