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VISIT WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM Volume 205, No. 35
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, September 5, 2013
Newsstand Price $1
SUMMER OF DISCONTENT ENDS
As Merchants Lament, Mayor Hails Revenues Parking Fees Garner Less Than Budget
Ommegang Issues 2nd TV Spinoff
By JIM KEVLIN
1,000 Inaugurate Brew Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
Caitlin Kelly, right, has become a partner in the Celtic Dancers of Hartwick, proprietor Kathleen O’Donnell announced as the performance began Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Leatherstocking Brush & Palette Arts & Crafts Show/OTHER PHOTO, A2
Affirmation Of Frack Ban Argued Anew
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ew York’s highest court – the Court of Appeals – has agreed to hear Cooperstown Holstein Inc.’s appeal of a lower court ruling upholding the Town of Middlefield fracking ban. The ban – and the Town of Dryden’s, which is included in this case – was affirmed by the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in the spring. In an e-mail, anti-fracking lawyer David Slottje said, with motions and counter motions, the case may not be argued until next May. GOP PRIMARY: John Schallert is challenging incumbent Town of Otsego Highway Superintendent Shawn Mulligan in the Tuesday, Sept. 10, Republican primary. Polls are open noon-9 p.m. Eight other towns have GOP primaries for town offices. CIDER SEASON: The Fly Creek Cider Mill’s Boomer & Boschert press will begin pressing apples for the 157th year this Saturday, Sept. 7.
By LIBBY CUDMORE
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inter is coming. That’s part of the feeling of Brewery Ommegang’s Take the Black stout, the second in a line of “Game of Thrones” beers commissioned by HBO to accompany the hit TV show. “It’s a good beer for cold The Freeman’s evenings,” said Oneonta’s Journal Josh John TuchowsRivenburg, ki as he drew New Ber- samples for lin, samthe crowds ples the gathered at the new brew. beer’s debut Monday, Sept. 2. The beer, a Belgian-Russian imperial stout, was brewed with chocolate malt and roasted barley, spiced with licorice root and star anise. The name comes from The Night’s Watch, which guards the Westeros Please See BEER, A3
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hile merchants lamented their summer of discontent, Mayor Jeff Katz reported the first season of pay-and-display (P&D) machines generated $169,672.85 in new revenue for the village. While that Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal. would offset the equivaVisitor Judith Young of Ocean, N.J., tells Pioneer Patio owner Rich Busse Mayor Katz how the first three years of Pay & Display machines in Asbury Park were “a lent of a 10.6 percent property-tax hike, disaster,” but towns there see P&Ds as a way to recover from Sandy. it was $20,000 less than the $191,000 the village had budgeted, Katz said in an interview following a press release of Tuesday, Sept. 3. On-street paid parking ended on Labor Day, the 2nd, but continues in Doubleday Field through Columbus Day weekend. Since the machines cost $103,840, and “processing and communication costs” amounted to another $1,800, Virginia Weiler relates or $50 per each of the 12 With son Mike back at college, Mickey’s Place how husbands hurried machines, the village cleared owner Vinnie Russo does double duty at Hey, Getwives out of Muskrat a little more than $64,000, or cha Hot Dog in the store’s basement. He reports Hill when the meter Please See PARKING, A6 Mickey’s business dipped by “single figures.” was about to expire.
Swimmer Crosses Lake For Anti-Fracking Cause
IDA REPORT DUE ON PRIVATIZING EC-DEV
By LIBBY CUDMORE
Doug Gulloty, interim director of the county IDA, is due to recommend a future structure for economic development when the Industrial Development Agency’s board meets at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, at 242 Main St., Oneonta, the former city hall. Public welcome. The IDA and county board are considering partly privatizing economic development in the wake of county Economic Developer Carolyn Lewis’ resignation.
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J Esther-Williams-like, Dana Leonard prepares to start her Aug. 29 swim across Glimmerglass.
ust because she hadn’t swum all summer wasn’t going to keep Dana Leonard from swimming Otsego Lake Thursday, Aug. 29. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could,” she said. “Just doing it made me not doubt myself.” Leonard, who runs
Origins Café at her parents’ Carefree Gardens with her sister, Kristen, decided only a few days previous to swim the lake. “The moment I got in the water, I didn’t question doing it,” she said. With prevailing north winds, most swimmers go north to south. But Dana started at the Lakefront Park docks and ended her 9.2mile swim 6½ hours later at the Otsego Golf Course. Please See SWIM, A7
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