Ford Block plans proceed as Springbrook closes sale Springbrook’s long-term plan to convert space in Oneonta’s downtown to market-rate housing took a big step forward last week when the nonprofit finalized the purchase of the Ford Block buildings from 186 to 212 Main Street. The nonprofit provider of supports and services to people with developmental disabilities will begin renovations on the space in July. The $8.9 million project will keep existing retail space on the lower floors while the upper…
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Cooperstown Summer Music Festival returns for 24th season Internationally-famed artists perform throughout August The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival returns this year in full force with a series of five concerts in August that span musical and creative diversity, energy, and spirit and featuring performances from ensembles known around the world for their virtuoso artistic prowess. In a conversation with The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta, Festival founder and Artistic Director Linda Chesis spoke with excitement about the festival’s return for…
Springfield ‘Fourth’ parade a big hit…
Thomas Jefferson: Written in Stone Editorial The worst of the pandemic, perhaps, in the rear view; a nation tired and shaken looks for a way to celebrate its birthday in public for the first time in two years. We spent the morning in Springfield Center, delighted and refreshed as the crowd grew in happy anticipation of the return of the Town’s rightfully heralded Fourth of July Parade. A joy to behold, a joy to talk with the participants as they…
Ted has some questions Commentary by Ted Potrikus The Goodyear Lake Dam How many of you, when you’re driving past the Goodyear Lake dam on Route 28, want to push those dead trees right over the edge? How long have they been there? How long will they stay? Doubleday Field of Dreams Major League Baseball and, I presume, its media partners, sunk a boatload of cash into redeveloping an Iowa cornfield to build from scratch a fictional baseball field from…
Wednesday night concert in Richfield Springs Dirt Road Express performs Wednesday, July 6, at 7 p.m, as part of the Summer Concert Series in Spring Park, Richfield Springs, sponsored by the Richfield Springs Area Chamber of Commerce. Dirt Road Express, playing a variety of music including polkas, had its beginnings 15 years ago. Currently, the band consists of: Ron Frohne on bass– Richfield Springs; Al Huntley on trombone – West Winfield; Dave Talaba on drums –Little Falls; Lynda Dudgeon on…
State Troopers on the lookout for impaired drivers The New York State Police will increase patrols to crack down on drunk and drugged driving and other traffic infractions over the Fourth of July holiday. This special enforcement period will begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 1, 2022, and run through 3 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. During this enforcement period, drivers can expect to encounter sobriety checkpoints and DWI patrols. Troopers will also be looking for motorists who…
Letters to the Editor, June 30 edition On looking for God Identity. What is in a name, a word? What is the relationship between thought, word, and object? What was a maple tree before it was called a maple tree, a cloud before it was called a cloud? What would everything be if it did not have a name, would it be? The world in front of our eyes is a neutral canvas, upon which we paint the reality of…
Editorial: Congratulations, graduates! An editorial page shout-out this week to every high school senior across Otsego County earning his, her, or their diploma. We won’t try to trip over words echoing what you heard at your respective ceremonies except to congratulate you doubly for your endurance, perseverance, and durability. High school is already the world’s longest automatic carwash – you’re pelted with punishing jetstreams of water, slapped around by those rotating sheets of chamois, doused in hot wax, rinsed off…
Cooperstown gallery exhibit reveals Otsego County during the Great Depression The third floor of The Smithy Gallery & Clay Studio doubles this summer as a time tunnel back to the era of the Great Depression with the magnificent exhibition American Ideals: Picturing Otsego County in 1937, on display through September 3 at 55 Pioneer Street in Cooperstown. It’s a project that began in 2016 when Dr. Cynthia Falk and students from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, Lynds Jones, Kim McCleary, Kimberly…
