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News Briefs: July 13, 2023

Helios Care will hold a support group for caregivers of people with severe or chronic illness. The group will provide connections, identify local resources and help create strategies for self-care. It will be held from 10-11:30 a.m. on Thursdays from July 20 to August 17 at Southside Mall in Oneonta. The group is free but registration is required; call Jessica Weeden at (607) 432-5525.…
July 13, 2023

Summer Dreams Briefs: July 12, 2023

Meadow Links Golf Pavilion will host free family-friendly concerts at 7 p.m. on Mondays in July and August. They will be held, rain or shine, at 476 County Road 27. The series kicked off on July 10 with banjo virtuoso Drew French, a former U.S. Open National Banjo Champion and concert violinist who spoke briefly about his original renditions of early jazz on vintage banjos.…
July 13, 2023

Best Bets

The contents of the historic stone house known as “Woodchuck Knoll” of Emmons Farms in Emmons will be sold at unreserved auction on Saturday, July 15. Emmons Farms evolved from the early 1800s lumber business that was begun by Asa Emmons on a large tract of land in Otsego County.…
July 13, 2023

First Impressions: Concert a ‘Walk Through the Tuscan Valley’

Imagine a warm, rainy afternoon on a perfumed walk through the Tuscan valley, and that is exactly what was conjured by the return of Fenimore Chamber Orchestra to Christ Church in Cooperstown on Saturday, June 17. The near-capacity audience was treated to another deeply musical and virtuosic display by this very stylish ensemble, guided by the knowing baton of Maestro Maciej Zoltowski.…
July 13, 2023

Cartoonist Continues Eight-Decade Career

Iron String Press readers may have noticed cartoons from a local artist in recent issues. Bernie Hurlbut, 93, is a lifelong illustrator and cartoonist from Rome. “Bernie’s People,” his single-panel comic featuring bold linework and sardonic observations of everyday life, has appeared in many regional publications.…
July 13, 2023

Sports Snippets: July 12, 2023

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Board of Directors announced that Carl Erskine will receive the 2023 John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors an individual for extraordinary sustained efforts to enhance baseball’s positive impact on society.…
July 13, 2023

County Cancels Auction Following May 25th Supreme Court Ruling

The Otsego County property tax foreclosure auction scheduled for August 16 has been cancelled and the entire in rem foreclosure procedure has been suspended as a result of the uncertainty created by a recent decision from the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the handling of surplus monies derived from the sale of properties at tax foreclosure auctions.…
July 12, 2023

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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