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Wednesday, Dec. 11, Mayor Jeff Katz had summoned the Village Board to a work
session to review 30 such questionnaires and determine what changes should be made to on-street paid parking. Pay & Display machines were set up for the first time last summer on Main and Pioneer streets. Please See PARKING, A6
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wo giants of the National Pastime – Joe Garagiola and Roger By JIM KEVLIN Angell – will be inducted into the National Baseball he economic-develHall of Fame Saturday, July opment community 27, during 75th anniversary is about to go after weekend. and seek to bring home Garagiola, MLB catcher jobs from outside Otsego and famed sportscaster, will County’s boundaries. receive the Buck O’Neill That newly “pro-acLifetime Achievement tive” stance came out Award, and Angell, who of a Thursday, Dec. 5, Seward documented the game for demorning-long meeting in cades in the New Yorker, will Oneonta between state receive the J.G. Taylor Spink Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and key Award for baseball writing. economic-development players. Full announcements at: They included the boards of the county WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM IDA (industrial development agency) and OCDC (Otsego County Development NEWS OF GRANTS: Corp.), as well as Kathy Clark, R-Otsego, Mayor Jeff Katz said he exPlease See EC-DEV, B6 pected to hear Wednesday, Dec. 11, if the village was successful in its latest round of state economic-development funding.
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FREE PAINT: Five-gallon pails of remixed exterior latex paint are available to non-profit agencies and county residents, firstcome, first serve, including light tan, dark tan, light green, grey, white and cream. Call 547-4225.
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Village Owns Street, So What Should We Call It? ow that a lawsuit has determined the Inn at Cooperstown’s driveway is actually a public street, the Village Board has announced a contest to name it. To participate, drop off your entry, marked “Street Naming Contest,” at the Village Clerk’s Office at 22 Main, or e-mail cynthia.g.falk@gmail.com by Friday, Jan. 24. Appropriate explanation is welcome. Also, provide your name if you are willing to be recognized. The winning entry will be announced in early February during the Winter Carnival.
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Sid Chase, the Worcester organ restorer wellknown in Cooperstown, has built a 1,500-pipe organ of his own, to be debuted this weekend/
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Thistle Hill weavers Laura Jackson, left, and Sheila McBryde examine the loom in the Cherry Valley factory where a historic jacquard fabric is being woven.
Using Historic Sample, Goody Goes Where No Weaver Has Gone Before By LIBBY CUDMORE CHERRY VALLEY
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t’s a textile pattern that may have never been woven – until Rabbit Goody found it. “We know the watercolor was done by Anna Maria Garthwaite in 1750,” she said. “And we know she sold it to Mr. Phene in London, but we don’t know if he was the weaver or if any pieces still exist.” The jacquard fabric is the latest on Goody’s loom at Thistle Hill Weavers, which specializes in reproducing historical textiles for movies, museums and historic homes. “There’s always a need for 18th century damask fabrics,”
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olice Chief Michael Covert has asked people to lock their cars and homes after 18 cars were broken into the weekend of Dec. 7-8. All of the cars were unlocked and only loose change, and one cellphone, were taken, the chief said. He said it is the first such rash in the village this year.
Colleen Trombecky, Sharon Springs, makes a four-poster with historic fabrics.
IF YOU GO: Rabbit Goody will speak on “Luxury Fabrics of the 18th Century” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, during Thistle Hill Weavers annual open house between Cherry Valley and Sharon Springs. she said. “They were so much a part of that style.” She found Garthwaite’s watercolor drawing in a book of textiles from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. “It was probably intended to be woven in silk rather than worsted weight,” she said. “These patterns were designed and sold to weavers, but we don’t know if it’s ever been Please See FABRIC, B6
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