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Teachers from Oneonta’s Greater Plains Elementary School run through the rain among the 800 girls who ran in the Sunday, June 2, Girls on the Run 5K in Cooperstown. After a hiatus, the Oneonta school began participating again this year.
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Josh Edmonds, right, a partner in the Simple Integrity construction company, pauses with members of his team, Norm Farwell, Morris, left, and Tanner Ray, Edmeston, in front of 45 Delaware St., Cooperstown. Edmonds expects the structure, now completed, to be certified by the Passive House Institute.
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rivers on Route 28 have been watching a new Milford Methodist Church rising for the past year after its 1930 predecessor burned on March 12, 2017. By LIBBY CUDMORE It’s now complete, and the public is invited to an open house 3-5 p.m. Saturday, COOPERSTOWN June 8, to tour the new building. rowing up, Ryan Miosek spent The first service in the many afternoons in photographer church will be at 10:45 a.m. Jim Kosinski’s darkroom above Sunday, June 9. Danny’s Market, developing film he had shot around town. “All we ON OTSEGO.com had to do was pro►ONEONTA’S NINJA WARRIOR Anvide the thony Eardley will make his run paper,” he on the American Ninja Warrior said. “The course on Monday, June 24, chemicals with a screening of the epiand equipsode at Foothills Performing An artist’s render shows ment were Arts Center. all there, the final product. ►TEMPLE BETH EL will vote on a free of successor to Rabbi Molly Karp, charge. As long as we showed respect to who has served locally for almost five years during their the place, you could get a key.” 84th annual Congregational Now, Miosek is president of a board of Meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday, directors trying to develop 53 Pioneer St., June 9, a stone row house that’s one of the oldest ► TRAMPOLINE delivered the buildings in the village, into Studio 53, a first pieces of “We’re Onta community arts center. Something” ephemera to Please See ARTS, A11 downtown merchants, includ-
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Deadline July 12 For Oneonta Grants second and third floors, it doesn’t lend itself to a vibrant Main Street.” On Monday, June 3, the City of Oneonta began accepting applications for a second round down Downtown Revitalization Initiative grants, this one to create “high-quality upper-story housing units” in the downtown. As of presstime Tuesday evening, no applications had Please See GRANTS, A11
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Town of Maryland farmer is facing six misdeameanor counts after being charged with torturing and failing to provide sustenance to 25 cows who were found dead on his farm Tuesday, May 28 Dale E. Putman Jr., 69, of Coopertown Junction, was arrested after the Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies were called to his farm for a complaint of possible dead animals.
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ilmmaker Jessica Vecchione has won her second film festival award for her documentary “A Slice of Hope: Recovery Friendly Employment in Oneonta” The first award was “Best Short Documentary” from the prestigious Manhattan Rep’s Film Festival, and the “Hope Award” from the New Jersey Recovery Vecchione Film Festival in Edison, N.H. “A Slice of Hope” is a 15-minute documentary which features the owners of Sal’s Pizza in Oneonta who made a conscious decision to become a recovery friendly employer. This started a trend that now has 13 local employers following suit, employing dozens of people in recovery.
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OTSEGO COUNTY CELEBRATES PRIDE
DeJOSEPH TOPS: Gabriel DeJoseph, of Unadilla, graduated magna cum laude with a BA in government and religious studies from Hamilton College.
ROSNER ON LIST: Cole Rosner, Oneonta, was named to the Spring 2019 Dean’s List at Slippery Rock University. STALDER SCHOLAR: Erin Stalder, Oneonta, got a $500 scholarship from the Oneonta Soccer Club.
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neonta Dollars for Scholars president, Dr. David Brower, and the Board of Directors welcomed scholarship winners, parents, sponsors and friends to the annual awards program Tuesday, June 4, in SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich Theater in the Fine Arts Building. Awards were presented,and honorees shared the personal achievement or experience of which they were most proud. The Dollars for Scholars program seeks to financially assist local students with the increasing costs of higher education and lessen the amount of debt from their respective schools, helping them to reach their higher educational goals. Jade Ackley SUNY Brockport · Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship
Lennon Gelbsman University of Michigan · John K. Miller Memorial Mathematics Scholarship
Jade Anderson SUNY Purchase · Forgiano Family Leadership Award · Oneonta Teachers Association Scholarship
Anthony Giovagnoli Ithaca College · Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship Emma Goff University of North Carolina · Edward & Florence Ostrowski Memorial Scholarship
Andrew Baker University of Texas · Robert W. & Joan F. Moyer Memorial Scholarship
Siarra Goodhue Rochester Institute of Technology · Winifred Marcley Scholarship
Gabrielle Barbera Syracuse University · First Responders Scholarship
Miranda Calchi SUNY Broome Community College · Walter J. & Anna H. Burchan Vocational/Technical Scholarship
Aiden Harrison SUNY Oneonta · Dr. Rudolph & Gwen L. Schuster Scholarship · Susan Remillard Memorial Scholarship
Aben Carrington Hamilton College · The Robert W. & Joan F. Moyer Trust Scholarship
Treyton Hathaway SUNY Broome Community College · Brooks’ Bar-B-Q Charitable Foundation Scholarship
Abigail Dent Hilbert College · Jared S. Trotti Memorial Scholarship · Shane Robert Marmet Memorial Scholarship Liam Flynn Wilkes University · Christine M. Schermerhorn Memorial Scholarship · Herb & Rae Froh Memorial Scholarship Miriamkeng Fonjweng Hartwick College · Michelle R. Goodhue Memorial Scholarship Aidan Forbes University of Colorado, Boulder · Walter J. & Anna H. Burchan Scholarship
Mary Noorlander American University of Paris · Clifford A. & Elizabeth P. McVinney Memorial Scholarship Ryan Packard Herkimer Community College · The Daily Star Scholarship
Shapri Krone SUNY Brockport · Sixth Ward Athletic Club Association, Inc. Scholarship · The Jim Konstanty “That’s a Good Start…” Scholarship
Avery Piefer Nazareth College James C. & Mary Louise Austin Memorial Scholarship
Josette LaRocca SUNY Purchase Frank W. Getman, Sr. Memorial Scholarship · Robert Squires Memorial Scholarship
Bryn Quackenbush Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences · Stan & Linda Syvertsen Family Scholarship
Christopher Lincoln SUNY Broome Community College · Pasquale & Mary Leone Memorial Scholarship
Emmalyn Richard · Dolores O. & Daniel G. Noonan Family Scholarship
Grace Lyall University of Pittsburgh · Daniel & Jean Rothermel Memorial Scholarship
Brooke Rosener University of Pittsburgh at Bradford · The Hon. Robert A. Harlem Memorial Scholarship
Owen Mann Mohawk Valley Community College · Frederick A Puritz Memorial Scholarship · Janice “Denny” Lennox Memorial Scholarship
Richard Serafin University at Albany · Eugene Francis Murphy Memorial Scholarship
Sarah Hansen University Central Florida Rosen College of Hospitality Management · Brooks’ Bar-B-Q Charitable Foundation Scholarship
Hunter Burch SUNY Polytechnic Institute · The Willies Family Foundation Scholarship
Amethyst Gardner SUNY Oneonta · Oneonta Rotary Community Service Scholarship
Jacob Keough – Villanti Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Oneonta Rotary Breuninger/Forman Scholarship · Thomas M. Hughson Scholarship
Evan Sitts York College of Pennsylvania · James & Carol Baker Family Scholarship · Frank G. & Ethel E. Becker Memorial Scholarship
Sean Heegan SUNY Adirondack Community College · Samuel Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship
Montanna Miller SUNY Oneonta · Future for Oneonta Foundation, Inc. Scholarship · Reverend Richard H. Frye Memorial Scholarship
Mariano Hernandez Alfred University · Charles T. & Doris B. Gallagher Memorial Scholarship
Lauren Monroe North Country Community College · Anthony & Marcella Drago Scholarship · The Zuretti Family Scholarship
Gabriel House Loyola University, New Orleans · Nancy Weeks Memorial Scholarship
Zachary Munson Siena College · Douglas Parsons Memorial Scholarship · George H. Lambros Memorial Scholarship
Abigail Thorsland SUNY Oneonta · Lindsay Marie Harvey Memorial Scholarship
Alvina Murray Binghamton University · Frances E. Rowe Scholarship · Margaret W. Ouimette Memorial Scholarship
Reece Thorsland SUNY Oneonta · Josiah & Mary Louise Lawson Memorial Scholarship · Richard A. Murphy Memorial Scholarship
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EDITORIAL
Legal Marijuana Will Enslave Many Of Us
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visitor to Otsego County from Vermont a few days ago described what seems to be a sensible end to marijuana prosecutions in the Green Mountain State. Smoking pot has been decriminalized, not legalized. Folks who smoke it are allowed to grow enough for their own use. End of discussion. Live and let live. Alas, poor New York State, where we’re focused, not on live and let live, but on extracting the maximum in revenues from a prospective $3 billion industry and spreading it around among our partisan friends. After months of smoke and fiery rhetoric over marijuana legalization, Governor Cuomo Monday, June 3, doused hopes, saying it probably won’t happen this year. There is simply insufficient support in the – yes, Democratic – state Senate, he said. Blame it on the suburban soccer moms. Or, depending on your point of view, say: Thanks, ladies. When you think about it, though, isn’t this really an opportunity to think things anew? Maybe Vermont’s minimalist approach is more what we want.
Think about where the state Legislature and Governor Cuomo is taking us. • A couple of weeks ago, LEAF, the Oneonta addiction-fighting agency, brought Ben Cort, a substance-abuse and marijuana-commercialization expert from Colorado, to Oneonta’s Quality Inn for a daylong training program on what’s coming. Our reporter, Jennifer Hill, stayed for the duration, and here’s some of the things she discovered. “This is not the marijuana you smoked in the ‘70s,” he warned. “And not understanding that and not taking cannabis use seriously is doing a disservice to those calling out for help.” When today’s aging hippies were smoking pot in the ’60s, levels of THC – what provides the kick – were 2 percent. By 2011, it was 11 percent. In Colorado, where recreational marijuana was Jennifer Hill/The Freeman’s Journal legalized in 2012 and for sale in retail Marijuana is many times more powerful than it used to be and a danger dispensaries, the average THC level was 43 percent in 2015. – particularly to our children, Ben Cort, a substance-abuse and mariA calming chemical in cannabis, CBD, juana-commercializatoin expert from Colorado told a LEAF-sponsored Please See EDITORIAL, A5 forum locally.
LETTER FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT
ATTENTION, PARENTS: Vaping Is Threatening Your Kids Editor’s Note: CCS Superintendent of Schools Bill Crankshaw sent this cautionary letter to parents and caregivers.
We plan to increase our efforts to protect our students from the use of e-cigarettes, vape pens, or Juuls, which use a liquid solution comprised of BILL nicotine, crysCRANKSHAW tallized marijuana (THC) and other dangerous substances imbued with attractive flavors. Current policy addresses tobacco,
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ooperstown Central School District has experienced a sharp increase in “vaping.” This dangerous trend is a common concern in almost all schools nationally. Locally, the most current Youth Risk Behavior Survey (2018) indicates that 44 percent of high school students, grades 9-12, in Otsego County have used vapor products. This is a staggering statistic and evidence for concern.
nicotine and other substances that are prohibited from use by students in school. Regulation and our Code of Conduct are consistent with policy. However, deep knowledge of vaping by the general public, including parents and caregivers - and all threats associated with it - is either unknown, misunderstood, or misrepresented. We are concerned that vaping is an incredibly discrete practice that is very difficult to assess. Many students feel that vaping is not as unsafe or somehow not as illegal as using tobacco, nicotine or marijuana. Flavored vape products are
Dr. Crankshaw included this illustration showing samples of vaping equipment in his letter to parents.
extremely popular among youth, and play a major role in undermining efforts to take tobacco use seriously. We realize that, in Otsego County, like most New York State counties, the legal age to purchase nicotine is 18 years of age. However, our students are at risk – their developing brains are vulnerable to addiction, and we need your help to carry our concern community-wide. Our Code of Conduct does not allow for the use of tobacco or nicotine products on school property, regardless of age. FurPlease See VAPING, A5
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Businesses Shut, Leaving‘Spooky’ City To the Editor: Oneonta has felt spooky to me lately. “Spooky” is kind of a funny word for a newspaper, but it really is the word that best describes how I feel about so many longstanding local businesses closing. Several were touchstones of my life, businesses that have operated in the greater Oneonta area for decades. I decided a couple of
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weeks ago to see if my spooky feeling could be backed up, so I embarked
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on a project of counting closed businesses. I decided to limit my count to businesses that had closed their doors (and not re-opened in another location) within the last three years. I decided to limit my count to stores and restaurants. Within an afternoon, I had counted 58. A few words about my methodology. (This kind of count is not as simple as it seems.) I counted vacant spaces in the strip malls on the Southside. I counted vaPlease See CLARK, A6
Take Heart: Make Capitalism Work For Us To the Editor: Adrian Kuzminski (May 30-31, 2019) recalls Garrett Hardin’s classic 1968 “Tragedy of the Commons” with appreciation, but closes with a rather forlorn, indeed hopeless take-home message. As I recall, Harden pointed out that, faced with exploitation of “the commons,” rationing provided a workable solution: for example, if “free” parking becomes scarce and is being exploited by the powerful or the feckless, parking meters offer a simple practical solution. So rather than pine for our long lost “noncorporate, decentralized, re-personalized, re-localized model of independently owned and run businesses,” why not seek out practical solutions?
• use our anti-monopoly laws to break up the “too-big” corporations, • give unions equal power, • encourage cooperatives, • regulate corporate emissions & pollution & unfair business practices, • guarantee a national living minimum wage, • make capitalism work for us, the land and our children’s futures? It’s hard to unseat these quarterly income obsessed corporate leaders! But we can unseat our legislators, governors and the POTUS, until we elect governments that work not for them, but for us, and are capable of protecting our local, national and global “commons”! NICHOLAS CUNNINGHAM, M.D., Dr.PH. Springfield Center
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ollie Orshansky was an economist at the Social Security Administration in the 1960s. At the time, she proposed Official Poverty Thresholds (OPM) based on the cost of food. She calculated that any family earning less than three times the USDA estimate for the subsistence food budget was considered poor. That’s how the poverty guidelines began. These thresholds have remained in place for the last 50 years and are virtually unchanged other than cost-of-living adjustments. Right now the OPM guidelines count as poor a household of three earning less than $20,212 per year (Katherine Gallagher Robbins, “Talk Poverty,” May 8, 2019). The problem is that the OPM is artificial at best. It does not take into
account the many variations that exist in other economic situations. For example, the cost of living in Decatur is different than the cost of living in Cooperstown. Not only is the OPM too low, it DAN skews people’s MASKIN understanding of poverty. The “Talk Poverty” article goes on to say that 70 percent of voters have confronted a serious hardship in the last year. The point being that financial hardships are a reality for families earning even twice the OPM threshold. But now, the White House is proposing to make those thresholds even
lower. The cost-of-living adjustments for the current OPM is based on the Consumer Price Index, which tracks the changes in price for a set group of consumer goods. By making slow incremental changes to slow the rate of inflation, the poor, who are already living paycheck to paycheck, are going to have to struggle even harder. The White House Office of Management & Budget is asking for comment on these proposed regulatory changes. Opportunities for Otsego will, of course, be submitting its own. And, the National Community Action Foundation as well as the National Community Action Partnership are mobilizing the 1,100 community action agencies around the country to make comments as well. Dan Maskin is Opportunities for Otsego CEO.
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150 Years Ago
The new Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated on Thursday last. The day being fine, large numbers of people were present from the adjacent towns, including many of the clergy. The financial statement showed an expenditure of over $14,000 for building and parsonage house and grounds, with a balance of $5,500 to be provided for. This amount, after an able sermon, and a very convincing talk after the sermon, both by Rev. B.L. Ives of Auburn, was subscribed on the spot. Many liberal souls were made fat while shelling out the cash and feasting on the eloquence, wit and pathos of the matchless Ives. After the money matters were provided for, the church was dedicated in due form as prescribed in the book of discipline. The evening services were fully attended and the second sermon of Mr. Ives was a fit supplement to that of the afternoon. He left our village with many new friends, who will long remember this noble day’s work of his for Christianity in the Susquehanna Valley. The workers of this church, true as steel to the cause, and untiring and zealous against all obstacles, deserve the thanks of everybody among us for what they have done and still propose to do. June 1869
60 Years Ago
were unknown to Mr. Gardner, disappeared. Mr. Croft promptly and fairly assumed responsibility for the accident and offered to pay all damages. June 1919
80 Years Ago
A desperate boatload of 907 German Jewish refugees sailed out of Havana harbor today heartened somewhat by a shipboard rumor they might yet find new homes in the western world after being denied entry into Cuba. Hambug Germany, their starting point, was the destination of the German liner St. Louis whose departure marked another unsuccessful attempt by German Jews to settle in this hemisphere. But, to avoid collective suicide attempts, word was spread on board the United States government had authorized their landing in New York if continuing effort for their entry into Cuba failed. Kept from them was the news from Washington that government officials there said no arrangements had been made for them to land in New York or any other U.S. port. Smiles spread over tear-stained faces among refugees who took the report at face value. Wailing, which had grown louder during five days of vain efforts to enter Cuba turned to happy laughter. June 1939
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The Normal ball nine defeated the Schenevus team on the grounds in this village by a score of 4-2. Only eight innings were played as the Schenevus team wanted to return home on the flyer. The Normals, as was demonstrated by their victory over this strong team, are getting on their batting clothes and are putting up the game which in other years has made them general favorites. The gamblers and shell men who accompanied Barnum and Bailey’s circus, and who, despite the efforts of the circus detectives and local officers, managed to fleece the unwary in other towns, had no success in Oneonta. One of the gang arrested at Cooperstown Junction, from whose satchel was taken a very complete and expensive collection of crooked cards and dice, and gambling instruments, stated that, so well was Oneonta officered, they had no chance to work their little games. The satchel is still in the possession of the Oneonta police. June 1894
100 Years Ago
A Rear-End Collision. A little after 6 o’clock last evening the rig of S.B. Gardner, in which were himself and two small boys had stopped for a moment on Main Street just
40 Years Ago
June 1959
above Tilton Avenue. While standing at that point, an auto driven by Lewis Croft of Cooperstown Junction came up behind, and either because Mr. Croft had miscalculated the distance, or because the car skidded on the rails at the Tilton Avenue trolley switch, bumped forcibly into the rear of the Gardner wagon. The wagon was tilted up and Mr. Gardner was thrown out on the pavement, sustaining injuries to hip, knee, wrist and fingers. Mr. Gardner’s well-known steed, although she has passed her twenty-ninth birthday, demonstrated the mettle of her pasture by promptly running away. But, before reaching Gardner Place, reflection had convinced her of the error of her ways, and she settled down to a walk. She was caught by Charles Walling and driven back to the scene of the accident. The two boys, whose names
Vaping Threatens Your Kids VAPING/From A4 thermore, our Code of Conduct directs the behaviors of all visitors, employees and students of the Cooperstown Central School District. Our most urgent concerns at the time of this letter lay with our students. Therefore, any student found to be in possession or using tobacco or nicotine products in any form, including vaping will be subject to the CCS Code of Conduct for Students. Our principals, Mr. Brophy and Mrs. Meccariallo, will require support from everyone, including parents and caregivers, as they continue in their diligence to prevent and stop vaping. They will educate, investigate, and provide appropriate consequences for students as the need arises. Vigorous enforcement of the Code of Conduct is one prong of our work to protect our students against the perils of vaping. We will work with law enforcement to identify persons or businesses that sell vaping supplies to our students. We have also supplied information for 9th- and 10th-grade students through last spring’s Health Fair in the junior/senior high school, but are also planning a steady diet of educational
sessions for students, parents and the community on vaping and substance abuse, in general. Knowledge is power, and addiction in new forms, like vaping, is a pervasive threat to all of our students. Please note the following links to more information about vaping and its associated health risks. You should also have access to the District’s Student Code of Conduct to review with your child. The entire team at CCS looks forward to working with parents and caregivers in our communities to combat disturbing trends that compromise our students’ health and safety, as well as their access to all the opportunities that Cooperstown can provide for them. Please contact any of us at Cooperstown for help or information, but especially our knowledgeable and helpful counseling staff and principals when you need support. Spread the word - we need to work together as new trends emerge that threaten the health and safety of our children and learning environment.
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ashington (in 1939) was a more comfortable, more commonsensical place than it is today. The security mania had not taken over. The only credential you needed to cover the White House was a plain white pasteboard issued by the Correspondents Association and signed by Stephen T. Early, FDR’s press secretary. No plastic idents on a chain, no fourcolor laminated photos, no background checks, no metal detectors, no fingerprints, and you never even showed your card. There were no guards at the White House gates, just a friendly White House policeman at the pressroom door who knew everyone. In the New Deal years, I never saw him stop a single person.
A drive to round up reports that have not been returned from farm households in the 1978 Census of Agriculture has been launched by the Bureau of the Census. “The completeness and accuracy of this important agricultural census depend on each individual filling out the report form,” said Orvin Wilhite, Chief of the Bureau’s Agricultural Division. “I am sure farmers and agricultural leaders want their county and state totals to be as accurate and useful as possible.” The farm census is the only government or private method for gathering and reporting agricultural information on a county by county basis for the entire nation. June 1979
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Marty Patton is making lemon into lemonade at Cooperstown All-Star Village. Or, rather, in recent days he was turning a lightningstruck 115-foot pine tree into what he hopes will be the largest wooden baseball bat on record. Patton intends to get the behemoth bat listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. June 10, 2009
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hen Bernie Sanders starts a sentence by saying “The truth on this matter is,” it’s time to reach for your wallet to see if it’s still there. He’s not alone in that regard, as there are lots of candidates trying to sell us on the virtues of socialism. To learn how socialism has affected you, read the last three paragraphs. The major differences between socialism and capitalism can be defined by the role of the governMIKE ment. In general, capitalZAGATA ism affords economic freedom, consumer choice and economic growth. On the other hand, socialism, which is an economy controlled by the state and planned by a central planning authority, provides for a greater social welfare and is expected to decrease the business fluctuations likely to occur in a free market. • Capitalism is a market-based economy made up of buyers (people) and sellers (private or corporate-owned companies). The goods and services that are produced are intended to make a profit, and this profit is reinvested back into the economy. The U.S. is considered to be a capitalist economy, along with most of the
modern world. Economists, however, are quick to point out that almost every society has a socialist aspect or program within it, i.e. Social Security. In capitalism, the government regulates and in socialism it controls. Power becomes concentrated in government and those who run it. In a capitalistic economy, individuals, not the government, choose what to consume, and this choice leads to more competition and better products and services. Competition exists among the producers of products and thus goods and services are produced based on demand. If the same product can be sold for less, that should increase demand. That creates incentives to cut costs and avoid waste – pollution, for example. Government regulation is intended to keep an even playing field and avoid the creation of monopolies that eliminate a key ingredient – competition. • In contrast to a capitalistic economy, socialism is characterized by having the producers of the products owned by the state. Individual citizens, the worker bees, are compensated based on what the government decides they contributed. That might make it difficult to get an annual performance
A spoof of Bernier Sanders’ book, “Our Revolution,” developed by the Stephen Colbert show, that has been circulating on Facebook.
review or be able to complain to your “boss.” Theoretically there is equal opportunity for all and the “profits” from industry must be returned to the government pool (could that be a cesspool?) for the good of all. The government decides what goods and how much of them to produce and then you are “allowed” to buy from that supply. At this point, it would be easy to point to countries like Venezuela and Cuba that have tried socialism and Please See ZAGATA, A6
Decriminalize Marijuana. But Legalization? No
EDITORIAL/From A4 has been reduced from a 1:1 ratio with THC to a 0.04:1 ratio. And rock-form “distillates” created – “green crack,” they’re called – which can be 90-100 percent THC. • “We are really lagging behind in what this higher potency stuff is doing,” said Cort. “We have never studied the effects of marijuana with higher than a 16 percent TCH level on the brain.” Scientists are finding daily use of 16 percent THC five times a week increases the risk of psychosis five times, he said. And it’s shrinking the brain’s frontal lobe, which is where HARRISON SALISBURY from “A Journey for Our Times: A Memoir” (1983) executive thinking takes place. The “Big Marijuana” industry
is focusing on increasing the THC potency, age of onset and frequency of use. Adolescents are twice more likely than adults to become chronic users, and the average chronic user consumes marijuana eight times a day. This is big business, there’s no doubt about it. Colorado went from 280 retail and production cannabis facilities in 2014 to 1,190 in 2017. The number of full-time lobbyists for the industry has gone from 26 in 2017 to 70 today. “In 2017, North America “taxed $9.7 billion worth of weed. In 2018, the estimate is $17-$19 billion will be taxed,” Cort said. • “We know there are ways to mitigate this, but if we don’t do it thought-
fully, CEOs and corporations will run it,” he continued. Do we really believe the lions will lie peacefully with the lambs in New York State, as they haven’t elsewhere? Won’t we rule the day of legalization of marijuana? Certainly, it’s sensible to end pot prosecutions – persecutions, if you will. As with drinking and cigarettes, let adults in a free country be adults and decide for themselves. But let’s protect our young people, who – as Ben Cort warns us – are particularly vulnerable. God bless capitalism. But let’s not be stupid about its downsides. Decriminalize marijuana, certainly. But let’s not give Big Business another tool for our enslavement.
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Citizens: Social Security No ‘Entitlement.’ You Paid For It ZAGATA/From A5 failed. Let’s look a little closer to home. Canada put into place a system of socialized medicine under government control. Has it worked? Not according to patients that describe waiting for months to get an appointment. Do you really want the federal government to be in charge of your health care? Can you name one agency of the federal government that provides satisfactory service on a regular basis? Have you visited the Social Security office in Oneonta? If so, you were greeted by two armed guards who demanded to know why you were there. It would seem intuitively obvious you weren’t there to buy ice cream. Let’s take a closer look
at Bernie. His net wealth is estimated to be approaching $2 million and he owns at least three homes. This is the man who constantly rants about income inequality and the benefits of socialism. Has he offered the use of one or more of his homes to the poor? Has he offered to divvy up his wealth among the poor? Has he put forward a health care plan that would give you and me the same health care benefits enjoyed by members of Congress? Has he, or any of the other elected members of Congress who are running as socialist candidates for President and profess to be champions for the “little guy,” offered us a retirement program like theirs? The answer to each of those questions is a
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f you’re old enough to be eligible to collect Social Security, your Social Security payment is considered by the government to be an ‘entitlement.’ That means your government is trying to tell you it’s giving you that money – even though, for most of us, we’ve had money taken out of our paychecks for Social Security since we began to work. That’s bunk. resounding “no.” Welcome to socialism. • And, believe it or not, that’s only the beginning. If you’re old enough to be eligible to collect Social Security, your Social Security payment is considered by the government to be an “entitlement.” That means your govern
ment is trying to tell you it’s giving you that money – even though, for most of us, we’ve had money taken out of our paychecks for Social Security since we began to work. That’s pure, unadulterated bunk. Social Security is only a form of socialism when the government allows people who have not put money into
the system to take money out. We’re a wealthy nation, due to the success of capitalism, and thus can afford to help provide a bridge to those who need it from time to time – but don’t lie to us about why the system is running out of money. If more people take money out than put money into the system, it will go broke. To make matters even worse, a prior Administration took the money that was in the Social Security account and used it to pay off that national debt. As a result, the money that you paid in isn’t sitting in an account drawing interest and thus growing. Instead it was borrowed (spent) by the government and now all of us, as taxpayers, are tasked with paying back the amount that was borrowed plus interest. Instead of the Social
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Super-Majority OK Aims To Keep Tyranny Out Of Zoning Law To the Editor: For 150 years after Independence, government attempts to limit how landowners use their property were seen as unconstitutional because: (1) Zoning laws take property rights without compensation, and (2) Zoning laws constitute unequal treatment under the law. Then came the ‘progressive’ era, in the early 1900s, which brought us the income tax, direct election of Senators, the Federal Reserve and Prohibition – all the so-called progressive reforms. In 1916, New York City passed one of the first zoning laws in the nation – in response to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway). The building towered over neighboring residences, blocking windows and hiding the sun.
All the original zoning laws in this country were written to address the problems brought on by congestion. The first zoning enabling act was entitled:“An act to provide for the establishment IN CITIES AND INCORPORATED VILLAGES of districts within which the use of land and structures may be regulated by ordinance…” (emphasis added) Crowded cities gave us the first zoning laws but the problems of crowded cities are not the problems of rural Richfield. That is why our 20-page land-use ordinance has served us so well for 27 years – it is appropriate to the area. The proposed 100-page zoning amendment is NOT appropriate, and not warranted. It addresses problems we don’t have and arbitrarily interferes with growth and economic
development. The original NYC zoning law provided for protest petitions to enable dissenting landowners to force a super-majority vote by the legislature. Edward Bassett, the legal architect of the ordinance noted that the protest petition was “a device for the protection of the property owner” and that its purpose was “to prevent easy or careless changes in the zoning regulations.” In other words, the authority of government to zone and the recourse for landowners to petition were born in the same moment. The one has gone along with the other since there ever were zoning laws. Property owners here in Richfield, who have signed objections to the zoning amendment, are using
protest petitions exactly as they were intended – “to prevent easy, careless changes“ to our property rights. Our protest petitions will require a super-majority of the Town Board to pass the zoning amendment. Without a fourth vote, the amendment will fail. The three-member majority may still use our tax dollars to pay an attorney to challenge the petitions – on technicalities. Should they do that? Will they do that? Or will they accept the wishes of their constituents—and stand down? Stay tuned. NICK PALEVSKY Town of Richfield Nick Palevseky will face David Simonds June 25 for the Republican nomination for Richfield town supervisor.
That Ghostly Noise Is The Sound Of Businesses Closing Doors CLARK/From A4 cant spaces inside Southside Mall, and I counted vacant spaces on Main Street, (although I did not count spaces - like the notorious Java Island space - vacant for more than three years.) Otherwise I just used my memory. Some, like Asian Temptation, have been replaced by like-kind businesses, but many, including Oneonta institutions like Friendly’s, Ruffino’s and Christopher’s, have not. And many businesses on this list did not, ostensibly, close due to lack of traffic, including Ruffino’s and Christopher’s. But if Oneonta was thriving the way that we would like it to thrive, they would also have been rebuilt or replaced with like businesses. Obviously, this is a high number of closings. The last few years and the advent of hugely successful Internetbased businesses has come with a lot of talk about “business disruption,” and how a certain amount of turnover in the numbers and types of businesses in operation is healthy. But I would submit that there is nothing healthy about 58 businesses closing in a small city of approximately 15,000 people within three years. That’s enough to tear a
community apart. People can quibble, but I think the general message that this list imparts is clear. We have a huge problem. When you add to this the community services that Oneonta has lost over the past few decades – an airline with a once-a-day run to New York City, several schools including a school district in the Center City Area, Fox Hospital’s obstetrics ward, the Soccer Hall of Fame – we really do appear to be a small city in decline. If this doesn’t concern you, it should. I used up my allotted number of words, so next week I will write another letter with ways I think we can attack this problem. I will say this: I don’t believe that this problem has been caused by Mayor Herzig – who works hard every day to create jobs in Oneonta – or Common Council. I think the root cause is Amazon, and the new “digital economy” as a whole. But local politicians DO need to be part of the solution. More later. SETH CLARK Oneonta Clark and Mark Davies are vying in the June 25 Democratic primary to run for the Ward 2 Common Council seat.
►58 ONEONTA BUSINESSES LOST IN 3 YEARS – COUNT ’EM ►Main Street Area 1. Ruffino’s (Main St) 2. Friendly’s (Main St) 3. McLaughlin’s Clothing & Shoes (Main St) 4. Main Street Market & Creamery (250 Main) 5. Blossom & Sprout (265 Main) 6. Creative Dress (265 Main) 7. Oneonta Spice (265 Main) 8. Liberty Chocolates (250 Main) 9. Ironwood Antiques (250 Main) 10. Red Caboose (Main St) 11. Bargain Baby (Main St) 12. Monkey Barrel Toys (265 Main) 13. Hannie Bee Lane (250 Main) 14. Chop Choice (Main St) 15. Oneonta Hots (Main St) 16. Flashbacks (99 Main St) 17. Collage Food Boutique (265 Main) 18. Boudreaux & Thibodeau Cajun Restaurant (Main) 19. Flapjacks (Main St) 20. Project Anthologies (261 Main St) 21. Piecework Fabrics (99 Main St) 22. Old Books (265 Main) 23. Oneonta Coin (250 Main) 24. Music Square (Clinton Plaza)
25. Fin & Feather (Clinton Plaza) 26. Therapy (99 Main) 27. B ody by Stacey (99 Main/East End) 28. Henry Healing (265 Main) 29. Printagree (Bresee’s Building) 30. Billy’s Burgers (Main St) 31. J amaican Creations (Main St) 32. New York Upstate Creations (Main St) 33. Dietz and Wall Wines (Dietz St) 34. Crazy Gifts (Main St) 35. Innovative Foods (Main St) 36. Fabric Store on Main St (265)
►West End 37. B BQ by Sauvage (Chestnut St) 38. Sauced (Chestnut St)
►Southside Mall 39. Rue 21 (Southside Mall) 40. Sebastian Hair Studio (Southside Mall) 41. Subway (Southside Mall) 42. Payless Shoe Store (Southside Mall) 43. FYE (Southside Mall) 44. Snack Shop (Southside Mall) 45. Bed, Bath & Beyond (Southside Mall)
46. Vacant Commercial Space (across from Shoe Dept. Southside Mall) 47. Vacant Commercial Space (next to closed FYE used to be Radio Shack, Southside Mall) 48. Vacant Commercial Space (East of Southside Mall) 49. Vacant Commercial Space (East of Southside Mall)
►Greater Southside 50. Southpaw Vape Shop (Southside) 51. Christopher’s (Southside) 52. Asian Temptations (Southside) 53. Vacant Commercial Space (Moe’s Plaza) 54. Vacant Commercial Space (Moe’s Plaza) 55. Former Rex Electronics Building (Southside) 56. Sabatini’s (Southside) 57. McDonald’s (in Walmart)
►River Street 58. Foti’s Bakery *Not counting spaces vacant for more than 3 years or vacant spaces in Clinton Plaza
Silver-Bullet Solution: Invest To Keep Aspiring Entrepreneurs Here To the Editor: As it pertains to my candidacy for the Ward 4 Common Council seat, my primary goal is to convey to the citizens of Oneonta that we truly do possess the raw materials and resources to have a thriving local economy. While I am certainly not a one-issue candidate, this article will speak only to Oneonta’s huge need for jobs and businesses. In the last century, Oneonta thrived for two reasons: a vast number of farms and a booming rail industry. With the decline of rails and with farms moving west, we have struggled to adapt. As a population, we decided to stay our course and to continue relying on farming and rails and as a result we have only continued to decline. As a member of your council, it is
my intent to create a culture of entrepreneurship by providing startups with money for rent and startup costs. The idea is to lower the barrier of entry to create as many new privately owned businesses as possible to keep our money local. This will drive money into our area instead of out of it, which will grow our local economy. New businesses would still be expected to secure funding through loans and private investing, but I believe that it is prudent of us to assist in making these ideas realities. But how do we encourage the right businesses to form here in our city? The answer lies on The Hill. Both of our superlative colleges bring thousands of incredibly smart and talented minds to Oneonta each year. My goal is to spearhead a program that would allow these individuals to develop
their big ideas by submitting a business plan for review. Plans would be judged on feasibility, growth potential, and likelihood of attracting money from outside Oneonta. The best plan(s) will be offered up to two years of assistance to starting, refine, maintain, and grow the businesses. This plan will encourage individuals from out of town to stay and start businesses, increasing the tax base as a result. As business thrives and expands, there will be an increase in employment opportunities. At the same time, the business owners are likely to put down roots and start families. This leads to further increases in the tax base. Industry, families, population, wealth; it’s a silver-bullet plan. However, this growth does not happen instantly, it takes time and effort. However, there
is the potential for a huge return and we won’t get anywhere by staying our course. Let’s be brave and let everyone know that Oneonta is a great place to start a business. While there are many more details regarding this program, they simply can’t all be addressed in the length of this article. If you have any questions about this proposed program I would be more than happy discuss them with you. Please email me at gossjerid@gmail.com and I will respond to your inquiries. Thank you so much and please vote for Democrat Jerid Goss in the upcoming primary. JERID GOSS Oneonta Jerid Goss will be facing Kaytee Shue on June 25 for the Democratic Common Council nomination in Oneonta’s Fourth Ward.
Security account growing, it is a debt that we are expected to pay off. Were you asked at the time by your government if that was OK? Another resounding “no”. Welcome to Socialism, Part Two! Mike Zagata, a DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and environmental executive for Fortune 500 companies, lives in West Davenport.
Texan Says: Don’t Mess With Cattle To the Editor: Had the local dairyman moved to Texas and knowingly allowed his cows to starve to death, he would have been charged with up to 25 felony counts, each carrying up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine per head – which adds up to 250 years in the state pen and $250,000 in fines. About the same as for manslaughter. In New York, he gets a Class A Misdemeanor – up to a year in jail and $1,000 fine – the same as jostling someone on the subway or writing graffiti. Helpful hint: If you do not or cannot take care of your livestock, don’t come to Texas. We may be a bunch of neolithic thugs with brains the size a persimmon, but we really get all riled up when someone is willfully unkind to livestock. CHIP NORTHRUP Coopertown
No Place For Gay Marriage In Methodism To the Editor: To all of our Methodist friends at the Fly Creek Methodist Church. I read your statement in local papers about the Church and its position on homosexuality. The Book of Discipline, the law that governs the Methodist Church, states that Homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching. Several attempts to change the wording have failed at general conference, defeated three times with a larger vote the third time than the first time. This is not discrimination against LGBTQ. The scriptures that guide believing Methodists state that marriage is between one man and one woman. To have a minister on the pulpit who preaches against this Bible truth is unacceptable to believers of God’s holy word and teachings. To drag the secular rot of today’s society – divorce, abortion, people living without marriage, babies born out of wedlock – is not necessary. The scriptures have already judged these actions as sinful. The scriptures also condemn all forms of fornication and debauchery. If the Fly Creek Church is uncomfortable with the scriptures as they are written in the Bible, by all means start your own Church, and call it whatever you want to, but don’t call it the Methodist Church. I would also like for you to stop accusing us of discrimination and hate. I have never met a Methodist who said he hates homosexuals. We hate the sin and love the sinner. May the peace of God and his Jesus Christ be with you and yours. I remain, ARTHUR F. HENRY Lay Leader Cooperstown Junction Methodist Church
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Edmonds Expects International Certification For ‘Passive House’ â–şPASSIVE HOUSE INSTITUTE’S 5 RULES
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Josh and wife Jaime opted for an open floor plan, except for one room she’ll be using for her crafts business. Simple Integrity plans an open house later this year to familiarize the public with the workings of a “Passive House.�
FUTURE/From A1 tenance for 25-30 years, and then, just a bit of painting. â–şPoint THREE: : The house will be at a comfortable, even temperature 365 days a year, even if you stroll by one of the high-performance windows when it’s 5-below. “We build a box that’s air-tight,â€? the builder said, “and put a roof on it. â–şPoint FOUR: : You may have noticed sizeable southfacing windows, and just a couple of small ones on the north side. Edmonds estimates, if the heat goes off, the interior will never get colder than 49 degrees. “We catch a fair amount of heat from these windows,â€? he said, walking by the larger ones during a tour of the house. “And the building doesn’t lose heat. It has such a great envelope.â€? Most people in the village have been aware of Josh Edmonds for years, first as part of Dr. Lee Edmonds’
Edmonds shows the tight seal on all the windows and doors.
clan of ribbon-winning longdistance runners. At age 14, Edmonds, now 31, began working for Simple Integrity co-founder Jon Edgington, and continued to do so through high school and summers, joining him fulltime after graduating from
Liberty University. At Liberty, Josh met his wife, Jaime – she’s also a runner, setting high-school records in her native Michigan that still stand today. The couple has two boys, Ezekiel, 2, and Asher, 4. Edmonds’ approach – at 45 Delaware, and an earlier redo of 8 Walnut St. – is based on five principles advocated by the Passive House Institute, which was founded in 1996 by Dr. Wolfgang Feist. Feist built his first pilot home in 1990 in Darmstadt, Germany. The institute certifies passive houses, but builders like Simple Integrity have to meet five criteria: 1) eliminate “thermal bridging�; 2) use continuous insulation; 3) make structure air-tight; 4) use triple-paned high-performance windows and doors; 5) use HRV, heat-recovery ventilation.
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Edmonds is a man with more than just an idea: Simple Integrity’s already created a half-dozen “highperformance houses� in Greater Cooperstown. You may have seen one going up on Norton Cross Road, Town of Middlefield. The next is under construction in Pierstown. “Every house we’ve built since 2014� – about a halfdozen – “has been a ‘highperformance’ house,� he said. Most significant for society at large – and locally, of course – these super-efficient homes can be affordable: 1,200 square feet, three bedroom, for less than $300,000. “I have a lot of ideas,� he said. And at 31, plenty of time to implement them. His next idea surfaced at last week’s Village Board meeting: a 12-unit apartment building at 10 Chestnut St., applying many of the same principles put in practice at 45 Delaware.
ere at the five concepts Simple Integrity builder Josh Edmonds applied to 45 Delaware St., necessary to win certification from the Passive House Institute. â–şOne, Thermal Bridging Nothing outside is connected directly with the interior, accomplished by a five-layered wall. From the inside out, that wall consists of a layer of 2x6s; a layer of ZIP System sheathing and tape; 12-inch-deep I-joints (plenty of room for insulation); a rain screen (the criss-cross wood pattern you may have noticed driving by), and siding that breaths. â–şTwo, Continuous Insulation In effect, a coat of insulation on the slab, walls and roof create an enclosed box, with a truss roof placed on top. â–şThree, air sealing In a typical house, Edmonds said, air changes 5-12 times per hour. The New York State building code has tightened that to three times per hour in new construction. The Passive House standard is .6. The rate at 45 Delaware is .2. â–şFour, high-performance windows and doors All doors and windows have three panes, and are sealed so, when closed, no air leaks in. “These windows are on a par with Marvin windows for cost,â€? Edmonds said during a tour of the home. They are inset from the highly insulated exterior wall, so they conduct less cold than if they were flat against the outside wall. â–şFinally, five: heat-recovery ventilation Houses need fresh air for the occupants. Passive houses provide that through HRV, which allows energy to pass between two streams of air without mixing the air. In the winter the warm stale air transfers its energy to the cold incoming fresh air; vice versa in the summer. HRVs have efficiency ratings of 65-92 percent, depending on the model.
Edmonds plans to price the apartment, utilities included, in the $1,350 range, within the 30-percent housing-cost parameters for a family with a $54,000 income. “I grew up in the village. I love the village,� he said, adding, “You need population This is the nearbase for the village to be what completed structure at it is, for people to work here 45 Delaware. and live here.� Housing Committee has The two parcels, slight less been looking to create new than an acre, are zoned R-2, opportunities for housing in limited to single-family homes. Cooperstown, and is meeting But Edmonds is seeking a at 10:30 a.m. next Monday, Planned Development District, June 10, to finalize its similar to what the Bank of proposal. Cooperstown got to allow its “I’m excited to see what parking lot and New York the village comes up with,� Pizza is seeking to demolish he said. “Right now, it’s the former Triple A building. hard to do too much in The Village Board’s the village.�
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Barbara Meeks, 87, Oneonta; Honored For Work With Poor, Migrants ONEONTA – Barbara Meeks, 87, who worked on behalf of migrant workers and the rural poor, died Monday May 27, 2019, with her children at her side. Born in Syracuse, May 19, 1932, she was the eldest child of John and Edna (Suarez) Horrocks. During her childhood the family moved from Syracuse to South Buffalo and she received her Registered Nurse degree from Buffalo’s Millard Fillmore School of Nursing in 1953. She worked as an
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she particularly enjoyed working on the Mali Education Project, supporting Barbara educaMeeks tion in Bamako, Mali, West Africa. Barb is survived by her brother, David (Martha) Horrocks; her children, Raymond (Ellen) Meeks, Jenny (Billy) Grimes,
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1. The name of the limited liability company (“LLC”) is Price Automotive, LLC. 2. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is April 29, 2019. 3. The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is located is Otsego. 4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: 339 State Highway 7, Sidney, NY 13838. 5. The character or purpose of the business of the LLC is any purpose allowed by law. 6LegalJun.27 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of E2H2NANO, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/26/2019. Office loc: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Miao Yu, 5 Summers Circle, Pittsford, NY 14534.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. EF2018-956 Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 3031 COUNTY HIGHWAY 11 HARTWICK, NY 13348 District: Section: Block: Lot: DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, Plaintiff, vs. NORMA J. STILSON if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants,
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executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SHANNEN E. STILSON, SR.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; BASSETT MEDICAL, P.C. AKA BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER , THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the abovenamed Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $79,810.00 and interest, recorded on October 5, 2010, at Instru-
Marilyn (Jeffrey) Mutter, and Wendy (Jeffrey) Wood; grandchildren Phoebe Weiler, Brendon, Daniel (Alexandra) and Brian Meeks, Kendra (Bryan) Chenowith, Gregory (Madelynn) Mutter, Ryan and Spencer Wood, and great-granddaughter Corrine Chenowith. She was predeceased by Jack, her husband of 57 years. A celebration of Barb’s life will be 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 9, at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford
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ment number 2010-4597, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 3031 COUNTY HIGHWAY 11 HARTWICK, NY 13348. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. BY: JENNIFER NOVEMBRE, ESQ. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 4LegalJun.6 Legal nOtice Notice of
Ave., Oneonta with a brief reception to follow. In lieu of floral arrangements, please donate in Barb’s memory to the Rogers Environmental Education Center (info@ FriendsofRogers.org), to the Mali Project (UUSO, 16 Ford Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820, memo: Mali) or to a charity of your choice. Home grown or field flowers will be welcome on the table of remembrance. Arrangements were entrusted to Johnston’s Funeral Home, Morris.
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IN MEMORIAM Pati Ann (Ainslie) Sloan; With Husband, Ran Farm In Gilbertsville
GILBERTSVILLE – Pati Ann (Ainslie) Sloan, an Oneonta native who operated a dairy farm her with her husband, passed away from this life Thursday, May 30, 2019, after a short stay at Bassett Hospital. Pati was born in Oneonta in 1953, raised in Hartwick, graduated from Cooperstown Central School and attended the L.P.N. course at Fox Hospi-
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tal. She was a hard worker, always learning by doing on the family farm. While in high school she was very active in the Schenevus Drum & Bugle Corps. She met Ronnie Sloan and soon after they married in 1973. She moved to Gilbertsville where they operated a dairy farm and raised three wonderful sons. After Ronnie passed in 1992, she and “the boys” continued farming. Pati was famous for her giggle, wonderful baking, and for the love that she showered on her family and friends. Pati was blessed to have her dear friend Marie Stebbins by her side as she
passed. Pati is survived by her three sons Aaron, Andy and Adam all of Gilbertsville; her four sisters, Donna Pati Sloan Neylon (Massachusetts), Edie Jennings (Cooperstown), Carla Couse (Milford) and Darcey Schilling (Hartwick); her “grandson” Owen Mangiamele (Mount Upton); sister-in-law Patricia Sloan Mills; five brothers-in-law, many nieces, nephews, and friends including Marie Stebbins.
She was predeceased by her husband, Ronald Sloan, her parents Howard & Jennie Irene (Hitchcock) Ainslie, her in-laws, Ernest & Beatrice Sloan, two sisters, Teena Rae Ainslie and Sondra (Sonnie) Croft, her nephew Michael Jennings and brother-in-law Jack Croft. The family requests that flowers be omitted and that donations instead be made to a charity of your choice and that you do a good deed for your neighbor. If you don’t have a preferred charity, you could donate to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Otsego County, 4-H Youth Development
Program, 123 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 and please mention the Memorial Plate honoring Pati’s father, Howard Ainslie that is given at the Junior Show. At Pati’s request, there will be calling hours 4-7 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at the Johnston Funeral Home, followed by a short service. A graveside service will be private and held at the convenience of the family. However, also at Pati’s instruction, we will continue to hold the annual family reunion on her farm and sneak in a memorial service then. Arrangements are entrusted to the Johnston Funeral Home of Morris.
Maude Baldo, 83; Oneonta Native, Lifelong Resident
HARTWICK - Maude Baldo, 83, passed on May 28, 2019, with her loving family at her side, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown. She was born Feb. 21, 1936, in Oneonta, the daughter of Edgar L. and Rosetta (Utter) Perry. Maude grew up on Liberty Street in Oneonta. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Oneonta. She loved playing bingo, watching game shows and the Young and the Restless.
Maude was married to Gordon “Jim” Angell from June of 1952 until February of 1974. She then married Pat Baldo in December of 1979, who predeceased her. Maude was married for 25 years to Gerald Armstrong until his passing in 2016. She is survived by her children, Gail (Angell) and Audie Yager of Oneonta, Debbie (Angell) and Greg Horth of Hartwick and Michael E. Angell of Oneonta; grandchildren, Doug Yager and Amy Huffman, Corina and Brad Baldwin, Jonathan
and Elletta Horth, Joshua and Cheryl Horth, Jacob and Stephanie Horth, Nicholas Angell and Kali Jones, Maude Nichole AnBaldo gell; Nicholas and Nichole’s mother, Yvonne Angell; great-grandchildren, Nathan and Noah Baldwin and Samantha Yager; sister, Regina and Chet DeCarr; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased
by her father, Edgar Perry; her mother, Rosetta (Utter) Perry Card; her stepfather, Harold Card; her son, Bryan K. Angell; her sister, Elaine E. (Perry) Nichols and a special uncle, Lester Perry. A funeral was held Sunday, June 2 at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home with the Rev. Mark Montfort officiating. Interment was in the Oneonta Plains Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hartwick Fire Department Company 1, 3088 County Highway 11, Hartwick.
MOUNT VISION – David J. Barker, 65, of Mount Vision, passed away Thursday, May 30, 2019 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, with his loving family by his side. He was born March 9, 1954, in Oneonta, the son of the late Lloyd E. and Mildred (Laing) Barker. He was a life-long area resident. Following high school, David served in the Army, then in the Army National Guard for several years.
He worked for American Air Gas in Oneonta for a period of time as office manager, and worked construction for various companies. David had a love of the outdoors. He enjoyed gardening, hunting and fishing, and loved to “tinker” with small engines. Most of all, David will be remembered for the love he had for his family and friends as he was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone that needed it.
He is survived by his loving children, Jennifer (Neil) Simmons of Edmeston, Jessica Barker of Burlington Flats, Leann Barker and fiancé Joshua Sutton of Jefferson. He is also survived by his brothers and sisters, Robert Barker (Nancy) of Liberty, South Carolina, Deborah Barker of Mount Vision, John and Renee Barker of Justin, Texas, Sandra Crane of Gainesville, Georgia, Beth (David) Parker of
Mount Vision, and William (Margie) Barker of Mount Vision; his six grandchildren Mackenzie Dunckel, Johnathan Barker, Justin Simmons, Hannah Decker, Madison Sutton and Emma Simmons; many nieces and nephews; and great-nieces and great-nephews. Also, a special friend of the family, Raymond Timer. A Celebration of Life was held Tuesday, June 4 at Cross Fields Road, Mount Vision.
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Hanging ‘Broadway Revealed,’ Steven Joseph Turns Lens To Opera a run at Lincoln Center in 2012, opens 3 p.m. Sunday, June 9, at Hartwick College’s Foreman Gallery. ONEONTA “I’m psyched to have the tephen Joseph’s show come to Oneonta,” he elaborate “Broadway said. “A lot of people didn’t Revealed: Behind get to see it when it was in the Theater Curtain,” photo- New York.” For eight years, Joseph, son of painter Bunny and Howard Joseph, photographed costume designers, set builders, shoemakers, and other behindthe-scenes artists of Broadway shows including “Chicago,” “American Idiot,” “Hair,” and “SpiderKarli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival. Man: Turn Off the Dark.” Joseph sets up a shot in the costume shop at the “People know the Glimmerglass Festival. actors, the dancers, the celebrities,” he graph series got started right said. “But I wanted to show here in Oneonta. the people who create the “Ten years ago, I was shows. People don’t recoghaving lunch with artist nize that everything on that Julia Clay and I told her I stage has to be made.” would love to find a project The show toured based in New York City,” he the country until 2014, said. “I live in California, complete with a book of but I wanted an excuse the same title. But since to come back here more then, Joseph said, it has often.” been in storage in his studio. “I wanted to bring it Clay suggested he meet with Marjorie Bradley back, and Bob Brzozowski Kellogg, a Broadway set suggested the Foreman designer living in Treadwell. Gallery,” he said. “He put “I photographed her in her me in touch with (Hartwick studio with all the models College President) Margaret she built of the sets,” he Drugovich.” “I had the opportunity said. “And that started the whole thing rolling.” to see the book of his work and I was transfixed,” said The show, which had By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Drugovich. “I love the theater, and to see what goes into making these shows – the lighting, the costumes, the stage design – it really brings the theater fully alive. People are going to love it.” “I used to teach at Hartwick College, so it was nice to be able to bring it back there,” he said. Joseph said that part of the project was inspired by his mother. “She started going to Broadway shows in 1939, when she was 14,” he said. “She saved all her programs, and we looked at all of them, studying the
different designers.” The project was also an excuse for the Oneonta native to visit New York City. “I would pick up whitefish and lox and take them up my parents after a shoot,” he said. “It’s a tradition.” Such a strong tradition, in fact, that, to come set up the show, he took an overnight flight into New York City, bought groceries on his way to Port Authority and then took a four hour bus ride to Oneonta. “It took 18 hours of travel,” he said. “But I arrived with whitefish, so it was worth it.”
The show contains all 113 of Joseph’s panoramic photographs, as well as a first-look video at his latest project, a behind-the-scenes look at the Glimmerglass Festival. “I wanted to expand on this project and stay within photographing theater,” he said. “And with the Glimmerglass Opera, they do everything – the sets, the costumes, the props – right there. It’s so fun to photograph.” He started last year, and is continuing in the week leading up to the show, when he will debut a video
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Fundraising Begins For Cooperstown Arts Center Grants Await Applicants ARTS/From A1 As Kosinski did inforFor 2nd-Floor Upgrades mally, the idea is to turn the building into Studio In Oneonta’s Downtown 53, a community venue for classes, workshops, lectures and more including a darkroom. “I want to provide a space for people like me who didn’t have the resources to take an art class,” said Miosek, now a local attorney. “We want to be able to make the arts accessible to everyone.” Anyone can give lessons in any arts-related field, but the condition is: “Participants must be able to take the class for free,” he said. The project began in 2016, when the Cooperstown Art Association put the building – for a while it had been the Smithy Pioneer Gallery executive director’s lodging – up for sale. “They were trying to sell it for very little, and no one was buying,” Miosek said, who was on the CAA board. “I asked them to give me the building for this project.” He put together a board of seven people with backgrounds in art and architecture, including guitar maker Tom Leiber. The building was in bad shape. The front wall was bowing; the foundation was unstable. “This was the only building to survive the great
plans. “If someone comes in GRANTS/From A1 with a full set of blueprints been received, but the deadand an architect, they’re line isn’t until July 12. Building on that, said Project more likely to receive funding than someone who Selection chair Kim Muller, comes in with a project the second round aims to drawn on a proverbial cock“catalyze the creation of tail napkin,” said Horvath. high-quality housing that will attract more residents to our increasingly vibrant downtown.” The goal, said Mayor Gary Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal Herzig, is Ryan Miosek, president of the board of Studio 53, a prospective commu- to fill an nity arts center in Cooperstown, reflects on the future inside the ancient “unmet rowhouse being renovated for that purpose. need for improved For artists’ renderings of the Oneonta Cooperstown fire,” he said. campaign, aiming to raise to assist in the cost, as well housing of the future, type “upper stories” in “We dug so far down into $300,000 to complete the as accepting donations of for young the search line at www.AllOTSEGO.com the ground to stabilize it rehab, including and new equipment or supplies. profesthat we found charcoal from roof and putting the front “I bought darkroom sionals and that fire. But I felt we had to wall’s stones back in place. equipment for CAA four In all, $400,000 in grants early retirees” in the preserve its history.” “We had a private donor years ago,” he said. “And “wealth of downtown build- from the city’s Downtown Once the building was who kept us going for three I bought it back for this ings with vacant or underuti- Improvement Fund is stabilized, crews from years,” he said. “But they project.” available, left over from the lized upper stories.” Redpoint Builders gutted wanted to see the community And although the project $2.3 million awarded by the “If you walk down Main the interior and tore out rally around this project.” is not quite complete, state for the project. The first Street and look up, you see walls. “We want a big They set up a website, teachers are reaching out round drew nearly 100 appliquite a few vacant floors,” open space,” Miosek said, www.studio53project. to Miosek to offer their cations, with 63 projects he said. although “we want to keep com, where they share services when it is. “As ranging from new signage to The funds are to be used the original fireplace,” he photos, project updates long as it has some basis in a complete transformation for market-rate, year-round said. “And the bathtub!” and accept donations via art, we want it,” he said. “A housing. “There’s a shortage of the Tomaino building With the building stabiGiving Grid. They are also talk? Dance? Teaching short of housing for young profes- receiving $1.9 million in lized, the Studio 53 board seeking a grant writer to stories? Fine! We’re happy funding. sionals and retirees,” said has begun a fundraising help them apply for grants to have you.” The money can be used Horvath. “We want the kind to cover up to 50 percent of of housing like Chip Klugo project costs, said Horvath, and Brett Bresee built, that with the owner putting in the rented so fast.” remaining equity. “We’re looking for no However, if any winners more than two bedrooms,” said Muller. “We want to see of the $2 million in the first round, announced in March, the kind of state-of-the-art do not follow through, that kitchens and features that attract people who want this money will be folded into the second round. “The total kind of housing.” amount is not definitive,” But it doesn’t have to be The National Baseball Hall of Fame is said Herzig. “Depending built from scratch. on what projects are not “If a building owner currently hiring a full-time security officer. followed through, it could be wanted to convert, for This is a 40 hour a week position, Wednesday to Sunday, significantly more.” instance, student rentals 12 a.m. to 8 a.m. it will include split schedules, holidays, Information and applicainto year-round housing, weekends, and other shift coverage as required. 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MLS#121223 $299,000 Opportunity Knocks! Well maintained, successful baseball rental on the water at Goodyear Lake. Fully furnished, updated, w/paddleboat, canoe, 2 kayaks. Call Stephen Colwell@ 607-435-6542 (cell)
MLS#104145 $185,000 Cooperstown Cottage! Views of Otsego Lake from this property! Walk to Main Street, Cooperstown and Bassett Hospital. 2 BRs, 2 baths, many major renovations done! Income generating! Call Donna Schulz@ 607-267-6330 (cell)
MLS#121349 $394,000 Once upon a Time Picturesque Fly Creek setting. This circa 1850 Colonial Home w/post-and-beam barn, stocked pond, 8± acres is now available. Call Kathy Fistrowicz 607-267-2683 (cell)
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MLS#117535 $140,000 Well maintained 3-BR ranch on a quiet street. Call Rabiatu Braimah @ 475-202-9551 (cell)
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MLS#114624 $59,900 MLS#121101 1982 double-wide w/3 BRs, 2 baths and 1½ story, 2-car $65,000new garage. New heating system, updated electrical, Land possible Owner 45 mostly wallswith and ceiling in 1 BR. NewFinancing ceiling in master bath. wooded acresP. Teator in Franklin w/stream and Call Sharon @ 607-267-2681 (cell)trails. Call David Mattice @ 607-434-1647 (cell)
MLS#117614 $349,000 Fabulous 3-story Colonial 3,884 sq ft on 6+ acres. 3 FPs in paneled cherry library, formal LR, master suite,1st-floor laundry, 2-car attached garage. Call Katherine Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#119435 $329,900 Tranquil & Secluded 109+ acres at the end of the road. Charming farmhouse w/5 BRs, 3 baths, custom-built Old dairy barn, large pavilion. Spacious 4 BR,kitchen. 2 bath house is close to I-88. Large Call Tom Tillapaugh @ 607-434-9392 backyard, workshop/garage, small shed.(cell) Make your appointment today. Priced to go this week! Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598
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MLS#116968 $450,000 7-Acre private Island Featured in National Geographic Above the flood plain, historic 3-BR home has every modern convenience one could want. Call Erin Moussa @ 607-435-1285 (cell)
MLS#120663 $674,000 Great Opportunity! 425' lake frontage, 47 acres, year-round home. Easily subdivided to 3 lots. Private, western exposure. 2 lots w/lake frontage. Call George (Rod) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)
MLS#119312 $389,000 Impeccable equestrian Compound 60’ x 100’ indoor arena, 11 box stalls. Chalet home has passive solar heat. 11 hillside acres in Walton. Call Lorraine Takahashi @ 845-545-0884 (cell)
MLS#121381 $224,900 Curb Appeal 2006-built, 4-BR, 3-bath home tucked away on 5± mostly wooded acres. Energy-efficient home w/whole house generator. Country life! Call Katherine Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
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MLS#120257 $469,000 Ready to Sell! Presently realizing $2,500/wk as a baseball rental w/Cooperstown Lodging. Immaculate home on 108 acres w/streams and tree stands. Call Donna Schulz @ 607-267-6330 (cell)
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MLS#121550 $399,000 Views of Goodyear Lake on 92+ Acres Large 4-BR, 3-bath contemporary home, just 2 miles to I-88 in Oneonta. Private, lake rights. Priced to sell! Call Carol Olsen 607-434-7436 (cell)
MLS#118443 $150,000 Just Reduced by $35K! 3 minutes to Cooperstown Village! 95% wooded, mostly pine. 29 surveyed acres on a quiet road. Small stream on property. Call Donna Schulz 607-267-6330 (cell)
MLS#115766 $185,000 Long private Drive At the edge of a sun-drenched meadow is huge 4-BR, 2-bath doublewide on 65 acres. Front and rear decks. The ideal retreat! Call Ron Guichard @ 845-676-3600
Locally owned and operated Single and multi-family homes Commercial property and land
99 Main Street, Oneonta office 607.441.7312 fax 607.432.7580 www.oneontarealty.com Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner Cricket Keto, Licensed Assoc. Broker Peter D. Clark, Consultant
Newly Renovated This city home offers 3 BRs, spacious kitchen, front porch plus large back deck. Currently a rental, it would be great home to raise your family. MLS#120973 $129,000
Unique Property! Beautiful, contemporary home w/26+ acres in the Town of Oneonta! Fields, hardwoods, and river frontage on the Susquehanna. Established fences, pasture, pole barn, 2-car garage. Meticulous home w/chalet-style windows overlooking wrap-around deck w/views. Oak floors throughout the first-floor family room, DR, master BR. Oak staircase leads to 2 additional BRs w/shared balcony, full bath and a cozy loft. Heated basement w/½ bath, high ceilings, laundry area, and space for bonus room, office, or more BRs. This beautiful, private, rural property is conveniently located! MLS#121176 $329,900
Historic Village Townhouse The Prentiss-Browning
House is located in the heart of Cooperstown. This 1815 brick home is painted yellow w/a laid stone foundation. Large foyer w/½ bath leads to formal LR w/fireplace, bar. Eat-in kitchen has window seats overlooking yard. Stairs lead to basement apartment. Sitting room/dining area has fireplace, French doors leading to private balcony. Second floor has built-in bookcases, large guest BR, full guest bath, office or BR. Master BR is w/full bath, gas fireplace, private balcony. Third floor w/full bath, attic storage. 2-car garage.
157 Main Street,Cooperstown 607-547-5740
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Otsego Lake Views!
(8596) Dollar-smart, 4-BR, 2-bath farmhouse offers Otsego lake views. this attractive home provides oak beamed ceilings, formal DR, large sun room, fireplace, eat-in kitchen. 2-car garage, 3-season porch. Lake right-of-ways. A very tempting buy! Cooperstown Schools.
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(8388) Enjoy a happy haven in this delightful Cooperstown Village residence offering eat-in kitchen, hardwood flooring, back porch. 4 BRs, 1½ baths. LR, parlor, home office, mud room, original natural woodwork, hot water heat. A hospitable air. Cooperstown Schools.
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ProPErTy DETails —.22 acres inTErior FEaTurEs —2 BRs, 3 full baths, ½ bath —3,654 sq ft —3-story townhouse —Finished walk-out apartment w/1 BR, 1 bath
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—Entry foyer; LR, DR —New, eat-in kitchen w/doors to porch, granite counter, new appliances —Hardwood, carpet, ceramic tile flooring —Den/office —Master BR w/walk-in closet —Bonus room
—Private guest room —3 fireplaces ExTErior FEaTurEs —Masonry/brick construction —Asphalt shingle roof —2-car detached garage —Covered porches —Original historic smoke house
37 Chestnut street · Cooperstown · 607-547-5622 · 607-547-5653 (fax) parking is never a problem! For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Real Estate Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Real Estate Associate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Real Estate Associate Broker – 547-5557 Donald DuBois, Real Estate Associate Broker – 547-5105
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