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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, May 16, 2014

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Oneonta, City Of Arts?

Zena Gurbo Joins Michael Stoltzer On ‘Gallery Strip’ of Oneonta as an arts community will continue towards fulfillment. “This is such a t’s a pattern artist Migreat town,” he said. “My art, chael Stolzer hopes to see my space shows that our inner replicated lives are conin downtown nected. It speaks Oneonta. to everyone, and “I saw this I want it to be a over and over stepping stone in in The City,” he that direction.” said. “UndesirAnd a few able locations doors down, at 77 became desirMain St., formerable when gally Thrifty Operaleries and restions, artists Zena Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA taurants moved Zena Gurbo and her Gurbo poses in. Food for with her husband and husband, Simone the body, food fellow artist, Simone Mantellassi, are for the soul.”

Mantellassi, at Oneon- hanging paintStolzer, who ta’s newest gallery, ings in their new opened his gallery, More Art More Art Space. gallery at 97 Space, for the Main St. in October, is gearFriday, May 16, opening of ing up for his first summer of their first show, “Hatch.”

Fabulous Friday openings and “At first, I was reluctant to art walks in hopes the vision Please See ART, A7

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John Falk, Oneonta, president of The Greasers’ Club, shows off his ‘53 Chevy custom to Keith Leggett, Oneonta, at the second annual Greaser’s Ball on Saturday, May 10.

Mele Quads To Graduate At Hartwick

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he Mele quadruplets of East Setauket, L.I., came to Hartwick College together in the fall of 2010, and they’ll graduate together at the Oyaron Hill commencement Saturday, May 24.

Grace is a Faculty Scholar in biology/pre-med, Bobby studied nursing, Erin, sociology, and Danny, business.

Seating will begin at 10 a.m.

The commencement speaker will be David H. Long,’83, chairman/CEO of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group.

BUT, FIRST... SUNY Oneonta will have three ceremonies for 1,531 graduates this Saturday, May 17, at 10 a.m., noon and 12:30.

Charter Review Committee To Interview Mike Long 1st uled for Tuesday, May 14, was City Manager Mike Long, the only indihis week, the vidual to fill the role of Charter Review top administrator under Committee the provisions of the City began its interviews, Charter approved in the seeking to determine fall of 2011. what City Hall can do Zimniewicz The committee then to help ensure the sucplanned to interview all cess of the second city manCommon Council members, ager it hopes to hire by fall. then Mayor Dick Miller himIts first interviewee, schedPlease See REVIEW, A3

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Getting fit for a good cause, Oneonta Zumba instructor Amy Fletcher leads the group at the Hartwick College Zumbathon on Saturday, May 10, to raise money for schools in Ghana, Africa.

They’re Stallion Proud, And Ready To Play Football

BACK OUTDOORS: The Oneonta Farmers’ Market will move outdoors to Muller Plaza this Saturday, May 17. OHS grad and acoustic singer Ron Pleban will perform at 10. Market hours are 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

BIKE TO WORK: The sixth annual Bike to Work Day is Wednesday, May 21, sponsored by ORCA, the Otsego Regional Cycling Advocates. Call Martha Clarvoe at 547-4020 for details, or visit occainfo.org

ZUMBA RULES!

ast year, Oneonta’s semipro Stallions football had its first winning season and first game in the playoffs.

And this year, the Stallions are going for the championship.

“We’re younger, we’re faster and we’ve got a lot of depth,” said owner Angela Eardley during a fund-raising spaghetti dinner at the Moose Lodge Thurday, May 8. “We’re a force to be reckoned with!”

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA The Oneonta football team Coach Trozell Smith gets Stallions Andrew Ruff, Kevin Conklin, Robert Dixon in shape and ready starts May 31 in Troy, but the Please See STALLIONS, A6 for their 2014 season.

100 Pounds Of Pills Discarded In Drop Box Outside OPD

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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00 pounds of pills.

That’s how much the DEA hauled away from the Oneonta Police Department’s drug drop-off box at the end of April, only two months after its installation.

“We’re pulling between 5 and 10 pounds out of there every two weeks,” said Lt. Douglas Brenner.

“It’s kind of disturbing how much medication gets prescribed and Please See PILLS, A6

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Lentner, Li To Lead OHS Class Of 2014

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wo Oneontans were among 17 SUNY Oneonta students winning awards in the college’s Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition, which runs through May 17 in the college’s Martin-Mullen Art Gallery.

Receiving George E. Zimmerman Memorial Awards are: • Alice Lee, for a work in digital paint titled “Abstract 3.” She is a sophomore majoring in computer science and computer art.

• Abby Zulkosky, for a work in etching and aquatint titled “Regurgitation.” Zulkosky is a SUNY Oneonta sophomore majoring in psychology and art.

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hris Lentner is valedictorian and Boru Li, salutatorian, of the Oneonta High School Class of

2014.

Lentner is the son of J. and Joanne Lentner and will be attending RIT in the fall. He was a member of the FIRST Robotics team, Boy Scouts, played on the tennis team and in the jazz band, as well as performing in the drama club.

Li, son of Sue Tang and Jim Li, will attend Stonybrook. He was a member of the tennis team, the Echo newspaper, FIRST Robotics team and the jazz band.

DELIVERS PAPER: David Kenny of Oneonta presented a paper April 19 at SUNY Oneonta’s fifth annual New Critics: Undergraduate Literature and Composition ConferIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA ence. Kenny’s paper was titled, “Cell Evolution: Droid X Valedictorian Chris Lentner, left, and Salutatorian Boru Li on Human Improvement through Technology.”

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First Interviewee Mike Long Himself

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“All the questions are open-ended,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, a member of the original Charter Commission and chair of this new committee. “But there is a structure.”

The idea, she said, is to ensure the same questions are covered with everyone interviewed, but to allow enough leeway for followup and exploratory questions.

She said the committee had not yet decided whether to interview department heads as well, but will do so if

members conclude that’s necessary.

The committee -- it consists of all but two members of the Charter Commission, plus city Human Resources Director Kathy Wolverton again serving as liaison Mike Long with City Council -- is on one of two parallel tracks.

The other is the actual search for a successor to Mike Long, the first city manager, who was hired in October

2012, and has announced plans to retire as of the end of this month. May 5, Common Council hired Nick Mazza, a consultant with The Bonadio Group, Rochester, to administer the search for Long’s successor.

The mayor asked the committee to try and complete its review of the charter by the end of June so its findings could have the maximum influence on Mazza’s search. Zimniewicz again said the committee will accommodate Miller if it can, but said, “Our intention is to do a good job, not a fast job.”

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‘Normal’ Ice Out After Polar Winter Offers Clues

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ou may have thought the just-completed winter was cold, cold, cold.

But data tracked by Bill Harman’s SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake show the ice-in, ice-out dates were “normal,” part of local trend that supports the scientific Harman consensus of global warming.

“It was a long cold winter,” said Harman in an interview. “But it wasn’t as cold or as warm as it often gets.” Asked if the data is a local manifestation of climate change, the BFS director replied, “yes, exactly. “ Harman issued updates of a chart that tracks ice cover since 1850, between a maximum of 131 days and minimum of 30 days, except for the winters of 200102 and 2011-12, when the lake didn’t freeze at all “for the only time in recorded history, “ he wrote. “The annual maximum duration of ice cover, between 125-131 days, occurred four times, in the 1870s.”

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the chart shows a steady decline in the number of days per year the lake is frozen from the start of the recordkeeping until today. The angle of the line inclines sharply from 1960 on.

That local data correlate with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ice-cover findings in the seven most-studied lakes in the nation. In addition to Otsego, they include Detroit Lake in Minnesota, Shell, Mendota and Monona lakes in Wisconsin, Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay, the Mirror Lake (Lake Placid) and Lake George in New York.

The EPA study, issued in 2012, concluded the seven lakes are frozen for less of the year; they are freezing later and thawing earlier, and that the findings affirm other studies of lakes and rivers in the Northern

Hemisphere.

This year on Otsego Lake, when single-digit temperatures throughout January and February drove up heating bills – there were 10 days below zero in the first month and 7 in the second, according to Oneonta weather watcher David Mattice – the lake was frozen for 91 days.

The lake froze on cold, calm Jan. 11, Harman said.

But winds opened it up on the 12th. It froze again Jan. 9 and stayed frozen until April 28, Harman said.

Despite a “normal” freeze, the thickness of the ice was notable – 20 inches instead of the usual 12.

Already, the warming is having an effect on local ecology, including two 100year-floods five years apart.

While rainfall is about the same, “instead of gentle rains – downpours,” he said.

The uneven flow is already eliminating fresh water clams that filter impurities from water and are a food supply for other animals.

There are ways to limit the impact of dramatic weather – putting larger culverts under roads, for instance. He noted that culverts leading to Willow Creek, which runs through Oneonta, actually get smaller as they approach the Susquehanna. With more downpours, that may have to be turned around.

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The son of Todd and Susan Kenyon, he is receiving a degree in political science at SUNY Oneonta’s graduation Saturday, May 17.

At Brown, he will pursue a master’s in public affairs, specializing in cross-sector leadership and management.

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EDITORIALS

Regents Back Dependable Library Funding; Citizens Should Too

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f we zag when the world zigs, it usually means rough sailing ahead for the zagger.

And so it is with library funding in New York State.

The state Regents are partial to libraries with a dedicated, dependable funding stream and, when grants are in the offing, rewards them.

Think about it; it makes perfect sense. If a library is subject to the vagaries of a frequently changing town or village board, or city council, how can a library plan?

And, therefore, how much confidence can the Regents have in sending money to Otsego County, where only the Worcester Library is assured a constant allocation through the school district’s annual vote?

• That’s why the question that will be on the Tuesday, May 20, Cooperstown Central School ballot deserves the support of everyone who sees libraries as doorways to knowledge, today and – adapting as access to knowledge adapts – into

town boards – he feels they should contribute more than they do to library operations – so who knows?

Further, the funding structure – one ballot question for two library budgets, independently developed by boards with different goals – seems a formula for trouble at some point. But Waterville Library Director Jeff Reynolds – his father is Mace Reynolds, the retired Bendix (now Amphenol) president, lives in HOMETOWN ONEONTA Cooperstown, so the son is Martha Sharer checks out Andy Timmerman’s very familiar with the local selection at the Village Library of Cooperstown. scene – reported otherwise CCS voters will decide May 20 on a dependable at a recent forum: Waterfunding source for the library. ville is a school district the foreseeable future. In after year,” and divide the library, Oriskany Falls’ this case, CCS voters are resulting $180,452 between Clark Memorial has an casting ballots on funding the two libraries. This independent charter. Both for the Village Library of year, $115,452 would go to budgets are approved on the Cooperstown and Hartthe Cooperstown library, same annual school-district wick’s Kinney Memorial $65,000 to Hartwick’s. ballot, and it’s worked fine Library, but they are making That would be a guaranteed for years. a decision that every local “floor,” but CCS residents Regardless of structure, voter should in the years would be able to control there will be issues, as in ahead. future increases, which any human endeavor. PeoThe ballot question, if would have to be placed on ple of good will can simply approved, would authorize the ballot. work them out as they arise. the CCS board “to level and • • collect an annual tax, year Right now, those two Be all this as it may libraries’ funding depends be, an “aye” vote May on the respective village 20 will allow the greater and town boards.

As an Cooperstown commuONEONTA, COOP SCHOOL ELECTIONS 5/20 example of what to guard nity – the village and three against, the Cooperstown towns – to embrace an opchool elections and budget votes are Tuesday, May Village Board, in anportunity. Village Trustee 20, in both the Oneonta City and Cooperstown Centicipation of an “aye” vote, tral school districts. Also, CCS residents will decide Lou Allstadt, the former whether to assume funding for the Village of Cooperstown simply removed the library Mobil executive vice presiand Town of Hartwick libraries. line item from its 2014-15 dent, was a founder of The In Oneonta, polls will be open noon-9 p.m. at Foothills; budget – if the ballot quesFriends of 22 Main before in Cooperstown, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. at the middle/high school. tion fails, the $45,000 the he was elected and, as chair In Oneonta, six candidates are running for three school Village Library needs for of the village’s Buildings board openings: Karen Brown, Amy Burnsworth, Dan Butthe second half of the year Committee, continues to put terman, Darren Gaisford, George F. Palladino and Evelina doesn’t exist. If it came to together an exciting plan for Richardson. that, you might expect the 22 Main, the landmark VilIn Cooperstown, four are running for two openings: Tim Village Board to step up lage Hall and home to the Hayes, David Petri, Theresa Russo and Jean Schifano. and add the allocation, but library and Cooperstown Art For links to candidate questionnaires and budget details, visit Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Association.

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In Oneonta, Library Support Unequal

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he Village Library of Cooperstown board is not alone in believing neighboring communities it serves aren’t paying their freight or, perhaps, fees. Particularly under its former director, Marie Bruni, the City of Oneonta’s Huntington Memorial Library for years has been nudging the Oneonta Town Board to contribute more to operations.

Bruni’s recent successor, Tina Winstead, has enough challenges to keep her occupied in her first year, but the Town Board did raise its 2014 contribution a bit – $42,000, up from $40,000 last year.

The Huntington’s budget is $666,000, five times Cooperstown’s $115,000, and it benefits from a healthy endowment – thank you, Henry Huntington – that contributes $158,000 to the annual budget. Still, the city contributes 61 percent of the budget; the town, 6 percent.

Winstead is diplomatic: “They (town board members) recognize the town that uses the library isn’t paying as much as city residents are. They recognize that.” But money’s tight, even in the flush Town of Oneonta: “They are making hard decisions every day,” she sympathized.

Still, if the Cooperstown Central School ballot question passes May 20, looking for a dependable allocation through the Oneonta City School District (which includes the town) may be something to think about. fundraising, but Lang Keith, a retired judge, has replaced him and it’s likely, when the time comes, that significant private money can be raised toward the $2 million price tag.

As Reynolds reported, the state Dormitory Authority issues $4 million in bonds annually. And $400,000 of that is allocated to the Four County Library System – Otsego is one of the four, according to the system’s executive director, Steve Bachman.

In recent years, the system has given out as much as $200,000 to any one facility. It has to be matched locally, which is where the Friends come in,

but $400,000 would go a long way toward covering the library’s piece of the Allstadt plan.

Listen to Bachman: “If you have stable funding, it allows you to plan for the future.” The Regents like that; Bachman likes that.

On May 20, Cooperstown and the towns of Hartwick, Middlefield and Otsego are making a decision. But it’s a decision all library patrons, from the Richfield Springs Public Library to Oneonta’s Huntington Memorial, should be asked to make in the next few years.

The best libraries possible – is there any better contribution to our local quality of life?

LETTERS

In-House Mental-Illness Treatment Best Close To Home

Theresa Russo’s Commitment, Integrity Earn Her Reelection

To the Editor: Whenever people with a mental-health illness take their own life or that of someone else, we ask: Couldn’t anyone have seen that coming? Why wasn’t help made available? This is especially true if the person is of school age.

Most people suffering with mental illness do not harm themselves or others, yet, if help is not available, they do lead lives of quiet desperation where their full potential is not realized.

Their mental illness impacts their loved ones, their friends and associates, their co-workers and the community at large.

All too often help is not available, or too costly. Schools rarely have the resources to deal effectively with the children they

To the Editor: What do school board members need to serve their communities? Integrity, commitment and a willingness to learn how to best fulfill their role.

Theresa Russo understands how important these qualities are and those who have worked with her know that she has them.

Additionally, her professional background as a professor at SUNY Oneonta is an attribute that not only keeps her aware of best practices and trends in education but also provides a valuable knowledge base of child development that not all school board members bring to the table.

Theresa speaks her mind honestly and takes her job seriously. She’s smart and she’s energetic. It’s not always easy serving on a school board and when someone like Theresa, who now has six years of experience under her belt, is eager to lend us her time and talents, it is a good move to accept it.

Please join me in voting for Theresa Russo on May 20.

ROSEMARY CRAIG Cooperstown

realize need help.

Often the hospital is the only place where help can be found and it is often used when a crisis is truly looming. With the closing of the crisis center and psychiatric ward at Bassett, those who suffer from mental illness have even fewer options for finding help. The nearest facilities will be at Albany, Binghamton or Syracuse.

Any of these choices will mean a onehour commute or more. With the price of gas over $3.70 a gallon, this will be a burden on many. With a two-hour round trip commute, another barrier to accessing health care will be in place.

How many people can afford to take a half day off of work to drive their loved

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ones to appointments and stay with them?

How supportive can they be if their loved ones need hospitalization and are that far away? How does it affect the daily routine of the family left behind?

Mental illness can be of short duration or can be chronic in nature. We do know that people suffering from it can be helped through counseling and medication and sometimes need immediate hospitalization.

What will be our community’s response in recognizing and addressing the void that will be created with the closure at Bassett. Hopefully, doing nothing will not be the answer.

KAREN MIHAN Cooperstown

Butterman Brings Business Experience To the Editor: This letter serves as my full and enthusiastic endorsement of Dan Buttermann for a seat on the Oneonta City School Board of Education.

Dan and his wife Anna moved to Oneonta in 2011 from Dallas, recognizing that Oneonta is a great place to raise a family. His two children have been attending the Bugbee School, where he has been active with other parents in developing enrichment programming that benefits our local children as well as the Bugbee Center’s. Dan’s 4-year-old daughter will be entering kindergarten in the Oneonta schools this fall and he is looking forward to continuing this positive activism in our school district.

Dan holds a B.A. in Music Performance, an MBA in Strategy & Entrepreneurship and presently works for New York Central Mutual in Edmeston as a claims

supervisor.

Dan and I believe his business background and knowledge will benefit our school district when developing the yearly budget and deciding on the direction of educational programming. He strongly feels that the amount we pay in school taxes should directly reflect the educational benefits the students are receiving.

While Dan likes the concept of a Common Core to ensure children are taught similarly throughout the country, he agrees with teachers that they need to have flexibility in their classrooms and be allowed to adapt the modules to best meet the needs of their individual students.

Please join me in electing Dan Buttermann to our school district’s Board of Education on May 20.

DAVE RISSBERGER Third Ward Council Member City of Oneonta

Make Sure Cooperstown Library Has Sufficient Funding For Future To the Editor: I have always loved our village library, but until I moved in next door, I had no idea that so many people take advantage of it every day. I love standing at my kitchen window, watching children and adults go in and out of the building.

With children’s programs winter and summer, political discussion groups, lectures, craft groups and Internet access, in addition to books, CDs and DVDs, our library is a community treasure.

All over the country, libraries are closing due to lack of funding. Do not let that happen to us! Please, everyone, go to CCS on May 20 and vote “yes” on the library funding plan.

MELINDA HARDIN Cooperstown

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History

HOMETOWN

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

125 Years Ago

The postponed games of the Oneonta baseball club will surely be played next week Thursday and Saturday afternoons. The Cooperstown and Oneonta game will be the first one and Abbott will be in the box for the home team. The Saturday game between the Afton and Oneonta clubs will undoubtedly be the best game of baseball ever witnessed on the home grounds. On this day, the Oneonta team will be made up as follows: Wilson, lf; Giles 2nd; Holmes c.; Cox, 3rd; Bowen, ss; Rogers, cf; Abbott, rf; Scully, 1b; Tobin, p. Each game will be called promptly at 3:30 o’clock p.m.

Admission 25cents; ladies free. Grand stand 10 cents extra to all. Ed. note: Ball players on this team were paid to play.

H.P. Cheatham, the only Negro member of Congress, is a light mulatto, 32 years of age. He graduated at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina and became a school teacher. He was afterward made register of deeds, and was about to take out his license to practice law when he was elected to Congress. Mr. Cheatham is said to be a ready speaker and to have the better interests of his race at heart.

May 1889

100 Years Ago

The Onahrenta Camp Fire Girls took their first tramp on Friday, meeting at the home of Mrs. Weaton and hiking to the Rocks, where the first council fire was lighted by Mrs. Georgia Weaton, the guardian of the order. Here, eight members received the Wo-he-lo degree, and around the fire were read the Indian legends of the spring blossoms. Then supper was cooked in true Indian fashion and was enjoyed as only a meal cooked in the open and eaten after a good tramp can be enjoyed. The pine tree symbol of the organization was dedicated to the Onahrenta which was, and the Oneonta, which is to be, progressive, prosperous and patriotic.

May 1914

80 Years Ago

The Oneonta Little Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Stuart Pratt, made its debut before an audience of approximately 350 persons in the Oneonta High School auditorium last night. The audience was composed of members of the faculties and student bodies of Hartwick College, the Normal School and the high school. The affair was sponsored by the Student Association of Hartwick College.

“Fingal’s Cave Overture” by Mendelssohn was the opening number. Also on the program was “Symphony in B Minor”

by Schubert, the unfinished symphony. A medley of dances from “Henry VIII” by Edward German struck a lighter vein.

The orchestra reached its peak with the ever-popular “Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss. This was the only appearance that the orchestra will make this year. Numerous concerts have been planned for the next year and the orchestra will start rehearsals early in the fall, Mr. Pratt said.

May 1934

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40 Years Ago

Rape victims will now have access to a counseling service in the City of Oneonta which would provide post-assault information on medical and psychological care. Public Safety Board members discussed the idea at a meeting Monday night. Last night the Common Council implemented the program and set up a fund to pay counselors. Safety Board members and Police Chief Joseph DeSalvatore agreed that such a service would be invaluable. The availability of women counselors, trained in psychology, would ease the anguish for rape victims who are reluctant to relate the details of their assaults to policemen. The knowledge that they would not have to undergo a police interrogation might encourage victims to report rapes and later to prosecute. A rape hotline is currently being formed at SUCO. Statistics quoted by board member Margaret Hathaway claim that only between 10 and 25 percent of rapes are ever reported to police.

May 1974

30 Years Ago

After 37 years of helping local boys stay physically fit and teaching them to “play fair and square,” Carl Delberta has been selected as the Hartwick College Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Delberta, a retired professional boxer, founded the Oneonta Boys Club in 1947 and continues to run the club from his ringside seat overlooking the River Street gymnasium named after him in 1981. Philip Wilder, Hartwick College president, said, “Carl is an example of the kind of leadership available to the young people of May 1994 Oneonta. He has been unselfish in his commitment to the Boys Club for 37 years, while helping his wife raise a family, serving the city as a police officer, and using his boxing talents to help others represent our nation.” Prior to military Heart disease is now the prime agent of death in Otsego service in WW II, Delberta was a leading welterweight County according to the annual report of the county’s contender.

Tuberculosis & Public Health Association. “While we are May 1984 winning the fight against TB” the report states, “we are losing it against heart disease, which is now the number one killer, taking 402 lives in Otsego County in 1952. The State University College at Oneonta faculty members report shows the success of anti-tuberculosis programs, Patrick Meanor of the English Department and Emily Philsuch as mass chest X-rays. Of the 10,127 X-rays taken in lips of the educational psychology department have been the county last year, TB was found in 61, lung cancer in selected as co-winners of the college’s 2004 Outstanding 47, heart disease in 320, and there were 392 other condiAdvisor Award. The honor recognizes SUCO faculty who tions for a sum total of 820 ailments. Only 96 ailments were provide exceptional academic advisement and mentoring discovered from 5,700 pictures taken during the Oneonta services to students. Meanor’s advisees are largely underCommunity Survey. No cases of tuberculosis were discovgraduate English majors. Phillips works primarily with ered during the Oneonta STC survey and only one case of graduate students in the college’s school counseling prolung cancer and heart disease. Although it was once the gram. number one killer in America, tuberculosis has dropped May 2004 from first to sixth in cause of death ranks. Still 400,000 Americans have the disease and it costs 350,000 a year.

May 1954

60 Years Ago

10 Years Ago

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or the first time since it was hung in 1939, Babe Ruth’s plaque is leaving the Baseball Hall of Fame for an on-field pregame ceremony in Yankee Stadium Tuesday, May 13, to raise interest in “Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend,” which opens in June at 25 Main.

It will then be on view at the stadium through the eighth inning of the YankeesMets game.

Wednesday the 14th, the plaque will be on view at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall to promote the state’s “Path Though History” tourism promotion, and will be back in Cooperstown Thursday, May 14.

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Pills Discarded By Thousands At OPD PILLS/From A1 wasted.”

The secured drop-off box, located in front of the Oneonta Police Department, 81 Main St., is another in a series of tools designed to combat heroin and opiate addiction in Otsego County.

“As narcotics abuse started to rise, we saw a rise in burglaries; what we called ‘gypsy crimes’ – someone comes to your door and asks, ‘Can I use your bathroom?’ then rifles through your medicine cabinet.”

The DEA – the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency – organized drug drop-offs periodically throughout the county, but Brenner said people would show up at the police station the day before or day after, looking for a place to drop off unwanted medication. “We didn’t want to turn them away when they were trying to do the right thing,” he said. “But we had to file them as evidence and do a ton of paperwork. It was tying up our staff.”

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by Mallinckrodt Industries, a pharmaceutical company that was spun off from Covidien, which manufactures several opioids. “It’s part of a national movement from drug companies to get rid of unwanted medication,” said Brenner.

The medications are collected anonymously. “We don’t want to pry,” said Brenner. “It’s open for any type of medicine people don’t want around, no questions asked.”

Many people drop off medications with their identifying information still on the bottle, but the police don’t take records of who drops off what.

Brenner was also on hand at the Narcan training class to learn how to revive someone who has overdosed from heroin or opiates. “These kits are a tremendous boost for sheriffs and state troopers who have to go out on

Stallions Ready To Gallop On Gridiron

STALLIONS/From A1 first home game is at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 7, at Hartwick College, with 25 new players and 26 returning players.

“We learned a lot last year,” said owner Thom Terry. “And now, we have even more talent. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be pretty good this year.”

Last year, the Stallions went to the playoffs with a 7-3 record, their first winning season since their incarnation in 2009. Though they lost to Glove City, they took a second place finish overall in the Central Division.

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA “It put us at a different Holding overdose-prevention kits, Senator level of competition,” said Seward and OPD Lt. Douglas Brenner discuss the Eardley.

“We have the class they took Wednesday, May 7, on adminispotential to go ever further tering Narcan. rural calls,” he said.

“Taking in this many pills is than we did last year.”

The team will play a 10Though he doesn’t yet an indication that it’s doing game season with five home have an official idea of something,” he said. “Even games. “We have the nicest whether or not the drug if it’s not opiates, people can facility in the league,” said drop-box has reduced crime, still get hurt taking medicine Terry. “Everyone else plays Brenner believes that the that doesn’t belong to them. at high schools.” impact is already being It’s positive all around.”

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Stallion owners Angela Eardley and Thom Terry serve up spaghetti at the fundraiser.

And those who like to cheer from the bleachers might even get a chance to cheer on the field. Auditions to become a Stallionette are planned at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 21, at the Elite Dance Academy.

But the team didn’t disband in the off-season.

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the dugout at Knapp Field, the Stallions hosted a Pizza Hut fundraiser, bringing in over $500 towards the repairs. “When things happen, we get on board,” said Eardley. “The guys are passionate about helping those around them.”

The team will celebrate the community this season with a series of themed games, including a Military Night on July 19, where those who served will be given free admission, free refreshments and a chance to walk out onto the field with the team. “We want to celebrate the community this year,” said Terry.

“We’re a safe, secure, fun family activity.”

And both owners believe they’re only 10 games away from another shot at the championship.

“We’re really looking forward to getting it all,” said Eardley. “And we hope to have those stands packed every game.”

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With 2nd Commercial Gallery, Downtown Oneonta Accelerates As Arts’ Hub ART/From A1 take on another thing,” said Gurbo, who also is curator of the Main View Gallery,

two doors down. “But I got in my car to drive home, and by the time I got there, I realized that this was my

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More Art Space joins an expanding number of galleries and art spaces, including CANO, The Gallery at Foothills, Printagree and the Downstairs Walkway. “MSO turned that into a pretty nifty exhibition space,” said David Hayes, one of the organizers of the Fabulous Friday series.

Even stores are getting in on the exhibition action, with art going up on the walls of Prime 289, The Green Toad, the Autumn Café and the Green Earth.

“There’s almost too much to see,” said Hayes. “There’s such an exuberance about arts downtown.”

And on Friday, May 16, Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA the Greater Oneonta Histori- He opened Michael Stolzer Fine Art at 97 Main last October. With Zena cal Society will unveil the Gurbo’s opening More Art Space a block away, has his single action befirst of five murals by Carol come a trend?

Mandigo depicting the prerepresenting a turning point tunity for those artists to intending to show his own vious occupants of the 189 in their work.

“There are showcase their work.

Getwork, but since has opened Main Street building. all these artists making ting out of your studio is the up a second room to showThe “Hatch” show at this amazing work in their hardest part, and we want to case other artists for free. “I More Art Space will feature studios,” said Gurbo.

“We help facilitate that.” don’t take a commission,” works by a variety of artwant to provide an opporStolzer opened his gallery he said. “I want to help ists, all showcasing pieces promote other artists.”

With Gurbo attended Mayor Friday’s Dick Miller’s art summit openin February 2011. “Having ing near, several galleries on Main Zena and Street is a way to market husband our community to outsidSimone ers,” she said. “Someone Mantelwho comes strolling down lassi the street will say to themhang selves, ‘hey, this is an arts paintings town;’ they’ll begin to see in their us as an arts city.”

More Art “The arts are what keeps Space us civilized, what makes studio. living worthwhile,” said Hayes. “Without them, we’d be just another city.”

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For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Real Estate Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5105 Tim Donahue, Associate Real Estate Broker – 293-8874 Madeline Sansevere, Real Estate Salesperson – 435-4311 Cathy Raddatz, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-4141 Michael Welch, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-8502

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