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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, March 28, 2013
Volume 205, No. 13
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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HIGHWAY CHIEF PREDICTS
Bridge Out Until ’14
Tall Truck Rams Into Low Span; Rte. 11C Closed By JIM KEVLIN
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Adam Powers, Cooperstown, joins the eggrolling competition on the Cooperstown/Charlotte Valley RR’s Easter Bunny Train Sunday, March 23. More Easter happenings/BEST
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Budget Plan Ups Revenue By $250,000
Jess Mackey pours a glass of Iron Throne Ale, the first of Ommegang’s four planned “Game of Thrones” beers.
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public hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, on a 2013-14 budget that includes $250,000 in new revenues, equivalent to an 8.8 percent increase in the tax levy. Most of the new revenues, however, come from expanding paid parking onto Main and Pioneers streets, a $25-permit parking system, and hand-held devices for parking officers. The Village Board still plans to increase the tax levy by the permitted 2 percent, and it is planning to adopt the local measure necessary if it wishes to increase the levy more than 2 percent. Review budget in toto at
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R.R. Martin’s series of books, “Song of Ice and Fire.” It follows hatever you members of seven choose to noble houses as they serve at your battle each other for “Game of Thrones” the Iron Throne, while premiere party, Iron defending their lands Throne Ale will taste just against mythical creaMelissa Meluc- tures and the threat of fine. “You can pair it with anything,” said Al- ci of Oneonta an impending winter. lison Capozza, Brewery samples the The show’s produccrisp, lemony ers, fans of Ommegang Ommegang publicity manager. “It’s very easy taste. beers, asked the to drink.” brewery last spring to The HBO hit show, which develop a series of beers as a tiebegins its third season Sunday, in product, a way to connect March 31, is based on George Please See ALE, A7 By LIBBY CUDMORE
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MEET DIRECTOR: Meet Virginia Kennedy, new Otsego Land Trust executive director, at a Cooperstown Chamber Business After Hours 5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the Land Trust office, Pioneer Alley. STUDYING COOPER: Papers on “Cooper at Sea” are sought by April 15 for the 19th International Cooper Conference July 8-13 at SUNY Oneonta.
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Ommegang Publicity Manager Allison Capozza shows off the distinctive bottle and glasses.
Church Rebuilt, Cindy Falk’s Work Is Done quake-proof “rubble houses.” Year two, 650 neighbors and volunteers, including the CGP professor and village trustee, started digging a new church’s foundation by hand in the hot Haitian sun. And earlier this month, Falk joined 650 neighbors and volunteers at Sunday service at the
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ear one, the Otsego County volunteers – Cindy Falk among them – cleared debris and began building earth-
rebuilt church in the City of Grand Goâve. “It was pretty fantastic to attend a church service with hundreds of people that lasted three hours,” said Falk on her return to Cooperstown. Ninety percent of the city 40 Please See HAITI, A2
or the next year, riders in 1,000plus vehicles a day – county workers at The Meadows, visitors to Ommegang Brewery and riders on Oneonta Public Transit – will be inconvenienced. But looking ahead, the cloud that settled on Route 11C between Routes 28 and 33 Wednesday, March 20, when a too-tall truck slammed into a too-low truss on the 150-foot bridge over the Susquehanna, has a The Freeman’s Journal silver lining. Under the For one thing, mangled truss, Cooperstown county Highway firefighters are Superintendent relieved: Three of Ron Tiderencel their fire engines double checks the spans length. were too big to pass under the truss of the 1932 iron span; that would have slowed response if any serious blaze had broken out on the river’s east side. The replacement will be like the recent Please See BRIDGE, A3
Terry ‘Blue Moon’ Bliss Atop AT’s Highest Peak
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n the Appalachian Trail since March 1, former county planning director Terry “Blue Moon” Bliss discovered at the end of one day’s hike that the journal he’s keeping had fallen out of his pocket. Three young hikers caught up with him, and he found they had picked up his journal. Regrettably, they had torn out the first eight pages to start a fire. As of Sunday, March 24, Terry was at Clingman’s Dome, Tennessee, at 6,655 feet the AT’s highest point, 237.2 miles into his 2,180-mile hike. He’s been updating his blog every Sunday. Follow the link from www.allotsego.com
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