HANEYS TO ENTER CHAMBER HALL OF FAME At Cooperstown Bat, Best Yet To Come By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN – At Cooperstown Bat Company, it’s the sound of success. “We have noticed a difference in the sound of the ball coming off of our bats,” said owner Tim Haney. “We know that the process in how we slowly dry the wood gives the bat a different sound. You can hear the difference.” Cooperstown Bat is one of this year’s six…
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Laurens’ Ric Brockway Challenges Kathy Clark By JIM KEVLIN LAURENS – Ric Brockway is used to climbing mountains. At 60, he put on a backpack and hiked the 120-mile Northville-Placid Trail through the Adirondacks. Two years ago, at 70, he climbed the 35 tallest Catskills, winning membership in the 3500 Club. This year, he’s taking on another challenge: Running against former county board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego-Laurens, in the June 25 Republican primary. With his wife, Laurens Town Justice Patricia…
Conductor Contest, Arts, Craft Shows And Irish Tunes! Will it be taxi king Al Rubin? Plucky reporter Libby Cudmore? Or musical maven Cindy Donaldson? Only you can decide as you vote for your favorite conductor and hear the Sultans of String at the annual Catskill Symphony Cabaret Concert, featuring guest conductor Paul Massey. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, www.catskillsymphony.net. • View the CAA’s latest exhibit, “An Artistic Discovery,” on display through March 29.…
Again, Oneonta’s Wells Runs For County Board ONEONTA – Wilson Wells is making a second bid to represent District 14 on the Otsego County Board of Representatives. Now 23, the lifelong Oneontan graduated from OHS in 2014 and in 2018 from SUNY Oneonta with a double major in political science and criminal justice. Wells serves on both the Fundraising and Marketing Committees of Orpheus Theatre, taught at Oneonta Nursery School for a number of years, and currently volunteers as a…
Planning Board Approves Hampton Inn In Hartwick Cooperstown Will Reportedly Provide Ladder Truck HARTWICK – Concluding firefighters’ concerns had been sufficiently met, the Hartwick Town Planning last night approved a four-story Hampton Inn & Suites in Hartwick Seminary. Co-chairs Greg Korth and Alex Thomas, and board member Meg Kennedy, unanimously approved the project. According to the meeting minutes, Cooperstown Fire Chief Jim Tallman said his department would respond to any fires at the site under its mutual aid agreement with…
Jane Higgins-Main, 60; Artist, Proprietor Of Gilbertsville Gallery GILBERTSVILLE – Jane Evelynne Higgins-Main, 60, an artist who ran the Hilton Bloom Art Studio here for 15 years, passed away on Friday, March 1, 2019, in the comfort of her home. Jane was born in Sidney on Feb. 20, 1959, the daughter of Edward A. and J. Louise (Williams) Higgins. A 1976 graduate of Sidney High School, Jane went on to study fine arts at SUNY Oneonta and the University of…
FROM TODAY’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON CITY NEWSSTANDS THIS AFTERNOON HERE’S LIST OF FUNDED DRI PROJECTS Plans To Renovate Upper Floors Top DRI List Of Grants $2 Million Distributed, Including $400,000 For Getman, Oneonta Optical Buildings By JENNIFER HILL & LIBBY CUDMORE • from Hometown Oneonta ONEONTA – Two developers with plans for upper-floor housing took home $392,000 as the Downtown Improvement Grants were revealed on Tuesday, March 5, promising to transform Downtown Oneonta. Plans to announce $2 million in grants…
FROM TODAY’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON CITY NEWSSTANDS THIS AFTERNOON Railyard Foes Derail $2M In Good News Herzig’s Plea – Work Together – Falls On Deaf Ears In Packed Foothills Theater By PATRICK WAGER & JIM KEVLIN • From Hometown Oneonta ONEONTA – In his 2019 State of the State speech, Mayor Gary Herzig Tuesday, March 5, said everyone wants to get to “net zero,” but – “please” – don’t oppose a plan for the D&H railyards “to create much-needed jobs.” Particularly, “while…
McLaughlin’s Is Closing Downtown Oneonta Store…
Virginia M. Gracey, 86; Church & Scott Clerk For 29 Years COOPERSTOWN – Virginia M. Gracey, long-time sales clerk at Church & Scott, passed peacefully Saturday afternoon, March 2, 2019, at Bassett Hospital. A native and life-long resident of Cooperstown, she was 86. Born Virginia Mae Potter on Oct. 16, 1932, in Cooperstown, she was one of five children of William Leigh Potter and Florence Elizabeth Smith Potter. Graduating from Cooperstown High School, Class of 1950, she joined Remington Rand…
