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New Parking Lot Packed As Brookwood Is Reborn

New Parking Lot Packed As Brookwood Is Reborn Traffic – pedestrian traffic – was steady throughout the day and the new parking lot was filled as the 22-acre Brookwood Point nature refuge and non-motorized recreation hub celebrated its Grand Reopening under the auspices of the Otsego Land Trust.  Entertainment (such as in top photo of John Sullivan & Friends – Hannah Kubica, right, of Little Falls, and John Phillips, left, of Cooperstown) was the order of the day, plus kayaking (see Brent Baysinger…

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70 Honor Ex-Slave Who Chose ‘Freedom’ As His Adopted Name

70 Honor Ex-Slave Who Chose ‘Freedom’ As  His Adopted Name Boy Scout Tim Simmons, Troop 9, Edmeston, plays taps this afternoon after a historical marker was unveiled honoring Cato Freedom at the Butternut Valley Cemetery, Town of Burlington, where he is buried.  A former slave from Norwich, Conn., he won his freedom for fighting with Gen. Ebenezer Huntington’s Continental troops during the American Revolution.  More than 70 local historians and history enthusiasts gathered today as Lee Fisher of the NAACP, Oneonta…

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Bells Ring Out From Oyaron Hill

Bells Ring Out On Oyaron Hill Hartwick College’s 86th Graduation At Oneonta Site Sends Off Class of ’17 Hartwick College senior Demi Manesis, top photo, who was honored at an Otsego County Chamber Intern Of The Year for her work with the Oneonta Fire Department, rings her replica of the Yager Hall bell given to each graduate, and was today at the conclusion of the college’s 86th commencement on Oneonta’s Oyaron Hill.  (The college traces its history to 1797 and John Christopher Hartwick’s…

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‘Transformation’ Near, Hochul Says

READ DETAILS FROM OFFICIAL RELEASE ‘Transformation’ Near, Hochul Says Cuomo Administration Approves All Of Oneonta’s $10M Proposal By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The whole thing. Pretty much everything the Oneonta DRI Planning Committee asked for will be funded through $10 million pledged by the Cuomo Administration, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul told an upbeat gathering at 12:30 today in Foothills’ upstair theater. “At the end of the day, this community will be transformed,” Hochul said of the…

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Shelter Gives 83 Pet Masks To County Fire Companies

Shelter Gives 83 Pet Masks To County Fire Companies Tool Helps Firefighters Apply ‘Psychic Fire Aid’ Susquehanna Animal Shelter Director Stacie Haynes and her deputy, Becca Daly, pack 83 Surgivet Pet Oxygen Masks for distribution – two per fire department – at this evening’s meeting of the Otsego County Fire Advisory Board at The Meadows.  Haynes told representatives of fire departments from around the county that a homeowner, distraught about losing a pet in a fire last year, donated $2,500 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.

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