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In Attic, Yeliches Find Enticing Clues To City’s Past pockets under the eaves,” said Lisa Yelich, wife of City School Superintendent Joseph Yelich. “I shone my little headlamp in and t’s a history mystery – how did a leather there was this wallet!” wallet, with a subscription card dated She fished it out, and although her husApril 4, 1903, end up in the band wanted to continue with the attic eaves of the house at 38 Elm project, she just couldn’t wait. “I ee gallery St.? opened the pocket and there was of items “We were rolling out insulation what I thought was a $1 bill.”

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Lisa Yelich shows off a delicate string of antique lace, found inside a leather wallet in her Elm Street attic.

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Shyann Bowman, Oneonta, makes an oldfashioned handkerchief doll at the GOHS History Crafts Day Saturday, Jan. 24.

Goal Reached To Remember Vietnam Vets

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‘Retribution?’ No, She Says, Entering 4th Year At County Board Helm

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HS grad Gene Schmidt of Unadilla has announced he’s raised the necessary $6,000 for a monument in memory of the nine Oneonta soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. The plan is to install and dedicate the monument this Memorial Day among the cluster of monuments at the end of Neahwa Park’s Veterans Memorial Walkway.

Common Council’s finance committee will review the plans later this month, and Schmidt said he hopes the full council will give the plans a final go-ahead in February.

LOVE, VIA SONG: The City of the Hills Sweet Adeline Chorus will again be offering singing Valentines on Valentines Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, within 25 miles of Oneonta. $25 if you reserve before Jan. 31, $30 after that.

Call 652-3347 or visit www. sachorus.wix.com/cityofthehills VIVA, OSCAR! The BSide Ballroom is hosting an Oscars Party, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, to benefit the Family Services Association. Tickets $39.99

by Feb. 14, and $49.99 after that. Call 431-2525 or email info@nysvc.com SAVE THE DATE: The Sixth Ward Athletic Club has announced the Joe & Mary Memorial Banquet will be on May 2 this year.

By JIM KEVLIN

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hen Kathy Clark assumed the helm of the Otsego County Board of Representatives in 2012 and scanned the horizon, she saw three M’s.

The first was The Manor, which was siphoning away $5 million from the $11 million local tax levy. That was sold in October to a private entity that continues to operate it as Focus Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Otsego.

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Ex-Addict’s Plan Aims To 14 Ailing Children, A Record, To Get Help Reduce ODs

2015 Polar Bear Plunge recipient Mitch Carrigan and wife Tabathe examine offerings at the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump’s annual Chinese Auction on Sunday, Jan. 25, at the Milford Central School. The jump will be Saturday, Feb. 21. Inset are Carmen Williams, Maryland, and Richard Gralick, Colliersville, bidding on items.

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t takes a special kind of bravery to dive into the icy waters of Goodyear Lake on a February afternoon, but to the Waters family, those people are heroes.

“We’re doing a theme for the first time this year,” said Brenda Waters, who co-founded

Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump with her husband, Jamie, 20 years ago. “Everyone will go into the changing room in plain clothes, but emerge as superheroes.”

“Maybe my mom will even dress up as Wonder Woman,” joked daughter Mataiah, who’s been taking the plunge since she was 3. Her brothers Wyatt and Jeremiah also Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA jump.

Milford’s Waters family – Wyatt, Jamie, Please See JUMP/A3 Brenda and Mataiah – kept the jump going.

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• Sophomore music education major Emily Weite, daughter of Daniel and Lisa Weite of Oneonta. She has participated in Honors Program.

Other honorees from the Oneonta area include: • First-year psychology major Amanda M. Menard, daughter of Michele Brown and Michael Menard, Otego.

• Sophomore geology major Victoria Hubbard, daughter of Cynthia and Roger Hubbard, Maryland.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015

HH&K Law Firm Adding 2 Offices, Lawyers Locally

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he Binghamton-based Hinman, Howard & Kattell law firm is opening offices in Edmeston and Morris, in addition to the one in Oneonta.

Two lawyers, Timothy R. Johnson and Meredith L. Baio, have joined HH&K as part of the expanded venture, and will work in all three of the firm’s Otsego County offices.

Johnson, who has been in private practice locally for 27 years, will be resident attorney in Morris and Edmeston. Until December, he had served for two years as deputy chief member counsel at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Arlington, Va. He graduated from Albany Law School in 1985, after receiving a master’s in public policy and bachelor’s in economics and political science from the University of Rochester.

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Just before Thanksgiving, two of the planned recipients were unable to participate, leaving Brenda scrambling to find replacements. “More people started calling, and I was lying awake at night wondering how we were going to chose,” she said. “It was really difficult.”

Then Jamie came up with an idea. “Why don’t we just take them all?” he said. “They all deserve it.

Maybe everyone doesn’t get as much, but it gets spread around.”

Some past recipients even return to take the plunge themselves. “Sierra Effner (2011) is jumping again, and Dax Coe (2014) wants to jump, but he’s a little young!” said Brenda. “I’m in awe.”

But this year’s jump is also shadowed with sadness, as 2013 recipient Audra Cameron passed away on Jan. 3. “We always try to send a card to the family,” said Brenda.

In addition to the annual Chinese Auction benefit on Sunday, Jan. 25, Milford, Stamford, Delhi, Schenevus schools, as well as Bassett Hospital, are hosting Penny Wars, where teams donate pennies – worth a point

placing silver coins and bills in other team’s jars to lower their points. “The winning team will get pizza and ice cream delivered by Goody the Polar Bear,” said Brenda.

Also new this year, the Susquehanna Quilt Club is making quilts for the recipients. “Every year we have more interest,” said Brenda.

And Brenda is working to put together a photo board

to display at the post-jump banquet. “I started with just a cork board, but I’m running out of room!” she said.

“Then someone suggested I make it polar bear shaped – it’s going to be a big polar bear!”

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EDITORIAL

Hartwick, SUNY Oneonta’s Prime Mission: Keep Getting Better

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hen retired Oneonta banker Cal Chase, often referred to as the Hartwick Hawks’ Number One fan, raised $380,000 of a promised $400,000 in the first year of a $2 million fund drive to keep the college’s soccer team in Division One, the college’s thenPresident Dick Miller responded drily, “You have substantially met your obligation.” And the NCAA status was preserved.

That’s how Miller was.

He’d often say, in bringing an initiative to an end, “That’s sufficient” or “that’s good enough.” The achievable, not perfection, was his goal.

That came to mind when SUNY Oneonta’s UUP chapter, at a Martin Luther King commemoration Wednesday, Jan. 21, declared that college is not doing enough to recruit minority faculty members.

While recognizing progress, UUP interim President Rob Compton (Bill Simons is on sabbatical) said more is needed. “I think the college should be a leader in the community,” he said in a follow-up interview. And, in that, he’s right.

• There are certainly areas where SUNY Oneonta might be criticized – the mayhem in the downtown when undergrads returned in September is unfinished business, maybe unfinishable business – but commitment to expanding minority representation on the faculty and in the student body is probably not one of them.

The college’s spokesman, Hal Legg, affirmed the statistics: Some 17 percent of the local SUNY faculty is minority (not counting women), while the Census finds slightly less than 95 percent of the general local population is white.

SUNY Oneonta’s commitment is also reflected in its leadership hires in recent years, from Provost Maria Thompson, a black woman (but so much more), to the five new deans, from Brazil, the Pacific Rim and India, and two women, (who are likewise, their credentials show, so much more than the labels). With a diverse leadership, greater diversity is sure to follow.

That’s not all. In recent years, efforts to erase the taint of the “Black List” episode have been intense

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Native American poet and novelist Sherman Alexie’s “Flight” was SUNY Oneonta’s first “common read,” one of many manifestations of the spirit of diversity there. He delivers the Mills Lecture in 2013.

and continuous, including Cornel West’s 2012 address to a packed Dewar Arena on the 20th anniversary.

The “common read,” where the whole campus community reads and debates, then meets the author, of the same book, has featured

a Native American and an Iranian so far.

Unlike Cal Chase’s drive to save Division I status, there is no beginning, middle, and end to the journey toward diversity – Compton, for instance, said minority faculty are generally entry

level; he urges hiring of full professors. But it’s hard to argue the issue is being ignored. Quite the opposite.

• Job One, of course, isn’t punching the diversity ticket, important as it is: It’s constant upgrading of educational quality, both at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. Happily, the trends are positive on both hilltops, with energetic and engaged presidents, multi-taskers both.

A picture of Hartwick was positively drawn in Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,” (2013). Better-ranked Hartwick grads, hailed by their classmates, are more confident and do better in the real world than poorly ranked Harvard ones, Gladwell found.

Innovations in curriculum – SUNY Oneonta’s “Big Data” initiative and Hartwick’s craft food and beverage initiative, designed to serve the growing ag and brewery sectors – show fresh thinking and an eye toward opportunity.

Both schools score respectably in U.S. News & World Report’s annual

survey and others. SUNY Oneonta is consistently third in the system’s four-year comprehensive colleges, after Geneseo and New Paltz, and it would be heartening to see the local college ever closing that gap, as its fans hope and anticipate they will.

• Fully realizing the two colleges’ potential includes a role for the community.

Hartwick President Margaret Drugovich lightly struck an intriguing note at a community breakfast a couple of years ago: A survey of Hartwick undergrads had found Oneonta lacking as a “college town,” failing to be as much as a magnet as it might in attracting top students.

It’s unclear what the students were actually saying, but it’s a question the community would benefit from pondering, studying and turning into a program of action.

Yes, diversity issues are important, particularly in creating a welcoming community for undergrads as the colleges and Greater Oneonta look to a flourishing future. But there’s so much more.

THE HONORABLE BRIAN D. BURNS OTHER VIEWS

Not All, But Some Elements Of SAFE Act Should Be Preserved Editor’s Note: The Honorable Brian D. Burns is a judge on the Otsego County Court.

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epublicans, for the first time in years, control the state Senate outright and have made clear that repealing the SAFE Act is one of their priorities in the 2015 session. The SAFE Act, introduced by the Governor’s Office and passed by a Democratic majority, added significant restrictions on firearms and is unpopular

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in the mostly rural parts of Upstate New York.

As a County and Family Court judge, I am responsi-

ble for granting, or suspending, handgun licenses, and for determining whether to order owners of rifles and shotguns to surrender their firearms during the pendency of litigation. Based on my experience in dealing with firearm issues on a daily basis, I encourage the Legislature to not simply repeal the entire SAFE Act. There are provisions of the Act which are common sense measures that effectively promote public safety.

Such provisions should not be repealed simply because

other provisions are ineffective in reaching this goal.

The SAFE Act creates a pathway for communication between the mental health field and the court system responsible for issuing or suspending handgun licenses. A mental health provider, who in the course of treating a patient believes that the patient represents a potential danger to himself or herself, or to other members of the community, now has the ability to notify the State Police. The police, in turn, report this information

to the county judge.

Locally, the judge will typically immediately suspend the handgun license and order that the mentally ill person’s firearms be surrendered to the police for safe keeping. Of course, the owner has the opportunity to appear in court and be heard on whether the firearms should be returned. The provision of the SAFE Act which created this communication pathway should not be repealed because it does promote public safety by taking guns out of the hands

of mentally ill persons.

In fact, this provision should be amended to make it clearer, and perhaps stronger. There are few standards to guide the mental health provider in terms of when they should notify the police of a possible danger.

Many mental health providers are using the same standard that determines when a person may be involuntarily hospitalized. This standard requires a finding that the patient presents an immediate and substantial risk Please See JUDGE, A6

LETTERS

Like It Or Not, Natural Gas Is The One For A While To the Editor: In one of last week’s Letters to the Editor – “Thank a Fracker? Don’t Anti-Frackers Deserve Our Thanks, Too?” – George Hovis of Cooperstown pulls out the

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frackers, crediting them with the disasters of climate change. While a bit hyperbolic for a HVHF technology only 20 years old, it’s typical of many anti-fracking conjectures where the opposite is more likely true.

Last year, the EIA reported the switch from coal to gas in electric generation brought CO2 emissions in the U.S. to a 20-year low.

New York and other cities are switching from oil to gas to comply with stricter standards. Bus and truck fleets are retooling for savings and compliance. Aging nuclear plants are replaced, megawatt for megawatt, with gas generation. Gas energy lowers emissions.

Meanwhile, Germany has gone all-in for renewables.

While it gets 9.8 percent of its electric generation from wind and 6.3 percent from solar, 46 percent still comes from coal. The renewables are supported by massive subsidies and market-distorting rules. Somebody pays. German residential electricity sells at 41 cents per KWH. NYSEG sells at 13.6 cents per KWH, onethird Germany’s rate.

Do renewables guarantee

cleaner air? No! Last year German emissions increased. Prioritized renewables must be backed up by coal.

Here’s the deal. We need warmth, cooked food, cheap/scaleable energy, transportation, and the chemical feedstock for modern life. Renewables?

Interesting potential but problems of storage, intermittency, and cost are decades from solution. Gas is the cheapest, most dependable, least problematical current energy source.

Final caveat: While Mr. Hovis of Cooperstown and (some) Germans might be willing to pay more for their renewable nirvana, the Third World can’t and won‘t. These emerging peoples WILL have energy, whether we think it’s good for them or not. They will use computers, buy cars, use washing machines.

Renewables cost too much.

Coal pollutes. Like it or not, gas is the transition to the future.

DICK DOWNEY Otego Member, Unatego Landowners Association

Why Should Citizens Pay To Get Our Money Back?

To the Editor: I see the senator responded to my letter, missing the point and not addressing my question. He went on with government rhetoric about the program. He was probably afraid I would discourage you from checking.

Do not let me discourage you from checking into this program. I am only sharing my experience and telling you to proceed with caution.

It’s silly if we have to spend more money to the government than what we will get back.

To get the money we have to buy forms from the government. Then we take these forms to another agency of the government. We again have to pay taxes to support this government agency.

If we need these forms for anything else we’re going to have to buy another set of forms because we can’t get back the first set of forms that we paid for.

If the government was acting in our best interest the one department would call the other department and ask, “do you have this form” “yes” and then they would

check a box. They forget they are public servants, they work for us, they are suppose to make our lives better, not make it more expensive for us to live.

Then you should stop and ask yourself why did the government set up this program in the fist place?

We have to pay for this government agency to hand out money to us that is ours to begin with. If the government had any concern for the people they represent then the government would have passed a law to make the corporations and companies that are holding this money to be responsible for returning it to its rightful owner.

You wonder why government cost so much; well here is one example of a simple issue that was turned into money grabbing game for the government.

And of letting corporations be irresponsible while we the people have to pay yet again. That is what I was trying to say, Senitor.

R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015

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History

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

125 Years Ago

40 Years Ago

Local – The Sunday newspapers have a good sale in Oneonta. About 300 Elmira Telegrams are disposed of each week, 125 copies of the Albany Argus, 25 copies of the New York Tribune, the same number of the Sunday Mercury, and 10 of the Sunday Press. These figures represent actual Sunday sales, a large number of the New York Sunday dailies which are received Monday not being included.

Too much cannot be said in regard to the fast driving on Main Street. Every day, life and limb are endangered by reckless disregard of the village statutes, and the fact that the pavement, being of wood, is almost noiseless, doubles the danger. Section 8 of the Village Ordinances reads as follows: “All horse-racing, trials of speed, or immoderate driving, exceeding the rate of six miles per hour, in any of the streets of this village, is prohibited, under the penalty of $10 for each offense, to be paid by the person in charge of the horse or horses.” It is the duty of good citizens to see that this provision of law is enforced.

January 1890

30 Years Ago

“One Dumb Move,” a message to teens to avoid cigarettes, drugs and alcohol will be aired 2,783 times this year on television stations across the state as a free public service announcement. It will also be aired on radio stations and has been added to 50,000 records for free distribution.

Students at Oneonta high school who have seen the commercial say they generally like it, but do not think it will change their attitudes or behavior all that much. Pete Xanthaky, a junior, hummed the tune complete with appropriate gestures and said, “It’s pretty cool. It might work.” Dawn Johnson, a high school freshman, said that “nobody listens to the government. If we want to do it, we’re going to do it, no matter what they say.” However, Johnson said that if rock star David Lee Roth endorsed a product, or an idea, she would listen to him.

January 1985

100 Years Ago

The policy of the State Education Department as favoring the consolidation of rural school districts has been upheld

by Dr. John H. Finley, State Commissioner of Education in a case sustaining District Superintendent Pierce of Erie County where five rural schools were consolidated at Orchard Park. In addition, Dr. Finley endorsed the plan of providing transportation to school for children in a consolidated district, in accordance with the provision of the law passed by the last legislature. The opinion is exhaustive and will be regarded as controlling in future cases under similar conditions. The opinion finds that the legislature has indicated “clear intention on the part of the state to pursue a more direct, effective and comprehensive policy in relation to the consolidation of school districts, than was possible under previous statutes.”

January 1915

January 1975 fell. Frightened by her calls, the sneak thief hastened off into the darkness.

“Fly American” a sound motion picture featuring highlights of all airline operations in the U.S., will be shown today at four Oneonta educational institutions – the Normal School, the high school, the junior high school and at Hartwick College. Max J. Pollet, former airplane pilot and traffic manager of the Albany airport of American Airways, Inc., will be in charge of the showings.

January 1935

60 Years Ago

There is a unique, friendly quality to Oneonta that makes it the shopping, recreational and cultural center for folks from a four-county area. We think it’s a fine place. Why? Because it’s not too big; and it’s not too small. Folks who shop here say that Oneonta department stores, its specialty and variety shops have everything you’ll find in the great big cities. But, it is so much easier to go to Oneonta.

Oneonta, too, is the center for farm machinery, for home and business needs, for banks and loan agencies – Oneonta is really a distribution point for people who reside in Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie and Chenango counties.

Oneonta is a second home for folks who make their living

80 Years Ago

Only her frightened screams saved Mrs. Freda Prentice of 6 Chester Avenue from probable attack and the loss of her purse when followed by a sneak thief on Watkins Avenue last night at 10:45 p.m. Mrs. Prentice was on her way to take a bus on Chestnut Street, when she noticed a man following her along the dark street. Observing that he hung steadily to her heels and was rapidly gaining, she broke into a run, and he followed suit. As the purse snatcher neared her, she slipped on the icy sidewalk, and screamed as she

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20 Years Ago

This coming Sunday, Helene Kelly will celebrate her 100th birthday. Born in 1895 and raised in France, Helene came to New York in 1915 to work in a Staten Island hotel.

In 1920, Helene married Tommy Kelly, who worked variously as a taxi driver, factory worker, and race course bet collector. Helene worked in a knitting mill. Tommy was noted as a self-taught barroom piano virtuoso. “He was the best piano player,” Helene recalls. “When we used to go to parties, he’d play all day.” In 1957, the couple retired to Goodyear Lake. After Tommy’s death in 1972, Helene moved to Nader Towers in 1974. In 1985, Helene moved to the Oneonta Nursing Home.

January 1995

10 Years Ago

Dancers will be swinging at the Elks Club in Oneonta on Saturday to raise money for Hartwick College’s Pine Lake Environmental Campus. A nine-piece band will perform swing music of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and others, said Dr. Stanley Fox, an Oneonta physician and musician who is coordinating the effort. The evening will begin with a swing-dance workshop led by local instructor Linda Leverock. The band takes the stage at 9 p.m. Proceeds will go to Pine Lake programs.

January 2005

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015

A-6 HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Judge Burns: Not All, But Some Of SAFE Act Should Be Preserved JUDGE/From A4 of causing themselves or another serious harm.

This is a very high standard, and reflects the constitutional magnitude of a person’s right of liberty.

Arguably, a person’s right to possession a deadly weapon is not of that magnitude. So other mental health providers use a lesser standard, that being whether there is a simple risk of harm (one individual reportedly had his firearms seized after seeing a doctor for insomnia). The discussion about the proper standard to apply, however, Please See JUDGE, A6 should not be taking place in hospitals and mental health facilities, but rather in the state Legislature.

Unfortunately, this issue is in danger of being ignored as legislators focus on other provisions which are widely unpopular in

significant portions of the state, and which from an objective, informed viewpoint, do nothing to promote public safety. For example, the original SAFE Act prevented hand-gun owners from owning or using magazines (the part of the hand gun that holds ammunition) that hold more than 7 bullets. Only after the law was passed did it become obvious to its sponsors that this provision was impossible to comply with because 7 bullet magazines were simply not manufactured. As a result, the law was amended to provide that the owner could still possess and use a larger magazine, but could only put seven bullets in it. To believe that this promotes public safety, one must accept the somewhat absurd contention that a person contemplating committing the greater crime of multiple murders will be

Drug Plan Aims To Save Lives

HEROIN/From A1 is available 24-7. “We want to create a card to hand out to active users to let them know that there’s help available,” he said. “They could call up, and someone would come get them and help them navigate the steps to get into recovery.”

Clark, a recovering addict himself, presented this idea to the LEAF’s Opiate Task Force at the annual meeting Friday, Jan. 23. “It’s catering to the addict,” he said.

“If all they have to do is call someone who will make them feel better, they’re going to do that. There’s so much red tape about getting into detox that for a lot of

addicts, it’s easier to find $20 for another bag.”

The Facebook group, which now has over 560 members and 11 chapters as far as Arizona and Florida, is helping spread the word that a clean life is a life well lived. “We want to create a status instead of a stigma,” said Clark. “We want to make this group inviting.”

With two heroin-related deaths and a dozen overdoses in the last two weeks, the task force is starting to reach out into the community to raise awareness of the heroin problems locally. “We’re ready to branch out and involve the community,” said LEAF’s Carol Mandigo.

deterred by a prohibition on committing the lesser crime of having 10 bullets in the magazine instead of seven.

Really?

Finally, the SAFE Act omitted a vital provision dealing with the process of obtaining a handgun license.

Currently, the applicant need only pass a thorough background check (which includes fingerprinting, criminal history checks, providing personal references, and an inquiry into any past mental health issues or treatment). It does not, however, require the applicant to demonstrate any knowledge of how to safely use or store the weapon. This would be like handing out a driver’s license to anyone who passes a background check, and not requiring that they pass a driving test. It would seem appropriate to require an applicant to take a safety course from a certified

handgun training officer, and to actually demonstrate, at a firing range, that they can safely use the weapon before they obtain a license to own and carry a handgun. Given the significant number of accidental deaths caused by weapons stored unsafely, standards should be set to prevent children from gaining access to loaded guns. Even national gun rights advocacy groups, such as the National Rifle Association, support the concept of requiring training on the safe use and storage of firearms.

In short, there are provisions of the SAFE Act, that will not deter crime or promote public safety and it is not unreasonable for people to advocate for their repeal.

There are other provisions, however, particularly those dealing with mental health issues, that serve an important role in protecting the

In Attic, Enticing Historical Clues ARTIFACTS/From A1 instead a $5 “Silver Certificate,” a bill dating back to 1891, now worth several hundred dollars.

In another pocket, she found a second $5 bill, this one an 1899 Indian Chief bill.

“That’s about $250 today,” she said. “Whoever lost this wallet lost a lot of money.”

But there was more.

A slip in another pocket identified the wallet as belonging to Miss. Collum, who purchased a subscription to The Oneontan from assistant manager E.J. Edgerton for $1.

Lisa took to Google to solve her mystery and came up with a name – Miss.

Winchie Lee Collum, a teacher for 10 years at The Normal School, forerunner of today’s SUNY Oneonta.

Also in the wallet was a key and a folded list for “five yards skirt lining, three yards taffeta, white China silk, a pretty belt and a launderable collar,” with a scrap of dark purple taffeta and a delicate piece of lace tucked into the pocket. “We figured she was dressing up for a party or a big event at the school,” Lisa said.

“This trim looks like it went around a collar. You’d have to be pretty remarkable to sew this onto anything.”

But the mystery deepened when she spoke with the house’s former owner, Lucka Kratochvilova, and traced the owners back to when the house was built in 1902 – with no Collum on the deed. “How did this wallet get in my attic?”

One theory she has is that the wallet was stolen. “I want to go back through old police reports, see if she reported her wallet missing,” said Lisa.

She’s also planning to access the New York State room at the Huntington Library in hopes of finding more on Miss. Winchie Lee Collum.

public and should not be done away with. Rather, they should be clarified or strengthened. The SAFE Act could be further amended to include additional provisions that at minimal expense would promote safe gun ownership, and inure to the benefit of the

community at large. The SAFE Act is not perfect, but few things in dealing with human affairs are, and it would be a mistake to repeal it in its entirety instead of amending it to more effectively accomplish its goal – the safety of the public.

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA &THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

Resolving 3 M’s, Quelling Revolt, Chairman Clark Looks To Future year, not answering phone CHAIR/From A1 calls or returning messages.

Management Authority, She was replaced by Rick begun two decades before with all good intentions but Hulse, R-Otego, who Clark sees as a rising star and lately uncompetitive. That was dissolved in April, with reappointed to chair the Special Committee on GovCasella Waste Systems, ernment Efficiency.

Oneonta, taking over local • Kay Stuligross, Dtrash disposal.

The third M is microwave Oneonta, chaired the county Health Facilities Corp. towers, and eight of them created to sell The Manor. will be installed this year.

But that “sunsetted” when Transition to the $8 million the task was completed. state-of-the-art emergency Even though Stuligross communications system was among those seeking to link the county’s 23 fire to topple Clark, she was departments is expected to appointed to be complete the powerful in 2016.

AdministraClark, the tion CommitOtego Retee, (which publican who continues to completes be chaired by her fourth Ed Frazier, two-year term R-Unadilla, a this year, restaunch Clark viewed progsupporter ress to date during the in a two-hour recent board interview turmoil.) following an • Clark said unsuccessshe believes ful effort by Jim Powers, Kathy Clark, R-Otego committee chairs should R-Butternuts, rotate out and rebellious Democrats to deny her every three years, to allow other board members to a fourth one-year term as gain experience and to bring county board chair. in fresh perspectives. UnNot asking to comment der that approach, the key off the record even once, plotters - Powers and Linda she traced progress to date, looked ahead, and expressed Rowinski, D-Oneonta, who chaired Public Affairs and her concern that shifts in Solid Waste respectively committee chairmanships -- would have lost their after the unsuccessful coup were considered by some to chairmanships anyhow. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, be “retributive.” a Clark ally in the recent Not so, she said, and she fight, and Beth Rosenthal, went into detail: D-Roseboom, who declined • The former chair of the to back Powers, succeeded Intergovernmental Affairs them.

Committee, Betty Anne However, Clark said, she Schwerd, R-Edmeston, was further dissatisfied with who, struggling with legal Powers on several issues: problems and a death of a His sometimes angry sparson, disappeared at mid-

ring with county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. over 911 policies; tardiness in launching the job search after Public Defender Otto Rothenberg announced his retirement last summer, and the slowness to resolve issues surrounding microwaves -- what to do about pagers for individual firefighters, for instance. By contrast, she characterized Lindberg’s attitude as: “This is what we’ve got to do, so we’ve got to do it.”

Looking ahead, Clark

sketched out issues still to be tackled, foremost economic development, with the county board still reluctant to sign on to the “single point of contact” concept a year after the county Industrial Development Authority recruited Sandy Mathes, the former Greene County economic developer, for that purpose.

Clark said there were “some frayed feelings” after the IDA, via the late Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller and Mathes, asked for a

$250,000 annual county contribution. Some people considered that excessive, she said. (Eventually, the county offered $30,000, which the IDA declined.)

At issue now is “sub-recipient agreements” associated with recently received CFA grants, such as the one to develop a marketing plan for the D&H railyards in Oneonta. The county board has to agree to pass-through such grants, and there is some disagreement about how often the IDA must

report back progress to the board. “When you privatize things,” she observed, “you lose some of that control.”

Raised on Long Island, Kathy Clark first came to Otsego County to attend SUNY Oneonta, where she studied dietetic administration.

She return to SUNY a few years after graduating and rose to director of residential dining services by the time she retired in 2000.

She and husband Bob have three grown children.

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We will recognize 20 young professionals within otsego County who have had a positive impact on the company or organization they work for and the communities in which they live.

Nomination Form RequiRements — nominees must be employed and have lived and worked in Otsego County for at least 2 years.

— nominees must be under 40 years of age as of march 1, 2015.

— nominees must have some community involvement.

Community involvement will be strongly considered. nominees who hold political office will not be considered solely on the basis of political achievements. Professionals in business and non-profit sectors are eligible. individuals are also encouraged to nominate themselves.

Nominations must be received by February 6, 2015.

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MLS#98104 $99,900 3-BR, 3-bath home on 2+ acres offers master BR w/ walk-in closet, 2 LRs w/wood-burning FPs, kitchen w/island, DR w/bar area. 2 decks, 2 outbuildings.

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Close to Greater Plains Elementary! New vinyl siding and windows installed in 2006.

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