Cooperstown News

An inmate at the Otsego County Correctional Facility has been arrested for making threats to blow up the Otsego County Office Building in Cooperstown.

Timur Mustafa Demirel, 28, was arrested Thursday by Otsego County sheriff's deputies and charged with making threats to blow up the Otsego County office building in Cooperstown.

Seventy-four years ago, on June 12, 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum opened at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown , New York , a small, upstate town of 2,000 residents.

Today is Wednesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2013. There are 202 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History: On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Miss.

1928 - Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees had two triples and two homers in a 15-7 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

The Fayette, Maine, collector who submitted this design May 11 captures the three-dimensional concavity as his design might appear on the gold $5 half eagle.

A friend recently asked me for some travel tips in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was taking his son on his first trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum.

A man has died following a motorcycle accident over the weekend in Otsego County.

By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL 7300 State Route 80, Cooperstown, NY; 607-547-2255; glimmerglass.org This upstate festival is dedicated to opera, but in recent years it's also been putting on lavish musicals featuring unamplified singers backed by a full orchestra.

I will never forget my first visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Having grown up as an avid, card-collecting, playing-every-chance-I-got baseball fan, it was hard to tell who was more excited - me or my grade-school-age kids.

Gary Rombough of Montclair and Robin Peters of Cooperstown, N.Y., and Stephen and Debra Cembrinski of Cooperstown, have announced the engagement of their children, Stephanie and Stephen.

Brewers like Ommegang of Cooperstown, N.Y., would like to see more restaurants offering beer as a good match with dishes on their menus.

There are some things you just don't do before Memorial Day: wear white, barbecue and, if you're in upstate New York, go see outdoor concerts.

The New York State Museum has added two important artifacts to its current exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War.

Home to the longest single-day flat water canoe race in the world, the The General Clinton Canoe Regatta begins at the source of the Susquehanna River on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, finishing at General Clinton Park in Bainbridge.