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CONGRESSMAN IN COOPERSTOWN Gibson In Valedictory: Government Can Work COOPERSTOWN – In what may be his final appearance before Cooperstown Rotarians while a congressman, Chris Gibson, R-19, told club club members today that, despite widely heard predictions of gloom, the federal government can and is working. Gibson, who is retiring at the end of the year, pointed out that Congress, after all the threats of shutting down government in recent years, actually agreed on a two-year budget agreement that will…
IN MEMORIAM: Dorothy Bly, 98; Retired Little Falls Funeral Director COOPERSTOWN – Dorothy A. Bly, 98, who retired to Cooperstown with her husband after operating a funeral parlor in Little Falls for a quarter century, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 28, 2016, at Valley Health Services in Herkimer. She had been residing at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home. Born Oct. 7, 1917, in Rochester, she was a daughter of Dea W. and Hazel (Roberts) Hess. The first born of three…
MEMORIAL DAY 2016 Cooperstown Extends Tradition At Soldiers’, Sailors’ Monument SEE SLIDE SHOW OF TODAY’S COMMEMORATION…
88 Degrees On Saturday Beats Record By 2 Degrees The 88-degree record high on Memorial Day Weekend Saturday beat the 86-degree market set in 1911 and tied in 1978, AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta and Freeman’s Journal) weather watcher Dave Mattice reports. Thursday, the high was 85 degrees; Friday, 86, and Sunday, 86, Mattice reports, not record but enough to constitute a heat wave around here. …
54th Annual Clinton Regatta Underway On Susquehanna…
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Supermarket Raises Huge Flag As Memorial Day Approaches…
Avoiding Orientation, Griffey Gets Quick Briefing At Otesaga COOPERSTOWN – Instead of a full orientation, Hall of Fame inductee-to-be Ken Griffey Jr. made a whirlwind tour through Cooperstown Monday evening, but didn’t make it to the museum or plaque gallery. He met with Hall of Fame officials at The Otesaga, and the Hall later released this quote, attributed to Griffey: “This wasn’t my first trip to Cooperstown, but it was my first opportunity to see everything the village has to offer.…
‘Friends Helping Friends’ Revived To Help David Sellover, Art Boden COOPERSTOWN – “Friends Helping Friends,” which mobilize last summer to help raise funds when Cooperstown Chamber Executive Director Matt Hazzard was stricken with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, is back in action. And this time, Hazzard, in remission and back on the job, is organizing an event to help to other local men fighting cancer: David Sellover and Art Boden.…
