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5 To Bid On Purchasing Cooperstown Motel Site
By Jim KeVLiN
COOPersTOWN
Five bids will be opened this week on the Cooperstown motel, at the southern gateway to the village, according to attor-
ney martin Tillapaugh, executor to the estate of albert K. O’Brien, the long-time owner who passed away last Oct. 23.
according to the lawyer, seven potential buyers came forward following the owners’ passing. The family set
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‘IBy Jim KeVLiN
t’s the toughest thing i’ve ever done – just ask Cindy,” state sen. Jim seward, r-milford – his life had been a whirlwind of constant activity since he was first elected in 1986 – said of his just-completed six weeks of enforced leisure as he re-
cuperated from a bladder cancer operation in april.
as of Tuesday, may 31, however, it’s over, as the senator was back on the job in his Oneonta office and planned to depart for albany that afternoon, where the last three weeks of the state senate’s current session were due to begin.
he put his toe back in the wa-
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REDCs Topic When Hochul Visits Village
COOPersTOWN
Her experience with regional economic Development Council’s – like our mohawk Valley region – will be the topic when Lt. gov. Kathy hochal speaks at the noon luncheon at a small Business/Workshop Development summit 10:30-3:30 Thursday, June 8, at The Otesaga.
Organized by the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, it includes panels through the afternoon. To register, call 432-4500.
PERMIT NEEDED: Parking permits are now required in downtown Cooperstown: $25 for first car, $15 for additional ones. available at Village Clerk’s Office, 22 main.
19TH FORUM: Candiddates seeking to succeed U.s rep. Chris gibson, r-19th, will meet at a Wednesday, June 8, forum at Foothills in Oneonta. republicans at 7 p.m.; Democrats at 8:30 p.m., sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Oneonta and Cooperstown.
By LiBBY CUDmOre
Kristin ratliff was recuperating at home after collapsing at a track meet a few days before. my date, scott Curtis, brought me flowers, and i got to see everyone’s photos, so that was fun,” she said. “i was just so relieved to be OK.” it turns out, though, the band will play on. “i missed having her there,” said her best friend, sylvia Johnson. so we rallied to throw her another one.” sylvia, with scott’s mom, alma Curtis, and other friends, have organized “Prom 2.0,” a second prom Please See PROM, A8
engineer’s idea growth Catalyst along route 28
By Jim KeVLiN
COOPersTOWN
Mayor Jeff Katz had been discussing how he’s noticed the state is more likely to fund local infrastructure projects – like new sewagetreatment plants; the Village of Cooperstown needs one – if they generally contribute to economic development in the neighborhood.
“how can we do infrastructure things that would actually abet growth?” he said, paraphrasing what he’d said at a special Village Board meeting Tuesday, may 31, with representatives of Delaware engineering, which has offices in Oneonta and albany. in response, John Brust, Delaware engineering vice president, rolled out “a big schematic” that had one such idea: a sewer
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GIBSON VALEDICTORY TO LOCAL ROTARIANS
Government
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Kristin Ratliff shows off her prom gown. With her are best friend Sylvia Johnson, left, and sister Julie.
The Freeman’s Journal Back at his desk
CCS Principal Names ‘Good Sports’ For Spring
Kate trosset, tennis; Chad Carr, varsity baseball, and Kaitlin Palmatier, varsity softball.
ON dEAN’S LiSt: Linda M. Kenison, daughter of Patrick and Irene Kenison, Hartwick, was named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2016 semester at Alfred University. She is a senior in the College of Liberal Art & Sciences.
WiNS $1,000: Jacob Miller, a junior with a major in biology from Cooperstown, was awarded
a $1,000 Joanne and Arthur Haberberger Scholarship at Lycoming College’s annual Honors Convocation held in April. He is the son of Michael and Lori Miller.
tWO ON dEANS: Alexa Bayes and Jack Donnelly, Cooperstown, were both named to the Winter 2016 Dean’s List at Elmira College, maintaining a GPA of 3.6 or higher.
COOPERSTOWN
When Laura Jane and Wayne Alexander opened The Village Cobbler 15 years ago off Chestnut Street, it was a different downtown.
At the time, the Chamber of Commerce was promoting the concept of a “Victorian village.”
In that context, the Americana tone of “Village Cobbler” made sense. Plus, the store’s inventory was almost exclusively shoes.
Since then, Village Cobbler has moved to upper Main Street, the proprietors have continued to evolve and adjust their inventory, adding women’s clothing and accessories, as well as a nook for men needing a tie or a dress shirt.
On opening for this season, the Alexanders decided a name change was necessary to reflect their changing store and changing village, and received permission from the Planning Board earlier this month for a new sign – LJ’s Sassy Boutique – which was put in place last week at 165 Main St.
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Laura Jane and Wayne Alexander’s new sign, “LJ’s Sassy Boutique,” has been installed at 165 Main St., but a “Village Cobbler” sign remains in place to signal continuity to customers.
Kyla McNally Kevlin was born at 11:06 p.m. Saturday, May 28, 2016, in Oakland, Calif., to John Courtney Kevlin and Megan Alyssa Burke. Kyla’s grandparents are Bill Robinson and Veronica Burke of Oakland, Kirstin Olson of Oakland, and Jim and Mary Joan Kevlin of Cooperstown.
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CCS Principal Mike Cring has announced his Good Sportsmanship Award winners for the spring term. Front row, from left, are Jade Brotherton, girls modified track; Owen Kennedy, varsity boys track; Mary Kennedy (Owen’s sister), girls varsity track, and ted Mebust, golf. Second row, from left, Chris Ubner, modified baseball; Jesse Furnari, JV baseball; Rebecca Marmorato, modified softball; Amanda Snyder, JV softball, thomas dygart, modified boys track. Winners not in the photo are
A TRADITION LIVES – REMEMBRANCE
Dr. Paul Russo nails the high note – “... the land of the FREE...” – in leading the gathering in the National Anthem.
Perspectives
Get Behind President Drugovich, And Let Hartwick Thrive
Everyone’s a hero in a rising market. So there have been no heroes by happenstance in small liberal arts colleges over the past 15 years (or in the newspaper industry, for that matter.)
Double that for Hartwick College, which was on the edge of bankruptcy when its former president (and later Oneonta mayor) Dick Miller was recruited in 2003. Miller was someone who understood budgets, and he knew how to talk to people – from students and faculty members to the wellwatered like Tom Golisano, whom he convinced to underwrite Hartwick’s last big capital venture, Golisano Hall. (Second-thought alert: Read on.)
confidence – by a majority at the April Faculty Senate meeting, but not a majority of the faculty as a whole.
• At the time, we wanted to write this editorial, praising Dr. Drugovich’s brains, scope (she is serving on a half-dozen boards of organizations charting the future of liberal arts colleges, so is plugged in to dealing with the future) and toughness. No hot-house rose here.
It looked like Margaret L. Drugovich, who succeeded Miller in 2008, was coming to a stable financial situation, but the housing crash and Great Recession found her laying off staff within her first few months, no way to cement the affections of the rank and file.
What it did show was Drugovich had the backbone to do what was necessary, and when the bottom fell out of freshman enrollment in the spring of 2015, she did it again, laying of 18 non-faculty staff members to close the gap.
The fallout of, frankly, a failure was predictable, and it continued to build, leading up to a vote of no
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To the Editor:
The reservation was that key factor, freshman enrollment: If it hadn’t turned around this year, that would have been trouble indeed for the Drugovich Administration.
Riding success is easy; it’s in occasional, inevitable failure that leaders show their mettle.
As hoped, and expected, Drugovich did turn it around. And sure-footedly, not by accident. As the 2015-16 school year was about to begin, Karen P. McGrath arrived on Oyaron Hill as vice president of enrollment management.
Previously, at Norwich University in Vermont, McGrath had cannily recognized the promise of Big Data, and used it to identify affinity groups – highachieving high-school students whose qualities matched those of students who succeeded at Norwich – and recruited them. Now, she’s done the same here.
tainly on the way there.
• In an interview after the Hartwick Board of Trustees offered her an eight-year contract – double the usual four – Drugovich erased that single reservation: Last year’s incoming class of 300 – a scary 100 less than the goal – has been raised to 373, a 24 percent increase. McGrath had delivered, applying brainpower and shoe leather: She had identified promising Hartwick prospects, and then her staff of six had called 20,000 of them last summer, inviting them to campus last fall. Despite the big improvement, Drugovich, herself a former enrollment VP at Ohio Wesleyan, hasn’t declared victory and gone home. The goal, she said, is about 410 freshmen a year – and Hartwick is cer-
• Except for the enrollment burp, Drugovich’s first eight years were, by any fair measure, a big success.
Back to the secondthought alert: Golisano Hall wasn’t the last big capital effort. This president captured the interest of Bill Campbell, former Intel board chair, and he donated $1 million toward the Campbell Fitness Center and related renovations.
Plus, Drugovich negotiated with Otsego Now for $30 million in bonding for new townhouses (see page A1) and dorm renovations, not a step taken by someone who isn’t supremely confident about Hartwick’s future.
Plus, the three-year bachelor’s degree, saving motivated undergrads many
Upper Floors Allowed To Be Vacant?
As I was walking down Dietz Street towards Main Street in Oneonta I looked up at all the empty windows on the second and third floors in the large buildings.
I asked a friend about it and she said the landlords aren’t doing anything about their spaces. She said that the town was thinking of applying for a “Main Street Revitalization” Grant for $10 million.
Now where do you think that money will come from? Us … the taxpayers. We have to give money to people who can’t come up with creative ways to use the spaces they own? It seems to me if they aren’t a vibrant part of the city, maybe they shouldn’t be able to own the building in the first place.
I see a lot of empty spaces around. Yet I hear: “Shovel-ready sites.” Build more, build big …
we aren’t controlling what we already have and people want to add more?
Instead of letting landlords just sit on their hands, they should turn the buildings over to people who have creative ideas and can create a vibrant economy through innovation. The concept of pouring money into projects supported by tax dollars from people who are just getting by has nothing to do with capitalism or supply and demand.
It’s that whole concept of pouring taxpayers’ money into projects and then maybe the economy will grow. The pattern is a big growth and change to the infrastructure and then after a while the company wanders off and the locals are left with the burdens.
Let’s be more creative.
R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest
To the Editor:
You obviously had a great deal of fun writing last week’s editorial in The Freeman’s Journal!
In doing so you seem to have omitted facts for the benefit of a good story.
The need for a contractor-parking law came about because:
1) business owners complained when three or four construction vehicles took up all the parking in front of their business, when the contractors were working at other businesses, not theirs.
(2) as contractor Glenn Falk noted at the public hearing, there were abuses of the system (parking with cones while eating lunch or dinner) and hospital employees parking on streets (Elm, Fair) with their personal truck, and putting out cones to avoid having to move their vehicle after two hours. There was no contracting work being done. Unfortunately, abuses and complaints led to the need to formalize the process for contractor parking.
Essentially there was no law on the books which gave contractors a free
thousands for that fourth year. Plus, expanding study abroad as a signature Hartwick offering. Plus, celebrating the product differentiation in the Pine Lake environmental campus.
Plus, developing the Center for Craft Food & Beverage, putting the college in the center of a promising new business sector seeking to serve what’s said to be a $1 billion shortfall in New York City demand.
And, now, devising –with the trustees – a number of new majors. Stay tuned, they are now on the desks of the state Regents.
• In their vote of no confidence, faculty members cited “low morale” – a code phrase for nothing more specific. Professors, please, put that on the shelf and get behind the president.
Her new contract guarantees that, in trying times, Hartwick will still be here, and its faculty still employed, in 2024. Reconvene the Faculty Senate and replace the previous vote with a resounding expression of confidence and hope.
All faculty members – well-paid, good bennies, sabbaticals, protected by tenure; their jobs rank Numero Uno in most surveys of best careers; (adjuncts are another matter) – should pause and reflect on their good fortunes and ask: Am I, individually, doing enough to become a star in my specialty?
As English prof Tom Travisano and sculptor (and
psychology professor) Stefanie Rocknak have shown, national reputations can indeed be built on a local foundation. It can be done, and it should be done routinely: To those whom much is given, yes, much should be expected.
• In her post-new-contract interview, Drugovich also reasserted her belief in the humanities, in a liberal arts education, a much-challenged orientation in the era of STEM.
Sure, college is too expensive, and graduates need jobs now, (in part, to pay those college loans). As those national challenges ease, though, the less specific, but no less real, value of a liberal arts degree will be recognized anew. For an example of that value, look no farther than across the valley, where the accomplished Paul Adamo, SUNY vice president for college advancement, has taken that college’s endowment over $50 million this year, a SUNY-wide record. How did he do it? He was an English major, he’ll tell you. It taught him to write. It taught him to speak. It taught him to think. Of course, many tell similar stories. Yes, even in this world where all knowledge is contained in a 4-by-6 inch screen, there’s immeasurable value in human curiosity, in human understanding, in human dedication to the greater good – in people like President Drugovich.
pass from either time limits or parking fees, so in essence they would have had to abide by two-hour parking limits and pay parking fees. The board wanted to legalize their ability to park overtime and without paying parking fees.
And while at least two contractors recommended a higher permit fee (than the $25 annually) and a higher fee for violation of the law (the law stipulates $75; contractors suggested $500), we stayed with the lower costs. Your editorial made it sound as though it was changed to $500.
In essence the only change to the law was the ability to save a space with a cone.
Not really that much of a change.
And oh, you printed the wrong vote. It was four for the law; one abstention; one nay. There were only six trustees present. May I assume you were counting your own vote?
Best,
ELLEN TILLAPAUGH
Village Trustee Cooperstown
To the Editor: We fully support the adaptive reuse of the Railroad Avenue buildings as a hotel.
The Village is land-locked and built-out, so the best way to grow the property tax base is up (literally) with commercial uses. What’s proposed sounds like it fits that need.
Owners Mike and Carol Manno ensured that the building was refurbished in top condition; Architect Sue Snell made sure that it is hysterically correct. The Village Board should approve the application and grant any waivers necessary to adaptively re-use the building as a hotel. Some hysterically correct upper floor windows might be in order. Agway fertilizer sacks didn’t need views, hotel guests might.
CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown
R.S. Duncan photo
The second and third floors of the Ford Block at Dietz and Main, Oneonta, have been vacant for decades.
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Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich during the “Big Blue” celebration in May 2013, where she announced the $32 million “It’s Personal” fund drive and broke ground on the $3 million William V. Campbell Fitness Center.
BOUND VOLUMES
Compiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Dreadful Insurrection at Barbados – A letter dated April 25 says: “An insurrection of the negroes took place the day after I left that Island; and yesterday a dispatch boat arrived from thence, by which we learn that eighty estates were burnt; that about 2,000 negroes had been killed or taken, among whom were two white men, ringleaders. Not a vessel excepting the dispatch boat was permitted to leave the island, as the insurrection was not completely quelled.” Capt. Knaut of the Ann, left St. Vincent April 26. He says the insurrection included nearly all the slaves on the north side of Barbados; that the buildings, etc. on near eighty estates were destroyed; that the negroes fought desperately, until several field pieces were brought against them, which made dreadful havoc amongst the misguided wretches, and soon compelled the survivors to fly in every direction.”
June 6, 1816
175
YEARS AGO
A Heartless Villain – The Boston Post notices a piece of almost incredible cruelty practiced for some months upon two little boys by the Superintendent of the Farm School, an individual named Locke, who ought to be put in the Penitentiary for the act. “Their bodies are covered with scars and wounds inflicted with a raw hide, which lacerated the flesh in a most shocking manner. They are marked and cut from head to foot, before and behind, on the ribs, and even on the inner side of the thigh. In addition to this, in the winter they were compelled to go barefoot on the frozen beach and farm as a punishment – and in consequence their feet became frozen. They were also subjected to the torture of having several buckets of water dashed upon them, with their heads tied, so as to keep their faces upwards to receive the shock. No offence which a lad could commit could justify the cruelty practiced upon the boys in question.”
June 7, 1841
150 YEARS AGO
The number of emigrant passengers ar-
rived in the United States during the week: 10,498. We learn through the Vice Consul of the of the United States at Hamburg that 150,000 emigrants of the United States have already engaged passage at that port alone; many of them of the best class of people, with money for the support of their families on this side.
June 1, 1866
125 YEARS AGO
Three-Mile Point – The Trustees having control of this property have issued a card to the public in hand bill form stating the terms and conditions on which it may be occupied by picnic parties and others. To meet the expenses incurred in keeping the Point and fixtures in repair, a small sum is demanded. The property is this year under the control of Mrs. Anna Van Horne, whose house is near the Point. All who visit it have a direct interest in keeping it in good condition.
Wedding Bells – An interesting June wedding was that of Miss Susan Linn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sage, and James Fenimore Cooper, which took place at Mr. Sage’s superb country residence at Menands.
June 4, 1891
100 YEARS AGO
Queer answers actually given on New York State Regents Examinations. “Typhoid fever may be prevented by fascination,” “An angle is a triangle with only two sides.” “The qualifications for citizenship are you must be natural born or made.” “An abstract noun is something you can’t see when you are looking at it.” “A woman’s salary is smaller than a man’s because she is fisical and meteley inferior.” “Louis XIV was gelatined during the French Revolution.” “Rosetta Stone was a missionary to Turkey.” “Pompeii was destroyed by an eruption of saliva from the Vatican.” “Two explorers of the Mississippi River were Romeo and Juliet.” Three heavenly bodies are the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.” “The feminine gender of a bull is Mrs. Bull.” “An autobiography is the history of a man’s life written by himself after his death.”
June 7, 1916
75 YEARS AGO
Lou Gehrig, great first baseman of the New York Yankees for fourteen years, died Monday night after a two-year illness of a rare disease that everyone except himself believed incurable. The “Iron Horse” of baseball, who would have been 39-years
old June 19, passed away at his home in the presence of his wife after a critical span of only three weeks. The disease which erased Gehrig from the Yankee lineup on May 22, 1939 was diagnosed as “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” a hardening of the spinal cord which caused muscles to shrivel.
June 4, 1941
50 YEARS AGO
Kenneth Arnold, vice-president and general manager of the Otesaga Hotel for the past six years, has announced his advertising and summer promotional plans. The promotional stress is on the Village of Cooperstown with a view to enticing the travelling public to visit this village and see authentically reproduced the living conditions of a passing Americana.
The schedule includes 10 weeks of nationwide ad coverage in The New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, New York State Monitor, Holiday Magazine, Erie County Medical Bulletin, Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, Buffalo Courier-Express, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Albany Times Union, Syracuse Herald-American, Post-Standard, Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Globe and Mail, Town and Country, ThruWay Interstate Highway Guide, American Hotel & Motel Association Red Book, AOPA Pilot, Sports Illustrated and the 1966 AAA Tour Book.
June 1, 1966
10 YEARS AGO
Michael Moffat and Lin Vincent, owners of The Freeman’s Journal since 1997, welcomed the publication’s new owners, Jim and Mary Joan Kevlin, with these words: “There were a surprisingly large number of people who were interested in taking over, but only a precious few who passed muster. Jim and Mary Joan Kevlin were among the few. It was obvious that they understood what a local newspaper is supposed to be and is supposed to do. They spoke less of ownership than of stewardship. They clearly saw our role and theirs as just another chapter of a history that must and will continue into the infinite future.”
June 2, 2006
month Brought Trace Of Snow, and Record-Breaking Heat
Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, provides monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.
The cool spring weather continues. That’s right, believe it or not, May was 0.7 degrees below average, despite the last six days of the month seeing high temperatures in the mid and upper 80s.
It was the hottest four-day Memorial Day weekend ever experienced in Otsego County! On Saturday, May 28, we easily beat the record of 86 degrees, set in 1911. Normal high temperatures for the end of May are just a tad one side or the other of 70 degrees.
If we hadn’t sweated through the record-setting heat, the month would have finished somewhere between two and three degrees below normal. April, as some of you may recall, was over four degrees below the norm. We received only 2.83 inches of rain during May in Oneonta, and that is just over an inch below the average.
Other locations in the Cooperstown /Oneonta area had some gully-washer thunderstorms this past Sunday, so their totals were significantly higher.
Normal year to date precipitation is 15.25 inches through May, and we’ve only had 13.59 inches of the liquid sunshine. Normal snowfall for the month is about a half inch, and we saw only a trace. For the year just 25.4 inches of snow has fallen and that’s less than half of 53.2 we usually enjoy during the first five months of the year. Fortunately, we had only one thunderstorm for the month. Remember, May and June are the two months of the year when the most severe weather, including tornadoes, occur nationwide. Just pray that our good luck continues in June. An interesting factoid: Did
Kristin’s Friends Plans 2nd Prom So She Won’t Miss Her Big Night
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line running from the municipal waste-water treatment plant at the village’s south end down Route 28 to the site of the $60 million waterpark in Hartwick Seminary proposed by Hyman Hemispherics LLC. “They had prepared a drawing.”
Brust didn’t return a call in time for this edition.
The Village Board has been seeking grants to repair the waste-water treatment plant, which was built in the late ’60s with a 30-year lifespan; that expired two decades ago. In 2015, it applied for a CFA grant – CFA stands for “consolidated funding application,” the single way to get state economic development funding – with the help of Lamont Engineering, Cobleskill. No luck. At its meeting the other morning, the trustees were meeting with Delaware Engineering in anticipation of trying again. At the end of the presentation, the Village Board did agree to hire Delaware to help in this year’s application, which is due in mid-summer, with awards being announced in December.
Brust was accompanied by another vice president, Dave Ohman, Project Manager Mary Beth Bianconi and Project Engineer Brock Juusola. “We talked about a lot of things,” Katz said. In making the case for collaboration with the waterpark, the engineers used the example of FultonMontgomery Community College’s “Global Village at FM” proposal, designed to create a college-town atmosphere, attract better students and increase economic activity in the vicinity. “The state gave them $3.75 million to help this happen,” said the mayor.
Delaware Engineering has also worked with the Catskills’ Town of Windham, which – the opposite
of Cooperstown – sees a lot of economic activity in the winter due to its ski slopes, then it drops off in the summer. The firm has obtained $40 million in grants for that community over the past 14 years, Katz said. A sewer line from the Cooperstown plant to the waterpark site, where Cooperstown Fun Park is now located, would open up development from Route 28’s Toddsville turnoff south, he acknowledged, as new entities would not have to deal with the challenges nd limitations associated with leach fields. “That’s a boon to economic development near the
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you know that men are five times more likely to be struck by lightning than women? I have no further comment about it; just thought you might like to know. Thunderstorms and tornado action can develop quickly, so please heed all watches and warnings, and know what to do if you are caught in a bad storm, it may save you from serious injury or death. I’m sure your agenda is jammed packed with all sorts of outdoor activities, weddings, graduations and other
special events. I hear a lot of people complain all winter that they can’t wait for warm weather to get outside. Well it’s finally here! Make sure to take advantage of the beautiful lakes, parks, boating and swimming areas. Also, check out all of the areas happenings on AllOTSEGO.com for tons of things for you to enjoy. Have fun, enjoy the warmth, we’ll talk again next month. Until then, please make sure to Keep Your Eye On The Weather! may 2016
Cooperstown-To-Water Park Sewers Discussed
village, not within the village,” the mayor said. “… Someone else can bear the cost, and the village can get the revenue. That’s good.”
If Cooperstown isn’t interested, a fallback option might be an independent
water-treatment district in Hartwick Seminary itself. Hartwick Town Supervisor Rob O’Brien said such an idea is very preliminary right now, but it’s “something we’d be willing to talk about.”
“While I was setting up for the Project Prom afterparty at the Clark Sports Center, I was thinking ‘If she doesn’t come tonight, we should give her a prom!’” said Alma. “Then Sylvia got in touch with me, and we planned it all out.”
The organizers booked a room at The Otesaga. Raphael Sciallo agreed to again offer his DJ services, just as he had on prom night. “It’s a community collaboration,” said Alma. “She’s such a sweet girl, and everyone was on board with helping us out.”
“It’s such a nice thing for them to do,” said Janet, Kristin’s mother.
At a Cooperstown Hawkeyes home meet Wednesday, May 4, Kirstin had suffered cardiac arrest brought on by rare WolfeParkinson-White Syndrome. She was rushed to Albany Medical Center, where ablation surgery fixed an extra electrical pathway in her heart’s lower chamber.
Kristin had no idea her friends what her friends were planning for her until she got an invitation on Facebook.
“I was so surprised!” she said. “Our senior prom is one of our last big events together, and it’s so nice that they’re going to all this
trouble for me.”
And she’s excited to get a chance to wear her prom dress. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to pick blue or purple, but I’m going to Amherst, and their colors are purple!” she said. “And purple is my favorite color.”
In addition to the dining and dancing, they’ll also have a cake for birthday girls Abby LeCates and Lauryn Makofske.
“It’s not only an opportunity for me to go to prom, but it’s a chance for me to celebrate having one big family in Cooperstown,” said Kristin.
“Everyone should go to prom,” said Alma Curtis. “It’s a meaningful celebration.”
DAVID MATTICE
The Freeman’s Journal Parent Alma Curtis helped coordinate the second special night for Kristin.
Bids To Be Opened This Week From Prospective Cooperstown Motel Buyers
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a minimum price, and two of the bidders dropped out; the remaining ones, however, did submit offers, he said.
The next generation includes two sons, Albert N. and Edward D., and a daughter, Kathleen Ramirez, plus grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The property is 1.25 acres and the full market value is listed as $1.3 million by the county Real Property Tax
Office.
A former CCS English teacher, O’Brien, 84 when he died, had helped his mother and step-father build the motel in the 1950s after returning from college, according to his obituary. In 1967, he bought the motel when his parents retired to Florida.
“Over the next few decades,” according to the obituary, “he built on and doubled the number of rooms, added a second floor
for 13 more rooms, enlarged and paved the parking areas, and made other major improvements.”
Because of the size of the parcel and location, the eventually fate of the site has been the topic of some speculation in the village in recent years, particularly as Mr. O’Brien entered his 80s and became ill.
Several years ago now, it was said Bassett Hospital was considering buying the property for nurses’ housing.
In recent days, there’s been talk that Price Chopper is one bidder; CVS, which now has a downtown store, is another, and the Clark Foundation, a third, with folks saying the idea would
be to convert it into a park.
Stewart’s Shops, which has a cramped and busy quick stop just across Chestnut Street, has been mentioned as another possibility. Stewart’s is rolling out larger stores across the region, in Middleburgh, Schoharie County, and in Richfield Springs, where it is acquiring the former downtown Kinney’s site.
According to Village Trustee Cindy Falk, the committee revising Cooperstown’s Comprehensive Master Plan has not focused on the southern gateway. (Falk co-chairs that committee).
The parcel, Price Chopper, Stewart’s and other commercial uses in the
neighborhood, are in a commercial zone. Falk said zoning revisions in recent years allow a number of uses – housing, small-scale
retail, mixed development (shops and apartments) or restaurants – without obtaining a special-use permit from the Village Board.
Seward Heading Back to Albany With Pocketful Of Bills
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ter of public life Friday evening the 27th, crossing Route 28 from his Milford home and speaking at a “Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Niles Eggleston,” the businessman, civic and church leader and neighbor of the senator, perhaps best known as author of “Eva Coo, Murderess,” about the notorious 1935 local crime.
“He was fully engaged in community life in Milford –Milford Methodist Church, the historical society, the school, the fire department, Rotary – all the pillars of the community,” the senator reflected in an interview as he returned to his office. “Niles gave of his time and talents – and financially. As part of his legacy, these im-
portant community fixtures are going to remain.”
He encapsulated Eggleston’s legacy in a Senate proclamation presented the event in the Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center.
Tuesday, though, he moved back into the fray, beyond his ceremonial role.
In an interview, he ticked off his legislative plans for the next three weeks:
• Business climate – In the wake of legislated increases in the minimum wage, Seward is awaiting a report, due Friday, June 3, from a committee exploring ways to minimize the financial impact. “I’m looking forward to their recommendations,” he said, “and to enacting some of their recommended changes
so we can provide some relief, particularly for small business.”
• Education – At the regulatory level, the state Regents is easing the Common Core elements many found most objectionable. The senator intends “to put it right in the law, reducing testing, and also de-coupling teacher evaluations.”
• Heroin – His bill providing tax credits to companies hiring people who have gone through the drug court or other judicial diversion programs has passed. But he is looking to prioritize the 50 new laws and budget recommendations in the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction, on which he serves.
• Ride-sharing – As chair of the Senate Insurance
Committee, he intends to move legislation requiring Uber, Lift and similar companies to buy coverage for riders and drivers alike. The big Upstate cities, he said, are eager to allow in the new services, but he sees some potential in Oneonta as well.
• Ethics reform – As a start, he plans to support a measure where senators and assemblymen convicted of a felony would forfeit their pensions. To do otherwise “adds insult to injury.” Further, he hopes to see term limits for legislative leadership and committee chairs. Citing the case of convicted former Assembly leader Sheldon Silver, he said, “When you have such a heavy concentration of power in the hands of one person for an extended period of time, that can lead to problems.”
• Near to home – He also is moving a bill to extend Hyde Hall’s expiring 30-year lease – “one of my first bills when I was a new senator” – for another 30 years. The long lease helps the private Friends of Hyde Hall to fundraise from donors who might not want to contribute to a state undertaking. (The bill turning Bassett Hospital security into “peace officers,” potential armed, became law during his absence, he reported.)
When the session is over, he said, he plans to announce he is running for a 16th term. Two Democrats, Ilion lawyer Audrey Dunning and Jermaine Bagnall-Graham, Sherburne, a Bassett Healthcare technician, have already announced plans to challenge him.
“I’m looking forward to going out there to talk about my record,” Seward said. While always a supporter of programs that encourage check-ups to catch cancer early, the events of the past few months – he was diagnosed with bladder cancer at Bassett Hospital, and quickly transferred to Albany Medical Center for further treatment – his experience of the past few months has underscored that.
Cancer – “the C-word” – is “curable, treatable,” and New York State has “a proud tradition” of giving the uninsured access to testing. But individuals have to take the step and get the testing. “Believe me,” he said, “I’ll be doing so with extra enthusiasm.”
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The Cooperstown Motel, at the southern gateway into the village, is being sought by five bidders.
the front page of a local newspaper in the Province of Ontario. He knows this for sure: learn CPR.
DUMPSTERMAKES RENTAL
By LIBBY CUDMORE
COOPERSTOWN
or 70 years, Paula Pugliese has been making sure that Cooperstown suits are tailored, prom dresses are properly fitted and that no pants are left too long.
A war bride from the French colony of Algeria, in North Africa, “I moved here in 1946 with my husband Angelo,” she said. “He was born here. When I arrived, I asked, ‘Where are all the people?’”
Pugliese, now 93, is still Cooperstown’s premier seamstress, working out of her house on Main Street, where she’s lived since she arrived.
“When I came here, there was just one tailor, an elderly man, but he did not cut suits,” she said. “My Please See SEWING, B3
She still depends on her 1947 Singer Sewing Machine, complete with original manual.
What Happened To The Girl Hero Saved From Drowning?
20 Years Later, Worcester’s Tony Cece Still Wondering
By LIBBY CUDMORE
WORCESTER
Twenty years later, Tony Cece still thinks about Alisha Bunyan, the girl he saved from drowning in a hotel pool.
At the time, an Army paratrooper in the 1950s and the retired owner of Cece’s Farmhouse, the Worcester
B&B, he was hailed as a hero in Mississauga.
“My fiancee Cathy and I were at a Howard Johnson in Ontario and her kids, Lita and Jess, were playing ‘Marco Polo’ in the pool,” said Cece. “I was in the deep end, and I backed up, and bumped into a body.”
The 13-year-old girl was lying at the bottom of the pool, blood streaming from the back of her head. “I Please See HERO, B3
Celebrate the start of summer with an ice cream social at Oneonta World of Learning’s new home! Performances, activities, demonstrations and, of course, ice cream. 1-5 p.m. Sunday, June 5, Fortin Park Pavillion, Oneonta. Info, www.oneontaworldoflearning.org
COOPERSTOWN TRIATHLON: Bike, run and swim your way across Cooperstown. 8 a.m. Saturday, June 4, Glimmerglass State park, 1527 Cty. Rd. 31, Cooperstown. Info, registration, www.atcendurance.com
CLIMB THE LADDER: CANO presents Karen Butler’s vaudevillian romp “Conciousness Ladder” is part of the of the opening of CANO’S annual Mansion Show. 5-8 p.m. Friday, June 3 (show at 6:30), Wilber Manson, 11 Ford Ave, Oneonta. Info, www.canooneonta.
BOXING DOC: Film screening. of “T-Rex,” the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields of Flint, Mich., winner of 2012 Olympic boxing medal. 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 St. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1453.
LAW & ORDER: Fairy tales get the Dick Wolf treatment with the Hartwick 4-H Theater Guild’s presentation of “Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit.” Free, donations accepted. 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, June 4. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Cty. Rte. 11, Hartwick. Info, (607) 547-2536 ext. 225
DUCK DERBY: An afternoon of rubber ducky races, music by DJ Patrick Dewey and a visit by the Hill City Ice Queen. Sponsored by the Family Resource Network. Noon-4 p.m. Saturday, June 4, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0001.
MEET SHIRLEY: Chat with centenarian Shirley Skinner, who was recently interviewed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s press team. Open house sponsored by the Iroquois Chapter of Worcester. 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 4, Wieting Building, Worcester.
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At 93, Paula Pugliese, brought back from Algiers in 1946 by her new husband, is Cooperstown’s seamstress, available in many a fashion emergency, At top is spool rack her husband built for her.
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Tony Cece of Worcester wonders what ever happened to a girl he saved from drowning 20 years ago. The incident put him on
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Rescuer Wonders What Happened To Girl He Saved From Drowning
HERO/From B1 don’t remember going under to get her, but I must have,” he said. “I put her up on the side of the pool and yelled ‘Does anybody know CPR?’”
No one did, but he knew he had to do something. “Her lips and her nails were Navy blue,” he said. “At first I thought it was just nail polish, but I realized that’s how close she was to death.”
She didn’t have a pulse, so he emulated what he had seen on TV to try and bring her back. He pushed on her stomach to try and get the water out. He plugged her nose and tried breathing in her mouth, but she wouldn’t draw breath. Frantically, he turned her over on her side, bracing her back against his knee while he pumped her stomach, and finally, she began to cough.
“It was my birthday, but my gift was saving this girl’s life,” he said. “The firemen told me that by turning her on her side, it opened up her airways and saved her life.”
Alisha was epileptic, and she’d had a seizure, hitting
Cece’s heroism was reported at the time in the St. Catherine’s/Niagara Falls (Ont.) Standard.
her head before falling into the pool. The ambulance took her away, and although the hotel paged the mother’s room three times, she wouldn’t come down.
“I talked to another woman at the pool, and she said she’d gone to meet Alisha’s mom earlier so their kids could play together, but when she opened to door, she was drunk,” he said. “She didn’t even ride in the ambulance with her daugh-
ter. I saw her later in the hallway with an older man and he said, ‘That’s the man who saved Alisha’s life,’ but she didn’t say anything to me.”
The next day, he and his family continued their sightseeing, and upon returning to the hotel, there was a message that the radio station had called for him.
“They called me a hero,” he said. “We were in the newspaper, on TV. The funny thing is, we almost didn’t stay at that motel. We looked around at a few others, but then went back to that one.”
And now, he’s hoping to reconnect with Alisha, a native of Mississauga. “I want to know that she’s safe, that she’s doing okay,” he said. “I’m hoping someone can get on the computer and find her.”
But more importantly, as summer approaches, he wants to raise awareness of learning CPR. “You never know when you might have to use it,” he said. “I didn’t know how to, but I got lucky.”
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husband would take his suits to the dry cleaners, and he told them I could sew. I couldn’t speak English, so my husband had to introduce me, and they hired me right away.”
Paula Bonnet was raised in Algiers, the colonial capital, in a French-speaking family; her father was a captain in the French Army.
She would have been a teenager in the early 1940s, when the city was under the control of Nazi Germany and Vichy France. In November 1942, the Allies launched Operation Torch, led by General Eisenhower, and captured the city.
About that time, Paula, 15, was sent to trade school to learn how to be a seamstress.
“I have always loved sewing,” she said. “When I was a girl, I would make doll clothes, toys, even clothes for myself.”
At the school, she learned how to cut and make men’s suits. “Back then, you didn’t go to a store and buy a suit,” she said. “You went to a store and got measured, picked your fabric, and they would send it all away to a school to get it made.”
The inseams and lining were done by hand, which she says is still her favorite way to sew. “I used to prick myself with the needle, let it bleed for a second and go right back to it,” she said.
After two years, she
received her certificate. “To pass, you had to make a pair of trousers and show the teacher,” she said. “They didn’t have zippers then, so it was all buttons. It was quite a job!”
And she got good at her trade. “When I was young, I could make a pair of pants in four hours,” she said. “Once you know how to do it, it is not very hard.”
She met her husband, Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. Angelo Pugliese, during World War II, while he was stationed in Algiers., a sizeable metropolis even then; today, it is home to 3.5 million people. The two were married there on June 19, 1946, moving to Cooperstown soon after. He worked for 30 years as a mechanic for the Clark Sports Center, passing away in 2001. In the 1950s, she worked
at the Smart Shop, a dress store next to Ellsworth & Sill. “When you bought a dress, it always needed alterations,” she said. “I was there many years, until a friend of my husband’s said, ‘Why do you have your wife working at a store when she could have her own place?’”
She took that advice, opening Paula’s Shop on Pioneer Street, which she ran until 1965. “I would go to Albany and buy women’s dresses, children’s clothes and sell them,” she said. “Many times, I would do the little alterations too, fix the clothes.”
She and Angelo raised three children, two surviving, Mary Dorsman and Ralph Pugliese. When the shop closed, Pugliese continued doing alterations out of her home, and worked as a cashier at the Cooperstown Elemen-
tary School. “Even now, people see me on the street and they say ‘Mrs. Pugliese, do you remember me’?” she said. “But I don’t, really, because the last time I saw them, they were so little!”
And she kept further active in students’ lives by taking in prom gowns and Cotillion dresses. “I’d rather do alterations than make a dress,” she said. “Once you make it, they want you to change it, to do it over. Enough already!”
She works on two machines, a 1947 Singer that she bought when she first arrived and a 1980 Singer that Angelo bought for her. “The older one works the best,” she said. “The new one does zig-zag stitch, but I do all of that by hand.”
In addition to her sewing, she also knits hats, booties and blankets for newborn babies at Bassett Hospital, as well as shawls and hats for cancer patients. “We meet on Tuesdays at St. Mary’s and Fridays at Woodside Hall,” she said. “We knit from 10 in the morning until 1 in the afternoon.”
She just finished re-lining a fur coat, and has two pairs of pants and a skirt waiting to be hemmed. “People always ask, ‘Can you show me how to do that?’ and I say ‘No, then you will take my job’!” she teased. “But I always show them. I think it’s something everybody should know.”
Sat., June 4. Roseboom Historical Assoc., St. Hwy. 165, Roseboom. Info, roseboom.historical@gmail. com
OUTLAWS – 7 p.m. Home Opener! Oneonta Outlaws vs. Elmira Pioneers. $10 reserved box seat, $5 general admin adults, $3 youth and seniors, $3 children under 12. Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6326. Friday, June 3
HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW – 2-4 p.m. Roseboom Historical Association First Annual Regional Art Show. Drawings, photographs, collages, paintings. Closing award’s ceremony 1-3, Sat., June 4. Roseboom Historical Assoc., St. Hwy. 165, Roseboom. Info, roseboom.historical@gmail. com
ICE CREAM! – 5-8 p.m. Fab Friday ice Cream Sundaes for $1.50 in honor of GOHS 150th building anniversary.. Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta. OPENING RECEPTION – 58 p.m. Annual CANO mansion show, featuring a performance of Karen Butler’s vaudevillian romp “Consciousness Ladder.” Music by Wendy Slicer Band. Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave, Oneonta. Info, (607) 4432-2070, www. canooneonta. LAW & ORDER – 7 p.m. Fairy tales get the Dick Wolf treatment with the Hartwick 4-H Theater Guild’s presentation of “Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit.” Free, donations accepted. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co Rd 11, Hartwick. DOCUMENTARY – 7 p.m. film screening. T-Rex, story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields of Flint, Michigan, winner of 2012 Olympic boxing medal. Info, registration (recommended, not required), (607) 547-1453. The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 St. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. CELTIC CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m. Music by fiddler Erik House and Friends, caller Pamela Goddard. Otsego Dance Society at Presbyterians Church, corner Church and Pioneer sts., Cooperstown Suggested donation $8 adults, $4 students and teenagers, free for 12 and under. Info, (607) 965-8232, (607) 5478164,
Guided hike around some of the 1,170 protected Green woods, including Cranberry Bog. RSVP by Thurs., June 2, (607) 547-2366, sara@ otsegolandtrust.org Greenwoods Conservancy, 800 Zachow Road, hartwick MORE CALENDAR, B4
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Saturday, June 4
VINEYARD STROLL – 11
a.m.-4 p.m. To benefit Relay for Life. Stroll vineyard, enjoy wine tastings. Prizes, more. Farmers/Artisans Market, pig roast, live music. Rustic Ridge Winery, 2805 St. Hwy. 80, Burlington Flats. Info, (607) 965-0626.
DUCK DERBY – Noon- 4 p.m.
An afternoon of rubber ducky races, music by DJ Patrick Dewey and a visit by the Hill City Ice Queen. Sponsored by the Family Resource Network. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0001., info@familyrn.org, www.familyrn. org FOSSILS – 1 p.m. Victor Tollerton of the NYS Museum presents “Rocks Beneath Our Feet”. Richfield Springs Historical Association & Museum, 134 W. Main St., Richfield Springs. Info, (315) 858-0027.
CHINESE AUCTION – 1-3 p.m. Lunch & bake sale, 3:15 p.m. drawing. First Baptist Church of Burlington, 2225 Cty. Hwy. 16 (corner Cty. 16 & St.. 80), Burlington Flats. DAR OPEN HOUSE – 1-4 p.m. Iroquois Chapter of Worcester open house featuring history of centenarian Shirley Skinner. View Shirley’s live through classic and iconic photographs! Wieting Building, Worcester.
HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW – 1-3 p.m. Roseboom Historical Association First Annual Regional Art Show Awards Ceremony. Roseboom Historical Assoc., St. Hwy. 165, Roseboom. Info, roseboom.historical@gmail.com
LAW & ORDER – 2 p.m. Fairy tales get the Dick Wolf treatment with the Hartwick 4-H Theater Guild’s presentation of “Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit.” Free, donations accepted. Also at 7 p.m. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co Rd 11, Hartwick. OPENING RECEPTION– 5-7
p.m. “Works on paper” features 14 area artists including Nora Crain, who was a long-time resident of Cherry Valley. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St.,
Cherry Valley. Info, (607) 22649530, info@cherrybranchgallery. com
BLUES EXPRESS – 7 p.m.
Saturday night blues train featuring best bands in upstate N.Y. Riders enjoy food and drink. Cooperstown Blues Express, depart Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429, (607) 432-2824 Sunday, June 5
PANCAKES– 8 a.m.-noon. Roseboom Historical Association Pancake Breakfast. Adults $8, Children $4, Children under 5 free. Roseboom Historical Building, Rte. 165, Roseboom.
COOPERSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL
Has the following vacancies for the 2016-2017 school year:
English Teacher: May 31 deadline Cook-Manager: June 10 deadline Positions with June 30 deadline:
Special Education Teacher (Secondary) School Bus Drivers and Substitute School Bus Drivers
Current certifications required. Position details and application available at www.cooperstowncs.org.
Please send letter of interest, district application, copy of certification to: Mr. Michael Virgil, Superintendent, 39 Linden Ave. Cooperstown, NY 13326 E.O.E
BIRDING– 8:30 a.m., “Birding by Ear” at Betty and Wilbur Davis State Park, Westford. DelawareOtsego Audubon Society event. Youth ages 12-17 $15; Adult 18 and over $25. Pre-registration required, contact Becky Gretton, (607) 547-5648, info@doas. ICE CREAM SOCIAL – 1-5
p.m. Owl Ice Cream Social. Free ice cream & family fun. Rain or shine! Fun children’s activities by OWL and participating organizations. Info, http://www.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The name of the entity is Chuck’s Towing and Collision Service LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on May 19, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is P.O. Box 191, Richfield Springs, New York 13439. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.
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Kehoe & Merzig, 8-12 Dietz St., Ste. 202, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/5/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 467 Lockwood Hill Rd., Mount Upton, NY 13809, which is also the principal buisness location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6legalJune30
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Notice of formation of Worcester BTS Retail, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/29/2016. Office location, County of Otsego. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 14600 Detroit Ave., Ste. 1500, Lakewood OH 44107. Purpose: any lawful act.
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Notice of Formation of Winston Lax, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/4/16. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 3 Raymond Ave, Oneonta NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Eight is Enough, a capella that spans the centuries and the world. Admission $10. Bring the whole family. Cherry Valley Artworks concert at The Star Theater. Cherry Valley. Info, www.cvartworks.org, (607) 264-3080.
Monday, June 6
CHILD SAFETY DAYS – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through June 10, Sat. June 11 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Operation Kidsafe and Country
Club Nissan free digital fingerprint and photo safety program. Country Club Nissan, 55 Oneonta St., oneonta. Info, (607) 4322800, countryclubnissan.com
TALKING OPERA – 7 p.m. La bohème: Glimmerglass Music Director Joseph Colaneri presents “Listening to La bohème with New Ears.” Free, all welcome. Refreshments, informal discussion. Christ Church Parish Hall, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. MORE CALENDAR, B8
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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: DANE & SONS EXCAVATING & LOGGING
LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 9 March 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1895 Co Hwy 19, Burlington Flats, NY 13315. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.
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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: ROD’S WELDING LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 9 March 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 141
Roscoe Jones Rd, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.
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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: CHERRY VALLEY HARDWARE LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 26 April 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 38 Genesee St, Cherry Valley, NY 13320. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The name of the entity is Leatherstocking Construction LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on April 26, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability com-
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The name of the entity is Ed’s Repair Shop LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on April 26, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 3213 Co. Hwy. 16, Burlington Flats, NY 13315. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act of
activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.
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Notice of Formation of J.E.L. Transport LLC. Art. of Org. filed SSNY on 03/08/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC. designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 90 STATE STREET, SUITE 700 BOX 80, ALBANY, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Damulis Trucking, LLC. Purpose is to transport goods within and outside New York State. Filed articles of Organization on 4/12/2016. The Secretary of State has been designated as an agent of the LLC, and the service shall be sent to 451 Gulf Rd, Burlington Flats, NY 13315.
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MITTMAN ONEONTA LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/4/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10467 East Raintree Dr., Scottsdale, Arizona 85255. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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Down from Fort Drum, Oliver Harris, 2, had simply had enough. Mom Tarra brought him into the shade for refreshing nap.
Three pals from Worcester, Derek and Connor Land and Matt Millis, met their first MLB player, the Twins LaTroy Hawkins, at the BASE race.
CCS seniors Clara Marra, right, and Amber Genova were in big demand today, vending cold drinks as part of their class’s fundraising efforts.
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OBITUARIES
Dorothy A. Bly, 98; Retired Little Falls Funeral Director
COOPERSTOWN
– Dorothy A. Bly, 98, who retired to Cooperstown with her husband after operating a funeral parlor in Little Falls for a quarter century, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 28, 2016, at Valley Health Services in Herkimer. She had been residing at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home.
Born Oct. 7, 1917, in Rochester, she was a daughter of Dea W. and Hazel (Roberts) Hess. The first born of three children, Dorothy’s mother instilled in her a love of music, and at the age of 8 she began taking piano lessons.
After graduating from high school, she attended West Chester State Teachers College in West Chester, Pa., where she majored in vocal and instrumental music and English. After earning her bachelor’s degree in teaching, she remained in Pennsylvania and taught at public schools in Beaver Town and Beaver Springs and then in the Shillington public school system.
In 1945, Dorothy married James Nicely Bly in a ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Berwick, Pa. The couple moved to College
Point on Long Island, where Mr. Bly served as a licensed funeral director.
In 1954, the Blys purchased a funeral home in Little Falls at the corner of Ann and Monroe streets. They owned and operated the Newitt & Bly Funeral Home for the next 26 years, with Dorothy serving in many capacities including answering the phone and playing the funeral home’s Hammond electric organ for services.
Following their retirement from the funeral profession, the Blys moved to Cooperstown and settled into their home on Lake Street. She became active in the Cooperstown Women’s Club and was very active in the formation of the Bridge Club that now meets at Clark Sports Center. After Mr. Bly died Feb. 24, 2006, Dorothy moved to the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home, where she enjoyed playing the piano.
Dorothy often said she had four lifelong passions: the culinary arts, horticulture, interior decorating and music. Above all, her main goal in life – which she achieved – was to be a loving wife and mother.
Dorothy is survived by three children, Gwendolyn Boggs of Vancouver, Wash., David Wilson Bly and his wife, Valerie, of Ormond Beach, Fla., and James T.H. Bly of South Daytona, Fla.; two granddaughters, Jennifer Beck and Erika Boggs-Halperin; a greatgranddaughter, Norah Beck; a niece, Ellen Dunn; and a nephew, Theron Royer. She also leaves a very special and loyal friend, Ellen Brown of Springfield Center.
In addition to her hus band, she was predeceased by her sister, Evelyn J. Randall, and a brother, Dea Wilson Hess, Ph.D, of Roch ester.
Dorothy will be laid to rest with her husband and parents in Roselawn Cem etery- Walnut Street Annex in Berwick, Pa.
Arrangements are en trusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.
Frederick L. Palmer, 74; Steeple Jack, Silo Builder
MORRIS – Frederick L. Palmer, 74, a steeple jack and master silo builder whose clients included playwright Arthur Miller, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016, following a brief illness.
Fred was born Jan. 3, 1942, to LeRoy and Laura (Eldred) Palmer of Morris, and was brother to Audrey (Dr. Peter) Gregory, Sharon (Charles Esq.) Bosco and James (Gina) Palmer.
Fred graduated from Morris Central School in 1960 where he was a class officer and was active in football, baseball, basketball, and dance club (landing himself a spot on American Band Stand in 1959). Following graduation, Fred served in the Navy as a corpsman until 1965.
Upon completion of his service, Fred returned to Morris to follow in his
father’s footsteps building wood silos. Fred ran his own business as an independent contractor for Unadilla Silo Co., building silos throughout the northeast. A few of Fred’s most notable projects included the weather observation tower on Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, a private art studio for playwright Arthur Miller and his family’s “Silohouse” home in Morris.
In addition to building silos, Fred was a steeple jack, restoring and repairing over 30 church steeples in the region, while also working on numerous other barns
and structures and installed lightning protection systems. Following one of his falls he joked; “It is not the fall that gets you, it is the landing!”
Fred married Margue rite Ruocco in 1969 and had five children: Brayton (Lori) Palmer of Media, Pa., Elissa (Glenn) Steinke of Exton Pa., Matthew Palmer of Morris, Briggin (Heidi) Palmer of Littleton, Colo., and Lydia Palmer of Morris.
Fred loved to tell stories, phrases and proverbs to his children, and has continued that tradition with grand children Noah, Jake and Julian Steinke, Jonah Baldo and Benjamin and Hailey Palmer.
In addition to his immedi ate family, Fred is survived by close nieces and nephews Stacia, James, Mark, Pablo, Soraya and Orion.
Fred is also survived by longtime companion Betty Cornish of Milford, as well as numerous Palmer and Eldred relatives and many close friends who have been with him through thick and thin.
He was predeceased by his nephew John.
A funeral service was held Friday, May 27 at Zion Episcopal Church, with The Revs. Robert Witt Jr. and J. Gary Norman presiding. Burial with military honors was in the Hillington Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Zion Episcopal Church in Morris or the Morris American Legion in place of flowers.
Arrangements are entrusted to Johnston’s Funeral Home, Morris.
Dorothy Bly
Frederick Palmer
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