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Fans have been leaving their memories and tributes to David Bowie on this wall at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Bowie Inspired Those Who Felt Left Out
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n college, CGP grad Greg Harris, president of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, knew that if someone had a David Bowie album, he or
she could be a friend. “You immediately knew they shared an understanding of great music,” said the former Fly Creek resident. “A Bowie fan has a connection to a wider world, across all different spectrums.” Bowie, whose career in music, film and theater, spanned nearly 50 Greg Harris Please See BOWIE, A7
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Malting Piece May Make Otsego Brewing Supreme By JIM KEVLIN
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ooperstown Kicks Off” is this year’s theme for 49th the Winter Carnival, planned Friday-Sunday, Feb. 5-7, at venues around the village. “It’s the same weekend as the Super Bowl, so we made it football themed,” said Marissa Davidson, who is chairing the organizing committee/DETAILS, A2-3 RUNNING AGAIN: Expected to retire, Otsego County’s veteran assemblyman, Bill Magee, D-Nelson, is seeking a 13th term in the state’s lower house, according to county Democratic Chair Richard Abbate.
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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, January 21, 2016
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Recently arrived from New York City, bundledup Rachelle Boysillo was adapting to her new home walking home for her job as a Bassett OR nurse through temperatures in the teens this week.
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Scott Fickbohm, Burlington Flats, speaking at Hartwick College’s Winter Farm Brewer Weekend, is proposing a 13-employee Generations Malting Co. in Oneonta.
Chamber Polls Membership On Paid-Parking Extension
VILLAGE CAUCUS: Cooperstown Democrats will caucus at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, on VilBy LIBBY CUDMORE lage Board candidates in the March 15 elections. County Republican chair Vince COOPERSTOWN Casale did not return calls on the GOP plans. ith a proposal on the table to extend GO TO CAMP: The paid parking deadline in Monday, Jan. 25, from Labor Day to Columfor the OCCA’s annual esbus Day, Matt Hazzard, say contest which will send Cooperstown Chamber of nine middle-school students Commerce executive directo DEC camp this summer. E-mail admin@occainfo.org tor, has is asking members how they feel about it. Not very good, has been the initial response. “The chamber isn’t look-
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ing to take a stance in either direction,” said Hazzard. “We want to represent small business owners Hazzard as a unified force.” An online survey, available at the chamber’s website and on www.allotsego. com, asks members if paid parking has affected Please See PARKING, B7
he debate at the fourth annual Winter Farm Brewery Weekend, hosted by on Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 16-17, by Hartwick College, focused on what the general public might consider an arcane topic: Malted barley and its possible shortage. By the weekend’s end, however, it turns out Otsego County may solve that prospective problem, filling yet another gap in the supply and production chain that is turning Oneonta and the Glimmerglass Region into “the Finger Lakes of Beer.” Governor Cuomo’s economic-development grants for 2016, announced Thursday, Dec. 10, included $250,000 for the Genera-
Brewmaster Phil Leinhart discusses Ommegang’s initiatives with attendees from as far away as South Africa.
tions Malting Co., led by Scott Fickbohm, longtime Otsego County Soil & Water Conservation District executive director, now working Please See MALT, A6
Party Split Over Zephyr’s Return Abbate Hopes For Unanimity; Stammel Balks By JIM KEVLIN
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micable unity is not to be. The county’s Democratic chairman, Richard Abbate, was excited about former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout’s interest in succeeding U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19. ”She’s an incredible candidate – full of energy, The Freeman’s Journal great ideas; she’s really goZephyr Teachout at ing to light up the district,” Foothills in 2014. Abbate said last Wednesday,
Jan. 13, after the Fordham University law professor met with the party’s executive committee at Abbate’s Cooperstown home. Saturday, Jan. 16, Abbate participated by speaker phone in a meeting of county chairs from nine of the other 10 counties in the 19th District, who were meeting in Hudson, Columbia County, and was further buoyed by their support of Teachout. The 11th chair sent a proxy. Please See SPLIT, B7
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