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CCS phys-ed teacher Bud Lippitt teaches third-grader Adam Ubner to walk the wire. Pupils are being trained this week by the National Circus Project for a performance at 1:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11, at the school.
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work. It’s never up to me if I’m going to be mayor again, but right now I see no reason to mix it up.” For one thing, the village 1994 Comprehensive Plan is being revised, a collaboration with Otsego Now that is examining nine “nodes” in the village for
possible development. The committee working on the revisions is expected to report back to the public in the first quarter of next year. Meanwhile, zoning has been revised, allowing, for example, attorney Michelle Kennedy to Please See KATZ, A7
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HRISTMAS EVERYWHERE AROUND HERE
Singing at the PTA Breakfast & Marketplace Saturday, Dec. 5, at Cooperstown Elementary were, from right, Samantha Vezza, Lauren Koffer, Sarah Feik, Addie Lewis, Devon Guzy, Hannah Craig and Madison Hayes. Below, Willow Burr, 4, decorates her gingerbread house at the Springfield Community Library later that morning.
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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, planned to be inside The Egg in Albany Thursday, Dec. 10, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announces which three of seven economic-development regions will share $1.5 billion in funding over the next four years, an unprecedented boon to New York’s struggling Upstate. Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz Please See HALF-BILLION, A6
COOPERTOWN’S CFA HOPES ► $500,000 for wiring, pipes and other non-visible improvements to Village Hall at 22 Main. A fund-raising campaign for more visible upgrades to follow. ► $2.5 million, “the maximum,” Mayor Jeff Katz said, to begin rebuilding the sewage-treatment plant. ► A sum for long-delayed improvements and repairs for Fairy Spring park. Plus, who gets $500 million from the Upstate Development Initiative? FOR DETAILS OF CUOMO’S THURSDAY, DEC. 10, ANNOUNCEMENT, CHECK
BASSETT COO: Andrew R. Manzer, Schuyler Hospital president/CEO, is Bassett Healthcare Network’s new chief operating officer, succeeding Bertine McKenna/
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NO CASHIERS: Two self-service checkout likes are being installed at the Cooperstown Price Chopper this week. SPINK WINNER: Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy will receive the 2016 J.G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America during Induction.
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eteran Middlefield Town Supersivor David Bliss, hero of the anti-fracking movement, is entering the county Board of Representatives Jan. 1 with bipartisan support. He is in the seven-member Class of 2016 that will be joining the Otsego County Board of Representatives on Jan. 1. See newcomers’ profiles at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Lots Of Local Musicians Have Sinatra Stories By LIBBY CUDMORE
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rank Sinatra may be gone, but as his 100th birthday approaches on Saturday, Dec. 12, he is not forgotten. “You can’t teach the history of big band music without mentioning Frank, and I always have a couple of kids who go
search him out,” said Tim Iversen, CCS band director. “It’s easier now, they can get on Youtube and find his songs; they can watch his movies on Netflix.” Janet Nepkie, SUNY Oneonta music professor, said: “I turned to one of my students and asked, ‘What do you think of Frank Sinatra?’ And Please See SINATRA, A6
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD