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lengthy coronavirus pandemic. “Now it has become very evident that we need to come up with something to assist the locals in the process,” Klinger told the county’s Board of Representative during a special presentation Wednesday, April 7. The duo made a presentation asking the board to develop a plan for supplemental EMS help, with a county ambulance and/or an advanced life support fly car to assist with response and transportation to people in need of emergency health help. An ALS fly car is a medical vehicle that can respond to an emergency but does not do transportation. “It’s becoming more and more evident we have to do something,” Wilber said. “We’ve got crews begging us for help. Partially because of COVID, they’ve just reached the end of their
rope in their ability to supply and support their communities. “If we haven’t already, we’re going to be losing people because we can’t get an ambulance to them,” Wilber continued. O’Brien said he had been on the line as people died while waiting for responders and it is a heartbreaking feeling. “Without going into particular details, I can tell you there have been a number of times already this year where we have lost people,” he said. While the board met, a call could be heard in the background of the meeting, which was held via Zoom because of the pandemic and broadcast on Facebook. The call had been out for around 20 minutes, O’Brien pointed out, and was on its fifth agency request as the board members discussed the issue. See EMERGENCY, A6
COOPERSTOWN – Emergency medical services are struggling to respond to calls countywide, leading Otsego County officials to consider stepping in with supplemental services. Micro-grant “I’ve been in the service for 47 years. I have applications have never seen it this bad,” said Rep. Dan Wilber, Edmeston, Exeter, Plainfield, who April 30 deadline R-Burlington, is a member of the Edmeston Fire Department COOPERSTOWN and Rescue Squad and the chair of the county’s – Otsego County has Public Safety and Legal Affairs Committee. announced it will continue Wilber said he and his fellow PSLA members its micro-grant program for have been listening to Otsego County Emergency community events in 2021. Services Coordinator Art Klingler Jr. and The deadline for groups Otsego County E-911 Director Bob O’Brien. to request a share of up to Both men have been warning them that a $50,000 in funding is Friday, generation of EMS workers are aging out April 30. of service or have been discouraged by the Sponsors must explain their event in detail and tell the Board of Representative’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee how the event will draw visitors to the area. If it is a new event, the application must describe the market segment the sponsors are trying to attract. All advertising and promotional materials created for the events must state that they are paid for in part by a grant from Otsego County Government. Brochures and STAFF REPORT information regarding other As of Friday, April 16, Iron Otsego County venues and String Press, Inc, publisher of The events must be made availFreeman’s Journal, Hometown able at events. If events are Oneonta and www.allotsego.com is canceled for any reason under new ownership. other than weather, the Tara Barnwell, general manager grantee must return the grant of Iron String Press, becomes presimoney. dent and publisher and actor-writer Go to www.otsegocounty. Greg Klein becomes editor of the com and click on Communicompany’s print and digital news ty Events Grants Application and entertainment sources, succeed2021 for more information. Larissa Ryan/The Freeman’s Journal ing Jim Kevlin. New Iron String Press President and Publisher Tara Barnwell Kevlin after 15 years as editor, poses with the paper’s publisher/editor of 15 years, Jim Follow Breaking News On publisher and president of Iron Kevlin, who retired Friday, April 16. String Press and its media family, OTSEGO.com has retired. in Otsego County. who had owned the paper for nearly With the new ownership, Iron Kevlin and his late wife, Mary a decade. The Freeman’s Journal ►al colone, community leader String Press remains the only Joan (M.J.) Kevlin,purchased The was founded in 1808 by Judge and newspaper columnist, dies locally owned and locally focused Freeman’s Journal in 2006 from William Cooper and has served ►Otsego county brings back news and entertainment operation Elinor Vincent and Michael Moffat, Otsego County for the past 213
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years. Kevlin, a graduate of Colgate University, spent 48 years in newspapers, mostly as an editor, in Upstate New York, New England and Pennsylvania. The Kevlins expanded the company to include an Oneonta-based newspaper, Hometown Oneonta, and an online news source covering Otsego County, www.allotsego.com. M.J. Kevlin died in 2017 after a three-year battle with cancer. Kevlin and his current wife, the Rev. Sylvia Kevlin, pastor of Milford Methodist Church, who is also retiring at the end of the month, are planning to move out west to be closer to family. “Looking backward,” Kevlin said, “I’m thankful and honored at how Otsego County supported our expansion into a countywide force, from Cooperstown’s historic Freeman’s Journal, to founding Hometown Oneonta, to launching www. AllOTSEGO.com, the full-service 24-7 news site. ‘Our’ includes my late wife M.J., new publisher Tara Barnwell, and many other dedicated, creative and hardworking staff See SALE, A6
ONEONTA – The city of Oneonta has promoted Greg Mattice to fill the position of city administrator. Mattice, who has been with the city since 2010 and has been the city engineer for about half of that time, was approved for his new position by the city’s Common Council Tuesday, April 20. The administrator position is a revised position in the city, an attempt to turn the autonomous
city manager into an employee for the council and mayor. George Korthauer resigned as city manager in January 2020, about six months before his three-year term was set to expire. In the aftermath, city officials said they had not had a good track record with managers and wanted to reform the position. The new position, which was created at a special meeting in October, was designed to have less power and independence than the city manager position.
Mattice was a member of the Otsego County’s Energy Task Force and in 2017, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig gave him the key to the city in appreciation of his efforts in keeping the city safe during winter storm Stella. “I know that both the department heads and the council are both looking forward to working with you in that role,” Herzig said. “We are very excited to have you in this role.” Mattice, who will begin in his new role July 1, will make $110,000 a year. See ONEONTA, A6
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I always thought I worked long hours until I saw how much longer and harder you worked each week. I’m so proud of what you have achieved, James, and even prouder to be your wife. Here’s to our next chapter of life together. —Sylvia Kevlin
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After 774 continuous editions, never missing one week in 15 years, we applaud you on your retirement. Best wishes!
Dear Jim: For the last 4½ years you have challenged and inspired me in ways I could not have foreseen. You have been a cheerleader and an inspiration (even when you were a taskmaster). Thank you.
Congratulations! “Congratulations Jim! You have built a business that is woven into the heart of our community. I wish you all the best in your next adventure—retirement. —Dan Butterman
Congratulations, Jim! Thank you for all you have done for our community. Your newspapers have become a pillar for Otsego County.
Wow! These last 14 years have been amazing working alongside you and growing the company in so many ways. Enjoy your retirement, you deserve it for all of your hard work! Keep your phone handy! —Tara Barnwell
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Jim: It has truly been a pleasure working with you. I wish you many happy, relaxing retirement years to come! —Kathleen Peters
Congratulations Jim! Happy retirement! You have performed a great public service to the people of Otsego County by keeping us informed as well as being a tremendous promoter of our communities! Thanks you so much for your years of service to the community. Enjoy your new-found freedom!
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Congratulations Mr. Kevlin, on your well-earned retirement! Enjoy a life free of weekly deadlines! —Thom Rhodes For as long as I’ve known Jim, he has been an impassioned innovator. I’ve had the unique privilege to call him both a mentor and a friend, and I will forever cherish the time I spent working with him. —Ivan Potocnik
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A week to remember for Hall, former Hawkeye, Outlaw By CHAD G. WELCH At the beginning of the 2021 baseball season, Coker University senior outfielder Riley Hall had five career collegiate home runs. He matched that total Saturday, April 3, during a doubleheader at the University of Virginia-Wise. Hall, a 2016 graduate of Cooperstown Central School and former Oneonta Outlaw, hit two home runs in the first game and three more in the second game to pace the Cobras, who combined for ten homers in the sweep, an 18-1 victory that was shortened to five innings by run rule and an 11-5 win, respectively. Hall also hit a solo home run in the top of the seventh of an 8-4 loss in the seveninning opening game of the series Friday, April 2. Coker beat the Cavaliers, 10-4, in the nine-inning second game. With the series win, the Cobras improved their overall record to 13-16 and 12-11 in conference play and moved into seventh place in the 13 team South Atlantic Conference. Coker University is an NCAA Division II school in Hartsville, South Carolina. Hall finished the week batting .438 with six home runs, a double, 13 RBIs, 13 runs scored and seven walks, and the three homers he hit in the final game of the series tied a single-game school record. On Tuesday, April 6, Hall was named South Atlantic Conference AstroTurf Player of the Week by the league and Southeast Region Player of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, his first-ever
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Former Cooperstown Central School standout Reilly Hall is having a great senior season at Coker College in South Carolina.
Player of the Week honors. “It was a pretty good weekend,” Hall said on Thursday, April 8. “I really don’t know what else to say, it was just a blur with everything that happened, but it was definitely a lot of fun.” “I completely forgot about the first day, too, just because with the second day I was like, wow, that was kind of crazy,” he said. Hall said that after a slow start to the season personally, the most exciting part of his recent hot hitting was helping Coker reach the 12-win mark in the SAC for the first time since he joined the team. “I started off slow and I’ve just been kind of picking things up and getting more in the groove,” Hall said. “So that’s why it was a good weekend to have, to kind of get back on my feet because it
really has kind of been a down year for me hitting wise. “But this is the most wins we’ve had since I have been here in conference and we still have two weeks left, so that’s what really matters to me, that we are coming together as a team and winning a lot more games than usual,” he said. With nine home runs during the regular season, Hall ranked ninth in the SAC and he was tied for fifth with 26 walks. Hall was also 17th with 31 runs scored and 19th with 29 RBIs according to information provided by Coker’s Sports Information Department. Hall led the Cobras in all four categories as well in total bases (57) and stolen bases (9) and he tied for the team lead with 12 extra-base hits. Hall batted .232 over 35 games with 145 plate
appearances in 2021. Hall is currently fourth on Coker’s single season home run list (9) and tied for third in program history in career home runs (14), fifth in career RBIs (94) and eighth in career hits (129). The Cobras finished the regular season with an overall record of 15-20 and went 13-14 in the SAC. They seeded seventh in the eight team conference tournament and will play sixth-seeded Lenoir-Rhyne in the second game on Thursday April 22 at Smokies Stadium in Kodak, Tennessee. As a freshman in 2017-18, Hall played in 42 games batting .309 with a .427 on-base percentage and led his team with 28 walks which ranked 18th in the SAC. He tied for the team lead with seven stolen bases in eight attempts. As a sophomore, Hall had
a total of 50 hits including all five of his career home runs before this season and he scored 32 runs. His junior year was shortened due to COVID-19 and injuries and he appeared in just 13 games. Going into this season, Hall said he really wanted to build on what he accomplished during his first two years and bounce back after a disappointing end to last season. “My first two years I started off strong,” he said. “Last year, I got off to a slow start and I was injured for a few weeks and then we got the season taken from us due to Covid. Then I had a good summer and a good fall. “So I just really wanted to focus on my body (in the weight room) and just making sure I was going to be healthy for every single game and not miss anything,” he said.
“I think I’ve gotten a lot faster and stronger, a lot more power hitting wise,” he said. “When I came in, I didn’t really have a lot of power out of high school. I thought I did but I really didn’t in the scheme of things.” Hall said he is looking forward to a strong finish and returning to play at Coker next season as a graduate student after being granted another year of eligibility because of COVID-19. He is double majoring in business and criminology and will seek a master’s in college athletics administration with hopes of someday getting into coaching. This summer Hall said he will play for the Spartanburgers in Spartansburg, South Carolina, a collegiate summer baseball team in the Coastal Plain League.
After transfer, Bertram finds hoops home at Binghamton University By CHAD G. WELCH When Cooperstown Central School’s all-time leading scorer in basketball, Tyler Bertram, decided to transfer from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he said he was looking for a better fit, a bigger role and an opportunity to play closer to home. He found all three with Binghamton University men’s basketball team during the 20202021 season. After finishing his high school career at Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont, Bertram spent two years in Charlotte; the first a redshirt season during which he said he added 20 pounds to bulk up his slender 6-foot 3-inch frame. In the second, as a redshirt freshman, he appeared in 12 games for the 49ers averaging 9.3 minutes per game. “Coming back close to home was important, but finding the right fit was very important,” Bertram said. “The previous situation just didn’t really feel like it was the right spot and then knowing that Binghamton played really fast and like to shoot a lot of threes, I knew that I could kind of be myself Cooperstown’s Tyler Bertram here.” so crazy right now, you can hear “I made the mistake of not fully from a lot of people like on Twitter understanding what kind of style after games commenting ‘nice job’ it was going to be (in Charlotte),” and that type of stuff,” he said. Bertram said. “I thought the change “It’s nice to have that and feel their went really well. It was a fun year. support and I’m just excited for The team was great. I just had a lot when we can have fans back so we of fun playing fast and playing with can try to get some of those fans to some confidence again.” come to the games.” Bertram said that even though The NCAA Division I Bearcats fans weren’t allowed to attend finished ninth in the 10 team games this season because of the America East Conference, with coronavirus pandemic, he still felt a 4-14 record, including 4-10 in the hometown support and looks conference. forward to seeing some familiar Binghamton announced March faces in the stands next season. 1, that it would not renew head “It stinks that fans couldn’t come coach Tommy Dempsey’s contract out, but with social media being after nine seasons and a 71-194
particularly last year watching how senior point guard John Davis ran the offense and carried himself as a leader on the floor and in the huddle. Bertram said he grew a lot this season, also, and he played his way into more minutes after a slow start. “I think I grew a lot. At the beginning of the season, like the first four games, I was really struggling. I wasn’t shooting well, I wasn’t getting the minutes I really wanted,” he said. “Then I kind of took a step back and talked to Dad when I came home over Christmas. “I just really focused. I was getting in the gym a lot, even before or after a two hour practice, getting in with coach (Sanders) and working out,” he continued. “I think I grew a lot in that aspect, like breaking through adversity and really turning a page. I thought personally I had a really good season after that.” Bertram played in all 18 games, making 13 starts, for an average of 28 minutes per game. In conference play during the regular season, Bertram led the American East with 33 made three-point Contributed/Binghamton University Sports Information Department field goals and was second with said he is happy in a Binghamton uniform this season. 2.4 made three-pointers made per game. He was fifth with a .379 record. a really good thing for us coming three-point field goal percentage, Assistant coach Levell Sanders into next year. Even though our ninth with 35 assists and 14t in was named interim coach for next record was bad, we lost a lot of scoring with 166 points, according season. Sanders was a former star close games and a lot of our good to team and conference statistics. player at Seton Hall who joined the players are young guys. “I think I was tied for first in program in 2019. “It’s sad to see a coach like that threes over the season, so that was Bertram said although this go. He recruited me out of high a big, big accomplishment,” he season’s results were disappointing school, too. So we had a good said. and Dempsey won’t be returning, connection, but I’m also looking Overall, Bertram made 40 threehe has many reasons to be excited forward to this next step because point field goals and shot .348 from for the years to come. our assistant coach, I worked out “Obviously losing isn’t fun, but with him every single day this year behind the arc. He was second on the Bearcats with 194 total points we lost a lot of really close games,” outside of practice. So we have and 10.8 points per game to sophohe said. “We were really young, a really good connection. So I’m more Brenton Mills, who scored a bunch of freshman and sophoexcited to move forward with him 222 total points and averaged 13.9 mores. I think there was a stat that as well.” like 90 percent of our scoring came Bertram said that he learned a lot points per game. See BERTRAM, A6 from sophomores. So I think that’s during his two years in Charlotte,
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New editor views media brands as community service I can honestly say this is a column I never thought I would write, my first as editor of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta. I say that for two reasons: one, I spent the past decade in competition with the Iron String Press media team, while working as an editor and reporter for another news organization; two, that stint, with an Alabama-based organization I shall forever more refer to as the pension fund, did not go well. My first play, “The Sun,” first staged in 2004, is about a smalltown newspaper that is being destroyed as larger news organizations try to buy it. I spent the past decade at the pension fund thinking either irony is a cruel trick of life, or I was being blessed with an abundance of stories for the television adaptation. The twin low points were mass layoffs on Good Friday/Passover
eve and the from closing of the the editor Town Crier office and relegating the Cooperstown paper to a reprint. As the Crier editor at the time, I took the laying off of my reporter GREG KLEIN (while I was on vacation, no less) hard and the office closing harder. I transferred to a couple of different roles at the pension fund’s daily, but it wasn’t a secret I hated commuting to Oneonta. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise in some ways as I got to know the city, its politicians and businesses, and the southern half of the county. Still, I missed Cooperstown and the coronavirus pandemic and
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Trump supporter’s challenge accepted about ‘election fraud’
To the Editor: In his recent communication to the readership of the Freeman’s Journal, Mr. Furnari offered to debate anyone on the subject of Mr. Trumps’ 75 million enthusiasts who, he says, were deprived of their right to vote for him. We could also debate his other statements – but first we would have to establish some Rules of Evidence to abide by, as we seem to differ about what evidence is. For example, I would regard the 36 judicially dismissed law suits alleging election fraud, and the validation of the election results by recounts, as evidence
that such allegations had no merit. And I would regard Trump’s taped conversation in which he tried to bribe/coerce the Elections Commissioner in Georgia to “find” a winning number of votes for him, as evidence of Trump’s attempt to commit election fraud on his own behalf. I would regard the U.S. Government Intelligence Reports of Trump’s campaign connections to Russia and the Ukraine as evidence of attempted election fraud. On the other hand, we would not regard baseless theories propagated on Social Media as evidence. See WHELAN, A5
To the Editor: Having lived on Upper Pioneer Street for some 36 years, it was indeed distressing to read John Webb’s “Letter to the Editor” in last week’s paper. The very idea of placing a solar-powered speed sign in one of Cooperstown’s residential neighborhoods is beyond the pale. It is made even more reprehensible given the fact that not only was the sign a gift to the village by one of the street’s residents, but more importantly, the village erected the sign without giving the other residents of the street the opportunity to
give any input into having such a sign in their neighborhood. It is indeed sad to think that the village government is doing the bidding of one individual without any seeming concern for the rest of its constituents. Of course, it would seem of late that the village has a bit of a history of accepting a number of things without considering what the final affect might be on village residents. The move that I made from Cooperstown to Mount Vernon, Ohio in September of 2018 was indeed bittersweet. The Ellsworth family See ELLSWORTH, A5
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family issues made it harder and harder for me to commute. I had been planning to quit the newspaper business for good this year, perhaps to go back to my dreams of making movies. Or, at least, to help other people make their movies. Last year, after years of discussions, I teamed up with a group of local film makers, businesspeople and political leaders to start a nonprofit 501c6 film commission office, Film COOP (rhymes with hoop, we are not a co-op), or more officially, The Cooperstown, Oneonta, Otsego County Film Partnership, Inc. With a limited budget, the disadvantage of being a 501c6 rather than a charitable and heartstring 501c3, and not much film history in the region to tout or use as an example, we had our work cut out for us. And that was before the pandemic shut down much of the entertainment business in 2020.
Still, we have persevered. We became the pioneer film commission in the Mohawk Valley Economic Development District and calls/emails from professional film makers come in monthly. We are the official film commission of Otsego County, the city and town of Oneonta, and the village of Cooperstown, with more municipalities to follow. We have a great website www.film-coop.com and Facebook page that explain our mission, and one of our local partners is doing extremely well bringing work to the region. We have a huge announcement coming soon, too. For the past 15 months, I have been the president of Film COOP’s Board of Directors, serving as the de facto film commission, or agent, for the region. Although we have no paid staff, we have been working to fund a film commissioner position and
I expect someday to take on that role, at least in the short term. There’s a saying, life is what happens while you make other plans. Suddenly, unexpectedly, an opportunity came up to come back to Cooperstown and be closer to home more often. Considering how much success and potential these publications have had and have, the strain the pandemic has had on my family, and the frustrations of working for a pension fund rather than a news organization, I had to take the opportunity. I admit, there’s a part of me that feels some unfinished business from 2015 when the Crier was doing so well pre-layoffs, or 2018 pre-closing, when I had learned to cope with the layoffs. However, I don’t want to dwell on the past too much. After all those years of quoting politicians saying “I want to look forward, not backward,” See KLEIN, A5
Otsego lawman, Cunningham, served Otsego County with ‘sleuth-like’ attention John L. Cunningham became a New York State Trooper in 1917. He was among the 232 selected men who made up the first wave of the newly formed organization that would serve to uphold the law in rural areas under the leadership of Major George Fletcher Chandler. Up until that time Cunningham, who was originally from Glens Falls, worked as a shirt cutter for 18 years. No doubt the newly formed force appealed to a now stationary 35 year old “manwith-scissors” who still loved to swim and had once been a high school TERRY basketball and track BERKSON star. He was a natural for equestrian and law enforcement training and excelled as a State Trooper. Within four years he was promoted to sergeant and transferred to an outpost in Cooperstown which was a substation of Troop C that was located in Sidney. In Leatherstocking country he was provided a place in the village to live, conduct his police activities and board a horse upon which he patrolled Sgt. Cunningham is pictured on his Cooperstown and other environs in and out of Otsego and neighboring Counties. Because of his style and the beneficiary. strict but fair enforcement of the law, No violation of the law was too he was already a local celebrity, by the small to warrant Cunningham’s time he married Elizabeth Lukas in “sleuth-like” attention. In one case 1931. They continued to live in varithe sergeant accompanied by trooper ous outposts in the village that were Matthew Haskins followed a blood provided by The State Police. trail from the hennery of Charles By that time horses were being reMoore to the house of Cecil Goodplaced by automobiles but the change speed where it was discovered that for some reason did not appeal to the Goodspeed and an accomplice had popular and well known Sergeant Cun- stolen three chickens and immediately ningham who from time to time would quieted the birds by butchering them put on public displays of great horsebefore selling them to a local restaumanship on a pinto steed he called rant where they received $2.25 for the Tom. He also had a police dog named delivery. The thieves were arrested and Trooper. Cunningham took his work ultimately fined $5 each and given a very seriously and had the reputation sentence of 30 days in jail, which of being a no nonsense law enforcer was suspended. — who didn’t have a driver’s license. Cunningham actively headed the Occasionally, when a situation called largest manhunt in the area’s history for it, he would commandeer a car and when an intoxicated tractor trailer pursue a fleeing perpetrator. Most of driver ran down Chief of Police Robert the time the driver would be totally K. Hannahs of Richfield Springs. agreeable to assisting the charismatic Hannahs had stepped off the curb and lawman. More than monitoring the was trying to flag down the speedroads and performing routine police ing vehicle after it had passed a red work, Sergeant John, who was frelight. Trucker, John Lee of Hudson, quently called Jack, preferred doing stopped his huge rig a mile and a half detective work in cases involving ardown the road and fled into the woods. son, larceny and even murder. He was Among the police’s several means of involved in bringing about the convic- pursuit was horseback which necestion of murderess Eva Coo in one of sitated the commandeering of a local the most famous trials of the twentieth farmer’s horse. Lee, totally exhausted century. She and an accomplice had by his forty-one hour flight on foot, by bludgeoned and then run over her thumb and rail, finally surrendered to “simple-minded” hired hand, making it an officer in Utica whereby Sergeant look like a hit and run, for the insurCunningham, and his “wheel man” ance money of which she was secretly trooper Haskins, picked Lee up and
horse, Tom.
escorted him back to Cooperstown to await charges. For the better part of 34 years (he retired at age 70) Cunningham served the public as a by-the-book law enforcer. Occasionally his character was shadowed in mystery and detective magazines. The span of his career included the time of prohibition when the sergeant was known to have made regular visits to Panther Mountain where the notorious bootlegger, Honey Joe, made metheglin out of the nectar his bees gathered. Whether the sergeant went there looking to shut down Honey Joe’s still or to sample its product is not on record. John L. and Elizabeth Lucas Cunningham had one daughter, Mary Cunningham Devinpeck, who still lives near Cooperstown, and says of her father, “Boys in school were afraid to ask me out because of “the sergeant’s” stern reputation. But to me he was really a softy who loved to ride and swim and waltz me around the dance floor.” ‘There will never be another man like Sergeant John L. Cunningham,’ would be a fitting conclusion and summation of his life, but surprisingly there was another man ... his identical twin brother, James J. Cunningham, who joined the state police the same year, served in Saugerties for almost as many years and whose career mirrored in many, many ways that of his celebrated twin brother.
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135 Years Ago Richard Rice, a character generally known throughout the counties of central New York as “Dicky” Rice, died at Mt. Vision on Sunday, at the residence of Mr. Harrison, after about a week’s illness. For a period of about 30 or 40 years Mr. Rice has been a familiar figure throughout this section of the state as astride his trusted charger, he has wandered aimlessly about, volunteering adjuration and scriptural advice to all with whom he came in contact. Mr. Rice was known to be a harmless, inoffensive old man with a shattered intellect, and he usually found a resting place in any house where night overtook him. He had a great penchant for Bible study and could quote from the Bible by the hour from a singularly retentive memory. Mr. Rice was born in the northern part of the county in 1802. He studied medicine with Martin Gardner at Portlandville in 1838, practiced for awhile, was taken sick and became mentally unsound, and has since been a wanderer. His horse, his companion for the past 18 years, has been taken in charge by the poor officer of Laurens. April 1886
110 Years Ago
Local News: C.H. Borst, who for many years has successfully conducted a grocery store in Oneonta, is rapidly closing out his
stock and will discontinue business on Saturday of this week. The Woolworth Company will thereafter take immediate possession and in a few days the store will be refitted and opened as one of their five and ten cent stores, of which practically every city in the east has one or more. Harry J. Rines, the well known singing evangelist, with Mrs. Rines as accompanist, closed on Sunday last a very successful two-week series of meetings in the Free Baptist church. About 60 conversions are counted as the result of Mr. Rines’ sojourn in this city. April 1911
90 Years Ago
Punch board racketeering in this city is taboo from now on according to orders issued last night by Police Chief Frank N. Horton. The operators of such boards face both a fine and jail sentence in violation of the law, the chief stated. “Numerous complaints have been received about the operations of the chance boards in this city,” Chief Horton said, “and from now on it’s either put up or face arrest for the operators. Every member of the force has received instructions that there is to be no more violation of this law in Oneonta. It has also been learned that several lotteries have made their appearance in this city recently. One of these is a new baseball pool with headquarters in Endicott. In spite of disclosures
which several times have threatened to wreck the gigantic Endicott treasury balance racket, that syndicate is now selling its new baseball pool tickets in scores of places frequented by the so-called “sporting” crowd. April 1931
70 Years Ago
Two lines of action are being shaped to stimulate the recording of local history in the towns and villages of Otsego County. Supervisors are being urged to appoint town historians where none are in office. Also, the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society is planning to shift its meeting from Oneonta to small communities to emphasize local history. Dr. Edward J. Parish, president of the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society explains that “much valuable local history is being neglected because no move has been made to preserve it.” Dr. Parish points out that while town historians do receive expense allowances, the money inducement is negligible. Many persons, he says, have a zest for this work and will gladly pursue it as a stimulating hobby, if encouraged. As matters now stand 14 towns have historians and 10 have not. April 1951
50 Years Ago
The New York State Assembly
Education Committee approved the Speno-Lerner bill to provide state tuition grants to parents of children in Roman Catholic and other non-public elementary and secondary schools. The measure now goes to the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for further study because of its potential impact on state spending. By some estimates, the cost of implementing the bill could cost more than $100 million annually. The legislation is supported by New York’s Roman Catholic bishops. Governor Rockefeller opposes the bill on the ground that granting assistance to parents of nonpublic-school children could harm public education. However, the governor has promised to help bring about some form of aid to private schools this year. The Speno-Lerner bill also was reported out of the Assembly Education Committee last year. But it died in the Rules Committee in that house. April 1971
40 Years Ago
A Committee on Uniting the Local Disabled (COULD) is organizing to help disabled people realize they are not alone, that together they could have a clout to help remove some of the obstacles. “Disability” is defined as any condition that keeps an individual from doing something useful, anything that gets in the way of functioning, equal enjoy-
ment or social interaction. “We want to get the disabled out from behind closed doors and into society,” said Chairperson Winnie Williams. Eight of the committee’s 15 members have disabilities including cystic fibrosis, blindness, limb impairment, and nervous disorders. The group’s formation in February was inspired by the fact 1981 is the International Year of the Disabled. One of COULD’s main goals is to educate the disabled about the laws that could help them and to educate the general public about what it means to be disabled. April 1981
30 Years Ago
Professor Charles Burnsworth of SUCO’s Department of Music a multi-media, anti-drug documentary at the college’s Instructional Resource Center in lecture hall number 3 at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The presentation is titled “Drugs, Death and Rock ‘n Roll.” His presentation includes a long list of rock musicians and other entertainment stars that have died as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. The show is titled “The Age of Rock.” “I’m trying to talk to kids and every kid in the country listens to rock music. It’s relevant to their lives,” Burnsworth said. The presentation addresses youth of all ages. April 1991
Klein: Local newpapers, media should serve local interests KLEIN/Continued from A4 now I get to trope it up, too. It is no secret I had a not-so-friendly rivalry with this organization’s previous publisher-editor, Jim Kevlin. However, I am grateful to him for keeping a locally owned newspaper viable for so long in Cooperstown and for creating a companion paper in Oneonta. I am further grateful to his late wife, M.J. Kevlin, for suggesting the online expansion that has become AllOtsego.com, and to Jim’s new bride, Sylvia Barrett, for giving him a joyful reason to retire. I didn’t seek the opportunity that resulted from the retirement and sale of the paper, but it seemed like a perfect fit, at least for now. I thought my second stint in journalism would be my last, and here I am starting stint number three. I gave my commitment to my board that I would make it work for the commission and my commitment to my new publisher, Tara Barnwell, that I would take the helm for the year and see if we can make it work. Tara and I are two of the only Auburn University graduates in Cooperstown, perhaps the region, so I hope we will be a good team. As for our new ownership group, I am grateful they, too, are committed to a
locally owned news group. Of course, being a reporter, editor and nonprofit board president (or executive director/film commissioner) at the same time is an inherent conflict of interest. Tara said she is fine with me having a life. The pension fund middle managers were begrudgingly accepting about it, although a reporter having a life technically violates the pension fund’s policies. Either way, it is what it is. My long-term goals are creative and not in journalism, but my shortterm goals always include providing for my family and serving my community. Interestingly, the film commission and the media company are similar for me in that respect. Having a locally owned media group dedicated to serving the community where we live is important for our community. So is catching up to the rest of the state in building out a film industry in our region, whatever we call it. Both jobs, editor or executive director/film commissioner, are acts of service to me. So, happily I serve, and I will do my best to offer full disclosure, something we tried with mixed results at the pension fund. You can find a donor list on our Facebook page Film COOP.
We started fundraising in November, after the election season. Several politicians did contribute unsolicited funds. We were also looking for business partners. I had covered county government for years and written a couple of articles about the state senate race between then county Rep. Peter Oberacker Jr. and Jim Barber. The film commission in essence grew out of something I said at an Otsego County Board of Representatives meeting and Oberacker had always been supportive of the idea. Because he has been on a quixotic quest to develop some property in his home district in the town of Maryland, Oberacker and I have often discussed the idea of a film studio there, off the interstate, about 60 miles from Albany and the thriving but film studio lacking Capital area film industry. Long story short, after the election, my board asked me to solicit then Sen.-elect Oberacker and his business, Form Tech Solutions, Inc. I informed my bosses of the request and asked to be taken off of covering Oberacker as a state Senator. They agreed. I visited Form Tech’s Maryland offices in late November and sent a follow up request asking
Letter: Bring on debate about election security WHELAN/Continued from A4 So, for example, the idea that Bill Gates has implanted tracking devices into COVID vaccines, for reasons best known to himself, would not be admitted as evidence, unless someone fishes one out of a vaccine vial, in the presence of a surveillance camera. (We hope this last one will not inhibit Mr. Furnari from getting vaccinated, thereby increasing both his own risk and that of other persons, including myself: I sit next to him in a meeting once a month, where I fully appreciate his knowledge base and contributions, and would hate to lose them). Statements to the effect that Hillary Clinton ran a pedophilic and cannibalistic sex trafficking ring would not be admitted. Nothing Alex Jones or QAnon or Trump says would be admitted as evidence unless supported by firm documentation, which is to say virtually nothing.
And so forth. We also need to establish basic rules of discourse. Declarations are not, in and of themselves, facts or points to be debated. They need to be supported by evidence, not opinion based on rumor or bizarre fantasy. I do have another offer to make. I will solemnly swear to listen to Fox News for half an hour every night for a week, if Mr. Furnari will listen to CNN or PBS or any major network news for the same period of time and in the same week. Then we could compare statements on various points. He can choose a point first. An impartial panel and moderator, if we can agree on one, would decide on the legitimacy and relative merits of the presented evidence. The person with the most points, wins. O.K., do we meet? Time? Place? Conditions of debate? M.A. WHELAN Cooperstown
them to join us as a business partner for 2021. I am pretty sure Oberacker called me New Year’s Day to tell me Form Tech would join Film COOP as a business partner. I informed my editor, and told Sen. Oberacker’s people he was under “LeCates rules” – since the C.J. Heilig Foundation helps fund Film COOP, I don’t directly cover Bill LeCates, even when I write about Bassett Healthcare Network – and life went on. As I said, it isn’t ideal and there was and is tension there, especially right now when I am the only person on the editorial side of Iron String Press! However, my intention is to have someone else write the stories about Film COOP’s big donors ($1,000 or more is either a business partner or an “executive producer”) and our board members, who are listed on the Film COOP website. I will note, with another election cycle coming up, that in addition to Oberacker, several of our small donors are also elected officials, including: town of Otsego Rep. Andrew Marietta, town of New Lisbon supervisor Ed Lentz, village of Cooperstown Trustee Jeanne Dewey, and town of Oneonta Rep. Andrew Stammel. Other than Oberacker,
all of those politicians are Democrats. Two of my board members are also Democratic politicians, former Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, who tried before me to start a film commission in Cooperstown, and Caitlin Ogden, who is running for county representative this year in District Three. A lot of Republicans have been big supporters of the film office as well. I would not have stood up at a county board meeting to speak about the need for a film commission here if Rep. Ed Frazier Jr. had not made an off-handed remark at a meeting about the tax credits sending money to Hollywood. And after I spoke up to rebut Frazier, it was then Oneonta Rep. Len Carson Jr. who asked me, “what are you doing about it, Greg?” Without the serendipity of Frazier’s misunderstanding the tax credits and Carson’s challenge, Film COOP might not exist. Frazier is running for re-election this year. Carson is now on Oneonta’s Common Council and is running for mayor of the city. Former State Sen. Jim Seward has always been a supporter of the film office and continues to give advice, too. We also belong to the New
York Council of Nonprofits, where Marietta is a vice president. And a current candidate for Stammel’s seat on the county board, Michelle Caton, a Democrat running as a Republican, has been a frequent advisor to Film COOP via the Small Business Development Center. As if that list wasn’t long enough, I am also a member of the Cooperstown Central School Booster Club and a board member at large of the Cooperstown Soccer Club. And, despite that, I am, as a parent, furious at the school system for its pandemic learning model and special education failures. Still, if the boys I was fortunate enough to help coach in travel soccer for years win a state championship in the next three years, I won’t be an unbiased observer. However, that is a story for November, pandemic and soccer bounces willing. In the meantime, I hope to tell a lot of other stories for, to and about Otsego County residents. I can’t promise how long this adventure will last, but I aim to make the most of the opportunity. I hope we can give you a good, trustworthy product, in all of our forms. Thank you for helping us keep local newspapers and media alive.
Letter: Helios recognizes National Volunteer Appreciation Week
To the Editor: Helios Care is celebrating and honoring the valuable and heartfelt commitment of our wonderful volunteers during National Volunteer Appreciation Week. Even when a person is dying, there can be a lot of living to do. Hospice makes it possible by bringing care, compassion, and
hope to patients and families facing life-limiting illness. Volunteers are a vital part of this special care: 224 trained volunteers support our local communities during patients’ end-of-life journey and make the mission of Helios Care possible. Whether a volunteer is serving at the bedside, honoring a veteran, assisting in the office, helping in
the thrift shop, or assisting with events, they are the heart of our hospice. We would like to thank all of our volunteers for their unwavering support and generosity. This week and throughout the year, we honor and celebrate our outstanding volunteers. TAMMY CHRISTMAN
Helios, Director of Community Outreach
Letter: Flashing Pioneer Street lights are not a sign of progress ELLSWORTHContinued from A4 had lived on Upper Pioneer Street for over one hundred years which seemed to me to be a bit of a record. And while I fully understood the need to be closer to my family, I did not want to leave the area, or the neighborhood, in which I had lived for the longest time in my life. However, given the fact that, as Mr. Webb so clearly put it, the neighborhood has now been
“defaced,” something I must admit I am glad I have missed. In fact, it greatly supports the fact that my move to Ohio was indeed the right one. It seems that Cooperstown is increasingly not the place that the Ellsworth family held dear for these many years. And so my distress at having traded my home in Cooperstown for my home in Colonial Woods Village in Mount Vernon is diminished.
Here in my new condo neighborhood we have only three traffic signs. There are two stop signs at our only intersection and a sign as one enters the community which reads “Speed Limit 14.” None of our signs are solar-powered and hence, none of them blink. And I am confident that the residents here fully intend to keep them that way. CATHE ELLSWORTH Mount Vernon, Ohio
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Media sale will keep Iron String Press locally owned
SALE/Continued from A1 members who embraced the excitement of local newspapering.” “Looking forward,” he continued, “I’m delighted the newspapers and website will continue to be locally owned, guided by friends and neighbors who will have the welfare of Otsego County front of mind. Such independent ownership also allows the flexibility to experiment with the many exciting newsgathering and revenue-generating options becoming available to better serve citizens and shoppers alike. I envy the opportunities and challenges Tara and new editor Greg Klein will be tackling.” Barnwell has been an executive with Iron String since 2007, as advertising director and general manager. A graduate of Auburn University, Barnwell
served as a major account executive with The Tampa Tribune for 14 years before moving to Cooperstown in 1996 with her husband, Mark. The couple also operates The Barnwell Inn on Susquehanna Avenue. “I’m very excited to keep local journalism alive in our region. We’ve got a great team in place that will continue to bring you the most current, local news.” Barnwell said. “I am very grateful to have worked closely with Jim Kevlin over the past 14 years and to have played a role in developing our print and digital publications into the most widely distributed news, entertainment and advertising sources in Otsego County. We have big shoes to fill with Jim Kevlin’s departure, but with the support of our new Editor, Greg Klein, an accomplished staff and the establishment of an experienced local Editorial
Board, I am very confident that our publications will continue to grow and thrive and remain a vital voice of the Otsego County region.” Klein is an upstate native who grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland. He majored in journalism at Auburn University and has worked at newspapers in Alabama and New York. The former editor of The Cooperstown Crier, Klein previously worked as a staff writer for The Daily Star in Oneonta. In 2020, Klein became the founding board president of The Cooperstown, Oneonta, Otsego County Film Partnership, Inc., also known as Film COOP. Film COOP is the pioneer film commission office in the Mohawk Valley Economic Development District and the official film commission of Otsego County, the city and town of Oneonta, and the village
of Cooperstown. Klein is also the author of several plays, one nonfiction book and is self-publishing his first novel this year, “The Paper Tigers,” a historical fiction baseball story featuring Ty Cobb, Connie Mack, Ban Johnson and Hughie Jennings. Klein is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and is working on a pilot. He is a graduate of The Second City’s New York City program and appeared in season six of “24.” Klein lives in the town of Otsego with his wife and son. He is a member of the Cooperstown Booster Club and a board member at large of the Cooperstown Soccer Club. Barnwell and Klein commence their stewardship of the print and digital operations of Iron String Press with this week’s publications.
Mattice promoted to city administrator position ONEONTA/Continued from A1 “It is obviously very exciting for me,” Mattice said. “I am looking forward to the challenge. It is a little different challenge, but I feel comfortable moving into it. “It is a great place to work and that’s a big part of why I am interested in the job,” he continued. “We have made a lot of progress and I am looking forward to continuing the work.” Herzig said Mattice’s first assignment will be to replace himself and refill the city
engineer position. The city also unanimously appointed Tim Cuozzo to the position of civilian dispatcher at an annual salary of $31.767. Both hirings passed unanimously. Council member Scott Harrington, R-Sixth Ward, was not at the meeting. Herzig said the past week was a sad one for the city, following the passing Tuesday, April 13, of Oneonta native Al Colone. The city officials held a moment of silence in Colone’s honor at Tuesday’s meeting. Colone, who was the founding president
of the former National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta and a columnist for Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal, was a “big idea person,” Herzig said. “The city of Oneonta lost a true friend last week with the passing of Al Colone,” Herzig said. “We’ve lost somebody who really did dedicate his life to seeing Oneonta become a better community.” The meeting was held via Zoom, because of the coronavirus pandemic, and can be viewed on YouTube.
EMS emergency grips Otsego County EMERGENCY/Continued from A1 Wilber said he will discuss with Otsego County Treasurer Allen Ruffles if money from the federal coronavirus relief package can be used to purchase EMS equipment. He said he thinks it can and recommended the board consider using some COVID money for a county service, which would serve as a second responder when local town, village or city responders are having trouble getting to a person in medical need. At the same meeting Ruffles said Otsego County is expected to get about $11.54 million from the relief package, which passed in March. At a follow-up meeting for the PSLA Committee Thursday, April 15, Klinger and O’Brien presented tentative budgets for the county staffing an ambulance and fly car for 24 hours a day 365 days per year. The fly car would be a replacement to a pre-existing car in the county’s fleet, with staffing for it costing about $282,500 for six months. A county ambulance would cost about $153,000 O’Brien said, with staffing costing about $300,000. The county would be able to bill users for its emergency services, O’Brien said. Rep. Ed Frasier said until the county does a study of its needs, he does not have a lot of faith in financial projections. “I would suggest it is on the county for the first year,” he said. The PSLA committee will follow up with Ruffles and Otsego County Attorney Ellen Coccoma before making a final recommendation to the full board, which will likely be discussed in May. “Each month we put it off is another month we push the crisis out,” Wilber said.
Bertram: Style of play, closeness to home made transfer desirable BERTRAM/Continued from A3 Bertram was also second with 37 assists and 2.1 assists per game to sophomore George Tinsley, who had 41 and 2.3, respectively. Bertram tied sophomore Dan Petash for the team lead with 15 steals and was third in free throw percentage at 88% behind senior guard Hunter Crist and junior center Yarden Willis, who were both perfect from the line this season. Bertram was team high scorer in four games, including a careerhigh 20 points in a loss to UMass Lowell on January 16th, and he led
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the team in assists in four games as well with six assists in three of those occasions. Bertram said the team started practicing again on April 5, and there will be two four week long summer sessions planned before the season begins in mid-November. He said he’ll be working hard on other aspects of his game and he has high hopes for himself and the team next year. “I am kind of known for my three-point thing, so I want to work on my mid-range game and getting to the basket more and all that type
of stuff,” he said.“This offseason I will really be putting a lot of work towards ball handling and just trying to make my game more complete. “Of course, every coach’s goal coming into the season is to win the conference,” he said. “I honestly, I know we didn’t do well this year, but I really think we have a chance just because of how close we played every team and how young we were. “As a team, we want to win a lot of games especially with a first year coach and help him out,” he said. “My personal goal for next year is to get player of the year. I need
everyone to know what I’m coming for next year,” Bertram said. Bertram is majoring in human development and he said he hopes to play basketball professionally, in the United States or overseas and that eventually he would also like to get into college coaching. In three years playing varsity basketball at Cooperstown, Bertram set the Cooperstown varsity boys basketball record for most points in a career (1,897), a season (783 in 2015-2016) and a game (55 against Moravia in the 2016 state playoff quarterfinals).
He also holds CCS records for career three-pointers (264), assists (417) and steals (181). He helped lead Cooperstown to back-to-back Section III Class C titles. In 2017, he was also the state Class C co-player of the year. In addition to his basketball success at CCS, Bertram won four section titles in doubles tennis with partner Pierce Snyder and shared four Section III Class C-2 team titles in tennis. He and Snyder made it to the state tournament in 2016, tying the best finish in the sport in school history.
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By GREG KLEIN With tourism dealt another pandemic-related blow last week, Otsego County’s leaders are increasingly turning to outdoor adventures to lure visitors. “We’re actually in the process right now of trying to launch a massive campaign to tout our outdoor adventure,” said Cassandra Harrington, executive director of Destination Marketing Corporation, which promotes tourism in Otsego and Schoharie counties. Harrington said the tourism news has been mostly dismal in the week since Cooperstown Dreams Park announced it would require all teams playing at the park’s summer tournaments to be vaccinated for the coronavirus pandemic. The uncertainty of getting vaccinations for children and a hard refund deadline has left dozens of teams in a catch-22, leading to hundreds of reported cancelations. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s winter announcement that it was moving its postponed 2020 Induction Weekend to a virtual event, had already crushed pre-pandemic hopes for Contributed photos/ a record sized crowd for Derek Jeter’s induction. Above: Bailey and her owner, Lori Parparteys, completed the Otsego However, the reopening of the baseball parks, Octet together. Below: So did 23 fifth grade students from Milford Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary and Cooperstown Central School. All-Star Village in West Oneonta, was a big pillar of the county’s hopes for a renewed summer of tourism. 2020 attendance at All-Star Village has not announced similar vaccination requirements The Farmers’ was a for its teams, but the Dreams Park changes make its June opening bright spot, as it held unlikely, Harrington said. up well compared to “Now that the bottom fell out with Dreams Park, our accommoda- Fenimore numbers. tions are dealing with a flood of cancelations,” she said. “So, we “Regarding really need those outdoor visitors more than ever.” attendance, we drew Harrington said DMC is in the web development stage of an approximately 30% outdoor adventure site that links to other outdoor sites, such of what we recorded as Otsego Outdoors and the New York State Office of Parks, in 2019,” he said. Recreation and Historic Preservation. Once tasked with drawing “With capacity visitors from far away and mostly from outside state lines, now her restrictions and the efforts are to find people closer to the region and inform them about fact that we didn’t the great outdoor recreational opportunities around Otsego and open until July, we Canadarago lakes, the Susquehanna River and in the foothills of the feel we did quite Catskill Mountains. well. As the year Meanwhile, her peers in the tourism business are also adjusting. went on, people felt Live performances are returning, but mostly to outdoor stages. The much safer venturing Glimmerglass Festival will return Thursday, July 15, after a season’s outdoors and the hiatus, with outdoor shows. The Farmers’ Museum and Fenimore museum was a great Art Museum will also return to staging outdoor events over the alternative for people summer. in the region looking The twin museums, which are just outside the village of for something fun to do. Cooperstown, in the town of Otsego, have had divergent experi“During our ‘Celebration of Autumn’ in September and October, ences during the pandemic, according to New York State Historical we placed as many activities as we could outdoors,” he continued. Association officials. “That’s one of the main reasons we did so well in the fall.” NYSHA Director of Marketing and Publicity Todd Kenyon said See OUTDOORS, B2
OCCA to adjust with virtual Earth Festival By GREG KLEIN Earth Festival will again be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but this year the Otsego County Conservation Assocation is better prepared to replace its annual events with a virtual presentation from Thursday, April 22 to Saturday, April 24. “In March (2020), I think we were all thinking, ‘let’s not cancel, yet,’ it will all blow over,” OCCA Program Director Jeff O’Handley said. “It seems crazy to think about looking back. We had no idea what to expect.” To salvage an Earth Festival last year, OCCA kept some events going with social distancing, stressed its normal recycling efforts via dropoffs and refocused on the fly, O’Handley said. This year’s event has been much more focused to allow the group to use the virtual tools that have sprung up during the coronavirus pandemic. “You can’t do
things like you used to do them,” he said. “It has been a puzzle to figure things out and you just hope you are providing people with some strong programming.” There will be socially distant hikes scheduled throughout the weekend as well as seminars held remotely. O’Handley said he is looking forward to a 7 p.m. Thursday, seminar, “Assessing Pesticide Hazard vs. Risk: Glyphosate, a Case Study,” by Dan Wixted of the Pesticide Management Education Program at Cornell University. O’Handley said he is also excited about a seminar called, “Many Happy Returns,” at 1 p.m. Thursday, which will highlight the success of restoring three aquatic species to Otsego County’s Butternut Creek: the American eel, the pearly mussel and the eastern hellbender. There will also be drop-off, drive-through recycling. Go to www.occainfo.org/earth-festival/ for more information and a schedule of events about Earth Festival.
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farms to register for Family Farm Day, 2021. Visit www. familyfarmday.org for info. CONSERVATION – 10 - 10:30 a.m. Learn about the Otsego County Soil & Water Conservation District, it’s program, and how county residents can get involved. Presented as part of OCCA’s online Earth Festival. BLOOD DRIVE – Noon - 6 p.m. Donate blood, help save up to 3 lives. Elm Park Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 800-733-2767.
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Dear Dog Charmer We got Bubba two years ago. From day one he did not like my adult son. He is fine with children and women but iffy with some men. My son lives with us and every time he walks in the room the dog goes nuts. My son has been nipped a few times. Now we try to keep them apart. How can we get Bubba and my son to live peacefully together. By the way Bubba is a French bulldog/pitty mix.
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treats (chicken, baloney, apple, whatever) from your son. The ONLY person who gives him people food treats is your son. I’d also suggest that your son is the one to feed Bubba. If food is just left down and Bubba free feeds whenever he wants to, it’s Son who fills the food bowl. (Bubba’s nose will tell him who’s feeding him). Dear Kathleen, But let’s The way to get Bubba TOM back up a and your son to harmolittle to your SHELBY nize peacefully requires son “walking their getting together as into the opposed to being kept apart, room” and Bubba goes nuts. and it’s going to require Most dogs are territorial, some effort on your that’s why they make great son’s part. “watch dogs”. Bubba’s I suggest that Bubba starts territoriality coupled with earning tiny people food his dislike of your son
causes his aggressive response when your son has the audacity to enter what Bubba perceives as “his territory”. So, henceforth, your son always enters any room prior to Bubba. If Bubba’s already in a room that Son wants to enter, instead of walking in he stands just outside the room and calls Bubba to come and sit to earn a people food treat. Then Son can walk in first, or they can go in together. Or perhaps Son throws a couple of the treats (outside of the room he wants to enter) and calls Bubba into the room for a treat once he’s inside. Prior to all of this, in a neutral territory, Son needs to practice having Bubba come to him and sit for the special treat. Once that routine is established, the entering the room routine
will get easier and easier till Son can just call Bubba over for a treat as he enters the room. The bottom line--Son needs to create a working relationship with Bubba, and often the quickest way to a dog’s heart is through the stomach. Taking Bubba for long walks or putting him in the car for a walk in a nearby park will also enhance their relationship. When one makes the effort, I’ve seen situations like this completely turn around with the 2 legged and 4 leggeds become best of buddies. Best of luck Dog Charmer Cooperstown author will be answering pet owners questions on training their dogs. E-mail your questions to dogsrshelby@msn.com
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THURSDAY, April 22, 2021
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IN MEMORIAM
Helen Winne Mulligan, 101 Helen Winne Mulligan passed away on March 15, 2021 at the age of 101 after a full and healthy life. Helen was born Helen Smith, on April 13th, 1919 in the Town of Exeter, New York. She was the daughter of E. Frank Smith and Hazel Pratt Smith, the fifth of six children. She grew up in Schuyler Lake. Helen had three older brothers, an older sister, and a younger sister. The oldest boy, Eugene, drowned when he was 9 years old. Helen’s mother died when Helen was six years old. Her father was left with five children, ages 13, 11, 9, 6 and 2. The two oldest, Francis and Glenn quit school to help their father with his coal, feed and grain business Helen’s older sister, Margaret, who was nine, helped with the housework and the cooking. For 2 years, after her mother died, Helen spent the winter months with her aunt and uncle a few miles away. Helen’s brothers, Francis and Glenn served during WWII. When they returned, Francis worked as a bus driver and Glenn became a chef. Helen’s older sister, Margaret, married and had six children. Margaret died when she was 38. Catherine (Catherine Smith Van Allen) her younger sister, who lived in Richfield Springs, had four children. Helen remained close to her sister and her nieces and nephews. In high school, Helen was a star basketball player and a serious student. She loved to go to dances and would sometimes go with her brother; in those days, you had to go with someone, when going to a dance. Helen met Lewis Winne in her high school years. They were married on April 23, 1939 and raised two daughters and a son, Carol, Bob, and Kay. Lewis was a butcher for the Clark family and for the Grand Union. He then worked at the Cooperstown Post Office for 32 years before his retirement. Lewis enjoyed hunting,
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fishing, and playing sports. Through the years, Helen and her family lived in the same house that they purchased in 1950 on Route 28 in Fly Creek. Lewis and Helen enjoyed going out for dinner, dancing, and playing cards. They also played golf and in the winter months, cross country skied. Helen was always active, and her hobbies included gardening (roses), golf, traveling, dancing and cooking. She always loved to try out new recipes. She was also on a bowling team that sometimes traveled to tournaments. Helen took up golf when she was 45 and loved the game. Helen worked as a beautician and had her own business in her home. Helen and Lewie always had a huge garden, growing “organic” veggies long before that term was fashionable. They raised many animals ... cows (for milk and butter), sheep, pigs, chickens, and turkeys. That was the food supply for the family. Sadly, Helen’s husband Lewis, died in October 1992 after a long illness. Her friends and family encouraged her to travel and she went with a group of women to Europe, sailing on the QE2. Helen also took trips to Hawaii and Mexico. Sometime after Lewis passed away, Helen went to a Leatherstocking Golf Course cocktail party and enjoyed socializing with an old friend and acquaintance, Bob “RJ” Mulligan. A special bond developed, they started dating and then, later, taking trips together with RJ’s daughter and husband. RJ proposed, and even asked Helen’s kids if they thought it was alright to marry. Helen and RJ were married by Father Roos on October 27,1997. They had a wonderfully big wedding celebration with all of their families. They were devoted to each other and had many happy times. They loved dancing, going out
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for dinner, playing golf and traveling. RJ passed away August 12,2017 at the age of 90. When asked what they loved about Helen, staff from Woodside Hall, where she resided during her final years, said she was a “firecracker” and a “spitfire.” Her family agrees. Helen had a lacerating wit, a sharp sense of humor, a profound zest for life and a deep, abiding love of family. She loved to host and attend parties. She enjoyed a nightly cocktail until she was more than 100. She made new friends at every stage of her life. She gave her family the gift of her time: she was front and center at every birthday party, holiday gathering, graduation, and special occasion, and she was also there for countless Sunday dinners and casual conversations. She danced at the weddings of two of her great-grandchildren and wore out her dance partners. Helen was a fiercely competitive athlete, first on the high school basketball court and then for the rest of her life on the golf course, but she always practiced good sportsmanship first. She was a force of nature with boundless energy, a larger-than-life whirling dervish with a laugh and a grin, who always found herself at the center of the action. She was a source of great strength and support to every member of her family. Helen is survived by her daughter Carol Butts and her husband Tom, her son Robert Winne, and his wife Roz, her daughter Kay Pierro, and her husband Bob. Helen a/k/a Gram was adored by her grandchildren and is survived by Tricia Rowley and her husband Mark, Michael Chase and his wife Sharon, John Butts and his wife Laurie, Lisa Winne, Tom Winne, Matthew Winne and his wife Jeni, Kara Winne Massey and her husband Chris, Adam Lewis Hurtubise and his wife Lisa, Kim Pierro Donaldson, and her husband Matt, Josh Pierro,
Caroline V. Bailey, 92 and his wife Greta. Helen a/k/a GG was loved and admired by her 19 great grandchildren; Kristopher, Alex, Luke, Katie, Quincey, Allison, Wyatt, Nick, Ben, Violet, James, Tyler, Brendan, Daniel, Olivia Helen, Marley, Kristen, Anika, and Leila and by her 4 great-great grandchildren; Kyrie, Jacob, Adalyn, and Oliver. Helen is further survived by the Mulligan family including RJ’s children, Rob Mulligan (since deceased), Shawn Mulligan and his wife Susan, Michael Mulligan and his wife Susan, Kit Mulligan Byrd and her husband Michael and many of RJ’.s grandchildren. Helen is also survived by several loving nieces and nephews. She was pre-deceased by her husbands, Lewis and Robert, son-in-law Don Chase, granddaughter Kathleen Chase and her siblings Eugene, Francis and Glenn Smith, Margaret Wells and Catherine Van Allen. Helen believed in God and the power of prayer. She was always proud of her Irish heritage and cherished her family and the love they had for each other. Please consider a donation to the Fly Creek Emergency Squad or the Activities Fund at Woodside Hall. To honor Helen please plant some flowers, dance the next one and hug a child. Calling hours will be held at Tillapaugh Funeral Home on Friday May 14, 2021 from 4:30 to 7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Father Michael G. Cambi at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown on Saturday May 15, 2021 at 1pm. Covid protocols (masks, distancing and number permitted) will be observed.
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ONEONTA – Caroline V. Bailey, 92, went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on April 17, 2021, she passed peacefully at home. She was born November 21, 1928 in Oneonta, the daughter of Charles and Myrtle (Saunders) Vroman. CarolineV. Caroline Bailey graduated from Oneonta High School. Caroline married Calvert I. Bailey on October 10, 1964 in Oneonta. She at one time worked for NY Telephone Co. as an operator, was an Administrative Assistant for Dr. Flanders and Dr. Dietz office in Oneonta, and she also sold real estate. She then worked with her husband at Bailey’s Appraisal Service in Oneonta. She was a member of the Elm Park United Methodist Church, Oneonta and the Oneonta Chapter NSDAR. Most important to her was her family. She dedicated her life to her husband and children. She deeply loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Caroline is survived by her
children, Charlie Bailey and Polly of Oneonta, Debra Van Dermark and Roy of Unadilla, Theodore Bailey and Kathy of Oneonta, and Mary Anne Bailey Cohen and Jules, of Delhi; grandchildren, Leia, Lisa, Trevor, Ian, Hunter, Graham, Kristopher, Colin, Joshua, Todd, Cameron, Jonathan, Sarah, Jenny, Darlene, Scott, Steven, and Sherman; 29 great-grandchildren; a cousin, Harriet Cimko; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her parents; husband; sisters, Nancy Brown and Charlene Hemberger and brother, Charles Vroman. Public calling hours will be held 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 22, 2021 at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz Oneonta, please wear a face covering. A public funeral service will be 12 p.m. Friday, April 23, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Donna Martin, officiating. Interment will follow at the Oneonta Plains Cemetery. Donations may be made to the Oneonta Chapter NSDAR, PO Box 663, Oneonta, NY 13820. Online condolences maybe made at www.lhpfuneralhome.com
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Frances E. “Casey” Ives, 96;
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MILFORD – Frances E. moved to Wisconsin. “Casey” Ives, who served for After their marriage ended many years as a Registered in divorce, Frances came Nurse at Fox Hospital in back East to live with her Oneonta, sadly passed parents in Delaware County away Saturday morning, where they had a large April 17, 2021, at Bassett horse farm in Fergusonville. Medical Center Realizing she needed in Cooperstown. to make a career At the age of 96. for herself, Frances She almost beat enrolled at the COVID-19. Columbia University Born May 22, School of Nursing 1924, in Hopedale, in New York City Massachusetts, and graduated in she was a daughter 1958 as a Registered of Alfred Joseph Nurse. She returned Howarth and Violet Frances Ives to the Oneonta area Turner Howarth. and was employed Raised in Massachusetts, she for many years at the A.O. moved with her family as a Fox Memorial Hospital. It teenager to New Jersey. After was there that she received graduating from high school her nickname, “Casey.” At she attended Bates College in the time, her last name was Lewiston, Maine and earned Jones, and because of her a bachelor’s degree. In 1948 quick ways and mannershe married Fred Jones and isms, a patient called her
“Casey Jones” and the name stuck. In her retirement, she continued caring for people and helped out at The Meadows in Cooperstown. Never one to sit idle, Casey had many hobbies and interests throughout her life. A talented and excellent seamstress, she was an avid quilter, spun her own wool, and created museum quality reproduction clothing for various historical periods. She also enjoyed other types of craft work and had a large collection of antique dolls. From her time spent on her parent’s farm, she grew to understand and appreciate horses, and became especially proficient at riding side-saddle. Casey truly lived life to the fullest. Casey is survived by her daughter, Patty Lyon and husband, Steven of Arnold
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Lake; two sons, Perry and David Jones; stepchildren Julie, Susan, Charles, Ralph, Dick, James, Betty and Tim; and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her second husband, Charles Ives, and a sister, Ruth Haynes. Due to the on-going pandemic that has touched her family’s life, there will be no gathering or services. For now, please remember the times spent with Casey, her spunkiness and go-getter personality, smile, and know that she is at peace. As a way to honor Casey’s life, please consider a memorial donation to the Hartwick Fire Department Company No. 2, 4877 State Highway 28, Hartwick Seminary, NY 13326.
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The family moved from Staten Island to Laurens, New York, in 1975 and Bert and Margaret moved to Mt. Vision in 1985. Margaret was a homemaker for many years, and landlord after the move upstate. She also was an Administrative Assistant at Hartwick College. Margaret was a voracious reader and, later in life, Tuesday night competitive Canasta games with her family. She was a longtime member of St. Matthews in Laurens and then the Lutheran Church of the Atonement. She had a green thumb and loved to give gifts of plants to her family. She is survived by 4 children, eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
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