NEW CHALLENGE: HIRING MANAGER Bliss Anticipates Kennedy Will Lead Recruitment, Too By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If – as is anticipated – Dave Bliss is reelected chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives at the organizational meeting Thursday, Jan. 2, one of his first acts will be to name a committee to recruit the first county administrator. In an interview, he said he sees no reason why county Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, who led the…
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HOMETOWN History Oct. 25, 2019 150 Years Ago The cost of a corrupt Congress: A session of Congress costs the country $4,000,000. Each day entails upon us an expense of $33,000. The fortieth Congress used up nearly eleven hundred penknives, costing about three dollars each, and of course, the members did not pay for them. Besides penknives, such necessary articles as snuff, tobacco, pocket scissors, hair brushes and “extra Morocco desks” have been furnished by a grateful nation to its…
Bound Volumes Jan. 30 – Feb. 1, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Information Wanted – In the year 1814, a young man of the name of Carlos L. Mallory, a native of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and then resident with David Woodward, of that place, as an apprentice to the tanning and currying and shoemaking business, left his home, and has never been heard of by his friends since that period. He is now, if living, 24 years of age, about…
Brides Flout Stain Risks To Enjoy Tempting BBQ By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA – Nikki Bower reminds you to always eat barbeque with care.“I’m not a girly-girl, so wearing a wedding dress all day was hard for me,” she joked. “I was trying to eat responsibly, but I got barbeque sauce all down the front of my dress!” Despite that, having a barbecue at the wedding was a brilliant idea, it made it so much easier to feed everyone and the…
Colleagues Bid Fond Farewell To County Treasurer Crowell…
IN MEMORIAM: George Miller, 90; WWII Veteran; D&H Car Repairman ONEONTA – George R. Miller, 90, a World War II Navy veteran who spent his career as a car repairman on the D&H, passed away after an extended illness with his loving family by his side on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at home. He was born April 20, 1926, in Portlandville, son of the late Steven and Elizabeth (Bolos) Miller. On Sept. 29, 1956, George married Geraldine D. Bliss in…
Logue, Erway, Haney, Hage Win Top Coop Youth Baseball Awards HARTWICK – The Cooperstown Youth Baseball Board of Directors has awarded the 2015 Terry Bliss Softball Award to Carly Erway and Faith Logue, and the 2015 Laverne “Beanie” Ainslie Award to Alex Hage and Kendall Haney. The awards, the highest honor that the CYB Board of Directors bestows on baseball and softball players, were presented on Wednesday at the annual CYB end of season picnic in Hartwick. “Both of these…
BOUND VOLUMES, December 6, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from an address to soldiers by Brigadier Alexander Smyth, Commanding at Buffalo: “The time is at hand when you will cross the stream of the Niagara, to conquer Canada, and to secure the peace of the American frontier. You will enter a country that is to be one of the United States. You will arrive among a people who are to become your fellow citizens. It is not against them that…