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CELEBRATE FOURTH OF JULY
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
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The Cherry Valley-Springfield Endowment Foundation for Educational Excellence is raffling off a patriotically decorated Adirondack chair at the end of Springfield’s Fourth of July Celebration. Details, call (607) 264-3069.
GRAND PARADE: 11 a.m., venerable Fourth of July Parade, Springfield Center, followed by celebration at community center; Brooks Barbecue.
IN ONEONTA: Hometown Celebration, noon to fireworks at dusk; food, games, music at Neahwa Park. Free Oneonta Tigers baseball game at Damaschke Field.
ICE CREAM: Noon-8 p.m., Benson Agency Real Estate, 1 Grand St., Oneonta. Proceeds to benefit area charities. Bring a non-perishable food item and receive free ice cream.
CELEBRATION: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Hanford Mills Museum, East Meredith. Music, a kids’ fishing derby, frog-jumping contests, sack races and tin-type portraits.
CABOOSE TOUR: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Neahwa Park, tours of historic Little Red Caboose.
IN COOPERSTOWN: 8 p.m. Friday July 3, Lake Front Park, Cooperstown. The Cooperstown Community Band will perform until dark, followed by fireworks. Rain date July 5.
IN RICHFIELD: Fireworks at dusk, Fourth of July, from the island in Canadarago Lake. Rain date Sunday, July 5.
OLD-FASHIONED 4TH: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., The Farmers’ Museum, Grand-Old Independence Day Celebration at the Farm. Festooned with patriotic bunting, museum hosts authentic 1845 celebration with patriotic games, dances and orations. $11 adults, $9.50 seniors, $5 age 7-12, members free.
CAMPSITE CONTEST: 11 a.m., Glimmerglass State Park. Decorate your campsite with a patriotic theme, prize awarded.
CHURCH MUSIC: Noon, Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River St., Cooperstown. “Music Minutes” highlighting J. S. Bach, played by Flora Beth Cunningham as visitors walk through the campus and sanctuary of Christ Church.
CONCERT: 5 p.m., Windfall Dutch Barn, Salt Springville. A Quiet Concert for the Fourth, an Independence-Day musical and social tribute to the late Louise Porter Moore. Followed by a pot-luck supper. Information, 436-3419 or cherryvalley.com/windfall.
ICE CREAM: 5-8 p.m. Friday, July 3, Cooperstown Presbyterian Church. Hot dogs, hamburgers, salads, ice cream and homemade cake available. Also handmade, fair trade, second hand items and plants will be for sale. Information, 547-9744.Labels: 07-03-09, The City of the Hills |
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Hometown People
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Parent Company Names New President/CEO At Ommegang
Simon Thorpe, a British-American citizen who most recently lived in Belgium, has been named president & CEO of Duvel Moortgat USA and Brewery Ommegang, according to an announcement from the parent company, Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat of Puurs, Belgium.
Since April 27, when he arrived in Cooperstown, he has been teamed with Laurent Demuynck, his predecessor, through the end of June to ensure a smooth transition.
Thorpe was previously president and CEO of InBev USA, the successor company to Anheuser Busch, and brings extensive experience in the U.S. premium and imported beer segments, the announcement said.
He has held senior management positions at Unilever, Kellogg and the Compass Group Plc. Thorpe is a graduate of University of Birmingham.
Thorpe said, “I have admired both Duvel and Ommegang for many years; in my mind they have the greatest potential for growth and profitability in the U.S. premium and craft categories. I applaud the previous work developing the business.”
Said Demuynck. “I am proud to hand over the reins of a team that has developed a superb network of US distributors and increased revenues over 10-fold in the last seven years.”
The company said he is leaving “to satisfy his long-standing desire − and current plans − to involve himself in social development ventures. Look him up somewhere south of the equator next year.”
St. Rose Honors 9 Local Students
Five Oneonta students are on the Dean’s List at the College of St. Rose, Albany, for the spring semester: Amy DeAngelo, Theresa Kabat, Katrina Ranc, Ashley Schulte and Justine Wiltsie.
Also honored are Elizabeth Delaney, Morris; Candace Eschler, Garrattsville; Amanda Loitsch, Gilbertsville, and Adam Mish, Laurens.
Pediatrician Joins Fox Practice
Dr. Nasreen Kabeer has joined A.O. Fox’s Child & Adolescent Healthcare Associates practice.
She is board certified in pediatrics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Most recently, she practiced in Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla.
Dr. Kabeer joins Drs. Tarricone, Tannenbaum, Boheen and Jayasena in the FoxCare Center practice.
EARNS B.A.: Anthony Dilello of Oneonta has received a B.A. in liberal studies at American International College’s 124th commencement in Springfield, Mass.
ON DEAN’S LIST: Two students from Otego, Gina Angilletta and Emily Davis, are on the Dean’s List at SUNY Plattsburgh for the spring semester.Labels: 07-03-09, Hometown People |
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Rain-Delayed Tigers Hold First-Place Spot
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CHRIS McSWIGGIN
At mid-week, The Oneonta Tigers sat tied for first with the archrival Tri-City Valley Cats with both clubs sitting at 5-4.
Oneonta has shown some amazing talent this year, coached by a very dedicated and experienced coaching staff.
However, the one thing the Tigers have lacked this season is consistency. One game they will flash the big sticks and the next game they will get shut out.
Oneonta, which has a very strong pitching core, seems to just be finding its comfort zone at the plate. Since the last Hometown Oneonta report, they have certainly made the season interesting.
Oneonta finished its series with Lowell on a good note, racking up a 3-0 over the Spinners on the road before heading to Vermont where they would take the first game of that series 5-2.
The Tigers were flying high, but weather put a damper on the fire they had lit.
Their second game of three in Burlington was postponed due to rain. In the New York-Penn League, when a game is rained out, the teams play a two-game, seven-inning doubleheader next time they meet.
Oneonta would drop both games (0-3, 1-2) before returning to Damaschke Field for a series against the same Lowell Spinners they took two games from the series before.
Oneonta would use the back-to-back losses as momentum, beating the Spinners 9-3 in game one. Michael Rockett, a U Texas San Antonio prospect, hit the first home run of the season for the Tigers and the first of his professional career. In that game, six Tigers racked up RBIs: third baseman Wade Gaynor (1), first baseman Rawley Bishop (2), OF/DH Alexis Espinoza (2), catcher Eric Roof (1), left fielder Matt Mansilla (1), and Rockett (1).
The Tigers brought out the big sticks in this game, tallying up a highest run total of the season so far with nine across the board.
However, the next night, after a 50-plus minute rain delay, the Tigers would fall to the visiting Spinners 5-0. Their third game, scheduled for Tuesday, June 30, was cancelled mid-afternoon when a storm that flooded the field.
The Tigers will meet the Spinners in a double header the next time they visit Damaschke, Sept. 2. Lowell currently sits at third place in the NY-P Stedler division at 5-6.
Oneonta now goes on the road to face a team outside of their division, the NY-P MacNamara second place team, the Aberdeen Ironbirds (4-6).
Oneonta returns home July 4 for a six-game home stand vs. Aberdeen and Vermont before hitting the road again to take on Tri City.
Bring a canned food to the ballpark on the Fourth of July and your admission is free.Labels: 07-03-09, Hometown Sports, oneonta tigers |
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User-Friendly Master Class
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SAM GOODYEAR
ART BEAT
In Terrence McNally’s commanding play, “Master Class,” which depicts the legendary and fiery Maria Callas conducting just such an exercise, the audience quickly learns that the grand prima donna means serious business.
In the first minutes she singles out a man in the audience and says to him, “You may be very nice, very decent. But you don’t have a look. Get one!” Three young singers come before her and she disposes of them with a deadly mix of emotional gangsterism and terrorism. Her final victim stands up to her and when the curtain comes down the spectator feels like a hostage finally rescued.
“I am no terrorist,” says Mary Dunleavy, appearing as Violetta in this summer’s production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” at Glimmerglass. The opera, directed by the venerable Jonathan Miller, opens the season on Saturday, July 18, and if that weren’t pressure enough, Miss Dunleavy has added to her demanding schedule a master class, which she will conduct 2-4 p.m. Friday, July 10, at the Fenimore Art Museum.
Typically, a master class is an exercise in public pedagogy in which performers come before the “master” to drink from the source, as it were, ready to be critiqued on various levels and thereby add to their understanding of their art.
The scrutiny is intimate and intense. The presence of an audience provides the crucial dimension of public performance conditions. Ideally, artist, spectator and perhaps even the pedagogue come away broadened and enlightened.
Miss Dunleavy has conducted many master classes (when she is not singing all over the world), particularly at the University of Texas, where she earned her master’s degree under Mignon Dunn.
“I look to be helpful,” she says, “not to hurt or to confuse.” Her focus is not so much on technique per se as questions of character development, language, and other performance considerations. Above all, her aim is to reaffirm and reinforce the singers’ artistry.
Four to six members of the Glimmerglass Young Artists’ Program will sing for the vibrant and compelling soprano, whose current repertory focuses largely on Verdi, Mozart, and bel canto generally. She does not know in advance what the performers have chosen to present for her. Nothing is pre-scripted or rehearsed in advance.
It should prove to be a stimulating afternoon. Admission is free. And by the way, perhaps you don’t yet have a ticket for Verdi’s exalting rendering of Alexander Dumas’ “La Dame aux Camelias”? Get one!
Sam Goodyear’s column on the arts in Otsego and Delaware counties appears weekly.Labels: 07-03-09, Art Beat, Columns, In The City of the Hills, Sam Goodyear |
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137 Graduates Joyous About Future, Wistful About Past
By LAURA COX
‘I’m a college student now!”
This joyous exclamation is how Oneonta High School Class of 2009 graduate ChaCha Naito exited the auditorium after leading her class out of the school’s 140th commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 27.
As class secretary, Naito had the honor of leading the men, who were dressed in blue robes, both in and out of the ceremony; class treasurer Madie Harlem led the women, who were dressed in yellow.
The auditorium was packed with proud parents, grandparents, siblings and friends as the 137 graduates filed down the aisles and onto the stage to the sounds of the band playing Pomp and Circumstance. The air was filled with a sense of accomplishment and pride from all.
Class Co-Presidents Megan Brannan and Alicia Smith greeted the assembly and spoke about the diversity of the Class of 2009 and its excellence in many areas including music, athletics and academics.
The announcement of the class gift – a scholarship fund for future senior students – was made by Class Vice President Jenna Konstantine.
The class, she said, intends for the fund to support students who would otherwise not be able to afford senior activities such as the senior trip and prom; they believe it should last for five years. Anyone who needs to use the fund will speak to the class advisor or guidance office in confidence.
After more than $90,000 in community donations making up 70 scholarships and 51 awards were presented to 101 students, Valedictorian Hannah Lawson gave her valedictory speech on the themes of reflection, working together, friendship and choice making.
Principal Nancy Lawson spoke, Superintendent Michael Shea distributed the diplomas. And, after a standing ovation, the graduates exited to the “Raiders’ March.”
ONEONTA HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 2009
Here are the 137 members of the Class of 2009 who graduated from Oneonta High School on Saturday, June 27:
Erik J. Accurso
Roger L. Ackley
Andrea Elizabeth Aikens
Bridgette Katherine Aikens
Nathaniel Armstrong
Sara E. Baker
Samantha Baroni
Garrett Andrew Barrett
John A. Bellinger
Andre M. Berwin
Ian Stafford Bidwell
Megan Elizabeth Brannan
Robert Steven Bredin
Cassie J. Brewer
Maureen Pearl Brown
Rachel Marie Buckley
Anthony John Burns
Matthew J. Carlson
Natasha Ann Caulkins
Devan W. Cayea
Shayla-Kaye Clough
Krystal Marie Coltrane
Eric Scott Coss
Martin H. Couch
Rebecca J. Cruz
Kaitlin Ruth-Marie Culpepper
Patrick Christian DeAndrea
Brian A. Deming
Kayla Geraldine DeSilva
Daniel James Dokuchitz
Lindsey Morgan Doxtader
Daniel Drake
Alison Dyer
Benjamin L. Ehrets
Sumner T. Elwood
Rebekkah Rose Fernley
Bradley Eugene Fink
Amanda L. Flannery
Candice Nicole Flathmann
Taylor Danelle Foreman
Rachel Fox
Joshua S. Frederick
Audree L. Frutiger
Derek Kevin Georgia
John Thomas Gibson
Anna Glotzer
Ryan Greenberg
Rachel Shelby Grigsby
Kristine Rose Gruber
Peatros T. Haile
Thomas W. Haney
Madeline R. Harlem
Christopher John Hayen
Rebecca Lynn Hill
Chelsea Leann Hoffman
Caley Ellin Holden
Gwyneth T. Hyland
Jessica Marie Ignone
Steva Alexis Jeremias
Heather Kathryn Jones
Monica Anne Jones
Ian F. Kelley
Jaclyn Elizabeth Kelly
Spencer Wiley Koenig
Jenna Mae Konstantine
Victoria L. LaBarr
Jonathan Lancto
Debra Lander
Hannah Marie Lawson
Joy E. Levers
Aidan Ford Macdonald
Nicholas W. Madison
Luke Mancuso
Chelsea Lynn Marble
Matthew Adam Marcewicz
Jesse E. Matus
Zoey Meyers
Alexander J. Miller
Nicollette Marie Miosky
Alex William Mirabito
Donald Mitchell
Kurtis R. Moffett
Chloe Gabrielle Muller
Chiharu Naito
Haley E. O’Brien
Timothy M. O’Connor, Jr.
Kaylan E. Ogden
Caitlin G. Parkes
Rebecca D. Payne
Eleron Marilus Pfoutz
Brendan Timothy Pidgeon
Ryan P. Pidgeon
Scott Louis Platukis
Abigael Hannah Puritz
Zane Relethford
Teeana Renee Rendon
Ryan Michael Renwick
Meredith A. Ridgway
Marc Steven Rivera, Jr.
Kegan M. Robinson
Jenna Renae Rotolo
Francis Anthony Russo
Matthew Santamont
Michael Ross Santamont
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OHS Class of 2009 Wasn’t Afraid To Have A Good Time
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By LAURA COX
 They were athletes, musicians, academics, writers and actors, and they defined their OHS Class of 2009 by the places they have been, the places they are going, things they have done and the things they will do.
“I see bright futures for so many of my classmates,” said Class Co-President Megan Brannan, who will attend SUNY New Paltz to study art education.
In a post-graduation discussion group Monday, June 30, in the Latte Lounge, she said her classmates were never embarrassed to goof around. They learned the dance to “Thriller” on their senior trip and wore crazy suits to prom.
“We always had fun,” she said.
Zane Relethford, who will attend Brandeis University in the fall, had a lot of fun his senior year.
He participated in board game club, played a large part in the high school’s production of “Les Miserables” and wore a tie every Thursday – on the last Thursday he wore all of his ties.
Relethford’s favorite teacher was Band Director Michael Depauw, because he “led the band to victory,” and ran the board game club, a of the highlight of Relethford’s time at OHS.
Depauw was also a favorite teacher for Joe Sastic, who will attend Ithaca College to major in tuba performance and music education.
“He has effective ways of motivating students to play the band music correctly.”
Ian Bidwell, who will also attend Ithaca, agreed with Relethford and Sastic adding , “His sense of humor, his musical taste and ability, and his ability to motivate, make him a great teacher.”
The three also mentioned anthropology teacher Will Clemons as another favorite.
As for most memorable moments, “Les Miserables” seem to top the list for this group.
“Putting on ‘Les Miserables,’ the most amazing, insane, hardcore musical Oneonta has ever seen, was my most memorable moment,” said Jenna Konstantine, co-vice president of the class, who will attend Vassar.
“ I died on stage from a bullet wound in front of an audience three nights in a row,” she said. “It was great.”
Valedictorian Hannah Lawson’s most memorable moment was her acceptance to MIT: “I felt as though my dream was coming true.”
For Martin Couch, his most real moment was at graduation itself.
His father, Richard, had passed away unexpectedly just a week before.
“My name was the last name called in the entire ceremony,” said Martin, “and as the crowd stood in ovation, I know that part of that was support for me.”Labels: 07-03-09, Hometown People, Oneonta High School |
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Graduations Over, Adventure Begins, Life’s Adventure
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It’s a curious time to have to contemplate the future.
With the economic turmoil of the past year, who knows what’s in store.
If you’d attended the several high school graduations of the past couple of weeks, you would have heard many speakers look forward optimistically: Yes, things may be a bit bleak now, but they’ll turn around and, then, we will be able to pursue our vocations and lives as we wish.
It was curious that the four leading students at Cooperstown High School were most confident about having control of their future lives.
“A lot of great things are coming our way,” said one of the speakers. “Yes, you will start at the bottom, but opportunities will arise for advancement. Remember that nothing is set. You can do anything; you just have to do it.”
This is a commendable perspective. And optimists who hitch their wagons to stars are that much more likely to enter the stratosphere than someone who simply looks at the ground, putting one foot in front of the other.
However, the reality all humans face together is that we are not going to be able to control everything that happens to us.
We may be lucky, for a few years or for many years, but eventually the verities of ill health and death – either our own or loved ones’ – will be visited upon us, as well as less drastic eventualities, the loss of a job, a child’s delinquency, and so on.
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Vince Lombardi famously said, “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”
The opposite, of course, is more like it. Anyone can be a winner. It’s losing that tests character, and it’s character, in the end, that carries the day.
That may seen like a pessimistic message, but it’s not. It’s facing challenges and overcoming them; or meeting a setback and having to regroup; or being disappointed and getting over it, where life’s greatest joys are to be found.
Other speakers reflected that understanding.OHS Principal Nancy Osborn said it correctly: “Don’t spend your energy focused on being perfect, or having it all, because this does not guarantee happiness. What is more important is your attitude while obtaining your dream along your journey.” In other words, enjoy yourself on a journey you can never completely control.
Maggie Millner, the celebrated Cherry Valley-Springfield valedictorian – she was a Presidential Scholar, a National Merit Finalist, and much more – reflected on the death of a beloved grandmother, just a year ago.
With the grieving barely behind her and a bright future beckoning, she advised her classmates to recognize what they can control, and when something happens they can’t, “Let it go.”
If you find life proceeds sunnily just as you wish for, great. But, regardless, enjoy what you can along the way – thanks, Mrs. Osborn. And – thanks, Maggie – whatever life deals you, face it, then move on.Labels: 07-03-09, Editorial, Hometown Views, Opinion |
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