ONEONTA PIZZERIA PROVIDES 2ND CHANCE ‘Slice Of Hope’ Documentary To Be Viewed By City Council https://www.facebook.com/sliceofhopeoneonta/videos/312064649464605/ ONEONTA – Common Council will view a prize-winning documentary, “A Slice of Hope: Recovery Friendly Employment in Oneonta,” at its next meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Common Council chambers. The documentary was directed and produced by Jessica Vecchione in cooperation with LEAF, FOR-DO and the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, and documents how Sal’s Pizza on Main Street, Oneonta, is giving a chance…
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MLB Pitcher Became College’s AD Jim Konstanty To Join Hartwick’s Athletic Hall ONEONTA – Jim Konstanty, the Major League player from Oneonta who returned home to serve as Hartwick College’s director of athletic in 1967-72, will be inducted into the college’s athletic Hall of Fame Friday, Sept. 20. Other honorees will be men’s soccer player Art Napolitano ’78, water polo goalkeeper Jess Dorman ’11, men’s basketball forward Jared Suderley ’14, and women’s basketball guard Maria Foglia ’14. The ceremony in Shineman…
Letter from JASON HEWLETT Twelve Tribes Outstanding Citizens; Leave Them Alone To the Editor: I wish the people who attend churches here in Oneonta would do more research before jumping to false conclusions about the Twelve Tribes. First of all, how many people have carefully and thoroughly read what they believe on their public website titled, “Frequently Asked Questions – The Twelve Tribes”? These people have nothing to hide, no fear of persecution or adversity, and they share what they…
Shreveport Developer Enshrined His Roots Otsego County, Louisiana By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SHREVEPORT, La. – There’s a sign of Oneonta in Shreveport, La. Yes, a sign. A street sign. Oneonta Street. Wander around the city of about 200,000 in the upper left-hand corner of Louisiana, as far away from New Orleans as geographically possible, and you find a Unadilla Street. And an Albany Avenue. Oneonta and Unadilla streets are close neighbors, one block apartment, running east-west through…
‘Power Couple’ Of Methodist Ministry Wife Pastor At Oneonta’s First UM, Husband Takes Cooperstown Pulpit By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Call them a Power Couple of The Cloth. Rev. Dana Horrell begins his ministry Sunday, July 7, at Cooperstown United Methodist Church, while 32 miles down the road, his wife, Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell, the same day will celebrate her first anniversary as pastor of Oneonta’s First United Methodist Church. They’re the second such United Methodist husband-and-wife…
Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County Elderly By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – An 88-year-old Laurens woman got a call, purportedly from Cooperstown Police: Her granddaughter had been in an accident, she was fine, but her car had been impounded and she needed $4,000 in cash to get it out. The woman was instructed to wrap the money in a sweater and mail it to Staten Island. She did so, shipping the package overnight from The Shipping Room…
HOMETOWN HISTORY June 28, 2019 150 YEARS AGO Oneonta Local: The subterranean grog holes of this village are damaging humanity pretty badly nowadays. What law we have to preserve public order ought to be thoroughly enforced. The ladies of the Presbyterian Church will hold an ice cream and strawberry festival at Blend’s Hall, on Tuesday evening. Admission, including strawberries or ice cream, twenty-five cents. The first nine of the Lightfoot Base Ball Club of this village, will play a match…
BEST BESTS Get Ready For 4th’s Parades, Fireworks, Concerts, Boats! By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Independence Day is Thursday, July 4, but it’s not too early to start making plans for how to celebrate! There are parades on land and water, old-fashioned farm fun, music, games and, of course, fireworks! • Oneonta’s annual Hometown Fourth of July starts with a 5K Color Run at 9 a.m. and ends with fireworks at dusk – with plenty of fun in…
CLARVOE NAMESAKE AT WORK Styrofoam Recycling Begins At ReUse Center By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Martha is here, and she’s going to make Otsego County cleaner. Named for “avid recycler” Martha Clarvoe, an active OCCA committee member and former president, Martha – the machine – is the new polystyrene recycler, just installed at ARC Otsego’s ReUse Center. “It takes 30 pounds of Styrofoam and condenses that into a four-foot cube,” Bill Hardy, the ReUse Center’s Manager,…
