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DOORS OPEN: The Cooperstown Beverage Exchange, in the former Augur’s Building, opened for business over the Fourth of July weekend. YOKO SAYS NO: Yoko
Ono, of Franklin and the world, placed a full-page ad in the New York Times of Thursday, July 9, promoting a petition that opposes the Constitution Pipeline.
Kiernan Unopposed For Top Otsego Post By JIM KEVLIN
you all waking me up’,” said Hulse. “Kathleen GallandBennett and all of us would go running by her house at 5 a.m., and we’d always be laughing so hard that we knew we were waking people up.” Bennett, 50, a third-grade The Freeman’s Journal teacher at Cooperstown Central Kathleen Galland-Bennett Please See BENNETT, B4 in Bike Otsego 2014.
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eg Kiernan, the former Otsego town supervisor (2010-11), plans to resume her old job Jan. 1 with “the big meet-
ing.” “Get it all on the table,” she said in an interview after the Thursday, July 9, deadline for nominating petitions passed and the Democrat Please See ELECTIONS, A3
THERESA RUSSO AT SCHOOL BOARD HELM
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Community Mourns After Bright Light Extinguished onday morning, July 13, Christine McBrearty-Hulse got a text message from her friend, Kim Soule. “It said, ‘I’ll miss
he state Department of Public Service’s trial staff has recommended that North America Transmission’s proposed transmission line that would parallel 40 miles of the Marcy South line through Otsego County be eliminated. Five of NAT’s projects “have the potential for greater environmental impacts,” the staff concluded. As originally proposed in the 1970s, Marcy South would have followed peaks on the west side of Otsego Lake, and opposition led to the founding of Otsego 2000. In the end, the line was moved to the west.
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Ruth Dibble, 8, of West Winfield, hugs Darth Vader, a rare Normandy calf, after it won best of its breed at The Farmers’ Museum’s 68th annual Junior Lifestock Show July 12-14 at Iroquois Farms, featuring young handlers from nine counties. Results at: WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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New CCS Leader Looks For ‘A Rebuilding Year’ HONORS GRADUATE OVERCAME OBSTACLES Patrick Dewey overcame cerebral palsy to graduate from CCS with honors. A music lover, he is planning a career as a DJ.
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Standing Ovation Sends Forth Patrick Dewey By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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ost kids don’t start getting their career training in third grade – but that’s where Patrick Dewey got his first DJ gig. “A lot of my friends were in the Red Hot Ropers jump rope club,” he
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said. “I wanted to join the club so I could be with them.” Dewey, who has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair, didn’t want to be left out of the fun, but found another way to be part of the team. “One of my teachers knew I loved music, so she suggested I help with the music for practices,” he said. “It kind of took off from there! “One year,” he continued, “I put
together a ‘Decades’ program of hits from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. And another time I made one of songs from movie soundtracks, like ‘I’m a Believer’ and ‘Old Time Rock ’n’ Roll.’” The son of John and Jeanne Dewey, Patrick, who graduated with honors June 28 from Cooperstown Central School – he received a standing ovaPlease See DEWEY, A3
he success of Cooperstown Central School matters to the community at large, Theresa Russo, the new school board president, will tell you. “We hear that the school is central to the comTheresa munity. It’s Russo why people move here. It helps Bassett recruit doctors,” she said in an interview after being unanimously elected at the board’s organizational meeting Wednesday, July 8. Thus, the CCS board’s recently expressed policy – to be a beacon of quality among the region’s schools – will be central to the Russo regime. “We need to be out there in the lead on quality education,” she continued, “getting ahead of the game. As we see enrollments go down, we want to make sure were in the position to be a leader.” What that means is not fully clear yet, she said, but Please See RUSSO, A3
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD