Car Troubles Bring Choir Guests After strange metallic sounds landed their car in the shop for repairs, Liza DiSavino and A.J. Bodnar found themselves on an extended layover and decided to share their musical talents alongside area hand bell choirs for this afternoon’s Christmas in the Catskills Holiday Spectacular at First United Methodist Church. Above, Liza and A.J., as their stage act is known, sing a Christmas song from Kentucky, where they now live after moving from Westford. At right,…
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IN MEMORIAM Richard E. Aiken, 70; Pleasantville; GM Spent 42 Years With Amphenol PLEASANTVILLE — Richard Earl Aiken, 70, formerly a general manager of Amphenol Aerospace in Sidney, passed away peacefully at home in Pleasantville, Westchester County, on Dec. 9, 2019. Rick fought a courageous battle against ALS in his final years, but his life was defined by his faith in God, his strength as a family man, his devotion to Amphenol for 42 years and his contagious smile. Born…
IN MEMORIAM: Arline Attanasso, 89; Son, Daughter In Oneonta Survive Her ONEONTA — Arline Attanasso, 89, of Oneonta, who is survived by a son and daughter in Oneonta, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, at Fox Nursing Home. She was born on June 22, 1930, in Brooklyn, the daughter of the late Sidney A. and Victoreen (Maher) Walter. On May 13, 1950, Arline married Joseph Attanasso in Queens. Joseph predeceased her on Oct. 27, 1995.…
Denim & Diamonds Hosts Community Christmas Event For once, the glove is on the other gift as Isabella Hinkley, 4, Oneonta, gives a drawing to Santa at the “Giving Back to Our Community Christmas” event at the Denim and Diamonds Hair Salon in Oneonta this evening. 20 local businesses donated to the event, which invited children 12 and under to come meet Santa and receive a present. “Tom always thought that Christmas was about kids,” said Joyce Knuth, who owns…
EDITORIAL Not John Lambert, Somebody LIKE Him Why does John Lambert, son of Cooperstown and now a county judge, keep coming to mind in the past few weeks? Raised in that village, he was a good student and guard on a top CCS Redskins’ basketball team that won two regional titles in the late 1980s. He graduated from Hartwick College in 1992, and earned a J.D. from New England School of Law in 1998. Then he came home, practiced law,…
NEW FACES AT 197 MAIN ST. Basile To Seek Raises, Aid For Animal Shelter Editor’s Note: This profile is the first of three on newly elected Otsego County representatives who will take office Jan. 1. By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Jill Basile saw her future as her father, Bruce, lay in a hospital bed. “During that time I watched a lot of news,” she said. “I decided that I didn’t want to be the person who…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 12-13, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK SPECIAL REPORT HIRING A COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Bliss: Kennedy May Lead Job Search For Stuligross, Dream Coming True Past, Present Collide As Job Debated VIDEO: Watch Administrator Debate TEXT: Read What Top Job Requires EDITORIAL: Think – Judge Lambert FRONT PAGE Judicial Reform: Is End Of Bail Dangerous? SantaCon May Start Campus Drinking Debate New Faces: Basile Seeks Pay Hikes, Shelter Aid New NYPD Commissioner…
HIRING COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR For Stuligross, Career-Long Dream Coming To Fruition By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Kay Stuligross has come a long way, baby. Growing up in Oberlin, Ohio, in the 1940s and ’50s, the daughter of a college professor, her mother sometimes wouldn’t vote “because she didn’t want to cancel out my father’s vote.” Raising a family in Oneonta in the 1980s, she and her husband, Hartwick College Economics Professor Jack Stuligross, agreed her time would…
To Play Mother Ginger, MAN UP! Buttermann In Footsteps Of Firefighter, Surgeon By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It takes a man to be a mother. Mother Ginger, that is. “Mother Ginger is traditionally played by a dancer ‘en travesti’,” said Donna Decker of Decker School of Ballet. “In ballet, we don’t call it drag.” This year, Oneonta City school board member and Assembly candidate Dan Buttermann stepped into the dress that Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney,…
CANO DISPLAYS MUEHL WORK Veteran Cabinet Maker Works With Wood – But Creations Flow By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – One afternoon, Joe Muehl got the urge to build a model airplane. “I hadn’t done one in 40 years,” he said. “And when I finished, I thought, well now what do I do with it? So I built a table around it.” Titled “The Only Good War,” the glass and wood table depicts the model airplane dropping…
