Help Right Wrong, Author Urges SABR At HoF Meeting Speaking to the Cliff Kachline chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) at the Hall of Fame today, Doug Gladstone, author of “A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB & The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve,” detailed how hundred of retirees failed to gain Players Association pensions. Players who retired before 1980 earn only $625 per quarter for every 43 roster days in the Major League, he…
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Bassett Nurse Arrested For Unlawful Surveillance COOPERSTOWN – A Bassett Hospital employee was arrested and charged with 12 counts of unlawful surveillance for allegedly installing a camera in a private, employees-only area of the facility. Police said Anderson W. Lee, 27, a registered nurse, installed an camera and recorded videos of fellow employees in a private area between Jan. 21 and 22.…
Novelist Dana Spiotta Due Back In County For Lecture COOPERSTOWN – Dana Spiotta, whose novel “Eat the Document” was a National Book Award finalist while she was co-proprietor the Rose & Kettle restaurant in Cherry Valley, will be back in Otsego County at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, to give a talk at the Village Library of Cooperstown. Spiotta is the author of three other novels, “Innocents and Others” (2016), winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a…
IN MEMORIAM: Margaret ‘Lodi’ Frank, 86; Survivors Include Family In Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Margaret Lois Burroughs Frank, “Lodi” passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, three days before her 87th birthday, at the Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury, Vt., with loving family by her side. She lived in Cooperstown for a period, where survivors include daughter Jeanne Dewey and her family.…
Grants Available To Non-Profits For Management, Governance ONEONTA – Applications for grants for non-profits to improve their governance and management through the Otsego County Mini-Grant Program are being accepted through March 1. NYCON, the New York Council of Non-Profits, is administering the grants, provided by the Scriven Foundation. In all, $45,000 is available, as follows:…
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IN MEMORIAM Alexander Johannesen, Wildlife Biologist, 30, Dies While Working In Alaska Fisheries FLY CREEK – Alexander Johannesen, 30, formerly of Fly Creek, died unexpectedly in Dutch Harbor, Alaska., on Thursday, Jan. 18. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Louis C. Jones Center at The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown. Alex was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sept. 30, 1987, the son of Jennie Johannesen, of Fly Creek, and Roy Johannesen, of…
IN MEMORIAM: Kevin J. Kenney, 59; Musician Also Worked At Nursing Homes COOPERSTOWN – Kevin J. Kenney, 59, of Greenough Road, a musician who for the last three decades also cared for residents at The Meadows, Otsego Manor and Focus, died Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at Bassett Hospital, surrounded by family. Born Oct. 14, 1958 in Bridgeport, Conn., he was the son of James R. and Mildred (Anderson) Kenney. In 1965, the family moved to the Cooperstown area, where he…
IN MEMORIAM: Katherine E. Rose, 94 COOPERSTOWN – Katherine E. Rose, “sunshine mixed with a little hurricane” and matriarch of the family, passed away Friday morning, Jan. 19, 2018, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing. She was 94. Born April 16, 1923, in Cooperstown, she was a daughter of George P. and Edith E. (Olmstead) Allen. She attended Cooperstown schools.…
