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Job Corps To Celebrate Half-Century Of Success Games, Fireworks Due At Damaschke

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e’ll be waving golden pom-poms at the big game, but Chris Kuhn doesn’t need glittery accoutrements to celebrate Oneonta Job Corps Academy. “I don’t usually get pom-poms, but I’m the number one cheerleader for this

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place,” said the center’s director.

Nationwide, 125 Job Corps centers celebrate 50 years of providing at-risk students with job training and education, and Oneonta Job Corps has Please See 50TH, A7

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Hops – Pacing Factor For Local Ag Revival

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ffective Monday, Aug. 11, Otsego Express (known as Gus the Bus) began a route weekdays from Oneonta through Morris and Gilbertsville to New Berlin.

Riders can leave Oneonta at 7 a.m. and 1:15 p.m., with return rides at mid-morning and mid-afternoon. The bus connects with Oneonta Public Transport’s West End bus to bring riders to points around Oneonta.

More info at www.otsegoexpress.com or 547-4225.

SING CAROLS: Auditions for the Catskill Choral Society’s Dec. 5-6 Christmas concert, “Christmas in the Southwest,” are 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, at the Unitarian Universalist Society, Ford Avenue. Rehearsals will be every Thursday.

To schedule an audition, call 286-9106.

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s if to underscore the hops revival is not the exclusive purview of established businesses and the well-off, 50 would-be hops growers – a range of folks – gathered CADE’s Morgan Thursday, July 31, at the Muddy River Farm in Unadilla to learn how to grow the once plentiful local crop.

This was two days before 110 hops enthusiasts toured from Northern Eagle Beverages to Please See CADE, A2

MANOR SALE OK’D: The state Department of Health Thursday, Aug. 8, approved a “certificate of need,” the final hurdle to completing the sale of Otsego Manor to Focus Ventures of Rockland County.

BREWERY OPENS: The Roots Brewing Co., Oneonta’s first brewery, opened its doors at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, at 175 Main St.

Warming up for the Job Corps’ 50th birthday party Tuesday, Aug. 19, at Damaschke Field are, from left, students Ethan Leonard, Porche Douglas and Travice Dice, and staff Shelby Key, Chris Kuhn (director), George Snyder and Adina Feliu.

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Therapy Dogs Help Kids Relax – And Read

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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f Buckeye is afraid of snakes, he doesn’t show it to Tyr Melligan, a second grader at Valleyview.

Instead, he rolls over and shows his belly as Tyr reads from his favorite book, “When Snakes Attack.”

“This fits Buckeye perfectly,” said his handler, Amy Blechman. “He’s got the lazy lab thing down.”

Buckeye was the therapy dog on hand Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Huntington Library’s “Tales for Tails” program, which encourages kids to pick out a book and sit with a therapy dog to practice their reading Please See DOGS, A7

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Among the 900 signators are George “Tenth of December” Saunders of Oneonta and Dana “Eat The Document” Spiotta, formerly of Cherry Valley.

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Hops Hot Button Now, But New Ag Opportunities About To Emerge CADE/From A1 Cooperstown Brewing to Hager Hops 10-acre field in Pierstown, learning how the family of local Anheuser Busch descendants has put together a complete bine to brewery operation.

Under the auspices of CADE, the Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship in Oneonta, the 50 from Muddy River gathered again the following Thursday at the newly opened Roots Brewery in Oneonta, and

were due to finish their training at Roots in a third session Thursday the 14th.

This is part of a piece. “Part of the job,” said CADE Executive Director Rebecca Morgan, “is to be creative about the next wave of the Food Movement.”

Right now, hops is the hot button. In recent days, CADE has obtained at $49,000 USDA grant that bought six oasts – hops dryers – one each for Muddy River and five other farms that are starting to

grow hops. The grant was enough to buy a newly developed portable hops harvester from Steenland Manufacturing in Roxbury and a pelletizer that the six can share.

“We’re trying to help people who are just starting out,” said Morgan.

And this is just the beginning in a lot of ways, said the CADE executive, who was raised on a farm near Walton, left for Wesleyan, then spent 20 years traveling the world with the U.N. and Human

Rights Watch. Always interested in food issues, she obtained an advanced degree from Columbia in Food System Development, and joined Heifer International, the organization that, beginning with a single cow, seeks to pull villages out of poverty.

Along the way, she met Greg Schnabel, a trader in biomass commodities, and returned to Walton (he commutes to New York City), where four children soon followed: daughter Chella,

11, and sons Rocco, 9, Luke, 8, and Benny, 5.

Two years ago she joined CADE, succeeding Chris Harmon, who is raising a grass-fed-beef herd in Milford and, since departing CADE, ran and was elected Milford town supervisor.

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A team of efficiency experts from Japan, assigned to Toyota’s West Caldwell, N.J., regional office, monitored repair and calibration techniques Tuesday, Aug. 12, at Empire Toyota in Oneonta, part of the corporate emphasis on “kaizen,� the practice of continuous improvement. From left, Toyota Team Leader Tom Seneca, Yuya Yasutomi, Empire’s Russ Bauer, Takeshi Yoshida, Empire’s Rob Brown, Empire service manager John Maine, and Toyota Field Tech Specialist Ken Marquez review results on a laptop.

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FIVE ON DEANS: Caitlin Mahon, Kasey Hogan, Stefanie Paluch, Beth Ann Hughes, Kelsey Baker and Matthew Struckle, all of Oneonta, were named to the Dean’s List at SUNY Brockport in the spring semester.

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Casinos? Dicey. Meanwhile, Otsego County Pursues Real Jobs

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he two leading heavy hitters in the proposed Howe Caverns Casino & Resort in Schoharie County were in Cooperstown Wednesday the 6th, breakfasting at The Otesaga with Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz.

(Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller was invited, but had to cancel.)

Mike Malik of NAG Development, Detroit, which has been building casinos in the U.S. and abroad since the 1990s, and Jim Dacey, vice president/development for Full House Resorts, Miami, are leading the charge for the Cobleskill facility, one of four proposed Upstate by the Cuomo Administration that may be approved this fall.

The two men then met with leading local tourism proponents: Deb Taylor, executive director of Destination Otsego, the executives from the Otsego Chamber, Barbara Ann Heegan, and the Cooperstown Chamber, Matt Hazzard, and Vince Casale of The Casale Group, which helped develop Full House’s New York State application (and also chairs of the county Republican Committee).

You can see there might be possibilities to collaborate, particularly in the shoulder seasons and even the winter. For instance, might patrons enjoy staying at The Otesaga and being bused back and forth to Howe Caverns? After all, you can’t gamble 24 hours a day.

(Or can you?)

Artist’s rending envisions Howe Caverns Casino & Resort.

• The great thing about the discussion is that any participation by our non-host county is so low risk, particularly given a front-page article in the New York Times this past Monday concluding that New York State is too late into the casino sweepstakes – 15 years too late, gambling industry analyst Harold Vogel is quoted saying.

Casinos in Atlantic City are closing. Foxwoods, located in the sweet spot of Connecticut, half way between Boston and New York City’s big populations, is cutting back. Will our state’s new casinos simply take business from our state’s nine racinos?

Casinos mean risk, and not just at the blackjack tables. “The jobs created ... could offer low wages instead of providing a pathway to the middle class,” the newspaper reports. “Localities could face new expenses for public safety

services, not to mention the indirect costs of problem gambling.”

Phew! We may benefit marginally from the casino, but we miss all that downside.

• Contrast Schoharie County’s gambling with Otsego County’s economic-development strategy.

It’s a happy contrast – for us.

When the county IDA met last week, instead of dice and slot machines, the discussion surrounded progress on “shovel-ready sites,” which the second “Seward Summit” last November showed are essential to attract real jobs.

IDA President Sandy Mathes discovered a “shovel-ready site” is already at hand: Pony Farm Industrial Park has acreage, municipal water, sewer, electricity and gas, plus high-speed broadband access. And it’s right on I-88.

Delaware Engineering, under contract with the IDA, has

sketched out a 400,000-squarefoot parcel that can accommodate a 300,000-square-foot building at Pony Farm, and plans are to spruce up and “rebrand” a property that, certainly, is showing its age.

Another site south of Richfield Springs is also being studied, with an eye toward attracting suppliers for the $1 billion nanotechology campus under construction at SUNY/IT, north of Utica.

IDA board members were also briefed on funding for the Hager Hops/Northern Eagle Beverages’ exciting “dirt to beer” strategy.

That alone garners a $95,000 financing fee to IDA, plus $6,500 a year for the life of a 10-year pilot, and more than covers the first-year investment in Mathes. Benefits to the county economy will felt for years.

• Further, as CADE’s Rebecca Morgan details on Page A1 of this edition, the county is also on the cusp of seeing great benefits from the “Local Foods, Local Spirits” movement – 270 people paid $35 apiece for a so-named fundraiser for the Cooperstown Farmers’ Market in recent days – that is beginning with hops, but seems certain to expand.

When it does, we’re not talking about peanuts, given our proximity to “many, many millions of dollars” in unmet demand – Morgan’s estimate – in New York City. She

sees a mature hops farm netting $45,000 an acre. Plant 10 acres, and we’re talking, not subsistence, but prosperity.

Arugula grown here commands $16 a pound in Gotham’s fancy restaurants.

Big money, hedge-fund money – have you heard anything about Woodbine’s Marcel Kasumovich buying land in the Hartwick Valley? – is starting to look here, as are growers from California (where water is lacking) and the Midwest (where water is tainted.)

• This – nanotechnology, Farm to Table products – is the right stuff.

We’re aligning with sectors that are sure to grow, sectors that require brainpower and work ethic, traditional values we are wise to promote in creating a better local world.

It’s great that we may be able to gain some benefits from the Howe Caverns casino (the wrong stuff) with little risk. The IDA, for instance, is offering to train casino workers at its prospective Susquehanna Regional Business Center on the fifth floor of Oneonta’s 189 Main.

But the IDA – regrettably, and mystifyingly, county government, which still declining to participate – is placing much surer bets, ones that could be transformational, not for five years or 10, but longterm.

The happy reality is, they’re hardly bets at all.

LETTERS

To Repeat, Only Creating Jobs Justifies Town’s Cost

To the Editor: Really? Like Mr. Buttermann, Oneonta Town Board member Andrew Stammel’s response to my concerns on the Southside water idea was long in wording but short on substance and facts.

I asked how many jobs will result from the $8.8 million water idea; the number of jobs and the payroll impact on the community.

If there’s public, taxpayer money supporting the water idea, then all of the job impact information should be readily available. Public loans and grants all require such documentation. That documentation should be easily produced; the number of jobs to be created and the payroll impact on the community. The taxpaying public has a right to have that information.

Mr. Stammel states that since 2007, 25 of 27 active wells currently on the Southside failed quality

To the Editor: A response to your article/ tests, many with “coliform, editorial in the Aug. 8, 2014, benzene and other chemical Hometown Oneonta is in toxins.” He added that there order. We agree that a full have been 16 boil orders and open dialogue around since 2002. Facts! So why the findings and recomare people still allowed to mendations of the Charter drink that water?

Review Commission should Has the town concluded occur – and it will. Howevthe causes of the tainted wa- er, any such dialogue must ter and applied mitigating be based on the facts and the measures? By all accounts, actual mandates contained it sounds as though there’s in the charter. Your most plenty of water capacity recent edition demonstrates currently on the Southside, a failure to understand both but that the water in those the charter and the actions wells have varying degrees taken by the Common of pollutants. So maybe the Council to bring it into full polluted water issue could implementation. be significantly reduced We take exception to your with an $800,000 public headline and first paragraph: sewer extension along the “Mayor Dick Miller and Old Southside Drive, where Common Council have polluting seepage most failed to implement the new likely originates, instead of city charter and ignored a new $8.8 million water their responsibilities under system; that’s an $8 million the document.” First of all, savings to solve the water the report makes no such quality issue. statement; this is your own The Woodland Water Dis- characterization. Furthertrict was mentioned as more, the council did implePlease See COLONE, A6 ment the new charter and we continue to ensure that we are meeting standards set forth therein. Your Aug. 8, 2014, edition failed to

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City Council members Mike Lynch, left, and Chip Holmes.

recognize the following: Once the new charter became effective, the Common Council was required to designate a city manager.

The city’s ability to function would have been put in serious jeopardy if we had failed to appoint an interim city manager. Appointing Mayor Miller not only ensured our ability to respond to emergencies and keep City Hall moving forward, it recognized the contributions he was already making as a “part time” mayor (something your publication has recognized and complimented on numerous occasions).

Having Mayor Miller act as the interim city manager was one of the easiest decisions we have made. We would do it again.

The Common Council

hired Mike Long in compliance with the charter. In fact, it is hard to imagine someone with more expert credentials and experience than Mike Long. He was one of only 22 city managers in New York State credentialed by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA); he held a master’s in public administration from the esteemed Maxwell School at Syracuse University and had 30 years of executive/managerial public sector experience.

Once hired, we turned to the next requirement of the new charter – evaluating the city manager. In order to do so we sought out expert assistance. We hired Bob McEvoy to work with the entire Common Council, including Mike Long, to develop an effective evaluation procedure. Mr. McEvoy was the same consultant used by the Charter Review Commission and had firsthand knowledge of the new charter. The council approved the expenditure of $5,000 to pay for Mr. McEvoy’s assistance.

You criticized Meg Hungerford for stating that she and department heads would be gathering again in September. You fail to understand that in addition to serving as acting city manager, Meg continues to serve as director of finance (you refer to her incorrectly as “city treasurer”). The charter requires the director of finance to work with department heads in preparing a preliminary Budget.

The charter mandates one be submitted to the city manager by Oct. 15. To criticize her for stating she would be meeting with department heads in September demonstrates a lack of understanding the most rudimentary elements of the City Charter.

We have not ignored our responsibilities and any statement to the contrary is objectively false. We are sure you want your readers to have faith and confidence in what you report. Based on your most recent edition, we have neither.

CHIP HOLMES 8th Ward Council Member MIKE LYNCH 4th Ward Council Member

Vandals Can’t Realize Work That Went Into Buffer Strip To the Editor: It has come to the attention of the Lake & Valley Garden Club that there has been vandalism to the Buffer Strip Garden in Lakefront Park over the last month.

One of the serious and disturbing incidents that prompted us to write this letter is the cutting down of a memorial – a miniature pussy willow tree.

While LVGC did not plant this tree, it was emotionally distressing for the family and costly to replace. It is unsettling that someone is cutting down the plant material.

A new tree has been planted in its place with the old stump left as a reminder.

In 2005, The Otsego Lake Association identified a big problem with soil erosion along the shoreline in Lake

Front Park. They asked the Lake & Valley Garden Club to design a buffer garden to help stabilize the soil and reduce the effects of rainwater runoff into the lake.

In 2007, The Garden Club of America recognized the importance of this type of water conservation and awarded LVGC the prestigious national Founders’ Fund Award, which included $25,000 to finish the garden.

LVGC members invest many hours maintaining this garden with workdays to weed, prune and clean up the garden twice a year. The village helps by keeping the trash cleaned up, pruning and boardwalk maintenance. LVGC and OLA pay for all the maintenance and materials, such as mulch and plants.

BOCES students come once a year and help with weeding, pruning and mulching. Members help the students understand about the garden’s role in lake ecology.

In addition to stabilizing the shore, the buffer strip has the added benefits of beautifying the park and providing easy access for wheelchairs, baby carriages and people who want to walk along the boardwalk at the shore’s edge.

If you wish to comment to LVGC about this project or the vandalism, we welcome your comments, and letters addressed to The Lake & Valley Garden Club, PO Box 164, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

SUZANNE KINGSLEY Past President Lake & Valley Garden Club

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History

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

125 Years Ago

The Oneonta Phosphate Company uses material which has heretofore gone to waste. It is located about one mile east of the village. The superintendent of this company, Mr. A.B. Coffin, began the manufacture of phosphate about five years ago in the village of Middlefield. He gradually enlarged his works there till he was able to send out 240 tons a year. But the lack of railway facilities hampered him. Accordingly he came to Oneonta less than a year ago and organized the present company, of which N.I. Ford is president and which has a nominal capital of $12,000 though twice that amount is employed in the business. The company was incorporated in January and the first products of the factory were put on the market April 17th. Only about 150 tons were made, the company preferring to spend the present summer in preparation. The company manufactures three varieties of fertilizers – potato phosphate, the domestic brand and superphosphate.

These vary principally in the quantities of nitrogen and ammonia contained. Another product is the domestic egg food, a mixture of granulated bone, oyster shells and glass. No other company manufactures this and the demand is practically unlimited. Mr. Coffin has already made and sold over 75 tons, and 300 tons more will be made at once. Among other marketable products of the fertilizer works are neat’sfoot oil, of which they have a barrel each day, soap grease in large quantities, horns, hoofs and hides.

August 1889

60 Years Ago

The 28th annual water carnival and graduation for swimmers in Oneonta’s summer program at Wilber Park pool drew a crowd estimated at 350 people. During the event, a series of races were conducted and awards certificates, Wilber Pool cards and Red Cross cards were presented. Firstplace winners in the Advanced Beginners’ crawl stroke races were Don McCommery, Jane Hollis, Kathy Hendrickson, Randy Stalford, Billy Baskin and Karen Keiller. Cary Yates won the Intermediate breast stroke race for girls. Among the many competing in other events, or earning certificates, were Denise Finch, Margaret Ash, Lisa Pudelka, Becky Ambrose, Jenny Ambrose, Cathy Ambrose, Patty Gennarino, Jeff Slawson, Lynne Ponder, Anthony Colone, Veronica Perrone, Kathy Sanford, Tammy Hidge and Scott and Kathy Moyer.

August 1974

30 Years Ago

New Yorkers under age 21 who are found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs will automatically lose their licenses for at least a year, under a bill signed by Gov. Mario Cuomo. The measure imposes strict new license sanctions on those under 19 who drink and drive and to second offenders under age 21. The new law requires that anyone under 19 found guilty of driving while intoxicated, or while impaired by alcohol or drugs, or who refuses to take a breath or blood test, lose their license for a year, or until they reach 19, whichever is the greatest amount of time.

August 1984

100 Years Ago

A dispatch from Paris states that Archer M. Huntington of New York, who is president of the National Geographical Society, the American Numismatic Society and the HispanicAmerican Museum of New York City, along with his wife, have been arrested at Nuremburg, Bavaria by the German police, and they are now held as spies. Archer M. Huntington is a nephew and adopted son of the late Collis P. Huntington, the railroad builder. Mr. Huntington and his wife had been abroad on their annual tour of Europe since last May. They expected to remain in Europe until next November. It is believed that Mr. Huntington’s detention was caused by the discovery of maps which he has been making for the local aeronautic club. Mr. Huntington’s chauffeur, who escaped to Switzerland, telegraphed to the American embassy in Paris saying that Mr. and Mrs. Huntington had been maltreated. Mr. Huntington was stripped naked while the police were searching him and his wife was subjected to insults and indignities. Mrs. Huntington is a daughter of Mrs. Ellen M. Huntington Gates. Mrs. Gates is an aunt of Mrs. E.D. Lewis and of E.H. Pardee of Oneonta. In recent years she has spent a considerable portion of each summer at Colliscroft, the home of Mr. Pardee.

August 1914

80 Years Ago

Oneonta and vicinity residents turned out by thousands yesterday to see a genuine, old-time circus parade, a spec-

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20 Years Ago

The Lesbian and Gay Concerns Network will hold its next potluck dinner at 6 p.m. on Monday at the Pavilion in Upper Wilber Park. Bring a dish to pass and table service.

The LGCN is affiliated with the Universalist Church, but one does not need to be part of the church to attend meetings, which are the third Monday of the month. Meetings are open to friends, family members and supporters.

August 1994

10 Years Ago August 1954 tacle that had not been witnessed in this city for many a year. Downie Brothers three-ring circus, the third largest in the world, staged a parade that recalled bygone days to the older folks and provided new thrills for the youngsters.

Seventeen wagons, including a steam calliope, together with three bands, five elephants, four camels, fair ladies on horseback, clowns, lions, monkeys, and ponies drew a generous share of attention and approval. The line of march led from the circus grounds on Wilcox Flats up Main Street to Chestnut, to Church, through the residential sections, and back down Main Street.

August 1934

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Many physicians wear neckties to achieve a look of professionalism. But new research shows the neckties carry bacteria that can spread disease. Researchers found that neckties donned by doctors at a Queens hospital nesting spots for germs. Past research has implicated stethoscopes, pens and white coats as germ carriers. With ties now on the list of suspected germ-spreaders, some physicians predict a relaxation in physician attire and staff dress codes. The study at Queens sampled 42 neckties worn by doctors, physician assistants and medical students at the teaching hospital. About half of the neckties worn by physicians were found to harbor potential pathogens.

August 2004

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A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Morgan: Investors With Long Views Looking At County’s Agricultural Future CADE/From A2 concern that has been raising grass-fed beef in the Midwest, where water quality is becoming a concern.

In Upstate New York generally and Otsego County in particular, water is pure and plentiful, there’s plenty of vacant land for pasture and there’s proximity to New York City’s huge market for natural foods.

That market, worth “many,

many, many, many millions,” Morgan said, has also created a demand for vegetables and the start of the systems needed to deliver it to market. As with the Argentines and beef, a group of vegetable growers from droughtstricken California recently came calling.

Until recently, local vegetable farmers had to drive their own produce to Union Square, Park Slope, Green Point or other

big farmers market downstate.

“You’re exhausted,” Morgan said.

“It takes three days to recover.”

Now, Lucky Dog Farm in Hamden is trucking others’ produce to New York. And the next round of CFAs grants, expected to be announced in September, may include $11 million for a food hub in Oneonta that would connect with other food hubs in the Hudson Valley.

Meanwhile, the Green Earth’s

Dean Roberts has launched Otsego Fresh, based on Schoharie Fresh in Cobleskill, seeking to connect local consumers with local producers.

Talk to Rebecca Morgan for a while, and the pieces start coming together. There’s much more.

She’s got it all in her head.

Two things are missing from the promising picture she paints. One, there aren’t yet enough young farmers, “very competent, passion-

Towns Required To Say How Many Jobs Projects Create COLONE/From A4 evidence that the town can effectively lead a major capital project. My guess is that it was no way near an $8.8 million capital development project and that the scope of the Southside is way beyond anything the town has done in the past.

But the biggest problem I have with the Southside water idea is in the thought process that would allow such a proposal to be considered a local priority.

Mr. Stammel correctly noted that, prior to 1980, Southside was predominantly farmland. In so stating, he made my case. Since the early ’80s there has been significant retail expansion out there, yet our overall community and area economies continue to retreat.

Continuing down that same path will not change the result; we’ll fall further behind.

Mr. Stammel makes reference to Senator Seward’s economic development summit. I’m sure a new water system without supportive job creating documentation was not what the senator was thinking about. I attended the November summit and, as I observed, it was all about growing meaningful jobs for a community and for the surrounding area, to address the steadily declining area economy. That’s why the panelists were all representing major industrial development projects around New York State, with Dick Sheehy, representing one of the world’s leading industrial search companies, on the program.

It wasn’t about adding big box stores. The summit was talking about creating jobjobs, real honest to goodness jobs and expanding career opportunities in this depressed area. You know, the kind of jobs requiring shovel-ready development sites to attract major impact employers. It really wasn’t about driving more retail on the South-side.

Where will the consumers come from just to sustain the retail base that currently exists on the Southside?

Cobleskill? They have malls and if shoppers there were to travel to shop they’d likely go to the Capital District. Norwich? They too have their own malls and are in close proximity to Utica and Binghamton. The same for people in Sidney-Bainbridge. We might generate a few more consumers from Walton and Delhi? But here’s what we’re going to continue to have to deal with; an ongoing decline in area population and sub-

standard median household incomes. And if we keep doing what we’ve been doing, avoiding real job creation, economic conditions will continue to decline.

The Cornell University Program of Applied Demographics projects further population declines in both Otsego and Delaware counties. Their 2010 study projected a high population for Otsego of 62,259 in 2010 and in 2025 of 61,876; a drop of 383 residents over 15 years. In Delaware County, where many Southside consumers originate, the data was even more striking, with a high population of 47,980 in 2010 down

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to 45,247 in 2025; a drop of 2,733 residents. Additionally, median incomes are projected to continue to drop, too. So where will the increased consumer demand come from to support more retail?

Some demographers have even indicated that if trends continue, one in four homes within the six-county

Mohawk Valley Region, of which Otsego County is part of, will be vacant in 30 years.

We have some very serious economic issues around here. We’re long past due to get real serious about growing career-level jobs for our community!

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ate entrepreneurs, incentivized by profit,” she said.

And there isn’t enough money yet. But that’s about to change.

Hedge-fund managers, “capital investment money,” is beginning to look at Otsego County. “These are people who are willing to invest with a slow return,” she said.

“What should they invest in?”

Rebecca Morgan asks the question, but she already knows the answer.

Rte 80 Property Owners & Concerned Citizens Meeting Friday, Aug. 15, The Otesaga, Cooperstown Welcome 5pm, Meeting 6-8pm We own property north of 5-mile point that DOT claims to own. They do not have proof, will not compensate us for it, and will tear it down. DOT actions are already hurting other property owners and the entire community.

We’ve asked our attorney, who has over 27 years of title/real property experience, to help us explain. We don’t want you to be hurt because we’ve kept silent. You need to be aware of what’s happening.

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MLS#95599 Middlefield $220,000 This is the only residence on a little-used dirt road surrounded by farms, fields, woods and streams.

It could easily be a small farm or equestrian facility.

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An additional, adjacent 200 acres may be available.

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New Countryside Listing—Sitting well back from the road on 4.58+/- acres, not too far from the village, this 1988 log home is a great place for a family. Nicely done home offers 1,600 sq ft, mudroom entry, eat-in kitchen, great pantry/laundry room, LR w/beamed vaulted ceiling, woodstove, windows w/valley views, first-floor BR w/double closets, full bath. Second floor has hallway overlooking LR, 3 BRs − 2 w/built-in lofts, bath, lots of closets. Most walls are tongueand-groove pine, beams are exposed, wood and tile floors. Full finished basement w/woodstove, wrap-around porch, in-ground pool surrounded by fenced deck. Detached 4-car garage w/dog kennel.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014

Dogs Help Youngsters Relax – And Read Job Corps Ready To Celebrate 50th Birthday DOGS/From A1 skills.

When he’s finished with the chapter, Buckeye nudged his head against Tyr’s leg, and the boy, grinning, continued reading.

The five-week program, which finishes up this Saturday, the 16th, at 11 a.m., helps kids develop the confidence to read aloud to their parents and in the classroom. “Some kids don’t like to read in front of people, but they can read to a dog,” said Blechman. “It’s a fun way to get kids interested in reading.”

Buckeye is registered through Therapy Dogs International, a program that started in 1976 to bring

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With Buckeye by his side, Tyr Melligan relaxes – and reads.

specially trained dogs into hospitals and nursing homes.

“These dogs provide a nonjudgmental relationship and unconditional love,” said Blechman. “They reduce stress and promote relaxation.”

In addition to visiting hospitals and nursing homes, therapy dogs were used to

bring comfort after natural disasters, the Sandy Hook shooting, and even to lighten the mood during finals week at Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta. “The reading program is one of the many things they do,” said Blechman. “We bring in dogs we know are going to be calm around kids. It takes a special dog.”

The Friends of the Library came up with the “Tales to Tails” program, and invited Blechman – along with other therapy dog owners – to bring in their dogs. “The dogs are just there, warm and fuzzy, they don’t comment on the reading or try to correct them,” said Blechman. “It builds up their confidence.”

Similar programs were in place at Riverside School and Greater Plains, but this is the first time the program has been done at the Huntington Library. “These dogs bring so much joy,” said Blechman. “It’s really quite amazing.”

Welcome

50TH/From A1 a whole slate of activities planned to join in the festivities.

Plesehas trained over 2.7 million youth,” said Adina Feliu, business & community liaison. “In the next 50 years, we’d like to train 3 million more. We’re aiming for the stars.”

“It’s an enduring program because it’s holistic,” said Kuhn. “It takes young people out of their environments and helps them become successful by giving them career skills and day-to-day support to achieve their goals.”

He estimates “thousands” of students have graduated from the Oneonta center since it opened in 1980. And some of those students give back to their alma mater.

George Snyder, a member of the Class of 1983, returned to work at the school as the safety manager after a long and varied career in mechanics. “I’d lost all interest in high school,” he said. “Job Corps changed my life.”

He completed courses in electrician’s work, plumbing

and heating and went on to work for the Southside Mall and Sam Smith’s Boatyard on Otsego Lake as a marina mechanic before returning to Job Corps’ Safety Department. “I believe in this program,” he said, “I can bring my experience forward and share with these students when they’re having a tough time. I take my job very seriously.”

OPT Director Paul Patterson just hired a Job Corps grad to work in the bus garage, said Kuhn. “That’s as affirming as it gets.”

The celebration kicks off Thursday, Aug. 14, with a Red Cross Blood Drive, where the medical administration assistant’s class will be aiding the Red Cross in trying to collect 50 pints of blood. “This gives our students a chance to get an authentic, hands-on experience,” said Kuhn. “And they’re giving back to their community.”

“And that’s just our first event,” said Feliu.

They’ll host an open house at the Guernsey Me-

morial Library in Norwich, with students on hand from each program to help recruit the next class. “We’re pushing local enrollment,” said Kuhn. “It’s a shame that people don’t know what we have to offer.”

And both Feliu and Kuhn will get out their pom-poms on Tuesday, Aug. 19, when the students challenge the Job Corps staff in a baseball game at Damaschke Field.

“We’ll have home run hankies, popcorn, contests and staff and students as cheerleaders,” she said. “And we’ve got fireworks. That’s the big part. When we presented this idea in DC, they didn’t think we could do it, but we’re going to show them!”

Commencement on Saturday Aug. 22, will cap off the week. “There’s nothing like having a student pull up in a new vehicle with their fiancée or spouse and a newborn baby,” said Snyder. “That’s the reward, seeing that these kids are successful.”

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A-8 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

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MLS#94895 $149,900 Amazing Buy! Move-in ready, 3 BR, 2 full bath home on 5.24 acres w/comfort, beauty, peace. Please call and make your appointment for a private showing.

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MLS#94316 $325,000 160 Acres with 22,000 sq ft Building! Finished hunting lodge. Great place for any type of business.

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MLS#95978 $197,500 New Construction on 5+ acres. 4 BR, 2½ bath Cape Cod w/outdoor wood furnace, spacious kitchen w/new SS appliances, 1st-flr master suite, cathedral ceilings.

Call Thomas Platt @ 607-435-2068 (cell) MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS#86980 $150,000 Solid 4 BR apt over 1,000 sq ft office space or storefront.

Spacious 4 BR, 2 bath houserooms, is closekitchen, to I-88. Large Hardwood floors, spacious walk-up backyard, small shed. Make your attic, 2-carworkshop/garage, attached and 4-bay detached garage. appointment today. to go this(cell) week!

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MLS#94371 $129,000 Won’t Last at This Price! Exceptional 4-6 BRs, 2 full baths in Oneonta near Main Street, colleges, bus route.

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MLS#91749 $68,000 Super Low Price! Rustic country cabin on 1.25 acres w/stream. Large woodstove in LR. Oversized 2-car garage. In Fly Creek, near Cooperstown and Oneonta.

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MLS#91204 $149,900 Attention Investors! This home is a portfoliobuilder! Remodeled 3-unit located in Oneonta w/COC, new roof , new 200 amp service, garage.

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MLS#96000 $122,000 outrageous deal! On 1.1 acres in Oneonta, this 3 BR, 2 bath home features sunroom w/Jacuzzi and a full dry walk-out basement.

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MLS#91844 $175,000 Sensational Lakefront Home! Just feet from the water, this cottage has 2 BRs, 1 full bath and off-street parking. Act now and beat the ice-fishing season.

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MLS#95966 $219,000 dream Home for dream Price! Exquisite Tudor near schools in Oneonta. 4 BRs, 3 baths, cathedral ceilings, hardwood flrs, open floorplan. Exposed beams, deck.

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MLS#93260 $250,000 Catskills 2006 Home w/3 BRs, 2½ baths on 5.1 acres.

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MLS#94363 $124,900 This 4 BR, 2 bath ranch is move-in ready. Newer roof, newer heating system (w/a spare) finished basement w/full bath, wrap-around deck, and lush green lawn.

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MLS#95956 $245,000 Stylish and Meticulous! Extra large 5 BR, 5 bath home near Cooperstown. Close to Otsego Lake, Baseball Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass Opera, Oneonta.

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MLS#95471 $299,900 executive Home on 21+/- acres w/stream, waterfalls.

Southwest view overlooking valley. Priced to sell!

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MLS#95750 $169,900 Way Below Assessed Value! 33-acre sanctuary. 3 BR, 2 bath home features open floorplan, large kitchen, master BR suite, wood-burning fireplace, new roof.

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MLS#93247 $124,000 Fully Rented! excellent Location! 2-family home is within walking distance to Hartwick College and SUCO. No code violations. Great income property.

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MLS#95402 $119,000 great Value andLocation! Solid Victorian has antique charm and modern upgrades. Can be singlefamily w/apartment or 2 separate units. Priced to sell.

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MLS#95216 $295,000 Well Maintained, Renovated Farmhouse on over 27 private acres. Huge kitchen, 4 BRs, 2½ baths, formal DR and LR, 3-car attached garage, barn, pond.

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MLS#96011 $395,000 7 Miles to Cooperstown! Built in 2007, home features 4 BRs, 3½ baths, family room, basement, AC. Cooperstown Village home.@Seller pays closing costs (up Call george (ROD) Sluyter 315-520-6512 to $3,000 w/acceptable offer).

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MLS#95118 $149,900 Delhi home has 3 BRs, 2 baths and eat-in kitchen on 1.8 acres. Pond w/ fountain, landscaped yard, gazebo and 3-car garage w/work area.

Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)

MLS#93282 $195,000 Canadarago Lakefront w/Boat! Renovated home has all new: electric, roof, siding, septic, flooring…

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Come be a part of our growing Main Street office professionals, merchants and eateries. Invest in this profitable building in historic downtown Oneonta, and collect income from 4 apartments, 1 storefront, and 1 restaurant w/access from Water Street and Main. All utilities are separate.

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Two City Lots are deeded separately. 2-BR bungalow is in

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Finished room in basement is perfect for an exercise room. Attic is entirely floored, easy access. 2 enclosed porches, 1-car garage, covered deck, paved driveway, stockade fence, garden spaces, nice landscaping, mature trees. This is a great location close to the hospital and shopping and could be purchased turn-key. Call today!

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(7395) This exceptional 5 BR, 3+ bath countryside home on a serene street features family room, den, large LR, formal DR, 2 fireplaces, pleasant center entry, oak flooring, ceramic tile baths, granite countertop, breakfast nook.

Large view deck, barn. Wonderful Colonial comfort and style! 4 miles from Cooperstown. Cooperstown Schools.

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(7874) This 3 BR, 2+ bath secluded contemporary Cape sits on 3.50 acres.

LR w/vaulted ceiling and gas FP, den/ office, main-level master BR, formal DR, eat-in kitchen. Sun room has passive solar heat. 2-car garage, wraparound deck. Cooperstown Schools.

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31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)

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otsego lake Condominium

This well maintained, nicely decorated, one-owner unit has had many updates. It is a year-round place to be, and if you are not in residence there is a monitored, professional security system. LR w/vaulted ceiling and sliding doors to a large, private deck w/lake view. 2 BRs, 2½ baths, DR and fully equipped kitchen. Attached garage w/easy access to first floor.

Boat slip is available and included. Condo fees cover common areas and maintenance. Lakefront facilities consist of 6.40 acres of land with approximately 1,500 feet of frontage.

exclusively offered at $389,000

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