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Madeline Walker, a volunteer for the Save the Tails Ciders & Ales fundraiser for Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans, pours a cup of Ommegang’s 3 Philosophers brew during the Save the Tails Ciders & Ales fundraiser at My Father’s Place on Saturday, Feb. 23.

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tsego County was buffeted with high winds gusting up to 65 mph from Sunday, Feb. 24, to the next day at 7 p.m.

Miraculously, little damage was reported across the county, and only 66 customers were out of power, in the Town of Pittsfield.

PONDERING FUTURE:

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►A FATHER AND SON from Cobleskill were in Otsego County Jail for punching a state trooper trying to break up a fight between the two men alongside I-88 near Worcester Tuesday, Feb. 19. ►NIXON’S SPEECHWRITER, Raymond Price, died in New York City. He was familiar with Roseboom, where a sister and nephew live. ►A GOAT GOT LOOSE in Toddsville, wandering around the neighborhood to the amusement of onlookers before being returned to owners Hank & Diana Nichols. ►MAYOR GARY HERZIG will give the “State of the City” address at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5.

Koutnik Set To Retire As Season Starts In Oneonta, 5 Out, 7 Plan To Run For City Council Cheryl Clough/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

By JIM KEVLIN & JENNIFER HILL

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OHS Junior Teddy McGraw shoots a foul shot.

sually, roses are budding before local candidates start circulating nominating petitions.

This year, with the primary for state races joined ELECTION with federal offices and moved up from September CENTRAL to Thursday, June 25, petitions are being circulated before the first crocus.

That change set off a flurry of electioneering in the past few days.

In the City of Oneonta in the week prior to Tuesday, Feb. 26, the starting date for circulating petitions, seven ►County candidates announced they Board Vice are running for five ComChair Gary mon Council seats being Koutnik is retirng. Keep vacated this fall.

For the Otsego County track of camBoard of Representatives, paign develClark Oliver, chairman of opments at the Otsego County Young AllOTSEGO.com Democrats, announced he’s running to succeed the board’s vice chairman, Gary Koutnik, D-11, before many people even knew the veteran legislator is retiring.

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OHS senior Evan Sitts drives against a Chenango Valley defender to take OHS into the semi-finals.

OHS Boys Head Into Tournament State Finals Beckon On Horizon

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I OHS’s Laine Johnson tries to get a shot off over a Whitney Point defender on Saturday, Feb. 23.

The girls went on to semi-finals, but fell to Norwich on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

This Nasty Little Parasite Is Meaningful

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arasites. That doesn’t sound good.

But SUNY Oneonta biology professor Florian Reyda says having a variety and plentiful parasites “is a sign

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By that measure, Otsego Lake is quite healthy. Especially now that Margaret Doolin, a student in SUNY’s master of science biology program and one of Reyda’s advisees, had discovered a parasitic Please See PARASITE, A7

t has all the makings of a perfect rivalry.

“In our first game against them, we beat Seton Catholic,” said OHS Yellowjackets coach Jerry Mackey.

“Then they came back and beat us by 10 points.”

And on Wednesday, the two teams will square off in

a deciding game to see who moves ahead to the Class B Section IV finals.

“Last year, we lost to Seton Catholic at this round,” said Mackey.

“But this year, we’re the only team who has beaten them in a game.”

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INJURED, THEY’RE UP FOR ADOPTION

Dog-Rescue Mission Sends SSPCA Director To Beirut

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taking her mission to rescue neglected animals worldwide.

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Boys vs. Seton Catholic at Seton Catholic Wednesday, Feb 27, 7 pm GIRLS TEAM: Standing back row, L to R: Hannah Johnson, Yuliah Johnson, Anika Buzzy, Lane Johnson, Ava Eichler, Mary Brantley, Maria Farrell, Matt Miller.

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EDITORIALS

County Board Committee Adjusts Policy To Affirm Public, Press Have Rights

NO BOMB-THROWER AT ‘TOWN HALL’

Congressman Emerging As Moderate, Balanced

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f anyone was looking for a bombthrower – Urban Dictionary: “A colloquial term used to describe people who stir up trouble” – Antonio Delgado isn’t he.

That had to be the conclusion of any objective ear at his Feb. 18 “Town Hall” in Cooperstown Village Hall, where one speaker, opining President Trump is “mentally ill,” asked the freshman congressman if he would vote for impeachment.

The reply was perfectly circumspect: “I’m going to do whatever the truth requires me to do. This process has been thorough and extensive, but I intend to read the Mueller Report and make my decision from that.”

No one’s painting oneself into a corner here.

• This is not meant as criticism, but as praise.

Delgado began his remarks in Cooperstown – two days later, he spent two hours at the open house that opened on the fifth floor of Oneonta’s 189 Main – saluting his 19th Congressional District’s “diversity.”

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egarding the county These concerns were Board of Represenaffirmed in an opinion from tatives’ policy, “Use Bob Freeman, executive diof Photographic and Rerector of the state Commitcording Devices At County tee on Open Government, Meetings,” the stated goal an arm of the New York – “to allow Department meetings to of State. be conducted • in an orderly Happily, manner” when the – was never county objectionboard’s Adable. ministration Two Committee Chairman Bliss and aspects of met Friday, Representative Kennedy Feb. 22, it the policy find a middle way. were: One, adjusted the that reporters policy to acneed to “sign in” (i.e., regis- commodate the need for orter with a local government derly meetings and the press to do their job) and, two, if and public’s right to report failing to do so would be on and/or monitor proceed“excluded” from board or ings of an elected body. committee meetings at a Under the adjusted policy, chairman’s fiat, with no due strictures on iPhones and process. traditional 35mm cameras This was not simply a were removed. Instead of press concern, but a public “signing in,” news outlets The Freeman’s Journal one.

As originally drafted, may “reserve” one of three In moderate, nuanced responses to some blunt questions, members of the public spaces set aside for larger Antonio Delgado showed he’s no Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. could have been prevented camera equipment needed was praising the reality. The district requires him to listen to varied views, using iPhones to record to videotape proceedings; if, is roughly a third Democratic, a third then to compromise. aspects of meetings unless in the unlikely instance four Republican and a third in the middle.

This is pretty moderate stuff. The they previously registered, camera crews show up, the Not a bad thing, but a good thing, crowd in the Village Hall ballroom, and could likewise be one without a reservation (or in his mind: A divided constituency Please See DELGADO, A5 excluded on a whim.

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Lower Taxes, More Broadband Would Help Keep Upstate Folks Here

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resident Trump and Governor Cuomo were recently in a war of words again – certainly not breaking news. This time around, the back and forth centers on the Upstate economy, with President Trump advising Upstate residents to move out.

The president’s actual words to people who feel

things aren’t going their way, “If New York isn’t gonna treat them better, I would recommend they go to another state where they can get a great job.”

I appreciate what the president is saying, and I have STATE SEN. already pointed out JIM SEWARD on a number of

occasions that we are losing population due to an absence of economic opportunities and our high cost of living.

However, rather than push more people out the door, I want to reinvigorate New York, give people a reason to stay, and entice

others to come back home.

As the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, I have been front and center during state budget hearings that are just about to conclude. When all is said and done, the hearings will have encompassed 13 days and countless hours drilling down into every aspect of the governor’s budget proposal.

While the hearings can be tedious and long at times, they are the best way to learn about the intricacies of the budget proposal. At the start of the hearings, I made a brief statement and very plainly stated the questions I would be asking the witnesses: ►How is this budget going to make life better for everyday New Yorkers?

►Is it going to help our young people succeed and want to stay here and raise a family? ►Will it attract new people and businesses to our state? ►Will it meet the needs of our local governments and schools? ►And, at the end of the day, when families are sitting around their kitchen Please See SEWARD, A6

TONY INGRAFFEA OTHER VOICES

The Goal: Doing All We Can To Reduce Dependence On Fossil Fuels

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was sent this article, “Until Available 24/7, Renewable Energy Not Ready For Prime Time,” from your newspaper of Feb. 21-22.

“Another speaker spoke of all the things he had done to remove himself from the

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grid. Again, I couldn’t help but wonder how he paid for it – solar, geo-thermal and a $100,000 Tesla electric car. Would the savings ever allow him to recover those incremental costs?”

Maybe that’s not important to him, but it’s been my

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experience that if something is going to be widely accepted, the buyers expect it to be cost-effective. As I’ve said before, a healthy environment and a healthy economy are not mutually exclusive, rather they are inextricably intertwined.

“He went on to say that he is totally off the grid and that he charges his electric car (the one that took two times as much energy to produce as a traditional combustion engine vehicle) solely from the solar panels

Professor Ingraffea addresses the Otsego Chamber’s Energy Summit Jan. 31 at The Otesaga.

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on his roof. I thought about that on the way home and asked myself if that meant

he only drove his car at night – it would have been charging during the daylight

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hen we left Cooperstown to move to Ohio, a good friend told us in no uncertain terms that we would never know the history of our Ohio community as well as we know the history of Cooperstown and its environs.

And while we would most heartily concur with this assessment, during our relatively short time in Ohio we feel we have managed to add to our knowledge of Knox County in which Mount Vernon is located.

• There is no doubt that we learned a great deal about the history of industry

in the county by reading the “ArielFoundation Park” book. But we have also found the local daily newspaper, The Mount Vernon News, has run stories about the history of the CATHERINE area which have LAKE also added to our ELLSWORTH newfound knowledge of the area.

In fact, the Feb. 19 edition of the paper included a supplemental section

hours as that’s when the sun shines.”

I hope you will communicate my response to others at your paper and the author: 1. I spoke about doing everything I could, personally, to decrease my demand for fossil fuels while increasing their supply. I never said I had removed myself from the grid.

2. I said I have solar on Please See RESPONSE, A5

entitled “The Looking Glass.” As we understand it, this supplement to the paper appears annually and covers a wide variety of articles on the history of the area.

One of the articles, “Tragedy Strikes Old Kenyon in 1949” covered a part of the history of Kenyon College of which we were already familiar, namely at fire in the Old Kenyon dorm which unfortunately killed nine students. Old Kenyon, which was the first permanent structure at the college, was rebuilt and is still in use today as a dorm.

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150 Years Ago

A Word to Teachers – Too much can hardly be said on the importance of teaching spelling more thoroughly, especially in the district school. All teachers expect to teach spelling, but only in connection with the study of the spelling book or the reading book. This is all well, but it is in our judgment not enough. It will not do the whole work so consistently or so well. We urge that the teachers should, to a certain extent, make a spelling lesson of every lesson.

That is, every written exercise on the blackboard should be criticized as to the spelling, and the pupil should be made to correct his errors in spelling, just as much as the errors in the work itself. All peculiar and technical words should be given out by dictation to be spelled by the class as a necessary part of the recitation.

March 1869

10 Years Ago

passenger service to Europe, roared away at 2:34 p.m. carrying 21 men, the largest number ever to fly the Atlantic in a heavier-than-air machine. Aided by tailwinds the huge boat was flying at 175 miles an hour, considerably faster than its 150-mile cruising speed. It was believed the winds might reduce the plying time to the Azores to less than 18 hours. Several thousand spectators gathered to watch the takeoff, made without ceremony or fanfare. It was piloted

by Col. Clarence D. Chamberlin..

March 1939

60 Years Ago

A winter voyage by the atomic submarine Skate has shown the Navy that its missile-firing subs, when they join the fleet, will be able to roam the north Polar Regions overlooking the Soviet Union in any season. The 267-foot undersea craft spent 12 days beneath the polar cap, logging 3,090 miles and surfacing 10 times through open or thin places in the ice. On March 17, the Skate surfaced exactly at the North Pole. EM/1 Wayne L. Winans, a native of Oneonta, is aboard the Skate. The electrician’s mate was also aboard when the Skate made the last Arctic trip and when it remained submerged for 39 days. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie D. Winans, 10 South Belmont Circle.

March 1959

125 Years Ago

Whoever attended the equal suffrage convention at the theatre last week could not fail to note the general lack of interest in the work among the women themselves. If women were at all enthusiastic for the ballot and for equal rights there is little doubt that they would succeed, as they invariably do when they put their minds and hearts to any work. But, so long as they are apathetic and indifferent there is little likelihood of change. And, after all this very apathy and indifference may be an indication that the gentler sex realize that the laws of our state are exceedingly generous to them, and that, save for the doubtful gift of the ballot, they have everything they could ask for.

The Universalist Society of Oneonta is to be congratulated on having one of the prettiest church edifices in this section. It will be dedicated April 2nd with Rev. Joseph K. Mason of Buffalo preaching the sermon and Rev. James D. Crosby of Troy making the dedicatory prayer. The music for the occasion will be by a quartette composed of Mrs. Brewster of Oxford, Miss VanCleft, Dr. Barnes and Mr. Titsworth, with Messrs Helms and Johnson rendering instrumental selections.

March 1894

100 Years Ago

Thousands of Jews were slaughtered in a “pogrom” conducted in Buenos Aires, Argentina in early January according to a statement issued by the Zionist Organization of America, quoting a report it had received from the Argentine capital. According to this report, a “white guard” was organized there following a rumor that labor strikes in that city were the beginning of a Bolsheviki Revolution incited by the Jews. The report charged that, with the cooperation of the police, the “white guard” raided the Jewish quarters, “killing a number that cannot be estimated because all the bodies were buried in a common grave.”

20 Years Ago

Antiques, herbs and dance steps will be among things old and things new at a Women’s Fair in Oneonta on Saturday, April 10. The Oneonta Branch of the American Association of University Women, for the first time, is presenting the fair at the Elks Club, 84 Chestnut Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A panel will appraise antiques between Noon and 3 p.m. The fund-raising affair will offer a spectrum of activities and information for women of all ages, said Helen Rees, past-president of the AAUW Oneonta Branch. .

March 1999 March 2009 A well-known baseball player returning to the U.S. from “over there,” frankly admits that the French have little, if anymore, liking for the national game of the U.S. than they had when the American Army brought it over. Nations do not easily understand or grow fond of the sports followed by other nations.

March 1919

80 Years Ago

The giant flying boat Yankee Clipper reported back to the Pan American Airways base tonight that it was 743 miles out over the Atlantic at 7 p.m., riding a tailwind at 2,500 feet altitude. The Clipper, which soon is to inaugurate

Moderate Delgado, 19th: Good Fit DELGADO/From A4 nonetheless, hung on every on-theone-hand, on-the-other-hand declaration, applauding enthusiastically.

If you actually listened to what he said, you have to conclude: Here EDITORIALS is a moderate, representing a generally moderate district. How propitious is that?

• Not to revisit unhappier times, and AD The Voice.

Asked about his short career in rap during last fall’s campaign, he repeatedly said something like: I’m fighting for the same things now as I was then, universal healthcare, good schools, etc., etc.

Maybe Delgado’s year on L.A.’s hip-hop scene was simply fun, a lark. Maybe there was a hope to achieve great acclaim and riches. Maybe, as young men do, he was working out anger at The Man. But fighting for the same things? Implausible.

The phrase, no doubt, was pre-tested. He knew it would work sufficiently well to deflect the controversy – and it did, in defeating six Democrats in the primary and a sitting Republican.

That he stuck with it – when undoubtedly he would have liked to say more, to explain or defend himself – took disci-

pline, the same discipline that prevented him from pandering to some in the “Town Hall” crowd the other day.

• Despite questioners’ efforts to lock him in, he said nothing at the “Town Hall” that will come back to kick him in the pants in the next campaign – the National Republican Congressional Committee already has him on its list of 55 Democrats it plans to target in 2020.

Let’s remember, Delgado brings a blue-chip background to the office: Colgate, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard Law, and 10 years in the powerhouse lobbying law firm, Akin Gump. (In litigation, not lobbying, he’s quick to say – tested too, no doubt, and sufficient.)

He’s only 41 years old. While modest, our 19th District seat is a satisfactory launching pad for a promising political career at the national level. Delgado’s not going to blow it.

“I am here to be your representative,” he said at Cooperstown. Likely, we can bet on it and benefit from it, for the time being.

“I am only beholden to you.”

For now, maybe. Judging to date, he may have the ambition, the brains and – above all – the discipline, to do much more. This will be interesting to watch.

This Is New, And Promising For All

POLICY/From A4 the fourth) would be out of luck.

A subsidiary issue was also resolved, according to board Chair David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/ Town of Middlefield: Whether press photographers could take photos at the front of the room when county reps are sworn in every other year. (Until 2018, this had never been an issue, but security concerns have heightened.)

In 2020, Bliss says, county reps, who in the past have taken their oaths with their backs to the public, will now face the gallery, in view of the public and accessible to press photographers. Issue resolved.

These seem like commonsense ways to bring legitimate interests into accord – the county board’s, to proceed in an orderly fashion; the press’s, to maintain its independence in covering news; and the public’s, to witness and record public proceedings. In short, everybody wins.

Credit is due to two eminently sensible people: Bliss and Administration Committee chair Meg Kennedy, C-Mount Vision, and county board members who worked their way through the issue at the “Admin” meeting.

This ability to address rancor and find common ground is new, and promising for all, including the electorate.

10 Years Ago

Oneonta High School’s Yellowjackets lost 39-35 to Section One’s Nanuet in the Class B state final Saturday at Hudson Valley Community College, closing their season with a 25-1 record. Two graduating seniors from the team, Madie Harlem and Meredith Ridgway are expected to continue competing on college basketball courts. Madie Harlem, a 5’ 9” guard will play for Division III Hamilton College next season. Harlem’s team-best 472 points and 18.2 average per game over the past two seasons led the Yellowjackets to a 43-6 overall record. Meredith Ridgway, a 6-foot forward averaged 10.1 points is undecided about plans for college. Oneonta’s Sienna Wisse, a sophomore, will be Oneonta’s top returning player next season.

March 2009

Something Like ‘Green New Deal’ Essential, But Impact On Personal Freedom Worrisome

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he Big Idea of the Green It was a movement which New Deal, now widely came of age in the 19th century supported among Demoin response to the exploitation of crats, is to deal aggressively at workers by industrial capitalists. It once with the twin crises of clipromoted the organization of labor mate justice and social justice. into unions and political parties to The Green New Deal achieve basic rights for (GND) seeks to comworkers (no child labor, bine the progressive an eight-hour day, decent goals raised by Bernie wages, pensions, etc.).

Sanders in the 2016 Beyond that, however, election (single-payer socialist theorists like healthcare, free college Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels envisioned the tuition, taxing the rich, and breaking up big collective ownership of banks) with a wholesale the means of production public infrastructure by the state as the final ADRIAN program for an immedi- KUZMINSKI resolution of the conflict ate, full-blown transition between capital and labor. to a renewable, clean, They inspired the Comgreenhouse-gas-neutral, energymunist parties of the 20th cenefficient economy. tury whose totalitarian rule in the Soviet Union, China and beyond Conservatives, who have no solutions to these problems, are became a byword for tyranny. either apoplectic (out of fear that • The GND does not advocate it might succeed) or scornfully dismissive (out of bravado that its the collective ownership by the absurdity will turn off voters). state of the means of production Either way, they paint it as a (including major industries, distrireturn to socialism, a collective bution systems, collective farms, vision of social and environmental etc.), but it does presume a much justice they think represents the greater, even controlling role for failed policies of the past. the federal government.

The model cited is FDR’s New • Let’s review what we know Deal, but a more accurate precabout socialism. edent is the vastly expanded power

The “Green New Deal,” adopted by some Progressives, would bring massive changes to life as Americans know it.

the federal government wielded during World War II to command the resources necessary for victory.

FDR’s wartime government controlled prices, directed production, and rationed consumption to a degree not seen before or since.

Ownership of major industries remained in private hands, but real control was exercised by a series of government bureaucracies.

The GND would do the same Please See KUZMINSKI, A6

Complexities Of Innovation Can Be Misunderstood RESPONSE/From A4 my rooftop, but never said I have geothermal.

3. I said I have a Tesla, but certainly not the $100,000 kind. My TESLA (Model 3) cost me about $39,000, after receiving tax reductions from NYS and the federal government. Since that is similar to the cost of many new ICE cars, no need for me to recover incremental cost on it. However, since I will never have to buy gas for it, or change the oil, or repair the exhaust system, or the transmission, or the cooling system, or the engine, payback for the difference

between what I paid for it and a less expensive ICE car is obvious worth every mile I drive.

4. The incremental cost of adding solar thermal and solar voltaic to my home has a pay-back of about eight years. My previous total yearly utility cost was about $3,500 per year; my total cost last year was about $500 ($200 of that was the fee to remain connected to the grid so I can use net-metering).

5. “Electric cars” do not take twice as much energy to produce as ICE cars. That is nonsense, and unsupported in the peer-reviewed literature.

6. The notion of only driving at night because I am charging my car during the day is also nonsense.

One does not need to charge an electric car all day long, or even every day.

This article, not just its references to my talk, is not the kind of informed and honest discourse I expected as an outcome of the very effective Energy Summit.

A. R. Ingraffea, Ph.D., P.E., is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University

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Green New Deal Challenges Personal Freedom With Shifting Of Primary,

KUZMINSKI/From A5 thing to fight the twin challenges of social inequality and environmental collapse.

Nothing less will be needed if the GND has any hope of achieving its goals. World War II is the real precedent for the magnitude of the changes required.

• The social crisis today, bad as it is, may not be as pressing as the climate crisis, but progressives insist on bundling them together, for better or worse, seeing an opportunity to realize their broader agenda.

But let’s be clear: The scale of this effort is likely to be as painful as World War II, and possibly worse.

There will be losers as well as winners, resistance as well as enthusiasm, retrenchment as well as progress, hardship as well as relief, victories as well as defeats.

In FDR’s day, in spite of the trauma of the Depression, a more culturally unified society retained a greater faith in its institutions and values, and its leaders mostly respected what they understood to be the will of the people.

Today we have a fragmented society

marked by conflict over values and a tendency by leaders to manipulate rather than respect the citizenry.

Equally significantly, back then we had not yet bumped up against the limits of our resources, nor had we exhausted our ability to borrow against the future.

Resources today are less readily available, harder to extract and process, and more expensive. The national debt just blew through $22 trillion, leaving many wondering if we can pay for all this.

• Necessary as they may be for survival, the sheer scale of the changes required to deal with these problems will overturn society as we know it.

One likely casualty is personal freedom. Only an authoritarian central government, it seems, can hope to carry out something like a GND. To secure the public ends it seeks, it would have to seriously reign in private initiative and ownership.

Communists, those socialist extremists, admitted no private property except movable personal possessions. You couldn’t own your home, stocks, bonds, a small business, or most any kind of private asset.

Democratic socialists like Bernie

Fiscal Responsibility Needed

SEWARD/From A4 tables, paying their own bills, will this state budget make it easier or tougher on them?

The answers to these questions, quite frankly, have been mixed. I am not fully satisfied with the details that state commissioners and other agency heads have provided.

Certainly, I will be advocating for some changes to the governor’s proposal as we move ahead.

Once the hearings conclude, Senate budget subcommittees will commence. Essentially, the committees take a specific portion of the governor’s budget proposal, dissect it line by line, place it under a microscope, and fine tune the plan to make sure it is fiscally sound and in line with public priorities.

Next, both the Senate and the assembly will pass their own budget resolutions.

Then additional negotiations between the two houses and the governor will take place before

a final plan is enacted. If all goes as planned, we will have a new state budget by the end of March, prior to the start of the new fiscal year on April 1.

I want to see an on-time budget, but more importantly, we need a fiscally responsible plan that holds the line on taxes and spending AND creates new opportunities for economic growth.

I joined with my Senate Republican colleagues to propose a “Real Solutions” budget plan at the start of the year, and I am continuing to advocate for the measures included in the plan.

Balancing the budget without any new taxes or fees while also providing real and significant tax relief to home and business owners.

Lowering the cost of living so New York is more affordable.

Revitalizing New York’s economy so residents can find a good-paying job, take advantage of new and better opportunities, and raise their families here.

or Alexandria Octavio-Cortez would similarly put most significant enterprises and assets under effective public, not private, control.

That’s OK, they say, because the government would be democratically accountable. They distinguish between totalitarian Communism and democratic socialism. But, if history is any guide, it’s hard to see how real democratic decision-making can be squared with state management of large corporate enterprises, especially on this scale.

It is significant that the GND offers no serious proposal for reforming the political system to establish the democratic accountability necessary to prevent the abuse of centralized state power.

We may have little choice but to implement something like the GND to survive, but let’s make sure that we don’t lose our liberties in the process. We need political reform as well as economic reform.

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

Ohio Local History Fascinates

COLUMN/From A4 We found another article, entitled “Centerburg Public Library: A Storied Past,” to be of interest. In it we learned that the public library in Centerburg, a community in the western part of Knox County, was started by the Alpha Club. The club was a women’s club founded in 1900 in response to all the men’s social clubs in the community at the time. It was in 1924 that the Alpha Club decided the community needed a library and proceeded to raise the necessary funds.

This, of course, reminded us of the time when the public library in Cooperstown, in danger of closing, was taken over by the Women’s Club of Cooperstown. The club managed to keep the library open until such time as the village saw fit to take over its operation.

Perhaps the most interesting bit of Mount Vernon

history was found in the article, “Steel finds its place home following WWII.” It seems that after the war, the government’s control of steel prohibited the Chicago Vitreous Co. from building structures for gas stations and other commercial buildings. But they were allowed to build much-needed housing.

As a result, the company, which eventually opened a plant in Columbus, Ohio, undertook building Lustron homes, one of which, No. 2526, can still be found in Mount Vernon. And while the home is currently unoccupied, there is an ongoing campaign to save it for posterity.

And having driven by the Mount Vernon house, we can attest to the fact that it is indeed in need of some tender loving care.

(Editor’s Note: There is also Lustron home, unheralded, on Oneonta’s Union Street.)

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PETITIONS/From A1 Another county representative from Oneonta, Danny Lapin, D-13, announced on his Facebook page on the 26th that he’s running again, just 14 months after taking office.

The two primaries were merged after Democrats took control of the state Senate Jan. 1. The Democrats believed that two primaries, which were separated after the federal government won a lawsuit against the state in 2012, was a depressing turnout.

In Oneonta, the blizzard of announcements started when Len Carson, the retired OFD captain and former county rep, confirmed Thursday, Feb. 21, that he’s planning to run in Ward 5, where incumbent Dana Levison is retiring.

Friday, Scott Harrington, a Hartwick College manager, announced he’s running in Ward 6.

Saturday, a threesome – Seth Clark (Ward 2), Jerid Goss (Ward 4) and Joshua Bailey (Ward 8) – announced they’re running as a team. Clark and Goss, both Democrats, work in the student-rental sector; Bailey, a Republican, is a legislative aide to state Sen. Jim Seward.

Monday, Mark Davies, a Hartwick professor and the city’s Environmental Board chair, announced he’s challenging Clark. And Mark Boshnack, a retired Daily Star reporter and former Franklin Central school board president, said he is challenging Harrington in Ward 5.

Also over the weekend, three incumbents, Michele Frazier (Ward 1), David Rissberger (Ward 3) and John Rafter (Ward 7), announced they are running for reelection.

“A lot of people are very involved and want to do what they think is good for Oneonta, and to be part of that,” said Levison.

Mayor Gary Herzig concurred: “I’m sure each

person has ideas they want to bring to the table; they are more than welcome to bring them.” He said he hopes even more people will come forward.

On the county board level, both Republicans and Democrats have begun strategizing about this fall.

In 2017, Richard Sternberg, the Cooperstown trustee and state Democratic committee member, led a drive that fielded Democrats in all but one of the 14 county board districts.

This year, however, with new bi-partisan collaboration on the county board, at least some Democrats want the party to be less aggressive.

“We’re forging ahead and getting things done,” said Koutnik during an interview on his retirement. “I feel like we’re heading in the right direction.”

Others Democrats are saying they’re satisfied working with Meg Kennedy, C-Mount Vision, who’s allied with the GOP majority, Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, and, in particular, the county board chair, David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield.

From the Republican perspective, Michele Farwell, D-Morris, while active in the 14 months since her election, is considered vulnerable to a challenge, since she won in 2017 when two Republican candidates split the GOP turnout.

Also, there’s been some talk that Republicans might run a candidate in a primary against former board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, whose husband sought the Democratic nod for county sheriff last year after he lost the GOP nod to incumbent Richard J. Devlin Jr. at caucus.

However, there’s some thought that, with the husband, Bob Fernandez, having retired from the state police, Clark may also decide to retire.

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Girls Fall, But Boys Head To Seton Catholic Rivalry JACKETS/From A71 On Saturday, Feb. 23, they secured their place in the semi-finals after vanquishing rivals Chenango Valley 58-37.

Juniors Teddy McGraw and Graham Wooden scored a total 36 points, with McGraw scoring 21 and Wooden scoring 15. “Those two lead in scoring, assists and rebounds,” he said.

“They help calm everybody down, and we’re going to really need to rely on them again against Seton Catholic.”

Khi Atchinson sank two three-pointers and Evan Sitts scored seven points on Saturday.

“We had a lot of baskets made by a lot of players,” said Mackey. “And we’ve got really talented guards.”

The third-seeded team is 15-5, and Mackey pointed out that all but one of those losses was by four points or less. “The season’s been going really well,” said Mackey. “We’re beating the teams we’re supposed to beat. We’ve got enough talent to hang around.”

It won’t be easy to take

down Seton Catholic, but Mackey is confident that his team has what it takes.

“I tell them, we don’t have to play amazing, just well enough to beat them,” he said.

The Lady Yellowjackets also took home a victory against Whitney Point on Saturday with 53-43 to advance to the Class B Section IV semi finals, but lost 67-40 to Norwich on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

“Honestly, it’s been a great year,” said Coach Matt Miller. “We had 15 wins, the most since 2014, the last time we went to the semi-finals.”

Second-seeded, seniorheavy Norwich was a long-time rival, Miller said.

“They’re ranked fourth in the state,” he said, “We’ve played them twice, and they handled us pretty easily.”

But he praised the team’s strengths. “The way we shoot from the perimeter has kept us in,” he said. “We usually score 13 or more three-point shots. That’s our signature.”

Senior Taylor Microni broke Moriah Ruff’s record

of 205 career three pointers in her last game with OHS. She had the second-highest number of varsity games in the school’s history, and averaged more than a dozen points per game.

And with several sophomores on his team, including Hannah Johnson, Anika Buzzy and Ava Eichler, he believes the team has other strong seasons in the future.

Wednesdays winning team will take on the winner of the Norwich vs. Owego Free Academy, slated to play at 6 p.m. that evening, in the finals on Saturday, March 2 at the Veteran’s Memorial Arena in Binghamton.

And with seniors Sitts, Ryan Packard and Marlano Hernandez set to graduate this year, Mackey said he wants to send them off in style.

“You want to push that last game off as long as you can for those guys,” he said.

“It’s been a fun year, and they’re a great group.”

SUNY Oneonta Student IDs New Parasite PARASITE/From A1 species from the lake unknown to the science world.

Her research, under Reyda’s guidance, began as “a starter project” when he gave her an unknown “thorny headed worm” in January 2016 to identify.

Working with her mentor, Doolin took “many, many measurements” of the “fine internal structures” of the new worm and “morphologically very similar” ones.

After discerning discrete differences between them, she and Reyda used DNA evidence to corroborate the morphological evidence.

They found out that, indeed, the thorny headed worm was a different species.

Their work on Doolin’s discovered parasite, named Neoechinorhynchus bullocki was published in the December 2018 issue of the Journal of Parasitology.

Doolin is now pursuing a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Utah.

The N. bullocki is unusual in that it only seeks one fish to attach itself to, the White

Dogs To Be Rescued From Beirut, Put Up For Adoption Here DOGS/From A1 said. “If people have dogs, they’re purebreds. Here, it’s cool to adopt dogs from shelters, but not over there.

They have shelters for cats, but not dogs.”

She’s partnering with Dr. David Chico, a state Ag & Markets veterinarian, on a mission of mercy to Beirut, to work with Animals Lebanon, a rescue organization that takes in abandoned and abused dogs in hopes of finding homes for them.

“When a dog comes in, they have to foster it with a family and then board it at a kennel,” she said. “It’s expensive, and these dogs have zero percent chance of being adopted in Lebanon, so they have to try and get them adopted in other countries.”

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She first got the idea while speaking with Libby Post, of the NYS Animal Protection Federation. “We had some kennel space and we asked her if there were any shelters that needed help,” said Haynes. “We ended up taking in some dogs from the Mohawk-Hudson shelter, but she offered me this trip to Lebanon, all-expenses paid.”

Chico makes several trips a year to Beirut to provide medical care to the animals in the shelters. Haynes, along with vet tech Sara Haddad, will be traveling Thursday, Feb. 28, until Monday, March

4.

While there, she will work with Animals Lebanon on professional development, showing them how things are done at shelters in the United States. “In working with consultant Barbara Carr, everything about standards and best practices is fresh in our minds,” she said. “We’re

going to go there and share all of the great things we’ve been learning with Animals Lebanon.”

The difference between American shelters and shelters in Lebanon, she said, is that while there are shelters for cats, there are none for dogs.

“Culturally, dogs are not accepted into homes,” she said.

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Sucker, a bottom-feeder.

While eating, the White Sucker will accidentally ingest N. bullocki eggs that rest on Otsego Lake’s floor.

After the eggs hatch inside the fish, the N. bullocki uses hooks to latch onto the White Sucker’s intestines and takes in digestive matter. The parasite is mouthless; it absorbs the White Sucker’s nutrients through its skin. The eggs exit the fish with its feces and drift to the bottom of lake, and the cycle repeats itself.

N. bullocki’s and other parasites’ life cycles would not make good dinner conversation, but Reyda said they are an important part of the food web. By a

“food web,” Reyda means the interactions of different species within an ecosystem.

White Suckers and other fish that host parasites are preyed on by fish, such as bass and trout, which are then eaten by birds of prey, such as eagles.

“They go from host to host, adding a whole other dimension to organisms because they move up the food chain,” he said.

Reyda does acknowledge that while the parasites contribute to Lake Otsego’s health, they are not benign.

“Although they don’t kill their hosts – because they would die, too -- by definition, parasites damage the host,” he said. “So, they aren’t healthy for the hosts.”

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Town of Otsego – Tax Map 39.00-2-3.00 Residential/Agricultural zoned property, 86.33 acres, located on Roses Hill Rd. PUBLIC REVIEW: WEEKDAYS PUBLIC REVIEW LOCATION: OTSEGO COUNTY Treasurer’s Office,197 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 EVERYTHING SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDER, AS IS. SUBJECT TO OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD APPROVAL BBids will be received until 4:00pm on, April 15, 2019 at the Otsego County Treasurer’s Office, 197 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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The minimum acceptable bid is one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000). Payment of 10% of bid price due via certified funds or by wire transfer five days from acceptance. Balance due 10 days after board approval.

The Bid Form & Terms and Conditions of Sale may be obtained at the Otsego County Treasurer’s Office located at 197 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326 or on the Otsego County website at www.otsegocounty.com Only bids submitted on the Bid Form provided by the County will be considered. Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope titled “Roses Hill Sealed Bid”. Picture and description of described parcel will be available for inspection at the Otsego County Treasurer’s Office at 197 Main St in Cooperstown from 9:00am – 4:00pm, except holidays. The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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Margaret Savoie enjoys a bowl of tomato soup at the 2018 Empty Bowls luncheon, held again Saturday, March 2 at Christ Church, Cooperstown.

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A shaft in the Kosmers’ passive solar home in Fly Creek allows air warmed by sunlight and a wood stove to rise into the attic. Fans then draw warm air into a channelfilled concrete slab. During the day, the slab warms; at night, it releases heat. The couple reports a divergence of only 3 degrees inside the home. At right, the house faces south from a Fly Creek area hilltop.

While Others Dream, Kosmers Have Lived Energy-Efficiently For Decade

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o many, it’s a dream: a home heated by renewables.

But John Kosmer and wife Linda have been living that dream for a decade and, if not pinching themselves, are still

dreamily in love with the bewindowed and expansive – and, above all, cozy – south-facing house on a hilltop outside the Fly Creek hamlet.

Looking out at a view that extends to the hills beyond Milford, John reflected the other day: “So much comfort.

So much light,” adding a quote from his builder, Bruce Brownell, who runs Adirondack Alternate Energy in Northville:

“The sun never sent anyone a bill.”

As it happens, John spent his early decades renovating old homes, and writing about them for national magazines.

One was a Victorian on Cooperstown’s Beaver Street, where daughter Alyssa grew up. “She never forgave me for moving,” said her dad.

But, intrigued by what he’d heard in the building trade, he’d borrowed a book on solar energy a dozen years ago.

John opened it; it screamed “dated!!”, he recalled. “Maybe I have to buy a new book,” he said to himself, “and I read it, cover to cover.”

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its 2,500 North American stores, including one in Southside Mall.

That made it a local news story.

But right down the marble-tiled mezzanine, the expansive Shoe Department is doing so well it’s looking to expand, Mall Manager Luisa Montanti will tell you.

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njoy a tasty soup luncheon, take home an artisan bowl and raise money for the Cooperstown Food Pantry at the annual Empty Bowls luncheon. The suggested $15 donation buys $225 worth of food for the food pantry, and you keep the handmade bowl.

Noon - 2 p.m. Saturday, March 2, Christ Church Parish Hall, Fair St, LIBBY Cooperstown. Info, CUDMORE Kathy Chase (607) 547-2627.

• Sugaring Off Sundays return to The Farmers’ Museum! Enjoy a fresh stack of pancakes with homemade maple syrup, try jack-wax candy, see demonstrations and tours of the historic village. 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sunday, March 3, The Farmers Museum, 5775 Route 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org.

• Meet your new furry friend at one of the two meet and greet events, sponsored by the Susquehanna SPCA. On Saturday, March 2, it’s “Pawsitive Pawsibilities at the Y” Noon - 12 p.m. at the Oneonta YMCA lobby, 20-26 Ford Ave, and “Sundays at Brandow’s,” Noon - 4 p.m., Sunday, March 3 at Brandow’s Feed & Seed, 4119 NY-7, Oneonta. Info (607) 547-8111.

• What makes a Colonial building Colonial? Greek Revival? Cindy Falk leads a workshop on “Understanding Historical Architecture Styles.” Bring a photo of a building you want identified and learn more about it. 3 - 5 p.m.

Sunday, March 3, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Info, director@otsego2000.org.

• The Discrimination Matters film series screens the Oscar-winning drama “A Fantastic Woman” with discussion to follow. Free, open to public. Part of the Discrimination Matters film series.

7 p.m. Friday, March 1. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta.

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CONTRADANCE – 7:15 p.m.

Fun group dance. Music by Traverse, Ed Bugel calls. Suggested donation, $8 adults, $4 students/kids, $20 family.

First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown. 607-965-8232.

Saturday, March 2

EMPTY BOWLS – Noon – 2 p.m. Luncheon to raise money/awareness for Cooperstown Food Pantry, local hunger. $15 donation includes handmade bowl.

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Christ Church Parish Hall, Fair St, Cooperstown. 607-5472627.

OPERA – 12:55 p.m. Live streaming “La Fille du Regiment” by Donizetti. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080.

MEET AND GREET – 12 - 2 p.m. “Pawsitive Pawsibilities at the Y” to connect families with companion animals from Susquehanna SPCA. YMCA lobby, 20-26 Ford Ave.,

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Oneonta. 607-547-8111.

PLAY READINGS – 3 – 4:30 p.m. NEXT! Readings features ‘Our Fragile Threads’

by Katherine Ambrosio.

Admission, free by donation.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

INDIAN FEAST – 6 & 7:45 p.m. Presenting 13th Annual

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Saturday, March 9 | 7 to 10 pm Oneonta Vets Club 279 Chestnut Street, Oneonta Tickets: $15 per person adv. • $20 at the door Call 607-432-0494 or stop in.

Feast of India. Suggested Do-nation, $20. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 852 Co. Rd. 26, Fly Creek. Reservation megk@oecblue.com

Sunday, March 3

PANCAKE BREAKFAST – 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sugaring Off Sundays pancake breakfast with fresh maple syrup, then demonstrations, tours. The Farmers Museum, 5775 Route 80, Cooperstown.

MEET & GREET – 12-4 p.m. “Sundays at Brandow’s” to connect families with companion animals from Susquehanna SPCA. Brandow’s Feed & Seed, 4119 NY7, Oneonta. 607-547-8111.

WORKSHOP – 3-5 p.m.

Cindy Falk leads Understanding Historical Architecture Styles. Attendees encouraged to bring photos of homes, buildings to identify the style.

Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Info, director@otsego2000.org.

BASKETBALL – 4 p.m. Cheer on Oneonta Octane basketball team at home game. SUNY Oneonta. 607-432-0001.

Monday, March 4

TRAINING COURSE – 7 p.m. Travel Soccer Referee Course. Oneonta Soccer Referee Assoc. Cost TBD. SUNY Oneonta Campus. Info, geoff. davis@oneonta.edu KNITTING – 1 - 2 p.m. Knit, crochet with friends. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs.

315-858-0230.

NICOTINE ANONYMOUS – 7 p.m. Meetings for those who desire to live free of nicotine. Front Meeting Room, St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. 845-3327803 or visit nicotine-anonymous.org

Tuesday, March 5

AUDITIONS – 5:30-9:30 p.m. Audition for Templeton Players summer productions. Registration required.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Registration info, gestevens17@gmail.com

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Renewable Home Passes 10th Anniversary Challenged, Southside Mall Thinking Ahead so a couple of weeks ago, SOLAR/From B3 then added an air-source He and Linda had heat pump that pulls heat bought acreage on from the atmosphere in Day Road, aiming to winter, and cool air in the build a house that took summer. advantage of the view.

“The is the future,” Suddenly, it dawned on said the satisfied owner, John: “It faced south!” surveying the bright, open He ran across an first-floor expanse. “So article that mentioned much comfort; so much Brownell, who light.” happened to be John said the 4,000relatively local. “I square-foot home would designed the house,” said Kosmer. “He gave Jim Kevlin/ OTSEGO.life have cost about $375,000 to build, but it cost me the parameters.”

John Kosmer’s squirrel cage fan $450,000. He estimates As John describes it, is the mechanism that keeps his the first-decade savings at the house takes advan- solar home with no more than a tage of a few simple 3-degree variation, regardless of $30,000-$40,000, so the family will move ahead ideas. Sunlight heats. what’s happening outside. over the next decade.

Heat rises. circulated back through the He said passive solar has You can see the threeupper stories. reduced heating costs about story house if you look west “There is never more than 75 percent. “’Zero’ is more from Route 28 driving from a 3-degree difference inside a marketing phrase than a Cooperstown to Fly Creek, the house,” John reported. reality,” he declared. and the relevant features are There are other nifty At one point, John realized visible to all. features: a passive solar home like his One, the south wall is all • The chimney on a works for a certain income glass. Two, there are big, Vermont Castings stove in niche.

On the one hand, overhanging eaves. the livingroom goes up the you have to be able to afford In the summer, when air well, heating as it goes; the extra expense upfront, the sun is in the Northern usually, a chimney would be in exchange for coming out Hemisphere, high in the sky, outside the house, heating the ahead over time. the eaves shelter the house, great outdoors.

On the other, “If you’re too keeping it cool. In the winter, • All the windows are rich, you don’t care.” when the sun is low in the casements. In the summer, Still, Kosmer is blunt sky, the sun shines through they can be opened to catch about passive solar’s benefits. the windows, heating the the maximum breeze; in the Traditional homes – the ones interior. winter, winds push the panes he helped renovate for years As the inside air heats, it against the house, tightening – are “now obsolete.”

But rises through an open central the seals. new ways of thinking are air shaft and through third• Since nails – think about absorbed slowly. story windows into the attic. it – are conduits that can He recounted how New Then, a squirrel-cage fan bring cold from the outside York State, to encourage in the first-floor bathroom in, “no nail goes all the way better insulation of homes, circulates the warm air into through,” said John – from changed the building code the channel-filled slab that the outside, halfway in; from to require construction with supports the structure. the inside, halfway out.

2x6s instead of 2x4s.

At night, the fan draws The Kosmers acknowledge “That’s what you have to cooler air through the basethe house could be a bit ment and the slab releases the uncomfortable in the summer, do,” he said. “You have to change the building code.” heat, warming air that then is

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MALL/From B1 While the national news about traditional covered shopping news may not be good – nor is it in many sectors with the rise of eshopping – individual locales can and do buck the trend.

“We’re not going anywhere,” Montanti said in an interview in her office just off the main corridor. Seven years at the mall’s helm, she previously worked for JC Penney and OfficeMax, and had run her own partygoods store in Price Chopper plaza. “We have too many consumers who depend on what we offer.”

Over the years, Oneonta, because of the distance to Albany and Binghamton, has shown it can draw shoppers from as far away as 50 miles, and that remains true.

“We are a hub; a miniVestal,” said Montanti. Over the years, big retailers have found, on opening stores locally, that they’re getting more business than their projections anticipated.

JC Penney, the only department store in Greater Oneonta, remains the poster child.

“This is the highestprofit store they have in the country,” said Montanti. “We in Oneonta will never lose JC Penney, unless the entire company closes.”

There’s churn, yes, but with 36 stores in the local mall, that’s to be expected.

Bed Bath & Beyond, which closed this year, didn’t turn out to be a good fit with the market, but another retailer – Harbor Freight, a quality tool discounter – has

already been recruited to fill that space.

And TJ Maxx – Montanti raises her eyebrows – is packing them in.

Because consumers now have the option to shop from home, TJ Maxx has created what all stores strive to create, she said: “Quality of product, an AMAZING experience, and low cost.”

She spoke a bit about unfairness in the sales tax: Bricks-and-mortar stores have to charge sales tax; online retailers, whose virtual stores don’t have the same costs, are exempt from sales tax as well.

That inequity has to be addressed elsewhere.

Meanwhile, malls are strategizing about their mission, and one option we can expect to see more of at Southside Mall is entertainment.

Upstate, Syracuse malls are leading the way. Destiny USA has a zipline and obstacle course. Syracuse’s Crossgates has opened Lucky Strikes, a comedy club. One mall installed a bowling alley.

Southsides move in that direction began with the just-completed renovations of Southside Cinemas, which have seen a rise in patrons as a result, she said.

Already, the mall has six restaurants, all doing well, she said.

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in a county that’s been getting a lot of single-digit weather lately, Southside Mall offers something no one else can, Montanti said, strolling past Maurice’s in the direction of Kay Jewelers.

Tom & Doug’s Cruise-In Cabin Fever Car Show had just set up, and Montanti paused by the vintage Sweet Dreams ice-cream truck, a turquoiseand-white confection.

She looked over at a shiny black Mustang convertible, and recounted a conversation she overheard the day before.

“Look, hon,” a wife said to her husband. “Remember our white Mustang when we got married?”

“It gave me goosebumps,” Montanti said.

The Cabin Fever Car Show is a popular perennial, but so is Mall-o-Ween. A Home Show is planned March 23; a Vendor & Craft Show on March 30. In January, a job fair attracted 35 vendors.

And there are classes, movies and community events, promoted via the mall’s Facebook page.

By now, Montanti has arrived at Kay Jewelers, where manager Bob McCann is thrilled by a 20 percent increase in sales since the first of the year.

“You’ve got to have a strong team” McCann explained. “You have to have people who are going to lead and who are going to follow.”

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Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. EF2018-507 Mortgaged Premises: 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 A/K/ A 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 GILBERTSVILLE A/K/A BUTTERNUTS, NY 13776 Section: 283.00 Block: 1 Lot: 13.02 F/K/A Part of Lot 13 DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

DANIEL MILLS, SR., AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; BARBARA PALMER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; STEPHANIE MYLES, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; if living, and if she 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 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 stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; 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

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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 stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF THE CWHEQ INC., HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-S4, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve 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, Defendants.

To the abovenamed Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $64,000.00 and interest, recorded on September 2, 2005, at Liber 1458 Page 300, of the Public Records of OTSEGO

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County, New York, covering premises known as 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 A/K/A 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 GILBERTSVILLE A/K/A BUTTERNUTS, NY 13776.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

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 the mortgage company will not stop the 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. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: DYZIO J. GUZIEROWICZ, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalMar.21 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON INCLUSION OF LAND INTO CERTIFIED AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing has been scheduled by the Board of Representatives of Otsego County, State of New York, in the Representatives’ Chambers at the County Office Building in the Village of Cooperstown, New York, on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 9:55 a.m. for consideration of requests to include three (3) parcels of viable agricultural land into certified agricultural

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districts located within the County of Otsego and the recommendation of the Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board.

This request has been filed with the County legislature, pursuant to Section 303-b of the Agriculture and Markets Law. Two landowners have requested that their agricultural land, located in the Towns of Worcester and Unadilla be included in Agricultural District # 1 within Otsego County.

A listing of the parcels to be included and the recommendation of the Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board may be examined at the Otsego County Planning Department at The Meadows Building, 140 County Highway 33W, Cooperstown, New York during regular business hours.

All parties in interest and citizens will be heard by the Otsego County Board of Representatives at the public hearing.

The location of the public hearing is accessible to persons with mobility impairment.

Dated: February 28, 2019 Carol D. McGovern

Clerk of the Board Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalFeb.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation Limited Liability Company (LLC) The name of the LLC is Sal’s Pizza of Cooperstown LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on February 14, 2019.

The purpose for which the LLC has been formed is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is to be located is Otsego.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 704 Sachem Circle, Slingerlands, NY 12159.

6LegalApr.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) 24 34 Property Holding, LLC, Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/16/19.

Office Location: Chenango County.

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against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 24 34 Property Holding, LLC, Attn: Michael O’Reilly, 1103 County Road 19, Norwich, NY 13815.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Date of dissolution: None.

6LegalApr.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company GOLDEN GRIFFINS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 11 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 80 Susquehanna Ave, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 127 State Highway 165, LLC Articles of Org. Filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/13/19.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon Whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Emily Cooperstein, 1270 County Highway 33, Cooperstown,NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose 6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice to bidders Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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Amendments may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification.

Contact Robert Kitchen (518)4572124.

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where subcontracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to D/W/ MBEs. The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat.

252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federallyassisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award.

BIDDERS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT AWARD OF THESE CONTRACTS MAY BE CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL

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land, Delaware, Dutchess, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westchester, Wyoming, Yates Cos., Statewide Emergency Bridge Contract, Regions 1-10., Bid Deposit: $150,000.00, Goals: MBE: 3.00%, WBE: 6.00% 2LegalFeb.28 Legal nOtice Notice to bidders Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-notices.

The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/ const-planholder.

Amendments may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification.

Contact Robert Kitchen (518)4572124.

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where subcontracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to D/W/ MBEs. The New York State Department

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of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat.

252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federallyassisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award.

BIDDERS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT AWARD OF THESE CONTRACTS MAY BE CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL

BY THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Please call (518)457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

Region 09: New York State Department of Transportation 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY, 13901 D263891, PIN 9PM019, FA Proj Z2409PM0-194 , Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, Tioga Cos., 2019 REGIONAL PAVEMENT MARKING REQUIREMENT CONTRACT., Bid Deposit: $150,000.00, Goals: DBE: 3.00% 2LegalFeb.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Leatherstocking Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 5, 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

The SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom processes against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC, 328 Stone House Road Fly

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Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of RFP Management LLC 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.

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Irene Harlem, 86, Oneonta; Wife Of Supreme Court Judge ONEONTA – Irene Harlem, 86, Oneonta, wife of the late state Supreme Court Judge Robert A. Harlem, passed away Feb. 25, 2019, at Fox Hospital.

She was born March 28, 1932, in Amityville, the daughter of Herman and Margaret (Wagner) Muller.

Irene grew up on Long Island, where she met and married Charles Mann in September 1951. In 1965, they moved to Mount Vision. Irene then married Judge Harlem in 1982; she worked for her husband as a law clerk.

After retirement, they

enjoyed many years wintering and vacationing at the Venice Golf & Country Club in Venice Fla., where they Irene lived.

Harlem Irene was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Venice, Fla. She was an active member, rising through the ranks in the Order of the Eastern Star, becoming a state director of the Triangle Organization.

She is survived by her

sons, Charles H. Mann (Karen Sue) of Mount Vision, Kenneth Mann (Barbara) of Oneonta, and Robert Mann (Karen) of Laurens; grandchildren Chuck Mann, Melissa Shaul, Kenneth Mann, Richard Mann, Nathan Mann, Stephanie Jelenevesky and Ashley Haag; several great-grandchildren; her sister, Marjorie Brush of Williamsburg, Va., and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her son, Donald Mann, her husbands, and her sister, Barbara Muller.

Visitation will be 3-5 p.m., Sunday, March 3, at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 9, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 790 Tamiami Trail, Venice, Fla. The interment will be in the church’s Memorial Garden.

Contributions may be made to the Emmanuel Lutheran Church.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley and Pietrobono Funeral Home, Oneonta.

John Chambers, 82; Ran Family Livestock Auction

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UNADILLA – John D. Chambers, 82, a horseman from birth and later an auctioneer at the family’s cattle and horse auction, D.R. Chambers & Sons, rising to president, died in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb 17, 2019.

He was born on Jan. 30, 1937. in Walton, the son of David R. and Mary (Little) Chambers.

John graduated from Unadilla Central School in 1955 and earned his degree from Albany Business College in 1957. Later that year, he traveled by train to Decatur, Ind., to attend Reppert Auction School.

He liked to tell how he graduated on a Friday and was auctioneering at the family’s business next day.

He married Charlyn Reinfurt in 1957.

His father, David R. Chambers, bought the Unadilla livestock auction in 1937, the year he was born.

His early years involved the breeding and training of trotters and pacers. He also became a skilled harness horse driver. In recent years, his sport of choice was team penning, which embodied both his horse and cattle skills. He embraced it with a passion, competing successfully not only on the East Coast, but also in the West when he wintered in Arizona.

During the months of September and October, he established a tradition of Sunday morning trail rides, from his farm to the Unadilla Rod and Gun Club for breakfast. This popular event has grown to have as many as 60 riders.

John was predeceased by his parents.

He is survived by his seven siblings, James Chambers, Madeline Grader, Shirley Osterhoudt, Dotty MacIntosh and husband, John, Dale Chambers and wife, Linda, Linda Allen and Michael Chambers and wife, Denise; plus many grandchildren; great-grandchildren; nieces and neph-

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His surviving children, Donna Hegarty and husband, Jim, Scott Chambers and wife,

John Chambers

Kim, and Sandi Preston and husband, Kelvin, invite his family and friends to a Celebration of Life at the Unadilla Rod and Gun Club on Memorial Day, May 27.

Everyone is asked to bring their favorite memory of John.

Further details will follow.

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Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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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,

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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.

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Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC)

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.

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upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail process to 558 Greenough Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Glimmer glen 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

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MANCUSO LAUDED: Logan J. Mancuso, Oneonta, is on the Fall 2018 Dean’s List at St. Lawrence University. He is a member of the Class of 2019 and is majoring in neuroscience.

HOMETOWN People HOLOQUIST ON LIST: Jennica M. Holoquist, Oneonta, has been named to the Dean’s List at Clemson University for the fall 2018 semester. She is majoring in Psychology.

Clark Sports Center Athletics Program Coordinator CSC is looking for a full time Athletics Program Coordinator. Full benefits package. Email resume to Barry Gray, grayb@clarksportscenter.com, by March 4.

Please visit clarksportscenter.com for qualifications, responsibilities and more information.

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Service and Repair Mechanic (HVAC-Refrigeration) SUNY Delhi has an immediate opening for an engaging Service and Repair Mechanic for operation, maintenance, repair, and installation of refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment, as well as, heating and ventilation equipment.

Experience and knowledge of commercial-type refrigeration equipment is required. For additional requirements and application directions, visit: www.delhi.edu – select - Employment (center bottom of home page). SUNY Delhi is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering full NYS benefits.

For more information, call 607-746-4493.

Table Rock Bouldering Cuts Ribbon On Adventure

FRIDAY, March 1, 2019

After 40 Years Town Clerk Is Retiriing

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heryl Shackelton, Oneonta town clerk for the last 40 years, has announced her retirement effective May 29, 2019.

“This will be an enormous loss for the town,” said Town Supervisor Bob Wood this afternoon. Shackelton “Cheryl’s experience and organization skills will be very difficult to replace.

“Her personality perfectly fit the role of town clerk,” he Jennifer Hill/HOMETOWN ONEONTA said.

Mayor Gary Herzig heralds Table Rock Bouldering as “a business that is The town board will be exactly right for Oneonta,” at the Market Street rock climbing venue’s actively seeking someone to ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, Feb. 25. Standing next to the mayor fill the position until after are, from left, proprietor Jay Shultis, Barbara Ann Heegan, Otsego County this year’s election cycle.

Chamber of Commerce president, and manager Luke Malone. In back, Interested parties should Eamon Connors demonstrates his gravity-defying climbing abilities. contact either the clerk’s office or the supervisor at 607-432-2900.

The salary has been set at $32,000-$40,000. Wood said he’s trying to get the word out as soon as possible, since the election calendar has been moved up and petitions have to be circulated this week, so there’s a need to find a qualified person quickly who would also be interested in running for election in November.

The clerk’s position involves the issuance of dog, marriage, hunting and fishing licenses, death certificates, handicap permits and organizing correspondence to the town and attending board meetings and taking minutes.

The clerk is also the records management officer.

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Laurens CentraL sChooL Are you looking for an employment opportunity in a local public school district? Would you enjoy working in a positive environment; in a culture that encourages both personal and professional growth? Do you enjoy working with children? We are presently seeking:

Full time school nurse Position substitute Bus Drivers & Drivers for field trips School Nurse: Successful candidate must hold a valid NYS Registered Nurse Certification and have NYSED fingerprint clearance.

Please apply online at www.olasjobs.org/southern or send cover letter, completed LCS application (available on school website), resume, and a minimum of three letters of recommendation.

Substitute Bus Drivers (and drivers for field trips): Successful candidate must hold a valid NYS Driver’s license, and preferably a CDL class B with passenger and school bus endorsement and NYSED/DOT fingerprint clearance. Please apply online at www.olasjobs.org/ southern or send cover letter, completed LCS application (available on school website), resume, and a minimum of three letters of recommendation.

Return all application information to: Mrs. Romona N. Wenck, Superintendent Laurens Central School PO Box 301 Laurens, NY 13796 (Submit all required information by March 1, 2019)

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en Lavin, an OHS senior, has been selected to perform as a tenor with 300 vocalists as part of the mixed chorus at the 2019 NAFME AllLavin Eastern Honors Ensembles on Sunday, April 7 in the Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh on Sunday, April 7.

Zen, with the help of OHS Choir Director Megan Dyer, will prepare to perform vocal music with the ensemble under choral conductor and composer Rollo Dillworth from Temple University.