Gelbsman To Replace Embattled Colleague As County Board’s Liaison To IDA Board Editor’s Note: This article was edited for space in this week’s print editions. This is the complete version. By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com Given a colleague’s legal troubles, county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, is in line for appointment as liaison to the county IDA, the Industrial Development Agency that is spearheading redevelopment of Pony Farm Industrial Park. He would replace county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, who District…
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Abner Doubleday Story Is True. And It’s Ours The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta, June 2014 During Stalin’s show trials – old-line Bolsheviks were brought to the dock in Moscow in 1937-38, accused of treason – a wide-eyed reporter for a Western news agency asked a hardened oldtimer, A.T. Cholerton of the London-based Daily Telegraph: Are the accusations true? As the story goes, Cholerton replied: Yes. Everything is true, except the facts. Why does this bring the Abner Doubleday story to mind…
What Should We Do About ‘Doubleday Myth’? COOPERSTOWN – Review three opinions on “The Doubleday Myth,” the story about baseball’s Cooperstown origins: • “The Man Who Didn’t Invest Baseball,” by Victor Salvatore, American Heritage, June-July 1983 • “The Creation Myths of Cooperstown,” by Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, November 1989 • “Abner Doubleday Story True, And It’s Ours,” Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta, June, 2014 What’s your opinion about the Abner Doubleday story? E-mail info@allotsego.com …
CMA Winner Hunter Hayes Joins Hall of Fame 75th Concert Lineup COOPERSTOWN Country superstar Hunter Hayes joins Paul Simon, Yolanda Adams and Juan Luis Guerra, and former New York Yankee Bernie Williams on stage with the Boston Pops at the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th Anniversary Concert on Saturday, Aug. 2 at the Clark Sports Center Field. Hayes, 22, released his self-titled debut album in 2011, reaching number seven on the Billboard chart and selling 1.1 million copies and featured the…
World T.E.A.M Sports Brings Can-Am Vets To Cooperstown HARTWICK SEMINARY – The World T.E.A.M. Sports’ Can-Am Veterans Challenge pedaled into Hartwick Seminary this afternoon on the fifth day of a 14-day charity ride that will end with a ceremony on the steps of the Capitol on the Fourth of July. The group will then ride in Washington D.C.’s Independence Day parade. The bike ride is affiliated with Wounded Warriors, a U.S.-Canadian organization the helps injured veterans on both sides of the border,…
U.S. Mayors: Upstate Cities’ Growth Will Lag Growth in Upstate cities is expected to lag behind the national rate through 2020, according to a new study by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. …
IN MEMORIAM: Louise W. Weisser, 87; Retired Teacher COOPERSTOWN – Louise W. Weisser, 87, who retired to Cooperstown after a 35-year teaching career, died Saturday, June 21, 2014.…
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Newest IDA Staffer’s Focus: Making Microbusiness Work By LIBBY CUDMORE To help Otsego County businesses succeed, all you have to do is ask what they need. That’s the theory Dawn Rivers, the new office manager and director of the county IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs, is operating under. “It’s going to be important, going forward, to listen to people,” she said. “We will be much more successful in helping our economy thrive if we listen to what people want from…
Latter-Day Bruce Wayne Lives His Dream By LIBBY CUDMORE The Batcave’s location is one of Batman’s most closely guarded secrets – but it may be closer than the Joker or the Penguin might think. Hidden in the misty hills of Mount Vision, in a non-descript garage just off 205, is the Batmobile – or rather, a near-perfect replica of the car from the 1966 TV show starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader. “When I used to watch the show…
