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Teachers from Oneonta’s Greater Plains Elementary School run through the rain among the 800 girls who ran in the Sunday, June 2, Girls on the Run 5K in Cooperstown. After a hiatus, the Oneonta school began participating again this year.
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osh Edmonds has built the future at 45 Delaware St. ►Point One: A partner in the Simple Integrity construction firm, Edmonds has been paying $4,000 a year to heat his home in Springfield Center. The 2,600-square-foot house he’s just finished building at 45 Delaware will cost $254 a year to heat. “That’s a pretty substantial difference,” Edmonds said in a recent interview: $4,000 vs. $254. A home like the one he’s
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Josh Edmonds, right, a partner in the Simple Integrity construction company, pauses with members of his team, Norm Farwell, Morris, left, and Tanner Ray, Edmeston, in front of 45 Delaware St., Cooperstown. Edmonds expects the structure, now completed, to be certified by the Passive House Institute.
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just completed – it’s on target to be certified by the Passive House Institute, the international gold standard Josh – costs 3 Edmonds percent has ideas and, at 31, more to time to real- build than a standard ize them. house. The savings on energy alone will erase that difference in just four years, he said. ►Point two: He doesn’t expect to do any mainPlease See FUTURE, A7
rivers on Route 28 have been watching a new Milford Methodist Church rising for the past year after its 1930 predecessor burned on March 12, 2017. By LIBBY CUDMORE It’s now complete, and the public is invited to an open house 3-5 p.m. Saturday, COOPERSTOWN June 8, to tour the new building. rowing up, Ryan Miosek spent The first service in the many afternoons in photographer church will be at 10:45 a.m. Jim Kosinski’s darkroom above Sunday, June 9. Danny’s Market, developing film he had shot around town. “All we ON OTSEGO.com had to do was pro►ONEONTA’S NINJA WARRIOR Anvide the thony Eardley will make his run paper,” he on the American Ninja Warrior said. “The course on Monday, June 24, chemicals with a screening of the epiand equipsode at Foothills Performing An artist’s render shows ment were Arts Center. all there, the final product. ►TEMPLE BETH EL will vote on a free of successor to Rabbi Molly Karp, charge. As long as we showed respect to who has served locally for almost five years during their the place, you could get a key.” 84th annual Congregational Now, Miosek is president of a board of Meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday, directors trying to develop 53 Pioneer St., June 9, a stone row house that’s one of the oldest ► TRAMPOLINE delivered the buildings in the village, into Studio 53, a first pieces of “We’re Onta community arts center. Something” ephemera to Please See ARTS, A11 downtown merchants, includ-
Volunteers Hope To Revive Ancient Row As Arts Center
Deadline July 12 For Oneonta Grants second and third floors, it doesn’t lend itself to a vibrant Main Street.” On Monday, June 3, the City of Oneonta began accepting applications for a second round down Downtown Revitalization Initiative grants, this one to create “high-quality upper-story housing units” in the downtown. As of presstime Tuesday evening, no applications had Please See GRANTS, A11
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f you want a successful downtown, Elizabeth Horvath says, you have to look up. “You need residents living downtown to make it an active place, not just come in, work and then leave,” she said. “When you see vacant
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Ryan Miosek, Studio 53 board president, examines progress on turning one of Cooperstown’s oldest buildings into a community arts center.
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Town of Maryland farmer is facing six misdeameanor counts after being charged with torturing and failing to provide sustenance to 25 cows who were found dead on his farm Tuesday, May 28 Dale E. Putman Jr., 69, of Coopertown Junction, was arrested after the Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies were called to his farm for a complaint of possible dead animals.
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