Biggest Ambulance Company Acquires Locally Based CMT By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – Owners Margaret McGown and Mark Zeek announced the sale of Cooperstown Medical Transport to AMR (American Medical Response), which employs 28,000 emergency medical personnel in 40 states and Washington, D.C. An asset- purchase agreement was signed Tuesday, Jan. 8, and the sale is expected to be complete by the end of March, pending final approval by the Susquehanna Regional EMS Council, covering Chenango County, and the Adirondack/Appalachian EMS…
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PEOPLE NEWS COOPERSTOWN Baby Boy From Walton First 2019 Bassett Birth Austin James Robinson is the first baby born in 2019 at the Bassett Birthing Center in Cooperstown. Austin arrived at 3:01 a.m. New Year’s Day to his mother and father, Destiny Grant and Adam Robinson of Walton, Austin weighs 6 lbs.,13 oz,, and is 19¾ inches long. Destiny noted that Austin’s birthday is exactly 30 days before her own birthday. 2018 was another record setting year with 1,081 babies…
Bonnie Canning Hofmann, 64; Brookwood School Pioneer COOPERSTOWN – Bonnie Canning Hofmann, 64, formerly of Cooperstown, a Brookwood School founding board member, passed away on Dec. 25, 2018, at her home in Hawaii after a long illness. Bonnie was born on July 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, where she grew up. She attended the University of Stony Brook and SUNY Plattsburgh, where she received her nursing degree. She loved her community and dedicated much of her time to the preservation of…
Rodman D. Carter, M.D., 90; Longtime Bassett Hospital Urologist COOPERSTOWN – Rodman Dana Carter, M.D., a long-time surgeon at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital whose career in urology spanned over 40 years, passed away following a valiant battle with cancer Friday afternoon, Dec. 28, 2018, at his home in Cooperstown with his family by his side. He was 90. Born April 6, 1928, in Ashtabula, Ohio, he was a son of the Rev. Edwin R. Carter, a minister in the Congregational…
Basketball, Play, Movie, Or Burn Christmas Tree Ring in the New Year in a high-octane way as Oneonta’s own professional basketball team, the Oneonta Octane, takes on the Syracuse Nationals in their first home game of the year. 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, Chase Gym, SUNY Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0001. • Say goodbye to that old Christmas tree and enjoy a delicious drink with Brewery Ommegang’s Snap Crackle Hop! Throw your tree on the pyre, then enjoy a beer or…
Local Women Plan Bus To D.C. March By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA This year, Butternuts Valley Indivisible won’t just be marching in the third annual Women’s March for Women Jan. 19 in Washington, D.C. They’ll be marching for everyone, said Amy Pondolfino, who is organizing the local contingent. “We’ve got children in America who spent Christmas in cages and abusive camps along our border,” said Pondolfino. “We have the March For Our Lives and #MeToo. “The Women’s March is one of…
ISD’S ROXANA HULBURT STEPS UP With Foothills Fortunes Rising, New President At Board’s Helm By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA In 2017, 18,983 fans walked through Foothills’ doors. In 2018, that rose to 28,128, just shy of a 50-percent increase.In 2017, Foothills Performing Arts Center hosted 271 events. In the year just ended, that rose to 321, an 18 percent increase. “There’s something for everyone,” Roxana Hurlburt explains cheerfully. The vice president of ISD, the tech consulting firm, Hurlburt became president of the…
CAPTIVATED by CAMERAS Collector Lives On In Collection, Remains Of ‘Thousands’ Of Items Paulette Cotter pauses among hundreds of cameras in her Town of Milford home, part of her late husband’s collection. She estimates Alan, who collected and traded toys, cavern memorabilia and other antiques, bought and sold “thousands” of cameras over 45 years. Above is a stereopticon slide of the young couple. By JIM…
Column by Adrian kuzminski for Jan. 3, 2019 ‘Populism’ Isn’t A Dirty Word,It’s As American As Apple Pie BY Adrian Kuzminski Our columnist was prescient: Adrian Kuzminski’s 2008 study of populism, “Fixing the System,” foreshadowed Bernie Sanders’ and Donald Trump’s populism by eight years. Since 2016, we’ve had an explosion of political upheavals around the world – all widely described as populist: the Brexit vote in Britain, Trump’s election, and the rise of separatist and nationalist parties in Europe and…
BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 200 YEARS AGO Lost at the last annual cattle show and fair at Cooperstown, a Pocket Book, containing eight dollars in bills; one note of hand against Sylvanus Campbell for eight dollars and fifty cents, dated about two years ago; three notes against E. Cumpston, at Schoharie, of different dates; and two receipts against William Scott, of Oxford. Whoever will return…
