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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, September 11, 2014
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
IDA GOAL: BENEFIT FROM NANO BOOM
Commerce Park Option Approved For Richfield The Freeman’s Journal
FEEDING the HUNGRY
Joseph Meyers, 4, is walked to his first day of kindergarten at Cooperstown Elementary School Thursday, Sept. 4, by mom Keri O’Connor and D.J. Nash, and Joseph’s younger brother Jacob Nash, in stroller. Across Otsego County, 9,000 students returned to class.
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DOT ON HOLD: State Sen. Jim Seward announced Tuesday, Sept. 9, he has put any action by the state DOT regarding camp owners on West Lake Road until disputed titles are resolved.
Proposed CommercE Park
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he first new “shovel ready” site may be in the offing. The Otsego County IDA Thursday, Sept. 4, approved an option on 137.97 acres for a commerce park that would straddle the villagetown line and be bound by Lake Street and Cemetery and Butternut roads. The property, part of the Joseph Kozak estate, is also the focus of a $1.2 million CFA grant application, approved in August by the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development
Teachout Wins Here, Loses NY ephyr Teachout hammered Governor Cuomo in Otsego County in the Tuesday, Sept. 9, Democratic primary, 1,372-480, although Cuomo won statewide. In the 21st Assembly District, Bill Magee won this county and Madison and turned back a challenge from Sherrill Council member Mike Hennessy. In the Town of Watertown, Republican Trish Riddell Kent beat Democrat Dave Rowley emphatically in the Democratic primary, 214-78.
Action Awaits CFA Award
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Ernie Pasquale, left, takes a box of canned goods from Tom Chase Tuesday, Sept. 9, in what may be the final time a monthly truck load of food is passed hand to hand into the basement quarters of the Cooperstown Food Bank in the Cooperstown Presbyterian Church basement. Firstfloor quarters are being completed.
Food Pantry Raising $5,000 To Match Scriven Challenge By LIBBY CUDMORE
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uesday morning, Sept. 9, Audrey Murray and 25 volunteers, hand over hand, passed 12,600 pounds of food down a flight of stairs to the Cooperstown Food Pantry in the basement on the Presbyterian Church’s parish house. Volunteers have done that every month since 1992, when the pantry moved from a rotating series of library rooms into its current location. But when the delivery truck pulls up in October, they’ll be able to walk those 556
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hile all the other Oneonta kids were playing outside, Jim “JV” Johnson was inside with the monsters. “Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., they’d show a ‘Creature Feature’,” he said. “It was these old horror movies, like ‘Dracula’ or ‘THEM,’ where radioactive ants destroyed a town. My The Freeman’s Journal whole week revolved around being in Scare-a-Con front of that TV.” organizer Jim Years later, he found himself making Johnson – or friends and posing for photos with the is that Freddy Krueger? people involved in making his childhood a little more frightening. “I’ve met Lon Cheney’s family and Boris Karloff’s daughter, Please See HORROR, A7
NEW TREES CHOSEN FOR MAIN STREET
Food Pantry director Andrey Murray examines new quarters. Volunteer Lou Allstadt is in doorway.
cases of food into their new space on the first floor, thanks to a much-needed renovation and relocation. “The stairs were Please See PANTRY, A6
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he Village of Cooperstown Tree Committee is zeroing in on thornless honey locusts, elm hybrids, lindens and maples to replace trees removed from Main Street to make way for the $2 million sidewalk replacement. Details at
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