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“With Mariano Rivera getting in, I think it’s very likely we’ll break the all-time attendance record,” he said. “A high-profile Yankee is always big, and he’s the first guy from that great team to get in. I think it will be a big tip-off from what we can expect for Please See INDUCTION, A7
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First-year CGP student Tashae Smith delivered an historic reading during First Presbyterian Church’s Martin Luther King Day commemoration.
our young men in the Rochester suburb of Greece were arrested this week after police learned that they were allegedly planning to bomb Islamberg, the small Muslim community in Delaware County. Officers with the Greece Police Department Saturday arrested Brian F. Colaneri, 20, and Vincent Vetromile, 19, both of Greece, and Andrew C. Crysel, 18, of East Rochester, as well as a 16year-old student at Odyssey Academy, allegedly finding three improvised explosive devices, packed with nails and powder, at the home of the 16-year-old suspect. For full story, follow link on
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reparation, Otsego County agreed, was the secret to riding out a successful winter storm. “We prepared for the worst, and that made a big difference,” said Art Klinger, county emergency services coordinator at The Meadows Office Building, Town of
Middlefield. Though Winter Storm Harper threatened 20-30 inches over the weekend, the final total came to around 10 inches in most places. “I don’t think not getting as much snow as we planned for hurt anybody’s feelings,” said Klinger. After National Weather Service warnPlease See HARPER, B8
Mom Rebecca Smucker of Cooperstown had herself and daughter Ada, 11 months, bundled up Saturday, Jan. 19, as Storm Harper began dusting the village at about 4 p.m.
paid a visit to a Coast Guard station in Saugerties, on the Hudson River, over the weekend to talk with sailors who aren’t getting paid during the government shutdown. He said it is the first time the Armed Forces have been affected by a shutdown. ►State Sen. jim seward called on the state Department of Public Service and Frontier Communications to remedy phone outages in western Otsego County. By LIBBY CUDMORE ►the last truck carved by folk artist Laverne Kelly will be on display Saturday, Jan. 26, ONEONTA at The Art Garage on Beaver Meadow Road.
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For Sam Wyant, Oneonta, the empty streets were an opportunity to take his Indie ‘95 600 Triple snowmobile out for a spin on Chestnut Street.
‘TBRM’ BLENDS LIBERAL ARTS, SCIENCE Many Dangers Found At Hotel 1st Hartwick Master Degree
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appliances. Many are without By JIM KEVLIN operating smoke detectors. Window panes are cracked and fixed with tape. And sus- ONEONTA pended ceiling tiles cover the sprinkler system, rendering it ringing a new pharinoperable in a fire. maceutical to market Please See HOTEL, A7 costs $1 billion and
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takes 15 years, said Dr. Alice C. Ceacareanu. “And 15 more years to make the best use of it,” said the new director of Hartwick College’s first master’s degree program, in TBRM, Translational Biomedical
Research Management. Its goal is to prepare professionals to short that 30-year delay considerably, she said in an interview Tuesday, Jan. 22. The college had anPlease See MASTER’S, A7
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD