Fun, Frolic Opens Otsego County Fair SEE SLIDE SHOW OF COUNTY FAIR FUN…
BOUND VOLUMES May 20, 2021 Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 200 YEARS AGO The following is copied from the London Courier: The sea is ours, and we must maintain the doctrine – that no nation, no fleet, no cockboat shall sail upon it without our permission. America declares that England must not presume to declare a port in a state of blockade, unless she can keep a force actually before…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Oldest Otsego County Race Continues WINTER CARNIVAL – All Day. Info at www.cooperstownwintercarnival.com WINTER RACE – 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Annual 5k/10k Bob Smullens Race through Cooperstown. Oldest continuously held race in Otsego County. Cost, $20/person. Registration 10:30 a.m. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800, ext. 111 or visit www.clarksportscenter.com/events/2020-bob-smullens-5k10k-race/ …
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JANUARY 11 Alex P Sutter Band Returns To Cooperstown Concert Series Stage CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Enjoy performance by the red hot Alex P. Sutter Band. Cost, $20/adult. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-547-1812 or visit cooperstownconcertseries.org/alexis-p-suter-band-saturday-january-11-2020/…
HOMETOWN HISTORY May 10, 2019 150 Years Ago Oneonta – Chief Engineer Wentz and a Committee of Directors were here this week to locate a roundhouse and other needed railroad conveniences. The extension of railroad operations brings quite a number of new citizens and families to the place. The railroad makes the town. Let the town welcome its people. Cope & Company’s new goods have come, a real old-fashioned stock as to variety, but entirely new fashioned as to style.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 Country Blues Concert CONCERT SERIES – 7:30 p.m. Presenting Jerron“Blind Boy” Paxton the most sensational newcomer to blues. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Call (607) 547-8401 or visit cooperstownconcertseries.org/jerron-blind-boy-paxton-92317-at-cooperstown-first-presbyterian-church/ ENVIRONMENT – 6 p.m. Wildlife Pathologist Ward Stone presents a talk on environmental stewardship and activism. Begins with a potluck, followed by the talk, ending with Q&A. The Star Theater, Old Village hall, 44 Main St., Cherry Valley. Call (607)264-3099 or visit www.eventbrite.com/e/wildlife-pathologist-ward-stone-talk-tickets-37473656716?aff=es2…
Susquehanna Valley Quilters Mark 30 Years of Fabric, Fun By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In 1986, a handful of women gathered to form the Susquehanna Valley Quilters and share their love of fabric craft. “We got together and decided there was going to be a quilting renaissance,” said Debby Clough, who helped start the original group. “I started quilting in 1976, and it didn’t matter what we were working on. I was at a table surrounded by…
STATE BUDGET BRIEFING/1 Cuomo Envoy Peppered On Minimum Wage Hike By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Businesspeople and elected officials peppered state Veterans Affairs Director Eric Hesse with critical questions about the prospective minimum-wage hike and other issues contained in the 2016-17 state budget when he appeared here this morning on Governor Cuomo’s behalf. REVIEW SLIDE SHOW ON DVA CHIEF’S VISIT “Why has the state exempted state workers?” asked county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, to approving murmurs from a…
LIST OF OTSEGO COUNTY’S FUNDED PROJECTS D&H Yards, Oneonta Ag Hub Win NY State Ec-Dev Grants No $1/2 Billion, But $3.3 Million As Consolation; Cooperstown Gets Nothing, But Hall, NYSHA Win ALBANY – While Otsego County’s economic development region failed to gain $1/2 billion from the governor’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative, the county itself did the best in five years of the state’s CFA program for distributing economic development funding – $3,317,658 in all. “The region got a record amount of money,” said state Sen.…