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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, July 10, 2014
Hanft Takes IDA Helm County Or Not, Ec-Dev Will Advance, He Says
Hartwick To Wall Street, Back To Otsego County
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Emily Hammond of Gilbertsville leads Miss Sensation back to her stall after the Hereford won best of breed Monday, July 7, at The Farmers’ Museum’s Junior Livestock Show, which brought 250 young competitors from eight counties. For results, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
By JIM KEVLIN
ack of participation by Otsego County’s government won’t slow the “single point of contact” effort to bring business and jobs here. That’s the message that Bob Hanft, Pierstown, elected chairman of the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Wednesday, June 25, delivered during an Independence Day interview. “It’s not going to affect us,” Hanft, former Please See HANFT, A7
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hen Bob Hanft was a Hartwick College senior in 1968-69, he met a fetching freshman, his future wife
Patricia. A memorable courtship followed, much of it in Cooperstown: Friday excursions to “The Pit,” Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal the Tunnicliff Inn’s basement hot-spot, sunny weekend trips to Glimmerglass State Park, the Bob Hanft, new IDA chair, right, with the spring formal of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Bob’s IDA executive team, President Sandy Please See CAREER, A7 Mathes, center, and COO Elizabeth Horvath.
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Most T-Shirts Ever Celebrate 100th Parade
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espite insisting he wasn’t competing, Country Memories’ Ernie Adams sold 133 100th anniversary parade T-shirts, compared to 88 for Tom & Kelly’s Tom Mabie. “I thought I could give him a run for his money,” said Mabie. “But he beat me pretty good!” Setting the contest aside, Ernie and Tom joined forces on the Fourth of July to sell the remainders, selling a grand total of 259 shirts. “The most we ever sold before was 90,” said Adams.
LIGHTEN TRAFFIC: An e-petition is circulating encouraging the Village of Cooperstown to bar trucks and buses from residential street. Review petition at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Oscar Winner Is Waiting In Wings By LIBBY CUDMORE
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56 FAMERS DUE: So far, a record-tying 56 Hall of Famers, including new 2014 inductees Bobby Cox, Tom Glavine, Tony La Russa, Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas and Joe Torre, are scheduled to be a part of Hall of Fame Weekend festivities.
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oren Harriet is in the business of making dreams come true. The concert promoter and producer was working in the studio with former Yankees center fielder and jazz musician Bernie Williams when
an engineer asked what his greatest moment was. “I think he thought he was going to talk about the World Series,” he said. But instead, Williams talked about getting to Yankee Stadium to practice early one day in 1999. There was no one there except him and the person pitching to him, but when he looked off to Please See AGENT, A3
75-Mile Ride To Mark 75th Induction Year By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
Gradient plays Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child of Mine” Saturday, July 5, at the Hometown Fourth of July’s Battle of the Bands in Oneonta. In top photo, band members are Kevin Harrington, Jessica Carlson, Toby Wilcox, Jay Szwejbka and Matt Brown, all Bassett medical personnel.
This Band KNOWS: Music Best Medicine By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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ne day a week, Dr. Jessica Carlson gets to trade in her surgical scrubs for rhinestone-studded leggings and spike heels.
No, she’s not going to a fancy party or the hottest nightclub – she’s going to rock. Carlson, a fourth-year resident in surgery, is the lead singer of Gradient, a rock ’n’ roll cover band made up of rockin’ docs from Bassett Hospital. “Music is the best medicine,” said Robbie Graham, bassist and addiction and recovery specialist. Please See BAND, A3
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here are plenty of ways to celebrate the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary Induction – concerts, games and new exhibits and old memories. But for county Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, a bike trip is the perfect way to celebrate. “The Hall of Fame wanted a year-long celebration of community involvement,” she said. “Downtown Oneonta has started to become a popular destination Please See BIKES, A6
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County Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, is training for a 75-mile bike ride in September to mark the Hall’s 75th anniversary.
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD