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RICHFIELD SPRINGS • CHERRY VALLEY • HARTWICK • FLY CREEK • MILFORD • SPRINGFIELD • MIDDLEFIELD Volume 204, No. 27
Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, July 5, 2012
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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LAMONT ENGINEERS’ REPORT DONE
Study: Village $600,000 Short On Street Budget The Freeman’s Journal
Donald H. Cresswell, right, of the Philadelphia Print Shop, Chestnut Hill, Pa., who has appeared frequently on PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow,” was a headliner at the Leatherstocking Antiquarian Book Fair Saturday, June 30, at the Clark Sports Center. Mayo Snyder, Cooperstown, examines a print.
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Dorothy Reiberg, Cherry Valley, sports ones of her signature hats.
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Parking, Grants, Bed Tax Eyed To Close Gap
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iscovering that Schoolhouse Court and Cooper Lane are not official village streets, the Village Board has eliminated snow-plowing service to households there. The status of Doubleday Lane, between Cooley’s and Stonehouse Gifts, is unclear, and Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh planned to meet with property owners there, seeking to clarify its status.
RELAY RECORD: The 14th annual Cooperstown/ Northern Otsego County Relay For Life May 18-19 at Cooperstown Dreams Park attracted 470 participants and raised a record $108,000 “and counting,” said the event’s chair, Carla Eckler.
COOPERSTOWN t’s good news for people living on Beaver, Pioneer, Susquehanna, Walnut and Eagle – those streets should be the five top priorities for repair, according to Mayor Katz an assessment of the village’s infrastructure by Lamont Engineers, Cobleskill. The bad news is Lamont’s $9,000 study, commissioned by the Village Board, recommends trustees set aside $900,000 a year for street repair, $600,000 more than what is normally budgeted now. (Although the trustees budgeted $475,000 this fiscal year, due to the redo of Walnut and Linden.) In an interview, Mayor Jeff Katz said that, when fully implemented, Please See KATZ, A8
Village Ends Snowplowing On 2 Streets
FIREWORKS ON 7TH: Cooperstown Fire Department is sponsoring fireworks at dusk Saturday, July 7, in Lakefront Park, with the help of contributions from businesses and individuals.
By JIM KEVLIN
‘Friends’ Organize To Rescue Airport
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Belinda Mott waves to the crowd as the contingent of “Cowgirls From Heck” rounds out the traditional Fourth of July parade in Springfield Center/MORE PHOTOS, A7
ennis Finn, who heads the newly formed Friends of the Oneonta Municipal Airport, planned to meet with Mayor Miller Tuesday, July 3, to discuss the future of the municipal airport on upper East Street, perhaps as an Otsego County facility/EDITORIAL, A4
Hearing Lack Didn’t Deter This Scout
Eagle Scout prospect Noah Trong, Edmeston, speaks to a full Clark Auditorium at Bassett Hospital on how he overcame a hearing disability.
How He Overcame Setback Becomes Part Of Noah Trong’s Eagle Project By ADRIAN ADAMO COOPERSTOWN
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orn profoundly deaf, Noah Trong has made educating the
public about people with disabilities a goal of his young life. Now, he’s applying that mission to obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout, in part through an hour-long presentation he made to a
packed Clark Auditorium at Bassett Hospital Thursday, June 28. Awareness, education and advocacy are his mission, Noah, a scout with Troop 47, Edmeston, told the gathPlease See SCOUT, A8
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