BULLETIN Getman Selected As County Judge COOPERSTOWN – Oneonta City Prosecutor Michael F. Getman was selected this after by the Republican County Committee to succeed fellow Oneontan Brian D. Burns as county judge. CHECK BACK FOR FULL STORY…
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S.S. Van Dine, Philo Vance Focus Of Swart-Wilcox Panel Libby Cudmore, mystery author and managing editor, Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal/AllOTSEGO.com, speaks about the creation of Philo Vance, one of the premier sleuths of the “Golden Age” of detective fiction, by Willard Huntington Wright, who adopted the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine to write the mystery series, during a talk at the Swart-Wilcox House this afternoon. With her are Bob Brzozowski, executive director, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, who discovered that Wright likely…
OSCAR WINNER DIRECTS CARVIN ‘Oneonta’s Heartthrob’ Shoots New Film Locally…
MEETING UNDERWAY AT OTESAGA GOP Committee Deciding On Next County Judge The six candidates for Otsego county judge gathered a few minutes ago in The Otesaga Ballroom in Cooperstown, where deliberations are underway at this hour on who will succeed Brian D. Burns of Oneonta on the county bench. All attorneys, the candidates, from left, are Rich Brown, Mike Getman, Susan Lettis, Jill Ghaleb, Mike Trosset and Will Green. Inset right, County Republican Chairman Vince Casale calls the meeting of…
IN MEMORIAM: Barton Bonney, 80; Owned Chestnut Street Radio Shack ONEONTA – Barton Bonney, 80, a WDOS engineer and former owner of Radio Shack on Chestnut Street, Oneonta, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, July 25, 2020. Born in Philadelphia, Barton relocated to Oneonta with his family to work for WDOS as a radio engineer, later owning the Radio Shack.…
All Of Hartwick’s Students, Staffers To Undergo Testing Oneonta Campus Reopens Aug. 22 ONEONTA – With students returning Aug. 22 and on-campus classes beginning Aug. 31, Hartwick College today issued a four “protocols” and 12 “enhanced cleaning and safety measures” – they include testing of all students and employees – to keep COVID-19 at bay. “Hartwick’s goal is to enable our students to return for instruction while complying with the best guidance available to protect our community, both on- and…
Reprinted From This Week’s Freeman’s, Hometown Oneonta As Students’ Return, Mayor Plans ‘Tipline,’ 2 ‘Working Groups’ Together, City Hall, 2 Colleges Will Monitor COVID Threats By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With 7,000 SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students ready to come back to school at the end of the month, Mayor Gary Herzig is taking no chances when it comes to the community’s health and safety. “We’re working on a dedicated tip line dedicated to COVID health…
SUSAN B. ANTHONY EXPLORED Century-Old Ideals About Womanhood Bring Groans Today By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Digging through the NYSHA archives in 2004, Sharon Stuart, Otsego town historian, found an item that everyone else overlooked. “As I was looking through February 1885 issues of The Freeman’s Journal, a name caught my eye,” Stewart said during a Sunday, Aug. 9, talk at the Swart-Wilcox House, “Susan B. Anthony.” Stuart’s talk on Anthony – she also spoke in 1894…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 13-14, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Oneonta Plans ‘Tip Line’ As Students Return Cooperstown Mandates Masks Downtown GOP Committee To Name Burns Successor Kochul To New Yorkers: Plan ‘Staycation’ By Mistake, Cuomo Puts CCS On Tardy List Landmark Inn On Tripadvisor Top 25 List AllOTSEGO.life Welches Rescue, Restore Threshing Barn Ideal Of Womanhood Brings Groans Today EDITORIALS Freshman Rep Does Have Guts, Consistency COLUMNS CUOMO: NYS Schools Can…
‘Tip Line’ Planned As Students Return Herzig Also Plans College, City Hall ‘Working Group’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With 7,000 SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students ready to come back to school at the end of the month, Mayor Gary Herzig is taking no chances when it comes to the community’s health and safety. “We’re working on a dedicated tip line dedicated to COVID health concerns,” he said. “It’s not just for students, it’s for anyone…
