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RICHFIELD SPRINGS • CHERRY VALLEY • HARTWICK • FLY CREEK • MILFORD • SPRINGFIELD • MIDDLEFIELD Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, September 6, 2012
Volume 204, No. 36
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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3RD GENERATION ON DUTY
Hubbell Family At Helm As Bakery Reaches 125th
Blessing Aimed At Fracking Count Clean Water A Gift, Clergy Says COOPERSTOWN
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A love of jewelry unites the generations, from Alyse Andressen, West Wareham, Mass., her aunt Lori Hansel, Albany, and her grandmother Roxi Hansel, Cooperstown. They were examining Positive Energy’s offerings Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Brush & Palette Club’s arts & crafts show at the Clark Sports Center/MORE PHOTOS, A3
Anti-Bullying Effort Begins COOPERSTOWN
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ason Sirois of the Anti-Defamation League spent Tuesday, Sept. 4, at CCS training faculty and staff in the ADL’s World of Difference anti-bullying and anti-bias program. The program is required by the state’s new Dignity for All Act, but also will help address concerns raised by last year’s hazing outbreak, according to Superintendent of Schools C.J. Hebert. SIGN OF FALL: The Fly Creek Cider Mill’s Boomer & Boschert press begins pressing cider for the 156th season Saturday, Sept. 9. DAM STUDY: Pirnie/ARCADIS engineers planned to review the engineering study of the Mill Street Dam with the Village of Cooperstown’s Water Board, Watershed Supervisory Committee and trustees at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at 22 Main.
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Except for 15 years, Schneider’s Bakery has been in the hands of just two families in its 125 history, including, from left, Glenford H. Hubbell, 1951-80, his son Glenn Hubbell, 1980-1993, and grandson Jason Long, since 2005.
Schneider’s Local Landmark By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ld-fashion doughnuts haven’t always been part of the local scene, but it seems that way, since Glenford H. Hubbell introduced them to Cooperstown palates 61 years ago. Schneider’s Bakery hasn’t always been part of the local
scene, but it certainly seems that way, since Frederick Schneider, with the help of his brothers Emil and Henry, opened the shop in 1887, 125 years ago this year. That longevity is unusual enough, but even moreso is that, except for a few years, those two families – Schneiders and Hubbells – have tended the bakers’ ovens themselves and manned the Recognize those doughnuts? Introduced by his Please See BAKERY, A7 grandfather, Jason Long still makes them today.
ith a decision on fracking in New York State expected any day, an ecumenical group of Otsego County clergy planned to gather at noon Thursday, Sept. 6, on Otsego Lake’s shore behind The Fenimore Art Museum for a “Blessing of the Waters.” “Contaminating the aquifer, scarring the earth, and endangering the health of people are not consistent with God¹s word,” said the Rev. Elsie Rhodes, pastor, First Presbyterial Church, one of the organizers. The clergy also released an interfaith resolution criticizing a political system that supports corporate profits today at the possible expense of citizens’ health in the future. “The Halliburton loophole, compulsory integration, and lax regulations are all results of a political system in which rules are written by industry and corporate profits are put before people,” said the Rev. Craig Schwalenberg of Oneonta’s Unitarian Universalist Society. Instead of fracking, more emphasis needs to be placed on renewables like wind and water, said the Rev. Judith Thistle of the Second Baptist Church, Worcester, saying, “We are truly blessed by the earth’s abundant beauty and life-sustaining resources.”
Roars Of Approval Greet Cornel West At SUNY Beyond the List
By LIBBY CUDMORE
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haven’t been here in 18 years,” Dr. Cornel West said. “But I’m back with the same fire!” The author, artist, professor and actor spoke passionately Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal – punctuated by thunderous ap“Don’t te me how much money you plause, cheering and shouts of got,” Dr. West roars from the podiencouragement – to a packed and um. “Tell me about your courage!” overheated crowd Tuesday, Sept.
Teach-in: Remembrance Reconciliation 4,Aat SUNY Oneontaand Alumni’s Field House. As the keynote speaker “Beyond the List: Teach-in, Remembrance and Reconciliation,” he was tasked with capping off a day of lectures, discussions and atonement. Atone for “The Black List,” on Time
Activity
Ongoing
The Black List Timeline
10-11:15 a.m.
Location
Milne Library, Third Floor
Black List Documentary and Discussion
Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building
10-11:15 a.m.
Racing the Body: What Forensic and Medical Anthropologists Can Tell Us about Race
Craven Lounge at the Morris Conference Center
10-11:15 a.m.
Race, Power & Illusion
Waterfront Room at the Hunt College Union
10-11:15 a.m.
What is Race?
Instructional Resource Center Room 5
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Global Chef
Mills, Wilsbach and Hulbert Dining Halls
1-2:15 p.m.
Ethnic Notions
Instructional Resource Center Room 1
1-2:15 p.m.
Oneonta: The Legal Odyssey
Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building
1-2:15 p.m.
Why the Black List Still Matters
Instructional Resource Center Room 5
2-3 p.m.
Round Tables: Moving Forward
Otsego Grille at the Morris Conference Center
2-4 p.m.
Street Corner University and Ice Cream Social
Academic Quad*
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Race & Media: Profiling
Instructional Resource Center Room 3
4 p.m.
Atonement Ceremony
President’s Garden**
7 p.m.
Keynote Address
Hunt Union Ballroom
*Chase Gymnasium in the event of rain **Hunt Union Ballroom in the event of rain
the 20th anniversary of the day when 125 black and Hispanic students were targeted for questioning about a robbery in 1992 simply because the victim identified her assailant as black. At times, West was a poet and a preacher, not content to simply stand at the podium and read off a page. He moved with power, he gesticulated, he spoke with energy and conviction. Please See WEST, A3
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