UGLY Comes To Cooperstown: 87 Runners, Walkers, Plus Sweaters, Vie For Ugliest By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 COOPERSTOWN It was a wooly and wild weekend in Cooperstown. Things got pretty ugly for a bit, but everyone still had a great time. Some 90 runners and walkers, plus spectators aplenty, attended the belated Rockin’ Around Cooperstown Ugly Sweater Run Saturday, Dec. 13, bringing out their Santa Snuggies, reindeer sweatshirts and sweaters bedecked with…
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Sunday’s Town, Gown Gala Seeks To Build College, Community Ties By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com Exclusive ONEONTA – For Kaler Carpenter, the Town & Gown Gala – free this Sunday at Foothills – is not just a fundraiser: It’s a chance to bring the community together. “There’s a lot of division between the residents of Oneonta and the students because of behavior,” said Carpenter. “I knew we needed something more than a rock show to bring everyone together.” From 3…
Cooperstown Santa’s 2nd Home, Saint Nick Reveals In New Book •By JIM KEVLIN• The Freeman’s Journal For years now, you’ve seen Santa Claus around town all year long, perhaps manning the information kiosk in Pioneer Park, volunteering at The Farmers’ Museum, or at one community event or another. Kids noticed it, too, and it raised questions in their young minds, and that troubled Santa. “They know it’s me,” he said in an interview the other day. The result, years in…
BOUND VOLUMES, January 16, 2014 175 YEARS AGO The message of our Whig Governor (William H. Seward) is most intolerably long, prosing and windy. As a piece of composition, it is sophomoric, involved and inelegant; and as a statesman-like expose it is confused, obscure, over-labored and second-handed. Nearly all that is valuable about it has been promulgated, enforced and reiterated by the Governor’s predecessors – and the small part that is new presents little that is profound in theory or…