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Sam Goodyear’s Featured In July 4 PBS’ TV Special

YOU CAN SEE ‘INVENTING’ NOW Sam Goodyear Featured In July 4 PBS’ TV Special “Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders,” featuring Sam Goodyear, formerly of Cooperstown and Oneonta, as John Adams, will air at 5:30 p.m. July 3 – this Sunday – on WSKG, the Binghamton public television station. “Making a Nation” – as this first segment is called – is about 60 minutes long, runs as an interview with three of the Declaration’s signers—Thomas Jefferson ( Bill Barker) and…

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Tom Morgan – The People Said No

TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK The People Said No Editor’s Note:  The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally.  Here is this week’s column. Wha’ happened? Did earthquakes churn Europe into rubble?  Did The Plague descend upon Britain?  Did skyscrapers topple? Did the Queen scamper naked ‘round Picadilly Circus? Europeans are screaming at the Brits. Calling them everything but Nazis.  Half the British are screaming at the other half.  In fact calling them…

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Marine Lt. Col. Gregory Ehrmann, 61; Richfield Native, Noted Reenactor

IN MEMORIAM Marine Lt. Col. Gregory Ehrmann, 61; Richfield Native, Noted Reenactor RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Marine Lt. Col. (ret.) Gregory M. Ehrmann, 61, of Stafford, Va., a Richfield Springs native and, in his retirement, an avid reenactor of historic battles, passed away on June 24, 2016, at UVA Medical Center, where he was recovering from a liver transplant.  His family was by his side. SEE SLIDE SHOW ON HIS LIFE Greg was born on Jan. 1, 1955, in Herkimer, to George…

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Ribbon Cut On Toonie Moonie, Making Of Healthy Marshallows

Ribbon Cut On Toonie Moonie, Healthy Marshmallow Treats Dozens of wellwishers at this hour are at a party and ribbon-cutting at the new Toonie Moonie plant on Route 28 between Cooperstown and Fly Creek, as proprietor Kim Condon takes her production of organic marshmallow crème to the next level.   In top photo, Operations Manager Thomas Tuthill of Treadwell gives a tour of the commercial kitchen, which is located in the Oberriters’ former Cooperstown Bat headquarters, to – among others – Flerida…

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Leonora Lobdell, 86; Entrepreneur, Realtor, Positive Thinker

IN MEMORIAM: Leonora Lobdell, 86; Entrepreneur, Realtor, Positive Thinker ONEONTA – Leonora Lobdell, 86, wife and business partner of Burton Lobdell in Lobdell’s Trucking, real-estate entrepreneur, and an advocate of positive thinking, passed away Saturday, June 25, 2016. Born in Brooklyn, Nov. 26, 1929, she grew up in Fleischmanns, the daughter of Helen Roberta Honeyman and Baptist minister Thomas Todd Edwards.  Her parents met at the Montrose Bible Conference Center where Leonora’s grandfather, Rev. Robert M. Honeyman, was executive director.…

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BEWARE: NYSEG Scam Targeting Cooperstown Residents

BEWARE: NYSEG Scam Targets Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Police Chief Michael Covert is warning residents not to send money to callers pretending to represent NYSEG. “We’ve gotten four calls today from people who received calls saying that they had to pay $998 on their NYSEG bill or they would be thrown in jail,” said Covert.   “It’s an ongoing scam.” The callers then asked for the mark to go to CVS and get a GreenDot pre-paid card.  “Never send money to…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.