B&B Owner Drowns As Car Runs Into Lake 2 Officers Injured In Rescue Attempt By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – It’s rare, but not unheard of, for a car to end up in a body of water, said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. after last week’s fatal submersion off the boat ramp into Otsego Lake at the end of Fair Street. “Before I was sheriff, someone drove into the Susquehanna River,” he said. “They were…
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IN MEMORIAM John W. Smirk, Jr., 75; Cooperstown B&B Owner COOPERSTOWN – John W. Smirk Jr., 75, a Navy veteran, manager of New York City skyscapers, and proprietor of the Cooperstown B&B with his late wife Linda, died Thursday, April 11, 2019. Born Jan. 24, 1944, in Long Beach, Calif., John was the son of John W. and Elizabeth (Kirkbride) Smirk. He grew up in Brooklyn and spent summers in Greenwood Lake, N.J. It was there that John’s love of…
Victim Identified As John Smirk, Owned Local B&B Officer Cavalieri, Deputy Grimes Injured Trying To Rescue Driver By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The former owner of the Cooperstown B&B, John Smirk, 75, was identified as the man who drowned in Otsego Lake last night after his vehicle ran off the dock at the bottom of Fair Street at 8:30 p.m., Cooperstown police said. Two officers injured trying to rescue the driver were identified as Sheriff’s Deputy…