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BASE Race Kicks Off Day Of Celebration

HALL OF FAME CLASSIC 2017 BASE Race Kicks Off Day Of Celebration In his unmistakable bright yellow, Oneonta’s Brandon Gardner, who’s been running distance events since he was 8 years old, accelerates from the starting line at this morning’s Hall of Fame BASE Race, which starts and end in Cooperstown’s Doubleday Field.  This is the sixth BASE race – it stands for “Be A Superior Example.”  Fees collected help underwrite a Hall program aimed at encouraging young athletes to embrace…

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Jackie Robinson’s Widow Wins 4th O’Neil Award For Character

Jackie Robinson’s Widow Wins 4th O’Neil Award For Character COOPERSTOWN – The Baseball Hall of Fame board of directors today announced it has selected Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson’s widow, as the 2017 recipient of the John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. She becomes the fourth winner of the Buck O’Neil Award, established in 2007 to honor an individual whose efforts broadened the game’s appeal and whose character, integrity and dignity is comparable to the late O’Neil, who passed away…

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MAY 20

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MAY 20 Spring Street Fair & Market SPRING FLING – Noon-5 p.m. 2-day event featuring farmers, crafts-people, food vendors, and live music. Doubleday field parking lot, 1 Doubleday Ct., Cooperstown. Info, www.thisiscooperstown.com/events/spring-fling-street-fair RELAY FOR LIFE – 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Support the search for a cure to cancer, remember the dead, and support the living. Wilber park, 1-19 S. Main St., St. Hwy. 28, Milford. Info, Lauren.Ferraro@cancer.org BROOKWOOD POINT REOPENING – Noon-5 p.m. Enjoy food, lawn games,…

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, MAY 14

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, MAY 14 Showing: ‘He Named Me Malala’ WOMEN’S FILM SERIES – 7 p.m. The final film in the Women’s Liberation series will be “He Named Me Malala.” It tells the story of Malala Yousafzai who survived a murder attempt by a Taliban gunman and went on to become an activist for Human Rights, especially female education. The First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, www.facebook.com/ctownfirstbaptist/…

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, MAY 8

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, MAY 8 Hearing On Proposed CCS Budget BUDGET HEARING – 6:30 p.m. Learn about the proposed school Budget. Jr./Sr. High School Library, Cooperstown Central School. Info, www.cooperstowncs.org HIP-HOP OPERA – 7 p.m. See the world premier of “Stomping Grounds,” a show that blends hip-hop and opera to tell a story about survivors of gentrification, the disruption of sacred land, and the fracturing of tradition and history by contemporary realities. SUNY Oneonta Center for Multicultural Experience. Info,…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.