NO GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL ’20 Zambello Expresses Regret, Promises Virtual Offerings https://www.facebook.com/glimmerglassfestival/videos/549557702640760/ …
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Educational Programs, Town Halls Go Virtual GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL CANCELS ’20 LIVE SEASON COOPERSTOWN – The Glimmerglass Festival will not host any live performances this summer, according to a release sent a few minutes ago. “As theater people, we are accustomed to problem solving,” Artistic & General Director Francesca Zambello said. “We had already adjusted plans and schedules in the hope we might be able to welcome company members and audience members for a Festival this summer. “But in considering the…
All Star Village Cancels Week I Of 2020 Season Owner Marty Patton Vows: Nothing Will Happen As Long As There’s Risk By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Cooperstown All Star Village has cancelled its youth baseball tournament for the week of June 6, Week One of its 2020 season, proprietor Marty Patton said this morning. A letter to the 70 teams scheduled for the first week will be going out later this week. For now, he said,…
Delaying Induction’20 Called ‘Shattering Blow’ In Today’s Daily News Merchants Anticipate 2021, Tabloid Says Editor’s Note: Here’s an excerpt from today’s report in the New York Daily News on the Baseball Hall of Fame delaying this year’s induction. COOPERSTOWN – This was supposed to be the big one, the grand slam of a doubleheader. Five years ago, Tim Gould started planning for it. This winter, Tim Haney began buying up wood and supplies in preparation and Art Boden was wondering…
‘SOCIAL ISOLATING’ INSPIRED WORKS Noted Cooperstown Artist Plans Drive-, Walk-By Show…
WITH SPRING, NEW ARRIVAL Nutmeg Makes Debut At Farmers’ Museum…
FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE No Need For A Brick Nope, I’m not addressing you from the front porch – it’s icy out there. Rather, I’m sitting just inside a front window, woolgathering. Though, in fact, it’s not wool-gathering that I’m doing, literal or figurative. Just now I’ve been spending our prescribed aloneness running through gratefully the crowd of adults who shaped my once young man’s values. And one of those was my Great-Aunt Mame. In fact, you’d hardly think she could…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Opening Will Take Until Mid-July On Sunday, April 26, Governor Cuomo outlined the general plan for re-opening the Upstate economy at his daily briefing. A front-page article in this week’s Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta outlines what he said. There are a number of conditions to the various phases of the opening. I will explain how they might affect us in Otsego County. NY PAUSE lasts at least until May 15. Then “phase one”…
FROM THE GOVERNOR Construction, Factories Can Start Re-Opening Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Governor Cuomo’s daily briefing from Sunday, April 26, outlining the plan to return to “The New Normal.” 1) Today I outlined a phased plan to safely reopen New York at the appropriate time, taking a regional approach. Phase one will be to reopen low-risk construction and manufacturing businesses in parts of the state that have experienced a 14-day decline in the hospitalization rate. Phase two…
EDITORIAL Turn On Porch Light For Hometown Heroes In New York City, folks are leaning out their windows beating on pots and pans at 7 each evening, an appreciative salute to the First Responders in our latest national trial: Healthcare workers, from ambulance drivers to surgeons, and everybody in between. In more sedate Cooperstown, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch had an appropriate alternative: the Porch Lights for Support campaign. (Thankfully: lawnmowers will be roaring soon enough.) The idea is for residents…
