Don Howard Meet Attracts 16 Schools From As Far As Tully Cooperstown Hawkeye Isaiah Johnson clears the bar easily at the pole vault event just wrapping up now at the Linden Avenue campus. Teams from 12 schools, as far away at Tully and Cazenovia, were attracted to today’s Don Howard Invitational, a regional highlight of the track and field season. Inset, Oneonta’s Maddy Hanson elicited oohs and aahs with this long jump. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)…
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COOPERSTOWN TRADITION UNDERWAY 7th Graders Swirl Around Dance Floor At 61st Cotillion Ben Agostino escorts Tori France into The Otesaga’s grand ballroom this evening as the 61st annual Cooperstown Cotillion got underway. The annual May tradition follows six weeks of ballroom dancing, where Cooperstown Central seventh-graders learn steps that will serve them well throughout their lives to come. At right, Gina Geertgens leans on the arm of Henry Horvath, as he leads her on the promenade through the hotel’s lobby…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Teamwork: A Way Of Life Tim Mead’s Now Bringing Here L.A. Angels Communications/VP To Succeed Idelson After Induction By JIM KEVLIN • www.AllOTSEGO.com Exclusive COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead, who will become the seventh president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame following this year’s Induction on July 21, has been a team player in the front office at the Los Angeles Angels for four decades. But for the Angels’ vice president/communications, team playing didn’t start there. When young…
JOSEPH YELICH RETIRES JULY 1 Injury Breaking Up Water Street Brawl Led To New Career Hard Work, Hartwick Teaching Degree Set Brindley On Road To Superintendent By LIBBY CUDMORE • AllOTSEGO.com Exclusive ONEONTA – Could Thomas Brindley, who will become the new superintendent of Oneonta City Schools on July 1 when Joseph Yelich retires, have been a police chief by now? “I was an Oneonta police officer for seven years,” the assistant superintendent and former Oneonta High School principal said in…
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Brindley Succeeds Yelich In Top Post At Oneonta Schools New Superintendent Former Policeman, 1st To Rise From Teacher To Front Office ONEONTA – The Oneonta City school board has accepted the retirement of Joseph Yelich as superintendent and appointed his assistant superintendent, Thomas Brindley, to succeed him, effective July 1. Yelich has served as superintendent since July 1, 2013, after serving as superintendent of the Waverly School District and executive principal in the Jamestown School District. Before his current post,…
OTSEGO CHAMBER GALA 200 Pack Atrium, Praising Pathfinder Village, Grummons…
2 SUNY Oneonta Alumni To Speak At Graduations Experts In Climate Change, Refugees; Also, 8 Professors, 4 Students Honored ONEONTA – In a new approach this year, two alumni, one an advocate for refugees, the other, a climate-change researcher, will be SUNY Oneonta’s commencement speakers at three ceremonies Saturday, May 11, in the Dewar Arena. • Crystal L. Williams, ’77, is a lawyer focused on helping refugees and asylum seekers, litigating employment-based immigration law cases, and helping to shape federal…
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SSPCA Benefactor Offers $250K Match For New Donations Public Share Would Put $2 Million ‘Shelter Us’ Target Within Reach Susquehanna SPCA benefactor and Staffworks President Anita Vitullo, Clinton, above center, poses with SSPCA board members after announcing a few minutes ago that, dollar-for-dollar, she will match forthcoming donations to the “Shelter Us” fund drive up to $250,000. If fully realized, Vitullo’s contribution will bring the $2 million drive to build a new animal shelter to $1.75 million, only $250,000 short…
