100 CELEBRATE ‘VOICE OF ONEONTA’ Joe Campbell ‘Changed A Lot Of Hearts,’ Many Recall At Today’s Rites By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Take heart. The 100 friends and admirers at “Voice of Oneonta” Joseph Campbell’s memorial service this morning certainly did, wife Judith reminded them of one of her husband’s favorite exhortations in good times and bad: “Life is just a bowl of cherries. Everything will be OK.” That wasn’t always the case for Campbell, you…
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WRUBLESKI SAVES PATRON Mel’s, For A Good Meal – And, If Needed, Help By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Working in the kitchen at Mel’s at 22 late last week, Brian Wrubleski got the word: “Somebody’s choking.” One waitperson had already attempted the Heimlich maneuver, he was told. Walking out onto the restaurant floor, Wrubleski saw a second waitperson was performing the maneuver on a customer who, with a morsel trapped in his windpipe, had fallen out…
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2019 Crowds Growing On Main Street P.J. Carter, left, son of famed Expo and Met Gary Carter, gives his dad’s best wishes to Tommy Lasorda, famed two-decade manager of the L.A. Dodgers, who is signing autographs today on Main Street, Cooperstown. Behind Lasorda is another great, Lou Pinella, who finished up his 16-year playing career as a Yankee. Crowds are bigger than usual for a first day of Induction Weekend, said Vinnie Russo, proprietor of Mickey’s…
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Friends Of Doubleday Present Doubleday Has A Friend MANY Friends Aim To Raise $800,000 To Complete Redo By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Where some people saw scraps, Jeff Katz and Quinton Hasak saw a fundraising opportunity. “When the demolition of the third-base bleachers started, the question arose about what we were going to do with them,” said former mayor Jeff Katz, now president of the Friends of Doubleday. “They’re not the original bleachers, but they’re still…
