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abandoned in the driveway. Belongs to a rapper, someone in the know might remark, and it does: Prime Minister Pete Nice (aka locally as Peter Nash), a member of the now defunct trio, 3rd Base, that produced the 1991 rap hit, “Pop Goes The Weasel.” Suddenly, the long-neglected property is in the news: 159 Lippitt Development Road, just Please See AUCTION, A7
Otsego Lake’s most famous view, of the Sleeping Lion, can be seen to the north Peter Nash’s lakeside home on Pegg’s Bay. Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
A FIRST-RATE FOURTH The grand marshals of the 102nd Springfield Independence Day Parade, county Rep. Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield, and his wife Janet, were borne up Main Street, Springfield, in the surrey with a fringe on top, that took them to their wedding in July 1979 at East Springfield Congregational Church. Parade organizers borrowed the buggy from Janet’s mom, Margaret Yerdon of Cherry Valley, and surprised the couple/
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hen Cooperstown Police Chief Michael Covert arrived on the scene of a distress call in early June, he realized he wasn’t dealing with a now-routine heroin overdose. The man was overdosing on synthetic heroin, shipped from overseas. “It doesn’t respond well to Narcan,” he Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal said. “You will die from it.” Synthetic “designer drugs” are made to be cheap and to slip past authorities, often by changing just one piece of the chemical comEpoque setting evocative of the art of pound, said Oneonta Police Toulouse-Lautrec, whose work, not by Lt. Douglas Brenner. coincidence, is now at The Fenimore “That’s the biggest Art Museum. problem,” he continued. Two singers from the 2015 “You’re unsure of how inGlimmerglass Young Artist Program tense or long-lasting it will are returning as stars: Raquel GonzaPlease See PSEUDO,A7 Please See OPERA, B7
‘La boheme,’ ‘Sweeney Todd’ Open Glimmerglass Season
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urtain up! The Glimmerglass Festival 2016 has arrived. This weekend will see the opening of two new productions of classics of the opera and musical theater repertory, followed by two additional openings over next two weekends. In August, a brand new
youth opera, created for the youngest Glimmerglass artists, will have its debut. “La boheme,” Puccini’s irresistible portrait of young artists in Paris, opens Friday, July 8, in a lush Belle
NIGHT AT THE OPERA Patricia Thorpe
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD