Faced with an uncertain market and plummeting milk prices amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Kraham family, owners of Lentsville Farm in Cherry Valley, started producing their own line of cheeses and other dairy products this year.

When their senior class trip was canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Schenevus Central School class of 2020 decided to donate more than $1,000 of the funds they raised to local nonprofits.

There isn’t really an Opening Day at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which is open every day of the year with the exceptions of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. But much of the hall’s ongoing schedule of events is in conjunction with the Major League Baseball season.

A former Cooperstown teacher will spend almost 17 years in prison in connection with child pornography charges, according to federal officials.

COOPERSTOWN — The smiles finally showed up at the end of the school year for Cooperstown Central School's class of 2020.  

Cooperstown Central School held a parade in honor of its graduating class on Main Street in Cooperstown on Sunday, before the ceremony on Lambert Field.

The Glimmerglass Festival began its virtual summer with a discussion about social justice and the arts Thursday, June 18.

An artist with local ties has been making sports themed paintings for more than a decade.

Bassett Healthcare Network has partially lifted visitation restrictions at its hospitals.

The Clark Sports Center will not reopen until at least Sept. 8, it announced in a series of weekend messages. 

Local law enforcement officials said they sympathize with the hundreds of community members that have taken to the streets in protest of the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, and condemned the actions of Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer who p…

Otsego County Rep. Clark Oliver has won the Arnold S. Harris Memorial Academic Achievement Award from the political science department at his alma mater, SUNY Oneonta.

 New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli told the Otsego County Board of Representatives he believed the state’s delaying of the remainder of the 2021 budget could be viewed with a positive spin.

A Cherry Valley artist is among those getting ready for an event that could have fallen victim to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 An author with local connections is taking the mask off Cooperstown’s often-anonymous, always-necessary men in blue.

As protests against systemic racism continue across the country, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum bolstered its educational offerings centered around the history of baseball and the civil rights movement Thursday, June 11.

It the midst of continuing bad news about its 2020 budget, Otsego County finally got some good financial news Tuesday, courtesy of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. 

COOPERSTOWN — About 500 people turned out Sunday, June 7, for a Black Lives Matter protest at the Otsego County Courthouse at 197 Main St. in Cooperstown. 

As the U.S. Census Bureau restarts limited field operations across the state, census workers are delivering 2020 Census invitations and questionnaires to households which have not yet received them, mostly at rural addresses that do not get regular mail delivery, according to Shane Butler, C…

Otsego County’s sales tax revenues stayed sharply down in April, according to the first check from the state for that month, county officials told The Daily Star on Monday, June 8. 

A Pennsylvania man who began a Susquehanna River journey in Cooperstown has completed his trek.

The Otsego County Administration Committee took more steps toward closing the county’s 2020 budget gap during a special meeting Wednesday, May 27, voting unanimously to require department heads to seek approval for purchases of $1,000 or more.

Jared Nepa’s internships with Otsego County have never been typical, but this summer is a county government story no one anticipated: one of the most important people helping Otsego find ways to survive a crash in its 2020 revenues is a three-year intern from Otego.

The Cooperstown Central School has selected a new elementary school principal.

As more people are staying home or enjoying outdoor recreational activities amid the coronavirus pandemic, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation advised New Yorkers to refrain from touching newborn fawns or other young wildlife.

Cooperstown Central School has released preliminary plans for its graduation, which will be held Sunday, June 28, at the middle/high school on Linden Avenue in the town of Otsego.

In conjunction with the Otsego County Department of Health, the Susquehanna Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will continue to hold free weekly rabies vaccination clinics on-site for the foreseeable future, according to a media release.

Cooperstown Central School’s Leadership Training for Athletes group will hold its annual run next week via a virtual platform.

The Susquehanna Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals website can now be used to report abuse and neglect of animals, according to a media release from the shelter.

The grand unveiling of the Doubleday Field renovations in the village of Cooperstown was supposed to take place last weekend.

The Otsego County Board of Representatives voted at a special meeting Wednesday, May 20, to lay off nearly 60 people, and the cuts will include closing the Oneonta satellite office of the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Otsego County officials warned, last week, that patrons of a Unadilla livestock auction may have been exposed to COVID-19.

Rotary District 7170, which includes 44 clubs across a seven-county region, partnered recently with the office of state Sen. Fred Akshar, R-Afton, to distribute 11,000 masks to area nonprofit organizations and essential small businesses.

ALBANY — Shawn Weber, a partner in a popular restaurant business in Niagara Falls, says if the pandemic-driven shutdown of eateries and bars continues much longer, Wine on Third may have to stay closed for the remainder of the year.

The Farmers’ Museum outside Cooperstown announced last week it has canceled more programs through the end of July.

The Susquehanna SPCA welcomed six pets that lost their homes because of the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday, May 13.

The Bassett Healthcare Network has launched a new hotline to help people who are dealing with stress from the coronavirus pandemic.