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EDITIONS OF FEB. 14-15 – Mom Kathy Kerr, sporting memorabilia from sons Ryan, Grant and Jay’s CCS athletic careers, addresses the school board at its Wednesday, Feb. 6, meeting on eliminating the “Redskin” moniker: “I’m telling my children they don’t have to be embarrassed as long as they are respectful of other people.” The school board formed a study group with the CCS Alumni Association, but the next month change the nickname to “Hawkeyes, “ which went into effect June 30. The Oneida Nation has since used the Cooperstown example in a campaign to convince the Washington Redskins to change its name.
WEEK 42 EDITIONS OF OCT. 17-18 – Chip Klugo, the Corning developer, cut the ribbon on Klugo’s Parkview Place, an $8 million renovation of the former Bresee’s Department Store, Oneonta. Helping him is John Nader, mayor in 2005-09 when the pieces for the project were put in place. At right is Carolyn Lewis, former county economic developer who advised the city in the project.
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EDITIONS OF JULY 1819 – Carly Noga, Utica, shows hula-hooping skills shortly before the Grateful Dead successor band, Furthur, began performing in Doubleday Field. While drawing a big crowd, pot smoking, underage drinking and “Shakedown Street” hangers-on who siphoned business from Cooperstown’s downtown merchants made the event controversial.
EDITIONS OF JAN. 31-FEB. 1 – All eyes were on Jeffrey Smetana, vice president, Newman Development Group, Binghamton, as he briefed a packed city Planning Commission meeting Wednesday, Jan. 16, in City Hall, on a 320-student state-of-theart housing project on Blodgett Drive, overlooking the SUNY Oneonta athletic fields. The project, which supplanted townhomes the college was planning to build, would add an estimated $15 million to the tax rolls, the largest private development in Oneonta in a generation. The project also sparked a vigorous debate on student off-campus housing.
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EDITIONS OF JAN. 3-4 – Cooperstown’s Fab Four at “All You Need Is Love,” the Friends of Bassett Gala New Year’s Eve at The Otesaga, were, from left, Peg and John Leon, and Bob and Maureen Moglia. This year’s gala, on the theme “Queen of Hearts,” is Tuesday, Dec. 31, and benefits Bassett’s Cardiac Institute, which is completing its 10th anniversary celebration.
EDITIONS OF JAN. 17-18 – Lisa Smith of Oneonta promotes Body By Stacy’s Bridal Boot Camp Sunday, Jan. 13, at the fifth annual Foothills Bridal Show at the Oneonta performing arts center. The sixth, always the first such of the year and a formula to get rid of mid-winter blahs, is Sunday, Jan. 12.
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EDITIONS OF JAN. 10-11 – Pre-engineering students Ben Gebl, left, and Ethan Drugatz, both of the Cherry Valley-Springfield School District, watch an NAO Robotics model go through its moves, part of a new robotics course at the Otsego Area Occupational Center, Milford. In the inset, Ethan shows off sunglasses he designed and produced using a novel three-dimensional printer, another cutting-edge technology.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The dates on the captions represent the editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal in which they were published.
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EDITIONS OF FEB. 7-8 – Fox Hospital announced a $1.3 million fund drive that, matched with a state grant, would pay for a $10 million renovation of the facility founded in 1900 by Reuben Fox in memory of his wife, Aurelia, above. The renovations, near complete, converted all doubles in the Oneonta hospital into roomy singles, at right.
Key players were, from left, Administrator John Remillard; Robbin Scobie, VP/nursing, and Gary Smith, VP/professional and long-term care service. The drive was so successful, the local share was largely raised by mid-summer.
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EDITIONS OF JAN. 31-FEB. 1 – Lou Allstadt, right, the Mobil Oil executive vice president who retired to Cooperstown, registers as a Democratic candidate for village trustee, along with Bruce Maxson, center, a county public defender. At left is Hank Nicols, who moderated the Tuesday, Jan. 29, caucus. Behind him is village/county chair Richard Abbate. The Republicans cross-endorsed Maxson, but beyond that failed to field a slate. In this year’s March 12 elections, Mayor Jeff Katz and Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch are up for second terms, and Allstadt is seeking cross-endorsements for a full term.
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EDITIONS OF FEB. 28MARCH 1 – Gary Laing, inset, looks like a kid in a candy store, surveying Oneonta’s Damaschke Field, where as a kid he watched the Oneonta Yankees: The proprietor of the Shipping Room had just acquired the successor Oneonta Outlaws. In larger photo, he and his GM, Steve Pindar, survey the infield during a snowless February day.
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EDITIONS OF FEB. 21-22 – In duck-print PJs, Johnny Kotcher of Cooperstown plunges into Goodyear Lake Saturday, Feb. 15, during the 18th Polar Bear Jump.
EDITIONS OF MARCH 7-8 – It was the shocker of the year on Feb. 19, when Walton and Delaware County sheriff’s officers knocked on the door of Cooperstown PumpkinFest founders and perennial top competitors Deb and Randy Sundstrom during an investigation in Walton. Inside, Deb set the house on fire and shot her dog and then herself. In searching the property in subsequent days, Randy’s body was discovered stuffed in a 55-gallon drum in the backyard. He may have been dead since 2011, investigators concluded. In photo, the couple is seen in the Doubleday Field parking lot with their 2009 PumpkinFest prizewinner.
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EDITIONS OF MARCH 14-15 – The Otsego County Chamber honored Bassett Healthcare’s four-county, Oneonta-based At Home Care (above is Laurie Neander, R.N. and CEO) with the NBT Bank Distinguished Business, and Hugh Henderson (seen at right with wife Betty and Tessa, their Jack Russell/beagle mix) as Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizens at its annual Banquet & Celebration of Business Friday, March 22, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union ballroom. The banquet is a highpoint of the business community’s annual cycle.
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EDITIONS OF MARCH 28-29 – Otsego County Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel measures the deck of the Route 11C span over the Susquehanna River at Hartwick Seminary, destroyed Wednesday, March 20, when a tootall truck carrying empty bottles for filling at Brewery Ommegang ran into the overhead truss, crumpling the 1932 structure beyond repair. Work began on a replacement this fall, with Tiderencel hoping for its completion by New Year’s. Meanwhile, all traffic back and forth between Routes 28 and 33 had to be rerouted 10 miles through Cooperstown or 20 miles through Milford, including tillers, harvesters and manure-spreaders from Jennifer Huntington’s Cooperstown Holstein Corp. in Phoenix Mills, which has fields on both sides of the river.
EDITIONS OF MARCH 21-22 – One of the heart-break stories of 2012 came to a happy ending this year as Loraine and Rich Tyler moved back into their rebuilt dream home atop Franklin Mountain. A year before on March 26, a vagrant spark from an ash bucket, whipped by high winds, burned the retired SUNY Oneonta professors’ recently completed log home to the ground, destroying his collection of vintage oil lamps and her sewing-related memorabilia. At right, their daughter Jessica surveyed the ashes after the blaze.
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EDITIONS OF APRIL 4-5 – Parker Sitterly, 4, Middlefield – at center in photo at left – leads the charge of gleeful youngsters across Hyde Hall’s egg-laden front lawn Saturday, March 30, during the National Historic Landmark’s annual Easter Egg Hunt. In all, 538 people – a record – and one dog participated; a record 296 goodie bags were handed out. In top photo, Carter Berger, Oneonta, gets a big hug from the Easter Bunny at Bookhout Funeral Home’s Easter Egg Hunt that same morning. Mika Velton patiently waits his turn in the background.
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EDITIONS OF APRIL 11-12 – Before a packed house of more than 200 bidders and gawkers Thursday, April 4, at his Otego enterprise, auctioneer Buzz Hesse solicits bids for a myriad of items from Stevens Hardware Store, downtown Oneonta’s oldest enterprise when it closed after third-generation John O. Stevens passed away the previous Nov. 20. The moosehead that decorated the store for decades brought $725; one of Stevens’ birch-bark canoes, $5,700.
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EDITIONS OF APRIL 18-19 – SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski shares a laugh with alumna Yvonne Cummings, a New York City hospital executive and a co-chair of the $12.5 million “Possibilities Full of Promise” drive, launched Monday, April 15 and aiming to reach its goal by the school’s 125th anniversary next year. In the background is alumnus and Wall street investor Jeff Strauss, the other co-chair. Kleniewski had quite a year, announcing a campus reorganization into a five-dean structure in September and investing an extra $250,000 at year’s end to ensure professors’ salaries are competitive.
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EDITIONS OF APRIL 25-26 – CCS varsity baseball tri-captains Nico Knull, Ethan Bliss and Sawyer Haney unveil the “Fowler Way” sign at the Saturday, April 20, dedication, during a weekend-long celebration and symposium in Cooperstown for John W. “Bud” Fowler, raised in the village, who scholars believe was the first black to play professional baseball. At left is Mayor Jeff Katz, who emceed.
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EDITIONS OF MAY 9-10 – Oneonta’s Ben Gollin vies with Cooperstown’s Joe Harman as they head for the finish line in the 800 as CCS hosted the Don Howard Invitational, a highpoint of the spring high school track & field season.
WEEK 18 EDITIONS OF MAY 2-3 – Bruce Shipman, descendant of David Shipman, reputed to be the model for James Fenimore Cooper’s Hawkeye, looks over the frontispiece in Hurd’s 1887 “History of Otsego County” showing his ancestor at Leatherstocking Falls, Town of Otsego.
Looking like a Hawkeye from Central Casting, Bruce Shipman provided this photo of himself with a deer he shot in the 1960s. In the news because CCS changed its nickname from “Redskins” to “Hawkeyes,” it turns out that, while Bruce is the family’s patriarch right now, there are dozens of relatives of the original Hawkeye still living in the area.
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EDITIONS OF MAY 1617 – Breaking ground on the $3 million William V. Campbell Fitness Center Friday, May 10, are, from left, Geoff Smith, Dewar Foundation trustee; Hartwick Trustee Carol Ann Hamilton Coughlin, ‘86, “It’s Personal” campaign chair; Diane Hettinger, ‘77, acting chair, Hartwick Board of Trustees; college President Margaret Drugovich; Brian Cook, ‘16, student; Megan Fallon, Dewar Union director, and Hartwick Trustees A. Bruce Anderson, ‘73, and Debra Fischer French, ‘80. The groundbreaking was the centerpiece of “A Blue Bash” weekend, where Drugovich announced the $32 million “It’s Personal” fund drive, mostly to underwrite scholarships to help keep Hartwick affordable.
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WEEK 22 EDITIONS OF MAY 30-31 – After enlisting the help of volunteer Jim Wolff of Fly Creek, Barbara Nigrelli of West Oneonta points to the name of Navy SEAL Walter Pope on “The Wall That Heals,” on display in the Doubleday Field parking lot over Memorial Day weekend. She had become friendly with Pope’s widow, Emily, while living in San Diego.
EDITIONS OF MAY 23-24 – Rev. Sundar Samuel surveys the sanctuary of Cooperstown Methodist Church, which has undergone a complete renovation during his decade as pastor. He accepted a pulpit in East Greenbush, and at mid-year was replaced locally by the Rev. Bill Delia, who moved here from the Capitol District.
EDITIONS OF JUNE 6-7 – Paterno Brothers’ Brian Paterno helps Melody Eldred, Coxsackie, use a P&D machine, as on-street paid parking came to downtown Cooperstown, much debated and decried despite the new revenue stream for Village Hall.
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EDITIONS OF JUNE 1314 – A decade ago, on the 250th anniversary of Methodism, the Rev. Ken Baldwin depicted John Wesley. He rode through the city on a white charger and preached a barn-burning sermon from atop a picnic table in Wilber Park. After a quarter century in his adopted city, the 90year-old retired cleric and his wife Nancy moved to a Rochester-area retirement home to be near a daughter.
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EDITIONS OF JUNE 27-28 – Marvis Frazier hams it up with his pal, Jamie Potter of Pie in the Sky, Otego, who had just published a biography of the Golden Gloves champ and son of Smokin’ Joe, “Meet Marvis Frazier.”
EDITIONS OF JULY 4-5 – Ted Peters Jr. of Cooperstown was among the curious who drove up East Lake Road Friday, June 28, to take a look at the latest subsidence. For the second time in two years, heavy rains washed out East Lake Road (County Route 31), Town of Middlefield, forcing its closing. This time, however, county Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel knew what to do: Using a method developed in Colorado (that he used the year before), his crews reattached the road to bedrock, and reopened the route within weeks.
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EDITIONS OF JULY 11-12 – Dr. Ron, Tami and Caleb Zerbe cool down in the Mill Run Creek portion of the Tuff eNuff race in Oneonta’s Neahwa Park. Sponsored by LEAF, and anti-drug and -alcohol abuse council, it drew a stark contrast to the excesses of the Furthur weekend in Cooperstown. Eighteen members of Dr. Zerbe’s family joined the 71-year-old in the 5K challenge.
EDITIONS OF JULY 18-19 – GOHS Executive Bob Brzozowski, right, relates the Little Red Caboose’s history on the 130th anniversary of the founding of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in that very car, now on permanent display in Neahwa Park. Also that weekend, retired D&H stalwart Tony Mongillo acknowledge it was he who, 40 years ago, lit a fire under the demolished roundhouse’s smokestack in the Fonda Avenue yards, a mystery much commented on at the time.
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EDITIONS OF JULY 25-26 – Oneonta’s Carol Dean, left, engages Victoria Wyeth on a finer point of Andrew Wyeth’s opus. The famed artist’s lively granddaughter shared memories and observations at Cooperstown’s Fenimore Art Museum, where “The Wyeths: A Family Legacy,” was on display over the summer.
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EDITIONS OF AUG. 1-2 – Homer Osterhoudt, retired Cooperstown mailman who has attended all but three Inductions since 1939, watches the Parade of Legends go down Main Street on Saturday, July 27, a high point of Induction Weekend. A book about Homer’s memories will be published this year in time for the 75th Induction Sunday, July 27.
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EDITIONS OF AUG. 22-23 – Benefactors Gene and Betty Bettiol, center, pose with family members after the main theater at the Foothills Performing Arts Center was christened in honor of their family Sunday, Aug. 18. Other family members are, from left, Matt and granddaughter Amanda Lopiccolo (she is holding Owen, one month old, the Bettiols’ first great-grandchild); Patricia, wife of the late Gene A. Bettiol Jr., and daughter Jaci Bettiol and her son, Eric Michelitsch.
WEEK 35 EDITIONS OF AUG. 30-31 – Young Eve Lytel of Cooperstown, on mom Dr. Beth Olearczyk’s back, waves her first protest placard. The whole family, including dad Rob Lytel and sons Samuel and Lucian, made the trek to the Binghamton anti-fracking protest ahead of President Obama’s Town Hall at SUNY Binghamton during the president’s mid-August Upstate swing.
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EDITIONS OF SEPT. 2627 – The official mug shot of Michael Buck, 33, shows a wound received when he exchanged gunfire early on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 21, with his father, Joseph, 64, a retired Worcester Central teacher, at the family’s Indian Run Road home, Town of Middlefield. The son was charged with second-degree murder in a Bassett hospital bed. The case is still being adjudicated. This was the first murder case in Otsego County since 2005, according to District Attorney John Muehl.
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EDITIONS OF SEPT. 12-13 – Ranging from funny to biting, Sherman Alexie, left, whose novel, “Flight,” was SUNY Oneonta’s first “common read” – it was assigned to all freshman – shared the Native American experience in “Without Reservation,” delivered to 1,000 attendees at the Alumni Field House Tuesday, Sept. 10. Below, freshman Emmi Albarano was the first to question Alexie. Alexie had a banner year, featured in TIME’s “Ten Questions for...” backpage, written up in the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, and airing his views on NPR.
WEEK 38 EDITIONS OF SEPT. 1920 – Oneonta’s Kathy and Spike Paranya pass through what used to be Santa’s workshop on the second floor of the former Newberry’s as part of the “Look Up!” tour of downtown’s forgotten upstairs, sponsored by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. More than 300 partook. At year’s end, City Hall received a $200,000 state CFA grant to help developer David Lubin, who also owns the local Hampton Inn, redo this and an adjoining building. They were most recently occupied by Karma Spa (which moved down Main Street) and Java Island.
EDITIONS OF OCT. 3-4 – Buzz Hesse, the Otego auctioneer, revealed he had acquired a 257.4pound cannon believed to have been lost during the 1779 Clinton-Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois during the American Revolution. A fisherman had found the object in the Susquehanna River bank near that village. Hesse surmised the cannon may have fallen off one of 200 of General Clinton’s flat-bottomed bateaux as it tried to navigate a bend in the river. The object itself is not necessarily rare; but it is very rare that such an item can be linked so specifically to a particular military action.
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EDITIONS OF OCT. 10-11 – Brooks’ House of BBQ proprietors Ryan and Beth Brooks are building their business, not just for themselves, but for a fourth generation, their children Carter and Abigail, they said an interview two weeks before receiving the Breakthrough Award at the Otsego County Chamber’s 14th annual Banquet & Celebration of Small Business at The Otesaga. The award came as Brooks, an Oneonta institution, received a state CFA grant to expand its bottling plant behind the restaurant on Route 7 at Oneonta’s East End.
WEEK 42 EDITIONS OF OCT 17-18 – Cooperstown Distillery’s Montell Marra cuts the ribbon on the 11 Railroad Ave. facility Friday, Oct. 10, as, from left, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, proprietor Gene Marra and Cooperstown Chamber Executive Director Patricia Szarpa look on. Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, the Otsego County’s first distillery is manufacturing Fenimore Gin, Glimmerglass Vodka and Beanball Bourbon. The Marras moved their family up from Boca Grande, Fla., to launch the company. Gene, a restaurateur in Georgia and Florida, had become familiar with Cooperstown during a stint as a consultant at the Blue Mingo restaurant a few years ago.
Also at the Chamber banquet, Five Star Subaru, operated by partners Ben Guenther, left, and Blaine Jennings, received the Small Business Award. The dealership was cited in particular for its support of the arts and other community activities.
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WEEK 43 EDITIONS OF OCT. 2425 – Artist James Cory Webster of Oneonta left, hams it up with Garcelle Beauvais, the Haitian-born actress and fashion model, and writer Sebastian Jones on the “I Am” booksigning party in Santa Monica. Webster, an OHS graduate whose parents run Alfresco’s restaurant, got a chance to collaborate with “The Jamie Foxx Show” co-star on a series of kids’ books featuring multiracial children.
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EDITIONS OF OCT. 31-NOV. 1 – Oneonta Job Corps supervisor Clifford Greenwood directs students Johnathan Hill and Javon Daniels in renovations of the Oneonta Municipal Airport terminal, the first since its completion in 1966. The Job Corps was in the news this year, as its contract with the U.S. Labor Department ran out and a new one is being negotiated. The airport was also in the news, as Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller and others began to perceive it as – along with I-88 and the D&H railyards – as a key asset in Greater Oneonta’s economic development.
“Ghost Hunter” Steve Gonsalves gasps as he enters the Hyde Hall crypt.
EDITIONS OF NOV. 7-8 – Hyde Hall tour guide Gary Koutnik, Oneonta, tells a spooky story to, from left, Bob Vandenbergh, Waterville, Morgan Hill-Edgar, Cooperstown, and Jocelyn Harris and daughter Leean, Worcester. Attendance at ghost tours at the National Historic Landmark mansion on Otsego Lake spiked after the SyFy Channel’s “Ghost Hunters” found ghostly presences and featured the building on its Halloween episode.
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EDITION OF NOV. 21-22 – At his second “Economic Development Summit” Nov. 14 at Foothills in Oneonta, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, draws a laugh when he cautions economic developers from other counties not to poach on Otsego prospects. Seated from left are Genesee’s Steve Hyde, Ontario’s Mike Manikowski, Broome’s Steve McLaughlin, and Brian McMahon, the state’s top development executive. At morning’s end, Dick Sheehy, a consultant with CH2M Hill Consultants, who finds sites for companies seeking to expand, told the gathering Otsego County is “not on the list” because it lacks shovel-ready development sites and a single point of contact. Sheehy’s declaration had, by year’s end, inspired the county Industrial Development Agency (IDA) and related offices to seek to hire Sandy Mathes, the uniquely successful former Green County economic developer, to upgrade economic development here.
WEEK 48 EDITIONS OF NOV. 28-29 – This JollyOld-Elf-like individual was seen helping the Cooperstown Christmas Committee decorate Main Street Sunday, Nov. 24. It must have been Santa, must have been Santa, for Mr. Claus himself was in evidence throughout the county within a few days.
EDITIONS OF NOV. 14-15 – Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of the Catholic Diocese of Albany, which includes Otsego County, tries out an engraved bat presented to him by this year’s confirmation class at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church, Cooperstown. As a boy, the bishop had dreamed of being centerfielder for a pro baseball team before he discovered his vocation. His visit was particularly poignant this year, as the bishop had just turned 75 and, under Vatican regulations, had to submit his resignation to Pope Francis; he will continue until his successor is named. When he was elevated in 1977, Hubbard was the youngest Catholic bishop in the nation; on his retirement, he is the longest serving. He is also the first diocesan native – he was raised in Troy – to hold the job. In an interview, he referred to Otsego County as “The Diocese South,” and recalled the pleasure of delivering the invocation at Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies over the years.
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EDITIONS OF DEC. 12-13 – Muralist Frank Anthony discusses the first Greater Oneonta History Center mural with collaborating artist Carol Mandigo at his Hamden studio. They, other artists, and photographer Jason Sexton are preparing five murals to be mounted on the History Center’s Dietz Street side over bricked up windows. The first may be put in place as soon as First Night celebrations at month’s end.
EDITIONS OF DEC. 5-6 – It looked like the championship game of the Drago Tournament might get away from the OHS Yellowjackets basketball team, towards the end of the fourth period, but the cheers of Oneonta’s Britten Zeh, Angeline McGraw, Emily Zeh, Anna Bischoff and Mackenzie Catan heralded OHS’ 59-32 win over Johnson City to claim the tournament’s title. Legendary coach and former athletic director Tony Drago was on hand to present the trophy to the home team.
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EDITIONS OF DEC. 26-27 – The Voices of Cooperstown sing out, “and the glory, the glory of the Lord” from “The Messiah.” The chorus sings the Handel masterpiece every other year; this was the year, and the performance filled Christ Episcopal Church Saturday afternoon, Dec. 21. The director is maestro Dan Foster, founder and director of Aoede Consort, who also plays keyboard, sings tenor and directs numerous groups in the Capital District. The four soloists again included Susan Vaules Lin, daughter of David and Martha Vaules of Cooperstown, who was raised in the village and now is raising her own family in suburban Washington, D.C., where she performs at the National Cathedral and other venues.
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