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2013
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EDITIONS OF FEB. 14-15 – Mom Kathy Kerr, sporting memorabilia from sons Ryan, Grant and Jay’s CCS athletic careers, addresses the school board at its Wednesday, Feb. 6, meeting on eliminating the “Redskin” moniker: “I’m telling my children they don’t have to be embarrassed as long as they are respectful of other people.” The school board formed a study group with the CCS Alumni Association, but the next month change the nickname to “Hawkeyes, “ which went into effect June 30. The Oneida Nation has since used the Cooperstown example in a campaign to convince the Washington Redskins to change its name.
WEEK 42 EDITIONS OF OCT. 17-18 – Chip Klugo, the Corning developer, cut the ribbon on Klugo’s Parkview Place, an $8 million renovation of the former Bresee’s Department Store, Oneonta. Helping him is John Nader, mayor in 2005-09 when the pieces for the project were put in place. At right is Carolyn Lewis, former county economic developer who advised the city in the project.
WEEK 5
EDITIONS OF JULY 1819 – Carly Noga, Utica, shows hula-hooping skills shortly before the Grateful Dead successor band, Furthur, began performing in Doubleday Field. While drawing a big crowd, pot smoking, underage drinking and “Shakedown Street” hangers-on who siphoned business from Cooperstown’s downtown merchants made the event controversial.
EDITIONS OF JAN. 31-FEB. 1 – All eyes were on Jeffrey Smetana, vice president, Newman Development Group, Binghamton, as he briefed a packed city Planning Commission meeting Wednesday, Jan. 16, in City Hall, on a 320-student state-of-theart housing project on Blodgett Drive, overlooking the SUNY Oneonta athletic fields. The project, which supplanted townhomes the college was planning to build, would add an estimated $15 million to the tax rolls, the largest private development in Oneonta in a generation. The project also sparked a vigorous debate on student off-campus housing.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DEC. 26-27, 2013 • PHOTOS by IAN AUSTIN & JIM KEVLIN
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