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For 346 More, SUNY Oneonta Tuition-Free By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA
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ree tuition for all, Governor Cuomo’s Excelsior Program seemed to promise when it was unveiled last year. Well, not quite, Kevin Jensen, SUNY Oneonta associate vice president & enrollment management, cautioned the other day in an interview anticipating the Thursday, Aug. 24, arrival of the first Excelsior students, the Class
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4-year-olds Zane Massey of Springfield Center, and Alden Falco, Albany, visiting grandpa Alden Witham in Sharon Springs, get in the spirit of Roseboom Antique Power Days, which was revived last weekend after a year’s hiatus.
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U.S. Circuit Court has affirmed the state Department of Conservation’s decision not to grant necessary waterquality permits to the Constitution Pipeline, planned to carry fracked natural gas from Northeast Pennsylvania to East Coast markets. Pipeline foes hailed the decision, issued Friday, Aug. 18, as a victory. But the pipeline company said another court decision has given jurisdiction to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where it is hoping for a different outcome. APPOINTMENT DUE: The Otsego Now board was planning to appoint a successor to Sandy Mathes, its president, when it met at 8 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. ROADWORK NEAR: Merchants complained about the impact on parking of the Pioneer Street reconsturction due to start after Labor Day. Details at
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$50,000 AT ISSUE: Troopers arrested the Burllington Flats Fish & Game club treasurer, accusing him of embezzling $50,000.
of 2021. Classes begin Monday, Aug. 28 at both SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. Excelsior, he emphasized, is a “last dollar” program, intended to close the final gap for stu-
dents whose families’ incomes are $100,000 or less, and who might not otherwise be able to afford SUNY Oneonta or the 61 other colleges and universities in the state system. “You might get $12, you might get $2,000,” he said. Federal tuition assistance programs like Pell Grants and existing state aid must be tapped first before students qualify for the “final dollar.” Still, Jensen, from briefings for him and his counterparts at other SUNY schools, said Excelsior is expected to have a significant impact Please See EXCELSIOR, A7
SUN MEETS MOON IN OTSEGO’S SKIES Arthur Fumarola, 12, of Matawan, N.J., a player at Cooperstown Dreams Park, was among oglers lining Main Street during this week’s eclipse. With him are, from left, dad Jim, mom Andrea, sister Juliet and cousin Elizabeth.
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or a moment, Robert Iversen, Cooperstown, was worried he might miss the eclipse. A Robert Iversen “The images from clouds cov- southern Illinois. ered everything,” he said. “But then we saw the sliver of sun, just before the totality, and then it got very dark, like midnight in Cooperstown. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.” Iversen and his mother, Tamara Razzano, Little Falls, drove to Carbondale, Ill., to observe the full solar eclipse from the backyard of a friend’s house. “Down the street, the University of Southern Illinois Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Please See ECLIPSE, A3
NEW CHURCH TO RISE IN 2018
Milford Manor Farms First UM’s New Home By LIBBY CUDMORE MILFORD
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fter a March 12 fire razed the Milford United Methodist Church, the Rev. Sylvia Barrett was determined to be in a new church by Thanksgiving 2018. “I’ve already invited the bishop to our Thanksgiving
25 Years Of Making Music Magic Prepare For ‘Crisp, Biting Attack’ At Two Anniversary Performances
worship service,” Pastor Barrett said the other day, confirming the purchase of the Milford Manors Farm store on Route 28. For now, the congregation will worship in the store as the new church rises in the front parking lot. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal With the charred ruin Burton Kaplan at his Magic Mounas goad (it has since been tain Music Farm, which is planning demolished), Barrett put Please See CHURCH, B8 25th anniversary concerts in Gilbertsville Labor Day Weekend.
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IF YOU GO: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 1, Saturday, Sept. 2, Gilbertsville Presbyterian Church.
or 30 years now, Burton Kaplan has been tinkering, tinkering at his Magic Mountain Music Farm on a secluded hilltop just over the Morris town line from Gilbertsville. “I believe the job of the teacher is to find the key to the engine – then give the student Please See KAPLAN, B8
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