The Hill City Rollers Skate Against Hate
The Hill City Rollers
Skate Against Hate
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO: Tour Country Landscapes & Gardens 07-12-20
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, JULY 12
Tour Country Landscapes & Gardens
LANDSCAPE & GARDENS – 1 – 4 p.m. Fun self-guided tour around scenic Bovina-Andes-Roscoe area to view how others have beautified the landscape through their gardens. Cost, $23 day-of to support West Kortright Center. Visit westkc.org/eventbrite-event/2020-landscape-garden-tour/
Drive-In Hosting Second Concert; This Time, Blake Shelton
Drive-In Hosts 2nd Concert;
This Time, It’s Blake Shelton
UNADILLA – With the sold-out Garth Brooks drive-in concert a success, the Unadilla Drive-In will again be the hottest music venue in the county as they present Encore’s exclusive Blake Shelton concert on Saturday, July 25.
The family-friendly concert is a drive-in exclusive, and will also include special guests Gwen Stefani and Trace Adkins.
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO: Roll Out With Hill City Rollers 07-11-20
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JULY 11
Roll Out With Hill City Rollers
ROLLOUT DAY – 10 a.m. Join the Hill City Rollers for fun rolling event to show stance against hate. Worldwide event welcomes all kinds of wheels. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Visit www.facebook.com/hillcityrollers/ for info.
SQSPCA Needs Volunteers To Play With Kittens
SQSPCA Needs Volunteers
To Help Socialize Kittens
COOPERSTOWN – It’s a tough job, but someone has to help these kittens learn to cuddle.
“We currently have 28 feral or unsocialized kittens on-site, with more arriving daily,” said Stacie Haynes, Executive Director. “Our new ‘Feral to Friendly’ program is designed to give volunteers the opportunity to meet and help socialize these kittens, and also to lighten the load for staff as the shelter enters its busiest season.”
One Report, One Recovery Keeps COVID-19 Stable At 3
One Report, One Recovery
Keeps COVID-19 Stable At 3
COOPERSTOWN – A new case of coronavirus has surfaced since the last report by the county Department of Health on July 6, and there has also been one recovery, maintaining the number of active cases in Otsego County at three.
That brings the total confirmed cases to 81, and the total recoveries to 73. There were five deaths locally.
Other data released today included:
Village Hoists Banner Encouraging Wearing Masks, Social Distancing
Village Hoists Banner Encouraging
Wearing Masks, Social Distancing
Leroy Charles Klein, 78; Oneonta Native Was Retired Contractor
IN MEMORIAM: Leroy Charles Klein, 78;
Oneonta Native Was Retired Contractor
ONEONTA – Oneonta native Leroy Charles Klein, 78, of Keystone Heights, Fla., passed away Sunday, July 5, 2020, from injuries he sustained in a tractor accident.
He was born May 31, 1942, in Oneonta, to Edward and Doris (Earing) Klein. Mr. Klein served in the Navy and was a retired contractor. He was Episcopalian and loved staying busy doing odds and ends.
In addition to his father his son Wayne Klein and brothers Philip Klein and Paul Klein had also preceded him death. Mr. Klein leaves behind is daughters Shawn McClure (Robert) of Boynton Beach, Fla., and Jannell Davisson of West Columbia, S.C.
ON A MISSION From Mary
Reprinted From This Week’s
Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal
ONEONTAN INSPIRED
ON A MISSION
From Mary
Inspired by a 2017 visit to the shrine at Lourdes, France, a devout Jim Belleau of Oneonta prayerfully offered to organize seminars to explore the meaning of the Virgin Mary’s 18 appearances in 1858 to a 14-year-old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, “unless you have somethng better for me.” Belleau believes that “something better” is coming to pass.
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – “It was an amazing moment.”
It was October 2017, and Jim Belleau was in his third or fourth night of his second visit to Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine in France.
“We witnessed this procession,” the Principally Prints owner recalled the other day. “It was a warm night. The moon was out. And, for an hour, I had just witnessed 12,000 people singing the Rosary and holding candles.”
He had attended a mass, in Italian, at the Grotto, and was walking back to the hotel, crossing the 124-acre main square – it can accommodate up to 100,000 visitors; now it was completely empty – with the cathedral-like chapel behind him.
“I turned toward Mary,” he said, a famed statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, crowned, “and I got down on one knee. And I placed the rest of my life at her service. I said literally that.”
Oneonta Mayor: Bars Beware Or Be Closed
Reprinted From This Week’s
Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal
Question: Can Students Safely Return?
Mayor Herzig:
Bars Beware
Or Be Closed
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig has a message if returning Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta students go out on the town – follow the rules, or the fun stops.
“We will enforce the state regulations,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “If you’re not at a table, you need to have your mask on. You can’t be elbow-to-elbow at the bar. We will send the police, code enforcement or the state Liquor Authority in to respond to complaints.”
As the colleges announced reopening plans for this fall, Herzig plans to meet with the two college presidents, Hartwick’s Margaret Drugovich and SUNY Oneonta’s Barbara Jean Morris, to lay out the city’s new approach.
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO: Trivia Game On Birds Anthropology, And More 07-10-20
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, JULY 10
Trivia Game On Birds
Anthropology, And More
SCIENCE TRIVIA – 7 – 9 p.m. Test your knowledge of birds, anthropology, more with your friends or play solo with the A. J. Read Science Discovery Center. Registration required. Visit www.facebook.com/AJReadSDC/ for info.
City, Chamber: Come Get Your PPE!
City, Chamber:
Come Get Your PPE!
Police: Man Falsely Accused Man Of Having Handgun
Told Officers ‘Shoot Out’ Imminent; No Weapons Found
Police: Man Falsely Accused
Man Of Brandishing Handgun
ONEONTA – An Oneonta man was arrested after he allegedly made a series of calls to the Oneonta Police Department, falsely accusing neighbors of being “involved in a drug deal” and brandishing a handgun.
According to Police Chief Doug Brenner, Thomas E. Harker, 64, Oneonta, allegedly called the Oneonta Police department yesterday afternoon, first to report an alleged drug deal, then made a second call, where he allegedly told police he witnessed one of the two men pull out a handgun.
“He told officers there was going to be ‘a shoot-out’,” said Brenner.
Truck Driver Falls Asleep, Spills Milk All Over I-88
Truck Driver Falls Asleep,
Spills Milk All Over I-88
OTEGO – A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel on I-88 and crashed a truck filled with milk and other dairy products all over the roadway in Otego earlier this morning, according to a press release from state troopers, Troop C.
Andrew A. Lloyd, 26, Porter Cors, allegedly told told troopers that he fell asleep and drifted on the roadway, rolling his vehicle. No injuries were reported, but I-88 was closed until just after non., with traffic diverted off at Exit 12 into Unadilla.
Joseph R. McCullion, 77; Cooperstown Man Decorated Vietnam Vet AAA
COOPERSTOWN – Joseph Raymond McCullion, 77, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, passed away on June 30, 2020.
He was born May 28, 1943 in Tampa, Fla.
Joseph was a kind, loving, compassionate man. He loved his New York sports teams – the Yankees, Rangers and Giants. He was a lifelong fan of all three.