HOMETOWN HISTORY July 3, 2020 150 Years Ago Wanted to Know!!! The whereabouts of a man who came to Oneonta and purchased a sewing machine on December 18, 1868, giving his note for it, and calling himself J.E. Wentworth, and claimed to reside four miles east of East Davenport, over east of Rattlesnake Hill. He was about five feet, nine inches in height, weighed about 175 pounds, was dark complexion, had dark eyes and dark whiskers, and was about 35…
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LETTER from SAMANTHA DAVENPORT Mecca ‘Tone-Deaf’ Way To Refer to HoF To the Editor: I am a reader of www.AllOTSEGO.com as well as its weekly newsprint companion. Twice now I have seen reference made to the Baseball Hall of Fame as “Mecca” and/or “the Mecca.” Although I too place great value on the HoF and acknowledge it might be very old tradition to use the word, I think calling it “Mecca” is, frankly, tone-deaf. I am sorry to be so…
Baseball Hall of Fame Welcomes Fans Back By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN For the second time in history, the Baseball Hall of Fame had an opening day. “It’s only the second opener, after the day we first opened,” said Tim Mead, Hall of Fame president. “It puts it in perspective.” On Friday, June 26, nearly 81 years to the day of the first June 12, 1939 opening, Oneonta’s Steve Pindar, visitor services director, opened the glass door…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 2-3, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Security Cameras Protect Trump Billboard ‘Indian’ Erasure Revisited Museums, Hyde Hall Announce Openings Baseball Hall of Fame Opens Doors COMMENCEMENT 2020 Oneonta High School Cooperstown High School Worcester High School Unatego High School Milford High School Laurens High School Cherry Valley-Springfield High School Schenevus High School Richfield Springs High School EDITORIALS Extremism Threatens George Floyd’s Legacy COLUMNS MORGAN: Slavery Was Most Everywhere…
BOUND VOLUMES July 2, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Important to Tanners – The patent right for preparing, using and vending chestnut wood for the purpose of tanning and dyeing in the New England states, is vested in the Springfield Manufacturing Company, who will soon have in operation machinery and apparatus for preparing the wood fit for use, and will deliver it to purchasers in large or small quantities, at any place within the above limits, for a sum that will…
STATE HOLDS ON TO MONEY Reps Updated: All Financial News Bad By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As at every meeting since the coronavirus threat arrived, all the financial news was bad when the county Board of Representatives met this morning. As state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli emphasized when he spoke to the county board last month, the state has yet to decide what funds will be sent out from Albany this year. Reporting on a presentation by…
Huntington Library Opens For ‘By-Appointment’ Browsing ONEONTA – The Huntington Memorial Library has reopened for browsing in 15 minute appointments and 30 minute computer appointments, according to a press release sent by the library. “We know this is a short time but we have to maintain a physical distance and ease our way into a new world of library use,” the press release stated.…
IN MEMORIAM Ljiljana Neckermann, 70; Artist Loved Otsego Lake COOPERSTOWN – Ljiljana Neckermann, an artist and former resident of Newport, Cooperstown and Schuyler Lake, passed away at Pacifica Senior Living in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, after a long illness. Ljiljana was born in 1949 in the former Yugoslavia, and moved to Germany in her 20s, where she had a successful career in business and became a citizen. In 1979, she was married to the widowed…
Land Trust Offers Free Trees COOPERSTOWN – Though many 4th of July traditions are on hold this year, the Otsego Land Trust’s free tree giveaway is still a go. “Giving away trees to community has been a 4th of July tradition for the land trust,” commented Patricia Szarpa, Executive Director, “with the cancellation of the annual Springfield Parade, we still want to carry out this tradition, but in a different way this year!”…
IN MEMORIAM Mary C. Erbe, 97; Active in Oneonta Life ONEONTA– Mary C. Erbe, 97, passed away June 28, 2020 at A.O. Fox Hospital in Oneonta. Born in Oneonta, August 26, 1922, the daughter of Sheldon H. and Gertrude (Strong) Close. She married Donald D. Erbe on June 10, 1944. He died September 5, 1992. Mary graduated from Bugee School, Oneonta High School and Syracuse University. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. A life member of the…