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Groff Daughter Wins Berth For 2016 Triathlon In Rio

Groff Daughter Wins Berth For 2016 Triathlon In Rio Cooperstown Olympian Sarah Groff – now Sarah True – and her London Games teammate Gwen Jorgensen today became the first U.S. triathletes to make the 2016 Olympic team with fourth- and first-place finishes respectively at the ITU World Olympic Qualification Event in Rio de Janeiro. Next summer’s Games will also be in Rio, and True and Jorgensen will be looking to become the second and third Americans to win an Olympic…

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GOP Challenging Signature Of Voter With Cerebral Palsy

GOP Challenging Signature Of Voter With Cerebral Palsy Democratic Chair Asks Rick Hulse To Withdraw Lawsuit By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Since he has Cerebral Palsy, Patrick Dewey is unable to sign his name: Instead, he uses a rubber stamp with his “mark” above it. That’s not good enough for the county Republican Committee, according to Democratic Committee chair Richard Abbate of Cooperstown. In a lawsuit challenging the petitions of Democratic candidate Andrew Marietta, who is running against Republican county…

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OPERA WEEKEND ARRIVES

OPERA WEEKEND ARRIVES ‘Flute,’ ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Cato,’ ‘Candide’ Performed Lakeside This is one of two summer weekends when all four of the Glimmerglass Festival’s productions are performed in the Alice Busch Opera Theatre on Otsego Lake.  Below are reviews of this year’s productions by Pat Thorpe for The Freeman’s Journal (Cooperstown’s newspaper) and Hometown Oneonta, allotsego.com’s sister publications. New Mozart ‘Flute’ ‘Completely Magical’ Big Choruses Bolster Leads In ‘Macbeth’ ‘Cato’ Buoys Reputation For Baroque ‘Candide’ Overcomes ‘Relentless Tinkering’ Check for the SCHEDULE…

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DeLancey-Cooper House On Verge Of Being Sold, Donations Needed

DeLancey-Cooper House On Verge Of Being Sold, Donations Needed COOPERSTOWN – The Friends of the DeLancey-Cooper House in Mamaroneck have only two weeks to raise the final $500,000 of $2.5 million needed to acquire and preserve the property where James Fenimore Cooper was provoked into writing his first novel, “Precaution.” “I’m afraid we don’t have good news,” Carol Akin of Mamaroneck, who summers on Otsego Lake, in an e-mail to people who have supported the drive. She said a major…