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VISIT www.AllOTSEGO.com, OTSEGO COUNTY’S DAILY NEWSPAPER/ONLINE Volume 211, No. 17
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, April 25, 2019
Pizzeria Looking To Grow Plans Includes More Parking, Outside Tables By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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t’s a village hot-spot, and customers intent on New York Pizzeria’s offerings park along Chestnut and Elm streets, The Freeman’s Journal and in the off-hours fill the Andela Products Presi- parking lots at the adjoining dent Cynthia Andela Bank of Cooperstown and briefs the Otsego Coun- Triple-A offices. ty Chamber on her plans And that’s in the for a new building. off-season. Several months of vilAndela Details lage meetings from now, the Factory Planned crunch should ease, restauraAt Richfield Site teur Joe Vezza is predicting. Triple-A has consolidated RICHFIELD SPRINGS in Oneonta, Vezza bought the building, and he’s planompany President ning to demolish it to add Cynthia Andela 12 more off-street parking told Otsego County spaces. Chamber members meeting Please See PIZZERIA, B5 here Thursday, April 18, she plans to break ground on a 100,000-square-foot building south of the village next year. The new plant is necessary because of the expansion of its Ruby Lakes subsidiary, which is making colored ground glass that is being used for street markings in New York City. The new plant, on the 40acre Otesgo Now site there, By JENNIFER HILL will create 12 more jobs.
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Truitt Caught Next To OPD
Truitt hiding in the basement of the building where his children ONEONTA and their mother live. He was taken into custody fter 17 weeks on without incident. the run, Wednesday, Gabriel April 17, an Truitt, 33, is in Otsego County custody. Grand Jury in“Our detecdicted Gabriel tives developed on one count information that each of firsthe was in the degree murder area and served and first-degree a search warrant arson, and at 95 Main St.� Gabriel Truitt two counts of – that gray, twosecond-degree story apartment house murder for allegedly right next to Oneonta starting the Dec. 29 fire Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Police headquarters, said on Walling Avenue that Gabriel Truitt, 33, suspect in Oneonta’s Dec. 29 fatal Chief Doug Brenner. killed John Heller, 38, a fire, was captured Tuesday, April 23, in the basement There police found Please See ARSON, A3 of 95 Main St. while visiting his family. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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SUNY Senate To Study OH-Fest
Committee Will Study Concert Cancellation To Get Better Scrutiny
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Filmmaker’s Brenner: Protests Next Topic: Made Concert Too Living Poor Uncertain To Hold By LIBBY CUDMORE
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y a 9-5 vote, with one ON OTSEGO.com abstention, the SUNY Oneonta Student Senate voted Tuesday, â–ş CONGRESSMAN DELGADO, April 23, to do nothing for now on picking up Senate Minority vetting of future OH-Fest headliners. Leader Chuck Schumer’s Instead, it plans to set up a study lead a few days before, took committee to make recommendations. a day off Thursday, April Drafted by junior Eric Battista 18, and brought his family after this year’s OH-Fest concert was up from Rhinebeck to visit suddenly cancelled over gang-rape Cooperstown Bat Co. allegations against Rapper Sean Kingsâ–ş CONCRETE BLEACHERS on ton, the resolution sought to toughen Doubleday Field’s third-base line are being demolished, the background checks in the future. start of a $5.8 million renova“Whereas students of SUNY tion project at the national Oneonta were left in the dark on comlandmark. munications that invited people to the â–ş UNDETERRED BY RAIN, huncollege that conflicted with our values dreds of youngsters attended and mission statement,â€? wrote Battista. the annual Easter Egg Hunt He drafted the resolution after at Hyde Hall, sponsored by SUNY Oneonta cancelled the concert Leatherstocking Region Credit for the first time in OH-Fest’s 13Union, Saturday, April 21. year history, the day after a “community dialogueâ€? organized by a Know Violence Committee indicated protest might punctuate the music.
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f one person gets hurt in the OHFest crowd, it takes five people, including law enforcement and EMTs, to reach them, according to City Police Chief Doug Brenner. “We form a wedge to move through the crowd,� he said. “But if there are 10 people fighting, we’re quickly overwhelmed.� Such concerns were among the reasons Mayor Gary Herzig revoked SUNY Oneonta’s permit to hold this year’s OH-Fest concert by Rapper Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Sean Kingston. Know Violence Here, Student Senate President a student group, had spoke of protestZachary says a committee ing after learning he had been accused will study vetting OH-Fest of a gang rape in 2010. headliners. At right is Senator “It became apparent two days before Jazmin Phipps. the concert that there was as many as “We did the search on Sean Kings- 400 students who would be protestton. Nothing came up on his backing,� said Herzig. “I’m sure they were ground search because he was not designed to be peaceful, but it could Please See OH-FEST, A3 Please See BRENNER, A3
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ilmmaker Joe Stillman wants to open people’s eyes to what he calls “The Invisible Class.â€? “In Otsego County, the poverty rate is 16.5 â–şWANT to be perin Joe Stillman’s next documencent,â€? he tar? Call said. “In 607-287-5175 Oneonta, it’s 29.5 percent. That’s one in three. These are our friends, relatives and neighbors, people we play with, shop with and work with.â€? Now, home from promoting an award-winning documentary on LBJ’s crusading Attorney General Ramsay Clark, Stillman wants to reveal “Faces of Povertyâ€? in his next documentary. “I want to put a face to the Please See POVERTY, B5
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD