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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, January 17, 2013
Volume 205, No. 3
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
The Freeman’s Journal
Russ Bachman, foreground, will be interim county treasurer during Dan Crowell’s deployment.
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HALL OF FAME SHUTOUT
what now? Fresh Ideas Considered, Idelson Says
Cooperstown Bat’s Connie Haney said Dreams Park has made Induction Weekend shoppers less essential to a successful summer.
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ounty Treasurer Dan Crowell, an Army Reserve captain, has been called up for six months of active duty, reporting Jan. 30 to Fort Benning, Georgia. Russ Bachman, former Otsego Manor fiscal manager who ran for county treasurer in 2005, will serve as acting treasurer in Crowell’s absence. Crowell, who is up for reelection in November, said his duties will be training oriented, and he does not expect to be deployed to Afghanistan. PROFITS UP: USNY Bank – parent of the Bank of Cooperstown (as well as Bank of the Finger Lakes) – has announced a profits were up 50 percent in 2012 over the year before, and up 40 percent in the last quarter. The corresponding numbers were $1,954,347 for the year and $457,822 for the quarter. YEAR ‘ROUND: Cooperstown Farmers’ Market is now open every Saturday, year ‘round.
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With Dreams Park, Big Weekend Less Critical Induction To Feature
Gehrig, WWII Stars
By LIBBY CUDMORE
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espite the shutout, Cooperstown Bat Co. co-owner Connie Haney is anticipating a slightly better Induction Weekend. “Our best days are Friday and Saturday,” said Haney, interviewed after the news that the Baseball Writers of America had nominated no one this year. “But if no one’s going to be rushing up The steroids scandal hits home, says to get the best seats at the Induction ceremony Please See MERCHANTS, A3 multi-store owner Rich Busse.
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County Anti-Frackers Send 3,000 Comments By JIM KEVLIN
QUILTS SOUGHT: Drop off entries, no more than two per person, for the Fenimore Quilt Club 2013 Show at 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main.
he man who devised the successful Cooperstown Classic when the Hall of Fame Game’s demise left a gap is turning his mind to the challenge at hand: How to enliven an Induction Weekend that lacks inductees. “We’re still staging and thinking,” said Hall President Jeff Idelson in an interview two days after he announced the Baseball Please See SHUTOUT, A3
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ocal anti-fracking activists sent – “conservatively” – 3,000 letters objecting to the DEC’s proposed regulations by the Friday, Jan. 11, deadline, according to Otsego 2000 Executive Director
Ellen Pope. Statewide, 205,000 comments were submitted, Pope said, noting “there were just so many issues that were deficient in the regs.” A DEC decision on the regulations is due by Wednesday, Feb. 27. To act then, however, the SGEIS – supplemental generic environmental Please See DEC, A5
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acking fresh BBWAA inductees, the Hall of Fame’s Induction Sunday, July 29, will pay tribute to 12 players – most notably, Lou Gehrig (1939) and Rogers Hornsby (1942) – who weren’t recognized at the time due to World War II restrictions. Umpire Hank O’Day, former Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and 19th century standout Deacon White, nominated by the Pre-Integration Committee, will also be honored.
Democrats Plan Village Caucus
Anti-Hazing Expert Due At CCS Jan. 24 COOPERSTOWN
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Trustee Capozza Won’t Run Again
he father of Habitudes, Cooperstown Central School’s character-development program, will be spending Thursday, Jan. 24, at CCS, meeting with students, parents and the public. Tim Elmore, founder/president of Atlanta-based Growing Leaders and author of several books on the Habitudes approach, will address a community forum 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Sterling Auditorium. Earlier in the day, he will be meeting with students and athletes.
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emocrats will caucus at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the fire hall to fill three vacancies on the Village Board, and Village Chair Richie Abbate said he has “three possibilities” for consideration. One-year Trustee Frank Capozza confirmed
Tuesday, Jan. 15, that he won’t be running again. His explanation: “family.” His daughter Allison has moved back to town, and son Dan is en route back from deployment in Afghanistan. Two other members of the all-Democratic board, Lynne Mebust and Walter Franck, had said earlier they won’t be running.
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