A Welcome to Readers of “In These Otsego Hills”
Many thanks to The Ellsworths, authors of the column “In These Otsego Hills” that appears weekly in The Cooperstown Crier, for their kind words regarding this site. In today’s column they wrote:
We have also discovered that at least one Cooperstonian has his own website, matthewktabor.com (education for the aughts). Matthew, who graduated from CCS in 2000, has taken on the job of talking about education, including thoughts on CCS, by pulling together education articles from around the country. According to the website “Matthew’s background includes work in higher education, executive recruiting, consulting and government. He educates privately and writes out of Cooperstown, New York.” Anyone who is interested can check Matthew’s website out at: www.matthewktabor.com. We also hasten to point out that we imagine there are other Cooperstonians with websites which might be of interest to the community. If anyone is aware of any, please let us know.
I’d like to echo that - if there are any Cooperstonians who maintain websites, send me an e-mail at [email protected] [e-mail link will open in a new window] and let me know as well. Not only would I like to link to you, but I’d like to point out interesting content for readers in Upstate New York and beyond.
If you’re a first-time visitor looking for discussion of education issues in, around or relevant to Otsego County, you might want to get started with these:
- Cooperstown Central School to Vote on Surveillance Cameras and Part II,
- UPDATE: Cooperstown Central School Approves Surveillance Cameras
- Schenevus Central School’s Arbitrary Justice System
- Students and Teachers Get Money for AP Exam Success; The Benefits of Advanced Placement
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The Ellsworths also pointed to an excellent video of Cooperstown/Lake Otsego from the 1920s. Youtube user “lipwak”/”John L” wrote the following about the 7+ minute video:
From my grandparents’ home movies. Cooperstown and Lake Otsego views, party at the Cooperstown Country Club w/ tennis, badminton and croquet, old cars, a biplane seaplane takes off and lands, tour of lake from speedboat with Kingfisher Tower.
You can view it by clicking here [video links open a new window]. He also uploaded this 46-second clip of toy steamboats which he guesses are also filmed on the Lake. This is great stuff.
Again, a warm welcome to all the new readers from the Cooperstown area - I hope you’ll check back often. And, as always, feel free to e-mail any comments, submissions, suggestions, etc. to [email protected] [e-mail link opens in a new window].
