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This Week: 07-18-24

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 18, 2024 Front Page Class of 2024 Inductions Highlight Hall of Fame Weekend Gilbertsville Gearing Up for Hullabaloo Number Two Inside Mauer, Cooperstown Linked Since Long Before Induction Weekend Association’s Boat Parade Honors Scottie Baker, Otsego Lake Annual SQSPCA Golf Tourney Moves to Oneonta Country Club News Briefs News Briefs: July 18, 2024 Editorial Coming Together—United in Celebration Letters Malhotra: Judges Should Remain Impartial Waterfield: HAB Identified in Otsego Lake…

Happenin’ Otsego: 07-19-24

LIBRARY—Noon. “Interactive Reptile Program.” Presented by RepCo Wildlife Encounters interpreters. Petting allowed. Strawberry Hall, Worcester-Schenevus Library, 170 Main Street, Worcester. (607) 397-7309 or visit https://www.facebook.com/WorcesterSchenevus/…

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Class of 2024 Inductions Highlight Hall of Fame Weekend

The Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held Sunday, July 21 at 1:30 p.m. on the grounds of the Clark Sports Center, located one mile south of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Leyland was elected by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for Managers, Executives and Umpires in December, and a month later Beltré, Helton and Mauer earned election via the annual Baseball Writers’ Association of America vote.…

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Gilbertsville Gearing Up for Hullabaloo Number Two

Approximately 30 vendors will be selling their wares at Hullabaloo, many of them homemade, home-grown or home-produced. Browsers and shoppers will find foraged mushrooms, eggs, sourdough maple syrup, blown glass, local cider, jewelry, candles, soaps, fresh vegetables, locally grown beef, pottery, crystals, flowers, and more.…

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Mauer, Cooperstown Linked Since Long Before Induction Weekend

The 2001 June Draft is more or less where my Mauer story begins, though technically it starts five months earlier. After a year working for the Hall of Fame, and with the help of future Hall President Jeff Idelson, I was literally in my first day as an intern in the Twins’ media relations department when former Twins center fielder Kirby Puckett and former Twin and St. Paul native Dave Winfield both were elected to Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers’…

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Editorial: Coming Together—United in Celebration

Congratulations to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, just 15 years short of its 100th Induction, from “The Freeman’s Journal,” which has been around for all those ceremonies. Please be safe, friendly, thoughtful and polite, everyone, as you navigate through the widely diverse crowd of visitors, all of whom are entirely focused on celebrating the achievements of the four inductees.…

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Malhotra: Judges Should Remain Impartial

Judges who passed that law of the land with a majority of six were appointed by the conservative presidents. Though they should be impartial to the ideology of who nominated them, they were not. In this case, all six of them were representing the presidents who nominated them in the first place.…

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