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RICHFIELD SPRINGS • CHERRY VALLEY • HARTWICK • FLY CREEK • MILFORD • SPRINGFIELD • MIDDLEFIELD Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, August 16, 2012
Volume 204, No. 33
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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Goal: BON APPETIT! Hall End Abuse
Manager/ owner Debbie Moon, who with her family has revived Cherry Valley’s revered but longclosed Tryon Inn, greets luncheon guests.
Of Steroids National Collaboration Targets Young Athletes By JIM KEVLIN
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Jayde Moore cuddles with granddad Gary Davis. The two are spending the summer in grandmom Theresa (Schlesier) Davis’ hometown of Hartwick. A blacksmith, he was vending Saturday, Aug. 11, at Hartwick Field Days/MORE PHOTOS, A2
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or the first time, the Otsego County Chamber is soliciting public nominations for awards to be presented at its annual Small Business Banquet. The Small Business Award and the Breakthrough Award will be presented Thursday, Oct. 11, at The Otesaga. Nomination forms are on the chamber website, www. otsegocountychamber.com. The deadline is Monday, Aug. 20. NEW CAREER? CORE (Career Opportunities in Rural Education) is offering a course in medical coding, an in-demand career, 6-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursday, Sept. 18 through February, at Milford Central School. Scholarships available. To register, call 286-7721, ext. 8421. TRACTORS GALORE: The Roseboom Antique Power Days’ tractor parade is 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, through the hamlet. The days run 9-5 Saturday and Sunday the 18th and 19th.
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Cherry Valley Rebounding As Center Of Fine Cuisine By LIBBY CUDMORE
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CHERRY VALLEY rive into Cherry Valley, even with the windows rolled down, and you can smell why it’s becoming known as a restaurant town. “I have people coming out from Albany, Utica, just to eat here,” said Matt Begley of the Rose & Kettle. “The performers from the opera come in after a show and stay until 1, 2 in the morning.” While Rose & Kettle has some tenure, it is no longer alone. You may have smelled the aroma of freshly baked tortilla chips coming from the newly opened Cantina de Salsa, operated The new restauby Alex Webster in the building rants join Rose & where he once established the Kettle, where Matt famed Alex & Ika, (now located in Begley has built a Cooperstown.) following with a “This is the big story,” said menu based on loPlease See CUISINE, A-7 cally grown foods.
Alex Webster has opened Cantina de Salsa at the original site in Cherry Valley of his celebrated Alex & Ika.
t may have stayed on the bench during the height of the steroids scandal, but the National Baseball Hall of Fame is now getting in the game, seeking to strike out PEDs where they first come to bat, on the nation’s high schools diamonds, in playing fields and weight rooms. Steroids use in high schools is “terrible, almost epidemic,” Don Taylor Hooton’s 2003 suicide Hooton, who created the Taylor Hooton was laid to steroids use, and his Foundation after use is collaboof performing-enhanc- father rating on an antiing drugs caused his PED effort with son’s death in 2003, the Hall of Fame. told a press conference at 22 Main called Friday, Aug. 10, to announce the launching of a nationwide survey to determine the extent of steroids use and other fast-growth agents by young athletes. “We believe all of us, collectively, will have our eyes opened,” said Hooton, whose son, a promising high school pitcher in Dallas, Texas, committed suicide at age 17 from the side effects of steroid use. The survey, which will be managed by UMass/Boston and conducted by the Gallup organization, is an outgrowth of BASE, which stands for “Be A Superior Example,” a collaboration of the Hooton Foundation, the Hall of Fame and the Professional Baseball Please See SURVEY, A6
35 YEAR VETERAN OF GYM
Four-Time Interim Director Val Paige Wins Top Job At Clark Sports Center By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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al Paige joined what was then the Alfred Corning Clark Gym on Main Street – the stone building that now houses the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s administration – 35 years ago.
Her most exciting work memory since was when the gym moved in 1986 to the brand new Clark Sports Center, “moving from that small little building on Main Street and getting this gigantic complex that has everything in it.” During leadership transitions, Val served as interim director four times, so no doubt her new most exciting work memory came Please See CLARK, A9
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Val Paige, a 37-year veteran of the Clark Sports Center, has been appointed director.
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5775 State Highway 80, Lake Road , Cooperstown, NY 13326 • For information visit FarmersMuseum.org • 888.547.1450