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Land Trust Sticks With Brookwood Status Quo COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego Land Trust has brought plans to change the status quo of 22-acre Brookwood Gardens on Otsego Lake to a close. Meeting over the weekend, the Land Trust board determined none of the proposals received in response to an RFP process met its “requirements to actively protect the conservation values of the property,” Land Trust chair Harry Levine announced Tuesday, Dec. 15. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, ON NEWSSTANDS TODAY…
IN MEMORIAM: Marjorie L. Ofer, 85; Teacher COOPERSTOWN – Marjorie L. Ofer (née Betulius) passed away on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, at Focus Otsego. She was 85. Her trajectory from a small farm in southern Indiana to retirement on the Upper West Side of Manhattan attests to her inviolable strength and belief in the possible. After graduating from Evansville College with a degree in education, she taught elementary school in Evansville, Ind.. Later in her career she obtained her librarian’s…
CGP Students Adopt ‘Christmas Families’…
Property-Rights Activist Plans Rally At Courthouse COOPERSTOWN – Judy Pepenella, a founding board member of the Conservative Society for Action and the Long Island Coordinator for New Yorkers for Property Rights, will hold a property-rights rally and press conference at noon this coming Friday on the steps of the County Office Building on upper Main Street. “Otsego County has been using aggressive foreclosure methods to steal properties from residents with the excuse they owe back taxes,” a press released from…
IN MEMORIAM: Lois Itzen, 88; Raised Sheep In Milford Center COOPERSTOWN – Lois L. Itzen, 88, who raised sheep, spun yarn and knitted at her Milford Center farm, passed away Friday morning, Dec. 11, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. She had been living at Woodside Hall. She was born Lois Laura Nelson on April 26, 1927, in Montpelier, Vt., a daughter of Richard and Mable (Potter) Nelson. On Nov. 17, 1946, Lois married Victor Itzen in Wyckoff, N.J. The family moved…
Santa’s There For The Kids At Annual Otesaga Breakfast…
COOPERSTOWN CHRISTMAS TRADITION FLOURISHING Record Crowd Attending Candlelight Evening ’15 SEE SLIDE SHOW FROM FARMERS’ MUSEUM…
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Groff’s ‘Fates, Furies’ Obama Favorite For ’15 COOPERSTOWN – “Fates and Furies,” the third novel by Lauren Groff, who was raised in Cooperstown, is President Obama’s favorite book of 2015, The New Republic is reporting. “It’s a special day,” declared Lauren’s mom, Jeannine. She and Dr. Gerry Groff are the novelist’s parents. For her part, the novelist tweeted on hearing the news: “That’s it! I retire.” “Obama’s pick is a popular one,” the New Republic reported. “‘Fates and Furies’ is currently…
