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Volume 211, No. 26
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, June 27, 2019
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n 88-year-old Laurens woman got a call, purportedly from Cooperstown Police: Her granddaughter had been in an accident,
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Twins Cooper and Devon Guzy, 15, of Cooperstown, brief work crews Sunday, June 23, as their effort to paint all 127 hydrants in the village got underway. He is seeking Eagle Scout ranking; she, the Girl Scout equivalent Gold Star. Details at
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Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County’s Elderly By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Green Cow Features Local Grass-Fed Beef
By LIBBY CUDMORE she was fine, but her car had been impounded and she needed COOPERSTOWN $4,000 in cash to get it out. The woman was instructed to oug Thompson wrap the money in a sweater and doesn’t have mail it to Staten Island. She did so, shipping anything against Please See SCAMS, A10
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toppings, but he believes, at least for the first bite, the meat should speak for itself. “It will really surprise you when you realize that meat has flavor,” he said. Monday, June 24, he and Please See BEEF, A10
OTSEGO COUNTY, LOUISIANA Shreveport native Kathy Ragsdale, a counselor there, pauses at Unadilla Street, named by real estate developer A.C. Steere, harkening back to his father’s Otsego County roots.
Shreveport’s Kim Oliver, below, pauses en route to physical therapy to pose by the Oneonta Street sign. A.C.’s dad, a Portlandville native, may have shared stories of the City of the Hills with his son.
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Cooperstown Competes For DRI’s Millions COOPERSTOWN
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ayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch has been invited to give a presentation on why Cooperstown should receive a DRI designation and $10 million that comes with it. DRI refers to the state’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative, and she’ll be appearing July 10 before a Mohawk Valley Economic Development Commission panel to argue Cooperstown’s case.
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Shreveport Developer Enshrined His Roots Editor’s Note: Our reporter formerly lived in Shreveport, and researched this story on a recent return visit there.
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►SCHENEVUS Central school will be able to borrow up to $500,000 next year against its state aid to try to stabilize its finances, under a bill sponsored by Senator Seward and signed by the governor. ► COOPERSTOWN TRUSTEEs this week saw a plan, developed by a committee chaired by Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, to create multi-family houses and apartments in the village. ► COUNTY BOARD will have to decide whether it wants 2 cents per paper bag to buy shopping bags for the poor after single-use plastic bags are banned next March 1.
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here’s a sign of Oneonta in Shreveport, La. Yes, a sign. A street sign. Oneonta Street. Wander around the city of 100,000 in the upper left-hand corner of Loui-
‘IT’ COUPLE Wife Pastor At Oneonta’s First UM; Husband Takes Cooperstown Pulpit By JENNIFER HILL
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all them a Power Couple of The Cloth. Rev. Dana Horrell begins his ministry Sunday,
July 7, at Cooperstown United Methodist Church, while 32 miles down the road, his wife, Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell, the same day will celebrate her first Please See PASTORS, A2
siana, as far away from New Orleans as geographically possible, and you find a Unadilla Street. And an Albany Avenue. Oneonta and Unadilla streets are close neighbors, one block apart, running east-west through the tony South Highlands neighborhood. Albany Avenue also runs east-west, but through Shreveport’s middleincome Broadmoor neighborhood, which abuts South Highlands. It turns out all three streets were named by Shreveport’s most promiPlease See STEERE, A11
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12-Unit ‘The Grove’ Apartments Rattling Cooperstown Neighbors By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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he 12-unit The Grove apartment complex – unprecedented in
Cooperstown – just surfaced, but neighbors packed the Village Board’s monthly meeting Monday, June 24, to denounce it. “We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the village would consider a
12-unit apartment complex within a block of primarily single-family homes,” said Sherrie Kingsley, co-owner of The Inn at Cooperstown with husband Marc. “Is there really a need for more Please See GROVE, A10
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