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TRAGEDY AT CCS

School Mourns As Leader Dies In ATV Crash

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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omething was wrong.

The 6 a.m. alert Monday, March 21, through the Cooperstown Central School District’s “School Messenger,” the automatic e-mail and telephone system, told students and parents school was cancelled, but gave no reason.

C.J. Hebert If the cause was water outage or a power break, why would teachers and staff be summoned to an 8 a.m. meeting at Sterling Auditorium?

As the hour approached, the school board waited in the library, some memJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Please See TRAGEDY, A7

Village Trustee Cindy Falk reviews a new sign, designed by Doreen DiNicola and installed in front of the Cooperstown General Store explaining the purpose of rain gardens installed last summer with a $650,000 state Environmental Facilities Corp. grant.

Contractors Pay To Park In New Law COOPERSTOWN

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he Village Board Monday, March 28, will consider a law that would charge contractors up to $45 a day, plus a $25 application fee, to park trucks and trailers in front of customers’ homes during the on-street paid-parking season.

Contractors would be charged $15 a day per vehicle up to three vehicles for up to seven days, when they could apply for an extension at no charge.

The public hearing on the law will be at 7 p.m.

SORTA HEALTHY: A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study found Otsego among the states 20 healthiest counties, barely.

It was Number 20. Saratoga was founded to be the state’s healthiest county.

At a vigil by the flagpole at Cooperstown Central School at 5 p.m. Monday, March 21, the day it was learned Superintendent of Schools C.J. Hebert had died in an ATV crash, Julian Robinson recounts how Hebert helped him settle into his new school when his family moved here three years ago/SLIDE SHOW AT WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

Accolades Universal For Fallen Superintendent

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.J. Hebert, 51, who experience controversies and successes during six years at Cooperstown Central School superintendent, died Sunday, March 20, 2016, near his home in Cobleskill from injuries received in an ATV accident.

The news was greeted with grief

and accolades from the community he served.

School Board President Theresa Russo and Vice President Mary Leonard, on returning from visiting Hebert’s grieving family Monday afternoon, remembered how he was chosen for the job from among 41 applicants.

They used words like “visionary,” “forward thinking,” “strong leader,” “unflappable” to describe what the school board saw in him then and since. “We got the best one,” Leonard concluded.

“It turned out even better than any of us would have thought,” Please See HEBERT, A7

CRASH CLOGS RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC

Hebert Services Planned For Sterling Auditorium COOPERSTOWN

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he funeral service for CCS Superintendent of Schools C.J. Hebert will be at 3 p.m.

Thursday, March 24, in Sterling Auditorium.

Calling hours were planned 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home.

Entrepreneurs Raised Devin Morgan

‘Grassroots Economic Development’ Is New Otsego Now Chair’s ‘Thing’ in Livonia, at the end of Canisius Lake.

His father, a Kodak COOPERSTOWN engineer, commuted to Rochester, but in his spare is mom was a time partnered with his special-ed teacher, wife. They added subs The Freeman’s Journal for a time, opened up but when Devin Devin Morgan Morgan was born, she space for a video store gave it up to raise him when that was the rage, and his two brothers – and bought and eventually built four apartments what became Morgan’s General Store Please See MORGAN, A6

By JIM KEVLIN

SNOWY SPRING: Spring officially arrived Sunday, March 20 – then snow flurries were seen on Monday. Highs in the 50s and rain are due for rest of the week.

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Cooperstown EMS Chief Eric Pierce helps carry a driver from the Friday, March 18, crash on Route 28 to a waiting ambulance/DETAILS, A3

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LOCALS

AT CRAYON CARNIVAL, COOPERSTOWN IS FILLED WITH COLOR

Holy Week Services Main Street Baptist Church 333 Main Street, Oneonta (corner of Main and Maple)

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Allison Butts, Cooperstown, gets made up like a Snow Queen as a final sequin is added to her cheek at the face-painting booth.

Good Friday 6:45 PM – Prelude

by Dr. Jonathan Sastic

“Were You There?”

Pastor Phil Livermore Communion Service

Easter Sunday 7 am – Sunrise Service at the home of Ken and Meg Zulkosky Bring your lawn chair

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The various wild animal pelts entrance Adeline Weinstock, 6, of Cooperstown, and Gabby Green, 2, of Fly Creek. The pelts were just one of the booths at Cooperstown Central School’s annual Crayon Carnival, held in the Bursey Gym on Saturday, March 20.

“Light that Shatters Darkness”

Pastor Gary Bonebrake Nursery Care Provided

What’s a carnival without cotton candy? Olivia Murdock isn’t about to find out.

No Crossing Service

Roddy Moore Named Bruce Buckley Scholar

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olklife historian Roddy Moore, ‘71, will return to the Cooperstown Graduate Program to deliver the annual Bruce Buckley Leacture at 7:30 on Thursday, April 7 at the Fenimore Art Museum.

Moore’s lecture, “Thuderbird Jewelry of the Santo Domingo Pueblo: Fact, Fiction and Folklore of a True American Folkart Form,” will discuss the collection he and his wife Sally began collecting in 2007.

Moore graduated from the CGP in 1971 with his degree in Folk Studies. He has

served as the direcvtor of the Blue Ridge Folk Institute since 1974, where he developed the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival and created oneof the country’s most comprehensive collections of Virginia Folk Music.

The Bruce Buckley Lectureship is named in honor of Dr. Bruce Buckley, the Roddy Moore former dean of the CGP

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Maundy Thursday: March 24 Holy Communion (representative foot washing and stripping altar) 7:15 am St. Matthew • 4:30 pm Hartwick College 12 pm Evangelical • 2 pm Atonement 5:30 pm St. John • 6:30 pm OCLP St. Matthew Seder Supper with Holy Communion for the parish (confirmands and communion class presence required)

Maundy Thursday, March 24, 7:30 pm Holy Eucharist with footwashing , Church. Followed

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Organ Concert by John Cannon, 7 pm, Church

Good Friday Worship: March 25 2 pm Atonement • 12 pm Evangelical • 4:30 pm Hartwick College Chapel • 5:30 pm St. John • 7 pm St. Matthew @ The Presbyterian Church

Good Friday, March 25, 3:00pm Solemn Liturgy, Church Good Friday, March 25, 5:30 pm Stations of the Cross

Holy Saturday, Vigil of Easter: March 26 7 pm Atonement Easter Sunday, Festival of the Resurrection: March 27 7:15 am Easter Sunrise Service, Lakefront Park, Cooperstown Easter Services at all churches—regular service times

Easter Vigil, Saturday, March 26, 7:30pm (Meet at Lych Gate on River Street)

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The Freeman’s Journal A-3 Anna Vanderkrake’s black Chevy rests against a Clark fence after it ran into the back of a car waiting to turn into a driveway on Route 28 south of Cooperstown, and veered off the east side of the roadway.

Idelson In Cuba For Obama Visit; Will Bring Back Artifacts For Hall

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CV Driver Ticketed After Rear-End Collision COOPERSTOWN

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Cherry Valley woman was ticketed with following too closely after crashing into a stopped car on Route 28 and veering off the road at 4:30 p.m.

Friday, March 18.

The accident blocked rush-hour traffic both ways for a half-hour.

According to the accident report from the county Sheriff’s Department, Jane Duel, Cooperstown, was stopped in the northbound lane of Route 28 with her left blinker on, waiting to for traffic to clear so she

could turn into her driveway.

Anna Vanderkrake was also driving in the northbound lane and looked down momentarily; when she looked up, she was unable to avoid hitting Duel’s vehicle, the accident report said.

The impact of the crash sent Vanderkrake’s vehicle off the east side of the road, up against a fence that demarcates Clark property. Duel’s car veered to the left into the shoulder.

Vanderkdrake was transported to Bassett Hospital with minor injuries, and ticketed for following too closely.

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Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson is in Cuba this week in connection with President Obama’s historic visit, and expects to bring back artifacts for the Hall’s collection. Yesterday, he attended the Cuban National Team’s workout at Estadio Latinoamericano and presented a Hall of Fame jersey, right photo, to Cuban center field Roel Santos. Last year, in left photo, Santos donated his jersey to the Hall after Cuba won its first victory in 55 years in the Caribbean Series. Tuesday afternoon, March 22, Idelson attended the game between the Cuban team and the Tampa Bay Rays.

Holy Week Services The “Red Door” Church (First United Presbyterian)

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Maundy Thursday: 7:30 pm Easter Breakfast: 8:30 to 9:15 am Easter Sunday Service: 10 am Main Street & Walling Avenue, Oneonta (across from Friendly’s) Church Office: 607-432-7520 The Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Walton-Leavitt

St. Mary’s Catholic Church 39 Walnut Street, Oneonta, New York

www.saintmarysoneonta.org • 607-432-3929

The Parishes of Saint Mary, Oneonta & Holy Cross, Morris Celebrate

Holy Week

The Sacred Paschal Triduum Holy Thursday, 24 March 2016

6:00 pm—Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper 11:00 pm—Night Prayer in the style of Taize

Good Friday, 25 March 2016

8:30 am—Morning Prayer 12:00 noon—Midday Prayer 1:00 pm-3:00 pm—Individual Confessions 4:00 pm—Celebration of the Lord’s Passion and Death 7:00 pm—Night Prayer in the style of Taize

Holy Saturday, 26 March 2016

8:30 am—Morning Prayer 12:00 noon—Midday Prayer and Blessing of Easter Foods

The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night, 26 March 2016

9:00pm—The Liturgies of Fire, Word, Baptism, and Eucharist

Easter Sunday:

The Resurrection of the Lord, 27 March 2016 8:30 am & 10:30 am—Eucharistic Liturgy and Renewal of Baptismal Promises

First United Methodist Church 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta 607-432-4102

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MAUNDY THURSDAY – MARCH 24 7 pm - Worship GOOD FRIDAY – MARCH 25 12:10 pm - Meditation with Word & Music 7 pm - Tenebrae Service EASTER SUNDAY – MARCH 27 8:30 am - Service with Communion 9:30-10:30 am - Easter Brunch 11 am - Resurrection Service with Communion visit us online at www.firstumc-oneonta.org

Perspectives

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016

EDITORIAL

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C.J. Hebert Solved Problems Today, But Kept Eye On Horizon

he Cooperstown Central School District wasn’t an easy ride for C.J. Hebert.

Think about it.

After he was hired as superintendent in March 2010, but before he took the job on July 1, one CCS student shot another that Good Friday in Cooper Park. In November, a culture of hazing was revealed on the football team, and whether that was linked to the earlier event was never really made clear, or at least made public.

The new superintendent soldiered through, eventually overseeing the implementation of the Dignity for All and Habitudes programs, the first aimed at building mutual respect; the second, character – in effect, the strength to do right when everyone else is looking the other way. It was an imperfect outcome, certainly, but a preferred one to criminal charges and ruined lives.

The proof of that pudding continues to be in the eating, but so far, so good.

Then, in 2013, the school board took the lead in walking away from the Redskins

mascot, and Hebert became the day-to-day implementer – Calmer in Chief, if you will – without becoming the target. While shifting to the less-offensive-to-some Hawkeyes was a logical outgrowth of Dignity for All and Habitudes, the PC-inspired dumping of a beloved mascot has torn a lot of communities apart.

There was disgruntlement in the CCS district, but that’s about it.

Then, in 2015, Common Core – CCS had been recognized as one of the most successful pioneers in the state – blew up in Hebert and the school board’s faces, when teachers, teacher/parents and the occasional actual parent revolted against a more rigorous regimen of accountability.

By the time it was over, the executive principal – a newly created position to drive the Common Core implementation – was out, and the board and Hebert had allied themselves to the former opponents, with everyone moving forward hand-in-hand. Kumbaya.

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And, by the way, C.J. Hebert liked kids, as his smile suggests as he observes a future student during the 2011 CCS graduation on the back lawn of The Fenimore Art Museum.

Each of these crises could have taken out your average superintendent, but C.J. wasn’t your average superintendent. He was brainy, he was determined, and, paradoxically, he was both self-confident and modest.

He had vision, and he got over the rough spots by keeping his eye on the horizon. He overcame challenges as he explored

opportunities.

It was that combination that allowed him to diffuse controversy, to dilute unhappiness in a larger sea of positivity – in a culture of accomplishment, of young people striving to excel, in classrooms and on sports fields, in music, drama or art, or simply in finding a comfortable place in life.

Beneath those pretty big

controversies was a quiet patter of improvement, of added AP courses, of collaboration with Milford, Schenevus, Cherry Valley and other school districts, of prudent fiscal management in hard times, and of the efficient, uneventful hum of education happening.

C.J. saw the big picture.

As the Upstate population continues to decline, school districts will have to be reorganized – that 21 districts that serve Otsego County spend more than $2.5 million annually on 21 superintendent salaries alone is just one indication. He was determined, when that inevitable day comes, that rural Otsego districts would logically and inevitably coalesce around Cooperstown Central, by no means a sure bet.

He also understood how good public schools require a strong local economy.

You would think all superintendents would understand that, but they don’t act as if they do. Hebert was at both Seward Summits on economic development, and was keenly interested

in innovations, collaborations and adaptive reuse of facilities to ensure this county would benefit from the Utica-based nanotechnology boom.

• So, today, after a random accident took him away too soon, his work undone, we mourn a smart man. We mourn a kind man, who was only as tough as he had to be, and never for the fun of it. We mourn a strategic mind and a confident step.

We’ve all met people successful, but sorely unhappy, in big jobs. Not C.J. A happy warrior, he. In reviewing his six short years at Cooperstown Central School, controversies that would have derailed many an executive were met and resolved, not perfectly, but sufficiently, and the focus returned to the greater challenge – happier pupils, greater accomplishment, a better world.

Going ever forward, C.J. would have been part of all that, but that isn’t to be. Life IS unfair. We can only say, farewell, friend.

And thanks.

RANDY VÉLEZ RUMINATIONS AT EASTER

Fear And Hatred? Or Faith And Reason Editor’s Note: Randy Vélez is a deacon at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church in Cooperstown.

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e have all used it to categorize individuals who are different religiously, politically, economically, physically, socially, culturally or in any other significant way. We refer to them as “those people.” When we think about them, we experience a strange paradox. We see them as inferior and at the same time, as a threat.

Many of the candidates who aspire to be president of the United States have taken full advantage of

this national paranoia, but Donald Trump has taken fear and hatred to an entirely new level. He exploits irrational fears, that have no basis in reality, with predictions of imminent doom. He offers himself as the savior, who would lead us out of his imagined wilderness.

Then he proposes “solutions” that are so extreme they would require nullification of major provisions of the Constitution, such as the immediate deportation of all (11-12 million) undocumented immigrants and the exclusion of all Muslims seeking entry into our country.

He favors torturing of prisoners, despite it being prohibited by all

civilized countries. He supports the unrestricted ownership and use of firearms, despite the gun-related atrocities that occur throughout our country, everyday.

He calls for tax reform that generally benefits the rich and he seeks to diminish government assistance to the poor, disabled and elderly. Mr. Trump would do all of this in the name of patriotism and the defense of Christianity.

Mr. Trump and his competitors purport themselves to be Christian.

In fact, this has become a litmus test for serious consideration as a Republican candidate. However, they equate being Christian with having been baptized and they are

intolerant of all who are not.

When Pope Francis, a true Christian leader, points out the inconsistencies between their concept of Christianity and that of Christ, Trump says that he is being manipulated by the Mexican government and what happens in the United States is none of his business. In that way, he dismisses the Pope’s serious concerns without having to address them.

When I inquired to the Presbyterian Church (USA) about Mr. Trump’s membership, which he often uses as a political credential, they responded: “It is a fact that Donald Trump was baptized in the Presbyterian

If You Don’t Know Joe, You Can’t Understand Donald

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big question about Donald Trump is how did they get it soooo wrong? The pundits. The party elite. The consultants. The editorial writers. The other candi-

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Plumber.

He’s the guy who dared to question Barrack Obama.

During a campaign stop in 2008. He questioned his tax policies. He told the candidate he wanted to start a plumbing business.

John McCain and Sarah Palin quickly made Joe the Plumber part of their campaign.

They did so because none of these guys knew a plumber. (Well, Sarah did.) And they don’t know any plumbers today. They don’t know electricians and bartenders and brickies.

They don’t know barbers and cops. They don’t know Army privates and machine operators. They don’t know truckers and waitresses.

Candidates want votes from these folks. So in every campaign they assault us with fakery. The candidate bowls a strike with a bowling club. Or raises a mug of suds with miners. Or drives a tank or tractor. Or eats a hot dawg with county fair-goers.

But once the cameras quit, they don’t know these folks. These voters. They

In recent years, Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher has been involved in Second Amendment causes.

don’t sit in saloons with them. They don’t party with them at the Elks’ Club. They are not off to the church chicken supper tonight. This goes for the candidates as much as for the pundits, consultants, commentators, etc.

Because they don’t really know such folks they did and do a lousy job predicting how they will vote. Because they don’t really listen to such folks they don’t know how angry many of Please See JOE, A6

Church (USA). According to the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, New York, Trump and his family used to worship there. He attended Sunday School and was confirmed there. However, there is no factual evidence that Trump currently holds membership in any PC(USA) congregation. The PC(USA) does not condone hatred for any part of God’s creation.”

Jesus, in his discourse on the Good Shepherd, said that he had other sheep that were not of this flock and that he would seek them out and unite them. And there would be one shepherd and one Please See VÉLEZ, A6

LETTERS

Signatures Needed To Place Teachout On Primary Ballot To the Editor: Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University professor who beat Governor Cuomo in Otsego County in the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial primary, is now running to replace our retiring U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19.

We registered Democrats now have the opportunity of signing a petition to place this remarkable Teachout on the ballot for the Primary Election, which will be June 28.

These petitions, however, will be collected on April 6 so that they can be properly reviewed. Therefore, if you wish to be one of those signers, now is the time to contact someone who has one of those forms.

You are invited to call me at 547-9725 and come to my home at 6 Pine Boulevard to sign it or to call James Dean, member of the Democratic Committee, at 435-0255 to have the petition brought to you.

Author of the thoroughly well-researched book, “Corruption in America,” (Harvard University Press), Teachout grew up on a farm in Vermont, one of a family of five children, and in 1993 graduated from Yale University and in 1999 received two advanced degrees, graduating summa cum laude from Duke University.

In the Catskills and elsewhere, she worked with community leaders against fracking. She also fights against Common Core curriculum and works to try to overturn Citizens United, maintaining that corporations aren’t people.

We are wonderfully fortunate to have a person of her caliber running for office as our congresswoman. I hope you will take a moment to do your part as a Democrat to see to it that her name is placed on our Primary ballot.

HILDA MADER WILCOX Cooperstown

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

One Thousand Dollars Reward – Ran away from the Subscriber, within a few years, his whole estate, consisting of houses, lands, &c. They gradually and almost imperceptibly stole away after being put in motion by the magic Art of Intemperance, who lived in the family. Any person, who will put me in possession of said estate, shall be entitled to the above reward. TOPER—N.B. All persons are cautioned to beware of said Intemperance, who as I am told, has established several places of rendezvous through the country, where numbers of the incautious are daily seduced.

March 28, 1816

25 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

The March meeting of the Presbyterian Brotherhood will be held in the Chapel Wednesday evening. The men will serve a buffet supper at 7 o’clock. Business and a social session will occupy the remainder of the evening. Manager Stone of the Otsego and Herkimer Railroad has promised to give an informal talk on some of his experiences in the Philippines during the evening and there will be music and a number of interesting views of the Yellowstone National Park thrown on the screen from the stereopticon. All men of the congregation are invited.

March 22, 1916

175 YEARS AGO

(Excerpts of an account of Christian martyrdom at Madagascar reprinted from The New York Observer quoting a letter from Rev. D. Jones from Tauanrive of July 20, 1840) “After my arrival at the capital, on the 3rd of July, I was told that near Haliarvo, on the eastern side of the town were sixteen of the native Christians, in bonds, awaiting their trial. It is said that two of them, a native and a woman, made their escape in the night, while the guards were asleep, and have not yet been retaken. The others were brought to trial and separately examined, each apart from the rest, but all stood firm as a rock. Of the fourteen, nine were condemned to death, and the ninth of July was fixed for their execution.

On the morning of that day the preparations for the dreadful scene were commenced by a tremendous roar of cannon, and thousands of soldiers appeared marching toward the parade ground. The firing of cannon was kept up at intervals all day. Between three and four o’clock, the Christians, each tied to a pole and quite naked, were born by men along the eastern side of the town to the place of execution. After a short interval a cannon was fired as a signal; the executioners approached and the nine were instantly speared to death, and their spirits fled to eternal glory.”

March 22, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

The “Civil Rights Bill” as it is called, which has passed both Houses of Congress, provides in part as follows – “Sec. 1: That all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to be entitled to full and equal benefit of all

75 YEARS AGO

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union met Friday afternoon. One of the main topics of discussion was legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Morris Sheppard as a national defense measure. The country is becoming aroused and demanding that the trainees in our military camps be defended from exploitation by liquor and vice.

A report was read from Texas where about 10,000 young people met and demanded dry laws. Among those attending were Mrs. Sarah Broxholm, Miss Cora Babcock, Mrs. Lera Pierce, Miss Susan Ellsworth, Mrs. J.E. Reynolds, and Mrs. Lewis Allen.

March 26, 1941 March 27, 1991 laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.”

March 23, 1866

125 YEARS AGO

At the Gymnasium, the ladies’ classes are instructed on the afternoon of Monday, Wednesday and Friday; gentlemen’s and boys’ classes on the evenings of those days. There are about 100 members at present. The running expenses of the gymnasium must be over $2,000 a year, and all beyond the comparatively small amount received for membership tickets is met by its founder. Those who feel themselves too old to exercise in this institution, or who do not care to do so, can benefit some worthy young person by the present of a ticket, and at the same time show appreciation of a public benefit conferred upon Cooperstown.

(Editor’s note: The Gymnasium referred to is the original Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium) March 27, 1891

50 YEARS AGO

The scheduled filming in Cooperstown this summer of the 20th Century Fox musical production “Bloomer Girl,” has been indefinitely postponed. Richard D. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox vice-president, said casting problems plus script difficulties led to the decision to delay the film.

“Bloomer Girl” will remain on the production schedule.

Shirley MacLaine had been signed to star in “Bloomer Girl” and Harry Belafonte was booked for a lead role.

March 23, 1966

10 YEARS AGO

Chris Gentile started swinging a tennis racquet when he was three years old. Recently, the CCS junior was selected

by Tourney Sport USA Inc. to represent the State of New York at a tennis tournament in Hawaii. “I went to see Dave Bertram, my coach. We decided it was a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Gentile said. Gentile is set to leave for Hawaii on July 23. (Ed. note: Tragically, shortly before graduation as a senior in 2007, Chris Gentile died in a one-car automobile accident).

March 24, 2006

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Trump Should Remember: ‘Those People’ Were Among Christ’s First Followers VÉLEZ/From A4 flock. While theologians can argue about what he meant, we should remember that those to whom he was speaking were ordinary folk. The meaning had to be clear to them as it should be to us.

Today, “diversity” is the popular term. In an earlier iteration, it is the motto of the United States of America, “E Pluribus Unum” (“One From Many”). There is

also a Christian analogy that dates back 2,000 years.

Jesus was a Jew and so were his first disciples. Those who came to know him later, through the efforts of Saint Paul and others, were pagans. And from these two diverse and often hostile groups, Christianity was born. It survived and continues to grow because our ancestors in faith often risked everything to proclaim Christ by

their example and to welcome “those people” into their community.

Mr. Trump should read in the Bible (his favorite book) the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the biographies of Jesus’ life on earth. He should read the Acts of the Apostles, which recounts how the first Christians lived and survived in the very hostile early days.

The more he reads, the sooner he should come to realize that those to whom Jesus and his first disciples offered his compassion, his healing, his mercy and his love were exactly like “those people.”

Being a Christian requires far more than simply being baptized.

As true disciples, we place Jesus’ teachings at the core of our lives.

By this standard, Mr. Trump is no Christian.

Otsego Now Chair Has Entrepreneurism In Veins MORGAN/From A1 into the complex.

“My heart has always been in small towns, in small business, in seeing what people can build locally,” Morgan, now 42 and an intellectual property lawyer, said in an interview the other day after his election as only the second chairman of Otsego Now, the “Hub for Economic Progress” that emerged in the past two years from the more traditional IDA. “Grassroots economic development is my thing.”

At the annual meeting in February, Morgan was elected to succeed Bob Hanft, Pierstown, the retired J.P. Morgan vice president, and also Joe Bernier, Oneonta, who chaired the IDA-related Capital Resources Corp.

Both Hanft and Bernier remain on the Otsego Now board.

Grassroots economic development is a piece of Otsego Now’s strategy, manifest in the food-hub initiative that aims to get locally grown produce to New York City’s market, but it also includes “shovel-ready sites” to attract new employers.

“My philosophy is a balanced approach,” said Morgan. “There’s no doubt we need outside investment.

But you need to combine that with what you’ve actually got.”

Graduating from Livonia Central in 1992, Morgan went on to Dartmouth, intending to study engineering and pursue a career in computer science. But a product-development class and an alumni’s guest lecture on patent litigation nudged him in another direction.

After graduating in 1996, he enrolled in the University of New Hampshire’s School of Law, emerging with a specialty in intellectual property. After interning with a Chicago law firm, he worked for two Washington D.C. firms with patent practices, which he described as explaining “cutting-edge technologies to bureaucratic government agencies.”

By 2006 he was in the Boston area as patent counsel for Seagate Technology, married to Cooperstown native Daphne Monie. In 2008, with son Finn, now 10, having arrived (a second son, Lachlan, 4, has since joined the family), the couple decided to move to Cooperstown. “We grew up in small towns,” the father explained. “We wanted our kids to grow up in small towns.”

Moving to Delaware Street, Daphne first taught biology at Cooperstown Central, then joined the Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program, where she

lab dedicated to testing the quality of hops, barley and other ingredients in beer making. Morgan wasn’t sure it could compete with Cornell, until learning Cornell wasn’t interested; it was otherwise focused.

Another piece of the niche-ing – the redevelopment of Oneonta’s Market Street into a “food hub,” with a boutique hotel, a craft-food-and-beverage focused restaurant, meetThe Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA ing and entertainment space Devin Morgan says comprehensive planning upat Foothills, and more – is dates Otsego Now is underwriting will help comalready underway. (It would munities decide what they want to be. Here, Lisa include a siding at the D&H Nagle of Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, faciliyards to move product in tates discussion in Cooperstown in October 2014, and out.) and is also working in Richfield Springs and, soon, “I envision (the hub) as in Oneonta. the showcase of the craft is now director of research tegic plan. Otsego Now has food and beverage tourism and an assistant professor. contracted with Fairweather industry,” he said, adding at Devin began developing Consulting, New Paltz, to another point, “We need to a law practice, and also lead the process. expand our product capacity dipped his toe into entrepreWhatever the outcome, as well.” neurship, founding Three Morgan will bring a focus, He also expressed enBlazes Innovation, providnot on everything, but on thusiasm for the compreing services to entrepreTHE thing which, for now, hensive plan revisions now neurs, and experimented with a $1 billion unmet need underway – Cooperstown’s, with Eat Drink Law, a blog in New York City alone, Richfield Springs’ and, for the craft food and bever- looks to him like the craft soon, Oneonta’s – in helpage industry. food and beverage sector. ing communities focus on In November, he also afWhen Morgan first got what they want, and on the filiated with Hoffman Warout of law school, every opportunities to benefit from nick LLC, a patent law firm place was “going to be the the Utica-area nanotechnolin Albany, which, he said, next biotech cluster. Evogy boom. allows him to take on the erybody can’t be the next “You’re never where additional responsibilities biotech cluster. For us, you want to be,” he said on the Otsego Now board, that’s the challenge,” he of economic development which he joined in October said. “We’ve got to ‘niche generally. “It’s always one 2014. it’ properly.” step ahead of you. If you As Morgan takes his first An example is Hartwick ever get there, the quessteps as chair, he will have College’s Center for Craft tion would be, How do you the assistance of a new stra- Food & Beverage, the only sustain it?”

It also calls into question the position being taken by the candidates running against him, to support him unconditionally should he be nominated. They want a Republican president so badly that they are willing to set aside the truth and their faith. They will say or do anything for our vote. They are hoping we will ignore the fundamental truths of our JudeoChristian heritage.

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By Getting To Know Joe JOE/From A4 them are.

These are important voters. Because many are on the blue-collar side of the Democrat Party. They’re not crazy about the intellectual side of the party.

The academics and social workers don’t do much for them. A lot of them jumped ship and voted for Ronald Reagan. They - the Reagan Democrats - helped elect him. A lot of them are voting for Trump.

Now Trump’s support is much broader than that. But if the pundit class had been slurpin’ suds with plumbers over the years they would have heard alarm bells.

Bells so loud they would have known the noise would resonate well beyond the plumbers.

But they don’t hang out with the low brows. They don’t hear them. They sip Sancerre with their fellows.

And hear only what their fellows think. Instead of what the Great Unwashed think. Most of them haven’t gripped a calloused hand in years. Unless they have a weight-lifting pal.

Novelist George Orwell wrote “Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton…” He was referring to the qualities of elite officers educated at Eton.

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If Trump wins this battle someone may declare it was won in the truck stops, greasy spoons, factory floors, saloons and county fairs of this country. The very places the media and political elite meet and greet during campaigns. The very places they avoid between elections.

Now I am not recommending these birds change their social habits. But in an election like this they should hang up their predicting boots. Because they’ve got no mud on those boots. And most of their predictions thus far have fizzled.

A few elections ago a network media gal in the Big Apple made a big announcement. She wailed that she could not understand how Reagan got elected. Because nobody she knew voted for him.

A few weeks ago I saw a similar comment from a female movie star. About The Donald. She does not know a single person who plans to vote for him.

Maybe she should attend one of her movies. And chat up the guy or gal who vacuums the popcorn between shows.

From Tom...as in Morgan.

Morgan, whose “Money Talk” column is syndicated nationally, lives in Franklin.

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tHURSDAY, March 24, 2016

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

CCS District Stunned By Sudden Tragedy

TRAGEDY/From A1 bers tearful, all melancholy.

Then School Board President Theresa Russo shared the sad and surprising news: C.J. Hebert, just 51, a strong man, 6-foot-4, would not be returning to his office down the hall.

Sunday afternoon, March 20, State Police from Troop B, Latham, reported, Hebert had departed his home near the Cobleskill-Richmondville line, for a “pleasure drive” on his ATV on the acreage around his farm.

At 3 a.m. Monday morning, search and rescue teams had spotted a lit rear light of the ATV and, a few minutes later, discovered Hebert’s body at a crash scene. A Schoharie County coroner was brought in and pronounced him dead at the scene.

Jim Kevlin, Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Retired CCS Elementary School principal Teresa Gorman, center, was among the mourners • at the vigil at 5 p.m. Monday, March 21, at the flagpole at the middle-high school entrance.

According to the official State Police press release, troopers were called to the Hebert home on Patrick Road, off the Warnerville Cutoff, Cobleskill, at 11:47 p.m. Sunday, “for a report of a subject who was overdue from an ATV outing.”

A search was organized that included troopers from the Cobleskill Barracks – the shift that was ending was held over, said Trooper Mark Cepiel, Troop G public information officer – state forest rangers, and the Schoharie County Search & Rescue Team.

Cepiel said a relative, presumably The flag at Main and Pioneer in downRescue vehicles left deep tracks in the dirt lane Hebert’s wife, Tammy, alerted autown Cooperstown was lowered to thorities when he didn’t come home. leading off Patrick Road near the RichmondvilleCobleskill town line. “Trail conditions were ‘mud- half-staff in remembrance of CCS Hebert was found, less than a Superintendent of Schools C.J. Hebert, dyish,’” said Troop G spokesman Trooper Mark half-mile from home. The trail who died in a four-wheeler accident on Cepiel, which may have helped turn “a pleasure Hebert had been riding on was Sunday In Schoharie County. muddy, and the accident occurred on drive” into a tragedy. an incline, said Cepiel. He had been task vehicles), plus three groundthe walking teams. teams to the site, the fire chief said. wearing a helmet. search teams, from Carlisle, Central After a few hours of searching, In Cooperstown, CCS board Pres• Bridge, Schoharie, Sharon Springs one of the walking teams ran across ident Russo was alerted by phone at Cobleskill Fire Chief Phil Slater, and Summit departments. some money on one of the trails, about 4 a.m. that the superintendent who organized the search, said he Deployed in the post-midnight which caused them to intensify the was missing. She called the school quickly realized his fire company darkness, the riding units systemati- focus on that vicinity, Slater said. board members and Mike Cring, the alone lacked sufficient equipment cally circled a network of trails in Suddenly, one of the rear lights middle-high school principal, and for the search. Through mutual the vicinity of the Hebert home, and of Hebert’s four-wheeler – still lit during that process was alerted to aid, he was able to assemble 14 divided the territory into grids for – was spotted, and drew the search Hebert’s passing. units on ATVs and UTVs (utility

By 6 a.m., the decision had been made to cancel classes.

The district’s Crisis Response Team met at 6:45 a.m. to plan the district’s actions and response. The response team is usually administrators, counselors, social workers and representatives of each department.

The CCS board’s vice president, Mary Leonard, who with Russo was interviewed Monday afternoon after returning from paying their respects to the Herbert family on Patrick Road, said she couldn’t remember the team assembling in a crisis in her nine years on the board.

At the 8 a.m. Sterling Auditorium assembly for faculty and staff, Russo described the “great sadness and shock” the school board felt at the news. She said counseling was available for the audience members, and that counselors were preparing age-appropriate messages for them to read to their classes when school resumed Tuesday morning.

“We’ll miss him very much,” said Leonard.

• Looking forward, Russo and Leonard said an interim superintendent will be named shortly.

With plans announced just last week to appoint Cring to the position of K-12 director of comprehensive student services, programs and athletics, both principal positions need to be filled.

The school board members said, since the search for an elementary principal is nearing completion, that process will move forward. Since the search for a new middle-high school principal is just beginning, its outcome will probably wait until a new superintendent is in place, they said.

Tuesday, the school board announced it would meet at 7:45 a.m.

Wednesday and Thursday, the 23rd and 24th. Their spokesman, Jake Palmatier, said the appointment of an interim superintendent will be made “sooner rather than later.”

C.J. Hebert Rose Quickly From Teacher, To Principal, To Superintendent HEBERT/From Page A1 said Dr. David Borgstrom, who was board president for most of Hebert’s tenure before moving, last year, from Bassett Hospital to the West Virginia University Health Science Center.

“We had some controversial issues come up. We had negotiations with the teachers. We had Common Core come in,” Borgstrom said.

“And every step along the way, he was thoughtful, he was pragmatic.

He had the ability to work with everyone so we came to consensus about what we were going to do as a board.”

And, he liked his students, as they testified at a vigil at 5 p.m.

Monday at the flagpole at the middle-high school entrance – 200 people were there, young and old.

Scott Curtis, the senior the track star, remembered his “amazing smile.” “He united us through what he did while he was here,” the student said.

The subject of all this praise, Clifton Joseph Hebert III, was born on Dec. 6, 1964, to Clifton Joseph Hebert, Jr., who worked at nearby Fort Drum and Doreen Draper Hebert. C.J. was raised in Natural Bridge, near Watertown, and gradu-

ated from Carthage High School.

Inspired by an uncle, Roger Draper, he determined to become a teacher, earning his BA from SUNY Oswego and his M.S. in curriculum development from SUNY Albany.

C.J. began his career in education as an English teacher at Corinth High School, south of Lake George, where he met his future wife, Tammy, an English teacher.

In 1994, they married in Hopedale, Labrador.

Just in his early 30s, he quickly made his mark at Corinth, and when the high school principal retired unexpectedly, the school board wanted him in the job. They named a retired guidance counselor Nick Matino, an Hebert mentor, as interim principal, while he fasttracked credits for his principal’s accreditation.

In 2002, he crossed the Adirondack Northway to Hudson Falls, a high school twice the size, where he served until being called to Cooperstown to replace the retiring Mary Jo McPhail.

During the transition, he rented on Lake Street, while Tammy, also an administrator at that point, obtained an assistant superintendent position at Windham-Ashland-

“He was most at ease with a fishing pole in hand or on a hunt with his family and friends – especially with his son Cliff. The bond they had was forged in the woods, expanded through countless hours together, and now stands immortalized in their hearts.”

In addition to his parents, wife, Tammy Humphrey Hebert, and his son Clifton Joseph Hebert IV of Amsterdam, C.J. is also survived by his stepdaughter, Christina Dell, Celebration, Fla.; stepson Christopher McCloud and fiancé Heather Omaggio, Brooklyn; brothers James Hebert and wife Lori, North Granby, Conn., and Troy Hebert and wife Pam, Natural Bridge.

As an alternative to flowers, meJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal morial contributions may be made Attentive to community affairs, Hebert, second from right, to The Cooperstown Foundation for participates in a “charrette,” an exercise in community Excellence in Education (CFEE), planning, in October 2014. Across from him is CSS board c/o Cooperstown Central School, member Theresa Russo, now board president.

39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown, NY 13326; C.J. Hebert Memorial Jewett Central School in Greene ship, civic responsibility, and unCounty. The couple bought a home wavering commitment to tasks both Scholarship, c/o Mrs. Schwab, Box 710, Hudson Falls, NY 12839; in Cobleskill, halfway between their big and small. He showed equal Corinth Dollars for Scholars, PO professional posts. measures of enthusiasm, cheering Box 1, Corinth, 12822.

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or Randy Miritello, bluegrass is a family tradition.

“I grew up around it,” he said. “My dad, Randy, was a banjo player, and I used to go with him to parties and festivals on the weekends.”

Miritello’s bands, the Horseshoe Lounge Playboys and the Hop City Hellcats, were both part of Foothills first annual Bluegrass

and America festival, held Friday-Saturday, March 19-20. The festival was headlined by recent Grammy winners The SteelDrivers. “It was a great weekend,” said Executive Director Bill Youngs. “Good music, good food, friendly people and a lot of dancing.”

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hen most people think of Woodstock, they think of Janis Joplin’s wail and Jimi Hendrix’s feedback-laden rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

But for Emily Conner, an art and education coordinator and master’s student at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, Woodstock was about the people. “I wanted to show what festival life was like,” she said.

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were hungry and dirty, YOU GO: they didn’t have a place IF Opening recepto sleep, but they pulled tion, “Three together. There were Peaceful Days,” no reported incidences 6:30-8 p.m., of violence, even with Friday, April 1, 500,000 people there.”

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AMERICANA ACADEMY: First of new series of hands-on Americana workshops, this one on “Balms and Salves.” 1-5 p.m. Saturday, March 26. Other workshops follow. Members $40; non-members $50; ages 12-16 $30. Materials included. Preregister at (607) 547-1461. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org/workshop.

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She also has pictures of the National Guard helicopter landing to bring food, water and emergency medical supplies to the three-day festival.

And though she knew the classic stories, there was still plenty to intrigue her. “In looking through the photographs, I was really surprised to see how many babies were there,” she said. “Wavy Gravy brought members of his Hog Farm commune to volunteer, and a lot of them brought their kids. Bethel Woods even had photos of a baby race!”

But photographs are just a piece of the exhibit.

Some of those 500,000 included funeral director and Cooperstown Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh and his future wife, Meg; Cooperstown’s Jim Howarth, Delaware Otsego Corp. vice president, and Gabriel Schecter of Cherry Valley, the baseball writer and former Hall of Fame researcher. They shared their oral histories as part of the museum’s interactive portion.

“Meg and Martin were there less than 24 hours,” Conner said. “Meg thought it would be a small camping trip, but when they got there, the rain had stopped performances, and by 2 a.m., they’d had enough and they left.”

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Howarth, then a SUNY Oneonta student, told a similar tale of an impulse trip to the concert, and although he also left after a day, having his motorcycle allowed him to weave through the miles of parked and abandoned cars leading to the festival gates.

But while the other three were hightailing it out of there, Schecter was loving the mud and the music. “The music was his thing,” said Conner. “There’s a photograph shot from the stage that ran in Life magazine, and you can see him right up front!”

Inspired by the “The Information Tree,” where attendees posted notes for lost friends and missed connections, Conner has set up a painted “tree” where visitors can write out their best concert memories to post.

On Saturday, April 2, Conner has planned a fullday of activities around the exhibit, including family mural painting, lectures by Schecter and Dr. Will Walker, music making, story-time and a scavenger hunt.

And at the end, Conner asks visitors whether or not they think Woodstock could happen again. “With all the technology, I don’t think that it would,” she said. “At Woodstock, people had the music and they had each other. I don’t know that people would interact the way they did back then.

“It was a one-off cultural event. It can’t ever be duplicated.”

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The festival was a hit, bringing 450 people into the venue’s 600-seat auditorium. “I was surprised at how many people stayed all day,” said Youngs. “We gave people wristbands so they could leave and come back between acts, but we

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Youngs hopes to expand the offerings into a three-day event, featuring workshops, lectures and vendors. “We could have a Gospel Bluegrass Brunch on Sunday,” he said. “Eventually, we want to be in every musical venue in the city, make it a real City of the Hills event.”

Now the go-to man for Oneonta’s bluegrass scene, Miritello got his first guitar at 19 and picked up the fiddle in his mid-20s.

“The music is about the common human struggle,” he said. “There’s a lot of songs about coal mining and labor, a lot of murder ballads. It’s a throwback to simpler times.”

Americana, as he plays with the Hop City Hellcats, is the broad category between Rock and Country.

“It draws from a lot of traditional melodies, but with a modern edge,” he said. “We might play a Bob Dylan tune, but we give it a twist.”

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singer-songwriters together, do rock/paper/scissors for who goes first, and then you just trade songs,” he said.

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with the Department of State on February 23, 2016. Its principal office is in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the Company is One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The purpose of the Company is to serve as a lead entity for the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program and any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. 6LegalApril14 Legal notice LUNDIN CHRISTMAS TREES LLC, Articles of Org. filed N.Y. Sec. of State (SSNY) 18th day of February, 2016.

Office in Otsego Co. at 12 Forster Street, Otego, New York 13825.

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of process to 12 Forster Street, Otego, New York 13825. Reg. Agt. upon whom process may be served: Spiegel & Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden Lane, NYC 10038 1 800 576-1100 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApril21 Legal notice Notice of Formation of ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MONETARY SERVICES, , LLC. Arts. Of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/9/15. Office Location: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process: Robert A. Gouldin, Esq., 93 Main Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 54 Lancaster Street, Cherry Valley, New York 13320.

Purposes: are to acquire, own, hold, improve, manage and operate real property, including the property located at 59 Elm Street, in the Village of Cooperstown, New York.

6LegalApril28 Legal notice SEELEYS ALL SEASON SERVICES LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/03/2016.

Office loc: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Mark Seeley, 129 Skyline Drive, Bainbridge, NY 13733. Reg Agent: Mark Seeley, 129 Skyline Drive, Bainbridge, NY 13733. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Saturday, March 26

DINNER THEATER -- 5 p.m. cocktails; 6:15 p.m. dinner 3-course surf & turf dinner, dancing, and show by Mary Frances Perricone and Judy Pitel. $29 per person. 6th Ward Athletic Club, 22 W. Broadway, Oneonta, Info, (607) 436-9136.

COFFEE HOUSE -- 7-9 p.m. (and every 4th Sat. of month).

Music in a range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments. Free, all welcome.

Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church, Church St., Schuyler Lake.

SUPPER CLUB -- 9 p.m. local band “Off the Record.”

B Side Ballroom & Supper Club, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta, Info, www.basideballroom.com

Sunday, March 27 Easter!

SUGARING OFF/EGG HUNT – 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. breakfast; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. activities; 1 p.m.

Egg Hunt. Final “Sugaring Off Sunday” featuring full breakfast, maple syrup demos, activities.

Also 1 p.m. Easter Egg Hunt: 1st heat (up to age 6), followed by 2nd heat (ages 7-12). Find the golden egg and get a season carousel pass, carousel tokens, candy. Admission to all events $9 ages 13 & up; $5 ages 7-12; free for 6 and under, includes breakfast. No reservations needed.

The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org

Monday.

March 28

LIBRARY ORIGAMI -- 9 a.m.-

p.m. Free “Make It Monday” program on Origami, Japanese art of paper folding. All ages.Free.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, www. hmloneonta.org

Tuesday, March 29

UKRANIAN EGG WORKSHOP -- 5 p.m (Tuesdays & Thursdays until April 21). Learn Ukranian “Pysanky” egg decoration. $10 supply donation. Basement of St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. To attend, email Fr. Vasil Dubee at fr.vasildubee85@gmail.com HISTORIC HOMEOWNER WORKSHOP -- 6-8 p.m. Is your house over 50 years old? In a historic district? You may be eligible for state Historic Homeowner Tax Credit to rehabilitate it.

Free public workshop. Hartwick Community Center, 3146 County Hwy. 11, Hartwick. To RSVP, call Otsego 2000 at (607) 547-8881 or email admin@otsego2000.org

Wednesday, March 30

OHS ROBOTICS FUNDRAISER -- 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Meal fundraiser for Oneonta High School’s awardwinning Robokronos robotics team. 15 percent of sales go to team; bring flyers posted around town for credit. Moe’s Southwest Grill, 5001 Rte. 23, Oneonta.

Info, www.robokronos.org CLIMATE CHANGE -- 7 p.m.

Talk on “Climate Change and Agriculture” by Robert L. Thompson, visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University. Free; all welcome.

Prelude to the museum’s annual agriculture conference in November, this year focusing on regional impacts of climate change.

Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80,

ONEONTA GARDENERS --- 7 p.m. Oneonta community gardeners organizational meeting. Topics include increasing community involvement in the City’s community gardens near the Swart-Wilcox House and improving the gardens’ productivity. All welcome. Frances E. Rowe House, 31 Maple St., Oneonta.

Info, kim.noling@gmail.com

Thursday, March 31

CHILDHOOD ANXIETY SYMPOSIUM -- 4:30-7 p.m. How local school nurses can help students struggling with anxiety. With Hilary Pope, LCSW-R of Morris and Edmeston central schools;

Q&A after. Complimentary buffet dinner. Champlin Lounge, SUNY Cobleskill. RSVP to Marcia Kozubek by March 23 at (607) 5477630 or email marcia.kozubek@ bassett.org.

UKRANIAN EGG WORKSHOP -- 5 p.m (Tuesdays & Thursdays until April 21). Learn Ukranian “Pysanky” egg decoration. $10 supply donation. Basement of St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. To attend, email Fr. Vasil Dubee at fr.vasildubee85@gmail.com WILDLIFE PROGRAM -- 7 p.m.

Learn all about fishers, from state DEC wildlife biologist Mike Clark. Free, all welcome. New Lisbon Town Hall, 908 CH 16, Garrattsville. Info, Butternut Valley Alliance, (607) 263-5425.

BLUEBIRD PROGRAM -- 7 p.m.

Otsego Land Trust hosts John Rogers, co-founder of NYS Bluebird Society. Free, all welcome.

Coffee & pie served. Richfield Springs Community Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs. Info, RSVP to Sara at (607) 547-2366 or sara@otsegolandtrust.org

drive. Appointments at www.RedCrossBlood.org, or 1-800-7332767, or call Clinical Lab office at (607) 547-3701. Walk-ins also welcome. Bassett Hall Auditorium, Bassett Medical Center (Beaver and Pioneer streets), Cooperstown.

CHICKEN & BISCUIT DINNER -- 4:30-7 p.m. Dinner with trimmings, homemade desserts; takeouts available. $10 adults; $5 kids. Benefits Jamaica mission to Pringle Home Orphanage.

First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info (607) 432-4286.

FENIMORE RECEPTION -- 5:30-7 p.m. Spring members’ reception; celebrate opening

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NOMINATION DEADLINE -- Last day to nominate local person or business for Otsego 2000’s 2015 Historic Preservation Awards for Otsego & Schoharie Counties. Info, nomination forms at www.otsego2000.org or (607) 547-8881.

BLOOD DRIVE -- 1:30-6:30 p.m. American Red Cross blood

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Otsego Dance Society hosts.

Music by Crooked Sixpence, of Ithaca. Ed Bugel will call. No partner or experience needed. All dances taught. Suggested donation $8 adults; $4 students and 18 & under; ages 12 & under free. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown.

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OBITUARIES Carl B. Good, 79, Retired Fae Chapman, 83; Taught CCS Sixth Grade, Kindergarten HARTWICK – Fae extraordisense of humor, determinason John C. Chapman IV Here From Princeton, N.J., Arlene Chapman (Murray), naire, action, and boundless energy.

(Sheri) of Port Charlotte, 83, a former Cooperstown complished Her quick wit, calming Florida; uncle Eddie Fox After Career In Business Elementary teacher, passed pianist presence, and words of wis- (Mary) of Ohio; aunt Elora COOPERSTOWN – Carl B. Good, 79, a businessman in Princeton, N.J., who moved here after his retirement, passed away quietly on Monday, March 14, at his home, with Pamela, his wife of 54 years, by his side.

He was born in 1937. A member of the Princeton University Class of 1959, Carl resided in Princeton for 36 years. He began his career at IBM, then was president of R.J. Newman, an historic building restoration company. Carl then joined Homasote Company in Trenton, designing and marketing industrial packaging made from recycled materials. He retired in 2002.

In Princeton, Carl and Pam raised their family and traveled widely. Carl was a member of the Board of Trustees of the professional Princeton Ballet Company.

On occasion he appeared on stage with the company; Carl astonished the audience and himself, gamely dancing a minuet in the annual performance of “The Nutcracker”.

Carl and Pam settled in Cooperstown, where Carl dedicated himself to the village and its natural resources. Carl served on the Board of Directors of the Otsego Lake Association and a number of committees to preserve the village and its environment. Carl was also active in the Rotary Club of Cooperstown and supported the club’s many activities.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Gretchen Good Pingel and Lisey Bennett Good, sons-in-law J. Spencer Pingel and Leonard Scott Snyderman, and his grandchildren Rory, Fritz and Sophie.

Donations in Carl’s memory may be made to the Otsego Lake Association, PO Box 13, Springfield Center, NY 13468, and the Rotary Club of Cooperstown, PO Box 993, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Plans for a memorial service will be announced later this spring.

Arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.

away March 16, 2016, at and home Bassett Hospital. builder.

Born Jan. 7, 1933, in Fae loved Jamestown, Fae was the all things elder daughter of Harry in nature; J. and Glenna H. Murray. birds and Fae received her bachelor’s Fae Chapman flowdegree in education from ers were SUNY Geneseo and spent her special delight and over 20 years teaching she enjoyed capturing the kindergarten and sixth grade beauty around her through at Cooperstown Central photography. She was esSchool before retiring. pecially keen on recording A resident of Hartwick the beauty she saw in cloud and Englewood, Fla, her formations. talents and interests were Loved by so many, Fae many. She was an avid will be remembered for her reader, gardener, pie maker undying devotion to family,

dom were a joy to all. Fae’s soft and gentle demeanor had a way of brightening even the darkest day. She was an elegant little lady with a spirit that was larger than life.

Fae is survived by her husband and best friend of 63 years, John C. Chapman III; sister, Sandra D. Murray of Pittsford; daughter Kathleen DesJardins (Bill) of South Burlington, Vermont; daughter Linda Levandowski of Cooperstown; daughter Patricia Blau (Thomas) of Cary, North Carolina;

Murray; 11 grandchildren: six great grandchildren: and several cousins.

Fae was preceded in death by a daughter, Michele Anne; her parents, Harry and Glenna Murray of Englewood, Florida; and a precious granddaughter Julia A. Levandowski of Cooperstown.

Fae’s final resting place will be in the Hartwick Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, Cooperstown.

George B. Snell, 92; Lawyer On NYSHA, Land Trust Boards

HYDE BAY – George Birge Snell of Haworth, 92, N.J., and Hyde Bay, a World War II veteran and retired lawyer, died on March 16, 2016, at home in Haworth.

Born in Herkimer in 1923, he was the fifth child of Katharine Kinne and Cornelius Harry Snell. He served in General Patton’s Army in North Africa and Europe during World War II. After graduating from Yale, Class of 1945, and from New York University Law School in 1952, he and James of West Winfield. practiced trusts and estates law at Turk, Marsh, Kelly He was predeceased by & Hoare; Bryan Cave; and daughters Yvonne, Bonnie McLaughlin & Stern. and Nanette.

He advised and served In addition to his wife and on the boards of the Manthree children, he is survived hattan Eye, Ear and Throat by three siblings, six grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, two great-greatgrandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

A funeral was Saturday, March 19, at Burlington Flats Baptist Church.

Hospital, the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, the Freeman Foundation, the New York State Historical Association, the Otsego George Snell Land Trust, and the SnellZimmerman-Timmerman

Reunion, among other community organizations.

He was also instrumental in preserving the scenic northern end of Otsego Lake.

He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Sigrid Leube Snell; and by two children, Andrea Snell of Ridgewood, N.J., and Dietrich Snell of Manhattan; and grandchildren. He is also survived by his sisters Cornelia Bensley

of Danville, Calif.; Katharine Sigety of Pipersville, Pa.; and Mary Martin of Stouffville, Ont., Canada.

He was predeceased by his brother Harry Snell and sister Julia Snell Wood.

Services will be private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Otsego Land Trust or the Herkimer County Historical Society.

Edward Ray, 81; Richfield Official WEST WINFIELD – Edward W. Ray, 81, retired Richfield Springs water superintendent, passed away on March 15, 2016.

He was born on April 13, 1934, in Gilbertsville, to Charles and Florence Ray. The fifth child of five brothers and six sisters, he was affectionately nicknamed “Brother” by friends and family.

He attended Richfield Springs Central School.

Ed served in the Korean War with Headquarters Company, 65th Battalion Combat Engineers, 25th Division, reaching the rank of staff sergeant.

On July 2, 1955, he married Virginia Wells on July 2, 1955, in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, West Winfield.

Ed was self-employed for 12 years as a machinist and tool maker before joining the Village of Richfield Springs.

He was also a member of the Lion’s Club and Golden Dragons (because he crossed the meridian).

Ed and Virginia were blessed with six children: Yvonne; Diane (Thomas) Mayne of Richfield Springs; Bonnie; Nanette (Robert) Jablonski of Cedarville; Kim (Dennis) Euler of Sprakers

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Saturday, April 2

HD OPERA – 12:55 p.m. Live HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” Foothills Production Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, tickets, www.foothillspac.org TEACHER FREE DAY -- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Pre K-12 educators admitted free with proof of educator status, at The Farmers’ and Fenimore Art museums, Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org or www. farmersmuseum.org FIRE DEPT. DINNER -- 4-8 p.m. (or until food runs out).Spaghetti dinner fundraiser, hosted

by Cooperstown Fire Dept.’s Emergency Squad. Takeout available; limited delivery ala carte to Bassett facilities in Cooperstown.

Cooperstown Fire House, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 544-4393.

Sunday, April 3

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by March 28. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, Bob Escher at (607) 432-6773.

Tuesday, April 5

OCCA HIKE– 10 a.m. Join Otsego County Conservation Association’s Jeff O’Handley and the Adirondack Mountain Club, Susquehanna Chapter, for a hike in R. Milton Hick State Forest.

Free. Meet at trailhead on Perry Hill Rd in Roseboom. To carpool with Adirondack Mountain Club, meet at Oneonta Price Chopper parking lot, Rte 7 at 9:15 a.m.

Dress for weather, bring water.

Pre-register at www.occainfo.org.

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UKRANIAN EGG WORKSHOP -- 5 p.m (Tuesdays & Thursdays until April 21). Learn Ukranian “Pysanky” egg decoration. $10 supply donation. Basement of St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. To attend, email Fr. Vasil Dubee at fr.vasildubee85@gmail.com

Thursday, April 7

UKRANIAN EGG WORKSHOP -- 5 p.m (Tuesdays & Thursdays until April 21). Learn Ukranian “Pysanky” egg decoration. $10 supply donation. Basement of St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. To attend, email Fr. Vasil Dubee at fr.vasildubee85@gmail.com

April 9 at 3 p.m.) Catskill Choral Society’s spring concert “Bach to Bach,” featuring two concertos by J.S. Bach. With Hartwick College Choir. Tickets $12-$22; under 12 free. Tickets at Artware, Green Earth and The Plains in Oneonta, and at Cooperstown Natural Foods. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, www. catskillchoralsociety.com or (607) 431-6060.

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SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER - 5 p.m. “G-Fest” fundraiser for Gary Johnson Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually to an OHS senior excelling in music. Local musicians entertain; raffles.

B Side Ballroom & Supper Club, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, www.bsideballroom.com THEATER -- 8 p.m. (also 8 p.m.

April 15, 16 & 2 p.m. April 10, 17). Neil Simon comedy “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.” $15 adults; $12 students/seniors; $10 under age 12 (some material may not be appropriate for under 13.)

Tickets at Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta, or call (607) 432-5407.

Foothills Production Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. foothillspac.org LADIES’ NIGHT -- 7 p.m.

Oneonta Theatre hosts tasteful male revue “50 Shades of Men.” VIP tickets include meet & greet before show. Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info, tickets www.oneontatheatre.com

Friday, April 8

LEAF CONTEST DEADLINE -- Last day to submit entries for LEAF Council’s 6th annual “True Colors” Art & Poetry contest.

Adult and “under 18” categories; $500 grand prize. For info, guidelines visit fb.com/LEAFartcontest or contact Carol Mandigo at leafartandpoetry@gmail.com or (607) 432-0090, x106.

THEATER -- 8 p.m. (also 8 p.m.

April 9, 15, 16 & 2 p.m. April 10, 17). Neil Simon comedy “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.” $15 adults; $12 students/seniors; $10 under age 12 (some material may not be appropriate for under 13.)

Tickets at Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta, or call (607) 432-5407.

Foothills Production Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. foothillspac.org

Saturday, April 9

EARTH DAY FESTIVAL -- 8 a.m.

Annual area Earth Day Festival at Milford Central School. Food, vendors, exhibits, family fun. Kids yoga exercises 2:30-3 p.m.; adult beginner’s yoga classes 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. (yoga re-registration preferred at (607) 547-4488.) All events free. MCS, 42 W Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 286-3349 CONCERT -- 3 p.m. Catskill Choral Society’s spring concert, “Bach to Bach,” featuring two concertos by J.S. Bach. With Hartwick College Choir. Tickets $12-$22; under age 12 free.

Tickets at Artware, Green Earth

items for disaster relief kits. Hosted by United Methodist Council on Relief. Seeking washcloths, toothbrushes, combs, band-aids, bottles, more. Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church, 66 Church St., Oneonta. Info, Angela at (607) 434-2435.

PAINT & SIP -- 1-3 p.m.

Orpheus Theatre Paint & Sip fundraiser. $25. Supplies and light snacks provided; cash bar.

Reservations requested. 6th Ward Athletic Club, W. Broadway, Oneonta. Info, www.orpheustheatre.org THEATER -- 2 p.m. (also 8 p.m.

April 15, 16 & 2 p.m. April 17).

Neil Simon comedy “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.” $15 adults; $12 students/seniors; $10 under age 12 (some material may not be appropriate for under 13.)

Tickets at Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta, or call (607) 432-5407.

Foothills Production Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. foothillspac.org

Tuesday, May 24

BUS TRIP – 8 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Day trip to historic City of Auburn sponsored by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Includes tour of Harriet Tubman House, Seward House, Willard Memorial Chapel, lunch at Springtime Inn and free time in Skaneateles. Depart Eastern Travel bus garage at 8 a.m., return 9:30 p.m. $100/person, lunch and all admissions included. Registration deadline, May 8. Info, register, call Bill or Marge Pietraface, (607) 432-1385.

Sunday, April 10

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$ 2015 ALTIMA 2.5 SV

per mo*

STK. C101402A, 20K, $17,698

186

big NISSAN Sign

PARTS

2012 SPORTAGE LX AWD

UP TO 100,000 MILES

WE WANT YOUR TRADE!

We will buy STK. C943370A, your car even 52K, $15,895 if we can’t per mo* make a deal.

197

$

per mo*

www.countryclubnissan.com by the

per mo*

STK. 941810, 2K, $13,995

$

55 Oneida Street, Oneonta

160

$

per mo

per mo*

HICLES USED VE CK IN STO E S TO CHOO FROM

per mo

STK. C100989A, 72K, $10,995

STK. 943360, 25K, $15,887

170

$

FACTORY CERTIFIED WARRANTIES

STK. 101325A, 72K, $9,478

132

per mo*

$

OV E R

FOR UP T O 72 M O S .

432-2800 M-Th 8-8; F 8-6; SERVICE Sat SALES:

800-388-3632 607

SALES

C in stock # denotes Certified Warranty. R in stock # denotes rental car. *indicates payments calculated with sfcu’s balloon payment. 07-08 up to 66 mos. @3.79%, 09-10 up to 72 mos. @3.79%, 11-12 up to 72 mos. @ 3.45%, 13 & newer up to 72 mos. @ 2.99%.

All payments based on $1,000 down or trade equity plus sales tax and DMV fees at delivery. To Tier 1 qualified buyers. Certain conditions may apply with approved credit. Not responsible for any typographical errors or omissions. See dealer for details.

8-5, SERVICE & PARTS: 8-1