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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, May 15, 2014
As World Warms, So Does Lake Despite Chilly Winter, Ice In, Out Is Normal, Field Station Data Say By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ou may have thought the just-completed The Freeman’s Journal winter was cold, A Cooperstown Fire cold, cold. Department flag and But data tracked by Bill bronze medallion/flag Harman’s SUNY Biologiholder are available cal Field Station on Otsego to the families of fireLake show the fighters who have passed away. Call Dave ice-in, ice-out LaDuke at 435-2405, dates were or John Mitchell Real “normal,” part Estate at 547-8551. of local trend that supports Badgley In-Law the scientific consensus of Pulitzer-Winner warmFor NSA Report Harman global ing. “It was a COOPERSTOWN long cold winter,” said Harman in an interview. “But raig Timberg, sonit wasn’t as cold or as warm in-law of Ed and as it often gets.” Asked if Joan Badgley of the data is a local manifestaCooperstown, was on the tion of climate change, the team that won the Pulitzer BFS director replied, “yes, Prize in Public Service for the Washington Post’s cover- exactly. “ Harman issued updates of age of Edward Snowden’s a chart that tracks ice cover leaks of National Security since 1850, between a maxiAgency data. The prizes mum of 131 days and were announced in midPlease See ICE, A3 April. Timberg, who is married to the Badgley’s daughter Ruey and has summered in the Cooperstown area for years, is currently the Post’s national technology reporter.
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The latest plans for 22 Main’s renovation include replacing the noncompliant elevator, left; adding handicapped access and new steps to the CAA’s main gallery, center (that’s CAA’s Janet Erway); and a folding partition to add flexibility to the second-floor ballroom, right.
PRESERVING A TREASURE
22 Main Redo Built Around New Entry By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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INTO VILLAGE: Otsego Town Supervisor Anne Geddes Atwell has moved into the village from Fly Creek with husband Jim. CLEAN SLATE: For the first time in its 130year history, The Inn at Cooperstown has replaced its slate roof. Fred Dennis, Syracuse, did the job. BIKE TO WORK: The sixth annual Bike to Work Day is Wednesday, May 21, sponsored by ORCA, the Otsego Regional Cycling Advocates. Details at occainfo.org
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CCS Focus: Be The Best, Just In Case By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ith Schenevus, Milford, Laurens, Edmeston, Morris Trustee Lou Allstadt examines plans for “a secand other Otsego County ond entrance; not a rear entrance,” a key eleschool districts graduating ment in the latest plan for 22 Main’s renovation. only a few dozen seniors this year, the Cooperstown Central School District is getting ready. If other districts decide you won’t just find By LIBBY CUDMORE to close their high schools, symphonies played in Cooperstown’s has to be concert halls. available to accommodate COOPERSTOWN You’ll find singers them, said CCS board in Hartford, Conn., member Theresa Russo at a ype “Ode to Joy” and Ukraine, inside League of Women Voters’ into the search engine an IKEA store and on the Please See BEST, A6 of youtube.com and streets of Hong Kong, in
rustee Lou Allstadt and a Syracuse architectural firm have found the key – the key to the successful renovation of 22 Main, the Neo-Classical Village Hall, into a modern, multi-functional community center. “The key element to making all this work,” said Allstadt, reporting what he’s been telling village employees and representatives of the Village Library and Cooperstown Art Association, “is a new entrance on Fair Street.” You know, the dim, The landmark’s bluestone damp walkway that front steps were replaced this opens into the un- month. welcoming police department lobby. In recent days, Allstadt, who was a founder of The Friends of 22 Main Street before he joined the Village Board (he now chairs the Buildings Committee), has been sharing plans developed by Holmes-King-Kallquist with the building’s tenants. That entrance – “a nice glass wall, so you don’t feel Please See 22 MAIN, A7
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or a look at the floor plans and workscope of proposed renovations to 22 Main, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Cooperstown Joins Globe In Celebrating Beethoven’s ‘Ode’
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IF YOU GO: Beethoven’s “Ninth” film, performance, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19, CCS Sterling Auditorium. small chamber ensembles
and groups of thousands. And in each one, the reaction is always the same. People pause and smile. Cell phones and cameras come out to record the moment. Please See ODE, A3
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD