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A master of meditation will be teaching from July 3-9 at Samye Hermitage, the Buddhist center formerly known as Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, and familiarly known as “the place with all the flags” at 412 Glimmerglen Road. The teacher, Tulku Migmar Tsering, belongs to the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and will be coming from Nepal to teach the path of meditation to all, from curious beginners to those more advanced. From how to sit on the cushion to watching thoughts arise…
Editor’s Notebook by Greg Klein: Film COOP spreads love of region to women’s group Last weekend my film commission office, Film COOP, hosted a bunch of female filmmakers for a destination weekend location tour and networking event. As with our too long and klutzy legal name, the Cooperstown, Oneonta, Otsego County Film Partnership, Inc., the name Film COOP presents the Women in Film Peak Leaf Weekend Location Tour and Networking Event soon fell by the wayside. The shorthand Women in…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 22, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Major flooding hits Butternut Valley AllOtsego people: In Cooperstown, a female majority forms Cooperstown & Around and City of the Hills Inside The Paper Susquehanna SPCA celebrates opening of new facility Saturday Summer Music Festival to reopen with free concert August 10, at Fenimore Student News Model Student Perspectives Editorial Views From Around The State COLUMNS LIMITI: I identify as an anime…
Raging Fire Destroys Antiques-Filled Barn By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – Inside the barn at 325 Williams Road, Chief Chris Vuolo, Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Department, could hear “multiple” explosions. “There were propane tanks and boxes of fireworks stored inside,” he said. “No one was hurt, thank God.” The fire, which destroyed Wood Bull Antiques owner Kip Coburn’s barn on Christian Hill, Town of Otsego, on Friday, Nov. 6, was called in by a neighbor at…
RAGING BLAZE LEVELS BARN Firefighters Called To Christian Hill, Where Wood Bull Loses Stored Antiques Cooperstown firefighter Henry Stewart, top left, and Fire Captain Chris Satriano watch for flare-ups after a fast-moving fire leveled Kip Coburn’s barn this evening at 324 Williams Road on Christian Hill, Town of Otsego. Coburn operates Wood Bull Antiques on Route 28, Milford, and said today the barn was used to store overflow antiques from that operation; all were lost. Coburn’s son said the only…
‘A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE’ Zoe On The Mend After An 11-Pound Tumor Is Removed Dog Cared For At Butternuts Farm; Biopsy Will Determine What’s Next By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – “A Thanksgiving Miracle” arrived at the Susquehanna Animal Shelter a few minutes ago. That’s how Zoe, 9, the German shepherd who was found with a front leg chewed off in Exeter Center last week, was described by SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes as the two arrived…
2 Dozen Cows Dead At Maryland Farm By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com TOWN OF MARYLAND – The stench could be smelled for a mile. More than two dozen dead cows in various states of decay were found in a barn on Route 7 in the Town of Maryland last night, after Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies were alerted to the conditions on the farm. “It appears they all starved to death,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “There was…
Moon (Full) Over Main Street If you haven’t seen tonight’s full moon, seen here (above) rising over Main Street, Cooperstown, go outside and take a look. According to space.com, this is called a “supermoon,” and coincides with the equinox – that’s today, the first day of spring. The moon was actually “full” at 9:23 p.m., four minutes ago as of this writing. Inset is the moon rising to above Otsego Hills (and Glimmerglass) shortly after 7 this evening. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)…
SILENT ALARM ALERTED POLICE Sheriff Releases Photos Of NBT Robbery Suspect By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com EDMESTON – The Otsego County Sheriff’s Department a few minutes ago released surveillance photos from this morning’s robbery at NBT Bank’s branch here. The suspect is being described as mid-late 20s, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-10, with a tall, thin build. He was last seen wearing light colored pants, a dark colored hooded sweatshirt, dark colored shoes, a dark colored knit hat and dark…