FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Plenty Of Food – Who’s That At The Next Table? At Morey’s Family Restaurant, your booth neighbor might be a man dressed in a brocade jacket, pajamas and bedroom slippers, smoking a pipe and sitting in a high-back chair next to a roaring fire, a dog sitting at his feet. A girl with long blond curls in a long frilly nightgown stands next to him. The room he is in looks like a parlor room in…
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LIBBY’S BEST BETS • THINGS TO DO Get Ya Baseball Here! Induction Weekend Here By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It’s the biggest weekend of the year, as the Boys of Summer return to Cooperstown for their Induction – the 80th – into the Hall of Fame at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in the field next to the Clark Sports Center. The induction is free; bring a lawn chair or blanket for comfortable viewing. Info www.baseballhall.org • In the…
SUMMER DREAMS From 15, Wax Museum Has Expanded Roster To 50 Heroes Of Game By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There’s only one place in the world where you can hang out with Ty Cobb, Derek Jeter, Shoeless Joe, Abbott and Costello and Marilyn Monroe. The Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum, 99 Main St. “We are the only baseball-themed wax museum in the world,” owner Perry Ferrara declares. The museum opened in 1994, the brainchild of Ferrara’s…
COLUMN VIEW FROM ALBANY No ‘Green Light’ Law As Loose As This One By State Sen. JIM SEWARD, R-Milford • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – While the 2019 state legislative session concluded several weeks ago, discussion continues to swirl around one of the more controversial new measures approved this year – the so-called “Green Light” law. he new law, which formally takes effect on Dec. 14, 2019, would permit illegal/undocumented immigrants to apply for standard driver’s licenses using forms of…
5 Applicants Want Funds In Round 2 Of DRI Effort ONEONTA – Five building owners in downtown Oneonta applied for $400,000 in Downtown Revitalization Funds aimed at creating affordable upper-floor housing. The deadline was Friday, July 12. Next, said Mayor Gary Herzig, the selection committee will meet and review the applications. “I hope we can fund them all,” he said.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, JULY 18 Theatrical Performance: ‘Night They Lit Up Wrigley PLAY – 8 p.m. The play, ‘The Night They Lit Up Wrigley’, about a serendipitous meeting at a Cooperstown bar, by THE CHURCH producers, opens. $20-$17, 2381 State Hwy. 205, Mt. Vision. Info, 607 638 5119, www.upsi-ny.com…
Friends Of Doubleday Present Doubleday Has A Friend MANY Friends Aim To Raise $800,000 To Complete Redo By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Where some people saw scraps, Jeff Katz and Quinton Hasak saw a fundraising opportunity. “When the demolition of the third-base bleachers started, the question arose about what we were going to do with them,” said former mayor Jeff Katz, now president of the Friends of Doubleday. “They’re not the original bleachers, but they’re still…
SUNY ONEONTA’S NEW PROVOST Training Olympic Athletes, Kahanov Tutored In Diversity By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Before becoming a faculty trainer, Dr. Leamor Kahanov was a trainer of Olympic women athletes. But her first career with the U.S. volleyball, bicycle and archery teams in the mid to late 1990s helped inform her second one. “I got to see interesting parts of the world and the diversity of ideas in treating athletes,” said SUNY Oneonta’s new provost…
MAIN STREET LANDMARK Vacant 2 Years, CVS Up For Sale By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The most prominent available property in Cooperstown’s downtown – the former CVS pharmacy at 100 Main St., vacant for two years now – went on the market for $1.4 million in the past few days. “I’ve already shown it,” said Nancy Angerer, who has the listing with Lamb Realty. Back-up material prepared for potential buyers reports the building contains almost 1,000…
COLUMN FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE To Sell, First, Sell Yourself By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Many years ago, when Earth was still cooling, I was a young professor teaching rhetoric. That study had been greatly advanced by Aristotle. He was not long dead then, so the topic was still fresh. Aristotle said that rhetoric is “the art of effective, persuasive speech.” The crassest form is used by the used-car salesman who scuttles across the lot with wide…
