Jeter, Walker Headed To Baseball Hall Of Fame COOPERSTOWN – In their first and last years of eligibility, respectively, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter and Expos outfielder Larry Walker were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame this evening. Jeter received 99.7 percent of the vote, falling one vote shy of unanimous. Walker, only the second Canadian to enter the Hall of Fame, received 76.6 percent of the vote. The Baseball Hall of Fame Induction will be held Sunday, July 26…
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Classroom Size, Programs On CCS Budget Agenda By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special To ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – K-12 staffing, extracurricular activities and classroom sizes will all be discussed during the second of three public meetings on the Cooperstown Central School budget, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22 at the school. “We are in the very early stages of budget formation,” said Superintendent Bill Crankshaw. “Last month we discussed the administration portion of the budget. This month we will talk about…
IN MEMORIAM: Martha A. Quinn, 105; Made Cooperstown Home For 26 Years COOPERSTOWN – Martha A. Quinn, 105, a former resident of Eastchester who had made her home in Cooperstown for the past 26 years, passed away early Sunday morning, January 19, 2020, in Hartwick at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Peggy Quinn, who were at her bedside. Born October 29, 1914, in Garfield, New Jersey, Martha was the last surviving sibling of 10 children of…
ERA ENDING Senator Seward, County Mainstay, Planning To Retire Will Serve Through End Of 17th Term ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, announced a few moments ago he will not seek reelection this year to the seat he has held since 1986. “I have decided not to seek reelection in 2020 and will retire from the Senate when my current term, my 17th, expires at the end of the year,” Seward said in a statement released at 11:54 a.m…
Reprinted From This Week’s Freeman’s, Hometown Oneonta Austin Sears, 72, Dies; Founded Cooperstown Summer Theatre Fest Austin and Margarita Sears in 2013, after they decided to close the Cooperstown Summer Theatre Festival after almost three decades. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com) By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Austin Sears, 72, creator, manager and actor at the Cooperstown Summer Theatre Festival for three decades, exited life’s stage on Dec. 17, 2019, in New York City. “We met in 1979,” his wife…
Pennsylvania Firm Planning To Acquire Bank Of Cooperstown President Scott White, Staff To Stay In Place By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Bank of Cooperstown is in the process of being acquired in an $80 million transaction by Norwood Financial Corp. of Honesdale, Pa., which has signed a “definitive merger agreement” to buy Upstate New York Bancorp, the local bank’s parent company. If the sale goes forward as anticipated, Bank of Cooperstown President Scott White and…
Austin Sears, 72, Dies; Founded Cooperstown Summer Theatre Fest By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Austin Sears, 72, creator, manager and actor at the Cooperstown Summer Theatre Festival for three decades, exited life’s stage on Dec. 17, 2019, in New York City. “We met in 1979,” his wife Margarita said in an interview this week. “The 40 years I knew him, it was all Cooperstown. It was all theater. That was his life. That’s what he talked…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Legalizing Dope Daffy, As Writer Can Attest To the Editor: I have been smoking marijuana off (now) and on (then) for 54 years. I can tell you four things: 1. It makes you a bit daffy, then hungry, then daffy again. Did I mention hungry? 2. You can smoke dope and play the electric guitar like a hero, but not drive a car. 3. Alcohol is worse than dope, but that’s the pot calling the keg…
$3.3M Raised To $5m+ Goal Shelter Raises $236K, Benefactor Adds $30K By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Stacie Haynes couldn’t believe the size of the check Staffworks founder Anita Vitullo handed her. “I just about fell out of my chair,” the Susquehanna SPCA executive director said. “Last year we got $95,000 and I was nervous that we wouldn’t beat that!” The Save-a-Life campaign offers shelters a matching donation of up to $10,000, and this year, Vitullo added some…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 16-17, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Solar Developer Offers $1,000 Per Acre Penn. Firm Buying Bank Of Cooperstown Cooperstown Theatre Festival Founder Dies In Departing, Korthauer Makes History Benefactor Adds $30K To Shelter’s $236K Preservationists Joust Over Cooperstown Home EDITORIAL With Expertise, Even Temperament, City Manager Korthauer Cracks Code COLUMNS SEWARD: Job #1 For NYS: Halt Outmigration YOUNGS: Foothills Is Now Economic Driver McREYNOLDS: Heartache In The Heartland…
