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Vital Statistics BORN: Nov. 27, 1981, Cooperstown FAMILY: Mom Jeannine, dad Gerald, sister Lauren, brother Adam.

EDUCATION: Cooperstown Central School, Deerfield Academy, Middlebury College.

Jane Clark’s Horses Often Vie At Games

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ane Forbes Clark of Cooperstown’s horse Celia, while not competing in London, was ranked 13th in the U.S. Equestrian Federation Olympic entries, and vied for an Olympic berth.

Miss Clark’s horses competed for team medalwinning performances at the 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Olympic Games, as well as show jumping horse at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and a four-in-hand team medal at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Spain among many others.

As a triathlete, Sarah Groff competes in what many consider the most grueling of Olympic sports. In London it will include a 1.5K swim through Hyde Park’s Serpentine Lake, a 43K bike ride past such landmarks as Buckingham Palace, and a 10K run through Hyde Park itself. These are images from the trials that brought the Cooperstown native to the London Olympics.

Training In Alps, Cooperstown Triathlete Due In London Aug. 4

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ne foggy morning during Hall of Fame weekend, 14year-old Sarah Groff got up and announced she was going to swim Otsego Lake.

“Her father and brother got in a boat for support, and we were going to meet her at Three Mile point,” said mom Jeannine Groff. “By the

time we got there, she had already passed it!

And without a compass. She probably swam an extra mile or two.”

Raised in Cooperstown, Sarah, now 30, is hoping to set a new record – and bring home The Gold – when she competes in the triathlon in the London Olympics. The event

begins at 4 a.m. (EDT) Friday, Aug. 4, and will be broadcast on NBC. She and 54 other women will dive into The Serpentine, the lake in London’s Hyde Park, for a 1.5kilometer swim, hop on their bikes for a 43K route that passes Buckingham Palace and other landmarks, and finish with a 10K run around the park. “That’s like swimming from Kingfisher Tower to Lakefront Park, riding around the lake and

then running to Milford,” said mom Jeannine.

In a Tuesday, July 24, e-mail from Switzerland, where she is completing a final round of training in the thin-aired Alps, Sarah was looking forward to the London route: “It’s flat, fast and very spectator friendly. It’s one of the few events you can see for free; we should have hundreds of thousands Please See GROFF, A6

Even The Impossible Is Possible, Olympics Taught Oneonta Rower Andrea Thies ‘Still Pinching’ Herself After Barcelona Experience

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Even with a husband, two children, volunteer work and working on a teaching degree, Oneonta’s Andrea Thies finds time for rowing.

By LIBBY CUDMORE

f you’d asked Andrea Thies what she wanted to be when she grew up, chances are she wouldn’t have told you, “Olympic athlete.” “I didn’t play sports before the eighth grade,” she said.

“If given the choice in gym class, I would go running alone instead of playing team activities.”

But fast-forward to 1992, where the former solitary runner was an alternate on the

Women’s Rowing Team at the Barcelona Games.

And four years later, Thies and her team placed eighth in the women’s quadruple scull at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The quad scull, as it’s commonly known, is four rowers with two oars each powering a shell.

“Reaching the Olympics was not my aim initially,” she said. “But it became a Please See THIES, A8

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oungsters on vacation don’t have access to school lunches, and strapped families seeking to feed their children have stripped cupboards bare in food pantries across Otsego County.

“People often ask if we slow down in the sumIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA mer months,” said Audrey Oneonta’s Sasha Sloth Murray, co-director of the peeks through the Cooperstown Food Pantry. racks at McLaughlin’s Department Store, “We do not.” She added, where she was shop“Families who depend on ping with her sister free or reduced meals at Onya during MSO’s school have children home recent Sidewalk Sales.

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The city properties include vacant land on Ravine Parkway and Lafayette Street, and one house each on East Street and Clark Street.

To view the complete brochure, follow the link at www.allotsego.com CUP TO ONEONTA: The Mayor’s Cup Trophy will be presented at 5 p.m.

Sunday, July 29, before the Outlaws-Hawkeyes game at Damaschke Field. State Sen. Jim Seward will present the trophy to Mayor Miller, as the Oneonta team won most of the games against its Cooperstown counterpart this season.

HISTORY LESSON: Former mayor David Brenner will discuss “In Old Oneonta,” volumes of local history by columnist Ed Moore, at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 29, a Summer Sunday program at the Swart-Wilcox House.

NO BURNING: Governor Cuomo has extended the state’s burn ban to Oct. 15.

TO HELP: For a complete lists of county food banks, follow the link on www.allotsego.com for the summer break,” with meals for school-age children up from 131 visits in February to 321 in August.

That’s not all, said Joyce Mason, director of food ministry at St. James Episcopal Church, Oneonta.

“More and more people are out of work, and with the food stamps being cut, people can’t stretch the money,” she said. “They’re using the food banks more.

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There’s just not enough to go around.”

“We gave out close to 250 food boxes last month,” said Evelyn Hopping, Salvation Army local commander.

Each food box is individually made depending on the size of the family, and can feed them for four days, although families are only eligible once a month. “In one day alone we made 27 boxes. It’s amazing to see the need,” said Hopping.

Murray, Mason and Hopping Mason are among food-pantry managers countywide who are making emergency appeals.

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Learning of the critical need, Bassett Hospital moved up the Aug. 1 start of its “CAN” drive to help local food pantries. Participating are, from left, Bassett’s Hillary LaDuke, Lynne Perkins, Amy Van Kampen and Lisa Manzer.

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UNY Oneonta’s Summer 2012 Go Green Institute gave youngsters a walk on the wild side Wednesday, July 18. Above Sophia Lesko of Cooperstown, Karli Himan of Mount Upton, Diana Corde of Sidney, and Tami LaPilusa and Miranda Vogel, both of Oneonta, hoist a scrim net out of the Susquehanna River in search of river pennies, silverfish, crawfish and other invertebrates. At right, Oneonta’s Suzanne Johnson examines a crawfish captured by Martha Modinger of Otego to see if it’s a local or invasive.

orty-seven percent of the signatures on petitions submitted by state Sen. Jim Seward’s Republican challenger have been challenged.

James Blake of Schenevus, who submitted petitions bearing 1,373 signatures to run against the Milford incumbent, said 652 of the signatures are being questioned. If the challenge is successful, that would leave 721 signatures, short of the 1,000 Blake needs to Jim Blake run in the Sept. 13 Republican primary in the 51st District.

By challenging the signatures, Blake said, Seward supporters are telling people who signed his petitions “you’re signatures are untrue. You’re liars. This could backfire in their face.”

However, Sheila Ross, who chairs the Republican County Committee, said the two challengers, Don Ertz of Monticello and Patty Moxley of Middlefield, are simply seeking to guarantee Blake “has achieved a place on the ballot honestly and fairly. Anyone who wants to be a lawmaker shouldn’t have a problem ensuring everyone goes by the law.”

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Good Luck, Bad Luck, Odds, But Human Spirit Can Carry The Day

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ife is so random.

Our friend Lyn Edinger, a retired executive and diplomat, told how, as a fledgling salesman for Chicago’s Extel Corp. out of Hong Kong, he slipped a brochure promoting the “fascimile machine” – the fledgling fax – under the locked door of the New China News Agency.

Somebody picked it up and looked at it. Reacting to the brochure, the agency placed what was then the largest order for fax machines on record, establishing young Lyn as The Guy Who Could Make Business With China Happen. A sterling career followed.

Lyn, of course, was too modest. A brainy fellow – Princeton, and his dad was Cherry Valley High School principal – he made his own good luck, winning a presidential commendation for his pluck when, as an aide at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, he rescued Americans trapped by the Tianan-

men Square revolt back in 1989.

But bad luck struck nonetheless.

Retired to a Burlington Flats farm, he was stricken with pancreatic cancer and 10 months later, handsome and hearty as he was, he was gone.

• And, then, just as we were contemplating allowing our teenagers to borrow the car to see “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Southside Mall cinemas, the news arrived – and shocked – from Aurora, Colo., 11 people killed and 59 wounded – now 12 and 58 – by a gunman spraying a movie theater with an assault rifle.

Wiseguy Bill O’Reilly intoned no lessons can be drawn – the shooter was simply insane. But after Gabby Giffords, Virginia Tech, Columbine and all the rest, you can’t discount the role guns play in mass murders. These atrocities aren’t committed with blackjacks or rolling pins.

Closer to home, would Cooperstown’s Anthony Pacherille be in prison now if he hadn’t had access to a gun?

No, this isn’t an argument for gun control. But just because we Americans are allowed to own guns, doesn’t mean we have to.

With 22 police officers in 6,000person Oneonta and 14, full- and parttime, in 1,000-person Cooperstown, there’s no need to own one.

We’re plenty policed.

If you don’t own a gun, don’t buy one. If you own one, get rid of it. If you must hold on to one, for the love of whatever, lock it up.

We can’t control luck, but we can improve our odds.

• And, then, Penn State.

After Louis Freeh’s report revealing that Joe Paterno, University President Graham Spanier, a vice president and the athletic director knew as far back as 1998

that Jerry Sandusky was molesting boys – 14 years before that was widely revealed – tough, caring, determined human beings have taken charge.

The Freeh Report discovered Spanier didn’t share what he knew with the university trustees, but when they learned only last year what was going on, they acted firmly, firing Paterno and Spanier, and bringing in the former FBI director to get to the bottom of the matter.

The much-maligned NCAA acted with equal firmness in recent days, fining Penn State $60 million and imposing harsh but necessary measures to ensure no coach, administrator or college president will ever blithefully turn a blind eye to evil. There’s a local lesson for us there as well.

• And then to the Hall of Fame Induction, to hear Ron Santo’s widow describe how her husband

accepted diabetes – and the loss of both his legs – as a call to action.

Remaining cheerful despite his infirmity, he raised $62 million to fight juvenile diabetes and took the crusade nationwide.

And then to Sarah Groff, Otsego County’s Olympian, who fought back from painful injury and, at age 30, after years of training and sacrifice, will be representing the U.S. – and her proud home county – on Saturday, Aug. 4, in the triathlon event at the London Games.

Yes, luck is good and luck is bad. Yes, we can improve our odds. But with examples like these: A truly resurgent Penn State and NCAA, moral and unblinking, and the example of individual heroism among and around us – from Lyn Edinger to Mark Emmert – we can accept that the world can be a better place, and we can play a role in making that happen.

LETTERS

Fast-Growing Hydrilla Weed New Threat To Upstate Lakes To the Editor The SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station reports a water chestnut was found growing in Otsego Lake again this year. That is at least the fourth time that water chestnuts have been found – and removed – from Otsego Lake. If only zebra mussels could be controlled so easily.

There is a new threat to our lakes and to our recre-

ation in them and to the value of our properties around them. This threat could potentially make water chestnut and zebra mussels look like minor irritants.

This threat regularly costs Floridians hundreds of millions of dollars per year to control so that they can use Florida’s lakes and rivers.

This threat, the aquatic plant Hydrilla, could potentially choke our lakes from their shorelines out to depths of feet or more.

Whither Center Street 17Hydrilla is now present in Light, And How Soon? Upstate New York. Hydrilla is growing in the Cayuga To the Editor: Lake inlet. If it moves from I see in the July 20 issue there into Cayuga Lake, it that two traffic lights are will spread from there to being made into four-way Seneca Lake, to Lake Onstops on Walnut Street in tario, and to the Erie Canal Oneonta due to St. Mary’s (which is in our backyard).

School closing 10 years ago.

It is not feasible to reDoes this mean we can move Hydrilla from Cayuga anxiously await the removal Lake or from Seneca Lake of the traffic light at Center once it enters those extenand Church streets in a desive waterbodies. We must cade because Center Street stop it in the Cayuga Inlet.

School is closing?

PAUL H. LORD LESLIE BAUER Cooperstown Oneonta

VICKI SANTO OTHER VOICES

Ron Santo Embraced Gift, Hardship Equally Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the address that Ron Santo’s widow, Vicki, delivered at the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Sunday, July 22.

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n 2001, Ron lost a leg, amputated because of the complications of diabetes. It had been a terrible fight. Ten operations in 10 months.

The next year, he had a sore on the other foot and was faced with a decision. After weighing the odds of a full recovery and no recurrence, he decided to go with a second amputation.

As the nurse was wheeling him into the operating room, I heard him telling the doctor that the timing was perfect for this operation because he could be back for opening day. That’s true.

Only Ron. That’s what was on his mind, getting ready to broadcast Cubs baseball on opening day.

He handled his diabetes with grace, dignity and a sense of humor. As he left for the ball park with the glucometer and insulin, we would joke about getting him an owner’s manual: In case any of the bionic parts were to break down, someone would be able to help him. ... Not only was Ron’s vision of color commentating to tell the listeners how a player thinks about different situations, but he related from the standpoint of being the world’s greatest Cub fan. He had no emotional filter. So when you listened, you heard and felt the joy or sadness of a real fan.

He loved the game and he loved the broadcast booth. He wasn’t going to

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Vicki Santo describes her husband’s joy in the face of infirmity.

let anything prevent him from broadcasting the season. That was Ron. He never said, Why me? He just moved on to the next challenge.

The last few years of his life, he had so many things wrong with him and so many different needs that every single thing that we take for granted, taking a shower or making a sandwich, required a lot of different moving parts,

but he did not complain and he did not want sympathy.

He believed he’d been chosen to go through these things so that he could deliver a message of perseverance, to inspire those with problems of all types and above all, he felt it was his job to try to find a cure for juvenile diabetes.

I assure you if Ron wanted something a certain way, it was going to be that way. He would not have stood up here today and bragged about what he has done to try to help others. So the one advantage to him not being here is in this case he can’t tell me what to say. So I’m going to brag just a little about him. You’ll never know all he did for others, and he did so very much in private.

In public, he raised more than $65 million for (juvenile diabetes research). He felt he had been put here for that reason. He felt it was his reason for still being here when the odds were so stacked against him the last decade of his life.

He embraced his gift and his hardship equally believing that one would not have mattered without the other.

He believed in his journey and he believed in his cause.

His journey has led him here to Cooperstown and his cause is finding a cure. He fought the good fight and though he’s no longer here, we must find a cure. Ron always believed in a season in which the Cubs could win.

He always believed the game was within reach. He also always believed we would find a cure.

ISSUE & DEBATE: TO FRACK OR NOT TO FRACK?

Father Of Fracking: Regulation Needed

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oing to see George Phydias Mitchell feels kind of like a pilgrimage. It was Mitchell who in the 1990s, as the wildcatting boss of Mitchell Energy & Development, pioneered the oil and gas drilling techniques now known as “fracking.”

So it was surprising to hear Mitchell say yesterday that he is in favor of more government regulation of fracking. “The administration is trying to tighten up controls,” he told me.

“I think It’s a good idea. They should have very strict controls. The Department of Energy should do it.”

Hydraulic fracturing has been around since roughly 1950. But it was Mitchell, drilling in the Barnett Shale near Dallas and Fort Worth, who figured out that fracking could work to break natural gas free from the

impermeable shale – this ultimately set in motion the boom in shale drilling that has spread across the country, and soon, the world.

So why does Mitchell think fracking needs to be George P. controlled? “Because if they don’t do it Mitchell right there could be trouble,” he says. There’s no excuse not to get it right. “There are good techniques to make it safe that should be followed properly,” he says. But, the smaller, independent drillers, “are wild.” “It’s tough to control these independents. If they do something wrong and dangerous, they should punish

them,” Mitchell says.

This should be grist for the antifracking forces who are paranoid that the process threatens groundwater.

Mitchell assures me that most drillers are entirely responsible in their drilling and fracking activities. All of them, he says, “know how to set up a proper well and do the proper technology.”

Mitchell dismisses any concern that the costs to drillers of abiding by a barrage of fracking regulations would be egregious. After all, any extra costs associated with best practices – assuming all producers follow them – would be passed on in the price of natural gas.

This is an excerpt of a profile on George P. Mitchell by Christopher Helman that may be viewed in full on www.forbes.com

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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

125 Years Ago

Since January 1st the officers of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company have been well aware that goods were being stolen from freight trains running to and from Oneonta. The losses grew in frequency as the thieves became bolder, until of late every few days something would turn up missing – now a barrel of flour, then some cheese, or a package of this, that or the other of the multitudinous variety of articles that come to or are sent from the freight depot at Oneonta. All told, a great many goods have been taken, but in spite of vigilant watchfulness on the part of those who knew of the stealing, the plunderers escaped detection until recently, when facts were brought to light which resulted in the arrest, late last week, of Albert Lawrence, Lavergne Doolittle, and Chas. Mann, brakemen, and George Burrhus, a conductor. On July 4, while at Schenevus, Deputy-sheriff Wolcott was approached by an intoxicated man from Oneonta, who told him confidentially, after borrowing a quarter of a dollar, that he knew the railroad company was being robbed and that he would put him on the track of the thieves. The information subsequently obtained from the man led to the issuing of a number of search warrants and to the discovery last Friday of a large amount of the plunder.

July 1887

80 Years Ago

“Buck” Ewing’s Mohawk Giants of Schenectady nosed out Company G Sunday, 9 to 8 in nine innings of spectacular baseball on the Neahwa Park diamond. By far the largest crowd of the season, estimated at over 900, attended the game. Oneonta outhit the famous colored club, 16 to 11, but loose playing in several innings enabled the visitors to push across several unearned

100 Years Ago

scoop and took command of the bar in the Klipnockie Restaurant at 18 Broad Street.

The brawler, Glenn H. Evans, 36, who has three previous convictions for barroom fighting and resisting arrest, slammed Sgt. Fawcett against the bar and severely injured the officer’s left hand according to Patrolman John L. Corsi. Corsi himself reported that he suffered a pulled muscle in his right arm while disarming Evans and placing him under control. Evans was behind the bar and had refused proprietor Thomas A. Cummings’ requests to leave, police said.

Evans is in the city jail on charges of second degree assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Evans, a plumber residing in Milford, formerly lived here and once created a ruction in Klipnockie Restaurant, during which he resisted arrest, kicking Patrolman H.R. Wenck in the groin. Evans has paid fines of $15, $25 and $50 for his three previous convictions.

July 1952

July 1912 runs. Each club committed four errors.

Rhem twirled fairly good for Oneonta, but five walks and faulty miscues placed him in hot water on several occasions. Wright for Schenectady was effective until the eighth inning when a barrage of Oneonta hits sent six runs across the plate. For Schenectady, Kinard’s drive to the right field fence in the second inning was the longest drive seen here in some time. He also collected a double and single for a perfect day at bat.

Assoli and Pondolfino led the local stickwork, each netting three hits in five trips.

July 1932

60 Years Ago

Two Oneonta policemen were injured Saturday night when called to oust a brawler who reportedly seized a heavy metal ice

40 Years Ago

Oneonta will have a third non-campus radio station, with “middle-of-the-road” music on 103.1 on the FM dial. Caleb Brackett received final Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval to operate an FM station transmitting from a tower on Franklin Mountain. The Franklin Mountain Broadcasting Corporation had filed the application in February. The call letters for the station are yet to be assigned. Plans call for the station to be on the air 16 hours a day.

Brackett said he hopes to have the station in operation by mid-October.

July 1972

30 Years Ago

Oneonta Fire Chief George McGurl wants a 29 percent pay increase to keep pace with the salary of the city’s new police chief. The council unanimously appointed John J. Donadio, 37, the New Hope, Penn-

sylvania police chief as the Oneonta police chief. He will start work Monday, August 9, and receive an annual salary of $26,500.

McGurl, who receives $20,592 a year, said he should receive the same pay as Donadio.

He noted the city had paid the two chiefs the same pay in past years. He will appeal this fall to the council when it prepares next year’s budget. Third Ward Alderman Ron Whalen, who headed the committee that screened and recommended the new police chief, said the chief’s salary was raised because the current one was significantly lower than what many candidates were receiving. “It was a very competitive market,” Whalen said.

July 1982

20 Years Ago

Lounge singing artist Tommy Joy grew up in Oneonta, attended Oneonta high school and recalls being inspired by a music class taught by Richard Picolla, now principal at Riverside Elementary School.

Joy’s parents, Dawn and Michael, still live in Oneonta. Tuesday, Joy will be a featured singer on the television show Entertainment Tonight and will sing “Feelings,” “What Kind of Fool Am I,” and “Here’s That Rainy Day.” “I’m the last of a dying breed,” Joy laments.

July 1992

10 Years Ago

A contract has been finalized between the city of Oneonta and the Foothills Performing Arts Center for the sale of the West Nesbitt Feed Mill. The Market Street property is slated as the site for construction of a $37 million center. “This will be the most significant project for our community,” Muller said Friday. The contract includes a clause which returns the property to the city if it is not completed within a certain time frame.

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Sarah Groff, Otsego County’s Olympian GROFF/From A1 of spectators watching the event.”

Sarah and fellow American Gwen Jorgenson were two of the first USA Team members placed; Sarah took seventh place in the qualifier, automatically winning a spot on the U.S. team. The American pair will compete against Britain’s Helen Jenkins, Australia’s Emma Snowsill and Canada’s Paula Findlay.

Growing up in Cooperstown, Sarah tried her hand at baton twirling, like her mother, and Cooperstown Youth Baseball, but it was on the CCS swim team – since there was no girls’ team, she swam with the boys – and in running cross-country that she found her true calling. She used her brother Adam’s bike to compete in her first triathlon at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.

At Middlebury College, Sarah, who graduated with high honors in her double major of conservation biology and studio art, was named to both the All-New England and All-American teams. She competed in several amateur triathlons and, unable to decide between swimming and running, she chose to do biking, swimming and running, and took up full-time training in 2004.

In 2010, a twice-broken sacrum sidelined her for the entire season, but she came back stronger than ever in 2011. A month before the Olympic qualifier, she took third place in the World Championship Series race in Kitzbühel, Austria, making her the first American woman to stand on that podium. Her 2011 performance earned her a third place finish in the World Championship Series, the best showing by an American athlete in the three-year history of the series.

Currently, she ranks 16th in the world, and writes about sports frequently for ESPN.com. She lives in

Hanover, N.H., but trains in Australia and Switzerland, aiming to “optimize our altitude training in the Alps” before heading to London on Aug. 1.

She also joins the ranks of Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb as the face of a hard-to-find trading card. When Topps released the 2012 Olympic card set, Sarah’s sold out almost immediately. “We have two now,” Jeannine said. “But when we first got on Amazon to order them, there weren’t any.”

But Sarah isn’t not taking any time off in the week be-

fore the big race. On Saturday, July 21, she completed the UITU Hamburg Race in third place, and in June, took seventh in Kitzbühel.

But that doesn’t mean her training isn’t fun. “On bike & van filled w/ cute Swiss guys drives by, one holding a chocolate croissant for me,” she wrote on her sgroffy Twitter feed on July 16. “Yep, I sped up.”

To keep her nerves calm before she hits Hyde Park, Sarah will engage in a little personal superstition – she never races with clean hair out of fear that her swim-

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 26-27, 2012 ming cap will slip off. And when the race is done, she’s treating herself to dinner.

“Treating myself entails surrounding myself with family and friends,” she said. “The food itself doesn’t much matter.

“I’m excited to race,” she added. “I’m excited to share this experience with my loved ones and with everyone back home.

And back home in Cooperstown, everyone is excited to get up early and watch. “She wants to go out as strong as she can,” said Jeannine. “She’ll go as fast as she can go.”

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Thies Continues To Row Competitively THIES/From Page 1 dream that taught me to think the impossible possible.”

Raised in Irvington, Thies arrived at Cornell having never heard of rowing as a sport, Thies was convinced to try out for the rowing team. In 1989, her senior year, her team was the first women’s rowing team in Cornell history to win the NCAA championship.

After being an alternate in 1992, she took a year off from her job as an environmental consultant to train for the Atlanta games. “Balancing a professional career and athletic training is near impossible,” she said. “It’s a full time job, grueling physical and mental training, eight hours per day, seven days per week.” She has a gold medal from the U.S Olympic Sports Festival in 1989 and a silver medal from the 1995 Pan-American Games in Argentina.

Thies was a rowing coach at Princeton from 1997 to

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2001 and is the rower pictured in the “This is Cooperstown” billboard. She founded CCS ‘ crew team.

Even with daughters Isabella and Sasha, husband, John Dudek, a Hartwick College chemistry professor, and volunteer work with Greater Plains Elementary, Thies continues to row competitively and recently returned from a race in Boston with former Cornell rowers.

“I have the fresh blisters to prove it!” she said, laughing and turning her hands

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She still has an oar from her Cornell days, as well as her Olympic jacket. “I don’t wear it very often, but it’s fun when I do,” she said.

“I wear it when I go into classrooms to talk, which I love doing.” She gives talks on her own Olympic experience, as well as women in sports to promote self-esteem in young girls.

Thies is currently finishing a teaching degree, taking classes at both Hartwick and SUNY Oneonta, and was a founding member of OWL. “There are times when I have to pinch myself,” she said. “I look at pictures and almost can’t believe I was there. Even though I didn’t win a medal, I was incredibly fortunate to have the desire, confidence and opportunity to pursue my dreams.”

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With its’ private 110 feet of direct lake frontage, this lovely home offers a perfect living situation. The outside is inviting with stone walls, garden area and brick courtyard leading to the main and mudroom doors. Cozy porches for each. The main hallway has a sitting area, closet space and a lovely open staircase. The living room has a vaulted ceiling, skylights, built-ins, a fieldstone fireplace and French doors to the large deck, perfect for sunset watching. The custom kitchen offers cherry Shaker cabinets, a center island with breakfast bar and utility sink, polished concrete counters and is fully applianced. The charming dining room is off the kitchen with French doors opening to the deck. The mudroom entrance offers Italian tiled floors, excellent closet space, a 3/4 bath, laundry area and sauna. The master suite wing is private with its own deck, dressing room with double closets and a second sink, as well as a full bath. The second floor has balcony sitting area, a full bath, and two bedrooms as well as a walk-in storage or study area. Maple floors down, Butternut floors up. The full basement houses 2+ car parking, wood storage, mechanics, as well as a playroom, 3/4 bath, bedroom and a full kitchen for guests. Wonderful attention to detail is obvious throughout this very special home. Lots of light, excellent hardware, fixtures, appliances, true divided light windows, solid doors and from everywhere – a view of the lake. There is a new dock for swimming and/or boats and a free standing two-car garage with pellet stove and openers is conveniently placed at the roadside. This outstanding home is currently being used as a weekly summer rental. Most furnishings remain. offered exclusively by Ashley-Connor realty $645,000.

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3000 square feet of remodeled space in a private enclave adjacent to Cooperstown’s famous Doubleday Field. This large open space is suitable for any number of business endeavors, retail, restaurant, daycare, office space, medical/dental. Completely updated with a new heating system, bathroom, flooring and wall and ceiling finishes. Additional second floor space is ready for renovation or can be used for storage. The taxes, exterior maintenance and insurance are shared by an association, making this one of the villages most economical buildings to own. Private off-street parking. Currently operating as a successful furniture/decorating store.

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new LIStInG - MLS#85185 - Richfield Springs, VILLA ISADORA, MLS#84404 - CUSTOM BUILT CONTEMPORARY 4 BEDROOM 3.5 BATH HOME on 35 ACRES! 8 miles to Cooperstown. Apt for income, outbuildings, ponds, Hobby Farm. $349,900 Call Brad Vohs @ (607) 434-9234 or Carol Olsen @ (607) 434-7436

MLS#83868 - LAKEFRONT PROPERTY ON OTSEGO LAKE w/4 bedrms & 1 bath. Cottage features upgraded & reinforced poured concrete foundation, lots of basement storage, NEWer roof (2007), & screened in porch. $269,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

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Restaurant, Bar and B&B on Rt. 20. Start your new business today! $725,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ (603) 247-0506

MLS#81213 - Unique building lots for your upstate home/retreat. Private runway to land your small airplane. Avoid the traffic & commute & land in your backyard. $495,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

MLS#85182 - Village Victorian Beauty totally renovated home. Would make a GREAT rental! Off street parking. $159,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ (607) 434-1061

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Completely renovated, w/LOTS OF NEW!! Spacious kitchen w/lots of Kings Craftsman cabinetry, & hardwood flrs throughout. Dry , HEATED basement w/workshop. $195,000 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

MLS#84305 - 2437 County Route 31 - Charming 3BR, 2 bath country home on lrg lot w/ renovated rms & systems. New metal roof, replacement windows, upgraded electric. DR, LR, eat-in kitchen, family rm & office. Freestanding workshop & barn/garage.

Owner financing available or rent to own. $132,500 Call Michelle Curran @ (518) 469-5603

MLS#85317 - Custom crafted Amish home on almost 8 acres, featuring 4 lrg bedrms, 2 baths, lrg kitchen & dining area w/lrg walk in pantry.

Lrg living rm, office, & master bedrm w/walk in closet & full bath on 1st flr. Upstairs, 3 lrg bedrms a full bath & den. Fenced in paddocks for horses, lrg barn, & 40x80 workshop w/overhead doors, running water, bathrm & heat. Owner is motivated & will entertain all reasonable offers. $349,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

new LIStInG - MLS#85252 - Private setting for quality country living. This rustic log cabin features a spacious open flr plan & ¾ wrap around deck, pool, walk out basement. Priced right at $149,900 Call Adam Karns @ (607) 244-9633

MLS#85315 - CENTENNIAL FARM MANOR in Gilbertsville. 12 Bedroom 1900’s home on 20 ac would make a great B & B! $975,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ (607) 434-1061

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An oversized attached, heated, 2 car garage and blacktop drive complete the package. $174,500. MLS#85448

Unique greek revival awaiting restoration, original woodwork, pine floors, 4 BRs, 2 baths, 6 acres, dairy barn, pole barn, more!! $135,000 #85337

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Cooperstown Village ComFort

(7622) Get ready to snap up this secluded 4BR/2+BA Dutch Colonial attuned to bay window with great valley view. Ideal accents include Fireplace w/woodstove, den and family room, finished walk-out basement, circular drive, home office, oak and pine flooring. Two-car garage, large view deck. A celebritystyle home! Well-maintained only 3 1/2 miles from C’town.

Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive. $329,000 46 Acres (7601) Mostly wooded with 2 building sites, underground electric and phone. 170’ drilled well, 1374’ road frontage with good access, sub-dividable. Possible owner finance.

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TERRIFIC INVESTMENT With a reduced price, this exceptional property consists of a 2000 sq. ft. Victorian home plus a completely renovated and fully furnished Carriage House with another 1800 sq. ft.

The Victorian has 3 large bedrooms, 5 baths plus a private suite with bath. The Carriage House has a large living room, fully outfitted kitchen with adjacent dining area. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, laundry, central air plus a large back yard are just some of the pluses w/ the Carriage House. This property is set up perfectly for a full investment property or a residence in one and income in the 2nd home. Just 10 miles north of Cooperstown, it is near Glimmerglass Opera, Glimmerglass State Park and brings with it swimming and boating privileges at Springfield Public Landing. A one of a kind listing. All deposits for unfulfilled weeks of lodging will be conveyed at closing to new owner. 2011 season income was approximately $30,000 for Dreams Park season. Listing # 84071. Listing Price: $199,000 Dave LaDuke Broker 435-2405; Mike Winslow Broker 435-0183; Tony Gambino 516-384-0095; Rob Lee 434-5177; Mike Swatling 435-6454; Joe Valette 437-5745; Laura Coleman 437-4881

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(7589) Partake of the delights in this superbly-kept 3-bedroom home. The many extras include formal dining room, hardwood flooring, Modern kitchen.

Garage, rocking-chair front porch. Near shops, lake, and golf course. Will capture your fancy! Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,000

MLS#84753 - FARMHOUSE w/contemporary addition on ALMOST 5 ACRES completely renovated w/LOTS OF NEW! OPEN flr plan, vaulted cathedral ceilings, french doors from MASTER SUITE to private balcony, updated kitchen w/GRANITE COUNTERTOPS, & bathrms w/MARBLE FLRS. All systems are NEW... roof, siding, well, water heater, furnace, plumbing & electric. $215,000 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

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Well-kept stone and millwork complete this unique country estate. delightful home just 2 1/2 miles from Cooperstown! brick building. Good income producer.

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