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$2,000 Raised To Get Students Safely Home

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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n receiving an e-mail broadcast recently about a slew of sexual assaults on SUNY Oneonta students, Beatrice Georgalidis knew she had to help stop the

Psi Chi, Wayne’s World Taxi Collaborate violence. “The school wanted to do workshops to raise awareness, but I knew we needed a tangible solution to help students feel safe,” she said.

Georgalidis, a non-traditional student from New York City and

founder of Certain Grants, a production company, reached out to Eric Faimon, PR chair for the Chi Phi fraternity, with her idea, Project Safe Ride.

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OHS’ Nathan Jump shows winning style competing in the Don Howard Invitational Saturday, May 2, at Cooperstown, where Oneonta boys won the 3200-meter relay. For results, slide show, see WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

Joe Ficano, Incumbent Plan Races

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he field of Common Council candidates in the Nov. 3 city elections continues to fill.

In the past few days, incumbent Madolyn Palmer, Fifth Ward, announced she will seek another term, and Hartwick College professor Joe Ficano is seeking the Ward 8 seat, aiming to succeed retiring Chip Holmes.

Palmer is among four incumbents running again; Ficano is among newcomers competing for four vacant seats/DETAILS, A3 HELPING BRYCE: A pancake breakfast and Chinese auction to benefit the premature baby Bryce, son of Patrick and Christina Miller of Mount Vision is planned 9 a.m-12:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 9, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Hall . A fund-raising campaign is also underway at www. gofundme.com/nijnes AIDING EAGLET: The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society has pledged $250 toward the reward fund set up to find individuals responsible for shooting an immature bald eagle found in New Lisbon on April 25.

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Experts To Study City Fire Fighting

DINER Neptune regular Cal Chase (red shirt) joins the former diner’s proprietor Paul Karabinis (to his left) and Paul’s son Tasi (across the table) at the new Plaza Diner in Clinton Plaza.

Paul’s brother, Takis (inset) toils in the kitchen.

right now,” she said, mass com student who graduates this month, but plans to stay in Oneonta. “These guys want to make it cool to stand against violence and sexual assault, instead of it being cool to commit these acts.”

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Neptune Pals, Plus Proprietor, Gather At New Plaza

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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f you stopped at the Neptune Diner any particular morning, you would always see the same group – Nick Lambros and Cal Chase and others, gathered around tables pushed together, drinking coffee and talking about their golf game. “One morning, I woke up early, so I got to the Neptune around 6 a.m.,” said Chase. “The

next thing I knew, it was 11 a.m!”

With the opening of the Plaza Diner in the Clinton Plaza, the old gang has a new place to meet – and now, former Neptune owner Paul Karabinis and son Tasi joins them at the table. “I’m retired,” he said. “It’s nice to be able to just sit!”

“Everybody loves a diner,” said Brad Benjamin, who co-owns the Plaza Diner with Paul’s brother, Takis Karabinis. “The kids, they get chocolate chip Please See DINER, A6

n hopes of moving forward sure-footedly, Common Council agreed 5-3 to authorize $33,000 for a comprehensive study of the Fire and EMS departments during their regular meeting on Tuesday, May 5.

“We’ll finally have an outside source giving us input in hopes of saving us funds in the future,” said Council memCouncil member Bob ber Lynch voted ‘nay.’

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The study will be done by the Center for Public Safety Management. Last year, City Manager Martin Murphy proposed a full study of police, fire and EMA, but council vetoed, citing concerns about the $84,000 bill.

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Oneonta Businessman Steve Harris Helps Form County ‘Beverage Hub’

By JIM KEVLIN

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The Oneonta businessman has invested in the new The “hub” is Cooperstown Distillery, and is planned in Coopinvolved in creating a hub in erstown.

downtown Cooperstown for Otsego County’s growing beverage industry.

He and Gene Marra, Cooperstown Distillery proprietor, had been fully engaged in the challenge of introducing local brands to a national audience, when they learned Augur’s Please See HUB, A7

Oneonta businessman Steve Harris and Cooperstown Distillery proprietor display plans for a “hub” for the county’s growing beverage industry.

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he field of Common Council candidates in the Nov. 3 city elections continues to fill.

In the past few days, incumbent Madolyn Palmer, Fifth Ward, announced she will seek another term, and Hartwick College professor Joe Ficano is seeking the Ward 8 seat; incumbent Chip Holmes is retiring.

Four seats are opening up. Incumbents are running again in the four other seats. The mayor’s position is open, and Democrat Gary Herzig is the only announced candidate so far.

Given the retiring council members and Mayor Dick Miller’s passing last October, Palmer, in announcing her run, said, “I feel that, right now, Common Council needs someone with experience. I plan to stay on council as long as I can.”

Mrs. Palmer, who retired as longtime business manager of the Oneonta City School District, (where she was also active in coaching the cheerleading team), was appointed by Miller in 2010 after the resignation of Council member Roger Moran. She was elected to a full term in 2011.

She joins Council members Maureen Hennessy, First Ward, Dave Rissberger, Third Ward and Mayor Russ Southard, Sixth Ward in seeking another term. In addition to Holmes, departing Common Council on Dec. 31 are Larry Malone, Second Ward, Mike Lynch, Fourth Ward, and Bob Brzo-

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Ficano has been an entrepreneur and educator, and currently is Hartwick College’s coordinator of academic and pre-professional advising.

Asked by Herzig to run, Ficano said he is particularly interested in keeping

Oneonta’s downtown vital and its park flourishing.

“This is a crucial time to keep the momentum of recent economic and cultural development going,” he said. “Oneonta must be assertive and smart in order to continue to beat the odds to grow and preserve this gem

along the Susquehanna. “ Originally from Utica, Joe lived and worked in Boston and Ithaca before moving his young family to Oneonta in 1997. After earning a master’s in education, he taught at Oneonta Job Corps and at the New Visions Entrepreneurial Business Program through ONC BOCES. He then started Sego Café, the wine bar and cof-

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Happily, ‘Women Of Distinction’ Increasingly Among Us

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atricia Kennedy is a perfect choice for the state Senate’s annual “Women of Distinction” honors.

Since she was elevated to executive director in 1995, Springbrook has experienced success after success.

Early in the Kennedy years, numerous group homes were established that now dot a three-county region, and a sorely needed daycare program launched to serve both challenged youngsters and “normal” ones.

The crown jewel of accomplishment to date was a $25 million renovation and expansion, completed in 2012, creating a community for autistic children who were being treated out-ofstate, far from family and friends, and positioning the campus for future growth.

At about the same time, Springbrook bought the former St. Mary’s School in Oneonta and consolidated its multiple off-campus offices there. And Kennedy collaborated with SUNY

Bassett, New York Central Mutual and SUNY Oneonta.

Springbrook is a nonprofit, social-service agency, but, Kennedy will tell you, it would be equally successful if it were a for-profit business. Her three-part formula, stated in an interview as she was about to accept the Otsego Chamber’s NBT Bank Distinguished BusiHOMETOWN ONEONTA ness Award in 2012, applies to any undertaking: Patricia Kennedy welcomes benefactor Tom “One, set a vision, a viGolisano in September sion that is shared. It has 2012 at the culmination to be congruent with your the “Coming Home” mission and the values of fund drive that made a the organization. Two, you $25 million Springbrook have to be able to respond to expansion possible. a changing climate. Three, Oneonta President Nancy you have to take advantage Kleniewski in creating a of opportunities that present master’s program tailored themselves.” to Springbrook’s needs, And she believes people ensuring the trained staff it – leaders – make the differrequires. ence.

From a couple of hundred • residents and employees, In announcing Kennedy’s Springbrook has grown to selection, state Sen. Jim 800 residents and 1,200 Seward, R-Milford, always employees, making it the diplomatic, recognized there fourth largest employer are many contenders for in Otsego County, after Woman of Distinction hon-

ors, noting, “All should be commended for the wonderful work they do.” Think about it – it’s a great party game – and many examples quickly come to mind.

• Jane Forbes Clark, presiding firmly and creatively over the Clark Foundation for almost a quarter-century.

Nothing has stood still, or is standing still – from the Fenimore and Farmers’, to the Baseball Hall of Fame, to Bassett Hospital, to the Clark gym, now about to undergo another reinvention. Quite astonishing.

• In politics, county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, has chaired the county Board of Representatives for three-plus years now, with county Reps. Beth Rosenthal of Roseboom, Betty Ann Schwerd of Edmeston, and Oneonta’s Janet Hurley Quackenbush, Kay Stuligross and Linda Rowinski among her colleagues.

• More locally, former Cooperstown mayor Carol B. Waller stays in the news as U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson’s county liaison, and current

trustees include Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh and the formidable Trustee Cindy Falk, architect of the $2 million downtown redo now underway. In Oneonta, former mayor Kim Muller’s accomplishment is embodied in her namesake plaza, Oneonta’s Puerta del Sol, and women have played roles in key city initiatives for decades.

• At the colleges, Kleniewski’s provost, Maria Thompson, made possible the recent reorganization into five schools, and two of the founding deans are Jan Bowers of Education & Human Ecology and Susan Turell of the School of Social Science. A full 18 of Hartwick President Margaret Drugovich’s 30-member cabinet members are women. Both appointed in 2008, Kleniewski and Drugovich are the first women presidents of either college.

• In business, Barbara Ann Heegan is president/ CEO of the Otsego Chamber of Commerce, teamed up for a while with Roxana

Hurlburt, board chair (and vice president of ISD Tech).

In retail leadership, Southside Mall manager Luisa Montanti is also president of the Foothills board, and proprietors … there are simply too many to even try to list.

• Among the non-profits, women rule. In the Cooperstown-based environmental agencies, Nicole Dillingham is Otsego 2000 president and Ellen Pope executive director, Virginia Kennedy executive director of the Otsego Lake Trust, and Vicky Lentz OCCA president and Darla Youngs executive director.

In Oneonta, Pat Knuth is managing The Arc Otsego, and financial adviser Sarah Manchester, as board president, is shepherding the Delaware & Otsego United Way through a transition.

• The point is, there is no shortage of Women of Distinction around here, and the state Senate program is right to dramatize them.

LETTERS

Cooperstown All-Star Village Has Earned Oneonta Community’s Support To the Editor: The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce expresses its strong support for the continued planned expansion of Cooperstown All Star Village in the Town of Oneonta. This project growth has a direct economic impact on our community. We ask that the town of Oneonta consider the following key points: • The Cooperstown All Star Village, during its 11 years of operation, has grown to a world class facility which attracts teams from all over the world with profes-

sional ball fields and uniforms for the players, and a great experience for their families. This year they have teams from China, Australia, Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic and all fifty states, just to name a few, hosting almost 500 teams. The average team has 15 participants, each player averages 5 family members, which means we have about 40,000 visitors in our region during the 11 weeks of operation, June through August .

• Competitors, their families, supporters and spectators alike patronize local hotels, restaurants,

Little League World Series phenom Mo’ne Davis pitches at Cooperstown All-Star Village last season.

shops and museums. This provides a substantial and direct economic benefit to the Greater Oneonta community and Otsego County.

• There are over 300 employees working for Cooperstown All Star Village that also enhances the local economy and local spending.

The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce encourages the Town of Oneonta to work diligently with the management of the Cooperstown All Star Village toward an expeditious regulatory resolution that mutually benefits the greater Otsego County busi-

ness community and the residents of the Town of Oneonta. The Otsego County Chamber remains committed to business enhancement as articulated in our mission, to continually improve the overall business climate in the region; to strive for an atmosphere which attracts investment; to build a positive, forward-thinking business community; and to partner with government, groups, individuals and institutions.

BARBARA ANN HEEGAN President/CEO Otsego County Chamber

Birch Businesswoman, Tender Of Children Candidate Experienced As Mother, CPA Too To the Editor: We are supporting the re-election of Marcy Birch to another term on the Cooperstown Central school board.

Marcy has a great deal of experience working with children as a speech pathologist and directing education programs.

In addition, she is a successful business person with a strong grasp of management and budgeting priorities. She has been instru-

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mental in helping to keep taxes under the 2 percent tax levy cap on the school budget while supporting the Veteran’s property tax exemption.

In addition to being a parent, Marcy has also served as a foster parent as well as a host for students in Rotary International.

She brings a unique perspective to educating children. She is dedicated and commits a substantial amount of time to being

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a productive and efficient board member.

We are proud to be supporting Marcy’s bid for reelection and know that the interests of our children will be well served by giving her your support.

The school board election will be 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at the high school building on Linden Avenue.

CINDY & ORLO BURCH Hartwick

To the Editor: I am writing in support of Tabetha Rathbone in the upcoming Cooperstown Central school Board election.

Tabetha possesses several unique qualifications for the position: First, she is a Certified Public Accountant. As a CPA she has the ability to quickly review and evaluate district financial statements.

Secondly, she has been able to apply her financial

training in her current job as chief financial officer of a prominent local corporation. This company has a budget several times that of the school district and has almost 200 employees.

Most importantly, she and her husband have two children who attend Cooperstown Elementary School and are vitally interested in the future of the system.

In summary, Tabetha Rathbone possesses the

education, skills, experience and personal involvement to represent the citizens of the district well. It is time to face the challenges that confront the district, and she is the best person to do that. I urge you to vote for her on May 19 when the polls are open, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the high school.

JIM HOWARTH Cooperstown

Rathbone Empowers Teachers, Parents, Citizens To the Editor: We support Tabetha Rathbone and Laurie Williams as the candidates most committed to help bring change to the Cooperstown Central school board, change that would empower the voices of teachers, parents and other community members.

Williams and Rathbone understand the need for the board to revise its structures and methods of governance to enhance a two-way flow of influence on the board’s decisions, rather than sustaining the current top-down structure.

Evidence of this commitment can be found in Rathbone’s and Williams’ early, vocal support for test refusal as a strategy for opposing Governor Cuomo’s recent education proposal,

which would have counted standardized tests toward 50 percent of teacher evaluations. Rathbone and Williams understood how such measures would increase “teaching to the test” and thereby degrade our students’ education.

While the school board, the administration, faculty, and parents were all shocked by the governor’s proposal, Rathbone and Williams understood the need to do more than just write letters to our elected officials. They understood the usefulness of test refusal as part of a grassroots movement refusing such a dictatorial power grab from Albany. Their courage to take a stand against Albany and to advocate for local autonomy helped lead 61

percent of Cooperstown parents of students in grades 3-8 to join the movement, along with 200,000 parents across New York State (compared to 60,000 last year).

Other concerns these candidates have been vocal about include the need for greater community and faculty input on the BOE’s decisions related to the creation of new administrative positions, the conduct of administrative searches and reviews, and curriculum development.

A vote for Rathbone and Williams is a vote for the voices of community and faculty.

GEORGE HOVIS & KIM JASTREMSKI Cooperstown

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HOMETOWN 125 Years Ago

Baseball – The Cuban Giants, who seem gigantic chiefly in falsehood, failed to appear in Oneonta Wednesday or to send any explanation of their absence, though it was agreed that they should give the Oneontas twenty-four hours’ notice if for any cause it was impossible for them to reach town. Repeated telegrams finally located them at Utica,

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which may have seemed to them a better ball town than Oneonta. In their absence a nine composed of players from Hartwick Seminary, Unadilla and Afton, together with Harrigan and a number of locals, was hastily got together.

These gentlemen, though defeated, played a good game, and had their pitcher put a little more life into his work, would doubtless have made a better score. The ball game of Saturday last between the league team and the local team known as “Keefe’s Colts” drew a fair-sized crowd of enthusiasts who were anxious to see the Colts in the field. The score at the close stood 14 to 8 in favor of the league team.

The game was called at three o’clock and lasted until 5:30 – a good one for the first one of the season.

May 1890

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John Paddock, aged about 54 years, a carpenter by trade, living at 63 Gilbert Street, where he conducted a lodging house for railroad men, took his own life about 7 o’clock Tuesday morning by shooting himself twice in the head with a .32 caliber revolver. Paddock was alone in the house at the time. When Paddock’s wife, accompanied by Mrs. Edward Aylsworth, a neighbor, entered after hearing the shots, he was found lying on the floor of the kitchen. Paddock had been a heavy drinker for many years and when under the influence of liquor often pounded and otherwise abused his wife. Monday afternoon, after becoming intoxicated, he went home and unmercifully pounded and beat his wife, blackening her eyes, tearing her ear and bruising her body. Mrs. Paddock has always been a hardworking woman, slaving night and day for the man who repaid her with curses and beatings and no one blames her.

May 1915

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60 Years Ago

Ninety-three St. Mary’s school children yesterday received their first Holy Communion at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, during the 9 a.m. service. More than 1,000 parents and friends jammed the church edifice as the Rev. John Caldara celebrated the Communion, assisted by the Rev. George Phillips. Later in the afternoon St. Mary’s children marched in procession to the church for the crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the symbolic Queen of May. Among those receiving Communion were Joanne Bridger, Carol Ann Bridger, Angela Plantz, Norma Martin, Albert Hanslik, Michael Saggese, Peter Winnie, John Bruce, Sharon Hale, Mary Pondolfino, Paul Parrish, James Fawcett, Kenneth Billinger, James Smith, Norma Monser, Douglas Blackmore, Donald Rittlinger, Kenneth Rittlinger, and Madelyn Sharp.

May 1955

40 Years Ago

The Oneonta School Board will be presented with several proposals at its May 21 meeting designed to relieve the overcrowded conditions at the Center Street School. School Superintendent Dr. Frederick Bardsley said administrators at the school are studying as many as sixteen various plans

May 1935 to eliminate the overcrowding. Bardsley told the citizens’ task force last night that “the guiding light of the plans will be consistency.” Last August, the Board voted to take the Sixth Grade students out of Center Street and bus them to Greater Plains School where there was more room. The decision led to heated protests from parents of the students affected.

May 1975

30 Years Ago

Howard Johnson’s restaurants have begun displaying photos of missing children throughout the nation, including Oneonta, according to Thomas Ryder, manager of the local restaurant. Howard Johnson’s joins a campaign that has brought the faces and descriptions of missing children to the public’s attention via newspapers, milk and beverage containers, toll booths and other means. The chain has distributed posters of missing children for display to its individual restaurants.

May 1985

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Neptune Fans, Proprietor Drawn To New Diner In Clinton Plaza DINER/From A1 pancakes, Mom and Dad get a good sandwich and the older couples can have a nice dinner.”

The Plaza Diner opened its doors on Sunday, May 3, to a packed house.

“There were times when we couldn’t fit any more people!” said waitress Shasta Fletcher. “We had a good crowd.”

Takis Karabinis has a long history with diners.

He and Paul founded the Neptune Diner in 1985. He and wife Lily ran the Corfu Diner at Main and Chestnut from 1999 to 2011, when Lily converted it into Simply Thai.

Benjamin worked with him at the Corfu, and, most recently, was the head chef at the Red Caboose, which he helped open in 2012.

But with the closing of the Neptune in late 2013, the downtown area lacked a true breakfast spot. “College students want to get a late breakfast,” said Benjamin.

“People want a place they

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can get pancakes any time of day.”

Benjamin and Karabinis are in the kitchen all day, every day, cooking a menu’s worth of both classic American and Greek fare – burgers and spanakopita, milkshakes and moussaka. “That is how we feel a diner is supposed to be,” said Benjamin. “A Greek diner is the American dream – they come here, they work hard and they build a successful business.”

The partners are already planning an expansion later this summer – a separate dining room in the former Cooperstown Cross Fit, which will be closed off by French doors and feature a separate, more upscale menu. Benjamin plans to show off his famed “rustic American” cuisine. “We see a fine dining niche we can fill,” he said.

And on the diner side, they’ll soon install a lunch counter as well. “Then we’ll know it’s a diner!” said Paul Patterson, director of Oneonta Public Transit, as he came in for eggs and home fries.

“Our diner caters to all people,” said Benjamin.

“It’s what a diner should be.”

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Goal: Get Students Safely Home TAXI/From A1 Wayne’s World Taxi agreed to collaborate and this fall Project Safe Ride will start offering free rides to students between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

“Maybe they’re studying late and they don’t want to walk home or wait for the bus,” said Georgalidis, who moved here from New York City two years ago and plans to stay. “Maybe they’re at a party and they start to feel uncomfortable and they can’t get a safe rid back to campus – they can call up Wayne’s World and say, ‘I’m a student and I need a ride home’.”

And to pay for the rides, Georgalidis and her team started an IndieGoGo crowdsourcing campaign aiming to raise $2,000 – 500 safe rides home. “We’ve raised $678 in just over a week,” she said. “We want to try and raise $4,000 next year.”

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the price of its ride from $6 to $4 to make the $2,000 go farther, and Liberty Tax Service also donated funds to the program.

And in addition to the ride program, Chi Phi wanted to raise awareness about the affects of violence with a video PSA. “Violence is traumatizing,” said Georgalidis. “And so we thought, ‘What’s the opposite of trauma?’ Dancing.”

And in the video on the Oneonta Safe Ride Project, all Chi Phi 42 fraternity brothers boogie down to Blind Melon’s “No Rain.”

“It brings joy to a super painful issue,” she said.

“How great would it be to bring the whole community together to dance in solidarity against sexual violence?”

Once they’ve met their fundraising goal, Georgalidis plans to take her camera crew to Oneonta businesses and ask them to show off their dancin’ feet.

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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015

Common Council Agrees To Study To Help Determine Fire, EMS Needs STUDY/From A1 This study will focus on workload and staffing issues by analyzing the number of service calls, as well as performance indicators such as response time and multiple unit dispatching. They also do ride-alongs, review case files and observe dispatch operations, compiling the data into a study they present to the city. “This has nothing to do with the ability of the department to do their jobs,� said Council member Chip Holmes. “To get outside eyes doesn’t mean we don’t trust you, but Dick Miller taught me that you get professionals in to do their

jobs.�

However, the vote was not without its detractors. “What is this study really providing us?� asked Council member Mike Lynch. “The critical decisions are still ours to make – they’re just going to come in here and say, ‘You need a strategic plan.’ We know what they’re going to recommend, so why don’t we do that all on our own?�

Council member Madolyn Palmer agreed. “I want more detail on what they’re providing,� she said, and voted no.

Council member Larry Malone didn’t think they were providing enough. “I

was on the conference call with CPSM, and I’m really disturbed that they wouldn’t give us a risk assessment to look at. They kept saying they would give us one for St. Louis, but we have nothing in common with St. Louis. We don’t have an arch - we just have the Golden Arches.�

Murphy offered to provide Malone and the council with a risk assessment done in Watertown so they could compare.

The Risk Assessment, which could also be performed by CPSM, would look at the sorts of structures in the city and analyze their risk for fire damage.

“I would want them to distill the data on the city, the town and the college response,� said Malone. “The colleges are free riders, and the town isn’t paying their fair share - I want the analysis to show that.�

Assistant Chief Jim Maloney said he had tried to get training on how to analyze those calls to conduct a risk assessment, but the two-week travel time and expenses were vetoed by Murphy. “That’s fire chief

101 work,� he said. “It’s not a pre-requisite for conducting a risk assessment.�

Time is a concern, said Murphy, but with 4,000 structures in the city, Maloney anticipated that, with proper training, interns and help from the department, he could have the study done in approximately 100 days.

Murphy is waiting for a final quote on the risk assessment, which he anticipates will come from CPSM

later this week. “Before we make a decision, let’s see their proposal,� he said.

Council Members David Rissberger, Maureen Hennessy, Mayor Russ Southard joined Brzozowski and Holmes in voting yes for the comprehensive study.

Palmer, Malone and Lynch voted no. “We need this information to support the fire department,� said Holmes. “And I want to support the fire department.�

Steve Harris Helps Develop Beverage Hub HUB/From A1 Now, Harris and Marra are engaged in Local: Cooperstown Beverage Exchange, on the ground floor of the imposing threestory brick building “at the flagpole,� which they hope to open by mid-June.

From 10 to 5, the Exchange will sell Cooperstown Distillery products and those of the six other members of the Cooperstown Beverage Trail – Ommegang, Cooperstown and Butternut breweries, Rustic Ridge and Bear Pond wineries, the Fly Creek Cider Mill – plus the new Pail Shop Winery, which is expected to join the Beverage Trail partners when a required probationary period is complete later this year. “We’ve had a meeting with all the members and they are all enthusiastic about the opportunity,� said Harris, who said minivans will transport local-beverage fans from Main and Pioneer across the county for tours of the breweries and wineries.

In the evenings, a sliding wall will cover the retail displays, the lights will dim, a combo may begin to play jazz, and The Exchange will turn into an enticing night spot.

A “mixologist� has been recruited to man the bar, mixing 5-6 “signature cocktails� using Cooperstown Distillery labels. “We’re not just a bar,� said Marra. “We don’t want to be a bar. We’re going to attract a whole different element.� He isn’t ready to reveal all the particulars, but did let on one of the cocktails is the gin-based “Fenimore Flyer,� based on “The Aviator,�

an avant-garde potion that’s become popular nationwide in the past year.

The storefront is on the “money side� of Main Street, which is passed by all foot traffic between the Doubleday Field parking lot and the Baseball Hall of Fame. One possible wrinkle was the wishes of a former Augur’s owner, Dick Carr: It is believed he wanted to see only a bookstore in the storefront for the foreseeable future.

But John Orilio, husband of one of the building’s heirs, said that wasn’t specified in Carr’s will, although his nieces have sought to do so in their uncle’s memory.

No matter, since the Cooperstown Distillery is already selling some three-dozen different books, according to Gene Marra’s wife and business partner Montell, as she placed a copy of “Tequila Mockingbird� on the Liquor Library shelf at the 11 Railroad Ave. plant and retail store, (which will remain as is, with tours directed there from Main and Pioneer.) “Books on the history of bourbon are very popular,� she said, and added titles – including novels dealing with liquors or distilling – are anticipated.

As he examined the boards to be used for hardwood flooring, Marra – a entrepreneurial restaurateur by profession – is anticipating hosting “mixology� classes in the new locale, and perhaps even distilling classes. “It’s going to be retail,� he said. “It’s also going to be educational.�

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