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DR. BROWN ASSUMES HELM

City of The Hills

BASSETT LOOKS AT LARGER FOX ROLE City May Host Obstetrics, Eye Surgery, More

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Family Y Junior Firefighters Gavin Underwood, foreground, and Phinneaus Nichols, assisted by Ariann Tubia, wash an OFD ladder truck Tuesday, July 1. Graduation was planned Wednesday the 2nd, including dedication of the new Chief Russo Park on Scramling Avenue. Details at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

High Court Affirms Bans In City, Town

By JIM KEVLIN

Zagata at OHS, receiving an award with Tenneco’s Phil Oxley, fishing with Pataki.

OUTDOORSMAN, NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CONSERVATIONIST, FORMER STATE DEC COMMISSIONER, WHY IS MIKE ZAGATA OF WEST DAVENPORT...

A LIGHTNING ROD

...FOR THE ANTI-FRACKING, ANTI-PIPELINE MOVEMENT?

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his week’s state Court of Appeals’ upholding the Town of Middlefield’s fracking bans affirm prohibitions already in place in the city and town of Oneonta.

Common Council was early to the task, banning fracking within city limits in 2011. The town board adopted two moratoria, in 2012 and 2013, and in March adopted a zoning code that, in effects, bans fracking without using the word, said Town Supervisor Bob Wood.

“We have a ban because we can’t do it here, but it’s really the result of restrictive zoning,” said Wood. “It’s a semantics issue.”

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n e-mail is circulating from Bassett Healthcare’s new president/ CEO that outlines “a series of recommendations” that would significantly enhance Fox Hospital’s role in the eight-county network.

The e-mail is dated Dr. Brown Friday, June 27, four days before Dr. Vance Brown officially assumed his new responsibilities, and it references a healthcare consulting firm’s study that made the following suggestions: • Evaluate consolidating obstetric and pediatric-inpatient programs into one program at Fox Hospital.

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New Tourism Entity Forms In So. Otsego ‘Destination Oneonta’ Aims To Expand MSO’s Mandate

SOCCER MEMORIES:

George Brown, former Soccer Hall of Fame president, recalls his father playing for the U.S. team at the 1930 World Cup competition in Uruguay/STORY, A3 ROCKING DOCS: Gradi-

ent, a rock band made up of Bassett Hospital physicians and surgeons, will play at the Battle of the Bands in Neahwa Park in Oneonta on Saturday, July 5.

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Mike Zagata explores 440 acres of South Mountain behind his West Davenport home.

By JIM KEVLIN WEST DAVENPORT

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n the 40-acre hillside behind Mike Zagata’s home, six pathways have been cut between shoulder-high bushes. His retrievers, staid Briar, 10, and Scout, a frisky 5, love to run there.

But the thick bushes are also ideal habitat for songbirds.

A hundred yards further up South Mountain, Zagata brakes his Kawasaki ATV by a logged hillside.

Only a half-dozen tall trees still stand; sun shines through and thick ground cover flourishes. “Listen to what you’re hearing here,” Zagata said amid of chorus of chirps. “It’s a cacophony of sound.”

This somewhat scruffy scene, the tops of bushes nibbled away by grazing deer, is what wildlife needs, not Longfellow’s forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks.

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ourism promotion is emerging from the chrysalis of Main Street Oneonta as the butterly of Destination Oneonta in the next few days.

The goal: “To get more people to Oneonta; to showcase what a great place it is and all the great restaurants, entertainment, show venues and recreational opportunities, so that more people put it on their must-go-see list,” said Tim Masterjohn, Red Caboose proprietor and MSO team leader.

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD

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State Regents Recognize SUNY Oneonta Professor For Human Rights Work

SPRINGBROOK SCHOLARS EARN SUNY MASTERS

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ennis Banks, to receive this award SUNY for work that I have Oneonta Debeen doing for my partment of Secondentire life,” said ary Education chair, Banks. “I was taught is the 2014 recipient from an early age to of the state Board respect all people. of Regents’ Louis We all have certain Banks E. Yavner Citizen rights bestowed upon Award. us simply because The award, funded by a we are human, including late regent emeritus, recogsuch things as respect, dignizes outstanding contribunity and health. With rights, tions to education about the come responsibilities.

Holocaust and other human “As teachers, we have rights violations. the great responsibility of It recognizes distinmolding the minds and conguished educational sersciences of our students as vice to the SUNY system they grow into the citizens through classroom and of the future. As teachpublic programs, school ing becomes a more and assemblies, workshops, more complicated task, we exhibits, community service, cannot forget what is truly scholarship, writings and important: Test scores will other related activities. pass, hearts and minds will “It was indeed an honor endure.”

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ON DEAN’S LIST: Sean Sansevere of Cooperstown, a theatre major, is on the President’s List at SUNY Potsdam for the spring semester.

NURSING M.S.: Emanuell E. Borowski, Cooperstown, earned a master’s of nursing from Scranton University May 31.

He majored in nurse anesthesia.

GRIFFING CITED: Aaron Griffing, son of David and Rebecca Griffing, Oneonta, is on the Dean’s List at Hartwick College for the spring semester. He is majoring in geology.

Staffers who obtained master’s degrees this spring from SUNY Oneonta through the Springbrook Scholars program are, back row, from left, Katlyn Yorks, Caitlin Smith and Philip Boshart; front row, from left, Ashleigh Doxtader, Renee Vilbrin and James Leech. All are Oneonta residents.

Through the SUNY-Springbrook collaboration, employees of the school for the disabled in Milford Center are able to continue working while earning an advanced degree at no cost to the individuals. The program was founded two years ago by SUNY President Nancy Kleniewski and Springbrook Executive Director Patricia Kennedy.

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Son Followed In Dad’s Soccer Footsteps James Brown, Soccer Hall President’s Dad, Played For U.S. For 1930 World Cup

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n Tuesday, July 1, George Brown, former interim presi-

dent of the Soccer Hall of Fame, sat down in his living room to watch the U.S. take on Belgium in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

On July 13, 1930, his father, James Brown, was lacing up his cleats in Uruguay

to play outside right against Belgium in the World Cup, beating the team 3-0. “My dad assisted in two of those goals,” said Brown. “And when they went to the semifinals against Argentina, he scored the only goal for the

team.”

Then, the U.S. lost 6-1 against Argentina, but didn’t go down without a fight. “The goalie had a broken leg and one player got knocked out,” he said.

“There were no substitutes in those days, so they were down to eight players, and the goalie kept playing!”

Not bad for a kid from the Scotland shipyards.

Born Dec. 31, 1908, James was raised in Troon, Scotland, the oldest of four brothers and one of eight children. The father abandoned the family and took off for The States, and in 1927 James looked him up and found him living in New Jersey. Though the

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Former Soccer Hall president George Brown shows off photos of his dad, James, who played with the U.S. team for the World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. two never reconciled, James “It was heavily sponsored stayed stateside, playing by corporations, and thousoccer for the Bayonne sands of fans would show Rangers. “Soccer was in its up for these matches.” heyday then,” said Brown.

But the stock market crash of 1929 sent the corporations skittering, and many of the clubs folded.

Under rules of the time, because of his father’s residency, James qualified for the U.S. World Cup team, and at 20, he was the team’s youngest player. “They put the team on a boat, gave them each a suit and $350, and sent them to Uruguay,” said Brown. “It took them a month to get there.”

James played three games in the World Cup, first against Belgium, then Yugoslavia, winning 3-0, then against Belgium.

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WANTED: An A-To-Z Plan On Our Local Energy Future

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istening to Mike Zagata of West Davenport, it’s hard not to think of another leading light in the energy industry who has retired to Otsego County, Lou Allstadt of Cooperstown.

Both men rose to the heights, Zagata as chief environmental officer at Tenneco; Allstadt at Mobil, eventually, as executive vice president, engineering its merger with Exxon as his final contribution.

And yet the two have ended up as representatives of opposite ends in our local energy debate.

Allstadt has become, arguably, the most respected advocate of the anti-fracking initiative; Zagata, of a pro-business initiative that, while ambivalent about fracking, supports the tax revenues and lowcost energy the fracked-gas-bearing Constitution Pipeline would bring here.

Spend time talking with or listening to either man, and you soon realize black-and-white characterizations are simply too simple.

• While the anti-fracking movement makes it seem like despoilment is just around the corner, Allstadt marshalled the research – along with oilman Chip Northrup of Cooperstown, geologist Brian Brock of Franklin and

That said, Allstadt is also a powerful advocate of a better energy future, and has begun putting the pieces together to see if Cooperstown can achieve local energy sustainability through wind, solar and efficiency. Exciting idea. If one village of 900 homes can achieve it, so can hundreds of similar communities HOMETOWN ONEONTA across the nation, and then the Lou Allstadt and Mike Zaga- world. ta both reached the heights And he’s sensitive to fracking’s of the fossil-fuel industry. subsidiary threats – even if the iffy practice never happens here – and engineer Jerry Acton of Owego testified before the state Legis– and showed there’s simply too lature in March on measures to little gas in the ground for Otsego prohibit offal from Pennsylvania’s County to have to worry, at least drilling pads from being disposed right now, perhaps ever. of, willy-nilly, in our neighborWhen the anti-fracking movehoods to the north. ment cast the Constitution Pipe• line as a stalking horse for frackNeither is Zagata uni-dimening, Allstadt bluntly said, not so.

The industry will not – repeat, not sional.

With a doctorate in wildlife – build infrastructure absent proof management and experience in that the resource is here. academe, industry and the nation’s He’d walked that walk; he foremost environmental organizaknew: When oil was discovered in the inaccessible Amazon jungle, tions, the National Audubon Society among them, he has as good Allstadt’s daunting mandate was an understanding of nature and its to build pipelines over the Andes resilience as anyone. to bring the crude fuel to Peru’s The benefits and threats of the ports and the world. If the reConstitution Pipeline may be source is there, the companies many but, Zagata argues convincwill do what they will to get it to ingly, it will not signal the end of market. No resource, no worry.

the natural world as we experience it in our fair hills and valleys. If anything, he said, the pipeline’s path will likely benefit songbirds, grouse and other sports birds, and – by thinning out sterile hardwood forests and allowing underbrush to grow – the deer herd, too.

Zagata’s career, rather than promoting any industry’s evil designs, is a model of creativity in pursuit of the public good. Wetlands banking opened lands to oil exploration, while increasing the nation’s total wetland reserves.

Artificial reefs created fisheries; cast-off pipes enhanced habitat.

Good stuff.

• The state Court of Appeals’ welcome June 30 affirmation of local fracking bans – the Town of Middlefield led the charge – opens a new phase in the local energy debate.

Even if we accept that natural gas makes more of a contribution to global warming than coal or oil emissions, the nation runs on fossil fuel, the equivalent of 19 million barrels of oil a day. That’s not going to be changed overnight.

At the invitation of Sustainable Otsego, economist Jannette Barth and activist Jessica Azulay outlined the state’s plan to achieve

energy sustainability by 2050 in a June 2 presentation at the county courthouse in Cooperstown. It’s encouraging we’re having those conversations, but the plan depends on erecting 13,000 windmills on land and sea, unlikely given the outcry in Cherry Valley a half-dozen years ago over six turbines, and a fight still underway in the Town of Richfield.

It’s likely the eventually solution to the national and global climate challenge has still to be envisioned and yet to be invented, and we have to be open to it.

• Which makes people like Allstadt and Zagata so important to any eventual solution. Both have suffered sharp criticism for speaking what they believe, and yet they continue to share informed conclusions.

The two have met, but only briefly. It would be reassuring to imagine the two of them getting to know each other better and, if possible, arguing their way to a rough consensus, if not on every particular.

An Allstadt-Zagata proposal to move our local world toward energy solutions – A to Z, if you will – now, that’s something that would be worth hearing.

FOR THE RECORD

State’s Highest Court Upholds Town Of Middlefield Frack Ban Editor’s Note: This is the conclusion of the state Court of Appeals’ 5-2 decision, issued Monday, June 30, upholding the Town of Middlefield’s fracking ban.

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t the heart of these cases lies the relationship between the State and its local govern-

ment subdivisions, and their respective exercise of legislative power. These appeals are not about whether hydrofracking is beneficial or detrimental to the economy, environment or energy needs of New York, and we pass no judgment on its merits. These are major policy questions for the coordinate

branches of government to resolve.

The discrete issue before us, and the only one we resolve today, is whether the state Legislature eliminated the home rule capacity of municipalities to pass zoning laws that exclude oil, gas and hydrofracking activities in order to preserve the existing character of their communities. There is no dispute that the state Legislature has this right if it chooses to exercise it.

But in light of ECL 23-0303 (2)’s plain language, its place within the (state’s Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law)’s framework and the legislative background, we cannot say that the supersession clause – added long before the current debate over highvolume hydrofracking and horizontal drilling ignited – evinces a clear expression of preemptive intent.

The zoning laws of Dryden and Middlefield are therefore valid.

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‘Here’s To (Musical) Delights To Come’

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he note on my desk written in bold blue felt pen says, “Enjoy long May and June evenings.” I wrote it to myself in 2005, when I was in danger of forgetting the pleasures of long days and late-coming nights. With the advent of e-mails and computer screens, it was easy to stay inside, to think “just one more reply, just one more click,” and then Jamie Kraus/The Glimmerglass Festival poof, night had fallen. June Verdi’s “King For A Day” from Glimmerglass Feswas fleeting, then fled. tival’s 2013 season. This season begins Friday, Since then, I am attentive to July 11, with Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” that note. all the music and opera in der, class struggle, barkerAnd what a shame it Cooperstown.” For as sum- ing, bantering, wonderment, would have been to forfeit mer truly arrives, so does bafflement. And all to be this wondrous June. The the grand season of culture performed by some of the cobalt blue skies were one and one could be out and world’s greatest singers, all thing – rare enough in our about every night, so plenti- singing their hearts out for Otsego. And the light, us. It is enough to make shimmering like clear glass, ful are the offerings.

This year, under the guidone wish for a permanent always perfect. But, oh, ance of Francesca Zambelall-performance pass. But the clouds. Where did they lo, who to my mind could greed is ne’er rewarded. begin, I wondered, how did do for the development of There is plenty else to they tease themselves into young audiences of opera do, for the Festival persuch beauty? Pure white what Leonard Bernstein ac- formances are all compleand floating low, wispy and mented by the potpourri billowy, shaped like dragons complished for symphonic orchestras.

Glimmerglass of special events. Where and caravels, duvets crying offerings are transcendent, else could we observe a out to be touched, rolling powerful and an irresistmaster class by the opera away like waves at sea, all ible menu of great timeless legend Jessye Norman, who taking the breath away. I stories: Puccini’s “Madame has been also singing jazz was blessed to be able to Butterfly,” Picker’s “An of late and has written a enjoy so much of the most beautiful June I can remem- American Tragedy,” Strauss’ superb new memoir, “Just “Ariadne aux Naxos,” and Stand Up and Sing.” Or ber.

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ask a sitting Supreme Court But unless we add two “Carousel.”

We will hear justice questions, as we did Junes to the calendar, June it all – heartthrobs and last year when Justice Ruth has become July. heartbreaks; love, lust, loss, Bader Ginsberg held forth Now, if I wrote a note to myself it would say, “Enjoy abandonment, empire, mur- on the vagaries of justice,

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on stage and off, lending us her astute ear and wry observations.

And this year, the grounds themselves have become an art form, as gallery curator and arts consultant Sydney Waller has commissioned sculptural benches by artists to mark the themes of the program, not to mention the superbly festive fluttering “butterfly banners” that beckon entry that I’m sure Puccini himself would have wanted to spirit away after the show. Perhaps enough to lure his avatar, the artwork will be available for sale at season’s end, with a portion of proceeds earmarked for Glimmerglass. Then laced throughout the summer, for those who like their music in the drawing room or The Farmers’ Museum, or The Otesaga ballroom, there’s the long-standing and venerable Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, brought to us by Linda Chesis, who turns out program after program of great performances across all cultures and ages.

June may be over, and sad as I am to see it go, here’s to the delights to come.

DiPerna, who summers in Cooperstown, is vice president of the Chicago Climate Exchange. She ran for Congress in the 1990s.

LETTERS

Rusting Flagpole Is Appalling

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PAULA DiPERNA • THE SUMMER SCENE

To the Editor: Am I the only one who can see the terrible appearance of the village flag pole on Main Street at the intersection with Pioneer?

It is rusted, stained and in poor condition, yet it is there, as a centerpiece of the village for all to see in the middle of summer. Its purpose is to bear the United States flag, but it does so in a shameful manner. Some-

Coverage Exactly Right To the Editor: Your newspapers’ coverage of the 75th Anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame was excellent! The stories and the color photography were especially well done. It is exactly what a hometown newspaper should do.

On a personal note, 74 years ago, my grandfather, Claude Hall, was a line-a-type operator for The Freeman’s Journal was located on the northwest corner of Main and Pioneer streets.

The building has since burned down.

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one apparently had time to plant flowers around it, but the pole itself remains a disgrace to all it represents.

As in the past, it appears that whoever is responsible for the display and condition of our country’s flag in the village continues to view it as a low priority.

I for one, am offended.

DAVID K. BUTLER, SR. Cooperstown

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History

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

125 Years Ago

The third annual meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Otsego County was held in the M.E. Church at Milford, June 19th and 20th. The Superintendent of Unfermented Wines reported that, of the 22 churches responding to inquiries, eighteen used unfermented wine, and of the four using fermented wine, at least one had been the cause of the fall of a reclaimed man, who at tasting wine at communion, aroused his old appetite and for three weeks remained in a state of intoxication. This incident shows the importance of this department of our work. Mrs. Chas.

Smith of Oneonta will be Superintendent of Unfermented Wine for the coming year.

July 1889

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40 Years Ago

Independence Day was a red, white and blue celebration for Oneontans. It was red for those who headed to the parks and lakes to escape the heat and instead tangled with the blistering sun. It was white for the flash of fireworks which punctuated the lazy summer day. And, it was blue for those unable to take advantage of the inaugural summer holiday because of work schedules. The temperatures soared into the 90s during the afternoon and downtown Oneonta was nearly deserted. Since most of the businesses were closed and travel by car was at best uncomfortable without air conditioning, there was no reason to even drive through town. Clearly the place to be this July 4th was the parks.

The pools were packed with screaming youngsters celebrating nothing in particular and having a great time doing it.

“When I think of the fourth of July, I think of fire crackers,” said Bill Benson, 11, of 2 Union Street. “But I also think of swimming because it’s usually hot.”

July 1974

100 Years Ago

Local News – A shirt waist dance for the members of the Oneonta Country Club will be held at the club house Saturday night, July 4, from 8 to 11 o’clock. A late car from Hartwick will stop at the club grounds at 10:15 p.m. in order that members who do not happen to be motor car owners can return to the city after the dance.

The Otsego & Herkimer trolley company will run an excursion from Oneonta to Canadarago Park and from Oneonta to Cooperstown on the Fourth of July. The price of the round trip to Canadarago Park is 75 cents and to Cooperstown, 50 cents. The last car will leave Canadarago Park at 9 p.m.

To lovers of fresh wild strawberries it is welcome news that this delightful summer fruit is more plentiful this season than in several years. Many pastures and meadows in this vicinity are red with fruit, and a ten quart pail full of strawberries as the result of an afternoon pilgrimage is not infrequent.

July 1914

80 Years Ago

20 Years Ago

chaser found difficulty in breaking a $20 bill.

Hometown Oneonta, 2x5 An investigation of a statewide counterfeit ring has been Run 6/25, 7/2 & 7/9 launched by U.S. Department of Justice agents following the arrest in Oneonta of a man accused of passing bogus money on several business firms. Under arrest is Nick Barry, 35, of 207 Main Street, Oneonta. He was questioned last night by Secret Service Agent Albert Whitaker and Chief of Police Frank N. Horton. He will be arraigned today before U.S. Commissioner Arthur Seyboldt on a charge of passing counterfeit money. Chief Horton said Barry admitted the crime, but when he was searched at headquarters he had none of the bogus money in his possession. Police said Barry has not revealed where he obtained the money, but denied that he knew it was counterfeit. Secret Service men recently uncovered a gigantic counterfeit ring in Binghamton. Word that worthless bills were in circulation quickly spread about the city yesterday, and one prospective pur-

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60 Years Ago

July 1984 July 1934

Is television still cutting into the reading habits of Oneontans? “Not by a long shot,” says Miss Rosanna C. Bagg, librarian at Huntington Library, and she has figures to prove it. “Television hurt us last year,” Miss Bagg admitted, “but this year, we have had a steady gain in circulation since last February. I think people, especially children, have become used to television, and are returning to the library.”

With a circulation total of 51,114 in 1954 through June, as compared with 40,864 in 1953, the gain in circulation for the first six months of this year amounted to 10,250. The largest gain was in children’s books. “The most avid readers we have, she said, are second graders. “They have just started to read and can’t seem to get enough.”

July 1954

Fox Hospital has moved its outpatient service center from the 41-45 Dietz Street office to the ground floor of the hospital on Main Street. Responding to patient concerns and protests, however, Fox will leave blood-drawing services and blood pressure checks at the Dietz Street location.

Patients who need mammograms, phlebotomy and cardiopulmonary services will now find them in the lobby of the hospital. According to hospital official the lobby location is more convenient for those patients who are preparing for surgery. The Dietz Street offices will re-open in September as the home of Susquehanna Family Practice, staffed by four physicians recently recruited by Fox Hospital.

July 1994

10 Years Ago

Freshman classes at colleges in Oneonta and Delhi are expected to meet enrollment targets this fall, college officials said this week. The State University College at Oneonta expects 1,050 to 1,075 freshmen. The State University College of Technology at Delhi projects having 900 freshmen. Hartwick College is planning on 422 freshmen.

Applications at the three institutions indicate academic backgrounds are about the same or better than in recent history. “This class is the strongest in well over a decade here,” said Roger Sullivan, vice president at the State University College at Oneonta. “We’re very excited.” According to Sullivan, 2004 marks the seventh consecutive year that SUCO has seen an increase in the academic profile of its freshman class. The average SAT score for the class was 1105, the same as last year. The high school average was 88 this year.

July 2004

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Zagata’s Career Wedded Love Of Nature, Big Business Cleaner air will ZAGATA/From A1 benefit everyone, “We’re not runhe continued. ning out of forest,” Low-cost natural Zagata continues, gas will ensure sounding like the Amphenol remains wildlife researcher in Sidney and save and Ph.D. that he local school disis. “We’re running tricts hundreds of out of young forest. thousands a year.

We are so focused “Low-cost energy on what we per… would also ceive as pretty that make our region we’re ignoring the more competitive science.”

Michael J. Za- in attracting new This foray up gata Jr., Mike’s business and help the logging road existing busihad spun off from dad, holds a an interview a few fish caught on nesses succeed minutes earlier in a Lake Ontario and grow,” he concluded. “That the Zagatas’ white outing. The means more jobs ranch home behind dad was always there for and the ability to a low stone wall the son retain our young on the east side of him, remembers. and working-age County Route 47. people.”

Inside, the wildlife In response, letters to theme is everywhere – in trophies, paintings and etch- the editor questioned the success of Zagata’s tenure ings, including the original as DEC commissioner, art from “Deer of North America,” by one of Mike’s pointed out he worked at one time for Transco, now former students, Cindy owned by Williams, the House. company proposing to build In the basement famthe Constitution, and critiily room is the trophy of a buck, shot around here, with cized programs he initiated while working for the oil an impressive eight-point industry, including replacrack. In the ground floor ing wetlands and sinking sunroom is another eightabandoned oil rigs to create pointer, shot in Iowa, pure fisheries. “Mr. Zagata is white antlers and hide, a just another wolf in sheep’s regal head on a thick neck. clothing, trying to pull the While younger, it clearly wool over our eyes,” wrote was the superior animal, Bob Rosen, East Meredith. healthier, stronger than the Those letters brought one downstairs. Iowa deer, forth Zagata defenders, Zagata said, are simply including from Bob Harlem, better fed, and it’s not by Oneonta Block proprietor, accident. and Dave Rowley, retired Back on the hillside, ZaOneonta school superingata is connecting the dots.

The low foliage is essential, tendent, who are associated with him on Citizen Voices, he says, not only for birds the pro-business group. Za(43 species are declining regionally; the meadow lark gata’s positions in industry, and bobolink among them), Harlem reported, garnered but for the health of the deer prestigious awards from the herd. He pointed to a young National Wildlife Foundation, Ducks Unlimited and maple: “The top of every The Conservation Fund. tree has been browsed.”

“Mike’s a ‘class act’ He continues: “In the person who wants only the spring, when the fledgvery best for our country,” lings leave the nest, this wrote Jo-Ann LaMonica, is where they come.” The Oneonta. “Mike wants berries and insects in the thick underbrush strengthen people to be safe and move our country forward. I’m them for the fall migration. proud to call Mike a friend.”

“Every time we protest a As for Zagata, he brushes tree cutting – or a pipeline off the furor: “If you can’t – we’re eliminating this (habitat),” he said, obliquely refute the facts, discredit the person.” getting around to what Mike Zagata was born prompted the interview in in Oneonta in 1942, son the first place: of Michael J. Zagata Jr. Why has Zagata be(the son’s middle initial is come the preferred target “D,” so he’s not a III), and of the local anti-fracking, Tressa Wormuth, daughter anti-Constitution Pipeline movement? After all, he’s a of Dutch Wormuth, the local plumber. The Zagata family fisherman and hunter since had moved to Oneonta from boyhood, an academic in Carbondale, Pa., in 1920, the wildlife field who held part of a historic migrahigh-ranking positions in tion: With anthracite-region the Wildlife Society, National Audubon Society and railroads complete, a whole National Research Council, population moved north to work in Oneonta’s D&H an innovative environmenyards. tal enforcer in Fortune 500 When young Mike was companies, a state Envi6, he contracted rheuronmental Conservation matic fever, and his parents commissioner and, most moved from the city to West recently, president of the Davenport, wanting their Ruffed Grouse Society. son to experience country The onslaught was set in life before his expected motion March 29 by an opearly death. As it happens, ed article in the Daily Star, penicillin came on line, where Zagata marshaled and the boy recovered; he’s arguments in support of the a hearty 72 today. (ZaConstitution Pipeline, statgata also credits raw milk, ing, “Some ask why should diverted directly from udder they be impacted and not to Pepsi bottle.) receive any benefits. The In West Davenport, truth is that we will receive Mike’s father turned a roadbenefits.”

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Mike Zagata has cut six pathways through tall bushes on the hill behind his home. His retrievers love to run there, and songbirds flourish there, feasting on the berries and insects.

house into the Tally Ho Restaurant – “rally at the Tally” was a common phrase then, when last call in Otsego County was 2 a.m., and Delaware County, 3. The property included 440 acres behind the restaurant; (eventually 400 acres were sold off, but the son retains rights to use it.)

Day One in the country, Mike walked across the road to trout fish in Charlotte Creek, and his parents encouraged his outdoor life.

Mom Tressa would drive him to Davenport, and he would fish his way back along the Charlotte.

The Tally Ho closed at 4 a.m., and on opening day of trout season father and son would be thigh-deep in a stream by 5. Same on opening day of hunting season, although dad would soon find a comfortable tree trunk and fall asleep; the son remembers moving out of earshot – his dad’s snoring would scare the deer away.

“The only reason he fished or hunted was for me,” Zagata says today.

The parents were equally attentive to his younger sister, Sharon, who now runs a landscaping business in Florida; they never missed one of his sports events or her dance recitals. “That’s what a father and mother were all about,” he said.

At Oneonta High School, Mike played on teams with, among others, standout

Zagata walks Briar, 10, in the foreground, a Gordon retriever, and a frisky 5-year-old, Scout, an English retriever.

athletes like attorney Jim Konstanty, son of the Major Leaguer, and Bob Terrell, who is in OHS’ Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the undefeated 1959 basketball team. He was co-captain of the football team, and four-year captain of the rifle team. When he became an Eagle at age 13, he was the youngest local Boy Scout to do so up to that time.

Mike received an appointment to Annapolis but, having injured his shoulder playing football the previous fall, opted to enter SUNY Oneonta for a year. He liked it so much – among other things, the female-male ratio was 13-1, and he found himself dating a Miss Oneonta – he never left, majoring in secondary education, intent on teaching biology, chemistry and other sciences. A mentor was Dr. John New, biology chair; he interned with him one summer at Devil’s Tombstone, near Hunter, where they set hundreds of traps daily for 30 days, proving there are a lot more species out there – jumping mice and kangaroo mice, a half-dozen types of shrews, meadow votes – that were kept in the background by more dominant species.

He also fell in love with cars, buying a 1962 Dodge Charger and drag-racing for Chrysler throughout the Northeast for two years. He bought a 1964 Corvette, and has owned one ever since, (including a pristine tomatored sample in his garage today.)

On graduation, he taught at OHS for four years and coached JV football, then spent another year at Southampton High on Long Island. While he points out that 99 percent of his OHS students passed the Regents, he laments the end of the non-Regents diploma issued on those days. Young people mature at different speeds and face different challenges. He recalled how his father flunked first grade on arriving in Oneonta: He only spoke Polish.

Zagata tells the story of a student struggling in a

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conservation class he started at OHS; the teacher took the student outside and said: Identify one plant, and you’ll pass. Thirty years later, as DEC commissioner, Zagata met his former student, now head of a state agency, on an inspection tour in the Adirondacks.

“Mullein,” the now-successful adult reminded him, “Verbascum thapsus.”

Zagata describes himself as “project oriented” and “incentive driven,” and – while he praises many excellent teachers he’s known – he found himself increasingly frustrated by the rigid public-school system where advancement depended strictly on seniority. He entered Iowa State, emerging with doctorate in hand, and turned down a Wildlife Society job for a faculty appointment at the University of Maine.

Four years later, he did join the Wildlife Society as research director, and got his first taste of public-policy controversy in helping the Bureau of Land Management develop an approach to free-range horses.

Elvis Stahr, then National Audubon president, soon recruited him, saying, “We’ve got to move away from arm-waving emotionalism to basing policy on science.” Zagata played a role in developing the National Forest Management Act of 1979.

When Russell Peterson succeeded Stahr and brought a new philosophy – “science isn’t quite as glitzy as saying, ‘the sky is falling,’” is how Zagata characterized it – the young professor began weighing his options. At a biology conference in Mexico City, he had been impressed by Kevin Hayes, former State of Colorado beaver biologist who had moved to Tenneco, and began considering the private sector.

Zagata would hold highlevel executive positions for a number of large private enterprises, before and after DEC – Kerr McGee, Transco and, after DEC, Level III

and NRG Energy – but he recalls his time at Tenneco – 1970 until the conglomerate was sold off in pieces, beginning eight years later – as the glory days.

Soon after meeting Hayes in Mexico, he joined Tenneco as manager of ecological sciences; most of his time there, he was director of environmental, health & safety. Six months into the job, he was invited to speak at a women’s energy forum in Alabama, and off he went with a slide carousel under his arm. “Energy development and a healthy environment are not mutually exclusive,” he told the gathering. “They are inextricably connected. Without the money to do things for the environment, it doesn’t happen.”

Attendees included Tenneco President Phil Oxley.

“When it was over, he came up and said, ‘Would you like to fly back (to Houston) with me?’” Zagata asked what flight, not immediately realizing he was being invited aboard the corporate jet. The two men clicked.

The next morning, as he was passing a meeting of Tenneco’s top executives, Oxley called out, “Mike, come here.” Turning to the executives, he said, “I want you to listen to Mike because he can help us.” Said Zagata, “Do you know what that meant for my career?”

The National Environmental Protection Act had been passed in 1969 and, in the Carter Administration, “regulations were coming in by the wheelbarrows full.”

Until Zagata showed up, the Tenneco job had been filled by “good old boys from the inside,” but that was no longer enough. In launching projects that might take five years to complete, companies needed to anticipate how the regulations might change, and it was Zagata’s role to do that. “It was like shooting clay pigeons,” he said. “You don’t shoot at the bird; you lead the bird.”

The job also created opportunities for innovation, the first in 1981 in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where Zagata helped pioneer the concept of wetland mitigation banking. This allowed Tenneco to proactively protect wetlands, bank the acreage in an account maintained by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, then draw down the acreage for drilling projects in wetlands.

“If I could get a permit in 10 days instead of 90, that was a $3.2 million savings” for Tenneco, said Zagata. “Plus, it maintained the nation’s goal of ‘no net loss of wetlands.’ Wetlands actually accreted faster than our model anticipated.”

The following year, Zagata happened on an article about the Japanese building artificial reefs to improve fisheries. “When I looked Please See ZAGATA, A7

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Industry, Outdoor Halls Of Fame Recognized Accomplishments Of Boy From West Davenport ZAGATA/From A6 at the structure, I couldn’t believe the similarity to the ‘jacket’ of an off-shore oil platform.” It turned out Tenneco was about to dismantle Ship Shoal 198D off Louisiana, and Zagata got permission for it to be towed and sunk off Pensacola, Fla. Six months later, Zagata flew down two planeloads of VIPs from Washington D.C., who fished over the new reef for three hours and caught 900 pounds of fish.

Fisheries had been unable to develop in the mud on the Gulf of Mexico; now they could. A study by the Sport Fishing Institute documented economic benefits to shoreline communities; the federal Florida Sea Grant program documented the increase in biological diversity, Zagata said.

These two initiatives and others won Tenneco the Na-

tional Wildlife Foundation’s Whooping Crane Award.

Tenneco was a conglomerate of interests that ranged from oil drilling to tractor manufacturing. When it was dismantled, beginning in 1988, Zagata joined Transco, where he was vice president/environment, health & safety in 1990-94.

It was Transco that eventually merged into Williams, the company seeking to build the Continental Pipeline through the OtsegoDelaware region today.

Zagata brought his penchant for innovation with him, and Transco was soon donating 3,000 feet of 30-inch pipeline to create 160,000 acres of wetlands in the rice lands of Mississippi and Louisiana.

That undertaking was recognized in the Ducks Unlimited Silver Teal Award. That and a contest challenging workers on the

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Zagata was singled out for honors, too. He is in the Offshore Energy Industry Hall of Fame and the New York State Outdoorsman Hall of Fame, representing different ends of a spectrum.

In 1994, Republican governor George Pataki appointed Zagata as his first DEC commissioner; less well known is that Democrat Mario Cuomo brought him from Transco to Albany a few weeks before the 1994 election as DEC’s ambassador to the business community. When Pataki upset Cuomo, lobbying by, among others, the influential Walter Rich of Cooperstown, put him in the commissioner’s chair.

While ethics complaints, mostly dismissed by the state Ethics Commission, punctuated his 22-month tenure – the average tenure of a DEC commissioner

had been two years up to that time – Zagata believes his efforts to streamline the department were productive. For instance, if permits involved three divisions, he sought to have inspectors visit sites the same day, or at least coordinate their findings.

Despite the controversies, Zagata was heartened that at the DEC’s 40th anniversary celebration in 2010, a number of employees approached to thank him for his contributions, particularly on policies to expand employee involvement in decision-making.

A few more years in private enterprise followed, and Zagata capped his career as president of the Pittsburgh-based National Ruffed Grouse Society, whose biologists work with landowners to improve the habitat for bird hunting. He and wife June returned to

his boyhood neighborhood in 2006.

Back on South Mountain, Zagata pauses his ATV by a pond where he skated as a lad, then drives into the midst of a tall, silent forest. “People use the word ‘habitat’ as if it’s one thing,” he says. “Every species has its own habitat needs.”

When you see 1930s photos of Oneonta, there are no trees. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, 100,000 Upstate farms were abandoned, and 10 million acres of farmland went fallow, he continues. In the decade that followed, growing brush made the region a hunter’s wonderland.

Today, though, “it’s either pole timber or mature timber … The silence is deafening.

Where do we see deer now in larger numbers?” he asks, replying, “In urban areas.

There’s one reason: food.”

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MSO Expands Reach To ‘Destination Oneonta’

As Did Dad, George Brown Dedicated Career To Soccer SOCCER/From A3 Italians,” he said. “They played in a truck parking lot the team owner owned, and he would clear out the trucks, set up the goal posts and we’d play there. I still have the scars!”

Brown played with both the American Soccer League and the German-American Soccer League, playing on the German-Hungarian team with future Soccer Hall of Famers John Souza, Walter Bahr and Joe Maca. Brown was a top scorer and MVP in 1953, and the team took three consecutive league titles, as well as the 1956 New York State Cup. But by 1958, an injury to his ACL had ended his career. “Nowadays if you tear your ACL, you’re back in the field in a week,” he said. “But back then, I was in a cast for six months.”

In 1960 and age 26, he entered the University of Bridgeport originally on a soccer scholarship, but his professional status got him banned from the team. To pay his way through, he took up coaching both soccer and tennis.

After graduation, he joined Exxon as a human resource manager and remained with the company until his retirement. And when his dad was inducted into the Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986, he accepted his father’s plaque – his father had stayed out too late the night before catching up with his old teammate, Arnie Oliver. “There were more people on the platform than in the audience!” he said. “Afterwards, we went into a church basement and had ham and potato salad.”

When George took the stage to accept his plaque in 1995, there were a lot more people in the audience, with a reception hosted by Hartwick College.

TOURISM/From A1 While MSO has focused on downtown, the expanded But as Brown’s wife Peg mission will promote looked around Oneonta, Greater Oneonta as a whole, she realized that, after 26 including the Southside moves, this was where strip and the town at large. she wanted to settle down.

“It’s broadening our scope They bought their house on of promotion, using the Hemlock Road before they whole area to attract peoleft town, sold their tourist ple,” Masterjohn said. business and their home in The MSO board planned Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to meet Wednesday, July and made one final move to 2, to make the transformaOneonta.

He and James are the only tion official, and by the father and son in the Hall, time you read this members and with George as interim The Freeman’s Journal should have been notified by director in 2007, the Hall & HOMETOWN ONEONTA e-mail. A quarterly mixer had the most successful inis planned Wednesday, July George Brown shows duction in its history, a class off the single pair of 9, at the Oneonta Theater to that included Mia Hamm shoes he wore through- celebrate the new entity. and Julie Foudy. out his soccer career.

Mayor Dick Miller, who The Hall closed its doors proposed the idea in April, medal. in 2010, but inductions garnered support for the And as he watches the continue. idea not only from MSO game, he always thinks James died in 1994, but leadership, but from Southof the old saying. “The George keeps a few souveside Mall manager Luisa whole,” he said.

“Is always nirs of that moment on the Montanti and Oneonta Town greater than the sum of its world stage – a pair of his Supervisor Bob Wood. parts.” blue Wilson shorts, and his

Montanti said her goal will be to “capture the enthusiasm of those with business interests here to participate in community promotion.” Added Wood, “People who come here to visit do not differentiate.

They see us as a single community.”

That the new name echoes Destination Otsego, the county’s newly privatized tourism-promotion effort, is no coincidence, said Miller, who anticipates full

collaboration between the two. “Destination Otsego is the mother ship, if you will,” he said.

He said the Oneonta Alliance – the four major hotels, plus Foothills, which are seeking to attract convention business here – may become part of Destination Oneonta, or may simply ally with it.

The MSO office, as Destination Oneonta, and Executive Director Julia Goff will be moving to the fifth floor of 189 Main.

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Home of the Week 3 BR, 1 bath home on over 4 acres.

This beautiful home is nestled in a quiet creek-side setting on a dead-end road. Very secluded and park-like.

Cooperstown Schools. Eat-in kitchen, gas fireplace, wood flooring, in-ground pool, new paint.

MLS #94874 Offered at $249,000

John J. Mitchell, Realtor Cooperstown Realty 265 County Highway 59 Cooperstown, NY 13326 Primary: 843-457-3968 Secondary: 607-435-4093

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EYE ON THE WEATHER Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, is providing monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.

JUNE 2014 Highest Temperature.............................................84°F (June 30) Lowest Temperature.................................................41°F (June 1) Average Maximum Temperature........................................73.5°F Average Minimum Temperature..........................................51.7°F Monthly Mean Temperature................................................62.6°F Precipitation Total....................................................................6.18″ Most Precipitation in One Day...............................1.13” (June 18) Thunderstorms.........................................................2 (5 for 2014) Snow...................................................................0 (50.9” for 2014) Most Snow in One Day..................................................................0 YTD Precipitation..................................................................21.75” Number of Days at or below 0°F........ .................0 (20 for 2014 ) Number of Days at or below 32°F......................0 (113 for 2014) Comments: Wow, It’s July! We’re half way through 2014! It’s less than nine weeks until the Labor Day weekend. Yikes! June’s mean temperature was 62.6°, which is 1.6° below the norm. Not surprising though, every month in 2014 has been colder than normal except for May. We had a very wet month, receiving 6.18 inches of rain, 2.56 inches above average. Some areas had more, some less, depending on the paths of a couple rounds of thunderstorms. It made it tough for a lot DAVID of farmers as they worked tirelessly to get th¬eir first cutting of hay in the barn. Year to MATTICE date, precipitation is just 2.88 inches above normal. Summer is here, it’s time to have fun! Make sure to visit the greater Cooperstown area and enjoy the Baseball Hall of Fame and help celebrate its 75th anniversary. Take in The Fenimore House, The Farmers’ Museum, and visit the breweries. Spend some time in the Oneonta area visiting the parks, Gilbert Lake, and join in the fun in Neahwa Park for the Fourth of July celebration. This is truly one of the most beautiful areas in the country, there is so much to see and do! Be careful in the sun, use lots of sunscreen and stay hydrated. Keep a heads-up for thunderstorm activity, take all watches and warning seriously. But this is what we’ve has been waiting for, warmth and sunshine! Enjoy every minute of it and as always, keep your eye on the weather!

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-9

Bassett Looks To Fox For Future Expansion BASSETT/From A1 • Evaluate consolidating ophthalmology surgery at Oneonta Specialty Services, One Associate Drive, at the end of River Street.

• Enhance the FoxCare Center on East Main Street as “a community resource for outpatient services.”

• Expand dental care services at Fox Hospital.

“The next step is to establish several task groups to analyze the recommendations, solicit patient and community feedback, and determine if implementation of any, a portion or all of the recommendations is feasible in a way that benefits patients,” Bassett said in a July 1 statement. “The end goal is to assure the delivery of the right care at the right time and place, but how that’s achieved is the work ahead of both organizations over the next several months.”

Hearing about the email, Mayor Dick Miller expressed enthusiasm. He called “these areas of study and possible action ... wonderful news for Fox Hospital and those who depend on its vitality in the multi-county Oneonta region. I hope these initiatives can move forward expeditiously.”

The Brown e-mail said

“opportunities for improved integration and better coordination of services” has been under study for four years, which would date back to Fox joining the Bassett system in 2010.

Last year, A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital recently held an open house for its new 14-bed observation unit, the final phase of A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital’s “Gold Standard of Patient Care” modernization project, designed by MorrisSwitzer ~Environments for Health.

This $8-million medical/surgical inpatient renovation created 53 private rooms which provide privacy for patients, increase infection control and improve patient flow throughout the hospital.

Last year, a $8.5 million state grant, combined with a $1.7 million community fund drive in Oneonta, implemented “Gold Standard of Patient Care” renovations of the hospital, the first major upgrade since the 1960s.

The undertaking converted all of Fox’s double rooms into 53 singles, added a 14-bed observation unit to monitor Emergency Room patients to determine if they need to be admitted, and implemented patientflow and infection-control enhancements.

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2013 NYCBL Champions

Home games Be there!

Friday July 4 – Delaware National Bank of Delhi Buy Out the Ballpark Night – All fans admitted free. This year

for the first time we have a doubleheader, so fans get to enjoy 2 games for free. First game is at 3:30 pm, second game starts at 6 pm.

Both games against the Cortland Crush. Fireworks, courtesy of Five Star Subaru, after second game.

19th Annual Treadwell Stagecoach Run

Art FestivAl

Open StudiOS and GallerieS

treadwell, NY 13846 www.stagecoachrun.com

saturday, July 5 and sunday, July 6 10 am to 5 pm

Saturday July 5 – Southside Mall/Five Star Subaru Kids Night

All kids 18 and under admitted free. Another bonus – instead of one game, it’s a doubleheader against the Cortland Crush. The first game starts at 5 pm, and the second game starts at 7 pm.

Adults pay for one game, but get to enjoy two games for the price of one!

Sunday July 6 – 5 pm game against the Cortland Crush

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MLS#90097 $59,900 waterfront sacrifice! Reduced 30K! 7 acres w/340’ Susquehanna riverfront. Cooperstown Schools.

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MLS#93417 $75,000 fantastic location w/rights to Silver Lake. Sturdy 3 BR, 1 bath home close to employment opportunities.

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MLS#94889 $309,500 have It all today! New custom home overlooking the water on 43 gorgeous acres. Trails, creek, 2 ponds.

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MLS#93743 $165,000 Custom-built Ranch on 1 acre. 3 BRs, 2½ baths, open floorplan w/kitchen, family room w/fireplace, LR/DR. Full lower level, attached 2- car garage, covered porch.

Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

MLS#94594 $265,000 tranquility awaits! Secluded 3-BR, 2-bath home w/cathedral ceiling, hardwood floors, stone fireplace on 30.98 acres. Large barn/garage. Nature at its best.

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MLS#93198 $329,000 Custom designed 3-BR, 2-bath Fly Creek home has radiant heat, cherry kitchen w/SS appliances, DR, master BR, 2-car garage, stone wall, pond. Cooperstown Schools.

Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

MLS#93092 $175,000 Prime land on a country road between Fly Creek and Cooperstown. 45+/- acres, 1,800+/-’ road frontage, rolling hills, fantastic views.

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MLS#94457 $349,000 Contemporary home on 36.40+/- acres 3 BRs, 2 baths, glassed LR and family room leading to deck, DR w/sliding door to stone patio, pond and htd cabin.

Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

MLS#93990 $199,900 Location! Location! Price! Price! Endless business opportunities on St Hwy 28 in Milford. 2 buildings, 2 lots. 5 miles to Cooperstown, close to Oneonta.

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MLS#90345 $119,000 Reduced! 3-BR, 2-bath country house w/farm charm.

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Bring your horses! Magnificently restored farmhouse features tavern room, bright DR w/cooking fireplace, hearth oven, wide plank flooring (some stenciled), open-beam ceilings and hand-planed doors w/original hardware. 5 BRs, 3 baths, wonderful master suite w/sitting room, full bath, also possible master suite on first floor. Covered porch, gazebo, pond, 2-car garage, 2-story barn, attached carriage barn, electric pasture fencing. $299,900 MLS#95327

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An opportunity for year-round living in a peaceful lakeside community. This one-owner unit is well maintained and has had many updates. Lake views from all living areas and deck. Monitored, professional security system. Sliding glass doors lead from LR w/vaulted ceiling to large private deck. 2 BRs, 2½ baths, DR and fully equipped kitchen. State-of-the-art septic system, water from 1 of 2 drilled wells. 6.40 acres with approximately 1,500' lake frontage. Attached garage, boat slip available. Condo fees cover common areas and maintenance.

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