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t press time, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, was still in Albany Medical Center, recuperating from a Wednesday, April 13, operation for bladder cancer. In a statement issued the next day, Seward said the operation was a success and he expects a complete recovery. Cards and best wishes may be sent to the senator’s Oneonta office, 41 South Main St., Oneonta NY 13820. ON THE LINE: Communications Workers of America pickets have set up lines at four points in Otsego County during their strike against Verizon: on Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, and at Verizon facilities on Southside and River and Elm streets in Oneonta. ‘FREE’ CHICKENS: Tops Friendly Markets, which operates a store in Cooperstown Commons, has announced it will sell 100 percent private-label eggs from local, cage-free farms by 2025. It already offers those options.
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blue) ended at the Westchester County line. The rest of the state was a green tide – green designating Bernie – swamping the Hudson and rolling over the Adirondacks, crossing Central New York, including Otsego County, all the way to the shores of
Lake Erie. Only blue spots around Rochester and Syracuse broke the serene green. As had Zephyr, so had The Bern. Locally, with all precincts reporting, Otsego Democrats supported Please See PRIMARY, A7
Bassett Reorganizes Fox, May Get $6M In Savings By JIM KEVLIN
One In Six Of Us Live In Poverty
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magine trying to raise a family with two kids on $24,000 a year?” asked Lynn Glueckert. Well, “15.5 percent of people in Otsego County live in that kind of poverty. That’s one in six people you see walking down the street.” On a Tuesday, April 19, Citizen Voices’ forum on job growth, Glueckert, executive director, Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie counties, described the flip side of Please See POVERTY, A7
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Lynn Glueckert, Catholic Charities local executive director, tells Citizen Voices one in six of their neighbors are living in poverty.
MSNBC’s Big Apple Glamour At Cider Mill By LIBBY CUDMORE
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or MSNBC correspondent Kate Snow, broadcasting from the Fly Creek Cider Mill was almost like coming home. “I grew up in Burnt Hills, with two apple orchards
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You could see the cider mill from the cider mill on MSNBC.
assett Health Network President/CEO Vance Brown believes a plan unveiled Thursday, April 19, will achieve $6 million in annual savings that will better assure Fox Hospital’s future, he said in an interview. Vance Brown Explained to Bassett and Fox employees in a noon-time meeting in the Clark Auditorium at the Cooperstown hospital campus – two additional rooms were set aside for overflow, and audio and video conferencing were made available system-wide – the plan has two parts: • Consolidating delivery of babies at Bassett Hospital, ending birthing at Fox by the end of the year and creating “significant savings” for the Oneonta facility and the system. • Creating a “center of exPlease See FOX, A7
After 30 Years, Ron Tiderencel Retiring As County Road Chief By LIBBY CUDMORE
in my backyard,” she said. “They were our neighbors’, COOPERSTOWN but we used to play in them.” fter 30 years, several Snow was at the newly floods, a collapsed renovated Cider Mill on bridge and plenty Thursday-Friday, April 14of winter weather, Otsego 15, broadcasting live for County Highway SuperinPlease See MSNBC, A3
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tendent Ron Tiderencel is retiring at the end of April. “There comes a time when you’re ready,” he said. “My wife Janis retired from the state five years ago, and I want to spend some time with her.” “It’s going to be a tough Please See RETIRES, A3
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD