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The Freeman’s Journal
For 206 Years
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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, July 31, 2014
By JIM KEVLIN
Komron Ostovar, Cooperstown, questions the Smithy Art Center’s Kristin Bergene about the silent auction, now underway at 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, leading up to the live auction with Don Raddatz and Mike Stein as auctioneers, part of the Smithy’s third annual fundraiser 5:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, July 30.
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‘Loop’ Gives Hearing Impaired ‘Clarity’ At Christ Episcopal Church over the past few days, a futuristic – in the U.S. if not in Europe – magnetic loop has been installed under the floorboards, allowing hearing-impaired parishioners with “T-coils”
in their hearing aids to hear The Word with “incredible clarity.” Those are the words of Angela Plowden-Wardlaw, who convinced the vestry to undertake installing “the absolutely best system for
people who are hard of hearing.” It is the only system between Albany – one church in Delmar has it – and Binghamton, she said. Friday, July 25, Tom Chapman, a technician from Shanahan Sound in Lowell, Mass. – the company Please See CLARITY, A3
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petition signed by 57 neighbors proposes barring not only tour buses from Lake and River streets, but most buses and heavy trucks from the “village core.” After hearing comments Monday, July 28, at the monthly Village Board meeting, trustees named a committee to study the matter/DETAILS, A3 WELCOMING BAND: Mayor Katz at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, on the steps of 22 Main, will proclaim “Baseball Project Day,” in honor of the band performing that night at Brewery Ommegang. It includes two R.E.M. members in the Rock Hall of Fame.
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Village Cobbler proprietors Wayne and Laura Jane Alexander, in red shirts, wend their way Sunday, July 27, along Main Street busy with fans from Atlanta, Chicago and New York who would cheer their heroes at Induction that afternoon.
75th Induction Draws 48,000 By LIBBY CUDMORE
20 BASEBALLS: Bill Glockler, Town of Middlefield, won the case of 20 autographed baseballs raffled off Tuesday, July 29, by the Cooperstown Rotary Club.
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DOGS SHOW STUFF: The state police K-9 unit will demonstrate skills at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, at the Village Library. CCS’ Elijah Sandler, left, Liz Millea and Michael Kern sell hot dogs by the dozens to 48,000 fans at Induction 2014 Sunday, July 27.
his wasn’t just an ordinary induction weekend – it was a town-wide party, and everyone was invited. For the first time since the Cal Ripken Jr./Tony Gwynn Induction of 2007, Baseball Town shut down Main Street, allowing the 48,000 visitors – the third largest crowd in the Hall’s 75 years, after 1999 and 2007 – to flock downtown. “By turning the sidewalk into vending and the street into the sidewalk, it created more of a block-party atmosphere,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “I think we should do it Please See INDUCTION, A7
Elise Schiellack holds up son Jaxon, 2, to view the Parade of Legends Saturday afternoon.
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