Rep. Antonio Delgado samples a chocolate-flavored whiskey at the Cooperstown Distillery during a tour Thursday, May 27. Get the full story in this week’s edition of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta.
Cooperstown Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, left, and Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope, to Falk’s left, talk about the architecture of an 1800s Federal-style house at 30 Lake St. in Cooperstown, which is known as the oldest corner of the village. The two women gave an architectural tour in the village Monday, May 31, sponsored by Otsego 2000 and the Cooperstown Graduate Program, where Falk is a professor. About 60 people were on two 90-minute trolley tours through the village Monday afternoon. Falk said a similar tour of Oneonta will take place sometime in the future. (Greg Klein/AllOTSEGO.com)
New Iron String Press President and Publisher Tara Barnwell poses with the paper’s publisher/editor of 15 years, Jim Kevlin, who retired Friday, April 16. (Larissa Ryan/AllOTSEGO.com)
Elaine Bresee adjusts Santa’s hat at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, where he is on display, much like he used to be in the windows of Bresee’s and, later, in front of Marc and Elaine’s Milford Center home. (Ian/AllOTSEGO.com)
SIGN OF THE SEASON: Santa and Mrs. Clauses were observed strolling through Cooperstown’s downtown the other day, as plans on creating “virtual” Christmas celebrations being completed there and in Oneonta. The Coopertown Community Christmas Committee’s first activity is annual Decorating Day, which begin at 1 p.m. Sunday in Pioneer Park. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
It took a raging blaze less than an hour to destroy a Wood Bull Antiques storage barn Friday, Nov. 6, on Williams Road, Town of Otsego, near Fly Creek. Fire companies from Hartwick to Richfield Springs were called to the scene. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Otsego County’s next state senator, Peter Oberacker, the county representative, expresses his thanks to wife Shannon at a victory celebration at Form Tech Solutions, his Schenevus-based company. At right are son Derek and Campaign Manager Ron Wheeler. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Dennis Craig, SUNY Oneonta’s new interim president, had an instinct for readiness, forming a disaster-preparedness committee on arriving at SUNY Purchase as a vice president in 2006. He discusses lessons learned in his successful effort to keep COVID cases there to 25, and how to apply them to the Oneonta campus in an exclusive interview. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
With Brooks BBQ new “pick-it-up, take-it-in” regimen about to begin, Amanda Calkins, left, and Danielle Dalton, both of Oneonta, take an order from Laura Page of Cooperstown at one of three takeout windows Brooks has added to handle COVID-era demand at the Oneonta landmark. In addition to have customers bring their own dinners into the diningroom, Brooks for the first time is offering beer and wine to the drink menu. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Some 1,500 celebrants who gathered at NY Harvest Fest & Freedom Fair/Political Rally in the Town of New Lisbon Friday, Oct. 9, stirred fears of a COVID outbreak and led to the organizer’s arrest. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, welcomes more than 100 well-wishers Monday, Oct. 5, to the rededication of a section of Route 205 in honor of Marine Sgt. John Kempe Winslow, who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1969. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Democratic Cooperstown Village Trustee MacGuire Benton receives a congratulatory hug from Republican challenger Mary Margaret Robbins after the incumbent held on to his seat in the Tuesday, Sept. 25, runoff election by a vote of 343-308. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
You may see Kay Pierro riding around Cooperstown with a “Riding With Ruth” decal on her SUV, in remembrance of Supreme Court Justice (and annual Glimmerglass Festival visitor) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday, Sept. 18. Kay was the judge’s cook, then her friend. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
As the SUNY Oneonta infestation peaked, top photo, at 2:36 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, Alex Censi (yellow top) and fellow students walk down Oneonta’s Main Street en route to a party on Cliff Street. (Michael Forster Rothbart/Special to AllOTSEGO.com)
SUNY Oneonta freshman John Dirma, left, gets help moving in to his dorm Monday, Aug. 17, from his sister Angie, grandmother Maria Zgrda, and older brother Christian Dima, all from White Lake.
