Opinion by Greg Klein Is it a successful soccer season? Ask me again in November Years ago, when I began covering high school sports here, I coined a truism about New York State Public High School Athletic Association seasons. If you are playing in the spring season, you need to be playing in June to have a successful season. If you are playing in the winter season, you need to be playing in March to have a successful season. If…
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Film COOP Women in Film tour connects filmmakers with region STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN — From Sept. 30, to Oct. 3, Film COOP hosted a group of female filmmakers for a location tour and networking event. “It was an amazing, transformative weekend,” said Film COOP Board President Greg Klein. “We started on Thursday as a group of strangers but by Sunday it was like a family of artists who had bonded in unpredictable and amazing ways.” Film…
Editor’s Notebook by Greg Klein: Film COOP spreads love of region to women’s group Last weekend my film commission office, Film COOP, hosted a bunch of female filmmakers for a destination weekend location tour and networking event. As with our too long and klutzy legal name, the Cooperstown, Oneonta, Otsego County Film Partnership, Inc., the name Film COOP presents the Women in Film Peak Leaf Weekend Location Tour and Networking Event soon fell by the wayside. The shorthand Women in…
Editor’s Notes by Greg Klein: Taking a vacation from COVID, but not for long About six weeks ago, we went on our first vacation since 2019. The teen has the benefit of a summer birthday and the best parenting idea we ever devised was birthday trips. Not only do we get to schedule some summer fun (and summer time off) but we have gotten to see the Empire State. And as a bonus, or perhaps this was by design, we…
LETTER from ROGER LANSING A tribute to local journalism, journalists Editor’s Note: This speech was given Friday, June 25, to honor Editor Greg Klein at the 2020-2021 Cooperstown Central School Athletic Awards Banquet. In the fall of 2005, the Cooperstown community lost a piece of its soul with the unexpected passing of Ken Kiser. Kenny was a devoted husband and dad, a man who thought the best of each person he met, enjoying the beauty in life, every minute of…
Pandemic recovery period makes for some awkward encounters By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In May, I watched baseball and softball games across the county. I saw a cross section of residents, from at least four local communities, most of whom I had not seen for at least 18 months, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some people I had not seen for much longer, because I had been away from sports. This is probably the least controversial statement I…
Film COOP to hold location tour for women filmmakers STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Film COOP announced Thursday, May 27, that it will produce a destination weekend event to bring female film producers, directors and location scouts to the region in the fall to tour locations and meet local officials. The Women in Film Peak Leaf Weekend Location Tour and Networking Event will take place from Thursday, Sept. 30 to Sunday, Oct. 3, according to a media…
EDITORIAL To Editorialize Or Not To Editorialize, That Is The Question In the early 1990s, at my second job out of college, at a newspaper in central Alabama, I made the mistake of writing a column about church league basketball. I had the best of intentions. I was the sports editor of a semiweekly paper in a small city that was becoming a bedroom community for the state capital and the thriving military base between the two cities. My brand,…
EDITORIAL New Editor Views Media Brands As Community Service I can honestly say this is a column I never thought I would write, my first as editor of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta. I say that for two reasons: one, I spent the past decade in competition with the Iron String Press media team, while working as an editor and reporter for another news organization; two, that stint, with an Alabama-based organization I shall forever more refer to as…
COOP Announces It’s Open To Promote Filmmaking Here COOPERSTOWN – COOP announced today it is open for business. The Cooperstown, Oneonta, Otsego County Film Partnership, Inc., known as Film COOP, will represent Cooperstown, Oneonta and all Otsego County communities to the entertainment industry. Otsego County, and its greater region, is one of the few areas of the state not benefiting from the boom in television and film production that has taken place in Upstate New York, according to COOP Board…