White faces, black faces, yellow faces, what a wonderful pallet of what America is and always has been about, a stewpot of all kinds of people from incredibly diverse backgrounds, all sharing in the joy they feel at the accomplishments of their fellow citizens. This color thing has always puzzled me.…
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With additional support from Otsego Area Rowing, the grant will allow Sherburne-Earlville and Cooperstown school districts to integrate rowing into their physical education curricula.…
Our present-day Olympics were inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, first held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. The exact year of the first Games is obscure; a widely accepted starting date is 776 BC, based on an inscription found at Olympia that lists the winners of a footrace that was held every four years, beginning in 776 BC.…
Sarah True To Lead American Team In World Triathlon Race COOPERSTOWN – Otsego’s Olympian Sarah True is back on the course and leading the American Triathlon team at penultimate event on the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Series this Sunday in Edmonton, Alberta. True looks to improve on the fourth-place finish she posted in Edmonton two years ago at the series Grand Final. She has posted two top-10 finishes in World Triathlon Series events this season and raced in the Rio 2016…
SALUTE SARAH! Find Poster In This Week’s Editions Of Freeman’s Journal, Hometown Oneonta…
The Groff Sisters Olympian Sarah True Recalls Growing Up With Novelist Sister Lauren In Cooperstown…
NBC Features Local Olympian In Summer Games Promotion SEE NBC PROMO FEATURING SARAH GROFF…
Otsego Olympian Takes Fourth In Boston Rowing Competition ONEONTA – Andrea Thies, the Oneonta rowing coach and two-time Olympian, finished fourth out of 47 competitors at the World Rowing Machine Competition in Boston on Sunday. She was accompanied by Abby Rodd. Thies, who coaches rowing at the Cooperstown Country Club, covered 1.24 miles in seven minutes, 17 seconds. She competed on the Olympic Rowing teams in 1992 and 1996.…