HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JULY 29 Awards At Doubleday AWARDS PRESENTATION – 4:30 p.m. Features the presentation of the Ford C. Frick award for baseball broadcasting excellence and the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. Gates open 3 p.m. Followed immediately by the Parade of Legends Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. baseballhall.org/events/Awards-Presentation-2017?date=0 PARADE OF LEGENDS – 6 p.m. The Legends of baseball ride down Main St. to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. baseballhall.org/events/Parade-of-legends-17?date=0…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 Old Country Concert COMMUNITY CONCERT – 7-8.30 p.m. Presenting classic old time country music by “Country & Wes.” Held at the Historic Bandstand, Spring Park, Main St., Richfield Springs. www.richfieldspringschamber.org DIGGING KNOTWEED – 6:30-8 p.m.Help dig Japanese Knotweed out before it can crowd out other plants at the Mohican Farm. Meet at the Mohican Farm Office, 7207 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. occainfo.org/calendar/digging-knotweed-2/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 Book Signing At Hall Of Fame BASEBALL AUTHOR – 1 p.m. Richard Sandomir, author of “The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic,” comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame to discuss the book and take questions from the audience, followed by a book signing in the atrium. Bullpen Theater, Baseball Hall of Fame. baseballhall.org/events/author-series-Richard-Sandomir?date=0 FREE HEALTH SCREENING – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Get tested for HIV. It’s…
Soup’s On, Chili’s On, Meaning Winter Carnival Now Underway COOPERSTOWN – You know when the Cooperstown Winter Carnival is officially underway when the aroma of chili and soup starts wafting from the basement of Cooperstown Baptist Church on Elm Street, as it did leading up to 11 a.m. today. If you missed the Soup ‘R Chili Luncheon today, it’s on again Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. In what’s becoming a tradition, the gang from Glimmerglass Festival drove down the lake from the…
BOUND VOLUMES, April 11, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Another gratification – His Britannic majesty’s brig Emu, of 12 guns, a prize to the privateer Holkar of New York, arrived on Sunday last at Providence, and saluted the town. She is an uncommonly strong and well found vessel, burthened upward of 200 tons; was fitted with a new patent defence surmounting her bulwarks, composed of spring bayonets, and had a great quantity of ammunition and provisions for Botany Bay, whither she…
BOUND VOLUMES, October 3, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from the London Pilot of March 20, 1813: We lament, most deeply, to state that another British frigate, the Java, has been taken by the American frigate Constitution. The mourning of our hearts, which commenced on the first capture of a British ship by an American, has been rendered more melancholy, by every successive instance. Not a single American frigate has struck her flag – they insult and laugh at our…
Moonalice Band, Plus ‘Field Of Dreams’ Featured Saturday In Lakefront Park COOPERSTOWN – It’s no Boston Pops, Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope acknowledged to the Village Board last evening, but her organization is partnering with Glimmerglass Film Days, Brewery Ommegang and the Cooperstown Chamber to try to capture a little bit of that sizzle. This coming Saturday, the four organizations — with the trustees’ approval — are planning a free evening of movie and music in Lakefront Park. 7-9 p.m.,…