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Volume 4, No. 46
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, August 3, 2012
City of The Hills
Complimentary
Otsego Olympians
Back Here, Triathletes Will Feel Sarah’s Pain Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Oneonta’s Greg Hunter, playing King Alanzo, is not happy with his servant Trinculo, played by Shane Warren of Davenport while Ian Haney of Oneonta looks on. The three are rehearsing for Shakespeare in the Valley’s production of “The Tempest” Friday-Saturday, Aug. 3-4, at the West Kortright Center.
ONEONTA GOES TO THE FAIR
BY LIBBY CUDMORE
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hey know about post-bike “Jello legs,” mid-swim panic attacks and the chafed armpits. But at the end, Otsego County triathletes will tell you, it’s INSIDE: worth it. Three HartPaula Huntswick College man, who grads are Paula Huntsman, competing on brought Girls on the Run to right, says “Jello water polo Otsego County legs” follow bike teams/A7 in 2001, had just race. She’s with fellow triathlete come in from Amy Van Kampen. running a triathlon on Sunday, July 29. “I feel good!” she said. “And if another one comes up, I’ll do that one!” And when she and other triathletes back home watch Cooperstown native Sarah Groff compete in the London Please See TRIATHLETES, A7
Allies Would Erase Graffiti In Downtown
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raffiti will soon be going, going and, perhaps some day, gone. The Otsego County Chamber and Catholic Charities’ Alternatives to Incarceration program are making comHeegan mon cause to clean up graffiti downtown, beginning Saturday, Aug. 18, in the alley behind the History Center, 183 Main.
Locally, Commiseration: Jello Legs, Panic Attacks Part Of Grueling Ordeal
Nathaniel Clapper of Oneonta flies down the giant slide in the center of the Gillette Midway.
THEY STILL SAVOR EXPERIENCE
OHS Kayakers Trained Together For Olympics Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
OPERA IN ONEONTA:
Oneonta’s Crystal Hotaling shows daughter Devon Blush how to capture a duck and win a prize as the Otsego County Fair got underway Tuesday, July 31 in Morris/SCHEDULE,
The Metropolitan Opera has designated Foothills Performing Arts Center to simulcast opera performances Saturday afternoons live from New York City, beginning in October/DETAILS, A8
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SPORT TECH CLOSING:
Ed and Cameron Lorenz and Bob and Nancy Scanlon, who operated Sport Tech in downtown Oneonta since 1984, plan to close the store shortly. Both couples plan to stay in the area and perhaps continue in the bicycle business. Samantha Becker and Rachel Murello of Laurens get their world turned upside down on Air Force One.
Oneonta’s Chase Thomas of the Robokronos Robotics Team, which competed in St. Louis in the spring, shows off Robot 4203 to fairgoers.
“I knew it was the sport for me.” After they graduated colate Hendricksonlege – Kate from William Smith and Kim from SUNY Borg and Kim Griswold knew Oneonta – they both moved each other at Oneonta High separately to California, School, but after where they found graduation, inthey didn’t live stead of keeping too far apart. in touch through They began to postcards and compete on the phone calls, they same circuits, met each other such as Olympic out on the lake. Fest. “Kate and I “It’s like a started paddling mini-Olympics,” at the same time,” Kim said. “They said Kim. “(OHS have the opening cross-country ceremonies and coach) Dan Murn people are fussing took me out and over you—it’s I felt like I was Kate HendricksonPlease See flying,” she said. Borg in training for KAYAKS, A7 By LIBBY CUDMORE
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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
August 4, 2012 10 am - 4 pm