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The Freeman’s Journal
Jan Bartow, Middlefield Historical Society president, shows an artist’s rendering of the veterans’ monument that will be unveiled at noon Sunday, July 21, during Middlefield Community Day at the old schoolhouse in the hamlet. Congressman Chris Gibson is expected.
Ryan To Run For Top Post In Hartwick HARTWICK
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at Ryan, the twotime Hartwick town supervisor (and past member of the CCS board), is again running for the top town office in the Nov. 7 election. She will face the incumbent, David Butler, who defeated her in 2011. WHO OWNS LAND? The DOT is planning a hearing at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at Cooperstown High School on using lakeside land north of Five Mile Point to rebuild Route 80. UP, UP AND AWAY: NYSHA’s annual gala, “Otsego on the Hudson,” will feature a tethered hot-air balloon lifting guests above the tree line for spectacular views of Glimmerglass. The gala is 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 19. Tickets $175. Call 5471433 BEER HISTORIAN: A beer historian with autism, Lance Rice, was at Brewery Ommegang Tuesday, July 16, part of the filming of a documentary, “Lance’s Brewery Tour.”
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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, July 18, 2013
Volume 205, No. 29
Surprise: CCS Fills Top Post
Cring, Gorman Report To Executive Principal
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Furthur’s Bob Weir, Jeff Pehrson and John Kadelecik perform against the back drop of Elm Street homes.
By JIM KEVLIN
Pot Smoking, Drinking Rife As ‘Dead’ Descend
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n what may come as a bit of a surprise to the public, the CCS board of education has appointed an “executive principal.” The vote was taken Wednesday, July 10, and Lynn Strang, K-12 director of curriculum & instruction at the Hoosick Valley and Naples districts, began work Monday, July 15. The two current principals, Mike Cring at the high school and Teresa Please See STRANG, A3
By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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Gulotty To Develop Job-Growth Strategy
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ormer Wilber Bank CEO Doug Gulotty accepted a sixmonth appointment as interim executive of the county Industrial Development Agency on Thursday, July 11. His task will be to develop a public-private economic-development entity to replace the county Economic Development Office.
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Carly Noga, Utica, shows hula-hooping skills shortly before the Furthur concert began/PHOTO PAGE, C1
,500 ticket-holding Furthur fans, plus thousands of fellow travelers, started rolling into Cooperstown in great numbers at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, July 14. “It’s a family gathering,” said Furthur fan Sticky Stampede, Brooklyn, who Cooperstown’s Olfollowed the band here. “It’s a place to come and ivia Leinhart adjusts her raise the vibrations.” garland. First thing that morning, Shakedown Street, a caravan of vendors that follows the Grateful Dead successor band, had set up shop, spilling from the Chestnut Street lot to the Doubleday Field lot, selling everything from grilled cheese sandwiches to tie-dye T-shirts. “The village was only expecting 25 or 30 Please See FURTHUR, C1
Fairy Spring – No ‘S’ – Turns 75 This Summer By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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n “Home as Found,” James Fenimore Cooper describes Fairy Spring as “a little fountain … gushing from the thicket … which comes like diamonds into the lake.” The village park constructed around that “little fountain” is turning 75, with a birthday party planned for Sunday,
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Caretaker Daniel Callahan points out the Fairy Spring at the so-named village park.
Aug. 4. “This a very special place,” said caretaker
Daniel Callahan. “It’s still fairly wild, it’s not
manicured.” The park was privately owned until 1938, when Robert Sterling Clark sold the land to Otsego County for $1, with the understanding that Cooperstown would buy the property. In 1936, Clark gave Cooperstown $15,000 for the land’s purchase and $10,000 for renovations. In 1938, the park opened, and quickly became a gathering place. “I met some of my best Please See 75TH, A6
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Facebook Founder Spouse Might Face Rep. Gibson In 2014
t’s likely Otsego County’s 19th Congressional District race in 2014 will get a lot of national attention. It started Wednesday, July 10, with a front-page story in the New York Times: Sean Eldridge, 26, and his husband, Facebook founder Chris Hughes, have bought a $2 million modern home overlooking the Ashokan Reservoir, Ulster County. Their intent: That Eldridge be eligible to run against U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, now serving his second term (and first serving Otsego County). For link to the Times story, go to
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