$5M Redo of Doubleday In Time For Anniversary By JIM KEVLIN• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “Personally, for me, The Sandlot Kid, in a place of prominence,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch when asked about the most meaningful part of the $5-million-plus redevelopment of Doubleday Field. “He’s so special.” Victor Salvatore’s bronze sculpture of a barefoot farm boy with a bat on his shoulder was installed in 1939, when the Doubleday Field grandstand was completed. “One of the true icons of…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 21-May 22, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Destination Marketing: Promote Outdoors WWII Veterans Tell Their Tales Integris Executive To Head Bassett In 1st Month, 230 Give Foundation $175K AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 $5M Redo of Doubleday In Time For Anniversary Drive-In Opening For New, Classic Films Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIALS Build On DMCOC’s Smart Marketing City Folks Will Flee Upstate When This is Over COLUMNS INGRAM: Worst Place…
BOUND VOLUMES May 21, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Shocking Accident – The Norwich Agriculturalist states that two men, by the names of Wood and Edwards, were burnt to death on Thursday last in the Town of Pittsfield, Otsego County. They had been engaged in firing some fallow land and retired much-fatigued to a small shingle house, where it is supposed they fell asleep. The wind, blowing fresh, communicated fire to the shavings about the shingle house, and before it was…
Letter From JASON HEWLETT Neglect Of Mental Patients Little Understood To the Editor: Right now there is nothing more important to me than making people aware of the ongoing abuse and neglect of patients on psychiatric units. This is still happening today in many hospitals here in NYS because of bad policies and bad protocols that need to change. These are the primary causes of patient abuse by psychiatrists and their nursing staff who ironically do mean well and want…
IN MEMORIAM Judith Guzik, 77, Richfield Springs; Richfield Teacher, Garden Club Member JORDANVILLE – Judith (Brown) Guzik, 77, a teacher at Richfield Springs Central School, died on Friday, May 8, 2020, at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Utica. She was born on Aug. 16, 1942, in Oneonta, the daughter of the late Edward Hugh and Ellen G. Barlow Brown. She was a graduate of Laurens Central School, Class of 1960 and went on to earn a BS Degree in Elementary Education…
IN MEMORIAM Ed Newsham, 85, Oneonta; SUNY Professor, Masonic Leader ONEONTA – Edward S. Newsham, 85, who had a distinguished career with the Masonic Fraternity, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital. Ed was born September 13, 1934, in Erie, PA, the son of the late Frederick and Susan (Harriger) Newsham. He married June Mellor September 7, 1957 in Woods Hole, MA. Ed and June moved to Oneonta in 1965 when Ed accepted a position as…
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Missing Kortright Woman Found Safe KORTRIGHT – Beverly L. Golembeski, 79, who was reported missing by her husband after she failed to return home this afternoon, has been found safe, according to Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C public information officer.…
FOR TOPS IN 50 STATES, CLICK HERE Cooperstown Best In NYS, farandwide.com Concludes This is what the website, www.farandwide.com, had to say in concluding Cooperstown is the best small town in New York State: Population: 1,769 A Favorite Of: Architectural Digest, Reader’s Digest What is more American than baseball? How about the small town that is home to the National Baseball Hall of Fame? Found at the lower tip of Otsego Lake, this cheerful village is lined with quaint shops, restaurants, art…
Police Seek Missing Kortright Woman, 79 KORTRIGHT – A 79 year old women with dementia was reported missing earlier this evening by her husband, prompting State Police, Forest Rangers and other authorities to mount a search for her. New York State Police at Stamford received a 911 call at approximately 5:52 p.m today that Beverly L. Golembeski, 79. was missing from a seasonal residence on Reed Road in the town of Kortright. The call to 911 was made by Golembeski’s…