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Kirn’s Closes Doors On 60-Year Tradition

Kirn’s Closes Doors On 60-Year Tradition   Owner Don Hoag Joining Wife Rosie In Retirement, Puts Body Shop On Market By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Forty-one years after Edward Kirn began teaching Don Hoag the auto-body repair business, the venerable Kirn’s Body Shop closed its doors for good on Friday, the owner-operator announced this afternoon. Interviewed with his wife Rosemary, the founder’s daughter, by his side, Hoag gave three reasons: “The changing industry, and what it…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

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