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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2012
Volume 4, No. 39
City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Joanna Foti, Jenn Jelic and Erin Wolstenholme cheer their team in the seven inning as the Yellowjackets state finals’ victory seems inevitable.
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Oneonta’s Anna Delberta leads Lovey Dovey during a break at The Farmers’ Museum 16th annual Benefit Horse Show Sunday, June 10, at Iroquois Farm, Cooperstown. Mom Jenny Koehn, Oneonta, makes sure daughter Adella is safe in the saddle.
Susquehanna Sojourn Due To Pass City
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f you see five dozen canoes floating down the Susquehanna through Oneonta Friday, June 15, it will likely be the first leg – Cooperstown to Sidney – of the 444-mile annual Susquehanna Sojourn. Hosted by the Headwaters River Trail Partnership, the Sojourn canoeists are due to camp overnight Thursday at Fortin Park, feasting on Brooks BBQ, then portage the Oneonta Dam first thing Friday. It began Wednesday on Otsego Lake and ends at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Sidney.
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After the last pitch assured victory, Matt Horne (2) signals the OHS varsity baseball team is Number One after its 2-0 victory over Briarcliff to win its first Class B state title Saturday, June 9, at Binghamton’s Conlon Field. In the background, Coach Joe Hughes and his coaching team pump up cheering fans.
Years Of Playing Together Molded Winning Team By ADRIAN ADAMO
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OPEN AGAIN: All levels of the parking garage is now open. HEEGAN WELCOME: The Otsego County Chamber is inviting businesspeople to meet its new executive director, Barbara Ann Heegan, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 20, at the Holiday Inn. NEIGHBORS GATHER: A Wards 7 and 8 neighborhood meeting is planned at 7 p.m. Monday, June 18, in City Hall’s Council Chambers. County Rep. Kay Stuligross and Council Members Bob Brzozowski and Chip Holmes will preside.
hen it was over, all of us parents were just looking at one another,” begins Lynda Calkins, mother of Michael Calkins,
Mom Lynda Calkins
who hit a stunning fourth-inning home run in the game that won the OHS Yellowjackets the Class B state championship. “It was such a moment of realization, of how amazing these young men are.” The Yellowjackets took down Section One’s Briarcliff in a swift defeat
in the state championships Saturday, June 9, at Binghamton’s Conlon Field. It is the school’s first state championship in that sport. The team is comprised of 11 seniors and four juniors, most of whom have known each other their entire lives. Please See CHAMPS, A8
‘Student Question’ Still Central To Redistricting By JIM KEVLIN
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n 1976, Oneonta’s powers-that-be were still reeling from discord that erupted locally (and throughout the U.S.) during the Vietnam War.
The war was over, but the anti-war protests – at the peak, a human chain blocked traffic at Dietz and Main – were still fresh in people’s minds. Graduations had been disrupted – and Common Council meetings, too, as activists lobbied the aldermen to
call for an immediate pullout of GIs from Southeast Asia. That was the fear 36 years ago, the fear of disruption, when a redistricting commission – like the one Common Council appointed Tuesday, June 5 – began its deliberations, David W. Brenner,
one of the deans of Otsego County politics, recounted the other day. “People didn’t know how to handle (such dissent),” said Brenner, a SUNY Oneonta dean then representing the city on the county Board Pleases See MAP, A9
David Brenner
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