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From Lent to Lobbying

On Lent, Loopholes, and Lobbying I’ve been a record collector for as long as I can remember. Among my earliest memories are those of my sister keeping toddler me entertained by stacking up her Beatles 45s and sitting me next to the record player. Guaranteed bliss. I started vacuuming 45s from around age five whenever allowance and, later, paper-route income allowed; in Cooperstown, my money went to the record department at Newberry’s or down Main Street at the Richfield Stereo…

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Jelly beans back at Church and Scott

Hurrah! The jelly beans are back! Stop the presses – the jelly beans are back! These aren’t just your average, everyday gourmet treats – they’re Church and Scott Jelly Beans. And after a two-year pandemic-related absence, they’re back on the shelf at the pharmacy, just south of Cooperstown’s village limits on Route 28. They’ve been a staple in and around Cooperstown since the 1950s when the store – then on the corner of Main and Pioneer streets – introduced the…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

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.

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