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tsego County’s Otschodela Boy Scout Council’s executive committee planned to meet Wednesday evening, Aug. 5, to decide whether to continue merger talks with the Utica-based Revolutionary Trails Council. Henry Nicols, council board member, said the Otschodela Council initiated talks with Revolutionary Trails, and thus a vote to cut off discussions is unlikely. For vote results, check
Otsego Land Trust has scheduled a public meeting at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at the Brookwood garden house to report on the RFPs it solicited about leasing or selling 11 acres to maintain the rest of the 22 acres. STRONG PEOPLE: Tom Clark of Oneonta and Heather Pray of Davenport won the heavyweight category of the eighth annual Vis Vires Outdoor Strongman Competition Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Clark Sports Center. RARE BLUE MOON rose over Otsego County the night of Friday, July 31.
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“Democracy should be centered around the inclusion and common good of all people.” Nonetheless, GOP County Chair Vince Casale, Cooperstown, is staying the course, repeating Monday, Aug. 3, that he intends to go forward with the court challenge to a 13-signature petition that includes Dewey’s name and could remove Marietta from the Nov. 3 ballot, where he is vying against freshman county Rep. Rick Hulse, R-Fly Creek, in the Cooperstown/ Patrick Dewey Town of Otsego district. The issue, Casale said, is not Patrick – the The GOP is challenging Patrick Dewey’s signature Please See PETITIONS, A7 on Andrew Marietta’s District 8 petitions.
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Sarah True nee Groff, Otsego’s Olympian races along Copacabana Beach in the final leg of the trial that won her a berth on the U.S. triathlon team in the Rio Games next summer.
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tsego’s Olympian rides – and swims and runs – again. Cooperstown’s own Sarah Groff – now Sarah True, after marrying last year – took fourth place with a time of 1:59:46. in the ITU World Olympic Qualification Event in Rio de Janeiro Sunday, Aug. 2, securing her spot alongside Gwen Jorgenson on the U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team. “It was so exciting,” said her mother, Jeannine Please See SARAH, A6
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Youth Opera Premiering With Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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fter years of singing chorus to adult performers, The Glimmerglass Festival’s young singers are ready to take the stage in their own show. “A big part of what I’ve done here has been building the numbers of young people who come to our shows,” said General & Artistic Director Francesca Zambello. “We started using the youth chorus for our mainstage shows, and then I thought, ‘Why not do some-
thing that features them’?” Zambello commissioned Glimmerglass dramaturg Kelley Rourke to write the libretto and brought in Ben Moore to write the musical adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey.” “When she first told me, I thought, ‘You’ve got to be crazy’!” said Moore, a Clinton Please See OPERA, A6
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IF YOU GO: Youth Opera, Homer’s “The Odyssey,” 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Aug. 11-20, Cooperstown Theatre Festival, across from Glimmerglass Festival.
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Victoria Munro, Milford, and Molly Bello, Richfield Springs, rear, practice the song “Ithaca.”
he Bresee’s Bronco rides again. “I got a call from Nancy Mitchell” – Phil Bresee’s daughter, who Buy the bronlives in Hartwick – “and co, get the badge. she said she had the coin-operated horse from Bresee’s if I was interested,” said auctioneer Buzz Hesse. “I said, ‘I’ll be right over!’ She even had it in the horse stable.” The mechanical horse – known as “Gene Please See BRONCO, A7
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