Place resigns as Milford superintendent STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Milford Central School will be looking for a new superintendent after the school’s Board of Education and Superintendent Mark Place came to a “mutual agreement” to part ways, according to statements from Place and Milford BOE President Marion Mossman that were posted Thursday, June 10, on the school’s website. “This evening, the Milford Central School Board of Education and I reached an amicable separation agreement which will be effective…
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Cooperstown mourns community servant, Kuhn By PATRICK DEWEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Cooperstown community found itself forced to consider life without Santa Claus when Paul Kuhn died Wednesday, June 2, at the age of 83. Kuhn was perhaps best known as Cooperstown’s Santa Claus, a post that he held with joy and authenticity for 20 years. According to Molly Myers, a Main Street Christmas helper from a young age, Kuhn’s listening skills and genuine care for people were a…
AllOtsego people Father-son climbing duo to take on Denali By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Father and son climbing team of Tim and Henry Horvath are on the go again, trying to conquer Denali Mountain in Alaska during June. The father-son team left for Alaska on Monday, June 7. “It was kind of my idea,” said Henry, 16, who just completed his sophomore year at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. “Kind of? I’ve done this before. I didn’t need…
Wayne Bank announces new hire, promotion at Bank of Cooperstown STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Honesdale, Pennsylvania – Lewis J. Critelli, president and chief executive officer of Wayne Bank, announced the addition of Paul Catan to its commercial lending team in Oneonta, in a media release Wednesday June 9. Catan, vice president of commercial lending, will be working with local businesses to meet their borrowing needs. He has more than 20 years of lending experience. “I am pleased to…
Former Congressman, Gibson, to receive scout award STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Chris Gibson, a three-term Congressman from New York’s 19th District, retired Army colonel and president of Siena College, will be honored by the Twin Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America during its Columbia County Good Scout Award Dinner on Thursday, June 17, according to a media release. Gibson is a Kinderhook resident who grew up in Columbia County, graduated from Ichabod Crane High School and…
Art Garage to feature pop-up show ‘Nancy Waller: A Lifetime of Art’ A new show at The Art Garage will feature the work of late Roseboom artist Nancy Waller, who died in 2017 at 98. According to a media release, “Waller ‘s work has been in the back of a closet too long and has recently been re-discovered by her family. Nancy painted as the family camped at Cape Breton Island, out West, in Maine, in the French Alps and…
Milford graduate helping with pandemic relief in Nepal By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Although COVID is starting to fade in Otsego County with towns such as Cooperstown and Oneonta lifting mask restrictions, the same cannot be said for many countries such as Nepal. Zak Aldridge, who was born in Cooperstown, went to Milford Central School and considers himself an “honorary Oneontan,” said he didn’t intend to stay in Nepal for more than a year, but COVID-19 changed his…
Late Corp. Michael Mayne from Burlington Flats honored with Veterans’ Hall of Fame induction STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BURLINGTON FLATS — After a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, late Corp. Michael Mayne of Burlington Flats was honored as an inductee to a veterans hall of fame. State Sen. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, joined former Sen. James L. Seward to pay tribute Monday, May 31, to the late Corp. Michael Mayne of Burlington Flats, the 2020 inductee to…
In Tribute Sovocool’s spirit shined on the roads of life Editor’s Note: In honor of Richfield Springs marathoner John Sovocool, who died Thursday, May 20, some of his friends collected their thoughts. This is not John Sovocool’s obituary. And while it will chronicle some of this Renaissance Man’s myriad accomplishments along the journey from his boyhood farm in Leroy to Cornell University, followed by 15 years in the U.S. Air Force, and, after a stint with the U.S. Department of…
Life Sketches Pen pal letters brought good news from France For several years my friend Charlie ran an international pen pal business that he had inherited from his father. When I expressed some interest in the many countries people were writing from Charlie asked if I’d like a free subscription for my daughter and I accepted. “You pick out the country and the pen pal,” Charlie said. I’ve always been a Francophile so I chose France and a girl named…
