Glimmerglass Film Days To Feature Local Youth By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – This year, Glimmerglass Film Days wants to make sure that they’re reaching the next generation of filmmakers. “We have a brand-new program at the high school for young students interested in filmmaking,” said curator Peggy Parsons. “Directors Bill Morrison and Aube Giroux will spend the whole afternoon answering questions about their careers in filmmaking.” “Joanne Gardner has been a volunteer with Film Days and…
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Cancer Returns, Seward Reports Senator’s Offices Will Remain Open While He Gets Treatment ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, announced that the cancer he underwent treatment for in 2016 has returned. “My physicians have recommended a series of treatments over the next several weeks that will limit my availability and curtail my normal, active district schedule,” he said in a statement. “While I will be taking some time to concentrate on getting better, my offices will remain open and…
3 Dunkin’ Foes Plan Letter-Writing Drive To Bolster Opposition By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Hudi Poldolsky, Jay Bosley and Aviva Schneider want to make sure that everyone in Cooperstown has a chance to make their objections about the proposed Dunkin Donuts known. “HPARB, the Planning Board and the Trustees are all volunteers, but they have a very narrow scope,” said Bosley. “They can’t do the things citizens can do. They can’t tell Dunkin Donuts that we…
$100K Goal, $129K Raised Susquehanna SPCA Exceeds Grant-Matching Challenge COOPERSTOWN – The Susquehanna SPCA fundraisers didn’t just meet the $100,000 challenge proposed by the C.J. Heilig Foundation. They exceeded it. On Sept. 16, the C.J. Heilig Foundation announced a dollar-for-dollar matching challenge grant of $100,000 to assist the SQSPCA in its Shelter Us capital campaign to help build a new animal shelter. By the Friday, Nov. 1 deadline, donations and pledges generated by the Heilig match had topped $129,000, exceeding…
LANGWORTHY: GOP ‘COMING ALIVE’ New State Republican Chair At GOP Pre-Vote Celebration At his first public appearance locally, Nick Langworthy (inset, left) of Buffalo, elected chairman of the state Republican Committee in July, advises 100 candidates and party members at The Otesaga today that the GOP “is a party that’s coming alive” in the face of the state Democrats’ downstate tilt. Albany decisionmakers come “from five square miles” in New York City, he said. “There’s no one in the power…
Day Of The Dead, Celebration Of Life CGP Hosts Dia de Los Muertos The Cooperstown Graduate program hosted a Dia de los Muertos event at the Cooperstown Library this afternoon celebrating Dia de los Muertos, The Day of the Dead. Children and their families would come and enjoy tamales, cookies, crafts, storytelling and more. Above, Cooperstown Graduate student Kirbie Sondreal helps Ciara Kaltenbach, Cooperstown make decorative paper marigolds which serve as a guide for spirits returning to the land of…
COMMISSIONER AT FARMERS’ MUSEUM Top Agriculture Concerns: Labor, Dairy, Trade, Ball Says Labor, dairy and trade are his biggest concerns, Richard Ball, state Ag & Markets commissioner, told The Farmers’ Museum sixth annual Celebration of Our Agricultural Community this morning in the Louis C. Jones Center. “In the old days, farmers only had to think about their cows and their towns,” said Ball. “Now, they have to consider the value of our currency, what is China doing, what is happening…
SCHOLARS GATHER AT FMCC Clinton’s Dam, Expedition Against Iroquois Explored William A. Starna, above, SUNY Oneonta professor emeritus of anthropology, describes a schematic of what Clinton’s Dam might have looked like. It was built across the Susquehanna River in Cooperstown, probably in the vicinity of today’s Main Street bridge, during the summer of 1779 and breached on that Aug. 8; the resulting torrent floated 200 bateaux down the Susquehanna in Gen. James Clinton’s expedition against the Iroquois during the American…
Inmates Transferred After Leaks Reported Repairs Underway At County Jail COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County jail has been temporarily closed and inmates relocated after leaks were discovered, putting inmates and staff at risk, according to a media release by Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. Accordng to Devlin, the cause of the leaks has been identified and are in the process of being repaired, but all inmates have been transferred to facilities in nearby counties.…
IN MEMORIAM: Susan Reisen, 79; Retired From Bassett Hospital ICU FLY CREEK – Catherine Susan Brisson (Reisen), who worked in Bassett Hospital’s ICU for many years, went to rest quietly on All Hallow’s Eve. She was born on 29 July 1940, in Bayshore, L.I., the daughter of Dorothy Mercedes Baker and John Oliver Brisson. In 1963, she married William John Reisen, Sr. Early in her life she started going by her middle name, Sue. For many years she worked as…
