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Volume 204, No. 43
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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E. Donnall Thomas, 92; Cooperstown’s Nobelist By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ooperstown’s Nobelist passed away Sunday, Oct. 21, in Seattle, Wash., a continent away from where his ground-breaking
research in bone-marrow and organ transplants began more than six decades ago. When E. Donnall Thomas won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1990, it was widely recognized his pioneering work on bone-marrow transplants was launched more than three decades before in that non-de-
script five-story light-brown brick building at Fair Street and Atwell Road. And it was widely noted yet again Monday, Oct. 22, in obituaries in newspapers across the nation when word was received of the death of Dr. Thomas, a key player in 1955-63 at Mary Imogene
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Bassett Hospital’s then-fledgling Bassett Research Institute. In a statement, Bassett President & CEO Bill Streck described those years as “an amazing” time, when physicians like Thomas, Joseph W. Ferrebee and David W. Blumenstock, and researchers Please See THOMAS, A8
IDEA RISES FROM THE DEAD
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
One of Otsego Manor’s many underappreciated assets is Paco, a parrot who has entertained residents and visitors there for years. Lodged in a cage in the lobby, Paco performs tricks for Manor employees like Kevin Kenny, Cooperstown, and others.
Assault Case False Report, Police Allege
Paid Parking Haunts By JIM KEVLIN
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arking is Cooperstown’s Whac-a-Mole, and it popped up four times the other night. Meeting Monday, Oct. 22, the Village Board acted: • To revisit paid parking. Voicing concern about an engineering report that found $900,000 a year must be budgeted if the village is to ever repair its streets, Streets Committee chair Cindy Falk said paid-parking on Main (River to Pine) and Pioneer (Lake to Church) streets must be discussed again – gingerly, it was agreed – with new revenues dedicated to roadwork. • To seek permit parking for residents. Parking Task Force chair Please See PARKING, A7
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he alleged assault of a Bassett Hospital employee en route to a parking lot Oct. 3 has turned out to be a false report, according to Police Chief Michael Covert. As a result, Jenny L. Wyant, 36, Hartwick, has been charged with falsely reporting an incident and making a sworn false statement, both misdemeanors. She allegedly fabricated the story to cover up an injury that occurred earlier that morning at work. PROTEST DUE: Otesgo Manor residents are planning a protest at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 26, in the parking lot. Meanwhile, they have collected 1,000 signatures on a petiton against the nursing home’s sale. ZONING CHANGED: The Village Board Monday, Oct. 22, approved allowing light-industrial uses inside commercially zoned properties. Sign on Rudy’s Liquor Store: “I’m here for the boos.”
Allstadt Cuts Pipeline Link To Fracking COOPERSTOWN Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
Andrea House of Springfield Center may have been dressed as a witch during the Friends of Glimmerglass gathering of ghosts, ghouls and goblins, but she’s actually quite nice. Daughter Sheena, 8, accompanied her. In top photo are a line of pumpkins at Church & Scott, Cooperstown, provided for a second year by customer Genevieve Buddle/FULL HALLOWEEN CALENDAR, B2
Former Lynn VP Casale VIP At Debate By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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he only members of the public at the final ObamaRomney debate Monday,
Oct. 22, were 80 Lynn University students, but a proud associate from Cooperstown was among VIPs watching by closed-circuit nearby. Tony Casale, the former assemblyman, now chief of staff for the New York Republican Com-
mittee and senior adviser to GOP State Chair Ed Cox, was Lynn’s vice president during eight heroic years when it struggled for success. Founded by nuns as Marymount College 75 years ago, Please See CASALE, A9
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aying the Constitution Pipeline will open the door to fracking in Otsego County is “nonsense.” That blunt declaration comes from Lou Allstadt, the anti-fracking Allstadt listens advocate who spent to debate. much of his career at Mobil – he retired as executive vice president – overseeing the company extraction and transportation of oil and natural gas around the world. Allstadt’s statement, to the Village Please See ALLSTADT, A6
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