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Goodyear Lake Couple Surprised

By Oneonta Falls, And Its Beauty

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Frank and Mary Ellen Antonucci of Goodyear Lake show off an image of stunning Oneonta Gorge outside of Portland, Ore.

“It read, ‘Oneonta Trail’ and I said out loud, ‘What’s that’?”

Frank reported the other day. “We both grew up here, and we never knew anything about there being an Oneonta Falls.”

The Oneonta Gorge is along the Columbia River, with the Oneonta Creek creating four waterfalls, including a “triple falls” Please See BEAUTY, A3

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Hartwick BACK TO BASICS Initiative Pays Off SUNY PRESIDENT KLENIEWSKI GOES...

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Town Fire Commissioners Johna Peachin and Fred Volpe exiting state Supreme Court chambers in Cooperstown Friday, Jan. 22, when it appeared an agreement with the city might be in reach.

City, District Fire Contract Within Reach

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rofessional fire protection for Southside, Brooks BBQ and the West End’s auto row appears assured.

Following a Friday, Jan.22, hearing at state Supreme Court chambers in Cooperstown, Judge Michael V. Coccoma proposed a tentative settlement between City Hall and the Town of Oneonta Fire District #1.

Mayor Gary Herzig believes Common Council will approve the deal when its meets Tuesday, Feb. 2, bringing an end to a towncity stalemate.

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LET’S SKATE: Hodges Pond in Neahwa Park is now open for unsupervised skating. Open skating hours are 3-8 p.m. Monday-Friday; noon-8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Non-contact hockey is 8-10 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-noon Saturday and Sunday. To check conditions, call 4327997. $1 PER BAG: Foothills Performing Arts Center will be beneficiary of the Hannaford Helps Reusable Bag Program for February, meaning it will receive $1 for every reusable bag the Southside supermarket sells during the month.

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Bringing current events into the classroom, SUNY Oneonta Professor (and President) Nancy Kleniewski discusses the case of sociologist Alice Goffman, whose book, “Sixth Street,” about youth crime in Philadelphia, was first hailed and then – because of Goffman’s affluent background – decried.

“But I checked the syllabi of other professors, and this class is still covering many of the same topics, even if the research and statistics are UNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniews- newer.” ki’s “Introduction to Sociology” class is, in A Temple graduate, Kleniewski taught at Genher words, “old school.” eseo from 1981 to 1996, (where she also served “I still use the blackboard,” she said. “I as chair of the Sociology Department, and execuwas surprised when I came tive assistant to the president in the first day and they all and a dean.) had notebooks out instead of She was talking with Alex laptops!”

Thomas, Oneonta’s Sociology Wednesday, Jan. 21, Department chair, who menKleniewski returned to the tioned that they were looking classroom for the first time in for someone to teach another 14 years. section. “I laughed about it, “I haven’t taught since but when I went home and 2002, and I haven’t taught thought about it, I realized it this class since 1993, at was something I wanted to The professor addresses her SUNY Geneseo,” she said.

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Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich received the money from HOMETOWN ONEONTA state Sen. Jim Seward, President R-Milford (and Hartwick Drugovich ’73), Friday, Jan. 22, at and Senator the ribbon-cutting on the Seward,’73.

Center for Craft Food & Beverage, and she reflected on the happenstance beginnings of the undertaking.

Hartwick Biology Professor Stan Sessions became interested in the reactions involved in the creation of beer. That led to one of his students doing an internship at Brewery Ommegang in the spring of 2013.

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“I wanted to make sure council was focusing on what was most important, rather than day-to-day operations,” said Herzig. “That’s what the City Manager does.”

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Hartwick Craft Food, Beverage Center, And $¼M Check, Began With Internship HARTWICK/From A1 synergy between what we had to offer in terms of intellectual capacity and what the industry might need,” she recounted in a followup interview. “Everything just seemed to align.”

In May 2013, Drugovich convened two meetings of her academics and people who had come into the beer business since the passage of the state Farm Brewery Act of 2012. “The only agenda was to hear from them what it was they needed from us to make them

successful,” Drugovich said.

They needed marketing and business plans. “But what they really needed was help determining the quality of their products at various stages along the cycle of production. They didn’t have the equipment. They couldn’t afford the equipment. They wanted the testing,” she continued.

“We could develop a hub-andspoke system. We could acquire the equipment,” she said. The college had the chemistry and biology savvy design to oversee the

testing, and the “student power” to actually do the work.

Ramping up for anticipated growth after the Farm Brewery Bill passed, the state had money to allocate, and Maggie Arthurs, the college’s director of Corporate, Foundation, & Government Relations went after it.

When Drugovich took the concept to the Hartwick trustees later that year, they felt “it was a good, calculated, well-thought-out risk,” Drugovich said. It appeared the industry was bound to flourish,

tions along the Columbia River.

But the falls aren’t easy to get to.

It’s a six-mile trip to the Oneonta bridge and then the gorge itself, and although the trail is less than two miles long, it involves wading through water and across a log jam in order to get to the falls. “Our daughterin-law Julie took CJ out there before we hiked it, and it was up to her waist,” said Mary Ellen. “We only got a little wet when we hiked it.”

“You have to be careful what time of year you choose to hike it,” said Frank. “Otherwise, you’ll be swimming!”

And because of 25-million-year-old basalt walls hosting a variety of lichens and mosses – some only grow in the Columbia River Gorge – the area is designated by the U.S Forest Service as a Botanical Area.

A tunnel leading to the trail was recently restored by a non-profit organization.

Though they only hiked the lower falls trail, Frank and Mary Ellen hope to return to see the middle and upper falls. “It’s not one that’s visited very often,” said Frank.

“Hundreds of thousands of people go to Multnomah Falls, but Oneonta Falls is a beautiful place.”

Kleniewski Mixes Classic, Contemporary Texts BASICS/From A1 do,” she said.

She committed to reading updated articles and preparing for her class. “It’s been fun seeing the world through the eyes of a teacher,” she said. “Every time I read something, I ask myself, ‘Could I use this for class?’”

It’s part of her commitment to student engagement.

“In a national survey, our data showed a consistent pattern of seniors being more engaged than the national average, but that our freshman were below the average for engagement,” she said. “We want to put more emphasis on how we teach them, how we can get them to really dig their teeth into learning.”

Although she is the author of several books, including “Cities, Change and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life,” her students aren’t using her works as a textbook. Instead, they’re using “Sage Readings for Introductory Sociology.”

“It’s got a good mix of classic articles, with introductions to put them in context, as well as more modern articles,” she said.

At the end of her second class, she collected index cards where students had written down topics they wanted to focus on. “Marriage equality, age discrimination, the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” she read off.

“This isn’t just going to be multiple choice tests.

They’re going to apply what they’re learning to real life.

This is what’s important to them.”

And she knows from her own experience how important those early-level classes can be. “I was supposed to be a teacher, but I got into sociology as a freshman,” she said. “I loved those courses more, and went on to study urban sociology.”

Even though she could

have her pick of any section, she chose a 9 a.m course Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. “I know from past experience that it’s much harder to go from administrator to teacher than it is to go from teacher to administrator,” she said.

“I can’t just go in there and start talking. I need to get my brain around what I’m teaching, and that’s easier in the morning.”

Johnstone Science Center – the Center for Craft Food & Beverage is in the basement – with Senator Seward, Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, Ag & Markets Deputy Commissioner Phil Giltner and Francis Landrey, chair of the Hartwick trustees, praising what’s been accomplished to a lobby of industry representatives, involved academics, economic development officials and students.

Tours of the facility followed, led by Aaron MacLeod, the center’s new director.

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Oneonta Falls’ Beauty Stuns Local Couple

BEAUTY/From A1 visible from the upper trail. “It’s beautiful out there,” said Mary Ellen.

The couple, both Oneonta natives now living in Goodyear Lake, were in Portland visiting their son, Don, daughter-in-law Julie, and grandkids Adriana and CJ. But when they returned home to Otsego County, they began to research Oneonta Falls – and discovered a link to famed landscape photographer Carlton Watkins.

“He was out west in 1850, doing landscape surveying for Collis Huntington” – the merchant who went west from Oneonta to fame as one of California’s “Big Four” – “and discovered the falls,” said Frank. “He named it for his hometown.”

Watkins, who was most famous for his photographs of Yosemite, died blind and penniless in 1916 and is buried in an unmarked grave in Napa, Calif., although a Watkins family monument in Oneonta’s Riverside Cemetery notes him as a “World Famous Landscape Photographer.”

“He was a real trailblazer,” said Mary Ellen.

It is even speculated that Lewis & Clark may have visited the falls on their explora-

tourism would grow around it, and the college could be in the center of a success story.

Support proved that to be true, with $123,525 from the Appalachian Regional Commission, $128,000 from Empire State Development, $110,000 from the Alden Trust in Worcester, Mass., corporate support from Ommegang and, now, Seward’s “legislative grant” adding to the college’s own financial commitment Progress to date was celebrated at Friday’s ceremony in the

COMMITTEES/From A1 The new Community Development Committee, chair Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward, has a role as a liaison between the council and the Community Development Director, Bill Kerbin.

“There’s a lot of development going on,” said Nicosia. “We want to have the council more fully briefed on projects, grants and future plans.”

The committee meets monthly; at the first meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 13, Kerbin discussed the Susquehanna Greenway project and upcoming CFA applications, as well as the comprehensive plan. “The Otsego County IDA has agreed to pay for an update to our comprehensive plan so that we’ll qualify for additional grants,” said Nicosia. “They’ll be presenting on this at the Common Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 16.”

The Legislative Committee, chaired by John Rafter, Seventh Ward, aims to develop and streamline language in ordinances that come before the council.

“We want to make things cleaner.”

For example, Rafter said, when the ad hoc group reviewing the city’s billboard regulations comes forward with a proposal, the Legislative committee would be the first to review, along with

City Attorney David Merzig.

“This way, when it comes before Council, they know that it’s well-written and it won’t come as a surprise.”

And the Facilities, Technologies & Operations committee is now Operations, Planning & Evaluations.

“We want to look at what we should be doing differently,” said Herzig. “It’s about evaluating projects and making plans.”

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For Now – If Not Forever – Village’s Stilled Political Debate OK

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rt and architecture follow the arc of archaic, classical, baroque – and, finally, goodness gracious, rococo.

And the same applies to civilizations, even subsections like municipalities.

The Village of Cooperstown is about to enter another election season with no contested races, as the local GOP again failed to make an appearance.

Candidates can still run as independents – a 50-signature petition is needed by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9. Village Clerk Teri Barown has the particulars. That could be a heavy lift this year, but go for it.

• This space has been consistently supportive of competitive politics, despite misty-eyed nostalgia in some Cooperstown sectors about the good ol’ days of the Unity Ticket, when the good ol’ boys decided who would be mayor, rotating back and forth between Republicans and Democrats.

That perpetual political honeymoon came abruptly to a halt in 1978 – 38 village elections ago – when Democrat Jerry Clark and Republican Bill Zoeller vied for Cooperstown’s highest office.

Somehow, the village survived more than three decades of electoral contests until the coronations of the past few years.

For now, that’s OK. With the political wars behind them for now, the current Village Board is getting down to some important pieces of business. Some examples:

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The Cooperstown Village Board, includes, counter-clockwise from left, Trustees Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, Cindy Falk, Jim Dean, Bruce Maxson, Lou Allstadt and Richard Sternberg; Village Clerk Teri Barown, Mayor Jeff Katz and Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh.

• With Otsego Now, a comprehensive plan revision is threequarters done, seeking, among other things, to craft a businessdevelopment plan for a half-dozen “nodes,” from under-performing Railroad Avenue to the waterfront.

• Investment of $380,000 in new paid-parking revenues in repaving a record nine streets last summer, plus a rethinking of the Chestnut-Main intersection to reopen upper Main Street to shoppers. The worst – felling of 39 trees – is past, and a good Main Street redo will just get better.

• A long view reigns, with focus on a multi-million rebuilding of

the 50-year-old sewage-treatment plant that is periodically emitting sub-par water into the headwaters of one of America’s great rivers.

Not sexy, but essential. A period of calm has created a base of knowledge on how to get it done.

Many other innovations are in the offing.

Trustee Lou Allstadt continues to press ahead on renovation of the historic Village Hall at 22 Main and the creation of a multi-municipality solar farm.

New Treasurer Derek Bloomfield has been working with RBC Wealth Management on a unified report that helps trustees more eas-

ily track the village portfolio.

Rich McCaffery’s Adopt a Hydrant program and the Think Rink volunteer effort to maintain the Badger Park ice are examples of resurgent volunteerism.

In total, there’s much to be satisfied about.

• Inevitably, as with monopoly in industry, single-party government gang aft agley, as the poet had it.

The current Village Board might not want to hear it, but it was the Republican young turks – Eric Hage, Joe Booan, Jim Potts, Matt Schuermann and the rest – who shook up Village Hall’s compla-

cency a half dozen years ago with a reform agenda.

Resurgent young Democrats fought back but, once victorious, instituted many of the changes the Hage-Booan claque had championed. Remember how determined Democrats were that nothing needed changing in the Village Treasurer’s Office? Since gaining control, virtually all the suggested reforms have happened.

That competitive politics is to be desired is to take nothing away from the current mayor and trustees. They’ve been tough in the pursuit of what they believed a financially challenged and increasingly dog-eared village needed, and are leveraging the Cooperstown brand to great effect.

Well done.

Village government is not completely unanimous. Former GOP mayoral candidate John Sansevere has been a useful foil on the village Planning Board. Trustee Jim Dean is something of an independent voice on the Village Board.

And if an independent candidate wants to run in the Tuesday, March 15, elections, fine.

But, if the electorate chooses to paraphrase young St. Augustine’s reflection on chastity – Lord, give us vigorous political debate, but not yet – that’s OK shortterm.

The one-party reality is, for now, a chance to get things done that need doing.

The Village Board, in its classical phase, is doing great. It will eventually and inevitably become baroque and, then, when new voices need to be heard, they will be.

PARIS PACT SETS STAGE

Otsego County Can Erase Role In Global Warming Editor’s Note: Paula DiPerna of Cooperstown serves as special adviser to CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, and is a global policy consultant on climate change, carbon markets and environmental finance. Locally, she ran for Congress in 1992 against U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, who represented Otsego County.

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s 2016 begins, do we have at hand a true turning point for environmental and economic policy? The international agreement reached unanimously at the Paris Climate Summit in December 2015 would suggest that is so.

At the meeting, COP-21, the 21st conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, nearly every nation on earth submitted its own

customized plan to address climate change – more than 150 different pathways to a “carbon diet,” i.e, reduce use and waste of fossil fuels, so as to in turn reduce the greenhouse gases that are emitted when fossil fuels are burned and that build up in the atmosphere causing climate change.

The Conference center was abuzz with promise, as I walked around a rambling collection of temporary buildings straddling an internal boulevard. Midnight oil burned in the plenary halls, the media center overflowed with busy journalists from every corner of the earth; and delectable aromas of the culinary delights of many cultures floated in the air. The enterprise ticked along perfectly – the French government had spared no detail of hospitality or practicality.

And the stakes were momentous.

Paula DiPerna pauses from the hub-bub of December’s global warming conference in Paris.

National leaders had called significant attention to their ambitions for Paris and the undercurrent was political, rife with the same trade-offs, dynamics and

posturing that accompanies all other kinds of international agreements.

What made Paris different was that there was no place to hide – the eyes of the world were watching, because stemming climate change has become a global public cause.

The Paris Agreement is also a cultural victory, for despite the tedious nature of UN discourse, the UN remains the only body in the world where a sense of responsibility to future generations for all cultures can flourish. All nations vote equally, all cultures are visible, countless languages are spoken and accurate translation between them matters dramatically. Patience and courtesy also matter, and international friendships develop and linger.

This new network of understanding can, we hope, continue

to serve as a reservoir of common interest to advance commitments made.

It will be easy to quibble with the details of the agreement – a debate over a half full or empty glass. But, overall, the Paris agreement reset not only the political clocks, but the economic clocks as well.

The unanimity of the Paris agreements sends a strong signal to the investor community that capital that flows away from high-carbon activities is on a wise course. That trend is inevitable, if nations do indeed intend to meet their terms of the national blueprints to which they committed in Paris.

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Learn About All Candidates Before Endorsing One To the Editor: Thank you for writing about the important and competitive 19th Congressional District race.

While your article sought to stress imagined conflict and tension in the local Democratic Party and to suggest that I and others are against Zephyr Teachout or other candidates, that has not been my experience.

The Otsego Democrats are unified in the effort to find the candidate best equipped to represent our district and to bring much needed change to the Republican-controlled Congress, which has not worked for the American people.

We have a wealth of good candidates to choose from, who will represent our district’s hard-working families and middle class, abandoned

by Washington. Any of our candidates will be superior to the GOP candidate

who will campaign hand-in-hand with Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.

Teachout is a very impressive individual who has given voice to many important progressive issues. She had some success as a gubernatorial primary candidate but a low turnout party primary has a very different electorate than a general election in a presidential year.

Candidates must connect with Democrats, Republicans, and independents in our mostly rural and Republican district. All Democrats, particularly those fortunate enough to have leadership positions in the party, have an obligation to research all candidates and to consider many factors to find the candidate most able to succeed in a campaign and to best represent the range of families, businesses, and interests in our district, if elected.

I and others are beginning that re-

search phase and some candidates are still not as well known. Will Yandik from Columbia County is a lesserknown candidate who I find very impressive. He is a fourth-generation sustainable farmer, environmental and anti-eminent domain activist, business owner, college lecturer, and writer. He has also shown that he can get elected (twice) as a town board member and deputy supervisor in a predominantly Republican and rural town.

I would urge all Democrats to examine the qualities of all candidates and to make a decision based upon your common sense and conscience and not just follow the establishment perspective.

We owe that to the candidates, to our district, and to the country.

ANDREW STAMMEL County Board Rep, District 4 Town of Oneonta

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125 Years Ago

The Local News – About 50 members of the Presbyterian Church last evening enjoyed a sleigh ride to Colliers where they were hospitably entertained by Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Barnes. About 40 members of the Friday Night club enjoyed a sleigh ride to Laurens, followed by a supper at Richmond’s Hotel and a dance last Tuesday evening.

The funniest comedy of the year is “The Kindergarten,” as presented by Stanley Macy and a company of 22 at the Metropolitan Theatre next Tuesday evening.

Wm. Rector, a brakeman, had his hand caught between bumpers at Sidney Friday evening. It was crushed to a “jelly.” He was brought to Oneonta and Dr. Entler amputated.

With hay at $10 a ton, potatoes $1 a bushel, eggs 24 to 27 cents per dozen, hops from 30 to 40 cents per pound and 20 to 25 cents per pound for butter, the farmers along the Susquehanna Valley ought not to complain of hard times.

January 1891

30 Years Ago

Henry Seibel and Brothers, Art Lithographers of New York from a stone cutting by T.J.S. Landis.

January 1956

40 Years Ago

Chronic marijuana use was not found to be associated with any permanent or irreversible impairment in higher brain function or intelligence in a study of native Costa Ricans. The study results were said to be compatible with earlier controlled studies, but went further in applying additional controls. Researchers cautioned however, that a final answer is not yet in. The report from researchers at the University of Florida, and the University of Victoria, said that “the findings lend no support to speculation about an “a motivational syndrome” among chronic users marked by such things as apathy, confusion and memory loss.

January 1976

20 Years Ago

100 Years Ago

James P. Butts, a veteran of the Rebellion, a leading contractor and builder, and for many years a resident of Oneonta, died at five o’clock this Thursday morning at his home, 61 Elm Street, Oneonta. He had been in failing health for several years and for the last twelve weeks had been confined to the house and for two weeks to his bed. Mr. Butts was 71 years of age, having been born in the Town of Walton in Delaware County, August 22, 1844. While he was yet young, his parents moved to Davenport where he was educated in the public schools.

At the age of 18, on August 28, 1862, he enlisted in Company G of the 144th New York Volunteers. He served throughout the war with the Army of the Potomac, participating in many battles. He was wounded at the battle of Honeyhill and lay in the Hilton Head hospital for two months. He then rejoined his regiment. He was married 50 years ago to Miss Adaline Ruth Peck of Sidney. The deceased was a man of sterling honesty and integrity, a most conscientious builder, and in every field of effort in which he engaged, thoroughly dependable.

January 1916

80 Years Ago

More persons are attending college this year than last year in New York State – 7,180 more, to be exact, counting day and night sessions and extension classes of the 61 colleges and universities. A four per cent increase in day attendance and seven per cent increase in night and extension classes is indicated in figures compiled by Dr. Harlan H. Horner, assistant New York State Commissioner of Education. As of October 15, 1935, there were 94,147 persons attending day sessions, compared with 91,147 on the same date in 1934. Evening and extension classes showed an en-

January 1986 rollment of 60, 620 against 57,764 the previous year. New York University with 14,379 enrolled and Columbia with 14,116 showed the largest day session totals.

January 1936

60 Years Ago

MacKinley Kantor’s latest book, “Andersonville,” has stirred new interest on whether Oneonta is the only city in the nation with a map of the famous Civil War prison. City Clerk Olaf M. Nelson doesn’t know for sure, but says, “I’d like to find out.” Stretching almost from floor to ceiling, the map hangs in his office. It’s been kicking around City Hall for almost 25 years and at one time used to hang in former Police Chief Horton’s office. Mr. Nelson has tried to find records on who gave the map to the city and when. So far, he’s had no luck. The ill-famed prison, scene of many tortuous events, housed many Oneonta and area soldiers during the Civil War. Andersonville, at Camp Sumter, GA. “as it appeared August 1, 1864,” was drawn from memory by Thomas O’Dea, a private of Company E, 16th Regiment, Maine Infantry Volunteers. The map was lithographed by

Floodwaters caused heavy damage to roads and properties throughout nearby Schoharie and Delaware counties but largely spared Otsego except for damage to roads. Five persons are known to have lost their lives in the deluge and its aftermath and one person remains missing. The devastation from flooding in Walton in Delaware County was exacerbated by a raging fire that wiped out Charlie’s True Value Hardware Store and its building at 168-170 Delaware and also leveled the Family Shopping Center department store at 174 Delaware. The efforts of firefighters were hampered by the nearly five feet of flood waters moving through the area as the blaze continued. All the while rescue workers responded to multiple calls from stranded homeowners as the waters continued to rise throughout Walton’s residential area.

January 1996

10 Years Ago

The Nader Towers Resident Organization honored Jean Larsen, a Nader Towers resident for 14 years, with a framed plaque recognizing her long service to her neighbors.

Larsen was an active member of the original resident organization and then carried on alone for more than 10 years after that group ceased to exist. During that 10-year period, Larsen organized and ran, with help from volunteers, every extra-curricular activity at Nader Towers, including the annual yard sale, the Christmas party, the social hours, the visiting entertainment and more. Larsen also maintained the Nader Towers garden. “I am thrilled and deeply touched,” Larsen said. “It has been a privilege and pleasure to serve my neighbors all this time.”

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Friday, January 29

CABIN FEVER FILM -- 7 p.m.

Free. “The Way We Were,” starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Refreshments available, to benefit Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org.

THEATER -- 7 p.m. (Also 7 p.m. Jan. 30). Morris Central School Drama Club presents Neil Simon’s comedy “Rumors.”

Admission $8 at door. Morris Central School Auditorium, Morris. Info, (607) 263-6100.

Saturday, January 30

CABIN FEVER WINTER FEST -- 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Cabin Fever Winter Fest at Gilbert Lake State Park. Free sledding, hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, campfires, food, games & more.

Gilbert Lake State Park, 18 CCC Rd., Laurens. Info, www.cabinfeverwinterfest.com HD OPERA BROADCAST -- 12:55 p.m. Live HD broadcast from The Metropolitan Opera: “Turandot” by Puccini. Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets, info, (607) 431-2080 or www. foothillspac.org THEATER -- 7 p.m. Morris Central School Drama Club presents Neil Simon’s comedy “Rumors.”

Admission $8 at door. Morris Central School Auditorium, Morris. Info, (607) 263-6100.

Sunday, January 31

DOLLAR DINNER -- 4:30-6:30 p.m. Dollar Dinner with live music. Pasta wit meat sauce, salad, fruit, dessert. Kids age 6 and under free. Takeouts after 6:15 p.m.

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FEBRUARY! Tuesday, February 2

PUBLIC MEETING -- 7 p.m.

Public informational meeting on proposed Construction of Neahwa Park Entrance Improvement Project. City Council Chambers, 2nd flr, 258 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-6465.

Wednesday, February 3

LIBRARY STORY TIME -- 10-11 a.m. Springfield Library begins February story time, with topics including Mo Willems, who wrote the Pigeon books; Laura Ingalls Wilder birthday; and National Polar Bear Day. All welcome; free.

Springfield Library, 129 Cty. Rte. 29A, Springfield Center. Info, (315) 858-5802.

Thursday, February 4

AUTHOR EVENT– 6:30 p.m.

Local author Libby Cudmore reads from her debut novel, “The Big Rewind.” Signing to follow.

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Friday, February 5

WINTER CARNIVAL -- (Through Feb. 7). Opening day of Cooperstown’s 49th annual Winter Carnival, for villagers and visitors.

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CABIN FEVER FILM -- 6:30 p.m. artifact preview; 7 p.m. film.

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Rose Ann Hassick, 64; Worked At Wilber Bank ONEONTA – Rose Ann Hassick, 64, a long-time Wilber bank employee, died Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 at Fox Hospital.

She was born on Oct. 14, 1951 in Oneonta, the daughter of Carmen Joseph Vagliardo Sr. and Verna O’Rourke. She graduated from OHS in 1969, and received a certificate in business administration from Utica School of Commerce.

She married Michael H. Hassick on Aug. 20, 1971, in Milford Center.

After many years at Wilber Bank, she eventually retired from Oneonta Job Corps, where she was a data integrity clerk.

Rose enjoyed bowling on the local Strike & Spare league and playing softball on the City Softball League.

She would often volunteer as score keeper for the men’s softball games. She was an avid crocheter and gifted many afghans to family & friends.

She was a member of the Oneonta Moose Lodge #465.

A devoted grandmother

and natural caregiver, Rose was always there to help and enjoyed spending time with friends and family.

Rose Ann She is surHassick vived by her husband of 44 years, Michael Hassick of Oneonta; a son, Robert and Janine Hassick of Canajoharie; a son, Brian and Kristina Hassick of Milford; four grandchildren, Kyle, Marina, Logan and Josh; her father, Carmen Vagliardo, Sr. of Winter Haven, Fla; a brother, Carmen Jr. and Vicki Vagliardo of Oneonta; a brother James and Margot Vagliardo of Stroudsburg, Pa.; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her mother, Verna O’Rourke.

The graveside service will be at Glenwood Cemetery, Oneonta in the spring.

Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home of Oneonta.

Noella Townsend, 93; Survived By Family Locally ONEONTA – Noella Townsend, 93, who retired to Oneonta from Hudson Falls in 1986, passed away Jan. 16, 2016, at Fox Nursing Home. Her son and his family survive her locally.

She was born on Dec. 17, 1922, in Casselman, Ontario, Canada. She and her family moved to Hudson Falls, when she was about 4, where she learned to speak English and graduated from Hudson Falls High School.

In 1942, she married Neil Townsend who predeceased her in 2010, enjoying 68 years together. They originally lived in Hudson Falls and upon retiring in 1986, they moved to Oneonta to be closer to their son, his wife, and three grandchildren. From 1986 through 2010, they spent their summers in Oneonta and winters in Port Richey, Fla., where she had many wonderful years.

She worked for many years as an office manager before retiring. She was an accomplished seamstress and enjoyed gardening, cooking, crocheting, and

Linda Pasquale, 62; Retired Teacher At Milford Central School MILFORD – Linda C. Pasquale, 62, retired Milford Central School teacher, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, at home with her husband at her side.

Linda was born Sept. 4, 1953, in Niagara Falls, the daughter of David W. Higby Sr. and Alicia (Stayer) Higby. She graduated from Madonna High School, Niagara Falls, then received a teaching degree from D’Youville College, Buf-

falo.

She married Ernest Pasquale on July 26, 1975, at St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Niagara Linda Falls.

Pasquale A teacher at Milford Central, she retired in 2006. She

loved to bake and over the years brought tons of her cookies to school for her many friends to enjoy, even after retirement. She was a volunteer for many years at the book fairs.

She was a member at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church in Cooperstown.

In addition to her husband, Ernest, she is survived by two daughters, Lisa (Jeremiah) Moore of

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She is survived by her youngest brother, Leo (Ruth) St. Louis of Hudson Falls. She is also survived by her other daughter, Dr. Aileen Townsend and Peter Paravati of Old Forge, her son, Warren and June Townsend of Oneonta, and five grandchildren, Brian, Denise, and Casey Townsend, Matthew and Beth McDevitt, plus numerous nieces and nephews.

Noella is predeceased by her daughter, Arleen McDevitt. Out of Noella’s four siblings, she is predeceased by two sisters and one brother.

A commemoration service will be held at the convenience of the family.

The family gratefully declines flowers and requests those who wish to remember Noella with a memorial gift to consider a contribution to Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, N.Y. 13820 or to a charity of their choosing.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Bookhout Funeral Home, Oneonta.

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She was predeceased by her mother, Alicia Higby, and a brother, Theodore Higby.

Calling hours will be 6-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.

The funeral mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, at St. Mary’s in Cooperstown, with the Rev. John Rosson, pastor, as celebrant.

The interment will be 1 p.m., Monday, Feb. 1, at St. Joseph’s Cemetery, 1413 Pine Ave., Niagara Falls.

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“I got a job sweeping floors at this woodworking shop when I was 16, and the owner said I could have any pieces that were left on the floor,” Curpier said. “I took them home, and I built a table out of them!”

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she said. “Then she told me, ‘By the way, they’re studying vampire burials’!”

So from 2010 to 2014, Betsinger, an anthropology professor who specializes in biological anthropology, spent two months of the summer in Poland, studying six of 300 graves that were deemed “unusual burials.”

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ducing historic window frames for churches, including at St. Brigid’s, thought to be the oldest Irish immigrant church in New York City, and the 200year-old St. Patrick’s Basilica there.

“At St. Brigid’s, the original wood was so rotten, the stained glass was falling out,” he said. “The originals were pine, but we use Spanish cedar. It’s got a lot of tar, so it doesn’t rot and termites won’t eat it.”

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tay dry and still support the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump at its annual Chinese auction. Eat, meet past and present recipients and enjoy a visit from Goody the Polar Bear! Doors open at 12:30 p.m., drawing begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. Milford Central School, 42 W. Main St, Milford. Info, www.pbjump.com BEAT CABIN FEVER: Bring the family out for winter fun at the Cabin Fever Winter Fest, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30 at Gilbert Lake State Park. Free sledding, hiking snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, campfires, food, games & more by the lake.

18 CCC Road, Laurens. Info, www.cabinfeverwinterfest.com TONY’S ONEONTA: Open and close your weekend at the Oneonta History Center, with the opening of two new exhibits noon-3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, and a public reception 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. “Tony Mongillo’s Oneonta” offers the art of longtime Oneonta native and D&H Railroad worker Mongillo, who has been sketching trains and other subjects since boyhood. A second exhibit kicks off the 150th birthday festivities for the 1866 Bissell Block, the oldest brick block surviving on Main Street, now home to the history center. Happy Sesquicentennial! 183 Main St. (at Dietz) Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org or (607) 432-0960.

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St. Brigid’s, thought to be the oldest Irish immigrant church in New York City, glows with light shining through windows that C&S rebuilt.

‘THE ELEPHANT MAN’: A local cast performs the Tony-winning play about Englishman John Merrick, nicknamed “The Elephant Man” for his severe deformities.

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday Jan. 29-30 & 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. Tickets $15; seniors & students $12; under age 12 $10.

Foothills (Production Center), 24 Market St., Oneonta. To reserve tickets, (607) 4346606.

STRING BAND: Cooperstown Concert Series presents The Canal Street String Band. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. Trio offers fiddle tunes, sea shanties, cowboy songs and more. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Tickets, info, (607) 547-1812. info@cooperstownconcertseries.org.

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Few Can Do Such Ornate Woodwork – With No Power Tools CRAFT/From B1 together in 2001. “We started out by doing kitchens,” he said. “Every time we did a job, we bought a new piece of equipment.”

They did several kitchens in New York City, and word got around that they were good at what they did. “We’re trying to get people away from plastic, away from furniture you replace every six months. We build pieces that last.”

In 2011, when a philanthropist donated $20 million to keep St. Brigid’s at Avenue B and Eighth from the wrecking ball, C&S was brought in to restore the 39

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The Curpier-Spingler partnership built the new door into the churchyard at the old St. Patrick Basilica in New York City.

windows and front doors to their

former glory.

“I bought a lathe so I could do curves by hand,” he said. “In some of the recesses, I hand-chiseled everything. That’s how they used to do it.”

It’s a throwback to his days at the College of the Redwoods Fine Furniture in northern California.

“They wouldn’t let you use sandpaper or power tools,” he said.

“When you come out of a school like that, you can build anything.”

In 2014, the St. Brigid’s project won a 2014 Lucy Moses Award, presented by the New York Landmarks Commission for outstanding landmark restoration.

They’ve also done windows for the Technicolor Townhouse at Gramercy Park, as well as doors, tabernacle cabinets and other cabinetry. “We do the work no one else wants to take the time to do,” he said.

The St. Patrick’s project took 55,000 board feet of wood, cut into manageable pieces and laid out over a template of the original window.

“We only use 50 percent of our wood,” he said. “The scraps get burned in our woodstove, and the sawdust is given to a local farmer for bedding.

The frame is then assembled over the pattern and fixed into place. “These windows are singlesided, so the glass will be glued in with a silicone glue,” he said, gesturing to one of the smaller recess windows. “Then the other piece of wood will be set in to put it all together.”

Each window takes approximately three weeks to finish, and St. Patrick’s had 22 in all.

“These will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people, they’ll be around long after we’re gone,” he said. “It makes me think of the people who made these originally.

I want to do them justice.”

Winter Carnival 2016 February 5, 6 & 7 Hey Boys & Girls!

Get out your crayons and color our Winter Carnival “Kick Off” Snowman! Send your masterpiece into The Freeman’s Journal (see contest rules) for a chance to win a prize! ALL artwork will be displayed in The Freeman’s Journal windows at 21 Railroad Avenue in Cooperstown.

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2. Prizes awarded to the top three in each of the following age groups: 0-3, 4-7, and 8-12.

3. One entry allowed per person.

4. A ll entries must be submitted by noon on Sunday, Feb. 7. Winners will be announced at the Carnival Closer Sunday, Feb. 7.

You do not need to be present to receive your prize!

Entries can be dropped off or mailed to The Freeman’s Journal Office, 21 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown, by Feb. 5, or dropped off at the Carnival Kiosk in Pioneer Park during the Winter Carnival Feb. 5 -7, or mailed to PO Box 912, Cooperstown, NY, 13326. All entries must be received by Feb. 6..

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Whether Vampires Were Real Or Not, People Believed They Were, Betsinger Found UPIRS/From B1 back as vampires,” she said.

“They were buried with stones or sickles under their throats in case they came back to life. The sickles would cut off their heads if they tried to sit up, and the stones would prevent them from chewing through their burial cloths. The idea that they would bite and drink blood is the only thing that resembles what we think of when we think of vampires.”

But these weren’t seductive aristocrats like Dracula or sparkly immortals like “Twilight” heartthrob Edward Cullen. “The word they used was ‘Upir,’ and it was an unhappy soul that would reanimate a corpse,” she said. “The vampire would then cause crop failure or sickness in the people or animals of the

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town. It was a scapegoat.

The Upir actually had more in common with what we call zombies than with the Hollywood vampires.”

Accounts of vampires began appearing in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the graves in Drawsko were from the 16th and 17th century. “Reports in England detail people seeing a dead man walking around, so they dug him up, put a stake through his heart and didn’t

see him after that,” she said.

“What was different about these graves were that they were pre-emptive.”

And, unlike the Hollywood vampires, who tend to be male, four of the six corpses were women. “It could be a variety of reasons,” she said. “Maybe they were suspected of witchcraft. They could have given birth out of wedlock.

Maybe they committed suicide or had otherwise violated Christian doctrine.”

One woman was buried with a sickle across her abdomen, as well as stones under her chin. “That may have been to prevent her from swelling up after drinking blood,” said Betsinger, who shared her research Thursday, Jan. 21, at featured speaker before a rapt meeting of Oneonta Rotarians.

The other two were a man between the ages of 35 and 44, and another skeleton of unknown gender determined to be between 12 and 15.

Her initial theory was that perhaps the oddly buried corpses had been killed by a similar disease – cholera, perhaps – but tests of the bones proved inconclusive.

“If it was cholera, that killed too quickly to get into the bone,” she said.

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“It was an accidenUpir coming back to haunt pected for the same thing.” tal foray, but I have other her.

“I feel like they’re Betsinger and Scott have interests,” she said. “Lately happy that I’m telling their published several papers on stories,” she said. “I don’t the burial site, including one I’ve been studying fetal burials and health interests think they’ll bother me.” forthcoming in an edited

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TiCkeTS: $20 for adults $15 for senior citizens and college students with current ID $8 for students age 13-18 Children age 12 and under free when accompanied by an adult.

Call 607-547-1812. Tickets also available at Church & Scott Pharmacy, Fly Creek General Store and Riverwood.

Remaining tickets will be available at the door.

Please call the Otesaga’s Hawkeye Grill at 607-547-9931 for dinner reservations before the show!

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Cooperstown Concert Series programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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Winter Carnival 2016 February 5, 6, 7 A medallion is hidden somewhere in Cooperstown!

Medallion Hunt! WIN $500!!

HERE IS THE 2nd CLUE! Seek in a field and you will find a shining medallion that is one of a kind

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1. WHERE: Medallion will only be hidden on Village Public Property. a. Medallion will NOT be hidden on private property. b. Medallion will NOT be hidden on Doubleday Field. c. Medallion will NOT be hidden in any construction sites. ** No Village property will be dug up or destroyed during the Medallion Hunt.

2. WHO: Anyone can participate in the Medallion Hunt, EXCEPT: a. Immediate family members of the Winter Carnival Committee are INELIGIBLE to win the

Medallion Hunt prize. b. All contestants under the age of 18 must have permission of a parent or guardian to participate. c. All contestants agree that the Freeman’s Journal and the Cooperstown Winter Carnival Committee, their advertisers and agents, and the Village of Cooperstown and town of Otsego will have no liability whatsoever, and will be held harmless by contestants of any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind resulting in whole of, in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prizes or participation in contest.

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3. WHEN: Clues about the location will be published by the Freeman’s Journal for three weeks prior to Winter Carnival. a. When the medallion is found, the finder must immediately return it to the Cooperstown Winter Carnival Committee, by calling 607-282-2762. b. The winner will be required to execute and return a CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY and GENERAL RELEASE FORM within 14 days of notification. If winner is under the age of 18, the Certificate must be signed by his or her parent or guardian. Non-compliance may result in disqualification.

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‘Carbon Diet’ Would Save Earth, Create More Economically Viable Otsego County DiPERNA/From A4 flooding and unexpected storms, significant investments will have to be made in improving and updating infrastructure.

New lighter but superstrong materials will be increasingly needed; energy grids will have to be both decentralized and re-designed to accommodate solar and wind power. Roadways will have to become smarter; digital technologies will have to be embedded to monitor energy use more carefully; virtually all industrial processes will have to be updated and re-invented.

In fact, the only way to meet these obligations will be if addressing climate change becomes the new global economic engine.

Otsego County exemplifies this opportunity. In fact, if we adopted a coherent 20year plan to become climate resilient – meaning update all roads, power grids and digital broadband systems to withstand one-in-100-year storms, plus adopt a local “carbon diet” and plan to emit net zero – we would be the strongest more economically viable County in the state, if not the nation.

What would this mean?

We could start “Otsego Net Neutral” on a voluntary basis, and those who wish to join would sum up our direct and indirect annual emissions – fuel we burn, miles we drive, electricity we use; easy formulas exist – to create our individual baseline. Then we would correct for double count-

ing, and each person would sign a good faith contract to reduce that baseline by a certain percentage annually, to be agreed by consensus, each year for 20 years.

Individuals could choose whatever reduction method – what matters to the atmosphere is the net reduction of tons. Those who’ve met or exceeded their reduction targets could “sell” their extra tons on a supply-anddemand basis to neighbors who haven’t quite made their cuts yet – creating an interesting local cap-andtrade operating along the same principles as the bona fide mandatory systems already up and running worldwide, notably in the northeast, California, and

Europe, with China about to launch a national cap-andtrade system.

In conjunction, in the meantime, dairy farmers could be assisted to invest in equipment that could capture methane emissions, a dangerous greenhouse gas, and use the captured methane for fuel, or sell methane “credits” into the various markets once verified.

And, we could also institute a form of carbon tax for those who prefer that straightforward tool, that would be levied on each ton of our emissions, providing further incentive to reduce – Norway currently operates such a hybrid system.

In addition, unused land could be tested for potential

to grow cellulosic ethanol crops that could be converted locally into low-carbon gasoline. This could improve tax levies on the land, and provide lower carbon fuel for local consumption.

In short, we could take a look at the status quo and consciously and gradually replace it with least carbon approach. And, perhaps the greatest benefit of all, all kinds of jobs and contracts would be created. Think of it concretely – every system would be redesigned, rebuilt, refitted, replanned, redone – a bonanza of meaningful construction, engineering and other productive work for great private and public good.

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So why has it taken 21 years to get to the Paris agreement – 25 actually if we start counting from 1992 when the original Climate Convention was signed by the US and most other nations?

Inertia and fear of change are two basic reasons. As well as that it was mantra that fossil fuels and greenhouse gases were critical to protect economic growth, financial return and our way of life. But those tables are turning.

Already, for example, the new S&P Carbon Efficient index, which underweighs high-carbon-emitting companies and overweighs

carbon-efficient companies, is tracking closely with the classic S&P 500. This means that key economic benchmarks are showing there is no economic penalty for taking the “carbon diet” approach.

All languages were spoken at the Paris Climate Summit, but the language of action is what matters in the end. Those 1 in 100 year storms are likely to come more regularly and a whole generation has grown up since 1992 while little has been done to stem the greatest challenge of their lives.

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Legal notice Notice of Authority of Lazarus Holdings LLC, a Foreign Limited Liability Company under Section 802 of the Limited Liability Company Law. 1. The name of the limited liability company is Lazarus Holdings LLC. 2. Certificate of Formation of Lazarus Holdings LLC was filed with the State of New Jersey Division of Revenue on December 1, 2005, and thereafter Application for Authority of Lazarus Holdings LLC was filed with the New York State Secretary of State on December 21, 2015, and Certificate of Authority granted that date pursuant to Section 805 of Limited Liability Company Law. 3. The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Otsego County.

4. The street address of the principal business location of the limited liability company is 12 Lazarus Drive, Ledgewood, New Jersey 07852.

5. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the foreign limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is 1725 Westover Reserve Blvd., Windermere, Florida 34786.

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6LegalFeb11 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Travelsee LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/16/15. Office location: Otsego County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Kwasi Agyemang, 2 Pine Blvd., Apt. 5, Cooperstown, NY 13326, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalFeb11 Legal notice Notice of Formation of TIMBER CREEK SALOON AND RESTAURANTS, LLC. Filing date withe Secretary of state was 10 Oct 2015.

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SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2957 State Highway 23, West Oneonta, NY 13861 6LegalFeb11 Legal notice FELCHER ENTERPRISES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/24/2015. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to 101 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek, NY 13337. Purpose: any lawful activities.

6LegalJan28 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF APPLETREE POND HOUSE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/2015. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSSN shall mail process to: 14 Leatherstocking Street, Cooperstown, New York 13326. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalJan28 Legal notice Jay Frank LLC. Art. of Org. filed SSNY as Domestic LLC 11/10/15.

Principal Office: 20 Lewis St, Oneonta NY 13820, Otsego County. SSNY designated as process agent. Process Service address: 20 Lewis St, Oneonta NY 13820. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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6LegalFeb11 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: COOPERSTOWN HAPPY CAMPERS LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 17 November 2015.

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 192 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb18 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: DYKSTRA CONSTRUCTION LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 4 January 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 69, Fly Creek, NY 13337. Purpose is to engage in any and all busi-

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6LegalFeb18 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Azure Arts LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/26/15, under LLC Law Sec. 203. Office location: 1149 County Highway 27, Richfield Springs, NY, 13439, Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Christina Milliman,1149 County Highway 27, Richfield Springs, NY, 13439. Purpose: Any lawful business.

6LegalFeb25 Legal notice Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the lot owners of The Hartwick Seminary Cemetery Association will be held at the home of Joyce S. Jones, 4685 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY, 13326. This meeting will be on Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 2 p.m. to transact such business as may properly come before the meeting and the election of officers and trustees.

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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: 50 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalFeb25 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is Suntime LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on January 21, 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 1130 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10128. 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. 6LegalMarch3 Legal notice NOTICE OF

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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

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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 1130 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10128. 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. 6LegalMarch3 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is N811SA LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on January 20, 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 1130 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10128. 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. 6LegalMarch3

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Legal notice BARRISTER AND MANN LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/04/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Devin S. Morgan, ESQ. Hoffman Warnick LLC, 540 Broadway, Albany, NY 12207.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

6LegalMarch3 Legal notice MEGAMOTION, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/11/2016.

Office loc: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3514 Craig Road, Clinton, NY 13323. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

6LegalMarch3 Legal notice EMILYSARA, L.L.C. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 01/07/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O TROSSET GROUP ATTORNEYS, P.O. BOX 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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THURSDAY-Friday, JANUARY 28-29, 2016

B-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Friday, February 5

LIGHT OPERA -- 8 p.m. (Also 2 p.m. Feb. 6). Apollo Music Club of SUNY Oneonta presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Gondoliers.” Sponsored by the Student Association and Public Events Committee. Tickets at door. Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta.

Saturday, February 6

WINTER CARNIVAL -- (Through Feb. 7). 2nd day of Cooperstown’s 49th annual Winter Carnival, for villagers and visitors. Hosted by the Cooperstown Lions Club. Look for “Scavenger Hunt Clues” in these editions to find hidden medallion in Cooperstown, for chance to win $500. Full festival schedule at www.cooperstowncarnival.org.

MEN’S CONFERENCE -- 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. “No Regrets, Take Root” men’s conference live HD stream simulcast. Nationally known speakers address spiritual concerns facing men of faith today. $5 per person includes conference, lunch, snacks. Main St. Baptist Church, 333 Main St., Oneonta. Register in advance or day of. Info, reservations, (607) 432-5712.

ICE HARVEST FEST -- 10 a.m.4 p.m. Traditional ice harvest. Ice carving by SUNY Delhi ice team, ice fishing with Trout Unlimited, horse-drawn sleigh rides, snowman village, soup buffet, food trucks, blacksmithing, cooking demos, exhibits by local businesses and farmers. Adults & teens, $9; seniors, $7; ages 12 & under free. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Cty. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Info, www.hanfordmills.org or (607) 278-5744.

KIDS’ LIBRARY DAY -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. “Bring a Child to the Library Day” at Village Library of Cooperstown. Kids and their families invited to come by for treats, books to read together and “make & take” crafts.

Free. Village Library, Main St., Cooperstown. Info, Martha Sharer at (607) 547-8344 or www. villagelibraryofcooperstown.org QUILT SHOW -- 11-4 p.m. daily, Sundays 1-4 p.m. Opening day of annual Fenimore Quilt Club Show, running through Feb. 21.

Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9777, www.cooperstownart.com LIGHT OPERA -- 2 p.m. Apollo Music Club of SUNY Oneonta presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Gondoliers.” Sponsored by

the Student Association and Public Events Committee. Tickets at door. Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta.

DINNER FUNDRAISER -4:30-8:30 p.m. (Snow date 5-9 p.m. Fri. Feb 12). Pasta buffet fundraiser dinner for Denny Carr, 30-year-veteran teacher at OHS, coach, and friend many in the Oneonta Community. By donation, adults $8; ages 5-12 $5; under age 5 free. Make checks payable to OHS. Tickets at door, or call OHS office at (607) 4338243. Cafeteria, Oneonta High School 130 East St., Oneonta.

BLACK LIVES MATTER PROGRAM -- 7 p.m. Reverend Julie Taylor discusses “Black Lives Matter: Ferguson and Beyond.”

Free; all welcome. Unitarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, www.uuso.org CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Kristin Andreassen and her band, back by popular demand, in Cooperstown Concert Series.

Adults $20; seniors & college students $15; ages 13-18 $8; 12 and under free. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1812, info@cooperstownconcertseries.org THEATER -- 8 p.m. (also 3 p.m) Tony Award-winning play “The Elephant Man,” featuring local cast. Adults $15; seniors & students $12; under age 12 $10.

Foothills (Production Center), 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets at door or call (607) 434-6606.

Sunday, February 7

CHILI BOWL -- Noon-4 p.m.

Community Arts network of Oneonta’s 12th annual “Chili Bowl Cookoff” fundraiser.” Buy a hand-painted bowl ($10 & up) to sample over 20 contestants’

creations and vote for your favorite. Benefits CANO programs and local art scholarships. CANO at Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2070 or www.canoneonta.org BAND CONCERT -- 3 p.m.

Oneonta Community Concert Band’s 14th annual “Summertime in Winter” concert. Free; all welcome. Some chairs provided,

or bring your own. “Main Street USA” court, Foxcare Center, Rte. 7, Oneonta. Info, (607) 4370152.

THEATER -- 3 p.m. Final performance of Tony Award-winning play “The Elephant Man,” featuring local cast. Adults $15; seniors & students $12; under age 12 $10. Foothills (Production Center), 24 Market St.,

Oneonta. Tickets at door or call (607) 434-6606.

WINTER CARNIVAL -- Final day of Cooperstown’s 49th annual Winter Carnival, for villagers and visitors. Hosted by the Cooperstown Lions Club. Look for “Scavenger Hunt Clues” in these editions to find hidden medallion in Cooperstown, for chance to win $500. Full festival schedule at www.cooperstowncarnival.org.

Tuesday, February 9 Mardi Gras!

WOMEN’S CLUB -- 2 p.m.

Women’s Club of Cooperstown meeting. All welcome; presenter is Allison Capozza, “Brewery Ommegang.” Donations sought for local food pantry. Christ Church Parish House, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-2423.

PANCAKES -- 4-6:30 p.m.

Pancake Supper. Adults $7; ages 5-12 $4; under age 5 free.

All-you-can-eat pancakes with toppings, sausage, bacon, home fries, applesauce, beverage.

Church of Christ Uniting, 22 Church St., Richfield Springs.

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HOMES FOR RENT

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT

Cooperstown 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath, Laundry, Lake view, Year Round Rental Available immediately. $800. plus utilities.

Call 607-267-2683 TFN

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 607-4324391.

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Pierstown area with spectacular views of Otsego Lake.

3BR/2BA house. $1,800. a month plus utilities, years lease plus security. Call Hubbell’s Real Estate. 607547-5740.

TFN Fly Creek Valley area with country views. Immaculate Early 1800’s 4BR/2+BA house, garage. $2,500. a month plus utilities, plus security. Call Hubbell’s Real Estate. 607547-5740.

TFN Milford House. 2, possible 3 bedroom. Nice lawns. Views.

Garage. Milford schools. No pets. No Smoking. $750.00 plus utilities. Dave LaDuke: (607)435-2405 TFN

APARTMENTS FOR RENT Cooperstown apartments.

Edge of village.2 bedroom upstairs. Recently redone. $950 includes heat and elec.

Parking. No dogs. No Smoking. Call Dave LaDuke: (607) 435-2405 TFN

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Oneonta Business For Sale! Turn key, established Bar/Restaurant business in busy center city location.

Contact Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC at 607-432-4391 for more details.

TFN LAND FOR SALE 34 Acres - Excellent opportunity to build on property adjoining a golf course.

Property lends itself well to hunting. Added bonus: Located within a short distance to two of the areas largest employers. Call now to see this exceptional opportunity while still available. (Sell Broker) Rodney Campbell (315) 868-0148.

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