700 ‘Girls On The Run’ Race Under Sunny Skies COOPERSTOWN – Seven hundred girls from six counties dashed off the starting line at noon today at the Clark Sports Center, the culmination of 10 weeks of – as organizer Sally Trosset put it – “celebrating gratitude.” The goal, she said, is “to teach girls about self-esteem, making good choices in life,” … of learning “it’s nice to be nice.” VIEW PHOTO GALLERY FOR GIRLS ON THE RUN…
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12 Lively Banners Counterbalance ‘Butterfly’ Tragedy At Glimmerglass By JIM KEVLIN for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – “Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival this afternoon. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him…
Eagle Scout, Churches Collaborate In Welcome Sign At Edge Of Village COOPERSTOWN – Charles Gannon’s Eagle Scout project began reaching fruition this morning, as he and fellow scouts in Cooperstown’s Troop 1254 erected a sign at Route 28’s south entrance into the village welcoming visitors to worship at the six local churches. A similar sign – “The Churches of Cooperstown Welcome You” – will be erected next Saturday at the Route 28 entrance from Fly Creek. Gannon, a CCS ninth…
As Hall of Fame Nears 75th Anniversary, Osterhoudt Looks Back at First Induction Homer Osterhoudt, who helped build the Baseball Hall of Fame from the first brick, shares his photos of the first Induction ceremony on June 12, 1939. VIEW 1939 INDUCTION SLIDE SHOW…
Grammy-Winner Yolanda Adams Joins Hall of Fame 75th Concert Lineup Four-time Grammy winner and gospel legend Yolanda Adams joins Paul Simon, Jean Luis Ferra, Bernie Williams and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra at the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th Anniversary Concert on Saturday, August 12. Adams has been recognized by Billboard Magazine as the number one Gospel artist of the last decade while selling millions of albums worldwide. She is also host of her own radio show “The Yolanda Adams Morning…
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The Weird Emptiness Of It All Editor’s Note: Adrian Kuzminski, Sustainable Otsego moderator, distributed these observations on the President’s visit to Cooperstown through various listserves. The most fascinating thing to me about Obama’s visit to Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame was the wierd emptiness of it all, which I think says a lot about our current public political culture, or the lack thereof. The organizers of the anti-fracking rally I was part of anticipated (hoped for) large crowds,…
Who’s Who at President Obama’s Speech? Click any of the images below to view in slideshow: …
