This weekend's Oneonta Rotary Road Rally Scavenger Hunt, a passport fair at the Unadilla Town Hall on Saturday, Cooperstown Central School soccer updates and the Butternuts Neutral Host Mobile Tower Pilot Project are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
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FUNDRAISER—2-6 p.m. “Hops for History.” Local beer and food tasting with a bar crawl featuring six downtown bars and restaurants. Followed by live music at the B-Side Ballroom starting at 6 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Oneonta History Center. Main Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 or www.oneontahistory.org…
A Fly-In Pancake Breakfast at Cooperstown/Westville Airport, free FOIL training, an Otsego Lake Watershed Protection Program survey and a benefit dinner in support of Bob Croft are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
Located on the corner of Main and River streets, where Stewart’s Shops now stands, the McDonald Tavern was built in 1810 and served as one of Oneonta’s earliest operating taverns. Seven years later, in 1817, it saw the opening of the first post office for the area.…
“This marker helps bring to light Oneonta’s role as a central location in New York of anti-slavery activism and a site on the Freedom Trail in the 19th century,” Micucci wrote via e-mail. “As a historian, it makes me incredibly proud to be able to commemorate and celebrate Oneonta’s significance and the many abolitionists, like E.R. Ford, who challenged and advocated for an end to slavery and helped those escaped enslaved people in need.”…
“For every project we do here, there’s several steps,” Kamerbeek explained. “We need to do a design…then we need to do an environmental study to make sure that what we’re changing is not impacting the environment. We need to get funding from the [Federal Aviation Administration] and then from the local government from the City of Oneonta, and then we need to execute it. Those projects take years. So you need to keep on it. You need to be in…
An evening program with the Otsego Master Gardeners, an upcoming performance by Award-winning Trinidadian trumpet virtuoso Etienne Charles and a fundraising block party with Friends of the Feral-TNR are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
“This marker is the first we have commissioned for a neighborhood in Oneonta, and for great reason,” Dr. Marcela Micucci, executive director of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, explained via e-mail. “The Sixth Ward has a rich history, rooted in Oneonta’s emergence as a railroad town..."…
HISTORY TOUR—6 p.m. “Summer Walking Tour of Main Street in the 1960s.” Presented by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Oneonta natives explore historic downtown in the age of Woodstock. Coincides with the exhibition, “Schools of Rock.” Admission by donation. Meet at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main Street, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 or https://www.facebook.com/events/562890373201411/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D…
“Local railroad enthusiasts (Jim Loudon, Russ Hawkins, Dave Jones, and Bruce Hodges) founded the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society in an effort to preserve, protect, and keep the caboose in Neahwa Park, fundraising thousands of dollars to install a glass enclosure around the caboose. In 1983, the enclosure was installed and the LRHS held a dedication ceremony that September in celebration of the BRT’s centennial year. The caboose has remained in the spot since.”…
