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SHOOTING STUNS COMMUNITY

‘Wonder Woman’ Lost Investigators Uncover Facts, Unsure What Set Off Events

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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Michelle Seeger, West Oneonta, shows off a wedding gown from House of Brides at the “Love is in the Air” Bridal Show at the Carriage House on Sunday, March 8.

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hough the autopsies on Tifanne K. Wells, 44, and George L. Jones, 51, are complete, investigators are still unsure why Jones shot Wells and then himself late in the afternoon on Saturday, March 7.

“We’re meeting with anyone who might be able to tell us about this relation-

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ship,” said Trooper Nathan Riegel, Troop C public information officer.

Jones’ wife, Brenda, 66, who lives in Saluda, N.C., called Otsego County 911 at 8:11 a.m. Sunday, March 8. “She initiated us going to the house to do a welfare check,” said Riegel. “The investigators came around the side rear entrance of the house and discovered the Please See STUNS, A7

Tifanne Happiest Helping Others Editor’s Note: Tifanne Wells’ family release this heart-felt obituary Tuesday, March 10, as this edition was going to press.

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he devastated family of Tifanne Kristin Wells, 44, announces with the greatest sadness that Tifanne died tragically on Saturday, March 7, 2015.

She was born May 31, 1970, in Fort Bragg, N.C., but shortly thereafter became a lifelong resident of the Oneonta community,

REMEMBERING TIFANNE WELLS ►A “Celebration of Life”

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where she was well known for being vivacious, outgoing and loving but, above all, “WONDER WOMAN”.

Tifanne leaves behind the Please See TIFANNE, A7

TRANSITION AT FOX

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Celebrates Carol Blazina’s Chamber Award

ommon Council has appointed two of its members, Mike Lynch and Larry Malone, to co-chair a Mayor Miller Memorial Task Force.

The task force will recommend how to best honor the memory of Richard P. Miller, Jr., who died in office last Oct. 25.

Anyone with ideas, or interested in serving, should e-mail City Clerk Doug Kendall at dkendall@oneonta.ny.us

by March 25, or write City Clerk, 258 Main St., Oneonta, 13820.

WINNING WOMEN: Angela Brindley, Joanne Fisher and Debra Marcus, winners of the city Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights’ 2015 Trailblazer Award for outstanding local women, will be honored at a reception at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in the City Hall lobby.

Details at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM VENDORS SOUGHT: The Oneonta Farmers’ Market is seeking new vendors from within 50 miles. For details, e-mail bmevents168@gmail.com or call 607-437-0158.

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John D. Remillard will leave Fox Hospital for a final time on Thursday, Dec. 31.

Remillard Synonymous With Fox Last 26 Years Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Gathering at the Otsego Chamber’s annual Celebration in support of their Tenfold Plus colleague, Carol Blazina, foreground, are, front, from left, Jean Scarzafava, Laura Beach, Patty Crawford, Marie Lusins, Harriet Dune, Donna Joubert, Jackie Bettiol and Meri-Kay Pondolfino; back row, from left, Kathy Miller, Betty Li, Jessica Guenther-Decker, Sara Page, Bobbi Harlem.

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gift doesn’t have to be big to be generous.

“After my son Gene died, we came home to find a pizza waiting on our back door,” said Betty Bettiol. “Another time, friends came over with a blender full of pancake batter and made breakfast. This is what we want to do for other people.”

By “we,” Bettiol means Tenfold Plus, an organization she and Jean Scarzafava founded in December 2013 for “women to help women.”

“Jeannie came to me and suggested 20 of us put in $1,000 to start,” she explained. “But she was leaving for California, so I took over!”

From the original 10, the “plus” of the group is 27 members who go into the community to help assist those in need. “People come to us Please See TENFOLD, B5

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arly in John Remillard’s career at Fox Hospital, young man injured in a car accident was brought into the emergency room. The doctors didn’t think that he would make it. Remillard But a year later, Remillard saw him out and about in Oneonta, recovered and enjoying life. “Even though I wasn’t in that emergency room, he was saved by our team,” he said. “It made me Please See RETIRING, B5

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FRIDAY, march 13, 2015

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hile some students coastal areas imperiled by hurricanes, development and go wild in New Orleans on Spring engineering projects that have eroded land and endanBreak, Jacyln Courter, a gered wildlife.

Milford grad and SUNY The group also worked Oneonta student, decided to with high school students help wildlife instead. from the Lower 9th Ward As part of a 10-student and with members of the team headed up by Wendy Los Islenos native comLascell, assistant profesmunity to harvest palmetto sor of geography, and Anita leaves and Levine, build thatch assistant roofs on a professor of community elementary center. education The and readgroup ing, Courter arrived worked with in New the nonprofOrleans it organizaSunday, tion called March 1 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Common Jacyln Courter and Wendy and reGround ReRen McCormick (Matt Bitzer) and Ariel Moore (Drue Quackenbush) help take a break from turned to lief, plant- Lascell dance away oppression in Oneonta High School’s production of “Foothelping Common Ground ing grasses Relief plant grass and trees campus on loose,” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 13, 6 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in Saturday, Belden Auditorium. The musical, based on the 1984 film, follows a Chicago and cypress in hurricane-damaged New March 7. trees in teen who riles up a small town where dancing has been banned.

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Cindy Falk

• Author of four funded Village grant applications resulting in $2.35 million dollars • Advocate for alternative revenue sources to offset property tax increases.

• Supporter of increased efficiency for financial and environmental sustainability.

• Backer of clear and rational zoning, parking and other local laws.

• Trained historian and preservation professional with a passion for Main Street and Doubleday Field.

• Wife of Firefighter Glenn Falk and mother to two children at CCS.

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Monica Dugan, Morris, won the 13th annual Scripps Howard Regional Spelling Bee, held in SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich Theater Saturday, March 7. She heads in Washington D.C in May to compete in the Scripps National bee. She is the daughter of Dr. David Dugan, who has an oral surgery practice in in Oneonta, and Mary J. Jantzi.

Jim Dean

• Author of Village Statement Against Hydrofracting in New York State • Early Supporter of solar power projects for Cooperstown • Initiated effort to make Doubleday Field pesticide-free.

• Advocate for local businesses and making downtown a social destination • Representative for Cooperstown in State’s Regional Development Council Workshops.

• Married to Eileen and together raised three children in Cooperstown.

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Test, Adjust, Test, Adjust Is A Prudent Way To Proceed

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Opt Out CNY’s Jamie McNair urges 70 parents in Cooperstown Village Hall Sunday, March 8, not to participate in Common Core testing.

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ooperstown received a full immersion experience in the “Common Core” over the past week, as Oneonta has for the past year.

This latest heightening of concerns came out of Governor Cuomo’s Jan. 21 State of the State speech: “It is incongruous that 99 percent of teachers were rated effective, while only 35.8 percent of our students are proficient in math and 31.4 percent in English language arts.

“How can so many of our teachers be succeeding when so many of our students are struggling?”

In place of evaluations, Cuomo is proposing a wiggle-free alternative: Rate teachers on Common Core test scores. Fall below par for two years, you lose your job, a husband-wife team from Opt Out CNY told a packed house in the Cooperstown Village Board meeting room Sunday afternoon, March 8.

And if the scores further show individual schools are consistently failing, the state can put them in receivership – i.e., take them over. ● The Opt Out representatives, teachers Jamie and Jessica McNairs, spoke to 70 parents in Cooperstown Villages Hall Sunday, March 8. They argued the governor and his “hedge fund

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ut to succeed, Common Core must not be doctrinaire, but flexible and fair to all. manager” campaign contributors who are investing in charter schools want to dismantle public education as we know it.

The “Failing Public Schools” report suggests a different motivation: Since 1997-98, spending on public schools is up 115 percent, almost three times more than the Consumer Price Index (41 percent). New York’s $19,552 per pupil is 84 percent more than the national average of $10,608.

The results don’t reflect that investment. New York’s graduation rate is 33rd in the nation. In 2014, only 38 percent of high school students were deemed college ready.

Not only is the growing investment unsustainable, it isn’t getting better results. ● Sensible people can agree on Cuomo’s analysis, and many even on his two-strikes-and-you’reout solution. What local parents, teachers and school administrators can also agree on is that the Cuomo Administration’s current proposal is hasty, and the pieces

aren’t in place to ensure the system is fair.

In fact, it’s unfair, said Cooperstown Central Executive Principal Lynn Strang, pointing out the Common Core only covers English and math in grades 3-8, so the evaluation system can apply only to them.

“That’s not what the developers of the rubrics” – the Common Core – “had in mind,” added Oneonta City Schools Superintendent Joe Yelich. “Their strategy was to use their framework to improve instruction, not as a hammer to teachers.”

Both advised waiting until the Common Core is fully in place, which makes sense. Cuomo wants the state Legislature to act by April 1. That’s much too hasty.

Still, evaluations are accountability. Basing them on tests, if the tests are true reflection of reality, is better than subjective – and, frankly, universally skewed – boss-employee evaluations.

Cuomo’s onto something. ● That said, Opt Out CNY’s solution is a mistake. The McNairs asked parents to refuse to allow their children to take the tests next month. “If you deny the access to the test scores, the whole thing falls apart,” said Jamie McNair, who was president of the New

Hartford NYSUT chapter for five years.

There was a like impetus to the “Because I Care” rally in Oneonta’s Muller Plaza on Feb. 26.

“That is part of our solution – the way that public schools are being discredited through these false test scores – to remove the data,” said Danielle Boudet of the Oneonta Area for Public Education Group.

Last year, 20 percent of Oneonta students declined to take the test. Only six children from two families did in Cooperstown.

Last August, Cooperstown Elementary was designated a “Rewards School,” among the top 20 percent in the state.

Let’s try to make the new system work for us. The relative failure of U.S. schools compared to other industrialized nations is much commented upon, which led the National Governors’ Association to come up with the Common Core concept in the first place.

Testing, upgrading, testing, upgrading seems a sensible way to measure progress, particularly in essential math and science skills. Otherwise, we’re flying blind. Testing isn’t everything.

Can creativity, energy, ambition be quantified? Certainly not. But we’re embarked on a promising experiment. No one’s proposing an alternative, except returning to

a failed model.

Parents should not opt their children out. Let the children take the test. Let the data guide.

Let’s experiment, and adjust, and experiment. Cuomo’s evaluation reforms have little chance of passing, and that’s good. To improve, you must measure – and make sure the measurements are relevant and fair to all. ● One unsettling note. Some CCS parents appeared to be looking for a scapegoat, and Executive Principal Strang’s name was mentioned a few times at the Wednesday, March 4, CCS board meeting attended by 100 parents and teachers.

Strang was brought in a year and a half ago to implement the Common Core and – judging by the Rewards School designation – she’s succeeding.

As a change agent, Strang’s vulnerable. Every human being would rather continue doing things the way they always have. Let’s not get carried along by anger at Cuomo’s provocative proposals.

Strang’s doing what the CCS school board hired her to do, and doing it well. The school directors need to stand with her and not run away from a sensible strategy.

Wait to reassess, if necessary, until passions cool.

LETTERS

Prepared, Hardworking, Creative Falk Deserves Reelection To the Editor, I am writing to support the candidacy of Cindy Falk for a second term as trustee of the Village of Cooperstown. This endorsement is based on two years’

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major projects. Her knowledge of grant sources and the complex application and follow-up processes have brought approximately $2 million to the village for projects that would not have been possible otherwise.

She has also been instrumental in reducing costs of operating the streets department and has proposed a program of aggressive street repairs in the next budget.

The next two years will see major improvements along Main Street from Pine Boulevard to River Street as a result of the grant money that Cindy has obtained.

Cindy has made sure that there will be multiple consultations in the coming weeks where we can all comment and make suggestions before the designers and engineers lock into critical aspects of the remaining portions of the Main Street project.

Cindy is in the best position to see these projects through to a successful conclusion. I urge you to vote for Cindy Falk for Trustee on Wednesday, March 18.

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Sign On To NYSEG’s Wind Initiative To the Editor: The Village of Cooperstown recently passed an initiative to take action to address climate change and encouraged other government agencies to do the same.

Bravo. The Hall of Fame, Bassett Hospital, Dreams Park and The Otesaga should follow suit.

They could all do what we do: opt into NYSEG’s wind energy program, which offers residential, commercial and institutional customers the option to get their electrical power from wind power.

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Cuomo Seeks To Shift Teachers’ Evaluations From Here To Albany To the Editor: I am opposed to Governor Cuomo’s proposal to change the way teachers are evaluated in New York State. To summarize, if implemented, the grades 3-8 standardized tests would no longer count 30 percent, but 50 percent of Cuomo at State of State a teacher’s score. Addition- ability to tend to the indially, Cuomo wants another vidual needs of students and 35 percent of a teacher’s to teach creatively, because score to come from an they are so concerned with outside evaluator, leaving the results of one test. only 15 percent to the local Not only that, but there school district. appears to be a climate of While I do believe that fear in place – fear of speakteachers should be evaluated ing truth about the Common in some way, this is not at Core to the BOE and to all just, and it has serious parents, even in the face of a implications for the day-tobroken system of teaching to day work of the classroom. the test.

Teachers already feel forced This climate of fear is to teach to the test, and this something the BOE must new system would make examine, or we risk losing that even worse. our very best teachers and Over the last couple of creating a generation of chilyears I have witnessed dren who have no idea that among the teachers a growlearning involves more than ing frustration with the filling in a set of bubbles. constraints placed on them KIM JASTREMSKI by the Common Core curCooperstown riculum, which limits their

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

125 Years Ago

The rules for rifle practice in the National Guard have been thoroughly revised and greatly changed. As they now are it should not be a difficult matter for every soldier to gain the marksman’s badge. At first stage five shots at the bull’s eye from a distance of 100 yards, standing, are allowed. At this stage, the score must be at least 15 out of a possible 25. At the second stage the marksman kneeling, fires five shots at a distance of 200 yards, and, lying down, five shots at 300 yards. Thirty out of fifty points entitle the soldier to the marksman’s badge. Every soldier gaining this is entitled to contend for the sharpshooter’s badge. The ranges for this contest are situated 500 and 600 yards from the target, and five shots, lying down are made at each distance. A score of 42 out of 50 is required to win this trophy.

March, 1890

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80 Years Ago

An off-duty New York City policeman was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and second degree assault after he allegedly shot an Oneonta State College student in the foot following a fight, police said. Arrested on two felony charges was Stephen J. Izzo, 23, of Brooklyn, and member of the New York City Police Department who was visiting Oneonta with two friends, Detective Joseph Redmond said. Izzo and his companions became involved in a fight with SUCO student Peter Burke, 23, and his friends at Pizzaland Extension on Water Street early Sunday morning. The fight was broken up by Pizzaland patrons, but resumed when the two groups went outside. Izzo is alleged to have pulled out a gun which discharged, striking Burke in the right foot. Burke was taken to Fox Hospital where he was treated and released.

Izzo and his companions left the scene and started driving toward Walton, where one of the men owned a vacation cottage. Izzo was apprehended by Walton police who had set up a roadblock.

March 1985

100 Years Ago

A paper titled “Immigration – An Aid or Detriment?” was presented to members of the Fortnightly Club at the home of J.F. Thompson on Walnut Street on Tuesday evening by the Rev. L.C. Nichols, pastor of the Chapin Memorial Church. Rev. Nichols prefaced his talk by stating “that if any man needs justice and humane treatment, it is the immigrant who has missed them in the Old World and comes to America expecting just these things in the land of promise.

For every country in the world except for China, the United States has been a sort of overflow tank, and now that the tank seems near to being filled, the pertinent question arises: Is it time to stop?” Quoting the words of Joseph Cook, Rev. Nichols concluded: “Let us resolve that America shall be neither a hermit nation nor a Botany Bay – a home for the oppressed, but not a dumping ground for the criminals, cripples, paupers and illiterates of the world – a country whose motto should be ‘Welcome for the worthy, protection for the patriotic, but no shelter in America for those who would destroy the American shelter itself.’ ” March, 1915

60 Years Ago

Colonel John L. Frisbee, 17 Elm Street, has been appointed to the faculty of the new United States Air Force Academy temporarily located in Denver, Colorado. He will serve as Professor of History. Colonel Frisbee was graduated from Hartwick College in 1938, and entered the Air Force as an aviation cadet in 1942. In 1948, he was detailed to duty at the American Institute for Foreign Trade in Phoenix, Arizona, and upon completion of that course, studied for a master’s degree in international relations at Georgetown University. He has done further graduate work in history and international relations at Columbia Univer-

20 Years Ago

March, 1935 sity. Prior to his assignment to the new Air Force Academy, Colonel Frisbee spent three years on the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point. During WWII he served as a flying instructor, and also with the Ninth Air Force in Europe. At the end of the war, he was serving as an executive officer on General Eisenhower’s Air Staff.

March 1955

40 Years Ago

Dr. Carol A. Hawkes will take over July 1 as Hartwick College’s first woman vice president for educational affairs and Dean of the College, according to Dr. Adolph G. Anderson, college president. Dr. Hawkes comes to Oneonta from Finch College in Manhattan where she is professor of English and chairman of the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She graduated magna cum laude in 1943 from Barnard College and earned a masters and doctoral degree in English from Columbia University. Her academic specialty is 19th and 20th century literature and the novel. Her book titled “John Galsworthy: A Biography” is under contract with Scribner’s and will be published later this year.

March 1975

Fraternities at the State University College at Oneonta won’t rush first-semester freshmen in the fall, Seth Millman, president of the Inter-Fraternity Council said Monday.

The Council is going for now with the school’s recommendation to suspend rushing first semester freshmen, rather than risk losing recognition by the college. That recognition allows them to use campus facilities and participate in intramural sports. The college dismissed 269 students with low grades from last semester. College officials say that freshmen who rush Greek letter organizations have less chance of academic success than students who do not join those groups. In January, SUNY sororities also agreed to comply with the college’s request.

March 1995

10 Years Ago

State police have issued warnings about heroin in the area. Three accidental deaths in a six-month period have been attributed to overdoses of the drug. Investigations have revealed narcotics packaging described as a small, white, wax paper envelope, stamped in red ink, depicting a stick of dynamite, with the letters “TNT” on the stick and the word “BOOM.” Troopers say the contents of any such packaging should be considered “extremely harmful.” Anyone with any information about the narcotics found in such packaging is asked to report that information.

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LETTERS

Downtown, Environmental Initiatives Energize Incumbents To the Editor: This year marks the first time since 2011 that the election for village trustee has been contested. There are three candidates running for two positions.

We hope that you vote in this election (noon-9 p.m., Wednesday, March 18, at the fire hall) and that you use this opportunity to show your support for the good work that has been going on in the village in the past few years.

James Dean was first elected as a village trustee in 2011, and Cindy Falk joined him on the Board of Trustees in 2012. During Jim’s and Cindy’s tenures, many changes have been underway. The Board of Trustees has

looked for new sources of revenue, increased efficiencies, and ways to improve our quality of life.

In an especially noteworthy move, the village has become proactive in seeking grants. To date over $2.3 million has been awarded from outside sources, both public and private. This has allowed for a major downtown project on Main Street to replace the deteriorating sidewalks as well as for planning to commence long overdue repairs to 22 Main St., the building that houses Village Hall, the library, and the Cooperstown Art Association.

The village has also taken a strong position on environmental issues.

Pesticides are no longer used on Doubleday Field. Rain gardens allow storm water to be treated where it falls rather than running into Otsego Lake.

And the village has begun a serious investigation into a solar project to generate electricity to meet municipal needs.

We hope that in the upcoming election you will cast your vote for Cindy Falk and James Dean. We both look forward to continuing to work to better the Village of Cooperstown so it remains a great place to live, work, and play now and into the future.

CINDY FALK & JIM DEAN Cooperstown

Let Falk, Dean Continue Excellent Work To the Editor: For the last three years, it has been my pleasure to work with Trustees Cindy Falk and Jim Dean.

Cindy is a remarkable public servant, author of multiple grants resulting in the village receiving nearly $2.5 million in outside funds. Her work ethic and dedication to the village in various areas – zoning, efficiency, cost-cutting and historic preservation – have made her a superb trustee.

Jim is a hands-on trustee, whose expertise in infrastructure (streets, buildings) has proven invaluable to governing the village.

Jim was an early advocate against hydrofracking, against pesticide use at Doubleday Field and for solar power projects in Cooperstown. He has great passion for these issues.

On March 18, village residents have a chance to keep Cindy Falk and Jim Dean in office as village trustees. Your vote for them will allow them to continue the excellent work they have done for the village these last three years.

JEFF KATZ Mayor Village of Cooperstown

Can District Afford Fourth Administrator?

To the Editor: I would like to address the recent addition of the position of director of student services/executive principal to our school district.

Demographics from our school district indicate a 6 percent decrease in population in the last 15 years. We see this decrease in smaller class sizes that generally number well below 100 students per grade. Given that our tax base revenues and student population is diminishing, how can we, as a community, justify the significant financial outlay of a fourth administrator to our school system? In other words, what added benefit are we as a school community obtaining from this outlay of monies?

On a personal note, two of my children graduated from Cooperstown Central School to competitive higher institutions without an executive principal. I personally find the expenditure for this position as superfluous.

ANN LINDSAY-BROWN Cooperstown

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Updated and Remodeled Ranch Exclusively offered at $419,000

This charming home was recently remodeled w/the addition of a master BR and bath in its own wing. Open concept kitchen/LR/dining area. Basement level has large family room/ den. Large studio w/ electric and heat off of the 3-car garage. There is no wasted space in this home.

PRoPERty DEtails —2.11 acres —Private setting —2 miles from village —Private well and septic —Mature plantings, flower beds intERioR FEatUREs —2,040 square feet —3 BRs, 2½ baths

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—Open-concept kitchen/ dining/living room —Kitchen w/granite countertops; center island; pantry —LR w/wood-burning FP —Master BR w/walk-in closet, and additional closets —Master bath w/walk-in shower —Oak floors, carpet and linoleum

—Oil baseboard heat —New furnace w/5-zone heat ExtERioR FEatUREs —Built in 1968 —3-car detached garage —Concrete foundation —Asphalt shingle roof —Paved driveway

37 Chestnut street · Cooperstown · 607-547-5622 · 607-547-5653 (fax) parking is never a problem!

For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Real Estate Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5105

Tim Donahue, Associate Real Estate Broker – 293-8874 Madeline Sansevere, Real Estate Salesperson – 435-4311 Cathy Raddatz, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-4141 Michael Welch, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-8502

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Renovated 1850s farmhouse on a quiet country road w/a large graceful brook. Authentic home w/exposed beams, skylights, wood floors and wood stove. The house has been completely renovated. This home was stripped to the beams rewired, sprayfoamed then put back together giving the house a contemporary Adirondack feel.

The kitchen has all butcher block counters. The house is so well insulated that the woodstove can heat the entire house. Open loft overlooks the dining room. Resident access to the Town of Springfield boat launch and docks— $279,000— MLS#98644

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7

FRIDAY, March 13, 2015

Tifanne’s Family Is Bereft At ‘Wonder Woman’ Loss TIFANNE/From A1 sunshine rays to her soul, her beloved children, Cassandra Smith, and Austin and Dalton Wells; Cassandra’s husband, Thomas Smith; her grandchildren, Brenna and Mason Smith; parents Bon Zuefle, David A. Harrington, Carl W. Fleming and Larry Cummings; brother Aric James (AJ) and Laura Fleming and niece and nephew Charlotte and Beau; her sister Shyloe and Greg Luehrs and nieces and nephew Taiten, Greyson and Sutton; sister Colleen and Alan Gaydorus and their daughters; sister Erin Harrington and brother Ian Harrington; grandmother Marilyn Harrington. Tifanne is also survived by her special “Auntie� and Uncle Jim and several aunts, uncles and cousins. Tifanne was predeceased by her very best friend Ali Engler.

Tifanne possessed a powerful confident energy at her places of employment, AG Edwards, Jay’s Place, DSB Insurance, Wilber Bank, ARC Otsego and Holiday Inn. But her shining examples of who she truly was and where she received her most satisfaction was her volunteer work.

She was an instrumental part of fundraising and event planning for multiple community organizations.

Tifanne worked with local legislators and businesses by creating and chairing

the Distinguished Partner In Education Award for St. Mary’s School.

She will be remembered for orchestrating golf tournaments for The Boys and Girls Club of Oneonta, Unatego Touchdown Club and UCCCA. She was a former vice president on the UCCCA Board of Directors and while there was active in the strategic planning of increasing UCCCA membership. Serving on the First Night Oneonta board and as a coordinator for the Hometown Fourth of July Celebration, Tifanne added her own style of laughter and joy.

Whether being the team Mom and scorekeeper for Little League Baseball, the most exuberant Mom at every football game, or cheering on Austin and Dalton at soccer games, basketball games and wrestling matches, Tifanne could be found with Big Sister Cassandra at her side. Her children and family were her touchstones.

Her smile will forever light our memories.

Please join us for a Celebration of Tifanne’s Life.

We will come together at 4 p.m. Friday, March 13, after work ~ during Happy Hour� at The Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. We ask that you bring all of your favorite “Tifanne Moments� and as many pictures of her that you can for sharing with her children.

Tragic Events Surprise, Stun Friends, Community STUNS/From A1 two bodies right next to each other on a snow path.�

Dr. James Terzian, a forensic pathologist at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, performed the autopsies.

Wells had been shot twice, once in the center of her back and once in the back of the head. “There were no powder burns on her back,� said Otsego County Corner Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA James Hurley. “It looks like 447 Route 47, south of Emmons, where the crime she was trying to get away.� occurred.

Jones was killed with a three children, investigators bance on file,� said Riegal. single shot under the chin. determined that no one else “Jones was the one who A handgun was recovered at was in the residence at the called it in; he was in a the scene, and investigators time of the shooting. verbal dispute with another found signs of “a domesIt was not the first time relative.� tic disturbance� inside the the troopers had been called Wells was not listed as a home. to that address. “There is victim in that case. She did, No note was found, and a previous domestic disturhowever, list his address although Wells does have

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Though ruled a murdersuicide, a criminal investigation remains open while troopers interview friends, family and neighbors about the incident. Additionally, tests for drugs and alcohol are still pending. “This is an ongoing investigation,� he said. “We want to know what factors caused this to occur.�

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MLS#93225 $76,500 Priced to sell! Spacious 4-BR, 2-bath house close to I-88. Large backyard, workshop/garage.

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MLS#98491 $224,900 Unbelievably Priced! 25-acre horse farm w/large heated barn w/living quarters in Morris. Mostly hay field and fenced pastures! Also 3-BR, 2-bath ranch.

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MLS#94772 $69,000 Built like a Fortress! Tiny house hunters, look no further. Tiny house, tiny price! Kitchen, bedroom, bath, well, septic, electric, full basement and 10+/- acres.

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