Keep it local with unique shopping ideas across Otsego County By Patrick Dewey Shoppers are up against the hard deadline for getting their gifts from internet stores, so what better reason to visit Otsego County’s vast array of local and unique shops? Aside from supporting neighbors and your community, local shoppers drive the sales tax dollars necessary to support Otsego County services. “For every dollar we spend locally there are about 10 more local transactions from those business owners,” said…
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Cooperstown couple wins recognition for care of senior citizens at center By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Carol Lachance and Mike Lachance were presented with an “Outstanding Seniors of the Community” recognition from the Office of the Aging in an award announced Monday, May 3. “It is truly an honor and very much a surprise,” Carol said. The Lachances run the Cooperstown Senior Community Center in the recreation center of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church at 31 Elm St.…
CHECK IT OUT AT NEW GALLERY ‘Rockefeller’ Portrait SQSPCA Fundraiser Bids on May-Britt Joyce’s portrait of Rockefeller, the West Oneonta owl who ended up in Rockefeller Center, are reviewed this afternoon by Christopher Anderson and Marge Landers, partners in the Family Tree Gallery on Upper Main Street, Cooperstown. Bids on the portrait are being accepted until Dec. 19, and the winning bid will be contributed to the SQSPCA’s “Shelter Us” fund drive, to benefit the new shelter under construction on…