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BAD ‘KARMA’ BITES BASSETT
As Neighbors Rebel, Hospital Zone Stalls Council Bluffs Nonpareil photo
Elan’s Lisa Nagle addresses the Council Bluff’s Design Charrette in July.
Planning Model In Wide Use
The Freeman’s Journal
Sharkey Nagelschmidt, CCS ’63, pitches the first few innings of the first ever alumni baseball game Sunday, Sept. 28, at Doubleday Field At bat is Glen Noto/SEE PHOTO, A3
Buses Might Be Parked At Hall Of Fame
By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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he Mid-City section of Council Bluffs, Iowa, isn’t a garden
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he Village Board is considering moving tour bus parking from in front of the Leatherstocking Corp. next summer to in front of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who is leading the effort to divert tour buses away from River and Lake streets, proposes the plan, which has been scheduled for public hearing at the next Village Board meeting, Monday, Oct. 27. The adjustment would allow the buses to turn left on Fair Street when they leave town, avoiding River and the first block of Lake. BLESSED PETS: A Pet Blessing Service in celebration of the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi is planned at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, in the Susquehanna SPCA parking lot, Route 28.
spot. Still, the tainted brownfields in the cen- IF YOU GO: Parin Design ter of the ticipate Charrette 6-8 p.m. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal former Monday, Oct. 6, After hearing public opposition to a hospital zone for Bassett Hospital, the Village Board – seatjumpand Wednesday, ed around the table from left are Trustee Bruce Maxson, Mayor Jeff Katz, and Trustees Ellen TilOct. 8, at CCS ing off lapaugh Kuch, Cindy Falk and Jim Dean – discuss what to do next. point to cafeteria. the Wild LEARN MORE of well-earned bad karma” as Bassett By JIM KEVLIN West imposed project after project – from an about what’s happening here from had its expansion of the main building in the the Council Bluff’s attracCOOPERSTOWN 1970s to the five-story Bassett Clinic in experience at tions, the 1990s, plus multiple smaller ones WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM notably ecades of neighborhood disaf– on its residential neighborhood. the fection with Bassett Hospital “That’s what happens when an instiRailway Inn, a pub with a bubbled over at the Village tution gets its claws into a residential volleyball court where tens Board’s September meeting on Monday neighborhood,” said Linden Summers, the 29th. By evening’s end, a hospital Elk Street, who owns the last non-Bassett of thousands of people compete every summer. zone, 18 months in the making, approperty in the Atwell-River-Elk-Fair Since this and other “little peared stalled, perhaps for good. rectangle. Mayor Jeff Katz, who said a 4-1 vote Bassett Healthcare’s new presi- The next morning, Trustee Cindy Falk, gems” called Mid-City dent/CEO, Dr. Vance Brown, home, Lisa Nagle reasoned that stymied the hospital zone came who chairs the trustees’ Hospital Zone was present to hear the backPlease See PLAN, A2 as a surprise to him, credited “decades Please See ZONE, A7 and-forth.
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Educator Mark Rathbun Wins Coveted Fetterman
HELPING PANTRIES: United Way of Delaware By JIM KEVLIN & Otsego Counties and the Cooperstown Rotary Club are collecting non-perishable COOPERSTOWN goods for food pantries at Waffles and Puppets, Saturwas light-headed,” day, Oct. 25, at Ommegang. said Mark Rathbun when the phone rang and Clark Sports Center director Val Paige advised
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him he had joined the elite fraternity/sorority of Fetterman Award winners. Wife “Diane asked, ‘Are you OK?’ No, I’m not OK,” he replied. “I’m very lightheaded – in state of shock.” For the roster of Fetterman winners – from Ted Please See RATHBUN, B4
CGP 50-Year Gift To Community By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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he Cooperstown Graduate Program doesn’t see museums as just mementoes of times gone by, but as part of the living community. “It’s not a musty old place,” said adjunct professor Katie Boardman. “We’re learning how to make a
museum a home.” From the first week of school, “we throw (our students) into the deep end of the pool,” said 1964-2014 CGP Director Gretchen Sorin. “We want them to learn how to listen to a community and find out what they need and what they want.” Sarah DaCorta, a first-year student Please See 50TH, B4
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD Open Daily, 10am-5pm 5798 Route 80, Cooperstown
Dorothea Lange’s America ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 31 FenimoreArtMuseum.org Dorothea Lange, Five tenant farmers without farms, Hardman County, Texas, 1938. All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. This exhibition was organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.