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EDITION OF APRIL 23-24: Recuperating from a near-fatal bout of COVID-19, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, emerges from his home on Milford’s North Main Street Saturday afternoon, April 18, to wave to a parade of decorated, honking cars, organized by his church, Milford United Methodist, to welcome him back from Albany Med. Maureen Johnson is driving. Even before his experience in the ICU, Seward, who has served Otsego County in Albany for 34 years, had announced his retirement at the end of 2020. EDITION OF APRIL 30MAY1: Cooperstown’s Price Chopper’s Sarah Vandomelen and Becky Welsh show off their homemade masks, which became a crafty – and safe! – way to show off your fashion sense.
EDITION OF MAY 14-15: Responding to restrictions, Cooperstown artist Ashley Norwood Cooper announced plans for a art sale on the sidewalk of her Lake Street home. The pandemic’s seclusion caused her to refocus on her muse, including a 10-foot-tall canvas.
EDITION OF MAY 7-8: Jeff Joyner, Fox Hospital president, waves as the LifeNet helicopter lands at the FoxCare Center after a fly-over on Tuesday, May 5, part of a parade of decorated fire trucks to thank staff on the front lines of the COVID19 pandemic.
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WEEK 21
EDITION OF
MAY 21-22:
Cooperstown Mayor
Tillapaugh describes the more prominent placement of Victor
Salvatore’s
“The Sandlot Kid,” as $5 million in renovations to the Doubleday
Field complex neared completion.
WEEK 22 of business bikes as EDITION OF MAY 28-
people
29: After Oneonta’s Memorial Day ceremony at the Veterans’ Monument in Neahwa Park, George Sluti brought the ceremony to World War II veteran John Forman, stopping by Forman’s Walling Avenue home to express appreciation for his service. With Forman is his daughter, Patricia.
EDITION OF JUNE 11-12: Sam Baskin hits the trails in Oneonta’s Wilber Park. Bikes were hard to come by as factories closed, but Baskin had plenty fixing up WEEK 23
sought outdoor activities during the pandemic.
EDITION OF JUNE 4-5: With protests erupting around the nation, 500 people gathered at Oneonta’s Muller Plaza Sunday, May 31, calling for justice in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In the days that followed, similar rallies occurred in Cooperstown, Unadilla and Delhi.
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EDITION OF JULY 2-3: Danielle Basdekis, center, walks alongside parents Teri and Theodore Basdekis to accept her diploma at one of three socially distanced Oneonta High School graduation ceremonies. Across Otsego County, measures were taken to provide distance between graduation attendees. At Cooperstown Central, ceremonies were moved from The Fenimore Museum’s back lawn to the high school, where graduates sat on a sports field while parents and families remained in parked cars across the way.
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EDITION OF JUNE 25-26: Milly Parish came home, moving into an apartment in the Plains at Parish Homestead, built a decade ago on her family’s former farm in West Oneonta. EDITION OF JULY 9-10: The crew of the SS Howarth displays patriotic fervor at the Otsego Lake Association’s Fourth of July Boat Parade, including Mary Cate Vogelsberger, Caroline Bibbee, Sarah Jane Bibbee, Timmy Vogelsberger and Charlie Bibbee. Hidden from view is the skipper, OLA co-President Jim Howarth. The parade cruised from Three Mile Point to Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park.
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EDITION OF JUNE 18-19: Angela Eldred and Shane Hovick of Hartwick enjoy the coziness of plastic bubbles set up by Bocca Osteria, Coopers- town, to protect its customers.
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EDITION OF JULY 16-17: Eli and Melissa Miosek enjoyed visiting Wilber Park’s “Fairyland” so much that they decided to add to it. The whimsical toy village, started by Abbey Koutnik, was a way for children to get out and play when many were stuck inside due to COvID-19.
WEEK 31 EDITION OF JULY 30-31: Oneonta native Elizabeth Patterson, a Columbia County florist, introduces “Say Their Names,” memorial wall, featuring photos of black people killed in acts of racial violence. The display was installed along the wall above the Westcott Lot in downtown Oneonta for three weeks, and a similar memorial went up in Cooperstown a month later. EDITION OF AUG. 6-7: The walls of proud father Brian D. Burns’ office pay tribute to his children’s college careers. A county judge, Burns was selected by a Republican judicial convention, then elected Nov. 3, to succeed retiring state Supreme Court Judge Michael Coccoma. In September, the county Republican Committee selected Oneonta attorney Michael Getman to succeed Burns on the county bench.
WEEK 30
EDITION OF JULY 23-24: Erika Heller criticizes Gabriel Truitt, foreground, for rolling his eyes as she read her victim’s impact statement at Truitt’s sentencing. Truitt was found guilty of seconddegree murder and arson in the death of her brother-in-law, former Oneonta fireman John Heller in January 2018 when he set fire to a Whaling Avenue apartment house. Heller died while rescuing three nephews and his fiancé from the flames.
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EDITION OF AUG. 21-22: Inside Oneonta’s ISD Tech, Korey Rowe, left, steadies the camera on actor Cuyle Carvin for a scene from “Asteroids,” written by Rowe and his screenwriting partner, Dylan Avery. Cuyle, a 1999 OHS graduate, is also starring in the forthcoming film, “The 24th” by Oscar-winning director Kevin Willmott.
WEEK 35 EDITION OF AUG. 27-28: Red Shed’s Wyatt Crowley shows off the brewery’s new product – canned beer. Red Shed, Council Rock Brewery, Brewery Ommegang and other Central New York breweries set up canning lines during the year of COVID, after bars were closed and had no reason to order kegs.
EDITION OF SEPT. 10-11: As the SUNY Oneonta infestation peaked 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. More than 700 students became infected with COVID-19 after maskless house parties, forcing the school to go remote one month after
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EDITION OF AUG. 13-14: Simple Integrity partner Jon Edgington surveys Butch and Mary Welch’s vintage threshing barn in the Town of Middlefield. Edgington, citing key Bible passages, said the common threshing technique common in Otsego County in the early 19th Century goes back 2,000 years. Oxen are attached to the swing beam above Edgington’s head and walk in a circle, threshing the wheat beneath their hooves. Growing wheat was replaced by dairy farms by the time of the Civil War. The Welches, who moved to the Middlefield hamlet almost a decade ago, were pioneers in the rehabilitation of Cooperstown’s Railroad Avenue.
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EDITION OF SEPT. 24-25: At the time of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Sept. 18 at age 87, Cooperstown’s Kay Pierro turned her SUV into a tribute to the groundbreaking jurist, who for the previous 10 years had annually emceed a local fundraiser, “Opera & the Law,” to benefit the Glimmerglass Festival. In the early years, Kay was Ginsburg’s cook during the annual visits, but the two became close friends. Famously, Ginsburg and the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who differed politically, had forged a friendship over a common love of opera.
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EDITION OF OCT. 1-2: Cooperstown Village Trustee Mac Benton receives a hug from challenger Mary-Margaret Robbins after he won a runoff election for Village Board on Tuesday, Sept. 29, in an election delayed from March by the COVID threat. By year’s end, Benton was already looking ahead, declaring he plans to challenge County Rep. Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego, in next June’s Democratic primary. EDITION OF JULY 1718: State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, presents a plaque to Mallory Delaney of Oneonta, honoring her as one of the state Senate’s Women of Distinction for 2020. In practice for five years at 125 Main in Oneonta, she focuses on addiction recovery and “medically complex” adults. During the COVID-19 pandemic threat, she helped test thousands of people from across the eightcounty region. With Delaney and the senator are Bassett Network President/CEO Tommy Ibrahim, right, and Bassett Hospital President Bill LeCates.
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EDITION OF OCT. 8-9: Unveiling the sign on Route 201 honoring a fallen Hartwick Marine Sgt. John Kempe Winslow, who was killed in Vietnam, are, from left, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Assemblyman John Salka, R-Brookfield, Christine and Michael Winslow, Winslow’s brother and sister-in-law; sister Maria Winslow Folts and her husband Donald. More than 100 friends and wellwishers gathered to hear appreciations by Seward, Salka and Wayne Bunn, a boyhood pal. Honor guards were provided by Hartwick and Cooperstown veterans organizations. WEEK 42
EDITION OF OCT. 15-16: 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. Here, one of the revellers enjoys an Otsego County
fall afternoon.
EDITION OF OCT. 22-23: Amanda Calkins, left, and Danielle Dalton, both of Oneonta, take an order from Laura Page of Cooperstown, shortly after Brooks House of BBQ Ryan Brooks reinvented the Oneonta establishment after grappling with COVID-19 most of the year. Brooks converted completely to take-out service, reinvented the sit-down restaurant as a sit-down for takeout customers, and began selling wine and beer.
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EDITION OF OCT. 29-30: Coming from a family of firefighters and police officers, SUNY Oneonta interim President Dennis Craig senses when trouble is coming – it’s in his DNA. In an exclusive interview with the AllOTSEGO.com newspapers, the president, appointed Oct. 15, told how on arriving at SUNY Purchase in 2008, he immediately established a Disaster Preparedness Committee to anticipate such threats as COVID. When the disease first erupted last spring in New York State at New Rochelle, Craig’s decisive response limited infestations to single digits. He succeeded Barbara Jean Morris, president when 107 cases broke out at SUNY Oneonta the first week of school and rose to 754 – the most for any SUNY campus – before it was quelled.
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EDITION OF NOV. 12-13: A safe social distance from the camera, retiring Sen. Jim and Cindy Seward pose on their back porch after the senator was interviewed on receiving the Otsego County Chamber’s Eugene Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award, which was conferred virtually.
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EDITION OF DEC. 3-4: 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. EDITION OF NOV. 26-27: May-Britt Joyce created this painting of Rocky, the Saw-whet owl found in “Daddy Al” Dick’s Rockefeller Center-bound Christmas tree. She raffled off the original, raising $135 to benefit the SSPCA’s “Shelter Us” campaign, and has so far gone through three printings of Rocky greeting cards, available at the Family Tree Gallery, upper Main Street, Cooperstown.
EDITION OF NOV. 19-20: SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes discusses progress on the shelter with Lane Construction Project Manager Rick Bliss, left, and architect Andrew Schuster. The new shelter, built with the $5 million “Shelter Us” campaign, began to rise this spring and is expected to be have a grand opening in Spring 2021.
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How can we possible begin this tale when we are at the end of our journey with Mohican Flowers?
Although our journey with Mohican Flowers has come to an end, it continues in Cooperstown with dear friends and family and all of the acquaintances we have made over the last 50 years. It’s been a joy to be able to provide inspiration and joy with our flowers as well as a joy living amongst some of the best people on earth! It may be goodbye from Mohican Flowers…but it certainly isn’t goodbye from the area.
Thank you so much and see you around ! --Waller/Bateman Family
1971 2020 2004
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EDITION OF DEC. 17-18: Snow Sisters Stephanie Ward, left, and Bethany Marx greet visitors at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville. Known as the Hill City Ice Queen, the SUNY Oneonta Theater professor is a frequent guest at downtown festivities and “princess parties,” where she and her legion of fairy princesses entertain children throughout the region. EDITION OF DEC. 17-18: A 50-car parade on Dec. 19 honored the retiring owner of Mohican Flowers Carol B. Waller, who is also a former Cooperstown mayor, and Claire Satriano who joined the venerable upper Main Street flower shop on graduating from college 42-years ago, and never left. The parade was led by a Cooperstown Fire Department pumper bearing Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Fire Chief Jim Tallman. State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and his wife Cindy stopped momentarily to present Waller with a retirement present. Carol and husband Bill intend to work through New Year’s Eve day, then close the shop, which has been in business since 1901. Carol’s father, former County Rep. Charles Bateman, bought it in 1971.
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