TRUITT TRIAL: Day 4 D.A. Challenges Truitt’s Brother By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In his testimony this morning, Terrence Truitt, the older brother of defendant Gabriel Truitt, said he went to 5 Walling Ave. – home of Heather Engler – to help his brother look for the keys he’d lost that night following a fight at the Sip & Sail Tavern. District Attorney John Meuhl wasn’t buying it. “The Sip & Sail is the opposite direction of…
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IN MEMORIAM: Katherine I. Wood, 85 CHERRY VALLEY – Katherine I. Wood unexpectedly passed away Jan. 23, 2020, at Cooperstown Center. Born on July 3, 1934, she was predeceased by her husband Milton Wood Sr. in 1991.…
TRUSTEES PLAN FEB. 24 VOTE Public Hearing Positive On Bassett 143-Car Lot James Connors, principal engineer at The Chazen Company, explains changes to the proposed Riverside Drive parking lot, including a three-way stop, expanded crosswalks and sidewalks, and a reduction in parking spaces from the original 170 to 143, eliminating the spots to ensure stability of the slope, during a public hearing at the Cooperstown Village Board this evening. The project, which will be gated employee parking, was met with generally…
9-YEAR-OLD GIRL FINDS MEDALLION…
Public Hearing Tonight On Bassett Parking Lot COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board is planning a public hearing on Bassett Hospital’s proposed 150-space parking lot at Susquehanna and Walnut at 7 p.m. this evening during its January meeting. The plan will require demolition of the four homes now on Riverside Drive.…
#1 PRIORITY: RETHINKING BAIL REFORM Address ‘Storm Clouds’ On NY Budget Horizon, Seward Tells Committee…
TRUITT TRIAL: Day 3 Girlfriend: Suspect Fought Before Fatal Arson Fire Set By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Heather Engler woke up on Dec. 28 after staying with a friend on Rose Avenue, she had two missed calls and a message from her stepmother. “She texted me to say that Gabriel (Truitt) had messaged her to say my house was on fire,” Engler testified. “I got up and ran to my apartment, and the fire trucks…
IN MEMORIAM: Richard ‘Dick’ Pindar, 90; Owned Cross Supply Co., Dick’s Golf Shop ONEONTA — Richard “Dick” Pindar, 90, of Oneonta, owner of Cross Supply Co. who, on retiring, started Dick’s Golf Shop, offering custom clubs and professional repairs, passed away on Jan. 22, 2020, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing. He had been residing at Heritage at The Plains at Parish Homestead for the past two years.…
IN MEMORIAM: Ruth Ellis, 87; Longtime CNA At The Meadows CHERRY VALLEY – Ruth Ellis, 87, a CNA at Otsego County’s Meadows nursing home for many years, passed away peacefully on Jan. 22, 2020. She was born on Aug. 26, 1932, in Paterson, N.J., to Phillip and Ruth (Nee DeYoung) Meye. She married the love of her life, Maurice Ellis, on July 11, 1953.…
HUNDREDS PACK BASSETT HALL EMTS SALUTE BEST OF BEST Everyone who was anyone in the world of Otsego County EMTs – hundreds of them, past and present – gathered at Bassett Hall in Cooperstown for four hours this afternoon and evening to celebrate Fred Lemister, primer inter pares in the local EMS world, who recently stepped down after 48 years of service to Cooperstown’s emergency squad, where he responded to 9,600 ambulance calls. Even more significant, a top-notch instructor, he…
