HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, JULY 1 Fireworks & Concert at Lake Front Park FIREWORKS – Dusk. Celebrate the birth of the United State of America with fireworks launched from Fairy Spring Park. Enjoy from Lake Front Park or the Otesaga Hotel, Cooperstown. CONCERT – 8 p.m. Enjoy performance by the Cooperstown Community Band while you watch this year’s Independence Day fireworks. Lakefront Park, Cooperstown.…
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CCS students will rally to stop school gun violence Cooperstown Central School students will lead a protest and rally at the Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School on Wednesday, June 8, to raise money for and bring awareness to the issue of gun violence in schools. The public is invited; the event begins at the school on Linden Avenue in Cooperstown at 5 p.m.…
Hundreds Attend Rally In Rain To Protest Crimes Against Asian People By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com About 250 people attended a rally Sunday, May 2, at the Otsego County Courthouse, to support the community’s Asian American and Pacific Island residents. The “Otsego Rally for Solidarity with Asian Americans” was organized and run by a group of Cooperstown Central School freshmen, including 15-year-old Cate Bohler, who said she wanted to speak up to support her friends or anyone who…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, MAY 2 Rally In Solidarity Against Racism RALLY – 2 p.m. Get together in solidarity to support and celebrate Asian American’s against racism and hate. Masks & social distancing required. Organized by the Tri-County Women’s Coalition. Held at Otsego County Courthouse, 193 Main St., Cooperstown. Visit Tri-County Women’s Coalition Facebook Group for info.…
Rally Sunday To Protest Crimes Against Asians In response to the rising number of hate crimes directed at Asian Americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, local teens are planing a Solidarity Rally for Sunday, May 2, according to a media release. Otsego Solidarity Rally for Asian Americans will be held at 2 p.m. in front of the Otsego County Courthouse at 197 Main Street. May is Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage month, according to the release. Students…
AT ISSUE, ‘THIN BLUE LINE’ FLAG Supporters Of OPD Parade Through City Amy Smithling of Oneonta, above, addresses crowd members gathered at the former Christopher’s Restaurant site on Southside as they prepare for a parade earlier this afternoon in support of the Oneonta Police Department. “This is about the OPD and the support they deserve,” said Smithling. “This is not about us versus them. This is not a Trump Rally. This is simply a show of force to support the…
‘Patriot Rally’ Calls For Vigilance, Local Reflection At what its organizers called “The Patriots Rally” this afternoon in Oneonta’s Muller Plaza to combat “white supremacists and racism,” co-organizer Diandra Sangetti-Daniels, above, calls for the continued defense against racism in all forms. Sixty-five people stopped to listen to several speakers, including co-organizer Johnny Brown, inset photo, as well as Anthony Baron, Zach King and Anthony Eardley, who recited Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “America’s Chief Moral Dilemma.” Sangetti-Daniels is also organizing…
Police, Racism Decried At 3rd Rally In Region Estimated 800 Fill Courthouse Lawn By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Ten years after he was chased by an armed classmate from Cooperstown Park on a sunny Good Friday and shot, Wesley Lippitt recounted the events this afternoon on the lawn of the Otsego County Courthouse: “Racism is here,” he testified to an almost completely white crowd that organizers estimated at about 800 people, gathered to rally for justice…
ONEONTA RALLY PEACEFUL Hundreds In Muller Plaza Join National Call For Justice Perhaps as many as 500 people rallied peacefully in Oneonta’s Muller Plaza this afternoon to hear Rev. LaDana Clark, a former police officer, above, say, “Most of our police are trying to do the right thing, but it’s the bad apples have to be checked and removed! There can be no peace as long as an officer can place his knee on the neck of a black man…
Oneonta In Solidarity With Charlottesville Over 100 people gathered in Muller Plaza this evening to rally in solidarity in response to the violence in Charlottesville, VA. and to denounce white supremacy. The gathering was organized by Craig Schwalenburg of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta. After an invocation by Schwalenburg, the mic was available for anyone to use to share their thoughts and experiences. Above, Christina Hunt Wood, above, Delhi, tells the crowd of her recent experiences at the…