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Perfect Collegiate Baseball League owners’ fall meeting in Syracuse the weekend of Oct. 18.

“We’re not going to field a team in the village,” Hickey said Tuesday, Oct. 22, in an interview. “It still remains to be seen if we field one elsewhere. But we aren’t going to

field a team in the village anymore.”

Right now, Hickey said he intends to revive the Hawkeyes in 2015, but delayed saying more until details of those plans are firmed up. “Under the league bylaws,” he explained, “I have the option to let the team be dormant for a period of time. We

have exercised that option. But at the same time, we are continuing to negotiate with other locations.”

He said field-usage fees, the lack of amenities at Doubleday, no lights, no concessions and paid parking right up to the venerable field’s front Please See NO TEAM, A6

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Russ Honicker and George Hymans bike around Otsego Lake during anti-fracking “Rally Around the Water” Saturday, Oct. 19.

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he Cooperstown area’s League of Women Voters will host three Candidates’ Nights, all beginning at 7 p.m., as follows: • Monday, Oct. 28, county Rep. Beth Rosenthal, DRoseboom, vs. Republican Bill Glockler, plus town candidates, in the Roseboom Historical Association, Route 165.

• Tuesday, Oct. 29, county Rep. John Kosmer, D-Fly Creek, vs. Republican Rick Hulse Jr., plus Otsego town candidates, Otsego Town Hall, Route 26, Fly Creek.

• Wednesday, Oct. 30, county board candidates Ed Lentz, Democrat, and Jamie Waters, Republican, plus Hartwick town candidates, in Community Center, 3146 Route 11.

DEBATE AT MCS: Chris Saggese’s 12th-grade government class will host District #5 county rep candidates Ed Lentz and Jamie Waters at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Milford Central School. Also, candidates for town office.

HELP BROOKWOOD: The Otsego Land Trust is looking for volunteers for the fall cleanup of Brookwood Point 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. Lunch provided.

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Citizen Voices’ endorsements, released Monday, Oct. 21, backs Democrats Dan Crowell for county treasurer (over Ed Keator) and Beth Rosenthal, Roseboom, for District #7 county rep (over Bill Please See CV, A7

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013

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Preserve, Strengthen Common-Sense County Board

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n this newspaper’s 2011 endorsement editorial, the county Board of Representatives was described as “stodgy, ossified, airless.”

What a difference two years can make.

Today’s county board, guided by a bi-partisan coalition, is cheerful, energetic and problem-solving.

The “three M” issues – The Manor, microwave and MOSA – are well on their way to resolution in optimal ways.

The focus – in a county that, like much of the nation, is wearily suffering through a sixth year of The Great Recession – has now shifted to economic development.

Tourism has been privatized, put in the hands of the professionals at The Otesaga, the Hall of Fame and our other outstanding institutions of hospitality.

The alphabet agencies – the IDA and OCDC – are en route to being largely privatized as well, meaning they will have to seek out projects and recruit fee-paying entities to survive. This is as it should be.

• All of this activity is the result of, if you will, a second palace coup.

The first, in 2006, was the unholy alliance between minority Democrats and county Rep. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, that seized control from the majority Republicans. In the years that followed, the atmosphere in the board room and committee meetings was toxic.

On Jan. 2, 2012, it looked like more of the same as old warhorses – Lindberg, former chair Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, and Rich Murphy, D-Town of Oneonta – angled for the chairmanship.

• There are three reasons to maintain status quo, at least for the time being.

• One, it’s been broke, and that was awful. It ain’t broke now – a sensible coalition is holding sway.

So let’s leave it alone while Manor (high-quality privatization and an $8 million annual savings), microwave (a broadband system now being installed) and MOSA The Freeman’s Journal (allowing the regional landReelecting county Reps. Kathy Clark, Otego, left, and Beth Rosenthal, Roseboom, second from left, and electing Ed Lentz, Garrattsville, and Janet fill system to lapse into a cheaper, more flexible, priHurley Quackenbush, Town of Oneonta, will preserve and strengthen the vately run one) are resolved. common-sense, bipartisan Otsego County Board of Representatives.

No fixin’ needed.

Suddenly, county Rep. In District #4, the likeable of issues the county faces.

• Two, the county DemoLinda Rowinski, Dand approachable RepubTheir opponents, Democrat cratic Party isn’t where it Oneonta, electrified the lican, Janet Hurley QuackStu Anderson and Repubshould be (and, under enerroom by nominating a enbush, is a veteran town lican Bill Glockler, are getic county chair Richard Republican colleague, board member, a sensible well-spoken and motivated Abbate of Cooperstown, at Kathy Clark of Otego, as jumping-off position for challengers who, it should some point no doubt will chair. Another Democrat, county rep. Democrat Dan be hoped, will remain in the be). The on-again, off-again Oneonta’s Kay Stuligross, Buttermann is an engaging public arena; but there’s no departure of county Treawent along, and the coup newcomer from Arizona, good argument for unseatsurer Dan Crowell (now was complete. but with a year’s experience ing Clark or Rosenthal. delayed) was mishandled by The result has been two in his new county, it’s too The other three contested mixed signals, missed deadyears of amicable goversoon; there’s not enough races are Republican incum- lines and iffy petitions. The nance – a desirable status context. bent Jim Powers and Demo- electorate was ill served. quo. It just makes sense The Republicans now crat Teresa Winchester What’s happening in the for all of us to endorse that control 3,529 weighted in #2 (Butternuts-MorTown of Otsego highway status quo on Election Day, votes; the Democrats, 2,538, ris-Pittsfield, 495 votes); superintendent race is even Tuesday, Nov. 5. a 991 margin. Electing Democratic incumbent John more dismaying. Mark • Lentz and Hurley Quacken- Kosmer and Republican diLorenzo, son-in-law of Because of the county bush would shift 127 votes Rick Hulse Jr. in #8 (Town the former Democratic board’s weighted voting to the Democrat column, of Otsego, 390 votes), and county chair, Hank Nicols system, the majority could but keep the bi-partisan two newcomers, Democrat of Cooperstown, emerged hang on two districts: The majority in place by an 864 Amy Hornburg-Heilveil and as the party’s nominee, Hartwick-Milford-New margin.

Republican Craig Gelbsman though he didn’t even live Lisbon District #5 and the Republican Clark in the in #12 (City of Oneonta, in the town. (Nicols argued Town of Oneonta’s District Otsego-Laurens District #3 326 votes). diLorenzo only had to “in#4. Both incumbents, Reand Democrat Beth RosenIf Lentz, Hurley-Quaken- tend” residency.) This touch publican Pauline Koren and thal in the Cherry Valleybush, Clark and Rosenthal of nepotism is a throwback, Democrat Murphy respecMiddlefield-Roseboom win, those final three seats eroding confidence in how tively, are retiring.

District #7 have both earned can’t shift the balance. The the local Democrats would In District #5, Democrat reelection on the merits. numbers are insufficient. govern. The Republican, Ed Lentz, a patent lawyer, They are smart, flexible, The bi-partisan majority John Schallert Jr., and informer county Democratic interested in the broad range would be assured. dependent Bryan Pernat are chair and New Lisbon Town acceptable alternatives. hether you agree or disagree with this editorial, you Board member, is the better • Three, the battle against have one more edition to state your views. Letters choice. Republican Jamie fracking has been won. to the Editor for the final edition before Election Day Waters deserves a continuTwo years ago, with Gasare due by 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28. ing vote of thanks for, with tem test drilling on CrumE-mail them to info@allotsego.com wife Brenda, organizing the horn Mountain and in Irish Fax them to (607) 547-6080 Goodyear Polar Bear Jump Hollow, town bans under Or mail them to The Freeman’s Journal, for 18 years now, but he Box 890, Cooperstown NY 13326 challenge in the courts, and has no track record in local Remember, polls are open 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 a state moratorium in doubt, government. a strong anti-fracking mes-

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Now, it’s generally understood the Marcellus shale is too thin here to be profitably tapped. And town bans have been strongly upheld in state Supreme Court and its Appellate Division, (although the state Court of Appeals still has the final word).

Think about it: There’s no dividend in Governor Cuomo, eyeing higher office, to make any decision at all, certainly not a pro-fracking one. (Does he want Yoko Ono demonstrating at every stop on his presidential campaign trail?)

Plus, there’s a well-funded alliance against fracking that would tie up any pro decision for many years.

If the Democrats were to win a majority they, hand in hand with Sustainable Otsego, would focus on fracking, fracking, fracking.

Please. Fracking requires oversight, but we’ve won, for the time being anyhow.

It’s one issue of many, but a secondary one for the foreseeable future.

• The Otsego County Board of Representatives is on the right track. In alliance with the colleges and the business community, it is building a multi-pronged effort to maximize the benefits of tourism, technology and economic growth to stem the brain-drain and halt Upstate’s long decline right here in Otsego County.

Let’s stay the course, reelect Kathy Clark – in District #3 and then as chair – and endorse the bipartisan alliance that includes Rosenthal, and likely will be bolstered by promising newcomers like Lentz and Hurley-Quackenbush.

We’re going places, the right places. Let’s not derail all the good things headed our way.

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Instead Of Politics, Examine Individual: Vote Pernat For Highway Superintendent To the Editor: BRYAN PERNAT for Town of Otsego Highway Superintendent.

Remember that name, because you won’t see it under a major party line. Bryan will be running on the Safe Highways Independent line.

He has the experience and temperament to manage a

highway department and keep our roads safe.

Bryan worked for the town Highway Department for five years and was appointed unanimously by the Town Board as highway superintendent upon the recommendation of the retiring superintendent. He has driven school bus for FOU

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Cooperstown Schools so he knows that the plows need to be on the road in plenty of time for safe travel. Being a farmer, he knows that people do not just work Monday-Friday and that our roads need to be passable at all times. Having also worked for the Office of Emergency Services he knows that emergencies can happen at any time and our roads must be ready for travel.

Brian is the only candidate who has the experience of driving a large town plow. He will be able to fill in when any of the crew are absent. He also knows how to diagnose mechanical problems, having grown up with big farm machinery constantly needing maintenance.

Bryan’s experience and lifelong commitment to the Town of Otsego are assets that cannot be overlooked.

You won’t find a more dedicated, hardworking individual for the position. It’s time to distance ourselves from the party politics and look at the individuals. Bryan has my vote and I hope he will have yours too. Be sure to look for his name!

MEG KIERNAN Fly Creek

In Age Of Obamacare, Independent Bassett May Not Be Best Local Health-Care Option To the Editor: James Northrup’s letter on Bill Streck’s leadership in your last edition is right on the mark. Dr. Streck’s performance has been brilliant and in Bassett’s great interest in its content and tenure.

Mr. Northup raises interesting questions, however, about the future of Bassett’s independence. I’m not sure that anyone can accurately answer questions of whether Bassett is big enough to survive as an independent entity and, if Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital has been serving it could, whether that would the Cooperstown area for almost a century. be in the best interests of squeezed out of our communities, remainthe communities the system has chosen to ing hospital and health system boards have serve. to develop measures for assuring their The Bassett board’s responsibility in region’s health-care needs are being met in picking a new CEO should not be based, the most effective way. That is a responsiin my judgment, on the assumption that bility board members have to our citizens maintaining independence of the entity and, for that matter, the state Department of headquartered in Cooperstown is the best Health. approach to providing optimal health-care The challenge for the Bassett board is to services for those residing in our region. find a leader of Dr. Streck’s caliber to lead In the world of Obamacare, with compethem in meeting that responsibility. tition (the ultimate mechanism for assuring RICHARD P. MILLER JR. an institution’s effectiveness) rapidly being Oneonta

Crime Rare, But Cooperstown Police Department At Ready

To the Editor: I want to express my thanks to the Cooperstown police department, Chief Covert, Officer Kilman and their staff for the speedy recovery of my car, which was stolen on Main Street Monday afternoon, Oct. 7. Within 24 hours, my car had been located and returned to me.

We take safety and the lack of crime in Cooperstown for granted; it was very reassuring to know that when pressed into action, the Cooperstown P.D. has the insight and professionalism to handle such situations for residents of the village.

ROBERT SCHNEIDER Cooperstown

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

Dr. J. Jackson presents his warmest thanks to the inhabitants of the town of Westford and its vicinity, for the truly liberal patronage they have bestowed upon him, in his practice of Physic & Surgery. He would, however, remind his more negligent employers, that to carry on a successful contest with the numerous diseases incident to the human frame, it is necessary that he should be provided with the “sinews of war,” and to that end a more general payment of his demands is absolutely necessary, and will ere long be rigidly enforced, unless timely prevented. He still holds himself in readiness to attend to all calls in his profession, and no exertions will be wanting to give satisfaction to all those who may please to bestow on him their patronage.

Wheat, Rye, Corn and Oats will be taken in payment.

October 23, 1813

50 YEARS AGO

in order to keep the straight line of the figure which makes for slenderness of effect. Blouses are loosely fitted and pulled out at the belt into still greater bulk, and skirts are almost all more or less full at the waist, increasingly full from thence to the knee, where the draperies are tightly drawn to narrowness at the ankle that makes slashes and panels a necessity for ordinary walking.

October 22, 1913

75 YEARS AGO

Major League Base Ball clubs appear most favorably disposed toward playing exhibition games on historic Doubleday Field in connection with the Centennial Celebration of the National Game. Eight of the sixteen clubs of the National and American Leagues have expressed themselves. Recently, Lester G. Bursey, local program chairman, addressed invitations to the managements of all the clubs, to participate in the celebration by playing here. Replies have been received from the Cincinnati Reds, the Boston Bees, the New York Yankees, the Athletics and Phillies or Philadelphia, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the St. Louis Browns and the Chicago White Sox. October 26, 1938

175 YEARS AGO

The Hoco Poco, alias Federal Whig Party, held a convention at the Court House, 57 delegates being present, and on the first ballot for a candidate for Congress, William H. Averell received 35 votes, Horace Lathrop 11 votes, James Brackett 7 votes, and David M. Hard, 4 votes. Mr. Averell was accordingly nominated and is the Federal candidate for Congress. Their Assembly Ticket is composed of Willard Trull of Cherry Valley, James Steere of Hartwick and a Mr. Day of Decatur.

October 22, 1838

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150 YEARS AGO

Mr. Barker, the so-called “Union Democrat” who spoke in this village on Tuesday evening last, said: “I do not want the Union as it was – but as it should be.” Mr. B. spoke the true sentiment of the party in whose service he is now laboring. We give him credit for being in that respect at least an honest servant. The Radicals do not favor the prosecution of the war for the restoration of “the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is” – they wish to see it prosecuted for the abolition of slavery – and when the rebel armies shall be dispersed, they will with one voice proclaim their policy, as frankly as Mr. Barker now declares it. It turns out, as we expected, that this Mr. Barker is a wool-dyed Abolitionist from the State of Maine, sent here for the purpose of infusing New England abolitionism among the voters of Otsego County.

October 23, 1863

125 YEARS AGO

Personal: Mr. Dorr Russell, who has been in California for the past six years, was called home by the intelligence of his wife’s dangerous illness, and is at the Hotel Fenimore.

Alfred K. Robbins, the Miller at the Pioneer Mills, had the misfortune to catch his hand in a wheat crusher at the

October 23, 1963 mills last Thursday. Three fingers of his right hand were badly crushed, but will probably be saved. Dr. Bassett is in charge.

Miss Mary Taber, formerly of this village, has just graduated with honor from St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was the first child received at the Orphanage and does honor to the institution.

October 26, 1888

100 YEARS AGO

The Fashions – New York Hats and Gowns: Only the fact that the average well-dressed woman is corseted saves her from a hopelessly, slouchy look, in the loose, baggy, Zuave type of costume that has taken the fashionable world by storm this season. Waist lines are located anywhere from just below the shoulder to the curve of the hip while seemingly every effort is made to increase the girth at the waist

Cooperstown Mayor Harold H. Hollis was one of only five weather observers selected from more than 12,000 volunteers throughout the country to receive the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest accolade given to observers.

Four representatives of the National Weather Service met last Friday at the Hollis home on Walnut Street to present the award. Hollis began recording weather observations in 1950 for the U.S. Weather Bureau as it was then known.

Hollis and the other 12,000 observers, working daily, record minimum and maximum temperatures, rainfall, snowfall, and snow depth. Weather watchers like Hollis are a dying breed,” said Roland Guy Loffredo, area manager and meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Albany.

October 26, 1988

10 YEARS AGO

Barbara Harper, a world-renowned expert and author on natural and non-invasive birthing techniques, including water births, will present a public lecture in Clark Auditorium at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital on October 27.

Harper is the author of “Gentle Birth Choices.” “I want to bring a message of gentle, non-violent birth. The lecture will look at the current state of maternal care in New York State and will offer information to empower women to make choices,” Harper said. The lecture will discuss using a Dula, midwives, and giving birth in water. Harper said that midwives at Bassett sought her out to come and lecture.

Harper has been a nurse since 1973 and has supported water birth since 1983.

October 24, 2003

The Arc Otsego celebrates NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH (NDEAM) Our Community Employment Services Division and The Vocational Training Center say

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You are changing lives and our community for the better!

Community Employers Aramark Corporation at Hartwick College Bassett Medical Center BJ’s Wholesalers Boys & Girls’ Club-Sidney Brewery Ommegang Burger King The Daily Star The Dreams Park Doubleday Café Friendly’s Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Hampshire House Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy Home Depot K-Mart– Sidney MAMCO McDonald’s at Oneonta/Chestnut St. McDonald’s at Wal-Mart Mickey’s Place New York Central Mutual The Otesaga Hotel Panera Bread Pathfinder Village Prestige Services, Inc. at Nader Towers Price Chopper/Cooperstown Price Chopper/Oneonta Salvation Army Scholet Furniture Silver Dollar Optical Sodexo SUNY Oneonta Springbrook Wal-Mart Wendy’s Worcester Market YMCA

Community Employment Assessment Sites A.O. Fox Hospital Bassett Medical Center Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy Holiday Inn MAMCO McDonald’s at Oneonta/Chestnut St. New York State Historical Association Rite Aid at Price Chopper Plaza Sodexo SUNY Oneonta Wal-Mart

Community Employment Transition Sites Brooks’ House of Bar-B-Q Bugbee Children’s Center Oneonta School District/Center St. Family Resource Network Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy Salvation Army Silver Dollar Optical Sodexo SUNY Oneonta

The Vocational Training Center Aaron Industries Recycling Division ACCO Brands USA LLC Catskill Craftsmen, Inc. Corning Incorporated Life Sciences Gordon B. Roberts Agency, Inc. NYSID Sullivan Industries T.S. Pink Corporation United Dividers

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013

A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL

Hickey Says Hawkeyes Are Done With Cooperstown NO TEAM/From A1 gate contributed to his decision. “We feel the conditions imposed by the village makes it impossible for us to do business there,” he said.

Mayor Jeff Katz was surprised to learn of Hickey’s decision, saying this is the time of year when negotiations on the contract for the field begin. “It was obvious he was unhappy,” Katz added.

Asked if he would reach out to Hickey to try to keep the Hawkeyes, the mayor

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Trustee Jim Dean, who chairs the Village Board’s Doubleday Field Committee, said Tuesday he was completely surprised by the news: “I’m hearing this for the first time.”

Dean said he was aware Hickey was “somewhat unhappy with the accommodations. I felt it was somewhat unfair,” particularly since the team’s contract with the village requires that all disagreements be worked out in private.

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don’t have lights; he knew we didn’t have lights. He’s complaining about concessions; he knows we didn’t have concessions,” said Dean. “We obviously are not going to be putting up any lights and putting up locker rooms. Doubleday Field is Doubleday Field.”

2014 would have been the Hawkeyes’ fifth season. The team provided a half-dozen jobs, including a coach and two assistants.

The players were from college varsity teams. The team averaged 200-300 fans a game, with adults paying $5 a ticket, and youngsters and seniors $3.

From the outset, Hickey said, Village Hall made little effort to accommodate the Hawkeyes. “Other teams in the league play much better fees,” he said. “They have the support of their villages and their towns.”

In Little Falls, for instance, the Mohawk Valley Diamond Dawgs is paying $5,000 a season for a field that includes lighting, concession stands and a clubhouse.

Hickey said Doubleday Field alone is costing the team $17,000 a year. The rent was $10,000 in 2013, (up from $8,000 the two previous seasons; it was

Libraries Seek Public Vote On Their Budgets LIBRARY/From A1 on May 20.

“We’re trying to get something that’s stable,” said Kim Jastremski, Town of Middlefield, president of the village’s Library Board.

Under the new arrangement – one recommended by the state Board of Regents – each institution would maintain separate boards: Cooperstown’s serving the village and towns of Otsego and Middlefield; the Kinney serving the Town of Hartwick.

Each board would prepare separate budgets; then, school district taxpayers would vote on a single line, said Jastremski and Library Board member Giles Russell.

A petition is being circulated to allow the question

to go on the ballot, and the libraries are planning open houses over the next several months to explain the innovation to the public, Jastremski said.

The two presented the idea to the CCS Board of Education at its meeting Wednesday, Oct. 16, and said the reception was positive. In a press release, both Library Trustee Chuck Newman, representing the Town of Otsego, and Donna Sell, who chairs the Kinney Library board, expressed support for the concept.

Until three years ago, the Village Library was supported solely by Cooperstown residents. At that time, the

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library was rechartered, expanding its service area to include Otsego and Middlefield, which then contributed to its support.

This budget year, the village is contributing $87,000 to the library. Otsego is contributing $10,000 and Middlefield $3,000, Jastremski said. The village also provides rent-free space at 22 Main, plus heat and utilities.

The village trustees have agreed to maintain that arrangement for the next four years, Russell said, and the amount on the ballot line will remain stable for that period.

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$10,000 the first season, Katz said.) Hickey said additional costs include the team providing services that are part of the rent elsewhere.

In his final proposal to Katz, Hickey said he proposed $1,000 rent for 2014, plus “certification from the Department of Health” that there were no drugs or paraphernalia in the arena or its environs – an apparent reference to detritus left by the Grateful-Dead-line Furthur concert – and a 4 p.m. cutoff of paid parking on game days. “He sent me a letter saying this was unacceptable,” Hickey said.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

Affiliation With Midwest Brewery To Aid Ommegang’s Entry Into That Region BEER/From A1 the foremost Midwest craft brewers.

The U.S. model will follow the European one, Thorpe said, perhaps increasing its holding to five craft brewers over the next decade. “Our goal is to build, not cull,� he said. “We produce opportunities, we don’t make redundancies. We grow breweries, we don’t cut costs.�

Daniel Krug, the familyowned Duvel Moortgat’s COO, will become interim CEO of the new entity, with Thorpe as chief operating officer. Boulevard’s founder, John McDonald, will serve on the new company’s board.

In an interview, Thorpe called the Ommegang-Boulevard combination “almost a perfect fit.� Ommegang’s market is the East Coast and California; Boulevard’s, the Midwest. This will allow both breweries to use each other’s sales forces and distribution systems to expand sales. The expanded sales force will combine 24 sales execs from each brewery, and expand the force to 58 total.

Even before the announcement, growth has been a signature strategy since Thorpe’s arrival in Otsego County in 2009.

Ommegang’s workforce in the Town of Middlefield brewery has grown from 40

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people to 101. It’s expecting to add four more this year, and to reach 108 by the end of 2014.

In 2009, Ommegang produced 34,000 hectoliters (100 liters); this year, it will produce 74,000 hectoliters.

In Thorpe’s first year, the brewery grossed $12 million; this year, it’s expected to reach $38 million.

In the first year of the merger, the umbrella is expected to invest $17 million in a new cellar in Kansas City. Locally, two fermenters will be added and the warm cellars expanded, a $3.6 million investment, Thorpe said.

McDonald, who founded Boulevard in 1989 and

gained a reputation as one of the nation’s top brewers, initiated the contact “out of the blue,� Thorpe said. “He was looking to retire, but he wanted to preserve the legacy.�

In a letter to his customers posted Oct. 17 on www. boulevard.com, McDonald recalled sampling a Bel-

gium beer for the first time in Paris during a trip to Europe in the 1980s. He called it “an epiphany. The beer was brilliant in color, with intensely floral aromas and a flavor bursting with joyous complexity.�

So seeking out Duvel seemed a natural, he said: “They bring to us an un-

paralleled depth of experience, strong resources, and an unwavering devotion to quality.�

Today, Boulevard produces two dozen beers, IPAs, amber lagers. Among the most notable, Thorpe said, is the 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer.

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Large outbuilding was once a wood-working shop. $149,000 Call Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell)

MLS#89527 - Well maintained stately home on 1.25 acres w/mature trees. 5 BRs, 2 baths, sun porches, attic, dry basement, new roof, detached 2-stall garage. Includes .25 acres of terraced shore front w/63’ of private lakefront on Canadarago Lake. $324,900 Call the Sluyter Team @ 315-520-6512 (cell) MLS#85578 - Perfectly situated on 26+ acres with spectacular views, this solid contemporary build is close to Cooperstown. Property includes over 200’ additional road frontage and well on Cty Rte 33. $189,000 Call Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell)

MLS#89549 - Original 1840 farmhouse in Fly Creek on 5.13 acres. Easy walk to the Fly Creek General Store, Fly Creek goes right through property. Spacious lawn w/over 200’ on Cty Hwy 26. Mature trees, hardwood floors, new furnace, paved driveway, 2-stall garage. $269,900 Call the Sluyter Team @ 315-520-6512

MLS#91716 - Attention restoration project seekers: 2 BR farmhouse on 35 acres w large pond, 2 barns.

1540’ of road frontage, w/additional building sites for rental potential. Other homes and additional acreage available. Call Lynn at 607-434-1061 (cell)

MLS#90906 - 3 - 4 BRs, 3 baths, 4+/- acres, 2-car garage, paved driveway! Wood-burning fireplace, sunroom w/skylights and pellet stove, 1st flr laundry, central air, covered stone patio and deck. Finished basement, large fenced yard and back from road. $189,900 Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell) MLS#84923 - Renovated 3 BR, 2½ bath farmhouse on 3.2 acres. Country kitchen w/stainless appliances, LR and formal DR w/fireplaces, large master suite.

Fencing, run-in shed and barn for horses or livestock. $250,000 Call Michelle A. Curran @ 518-469-5603 (cell) MLS#89799 - 3 BR, 1 bath single family home, w/new appliances, replacement windows, newer roof, new hot water tank, hardwood floors, custom-made closets in upstairs BR. Garage w/screened-in porch. $112,000 Call William Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)

MLS#84325 – 19 Bronk Street, Oneonta. Well maintained center-city 3 family home. Owner occupied? Investment property? The choice is yours!

Lots of upgrades! Current COC and separate utilities make this a great find. $214,900 Call or text David @ 607-435-4800 (cell)

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MLS#89644 - Charm and character in this 5 BR country home in Jefferson. Newer roof on 6 acres w/large barn, outbuilding and new 2-car garage w/radiant heat.

Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)

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OTSEGO. homes CALL 547-6103

This home has been well maintained featuring 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths with laundry room on the second floor. Eat in kitchen with dining room open to the living room, both with refinished Oak hardwood floors. Nice sized yard is slightly wooded, private and fenced in with a 20 X 12 deck off the kitchen.

Also features a spacious, wrap around front porch for more outdoor space.

Conveniently located to elementary school, downtown, parks and bus route. $119,900 MLS #91665

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EnviablE ChalEt

(7798) Engaging country residence on 5.70 acres with a pond. Home features 3 BRs, 2 baths, modern kitchen, gas woodstove, radiant-floor heat, metal roof, large front porch, thermal glass, pine paneling, laminate flooring and storage shed. West of Cooperstown. Edmeston Schools.

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lavish Country Colonial

(7797) Home features 5 BRs and3 baths, on 3+ acres w/ rolling hill vistas. Beamed cathedral ceiling and fireplace in LR, formal DR, guest suite. Light and airy ambiance, den, master suite w/walk-in closets and access to deck w/ hot tub. Custom kitchen w/island, soapstone countertop.

Wide plank floors, radiant heat. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive–$740,000

(7395) Exceptional 5 BR/3+ bath countryside home has spacious layout w/family room, den, large LR, 2 fireplaces, center entry, oak flooring, ceramic tile baths, breakfast nook, formal DR w/fireplace. Large deck, barn. 4 miles from Cooperstown.

Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive–$399,000

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Beautifully maintained home w/ lots of original woodwork. Open floor plan! Fenced in yard and nearly 700 sq.ft. of decking. Built-in sunken hot-tub stays! Garage w/ workshop and woodstove. Stunning kitchen w/stainless steel appliances and dining area which opens onto the back deck. New radiant heating system!

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OXBOW

$157,000

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Skyview Chalet is a lake home w/a boat house and over 100´ lake frontage. Hardwood floors throughout. 4 BRs, one w/second story deck. LR and DR have beamed ceilings and fieldstone, wood-burning fireplaces. Screened porch, new large deck, new stairs leading to the lake, new septic system. Cottage is set off the road w/plenty of parking. It does need some TLC to bring it back to what it once was but when done it will be a wonderful family vacation home.

The price is well below the current assessment.

Call to see this Otsego Lake home; you could be enjoying autumn on the lake!

Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $349,000

Historic home, set on the edge of Gilbertsville.

Huge, gracious front porch w/ views of farm and fields, mountains and always changing nature. House has so much original charm; wide, wooden floorboards, huge hearth in the dining room, architectural details, lovely oddities, claw foot tub, a fireplace in the library, mantles, leaded glass windows, and woodwork on all 3 floors of this amazing treasure. The 5 Acres include gardens, woods, a circular drive, a beautiful two-story barn with workshop and garage. $279,000 MLS#89759