Unadilla Drive-In Opening For New, Classic Films By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com UNADILLA – If you’ve never seen the classics on the big screen, this year, you might get your chance. “There aren’t any movies being released this summer,” said Spencer Wilson, who manages his family’s Unadilla Drive-In. “But there are tons of options for screening older and classic movies.” Under Phase One of un-PAUSE, drive-in theaters can open, and Wilson will open The Unadilla on Friday, May…
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Destination Marketing: Promote Great Outdoors By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – DMCOC is looking at the doughnut, not the hole. And the doughnut, for now, is the great outdoors, says Cassandra Harrington, executive director of the Destination Marketing Corp. of Otsego County. In an interview Friday, May 15, Harrington said DMCOC, which contracts with Otsego County to put “heads in beds” to generate occupancy tax, had met with her board of directors the day before and it…
COLUMN Worst Place To Live? Oneonta Family Enjoys It! The following May we moved to Red Lake Falls. Our family – me; Briana; Jack; Charles; Tiber, our 70-pound beagle-basset mix; and Ivy, our 12-year-old cat – arrived on a Sunday. The closing on the house was scheduled for the following day, but the previous owners, the Kleins, told us they’d leave the door open and…
In 1st Month, 230 Give Foundation $175K COOPERSTOWN – The one-month old Community Foundation for Otsego County has raised $175,000 in donations in its first four weeks of operation from 230 individuals so far. In the last 10 days, the foundation’s COVID-19 Fund has also made five awards, and now has a total of 17 in review or completed. Completed awards include: • HELIOS CARE – $5,000 to buy PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) for staff to visit patient homes. •…
Letter From ANDREW STAMMEL Let’s Revisit One Oneonta To the Editor: As we enter Phase One of the easing of COVID-related public health restrictions, it is important to reflect on where we are, but also where we came from and where we are going. We are poised to surpass the sobering milestone of 100,000 dead Americans this Memorial Weekend, after just two short months of viral spread. NY’s “PAUSE” went into effect as the rate of infection and death was…
Honor The Fallen, Color Works of Art, Or Ride Your Bike Though they are intended to be private, Veterans Clubs around the county will still honor the fallen on Monday, May 25, while enforcing social distancing. • In Oneonta, the local chapter of the American Legion and the Boy Scouts will lay wreaths on the monuments on the Veterans Memorial Walkway, as well as play “Taps” and give a three-round volley at 11 a.m. in Neahwa Park, Oneonta. • In…
EDITORIAL Every Business Should Build On DMCOC’s Smart Marketing It’s been hard to approximate layoffs. Business owners don’t want to announce them, and the monthly figures seem so theoretical. Bassett Healthcare Network, people figure – and have heard anecdotally from time to time – has certainly furloughed and cut back hours after closing two floors and halting elective surgeries while coronavirus was considered a pending local emergency. But it doesn’t want to brag about it either. So the county Board…
$5M Redo of Doubleday In Time For Anniversary By JIM KEVLIN• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “Personally, for me, The Sandlot Kid, in a place of prominence,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch when asked about the most meaningful part of the $5-million-plus redevelopment of Doubleday Field. “He’s so special.” Victor Salvatore’s bronze sculpture of a barefoot farm boy with a bat on his shoulder was installed in 1939, when the Doubleday Field grandstand was completed. “One of the true icons of…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 21-May 22, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Destination Marketing: Promote Outdoors WWII Veterans Tell Their Tales Integris Executive To Head Bassett In 1st Month, 230 Give Foundation $175K AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 $5M Redo of Doubleday In Time For Anniversary Drive-In Opening For New, Classic Films Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIALS Build On DMCOC’s Smart Marketing City Folks Will Flee Upstate When This is Over COLUMNS INGRAM: Worst Place…
BOUND VOLUMES May 21, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Shocking Accident – The Norwich Agriculturalist states that two men, by the names of Wood and Edwards, were burnt to death on Thursday last in the Town of Pittsfield, Otsego County. They had been engaged in firing some fallow land and retired much-fatigued to a small shingle house, where it is supposed they fell asleep. The wind, blowing fresh, communicated fire to the shavings about the shingle house, and before it was…
