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Al Cleinman, CEO, Cleinman Performance Partners, accepts a plaque from Senator Seward’s aide Katie Seamon, presented at Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s celebration of Cleinman Performance Partners 30-year anniversary on Wednesday, June 19. More at
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By LIBBY CUDMORE she was fine, but her car had been impounded and she needed COOPERSTOWN $4,000 in cash to get it out. The woman was instructed to oug Thompson wrap the money in a sweater and doesn’t have mail it to Staten Island. She did so, shipping anything against Please See SCAMS, A10
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toppings, but he believes, at least for the first bite, the meat should speak for itself. “It will really surprise you when you realize that meat has flavor,” he said. Monday, June 24, he and Please See BEEF, A10
OTSEGO COUNTY, LOUISIANA Shreveport native Kathy Ragsdale, a counselor there, pauses at Unadilla Street, named by real estate developer A.C. Steere, harkening back to his father’s Otsego County roots.
Shreveport’s Kim Oliver, below, pauses en route to physical therapy to pose by the Oneonta Street sign. A.C.’s dad, a Portlandville native, may have shared stories of the City of the Hills with his son.
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ark Davis, Second Ward and Kaytee Lipar Shue, Fourth Ward, will both appear on the Democratic ballot line this November after hammering opponents Seth Clark and Jerid Goss in today’s primary. Without write-ins counted, Davies received 95 votes to Clark’s five, and Shue got 49 votes to Goss’ 11. However, both Clark and Goss will run on the Republican and Independent lines in November.
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►A GAS LEAK IN THE VICINITY of Main and Roosevelt Avenues on Friday, June 21 forced Oneonta police and fire to evacuate residents from the scene and shut down the street. ► SCHENEVUS Central school will be able to borrow up to $500,000 next year against its state aid to try to stabilize its finances, under a bill sponsored by Senator Seward and signed by the governor. ► COUNTY BOARD will have to decide whether it wants 2 cents per paper bag to buy shopping bags for the poor after single-use plastic bags are banned next March 1. ► 80 PERCENT OF HARTWICK College nursing students who were employed upon graduation were hired by the site at which they completed their practicum.
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‘IT’ COUPLE Wife Pastor At Oneonta’s First UM; Husband Takes Cooperstown Pulpit By JENNIFER HILL
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all them a Power Couple of The Cloth. Rev. Dana Horrell begins his ministry Sunday,
July 7, at Cooperstown United Methodist Church, while 32 miles down the road, his wife, Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell, the same day will celebrate her first Please See PASTORS, A2
siana, as far away from New Orleans as geographically possible, and you find a Unadilla Street. And an Albany Avenue. Oneonta and Unadilla streets are close neighbors, one block apartment, running east-west through the tony South Highlands neighborhood. Albany Avenue also runs east-west, but through Shreveport’s middleincome Broadmoor neighborhood, which abuts South Highlands. It turns out all three streets were named by Shreveport’s most promiPlease See STEERE, A11
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12-Unit ‘The Grove’ Apartments Rattling Cooperstown Neighbors By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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he 12-unit The Grove apartment complex – unprecedented in
Cooperstown – just surfaced, but neighbors packed the Village Board’s monthly meeting Monday, June 24, to denounce it. “We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the village would consider a
12-unit apartment complex within a block of primarily single-family homes,” said Sherrie Kingsley, co-owner of The Inn at Cooperstown with husband Marc. “Is there really a need for more Please See GROVE, A11
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