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une 1, drivers on Route 28 north of this village noticed someone had thrown paint on the Trump 2020 billboard.

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As July 1 approached, drivers on Route 28 north of this village noticed someone has put up a brand new, shiny Trump 2020 billboard.

“It’s exactly the same,” said Anna Johnson, 17-year manager at the Rome Sign Co., which owns the billboard The Trump 2020 billboard on Route 28 and rents it out. Only, this time, “I north of the Village of Milford that was Please See TRUMP, B6 vandalized with paint has been replaced.

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Never one to let a holiday go by uncelebrated, Ed Leone dressed as Uncle Sam to greet passerbys outside of the Green Earth on Tuesday, June 30/4TH OF

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With a flood of absentee ballots occasioned by COVID19, Elections Commissioners Lori Lehenbauer and Mike Henrici said all the ballots, which needed to be sent by the Primary Day and received a week later, were in hand. The count was planned Thursday, July 2, and will be

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Darnell Wooden embraces his son Graham after giving him his diploma at the Oneonta High School graduation ceremony on Monday, June 29. Rain delayed the ceremonies twice, but held off on Monday until the Class of 2020 all took home their diplomas/MORE PHOTOS, B1

nough with “11th hour resolutions,” Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is concluding.

At issue at hand is a resolution, passed unanimously by the Village Board Monday, June 22, asking the state Education Department to consider removing the word “Indians” from the Historic Marker at Council Rock, and perhaps the one at the Indian Mound marker, too.

As the trustees’ meeting was coming to an end, Trustee MacGuire Benton had jumped in to say a constituent had told him using the word “Indians” is “insensitive.”

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Museums, Hyde Hall Open, Joining HoF Art Patrons Reassured: You Can View Treasures Safely

Mead: Safety Measures Led Planners To Think Creatively

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To enforce mask wearing when The Fenimore Art Museum opens on Friday, July 3, Assistant Curator James Matson Photoshopped masks over several pieces from the museum’s collection, including “Laura Hall” (1808) by James Brown, and “Picking Flowers” (1840) by Samuel Miller.

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or the second time in history, the Baseball Hall of Fame had an opening day.

“It’s only the second opener, after the day we first opened,” said Tim Mead, Hall of Fame president.

Libby Cudmore/HOMETOWN ONEONTA “It puts it in perspective.”

HoF President Tim Mead reviews the On Friday, June 26, nearly 81 years to the day of safety manual that allowed reopening.

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It was the next best thing to live music for Caitlin Marvel, Melissia and J.R. Koren, Laurens, who gathered in the front row of the Unadilla Drive-In with friends Melissa and Steve Banks, Milford, as they await the start of the Garth Brooks concert on Friday, June 26. The country star recorded the concert exclusively for drive-in theaters and screened to 300 theaters around the country. In Unadilla, both shows sold out within days of the annoucement, and Spencer Wilson, manager, has said that more concerts may be possible.

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College Dean’s List Oneonta • Danielle Elisa Perrino, Milford • Avery R. Piefer, Oneonta • Allyson Katherine Quirk, Morris • Jeffrey Sarno, Oneonta • Tarrah Skye Smith, Oneonta • Aaliyah Theresa SolisCastillo, Oneonta • Kelsey M. VanAlstyne, Unadilla • Megan Elizabeth Walke, Schenevus • Yury Chernyak, Sidney, • Elizabeth Chernyak, Sidney • Katherine Chernyak, Sidney

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neonta’s Dollars for Scholars works exclusively towards raising money to help Oneonta students fund their post-high school education.

The program is based on the idea that people in the community can make a difference by helping one another. Oneonta Dollars for Scholars has established itself as a friend to diligent students in need of funding for their collegiate endeavors. Congratulations to this year’s awardees!

Katherine Ackley (Adelphi University) Clifford A. & Elizabeth P. McVinney Memorial Scholarship

Abigail Dening (North Carolina Sate University) Jared Trotti Memorial Scholarship

Ariana Anderson (Pennsylvania State University) George A. & Isabelle L. Niles Scholarship Khi Atchinson (SUNY Cortland) Charles T. & Doris B. Gallagher Memorial Scholarship Danielle Basdekis (Florida State University) Walter J. & Anna H. Burchan Scholarship Quinten Bissell-Smith (SUNY Oneonta) Margaret W. Ouimette Memorial Scholarship Alexander Bitterman (Cornell Unversity) Robert Squires Memorial Scholarship

Lily Evans (University of British Columbia) C. James & Lois S. Herrick Memorial Scholarship

Jillian LaHood (SUNY New Paltz) James C. & Mary Louise Austin Memorial Scholarship

Julianna Pidgeon (Broome Community College) Brooks’ Bar-B-Que Charitable Foundation Scholarship

Levi LaTourette (Roberts Wesleyan College) Rev. Richard H. Frye Memorial Scholarship

Tanya Pledger (SUNY Oneonta) William R. Pirone Scholarship

Rilie Falconio-Gray (Tennessee State University) The Willies Family Foundation Scholarship

Sydney Lawrence (SUNY Delhi) Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship

Chui Poon (Boston University) Oneonta Rotary Community Service Scholarship

Maria Farrell (LeMoyne College) Dr. Rudolph & Gwen L. Schuster Scholarship Jack Flynn (Wilkes University) Anthony & Marcella Drago Scholarship Matthew Frederick (SUNY New Paltz) Class of 1969 Scholarshp in Honor of Bud Pirone

Leila Blair (Pratt Institute) Patricia Pantaleoni Memorial Music Scholarship Isabella Bonnici (Aesthetic Science Institute) Sam Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship Alessandra Boxill-Yakalis (New York University) Brooks’ BBQ Charitable Foundation Scholarship

Angelica Goodhue (Nazareth College) Daniel & Jean Rothermel Memorial Scholarship

Edward McGraw (Wake Forest University) George Lambros Memorial Scholarship

Kathryn Seery (Mt. Holyoke College) Jeremy Allen Memorial Scholarship

Kylie McKee (St. Bonaventure University) Frank W. Getman, Sr. Memorial Scholarship

Elizabeth Serafin (SUNY Cortland) Nancy Weeks Memorial Scholarship

Olivia Hanbridge (Binghamton University) Oneonta Dollars for Scholars Founders Scholarship

Isaac Medina (SUNY Broome) Jim Konstanty “That’s a Good Start” Scholarship

Andrew Shapiro (Cornell University) John K. Miller Memorial Mathematics Scholarship

Oliva Hansen (Stony Brook University) Lindsay Marie Harvey Memorial Scholarship

Leia Medina (SUNY Canton) Oneonta Teachers Association Scholarship

Clarissa Shaw (University at Albany) Robert W. & Joan F. Moyer Memorial Scholarship

Martine Hitchcock (SUNY Delhi) First Responders Scholarship

Lucas Breakey (SUNY Delhi) Sam Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship Avery Burnsworth (High Point University) Janice “Denny” Lennox Memorial Scholarship

Emily Rozelle (SUNY Delhi) Walter J. & Anna H. Burchan Vocational Scholarship Nathaniel Schwed (SUNY Oneonta) Oneonta Chapter DAR Scholarship

Keara Hazard (SUNY New Paltz) Richard A. Murphy Memorial Scholarship

Mary Brantley (Stony Brook University) Hon. Robert A. Harlem, Sr. Memorial Scholarship

Devon Loucks (SUNY Oneonta) Shane Robert Marmet Memorial Scholarship

Evelyn Ritter (SUNY Oneonta) Forgiano Family Leadership Award

Andrew Lutz (Binghamton University) Pasquale & Mary Leone Memorial Scholarship

Jacob Ghiorse (SUNY Oneonta) Michelle R. Goodhue Memorial Scholarship

Sabrina Blacklock (Penn State University Park) Brooks’ BBQ Charitable Foundation Scholarship

Olivia Litzinger (SUNY Oneonta) Alice S. Clark Memorial Scholarship

Frances Miller (Monroe Community College) Frances E. Rowe Scholarship (Charitable Trust) Bradley Morell (Cornell University) Angie Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship

Christian Holoquist (Hartwick College) Oneonta Rotary Breunninger/Forman Award

Morgan Jipson (SUNY Cortland) Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship

Caleb Casey (Siena College) Susan Remillard Memorial Scholarship

Mahala Johnson (Lycoming College) James & Carol Baker Family Scholarship

Megan Catella (SUNY Oneonta) Josiah & Mary Louise Lawson Scholarship

Emma Knudson (Wilkes University) Herb & Rae Froh Memorial Scholarship

Catherine Cleveland (Hartwick College) Robert W. and Joan F. Moyer Trust Scholarship

Kamryn Koffer (LeMoyne College) Sixth Ward Athletic Club Association, Inc. Scholarship

Adell Coe (SUNY New Paltz) Class of 1969 Scholarship in Honor of Bud Pirone

Nathaniel Kuhlmann (Union College) The Stan & Linda Syvertsen Family Scholarship

Zosia Thibault (Nazareth College) Christine M. Schermerhorn Memorial Scholarship

Ryan Mussaw (Syracuse University) Oneonta Rotary Community Service/ Selean “Sam” Koury Award

Bradley Jacobs (SUNY Oswego) The Zuretti Family Scholarship

Olivia Card (SUNY Oneonta) The Future for Oneonta Foundation, Inc. Scholarship

Meredith Smithling (Boston University) Dolores O. & Daniel G. Noonan Family Scholarship

Robert Tonner (U.S. Navy) The Daily Star Scholarship

Nadia Nelson (Utica College) Frank G. & Ethel E. Becker Memorial Scholarship

Sara VanValkenburg (Hartwick College) William & Esther Fink Memorial Scholarship

Olivia O’Donnell (SUNY Oneonta) Thomas M. Hughson Scholarship Endowment Fund

Giulian Vergari (SUNY Cobleskill) Edward & Florence Ostrowski Memorial Scholarship

Emilie Orgeron (SUNY New Paltz) The Robert R. Warner Memorial Scholarship

Paige Wandelt (Suffolk County Community College) Frederick A. Puritz Memorial Scholarship

Alexander Osterhoudt (SUNY Brockport) John & Caherine Gallagher Memorial Scholarship

Kelly Weeks (Lander University) Winifred Marcley Memorial Scholarship

Hastings Otieno (Cornell University) Douglas Parsons Memorial Scholarship

Graham Wooden (Mansfield University) Eugene Francis Murphy Memorial Scholarship

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THE GOAL, THIS FOURTH OF JULY: A MORE PERFECT UNION

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Extremism, Silliness Threatens George Floyd’s Legacy

n our nation and county, we have a moment of opportunity.

George Floyd’s death – and, in particular, the graphic video, 8 minutes and 46 seconds of it – caused every American of good will, black, white, Hispanic, even, yes, Indians, to say, enough is enough.

The mechanisms of reform are starting to turn on the question of the moment: How do we retool our police departments so it, finally, once and for all, won’t happen again? How do we retreat from the militarization of local, state and national law enforcement set in motion on Sept. 11, 2001, after terrorists brought the Twin

Towers to the ground before every American’s very eyes?

At the state level, Governor Cuomo has ordered every local government with one of the state’s 500 police forces to review records for the past 10 years and “reinvent and modernize police strategies and programs” – BY APRIL 1!

This is what’s called, not a wish, not a study, not a forum, but an action plan.

Subjects to be studied include use of force, crowd management, community policing, addressing “implicit bias,” de-escalation training, community-based outreach, citizen-complaint procedures, and more.

LETTERS

‘Mecca’ Is Tone-Deaf Way To Refer To Hall Of Fame To the Editor: I am a reader of www.

AllOTSEGO.com as well as its weekly newsprint companion. Twice now I have seen reference made to the Baseball Hall of Fame as “Mecca” and/or “the Mecca.”

Although I too place great value on the HoF and acknowledge it might be very old tradition to use the word, I think calling it “Mecca” is, frankly, tone-deaf.

I am sorry to be so blunt.

For many, including some of our fine Bassett physicians, this would be the same as saying the Hall was just like the Vatican or the Church

of The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. For many others, again including some of our fine Bassett physicians, that term brings to mind Howard University specifically.

I know we in and around your readership value our community, both near and far. I know we wish to be as welcoming as possible and assume your staff and sponsors feel likewise.

Therefore I kindly ask you to consider using other terms of great praise for our fine local institution.

Thanking you in advance, SAMANTHA K. DAVENPORT Oneonta

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Old Glory flutters on Cooperstown’s village flagpole at Main and Pioneer.

County Rep. Dan Wilber, who chairs the Public Safety & Legislative Affairs Committee, Oneonta Common Council, at Mayor Herzig’s initiative, and the Cooperstown Village Board are already moving to meet the governor’s deadline.

Potentially, this will be George Floyd’s legacy. Let’s not threaten it.

• It isn’t guaranteed.

The biggest threat to accomplishing Cuomo’s mandate and George Floyd’s legacy – at base, to create a more perfect union – is extremism and its silly stepchild, overreach.

Extremism? How about Black Lives Matter’s Hawk Newsome, who said the other day: “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down the system and replace it.” That’s going to work out well.

Silly overreach? Last week’s action by the Cooperstown Village Board to remove the word “Indian” from Historic Markers qualifies – and, presumably, eventually from such icons as the “Indian Hunter” in Lakefront Park.

It turns out, though, the word “Indian” is unobjectionable, even preferred, by many Indians themselves, local experts tell us. Some Please See EDITORIAL, A5

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Give Jim Northrups A Say In How Things Are Named To the Editor: My distant relative and friend, the late Jim Northrup, was a Native American, decorated Vietnam Marine vet, and very humorous author.

My real name is James so Jim and I used to joke about how all the “Jim Northrups are strong, handsome and above average.”

He’s gone now, but on his behalf, as his paleface relative, I’d like to suggest that when it comes to naming locations, sports teams and other things - ask a Native American.

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If they’re OK with it, go ahead. If they’re not, rethink it.

Native Americans, including Jim and his brother, are disproportionately represented in the Armed Forces.

They often struggle with health issues, but in my experience, they’re pretty much immune to bone spurs.

If something is going to be named for them, give them a say in it. All the Jim Northrups think it’s the right thing to do.

JAMES “CHIP” NORTHRUP Cooperstown

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Editor’s Note: Milton Glaser, famed graphic artist who developed “I ♥ NY,” also created Cooperstown Summer Music Festival promotional posters since 2002. The festival’s director, Linda Chesis, send out this appreciation after his death on Friday, June 26.

t is with great sadness that we note the passing of Milton Glaser, lauded graphic designer and longtime friend of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.

Mr. Glaser was the mind behind our beloved anthropomorphic cow, and it

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was a yearly thrill to anticipate what brilliant design he would come up with to promote the current season. We were fortunate to have Mr. Glaser shepherding the Festival’s visual identity for over two decades, and we mourn his passing with the larger arts community.

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Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

150 Years Ago

Wanted to Know! The whereabouts of a man who came to Oneonta and purchased a sewing machine on December 18, 1868, giving his note for it, and calling himself J.E. Wentworth, and claimed to reside four miles east of East Davenport, over east of Rattlesnake Hill. He was about five feet, nine inches in height, weighed about 175 pounds, was dark complexion, had dark eyes and dark whiskers, and was about 35 or 40 years of age. He drove a pair of medium-sized horses; the off one being brown and the near one bay. $100 reward will be paid for any information leading to the finding of this man, by leaving same at the Post Office in Oneonta, or at Russell Crego & Son, 564 Broadway in Albany N.Y. July 1870

80 Years Ago

is also a past president of Oneonta Aerie 1250 Fraternal Order of Eagles. Driver of the second car in the crash was William S. Mattice, aged 50, of Worcester. State Police said Mr. Burton, who was driving a 1959 Rambler owned by Hinman Motors of Oneonta, was eastbound while Mattice was headed in the opposite direction. Mr. Burton is a 1944 graduate of Oneonta high school and was employed as a lifeguard at Gilbert Lake State Park near Laurens.

July 1960

40 Years Ago

Planned Parenthood Produces Videotape About Sexuality – “Do You Hear Me? – Four Moments Between Mothers and Daughters” is a 15-minute color and sound videotape produced by Planned Parenthood Association of Delaware and Otsego counties and by the Evelyn R. Hodgdon Instructional Resources Center of the State University College at Oneonta. The production was made possible by a grant from the Dewar Fund of the St. James Episcopal Church of Oneonta.” Do You Hear Me” was developed by the Teen Outreach Program and Education Department of Planned Parenthood as part of a one-day workshop on communication about sexuality with a focus on obstacles to communication within the family and the concerns of early adolescents 12 to15 years of age.

July 1980

125 Years Ago

Of interest to some Otsego County farmers – The flurry in the European horse market has opened the eyes of American horsemen. The value of horses weighing from 1,000 to 1,400 pounds has advanced 20 percent. European buyers are continually arriving and are making large purchases.

Of course, fast horses have been exported in great numbers during the past year, but the draft horse now receives attention, Men like Mr. H.L. Wardwell have done a good thing in introducing some of the best horses into this county.

J.W. Chamberlain, formerly of Oneonta, shot himself and his mistress in Norwich on Monday last. The man fell dead.

The woman may recover.

July 1895

100 Years Ago

Local – Rattlesnake in Park. Thursday afternoon, while John O’Brien was walking through Neahwa Park, he came upon a large rattlesnake in the grass near the road. Picking up a stick, he dispatched the snake with a couple of welldirected blows. With the assistance of Vincent Martucci, O’Brien carried the snake through the business streets and attracted considerable attention. Later the reptile was put on exhibition in the show window of the New York State Gas and Electric Corporation and later removed to Shippey’s Cigar store on Broad Street. The reptile measures five feet, three inches in length and, as it has eight rattles, this would indicate it is 13 years old, as it is said the snakes do not begin to grow rattles till they are 5 years old. A year ago a sideshow with one of the carnivals showing in the park reported that a rattlesnake was missing and they were unable to find it. It is thought that the reptile had been making its home in the park ever since. O’Brien, whose home is at 8 Liberty Street, says he intends to convert Mr. Rattler into a belt for his personal use.

July 1920

30 Years Ago

Supporters of retaining a County Administrator Speak Out: The League of Women Voters for Oneonta and July 1940 Cooperstown Areas issued a joint statement in support of a county administrator, after conducting separate studies of county government. The Cooperstown League report noted in its study of how the county operates: “Because you must A 33-year-old Middlefield farmer, Arthur A. Wannamaker spend so much time on detail, we observe that you are often pleaded guilty to a charge of first degree grand larceny in forced to react to problems rather than anticipate them.

County Court here, appearing before Judge Frederick W. Your time for looking ahead and setting policy becomes Loomis. Wannamaker was charged with holding up the limited.” The joint statement favored a non-political Upstate Loan Company in Oneonta last March 29. He appointee of the board thus freeing the board for policy was captured by Oneonta City Police within minutes after and long-range planning. he brandished a gun on a cashier and made off with an July 1990 estimated $1,400 in cash.

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ating America is in fashion these Find me a country that does not have days. As if you did not know. sins in its DNA. All countries were built Fuel for the hatred comes in on foundations that are sinful by today’s the form of sins. Sins the early Americans standards. committed. They belittled women. They Pick a country. Then read some of its hissavaged the natives. And they owned slaves. tory. You will find combinations of racism, As early as 1619. That was when an sexism, caste systems, slavery, atrocities English shipowner unloaded African against Jews and folks of various religions. slaves into Virginia. Aboard his These sins are widely distributed vessel, flying a Dutch flag. among countries. This is because they flourished in the Age of The haters claim this proves that racism is in this country’s DNA. Ignorance. And that Age of It is systemic. It courses through Ignorance only began to weaken the veins and arteries of the nation. in recent enlightened times.

Slavery is supposed to be our Therefore all white people should feel guilt. Because the wealth of biggest sin. Let us ask all the the country was built upon the people on this earth who live in backs of slaves. places that suffered slavery to TOM The extreme haters reckon the raise their hands. There are barely U.S. is illegitimate. Because of these MORGAN any hands that are not raised.

Slavery has been most everyoriginal sins. where! And the U.S. was one of the smaller Well, there is no denying we had a lot of slavery and a lot of racism in this counplayers in it. (We also beat up ourselves over try. There is no denying that many white mistreatment of women. What country, what people did NOT mistreat women – people grew wealthy by using and abusing blacks. (They abused a lot of Irish, Italians, by today’s standards?)

The Spanish brought slavery to Central Jews, Chinese and assorted immigrants as America? Hey, the Mayas and Incas beat well. But that is a separate story.) However, declaring the country is illegitimate because them to it. English, Dutch and French brought slavery to America? Many Native of this? That is not even a stretch. It is a Americans could have taught them a few ridiculous concept.

I suggest this for a simple reason: If you things about it. They practiced it for a are going to declare this country illegitimate century or two. The Cherokees were major you may as well cancel out the rest of the traders in slaves.

Europeans introduced slavery to the countries on this planet. To hell with the lot of them.

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ighty million native people of color lived in the Americas in 1492; 65 million primarily white people lived in Europe; 46 million people of color lived in Africa.

In December of that year, Christopher Columbus landed on the Caribbean island of Haiti, which he then named Hispaniola, or Little Spain. It was the first recorded contact between Europeans and the indigenous Americans who called themselves the Taino. The Taino were divided into five kingdoms around the large island, and their estimated population ranged from 1 million up to 3 million.

The exact number of Taino people at first contact can never be known, but it is known that after 50 years of massacre, disease, forced LARRY BENNETT digging in gold mines and being enslaved and shipped to other islands to work plantations, the Taino population was reduced to 500 people. The Taino then disappeared from the face of the earth. The first genocide in America by Europeans was complete.

Over the first century and a half after Columbus’ voyages, the native population of the Americas fell by an estimated 90 percent, from an estimated 80 million in 1492 to 8 million in 1650. While a majority of the deaths were caused by outbreaks of Old World diseases, many millions were also killed by the European invaders.

A second genocide visited on native

Americans was well under way. It arguably continues today in Brazilian rain forests and on American Indian reservations.

From 1500 to the end of the slave trade in 1860, at least 12 million Africans were abducted and taken to the Americas. It’s estimated that an additional 1.5 to 2 million died during the ocean passage. About 500,000 slaves went to North America, while the majority went to South America and the Caribbean. Still, by 1850 there were 4 million Africans in the United States. Of the 4 million only 10 percent were free and 3.6 million were enslaved.

In 1850, the 4 million made up 17 percent of the total U.S. population of 23 million, but they constituted over 37 percent of the population of the South.

The American Civil War abolished slavery and gave new freedoms to one sixth of the population. If the nation had moved on from there, honoring the rights of all people of all colors, we would live in a much different world today. But it didn’t work that way. Reconstruction lasted from 1863 to 1877, when it fell apart under heavy pressure and constant attacks by Southern Whites. The Democrats of the time were the party of White supremacy and they used every tool to diminish Blacks.

Economic pressure, governmental pressure, social pressure, intimidation, threats and violence were the norm. Lynching and Please See BENNETT, A6

EDITORIAL: Let’s Fix Our Problems AND Exercise Our Freedoms EDITORIAL/From A4 Indians specifically reject the alternative “Native Americans,” noting their ancestors crossed the Bering Strait – “Beringia” – from Asia 15,000 years before Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454.

Let’s keep our eye on the ball.

• The point is, there are “sensitive” experts out there – as compared to the “insensitive” rest of us, as characterized by Trustee MacGuire Benton – who would be contemptuous of the Village Board’s initiative, first raised by Benton and turned into a resolution by Trustee Richard Sternberg.

Thankfully, after knowledgeable instruction, Sternberg said he intends to at least revise his resolution to allow a period of study before approaching the state Education Department and asking for our local monuments to be defaced.

Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch now says that resolutions, like this one, shouldn’t be sprung on the Village Board at the 11th hour of a late-night meeting, as this one was. She’s considering asking that resolution be included in the packet trustees receive on the Friday before their Monday meetings, so they aren’t ambushed.

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Look, folks, all of us have undergone severe personal challenges, going on four months now.

Some of us, or family and friends, have been stricken by coronavirus. Many of us have seen our livelihoods challenged.

Most of us have been confined, for better or for worse. And all of us have been inconvenienced.

Then, just as things appeared to be improving – maybe, it turns out, in New York State; but in much of the rest of the nation, no – a match was thrown into a bucket of gasoline in Minneapolis, dramatizing a grievous flaw in OUR American society that can no longer go unaddressed.

In both crises – the pandemic and the protests – there has been extremism and overreach, and they are eroding the consensus that will allow us to get anything out of this mess.

Again, let’s stay focused.

• As we enter the Fourth of July weekend, let’s vow to stick to the business of being can-do Americans, and get both crises behind us, to affirm our American system, that we don’t burn books, and can read what we want. That we don’t deface monuments over ideology. That we remove statues by due process, not mob rule.

That we can burn flags if we

want to – even our revered Stars & Stripes.

Except for very narrow exceptions – shouting fire in a crowded theater – we can say and write what we want. If we can stand the scolds, we can use whatever words we want. And certainly, we can think what we wish, as long as we don’t act on our felonious ruminations.

Let’s treasure these Constitutional guarantees. They’re called freedoms. And looking at most of the world, they’re American freedoms. Let’s cherish them.

Let’s learn to appreciate them by practicing them – this Independence Day and going forward.

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MORGAN: Slavery Part Of Everyone History

Slavery is endemic today in Sudan. known as Celts – Jews, Arabs and MORGAN/From A5 And Niger. Countless Nigerians many more ethnic groups.

Caribbean? Hardly. Before them, the are enslaved this very night. Sexual The Celtic tribes of Europe owned native Caribs owned slaves. slavery and forced labor are common slaves. The Vikings raided Europe and When the evil British colonized Britain for slaves. They hauled off northern Nigeria in the late 1800s they in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. Many are enslaved from birth.

English, Irish and Scottish. found the locals held well over two There is systemic slavery on cacao Ancient Hawaiians ran rigid caste million of their fellows as slaves. plantations in West Africa. In Ivory systems. Those of the lower casts were Muslim countries in the north of Coast over 100,000 children are not only virtual slaves. They were Africa bled the continent of countBenton Tillapaugh Sternberg enslaved. Al Sharpton take note please. butchered in sacrifice rituals. less millions of slaves. For at least 10 Wikipedia reckons Indians own 8 Even pure New Zealand cannot centuries! They exported slaves via escape the sins of slavery. The Maoris, the Red Sea, via Swahili ports onto the million slaves today. Chinese own nearly 4 million. its native people, scorn European Indian Ocean. They paraded millions Japan’s history is blighted by settlers for abusing them when they in caravans over trans-Saharan routes. arrived. Yet the native Maoris made Royalty of various African countries slavery. As are the histories of India, first,” she added.

INDIAN/From A1 China, Korea, Burma, Thailand, slaves out of their defeated enemies. built their wealth on the slave trade.

Going forward, the mayor Brutal hardly describes how they Trustee Richard Sternberg Bhutan, Tibet and all of Southeast My point? It is to those who delight in said she is going to ask quickly recast Benton’s Asia. The Philippines were thick with claiming the U.S. is illegitimate because rounded up and shipped slaves to the trustees to submit prospec- coasts. Where other Africans grew rich slaves before the Spanish arrived. remarks in resolution form, of its history of slavery. If the U.S. is tive resolutions to Village which within minutes was And Europe? Well, the Romans illegitimate, what country is not? What selling them to Europeans. put to a vote asking the state Administrator Teri Barown were equal opportunity slavers. They country has no slavery in its DNA? The rulers of Algiers captured by the Friday before each Education Department to enslaved Greeks, Berbers, Germans, Tom Morgan, the retired Oneonta a million and half Christians and meeting. It can then be change the language.

Britons, Slavs, Thracians (Let’s hear it investment counselor whose column is Europeans. Whom they forced into included in the packet of This Monday, the for the Thracians!), Gauls – otherwise national syndicated, lives in Franklin. slavery. In the 19th century. information trustees review 29th, Sternberg issued an apologie. “After discussions over the weekend in advance of their monthly meeting. with people much more She is also referring the knowledgeable than I about “Indians” matter to the viltribal histories and affairs,” a tree and set on fire. More often than their own, and then often only after BENNETT/From A5 lage’s Parks Board, chaired he stated in a press release, not victims would then be dismemprotests and demonstrations. other forms of murder were common.

by Trustee Jeanne Dewey, “I realized that my wording bered. It’s hard to imagine human Since 2015, American police have A third genocide continued. to come to an understanding was poor and that I didn’t beings committing such vile and cruel killed over 1,000 people every year, A key part of the posteven state well what my true of what sensitivities, if any, acts against other human beings. with over one third being people of Reconstruction repression of black surround the word “Indians” intention was.

Over 4,000 people were lynched in color. It appears that institutionalAmericans was the use of white and whether any further “I have requested that the U.S. between 1877 and 1950. The ized dehumanization of these people, government forces -- be they sheriffs, action is warranted. the other trustees delay vast majority were Black. That was be they black, Hispanic, or Native policemen, guardsmen, or judges For his part, Benton, implementing it until I can over one lynching a week for 73 years. American, encourages the police to – to visit daily and deadly violence withdraw and replace it,” he the trustee who started the All in a nation that declared itself pull the trigger quicker. As a culture, on black citizen. Whites creating the whole thing, said he supports wrote. dedicated to liberty and justice for all. white European-descended Americans violence went unpunished. (Does this Sternberg’s decision to How might that be Today, black Americans make up have always dehumanized and demonsound eerily familiar?) withdraw the motion. avoided in the future? about 13 per cent of our population, ized others. We have always slaughAfter the end of Reconstruction, Still, he echoed the “I don’t want to hamper but are three times more likely to be tered others for their land, their gold lynching intensified. Lynching resolution: “I see the village anybody in any way,” said killed by police than whites. Typically, and silver, and finally, just because involved criminal accusations, often reaching out to tribal leaders Mayor Tillapaugh. “But they don’t look like us. false, against a black citizen, an arrest, 30 per cent of black victims are there has to be more research in Upstate New York and the Larry Bennett, recently retired and the assembly of a lynch mob intent unarmed compared to 19 percent of state Education Department and nuanced phrasing.

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Leila Blair stands as she is recognized for her scholarship awards at the first of the three graduation ceremonies at Oneonta High School on Monday, June 29. The ceremony, originally schedule for Saturday, June 27, was postponed twice due to rain.

Alexander Bitterman gives his Valedictory to his fellow classmates, focusing on their unique experiences with online learning.

Danielle Basdekis, center, walks alongside parents Teri and Theodoros Basdekis to go accept her diploma.

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►Oneonta Central School • CLASS OF 2020 ONEONTA – Oneonta High School graduated 126 seniors at its 2020 Commencement Monday, June 29. They are: Katherine Ackley Arianna Anderson Marco Armado Khi Atchinson Khysani Atkinson Adam Babieradzki Danielle Basdekis Jenna Bishop Quinten Bissell-Smith Alex Bitterman Sabrina Blacklock Leila Blair Isabella Bonnici Alessandra Boxill-Yakalis Mary Brantley Lucas Breakey Alyssa Bredin Jacob Bredin Joshua Burnham Avery Burnsworth Lucas Burrows Olivia Card Caleb Casey Ariatne Castillo Megan Catella Alexander Ceacareanu Catherine Cleveland Adell Coe Dawson Coffey Abigail Dening William Dent Liam Dillon Lily Evans Rilie Falconio-Grey Maria Farrell Jack Flynn Matthew Frederick Tyler Froh Fiona Gabron Jade Gant Jacob Ghiorse Sebastien Gifford Angelica Goodhue Abigail Gouldin Ryan Gracey Samuel Guerbert Olivia Hanbridge Olivia Hansen Hailee Harby Taylor Harkenreader Ryan Hasbrouck Jakob Haynes Keara Hazard Martine Hitchcock Christian Holoquist Bradley Jacobs Ashley James Stevan Jelic Morgan Jipson Laine Johnson

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SCHENEVUS – Schenevus Central School graduated 28 seniors Friday, June 26. : They are: Austin R. Berry Patricia L. Biegel Victoria L. Biegel Hunter R. Bryan

Kaylea D. Burns Gabriella L. Chiaravalle Emily M. Craig Peyton L. Darling Samantha L. Dixon Hugh R. Gallagher Dillon J. Gaske Charlotte Lutten Olivia M. Lynch

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DeGlee Land Holdings, LLC, a NY limited liability company (LLC).

Notice of Formation of Actively Becoming Me LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/30/20.

Off. loc.: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail 855 Smokey Ave., Schenevus, NY 12155.

Purp.: any lawful.

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Notice of Formation of

Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State (NYSS) on 05/04/2020.

Office: Otsego County.

NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: 2093 County Highway 18, South New Berlin, New York 13843.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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THURSDAY, July 2, 2020

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IN MEMORIAM

Adam Pierce

Mary C. Erbe, 97

July 18, Fortin Park, Oneonta ONEONTA – Celebration of Life for Adam Pierce will be held on July 18, 2020, at Fortin Park in Oneonta. We hope you can come spend the afternoon with us on what would have been Adam’s 46th birthday.

Please gather between 12:00-12:30. A service of remembrance will begin at 12:30. After that, we invite

everyone to enjoy a catered picnic and an afternoon of sharing memories and playing games. Our hope is to have the smiles outnumber the tears, as we know that is what Adam would want.

Adam loved the simple things in life and we hope to spend a day enjoying those simple things with everyone he cared about. We really

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hope you can make it.

This is an informal event and we want you to be comfortable. Please feel free to wear shorts and T-shirts, as this is what his family will be wearing.

We must follow CDC guidelines and be respectful of social distancing. Thank you for your cooperation.

Clifford Nelson Forman, 85 July 1934 - June 29, 2020

COOPERSTOWN – Adventurer Clifford Nelson Forman passed away June 29, 2020, at the family cottage on Otsego Lake, with a wonderful view of the glimmering lake before him while surrounded by his loving partner, Carolyn Skorka, family members and friends, with whom he was able to smile and share stories of his many remarkable adventures.

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until Sept. 26, 1956, serving as a paratrooper’s photographer. During his service he took many remarkable photos.

Cliff began his lifelong vocation and avocation of spelunking at the age of 13 and over the years helped develop several caves as commercial enterprises. He loved the outdoors including hiking, hunting and skiing.

Self-employed in several other creative retail businesses, Cliff also built two sailboats in his backyard upon which he sailed into many adventures.

Cliff was preceded in death by his parents, Clifford A. Forman and Lucy Grimmell Boies Forman, who called their only child “Cubbie”. He was born in July 1934 and at the venerable age of 85 was preceded in death by two grandchildren, Shay and Caiden. His family legacy lives on in his two daughters, Kathleen “Kat” Harrison and Sandra Baldwin. He is also

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survived by grandchildren Sasha Jurwarker, Safia Harrison and Samantha Hammond along with their children, his great-grandchildren, Alaura, Angelina, Aleah, Carter, Arthur, and Yohan.

Due to the pandemic, services will be held through Zoom on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at 10 a.m. Friends wishing to join are invited to call 346-248-7799 shortly before 10 and enter the meeting ID number of 6392872004.

Arrangements are under the care of Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.

ONEONTA– Mary C. Erbe, the Wednesday Bridge Club.

97, passed away June 28, She was recently profiled 2020 at A.O. Fox in a story for this Hospital in Oneonta. newspaper as one Born in Oneonta, of the original resiAugust 26, 1922, the dents of the Plains daughter of Sheldon at Parish HomeH. and Gertrude stead.

(Strong) Close. She She is survived married Donald D. by her children, Erbe on June 10, Richard (Marion) 1944. He died SepErbe of Simi Valley, tember 5, 1992.

CA, Dean (Barbara) Mary graduated Erbe of Oneonta, from Bugee School, and Elizabeth J.E. Mary C. Oneonta High School (Lonny) Wilcox of Erbe and Syracuse Colorado Springs, University. She was a CO; 8 grandchildren; member of Pi Beta Phi 9 great-grandchildren and 1 Sorority. A life member of the great-great-grandchild.

First Presbyterian Church, She was predeceased by where she served as a her parents; her son, David Trustee and an Elder. Mary Erbe; her sister, Martha Close also served on the Board of Nesbitt and her brother, Directors of the Oneonta Edward S. Close.

Family YMCA; the Executive A celebration of life service Committee of the Hartwick will be at a later date at the College Citizens Board, a First Presbyterian Church. director of Friends of Hunting- The burial will take place at ton Library Board. She was a member of the Oneonta Federated Garden Club, the Oneonta Country Club and for over 50 years she played in

the Glenwood Cemetery in Oneonta.

Donations may be made to the Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820 or the Oneonta Family YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820.

Expressions of sympathy may be sent to, www.lhp funeralhome.com Arrangements are by Oneonta’s only family owned funeral home, Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono at 51 Dietz Street.

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MUSEUMS/From A1 “We took the artwork and utilized it for our signage,” said Todd Kenyon, communications director.

Following the announcement of the opening of the Baseball Hall of Fame on Friday, June 28, The Farmers’ Museum, Fenimore Art Museum and Hyde Hall announced they would start their seasons: Hyde Hall on Wednesday, July 1; The Farmers’ and Fenimore on Friday, July 3.

“It’s been a long winter,” said Kenyon. “Everyone wants to come back, but they want to do it safely.”

Though the Fenimore postponed headlining exhibits “Keith Haring: Radiant Vision,” “Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams”, and “The World of Jan Brett” until 2020, the museum has lowered its prices to $10 for adults. “We’re hoping reduced pricing balances it out,” said Kenyon.

In the Clark Gallery, “Prismatic Beauty: American People and American Art” is on display, and

“Blue Gardens: Photographs by Gross and Daley” and “Elegant Line/Powerful Shape: Elements of Native American Art” are also opening. Though tickets can be purchased at the door, the museum is limited to 150 visitors at a time, with strict limitations on how many can be in each gallery. “In the Clark and Thaw galleries, there can be 30 people at a time,” said Kenyon. “But smaller galleries, like the Cooper Room, have a maximum of six people.”

There is also one-way signage throughout the museum.

At The Farmers’ Museum, the entirety of the Historic Village has been closed, with only the main barn and the children’s barnyard open. “We will have interpreters in front of the Blacksmith’s shop, Pharmacy, Bump Tavern and Lippitt Homestead,” he said. “You just can’t go inside.”

With these limitations, Kenyon said, prices have been reduced to $5 for adults, $3 for kids 6-12, and under 6 free. “Even without these buildings open, we have a beautiful setting for

people to come in,” he said.

Additionally, some virtual programming, including performances from the Glimmerglobe Theatre, will continue throughout the summer on the museums’ website and Facebook page.

At Hyde Hall, Executive Director Jonathan Maney used the closure to finish a series of renovations to the house, including restoring the maple stair hall in the West Wing, replacing the plaster in the third-floor billiards room, slipcovers for the high-back sofas and the ongoing restoration of the water closet, the first flush toilet west of the Hudson.

“Hyde Hall has more to offer than ever before,” said Maney. “Explore history with us and see fascinating things that you cannot find anywhere else. We are excited to share this beautiful New York treasure!”

Tickets are available by reservation only, with a maximum of six guests per tour, and masks must be worn throughout the tour.

“This is what we do,” said Kenyon.

“But we want to do it safely.”

Hall Capacity 12,000; Sunday, 340 Visited

HALL/From A1 the first June 12, 1939 opening, Oneonta’s Steve Pindar, visitor services director, opened the glass door at 25 Main St. and called out, “we’re open.”

It had been closed since March 15, the weekend Governor Cuomo declared a “state of emergency” to combat COVID-19.

“On Friday, we had 150 visitors,” said Mead in a Monday, June 29 interview.

“On Saturday, we had 250, and by Sunday, we had 340 guests.”

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The Hall was allowed to open under Phase Four of NY Forward with strict guidelines about social distancing, maximum capacity and masks. “Four weeks ago, we began putting together our reopening plan,” Mead said. “Based on the two weeks between Phase One and Phase Two, we projected that we could open by the end of June.”

He worked with the American Association of Museums, Rock & Roll Hall President Greg Harris, formerly of Cooperstown, and Paul D’Ambrosio, Fenimore and Farmers’ museum president/CEO, to design the Hall’s reopening plan.

“We wanted to see what others had done,” he said.

“Being a museum, we have basic standards we need to follow, but there’s a uniqueness to how we have to clean.”

The Hall is able to operate at 25 percent of capacity – maximum capacity is 12,000 visitors a day. To

maintain a manageable flow, the Hall is using timed ticketing, purchased online, which allows 25 visitors every half-hour.

But enforcing the protocols gave the Hall a chance to be creative. Take the signage.

“Yogi Wore a Mask: Be Like Yogi” reads one sign, and the protocols, including social distancing, not entering if sick and frequent hand sanitizing at one of the 25 stations throughout the Hall – are called the “Starting Nine.”

“Wherever possible, when we did signage, we tried to do it in a baseball way,” said Jon Shestakofsky, vice president/communications.

“Let’s have a little fun.”

The Hall redesigned the flow of traffic to move one way, and in smaller spaces, such as the art gallery, put up ropes to help keep visitors on the path.

To keep touch-screen exhibits sanitary, Shestakofsky demonstrated a rubber-tipped stylus,

which are handed out to every visitor. With it, “you can still push the buttons, make your own baseball card, and see the Holy Grails,” he said. “We wanted all our exhibit spaces to be fully functional.”

And although the Grandstand and Bullpen theaters are closed, visitors can watch the “Generations of the Game” film through the Baseball Hall of Fame app.

Prior to the closure, the Locker Room exhibit had been relocated to the thirdfloor gallery. “It gives it more of a locker room feel,” said Shestakofsky.

During their closure, the Hall offered a robust slate of digital programming, including talks, trivia and virtual field trips, which Mead says they intend to continue.

“We challenged ourselves,” said Mead.

“We didn’t want to look at short-term solutions, we wanted to look at long-term possibilities.”

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But it was found to be insured, Johnson said, so it She’s not permitted to reveal simple politics. “Whoever split the cost of repairing that individual’s identity. put the sign up, they want Trump 2020 with the As it happens, the June 1 to support this gentleman” unnamed customer. Because vandalism wasn’t the first – the president – “in 2020,” of the vandalism, “it became bit of trouble the Trump as stated, Rome Sign a little more expensive to 2020 placard caused for concluded. rent,” said the business Rome Sign, which has 100 There are some messages manager. “We’re going some billboards, primarily “we’ve said no to,” she to add it into our monthly in Oneida County, but also continued, primarily if local price.” in Chenango, Madison and candidates have a negative At the time the billboard Otsego counties, as well as message or unprovable was defaced, Sheriff Richard into the Adirondacks. claim to advertise.

J. Devlin Jr. said it could When the billboard She pointed out the other lead to a charge of criminal first went up last fall, “We half of the Milford billboard mischief. But since he had actually got a call from the advertises McDonald’s. received no complaint, he Milford legal department,” Removing Trump 2020 didn’t plan an investigation. because the village had received complaints from, presumably, people opposed to President Trump.

“Being in business, we can’t choose sides here,” said Johnson. “As long as it’s not derogatory, we don’t pick sides. We put it up. But it isn’t our (message).”

Mayor Brian Pokorny said Jon Hansen 607-432-2022 the village didn’t contact the 22-26 Watkins Avenue, Oneonta sign company – that must Monday through Friday 8 am - 4:30 pm have been another entity – but he did communicate with NYCOM, the state ·· Conference of Mayors when the billboard first went up.

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