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280 POLES RISE NEAR FLY CREEK
Hager Cousin Prepares Second Large Hopyard By JIM KEVLIN FLY CREEK
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or the latest evidence the hop revival is here to stay, take Route 28 north from Cooperstown, bear right on Goose Street in front of the Pail House Winery, bear right on Bailey, and then onto Stone House Road to where Dr. Mackie used to have an airstrip. There, you will see dozens of poles stuck in the ground – soon, there will be 280 in all. A hop farm to-be – or soon-to-be. On an orange tractor preparing the ground for the crop to come, you are likely to find proprietor Byron B. Thomas, and he’ll tell you of plans to plant hop bines – yes, bines, not vines – next May on strings reaching to the ground from trellises atop the poles. He’s preparing four acres. But look across toward the far hill on Please See HOPYARD, A3
The Freeman’s Journal
SUNY Cobleskill’s new president, Marion Terenzio, expressed interest in helping with creating of an Otsego County community college when she keynoted Saturday, Nov. 14, at NYSHA’s second annual Celebration of Our Agricultural Community at The Farmers’ Museum/ SEE EDITORIAL, A4
Congressmen Seek Bar On Syrian Influx
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tsego County’s two Congressmen, Chris Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Gibson, R-19, and Byron Busch Thomas, who spent his boyhood summers in Otsego County, has acquired the Richard Hannah, R-22, former Mackie property near Fly Creek, and has dedicated four acres to a hopyard. this week both called for a moratorium on letting Syrian refugees into the U.S. The two issued the call County’s Newest after French authorities said Brewery To Debut at least one of the suspects in the Friday, Nov. 13, gun Porter At Mel’s 22 By LIBBY CUDMORE Oneonta Designation May Be Historic Otesaga discussion, both battle in Paris that led to 139 have been achieved. civilian deaths had slipped On Monday, Nov. 16, the munity leaders gathered to of contact” for inquiries, COOPERSTOWN into France among the ONEONTA Town of Oneonta Planning discuss what to do about the and “shovel-ready sites.” throng of refugees from the Board and Mathes set the county’s decline. The first, Sandy Mathes, tsego County’s war-ravaged Middle East. he push for ecostage for a 400,000-squareIn November 2013 at the was hired by the county newest brewery, the nomic development in foot mixed-used building second “Seward Summit” at Industrial Development fledgling Red Shed FALK ON PANEL: VilOtsego County began on the final acreage at Foothills, a world-renown Agency (IDA), renamed on Route 33, will be debutlage Trustee Cindy Falk, a at the first “Seward SumPony Farm – renamed the industrial recruiter identified Otsego Now, in January ing one of its four prospecCGP professor, will be on mit” March 15, 2012, at The Oneonta Business Park – on two musts of economic de2014. tive beers a panel at 8 p.m. Thursday, Otesaga, where 300 comPlease See READY, A7 velopment: “a single point Now, 3½ years after The – Cherry ValNov. 19, on WSKG-TV, ley Smoked Binghamton, introducing Porter – at a new documentary, “Harthe first anvest.” niversary of Mel’s 22 Andrew Stammel, District 4, Town Of Oneonta HOLIDAY GIFTS: The restaurant, Cooperstown Art AssociaChestnut and ’d rather be busy than tion’s popular Holiday Show a former Maine state bored,” says attorMain, this By LIBBY CUDMORE & Sale, which opened Friday ney Andrew Stamrepresentative and forSaturday, Nov. 21. the 13th, is offering locally mel, Oneonta Town Board mer vice president at The Red Shed is being made Christmas gifts at its member who will be one ONEONTA St. Joseph’s Heathcare launched by Jack Hasb22 Main gallery through of the six-member Class of System in Paterson, rouck, who retired from his Dec. 23. 2016 that will be joining assett HealthN.J., as the first new landscaping business in Tucthe Otsego County Board of care’s biggest top executive in almost son, Ariz., five years ago, Representatives on Jan. 1. affiliate has a moving to Cherry Valley. Joyner three decades. Profiles of the newcomers new president. “The search process In addition to the Smoked will appear weekly on A Fox Hospital was very heartening,” Sarah Please See BEER, A6 WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM search selected Jeff Joyner, Please See FOX, A7 Stammel in Oneonta law office
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