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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, September 19, 2013
Volume 205, No. 38
Dave Bliss Wins Fetterman Award
Dave Bliss poses with Clark Sports Center Director Val Paige after she announced he’s won the Fetterman Prize.
For 20th Year, Clark Sport Center Recognizes Adults Who Help Youths COOPERSTOWN
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ubbell Realty’s Dave Morris likes to tell how, when his grow-
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Wilma Dodge, Nora Cooke, Marcia Ubner, Gail Olin, Sharon Chambers and Evelyn Keating, all of Fly Creek hold a green quilt–and many more behind them–at the “Covered Pews” quilt show on Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Fly Creek Methodist Church.
CSEA Sues To Prevent Manor Sale
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he CSEA has sued the County of Otsego to block the sale of Otsego Manor. Court papers were filed with the county clerk Aug. 29, and the case was assigned to state Supreme Court Judge Kevin Dowd. Only the cover sheet signaling the action is on file. The full documentation will be reviewed by Dowd before it becomes part of the public record. ARTIST HONORED: The art of Susan Fenimore Cooper Weil, the Cooper descendant who passed away in April, will be celebrated in “Rural Hours,” an exhibit of her watercolors that opens Saturday, Sept. 21, at The Fenimore Art Museum. PACKS A JOLT: Gimme! Coffee of New York City has created a coffee blend named “Fractivist.” SOIL TESTED: To get a jump on next year’s season, gardeners may have soil samples tested at local libraries, Monday, Sept. 23, through Oct. 6. $3 per test, organized by Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardeners.
ing daughters were horseback riding in the 1970s, the Bliss brothers would show up periodically with their dad’s haywagon.
Bale after heavy bale, the teen-age boys would hoist hay for the Morris girls’ horses into his barn’s loft. Please See BLISS, A6
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Surprise Brings Crowell Back To Treasurer Race Bachman Off Ballot, Democrats Concede; GOP Backing Keator By JIM KEVLIN
HISTORY COMES ALIVE The Cooperstown Graduate Program’s Emily Hoffman demonstrates how to winnow rye, separating the grain from the chaff, one of many activities over the weekend at The Farmers’ Museum’s Harvest Festival.
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n the latest twist in a year of twists, county Treasurer Dan Crowell, headed for career in Army special ops, is suddenly running for a second term. Tuesday, Sept. 17, the county Democratic Committee accepted that the petitions of Russ Bachman, who has been filling in while Crowell has been in training at Fort Bragg, would probably be thrown out. That leaves Crowell, who had decided in August not to Crowell run again, too late to have his name removed, in “Row A” at the top of the Nov. 5 ballot. Please See TREASURER, A6
Travel Writers Asking About ‘Eco-Tourism’
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Farmers’ Museum Gate Up, But Fenimore’s Skyrockets
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hen British travel writer Catherine Mack was visiting from England this month, she didn’t want to see the Baseball Hall of Fame – she wanted to spend all her travel time in Otsego County’s great outdoors. Deb Taylor, county tourism director, took her on a picnic at Brookwood Point and a motorboat ride to Deowongo Island in Canadarago Lake. “Thank goodness we didn’t kayak,” Taylor said. “Or we’d still Please See TOURISM, A7
O CGP’s Araya Henry shows Abi Jaros, New Hartford, how to dig potatoes the old-fashioned way.
rganizers were delighted to see a 5 percent increase at The Farmers’ Cooperstown’s Museum’s Harvest Festival, but it’s part of a larger NYSHA Caitlin Birmingham makes a new friend. success story this summer. Overall, The Farmers’ has experienced a 3 percent rise in visitors, according to NYSHA spokesman Todd Kenyon. But buoyed by “The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision” and “The Wyeths: A Family LegPlease See VISITORS, A7
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD