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SLA Immediately Shuts Legends, Choice Ultra Underage Drinking Alleged After Raids ALBANY – The state Liquor Authority today issued two emergency suspensions of licenses of two Oneonta bars: Legends Filling Station at 84 Main St., Choice Ultra Lounge at 3-5 Market St. The suspensions were ordered today by Chairman Vincent Bradley and Commissioner Kevin Kim at a regular meeting of the full board. Effective immediately, no alcohol can be served or consumed on the premises. Following complaints of underage drinking…
IN MEMORIAM: Matthew Majewski, 99; Dairy Farmer Retired To Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Matthew Majewski, 99, who retired to Cooperstown from his Jordanville dairy farm, died Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, at Bassett Hospital. He was born on Oct. 6, 1916, in Ludz, Poland. During World War II, he traveled to Germany, then Belgium, where he was a coal miner, then to the United States. On Sept. 29, 1952, he married Mary Czubkowski, and they raised two sons on the farm that…
Rare Footage Of D&H Yards Posted By Son Of Railroader…
Huge Crowd Turns Out For Polar Bear Auction An hour into today’s Chinese auction to benefit the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump the crowd was still lined up down the hall from the Milford Central School gym to the door, waiting to buy tickets by the fistful and take a chance at getting a bargain on hundreds of donated items. In top photo, Lydia Garlick of Milford puts a ticket in one of the bags that lined the walls. At…
Tony Mongillo’s Railroad Art Heralded At Exhibit Opening…
In 2008, Henry Cooper Toasted For His Gentleness, Sense Of Fun Editor’s Note: This is reprinted from The Freeman’s Journal edition of July 11, 2008, after Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., who passed away early today, was celebrated at a testimonial in his honor at The Otesaga, attended by 220 of his many admirers. By JIM KEVLIN • from The Freeman’s Journal COOPERSTOWN – Everybody agreed Bradley Goodyear Smith’s story best captured Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.’s gentle personality. On her way to a party,…
160 Friends Hail Inge Roemer At Plains On Her 95th Birthday More than 160 family members and friends gathered today at the Plains at Parish Homestead to honor Inge Otten Roemer on her 95th birthday. At native of Hamburg, Germany, Mrs. Roemer and her husband, Martin, farmed in Unadilla, beginning in 1947. She obtained an bachelor’s in elementary education from SUNY Oneonta in 1959, and taught at Mount Upton Central School, retiring in 1982. She and her husband, who passed…
IN MEMORIAM Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.; Writer, Environmentalist COOPERSTOWN – Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., noted environmentalist and a founder of what became Otsego 2000, as well as the Otsego Land Trust, passed away today at home in the Town of Middlefield’s Red Creek section. A retired writer for the New Yorker, where he covered the space program, Mr. Cooper was a fifth-generation descendant of novelist James Fenimore Cooper, and a sixth-generation descendant of William Cooper, Cooperstown’s founder. He was the…
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