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City of The Hills Cooperstown Noise Law Has An 88-Decible Limit With iPhone App, Citizens Could ID Violators By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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But neighbors in and around the downtown will at least be able to expect sounds under 88 decibels if Chapter 172 of the Village of Cooperstown code, labeled simply “Noise,” survives a second public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, May 28 Please See NOISE, B6
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Concertgoers To Get Chance To Pick Next CSO Conductor By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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the Symphony select the new conductor. “We’re encouraging people to buy subscriptions so they can attend all three concerts,” said executive director Thomas Wolf. “Afterwards, audience members can fill out forms and rate each conductor.” On Monday, May 6, the Symphony Please See CONDUCTOR, B3
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Yellowjacket Brad Morell won both throwing events at Cooperstown’s Don Howard Invitational Saturday, May 4, setting a record and leading his OHS team to third place. Details from Hometown Oneonta’s new sports columnist Connie Herzig at
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irst United Methodist Church members will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9, to vote on “We Refuse,” a resolution rejecting their home church’s affirmation of a ban on gay marriage and gay pastors. Sunday, May 5, the local church celebrated its 30th anniversary as a “reconciling congregation,” fully accepting gays since 1989. For results of the vote and background of the contoversy to date, go to
‘We’re Onta Something’ Trampoline Ad Agency Seeks To Capture Quirkiness Nate Roberts of Oneonta tries on an “Onta” T-shirt Monday, May 6, at a launch party at the B-Side Ballroom, where Trampoline, a Glens Falls advertising and design company, unveiled a promotional campaign for the City of the Hills.
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e’re onta something.” Get it? “Phonetically, we don’t say ‘we’re ‘on to’ something,’ we say we’re ‘onta’ something,” said Derek Slayton, Trampoline Advertising & Design creative director. “It’s fun, it’s informal, it creates a warm, friendly vibe.” Trampoline, based in Glens Falls, unveiled the city’s new marketing campaign Monday, May 6, at the B-Side Ballroom, the culmination of “several months” of research, focus groups and tours of downtown. “It communicates that Oneonta has an energy that is different from other towns and it is not afraid to say it,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Please See SLOGAN, A3
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►SUNY ONEONTA’S new president, Barbara Jean Morris, issued a new mission statement Tuesday, May 7, exhorting students to “grow intellectually, thrive socially and live purposely.” ► ONEONTA’S SUPERINTENDENT of Schools Joe Yelich announced he’s retiring July 1, and Thomas Brindley, former OHS principal and one-time OPD patrolman, is succeeding him. ► SEE SLIDE SHOW of the Otsego Chamber gala where Les Grummons was honored.
HoF President’s Mantra: Teamwork ‘You’re Responsible For Your Happiness,’ Tim Mead Asserts In Exclusive Interview By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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im Mead, who will become the seventh president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame following this year’s Induction on July 21, has been a team
player in the front office at the Los Angeles Angels for four decades. But for the Angels’ vice president/communications, team playing didn’t start there. When young Tim was a sophomore at San GorOrange County Register gonio High School in San Tim Mead announces he’s Bernadino, he tried out Please See MEAD, A7 coming to Cooperstown.
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Relay For Life’s Message: You Have Lots Of Friends By JENNIFER HILL MILFORD
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or two-time cancer survivor Laura Emmett, the outpouring of support she experiences at the annual Relay For Life fills her
with hope. “When you’re walking the Relay’s Survivor Walk and the crowd is cheering you on, it’s just incredible,” she said, looking forward to 4-10 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at Milford’s Wilber Park. “It Please See RELAY, B6
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ESCHLER NAMED: Dana Eschler, Garrattsville, was named as an Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar at RIT during a luncheon on Thursday, March 28.
STRUBLE ACHIEVES: Bekka Struble, Oneonta, was inducted into SUNY Oneonta’s Beta Gamma Sigma honor society chapter during a recognition ceremony on Friday, April 26.
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Pathfinder’s Paul Landers, Cooperstown, left photo, receives NBT’s Distinguished Business of the Year award from Jamie Reynolds, Oneonta, the bank’s regional executive at the annual the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s annual Gala & Celebration of Business on Thursday, May 2 at the Foothills Atrium. In right photo, Day Ayers, Catskill Hospice CEO/president, praises Les Grummons, his former board chair during his first two years managing the local institution, as he hands him the Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award.
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Oneonta, presented a project titled “Say No To Plastic Bags: SUNY Oneonta Campus Case Study.” • Hayley Dower, Oneonta, presented a project titled “Population Dynamics of Spawning Walleye in Otsego Lake, NY.” • Joshua Garufi, Oneonta. presented a project titled “Attitudes Towards Police.” • Hannah Harby, Oneonta, presented a project titled “Comparing Contemporary to Historical Fluctuating Asymmetry in Plastron Scutes of Wood Turtles.” • Dylan Joyce, Oneonta, presented a project titled “Tabletop Tales Video Series.” • Ryan Layman, Oneonta, presented a project titled
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Plan Of Promotion Unveiled For Oneonta storefront wraps to put in the windows,” he said. “That way, it’s not an empty storefront, it’s a marketing opportunity.” The logo – as well as the punny slogan – will begin making its appearance around Oneonta by the end of the month. “We’ve designed coasters, napkins and tissue paper and we’re delivering them to merchants, free of charge,” said Slayton. “If someone from out of town goes into the bookstore, their book can be wrapped in this paper and that goes home with them. It gets the message out.” In addition to the physical presence of the logo, Trampoline
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Stop The Rot! Village Should Buy CVS, Redevelop It
n a couple of weeks, we won’t remember that Cooperstown’s Main Street is a ghost town from Columbus Day to Memorial Day. The 500,000 visitors will begin arriving in earnest with Dreams Parks’ June 1 opening. By the time we again become Coopers(ghost)town, the opportunity will have been lost. The opportunity, of course, is 100 Main St., a notable gap in the village downtown’s set of teeth since CVS moved to the southern edge of the village
in November 2017 – yes, it’s almost been two years. The story is it’s been vacant this long because the owner, Constance Gilson of Belmont, Mass., had a lease with CVS for $14,000 a month rent through April, then through August; now, the word is the lease will expire in September. Since CVS and the Cooperstown General Store closed within weeks of each other, downtown Cooperstown is no longer a destination for year-’round residents. (That doesn’t mean there
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During New York History Day, a Rockland County family strolls past Cooperstown’s downtown CVS, an anchor, but vacant since November 2017.
aren’t big, although focused, successes: Fred Lemister and Andrew Oberitter’s wine and liquor stores, the Grady boys’ astonishing Stagecoach Coffee, but – regrettably – they are the exception. More than ever, baseball shops are shutting for the winter. Notable exception: Mickey’s Place – thanks, Vinnie Russo.) If the CVS, an anchor property, becomes just another baseball store – even worse, a mega-one – it’ll be a lot harder for downtown to struggle back to a multipurpose community center.
Plus, it will jeopardize the smaller, Cooperstowncommitted shop owners, including this beam of hope, the four women’s dress shops – LJ’s Sassy Boutique, Kate’s Upstate, Ellsworth & Sill, and All About The Girls. • It’s time to act. Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Trustees Dean, Dewey, Falk, Sternberg, and newcomers Benton Maguire and Joe Membrino: BUY IT!! For the past five years, the village has been Please See EDITORIAL, A5
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bout 43 years ago, 30 families were told they needed to find a new school for their children because the State of New York was going to shut their doors - this school was the Otsego School, a family-owned boarding school for
s (parents) head west on Route 80, coming over the bluff, they see Pathfinder and the feeling is almost immediate: This is the place. And later that day, when it is time to leave and their child wants to stay ... now they know, this is the place!”
PAUL LANDERS, president & CEO, as Pathfinder Village received the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s NBT Distinguished Business of 2019 Award
children with Down syndrome in operation since 1922 in Edmeston. Thankfully, a group of families, community members and a wise nurse named Marian Mullet did the unimaginable! They built, what is today, a world-renowned
planned community for children and adults with Down syndrome and developmental disabilities. It began in a 23-acre cornfield, with a revolutionary mandate – that each life may find meaning. Thirty countries, 26 U.S. states
– they have come searching for this place – to learn, to be inspired, to work and to live. National and international educators, physicians, therapists and developmental disability experts have traveled to Pathfinder to share their knowledge and experiences with New Yorkers all because of the Kennedy Willis Center, our research, education and outreach arm of Pathfinder. In 1980, we were a school house and seven homes on 23 acres. Today, we have grown to a 300-acre campus with 14 residential homes, a farm and farmhouse, state-of-the-art community health
center, youth soccer fields and community hiking trails, chapel, cafe, village inn, research/ education center, produce market and agriculture center, an adult day-treatment program operated by Otsego ARC, two off-site residences and two off-site day programs. Dr. Streck, board chair, says Pathfinder Village now needs its own zip code! Today, we are also more than Pathfinder Village. We are Otsego Academy, a two-year postsecondary education program; Camp Pathfinder, a young adult Please See PATHFINDER, A6
LETTERS
What Are Litterers Thinking When They Toss Beer Cans?
Milford Comp Plan Requires Live-In Landlords
To the Editor: the village forward. As data was being current zoning laws. New After almost two years of zoning laws collected it was obvious that applicants will also have to by the government who will collecting data and receivwere updated “short-term rentals” was the abide by the current zoning clean up whatever I leave by ing input from Village to reflect topic most village residents laws, as well as live in the the side of the road, or of Milford residents, the the changes wanted to be addressed. dwelling they are renting 4) Who cares what the Village Planning/Zoning in the comp Some residents were in while they have guests. community I live in looks Board presented an updated plan. Once favor and some were not, All involved think this like? version of the village’s the vote was and village officials worked “owner-occupied” addiLike countless other taken, the diligently to find the middle tion to our zoning laws will local citizens, I care enough Comprehensive Plan to Pokorny moratorium the Village Board to be ground. The goal was to help maintain the village about the problem of litter voted on. on accepting encourage economic growth population as well as allow to periodically stop my car, The proposed plan was short-term rental applicawhile maintaining harmony landlords to have better pick up cans and bottles, and adopted on April 1, and the tions was officially over. in our village neighborhoods. oversight of their property put it into the recycling bin Village Board voted 3-0 in The plan addresses many So it was decided to while it is being rented. or trash. favor of the changes. In aspects of our commu“grandfather” in any current BRIAN POKORNY But without everyone nity and gives community short-term rentals as long as Mayor doing their part, particularly addition to the comprehensive plan being updated, leaders a blueprint moving the landlords abide by the Village of Milford with their own garbage, it is a losing battle. Please do your part to keep Glimmerglass beautiful. GAYLORD DILLINGHAM as the various efforts at reinvention to change in our villages and towns Springfield Center To the Editor: Your editorial on The Simpsons’ and renewal. – whatever the issue – is motivated “D’oh Canada” episode nicely expresses Most telling was your observation solely by a desire to leave things as an optimistic counter to the show’s nega- that one of the problems of success…is they are, regardless of the economic tive portrayal of Upstate New York. there’s too much to lose in abandoning and social consequences. For to do so From a macro sense, it would be the status quo. That observation also has been shown, time and again, to be hard to find fault with your evenholds true at the local level. a prescription for decline. & The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch handed depiction of the many causes We would all do well to ponder JOHN A. RUDY of the decline across the state, as well whether opposition and resistance Cooperstown
To The Editor; Although I understand that I am not alone in my annoyance and frustration over the never-ending problem of litter around Lake Otsego, it also puzzles me that anyone would cavalierly hurl a Budweiser can or McDonald’s wrapper out a car window without the slightest regard to consequence. Are they thinking: 1) When snow melts, so do all cans, bottles and plastic wrappers. 2) Garbage of all kinds, particularly that which is not biodegradable, enhances and beautifies the landscape. 3) There are people hired
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All We Need To Know: Home Plate Is 17 Inches Wide Editor’s Note: Tim Mead, incoming Baseball Hall of Fame president, cited John Scolinos, baseball coach at his alma mater, Cal Poly Pomona, as a lifelong inspiration, particularly Scolinos’ famous speech “17 Inches.” Chris Sperry heard Scolinos deliver a version in 1996 at the American Baseball Coaches Association in Nashville, and wrote this reminiscence in 1916 in his “Baseball Thoughts” column on sperrybaseballlilfe.com
After speaking for 25 minutes, he said: “You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck. Or maybe you think I escaped from Camarillo State Hospital,” he said, his voice growing irascible. I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility. “No,” he continued, “I may be old, but I’m not crazy. The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.” n 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years Several hands went up when Scolinos asked old and five years retired from a college how many Little League coaches were in the coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing John Scolinos room. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?” After a pause, someone offered, ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light “Seventeen inches,” more question than answer. blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home Please See SCOLINOS, A6 plate hung – a full-sized, stark-white home plate.
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150 Years Ago
Oneonta – Chief Engineer Wentz and a Committee of Directors were here this week to locate a roundhouse and other needed railroad conveniences. The extension of railroad operations brings quite a number of new citizens and families to the place. The railroad makes the town. Let the town welcome its people. Cope & Company’s new goods have come, a real old-fashioned stock as to variety, but entirely new fashioned as to style. It is really comfortable to look at things in a general country store where everything is to be had from tea to silks and from crowbars to the most delicate textures worn for beauty and grace. “Jeems” insists that the new barrel of tar is of very extra quality. Call at Cope’s and see the cords of new goods. The only fresh roasted coffee that is hot from the roaster is to be had at L.S. Osborn & Co. For the Chief Engineer makes good time and certainly gives the public good coffee. May 1869
125 Years Ago
Again Defeated – Saturday of last week the Normal baseball nine played its second regular game of the season and met with its second defeat, again by the narrow margin of one run missing victory. Their opponents were the Binghamton High school team, re-enforced by other good players from the parlor city, and with Burke, well-known hereabouts as an excellent pitcher, in the box. The Colgate Academy ball team plays the Normals at the fairgrounds in this village tomorrow afternoon. Two defeats by narrow margins have wrought the Normals up to a determination to do or die. May 1894
100 Years Ago
Boy Runs Off With Motor Car – Oneonta Chief of Police Blizard has sent out a warning to be on the lookout for an automobile which it is alleged that Earl Barriger ran off with the previous night. The car belongs to the young man’s father and it is a five passenger Buick, newly painted black with a yellow running gear and a new leather top. The license number on the car is 678-005M. Young Barriger is 18 years of age, weighs 130 pounds and has light brown hair and blue eyes. There was a notable display of Northern Lights Friday
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60 Years Ago
Archibald MacLeish won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for drama with his first play “J.B.” a modern rendition of the Biblical story of Job. Twice previously, he had won the poetry award. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded for Robert Lewis Taylor’s “The Travels of Jamie McPheeters,” the story of a wagon train journey to California during the 1849 gold rush. The gold medal for meritorious public service went to the Utica N.Y. Observer-Dispatch and Utica Daily Press for “their successful campaign against corruption, gambling and vice in their home city and the achievement of sweeping community reforms in the face of political pressure and threats of violence.” May 1959 May 1999 night, extending from the west to the northeast and covering perhaps one-third of the visible heavens. The light was diffused more than usual, although there were visible numerous streamers which at times were quite bright. The display was observed by many. May 1919
80 Years Ago
Upon pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge, Morris A. Joslin, 34, of Binghamton, was fined $50 by Judge Sterling P. Harrington in Oneonta City Court yesterday. Joslin’s operator’s and registration licenses were revoked. Police said Joslin was the operator of a machine which “cruised” in various sections of the city Saturday afternoon. Patrolman Robert Simmons said Harold Crumb, Binghamton youth, was operating the car when he stopped it in Chestnut Street. Crumb admitted Joslin had been driving. Charles L. Brefle, 73, of 15 Cedar Street, was arrested Sunday afternoon on a drunk driving charge. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving. He drew a suspended sentence of 30 days in the county jail. His licenses were revoked. Brefle alarmed residents
40 Years Ago
Dr. Peter Macris, professor of foreign languages at the State University College at Oneonta, will present “Opera Today in the U.S.A.” this coming Monday May 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Alden Room, Milne Library on the college campus. The talk will feature slides, recordings and opera memorabilia. Mr. Macris, founder of the Glimmerglass Opera Theatre in Cooperstown, has combined an interest in music and drama with an academic career for many years. His background in singing and acting, along with graduate studies in German language and literature, has enabled him to merge the several disciplines required for the presentation of opera. May 1979
10 Years Ago
With a plan in place to handle the first-time sale of beer at Damaschke Field, everyone in the new Oneonta Tigers’ organization is “chomping at the bit,” declares General Manager Andrew Weber. Opening day is six weeks from Friday, May 8. “We’re excited,” he said in an interview. “We want to show off the great product we think we have.” May 7, 2009
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Make Constitution Serve Nation To the Editor: With this letter I join thousands of other voices decrying the passage in the U.S. Constitution that gives our president power to override a decision of our Congress, which had recently voted to end our participation with Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen that has already been responsible for thousands of deaths from bombings, starvation or untreated illnesses – a catastrophe which the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian tragedy. Although our president had the legal right to overturn the vote of Congress, I do not believe that we the people have the moral right to now close our eyes to our responsibility for our part in the suffering and destruction that our support for Saudi Arabia’s invasion continues to cause. But we
of River Street with the manner in which he operated his car when his vehicle mounted a curb and came close to striking pedestrians and a fire hydrant. May 1939
can too easily retort, “Yes, but the Constitution gives the president the legal right to reverse the decision of Congress. There’s nothing we can do if his actions are protected by the Constitution.” True, there’s little immediate action we can take, but just as some of us are hoping to find a way to get rid of the Electoral College, which twice in our lifetimes delivered a president we did not elect by popular vote, we can begin to work toward altering the Constitution, as we did when we gave African-Americans the vote and when we gave women the vote. Time does not stand still. The Constitution cannot lock us in the past as long as we have the will to change it to serve the needs of the present. HILDA WILCOX Cooperstown
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hen we live in a community for a lengthy period, we tend to become “comfortable” with those with whom we attend church, purchase services from, hire to do household repairs and who sell us the various products we need. Indeed, over time we simply assume they will always be there. Is that true in Oneonta or, for that matter, in Upstate New York? This past week I had a shock to my comfortMIKE meter. I was in the process ZAGATA of purchasing a car for my wife and needed a proofof-insurance card from my agent. The sales person was given the contact information for the agency and I assumed all was well – well, why wouldn’t it be? My family had done business with that agency for decades. Then a call with a “518” area code was announced on my cell phone with a quacking sound. When I answered it, the lady on the phone explained that she worked for my insurance agency and was calling to confirm that I was
indeed buying a vehicle from that dealership. That was both good and bad. Good because she was doing her job in a very professional way. Bad because she was calling me from Albany. What had happened to my hometown insurance provider? I called the agency office to speak with the lady who handles our account and learned she was no longer there. What was happening – my world was shaken. I asked to have a member of the management team call me. • He did and we spent a wonderful, but sad, hour talking about what had happened to my hometown agency and why. Because the area’s economy is in the toilet, taxes are high, and young and old people are leaving the area, the company found itself in a shrinking box – they couldn’t provide the broad range of services, markets and products they needed to offer to compete in today’s insurance world, nor could they find or attract the people with the
needed skill-sets to fuel the necessary growth to support their communities and the families that live in them. The candidates they needed to hire had already moved to more economically vibrant areas. The agency very much wanted to remain in Oneonta, but, like any small business, if you can’t compete you can’t survive. The option that made good business and moral sense was to be bought by a larger agency that had offices in the kind of metropolitan areas that attract people with the needed skill-sets. They, like other local businesses, could have opted to close their doors. That would have meant economic hardship to the affected employees and likely higher taxes for the rest of us. Instead, they are still here, and the fact that management took the time to address my concern bodes well for all of us who benefit from their presence. • Then I realized this wasn’t a unique situation. Each week a group of local business persons, Citizen Voices, meets to talk about ways to improve our economy, Please See ZAGATA, A6
Buy Old CVS, Develop It As Core Of Cooperstown’s Future Downtown EDITORIAL/From A4 garnering $400,000+ in new revenues from paid parking. The streets are largely repaired. Issue a bond, buy 100 Main and redevelop it as a center of a reborn downtown. We can’t, the mayor and trustees will immediately tell you. We’d have to issue an RFP (request for proposals) and give a contract to the highest bidder, who can then do whatever he/she likes. There are two options. One, the village would be able to structure the RFP in a way that bidders would be required to develop a multipurpose retail property at affordable rates – that’s the problem now: only stores serving the tourists can afford to locate on Main Street. This new enterprise would be a magnet for general purpose retail. Two, the trustees could
form a Local Development Corp. which would include a similar goal in its trusteedefined mission. Sure, the Village Board would lose some control of the property’s development, but it would appoint the LDC’s board, and could appoint people sympathetic to the need for a general purpose downtown. Hey, why not sit down with Perry Ferrara, who put together an investment group five years ago to build a hotel downtown, and come up with something that includes multipurpose retail. A year‘round hotel right on Main Street would certainly help businesses thrive year-‘round. Places to live are essential to livability. It’s generally understood if you get people living downtown, downtowns will revive. Maybe market-rate apart-
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hile we’re at it, downtown Coopers(ghost)town needs a strong merchants association. So far, it’s always been a Catch-22. The Cooperstown Area Chamber of Commerce has been steadfast: We only serve our members. Unfortunately, too few of downtown businesses are members to make. The result: No coherent, year-‘round downtown strategy. Again, the Village Board has $400,000+ plus a year in found money to play with. It should contract with the Cooperstown Chamber to develop a merchants association that includes everyone, regardless of chamber membership. $50K maybe? $75K? Let’s get serious. With a new chamber executive director, Tara Burke: She has the freshness and energy to take it on. All downtowns that are coming back have merchants association. Cooperstown needs one. The only entity that can make it happen needs to step forward: The Village Board. ments above mixed-retail on the first floor. • Yes, yes, yes – down-
towns are challenged these days due to the dominance of Emperor Amazon. So is everything else. Pick up
a copy of Preservation, the National Trust’s magazine, and you see example after example of community after community rebuilding their centers by restoring and repurposing their historic buildings, enhanced by strong merchant groups, frequent promotions – remember the village’s lovely Christmas-time Victorian Stroll – and off-season festivals. Think Skaneateles, Cazenovia, Balston Spa, Saratoga, Lake Placid. Plus, we have the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Glimmerglass Opera, the museums, worldfamous Glimmerglass to enhance the missing piece: year-‘round livability. The Village Board has been pouring millions of dollars into upgrading the infrastructure – new streets, sidewalks, lampposts (with LED bulbs), water pipes and sewerage, including a
fancy redo of Pioneer Park. But if there’s no one to put trash in the multi-thousand dollar computerized receptacles, what’s the point? • The Village Board, unfortunately, has been piously anti-business for almost a decade now, routinely roughing up Matt Hazzard when he was Cooperstown Chamber executive, and steadfastly adhering to a church-state philosophy. Merchants are just one of their many constituencies, some trustees would tell you, straight-faced. We don’t want to pick winners and losers, they’ll tell you. So we all lose. There’s rot at the core. And that rot is 100 Main St. Embrace it. Buy it. Develop it as a centerpiece of a future Cooperstown that all the citizens want. Don’t tell us it can’t happen; get started.
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RSS Cites ‘40 Years Of Exemplary Service’ To Oneonta To the Editor: I was disappointed to read the innuendo and implications in the May 1 story, “Sixth Ward Neighbors Complain to Seward About RSS’s Record.” As we celebrate our 40th year in existence – including more than 30 years in Oneonta and Otsego County – Rehabilitation Support Services is exceedingly proud of its sterling record of providing essential programs and services that have enriched the lives of families, friends and neighbors in our community for decades. No organization would last a year, let alone 40 years, without a clear and consistent record of strong financial policies, procedures, controls and management. This is particularly true for an organization such as RSS, which receives public funding to ensure the wellbeing of vulnerable individuals and families. As such, we are subject to, and welcome, regular financial audits – and through dozens of audits conducted over the past 40 years, the conclusion reached time after time is that public dollars under our stewardship are well spent. Citing just one such
audit, conducted by the state Comptroller’s Office into state’s Supported Housing Program, does readers a disservice by ignoring the full scope of our work. In fact, in this case, the state Office of Mental Health, as well as several other nonprofit agencies across the state, joined us in taking issue with a This is an aerial perspective on RSS’ plans for number of the findings and Riverside Apartments. More information is recommendations. available at www.riversideoneonta.com/ The Supported Housing Program was designed to (a plaque, a bouquet of mentation that gift cards give agencies flexibility in flowers) is not only the right provided to clients to help implementation in an effort thing to do, it is allowable them live independently to provide the highest level under program guidelines; were used appropriately, of service. As a result, • We regularly follow even as there is no specific guidance was general in established procurement guidance on this procedure. nature and non-specific policies in regards to Not reported in the in many cases. The audit purchases, including story, which cites funds itself reviewed a mere 60 competitively bid contracts. that comprise less than .01 of the thousands of budget The instances cited in the percent of the total RSS transactions contained in the audit were either not subject budget, was that the same program, and we strongly to bidding requirements, or audit demonstrated that RSS refute the observations cited required special expertise provides a high level of in the story, including: that results in cost savings service to our clients. Also • An off-site retreat in the long run; not reported was the final intended to educate board • Retaining staff motivated outcome of the audit: There members is not entertainto work for low wages were no disallowed expenment – it is a vital part requires an organizational ditures, and no requests for of ensuring that RSS is culture that reinforces, on a reimbursement, for any of prepared to address the daily basis, that employees the items cited. increasing complexities of are valued. Providing lowFinally, it is important to doing business in New York cost refreshments (coffee directly address two points State; and water) and recognition in the story. • Recognizing community (an employee-of-the-month First, regarding state leaders who share their gift card) are reasonable funding that would be time and expertise with our approaches to do this; and used for this project: if it clients with small honoraria • There is firm docuis not spent in Oneonta, it
will instead be utilized for similar projects elsewhere in the state – to lose that funding is to lose a golden opportunity to support our community. Second, RSS has and continues to be transparent about this project. We have presented plans publicly before the city planning commission on multiple occasions, met regularly with elected officials, community leaders and others, addressed media questions, and set up a public website, www. riversideoneonta.com, with specific plans and related documents. As our great U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” No one would disagree that affordable housing is badly needed in Oneonta. Similarly, among the thousands of people and organizations we have worked with for decades in Oneonta and beyond, none would disagree that RSS is the right organization to take on this important project. MICHELLE E. CIIO Executive Assistant Rehabilitation Support Services, Inc. Altamont
Formula For Success: Place, People, Purpose PATHFINDER/From A4 summer camp; Chenango House, an Alzheimer’s Care Home; Pathfinder Produce, a vocational training and community business. In March, our founding CEO Marian Mullet passed away after 91 remarkable years. She was the revolutionary leader who left a remarkable legacy – a legacy that has touched so many, far more than she would have imagined. Today, those of us left to carry out this legacy are merely stewards of her vision and design. Marian gave us this remarkable place! BUT, more remarkable than this beautiful place, are the PEOPLE and the PURPOSE of Pathfinder... • Here’s a little history about Pathfinder Village that many people don’t know. The original plan was for the village to be built in Syracuse. But, after much deliberation and, I’m certain, influence from Marian, the board decided to build in Edmeston and remain in this county. Why? Because they had tremendous confidence and faith in its people! People like: Senator Jim Seward, founding board member (39 years), Dr. Bill Streck, Bassett president, 32 years of service as our board chair, and the men and women of NBT Bank and NYCM, loyal business partners since our beginning. People like Dan Osborn, 36-year employee who started out as a cook and is now the senior director
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“PEOPLE” are half of the two-part formula that contributes to Pathfinder Village’s success, and CEO Paul Landers called up, from left, Sally Trosset, executive assistant & development associate; CFO Caprice Eckert; Kelly Meyers, senior director of admissions, and Dan Osborn, senior director, quality assurance & ancillary services. (He also called up Development Director Lori Grace, but she was taking this photo.) At right are Landers and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who was presenting a state Senator resolution honoring Pathfinder.
of quality assurance and ancillary services; Caprice Eckert, 25-year employee who started out as a finance clerk and in my mind is the best CFO in the county today; Lori Grace, 22-year employee, started out as a marketing writer and now is the director of development, and Paula Schaefer, 21-year employee and music director. She and the talented bell choir remind all of us the power and beauty of humanity. • THE PLACE + THE PEOPLE = THE PURPOSE! Marian created a space to perfection and we have
been blessed with the right people who have guided the village as society evolves. How remarkable is it that after 40 years, our planned community model remains relevant? This is why ... • It’s Saturday morning in the bakery, people from all walks of life gather to enjoy fine food and fellowship. Nowhere else will you find such a diverse group gathered, everyone is equal. • It’s Michael and Holly walking hand in hand late one weekday evening; they have been boyfriend and girlfriend for more than 20 years. • It’s a business woman from NYCM attending an
off-site leadership workshop at the Village. Taking a break outside, she says to her coworker, “This place is so beautiful; we are so fortunate to have this in our community.” • It’s Jared, giving a workshop on diversity at Bassett Healthcare to new hires. • It’s dancing under the stars on a warm summer night. • It’s friends gathered in the all faiths chapel to celebrate a life lived well and to say goodbye to a good friend • It’s a parent who decides to make the trip after years of research and soul searching, hoping that
this is the right place for their child. As they head west on Route 80, coming over the bluff, they see Pathfinder and the feeling is almost immediate: This is the place. And later that day, when it is time to leave and their child wants to stay ... now they know, this is the place! This place, its people and its purpose. This is Pathfinder. I encourage each and every one of you to come to our café, take a walk on our nature trails, shop at our market, or get your flu shot at the health center. I promise you, it will be the highlight of your week.
Scolinos: Too Often, Instead Of Standing Firm, We Widen The Plate SCOLINOS/From A4 “That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?” Another long pause. “Seventeen inches?” came a guess from another reluctant coach. “That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?” “Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident. “You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”
“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison. “Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?” “Seventeen inches!” “RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?” “Seventeen inches!” “SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls. “And what do they do with a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over 17 inches?” Pause. “They send him to Pocatello!” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter.
“What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy. You can’t hit a 17-inch target? We’ll make it 18 inches, or 19 inches. We’ll make it 20 inches so you have a better chance of hitting it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say 25 inches.’” Pause. “Coaches …” Pause. ” … what do we do when our best player shows up late to practice? When our team rules forbid facial hair and a guy shows up unshaven? What if he gets caught drinking? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him, do we
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ZAGATA/From A5 keep or attract young people and be able to provide natural gas and electricity to both domestic and commercial use. The story above is being repeated every day, and not just in Oneonta. Recently a local newspaper closed after being in business 100 years. The VW dealership on Southside is gone. A multi-generation body shop was sold to an out-of-town company that has since been bought by an even larger company. The money that once circulated in Oneonta, like the revenue taken in by the big-box stores, now leaves our community. Schools are being forced to lose their identity by merging. Business owners are buying businesses elsewhere to keep their Oneonta operation open. A business in Delhi is doing very well because its owner was willing to take a huge financial gamble, work very hard, and reach out to more economically vibrant areas. What I’m attempting to point out is that the community vibrancy, values and charm that those who oppose increasing the supply of natural gas and growing our economy say they are trying to protect have, for the most part, already been lost. Either those people don’t know where to look or, if they weren’t raised in the area, they don’t know what to look for. It’s really all about connecting the dots and remembering one’s high school physics – for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. One dot includes the fact that in excess of 50 percent of the City of Oneonta’s property is off the tax rolls. That means people living in the city are paying double the taxes they should be for the same level of services. Another dot involves the loss of agriculture and its multiplier effect on the economy. Another dot is the lack of broadband capacity and availability. Another dot involves the lack of natural gas to meet current demand and future demand from any business growth that Otsego Now is working to attract. But the biggest dot seems to be those organizations and individuals that continue to try to impose their will on the rest of those in the community that would like to see the area prosper culturally, economically, aesthetically and environmentally. Those things are not mutually exclusive and those who believe they are must be challenged with the facts. It’s time to come together and realize that climate change may well be more about forcing social change than preventing the predicted catastrophes if we don’t act yesterday. Natural processes don’t happen that fast and neither does social change. Renewables have a future and we should all cheer for their success, but right now they’re not yet even in the game. We simply don’t yet have a method of storage that allows the energy from wind and solar to be where it is needed when it is needed there. Lithium-ion batteries aren’t the panacea they appear to be as an analysis of their life cycle, from mining the raw material for their manufacture through their disposal or recycling, shows them to be Carbon negative. Technology has always been able to come to the rescue and we can only HOPE that it does so again.
widen home plate?” The chuckles gradually faded as 4,000 coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold. He turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something. When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows. “This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the Mike Zagata, a DEC way we parent our kids. With our commissioner during the discipline. We don’t teach accountPataki Administration and a ability to our kids, and there is no former environmental execuconsequence for failing to meet tive for Fortune 500 compastandards. We widen the plate!” nies, lives in Davenport.
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Teamwork His Hallmark, New HOF President Says MEAD/From A1 for the Spartans varsity baseball team. He tried out again when he was a junior. When he was a senior, he made the cut, but just barely. The team was waiting for a player to finish the basketball season, and when he did, Mead and another player were bumped. He was standing out in the rain when he got the news, he remembers. “We weren’t cut,” said Mead, “He” – Bill Havard, the JV coach who went on to coach varsity baseball at Redlands High for 40 years
– “came outside. He said, ‘You can lick your wounds because you didn’t make it; or you can come down and play for me in the JVs.” “He walked back inside,” said Mead, “and I followed him.” On the JV team, he suffered an aneurysm in his left arm. Recuperating, he went 6 for 7 at the plate, was elevated to varsity, playing first base and left field, and he lettered. “I was very proud of that,” he remembers all these years later. His take-away: “You’re responsible for your own
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happiness,” he said. “The world won’t stop for you because of your feelings. You have to continue to pursue your dreams, regardless of what the obstacles are.” By then, baseball had been part of Mead’s life since Little League – his first team was the Arlington, Va., Kiwanis – and he realized his future in the game wouldn’t be on the field. At Cal Poly in Pomona, he worked for the sports information office and was sports editor of the college newspaper, covering the college’s 1980 national champion team. There, he also came under the sway of another influential coach. John Scolinos, who became nationally known for his speech, “17 Inches,” the width of home plate. “What would you do if
your best player consistently showed up late for practice?” according to one version of Scolinos’ speech. “Or if your team rules forbid facial hair and your players starting showing up on game days unshaven? What about if one of your players got caught drinking after hours the night before a game?” His point, as Mead interpreted it: You have to set standards and enforce them. He calls Scolinos, who died in 2016 at age 93, “the John Wooden of Division II.” It took Jeff Idelson, who is retiring after this year’s Induction, several years to break into the Majors, first as an intern for the Red Sox, then in the Yankees PR department. By contrast, Meads transition to the pros was fairly straightfoward, almost providential. He won an unpaid, yearlong internship with the famed singing cowboy Gene
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Autry’s Anaheim Angels just out of college. That next January, he married wife Carole and was advised to get a job in the “real world.” But a contact on the team called him when an Angels’ administrative assistant job opened up, and within a couple of weeks, he was recruited away by the team’s communications office at a $1,500 raise to a princely $10,000. He would remain there until today, the last 22 years as vice president/communications. Idelson only announced his retirement on Feb. 9, and it turns out he and Mead have known each other for years, going back to Jeff’s days as the Hall’s director of communications. Mead said that, while he had seen and heard Hall of Fame chair Jane Forbes Clark at Inductions and MLB gatherings in the past and had
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been impressed, he hadn’t spent any time with her until a 2½-hour conversation that led to his new job. He called his new boss “an amazing lady” and “almost Autry-esque,” a reference to the level-headed family that owned the Angels for much of his tenure. In announcing Mead’s appointment, Jane Clark noted he is “deeply respected” in the business by “players, executives and media alike.” The incoming president praised those same qualities in Jeff Idelson. For now, Mead won’t be looking to buy a house locally. With a 6-month-old grandson, Logan, living near his and wife Carol’s Anaheim home, Tim plans to fly back and forth as doable. (The Meads’ son Brandon is a lawyer in Century City, and he, wife Ashley and Logan live in Orange County.) Mead, 61, was asked how long he expects to serve at the Hall, and said he plans to work as he always has, giving his all one day, then the next. “My goal is to give my absolute best, and work hard each and every day with the tremendous team of folks in Cooperstown,” he said. Meanwhile, Googling Tim Mead’s record and reading the accolades his appointment has garnered in the industry – “The Baseball Hall of Fame could not have named a better person,” tweeted Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven – his tenure at Anaheim seems exceptionally untroubled, the biggest controversy being when the team changed its title from “Anaheim” to “Los Angeles.” How he handled the name change suggests an approach to problem-solving that would work anywhere. “Along the process,” he recalled. “I felt the need to embrace the reality that many people were not going to be accepting of it, and to get out in front of it, to let people deal with it. “This too shall pass eventually,” he said to himself. “Everything does.”
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MLS#95721 $169,000 Low Taxes Panoramic views of Otsego Lake and mountains. Ranch w/1,400 sq ft. Owners have access to lake at Springfield Public Landing. Call Pamela Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)
MLS#116366 $489,000 Stellar Lake View Custom-built home w/3 parcels of nearly 12 acres w/4-acre building parcel across this gorgeous hilltop soaring above Canadarago Lake! Call Katherine Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#120858 $55,500 9-acre Parcel in Jefferson is next to 800+ acres of State land. Nice combination of open field and wooded area. Well and electric on site. Call Melissa Klien @ 518-705-9849 (cell)
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CRAFT & CHAT – 3:30 p.m. Bring your current knitting or crochet project and chat with the group. Ages 10+. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314. PUBLIC SPEAKING – 6:15 p.m. Practice your public speaking with the Toastmasters. The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. oneonta. toastmastersclubs.org PRESENTATION - 7 p.m. How to safely clean gravestones by Gordon Terry, formerly of Delker& Terry Funeral Home. Light refreshments. The Edmeston Museum, 1 North Street, Edmeston. 607-293-6635.
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RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.1 p.m. Find men’s, women’s & children’s clothing & shoes, toys, gifts, linens, housewares, books, puzzles, CDS and more at the Spring Rummage Sale. First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main Street, Oneonta. Use back entrance. 607-432-3132
THURSDAY-Friday, May 9 - 10, 2019 ORIENTATION – 6 p.m. Volunteer Orientation for the Susquehanna SPCA. Get a guided tour and learn what positions are available. Susquehanna SPCA, 4841 St. Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. 607547-9371. FILM – 6:30 p.m. “Desperately Seeking Susan” (PG-13) with the Herb Ritts photography exhibit. $5 members, $7 non-members. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. FILM – 2 p.m, 7:30 p.m. The Hummingbird Project Cousins from New York, play in high-stakes High-Frequency Trading games where winning is measured in milliseconds. Sinnott Family-Bank of Utica Auditorium, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genessee St., Utica. 315-7970000. PLAY – 8 p.m. Yasmina Reza’s savage comedy, “God of Carnage ,” Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. 607434-6606 SQUARE DANCE – 7:30-10 p.m. Mother’s Day (All Plus) Dance, $5 at door. Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown,
Cooperstown Elementary School. 607-547-8665.
Saturday, May 11
BAG SALE - 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Men’s, women’s, children’s cloths & shoes, toys, gifts, linens, housewares, books, puzzles, CDS and more. First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main Street, Oneonta. Use back entrance. 607-432-3132 ART & YOGA – 10:3011:45 a.m. Classes have a 15-minute intro to art in the gallery followed by one hour of yoga. All levels of ability are welcome. 7-class session, 5/4-6/8: $50/member, $75/nonmember. Drop-in $10/member, $15/nonmember. Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genessee St., Utica. 315-797-0000. CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.-Noon. Master Gardener Volunteers of Otsego County will lead a “Seed Starting Workshop for Children.” Kids ages 7-11 will make a gift for mom. FREE. Cooperative Extension Education Center, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. 607-547-2536.
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furnishings at Hyde Hall. Free, open to the public. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. 607-547-5098. MUSIC – 1 p.m. The musicians of Ma’alwyck perform a concert of 18th century French music. $10, reservations recommended. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. 607-547-5098. FILM – 2 p.m. - The Delaware County Historical Association will show documentary
film “Rails to the Catskills,” a history of the dynamic railroad industry in the Catskills. FREE. State Hwy. 10, Delhi. 607-746-3849 EXHIBITION RECEPTION – 2-4 p.m. Exhibition “The Oneonta Theatre: Reflecting Popular Culture Since 1897” opens w/a reception serving light refreshments. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-0960.
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Silas Nathaniel Huff, Carolyn Watson, and Maciej Zóltowski are the three finalists chosen from 73 candidates seeking to succeed Maestro Chuck Schneider as CSO conductor.
3 Finalists Will Conduct CSO This Fall Before Final Choice CONDUCTOR/From A1 announced that, of 73 applicants, three finalists had been chosen to vie for a chance to succeed Chuck Schneider as music director/conductor: Silas Nathaniel Huff, Carolyn Watson, and Maciej Żóɫtowski. “They all bring different strengths,” said Wolf. “But all of them are very interested in helping build the orchestra and helping the organization grow.” Laurie Zimniewicz is chairing the search committee, which formed in the wake of Schneider’s announcement last spring. “It’s was a long, exhausting process,” said Wolf. “We reviewed resumes and watched videos for every candidate. And here we are.” Huff is the musical director of the Astoria Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Pops Orchestra and the Boulder Concert Band, as well as the conductor of the 44th Army Band (New Mexico’s National Guard Band). He holds degrees from Texas State University and UCLA, and in 1999, won First prize in the Los Angeles Valley Composition Competition for “Begging The Question,” an homage to modernist composer Charles Ives. Watson, the director of Orchestral Studies at The University of Kansas took home a top prize at the 2012 Emmerich Kálmán International Operetta Conducting Competition in Budapest. She has conducted orchestras throughout Europe including the Brandenburg Symphony, BBC Concert Orchestra, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Kodály Philharmonic,
Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Operetta Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera Bourgas and in Russia, the St and holds a PhD in Performance (Conducting) from the University of Sidney. Żóɫtowski collaborates with many Polish symphony orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio (Katowice), the Polish Radio Orchestra (Warsaw), the Polish Orchestra Jeunesses Musicales, Beethoven Academy Orchestra and Poznan Philharmonic. He studied violin at the F. Chopin and J. Elsner Music Schools in Warsaw, where he also received M.As in conducting and composition. The three were each in town last week to tour the facility and interview for the position. “It was very thorough,” said Wolf. They will not, however, be required to relocate to the area. “We only do four concerts a year,” said Wolf. “They will fly into town when we need them to. The week of the show, there are four two-and-a-half hour rehersals, so they’ll have 10 hours of time with the orchestra.” Each conductor will have a chance to perform for an audience; Huff will conduct on Saturday, Sept. 7, Watson on Saturday, Oct. 12 and Żóɫtowski on Saturday, Nov. 16. Once the committee has had a chance to review the audience remarks, as well as input from the orchestra and the board of directors, Wolf hopes a decision will be made by December.
MURDER/From B1 recommended the writer, who had recently been fired as the editor of The Smart Set for his erratic and temperamental behavior, to dip into detective fiction as “light reading.” “For someone who had once written, ‘There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,’ it sounded like a dubious proposition, but to Wright’s surprise, he found mystery novels challenging and entertaining,” Mallory wrote. And thus – on River Street, perhaps – Philo Vance was born. “Vance is modeled on the Golden Age detective,” said Sharp. “There were a lot of British writers, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, writing these lockeddoor, puzzle mysteries. Vance was just the American version of that.” The puzzle mystery – also known as a “cozy” – is more about the complexity of the puzzle as a whodunit, where the detective is often hired by a wealthy client to solve the crime as a hobby, rather than a profession like a cop or a private eye. They feature less violence than the hardboiled pulps that came later, and are solved by logical deductions made by the detective. As such a dilettante, Van Dine described Vance as “...unusually goodlooking, although his mouth was ascetic and cruel...there was a slightly derisive hauteur in the lift of his eyebrows...His forehead was full and sloping – it was the artist’s, rather than the scholar’s, brow. “His cold grey eyes were widely spaced,” Vance’s creator continued. “His nose was straight and slender, and his chin narrow but prominent, with an unusually deep cleft...Vance was slightly under 6 feet, graceful, and giving the impres-
sion of sinewy strength and nervous endurance.” He was also well-educated, “... had courses in the history of religions, the Greek classics, biology, civics, and political economy, philosophy, anthropology, literature, theoretical, and experimental psychology, and ancient and modern languages” and was “a man of unusual culture and brilliance.” “He’s this cut-rate Sherlock Holmes who is so smart and can reason things so well,” said Sharp. “He wears his university degree on his sleeve, he’s a scholar and there’s a sense that it’s intellectually aspirational for the reader.” In all, 12 Philo Vance novels were published, lifting Wright out of his post-Smart Set firing and into a somewhat wealthy lifestyle. And Vance’s unusual good looks, as described, set him up for the silver screen, where he was played by top movie stars of the time. William Powell, who would later find success playing detective Nick Charles in the “Thin Man” series, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, played Vance in “The Canary Murder Case” (1929), “The Greene Murder Case” (1929), “The Benson Murder Case” (1930) and “The Kennel Murder Case” (1933). Sherlock Holmes’ most famous portrayer, Basil Rathbone, stepped into Vance’s role in “The Bishop Murder Case” (1930). In all, 15 Philo Vance movies were made. In addition to Vance, Van Dine also created Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree, who investigated crimes in a series of a dozen 20-minute “two-reel” mystery films shown in theaters in 1931-32 before the feature. But with the publication of Dashiell
Moms Say, Everybody Needs Hugs HUGS/From B1 the Otsego Pride Fest June 1 in Neahwa Park. Anyone can stop by for a hug, moms want gay youths in particular to know they’re there for them. “Not all LGBTQ youth get support and love from their parents,” said one of the moms, Monica Grau. “They need to know people are out there who care.” Laura Emmett, Town of Maryland, who has a transgender sibling, read about a national group, “Free Mom Hugs,” founded in Oklahoma City by Sarah Cunningham to support her gay son. Its Facebook page calls it “a group of affirming parents and allies who love the LGBTQ+ community unconditionally.“
Emmett contacted a group of friends on Facebook about the Pride Fest idea. They loved it. Mom Hugs is not an established group yet, but the moms have been exchanging ideas and thoughts on the page since Emmett started it. “Most of us are just moms who want to give support,” said Emmett. Giving unconditional love to people who may not be receiving it from their own families is the moms’ goal. “I can’t imagine not giving support to LGBTQIA+ during high school, especially, when they’re trying to find themselves,” said Danielle Tonner, another Mom Hugs member, who has a son, 17, and a daughter, 6.
Hammett’s hardboiled classic “The Maltese Falcon” in 1929, detective fiction took a new tone, one much grittier and darker. Hardboiled mysteries began appearing in pulp magazines like Black Mask, bringing crime fiction to workingclass readers. “It was a more realistic depiction of how and why people commit crime,” said Sharp. “It used the language of criminals, cops and detectives, so there was no longer a market for that kind of puzzle mystery.” As such, Philo Vance’s days were numbered. “Van Dine did not have an afterlife, like Agatha Christie,” said Sharp. “It’s very dated, it satisfied the taste at the time, but tastes changed. And he wasn’t as good a writer as Christie or Sayers.” “The Big Sleep” author Raymond Chandler mocked Vance at every opportunity, calling him “the most asinine character in detective fiction” in his essay, “The Simple Art of Murder.” Part of it, Sharp theorized, is because Van Dine himself was ashamed of the work, but knew that it was what kept him in the wealthy lifestyle to which he became accustomed. “The fact that he used a pseudonym tells you everything about how the author was regarded and how the books were regarded,” he said. “The notion that they were cheap and easy, so they were never real literature. Authors like Chandler tried to legitimize the genre.” Van Dine died on April 11, 1939, in New York at age 50, of a heart condition likely brought on by excessive drinking, leaving behind an unfinished manuscript that would become the “The Winter Murder Case.”
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FAMILY FILM – 6 p.m. “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.” Bring snacks, beverages, pillows. Community room, Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800. PLAY – 8 p.m. Yasmina Reza’s savage comedy, “God of
Sunday, May 12
FREE MUSEUM ADMISSION – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mothers, grandmothers, and mothers-to-be get free admission to the Fenimore Art Museum and Farmers’ Museum. Free glass of wine to mothers & or grandmothers w/purchase
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of food item in Fenimore Café from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80 & Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. 607-547-1472 PLAY – 2 p.m. Yasmina Reza’s savage comedy, “God of Carnage ,” See Friday Listing.
Monday, May 13
OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Exhibition about relationships, familial & material, FREE. The Smithy Gallery &
Clay Studio. Thru June 9. 1 Otsego Ct., Cooperstown.
Monday, May 13
READING – 5:30 p.m. Author George Hovis will read from his work, “The Skin Artist” and sign copies at 6 p.m. Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. 607-4338898.
“The Mustang,” a film about a convict in a rural Nevada prison and his statemandated social rehabilitation. Family-Bank of Utica Auditorium, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genessee St., Utica. 315-7970000.
WRITERS GROUP – 5 p.m. Discuss current writing projects, get inspired, have fun. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.
Wednesday, May 15
FILM – 2 p.m, 7:30 p.m.
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Karen Sullivan Director Otsego County Planning/Solid Waste Dept. 1LegalMay.9 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of ROE RUNNER TRUCKING, LLC A Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on April 29, 2019. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as the 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/her to: Roe Runner Trucking, LLC at 355 Hollenbeck Road, Worcester, NY 12197. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalJun.13 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Blissfully Young Acres, LLC Filed 4/26/19 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 111 Moyer Road, Cherry Valley, NY 13320 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalJun.13 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Ekjot Properties, LLC Filed 4/30/19 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 3643 State Hway 28, Milford, NY 13807
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Purpose: all lawful 6LegalJun.13 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Limited Liability company, LLC Name: S & G Industries LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/26/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 326, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalJun.13 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TEMPLETON HALL, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/10/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and SSNY shall mail process to Templeton Hall, LLC, 63 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJun.13 Legal nOtice The Bennett Cemetery Annual Meeting will be held at the Cemetery June 1, 2019, at 10 a.m. Doris Martin, Secretary 3LegalMay.23 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Allen Lake Resort, LLC Articles of Org.
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filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 04/30/2019. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1006 County Highway 27, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose: Any Lawful purpose. 6LegalJun.13 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS FOR THE UNATEGO CENTRAL SCHOOL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Annual Budget Hearing of the inhabitants of the Unatego Central School, qualified to vote at school meetings in said District, will be held at the Unatego Middle/ Senior High School in the Town of Otego, New York, on Monday, May 13, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. where the proposed school district budget for the 2019-2020 school year shall be presented. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual District Budget Vote and Election of Members to the Board of Education for those qualified to vote in said District, will be held at the Unatego MS/ Senior High School in the Town of Otego, New York, on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 9:00 p.m. for such business as is authorized by the Education Law. NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes may be obtained by any taxpayer in the
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District fourteen days immediately preceding the vote except Saturday, Sunday, or holidays between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the Unatego Elementary School, Unadilla, New York and the Unatego MS/Senior High School, 2641 State Hwy 7, Otego, New York.
AND FURTHER NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that any proposition that is required to be included for a vote shall be submitted in writing by means of a petition signed by at least 25 qualified voters, stating the address of each signer, which petition shall be filed with the Board of Education not later than 30 days before the date of the election set forth in this notice, unless a greater number of days is required by statute. Any petition shall be rejected by the Board of Education not later than 30 days before the date of the election set forth in this notice, unless a greater number of days are required by statute. Any petition shall be rejected by the Board of Education if the purpose of the proposition is not within the powers of the voters, or where the expenditure of money is required for the proposition and such proposition fails to include the necessary specific appropriation.
3:30 p.m. until the date of election. Any qualified voter may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of qualifications of any person whose name appears on such list stating the reason for the challenge. Such list shall be posted in a conspicuous place during the election, and any qualified voter may challenge the acceptance of the absentee ballot or a person on such list, by making this challenge and the reasons for the challenge known to the inspectors of election before the close of the polls.
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Petitions nominating candidates for the office of Member of the Board of Education must be filed with the Clerk of the District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and not later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2019. The following vacancies are to be filled: a) A three-year term ending June 30, 2022 currently held by James McDermott Each petition must be directed to the Clerk of the District, be signed by at least twenty-five qualified voters of the District and shall state the name and residence of each signer. Vacancies upon the Board shall not be considered separate specific offices. The individual receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to the vacancy. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that voting will be conducted on May 21, 2019, for the purpose of a School Library Proposition authorizing the Board of Education of the Unatego Central School District to levy and collect an annual tax, year after year, separate and apart from the Annual School District Budget, in the amount of $85,000, of which $30,000 shall be paid to the Unadilla Public Library and $55,000 shall be paid to the Harris Memorial Library for the support and maintenance of the libraries.
AND FURTHER NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be obtained at the District Clerk’s office from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Completed applications are to be submitted to the Clerk of the District no later than seven days prior to the scheduled date of the vote (if done by mail) or the day before the vote if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the absentee voter. Absentee ballots are to be submitted no later than 4:00 p.m. on May 21, 2019 to the district office. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots have been issued shall be available for public inspection during regular office hours, which are between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and
Dated: March 2019 Joan M. French, Clerk of the Board of Education 4LegalMay.16 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of NOURISH YOURSELF DIETETICS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/9/2019. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 324 Williams Rd., Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalMay.30 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Farm to Family, LLC, a NY limited liability company (LLC). Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State (NYSS) on 04/08/19. Office: Otsego County. NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process
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Unadilla, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY 3/27/2019. 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 Lester Sittler, Esq., 187 Cemetery Rd, Fly Creek, NY 13337. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalMay.23 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of FS FORESTRY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 03/13/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 532 CTY HWY 58, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalMay.9 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of AJ’S LAWN CARE AND PROPERTY SERVICES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/11/2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 741 County Highway 29, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 6LegalMay.9
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IN MEMORIAM Nelson A. Wells Sr., 93; WWII Vet Retired From City Government ONEONTA – Nelson Alfred Wells Sr., 93, a World War II veteran who then settled in Oneonta, died Monday, April 29, 2019, at Fox Nursing Home. He was born in North Clymer, in Chataqua County, the son of the late Anna (Ingram) and Alfred T. Wells. He married Lena Belle Martin on Aug. 29, 1943 and had a blessed
marriage of 73 years. During the Second World War, a ham radio operator in the Army Air Corps, he served on Okinawa in the Pacific Theater. Moving to Oneonta after the war, he worked at the North Feed Store, the D&H Railroad Depot, and went to be an iron worker for New York Local No. 158, Binghamton, where
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he worked on buildings at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. He ended his career as a senior plant mechanic in the City of Oneonta’s water treatment plant. He was a long time member of the West End Baptist Church and also attended the River Street Baptist Church. He was a member of the VFW Post No. 1206, Oneonta. Nelson is survived by his daughters, Priscilla Rotolo, Oneonta, Linda (Wells)
Holtsmaster, South Gibson, Pa., Sandy Morin, Oneonta, and Ginger (Paul) Butler, Oneonta; daughter-inNelson law Violet Wells Sr. Wells; grandson Nelson A. Wells III of Oneonta; his sister, Marilyn Beck of Lancaster, Pa.; 16 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Debra A. Klein, 66, Otego, Beloved By Unatego Students
OTEGO – Debra A. Klein, 66, a Unatego Central teaching assistant and bus driver for 30 years, passed Debra Klein away peacefully Friday, May 3, 2019, at her home in Otego, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Dec. 11, 1952, in Delhi to the late Morris and Genevieve (Dorosky) Chichester. A life-long area resident, she married Richard Klein on July 16, 1995. She loved the outdoors, mowing the lawn, as well as camping and fishing. Debra also had an artistic talent working with stained glass and painting in her spare time.
She is survived by her loving husband Richard Klein of Otego; her son Jason Berge (Laurie Burns) of Bloomville; her daughter Annie (Kelley) Judd of Fort Collins, Colo.; her son Aaron (Jesse) Berge of Otego; her three loving grandchildren, Seth Berge, Regan Berge and Kynlee Judd. Debra was predeceased by her brother Mark Chichester. Calling hours will be 5-7 p.m. Friday, Friday, May 10, at the Bookhout Funeral Home, 357 Main St., Oneonta; the family will be in attendance. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions in memory of Debra may be made to the Otego Volunteer Fire Department, 5 River St., Otego, N.Y. 1382. Arrangements are by the Bookhout Funeral Home, Oneonta.
He was predeceased by his loving wife of 73 years, Lena Belle (Martin); as well as his son, Nelson Wells Jr. Funeral services were held Monday, May 6, at the Bookhout Funeral Home with Rodney Dirig, pastor
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Agnes Ruth Valentine, 80; Raised 5 Daughters In Morris
MORRIS – Agnes Ruth Valentine, 80, who raised five daughters in Morris, died April 29, 2019, at her home Ruth was the daughter of Marie (Sorensen) Hansen and Emil O. Hansen, who were both born in Denmark. Ruth grew up in Brooklyn, an area along the Hudson River, which flows to the Verrazano Bridge, known as Bay Ridge. She attended P.S. 102 in Brooklyn and graduated 8th grade to then attend high school at Fort Hamilton (which can be seen from the bridge) for two years. Ruth then moved to New Lisbon and graduated from Morris Central School in 1956. On Oct. 21, 1956, Ruth married Gene L. Valentine at St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Laurens. Ruth worked for 20 years at H.W. Naylor Co., which manufactures medications for livestock. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Morris. She is survived by her husband, Gene, of 62 years; daughters Suzanne (Chris) Tabone, Charlene (Robert) Wells, Jeanne Valentine (John Janssen), Jennifer Valentine, and Christine Valentine (Brian King); sisters Emily (Martin) Cullen Jr. and Trudi (Robert) Nagiewicz; sister-in-law Frances Hansen; nine grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
Ruth was predeceased by her parents, her brother Phillip John Hansen and sister Ella Agnes Sorensen. Valentine A memorial service will be held at a later date. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Johnston Funeral Home of Morris.
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RELAY/From A1 brings tears to my eyes.” The value of that support cannot be measured, Emmett said. She discovered that in 2012 after her first cancer diagnosis, “Stage Zero” of breast cancer and could not find a cancer support group in Otsego County. After Emmett Emmett underwent treatment for it in early 2013 – a double mastectomy and full hysterectomy to prevent future occurrences of cancer – she and a friend, a fellow survivor, decided to start their own support group. Called Team Mimi – her granddaughter calls her Mimi – is for people in all stages of recover, N.E.D. (no evidence of disease), caregivers – “anyone touched by cancer.” It has 18 to 20 members. “We talk about all the things we have to deal with,” said Emmett. “We always learn something from one another.” Those things usually don’t happen to people never diagnosed with cancer. For instance, Emmett could not lift her arms for weeks after the double mastectomy, which meant, among other things, she could not wash her hair. “My husband took me to a salon where I had my hair washed and blown dry,” Emmett said. “It was wonderful.” Team Mimi helped her through her second diagnosis in 2017, a rare gynecological condition called primary peritoneal cancer, and the harsh side effects of her chemotherapy. She was frequently dizzy and depressed, her bones “ached like crazy,” and her heart raced even if she walked just a few feet. Emmett finished chemotherapy last July and has been N.E.D. since then. But she is even more active than before in helping cancer patients and survivors.
Regulations Due On Noise Curbs NOISE/From A1 and it’s voted into law. Action was delayed from last month’s Village Board meeting after objections were heard to the 100 decibel level. The lower 88 decibels is the level that OSHA (the federal Occupation Safety & Health Administration) and its New York counterpart found an individual can listen to for four hours before suffering hearing loss, said Trustee Cindy Falk. That’s about the sound a food processor or garbage disposal makes. The idea of a noise ordinance arose last year when Veronica Gil Seaver, who lives in the vicinity of Main and Chestnut, began circulating a petition that quickly obtained signatures, not just from Main Street residents but some on Pine Boulevard, said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. Loud music used to be a rarity downtown, but in recent years the Hardball Café at 99 Main began booking rock music in the summers, and Mel’s at 22 and the Cooperstown Beverage Exchange have been doing it year-‘round. The village already had a noise ordinance, but it had no objective ways to measure the noise, and that troubled the mayor and others. “What’s loud for me may not be loud for you,” she said. “Sound is a very subjective thing.” Zoning Enforcement Office Jane Gentile researched and developed the law. At the first level, music is allowed without a permit or a variance, as long as decibel levels and time limits are met, said Falk. At the second level, “if you need to go later or you need to go louder,” then you can apply for a permit to do that up to a certain period,” she added. If that still doesn’t work, you can apply for a variance. “For each level, there’s a greater review process that’s associated with it,” the trustee said.