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IN MEMORIAM: Susan S. Rodd, 72; She Co-Authored Book On Grieving

IN MEMORIAM:  Susan S. Rodd, 72; She Co-Authored Book On Grieving FLY CREEK – Susan Stickland Rodd, 72, who after her husband’s death in 1977 co-wrote “Beyond Loss: A Practical Guide Through Grief to Meaningful Life,” died peacefully in Cooperstown on Oct. 28, 2014.  She was 72.…

Oneonta Veterinarian Helped Amend State Law

Oneonta Veterinarian Helped Amend State Law ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, yesterday presented Dr. David Leahy of Community Veterinary Center in Oneonta with a pen certificate from the governor commemorating the signing of senate bill 2742B into law.  The legislation amends the state Veterinary Practice Act, clarifying that animal dentistry is a specialty included within the scope of veterinary medicine. “This new law languished for sometime in Albany until Dr. Leahy took up the cause and successfully advocated for its adoption,”…

Business Week Features Hager Hops

Business Week Features Hager Hops COOPERSTOWN – In this week’s edition, Business Week is featuring Hager Hops, the dirt-to-tap undertaking now being implemented by the Hager family, Anheuser-Busch heirs.  Here’s how it starts: “Strolling among rows of hops on a lush hillside in Cooperstown, N.Y., discussing soil quality and irrigation, Alicia and Louis Hager sound more like the farmers they’ve become than Busch beer royalty. The bines (that’s not a typo; these climbers are not vines) that produce the conelike…

‘Persepolis’ Author Satrapi Delivers Mills Lecture at SUNY

Author Satrapi’s ‘Persepolis’  Pierces Censorship, She Tells SUNY Audience By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA Seated comfortably between ferns and a slate-blue backdrop, Marjane Satrapi very quickly made herself at home chatting with Dr. Susan Bernardin. “English is not even my third language,” she said in a thick French accent by way of introduction.  “When I come to American for the first time, I learned English by watching a lot of movies, so I was saying the f-word a lot.  I…

‘Grassy Apron’ Posed For Doubleday Entry By JIM KEVLIN•The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 A “grassy apron” leading fans from Main Street to the doors of Doubleday Field, where asphalt is now. A extended walkway along Lakefront Park’s waterfront, and a pier extending 100 feet into James Fenimore Cooper’s Glimmerglass. An “iconic building” in the Delaware Otsego Corp. parking lot, facing east, luring tourists up Main Street. These were some of the concepts Elan Planning Founding Principal Lisa…