LETTER from ED LEONE Battle Of Bulge Reminds Us Of Drago, Nader’s Sacrifice To the Editor: It’s always the right time to be thankful for our veterans who have served selflessly around the world so that we at home can live in peace. The 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge reminds me of the privations and sacrifice these magnificent soldiers faced all those years ago. I recommend Academy Award winning movie, “Patton,” to see a depiction of the…
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10TH DIVISION BAND PLAYS HERE Dean Of Oneonta WWII Vets, Drago Honored At Concert Gene Schmidt, organizer of this afternoon’s 10th Mountain Division Jazz Band concert, shakes hand with World War II veteran Tony Drago, Oneonta, after Drago was honored with a surprise mayoral proclamation preceding this afternoon’s performance in the SUNY Alumni Field House. At 97, Drago is among the city’s oldest surviving veterans. At right, soloist Sgt. Michelle Dykes, stationed Fort Drum near Watertown, sings while accompanied by…
MAKING HISTORY Drago’s’ Jackets Reached Pinnacle In 1960 Season Legendary Coach Knew Star’s Grandparents By JENNIFER HILL • The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA ONEONTA – Defying predictions, a boys’ basketball team from a small Otsego County town takes an early, wide lead over a big city team in the state’s final tournament, dominates throughout, and wins its first-ever state championship. That happened on Sunday, March 17, 2019, when Cooperstown’s Hawkeyes beat Buffalo’s Middle Early College, 71-61, for the Class C…
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Veterans Enjoy OCCB’s Salute Veterans, families and friends gathered to enjoy selections of historical patriotic music performed this afternoon by the Oneonta Community Concert Band at it’s 17th annual Salute To Veterans Concert at the Foxcare Center. Above, local veterans Tony Drago, Army, and John Brooks, Air Corps, applaud as the band finishes “Hail To The Spirit of Liberty” by John Philip Sousa. At right, Gretchen Becker, Walton, on tuba, and percussionists Ben Wendrow, Oneonta, and Dave Geasey, Oneonta, perform “The Official…
All Recall Former Mayor’s Vitality, Civic Duty, Humor Jim Georgeson, 1919-2014 By LIBBY CUDMORE Edition of Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 When Sam Nader succeeded Jim Georgeson as mayor in 1960, he found nothing that Georgeson had left behind. “I said to him, ‘You didn’t even leave me a sheet of paper’!” recalled Nader. “And he said, ‘I knew you were smart enough that you could figure it out’!” Georgeson, 95, died Wednesday, Oct. 22, at The Otsego Manor, three days before…