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Otesaga GM Irvin Retiring He Kept Historic Resort Thriving In Down Times

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hen Margaret Thatcher arrived at Alabama’s Grand Hotel, John D. Irvin, who is retiring as The Otesaga’s general manager at the end of this season,

CCS ’11 grad Anna Kramer, 19, was all smiles Friday, Aug. 3, after swimming 7.5 miles from Town of Springfield’s Public Landing to Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park.

She broke the 4-hour mark, completing the swim in a time of 3:54.

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New OTESAGA GM Announced James C. Miles, a veteran hospitality executive with historic hotels, will become The Otesaga’s general manager at season end/See A6

greeted her at the door and escorted her to her room.

Briefed in advance that the retired

British PM would be interested, he described historic and hydrologic aspects of Mobile Bay, which spread out to the horizon beyond her veranda.

He pointed out the well-stocked hospitality center and made sure the formidable world leader had everyJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal thing she wanted.

John D. Irvin is retiring at Please See IRVIN, A6 Otesaga general manager.

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nthony Pacherille Sr. will be sentenced Sept. 7 after being found guilty of second-degree harassment Aug. 3 in state Supreme Court.

He was accused of violating an order directing to stay away from Wesley Lippitt, wounded by his son, Anthony Jr., in the Good Friday 2010 shooting in the village.

Pacherille Sr. said he had happened upon the Lippitt boy by accident in the two instances that led to the charges.

BEER DRINKERS: More than 3,000 beer aficionados descended on “Belgium Comes To Cooperstown,” a beer-tasting festival Saturday, Aug. 4, at Brewery Ommegang/PHOTOS, A3

With Congress Blessing, Obama Inks Act

By JIM KEVLIN

Pacherille’s Father Awaits Sentencing

WORK DUE: The village trustees awarded bids Monday, Aug. 6, for repair to the Chestnut-Walnut intersection, including the railroad tracks and related underground utilities. Work will begin this fall.

Commemorative Coin May Raise $9.5M For HoF

As this image from zimbio.com shows, Otsego Olympian Sarah Groff was in the top-four pack with a kilometer to go in the Women’s Triathlon event Saturday, Aug. 4, at the London Olympics. Switzerland’s Nicola Spirig took gold, Sweden’s Lisa Norden silver, and Australia’s Erin Debsham bronze.

Finishing 4th, She Looks To Brazil In 2016

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arah Groff is a champion. “She is Queen of the USA Triathlon!” her mother Jeannine Groff, declared.

Though 10 seconds shy of a bronze medal and placing fourth overall at the Olympic Women’s Triathlon on Saturday, Aug. 4, Sarah beat reigning world champion Helen Jenkins of Great Britain by 19 seconds and crossed the line before fellow

Team USA member Gwen Jorgenson, who, derailed by a flat tire, finished 38 of 55.

“It was crazy,” said fan Chad Welch, who watched the race at 4 a.m. on CNBC in his Cooperstown home. “It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in sports.

I was so amazed that someone from here was competing on the world stage.”

She came out of the water in 11th place, after what her sister Lauren described Please See GROFF, A9

he National Baseball Hall of Fame may be in for as much as a $9.5 million windfall from the Commemorative Coin Act that President Obama signed into law Friday, Aug. 3.

The measure, passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate in July and 416-3 in the House of Representatives last October, authorizes the Treasury to mint up to 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins and 750,000 50-cent coins to honor the National Baseball Hall of Fame on its 75th birthday in 2014.

The coins may be ordered

beginning Jan. 1 of that year, and surcharges paid by collectors and fans will go to help fund Hall of Fame operations.

Idelson Arithmetically, the maximum amount that could be generated is $9.5 million, although Hall President Jeff Idelson called that amount “incredibly lofty.” Returns to the Hall will more likely be in the $2-3 million range, he said; the Hall’s annual budget is $12 million.

However, given that the “All Stars Forever” postage stamps issued Friday, July 20, at a ceremony in the Please See COIN, A7

Seward’s Backers Fail To Derail Challengers

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In recent days, both

Republican challenger James Blake of Schenevus and Democratic candidate Howard Leib of Ithaca both survived challenges to their petitions.

The candidates needed 1,000 signatures to get on the ballot.

Blake had 1,380. The state Board of Elections’ Please See RACES, A8

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LOCALS NATIVE SON TAKES ARTIFACT HOME While Paul Clark was back in his native Cooperstown for Hall of Fame Weekend, he picked up a felt banner his granddad Paul, proprietor of Clark’s Clothing Store, had made for the Hall’s founding in 1939.

Paul had Ruth Stewart frame the artifact for him. He stands in front of Riverwood, formerly his family’s store.

AT THE FENIMORE, ART BY THE LAKE Joe Siragusa, right, Angus Mackie (on bass) and their combo performs at “Art By The Lake,” The Fenimore Art Museum’s annual exhibit of landscape painting Saturday, Aug. 4, under the tent on the Fenimore’s back lawn.

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Photographer Richard Duncan, seated, and NYSHA President Paul D’Ambrosio, who edited Duncan’s photo books on Otsego County, catch up on the news.

Ellen Pope, Otsego 2000 executive director, offers her organization’s environmentally friendly wares.

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Milford-Coop Rail Track, Closed For Repairs, Loses $15,000 Summer Revenues

3,000 Flock to Ommegang For ‘The End is Beer’

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More than 3,000 celebrants descended on Brewery Ommegang the weekend of Aug. 4-5 for “The End is Beer,� theme of this year’s “Belgium Comes To Cooperstown� event, which featured sampling from more than 100 regional brewers from throughout the Northeast. Here, Sean Ellsworth pours samples from the Allagash Brewery in Portland, Me.

Meanwhile, The Farmers’ Museum was hosting its Hops & Beer Weekend. Cooper Bob Allers of Deanesboro demonstrates his barrel-making skills for visitors from Wilseyville: Marina Middletown, left, and Brigid Cassidy and Mark Norton.

C-V HONOREE: Mallory V. Garretson, daughter of Tom and Amy Garretson, is on the Dean’s List at St. Lawrence University for the spring semester.

ELMIRA GRADS: Victoria Galbreth, Burlington Flats, magna cum laude; Jason Guernsey, Cherry Valley, and Derek Heckmann, Hartwick, graduated from Elmira College at its 157th commencement Sunday, June 3.

WELLS GRADS: Ryan Huggins of Cooperstown, Nora Frewert of Gilbertsville and Juli Vibbard of Burlington Flats graduated from Wells College, Class of 2012.

MILLER LAUDED: Jacob Miller, a CCS junior and son of Michael and Lori Miller, is the 2012 recipient of the Saint Michael’s College Book Award for Academic Achievement with a Social Conscience.

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It was a hot day, and Cooperstown’s Sherrie Kingsley takes a cold sip to cool off under the Ommegang tent.

Yerdon-Putnum Reunion Convened For 64th Year

he 64th annual Yerdon-Putnum reunion was held at the Oriole Road Social Club on Sunday, July 22, when 34 relatives gathered for a BBQ. Four marriages, three births and no deaths were reported in the past year. George Yerdon Sr. had 20 members of his family present, while George Yerdon Jr. had four generations represented.

The 65th reunion is scheduled for July 28, 2013.

he Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad has been shut down since June on the advice of the Federal Railroad Administration, which raised safety concerns about the Milford-Cooperstown line.

But repairs are under way, and Bruce Hodges, president, Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society, anticipates the trains will be running again by the end of the month. “We’re continuing repairs and making good progress,� he said. “It was a lot of little things, and luckily, we’ve had a lot of volunteers.�

Last year’s rainstorms washed out part of the track a mile and a half north of Milford, setting the regularly scheduled maintenance behind schedule. “This year we’re playing major catch-up,� he said. “We constantly have to work on the track – it’s a never-ending project.�

Several railroad ties need replacing, and many of the joint bars have come loose. “The right thing to do is to fix this now,� Hodges said. “Obviously, safety is our utmost priority.� “Ominously enough, we suspended operations on Friday, July 13,� he added.

All the work is being done by volunteers, and Hodges schedules “work parties� where volunteers can come out and help every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. “Don’t you know it would have to be

during the hottest part of the year,� he said. “We knew we could get the job done quicker if we just shut the train down and got out there,� he added. “Everything we have scheduled from Labor Day forward will be normal.�

The track will be fixed between the Milford depot on East Main Street and Cooperstown Dreams Park, which gives the trains enough space to continue running their special event operations. “And if we can get it done further, we’ll go further,� he said.

Donations have been coming in, including $2,000 from a recent benefit concert by Folding Sky, which they held on a train parked at the station. “It was a good group of hardcore supporters,� he said. “We all had a good time.�

A $38,000 grant from New York State is also helping, and many of the materials needed were already on hand.

Missing out on much of the summer tourist season has cost the train over $15,000 in revenue, and the train operates solely on membership dues, donations and ticket sales. “It’s a big hit,� Hodges said. “It’s a real loss.�

Since 1999, the train has carried an average of 15,000 passengers a year and plans to be back in time for a few Train Robberies, Fall Foliage tours, and the annual Halloween and Christmas trains. “We have a lot of families who say it wouldn’t be Christmas without our train,� Hodges said. “It’s a tradition we’re proud to maintain.�

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Glimmerglass Fest, Foothills Show How Collaboration Is Done “Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?”

other had to offer.

• Since then, many such affinities have emerged, but none more dramatic than the announcement in recent days that Cooperstown’s operatic Glimmerglass Festival and Oneonta’s bright new $8 million Foothills Performing Arts Center are collaborating to keep opera alive year ‘round in Otsego County.

Founded in the 1970s, the Glimmerglass Festival has gained a national reputation that, over the years, has drawn opera buffs, some of whom now live year ‘round in the Otsego Lake region.

And a corps of local opera enthusiasts has formed, too, evident in the very active Opera Guild.

Separately, the Metropolitan Opera Company has now added Foothills to its list of Met Live venues, where operas are si-

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hen Iron String Press, The Freeman’s Journal parent company, launched Hometown Oneonta almost four years ago, creating a single news and advertising market, affinities between Cooperstown and Oneonta quickly emerged.

When a photographer showed up at Hyde Hall’s Mother’s Day celebration the following May, the first photo snapped turned out to be a Girl Scout troop from Oneonta. At Oneonta World of Learning’s subsequent New Year’s Eve celebration in a vacant store in Clinton Plaza, every other youngster turned out to be from Cooperstown.

The two communities were suddenly more aware of each other, and each was enjoying what the LETTERS

To the Editor: As a Cooperstown resident who lives about two blocks from the siren at Beaver and Chestnut, I thank and applaud the village trustees for the recent decision to discontinue the noon siren.

I love traditions, and I love knowing when the noon hour has come, but I don’t love unnecessary noise which is so loud that it hurts our dog’s sensitive ears (she howls) and stops conversation in our home, whether it’s over the phone or with others present. We cannot hear a radio or TV over the siren.

We can’t say that the siren has damaged our hearing because we have age to blame for that, but we can say that the regular every day noise of the siren has been an unpleasant feature of living here.

The siren is a very alarming sound, of course, or it wouldn’t serve its purpose.

We had guests staying here when we were away one

time, and they called us the first day they were here to ask with great anxiety what the alarm was and whether they should evacuate. (I admit, we should have warned them but forgot.)

I am sure that other visitors have also felt some panic or at least some unease and wondered what was happening. People chatting on the street anywhere near the alarm, buying a newspaper at Taylor’s, waiting for the trolley, or pushing a stroller down the sidewalk cannot help but be jarred at that sound. It’s best to limit it to those times when it is necessary.

Personally, I loved the trustees’ suggestion that churches might ring their bells to signal the noon hour but I realize that most, if not all of them, rely on manpower, rather than automatic mechanisms, for ringing the bells, so that idea is probably not feasible at this time.

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ou cannot have democracy without good information.

How are any of us expected to vote intelligently if we don’t know what is going on?

Andrew Cuomo campaigned for office on a platform of transparency in government. As attorney general, he employed Blair Horner to create something called “Project Sunlight.”

For 25 years, Horner was (and still is) one of the most respected men in Albany.

He was a good government lobbyist who kept legislators’ feet to the fire.

He was always Mr. Integrity, so when Cuomo hired him, those of us with some lingering doubts took notice.

Horner was responsible for setting up a database that was supposed to tell all.

However, after a relatively brief amount of time, Horner resigned from the Cuomo administration, suggesting that he had accomplished what he set out to do. A man of conviction, he now works for the American Cancer Society and appears weekly on public radio.

I did my best to get Horner to tell me why he left so early in the Cuomo time line but he stuck to his story. I

like a man of character.

Now we are starting to see some other troubling signs from the man who was going to lead the most transparent gubernatorial administration in history. It turns out that Cuomo is committed to secrecy. Several news items have appeared in the New York Times and the Albany Times Union suggesting that Cuomo is dedicated to anything but transparency.

We all know that it’s easier to operate in secrecy

than to show your cards to your opponents in the political game. The problem is that politics can be brutal.

If your opponents sense your vulnerabilities, you can be sure they will use them against you.

The current assumption is that Cuomo the Younger wants to do what Papa couldn’t – run for president.

Let’s face it; if you had his office you might do the same thing that he’s doing. When he was attorney general of the state, Cuomo

did a lot.

At the conclusion of their terms, the attorneys general customarily do what Cuomo’s predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, did – send thousands of pages of documents to the state archives. Cuomo didn’t.

When two ace investigative reporters from the Albany Times Union went to the archives to look around, they found a memo having to do with something called “Troopergate.” It Please See CHARTOCK, A7

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slow months?

The past few Decembers and Januaries, downtown Cooperstown has all but closed down.

Does it have to be if an untapped market is just 22 miles away?

Can the Cooperstown Chamber organize the village’s merchants to promote themselves jointly in the city to the south?

Likewise, can Oneonta benefit from the Cooperstown brand?

Marty Patton’s Cooperstown All-Star Village in West Oneonta proves it can be done. With more voices being heard in the City of the Hills calling for tourism promotion, might Oneonta christen itself “The Gateway to Cooperstown,” drawing visitors to its hotels (including a soon-to-open Marriott) and restaurants (two new ones, the Red Caboose and Jimmy T’s, are about to open) en route to baseball’s mecca?

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performances from the National Theater in Washington, D.C., or prize fights, or even the Superbowl. It opens up an whole new world of entertainment.)

• Glimmerglass and Foothills are demonstrating two hands clapping, and it’s a model many can follow.

Take Brewery Ommegang and Foothills. Last weekend’s “Belgium Comes To Cooperstown” beer festival attracted 3,000 revellers to the fields at the Town of Middlefield brewery. In the winter, would a similar Ommegang-organized event work in the Foothills atrium?

Take the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The season winds down Labor Day Weekend, just as 6,000 students return to Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta for the fall, winter and spring seasons.

Could a college-student membership and related promotions keep the turnstiles turning during the

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Trustees Right To End Alarming Noon Siren

mulcast live in High Definition mode from New York City to the acclaim of audiences throughout the country – and the world. It’s the next best thing to being there; (and parking is free in Oneonta’s parking deck.)

Glimmerglass Opera’s season is July and August. Met Live’s season is October to May. A perfect match.

Coincidentally, Glimmerglass’ Artistic & General Director Francesca Zambello, an international headliner, will be producing “The Trojans” at The Met over the winter. It will be simulcast at Foothills, and Glimmerglass is fully aboard in maximizing that synergy. More to follow.

(As an aside, the equipment that allows the Met Live broadcasts can also be used for other purposes: Simulcasts of “Prairie Home Companion,” for instance, or live

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roubling rumors continue to AP coverage from swirl that Governor Cuomo New England all the could soon make a final decision way to California regarding shale gas fracturing in New and as far away as York State. There is no way for us to Australia (Thank you, know what might be looming, but our Mary Esch and Miefforts are nevertheless kicking into chael Gormley); local high gear. It might be now or never.

TV and NPR radio I am pleased to let you know that Walter Hang coverage throughout activists gained important national and the Southern Tier and international media attention today coverage via CBS News, The Wall (Friday, Aug. 3) by writing to GoverStreet Journal, CNBC, Business Week nor Cuomo’s top 1,000 campaign con- and Huffington Post. tributors. We respectfully asked them I implore you to call and e-mail to oppose the Southern Tier Fracturing Governor Cuomo today!!! This is Demonstration Project reported on super important. Get on it. Don’t stop 6/13/12 by The New York Times. I till you drop. Oppose a Fracking Demguarantee that this effort generated onstration Project in the Southern Tier intense consternation. or anywhere else in New York.

We received impressive coverage Say no to the Governor’s irresponsiin Binghamton, Ithaca and Elmira ble and fundamentally Unfair fracking newspapers (Thank you, Steve Reilly); Plan. Request that Cuomo withdraw

his fatally flawed, incomplete and inadequate Revised Draft SGEIS. It has been three years since I began my efforts to prevent shale gas fracking from despoiling my home state.

I am so grateful for the thousands of activists who have done so much unrelenting, unstinting and incredibly generous hard work with that goal in mind.

There is still not a single fracked shale gas well in New York, but we have a very long way to go and will face many more challenges. Stay focused and fired up. Keep at it. No final SGEIS, no shale gas fracking.

This is an excerpt of an e-letter to fracking opponents from Walter Hang, Ithaca, president of Toxic Targeting, an environmental database company that tracks more than 5,000 toxic sites.

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

Suicide. On Monday last week, a Squaw, called Dimmis, of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, an itinerant, but resident a short time in this Village, having been taught that the whites, when disappointed in their choice of a sweetheart, sometimes hung themselves, or ended their life by some other mortal means, and having taken a fancy that she was “crossed in love,� procured two ounces of opium, took nearly the whole, sufficient to have killed twenty persons, about 12 o’clock a.m., and after an hour of intense suffering, she fell into a torpid state, which continued about two hours, when she expired – “Sic transit Gloria Squawi.�

About twelve she was dancing; about four hours after, she was a corpse.

August 8, 1812

175 YEARS AGO

The increase of importations of coffee and tea are the natural results of an increase of population and wealth; but we are inclined to place much of the addition made annually to the quantity of these articles used, to the fact that they are in a considerable degree supplanting ardent spirits in the public house, and in the social circle. It is indeed a gratifying truth that while we have in everything else increased our importations, in the article of ardent spirits, both imported and home manufactured, there has in ten years been a falling off in quantity of about one-half; a fact which speaks volumes in favor of the temperance effort.

August 7, 1837

150 YEARS AGO

Editorial – The just expectation of the people – who have furnished men and money without stint – have been disappointed in regard to the war. They were assured months ago that the government had all the men necessary to crush out the rebellion, and that its termination was certain and speedy. Well, it turned out, contrary to expectation, that McClellan lacked the men necessary to take Richmond, and when forced to retreat and take a new position, the Government was without a reserve from which to reinforce him. It had stopped recruiting – just at the time when the rebels had resorted to a draft, and were crowding new men by the thousand into the field. It then became necessary to withdraw troops from important positions at the south and southwest in order to save the Army of the Potomac and to hold Washington! Thus we were found acting on the defensive, out-numbered by the rebels in Virginia. This lack of foresight in the Government has been the means of prolonging the war, has more thoroughly united the South,

realistic manner the trial and tribulations that it was necessary to experience in the far West during the time the Red men reigned supreme. In addition – Cossacks from Russia, Gauchos from South America, Arabs from the desert, U.S. Cavalry and Artillery troopers, and an abundance of brighteyed senoritas and dashing, daring rosy-cheeked western beauties lead by the famous Queen of the Saddle, Prairie Lillie.

August 7, 1912

75 YEARS AGO

The pavilion and other buildings at the new Fairy Spring Park of the village of Cooperstown are now completed.

The work was carried out by contractor David H. Willsey according to plans drawn by Arthur R. Cobbett of this village. Coincident with the construction of the buildings a number of other improvements have been carried out which place this delightful resort in splendid condition for picnics, August 9, 2002 reunions and gatherings large and small. August 11, 1937 and adds thousands of lives and hundreds of millions to the cost of the war.

The Board of Supervisors last week took the first steps August 8, 1862 toward establishing a Family Court in Otsego County under the provisions of a state constitution amendment voted last November and signed into law just last spring by Governor Courtship & Marriage – Every young lady has a right to Rockefeller. The new court, with jurisdiction over all cases know why a young man solicits her company. Her life is too valuable to be trifled with for mere pleasure. But young involving youngsters under 16 years old, except capital ladies like company. They can make it a pleasure or a curse. crimes, and all cases involving family matters, except Courtship, if properly engaged in, is only an introduction to divorce actions, will come into being on September 1. The new Family Court will replace Children’s Courts in New the happiness that will follow. Find one that will love you, York State at that time. not only through courtship, but through joys and sorrows, August 8, 1962 success and adversity – one that will be a helpmeet through life. Acquaintance is one of the important elements of courtship. Too many young ladies have committed suicide and The Board of Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown died broken-hearted because they did not gain knowledge voted Monday night in favor of a 41-unit condominium of their lover’s character before bestowing their affections on them. Have both eyes open. Court in the daytime and not development on the Glen Garage site. At public meetings, a group known as the “Irish Hill Residents,� have pointed out in the dark.

August 12, 1887 logistical difficulties the buildings will encounter such as water supply, sewage disposal, parking and traffic hazards.

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The circus is coming. On Thursday, August 8, the Prairie by trustees and officials of Masi-Soule Developers. The Masi-Soule certificate of partnership lists four individuals Lillie & Nebraska Bill’s Wild West Exhibition will be here to thrill the hearts of all the children, ages six to sixty. With – David Soule of 47 Chestnut, Cooperstown; Stefano A. Masi, 4 Squire Court, Mahwah, N.J.; Charles P. Boyle, 8 this circus are the most noted, celebrated and renowned Squire Court, Mahwah, N.J.; and A. Donald Nazzaro of 207 Cowboys, Indians, Trappers and Guides identified with Beechwood Road, Ridgewood, N.J. early frontier life. They have each and every one expeAugust 12, 1987 rienced the hardships of early pioneer days and are this season portraying to the American public in a decidedly

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He will succeed John D. Irvin, who has known Miles through their involvement in the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

The two men will work together on the transition through the rest of the season, which ends Thanksgiving weekend.

In making the announcement, Miles Jane Forbes Clark, The Leatherstocking Corp.’s president, expressed delight at Miles’ selection.

“He comes to Cooperstown with a solid record of achievement at major resort properties,” she said.

“His professionalism, leadership abilities, and lifelong commitment to the hospitality and tourism industry make him a perfect fit for The Otesaga and Cooper Inn.” Miles joins the 103-year-old Otesaga following a 40-year career in hospitality and resort management.

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chief executive officer of Peddler’s Village in the New Hope area of Bucks County, Pa., which features 70 specialty shops and the luxury 70-room Golden Plough Inn. Previously, as Hershey Resorts vice president for 13 years, he was executive-in-charge of the 650-room historic hotel as well as the 650-room Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, 10 restaurants and the 63-hole Hershey Golf Collection.

Before that, he spent 23 years in a variety of roles with Colonial Williamsburg Hotel Properties Inc., including eight as executive vice president.

He received a bachelor of science in hotel administration from the University of New Hampshire, and completed The Executive Program at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.

He and his wife Karen will reside in Cooperstown.

The Irvin Era Coming To End At Resort Hotel IRVIN/From A1 The 6-foot-4, imposing Irvin must have made an impression, for as he turned to leave, Thatcher said, “John, sit down. Let’s talk.”

And for 45 minutes he was regaled with tales of Thatcher’s transformative tenure on the world stage, of key decisions made during the Falklands War, of how she reformed the British economy, of her and Ronald Reagan’s affinity on tax policy – she and Nancy Reagan had chatted by phone just that morning.

“It was an amazing experience,” said Irvin, sitting in his high-ceilinged office in the 103-year-old resort hotel on Otsego Lake, where he is completing the last decade a 40-plus year career managing some of the best of the best resort hotels in the nation.

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In Cooperstown over 10 Hall of Fame Induction Weekends, he has become friendly with such baseball greats like Don Sutton, Phil Niekro, Ozzie Smith, Lou Brock, Goose Gossage.

“They’re all fun guys – I hate to leave anyone out,” he said.

But it has been Irvin’s steady oversight and attention to detail that The Otesaga’s thousands of guests have to thank for memorable stays and dining experiences since his arrival The Irvins and Margaret in 2002 after 20 years with Thatcher when the forthe Marriott group and premer British PM stayed vious experience at historic at The Grand in Alahotels. bama, where John Irvin Much of what’s hapwas general manager. pened, said Irvin, is an exglamorous part – other high- tension of initiatives begun lights include two opportuby his predecessor, Frank nities to meet George H.W. Maloney, in particular openBush, at The Grand before ing up the grand hotel to he was president and at The the local community – more than ever, it’s a mainstay of Cooperstown and Otsego County’s social life and business scene.

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Then, there was the routine repainting which had the six-story (from lower floor to attic), 135-room structure cloaked in plastic for a year after OSHA discovered the paint being scraped was lead-based.

“There must have been 30 coats of paint” on the century-old structure, Irvin recalled, shaking his head.

He extended the season’s end from the beginning of November to Thanksgiving, which has become “our busiest holiday weekend.

We pretty much sell out and” – important to Irvin – “it has become a real family event.” Last year, one couple hosted 41 family members – 24 grandchildren included – for the holiday.

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Irvins To Maintain Home Here IRVIN/From A6 out bulb. Three, for being hands on; if there’s a piece of paper on the rug, he’ll pick it up. The days are gone, he said, when a hotel manager sits behind his desk all days while his minions keep the place running.

If, as the saying goes, everyone’s a hero in a rising market, the hospitality veteran experienced that for the first half of his tenure.

“We were clipping along, increasing profits every year. We were on Cloud Nine,” he said. “Then, all of a sudden, the bottom fell out. 2008 was just a terrible year.”

That’s when Irvin’s experience really paid off.

He and his director of sales and marketing, Bob Faller, focused on developing the conference business – among other things, if a group can guarantee 60 rooms, The Otesaga will open up during the winter months, and it’s typically hosting a half-dozen such gatherings now.

He conferred with Katie Sanford, the reservation manager, expanding lodging options beyond the traditional American Plan – one week, meals included.

Today, a room-and-

breakfast option has opened the resort to Dreams Park families, and there are a dozen staying there at any one time over the summer.

Working with Chef Michael Gregory, such promotions as ethnicbased Economy Nights, Wild Game Dinners and Cigar Nights helped keep the Hawkeye Grille busy through the winter.

How long until the economy stays flat? Industry sources – Irvin has been active for years in the American Hotel & Lodging Association and the New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association – say the worst is over. “It” – the rebound – “has now begun,” said Irvin.

To the degree Irvin gets to enjoy that, it will be as a consultant to the hospitality industry, taking on assignments as they interest him.

He and wife Nancy plan to spend their summers in Cooperstown, and have bought a home in the village, and their winters in Atlanta, thus being near daughter Nicole, who is working in New York City and engaged to marry, for part of the year, and near son Ren, who works in Atlanta.

Coin May Raise Millions For Hall Of Fame COIN/From A1 Hall of Fame, immediately sold over 2 million copies and broke USPS record, Idelson might be surprised.

The measure is in compliance with the Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, costing the Treasury and taxpayers nothing, according to the Hall’s press release.

In an interview, Idelson said Hall staff became aware of the Mint’s Commemorative Coin program a few years

ago. “We knew it was difficult to get accepted,” he said, “but with lead time we might make it happen in conjunction with the Hall turning 75.”

The Hall hired a lobbying firm, The Accord, which began exploring the prospect. U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, and Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-NY, soon “embraced the concept. Both thought it made a lot of sense for the region,” Idelson said.

Idelson said any money received

isn’t being earmarked for any particular project or initiative, but will be used for “the furtherment and betterment of the museum, to keep it the shining light that it is in the world of baseball.”

This fall, the Hall and the U.S. Mint will collaborate in launching a design competition to determine what the coins will look like.

Cuomo Turning ‘Troopergate’ Into ‘Filegate’ CHARTOCK/From A4 turns out that soon after they got hold of that memo, the files of the state archivist were combed by the Cuomo people and lots of material, including the “Troopergate” memo, disappeared.

Now people are calling that disappearance “File Gate.” The Cuomo people say they have the right to remove such documents and it turns out they do. At least one top source says the original memo was removed because of a single sentence suggesting that the Cuomo investigation was less than stellar.

Cuomo worked hard to create the aura of a strong attorney general. He

said that he would let the facts lead him. However, this case hints that there may have been some political motives in his investigation.

In the old days, Andrew Cuomo had a reputation as a political enforcer for his father. At one point he accused me through an operative in the strongest possible language of having written an anonymous New York Times op-ed article about his father. I had not and the father sort of apologized.

When he ran for governor we were told that this was the new Andrew.

Now we hear that communications between top Cuomo people are not done by e-mail but on devices that don’t

create replicable records.

None of this passes the stink test.

Right now, Andrew is very, very popular. People think he is efficient.

Try looking through history and notice who else was characterized as efficient in the beginning.

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“Every candidate has to play by the same rules,” said Sheila Ross, chair of the Republican County Committee.

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“The conditions for the bike portion of the race were treacherous,” said her mother. “We, her family, were both excited and apprehensive at the start of the race.”

Though a faulty alarm clock made CCS crosscountry coach Jessie Ravage miss the first half of her former star’s race, she turned on the TV just in time to see Sarah in the last sprint. “When I tuned in, she was in sixth and there was a pretty sizeable gap,” she said. “She started to pull up into the top three for awhile, but they dropped her in the sprint.”

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said, ‘My dear, you have to try cross-country’.”

Ravage only had Sarah for one season before the girl transferred to the Deerfield Academy to finish high school, but the coach knew right away she had a winner.

“She was a hard worker,” Ravage said. “Coaching a kid who wanted to work hard is really fun and rewarding.”

The women’s triathlon was one of the most challenging and most watched Olympic events, with all the thrills, chills and spills the thousands of spectators who lined the course could hope for. During the bike portion of the race, Sarah had to make a split-second decision – crash her own bike on the wet curves, or run over Poland’s Maria Czesnik, who had taken a spill just moments before.

She bunny-hopped over the Czesnik’s torso and kept going, describing the feat as “epic.”

“We saw part of the footage of the Polish triathlete crashing,” her mom said.

“Had we actually been able to see what had occurred, we might have been truly scared.”

“It was an amazing spectacle,” said Herzig. “People

When Poland’s Maria Czesnik crashed right in front of her, Sarah Groff was able to bunny-hop over the competitor’s torso and keep on peddling, as indicated in this image from a video.

kept going down. They kept showing their road rash.”

But for the girl who set a still-unbroken record for swimming nine miles across Otsego Lake in just over three hours, the 10K run was what did her in. She stayed in the tight pack, pulling up right next to gold winner Nicola Spririg, of Switzerland at one point, before Spririg, Lisa Nordon of Sweden, and Erin Den-

sham of Australia pushed ahead in the last loop to take the medals.

“It was heartbreaking,” lamented Herzig. “She didn’t have the kick. It was very emotional for me because watching her, I could see her as a 15 year old. I could see her determination.”

“I felt bad when she didn’t win the medal,” Welsh said. “But I was still super proud of her.”

Ravage said the flat running course was not to Sarah’s advantage. “Sarah’s strength is her strength, her power to keep going,” she said. A flat course favors fast runners and short sprints to get ahead of the pack, and Ravage described Sarah’s running as “stiff.”

“I still see some of her old form now,” she said.

“She carries her arms kind of high, a little on the stiff side. It comes from her

swimming background. She didn’t have that kick in the last sprint.”

Sarah placed seventh in the Olympic trials on that same course, two places behind Jorgensen. Jenkins won the first place spot in the qualifying race.

But the Olympics won’t end Sarah’s season. On Aug. 26, she returns to Switzerland to compete in the Lausanne World Championship Series and will finish the year with two more races in New Zealand and Switzerland. She plans to compete for a spot in the USA team in the 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

“While riding the underground, we chatted with a mom and her two young daughters. The mom noted our shirts and told us how much she admired Sarah’s efforts especially on the run,” Jeannine said. “It is nice to note that people around the world were touched by her performance.”

“She ran a good race,” said Ravage. “She’s a nice representative of the USA.” “I’m proud to have known her,” added Herzig.

“She inspired me, and I hope she speaks to a whole generation of people.”

WHAT AN AMAZING RACE, SARAH! Congrats! You made Cooperstown & Team USA proud!

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