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ing their way back to Huntington Park, By LIBBY CUDMORE where prizes were awarded for Scariest, Funniest and Best Zombie. ONEONTA The walk was the brainchild of Benavides and friend Anna LiPari, who visited teve Benavides knows you can’t keep a him while he was working the overnight good zombie down. shift at Denny’s. “She came in and said, “I didn’t think people were going to ‘I want to throw this past you’,” he said. come this year because of the bad weather,” “I was surprised, because she’s more into he said of the fourth annual Oneonta Zombie the fluffy stuff, like fairies, not zombies.” Walk, held Saturday, Oct. 18. “But then one The first walk was held in October showed up, and a few more, and then two bus2011 during a snowstorm. 65 zombies loads of kids from Job Corps.” met in the parking garage and walked up Over 55 of the walking dead, including Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life Market and Main streets, and in years children and even a few dogs, then shambled following, the horde only grew larger. In You’d never guess that underneath downtown to Main Street, startling pedestrians, the bloody makeup is good-natured 2013, over 100 zombies showed up. clawing at store windows and eventually mak- Steve Benavidas, who started the Please See ZOMBIE, B3
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Ghoulish gals Brenna Decker, Nathaniel Juhl, Tarrah Smith, and Amber Verrelli dance under a full Harvest moon...or maybe just to “The Time Warp” from “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
They Live In Spooky House (At Least At This Time Of Year) us to tone it down,” she said. “And my husband David said, COOPERSTOWN ‘That’s it, we’re getting a guillotine!’ ots of people And the head lights have skeletons up!” in their closets. The family disNancy Russell cusses what they’d prefers to keep like to see and takes hers on the lawn. a vote. “They’re all “When my kids inside jokes,” she Ethan and Jacob were said. “The flying car little, they saw that came out of Jacob’s other people decorated technology class, for Halloween and they and the red and wanted to do it to,” white skeletons are said Nancy. “It evolved for the Wigan Warfrom there.” riors, our favorite Now, two weeks rugby team.” This scene gives before Oct. 31, their And while at new meaning to Chestnut Street lawn first, David was a “Old Mother Hub- little reluctant to spawns into a playbard.” ground for the living let the decor get so dead, featuring skelextreme, these days etons playing poker, driving race he starts shopping early. “He cars and enjoying a game of brought home a surf board he football. “Starting in September, found at a garage sale, so now people ask, ‘What are you doing we have a surfing clown skeleton this year’?” said Nancy. “We with a dog,” she said. always try to do things differThe original decorations were ently.” bags dressed up in the kids’ old It all starts with the guillotine. clothes, but as the weather wore “One year, someone tried to get Please See HOUSE, B3 By LIBBY CUDMORE
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here’s a chill in the air and creepy delights all around as Halloween draws near! In Oneonta, trick or treat at businesses with an orange sign in the window from 3-6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 31, at various locations along Main Street. And at 7 p.m., line up along Main Street to watch the Halloween parade, with cider and donuts afterwards in the parking garage. Info, (607) 432-8871 x210. In Cooperstown, the tricks and treats begin at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at the Baseball Hall of Fame, with the parade from Cooper Park Street to the firehouse beginning at 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served at the Chamber of Commerce. www.otsego2000.org HALLOWEEN HAUNTINGS, B2 SKELETON DANCE: Halloween Hop dance, hosted by Arc Otsego. Open to all; costumes optional. Tom King will DJ. $2 admission. 7-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, Holiday Inn, 5206 Ste. Hwy 23, Oneonta. Info, www.arcotsego.org.
AS SEEN ON TV: Tour the haunted areas of Hyde Hall, just like on Sy-Fy’s “Ghost Hunters” $20 per person, 5:30-7 p.m. on the half-hour, Thursday, Oct. 30 enter through Glimmerglass State Park. Reservations required; info (607) 5475098 or www.hydehall.org. DARK THEATER: Bill Cain’s psychological thriller “9 Circles.” Tickets $5; $3 with student ID. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 31-Nov 1, 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2. Hamblin Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.tickets.oneonta.edu. FENIMORE AFTER DARK: A “Night at Our Museum” offers exploration, crafts and live music. $7 ages 13 and up; $5 NYSHA members; ages 12 and under free. 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1453.
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If your opponent is a skeleton, Jacob, maybe the game has gone on too long!
The family that scares together stays together: Ethan, Nancy and Jacob Russell pose in front of their spooky house on Chestnut Street in Cooperstown. Dad David was out of town, (but HE’LL BE B-A-A-C-K.)
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