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Stars & Bars Debate Unlikely To Go Away
Otsego Now Fails To Ask For CFA $$ ayor Jeff Katz said he’s learned Otsego Now has submitted no CFA this year – the Consolidated Funding Application required to win any state economic-development funding. But no matter, he said: “Anything the village wants to pursue, the village will pursue” without the help of the county IDA. By the July 28 deadline, the village submitted its own applications for park upgrades, further 22 Main improvements, and more sewage plant funding.
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Positive Festival Takes Aim Locally At National Malaise By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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ome from the Women’s March on Washington Jan. 21, Jeannine Webster was still glowing when she put out a call on Facebook. “I inIF YOU GO: vited them “Be Positive to come Festival,” 10 a.m.-10 p.m. to Alex & Ika,” Saturday, UP FOR SALE: Uncas which she Aug. 26, at Farm, the Hager estate on runs with Templeton three-mile point that inhusband Hall, Farmcludes a 120,000-square-foot ers’ Market, Alex, “and mansion, is being listed for First Pretalk about $7 million with Keller Wilsybeterian the experiChurch. liams, the realty firm. ence of the marches. I ON WAIT, WAIT: thought about five people Did you hear Fred would show up, but 40 Doubleday of Richfield came.” Springs win the Limerick From that, Webster, the Challenge Saturday, Aug. 4, Rev. Elsie Rhodes, Lori Soon “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell lensten and Carrie Maxian Me,” the NPR quiz show developed the Be Positive broadcast nationally. Festival, scheduled for 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. BACK TO COLLEGE: 26. “We wanted to do someSUNY Oneonta and Harthing where people could wick students are back in the learn and create, but we county Thursday, Aug. 24. didn’t like the word ‘summit’,” said Solensten. “We didn’t want it to be about Please See FESTIVAL, A7
Flag Protesters, Fair Boards Stand Firmly In Opposition By LIBBY CUDMORE
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hen Leslie Kaufman of Delhi started going to the Delaware County Fair in 2000, “I fell in love with it,” she said. “I helped with setup and clean-up, my kids marched in the 4H parade, I was the supervisor of the rabbit barn for three years. “It was a huge part of our lives.” But in 2015, after Dylann
Roof killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., Kaufman asked the fair board, out of Christina respect for Hunt-Wood lives lost, to leads Walask vendors ton protest. not to sell Confederate flags. Kaufmann said fair direcPlease See FLAG, A7
Jacob Russell, Our Man In White House
‘Win At Life,’ Trump Tells Summer Intern to the President. “It’s good advice!” said Jacob. COOPERSTOWN Russell, a 2015 CCS graduate, is a in rising junior at at Harvard, where he’s majoring in life.” history. “I had These were always wanted the words to work in the President Donald White House, Trump offered and with this Jacob Russell new administraduring his tion, I realized just-completed the competition tenure as a summight not be as Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal mer intern at the Cooperstown’s tough as other Somewhat disillusioned with the national scene, White House in Jacob Russell has years,” he said, Jeannine Webster, the Rev. Elsie Rhodes and Lori the Office of the finished a summer Please See Solensten have organized the Be Positive Festival Senior Adviser internship at the INTERN, A3 By LIBBY CUDMORE
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