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Mantra Finds Bieritz Agency ‘Best’ Locally Edition: June 5, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN Bieritz Insurance Agency has received Mantra’s Best of Insurance Agency Award for Cooperstown, agency President Steve Bieritz announced. A web-based marketing firm, Mantra bases the award on client satisfaction, outstanding service, the agency’s marketing program and an overall rating of independent insurance agencies in and around the village. “We are proud to earn this award and look forward to continue being of service for the community in which we…

Anticipated Winslow Homers Here Exhibit At Fenimore Opens 6/6 Edition: June 5, 2014 by JIM KEVLIN And there it is, Winslow Homer’s “Watching the Breakers,” at eyeball level. On the walls surrounding it on the second floor of The Fenimore Art Museum, there resident Paul D’Ambrosio, who has had “Winslow Homer: The Nature of Rhythm and Life” in mind since his student days at the Cooperstown Graduate Program. That matters, because Homer’s career and artistic development can be traced through…

$11 Million Agri-Hub, Hotel, More In Works Edition of: June 6, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN City Hall’s plans for this round of state economic-development funding include a multi-phased concept to convert downtown Oneonta into an artisanal food and beverage hub, including a “very upscale” boutique hotel. The city is seeking $11 million grants over the next month to move the plans forward. “There’s an awful lot going on,” said Mayor Dick Miller. “It’s very exciting. Right now, the devil is in…

Cooperstown Explores Community Solar Plan Edition Date: June 5, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN   Talks have begun aimed at defining the Village of Cooperstown’s solar-energy future, which could range from panels on the 22 Main’s roof for municipal use to a solar farm that generates low-cost power for everyone. “It’s exciting. And it’s challenging,” said Trustee Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president and clean-energy advocate who is leading the conversation. He is also a member of the Village…

Book-Swap Mania Waxing Edition of: June 6, 2014 By LIBBY CUDMORE For book lovers, the first Monday of June at the Green Toad Book Store is even better than Black Friday. The line of customers anxious to get the best books first, wrapped from the front of 198 Main St. to past the Latte Lounge. And inside, owner Michelle Barry watched the clock, her hand ready to flip the Open/Closed sign. The clock hit 10 a.m., she opened the door…

Franklin Stage Will Again Be ‘A Beautiful Place’ Edition of: June 6, 2014 By LIBBY CUDMORE Remarkably, the Franklin Stage Company has survived 17 years on the kindness of strangers. There are no tickets. Audience members donate what they will. After each show, there’s a moment Carmela Marner, the Franklin Stage’s font of vitality, lives for. “We’ll get these envelopes that have been sealed and prepared before the show with just a few dollars in them and a note that…

CAA, Smithy Agree On United Management Wright, Raddatz New Board’s Leadership Edition of: June 6, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN Cooperstown’s two premier arts organizations – the Smithy Pioneer Gallery and Cooperstown Art Association – have announced the formation of an alliance “for the purpose of enhancing the experience of the arts” locally. According to the announcement, the two entities’ boards on Friday, May 30, voted to create a “corporate union” with a single board and executive director, but the Smithy and…

City of the Hills Edition Of: June 6, 2014 Summit Goal: Alignment Of Jobs, Studies An Education/Workforce Summit to look at aligning local colleges’ programs with jobs available in the region is planning 9 a.m.-noon Wednesday, June 18, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Hall. The program is planned by CORE,(Career Opportunities in Rural Education), a consortium of 20 businesses, school districts, colleges and state legislators. Those interested in attending should call Elizabeth Rickard at 286-7721, ext. 8421, or e-mail at erickard@milfordcentral.org by June…

Butterflies Replace Elephant On Glimmerglass Fest Lawn Edition: June 5, 2014 By Jim Kevlin ‘Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival Saturday, June 1. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him glide.…

Bearing Witness to D-Day Edition of: June 6, 2014 By JIM KEVLIN ‘An army marches on its stomach,” Napoleon said, and he must have known. In Bonaparte’s view, then, Alex Bauer, a 22-year-old Army cook – “I looked like I was 12”; he is now 92 – played as critical a role as anyone in the successful D-Day assault on June 6, 1944, and subsequent battles that drove the Germans back into their Fatherland and, on May 8, 1945, to…