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Skin Cancer Treatment Trials Open

Skin Cancer Treatment Trials Open Bassett Seeking Participants By TERESA WINCHESTERCOOPERSTOWN To the uninitiated observer, it looks like voodoo. Thin metal cylinders, about 3 inches long, stuck around a dark circle in an inflated, rectangular piece of fabric, the color of flesh. But it’s not voodoo. It’s potentially life-saving science. In this case, it is Dr. Timothy Korytko, radiation oncologist-in-chief at Bassett’s Cancer Institute in Cooperstown, demonstrating how a trial treatment for recurrent or unresectable skin cancer is administered. “Skin…

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Fate of RSS Housing Project Uncertain

As of press time on Tuesday, no decision had been made regarding the housing project solicited by the City of Oneonta and proposed by Rehabilitation Support Services. The Common Council is expected to vote on the project on Tuesday, April 2.…

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Springtime in Cooperstown?

While the weather has been, shall we say, uncooperative, photographer Bill Miller’s aerial shot of the village taken prior to this weekend’s snowstorm shows us what we have to look forward to now that spring has (sort of) sprung.…

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Nonprofit Tackles Projects for Those in Need

Nonprofit Tackles Projects for Those in Need By MONICA CALZOLARIONEONTA Kingdom Builders of Central New York is a local, faith-based non-profit that has completed 24 construction projects in the last three years for low-income homeowners in greater Oneonta at no charge. Its founder, Andy DeForest, has been a licensed contractor for 39 years. DeForest said, “I want to provide practical assistance to people who can’t afford needed repairs or maintenance to their homes.” He completes one project for free every…

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Life Sketches: Wood Carving Is Heart of Altarpiece

Riemenschneider worked in a Gothic style and produced figures whose faces clearly expressed sensitive, complex inner emotions. While looking at the altar you could almost hear Christ saying, “One of you will betray me.” The various “Not me!” expressions on the faces of the disciples are easy to read.…

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Registration for NAMI Classes Now Underway

Registration for NAMI Classes Now Underway ONEONTA—The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Delaware and Otsego Counties will be offering free Family-to-Family Education Classes beginning this May, Shari Stallone announced last week. Stallone, senior program coordinator for Rehabilitation Support Services Inc. and NAMI instructor, said the eight-week series is designed for families and friends of people who have mental health issues. The course will be held in Walton at the New Hope Community Church on Wednesday evenings starting at 6…

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Repeat Performance

On Tuesday, March 19 in the Village of Cooperstown elections, Ellen Tillapaugh was re-elected to her fourth two-year term as mayor, and Cynthia Falk and Hanna Bergene (pictured above) were re-elected to three-year terms as village trustees.…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.