Otsego Lake Association Update By Gilbert Vincent On Saturday, August 13, the Otsego Lake Association (OLA) held its annual meeting in the pavilion at the Otsego Sailing Club on Brookwood Point. Founded in 2002, OLA’s mission is to educate, advocate and actively participate in protecting the health, beauty and well-being of the lake. The audience was looking for information in regard to the recent beach closures. Following Drew Porter’s brief history of the Sailing Club, Jim Howarth announced a State…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 Art Association Presents Works by Local Artists OPENING RECEPTION – 5 – 7 p.m. Celebrate opening of exhibit ‘Made in New York: Glass & Fiber’ a fine craft invitational exhibit, and explore the exhibit of the works produced at the Pain the Point plein air paintings produced at Brookwood Point by area artists. Showing through September 23 at the Cooperstown Art Association. 607-547-9777 or visit cooperstownart.com…
Lake Front Buffer Strip Spruced Up Take a leisurely stroll down to Lake Front Park in Cooperstown and take in the beauty of the Buffer Strip Garden along the shore of Otsego Lake. Over 15 years ago, the Otsego Lake Association helped to introduce the concept of the lakeside buffer strip to the Otsego Lake community. “This Buffer Strip was created in 2005. It’s a conservation garden that buffers the water that comes from the village into the lake so…
Springfield ‘Fourth’ parade a big hit…
“Float your boat’ in July 3 parade Plan to float your boat – rain or shine – in the Otsego Lake Association’s Annual “We Love Our Lake” Decorated Boat Parade to begin at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 3. The parade will form off Three Mile Point, then proceed slowly along the westerly side of the lake, and end at Lakefront Park in Cooperstown. The lead boat will be decorated and marked with OLA banners. After a two-year pandemic pause,…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 Art Garage Opens BLM Art Exhibit ART OPENING – 4 – 6 p.m. Celebrate the 3rd entry in the ongoing art series ‘High Alert, Artists Speak Out on social justice.’ This time enjoy a preview of a 2021 in-progress documentary on the creation of a 9000 sq. ft. mural in NJ and works by 5 of the muralists will be on display on the walls. All welcome. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd.,…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JULY 3 ‘Here Comes The Sun’ Boat Parade BOAT PARADE – 3 p.m. Get out for the annual decorated boat parade. This years theme ‘Here Comes The Sun’ song by the beatles. All boats welcome from human powered to motor powered and all in between, decorated or undecorated. Covid protocols will be in effect. Parade assembles at 3 Mile Point and proceeds on West Side of the Lake to Lakefront Park, Cooperstown. Rain or Shine. 518-542-6630…
Cooperstown & Around FOVL to hold book sale starting Saturday Cooperstown’s Friends of the Village Library will hold its annual book sale at 22 Main St. in Cooperstown, beginning Saturday, June 26. The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, through Sunday, July 4. Saturday, June 3, and Sunday, July 4, all books are $5 per bag for people who bring their own bags. OLA to hold annual holiday boat parade The annual holiday boat parade, sponsored…
For The Love Of Boating Since 1975, Larger Boats On Otsego Lake, But Owners Using More Smaller Craft, Too Editor’s Note: Bill Harman has led SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake since its founding. Historically, as in all our inland lakes after the original European settlement, rowboats, canoes, and sailboats capable of carrying a few passengers dominated Otsego Lake. Early on it provided a corridor between the waters of the Mohawk drainage and the Southern Atlantic states via…
In Red, White, Blue, 50 Boats On Parade…