Obama Stirred Excitement On Visiting Hall Of Fame In ’14 By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – The Friday before Thursday, May 22, 2014, then-mayor Jeff Katz was hanging out in the kitchen of his Chestnut Street home with son Robbie, who had just gotten home from SUNY Oswego, when the phone rang. It was Police Chief Mike Covert. With his son just having arrived, the mayor ignored it. The chief called “twice, three times… It had to be important for him…
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Obama Still Loves Groff’s ‘Fates, Furies’ COOPERSTOWN – Lauren Groff, Cooperstown’s best-selling novelist, is again on President Obama’s “must read” list for 2018 for “Fates & Furies,” according to an interview by New York Times’ book critic Michiko Kakutani. Groff’s short-story collection, “Florida,” this year was a National Book Award finalist, the second time for the daughter of Dr. Gerry and Jeannine Groff.…