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3 New Establishments Enhance ‘Food Alley’ On Pioneer Street By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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f you’re heading to Pioneer Street for a bite to eat, make sure you save room for dessert – maybe even a
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With former Mayor Waller and current Mayor Katz in the foreground, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, briefs 50 merchants on pro-business legislation at meeting on downtown collaboration Wednesday, May 15, in Templeton Hall.
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second meal. “It’s going to be Noshing City,” said Lucy Townsend of Townsend Catering, which will be opening the Firehouse Market, doing gourmet takeout from the 1824 red firehouse two buildings down Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal from her Templeton Hall. “You can start Young Wilkens has enhanced Pioneer Street as “food Please See FOOD, A8 alley” by moving her Depot Deli there.
County Board Asks Advice Of A Job-Creating Dynamo to ccs, $10,000 • tO 4 STUDENTS, THANKS
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hile voters passed school budgets across the county Tuesday, May 22, Cherry Valley-Springfield voters added a twist. They also approved adding a student to the school board as an ex-officio, nonvoting member. In Cooperstown as elsewhere, the budget passed, and Mary Leonard and Andrew Marietta, unopposed, were elected to the school board.
Mathes’ IDA Built 2 Commerce Parks Over Past Decade By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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CHEER THE GIRLS! The CCS girls softball team, which has won its first divisional championship in school history, enters the sectional playoffs at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at home, against Thousand Islands.
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FIGHT SCOURGE: The Cooperstown/Northern Otsego Relay For Life Friday, May 17, at Cooperstown Dreams Park, raised $48,000 to fight cancer/PHOTO, B6
Ray Halbritter, tribal representative/CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises, presented the CCS board with a $10,000 check Wednesday, May 15, in thanks for abandoning the school nickname, “Redskins.” In front of the TV cameras, he then thanked the four students who began the drive to eliminate the nickname. They are, from left, Hope Dohner and Emily Greenberg, who started the campaign and were then joined by Catherine Borgstrom and Josie Hinrichs. Superintendent C.J. Hebert said the money will be used to defray replacement costs of uniforms and warm-up suits for nine teams, plus the display on the scorer’s table.
CEILING REPORT: The library ceiling at 22 Main collapsed onto a patron one month ago in part because moisture entered the building through a now-fixed chimney that needing repointing, trustees were told.
Distillery’s 1st Product: Lilac-Flavored ‘Fenimore’ Gin By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ith two regulatory hurdles behind him and two to go, Cooperstown
Distillery owner Eugene Marra is looking ahead to his first project: a lilac-laced gin he’ll christen “Fenimore.” And he wants to get his neighbors, future patrons or not, involved. “I’m on a lilac hunt,” he said.
andy Mathes, the economic developer credited with creating two business parks and 1,000 jobs in Greene County over the past decade, has been invited to adSandy dress the county Board Mathes of Representatives Wednesday, June 5, on the prospect for economic development locally. “This is a good time to focus everybody on economic development, on what the office should be,” said county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who extended the invitation. At 8 a.m. Friday the 7th, Mathes has been invited to address Citizen Voices, the pro-business group, at the Carriage House, Southside Oneonta. Please See MATHES, A6
Marra is asking people with lilacs in their yards – virtually everyone around here – to clip the blossoms and, dried or not, bring them to the distillery for use in “Fenimore’s” preparation. The distiller said he will work Please See GIN, A9
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n July 2011, Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies raided the 43 Walnut St. home of the Pacherille family, seizing three laptop computers. In November 2012, deputies charged Tony Pacherille, 46, and his brother, Angelo, 55, with a criminal charge, aggravated harassment, second degree, due to statements on a website, www.coophallofshame.com. A state Supreme Court judge has now dismissed all charges. SEE DECISION AT WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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