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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, FEB. 27

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, FEB. 27 Spaghetti At The Vets Club SPAGHETTI DINNER – 5-7 p.m. Includes homemade sauce, sausage, meatballs, rolls, salad, drink, dessert. Take-out available. Adults $10, Children $8. Cooperstown Vets Club, 60 Main St, Cooperstown. STRESSBUSTERS – 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monthly class giving you the tools for self-care and empowerment. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, hmloneonta.org/calendar/ CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE – 7 p.m. Learn about the Civil War at the Abner Doubleday Round Table. the Elm Inn,…

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, OCT. 31

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, OCT. 31 Cooperstown, Oneonta Halloween Parades Today COOPERSTOWN PARADE – 5-6 p.m., Line up in Cooper Park, parade down Main St., Cooperstown. ONEONTA TREAT & PARADE – 3-6 p.m., 7 p.m. parade. Trick of Treat on Main St. Participating businesses will have signs in their storefronts. 7 p.m. parade through downtown Oneonta. Line up on Elm St. 6:15-6:45 p.m.…

What Should We Do About ‘Doubleday Myth’?

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  …

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.