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Residents: Food, Staff Short On 4th Weekend Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal
Braydon Hascup of Cooperstown shows Sadie at the Parade of Champions at the 71st annual Junior Livestock/ MORE PHOTOS, A3
3 Democratic Hopefuls Due At Town Hall COOPERSTOWN
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ustainable Otsego is hosting Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado and other Democratic candidates in this November’s elections at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at a Town Hall meeting at Templeton Hall. Public welcome Also attending are Joyce St. George, running in the 51st state Senate District, and Chad McEvoy, running in the 101st Assembly District, which includes four Otsego County towns. Delgado will face U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook.
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Mark Petengill, third from left, Centers Healthcare’s Resident Council president, details the challenges of Saturday, June 30.
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wice in the days leading up to the Fourth of July, Centers Healthcare Administrator
Jeff Emhoff himself had to make a quick run to the Cooperstown Price Chopper: There wasn’t enough food at the nursing home to provide breakfast and lunch for the residents in the Rolling Hills and Mountain Ridge neighborhoods, people living there report.
“This isn’t the first time it’s happened,” said Mark Petengill, president of Centers’ Resident Council. “They bought chicken nuggets last Saturday (June 30) for lunch. And they had to do it this past Monday (July 2) too.” To make matters worse, that Sat-
Pope Meets James Fenimore Cooper, Thanks To Environmentalist DiPerna
RAPPER’S GETAWAY: The deteriorating Otsego Lake-side home of Peter Nash, aka Prime Minister By JIM KEVLIN Pete Nice, the first white rapper with a Top 10 hit, may COOPERSTOWN finally be auctioned off, at 10 a.m. Aug. 8 at the Otsego any years ago, as she underwent County Sheriff’s Department, her First Communion at Our Lady Town of Middlefield. The of Assumption Church in The house, on Peggs’ Bay, has Bronx, meeting the Pope was beyond Paula been abandoned for more DiPerna’s wildest dreams. than a decade. And yet, Friday, July 6, that dream came HALT INVASIVES: The true. Pope Francis “had this beaming, beaming OCCA, City of Oneonta, smile,” said DiPerna, interviewed by teleand the Catskill Regional phone that evening as she sat in the garden Invasive Species Partnerat the four-star Palazzo Cardinal Cesi, her ship (CRISP) are hosting an hotel around the corner from St. Peter’s Invasive Species Teach-In 11 Square. “The room was filled with extraora.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 14, in Oneonta’s Wilber Park. dinary power, respect and love. He greeted us all, one by one. We each had a chance to Free and open to public. say something to him.” She paused. “I would suppose it is a high point of my life.”
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urday there wasn’t enough staff to serve the food. “The kitchen rolled the cart up to the unit and dropped it off,” he said. “There was no foodservice staff, so the nurse and the aide had to serve and clean up.” Petengill described what hapPlease See RESIDENTS, A11
Presentations, County Native Vote Due On Finds A Home Otego School On Italy Trip By PARKER FISH OTEGO
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he future of the closed Otego Elementary School – and perhaps the fate of the village that hosts it – will be decided, perhaps as soon as Monday, July 30. Beginning at 5:30 that evening, the Unatego Central Vatican photo school board has asked each Pope Francis greets Paula DiPerna. of three prospective buyers to DiPerna, who maintains a Cooperstown give 15-minute presentations, home and has long been affiliated with then field questions for 15 Otsego County, running for Congress in minutes. 1992, has filled high-level environmental While it may not do so, the policy-making positions for decades, most school board could then vote recently as a visiting fellow at Hong Kong’s to decide who will buy the Please See DIPERNA, A9 Please See SCHOOL, A8
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hen Frank and Mary Ellen Antonucci planned their trip to San Marco Argentano in Italy’s Calabria region, Frank didn’t expect to find too much about his grandfather’s family. But what he found was his home. “I thought it would be fun to visit and say we were there,” he said. “I didn’t expect this.” In studying his family’s history, he knew that his grandfather, Pasquale AntoPlease See VISIT, A3
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Melissa Manikas, Agent Cooperstown, NY 13326 607-547-2886