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HENRY S.F. COOPER, JR., 1933-2016
Defender Of Glimmerglass, Friend To All Bids Farewell In June 2006, Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr., Otsego 2000 founder and, at the time, president, urges the Warren Town Board to reject a 118-turbine windmill farm, planned on a ridge, that would have been visible from his beloved Otsego Lake, his novelist ancestor’s Glimmerglass. Behind him is Otsego 2000 director Martha Frey; by the beam is the late Sue Brander, Stark, a leading wind farm opponent.
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Adeline Weinstock, Cooperstown, and her sister Charlie, speed down the slopes during the Cabin Fever Festival Saturday, Jan. 30, at Gilbert Lake State Park.
Former Rep Hulse In Line For IDA Post COOPERSTOWN
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ick Hulse, Fly Creek, who crossed swords with Otsego Now when he was county rep from Fly Creek, is being considered to fill a vacancy on the Otsego Now board. Hulse was one of the candidates Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, was said to be considering for appointment at the Wednesday, Feb. 3, meeting of the county Board of Representatives, subject to approval by a board majority. For the outcome, go to: WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
COUNTY ART: More than 200 people turned out for the Thursday, Jan. 28, opening of “Independent Spirit, featuring 24 artists, inculding several from the Cooperstown area, at SUNY Oneonta’s Martin-Mullen Gallery/PHOTOS, A6 BEST BUSINESS: NYCM Insurance, Edmeston, is among three county institutions to be honored Thurday, March 3, at the Otsego County Chamber’s annual dinner/ SEE A3
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With New Yorker For 35 Years, Writer Covered Space Program COOPERSTOWN
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enry Spotswood Fenimore Cooper, great-great-grandson of James Fenimore Cooper, and one more generation removed from William Cooper, died on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, at his home in Cooperstown. He spent his last weeks surrounded by friends and
‘Fearless Fenimore’ Family Heritage Invaluable In Otsego Lake Advocacy
family. The cause was cancer. Cooper, 82, was a staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine for 35 years. His primary focus was the U.S. space program, which he covered starting in the pivotal 1960s and ’70s. The articles he wrote offered an inside look at how NASA scientists and astronauts Please See OBITUARY, B6
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tsego 2000 needs to hire an artist, Henry S.F. Cooper Jr. used to kid to NiCourtesy Hyde Hall cole Dillingham, his successor as Henry Cooper president of the organization. The is saluted at caricaturist would paint a picture 2013 gala in of the Otsego Lake that isn’t – but his honor at Hyde Hall. might have been.
Reporter’s ‘Big Rewind’ Published Libby Cudmore’s Novel In Bookstores; Readings, Signings Begin By JIM KEVLIN
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eporter Libby Cudmore has written three novels, all unpublished, so what made “The Big Rewind,” published by William Morrow, an eminent New York house, any different?
The first published novel, which was released Tuesday, Feb. 2 – Libby had her first book reading and autograph session that evening at the RiverRead Books in Binghamton – turns on a hip device: A mixtape, defined as “a home-made compilation of music (typically copyrighted Please See REWIND, A7
It would have depicted 765 kV lines skirting Mount Wellington, fracking rigs along the shoreline, blinking red lights at night from the 160 wind turbines along the Jordanvillle-Van Hornesville ridge, and hundreds of fishing and pleasure boats dotting the mirrorlike waters via a huge boat launch at Glimmerglass State Park. Those impingements may very well have been reality today, if Please See ADVOCATE, B6
Hebert: DiNapoli Rating Isn’t Cause For Concern COOPERSTOWN
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t seems no good deed goes unpunished, CCS Superintendent C.J. Hebert might have reflected after State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s
updated “Fiscal Stress Monitoring System” was released last week, putting Cooperstown Central in the “Susceptible to Fiscal Stress” category. “Susceptible to Fiscal Please Seee STRESS, A6
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