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HAGER HOPS SHOWS ITS COUNTYWIDE REACH
In Brewery, Hop Yard, Golden Era Returning Louis Hager III, center, answers questions from NEHA visitors during the Saturday, Aug. 2, tour of the 10acre hop yard in Pierstown, the biggest in New York State. Hager, a member of the Anheuser Busch family, and his sister, Alicia, behind him, have overseen planting of 11,000 hops vines near where the first hops were grown for the St. Louis behemoth in the 19th century.
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Cooperstown Farmers’ Market manager Lynn Weir decorates the venue for “Local Foods, Local Spirits,� 5:307:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, in the Pioneer Alley building, celebrating the bounty from local farms.
Hall Of Fame Alerts Media: News Coming COOPERSTOWN
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hough mum about particulars, the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 5, announced a “major museum announcement� for 1 p.m. the following day. In addition to Hall President Jeff Idelson, participants in a conference call with the media were Tom Werner, Red Sox chairman; Greg Foster, CEO, IMAX Entertainment; Bob Bowman, CEO, MLB Advanced Media, and Arny Granat, Grand Slam Production. Read details at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM BOAT HISTORY: CGP professors Cindy Falk and Will Walker will discuss the history of boats at the Otsego Lake Association’s annual meeting 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at 759 East Lake Road. BERRY SALE: The Cooperstown Presbyterian Church Living Waters Mission Team’s annual organic bluberry sale is underway, $4 per pint. Place orders at 547-8401, 547-8151 or 287-7036.
110 On NEHA Tour Receive Front-Row Look At Revival By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA
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he tour began with news. The day before, Friday, Aug. 1, Northern Eagle Beverages had broken ground behind the former Soccer Hall of Fame on an 82,000square-foot complex that will house
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Northern Eagle Beverage President George Allen details plans for the new Cooperstown Brewing plant in West Oneonta. With him is Cooperative Extension Agency Steve Miller, Morrisville.
Cooperstown Brewing Co., company President George Allen told 110 participants at the 2014 Northeast Hops Alliance Annual Field Day. “Our goal is from dirt to beer,� announced Allen, standing in the midst of balers, a dryer and a pelletizer in the current 7 Railroad Ave. plant in Oneonta that is also the Northern Beverages’ distribution center. Please See HOPS, B7
Concert Cancellation Fallout Felt
A couple from Michigan got the news at the Clark Sports Center driveway: Concert cancelled.
Couple Drives From Michigan To Discover No Pops, Paul Simon By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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t first, it was just phone calls. “We got a lot of calls
asking where people could park for the concert or when they could set up their lawn chairs,� said Val Paige, director of the Clark Sports Center. “Obviously, they didn’t know the concert was cancelled.�
But then, a couple from Michigan came in. Even though calls went out to inform ticket holders that the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary concert, which was set to Please See FALLOUT, A7
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