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Famed Comedian Tests New Jokes By LIBBY CUDMORE & CATHY NARDI
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Oneonta High graduate Will Siegfried, who now lives in Potsdam, prepares to enter the General Clinton Regatta at Otsego Lake. Siegfried participated in the 50 and over C-1 class, finishing the 70-mile race in 9 hours, 40 minutes. More photos at
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this summer’s highly anticipated “Amy Schumer and Friends” tour. “It was very casual, like she was testing new material on us,” said Kevin Sutton, Oneonta. “But you could tell she had been in Oneonta the whole time. She even talked about the heroin movie they were Please See SCHUMER, B8
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ix of the seven candidates running in the June 26 primary for ONEONTA the right to challenge U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kindero celebrate World hook, have signed a Dairy Day, the Bank of pledge to refrain from Cooperstown is giving criticizing each other. away half-pints of milk FriThe seventh, Jeff day, June 1, to all customers: Beals, a Woodstock “Nature’s most perfect food,” high school teacher, the bank calls it. will not. Despite “hard work, dili“I was asked to sign gence and professionalism,” a statement today. I farmers end up with just 51 decided not to sign Jeff Beals cents on every $1 spent on it. This statement is a fluid milk and 19 cents for distraction from the biggest issue of our every dollar spent on ice time: income inequality and the fight dream, the bank said in anagainst corporate power,” he said in a nouncing the promotion. Saluting farmers, the bank statement. “Why don’t they send around Please See NEGATIVITY, B7 declared, “June is Dairy Month: Raise a glass of milk.”
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EXPLAINING COSTS: After reports Centers Health Care is raising its “private pay” rooms at its facility in Index to $510 a day, Division President Aharon Lantzitsky has agreed to attend By PARKER FISH the June 11 local Family Council meeting to explain the Bronx-based company’s COOPERSTOWN rationale. ne of Main Street Oneonta’s iconic stores is opening a IT’S A KILLER: The sister outlet on Main Street, Pothole Killer, manufactured by Patch Management Inter- Cooperstown. Theresa Cyzeski, owner of Theresa’s national, Fairless Hills, Pa., demonstrated its pothole-fill- Emporium in Oneonta, said she now ing prowess Friday, May 24, plans to open a second location in the in the city’s Sixth Ward. City former TJ’s Place, which developer Hall is considering contract- Perry Ferrara is retooling for shops. Please See THERESA’S, B7 ing the device.
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John Foreman, Oneonta, top photo, who served in the Army in 1945-46, rides the Memorial Day Parade route in a ‘65 Lincoln driven by Dave Barnes, Oneonta, with Dave’s wife Jody in the backseat. At the Veterans Memorial Walkway in Neahwa Park Monday, May 28, Boy Scouts Ian Manchester, Ben Casola, Brett Jacobs, Noah Ashe, Noah Miller, Shane William and John Gates prepare to place ceremonial wreaths by the memorials for each branch of the military/MORE PHOTOS, A7
This Year’s OH-Fest Worst, Fire Chief Says By PARKER FISH ONEONTA
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“This is my 13th year working at OH-Fest,” said Oneonta Fire Chief Patrick Pidgeon. “I’ve been in charge of the last eight, and worked at all of the others. This is probably the worst situation as far as having to transport people for being intoxicated that I’ve experienced.” Common Council’s Operations, Please See OH-FEST, B8
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