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Tomaino, plan for 218-224 Main St. Asked for details, Project Selection Committee chair Kim Muller, the former ONEONTA mayor, texted, “Some of the information you are lookIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA he DRI ing for may be Al Rubin acknowledges Project confidential … applause after winning SelecI’m trying to the Catskill Symphony’s Guest Conductor Contion Commitfigure what level test Saturday, March tee called the of detail I can 9, at SUNY Oneonta’s project “transshare.” field house, and helping formative” She referred raise a record $46,321/ and awarded it questions to the DETAILS, B6 $225,000.

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Cherie Welch, Oneonta, strolls down Main Street toward the Westcott 50 years on “WDOS, band, Jimmy T’s the first DRI grants Please See Lot, passing 218-224 Main St., whose owner WHH Realty received the Star staTuesday, March 5, proprietor Jim DRI, A7 $225,000 for a “Transformative” project. No further details are available. tion,” passed at Foothills. away at 4:05 a.m. March DIVERSITY IMPRESSES COUNTIAN 6, 2019, in Cooperstown after hearing Stephanie “The CampParez, bells are East Joe Camp- Coming” on Meredith, bell in his the bagpipes. makes heyday.

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By JIM KEVLIN adopted hometown for a from Barb “All these differMednanhalf-century, he also taught ent societies have a sky and fifth and sixth grade in city COOPERSTOWN need to protect naDean schools for 35 years. ture,” said DiPerna, Matthews Arrangements are in the ack in special adviser, CDP during hands of the Lewis, Hurley Vatican City, North America, a & Pietrabono Funeral Home. McLaughCoopernon-profit that helps lin’s Watch for his obituary on stown’s Paula Dicompanies, cities clearance sale.

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►CITIZENS VOICES plan to discuss a TED Talk video on nuclear power and Global Warming on March 13. ►A HAMPTON INN just south of Dollar General in HartwickSeminary, was approved by the Hartwick Town Planning Board. ►COUNTY TREASURER Allen Ruffles of Cooperstown, an Army Reservist, departed for a year-long deployment in the Horn of Africa.

Local Store’s End Reduces Chain To Single Norwich Site

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s the news that McLaughlin’s on Main Street was closing, shoppers poured in to peruse sales and say hail and farewell to Scott and Anna, who have run the downtown staple since 2016.

“We’re not going that much further (away), so please, stop on by,” Scott McLaughlin, president of the Norwichbased department store, told a customer as the closing sale reached a high pitch Friday, March 8.

Even veteran salesman Gordon Breslin, who fitted generations of Oneontans with new shoes since the days of Zimm’s, helped out.

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ich Brimmer, Gilbertsville, deputy to the retiring Bill Mason, has been promoted to Otsego County highway superintendent.

Elevation of the 26-year veteran, “reaffirms where we’re going: where somebody who started 20-some years ago, through hard work, can become a department head,” said county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, Otsego County Board Public Works Committee chair.

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At Vatican Confab, DiPerna With Oneonta Closing, McLaughlin Down From 8 To One Witness To Climate History CLOSING/From A1 They opened the Norwich

DIPERNA/From A1 have seen and are living the problems of Climate Change.”

For the second time in less than a year, DiPerna was in Rome, among 200 delegates at a follow-up conference to last year’s “Saving Our Common Home and the Future of Life on Earth,” itself a three-year follow-up to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

She was interviewed by phone Saturday the 9th, standing in the sunshine at the center of St. Peter’s Square, surrounded by thousands of pilgrims and tourists from around the world.

“It is truly powerful to receive all of the history, good and bad, and to see people are still feeling the power of being here,” said DiPerna.

The day before, she was at “The International Conference on Religions and Sustainable Development Goals,” which was setting the stage for the United Nations’ “Climate Summit 2019: A Race We Can Win,” Sept. 23 at U.N. headquarters in New York City.

To get to the Sala Regia, the room where Pope Francis convened Cardinals from around the world Feb. 21 to address child abuse by priests, DiPerna had to traverse the famous Bernini staircase, carved by one of the foremost sculptors of all time.

Pope Francis addressed the delegates, although this time he did not meet personally with each of them. “When we speak of development,” he said, “we must always ask: Development of what and development for whom.”

Said Cardinal Peter Turkson, a Ghanain and prefect of the Dicastry for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, a member of the Pope’s cabinet, advised delegates: “Ethics is a system of defense built around what you consider to be precious.”

On that basis, he called for “reinstating ethics into daily

decision making,” DiPerna reported.

Representatives of all the world’s religions were invited because “the whole message is diversity,” said DiPerna.

“Only diversity gives you excellence of thought. Only diversity is fair.”

The question before the conference was “how to take all this diverse wisdom and turn it into some action that guides the nature of economic progress.”

The discussions will now be distilled for presentation at September’s U.N. conference, which will come up with action steps. The first “report card” on progress of the undertaking will be issued in 2020.

Since the Trump Administration announced in 2017 that the U.S. was withdrawing from the Paris agreement in 2017, DiPerna was one of three U.S. delegates. “The flouting of international consensus is losing us respect, not just of governments, but of individuals,” she said.

Still, she added, “it surprised me how much people look up the United States … People don’t understand what happened in the U.S. Why the administration is pulling us out of all these global agreements, why we don’t want to be part of solutions anymore. It’s scary.

It leaves a big vacuum.”

“For me personally,” DiPerna continued, “I’m continuing to do what I’m doing: Trying to connect all these dots: sustainable investment, synthesizing trends in local and international governments. I’m about what’s being done, trying to bring it down to Earth.”

While operating in the secular world, the long-ago little girl in The Bronx, where she received her First Communion at Our Lady of Assumption Church, mused, “It’s interesting to see all the symbols of my youth actually in operation, all the things I only heard about as a child.”

Though retired, he was happy to assist a man looking for boots, ducking into the back room to get the right size while Scott and wife Anna worked the floor.

“We know our customers by first name,” said Anna.

“We catch up on what’s going on in their lives. “People run into each other here that they haven’t seen for 10 years; kids come home from college and see friends.”

But now, in April, McLaughlin’s will shut its doors, reduced from a peak of eight to its lonely Norwich flagship, the last in a family business that stretched across Central New York and back to 1955.

“There had been a noticeable difference in foot traffic,” explained Scott, whose father and grandfather opened the first McLaughlin’s in Waterville. “And we’re in competition with the Internet.”

“It’s hard to close,” added Anna; the two met in 1987 when she was working at the Norwich store. “It was a difficult decision, and it will be a sad day.”

When Zimm’s Shoe Store closed in 2003, Jeff House, then City Hall’s housing rehabilitation specialist, approached the McLaughlins and asked if they would be interested in once again expanding their empire.

“Oneonta welcomed us with open arms,” said Anna. “It’s a great town, and there are great things happening.”

Following the success of the shoe store, in 2005 they opened a clothing store, first in Clinton Plaza, then in the former Alpine Ski Hut, then in the former Sport Tech.

“We kept moving closer and closer to the shoes,” he said. “We needed a bigger location.”

They were active participants in downtown, holding sidewalk sales during the Grand & Glorious Garage Sale and OH-Fest. “When downtown hosted an event, we were always successful,” she said.

The family got into he business when Scott’s father

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Veteran (and retired) salesman Gordon Breslin, center, stopped by to wish Scott and Anna McLaughlin well. But when a customer needed tending, Gordon stepped up and sold him a pair of shoes.

Spencer was struck with polio at age 18, ruining his plans to play football in college. “He recovered, but he lost the use of one arm,” the son said. “His dad Clifford, who owned an A&P, bought a five & dime for him to run.”

Spencer and Clifford Jr.,

Scott’s uncle, brought retail clothing to the operation, and bought a new building to expand their stores. Other family members bought in, and soon, there were McLaughlin’s stores in Hamilton, Oneida, Rome, Little Falls and Herkimer.

store in an old Montgomery Ward in 1975, and in the late ’80s, Scott and his brother, Mark, as well Clifford Jr.’s children, each took over the remaining four stores, with Scott taking Norwich and Mark taking Skaneateles.

The Skaneateles store closed in 2007.

Scott and Anna’s kids, Megan, Casey and Michael, grew up in the Norwich store and help out in the Oneonta shop, just as their father had done in Waterville.

But running a smaller store is difficult, said Scott, and their kids weren’t interested in going into clothing retail.

“We see it as combining two locations,” said Anna. “We’ll be able to stock more merchandise in Norwich.”

The store has no closing date at the moment, but Scott has said they plan to depart in April.

“It’s the end of an era,” said Breslin. “It’s sad. I don’t know what’s happening downtown, but it’s just not the same.”

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EDITORIALS

3 Principles Guide D&H Development

Please, County Reps And Trustees: Get Chief Covert Help He Needs

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n response to an outpouring of criticism at a public hearing on the GEIS Tuesday, March 5, to Oneonta City Hall and Otsego Now’s plans to redevelop the D&H railyards, Mayor Gary Herzig had an elegant reply.

Development on the 50 acres suitable for job-generating enterprises will: • One, be as energy efficient as construction technology currently allows.

• Two, use as little natural gas and fossil fuels as possible.

• Three, use as much renewable technology as is available right now.

But no, Herzig’s City Hall is not going to derail Oneonta’s single greatest

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Oneonta’s Mayor Herzig, about to be hit by criticism of D&H yard redevelopment.

job-development (and taxgenerating) prospect.

And, in an interview over the weekend, he was

pointed: “We should not let those who are economically secure, by comparison, tell those who need jobs they can’t have them.”

Yes, of course, combatting Global Warming is a Good, but it’s not the only Good. The city’s just-updated Comprehensive Master Plan, he said, also embraced the values of “social justice” and “shared sacrifice.”

And those principles: Energy efficiency, social justice and shared sacrifice, will guide the railyards’ redevelopment.

• Meanwhile, muscular environmentalism is getting tiresome – and unhelpful.

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ow often do any of us, over the course of our lifetimes, get the opportunity to save another human life?

But the Otsego County Board of Representatives and Cooperstown Village Board have been presented with that opportunity in the case of Mike Covert, 58.

Covert, a 25-year county employee (mostly as a deputy sheriff) and village police chief since 2013, has suffered the health travails of a modern-day Job in the past year, from kidney failure to a triple bypass to failing eyesight and deteriorating disks in his neck.

In the midst of this, he received word that, due to a technicality, his county health insurance was being cut off. Because he’d signed a waiver of village insurance when becoming police chief (he didn’t need it; he was covered by the county) the village advised him he can’t

campaign to raise $10,000 to help the chief. (Ten Eyck is a serial Samaritan: You might remember the fundraising race he organized for Jesse Torruela when the then-prison guard was fighting cancer a decade ago.)

People get it: As of this writing, everyday folks have contributed $19,550 to help cover Mike Covert’s bills.

(To contribute, Google “gofundme mike covert” and the form will pop up.

The county reps (budget: The Freeman’s Journal $100+ million) and village Village Police Chief trustees (budget: $5 million) Mike Covert surveys a should follow the lead of box full of medications their constituents and figure and devices he must out a way to get Mike use daily.

Covert health insurance. get coverage now.

Here’s a chance to save With thousands in monthly a life. Our representatives out-of-pocket medical exshould embrace it. penses, he was down to $17 Sure, elected officials a couple of weeks ago when have fiduciary responsia former sheriff’s departbilities. But there must ment colleague, Mike Ten be a creative way to figure Eyck, started a GoFundMe this out.

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Hero May Be Failing, But Tom Seaver’s Victories Immortal To the Editor: I read this afternoon about Tom Seaver’s health.

My favorite Seaver memory (and my favorite New York Mets memory of all ... and I was at Game 6!) was going to a July game at Shea in 1969.

It was a big family deal. We got new shirts, new socks. It was sunny. It was hot. The L-I-E was going to be packed and stalled with overheating cars heading toward the beaches.

Pop was anxious about the Chrysler, starting his pacing at breakfast... its oil leak... the sticking thermostat... the way second gear hung up on an incline... but mostly anxious about the bridge, and how if your car died

there, there was no getting your family back.

Death by bridge or not, mom was decked out in new slacks and a blouse from JC Penney. She wore an odd tint of lipstick, and a kerchief over her straightened curls.

Not long before we left, my grandfather (69 at the time) and I played catch on the front lawn of his Great River home. He had an awkward submarine delivery, a throwing motion violating all the rules.

But even as he twisted, even as he dipped, even as he hid his throwing arm and the ball the way Jake on Eighth Avenue hid the Queen, he hit my glove more than I hit his.

In 1969, when Fred Schneider saw the near shut-out, Tom Seaver was SI’s “Sportsman of the Year.”

At Shea, we had great seats — uncharacteristically fantastic seats — just a soft toss from the right field grass. Somehow our tickets had fallen off a truck on Metropolitan Avenue and landed in our pockets as if God was sorry for many things.

I mean, it was July! It was baseball! We were in box seats where you never had to get up to let some guy with a thirst or a bladder through! Vendors were everywhere, waving steamed dogs or sticks of cotton candy so close we could feel their sugary stickiness!

And the Metsies were coming alive. We were playing the Cubs.

Seaver against Holtzman. Mets against the Cubs. Seaver against the Cubs. Seaver against Qualls,

Apply ‘Golden Rule’ To Global-Warming Issues To the Editor: Reading your newspaper has made me reflect on the meanings of words. I want to consider two terms: “compromise” and “the Golden Rule.”

We all learn the Golden Rule in school. Philosophers have concocted their own versions of it. For example, German philosopher

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Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative says that if your moral rule stops making sense when everyone starts using it, then it is a stupid rule.

One might argue that a single person’s actions can’t matter much – if he steals or murders. And if we generalize this rule? What if everyone steals or murders?

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Now consider the argument, frequently promoted in your newspaper, that Otsego County should be free to pursue whatever energy solution we like because we are small, and it won’t matter in the big picture, where a warming planet threatens human – and all other – life.

Nearly every community in Upstate New York, in every state in the Union, indeed, every hamlet in France and Brazil and India, is so small that, according to this argument, they should also be free to pursue what-

ever energy solution they like.

Everyone should burn as much coal or gas or garbage as they wish. Obviously, if everyone on earth followed your newspaper’s tenet, we’d be in even bigger trouble than we are.

Or does just little old Otsego County get to do whatever it likes, energywise, while everyone else should do what common sense and science demand: Pursue sustainable energy solutions?

A compromise is when Please See HIGGINS, A6

James C. Kevlin Editor & Publisher

top ninth, one down, two outs away, and you all know what happened to the perfect game then.

They called it a clean hit, but no matter if he were a mile and a half away, no matter if he was playing deep on the damn Tappan Zee Bridge, Jones should have dived, should have given everything to end with his face in the ground.

But he didn’t.

When the crowd moaned, my grandfather stood, looked around, and applauded, not at the effort, not at Seaver’s proximation of greatness, but because he still saw a victory, a real and rare (in his world) victory. And I was there.

God speed Tom Seaver.

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Support Early Voting, Seward, Salka Asked To the Editor: As people of faith, we care about early voting being funded for New York State because all eligible voters should have the freedom to vote at a convenient time without the worry of putting their jobs and personal responsibilities at risk.

Voting is the most fundamental right of every democracy, and New York lawmakers have finally stepped up to their responsibility to assure that all citizens of the state have equal access to the polls.

But in order to ensure that early voting can be implemented in 2019, the state budget for this year must include dedicated funding to counties to cover start-up costs and ensure seamless implementation.

We urge Senator Seward and Assemblyman Salka to support adequate funding for early voting in 2019!

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Anti-Amazon Forces Alive – In Oneonta

on’t think for a second that the Amazon debacle we just experienced in New York City isn’t happening right here in our community.

This was more than evident at the City of Oneonta State of the City Tuesday, March 5, as reported on www.AllOTESGO.com. What should have been a good evening for the city turned into a complete mess.

A small group of people with an unreasonable view on the environment put a complete stop to an announcement concerning the DRI (Downtown Revitalization Initiative) and particularly the future development of the

D&H railyard.

The group was reported to be about 30 people. Of this group, a few were identified and I would assume even more don’t even live in the City of Oneonta. This VINCE certainly does not CASALE represent a majority view for the city or even our community.

Let’s be frank here, the people who shoulder the burden of the local tax levy, who are raising their families

and who are truly concerned about the future of our whole community, are not attending meetings most evenings.

This “rule by loud angry mob” mentality is exactly what extreme radical socialist liberals like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez did to stop Amazon in New York City and it is being done here in Otsego County as well.

These actions WILL KILL JOBS. Period.

Not only will these extremist actions delay development and keep jobs from coming, but if you were a business person looking to move here and saw Please See CASALE, A5

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

150 Years Ago

Winter has held on well. A hundred days of good sleighing has made it a busy time for lumbermen and wood dealers while farmers have made the most of it in getting home their lime, plaster, salt and other supplies for the season. Visiting parties, socials, donation visits, school exhibitions, educational conventions, reform gatherings, and other associations of the people have made its days and nights pass pleasantly away. It has been to most a cheerful winter too, and its memories will gladden future years.

The joy of the country on the retirement of Andrew Johnson is complete. His “farewell address” is a rehash of all the speeches and vetoes for he has put forth in the last four years, and is of no more account to the nation than would have been the same amount of twaddle from Benedict Arnold when he left for England on the betrayal of his country. The traitors of Baltimore may feast him, and a few may cling to his fortunes, but he is the deadest duck in the nation “for all that.”

March 1869

125 Years Ago

Six years ago last Monday occurred the great blizzard of 1888, when two feet of snow fell on a level in a little more than 24 hours and traffic on railroads the country over was blocked for days. In striking contrast with that dreary day was the weather Monday, with fields bare of snow and streams free from ice, with a smiling sun in the heavens and an occasional courier from the army of northward-hurrying robins to herald the coming of the birds. From New York to St. Paul on Monday no town reported a temperature below 34 degrees.

The cigar makers of Oneonta have sent a protest to Senators Hill and Murphy against the proposed additional tax of $2 per thousand on cigars. The bill if passed would deal a heavy blow to the cigar interests of the country.

March 1894

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60 Years Ago

Fire obliterated an Emmons Hill Road home on Sunday, reducing a home and trailer combination to a pile of charred rubble despite the efforts of 30 city firemen to quell the blaze. The residence was totally involved when firemen arrived at the scene. Smoke, rolling in thick, black clouds against the twilight sky was visible three miles away in the City of Oneonta. No one was at home when the fire began. Neighbors who called in the alarm said they first saw flames “shooting out of the basement windows.” The cause of the fire is undetermined. Despite the fact that heat from the intensely burning structure could be felt up to 30 yards away, firemen were able to save a garage located within ten feet of the blaze. Firemen survived some hair-raising moments with a pair of propane gas tanks located adjacent to the mobile home portion of the residence. Firemen grappled with the tanks when they first arrived but were unable to get them away from the fiercely March 1939 burning structure. It wasn’t until several minutes later, when the heat of the fire melted the snow and ice which had imprisoned them, that firemen were able to yank New York City – Police, Secret Serthe tanks away from the residence and roll vice men and immigration officers raided them in snow to cool them down. a building on East 15th Street early this March 1959 morning and arrested 195 men and two women. Ten patrol wagons were required to take the prisoners to the criminal courts Higher farm prices, inflation in general building, where they are being questioned. and the consumer’s continuing demand for All of them are supposed to be radicals. The convenience will boost family food bills by building raided was occupied, according to the police, by the Union of Russian Peasant about 8.5 percent this year a government economist says. William T. Boehm of the Workers of America. One of the prisoners Economic Statistics and Cooperative Service

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40 Years Ago

Cry For Jobs Is Bipartisan CASALE/From A4 this type of reaction to business growth you would run the other way too.

Many of you may have also heard of the recent crisis in Westchester County: ConEd has said it will be cutting off service to new customers and businesses due to a lack of supply and New York’s unwillingness to work toward an increase.

Make no mistake; this isn’t a problem unique to downstate or larger areas.

It is happening right here.

The next time you see one of your elected representatives or a member of the Otsego Now board of directors, ask how many businesses have been turned away due to the lack of energy supply in our county.

(Spoiler Alert: Prepare to be shocked!)

Now don’t get me wrong, I fully believe we need to protect our environment and I have always thought myself as more of a George Pataki Republican. I support protecting and preserving green space, our air, and water, but it cannot be done at the expense of smart and sustainable growth for our future.

We need to be responsible, but also take a reasonable approach and not create an undue burden on new or expanding businesses. While it is fair and sensible to be looking at new technologies and innovative ways to pro-

duce energy, we also can’t lose sight on working to create new jobs and expand the existing tax base. Or in our current situation scare business away with external radical rhetoric.

This is also not a problem or view of one political party. The Amazon deal was led by our Democratic governor and the meeting last evening in Oneonta was hijacked from the Democratic mayor and Common Council.

We are talking about a fringe group of people and elected officials who believe in socialism and an extreme liberal agenda and wish to invoke their values and will on all of us at any cost – literally…

All of us, regardless of political affiliation or of any attribute that may traditionally be thought to divide us, must band together.

We can start by supporting reasonable and responsible candidates who care first and foremost about our county and the issues most important to us here at home, rather than fall in line and follow the lead of a small and out-of-touch cabal who actually cheer and celebrate the killing of businesses and good jobs.

It’s anti-free market and certainly Un-American.

Vince Casale is the chairman of the Otsego County Republican Committee.

of the Agriculture Department made the prediction at a news briefing sponsored by the Food Marketing Institute, a trade group which represents super markets and grocery stores across the nation. Boehm said his estimate is based on an assumption that prices paid to farmers will rise 10 percent to 11 percent this year while marketing costs boosted by inflation will go up 9 percent. He said the estimate takes into account the increases in oil prices that have followed the Iranian revolution and he noted that energy-related costs like packaging and transportation account for about 20 percent of food marketing costs which in turn account for more than 60 cents of every food dollar.

March 1979

20 Years Ago

Hartwick College junior Ria Megnin is a national champion for the second time.

Megnin won the high jump with a leap of five feet, 10.5 inches at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships at Ohio Northern University. Megnin won her first national title by winning the outdoor high jump at the 1998 meet. On Friday, Megnin broke a 14-year-old indoor meet record and set the fieldhouse mark with her winning leap.

March 1999

10 Years Ago

Oneonta High senior Maddie Harlem hit a varsity-best 30 points on Saturday at Hudson Valley Community College as the Yellowjackets defeated Section III’s Cazenovia 36-33 in a Class B girls’ basketball state quarterfinal at Liverpool High School.

The third-year starting point guard carried Oneonta to their first state playoff victory since 1998. With driving layups, fast break baskets, medium range shots, two threepointers, and a 10 for 10 showing at the line, Harlem did it all. After Harlem swished a three-pointer in transition from the top of the key with five minutes, 39 seconds left, the student section chanted “You can’t stop her.”

March 2009

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Where’s $93 Trillion Coming From To Pay Bill For A Green New Deal?

was struck by a news clip showing Elizabeth Warren speaking to a crowd and telling them we need to remove the control over our lives from government and put it back into the hands of the people. This is the same woman who is supporting Bernie in his call MIKE for socialism.

Socialism is a system based ZAGATA on government control over the “people.” After all, some entity has to decide who gets to keep their wealth and who doesn’t. Guess who would get to keep it.

This call for returning control to the “people,” that’s you and me, comes at a time when liberals are calling for government-controlled healthcare for all at a cost of $32 trillion over 10 years, while taking healthcare

choices away from the 150 million plus Americans who presently have health care and “The Green New Deal” (GND) with an undetermined cost (somewhere in excess of $93 trillion, $600,000 per household) without including the adverse impact to our economy.

• Before getting into the specifics of the GND, let’s take a look at the numbers. Our current national debt is about $22 trillion – not including about $60 trillion in unfunded pensions. If that was your checkbook, you would be broke and have filed for bankruptcy.

However, the government just keeps spending more than it takes in from tax revenue – and we allow it to do so.

And it’s not just the debt that has to be repaid (theoretically).

You and I are being asked, via our taxes, to pay the interest on that debt and we don’t get any tangible benefits from that money (no new bridges or roads, no new jobs, etc.).

With regards to turning over our healthcare system to government control, aside from the cost, based on what we know about our government’s ability to effectively and efficiently run something, anything, should we do that? Enough said.

• What about the sincerity of the politicians pushing those programs at the same time they’re telling us they don’t want to spend $5 billion for border security because doing so would add to our debt?

Remember, the wall is $5 billion Please See ZAGATA, A6

Herzig Plan: Action Now, Adaption As Technology Advances

EDITORIAL/From A4 Too often since the antifracking movement – it turned out there’s too little gas around here to frack it – we’ve seen intimidation as the local environmental movement’s preferred tactic, and it’s getting old.

We lack sufficient natural gas to even fuel our major institutions – our colleges and hospitals – not to mention any growth.

Yet roomfuls of The Outspoken helped block the QUOTABLE Constitution Pipeline that would have filled the need he economies of scale for a small – snap! – and generated $13 million in annual tax dairy is going to be extremely revenues if routed through difficult going forward, even with southern Otsego County. the new Farm Bill. I don’t think anyone would XNG trucks are OK on submit that we’re compelled to keep anyone in I-88, but on our narrow business if it’s not profitable – or they cannot roads were a danger, and they’ve now mostly been justify that. It is challenging. I hope there routed to more appropriate is more we could do. We are open to Route 8 in Chenango County, but – lacking a pipeline suggestions.”

SONNY PERDUE, Secretary of Agriculture, responding to – compressed natural gas, questioning from U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, in a House delivered by truck, is the Agriculture Committee meeting last week. one sensible alternative.

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is Mollie Steimer, sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment for violation of the espionage law but at liberty on a writ of error pending an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. A large quantity of literature was seized. Among it, the police said, they found several small, red books, printed in Russian, which advocated the overthrow of the United States government.

March 1919

Yet The Outspoken – notably Dec. 12, when the Oneonta Town Board was browbeaten into passing a resolution against the $17.5 million decompression station – helped halt that sensible alternative to a pipeline endorsed by both the Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier regional economic development councils.

Without gas, the REDCs recognized, Otsego and the surrounding counties are done – finished! – as viable economies.

Yet Otsego 2000, the Cooperstown-based environmental group – has issued not-so-veiled threats to sue both City Hall and Otsego Now, if necessary, to halt the decompression station, which would largely be paid for with state money and would fill the county’s natural gas needs until blessed renewables come on line.

For now, not forever!

Yes, yes, we all agree:

Renewables are the future.

But not the present, perhaps not even for a generation.

(New York State’s plan targets 2040 for partially achieving fossil-fuel freedom.)

• Even then, renewables may not be the whole answer. This past Tuesday, Len Carson, DC Marketing president and a Ward 5 Common Council candidate, circulated a TED Talk video prior to Wednesday’s Citizen Voices meeting.

It was delivered by Michael Shellenberger, one of Time magazine’s 2008 Heroes of the Environment.

Its title, “How Fear of Nuclear Power is Hurting the Environment.”

In it, he argues that, despite the vast advances in solar farms planned in the U.S., Europe, even India, the data show that, without an expansion of nuclear, the Earth is doomed.

OK, Outspeakers, let it out.

All of this needs to be

considered in context. While we argue over something that’s big here, the D&H plans are tiny, tiny in the context of the world’s economy and population – there are too few of us to either save the world or ruin it.

So let’s relax.

Another Common Council candidate, Seth Clark in Ward 2, nailed it at the GEIS hearing: “We need hundreds and hundreds of jobs. We not only owe our children the future, we owe them a couple of hot meals a day.”

In an intriguing Letter to the Editor this week, Otego’s Dennis Higgins applies Kant’s “Categorical Imperative” to the debate. Do unto others. But this isn’t good vs. evil; it’s a practical one.

Herzig’s three-point approach is a strategic, sensible, short-term way to tackle a conundrum: Putting food on children’s plates today, while we await a better solution – one we all agree with – tomorrow.

THURSDAY-Friday, March 14 - 15, 2019

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With 321 Events During ’18, Foothills Buoying Downtown

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peaking to the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours get-together hosted at Foothills this past week, I delivered the following message and I would like to share it with everyone.

As I enter into my sixth year as director this summer, I’d like to thank the Oneonta community and the entire region for their support in 2018, which was our best year ever.

I am proud to report that we hosted a record 321 events which included everything from music (Mary Chapin-Carpenter, Deana Carter, Thompson Square), comedy BILL (Amy Schumer and The Not Too Far From Home Comedy Tour), a YOUNGS Wedding Expo, live broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, local dance companies, local theater groups, weddings, private parties, to business and organizational conferences. And the list goes on.

But what I’m most proud of is the record 28,000 attendees who walked through our doors for those events. What a boost to the local economy!

While we are busy fulfilling our mission

as a center for the arts, we feel we have also become a major economic driver for the city and the region. Imagine what those 28,000 people may have spent while in the area! Hotel rooms, restaurants, bookstores, gift shop.

Many business people have told me they see a positive impact each time we host an event. That makes us very proud! A stronger community can only help us in our goal to achieve our mission. I feel we are starting to be recognized for that vital role we play in the city and region.

We are continuing this trend in 2019. We are excited to say that for several months the weekends are already booked! Good things are happening.

Some upcoming events to look for are: A Rolling Stones tribute, the Shamrock Swing, a Mother-Daughter Tea, our first Hospice music event: The Grand Oneonta Opry, Orpheus Theater presenting “Damn Yankees,” the annual Dick Miller Tribute Series with a family-friendly magician, and our annual Veterans’ Tribute in November.

For more information, go to on our

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONOENTA & The Freeman’s Journal

Foothills Managing Director Bill Youngs spoke at the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce recognition ceremony for 10- and 20-year members at a Business After Hours event in the Foothills Atrium. The honorees pose for a group photo: front row, from left, Pat Knuth, ARC Otsego; Lizbeth Parent, Corning; Alicia Fish, Catskill Area Hospice; Mary Ann Bollinger, Community Bank; and Stacie Haynes, Susquehanna SPCA. Back row, from left, Chris Hobert, Springbrook; Paul Landers, Pathfinder Village; Jim Kevlin, The Freeman’s Journal, Hometown Oneonta and AllOTSEGO.com; Alan Sessions, CDO Workforce; Nick Savin, ONC BOCES; Pete Armao, Country Club Auto; Dave Ohman, Delaware Engineering; Chris Kuhn, Oneonta Job Corps Academy; and Johnna Peachin, Peachin & Associates.

Facebook page or website (www.foothillspac.org).

Thank you all for your support. PLEASE spread the word: YOUR Foothills is making a difference in our community. Please show

your support by buying tickets, making a donation or just by spreading a good word!!

Bill Youngs is managing director of the Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, Oneonta.

LETTERS

Trustee Dewey Outlines Credentials, Asks For Vote To the Editor: Twenty-four years ago, my husband and I were deciding where to settle to pursue our careers and raise a family, and in our search we found Cooperstown.

This beautiful village, situated equidistant from my hometown of Rochester and John’s hometown of Worcester, Mass., felt like the perfect place to call home. We chose well – Cooperstown has indeed been a wonderful community to be a part of.

Through the years, I have been active in the community, volunteering my time and energy to many different local organizations, including the PTA, OCCA, and the Cooperstown Food Pantry. I have also served on several different village committees, including the Pedestrian Safety Committee, the Environmental Sustainability Committee, and most recently the Parks Board.

Last year, when Ellen Tillapaugh was elected Cooperstown’s mayor, she appointed me to fill her open trustee

been helpful.

In my professional life much of what I do is listen, assess, prioritize, and problem solve. I believe my ability to do these things well has proved useful in my role as trustee.

During the past year, I served as Parks Board chair. In this capacity I helped develop plans for several upcoming improvements to Pioneer Park. With support from Friends of the Parks, Fairy Spring Park saw many improvements in 2018, including a The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA new waterfront platform, upgraded retaining wall, and a new staircase.

Jeanne Dewey is sworn in As Parks Board chair, my continued to a one-year term on the priority will be making our parks more Cooperstown Village Board on April 12, 2018, filling the accessible and inviting to everyone. vacancy created when Ellen If elected to a three-year term as Tillapaugh Kuch was elected village trustee I will continue to listen, mayor, Husband Dr. John Dewey and will work to ensure our village holds the Bible. remains a vibrant, sustainable community into the future. I hope you will position. I accepted the position while vote on March 19 at the Cooperstown wondering how my experience as a Fire Hall. Thank you for your support! hospice triage nurse would transfer to JEANNE DEWEY the Village Board. I discovered that Cooperstown many of my professional skills have

League: No Contest, But Exercise Your Right To Vote To the Editor: The League of Women Voters, Cooperstown Area urges the citizens of the Village of Cooperstown to vote in the village election Tuesday, March 19. Polls are open noon-9 p.m. at the Cooperstown Fire Hall on Chestnut Street.

There are three open trustee seats: two for three-year terms; and one for a one-year term to complete the final year of the seat left vacant when Ellen Tillapaugh became mayor. Richard Sternberg and Jeanne Dewey, current trustees, are running for the two three-year terms.

MacGuire Benton is running for the one-year term.

Because there are no challengers this year, these are the sole candidates

for the seats. Therefore it is a “no contest” election year. Often, when there is a “contest” for seats, the League of Women Voters, Cooperstown Area, will host and organize a debate so that citizens may have an opportunity to hear the candidates respond to issues and ask questions directly of them. Because there is a single candidate for the seats this year, there will be no debate. However, the League strongly encourages all citizens to make their voices heard and exercise their right to vote.

Another method for participating in local government is to attend the meetings of the Village Trustees. Meetings are open to the public and occur on the fourth Monday every

month, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Village Hall, 22 Main St. The floor is open for public comment at the beginning of each meeting, when citizens have the opportunity to voice their concerns.

Additionally, to follow village governance, one can find much information, including the meeting schedule, meeting agendas and meeting minutes, on the website Cooperstownny.org under the Government tab.

The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan, political organization – a label which commonly confuses people. It means that the League does not support or oppose political parties or candidates. The League is political in that the organization believes

democracy is not a spectator sport and that all citizens need to educate themselves and participate in democracy. When not engaged in organizing and hosting candidate debates and forums, League members encourage young people to register to vote, study pertinent issues and policies, come to member agreement on these issues and then lobby state and federal legislators based on those consensus decisions.

The League in New York State, founded in 1919, celebrates 100 years this year. If interested in joining, call me at (607) 547-2853 or coopmurray@ msn.com MAUREEN MURRAY League of Women Voters Cooperstown

ZAGATA: GND Relies Too Heavily On ‘Clean’ Energy ZAGATA/From A5 with measurable benefits and health care for all and the GND is $125 trillion of new debt with smoke and mirrors benefits. Does that appear to be hypocritical to you?

We learn from our experiences and, over time, we have a built-in data bank that allows us to compare the body of knowledge we have acquired over time and based upon our experiences with new things as they arise.

This would be a good time to invest a little of our time and compare the likely results of the GND with what we know about how things actually work.

After reading the GND several times, I couldn’t decide whether to laugh or cry. The idea that we can totally replace the energy we get today from fossil fuels with “renewables” without the use of nuclear energy within 10-20 years is ludicrous.

• According to a Jan. 11, 2019, article

in the Wall Street Journal, it would take about 100 trillion kilowatt hours (kwh) per year to offset the carbon from today’s use of fossil fuels. To get to that level of carbon-free energy would take 3.3 trillion kwh of new, clean energy every year for 30 years.

Without the inclusion of nuclear energy in that mix, we simply can’t ramp up quickly enough.

Germany, the country with the most ambitious effort so far, only added about one-fifth of the amount needed.

According to the article, if every nation was as ambitious as Germany, it would take about 150, not 10 or 20 as proposed in the GND, years to decarbonize – and the GND doesn’t include nuclear power as an option.

To paraphrase the article, if we look at the two renewables with the most promise, solar and wind, they’re faced with this reality: When the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow they don’t produce much reliable energy. The

GND relies heavily on “clean” electricity, but offers no reliable way of producing it when and where it is needed.

• Over the next few articles, I’ll delve into the specifics of the GND to examine where opportunities lie and where the intellectual integrity of the proposals is questionable.

The glowing platitudes sound good when you say them fast, but what do they really mean to your wallet, freedom and ability to keep your pipes from freezing on a bitterly cold night?

Of one thing I am certain – if airplane travel is severely curtailed by the GND that finally emerges, the congressmen and senators from Hawaii won’t support it. That’s a long way to row.

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

Cooperstown Can Have It All – Classical Music, Talk Radio – On WSKG To the Editor: WSKG, the only classical music station accessible to Cooperstown listeners, has recently changed to a new all-talk format on both its frequencies (91.7 and 105.9).

This constitutes a real loss for our community, where classical music has a strong cultural and economic presence: witness the Glimmerglass Festival and the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.

But all is not lost!

WSKG operates a partner station, “WSKG Classical,” under the call letters WSQX. Though WSQX is not available in Cooperstown, WSKG could restore classical music to its Cooperstown listeners and supporters by broadcasting classical music content from WSQX on its 105.9 Cooperstown frequency, while continuing its new

talk format on its 91.7 frequency.

The range of 105.9 is limited to just south of Milford and extends to Springfield Center. If the 105.9 frequency were to broadcast WSKG Classical, not only would music be restored to Cooperstown, but there would be no deprivation whatsoever to listeners of WSKG’s new format, “Trusted News/Thoughtful Conversations,” which they can continue to receive on 91.7.

It is a win-win situation for ALL LISTENERS, and also for the radio station, which would regain supporters.

If you would like classical music to be restored to Cooperstown, please call WSKG at (607) 729-0100, or email the station at: wskgcomment@wskg.org

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And gas is gas. might be considto pull support ered comprofrom legislators. mises. Burning more gas is Right now, some are not a compromise. trying to pull off the same It represents Leatherssort of compromise right tocking, the American here in Otsego County.

Petroleum Institute, the Nearly everyone acknowlOtsego County Chamber edges the reality of climate of Commerce and IDA change, though it is hard imposing their solution – the sometimes to accept our one that gave us the overindividual role in it, or to heated planet we have today embrace personal actions to – on the rest of us. do our bit: drive less, buy DENNIS HIGGINS local and in-season foods, Otego turn down the thermostat.

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FRIDAY, March 15, 2019

Details Few On $225K ‘Transformative’ Project

DRI/From A1 But she offered nothing beyond that.

And no sketches or specific plans are included in the grant application on file with City Hall’s Community Development Director Judy Pangman.

Additionally, Anna Tomaino received $60,000 for signage and façade improvements to 216 Main St., the former Ruffino’s Pizza.

Asked for particulars, Mayor Herzig said the WHH “project is consistent with the plan to build a public plaza and a multi-use building above the Westcott Lot.” But he could provide no further details either.

He offered, “It’s a really exciting plan to attract people to downtown.”

WHH Realty’s $225,000 grant was one of the largest announced Tuesday, March 5, after Herzig’s State of the City speech at Foothills Performing Arts Center, and the only one defined as “transformative.”

There were only two bigger ones.

One, $301,000, went to Attorney Michael Getman, the county’s chief assistant district attorney, to development second-story housing at his office building at 16 Deitz St. The other larger one,

Anna Tomaino, an owner of WHH Realty Corp., with husband Jim.

$290,000, went to Levites Realty Management LLC for façade improvements at Clinton Plaza.

In all, $1.9 million in state Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) money was awarded to 63 projects, mostly for signage and/or façade improvements.

Initially, Herzig said, applicants were asked to apply for money in three categories – Upper Floor Housing, Signage and Façade Improvements. But “Transformative” was added to open up possibilities.

“It occurred to use that there might be a brilliant idea that can’t be pigeonholed,” he said. “We wanted to encourage creative thinking.”

The only guideline, he said, was that it be “consistent with the DRI goals of bringing people to live,

work and visit downtown Oneonta.”

The Tomaino project, Herzig said, could dovetail with one of the DRI’s key projects, the redevelopment of the Westcott Lot. The Westcott project, Herzig said, has another $1.4 million in incentives for developers, and would likely include a walkway alongside the Tomainos’ building, which currently houses Jimmy T’s nightclub and the Sudz & Surf Laundry Lounge.

“It would really invigorate that corner, and ‘the missing tooth’ of the Westcott Lot,” said Pangman.

One of the ideas was to open up the side wall with access into businesses along the proposed walkway.

“That building has limited access and it’s really unusable,” said Herzig. “If you could access it from the side, now it’s usable.

Hopefully, that’s part of their plan.”

“We had the luxury of asking people to come up with ideas and cost estimates before having to describe how to implement their ideas,” said Pangman, the community development director. “It was conceptual.

We wanted to see what ideas were out there, see if there

was something really cool and invigorating and get that funded.”

For example, Pangman said, many business owners applying for signs brought in hand-drawn sketches with their applications, “rather than spend that money on a concept drawing.”

With 63 winners were selected from 100 applications, the next step is for the city to send out pre-award letters, which will detail what business owners must do next to secure the final grant.

An “environmental review” must be conducted – Delaware Engineering has been retained to assist, and business owners must pay $800 as a commitment fee – and then submitted to the state.

The state has the final say on whether or not the environmental review passes, and, once approved, a formal award is offered and a grant agreement signed by the business and the city.

If necessary, Pangman said, business owners can apply for a short-term loan and use the funds from the Downtown Improvement Fund to pay back the loan.

“We’re really excited about these projects,” said Pangman. “I cannot wait to see them happen.”

2nd Time Around, Climate-Smart Idea Wins County’s OK

By JENNIFER HILL COOPERSTOWN

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ailing to do so two months ago, the county Board of Representatives voted 12-2 to enact a state-sponsored “Climate Smart Community Pledge” during their meeting on Wednesday, March 6.

County Reps. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, and Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who had questioned it last time, when it was referred to the Solid Waste & Environmental Concerns Committee (SWECC) for further study, opposed it again.

But the board’s vice chair, Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, who had opposed the resolution in SWECC on Feb.

to work on energy efficiency upgrades and having energy efficient equipment,” Kennedy added, before saying she would vote in favor of the Climate Smart Pledge.

In explaining why he changed his voted, Koutnik said, “The language of the resolution was too watered down. But now I will support it because it opens us up to getting grants to Jennifer Hill/HOMETOWN ONEONTA address climate change.”

“Climate change is a clear County Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, argues against and present danger,” he approving a state “Climate Smart Community Pledge,” saying it would “tie the hands” of added. businesspeople.

15, saying it wasn’t strong enough, today voted aye.

The pledge is part of a state effort to incentivize municipalities and counties to become clean-energy

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Frazier, who pulled the resolution from the consent agenda for a separate vote, said, “I don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish with it, and called it “an attempt to stifle any type of economic development.”

“We should not tie the hands” of entrepreneurs looking to develop businesses in the region, he said.

In response, county Rep. Danny Lapin, D-Oneonta, an OCCA circuit rider, said the Climate Smart Pledge “did not have the legal teeth to stifle economic development,” and that signing onto the pledge would free up grants to “help business protect themselves from the effects of climate change.”

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INVITATION FOR SEALED BIDS OF PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY THE COUNTY OF OTSEGO The Otsego County Board of Representatives hereby invites sealed bids for the purchase from the County of Otsego of the following properties:

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

No late bids will be accepted.

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

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

Inspection of the property will be available by reservation on March 27, 2019 at 10:00am and a tour of the property will begin promptly at that time. It is required that you call the Treasurer’s Office at 607 547-4235 to make a reservation for the inspection and tour. You may not participate in the tour of the property unless you have made a reservation in advance. Bid packets will be available at the inspection.

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The Fly Creek Philharmonic troupe – including Gary Kuch, foreground, Chris Kjolhede, standing at right, and Bill Hayes – perform in the 2018 Fly Creek Philharmonic.

This year’s theme is “Water Water Everywhere” and will be performed Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, at the Fly Creek Methodist Church.

Funky Philharmonic, Corned Beef Supper And Mom-Son Swing

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The pterodactyl with the monkey on its back flying over the largest wine and liquor inventory between Albany and Binghamton – and maybe beyond – captures a sense of fun, and fun to come, at the massive Liquor Depot in Oneonta’s Hannaford Plaza, which is marking two anniversaries: In April, 20 years on Southside; this past February, five years in the mega-store. Also, you may have noticed the knight in armor by the door.

20 Years On Southside, Piers Also Mark Mega-Store’s Fifth Year

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ome to Liquor Depot for the variety of wines and liquors, stay for the pterodactyl.

On expanding from their smaller store next door into the defunct Blockbuster Video in 2013, owner Dwight Pier realized the new high ceilings left a lot of vertical space that he believed needed filling.

So he bought a life-sized pterodactyl.

“The pterodactyl arrived in a big crate,” Dwight remembered, as the fifth anniversary of the mega store passed in February and Liquor Depot marks its 20th year on Southside in April, “and we had to put it together. It was heavy to lift it up in the air.”

His wife and co-owner Aileen didn’t question her husband’s décor choices.

“I knew my husband,” she said.

These days, shoppers recognize the knight that stands sentry by the door, and a large rooster nearby.

Dwight Pier, who’s been in the liquor business 37 years, Batman, Spiderman and Please See DEPOT, B3 strolls the wide corridors between the high stacks of 3,000 to 6,000 bottles, depending on the time of year.

CVFD IN COOP CHAMBER HALL OF FAME

Reducing Fires, Department Makes Village Better Place To Do Business

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ccording to Jim Tallman, Cooperstown Fire Chief, if you really want to know Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.business what’s good in a new town, go ask at Fire Chief Jim Tallman pauses by his departthe fire hall on Chestnut Street. ment’s vintage 1952 Mack firetruck, Engine “Whenever I go someplace, I always 4, which protected the village until 1995. stop in at their fire department,” today, it leads the department in parades.

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he said. “I like to see what they’re doing, but I also ask for recommendations of where to eat and what to see. And people do the same here when they come in.”

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t’s always fun at the Fly Creek Philharmonic! This year’s theme is “Water Water Everywhere,” featuring clever costumes, kooky instruments and songs about water. Tickets available at the Fly Creek General Store, Riverwood.

Fly Creek Methodist Church. 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, March 15-16, Fly LIBBY CUDMORE Creek Methodist Church, 852 Co. Rd. 26, Fly Creek.

• Boys, bring your best girl – Mom! – to the annual Shamrock Swing Mother-Son Dance. Dinner, activities, dancing and door prizes. $65 a couple. 5 - 8 p.m. Saturday, March 16, Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info (607) 431-2080.

• It’s not St. Paddy’s Day without some corned beef & cabbage and The Knights of Columbus Tekakwitha Council 10968 invites you to dine with them! Irish step dancers will perform throughout the dinner. Free, donations accepted. 4 - 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 16, St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown.

Info (607) 547-8519.

• Bring some color into your life with Oneonta World of Learning’s annual Paintfest! Get messy and enjoy activities related to this year’s theme of “The Five Senses.” 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, March 16, FoxCare Center, Oneonta. www.oneontaworldoflearning.com.

• Learn to treat yourself right with two workshops focusing on self-improvement and self-care. Free, registration requested.

Noon-4 p.m. Saturday, March 16, Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Info, registration (607) 433-2343.

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DANCE – 7:30 p.m. The Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown hosts their St. Patrick’s Day Dance. Ron Taylor calls Mainstream and Plus dances, Elma Taylor cues. Cooperstown Elementary School, Walnut St., Cooperstown. 607-264-8128.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Performance by high-energy chamber music ensemble PROJECT Trio.

Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta. 607-433-7252.

PHILHARMONIC – 8 p.m. The Fly Creek Philharmonic presents “Water Water Everywhere.”

Tickets available at the Fly Creek General Store, Riverwood. Fly Creek Methodist Church.

Saturday, March 16

5K RACE – 10:30 a.m. Not So Frozen Toes 5K gets runners ready for the spring racing season. Clark Sports Center.

607-547-2800.

ART DAYS – 10 a.m. - Noon.

Beat winter blues with fun art project with family. Benefit for local non-profit. This month celebrate environment through hands-on projects with the Otsego Land Trust. Free by donation. Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown.

607-547-1400.

PAINTFEST – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Oneonta World of Learning’s annual Paintfest! This year’s theme is “The Five Senses.” FoxCare Center, Oneonta.

WORKSHOP – Noon-4 p.m.

Workshops focus on self-improvement and self-care. Free.

Craven Lounge, Morris Confer-

THURSDAY-Friday, March 14 - 15, 2019 ence Center, SUNY Oneonta. Info, registration 607-433-2343.

MEET AND GREET – 12-2 p.m.

“Pawsitive Pawsibilities at the Y” aims to connect new families with companion animals from the Susquehanna SPCA. YMCA lobby, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

607-547-8111.

PLAY READINGS – 4 - 6 p.m.

NEXT! Readings of New Works

by Regional Playwrights. Plays to be announced January.

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

IRISH DINNER – 4-7 p.m. The Knights of Columbus Tekakwitha Council 10968 host a corned beef & cabbage dinner with Irish step dancers performing.

Free, donations accepted. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, 607-5478519.

SHAMROCK SWING – 5 - 8 p.m. 4th annual Mother & Son dance includes dinner, activities, raffles, door prizes, more. Cost, $65/1 parent + 1 child. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

607-431-2080.

CONCERT SERIES – 7:30 p.m.

Cooperstown Concert series features The Lonely Heartstrings bluegrass band. National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown.

607-547-1812.

PHILHARMONIC – 8 p.m. The Fly Creek Philharmonic presents “Water Water Everywhere.”

Tickets available at the Fly Creek General Store, Riverwood. Fly Creek Methodist Church.

Sunday, March 17

PANCAKE BREAKFAST – 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sugaring Off Sundays include pancake breakfast with fresh maple

syrup, demonstrations and tours of The Farmers’ Museum. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Route 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org.

RECEPTION – 10 a.m. The 2019 Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump recipiants will receive their checks during a church service.

Public welcome. Portlandville United Methodist Church, 2878 NY-28, Portlandville. Info, 607286-7101.

MEET AND GREET – 12-4 p.m.

“Sundays at Brandow’s” aims to connect new families with companion animals from the Susquehanna SPCA. Brandow’s Feed & Seed, 4119 NY-7, Oneonta. Info, 607-547-8111.

ANNUAL MEETING – 4:30 p.m. West Kortright Center hosts its annual meeting, with dinner and music by Lorkin O’Reilly.

Non-members welcome. $25 member, $30 non-member.

B-Side Ballroom, Oneonta. Info, 607-278-5454

Monday, March 18

TAI CHI – 10-11 a.m. Tai Chi for Arthritis classes for ages 60 and older. Free, donations accepted, registration and commitment to a minimum of 11 classes required. Meadows Complex, 140 County Hwy 33W, Cooperstown. Info, 607-5474232.

KNITTING – 1 - 2 p.m. Knit, crochet, or hand-craft with friends. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-0230 A CAPPELLA – 6:30 p.m.

Eight is Eneuf performs madrigals, sacred music, do-wop and more. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St, Cooperstown. Info, reservations,

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NICOTINE ANONYMOUS – 7 p.m. Meetings for those who desire to live free of nicotine.

Front Meeting Room, St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. 845-332-7803 or visit nicotine-anonymous.org

Tuesday, March 19

BOOKMOBILE – Check out the mobile library.

9:30-9:50 a.m. Town Hall, 3966 NY-23, West Oneonta.

10:10-10:50 a.m. Little Lambs Children Center, 383 Co Rd 11, Oneonta.

12:20-12:45 p.m. Methodist Church, 811 Co Rd 26, Fly Creek.

1:15-1:35 p.m. Methodist Church, 2343 NY-205, Mt Vision.

2:10-2:30 p.m. Firehouse, 116 County Rd 4, Wells Bridge. www.4cls.org or call 607-7238236 TAI CHI – 3-4 p.m. Tai Chi for Arthritis classes for ages 60 and older. Free, donations accepted, registration and commitment to a minimum of 11 classes required. Continues through May 9. Info, St. Andrews Parish Hall, 40 S. Main Street, New Berlin.

607-547-4232.

KNIT-A-LONG – 6 - 7 p.m.

Join group of knitters to work on same pattern. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-0230 CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Flutist John Ragusa and pianist Jeremy Wall perform as part of the Hewitt and Patricia Pantaleoni Memorial Concert Series. Free.

Room 201, Fine Arts Center, Oneonta. Info, 607-436-3419.

Wednesday, March 20

with neighbors. No age, socioeconomic, or church membership requirement. Just because we’re neighbors. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-6552.

WRITERS GROUP – 5 p.m.

Discuss current writing projects, get inspired, have fun. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie.

518-673-2314.

FILM SOCIETY – 7 p.m. Returning for a second season, Film Society of Cooperstown presents “The Last Picture Show” (1971).

Free, refreshments included.

Village Ball Room, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-437-6903.

BOE MEETING – 7 - 8 p.m. Library Media Center, Cooperstown High School. 607-547-8181.

Thursday, March 21

BOOKMOBILE – Check out the mobile library.

10-10:30 a.m. Schenevus Valley Lodge, 4 Main Street, Schenevus.

10:45-11:30 a.m. Fire Station, 1812 County Highway 34, Westford.

12:30-1 p.m. a.m. First Christian Church, 1160 State Highway 165, South Valley.

1:15-2 p.m. a.m. Town Hall, 3717 County Highway 35, Middlefield. www.4cls.org or call 607-723-8236 TAI CHI – 3-4 p.m. Tai Chi for Arthritis classes for ages 60 and older. See Tuesday listing.

CRAFT & CHAT – 3:30 p.m.

Bring your current knitting or crochet project and chat with the group. Ages 10+. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518673-2314.

SOUP TO GO – 4 - 5 p.m. Stop by from free, homemade soup

Friday March 22

CRAFT & CHAT – 3:30 p.m.

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Every Friday 5 pm to 8 pm *Bar service only

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See Thursday listing.

RUMMAGE SALE – 10 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Find great bargains at the annual rummage sale.

Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown. Info, 607-5479515.

Saturday, March 23

RUMMAGE SALE – 9-11 a.m.

Bag Sale. Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown. Info, 607547-9515.

MEET AND GREET – 12-2 p.m.

“Pawsitive Pawsibilities at the Y” aims to connect new families with companion animals from the Susquehanna SPCA. YMCA lobby, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

Info, 607-547-8111.

HISTORY TALK – 1:30 p.m.

Historian Tom Heitz speaks on “How Print Advertising Reflects and Documents Local History.”

Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, 607432-0960.

CONCERT – 8 p.m. The Tesla Quartet performs as part of the Honest Brook Music Festival. $30. Stamford Methodist Church, 88 Main St, Stamford.

Info, tickets, 607-746-3770.

COFFEE HOUSE – 7 - 9 p.m.

Music in a range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome.

Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church. Church Rd., Schuyler Lake. 315-858-2575.

Sunday, March 24

PANCAKE BREAKFAST – 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sugaring Off Sundays include pancake breakfast with fresh maple syrup, demonstrations and tours of The Farmers’ Museum. The Farmers Museum, 5775 Route 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org.

MEET AND GREET – 12-4 p.m.

“Sundays at Brandow’s” aims to connect new families with companion animals from the Susquehanna SPCA. Brandow’s Feed & Seed, 4119 NY-7, Oneonta. Info, 607-547-8111.

TAI CHI – 10-11 a.m. Tai Chi for Arthritis classes for ages 60 and older. Free, donations accepted, registration and commitment to a minimum of 11 classes required. Meadows Complex, 140 County Hwy 33W, Cooperstown. Info, 607-5474232.

KNITTING – 1 - 2 p.m. Knit, crochet, or hand-craft with friends. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-0230.

NICOTINE ANONYMOUS – 7 p.m.

Meetings for those who desire to live free of nicotine. Front Meeting Room, St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta.

845-332-7803.

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Saturday, April 6, 2019 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

RSVP: herkimer.edu/openhouse

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Depending On Season, 3,000-6,000 Wine Varieties Offered DEPOT/From B1 now Deadpool stand in action poses above the entrance.

“Laughing is a big part of life,” said Dwight.

It’s part of what has made Liquor Depot a Southside success for two decades now, and almost triple so for the past half-decade.

The Piers’ decision to more than double the store’s space in 2014 after Blockbuster Video went out of business next door reflected the couple’s shared entrepreneurial, risk-taking spirit and business goals.

But Dwight said they did not make the decision lightly.

“It was scary as hell,” he admitted. “The bank had us do a guesstimate on profits, and we were going to barely survive.”

“But,” he added, “how can you have reward without risk?”

Today, 1,000 cases of

wine and spirit arrive at Liquor Depot on shipping days, which occur three to four times a week. On any given day, customers have over 3,000 wines to choose from, sometimes over 6,000, depending on the season.

Inventory has tripled since 2014, and “we’re always trying new things,” Dwight added. “We do that for our customers.”

The wine industry is vast, and always changing.

“Right now, it’s Rosés and Moscatos,” Dwight said.

“These sweeter wines are entrance points for people’s palettes, I think. They start with those and tend to try other, drier wines later on.”

One of Liquor Depot’s most expensive and rare wines is an Appalachian DRC burgundy, “the best in the world,” the entrepreneur said. (“DRC” indicates a very small selection.) That burgundy and other rare, high-end (pricey) wines

Liquor after graduating from SUNY and married Dwight.

Aileen and Dwight both wanted to be business partners as well as marital ones. In 1999, they saw their opportunity.

“Southside was starting to take off,” Dwight said.

“When we saw a building become available in Southside, we went for it.”

Dwight credits Southside developer Gene Bettiol, who passed away in December Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.business 2017, with helping him and Dwight and Aileen Pier met working at his dad’s Aileen make Liquor Depot Discount Liquor, and decided to branch out on thrive. For instance, after their own. the Piers purchased the space to expand into, Dwight S. Main St. – in the early reside in a EuroCave wine wanted black ceilings with cellar, a temperature1980s. controlled cabinet.

In the late 1980s, Dwight LED lights, which he had seen in other venues. As he Over 35 years, Dwight’s met his wife Aileen, who had done in the past, Dwight gained an in-depth knowlmoved from Hong Kong to consulted Bettiol on the idea. edge of the industry, which Oneonta to attend SUNY, “Gene embraced it,” he and Aileen pass on to where she earned a degree Dwight said. “He was very their employees. He began in Business Economics in open to new ideas, even in 1992. (Her Chinese name working at dad Donald his 80s. He said to both of Pier’s store, Discount is Wing Wa Fong.) Aileen us, ‘If you don’t succeed, Liquor – still located at 53 began working at Discount

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I don’t succeed, so let me know if there’s anything I can do for you.’”

Another noticeable feature of Liquor Depot is how friendly and knowledgeable the staff is.

“We are a family business, so we treat everyone as family,” said Aileen. “We nurture our employees.”

“We have great managers, and all of our employees tend to stay a long time,” Dwight added. “Without them, we wouldn’t be able to run our business. I love hearing someone say, ‘It’s time to go already?’ after they’ve been here all day.”

Asked if the Piers have advice to give other wouldbe entrepreneurs on being successful, Dwight said, “Don’t hold back, be tenacious, and work very hard.”

He cited a Japanese concept called “kaizen,” which means, “constant, neverending improvement.”

Cooperstown Fire Department To Be Inducted In Chamber’s Hall Of Fame CHAMBER/From B1 Department will enter the Chamber’s Business Hall of Fame at the third annual induction Thursday, March 28, at Brewery Ommegang.

The department was founded in 1813. The equipment: a small hand pumper. And all citizens were expected to be fire-fighters. “If you owned a home or a business, you had to own a leather bucket for a bucket brigade,” said Tallman, who has served as chief since 2011. “If you didn’t, you could be fined.”

Though the buckets are still on display, the department has come a long way, and now owns 10 vehicles, including two ambulances, two engines, tanker and a 104-foot tall ladder truck.

Those trucks aren’t just used for

putting out fires –although they have responded to 48 calls this year – on Sunday, March 10, sirens blaring, they carried the CCS Hawkeyes basketball teams around the village as they arrived back from the regional championships in Binghamton.

“Having kids on the trucks is always a highlight,” Tall-man said. “We just love seeing them so excited, and seeing everyone lined up on the streets for one of these sorts of sports parades.”

The fire department also escorted Santa to his Pioneer Park cottage during the Christmas season, as well as helping the village during Induction Weekend, 5k races, open houses at the fire station and other events. “In the summer, half our weekends are helping out with events,” he said.

“If the Chamber calls, we try to put out any assistance we can.”

It’s part of a long-standing tradition with the department. “Many years ago, the fire station used to be the focal point in the community,” said Tallman. “In the old firehouse, there was a community room upstairs. We’d show movies and have dances.”

For a time, it also functioned as the community center, where teens could go on weekends. “I used to hang out there when I was in junior high,” he said.

That building was torn down, and replaced with the current fire hall in 1972.

But they also participate in community life by making sure that everyone knows the rules of fire safety.

“It’s really important for us

to integrate ourselves into the community, into the schools and not just hand out a paper with some fire prevention tips on it,” he said. “We invite the kids here to climb on the truck, we have someone come out dressed in the full gear so if there is a fire and they see that person coming towards them who looks like Darth Vader, they aren’t scared.”

In addition to school and family programming, the department also offers fire-prevention program for the elderly. “Fires are down,” he said. “And a lot of that has to do with education.

“One of the things we’re proud of is that the Chamber works hard to promote businesses, but also a hometown that residents can participate in,” said Tallman. “And we like to help out with that.”

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A photo of the village’s Victorian firehouse, demolished in the 1960s, frames Chief Jim Tallman.

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Legal nOtice VILLAGE OF LAURENS ELECTION NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the 2019 annual election of the Village of Laurens will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2019.

Polls will be open from noon to 9:00 P.M. at the Laurens Village Office, located in Laurens Central School room 156.

Positions to be filled are: Village Mayor2 year term Village Trustee2 year term The incumbents are: Mayor – Robert M. Zack TrusteeStarr Liddle 1LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice COUNTY OF OTSEGO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 2019 County-wide Shared Service Property Tax Savings Plan The County of Otsego will hold a public hearing on the 2019 Countywide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plan.

Governor Cuomo’s County-Wide Shared Services Initiative (CWSSI) generates property tax savings by enabling collaboration between local governments across the state. The CWSSI expands on Governor Cuomo’s ongoing commitment to reduce property taxes and modernize local government services by fostering new shared services and enhancing the existing collaborations already in place.

Otsego County intends to identify projects that will save taxpayers money through shared, coordinated, and efficient services between the county and local governments.

Plans that demonstrate actual savings in taxpayer dollars may be eligible for a onetime reimbursement match on the savings amount.

The hearing will be held as follows: Date: March 21, 2019 Time: 5:30 PM Location: ONC BOCES, 1914 County Highway 35, Milford, NY 13807 David Bliss, Chair—Otsego County Board of Representatives 1LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: All The Perks LLC Article of Orga-

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nization file date with Secretary of State on 2/26/2019 Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY Shall mail copy of process to: 699 Fish and Game Rd., Burlington Flats, NY 13315 Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Sagasti Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 5 March 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 39 Prospect Street, Oneonta, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: DRI 6, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 5 March 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street Suite 11, Oneonta, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.18 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of North Landing Property Group LLC Filed 1/3/19 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 149 County Highway 44, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of CNY INDOOR GROW SUPPLY & MORE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/2018.

Office location, County of Otsego.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 41-45

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Dietz St., Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: any lawful act.

6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of LVM DAIRY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/16/2018.

Office loc: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1148 State Highway 80, Edmeston, NY 13335.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. EF2018-627 Mortgaged Premises: 7 SIVER STREET A/K/A 7 SILVER STREET UNADILLA, NY 13849 District: Section: 334.14 Block: 1 Lot: 48.00 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2004 PARK PLACE SECURITIES, INC. ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2004MHQ1, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

MARY PIZZA, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD A. PIZZA; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD A. PIZZA any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, admin-

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istrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

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

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $61,655.00 and interest, recorded on October 18, 2004, at Liber 1376 Page 35, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 7 SIVER STREET A/K/A 7 SILVER STREET UNADILLA, NY 13849.

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

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

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summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: SAHAR HAMLANI, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of JANKY PAINTING & TOILET COMPANY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/22/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to : 505 Cornish Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. EF2018-507 Mortgaged Premises: 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 A/K/ A 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 GILBERTSVILLE A/K/A BUTTERNUTS, NY 13776 Section: 283.00 Block: 1 Lot: 13.02 F/K/A Part of Lot 13 DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

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ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; BARBARA PALMER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; STEPHANIE MYLES, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; if living, and if she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFI-

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CATE HOLDERS OF THE CWHEQ INC., HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-S4,

against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

“JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the abovenamed Defendants

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

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

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $64,000.00 and interest, recorded on September 2, 2005, at Liber 1458 Page 300, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 A/K/A 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 GILBERTSVILLE A/K/A BUTTERNUTS, NY 13776.

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

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

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 80 Susquehanna Ave, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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BY: DYZIO J. GUZIEROWICZ, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalMar.21

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

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

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

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

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

Office Location: Chenango County.

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

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Date of dissolution: None.

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Articles of Org. Filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/13/19.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Emily Cooperstein, 1270 County Highway 33, Cooperstown,NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose 6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Leatherstocking Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 5, 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

The SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom processes against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC, 328 Stone House Road Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of RFP Management LLC Art. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/13/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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FRIDAY, March 15, 2019

IN MEMORIAM Martin R. Patton Sr., 89; Entrepreneur; Restaurant, Realty Investor ONEONTA – Martin R. Patton Sr., 89, who played semi-pro football before returning home to a career in restaurants and real

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Oneonta, the son of Martin Brown and Agnes Jenette (Hanes) Patten, he lost his dad in 1948 in a farming accident.

Marty worked for D&H Railroad the summer of 1948 and a bell hop at the Oneonta Hotel nights, graduating from Oneonta High School in 1949.

He started working as a salesman for Stringers selling Kaiser/Fraiser cars, and in 1950-51 worked nights at Lynn Coach, operating a 7A turret lathe.

Following high school, he played semi-pro football for several years.

He married the love of his life Gina V. Colone on Nov. 23, 1952 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Oneonta.

She was a telephone operator.

Marty then worked for NYSEG from 1952 to 1963 as a lineman. He became a well-known businessman with the purchase of Zummo’s Market. Jack Zummo taught him how

to make his famous sausage and to cut sides of beef for the display case. Marty added an ice cream Martin parlor and Patton Sr. purchased a food truck, selling subs and pizza at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. He later leased the building for a restaurant, and then opened the Fiesta Restaurant in that location.

He was the owner of Susquehanna Glass and East End Coin Laundry and managed Emmons Estates for five years, and began purchasing multiple commercial buildings and apartment buildings, including property on Southside, including the House of Brides.

He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. He enjoyed winning at cards, doing puzzles and walks

John Simonds, 90; Retired From D&H ONEONTA – John D. Simonds, 90, who retired after 44 years with the D&H Railroad here, passed away Saturday, March 9, 2019, at Bassett Hospital.

He was born March 8, 1929, in Oneonta the son of the late Francis and Frances (Beams) Simonds.

John married Mary Fisher on Dec. 20, 1974 in Walton.

Mary passed away June 17, 2018.

John proudly served his country in the Army as a corporal during the Korean War. Following his honorable discharge he began working for the D&H Railroad as a conductor. He retired after 44 years of service.

John was a lifelong Oneonta resident. He also spent many winters in Zephyrhills, Fla., at Bakers Acres RV Resort, where he won many shuffleboard tournaments.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the American Legion as well as the VFW. John is survived by his daughter, Deborah (Richard) Brown; grandchildren, Timothy (Candace) Brown, Tina (Ian) Quencer; greatgrandchildren, Owen, Bryn, Zoey, Ella and Everett; sisters, Dorothy Gill, Peggy Sorenson, Nancy (Donald) Elliott, Belva (Roger) Linscott; brothers, Russell

(Bonny) Simonds and Paul (Carla) Simonds; as well as several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by a sister, Barbara Couse; and brothers, Donald, Gordon and Robert Simonds.

Calling hours will be held from 1 to 3 p.m., Thursday, March 14, at the Bookhout Funeral Home, 357 Main St., Oneonta.

Funeral services will immediately follow at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Judith A. Thistle officiating.

For those who wish, memorial donations may be made to either the National Heart Foundation or the National Kidney Foundation.

Online condolences may be made by visiting www. bookhoutfuneralhome.com.

Funeral arrangements are by the Bookhout Funeral Home, Oneonta.

down his driveway.

He is survived by his children, Martin and his wife, Brenda Patton and stepsons, Eddie and Patrick Grace, and the late, Sean Grace; Cynthia and husband, Joseph Marino; Paula and her husband, Allen Fassler and daughters, Alexandra and husband, William Barrus and Vanessa; Patricia Bettiol, and her late husband, Eugene Bettiol Jr. and daughters, Carleigh and Brooke; Pamela Patton and son, Bradley; a brother, the late Frank and his wife, Lorraine Patten; sisters, Agnes DeShaw, the late, Dora and her late husband, Andy Colby and the late, Flora Patten; a sister-in-law, Mary and husband, Duane Hathaway; brothers-in-law, Philip and wife, Jeanette Colone, Arthur and wife, Denise Colone, John and wife, Marianne Colone and the late Herman and his

wife, Eileen Colone; as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased by his wife, Gina on October 24, 2010; his parents, Martin and Agnes Patten; and nieces, Susan and Annette Colone and Donna Hathaway.

Visitation will be 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.

The funeral mass will be 10:15 a.m. Friday, March 15, 2019 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta.

Donations may be made to the Parkinson’s Foundation, 200 SE 1st St., Suite 800, Miami, FL 33131.

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

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Office location: Otsego County.

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

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CKB3 LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 31 January 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 970 Wiley Town Rd, Fly Creek, NY 13337.

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

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

Office Location: Otsego County.

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designated as agent of the “LLC” upon whom process against it may be served. ‘SSNY” shall mail a copy Continued Pg. 5 From Pg. 4 of any process to the LLC at: 297 Winney Hill Road, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Hasbrouck Olson Adventures, LLC.

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC)

Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/28/19.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 4874 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability

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

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 125, Cherry Valley, NY 12320.

Purpose is to en-

Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/1/2019.

Office: Otsego County.

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

Name: Cooperstown Sports Bar & Grill LLC

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Send resumes to Amy Faulkner, WAC, 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856, fax (607) 865-4932 or email afaulkner@nycwatershed.org.

Job description:www.nycwatershed.org. Deadline March 22, 2019.

The Watershed Agricultural Council, a non profit organization working to protect the NYC Watershed while supporting farm and forest land uses, is seeking individuals for the following positions:

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Watershed Agricultural Council seeks 6 Interns/Temporary employees to perform various duties as part of a Watershed Agricultural Program (WAP) serving farms within the NYC Watershed. Four (4) of the positions will be Nutrient Management soil samplers who will perform the duties of soil sampling and data collection, One (1) position will be a WAP Ag/Field intern who will assist WAP staff with the design, implementation and site inspections of BMP’s. One (1) position will be a WAP Planning/Technical Intern who will perform the duties of WFP monitoring, BMP inspections and installation and BMP data collection. These are 10 week summer positions that pay $13.00 per hour. Must have dependable vehicle, insurance and a valid N.Y.S. driver’s license. Will be reimbursed for mileage incurred on the job. . Please specify which position(s) you are interested in on your resume. E.O.E.

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The Watershed Agricultural Council seeks an Economic Viability Program Intern/Temporary employee. The Intern will assist the Economic Viability Program with document archiving, Pure Catskills membership relations and support, content development for various electronic and print media, event coordination and setup, and creating outreach materials consistent with messaging of the Pure Catskills buy local campaign which will reinforce the positive impact being made in the region. The duration of this position will be approximately 10 weeks from late spring through the summer of 2019. The rate of pay will be $13.00 per hour, 40 hours per week.

Must have a valid driver’s license. EOE. Send resume and cover letter to Amy Faulkner, WAC, 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856, fax (607) 865-4932 or email afaulkner@nycwatershed.org. Job description at www.nycwatershed.org/careers.

Deadline March 22, 2019.