50 Vehicles Participate In ‘Ride For Black Lives’ WALTON – A 50-vehicle “Justice Ride for Black Lives” traversed Delaware County Friday evening, in solidarity with nationwide protests since George Floyd’s death, travelling through Margaretville, Andes, Delhi, Hamden and Walton. The caravan of vehicles decorated with Black Lives Matter messages stretched out for two miles. The ride highlighted three locations: SUNY Delhi, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County (whose 4-H Program is central in county fairs) and the Delaware County Fairgrounds.…
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OPEN TODAY UNTIL 2 P.M. Milford Farmers’ Market Open For Third Season This summer, don’t forget the OTHER farmers’ market – Milford’s, from 10 to 2 each Sunday off Route 28 at the north end of the village. Today, Kelly Morrissey, Goodyear Lake, at right in top photo, expresses satisfaction at the gluten-free cookies offered by Becca Hopkins, left, and her husband Vince, of Worcester. (Friend Oscar Carpenter, right, is visiting from the Albany area.) Morrissey recommends the Whoopie Pies…
Car Hits Pole, Reducing Route 28 To One Lane…
IN MEMORIAM: ‘Teddy’ Whitford; Longtime Waterville Times Columnist SOUTH BROOKFIELD – Evelyn “Teddy” Whitford, formerly of South Brookfield, a longtime columnist for the Waterville Times, passed away June 19, 2020, at the Waterville Residential Care Center. Born in Ilion in 1930, the daughter of David D. and Lucy (Young) Singer, Teddy received her education at Mohawk Central School. On Oct. 14, 1947, she married John K. Stillman in the Jenks-Stillman family homestead in South Brookfield.…
Clark Sports Center Shut Until ‘At Least Sept. 8’ COOPERSTOWN – The Clark Sports Center announced today it will remain closed “at least until Sept. 8.” “We have been closely monitoring the guidelines from the CDC, Governor Cuomo, the state Department of Health, and the Otsego County Department of Health,” the message to members reads. “Although the Sports Center is eligible to open on July 1 as part of Phase Four, the guidelines issued by the State of New York…
CCS GRADS CELEBRATED 79 Banners Rising Along Main Street At this hour, volunteers Rose Crane, right, and Nancy Potter, in top photo, hoist banners along Main Street, one for each of the 79 members of the Cooperstown Central School Class of 2020, who are graduating on June 28 in three separate ceremonies on the high school’s sports fields. Mike Donnelly, inset, one of the organizers along with wife Colleen and CCS school board member Wendy Kiuber, said there are enough…
Juneteenth Attendees Told ‘Speak Out’ Against Injustice…
FINAL DAILY BRIEFING/June 19, 2020 Cuomo Signs Off: ‘We Went From Worst To First’ ALBANY – Declaring “we went from worst to first,” Governor Cuomo today ended 111 daily briefings in a a row since declaring a State of Emergency on March 13.…
DOZEN WAVES PLACARDS, CHANT Richfield Springs Protest Wants ‘Black Voices Heard’…
Unadilla Hosts Rally To Protest Floyd Death Otsego County’s third “Rally for Justice,” in memory of George Floyd, drew 125 people to the Unadilla Village Park Saturday, June 13. Featured speakers included Rev. LaDana Clark and Human Rights Commission Chair Shannon McHugh, both of Oneonta, but also serious Taury Seward, Binghamton, a comedian by trade, Meer Singh, 13, an Oneonta student who listed five steps people can take to fight racism, and Dwight Mott, a Unadilla businessman, who adopted Rwandan…