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If Constitution Stalls, Will Amphenol Stay? Leatherstocking Gas Refocusing Raises Question
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his is what college would look like if it were invented today.” Jeff Dean
Director of Full Stack Education, Galvanize The Freeman’s Journal
Pavers are hurrying to complete the Cooperstown Elementary parking lot in advance of opening day Tuesday, Sept. 7/MORE PHOTOS, A2
School Upgrades Racing To Finish By Opening Day COOPERSTOWN
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he first phase of CCS’ $6 million in renovations is rushing to completion by opening day, Tuesday, Sept. 7, but Supt. of Schools C.J. Hebert anticipates finishing touches will continue into September. “It won’t be 100 percent done,” he said. Paving crews were expected to complete paving the elementary school lot by mid week, but paving at the high school may still be underway at the CCS-Morrisville football home opener Saturday the 5th. Fans are being asked to park in the elementary lot. NEW SUPER: The Village Board appointed Mitchell Hotaling as street superintendent at a special meeting Monday, Aug. 31. He had been serving on an interim basis since Kurt Carman’s departure. WRONG NUMBERS: Hartwick College has 1,500 students on campus, not 1,600, and experienced a 150 shortfall in its freshman class, not 350, as reported in last week’s “Welcome Back!” edition.
By JIM KEVLIN
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he future of Amphenol Aerospace’s 1,000-job Sidney plant if the state rejects the Constitution Pipeline is “a relatively minor blip from the perspective of the people who have opposed the pipeline,” says Bob Nied, Richmondville, formerly on the Stop the Pipeline steering committee. If approved, Stop the Pipeline adherents believe, the pipeline would damage tourism, preventing job growth in that sector, and depress property values, counter-balancing Amphenol’s economic benefits, Nied said. But Glenn Nealis, director of the Delaware County Economic Development Department, takes another view. He pointed out that, with its $30 million annual payroll, there is Please See AMPHENOL, A6
Interest In Brookwood Heating Up Town Of Otsego, BFS Among Latest Suitors By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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tsego Town Supervisor Anne Geddes Atwell made a point of attending the Otsego Land Trust’s annual picnic Sunday, Aug. 30, at the Greenwoods ConserGeddes Atwell vancy in the Town of Burlington, where she sought out Land Trust Board chair Harry Levine. There, and in a subsequent telePlease See BROOKWOOD, A3
Future programmers listen raptly at recent Startup Weekend in San Francisco, sponsored by Galvanize, which is graduating 98 percent of its students into jobs. Photos from The Freeman’s Journal, name.com
Jeff Dean, CCS ’96, On Cutting-Edge With Programmer-Training Innovator By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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eff Dean is exactly who he’s looking for to fill a “massive” national shortage in
computer programmers. “It’s in the millions; it’s a huge, huge shortage,” said Dean, back in his hometown in recent days visiting Village Trustee Jim and his wife Eileen, his mom and dad. As director of Full Stack Education at Galvanize, the younger
Dean is training “poker players, bookkeepers, baristas” – according to a recent New York Times article – many of them with liberal arts backgrounds, to become $100,000a-year computer programmers in just a few months. Please See DEAN, A7
Richfield, Hartwick Supervisors Face Primaries
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wo supervisors in the six towns around Cooperstown are facing challenges in the Thursday, Sept. 10, primary, but the contests are likely just previews to the main event – the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Sept. 10 Vote Previews General Election In the Town of Richfield, two-term incumbent Fran Enjem is being challenged by Town Board member Paul Palumbo in the Republican primary. If Enjem wins, Palumbo
will nonetheless appear on November’s general election ballot on the Conservative line and as an independent. Likewise in the Town of Hartwick, two-term incumbent David Butler
POLLS OPEN noon-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, for town primaries. Full list at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
is being challenged by five-year hamlet Fire Chief Bob O’Brien in Please See VOTE, A6
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD