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AIMEE SWAN BACK ON HELM Clark Oliver Resigns As Democratic Chair By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – After six months, Clark Oliver has resigned as chairman of the county Democratic Committee, and his predecessor, Aimee Swan, resumes the post. A few minutes ago, Oliver said he plans to seek a master’s degree in Public Administration this fall as SUNY Albany’s Rockefeller School, with a concentration on policy analysis.…
ALBERT COLONE RECOUNTS FAMILY’S STORY COVID? It Could Have Been Worse Editor’s Note: The COVID-19 pandemic has Albert Colone, founding president of the former National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, musing about the immigrant experience, when times were REALLY tough. This is the first of two columns on the immigrant experience of his grandparents, Frank and Lucia (Valentini) Colone. COVID-19, which hit America hard starting in early 2020, turned our worlds upside down. I haven’t been able to hug…
HARTWICK ALUM FUNDS NURSE DEGREES Then, He Painted Springbrook; Today, He’s Benefactor If we cement relationships by giving, not getting, Bob Spadaccia’s relationship with Springbrook began in the 1960s when, then a Hartwick College freshman, he and two other new Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity brothers painted at the Upstate Home for Children three Saturdays in a row. A couple of years later, while still at Hartwick, a deer jumped in front of his car. “Any chance I can give it…
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Wallers’ Granddaughter Kira Joins National Soccer Team COOPERSTOWN – United States Soccer has announced yesterday that Kira Waller, granddaughter of former Mayor Carol Bateman Waller and her husband Bill, has been selected as a member of the Woman’s Under 16 National Soccer Team. This puts Kira, daughter of Cooperstown High School graduate and soccer player Scott Waller, on the road to her participation in U.S. Woman’s National Soccer.…
Retired Teachers Celebrate On Ginger Heitz’s Birthday Retired teachers and friends of Ginger Heitz, herself a retired Cooperstown Central elementary school teacher, surprised her yesterday at her Fly Creek Valley home with honking horns, birthday songs, banners and a blow up birthday cake in her yard. Husband Tom Heitz and daughter Kelly with her husband Peter and daughter Ava were there to celebrate with her. (Judy Steiner-Grim photos)…
For Whom The Bell Tolls Chris Gustafson, top, counts the chimes as Rev. Mark Montfort rings the church bell at First Presbyterian Church in Oneonta this morning. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of Brenda L. Utter, Morris, who was the first COVID related death in Otsego County. In the year since Utter’s passing, 55 residents have died from COVID-19, and this morning members of the congregation took turns ringing the bell in memory of those lost. “This…
INSIGHT ON 2021 CAMPAIGNS Lapin Leaving County Board, But Plans 2025 Bid For Oneonta Mayor Meanwhile, OCCA Planner Founds Blog On Opportunities For Region By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When Danny Lapin ran for the county Board of Representatives in 2017, “My wife was very supportive.” Lapin, a newcomer to the City of Oneonta, excelled in door-to-door campaigning, and that fall the untested young Democrat, then 28, pulled off what many considered an upset against Len…
AT 3 MILE POINT, ICE-MAKER Wind, Warm Weather Open Up Otsego Lake This week’s wind and temperatures in the low 60s broke up the ice block on Otsego Lake Tuesday, and Wednesday – with the lake open but the coves still iced up – folks, inset, headed down to Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park to take in the Sleeping Lion, considered by some to be among the most famous views in the world. This afternoon, high winds pushed the remaining ice onto…
