Republican John Faso and Democrat Zephyr Teachout will joust Tuesday, Nov. 8, for the 19th District Congressional seat after each trounced opponents in their respective primaries Tuesday, June 28. In Otsego County, Faso beat businessman Andrew Heaney 1,041-394, or 72 percent to 27 percent.
Teachout bested Will Yandik 1,020 (70 percent) to 437 ( 30 percent). The margin was similar district-wide. The two winners are vying to succeed retiring Congressman Chris Gibson.
BENETAR HERE: Pat
“Hit Me With Your Best Shot” Benatar is performing in Oneonta Friday, July 1, at the Catskill Area Hospice’s annual summer fundraiser. Doors open at 5 Sixth Ward Booster Club field on Scramling Avenue. Individual tickets $125; call 432-6773
A FUTURE EMT? A daughter, Abigail McKynze Pierce, was born today – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 – at Fox Hospital to Alisia and Eric Pierce of Cooperstown. Abigail weighed 7 lbs., 3 oz.
Festival’s Alice Busch Theater after Cherry Valley-Springfield’s graduation Saturday, June 25.
Trustees To Act
By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN
VS Health of Woonsocket, R.I., doesn’t let the grass grow under its feet.
It only learned the first week in June that it was high bidder on the 1.25-acre Cooperstown Motel parcel at the village’s southern gateway, a rare piece of commercial property in Baseball’s Mecca.
By June 20, its developer, the Zaremba Group of Lakewood, Ohio, just west of Cleveland along Lake Erie, had already submitted a site plan to Village Hall. Monday, June 27, the Village Board set a public hearing on the SEQRA review – the acronym stands for the state Envioronmental Quality Review Act – for 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 20.
By LIBBY CUDMORE
By LIBBY CUDMORE
butterflies, she thinks of her sister
Elizabeth Welsh Callahan. “Lizzy loved butterflies,” she said. “I have a picture of them in my home that always reminds me of her.” “And hot air balloons,” said Lori Sternfels, Lizzy’s niece. “We used to always follow them in the car. I
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COOPERSTOWN
Bill Waller of Cooperstown, amateur radio call letters WB2HLM, set up a temporary ham radio station on his sailboat, Summerwine, over the June 25-26 weekend, and talked via Morse Code with 25 other ham radio operators.
This was part of a U.S. and Canadian event called “Field Day,” where hams set up portable stations across the country to test their emergency capabilities and also to have fun.
Bill’s sailboat was docked at the Otsego Sailing Club where a few members stopped by his boat to listen to the goings on. Bill’s contacted stations as far away as Puerto Rico and Wisconsin.
Over 35,000 hams usually participate in this weekend event and score is kept as to how many stations a club, group or solo operator contacts. Twenty-five contacts in this class of portable is pretty good for a very low powered, 5 watt, ham radio station. Bill has participated in this annual contest every year he has been a ham, 54 years.
Bill had handouts describing ham radio and their public service role, the hobby in general and the licensing requirements. Bill holds the highest class amateur radio license, the Extra Class.
Cassandra Mundt, Brett Pikarsky Marry In Adirondacks Ceremony
COOPERSTOWN
Cassandra “Cassie” Jane Mundt, daughter of Frank and Susan Mundt of Overland Park, Kansas, and Brett Preston Pikarsky, son of Michael and Susan Pikarsky of Cooperstown, were married recently.
The wedding was held at Forest Lake Camp in Chestertown, with Pastor Alan Potter officiating. The bride was attended by the groom’s sister, Kiersten Pikarsky. The best man was the groom’s brother, David Pikarsky.
The bride is a graduate of Truman State University and the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She is currently pursuing an executive MBA at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The groom is a graduate of the SUNY Cobleskill and Liberty University.
After hiking five of the 46 high peaks on their honeymoon in the Adirondacks, the couple settled in Overland Park, Kansas, where Cassie is head of marketing and de velopment for The National Museum of Toys & Miniatures and Brett is an art director with Keypath Education.
Mike Hanlon photo
Bill Isaac, proprietor of the Cherry Branch Gallery, Cherry Valley, and the Old Blacksmith Shop in Schuyler Lake, was recognized for his support of Cherry Valley Artworks during the Sunday, June 19, performance of the Capital String Trio at the Star Theater.
Bill Waller set up a ham radio station aboard Summerwine, his sail boat.
Husband Charged In Wife’s 2000 Death
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like to think that she’s sitting up in the biggest hot-air balloon of them all, watching over us.”
For 16 years, Lizzy’s family has been seeking justice in her January 2000 death, believing her husband, Casey Callahan, now 50, was responsible for deliberately running her over with his 18-wheeler in the parking lot of a gas station off Route 17 in Sayre, Pa. “She made statements like ‘If anything happens to me…’,” said her brother-inlaw, Gary Wickham. “Family members begged her to leave (him).”
And Monday, June 27, Lizzy’s husband, already an
Attica inmate, was arraigned in the Otsego County Courthouse on charges of second-degree murder in his wife’s death. “You very rarely get an opportunity to present a cold case,” said county District Attorney John D. Muehl told a press conference the following day. “But we’ll get Lizzy her day in court, and her family gets to see something done.”
On Jan. 19, 2000, Lizzy was killed in what Bradford County, Pa., police initially ruled as an accident. According to statements given at the time, the two stopped at the Dandy Mini Mart at Route 17’s Exit 59A at Wilawana, west of Binghamton, and Lizzy got out of
the cab. Callahan then backed over her on purpose while she tied her shoe, the D.A. is now alleging.
“Her body was so mangled, the coroner wouldn’t let us look at her one last time,” Wickham said.
Though her death was declared accidental, the family was immediately suspicious, especially after Callahan returned to his and his wife’s
District Attorney Muehl answers questions at the press conference on the 28th. Behind him is Gary Wickham.
home on Goodyear Lake – most of the extended family lives at Goodyear Lake – but failed to notify the family that Lizzy was dead.
“We didn’t find out until Lori went over to feed the dogs,” said Wickham. “Our suspicions were instantaneous.” But they couldn’t get Bedford authorities to listen to those suspicions.
When Muehl was elected 2004, Wickham approached him and asked that he look into it. “I had to do some research as to whether or not we could prosecute here in New York,” said the D.A. “And I believe that Mr. Callahan had the intent to kill her while in Otsego County” – sufficient for local jurisdiction – “and drove her to that place to be killed.”
Muehl’s workload got busy, and the case again went cold. But last year, he hired Investigator Mike Ten Eyck, the retired sheriff’s investigator. Then in March, a woman called out of the blue saying that her brother had been killed in Pennsylvania.
“It brought Lizzy’s case back to mind,” he said. “I dug up the file, and Mike investigated.” They brought the evidence to the grand jury on June 25, and it handed down the murder charge.
Callahan is currently serving 12 1/2 years at the Attica Correctional Facility, west of Batavia, for a 2013 conviction on criminal sexual act in the first degree. He was brought to Cooperstown on the 27th, arraigned before County Judge John F. Lambert, and remanded back to Attica without bail.
“It was awful to see him in court,” said sister Maria Valentine, who raised Lizzy’s son Connor. “I didn’t think I’d ever have to see his face again. It brought me right back to the night Lizzy left. I’ll never forget that night.”
Callahan is scheduled to return to the Otsego County Court on July 26. If convicted of the class A-1 felony, Callahan faces 25 years to life in prison.
“I never thought this day would come,” said Valentine. “He thought he could get away with it. And I thought he would too.”
“This is a long time coming,” said Wickham.
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO
Friday, July 1
PAT BENATAR– Doors 5 p.m.
Catskill Hospice Celebrity Party: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. Info, tickets, hospicetickets.com, benatargiraldo.com. 6th Ward Booster Club Field, 9 Scrambling Ave., Oneonta. OPENING RECEPTION– 5-8
p.m. Alice Zinnes & Monique Belitz. Exhibit explores traversable boundaries and unseen realities. Community Arts Council of Oneonta (CANO), Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2070, admin@ canoneonta.org
ICE CREAM SOCIAL– 5-8
p.m. Annual summer kick-off - First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown Picnic good, hot dogs, hamburgers, salads, trimmings and ice Cream and Cake! many flavors and varieties!. Games for kids and gift items for sale. a 70 year tradition! First Presbyterian Church Lawn, Pioneer St. (corner Church & Pioneer Sts.), Cooperstown. SUMMER READING– 6:308 p.m. Family reading kick-off event. “On your mark, get set... read!” Games, giant bubbles, activities on the library lawn. Register for summer reading program. Springfield Library, 129 Cty. Hwy. 29 A, Springfield. Info, (315) 858-5802. Saturday, July 2
STAGECOACH ART FESTIVAL –10 a.m.-5 p.m. Open studios and galleries. Also Sun. Treadwell. Info, http://www.stagecoachrun. com/about-treadwell
GARDEN TOUR – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Explore five private gardens in Andes, East Meredith, Jefferson, and Roscoe, open to the public for self-guided tours to benefit the Garden Conservancy. No reservations required; rain or shine. Sponsor - The Garden Conservancy. $7 per garden, children 12 and under free. Start at Bonnes Garden, 265 Bussey Hol-
HISTORY HUNT – 1 p.m. start at Oneonta Farmers’ Market (rain start at GOHS History Center). Track Oneonta history with only a photo as your guide. Pick up clue packet, end at Damaschke Field by 3 p.m. Register, info, (607) 432-4500 or stop in at Otsego Co. Chamber, 189 Main St., Suite 201, Oneonta. APPRECIATION CONCERT –3-4 p.m. Glimmerglass Festival Springfield Appreciation Concert, in thanks for Springfield’s continuous support of the Festival. Tickets $5 at Country Memories, 7683 St. Hwy. 80, Springfield Center, Ernie Adams, (315) 8582691. Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. OPENING
The family’s last photo of Lizzy Callahan.
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Perspectives
With Northern Eagle Opening, Promising Future More Concrete
Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz observed the other day that, between the 22-room hotel proposed for Railroad Avenue and CVS’ plans for a new pharmacy at the southern gateway, $5 million in new investment in the village is suddenly a possibility. “Any time people want to put money into the village on a business level, that’s good,” he said.
You often hear it said around Otsego County that, when a recession hits nationally, we don’t feel it for two years. When the recession ends nationwide, it also takes a couple of years to arrive in Upstate New York. Given the scope of the Great Recession of 2008, the comeback may have taken a little longer, but all of a sudden there’s a lot of economic action in these parts.
• That was emphasized at the monthly meeting June 22 of Otsego Now, always content rich, but, it seemed, even moreso.
A central topic was which CFAs to submit this time around. (CFAs are “comprehensive funding applications,” the main way the Cuomo Administration distributes more than a half-billion in economicdevelopment funding Upstate annually).
This month’s eye-opening idea was construction to “wrap-around” the Foothills Performing Arts Cen-
ter, allowing it to accommodate the Oneonta Family Y as well in an arts-recreation center.
Coming out of an eight-year economic slump, both organizations – and many others countywide – are looking to collaborate, “collaboration” being the “open sesame” to the CFA tap.
So the executive directors of each – Foothills’ Bill Youngs and the Y’s Frank Russo – were intrigued or better about the possibilities; both used the word “exciting.” (Russo said he first heard
the idea mentioned by county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, a year ago. Join the idea with the IDA’s new energy, and presto! Perhaps, anyhow.)
The Foothills-Y CFA is one of four Otsego Now may seek to jumpstart the “food hub” – gateway to “The Finger Lakes of Beer” – along the city’s Market Street.
Another would build the actual “hub” in the old Oneonta Ford building. Another would build shops, apartments and a “transit
With Brexit, Future Scary For Business
Editor’s Note:
Melanne Maddalene is a daughter of Jim Millisor and sister of Tara Barnwell, both of Cooperstown. Based in London, she is proprietor of an international health services company.
What a terrible and terrifying day. I don’t know if I want to be “English” right now. I certainly don’t feel I belong any more with this selfish xenophobic crowd.
It is so appalling. Half the country is in shock. We lose a prime minister and European stability. Terrifying. And half of them don’t realize what they have done. Two years before the UK leaves the EU and there will be a lot of uncertainty during the interim. It may trigger similar situations in various European countries. It’s such a massive rejection of the establishment by the uneducated and the
working classes. And I can see no leaders remotely capable of dealing with the civil upheaval and unrest this could lead to. I see massive shifts ahead.
To the Editor:
What is the common thread that runs through almost all of the aggression, violence, destruction and death, on the entire planet, throughout all of human history? No idea? No clue? Give up?
Human males. Males are responsible for almost all of the aggression, violence, destruction and death throughout all of human history. And it continues to this very day.
Not all males are violent, destructive and deadly, but almost all of the human caused violence, destruction and death in the world has been, and still is, being caused by males. What makes males, as a
center/tourist center” around and above the existing parking deck. (A private company, KCG Development of Indianapolis, has expressed interesting in getting involved, a huge development.)
Yet another CFA would go toward a boutique hotel between Foothills and Stella Luna, which would be reimagined on a beerpub theme. Here’s the beauty of the Foothills-Y piece: It would provide a fitness center and convention component; that collaboration would make the boutique hotel’s financing just that much more attractive.
• This is the kind of smart thinking that has allowed Otsego Now to move forward projects with many moving parts.
The entity’s CEO, Sandy Mathes, reported to his directors that, as is typical as transitions loom, the Obama Administration is eager to push as much money out the door for programs it supports by year’s end.
That’s good news for reviving the D&H railyards, where $18 million in federal money is being sought to connect the 88 acres (and more) with I-88, so big trucks won’t have to ply city streets.
U.S. Sens. Schumer and Gilli-
brand’s key staffers were very enthusiastic when Mathes and Aaron MacLeod, director of Hartwick College’s Center for Craft Food & Beverage, flew down to D.C. the other day to brief them. Fingers crossed.
• That all this is not just smoke-blowing was made eminently clear Saturday, June 25, when more than 500 people fled temperatures near 90 outside to tour Northern Eagle Beverages’ new 62,000-square-foot warehouse next to the former Soccer Hall of Fame. It’s happening. Cooperstown Brewing Co.’s new brewery will rise there in 2018, and both initiatives are associated with Hager Hops’ largesthop-yard-in-the-state in Pierstown. (Paterfamilias Lou Hager Sr. and his children are the glue holding all this together.)
Yes, a new economy built around tourism, good beer, healthy foods and light manufacturing is starting to happen. With cynicism and skepticism hunched like vultures on yon branch, it’s ever more important to energetically stay the course. Only results will drive those threatening birds away. We’re on an arc that bends toward prosperity. Yes, let’s stay the course.
A Fond Farewell Homage To Peter Livshin
Editor’s Note: Susan Ward, president of Milford Central School Board of Education, interviewed Superintendent of Schools Peter N. Livshin, who is retiring after 19 years, and reported these revelations in the program for the Class of 2016’s graduation on Friday, June 24, to the enjoyment of all attendees.
AVORITE SAY-
FING: “He who enters covered here, buys the house a round of cheer.” (Posted on the wall of every overseas Military bar through the Military Clubs System – a warning to take your hat off or Pay Up!)
FAVORITE SONG: “Here Comes the Sun” – The Beatles
FAVORITE FOOD: Mexican, “I really like a good enchilada!”
MISS MOST: “THE PEOPLE!” – The Staff &
FAVORITE BOOK FICTION: “Trinity” by Leon Uris
BOOK Non-FICTION: “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
FAVORITE QUOTE: “Judge not lest ye be judged.” – Matthew 7:1-3
FAVORITE SPORT: Baseball
FAVORITE TEAM: Buffalo Bills
FAVORITE FAST
FOOD: Wendy’s Burger
FAVORITE ALL TIME
TV SHOWS: The Fugitive, MASH, All in the Family and the Monkees SECRET PASSION: Music, ConcertGoing & Rodeos (“I Love Rodeos!”)
SECRET CELEBRITY
CRUSH: Linda Ronstadt
the kids – they’re the ones that make MCS run!”
NOTED FOR: “My Calm Demeanor”… aka “Mr. Mellow”
FAVORITE COLOR: Blue
Root Of All Evil? Men!
gender, as a group, so aggressive, so dangerous, so violent, so destructive, and so deadly?
What makes males think that they are entitled to run
the world, or other people’s lives, and that anyone in their way can be possibly injured or killed?
Is it because there is no one to hold them accountable? Is it because defending their distorted views of themselves and their place in the world, and the rightness of whatever happens to be in their heads at the time, is more important than not hurting or killing people?
All of the wars in the world have been started and fought by males. All of the armed forces on the planet are in place for males to fight males.
All of the genocides in the world have been caused and carried out by males.
MOST LIKELY TO BE VOTED: Class Clown… “Noted in high school for jokes, pranks and tricks, but my experience in the military changed all that!”
All of the assault rifle massacres have been carried out by males. The World Trade Center was attacked by males. Death by husband or boyfriend is a leading cause of death for women.
Forty million people are currently displaced in the world today due to male violence and armed conflict. Males cannot solve the problem of achieving world peace because males are the problem preventing world peace. They want endless conflict so they can feel somewhat “normal” and justify the hollow shell that contains their damage, their ignorance, their primitive, aggressive, violent tendencies left over from the Stone Age.
MELANNE MILLISOR MADDALENE VIEW FROM THE U.K.
Melanne Maddalene gathered up a selection of enticing EU foodstuffs, upper left, at her London home. And a can of baked beans, lower left – that’s where the isolated British economy is headed, she believes.
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Cooperstown’s Ian Porto, Cooperstown Brewing Co. manager, gives a tour of the Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse to Tim Johnson, Paul Patterson, David Flynn and Eric Johnson, all of Oneonta.
Miro’s “Barbarian in the Night,” 1976
The Freeman’s Journal The cover of Susan Ward’s tribute to the retiring Milford superintendent.
Compiled
200 YEARS AGO
From New Orleans – A gentleman who left New Orleans on the 13th ult. and arrived at Boston in the brig Jane, states that the crevasse in the levee had not been stopped. Commodore Patterson had proceeded to the spot with his hulks for the purpose of sinking in the crevasse, but nothing had been affected when the Jane sailed. It was believed that one thousand houses were surrounded with water; and that twothirds of their occupants had been obliged to abandon them. It is an astonishing fact, that amidst all this calamity and distress, the Theatre is regularly opened and thronged.
June 27, 1816
150 YEARS AGO
Hop Picking – The old practice of picking hops has been a system of great inequality to the industrious working classes who harvest the crop – the employer furnishing house and board alike to the slothful and indolent picker and to the ambitious and energetic, both receiving the same sum per bushel or box. Now it is evident to all who have been consulted on this point, that some change should be made which the smart and ambitious picker should enjoy the fruits of her labor. The plan suggested is that the hop-grower furnish to each picker board by the week or day at a given price, and then pay the picker such a price per box as would
by Tom
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with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
50 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1966
pay (over and above the ordinary price paid per box for picking) the price paid for board upon two boxes of hops, which is admitted by all hop-growers to be a fair average per day of a fair number of pickers. Thus you see that two boxes is made the standard day’s work, and the industrious who will pick three or four boxes per day have the
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proper inducement, as they get the increased pay on the last box or boxes, after picking the two which cancels the board. And the slothful will either be compelled to work or seek some other employment. June 29, 1866
100 YEARS AGO
A baseball game at Cooperstown between picked teams from the National and American Leagues is entirely within the realm of possibility if suitable grounds can be provided according to a statement made by President Tener of the National League to a representative of The Freeman’s Journal on Thursday last. President Tener was among the many dignitaries and nearly one thousand people on Thursday morning attending the dedication ceremonies for the new Delaware & Hudson Railway Passenger station.
July 5, 1916
75 YEARS AGO
Music lovers of Central New York who attended the summer sings in Cooperstown last season will be pleased to know that all five Sundays in August will be used for that purpose this year. Dr. Elmer A. Tidmarsh, who won such wonderful response from the audiences last summer, will return. Also returning is the famous Tenth Infantry band and its popular leader, Lieutenant Roscoe C. Adams. Lieut. Adams is now stationed with the 106th Infantry at Fort McClellan, Ala-
Cherie Flannery
bama, but has been able to make arrangements to keep his Cooperstown engagement this summer.
July 2, 1941
25 YEARS AGO
The first English-speaking church west of the Hudson River will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding at Cherry Valley on July 14. The little church that started as a log cabin and school on Willow Hill in a settlement known as Lindsay’s Bush (later Cherry Valley) was born in the wilderness and has survived massacres, wars, and economic depression. The small group of Scottish-Irish settlers came to Cherry Valley in 1740. The church was established in 1741 and led by the Rev. Samuel Dunlop. July 3, 1991
10 YEARS AGO
Highlights of the coming July 4th Weekend – A concert by Musical Giant Paul Simon in “America’s Prettiest Village;” The Friends of the Library book sale beginning at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday, July 1; Farmers’ Market featuring produce, plants, gifts, meats, maple syrup, local honey, homebaked goods, crafts and live music; Grandma Moses’ art at The Fenimore; fireworks at Lakefront Park; a Cooperstown Candlelight Ghost Tour; a concert by Jazz pianist Bill Charlap at The Farmers’ Museum.
June 30, 2006
Sabrina has been missing since May 12. She is a black and brown Maine Coon, lost in the Oneonta Veterinary Hospital parking lot on the city’s East end. She ran up Cemetery Hill Road behind the vet clinic. HAVE YOU SEEN SABRINA? $100 RE wAR d DO NOT try to catch her. She is afraid of strangers. Please call Joanne or Randy at 435-2718 or OVH at 432-8570 with any information
What’s The Problem? Men!
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of more women, at every level, of every government, in every country in the world.
So what are the responses to be expected from males? Are they going to honestly reflect on and rethink the damage they have collectively done, and are doing around the world every day?
Or are they going to pile up the rocks in front of their caves, and start in with their excuses, in their smug, complete, self-righteous ignorance, of how to live peacefully in the world?
Someone once said “if was not for the civilizing effect of woman on men, that half of the men in the world would still be living in caves, and the other half would be dead.”
Who has ever locked a door, built a bomber, or was afraid to walk down any street, in any country, in the middle of the night, for fear of being attacked by a woman?
“Better than a thousand offerings, is one moment’s reverence, for the man who has conquered himself.” Buddha. JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown
Warehouse Work ‘100% Local’
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That’s not even mentioning the keg room, which is kept at a chilly 32 degrees.
“It’s three times the size of our old one,” he said. “When we were making the plans, we even added 30 percent more space to those to accommodate our craft beer kegs.”
The cold storage was one of the biggest draws on a hot Saturday afternoon, June 25, when Allen, his managers and owner Lou Hager Jr.’s family, helped cut the ribbon on the new Northern Eagle facility; plans are to build a new Cooperstown Brewing Co. plant there in 2018.
“Change is never easy,” he told a crowd of employees and visitors who gathered to welcome them to their new location. “And moving is never fun. But we all worked together and we got it done.”
Tours took more than 500 visitors through the chilly warehouse, and free Brooks BBQ, plenty of beer and music by the Roundhouse Rockers made the sunny afternoon a festive one.
“We’ve always said that making friends is our business,” said Allen in his remarks. “Thanks to everyone for being here.”
“We’ve always had an incredible team,” said Hager, who developed Northern Eagle from Lamonica Beverage, which he bought in 1986. “These days, we have better trucks and a better facility, but it’s our team that will carry us into the future.”
Allen has been a part of that team since nearly the beginning, starting as a parttime junior salesman. “I still have the ad on my fridge,” he said. “All that was required was a reliable car.”
The project’s groundbreaking was in June 2014. “This project was 100 percent local,” he said. “I heard Arnie Drogan say that he never got a chance to bid on big projects and I knew I wanted to keep this local, not send it out to companies in Ohio. Money earned locally has a better chance of staying here in our community.”
Even the majority of the beers they distribute across Otsego, Chenango and Delaware counties are local.
“Seventy percent of our craft beers are from New York State,” he said. “And we just started carrying Finger Lakes wine.”
New to the company is a
NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT, CHRISTIANE HAGEWOOD
Nature of this action: foreclosure action involving real property commonly known as 2444 County Highway 8, Otego, New York 13825 seeking a judgment of foreclosure and sale for the amount due and owing to the Plaintiff, CNB Realty Trust, as assignee of NBT Bank, National Association, under the Note and Mortgage with a current principal balance of Seventy Three Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Seven and 88/100 Dollars ($73,997.88) together with interest, late fees and other charges.
STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF OTSEGO SUMMONS
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Index No.: 2016-28 Date Filed: 01/14/16
CNB REALTY TRUST, as assignee of NBT BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -againstCHRISTIANE HAGEWOOD AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF VIVIAN BAKER JOYCE; OTSEGO RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE, INC.; and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, said individuals being fictitious and intended as possible occupants of the premises which are the subject matter of this action, and whose identity is unknown, Defendants.
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HERE-
BY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or if the service of the Summons is made by any means other than by personal delivery to you within the State of New York, within thirty (30) days after such service is complete. In case of your failure to appear or Answer thereto, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may Answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.
Otsego County is designated as the place of trial, the basis of venue in this action is the location of the mortgaged prem- ises.
NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME
If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.
Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY
FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.
Dated: January 6, 2016 Clifton Park, New York
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drive-thru for keg pickup.
“We actually have a license to sell beer directly to customers,” he said. “They can just drive on through, and we’ll load up the keg for them.”
To manage the new space, he hired eight more people.
“A lot of people don’t realize that there are people who work here at night, wrapping all the pallets, loading up the trucks,” he said. But he’s got a way to make their jobs a little easier. Brand new gravityfed racking means that when an employee grabs a case of, say, Cooperstown Brewing Company’s Old Slugger, the next case will just slide right down. “It was $120,000 for the racking, but with faster pick times and increased efficiency, it’ll pay for itself in a year and a half.”
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Proprietor Lou Hager Jr. applauds everyone who made the new warehouse possible. With him is northern eagle President george allen.
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Notice of Formation of MKW ENTERPRISES, LLC. Articles of wereOrganization filed with the NY Secretary of State on June 9, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 22 South Belmont Circle, Oneonta, NY 13820. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.
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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: DOUBLE PLAY CABINS LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 14 June 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 PO Box 957, 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: NEW PLANET
LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 14 June 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 PO Box 957, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.
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Sawyer Ridge Billet Co., LLC. Filed 5/26/16 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: PO Box 179, Hartwick, NY 13348 Purpose: all lawful
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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: MTF HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 1 June 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 PO Box 111, Laurens, NY 13796. 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 Com-
pany. Name: RAILSENSE LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 1 June 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 2 Lake St, 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: WATERHILL FARM LLC. Certificate of Conversion filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 7 June 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 3050 Co Hwy 8, Oneonta, NY 13820. 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, (LLC) Name: M.B. PALMER HOLDINGS, LLC
Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/18/16. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated
as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 129 Main Street, Suite 1, Morris, NY 13808. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The name of the entity is Chuck’s Towing and Col- lision 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 un- der the Limited Liability Company Law.
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RAIL TECHNOLOGY PARK, LLC
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 c/o Kehoe & Merzig, 8-12 Dietz St., Ste. 202, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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Notice of Formation of Red Shed Brewery LLC. Arts. of Org. were filed with Secretary of State (SSNY) on 04/29/16. Office Location: Otsego Cty. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail any process to the LLC 817 Butter Bowl Road Cherry Valley, NY 13320 Purpose: any and all lawful business activity permitted under NYS laws.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Hillside 21 LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on May 11, 2016. 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, 15 Stevens Lane, Otego, New York 13825. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune30
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NOTICE OF FORMATION
OF Stevens Excavation LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on May 11, 2016. 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, 15 Stevens lane, Otego, New York 13825. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Anita’s Acres, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on May 2, 2016. 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, 155 Hoose Road, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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WOODS MAPLE, LLC
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.
2 Projects Advancing
22-Room Hotel Receives Special-Use Permit
COOPERSTOWN
citing three conditions, the Village Board Monday, June 27, unanimously granted Perry Ferrara a special-use permit for his 22-room hotel at 28 Railroad Ave.
The project next undergoes site-plan review before the village Planning Board.
“I like this project,” said Village Trustee Lou Allstadt. “If it’s done properly, it will beat outlying hotels for people who want to be in the village.”
“The demand for hotels is much greater than the supply,” said Matt Hazzard, Cooperstown Chamber of
Commerce executive director. “This will fill a need.” During the public hearing, several residents expressed concerns about traffic and safety. “It’s like the Indy 500 going down Glen Avenue,” said Linda.
Ellen Pope, director of Otsego 2000, expressed concerns that it would only be of seasonal use. “During Glimmerglass Film Days, it was hard for visitors to find hotel rooms here in the village,” she said. “We need to cater to the tourist who’s here for three days, not a week for Dreams Park.” Ferrara said the hotel was intended for year-round usage.
Trustees Moving CVS Pharmacy Plan Quickly
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That very night, the trustees plan to set a public hearing on the required special-use permit, perhaps as soon as the following Monday, the 25th, its monthly meeting for July.
That means the Big Three regulatory bodies – the Planning Board, the Zoning Board of Appeals, and the H-PARB (for Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board) – could actually get down to business by August.
The CVS application helpfully outlines each board’s duties.
Might ground be broken before the frost?
On what, you ask: the particulars are outlined in the Zaremba application. For site plan, go to www.allotsego.com and type “new CVS” in the search line. Here are some of the particulars:
• The site plan includes two three-lane entry/exits, one on Chestnut Street, the other on Beaver Street just before the entry to Badger Park. “Clear line of sight; no problems anticipated,” the plan reads.
• A fence separates the site from Badger Park behind it.
• A “monument sign” is planned at the Chestnut entrance.
• The parking lot includes 44 spaces (32 are required), nine along Chestnut, but none along Beaver, and a narrow strip designated “landscaping” along each street.
• There’s a drive-thru around the back for easy pick-up of prescriptions.
Gosset, Joe DiMaggio; Carl Yastrzemski; Julia Ruth Stevens and others. First-day stamps, signed balls, prints, plus much more. 3 antique snowmobiles, 2 truck campers, huge 24’ by nearly 300’ cellar chock full of all kinds of tools, furniture, hotel supplies and much more sold in large lots. Mr. O’Brien was a real hoarder! Contents of all 40 motel rooms/offices: refrigerators, ACs, appliances, commercial washing machines and dryers, stainless steel sinks, linens, office equipment, antique candy machine, collectibles, ammunition, plus contents of 2 houses and garages all moved to motel property for convenience. A little bit of everything. All will be sold the building is going to be torn down! Property has been sold. Full listing with pictures at www.macfaddens.com
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By LIBBY CUDMORE
ONEONTA
Twelve years ago, John Hewitt walked into the Bombers Burrito Bar on Lark Street in Albany. “It had such a cool vibe about it,” he said. “I really wanted to open one.”
Twelve years later, he’s planning to open his first Bomber’s franchise, and the first outside the Capital District, in the old Karma Spa building on Main Street.
“We looked at New Paltz, but there was no Main Street,” he said. “We wanted a cool college town.”
About that time, Otsego County Chamber President
Barbara Ann Heegan happened to meet Bombers’ founder Matt Baumgartner. “She told him all about Oneonta, and then he told me,” said Hewitt.
First, the prospective franchisee looked at the former Stevens’ Hardware, but decided the space wasn’t large enough. “Then we saw the Karma building, and it was perfect.”
The take-out restaurant and bar, celebrated around the Capital District since 1997 for its enormous burritos and all-you-caneat taco lunch special, was founded in 1997 after Baumgartner won $15,000 on a hand of poker.
The franchise has since expanded into SchenectaPlease See PROJECT, B7
Shooting Taught In Comfort Of Livingroom
By SAM ALDRIDGE COOPERSTOWN
ideo games are generally seen as escapist realms of fantasy and enjoyment, lacking any practical application. Chip Northrup, who summers on River Street, not only sees a connection between video games
and reality, but one that is marketable. And it starts at the skeet field.
Northrup has invented a shotgun-shooting simulator that uses a virtual reality headset, which – worn on the head like goggles – replicates the skeet-shooting experience. The purpose of the game is to Please See SKEET,
HISTORIC PARADE: The 102nd Springfield Center parade kicks off 11 a.m. July 4 from Smith Rd. and Rte. 80. A celebration follows at the Community Center, concluding with “Red, White & Bluegrass,” 7:30 p.m. free concert featuring Gravelyard and fireworks at dusk, at Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Rd. 31, Cooperstown. Info, (315) 858-0304.
HOMETOWN CELEBRATION:
Oneonta’s “Hometown 4th” begins with 9 a.m. July 4 5K run through Neawa Park, family-friendly, for all fitness levels. July 4 noon parade down Main Street. Free entertainment starts 1 p.m. in the park with traditional music, battle of the bands and 6 p.m. free Outlaws baseball game. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, www.hometown4th.com.
ICE CREAM SOCIAL: Ease into your weekend 5-8 p.m. Friday July 1, with a classic ice cream social (and great picnic food, too!) at First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown. A 70-year tradition! (Church and Pioneer streets.)
HISTORY HUNT: Stroll through Oneonta History with a single photo as your guide. Start 1 p.m., Saturday July 2, at Oneonta Farmers’ Market (rain start at Oneonta History Center), pick up your clue packet, end at Damaschke Field by 3 p.m. Info, registration, (607) 432-4500.
CELEBRATE MUSIC: Glimmerglass Festival hosts a Town of Springfield Appreciation Concert, 3-4 p.m., Saturday July 2. Tickets $5. Alice Busch Opera Theater, 7300 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (315) 858-2691.
FIREWORKS x2: Cooperstown fireworks at dusk, Lakefront Park. Saturday, July 2. Also at dusk over Canadarago Lake.
BOATS ON PARADE: Otsego Lake Associations’s third annual “We Love Our Lake” parade of decorated boats begins 3 p.m., Sunday, July 3. Boats promenade along west shore to Lakefront Park.
MUSTER 4th: At The Farmers’ Museum, experience Independence Day with a militia muster and a 1 p.m. July 4 reading of the Declaration of Independence. Active-duty military and up to five family members admitted free. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org.
POTLUCK CONCERT: Catskill Conservatory’s free “Quiet Concert for the Fourth” 4 p.m. Mon. July 4, followed by its famous potluck supper. Maestro Chuck Schneider on piano! Windfall Dutch Barn, Salt Springville. Info, www. windfalldutchbarn.org.
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Hannah Marie Saggese
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Brooke MacKenzie Stanford
Mataiah Lauren Waters
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One seat was sadly empty at the graduation: Christopher Rumovicz, 17, a classmate who died suddenly on June 2, 2015.
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Korea for his alma mater’s graduation, attending with cousin Mariah Courter. Next posting: Fort Drum.
Art Henry delivered some friendly ribbing to retiring Superintendent Livshin, then presented the Margaret Henry Memorial Scholarship to a graduate who plans to pursue a career in business, Hunter Leonard. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
Someone was having fun with graduate Taylor Paffenroth-Olmsted at Milford Central’s commencement Friday, June 24, as Tabetha Atwell showed up with pizzas from Gabrielle’s halfway through the ceremony. Looking on with amusement are, from right, Abigail Freer, Amanda
Against the backdrop of Otsego Lake, the four top scholars –
Russo, Sylvia Johnson, Abigail LeCates and Kristin Ratliff – retrace their school days at Cooperstown Central School’s Sunday, June 26, graduation by discussing four literary works: “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Ratliff), “Romeo And Juliet” (Johnson), “Lord of the Flies” (LeCates) and “Catcher in the Rye” (Russo).
COOPERSTOWN GRADUATES 79
Olivia Ann Leinhart
Caroline Grace Leonard
Lauren Elizabeth Lionetti
Lauryn Paige Mokofske
Jasmine R. Martinez
Alicia M. McArdle
Ciara Celia McGoldrick
Sean P. Mebust
Elizabeth H. Millea
Andrew Miller Molly A. Mooney
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Alexandra D. Russo*
Elijah Brané Sandler
Christian Eric Sepp
Saranna Sage Cloudancer Shevalier
Wade A. Stahl
August R. Stegman
Skyler L. Taylor
Travis H. Thompson
Alexie Joy T’Souvas
Maya Sabine Wasson
Philip Andrew Wasson
Colin Samuel Wilcox
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Paula Pereira Fernandez
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Ommegang Brewmaster Phil Leinhart hugs daughter Olivia Ann, who will be attending St. Lawrence University in the fall.
Jean-Noel Boulet and his classmates recite the Pledge of Allegiance as graduation ceremonies get underway on the back lawn of The Fenimore Art Museum.
Alexandra Russo hugs mom, school board President Theresa Russo, who presented diplomas.
A radiant class president Mallory Arthurs heads out into the world.
Heidi and Patrick Johnson, parents of graduate Nathaniel, were among parents recognized for jobs well done.
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Rapt grads watch a slide show of their lives together, a tradition at Richfield Springs Central School commencements. The ceremony was Saturday, June 25, in the gym.
smiling class president Nikayla Bourne strides to the podium to welcome friends and family to the event.
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Mom Sarah Brigham hugs her son, Slade, as graduates, family and friends flooded out of the
ice Busch Opera Theater. Looking on at left is Oliver Searles, valedictorian of the Class of 2016.
FLY CREEK – Fu-
neral services for Forrest J. “Frosty” Misner, Jr., 80, who passed away Friday, June 17, will be held from 3-7 p.m. on Thursday, July 14 at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, 82 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown A memorial service will be offered at 7 p.m. that evening, with the Rev. Betsy Jay, Chaplain at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, officiating.
At the conclusion of the
OBITUARIES
Forrest J. Misner, Jr.
service, Military Honors will be accorded by members of the Sgt. Walter P. Eggleston VFW Post No. 7128 and the United States Navy Funeral Honor Guard.
Born May 8, 1936, in Sidney, Frosty was the only
child of Forrest J. and Doris (Walker) Misner. Raised in Sidney, he was Baptized at the Sidney Methodist Church and graduated from Sidney High School.
He was a veteran of the Korean Conflict, and was employed as a lineman for New York State Electric and Gas. In his leisure he loved spending time on Otsego Lake.
Frosty is survived by his wife of 38 years, Susan Worsthorn Misner; two daughters, Terry Huebner
Virginia ‘Ginny’ Aldrich, 82; Many Survive Her
ROSEBOOM – Virginia
Mary “Ginny” Aldrich, 82, passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2016, at her home. She was born on Sept. 2, 1922, to Joseph and Minerva Clark in Hobart.
She is survived by her sons Alfred (Pearl) Moxham of Carlisle and Scott Moxham of Charleston, Montgomery County; daughters Sherry (Raymond) Merwin of St. Johnsville, Carleen (Amiel) Meyer of Middleburgh and Suzanne (Roland) Swart of Roseboom, and
stepdaughter Claudette (William) Vigliante of Homassasa Springs, Fla. Also, brother Paul (Patricia) Clark of Unadilla, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and greatgreat-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her husbands Carlton Moxham and Rodney Aldrich; he sons, Randall Moxham, Leonard Moxham and Elton Aldrich, and siblings Josephine Merwin, Walter Clark, Elizabeth Delia and Mildred Marsh.
Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.
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Burial will be at Stamford Cemetery at family discretion.
Arrangements are entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.
and husband, Conrad, of Glenville, and Cindy Misner of Nazareth, Pennsylvania; and a grandson. Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.
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Hewitt, his brother Jim and nephew Charlie pooled their life savings for the Oneonta project. “Jim will be the general manager; he’s opened all the Taco Bell franchises in Long Island and Rochester, and Charlie is going to school for culinary arts and hospitality,” he said. “We want this to be a family thing, something we can pass down through the generations.”
The restaurant will have a takeout counter and an open kitchen, with the bar off to the front right of the building and a banquet room in the back. “We want to be able to open up the front for some patio seating,” he said. “We thought about having garage doors that would open up in the summer, but they don’t match with the historic feel of the building.”
And though the original restaurant featured vintage pinup-style drawings of ladies reminiscent of the WWII bomber nose art, Hewitt noted that the franchise decor has been heading in a more family-friendly direction. “I have kids, I want a place where I’m comfortable taking them to get something to eat,” he said.
“My dad, George E. Hewitt, flew bombers in WWII and Korea, so I’m thinking we’ll do some decor to reflect that.”
They purchased the building for $250,000 and are currently seeking a $375,000 Community Development Block Grant from the state to help purchase equipment and help build the restaurant.
“This will benefit downtown,” said outgoing Com-
munity Development Director Bill Kerbin, who helped put together the application. “They’re developing an under-utilizing building, reducing blight and bringing something that visitors and tourists will frequent.”
One of the stipulations of the grant is that Hewitt has to create at least 25 full-time equivalent jobs to be offered to low-to-moderate income individuals. But Hewitt went above and beyond. “We’ll have 31 fulltime equivalent positions,” he said.
And he isn’t stopping there. “When I was a kid, I wanted to be an architect,” he said. “I did my masters in urban planning at SUNY Albany. When I came in, I was taken by the ceilings in here, and then I saw the upstairs.”
The former Newberry’s Department store – and before that, a boarding house for D&H workers – will become four two-story, market-rate apartments. “They’ll be nice apartments,” he said. “We want to preserve all of the original woodwork, those art-deco fireplaces. We’re saving every little thing we can.”
The entire project will cost $2.6 million, with plans to open the restaurant in January and the apartments in the summer. “I’m extremely excited,” he said. “Everyone we’ve talked to is so gung-ho about this. We’re bringing jobs and another cool thing downtown.”
“This seems like just the kind of place we want downtown,” said Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig. “I feel good that we have someone who has expressed intent to convert that building into apartments. It’s a good project, and I see no downside.”
SKEET/From B1 teach how to shoot skeet more accurately, thus making sport more accessible.
“The idea came to me about four years ago while practicing at the Cooperstown Sportsmen’s Association skeet field,” Northrup said. “Nobody could tell you how far in front of the clay pigeon to aim the gun. I said to myself, ‘There has got to be a better way to teach this.’”
Northrup, whose father Lynn Northrup was himself an inventor, said the skeet simulator provides realistic shooting practice without countless hours spent at the range and all accompanying fees, sore shoulders, blasted eardrums and lead debris.
The inventor saw his skeet-shooting skills improve “from the very outset. I tested the first version three years ago, and for the first time, I saw exactly how far in front I should be shooting – and I started breaking clays.”
Skeet shooting has been an Olympic sport since 1968 and can also be found among many colleges’ varsity sports.
In realizing his plan, Northrup teamed up with his son Robert and famous shooting coach Pete Blakely to
form a company called Lead Tech.
A lead is also a shooting term that refers to the method of firing ahead of a clay-pigeon’s projectory to ensure a hit.
The crucial component of Northrup’s video game simulator is the Phantom Clay, an indicator of where in front of the real clay to aim and fire. Lead Tech has been granted two patents for this technology, and a third is still pending.
He pointed out many NASCAR drivers got their start playing driving video games, and pilots train using virtual reality flight simulators.
“The game is all to scale,” Northrup said, “so I can translate this into reality.”
Currently, the user wears the VR headset and fires using a generic game controller. The next phase of the game’s development will be the addition of a controller in the shape of a shotgun to better simulate the experience.
The game is not yet on sale, but will be available by next month.
“We are assuming that this will facilitate greater interest and expertise in skeet shooting. I think it could be great for the sport,” Northrup said.
Foreclosure Sale, July 15, 2016, Lakefront Property
One of the best lakefront properties on Otsego Lake will be auctioned off at the entrance of the County Office Building, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, at 10 am. Here is a partial description of the property as written in 1993 by Real Estate Broker, Carlisle Properties:
“This is one of the loveliest properties on Otsego Lake… 1+ acre of gently sloping lawn with stately shade trees, 200’+ of lake frontage with beach, deep-water docking, exceptional views and privacy… This is the property which James Fenimore Cooper dubbed the famous ‘Pegg’s Point’ in his Leatherstocking Tales.”
A formal legal notice for this foreclosure sale has been posted in the legal notice section of The Daily Star on June 15 and 22, 2016 under SUPREME COUNTY OF OTSEGO ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, against PETER NASH A/K/A PETER J. NASH; etc. The property is located at 159 Lippitt Development Road, Cooperstown, previously, East Lake Road, (SECTION: 70.1 1, Block: 1, Lot: 6.00). This ad has been placed by an interested party that is hoping the modest investment of this ad might bring the sale to the attention of additional potential buyers.
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STUDENT HOUSING
4 Bdrm, partially furnished, full kitchen & bath, large common areas. Close to park and colleges. $1,400 mo. Available 8/1. (607) 287-0332.
HOMES FOR RENT
Available April, Spacious 3 or 4 BR, 2 Bath, Kitchen w/Island, Den, LivRm w/ Fireplace, Dining & FamRm w/Pellet Stove, Enclosed Porch, Garage, 15 Acres, Located 3 Miles From Cooperstown. $1900. Mo. + utilities. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ (607) 267-2683 (cell)
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT
Cooperstown multi-use commercial /w Main St. & Doubleday lot access. Optional 1st floor double retail space, outdoor courtyard. 2nd floor: 4 private rooms/ offices. Restrooms/central air/alarm/phone. Call to discuss ideas/options. Kathy Fistrowicz 607-267-2683
Oneonta Retail Space For Lease! Over 8,000 square feet of space featuring loading dock with overhead door and warehouse area, plus a light and bright retail space second to none in the downtown lower hub of the city. $2950 per month. Call Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC for details at 607-432-4391.
LAND FOR SALE
FINANCED READY TO BUILD LOTS FOR SALE:
Prestigious Winney Hill Commons address can be yours! School, tennis court, pool all walk-able, along with gorgeous views! Shovel ready lots feature underground utilities and public water/sewer/natural gas. Owner financing: $35,000 price, $5,000 down, $30,000 @ 5% for 5 years $566 per month. Call today, build your future home tomorrow! Contact Rodger Moran at Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC 607-2871559
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