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CLICK FOR PROFILE WHEN JUDGE WAS NAMED 2015 ‘CITIZEN OF YEAR’ Judge Brian Burns Seeks Nomination To Supreme Court If Successful, Oneonta Jurist Would Run For Coccoma Seat By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County Court Judge Brian W. Burns is seeking the nomination for retired Judge Michael Coccoma’s vacant seat on the state Supreme Court in the Sixth Judicial District, he confirmed this afternoon. Burns was recommended for the nomination by the Otsego County Republican…
MASTER PRINTS EXHIBIT OPENS Albrecht Dürer Arrives At Fenimore Museum COOPERSTOWN – “Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints,” featuring more than 30 woodblock prints and engravings by (or after) the German Renaissance master printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), opens next Tuesday, Aug. 11, at The Fenimore Museum. Dürer revolutionized the medium of printmaking in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Trained as a goldsmith, the painter, etcher and draftsman was praised for compositional complexity and high level of naturalism he brought to…
Film Days Goes Online For 2020 COOPERSTOWN – The annual Glimmerglass Film Days will be presented online this year, with a slate of films scheduled for Nov. 5-11. “Curator Peggy Parsons and the Film Days Steering Committee are building a slate of films you’ll want to watch, ponder, and discuss,” the committee wrote in a press release. “You’ll meet mavericks, pioneers, dreamers, and doers and hear stories of revival, perseverance, injustice, and the human spirit. We also plan to offer…
Tractor Fest, Candlelight Evening TBD The Farmers’ Museum Cancels Harvest Festival COOPERSTOWN – The Farmers’ Museum’s annual Harvest Festival has been cancelled, the museum announced today, citing the ongoing pandemic. The event, which was scheduled to take place Sept. 19–20, would have celebrated its 42nd consecutive year.…
Delgado Introduces Bill To Connect Small Farms, Schools Congressman Antonio Delgado, NY-19, has co-sponsored the bipartisan Small Farm to School Act, an eight-state pilot program where public schools would be reimbursed at a higher rate for sourcing school lunches from small farmers under the National School Lunch Program. “Our family farmers are essential to our way of life in upstate New York, and we should be looking for every opportunity to support our small businesses and farmers, while helping our…
Cancer Center Installs ‘TrueBeam’ To Combat Disease More Quickly Director: Accelerator A ‘Game Changer’ COOPERSTOWN – The Bassett Cancer Institute today announced the installation of a TrueBeam linear accelerator that will treat complex cancers much more quickly. Dr. Alfred Tinger, the institute’s chief and medical director, called the TrueBeam “a game changer in terms of cancer treatment in this region.” “Some cancers can be hard to reach and precisely target,” he said. “The TrueBeam changes that. It is an advanced…
Fauci’s ‘First Pitch’ Mask Donated To Baseball Hall COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is now part of baseball history The Washington Nationals-themed mask that Fauci wore to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season, ahead of the game the Nationals and the Yankees on Thursday, July 23, has been donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame.…
PUBLIC HEARING SET ON MASKING One Business Already Cited For Failing To Require Masks By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the Village Board’s first in-person meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Monday revealed that an unnamed Main Street business has already been issued a citation for failing to comply with the state’s mask requirements. “Our police have been walking Main Street, and so far, only one business has not been compliant…
IN MEMORIAM Jim Wolff, 79, Fly Creek; Town Justice, Civic Leader FLY CREEK – James Francis Wolff, Sr., 79, longtime civic leader in Fly Creek, who served as Otsego town justice, and with the Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company and EMT squad, lost his lengthy battle with cancer on Thursday, July 23, at his home with family by his side. Born May 3, 1941, Jim was raised in Richmond Hill, Queens, and attended Richmond Hill High School, graduating as a…