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“In our cemeteries are the stories of the people who built Otsego County, who had vision and acted upon it, despite, I have no doubt, people telling them their ideas wouldn’t work or were pipe dreams. Again, people fought a revolution! Imagine if they had listened to [those] who told them they’d never succeed. “This is the Otsego County history we should have in mind when we think about our present and future,” Katz emphasized.…
Enthusiasm was high at a kickoff event hosted by CFOC on Wednesday, May 8 at Hartwick College. Representatives from more than 40 local nonprofits joined the Mohawk Valley Gives team to learn about the September 20 giving day.…
Katz said of this year’s grant opportunities, “The Community Foundation’s four awards cycles reflect the various ways in which we are working to making Otsego County a better place for all of our residents.”…
This week: the Richard Siegfried Student Award winners, Registered Municipal Clerk certification for Jenna L. Utter, and more.…
With representatives from area nonprofit organizations, businesses, and educational institutions, as well as local individuals and members of the faith community, the coalition successfully brought two refugees to Oneonta in the summer of 2023.…
This week's briefs include information about the Film Society of Cooperstown's sixth season, the New York State waterfowl count, winter classes at The Smithy Clay Studio and the Otsego Outdoors Wiinter Octet Challenge.…
Seven teams of students from seven local schools presented their “Student Voices, Student Choices” solutions on November 20 in Hartwick College’s Slade Theatre to a packed auditorium of their peers, their parents, school principals, school administrators and community partners.…
Former Village of Cooperstown Mayor Wendell Tripp passed away last week at the age of 95. Tripp served as mayor from 1996-2001 and was a fixture for many years in village government. Current Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh and Jeff Katz and Carol Waller, also former mayors, share their thoughts on his passing:…
The Cherry Valley Memorial Library will host Jeff Katz, executive director of the Community Foundation of Otsego County, on Tuesday, September 26. Katz will give a talk about the latest happenings at the CFOC at 7 p.m.…
What began in 2022 as a standalone project initiated by The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Mohawk Valley Gives is a 24-hour day of giving that has grown to include three additional options for donors in 2023.…
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.
