HISTORICAL SOCIETY WINS RECOGNITION Earhart Visited Here, Marker Says By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After losing his mother to appendicitis in the spring of 1921 at age 7, Arrie Hecox of Fly Creek found solace in Amelia Earhart three years later. Walking back and forth to school, Hecox spotted Earhart, then in her 20s, at the inn that neighbored his family’s farm on Route 28. “As you did in that time, they introduced themselves,” Arrie Hecox’s grandson, Michael…
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IN MEMORIAM James S. Ainslie, 93; Farmer, Rural Carrier For Post Office RICHFIELD SPRINGS – James S. Ainslie, 93, of Ainslie Road, Town of Otsego, a farmer and longtime rural mail carrier, passed away Wednesday morning, Dec. 9, 2020, while being transported to the hospital. His family regrets they could not be with him due to COVID-19 restrictions; he will be greatly missed. A kind, giving man, loving husband, grandfather and dedicated father, he would do anything to help family,…
RAGING BLAZE LEVELS BARN Firefighters Called To Christian Hill, Where Wood Bull Loses Stored Antiques Cooperstown firefighter Henry Stewart, top left, and Fire Captain Chris Satriano watch for flare-ups after a fast-moving fire leveled Kip Coburn’s barn this evening at 324 Williams Road on Christian Hill, Town of Otsego. Coburn operates Wood Bull Antiques on Route 28, Milford, and said today the barn was used to store overflow antiques from that operation; all were lost. Coburn’s son said the only…
SNOW GIANTS 5 Statues Slow Drivers On Wileytown Road…
CLICK HERE FOR ALL FILINGS Democrats Off To Races In Otsego, Middlefield Kiernan Runs Again; Marc Heller Enters Politics By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Democrats in the two towns that serve the Village of Cooperstown – Otsego and Middlefield – were fast out of the gate this morning as the county Board of Elections began accepting petitions at 9 a.m. for the Nov. 5 elections. In the Town of Otsego (including Cooperstown west of the Susquehanna,…
Cooperstown FD Douses Blaze On County Route 28…
IN MEMORIAL: Joseph A. Eccles, 73; Retired To County From Long Island COOPERSTOWN – Joseph A. Eccles, 73, who retired to the Cooperstown area after 30 years with UPS, died Tuesday April 17, 2018 at Bassett Hospital in the company of his loving family. Born in Glen Cove, L.I., he grew up in Glen Head and graduated from North Shore High School in the Class of 1962. He enlisted in the Army in 1965, serving his country until 1971. He…
SIGHTINGS MULTIPLY LOCALLY With Orlo Burch’s Report, Bear Habitat Expanding…
ELECTION NIGHT 2016 Otsego Town Voters Reject Professional Roads Chief FLY CREEK – An 18-year-old with no experience but sufficient vote will continue to qualify to run the Town of Otsego Highway Department. An Otsego Town Board proposal to professionalize the roads chief position was roundly defeated, 899 (56.76 percent) to 685 (43.24 percent), in today’s balloting. Town Supervisor Meg Kiernan, who returned to the town’s top job Jan. 1, after a four-year hiatus, had proposed and championed the idea,…
Oneonta Woman Charged With DUI After Otsego Crash ONEONTA – An Oneonta woman was arrested for driving while impaired by drugs after she drove her car off Route 28 in the Town of Otsego, state police report. The suspect is Deborah Perkins, 53. An investigation determined that Perkins was driving while impaired by drugs when she crashed, and a search revealed that she unlawfully possessed about six grams of marijuana, troopers said. In situations like this, those who are being…