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Volume 211, No. 23
Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, June 6, 2019
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
JOSH EDMONDS’ 45 DELAWARE ST.
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He’s Built The Future Cooperstown House Efficient, Affordable By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN\ The Freeman’s Journal
Carlotta Falso, left, Cooperstown, and Charlotte Marietta, Fly Creek, along with Charlotte’s mom Melissa, await at the head of the 800-girl throng that ran Sunday, June 2, in the annual Girls On The Run 5K from the Clark Sports Center.
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osh Edmonds has built the future at 45 Delaware St. ►Point One: A partner in the Simple Integrity construction firm, Edmonds has been paying $4,000 a year to heat his home in Springfield Center. The 2,600-square-foot house he’s just finished building at 45 Delaware will cost $254 a year to heat. “That’s a pretty substantial difference,” Edmonds said in a recent interview: $4,000 vs. $254. A home like the one he’s
just completed – it’s on target to be certified by the Passive House Institute, the international gold standard Josh – costs 3 Edmonds percent has ideas and, at 31, more to time to real- build than a standard ize them. house. The savings on energy alone will erase that difference in just four years, he said. ►Point two: He doesn’t expect to do any mainPlease See FUTURE, A7
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Josh Edmonds, right, a partner in the Simple Integrity construction company, pauses with members of his team, Norm Farwell, Morris, left, and Tanner Ray, Edmeston, in front of 45 Delaware St., Cooperstown. Edmonds expects the structure, now completed, to be certified by the Passive House Institute.
rivers on Route 28 have been watching a new Milford FUNDRAISING BEGINS FOR STUDIO 53 Methodist Church rising for the past year after its 1930 predecessor burned on March 12, 2017. It’s now complete, and the public is invited to an open house 3-5 p.m. Saturday, June 8, to tour the new building. By LIBBY CUDMORE The first service in the church will be at 10:45 a.m. COOPERSTOWN Sunday, June 9.
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►THE CCS HAWKEYES varsity baseball team is heading state tournament play at noon Saturday, June 8, at NYSEG stadium Binghamton after defeating Oriskany for the Section 3 title. ► DREAMS PARK opened Saturday, June 1, for its 2019 season, bringing 25,000 young baseball players to the Cooperstown area over the next 13 weeks. ► U.S. AG SECRETARY Sonny Perdue toured the Chobani Yogurt plant Thursday, May 30, and praised agricultural intiatives in Upstate New York. ► FIREFIGHTERS WERE called to douse smoldering boxes at the Cooperstown Beverage Exchange Sunday, June 2.
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rowing up, Ryan Miosek spent many afternoons in photographer Jim Kosinski’s darkroom above Danny’s Market, developing film he had shot around town. “All we had to do was provide the paper,” he said. “The chemicals and equipAn artist’s render shows ment were all there, the final product. free of charge. As long as we showed respect to the place, you could get a key.” Now, Miosek is president of a board of directors trying to develop 53 Pioneer St., a stone row house that’s one of the oldest buildings in the village, into Studio 53, a community arts center. Please See ARTS, A11
No Applications Yet To Develop Upstairs Deadline July 12 For Oneonta Grants second and third floors, it doesn’t lend itself to a vibrant Main Street.” On Monday, June 3, the City of Oneonta began accepting applications for a second round of Downtown Revitalization Initiative grants, this one to create “high-quality upper-story housing units” in the downtown. As of presstime Tuesday evening, no applications had Please See GRANTS, A11
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f you want a successful downtown, Elizabeth Horvath says, you have to look up. “You need residents living downtown to make it an active place, not just come in, work and then leave,” she said. “When you see vacant
Farmer Facing 6 Misdemeanors After 25 Cows May Have Starved
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Ryan Miosek, Studio 53 board president, examines progress on turning one of Cooperstown’s oldest buildings into a community arts center.
►DONATE TO REVIVING STUDIO 53 AT www.studio53project.com
Town of Maryland farmer is facing six misdeameanor counts after being charged with torturing and failing to provide sustenance to 25 cows who were found dead on his farm Tuesday, May 28 Dale E. Putman Jr., 69, of Coopertown Junction, was arrested after the Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies were called to his farm for a complaint of possible dead animals.
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