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Akron Beacon-Journal Writer Ocker To Receive Spink Award At Induction

Akron Beacon-Journal Writer Ocker To Receive Spink Award At Induction COOPERSTOWN – Sheldon Ocker, who covered the Cleveland Indians for 33 seasons, was elected the 2018 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing”  in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, it was announced today. He will receive the award during the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend July 27-30, 2018, in Cooperstown.…

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Joseph Piambino, 78; Engineer Retired To Cooperstown Area

IN MEMORIAM:  Joseph Piambino, 78; Engineer Retired To Cooperstown Area COOPERSTOWN – Joseph Piambino, 78, formerly of Long Island, a manufacturing engineer who retired to the Cooperstown area, passed away early Sunday morning, Dec. 10, 2017, at his home on Hade Hollow Road with his family by his side. He was born Aug. 1, 1939, in Brooklyn, a son of Frank and Frances (Ingargiola) Piambino.   He married Linda Ketcham on Sept. 3, 1988, in Mount Sinai, Suffolk County.…

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Mary Louise Gray, 88; Worked In Hospitals Across Region

IN MEMORIAM: Mary Louise Gray, 88; Worked In Hospitals Across CNY Region COOPERSTOWN – Mary Louise Gray, 88, of Cooperstown, who worked in hospitals across the region before returning home to tend to her mother, passed away Saturday evening, Dec. 9, 2017, at her home on Walnut Street with her sister Connie and nephew Brent at her side. She was born Jan. 13, 1929, at Bassett Hospital and graduated from Cooperstown High School, Class of 1948. She was first employed…

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Cooperstown Police Seek Larceny Suspect

Cooperstown Police Seek Larceny Suspect COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown police are looking for tips on a woman who allegedly stole a purse from the outpatient clinic building of Bassett Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 5. The victim was sitting in the lobby near the pharmacy between 2:45-3:15 p.m. and left her purse on the bench. The suspect, described as a white female with dark hair, wearing a black coat and white pants, sat down next to the purse and took it when she…

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KATZ WON’T RUN AGAIN

  COOPERSTOWN MAYOR RETIRING KATZ WON’T RUN AGAIN COOPERSTOWN – Jeff Katz, mayor of Cooperstown for the past six years – in many ways a transformational mayor – today said he won’t run for a fourth two-year term in village elections in March. “I’ve been mayor for six years, trustee for seven before then,” he said in an interview with The Freeman’s Journal.  “Thirteen years is a pretty longtime to do this.  And they were pretty intense years. I feel…

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SUNY Student Arrested For Attempted Murder

SUNY Student Arrested For Attempted Murder By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A SUNY Oneonta student is under arrest for first-degree attempted murder after police allege that he had stabbed his girlfriend in the off-campus apartment they shared. Julian D. VanCourt-Wels, 20, Schenectady, was arrested after police responded to a 911 call of a stabbing at 30 Maple St., Apartment 2, in Oneonta. According to Police Chief Doug Brenner, police found a female victim sitting on…

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IN MEMORIAM: Foster Lloyd Brown, 86; Author, SUNY Professor

IN MEMORIAM Foster Lloyd Brown, 86; Author, SUNY Professor ONEONTA – Foster Lloyd Brown, SUNY Oneonta professor and best-selling college textbook author, passed away Dec. 1, 2017, at Albany Medical Center, of complications following heart surgery. He was 86. He was born May 26, 1931, in Wheeling, W.Va., the eldest of three children of Durward B. Brown, a Methodist minister, and Dorothy Rine Brown, an author. Upon graduation from Shinnston High School in 1949, he served in the Navy. Degrees included a…

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