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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, June 29, 2012
Volume 4, No. 41
City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch Complimentary
LOOK OUT, WORLD! HERE COMES OHS CLASS OF ‘12
Valedictorian Michael Lee leads fellow grads in a footstomping, handsclapping rendering of “We Will Rock You” with lyrics he rewrote to fit the Class of 2012.
‘We Will, ‘We Will ‘Rock U!’ Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Jeremy Horne of the Kansas City Chiefs chats with Andrew Ruffino, Morris, a teacher at Milford Academy when it first moved to New Berlin, at the NFL prep school’s annual banquet Thursday, June 21, at Foothills. Ruffino was accompanied by daughter Rebecca and wife Lorraine/MORE PHOTOS, A2
Woman Still Missing One Week Later
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t presstime, Oneonta police were still looking for Patricia Ann “Annie” Hubbard, 56, who was last seen at 8:50 a.m. Tuesday, June 19, at the Dollar General Hubbard on Chestnut Street. Call OPD at 432-1111 with any information. SCHRIEBMAN WINS: Ulster County lawyer Julian Schriebman defeated Joel Tyner, a Dutchess County legislator, in the Tuesday, June 26, Democratic primary for the 19th Congressional District seat. He will face U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, RKinderhook, in the fall.
Karson Shultz, Maggie McVey, Alexis Newman and Nicole Bernik had no problems leading the dances throughout the night as the crowd danced away their senior year to the sounds of DJ Hectic Sound Productions at The Carriage House Thursday night.
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With Sam Nader’s Blessing, Joe Hughes Is ‘Mr. Baseball’ By LIBBY CUDMORE
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neonta has a new “Mr. Baseball.” Sam Nader passed on his title to OHS Varsity Baseball Coach Joe Hughes during a ceremony Friday, June 22, LIFE ENJOYED: Two at Damaschke Field before the Outlaws“Life Enjoyed” banners, Diamond Dawgs game. sponsored by Al Colone’s “Joe Hughes is a true GO-EDC group, have apson of Oneonta,” Mayor INSIDE: For peared: One, on the OHS Miller declared, after more photos bus garage, the other on reading a proclamation of ceremony, Northrup Supply. Both are honors Hughes’ OHS see A4 visible from I-88. team, which won the Class B State Baseball FRESH PRODUCE: The Championship Saturday, June 9, in BingTuesday Farmers’ Market hamton. began 10 a.m.-3 p.m. June As Miller spoke, Council Member Mike 26 in downtown Oneonta, Lynch, who played varsity baseball with and will continue through Hughes for three years, hung a medal the summer.
On Center Street School’s Final Day, Memories Flow By ADRIAN ADAMO
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hen the WolfGoulds moved to Monroe Avenue years ago, the elderly Frances Vernilya lived next door. Her mother, she told the new arrivals, had attended Center Street School the year it opened, 1897, as a fourth grader. When Frances, now residing in a nursJim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA ing home downstate, was Joe Hughes waves to fans in Damold enough to go to school aschke Field after Mayor Miller dein 1917, she had the same clared him “Mr. Baseball.” teacher as her mother. around his neck. And Sam Nader was there “That really gave me a to shake Hughes’ hand. great sense of the history of “I was very surprised and very humbled,” this school,” said Dr. Chris said Hughes. Wolf-Gound, whose own Please See HUGHES, A10
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Sixth graders Lydia Lawson and Katie KanoWhite leap to freedom, a Center Street tradition.
three children attended Center Street as well. On Thursday, June 21, Please See SCHOOL, A10
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