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COVID Crackdown New Law Mandates Masks ‘Tip Line’ Part Of Oneonta In Downtown Cooperstown Arsenal As Students Return

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nn at Cooperstown proprietor Marc Kingsley started things off with a pointed critique of Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Cooperstown’s proposed maskmandate law.

Joe Dunham, right, and Darren Gaisford, both of Gaisford Home Improvement, add a new “Alpine Roof” to the facade of Serentity Hobbies, in the Alpine Building on Main Street, Oneonta.

“You are focusing only on mask wearing and an absolutely obscene fine,” he declared at the Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing in a steamy third-floor ballroom at Village Hall. “Instead, why aren’t we focusing on the positives, what we’re already doing.

But the die was cast. At meetPlease See MASKS, A9

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ith 7,000 SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students ready to come back to school at the end of this month, Mayor

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state trooper, two civilians and a child were hospitalized after a Richmondville woman reportedly smashed into the back of a stopped State Police SUV on Monday, Aug. 10.

The impact was so strong it propelled the SUV into a vehicle it had pulled over .

The other car came to a stop up the road.

At press-time, the crash was under investigation.

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Gary Herzig is taking no chances when it comes to the community’s health and safety.

“We’re working on a ‘tip line’ dedicated to COVID health concerns,” he said. “It’s not just for students, it’s for anyone with a public health concern.”

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Burns On Supreme Court

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hings are moving quickly: • Tuesday, Aug. Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA 11, a Sixth District judicial Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Hall of Fame President Tim Mead answer press questions convention in Binghamton after her appearance at 25 Main St. on Monday, Aug. 10. named Otsego County Judge Burns moves to state Judge Brian D. Burns of Oneonta to succeed retired Supreme Court Michael V. Coccoma of ►To find out which of six lawyers Cooperstown as state Susurprised at how many of my neighbors have

By LIBBY CUDMORE will succeed Burns preme Court judge.

Burns never been to Niagara Falls,” she said. “There plans to remove his name as county judge, are no lines! This is a chance for 19 million New from the county judge line check in Sunday COOPERSTOWN Yorkers to discover New York State.” afternoon at: on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Hochul held a roundtable Monday, Aug. 10 at www.AllOTSEGO.com • In anticipation, six t. Gov. Kathy Hochul had a message for the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of her statewide local lawyers had already New Yorkers – the best way to vacation is “Staycation” tour, which has also taken her to come forward over the weekend to announce right in your backyard.

Saratoga Springs, Finger Lakes and Thousand IsPlease See JUDGE, A9 “I live in the western part of the state, and I’m Please See STAYCATION, A9

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MISTAKENLY, COOPERSTOWN ON TARDY LIST

Cuomo Or Not, Oneonta Must Still Figure It Out

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overnor Cuomo’s announcement that schools were

cleared to reopen this fall didn’t change Oneonta Superintendent Thomas Brindley’s mind.

“We knew Cuomo would make some sort of decision, but because it’s been left to the dis-

Brindley

changed for us,” he said.

“And for the most part, families have been really supportive.”

Last week, Brindley announced the Oneonta School District would continue remote learning through Oct. 9.

“We’re focusing right now on putting together our remote learning schedule,” he said.

“We’ve begun meetings with faculty to make a more structured approach to remote learning.”

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Oneonta Still Undecided Superintendent Bill ONEONTA/From A1 Crankshaw has submitted Some teachers will teach his plan for a “hybrid” from home; others will use their classrooms to broadcast model, with both on-campus and remote learning. lessons.

Students in each grade “Ultimately, we will come will be divided up into two back to the buildings,” he “cohorts”, which will attend said. “We want to create as normal a schedule as we can classes on campus two alternating days a week – Cohort so we can return as seamA will attend Monday lessly as possible.”

Concerned about families and Wednesday, Cohort B will attend Tuesday and who may not have Internet Thursday – as well as every access, the school sent other Friday. out a survey and received On the days they are not replies from approximately in class, students will use 40 families who said they online curriculum, including would need help accessing pre-recorded lessons, remote learning. projects related to in-person “We ordered mobile ‘hot lessons and independent spots’ to help them,” said practice.

Brindley. “And we haven’t With concerns about even heard from all the families, so we will continue connectivity in the more rural areas of the district, reaching out to make sure the school has ordered Wifi everyone has access.” “hot spots” for students who The school will also have cell-phone service but continue to distribute free meals the same way they did not have Internet access, and will also set up a socially in the spring. distanced common area for And Brindley said that students who wish to do their club and extracurricular online learning on campus. advisers are looking into “We’ll have a 20- x how music groups and clubs can continue to meet online. 40-foot tent with a heater for cooler days,” said “We’re trying to see how we can replicate this experi- Crankshaw. “It will be monitored, and students can ence in a virtual setting,” he do their work in there.” said. “We want to give our Students will be required students as much involveto wear masks on campus. ment as we can. Obviously, “That’s non-negotiable,” we’re concerned about the social and emotional impacts he said. of remote learning.” ·· No guidance has been given from the state high school athletics association yet, he said.

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In Oneonta’s Fairyland, a memorial to the late Alice Siegfried has been erected following her death on July 18, with Fairyland residents gathering to proclaim dedication to many of the social justice causes she supported, including Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ equality.

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By JIM KEVLIN MIDDLEFIELD

L Over the decades, Butch and Mary Welch have been partners in many restorations in Cooperstown and, now, Middlefield hamlet.

ooking around the 1810 threshing barn Butch and Mary Welch acquired last year, Jon Edgington shakes his head.

“This is a piece of history, which dates long back before us,” said Edgington, partner in the Simple Integrity contracting firm who, in past years, helped relocate threatened historic barns to The Farmers’ Museum.

Mary Welch inspects the site on Whiteman Road, Town of Middlefield.

He cites the Book of Ruth, 1,000 years old, and her rendezvous with Boaz on the threshing room floor. And

2,000-year-old Deuteronomy 2, ““You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.”

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LOCAL HISTORIAN UNEARTHED SUSAN B. ANTHONY VISIT

Yesteryear’s Ideal Of Womanhood Bring Groans Today

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igging through the NYSHA archives in 2004, Sharon Stuart, Otsego town historian, found an item that everyone else overlooked.

“As I was looking through February 1885 Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life issues of The Freeman’s Journal, a name caught my Otsego Town Historian Sharon Stuart details Susan B. Anthony’s achievements. eye,” Stuart said during

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a Sunday, Aug. 9, talk at the Swart-Wilcox House, “Susan B. Anthony.”

Stuart’s talk on Anthony – she also spoke in 1894 in Oneonta – came two weeks before the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment, which on Aug. 26, 1920, gave women the right to vote.

One of the pivotal leaders in the suffragette movement, Anthony gave a speech in Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian Church on Feb. 9, 1885, a meeting Please See ANTHONY, A7

Art Show Online, Poems, Fairy Tales, And Birdwatching

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t may not be held by the lake this year, but the annual Art by the Lake exhibit will celebrate the beauty of Otsego Lake as it goes virtual. View and purchase artworks, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite! Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 15-16.

The Fenimore Art Museum online, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/ • If you’ve ever wondered about the birds outside your window, the DelawareOtsego Audubon society has the answers to all your LIBBY questions. Learn the basics CUDMORE of birding as your new hobby! 7 - 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, Free, open to public. Visit www. doas.us/event/beginning-bird-photographychat-part-1-your-camera-and-accessories/.

• Bright Hill Press presents a reading by poets Richard Newman (Words for What Those Men Have Done, 2017) and Margot Farrington (The Blue Canoe of Longing, 2019). 7 - 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, www. facebook.com/brighthp/ for info.

• The Templeton Players present ‘An Evening of Fairytales and Fables’, an online theater experience. Friday, Aug. 14, www. facebook.com/fenimoreartmuseum/ • The Glimmerglass Festival hosts a discussion of treatment of the incarcerated with activist, minister Helen Prejean and Teresa A. Miller. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. www.glimmerglass.org/events/ town-hall-prejean-miller/.

• And be sure to join Father Ken Hunter, Bob Brzozowski and myself for a three-part talk about S.S. Van Dine, who created his dandy sleuth Philo Vance on River Street.

1 - 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, The SwartWilcox House, Oneonta.

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EDITORIALS

Freshman Has Guts, Consistency. How About That? In Town Of Springfield,

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et’s give credit where set aside New York State’s it’s due.

2-percent property tax cap – In our May 29 yes, something that’s bound edition, County to be unpopular Rep. Clark Oliver with a majority of Oneonta was of voters. tweaked in this (As County space, along Attorney Ellen Cocwith his fellow coma explained, Democrats who the idea isn’t to voted against necessarily go 59 layoffs withbeyond the cap but, out offering an if forced to do so, to Oliver alternative. avoid penalties that They ducked a would be imposed hard decision, thus losing unless the cap is lifted in credibility with their coladvance.) leagues, it was argued.

The county board’s lead• er, Chairman David Bliss, Last Wednesday, Aug. 5, R-Cooperstown/Town of the county board was Middlefield, as appropriate, considering a measure to put the measure on the table,

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but it required a second.

Who stepped forward?

One of the county board’s junior members, Clark Oliver, District 11 (Oneonta Wards 1 and 2). He explained, “If we don’t raise property taxes, we’ll just have to think about cutting crucial services.”

• The board as a whole will now have to act on the tax-

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cap question at its September meeting on the 2nd.

Oliver’s decision to provide the second is in line with his arguments against the layoffs: That people being laid off will be hurt, and also citizens at large who require county services.

In this space, we support the layoffs as necessary, but – as always – we respect – in fact, welcome – people’s opinions to think otherwise.

Last week, Clark Oliver stepped up and made a tough decision that was in line with his previously expressed opinions. Guts and consistency. Not bad for a freshman – or a veteran, for that matter.

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o much for the power of the press.

Two weeks in this space, we praised state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, for keeping his constituents apprised when he was stricken by the coronarivus shortly after Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency last March.

“The senator’s job is to get out there, to keep in touch with his constituents, to respond to their needs,” the editorial said. “His staff’s quick response allowed people who had

shaken his hand in the previous two weeks to ensure they were safe. Thank you, Senator Seward.”

• Seward’s response was contrasted with a similar case in the Town of Springfield, which couldn’t have been handled differently.

There, the town assessor had gone into quarantine after the Fourth of July, and the town supervisor, the town Planning Board chairman, and the town tax collector feared they may Please See EDITORIAL, A5

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Should Village Require Mask-Wearing On Main?

Editor’s Note: Is it desireable for the Village of Cooperstown to mandate mask-wearing in the Business District? By Monday, Aug. 10, when the trustees approved such a law, they had received 33 letters favoring the mandate; only four against it. Here are two perspectives, from Judith Greenberg, Bassett doctor, and Marc Kingsley, proprietor, Inn at Cooperstown. a main driver of COVID spread, according to epidemiologists cited by the New York Times. Rather than again curtailing tourism in the village, mitigating the negative effects of travel by requiring masks where social distancing canPRO not be maintained, appears reasonable.

Besides, it is already a state Department of Health regulation.

Enforcement is the key.

We have a local police force, the sheriff’s department and state police available if there Please See GREENBERG, A6

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s I cannot safely attend the Cooperstown Village Board meeting on Aug. 10, I request that my concerns, listed below, be included in the record of the meeting.

I strongly support the proposed Village law to mandate mask-wearing on Main Street and contiguous blocks of Pioneer Street.

County COVID cases have increased as tourism has resumed. Travel is

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he proposed mask law. I don’t understand why the village is pursuing this.

As I understand it New York State already passed a law requiring almost everyone to wear a mask in public if social distancing cannot be done, and telling businesses they must enforce mask use or deny entry if they refuse.

So this proposed law is redundant, over-reaching

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and an over-reaction by the Village Board. And while I commend the village for thinking about the safety and well being of everyone, the statistics show we have very low case and death rates, so I don’t CON know why you feel we need yet another law.

Depending on which news article on websites you read, Otsego County has 109 or 116 confirmed cases and either six or four deaths.

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Friday, Aug. 7, Governor Cuomo announced the statistics show New York State public schools can reopen this fall, but his announcement included social-distancing and other steps to ensure it happens safely.

Remote Learning, Safety Tests, Tracing Troublesome

Editor’s Note: Here is an excerpt of Governor Cuomo’s Friday, Aug. 7, announcement that, subject to socialdistancing and other provisions, public schools may reopen this fall.

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n schools, today is the deadline to look at the infection rates and make a determination. By our infection rates, all school districts can open everywhere in the state. Every region is below the threshold that we established which is just great news.

Let me say it this way: You look at our infection rate; we are probably in the best situation in the country right now - as incredible as that is. If anyone can open schools, we can open schools. That’s true for every region in the state. Period. …Again, we’re going to watch the infection rate between now and the day that schools open. If there is a spike in the infection rate, if there’s a matter of concern in the infection rate, then we can revisit it. But for planning purposes, they can reopen.

They then go to Step 2, right, which is the local school district has to come up with a plan and they have to deal with their parents and teachers, which is going

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to be a more complicated issue than I think many of them fully appreciate.

I have been deluged with calls from parents and teachers, and there’s a significant level of anxiety and concern. And I’ve said a number of times, these school districts have to be talking to the parents and talking to the teachers, because if the teachers don’t come back, then you can’t really open the schools. If the parents don’t send their students, then you’re not really opening the schools.

So, to facilitate that, I want the school districts to do three things: • One, I know where the bulk of the questions are coming from: remote learning and the equity in the remote learning process. We’ve learned from the experiences we’ve had during

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ou look at our infection rate; we are probably in the best situation in the country right now - as incredible as that is.”

COVID that remote learning can be quite unequal given the demographics and given the circumstances. So, I’m going to ask the school districts to post their remote learning plan on how they’re going to do remote learning, to the extent they are, if they are, in their district.

• Two, there have been a lot of questions about testing. Most of the plans will say a student comes in – temperature check – and if the student has a temperature they have to be tested. What does that mean? How is the student tested? Where is the student tested? If there are 20 students who have a temperature on Day One, how do you get those students tested?

Where do you get them tested? What happens in the interim? Teachers also want to know how a teacher can get a test and how would that be done.

• Third are the questions around contact-tracing in the schools. So, if a student tests positive in a class: So the student came in, the student had a fever, the student then got tested.

What is the contact tracing for that positive? Do you test the class? If the student goes to a number of classes, how do you do it? And how will the school do contact-tracing for the school?

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ll right, friends, I’m back on the metaphorical horse, feet in the stirrups, reins in hand, hands on the saddle pommel.

Which is to say, I ready to write to you again. And so, I’ll clop on.

Ours has been an interrupted correspondence lately.

I never finished JIM recounting my ATWELL adventure at 15, when I traveled in luxury by overnight steam

packet from Baltimore, Md., down the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, Va. That account was interrupted abruptly (and painfully) by my plummeting headfirst down the four steps from our home’s back deck to the asphalt driveway.

Instinctively, I led with my right hand and so mangled my right wrist – compound fracture, protruding bone, etc.

I was knocked cold.

Fast forward through blessed assistance by kind friends and neighbors, a rush trip by first responders to the hospital, two surgeries installing plates and screws that will henceforth devil any metal detectors I step near.

Anne Geddes-Atwell But, more to the Luckily l missed all that point, that wrecked because the next thing to wrist also had another contact the asphalt after my effect. It put me right out hand was my forehead.

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History

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

150 Years Ago

The flour, feed, seed and salt trade of Goodyear and Elwell has been larger the past season than ever before and still “further growth” is the motto. In the purchase of flour from abroad care is taken to buy of such firms as cannot afford to mar a good name by making inferior goods, and in buying grain for their home mills they seek only the best. It is on this basis only that the firm desires to succeed. Farmers, grocers, general store keepers and all classes of dealers and consumers are invited to examine our stock and prices. Price lists and circulars sent on application. Address: Goodyear and Elwell, Oneonta, New York.

August 1870

125 Years Ago

Oneonta Locals: Warren L. Baker is about to move to Oneonta from Milford.

Mr. A.C. Lewis is still confined here by sickness but his final recovery is expected.

Of the seven children born in Oneonta last week, five were boys. The fire department cleared $125.60 from the recent excursion to Cooperstown. The Otsego County Grangers’ Picnic at Wilber Park was largely attended. It was estimated there were more than 2,000 people in attendance – the largest picnic ever held in Oneonta. It is reliably stated that there are now in process of erection within the village limits 70 residences. It can safely be said that not in years, if ever, have so many fine homes been in progress as at present. Mrs. James Barnes has received the papers granting her an absolute divorce from her husband with the right to resume her maiden name of Fannie Hunt.

August 1895

100 Years Ago

(Ed. Note: The following newspaper account mistakes the spelling of the infamous swindler’s name as Charles Tonzi.

His correct last name was “Ponzi” rather than “Tonzi”). Charles Tonzi, who claims to have jumped from comparative poverty to a multi-millionaire’s estate in a few months

through dealings in international postal coupons, told members of the Oneonta Kiwanis Club today some of the steps in the process by which he amassed his fortune.

Tonzi reiterated his claim that he is solvent and expressed confidence that this would be substantiated by the state and federal investigation now in progress. He expects to resume business in a few days. He insisted that nobody suffers a loss. “I buy today,” he said, “a dollar’s worth of Italian exchange.

At the present rate I get 18 Lire. I buy 60 international reply coupons. These coupons can be sold for $3 in American money.”

Tonzi maintained that no government need lose because transactions between governments may be delayed until exchange is normal and pointed out that there has been delay in the payment of interest on American loans to allies. “I haven’t found anybody who will have to make it good,” he asserted.

August 1920

80 Years Ago

Chenango County honored its neighbor at its fair at Norwich Thursday, and headlined Otsego County Day with special events.

The climax came in the afternoon when Oneonta Mayor Dan Franklin presented the winner of the Otsego County pace with a silver loving cup. Principal events were a parade of winners in the horse department at 1 p.m. and a parade of motorized farming machinery later in the afternoon. Nine teams were entered in the afternoon horse pulling contest.

August 1940

40 Years Ago

At a recent press conference U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan stated that preliminary census figures which show a 20 percent decline in New York State’s population in the past ten years are inaccurate. “There is evidence that we are headed for a serious problem. We face not only a worsening political and economic situation in New York State and its cities, but also a potential Constitutional dilemma should we fail to deal responsibly with the census under-

60 Years Ago

so-called gun-show loophole by requiring background checks for prospective purchasers at gun shows. That portion of the law went into effect immediately. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) 14 percent of all illegal gun trafficking investigations are associated with gun shows. Along with closing the gun show loophole, the new law adopted a series of related measures designed to reduce gun violence. Effective November 1, gun retailers must include a child safety lock device with all gun purchases. In addition to the locks, retailers must post notices regarding safe storage of guns and include gun safety information with the purchase of any gun.

August 2000

10 Years Ago

A new motto for the City of Oneonta is making its debut – “New York ONEONTA – Life Enjoyed” In New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Valley the brand is “Everything is Possible.” In the Gore Mountain Neighborhood of the Adirondacks it is “Purely Adirondacks.” In each case, the Glen Group of North Conway, New Hampshire, sought to distill a region’s charm into a few words. And so, “Oneonta – Life Enjoyed” joins Cooperstown’s, “America’s August 1960 Most Perfect Village” as an Otsego County community with a brand name. Glen Group count,” said the senator. Moynihan has prepared a Bill for Congress which states in principal Nancy Clark and her team of part: “The Secretary shall adjust the popula- consultants unveiled the new brand name on August 5 just before the first concert in the tion figures, employing the best available methodology to correct for undercounting.” renewed Oneonta Theatre featuring “The Infamous Stringbusters.” A power point These adjusted population figures shall be presentation of happy scenes of local life used by every Federal officer or employee administering a program under which funds started the evening’s program culminating as the new logo – with a signature blackor benefits are allocated or distributed eyed Susan in the lower right flashed on the among States or other units of government screen to applause. “The best thing about on the basis of population.”

August 1980 Oneonta is us,” is how Maggie Barnes of MB Communications puts it. Barnes, who was hired locally to oversee the branding On August 9, Governor George E. Pataki effort concluded, “It’s the relationships we have with one another and the joy we draw signed into law comprehensive legislation from one another.” to combat gun violence in New York State.

August 2010 Included in the legislation is a provision that makes New York the first state to close the

20 Years Ago

LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

Mandatory Masks Downtown Only? Why Not Everywhere?

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he below is a letter I received (along with the rest of the Cooperstown Village Board) from a constituent and my response.

• To the Members of the Village Board: As you deliberate on proposed Local Law 7, we respectfully request you discuss the following points so your intent and purpose is clearly understood by all concerned.

If the purpose of this proposal is “to protect the public health, safety and welfare of Village residents,” why is it limited to only a portion of two streets? Even a casual observer can see there is relatively little activity on Main Street these days.

Currently the most congested areas of the village are on Fish Road and the block of Fair Street near the boat launch.

There is also considerable foot

traffic on the northernmost block of Pioneer Street, where only one side of the street has a sidewalk which is much narrower than Main Street.

Moreover, there is very little mask-wearing and social-distancing in Lakefront Park and the walkway connecting Pioneer Street and Fish Road does not allow for distancing.

In other areas of the village there is a great deal of activity near the hospital and clinic; the grocery store and pharmacy; the gas stations and other commercial areas. Why are they not included?

With respect to enforcement, the Board should seriously reconsider the maximum fine of $1,000 for a first offense. ... Do you have the personnel and expertise to enforce this one?

During the current pandemic, the wearing of a mask or face covering is a sensible thing to do.

Government regulations should be sensible as well.

everywhere in Key West and other municipalities.

I would have never thought that this could be passed, especially since there are areas in the village with very low concentrations of pedestrians with easy ability to The Freeman’s Journal Dave Hubbard, Afton, exits Otsego Lake at social distance.

But with your Fish Road Sunday, Aug. 9, after catching 14 pounds of fish in the Susquehanna Bass help and support, Club’s annual derby. Lake stewards report this could hapwashing 1,800 boats entering the lake this pen. Thank you summer, compared to 600 last year. for support of this idea. I will Thank you for your consideration. present it.

• By the way, I don’t know when Here is my response: you are on Main Street, but there Your point is well taken about is a high percentage of people not the law being extended to all other wearing masks, AND NOT areas in the village, just like it is

EDITORIAL: Public Information Should Be EDITORIAL/From A4 have been infected, according to the minutes of the July town board meeting.

The issue was discussed at the July 13 Springfield Town Board meeting, and Town Clerk Jeannette Armstrong had included the discussion that had occurred in open meeting in the monthly minutes she sends out.

Happily, it turned out the town officials had been together at July 2, two days before the Fourth of July event, so “all clear” was declared.

• Since town officials come into constant contact with their constituents, doesn’t it make sense – ala Senator Seward – to let the public know they may have been infected?

The town officials didn’t see it that way, and have

now acted to ensure if any of them get sick in the future, they can keep a lid on it.

At its Aug. 10 monthly meeting, the town board voted that its minutes “will no longer be available to anyone,” Armstrong reports. “If anybody wants them, they will have to file a FOIL” – a Freedom of Information Law request – “to get them,” which – if the town board challenges the request – can be an extended process.

She continued, “The board voted that my draft minutes are never to be sent to anyone again, even though they are supposed to be available to the public within two weeks of a meeting,” according to the state Association of Towns.

• So there you have it.

Springfield citizens might be wise to avoid their elected officials. If they are infected, nobody will ever know.

A call to Town Supervisor Bill Freeland to discuss the development wasn’t answered.

In Armstrong’s opinion, it’s part of a piece, remarking, “I really feel badly for the people of the town, because they have no idea what’s happening yet they still have to pay taxes.”

For our part, the idea was to alert Town of Springfield to information they probably should have had.

And besides, it was part of the public record. Well, at least it used to be.

This is a matter the citizens might want to take up with their elected officials.

If there’s anything we can do to help, let us know.

PUTTING THEM ON WHEN PASSING OR NEAR OTHER PEOPLE. In fact, these people aren’t carrying masks and if they have masks, they are not visible.

In a pocket or purse, they cannot quickly be whipped on. I wouldn’t dare walk Main Street.

By the way, there are already laws in place to punish lack of a mask if not socially-distancing or not wearing one indoors at a public place, under the governor’s state of emergency. These should be enforced.

As you point out, the Village is putting in place a maximum penalty of $1,000. As you know, the individual’s penalty is imposed set by the presiding judge and at $1,000 is half of the state maximum penalty of $2,000 for violating similar laws. I would think that maybe the initial fine for someone would be on the order of $100, as it is in Key West, and would Please See STERNBERG, A6

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he world population is 7.8 billion almost double the number of deaths in the people. The U.S. is 330 million first seven months. While the entire world’s people, making us home to 4 percent number of dead will also keep rising, the U.S. is on track to keep outpacof humanity.

The world’s total COVID-19 cases ing every other nation. is 20 million and climbing. The U.S. There is little need to go on is 5 million and climbing faster than about the abject failure of Trump most of the world. With only 4 percent in this crisis. He will go down in of the world’s population, we have history with the likes of Herbert 25 percent of the world’s COVID-19 Hoover, who famously did nothcases. ing about the Depression until The total number of COVID-19 it was too late for everyone, and the U.S. endured years of dedeaths in the world is 733,000. Total LARRY U.S. deaths are 166,000. That’s 23 spair. In any case, we will decide percent of all COVID-19 deaths on Trump’s fate in November.

BENNETT in the world.

• Around the world the average The most critical decision we COVID-19 death rate is 94 per million. will make between now and November is In the US, it’s 500 per million, five times about reopening schools. worse than average. Our national claim to K-12 students are generally required to exceptionalism is false, unless you count attend, and cannot opt out ¬– unlike college being among the worst as exceptional. students, who can choose not to return to The U.S. death toll by the end of 2020 is campus until the pandemic is gone. There is projected to go as high as 300,000. In the a wide-ranging debate across the nation last five months of the year the U.S. will Please See BENNETT, A6

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STERNBERG: Imperfect, Needed STERNBERG/From A5 escalate with repeat or recalcitrant offenders.

I agree that more citations should be given for other offenses. Once the public was aware of this, their behavior would change.

It doesn’t take many for a village with as good a communication system as Cooperstown has for word to get out. There are also other laws that violating could cause death, like speeding, driving while intoxicated, and not stopping at STOP signs or red lights.

During a pandemic wearing a mask IS the sensible thing to do. If only everyone did when in the presence of other

members of the public, we would have this thing beat in eight weeks, according to the head of the CDC. Please read the article in the latest Weekend Wall Street Journal, page C1, “The True Face of Freedom Wears a Mask.” Unfortunately, there are, to use a word favored by my family, ice holes, who don’t give a darn about your life and mine, and both of us are high-risk individuals. Even the Republican President of the United States requires everyone around him to wear masks and get tested daily, albeit to protect himself. Wearing a mask is not just sensible it is a life and death issue.

ATWELL: Ill, Married, But Separated By COVID-19 ATWELL/From A4 of column writing for the duration.

Over the next weeks, I had lots of time to weigh accommodations to the problem.

But something far more urgent quickly took over my every thought.

My dear Anne, who’d been fighting metastatic breast cancer for several years, was suddenly losing ground. That devilish disease, having wrecked several secondary systems, now found its way to her brain.

And when I was hauled to the hospital after my fall, my Anne was already there, losing ground precipitously. By the time my surgeries were complete, it was plain that all that could be offered to Anne was palliative care.

And so, on the same day and in the same vehicle, she and I were moved to

Cooperstown Convalescent Center – I for rehabilitation of my hand, she to be given every comfort possible for as long as she lived.

And it was then that the pandemic came home to our marriage. The Center was under strict quarantine, and newcomers had to be in separate quarters from all others, and from one another, for the first two weeks after arrival.

This policy may sound draconian, but it has spared the Convalescent Center from having cases of coronavirus entering the Center to spread among residents.

Think of the county-wide horror stories of convalescent centers devastated by the virus.

At our Center, there have been no cases.

None.

For Anne and me, though, the policy meant that my dying wife and I, though in rooms only 70 feet apart, could not see, much less kiss or even touch one another.

Marital relations for us were phone calls several times a day, the best we could do.

But no one could have shown us more empathy than the staff who tended us. A nurse, standing behind my chair would squeeze both my shoulders.

“Your dear Annie asked me to bring this hug to you.” Her love, delivered secondhand. Bless such caregivers!

There’s more to tell. I’ll wait till next time.

Jim Atwell, the Quaker minister, author and retired college administrator, now resides at Woodside Hall.

KINGSLEY: BENNETT: Children At Risk total 60 million people.

A5 We Overreach BENNETT/From If the U.S. rate of 500 over if, when, and how K-12 KINGSLEY./Frmo A4 ...Yes, we want everyone to be safe and we don’t want cases or deaths to start increasing again.

There are several ways to contract COVID-19 with droplets being the leading cause.

One can also contract COVID19 by touching contaminated surfaces. Wearing a mask is a great idea, but so is cleaning and disinfecting surfaces.

As a lodging property, we enforce wearing a mask, social distancing and, additionally, we increased the cleaning/disinfecting of high-touch points, use of hand sanitizer, and initiated several other protocols for guest and employee safety.

If the village really cared about the safety and well-being of everyone, it would address contracting COVID-19 by contacting a high-touch point on Main Street and mitigate that.

As I see it, you are only focusing on mask wearing and an absolutely obscene fine if caught not wearing one. What about contracting COVID-19 by contact. I want to hear how you’re going to mitigate the possible transmission when people touch the crosswalk buttons, trash receptacle handles, paid-parking kiosks, benches up and down Main Street, the tables and chairs in Pioneer Park, TV screen at the help kiosk in Pioneer Park.

I see tens if not hundreds of people touching them on a daily basis, so how are you going to ensure they are cleaned and disinfected? Who do we fine or hold responsible for not keeping those items cleaned? I mean as a business we are required to do that!

In closing, I do not agree with this law. There is already a law in place for this. We are just one of several tourist destinations in the state and approving this law and fine structure is a huge negative for Cooperstown and will drive away guests (local and tourists) and further hurt many local businesses which have already been hit hard.

Instead, why aren’t we focusing on positives, what the village and businesses are already doing to help keep the locals and visiting guests safe?

reopening should happen.

And since it’s America, we get to try anything we can think of. But are we thinking first of missed education, or of schools sitting empty, or of the difficulty and compromise in distance schooling? Of parents overwhelmed by trying to be teachers as well as parents?

• Assessing the actual risk to the children should be first on our minds, as well as risks to teachers, aides, assistants, staff, bus drivers, and cleaning crews.

I’ve read many different ways to approach the reopening, but the one thing they have in common is that students, faculty, and staff will be placed in situations where they will have daily exposure to the virus.

No amount of planning, or wishing, or praying can make that go away.

Last year 56 million students attended elementary, middle, and high schools across the U.S. The 56 million, along with the 4 million teachers and staff,

All

deaths per million continues, we could expect 30,000 deaths among this group – and potentially more deaths among non-teaching husbands and wives, as well as parents and grandparents.

But let’s agree children are less susceptible to COVID-19 and cut that number in half, to 15,000 deaths. Since there are about 13,000 U.S. school districts that’s an average of a little over one child per district.

Of course, poorer districts with poorer families will face much higher risks. But nobody can expect an absence of risk.

• That’s the price we have to be willing to pay if we reopen too soon. On average, one child or teacher per school district will die. To me, reopening too soon means before this pandemic is crushed, which is not near.

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Reality check: The spread of COVID is most likely indoors, in close quarters, with people unmasked and talking, sneezing, coughing, etc. Businesses that tolerate these scenarios are endangering their personnel and family members; they also risk being listed as a possible exposure site.

Many people with COVID are asymptomatic but contagious, so that many who are infected do not feel sick; therefore everyone is potentially a vector and source of some other person’s potentially deadly illness.

I now avoid Main Street unless truly necessary. I have limited visits to The Farmers’ Market (a cause I strongly support) to Tuesdays, when there are less tourists in town.

I will now only rarely order take-out food from Main Street restaurants.

Gene and I are high-risk seniors and will further avoid spending on Main Street if these protections are not provided.

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BARN/From A3 In 2012, the Welches, who have been upgrading buildings on Cooperstown’s Railroad Avenue and elsewhere for decades, moved into a historic house at the corner of Whiteman and Rezen roads in the Middlefield hamlet, which they’d been renovating since 1994.

Last year, when the neighboring Jorgensen family was selling off land on Whiteman Road, the Welches picked up a 3-acre parcel that wraps around their corner property. It included what had been a dairy barn for perhaps a century and a half; but Edgington could read into the building’s history.

He points to the “swing beam” that runs the width of the structure. In the early 19th Century, oxen were tethered to such beams and, marching in a circle, ground wheat into grain and chaff, he said.

The swing beam allowed the barns to be open at each side, and wagons loaded with grain to come in one side and out the other.

Thicker in the middle than at the end, the beam allowed wagons to turn around inside.

The barns were also positioned to catch the prevailing wind, which then blew the chaff out the door, according to Gib Vincent, Cooperstown, the historic preser-

vationist and former NYSHA president.

Early farmers who settled in Otsego County aimed to make their living growing grain, but found it was hard to transport it to market. (Farmers living near the Erie Canal, which opened in the 1820s, were luckier.)

To handle the surplus, distilleries sprang up – more than a dozen in the Town of Hartwick alone, Vincent said – to turn grain into whiskey.

By the 1840s, local farmers had turned to dairy, and cheese factories sprang up, converting the milk to cheese and butter.

When railroads arrived after the Civil War, local farmers began shipping fresh milk directly to urban centers.

The Welches bought the barn last August, and “Dad worked on it every day for seven months,” said daughter Molly Whyte, who had stopped by with the Welches’ latest granddaughter for a visit.

Butch filled two dumpsters as he emptied the building.

He jacked up one section 21 inches, then realized he needed help from a team like Edgington’s. For instance, “there was a big dip in the middle of the roof line,” Mary said.

The repairs – two weeks in, the team anticipated another two weeks on site – included prepping and installing a 26-

foot hemlock from an Amish carpenter to brace the floor.

New posts have been cut and, jigsawpuzzle like, pieced together to firm up existing posts.

Norm Farwell, one of Simple Integrity’s seasoned carpenters, described the antique tools needed for the job, lining up a mortise chisel, slick and adze. An antique “log buggy,” found in the barn, is being used to transport wood to the construction site.

Farwell pointed out how oak “trunnel pins,” are driven into the beams; they then swell and hold the structure together, a technique developed in wooden shipbuilding of yesteryear.

When the Simple Integrity team is done, Butch will side the building and begin the finish work. The Welches aren’t sure what they’ll do with the building; perhaps sell it to a family that might want to turn it into a home.

For now, they’re admiring the transformation happening before their eyes, and the original craftsmanship that went into the building.

“Bottom line,” said Butch, “I’ve built a lot of stuff in my time.” From working on the barn, “I have a great deal of respect for the people who have gone before.”

in bars and restaurants, and RETURN/From A1 large groups downtown not The phone line will go wearing masks,” he said. directly to the Oneonta Police Bars and restaurants are Department, and reports can be already limited in capacity made anonymously. under state regulations, but “When that phone rings, whoever is there knows that it’s among the proposals the Control Room is looking at a public health emergency,” he is limiting Oneonta said. “The person won’t Public Transit runs in have to fill out a report, the evening to only the and action can be taken “essentials.” immediately.”

“We don’t want to Herzig is in the facilitate or encourage process of forming two nightlife,” said Herzig. working groups, one for “We are all forgoing each college, to keep dining in restaurants or on top of students and having a few drinks at a city residents’ COVID Herzig bar. Crowded buses are concerns. “We want not something we want to monitor how we’re to see, and we don’t want so doing,” he said. “If we run into many people coming downtown problems, we come up with a that it gets overcrowded.” solution.”

There is also concern about Called the “SUNY Control house parties, which is where Room” and modeled on the Mohawk Valley Regional Control the tip line comes in.

“Enforcement will fall to the Room that Herzig serves on, Oneonta Police Department,” SUNY students, faculty and he said. city Officials will meet virtuIf a bar is found to be out ally once a week to discuss of compliance, police can ask onand off-campus concerns.

In 1856, The Freeman’s patrons to leave in order to A second group will be Journal published an excerpt bring the numbers into compliformed at Hartwick College, from a speech titled “For ance. However, if the overthough Herzig stresses that The Ladies” that he gave crowding is “extreme,” police most Hartwick students live at the Otesgia Society of are allowed to close the bar on campus, as distinct from Cooperstown Seminary, for the night and call in SUNY. which Stuart read during the the state Liquor Authority the “The colleges did a great presentation, eliciting groans next day, which may pull the job on their safety plans,” from the audience on the liquor license. the mayor said.

“If we don’t Swart-Wilcox front lawn: Herzig is also working “It will not be your mission, have the same expectations of with student associations to the students downtown, why young ladies, to engage in determine what bus routes and should they go through all the the rough employments of times and needs for essentials trouble?

The virus doesn’t care men – to mingle with our – shopping, the library and if you’re on campus or off.” rough sex in depositing votes night classes – and which can The ultimate issue, he said, in the ballot box – to sit in the be limited. hall of legislation – to wrangle is monitoring the number of However, he said, if there COVID cases, but there will be in debate – to declaim at the is no increase in cases, the ongoing discussions of compliforum – to ascend to the Control Room can begin to ance with state regulations. pulpit – to plow the earth – relax restrictions, such as “The big concerns are house to navigate the ocean or to adding additional bus routes. parties, over-crowding fight our battles.”

Swart-Wilcox Crowd Groaned At Yesteryear’s Attitudes ANTHONY/From A3 that had never been noted in any Anthony biography before Stuart’s discovery.

“I was looking at information other historians had missed,” she said.

A call to the Ann Gordon librarian at Rutgers University, which had recently published a 16-volume work on Anthony’s life, confirmed Stuart’s suspicions that the visit had been overlooked. “She told me it was on page such-and-such, but when I looked, it wasn’t there,” said Stuart. “She responded, ‘You’re right, it’s not.’”

According to Stuart, Cooperstown was the first stop in a tour across Upstate New York that also included Schenectady and Troy in hopes of starting county chapters of the women’s rights movement.

Following the meeting at the church, she reportedly went to the courthouse, then on the corner of Main and Pioneer where the Cooperstown Beverage Exchange now stands, and gave a second speech.

Though no reporting of the meeting survives, a satirical report by “Uxorius” appeared in the following week’s edition

of The Freeman’s Journal.

“The beneficial effects of the convention were once apparent,” he wrote. “Men, who had always been careless and indifferent upon the subject of domestic duties, went home singing ‘Bye-o-baby bunting, Mama’s gone a’hunting’ and other similar airs, in anticipation, I suppose, of the time when they should be attending to matters adapted to their capacities at home, while they’re wives, having ascended to their appropriate spheres, should be displaying their graces in legislative halls.”

On Feb. 13, four days after the Otsego County appearance, she spoke in Albany, and that speech, which Stuart says was

likely similar to what she gave in Cooperstown, was documented in the Albany Argus.

“A man tailor receives $4 to $10 for making a coat; a woman from $2 to $4; a male cook from twelve to twenty shilling per day, while a female, equally skillful, is fortunate to receive as much per week,” she was reported as saying.

When Reverend Bush – a distant relative of the Presidents George and George W. – took over the Presbyterian Church pulpit in 1856, he was horrified Anthony had been allowed to speak on the church’s property.

“He was not in favor of women’s rights,” Stuart said.

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Arnold Lake, LLC .

Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/03/20.

Office location: Otsego County.

Walt Frazier designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Walt Frazier shall mail process to the LLC at 273 Southside Drive, Oneonta N.Y. 13820.

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6LegalSept.10 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Goss Properties, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/20.

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Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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IN MEMORIAM

John and Suzanne Rudy, foreground, and 20-some attendees at the Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing on the Village of Cooperstown’s maskmandate, recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Robert Van Wormer, 87, Morris; Retired Teacher, Festival Usher MORRIS - Word has been received that Robert “Bob” F. Van Wormer, 87, a retired teacher and writer, passed away at Wilson Hospital in Johnson City on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020.

Bob was born on Nov. 23, 1932, the son of Frederick Van Wormer and Mary (Lindhorst) Van Wormer, both deceased. He was also predeceased by a sister, Betty (Van Wormer) Michalski.

He grew up in Morris, having attended the local school and then graduated from the State Teachers College in Oneonta.

He moved to Ithaca in 1960, as a fifth-grade teacher in the town of Lansing. After three years there he taught for one year in Rochester. Bob moved to the Ithaca City School District to teach fifth grade in Glenwood and Enfield elementary schools until his

retirement in 1990. After a 30-year career in public school teaching, he returned to his family home in Morris.

Bob became involved in many community activities.

He was one of the original members of the Pigtail Alley Writing Group, which meets monthly in the Village of Morris Library. His most recent publication was Jelly Beans and Dragon Wheels.

He was also on the board of Evergreen Cemetery near South New Berlin. He served in a variety of posts, including board president.

Through board actions, the cemetery and adjacent White Store Church have been maintained and improved.

In 1990 Bob became a volunteer usher at Glimmerglass Opera (later Glimmerglass Festival) for more than 28 seasons. In the process he made many

new acquaintances and friends for the festival. He was a member of the Guild of Glimmerglass Festival, participating in the work of its education committee.

Bob is survived by his cousin, Richard D. Johnson and Richard’s wife, Harriett Johnson; daughter, Ruth (Johnson) Borra; and son, Royce Johnson. He is also survived by his brother-inlaw, Cas Michalski; and his wife, Marilyn Michalski.

A memorial service is planned in Evergreen Cemetery.

Memorial donations in Bob’s name may be sent to Evergreen Cemetery, 431 White Store Road, Norwich, NY 13805, or to the Tribute Fund, Guild of Glimmerglass Festival, P.O. Box 191, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Johnston & Stanimer Funeral Home.

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal

Unanimously, Trustees OK Mask Mandate

this recommended policy said, “I don’t know how, with MASKS/From A1 … It is incumbent upon the the size of the police departing’s end, the trustees voted leadership of this communi- ment we have, how this this unanimously for “Proposed ty, and the residency of this going to be enforced.” He Local Law 7: Requiring village, to said there are no officers on use of face masks and face institute and duty after 5 p.m. coverings.” follow safety Doubleday Café co-proThe law will go into efpolicies pro- prietor Barbara Boulanger fect, perhaps by the weektecting each said, “I don’t think it’s right end: All that is required is of us and our for someone who doesn’t for the ordinance to be filed guests.” know the village to be fined with the New York SecreBassett $1,000.” It should be $35, tary of State’s office. Then, Hospital “like a traffic ticket.” The people must wear masks on President mayor said enforcement is Main between Fair and Pine Kingsley Bill LeCates not going to be “gotcha. It’s Boulevard, and on Pioneer wrote: “I going to be an educational between Lake and Church, applaud your efforts to process.” or face a fine up to $1,000. improve mask use and raise “You cannot be too careMayor Ellen Tillapaugh ful,” said retired Bassett Kuch began the 5 p.m. hear- awareness of the risks of COVID-19 infection within COO Bertine McKenna. ing reviewing an unusually Dress Factory and Sanyo the village.”

“I’d like to commend you.” large numbers of letters and until her retirement.

Eight residents spoke.

Others favoring the law emails received prior to a She enjoyed sewing, Jan Howard, who owns included businesspeople like public hearing: There was watching Westerns, readCooperstown Classics with Marge Landers, White House 33 missives in favor (repreing and going to the barn Inn proprietor; John Rudy of senting 38 people), and only husband Todd, said she (mostly to feed the cats). walks her dog late at night the Baseball B&B, and Neil four against.

But most of all, she loved and early in the morning Weiller of Muskrat Hill.

In Cooperstown, the prospending time with her and runs into no one. “Do Inputs over, Trustee Richletters included some heavy family, especially her grand- hitters.

I have to wear a mask at ard Stern made the motion; children and great-grandmidnight?” she asked. Tilla- MacGuire Benton seconded Hall of Fame President children. it and, after brief remarks, Tim Mead and Board Chair- paugh said officers will use She was a longtime mem- man Jane Forbes Clark their judgment. all seven board members ber of St. Mary’s Church.

Robert Nelson, Fair Street, cast aye votes. wrote: “We strongly endorse Rosanna is survived by her six children, Mary and Duane Everitt, Edmeston, Lyle and Tina Garrison, Davenport, Paul and Becky JUDGES/From A1 Garrison, Davenport, Kris►6 LAWYERS SEEK COUNTY JUDGE POST their interest in filling tine and Brendan Exum, Burns’ seat.

“At this point, I Cecilia, Kentucky, Jeffrey ere are the six Otsego County lawyers who will be don’t expect anyone else to and Jamie Garrison, Davat the Sunday, Aug. 16, Republican County Comjump in,” said County GOP enport and Donald Garrison mittee meeting at The Otesaga, making their cases Chairman Vince Casale. and Bonnie Davis, Davento succeed County Judge Brian D. Burns: • And the 75-member port; 13 grandchildren; four • Richard Brown, Oneonta, named support magistrate county Republican Comgreat-grandchildren; three for Otsego and Delaware counties in 2007. A former mittee is scheduled to meet sisters, Marie Giambalvo, law clerk for Burns, he is a 1987 SUNY at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, Oneonta graduate, receiving his law Dorothy Shaw and Priscilla degree in 1992 from Touro Law School in The Otesaga ballroom to Stubbins; as well as many on Long Island. interview the candidates and nieces and nephews.

• Michael Getman, Oneonta’s city select a new county judge, She was predeceased by prosecutor and an assistant district atwho will run unopposed on siblings, Mary Lorraine torney. A graduate of Colgate University, the Nov. 3 ballot.

Hawkins, Marie Ernestine he received his law degree in 1986 from The six candidates are atTubbs, Maria Theresa OuiNova Southeastern School of Law. In 1991, he joined the torneys Richard Brown, Jill met, Leon Lambert, Lilfirm of his father, City Judge Frank Getman, who passed Ghaleb, Mike Getman, Will lian Sassano and Frederick away in 2009.

Green, Susan Lettis and Lambert.

• Jill Ghaleb, Cooperstown, who was appointed by Michael E. Trosset.

Graveside memorial Gov. David Paterson in 2008 to fill an interim county The succession of judges, court vacancy. She is a graduate of Utica College with a services will be held at 2 law degree from the New York Law School and 30 years because they are elected evp.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, in experience. ery 10 years, usually allows Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Em• Will Green, Hartwick, an assistant district attorney candidates more time to line mons. and partner in the Green & Green firm, Cooperstown. A up. “This is unique,” said For those who wish, Skidmore graduate, he received his law degree from Casale. memorial donations may be Western New England School of Law. When the county commade to St. Mary’s Church, • Susan Lettis, a Cooperstown native now residing in mittee meets Sunday, it first 39 Walnut St., Oneonta, NY Oneonta, associate attorney, Mental Hygiene Legal Serwill address routine busi13820., in loving memory vice, Appellate Division, Third Department. A Syracuse ness – for instance, supportof Rosanna W. Garrison.

University graduate, she received her law degree in 2012 ing GOP Elections Comfrom Vermont Law School.

• Michael E. Trosset, currently county public defender mittee Lori Lehenbauer of Judge McVinney and principal in the Trosset Law Group, Fly Creek, graduWorcester for another term. ated from Georgetown University and received his law Visitation, Funeral (Virtual connections will degree from Syracuse University. be available to members For the results of Sunday’s committee meeting, visit Planned Next Week uneasy about attending in person.)

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OTSEGO.com The six candidates will hours and a graveside service plenty of time for the county June, Burns was in place to gather in the hotel’s Oak are planned next week for committees to line up the run for reelection to what Room, and the committee longtime City Judge Richard contest between Republican would have been his third will call them in one by one “Dick” W. McVinney, who John Lambert and thenterm on the county bench. to be interviewed.

Whomevpassed away Saturday, March Democrat Jill Ghaleb, who Because of Burns’ popuer the committee chooses at 28, 2020, following a threehad been appointed to the larity, the Democrats hadn’t afternoon’s end will become year battle with declining Coccoma vacancy by thenfielded a challenger. It’s too judge, Casale said. health. He was 68.

Gov. David Paterson. late now, so that turns this In 2008, when Coccoma, Visitation will be from 2 to This time, when Coccoma fall’s judicial election into a then county judge, ran for 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 20, at announced his retirement in Republican coronation.

Supreme Court, there was the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta. Be prepared to wait to enter the building, wear a face covering and continue.”

STAYCATION/From A1 maintain social distancing.

After more than 100 days of closure, both lands to promote in-state tourism as an increasA graveside service will the Hall and the museums opened with new ing number of states – currently 33 – are on the be at 11 a.m., Friday, Aug. cleaning protocols, social distancing and mask travel advisory list.

21, in Glenwood Cemetery, requirements.

“It’s always a joy to come back to And Tim Mead, Hall of Fame president, said Cooperstown,” she said. “I had breakfast at what Oneonta, with the Rev. some of the newly implemented measurements must be the world’s smallest diner, and I realKenneth Hunter officiating. will benefit the Hall going forward. “Timed ized that this is the place where you come to feel Mourners are asked to wear ticketing has been great, and we’ve done a lot of a face covering and maintain young again, where you can renew your spirits.” external outreach to our memberships,” he said.

Representatives from the Glimmerglass Festisocial distancing. val, the Farmers’ and Fenimore museums, Brew- “We will all grow from this.”

In lieu of flowers, Dick David Neil, Ommegang’s hospitality director, ery Ommegang and the Cooperstown Chamber wished that donations be of Commerce were on hand for the event, as was said the brewery switched to canning more beer made to Oneonta Dollars after restaurant businesses dried up, reducing the Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. for Scholars, the Elizabeth need to buy kegs. “The majority of our business “What hasn’t been cancelled is our natural and Clifford McVinney was in kegs,” he said. “But now, we’re canning beauty,” Hochul said. “Recreation is soaring, Scholarship, P.O. Box 1083, the boat launch has seen their traffic triple, more than we ever had; we completely changed our whole production.” and the economic benefits of the outdoors can Oneonta, NY, 13820.

Rosanna Garrison, 79; Worked At Oneonta Dress ONEONTA – Rosanna W. Garrison, 79, a former seamstress at the Oneonta Dress Factory, passed away peacefully Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, at her home in Davenport.

She was born July 27, 1941, in Oneonta, the daughter of the late Leon and Rosa (Roberts) Lambert.

Rosanna attended St. Mary’s School and graduated from Oneonta

High School.

On April 24, 1965, Rosanna married Lewis Garrison in Oneonta.

Lewis predeceased her on Sept. 19, 2016.

She was Rosanna Garrison a seamstress for many years working at Oneonta

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