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Over Lifetime, Growing Forest Brought Conservationist Home

IN APPRECIATION • HENRY S. KERNAN Over Lifetime, Growing Forest Brought Conservationist Home Editor’s Note: This appreciation of Henry S. Kernan, 2008 OCCA Conservationist of the Year and author of “The Gifts of a Forest,” was prepared by his grandson. Friends are invited to visit the family 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at 457 County Highway 40, South Worcester.  In recent years, Mr. Kernan resided at Woodside Hall, Cooperstown. By TED KERNAN SOUTH WORCESTER – To Henry Sherrill Kernan, a…
September 27, 2016

Barown Named Village Manager

Barown Named Village Manager COOPERSTOWN – Teri Barown, Cooperstown village clerk since 2005, has been appointed village administrator, the first person to fill that position in two decades. COMPLETE DETAILS IN THIS WEEK’S JOURNAL The Village Board made the decision Monday evening, which – given the city manager vacancy in Oneonta City Hall – makes her the sole professional municipal manager in Otsego County.…
September 27, 2016

Emma B. Parsons, 91; Riveter At G.E. On WWII Homefront

IN MEMORIAN:  Emma B. Parsons, 91; Riveter At G.E. On WWII Homefront ONEONTA – Emma Loretta Boschetti Parsons, who worked at the Oneonta Dress Factory for 20 years as she raised five children, passed away peacefully Sept. 25, 2016 at Bassett Hospital surrounded by her loving family. Emma was born in Woodlawn, Pa., on March 31, 1925, to parents Joseph and Esther (Lubatti) Boschetti. After graduating from high school in 1943, Emma joined the World War II effort by working as a…
September 26, 2016

Orrin D. Higgins, 76; Served County, State, Community

IN MEMORIAM •  Full Obituary  Orrin D. Higgins, 76; Served County, State, Community  HARTWICK – Orrin Dixon Higgins, 76, a former state trooper, undersheriff for the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department and longtime Hartwick town justice, passed away Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2016, at his home in Hartwick with his family by his side. He was born June 8, 1940, in Hunter, a son of  Leland and Mildred (Nicholls) Higgins. After graduating from high school, he attended SUNY Oneonta with the…
September 25, 2016

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

Visit our “subscribe” page and select your charity of choice at checkout