Local Spruce For Rockefeller Center Will Be Cut Down At 8 a.m. Thursday WEST ONEONTA – The 75-foot tall, 45-foot in diameter, 11-ton Norway Spruce that will be the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree for the 2020-2021 season will be cut down at 8 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday) and hoisted by a crane onto a 115-foot long trailer. The 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree at 3851 Route 23 is donated by Daddy Al’s General Store in Oneonta. The donor of the tree,…
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CLICK FOR 2016 PROFILE OF RECTOR Father Dane Boston, Christ Church Rector, Leaving Cooperstown Promoted, He Returns To S.C. Cathedral COOPERSTOWN – Father Dane Boston, four-year rector at Christ Church Episcopal, today advised his congregation he is returning to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, S.C., as dean, the ranking position after that of bishop. The upcoming Christmas service will be his last locally, he said. The announcement comes at a time of transition in the Cooperstown clergy:…
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IN MEMORIAM: Dirck Dey Harrison, 93; Retired Executive Raised In Cooperstown QUEENSBURY – Dirck Dey Harrison, 93, a retired business executive who was raised in Cooperstown and, an avid skier all his life, volunteered on the Mount Otsego Ski Patrol, passed away on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Granville, Washington County. He lived in Queensbury. He was born March 10, 1927, in New York City, the son of the late Dr. Francis F. and Carlotta (Creevey) Harrison; his family moved…
IN MEMORIAM J. Taylor Hollist, 84; Local Mormon Leader, SUNY Math Professor ONEONTA – Joseph Taylor Hollist, 84, a SUNY Oneonta math professor who in 13 years as Oneonta branch president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began construction of the West Oneonta meetinghouse, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, at the Albany Medical Center of multiple complications following surgery. Taylor was born on Nov. 14, 1936, in Phoenix, Ariz., the oldest of 10 children to Jennie Brown…
STATE POLICE CAUTION: Expect ‘Traffic Delays’ Near Enormous Pine Rockefeller Center Awaits Local Fir By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – As crews finish wrapping the 75-foot tall pine tree on “Daddy Al” Dick’s property here, state police have issued an alert of traffic delays and lane closures over the next tomorrow through Thursday on Route 23 here as the tree is cut down and prepared for the journey to Rockefeller Center, where it will become the…
Village Clerk Jenna Utter Assumes Duties At 22 Main…
DOCUMENT ISSUED SUNDAY ‘MALATRAS PLAN’ AIMS TO REOPEN CAMPUSES SAFELY All Students Will Be Tested Before Returning To SUNY-O ONEONTA – In Albany Sunday, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras released a plan he said will allow campuses like SUNY Oneonta to safely return to in-person instruction in the spring semester. The main components are: The students’ return will be pushed back to Feb. 1 from Jan. 22. All returning students will complete seven-day precautionary quarantines before arriving on campus. On arriving,…
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GRAND OPEN DUE THURSDAY Dog Park Near-Complete In Milford’s Wilber Park Milford’s Dan Atkinson rolls out chain-link fencing this morning at the Village of Milford’s Wilber Park, where work is underway to complete a community dog park in time for its prospective dedication at 4 p.m. Thursday. Attaching the fencing are Dan’s wife Kimberly Winsor, right, and Sarah Cummings, Oneonta, who is active there in Superheroes on Ripped Jeans, the animal-care group. At left, the Atkinsons’ daughter Willow, 5, looks…