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Volume 207, No. 32
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
It’s Name Amused; It’s Gone By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ocal patrons of takeout Chinese food witnessed the Zhang children growing up. With a chuckle, tourists The Freeman’s Journal carried the establishment’s A new boat-washing suggestive shirts and hats all station, attached to over the world. the Village of Cooperstown’s waste-water More than a generation of system, will be installed Cooperstown High School at Lakefront Park by students – literally, the estabMay, Otsego Lake Aslishment was 24 years old sociation board mem– would hang out at 48-50 ber Paul Lord tells the Pioneer St., gnoshing egg OLA’s annual meeting Saturday, Aug. 8, at the rolls and sesame chicken. Then, over the weekOtsego Golf Course. end, word began to spread: Foo Kin John’s, for years Local Judge Cooperstown’s only Chinese To Hear GOP restaurant, had closed its Please See CLOSED, B6
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he Republican County Committee’s challenge to Democrat Andrew Marietta’s petitions to run in the county Board of Representatives’ District 8 seat has been shifted from Norwich to Cooperstown. The case will be heard before Administrative Judge Robert Mulvey at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, in the Otsego County Courthouse. Marietta is running against county Rep. Rick Hulse, R-Fly Creek, the district that includes Cooperstown and the Town of Otsego. SCOUTS DELAY: Votes on a prospective merger of Otsego County’s Otschodela and Utica’s Revolutionary Trails scout councils was delayed last week after verbiage from the Boy Scouts of America was found to conflict with state law. Votes may occur later this month. LOCAL FOODS, Local Springs is Thursday the 13th at the Farmers’ Market/DETAILS, B1
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arts of a long-promised $2 million renovation of 22 Main St., the historic Village Hall, have been underway for a while, with Trustee Lou Allstadt, who is championing the undertaking, reporting to trustees monthly on mostly invisible advances – insulation, wiring and improvements to the heating system. Please See LIBRARY, A6
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Ed Stack Heralded At Hyde Hall Gala Ed Stack, key executive in Clark family matters in Cooperstown for 59 years, accepts applause at Hyde Hall’s 2015 gala, “Run for the Roses,” where he was guest of honor. His daughter Susanne is behind him.
Clark Foundation President Kevin S. Moore details Stack’s accomplishments. At right is Gib Vincent, chair of the Hyde Hall Board of Trustees. Far right, Noel Dries receives the Anne Hyde Clarke Logan Historic Preservation Award; behind him is gala co-chair Carrie Thompson. Near right, Susanne Smith McAvoy, posing with husband Matthew, was presented with a bouquet for having swum the length of Otsego Lake that day.
Clark Exec’s Contribution Recognized By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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e hasn’t been around here as much lately, but for decades Ed Stack was everywhere. In 59 years with Clark family entities, beginning the day after he graduated from college, he was involved in so many of the projects taken for granted in the Cooperstown of today: The new Clark Sports Center, The Fenimore Art Museum’s Paul Donnelly/The Freeman’s Journal Thaw Wing, the modernized Otesaga and Cooper Inn, a frequently upgraded Leatherstocking Golf Course, and an expanded Baseball Hall of Fame, including the addition of the library. Edward W. Stack was chairman and CEO of the Hall of Fame in 1977-2000, “during the height of its popularity,” Kevin S. Moore, president of The Clark Estates, declared Saturday, Aug. 8, at Hyde Hall, where Stack was guest of honor at the annual gala, “The Run for the Roses.” This year’s event drew a near-record attendance of 180 to a tent set up on the west side of the National Historic Landmark, presenting a long Please See STACK, A6
Low-Cost Loans Give Helping Hand To Mobile-Home Owners By LIBBY CUDMORE SCHENEVUS
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The blocks holding up his mobile home had broken in the sub-zero temperatures; the house dropped and the floor cracked. “Another night we came home, and our bed was soaked,” he said. “The ceiling panel had fallen down, and the roof was full of water. Same thing happened in the bathroom. “This place is falling apart so fast, it can’t be fixed.” Please See LOANS, A6
5-year-old twins Abby-Ann and Kaleb Birch, with mom Susan and Mattrew Foster, will get their own bedrooms under a mobilehome replacement program now being implemented in Otsego County.
TO APPLY for the Mobile Home Replacement Program, call Otsego County Housing Assistance at (607) 2867244.
attrew Foster was sitting in his kitchen this past February when he heard a noise no homeowner wants to hear. “It was colder than cold, and I heard a crack,” he said. “I walked down the hallway, and there was a crack all through my living room!”
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