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WEEK 21
EDITIONS OF MAY 29-30, 2014 – President Barack Obama was whisked in and out of Cooperstown Wednesday, May 21. Here for a little over an hour, he addressed a crowd of local VIPs in the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Hall of Plaques on a plan that seeks to encourage tourists from elsewhere to visit the U.S.
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WEEK 45
eDITIONS OF nov. 6-7. 2014 – An intense outpouring of community grief after Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller’s untimely death on Saturday, Oct. 25, was manifest at his memorial service Sunday, Nov. 2, in the main theater at Foothills Performing Arts Center. The 640 seats were filled, as were 100 chairs added on the sides, plus mourners stood in the aisles and sat in the Atrium to watch the proceedings on close-circuit TV. Miller, 71, whose initiatives included stabilizing Foothills, seeing the Bresee’s renovation through to completion, initiating numerous economicdevelopment concepts, and implementing a five-year budgeting process that kept City Hall financially stable while most Upstate cities floundered. was in the first year of his second term.
EDITIONS OF JULY 31-AUG. 1, 2014 – Happy days returned to Cooperstown on the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary Induction Weekend, July 25-27, when, with former Yankees Manager Joe Torre leading the roster, the biggest crowd turned out (50,000) since the Ripken-Gwynn event (84,000, the record) in 2007. Also inducted were Bobby Cox, Tom Glavin, Tony La Russa, Greg Maddux and Frank Thomas. Already, rooms were being booked for Induction 2020, Yankee Derek Jeter’s first year of eligibility.
WEEK 31
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EDITIONS OF DEC. 25-26, 2014 – Elation reigned among fracking opponents when Governor Cuomo announced Wednesday, Dec. 17, that the controversial natural-gas-extraction method will be banned in New York State, ending a fiveyear battle in which Otsego Countians – Sustainable Otsego’s Adrian Kuzminski, retired Mobil executive vice president Lou Allstadt and Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham among them – played a substantial statewide role. Here, Dillingham hugs the Butternut Valley Alliance’s Bob Eklund at a celebration in Cafe Ommegang; the brewery’s Communications Director Larry Bennett and President Simon Thorpe were early players in raising the alarm locally. At the end of June, a state Court of Appeals affirmed the Town of Middlefield’s fracking ban, another victory for anti-fracking forces.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 2014 • PHOTOS by IAN AUSTIN & JIM KEVLIN
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