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No Action On ‘Unsafe’ City Hotel At Deadline

IN MEMORIAM • 1923-2018

Lloyd Baker Winningest Coach Because He Understood People

By JIM KEVLIN

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he April 30 deadline to the litany of code violations that earned the former Oneonta Hotel at 195-201 Main St. an “unsafe” declaration in January 2017 passed on April 30.

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Al Cleinman, president of Cleinman Performance Partners, proposes a fourth park for the City’s entrance.

Cleinman: 4th Park Planned At City’s Gate

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Still “unsafe,” still occupied

loyd Baker was a thinking coach. He was a caring man, both to his players, and to his wife and two daughters.

And during his four-decade career at Oneonta High

School, he was a leader in the school and in the community.

He passed away Thursday, April Lloyd Baker 26, at Bassett Hospital, age 94, and his life was rememPlease See BAKER, B8

Farm Credit East Brings 40 Jobs To County, Plus

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l Cleinman, Cleinman Performance Partners president, unveiled conceptual plans for a “Phase Four” park where James F. Lettis Highway meets Main Street to Common Council Tuesday, May. 1.

The idea is to clearing an area on the eastern side of the highway, near the Post Office, and install a 7-foottall rotating sign welcoming people to the city.

While ideas are not final, some ideas for the sign include the city seal on one side and the “Life Enjoyed” slogan on the other.

SHERIFF PRIMARY: In officially announcing his campaign for county sheriff Saturday, April 27, at the Oneonta Vets Club, retired state trooper Bob Fernandez said he plans to challenge incumbent Richard J. Devlin Jr. in a Sept. 19 primary for the Republican nomination.

ERIN IN: The Cooperstown candidate for the Congressional nomination from the 19th District withstood a challenge to her petitions, the state Board of Elections announced Tuesday, May 1.

POVERTY PLUMBED: Opportunities for Otsego is hosting the first “Opportunity Conference” in the state to explore ways to lessen poverty in the county. It’s Saturday, May 12. Call 4338005 for details.

Ag Bank Sees 17 More Jobs In The Future

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heers and the smell of Brooks BBQ chicken filled the air as top executives from Farm Credit East cut the ribbon Friday, April 27, on the new 40-job regional offices, across Route 80 from the Otsego Golf Course.

“I know you would all rather be in the fields, but thank you for coming out,” remarked Robert Yurkewecz, vice president of a company that provides specialized banking and insurance services to farmers. “This is all for you.

You’re the customer.”

“I’m quite sure I could borrow a lot of money in that building,” said state Ag & Markets Commissioner Richard Ball, owner of Schoharie Farms and the Carrot Barn. “We know our industry is facing challenges, but it’s always a good day in New York when we can celebrate success. I wouldn’t want to farm anywhere else in the world.”

The new building merges Farm Credit East’s Sangerfield and Cobleskill offices in the most sizeable building to rise near Otsego Lake’s shores since Please See OPENING, A3

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Cutting the ribbon Friday, April 27, on Farm Credit East’s new offices in the Town of Springfield are, from left, Greg Doyle; Executive VP & Regional Manager Gary Bradley; state Ag & Markets Commissioner Richard Ball; Farm Credit East CEO Bill Lipinski; Board Vice Chair Laurie Griffen; Senior VP Craig Pollock; VP Robert Yukewecz; Country Living Director David Pugh, and Paul Vandenburgh. Doyle and Vandenburgh are the longest-serving local employees.

From Farming To Executive Suite Reynolds Applied Experience At Cooperstown Holstein To Career

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN Farm Credit executive Mike Reynolds was raised locally.

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s he was nearing the completion of his degree in management and accounting at Hartwick College,

Mike Reynolds wasn’t quite sure what he wanted to do.

“Peter Huntington owned the farm I was raised on, and he recommended me to Farm Credit East,” said Reynolds. “He was a customer, and he knew I was passionate about agriculture.”

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Eckberg, Webster Honored As Top Oneonta Employees

LEAF Art & Poetry Contest Brings Community Together

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Alex Sader, Oneonta, admires the artwork on the walls at a packed opening for the annual LEAF Inc Art & Poetry contest, held at CANO on Friday, April 27. The annual reception showcases art and poetry inspired by addiction-free living.

With Jeans, County Club Auto Raises $$ For United Way to help people in need in our community,” said Jennifer Moss, digital marketing specialist at Country Club.

“We’re very proud and glad to have been able to donate to this organization, and hopefully, impact the lives of others.”

Clark Foundation to help fund a new Hospital Suite Simulation Unit for the college’s Nursing Department.

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Eckberg and automotive service person Ryan Webster, who both received recognition this evening as City Employees of the Quarter for their work at the central garage. “They have both demonstrated the willingness to stay on the job.” said Herzig. “Even if it is snowing out, these two will stay late or arrive early to ensure that the people of the city get the public service they need.”

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The grant will enable the college to better prepare its nursing students to enter the field, and grow the department by another 10 students. This is the fourth such award from the foundation since 2011.

“The new, state-of-the-art unit will allow us to provide students with innovative learning opportunities central to success, and, at the same time, support collaborative initiatives across disciplines within the college, as well as with our external clinical partners,” said Patricia Grust, department chair.

The funding will replicate a hospital unit, complete with four single-bed rooms, an eight-bed room, a nursing station, and technical equipment, including patient-care simulation mannequins, computers, cardiac monitors, and instrumentation and supplies. The space will allow students to learn advanced nursing and problem-solving skills.

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DECKER PERFORMS: SUNY New Paltz student Braden Decker, Oneonta, has been cast in the school’s production of “Avenue Q” in the school’s McKenna Theatre.

HARMER ON LIST: Nicole Harmer, Oneonta, has been named to the Wilkes University Dean’s List for the Fall 2017 semester.

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Farm Credit East Brings 40 Employees, New Jobs Expected OPENING/From A1 the Cooperstown’s Lakefront Hotel in the 1950s.

“We had a pretty large concentration of customers here in Otsego County,” said Executive Vice President & Regional Manager Mike Reynolds, who was raised in Cooperstown. “We’re anticipating continued growth in this market, and as business grows, the branch will grow with it.”

According to Reynolds, the new branch will serve 1,600 Farm Credit East customers across marked its 11 Upstate 100th anniversary last year, counties and CEO Bill stretchLipinski said ing from “we plan to be Madison to around for the Schenectady next 100.” counties, and offers loans, accounting services, business consulting services, and crop insurance to local farmers.

“We needed to be out serving customers on the farm,” said Farm Credit East CEO Bill Lipinski, here from company headquarters in Enfield, Conn. “We wanted to put our new office in a rural epicenter to attract employees and customers.”

“Springfield has been a center of agriculture for hundreds of years,” said Bill Freeland, Springfield Town Supervisor. “Being the home for the largest agriculture lender in the northeast is a fitting tribute.”

While the company serves customers all over the Northeast, it has strong connection to every community it serves, Lipinski said.

“Farm Credit East is pleased to make a long term commitment to this area,” said Reynolds, who grew up working on Cooperstown Holstein Co., south of Cooperstown. “We tried to make a lot of local connections, even with something as simple as naming the rooms.”

Nearby were the “Springfield

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The low-slung Farm Credit East building on Route 80, north of the Glimmerglass Festival, was designed by Altonview Architects of Cooperstown to be visible only minimally from Otsego Lake, to the east. On the far hill is the summer home of Arthur L. Ryerson, the steel magnate who died on the Titanic.

Room” and the “James Fenimore Cooper Room.”

“You can see the lake from these windows,” said Yurkewecz.

“We tried to design a space that customers and staff would both be proud of,” said Reynolds.

With high ceilings, full windows, and an employee dining area affectionately dubbed “The Hophouse,” Yurkewecz has said he wants the public to feel as welcome in the building as customers and employees do.

“The Don Rogers training room is available free of charge to any community organization that wants to use it,” he said. “Cornell Cooperative Extension has come in, and the NY State Beef Producers had a meeting here.”

“We realized that building here was the right thing to do, and it simply needed to be done,” board Vice Chair Laurie Griffen, co-owner with husband Steve of Saratoga Sod Farm, a 600-acre turf farm in Stillwater, said during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The company approached the Town of Springfield in the spring of 2016, and the project – the

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Tracey Bernard of Cherry Valley, who works in the company’s Country Living division, gives tours during the Friday,

largest commercial undertaking in town history – quickly moved through the approval process, winning endorsements from Otsego 2000, OCCA and the Otsego Land Trust.

The building was designed

by Altonview Architects of Cooperstown to be minimally visible from nearby Otsego Lake. It is located on the south side of the former Ryerson estate, (one-time summer home of steel magnate Arthur L. Ryerson, who died on

the Titanic). The northern end of the estate is on the market.

County Real Property Tax Records estimate the building and property at $3.7 million, meaning the Town of Springfield and Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School can expect significant new revenues.

The fastest-growing sector of the company, Country Living, will also be based out of the new Springfield office, providing loans for farms, homes on acreage, construction and vacant land.

“Many folks who want to live on farms don’t make enough to get by simply as farmers,” said Country Living Director David Pugh.

“Country Living is tailored toward these families who use farming as a secondary source of income.”

According to Pugh, Country Living, which was established in 2005, has handed out well over $1 billion in loans to what his company calls “lifestyle farmers.”

Pugh also sees a bright future for Country Living, saying, “in the future, there will most certainly be growth.”

Reynolds Found Spot For New Office Right Between Sangerfield, Cobleskill – Otsego Lake REYNOLDS/From A1 Reynolds got the job, and now, 28 years later, is the company’s chief business officer, overseeing the consolidation of the Sangerfield and Cobleskill offices into a regional office on Route 80, at the other end of Otsego Lake from Cooperstown.

“I might not be out on a tractor, but I can work with these folks,” he said. “And opening this office has been an absolute homecoming.”

Reynolds grew up working alongside his father on Huntington’s Cooperstown Holstein, across from the county office building at The Meadows.

A 1986 Cooperstown High School graduate and a 1990 Hartwick grad, he started as a credit representative in Dayville, Conn.

In 1994, he had his first homecoming, transferring to the office in Oneonta’s West End, and later to an office in New Jersey, where he was named regional manager, then chief business officer.

“Farms are a different business model

farmers have other factors that can affect their livelihood. “We have to accept and embrace price cycles and the weather, and we have to be there through good times and bad.”

He also knows how important it is to work with farmers on long-term business planning. “I worked with a small dairy farm that was really struggling and wanted to get into a different venture,” he said. “There were tough decisions to be made, but we made that investment, and it was successful Parker Fish/HOMETOWN ONEONTA beyond our original budget. Our basic misMike Reynolds, the Cooperstown sion is to help our customers be successful.” native who is now a top executive at Two years ago, when he saw that the CoFarm Credit East, points to the latest bleskill and Sangerfield offices were reachaddition to the corporate map. ing capacity, he helped begin the search for than other businesses or residences,” he the new offices. “We looked at where our said. “If you’re growing corn, you’re not customer base was most concentrated, and it bringing home a monthly income. So we was right around this area,” he said. “If you work with the farmers to make their paydrew a line from the Cobleskill office to the ments on an annual basis, when they harSangerfield office, it put you right on this vest, instead of monthly.” spot!”

But more than that, he understands that But, he insisted, it was no more than a

happy coincidence that the office landed just outside his hometown. “It’s a great place to attract staff and a good place to live and work,” he said. “There are great schools and access to healthcare, and all of that is key for us.”

In addition to chief business officer, Reynolds is a member of Farm Credit East’s Credit, Human Resources and Financial Services committees, served on the executive committee of the New Jersey Agricultural Society and chaired the New Jersey Agricultural Leadership Development Program. He also serves on the board of the Farm Credit East Cares Fund.

He will remain in Enfield, Conn., where the company is headquartered. He lives there with wife Melissa and daughter Kayla; their son, Ryan, is studying at St. Joseph’s University.

And although his farming days are over, he keeps a few green things close by. “I have desk plants!” he said. “But I miss it every day.”

Retirement, Disagreement On Conflict, Puts Ethics Board Back In Limbo

By PARKER FISH COOPERSTOWN

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hen David Bliss was elected chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives on Jan. 3, his first order of business was to establish a Board of Ethics to review cases like Maria Ajello’s, who claims that her property was wrongfully sold in the 2014 county tax auction.

But now, Bliss’s ethics board is at a standstill.

“It’s still kind of in limbo right now,” he acknowledged.

The ethics board, created in 1990 but never populated, has been inactive since its

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Maria Ajello, who lost her house in a 2014 tax auction, congratulates county Rep. David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, on his election as board chair Jan. 3. She also told him she’d be back every month until her case gets a fair hearing.

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The county board went as far as to appoint three community members, retired Veterans Affairs Director Jack Henson, Town of

Middlefield; Michele Catan of Oneonta, small business director under a Binghamton University program, and Otsego County Democratic Committee Chair and

former Oneonta mayor Kim Muller.

“The ethics law is pretty specific as to who can and cannot be on the board,” said County Attorney Ellen Coccoma. “There can only be three people on the board, but no more than two can be of the same enrolled party affiliation, and at least one person must be an elected or appointed official.”

When Henson was appointed to the committee last November, he was the one official. When he announced his retirement in March, he no longer fulfilled that requirement, making his spot on the ethics board uncertain.

“It’s just a series of circumstances that are out of our control,” said Bliss.

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“Jack is technically no longer an appointed or elected official, and one person on the board needs to fill that

requirement.”

Muller became Otsego County Democratic chair one month after her appointment. Bliss is concerned that could be a serious conflict of interest, and could jeopardize her seat as well.

When asked about the matter, Muller had a different take. “When I was initially appointed to the committee chair, I did some

research and, to the best of my knowledge, it is not a conflict of interest,” said Muller.

Once a three-person board is established, the next hurdle will be training.

Coccoma said NYSAC, the state Association of Counties, could give no guidance on this. “But it’s a pretty complicated law, so it’s definitely something I’ll have to go over with the board,” she said.

Maria Ajello is getting impatient.

“Dave Bliss said something to the effect that they are working on it,” said Ajello. “He said he’s working hard, but I don’t see any action. Whether he’s going to actually put one together, I have no idea.”

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EDITORIALS

If We Want Solar Energy, It’s Decision Time.

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uestion: Can Oneonta Where’s the decision that’s been Mayor Gary Herzig’s promised for months? administration make tough City Hall’s Board of Public Serdecisions? vice declared the property unsafe in servation and efficiency to For one thing, whether or not to January 2017, 16 months ago. And reduce reliance on fossil fuels condemn the Twelve Tribes’ blightstill the building is occupied, and and the necessity or expanded ed Oneonta Ford property has been businesses are functioning on the fossil-fuel infrastructure and hanging fire since before Herzig ground floor.

Herzig delivery systems. took office. He’s now in his second You have to ask, what’s City “In addition, we call for and term.

Hall’s liability –and that of local taxsupport smart development There is state money in hand to demolish payers -- if a fire or some other misfortune for renewable energy sources what is a public hazard and state money to were to happen? to meet the goals adopted by prepare the site for new construction. All It’s past time to make a tough decision.

New York State for greenthat’s hanging fire is a tough decision.

Question: Can the Herzig Administration house-gas reductions.”

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Caveat (conservation first), then support.

Now, the April 30 deadline to clear out Question 2: Common Council has barely The resolution continues in the same the venerable but – city inspectors have debated any issue publicly in months.

Please See EDITORIAL, A6 found – dangerous Oneonta Hotel is passed. Where are the Council members?

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f we care about solar energy, it’s time to get serious about it, don’cha think?

Happily, Otsego 2000 may be doing just that, having taken a leadership role among local environmental groups on this matter.

On Feb. 24, its board adopted a resolution that reads, in part: “Climate change, driven in large party by fossil-fuel use, is a significant threat to our region and way of life.

“We call for and support energy con-

Tourism Booms In Summer, But What About Rest Of Year?

Editor’s Note: James R. Dean, the Cooperstown village trustee, has been proprietor of New York Custom Curved Wood Stair Railings & Handrailings locally since 1973. This, the first of two parts, analyzes the challenges Otsego County’s economy is facing.

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he www.AllOtsego.com article on the Rural Prosperity Roundtable at Hartwick College posted April 20 mentions the many (known) problems facing our area, like declining population, declining school populations, declining graduation rates, a shortage of employees, the need for broadband, more energy, and the list goes on.

What I did not read about was a plan to turn it all around.

So what is the plan?

Does our difficult situation partially have anything to do with Otsego County’s budget line of zero dollars for economic JAMES development, DEAN and a budget line of over one half million dollars for tourism?

Tourism (as opposed to deep, structural, diversified, sustainable, local economic development), while very, very important, is still something of a zero-sum game.

It is superficial economic development (an observation, not a criticism) in that it depends upon

live visitors coming into Otsego County, on a daily basis, and spending their money.

As extremely important as it is, it is still economic development dependent upon “the kindness of strangers.” The tourists, not the product providers, control the tourist-based part of our local economy. When the tourist’s economic (or interest) situation changes, our economic situation changes.

At the end of the Labor Day Weekend, most of the incoming tourist money falls off a cliff. I can stand on Main Street on the last day of the weekend and watch the parking spaces open up.

Many area businesses close or hibernate until spring, while Otsego County government spends another half million (plus) dollars Please See DEAN, A6

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Tourists – these are among the 25,000 headed to last year’s Hall of Fame Induction – are a great summertime boost to the local economy. But what about after Labor Day Weekend?

LETTERS

Foreign Service Must Field Top-Notch Team To the Editor: As a former member of the U.S. Foreign Service, I am sometimes surprised that most Americans know very little about our country’s career diplomats.

Appointed by the State, Commerce, and Agriculture Departments, U.S. diplomats serve at 270 embassies and consulates around the world, often in hard and sometimes dangerous places, working to protect America’s people, interests and values.

In 1996, the United States Senate designated the first Friday in May as “American

Foreign Service Day.” On this day we are encouraged to recognize and celebrate the thousands of people who commit their lives to serving the U.S. abroad and the impact their work has upon us all. This year, that day is May 4.

Foreign Service officers perform different roles at our diplomatic missions.

Political and economic officers report to our leaders here at home how to interpret the motives and intentions of foreign governments. Public information officers build international understanding of U.S. for-

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eign and domestic policies and foster appreciation for democratic institutions.

Consular officers help Americans in need of assistance when travelling or living abroad. They also screen the backgrounds of persons who are applying for visas that will allow them to enter the United States, including tourists, students, workers with special skills, those traveling on business, and refugees fleeing persecution.

Commercial officers work to level the playing field for U.S. businesses, while agricultural officers focus on opening markets for U.S. farm and forest products.

Officers in USAID implement programs to improve the lives of people living in the world’s poorest countries and backstop international relief organizations delivering emergency food and medical assistance.

Finally, administrative

officers are responsible for maintaining the diplomatic mission’s property and ensuring its security.

As an agricultural officer I proudly served in Asia, Africa and South America.

Now, 14 years after I retired, I am concerned that the Trump Administration is sharply cutting back on the Foreign Service’s capacity to conduct peaceful and effective diplomacy. This week is therefore an ideal time to learn more about what the Foreign Service does and why it’s important.

With all the threats to U.S. security and prosperity out there, I hope my fellow citizens will appreciate the U.S. Foreign Service and agree with me that in order to maintain American global leadership we must field a top-notch diplomatic team, or risk forfeiting the game to our adversaries.

RICHARD BLABEY Cooperstown

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To the Editor: with idiotic slogans echoed April 2018 marks the as patriotic beliefs.

50th anniversary Is it, for exof Martin Luther ample, too difficult King’s death. In to find accounts addition to racial of slave maltreatjustice, he died ment? The topic in the fight for is too remote to decent treatment teach? During his and wages for the first trip to the working poor. His “land of liberty” in valid conclusion the 1840s, Charles was that expenDickens simply sive wars deplete Cooperstown’s read newspaper ads resources from the Samuel Nelson about runaways, voted with the national budget, descriptions in print majority in the the funds needed notorious Dred of missing ears, to raise everyone Scott decision. noses, fingers, bent economically. limbs and branded Grief continues to bleed scars used for identificasince 1968. It is sustained tions and paid recaptures. with national ignorance.

He wrote about some of It is far beyond tedium, these atrocities in his 1842 then, to find that the “Lost “American Notes” and the Cause” still justifies the novel, “Martin Chuzzlewit.”

Southern folkway of conThough it makes the vultented enslavement. It also nerable fate of Jim, Huck’s beggars a more complete runaway black helper, more awareness of American hissympathetic, professors tory, which replaces facts Please See MOYNIHAN, A6

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Of Mails And Of E-Mails

ome time ago now, we signed up to get e-mail alerts from the USPS that would alert us as to what letters would be that day.

We must admit we really don’t know what the purpose of the service might be. But since it is free, we do rather enjoy knowing what might be lurking in the mailbox on any given day.

For example, on April 9 we received notification that we would be receiving five letters in the mail that day.

One of the letters listed was, rather surprisingly, a letter addressed to our son at his home in Ohio.

Now, from time to time we do get letters addressed to our son at our Pioneer Street address, even though he has not lived here since 1996.

But we could not imagine he would CATHERINE have a letter deLAKE livered here which ELLSWORTH was addressed to him in Ohio.

And, when the mail arrived, the Ohio letter was not to be found.

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What’s in today’s mail? Oh, the anticipation.

Thus, we decided the notification must have been some sort of a fluke.

Of course, two days later we once Please See COLUMN, A5

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History

Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

150 Years Ago

Emmons – Robert Murray, Esq. of Hamden, has contracted to erect the bridge over the Susquehanna, for the Charlotte Turnpike Company, at this place. Work will begin about June 1, and the bridge is to be ready for crossing by July 10. It is to be a lattice work bridge, of one span only. Mr. Murray gets $2,000 for the job, and the public will get a good safe bridge.

Potatoes – There was received at this place last week about three thousand bushels of potatoes of which C. Bunn handled 2,000 bushels, and our friend Bunn is not satisfied yet. He still wants two thousand bushels more, for which he will pay $1.00 per bushel. He also will buy all kinds of fresh and salt meats. Bunn is a wide-awake business man, and our farmers will find in him a liberal dealer.

May 1868

125 Years Ago

Despite the threatening skies and the mist which later became a steady downpour of rain, several hundred baseball enthusiasts assembled on the fairground Wednesday to witness the opening game of the season.

The Cuban Giants are the famous colored nine who in other years have outplayed many professional teams, and who until Tuesday, when the Williams College nine defeated them, had won every game this season. But whatever the fears of the Normals may have been, they played ball with all the vim of veterans and all the enthusiasm of amateurs. With the Normals ahead 7 to 2 the game was called by Umpire Hickey after the fifth inning on account of rain. The game was a signal triumph for the Normals, and best of all, it gave them confidence in their ability.

May 1993

100 Years Ago

Miss Ethel Langdon Drake, an American, and Mrs. Mary E. Symons, an English

80 Years Ago

60 Years Ago

Favorable comments on construction of an airport in the Oneonta area are coming in daily. A poll indicates that many people, including those in outlying towns around Otsego County believe an airport will be a boost to the entire area. Comments received point to an airport’s value to industry, the necessity of air travel for businessmen, its value in connection with tourist travel, and the immediate boost to the county’s economic picture which would result because of the actual construction work itself. Many small businessmen have expressed backing for an airport. From New Berlin, an “in favor” comment was received from Stanley Porter, of the Pittsfield Road in New Berlin, operator of an automobile service station.

The County Board of Supervisors will meet Wednesday to vote on the issue. To get construction underway, it will be necessary for the supervisors to approve a bond issue May 1938 for $350,000. An equal amount has been approved by the federal government.

May 1958 woman who has been in France since 1914 caring for the French and British wounded, arrived here today on a French steamship to The meandering Oneonta Creek is posing recruit among American women a section of a threat to Wilber Park which is, in turn, ambulance drivers and mechanics to serve causing the creek to be the source of some with the French Sixth Army Corps. They discussion at City Hall. City Engineer Richannounced that General Petain and General ard Olton said the creek’s meandering path Maistre, commanding the corps, had enis threatening the tennis courts and the divdorsed their mission. “We have come back ing pool at the park. He also said that over to the land of my birth to enlist the voluntime a road running through the park will tary services of American women to drive also be threatened. He suggested bulldozambulances on the battlefields of France,”

Of Mail And Of E-Mail COLUMN/From A4 again received notification from the USPS that they would be delivering the letter they had claimed they would deliver two days earlier.

However, said letter did not arrive that day either.

Exactly what the letter was doing, we do not know. But are happy to report that the letter did finally make it way to Ohio.

We note that the USPS e-mail notifications also let us know when we will be receiving letters that we classify as junk mail.

And it seems to us that much of this unwanted mail falls into one of three categories, namely, hearing tests and hearing aids, satellite TV and internet offers and financial assistance and planning opportunities.

Since we have no inclination to partake of any of these services, we do wish that those sending this mail would cease and desist even though we know that is highly unlikely.

• Of course, we are inclined to think the same thing of some of the emails we receive. For example, not long ago received what we thought to be a completely unnecessary e-mail from Medicare.gov. The e-mail started out with “Earth Day is around the corner – Are you doing your part for the planet? Here’s a tip: ditch the paper and go digital with Medicare?”

We were offered three ways in which we could go paperless with Medicare, all of which assured us we would get better service from Medicare.

The e-mail ended with: “Sign up for some or all of Medicare’s online resources today! Happy Earth Day!” And while we guess we appreciated Medicare taking the time to wish us Happy Earth Day as well as point out some of their new services, we are not at all certain we understand the point as we have a Medicare

said Miss Drake. “The need for men is far more urgent than is generally supposed and there is no reason why the right type of women cannot do the work as well as men.

The women must be of the right physique and mental equipment and they must be able to pay all of their expenses. Women between the ages of 25 and 37 are desired. We want no service women or women to whom the romance of the call is the first appeal.”

May 1918

Advantage Program.

Thus, in terms of our health insurance, we do not receive any communication directly from Medicare, making us wonder exactly what Medicare’s point was in sending us the e-mail.

Fortunately, there are always those e-mails which we really enjoy receiving.

Back in March, when we were inundated with snow, we e-mailed a picture we had taken of our front lawn to a friend in Florida.

He reciprocated by emailing us a picture of his front yard. We would like to point out that the two pictures were virtually the same. But doing so would be less than truthful.

Our snow-covered bushes looked nothing like his palm trees, leading us to print out his picture to post on our back door as a contrast to our weather.

• Last week we wrote our Floridian friend noting, “We are happy to report that the weather seems to be improving. In fact, we are going to take the picture of your front yard, with its “Dream On” notice on it, off our back door. Since we put it up, we have gotten a number of comments on it.”

He replied with “Glad to have been of service. But, as I read the weather in Albany in the paper, you’ve got a long ways to go!!!” To this we pointed out that “... all things are relative. And at the moment we are preferring to look at how far we have come, not how far we need to go.”

To this we received an e-mail which said: “That is a good way of looking at a lot of things.” And while we had not thought about it terms of anything other than the weather, we do suppose it can well applied to any number of other situations.

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40 Years Ago

ing the creek straight to cut down erosion and reduce the creek’s tendency to meander.

That will cost about $2,500 and would be followed by annual work to keep the creek bed straight. Alderman Richard McVinney objected, however, saying that to bulldoze the creek straight might upset the natural balance of the area.

May 1978

20 Years Ago

Megan Byrnes of Unatego Central School won the Otsego County Bar Association’s Liberty Bell Award, as part of the Association’s Law Day ceremony Friday. Byrnes was one of twelve students from each of the school districts in Otsego County, interviewed by a panel of judges and lawyers about current events, the law and the U.S. Constitution. In addition to bringing the Liberty Bell Award to Unatego Central for the first time in eighteen years, Byrnes also was awarded a $100 cash prize presented to her by Assemblyman Clifford Crouch with a citation from the New York State Assembly according to bar association president Kelley Eckmair.

May 1998

10 Years Ago

In an ongoing effort to stop the purchase and sale of alcohol to minors, troopers conducted an investigation of local establishments Thursday to determine compliance levels. Underage operatives went into some Otsego County businesses and tried to buy alcohol, troopers said, and the vast majority were found to be in compliance with the law. Among the area businesses checked and found in compliance were the Hannaford and Price Chopper stores in Oneonta.

The only business found to have a violation was Taylor’s Mini-Mart in Cooperstown where an employee made a prohibited sale of an alcoholic beverage. Taylor’s MiniMart and Apple Food in Milford were found in compliance.

May 2008

More Gas? Only If Paired With Equal-Sized Renewable Project

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hen fracking was proposed com and type “technological gamble” in New York State a decade in the search line. ago, the potential benefits Ingraffea goes back six years and were jobs, economic growth, lower compares the climate change predicenergy prices, and energy security. tions made by a range of experts then Opponents (like me) worried not with the latest data now available. only about local degradation of The new evidence shows the environment but about the those predictions to have global consequences of methbeen wide of the mark in the worst possible way. Global ane seepage and emissions for the climate as a whole. warming is happening much In most places outside of faster than predicted.

New York State, the frackers Ingraffea puts the blame won the argument, and in fact for accelerating climate much of what they claimed has change squarely on the fracking revolution. As its critics come to pass.

Vast new reserves have been ADRIAN have worried all along, the opened up by fracking, perhaps KUZMINSKI overall greenhouse emissions even more than anticipated. of fracked natural gas turn The United States has moved out to be as bad if not worse from deep energy dependence on often than any other fossil fuel. unfriendly foreign sources to a greater Fracking has not been the “bridge degree of energy self-sufficiency. fuel” the industry advocated. Ingraffea The US has become a net exporter points out that fracking has extended of natural gas and is now able to the fossil fuel age, dramatically leverage its new energy resources in increased global warming, and, by foreign policy negotiations. Fracking providing continued low-priced gas has sparked renewed economic activand oil, frustrated the development of ity and a sense of energy security has renewables. been restored.

This issue is playing out locally But the cost of these short-terms as well. There’s an energy crunch in Oneonta, with NYSEG interrupting gains may yet overwhelm us. Professor Anthony Ingraffea from Cornell gas service to some of their larger customers (SUNY, Fox, and some local has a sobering new video on YouTube: “Shale Gas: The Technological businesses) because of limited supply.

Gamble That Should Not Have Been In spite of the fracking boom in Taken.” Check it out; go to youtube. neighboring Pennsylvania, the infra-

Cornell Professor Lawrence Ingraffea’s conclusion in 2013 that natural gas contributes more to global warming than other fossil fuels changed the debate.

structure for delivering more gas in the Oneonta area right now doesn’t exist.

The secondary pipeline serving the area isn’t big enough to meet demand.

The same arguments for the benefits of fracked gas used a decade ago are once again in circulation by those calling for more gas: It’ll bring jobs, stability, and economic growth.

Without a functioning economy we have social chaos, it’s true; but without environmental protections we have eco-catastrophe.

Transitioning to renewables remains the unavoidable answer in both cases.

Renewables address the climate issue while providing economic relief with jobs in the new industries we so desperately need. But it’s not happening fast enough.

That’s a political problem – one unfortunately not about to be solved.

The gas proponents now, as before, are focused on short-term benefits and Please See KUZMINSKI, A6

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LETTERS

Mud Season?

It’s Splendid!

Parker Fish/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

County Rep. Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Fly Creek, smiles as he discovers two portraits of himself at Cooperstown Elementary School’s Museum Night Thursday, April 26. Marietta, a CGP graduate, had helped prepare students for Museum Night and was surprised to find two pupils had chosen him as their subject.

To the Editor: The crust of winter cracks, nature loosens up, gets a little drunk on itself and has a party at its own expense.

Creeks and rivers overflow, birds fight, and the ground never smelled better in the evening air.

This time is much too special to be called Mud Season. Splendid Mud Season is closer.

Get your feet wet in a cold creek soon. You will be better for it by participating.

MICHAEL WHALING Sharon Springs

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A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Identify Sites For Solar Farms, So When Developers Arrive, We’re Ready EDITORIAL, From A4 vein. It supports rooftop solar panels. And solar farms, but again with caveats: Put them on “previously disturbed areas,” protect farmland, “protect historic, cultural and scenic resources,” maintain conserved lands.

This is fine, and clearly in synch with Otsego 2000’s overarching mission – to protect, not develop.

• But if, in fact, we want solar energy around here, a more affirmative strategy is necessary.

The most significant solar project proposed so far in Otsego County – thousands of panels on 50 acres north of Morris – is on hold, according to Chet Feldman, spokesman for Distributed Solar, Washington D.C. As he explained it, a PSC ruling last year on economical proximity to power lines,

only functioning solar farm in the county. (Thank you, county Rep. Jim Powers, RButternuts, now retired, for pioneering it.)

If Otsego 2000, Sustainable Otsego, OCCA and other environmentally focused entities – goodness, even the Clark Foundation – really wants solar power widely used here, they need to say so and go after it, without the caveats.

• If it chose to be, muscular HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal Otsego 2000 certainly has Ed Lentz, Butternuts Valley Alliance chair (now the clout to get it done.

New Lisbon town supervisor), surveys the 50 Meanwhile, Otsego acres where Distributed Solar planned a solar 2000’s executive direcfarm. It is off the table for now. tor, the able Ellen Pope, and federal tariffs made the So far though, solar has taken the new policy project “not conducive,” at power locally is limited seriously, attending a forum least for the time being. to boutique uses: People March 27 organized by Promisingly, Feldman who can afford it equipping Scenic Hudson, and – she said “We’re always looking their homes with panels. reports – well attended by forward to doing business Otherwise, the Solar City municipal officials from in New York.” So it, or installation near Laurens, around the state. another project, may still by county government for It’s complicated. Large happen. county government, is the installations – 25 megawatts

We’re At The Mercy Of Those Tourists DEAN/From A4 to find (buy) more (new) people to bring us more money in the next tourist season.

Tourists do not care about the economic development of Otsego County. I do not think that most of them even know that they are in Otsego

Some Topics Still Impolite To Bring Up MOYNIHAN/From A4 do not use similar material when lecturing on Twain’s Huck Finn. Nor are Upstate New Yorkers aware that their Supreme Court Justice, Samuel Nelson, voted for Judge Tawney’s infamous Dred Scott decision.

President John Tyler, himself a slave owner, appointed Cooperstown’s Nelson.

Such topics are judged to be “impolite” – so said a too typical college instructor of national mythologies. Indeed, evading “unpleasant” topics is what typically passes for American history.

John Marshall, the early and famous chief justice of the United States between 1801-35, was an acquisitive slave buyer who amassed hundreds of so-called “human chattel.” Though grossly distorting rulings on national fictions of “liberty,” his bias is unmentioned. A very few early state verdicts decided slaves’ freedom, but Marshall, leading the court, invariably reversed them.

This judiciary figure fully anticipated the appalling 1857 DredScott decision: “Back to Massa.”

ROBERT MOYNIHAN Town of Middlefield

County.

Tourists do not buy homes (for the most part), fix fences, start businesses, buy and operate farms, send their children to local schools, or buy Suburbans from Tom Armao.

I did not buy Suburbans and Yukons (and other vehicles) from Tom with money I made in Otsego County. I bought those vehicles with money I made by selling my locally manufactured product far and wide to the world outside of Otsego County (mostly the NYC metro area).

I brought other people’s money back to Otsego County and spent it here.

I am what I call “outside money”. Outside money is one of the major keys to sustainable economic development in Otsego County, in my view.

As Dan Wightman said to me many years ago, “Somewhere along the way someone needs to be making something”. Dan’s wisdom is even more important today. That “making something” now also includes ideas and moving electrons around.

A strong, secure, local economy is when other people need us more than we need them. That is not our situation now.

The single, core, controlling reality about Otsego County is that we cannot move it. Everything else that we can possibly do to help ourselves should flow from this one unchangeable fact.

We have to start rebuilding Otsego County from where we are now. There is no plan B. NEXT WEEK: So what’s the plan?

and up – fall under state Article 10 regulations for siting electric-generating facilities, signed into law by Governor Cuomo in 2011.

Below that, a good town plan can guide where things happen, or don’t.

Attendees were advised, “plan for the town you want.” Of course, we all know that means: Keep everything the way it is. If we really care about global warming, about renewables, about humankind’s survival, that probably won’t fill the bill.

The Otsego 2000 policy dwells on what needs to be protected. But let’s turn it around. Let’s identify appropriate sites – sure, brownfields (Shur-Katch in Richfield Springs, maybe), former landfills, acreage shielded from public view – those black panels are ugly – and so on.

It might make sense to

rule solar farms out, period, in the extra-protected Otsego Lake watershed. It makes sense to extra-protect a national environmental icon. But that leaves plenty of space elsewhere in Otsego County.

The Morris installation, tucked in the beauteous Butternut Creek Valley, would have been an eyesore, and perhaps polluted the creek, too. The county’s Solar City site is in a former gravel pit – ideal.

If Otsego 2000 could identify ideal spots for solar farms – a half dozen, a dozen, even more – and put the regulations in place to enable them, it would be doing our 60,094 neighbors (as of last July 1, and dropping) a favor. When a solar developer shows up, no problemo, with enhanced tax base and jobs to follow.

Plus, an itty bit, we might even help save Planet Earth.

Counterbalance Any Gas Pipelines With Equivalent Renewable Project KUZMINSKI/From A5 seem oblivious to the bigger threat. Those who appreciate the long-term threat, on the other hand, have no immediate and practical solutions to the energy challenge.

Yes, of course, we must transition to renewables ASAP, but it’s not just a matter of effortlessly dropping one energy source and plugging in another.

There are serious technical problems (limits to electrical applications, intermittent power and inadequate electricity storage) and financial ones (funding the required large-scale infrastructure changes).

It’s time to recognize both the urgency of climate change as well as the need to buy some time to put in place technologies and financing that can transition us to renewables as quickly as possible.

It’s time to recognize both that the unintended consequences of gas may be worse than the problems it solves, and that those suffering from economic insecurity can’t afford to wait around indefinitely for promised but undelivered jobs in renewable energy.

What’s needed is restraint and prudence.

Until we get to renewables, we’re clearly going to continue to overheat the planet to keep the economy going and avoid social breakdown.

How much more warming can we stand?

It’s not clear, but major new pipelines and gas power plants are climate-denying projects that promise to take us over the edge.

In the meantime, we have growing local economic distress which might be relieved by delivering more gas to Oneonta by enlarging its existing pipeline.

Improving that pipeline and its capacity would clearly boost the local economy; a redone pipeline might also be more efficient.

But any expansion of gas consumption, even a small one like this, can no longer be justified unless correlated with a funded renewable energy project of at least the same scale.

Nothing less is acceptable any more.

Kuzminski, a retired Hartwick College philosphy professor and moderator of Sustainable Otsego, lives in Fly Creek.

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7

From Bill Austin’s postcard collection

Once the place for elegant dining, dancing and shopping in the City of the Hills, the Oneonta Hotel has fallen on hard times. At left, the hotel’s dining room awaits visitors, and in the center, the sign for the first-floor coffee shop is visible where the Red Jug Pub is now. At right, bellhops are ready to take your bags, or perhaps sell you a cigar from the glass counter.

Glory Days Past, ‘Unsafe’ Oneonta Hotel Awaits Its Fate HOTEL/From A1 are in the process of being compiled,” said Herzig.

“They need to be reviewed before a decision is made.”

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“Sometimes, you have to weigh the best options of what you have,” he said Tuesday. “By the board issuing an order to vacate immediately without giving residents time to find alternative housing, we risked putting a lot of them into homelessness.

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The owner of the building, Melania Pervu, did not return a phone call by press time.

If the latest reports find the violations have not been brought up to code, Herzig said he will instruct Merzig to draft eviction proceedings and serve them on any remaining tenants. Merzig said he didn’t know how long that would take.

From there, the matter goes to City Court, where the tenants can appeal the eviction before a judge, who will make the determination on whether or not they can stay in the building.

“You can’t throw people out of where they live without the court being involved,” said Merzig. “We have no desire to make anyone homeless, but we don’t want them to live in unsafe housing.”

If the court finds cause for the tenants to leave the property, a warrant of

eviction will be served by the county Sheriff’s Department.

In one of Ed Moore’s columns, reprinted from In Olde Oneonta, Vol. 3, 1964, after the Central Hotel burned in 1910, the structure was rebuilt within months and reopened as the Oneonta Hotel. For years after, it provided the city’s most upscale accommodations.

A bank long occupied the Dietz Street corner of the first floor. F.A. Herrieff clothing store was an early occupant of the first floor.

Much of the floor was taken up by the hotel lobby. The hotel rooms were first used mainly by traveling salesmen, then by tourists, then by transients.

When he was a newsboy for the Binghamton Press in the 1930s, the late Tony Mongillo recalled a chauffeur-driven Pierce Arrow pulling up to the main entrance and an elegant lady and distinguished-looking gentleman emerging. Tony sold the man a newspaper, and only realized later he was Gov. Herbert Lehman, in the city for a political

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At a meeting last November, the board further found that original violations had not yet been corrected and it ordered the property vacated within 30 days.

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There was a dining room seating several hundred on the 4th floor. Within a couple decades, the dining room closed. A coffee shop opened on the ground floor, where there was also a bar.

“There was a daily group of businessmen who would meet in that hotel for breakfast,” said Tony Drago. “I used to have coffee there with Dr. Carson.”

On the fifth floor, there was a ballroom on the Dietz St side. The City Club occupied the other half of the floor for about 10 years, then the D&H had its divisional offices there for about 20 years. WDOS Radio had its first studio and offices in the building.

There was a bowling alley in the basement and, for a time, a barber shop.

According to Herzig, the Pervus will maintain ownership of the building, but will no longer be able to rent apartments. The businesses on the ground floor, including the Red Jug Pub, have met code requirements and will be allowed to stay open.

“These people aren’t staying because it’s a wonderful place to live,” said Herzig.

“I’ve talked to several of them, and they say they’re staying because they have nowhere else to go.”

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The landmark at 22 Main St., Cooperstown, has passed from the Lemister family that ran Sherry’s Restaurant there for decades to the Wrubleskis, who now run Mel’s at 22 there.

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COOPERSTOWN ince Frank G. Parshall opened his restaurant at 22 Chestnut St. in 1911, there’s always been a restaurant occupying that space.

“There’s tons of history here,” said Brian Wrubleski, proprietor of Mel’s at 22. “So many people come here to eat and say ‘I remember dining here when this was Sherry’s.’”

“We tore down a wall in the kitchen and found a ton of original bricks,” said Alex Gunther, general manager and Brian’s daughter. “One of them has a dog printed on it, the

other, an antique key.”

And now, with the sale of the building from Karen and Fred Lemister to the Wrubleski family, the legacy will continue on. “It’s the end of an era,” said Karen. “But it’s a whole new era for them.”

Following the death of his wife, Maryellen, Wrubleski opened the restaurant in 2014 Please See HISTORY, B3

Commitment Wins Shelter Hall Laurels

The Animal Shelter’s Robert Wood tends Jeanette, a Sheltie rescued from the New Lisbon farm.

Cooperstown Chamber To Induct SAS, 3 Other Institutions Onto List Of Best

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hen the news broke that nine dogs had been rescued from desperate conditions from a New Lisbon farm the other weekend, Stacie Haynes, Susquehanna Animal Shelter executive director, didn’t have to even ask for help.

“When we got in, people were out the door, wanting to volunteer to clean, hug and love these dogs,” she said. “It changed these dogs lives.

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opted. Some of these are street dogs, they may not have the best manners at first, but they need homes too.”

For that kind of can-do attitude, the Susquehanna Animal Shelter will be entered into Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame, just one year after the shelter celebrated their 100th year in operation.

The induction will be Thursday, May 31, at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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- dark, Saturday, May 5, Copes Corners Park, 620 St. Hwy. 51, Gilbertsville. Call 607-783-2203.

SUPER-SENIOR PROM: Relive your Senior Prom like it’s the very first time. Features music from 1950-1999, prom attire encouraged.

Cost, $10/couple. 8 p.m. - midnight, Saturday, May 5, Production Center, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-432-5407.

FIESTA FUNDRAISER: Do good in the world while enjoying a delicious Mexican dinner and dancing. All proceed go to the purchase of a water filtration system for the village of Las Mercedes, Honduras.

Cost $12/adult. 4-7 p.m. Friday, May 4, First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Call 607547-8401.

EXHIBIT OPENING: Celebrate the opening of the Christine Alexander, Allyn Stewart, Rose Mackiewicz and Linda Suskind-Kosmer exhibition. 5-8 p.m. Friday, May 4, CANO, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-2070.

SPRING CONCERT: The Catskill Choral Soceity with other Children’s choirs perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Seasons.” Roberts Kolb leads the group of 62 singers. 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 5, First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-431-6060.

HELP THE OUTLAWS: Support the Oneonta Outlaws at this Cinco De Mayo celebration. Includes Mexican inspired food, games, raffles, music, more. Cost, $15. 4-9 p.m.

Saturday, May 5, Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta.

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POP-UP LIBRARY – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Kids enjoy fun activities like story time, 3-D scanning, media demos, more. Learn to download free e-books, audiobooks, magazines, and use the catalogue app. All ages welcome. Get free Star Wars buttons and bookmarks while supplies last. May the Fourth be with you. Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607432-0010.

RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Come see what treasures you can find. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-6552.

STUDENT SHOWCASE – 9:20 a.m. - 4 p.m. Students present their best work in “Student Showcase: An Exhibition of Liberal Arts In Practice.” Features 150 presentation, exhibits, performances, discussions by 190 students.

Hartwick College, Oneonta.

Call 607-431-4628.

ART EXPLORATION – 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. Children paint a small terra cotta pot to take home. Great Mother’s Day gift. Cost, $20/non-member.

Cooperstown Art Association.

Call 607-547-9777.

FIESTA FUNDRAISER – 4 - 7 p.m. Enjoy a delicious Mexican dinner followed by

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 3-4, 2018 dancing. Take-out available.

All proceeds go to the purchase of a water filtration system for the village of Las Mercedes, Honduras. Cost $12/adult.

First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown.

Call 607-547-8401.

CAKEWALK – 5 - 8 p.m.

Play a musical game and enter to win a cake of your choice. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

Call 607-432-0960.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 8 p.m. Celebrate the opening of the Christine Alexander, Allyn Stewart, Rose Mackiewicz and Linda Suskind-Kosmer exhibition. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-2070.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Black Panther.” Tickets, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

SPRING CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. The Catskill Choral Soceity with other Childrens choirs perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Seasons.”

Roberts Kolb leads the group of 62 singers. Tickets available at The Green Earth Market, Artware, Cooperstown Natural Foods. Performance at First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-431-6060.

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MUSICAL – 8 p.m. Presenting “Heathers The Musical” which follows Veronica through cliques, crimes, and chaos of her senior year. Contains mature language and content. Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Call 800-595-4849.

Saturday, May 5

LAWN SALE – 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Featuring tools, glassware, dishes, picture frames,

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kitchen implements, shelves, architectural items, more on sale by the Otego Historical Society. Also features tours of the Victorian home of Malcolm Ross. 331 Main St., Otego. Call 607-988-7973.

COOPERSTOWN BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m. Please have clean/returnable bottles and cans on the curb or visible from the street. Support Cooperstown Boy Scouts. Call Bruce at 607-267-6730.

BOOK COLLECTION – 9 a.m. - Noon. Donate gently used books for the Friends of the Village Library Summer Book sale to benefit the Library. Donate at the Fair

St entrance. Cooperstown Village Library. Call 607-5478344.

SPRING FEST – 9 a.m.

- Dark. Celebrate Spring, includes a visit from the zoomobile, a fishing derby, fire department competitions, kids’ boat-float contest, live music all day, ice cream social begins at noon. Bonfire with music by Gary Jennings at sunset. Copes Corners Park, 620 St. Hwy. 51, Gilbertsville.

Call 607-783-2203.

HARTWICK CLEAN SWEEP – 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Hartwick residents are invited to dispose of a variety of items like electronics, green waste, scrap metal, more. Garbage and hazardous waste will not be accepted. Mattresses may be taken to the Southern Transfer Station.

Up to 6 tires will be accepted free of charge. Hartwick Town Hall, 103 Town Dr., Hartwick. Call 607-293-8234.

BENEFIT – 9 a.m. - Noon.

Run 4 the Hills to benefit first responders through the historic village of Sharon Springs. Features trophies, awards, post-race party.

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SPRING WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Spring on the Farm festival features workshops on topics like hydroponics and Gardening 101. Includes activities like making garden markers, more. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471450.

EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. 4 p.m. Last day of the “Downtown Oneonta Then & Now” exhibit looking at Oneonta’s urban renewal efforts in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0960.

ESCAPE ROOM – 10 11 a.m. Can you solve the puzzles to escape the Stranger Things upside down room?

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Call 607-432-1980.

GREETING CARDS – 10:30 a.m. - Noon. Make original greeting cards with local artist Vivienne Clarke. Cooperstown Village Library. Call 607-5478344.

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Wrubleskis Assume Role Established By Lemisters HISTORY/From B1 with daughters Alex and Natalie, and Alex’s husband Steve Gunther to honor her legacy.

“This restaurant is a good tribute to our family,” said Natalie. “My parents always had friends over and there was a lavish array of food.”

Wrubleski had worked for and run restaurants in Massachusetts before coming to Cooperstown. “My father Parker Fish/ OTSEGO.life ran a restaurant and we were Fred and Karen put a poster commending their all involved,” he said. “He successors in the window of their other store, instilled in me a legacy of Rudy’s Liquors. family values.”

When he opened the into this, and we felt it was came from Frank Sherwood, restaurant in 2014, everyone the right time,” said Alex. who combined the “Sher” pitched in. “I was hostess, “We were sure about this. of his name with the “ry” in but I had to Google hostess- Dad doesn’t want to do this operator Harry LaDuke Sr. ing!” said Natalie. “Now, until he’s 150, so it’s an “Our special was roasted I just help wherever I’m investment from us, for our turkey,” said Fred. “My dad needed.” future.” always roasted 35-pound But soon, word got And at around that time, turkeys. I hated carrying around. “People come back the Lemisters had another those things!” time after time,” he said. offer on the building, but But they were also known “Our doors are always open, decided to sell to the for the Dingbat, an ice even if you just need a hotel Wrubleski family instead. cream sundae sprinkled with recommendation! We stay “His purchase was one for malt, made at the Bastianopen year ‘round, which the community,” said Fred.

Blessing soda fountain in helps our employees.”

“Sherry’s was a family the front room. “You always But the building had been business, and they wanted ended your meal with a for sale for a while, and a family business in here,” Dingbat,” said Karen.

Wrubleski panicked a little said his daughter Natalie.

After Andrew’s death in every time a prospective The Lemister family 1966, Fred helped his mom purchaser came in to look. operated Sherry’s restaurant run the restaurant, and after “We would overhear their from 1951 to 1996, takhe and Karen were married ideas, but we wanted to keep ing over from the previous in 1970, the young couple the longevity of the Mel’s owners, Emile Pelletier, who took over. “Our kids did name for the community.” sold it to Fred’s parents, An- dishes and worked in the “We put a lot of work drew and Evelyn. The name kitchen,” said Karen.

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They later sold the fully equipment restaurant to Donna and Robert Marquardt, who ran Gabriella’s on the Square in the Lemisters’ building for several years.

But since then, every restaurant that has gone in has closed shortly after. “There was a really high turnover until Brian came to us,” said Karen.

“We used to joke that this place was cursed,” said Natalie.

But part of Brian’s decision was in making sure that he would have the business to pass down to his family. “I wouldn’t have even started this restaurant if not for Alex,” he said. “If you don’t have your family behind you, it won’t work.”

Under the new ownership, the family quickly got to work with updates and renovations, including renting the four upstairs apartments, which they intend to keep for locals. “They’re beautiful apartments,” he said. “They’ve got these big windows that open onto Main Street.”

“You pass your legacy onto your children,” he said.

“My children are caring, devoted people, and our values are what make this place successful.”

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Community and the ChamAnd in 1980, the shelter ber of Commerce,” said opened the Better Exchange Haynes, who has served as SAS executive director since Thrift Shop, which helps 2015. “We truly wouldn’t be fund the shelter’s mission. here if it wasn’t for the com- “100 percent of the profits go to the shelter,” she said. munity. And with the grant we just got, it’s great timing!”

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by Mrs. William T. Hyde, that there were stray cows who enlisted friends and on the lawn of a hotel in local veterinaries to care for Cooperstown,” she said. stray dogs. The first build“We offered to take them in ing was built in 1972, but on our fenced lawn, but their in 1981, Louis Busch Hager owners came and got them purchased the property on before we could.”

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Major’s Inn, 104 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. Call 607-7832967.

SPRING CONCERT – 3 p.m.

The Catskill Choral Soceity with other Childrens choirs perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Seasons.” Roberts Kolb leads the group of 62 singers. Tickets available at The Green Earth Market, Artware, Cooperstown Natural Foods.

Performance at First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607431-6060.

FUNDRAISER – 4 - 9 p.m. Support the Oneonta Outlaws at this Cinco De Mayo celebration. Includes Mexican inspired food, drink, games, raffles, music, more.

Cost, $15. Oneonta Outlaws, Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-433-0545.

POTLUCK DINNER – 6:30 p.m. Bring a dish to pass and celebrate Cinco de Mayo. All welcome. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 852 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. Call 607547-9946.

SUPER-SENIOR PROM – 8 p.m. - Midnight. Relive your Senior Prom like it’s the very first time. Features music from 1950-1999, prom attire encouraged. Cost, $10/couple. Production Center, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-432-5407.

MUSICAL – 8 p.m. Presenting “Heathers The Musical.”

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applesauce. All donations go to upkeep of the Historical Building. Suggested donation, $8/adult. The Old Grange, 210 Cemetery Road, Fly Creek. Call 607-547-1275.

FILM SCREENING – 1, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Black Panther.” See Friday Listing.

GARDEN HACKS – 1 - 2 p.m. Learn tried and tested gardening tips. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1450.

CLEAN-UP – 1 - 4 p.m. The Otsego Land Trust invites the community to help clean up Brookwood point before it opens to the public. Brookwood Point, 6000 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. Call 607-5472366.

MUSICAL – 2 p.m. Presenting “Heathers The Musical.”

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SUNDAY PROGRAM – 3 p.m. Dr. Richard Pious presents “Why Presidents Fail.” Pious has written several books including “The War on Terrorism and the Rule of Law” and “Why Presidents Fail.” Village Ballroom, Cooperstown Village Library.

Call 607-547-8344.

EXHIBIT – 3 - 5 p.m.

Celebrate the opening of an exhibit by Claire Owen & Michelle Castleberry titled “The Choir,” developed from the project “Mask Over Bone: Persona Poems based on the Hyrtl Skull Collection.” Includes refreshment, snacks. Free, open to the public. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. Call 607-8295055.

CONCERT – 4 p.m.

The prize-winning Argus Quartet perform program entitled “Visions and Miracles” featuring music from the renaissance to the present with composers like Josquin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, others.

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FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing with live model.

Poses chosen by consensus.

Cost $12/class. The Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-4358718.

DRAWING GROUP – 7-9 p.m. Mondays. Open drawing Group. $10 per class suggested donation. Cooperstown Art Association, 5 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown. Info Janet Erway, 607-547-9777.

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fter 45 years and hundreds of performances with the Catskill Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Charles Schneider took his final bow at the end of the symphony’s annual Choral Concert on Saturday, April 28 with tears in his eyes.

“I’m still kind of spacey from the whole thing,” said Schneider trying to collect his thoughts. “I don’t know where the time went.”

Schenider, 80, conducted the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th move-

ments of Symphony No. 5, D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich in front of a sold-out crowd at the Hunt Union Ballroom.

“I’m just feeling so grateful to everyone who came out to honor this iconic maestro,” said CSO Board Chair Diane Williams. “He truly is second to no one.”

Diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and requiring oxygen, Schneider conducted from a seated position for the duration of the performance, but rose to receive a standing ovation.

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“When I drove my rental truck across the George Washington Bridge, I had no idea what to expect,” said Schneider in a letter that lead the event’s program.

“Little did I realize that we would eventually become one of the best community orchestras in the country.”

Schneider’s 45 year career in Upstate NY saw him work with music programs at SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College, Colgate University, and Hamilton Parker Fish/AllOTSEGO.life Maestro Charles Schneider takes one final bow at the end of the Catskill College. The maestro was the founding Music Director Symphony Orchestra’s Choral Concert, where he conducted Symphony of the Glimmerglass Opera, No. 5, D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakov. and is the co-founder of the to Prometheus, C major, ing hospitalized with the flu. has been shown to us.”

Catskill Conservatory.

Op. 43” and John Rutter’s At the conclusion of the Rayna explained that SchSchneider received cita“Mass of the Children,” fea- performance, the orchesneider’s passion for music tions by the United States turing the Hartwick College tra gifted Schneider with will continue into retireCongress and Gov. George chorus, the Catskill Choral a golden baton and flowment. “He’s going to be able Pataki in 2000, and has Society, Octavos Singers, and celebrated with a to focus more on composing earned three awards from ers and the Oneonta Youth reception afterwards, where his own music,” said Rayna. the American Society of Choir, as well as soloists a long line of well-wishers “He’s currently working on Composers, Authors, and Joana Arnold and David formed to congratulate the a piece that he plans to dediPublishers over the course Kolb. maestro. cate to his grandchildren.” of his career.

In March, Wright stepped “These are all our Schenider has said that he Lee Wright, director in to conduct for Schneider friends,” said Schneider’s intends to help the symof Choral Activities at at the symphony’s Cabaret wife Rayna. “We’re both phony in the search for their Hartwick College, conductConcert in March, while the just so grateful for all of the new conductor. ed Beethoven’s “Overture Maestro recovered from be- years and all of the love that

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Growing Up In The Digital Age,” introduced by filmaker & pediatrician Delaney Ruston, M.D. who will moderate a discussion following. Belden Auditorium, Oneonta Senior High School, 130 East St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-8200.

ROUND TABLE – 6:30 p.m.

Presentation “Henry Beekman Livingston, Black Sheep of the Livingston Clan” by Geoff Benton. Follows the story of Henry Beeman Livingston through the Revolutionary War and after. Siena

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Wednesday, May 9

DEMONSTRATION – 1 - 3 p.m. See how to use the 3-D printer. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

DISCUSSION GROUP – 3 - 5 p.m. Discussion of current events. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5478344.

ART & MUSIC – 5 - 7 p.m.

Cooperstown students showcase their visual arts and musical accomplishments. .Cooperstown Village Library.

Call 607-547-8344.

Thursday, May 10

AG PLASTIC – 8 - 11 a.m.

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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018

IN MEMORIAM GTE VP James R. Millisor, 86; Trained AT&T Executives Here COOPERSTOWN and fell in love with Kim – James R. Millisor, Jr., who Sears. They married in taught marketing for AT&T 1954 and were married for at The Otesaga in the 1960s 62 years before Kim died and went on to play a leadin Cooperstown 22 months ership role at GTE, ago. the telecom giant, Jim was in the passed away peaceAir Force, stafully in his sleep tioned at Elgin Air Saturday, April 28.

Force base in Fort Jim had a life Walton, Fla., where well-lived throughthe couple had out his 86 years. their first daughter, His sense of humor Melanne. They and positive outlook moved to Columwill be missed by bus, where Jim was James R. many. in marketing for Millisor Jim was born to AT&T, and their James R. Millisor, Sr., and second daughter, Tara, was Mary Johnston on Jan. 7, born there.

1932, in Columbus, Ohio.

In the early 1960s, He won many awards for Jim was transferred to wrestling throughout his Cooperstown, where AT&T school days in Upper Arwas operating executivelington. He graduated from training programs at The Ohio State University, where Otesaga during the off-seahe was president of the SAE son. fraternity.

After four years, he While life-guarding at a moved his family to St. local country club, he met Petersburg, Fla., becoming

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Lawrence Heldman, 86; SUNY Oneonta Professor

ONEONTA – Lawrence John Heldman, Ed.D., a SUNY Oneonta professor active in community life, died Monday, April 23, 2018, at his home.

Larry was born Feb. 10, 1932, to Arthur Charles and Mary Patterson Heldman in Yonkers, the eldest of their five children. He attended Yonkers schools and graduated from Cortland State Teachers College (SUNY Cortland) in 1953.

He served in the Army’s 516th Signal Corps during the Korean War, and was awarded the Medal of Military Merit.

In 1957, Larry married Nancy Shanahan in their neighborhood church, Bryn Mawr Park Presbyterian, in Yonkers.

After he received his doctorate at Columbia University, and served Ossining public schools as teacher, supervisor, and principal, the Heldman family of five moved to Oneonta in 1967.

Here, Larry became a full professor and executive secretary of the Catskill Area School Study Council at SUNY Oneonta.

Larry and Nancy enjoyed wonderful years with their beloved children Di, Jim, and Chris, that included skiing, camping, traveling and hosting foreign students.

Larry was active in community affairs as a youth soccer coach, 50-year member and past president of Rotary International, board member of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra and Family Services, Fox Hospital volunteer, and deacon and elder in the Presbyterian Church.

Nancy and Larry continued their travels in retirement, circumnavigating the globe twice, and visiting more than 100 countries.

He enjoyed gardening and woodworking and produced hundreds of wooden Christmas ornaments to send as cards for 40 years.

He is survived by his loving wife of more than 60 years; and children, Dianna, James and Sonya and their daughters, Sonya Elena, and Greta, Christopher and Karem and their sons, Alexander and Nicholas; also his sisters, Susan White and Judith Conrad; his brother, the

Rev. Arthur Heldman and their families, Including a special nephew, David Anderson. He was predeceased Larry by his sister, Heldman Thelma Anderson; and brothers-in-law, Allan Anderson and Lawrence Conrad.

A funeral service was held be held Saturday, April 28, at the First Presbyterian Church.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Larry’s name may be made to Catskill Symphony Orchestra, P.O. Box 14, Oneonta, NY 13820, or the Lawrence J. Heldman Arts Endowment, College at Oneonta Foundation, 308 Netzer Administration Bld., Oneonta NY 13820, or online at Oneonta.edu/give.

Check other and write in Lawrence J. Heldman Arts Endowment.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.

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He was very active in the community, serving as president of the Greater Tampa Bay Area United Way for many years, and on many local boards of directors.

Jim was lucky enough to retire at 55, and he and Kim enjoyed traveling the world for many years. They enjoyed buying and restoring old homes all along the Eastern Seaboard.

They had homes in Tampa, Virginia, North Carolina and in the Hudson Valley before consolidating three years ago in Cooperstown.

Gravitating toward Pioneer Street, they bought a home within two blocks of two houses where they had lived in the 1960s, and reconnected with friends from those many years ago.

Jim was an exceptional man who loved his family and friends above everything else. He had an infectious smile and quick wit, and was generous with his time and love beyond words.

They don’t make ‘em like Jim anymore. His all-time favorite phrase was, “Don’t ever lose your sense of humor!”

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OPENING RECEPTION – 5:30 - 7 p.m. Opening an exhibit Celebrating Commerce and Community. First-year CGP students celebrate this year’s inductees to the Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame. Includes refreshments, snacks, friends, furry friends.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471400.

YARN CLUB – 6 - 7:30 p.m. knitters, crocheters of all skill levels meet to work on projects. Accompanied youths welcome. The Study, Hunting-

ton Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

MUSIC AT THE MANSION – 6:30 - 8 p.m. Half-hour open mic session followed by featured performer Peter Blue performing on the nyckelharpa and diatonic accordions, influenced by contradance, Swedish, and Quebecois traditions.

Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-2070.

ESCAPE ROOM – 6:307:30 p.m. Can you solve the puzzles to escape the Stranger Things upside-down room?

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Call 607-432-1980.

HISTORY – 6:30 p.m. Learn about the Hartwick College Archives, which include the Cooper Papers, with Shelley Wallace. Free, Open to

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the public. Kinney Memorial Library, 3140 Co. Rd. 11, Hartwick. Call 607-293-6600.

FILM SOCIETY – 7 - 8:40 p.m. The Film Society of Cooperstown presents “Tracks” which follows Robyn Davidson who treks across Australia on her feet and 2 camels. Cooperstown Village Library. Call 607-547-8344.

AWARDS – 7 p.m. Students receive recognition

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for their academic accomplishments. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School.

Call 607-547-8181.

WORD THURSDAY – 7 - 10 p.m. Writers share their work followed by a reception and readings by featured author Wendell Mayo, author of story collections Survival House; The Cucumber King of Kedainiai; more. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center,

94 Church St., Treadwell.

Call 607-829-5055.

SUPPORT GROUP – 7 - 8 p.m. Supporting family, friends of addicts. New members welcome. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-3291.

Friday, May 11

ART CLASS – 1 - 3 p.m.

Bring the kids to learn to draw some of their favorite cartoon and comic characters.

Cost, $20/non-member.

Cooperstown Art Association.

Call 607-547-9777.

MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m.

Makers of all ages create, learn, experiment. Materials provided for many different hands-on activities to inspire creative thinking and problem-solving. Everything from crochet to coding, more. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie

Boulevard, Canajoharie. Call 518-673-2314.

DANCE PARTY – 6 - 7 p.m.

Bring the family for a fun night out. Cost, $8/guest accompanied by a member.

Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-4320010.

OPEN MIC – 6 - 8 p.m. Writers, poets, songwriters are welcome to share their work and get inspired. The Meeting Place, 187 Main St., Suite A, Unadilla. Call 607-765-7386.

Saturday, May 12

BIRD WALK – 7 a.m. Take a walk with Becky Gretton, Delaware-Otsego Audobon Society, see which birds have returned to our area. Bring your own binoculars, field guide. Registration required.

Mohican Farm, 7207 St. Rt. 80, Cooperstown. Call 607547-4488.

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seasonal employment The Village of Cooperstown has seasonal laborer openings in the Streets Department and Doubleday Field. For further information including applications please contact the Village Administrator at the address listed below or by calling 607-547-2411.

Applications will be accepted until positions are filled.

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Applications and job description are available at the Personnel Office, 258 Main Street or at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel.

Applications should be submitted along with a cover letter.

First review of applications will take place on May 11.

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Facilities Specialist-Oneonta

This full-time Facilities Specialist position is located in Oneonta, NY. Major responsibilities include performing various maintenance repairs, renovations, or remodeling projects to correct building deficiencies and improve customer service efficiency. A Facilities Specialist performs routine and preventative maintenance tasks for electrical, plumbing, lighting, and HVAC systems throughout the organization. Educational qualifications for this position include a High School Diploma (or equivalent); an Associate’s Degree in a related field is preferred. Applicants must have a minimum of two years in facilities maintenance or construction, including the ability to perform routine repairs to heating, air conditioning, lighting, and electrical and plumbing systems. Experience with multiple facilities preferred.

Other qualifications required are general knowledge of HVAC, plumbing, masonry, painting, electrical and carpentry; no fear of heights; ability to work effectively in a team environment and multi-task in a fast paced environment; and ability to work independently and remain on task. To be considered applicants must have a valid driver’s license and must have the flexibility to travel and adjust daily work schedules as needed. May be required to lift 50 pounds as well as perform laborer functions such as climbing and shoveling.

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These full-time Teller positions are located in Cooperstown, NY or Oneonta, NY. Major responsibilities include providing exceptional customer service, handling cash accurately, meeting customers’ financial needs, and promoting bank products and services. Qualifications for this position include a high school diploma or equivalent, excellent communication skills, accuracy, and basic math skills. Reliable transportation is required. Prior cash handling and customer service preferred.

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Planning Board Clerk Town of Hartwick Planning Board Clerk in the Town of Hartwick P/T position, four hours of office work at the Hartwick Town Hall and attendance at all Planning Board meetings required. Skills needed: • Record-keeping, filing & organizational techniques • Strong oral & writtten communication skills • Strong public relations & interpersonal skills • Ability to develop knowledge of technical aspects of the field Applicants must be high school graduates & have a valid NYS Driver’s License

Forward a letter of interest and resume to: Town of Hartwick Planning Board, P. O. Box 240, Hartwick, NY 13348.

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He Insisted On Academics: ‘If You’re Not Eligible, You’re No Good To Me’

BAKER/From A1 bered at a funeral mass Tuesday, May 1, followed by burial with military honors at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

“He was a master of psychology, not just athletics,” said George Lynch, who played for Baker and as a senior captained the 1960 OHS football team when it went 8-0, unbeaten, untied, for the only time in city history. “He knew how to get the best performance out of his players. He impacted my life, he didn’t just coach me.

He impacted my life.”

Now retired and living in Harpursville, Lynch paused: “I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it.”

When you look at the record, the data are overwhelming. His success on the gridiron was memorialized in Lloyd F. Baker Field: OHS’ football stadium was named in his honor in 1999.

Teaching at Mohawk Central for five years at the start of his career, he achieved three undefeated seasons.

In the nine years coaching after joining OHS in

1954, Baker’s football team chalked up an overall record of 51-16-2 in the Iroquois League. His teams were league champs five times and co-champs three times.

“We had good talent; he had some good kids,” said Tony Drago, who was OHS athletic director part of the time (in addition to coaching the 1959 undefeated basketball team). He mentioned Lynch, Charlie Sweeney, who went on to Notre Dame, and Jim Konstanty, later a Major Leaguer, as quarterback.

“We had good athletes at the time,” Drago continued.

“But Lloyd was a good, hardnose coach. He knew the game and had the respect of the players. He did what a coach is supposed to do.”

(The men were lifelong friends. A couple of days after his 91st birthday, Baker reported running into Drago, who is a couple of years older: “What I’d give to be 91 again!” Tony kidded Lloyd.)

Lloyd Baker was born on Nov. 19, 1923, in Granby, Fulton County, the son of Ezra and Viola (Colville)

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Baker. He married Elizabeth Sawyer on Jan. 12, 1944.

She predeceased him on Sept. 22, 2007.

He attended Cortland State from September 1942 until January 1943, when he left to serve in the Army during World War II. Receiving the rank of captain in the Army Air Corps, he piloted B-24s and was honorably discharged in November 1945.

Returning to Cortland State, Lloyd received his bachelor’s in 1948, serving as football captain in 1946 and 1947. He went on to attend Syracuse University, where he received his master’s in 1949.

In his years at OHS, he also coached wrestling and track, taught, and rose to high school vice principal, then principal. He even served a period as interim superintendent of schools after Robert White, Drago remembered.

Also active in the community, Lloyd served as president of the YMCA Board of Directors, a director of the SUNY Oneonta Foundation, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, director of

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the Bugbee Foundation and president of Kiwanis.

He was a member of the American Legion, of the SUNY Oneonta College Council board, ACT, the Future of Oneonta Foundation board, president, general chairman and member of the United Way board, and a director of the Oneonta Country Club. He served on the city Parks and Recreation Committee and was involved with Catholic Charities.

Lloyd is survived by two daughters, Anne Aungier and Martha B. Forgiano (Joe); five grandchildren, Beth Aungier, Joan Davis (Joe), Kate Bingham (David), Kristin Quinn (Sam), and Rebecca Muller (Chad); 11 great grandchildren, Anne Bradley, Thomas Bradley, Joe McGough, Jack McGough, Andrew Bingham, Molly Bingham, Paigely Quinn, Decker Quinn, Riggs Quinn, Chloe Muller and Grayson Muller.

He was predeceased by son-in-law Ron Aungier.

Memorial donations may be made to Catholic Charities, 176 Main St., Oneonta NY 13820, the Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave, Oneonta NY 13820, or Dollars for Scholars, PO Box

1083, Oneonta, NY 13820.

To George Lynch, Lloyd Baker coached more than football. “He taught you the value of working as a team, and morals. He always had time for you.”

He remembers the coach calling him over, advising, “Lynch, my boy, your emotions are running high. We win by out-thinking AND out-running them. You’re leading them physically – just don’t let your head get in the way.”

Lynch continued: “He knew how to take at different types of personalities.

Some rise to the occasion.

Others, you need to inspire them. He knew how to get people to work collectively – all different backgrounds and temperaments.

And he required his players to perform in the classroom too. “If you’re not eligible, you’re no good to me,” he would tell his team.

“He would go right after you,” Lynch said. “Some would never have graduated if it wasn’t for Lloyd Baker.”

The young player was impressed by how his mentor was “a family man – he and Betty. She never missed a game – or his daughters – they were at every game, from

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Lynch summed up: His winning coach “had a commitment to family, a commitment to education – he was a fantastic individual.”

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