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Volume 204, No. 41
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Trustees Consider Opposing Pipeline
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
FERC Sets Another Hearing, In Oneonta By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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The Freeman’s Journal
The DGA (Duffers’ Golf Association) played their 50th anniversary match Monday, Oct. 8, at the Leatherstocking Golf Course. The two members, Ed Badgely and George Erhmann, have played a different, unfamiliar course every year for a half-century.
Suspect In Assault Still On The Loose COOPERSTOWN
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o arrest had occurred by presstime in the 5 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, assault of a female Bassett Hospital employee as she walked to the Harrison House parking lot after her shift. However, Village Police Chief Michael Covert said there doesn’t appear to be any connection between this incident and a similar attack in May. The male assailant was 5foot-4 or 5-foot-6, with teeth “in extremely poor condition,” in a sweat shirt and dirty blue jeans. Call any leads to 547-2500, ext. 202. CELEBRATE! This “Fall Into Cooperstown” celebration is gaining momentum/ SEE A3
CAREER FAIR: Springbrook will brief job seekers on opportunities with the county’s third-largest employer at a career fair planned 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 5588 State Highway 7, Oneonta (former St. Mary’s School).
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Perched above crumbling steps in the third-base bleachers, unconcerned Ida Pedroza watches a visiting team play in Doubleday Field Friday, Oct. 5.
As Anniversaries Near, Future Of Venerable Field Considered By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN ehind a $371,000 bid to repair the grandstand roof (with less than half that in the contingency fund)... Behind the yellow tape cordoning off 2,000 seats in the 10,000-seat ballpark... Behind plummeting usage of the field, from 354 games in
2007 to 270 this year... ...are big dreams and big ideas for venerable Doubleday Field as it approaches its 2020 centennial (and as the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th nears in 2014). As the concrete third-base fans’ section cracks and spawls, why not replace it with state-of-the-art bleachers, like the smart aluminum set on the first-base side? Why not install offices, Please See DOUBLEDAY, A6
Village Trustee Frank Capozza and Chief Groundskeeper Joe Harris examine cracks and other deterioration in Doubleday’s cordoned off sections.
At New Dick’s, Perfect Running Shoe 4th National Outlet Opens At Southside By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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he ribbon was cut on Dick’s Sporting Goods at 8 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, and shoppers going through the new store’s entrance at Southside Mall found a surprise.
The Oneonta outlet, it turned out, is the first of the 506 stores nationwide to offer a “Gait Analysis” to help runners pick the exactly right shoe. “What a lot of people don’t realize is that everyone runs differently,” said The Freeman’s Journal Jessica Muesler, a Brooks Mall Manager Montanti, Oneonta Town Running Shoes representaSujpervisor Wood, and Dick’s LeBreck Please See DICK’S/A6 and Cooper cut ribbon on new store.
he Otsego County Board of Representatives zigged, and the Village Board here may IF YOU GO: zag. FERC HearAt their ing, 7-10 p.m., monthly meetWednesday, ing Monday, Oct. Oct. 24, Foot22, the village hills Performing trustees will Arts Center, consider a resolu- Oneonta. tion opposing the Constitution Pipeline’s “Alternate M” route along 1-88, a route the county board supported Wednesday, Oct. 3. “We feel that this pipeline is another example of greedy corporations privatizing the profits and socializing the risks,” said Trustee James Dean, who chairs the village Environmental Conservation Committee. The resolution – Dean’s committee Please See FERC, A6
Petitioners Urge: Save The Manor By LIBBY CUDMORE
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laire Cardinale didn’t expect to find herself in Otsego Manor at age 57, but when she did, the last thing she expected was to have to fight for the right to stay there. “I have my mind, I had my business, I was a hairdresser,” she said. “I ran the Cardinale salon at Fox Nursing Home. I paid taxes, and Otsego County is bailing on us. I’m not a very political person, I was never involved with anything like this, but the more I thought about it, the more Please See PETITION, A6
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