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Volume 205, No. 28
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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THE HOPE: A SAFE, FUN WEEKEND
6,000 Due At Furthur ‘Deadheads’ Expected By Thursday The 11th, Peaking Concert Day
200 YEARS
By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
ACCOMPLISHMENTS & MEMORIES
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Ethan Newman of the Gilbertsville Dairy Club brushes off a contender during The Farmers’ Museum Junior Livestock Show, where young animal tenders showed their skills Sunday-Tuesday, July 7-9. For results, see
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t’s unlikely the 30,000 “Deadheads” anticipated by some for the Sunday, July 14, Furthur concert will materialize, organizers are now saying. “We’ve done the show many many times,” said Stu Green of Magic City Productions, the concert’s The Freeman’s Journal promoter. A young tourist “They’re old examines tieguys now. it’s dye shirts that a very mellow appeared at The crowd.” Stables. He said rumors that Doubleday Field was sold out to its 12,000 fan capacity are wrong: With six days to go, only 6,000 tickets had been sold, although there will be walk-ins Please See FURTHUR, A7
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Missing Lad Found Safe After Search COOPERSTOWN
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case of mistaken identity set off a tense, 2½-hour search for a missing specialneeds boy Monday, July 8. Mutume Waddimba, 7, a non-verbal, boarded the 10:15 a.m. Birnie Bus his brother, Titus, was scheduled to ride to the Utica Cerebral Palsy site. His mother, Prisca, found him missing at 10:27 a.m., and village police, deputies, troopers, K9s and a helicopter from Albany scoured the neighborhood. At 1 p.m., police received a call the boy was in Utica and, with his dad, Dr. Anthony Waddimba, retrieved the lad safely from UCP. AUDUBON INVOLVED:
Concerned about threats to birds, the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society has retained Earthjustice, a public-interest environmental law firm, to represent it in FERC’s review of the 122mile Constitution Pipeline. CIVIL RIGHT SUIT: Tony
Pacherille filed a civil rights suit against county Judge Brian Burns Wednesday, July 3, in U.S District Court.
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Congressman Chris Gibson, R-19, in top photo, presents a Congressional proclamation honoring the Cooperstown Fire Department on its 200th birthday to Fire Chief Jim Tallman, while Mayor Jeff Katz looks on after the Saturday, July 6, parade. Two days before, at Springfield’s Fourth of July parade, Ted Lamb, the longest serving member of the Cooperstown Fire Department who passed away April 26, wasn’t driving the department’s antique pumper. But his memory lived on in the form of son David, right, who drove in his stead, and his granddaughter Daeltun, this year’s fire department princess. Seated at left is Stretch Redding.
GULOTTY TO LEAD JOB-GROWTH INITIATIVE
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oug Gulotty, former Wilber Bank president/CEO, is about to be named to a six-month position to create a public-private entity to replace Otsego County’s Economic Development Office. The county IDA (the industrial development agency) is planning to make that appointment when it meets at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, July 11, at old city hall on Oneonta’s Main Street. The initiative – Gulotty will be named interim IDA director – was agreed at a Wednesday, July 3, meeting of IDA members and the county board’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee. Ten county reps attended. After the Thursday meeting, for particulars of the Gulotty appointment, go to
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► Cooperstown Attorney Lynn Green collapsed and died Monday, July 8, on Leatherstocking Golf Course/B7 ► Word was received that painter/sculptor Honey Kassoy, affiliated with Cooperstown for 40 years, passed away at her home in The Bronx/B8
Economic Development = Fracking, Says SO-Backed Candidate Kosmer Pro-Sustainability Group Endorses 5 For County Board Positions By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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hen his colleagues say “economic development,” they really mean fracking, county Rep. John Kosmer said Tuesday, July 9, at Sustainable Otsego’s press conference to
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endorse five candidates for the county board. “We aren’t going to let them de-link themselves from fracking,” said the first-term Fly Creek Democrat. When asked to what degree the county Board of Representatives is pro-fracking, Kosmer named six of the 14 incumbents he believes fall into that category, all Republicans: board Please See ENDORSE, A7
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD