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After Decades Breaking Otsego Lake Ice, HEAT!

After Decades Breaking Otsego Lake Ice, HEAT! Watch For ‘Bubba,’ ‘Darling Tug,’ This Spring By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – You may have noticed a tug boat, “Bubba,” parked in the snow between the Lakefront Hotel & Restaurant and the lighthouse. There’s a story behind it. Last April, as her family – beginning with grandfather Alfred Engelmann – has done for 63 years, Lakefront proprietor Paula Wikoff headed out in a 30-foot steel cutter – let’s call it “Blue” – to…