Business Partners Rethink Village Mainstay Next Generation Buys Rudy’s By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Matt Denison, new proprietor of Rudy’s with Joe Festa, remembers running into Karen Lemister in the alleyway between the liquor store at 143 Main St. and Alex’s Bistro. “I think this is something you would have a lot of fun with,” said Lemister, who owned Rudy’s for 48 years with husband Fred. One thing led to another, and over the Christmas holiday the venerable…
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Family Cooperstown Mainstay Since 1952 Lemisters’ Downtown Dynasty Ends With Rudy’s Liquor Store Among other things, Fred Lemister was famous for decorating the front window of Rudy’s Liquor Store, which he and his wife Karen operated for 48 years. His final window – the Lemisters sold Rudy’s to Matt Dennison and Joe Festa at year’s end – was the simple crèche you may have noticed walking by 143 Main St. this Christmas season. A perennial was Fred’s Titanic window. “I’m…
19 YEAR AGO, TERRORISTS KILLED 2,977 In Time Of COVID-19, Low-Key 9-11 Arrives Rudy’s proprietor Fred Lemister ponders the lessons of 9-11 while inspecting the memorial that has been growing year to year in his front window on Main Street, Cooperstown, since terrorist hijacked airliners and drove them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, 19 years ago tomorrow. The exhibit includes a portrait of Father Michael F. Judge, the NYFD chaplain, who suffered…
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On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Describes Fred Lemister’s Amazing Career In this week’s “Morning Headlines” on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), talks about last Saturday’s testimonial at Bassett Hall, where more than 200 wellwishers thanked Fred Lemister for his 9,400-call career as an EMT and EMT trainer. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO WAMC REPORT…
TESTIMONIAL AT BASSETT HALL Hundreds Of County EMTs Salute Fred Lemister, And He Praises Them In Return BY JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – For decades, they had learned from him. They had emulated him. They had admired him. And Saturday, Jan. 25, hundreds of EMTs from around Otsego County gathered to celebrate Fred Lemister and to thank him for his prowess as a trainer and his 48 years of service to the Cooperstown Emergency Squad, where he…
HUNDREDS PACK BASSETT HALL EMTS SALUTE BEST OF BEST Everyone who was anyone in the world of Otsego County EMTs – hundreds of them, past and present – gathered at Bassett Hall in Cooperstown for four hours this afternoon and evening to celebrate Fred Lemister, primer inter pares in the local EMS world, who recently stepped down after 48 years of service to Cooperstown’s emergency squad, where he responded to 9,600 ambulance calls. Even more significant, a top-notch instructor, he…
Step Dancers, Corned Beef Featured At St. Pat’s Dinner Hartwick’s O’Donnell-Kelly School of Dance brought the sounds and steps of Ireland to The Knights of Columbus Tekawitha Council 10968 annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner this evening at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Parish Hall in Cooperstown. High-stepping out front is Tess DiLorenzo. Behind her, from left, are McKenna Selleck, Morgan Kelley and Maya Stevens. Inset at right is Fred Lemister, the evening’s official Leprechaun. At left is Chef…
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