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The Fat Lady Cafe on Kauneonga Lake.
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Fat Lady Café is feeding Kauneonga fire
By CHARLIE BUTERBAUGH
KAUNEONGA LAKEAs with many Sullivan County hamlets, life is what you make of it in Kauneonga Lake.
Judith Maidenbaum knows that. Last May she opened The Fat Lady Café, which has since remained the only open business on this commercial cluster along Route 55.
But the people of Kauneonga are beginning to dream again, Maidenbaum said recently inside her lakefront restaurant.
I think the loss of hotels and summer crowds really discouraged the whole morale of the area, she said, referring to the economic depression that continued to plague Sullivan County until five or six years ago. But the Kauneonga people had faith.
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