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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, December 5, 2019
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‘UNILATERAL’ THREAT STIRS DEBATE
COUNTY BOARD POISED TO HIRE TOP EXECUTIVE
Must County Do More To Help Zoe’s Helpers? T ►ZOE’S TUMOR is benign, doctors at Cornell reported Tuesday, Dec. 3/SEE A7
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t all began with a helpful conversation, Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal and erupted while the Mitch Owens, CoopersSQSPCA was doing what town, works with it does best: saving Zoe, daughter Emma to crewho chewed off her leg to ate holiday ornaments stop the pain of a tumor. at the crafting table The spark: one word, during the Adorn-aDoor wreath festival on “unilateral.” The issue: Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Is Otsego County funding Cooperstown Art Asthe shelter to minimum sociation/SEE A2 standards?
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Joining the debate are, from left, SPCA Executive Stacie Haynes, Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr., county Board Chair David Bliss, and SQSPCA advocate Richard Sternberg.
Richard Sternberg, a Susquehanna SPCA supporter, Cooperstown village trustee, re-
tired surgeon and MIT graduate, stopped by the animal shelter on Route 28 for a conversation
ooperstown Welcomes
Cooperswight Evans, Steve town Garvey, Tommy Mayor Ellen John, Don Mattingly, Tillapaugh Marvin Miller, Thurman Kuch Munson, Dale Murphy, Dave welcomes Parker, Ted Simmons and Santa and Lou Whitaker will be voted Mrs. Claus on for the Hall of Fame Class to Pioneer of 2020 when the 16-member Park FriModern Baseball Era Comday, Nov. mittee meets next Sunday, 29, where Dec. 8, in San Diego for $165,000 Winter Meetings. in renovaRetirees within the past tions had five years, to be elected by just been the Baseball Writers’ Assocompleted. ciation of America, who will be announced Jan. 21, again on the MLB Network.
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►Democrat jim barber, a Middleburgh farmer, has announced that he will run against state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. He plans to formally launch his campaign at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at his family farm, ►MATTHEW HULSE received his Eagle Scout award at a ceremony at Cooperstown Center, where his great-grandmother, Louise Hulse, 102, was in attendance. ►A 16-year-old boy named Aiden Demorier has been declared missing from Bloomville by state police. He is believed to be a runaway and may be in the Norwich area.
with SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes. Sternberg’s “a master mathematician,” said Haynes. “He helped me calculate the actual cost.” Applying “cost accounting” to the shelter’s expenses, Sternberg determined some $70,000 of the shelter’s Please See ZOE, A7
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he Otsego County Board of Representatives was scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, on a historic matter: Whether to pass its executive authority to a hired professional, a county manager. As of presstime the evening before, it appeared certain – as certain as these things can be – that a coalition of Republicans, Democrats and the sole Conservative representative would create the $150,000 a year position. For the first report on what happens, go at late morning or early afternoon – and for continuing coverage throughout the afternoon – to
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Goodyear Lake Jump Cancelled In Crash, Organizers, Look Ahead To 2021 By LIBBY CUDMORE MILFORD
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he Goodyear Lake Polar Bears will have to wait another year for the plunge. “We regret to inform all of our loyal supporters that the 25th annual Goodyear Lake Polar Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Bear Jump has been canat the brand-new Pioneer Park. bike repair station were built as part By LIBBY CUDMORE celed due to a “The last design I could find was of the $2 million federal grant Transrecent motor from 1965,” said Mayor Ellen Tilportation Enhancement Program. vehicle acciCOOPERSTOWN lapaugh Kuch. “There haven’t been a But because the park is considered dent involvton of changes since then.” an “urban park,” Tillapaugh said, ing Brenda hen Santa arrived at his In 2018, the Cooperstown Chamber applications for funding direct upBrenda and Jamie Cooperstown cottage on of Commerce kiosk was updated with grades to the space were ignored. Waters at Waters,” she Friday, Nov. 29, he arrived a touch screen, and a bike rack and Please See PARK, A7 the mic. wrote on the group’s FaceOne PIONEER MANNED ONEONTA PLOW book page Tuesday evening. tired Angela “Goody, The Waters ChristFamily and all of our dediman cated volunteers will miss leans the brave and loyal jumpers against this year.” her plow But it’s not the end – Brenda at the tright, got the call she’d been By JAMES CUMMINGS said the 25th anniversary end of waiting for: Tonight she’d jump will return next year. her first plow the streets of Oneonta. The annual event, which shift. ONEONTA And she would be the first attracts more than 200 to woman in recent memory plunge into ice-covered n the darkness of 6 p.m. – perhaps ever – to do so for Goodyear Lake every Sunday, Dec. 1, Angela the city’s Department of February, has raised over Christman, South KorPlease See STORM, A7 James Cummings/The Freeman’s Journal Please See DELAY, A7
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