IN MEMORIAM: Leslie Quackenbush, 89; WWII Veteran ONEONTA – Leslie T. Quackenbush, 89, a World War II veteran and ECD Bendix retiree, passed away on Wednesday at Fox Hospital.…
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November 2014 - Page 2
Holiday Train Brings Cheer To Neahwa Park…
‘AN OLD FASHIONED THANKSGIVING’ Editor’s Note: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), celebrated for the classic, “Little Women,” was the prolific author of 14 novels, dozens of short stories, and many other essays and tracts. Here, for the holiday, is “An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving.” By LOUISA MAY ALCOTT SIXTY YEARS AGO, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a houseful of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love,…
IN MEMORIAM: Shirlene Ouimet, 66; Retired From Job Corps ONEONTA – Shirlene M. Ouimet, 66, who worked for the Oneonta Job Corps for 34 years, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 at the Chestnut Park Nursing Home. Shirlene was born on May 12, 1948 in Oneonta, the daughter of the George W. and Ann M. Oliver. She married Alfred H. Ouimet on Aug. 3, 1996, in Oneonta.…
The Calm After The Storm…
OPT Bus Back On Road, On Schedule The Oneonta Public Transit bus that slid off Route 28 is back on the road, according to the OPT. The 6 o’clock southbound departure from Cooperstown is expected to be on schedule.…
OPT BUS SLIDES OFF ROUTE 28 HARTWICK SEMINARY – At this hour, a northbound Oneonta Public Transit bus has slid off Route 28 at the curve in front of Dog Wild in Hartwick Seminary. Three other cars were reported off Route 28 between I-88 and Coopertown in the last half hour.…
CRASHES PEPPER COUNTY AFTER SNOWSTORM HITS Crashes were peppering Otsego County’s main arteries this afternoon, as the first big winter storm, on Thanksgiving, the busiest traffic weekend of the year, began in earnest Snow began in earnest at about 10 a.m. With snows coming in from the southeast, Oneonta was hardest hit first, but by mid-afternoon the whole county was feeling the impact. Between 3 and 3:40 on Route 28 between I-88 and Cooperstown, at least three cars were off…
Winter Storm Warning Issued For County, Region Overnight …
CV Man Arrested On Marijuana Charge CHERRY VALLEY – A Cherry Valley man, Richard Patalona, 62, was arrested yesterday afternoon for possessing approximately four and a quarter pounds of marijuana that was found in his home Sept. 17, county sheriff’s Senior Investigator Mike Ten Eyck announced today.…
