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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, August 2, 2012
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
Otsego Olympians
Back Here, Triathletes Will Feel Sarah’s Pain The Freeman’s Journal
Grandmom Margaret Savoie helps her grandsons Nate, 8, and Christopher, 5, after the boys found more than 220 dogbiscuit filled plastic eggs to win the Hounds of Hyde Hall event Sunday, July 28/
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Cynthia Page, an animal rehabilitator from Syracuse, shows off a recuperating horned owl.
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ayor Jeff Katz has issued a proclamation declaring Saturday, Aug. 4, “Sarah Groff Day,” in honor of the daughter of Cooperstown who will be competing in the London Olympics that day. Groff, daughter of Gerald and Jeannine Groff, will run, swim and bike in the triathlon at 4 a.m. (EDT) that morning, “which brings much pride and honor to her hometown,” Katz declared.
THEY STILL SAVOR EXPERIENCE
OHS Kayakers Trained Together For Olympics
CAMP BURNS: A Peggs Bay camp caught fire Wednesday, July 25, and burned in a spectacular nighttime fire seen up and down Otsego Lake/PHOTO, A8
WORK PENDING: The Village Board meets at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, to possibly award bids on upgrading Chestnut Street from the village line to the railroad track, and the west end of adjoining Walnut Street. AT KITE FEST: Cherry Valley Artworks is looking for vendors for the fourth Cherry Valley Kite Festival planned Saturday, Sept. 22. Call 264-3080.
BY LIBBY CUDMORE hey know about post-bike “Jello legs,” mid-swim panic attacks and the chafed armpits. But at the end, Otsego County triathletes will tell you, it’s INSIDE: worth it. Three HartPaula Huntswick College man, who grads are brought Girls Paula Huntsman, competing on on the Run to right, says “Jello water polo Otsego County legs” follows bike teams/A7 in 2001, had just race. She’s with fellow triathlete come in from Amy Van Kampen. running a triathlon on Sunday, July 29. “I feel good!” she said. “And if another one comes up, I’ll do that one!” And when she and other triathletes back home watch Cooperstown native Sarah Groff compete in the London Please See TRIATHLETES, A7
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Katz Declares ‘Sarah Groff Day’ Locally
Locally, Commiseration: Jello Legs, Panic Attacks Part Of Grueling Ordeal
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Samantha Becker and Rachel Murello of Laurens get their world tunred upside down on Air Force One.
Libby Cox of Milford makes a new friend in the livestock exhibits.
Oneonta’s Crystal Hotaling shows daughter Devon Blush how to capture a duck and win a prize as the Otsego County Fair got underway Tuesday, July 31 in Morris/SCHEDULE, A5
“I love this,” said Fred Miller of Cooperstown, who has been working at the fair since the 1980s. This year he’s overseeing a new ride, “The Cobra.”
“I knew it was the sport for me.” After they graduated colate Hendricksonlege – Kate from William Smith and Kim from SUNY Borg and Kim Griswold knew Oneonta – they both moved each other at Oneonta High separately to California, School, but after where they found graduation, inthey didn’t live stead of keeping too far apart. in touch through They began to postcards and compete on the phone calls, they same circuits, met each other such as Olympic out on the lake. Fest. “Kate and I “It’s like a started paddling mini-Olympics,” at the same time,” Kim said. “They said Kim. “(OHS have the opening cross-country ceremonies and coach) Dan Murn people are fussing took me out and over you—it’s I felt like I was Kate HendricksonPlease See flying,” she said. Borg in training for KAYAKS, A7 By LIBBY CUDMORE
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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
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