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RICHFIELD SPRINGS • CHERRY VALLEY • HARTWICK • FLY CREEK • MILFORD • SPRINGFIELD • MIDDLEFIELD Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, November 1, 2012
Volume 204, No. 44
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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HIGH WINDS, BUT LITTLE DAMAGE
Frankenstorm Isn’t A Monster After All By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN
The Freeman’s Journal
Red-wigged Clayton Hollister, 25, was one of runners who got in the Halloween spirit for the Coop Loop Sunday, Oct. 28. He ran the 5K in 18:32, for fourth/ MORE PHOTOS, A7
Allstadt, Bishop Will Be Honored At OCCA Dinner COOPERSTOWN
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he Otsego County Conservation Association have named Lou Allstadt and Ron Bishop co-recipients of its 2012 Conservationist of the Year award. The Middlefield Neighbors will receive a Special Recognition for Environmental Advocacy. Recipients will be honored at OCCA’s Annual Dinner Friday, Nov. 16 at The Tryon Inn, Cherry Valley. Cash bar at 5:30 p.m.; dinner, program at 7 p.m. Reservations, $35, due by Friday, Nov. 9. at admin@occainfo.org. ON NPR: WAMC quotes Brewery Ommegang spokesman Larry Bennett saying Wine, Beer Summit attendees Wednesday, Oct. 24, were told not to ask Governor Cuomo about fracking. Bennett was able to mention the importance of clean water to Cuomo at a reception that followed in the Governor’s Mansion. END OF ERA: Joe Harris, chief groundskeeper at Doubleday Field for 20 years, has advised the Village Board he plans to retire at the end of the year. He hopes to continue to work parttime during his retirement.
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ars lined up outside Stewart’s Monday, Oct. 29, as drivers filled gas tanks in case they needed to evacuate their families. Inside, and at every grocery and quick-stop, D batteries had been sold out since the afternoon before. Cooperstown Central School had closed (it would close again Tuesday, as would schools across Otsego County). At 4 p.m., so did Southside Mall in Oneonta. Just up Route 23, the shelves Wal-Mart dedicates to camping stoves were picked Winds whipped clean. the Stars and And as the winds Stripes at Main howled at up to 51 and Pioneer at dusk Monday, MPH – at Three Mile Point, it was Oct. 29. hard to stay upright – and the rain fell across Otsego County, residents hunkered down and waited Please See STORM, A3
Andy Bergford surveys the branch that blocked Delaware Street, Cooperstown’s only storm damage. Village crews had cleared it away shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30.
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal The Fly Creek Valley Road between
A 100-foot evergreen toppled on Bob Hill’s house on Westford’s Main Street, the most serious damage countywide from Frankenstorm.
BOON TO TOURISM, ECONOMY?
Smithy Executive Seeking Grants For Cinema Center By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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magine a Cooperstown of aspiring directors and famous filmmakers? Danielle Newell does. Newell, Smithy Center for the Arts executive director, sees Cooperstown as the next in an ever-growing list of small towns and off-the-path locales that have become destinations for cinema buffs and cameramen alike. “Tourists would come out just to see where the movies they saw were shot – the way they come to the Hall of
Route 28 and Goose Street was closed off, awaiting NYSEG crews to cut power to downed lines.
Old Clock Died, But Magic Of Electricity Brings It Back COOPERSTOWN
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hen future Titanic Fame to see where ‘A survivor League of Their Own’ Grace Scott Bowen was filmed,” she said. was a pupil in the “I want it to become 1880s at the Frog a hub for filmmakers, and what better way to Hollow schoolhouse on Pioneer Street, accomplish that than through a Cooperstown she depended on the clock in the Cinema Center?” In recent days, New- First Presbyterian Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Newell Church’s steeple to Tom Heitz examines the clock hands ell has been preparmake sure she was to and mechanism now replaced with ing an application to class on time. electric motors in First Presbyterian ArtPlace, a coalition of the National Until the Village Church’s steeple. Endowment of the Arts, national and of Cooperstown regional foundations and banks, for a complete with clocktower, where was created in 1888 and built grant to allow her plan to move forthe Chestnut Street firehouse Please See CINEMA, A9 its original municipal building, Please See CLOCK, A8
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A NIGHT OF MYSTERY, MUSIC, AND AFTER-HOURS FUN! The whole family can…
Explore rural food production through story time, theatre, and kid-friendly music. Help solve the mystery of a stolen artifact in a new “Who Dunnit?” museum theatre event. Take part in crafts and activities provided by local community groups. Snacks and drinks will be available.
ADMISSION: $7.00 (ages 13+); $5 (NYSHA members); Children 12 and under are free and must be accompanied by an adult. Proceeds benefit the museum’s Education Department.
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Help solve a new museum mystery!
Dance to the kid-friendly tunes of “Will & Will.”
Enjoy crafts and activities!
SPONSORS: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Smithy Center for the Arts, Friends of Glimmerglass, The Cooperstown Graduate Program