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Saturdays, my friends and I would get a parent to bring a carload of us down to the Clark Sports Center – it was next to the Baseball Hall of Fame back then – and we’d play all day.” Hall, a longtime youth coach and referee, is this year’s Fetterman Award
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Winner at the Clark Sports Center, given annually in memory of Patrick C. Fetterman, a long-time Associate Director of the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium at the center. Hall grew up playing football, basketball, soccer and baseball. “When you’re in a
small town, sports are always a good thing to do,” he said. “I still play basketball at the Clark – something to do on those cold winter nights!” Hall, now an underwriter with New York Central Mutual, coached his own kids: MargaPlease See HALL, A2
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bbey Reese is a much different girl than the one “Habitudes” author and nonprofit founder Dr. Tim Elmore met at Cooperstown High School NEW DEADLINE: Befour years ago. cause of uncertainty if a “A lot of you public park would be next knew me as a door, the deadline on RFPs troublemaker,” for the 11 north acres of she said Grades Brookwood Gardens was 6-12 gathered delayed from Sept. 30 until 5 Thursday, Oct. p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. 1, in Sterling Abbey Auditorium. Reese IN THE RUNNING: “But when I MV500, the effort of Otsego started reading ‘Habitudes,’ it and five other counties to helped me learn about myself obtain a half-billion in ecoand find out who I was. It was a nomic development funding, great experience to go through.” was submitted to Albany Elmore, author, speaker, and Monday, Oct. 5, on schedule. founder of the international nonprofit Growing Leaders, HARTWICK DEBATE: introduced Reese during his Candidates in the hotly second Habitudes presentation in contested Hartwick supervi- the program’s four-year history sor race will debate at 7 p.m. at CCS. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in the “Dr. Elmore believes that Community Center. every child can be a leader,” said CCS Jr./Sr. High Principal Mike Cring in his introduction. “He Please See HABITUDES, A3
County May Borrow $5 Million To Close Gap In 2016 Budget By DON MATHISEN COOPERSTOWN
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Dr. Tim Elmore, founder of “Habitudes,” an Atlantabased consulting firm aimed as reducing in-school bullying by building up leadership skills, encourages Cooperstown Central School 6-12 students to take responsibility for their actions.
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