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With a painted nose, Brooks Baysinger departs from the OWL Paintfest Saturday, March 7, at Foxcare in Oneonta. Mom Amanda of Portlandville accompanied him.

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Oneonta students who hoped to study abroad will have to wait until the fall semester.

“We have cancelled all study abroad programs for the rest of the semester,” said Kim MacLeod, SUNY

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cautions against coronavirus (COVID-19) since the first case was reported in New York State, said Bassett Hospital President William LeCates Tuesday, March 10.

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Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONOENTAl From Oneonta to Roseboom, hundreds of people showed up at dusk Saturday, March 7, at the Bassett Hospital helipad, Cooperstown, to watch three UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters land during a U.S. Army Reserves, 353rd Civil Affairs Command training mission in conjunction with the Cooperstown Graduate Program. In the foreground, Ken Morrisey and Sally Harrington of Cooperstown head back to their car after examining the chopper at close hand.

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►STATE ATTORNEY Letitia James warned New Yorkers against falling for coronavirus scams, from scammers vending bogus viruses to false-front charities. ►MAIN STREET and the empty CVS building was the subject of much discussion as candidates for Cooperstown Village Board participated in a debate, hosted by the League of Women Voters. ►A KITChEN FIRE was doused in Apartment 213 at Nader Towers on Monday, March 3.

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artwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich was elected vice chair of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities at the latest CICU board meeting, where Drugovich a new board chair and seven trustees were also selected.

Drugovich takes over after serving as CICU treasurer and chair of its Finance and Administrative Committee.

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t’s been 42 years, but the idea of the “Union Ticket,” and the community amity it suggests, lives on.

It was the subject of a lively debate last Thursday, March 5, at the League of Women Voters’ Candidate Night – three candidates are running for two trustee seats.

Early in the evening, Dr. Roger MacMillan, the retired Bassett physician, asked the panel’s opinion on the Union Ticket, adding, “It was wonderful.”

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Chamber Selects Seward As ‘Citizen,’ Custom Electronics As ‘Distinguished Business’

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avid Marvel, Oneonta, was one of 17 local students named to the 2019 Dean’s List at SUNY Delhi for the fall 2019 semester, Also on the list were: • Mary Burkitt, Oneonta • Colette Corkery, Oneonta • Meredith Johnson, Oneonta • Amy Lee, Oneonta • Kyle Martin, West Oneonta • Kathryn McKenna, Oneonta • Michael O’Donnell, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Oneonta • Logan Osterhoudt, Members of the Oneonta and Cooperstown chapters of the League of Women Voters flank SUNY Oneonta senior Cheyenne Aney, who curated a Oneonta display on the League’s local role, which opened Saturday, March 7, at the • Jacob Robinson, Oneonta History Center. From left are, Cooperstown chapter co-Presidents Oneonta Julie Sorensen and Liane Hirabayashi, who drove down to Oneonta in • Jessica Roe, Oneonta solidarity with their colleagues; Oneonta chapter Membership Chair Bette • Antonio Russo, Oneonta Wagner and husband Ron, chapter Secretary Alice Collins, Aney, and • Dalton Sheehan, chapter members Barbara Heim and Steve Londner, treasurer. The display Oneonta is based on the local chapter’s archives, which have been donated to the • Kristen Sperry, Oneonta Greater Oneonta Historical Society.

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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, will be the Otsego County Seward Chamber’s Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen of 2020, and Custom Electronics the NBT Bank Distinguished Business Of The Year, the chamber announced this afternoon.

Seward and the high-tech battery company will be toasted Thursday, May 7, in the Foothills Atrium, beginning with a cocktail hour at 5:45 p.m.

The senator, who is retiring at the end of the year, receives an award that has been given annually since 2002 to local citizens

who have made a longterm impact on the region and have given back to the community through their professions.

Pentaris Custom Electronics, under President/CEO Michael Pentaris, is implementing a $2.2 million expansion plan, adding 90 jobs.

Both of this year’s award recipients have enjoyed a close association throughout the years: Early in his career, Seward was an aide to Assemblyman Peter S. Dokuchitz, R-Oneonta, who founded Custom Electronics in 1964.

Invitations will be sent out early next week with details about the evening.

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EDITORIAL

ELECT ROBBINS SOHNS, MEMBRINO ON MARCH 18

Mary Margaret Will Put People Back In The Picture

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ary Margaret Robbins Sohns was a breath of fresh air at the Thursday, March 5, League of Women Voters’ debate for Cooperstown Village Board candidates.

Village voters should open the windows Wednesday, March 18, and let that fresh air in. Polls are open noon - 9 p.m. at the fire hall.

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nterviewing the three candidates, it was quickly clear: Three exceptional people – and exceptional in different ways – are running “They never should have allowed CVS to leave for Cooperstown Village Board.

Main Street!” she declared, and cut to the heart Mary Margaret Robbins of an issue close to the heart of all Cooperstown Sohns is a trained and orgafolks: The precipitous decline of the downtown nized pharmacist, a wife and since, within a few months in 2017, both CVS mother, and someone with and the full-service General Store closed their an inspiring personal story: doors. enduring misdiagnosed Yes, you can say: It’s a free country. But did Lyme disease and emerging anyone from the Village Board even approach victorious from a heart CVS higher-ups to plead for the salvation of the transplant. heart of the village for the people who live here?

The Freeman’s Journal Joe Membrino is a Plus, given the number of businesses that have Candidate Robbins Sohn made semi-retired D.C. lawyer been turned away over the years, it rings hollow a plea for saving the downtown with a specialty in Indian that Village Hall could have done nothing. as “Heart of the Village.” affairs, who is still working • on behalf of the Oneida The newcomer nailed it: What is the Village Board – with her on it, let’s hope – going to Nation. He’s experienced, do to bring life back to the downtown? steady and inspired by the Canajoharie is a case in point. A half-dozen years ago, state grants allowed façade Please See EDITORIAL,A5 sense of stewardship he’s

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found in village government.

Great qualifications and temperament.

MacGuire “Mac” Benton, 22, is the youngest trustee in village history, already field-tested as a campaign organizer for a Congressional and a state Senate campaign. He’s smart, he wants the job and he’s endearing.

His election is “the greatest honor of my young life.”

Cooperstown is lucky.

Unfortunately, all three can’t be elected to the two vacant seats.

Robbins’ pledge to refocus on what her constituents want – hallelujah! – makes her election essential, given the repeated citizen outcries of the past year. It’s time for the Village Board to change course.

In only a year, Membrino – Mayor Tillapaugh quickly elevated him to Finance Committee chair – is playing a critical role as guardian of the village’s financial health. And it’s in extremely good health, he can show.

March 18, vote Robbins and Membrino. If defeated, be assured, Mac Benton will be – and should be – back.

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Membrino: There’s More To Do. Let Me Help Want Single Oneonta?

To the Editor: On Wednesday, March 18, Cooperstown voters will elect our mayor and two trustees. Last year, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh appointed me to a vacancy on the Village Board and assigned me to chair the Finance Committee. I am now running for a three-year term as trustee for the following reasons.

First, I want to continue the successful management and conservation of our Village’s fiscal resources.

Auditors recently met with the Finance Committee and reviewed the village’s financial performance. They advised us that Cooperstown’s fiscal status is “above and beyond” that of other local governments and school boards in their audit

Give Mayor Help She Needs To the Editor: Under the leadership of Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, the good work of the village government has continued.

The enormous wastewater treatment plant rebuild has begun, as has the Doubleday Field renovation.

Add to that the fantastic update of Pioneer Park and the TEP Main Street project and the village has never looked as good, or been taken care of so well.

This is not easy work and takes a mayor and Board of Trustees (including Joe Membrino and MacGuire Benton, both running for reelection) dedicated, both in spirit and in time, to

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Specifically, the village fund balances are growing, and we are maintaining sustainable cash-on-hand balances. The auditors also expressed approval for the way trustees and the village treasurer and staff are implementing fiscal oversight practices that were recommended in our last audit.

Second, I want to continue to assist with oversight of the village’s ongoing major

capital projects. Villagers and visitors are already enjoying the improvements to Pioneer and Main streets and the renovation of Pioneer Park. Doubleday Field renovations are well underway, and a major portion of that work is slated for completion in May. Less visible, but of great importance to the health and welfare of Cooperstown residents and the ecology of Please See MEMBRINO, A6

getting the job done.

ART TO THE EDITOR I was speaking with a Main Street business owner recently who had had an epiphany – it wasn’t so long ago that improvements to the village infrastructure were few and far between.

He was now so used to the constant work being done to bring the village to the improved condition it deserves to be in that he’d forgotten that this wasn’t always the state of things.

Let’s keep that constructive progress going by voting for Tillapaugh, Membrino and Benton. Election Day is March 18.

JEFF KATZ Cooperstown

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which I believe would have the greatest impact on growing the Oneonta economy was the article on extending the City sewer line from the city/town boundary line out to Oneonta Plaza to facilitate a possible move by the Brooks BBQ sauce-bottling plant into that mall. A great idea! To me it was the singular article that would do the most good for Oneonta.

But, recall the words of Counsel Beltramo, “No municipality should extend its services beyond its boundary lines!” So, I would strongly suggest the city agree to extend its sewer line to serve all of the area along Route 7 all the way to the Price Chopper Mall or beyond, conditioned on the town working with affected property owners to secure Please See COLONE, A6

To the Editor: Re Mr. Kuzminski’s suggestion that politics and political donations be local, I’d like to point out that legislators from Alaska to Florida vote on laws affecting Cooperstown.

If a Senate or House member from any state consistently votes on items damaging to Cooperstown’s best interest, there should

be no reason to ignore that.

Indeed, it should be an incentive, to help elect a legislator more sympathetic to local interests.

Voting for a far-off legislator isn’t possible, but contributing to his/her campaign is. Not to do so for the reasons stated in the essay would be purity at its worst.

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To the Editor: No municipality should extend its services beyond its boundary lines!” That was the opening statement made by Wade Beltramo, general counsel for the New York Conference of Mayors inside the City Council Chambers on March 28, 2017.

The general counsel was invited by the City of Oneonta to give a presentation on municipal annexation.

I bring it up in that the last edition of your newspaper was loaded with extremely positive articles, most surrounding the commercial promise of expanded downtown market-rate housing. We’d all love to see that!

With all the positive articles, the one which caught my eye, the one

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There’s Nothing To Fear But Flu Itself

re you frightened by this virus?

You should be. Consider these scary figures please.

Consider up to 45 million Americans infected by this virus.

Yes, 45 million!!! With three exclamation points!

Consider from 350,000 to 560,000 Americans so sick with it they have to be hospitalized. And consider from 18,000 to 46,000 people dying from the virus. This, according to our Center for Disease Control.

These figures describe the situation in the U.S. The World Health Organization offers global figures that should

frighten you more.

Figures such as 3 to 5 million people severely ill with the virus. And from 250,000 to 500,000 dying from it.

Wait! It gets worse. Recently TOM the CDC and other MORGAN prestigious organizations upped the world numbers to 650,000 deaths.

Such staggering numbers justify the flight cancellations. And the

zillions of masks. We can hardly blame countries for closing their borders. Or for quarantining cities.

There is no mystery why stock markets around the world would crash.

Looking at these numbers, we welcome the news that responsible countries and states have declared states of emergency.

Before you stick your head in the oven, let us consider an additional fact.

The virus I refer to is not the current coronavirus. It is our annual flu virus.

The one for which so many of us cannot be bothered to get a shot.

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Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library television and said that women will be able to view the season’s new hats and gowns paraded on live models, The Inebriate Asylum – A portion of this humbug institusee cooking demonstrations and all kinds of products tion, created and kept up at the expense of the State for the and appliances. benefit of Binghamton, was burned a few days since – loss March 1940 estimated at $75,000. The Legislature is already being called upon for an appropriation to repair the damage. The Binghamton Leader publishes a list of items of expendiHousewife Loses Grocery Money – Seeks its Return. “It tures for the past three years, which foot up at $409,880.79. may be extra money to the finder, but it is grocery money Receipts from patients amount to $86,517.95. The balance to us,” Mrs. Harold Grube said when reporting the loss of against the Institution is $323,362.84. her purse “just about the time school got out,” between Shooting Affray – We understand that a difficulty Bishop’s Drug Store and the Grand Union on Main Street. occurred between two men at Pepacton on Saturday in which Mrs. Grube said it contained all of her grocery money, and pistols were used, each firing two or three shots without had plenty of identification in the form of a Social Security much damage. It is said there was a woman in the case. We Card, credit cards and other items. Mrs. Grube resides at are not informed of the particulars or names of the parties.

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Got a Whale off Nahant – A whale about 75 feet long, evidently an old one, was killed off Nahant yesterday by a picked crew of experienced men made up in Nahant.

Deeply embedded in the whale’s back was a harpoon, badly rusted, with the inscription, “Hiram K. Swain, Nantucket 1858,” still legible.

New Illuminating Gas Discovered – An illuminating gas to vie with electricity and to completely eclipse the present coal gas is said to be about to come into use. It is also said that gas bills will then be only at the rate of five cents a thousand cubic feet. The new gas is acetylene, made by a simple process. Professor P.L. Wilson discovered it in his laboratory in Spray, North Carolina. The chemists in the big gas companies in New York and Boston are looking into the gas a means of increasing the power of coal now used. In liquid form it burns in lamps. No wicks are necessary as the liquid turns to gas and ignites as soon as it rises in the tube.

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The Fairchild Camera – The current number of “The Aerial Age Weekly” has an interesting illustrated article describing the Fairchild Automatic Film Camera authored by Major Herbert E. Ives, who had charge of the photographic branch of the air service during the war. This camera, the invention of Sherman M. Fairchild of Oneonta, has many novel features. Ives sates: “When you compare its performance with that of other between-the-lens shutters, it shows the new shutter to be quite in a class by itself for speed and efficiency.” The article includes a photograph of a section of the City of Washington, D.C. photographed from the air during the government’s test of the camera and which demonstrates the accuracy of its work. The camera was designed to photograph the enemies’ lines to obtain military information such as the position of batteries and ammunition dumps, changes in trench systems, troop movements,

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Oneonta High School Second Quarter Honor Roll – Twelfth Grade High Honor: Kathryn Browner, Joy Forsythe, Willa Friedman, Lindsay LaRose, Jami Mileski, Brian Murphy, Kristen Perry, Rachel Pollak. Marlies Roberts, Benjamin Scheim and Jennifer Woodam. Eleventh Grade High Honor: Jeremy Beck, Matthew Brown, Zahra Eagle, Kira Syvertsen, Nicole Thomas and Phillip Zimmerman.

Tenth Grade High Honor: Claire Blechman, Elizabeth Brown, Michelle Cooper, Cheryl Downie, Alec Macaulay, Jenna Marmet, Liam Murray, Melissa Pigeon, Joseph Sandoli. Ninth Grade High Honor: Daniel DeThomas, Amanda Geisler, Isaiah Ilowit, Carlena Johnson, Katrina Kollgaard, Emily Maskin, Andrew Perry, Meghan Stetson, Joseph TanMarch 1980 nenbaum, Allison Thomas, Parisa Zohoori.

March 2000 etc. Had the war continued longer, the Fairchild camera would doubtless have been of great service to the government.

Andrew McIntosh aims to destroy doors on gay closets March 1920 and he started with his own. Last year, as a newly appointed lacrosse team captain at SUNY Oneonta, McIntosh said he wrestled with suicidal thoughts until he decided Just as the telephone did not do away with the telegraph, to talk about being a gay man. First, he told a close friend and radio did not do away with the telephone, television will not do away with radio. But, it can aid these other great from high school and his sister. Since then, he has told his coach, Dan Mahar, and his fellow lacrosse team captains. benefits by extending man’s horizons and contributing to On February 5, McIntosh told his teammates, the same day his material comforts, Patrick H. Crafton of Schenectady told the Kiwanis Club at the Hotel Oneonta yesterday noon. Outsports.com, an on-line gay sports community published his article, “College lacrosse player comes out to his team.”

Mr. Crafton described television as the result of thousands of experiments and discoveries in a dozen fields of chemis- McIntosh who is from Putnam Valley said, “Being honest is very important to me. I wanted them to hear it from me try, physics and mathematics. He described the work done and not from anyone else,” he said. Coach Mahar said he

by Dr. E.F.W. Alexanderson, General Electric engineer and is proud to say there has been no hint of negativity from said that many Schenectady residents were among the first players. “The guys see Andrew as Andrew,” said Mahar. in the world to witness television when a demonstration “It really didn’t faze anybody,” Tom Kelly, a SUNY was held in Proctor’s Theatre there in May, 1930. Since that Oneonta junior said after practice. time unlimited improvements have been made. Mr. Crafton March 2010 pointed out that nearly all sporting events are adapted to

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ON THE RECORD

NYC Crime Rises 22.5%, Law Blamed

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ou know New York has a problem when even Mayor Bill de Blasio admits it. On Thursday the New York Police Department held a press conference to report that major crime is up 22.5% this February over a year ago.

Both the cops and the mayor attribute the spike to the bail reform pushed through the state Legislature in Albany last year, which is releasing people who have been arrested for one crime to go out and commit another.

“There’s a direct correlation to a change in the law, and we need to address it, and we will address it,” Mr. de Blasio said of the increase in crime. The mayor also said he was “absolutely confident” it will be addressed in Albany in the budget due April 1...

The law went into effect on Jan. 1, and the NYPD numbers are sobering: “In the first 58 days of 2020, 482 individuals who had already been arrested for committing a serious (felony) crime such as robbery or burglary were rearrested for committing an additional 846 crimes. Thirty-five percent, or 299, were for arrests in the seven major crime categories—murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto—that is nearly triple the amount of those crimes committed in the same 58 days in 2019.”

Police Commissioner (and SUNY Oneonta graduate) Dermot Shea underscored the main point: “Each number represents a victim.”

This is an excerpt from Wall Street Journal editorial from Saturday, March 7

THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT

For Renewables, NYC Looks Upstate For Solution

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ost of you will recall the contentious debate between those who wanted the right to frack for natural gas beneath their property and those who wanted fracking banned. A foundation paid lawyers to visit towns and help them draft language prohibiting the practice of fracking within their jurisdictions under the aegis of “home rule.”

Concerned citizens, fearing ground water contamination, pressured the Governor to ban the practice. The Governor, of anti-fossil fuel persuasion, used the DEC and DOH to further his agenda and, for now, those against fracking succeeded.

Home rule and environmental protection were credited with that

success.

• The question is, however, what will happen to home rule and environmental protection when proposed MIKE energy-develZAGATA opment projects fall within the definition of being “renewable”? After all, they fall within the purview of things “blessed” by our Governor.

Well, now we have the answer and it is called the “Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act.” It was

introduced by the Governor as part of his amended budget and it will affect our way of life in upstate New York.

It amends the Public Service Law, the Economic Development Law, the Real Property Tax Law, the General Municipal Law, the Public Authorities Law, the Environmental Conservation Law, the state Urban Development Corporation Act and the state Finance Law, in relation to accelerating the growth of renewable energy facilities to meet critical state energy policy goals.

What does that mean to those of you who used home rule and environmental protection to stop fracking and wind power projects in the past?

• Based upon an article posted in www.eenews.net, Michael Gerrard, a professor of environmental law at Columbia Law School who runs a legal initiative supporting renewable projects in rural towns, said New York “has been slow to override” local opponents who have often succeeded in persuading towns to restrict development.

Cuomo’s plan appears to be a formidable solution, he said. “I think it would be one of the strongest state-level renewable-siting laws in the country.”

According to Anne Reynolds, Alliance for Clean Energy New York, “Many New York residents hold a dimmer view of renewables: A few Please See ZAGATA, A6

Fresh Thinking Needed, Robbins Sohns Can Provide It

EDITORIAL/From A4 improvements and new signage throughout the downtown. New restaurants opened – briefly.

Drive through that village today, and you’ll find even more empty storefronts than before the revitalization started. As base, the beautification of downtown Canajoharie accomplished nothing, because the underlying economics hadn’t changed.

The loss of the downtown anchors begs the question: Will we complete $10million-plus on Main Street improvements only to realize there’s no viable downtown left, except for one four-day weekend?

• Over the course of the evening, did anyone else get the nagging sense: What about the rest of us?

Milo Stewart, himself a former trustee, pointed out the village’s mini-plow is used to clear snow at corners and around hydrants,

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There needs to be “a level of personal responsibility,” said incumbent MacGuire Benton.

“Everything we do is for the residents,” said Joe Membrino, the other incumbent.

Robbins nailed it: “If we’re going to burn the gas, we might as well burn it for the people.”

She pointed out other villages – Cherry Valley, for instance – plow sidewalks, and others still have municipal garbage pickup. We haven’t had those kinds of conver-

sations since Mayor Joe Booan left office eight years ago.

• The evening ended with a poignant cry.

Mary Marx – you may have seen the handmade woolen wear she vends weekly at The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market – pointed out that for the past two years, Pioneer Alley has been closed off during Hall of Fame Weekend.

That’s caused the market to be cancelled on the busiest weekend of the year, losing vendors hundreds, even thousands, of dollars.

“Can you help us?” she asked.

Membrino said it’s “a tough problem. Barriers are up for crowd control. There are also layers of security far beyond our jurisdiction.”

Benton, while “a big supporter” of the market, said “some things just aren’t feasible.”

(Question: Village Hall has a seat or two at the table

with Homeland Security and the rest of the planners as Hall of Fame Weekend has been turned into an armed camp. Have any of our village trustees ever pushed back?)

Again, Robbins nailed it: “I love ideas. Main Street is cleared off. There’s a huge space in the middle of Main Street. The farmers’ market would be amazing in the middle of Main Street.”

Incumbents, on the dais and in the audience, likewise found that impossible.

• Here’s another (probably impossible) idea: Villagers have endured six years of constant construction. It’s astonishing how much has been done. Much credit is due to Mayors Tillapaugh and Katz, and trustees.

But it’s time for a deep breath.

How about a “Year of the Cooperstownian,” if you will? For 12 months, leave everybody alone, with no new blinking lights, intru-

sive parking innovations, ideological diktats from Village Hall on how “we all” think (or should) about this and that. Better, how about rolling all of that back?

It was mentioned that since paid parking, there has been no tax increase. Let’s hope not: It equals 20 per cent of the tax levy. How about a tax cut? In short, can the Village Board, for just one year, focus on making Cooperstown a more pleasant place to live?

And, yes, all the brainpower on the Village Board, can figure out how to revive Main Street. Let’s do it.

Person by person, it IS a great Village Board, hindered by group think, a common result of monopoly. Here’s a chance to shake it up.

Vote for Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns. Judging from the debate, she’ll try – on people’s behalf.

And, once in a while, she’ll win – and so might the rest of us.

THURSDAY, mARCH 12, 2020

A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA LETTERS

If Russia Meddled,Was Anyone Convinced?

To the Editor: A few weeks ago, the airwaves and newsprint were once again filled with the conspiracy theory regarding the Russians helping presidential candidates the corporate oligarchs of America dislike, whether Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard.

Is anyone gullible enough to believe that posting things on Facebook is enough to sway the outcome of a presidential election? Obviously, the publishers of the Washington Post and the New York Times are, as well as television outlets like CNN and MSNBC. One source that is more honest about the issue is americanmilitarynews. com, which acknowledges that research done by Duke University produced no evidence that Russian interference had any effect on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Funny how the mainstream media doesn’t get in a tizzy about the real influence that corrupts American elections: the distribution of huge campaign contributions to favored candidates by huge corporations and Wall Street. Thomas Ferguson of MIT has done research that proves you can predict with a very high degree of accuracy who will be elected in the U.S. based on how much money they garnered in campaign contributions from their corporate sponsors.

Isn’t it convenient that an anonymous source revealed to the Washington Post

right before the Nevada Democratic Party caucus that “government officials” briefed Bernie Sanders regarding supposed Russian interference designed to assist his campaign? Absolutely no evidence was provided to back up this claim, as usual. Yet it was all the mainstream media could talk about on the Friday night preceding the caucus.

The mainstream media is also bought and paid for by the same corporate interests that prefer Biden or Buttigieg to Sanders. You can look up the long list of corporate contributors to presidential candidates on opensecrets.org. Two-thirds of Biden’s donations came from corporations, mostly from the financial sector.

Then there is the hypocrisy issue.

How can the US government credibly condemn Russia for interfering in US elections when the US has done more to interfere in the elections and governments of other countries than any other nation in the world? The CIA has not only manipulated elections, but has even resorted to fomenting revolutions and assassinating foreign leaders who were not friendly to U.S. business interests.

Look up Mohammad Mosaddegh, Allende, the Sandinistas and Fidel Castro for some well-known examples. Bill Clinton helped sway the Russian elections in 1996 to get his favored candidate, Boris Yeltsin, elected. Barack Obama spent considerable money and resources, unsuccessfully, to get Benjamin

Netanyahu voted out in Israel in 2015.

Why is there a constant focus on Russia as the evil empire trying to steal our democracy, which has already been stolen by corrupting corporate influence?

Two reasons: first, it discredits the candidates who are not walking in step with how corporations want our government run. Secondly, Russia is the favorite bogeyman of the military industrial complex and its minions in the intelligence community, used to justify our bloated military budget and neocolonial military adventures all over the world.

These adventures cost us dearly in the blood of our soldiers and the lives of civilians in other countries, but they create huge profits for the corporations which produce weapons, rebuild destroyed countries and exploit their resources, and profit from newly opened markets in formerly closed societies.

I hope the electorate is not gullible enough to swallow the laughable Russian conspiracy theory foisted on them by the mainstream media and the Democratic Party. Let’s focus on the issues, and not be sidetracked by propaganda designed to assist the corporate power structures’ favored candidates, the ones they know they can count on to do their bidding and advance their interests, at the expense of the American people and democracy.

TOPHER HAMMOND Cooperstown

Don’t Give Anything Away, Lawyer Advised NYCOM COLONE/From A4 agreements to be annexed into the city.

The town does not own a sewage treatment system of its own, so if the town is to provide sewer to the Oneonta Plaza and/or points to the east, the town supervisor and the town board have to strike an agreement with the city.

So rather than pontificating through the local media about extended sewer services into the town, something the town can’t do on its own, Town Supervisor Bob Wood and other town leaders should immediately negotiate with Mayor Herzig and city leaders. If sewerage is to be extended into the town, it’s not a town decision, but rather the city’s. Let’s face it, the city has supplied a variety of public services into the town, with little if nothing in return; in the 1950s, city water was extended to the West End, where the city continues to pay taxes to the town of about $70,000 a year ($40,000 in property taxes on the land at the watershed and $30,000 per annum for the water infrastructure into the West End).

In the early 2000s, the city extended its sewer system to the Southside business district to help mitigate its ongoing fresh-water contamination issues; add to that, the city underwrites the largest local share of the costs for a public bus system that extends into the town, as well the city pays $70,000 every year to promote travel to the area where most of the motor inn/restaurant/retail beneficiaries are located in the town.

So, as you can see, the city has had a big heart in assisting the town over the many years; all the while the town got richer at the expense of the city. Not too smart! That trend needs to change, NOW! Supervisor Wood would do well to see the wisdom in supporting the common good and agree to an arrangement, where the city extends sewer services into the East End and in working hard towards securing properties served to be annexed into the city. The city might be wise to also agree to extending public safety and others valued services out that way; where perhaps a 20-year prorated prop-

erty tax structure could be established to fund the service program, making it practical financially for all concerned.

If he hasn’t already done so, Supervisor Wood should immediately meet with Mayor Herzig to put this all important issue on the table. The town can’t do the project without the leadership of the city, so move on with extension of sewer services to the Town’s East End with the provision the affected area be annexed into the city. And while they’re at it, consider the same action on Oneida Street, out through the West End to the multi-acre vacant lot between Routes 7 and 205.

The area’s economy would get a very positive jolt in growing city/town commerce. The city needs to start acting on every issue that comes its way, evaluating them all based on what’s best for city coffers and with highest consideration for the taxpayers of the city!

Two Oneonta governments are unsustainable!

ALBERT COLONE Resident, City of Oneonta

MORGAN: Nothing To Fear But Flu Itself

MORGAN/From A4 Repeat. I am not here writing about the latest virus. The one that has turned the world upside down. No. I write about the ho-hum annual flu and its season.

Yes, up to 45 million Americans were sick with the flu this season. That is, between last Oct. 1 to Feb. 22 this year.

And, yes, up to 45,000 of us died from that flu.

We barely noticed. Well, our big media barely noticed. And so we, not informed, took the flu season in stride.

We barely noticed that those strides took us over and past 45,000 dead folks.

We and our media took little note of this calamity because it was nothing new. The figures are daunting every flu season. For instance, look at 2017-18.

Up to 45 million flu patients. Just in the U.S. Up to 1.4 million people hospitalized. Just in the U.S. Up to 95,000 Americans died from influenza.

The media did not scream these figures at us. Politicians did not blame their opponents for them. Nobody blamed Trump for the 95,000 deaths.

Nobody shutdown anything while this contagion raged.

We lost 95,000 Americans to one virus in the 2017-18 flu season and as a

nation we yawned. Thus far we have lost fewer than 100 lives to coronavirus, and all hell has broken loose.

What is going on to cause this? A few things.

One is that this is a new virus. The world’s disease experts did not know much about it. Therefore they could not predict where it would go. Nor how quickly. Nor could they predict how deadly it would be. Or not be.

By the time they got a decent look at it, it had the appearance of a bomb. That is because the secretive Chinese kept the world and their own people in the dark about the outbreak in Wuhan. Until it was too late to contain it. Had they been open and transparent from the start the world might never have had to hit the panic buttons.

There is a further big factor in this.

We should realize that FDR’s warning lives on because it was the truth.

Yes: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Why did this fear grow so quickly and so great amongst us? Did our medical researchers proclaim the end of the world was nigh? Did they fling about predictions that millions would perish from this flu? Did they proclaim that

various leaders screwed up? And thereby condemned millions to illness and death?

Nope. Most top medical guys were pretty cautious. It was Big Media that hyped this epidemic. It was Big Media that flooded our screens with urgent news. It was Big Media that wheeled out the so-called experts to warn us this virus was deadly and dangerous and scary and horrendous.

They did it for the clicks. The more they scared us the more we clicked on their news. And the more money they hauled in from their advertisers.

This virus is no small matter. We should not turn our back on it. Our experts need to learn much more about it. We should take it seriously. Especially if it surges way beyond where it is at the moment.

But thus far it pales when you compare it with our annual flu epidemic.

Big media disagree. And the more they disagree, the more money they make. They get paid to scare the hell out of us.

From Tom...as in Morgan.

Tom Morgan, the retired Oneonta investment counselor and nationally syndicated columnist, resides in Franklin.

ZAGATA: Again NYC Looks Upstate To Solve Its Problems ZAGATA/From A6 large wind farms have already been delayed or cancelled because of locals (shame on us) who see them as a blemish on their landscapes and a threat to wildlife, property values and even groundwater.”

Sound familiar?

The DEC and the Public Service Commission would no longer be responsible for reviewing wind and solar power applications. Yes, you read that right.

That authority would be transferred to an economic development entity. What happened to the State Environmental Quality Review Act? What kinds of projects are we talking about?

Under Cuomo’s bill, new transmission infrastructure (that translates to new power lines like the one you fought a few years back), cited by state officials

as a critical way to bring Upstate renewable power down to New York City-area centers of demand, would get streamlined treatment.

In addition, regulators would undertake a comprehensive study of the grid’s future distribution and transmission needs. Please remember the bill’s title – Accelerated Renewable Energy and Community Benefit Act.” Exactly what community is being benefited – it certainly isn’t any from Upstate!

This will be the third time the city has imposed its will on Upstate – twice before for water (Adirondack Forest Preserve and Catskill Watershed) and now for energy. If you think this is fairy dust, consider the 3,000 acres solar farm being considered for West Laurens – and that’s just the beginning.

If you recall, I warned about the

environmental impacts associated with renewables, but many readers dismissed those warnings because they had already drunk the Kool-Aid. Well, those predictions have come true and may likely be far worse than originally thought, as already completed renewable projects have fallen short of their projected energy production predications and that, along with the fact that 40 percent of the energy will be lost before reaching New York City due to line drop, will mean even more solar and wind farms on our landscape.

That translates into more scars on our landscape and more wildlife evicted from habitats.

Mike Zagata, former DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and environmental executive for Fortune 500 companies, lives in West Davenport.

Incumbents Can Maintain The Positive Momentum To the Editor, As a Cooperstown village trustee, I have had the privilege of working closely with Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh for the past two years, and with Trustees Joe Membrino and MacGuire Benton for the past one year. We all bring different strengths and ideas to the board, and I firmly believe this benefits Cooperstown.

Ellen has vast knowledge of Cooperstown’s history and has been an integral part of the Village Board since 2011.

She is a detail person, and has a deep understanding of the village’s inner workings.

(They are far more complex than most people imagine!)

She has been an effective leader, moving Cooperstown forward and continuing the progress of the past several years.

Joe has a background in legal public service, specifically pertaining to water rights. The Water & Sewer Board has been fortunate to have his expertise for the past seven years. Joe is also chair of the Village Board’s Finance Committee, which benefits from his attention to detail and fiscal responsibility.

MacGuire is a 2016 CCS grad, dedicated to ensuring Cooperstown is an accessible, transparent and welcoming community for all, now and

into the future. His enthusiasm, innovative ideas, and Millennial perspective are a benefit to Cooperstown and to the Village Board.

It is no secret that Cooperstown’s population is shrinking as well as aging.

MacGuire’s perspective as a young person who is dedicated to staying in his hometown and making sure it is an attractive place for future generations is unique to the board.

He is curious, eager, and interested in understanding how different issues facing the Village will affect Cooperstown and its residents. He has made a point of seeking out the ideas and concerns of his constituents and sharing these with the Board.

As a small village in rural Upstate New York, Cooperstown has its challenges, but with the thoughtful, forward-thinking planning of the current mayor and trustees I believe Cooperstown’s future is bright.

I hope you will join me in voting for Mayor Tillapaugh and Trustees Membrino and Benton on March 18, to continue the positive momentum of the past decade.

JEANNE DEWEY Village Trustee Cooperstown

To the Editor: I endorse and urge you to go out and vote for Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh and Trustee MacGuire (Mac) Benton for re-election and Trustee Joe Membrino for election to the Cooperstown Village Board. I have worked with all of them on the board, on village committees and other boards, and in other endeavors, and they have all been selfless in their positions, working for the best interest of the entire Cooperstown community.

The election is noon-9 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18, at the firehall.

Mayor Tillapaugh has worked tirelessly to continue our spectacular infrastructure improvement, getting it paid for mostly with grants, and without a tax increase, something that began with former Mayor Jeff Katz. She was born here and has lived in Cooperstown most of her life.

She brings an institutional memory to decision making to the Board members’ discussions.

I have worked on many projects with Mac and am impressed with his energy, eagerness to learn, and how much he cares about Cooperstown, where he has lived all of his life. Mac has put forwarded initiatives that have earned 100 percent Board support, something rare for a freshman Trustee. I have seen him lead and develop various

groups of civic minded individuals, many of them young like himself. He has worked a full time and part time job while putting in many hours a week into his Trustees’ duties.

He brings needed youth to the Board and represents the future of Cooperstown government.

I have worked with Joe Membrino first on the Planning Board in 2015 and then on the Board of Trustees and Finance and Personnel committees since 2019. He is a lawyer and a dedicated public servant who brings the knowledge of a long career in government service to the table. In the Trustees’ deliberations, he is thoughtful, pragmatic, and straightforward.

He has very diligently and exhaustively reviewed all the documents presented to him and carefully reviewed all 1,000+ line items in the 202021 budget frequently raising important questions.

The Village has definitely been continuing to move in the right direction over the last decade. It has increased spending by 100 percent while keeping real estate taxes to its citizens flat. For this we have Mayor Tillapaugh and the other dedicated Board members like Mac and Joe to thank and I urge you to vote to keep them.

RICHARD STERNBERG, M.D Village Trustee Cooperstown

MEMBRINO/ From A4 the Susquehanna River, is the $8.7 million renovation and expansion of the Wastewater Treatment Facility. As a trustee and long-time member of the village’s Water & Sewer Board, I was asked by Mayor Tillapaugh to monitor the progress of construction, which I am doing in coordination with our village administrator, public works superintendent, wastewater treatment plant operator, and Water & Sewer Board chair, all of whom are providing exemplary service to the village.

Third, as an appointee to the Mayor’s Housing Committee, chaired by Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, I assisted in the review of the village’s zoning law and comprehensive plan to provide for, among other things, new housing and opportunities for village residents to age in place by authorizing criteria for multifamily residential uses that respect the historic character of our village. I look forward

to implementing the zoning changes.

All of these initiatives have been undertaken without raising village property taxes.

They require collaboration, long hours, and hard work among trustees, village boards and committees, and village staff. It has been a privilege to share in these efforts.

Finally, there is more to do.

To facilitate economic development and improve the quality of village life, street, sidewalk, water supply, and sewer repairs and replacements, as well as park improvements, are ongoing.

Our paid parking revenues are a long-term source of funding for these projects as well as future capital projects that will be identified in collaboration with Village residents.

I thank readers for considering my candidacy, and urge all to exercise the right to vote noon-9 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at the Cooperstown Fire Hall.

JOSEPH R. MEMBRINO Cooperstown

Trustee Endorses Colleagues

Much Done, But More To Do

THURSDAY, mARCH 12, 2020

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7

LETTERS

Mayor: Vote To Continue Upgrades

To the Editor: Since 2011, I have been honored to serve my hometown community in village government. First elected as a trustee in 2011, I was appointed deputy mayor in 2014 and served in that capacity until my election as mayor in 2018.

Over the past nine years, I along with fellow elected officials have worked to stabilize the village’s finances. We are proud that for seven budget years, since our 2013-14 budget, there has been no increase in the tax levy. It has remained at $1,779,194 and represents a tax rate of $5.21 per $1000 of assessed value. The current budget is on the Village’s website (cooperstownny.org) under “Government” and the “Board of Trustee Meetings” drop down menu. The tentative budget for 2020-21 was completed this month, and again proposes no increase in the tax levy.

At the same time, by developing new revenue sources and successfully securing grant funding, the Village Board has been able to undertake significant and long overdue infrastructure improvements in our community.

Projects include: • The $1.2 million Pioneer Street project completed in 2018, replaced sewer & water lines, street pavement and curbing on Pioneer, from Otsego Lake to Elm Street.

• The $9.1 million Waste Water Treatment Plant

upgrade began in September 2019, and is scheduled for completion in December 2020. Funded by grants and Environmental Facilities Corp low interest financing, there will be no increase in water/sewer rates for Village residents. This replacement of the original 1969 facility (originally designed to serve for 25 years) will meet village needs for decades.

• The $2.4 million Downtown Pedestrian Improvement Project (federal TEP grant) funds new Main Street sidewalks and provides for signage, street benches, tree plantings, decorative lamp posts and compacting trash receptacles. Begun in the fall of 2018, this project will conclude this spring with work at the Main-Chestnut intersection.

• Last fall, Pioneer Park was upgraded with the installation of ADA compliant brick pavers, a performance stage area, improved lighting and re-configured plant beds. $5.8 million in improvements are underway at Doubleday Field. By May 15, the week prior to HOF Classic Weekend, two major phases of the project will be complete – the Main Street entrance/parking lot redesign and the 1939 Grandstand renovations. Work will continue on the new 3rd base bleachers and building.

We are pleased to have been awarded the Village’s first Community Development Block Grant, to support a local business, the Cooperstown Distillery,

in expanding their operation.

Additional grant funded projects to commence this spring involve the Willow Creek culvert, the Village Hall skylight, and Mill Street.

I am honored to serve as mayor and to devote time and leadership to our community.

I would appreciate your continued support on March 18 in the Village Election.

ELLEN TILLAPAUGH Mayor Village of Cooperstown

Reserve Flagpole For Stars & Stripes To the Editor: I am opposed to flying the rainbow flag from the Cooperstown village flagpole during Pride Month this June.

Let me make myself clear, I have many friends who have their personal orientation and I fully support them in every sense of the word. As such, it is none of my business concerning their individual persuasion.

However, I believe that the American flag flown from the central village flagpole represents all of us citizens and should not promote a particular minority or cause.

I have been informed that presently “on the books” is a decision by the trustees to

Vote Wednesday, March 18 · Noon to 9 pm Cooperstown Village Fire Hall Let’s Keep Up the Good Work — Making Improvements and Serving Our Village • Serving as

ellen Tillapaugh Mayor

mayor since 2018; deputy mayor 2014-18; trustee 2011-18 • Overseeing $17 million in infrastructure improvements • No tax levy increase in seven years

• Preserving and improving

Joe membrino Trustee

Cooperstown’s economy and environment • 7 years’ service to Village on Water/Sewer Board, Housing Committee, Planning Board • Trustee since 2019; Chair of Finance Committee • 50 Years legal experience in public service

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I know that Mary Margaret agrees with me concerning the above, so I urge you to vote for her to keep the U.S. flag alone on the village flagpole.

In a previous letter I explained my many reasons for my preference for her and I am voting for Mary Margaret. Remember, every vote counts, so vote in this coming election.

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After 58 Years, ‘Union Ticket’ Ended In ’78

UNION/From A1 While saying Village Board decisions should be decided in a non-partisan way, Trustee candidate Joe Membrino said, “I’m a supporter of two parties. Parties are formed around ideas and ideals.” The other Democratic incumbent, MacGuire Benton agreed.

Said Republican candidate Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns, “We have to come together and work together.”

Listening in the audience was Bill Waller, husband of Carol B. Waller, whose mayoralty, he said in an interview the following day, grew out of the end of the Union Ticket.

And he claimed some authorship. The Wallers moved up from Long Island to Cooperstown in 1971, when her dad, future county Rep. Charlie Bateman, bought Mohican Flowers.

Six years later, at the invitation of Tom Malone, then owner of The Pratt Hotel, Bill Waller attended an annual Republican caucus, and was disappointed that only seven people showed up.

It was explained to him that, under the Union Ticket arrangement, village Republicans would name the mayoral candidate one year, then two years later the Democrats would do so. If there were two trustee positions open, the GOP would name one trustee; the Democrats, the other.

The system had been in effect since 1920.

“I believed the best thing was to get people who wanted the position, rather than people who were appointed to the position,” Waller said. “The best way to get people who wanted the position was for them to campaign for it.”

He brought Malone over to his point of view.

Malone then hosted a meeting of a dozen like-minded Republicans at his Susquehanna Avenue home, and over the next several months they wrote a platform, built a phone bank to get out the party faithful, and generally organized the party to contest elections.

“The first of December,” he recalled, “we began a campaign to get people to attend the caucus. We called people up. We talked to them on the street.”

Malone’s Pratt was the Republican gathering place. The Pioneer Grill (now Cooley’s) was the Democratic hangout.

“At the time,” Waller said, “the Republicans were branded as the progressives. We were breaking with the conservatives.”

It all came to a head on Monday, Jan. 23, 1978, when both parties scheduled their caucuses, according to that week’s Freeman’s Journal.

From seven the year before, 54 Republicans gathered in the third-floor ballroom, and a

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Bill Waller reviews The Freeman’s Journal from Jan. 23, 1978, when a Republican caucus voted against participating in the “Union Ticket.”

lively debate ensued. The newspaper quoted Robert Daly declaring, “Good government is decided by opposition.

Alva Welch made the motion to withdraw from the Union Ticket. Dr. Emery Hermann seconded it. The vote was 27-20, passing the motion. The news was carried downstairs to the Democrats, who were still considering a similar motion.

That was “unfair to this caucus,” declared the village Democratic chairman, Stu Taugher.

“Please vote as you would have voted before.”

The Democratic tally was 16-12 in favor of the status quo. But the Union Ticket, which required both parties to agree, was dead.

“I hate to see 58 years of excellent history go down in one strike,” lamented Taugher.

“I don’t believe the new system will be a success.”

The Republicans then nominated Bill Zoeller for mayor, and William Ronk and Jim Brophy as trustees.

The Democrats nominated former mayor Gerry Clark for another term. Arnold Staffin and Toby Tighe were nominated for trustee.

That March, the Democratic slate was elected.

“We lost for the first few years,” said Waller. “A lot of dyed-in-the-wool Republicans were very upset we didn’t win.

We’d come up with a strategy and didn’t win.”

Still, he said, “the end result: They got more people involved with the selection of who wanted to run. It made the candidates articulate their positions, rather than just be appointed.”

And things started to change. “I think we elected a trustee first,” Waller said. “Then we took control of the board.” Republicans supported the first female trustee, Dutchie Lewis.

And, in 2000, Carol – Bill’s wife – ran for mayor as a Republican, and won.

“That solidified it,” Waller said.

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running for state Senate to instance, or a motel.

SCHENEVUS/From A1 succeed retiring state The next steps, Frosino it. They said, ‘That’s huge.’” said, are a market survey, Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Oberacker was interpoints out the #1 site is also conceptual site plans, a viewed after a consulting south-facing, meaning anyone conceptual cost estimate and firm, McFarland Johnson who locates there can take obtaining environmental of Binghamton, hired advantage of solar energy to reports. The idea is to make by the county Board of the site “virtually shovelRepresentatives to rank distri- allay costs.

Two challenges remain, ready,” he said. bution-center sites, reported he said the interview. One, The idea, also, is that last week it had narrowed its sewage disposal: he said a Otsego Now, the county’s selection from 86 to 62 sites, package plant might suffice. economic development arm then to 10, then to five – and Two, natural gas; in addition which last week received a then two: the one at Exit 18, $75,000 allocation from the and another to Tait Road atop to solar enhancements, truck deliveries along I-88 might be county reps, would buy the a mountain on the other side sufficient, he said. site and market it. Since it of I-88.

It was also pointed out that would be job-creating, there The study was commisa distribution center could would likely be state grants sioned after Oberacker had spur related development available to help with its convinced Sandy Mathes, -- a truck stop/gas station, for development. then Otsego Now president, of the benefits of the Kinch ·· property for a distribution center, the county board commissioned the McFarland Johnson study to make sure the optimum site was chosen.

After Adam Frosino briefed the county reps at Truckloads of new merchandise their March meeting on the is due in, we must make room!

4th – the Tait Road site was 10% -15% off bigger and flatter, he said, but most non-clearance the approach was up steep items in store!* Route 41 – the board gave the *offer ends 4/1/2020 • min. purchase $399 go-ahead to the Schenevus Must mention ad! distribution center, the type 4316 County Hwy 11 Open weekdays: used by Amazon, Dollar 9 am to 5:30 pm Cooperstown General, Walmart -- virtually 607-547-6038 Saturday: 9 am to 4 pm every major U.S. retailer. krazytoms.com After hours by appt.

The site, said Frosino, info@cfbsales.com Closed Sunday SinCe 1962 is right off I-88, where an entrance with “curb appeal” can be created by turning the T at the exit and Route 7 into a four-way crossroads. Plus, a second entrance is possible from Smokey Avenue, which runs along the site’s west side.

There’s sufficient land for a 600,000 square foot building, access to utilities, and an owner -- Ron and Helen Kinch -- willing to sell.

Sunday, March 22 • 7:00 pm While Tait Road could VFW Post 1417 (314 Ellis Rd., Laurens) accommodate a millionsquare-foot building, Frosino Purpose: To provide an open forum for education and awareness was asked what big retailer concerning the nonstop gun control infringements that render would be interested in a People’s Right to bear arms out of existence.

600,000-square-foot one QUESTION AND ANSWER FORMAT possible at Exit 18. Yes, he VFW will provide bar food and drinks replied. Some distribution centers are as big as 1.5 “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the million square feet; some as security of a free State, the right of the people to small at 300,000 square feet. keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

The Schenevus site is just right, he said.

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LeCates: 6 Quarantined, None Infected Yet COVID-19 Travel Bans Multiply Here

LeCATES/From A1 As of presstime, none had developed symptoms or tested positive, Dr. LeCates said.

“We’ve administered between two and five tests, and not one has come back positive,” he said. “I’ve been keeping track of all reported cases, and we haven’t had a single case in Otsego, Herkimer, Schoharie or Delaware counties.”

Currently, four travelers from Italy, including a student studying abroad, are under precautionary quarantine, according to Heidi Bond, public health director for the county.

“They’re all doing well,” she said. “And the three who had been quarantined last week did not come down with symptoms.”

A two-week quarantine is recommended for someone who has traveled to a Level 2 or 3 county – China, Japan, South Korea and Italy – in the last two weeks.

“That means you are

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home for 14 days from when you believed you were exposed,” she said. “That means you should not leave except to go to medical appointments, no public transport, no large gatherings, have people bring you food and household items.”

People in quarantine can go outside on their own property, but are advised against being in contact with their neighbors – and there can be trouble if you don’t follow the rules.

“If someone tests positive, it becomes a mandatory quarantine,” she said. “If the person doesn’t abide, there can be legal ramifications.”

There are two types of exposure, she said – approximate exposure, such as being in the same classroom or event as someone who may not be symptomatic, and prolonged exposure, from being within six feet of someone who may be symptomatic.

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“It gets complicated,” said LeCates. “A person might have a cough or a fever, then we have to review their risks and see if the state determines that we should take a sample.”

Though Bassett doctors will collect the sample, the testing is done by the state labs.

And although no cases have been confirmed yet, LeCates believes it’s likely a matter of time before the first case is diagnosed.

“It’s progressing at a rapid pace,” he said. “And Bassett is preparing for a time when we do get positive cases. We’re looking at the challenges hospitals are facing around the country and the world, and trying to plan for that.”

Planning includes making sure they have a number of quarantined beds available for patients who test positive for COVID-19, and creating an area for large-scale testing. “We are trying to identify spaces where we could contain it to prevent the spread if it does become common,” he said.

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None of the students or faculty are in quarantine, but the recall is part of an increasing response to the rise of Coronavirus cases and precautionary measures aimed at reducing the rate of infection in the states.

Hartwick College, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown Center and Springbrook are also among the institutions that have issued travel bans, cancelled events and limited visitations to their campuses.

SUNY-wide, Chancellor Kristina Johnson has also issued a prohibition on any travel to countries that the CDC has issued a Level 2 or Level 3 Travel Health Notice on – China, Iran, South Korea, Italy and Japan.

“We may not use state money to pay for professional travel to these countries,” she said in a statement. “Nor may we use Faculty Development Grant money or department OTPS funding to pay for travel to them or reimbursements for travel to them.”

Hartwick College put similar travel bans in place for students, faculty and staff, banning any “non-essential” group or individual travel, and that all college-sponsored personal travel must be approved in advance by the vice president of the relevant school.

On-campus events will still be held; however, the college is not participating in men’s and women’s lacrosse games last week and the next week.

Bassett Hospital has also issued travel prohibitions for their employees, banning business travel to the Level 2 and 3 countries, as well as to any conference where there will be more than 100 participants, throughout the month of March.

They also encouraged that anyone traveling for personal reasons to refer to the CDC recommendations and to let team leaders know about travel so a potential quarantine may be put in place.

With the elderly as the most vulnerable to COVID-19 complications, Cooperstown Center (the former Focus) at Index has also cancelled travel. “We had to cancel our

trips to Walmart,” said Lacey Rinker, director of nursing.

“The residents are not happy, but it’s too much of a risk.”

All visitors, staff or vendors are screened at the reception area to determine whether or not they are healthy enough to enter the building. “We’ve increased our number of hand-sanitizer dispensers throughout the building, and enforce ‘gel in, gel out,” she said. “You use hand sanitizer when you come in the building and when you leave.”

Similarly, Springbrook has limited visits to emergency and essential visits only, switching instead to phone and video calls or teleconferencing, as well as suspending community visits and postponing the Special Olympics Basketball Tournament, which had been scheduled for Saturday, March 21.

Barbara Ann Heegan, Otsego County Chamber of Commerce president, has reached out to her members with links to the Center for Disease Control, the county Health Department and Bassett.

“I think everyone is taking this very seriously,” she said.

Tearful Mother Convinces Jury To Acquit TWINS/From A1 her infant twins, daughter Bonde and son Liam, in just under three hours of deliberations.

“I know Bonde wasn’t smothered,” she said as part of her testimony. “I still don’t know how Liam died. Two years, and I still want answers myself.”

In his closing remarks, Steeley’s attorney, Andrew Van Buren, made the case that the babies died of SIDS – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome – in part, because they had come home from the hospital too soon. Both babies were preemies; Bonde, was just over 4 pounds when she died, and that Liam, who died 11 days later, was 5.14 pounds.

“The doctors who performed the autopsies don’t know why these babies died,” he said.

“They said it was ‘probable asphyxiation.’ But asphyxiation is not the same as suffocating.

Nothing was ever covering their airways, no fibers were found in their throat.”

He put the blame on Steeley’s doctors, who he believes sent the babies home too soon, and in too fragile condition. “Bonde weighed 4 pounds, 7 ounces when she died,” he said.

“She was never going to make it, whether she was in a bed or a bassinet. She was going to die because the doctors sent her home from the hospital too soon.”

On Friday, March 6, Steeley testified that although she did fall asleep in bed with both of them on the nights they died, at no point was her body, bedding or clothing obstructing their airways.

Pausing frequently to wipe away tears, Steeley testified that she was “so happy” on June 4, the day she finally brought Bonde home from the hospital, nine days after Liam came home. “When twins are together, they do better,” she said. “They can have that skin-to-skin contact, and they’re more likely to thrive.”

She told jurors that in the early morning hours of June 5, Bonde was sweating, and so she unswaddled her and laid her down on her lap, “facing up, with her feet towards my feet.”

She fell asleep, and when she woke, Bonde “slid off my lap.”

“She wasn’t breathing,” she said.

The infant was pronounced Dead on Arrival

by EMTs. “I kept telling myself my son was my rock,” she said. “Bonde’s funeral was one of the worst days of my life.”

Eleven days later, she admitted she was sleeping with Liam next to her on a pillow and awoke to find him unresponsive. “It was a nightmare,” she said. “I was in such shock (after Liam died) that I had to be sedated at the hospital.”

District Attorney John Muehl argued that Steeley was told not to co-sleep, and presented evidence that she was using drugs during her pregnancy and after the twins were born.

Following the jury’s verdict, Muehl said, “Although I disagree, I respect the jury’s decision. It was a difficult case, but given that there were two deceased children, it was a case that had to be tried.”

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ike many retirees, Mika is looking forward to the day when she can finally relax at home.

“She’ll finally be allowed on the couch,” said Mika’s handler, Sheriff’s Deputy Kris Solovitch. “She can play fetch and just be a dog, rather than having to go to work.”

K-9 Mika, 10, along with K-9 Ricky,

9, assigned to Deputy Keith Sheldon, are scheduled to retire from the force this fall.

“Ricky’s just going to take it easy, spend time with the kids,” said Sheldon.

Ricky was assigned to Sheldon in July 2012 and the team graduated from the State Police Canine Academy in Cooperstown in December 2012.

“My uncle, Hank Sheldon, was a K-9 handler,” he said. “I’ve always been a dog person, and I wanted to follow in his footsteps.”

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here are two great places to get a traditional St. Patrick’s Day dinner this weekend! In Hartwick, you can support injured Cooperstown firefighters John Roach and Scott Monington while enjoying a full corned beef and cabbage dinner.

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• And if you’re feeling especially Irish, you can take your corned beef & cabbage dinner with a performance of Irish step-dancing. Dancers. Free. 4-7 p.m.

Saturday, March 14, St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info (607) 437-4626.

• Bold Theatrics presents a sizzling performance of ‘Venus In Fur’ by David Ives. Contains adult themes. Cost, $20/ person. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday March 13-14, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Info (800) 595-4849.

• Learn to care for the environment with a family craft project with the Otsego Land Trust. 10 a.m. - Noon. Saturday, March 14, Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. (607) 547-1400.

• Enjoy the opera in the comfort of Foothills with Handel’s “Der Fliegende Hollander,” live from Metropolitan Opera House. Cost, $20/adult. 12:55 p.m.

Saturday, March 14, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. (607) 431-2080.

• Marty Podskoch gives a talk on his book “Adirondack Civilian Conservation Camps: History, Memories and Legacy” 23:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St.

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Territorial Rosalie: Be Civil, Earn Treats

Hello Dog Charmer, of 100 yards. That’s right!

Rosalie rides in the A dog’s hearing is far more wayback in our Forester acute than a human’s. behind a grille. Whenever Generally, our 4-legged we stop for gas and the companions can hear most blameless gas station sounds at a distance 4 times attendant fills up our car, greater than we 2-leggeds.

Rosalie threatens him with And as I’ve often said to a imminent dismemberment. whole lot of dog owners, She can’t get to “Who’s the him, but it’s driving us better teacher insane, and it’s quite in a classembarrassing, actually. room, the one How do we discourage talking or the this behavior, given that one yelling?” we’re in the front seat.

At this (Yelling does not seem point Rosalie to do the trick). is probably Petra habituated • and condiTOM Dear Petra, tioned to SHELBY If you can just aggressing at manage to hear the the hapless words of somebody talking gas attendant. Plus, your to you from a distance of 25 yelling exacerbates the yards, Rosalie can hear them chaos and undoubtably adds just as clearly at a distance to the intensity of Rosalie’s

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territorial response, not to mention she feels vindicated and successful every time you drive away with the gas attendant disappearing.

If Rosalie could talk, “Once again, I saved the territory (car) from imminent invasion!”

If a window can’t be opened from her location in the back she needs to come forward to where she can receive “real meat” treats through a window.

Prearrange, nobody from the station approaches the car, as a family member gets out and goes to the window nearest the pump and gives Rosalie the treat through the 3-inch opening of the window. Can start with the driver getting out and giving tiny hot dog treats while pumping.

If necessary, practice fetching the attendant with the two of you happily talking while approaching the car then you administer the treats while he pumps.

If Rosalie gets crazed upon entering the station before anyone approaches, take her out on a leash, GO TO meet the attendant (don’t have him come to you), the 3 of you go to the car and he pumps while Rosalie earns her treats with her civility.

If attendant’s willing to give the treats, even better.

Progress to Rosalie’s on a leash, standing with trunk or back door open, earning treats by being civil.

Next step, treats through the window, ideally from attendant.

Petra, it is critical that you are patient and success builds on success. If she aggresses you need to go back to where she was successful and build from there. If you can’t get to first base with this positive approach, and negative reinforcement needs to be administered, please send me that question, and we’ll discuss, “Rosalie, be quiet!”

Be patient, and good luck, Dog Charmer Cooperstown author will be answering pet owners questions on training their dogs. E-mail your questions to dogsrshelby@msn.com

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See Thursday Listing.

TOURNAMENT – 9 a.m.

Have fun & support MCS at 3v3 March Madness Basketball Tournament. Cheer on the teams, see who wins.

Milford in OtsegO COunty Central School, 42 W. Main St., Milford. 607-286-7721 ext. 8408.

WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Build on skills at intermediate blacksmithing workshop. Participants must be aged 16+. Lunch included.

Cost, $100/non-member.

The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

FAMILY ART DAYS – 10 a.m. - Noon. Parents & children work together on art projects to support community organizations. This month learn how to care for the environment with Otsego Land Trust. Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

BOOK SALE – Noon - 5 p.m.

Find your next read. Support the library at used book sale.

Canajoharie Library, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-6732314.

OPERA – 12:55 p.m.

Performance of “Der Fliegende Hollander,” by Handel, streaming live from Metropolitan Opera House. Cost, $20/adult. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

607-431-2080.

COOK-OFF – 1 - 4 p.m.

Enjoy 8th annual chili cook-off featuring chili, desserts, 50/50 raffle, tours more to help say goodbye to old man winter & hello spring. Cost, $10/person. Van Alstyne Homestead, 42 Moyer St., Canajoharie.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft.

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

HISTORY – 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Join author/historian Marty Podskoch for presentation on new book ‘Adirondack Civilian Conservation Camps: History, Memories and Legacy.’ Will also speak about camps in our area during the Great Depression. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980.

PLAY READINGS – 3 4:30 p.m. NEXT! Readings of New Works by Regional Playwrights. ‘Three Days in Late

Summer’ by John Paul Porter, an epic family drama chronicling 3 decades of change for the Cunningham family.

Free, donations accepted.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1453.

BENEFIT DINNER – 4 - 8 p.m. Support Cooperstown firefighters John Roach and Scott Monington on their long road to recovery. Dinner features corned beef, cabbage, carrots, drinks, dessert, more.

Take out available. Cost, $15/ adult. Hartwick Fire Dept. Co. #2, Hartwick Seminary. 607547-8091.

ST. PATRICKS DINNER – 4 - 7 p.m. Enjoy Corned Beef & Cabbage dinner, performance

by Irish Step Dancers hosted

by The Knights of Columbus.

Free, Donations accepted. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. 607-4374626.

SHAMROCK SWING – 5 - 8 p.m. 5th annual Mother & Son dance includes dinner, activities, prizes, more. Cost, $65/1 parent + 1 child. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080.

POTLUCK & MOVIE – 6 p.m. Bring a dish to pass with friends. Drinks, dinnerware provided. Movie to follow.

Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 852 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. 607-547-9946.

MOVIE NIGHT – 6 p.m.

Bring the whole family to enjoy a movie. Blankets, snacks, beverages, anything to get comfortable is welcome.

Showing ‘Playing with Fire’ (2019) in which straight-laced firefighters must deal with their toughest job yet, babysitting! Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800.

CABARET CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Catskill Symphony Cabaret Concert featuring America’s Got Talent ‘Golden Buzzer’ winner Mandy Harvey & Music Director Designee Maciej Żółtowski. Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. 607436-2670.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Bold Theatrics presents ‘Venus In Fur.’ See Friday Listing.

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FUNDRAISER – 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Fill the boot campaign to support injured firefighters Scott Monington & Jon Roach.

All donations welcome. Milford Corner Store, 69 S. Main St., Milford. 607-286-9492.

HEALTH – 1:15 p.m. ‘Ticks & Lyme Disease’ Learn steps to avoid ticks this Spring with Communicable Disease Coordinator Theresa Oellrich.

Cooperstown Senior Community Center, behind St. Mary’s Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. coopseniorcenter@gmail.com DRAGON DATES – 5:30 p.m. Dip & Paint with artist, Diane Stensland. Choose image to paint, enjoy variety of dipping foods with Family Resource Network. Preregistration required. Elm Park United Methodist, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-0001.

CIRCLE ART – 6 - 7:30 p.m.

Get ready for Pi Day, learn to make circle art with image editing software ‘Inkscape.’

For ages 8 - 12. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980.

►Friday, March 13 FUNDRAISER – 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Fill the boot campaign.

See Thursday Listing.

FILM SERIES – 7 p.m.

Discrimination Matters series presents ‘Freedom Riders’ (2010) following courageous activists efforts to desegregate buses & trains in 1960s in the deep South. Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta. 607432-6988.

RAILROAD – 7 p.m. Meeting of local chapter of National Railway Historical Society featuring business meeting on annual banquet, repair of NY Central 6721, Adirondack Scenic Railroad, railroad in St. Louis, MO. All welcome. Zion Lutheran Church, 630 French Rd., New Hartford. 315-3278653.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Bold Theatrics presents ‘Venus In Fur’ by David Ives. Cost, $20/ person. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 1-800595-4849.

►Saturday, March 14 FUNDRAISER – 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Fill the boot campaign.

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►Sunday, March 15 FUNDRAISER – 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Fill the boot campaign.

See Thursday Listing.

SUGARING OFF – 8:30 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Enjoy full pancake breakfast in the morning then contemporary, historic demonstrations of maple sugar production. Admission, $10/ adult. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

THEATER – 2 p.m. Bold Theatrics presents ‘Venus In Fur.’ See Friday Listing.

►Monday, March 16 FUNDRAISER – 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Last day to Fill the boot support Scott Monington & Jon Roach. See Thursday Listing.

HEALTH – 1:15 p.m. ‘Know The 10 Signs’ learn the facts & signs of Alzheimers disease with Ann Thayer, Alzheimer’s Association. Cooperstown Senior Community Center, behind St. Mary’s Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. coopseniorcenter@gmail.com CLASSIC MOVIE – 3:30 p.m. Enjoy classic, timeless films with the group. Discussion to follow. Oneonta Teen Center, 4 Academy St., Oneonta. 607-433-2009.

POP-UP SHOP – 5 - 7 p.m.

Find hand-blown glass pieces ranging from functional to artistic by Harwick College Graduate Crystal Postighone.

The Autumn Cafe, 244 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-6845.

PARENTS NIGHT – 6:45 8:30 p.m. Parents are invited to Junior Ballroom Dance Class. Gym, Cooperstown Elementary School.

607-547-8181.

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Farm SucceSSion Workshop Series march 31 & april 7 • Quality inn 5206 State Hwy 23, oneonta

Cost is $50 per person for this 2-part series, including lunch as well as light, break-time refreshments for both days.

Key topics to be covered include: Is the farm transferable?

Family Communication; Tax Implications; Legal Considerations.

This program is sponsored by cornell cooperative extension Delaware county, Watershed agricultural council, and nY Farmnet. if you have questions, please contact mariane Kiraly at 607-865-6531 or mk129@cornell.edu. rSVP by 3/23/2020.

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ZOLTOWSKI/From B1 “Everyone knows these tunes, but they’re very challenging for the orchestra.�

The cabaret will also feature America’s Got Talent Golden Buzzer winner Mandy Harvey, who will perform jazz standards, as well as her own songs. “It is music from the 30s through the 50s,� he said. “Back when songs had lyrics and a melody! I watched her appearance on America’s Got Talent and she is really something.�

The concert will also include the annual Guest Conductor Competition, where are June Sheehan, retired OHS music teacher and organist at St. James Episcopal Church, Jimmy Hamm, Soxedo general manager at SUNY Oneonta, and Michael Walling, Community Bank senior district manager & vice president, Oneonta, will vie to

conduct “Stars And Stripes Forever� at the show’s conclusion.

Maciej, a native of Warsaw, studied violin as a young man, and began directing the choir at the F. Chopin Academy of Music, where he graduated in 1997 with degrees in violin, composing and conducting.

While conducting on a Hungarian TV competition, he caught the eye of judge Yuri Simonov, who invited him to attend master classes. He has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio and was the artistic director of the Cyprus State Orchestra.

Arriving from Warsaw for two weeks in Oneonta, Maciej is staying for now at SUNY Oneonta President Barbara Jean Morris’ guest house. “I plan to be here for six weeks in the spring and six weeks in the fall,� he said.

pianist Sara Daneshpour, who took third place in the 2017 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, playing his “Piano Concerto No. 1.�

In November, the CSO will present the one-act chamber opera, “Mozart and Salieri,� with singers from the Yale School of Music. “I’ve never conducted it before,� he said. “And in the second half, Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life the audience will have a chance to Maciej Zoltowski got to meet compare, as we’ll play a piece by Salieri and one by Mozart.�

June Sheehan, one of the A Cabaret in April 2021 will guest conductor hopefuls, close out the season and Polishwhile having coffee at the Latte Lounge.

American pianist Adam Wodnicki as the special guest.

And even in a week, he has In addition to the symphony’s already begun to put together the four concerts, he has begun plan2020-21 season. On Oct. 10, the ning a fifth concert, specifically symphony will join the world in geared for families. “It’s another celebrating Beethoven’s 250th way of extending the orchestra,� he birthday with a concert featuring said. “We want to do a matinee of

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the music of fairy tales. Right now, we’re just looking for sponsors!�

He has also begun working with the colleges to increase the turnout of students and young people at the symphony. “One of the ideas we have is to have a competition among the music departments and the winner would get to play a concerto with the symphony,� he said. “But we don’t just want to see music majors at our concerts. Some of the people who are most interested in musical arts are the ones majoring in math, physics, not necessarily the humanities. They like going to concerts!�

And he wants to get the word out about the pre-concert talks by speaking on the campus. “The concerts are accessible, but sometimes, people need an introduction,� he said. “We take it for granted that people know who Mozart is.�

K-9s Can Look Forward To Retirement – As Household Pets K-9s /From B1 is brought onto the scene when deputies or troopers need to search a vehicle or residence. “We found a bunch of heroin in a PlayStation console one time,� he said.

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“We were searching a vehicle, and Ricky hit on the console. We opened it up and sure enough, it was packed with heroin.�

Mika, meanwhile, has never gotten to fully utilize her specialty as a bombdetecting dog. “We’re brought in to sweep the streets ahead of Hall of Fame weekend, and we’ve responded to a lot of bomb threats,� Solovitch said. “There was a threat called into Hannaford, and she had to sweep the whole store.

It turned out to be nothing, which is the difference between our dogs – you hope Ricky will find something, but you hope Mika won’t!�

He did credit Mika with finding several high-capacity magazines during a search of a home in Schenevus. “Most of all, she’s a food hound,� he joked. “She knows when she comes into work, everyone wants to give her a treat.�

And both dogs are trained in tracking. “We got a mental health call that someone had fled into the woods,� said

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t turned out to be nothing, which is the difference between our dogs – you hope Ricky will find something, but you hope Mika won’t!�

Deputy KEITH SHELDON compares the skill of the drug-seeking and the bomb-seeking K-9s.

Sheldon. “It was a successful track, and we found the person and were able to get them the help they needed.�

Both are trained in handler protection, but they’ve never had to use it, and have never bitten a suspect during an arrest. “I’d had her with me about a month when Mika was brought in on a domestic,� said Solovitch. “I took her into the woods, and I didn’t think she was doing what I needed her to do. I was about to call her back when I heard a guy screaming that he was coming out.� “I had someone in a house who had a felony warrant out on them and they weren’t coming out,� said Sheldon. “I had Ricky all ready, the

bite collar on and he started to bark, and the guy came right out!�

Handlers name their dogs, usually for a fallen law enforcement official.

Ricky’s namesake is Investigator Ricky A. Yerdon, a fraud investigator for the county who passed away unexpectedly on June 30, 2008.

Mika is named for Army Cpl. Michael L. Mayne of Burlington Flats. Mayne died on Feb. 23, 2009, from wounds received during an insurgent attack on his unit in Balad, Iraq.

Mika and Ricky are the first two K-9s to retire from the sheriff’s department; the other three in service died of

natural causes while still on active duty. “Mika has some arthritis in her back, and Ricky is going blind in one eye,� said Solovitch. “It’s time.�

Solovitch will continue working as a K-9 handler; Sheldon will return to regular duties. “It’s time to let someone else take a turn,� he said.

Four other deputies have put in for the position, Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. said. “It’s a 24/7 job,� he said. “It’s like having a child!

But both deputies and K-9s have done a great job.�

Solovitch expects that his

new K-9 partner will arrive later this spring; they will train at the Oneida County Academy and be ready in time for Mika’s retirement in the fall. “There’s going to be a period of adjustment because I’ll have this other dog, but Mika will want to come into work,� he said. “I’m going to do whatever I can to minimize that stress for her.�

But because the dogs are county property, both Deputies will have to buy them in order to take them home. “We have to pay $1,� said Solovitch. “I think it’s worth it, though.�

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INDEX NO. 2018-949 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 2nd day of March, 2020, the Otsego County Treasurer, hereinafter the Enforcing Officer of Otsego County, hereinafter the “Tax District “, pursuant to law filed with the Otsego County Clerk a PETITION AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. Such petition pertains to the following parcels: Cert# Street Tax map# Owner name City of Oneonta 10 9 Linden Ave 288.17-2-60 Benlisa Helen S 18 88 Elm St 288.18-1-44 Pluta Monika 23 42 Maple St 288.18-3-58 Comstock Kevin R; Comstock Christy A 24 50 Elm St 288.18-4-33 Avery Anne -Louise 26 3-5 Walling Ave 288.18-6-23 KMA Management Group, Inc 27 387 Main St 288.18-6-96 Singh Kulwant 28 10 Youngman Ave 288.19-3-28 Horn Robert 32 19 Fonda Ave 299.12-3-47 DeAndrea James P 35 348 Chestnut St 299.7-6-29 Galster Scott 39 2 Shaffer Ave 299.7-7-9 Galster Scott 41 4 Telford St 299.8-2-40 Davis Robert James; Davis Gail L 42 242 Chestnut St 299.8-2-49 Christiance James A; Christiance Debra L 52 1-3 Franklin St 300.5-2-62 Celik Janet 72 14 Reynolds St 300.8-1-34 Ogborn Lorraine R 73 40 River St 300.9-1-30 Sobers Richard C Town of Burlington

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Shannon 329 1536 Co Hwy 22 67.09-1-55.00 Travis Clarence G; Donnelly-Travis Shannon M Town of Hartwick 338 491 Gulf Rd 128.00-2-29.31 Field Sean J; Stewart Pamela J 349 548 Greenough Rd 130.15-1-16.00 The Estate of Lavester R Decker; Decker Anna H 375 2831 Co Hwy 11 160.00-1-48.02 McLean Timothy 377 242 Lippitt Rd 161.00-1-10.01 Ross James B 379 Maples Rd 161.00-1-3.00 Johnston Charles K; Johnston Michael D; Johnston Frank M; Johnston Brian C; Johnston Steven R 383 4659 St Hwy 28 162.00-1-33.01 Blue Spruce Mountain, LLC 387 2401 Co Hwy 11 176.00-1-35.00 Schiff Dino 397 4473 St Hwy 28 178.00-1-51.01 Chandler Christopher; Chandler Connie M 402 Co Hwy 45 194.00-1-16.01 Kolka Robert S 403 St Hwy 28 194.00-1-19.04 Kolka Robert S 404 St Hwy 28 194.00-1-4.10 Kukenberger Cynthia M; Kolka Robert S Village of Laurens 405 13 Brook St 240.15-2-11.00 Carr Pauline 406 8 Brook St 240.15-2-16.00 Cimko Amanda Jean P 407 5 Craft St 240.15-2-4.00 The Estate of William E Yoder 409 54 Main St 240.15-2-63.00 The Estate of William E Brooks Jr 410 16 Louden Dr 240.15-2-68.01 7120 Ft. Hamilton Pkwy LLC; Endicott Bldg Mgt LLC Town of Laurens 414 160 Co Hwy 11B 208.00-1-46.02 Elleo Robert E Jr; Elleo Eric M 416 183 Co Hwy 11B 208.01-1-18.00 O’Neill Brian T 417 107 Old Co Rt 11B 208.01-1-29.00 O’Neill Brian T 418 2282 St Hwy 205 208.03-1-31.00 The Estates of Robert Howard and Elva M Howard 419 413 Russell Hill Rd 222.00-2-12.02 Menchini Leonard A 421 222 Larchwood Ln 222.00-2-12.09 Elisenberg Geir 432 452 Pool Brook Rd 224.00-117.01 The Estates of Grant N Moxley and Isobel A Moxley 433 416 Pool Brook Rd 224.00-1-17.02 Moxley Daniel J 437 2774 St Hwy 23 238.00-2-63.01 Sims Donna 440 362 New Rd 240.00-1-49.03 Buttice Jayne A; Buttice Nicholas J 441 400 New Rd 240.00-1-49.09 Perry Rebecca A 446 Balantic Hill Rd

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240.00-2-23.04 Joslin Dwight L Jr 448 St Hwy 20 St 240.00-2-44.05 7120 Ft. Hamilton Pkwy LLC; Endicott Building Management LLC 454 Hathaway Rd 255.00-2-39.00 The Estate of Carl Ehlert 455 Hathaway Rd 255.00-2-40.00 The Estate of Henry F Ehlert 466 3146 St Hwy 23 256.00-1-10.03 Melex, LLC 467 Brewster Hill Rd 256.00-1-11.00 More Jeffrey T; Quick Helen E Town of Maryland 483 800 Smokey Ave 198.00-2-12.02 Three G Development LLC 484 Sparrowhawk Lake Rd 198.00-2-12.52 Ramsey David 490 167 Norton Rd 213.00-1-12.00 Rickard James C III 491 404 Co Hwy 34 213.00-1-29.00 Smith Christina; Ritton Brian 492 176 Norton Rd 213.00-1-5.05 Carotenuto Brando Francesco 519 53 Race St 230.19-2-41.00 Murphy Patricia A 521 145 Main St 230.20-1-1.00 Joiret Raymond 523 Hubbard Hill Rd 244.00-2-6.08 Empowerment Advocates International; Van Buskirk Bruce 524 Stone House Rd 244.00-2-6.09 Empowerment Advocates International; Van Buskirk Bruce 527 112 Fingado Rd 245.00-1-37.02 Sprague Theresa 530 107 Dog Hill Rd 245.09-1-5.00 The Estate of Byam Esther 531 St Hwy 7 245.10-1-32.00 Indelicato Joseph J 537 424 Ridge Rd 247.00-1-11.00 Hanford Mark Village of Cooperstown, Middlefield 571 Brooklyn Ave 131.10-2-14.00 Andrews Phillip Town of Middlefield 572 178 Fish Rd 100.00-1-6.03 The Estate of Ida M Yager 589 Rezen Rd 133.00-1-12.03 Zucker Cynthia 603 Sibley Gulf Rd 147.00-1-10.03 Reich Richard; Carley Erica 606 604 Beaver Meadow Rd 147.00-1-7.02 Karen E Renwick with remainderman and then to the Children of Karen E Renwick 607 Sibley Gulf Rd 147.00-1-8.00 Reich Richard; Carley Erica 612 237 Norton Cross Rd 164.00-112.01 Vandusen Lee Ann 618 Co Hwy 33 178.00-2-3.01 Partridge Jay Patrick 627 934 St Hwy 166 180.00-1-9.02 Hribar Patricia J; Simonds Briana

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Town of Milford 656 3985 St Hwy 28 194.00-2-11.213 Kolka Robert S 681 211 Dorr Edson Rd 241.00-2-6.00 Shepard Gary J; Travis Mary S; Travis Mary S 685 S Hwy 28 243.00-1-10.02 Sci Carmine M; Sci Gloria T 689 2873 St Hwy 28 243.14-1-17.00 Scianablo Joseph B 699 323 Co Hwy 35 260.00-1-11.00 Kropp Dennis; Kropp Amy 701 149 Lee Dr 260.05-3-60.00 Erway Rodney L 707 Maple Dr 260.13-1-38.00 Wells David J; Kleinfelder Ronald J 713 Gifford Hill Rd 276.00-2-2.02 Ackley Rodney H; Ackley Lara E 722 Moffre Rd 277.00-1-57.00 Carvin Wayne; Carvin Brenda 723 Moffre Rd 277.00-1-58.01 Carvin Wayne; Carvin Brenda 726 6467 St Hwy 7 277.00-1-67.00 Schrom Justin R; Peeters Jolene L Village of Morris 732 25 Church St 221.13-1-53.00 Hull Todd E; Hull Helen M 736 22 Hargrave St 221.18-1-16.00 Etzl George J; Etzl Sarah S Town of Morris 742 St Hwy 51 204.00-2-13.04 Reynolds Randall C 743 St Hwy 51 204.00-2-17.05 Sieck Richard K; Sieck Dawn C 745 952 St Hwy 23 219.00-1-14.23 Hazen Todd; Hazen Barb 747 111 Hilsinger Rd 220.00-1-11.00 Santelia Edward A 753 2009 St Hwy 23 221.00-1-57.00 Schacht Robert 755 St Hwy 23 221.00-1-73.00 The Estate of Mary Louise Boynton 759 236 Co Hwy 49 221.00-2-8.00 Korth Wayne E; Korth Veronica L 761 205 Butternut Ridge Rd 222.00-3-13.00 Dickinson Philip L 764 1690 Co Hwy 18 234.00-1-24.00 Burlingame Kandase L 773 145 Sampson Rd 253.00-1-46.00 Guerriero Andrea; The Estate of Joseph Guerriero Town of New Lisbon 776 168 Santoro Rd 141.00-2-7.01 The Estate of James Powell; The Estate of Stephanie Powell 780 497 Backus Rd 142.00-2-26.01 Butternut Valley Environmental Resources Ltd 786 Backus Rd 158.00-1-11.00 Butternut Valley Environmental Resources Ltd 787 705 Lena Rd 158.00-1-12.02 Condon David J 788 406 Card Rd 158.00-1-49.00 Csizovszki Jennifer;

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Csizovszki Imre; D’Amico Daniella; D’Amico Michael 791 St Hwy 51 173.00-1-20.02 Schaffer Richard Allen 792 3741 St Hwy 51 173.00-1-21.00 The Estate of Harold R Wehrle; Wehrle Jean M 794 Bardin Rd 173.00-1-49.00 Greaves Jesse R 795 Parker Rd 173.00-1-51.02 Greaves Jesse R 798 235 Welcome Rd S 174.00-1-33.00 Drobot George; Drobot Sandra 800 Co Hwy 14 174.00-1-49.00 Michelsen Matthew; Michelsen Sandra R 801 114 Welcome Rd N 174.00-1-6.00 The Estate of Geraldine R Yoder 810 3389 St Hwy 51 189.00-1-59.01 Annex Exteriors Inc 816 318 Wheat Rd 190.00-1-21.03 The Estate of Beatriz Sanchez 818 Co Hwy 12 190.00-1-48.02 The Estates of Robert K Koster and Judith A Koster 820 418 Wheat Rd 190.00-1-9.04 Bradley Jennifer Lee 823 397 Co Hwy 15 191.00-1-14.01 Mehta Malti 824 Allen Rd 191.00-1-14.03 Mehta Malti 825 Allen Rd 191.00-1-14.04 Mehta Malti 826 Allen Rd 191.00-1-14.05 Mehta Malti Town of Oneonta 846 East St 275.00-1-28.00 Kropp Dennis; Kropp Amy 850 Sunset Dr 287.15-1-28.02 Blake Matthew 860 St Hwy 7 289.00-1-6.01 Rotolo Anthony 865 101 Browne St 299.00-1-4.01 Otsar Corp 869 422 Chestnut St 299.07-1-36.00 The Estate of Carl A Canis; Canis Eleanor J 873 8 Elmwood Ave 299.07-4-66.00 Ranaudo Dominic; The Estate of Rose Ranaudo 876 81 Oneida St 299.10-1-43.01 Pushkar Stephen 885 Co Hwy 47 301.00-1-53.03 Kent Matthew A 886 Co Hwy 47 301.00-1-59.00 Kent Matthew A 887 Co Hwy 47 301.00-1-59.00 Kent Matthew A 888 Co Hwy 47 301.00-1-60.00 Kent Matthew A 889 Morningside Dr 301.00-1-77.00 Kent Matthew A 890 Morningside Dr 301.00-1-82.00 Kent Matthew A 891 Morningside Dr 301.00-1-83.00 Kent Matthew A 892 Morningside Dr 301.00-1-84.00 Kent Matthew A Village of Otego 904 301 Main St 317.19-1-23.00 Adkins Virginia 905 307 Main St

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Curtis John M; Curtis Sharlene P 1080 3344 Co Hwy 18 170.00-1-31.00 Blake Matthew 1091 119 Ouleout Rd 171.00-1-32.132/2 Hoag Marcia K 1096 119 Jennison Rd 172.00-1-30.02 Terwilliger Carl; Terwilliger Brenda 1097 Co Hwy 49 172.00-1-30.03 Etzl George J; Uhle Sarah 1098 1309 Co Hwy 49 172.00-1-31.00 Etzl George J; Uhle Sarah 1104 319 Bentley Rd 172.00-1-64.05 DeLuca Michael 1105 725 Texas Hill Rd 186.00-1-17.02 Franca Theresa 1107 108 Park Ln 186.09-1-11.00 Pudney Olean B 1111 1171 Co Hwy 13 187.00-1-29.00 Wolfangle George R 1113 131 Young Rd 187.00-1-40.00 Gaudreau Jennifer 1114 147 Young Rd 187.00-1-41.01 Tooley Kathy J 1115 275 Holl Rd 187.00-1-43.04 Gremmert Mark A; The Estate of Irene L Gremmert 1116 Co Hwy 13 187.00-1-43.05 Gummoe Louise F; Gummoe Donald 1117 980 Co Hwy 13 187.00-1-43.06 The Estate of John W Ginter 1122 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-1.224 Papasidero Jeffrey D 1123 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-1.226 Papasidero Jeffrey D 1124 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-1.25 Etzl George J 1125 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-9.02 Thornton Shawn; Thornton Karin Town of Plainfield 1134 Co Hwy 18 2.00-1-7.00 Fitch Stephen W; Fitch Colleen 1135 Co Hwy 21 20.00-1-17.07 Laraby Timothy J; Laraby Bette A 1141 137 Co Hwy 19 33.00-1-12.00 Jaggers Helen 1147 Talbot Rd 34.00-1-12.23 Lan’Did Corporation 1152 Hughes Rd 48.00-1-3.07 Masel Patricia A; Erickson Frederick L; Nazginov Roma; Harter Brigette; White Eric 1153 210 Hughes Rd 48.00-1-3.08 Masel Patricia A; Erickson Frederick L; Harter Brigette; White Eric 1156 562 Crumb Hill Rd 9.00-1-1.02 Holmes Philip 1157 436 Crumb Hill Rd 9.00-1-3.00 Marnelakis Christina; Marnelakis Eftihios; Marnelakis George Village of Richfield Springs 1161 18 Prospect St 13.20-2-48.00 Osterhoudt Charles M 1162 5 Union St 13.20-2-51.00 Abrams Barry E 1164 17 River St continued pg. 5

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from pg. 4 13.20-3-46.00 The Estate of David Bennett 1165 28 River St 13.20-3-58.00 28 River Street Richfield Springs NY Land Trust 1166 28 River St 13.20-3-59.00 28 River Street Richfield Springs NY Land Trust 1169 5 Sylvan St 14.17-1-28.00 Gibson Cosby 1170 16 Sylvan St 14.17-1-38.00 Stefanec Lisa M 1173 45 River St 24.08-1-30.00 Murphy James A; Murphy Lilliam 1181 Canadarago St 25.05-3-44.00 Villavicencio Silvio 1182 10 Canadarago St 25.05-3-53.00 Garner Robert E; Garner Jesse L; Garner Elizabeth Jane 1185 60 James St E 25.05-4-30.00 Brykailo Mary E Town of Richfield 1186 521 South Rd 11.00-1-11.02 Smith Wayne H; Smith Tracy 1187 190 Mower Rd 12.00-1-19.02 Fuller William J; Fuller Shawn M 1188 Mower Rd 12.00-1-19.03 Fuller William J; Fuller Shawn M 1189 111 Brighton Rd 12.00-1-49.02 Sylvester James N; Sylvester Janet E 1192 2941 US Hwy 20 13.00-1-16.02 Vickerson James V Jr 1200 8443 St Hwy 28 24.00-1-11.02 The Estate of Charles E Roberts; The Estate of Betty M Roberts 1201 71 Elm St Ext 24.08-2-11.01 Doyle Sarah 1202 Elm St Ext 24.08-2-11.02 Doyle Sarah 1213 Henry Conklin Rd 37.00-1-9.00 Dyn Walter Jr; Dyn Gailyn 1216 8162 St Hwy 28 38.25-1-7.01 The Estate of Thomas Davenport; Barstein Mindy 1219 2489 US Hwy 20 4.00-1-19.00 Goodspeed Kimberly A

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Village of Unadilla 1270 34 Ontio Ter 334.14-1-37.00 US Bank NA as Trustee of American Homeowner Preservation Trust Series 2015A+ 1271 22 Prospect St 334.14-1-75.00 Macek Nicholas 1273 19 Prospect St 334.14-1-79.00 The Estate of Walter L Campbell The Estate of Lucille C Campbell 1276 Maple Ave 334.15-1-38.00 Rudolph Richard 1278 67 Martin Brook St 334.15-1-51.00 Lagstrom Albert A 1279 95 Martin Brook St 334.15-1-70.01 Luna Carlos V; Luna Esperanza 1280 13 Cone Ln 334.18-1-7.00 The Estate of Philip C Baumes The Estate of Lois M Baumes 1287 5 Walnut St 334.19-2-35.00 Makeplace Amanda 1292 39 Maple St 334.19-2-8.00 Mitchell Lloyd 1298 St Hwy 7 334.19-3-68.00 Greenview Farms Real Estate LLC

Town of Unadilla 1307 Black Ash Swamp Rd 313.00-1-6.04 Harman David 1324 249 Robert Williams Rd 315.00-1-6.00 Eybers Andrew N 1325 685 Lockwood Hill Rd 320.00-1-31.00 Bowman Willie P E 1346 116 Pitcher Ln 324.03-1-4.02 Clow Shawn A; Clow Patrice M 1352 116 Ryan Rd 328.00-1-30.00 Ryan James C; Crump Jamie 1359 Co Hwy 3 329.00-1-22.00 The Estate of Richard Ingrassia 1361 420 Co Hwy 3 329.00-1-37.22 Martini Ryan J 1362 560 Co Hwy 3 329.00-1-45.00 Fallon Susan L; Harvey Lena M 1370 130 Ledgewood Acres Dr 330.00-1-4.07 Schusteritsch Edward A Town of Roseboom 1373 1682 St Hwy 7 1233 330.03-1-66.02 Middlefield Rd Coffey Robert W; 118.00-2-12.11 Turkish Deport Corp Coffey Gloria J 1376 1234 872 Middlefield Rd St Hwy 7 330.03-1-86.00 118.00-2-9.00 Unadilla ShamRock Edwards Earl Village LLC 1239 1378 200 Adair Rd Valley view rd 120.00-1-14.00 Giammarino Lucio 332.00-1-11.00 Ziemann Aaron M 1247 1379 Morton Rd 423 Valleyview Rd 88.00-1-35.00 Yuhas Thomas 332.00-1-16.02 Crandall April L. 1248 1380 Morton Rd 158 Co Hwy 1B 88.00-1-36.00 Rodriguez Angel 332.00-1-2.01 Silvernail Charles Manuel C.; Silvernail Town of Springfield Patricia D 1383 1258 466 Valleyview Rd 7667 St Hwy 80 41.06-1-27.00 332.00-1-45.00 Allan-Ziemann Lisa Macaluso Joseph; 1386 Corso-Macaluso 273 Co Hwy 1 Glynis 332.00-1-52.62 1259 Berthelon Michael St Hwy 80 41.06-1-57.00 1389 351 Co Hwy 1 Macaluso Joseph; Corso-Macaluso 332.00-1-8.00 Grow Richard W Glynis 1390 1262 342 Co Hwy 1 Continental Rd 42.00-1-2.03 332.00-1-83.21 Carson Kenneth A Jr; Kipps Hill Road Corp.

Carson Kay M 1398 1263 1676 St Hwy 7 217 Continental Rd 42.00-1-2.04 334.00-1-47.00 Unadilla Shamrock Stocking Billy; Village, LLC Stocking Cheryl 1406 1267 187 Old Hill Rd 1004 Co Hwy 29

336.02-1-39.01 Yale Susan 1407 459 St Hwy 7 336.02-1-45.00 Hunt WIlliam A Jr 1409 420 St Hwy 7 336.02-1-64.02 Olson Edward D 1411 St Hwy 7 337.00-1-37.01 Fallon Cherie N; Fallon James 1412 St Hwy 7 337.00-1-55.01 Greenview Farms 1413 St Hwy 7 337.00-1-56.00 Greenview Farms 1414 St Hwy 7 337.00-1-62.00 Fallon Cherie N; Fallon James Town of Westford 1418 171 Strong Hill Rd 150.00-1-33.01 Raiha Bradley; Costagna Cheryl 1419 176 Stong Hill Rd 150.00-1-33.02 Duncan Derek Lee; Fagergren Kayla 1420 Co Hwy 34 150.00-1-38.02 Duncan Derek Lee 1425 674 Co Hwy 36 166.00-1-46.00 Regg Frances A 1430 Middlefield Rd 166.01-1-20.00 Parsons William H 1434 1764 Co Hwy 34 166.01-1-33.00 Langan James W 1435 1109 Co Hwy 36 166.01-1-35.00 Quinn Heidi 1436 Co Hwy 34 166.01-1-4.00 Ives Darin M; Ives Charity S 1437 1799 Co Hwy 34 166.01-1-9.00 Ives Darin M; Ives Charity S 1440 Westville Gulf Rd 180.00-2-23.00 Stabler Mary; LaRose John 1445 750 Up Country Rd 182.00-1-18.02 Fraser Matthew J. 1446 1131 Co Hwy 42 196.00-1-16.02 Pagillo Richard 1448 Hickory Hill Rd 196.00-2-2.13 Hoag Daniel 1450 376 Badeau Hill Rd 197.00-1-23.02 Bolton Larry M; Bolton Evelyn C 1451 10610 St Hwy 7 169.00-2-23.03 Armlin William I IV; McHale-Armlin Beatrice Town of Worcester 1452 226 Alvord Rd 169.00-2-33.00 Hayden Vincent 1453 232 Co Hwy 36 183.00-3-4.00 Makely John H 1456 316 Co Hwy 38 184.00-1-37.04 Ives Charles K Jr; Ives Grace 1458 10185 St Hwy 7 184.00-1-41.00 Paulich Premises Trust 1460 284 Co Hwy 38 185.00-1-48.01 Haberfield Enterprises LLC 1468 86 Main St 185.13-1-33.00 Suydam Brian T 1470 3 Maple St E 185.13-1-46.00 Keever Kenneth W; Keever Tammy 1479 13 Water St 199.17-1-27.01 Anderson Brent R 1482 10 Fairlawn Ave 199.18-1-22.00 McLean Jestina 1483 179 Main St 199.18-1-40.00 Biczo Ann Marie; The Estate of Kalman Bisczo 1485 192 Main St 199.18-3-21.01 Bruce George A;

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Bruce Virginia A 1486 252 Main St 199.18-3-39.00 Hartt Anthony M; Hartt Janet A 1491 13 Mill St 199.19-1-52.00 Larock Christopher J; Larock Dorothy A 1492 Hill Rd 200.00-1-42.02 Tarazi Emanuel; Tarazi Daniel 1493 St Hwy 7 200.00-1-42.03 Tarazi Emanuel; Tarazi Daniel 1494 St Hwy 7 200.00-1-49.01 Tarazi Emanuel; Tarazi Daniel 1495 St Hwy 7 200.00-1-49.02 Tarazi Emanuel; Tarazi Daniel 1496 St Hwy 7 200.00-1-68.00 Paulich Libero; The Estate of Theresa Paulich 1498 410 Roe Rd 201.00-1-29.00 The Estate of Fredereick R Pflug 1501 215 Tuscan Rd 214.00-2-8.00 Milavec Jeffrey R 1506 909 County Route 39

Ruffles, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

State of New York (SSNY) on February 25, 2020.

Office Location: Otsego County SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of the process to 1019 County Highway 25, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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bids-and-lettings/ construction-contractors/important-info) until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

Maps, Plans and Specifications may be seen at Electronic documents and Amendments which are posted to www. dot.ny.gov/doingbusiness/opportunities/const-notices.

215.00-1-50.9 McLean Herman 1508 5 Depot St 215.06-1-9.00 Ives Douglas C 1519 302 Boughton Rd 233.00-1-37.21 DeRuscio Joseph J Jr; Ciancetta David; Sobieski David; The Estate of Leon Sobieski 1524 391 South American Rd 248.00-1-6.02 Stevens Donald R; Stevens Milton

Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgement in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Nature of proceeding: This proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such petition. No personal judgement will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the Office of the Otsego County Treasurer and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified as the last day for redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption.

Such payment shall be made to Allen

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 15th day of June, 2020.

Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the Attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure.

Such answer must be filed in the Office of the County Clerk and served upon the Attorney for the Tax District on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption.

Enforcing Officer: Allen Ruffles Otsego County Treasurer Attorney for Tax District: Phillips Lytle LLP Richard M. Beers, Jr., Esq. 28 East Main St, Ste 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 (585) 238-2000 3LegalMay.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Emerald Glen Morris Ny LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/26/19.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 1967 Wehrle Dr #1-086 Buffalo, NY 14221 General Purpose 6LegalApr.16 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 47 Chestnut LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State on 03/05/2020.

Principal Business and Office Location: 47 Chestnut Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail process to 47 Chestnut Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.16 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A NY LIMITED LIABILTIY COMPANY Richfield Grange, LLC Articles of Organization was filed with the Secretary of

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Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 297 Main St, Suite M6, Oneonta, NY, 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.16 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Name: JCN Cranes, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 14, 2020.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, 6 Railroad Avenue, Oneonta, New York 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful business purpose.

6LegalApr.16 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Inner Awakening with Janice LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/13/2020.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of the process to the LLC, PO Box 513 Morris, NY 13808.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.9 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of MICHAEL F. ALLEVATO LLC Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/2020.

Office location: Otsego County, SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 810 Mooney Road, Worcester, NY. Purpose: Any lawful purpose permitted under LLC law.

6LegalApr.9 Legal nOtice NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in Instructions to Bidders (https:// www.dot.ny.gov/

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.

Please call (518)4572124 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 D264101, PIN 935822, FA Proj , Otsego, Schoharie Cos., I-88 Bridge, Highway & Culvert Rehabilitation with New Bridge Construction in Richmondville & Worcester., Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $2,750,000.00), Goals: DBE: 8.00% 2LegalMar.12 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 1945 County Highway LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 2/12/20. Off. in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1945 County Hwy. 22, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.9 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Raldor73 LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/15/19.

Off. loc.: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail: 101 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purp.: any lawful purp.

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6LegalApr.9 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: STEVEN M. GRIDLEY EXCAVATING LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 20 February 2020. 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 685 Hoose Rd, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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

6LegalApr.2 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Copper Helix Design, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/18/2020.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as Agent upon whom process against it may be served. Post office address SSNY shall mail copy of process to is 258 Bloomfield Rd, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose permitted under LLC Law. 6LegalApr.2 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Jay Mike LLC Filed 1/22/20 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 10 Market Street, Suite 1, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar.26 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Gjonaj Farms, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 5, 2019.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at: The Limited Liability Company, 483 Cherry Street, Bedford Hills, New York 10507.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Sam’s Bicycles LLC. Filed 12/3/19. Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 8 Myrtle Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: General.

6LegalMar.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC)

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Name: DRI 7, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 6 February 2020.

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 393 Main Street Suite 5, Oneonta, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of PURE POLIDORO LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 01/08/2020.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 309, Unadilla, New York 13849.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 21 Glenn Ave LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/31/30.

Office location: Otsego.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 56 Waverley Ave Newton, MA 024587.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.12 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Home Town Hauling & Recycling, LLC A Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on January 29, 2020.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to: Home Town Hauling & Recycling, LLC, 1074 Co. Hwy. 36, Worcester, NY 12197.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalMar.12 Legal nOtice Notice of LLC Formation of DeGlee Farms, LLC, a NY limited liability company (LLC).

Cert. of Conversion filed with NY Sec. of State (NYSS) on 01/06/20.

Office: Otsego County.

NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: 2093 County Highway 18, South New Berlin, New York 13843.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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THURSDAY, March 12, 2020

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IN MEMORIAM Frances M. Niles, 83, Otego; ‘Granny Fran’ To Unatego Fans OTEGO – Frances M. “Fran” Niles, 83, who worked 20 years at Otego Elementary School, passed away peacefully on March 7, 2020 at Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta.

She was born Oct. 21, 1936, the daughter of James and Helen (Sweeney) Mauro. Fran was born and raised in Brooklyn. She worked for many years in New York City. While working at KLM Dutch Airlines, which afforded her the opportunity to travel around the world, she met Francis K. “Frank” Niles.

They married on June 24, 1972 in Queens Village.

After moving to Franklin Square, Fran became very involved in the PTA, while her children attended Polk Street Elementary School.

In 1985, Frank and Fran

moved their family to Otego.

They became members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, and many other community groups. Fran enjoyed all the long car rides she and Frank would take exploring the countryside.

Fran worked for 20 years at the Otego Elementary School, starting out as a lunch aide, a reading aide and an LTA, retiring after her husband’s death in 2006.

It was then she embraced her role as everyone’s Granny Fran. She was a huge fan and enjoyed going to all the sporting events that her children and grandchildren were involved in.

She is survived by her twin brother, Robert Mauro of Bowie, Md.; son, longtime CCS girls basketball coach Michael and Monica Niles of Oneonta; daughter,

Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

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Kelli and Matt Hafele of Otego; grandchildren, Ethan and Meghan Niles, and Mallory Frances Niles and Ella Hafele; step-children, Dr. William and Maryann Niles of Garden City Park, Kathy and Ed Kilduff of Flushing, Laurie Niles of New York City; step-grandchildren, Kara and Nicola Capuzzo, Chris and Lauren Niles, Jeff and Darla Bourdon, Patricia and Matt Bell, Daniel and Ellen Kilduff, Lauren and Daniel Busch, William Erwin; many step greatgrandchildren; treasured nieces and nephews, James, Linda, Suzanne, Patricia and William Mauro, Robert, Edward, Peggy Keher; a special friend, Debbie Schneider.

She was predeceased by her husband, Frank Niles; brother-in-love, Peter Horan; step-daughter, Lynn and her husband, Norm Bourdon; sister, Patricia Albano, and brother, James Mauro, niece and nephew, Patti and Michael Keher.

Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.

A private interment will be at the Evergreen Cemetery in Otego at the convenience of the family.

Arrangements are entrusted to Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.

John L. Arnold, 85; Assistant VP At Wilber Bank For Three Decades SCHENEVUS - John Loudon Arnold, 85, a retired assistant VP at Wilber Bank for 30 decades, passed away on March 4, 2020, at Cooperstown Center, following a brief illness.

He was born on Dec. 25, 1934, in Schenevus, the son of Forrest and Nellie (Loudon) Arnold.

John graduated from Andrew S. Draper Central School, Schenevus.

He was a U.S. Army veteran. He served from 1955 to 1957 within the security agency.

He married Eleanor Rasmussen at Schenevus United Methodist Church.

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Ga; Thaddeus and Kayla; Nellie; brother, Richard and Gladys Arnold of Fla; sister, Rosemary and Bob Price of Texas; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased by his parents and brother, Gary Arnold.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 14, at United Methodist Church, 66 Main St., Schenevus, with the Rev. Kathy Brumbaugh, officiating.

Arrangements are entrusted to Heller & Skinner Funeral Home, 155 Main St., Worcester.

Eva G. Fuller, 85; Longtime Oneonta Resident ONEONTA – Eva Gertrude Fuller, 85, who raised her five daughters in Oneonta, passed away on Feb. 24, 2020, in Ocala, Fla. She was born on Oct. 12, 1934, in Sidney, to the late Laurence S. and Goldie (Greiner) Kittle.

Eva was wife to the late Raymond James Fuller for 58 years until his death on

June 20, 2012.

Eva was a long-time resident of Oneonta, where she spent many years and raised her family.

Eva is survived by her five daughters, Theresa Zoller, Denise Reigada, Linda Fuller, Kim Neben and Tina Fuller of Florida; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren;

and numerous nieces and nephews. She is also survived by her sisters, Lavonne Murdock, Wanda Burks, Susan Robinson, Salina Jean Macdown, Rowena Crandall and Judy Rowe; and brother, Richard Crandall.

Memorial arrangements will be made at a later date by the family.

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Natasha Paige Finch, 26; Daughter Survives Mount Upton Woman MOUNT UPTON – Natasha Paige, 26, who loved animals and big gatherings, died March 5, 2020 Natasha was born Feb. 23, 1994, in Oneonta.

Natasha loved big gatherings, spending time with her daughter and wrapping special Christmas gifts. Her heart was so touched by any animal she came across.

Natasha is survived by her daughter, Avahlee Rose Finch, mother, Sandy Finch; brothers and sister, Nathaniel O’Hara and Maxwell and Madelyn Finch. She also leaves behind Uncle Burt, Aunt Tara, Aunt Laurie and Uncle Dominick and many cousins; great-grandmother, Jeanne Seneck; along with several great aunts and uncles and extended cousins; stepgrandmother, Grace Finch; and the most special man in Natasha’s life, Papa LaVern.

She was predeceased by her brother, Eric Silberberg and grandma, Barbara Finch.

A funeral was held Wednesday, March 11 at C.H. Landers Funeral Chapel, 21 Main St. Sidney.

Natasha will be laid to rest with her grandmother, Barb, in Maplewood Cemetery, Mount Upton at a later date.

Arrangements are under the direction of C.H. Landers Funeral Chapel, Sidney.

John held several jobs.

Most notably he worked for 30 years at Wilber National Bank, having retired as assistant vice president. He then worked for the Town of Maryland as an assessor for almost 20 years.

He was a member of the Rotary Club.

John was member of Schenevus United Methodist Church, where he was on the board of trustees.

He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Arnold of Schenevus; daughter, Suzanne and Jim Figary of Schenevus; son, Stephen Arnold and fiancée, Mystie Williams of Kennesaw,

With the political divisions in our country and the theological and liturgical “wars” in our church, how might a Christian approach such issues without being caught up in the anger, blame and misleading statements of the moment.

What is respectful dialogue?

How do we become peacemakers?

3 days—3 speakers 3 topics toward understanding What is truth? How does a person discern truth?

Joshua Alexander, PhD, Siena College—Monday, 16 March 2020

Understanding fear and anger

Julia A. Baxter, MS Ed, CAS, SUNY Oneonta—Tuesday, 17 March 2020

“Blessed are the peacemakers…”

Deacon Walter Ayres, Director, Catholic Charities Commission on Peace and Justice Wednesday, 18 March 2020

The presentations are FREE. Presentations are offered twice daily at 10 am and 7 pm (repeat) in Saint Mary’s Parish Center.

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