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“This is my first time ever being here, and I have goosebumps. I’m so honored,” Mr. Ortiz said.

“As a kid you dream of this, to be among the greatest players of the game. And here I am!”

Left to right: Josh Rawitch, President of the Hall of Fame; Ms. Jane Forbes Clark and David Ortiz.

►Drs. weil, knight and stein get new appointments at Bassett Medical Center, page 6. ►A FEW THOUGHTS ON IMPORTANT THINGS: Our columnists this week ponder Governor Hochul’s choice of Attorney Generals; our Editor visits a Memphis, Tennessee museum; former Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta Publisher reflects on the past year, pages 4 and 5. ►Farewell to bob schlather tributes and full obituary, pages 1, 6 and 7. ►suny oneonta’s music department matches science and art in music, page 12.

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The National Baseball Hall of Fame welcomed David Ortiz, a member of the Class of 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees, to the museum this week. “Only one percent of all the men who ever played Major League Baseball is honored in this Hall,” said Jane Forbes Clark, Chairman of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. “Congratulations and welcome, Mr. Ortiz.”

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Community pays tribute to Bob Schlather Editor’s note: Please see full obituary on page 7.

Last week, the community lost an exceptional friend in Bob Schlather. Those who attended the Mass at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown on Saturday were graciously asked upon entry if they were with a particular organization, to be shown where others from their group were seated. This spoke volumes about Bob, who was involved in a dizzying array of groups and causes encompassing healthcare, human services, education, arts, historical associations, Rotary — basically, anything established for the betterment of the community. And it was with compassion, dedication, gentleness and a legendary and comforting sense of humor that Bob jumped into his volunteer roles as advisor, advocate, contributor and leader.

In her homily during the Mass, the Rev. Betsy Jay referred to Bob as “invincible;” he was always there to get things done, and he did so with understated deliberation.

The Glimmerglass Festival was incredibly fortunate to be a keystone cause of Bob’s. He and his wife, Karen, first became involved as volunteers and supporters in 1979, when the Opera was still in its infancy. By 1984 he was elected to the Board and during his nearly 40 years as a Trustee, Bob served as: Treasurer for seven, Vice President of Personnel for four, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Chairman of the Audit Committee, an At-Large member of the Executive Committee, and importantly, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for an impressive six years — in tandem with Peter Duchin as his President, with whom he then swapped the Presidency and Chairmanship positions for a year.

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Delgado tapped as Lieutenant Governor This edition of The Freeman’s Journal /Hometown Oneonta goes to press as Governor Kathy Hochul announces she has appointed Congressman Antonio Delgado has her new Lieutenant Governor.

The news takes Rep. Delgado out of the running in his bid for re-election to his seat in Congress, representing Otsego County in the 19th Congressional District. He had faced a challenge from Republican Marc Molinaro, who remains in the race — but at press time, there was no definitive word on a potential Democratic candidate to take Rep. Delgado’s spot on the ballot.

Rep. Delgado instead will serve out the term of Brian Benjamin, who resigned as Lieutenant Governor in April after being arrested and charged on several federal corruption counts. Governor Hochul signed emergency legislation on May 2 that allowed Mr. Benjamin to remove his name from the Democratic Party’s June primary ballot; at this time, courts are deciding whether to keep the state’s primary for governor, lieutenant governor, and other seats in place for June or if those elections will be postponed until August.

In a statement, the governor said, “I

am proud to appoint Antonio Delgado, an outstanding leader and public servant, as Lieutenant Governor of New York, and I look forward to working with him to usher in a new era of fairness, equity, and prosperity for communities across the State.

We share a belief in working together to get things done for New Yorkers, and Representative Delgado has an incredible record of doing just that in Congress. With Antonio Delgado by my side serving as Lieutenant Governor, we will both make history — and make a difference.”

“New Yorkers deserve a Lieutenant Governor who’s working day and night to make lives better for working people and their families,” Rep. Delgado said in the same statement. “Upstate, downstate, doesn’t matter. We all want the same things, security, family, and opportunity. The key is to listen to New Yorkers from all walks of life and then be their voice to get the job done.”

Pundits view the race for the 19th Congressional District as among the key swing districts in the 2022 elections.

Rep. Delgado will be Gov. Hochul’s running mate in the June primary.

Senator Schumer visits Oneonta to plug job accelerator center U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer visited Oneonta late last week to back Otsego Now’s application to create an acceleration center to stimulate new startups and manufacturing in Otsego County, with the potential to bring up to 300 new jobs over the next five years.

“I have a simple message,” Sen. Schumer said. “Otsego County has all the right ingredients to be a leader in advanced electronics manufacturing.

With a boost from the federal government, we can supercharge rural communities here to create new jobs and new companies.”

He said the Otsego County Acceleration Center “gets my full backing in asking for nearly $2 million in the federal backing it needs to make the greater Oneonta area an emerging hub for tech and innovation.”

The Majority Leader said Otsego County already stands as an ‘electronics hub’ in upstate New York.

“We have great universities and a great work-

force,” he said. “In order for the county to capitalize on this, we need programs that connect young startups with resources that show off places like Otsego County and what we have to offer.”

“This is a chance to bring new ideas, new technology, and new money into the county and neighboring counties,” he said.

Otsego County’s industrial development agency applied for the nearly $2 million grant thrugh the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Innovation Stronger Economy (RISE) grant

program. RISE offers assistance of up to $2 million to regional rural coalitions of local governments, industry leaders, higher education institutions, and other entities to form job accelerator partnerships, create highwage jobs, provide job training, expand businesses, and support economic growth in rural regions.

The county’s RISE application would provide business assistance to help anchor new entrepreneurs and tech startups looking at upstate New York. The RISE grant is supported

by Otsego County, SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College, the Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship, and the Small Business Development Center at Binghamton University.

“We’ve learned the hard way, and when we don’t do the manufacturing here we’re too dependent on other countries that might not be as friendly as they should be,” Sen. Schumer said.

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Hartwick College announces new President

Hartwick College welcomes Darren Reisberg, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation, as the school’s 11th president, beginning August 1.

College Board of Trustees chair David H. Darren Reisberg Long called Mr. Reisberg “the best choice to lead Hartwick at this critical point in the College’s history.”

“Building upon the outstanding foundation that Margaret Drugovich has established during her 14-year tenure as Hartwick’s president, we believe the College’s innovating approach to education provides a compelling and distinctive vision for its future.”

Before joining the Joyce Foundation, Mr. Reisberg was vice president for strategic initiatives and deputy provost at the University of Chicago. Since 2019, he served as the governor-appointed chair of the Illinois State Board of Education, which oversees K-12 programming in more than 850 school districts. Born and raised in Northern New Jersey, Mr. Resiberg will return east with his husband, John Hilliard, and their three dogs.

Hanford Mills Museum welcomes new Executive Director

Hanford Mills Museum’s Board of Directors has announced that Kajsa Harley will serve as Executive Director of Hanford Mills, effective May 16. Since 2013, as Education and Curatorial Initiatives Manager, she has worked closely with Kajsa Harley the museum’s collections, programs, and sustainability initiatives.

“Kajsa has spent the past nine years immersed in HMM’s collections, interpretation, and institutional planning,” said Hanford Mills Museum Board President Glenda Roberts. “Since her first experience seeing and feeling the power of the waterwheel, she has proven her commitment to the organization and its mission.”

Ms. Harley graduated from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in 2007 with a master of arts in History-Museum Studies. She also has a bachelor of arts

in Anthropology from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with minors in Museum Studies and English. Prior to joining Hanford Mills, she worked at The Farmer’s Museum and New York State Historical Association.

“I am honored to serve Hanford Mills in this new capacity as we begin our 2022 season,” Ms. Harley said. “One of the museum’s greatest strengths is the wonderful community of people who support the organization, and I am delighted to further my work with them. Hanford Mills will continue to serve as a community resource and partner through our important work of preserving the historic site, providing educational programming, and collaborating with other organizations to explore our local history and strengthen our region’s sustainability.”

Hanford Mills Museum operates an authentic water- and steam-powered historic site, which includes a sawmill, gristmill, and woodworking shop. The museum is listed on the National and New York State Registers of Historic Places.

Hanford Mills is located at 51 County Highway 12 in East Meredith, just 10 miles from Oneonta, and 15 miles from Delhi. For more information, visit www.hanfordmills. org or call 607-278-5744.

Worcester youth awarded Eagle Scout honors

Jonathan Deitchman of Worcester will be awarded Scouting’s highest honor — Eagle Scout — at a May 7 ceremony on the campus of SUNY Oneonta. He completed his Eagle Scout project, “Mission to M.A.R.S.” Jonathan (Mission to Modeling Deitchman an Astronomical Rover Simulation) at the A.J. Read Science Discovery Center.

“Jonathan is always true to himself,” said his father, Jay Barry Deitchman. “He could have selected a less-challenging project, but this truly reflects his interests and personality. We’re very proud of him,” Mr. Deitchman said. “He’s always willing to put in the extra effort, including stepping outside his comfort zone. Scouting has helped him greatly!”

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Greater Oneonta Historical Society will unveil new exhibition at their grand reopening

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On Friday, May 13, 2022, the Greater Oneonta Historical Society (GOHS) will reopen the doors to its History Center at 183 Main Street in the heart of downtown Oneonta. The reopening follows a fourmonth closure for renovations to the first floor, including updates to the walls, floors, and lighting.

At the grand reopening, GOHS will unveil Small Community, Big Ideas: Greater Oneonta, a new exhibition exploring the history of the town and city of Oneonta, New York. The exhibit will include modern, interactive, and digital features and a variety of different, formerly unseen objects from GOHS’s object and archival collections.

“Small Community, Big Ideas will feature five chronological modules, each shedding light on the everyday people, places, and events that have shaped the town and city of Oneonta over the past three centuries,” Dr. Marcela.Micucci, GOHS Executive Director said. “It will tell the stories of how Natives, settlers, immigrants, and residents created a community, and how they built and rebuilt Oneonta to become a destination city — one that was adaptable and evolved with the changing geography, economy, culture, and society.”

Throughout the exhibit visitors will experience floor maps, ambient sound, audio and visual content, and additional

interactive components. At the close of the exhibition, visitors also will have an opportunity to contribute their own ideas of what they believe the next “big idea” for Oneonta might be. In the coming months, GOHS will continue to integrate new interactives, objects, and expanded content into the exhibit, ensuring visitors a different experience each time they visit.

In addition to the new permanent exhibition, the History Center’s first floor also includes a newly designed gift shop, the Sally Mullen Children’s Corner, and the Brzozowski Special Exhibition Gallery.

The special exhibition space will feature three to four rotating exhibitions each year, beginning with Remembering Oneonta in the 1960s, to open in summer 2022.

Also featured in May will be a special display, 100 Years of Oneonta Rotary, celebrating the centennial of the Oneonta Rotary Club, in GOHS’ Buckingham Window on Main Street and SUNY Oneonta Alumni Window on Dietz Street.

The exhibit will highlight the Rotary’s local and international charitable work and community service, their membership and camaraderie, and their 100-year history.

“We are thrilled to reopen our doors to the Oneonta community in celebration of our new first-floor space and permanent exhibition,” said Dr. Micucci, “I am grateful

to be part of such a collaborative team and organization, and I look forward to sharing this milestone with our local community.

Our new first floor space is a testament to GOHS’ mission to promote and preserve our history for Oneonta’s future.”

John Pontius, President of the GOHS Board of Trustees commented, “It is with great pride that we present to the Oneonta community the new museum on the first floor of the History Center in downtown Oneonta, along with the new permanent exhibit, Small Community, Big Ideas.

Having a vibrant museum as an integral part of our downtown is a tremendous asset for Oneonta and it will serve as an important facility to provide educational programs and celebrate the rich history of the Greater Oneonta area for many years to come.”

For more information on the grand reopening events, visit www.oneontahistory. org, Facebook and Instagram pages, or call or email the History Center at 607-432-0960 and info@oneontahistory.org.

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[Editor’s note: This week’s edition goes to press just as the news about Rep. Delgado is breaking; we offer here a brief analysis of the situation as it stands on the morning of May 3.]

For Otsego County, Governor Kathy Hochul’s May 3 announcement appointing Rep. Antonio Delgado as her new second-in-command in Albany is nothing short of politically seismic — a move that could send aftershocks throughout the entire state and even into Washington, D.C. Certainly Rep. Delgado was a Washington up-andcomer, an important part of the Democratic Party’s hopes to keep its majority in the 2022 mid-term elections. That he was pitted against a popular Republican challenger, Marc Molinaro, in an electoral district whose boundaries hang in the balance of a federal mediator, might have had something to do with his decision to take the offer.

Political machinations notwithstanding, Governor Hochul’s choice is a wise one. Rep. Delgado has proven himself to be a tireless and energetic voice for Otsego County and his district as a whole. Smart, approachable, and affable, when he shows up at an event or to tour a business, he shows up with good questions and displays a genuine interest in the issues at hand.

Surprised as we were to read the announcement on May 3, on reflection, we think Rep. Delgado is an excellent choice for Lieutenant Governor. In Albany, he succeeds Brian Benjamin, who resigned last month after the feds picked him up on a handful of corruption charges. New York has learned the hard way that the office of LG is more than ribbon-cutting ceremonial work; governors Hochul and David Paterson both rose to their office after their respective bosses resigned under curious circumstances. In a state bruised repeatedly by political corruption at the highest level, Rep. Delgado brings a breath of fresh air to a stale Capitol.

Rep. Delgado brings to the position an equanimity sorely lacking in Albany these days — an ability to listen to both sides, measure the discussion, engage the participants. We think he’ll be an effective and stabilizing addition to an administration currently floundering amid a series of political and policy slip-ups.

Practicality aside, he’s a great political choice, too.

Pundits will note that a Hochul/Delgado ticket presents an interesting and — at least in modern times — an unprecedented choice for New Yorkers. Two upstaters, two (relatively) moderate Democrats in a party that — like their Republican counterparts — is torn by fringe voices that tend to choke all the air out of a reasonable debate. We expect voices from the Working Families Party, for example, to decry the choice — he’s not downstate enough, he’s not ‘progressive’ enough, he’s not whatever enough it would take to please those who seem so impossible to please.

Rep. Delgado is, however, a commanding presence on the campaign trail. We think he will do in the whole of New York what he has done in Otsego County throughout his term in Congress — visit everywhere, get to know everyone by his or her first name, command the room without dominating the conversation.

While we wait at press time for news as to who will take his place in the race for the 19th congressional district, we are reminded of a thought from Albany Times-Union columnist Chris Churchill not long after Mr. Molinaro announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination.

Two nice guys, he wrote, a rarity in politics these days.

We agree with Mr. Churchill’s personal assessment and look forward to Lieutenant Governor Delgado imparting his personal charisma and professional comportment in a New York arena sorely in need of decency.

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My wife and I stopped by the Stax Museum of American Soul Music as we passed through Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday — we’re on a long-planned, twice-delayed drive from Cooperstown to Charleston to Tucson to visit our kids. “Where ya from?” the clerk asked. “Upstate New York,” I said. “Cooperstown, to be exact.”

“The Baseball Hall of Fame!” he said happily. “I drove up there a few years ago. Loved it. Had to visit. Love baseball.”

“I love baseball, too,” I said, “but I love my Stax records. I’m glad to be here at your Hall of Fame.”

This week’s column comes to you from the ninth-floor room in a Hilton Garden Inn in the “Bricktown” neighborhood of downtown Oklahoma City. The view from our window: the glorious field of the OKC Dodgers, the AAA affiliate for the Los Angeles Dodgers. We watched the final three innings of the game as we pulled in yesterday afternoon; no game today (but there are tornado warnings for later tonight, so there’s that).

Around the stadium — statues of Baseball Hall-of-Famers like Warren Spahn, Johnny Bench, and Mickey Mantle. Busts for Lloyd and Paul Waner (“Little” and “Big” poisons, respectively), Carl Hubbell. One for Negro League great Joe Rogan. One for beloved Yankee Bobby Murcer, a street named for Joe Carter. Proud Oklahomans all.

In Charleston, out for breakfast with our daughter and her husband, I wore a t-shirt sporting the Fenway Park Citgo logo. “Red Sox fan?” the waiter sneered. “Not so much,” I said, “I’m alright with them but I love the

Mets, sorry.”

“Detroit Tigers,” he said, relieved.

He had moved from Michigan to South Carolina and took his team with him. He did not like the Red Sox. Nor the Yankees. He, too, was alright with the Mets. We had a good chat about our teams and the state of baseball.

Maybe we get a little jaded by the whole baseball thing in Cooperstown, what with it being our local industry and everything. It’s all around us — the Hall of Fame and Doubleday Field in the village, of course, and assorted fields of dreams and baseball-branded activities dotting the county landscape. Maybe we get tired of the ‘America’s Pastime’ trope. The endless souvenir shops.

But driving across the country as we’re doing, it’s gratifying to see baseball as a unifying salve in a country otherwise at each other’s throats. I had to catch myself as we

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walked the perimeter of the stadium earlier today — those Spahn, Bench, and Mantle statues? At first glance, I thought, “Hey wait a minute, those are our guys. They’re in Cooperstown now.”

Of course they’re not “our” guys.

They belong to Oklahoma, just as every Baseball Hall of Famer belongs to his home town, home state, home nation. And in Cooperstown, we’re lucky enough to have them all in one place for the nation to behold as one, members of an elite and diverse team.

It won’t be long before our village streets and county roads are full once more with families and tour buses coming to visit “our” team. They’ll be playing ball nearby and flying home to tell their friends about an experience they won’t soon forget.

They’ll visit our restaurants, shop in our stores, and bring renewed life to the region as they did in the years before COVID. Growing up here, we’d occasionally wince at the onslaught of out-ofstate license plates that took up all the good parking spaces and didn’t seem to know how to get to the Hall of Fame (even when they were standing a block away from it). Today, we’re thrilled to welcome them back, again and again, for a shared experience that begins in Detroit, and Charleston, and Oklahoma City, and everyplace else where there’s a team to root for. Let’s look forward to a busy summer.

(Also: The Stax Museum, the Sun studios, and a trip to Elvis’s Graceland are very much worth your consideration. And Oklahoma City is one hospitable place!)

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Editorial unfair

The editorial that appeared in The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta on Thursday, April 28, 2022, regarding the Otsego County Democratic Committee’s Ukraine fundraising, sparked many a reaction in my mind.

Most important of them: What an astonishing example of performative outrage, high dudgeon, and holierthan-thou-ness. I do hope that the newspaper will apply equally outraged scrutiny when any seemingly altruistic local Republican initiativecomestoyourattention—and then devote an equal number of selfrighteous paragraphs (in this case, ten) before magnanimously allowing that “we’re no less appalled when people wrap themselves in the American flag to claim moral or small-d democratic superiority...”

Depending on one’s particular perch, one committee’s fine print is another committee’s full disclosure.

Mitchell Owens Cooperstown

Thanks, power heroes

On behalf of everyone, I would like to extend a genuine, heartfelt, thank you to all those whose tireless efforts resulted in the restoration of our power.

While the rest of us kept warm, dry, and illuminated as best we could, these hometown heroes were out there day and night, struggling through that deep, wet snow. No doubt there were times when they encountered nearly as much snow hanging over their heads as was under them!

Fires; snowpacked, shattered branches loaming overhead; hefty snow-laden branches needing to be moved; downed wires hidden under the snow … I’m sure these are but a few of the exhausting perils these

brave folks faced when cleaning up after such an “upstate” spring snowfall!

So from all of us who are so very blessed to have you, may you each be richly blessed in return.

Also a very special thank you to all the workers who came from out of state to lend assistance. Leaving home and families for days is a big sacrifice. I hope they will somehow see this “thank you” or hear about it from someone.

Pat Patterson Mt. Vision

West Oneonta needs guardrail

On Friday April 22, for the second time in two years, we had a car drive off State Route 23, crash through our fence, and land in the culvert on the corner of our property in the Hamlet of West Oneonta.

The first incident was due to distracted driving. The most recent incident was due to a medical issue.

Our five-year-old and dog play every day in the yard where both of these accidents occurred.

We acknowledge that the medical issue that caused the most recent accident was nobody’s fault and commend our local emergency squad for their hard work. Extracting the car and driver from the culvert was not an easy task. The top of the car needed to be cut off for the driver to be extracted.

These are not the only incidents to occur along this stretch. About three weeks ago we witnessed a propane truck get stuck at a 45-degree angle across Route 23 from our home.

There is a clear need for a guardrail along Route 23 in the Hamlet of West Oneonta. We have begun the process of requesting a guardrail with the State DOT and would like to invite

others to do the same.

I ask the local community to consider two things: 1. Please pay attention to the 40mph speed limit through the hamlet of West Oneonta. We are concerned for our family and we don’t want to see any more injured drivers pulled from our culvert.

2. If you live in West Oneonta, especially along Route 23, please consider submitting a written request for a guardrail to: Tony Signorelli 44 Hawley St. Binghamton, NY 13901 Thank you for your help in making our West Oneonta community safer!

Nick White and Jennifer Raphaelson White West Oneonta

A constitutional right to abort

Justice Alito’s opinion is based on the fact that the right to abort is not mentioned in the Constitution. Guess what, no womens’ rights, either natural, such as the right to abort, or political, such as the right to vote, are mentioned in the Constitution.

But every state that ratified the Constitution allowed a woman the right to abort — as a natural right. So the right to abort is an assumed right in the Constitution — one that did not need to be enumerated to be allowed, since, under English common law, “That which is not prohibited is allowed.” The fact that no state can prohibit such a Constitutional natural right is the very basis of Roe. Alito’s opinion is a cheap bit of legal legerdemain, a political fabrication from one of the brightest legal minds of 14th century Spain. If adopted, I hope to live to see it reversed 7 to 6.

Chip Northrup Cooperstown

“I own no interest and no party, but my country.”

– Banner motto of The Freeman’s Journal, 1823 to 1827

THURSDAY, May 5, 2022

HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5

News from the noteworthy A h e ll o f r o m A r i z o n a a n d J i m K e vl i n

The importance of local news

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

137 Years Ago

Home & Vicinity – Lewis & Smith, liverymen, are about to supply a long felt want in Oneonta, and one that will prove a great public convenience, having purchased one of the Boston standard cabs, which is to be stationed at some convenient point on Main Street, where it can be secured to make trips to any part of the village at a fare varying from ten to twenty-five cents, according to distance. The cab will also do parcel carrying at the same reasonable rates. There seems no doubt that the enterprise will be heartily sustained, as it deserves to be.

May 1885

112 Years Ago

A few days ago, the first edition of the Tempe Independent – Volume One, Edition One – showed up in the mailbox.

Inside, I learned local Congressman Greg Stanton presented Tempe City Council with a $500,000 check to renovate the Rodeway Inn on Apache Boulevard to accommodate up to 200 of the city’s 380 homeless people.

I learned miles-long Warner Boulevard, a major east-west road through the city, is being repaved, and made handicapped-friendly at the same time.

I learned the historic 1924 Hayden House restoration is complete and will be open for public events and self-guided tours. (Some 100 years ago, Charles Trumbull Hayden’s Saltillo River ferry and his nearby flour mill led to the development of modern Tempe.)

There were also obituaries, sports stories and people news — there’s a new principal at Marco de Niza High School, around the corner — and police blotter items.

I had barely put down the Independent, when an email arrived from Hometown Oneonta/Freeman’s

Journal Publisher Tara Barnwell suggesting a column to commemorate the April 18, 2021, sale of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta to a group of citizens determined to preserve local journalism in Otsego County.

My reaction: You bet!

The arrival of the Independent underscored the joys of being able to read a local newspaper. Now, as I drive down Warner or past the old flour mill, or see the homeless panhandling at exits to the 101, I’m reminded how newspapers put us into the picture.

The last time I spoke to the Cooperstown Rotary — 2014 or so — I remember being overly optimistic about print in the face of online challenges. Life is analog, like changing diapers, I said, and so are newspapers. End of discussion. (Little did I anticipate the metaverse.)

Nonetheless, newspapers are still effectively capturing our local world, and presenting it to us in a scannable, coherent package.

We don’t need to wend our ways through millions of websites to find what we’re looking for: Reporters

and editors have already done that for us.

The Independent is a case in point, but so are Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal, assisted by www.allotsego.com, as I’ve found in a year monitoring Otsego County from AIR-riz-ZONE-er, as my wife Sylvia pronounces it.

I’ve read great stories, about the approval and construction of Glimmerglass Opera-owned apartments on lower Chestnut Street; about the Cooperstown trustees’ debating how to accommodate (or not accommodate) legalized pot sales; about student charges of racism at CCS, about new Oneonta mayor Mark Drnek inviting the whole community under a big tent.

And much more.

Recently, Editor Ted Potrikus’s editorials, reinterpreting Albany’s antics for a local audience (drawing on a decades-long career in and around state government), have been must-reads.

From afar, obituaries loom larger, including that of titan David Brenner, county board chairman, Oneonta mayor and SUNY Oneonta Continued on page 8

BY Merl Reagle

The First Commercial-Free Crossword…Spotless!

ACROSS

May 1910

92 Years Ago

Fire, said to have broken out on the farm of William Hungerford, behind Colliers, which swept over 1,000 acres of dry woodland yesterday afternoon, and which at a late hour threatened the city watershed, was reported under control at an early hour this morning. According to W.W. Watkins, superintendent of the city water works, he and his men were called in to aid in the fight shortly before 9 o’clock last night. Twenty men were stationed at this end of the blaze during the night, and patrols made rounds over the whole section, under the direction of H.A. Pearsall. One hundred Hartwick College students, released from their afternoon classes, together with members of the Oneonta and Cooperstown fire departments, and Colliers farmers fought the blaze on the hills behind the village through the daylight hours.

The flames, running from the top of one pine to another, jumping creek beds and dirt roads, swung down to within a hundred yards of the village at one time. A valiant fight made by 40 Hartwick students equipped with five gallon hand pump tanks about 3:30 o’clock stopped the fire in that direction, but other sectors continued to burn in several directions before all were brought under control.

May 1930

60 Years Ago

A county-wide campaign to vaccinate all dogs against rabies will open on Monday of next week it has been announced by Supervisor James M. Mead of Oneonta, who is in charge of the Board of Supervisors rabies eradication program. There is no charge to dog owners for this service. Clinics will be set up at designated times and places throughout the county and it is hoped that the owners of Otsego County’s 7,000-odd dogs will take their pets for immunization shots. There will be 38 separate clinics from May 15 to 25, staffed by 13 county veterinarians.

May 1950

Solution: ‘‘The Full Name Game” (Apr. 28)

1 Gilda portrayer of 1946 5 Sacred chests 9 Death of a Salesman guy 13 Brando’s first film 19 Pindar works 20 Cotton field sight 21 1960s hairstyle 22 Region of SW India 23 What I wear to poker games?

26 Speaks bombastically 27 Best of the best 28 Carol time 29 Sun. scores 31 Desirable quality 32 In the low 90s?

33 Math sets 36 Webster’s first 38 Ashen 40 Marilyn’s confession to Jack during the filming of Some Like It Hot? 46 Sun shade 49 A direction: Sp. 50 A number: Ger. 51 Summer sign 52 Tabloid tidbit 53 Rig stuff 55 Kids’ drinks in Hawaii?

57 With 87 Across, not the most exciting couple in the Midwest?

62 Elected ones 63 Vegas alternative 64 Director Browning 65 Butter sub 66 Swindled 68 Center of activity 70 Q.T. 71 How to find Al Bundy in a crowded bar?

75 ’70s discs 78 Apt cook’s name 79 Deimos, for one 80 Rotation points 81 Get a bite 82 Lhasa ___ 85 Put in the lineup 87 See 57 Across 90 What I always write on Tokyo postcards?

93 Teachers’ grp.

94 Against 95 Performance ___ 96 B.C. neighbor 97 Org. that looks for life beyond Earth 100 Reprimand 103 Everything you’ll need to entertain the in-laws?

107 Water pitcher 108 Former spouses 109 Nobelist Stern 110 Nuclear org., once 113 Sexy Bow 116 Put the kibosh on 118 The McCoys, for one 120 1921 defendant 122 Coat features 124 What DeMille always had to do?

128 Subject of a 1988 Michener book 129 Phobia start 130 Roof feature 131 Rossini subject 132 Veritable bog 133 Adjective for 1949’s Gun Crazy 134 Hitch 135 Sans warranty DOWN 1 Shakespeare kid 2 Tennyson effort 3 Not so hot 4 Della, to Perry: abbr.

5 Disney-owned network 6 Rooter’s word 7 Place for a doktor 8 Dry, to Duarte 9 Hit the silk 10 Risky aspects 11 Like Ernst Lubitsch comedies 12 Solo player 13 Ring result

14 Pertaining to coats of arms 15 Ah-nold flick 16 Wrestling pads 17 Wartime Robert 18 The father of editorial cartooning 24 Calls out 25 Sells 30 Rejects 34 Pawnbroker’s sign?

35 Hogan’s rank 37 “Lemme go, ya big ___” 39 Neighborhood 40 Metrical foot 41 Snaky fish 42 Valhalla VIP 43 It covers Paris unveilings 44 Actress Young 45 Not that great 46 William and Brad 47 Playwright Fugard 48 Like a marsh, perhaps 54 Indiana Jones movie prop 55 Guy with a peak 56 Ball 58 Place for hay 59 Ballplayer Moises 60 Oxygen, basically 61 Snapshots, humorously 67 “Horrors!”

68 Pay attention to 69 Sky bear 72 Peck film, with The 73 Ten minutes after the hour?

74 Car emission

75 Mrs. Helmsley 76 Page of music 77 Solemn 78 9 Across, to Willy 82 A musical chord: abbr.

83 Callao’s country 84 Plants one’s butt 85 Rise, after a fall 86 German industrial region 88 UCLA or USC 89 R ichard who played Al on Home Improvement 91 Doesn’t cross at the light 92 Soothing ingredient 97 “___ sells” 98 Member of a voting “college” 99 Electricity wizard 101 Bottomless place 102 Leg up 104 Hands-on Mother 105 Exxon rival 106 Sea under Italy’s “boot” 110 Muscle woes 111 Pathogen in the news 112 Monks’ hoods 113 Shut (up) 114 Composer Schifrin 115 On ___ (commensurate) 117 “___ see clearly now ...”

119 Matures 121 Sleuth’s terrier 123 Airline to Oslo 125 ___ Lanka 126 Kitty in The Killers 127 Photog’s orig.

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2022

A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

A farewell to Bob Schlather, businessman, philanthropist Continued from page 1 Overall, Bob gave thousands of hours to the company as it grew to achieve national and international renown.

He helped Glimmerglass move from its original home in the Cooperstown High School to the Alice Busch Opera Theater. He found, secured, negotiated and helped fund the Festival’s much-needed warehouse and rehearsal hall in the Town of Warren, and made possible a gift of property in Richfield Springs to help with its daunting summer housing needs.

Every spring, Bob would ask which of the upcoming summer’s Festival dates were undersold and would then would help fill those seats through a win-win invention of his own by hosting Bassett Healthcare nights, through which hospital employees would enjoy the perks of an evening at the Opera, replete with a pre-curtain party, underwritten by Schlather & Birch.

Fellow Trustee Judy Freedman reflected on her admiration of Bob and how he and her husband, Allen, teamed-up to keep the company seamlessly running during a gap in staff leadership in the early 2000s. “Without Bob, Glimmerglass would not be what it is. He represented Glimmerglass in all its real estate activities, always looking to the future. When there was a staff leadership hiatus and Allen offered to run the company pro bono, it was Bob, also pro bono, who joined Allen as liaison to the Board, no small feat. It will be hard to imagine the Glimmerglass Board of Trustees without Robert Schlather.”

In February, in recognition of his extraordinary service and exceptional contributions, the Board named Bob an Honorary Life Trustee, the highest honor a trustee can ever receive.

It is fitting that, as part of Bob’s Glimmerglass Festival legacy, his and Karen’s son, R.B. Schlather, took a delightful “star turn” as a young Mozart in La Finta Giardiniera (The Pretend Gardener) in 1996, when R.B. was still in elementary school. Delighted by this experience, and wholeheartedly encouraged and supported by his parents, R.B. created his own youth production company while still in middle and high school and then went on to become internationally respected

as an opera director in his own right.

Glimmerglass Festival Artistic & General Director, Francesca Zambello, expressed the feelings of the entire company: “We are extremely grateful that Glimmerglass was a beneficiary of Bob’s and his family’s passion for our work and mission, which they expressed with vigor, intelligence, talent, creativity, kindness, generosity and, most importantly, joy.”

The Glimmerglass Festival

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My law partner of 36 years, Bob Schlather was like a sage older brother.

He was the type of mentor all young attorneys seek, but few find. I was 27 when Bob invited me to join his growing practice in Cooperstown; my wife, Marcy, our two sons, and I will be forever in his debt. Not only did he share with me his incredible knowledge of trusts, estates, and business law, but through his example, he taught me the importance of giving back to the community we serve. Bob was a testament to the impact one good man can have on his community. The many philanthropic and cultural organizations he nurtured in life will continue to enrich our community for years to come. For that, I say “job well done!”

Godspeed, my friend.

Bob Birch Schlather & Birch

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Bob Schlather was the consummate gentleman and a truly committed philanthropist. I had the distinct honor of working closely with Bob during his long tenure on the Board of the Friends of Bassett, and with several non-profit organizations where he was actively engaged. Despite his significant professional commitments as both an attorney and accountant, Bob always found time to answer the call as a volunteer leader and role model for fellow Board members. He was an extremely generous donor to countless local organizations, always careful to put the mission ahead of any personal recognition. He will be sorely missed.

Mike Stein Cooperstown

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Could we find anyone who better personified a devoted citizen and pillar of a community? He helped to advance every cause and group he served, and they were countless. Bob never only had his name on a board. He worked, gave his time, set standards.

He served his clients with integrity

and skill. He was a true friend to a small army of us. The fortunes of Cooperstown and the region brightened the day he and his Karen arrived.

He was a gift to us, a blessing.

Tom Morgan and Erna Morgan McReynolds Franklin

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It was a blessing to know Robert B. Schlather — attorney, accountant, non-profit leader, and community champion. His generous spirit and mentorship helped many area organizations thrive, and his lifetime’s work benefited our quality of life.

Knowledgeable and invested, Bob’s commitment to Otsego County carried through to Pathfinder Village, where he supported fundraisers, provided legal services, and hosted workshops on estate planning. He listened to the heartfelt stories of Pathfinder families; he counseled them about guardianship and financial arrangements, essential steps that have helped people with intellectual disabilities achieve rewarding, independent lives.

Our sincere condolences go to Bob’s friends and family; we will remember his legacy of altruism and his lifelong dedication to community service.

Paul C. Landers Pathfinder Village

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A member of the College’s Board of Trustees from 2000-2009, Bob served as Board vice chair, treasurer, and Audit & Compliance Committee chair. He also lent his keen insights and professional expertise to nine other Board committees, ranging from Education to Finance, Student Life to Governance, and Enrollment to Facilities.

Bob and his wife, Karen, generously supported Hartwick, most often making unrestricted gifts that enable the College to adapt and innovate.

The Hartwick College Community

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Bob was a founding member of the Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation Board. He served as its Chair until 2021. Bob was deeply committed to making sure hospice care was available to our community. His contributions to CAHPC, now Helios Care, helped advance the mission of our organization and we are grateful for his commitment. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

Dan Ayres President and CEO of Helios Care

News briefs

Bassett makes administrative adjustments EffectiveApril 4, Bassett Healthcare Network has undertaken a new administrative operating structure, with new hospital divisions established to redeploy resources. There have been no reductions in workforce; rather, administrative adjustments will enable the network to operate more efficiently.

As such, Bassett’s hospital organization structure is now divided functionally into three areas: Bassett Medical Center, A.O. Fox Hospital, and Critical Access Hospitals (Cobleskill Regional

Dr. Henry Weil

Hospital, Little Falls Hospital, and O’Connor Hospital).

Newly appointed executive leadership roles include Dr. Henry Weil, who has been named senior vice president, chief clinical officer of Bassett Healthcare Network in addition to his tenure as chief academic officer; Dr. Reginald Knight, who has transitioned to chief hospital executive of A.O. Fox Hospital; and Eric Stein, who has transitioned to chief hospital executive of Bassett’s Critical Access Hospitals.

Dr. Reginald Knight

CANO exhibit features local landscape paintings

Visits to Otsego County, featuring the paintings of artists Melissa Borko Tevere and Marc Pelletier, opens at CANO in Oneonta, on Friday, May 6 with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Marc’s primary residence is in Williamsburg, N.Y., while Melissa calls Philadelphia home — but both are frequent visitors to Otsego County.

Ten years ago, Marc bought an historic home in Pleasant Brook. He spends his days there painting the local landscape in oils and watercolor. His paintings attempt to capture the everchanging Upstate weather.

Melissa has known Marc for 25 years and shares his love for painting. In addition to small, acrylic, plein air paintings, her Otsego County portfolio includes

Eric Stein

larger studio work, where she combines painting and mixed media materials.

Visits to Otsego County offers a chance to see the area interpreted by two similar, but distinct, artists.

The exhibit runs from May 6 to 21.

Preparations begin for the 2023 Winter Carnival

A theme has been chosen, ‘There’s S’now Place Like Home,’ and the dates set for February 10, 11 and 12, 2023. Look for more updates as we get closer to the winter season.

If you would like to help support this effort to bring some fun and warmth to the dark days of winter, can send donations to PO Box 912, Cooperstown, NY 13326 and make them out to the Cooperstown Winter Carnival.

Terry Berkson

Bunnies Don’t Crow One Easter, when I was about nine years old, I bought six peeping chicks from the pet shop around the corner and secreted them under a 100-watt bulb in a cardboard box in the cellar.

“They’ll bring rats!” my aunt Edna shouted when she discovered them on a trip to the washing machine. Aunt Edna did most of the housekeeping and was always against bringing in any pets. I begged her to let me shelter them until the weather was warm enough for the chickens to live in a coop in our backyard. She reluctantly gave in, though not without a warning that if I didn’t move them in a couple of weeks, she would sweep them out of the cellar with her broom.

My chickens flourished, and within a few weeks they gave up their fluffy yellow feathers and peeping calls to take on white coats and deeper voices.

My dad told me that when the family had first moved to Brooklyn in 1919, my grandmother had raised a brood of 35 White Leghorns in a coop in our backyard.

She had 10 children to feed, and the eggs, came in handy. I built a coop with wood and wire scavenged from the neighborhood. Meanwhile the young birds were eating a lot more. It soon took a week’s worth of deposit bottle money to buy feed from the poultry market.

Despite my high hopes, disappointment followed. My chickens weren’t affectionate like puppies or kittens. All they did was eat and they pecked at everything — even each other. If one got loose, which was often, it would trot around the yard in a frenzied, long-legged hysteria, trying to dodge me, the one who nursed and fed it

and built its house.

By summer, all the red combs on top of the chickens’ heads were getting big, which meant they were all males.

Gone was the hope that one day I’d be walking out to the coop like my grandmother with basket in hand to gather fresh eggs. However, I was determined not to lose to Aunt Edna by getting “rid of them.”

About the middle of August is when the trouble really started. I was shaken from a deep sleep by a terrible noise. It wasn’t cats yowling in the alley, or Woodlock the baker next door, home from work and fighting with his wife. I got out of bed and went to the window. It was near morning. The sun hadn’t come up yet, but the highest tips of the willow tree were beginning to take on a golden glow. Then I heard it again, the whole sound this time.

It was just like in a cartoon, a clear, fullthroated “cock-a-doodle-doo!”

First one rooster, then another, and another. They seemed to be trying to outdoodledoo each other — and resurrecting all of Bensonhurst in the process. Lights went on in the apartment house next door.

“What the Henry J was that!” someone shouted. I moved behind the curtain.

After breakfast, I went out to feed my chickens. Several people in the apartment house next door were looking at me, arms resting on their windowsills, perched like hawks, but no one said anything. The

roosters’ combs seemed bigger.

The next morning, before daybreak, all six birds started wailing at the same time making the racket twice as loud as the day before. I lay in my bed and heard windows being slammed closed.

“Lousy chickens!” someone yelled. “They’re against the law!” Then Aunt Edna was knocking on my door to tell me the roosters woke up Uncle Dave, who had just gone to sleep after driving the night shift on a taxicab.

I tried sneaking out to the coop the next morning by walking along the fence and then the hedges, but a chorus of neighbor complaints greeted me. “You have to do something about those chickens,” called Mrs. Adleman from her ground floor window. “They woke me too,” Mrs. Esposito shouted from the second floor.

“I’m notifying the Board of Health!” boomed Woodlock the baker from the top floor. “I need my sleep!”

I tried blindfolding the birds so they wouldn’t know when it was morning — but they wangled out of anything I tied around their heads. There was a tin cabinet in the shed in the corner of the backyard; it had six shelves. That night I put the roosters in the dark cabinet inside the shed with a piece of cardboard over the window. They wouldn’t see the light of day until I wanted them to.

About 5:30 the next morning, all six roosters began to crow. The noise was slightly muffled, but the metal cabinet made their calls sound like muted trumpets giving them a spiteful tone. The result was an even more annoying racket. The shouting started again: “I’m calling the police! Shut them chickens up or I’ll shoot em.”

I couldn’t understand it. Maybe there was a light leak. But, between the crowing and the neighbors’ yelling my head began to ache. Then Uncle Dave came stomping down the stairs and burst through my door with his eyes bulging and his nose almost touching mine. “Get rid of them chickens!” he growled.

Later that morning I loaded the six troublemakers into a crate I had put on my wagon. Then I made the lonely walk to the end of West Sixth Street where I sold the roosters to a bearded, white-coated man at the poultry market. I felt guilty and relieved as I left the store. Now, peace would be restored. With my empty wagon in tow I wondered why pet shops sold chickens at Easter time. Maybe it was because they had something to do with waking up.

I also wondered why bunnies got all the credit for Easter eggs. Maybe it was because they behaved and didn’t make any noise.

So, on my way home, with the money the poultry man paid me feeling warm in my pocket, I headed in the direction of a pet shop on McDonald Avenue. There was a pair of rabbits I’d had my eye on for a while. Bunnies don’t crow, I thought. What could Aunt Edna say? Having them for pets wouldn’t cause any trouble.

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2022

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7

OBITUARIES Carl Lusins, 53

September 6, 1968 – April 25, 2022

Carl Lusins with children Alex and Catherine

ONEONTA – Carl Lusins, longtime Oneonta resident, died in Albany, N.Y. on Monday April 25. He was 53. He is survived by his children, Alex Lusins, 25, and Catherine Lusins, 20, his mother, Anna Marie Lusins and his siblings, Gillian

Lusins, Dr. John Lusins III, and Matthew Lusins. Carl’s beloved father, Dr. John O. Lusins, and sister, Noelle Lusins, predeceased him in 2001.

Carl was born in New York City on September 6, 1968. His family lived in

Bronxville until he was 15.

Carl attended Bronxville Elementary School and Middle School, and he meet his lifelong best friend, Chris Long, and formed many other close bonds.

Carl moved to Oneonta with his family and soon became a vibrant part of the community. He graduated from Oneonta High School in 1987. He was an avid hockey goalie and played in Binghamton throughout high school. He loved throwing parties and driving around Oneonta in his Mazda RX7 — a love of cars stayed a constant in his life — and was always willing to help his friends and family. He

was a graduate of New England College. A highlight of his college years was a semester abroad in England.

During that year, he traveled throughout Europe and he was in Berlin, in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, a memory he treasured.

Carl married Jennifer Livanavage in 1994. They lived in Seattle briefly until Carl and Jennifer returned to Oneonta with their son Alex in 1998. They divorced in 2004 but shared a continuing love for and dedication to their children.

Carl worked alongside his physician father as a medical technician at Catskill Neurosciences.

Robert B. Schlather, Esq., 75 Esq. joined Bob, and they formed Schlather & Birch, Attorneys at Law. In 1987 they formed a real estate service business, Cooper County Abstract Company, Inc., the largest abstract and title insurance company in Central New York, as well as Northern Otsego Management Company, Inc. In recent years, he was part of Schlather & Kinley CPAs PLLC with his partner, Patrick R. Kinley. Bob was a member of the New York State Bar Association and a member and treasurer of the Otsego County Bar Association.

Karen and Bob’s son, Robert Hammer (R.B.) Schlather was born and grew up in Cooperstown, to the joy of all who experienced his theatrical and operatic exploits.

In addition to his professional practice, Bob was an active member of his community through many memberships and affiliations. A long-time devotee of the Glimmerglass Opera, he served what is now Glimmerglass Festival for more than forty years in various leadership positions including as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, as well as Treasurer of the Board and briefly as Interim General Director. In February of this year, Glimmerglass Festival’s Board of Trustees named Bob an Honorary Life Trustee in recognition of his extraordinary service and exceptional contributions with the worldrenowned program. The highest honor a Trustee can ever reach, Bob contributed thousands of hours to the Festival, helping the organization evolve from its years in the Cooperstown High School auditorium, and finding and securing the Company’s 37,000

square feet warehouse and rehearsal hall in the Town of Warren, a necessity and game-changer as the Festival grew in scope and reputation.

Bob also served as Trustee and Treasurer for more than thirty years of the Friends of Bassett Healthcare, and for many years as Trustee and President of Helios (Hospice) Foundation.

He particularly enjoyed working with the parents of residents of Pathfinder Village, helping to ensure that those residents could remain at Pathfinder for as long as each chose, and considered these residents “his kids.”

He and his siblings established the SchlatherBilskey Family Foundation in memory of their parents to provide scholarships to Elyria Catholic High School from which most of them were graduated.

A Paul Harris Fellow, he was an active member since 1979 and former president of the Cooperstown Rotary Club. He served nine years as Trustee of Hartwick College with a commitment to the importance of independent liberal arts colleges. Through the years he was also a member of the New York State Historical Association, the New York State Forest Owners Association, the Roseboom Historical Association, the Cooperstown Art Association, The Mohican Club and most recently was a founder of the Community Foundation of Otsego County.

An avid golfer, he was a subscriber to the Leatherstocking Golf Course since arriving in Cooperstown. As well, he was a member of Otsego Golf Club and a shareholder of Head of the Lake, Inc., the owner of the land on which Otsego Golf Club is located. He reveled in the

“When I reach the other side; I’ll find a place to rest my spirit if I can; Perhaps I may become a highwayman again; Or I may simply be a single drop of rain; But I will remain.”

He will be deeply missed.

Calling hours will be 1-3 p.m. on Saturday April 30 at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand Street, Oneonta, New York. Following that there will be a celebration of his life at the Oneonta Country Club at 4 p.m.

To send an online condolence please visit www. grummonsfuneralhome. com

Ann Lois Edwards, 81

May 3, 1946 – April 27, 2022

COOPERSTOWN – Robert Bernard Schlather, Esq., Cooperstown lawyer, CPA and philanthropist, died Wednesday afternoon, April 27, 2022, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown as a result of a brain tumor diagnosed in June 2020. He was 75.

Born May 3, 1946, in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Bob was the second eldest of thirteen children of Bernard Paul Schlather and Helen Virginia Bilskey. Raised in Elyria, Ohio, he graduated in 1964 from Elyria Catholic High School.

He went on to attend and graduate magna cum laude with a BA in Accounting from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., and earned his Juris Doctorate and graduated cum laude from University of Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Ind. In addition, he was awarded a certificate in English and American Law from the University of London as part of the Notre Dame Law School curriculum. He successfully completed the New York State Bar and Certified Public Accountancy Exams in 1971 and commenced work in the tax department of Price Waterhouse & Co, in both New York City and London.

On July 14, 1973, Bob married his best friend, Karen Ruth Hammer in a ceremony at Saints Philip and James Roman Catholic Church in St. James, Long Island. They moved to Cooperstown in 1976.

As both an Attorney and a Certified PublicAccountant, Bob began his practice in Cooperstown in 1977 with a focus on tax planning preparation, estate and trust planning and administration and real property transactions.

In 1986, Robert W. Birch,

His daughter, Catherine, was born in Oneonta in late 2001. Carl loved working with his father and helping people. After his father’s death in 2001, he continued working at the practice, and then worked at various car dealerships in the area.

Most recently, Carl worked as a Client Administrator at Horizon House in Albany and was thrilled to be able to help people get a fresh start.

Carl loved and was enormously proud of his children Alex and Catherine. He treasured his lifelong friendships. In good times and in bad, Carl could be found listening to the country superband, The Highwaymen.

February 22, 1942 – April 29, 2022

time spent each winter in Vero Beach, Florida, with Bob, Chris, Richard, Ron and Earle, for as long as it lasted.

Bob is survived by his wife of 48 years, Karen; son R.B.; son-in-law Adam Weinert; his mother’s sister Rosemary Bilskey; sisters Sr. Mary Rita Schlather, SND, Sr. Mary Margaret Ann Schlather, SND, Jeanne Frey, Roseann Brown and Mary Agnes Schlather (Gary Hammil); and brothers Raymond (Kathleen), Paul (Karen), Donald (Darlene), David (Jennifer), Kenneth (Donna) and Patrick (Joanne); sister-in-law Rebecca; former sister-inlaw Brooke; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, their many siblings, brother William, niece Erin Schlather and brother-in-law Lawrence Frey.

There will be no calling hours. A private Mass will be held at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown. Livestream will be available by going to https://stmaryscoop.org and click on “View Livestream Here.”

He will be laid to rest in the St. James Methodist Church Cemetery in St. James on Long Island.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a gift to the Community Foundation of Otsego County, PO Box 55, Springfield Center, NY 13468, to be added to the Robert and Karen Schlather Donor Advised Fund for support of all things Otsego County, New York, particularly the performing arts.

Arrangements are under the care and guidance of the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

A few personal tributes to Bob Schlather are featured on pages 1 and 6.

Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home 14 Grand Street, Oneonta • 607-432-6821 www.grummonsfuneralhome.com

COOPERSTOWN – At them “properly”. She was Noon on April 29, 2022, active for many years in the Ann Lois Edwards passed Fenimore Quilt Club and away unexpectedly but many family and friends peacefully, of natural causes, were the recipients of her at home, with her husband handiwork. On occasion at her side. She was in her friends and family called eighty-first year. on her for “emerBorn February gency” clothing 22, 1942, in Little repair. She usually Falls, N.Y., she was accommodated the daughter of the them, but she did late Francis J. Ashe not encourage it. and Elizabeth Lois was a Dudik Ashe. Her Life Member of paternal ancestry the American descended from Wine Society, a Ann Lois Germans who had member of the Edwards made the Great Wi l l i a m s p o r t , Swabian Trek down the Pennsylvania Chapter, and, Danube, and on her maternal along with her husband, was side from Slovaks who made the founding Co-Chair of the Little Falls “the second Glimmerglass Chapter of Myjava”. All her grandpar- the American Wine Society ents were immigrants. in Cooperstown. She was Lois graduated from a member of the Town St. Mary’s Academy in of Middlefield Historical Little Falls in 1960 and the Association.

State University College Lois’ career long focus at Oswego in1964 with on teaching reading led a degree in Elementary to her favorite retirement Education. She received activity, volunteering at her Masters degree from the Cooperstown Village Marywood College in Library which gave her the Pennsylvania. opportunity to meet many She met her future new friends as well as interhusband in kindergarten, esting people. tolerated him until well She is survived by her into high school when they husband of 56 years David became close friends and D. Edwards; their son Brian, were married on June 25, his wife Erika and grandson 1966, at St. Mary’s Roman Benjamin in Essex Junction, Catholic Church (now Holy Vermont; their son Mark, his Family Parish) in Little wife Lisa and granddaughFalls. ters Lauren and Claudia Lois taught briefly in in Portland, Oregon; her Dolgeville and Cooperstown brother Ronald and his wife before moving to Patricia in Arden, North Pennsylvania and spending Carolina; and her aunt the rest of her career with Dorothy Frederick in Myrtle the Montoursville Area Beach, South Carolina, as School District. She and well as numerous cousins her husband retired back and their offspring. to Cooperstown in the year She was a communicant 2000, building the home of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of that she had envisioned in the Lake” Roman Catholic the Town of Middlefield.

Church in Cooperstown.

The consummate mother, The Edwards family will she supported all her boys’ receive family and friends activities as they grew up. from 5-7 p.m. Monday, A Cub Scout Den leader, May 9, 2022, at the Connell, swimming official and Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Montoursville’s original Home in Cooperstown. soccer Mom, she did whatA Mass of Christian ever had to be done without Burial will be offered at 11 need for recognition. a.m. Tuesday, May 10, 2022, She was an excellent at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of cook who could do wonders the Lake” Roman Catholic with a pound of hamburger Church in Cooperstown with or a chicken breast, and Fr. David Wm. Mickiewicz no holiday was complete officiating. A reception will without her Slovak pastry. follow.

Pinena paprika, Kapustnica, In lieu of flowers the Sovenske Palacinky, and family suggests a donation Kolache were all within her to your local Food Bank, repertoire. before sharing a bottle of She was a very talented wine with friends. seamstress, making her own Funeral arrangements are clothes from age 12 until under the care and guidshe was about 40 years old, ance of the Connell, Dow & then choosing to purchase Deysenroth Funeral Home clothes, deconstruct them in Cooperstown. at home, and reconstruct

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The importance of local news Continued from page 5 administrator, unruffled in any challenge. His histories of the City of the Hills and SUNY Oneonta will keep his memory alive.

The recently mourned include Cooperstown mainstay Bob Schlather, CPA, lawyer and philanthropist; Tom Hughson, a sweet man who, retired from his insurance agency, helped the SUNY

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38 Walnut Street - Applicant seeks permission to demolish existing garage as specified in plans on file.

The plans for this project are on file with the Village Clerk’s Office at the Village Office, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, New York, and may be seen during regular office hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Public comments must be provided by email to the Zoning Officer at zoning@ cooperstownny. org or by regular mail to the address below no later than Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 3:30 p.m.

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Taxes will be collected in two equal installments by mailing to the Village Treasurer’s Office, Village of Cooperstown, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, N. Y. or may be paid online at www. cooperstownny. org under the payment tab at the top of the page from June 1, 2022 and

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and holidays. The first installment to be collected from June 1, 2022 to and including Thursday, June 30, 2022 without additional charges.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that on the first installment of all such taxes remaining unpaid on Friday, July 1, 2022 (5%) five percent will be added for the first month and an additional (1%) one percent for each month and fraction thereafter, until paid or returned to Otsego County Treasurer.

VILLAGE TREASURER VILLAGE OF COOPERSTOWN 22 MAIN STREET, PO BOX 346 VILLAGE OF COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. 2LegalMay.12 Legal nOtice NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, June 02, 2022 at the NYSDOT, Office of Contract Management, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 5% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-notices.

The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/ const-planholder.

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Oneonta College Foundation raise millions, and Geoff Smith, longtime Medical Coaches proprietor and Hartwick College mainstay.

Lots of memories there, found weekly in the HO/TFJ’s pages, mailed here from 2,292 miles away.

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will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification.

Contact Robert Kitchen (518)4572124.

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where subcontracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to D/W/ MBEs. The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat.

252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federallyassisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award.

Please call (518)457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

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nity-minded citizens stepped up, determined to preserve local journalism in Otsego County and willing to take up the challenges.

With admiration, I say thank you.

As for readers who have made it this far, don’t take your local newspapers for granted. If they were no longer there, community life would be diminished. You’d miss them.

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Notice of formation of

125 Patterson Rd., Richfield Springs, NY 13439, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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BiasFarm LLC.

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Filed 3/13/22.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: C/O Shawn Bias, 442 County Highway 39, Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose: General.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it to: The LLC, 113 River Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act.

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Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 6040 Steam Mill Rd., Unadilla, NY 13849.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Principal business location: 1706 State Highway 7, Unadilla, NY 13849.

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tary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 17 N. Bayles Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050.

The Purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Oculo Visitant Gallery LLC

3 Burr Ave LLC.

Farm and Nature Creative LLC

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that having received nominations for offices to be filled in the Cooperstown Fire Department on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, you are hereby notified that the Election of Officers will take place on Monday, May 9, 2022 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Cooperstown Fire Hall, 24 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown, New York. Voting is only open to Cooperstown Fire Department members. Voting is not open to the general public.

Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/13/22.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 102 Depot Rd., Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Nominees and positions to be filled are as follows: Chief Mike Molloy Kevin Preston lst Assistant Chief - Scott Monington 2nd Assistant Chief - Billy Smith Captains (4) Chis Satriano Victor Jones Jonathan Roach Stephen Clancy Mike Simons Fire Police Captain - Jim Leslie Fire Police Lt. - Wolfgang Merk President Vice President -Alicia Lasher Treasurer - Frank King Secretary - Thomas A. Redding Dated: April 27, 2022 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Btmakesinc LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 4/19/22, Otsego Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Zenbusiness Inc. 41 State St #112, Albany,

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Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 102 Depot Rd., Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay.26 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 219 Main Oneonta L.L.C. Arts of Org. filed SSNY 3/10/22, Otsego Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Ravindra Nagesvaran 276 Elmcrest Rise, West Henrietta, NY 14586 General Purpose 6LegalMay.26 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of GOURDS AND GAMES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/7/22.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to

Dooner Enterprises, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 03/30/22.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Dooner Enterprises, LLC, 473 Burillo Road, Maryland, New York 12116.

Purpose: Any Lawful purpose 6LegalMay.19 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Fly Creek Flowers LLC Articles of Org. filed on 3/12/2022 with SSNY Office: Otsego County SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2189 County Highway 26, Fly Creek, NY 13337. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 245 Lake Shore Drive North, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 02/24/22.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it to: The LLC, 839 Creed Road, Oakland, CA 94610.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act.

6LegalMay.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Otego 401 Deli, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 01/24/2022.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/28/2022.

Off. Loc. Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 6 Country Club Rd. Oneonta NY 13820.

Purpose: any lawful.

6LegalMay.19 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NORTHEASTERN ELECTRICAL INSPECTION SERVICE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 4/1/22.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him to: The LLC, 129 Hawkins Rd., Maryland, NY 12116.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalMay.19 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE BRAIN FREEZE SHOPPE LLC. Filed 3/18/22.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: Stephanie Koslowski, 67 N. Main St, Homer, NY 13077.

Purpose: General.

6LegalMay.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of MILLER VENTURE PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY)

Articles of organization formed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/12/2022.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 126 Whispering Oaks Lane, Otego NY 13825.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay.5 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of AJewelNRuth Adventure LLC. Filed 3/8/22.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: Anna Rathbun, 3801 County Hwy 11, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: General.

6LegalMay.5 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Manufactured Home Masters LLC. Filed 3/9/22.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Jessica Anne Simons, 438 County Hwy 11 Lot42, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: General.

6LegalMay.5 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1 MICKLE PLACE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 3/24/22.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secre-

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Arts of Org. filed 12/07/2021.

Otsego Co. SSNY design agent for process&shall mail to 116 Manley Dr, Hartwick, NY 13348.

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Office in Otsego Cty. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to 277 Main St, Oneonta 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay.5 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of KELLKY MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/24/22.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 33 Walnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay.5 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of VITAL TRENDS USA, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/24/22.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 205 Arnold Rd., Burlington Flats, NY 13315, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Nelson Mondaca brings home the gold and is nominated for Culinary Student Chef of the Year We have a gem amongst us in Otsego County: meet Chilean native Nelson Mondaca, a 20-year Marine vet and rising culinary star.

Spoiler alert: he plans on opening a French-infused restaurant in our area in 2023!

Mr. Mondaca is making a name for himself in the Hospitality and Culinary school at SUNY Delhi. He’s taking an honors class Nelson Modaca every semester in addition to his current academic schedule. He’s pushing himself to be the best; he will have a bachelor’s degree in Culinary Arts Management in May 2023.

“My ultimate goal is to open a restaurant when I graduate,” Mr. Mondaca said. “We are looking in the Cherry Valley area. I’m looking for something that isn’t huge, that has a good space that I’d like to work in. And it will most likely be a classic French Bistro.”

Mr. Mondaca lived in his native Chile until age 10.

“My family then moved to New Jersey, then to Miami

so I finished my education at the University of Miami,” he said.

Operation Desert Storm interrupted his education, though, when he enlisted in the United States Marines.

“I left college to go into the Marines for a four-year stint as my call of duty during Desert Storm,” he said. “Before I knew it, almost twenty years had gone by and I was still in the Marines.”

“I got shot in the stomach and was sent home,” he said.

“I retired in 2010.” And he spent the next ten years putting himself back together again.

“I’ve had twelve surgeries since then, plus I was dealing with PTSD,” he recalled. “It was a lot.”

While dealing with PTSD, he noticed he was spending a lot of time in the kitchen. “I always liked cooking but I realized I was using cooking as a type of therapy, and I loved it,” he said.

“I used cooking as a type of relaxation. I’d get lost in the kitchen for hours,” he said. “Three years ago, when I turned 50, I knew I was ready to go back to school. I felt that my mind was finally ready with everything I’d gone through.

My personal issues were taken care of.”

The winning hot plate

Prior studies focused on business administration, but this time, he chose to enroll in SUNY Delhi’s culinary school.

“My first course was on hot plates,” he said. “The designing, the presentation and the creativity really interested me. So I changed my status for getting an AA degree to a full-time degree in becoming a chef.”

His course load this semester includes a competition class. It’s all about competing, creating menus, designing the plates.

“I was nominated for student chef of the year so I will be competing in 2022 with other students from around the country,” he said. “I’m taking tons of classes right now as well as being in the kitchen from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. working on menu planning and other things for the competition.”

All of the extra classes are paying off — he just won a Gold Medal from The American Culinary Federation for his hot plate creation. The Niagara Falls event brought in competitors from all across the country.

“I went there to compete on the student level last weekend and I won!. It’s quite an honor,” Mr. Mondaca said.

“In competition, you go with an idea you have created.

You’ve worked on a plate, its design over and over again... it’s a little nerve racking because everything is timed in competition” Mr. Mondaca said. “Is this working, does this look right? You really have to go in prepared,” he said.

For this specific competion, Mr. Mondaca had 70 minutes from start to finish. That included prep time and cooking time.

“You have to make two dishes exactly the same. One is for display and the other is for tasting. The judges are walking around and watching everything you do,” he said.

“They tell you what they liked, what you could have done better, what they didn’t like … they judge you on how your station looks and even if you are using gloves.”

The rest of the summer this year will be focused on the culinary competitions. “Four of us are competing as a team then I am competing individually for Student of the Year. We’ll be in Las Vegas for that competition in July,” he said.

“This is a young person’s career, I’m really doing it backwards,” he said. “I started studying culinary arts when I turned 50, when most chefs, at that point in their career, are wanting to get out of the business.”

“To me, this is a personal goal; I’ll get my degree in something I’ve fallen in love with and enjoy,and I’ll be able to do anything in the culinary world with that degree,” Mr. Mondaca said.

“Physically and mentally I feel great, I can move up to the next level. I want to do what I love from here on out.

I want to keep the fun in it! If I won’t eat it, I don’t want anyone else to eat it!

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►Thursday, May 5

BOOK CLUB – Pick up a copy of The Guest List, by Lucy Foley, about a wedding that ends in a murder in this Agatha Christie-esque mystery novel. Discussion will be online on May 31 at 7 p.m.

Presented by The Huntington Memorial Library, Oneonta.

607-432-1980.

COFFEE WITH COOP – 9 - 10 a.m. Start your morning with local business leaders from the comfort of your desk.

Featured panelist will be Dr. Tommy Ibrahim, President & CEO, Bassett Healthcare Network. Registration required for Zoom. Presented by The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. Visit wearecooperstown.com/chamber-events/ TAI CHI – 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Otsego County seniors are invited to group ‘Tai Chi for arthritis.’ Practice deep breathing, moving. Help prevent falls. Free, registration required. Presented by Otsego County Office for the Aging at New Life Fellowship Hall, Gilbertsville Baptist Church, Commercial St., Gilbertsville.

607-547-4232 OPEN STUDIO – 11 a.m. Noon. Grab a coffee and stop by the art studio with your current knitting, drawing, or painting project. The Art Department, 8 Main St., Cherry Valley. Visit facebook.com/ Theartdeptny FIBER ARTS GROUP – 11 a.m. Bring your knitting, crocheting or other fiber art to work with the group on your current project. Springfield Library, 129 County Rd. 29A, Springfield. 315-858-5802.

COMMUNITY LUNCH – 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Enjoy lunch with your community on the first Thursday of each month. All welcome. Free, donations appreciated. Curbside delivery available. St. Joseph The Worker Parish, Kelly Hall (the basement), 35 Canadarago St., Richfield Springs.

Visit facebook.com/RichfieldSprings-Public-Library STAR WARS – 3 - 5:30 p.m.

Watch party with ‘Star Wars: The Attack of the Clones.’

Snacks available. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs.

315-858-0230.

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION – 6 p.m. Learn to forge a deeper spirit connection with animals and wildlife with Christene Springle in online class presented by the Mountain Magic Healing Studio, Schenevus. Visit facebook. com/ChristeneSpringleMountainMagic STAR WARS – 7 p.m. May the 4th be with you for this Star Wars movie night presenting ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.’ Free at the Weiting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester.

Visit wietingtheatre.com

►Friday, May 6 WALKING CLUB – 10:30 11:30 a.m. Walk on Mondays & Fridays with friends old and new, and listen to music of the 70s. Free for members, nonmembers aged 50+. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown.

547-2800, ext. 109.

STAR WARS – 3 - 5:30 p.m.

Watch party continues with ‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.’ Richfield Springs Public Library. See Thursday Listing.

FIRST FRIDAY EXHIBIT – 5 p.m. Come view 20 years worth of mixed media and collage work by local artist and business owner Shannon Dzikas. The Art Department, 8 Main St., Cherry Valley. Visit facebook.com/Theartdeptny

OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 8 p.m. Celebrate opening of exhibit ‘Visits to Otsego County’ featuring paintings of the landscapes of our county by artists Melissa Borko Tevere and Marc Pelletier. Free, open to public. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

607-432-2070.

STAR WARS – 7 p.m. Conclusion of Star Wars movie night series showing ‘Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi.’

Weiting Theater. See Thursday Listing.

HANSEL & GRETEL – 7 p.m.

Decker School of Ballet presents their 49th recital featuring the Grimm fairytale of ‘Hansel & Gretel.’ Tickets, $15 general admission. Oneonta High School, 130 East St., Oneonta. 607-432-6290.

MOVIE NIGHT – 7 p.m. Join the community for outdoor screening of ‘Spiderman: No Way Home.’ Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607376-7599.

LIVE MUSIC – 7 - 10 p.m. Enjoy dinner and live music from Jerry Dee and the Dove Tones.

Natty Bumppo’s, 8 Hoffman Ln., Cooperstown. 607-3224060.

CONTRADANCE RETURNS – 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Rejoin your friends for a dance with the Otsego Dance Society. Music

by Erik House & Friends with Peter Blue calling the dances.

Suggested donation, $8/adult.

New location at Cornfield Hall, 655 County Rd. 26, Fly Creek.

Visit otsegodancesociety.weebly.com

learn how to carve a spoon out of green wood that has not yet been cured. Bring a notebook & writing utensil, water, snacks, work gloves (optional), whatever tools you have that you wish to discuss (optional). Cost, $75/nonmember. Reward, 1 unique wooden spoon you have made yourself. Cooperstown Art Association. 607-547-9777.

ART CLASS – 1 - 4 p.m. Join the Arc Otsego for a Beginners Hand Lettering class. Cost, $35/person. Main View Pottery and More, 79 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-1890.

STAR WARS – 3 - 5:30 p.m. Watch party continues with ‘Star Wars: A New Hope.’

Richfield Springs Public Library. See Thursday Listing.

BOOK READING – 3 - 5:30 p.m. Tom Morgan will be reading passages from his books Trial in Cooperstown, and Ales, Tales, and Ghosts at the Old Empire Hotel. Light refreshments will be served, books available for purchase.

Proceeds benefit the Franklin Railroad and Community Museum, 527 Main St., Franklin.

607-829-2692.

LIFESKILLS – 4 - 6 p.m.

Teens are invited to learn to cook with Lynn. Menu posted to FB. Seating limited, reservations required. Presented

by The Oneonta Teen Center.

50 Dietz St., Oneonta. 607441-3999.

SEMESTERS END BASH – 6 p.m. Celebrate the end of the college semester with live music from Brotality, Seeing Double, and Fairpoint. $8 at the door. Proceeds support the Oneonta Teen Center. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607431-2080.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT – 6 - 8:30 p.m. Join Victoria Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth’s granddaughter, for a dinner buffet and fascinating Powerpoint presentation on the exhibit ‘Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies.’ Cost, $115/ non-member. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1400.

HANSEL & GRETEL – 7 p.m. Recital featuring the Grimm fairytale of ‘Hansel & Gretel.’ See Friday Listing.

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LOVE YOUR PARK – Come clean up the trails, beach, campsites, mulch the gardens, paint, and much more to ready your local state parks for the season.

—Gilbert Lake State Park, 8 a.m. - noon, 18 CCC Rd, Laurens. 607-432-2114.

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MOTHER’S DAY – 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Come celebrate spring and choose a special gift from local vendors. Southside Mall, 5006 St. Rt. 23, Oneonta.

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EXHIBIT TOUR – 10 - 11 a.m. Grandparents and grandchildren are invited to join special tour with Victoria Wyeth, grandaughter of artist Andrew Wyeth, to explore exhibition ‘Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies.’ Complimentary. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

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OPERA – 12:55 p.m.

View live performance of the Metropolitan Opera, streaming live in Oneonta. This week is the performance of ‘Turandot’

by Puccini. Cost, $20/adult.

Lunch available for purchase separately from Soda Jerks.

Showing at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

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WOODWORKING – 1 - 4 p.m. Register for class ‘Green Woodworking with Emilie Rigby’ where participants will

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