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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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A NIGHT OF SURPRISES
Lou Allstadt Runs For Village Board The Freeman’s Journal
Village Hall is seeking advice on where to locate its new parking meters, per signs like this one in front of the Doubleday Cafe.
Advice Sought On Locations Of Parking Devices COOPERSTOWN
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f you’ve notice handdrawn signs on stick posts downtown, it’s Village Hall asking for input on the location of Pay & Display parking machines to be installed by summer. If you have any, call 547-2411. The Village Board Monday, Jan. 28, went out to bid on 13 of the approximately $9,000 machines; seven fewer if they are only placed from Fair Street to the light. ONE JUSTICE COURT: The Village Board also approved the dissolution of Village Court. Voters can challenge it by petition drive within 30 days; otherwise, Otsego and Middlefield town courts assume jurisdiction in April 2014. FOOD, SHELTER: The United Way has received $21,300 in supplementary funds for emergency food and shelter, $14,475 for Otsego County and $6,818 for Delaware. To apply, contact 432-8006 or uwaytf@stny.rr.com. Applications due by Feb. 8. THAT’S THE 10TH: Martin Tillapaugh’s Woodstock reminiscence is 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10, not the 3rd, at the Village Library. If you have memories to share, call him at 547-7004.
Hank Nicols, clerk of the caucus, registers the three Democratic nominees after the party caucus Tuesday, Jan. 29, at the fire hall. The candidates, from right, are Lou Allstadt, Bruce Maxson (who also got the GOP nod), and Richard Abbate.
Fracking Muddies Political Decision Kosmer Running Interference Over Miller Candidacy By JIM KEVLIN
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Bruce Maxson Wins Both Party Nods; Democrats Also Draft Richard Abbate By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ou Allstadt woke up on Tuesday, Jan. 29, as the retired Mobil executive vice president who structured the merger with Exxon.
To most everyone’s surprise – perhaps even his own – he ended the day as an unopposed Democratic candidate for the Village Board. In the next few days, he may be the Republican candidate as well. Tuesday, Jan. 29, was no night for partisan politics, as it turned out, even though it was caucus night, the most
political night of the year. The Democrats were meeting in the fire hall. The Republicans, in 22 Main. Both gathered at 7 p.m. The GOP caucus was late starting when Village Chairman Mike Trosset was delayed. So the Democrats – 26 in all, plus a half-dozen Boy Scouts Please See CAUCUSES, A7
he City of Oneonta’s mayoral race is shaping up as north vs. south, at least on the Otsego County Democratic Executive Committee. Cooperstown’s Richard Abbate, county Democratic chair, described the executive comMiller mittee’s “almost unanimous” vote Thursday, Jan. 24, at Long Island Style Pizza in West Oneonta, as an endorsement of Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller for another term. But Democrats associated with anti-fracking Sustainable Otsego say the executive committee did not endorse Miller, an independent who ran in 2009 with Democratic support – it simply passed his name on to the full, 40-member committee for consideration. And Abbate’s vice chair, county Rep. John Kosmer, Fly Creek, said he will ask the full county committee – it meets at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at the county courthouse – to delay endorsing Miller for at least a few months. In explaining himself, Kosmer said the fracking issue is “very volatile.” Please See MILLER, A7
Bruce Hall Plumbing Supply Aisle Inspires Patrick LaDuke’s Fashion By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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hen Patrick LaDuke needs materials for Dr. Annacleta Chiweshe’s “Wearable Art” fash-
ion class at SUNY Oneonta, he can usually be found at Bruce Hall Home Center in Cooperstown. “The plumbing section has the best stuff,” he said, gesturing to his “Xenomorph” dress, complete with an elongated glowing, L-light headdress. The tattered Please See FASHION, B8
Patrick LaDuke’s “wearable art” is on display at an exhibit, “A Space for Fashion,” at SUNY Oneonta.
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