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The village of Cooperstown’s Board of Trustees has tentatively approved a permit for the Cooperstown Veterans of Foreign Wars to hold its annual Memorial Day Parade. The trustees conditionally approved the permit for Monday, May 31, providing state laws regarding the coronavirus pandemic are obeyed. INSIDE ►A GEORGIA DAWG: CCS grad Jacob Russell pursues football coaching dream at UGA. Page A3. ►TITLE PURSUIT: Cooperstown baseball team seeks Section Three title. Page A3. ►al colone TRIBUTE: Columnist, Oneonta businessman is honored by his brother. Page A4. Colone’s full obituary is featured. Page B5. ►Mill for SALE: Tourist destination the Fly Creek Cider Mill is for sale. Page B1. ►WHither the Editorial Page?: New editor discusses his mixed feelings about opinion pages in newspapers. Page A4.
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Shared garage back on Otsego’s agenda By GREG KLEIN
Otsego County’s plan for a shared transportation garage has been revived. County officials met with repInspired by the roadside resentatives from Otsego Northern dedication in honor of John Catskills BOCES in the past month Kempe Winslow on state to gage interest in another push to Route 205, the village of build a centralized, shared services Cooperstown will work with facility on county Route 35 in the the Cooperstown Veterans town of Milford, on land adjacent to Club to find an appropriate place to honor Robert “Bobby” the ONC BOCES campus. “I would not say it is full speed W. Atwell, who was killed ahead, but maybe it is half speed March 21, 1968, in Vietnam. A private first class in the ahead,” Otsego County Board of Representatives President Dave Bliss Army, Atwell, 20, was the said on Tuesday, April 27. only village resident who “It is still very much needed,” died in Vietnam. He was Bliss said. “BOCES is still interest. posthumously awarded the It is back on now that the funding is Bronze Star Medal, The coming back up and we’re hopefully Purple Heart and the Good Conduct Medal. In October, the state dedicated a section of 205 in the hamlet of Hartwick in honor of Winslow, a Marine Sgt. who was killed in Vietnam in 1969.
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going to be on better footing.” The county’s facilities are near Cooperstown Central School on Linden Avenue in an area where no expansion or renovation is possible. “It’s old. It’s Dave Bliss not big enough. It is functionally obsolete. It is structurally unsound. It is a terrible location. It is right in the middle of the school and the village traffic on Linden Avenue.” Bliss said. “We might be able to leave some things there, such as the salt facility and the gas facility. The village of
Cooperstown uses those, so it would be more expensive if they had to have their own facilities. Bliss said there have been ongoing discussions with county schools and other municipalities about joining BOCES and the county. He said he thinks more groups will be interested once the plans are concrete, a cost is known and the shared services begin to lead toward budget savings. “I would think any school would be interested,” Bliss said. “They are in and out of BOCES all the time. This way they could drop off the kids at BOCES and if their bus needed servicing, they could just drop it off at the garage at the same time. It is getting harder to find mechanics, too, so it might be better for the schools if they did not have to hire their own
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Rally Sunday to protest crimes against Asians
COOPERSTOWN — In response to the rising number of hate crimes directed at Asian Americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, local teens are planing a Solidarity Rally for Sunday, May 2, according to a media release. Otsego Solidarity Rally for Asian Americans will be held at 2 p.m. in front of the Otsego County Courthouse at 197 Main Street. May is Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage month, according to the release. Students involved in organizing the rally have created a window display at 149 Main Street, Cooperstown, to highlight the history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The exhibit will be on view throughout the month of May. Cate Bohler, one of the 15-year-olds, said in the release, “I want to organize this rally to see how people come together to fight against racial injustice. My biggest goal is to help people become aware, educate them about things they might not know about. The rally is a starting point for action.” Speakers will include Otsego County Board of Supervisors Danny Lapin and Meg Kiernan and Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh.
mechanics, but could use one of the mechanics at the garage.” Although the Cooperstown location is only about 10 miles north of the BOCES location, Bliss said the Milford spot is “ideal.” “I identified that spot three or four years ago when I started (on the board),” he said. “It is not exactly, but pretty much the center of the county. There is not much around it. You can expand as needed.” Bliss said the partners are waiting for an architectural estimate from C&S of Syracuse and then they will begin to assess how to pay for the project. A mix of grants, municipal budgets and education money will likely be part of the financial package. “It is really back on schedule,” Bliss said.
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Oneonta skater Matthew Maloney, 23, rides his Blackout skateboard at the Oneonta Skate Park on Sunday, April 25. Maloney said he has been skating in the park since he was 16-years old.
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The proposed baseball field at Unatego Central School in Otego is seen in this artist’s rendition.
Unatego Central School’s proposed $27.6 million capital improvement plan comes at the perfect time to keep the needed school upgrades from raising taxes on district voters, according to Superintendent Dave Richards. “We have an opportunity with our debt where we have some debt falling off, so we can replace it
with new debt without any increase of the tax levy,” Richards said. State building aid funding will pay for 87.5% of the project, Richards said. “If we don’t do a project, then we lose that revenue, too,” Richards said. Leftover EXCEL funds and about $1.3 million in capital reserves will pay for the remainder of See UNATEGO, Page A2
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Richards: Long-term plan is still to close elementary school in Unadilla UNATEGO/Continued from A1 the project, Richards said. The project would be the first is about a decade for UCS, and the first since the district embarked on a long-term plan to turn three campuses into one. However, the project will not complete the consolidation and will instead focus on needed improvements at the district’s two remaining campuses, the elementary school at 265 Main St. in the town of Unadilla, and the middle/high school at 2641 state Route 7, in the town of Otego. Eventually, the elementary school will be closed and all students will attend school at the Otego campus, Richards said.. “Long term, to consolidate is still the plan,” Richards said, “but to do it all at once was too expensive. You would have had to raise taxes too much.” The middle/high school, built in 1969, is largely unmodified since then, Richards said, so the
school’s Board of Education decided an upgrade for that campus could not wait. “There are all these longstanding things that needed to be address,” Richards said. The project would include an HVAC overhaul, a renovated auditorium, new lockers, classroom upgrades and new baseball and softball fields. Upgrades at the elementary school would include new septic and communication systems. At the bus garage, the project would replace a bus lift from 1951 and also allow for the district to build ADA compliant bathrooms. The vote will take place on the same ballot as the board of education and school budget votes, from noon to 9 p.m., Tuesday, May 18, at the district offices at the middle/high school campus in Otego. Click on 2021 Capital Project at www.unatego.org for more information.
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The proposed softball field at Unatego Central School in Otego is seen in this artist’s rendition.
Applications open for annual art scholarships from CAA Graduating seniors from any Clark Scholarshipeligible high schools are encouraged to apply for the Cooperstown Art Association’s annual Art Scholarship, for students looking to study art at the college level. CAA will providing up to $1,400 in awards through this scholarship. The schools eligible are: Cherry Valley-Springfield, Cooperstown, Edmeston, Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton, Laurens, Milford, Milford BOCES, Morris, Mt. Markham, Owen D. Young, Richfield Springs, Schenevus and Worcester. Home-schooled students living within those school districts are also eligible for the scholarship. Applications will be submitted online this year. Students can access the form
on the CAA’s website, www.cooperstownart.com. There is no application fee. Each student will be asked to provide a portfolio of five pieces that best represent their work and artistic abilities. Images can be uploaded directly in the form. Students will also be asked to upload a document that includes the titles and mediums for each piece entered. All submissions must be submitted prior to the deadline at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 12. All portfolios will be juried by a local artist /art professional, to be determined by the CAA. Funding for this scholarship is provided in part through CAA’s annual Adorn-a-Door Fundraiser and through donations from CAA members and patrons.
Heidi Edmonds of Cooperstown was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest alldiscipline collegiate honor society. Edmonds was initiated at United States Air Force Academy. Elmira College recently announced its Dean’s List for academic achievement for winter 2021. The list recognizes fulltime undergraduate students who were registered for at least 12 computable credit hours and who earned a term grade point average of 3.6 or higher. Local students recognized include: Hailey Erway of Cherry Valley; Willow Tompkins of Worcester; and Mason Weir of Oneonta. Thomas Leahy of Otego was one of six students from SUNY Oneonta’s School of Economics and Business who were inducted into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the
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Football dreams coming true at UGA for Coop’s Russell By GREG KLEIN
Cooperstown Central School graduate Jacob Russell said he spent the spring of 2019 on campus at Harvard University pondering his future and realizing he did not want a traditional path. What he really wanted to do, he admited to himself, was coach football. “I was probably the last person in the world someone from Cooperstown thought would end up a football coach,” he said Monday, April 26. For one thing, Russell hadn’t played football since elementary school. In high school, Russell ran cross country, wrestled and played tennis. He did crew in college and has run the Boston Marathon twice. Still, despite his athleticism, he knew he did not have a good chance to play football. He topped out in the 120 pound weight class as a wrestler during his senior year at CCS in 2015. “Evcr since second grade, I was a football fanatic,” he said. “I guess I realized I was too small to ever be a football player. It was kind of a pie-in-the-sky thing to be a coach, but if I wanted to work in football it seemed much more realistic for me to be a football coach than a football player at my size.” Russell said he was considering his options during spring break in 2019. He was staying on campus for break and decided he should go for it if he wanted to pursue a career in football. “I was trying to decide if I wanted to go to law school or if I wanted to get a job in finance on Wall Street,
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you know, sort of the more typical Harvard paths,” he said. “I decided I didn’t really want to do either of those things. What I really wanted to do was coach football. “I thought, ‘you know what? I am on campus for spring break. Let me cold email people.’” Russell said he emailed about 400 college football programs. Because he was a member of the Harvard Sports Analytic Collective, he emphasized his interest in football analytics. “Analytics in football is different than analytics in baseball,” he said. “On defense, they look at tendencies. On offense, it has a lot more to do with game planning.”
Russell’s hail Mary found a recipient. The University of Georgia Offensive Coordinator James Coley interviewed him and then hired him to be a recruiting coordinator. “The day of my graduation, I went to Logan Airport and went down to Georgia,” Russell said. “I got in at 1 a.m., went to work at 7:30 the next morning and worked until 11 at night. It wasn’t the typical day after
graduation celebration at the beach, for sure.” Coley moved on to Texas A&M for the 2020 season, but it turned out to be a break for Russell. Todd Monken, the new offensive coordinator, also liked Russell and
made him an assistant tight end coach. “He took me under his wing a lot,” Russell said. During the season, Russell did quality control for the tight ends, helped run the scout teams for defensive
prep and continued to help the offense with analytics. In the off-season, he is recruiting, although mostly virtually, because of the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s a grind. I think I was See RUSSELL, A6
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Cooperstown’s baseball players pose during their trip to Cal Ripken’s baseball complex in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina two weeks ago.
Hawkeye boys motivated by chance at title By CHAD G. WELCH The last time the Cooperstown boys baseball team took the field was in June 2019, in the school’s firstever appearance in the championship game of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association’s Class C baseball tournament. Cooperstown fell, 7-3, to Ticonderoga that day and CCS coach Frank Miosek said they have been looking forward to playing ball ever since. “It will be two years ago in June when we were in the state final,” Miosek said. “We were looking forward to an excellent spring last year and we’re looking forward to an excellent spring this year.” The Hawkeyes started practice last week and were back to battling a familiar foe: unpredictable spring weather. “We’ve had four days (of practice), of which we’ve been outside once, because the weather hasn’t been that cooperative,” Miosek said on Thursday, April 22. “We’re used
to that, but it’s usually March when it’s not that cooperative.” Despite the poor weather, Miosek said it is great to be back coaching and the players are already having fun. “We’re very, very happy to be playing and to be practicing and we’re looking forward to a season,” he said. “We’ve been inside for two to two- and half-hour practices and there’s never a dull moment. “The kids are smiling, they’re sweating and they’re not complaining, so that’s always a good sign,” Miosek said. Miosek said plans for the season have changed several times, but as of now they include a 15-game regular season, which would begin May 3 at home against Norwich, followed by sectionals for qualifying teams. “We’re going to start playing games on May 3,” he said. “The sectional meeting is June 6. We’ve got a schedule of 15 games in approximately one months’ time. “Then there is going to be a sectional tournament for section three and that will be the end of the
playoffs,” he said. While there won’t be any regional or state championship tournaments played this year, Miosek said the latest plans to allow sectional postseason games is a big improvement. “It’s the best thing going right now, so we’re excited about it,” Miosek said. “We’re hoping that everybody maintains good health and we can get through this and get into sectionals.” Miosek said the Hawkeyes expect to have eight upperclassman as full-time varsity players and several of the 17 junior varsity players will be “swingmen” going back and forth between the squads to gain experience. “Six seniors will form the nucleus,” he said. “Kendall Haney and Chris Ubner were players of the year in the region two years ago. We also have Alex Hage, Alex Hascup, Derek Moore and new senior Alex Poulson who will be doing his senior year here.” They will be joined by juniors Treston Emerick, Liam Ford and See BASEBALL, A6
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Milford Central School senior Avery Leonard was honored recently when Cooperstown Central School listed him on the team’s 100 Wins Club banner. Leonard, who placed third in the state at 120 pounds in Division II wrestling in 2020, was the first Milford student to letter in wrestling at Cooperstown, in addition to being the first to place at the state tournament and to get 100 wins. He was a contender for a state championship this year, until the coronavirus pandemic canceled the season in New York.
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In the early 1990s, at my second job out of college, at a newspaper in central Alabama, I made the mistake of writing a column about church league basketball. I had the best of intentions. I was the sports editor of a semiweekly paper in a small city that was becoming a bedroom community for the state capital and the thriving military base between the two cities. My brand, to the extent a 23-year-old, naive, fish-out-ofwater reporter/editor/columnist could have a brand, was to not take sports too seriously, but to view it as a metaphor for life. One week, I had a handful of people tell me that the best team in the local YMCA Church Basketball League, representing the second biggest church in about the 10th biggest city in the state, was acting reprehensibly in their games. They were not only winning, but showboating, running up scores and rubbing it in, then disingenuously telling their upset
opponents not from to get angry the editor because, “it’s church league, baby.” I went to watch a game to confirm the behavior and then I wrote a column that called out the GREG KLEIN behavior. I could not have been more unprepared for the result. Although I did not mention the church or any of the players by name, I think I heard from every player on that team, as well as the church’s assistant pastor, who hosted me at his office. I also had way too many pow wows with my publisher. Although I had gotten some threats at Auburn for being a sports editor who was not rah rah enough about the football team, I had never experienced anything
like the church league basketball controversy. People read my words back to me with fury in their voices. They accused me of questioning their religion or their faith in their religion. There was a second round of controversy about how I had only watched one game. When I gave them feedback from two other games, a few of the players started outing and questioning my sources. When the YMCA’s league coordinator later introduced me to his wife, she greeted me by saying, “so, you are the one who is trying to get my husband fired.” I am pretty sure those were the only words she ever spoke to me. As a yankee (not really, but I was a Marylander to an Alabamian) kid of Jewish descent who had already gotten a threat from the chief of police to “watch myself” because I was an Auburn grad in an Alabama town and had written a few columns taunting the Tide, I had a lot of strikes against me
From: The Daily Gazette Editorial Board, Saratoga The return to normalcy has started. But we’re not there yet. And if you think we’re beyond the bad old days of seeing big spikes in cases, look no further than Saratoga Springs High School, where about two dozen students contracted the virus recently. Officials believe the outbreak was largely the result of a teen party in Lake George the weekend of April 10. ... We’re almost there! Now is not the time to get complacent and let down our guard. Vaccinations are available
to anyone over age 16. If you haven’t gotten your shot(s), find a vaccination site in your area and get one. It shouldn’t be difficult. In the meantime, keep taking basic precautions. Wear your mask indoors and around others. Social distance. Wash your hands and disinfect surfaces. Don’t gather together in large numbers. If we all keep at it, this will be over soon and our patience will be rewarded. We just got a vivid reminder of what can happen if we don’t.
From: The Albany TimesUnion Editorial Board It seems incongruous in a free society for law enforcement to use on civilians a chemical agent that’s been banned on battlefields for nearly a century. So, it’s commendable that Albany is looking to restrict the use of tear gas by police. Albany, however, will need more than just a policy on paper to make this proposal work. And it needs to go beyond one tactic in exploring better ways for police to deal with the public. … We need a rethinking of law enforcement, from the vetting that goes on in recruitment and hiring to the
training officers receive in the academy and on the job, and to the very culture of police forces, including the consequences for violating policies. We need police to be able to recognize when it’s truly necessary to control situations and when their need for control will more likely have the opposite effect — with the kind of needlessly fatal results we see too often in arrests and minor traffic stops. Far better than control would be communities that seem less like battlefields, and encounters between police and civilians that don’t require the weapons of war, banned or not.
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Those were lessons I took into my second stint in newspapers, for the past decade with the pension fund. When, unexpectedly, eight years ago, I was thrown into being the Crier editor, I suddenly had to write editorials, the so called “view of the paper” missives that have both a grand and not-soglorious history in journalism. One editorial I wrote about a great soccer game was good enough a coach later told me she read it to her team. However, typically, the middle managers at the pension fund objected to my editorials that were too national in scope. Arguments ensued. Chains of command were called into question. More than one editorial was pulled. Orders to write local-only editorials were given and then broken, by both sides, it would turn out, as the pension fund later ordered all of its papers to run some national editorials in 2016. See KLEIN, Page 5
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anyway. Plus, I was an outsider, writing for the newspaper, in a town where it still mattered whose family had once owned what land. I legitimately had concerns about my safety. For not the first or last time during my three and a half years there, I worried I might wake to find a burning cross in the yard. I learned a lot of lessons about the power of my words that week. Don’t get me wrong, I was correct about what I wrote, but as my publisher liked to ask me after every ensuing column controversy, “Did we need to say it? Did saying it do more harm than good?” It’s funny, because when I was in my 20s, I thought it was neat that I would leave behind dozens of columns with my thoughts and pieces of myself in them. Now I look back at the columns I wrote in my teens and 20s and I am often aghast. I want to renounce half of what I wrote, half of what I thought I believed.
Family remembers Al Colone by looking at what he loved most: family Remembering the saga of Ma and Pa Colone
Editor’s Note: Our columnist and Oneonta businessman Al Colone died April 13, without finishing a two-part series about his ancestors. As a tribute, his brother, Frank Colone, wrote this memorial about their parents, By Frank Colone In the aftermath of World War I and the pandemic of 1918, Ma and Pa Colone returned to Oneonta and Depew Street. Oldest son Ani and baby Adelia (Ethel), who was born in Italy, came with them. Ma and Pa were Contributed determined to provide a Albert L. Colone July 8, 1944 to better life for their family, both those in Italy and those April 13, 2021. in America. After living for a time After returning to America, on Depew Street and West Pa worked to learn how to Broadway, Pa bought a read and write in English. home on River Street and He so valued education and the family settled permahe constantly preached the nently in the Sixth Ward in value of learning to his famOneonta’s “lower deck.” ily. Pa became a naturalized They were proud of their American citizen in 1928, home and the fact that they a very proud moment in his could call Oneonta “home.” life. Like many immigrant Pa resumed work for the families, Ma never learned D & H. He worked briefly at to read and write English the roundhouse and eventuand, therefore, could not ally spent most of his work- become a citizen. ing years in the shop. The Old World ways An unfortunate accident and skills learned in Italy in the shop cost him an eye, helped them survive the but it did not cause him to Great Depression. Without stop working. He worked in a lot of money, Ma and Pa the shop until he retired. worked hard and used all As a young man, Pa their resources to keep their served in the military in growing family secure. Italy and acquired reading Despite her lack of a formal and writing skills there. education, Ma had the
primary role in maintaining the household and in raising the family. Because of Pa’s employment at the D&H, Ma was able to ride the train for free and she went on regular shopping trips to the Italian markets in Albany. She would take the morning train, shop for several hours and return to Oneonta in the evening with her homemade cloth sacks loaded with goods from the market. What she couldn’t carry, she had shipped. Often, she was accompanied by a family member or a neighbor. Ma also took the train to Tunnel, just outside of Binghamton, where she purchased fresh ricotta cheese from a goat farmer. The ricotta became the main ingredient in Ma’s homemade ravioli. In the fall, Pa would join her and travel to Albany where he would select grapes for the wine he made in the cellar of their home. Ma and Pa’s backyard consisted of a huge vegetable garden and a chicken coop. Ma canned many vegetables for winter use while the chickens provided daily eggs used to make pasta dishes and homemade bread. Ma used everything at her disposal — from chicken feathers for pillows and old feed sacks from Elmore’s that she boiled and made into pillowcases and sheets.
Ani would take Ma out in the countryside where she would spend the day picking wild blueberries for canning and a wide assortment of greens and mushrooms. She knew where to find the best ones! Ma also picked bags full of broccoli rabe that she cooked up with olive oil and garlic and put in the end of a hunk of Foti bread. They made a great sandwich! She specialized in organic health food before it became fashionable. All the while, the family grew. Sons Albert (Eddigate) and Enio and daughter Ethel went to public school and graduated from OHS. Oldest son Ani was the first to graduate and was the salutatorian of his graduating class. A proud moment came when Ani was selected to recite General Logan’s Orders at a Memorial Day observance in Neahwa Park with Ma and Pa looking on. Ma and Pa were very proud of sons Eddigate and Enio’s military service during World War II. While on leave, both men were able to visit the family hometown of Roccavivi. They reunited with sister Sisetta (Susie), now married with her own family. They met older sisters Maria and Ida for the first time. Ma and Pa’s dream of family unification was becoming more real. During the Depression See COLONE, Page 5
Reporter gives thanks to retired editor To the Editor: I need to add my own praise for Jim Kevlin. I moved to Otsego County in July 2018, had never lived in New York State or worked as a breaking news reporter before, and I was 52 years old – not exactly at the most agile stage of life. Yet Jim hired me in Nov. 2018 and I was there for almost a year. It was stressful, but it was also one of the most fun and interesting years of my life. Jim and Libby Cudmore,
then-managing editor, sent me on amazing assignments. I got to report on an American Ninja Warrior from Oneonta, bison who escaped from their ranch, two rescued piglets at the SSPCA, and writer Erica Jong. I got to learn about this area quickly and aspects of it I would probably never have known. Jim was such a good mentor to me. He always gave me the background to a story that I, as a newbie, needed. He tried mightily to
teach me how to take decent photographs since I was a novice at that, too. I often took way too long to write. Given we had looming deadlines, Jim was patient with me although a few times he’d bark, “Hill, why aren’t you finished yet?” in his best editor voice. All he needed was a cigar although since I now work for Tobacco-Free Communities, I’m glad he didn’t have one. Mostly, Jim was such a nice man. He treated people who came in to talk to him
with dignity. And I enjoyed his sense of humor. I loved that he’d say, “This story could be a hot potato!” And now that I have overwritten yet another piece for this paper, I will end with congratulating Jim and Sylvia on their retirement and their next fun adventure. Thank you, Jim, for letting me meet and write about people who make this area good and interesting to live in. Jennifer Hill Oneonta
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Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library traces of the classical learning had satisfactory. Such a constitution, shoppers last year. “We asked disappeared and in its stead were she said, would become effecpeople where they live, where various side shows. There were tive by ratification by the vote of they shop, and what they buy,” Seale said. The survey found that dancing midgets, a two-headed the peoples, and when ratified by an agreed upon majority. Groups calf, marionettes, hot dogs, downtown businesses lose $27.8 popcorn and lemonade stands. seeking legislation for the calling million annually to local and reEven fortune tellers were to be gional shopping malls. According of such a convention are at work to Seale, Pyramid Mall alone costs in six states in the U.S. and in 42 found. Barkers stood in the corthe city of Oneonta $9 million a ridors selling the attractions to the other countries. crowd. After a tour of the midway, April 1951 year. “The retail space that would the crowd filed into the Big Top have filled that hole downtown is sitting in the Pyramid Mall,” Seale where the performance began. The closing act featured sixteen said. According to a survey of Hartwick co-eds dressed in green April 1981 residents in Otsego and Herkimer berets and clown suits. April 1931 counties there is unanimity in believing that healthy welfare recipients ought to work and that Our county is committed to social justice Otsego County legisla“dope pushers” ought to receive Speaking at a meeting of the mandatory stiff jail terms when tor Kevin Hodne told a gathering Oneonta Community Peace Coun- convicted. A majority of those sur- of Young Democrats at SUCO on cil at Oneonta’s First Presbyterian veyed also want to stop recipients Monday night. Hodne, along with of New York State scholarship Church, Mrs. Merwyn Fenner city alderman Kathryn King and of Afton called for a worldwide William Schebaum, chairman of funds from using the money to attend out-of-state schools. A large the Otsego County Democratic constitutional convention of delegates elected by the peoples majority also favored establishing Committee spoke at the meetof the various nations instead of narcotics addiction treatment and ing. Hodne, citing 1980 statistics, April 1886 designates chosen by current rehabilitation programs, especially said that slightly more than 9,000 for young people. Survey particigovernmental regimes. Mrs. county residents were living under boy and the manager of its club pants were nearly evenly divided the poverty line and speculated two years ago, is doing good stick Fenner pointed out that we are gradually losing control of our on the question of whether a that the number “had grown sigSince spring is here interest work this season with Montreal. domestic affairs and said that we woman seeking an abortion should nificantly over the last decade.” revives in the national game, Vaughn is under contract to the are faced with these alternatives be required to obtain consent from Hodne attributes the poverty proband at Gildersleeve’s and other New York Americans, but is lem to Otsego County’s lack of an – dictation by the executive over her husband before proceeding. centers of baseball interest there farmed out to Montreal. His domestic policies, or action by Twice as many surveyed favored industrial base and to a down turn is talk in plenty of what’s doing many friends expect to see him the people under their reserved capital punishment as those who in the dairy industry. and speculation as to what later “breaking in” with the big leagues. powers in the Constitution to take opposed it, but about 16 percent of April 1991 will be done. A worthwhile team April 1911 charge of foreign affairs which so those surveyed were undecided. in Oneonta in 1911 is assured. At vitally affect domestic matters. April 1971 Elm Park considerable improveThe fundamental flaw in the ments to the grounds have already Cellist Minako Yoshiwa and United Nations, she said, is that Amidst the blaring of a band, been made. Though the diamond pianist Mai Kimura, both SUCO itself has always been pretty good, overhead lights and a large crowd, it is based on the sovereignty of A study prepared by Triad Asstudents, will perform at a recital its member nations and so bethe Merry-makers’ Circus gave the outfield has been rough and sociates of Albany concludes that in the William Cole Recital Hall comes “just another area of power its first performance Friday in the uneven – a condition which it is Oneonta cannot support a large at the college on Sunday evepolitics.” Mrs. Fenner advocates now proposed to remedy. The field gymnasium of Hartwick College. shopping mall on the downtown ning. Ms. Yoshiwa will perform no particular type of constitution, There were clowns, funny men, has accordingly been ploughed, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 3, Opus urban renewal parcel. “We don’t or provision, but believes that a rubes, tumblers, acrobats, and a and later will be leveled and feel there is enough business to 69, and Ms. Kimura will perform constitution hammered out by score of other performers, who rolled, making a park surpassed Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes. support a 200,000-square-foot elected delegates of the world’s thrilled the crowd with their feats by few in the state for ball purmall,” Glenn C. Seale of Triad “It’s the kind of work you would and won hardy plaudits. That night peoples, who were chosen after poses. There is need too of a new Associates said. “But, if you imexpect to hear in Carnegie Hall,” running in their various nations and larger grandstand, but it is not the administration building of the proved what you have downtown, said Janet Nepkie, a professor of on platforms which enabled the college was turned into a House likely to be built this year. “Bobmusic at SUCO. you could do better,” he added. peoples to choose the principles of Wonders. As one entered the by” Vaughn, whom everybody Triad Associates based their findApril 2001 to be incorporated, would be doors leading into the foyer, all in Oneonta recalls as a Stamford ings on a survey of 500 Christmas
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Klein: What is the value of opinions in small-town newspapers? KLEIN/Continued from A4 I should explain that I do not normally read editorial pages in other papers. Coming of age in Alabama, I know too well how often they have been used for justifying evil rather than advocating for good. There are papers that I think have good to great reporting staffs – the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, to name two – but just dreadful editorial pages, to the point where I start questioning their missions and sometimes stop taking their products. When I was more interested in the stock market than I am today, I briefly got into the market patterns charted by Investors Business Daily. Then I read the editorial page and I lost interest. How could I take financial advice from a paper that still thinks there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Beyond that, to use television terms, I hate the conceit of editorials themselves. One person, perhaps under advisement and consultation of a larger group, writes in the royal we something that represents the “view of the paper,” whatever that means. To top it off, all of my experience has been at small newspapers. Maybe the
larger chains and national newspapers and groups actually practice the “wall of separation” between news and editorial that is jauntily bandied about on cable news shows when they navel gaze about journalistic integrity. I have yet to work at a small paper where that is actually the case. Reporters and editors who work on stories are often part of the editorial page process. And sometimes, maybe, they should be. I can remember one or two times when someone at the pension fund editorialized on something I covered as a reporter. The editorial result showed either I had not answered enough questions with my coverage, or the editorial writer had not read enough of the story. Still, I hesitate with that maybe. Reporters are supposed to write unbiased articles; columnists and editorial writers write opinions. A lot of people aren’t even sophisticated to know the difference between an article, a column and an editorial. Should we be mixing reporting with the opinion pages in a way that blurs those lines more? My frustrations with the editorial pages aren’t limited
to the editorials. National media columnists have become high priced, low information people, more into their own newsworthiness and fame than in serving any true mission, of their papers or themselves. And don’t get me started on letters and their less educated cousins, anonymous “sound off’ columns. Who was it that said opinions are like a part of the body on the back side? I feel that way some days. Too many opinions, or even too much of one person’s opinion, and things tend to stink. And yes, I mean mine, too. From a practical standpoint, editorial pages also take time and resources to maintain. One of the reasons the pension fund switched to several days a week of sound offs was harvesting anonymous comments from Facebook takes a lot less time than writing a cogent editorial. In my literal person hours, writing an editorial or a column takes about the same time as attending and covering a meeting or a baseball game. As the editor, which is more important? Which is more important for our readers? I also worry about alienating some of our readers, too.
Safe to say, I am to the left of the previous editor. I could give some readers whiplash if I start getting up on my liberal soapbox about the world at large. And while I know it is what some people would like, is it the best thing for the paper and our readers? Is it really important that I or we say it, in a local paper dedicated to covering local news? I don’t know the answers, but I will try to weigh that standard whenever I ask the questions. I am not even sure if writing a lot of opinion pieces is the best thing for me. I am happy living in a bipartisan world. I have my beliefs and opinions, but they don’t preclude me from appreciating other people who have different views. I am a child of divorce, my parents separated when I was four. I like peace and harmony. I don’t want to argue with you. I am tired of being in the middle of people arguing. I have a teenaged son, so I am never far from arguments, anyway. I always say, there are only 60,000 people in Otsego County; we need each other. Coaching a team is a good metaphor. You won’t have a very good team if you start excluding people based on
their political views. Otsego County and our region is our team. It is actually nice to be among one of the few groups of people in the country who do not live a bubble these days. Maybe it only works because of the mostly unspoken upstate way of life. Someone once explained to me that upstate New York has a “let’s not talk about it” philosophy. Social media has made it hard to keep to it, and cable news probably hasn’t helped, either, but I am good without having to share all of my views with friends and family. The opposite is true, too! After nearly 10 years in Alabama, it is always a blessing when a meal does not end with someone trying to convert me to something, be it a political view or a sect religion. And, to top it all off, I run a bipartisan nonprofit film commission office. We have donors from both political parties. I have not asked, but I think we have board members of a wide variety of political views. I know people think of “Hollywood” as liberal, but that isn’t always true. If Tim Allen or James Woods
or Kelsey Grammer wants to make a movie in Otsego County, I will take their calls and show them around and work hard to bring their business and their money here, just the same as I would for Amy Schumer or Mark Ruffalo or Leonardo DiCaprio. If you have studied how money gets re-spent, you will know it bounces around a community several times without checking voter registrations. Bringing that money here is a bipartisan goal. All of which is to say, of all my new tasks here, maintaining an editorial page is one of the least of my priorities, yet one of the largest of my concerns. We had our first editorial board meeting last week — former The Freeman’s Journal publishers Michael Moffat and Lin Vincent joined new Publisher Tara Barnwell and myself -- but it was more a get to know you meeting than a true editorial board meeting. In the weeks to come, we will redefine the media group in many ways, but editorially will certainly be one of them. I am curious what our readers think and what they want from the papers. If you have opinions, let us know.
Frank Colone: Our parents’ story is my brother’s story, too COLONE/Continued from A4 and World War II, Ma and Pa sent many “care packages” to Roccavivi. They would accumulate many items of clothing and other necessities for the family in Italy. Those packages were a lifeline to them. Son Ani continued this practice for many years. His generosity is still remembered to this day
in Roccavivi! Though Ma and Pa, in effect, had two families — one in Roccavivi and one in Oneonta — the families never lost touch with one another. Pa made several ocean voyages to see the family in Italy. Later in her life, Ma actually flew to Italy to visit her family. Family members were amazed by
her determination to travel alone to see her daughters, their families and her grandchildren. Following his retirement, son Ani made annual trips to Roccavivi, where he had spent several years as a child. Ani’s visits were eagerly anticipated by the entire family there and the bond between them was strong. Ma and Pa’s dream
of uniting the American and Italian families is being kept alive by grandson Frank. He is a candidate for dual US and Italian citizenship, that he hopes will serve as a concrete embodiment of Ma and Pa’s dream. For their entire lives in Oneonta, Ma and Pa were sustained by their family, their neighbors and their
friends. The Sixth Ward was indeed Oneonta’s melting pot where neighbors helped neighbors to prosper and succeed. Ma passed away in 1964 and Pa joined her in 1968. They lived long enough to see their oldest grandson become the first family member to graduate from college. They felt they had realized the American
Dream! While we are still living with the challenges created by COVID-19, we can all succeed with patience, hard work, ingenuity and the support of our family, neighbors and friends. This is the legacy of Ma and Pa Colone. It’s a legacy to value, to cherish and to pass on to the future generations.
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RUSSELL: Career in football won’t end marathon plans with childhood friend, Dewey RUSSELL/Continued from A3 working 100-hour weeks during the season, from about 7 a.m. to 11 at night,” he said. “Some nights, it was more like 1 a.m., when you are breaking down film and stuff.” Georgia went 8-2 in 2020 and beat Cincinati in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta on New Year’s Day. Russell said he is excited about the team’s prospects in 2021, too. “It is so much fun,” he said. “I am basically still in apprentice mode. But just, to be in the room … in the meetings, around the coaches, around the players. It is a really cool experience.” Although football is not a huge sport at Harvard, Russell said he has always admired it on a cerebral level, comparing it to chess. Except, in football, you get to teach your players, an experience that Russell said is what he enjoys most about his new profession. “People often ask about my interest in coaching and my go-to response is that coaching football is like playing a game of chess based on physical contingencies,” he
said. “It is also very special to help develop these talented players into professionals.” Now that he his longshot dream has succeeded, Russell said there is no going back. The long hours and low pay for beginning coaches won’t deter him, he said. “This is definately my career now,” he said. “To have gone from analytics to coaching in the course of one year, it has been an amazing experience. I am not going to walk away from that now. “It is more of a matter of where I end up after this season, because coaches move around,” he continued. “If we have as good a year as I think we can have, it could lead to other opportunities.” Russell said he has not abandoned his other athletic endeavors, either. He and his fellow CCS 2015 classmate, Patrick Dewey, ran the Boston Marathon in 2019 together as an adaptive racing team. Dewey has cerebral palsy and Russell pushes him, a form of racing they were inspired to pursue after learning about Dick Hoyt and his son, Rick, who also has cerebral palsy.
Hoyt died March 17, leaving Russell, Dewey and thousands of other marathoners and running fans in mourning. “He has been an inspiration, not only to us, but to a lot of other people,” Russell said. “He was really an innovator.” Russell said he and Dewey were planning to run in another marathon last May, only to have it canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. But they hope to get back into racing form next spring, he said. “During the season you are working 100-hour weeks, but there are times of the year where you get to have some time off for a few weeks at a time,” Russell said. “You get a week off right after the season and a couple of weeks off several different times of the year. May is one of those times, so I was thinking that works perfectly with marathon schedules. “Whether it is Boston again or some other marathon, I think Patrick and I will be running again,” he said. Until then, Russell said he is happy to be breaking down defenses and calling tight end
BASEBALL: With no state title, Hawkeyes eye section crown BASEBALL/Continued from A3 potentially by new student Brendyn Maerz, Miosek said. Sophomores Henry Loeffler, Bryson Whitaker, Brayden Hascup, Ethan Kukenberger, P.J. Kiuber and freshman Emerson Toulson will be “swingmen” who get playing time at both levels, he said. With the compact schedule, Miosek said the Hawkeyes will feature a lot of different lineups defensively with almost all players playing multiple positions over the course of the season. “Nobody is locked into one or two positions,” Miosek said. “Everybody has practiced in and are capable of filling in wherever we need to balance the lineup. “We’ve got a lot of choices, our kids are multitalented in different positions,” he said. “Whoever is pitching will dictate who the other position players are.” Miosek said several players will have to pitch innings including all six seniors. Miosek said he and assistant coach Matt Hazzard will have to make sure everyone gets adequate rest by rotating players around. “I’ve got a lot of different things going on,” he said. “If someone catches and pitches, I am certainly not going to
put them in the outfield. They’re going to have to DH and somebody else is going to take their spot. “Hazzard and I are going to be watching closely so we don’t end up at the end of the season with tired arms or damaged arms,” he said. Miosek said junior varsity coach Glen Noto and his assistant Dave Bliss will also play important roles in developing players and keeping them prepared to contribute to both teams. In addition to their defensive versatility, Miosek said the Hawkeyes will have a balanced batting order led by the seniors especially Haney, Ubner and Hascup who had strong seasons at the plate two years ago. “All of the seniors are qualified, capable hitters,” he said. “We have several other players who easily could, you know, take the stiches out of the ball, so we’re looking for good at bats from everyone.” Miosek said they are waiting for the village to establish COVID protocols
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recruits. He said he is enjoying life in Athens, Georgia, too. “It has been a fantastic experience,” he said. “It is a great town for someone who is 23 like I am,” he said. “There is always a band playing or something to do or something to see. It is nice to live in a place where you can go out and do things at night.” The Bulldogs open the 2021 season in Charlotte on Sept. 4, against big rival Clemson. They will also have to get past division rival Florida and conference rival Alabama if they are to compete for their first national title since 1980. “We will probably open the season in the top five,” Russell said. “If we can beat Clemson, maybe then we will be ranked No. 1.” Editor’s Note: Iron String Press Editor Greg Klein recently did narration and commentary for a SUNY Purchase student film about Russell and Dewey and their campaign to run the Boston Marathon.
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Musket donations find home at Greater Oneonta Historical Society By GREG KLEIN ONEONTA – Fred Hickein wanted to make sure his heirloom muskets stayed in good hands, so the 93-year-old Oneonta resident made a major donation to the Greater Historical Society of Oneonta on Wednesday, April 21. Hickein and his wife, Eleanor, and several of his colleagues from the Oneonta American Legion Post 259, presented GOHS with two family treasures Wednesday,: an English smooth bore rifle, circa 1800, which Hickein believes was brought to the area by an ancestor of his, Solomon Yager; and a Civil War training musket owned and used by another relative, Edward Brewer. An Oneonta High School and Hartwick College graduate and a Navy veteran, who served in both World War II and Korea, although never overseas or at sea, Hickein said he wanted the heirlooms to be in good hands and he trusted GOHS to honor his family’s history. “I wanted to do it before I died,” he said. “I wanted to make sure they were in a good place.” GOHS Executive Director Marcela Micucci said the group’s history center at 181 Main St. will soon have a permanent display and it will include one or both of the musket donations. “Fred has donated many things to the historical society in the past,” she said. “He knew he wanted them to go to a good home and we are happy to have them. “They will be seen by many,” she said. The musket that belonged to Yager — who is also an ancestor of Willard Yager, for whom Hartwick College’s Yager Museum of Art & Culture is named — becomes one of the oldest artifacts in the GOHS collection, according to recently
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Above: Fred Hickein signs his heirloom muskets over to the Greater Oneonta Historical Society on Wednesday, April 21, as his wife, Eleanor, and from left, Wayne Gregory, Terry Harkenreader and George Sluti, from Oneonta American Legion Post 259, look on. Right: Gregory and Sluti display the donated muskets.
retired Executive Director Bob Brzozowski. Hickein said he thinks the Yager musket was made in England a year or two before 1800 and brought to America and to Otsego by his relative. Brzozowski said there is a Mrs. Yager on an 1853 map of Oneonta who may be Solomon Yager’s widow. Her land was on what is now Market Street, he said. The musket is a smooth bore
D rifle that Hickein said was modified to make it shoot easier. The second musket had an attachment for a bayonet and was used by Edward Brewer as a training rifle, Hickein said. Brewer and his older brother, Alexander, enlisted for the Union in 1860 or 1861, Hickein said, and were discharged in 1865. Their family lived on Brewer Lane, which is now known as Woodside Avenue, he said.
Brewer was Hickein’s step-great grandfather, he said. Hickein said he and Eleanor will have been married for 67 years in June and have four children. “She’s been a boom to me all these years,” he said. Hickein is a former commander of the Post 259 and is the oldest member. His most recent job was as the manager of the Tri-County motor club.
For sale: one cider mill in Fly Creek Fly Creek’s favorite tourist attaction is seeking new owners. The Fly Creek Cider Mill, which dates back to 1856 and has been owned by the Michaels family for two generations, closed in January. Co-owner Bill Michaels said at the time that the coronavirus pandemic had hurt sales to the point where it was no longer cost effective to remain The website for the Fly Creek Cider Mill lists the complex for sale for $1.925 million. The mill, See MILL, Page B3 which dates back to 1856, closed in Janruary.
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Chamber seeks HOF nominations for 2021 induction The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce has annouced that it is taking nominations for its 2021 Chamber Hall of Fame Award. The award recognizes a business or organization that has been in operation for more than 10 years and is a pillar in the community, demonstrating excellence and impact beyond their own walls. The Freeman’s Journal, which was founded in 1808, was an inaugural Hall of Fame member, inducted in 2017. Other businesses who have been inducted into the Chamber’s Hall include: The Inn at Cooperstown, The Otesaga Resort Hotel, The Clark Sports Center, Church and Scott, Mohican Flowers, Hyde Hall, Fly Creek Cider Mill, Ommegang, the Cooperstown Graduate Program, The Farmers’ Museum, Spurbeck’s
Grocery, Susquehanna SPCA, Cooperstown Bat Company, Cooperstown Fire Department, Cooperstown Farmers Market, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Pathfinder Village (Community for Down syndrome), Stagecoach Coffee in Cooperstown, and the Lake ’N Pines Motel. Public vote will determine the 2021 recipient. Submit nominees, with a brief explanation of why they should be in the Chamber’s Hall, to office@ cooperstownchamber.org by Friday, May 7.
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Pastor Kathy Brumbaugh and Kaye Freling both from the United Methodist Church in Schenevus take a break for a picnic dinner Sunday, April 25. The friends were out delivering ham dinners to people in the community who live alone or couldn’t get out. When they finished they said they decided to enjoy theirs next to the pond in Neahwa Park.
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The Village Library of Cooperstown has begun a new book group. The group will have its first meeting Thursday, May 27. The first selection will be “The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Year Old” by Hendrik Groen. The program is being started by
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Golfers are able to get into the action at The Clark Sports Center now. The center debuted its new golf simulator on Monday, April 5. The simulator features 108 courses from around the world and will be updated with Leatherstocking Golf Course this summer.
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Cat-tastic opportunity: Shelter filled with new pets
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Oneonta resident Julie Carney picks up trash in the rain in the City of Oneonta early morning Sunday, April 25, as part of a city initiative to promote Earth Day.
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The Susquehanna SPCA is overflowing with kittens, according to a recent media release. “Kitten season is in full swing,” the release said. “Recently, we have had an influx of cats and kittens of all ages that need our help.” The spring season often brings with it batches of new kittens, according to the release. “Just before spring, unspayed cats often go into heat. Approximately 60 days later, they begin giving birth to litters of kittens. Between the months of March and October, animal shelters like the SQSPCA become overwhelmed with mother cats with their kittens and even orphaned kittens that need care around the clock. This is what we call kitten season.” Female cats can get pregnant at the young age of 5 months. While nursing a litter, it is possible for a mother cat to become pregnant again resulting in even more kittens to care for. A normal litter can be as little as one kitten or as many as 12 kittens. If left unaltered, all of the kittens from the litters will go on to reproduce, thus creating kitten season and overpopulation problems. Stray kittens can sometimes be found outdoors
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Peanut Butter Cup, resting under a towel, is one of many cats available for adoption at the Susquehanna SCPA.
or in buildings other than houses. According to the SCPA, if they are in a safe spot people should not touch them as the mother cat may have run off for food and will be back to care for them shortly. Check back in a few hours to see if she came back to care for them. Kittens under 8 weeks of age that are being cared for by a mother cat have a higher survival rate than orphans. To every extent possible, take all necessary steps to keep them with their mom, the release said. Help is needed, according to shelter officials. People who want to help can:
Foster a cat. Kittens with and without mothers of all different ages are coming into the shelter daily. Donate goods. With the influx of cats and kittens the shelter is running low on the following items: dry kitten food and cat food, canned cat food (paté preferred), paper towels, garbage bags (39-gallon or larger). Volunteer. The shelter can always use the help of volunteers to clean and provide enrichment. Go to www.sqspca.org for more information or call 607-547-8111.
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MILL/Continues from B1 open. “We’ve survived floods. We’ve survived hurricanes, tropical storms, the 2002 recession, the 2009 recession,” Michaels told Iron String Press in January. “We just couldn’t survive the pandemic.” According to the website listing: “Well-positioned as an iconic agritourism destination in a high-volume,
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tourism market the Mill is prepared for another 165 years of taste, tradition and history. Continue the successful operational formula or create your own. … Possibilities are endless with this turn-key property.” . The listing includes the business, equipment, remaining inventory and two real estate parcels that include the Mill, Cider House and Goose Street Parking Lot. Three additional and
adjacent parcels are also available that include two residences, two barns and a building lot. Signed Confidentiality Agreements, offers and inquiries may be e-mailed to Vincent Gilroy, CPA, at vin@ vgilroycpa.com and Michaels and bill@flycreekcidermill.com with the subject line “Buyer Fly Creek.” Go to www.flycreekcidermill.com for more information.
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Carpets Plus Oneonta Inventory Reduction! Choose from our rugs and remnants. Huge sale! Huge selection! Oneonta. free flowers for mothers!
Special treat for Moms! Courtesy of Community Gospel Church. While supplies last.
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is supported by this day’s proceeds to help raise money for a permanent home! Browse the mall for your favorite local vendors and visit with animals that might just need you in their lives! Adoption applications on-site!
SOUTHSIDE MALL CINEMA OPENS FRIDAY APRIL 30th! Movies shown on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 12:30 to last showing at 10 pm.
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Notice of Formation of Mount Equity LLC Filed 2/8/21 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 20 Lewis St, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalJun.3 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Tabor Construction LLC Filed 3/5/21 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1820 NY 166, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalJun.3 Legal nOtice Notice of Qualification of 41 CENTER STREET, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/19/21. Office location: Otsego County. LLC formed in Nevada (NV) on 03/31/21. Princ. office and NV addr. of LLC is: 8 Wells Ave., Hartwick, NY 13348. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Cert. of Form. filed with NV Secy. of State, 202 N. Carson St., Carson City, NY 89701-4201. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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NOTICE is hereby given that there has been duly introduced before the Board of Representatives of the County of Otsego, New York, a Local Law entitled: A Local Law repealing Local Law No. 1 of 1989 and replacing it with a Local Law authorized by section 120-aa GML requiring, for all Solid Waste within the County of Otsego, source separation and segregation of recyclable or reuseable materials.
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NOTICE is further given that the Board of Representatives will conduct a public hearing on the proposed Local Law in the Representatives Chambers at the County Office Building in the Village of Cooperstown, New York on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 9:50 a.m.
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Under the current COVID-19 emergency/Executive orders, this public hearing will not be physically open to the public at the County Office Building. Written comments can be mailed to the Otsego County Clerk of the Board, atn. Carol McGovern, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown NY 13326 or comments can be emailed to comments@ otsegocounty.com and will be accepted until 9 a.m. on May 5, 2021. The public hearing will be streamed via Facebook Live on the official Otsego County Facebook page: https://www. facebook.com/ Otsego-County-NY102347451408765/ A copy of this Local Law is available on the Otsego County website.
Smokey Wind LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/14/2021. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at c/o Liberty Renewables Inc., 90 State Street, Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any business permitted under law. 6LegalMay.27 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of BURCH PACK PROPERTIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/12/2021. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 137 Main St., Unadilla, NY 13849, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful
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IN MEMORIAM George Howard Yager, 69 Veteran, Outdoors Enthusiast, Worked at ONC Boces George Howard Yager After moving to was born September 30, Goodyear Lake from Byron, 1951 in Fulton the son of the George began working at late Rev. George Howard ONC BOCES as a teacher’s and Edna (Topliffe) aide. Yager. George enjoyed George served model making, his country in photography, riding the United States an ATV, watching Army as a Military NASCAR, boating Policeman. and jet skiing on George was the lake and hosting 1969 graduate of his annual 4th of Alexander Central July gatherings. George H. School and a 1981 He was a Yager Genesee Community member of College graduate the Veterans with and associates degree Association, the Goodyear in model making. Lake Association and ONC
BOCES. George is survived by his two sons, David and Mariana Yager and Michael and Laura Yager of Ft. Worth, TX; five grandchildren, Lucas, Julia, Sophia, Micaela and Emilia Yager; the mother of his children, Judy Yager of Byron; and one sister, Alice and Raymond Barone of Penn Yan. Calling hours will be held on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand Street, Oneonta from 11 am to 1 pm. A private celebra-
tion of life service with Rev. Stephen D. Fournier officiating. For those who wish memorial contributions may be made to either Goodyear Lake Association, PO Box 62, Colliersville, New York 13743 or to the Yager family in loving memory of George H. Yager. To send the family an online condolence please visit www.grummonsfuneralhome.com Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.
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Enjoyed Gardening & Family Time Susan Ann (Ferris) brothers Paul Ferris, J. Patterson formerly of David Ferris, Gerald Ferris. Sidney NY, was born March Susan is survived by 3 11, 1947 in Albany NY to children, Brian Patterson, James Ferris and Emma Sidney, NY; Michelle (Bointon) Davenport. (James) Peck, While living Rockville, VA; in Sidney, Susan Alicia Patterson, worked as manager Hutto, TX; 4 at the Super 8 Motel. Grandchildren, In her downtime she Joshua and James enjoy gardening, Peck, Rockville, baking, and spending VA; Skylar time with her family. and Alexavier She passed away Coxhran, Hutto, Susan Ann April 26, 2021 in TX, 1 brother, Patterson Hutto, TX. Jon (Linda) She was predeceased Ferris, Otego, NY, and by Father, James Ferris; several nieces, nephews Mother, Emma Davenport; and special friends.
Albert L. Colone, 76; Oneonta Native, Veteran, Musician, Developer, Dreamer Albert L. Colone was born July 8, 1944 in Oneonta the son of the late Ani Pasquale and Eva Gloria (Jerome) Colone. He grew up on River Street, in his beloved 6th Ward, playing sandlot sports and generally tormenting the Wilcox’s and others with his older brother, Frank. Albert ultimately ended up a lifelong resident of 6th Ward and helped to establish the 6th Ward Athletic Club and served as the Club’s first President. Albert graduated from Oneonta High School in 1962 and would later go on to proudly serve his country in the United States Army from 1966 to 1968, when he was honorably discharged. It was during his time in the Army that he rekindled his childhood love
of drumming and percussion and attributed that musical background to extending his life from that point forward. His volunteer position as battalion drummer and later, percussionist for the Second Armored Division Band, kept him on post at Ford Hood, TX, when many of his peers left for and never returned from the war in Vietnam. With this to consider, it is easy to understand his passion for music and the importance of it throughout his life. There is no doubt that Albert had a rhythm and a beat that was all his own. After leaving the Army, Albert returned home to Oneonta and took up a carpentry apprenticeship while starting a band with two other local musicians, Joel Chace and
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Tom Ives. After two years of performing as a trio, the band added a fourth member, Rick Lawn and formed the Jazz Quartet, Compass. Compass released their album, Compass Rises in 1973 and in the same year, performed at the opening of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC). Even as the members moved on into their Albert L. “nineColone to-five” careers, the band reunited frequently and continued to perform over a remarkable 45 year period. Over the course of the 1970s, Albert spent his time working for the City of Oneonta and eventually took the reins of the Parks and Recreation Department, working to revitalize the City’s parks while promoting community engagement and activities, such as the 6th Ward Fast-Pitch Softball League. The League, and in particular games played under the lights of the 6th Ward were a highlight that he looked back on often. It was in 1977, after a stretch of successful soccer campaigns at both Hartwick and Oneonta State that he was asked by Mayor Jim Lettis “Is there such a thing as a National Soccer Hall of Fame?” Enamored with Cooperstown’s example, Albert took on the task to bring the Soccer Hall to Oneonta…..and in 1983, against all odds, he did just that. Oneonta was Soccertown, USA. During his tenure as Director, Albert oversaw the acquisition and development of the Wright National Soccer Campus and was responsible for the establishment and expansion of the Hall’s summer soccer tournament series, which would become a staple for elite travel soccer programs as well as a yearly shot-in-the arm to area businesses. After leaving the hall, he founded Colone Associates, a sport-business consulting firm that focused on facilities development and
tournament/event planning for communities seeking tourism revenue as means for bolstering economic development. In addition to working with the Chenango Soccer Club to develop the Emerson Sports Farm, Colone Associates successfully ran numerous multi-weekend soccer tournaments both in Allentown, PA (The Great Lehigh Valley Open) and Binghamton, NY (B.C. Kicks), both of which were considered elite competitions and financial boons to their respective communities. Even while running his small-business, Albert’s love for Oneonta remained steadfast as he continued to work with community leaders to spur economic development as a member of the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council (GO-EDC) and the Mohawk Valley Economic Development District (MVEDD), always seeking
to make a better Oneonta. During his later years, he enjoyed spending time with his friends and family. Whether it be on the golf course, at the Saratoga Race Course, or just around the table with some good food and a few drinks, telling stories and having laughs. It goes without saying that Albert enjoyed his life to the fullest and extracted the most out each and every role that he filled throughout. Athlete, Veteran, Builder, Musician, Promoter, Entrepreneur, Leader, Father, Grandfather and most of all Dreamer. At his core, Albert Colone was always, first-and-foremost, a Dreamer. You could see it in his eyes and hear it in his voice and in his heart. He was so fortunate that that as a result of a lifetime hard work and in most cases, brute-force, stubborn, determination, he was able to see many of his dreams
become reality. His loss is felt by the entire family, his many friends and by the community-at-large. Albert is survived by his two sons, Luke (Ashley) Colone, West Deptford, NJ and Gregory Colone, Monroeville, PA; his siblings, Frank (Margaret), Lucia and Patrick Colone; and his grandchildren Holden Parker and Hadley Elizabeth Colone, the lights of his life. In lieu of flowers or gifts, please consider supporting a cause close to your heart in Albert’s remembrance and live your life by his motto each and every day that you can. LOVE – LAUGH - DREAM Online condolences may be made by visiting www. grummonsfuneralhome.com Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.
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LIVE PERFORMANCE – 5 p.m. - ?? Enjoy songs from the Great American Song Book as performed by Oneonta native Tommy Joy. Roma’s Ristorante, 25 Union St., Sidney.
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for name change petitions. Museum, Cooperstown. 607Free, registration required 547-1400. for these 1 hour session. LIVE PERFORMANCE – 5 Presented by Otsego Pride p.m. - ?? Enjoy Songs perAlliance. 607-273-3667. formed by Oneonta native WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 Tommy Joy. See Fril. April 30 p.m. Join supportive group to listing. in OtsegO COunty share your writing, get con►Sunday, May 2 structive criticism & encouragement, participate in writI LOVE MY PARK DAY ing exercises. Presented by – Sign up to help get your Huntington Memorial Library. local park ready for summer. 607-432-1980. This socially distant service EXHIBIT DISCUSSION – 2 day will include everything - 3 p.m. Discuss photographs from cleaning the beach to & career of Ansel Adams with maintaining the trails and his son Michael Adams. Presentation will focus on current planting trees. Registration required. Glimmerglass exhibit ‘Manzanar: The WarState Park, 1527 Co. Rd. 31, time Photographs of Ansel Cooperstown. 607-547-8662 Adams’ and will be followed or visit www.facebook.com/ by Q&A session. Registration GlimmerglassStatePark/ required for online meetRALLY – 2 p.m. Get togething. Cost, $10/non-member. er in solidarity to support and Presented by Fenimore Art celebrate Asian American’s
VIRTUAL TOUR – 10 a.m. Join live tour of exhibit ‘The World of Jan Brett’ which features over 70 original paintings from her books as well as a live reading. Free, suggested donation $10. Presented by The Fenimore Art Museum. 607-547-1400. LEGAL CLINIC – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Trans/gender-nonconforming can learn how to change your name & gender on identity documents. May also receive free legal advice
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►Wednesday, May 5 FOOD PANTRY – 10 a.m. - gone. Stop by for drive thru food pantry. While supplies last. Oneonta Middle School, 130 East Street, Oneonta. 607-433-8200. BLOOD DRIVE – Noon - 5 p.m. Donate blood, help save up to 3 lives. Worcester Municipal Building, 9 Katie Ln., Worcester. 800-733-2767. VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 - 3 p.m. Join live tour of exhibit ‘Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams’ which features photographs documenting the Japanese internment camp in California in 1943. Free, suggested donation $10. Presented by The Fenimore Art Museum. 607-547-1400. LIFESKILLS – 6 - 8 p.m. Workshop for teens to learn skills to help them through life, from cooking to resumes and more. Presented by The
Oneonta Teen Center. The Sol Center, 50 Dietz St., Oneonta. 607-441-3999. DIGITAL HELP – 6:45 - 7:45 p.m. Call in for help with your digital devices. Presented by Huntington Memorial Library. 607-386-1465.
►Thursday, May 6 AUTHOR SERIES – Noon. Celebrate the 90th birthday of Hall of Famer, Willie Mays. Author John Shea will be discussing his book ‘24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid’ in which Mays shares his stories of triumphing over adversity with integrity. Free, registration required. Presented by Baseball Hall of Fame. 607-547-7200.
►Friday, May 7 PLANETARIUM – 7 p.m. Final Show. Explore the universe, learn what’s new in the field of astronomy in fun virtual planetarium show with the SUNY staff and Nebula society students. Free, registration on Eventbrite required. Presented by the A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-
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2020 Nissan PATHFINDER S MSRP Discount SALE PRICE
$35,415 $7,249 $28,160
Now’s the Time to Buy or Lease! 55 Oneida Street | Oneonta 607-432-2800 | 800-388-3632
$354/mo* *72 months with approved credit
SALES: Monday - Thursday 8 am - 7 pm Friday 8 am - to 6 pm | Saturday 8 am - 5 pm SERVICE (By appointment): Monday - Friday 8 am - 5 pm | Saturday 8 am - l pm
Payment based on taxes down
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Spring It On! 607-432-6190 • 70 Oneida St. • Oneonta2021 Chevrolet Equinox LT AWD $259/mo $2500 due at signing* 39 months, 10,000 mile/yr For current non-GM lessees stock #7189 MSRP $32,340
2021 Buick Encore GX Preferred AWD $195/mo $500 coupon while they last $2500 due at signing* 36 months, 10,000 mile/yr For current Buick/GMC lessees stock #7133 MSRP $28,145
2021 GMC Terrain SLE AWD $270/mo
$2500 due at signing* 39 months, 10,000 mile/yr Must be in a current Buick/GMC lease stock #7052 MSRP $32,790
2020 Chevrolet Trax LT AWD $174/mo
$2500 due at signing 39 months, 10,000 mile/yr Must be in a current non-GM lease stock #6763 MSRP $25,265
*See dealers for all details. Excludes Taxes, Title, License, and Fees or first payment. Subject to residency restrictions. Prices subject to change. Inventory based on availability and subject to change. For qualified leasees.
We service ALL makes and ALL models Regardless of where purchased!
65 Oneida Street, Oneonta • 607-433-1251 Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 5:30 pm
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