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WEEK 36
EDITION OF SEPT 5-6: Branson Skinner, Canopy Growth’s farm manager for New York State, examines the hemp crop at Waterpoint Farm on Smith Road, Springfield Center, the former Stitzel dairy farm. The Ontario-based company is joining a dozen farmers in Otsego County and hundreds statewide anticipating the state Legislature’s so-far-stymied legalization of marijuana.
OTSEGO COUNTY YEARBOOK
WEEK 49
EDITION OF NOV. 28-29: Media darling Zoe undergoes her first TV interview (with Peter Eliopoulos of WTEN, Albany) at the Susquehanna Animal Shelter following a surgery to remove an 11-pound tumor on her shoulder. The German Shepherd was found chained up without food or water in front of an Exeter Center home, having chewed off her own leg. But following a successful operation and a biopsy that showed the tumor was not cancerous, she was adopted into a Burlington Flats home. A GoFundMe drive raised $7,000 toward Zoe’s medical bills. Her former owner was arrested and charged with animal cruelty.
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EDITION OF JAN 10-11: 2019 began with a shocker: John Heller, inset right, a former Oneonta firefighter, died in a fire on the top floor of 5 Walling Ave. after rescuing four nephews and his fiancée. Above, at the funeral at Foothills on Jan. 4, a few days after the Dec. 29 tragedy, sister-in-law Erika Heller and her husband Michael, John’s brother, hold close two of their four boys whose rescue had John hailed as a hero. To their right is Amber Rose, his fiancée. In the foreground, Heller’s pallbearers console each other after placing the casket in the hearse. Later in the year, Gabriel Truitt, 33, was arrested, accused of setting the fire after he was spurned by a women living on the floor below.
WEEK 12
EDITION OF MARCH 21-22: Cooperstown Central School’s Hawkeyes’ team captain Jack Lambert leads his triumphant teammates Noah Lifgren, Calvin Sandler, Jesse Funari, Ryan Lansing, Ryan Burns and Ben Tafuro off the court following their 71-61 Class C Championship win over the Middle Early College Kats on Sunday, March 17, at the Veteran’s Memorial Arena in Binghamton. It’s the first time the CCS boys’ varsity basketball team has won a state title, harkening back to Oneonta High School’s undefeated and untied season in 1959-60.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2019 • PHOTOS by IAN AUSTIN, JIM KEVLIN, JAMES CUMMINGS & JENNIFER HILL
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