Business Partners Rethink Village Mainstay Next Generation Buys Rudy’s By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Matt Denison, new proprietor of Rudy’s with Joe Festa, remembers running into Karen Lemister in the alleyway between the liquor store at 143 Main St. and Alex’s Bistro. “I think this is something you would have a lot of fun with,” said Lemister, who owned Rudy’s for 48 years with husband Fred. One thing led to another, and over the Christmas holiday the venerable…
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19 YEAR AGO, TERRORISTS KILLED 2,977 In Time Of COVID-19, Low-Key 9-11 Arrives Rudy’s proprietor Fred Lemister ponders the lessons of 9-11 while inspecting the memorial that has been growing year to year in his front window on Main Street, Cooperstown, since terrorist hijacked airliners and drove them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, 19 years ago tomorrow. The exhibit includes a portrait of Father Michael F. Judge, the NYFD chaplain, who suffered…
Editorial Inspired By 5 Heroes At Fire Scene, Consider Joining Good Samaritans What’s happened in the past week is another opportunity to be impressed about the brave men and women who respond, in dark of night and bright of day, any hour, any day, when fires and accidents happen in Otsego County. Training and experience have made mishaps so rare, we forget – certainly the public, but volunteers and ambulance squad members, too – that every fire call and crash…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 30-31, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Oberacker Runs To Succeed Senator Seward Hundreds Honor Fred Lemister At Testimonial Republican May Dent Village Democratic Wall OYA Solar Seeking Leases In Town Of Otego Arson Trial Testimony Sorts Tangled Tale EDITORIAL Parties Should Find Local Candidates For Senate COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: Let Home Rule Guide Sanctuary Idea ATWELL: William The Conqueror Seized Moment ZAGATA: How To Reduce CO2, Trees Or…
HUNDREDS PACK BASSETT HALL EMTS SALUTE BEST OF BEST Everyone who was anyone in the world of Otsego County EMTs – hundreds of them, past and present – gathered at Bassett Hall in Cooperstown for four hours this afternoon and evening to celebrate Fred Lemister, primer inter pares in the local EMS world, who recently stepped down after 48 years of service to Cooperstown’s emergency squad, where he responded to 9,600 ambulance calls. Even more significant, a top-notch instructor, he…
EDITORIAL Village Should Buy CVS, Make It Downtown Hub Editor’s Note: This is reprinted from this week’s Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta editorial pages. Click here for related editorial. What do you think? Letters to the Editor welcome at info@allotsego.com In a couple of weeks, we won’t remember that Cooperstown’s Main Street is a ghost town from Columbus Day to Memorial Day. The 500,000 visitors will begin arriving in earnest with Dreams Parks’ June 1 opening. By the time we…
Saturday’s Triple OT Braces Hawkeyes For Sunday Win By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – Longtime CCS basketball fan Fred Lemister knows a championship team when he sees one. “I have seen remarkable teams and remarkable talent on that floor,” he said. “But I have never seen the cohesion, the camaRAderie that I saw in this team.” The Cooperstown varsity basketball team took home its first Class C Championship ever – as Hawkeyes or Redskins…
Step Dancers, Corned Beef Featured At St. Pat’s Dinner Hartwick’s O’Donnell-Kelly School of Dance brought the sounds and steps of Ireland to The Knights of Columbus Tekawitha Council 10968 annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner this evening at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Parish Hall in Cooperstown. High-stepping out front is Tess DiLorenzo. Behind her, from left, are McKenna Selleck, Morgan Kelley and Maya Stevens. Inset at right is Fred Lemister, the evening’s official Leprechaun. At left is Chef…
2018 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Following In Fire Chief Footsteps, Tallman Grandkids At Open House…
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