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Hartwick’s McCaffrey brothers, Elijah, 4, and Nolan, 2, are absorbed in absorbing the chocolate Belgian waffles at Brewery Ommegang’s Puppets & Waffles celebration Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 7-8. Activities are cosponsored this year by Cooperstown Rotary.
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Volume 205, No. 37
DEBATE: REACTIVE VS. PRO-ACTIVE
Rebuffed By IDA, County Revisits EC-DEV Options Crumpets, Tea Future Treats At Hyde Hall
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he Otsego County IDA – the industrial development agency – has declined to take a more pro-active economic-development role credited with such Upstate success stories as Saratoga County. “An IDA is supposed to be reactive, a source of connecting finance for people,” said the IDA board chair, Sharon Oberriter, Fly Creek, Clark after coming out of a key meeting at IDA offices Thursday, Sept. 5, in Oneonta. “Its specific purpose does not include marketing and active recruitment.” But that’s not likely to be the final word. As this edition went to press, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the county board chair, intended to open a discussion into alternatives to the IDA Wednesday, Sept. 10, in Cooperstown with her board’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee. Most important to her, Clark said, was that new ways of achieving economic development need to be fully Please See DEBATE, A8
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tarting next season, visitors to Hyde Hall won’t just get a museum experience – for an afternoon, they’ll be able to get a real taste of what it was like to Eldridge May live there. Announce Bid State Sen. Jim For Congress Seward, ean Eldridge of ShoR-Milford, kan, Ulster County, Friday, may announce his Sept. 5, candidacy for Congress announced when he appears at the a $250,000 Otsego County Democratic grant to Dinner Saturday, Sept. 14, turn the according to county Chair The Freeman’s Journal National Richard Abbate. Senator Seward Historic The featured speaker Landmark’s announces the is state Comptroller Tom $250,000 grant. Tin Top DiNapoli, and Lt. Gov. Bob gatehouse Duffy may also be in atten– the oldest surviving gatehouse dance at the Country Inn & in New York – into a visitors Suites, Hartwick Seminary. center. Eldridge has been con“Everyone here recognizes that sidering a challenge to U.S. Hyde Hall is a living, breathing Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19. piece of New York history,” said Seward. “But sometimes history $3,000 FOR SO: More needs a little modern help.” than 50 people attended the It’s a full circle for Seward, Sustainable Otsego fundrais- who, in his first year as senator, er for county board candi1986, helped sponsor the longdates at moderator Adrian term lease between the Friends of Kuzminski’s Sunday, Sept. Please See GRANT, A8 8, raising more than $3,000.
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HONOREE SOUGHT: The Clark Sports Center is seeking nominations for the annual Fetterman Award for dedication to local youth. Send nomination letters to Brenda Wedderspoon-Gray, Clark Sports Center, Box 850, Cooperstown, NY 13326
County Board Chair Will Continue Push To Grow More Jobs
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NEXT EC-DEV STEP DEBATED
Andrew Yarusso, Cooperstown, rides past the dozens of flags the decorated the lawn of Cooperstown Methodist Church to commemorate the 12th anniversary of 9/11 on Wednesday, Sept. 11. St. Mary’s “Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church and Christ Episcopal also displayed the flags, although First Presbyterian and Cooperstown Baptist have let the practice lapse, replacing it with other commemorations.
The Otsego County board’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee planned to discuss it next step to upgrade economic development Wednesday, Sept. 11. DETAILS AT WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Fox Patients Gain Access To Medical Charts Parish Prays All Night Long – And Syrian Crisis Averted By JIM KEVLIN By LIBBY CUDMORE
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magine. You go to your computer. Type in a URL. Up pops an Interface, “My Chart.” A few more key strokes, and you’re reviewing you medical history, the same history that, until now, was easily available only to your physician. HOMETOWN ONEONTA “Patients absolutely love it,” said Dr. Scott Dr. Scott Cohen, Norwich, has Please See CHART, A9 been rolling out the “My Chart.”
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rayers, it seems, were heard and answered. On Friday, Sept. 6, an all-night vigil was held at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church in response to Pope Francis’ call for a “Day of Fasting and Prayer.” “Christians are not necessarily pacifists, but the Pope Please See PRAYER, A8
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