12 Lively Banners Counterbalance ‘Butterfly’ Tragedy At Glimmerglass By JIM KEVLIN for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – “Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival this afternoon. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him…
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Eagle Scout, Churches Collaborate In Welcome Sign At Edge Of Village COOPERSTOWN – Charles Gannon’s Eagle Scout project began reaching fruition this morning, as he and fellow scouts in Cooperstown’s Troop 1254 erected a sign at Route 28’s south entrance into the village welcoming visitors to worship at the six local churches. A similar sign – “The Churches of Cooperstown Welcome You” – will be erected next Saturday at the Route 28 entrance from Fly Creek. Gannon, a CCS ninth…
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Bill Allowing Tax Credits For Investing In Oneonta Housing Passes Legislature ALBANY – A bill authorizing the City of Oneonta Common Council to provide tax exemptions for those investing in the city’s housing stock received final legislative approval today, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, the bill’s sponsor, announced today. The bill now goes to Governor Cuomo for his consideration.…
Deputies Return Hartwick Family Charged In Robbery At Pit Stop HARTWICK – A Hartwick father, mother and son were brought back from Florida Wednesday to face charges in the armed robbery of the Pit Stop convenience store in Hartwick Seminary two days before Christmas. The three, Timothy S. Lord, 45., Christine J. Lord, 43, and their son, Kaine W. Lord, 21, who allegedly fled New York State to Deltona, Fla., had been arrested in a pre-dawn raid May 8 conducted…
As Hall of Fame Nears 75th Anniversary, Osterhoudt Looks Back at First Induction Homer Osterhoudt, who helped build the Baseball Hall of Fame from the first brick, shares his photos of the first Induction ceremony on June 12, 1939. VIEW 1939 INDUCTION SLIDE SHOW…
Clark Sports Center To Double In Size By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN This fall, 15,000-square-feet will be added to the Clark Sports Center, “to almost double our capacity,” Jane Forbes Clark announced during a Tuesday, May 27, address to the Cooperstown Rotary Club.The construction is intended to strengthen what Miss Clark described as a tradition of community investment going back to her great-great grandfather, attorney Edward Clark, partner in Singer Sewing Machine Co. Already, she said, the multi-purpose gym on…