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Skating Fans Pack Fenimore Symposium

Skating Fans Pack Fenimore Symposium Celebrated figure skating Olympians Jojo Starbuck, Dorothy Hamil and Dick Button, seen above with Todd Kenyon, Cooperstown,  shared their stories from the figure skating world in front of a packed house this afternoon at the Fenimore On Ice Symposium. The two-hour panel, featured clips of performances, commentary, and even Hamil’s ‘Short and Sassy’ conditioner commercial. Right, professional skating pair Erika Choi Smith and AJ Reiss  preform Tableaux Vivant on Glice in the Louis C. Jones…

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Edwin W. Thorne, 84; Retired County Parks Department Foreman

IN MEMORIAM: Edwin W. Thorne, 84; Retired County Parks Department Foreman OAKSVILLE – Edwin W. Thorne, 84, retired parks foreman of the Otsego County Forestry Department, passed away late Friday afternoon, July 7, 2017, at Bassett Hospital surrounded by his loving family. He was born Sept. 25, 1932, in Cooperstown a son of Loren E. and C. Emergene (Thayer) Thorne, and graduated with the Class of 1951 from Cooperstown High School.…

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Mary Ann Vunk, 71, of Edmeston; Dr. Streck’s Assistant For 30 Years

IN MEMORIAM Mary Ann Vunk, 71, of Edmeston; Dr. Streck’s Assistant For 30 Years EDMESTON – Mary Ann Vunk, 71, assistant to former Bassett Healthcare CEO/President Bill Streck for many years, passed away peacefully Thursday July 6, 2017, at her home following an extended illness. Mary Ann was born on Nov. 16, 1945 in Utica, the daughter of the late Donald F. and Kathryn Burns Vunk. In addition to her parents, Mary Ann was also pre-deceased by a brother Daniel…

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Constituents Denounce Faso-Collins AHCA Amendment To County Board

KJOLHEDE: VULNERABLE WOULD BE HURT County Board Pulls Motion Backing Faso’s AHCA Move COOPERSTOWN – After hearing objections from the public, the county Board of Representatives this morning pulled a resolution that would have supported U.S. Rep. John Faso’s amendment requiring the State of New York to absorb any additional costs of federal Medicaid cuts, rather than passing them along to counties. Constituents were lined up out into the hallway outside the County Board’s chamber on the second floor of…

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Railroad Avenue Hotel Moves Toward Opening

FERRARA LOOKS TO MID-JULY Railroad Avenue Hotel Moves Toward Opening Perry Ferrara, top photo, proprietor of the soon-to-open Railroad Inn on Cooperstown’s Railroad Avenue, shows off one of four two-story accommodations planned in the 22-room hotel.  After eight months of renovations, Ferrara, who also operates the Hardball Cafe and Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum, said he hopes to have the establishment open for business by mid-July.   In recent days, he recruited Bob Holt, veteran hotelier (most recently at Best…

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Mitchell Hotaling Promoted To Village DPW Supervisor

Mitchell Hotaling Promoted To Village DPW Superintendent COOPERSTOWN – Mitchell Hotaling, village street superintendent since 2015 and a 13-year village employee, began work today as public works superintendent. The Village Board made the appointed at its Monday meeting.  He succeeds Brian Clancy, who joined Delaware Engineering.…

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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.