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Cooperstown native Paul Clark signals: It’s his 50th Induction. His first, in 1966, brought Casey Stengel and Ted Williams into the Hall of Plaques. Clark, then a lad, remembers handing the plaques to then-Director Howard Talbot, who hung them on a huge rotating baseball that circled around to the front of the stage on the steps of today’s Hall office building.
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n the two weeks before the Hall of Fame Induction, Rob Baum, proprietor of the Major League Motor Inn in Fly Creek, got a COOPERSTOWN guest he wasn’t expecting. “The he Village Board counter-terdeclined to act on a rorism liaipermit for a 1,000-persons of the son Lakefront Park celebraState Police tion proposed for 11 a.m. came by,” he Aug. 20 in conjunction with said. “They CHECK OUT Cooperstown’s Sarah Groff Homeland Se- were looking True’s triathlon in the Rio to be helpful curity flyer at Olympics. Bruce Pohl, Allotsego.com and remind Concerns were raised at Oakland A people that the trustees’ July meeting on if they see something, say and CCS the 26th that the celebration, something.” grad Phil Pohl’s dad, which would include beer, They left him and other looks like food, music and large hotel and B&B operators a he’s sharing TV screens, would be flyer, “Operation Safeguard: a beer with “a drinking event.” Potential Indicators of CrimiGeorge The Cooperstown Cham- nal or Terrorist Activities “The Boss” ber of Commerce, which Relating to Hotels & LodgSteinis proposing the gathering, ing.” brenner, will be offered the smaller The flyer, from the state who’s actuPioneer Park instead. Division of Homeland Secu- ally a figure in front of rity & Emergency Services, the Heroes NEW BREWERY: Lou Office of Counter Terrorism, Hager Jr.’s Northern Eagle instructed innkeepers to keep of Baseball Wax MuBeverages, affiliated with an eye out for guests who seum. Cooperstown Brewing Co., Please See SECURITY, A3 announced it has purchased Glens Falls Brewing Co. near Lake George.
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Norah Jones brought a mix of up-tempo New Age rock and some of her classic solo songs, including “Come Away With Me,” to Ommegang’s pre-Induction concert Thursday, July 21. The audience filled the field behind the Route 33 brewery.
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DMOC DECISION: After a four-month delay, the county Board of Representatives is expected to By JIM KEVLIN act Wednesday, Aug. 3, on funding for its private tourism promoter, Destination COOPERSTOWN Marketing of Otsego County. t sounded familiar. Prior to the Salem witch trials, the One Percent, if you will – ship owners
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some piece of baseball paraphernalia,” he said. “That will be my memory of Main Street from now on.” Good weather, a New York inductee and 48 Hall of Fame immortals brought in 50,000 people to Cooperstown in the secondlargest Induction weekend in Baseball Hall of Fame history. “It’s hard to complain about those numbers,” said Matt HazPlease See SECOND, A3
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