Otsego County DOH to hold COVID vaccine clinic for children 5 to 11 The Otsego County Department of Health is holding a COVID vaccine clinic for children 5 to 11 at the Oneonta High School gymnasium on Thursday, November 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration is required. Go to www.otsegocounty.com/departments/d-m/health_department/covid-19_vaccination_clinics.php to register and for more information.…
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Spurbeck’s Grocery opening for regular hours tomorrow By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Spurbeck’s Grocery, a Cooperstown staple, will be open for regular hours starting tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The deli was closed due to staffing issues from early September to now. It will not be open on the weekends until they can get more staff to work, according to owner Mike Swatling. …
Glimmerglass Festival releasing opera film for free on website The Glimmerglass Festival is releasing ‘The Knock’, a 50 minute opera as a film for free on its website on Veteran’s Day, Thursday, November 11. ‘The Knock’, composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov, was originally slated for a 2020 stage production, but after the pandemic hit, they decided to create the work as a film. The one-act opera is about the wives of military men waiting for news of their husbands. The libretto,…
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Cherry Valley-Springfield’s boys’ varsity soccer wraps up at Sectional IV Class D Finals By LISA HERSHEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cherry Valley-Springfield’s boys’ varsity soccer season ended Saturday after a string of upsets took them to the Section IV Class D Finals. The team started the season with some inconsistent play which included an overtime loss to the combined team Milford/Laurens in the Tri-Valley Semifinals. Lead by Coach Jennifer Moore, Cherry Valley-Springfield rallied in sectionals, upsetting fifth-seed Margaretville 4-3 on…
Cooperstown Concert Series starts season on Saturday with Roanoke By PATRICK DEWEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Cooperstown Concert Series kicks off its 52nd season Saturday, November 6 at 8 p.m. at the Otesaga Resort Hotel with the Nashville-based band Roanoke. Led by Taylor Dupuis (vocals) and Joey Beesley (guitar, vocals), Roanoke blends Americana, rock ‘n’ roll, and a variety of other musical influences with vocal harmonies. Concert series Board President Jim Hill said Roanoke is rapidly gaining notoriety and…
Before they got to the World Series, they played at Dreams Park By CHARLIE VASCELLARO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For almost three decades, youth baseball players from all over the country have been chasing their big-league dreams all the way to Cooperstown’s Dreams Park, and this year’s 2021 Major League World Series represents the physical manifestation of those dreams coming true. More than 500 Dreams Park alumni have made it to the big leagues and seven of them are members…
Bound Volumes 210 YEARS AGO Notice — All persons indebted to the estate of William Cooper, of Cooperstown, County of Otsego, and State of New York, deceased, are requested to make payment to the subscribers; and all persons, having demands against said estate, are requested to present the same for settlement. Richard Fennimore Cooper, Isaac Cooper, Executors. Public Notice — The proprietors of the Otsego Library, are requested to meet on Wednesday, the third of January, at 3 p.m. at…
Opinion by Timothy Peters Public Radio Otsego Most Freeman’s Journal readers of a certain vintage have fond memories of radio stations from their youth, usually the pop stations that provided the proverbial “soundtrack of our lives.” Until the late 1970s, public radio programming consisted largely of classical music, with scholarly announcers flaunting their German and reciting the serial numbers of the recordings they played. Often, these stations offered eccentric and creative free-form programs as well. Jack Nicholson played such a…
Opinion by Richard Sternberg, M.D. Life/COVID 67.0 Evolution On the one hand the media is reporting the number of cases of COVID-19 is receding in the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Delta variant wave of the pandemic has passed its peak. On the other hand, it states that that the approaching winter season and holidays present another opportunity for cases to increase. I read a report on October 28 that “Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie see virus deaths.”…
