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Sustainability Soars

Technology May Yet Save Planet, Forum Discovers In Crafting Local Action Steps

By JIM KEVLIN

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he keynoter started with a bleak vision.

If nothing’s done, temperatures will rise by 38.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, up to 70 percent of plant and animal life will be extinct, floods will be common, droughts longer and Storm Sandys will double.

But it doesn’t have to be, Neil Murphy, retired presiJoe Harmer/HOMETOWN ONEONTA dent of SUNY’s College of

Norwich bested Oneonta, 40-28, in Sectional finals in Binghamton Saturday, March 1, but nothing could erase flying Albert Odero’s performance this season; and he’s just a sophomore.

Paul Bischoff was high scorer with 12; Albert scored 10.

If She’s Tops, Nominate Her For City Prize

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local woman of distinction is being sought for the eighth annual Trailblazer Award, presented by the city Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights.

Deadline for nominations is Monday, March 24. For more information, call commission chair Joyce Miller, 432-8751, City Clerk Doug Kendall, 432-6450 or e-mail dkendall@oneonta.ny.us Common Council will present the award at its April meeting.

RR MEMORIES: The Sixth Ward Athletic Club is seeking local railroad memorabilia to highlight at the third annual Joe & Mary Memorial Banquet April 5. Call dinner chair Bruno Scavo at 436-9136. Only 39 dinner reservations remain.

FRAZIER TALKS: Former Golden Gloves champ Marvis Frazier and his biographer, Jamie Potter of Otego, will speak to Tom Tirado’s class at Laurens Central School March 11.

Environmental Science & Forestry, told 120 people who, concerned about just those issues, had gathered Retired ESF Saturday morning, President March 1, for Murphy buoyed at- a Sustaintendees. ability Summit at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center.

For the next half hour, before he was cut off for lack of time, Murphy ticked off one initiative after another – many that have been accomplished on the ESF campus, some that can be accomplished in our local societies at large.

Some 89,000 TW – 89 trillion megawatts – of the sun’s energy reaches the earth’s surface. “Can’t we capture 600 TW?” he asked, though initiatives as simple as using direct daytime Please See SUMMIT, A7

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SUNY Oneonta geography prof Tracy Allen’s Water Management breakout session discusses alternatives to road salt Saturday, March 1, at City Hall’s Sustainability Summit in SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center.

IT’S A FIRST, IT’S A HIT

1,000 Sip At Snommegang; Brewery To Repeat In 2015

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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he Snommegang beer festival wasn’t just any beer festival. It was a love letter.

“This was our love letter to Oneonta using the best penmanship that we have,” said Ommegang event coordinator John Tuchowski. “We wanted to plan a memorable event for a community that has done a lot for us.”

And thus, Snommegang was born last Saturday, March 1, along OneonMSO stalwarts Rachel Jesup and Dena Rudnicki ta’s Main Street. enjoy the offerings.

“Winters in New York are long and cold, and about this time, cabin fever is setting in,” said Allison Capozza, publicity manager for Brewery Ommegang. “Oneonta needed a beer festival to shake that.”

Last year, Tuchowski and Steve Hamilton, also an event coordinator, approached the city about the festival and began coordinating with MSO. “In the summer, Ommegang has a lot of space, but in the winter, all we have is the parking lot,” said Tuchowski. “And Oneonta is a fantastic spot for beers.”

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Over 1,000 people attended the festival, tasting Bresee’s redeveloper Chip Klugo, accompanied by Please See BEER FEST, A6 Elaine McGeffrick, tastes from a cornucopia of brews and activity down Main Street from his project.

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Orpheus, Foothills Firm Up Alliance

Kids’ Theater Makes Art Center ‘Official’ Venue For Its Plays

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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he plays may take place anywhere, from a desert island to a winter wonderland. But Orpheus Theatre’s children’s workshops have found a permanent stage, declaring the Foothills Performing Arts Center its official venue.

“We used to bounce around from location to location, but now we have a home,” said director Sarah Lynn Serafin.

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Sugaring Off Sundays began March 2 at The Farmers’ Museum, and lured Oneontans up Route 28 for the sweet treats. Here, Rich Tyler dinigs into a stack at wife Loraine and Les Grummons prepare to do the same. Alan and Anne Donovan joined them.

After pancakes, dad Josh Gorman, right, bundled up son Fynn, 2O months, to visit the Empire State Carousel. Sugaring Off continues every Sunday in March.

hen John J. Crotts serves you with a smile, he’s got plenty to smile about The general manager of the Southside Oneonta McDonald’s and area supervisor for the Oneonta restaurants recently placed in the top 5 percent of the international chain’s best managers, competing with 14,000 of his peers.

It’s the sixth time he’s been named to the list, and the fifth time he’s received the general manager award in the seven years he’s been with the franchise A SUNY Oneonta graduate and a Laurens native, Crotts received the award from McDonald’s at a conference in New Jersey.

“The customers make this award possible,” he said.

He also thanked his team for their efforts.

His wife, Alison Crotts,

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John Crotts, left, holds the award he received in recognition for being one of the top 5 percent of Best Managers in the company. With him is his staff, from left, George Sheley, Katrina Cole, TJ St. John Jr. and Danielle Tenace.

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After Nail-Biter, Lady Jackets Set For State Tourney Quarter-Finals

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ime Out. With the Norwich Tornados up 10 points, 33-23, and the Lady Yellowjackets playing “like zombies,” Coach Matt Miller called a time out with less than five minutes in the third quarter. “I knew we had to start cutting through this and we had to do it right out of that time out,” he said.

With just over 15 minutes left in the game, Miller switched IF YOU GO: his team State quarterfi- from nals noon, Sat- a zone urday, March defense to a man8 at SUNY to-man.

Binghamton, v. Utica Notre “Only being in Dame. charge of blocking one person put us in a better position to keep track of their shooters,” he said. “They were shooting three-pointers, but when we started keeping track of them, they didn’t do that anymore.”

It was a strategy that won them the game, netting the Yellowjackets a 51-44 victory. “Our defense generated our offense and we were able to pick up some steals.”

At one point, Norwich went over eight minutes without scoring a single

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Mariah Ruff jumps towards scoring another point against Norwich during their match-up on Saturday, March 1. Now just two games away from the state championship, the Lady Yellowjackets take on Utica Notre Dame at Binghamton University on Saturday, March 8.

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Mariah Ruff, who was suffering with a sore shoulder in last week’s game against Susquehanna Valley, was back in fighting shape, scoring 17 points, grabbing 13 rebounds, nine steals, seven assists and five blocks. “Those numbers are insane,” said Miller.

Brittney Harrick scored 16 points, and Maria DeMartin brought in 14.

On noon, Saturday, March 8 at SUNY Binghamton, the Yellowjackets

head into the regional championship against Utica Notre Dame for what OHS athletic director Joe Hughes calls “a rematch.”

“It’s set to be another classic,” he said.

If the girls win against Utica, they head to the state semi-finals at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy on Friday-Saturday, March 14-15. “They just need to keep doing what they’re doing,” said Hughes. “It’s not easy, but we think they’ll play well.”

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EDITORIAL

Cynics Aside, ‘Summits’ Have Served City, County Well

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t Oneonta’s Sustainability Summit the other day, former mayor Kim Muller was reflecting on her first experience with such, a citywide summit in the late 1990s.

“There were nine projects,” she said. “And we did them all.”

The first round ranged from very big – attracting a hotel downtown, what is now the Clarion on what is now Muller Plaza – to the redo of Water Street; remember when, instead of smart brick sidewalks and turnouts, it featured rows of dumpsters? A second Muller summit in the early aughts urged the Bresee’s renovation, today also a reality.

• In February 2012, a city Housing Summit that packed the old Center Street School gym spawned an affiliation with Housing Visions, the Syracuse non-profit redevelopment firm that repairs rundown properties and puts them back on the tax rolls.

Today, Visions is acquiring properties and also planning senior housing in the Silver Creek neighborhood, according to Common Council member Dave Rissberger, who chaired the Housing Task Force that summit spawned.

The task force has done much more, but Rissberger cited two other initiatives in particular: One, tax incentives that were available statewide – for green buildings, for first-time homebuyers of newly built homes, for converting multiple units back into singlefamily homes – but hadn’t been adopted by the local Common Council (but now have). And two, a soon-tobe-enacted vacant-home fee (and registry), to encourage owners of empty houses and banks with foreclosed houses to get them filled again.

• An Arts Summit that Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller convened in March 2011 has less to show – herding creative types can be a bit like doing similarly with the cats of the aphorism. But Miller points in particular to the repositioning of the former UCCCA, as one-C CANO, the Community Arts Network of Oneonta.

Instead of ranging the Catskills, CANO is Oneonta-focused, one of the mayor’s priorities. A feuding board has been replaced with an amicable one under the able and energetic Raina D’Amico. And word is circulating that funds have been identified to fix up the Wilber Mansion headquarters, which has gotten a bit

dog-eared.

The benefits of state Sen. Jim Seward’s two Economic Development Summits, the first in March 2012 at The Otesaga, the second last Nov. 14 at Foothills, have been heralded frequently in this space. But they probably are the foremost case in point, educating business leaders that the mindset of a high-tax, over-regulated New York State is passé, being replaced by the nanotechnology boom – 20,000 jobs in Utica-Marcy in the next 10 years, with regional spinoffs – and the tax-free Start-Up New York, which SUNY Oneonta is participating in.

• Specific ideas have come Hannah Masterjohn, a city Sustainout of all these summits. ability Task Force member who helped More important, leaders organize the summit, leads brainare encouraged they are not storming in the Land Use & Livealone in caring about critiable Communities breakout session. cal issues. And would-be Listening are Asbury Garden’s Brian Fawcett, center, and Dan Maskin, Opleaders – who meet other portunities for Otsego CEO. would-be leaders at these gatherings – are inspired to step up.

“Everybody knew there was a problem,” Rissberger recalled of the Housing Summit. “But it helped flesh out what the problems were and what we wanted to do about it.” Some 150 folks showed up (similar to the number at the Sustainability Summit). “When I saw the turnout,” said Rissberger, Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA who had just finished chairOneonta Town Council member Patsy Jacobs adds to ing the Charter Commisbrainstorming in Transportation breakout, which recomsion, “I was surprised, but mended sidewalks for Lettis Highway and on Southside Summit co-hosts, City Mayor Dick thrilled.” during the city’s Sustainability Summit Saturday, March 1, Miller, right, and Town Supervisor Bob in SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center.

The point is, summits Wood, welcome the 120 participants.

– while they are rare locally outside Oneonta, and should be attempted in Cooperstown, at the county level, everywhere, really – are working in and for Otsego County. In part, because people care. In part, because brainy, educated, committed people care. In part, because of an energized leadership. Miller is the poster child, of course.

SUNY President Nancy Kleniewski has attended all summits since her arrival in 2008.

Adrian and Antoinette Kuzminski, originators of Mark Davies, left, who chaired Sustainable Otsego, were the city’s Sustainability Task at the most recent, sendForce, which organized the summit, helps Kevin Hodne, Agriculing an important message: Dennis Finn, center, city Planning Board chair and Airport Comture & Forestry breakout modermission member, helps himself to the buffet that featured local Sustainability is an issue ator, lay out list of ideas for gang cheese, yogurt, apples and hydroponic lettuce. (one of many) that calls voting. for countywide solidarity.

From the other end of the spectrum, Citizen Voices’ co-chairs, Bob Harlem and LOU ALLSTADT Tom Armao, among other OTHER VOICES CV adherents.

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EYE ON THE WEATHER Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, is providing monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.

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

125 Years Ago

A serious railroad wreck occurred on Sunday afternoon near Wells Bridge. A wild-cat train, in charge of conductor Connors and engineer George M. Marland, left Oneonta with orders to run to Nineveh. Earlier in the day conductor Saxton and engineer Will Ostrander had received orders to run from Nineveh to Oneonta. Neither crew knew of the presence of the other upon the road, and as a result, met near the curve just above the long switch at Wells Bridge.

The engines came together with great force, and were badly broken, although not thrown from the track. The firemen both jumped and saved themselves. So soon was the collision after the engineers saw each other that it was impossible for them to reverse, which they did, and get off before the crash came. The force with which the engines struck each other threw the coal from the tender forward, nearly burying engineer Ostrander beneath it. He was not, however, seriously injured. His engine, No. 280, was attached simply to a caboose and was not near so badly broken as the other engine, No. 176, to which was attached a full train of cars. When the collision occurred, engineer Marland, who had stepped down to the deck preparatory to jumping was thrown against the boiler, and nearly buried to his neck by the coal from the tender. He was held firmly in that position for nearly half an hour before he could be extricated by his fellow employees. Steam escaping from the boiler badly scalded his back in the meantime, notwithstanding which, Marland directed the work of his rescuers and cheered them on by good-natured remarks, displaying most remarkable nerve. If left longer he would have been scalded to death.

March 1889

100 Years Ago

The blizzard which began Sunday afternoon and drove across the country with a 60 mile per hour gale almost all Sunday night and far into the day Monday produced a condition of isolation in the city of Oneonta which exceeds in seriousness even the storm of last month with its larger amount of snow. The one link with the outside world early Monday morning was the telephone and even that was badly crippled. During the day, however, communication was established gradually with other places, and towards night the city was in relatively good shape. About half past ten that evening, however, the snow commenced to fall again.

None of the schools of the city were in session Monday. At the Normal School it was impossible to reach the building so deeply was the snow drifted into deep piles on the walks.

March 1914

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60 Years Ago

Highest Temperature..................................... 47 F (Feb. 22) Lowest Temperature.......................................-8° F (Feb.12) Average Maximum Temperature..............................28.2° F Average Minimum Temperature...................................8.5 F Monthly Mean Temperature.....................................18.4° F Precipitation Total.........................................................2.79″ Most Precipitation in 1 Day.............................0.74″ (Feb. 5) Thunderstorms.....................................................................0 Snow...............................................................................27.0″ Most Snow in 1 Day...........................................9.1″ (Feb. 5) YTD Precipitation..........................................................5.30″ Number of Days at or below 0° F........7 (19 for the winter) Number of Days at or below 32° F...................................27

March 1974

The TEKES of Hartwick College – The 20-some inhabitants of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house at 78 Elm Street have evolved a simple working definition of their brotherhood that can be expressed as “share and share alike.” Everyone in the TEKE house pitches in to carry the load. According to Stover Snook, frat president, every frat brother realizes this equalization. When work details are posted every Friday, every one of the TEKES is listed and accounted for. One detail is assigned to the kitchen, another to the living room, and so on. But, sophomores, juniors and seniors all wield mobs, brooms, brushes, etc. Mothers may have to strain their imaginations to picture their husky offspring at such work, but it is so.

March 1954

30 Years Ago

Riegel Textile Corporation, an Aiken South Carolina-based company with a diaper manufacturing plant in Oneonta, has signed an exclusive agreement with the Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. to manufacture Cabbage Patch Doll diapers. Riegel used the cabbage patch design on baby clothes and sleepers before extending the marketing campaign to diapers. Some of the prospective buyers may be young girls who own a Cabbage Patch doll.

A spokesman said the dolls are sold wearing a disposable diaper manufactured by Proctor & Gamble.

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Comments: An extremely cold, windy and snowy February, the harsh winter marches on! The mean temperature was 18.4 degrees, which is 4.3 degrees below the normal mean. The 27.0 inches of snowfall is 8.2 inches above the normal 18.8 inches. Precipitation, (which is rain and the water equivalent of snow and sleet), was just off the mark at 2.79 inches, normal is 2.55 inches. Snow for the first two months of the year totals 46.5 DAVID inches, normal is 36.7 inches. Snow for MATTICE the winter 2013-14 so far totals 84.4 inches; that is 26.1 inches above the normal. It is safe to say that we will see some modification of temperatures during March, but by averages it is the third snowiest month of the year. Keep your eye on the weather!

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Foothills Official Home Of Orpheus Kids’ Workshop Allstadt Tilts At Tillerson ALLIANCE/From A1 Orpheus’ latest children’s theater performance, “Alice in a Winter Wonderland.”

“We’re just so excited that we can bring children’s theater into the community,” said Foothills board president Carol Blazina.

The children’s theater workshops have been around for over 20 years, with incarnations like the Starstruck Players kids group and Musical Kids on the Go, which boasts among its alumni 2014 American Idol singer Kaitlyn Jackson.

“There are so many talented performers here who need an outlet,” she said. “They start off clinging to mom’s legs and then, one day, they’re the star of the show.”

Orpheus offers several workshops, including two week-long productions at winter and spring break, a two-week

This year’s performance of “Alice” was the first combination of the two workshops, now dubbed KATS – Kids And Teens, who wrote and performed the show.

“We try to give them a full range,” said Sarafin. “In the winter and spring shows, they write their own play, create their own characters and build the set. Even if it’s painted cardboard, it shows them the beginning of what would go into a larger set.”

“Alice” was performed in the proIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA duction center room. “It’s amazing Foothills board president Carol Blazina, left, and Sarah Lynn how quickly we’re outgrowing that Serafin, Orpheus Theater direcspace,” she said. “We keep having to tor, have allied the two organiadd chairs!” zations.

And as the company continues to grow, Serafin is hoping that the shows summer musical theater workshop for will move to the main stage in the kids in grades 1-6 and a year-round Bettiol Theatre. “I’ve been here long free production workshop open to enough to see these kids grow,” she anyone who performed in a previous said. “It’s incredible.” workshop.

Brewery Plans Snommegang Repeat After 1,000 Attend BEER FEST/From A1 samples from 26 breweries across the country, from Brooklyn Brewery to Shipyard from Portland, Maine, and Stone Brewing Co., Escondido, Calif. “This is exactly the kind of destination event Main Street Oneonta was looking for,” said MSO project manager Julia Goff.

“It allowed Main Street to really shine and show off

what we had to offer.”

For a $50 entry fee, guests were given a small tasting glass, while music, waffles and sandwiches were available to all.

Ommegang, based in the Town of Middlefield, debuted its Glimmerglass spring seasonal ale. Assistant Brewmaster Mike McManus also brought out the rye IPA brewed for New

York City’s Beer Week.

Four-hundred tickets were purchased ahead of time, but on the appointed day, the line wound halfway down Dietz Street when the festival opened.

Goff encouraged businesses to stay open later to encourage shopping, and more than one restaurant was swamped when the Snommegang taps closed

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down at 6 p.m. “I went by Tokyo Tavern to get some take-out sushi, and there was a huge line,” said Capozza.

Locals and college students made their appearances, but, bolstered by packages at the Inn at Cooperstown and the Clarion Hotel, many tasters came from out of town. “People are surprised by how many beers we have in this county,” said Barbara Ann Heegan, Otsego County Chamber president.

“It’s a good way to bring people to Oneonta.”

And a good, safe time was had by all. “Nobody got out of hand,” said Capozza. “We can hold beer fests with large numbers of people, but they’re relaxed and professional.”

And though Ommegang is gearing up to welcome visitors back to campus for a summer of music – Modest Mouse and Brand New were just announced for May 24 – Tuchowski believes Snommegang is here to stay.

“It embodies what Brewery Ommegang is all about,” he said. “It’s about camaraderie, and taking care of our neighbors, getting together with friends, drinking good beer and listening to great music.”

“Ommegang has such a huge following, they could take this festival anywhere,” said Goff. “But they kept it here.”

ALLSTADT/From A4 dustry from fracking here.

I understand from several press articles that you have fracking issues of your own, with a fracking water tower and truck traffic possibly detracting from your view and the value of your home.

In response to the prospect of fracking ruining our communities, many New York towns have passed zoning laws that prohibit heavy industry, including any activities associated with drilling for oil and gas.

Those laws, along with very little prospect for economic gas production in New York, mean that we probably will not have to look at fracking water towers, let alone live next to fracking well pads.

I say probably, because your industry is still fighting those zoning laws in the courts.

Ironically, your reasoning at the Bartonville, Texas, town council meetings is virtually identical to the reasoning that I and many other citizens used to convince our local town councils to pass laws that prohibit the very problem you have encountered, plus all of the other infrastructure and waste disposal issues associated with fracking.

No one should have to live near well pads, compression stations, incessant heavy truck traffic, or fracking water towers, nor should they have their water or air contaminated. You and I love the places where we live, but in the end, if they are ruined by fracking or frack water tanks, we can afford to pack up and go someplace else. However, many people can’t afford to move away when they can no longer drink the water or breathe the air because they are too close to one of your well pads or compressor stations.

My efforts to prevent fracking started over water — not the prospect of having to see a water tank from my home, but rather regulations that would allow gas wells near our sources of drinking water, in addi-

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tion to well pads next to our homes, schools, hospitals and nursing homes.

These issues are legitimate, but they are localized.

I am now much more concerned with the greenhouse gas impacts of fossil fuels in general, and particularly the huge impact of methane emissions from natural gas production and transportation. These are global problems that local zoning cannot protect against. Only a major shift toward renewable energy sources can begin to mitigate their catastrophic climate impacts.

Before closing, I should explain why I have referred to ExxonMobil as “your company.” For several years after retiring I thought of ExxonMobil as “my company.” I thought that the company’s rigor and discipline in investing in sound projects was as good as it gets, and ExxonMobil was my largest single investment. I no longer own any shares of ExxonMobil or any other fossil fuel company. I would prefer to be an early investor in alternative energy for the 21st century rather than hanging on to dwindling prospects for investments in 19th and 20th century fossil fuels.

It is time that ExxonMobil started shifting away from oil and gas, and toward alternatives — both for environmental reasons and to protect the long-term viability of the company.

Many large energy producers and consumers, including ExxonMobil, are building a carbon fee into their long-term planning assumptions. Actively supporting the phase-in of a carbon fee would be one way to move the company into the 21st century. Recognizing that methane emissions disqualify natural gas as a “bridge fuel” is another.

Good luck with that fracking water tank. I hope you don’t have to move, and also that you will help a lot of other people stay in the homes they love.

Regards, LOU ALLSTADT Cooperstown

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Likewise encouraged, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who chairs the county Board of Representatives, said, “The time to do things is now.

You know how I am: We need to move.”

Attendees, gathering at 8 a.m. in the Morris center’s Le Cafe, split into seven breakout sessions to brainstorm action steps.

After Murphy’s speech at mid-morning, the sessions reconvened to prioritize suggestions – each member was given five stickers to “vote” on their individual prioritized. At morning end – in addition to a buffet lunch featuring local cheese, yogurt, hydroponic lettuce – a spokesman for each breakout group reported back to the full gathering.

At day’s end, attendees were asked to sign up to help pursue the identified goals, and 32 did, according to Mark Davies, who chairs the city’s Sustainable Task Force. The lion’s share, 11, signed on for economic development, but interest was also shown in energy, land use, agriculture & forestry, and transportation.

“It’s a great starting point,” said Davies.

“What’s I’m seeing is a boatload of ideas. We as a committee are going to have to sit down and focus on what we need to do next. How do we get people involved. How do we get the impetus to move things forward.”

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Noting that the city’s effort is named “Oneonta 2030,” she said the task force, which will meet in the next week to decide on next steps, is looking as “lowhanging fruit we can put in a state grant application in the next year” along with longer-term inititiaves.

The idea of composting – diverting organic waste to create fertile soil; a pilot project is under way at the county’s Meadows Complex – seems “very doable,” she said. “Lots of excitement” about how value-added farm products can assist economic development makes that at natural, too, she said.

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There are 50 TW of wind energy available. “Can’t we capture 3 TW?” he asked.

Murphy’s answers, many reflected in Vision CNY, a state-funded, Syracusebased sustainability plan, were as simple as a son and mom processing used cooking oil from local diners to run their 30-year-old diesel Mercedes. Inspired, ESF began processing cooking oil from its dining halls to heat its buildings.

What about building a local charging station for electric cars? What about a light rail system? What about CHP (combined heat & power), using renewable fuels to create heat and electricity at the same time, a process that can raise power-plant efficiency from 35 to 80 percent? What about biomimicry, applying nature’s solutions to man’s problems? (Look it up, but Murphy touted its promise.)

“These are all things that would define Central New York” – and, by extension, Greater Oneonta and Otsego County – “as a unique place,” he said. “It will improve the quality of life dramatically.”

Murphy’s speech was bookmarked by a morning of structured discussion about how to make this area more sustainable, organized by the city’s Sustainability Task Force. “I was so happy that so many people showed

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MLS#92677 – 3 BR home on 1+ acres. Great yearround or vacation. Convenient to Cooperstown. $75,000 Call Michelle A. Curran @ 518-469-5603 (cell) MLS#91741 – Center-hall Colonial features wide pine, maple and cherry floors. LR w/fireplace, DR w/original cupboards and French doors to 40’ covered porch.

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Upstairs: 4 BRs, 3 baths. Master BR w/dressing room, private bath. Front and back staircases. Detached 2car htd garage w/workshop. Horse barn w/3 box stalls.

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