Big Job At Bassett: Keeping Many Jobs Full By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The sign on Melanie Craig’s desk reads, “I AM THE PATIENT.” Over a year, Craig, the Bassett Healthcare Network’s director of human resources and employee relations, will tell you, she and her staff – five recruiters and two employment assistants – are seeking to fill 250-300 jobs, full and part-time, not counting doctors. Even with that hiring challenge, it’s still competitive. Last year,…
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2020 Winter Carnival Features Mac, Cheese, More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN Hanna Bergene, 2020 Cooperstown Winter Carnival co-chair, warns that things could get cheesy. “New this year is a mac and cheese contest at the Carnival closer,” she said. “We heard from the restaurants that the chicken wing contest was kind of stale – and who doesn’t love mac and cheese in the middle of winter?” The contest will be free, allowing all the carnival goers…
Milford’s Leonard Wins Regional Wrestling Title CCS’s LoRusso 2nd In 113-Pound Class Milford’s Avery Leonard Staying on top of Canastota’s Kyle Musachio, Milford’s Avery Leonard wins the regional title the 120-pound class at the Center State Regional Wrestling Championship, hosted at Cooperstown Central School. Inset at right, CCS Hawkeye Lucas LoRusso works to break the hold of Adirondack’s Bryar Croniser in the 113-pound final; Croniser took the regional title, with LoRusso winning the second spot. (Cheryl Clough/AllOTSEGO.com)…
IN MEMORIAM: Audrie L. Knapp, 97; Retired New York City Graphic Artist COOPERSTOWN – Audrie L. Knapp, a retired graphic artist and longtime resident of Manhattan, passed away Thursday morning, January 30, 2020, at Bassett Hospital. She was 97. Born May 1, 1922, in Yonkers, she was a daughter of Clarence and Veronica (Nyahay) Knapp.…
REOPENING DUE NEXT WEEK New Bar Installed As Mel’s Redo Nears End Clerk of the Works Frank Halay, right, directs the installation of the new bar, as a month-long renovations at Mel’s at 22, the Cooperstown hot spot, is nearing completion. The bar was built in Amish carpenter Paul Byler’s shop in the Town of Springfield and transported down East Lake Road at noon today to restaurateur Brian Wrubleski’s establishment. Next to Halay are Mike Beilby, Sean Murray, Adam Halay,…
On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Describes Fred Lemister’s Amazing Career In this week’s “Morning Headlines” on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), talks about last Saturday’s testimonial at Bassett Hall, where more than 200 wellwishers thanked Fred Lemister for his 9,400-call career as an EMT and EMT trainer. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO WAMC REPORT…
BOUND VOLUMES Jan. 30, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Excerpt from an essay on “Education of the Indians” – Although partial advances may be made, under the present system, to civilize the Indians, I am of an opinion, that, until there is a radical change in the system, any efforts which may be made, must fall short of complete success. They must be brought gradually under our authority and laws, or they will insensibly waste away in vice and misery. It…
Republicans May Dent Democratic Blue Wall Village Hall Solidly One-Party Since 2012; Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns May End That By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns, whose years-long battle against Lyme Disease, culminating in a heart transplant last summer, inspired the community, is contending to be the first Republican elected to the Village Board since 2010. With two open seats in the Wednesday, March 18, election, she will be contending against two incumbent Democrats,…
NATURE INSPIRES Sharon’s Michael Whaling Master Of Wood, Stone By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Susie Weil, longtime Smithy Pioneer Gallery trustee, saw Michael Whaling’s first chair, she urged him to take an example to her girlhood friend, Aurelia “Thistle” Brown, at the Windspread Gallery in Northeast, Maine. “Go see her,” she urged; the two had been girlhood volunteers together at the American Natural History Museum on Central Park West. “I will call ahead and let…
TESTIMONIAL AT BASSETT HALL Hundreds Of County EMTs Salute Fred Lemister, And He Praises Them In Return BY JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – For decades, they had learned from him. They had emulated him. They had admired him. And Saturday, Jan. 25, hundreds of EMTs from around Otsego County gathered to celebrate Fred Lemister and to thank him for his prowess as a trainer and his 48 years of service to the Cooperstown Emergency Squad, where he…
