CLICK FOR 2020 WINTER CARNIVAL EVENTS Lights Dim At Vets’ Club As Speakeasy Takes Over Multi-Color Quilts On Show At 22 Main Beware! Gangsters and their molls have taken over the Cooperstown Veterans’ Club until 9 p.m. this evening, and there’s hooch aplenty to be had by all at the Speakeasy there. Al Capone? No, but, from left, in from Chicago were Kristin Bergene and James McDonald, Kate and Jess Lanza, Hannah Bergene and Henry Bauer, and Molly Meyer and…
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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…
2019 COOPERTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Grilled Cheese Fundraiser For Otsego 2000 Packs ‘Em In…
FROM THE PRINTED PAGES OF HOMETOWN, FREEMAN’S Attending Since Beginning, Bill, Carol Waller Remember Cooperstown Carnival Heyday Editor’s Note: This feature story first appeared in the AllOTSEGO.life section of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal published last Thursday and Friday. This year’s 52nd annual carnival ends this evening. By LIBBY CUDMORE • For AllOTSEGO.life COOPERSTOWN – If you looked out and saw cars out on Otsego Lake today, you would probably call a tow truck. But in 1974, when Bill…
2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Soup R’ Chili Served ’til 2 As Festive Weekend Starts As it has for more than a quarter-century, the Cooperstown Winter Carnival begins when Dick Sliter declares, “Soup’s on!” The carnival’s traditional first event, the Soup R’ Chili luncheon at the First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., is underway until 2 p.m. (and again 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday). Sliter, a retired pastor who came out of retirement in the past year to fill in at the…
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2018 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL $500 Check, Grilled Cheese Close Out Winter Carnival The Doubleday Cafe’s Tim Searles, above, prepares specialty grilled-cheese sandwiches made with goat cheese and elderberry jam at Grilled Cheese For A Good Cause at the Cooperstown Farmer’s Market Sunday evening; the Otsego 2000 fundraiser wrapped up the 51st annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival. Behind him Jim Hoffmann, Cooperstown, gets a bowl of soup from volunteer Susanna Membrino . The event featured live music, ice cream and of course, grilled…
2018 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Fireworks! …And There’s More To Come...…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, FEB.11 Grilled Cheese For A Good Cause GRILLED CHEESE NIGHT – 5 – 7 p.m. Enjoy comfort food from local chefs as well as local beer, wine, cider, live music, more. Proceeds benefit Otsego2000 & Otsego Outdoors. Cost, $25/adult, $15/child. Cooperstown Farmers Market, 101 Main St., Cooperstown. Call 607-547-8881 or visit www.otsego2000.org SNOWSHOE WALK – 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Look for signs of life past, present and future with a guide from OCCA. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-4488 or…
2018 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Action Now At Lakefront: Sledding, Horses, More The sledding hill at Lakefront Park is packed as Cooperstown Winter Carnival fun shifts there this afternoon. Matthew Perrino, Max Koffer and Brenin Dempsey, top photo, join the fun; also available for sledding are large, inflatable sleds, with a giant Duck able to carry five kids at a time. At right, Owen Nolan, 9, tries out sugar on ice as Farmers’ Museum docent Pat MacGregor advises. Owen’s mom Stephanie…