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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, December 7, 2018
By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA
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t may not seem like much, but 7.1 degrees made for an all-time “record-cold” November, according to Dave Mattice, Oneonta weather observer
City’s Airport Christened For ‘Mr. Oneonta’ ONEONTA
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n a speech accepting the honor of having the city’s aiport renamed in his honor, Albert S. “Sam” Nader said he “felt strongly about the value of having an airport for this city.” Nader, who is 99, was unable to attended Common Council Tuesday, Dec. 4, when a unanimous vote made the decision official, but son John Nader, himself a former mayor, read his fathers speech. The younger Nader, who is SUNY Farmingdale president, said this was “the single greatest point of pride in my father’s life.” HOTEL UP IN AIR: The future of the Oneonta Hotel, which failed to meet a repair regimen, was to be decided by the end of this week by county Judge John Lambert. For his decision, check
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MONEY COMIING: Governor Cuomo is scheduled to announce this year’s CFAs, the state’s economic development grants, on Tuesday, Dec. 18 at The Egg. SAVING TREES: A talk on the emerald ash borer is Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at 189 Main.
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GEORGE H.W. BUSH, 1924-2018
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Former mayor John Nader accepted a plaque from Mayor Gary Herzig on behalf of his father, former mayor Sam Nader, after Common Council unanimously voted to rename the Oneonta Municipal Airport as The Albert S. Nader Regional Airport on Tuesday, Dec. 4.
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for the National Weather Service. “I’ve got records for every day since 1854,” he said. “And Black Friday, Dec. 23, was minus 10.1 below zero. The record for that date was 7 degrees above in 1880.” To put that in context, Mattice said, imagine a Please See DISMAL, A7
Cooperstown hotelier Bob Holt was impressed by the former president’s graciousness on meeting him at a Nashville convention in 1999.
‘LIVE BIRTHS’ INCREASE
Oneonta Schools On Rise is the Cherry Valley-Springfield school districts, which anticipates 16 more seniors a neonta High dozen years from now. School’s Class of “Unfortunately, this year’s 2031 will overall decrease is have 41 more part of a declin►FOR A PDF students than the ing trend we’ve of the ONC Class of 2019, seen over the past BOCES projecaccording to ONC decade,” said tions for its BOCES annual Nick Savin, ONC nine school dis- BOCES superinprojections based tricts in Otsego on “live births” tendent. County, visit data. Reviewing But in the Savin’s data at last AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown week’s Oneonta Central School City Schools District, with a 22-student board meeting, Superintendrop over that period, and dent Joe Yelich welcomed all but one of the other ONC the prospective 2 percent BOCES district in Otsego growth in student populaCounty, “live births” show a tion. continuing decline. “We know neighboring The one other exception Please See ESTIMATE, A7
BY LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN
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Former President Bush chats with grandson Robert Koch at the 2003 Induction in Cooperstown.
Case Fought In D.C. Puts Otsego 2000 In Big Time By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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he attorneys general of New York, five other states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief Monday, Dec. 3, supporting
Otsego 2000’s lawsuit seeking to require FERC to consider greenhouse-gas (GHG) impacts when approving energy-related projects. “The brief is very persuasive and we are enormously grateful,” Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham said TuesPlease See AMICUS, A7
s Ronald Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush came to the 1985 Hall of Fame Game, and then-Assemblyman Tony Casale and his son Peter were sitting with him in the box behind home plate. Then-Congressman Sherwood Boehlert had organized the gathering, and U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was there, along with rising star Jim Seward, then the county’s youngest GOP chairman, businessmen and political bankroller Walter Rich, and Hall of Fame executives Howard Talbot and Ed Stack. “He signed a baseball for my son, then handed it to the guy next to him to sign it,” Casale, who now lives in Cooperstown, recalled. “It was Ted Williams.”\ Please See PRESIDENT, A6
2ND YEAR OF DATA ALLOWS COMPARISONS
SUNY ‘Monster’ In Otsego Lake Gives BFS Warning Of Warming By JIM KEVLIN FIVE MILE POINT
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hen a team of divers removed a bright yellow CLMB (continuous lake monitoring
buoy) Saturday, Dec. 1, from Otsego Lake near here, they could do so with a sense of satisfaction. The device discovered that while Otsego Lake’s waters had surpassed 26 degrees Celsius – that’s 78.8 Farenheit – for only 1.5 hours in 2017, they Please See MONSTER, A7
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD