Since starting as a reporter here at AllOtsego in September 2025, I’ve had the chance to travel the county telling all kinds of stories. Along the way, I made photos of what I saw. Here are some of my favorites, some published and others shared here for the first time.
The Glimmerglass Queen sails south on Otsego Lake past Three Mile Point on October 4, 2025. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
Veterans fire blanks at a Veterans Day event in Cooperstown on November 11, 2025. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
The hills of Oneonta, seen from Eco-Yotta Inc.’s property in the Town of Oneonta on October 24, 2025. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
The group leader of CooperstownOneonta Indivisible, Virginia Kennedy, addresses demonstrators at the October 18, 2025 No Kings protest in the City of Oneonta. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
At Cooperstown Junior-Senior High School’s Homecoming football game on October 3, a Cooperstown player breaks a tackle from West Canada Valley. Cooperstown won, 26 to 14. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
A paraglider flies over the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
Since early 2025, demonstrators have gathered in front of the Cooperstown Post Office on Thursday afternoons to show support for peace and protest the Trump administration, pictured here on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
Sherri France, local athlete, coach and educator, accepts the Fetterman Award at The Otesaga Resort Hotel on October 29, 2025 for her decades of work to support local athletics. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
New York Pizzeria in Cooperstown gets its parking lot cleared of snow on December 30, 2025. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
The Mirabito gas station in Cherry Valley on December 22, 2025. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)
“At a time when federal public health programming is increasingly unstable due to staffing losses, stop work orders, and reduced reliable access to data, state leadership has never been more important,” Bond told legislators.…
According to a press release, the new museum store will feature a front-facing entrance on Cooperstown’s Main Street as well as access through the museum itself and is the largest expansion of the Hall of Fame footprint in more than two decades.…
CCS boys basketball ranked first in the state among Class C teams, new weekly polls on AllOtsego.com, Cornell Cooperative Extension spring events and webinars, and Sunday's presentation by Dr. Carolyn Wolf-Gould are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
February 19, 2026
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