Winter Carnival Will Go On, With COVID-19 Precautions By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This year, the Cooperstown Winter Carnival’s theme is “Around the World, but Safe at Home.” Scheduled Feb. 16-21, a couple of weeks later than usual, the carnival’s “Around the World” theme was intentionally broad to allow for more participation, according to Committee Chair Molly Myers. And, because of COVID-19, it sought to reflect the need to stay safe. In past years, all events were held…
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2021 Cooperstown Winter Carnival Lions’ Poster Contest Seeks ‘We’re All Connected’ Entries COOPERTOWN – The Cooperstown Lions Club is sponsoring a youth Peace Poster Contest on the theme, “We’re All Connected,” in conjunction with the 2021 Cooperstown Winter Carnival. The local winner will receive $250. Participants must be 11, 12 or 13 years old on Nov. 15, 2021. The winning poster will also be submitted to the Lions district for further judging and possible higher state and international level…
CLICK FOR 2020 WINTER CARNIVAL EVENTS Lights Dim At Vets’ Club As Speakeasy Takes Over Multi-Color Quilts On Show At 22 Main Beware! Gangsters and their molls have taken over the Cooperstown Veterans’ Club until 9 p.m. this evening, and there’s hooch aplenty to be had by all at the Speakeasy there. Al Capone? No, but, from left, in from Chicago were Kristin Bergene and James McDonald, Kate and Jess Lanza, Hannah Bergene and Henry Bauer, and Molly Meyer and…
2020 Winter Carnival Features Mac, Cheese, More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN Hanna Bergene, 2020 Cooperstown Winter Carnival co-chair, warns that things could get cheesy. “New this year is a mac and cheese contest at the Carnival closer,” she said. “We heard from the restaurants that the chicken wing contest was kind of stale – and who doesn’t love mac and cheese in the middle of winter?” The contest will be free, allowing all the carnival goers…
2019 COOPERTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Grilled Cheese Fundraiser For Otsego 2000 Packs ‘Em In…
FROM THE PRINTED PAGES OF HOMETOWN, FREEMAN’S Attending Since Beginning, Bill, Carol Waller Remember Cooperstown Carnival Heyday Editor’s Note: This feature story first appeared in the AllOTSEGO.life section of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal published last Thursday and Friday. This year’s 52nd annual carnival ends this evening. By LIBBY CUDMORE • For AllOTSEGO.life COOPERSTOWN – If you looked out and saw cars out on Otsego Lake today, you would probably call a tow truck. But in 1974, when Bill…
2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Soup R’ Chili Served ’til 2 As Festive Weekend Starts As it has for more than a quarter-century, the Cooperstown Winter Carnival begins when Dick Sliter declares, “Soup’s on!” The carnival’s traditional first event, the Soup R’ Chili luncheon at the First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., is underway until 2 p.m. (and again 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday). Sliter, a retired pastor who came out of retirement in the past year to fill in at the…
Bassett Executive Finds Winter Carnival Medallion…
2018 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL $500 Check, Grilled Cheese Close Out Winter Carnival The Doubleday Cafe’s Tim Searles, above, prepares specialty grilled-cheese sandwiches made with goat cheese and elderberry jam at Grilled Cheese For A Good Cause at the Cooperstown Farmer’s Market Sunday evening; the Otsego 2000 fundraiser wrapped up the 51st annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival. Behind him Jim Hoffmann, Cooperstown, gets a bowl of soup from volunteer Susanna Membrino . The event featured live music, ice cream and of course, grilled…
2018 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Fireworks! …And There’s More To Come...…
