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RICHFIELD SPRINGS • CHERRY VALLEY • HARTWICK • FLY CREEK • MILFORD • SPRINGFIELD • MIDDLEFIELD Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, August 23, 2012
Volume 204, No. 34
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
The Freeman’s Journal
Mark Simonson demonstrates printing on a Washington Press – it printed The Freeman’s Journal in the 19th century – during The Farmers’ Museum Letterpress Printing Weekend, Aug. 18-19.
ZUCCHINI FEVER: The Cooperstown Farmers Market’s annual Zany Zucchini Festival’s weigh-in is 9 a.m.1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25. $20 gift certificates for junior, senior growers; also, largest and smallest. Sample zucchini-based recipes. PRIZE PORK: The Otsego Lake Trust placed the winning bid for the prize pig at the county fair’s 4H auction, and will serve the 273-pounder, raised by Jack Vunk, 9, Edmeston, at its “Keep It Local” Labor Day Weekend Picnic at Brookwood Point. Advance tickets $15; at door $25. Reservations at 547-2366 or marcie@otsegolandtrust.org. JERRY’S HERE: Local segments of the Labor Day Weekend’s Muscular Dystrophy “Show of Strength” Telethon will be broadcast 7:30-8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, with a concluding local segment at 11 p.m. on Time Warner Cable channels 23 and 27, and UHF 15. ART SPACE: There’s still exhibition space for Cooperstown Art Association’s annual Fine Arts on the Lawn Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 1-2, at 22 Main. Artists, call 547-9777.
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Extra-Long Flatbed (Barely) Squeezes Through A big rig carrying an electrical generator to Riker’s Island wandered into Cooperstown Monday, Aug. 20, blocking the GlenChestnut intersection for 42 minutes, then the LakeChestnut for 45. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
Gawkers, Kibitzer Have Heyday In Village
By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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ommuters here may get occasionally held up a few minutes by a slow-moving tractor or a herd of cattle, but
Monday, Aug. 20, a three-platform tractor-trailer stalled traffic for almost an hour at one intersection in the village, then another hour at a second. The tie-up prompted the most rubbernecking and chatter of any
traffic incident since the engine being moved from the Delaware Otsego Railroad parking lot got stuck on Main Street in front Mohican Flowers two years ago. At just after 4 p.m., a WLX Heavy Haul rig out of Topeka,
Kansas, hauling a 60-ton freight parcel from Solar Turbines in San Diego, Calif., to Riker’s Island in New York City, was unable to correctly maneuver the turn from Glen Avenue onto Chestnut. “It wasn’t so much stuck as that the wheels have to be controlled remotely without Please See SNARL, A8
CBS: Fracking’s A Go
Lawsuits Inevitable, Opponents Here Say By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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t was a single sentence in a longer report on fracking on Sunday’s CBS Evening News. “CBS News has learned that New York is close to making a decision about
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fracking and is expected to roll out guidelines after Labor Day,” intoned anchorman Jeff Glor. Fracking foes greeted that sentence with consternation, but with determine to fight any such decision in the courts. Cooperstown’s Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil VP, Please See FRACKING, A7
By LIBBY CUDMORE MILFORD
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Judge Blocks Turbines Richfield Considers Wind, Gas Moratorium By JIM KEVLIN RICHFIELD SPRINGS
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state judge has thrown out the Town of Richfield Planning Board’s special permit that would have allow the six-turbine Monticello Hills wind farm to go forward.
Miniature Horse May Be Rescued
But, since acting Supreme Court Judge Donald F. Cerio’s decision would allow the developer, Ridgeline Energy, to reapply, the wind farm opponents immediately began urging town action to stop further movement. The 34 opponents who brought the suit learned of Please See WIND, A6
Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
Tyler Houk, 5, Cherry Valley, clambers among the dozens of tractors to climb on and explore during Roseboom Antique Power Days Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 18-19/MORE PHOTOS, A2
arol Panzarino of Silver Linings Hafling Farm has seen her miniature therapy horses work miracles. “I took Javie to the nursing home and into the room of this man who had been in a coma for four months,” she said. “Javie nuzzled him, and the man’s hand started to move. He stroked Javie’s face, and he opened his eyes and smiled. The nurses just went crazy.” Each horse has a specialty – Blue helps people who feel “broken,” Fancy gravitates towards people who can’t speak and Javie, the leader, helps people in pain. “Needless to say, I’m always cryPlease See HORSE, A7
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