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tick someone in the eye and ask them to do you a favor: I don’t think that’s the way to ask.
Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla Chair, Public Safety Committee
tee chairs, Public Safety & Legal Affairs, have invited XNG President
John Nahill to meet and see if residents’ concerns about 80 trucks going
back and forth through Otsego County daily can be rerouted to everyone’s satisfaction. “We would like to formally request that you consider alternate routing of your trucks to keep them on four-lane highways and out of our residential areas,” stated the letter, which is signed Please See XNG, A2
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XNG President John Nahill, right, and Direct Energy Business President John Schultz cut the ribbon on the Little Falls compression and distribution site on July 7, 2017.
12 TRIBES MAY SELL TO INVESTORS
Entrepreneur: Distillery Hub Of ‘Beverage Stroll’
ounty Rep. Meg Kennedy said she hopes to have an economicdevelopment and energy task force on the Tompkins County model up for a county board vote within a couple of months. Kennedy’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee hosted Tompkins’ Irene Weiser at its last meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 11. By LIBBY CUDMORE A local task force should consist of “people who want to reduce energy and people ONEONTA who know the demand,” Kennedy said. isiting her son in RELATED EDITORIAL, A4 Walla Walla, Wash., Johna Peachin VICE CHAIR IN AIR: noticed something unique Three Democrats – MacGuire about their Main Street. Benton, Andrew Stammel “They have 37 wineries and Richard Sternberg – will maintaining tasting rooms compete for vice chair of the on Main Street,” she said. “I democratic county committee thought, why not create an at the reorganization meeting Oneonta Beverage Stroll?” Thursday, Sept. 27, at CoopShe partnered with Ken ertown Village Hall. Aimee Wortz, one of the owners of Swan of Oneonta is expected to succeed Kim Muller as chair.
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Entrepreneurs associated with the Market Street Alliance may renovate the former Oneonta Ford Building, left, from the Twelve Tribes, derailing a long-awaited Food & Beverage Innovation Hub, right.
Kymar Distillery in Charlotteville, as a partner in Market Street Alliance LLC, a development company. The crown jewel of The
Stroll will be a redeveloped Oneonta Ford building, at Market and Chestnut, which Peachin’s group is in the process of purchasing from
After Final Gasp, Lakefront Diagonal-Parking Idea Dies
VISIT THE HALL: Community Day is 9-5 Saturday, Sept. 29, at 25 Main St. By PARKER FISH Hall of Famer Robert Alomar will be among the attractions, appearing at a special COOPERSTOWN “Voices of the Game” at 2 p.m. Tour the new Grandstand ower Pioneer Street Theater. Admission free for neighbors had seemed Otsego County residents. unanimous in opposing diagonal parking at Lakefront Park, but at the 11th hour, one was still
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the Twelve Tribes. “It’s restorable,” said Peachin. “It’s far more valuable than tearing it down.” Meanwhile, Peachin and
Wortz will begin conceptualizing The Stroll, which will include a distillery and Please See PEACHIN, A6
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unconvinced. Shortage Shuts Cooperstown Celia Oxley, 14 Pioneer, told the Village Board and attendees at a Monday, Sept. By LIBBY CUDMORE 24, public hearing on the matter, she didn’t like “to be COOPERSTOWN bullied.” “I’ve heard from a few n the 30-plus years Cindy Bissell has neighbors on the block, bemanaged the Cooperstown Diner, never cause I do not stand opposed once has she had to close for dinner Please See PARKING, A3
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Diner Evenings For 3 Weeks because there was no staff. Until this year. “We were down to five people, two cooks, two waitresses and a dishwasher,” she said. “It wasn’t enough to cover all the shifts.” Beginning around Labor Day Weekend until last week, worried patrons saw a sign Please See WORKERS, A7
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD