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Broadband Breakthrough Due For Otsego Electric Customers

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By JENNIFER HILL ered Internet to most of the western part of the county will begin with fiber broadband access in Laurens.

ONEONTA “Be patient, we’re coming,� said Tim Johnson, CEO, Otsego Electric hen senior RousCooperative. “We’re making rapid seau Beauvais progress and we’ll get there.� and four fraterSeparately, by fall the Otsego Now hopes nities decided to create a Please See INTERNET, A7 Women’s Appreciation Day

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Mark Carbone, manager at Y2 Student Rentals, shovels snow at the Main Street location as the storm barreled down on Tuesday, Feb. 12.

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Suspect Free, DADDY, DAUGHTER 2nd At Large In Fatal Fire

The name of the new suspect was not released, but the D.A. said, “Our investigation he consultants at ONEONTA has revealed additional eviWebb Management dence that ethically will give their final urveillance requires him to be recommendations for a fivevideo taken released. We believe year business plan for the the night of that by the time Oneonta Theatre at 5 p.m. the Dec. 29 fire that Terrence was on the Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Footkilled former Oneonta scene, the fire had alhills. ready been started.�

The performing arts man- firefighter John Heller shows another person, During the felony agement consultants, who not Terrence Truitt, at hearing on Friday, shared their initial findings the scene of the fatal Jan. 4, Michael in December, will report on fire.

Syron, a taxi driver, their study of the local deMuehl And so, District told City Judge Lucy mographics and tourism data Attorney John Muehl directed Bernier that Truitt flagged him for our area and region, and that Truitt, 32, who was ardown at 4 a.m. the morning of give an overview of their recommendations for a five- rested Jan. 2 and charged with the fire in the Friendly’s parking lot next to the house. year business plan, as well as the fatal arson, be released “My brother might be in the estimates of restoration costs Monday, Feb. 11, from Otsego County Jail. house,â€? Syron said Truitt told and devloping an arts and “We have the suspect on him. culture center. tape,â€? said Muehl. “There’s Truitt told detectives that always been a suspicion that he went to the Speedway mart ON OTSEGO.com someone else was involved, next to Main Street Baptist and the new evidence corrobo- Church to call firefighters, â–ş THE ONEONTA HOTEL has rated that other suspect.â€?

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been vacated and put up for sale for $1.85 million with Exit Realty, according to realtor Adam Karns. ► He’s barely taken his seat, but U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19th, is on the National Republican Congressional Committee list of 55 new congressman it intends to unseat in the 2020 elections. ► A 76-YEAR-OLD MAN fled a burning Otego home on 470 County Route 5 Monday, Feb. 11, but had no way to call 911, and the home was destroyed, state police at Troop C report. ► ARTSPACE WOULD BE a perfect fit for Oneonta, according to the final report issued by the consultants.

‘New’ Nick’s Diner Evokes Fond Memories, Fond Food

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heena Thorsland has fond memories of Nick’s Diner. “You’d drink, you’d get hungry, and go to Nick’s,� she said. “We’d eat fries

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with gravy a lot, so we kept that on the menu.�

By LIBBY CUDMORE Sheena re-opened the Oneonta eatery with her husband, Rodney last ONEONTA weekend, and all the old stories came out as diners n Memorial Day returned to the scene.

1922, Mayor C.C. “They claimed they Miller accepted the never emptied out the chili memorial to Ethel Scatchard, Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Please See NICK’S, A6 calling upon “all citizens

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Now 100 years after her death in Paris, historian Robert Calendresa wants the city to honor that promise. “The monument, frankly, Please See STATUE, A6

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Voting Now Open For CSO Conductor Contest

HOMETOWN People Oneonta YMCA Appoints Escher

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l Rubin, president, A&D Taxi, choral director Cindy Donaldson and Libby Cudmore, managing editor of the Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal and AllOTSEGO.com, have all been announced as the competitors in this year’s Catskill Symphony Orchestra conductor contest.

One dollar equals one vote, and whoever raises the most money in the competition will win a chance to conduct the CSO in “Stars and Stripes Forever” during the Cabaret Concert, featuring the Sultans of String, on Saturday, March 9 at the Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta.

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he Oneonta YMCA has appointed Bob Escher as the Team Leader/Friends of the Y. “The Y is a very special place,” said Escher. “The Y lives in every home of every person we serve. I grew up at The Y and it’s so nice to come back full circle and do my best to help others, regardless of income, who want and need this incredibly vital community asset.”

Bob’s role will focus on advocating the important work of the Y programs that transform the lives of others while supporting and increasing fundraising and membership revenue.

According to Frank Russo, Executive Director, The Oneonta Family YMCA serves over 17,000 people throughout Otsego and Delaware counties with a vast array of services each year.

Russo adds that “a locally known, skillful person such as Bob who will focus on advancing our Y mission and cause will be of great benefit for both the Oneonta Y and our community.”

Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Jasmine nurses her puppies at the Susquehanna SPCA. The shelter is looking for a foster family to care for the dogs until they’re old enough to be adopted.

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surrendered dog gave birth to six puppies overnight at the Susquehanna SPCA, and now the shelter is looking for a foster family to take in the mother, Jasmine, and

her brood until the puppies are old enough to be adopted out. According to Becca Daly, communications coordinator, the ideal foster would be a quiet home, with no other pets or young children, and would be able to bring the dogs back to

the shelter as necessary for medical appointments and checkups.

Daly said the dogs, including Jasmine, are all in good health and will be available for adoption after the puppies are weaned, usually 8-10 weeks.

Executive Director Stacie Haynes said that the owners did not tell them Jasmine was pregnant when they surrendered her last week, and when she came in this morning, she found the new puppies.

To volunteer, call (607) 547-8111 ext 100.

AMBROSE TOPS: Wyatt Ambrose, Oneonta, has been named to the Dean’s List at SUNY Purchase, where he is studying Jazz Music Performance.

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-3 Tim Gargash enjoys a tender dance with his daughter Skylar, who is wearing a dress he hand-made for her especially for the occasion.

As the music strikes up, Jenna Czarnecki, Oneonta, pulls father John to the dance floor for her second year at the annual Father Daughter Dance.

Daddy-Daughter Tradition Floyd Albert, Oneonta, and daughter Georgia get in some pre-dinner dancing at the annual Father Daughter Dance on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Hunt Union Ballroom.

The soldout annual event invites daddies and their daughters to spend the evening dining and dancing.

Brett Holleran, Oneonta, picks out a beautiful rose for his beautiful date, daughter Bella.

Fred Rivera wasn’t going to let an ankle injury keep him from showing his daughter Jada a wonderful evening.

Randy Brunage, Oneonta, and daughter Paige share a slow dance to ‘Butterfly Kisses’

Aiden Vanessendelft, Cooperstown, dips daughter Lily on the dance floor.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019

DiPERNA TESTIFIES IN HOUSE

U.S. Companies Seeing Profit In Climate Change Editor’s Note: Paula DiPerna of Cooperstown, a special adviser with CDP-North America (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project), which tracks companies’ environmental performance, testified Wednesday, Feb. 6, before the House Committee on Natural Resources.

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he withdrawal (from the Paris Agreement) has left the U.S. as the only nation on earth to stand outside the circle of consensus that Climate Change must be addressed, not only because of the risks it poses, but the extraordinary

nations in the world enact rules that could hamper the ability of U.S. companies to compete as they struggle to smooth out uneven legal and operational requirements across global operations. … Recognizing that addressing Climate Change is essential to longterm financial value creation, mainstream investors are also recognizing the significant upside of shifting capital to companies that take environmental and social factors into strategic account in their business management.

According to the Sustainable InvestPaula DiPerna, herself a former Congressional candidate, ment Forum of the confers with U.S. Rep. U.S.: “‘Sustainable, Antonio Delgado, D-19th, responsible and imafter testifying before the pact’ (SRI) investing House Committee on Natural in the United States Resources in Washington D.C. continues to expand at a healthy pace. opportunities that addressing The total U.S.-domiciled it represents as we redesign, assets under management retool, rebuild and refit using SRI strategies grew almost all our critical infrafrom $8.7 trillion at the start structure, generating jobs of 2016 to $12 trillion at the and helping the U.S. regain start of 2018, an increase dominance of 21st century of 38 percent. This repretechnological innovation sents 26 percent – or one in and manufacturing. four dollars – of the $46.6 For example, in Maryland, trillion in total U.S. assets Lockheed Martin Corp., under professional managewhich has more than 590 ment.” facilities in 50 states and And, in a basic core employs 100,000 people indication of how integrated worldwide, … identified low-carbon efficiency has the use of lower-emission become, the S&P 500 energy sources as a $21 carbon efficient index, billion opportunity. which over-weights carbon...Sometimes it is said efficient companies and that American companies under-weights carbon-inare worried about regulation tensive companies, is now on Climate Change hurting tracking virtually to “a T” business. with the venerable classic On the contrary, comS&P500, an alignment that panies are quite concerned indicates if nothing else that about Climate Change itself, it does not cost mainstream and what they do need, companies or their shareabove all, is the certainty holders, if low-carbon intenof a level playing field sity and energy efficiency established by public policy, are prioritized. especially as all the other On the contrary.

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County Rep. Kennedy Right To Seek Faulty Policy’s End State Law ‘Silent’ On Issue – So Stick To What Law Does Say

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he end of what is, at best, an anomaly, may be in sight.

County Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Mount Vision, says she plans to ask the Administration Committee she chairs to remove two extralegal clauses from a policy it passed last month: “Use of Photographic Equipment and Recording Devices at County Meetings.”

The complete policy appears in the box at right.

The purported goal, “to allow meetings to be conducted in an orderly manner,” is unobjectionMeg Kenable, although nedy said she no incident has will ask her occurred to committee to spur that. remove extraHowever, legal limits one provision, on recording county board requiring meetings. photographers and videographers to “sign in” – to register with the government, Soviet style – is anathema to the press, and will be to the general public, too, as citizens increasingly use iPhones to record parts of meetings they find significant.

A second provision, unilateral “exclusion from the meeting at the discretion of the chair,” with no appeal or due process of any kind, is likewise worthy of Fidel Castro. Off with their cabezas!

Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal and www.AllOTSEGO.com raised these concerns with Robert Freeman, executive director, state Committee on Open Government, an arm of the New York Department of State, and he also concluded the policy is flawed. His full statement also appears at right.

• County Attorney Ellen Coccoma, at the Feb. 6 meeting of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, defended the policy she developed.

But when asked about the two objectionable clauses, replied, “The law is silent on this.”

Put another way, the county attorney, whom the board depends on to provide accurate legal guidance, came up with two limitations on the freedoms of press and public that are not enabled in a guiding statute, the state Freedom of Information Act, on the books since 1977.

By doing so, she also may have opened the county board to financial liability: In an amendment signed into law in December 2017, the county would have to pay legal fees if a chal-

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To Robert Freeman Executive Director Committee On Open Government Dear Mr. Freeman: The Freeman’s Journal, Hometown Oneonta and their AllOTSEGO.com site began videotaping county board meetings 18 months ago. The administrative committee has now passed this policy: “Use Of Photographic And Recording Devices At County Meetings “In compliance with the Open Meetings Law, Otsego County allows photographing, recording and transmission of County meetings subject to the Open Meetings Law by persons using video, audio, still photography or other similar equipment or devices so long as the equipment or device and the personnel used to operate same are not disruptive or obtrusive.

“In order to allow the meetings to be conducted in an orderly manner, anyone wishing to use such equipment or device must sign in with the Clerk of the Board of Representatives for assignment to a specified location.

“Walking about the meeting room or moving to a different location is not permitted without the consent of the Chair of the Board of Representatives or the respective committee as applicable. Violations of these guidelines may result in exclusion from the meeting at the discretion of the Chair of the Board or Committee as the case may be.”

• Most of this appears to follow the language of the law. However, we object to two things: 1. that we have to “sign in” to cover a public meeting.

2. that our reporters can be “excluded” for not following the rules. I would think they can halt the videotaping if we don’t follow the rules, but excluding our reporters doesn’t sound right.

Jim Kevlin Editor Dear Mr. Kevlin: I agree that a person cannot be required to “sign in” or identify him/herself as a condition precedent to attending or otherwise carrying out lawful behavior at a meeting. Section 103 of the Open Meetings Law specifies that meetings of public bodies are open to the general public. An attendee might reside in your community or Timbuktu; it wouldn’t matter.

For that reason, it has consistently been advised that a person cannot be required to sign in when that person wants to attend a meeting, nor can a person be required to identify him/herself when a public body permits From the Ithacan the public to speak during meetings.

Further, based on the same provision, I Robert Freeman is do not believe that those in attendance can one of the foremost be excluded or ejected from a meeting. If experts on the state’s movement is disruptive, I believe that a rule Open Meetings Law. prohibiting disruptive behavior would be valid.

However, if that disruptive behavior ends, a person would, in my view, have the right to remain at the meetings.

Robert Freeman

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►RELATED STORY, SEARCH ‘VIDEOTAPING’ ON www. lenge “substantially prevailed,” which Freeman’s opinion suggests is possible.

And the Coccoma Protocol, if you will, is already having a negative effect on news coverage.

As a public service, AllOTSEGO. com has been videotaping monthly county board meetings for more than two years now, but board chair Dave Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, said the videographer would probably have to register, so the Feb. 6 meeting went unrecorded.

Kennedy’s Administration Committee meets at 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22.

The question it must answer: Who should control news coverage of the county board and the $110 million government it controls? Independent news outlets and citizen watchdogs, or the county board itself?

The answer’s clear.

• As can happen, one anomaly can draw attention to others.

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ately we have taken on a project that we not only do not like very much, but also would not recommend, namely reading more than one book at a time. Although the he-we would often be reading more than one book, we have never been a fan of doing so. However, due to an interesting set of circumstances, we found ourselves doing just that.

Not long ago, James M. McPherson’s “Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era” was next up in our pile of books to be read. So we commenced to reading it. But, no sooner had we started the Civil War book, when we were informed by our local bookstore, Paragraphs, that “Once Upon a Time at the Opera House: Drama at Three Historic Michigan

Theaters, 18821928,” by James Berton Harris had come in.

And since the opera house book was written by not only a good friend, but also a CATHERINE colleague during our time at both LAKE the University ELLSWORTH of Michigan and Boston University, we decided to postpone the Civil War book and take up the opera house book.

Unfortunately, given not only the shape, but also the weight, of the opera house book, we found we were

unable to read it during our daily two 30-minute times riding the exercise bike. Thus we decided we would read the opera book while enjoying our morning coffee and return to the Civil War book while exercising.

Having settled quite nicely into this reading routine, our granddaughter arrived with yet another book, “ArielFoundation Park” by Aaron J. Keirns, which she had promised to share with us. So we put aside the Civil War book in favor of the book on the Ariel-Foundation Park.

Fortunately, we did manage to keep all the books straight. We also discovered that all three books greatly added to our understanding of their various subjects.

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Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

150 Years Ago

News Items from Elsewhere – The employment of a young colored mechanic in the clock factory at New Haven so hurt the dignity of a dozen Irishmen that they demanded his discharge. They obtained, instead, their own discharges and their places were supplied by more sensible men.

Larry Larkin, an Irish boy who worked in the print works at Manchester enlisted in the 10th New Hampshire Regiment, fought bravely, was promoted to a captaincy, and is now Mayor of Weldon, North Carolina.

The Senate Military Committee has come to the tardy decision that Negroes who had been slaves were entitled to the same bounty as other volunteer soldiers.

February 1869

125 Years Ago

Council,” Mayor Hughes said. “All three Democratic aldermen are against it.” However, a check with all three Democrats showed they are open-minded on the subject. Only 14 of the 62 cities in New York State have city managers.

February 1959

40 Years Ago

Governor Hugh Carey tightened the budgetary screws on Oneonta State and several other state colleges through the mechanism of a “faculty rank adjustment” expected to raise howls from union and administration leaders alike at upcoming legislative budget hearings. Cut from Oneonta’s $16 million state purposes budget is $124,000 for the faculty adjustments. The state university as a whole was cut by $1 million. The adjustment is supposed to bring Oneonta’s faculty with those of “peer institutions,” according to Helen Baldo, assistant to college president Clifford Craven.

Oneonta was found to have a disproportionate number of faculty in upper higher-paying ranks in the comparison study, she said. Faculty ranks start with lecturer and rise through instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, to full professor. The average salary of an instructor at state university colleges is $13,739. For some reason, the lecturers get more -- $15,257. Assistant professors are paid $16,585, associate professors $18,690 and full professors, $20,512. The budget is intended to force the college to save by hiring new teachers at lower ranks to replace senior faculty who retire or leave.

February 1979

100 Years Ago

Oneonta boys have been too long neglected. While there has been aroused of late an increased interest in the work of the Boy Scouts it is felt that the Oneonta Y.M.C.A. affords an excellent opportunity for effective work. After several conferences between the directors of the Y.M.C.A. and the Oneonta Chamber of Commerce a drive to raise $5,000 – which is needed annually to put the association on a strong financial footing so that a man trained in boys’ work can be employed and the association can do the work the city so much needs – will soon be inaugurated.

The cause is one which should appeal to every loyal citizen as the boys of today are the men of tomorrow. The boys of the city are its greatest asset and one has but to open his eyes to see where many of the youths of today are drifting.

The cause is urgent and the need great.

February 1919

80 Years Ago

John Thomas, a newcomer to the Oneonta High School Dramatic Club productions, will have the leading role of Buddy in the three-act comedy “Going on Seventeen,” to be given in the school auditorium on Thursday and Friday evenings, February 23 and 24. Buddy is the lad who is “Going on Seventeen” and around whose affairs the plot revolves. Playing opposite him in the feminine lead will be Miss Betty Griffin whose part is that of Lillums. She will also be making her debut before Dramatic Club audiences.

Miss Harriet Nesbitt will be appearing in her third production as Florence Carhart, Buddy’s sister. David Epstein will be Shrimple, one of Buddy’s close friends. Miss Eleanor Huntington will play the part of the mother and Miss Martha Disbrow that of Agnes. Tickets may be secured at the

Juggling Books A Challenge – Don’t Throw Your Back Out

20 Years Ago

The 1918 flu that killed more than 20 million people may have quietly percolated for several years until suddenly growing strong enough to become the world’s worst February 1894 pandemic according to a report issued by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. The gene likely “was adapting in Corner Bookstore or from members of the cast and at the humans or in swine for maybe several years before it broke door for each performance. out as a pandemic virus,” said molecular biologist Ann February 1939 Reid, lead author of the study.

February 1999

60 Years Ago

Oneonta Mayor Roger G. Hughes said yesterday he is “emphatically opposed” to the city manager form of government. The topic was discussed at an informal meeting of aldermen Tuesday night with attorney Roger J. Hathaway and Dr. Sanford D. Gordon outlining the plan, known also as the “Council-Manager Plan.” Dr. Alexander F. Carson, Democrat, and former mayor, already has issued a statement against the plan, and Mayor Hughes did the same yesterday. “It doesn’t stand a chance passing the Common

10 Years Ago

“Carl Delberta was one of the greats.” Gary Dilello was reminiscing about his friend and mentor, Carl J. Delberta Sr., the founder of the Oneonta Boys and Girls Club and former professional boxer, who passed away at the Oneonta Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center in Oneonta on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. He was 92.

Feb. 13, 2009

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From the Civil War to opera houses to local history, our columnist found herself reeling.

COLUMN/From A4 While the opera house book focuses on three opera houses in Michigan, it also presented a most interesting accounting of the importance of opera houses in the entertainment opportunities afforded over the years to residents, most particularly those in rural areas of the country.

In addition to specific details about the opera houses, the book also covers such topics as minstrel shows; vaudeville; moving pictures; popular plays, including ethnic plays and personalities; and musicals.

There is also a section on “Stars of the Stage.”

All in all, it was a great read and included many interesting pictures and certainly gave us a comprehensive understanding of the opera houses that existed in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

The book about the ArielFoundation Park includes a fabulous history of the various industries located over the years in Knox County, Ohio. In talking about how local resources influenced the industry, it was pointed out, “Of all of Knox County’s resources, natural gas may have played the most important role in fueling the area’s early industrial growth.”

Natural gas was first discovered in Knox County when several oil wells

were drilled in 1868. And it has played an important role in the industry located in Mount Vernon, Knox County’s only city, to this day.

• And finally, in only 862 pages, the Civil War book not only covers the war itself but also the fascinating history leading up to the war. We found the chapters on the two decades before the war to be particularly interesting as they presented very clearly the division in the country at that time. It was a division that unfortunately could not be healed by peaceful means and thus led to the Civil War. We hasten to note that not only have we survived our reading of multiple books, at the same time, we have also decided that all three of the books most definitely added to our goal of embracing lifelong learning. Of course, we must admit that we are not certain they will help our goal of lifelong remembering. Consequently, we will most definitely keep the books in the family should we need to refer to them in the future.

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ast November the so-called clusion that a distant and arrogant elite ‘Yellow Vest’ movement exwas to blame. This elite had overseen ploded across France. A new the steady erosion of public services, gasoline tax imposed by the Macron from hospitals and schools to public government sent waves of transportation, stewarding protesters into the streets. rising inequality while abComing out in large numstaining from paying taxes, bers, they donned as their symand stood by as workbol the yellow safety vests the ing- and middle-class job French government requires security gave way to the all motorists to keep in their precarious fluidity of the vehicles in case of emergency. contemporary labor market.

The protesters called for a “What’s more, people were repeal of the gas tax. Initial realizing that something reports pictured them as rural should be done about all right-wing populists frustrated ADRIAN of this.”

KUZMINSKI by the supposedly pro-enviThe protests have continronment and pro-immigrant ued and intensified. What policies of the establishment governis of particular interest is that protestment. ers didn’t just march and block highAnd indeed the protesters included ways, but called weekly committee anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic elemeetings in towns across the country ments, as well as supporters of Marine to develop strategy and policy. These Le Pen’s nationalistic National Front spontaneous town meetings have been party. regularized, and have begun to funcBut this first take of the movement tion as alternatives to the traditional appears to be a stereotype foisted on it governmental structures in France. by opponents and critics. The protestThe latest development is a national ers, according to subsequent reports, network linking the movement togethweren’t opposed to the gas tax because er, not only through social media, but they were Climate Change deniers, in a representative national assembly, what the Yellow Vests call the “Asbut because the tax would have fallen sembly of Assemblies.” It convened disproportionately on lower income people without access to cheap public last month in Commercy, France, with transportation. about 300 delegates from 75 groups In fact, a much broader range of isacross the country. sues prompted the protests.

What did the delegates decide?

According to Stetler, what emerged In a recent article in The Nation, Harrison Stetler writes: “More and from the final Declaration “is simply a more people were coming to the conproduct of democratic common sense.

Yellow vests are available at webrestaurantstore.com and other online stores for as little at $3.99.

With a vociferous denunciation of inequality and police violence, calls for the restoration of free public services, a radical response to Climate Change that targets the greatest polluters in society, and a celebration of the cultural differences in France and among the movement, the declaration cuts against the common narrative about the Yellow Vests.”

What does all this have to do with us? We are facing exactly the same challenges as the French.

We too are divided between a growing socially and economically insecure middle class, and an out-of-touch and seemingly ever-richer elite.

We too suffer the consequences of unregulated corporate capitalism, Please See KUZMINSKI, A6

EDITORIAL: Lawmakers Should Obey The Law EDITORIAL/From A4 At some point, the 14-member county board surrendered its policy-making responsibilities to its six-member Administration Committee.

In this case, when “Admin” met Jan. 29, the county attorney characterized “Use of Photographic Equipment and Recording Devices at County Meetings” as a routine matter, according to Kennedy. Five of the six committee members in

attendance – County Rep. Andrew Stammel, D-Oneonta, had departed – passed it routinely, and Coccoma it immediately became county board policy.

Look at the county board’s makeup: Four reps are in their first term; another five in their second terms. Most, you can

be sure, were unaware the authority of their elective offices had been surrendered to a committee at some time in the past for forgotten reasons.

The full board should change the Rules of Order and take its authority back.

If the 14 are to be governed by a policy, it should be presented as a resolution and be voted on by the full 14.

Even the Administration Committee itself – Kennedy,

Stammel and county Reps.

Ed Frazier, Gary Koutnik, Keith McCarty and Peter Oberacker – no doubt agrees with that.

• A final thought: Robert Freeman is available to give seminars on the FoI Act and open meetings. The county board should invite in him in to do one here. After all, you have to know the law to follow it.

The county attorney should be there, too.

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Seeking Other Suspect, D.A. Frees Truitt, Held For Arson

Historian: Fix Monument Honoring WWI Volunteer

STATUE/From A1 is deteriorating,” he said ARSON/From A1 during his presentation on then went back to the house her life Saturday, Feb. 9, at but found it “too smoky” to the Oneonta History Center. enter.

“While the city endlessly Oneonta Police Chief Doug debates wine bars, beverage Brenner said that Truitt’s centers and food courts, poor brother, Gabriel Truitt, is still Ethel’s monument remains a “person of interest,” in the neglected.” case, but that they have been HOMETOWN ONEONTA Calendresa, who has unable to locate him at this Mystery surrounds the researched Scatchard’s life time. fatal arson at 5 Walling for more than a decade, made Muehl said that accelerant Ave. the plea in honor of the 100th was found on the door and the and he got them to safety anniversary of death from floor outside of apartment #3 before collapsing from smoke pneumonia Feb. 11, 1919, in the at 5 Walling Ave. The tenant, inhalation. Heller’s body French capital, where she had Heather Engler, is believed to was found by firefighters been working at a Red Cross have been “an acquaintance” near the same window he canteen following the Armistice of Gabriel and was known to had helped his fiancée and that ended World War I. Terrence. nephews escape through, and “I would always go However, an open window he was pronounced dead at walking in the park and see on the third floor, where Fox Hospital. His death was the plaque,” he said. “There Heller and his fiancée, Amber declared a homicide after were so many more questions Roe, lived, drew the fire to investigators determined that than there were answers.” the third floor. “The fire just the fire was set intentionally.

Scatchard, the daughter of followed the draft right up the When the other suspect Elmer and Fannie Scatchard, stairs,” said Muehl. is identified, Muehl said, a worked as a director, and later Heller’s four nephews, grand jury will be convened. supervisor, at the Waterbury Donovan, 9, Maddox, 7, Should the grand jury indict, a Macall, 5 and Rawley, 2, were warrant will be issued for the (Conn.) Institute of Craft & Industry. When the war broke staying with him that night, suspect’s arrest. out, she returned to Oneonta

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After the Feb. 9 lecture by ­Robert Calendresa, right, on Ethel Scratchard, the World War I volunteer who died of pneumonia in Paris, the historian accompanied her relatives to the monument in her honor in Neahwa Park. From left are Pat Wheeler, Karen Bruning, JoAnn Launt and Nancy O’Hara.

to work as a secretary at the local Red Cross chapter, as well as teaching courses in surgical dressing.

One year before her death, the Otsego County Farm Bureau News reported that she

had given a talk on meat substitutes to the Women’s Club.

“But that wasn’t enough,” said Calendresa. “She wanted to be of service, and get directly involved, so she signed up for overseas service.”

She left to set sail for France Nov 20, 1918, just nine days after the end of WWI, and worked at the canteen in Gare du Nord, the famous railroad station, for just under two months before her death at age 32.

Though a civilian, she was buried with full military honors in Suresnes American Cemetery. Though the

government sent three letters to her mother offering to bring her remains home, the letters, Calendresa said, went unanswered.

The funds for her memorial were raised in a campaign spearheaded by her friend Florence Hemstreet, president of the Women’s Club, of which Ethel had been a member. “She went to art school in Boston, so her area of study went to good use designing the monument we see today,” said Calendresa.

Her love of nature was reflected in the monument’s design, with the drinking fountain draining into a birdbath, which then drains into a stone-enclosed pool where dogs and other animals drink.

However, Calendresa noted, the drinking fountain has not worked for as long as he can remember.

The monument cost $1,200 and was made possible by donations from over 4,000 women, including girls from the local Girl Scout troops.

Scatchard’s great nieces, Joann Launt, Karen Bruning, Pat Wheeler and Nancy O’Hera, were at Calendresa’s talk, and also support fixing the monument.

Wheeler’s daughter Megan Beauchamp, along with her husband Tom and two daughters, Grace and Paige, visited Scatchard’s grave this past July.

‘Yellow Vests’ Warning To U.S.

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KUZMINSKI/From A5 Climate Change, economic stagnation, social tensions and environmental degradation.

Historically, France has been a model of revolutionary change for other countries.

Insofar as our political institutions are unable to respond to the same issues that are convulsing France, something similar may happen here. It should be recognized, however, that this populist challenge need not be divisive. Note the inclusiveness and humanitarianism of the Declaration of the Assemblies of Assemblies reported above.

The Yellow Vests in France are a warning. We need structural political and economic reform in this country to deal peacefully with our economic, social, and environmental issues before they overflow into open protests.

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A constructive solution might be for France to somehow incorporate the new movement into its political system, giving a real democratic voice to its grassroots.

We might look to a similar solution to our political problems.

It was Thomas Jefferson, after all, who thought the American Revolution incomplete until grassroots assemblies were made the basis of government, and fully represented in more inclusive state and national bodies.

Whatever form it takes, democratic accountability is essential to any society based on popular sovereignty. We ignore it at our peril.

Adrian Kuzminski, retired Hartwick College philosophy professor and Sustainable Otsego moderator, lives in Fly Creek.

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Otsego Electric Starts Broadband Expansion INTERNET/From A1 to launch its downtown Cooperstown WiFi Hotspot project through MIDTEL, Middleburgh Telephone Co. These projects are smaller parts of the initiative begun in 2016. The larger broadband initiative was designed

by FARR Technologies for the entire county; however, that was stalled in part by the Spectrum/Time Warner merger.

Meanwhile, Hartwick-based Otsego Electric stepped in, and plans to bring over 500 miles of fiber cable to its service area, from Unadilla up the Butternuts Valley to Richfield.

Residential speeds will start at 100 megabits at $49.95 a month or 1 gigabit at $79.95 a month.

In an interview Monday, Feb. 11, Johnson said he’s confident “knowledgable workers, remote employees, and telemedicine” will be well-served at those speeds. Cell phones will connect via a special modem that comes at no extra charge and will likely work better than current service through cell towers.

Slow digital connectivity is common in rural areas, due to low population density that are more expensive to serve than more populated areas. Otsego Electric averages 4-5 members per mile; NYSEG has at least twice that.

“We are very rural and our membership is underserved or un-served,” said Johnson. “When we started this endeavor members were struggling with terrible DSL or satellite connections.

Satellite connections are affected by capacity limits, weather, and speed.”

He continued, “When I came here

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Otsego Electric CEO Tim Johnson points out the company’s prospective broadband footprint: The whole west side of Otsego County.

in 2016, my first job was to investigate pursuing the New York State Broadband Initiative. We were awarded $4 million in the second phase of the initiative to build 260 miles of fiber. This has become the backbone of the network.”

The grants don’t pay for the entire project. The cooperative has to shoulder 20 to 30 percent of the cost and the grants come from a combination of state and federal sources.

“More miles are coming. In 2017 we were awarded $10 million total for the next phase. That will pay for another 270 miles of fiber. That will get us to about 550 miles and we hope to be able to build out to all of our members.”

The second local broadband initiative, Cooperstown’s downtown WiFi Hotspot project has been in the works for several years.

“We are in process of finalizing contracts with the New York State

Dormitory Authority to help pay for a WiFi Hotspot set up in the commercial area of the commercial district in Cooperstown,” said Jody Zakrevsky, Otsego Now CEO. “The IDA is to receive $250,000 from Dorms and the Village receive 57k from the Empire State Development fund.”

Installation of the high-speed WiFi project will be started this summer in Cooperstown. Approximately 15 to 20 access points, or antenna boxes, will be placed throughout the downtown area and commercial district.

Coverage will be on all of Main Street up to Fair Street and on Chestnut Street up to the Chamber of Commerce building. The coverage will also go West almost to the County building on Upper Main Street.

At any one time, approximately 5,000 individuals will be able to use the system via their cell phones or tablets and laptops.

There will be three tiers, Becker explained. An hour of low-speed access will be free, for someone who might just want to check email or read a menu.

Another option is high-speed with no time limits, available for a monthly fee, or a “tourist option,” where access can be purchased for a few days at a time.

The project will be constructed

by MidTel Communications in Middleburgh. Jim Becker, President of MidTel said that “We are very familiar with the Village because we have been providing the broadband and wireless services to the Hall of Fame for Induction Weekend.”

SUNY Valentine’s Focus: Express and Celebrate

to express themselves through EVENT/From A1 moves, dance, rhythm – it’s after Christmas and New Year’s to put it on,” Rousseau brotherhood, expression, protest, and celebration all at said. “Valentine’s Day was once.” Strolling, also called the next main holiday, so we decided to have it on Feb. 13.” stepping, is a tradition of black fraternities Like last year, and sororities the fraternities, going back Phi Beta Sigma, almost 100 years.

Lambda Alpha “People love Upsilon, and it when we stroll the Brothers for anywhere, but Empowerment they especially are planning the loved it at second Women’s Appreciation Appreciation Day Day,” Beauvais on Valentine’s said. “The Day Eve, crowd last Wednesday, Feb. year was very 13, in the Center involved. They for Multicultural Experiences in HOMETOWN ONEONTA & like it when men Lee Hall.

The Freeman’s Journal express themselves in a posiAnd like last SUNY Oneonta year, the event student Rousseau tive manner.”

The modern will be a fusion Beauvais is again organizing part of Women’s of traditional, a Valentine’s Appreciation romantic Appreciation Day Day – both last Valentine’s on campus. year and this year activities and of – is that women a more modern are not passive recipients of celebration of women’s the men’s attention. They are empowerment. invited to express and celebrate “We’re going to serve women food, give them some their empowerment on stage as well, including their thoughts spa treatment, and do some on sexism. dances for them.”

Nazhaya Barcelona, a Last year, the men served junior at SUNY who attended their guests slices of pizza, the inaugural Women’s which Domino’s donated to the event. SUNY’s Office of Appreciation Day along with about 40 women, said the Equity and Inclusion (OEI) men “wanted anyone who gave the fraternities funds wanted to, to get up on the and will again this year.

All the customers there stage and speak poetry, do This year, chicken, rice Monday night said the food spoken word. Women there and beans are on the menu, was very good. Hinkley last year spoke about loving with cookies and chocolaterecommended the homemade pies. yourself, not letting men take covered strawberries for All the customers who knew dessert. Beauvais plans to advantage of you.”

Nick’s 30 to 60 years ago “The fact that they threw decorate the tables, which noted the contrast between the have room for six to seven an event like that was nice,” polished, gleaming wooden she said. She will go to guests, more this year, with floors and clean interior of Women’s Appreciation Day Valentine-themed table today’s Nick’s, and the aging this year as well and take coverings and vases of interior and not-so-clean floors flowers on each one. more friends with her. and walls.

Beauvais will graduate Like last year, the men will “It was just a different time,” also paint nails and give hand in the spring, but he hopes Kilts said. the Women’s Appreciation massages with lotion for But if the past four days Day will keep happening at those who want them.

And at Nick’s are any indication, SUNY Oneonta every year. they will bring back what it looks as if the restaurant “I found out you can Beauvais said was the event’s will once again be a place for kind of create history and highlight and what women people to gather. events for the school,” he appreciated the most last Nick’s Diner’s is open 6 said. “Maybe Women’s year: dance performances or a.m-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, “strolling” by each fraternity. Appreciation day can become and 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday a tradition here.”

“Strolling,” he explained, and Sunday at 220 Chestnut St. “is a way for the fraternities

Fond Memories Bring Patrons Back To ‘New’ Nick’s NICK’S/From A1 pot,” Bruce Hinkley, who is in his mid-60s and frequented Nick’s in the 1960s, said, as he ate at the Nick’s counter Monday night. “If you had the chili, you had outrageous dreams afterward, I think because it fermented.”

Hinkley said he would go to Nick’s after drinking in the bars, which closed at 1 or 2 a.m.

“It was the only place opened 24 hours. The bartenders would come down, too,” he remembered. “We’d eat the chili to get the dreams.

You could take a trip and never leave the farm.”

Former Common Council Member Madolyn Palmer, who was having dinner with her friends, Charlotte Georgia and Barbara Blanchard, had

memories of going to Nick’s Diner in her youth that were less lurid. “It wasn’t as sparkly then,” she said. “But it was fun. We’d come here late, after midnight. It was a place for friends to gather. People went out a lot more then.”

Another past-and-present customer, Dawn Kilts, recounted sneaking out of her house at 3 or 4 a.m. when she was a teenager and getting a late-night snack at Nick’s. “I lived up the hill. I would come down and get toast and eggs,” she said. “I don’t think my mother ever knew I snuck out.”

“The whole place was filled with smoke. Everyone smoked back then, but I was a smoker, so it was all right,” she added.

Kilts’ friend, Rafael Sason said he didn’t go to Nick’s Diner in the past that often

because of all the smoke.

“I quit smoking in my early 20s and didn’t want to be around it,” he said.

But Sason, who was used to going out to dinner after 10 p.m. in New York City before moving to Oneonta in 1986, said he was relieved Nick’s was open late at night. He welcomed Nick’s re-opening and looked forward to it becoming a 24-hour restaurant again in the future.

“Having a place available late at night is huge,” he said.

And Nick’s seemed a perfect place for Sason, Kilts and their friend Janet Sutta to go to Monday night after attending a class on politics and film they are auditing at SUNY. However, the Thorslands have not yet specified when the diner would go to 24 hours.

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In 1931, GE President Owen D. Young, then the presumptive nominee for the Democrat nomination for President in 1932, invited New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt to the dedication of the school in Van Hornesville that bears Young’s name. By 1932, FDR had outstripped Young for the Democratic nod, and went on to be elected President four times.

STILL NO TRUMP: Another year has gone by, but the current sitting president, Donald Trump, has still to make it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame or Otsego County generally. Surprising, given that, according to some reports, he was scouted for the Phillies and the Red Sox on graduating from high school, choosing to go to college and into his dad’s real-estate business instead.

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On May 22, 2014, Barack Obama made history, becoming the first sitting president to visit the Hall of Fame.

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HE DIDN’T SLEEP HERE: George Washington visited Otsego Lake’s outlet in 1783 to view where General Clinton blew up the dam that allowed his army aboard bateaux to surprise the Iroquois at Oquaga (Afton), disperse the tribe and open the way for New Englanders to settle Otsego County after the American Revolution. After a gala at Swanwick, the lakeside mansion, he reportedly rode on the Fort Plain that night.

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he Friday before Thursday, May 22, 2014, then-mayor Jeff Katz was hanging out in the kitchen of his Chestnut Street home with son Robbie, who had just gotten home from SUNY Oswego, when the phone rang.

It was Police Chief Mike Covert.

With his son just having arrived, the mayor ignored it. The chief called “twice, three times… It had to be important for him to do that.”

Covert didn’t want to talk on the phone. “You can meet me on the front porch,” said Katz, and it was there he got the news.

“I just got word Obama’s coming,” said the breathless chief, as Katz described it. “Next Thursday.

Here’s what we know. There will be more to come. As of now, it’s a secret.”

The next night, Katz was at the Southside Cinemas in Oneonta, watching “Godzilla” with sons Robbie and Joey. “My phone started ringing,” people calling about the rumors he couldn’t talk about. “The next morning, Obama announced Please See OBAMA, B3

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It’s said Congressman George Fairchild hosted Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft at different times at his mansion at Main Street and Grand Avenue, Oneonta, now the Masonic Temple. Fairchild, publisher of the Oneonta Herald, would later be first chairman of IBM. 3 FOR COOPERSTOWN: The first black president, Barack Obama, also broke the mold in choosing Kehinde Wiley, a Yale University-trained painter CNN described as famous for his depiction of African-Americans posed in the style of Old Master paintings, regal, formal and filled with pops of color, a contrast to most presidential portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.

The past three sitting presidents, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton all visited the Baseball Hall of Fame at some point, Obama while he was still in office.

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Polar Bear Plunge, Heart Health, Brunch, Plenty of Tunes

Mataiah Waters and her boyfriend, Mike Strenck, took the Polar Bear plunge in 2018.

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ome cheer the bravest divers around as they take the icy plunge into Goodyear Lake to raise money for sick kids and their families at the annual Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump. 9:30 a.m. registration, 12:30 p.m. jump. Saturday, Feb. 16, Goodyear Lake.

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The annual outdoor games come inside as Lumberjacks show off their stuff. Demonstrations and music by Nick LeDuc. All proceeds benefit the Daily Bread Food Pantry, 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, Cherry Valley Community Center, 2 Genesee St., Cherry Valley.

• Hearts aren’t just for Valentine’s Day! Honor yours with a 3-mile indoor walk, a health fair with 40+ vendors, hands-only CPR training, free fitness classes, blood pressure/cholesterol/ glucose checks, cancer

screening kits, more.

Furry friends will also be available for adoption from Susquehanna LIBBY SPCA, CUDMORE others. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 16, Foxcare Center, Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-5009.

• Share a Valentine’s Day brunch with your sweetie and help support the Catskill Symphony Orchestra. JoAnn Chmielowski will serenade

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as you dine. Seatings at 11 a.m., 12:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, Heritage at the Plains, 163 Hertitage Circle, Oneonta. Info, tickets (607) 441-3206.

• Shake off the winter blahs with the Guilty Pleasures Cabaret as they present an immersive carnival experience. 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, The Church, 2381 St. Hwy. 205, Mount Vision.

• Sing A Song of Broadway presents more “Wishes, Lies, and Dreams” featuring music from My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Into the Woods, Seussical, Camelot, and many more! $10. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, First United “Red Door” Presbyterian Church, Oneonta. Info (607) 287-8669 • Just because it’s chilly doesn’t mean you can stay on the couch! The Frozen Toes 5K aims to get your blood pumping. 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 16, Clark Sports Center. Info (607) 547-2800.

• A staged reading of Sandi Dollinger’s “The Great Lithuanian Bake-Off” is the latest entry in the annual NEXT! Readings of New Works by Regional Playwrights. 4-6 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 16, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-1400.

• The Hartwick College Theatre Arts Department performs Owen Sheers’ “Pink Mist.” $5 students, $10 general admission. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 14-16, The Lab Theatre, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College. Info (607) 431-4227.

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At 25 Main St., Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson was having a similar experience.

The day before Covert called Katz, Idelson’s office phone likewise rang. It was Ken Meifert, VP for development, telling his boss he’d just gotten a call from the White House. “It was the White House’s idea; and I can’t think of a better one,� said Idelson at the time, which just happened to be the Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary year.

The visit would be a historic one, not just for the Hall, but for Otsego County. The county has had several presidential contacts, from George Washington right after the American Revolution ended to George H.W. Bush in 1989, when he was considering buying the Houston Astros.

But only one other had visited while in office: Martin Van Buren in 1839, when he was famously lost for 45 minutes stumbling back to the village in the dark from a Woodside Hall party. (Village Historian Hugh MacDougall is skeptical of that story.)

In Cooperstown, five days of high anticipation followed Obama’s radio talk, as the Secret Service descended on the village with proficiency and stealth. “People were told what they needed to know when they needed to know it,� Katz said.

It wasn’t until a couple of years later that the mayor learned from a doctor acquaintance, “They

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President Obama, flanked by Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson and Hall of Famers Andre Dawson, examines Babe Ruth’s bat during his tour of 25 Main on May 22, 2014.

needed to know what Bassett was like, how best it was to get there. I never knew that. I never needed to know that. I was on the political end. “I have zero idea how much the sheriff’s department was in the loop. People are told what they need to know, no more and no less,� he said. “That’s the way to have good security.� “We all had our assignments,� said county Sheriff Richard J.

Devlin Jr., whose department was a piece of a Secret Service plan that included assignments for state police and the state Office of Homeland Security. “Everything was scripted,� said Idelson.

Day of, word was received early that afternoon that Air Force One, bearing the president, had arrived at Griffiss Air Force Base, north of Utica, then that Marine One had landed somewhere in the vicinity of the Clark Sports Center – south

of the sports center, it turned out, rather than Bassett’s visible helipad right on Susquehanna Avenue.

Assigned security at the landing site, all of the sheriff’s deputies were at the scene, Devlin said, assisted by additional officers dispatched from the Delaware, Schoharie and Chenango sheriff’s departments.

From there, the presidential motorcade moved into the village at a brisk clip – Susquehanna to

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Elm to Pioneer to Church.

In the Presbyterian parsonage at Pioneer and Church, Thom Rhodes had hoped to video the presidential motorcade passing by from an upstairs window.

He went downstairs to say hi to 30-40 people who had gathered on the lawn, when “this rather toughlooking guy wearing fatigue pants told me I had to close the upstairs window – and I had to close it RIGHT NOW.�

He, of course, did so, but was back downstairs in time for a series of black SUVs – Chevy Tahoes, others said – and two limousines, “so we wouldn’t know which one HE was in,� Rhodes surmised.

The motorcade continued briskly up to the Hall’s back loading dock.

Jeff Idelson was waiting for him. “When I learned I was going to be the one to provide the tour, I become quite nervous,� he said the other day. “My depth of knowledge is OK, but not as good as our curators.�

With him was Andre Dawson, a fellow Chicagoan chosen to help the former University of Chicago law professor feel at home, although Dawson was a Cub, Obama a big White Sox fan, his host said.

The president held Babe Ruth’s bat and Joe DiMaggio’s glove, he toured the exhibit, “Pride & Passion: The African-American Experience,� he visited the team lockers, one which included an assortment of White Sox artifacts.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company

Art. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/13/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 6 Orchard Street, Oneonta, New York 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company SKY VIEW ACRE FARMS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 5 February 2019.

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 95, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company CKB3 LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 31 January 2019.

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 970 Wiley Town Rd, Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) Name: P3 Consulting East LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 01/16/2019.

Office Location: Otsego County.

The “SSNY” is designated as agent of the “LLC” upon whom process against it may be served. ‘SSNY” shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 297 Winney Hill Road, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or

Name: 47 MACDOUGAL STREET LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 31 January 2019.

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 125, Cherry Valley, NY 12320.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Hasbrouck Olson Adventures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/1/2019.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 871 County Highway 26. Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: Cooperstown Sports Bar & Grill LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/28/19.

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: 4874 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Glimmerglen Farm LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State on 12/13/18.

Principal Business and Office Location: 463 Johnstons Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail process to 558

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Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.7 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: Evan Kirby, LLC Filed: 11/6/2018 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 175 Pony Farm Road Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws 6LegalMar.7 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Supreme Court of New York, Otsego County.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BLUEWATER INVESTMENT TRUST 2018-A, Plaintiff, -againstJACQUELINE GRAVES AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GERARD GRAVES, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kind, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as states, are unknown to plaintiff; M.R.G., A MINOR, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF GERARD GRAVES, BY AND THROUGH HER NATURAL GUARDIAN, LAURA HOYT; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF GERARD GRAVES, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described

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in this action, such unknown persons herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as states, are unknown to plaintiff; JIM WOLK S/H/A JOHN DOE #1; LORI COUSE S/H/A JOHN DOE #2; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOE #3” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Index No. 2017-339.

Mortgaged Premises: 84 Spruce Street, Oneonta, New York 13820 Section: 288.18 Block: 3 Lot: 47 To The Above Named Defendant(s): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT - THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Consolidation, Extension, and Modification Agreement to secure $88,040.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County

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Clerk’s Office on February 15, 2013 in Instrument Number 2013824, covering the premises known as 84 Spruce Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is located.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This communication is from a debt collector in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

4LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: SENTINEL BISON LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/04/19 .

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 129 Fred Field Road, Hartwick, NY 13348 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Articles of Organization of Mission On Main, LLC (“LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on January 3, 2019, effective on the date of filing.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 138 Balford Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820, which shall be the principal business location.

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6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BOB PUTNAM AGENCY PROPERTIES, LLC.

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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 606, Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Filed 1/3/19 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 149 County Highway 44, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BioSistemas Network LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 13 November 2017. Certificate of Amendment filing date with the SSNY was 9 March 2018.

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 471 County Highway 40, Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: CLEARVIEW OF HARTWICK LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

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 253, Hartwick, NY 13348.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities

Name: THREE BELL FARM LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

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 2209 Cty Hwy 33, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BURKESMITH LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

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 381 Co Hwy 26, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3050 Co Hwy 8, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: OSTERHOUDT CAPITAL LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

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 320 Eddy Martin Rd, Milford, NY 13807.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BRC HOLDINGS, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

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SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1020 State Highway 80, Edmeston, NY 13335.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BIG E & MIMI LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 17 December 2018.

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.

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6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: COOPERSTOWN DINER LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 17 December 2018.

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.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Traditio Designs LLC. Filed 8/10/18.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: C/ O Maciej Lorens, 168 Rosa Mystica Dr, Edmeston, NY 13335.

Purpose: General.

6LegalFeb.14 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Abundant Self Storage LLC. Arts. Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/02/19.

Ottice: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC. Legaling Corporate Services INC. 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE WUITE 1 #086 BUFFALO, NY 14221.

Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

6LegalFeb.14 Legal nOtice Notice of the Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Teach REAL, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (NYSS) on June 4, 2018.

Office for the LLC in in Otsego County.

SSNY is Designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to principal office of the LLC which is 5 Monroe Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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OBAMA/From B3 A favorite moment was putting on a White Sox World Series’ ring from 2005. “It fits,” the president said with a big smile, according to one account.

“His intellectual curiosity was strong,” said Idelson.

“He had a dozen questions that showed his curiosity and interest in baseball’s links to the Oval Office.”

As mayor, Katz was one of the local VIPs chosen for a “push and pull” with the president, along with state Sen. Jim

Ken Meifert directs state Sen. Jim Seward and wife Cindy to their seats.

Seward, R-Milford, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, then chair of the county Board of Representatives and, of course, Jane Forbes Clark, Hall of Fame chair.

Katz and Obama are

about the same height, but “when I stood next to him, he looked like a giant. I shook his hand. He talked about flying in over the lake, the golf course, how beautiful it was. I told him

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he would have to come back and play the course.”

He continued, “I was GOING to make the Chicago connection” – the mayor had moved here from there a decade before – “and he was very interested in that.”

It seemed like a long conversation, but it must have been brief, Katz said, and the president seemed to know when their time was up, when the push became the pull. “OK, picture,” Obama said, and a Please See OBAMA, B7

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IN MEMORIAM Lyall H. Sage, 86; State Trooper Guarded Rockefeller At Otesaga FRANKLIN – Lyall H. Sage, 86, a state trooper who served on Nelson Rockefeller’s detail when the governor visited The Otesaga, passed away peacefully, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at the Veterans Home in Oxford.

He was born on March 21, 1932, in Sayre, Pa., the son of Edna Sage. He gradu-

ated from Towanda High School in June 1950.

He married Roberta Moody Sage in Dushore, Pa., on May 3, 1952.

Lyall worked at Ingersoll Rand in Athens, Pa., as a machinist until he enlisted in the Army in 1950. He served as an MP during the Korean War, guarding gold at Fort Knox. He was

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honorably discharged as a corporal on May 9, 1955, and served with the Army Reserves Lyall Sage until May 31, 1961.

He returned to work at Ingersoll Rand until he accepted an appointment with the state police on Oct. 25, 1956.

He was assigned to Troop C as a uniform trooper and later became a member of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. He was stationed at Sidney, Cooperstown, Oneonta and Margaretville barracks.

Lyall was also part of the accident investigation unit, was senior trooper for several recruits and taught at the State Police Academy in Albany. He retired on Aug. 17, 1977, with 21 years of service.

In retirement, Lyall held a variety of jobs, including private investigator, car salesman, center disciplinary officer at Oneonta Job Corps, mailroom supervisor at Hartwick College, construction worker on I-88, tractor trailer driver and courier for Wilber National Bank.

Lyall was a member of the Masons, Elks, Police Benevolent Association, Antique Car Club, Ouleout

Valley Fish & Game Club, Franklin American Legion Post No. 1689 and attended the Franklin Community Bible Church.

To keep in shape after retiring he swam laps and walked. He was proud to show off his 1956 Oldsmobile Holiday and had a cameo appearance driving his car in the movie, “Cobb,” a 1994 biopic about Ty Cobb starring Tommy Lee Jones, during its filming in Cooperstown.

He is survived by his wife, Roberta of nearly 67 years; his children, Karen Sage, Linda (Sage) and Tom Worden, Kelly (Sage) and Douglas Coughlin; grandchildren, Brad and Tina

Brundege, Keri (Brundege) and Jeff Enslow, Justin Worden, Jonathan and Kathryn Worden, Lindsay Worden, Daniel Coughlin, Sage Coughlin and Jeffrey Coughlin; and great-grandchildren, Alex Brundege, Dylan Brundege, Leah Brundege, Emma Enslow and Emmaline Worden; and sister, Eileen Sherman.

A memorial service was held Sunday, Feb. 10. at the Franklin Community Bible Church, 89 Center St., Franklin, with Pastor Walt Schlundt officiating.

Burial with military and state police honors will take place at a later date in the Ouleout Valley Cemetery, Franklin.

Harold Ray, 75; Honored For Overcoming Life’s Obstacles ONEONTA – Harold Ray, formerly of Oneonta, the inaugural recipient of The Arc Otsego’s Reach for the Stars Award in 2016, passed away on Jan. 26, 2019, at his nephew’s home in Oxford.

The award honored Harold – known to many as a dapper gentleman, always dressed in his suit and tie – for overcoming obstacles in his life and continuing to strive to help others.

Harold was born on Nov. 6, 1943, in South Brookfield, the youngest of 13 children. He was

predeceased by his parents, Myrtle and George Ray and most of his siblings.

Harold faced many challenges in his life such as having polio as an infant, receiving no formal education, and starting to work on his own at age 15. Harold did not let his disabilities and other challenges stop him from being a great friend and an advocate for those who have helped him and lived with him over the years.

He lived many different places in the Mohawk Valley area during his life,

including a family-care home, stateoperated residences and with many family members.

Harold Harold Ray served as the president of several self-advocacy groups and visited many elected officials to advocate for living wages for those people who have helped him over the years and for supports and services needed for people with disabilities

to live happier lives. He was a regular volunteer at Saturday’s Bread and other events that helped others.

He is survived by Bill Sabine and family as well as many nieces and nephews and their families. He is also survived by his friends, Ray Morgan, Ben Vernoy, and Joe Pagillo, a friend and advocate and many others.

A celebration of Harold’s life was held Friday, Feb. 8, at The Arc Otsego Oneonta Day Services.

Robert (D’Urzo) Ross, 74, Oneonta; Proud Of Family History ONEONTA – Robert Paul (D’Urzo) Ross, 74, a master mechanic who worked in the family paving business with his son and grandsons, passed away peacefully in his home on Jan. 6, 2019, surrounded by his family.

Son of John and Elizabeth (D’Urzo) Ross, Robert was born Jan. 23, 1944, in the homestead on Franklin Mountain.

Robert was very proud of his Italian heritage. His grandfather, Basilio D’Urzo (Joseph Ross), immigrated from the village of Cerrisin, Calabria, Italy, settling in West Davenport, where he raised a large family.

Robert was very knowledgeable about trains and enjoyed talking to people about the Roundhouse and his father, John, who was a D&H hostler for over 50 years.

In his youth, Robert enjoyed socializing/talking about trucks at the lower deck beer joints. Robert was “old school” and missed the Ma & Pa grocery stores.

He often patronized Daddy Al’s and Stewarts for chili and coffee.

Robert married Jean Reed in 1963 and had three children. He was a master mechanic and worked as a heavy-equipment operator/

truck driver for many years. He worked alongside of his son and grandsons in their family paving Robert Paul business. (D’Urzo) Ross He also was a valued influence on the construction of the new Polar Bear Homemade Ice Cream & More.

He is survived by his son Michael R. D’Urzo Ross (Heather); granddaughter Jessica (Kyle) Buel; grandson Matthew

and his daughter Janette D’Urzo Ross; grandsons Daniel Korenyik and Joseph (Clara) Korenyik; brotherin-laws Gerald (Anne) Reed, Roger (Christine) Reed and Steve (Salenda) Murphy, along with nieces, nephews and cousins from Canada, Western New York, Pennsylvania and Italy.

He was predeceased by his parents, brothers Albert & John, infant daughter Carol, wife Jean.

Robert requested a private family gathering; in celebration of his life.

Arrangements were entrusted to Grummons Funeral Home.

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Idelson: Since Obama Visit Cooperstown Crowds Rise OBAMA/From B5 portrait of the two men was snapped.

In the Hall of Plaques, the president addressed 300 local VIPs in the tightly packed pantheon of baseball heroes on the importance of international tourism to the balance of trade; of Brand USA, a federal marketing effort; of the Travel Promotion Act of 2010, and National Travel & Tourism Strategy.

“Tourism translates into jobs,” he said, “and it translates into economic growth.

When visitors come here, they don’t just check out the Hall. They rent cars; they stay in hotels; they eat at restaurants.

“And that means, for Upstate New York, the Baseball Hall of Fame is a powerful economic engine.”

In 2013, he said, tourism generated $1.5 trillion in economic activity across the country, generating $8

million in jobs.

It was unclear whether any of the programs Obama discussed directly benefited the Hall; Meifert said any federal tourism money probably wouldn’t have been direct, but would have passed through the state’s “I Love NY” office.

In an interview, Idelson said the visibility was great for the Hall. “The numbers in Cooperstown have been very strong since 2014,” he added. “His initiative was probably part of the reason.”

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FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “The Favorite.” Cost, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

THEATER – 8 p.m. The Hartwick College Theatre Arts Department performs Owen Sheers’ “Pink Mist.” $5 students, $10 general admission. The Lab Theatre,

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5K RACE– 10:30 a.m. Frozen Toes 5K aims to get your blood pumping. Clark Sports Center. 607-547-2800.

HEALTH WALK/FAIR – 10

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Clark Companies, located in Delhi, NY is currently accepting application for the following positions: Laborer: Duties include but not limited to: heavy lifting and digging pits, trenches, etc. in preparation for job site construction. Perform set up and clean up tasks at job site and provide labor support as needed for the crew.

Operator: Duties include but not limited to: operate heavy machinery such as bulldozer, excavators, skid steer, backhoe, etc. Must have prior experience, excellent hand-eye coordination, great mechanical aptitude and be extremely detailed oriented.

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This month take journey through art with Cooperstown Art Association. Learn about, try painting, sculpture, quilting, more. Free by donation. Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

BENEFIT BRUNCH – 11 a.m., 12:15 p.m. A Valentine’s Day mimosa brunch to benefit the Catskill Symphony Orchestra. Music by JoAnn Chmielowski. Heritage at the Plains, 163 Hertitage Circle, Oneonta. Info, tickets, 607441-3206.

POLAR BEAR JUMP – 9:30 a.m. registration, 12:30 p.m. jump. The bravest of the brave take an icy plunge into Goodyear Lake to raise money for local families.

Goodyear Lake. Info, www. pbjump.com WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft.

Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-4321980.

PLAY READINGS – 4 - 6 p.m. NEXT! Readings of New Works by Regional Playwrights. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1400.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “The Favorite.” See Friday Listing.

POT LUCK – 7 p.m. Fly Creek United Methodist Church hosts a Mardi Gras pot luck. Free, open to all.

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LUMBERJACK GAMES – 7-10 p.m. Cherry Valley Outdoor Games Indoor Event includes lumberjack demonstrations and musical guest Nick LeDuc. Proceeds benefit the Daily Bread Food Pantry.

Cherry Valley Community Center, 2 Genesee St., Cherry Valley THEATER – 8 p.m. The Hartwick College Theatre Arts Department performs Owen Sheers’ “Pink Mist.” See Friday Listing.

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