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Volume 5, No. 43

City of The Hills

NEW SUPERINTENDENT AHEAD OF THE PACK

New Rules, New Leader WHEN SOFTBALL WAS KING

Job One, Making Teacher, Principal Appraisals Work

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Preparations are underway for the 16th annual motorcycle ride Saturday, Aug. 3, to benefit the Ricky Parisian Scholarship Fund. That includes raffling off a Harley Davidson, and Erin Moussa joined Sid and Deb Parisian the other day in selling tickets at Brooks BBQ.

Obama Finds Otsego County Is ‘A Disaster’

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resident Obama included Otsego County Friday, July 12, when he declared 12 Upstate counties eligible for federal disaster aid after the June 28-July 4 flooding.

The designation qualities municipalities for 75 percent reimbursement on flood-related repairs.

FULL FLOWER: Flowerarranging demonstrations by Linda Smith will be featured 5-8 p.m. during Oneonta’s Fabulous Friday on July 19.

Visitors, bring flowers and a vase, if possible, to Greater Oneonta Historical Society.

LADY LAUDED: A second volume of “Somewhere In Time,” photographs of Lady Ostapeck, Nader Towers, has been published by the Photo Center of the Capital District.

DEADHEADS LIVE! Some 10,000 Grateful Dead fans descended on Cooperstown July 13-14 to hear Furthur, a successor band, perform. Photos, details, at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC: The New York Music Festival, intense training for high school students, is underway at SUNY ONeonta through

Frank Russo Jr. holds up a clipping showing dad “Cootie” Russo in action at the plate.

Frank ‘Cootie’ Russo Ruled Fast-Pitch Sport

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When former City Fire Chief Frank Russo Sr. passed away, people wanted to talk to Frank Jr. about his dad’s softball prowess.

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ormer Wilber Bank CEO Doug Gulotty accepted a six-month appointment as interim executive of the county Industrial Development Agency on Thursday, July 11.

His task will be to develop a public-private economic-development entity to replace the county Economic Development Office.

130 Years Ago, History Made In Old Caboose

Facebook Founder Spouse Might Face Rep. Gibson In 2014

By LIBBY CUDMORE

t’s likely Otsego County’s 19th Congressional District race in 2014 will get a lot of national attention.

It started Wednesday, July 10, with a front-page story in the New York Times: Sean Eldridge, 26, and his husband, Facebook founder Chris Hughes, have bought a $2 million modern home overlooking the Shokan Reservoir, Ulster County.

Their intent: That Eldridge be eligible to run against U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, now serving his second term (and first serving Otsego County).

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fter he passed away Sunday, July 7, people remembered and honored Frank “Cootie” Russo Sr. for strong leadership as city fire chief.

But his son, Frank Jr., was surprised to find, if anything, more remembered his dad for prowess at home plate, as a catcher during Oneonta’s era as a fast-pitch softball hotbed.

“He was so determined, so competitive,” said Albert Colone, a teammate of Russo’s on the Sixth Ward Athletic Club squad.

“That was reflected in his role as fire chief, as alderman.”

“He had an arm. He had a gun of an arm,” recalled Bruno Please See SOFTBALL, A6

ertainly, Joe Yelich will face challenges as the Oneonta City School District’s new superintendent. But one of them won’t be discipline.

When Yelich – he assumed his new responsibilities on July 1 – graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 1982, it was the middle of the Reagan RecesJoseph sion. There were J. Yelich no jobs. So when an English and science teaching position opened up at the pleasant-sounding Birchwood School in Salem, N.H., he jumped at it.

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utside, Oneonta youngsters were climbing the metal steps of the Little Red Caboose – marking its 130th year since history was made there – and peeking into the city’s train history.

Inside, old timers were sitting on the worn leather seats and reminiscing about the train days of yore. “When we were kids, we used to play all

took of Oneonta’s Hometown Fourth of July, 233 took the time to tour the inside of the historic caboose, open for the day courtesy of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. “The kids ask all sorts of questions,” said Bob Brzozowski, GOHS executive director (and Common Council member). Among them: Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA “How did they use the GOHS Executive Bob Brzozowski, right, rebathroom in here?” lates the Little Red Caboose’s history.

In the Little Red Caaround this caboose,” self a D&H retiree. boose in 1883, it’s besaid Tony Mongillo, himWhile thousands parPlease See RAIL, A6

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FOUR EARN BACHELOR’S: Four Oneontans earned bachelor’s degrees at the Rochester Institute of Technology Spring 2013 commencement exercises: Spencer Crandell, mechanical engineering; Trevor Crandell, mechanical engineering; Joseph Gollin, civil engineering technology, and Angela Stallone, international studies.

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School Chief A Step Ahead Of His Peers YELICH/From A1 sters under Yelich’s tutelage would arrive on buses from prisons and residential mental health facilities. And they would go back at night.

“We spent a lot of time thinking about social and emotional health,” he said, recalling his first stint in what, except for a short detour, is his life’s vocation.

“It was a tough group of kids.”

Compared to those days, his first challenge here – implementing the final phase of the state’s rigorous new teacher-evaluation system – should be relatively easy.

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by Yelich being one of the few educators to already have implemented the APPR – the Annual Professional Performance Review: at Waverly Central School, a few miles west of Binghamton, where he’s been superintendent for the past two years.

“It’s a concept that really has a lot of promise,” said Yelich in an interview at the former Center Street School, where administrative offices moved last year. “From a practical standpoint it’s difficult to put into practice. But it’s a very worthy cause.”

Joseph J. Yelich was born in the early ‘60s in Orchard Park, under the shadow of the Buffalo Bills’ Ralph Wilson Stadium. So it may be no surprise he played football growing up, (and lacrosse and hockey, and he coached the latter sport.)

Likewise, it’s no surprise he became an educator. Dad Joe was director of special ed in their hometown; mom Angie was a reading specialist; brother Mike is a guidance counselor; sister Kathy is in elementary/special ed.

Coming out of Buffalo’s melting pot, nor is it any surprise that he’s part Croatian and part Italian with other strains mixed in. All that’s missing is Irish, it was observed. “My wife Lisa’s Irish,” he replied.

To keep his balance at Birchwood, Yelich began driving down to Johnson & Wales in Providence, R.I., on weekends, and earned a culinary degree. Not only did he share his new skills with his students in New Hampshire, they got him back to his hometown: In 1986, he joined Wegman’s, and opened the company’s new gourmet delis in the Alberta Drive and McKinley Parkway supermarkets.

But with sons Kyle and Drew, now 24 and 28, and daughter Erin, now 20 and a junior at SUNY Fredonia, growing up, Yelich returned to the more family friendly teaching schedule.

He started as a special ed teacher in Westfield and, seven years later, was dean of students when he joined Chautauqua Cattaraugus BOCES as supervisor of instruction. He earned a master’s from Fredonia and an administrator’s certificate at Buffalo.

Two years later he was executive principal at Jamestown High School, where he oversaw two $18 million expansions. After his mentor, Superintendent Ray Fashano, retired, Yelich began casting about for a superintendency, and soon joined Waverly.

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Cooperstown Survives Mystifying Walk On The Wild Side

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ast summer, one of Cooperstown’s Main Street merchants thought awnings would help attract customers.

Since it was less than five days to the June meeting, he wasn’t able to get on that month’s village Planning Board agenda. If the awnings passed muster at the July meeting, then the Planning Board would set a public hearing for the August meeting. If comment was favorable, approval might come at that meeting. If questions were raised, perhaps a decision would be delayed until September.

By then, of course, “The 100 Days,” the make-or-break window for success in a tourist town, would have passed for the year.

To make a long story short, the merchant dropped the whole idea.

• In that onerous regulatory climate – in the light-industrial zone around Railroad Avenue, for instance, the only permitted uses are playground and church; everything else requires a “special exception” from the village trustees, which triggers Planning Board, ZBA and Historic Architectural Review Board scrutiny – what happened the weekend of July 13-14 was simply astonishing.

Thousands of Grateful Dead fans descended on the village to hear Furthur, a successor band that included two of the original members of Jerry Garcia’s band, perform at Doubleday Field.

Some were middle-aged and prosperous, their tie-dye shirts simply evocative of long-ago wild and crazy times – like the dozen friends from Rome who rented that white stretch limo parked on Leatherstocking Street.

For others, these were the wild and crazy times. The smell of

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As our mothers used to say, it’s not so funny in the morning. Empties, trash and sleeping people who seemed to have dropped where they stood littered the vicinity of Doubleday Field, shrine to the National Pastime, the morning after Furthur performed Sunday, July 14. Granted, by noon, a Herculean effort by village crews and volunteers had the place spotless.

marijuana was everywhere. One of two ODs – a young lady was taken to Bassett Hospital’s ER – was for LSD, an indication that harder stuff, including heroin, law-enforcement folks feared, was circulating.

LCB and state Health Department regs were flouted. Beer, two bucks a bottle, was being sold from coolers to all ages. There were so many open-container violations, Police Chief Mike Covert acknowledged, the law was impossible to enforce.

To give the police their due, lax enforcement was prudent. When you invite thousands of pot smokers to town, do you then arrest them for smoking pot? Covert scaled back his aspirations to crowd control. Anything beyond that was unenforceable.

• Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz said the village expects to clear $10,000-$15,000, but the true application of cost-accounting would cast that in doubt.

Who knows how much sales

tax was lost to unauthorized beer vendors and hot-sausage grillers?

Who knows how much legitimate restaurants lost to the outlaws?

Baseball stores like Mickey’s Place and Paterno Bros. report business disappeared as Dreams Park families avoided Main Street, another loss in sales tax and income.

Police and DPW overtime (for cleanup) will no doubt be significant: $10,000 doesn’t go very far.

The Furthur concert was sprung on the public in February. Since negotiations were handled in

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one that burned.

The naturally occurring fires that happened before that were stand rejuvenating fires – not stand replacement fires. Today the slogan has changed to “Prevent Wild Fires,” as we recognized that fire is a natural occurrence. In fact, in certain instances fire is required to maintain a forest.

Such is the case with the Giant Sequoias on the West Coast. Fire was kept out of those forests for decades – until researchers found out that their cones required the heat from forest fire to release their seeds. Science won out over emotion – but just in time.

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FROM THE CHAMBER

Choices Aren’t Always Easy

hen one gets to live as long as I have they become both sage and skeptical.

The sage part has to do with having had the chance to try things and experience both success and failure. The skeptical part comes from having watched folks who professed to have all the answers get their way – and the consequences that arose when that happened.

For example, consider what has happened to our National Forests as a result of “Smokey the Bear” and the no-burn policy that prevailed for decades.

“Smokey” told us in TV ads to “Prevent Forest Fires” and we did. As a result, the fuel load in our National Forests built up to the point that when a fire occurred it burned with such intensity that it altered the nature of the forest that replaced the

private, you have to wonder if the Village Board talked all these issues through.

At base, you have to ask: What was the public purpose of all of this beer drinking, pot smoking, drug taking, littering, public urination and related mischief? Answer: Dunno.

• OK. Enough with the fuddyduddiness. It was quite a weekend. Exciting. A bit dangerous.

Fun. Different folks. Different experiences.

It evoked the same sizzle as the Cal Ripken induction in 2007 although, happily – or luckily – only a few thousand Deadheads showed up, compared to the 84,000 baseball fans.

There’s a two-sided lesson here.

Maybe the village should think it through before inviting Phish, the Dave Matthews Band or Moe. – bands with similar followings – to America’s Most Punctilious Village.

The other side is that, if Cooperstown can tolerate a weekend of lawlessness, perhaps Cooperstown should think twice about its normal draconian stance toward everybody else, about everything else, during the other 363 days per year.

The village survived wild and crazy. Can it survive without squeezing every last nickel from paid parking or burdening the populace with that too-rigorous vending law now under consideration?

Or that fine if your sidewalk isn’t shoveled promptly enough?

If anyone can smoke a doobie at high noon in the Doubleday Field parking lot, if any 15-year-old can quaff a brewski for breakfast at Main and Pioneer, for crying out loud, let ’em put up an awning.

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I recall fighting the “Sunrise” fire along the Sunrise Highway on Long Island in 1996. A few thousand acres of the pine barrens burned and the media reported it as a catastrophe for the forest.

Turns out those trees require periodic fire and today the areas that burned are thriving.

These examples help us be more cautious when other kinds of issues are pressed upon us by those who claim to have the answers. For example, some of us profess to know what is best for our economy and oppose things we don’t personally like.

That’s OK in a democracy as long as that position is based upon truth and science. It’s not OK when the facts are deliberately misrepresented. Having been a teacher, I recall the kindergarten teacher’s approach

– review and drill. In other words, if you say something often enough people will eventually believe you.

It’s easy to become comfortable with what we “know” and fearful of what we don’t. We tend to be comfortable with our restaurants, retail stores, not-forprofits and brewery. However, things like wind farms, a natural gas pipeline and fracking for natural gas fall outside our comfort zone – we don’t have experience with them and thus tend to be fearful.

It is interesting that we already have all the things that we are comfortable with and we still are forced to lay off teachers and close the Manor. In other words, our economy is not yet healthy enough to sustain our quality of living.

We drive to meetings in Please See ZAGATA, A7

LETTERS

Leisurely Cooperstown Breakfast To the Editor: Purchase 45 minutes of Main Street parking. Return to vehicle from remote kiosk and place ticket on dash. (Less five minutes or 17 cents.) Wait 15 minutes for table. (50 cents and 20 minutes remain on ticket.)

At table, wait five minutes to give order. (About 17 cents as 15 minutes remained on ticket.) Food arrives 11 minutes later. (About 39 cents as 4 minutes remain on meter.)

Opt to have breakfast repacked for take-out. Return to vehicle one minute late but no violation.

Eat breakfast in car, parked free in front of Tops Friendly Market at shopping center.

Dan Church Westford

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Chamber Suggests Retreat To Air Development Ideas Editor’s Note: This is the Otsego County Chamber’s response to last week’s editorial supporting a publicprivate entity for the county.

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e are pleased that the public sector is raising awareness of the urgent need for action by business and government on economic recovery.

The plan being developed by the mayor of the City of Oneonta, Richard P. Miller Jr., provides a starting point for these discussions and articulates the position of many in the administration.

A comprehensive strategy for Otsego County’s economy will likely encompass many of the mayor’s priorities, as well as those deemed critical by private-sector employers and those who have been striving for years to create good jobs today and prosperity in the future.

The Otsego County and Cooperstown chambers of commerce have an active role in promoting education/ workforce development, tourism, programs for small and large businesses, public policy and quality of life throughout Otsego County.

The Otsego County and Cooperstown chambers play a significant role in economic development and both recognize the critical role that current economic development organizations play in the economy. We therefore acknowledge that these organizations must co-exist in relationships that encourage collaboration and

cooperation for the greater good of the Otsego County business climate. The recommendations would be that the chambers of commerce that are located in Otsego County should all be at the table as part of the planning process.

We come together today as a result of recent conversations and media coverage on a new economic-development and tourism model.

This proposed model does not reflect the best interests of our entire countywide business community. The Otsego and Cooperstown chambers will take an active role in bringing economic-development groups together to have a county wide conversation of how the economic-development model may look. This is an important process and should not be done hastily.

We as the Otsego County and Cooperstown chambers want to ensure that any economic and tourism plan has transparency and is accountable to all of the taxpaying citizens and businesses throughout Otsego County.

We look forward to working with all our members in Otsego County as they move forward in formulating a plan for the economic development and tourism within the county.

We would like to coordinate a retreat day bringing all of our resources together, including best practices and case studies around the state on economic development models.

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125 Years Ago

The Local News – Congressman Wilber is largely interested in the street railroad now being built. There is, as is generally known, no love lost between the Irish and Italian laborers. Said one old Irishman on receiving his pay Saturday night: “Mr. Wilber is the mon. There is not a dombed Eye-talian on the jawb. We can elect him to any office.”

From the annual report of the state factory inspectors it is seen that Otsego County has twenty factories, employing over 900 hands. Fourteen are located in Oneonta, three in Unadilla and two at Schenevus. In the county there are nine cigar factories, employing some 200 hands, three-fourths of whom are engaged in factories in Oneonta.

No man takes more pride in the neatness of the exterior surroundings of his residence than C.E. Ford. From the vases in his well-kept front yard flowers have more than once been stolen and one recent night the plants themselves were taken. This was more than good nature could bear and Mr. Ford is anxious to pay $25 to know who did it.

July 1888

100 Years Ago

The new concrete stack for the additional boilers, which are to be installed in the D. & H. power house, is practically completed and by the last of the week all blocks and tackles used in its construction will be taken down and the chimney will stand overtopping the other flues of the power plants by more than 50 feet. The interior of the stack will be lined with fire brick for the first 50 feet and when the flues are led into it there will be sufficient draught created for any number of boilers that might be needed. Even now with no heated vapors pouring into it a powerful draught is felt at the bottom and further up the massive pile of masonry can be heard the dull roar of the draught, which gives a faint conception of the mighty force which will draw the black smoke far into the clouds where its presence will not be a nuisance to mankind.

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30 Years Ago

40 Years Ago

July 1973 studies that may lead to action. Each state is dealing with old-age security in its own way. Various attempts have been made to secure action in Congress without success. Workers are now concentrating efforts upon the state legislatures.

Each state may then shape its policy to the local conditions.

Some measures have been defeated because of fear they would encourage shiftlessness by awarding doles to people who make no effort to provide for themselves.

July 1933

60 Years Ago

A recent survey by the American Association for Social Security shows that 25 states have old-age pension laws.

Unusual interest has been manifested in recent months in the protection of aged people from want. No less than ten states have passed old-age pension laws since the beginning of the year. Many of the legislatures that have not yet acted on the subject have discussed it, and some are engaged in

A tree inventory in city parks plus diagnosis and remedial action was reported to the Oneonta Parks Board last night

by Parks Foreman John M. House. Altogether 31 elms have been or must be doomed because of the Dutch elm disease according to Mr. House. Three large elms and eight small ones have been cut down in the last week in Neahwa Park and four others in Wilber Park plus sixteen more on Webb Island must come down soon, House reported. Four other Neahwa Park elms that are diseased may be saved through tree surgery, House noted. All of the tree cutting must be done and the trees burned before mid-August to prevent spread of the disease. Recently, a large number of trees in Neahwa Park were sprayed to protect them against the elm leaf beetle and other insects.

July 1953

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Most teen age students herald the summer as an opportunity to get away from the classroom. However, 30 high school students and recent graduates from across New York State are at Hartwick College this week learning about computers as part of a workshop. “Kids are hungry to learn more about computers,” said Ronald M. Brzenk, associate professor of mathematics who is directing the workshop.

“Sooner or later we will all need to know about that funny little box over there.” “It’s a working vacation,” said Lisa Pettinichi, a senior at Kingston High School who plans to pursue a career in computer programming. “It’s something I enjoy.” Christian Elfers, 16, of Goshen, said he came to the workshop to learn more about computers. “They’re fascinating,” he said. Elfers said he already can see computers phasing out many of the traditional tools currently in use such as typewriters. After three hours of lectures and three hours of computer labs daily, those attending the workshop will also take in recreational activities in the area including a trip to the Pine Lake campus and an Oneonta Yankees’ game at Damaschke Field.

July 1983

20 Years Ago

Thanks to a long-awaited change in state law, deer hunters who had no use for the venison they did not consume and which they may have simply thrown out of their freezers in the past can now donate it to area food pantries.

It took James Whipple of South Plymouth two years to convince state lawmakers in New York that venison donated to food pantries was a good idea and that the meat would be safe for consumption. Thirty-eight other states already have such laws and inquiries by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta turned up no cases of food poisoning or bacterial contamination related to venison donated by hunters.

July 1993

10 Years Ago

The LEAF Council on Alcoholism and Addictions in Otsego County begins a program this month to help people with gambling problems. Gambling is as old as human society, but now there are multiple opportunities every day to gamble. Gambling is as accessible as bread and milk. But, for some people, money that should be spent on bread and milk is being spent on lottery tickets and slot machines.

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In City’s Softball Heyday, Russo Ruled SOFTBALL/From A1 Scavo, who pitched to Russo for years. “When he threw a guy out at second base, I had to watch out. A couple of times, he almost took my head off. He was very, very intense.”

When Frank Jr., born in the mid-’60s, was a lad, the family routinely finished supper early to get to games in Cobleskill or Stamford.

“They all played softball,” he said of his dad’s Sixth Ward contemporaries. “And they played softball with a passion.”

No one moreso than Frank Russo, Sr. His son remembers his style as “fierce: If you were going to cross his plate, you had to earn it.”

“Cootie” Russo, his brothers Louie and Sonny, Scavo, Colone, Frank Dilello, John Higgins and the future softball aficionados grew up in the “lower deck,” as the River Street neighborhood was known.

In the 1950s, the height of the Cold War, all were drafted.

It was in the Armed Forces that they all learned to play fast-pitch softball. The city Parks & Rec Department had a softball league and the veterans, returning home, signed up. But it was slow-pitch, and there were no lights: When the sun went down, play stopped.

In response to the vets’ pressure, Parks & Rec actually started a fast-pitch league, Scavo said, but halted it after just two games.

That night in 1959, the fast-pitch enthusiasts gathered in rebellion. “There was a feeling the city was just giving us lip service,” said Colone. What grew out of the meeting was not just a five-team fast-pitch softball league, but the Sixth Ward Athletic Club itself.

“A lot of the inspiration was more than just the softball,” said Colone. “People who sat around the table

were friends, neighborhood friends. The game was a means to get together.”

Softball, though, was the fledgling Sixth Ward Athletic Club’s first initiative.

Fundraising ideas were brainstormed. Parks & Rec had been holding dances for young people in Wilber Park. So the new club began organizing dances on tennis courts on Scramling Avenue built by the Sixth Ward Booster Club, (a separate organization founded earlier by vets returning from World War II.) “Our dances surpassed the city dances,” Colone remembered. “Hundreds of young people from around the area would come regularly.” In the winter, the dances shifted to the Armory. Raffles were organized.

For a while, the athletic club met at Joe & Mary’s Restaurant at 22 West Broadway, (its headquarters today). When the city school district began building new schools, the club bought the old River Street school (near the Baptist church) for $3,105.

But the dream of a lit fast-pitch softball field was never forgotten as the ‘60s advanced.

The Sixth Ward Booster Club had bought the old Todd Farm at the end of Scramling Avenue. With a “handshake agreement,” the softball dissidents got permission to develop the far end, where the Doc Knapp Little League Field is today.

NYSE&G was building high-tension lines across the region, and eight “scarred poles” were acquired - $1 per linear foot - to hold the lights.

And in 1969, the dream came true.

On a parallel track, Frank Russo Sr.’s firefighting career was now advancing.

In 1967, he received his first letter of commendation for calming down a frantic man

in an upstairs window of a burning home until he could be rescued.

When the infamous D&H train explosion occurred east of the city on Feb. 12, 1974, the senior Russo was in the dispatch seat, directing fire and emergency crews to the scene via a single phone line. That won him his second commendation.

He demonstrated his valor in the dense fire in Hartwick College’s library in June 1974, and was hospitalized for five days due to smoke inhalation. By 1984, he was chief, serving for eight years before retiring in 1991. He later served two terms as alderman.

But, ah, those softball years.

There was elation on that first night in 1969, when the lights were turned on as the Sixth Ward Athletic Club met Custom Electronics, “the powerhouse,” Colone said.

There was a hit to right field. Colone caught it. But Custom’s Sonny Carey, at third, tagged up and headed for home. Colone fired the ball, Carey “ran over Cootie.” But the umpire called it: Out! Cootie had made the tag.

“People started charging out into the field,” said Colone. “I thought, we just built this field; this is the first game and we’re going to get closed down.” Happily, everyone calmed down and returned to their seats for a Sixth Ward victory.

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remember when they could just walk through,” said Brzozowski.

The caboose was frequently vandalized in the late ’70s and ’80s, and The Smithsonian Institution proposed moving it to the museum in Washington, D.C. “People said, ‘We can’t just let it sit here’,” said Brzozowski. And, thus, The Leatherstocking Railroad Historical Society was formed. An enclosure was designed and $10,000 raised to build it. The protective structure was dedicated in 1983, the 100th anniversary of the union’s founding.

Now the caboose is only open on special occasions, but the Oneonta Historical Society has activities to celebrate the 130th anniversary, including a bus tour of railroad sites, the restoration of the old sign and a lecture on the railroad brotherhood.

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the younger guys,” Scavo said. “They almost beat us.”

“We’ll get you next year,” they told the older team.

That was 1974. There was no next year. Oneonta’s younger generation had moved on. “We worked so hard to get it going,” Scavo mused. “By the time it was over, we just got old.”

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there. People came down to see the Sixth Ward take on the world.”

The last game. Cootie and brother Sonny played for Sixth Ward. Two younger brothers, Joe and Bobby, were on Tommy’s Place.

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Events To Mark Caboose’s 130th RAIL/From A1 lieved eight Oneonta railroad workers organized the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, which developed into the first national railway workers union. “It wasn’t founded just to increase pay,” said Brzozowski. “It was a security system. Railroad work was dangerous, people got hurt.”

In 1910, the union decided to allocate “a few hundred dollars” to restore the caboose, which was no longer used on the railroad and left to rot in railyard. “I think they were using it to store kerosene,” said Mongillo.

In 1924, tracks were laid to bring the caboose into Neahwa Park. “They didn’t just put it on a truck and drive it in,” he said.

The site was declared a shrine by the national union, and opened to the public.

“A lot of older people can

Catching, and pitching too. “If you knew Cootie going back to the early softball leagues,” Colone recalled, “he had a reputation as a straight pole hitter.

Every pitch that came his way he would smack the ball down the third-base line.”

Said Scavo, “We used to have big, big crowds down

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Certainties Can Have Unintended Consequences ZAGATA/From A4 our cars that need gas and oil to operate and we take prescription medicines that require natural gas as a feedstock. We heat our homes with fossil fuel. We all use plastic of one form or another and that plastic is petroleum-based.

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gobble over the sound of traffic. I’d prefer that not be the case.

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(7158) Beautiful, remodeled 4 BR, 3 bath residence w/scenic views near sports center, hospital, and school.

Den, master BR suite w/jacuzzi, new kitchen w/hickory cabinets and granite countertop, formal DR, pantry, newer furnace, 2-car garage.

A premier caliber home!

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$269,000

(7395) Focus on luxury living in this exceptional 5 BR/3+ bath home on a serene street. Spacious layout features family room, den, large LR, and 2 fireplaces.

Center entry, oak flooring, ceramic tile baths, granite countertop, breakfast nook, formal DR. Large deck, barn.

4 miles from Cooperstown. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$465,000

Real Estate Auction August 1 141 +/- acres

Two (2) parcels selling “as-one” T/Decatur 156.00-2-26 and 156.00-2-27.06 No MiNiMuM STARTiNg BiD! FREE iNFo: AARauctions.com

(6220) Over 2,000 sq ft of prime commercial space in the heart of the Village. Stately historic brick building offers three 2 BR apts and 2nd floor added commercial space, 2,000 sq. ft. of usable basement space, separate utilities. Commercial area is up to codes. The opportunities are endless.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$665,000

Exceptional Center City Duplex Move in condition, owner-occupied center city duplex. Your tenant income will help pay your mortgage. Each unit has 2 bedrooms and updated baths, new windows and a freshly painted interior. The property has a beautiful fenced yard and plenty of off-street parking.

$134,900 MLS#89988 607-431-2540 • www.prufoxproperties.com

Stone Mill Acres, a historic homestead sits on 9.51 acres in Fly Creek. Built in 1794, the post-and-beam farmhouse has been totally modernized. The kitchen has chef-style gas range, Silestone counters and room for casual dining. Laundry room with ½ bath, large pantry. Family room w/vaulted ceiling, exposed beams, tile flooring, lots of sunlight. Updates include a handsome Federal mantel in LR and embossed tin ceilings in LR, DR and kitchen. There are 2 BRs w/refinished wide pine floors.

Detached 2-car garage w/attached room, front porch, and bath. Three solar panels cover 85% of the cost of electricity.

Small barn w/second story, chicken house and garden shed.

The property is fronted by Oaks Creek and Fly Creek. Steps and a path lead to wooded site w/firepit and picnic spot.

Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $349,000 For reliable, honest answers to any of your real estate questions, Don Olin Realty at 607.547.5622 or visit our website www.donolinrealty.com For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Broker – 547-5105 Tim Donahue, Associate Broker – 293-8874 Cathy Raddatz, Sales Associate – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie, Sales Associate – 547-4141 Carol Hall, Sales Associate – 544-4144 Michael Welch, Sales Associate – 547-8502

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