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One of the many joys of visiting Cooperstown, New York, is touring the Baseball Hall of Fame. I first visited this temple of sports heroes as a young boy in the mid-1960s.…
The student volunteers who are members of the SUNY Oneonta “Into the Streets” program assisted Cooperstown Friends of the Parks on Saturday, April 25 at Fairy Spring Park.…
185 YEARS AGO: Steamboat Accident—The steamboat Henry Eckford, Captain Tice, was preparing to tow some Canal boats into the river at the foot of Cedar Street, New York when her boiler exploded. The deck of the vessel was completely ripped up, and the fragments thrown in every direction.…
160 YEARS AGO: A condemnation of the revealing nature of the fashionable tilting hoop skirt as observed in New York City – “The hoop skirts now worn by fashionable females are a burning shame to society, and the wearers ought to be indicted by the civil authorities for willfully and knowingly exposing their persons..."…
Hooray for the City of Oneonta Planning Commission, which unanimously approved the Rehabilitation Support Services Solstice Commons housing project earlier this month.…
The Dream has been fading as wealth inequality rises and the middle class shrinks, making it harder for families to get by, even with two incomes. The economic divide between rural and suburban and urban America is also widening.…
I greatly appreciate that you printed my Induction Day Cover in your April 9 issue. It not only covers the induction of David Ortiz on July 24, 2022, but also the earlier induction of Mariano Rivera on July 21, 2019.…
If you have never attended a live opera or musical performance at the world-renowned Alice Busch Opera Theater on State Route 80 Cooperstown, what keeps you from doing so?…
Cooperstown Concerts presented a dynamic mix of jazz/funk, country, folk, Indian, rock and roll, and classical music concerts. Season highlights included three all-new events, each reflecting the nonprofit’s commitment to making an impact in different ways.…
