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Volume 207, No. 33
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
Land Trust PASSES Goal: Protecting 10,000 Acres
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Donald Collar chauffeurs his granddaughter, Kaylee Althiser, back from the Hartwick Field Days Sunday, Aug. 16, in a horse-drawn buggy. His daughter, Andrea Althiser, is riding in the back.
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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, August 20, 2015
t press time, The Otsego Land Trust announced it has achieved a longtime goal: To protect 10,000 acres from development through conservation easements. Alice and Joe Richardson’s 80 acres in Morris pushed the trust over the top, Executive Director Virginia Kennedy said. Kennedy also announced that she is resigning her post to follow her husband to a new job in Maryland.
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Cooperstown Trustees Explore Acquiring 22-Acre Brookwood By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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akefront Park, Fairy Spring, Three Mile Point and Council Rock – all on Otsego Lake. And, now, Brookwood Gardens? Whether enough is enough may be the
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focus of debate on the Village Board, which has begun exploring whether it makes sense to take Brookwood Gardens off the Otsego Land Trust’s hands and manage one of the last undeveloped access points to Otsego Lake for public enjoyment. Trustee Jim Dean thinks the idea should be discussed, as it is likely to be at the Village Board’s August meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday Please See BROOKWOOD, A3
Smokey Blaze Destroys 2 Glimmerglass Condos
Marietta Stays On Fall Ballot, Judge Decides COOPERSTOWN
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emocratic candidate for the county board’s District 8 seat, Andrew Marietta, will remain on the ballot in the Nov. 3 election. Administrative Judge Robert C. Mulvey issued his decision Tuesday, Aug. 18, after hearing arguments by lawyers for both parties the Thursday before. For more details and to read the decision, go to
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With the blaze under control, Cooperstown Fire Chief Jim Tallman, center, confers with his team and neighbors.
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MURPHY HONORED: Former county Rep. Richard Murphy, D-Oneonta, will be the guest of honor at this year’s county Democratic dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Country Inn & Suites, Hartwick Seminary. Reservations at www.otsegocountydemocraticcommittee.com. GIBSON VISITS: U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, was in Otsego County Tuesday, Aug. 18, speaking to the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors National Association at The Otesaga in the morning, and to the Otsego Electric Co-op Annual Meeting at Milford in the evening.
t’s a homeowner’s nightmare. John Webb and his husband, Nelson Mondaca, left their Glimmerglass condo at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Steve Bieritz for The Freeman’s Journal
Cooperstown firefighters are deployed to fight Glimmerglass Condominium fire.
Aunt Fannie’s 100th Awakes Memory Of Good Times Past In Cooperstown
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Airbnbs Surface, Worrying Village
“When we were at the Colosseum, I got out my phone and we called the By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN Thanksgiving Home,” where she was living at COOPERSTOWN t age 91, Fanthe time,” Seaver said. nie Navarra had When the phone hile Village never been on an was answered, Navarra Hall was crackairplane, so her godjoked, “I’m here, come ing down on daughter, Veronica Gil get me!” legitimate B&B operators, Seaver, booked them a “My husband” – the Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal ticket to Italy. Please See 100TH, A3 perhaps six or more Airbnbs Mrs. Navarra celebrates 100th. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Aug. 15, for breakfast in Cherry Valley when his cell phone rang. “I’m the president of the condo association, so I get calls all the time,” said Webb. “I was at breakfast, so didn’t take it.” But on the other line, Webb suspects, was someone telling him that Please See FIRE, A6
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have been flying completely under 22 Main’s radar. “People who are running legally shouldn’t be given more work than people who are running illegally,” said Mayor Jeff Katz after being alerted to the new phenomenon by Marc Kingsley, Inn Please See AIRBNB, A3
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