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Volume 205, No. 20
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
For 205 Years
‘IT’S PERSONAL’
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HARTWICK AIMS TO ASSURE AFFORDABILITY
Hartwick College $32M To Snap County Record By JIM KEVLIN The Freeman’s Journal
Connie Haney, proprietor of Cooperstown Bat Co., with her husband, Tim, holds up a new addition to the inventory: A commemorative bat honoring Bud Fowler, raised in Cooperstown and the first black to play professional baseball. The Haneys’ son, Sawyer, helped unveil the “Fowler Way” sign in April.
CCS Budget, 2 Candidates Up For Vote
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he polls will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, for voting on the Cooperstown Central School’s $17,257,886 budget for 2013-14. The budget rises 2.9 percent, but the tax rate increase is 2 percent, meeting Governor Cuomo’s parameters. School board incumbents Mary Leonard and Andrew Marietta will appear on the ballot. They are unopposed for three-year terms.
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Maria Noto, Jane Gozigian and Ginger Miller, above, show off their white gloves and wrist corsages at the 57th annual Cooperstown Cotillion for seventh and eighth graders Friday, May 10, at The Otesaga.
In right photo, taking the air on the veranda are, front to back, MarSMITHY OPENS: Works garet Schuermann, Kelly by Susan Jones Kenyon, feaMooney, Grace LeCates, tured artist this summer at Lydia Williams, Matilda The Fenimore Art Museum, Frances and Abigail Brown.
will be part of the Smithy Pioneer Gallery’s first show of the season, which opens with a 5-7 p.m. reception Monday, May 20.
HELP HAWKEYES: The Cooperstown Hawkeyes are seeking host families for this season. Host families receive a free season pass, $300 and invitations to all Hawkeye events. Call Shirley Tyler at 267-2115.
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artwick College is looking to break Otsego County’s fundraising record. Friday, May 10, against the backdrop of one of the City of the Hills’ finest views, INSIDE: college President Two days of Margaret Drugovich celebration announced Hartwick kicked off “It’s will be seeking $32 Personal”/B1 million in “It’s Personal: The Campaign for Hartwick Students” – and that $19.2 million has been raised already. The fundraising effort is the largest in Otsego County history. In 1997, Bassett Hospital raised $15 million for general purposes, followed by a $12 million drive for the cardiac center. In effect, Hartwick is aiming to break Please See HARTWICK, A6
DECISION DUE ON DISTILLERY PLAN
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he village Planning Board planned to meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 14, (after this edition went to press), to consider the Cooperstown Distillery application for the former Agway storage building at Railroad Avenue and Leatherstocking Street. The planning board moved its meeting up a week so it can provide the village trustees with a recommendation on a required special permit by their meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 20.
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From Hugh MacDougall, First Book Review
First Full Bio Puts Bud Fowler In National Scene – Permanently? Jeffrey Michael Laing, Bud Fowler: Baseball’s First Black Professional. McFarland & Co., 2013 By HUGH MacDOUGALL
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effrey Laing has done baseball history, and the history of African-American life, a great favor. For the first time, his
new biography has gathered together and added to the hitherto scattered information on Bud Fowler (18581913), one of the greatest unsung heroes of the American game. Jeff Laing Born just before
the Civil War, as John W. Jackson, Fowler was brought up in Cooperstown, where his father was an African-American barber. In 1878, after adopting the name of Fowler, he became the first professional African-American baseball player when he was employed by the Lynn, Mass., Live Oaks team of the International Association. He soon became known, as he
remains today, under the name of Bud Fowler. For over 30 years, Bud Fowler devoted his life to baseball and to racial justice, first as a player in racially integrated teams, and then as organizer and manager of AfricanAmerican teams playing against white ones. He was a distinguished pitcher Please See REVIEW, A7
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