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Hartwick College Begins ‘It’s Personal’ Campaign Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

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Newman Wins Tax Reduction From Council

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y a 7-1 vote, Common Council Tuesday, May 7, approved a PILOT for Newman Development LLC’s 325student proposed Hilltop Commons apartments.

Deputy Mayor Mike Lynch voted no, but the door was opened for payments in lieu of taxes that will rise from $92,000 to almost $600,000 over 15 years.

ZOMBIE PREMIERE: Oneonta filmmaker Joel Plue’s latest, a horror flick, “South of Sanity,” will premier Saturday, May 11, at The Oneonta Theatre. Doors open at 6. “Year Zero,” a zombie movie that won Best Picture at the Anchorage Film Festival, will lead off the evening.

LOTS OF FOOD: Saturday, May 11, leave non-perishable foods for your letter carrier, who is participating in the National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, the nation’s largest one-day food drive.

MADE IT! New York State’s Tax Freedom Day was Monday, May 6; the U.S. one was April 18.

The Goal: Affordable Education

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front” Wall of Fame, recognizing some of Hartwick’s most notable graduates, 8 a.m. ►Panel discussion, “Making and Managing Change in the Inevitable Unknown,” 9 a.m., with industry leaders, • John Doelp, ’76, senior VP, Sony Music Entertainment • David Long, ’83, president/ CEO, Liberty Mutual Group • Cyrus Mehri, ’83, founding partner, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC • Nancy Morris, ’ 74, former SEC secretary • Rob Rowe,’81, managing director, Citigroup

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ears of father-son games of catch have turned into a business venture for son Lance and dad Lloyd Ratchford.

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eclaring “it’s personal,” Hartwick College is planning a two-day celebration Friday-Saturday, May 9-10, to launch a major fund drive – not for bricks and mortar, but to help individual students come to Oyaron Hill and thrive.

Details will be laid out at “A Blue Bash!” luncheon for faculty and staff in the Arnold Rain Garden Friday. College President Margaret Drugovich said the money raised will be used for student-focused purposes: • One, endowment growth, to increase scholarships to worthy but needy students. Alumni, “friends of Hartwick,” parents of current and former students, and foundations will be solicited.

• Two, to ensure students aren’t denied January Terms abroad – essential to the Hartwick experience, Drugovich believes – because they can’t afford the $3,500 extra to pay for air tickets, room and board.

• Three, “modest improveIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Hartwick President Margaret Drugovich stands in front of the ments” to the physical plant, inCampbell Fitness Center, now under construction, with Leadcluding upgrading locker rooms ership of the Advancement staff, from left, Margaret Arthurs, at the Binder Facility, making director, corporate, foundation and government relations; Faith the pool handicapped accessible, Tiemann, leadership annual giving officer; Jim Broschart, vice renovating the Anderson Center president, college advancement; Suzanne Guzy, director, philanof the Arts, and upgrades estimatthropy; Eric Shoen, executive director, individual giving; Alicia ed to save 30-40 percent of Fish, senior director, donor and alumni relations, and Patricia Please See HARTWICK, A7 Dopazo, director, planned giving.

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EDITORIAL

Strong Court Decision On Fracking Ban Gives Breathing Space

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he Margaret Mead quote, “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,” has been circulating locally in recent months. (In particular, Teresa Winchester, who is running against county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, is an adherent.)

And the thought bears pondering today in Otsego County, following the Thursday, May 2, news that the Town of Middlefield’s ban on fracking within its boundaries has been upheld by the Appellate Division, Third District, state Supreme Court.

There are many heroes of this piece, foremost, certainly, Adrian Kuzminski, the hard-driving and brainy moderator of Sustainable Otsego, but also Middlefield Town Supervisor Dave Bliss; Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham; Brewery Ommegang President Simon Thorpe and his director of communications, Larry Bennett; Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president; John Kosmer, a Sustainable founder and lately, outspoken county rep; Ron Bishop, the SUNY Oneonta chemistry teacher; the iconoclastic Chip Northrup, himself an oil man (who nonetheless maintains his intellectual independence); the Otsego Land Trust’s sensible and business-savvy Harry Levine; attorney Michelle Kennedy, who helped come up with the town-ban strategy.

And many more – Middlefield Town Attorney

David Clinton; Henry Weil and Neil Newman on the town Planning Board; Winchester herself, who led the charge in the Butternut Valley; Otsego 2000 executive Ellen Pope; Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller, who swiftly put a fracking ban in place in the county’s largest community; Cooperstown Village Trustee Jim Dean, who chairs the Environmental Sustainability Committee … this list could go on and on, and still people would be missed.

“This has lot of implications, nationally, even globally,” an elated Kuzminski said the day after the news broke. “This is the first time anyone has said no to the industry.”

Our local Davids toppled Goliath.

• Work remains.

The Otsego County towns in the Otsego Lake watershed – Middlefield, of course, Otsego and Springfield – have banned fracking. The Town of Warren, just over the northern line in Herkimer County, has not, but Dillingham says there may be no need for worry: The Marcellus Shale formation is thin there, and the Utica probably unproductive. Still, a ban in Warren would plug the final hole in the dike.

Elsewhere in the county, eight towns, plus the City of Oneonta, have banned fracking. Three towns have adopted moratoria. Seven more are considering bans or moratoria. Only five – Decatur, Edmeston, Exeter, Richfield and Worcester – have done nothing, and should certainly revisit the

cross the county generally.

Over the same period, a couple of hundred of our neighbors have been killed in car crashes, untold thousands have died of cancer and heart attacks, a dozen have been injured or killed in hunting accidents, and a handful have been murdered by their loved ones.

(The county reps’ Public Safety Committee learned the other day that there are 15,000 registered firearms in the county. Wow.) Let’s not even get into 16-ounce sodas.

Let’s have a little perspective, people. Even if the 62,000 of us in Otsego County went off the grid Jim Kevlin/ HOMETOWN ONEONTA tomorrow, that would be not Gene Marner leads anti-pipeline protesters Thurs- a drop in the ocean of international energy use. And, day, May 2, on Market Street. unless we were determined issue in light of the ruling. with saying about Vietnam, to freeze to death, all those The beauty of the town let’s declare victory and wood stoves (until the wood ban is it provides local come home. ran out) would probably control – home rule. The • contribute more to global industry says technology That was emphasized the warming than our local will eventually make frackevening of the day the court economy does now. ing perfectly safe. (There decision was issued, when • was an interesting piece in 50-some pickets protested That said, let’s all emthe New York Times last across Market Street from brace the contribution the December, “Race Is On To Foothills Performing Arts anti-fracking movement Clean Up Hydraulic FracCenter, where a routine an– our local anti-fracking turing,” detailing promising nual pipeline-safety training movement – has made to the technologies.) Fine, if and session was being held. state and national dialogue. when that happens, a local As blameless local folks If fracking occurs in New ban can be revoked by any – mostly emergency-service York State, it can be contown that wishes to do so. types and people who work trolled – or barred, locally Until then, localities are in businesses associated – and it’s likely – if citizens’ protected. with pipelines – filed peace- vigilance is maintained – it • ably into the seminar across will only happen with sufIn the past, you would the way, the chant went up, ficient regulation to ensure have heard John Kosmer “Pipeline safety is a lie, its relative safety. and other adherents argue pipes blow up and people While the anti-frackers fracking is “the only isdie.” can be infuriating – what sue.” The court decision Well, maybe. In the 50 true believer isn’t? – they and the authority it gives to years the Tennessee pipeline continue a proud local localities, however, reduces has crossed northern Otsego tradition of protecting the fracking to one priority County, no one’s died or, for Glimmerglass, an interissue of several. As the late that matter, even been innational symbol of enviGeorge Aiken was credited jured. And pipelines crissronmental purity. Let’s

embrace that, too. (And let’s pause and reflect on the enduring contribution of Henry S.F. Cooper, the continuum of critical thinking he set in motion in the 1970s when someone had the bright idea of running kV lines along the ridge to the west of Otsego Lake.)

In that context, anti-antifracking is not a viable option. The latest Siena Poll showed 47 percent of people in the Southern Tier oppose fracking, with 15 percent undecided; it’s rare to find someone outspokenly favoring it locally. Fear of fracking – it’s legitimate – has won many Upstate hearts and minds.

• It was pointed out the other day that Bill Mirabito, the Oneonta Town Board member and scion of the regional energy company, was elevated to vice chairman of the Republican County Committee when it met in April, and is heir apparent to Sheila Ross. Interesting choice, but with county Democrats having a betterthan-ever chance of taking control of the county board this fall, is it the right one tactically?

Say Ed Lentz of Garrattsville does win the Milford-based seat, and the very able county Rep. Beth Rosenthal of Roseboom maintains hers, and even Kosmer hangs on, it will be particularly important to move beyond “the only issue” and face up to the issue that defines our local future: Otsego is a poor county in the midst of decades-long decline.

Fracking behind us, “the only issue” is: What are we going to do about THAT?

LETTERS

Don’t Forget ‘Girls Of Spring’ To the Editor: I was so disappointed to read the headline that accompanied the photos for Oneonta’s Little League opening day on Saturday, April 27. “Boys of Spring” excluded the female coaches, managers, volunteers, players, and others that are a vital part of the local league.

As a mother and educator who is striving to teach her kids and students the importance of inclusion, your headline gave me a perfect teachable moment. An apology and a follow-up feature about the “Girls of Spring” would be nice remedy.

Looking forward to seeing/reading it...

AMY BENEDICT-AUGUSTINE (Mother of Sara Benedict-Augustine, Benson Agency team)

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Editor’s Note: Nicole Dillingham, Otsego 2000 president, provided this narrative of events leading up to the Thursday, May 2, appellate court affirmation of the Town of Middlefield’s fracking ban.

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he court decisions issued Thursday, May 2, in the Dryden and Middlefield cases supporting home rule have prompted many to ask how this movement developed and grew.

The push for zoning and/or police power control over heavy industrialization – including, specifically, gas drilling – began to take hold in late 2010 and 2011. Many of us worked hard on the comments to the first dSGEIS filed at the end of 2009. Immediately thereafter we felt the need to expand education of the general public and began discussing a local coalition to oppose gas drilling.

In the early stages we were not uniformly for a ban; we were just opposed to “unsafe gas drilling,” and this was how the name of our regional coalition was chosen: the “Coalition Against Unsafe Gas Drilling” or CAUD. We began in late 2009 with a group of eight individuals (myself, Harry Levine, Lang Keith, Adrian Kuzminski, Chip Northrup, Ron Bishop, Lou Allstadt and Erik Miller) and grew from there.

One of the first items we focused on was how to help towns prepare resolutions supporting more study and a statewide moratorium. Resolutions did not carry the risk of retaliatory lawsuits, could be adopted more quickly than actual moratoria or bans, and served as a vehicle for public education and political momentum building.

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Confrontations punctuated the evening when pro- and antifracking adherents sought to lobby the county Board of Representatives at a July 2010 hearing at the county courthouse in Cooperstown.

We prepared sample drafts of proposed resolutions for towns to consider on or about Nov. 13, 2009.

Early adopters of resolutions favoring a moratorium and more study were Middlefield (11/16/09), Cherry Valley (11/23/09) and Springfield (12/14/09).

Shortly after CAUD was formed, the landscape changed when the DEC announced by press release on April 23, 2010, that the New York City and Syracuse watersheds would be carved out for special treatment. This confirmed the fear we had that certain regions would successfully lobby to secure protections unavailable to smaller communities. Self-help and

political organization became all the more crucial and demands for a statewide moratorium grew.

By May 30, 2010, our local coalition mustered nine signatories to support a moratorium on gas drilling then in the Assembly. These were: Action Otsego, Advocates for Cherry Valley, Butternut Valley Alliance, Crumhorn Lake Association, LAND, Middlefield Neighbors, Otsego 2000, Residents of Crumhorn Mountain and Sustainable Otsego. (The state Senate passed the statewide moratorium that summer and the Assembly on Nov. 30, 2010; Governor Paterson shortly vetoed it.)

It was during the same time frame, spring and summer of 2010, that Gastem was making strong inroads in Otsego County. By this time, Gastem owned rights to approximately 30,000 acres in our region. Gastem quickly developed a relationship with the Otsego County Board of Representatives and was invited to give a presentation about the benefits the county could expect if gas drilling were welcomed.

One of the first letters written by our Coalition was dated July 2, 2010, urging citizens to take notice that the county was working with Gastem in gearing up to commence drilling and encouraged interested citizens to attend the next county board meeting to express their concerns.

Later in the year, on Nov. 8, 2010, when Gastem began seismic testing and re-fracturing of the Ross 1 well, the CAUD coalition sent a letter of protest to every single member of every town board in the county demanding that the county adopt a moratorium until procedures for notice to affected Please See HISTORY, A6

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History

Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

125 Years Ago

The assembly has passed the Fassett bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes, tobacco, etc., to children under sixteen, and it has gone to the governor for his signature. There has been a strong demand for the passage of the bill from all portions of the state, and there seems no doubt of its becoming a law. Nowhere is the urgency of a law regulating the sale of cigarettes more strongly felt than in Oneonta where boys of eight and ten years of age are daily to be seen with cigarettes in their mouths, and where certain dealers appear to take an especial pride in inducing the little youngsters to learn to smoke.

May 1888

80 Years Ago

rehabilitation. The idea of using the hospital as a drug rehab facility has been kicking around the capitol since Rockefeller announced his intention to close it. That idea has particular appeal in the wake of the governor’s tough new drug penalty law and the possibility that the state may find itself with more addicts to treat than it has beds available around the state.

May 1973

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100 Years Ago

The General Concrete Company of Chicago, under the direction of General Foreman J. G. Prewett, has started work on the huge stack for the power station of the Delaware & Hudson Company. Mr. Prewett states that the entire work of construction of the smoke stack will be completed within 60 days. The excavation for the base of the stack measures 21 by 21 feet and at a depth of nine and one-half feet a good quantity of gravel has been struck, through which piles will be driven to support the great mass of the stack. The stack will be 160 feet in height, measuring 12.6 x 12.6 feet at the base and the inside measurement will be 8 feet square at the top. It will be constructed of concrete throughout, reinforced with steel and heavy wire mesh.

The ample size of the flue will furnish sufficient draft for the demands of two 400 horse power boilers to operate the new generators that will yield 2,500 kilowatts of electric energy, or double the present capacity of the plant. Two new boilers, each of 225 horse power, are being installed at the roundhouse and they will double the capacity there.

May 1913

60 Years Ago

The Oneonta Town Board will conduct a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Town Hall at West Oneonta on a petition for a fire district in West Oneonta and adjacent territory to the north. The petition, signed by about 200 resident taxpayers is the first presented to the board since the City of Oneonta called for a new deal in supplying fire protection for the town. Oneonta City Mayor Robert G. Hughes and the Public Safety Board gave notice that the old system of pay at so much per fire call would be terminated on July 15. If the town as a whole would organize a fire protection district, the city would provide protection at

May 1933 $7,500 per year. But the city would not contract for anything less than the entire town. Such was the new offer.

Town residents thus had the choice of contracting with the city or forming their own fire district or districts to provide their own protection. The petition proposes that the area in question set up its own fire house, provide its own apparatus, and its own volunteer firemen. The petition is said to represent 80 percent of the resident taxpayers, and more than 50 percent of the assessed value.

May 1953

40 Years Ago

Assemblyman Harold C. Luther said Tuesday the Rockefeller administration has agreed to form a committee to start a study in June on the future of the soon-to-be defunct Homer Folks tuberculosis hospital in Oneonta. The committee will make an inventory of the hospital facilities and then make recommendations on what it should be used for after it is finally closed down. The state-run home is to be phased out this year because new methods in treating the oncedread disease have cut down the hospital’s patient load in recent years. The committee will be looking at the hospital with an eye toward turning it into a center for convalescents, civil defense, veterans’ rehabilitation, or drug

The National Soccer Hall of Fame opened the doors on its second exhibit Sunday – a tribute to the landmark teams in American Soccer history and the individuals who were the backbones of their respective teams. Albert L. Colone, director of the Hall of Fame, located in the Wilber Mansion at 11 Ford Avenue, said a large part of the reason for planning the Landmark Teams exhibit was that “many people believe soccer is a new baby in the national sports arena. We were trying to highlight achieving teams in the history of our country.” According to Colone the first soccer team was formed in the United States in 1862. “The sport has been here a long time, perhaps residing in obscurity,” he said. About 30 people showed up for the opening of the display.

May 1983

20 Years Ago

Two decades ago A.O. Fox Hospital nurse Dottie Zeh’s main duties were offering emotional support and routine care to patients. Today, she educates them about complicated tests and operates technical equipment, taking a more active role in patient care. Medical technology and a growing focus on outpatient care have changed the nursing profession, making it more of a challenge, area nurses say.

The days when nurses were expected to rise when doctors entered the room are long gone. “The doctors write the orders but the nurse is really the doctor’s eyes and ears,” said Harry Schultes, one of 14 male nurses at Fox Hospital.

May 1993

10 Years Ago

Joseph E. Sutaris was recently named chief financial officer of Wilber National Bank and its holding company, the Wilber Corp. Sutaris is responsible for overseeing the financial management/accounting systems and policies of the companies as well as planning and implementing new business strategies. Sutaris also serves as secretary of both companies.

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tsego County’s Davids beat Goliath – and now they’re looking for the next Goliath.

“This has lot of implications, nationally, even globally,” said Adrian Kuzminski, moderator of anti-fracking Sustainable Otsego, said the day after a state appeals court affirmed the Town of Middlefield’s right to ban fracking. “This is the first time anyone has said no to the industry.”

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big battle. And it’s not going to end here,” said Nicole Dillingham, president of Otsego 2000, which helped marshal the forces for Middlefield’s court battle.

First, she said, Otsego 2000 can help provide legal and land-use planning advice to other towns that may

now seek to enact bans.

“We would like to see a ban on this process in New York State until a healthimpact study is completed,” she continued. “New York State is required to do that and they have not done it.”

For his part, Kuzminski said Sustainable Otsego may now turn its attention to implementing a plan that came out of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment in March to achieve sustainability in New York State by 2030, primarily through 15,000 windmills and solar-energy

technology.

“We’ve got to get off of these fossil fuels,” he said.

“It’s do or die. We’ve got to do this or we’re going to choke to death.”

The Middlefield Town Board, led by Supervisor David Bliss, banned fracking in 2010, but the ban was challenged by Jennifer Huntington, whose Cooperstown Holstein Corp. on Route 33 had leased 400 acres for natural-gas development.

In 2012, state Supreme Court Judge Donald Cerio, sitting in Wampsville, ruled in favor of the town, but his

decision was challenged, and moved to the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, Third Department, in Albany.

The court heard arguments in March, in the Middlefield case but also a similar one regarding the Town of Dryden.

Cooperstown Holstein’s lawyers argued that the state Oil, Gas & Solution Mining Law preempted local zoning, but the court’s decision, handed down Thursday, May 2, dismissed that argument.

Dillingham, herself a law-

yer, said the appellant’s next step would be to appeal the case to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, or to the U.S. Supreme Court, but she expressed doubts that any further appeal would have success.

Appeals courts choose to hear only 10 percent of the cases appealed, she said.

Further, she added, “it’s clear. There are no disputed cases that go contrary to this case. The court usually gets involved – as does the Supreme Court of the United States – when there is a dispute.”

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During the same time, with the strong encouragement of county board members Steve Fournier and Jamie Powers, the county Planning Board developed a gas-drilling link on the county web-site giving encouragement to the industry.

Part of this website contained legal articles purporting to tell local town boards that zoning restrictions on gas drilling were fruitless because they were preempted by ECL 2-303, and would lead to litigation which the towns could not afford and would lose. It was during this period that we started focusing on the need for legal support for towns and counties willing to consider zoning and bans to protect their existing environmental and cultural resources.

We considered preparation of draft laws that could be modified and adapted by local towns.

The search for lawyers to

do this work commenced.

We sought the help of Zarin & Steinmetz of White Plains, and Bob Freilich of Colorado. These lawyers were highly experienced, but we were concerned they would be viewed as outsiders and that towns would not be willing to accept their help. Also it became clear that the preliminary issue of preemption needed to be addressed.

There was an early article written in 2010 by Todd Mathes of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna (the firm which ultimately represented Middlefield on appeal to the Third Appellate District) which suggested that there was authority for the proposition that home rule was not preempted. We wanted to get additional support for this view.

Who would perform this analysis and be credible with the towns we were trying to persuade became a key an issue. Several lawyers had conflicts because they were representing the industry or would work only

for municipal governments.

I even asked the Association of Business Trial Lawyers to assist us on a pro bono basis to no avail, again due to conflicts.

Finally I met with Terry Bliss, then county planning director, to ask him who would be persuasive to the county with the idea that the work done might be of benefit to the county.

Mr. Powers vetoed this idea. However, Terry Bliss steered me to Robert Heller at Bond, Schoeneck & King who indicated a willingness to take the issue on.

To get things moving in the fall of 2010, Michelle Kennedy, recently relocated back to New York and now living in Cooperstown, was retained by Otsego 2000 to draft an initial legal memorandum summarizing the law on preemption for a very small stipend.

Her work was excellent and was eventually converted to a published law review article, but at the time she was a relatively new, solo practitioner and we felt we

still needed a bigger name to back her up.

We (Otsego 2000) then decided that we would retain Bond, Schoeneck & King to write a memo on preemption that would support and build on Michelle’s work. When the firm’s executive committee balked at working directly for Otsego 2000, we suggested that Middlefield retain them while Otsego 2000 agreed to finance the expense.

The Town of Middlefield agreed to retain Bond, Schoeneck on March 10, 2011. Meanwhile, Rapport Myers and John Lyons of Grant & Lyons, both representing Middlefield, and independently, attorneys David and Slotje, Ithaca, were hard at work on the same theories. Most of the research was generously shared and the belief, now supported by multiple legal opinions, that towns could adopt enforceable bans as part of their police and/or zoning powers gained traction.

John Lyon’s (Lyons &

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Grant) memorandum supporting this theory was dated Jan. 6. 2011. Michelle Kennedy’s law review article was published on Jan. 26, 2011, the Bond, Schoeneck memo was shared with the community in May 2011, and two Slotje memoranda, dated Jan. 27, 2011, and April 19, 2011, were widely distributed and read.

With reports circulating of the legal opinions that provided strong legal support for home rule, citizens began pressing their local town boards to take action.

Before the Karen Edelstein maps were a reality, I started manually keeping a list of towns that adopted resolutions, moratoria or bans. The earliest bans, I believe, were Sullivan County (adopting a ban on drilling on county lands on July 25, 2010) and the City of Pittsburgh (adopting a ban on Nov. 24, 2010). In terms of bans adopted in Otsego County

my records reflect the following: Otsego (5/13/2011); Middlefield (6/14/2011); Springfield (6/ 2011); Cherry Valley, (7/16/2011).

The precise date a town adopted a ban was not relevant, as each had unique circumstances and stages to go through to comply with comprehensive planning and zoning adoption. What was significant was the willingness of town boards in our immediate region (and throughout the state) to lead on these issues and to proceed in spite of threats, and ultimately lawsuits.

The recent Third Appellate Division decisions in the Dryden and Middlefield cases clearly vindicate these early efforts. We hope these decisions will encourage other towns to look closely at their own community assets and develop planning and if appropriate zoning to protect their existing cultural, environment and economic resources.

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Hartwick College Launches Fund Drive To Ensure Its Affordability HARTWICK/From A1 energy costs.

The goals, she said, are “in direct alignment with our mission statement” developed in a strategicplanning process she set in motion on arriving from Ohio Wesleyan in 2005.

It reads, “Hartwick College, an engaged community, integrates a liberal arts education with experiential learning to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, personal courage and an enduring passion for learning.”

Asked if cost is barring worthy students from Hartwick, Drugovich answered, “Absolutely.”

Of 3,500 students admitted to the incoming class, 500 “came back and appealed their financial aid. They want this experience and they need us to partner with them.”

“The reality is: To create a personalized education like we have here at Hartwick takes resources,” she said.

On the Jan Term, the president pointed out that

Hartwick College is 21st in the nation in the number of students who study abroad.

And the experience of her daughter, Elizabeth – she graduated last May – in Madagascar and Greece affirmed Drugovich’s belief in the value of travel to a liberal education.

The improvements to plant, she said, dovetail with the $3 million Campbell Fitness Center now under construction – a large gift from Intuit President/ CEO Bill Campbell made it possible. The fitness center

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What will the new rooms at Fox be like?

“Patients will experience state-of-the-art universal accommodations, with bedside computers, bar code scanning and cardiac monitoring in all units. Each room will ensure a quiet, healing environment in which a family member may spend the night. Of special note is a dedicated outpatient observation unit, with the emphasis on patients returning home as soon as possible.”

— Robbin Scobie, Vice President of Nursing/Chief Nursing Officer “I was recently hospitalized at Fox. I know that if I have to be admitted again, I can look forward to a brand new, large private room with all the comforts of home!”

— Marge Granger, a recent patient For more information about the Gold Standard Campaign or to donate, contact Sarah Abbatine at (607) 431-5472 or Foundationoffice@aofmh.org

aims to create a “livingroom for our campus,” where students can congregate and interact with each other and faculty, and was specifically requested in a 2009 letter from the Student Senate.

“We listened,” Drugovich said.

Brian Wright, retired Wilber Bank chairman – he has received the college’s Citizen of the Year Award, a Presidential Medal and an honorary doctorate – has agreed to be honorary chair. “This truly takes Hartwick to the next level of performance. The stage has been set for the icing on the cake,” said Wright, who has participated in six earlier fund drives under four Hartwick presidents.

Trustee Carol Ann

Hamilton Coughlin, ’86, of Cos Cob, Conn., a bank economist with an MBA’ from New York University, is chairing the effort. “It’s absolutely important,” she said. “The cost of a private education anywhere has increased, while incomes the United States have not.

Part of our campaign is to ensure all have the same opportunity, regardless of their ability to pay.”

At her side will be Trustee Francis Landrey of Chappaqua, parent of Hartwick grad Owen, ’06, and a lawyer with Proskauer Rose, LLP, the international law firm. A glee club enthusiast since his undergraduate days at Colgate, he is particularly looking forward to serving on a subcommit-

tee chaired by Trustee Arnie Drogen that focuses on Anderson Center enhancements.

His older children, a professor at Bucknell and a physician, attended Bowdoin and Swarthmore, but Landrey was delighted to find Owen getting “as quality an education as you can get. As well as the rigor of the academics, the focus on experiential learning was great.”

Owen spent Jan Terms in South Africa, Czechoslovakia and the Republic of Ireland, then went on to a master’s in special education and is teaching at the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES in Glens Falls.

Ratchfords Start Baseball Training Facility GAME/From A1 etball for SUNY Oneonta, tried to get Lance interested in the game. Instead, he followed brother Vaughn into Little League. “So I learned the rules on the fly and coached him,” said Lloyd.

They developed of a love of the game that lasted.

The two opened Triple Crown Baseball Factory Friday, May 3, on Roundhouse Road, hosting baseball clinics and private lessons with professional instructors, including Joe Hughes, who coached OHS state championship team and is Oneonta Outlaws new head coach. “All our instructors have at least college-level experience,” said Lance.

Memberships start at $15 and go up to $300 for all services.

The “Triple Crown” is awarded to MLB players to have the highest batting average and most home runs and RBIs in a season.

Only 17 players, including Miguel Cabrera in 2012, have earned this title. “But we hope to produce some more,” said Lloyd.

Lance, a shortstop, played baseball at Oneonta High School, graduating in 2007, and went on to play in the College World Series in 2010 with Herkimer County Community College and in 2011 with Keystone College.

Lance is also an assistant coach for the Outlaws and SUNY Oneonta. “This has always been a dream of mine to own one of these,” said Lance. “Designing this place was my senior project at college.”

“It’s a really diverse facility,” he said.

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“Three Crown” instructor Lane Potter, left, and Cooperstown’s Jack Paulson, middle, watch Oneonta’s Steven Baker work on his form on the tee at the new facility on Roundhouse Road.

“We can arrange the nets so it’s one big cage, like when baseball teams come in.”

The netting and turf are professional grade, and the built the pitching mounds themselves. “It took forever, but they’re perfect.”

The Ratchfords maintain all their own equipment, including gloves and helmets, “So a kid could walk in off the street and use the cage,” said Lance.

“And we’ve got 300 brand new baseballs,” said Lloyd.

Brother Vaughn, who works for the state in New York City, comes up on weekends to help out the financial end.

8 Oneontans Listed On ‘Wall That Heals’ WALL/From A1 local minds in particular when the half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. arrives at baseball’s mecca.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame has announced it will “honor the longtime connection between baseball and America’s military” by hosting the travelling memorial.

The visit coincides with the Hall of Fame Classic on Saturday the 25th as well as the traditional local Memorial Day remembrances that Monday.

Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson called The Wall “one of America’s most

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moving reminders of the sacrifice of war.”

At the noon time Cooperstown Game Day Parade that precedes the 2 p.m. game, the 10th Mountain Division color guard and band will be featured, as well as Hall of Famers Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, Rickey Henderson, Phil Niekro and two dozen former Big Leaguers.

The original monument – a 500-foot-long swath

of black granite that slices into The Mall and bears the name of 58,000 men and women who died in Vietnam – is the most visited site in Washington, D.C., attracting 4 million people a year.

Since the 250-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. began touring in 1996, it has made 350 stops in the U.S., plus visited Canada and Ireland. In all, 2 million people have seen it.

Each of its two wings is 123-feet long and meet at 121-degree angle, peaking at 5-foot tall. The names are etched on panels of black aluminum.

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Secluded 40+/- acres surrounded by state land. Sun porch, deck and waterfall. Cooperstown Schools. $699,000 Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683

MLS#88713 - Custom-built home w/4 BR, 3½ baths, breezeway, cherry kitchen island, maple and cherry floors, master suite w/Jacuzzi tub/shower, formal DR, den w/built-ins. Laundry, wrap-around front porch, sun room, 3-car attached garage w/bonus room, storage garage, 3.58+/- acres. Cooperstown Schools. $479,000 Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683

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MLS#84128 – Immaculate, well maintained and freshly painted home awaits your offer. Walking distance to downtown shopping. 4 BR, DR, LR, kitchen, 2 full baths, den and sunporch. 2-family home could easily be renovated back. $159,500 Call Linda Wheeler @ 607-434-2125

MLS#87021 – Fully furnished 3 BR, 3 bath home in Cooperstown Village. Off-street parking and 1-car garage. $245,000 Call or text Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

MLS#86175 - 4 BR, 2 bath home w/3-bay garage and workshop. Lots of new: kitchen, flooring, sheetrocked walls and ceilings, electric, plumbing, septic, windows, roof, freshly painted exterior, furnace, wtr htr, full bath, laundry/ ½ bath, woodburning fireplace in LR. $149,900 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068

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MLS#88326 - Cooperstown Village (Irish Hill) Well maintained and upgraded home. Open concept LR/DR w/wood-burning fireplace, newer cherry floors and pellet stove. Being sold below assessed value. Cooperstown Schools. $265,000 Call or text Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

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MLS#85578 - Location, seclusion and beautiful views make this contemporary home ideal. Within minutes of Dreams Park, Otsego Lake and Baseball Hall of Fame. Property is sub-dividable, w/over 200’ of additional road frontage. $229,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

MLS#88394 - More than 2,000 ft of Susquehanna River frontage! Gorgeous nearly 24 acres is less than 1 mile from Oneonta, exit 13 off I-88. $59,900 Call Tom @ 607-435-2068

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MLS#81762 – Newer log home is set high and dry on over 15 open and wooded acres. Great views, 3 stocked ponds, trout stream, ATV trails. Home features vaulted ceilings w/exposed rafters, central air, finished basement. $339,900 Call Tom @ 607-435-2068

MLS#87807 - Everything is new: roof, interior, refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, all flooring, doors, tub/shower and more.

Roomy LR w/large windows, 2 BRs, kitchen w/dining area.

Situated on 5.52 acres w/stream. Cherry Valley schools. $83,000 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512

MLS#84612 – Location, seclusion, and views make this secluded location convenient to schools, hospitals and shopping. A private world on 10.8 acres. $189,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

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