Playwright (And Renaissance Man) Tom Morgan Taking Play On Road By LIBBY CUDMORE Tom Morgan, the former Oneonta financial adviser known for his one-man “Tales of the Empire” plays, has now turned an argument into art. In 2012, he and wife Erna Morgan McReynolds witnessed what Morgan described as “an obsessive amount of parental control.” “I began to wonder, ‘What would happen down the road’?” he said. “It served as a catalyst.” He began writing, and what came out was his…
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Hollywood Agent Signing Up Stars By LIBBY CUDMORE Loren Harriet is in the business of making dreams come true. The concert promoter and producer was working in the studio with former Yankees center fielder and jazz musician Bernie Williams when an engineer asked what his greatest moment was. “I think he thought he was going to talk about the World Series,” he said. But instead, Williams talked about getting to Yankee Stadium to practice early one day in 1999. There…
Hartwick To Wall Street, Back To Otsego County By JIM KEVLIN When Bob Hanft was a Hartwick College senior in 1968-69, he met a fetching freshman, his future wife Patricia. A memorable courtship followed, much of it in Cooperstown: Friday excursions to “The Pit,” the Tunnicliff Inn’s basement hot-spot, sunny weekend trips to Glimmerglass State Park, the spring formal of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Bob’s fraternity, at The Otesaga. “We loved Upstate New York,” he recalled the other day. By 2006,…
County Or Not, Ec-Dev Will Advance, He Says By JIM KEVLIN Lack of participation by Otsego County’s government won’t slow the “single point of contact” effort to bring business and jobs here. That’s the message that Bob Hanft, Pierstown, elected chairman of the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Wednesday, June 25, delivered during an Independence Day interview. “It’s not going to affect us,” Hanft, former chair of the Hartwick College Board of Trustees and a retired Wall Street banker,…
Long Extinguished Neon Sign To Shine Again By JIM KEVLIN The Tepee has long been a beacon of novelty for Route 20 travelers from Boston to Newport, Ore., and points in between. It’s about to get moreso. Sister/proprietors Donna and Dale Latella, who have operated the landmark since 2000, plan to relight “The TEPEE,” a red neon sign they estimate has been dark for 30 years, during a reception 7:30-9 p.m. Saturday, July 12. (RSVP on Facebook or at 264-3987.)…
This Summer, 75 Sandwiches Made Daily For Hungry Kids By LIBBY CUDMORE It doesn’t matter if you’re from Oneonta or elsewhere, if your family is rich or poor, if you’re seven or 17 – if a kid is hungry, Catholic Charities and the First United Presbyterian Church will have lunch ready. “We realized there was no summer feeding program in Oneonta,” said Nadine Stenson, one of the program’s coordinators at the “Red Door” church. “There’s been a huge need for food…
This Band KNOWS: Music the Best Medicine One day a week, Dr. Jessica Carlson gets to trade in her surgical scrubs for rhinestone-studded leggings and spike heels. No, she’s not going to a fancy party or the hottest nightclub – she’s going to rock. Carlson, a fourth-year resident in surgery, is the lead singer of Gradient, a rock ’n’ roll cover band made up of rockin’ docs from Bassett Hospital. “Music is the best medicine,” said Robbie Graham, bassist and addiction…
75-Mile Bike Ride In Works For 75th Induction Birthday By LIBBY CUDMORE There are plenty of ways to celebrate the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary Induction – concerts, games and new exhibits and old memories. But for county Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, a bike trip is the perfect way to celebrate. “The Hall of Fame wanted a year-long celebration of community involvement,” she said. “Downtown Oneonta has started to become a popular destination for mountain biking, and the ball…
Two Librarians Cull Chaos into Order By LIBBY CUDMORE You can take the librarian out of the library, but you can’t take the library out of the librarian. When Ely Roll arrived at the Plains at Parish Homestead from Long Island in 2010, she found the library in disarray. “There were books piled on tables and nothing was alphabetized,” she said. “It was frustrating.” Roll had spent her life volunteering in school and public libraries, and this simply would not…
Attention: OHS Pool Needs Help! By LIBBY CUDMORE DA-duh … DA-duh … DA-duh-DA-duh-DA-du-DA-duh. Beneath the placid surface of the OHS swimming pool lies something sinister. “All the mechanical systems are in tough shape,” said David Rowley, former interim school superintendent. “The vents, the filter, the pumps, the main drain line, the piping system and the timer for swim meets.” The pool, which was built for the 1979-80 school year, used to be part of the phys-ed curriculum and site of…
