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Volume 204, No. 2 Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, January 12, 2012 Newsstand Price $1

COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

2 Facing Charges Play CCS Basketball

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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Kurt Rotzler and Georgina McKay exchange a kiss after being declared man and wife in the first wedding at the Plains at Parish Homestead Friday, Jan. 6. (Details, B1)
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wo of the varsity football players facing hazing/bullying charges in Otsego Town Court later this month nonetheless took to the hardwood for the first time this season Monday, Jan. 9,

as members of the CCS Redskins varsity basketball team. The two seniors, Jeff Flynn and Derek Liner, are among five students who will answer charges Monday, Jan. 30, that they teabagged at least one member of the varsity football team in September, according to affidavits filed by two boys, one of them the Please See CCS, A9

STATE BOARD ISSUES RULING

Chief Nicols To Retire

Rowinski Shatters Deadlock
HoF 2012 CLASS IN PLACE

Lauren Groff To Inaugurate Arcadia Here

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auren Groff, author of the New York Times County Board Picks bestseller The Monsters of Templeton, will First Woman Chair, launch her second novel, Arcadia, in her hometown. Otegos Kathy Clark The daughter of Gerald and By JIM KEVLIN Jeannine Groff, she will be giving a reading and booksigning at 5 p.m. Saturday, COOPERSTOWN March 24, at Templeton Hall. Arcadia follows Bit Stone, oft-spoken county the first child to be born in Rep. Linda Rowinski, the late 1960s on an Upstate D-Oneonta, spoke, commune called Arcadia, and the course of the Otsego from childhood through the County Board of Represenyear 2018. tatives was changed. Two Republican war horsFRACKING BLOC: es who had been battling to Newly elected county Rep. become county board chair Pauline Korem, R-5, joined Don Lindberg of Worcesforces with anti-fracking ter, and Jim Powers of South Democrats on a resolution New Berlin were suddenly that passed the county board sidelined. And Kathy Clark, Wednesday, Jan. 4, supportentering her third term as ing Senator Sewards Home Republican county rep from Rule bill strengthening local Otego and Laurens, had been controls on gas drilling. given the prize. We were stunned. Kathy QUILT CALL: One-day Clark was stunned, said registration for the Fenimore county Rep. Kay StuligQuilt Show 2012 is 10 a.m.-3 ross, one of Rowinskis p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at 22 Democratic colleagues from Main. Exhibitors limited to Oneonta. Nobody knew it two items each. The show was coming. will be Feb. 11-26 at the In an interview a couple Cooperstown Art Association of days later at Oneonta galleries. Info at 547-2709 Abstract Corp. Rowinski or www.cooperstownart.com is the companys president the reluctant revolutionary said Democrats on the county board and Lindberg Please See BOARD, A6

At the Tuesday, Jan. 10, press conference to answer questions on his election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Barry Larkin poses with HoF Chairman Jane Forbes Clark and President Jeff Idelson.

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Cincinnati Star Larkin Joins Santo For Midwest Induction

By BRUCE MARKUSEN COOPERSTOWN

he Midwest will be well represented at this years Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Coming on the heels of Ron Santos election by the Golden Era committee in December, the Hall of Fame announced Monday, Jan. 2, that longtime Cincinnati

Reds star Barry Larkin has been elected to the Cooperstown shrine. Larkin will join Santo, a Chicago Cubs icon and a legend throughout the Midwest, in forming the Hall of Fames Class of 2012. Santo was elected posthumously on December 5, almost exactly one year after his passing. Larkin, who was widely regarded as the best shortstop of the 1990s, received 86.4 percent of the vote from the BasePlease See LARKIN, A9

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CCS Superintendent Hebert and school board chair Scalici discuss hazing/bullying at a recent meeting.
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Knee Hurt In Training 3 Years Ago

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

iana Nicols, village police chief since 2005, has received word from the state Retirement Board that she must retire within two weeks, ending a career that began 17 years ago with an impulsive response to a Oneonta Po- Chief Nicols lice Department help-wanted ad. The letter, dated Dec. 23, only arrived Friday, Jan. 6, and declared Nicols, who spent 11 years on the Cooperstown force, is permanently incapacitated for the performance of police duties and eligible for a pension. It has been 3 1/2 years and two operations since she twisted her knee during a self-defense training session and Nicols, who had anticipated a decision in the summer of 2010, reports receiving the letter with some surprise and emotion. Shed recently been put in touch with a knee surgeon associated with the New Please See NICOLS, A6