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Meter Man Charged With Shoplifting By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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hen Brian Paterno of Paterno Brothers Sports noticed
DA: $57,000 In Baseball Cards Taken, Resold baseball cards and memorabilia missing over the summer, Otsego County District Attorney’s investigators asked him to “sign” cards
with fake autographs so they could be traced. One of those cards, of Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout, was
recovered during an investigation that led to the arrest of former Village Parking Enforcement Officer Ian Turner, 21, according
to District Attorney John Muehl’s office. Turner was charged Monday, Nov. 2, with grand larceny, a Class C felony, for allegedly taking $57,007 Please See ARREST, B7
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A flying monkey landed long enough Halloween afternoon to walk Nicoletta’s proprietor Phil Andrews pet pug, Chuck Norris/MORE PHOTOS, A3
2 Local Salons Among 13 Hit In Crackdown
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ain Street Styles in Richfield Springs and Jill’s Tanning Salon in Burlington were among 13 tanning salons in Otsego, Delaware and Greene counties cited by the state Health Department for having faulty UV tanning devices, Governor Cuomo’s office announced Tuesday, Nov. 3. Inspectors examines 41 devices at the 13 sites; 29 were found to be unsafe. In most cases, operators promptly corrected the deficiencies and were reopened in one to four days. MAINSTAY GOES: A key figure from downtown’s heyday, Fannie Navarra, has died at 100. She ran a beauty shop and shared it with husband Charlie, a barber/OBITUARY, B6 MILESTONE: Eye On The Weather columnist David Mattice is beginning his 33rd year as a National Weather Service observer/ SEE COLUMN, A6
ON VILLAGE FORCE: Retired Deputy Sheriff Mike Ten Eyck is a parttime investigator for the village Police Department.
INCUMBENTS GO Stammel In, Quackenbush Out • Marietta In, Hulse Out • Kennedy In, Lentz Out
THE WINNERS ARE...
By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN
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t was a night of surprises and upsets, with voters ousting incumbents and embracing newcomers in three key seats on the Otsego County Board of Representatives. • In the Town of Oneonta’s District 4, Democrat Andrew Stammel, a Town Board member, ousted first-term county Rep. Janet Hurley Quackenbush, 562-527. • In the Hartwick-Milford-New Lisbon District 5 – it contains the most weighted votes of any seat – a newcomer, Meg Kennedy, defeated incumbent Ed Lentz, 782-539. • And in the Cooperstown-Town of Otsego District 8, Democrat Andrew Marietta defeated a rising GOP star, county Rep. Rick Hulse, by 515-429. Marietta Elsewhere, things were pretty much as expected, as two veteran Republicans, Jim Powers, Town of Butternuts, and Keith McCarty, in the Richfield-Springfield district, turned back challengers. Additional, unchallenged Republicans David Bliss in Middlefield-Roseboom-Cherry Valley and Len Carson in Oneonta walked into seats vacated by Democrats. Rounding out the rising GOP fortunes, Dan Wilber, a town justice, beat Democrat Russ Bachman to keep retiring Betty Ann Schwerd’s Edmeston-Burlington seat in the Republican column. While Republicans took body blows with Hulse’s and Quackenbush’s losses, the GOP emerges with greater control of the 14-member legislative body. Please See ELECTIONS, A7
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When it became clear Democrat Andrew Stammel has won the county board’s District 4 seat, he was surrounding by hugging supporters in Oneonta’s Autumn Cafe.
In key contested races only ► For Common Council Ward I: Paul Van der Sommen Ward 4: Jeff Back OR Michelle Osterhoudt Ward 5: Dana Marie Levinson OR Madolyn Palmer ► For County Board District 2: Jim Powers District 4: Andrew Stammel District 5: Meg Kennedy District 8: Andrew Marietta District 9: Keith McCarty District 10: Dan Wilber District 11: Gary Koutnik District 12: Craig Gelbsman ► town supervisor Hartwick: Robert O’Brien Laurens: Patricia Brockway Milford: Robert Moore Richfield: Paul Palumbo ► town boards Hartwick (2): Quinton Hasak, Janet Gage Otsego (2): Bennett Sandler, Joe Potrikus Laurens (2): Mary Bordinger, Ronald Moxley Middlefield (2): Joseph Harris, Ray Holohan Richfield (2): Fred Eckler, Kane Seamon. Springfield (2): Dale Schultz, Bill Freeland CHECK BOARD OF ELECTIONS www.otsego.county.com/depts/ boe/results.htm
Film Festival Offers First Look At ‘Rara Avis,’ About Audubon By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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hough Peggy Parsons, film curator for this weekend’s Glimmerglass Film Days, admits the festival is not yet a
first-run premier venue, local viewers will have a chance to see the film “Rara Avis: John James Audubon and the Birds of America” before most anyone else does. “It premiers on PBS in April 2016,” said Parsons, a Cooperstown Graduate Program Please See FESTIVAL, B7
Peggy Parsons, founder and director of the National Gallery of Art’s film program and curator of Cooperstown Film Days, and Otsego 2000’s Ellen Pope, visit the Cooperstown Distillery, which will host the festival’s Wrap Party at 7:30 Sunday, Nov. 8. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
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