Sports Snippets: June 1, 2023 GOHS To Open Summer Baseball Display ONEONTA—The Greater Oneonta Historical Society announced it will have a summer display of Major League Baseball players who played for Oneonta teams. “Oneonta—On the Road to Major League Baseball” will be open at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main Street, from June 1 to September 1. Dozens of major league players passed through Oneonta teams, including the high school, Hartwick College, SUNY Oneonta, the Canadian-American League’s Oneonta Indians, the…
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Oneonta Receives Grant To Rehabilitate Building ONEONTA On May 22, Governor Kathy Hochul ann-ounced that the City of Oneonta will receive a $900,000.00 grant through the Restore New York Communities Initiative to assist with the rehabilitation of the Fred VanWie Building, 14-18 Dietz Street. The project will create four affordable residential units on the second floor, as well as a workshare space that may be used by tenants of the building or local makers as an office or conference area.…
Historic Clock Among Museum’s Current Exhibits CHERRY VALLEY—The Cherry Valley Museum officially opened for the summer season on Memorial Day Weekend. Among its new displays are the Campbell clock, a priceless artifact of Cherry Valley’s Revolutionary War history.The clock was made by James Allen of Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1728 for the James Campbell family shortly before they migrated from Northern Ireland to New Hampshire. They settled in Cherry Valley in 1741.…
Olivia Loewenguth, Maeve Robinson and Zachary Grygiel had the opportunity to shadow Senator Peter Oberacker in May. (Photo provided) Sen. Oberacker Hosts Local Students Sponsored by LWV ALBANY State Senator Peter Oberacker (R/C-Schenevus) welcomed three students from the 51st District to the Capitol as part of the 23rd annual “Students Inside Albany” conference sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Foundation. “Offering students an inside glimpse of state government is a positive way to start them on the road…
Sports Snippets: June 1, 2023 COMPILED by WRILEY NELSON Team Bert Wins Hall of Fame Classic Game COOPERSTOWN—Team Bert defeated Team Kitty 8-3 in the 2023 Hall of Fame Classic game. Hall of Fame heroes Bert Blyleven, Rollie Fingers, Fergie Jenkins, Jim Kaat, Jack Morris and Lee Smith managed more than two dozen retired players at the May 27 event. James Loney, formerly of the Dodgers, won the pregame Home Run Derby. Pokey Reese, member of the 2004 World Series…
GMU Announces Class of 2023 Top 5 The Gilbertsville-Mount Upton Central School District has announced the top five academic students in its Class of 2023. GMU’s graduating class is led by Valedictorian Fiona Held and Salutatorian Hannah Bonczkowski. Corbin Demmon, Kali Wilcox and Megan Perrine round out GMU’s top five seniors, who will be formally recognized for their academic excellence during GMU’s Class of 2023 Graduation Ceremony on Friday, June 23.…
People and Business in the News, June 1, 2023 BURGER BATTLE: Two students from the ONC BOCES Culinary Arts Program traveled with their instructors, Chef Jody Albano and Vesti Misner, to compete in the 3rd Annual Gourmet Burger Battle NYSRA ProStart Invitational held at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. The students, Anthony Accordino and Skye Lewis, placed first and second in the competition, respectively. Accordino prepared an Italian Manza Burger and Lewis prepared a Stuffed…
Biological Field Station Research Support Specialist Holly Waterfield conducts harmful algal bloom testing on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown. (Photo provided) Clark Foundation Grants Support forContinued HAB Testing by BFS ONEONTA Generous new grants from The Clark Foundation will allow researchers at SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station in Cooperstown to continue to monitor and study the presence of harmful algal blooms on Otsego Lake, just in time for the summer season. Earlier this spring, The Clark Foundation Board of Directors approved…
News from the Noteworthy by LEAF Ongoing Conversation About Substance Use Important If you are a parent and have had to make a decision about how to have “the talk,” you are certainly not alone. Thankfully, there is good news. In spite of the all of the eyerolls, heavy sighs, and shoulder shrugs, the research tells us that you, the parent, have the biggest voice in the life your child. So much so that kids who hear from their parents…