75-Mile Bike Ride In Works For 75th Induction Birthday By LIBBY CUDMORE There are plenty of ways to celebrate the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary Induction – concerts, games and new exhibits and old memories. But for county Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, a bike trip is the perfect way to celebrate. “The Hall of Fame wanted a year-long celebration of community involvement,” she said. “Downtown Oneonta has started to become a popular destination for mountain biking, and the ball…
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Mayor Issues Reassurance: City Manager Will Be Chosen In ‘Thoughtful, Independent’ Way The editorial in this week’s Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal newspapers called for Oneonta’s Common Council to convene a broader search committee, including community members, to select a new city manager to, as the headline states, “Ensure Oneonta’s Professional Management Is Model For County.” In a response issued this afternoon, Mayor Dick Miller, while disagreeing that the search committee needs expanding, issued a reassurance: “It has been and will continue…
Arc Otsego’s 10th Annual Art Exhibit Opens 7/18 ONEONTA – Voice! 10, the 10th annual juried art exhibition of work by artists with intellectual and other developmental disabilities from across New York State, opens with a free, public reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, July 18, at the Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. During the reception, which includes music, refreshments, and art for sale, over $1,400 in prize money will be awarded and visitors will have the opportunity to…
Schenectady Man Accused In Heroin Sale A Schenectady man, Tyron E. Morris, 28, was arrested yesterday for allegedly making a heroin sale in Oneonta last August, Otsego County sheriff’s deputies report. VIEW FULL REPORT ON THE MORRIS ARREST…
Street Milling Begins Tonight In Downtown Oneonta ONEONTA – Nighttime milling and paving of several downtown streets begins tonight – 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. – and will continue nightly through Thursday, July 17, the city’s Department of Engineering announced. REVIEW NIGHTLY STREET-MILLING SCHEDULE…
Lois Herrick’s Love Of Oneonta, Postcards Fill Swart-Wilcox House Presentation Today ONEONTA – “If Lois was here, she’d be able to tell us,” retired SUNY Oneonta professor and emphemera enthusiast John Carney remarked several times this afternoon during his discussion of local postcards during “Postcards from a Friend: A Tribute to Lois Herrick,” this afternoon at the Swart-Wilcox House. Close to 50 wellwishers packed the downstairs of Oneonta’s oldest surviving home, causing her son, Kevin Herrick, the auctioneer, to remark,…
Y’s Frank Russo Unveils Playground In Memory Of Dad, Former Fire Chief Oneonta Family Y Executive Director Frank Russo, in top photo, is embraced by Jim Sawyer, former Crew 36 OFD firefighter, after he announced the opening of the Francis “Cootie” Russo Jr. playground on Scramling Avenue in memory of his father, a retired city fire chief who passed away last July. Firefighter Shane Mattice looks on. “I have a huge family.” said the son. “I have my family, my Sixth Ward family…
Tribute To Postcard Collector Lois Herrick Planned ONEONTA – Friends of postcard-collector Lois Herrick, who passed away in April, are planning a tribute, “Postcards From A Friend,” 1-3 Sunday a the Swart-Wilcox House. Speakers will include collectors John Carney, Loraine Tyler and others. VIEW MORE ON LOIS HERRICK APPRECIATION…
Harvesters Turn County Into Hops Farming Hub By JIM KEVLIN Two flatbeds from Harbor Freight Transport, Port Newark, N.J., arrived at the Cooperstown Brewing Co. here shortly before noon Monday, June 23, with the final pieces of the foundation needed to revive the crop that created Otsego County’s greatest period of prosperity. Hops, that is. The final pieces are two refurbished Wolf Harvesters, purchased in April and imported from Poland for Hager’s Hops, owned by Anheuser-Busch heir Lou Hager Jr.…
Newest IDA Staffer’s Focus: Making Microbusiness Work By LIBBY CUDMORE To help Otsego County businesses succeed, all you have to do is ask what they need. That’s the theory Dawn Rivers, the new office manager and director of the county IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs, is operating under. “It’s going to be important, going forward, to listen to people,” she said. “We will be much more successful in helping our economy thrive if we listen to what people want from…