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Heroin Kills ‘At Least’ 36 In ’16 No Authoritative Count Exists
‘...Your Friends Left You, And You Could’ve Died’
By LIBBY CUDMORE
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erry Knapp of Oneonta, one of four Otsego County coroners, said on Monday, Oct. 17, he had been called to 28 heroin deaths so far this year. Tuesday the 18th, he called back: It was now 29. “The number goes up every day,” he lamented. At least 36 people have died of heroin and Please See DEATHS, A7
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Mike Perrino receives the Clark Sports Center’s 2016 Fetterman Award for service to youth from Jane Forbes Clark at a Tuesday, Oct. 18, luncheon at The Otesaga. For a photo of all Fetterman winners, SEE A2
Parking Lot Work Begins At Museum COOPERSTOWN
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ork is underway on “a major renovation” to The Farmers’ Museum parking lot, to be partially complete by the Candlelight Evening Dec. 10, and finished up in the spring. The idea is to improve traffic flow and illlumination, and to add handicapped parking spaces. While the work is underway, visitors are asked to park across East Lake Road or on The Fenimore’s circular drive. DECADES OF BLISS: Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz and wife Karen were to mark their 30th wedding anniversary Wednesday, Oct. 19. SIGN OF SEASON: Cooperstown’s Halloween Parade is planned at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31. WATCH WATER: Village crews will be flushing fire hydrants between 5 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Oct. 24-28, which may cause low water pressure or discolored tap water. Any questions, call 547-5591.
For 208 Years
By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
Chief Covert tells of heroin’s toll.
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olice Chief Mike Covert thought he’d seen it all since
Sheriff Proposes Full Road Patrol By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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omeone is lurking outside the house, an elderly woman caller reported to the county Sheriff’s Department on a recent night. Two hours later, the deputies arrived. “That’s unacceptable,” said Undersheriff Cameron Allison, in telling the story Tuesday, Oct. 18, to the county Board of Representatives’ Public Safety committee, chaired by county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta. “These are urgent calls,
ENVIRONMENTALIST ZAGATA RECOUNTS WIDE-RANGING LIFE
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ike Zagata of West Davenport, the former DEC commissioner whose resume ranges from the National Audubon Society to Tenneco, has published a memoir, “A Journey Toward Environmental Stewardship.”
SEE EXCERPT, A4
Congress’ Chaplain Due Here National Figure Fills In For Pastor On Vacation By JIM KEVLIN
$½ Million Plan Includes 7 Hires, 4-Zone Coverage burglaries in progress, shots fired, domestic violence incidents,” added Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “Our response times are dismal, sometimes 12, 15 minutes. There are times where our cars have no back up, and these are calls that can’t wait.” But Devlin had a plan. He proposed to the committee that the county board consider investing a halfmillion a year into training seven new officers to increase road patrols. “In the last 20 years, calls are up 300 percent,” he said. “These statistics show a need, so last year we worked it into our strategic plan.” Please See PATROLS, A6
taking the lead in Otsego County’s fight against the heroin epidemic last Thanksgiving Day. Then in July, he was summoned to Lakefront Park, where a young man was Please See COVERT, A7
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Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. outlines plans for full-county road patrols to the county Public Safety Committee Tuesday, Oct. 18.
hen being considered for 60th chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, Father Patrick J. Conroy, S.J., became acquainted with Congressman Richard Father Pat Conroy Hanna, the former Cooperstown congressman then representing the Mohawk Valley. Learning the Jesuit was a baseball fan, the congressman invited him to the 2010 Induction of Andre Dawson and he experienced Cooperstown for the first time. A few years later, Please See CONROY, A3
Hartwick’s Prof Understood Dylan’s Prowess Tom Travisano reviews the Dylan selections included in “Postmodernisms, 1950Present.”
He Included New Nobelist In Poetry Anthology By JIM KEVLIN
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y 2012 – and probably well before – Tom Travisano and his collaborators on “The New Anthology of American Poetry” had concluded Bob Dylan was “one of the creative giants of the past half-century.” The introduction to the
Dylan selections in Volume III, “Postmodernism, 1950-Present,” was already reporting in 2012, “He is perhaps the only individual ever to win multiple Grammy Awards, an Academy Award (for “Things Have Changed”), a Pulitzer Prize (for his autobiography, “Chronicles”), and” – yes – “a Nobel Prize nomination for Please See DYLAN, A3
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