IN MEMORIAM: Ronald J. Pavlus, 71; Vietnam Vet, Jordanville Postmaster RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Ronald J. Pavlus, 71, of Division Street, Richfield Springs, Vietnam veteran and retired Jordanville postmaster, passed away Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, at Albany Medical Center, Albany. He was born on Oct. 28, 1946, in Cooperstown, son of the late John and Anna (Devan) Pavlus. He graduated from Owen D. Young High School, Van Hornesville, with the Class of 1964.…
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IN MEMORIAM: Ernest E. Whitney, 80; Taught At SUNY, In Franklin, Florida FRANKLIN – Ernest Eugene Whitney, 80, who taught at Franklin Central and SUNY Oneonta’s Migrant Tutorial Program before finishing his career in Florida, passed away peacefully Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at O’Connor Hospital in Delhi. He was born in Bennington, Vt., to Ralph and Dorothy (Andrews) Whitney in 1937, and attended a two-room schoolhouse in North Charlestown, N.H., through sixth grade before his family moved in 1949, to…
IN MEMORIAM: Eleanor Raymond, 75; Taught Math At Grand George, Windham SCHENEVUS – Retired teacher Eleanor (Powell) Raymond, 75, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Jan. 24, 2018, at Bassett Hospital. Eleanor was born on Feb. 28, 1942, in Huntington, L.I., to William and Lorraine Powell. She and her family moved to a farm in Grand Gorge when she was 5. She attended SUNY Cobleskill and SUNY Oneonta, and graduated with her teaching certification.…
7 Teens Face Charges For Fire Inside Railcar MILFORD – The county Sheriff’s Department has charged a total of seven teens –six boys and a girl, ages 16 to 16 – in the fire that destroyed a railcar on the Leatherstocking Railroad Historical Association siding on Oct. 3. Two of the teens had been arrested in December, and this completes the investigation.…
Bassett Nurse Arrested For Unlawful Surveillance COOPERSTOWN – A Bassett Hospital employee was arrested and charged with 12 counts of unlawful surveillance for allegedly installing a camera in a private, employees-only area of the facility. Police said Anderson W. Lee, 27, a registered nurse, installed an camera and recorded videos of fellow employees in a private area between Jan. 21 and 22.…
4 In HoF Class of 2018 Chipper Jones, Thome, Guerrero, Hoffman Due In Cooperstown For Induction July 29 COOPERSTOWN – Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Trevor Hoffman have been announced as the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018. The four will be inducted into the Hall of Plaques in Cooperstown on Sunday, July 29. ESPN: Baseball Hall Adds 4 New Members…
Novelist Dana Spiotta Due Back In County For Lecture COOPERSTOWN – Dana Spiotta, whose novel “Eat the Document” was a National Book Award finalist while she was co-proprietor the Rose & Kettle restaurant in Cherry Valley, will be back in Otsego County at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, to give a talk at the Village Library of Cooperstown. Spiotta is the author of three other novels, “Innocents and Others” (2016), winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a…
SUNY, City Officials Met Today On $6M Campus Police Station ONEONTA – The design phase of a $6 million building for the University Police Department and the Otsego County Law Enforcement Academy has begun, SUNY Oneonta announced today. Groundbreaking is expected in the summer of 2019.…
IN MEMORIAM: Margaret ‘Lodi’ Frank, 86; Survivors Include Family In Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Margaret Lois Burroughs Frank, “Lodi” passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, three days before her 87th birthday, at the Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury, Vt., with loving family by her side. She lived in Cooperstown for a period, where survivors include daughter Jeanne Dewey and her family.…
IN MEMORIAM: Arlean M. Norton, 90; Businesswoman Also Worked For Senator ONEONTA – Arlean M. Norton, 90, a businesswoman and aide to state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, passed away peacefully on Jan. 22, 2018, at the Home of The Good Shepherd in Malta, with her son and daughter at her side. She was born in Carbondale, Pa., on May 26, 1927, the daughter of Michael and Caroline Zagata.…