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He May Weigh Just 75 Lbs., But Don’t Kick Sand In Avery’s Face

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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Oneonta’s Margelia Marr and Elizabeth Cleveland, members of athe Lighthouse Christian Academy’s Five Fearsome Foodies team, mix up batter for sweet potato pancakes with strawberry applesauce during Bassett Healthcare’s Junior Iron Chef competition Saturday, April 15, at Foothills Performing Arts Center. Contestants plan healthy dishes, then cook them.

Oneonta Pupils Flee Common Core In Droves

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ith all the ferment against the Common Core, 57 percent of students in the Oneonta City School District – 433 in all – opted out of standardized English and math tests that began Tuesday, April 14.

That is up from 23 percent who opted out last year.

Governor Cuomo’s efforts to use test results to evaluate teachers prompted local rallies against the Common Core in recent weeks.

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MUSICAL ENTRY: Temple Beth El is inaugurating an annual Spring Concert Series at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3, when world renown Jewis singer-songwriter Basya Schechter will perform at 83 Chestnut St. Tickets, call 286-9285. Suggested donation $15.

HEIST FOILED: A Deposit woman, Corinne Simmons, 36, was charged Friday, April 10, with robbing $1,500 from NBT Bank’s Wall Street branch.

She claimed she had a gun, but none was recovered.

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t 4-foot-8 and 75 pounds, Avery Leonard may just look like a normal, skinny sixth grader in the halls of Milford Central School.

But get him in the gym, and he can deadlift more than twice his weight.

“I like lifting,” he said with a shy grin. “Not many people my age do it, but it makes you feel like you can do anything.”

Avery will once again compete this Saturday, April 18, at the Central New York Powerlifting Championship at

Avery with dad Nate and trophies.

Muscles in Motion, 101 Main St., Oneonta. Last year, he took first place in his age class, although at 11 years old, he admits, “I’m the only member of my class!”

He was always an athletic child, his father Nate recalled.

“His mom, Melissa, is really into the Insanity Workouts, so we built a gym above the garage,” he said.

“We’d be in here working out, and he would come in and start doing pull-ups when he was 5 years old.”

The family gym is decorated with pictures of The Hulk, including one Please See AVERY, A6

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75-pound Avery Leonard will be showing his weight-lifting stuff this weekend at Muscles In Motion’s CNY Powerlifting Championship.

$200,000 Project Near Complete

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he Greater Oneonta Historical Society is getting a lift – an elevator, that is.

A crew from Schindler, the Chicago-based elevator company, has been at the Oneonta History Center at Dietz and Main since last Wednesday, April 8, installing the long-awaited apparatus that will open the second and third floors of the former Laskaris ice cream and candy store to local history fans and the GOHS collection.

The elevator should be operational during the week of April 20, according to Bob Brzozowski, GOHS executive director, (although the public will be unable to access the upper floors until renovations are complete and certificates of occupancy obtained.)

The $66,000 piece of machinery is central to the GOHS’ vision since acquiring what was originalPlease See LIFT, A7

►GOHS Executive Director Bob Brzozowski, right, peeks his head into the elevator shaft where Craig Jones of Schindler Elevators’ Syracuse office installs rails in the History Center’s new elevator shaft.

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fter visiting Oneonta for 20 years, Bill Kerbin is finally coming to stay. “My wife Karen is from Deposit and my sister-in-law lives in Otego, so I’ve always loved visiting Oneonta,” he said.

“I’ve known for a long time how beautiful this area was.”

Common Kerbin Council Tuesday, April 7, named Kerbin, a Pocomoke, Md., native, as City Hall’s new director of Community Development by a vote of 5-3. “He seemed like he’d be a good fit for us,” said Council member Bob Brzozowski, Seventh Ward.

The position was proposed by City Manager Martin Murphy, as his righthand person on grantsmanship and housing. Kerbin’s office will be right outside Murphy’s door.

Kerbin’s been the housing planner with the Kent County Planning, Housing & Zoning Department in Chesterton, Md., for the last eight years, specializing in Please See DEPUTY, A6

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or years, the Village of Cooperstown has been looking for a share of bed-tax revenues received by the county Board of Representatives in recognition of its role as a tourism magnet.

Under the administration of Mayor Dick Miller, the city joined the effort, lobbying its county reps to help Oneonta recover some of the costs of serving tourists.

Those years of effort are bearing fruit.

Tuesday, April 14, three Republican county reps – Rick Hulse, Fly Creek, who chairs the county board’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, and Craig Gelbsman and Janet Rick Hulse Hurley Quackenbush, both of Oneonta – unveiled a plan to return $208,000 in bed-tax dollars to municipalities.

Under the formula, all municipalities in the county will get something. But Cooperstown ($31,178) would receive the most $31,178, followed by the City of Oneonta ($29,354), and the towns of Oneonta ($29,279), Hartwick ($17,800) and Otsego ($11,000) “I’m very happy to see this happen,” said Mayor Jeff Katz, a Democrat whose request for $100,000 had been rebuffed last summer. “You know how long I’ve worked on it.” Last summer, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller joined Katz in lobbying for a bed-tax split.

“We wanted it to be budget-able,” said Hulse. “We wanted it to be fair.”

For 2014, the county received slightly more than $1.4 million from the state, the results of an 8 percent tax on lodging within Otsego County, up $140,000 from the year before. The GOP plan sets aside $208,000 for redistribution, according to “two performance metrics.”

First, the total is divided according to the relative assessed values of municipalities. That is modified by another computation that figures in the amount of bed tax each municipality generates.

While the tourism-generators will receive the biggest share, the Town of Decatur, for instance, will get $3,000, even though it now generates no bed tax. The idea, Hulse said, is to create an incentive for municipalities to invest the money in ways that will generate more bed tax, increasing the accrued benefit over the years.

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artwick College has announced it will confer honorary doctorates on Joyce Chesebro Buckingham, a trustee emerita, and actress and singer Marni Nixon at its 84th commencement exercises Saturday, May 23.

This is in addition to one, announced earlier, for Stephen L. Green, founder

and chairman of SL Green Realty Corp. in New York City, who will deliver the commencement address.

Buckingham, an Oneonta native, is a graduate of the Bugbee School, OHS and Mount Holyoke, who then embarked on a career in public service. She was a church school and a sixthgrade reading

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Oneonta authors April Ford and Libby Cudmore presented a panel, “You’ve Been Telling Me You Were a Genius Since You Were 17: Writers Reel In their Earliest (And Often Embarassing) Efforts” Friday, April 10 at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Minneapolis, Minn. The conference, attended by 13,000 people, also featured a book fair, where Ford debuted her short-story collection, “The Poor Children,” with the Santa Fe Writer’s Project. From left are Ford, Elizabeth Searle, Matthew Quinn Martin, Donna Minkowitz, Suzanne Strempek-Shea and Cudmore.

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enrichment teacher in Glastonbury, Conn. She served for nine years on the Hartwick Board of Trustees, where she served as secretary and chair of the Education Committee. She and her husband, Harold, are generous supporters of the college.

Nixon gained renown as a top voice-over artist for such stars as Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady, and Natalie Wood in “West Side Story.” As a symphony soloist, Nixon performed with some of the world’s most important conductors.

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he annual Canstruction Competition, sponsored by SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Social Responsibility & Community, presented awards at Southside Mall Sunday, April 11, to: • Top, Linda Zheng, along with advisers Paul and Barbara Agoglia, accepting on behalf of Robokronos Team 4203. The sculpture depicts the safety glasses worn by the robotics team members.

• Left, Sarah Longto, a SUNY basketball players, accepting on behalf of college athletes who assembled the cans ot depict the Red Dragon’s head.

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Teacher, Parent Rebellion Limits Common Core Possibilities

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he numbers were still coming in as this year’s Common Core testing began in Otsego County and statewide Tuesday, April 14, but they are stunning.

In the Oneonta City School District, where 25 percent of students “opted out” of the statewide standardized testing for Grades 38 last year, 57 percent – more than double – opted out this year.

The numbers are even more surprising at Cooperstown Central: Where only a handful (nine pupils) opted out last year, 60 percent – hundreds – said no this year.

• The numbers – if they hold regionally – are a stunning rejection of Governor Cuomo’s leadership in New York’s rural counties, coming after the governor failed to win 39 Upstate counties last November.

Then, it was unhappiness over Cuomo’s failure to make a decision on fracking – the next month, he announced a statewide ban.

This time, it was the governor’s push in the state Legislature to allow Common Core scores to be used to evaluate teachers in a pretty Draconian way: If a teacher’s students failed to meet parameters

for three years, the teacher would be fired and lose his or her license – in other words, his or her career.

When the dust settles and if the opt-out numbers hold statewide, it raises the question: Is Common Core tenable at all in the Empire State? Think about it: To impose an educational regimen on pupils that their parents reject would be impossibly provocative. It can’t happen.

• To a large degree, Governor Cuomo was right in his Jan. 21 State of the State speech, when he sought reforms – not only the firing of teachers whose students repeatedly fail, but the ability of the state to take over consistently failing schools – as part of this year’s state-budget process.

Since the dawn of the 21st century, New York’s teachers have become the highest paid in the country – moving ahead of Connecticut and New Jersey – and yet student scores and graduation rates lag, according to an administration report, “The State of New York’s Failing Schools,” that recapped the speech.

Through the existing evaluation system – the APPR (Annual Professional Performance Review)

and a special $4.5 million allocation to help them improve.

Still, parents have legitimate concerns. One is that the computerized tests finally can create the much-feared “permanent record,” a perhaps-mythical stick exercised on balky students for generations.

The fear among many parents, grounded or not, is: Will our child at 18 be judged on tests taken when he or she was 8? That clearly shouldn’t happen.

• While the rollout, it’s generally agreed, was choppy, being able to quickly diagnose a student’s shortcomings in English and math and act to fill any gaps is a good thing, Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA both for the individual pupil and Southern Otsego County teachers demonstrated against for our nation as a whole, which is the Common Core March 26 at Center Street School. falling behind other industrialized nations in every survey.

– 95 percent of teachers statewide the issues weren’t about children In the end, the Common Core, were found “proficient,” but only as much as NYSUT, the statewide the outgrowth of a years-long bione third of students were “profiteachers union represented here partisan initiative of the National cient” in the standardized English through local teacher associations. Governors Council, is a good and math tests, the report repeated.

Cuomo’s proposed reforms thing. Let’s hope this year’s ap• were not aimed at rural schools parent setback in New York State, Right or not, the proposed like Otsego County’s, but at a if that’s what it turns out to be, reforms stirred local opposition truly dismal subset of institutions results in a sensible, humane reasalmost immediately, with rallies in New York and the state’s other sessment – and perhaps a limiting in Oneonta and a parent/teacher largest cities. And, in this year’s – of Common Core overreaching. outcry in Cooperstown. budget deliberations, the governor But this isn’t Salem. Let’s not As the debate went on, howdid receive the authority to act drown the imagined witches. ever, it became pretty clear that against 27 failing urban schools,

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Hydrants Failed, But We Never Ran Out Of Water At Mohican Flowers Fire Editor’s Note: Jim Tallman, Cooperstown fire chief, directed 70 firefighters responding to the April 8 Mohican Flowers’ blaze.

training we do.

I am very thankful to the public for all of the kind words that have been mentioned about the fire department, and for all of the photos would like to thank the folwhich have been forwarded to me. lowing for their assistance I also need to address the quesWednesday night, April 7, tion of the hydrant system. I have during the fire at The Mohican received many questions about Florist: the problems we had with the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office, hydrants.

Cooperstown PD, Fly Creek Fire The Freeman’s Journal • First, I must say that I have Company, Hartwick Fire Depart- Cooperstown Fire Chief Jim full confidence in our present ment Company #1 and Company Tallman where he usually can system. We did have one hydrant be found: At the scene of the #2, Middlefield FD, Milford that had previously been placed action.

FD, Otsego County Office of out of service by the water departEmergency Services, the Village would like to thank the members ment. I believe they were waiting Highway Department, and our of our own fire department (fire/ for parts so they could get it back revitalized CFD Auxiliary. I also EMS/fire police) for the hours of in service.

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• Second, we did have a hydrant which did fail as they were trying to turn it on (this has been fixed).

• Third, we were using the hydrant at Nelson and Main.

Unfortunately, as a truck drove over some lines which were on the road it created a water hammer, and the hydrant did what it was supposed to do. A safety feature in it disables the hydrant so it does not damage the fire truck hooked up to it, nor does it create a safety hazard for the firefighters using lines off of the fire truck. This hydrant has also been repaired.

We never ran out of water during the fire as we went into backup plans during the delay in

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Don’t Monitor Police Officers. Teach Them To Care To the Editor: This idea of putting cameras on police men and women shows the foolishness of people’s reliance on technology, of trying to solve a social issue with monitoring. This approach will actually create less hu-

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manness and create bottledup aggression which will explode later.

Essentially people are saying, “We don’t trust you (police) to behave in a professional manner. We are going strap a camera on you and constantly spy on

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getting hooked up to the hydrant system.

• Fourth, the non use of the hydrant directly across from the front doors of the florist shop.

That hydrant was in service but the flow is very low so it was not one of our first options. If we were close to running out of water we would have used that hydrant to support the water supply.

I still would love to see the hydrant lines that are too small to give us a good water flow replaced when the streets are dug up and repaved. That would benefit everyone.

Thank you to everyone, and if I missed anyone I apologize.

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you with technology. We are going to treat you like a child that can’t be let out our sight. A child who can’t be trusted to make decisions on his or her own.

The overreliance on technology has made people more and more monitored under the watch full eye of persons of certain power groups that pretend to have our best interest in hand.

They are taking away more and more of our freedom and privacy each day; with each new invention.

My brother gets into his new car the other morning. The car says “Good morning Mr…” Now, that is what his wife or children should say, not his car. Not an inanimate object. No wonder the Supreme Court Justices can’t tell the difference between a human and a corporation. They think a corporation is a human being!

It would be much better to train the police in humanity and humility. Classes in better ways to deal with and subdue confrontations.

Each officer should have to meet with a therapist to discuss his feelings of his job. The police in Sausalito, Calif., did that in the ’70s.

It’s not a new idea. People need to better understand other people’s struggles to survive.

I have never been … actually, I was. One night I was surrounded by three young people with knives.

You have to act very precisely on what you know; there is no second chance or rerun. The more you know, the better you can act in that kind of situation. To act in the best interest of all involved, you have to be well trained. And/or lucky, as in my case.

And now the government is giving military weapons to local police forces. Just what is their job? Ah, but all what I suggest creates thinking loving human beings, not slaves.

Most all corporations and governments only want consuming slaves, not thinking human beings. How can you control people who think for themselves and care about each other? Let’s manufacture body cameras for every human!

Technology needs to be kept in balance with humanity.

R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest

Adolphus Busch Business Partner Erected Cooperstown Hops Barn Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope’s testimony before the Cooperstown H-PARB Tuesday, April 14, objecting to an application requesting permission to demolish the former Agway on Railroad Avenue.

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Railroad Ave. is a direct link to Cooperstown and Otsego County’s rich history as the largest hop-producing county in the country in the latter half of the 1800s.

From a review of newspaper archives, the building was built by Ernst Wattenberg around 1890 as a hop storage warehouse, conveniently right on the newly built railroad tracks.

Mr. Wattenberg is notable as the first business partner of Adolphus Busch after Busch arrived in St. Louis and before he married into the Anheuser family. After

leaving St. Louis for New York in the mid-1860s, Wattenberg became known as one of the most important hop dealers in the country.

According to the Otsego Farmer, Ernst and his son F.A. Wattenberg managed a portion of their hop business here for several years, until 1900 or so. The New York Produce Exchange lists E. Wattenberg as a member for many years after that.

The building was acquired in 1901 by Otsego Produce Co., which built a grist mill in the warehouse and began processing grain.

It was followed by Pratt’s Feed Store, which later became Agway. In spite of its many lives, the building has retained its original structure and design, with only minor alterations to its external appearance.

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HOMETOWN 125 Years Ago

The Local News: The Kniskern boy, sentenced to the Rochester Industrial School for theft, escaped from the custody of officer Butts while on his way to that place. The lad jumped from a train running at the rate of forty miles an hour. No clue yet to his whereabouts.

Many of the pupils of the Normal School are boarding themselves on the club plan. Rooms are hired, usually for four, and arrangements made with the landlady to do the necessary cooking. The cost is divided every Saturday night equally among the members of the club. Good board is thus obtained at from $2.00 to $2.25 per week. We mention this fact chiefly to assure prospective pupils that the expense of attending the Normal need not be great. Rooms can be rented cheaply and in first class families at a short distance from the school. Even if you wish to hire board outright, as a large number do, the rates are very low as compared with Albany, Buffalo, Oswego and some other places where Normal schools are situated.

April 1890

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Shortly after 9 o’clock Saturday evening the residents of Grove Street near the corner of Cliff were startled by hearing the screams of a woman followed by three pistol shots.

Miss Nellie Farmer, a dressmaker, who rooms at 31 Cliff was returning from downtown when a man suddenly rushed at her, tearing a handbag from the straps on her arm and pushing her aside. To defend herself she dealt him a heavy blow with an umbrella she was carrying and screamed for help. The coward began to run and she immediately gave chase following him down Grove Street to Watkins Avenue and about halfway down that avenue when he disappeared between the buildings. Claude H. Babcock of 34 Grove Street, upon hearing of the trouble and seeing the thief escaping, fired the pistol shots, thinking it might scare the thief into dropping his booty. In this respect he was successful for the handbag was found intact near the residence of Mrs. C.K. Lauren. The police were soon upon the scene but a search for the culprit was unsuccessful. The electric lights were out of commission for a time Saturday night and it was doubtless due to the darkness that the fellow dared to attempt commission of the crime.

April 1915

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A six-point program calling for the abolishment of hazing of freshmen students on the Hartwick College campus in future years has been approved by the Student Executive

10 Years Ago

The Oneonta Urban Renewal Agency would like to proceed with plans to demolish the old Winney Hotel building but can’t because a Black Cat has crossed its path.

Agency Director David Cooper said that the contractor for the demolition is prepared to move ahead but is stymied because the Black Cat Tavern is still located in the building despite requests to leave. Now the agency’s attorney, James Konstanty, and the tavern’s attorney, Frank Getman, have been asked to pursue the matter, but can’t because both are April 2005 in Florida.

Committee of the college. Dr. Ralph D. Helm, Dean, stated April 1975 that the program was drawn up by a special faculty committee on freshmen initiations consisting of Dr. Hazel E. Schoonmaker, Dr. Theodore W. Mathews, Charles R. McThe Oneonta Peace Network met Tuesday night to plan Clure, and Dr. Helm. The first point in the program is that for today’s demonstration scheduled for 12:15 p.m. in front “all hazing shall be abolished.” The first two weeks of the of the 125 Main Street Office of Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, semester will be devoted to “getting acquainted” and the R-NY. The group will demonstrate to express support for upperclassmen will be expected to entertain the freshmen as Boehlert’s previous vote against aid to Nicaraguan Contra much as possible. It is also the wish of the committee to es- rebels. “We want to assure that he won’t turn around and tablish the tradition of the big brother and sister idea found vote for aid because of the pressure President Reagan is on many campuses throughout the United States. Certain putting on people at this time,” said Richard Siegfried, a freshman traditions will not be eliminated. These customs network member. The group also made pledges of civil include the wearing of blue and white symbols, memorizadisobedience if the U.S. increases its involvement in the tion of school songs and cheers, carrying of handbooks, and Central American war. courtesies to upper classmen. A stunt-day including such April 1985 activities as class tugs-of-war and burning of freshman caps may be held at Homecoming or on Parents Day. An annual induction service for freshmen will be planned. A student Downsville Central School students are preparing for the executive committee will be formed to plan and oversee the 21st century. Starting with this year’s sixth-graders, the stuconduct of these activities.

April 1935 dents will have their own computers in school. Chances are it won’t be long before other schools follow suit. Without question, there are pluses to the idea. But nobody should forget that computers are in the end, just a tool.

All New York State will go on Daylight Saving Time But the tool is useless, if students don’t learn to think for next Sunday and the “fast time” will stay in effect for six themselves. months – one month longer than in previous years. A bill April 1995

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All communities are required to advance their clocks one hour on the last Sunday in April and turn them back an hour on the last Sunday in October. Previously, cities, villages and towns decided whether they wanted to adopt “fast time.” Those that did so went on Daylight Time in April and back to standard time in September. The extra hour of daylight for an additional month should prove a boon to our working people who may spend more daylight time with their families, the governor said.

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‘Community Appearance Index’ Can Help You Gauge Extent Of City Blight

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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light may be a problem in every city and town in America but – according to Steve Smith, director of the Mohawk Valley Economic Development District – it doesn’t have to be an issue in Oneonta.

“We want to inform as many people as possible with what they can do to fight blight,” Smith told a GO/EDC sponsored informational meeting Monday, April 13, at Oneonta Middle School.

The MVEDD partnered with the Keep Mohawk Valley Beautiful committee, part of the Keep America Beautiful movement, to advise municipalities in that region about cleaning up their streets, from the smallest pieces of litter to dilapidated houses.

“There are three pillars of KMVB,” he said. “The first is to increase recycling, the second is community beautification and the third is to reduce solid waste.”

nity Appearance Index, going house by house. “It’s a point of community pride,” he said. “They’re hoping for some changes.”

And from there, he said, Oneonta – or any other town – could join 20,000 other cities in Great American Cleanup, a two-month beautification effort held from April 1 to May 30. “Parks, shorelines, streets, sports fields, we want to clean them up,” said Smith.

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Hartwick College comSteve Smith, back to camera, of the Mohawk Val- pleted its “Day of Service” ley Economic Development District, discusses on Saturday, April 11, and his anti-blight Keep America Beautiful program SUNY Oneonta’s “Into the with, from left, mayoral candidate Gary Herzig, Streets” clean-up is schedCouncil member Bob Brzozowski, county Planning uled for Saturday, May 2.

Director Karen Sullivan, former city planner Peter Groups can also volunteer Friedman, and GO/EDC co-founder Albert Colone. to “Adopt a Spot,” where they pledge to keep an area Only six people attended, graffiti, outside storage, clean year-round. but they learned a first step vacant cars and illegal “If you need garbage would be to put together a signage,” Smith said. “One committee to tour neighis no litter, four is extremely bags, water, anything, just call me up and KMVB borhoods and grade them littered, and then you can can get it for you,” offered against a “Community Apcontact public works and Smith. pearance Index.” code enforcement. HopeBut one of the most “Volunteers can print off fully, over time, those probimportant things, Smith the scale on our website and lems go down.” stressed, is to keep track of score their communities Little Falls, he said, just volunteer hours at clean-up from one to four on litter, completed its first Commuevents. “When you write

a grant, volunteer hours translate to $20 an hour,” he said. “If they want to match a grant for $5,000, that only takes 40 people volunteering to match that amount.”

Those grants can further help clean-up projects, including renting dumpsters, disposal fees and new plants.

Looking ahead, Smith is hoping that Otsego County will become part of the Mohawk Valley Land Bank.

“The Land Bank is where properties are given to us from a foreclosing entity to renovate, deconstruct or demolish, then sell to get those properties back on the tax rolls.”

But that part of the presentation had some of the group worried. “If you take down a house, most of them aren’t in compliance with setbacks, so you’d have to

take that into account,” said Karen Sullivan, director of the Otsego County Planning and Solid Waste department.

“Some houses aren’t worth repairing.”

“And nobody wants to build,” added Ed May, chairman of the city Planning Board.

It’s still a process, Smith said, citing the 4,000 properties in the Syracuse land bank, only 237 of which have been renovated in the last year. “It’s not all roses, but it fills a need as a tool for the foreclosing entities” he said. “I don’t think we’d ever get anywhere near 4,000 properties.”

But whether it’s picking up trash or demolishing a crumbling house, Smith says it’s all about making neighborhoods beautiful again. “It’s about pride,” he said.

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Planner Feels Like He’s Coming Home KERBIN/From A1 projects that help the less fortunate.

“In that time, we’ve been able to rehabilitate over 80 homes,” he said. “Housing, plumbing, ramps, electric, anything that has to do with safety, we’ve done it, and it’s helped keep a lot of older folks in their homes.”

He also helped with the planning and construction of the Kent Center for adults with developmental disabilities, and was part of the team that relocated six townhouses in Chestertown.

“We had six vacant houses, and we moved them from across town, rehabbed

them and filled them with income-eligible families,” he said. “It improved their lives, improved the neighborhood and removed blight from that part of town.”

But after eight years, he was looking for something new, and found the Oneonta job posting. He’ll be responsible for writing grants and will work closely with Jeff House, City Hall’s housing rehabilitation specialist.

And there’s already so much to do. “I’m really looking forward to the Main Street award and the downtown revitalization,” he said.

“The hotel study also looks

exciting.”

And he’ll have a chance to bring his housing rehabilitation passion to the job.

“There’s been a lot of progress in Oneonta, but there are still neighborhoods that need improvement,” he said. “I can put my skill set to good use.”

He begins his new job May 11. “I’m looking forward to becoming a citizen of the greater Oneonta area,” he said.

“And we’re really looking forward to him starting,” said Brzozowski. “I think we have a real opportunity here.”

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AVERY/From A1 that Avery drew his dad when he was 4 years old. “I saw that and I knew it had to be framed for the gym,” he said.

Nate, the SUNY Oneonta assistant wrestling coach and a retired college police officer, was persuaded by a friend to go to a Muscles in Motion weightlifting competition in 2012, and brought Avery, then 8, to watch him. “It piqued his interest,” he said.

“We started going to competitions in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Herkimer.”

But Avery was too young for even the junior divisions, so his father came up with a plan. “We’d call up the competitions and ask if he could just do an exhibition,” he said.

“They were always happy to have him, and it was always fun to see him lifting next to these huge guys.”

In the deadlift, Avery picks up the barbell and stands totally upright for a few seconds, then puts the barbell back down. He starts

his daily training with stretches and warmups, lifting 95 pounds to loosen himself up.

He then works up to 115, then 135, then 145, his current lift.

And he makes it look effortless, not even breaking a sweat or taking a sharp breath as the weight bangs on the floor.

In addition to his weightlifting, Avery also wrestles, sometimes up at SUNY with his dad’s athletes. “He gets to mess around with the college guys,” he said.

And they also started a wrestling club at Unatego Central School, with this weekend’s event as a fundraiser to help keep costs down for the wrestlers. “He’s got eight sponsors who pledged 10 cents for every pound he lifts,” said Nate. “Some of the other kids from the club will be selling food at the event too.”

But for now, he’s having fun. “The kids in his class always say, “Let Avery do it! He can lift anything!” Nate said.

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Long-Awaited Elevator To Open Upper Floors At Former Candy Store LIFT/From A1 ly the Bissell Block, the first brick commercial building in downtown Oneonta, more than a decade ago.

The elevator car will be 6-feet wide, 5.5-feet deep and 8-feet tall, and can Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA carry a weight of GOHS’ Brzozowski and 2,500 pounds, said Schindler’s Jones confer on the Mike Murphy, elevator installation at the HisGOHS Building tory Center.

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To prepare for the elevator, the first, second “I’m hoping we can have a significant amount done by and third floors had to be the end of the year,” he said. opened up, and a shaft of Once second-floor reno8-inch-thick concrete block vations are complete, work built from the basement to the roof. Those preparations will begin on converting the third floor – originally a have brought the total cost ballroom, dating back to the of the project to $200,000. downtown’s heyday in the It was pre-planned so at the points where the elevator first half of the 20th century – into meeting space. hardware has to be attached Brzozowski said the to the shaft, the blocks are GOHS went out to bid, but solid, Murphy said. he was glad that Schindler With renovations already submitted the low one, since underway on the second it also has installed elevafloor, Brzozowski said, the tors in SUNY Oneonta and society can start moving at Klugo’s Parkview Apartits collection of thousands ments, the former Bresee’s, of historical artifacts now “so they’ll be coming being stored off-site – at an around.” He anticipates undisclosed location, for savings on routine maintesecurity reasons – into the nance. prospective Sally Mullen

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They are physics major Marguerite Tompkins of Laurens, Lauren Loucks of Cherry Valley, who hasn’t declared a major year; Emily Schultes of Garrattsville, an Early Child/Childhood Education major, and Nicholas Capra of Oneonta, a chemistry major.

The students received certificate, gift cars to the campus bookstore and an invitation to the April 14 Susan Sutton lecture, featuring Dr. Joseph Pignato, associate professor of

Debater Coleman Vies In Dallas, Lauderdale

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PRESENTS PAPER: English major Rebecca Wagner of Oneonta was selected to present a paper at SUNY Oneonta’s sixth annual “New Critics: Undergraduate Literature and Composition” Conference on Saturday, April 11. Her topic: “Wroth and Wyatt: A Study of Love and Rejection.”

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MLS#93350 $149,900 Reduced! Beautiful corner property w/view across the street to golf course. This 3 BR, 2 full bath home has partial finished basement. Close to everything.

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MLS #97282 $147,900 Remarkable Price! Remarkable Home! Owner sacrifice – looking to sell by May 15. Gleaming hardwood floors, custom woodwork, new kitchen, attached garage.

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MLS#99055 $89,900 Bargain Priced! 12-acre Otsego County mini-farm!

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MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS 97868 $329,000 Roxbury – 3,130 sq ft, 5 BRs, 2½ baths on 1.15 acres.

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