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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, November 18, 2016
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Eichlers Help Ready Spruce At Rockefeller Center Attending Tree-Lighting Family Tradition By LIBBY CUDMORE
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very year, Oneonta’s now-famous Eichler family – mom Angie, dad Graig, daughter Ava, now 14, and son Brock, now 19 – would go down to New York City to see the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree all lit up.
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Bassett Senior Health Educator Lynae Wyckoff outlines the proposed Complete Streets initiative to Common Council Tuesday, Nov. 15. See details at
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Levy Up .4% In Preliminary County Budget COOPERSTOWN
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he proposed county tax levy is up 0.4 percent in the preliminary budget that, by law, County Treasurer Dan Crowell had to deliver to Clerk of the County Board Carol McGovern by Wednesday, Nov. 16. The proposed levy – the amount that must be raised by local property taxes – is up $45,003 to a $11,400,165, Crowell said. Review the preliminary budget at
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HOW DRY WE ARE: In
the first 14 days of November, only 0.24 inches of precipitation fell, National Weather Observer Dave Mattice of Oneonta reports. “The extreme dryness continues!” he said. DEFUSING PILLS:
Mallinckrodt, parent company of Hobert’s Covidien, announced Tuesday, Nov. 15, it is donating 10,000 “medication deactivation pouches” to LEAF for distribution locally. 50 JOBS COMING: The
official groundbreaking was Monday, Nov. 14, on Farm Credit East’s 50-job consolidation of its Cobleskill and Sangerfield office on Route 80, Town of Springfield, due to open in a year.
Dad Graig Eichler drives a spike that will help water the 96foot-tall spruce until its Nov. 30 lighting. Watching, from left, are mom Angie, Ava and Brock.
This year, the tradition will continue, but this time, they’ll be in the VIP booth watching the tree from their backyard at 75 Country Club Road illuminate 45 Rockefeller Plaza’s famous ice-skating rink during NBC’s annual “Christmas In Rockefeller Center” broadcast on Nov. 30. Legends Tony Bennett, Neil Please See TREE, A7
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Goal? Accountability! Organizer: Vote Legitimate, But Future A Worry
SUNY Oneonta junior Denny Burham marches in the Friday, Nov. 11, protest on the quad, decrying mistreatment of trans youth.
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evin Torres didn’t need much to get hundreds of his fellow SUNY Oneonta students rallying together: Only a Facebook post, people with something to say, and the catalyst, President-elect Donald Torres Trump. At the resulting rally Friday, Nov. 11, a throng of protesters challenged Trump’s rhetoric that has targeted marginalized groups such as ethnic and religious minorities, women and the LGBTQ community. “There were a lot of people that were afraid of where the country was going to head,” said the junior. “People must Please See PROTEST, A7
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REPORT FROM HELL HOLLOW Entering 2nd Century, Elm Park Church Treasuring Mementos Of First Hundred He Lives With Gas Pipeline
– And It Has Been Just Fine
By LIBBY CUDMORE
By LIBBY CUDMORE
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hrough reuse and recycling, the Elm Park Methodist Church’s century-old legacy lives. “When we built the new church in 1978, we saved all the stained glass,” said Church Secretary Nancy Garrison, coming off the Oct. 22-23 centennial celebration. “We put the big windows back together, but some of the smaller pieces, we used in other windows and decorations.” The church even had a stained-glass making class in the early ’80s. “People made Please See CHURCH, A6
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The Elm Park church’s pastor, Donna Martin, points out windows made from the original ones.
here are two gas pipelines on Bob Holbrook’s Hell Hollow Road property – but you wouldn’t know it. “The LP Pipeline was put here before I bought the property, but I’ve never had a problem with it,” said Hol-
Laurens’ Bob Holbrook
brook, who testified to the benign nature of his neighPlease See PIPELINE, A6
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