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Volume 204, No. 39
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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
FEVER STRIKES!
‘Today’ To Feature Cooperstown Foliage
A t presstime, word was received that a TV crew from NBC’s Today show would be Cooperstown Wednesday, Sept. 26, featuring the foliage around Otsego Lake. Arabella Bowen from Fodor’s Travel was expected to be the spokesperson for the village’s museums, The Otesaga and other local attractions. The segment was to air between 10:30 and 11 a.m. If you miss it, it may be viewed at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/
Cooperstown’s Bill Glockler (red cap) angles for position in front of Jeanne Malloy in the Pumpkinfest Regatta Sunday, Sept. 23, at Lakefront Park.
The Freeman’s Journal
Officer Kevin Voce describes emergency call boxes installed at the police department entrance at 22 Main and the fire hall on Chestnut Street, prompted by the May 2 assault on a woman leaving her job at Bassett Hospital. The victim lacked a cell phone to alert police.
By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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he one bid to renovate and replace Doubleday Field’s grandstand roof came in at $311,000, four times what was expected, so the Village Board rejected it Monday, Sept. 24, at its monthly meeting. Trustee Frank Capozza, Doubleday Field Committee chair, said he expected the bids to be about $75,000. Four contractors attended the pre-bid session, but only one followed through.
Paul Sweet, Great Barrington, Mass., gives a victory salute after his 1,509.5-pound entry won the Cooperstown Pumpkinfest Weigh-In Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Doubleday Field Parking lot. Emcee Danielle Newell, right, cheers him on/RESULTS, A3
BUSINESS HONORS: Benson Agency realtors and The Green Earth market will be honored at the Otsego County Chamber’s smallbusiness banquet Thursday, Oct. 11, at The Otesaga. For reservations, call 432-4500.
TOP RATED: Village Clerk Teri Barown has achieved status of registered municipal clerk in New York State.
Pipeline Support Growing Rowinski, Clark Sold On Economic Benefit
Doubleday Repair Bid 4X Too High
CELEBRATE! Glimmerglass State Park will celebrate National Public Lands Day with a lecture on the eastern bluebird by biologist Tom Hughes at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29.
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Intent Mary Longhi, 3, Cooperstown, decorates Blake Guzy, 12, Cooperstown, right, and her pumpkin, a new Peter Boustani, Little Neck, vie during Sun- feature sponsored by day activities in Lakefront Park. Blake’s Jason Tabor’s Principal dad, Brian, is looking to start chess clubs Financial Group and The in local schools; call him at 547-7161. Freeman’s Journal.
Humor Helps, Inspirational Speaker Advises By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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oya Vision Care president Barney Dougher’s been ribbed by friends who can see him play golf. But to get teased about it by Tom Sullivan, who’s blind, was a different kind of jest.
“To hear my golf swing? That’s something,” he said in introducing Sullivan, script writer for the “Saved By An Angel” TV show and an inspirational speaker Friday, Sept. 21, at The Fenimore Art Museum. He had been invited to the county by Cleinman Performance Partners, Oneonta, to talk to local optometrists. Tom Sullivan was born premature and, Please See SULLIVAN, A8
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he Constitution Pipeline route along I-88 could inject $14.5 million annually into the Otsego County economy in sales, income and EDITORIAL: property The Constitutaxes, tion Pipeline is accorda gift: Accept ing to a it/SEE A4 resolution the county Board of Representatives is expected to vote on at its Wednesday, Oct. 3, meeting. In the construction phase alone – 2014 – the pipeline project would spend $86 million in salaries in the region, which would gener-
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ate $12 million in new sales and income tax revenue, the resolution reads. If approved, the county board will be saying it “has determined that the pipeline will produce beneficial short-term and long-term economic impacts” in jobs, tax revenues and low-cost natural-gas supplies. It would commit the county board to supporting “Alternate M” and authorize it to “intervene” with FERC, the Federal Energy RegulaPlease See PIPELINE, A9
County Nursing Homes Rebuff Delaware Pleas No Beds Here For Countryside Refugees By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE
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he phones are ringing at Otsego County nursing homes. The callers are seeking to find beds for the 125 residents of Delhi’s Countryside Care Center, which is closing Fri-
day, Oct. 12. But there’s no room at the inn, or at least not enough. The county’s Otsego Manor, Town of Hartwick, only has “two or three” possible openings. Chestnut Park Nursing Center in Oneonta has none. Oneonta’s Robynwood has Please See BEDS, A9
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
CarouSel organ aSSoCiaTion of ameriCa rallY Saturday & Sunday, Sept. 29 & 30 • 10am – 5pm Join us for the last Step
Back in Time Weekend of the season!
Hear and see a great gathering of calliopes, band organs, and hand-cranked grinder organs from the Carousel Organ Association of America! Our mighty, majestic, Empire State Military Band Organ will give concerts in the Carousel Pavilion throughout the weekend!
5775 State Highway 80, Lake Road , Cooperstown, NY 13326 • For information visit FarmersMuseum.org • 888.547.1450