IN MEMORIAM: Jeffrey McGowan, 55; Eagle Scout Worked In Auto Financing ONEONTA – Jeffrey D. McGowan, 55, an Oneonta Eagle Scout who went on to a career in automotive finance departments, passed unexpectedly on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Jeffrey was born in October 1960 in Syracuse, the son of Dean and Mary Jane McGowan. Oneonta became Jeffrey’s home town when his family moved here in 1968. Jeff attended Bugbee School then graduated from Oneonta High School in 1978. Jeff was…
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Tanning Salons Face Violations In Oneonta, Richfield Springs Tanning booths at Tanning Bed, a tanning salon at 76 Chestnut St., in Oneonta, and Main St. Styles, 112 Main St., Richfield Springs, were found to have safety violations and unsafe conditions after an inspection by the state Department of Health, according to a media release from Governor Cuomo’s office.…
Hartwick Students Gather To Remember Dante Crump By LIBBY CUDMORE • for allotsego.com ONEONTA – When Dante Crump approached Penny Wightman, chair of Hartwick College’s Business Administration and Accounting department, for extra credit at the end of last semester, she gave him what she called “The biggest challenge of his life.” She asked him to knit a Hartwick scarf, keeping track of the cost of materials. “When he walked into my office with it, I never saw a more proud kid,”…
HARTWICK FOOTBALL STAR DIES IN SAUGERTIES CRASH SAUGERTIES – Dante Crump, 22, a senior at Hartwick College and a member of the Hartwick Hawks football team, died Wednesday morning after the car he was riding in slid down an embankment at 11:30 a.m. in the Village of Saugerties. “The Hartwick College community, and the football family especially, is devastated by the loss of Dante Crump. He was a valued member of our squad the past three seasons, and beloved by his teammates and…
Mayor Schedules Special Council Meeting To Correct Lynch’s Mischaracterizations ONEONTA – Mayor Russ Southard has scheduled a special meeting of Common Council for 8 a.m. Friday, in part to correct what he said was Council member Mike Lynch’s mischaracterization of an executive session that followed Tuesday’s regular meeting. Coming out of the executive session, Lynch told the Daily Star reporter he has had “dozens of contacts with city workers who are concerned about the management of the city. Something’s wrong. …
IN MEMORIAM: Patricia Dornburgh, 82; Cooperstown Native Daughter Dies In R.I. COOPERSTOWN – Patricia Butler Dornburgh, a Native Daughter of Cooperstown, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, at Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island’s Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center in Providence, R.I. Born on Aug. 21, 1932, she was the daughter of Harold and Patricia (Bracelyn) Butler, who predeceased her in 1967 and 1989 respectively. A 1949 summa cum laude graduate of Cooperstown Central School, she went on to earn a B.A.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, July 27, 2012 125 Years Ago Since January 1st the officers of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company have been well aware that goods were being stolen from freight trains running to and from Oneonta. The losses grew in frequency as the thieves became bolder, until of late every few days something would turn up missing – now a barrel of flour, then some cheese, or a package of this, that or the other of the multitudinous variety…
BOUND VOLUMES, June 13, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Books for Sale by H. & E. Phinney at their Book & Stationery Store, Cooperstown – “Halyburton’s Enquiry into the Principles of Modern Deists,” “Shakespeare’s Works – 8 Volumes,” “Winter in London – A Novel, 2 Volumes,” “Blair’s Lectures,” “Life of Rev. Cornelius Winter,” “Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, 5 Volumes,” “Camilla, A Novel,” “Buchan’s Domestic Medicine,” “Christ’s Second Appearing,” “Smith’s Essays on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and…
BOUND VOLUMES, April 10, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Dispatch from Plattsburgh – A Spy Detected: At length, by redoubled vigilance, in spite of the defects of our own laws, the corruption of some of our citizens, and the arts and cunning of the enemy, one Spy, of the hundreds who roam at large over this frontier, has been detected, convicted, and sentenced to Death. He came from the enemy as a deserter, in the uniform of a British corps, had…