2 NEW YEAR’S DAY CEREMONIES Assemblyman Swears Fealty To Constituents – And Bride COBLESKILL – New Year’s Day, newly elected Assemblyman Chris Tague will be making two vows. At 5 p.m., he will take the oath to uphold the laws of New York State in representing the 102nd Assembly District, which includes the towns of Cherry Valley, Roseboom, Decatur and Worcester in Otsego County. He will then take the marriage vows, signaling the beginning of wedded bliss between Tague and…
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Seward Appointed Top Republican On Finance Committee Newly In Minority, Senator Vows He’ll Fight For Upstate By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Otsego County’s state senator, Jim Seward, R-Milford, today announced he has been named ranking Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee by the Republican leader, John Flanagan. With Seward on the committee, “Our budget priorities will be widely known and well-articulated, and we will stand up for taxpayers at every turn,” Flanagan said in announcing…
On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Discusses Penny Marshall In Cooperstown In this week’s “Morning Headlines” on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reports how the development of the 1988 “Women in Baseball” exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown led Penny Marshall, who died Monday, to create the hit movie, “A League of Their Own.” CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO WAMC REPORT…
BE WARY THOUGH FRIDAY Rain Starts; Otsego Under Flood Watch With a major storm moving up the East Coast, Otsego County and much of Central New York will be under a flood watch from 1 a.m. Friday morning until late tomorrow night. The National Weather Service is predicting widespread rainfall of 1 to 2 inches, with some localities experiencing up to 3 inches. The wet soil conditions and this amount of rainfall could result in minor flooding along the Susquehanna…
BAPTISTS HOST ECUMENICAL EVENT Buddhist Monk Joins ‘Longest Night’ Service…
IN MEMORIAM: Harold L. Beecher, 75; Air Force Veteran Was Bendix Retiree RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Harold Leslie, Beecher, 75, of Sylvan Street, a machinist who retired in 1994 after a long career at Bendix, Utica, passed away peacefully on Thursday December 13, 2018 in his home surrounded by his loving family. Harold was born on Nov. 30, 1943 in Cooperstown, a son to the late Leslie and Marion Brownell Beecher. He was raised and educated in Richfield Springs, graduating from Richfield Springs…
DAR Regent In County For Holiday Luncheon…
Film Society Lives, Relaunched With ‘All The President’s Men’ COOPERSTOWN – The Film Society of Cooperstown returns to the Village Hall’s ballroom, 22 Main St., with “All the President’s Men” at 7 p.m. Jan. 16. Supported by the Friends of the Village Library, this season’s schedule was curated by Bill Francis, researcher and writer at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and Jeff Katz, former Mayor of Cooperstown and author.…
IN MEMORIAM: Letha Hulbert, 95; Worked At Hartwick, Greater Plains ONEONTA – Letha M. Hulbert, 95, who worked in Hartwick College’s and Greater Plains Elementary School’s dietary departments, passed away Dec. 19, 2018, at Fox Hospital. She was born March 29, 1923, in Beerston, near Walton, the daughter of Jesse and Anna (Pearsall) Beers.…
IN MEMORIAM: Arthur Wannamaker,91; WWII Veteran Moved To County In 1950s CHERRY VALLEY – Arthur Adam Wannamaker, a World War II veteran who moved from Long Island to Cherry Valley in the 1950s, died Dec. 13, 2018. He was 91. Born March 28, 1927, in Springfield, Long Island, to Charles Wannamaker and Wilhelmina H. Shriefer. He grew up in Brooklyn, and at the Wartburg Orphans Farm School in Mount Vernon.…
