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Clark Sports Center To Double In Size Latest Investment Extends 150 Years Of Stewardship By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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his fall, 15,000-square-feet will be added to the Clark Sports Center, “to al-
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In mom Megan’s arms, Izzy Lindberg, 2, was red, white and blue and ready for Cooperstown’s Memorial Day observance Monday, May 26, at the Soldiers & Sailors’ Monument/ MORE PHOTOS, B3
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anet Marie Smith, designer of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and other notable ballparks, was first up at the Baseball Hall of Fame’s three-day 26th annual Symposium on Baseball & American Culture Wednesday, May 28. Her keynoter at 1 p.m. was the first of 60 presentations over the next two days, bringing 140 participants from 30 states, as far away as California. ENERGY FUTURE: Sustainable Otsego is sponsoring a discussion of the state’s 100% Renewable Energy Plan at 7 p.m. Monday, June 2, at the county courthouse. Jannette Barth, a co-author, and Jessica Azulay, Alliance for a Green Economy, will be joined by former Mobil VP Lou Allstart. LILACS NEEDED: Clip your lilacs and drop them off at Cooperstown Distillery where proprietor Gene Marra plans to use them to flavor Fenimore Gin. Get a voucher for a future taste.
most double our capacity,” Jane Forbes Clark announced during a Tuesday, May 27, address to the Cooperstown Rotary Club. The construction is intended to strengthen what Miss Clark described as a tradition of community investment going back to her
great-great grandfather, attorney Edward Clark, partner in Singer Sewing Machine Co. Already, she said, the multipurpose gym on Susquehanna Avenue has grown to more than 4,000 members, and is supported Please See DOUBLE, A7
Jane Forbes Clark salutes the Clark Foundation team while addressing Rotary. The Freeman’s Journal
Obama Puts Focus On Tourism Effort Attracting tourists from abroad – one million a year by 2020 – will shift the balance of trade in our nation’s favor by $5 billion, President Obama told a gathering at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Thursday, May 22.
30 Bills Drawn To Fight Heroin
Seward Panel’s Proposals Ready To Be Introduced By JIM KEVLIN
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Immediately, Cooperstown Season Seems To Catch Fire By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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o sooner had President Obama come and gone, then renewed optimism about the possibilities of tourism was heard, and not just in Cooperstown.
“The name of Cooperstown brings people to the county,” said Ashley Camarata, sales manager at Oneonta’s Hampton Inn and a board member with the county’s newly privatized tourism-promotion effort, the Destination Marketing Corp. of Otsego County. “Once they’re here, they find there’s much more to do.” Standing in the Doubleday Field parking lot as cheers Please See TOURISM, A7
CCS Grad Sings For President
Training Here, At Elmira Readied Eric Bliss For Challenge By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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t was a call Eric Bliss never expected to get. “A few days before President Obama arrived, I got a call from the Baseball Hall of
Fame asking if I would sing the National Anthem for his visit,” he said. “It only took a second to say yes.” Bliss, a 2006 CCS graduate and son of David Bliss, Town of Middlefield supervisor, and mom Kim, sang “The Star Spangled Banner” at President Obama’s tourism speech Please See BLISS/A7
n just six weeks, the state Senate’s Joint Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction has hosted 16 forums across New York State, including one organized by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, on April 28 in Oneonta, and it is ready to act. At 1 p.m. Seward Wednesday, May 28, in the state Capitol, the two dozen senators on the task force were scheduled to announce a package of 25 heroin-fighting bills, which they plan to have passed by the Republican state Senate by June 9. Support is being sought in the Democratic Assembly to turn the Senate initiative into law. “The problem is evPlease See SCOURGE, A7
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Eric Bliss with parents Dave and Kim.
o review details on the 25 bills the state Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction is introduced Wednesday, May 28, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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5798 Route 80 t Cooperstown t FenimoreArtMuseum.org Winslow Homer, Watching the Breakers - A High Sea, 1896, Oil on canvas, Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1935