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s the SUNY Oneonta administration and faculty consider reorganizing the college into four divisions this fall, one may very well be a brand new Division of Busi-

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Organizer Linda Gilmore and daughter Sophie pose with the Gilmore Family banner, as the project to adorn dozens of River Street utility poles with banners celebrating the Sixth Ward is complete. Utility pole replacement, delayed as Verizon crews responded to last year’s flood, delayed project completion.

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MANSION DISTRICT: The Greater Oneonta Historical Society is planning a tour through the Walnut Street Historic District at 7 p.m.

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SOCCER RECORD: Dave Ranieri’s Headwaters Soccer Camp registered its 19,000th participant this summer: Haleigh Johnson, 13, Burlington Flats.

NOW YOU KNOW: SUNY Oneonta’s enrollment is 38 percent male and 62 percent female.

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or the first time, the Otsego County Chamber is soliciting public nominations for awards to be presented at its annual Small Business Banquet.

The Small Business Award and the Breakthrough Award will be presented Thursday, Oct. 11, at The Otesaga.

Nomination forms are on the chamber website, www. otsegocountychamber.com.

The deadline is Monday, Aug. 20.

ness & Economics, headed for the first time by its own dean.

This doesn’t come out of nowhere.

Success – after a 15-year “long, hard slog,” as Associate Dean of Business & Economics Wade Thomas puts it – breeds success.

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Associate Dean Wade L. Thomas led the 15year effort to win SUNY’s business department international accreditation.

As state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, right, and 90 attendees at the Wednesday, Aug. 8, Citizens Voices meeting listen intently, Constitution Pipeline Project Manager Matt Swift, above, outlines plans for a 121-mile pipeline to connect fracking operations in Northeast Pennsylvania with the Tennessee and Iroquois pipelines near Cobleskill.

Now routed through Delaware County, an option to run the pipeline through Otsego along the I-88 rightof-way is being discussed.

Seward is flanked by Elizabeth Robinson and county Rep. Jim Powers, R-South New Berlin.

With 29 Police Officers Nearby, Town Considers Going It Alone

By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE

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police department proposed for the Town of Oneonta may be the next nudge toward serious discussion of merger with the adjacent City of Oneonta, which has a fully trained and staffed 29-officer force.

The town board meeting Tuesday, Aug. 14, was packed after word surfaced that forming a police depart-

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“Why do we need a police department? Has crime spiked in the town?” asked Mark Green, West Oneonta.

“Get a dog. Get us a store Please See MERGER, A9

Dr. Jim Elting, 1939-2012

City Orthopedist Introduced Concept Of ‘One-Stop’ Care

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r. James Elting, chairman of Hartwick College’s trustees and Oneonta’s first orthopedist, who passed away Aug. 10, 2012 after a brief illness, pioneered a “one-stop” approach locally that is now common practice everywhere.

“He could have gone anywhere, but he loved the hardworking people here in Oneonta,” said his closest friend, George Mitchell, former Hartwick College athletic director and Elting’s first physical therapist when Otsego Orthopedics opened in 1973.

“Our vision was to have

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Dr. Jim Elting, chairman of the Hartwick College trustees, addresses the May 26 commencement.

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WILD TIMES AT THE SWART WILCOX

Joe Collins, a native Oneontian, was visiting with his two grandsons Tyler and Jayden Smith from Ithaca, to see his cousin, Carol Mandigo.

Charlie Reiman and Carol Mandigo hit a high step in their jig as part of the LEAF and Catskill Puppet Theater’s Medicine Show at the Swart Wilcox House on Sunday, Aug. 12.

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Down the hatch! Carol Mandigo spoons a helping of Dr. McGargle’s Medicinal Marvel into the mouth of audience volunteer Cayce Palmateer of Oneonta, as the Doctor (Charlie Reiman, right) boasts his concoction’s miraculous benefits in preventing cigaret smoking at The Old Time Medicine Show, sponsored Sunday, Aug. 12, at the The Swart Wilcox House, sponsored by the Catskill Puppet Theater and LEAF.

Sunday, Aug. 19, City Historian Mark Simonson will discuss past city pharmacies 1-3 p.m. at Swartz Wilcox’ Summer Sunday programs.

CONGRESSMAN GIBSON GREETS VETS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Tim and Sue O’Donnell came out to meet Congressman Chris Gibson, R-19, during his stop of the American Legion Hall on Friday, Aug. 10.

Tim, a Vietnam veteran, is a member of the Oneonta Vets Club. A retired colonel, Gibson, whose new district includes all of Otsego County, was hosted earlier in the day by Alex and Barbara Shields in Richfield Springs, and former Mayor Carol Waller and husband Bill in Cooperstown.

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• Julia Delaurentiis of Morris, retired educator.

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Let’s Speak Well Of Otsego Manor, Or Risk Losing It

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peak of the devil, and the devil will come to your door.

The old Lithuanian proverb applies to public policy as well and, specifically for the past couple of years, to Otsego Manor, one of the best public nursing homes in anyone’s experience.

How often have we seen headlines – granted, usually built around the latest alarmist declaration from county Rep. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester; most of the reps are more circumspect – calling for Otsego County government to cut that sterling institution loose, that it’s simply too expensive.

Sure, there should be careful debate, review and adjustment regarding Otsego Manor, as with any undertaking, public or private, particularly such a critical one. The problem is that bald statements create an atmosphere where closing Otsego Manor becomes thinkable. It’s not, it’s unthinkable.

The matter of Otsego Manor – given its central role in the wellbeing of our elderly family members, friends and neighbors – is a complicated one, and the facility’s health may require significant surgery, but with a scalpel, not a meat ax.

• Options range from shutting down the operation outright, which would be absurd (the residents still must be cared for, and there are legacy costs), to

privatizing it, which may be fiscally and programmatically wise, or may not.

(Every county is trying to unload nursing homes, so it’s a buyer’s market.)

The reality is that, if nothing changes – an impossibility: Everything changes – Otsego Manor may require $6 million in annual support in a few years. But the county has already been contributing $3.5 million, so – worst-case scenario – we’re talking $2.5 million more in a $110 million budget, or about 2 percent.

The county generates $36 million annual from property and sales taxes, and $2.5 million is thus only 6.9 percent of local revenues.

Significant, but hardly bankrupting. Even – and that’s a big if: Again, things change – the local contribution to Otsego Manor rises to $6 million, that’s 16.6 percent of county revenues, or 5.4 percent of the total county budget. Is that so much to spend on the most beloved and fragile among us?

Also, consider that Otsego Manor’s budget is $22 million and will rise to $24 million by 2016. In other words, if the local contribution were to rise to $6 million by 2016 – it doesn’t have to be and shouldn’t – we’re still getting an additional from outside sources $3 for every $1 we spend, which then circulates through the local economy as salaries and purchases. A

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Otsego Manor is set in a meadow near Index.

pretty good deal.

The blow to the local economy from a privatized Otsego Manor would be significant.

• Again, relatively minimal as $6 million may be in the big picture, other things are in play that would further minimize the impact.

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns include Medicaid-reform platforms – Medicaid is the main source of outside revenues to Otsego Manor. Anything can happen there. Governor Cuomo has created a Medicaid Redesign Team – Bassett Healthcare President/CEO Bill Streck is a member – so the need to rethink Medicaid is a high priority from here all the way to the White House.

Further, if the Constitution Pipeline goes through – Citizens Voices’ Bob Harlem called that “inevitable,” although nothing’s inevi-

table – 10,000 workers will be spending their money in the I-88 towns during 2014 and 2015, and that will be reflected mightily in the county’s sales-tax revenues.

Southside’s expansion – Dick’s Sporting Goods, Petco and Kay Jewelers in the mall, plus Metro Mattress in the new strip mall and the Marriott rising behind McDonald’s – also bodes well for sales-tax revenues.

Further, if the Constitution Pipeline is routed along I-88’s right-of-way, payments to the county and localities would be “quite large,” according to Matt Swift, pipeline project manager. The route as now drawn, through Delaware County, would generate $5 million, almost enough to meet the highest estimates of Otsego Manor costs.

An Otsego route is a game changer, one that should be pursued.

To speak of the devil is premature, at least, and probably unwarranted.

• The Otsego County Board of Representatives, at its August meeting, approved a contract with Medical Care Facilities Financing & Consulting of Rexford to “provide consulting and real-estate brokerage services,” according to one report.

Consulting, good. Realestate brokerage services?

Not yet.

There are many steps short of privatizing that no doubt can be taken. How many Otsego Manor functions can be contracted out for significant savings?

How might management of services provided be creatively adjusted? It’s been mentioned that Bassett is diverting post-hospital care to its own, more distant facilities, rather than Otsego Manor; that should be ended for the good of patients and the county nursing home’s fiscal health.

Over arching all of this is the county’s continuing lack of a coherent economicdevelopment policy. If the local economy doesn’t grow, then inflation, even the 1 or 2 percent of recent years, will continue to erode county government’s ability to provide or expand services. Don Lindberg, a canny businessman, knows this better than most people.

The county board has forfeited economic-develop-

ment policy and efforts to such entities as the county Industrial Development Agency, the county Development Corp., SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Community & Economic Development and the like.

County representatives should ask these entities if they have a vision for a prosperous Otsego County.

They would find the answers dismaying.

• State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has stepped into the vacuum of economicdevelopment leadership, but he can’t do it alone. The county board – chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and the rest – needs to reclaim the initiative, first by creating an Economic Development Committee and by funding a credible economic-development effort. Currently, the county Economic Development Office is funded at a laughable $105,000 a year.

The families of the 175 residents – spouses, children and siblings, and their friends – should organize and let the county representatives know that prudent adjustment is inevitable, but degradation of Otsego Manor is unacceptable.

This is no time for passivity.

Meanwhile, let’s speak well of Otsego Manor. The county board should embrace it as a source of pride.

It proves we can do things well. The devil may come anyhow, but, heavens, let’s stop inviting him.

SARAH GROFF OTHER VOICES

Of Her Fans: ‘I Knew They Were Out There, Cheering Their Hearts Out’ Editor’s Note: The following is a transcription of an interview with Sarah Groff conducted Aug. 4 – the day she came within seconds of winning a bronze medal at the London Olympics – by USA Triathlon magazine.

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e knew it was going to be a pretty fast swim. We knew things were going to be ... aggressive. Wetsuits definitely change the dynamic of the race, but when you go into the Olympic Games, you’ve got to be prepared for anything.

We came out in a big group on the bike, over 20 girls and there were some crashes. You definitely had to be on your toes for it. It was exciting – hopefully for spectators, but I think everyone realized it was going to come down to a run race.

Coming off the bike with 20 people, you know the podium is coming from

But I’m in good company. There have been some absolutely phenomenal athletes over the years who’ve gotten fourth at the Olympic Games. And, hopefully next time around, I’ll be up there.

I have a lot of family A tired Sarah Groff from support, a lot of family and her post-race interview friends over here. It’s absowith Triathlon USA. lutely incredible to have all these people here. that group. For me, the run I’m going to try to go to was just a run of patience, see some events, take in the sticking to my pace, my Olympic experience over race plan and trying to keep this next week and head myself in the mix. back home.

I haven’t been I was in the mix, it was back in New Hampshire for down to four of us with a over two and a half months. couple hundred meters to Get back into a training go. I was the one left off the podium, but maybe next rhythm before I finish up the season in Yokohama, time.

Ultimately, it’s about put- Japan, and Auckland, New ting together the best perfor- Zealand.

My support group is out mance that you can, and I’m proud of the work that I put of control. It’s probably over 30 people – friends, in. I’m proud of the race.

It would be life-changing family, support staff from my training squad. They to have the medal. I would absolutely love to be in that have T-shirts and signs and I knew they were out there, Jerry and Jeannine Groff cheer daughter Sarah during the Women’s Triathposition, but somebody has cheering their hearts out. lon at the London Olympics. to be fourth.

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Lt. David Miller, a veteran of 60 flying missions in Korea.

The picture uses captured Japanese films on the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also shows the fire-bombing of Tokyo which took more lives in the first six hours than any other six hours in history. The film dwells on Russia’s 400 long-range bombers capable of raining atomic terror all over the U.S. August 1952

Affliction indeed has laid a heavy hand upon Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Slade of this village. In October last a little casket containing all that was mortal of their boy Louie, ten years old, and of their baby girl, two years old – both of whom died of diphtheria within a few days of each other – was taken to Franklin and placed in the cemetery there.

The day that Louie died, as if to temper their grief, two little boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. Slade. Sunny-haired, bright-eyed and pretty they proved to be, and a comfort and blessing to the grief-stricken household. But their stay was brief. Yesterday morning another funeral procession wended its way to Franklin. The little casket contained two wax-like figures, the remains of Sherrill and Sherman Slade, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Slade. One died on Monday, and the other, as if beckoned to follow his little mate, died on Tuesday. Both succumbed to an attack of whooping cough and cholera infantum.

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Federal taxes paid by the largest U.S. corporations declined to 20.5 percent of their earnings in 1981, and dozens of highly profitable firms – particularly banks, railroads and paper companies – paid no taxes at all, according to an independent tax study. Thirty-three companies with U.S. earnings of $100 million or more paid no U.S. corporate taxes in 1981, according to Tax Analysts, a non-profit research organization. Four of the firms had earnings exceeding $500 million. Due in part to last year’s tax cut, the actual rate of taxation for the nation’s 514 largest corporations fell in 1981 from an average 22.7 percent in 1980. Under current law, the corporate tax rate is 46 percent of U.S. earnings. However, the actual tax rate is much lower because of the numerous deductions and credits that companies may claim.

August 1982

100 Years Ago

The Local News: Bert Walker, the Dean Academy player, who has been doing such fine work behind the bat for Oneonta and who was struck in the throat by a foul ball last week, was obliged to leave for his home in Berlin, Pennsylvania, Monday. Since the time he was injured he has been unable to speak a word above a whisper, the force of the blow affecting his vocal organs and he is leaving for his home under the advice of Dr. Cutler. While in Pittsburgh on his way home he will consult a specialist in throat diseases and it is the earnest hope of his Oneonta friends that he will soon feel no ill effects from the accident.

O.B. Rowe and Frank H. Monroe have both purchased new Marquette touring five-passenger cars of Jack Finn, the local agent, and they are much pleased with the cars.

The cars are large and have powerful engines and are being retailed at a close margin.

August 1912

80 Years Ago

Hundreds of women have been enlisted throughout the state in the drive of the state’s temporary emergency relief administration to meet the winter clothing needs of the more than 1,000,000 persons who are dependent upon relief in New York. Oneonta, through its Red Cross chapter and Family Welfare Association, will participate in this service. Already 40 cities and 22 counties have established as part of their work relief program clothing bureaus, where old garments are cleaned and repaired, and new clothing made for unemployed and needy families. These bureaus are manned almost entirely by women. Local women’s committees have agitated for the creation of these clothing

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Freshman ranks at Hartwick College have grown by about 50 students, thanks in part to a new football team this fall. The State University College at Oneonta, meanwhile, is turning to transfer students to keep enrollment up. “I wish we had a few more freshmen,” Director of Admissions Richard Burr said. With approximately 940 freshmen, SUCO will be about 60 students short of its goal. In New York, some 250,000 students graduated from high school in 1977, a total that has now shrunk to about 155,000 this August 1972 year,” August 1992 factories. The need of clothing, which was at first almost disregarded because food and shelter were the most urgent demands of the unemployed, has become a serious problem Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) has as the winter months draw nearer. told its 490 local affiliates to give openly gay and lesbian August 1932 volunteers an equal chance to serve as one-on-one mentors to children. The 98-year-old youth organization, which is devoted to helping children from single-parent homes, says The grave threat that the sky holds over Oneonta, and all it is undaunted by criticism from conservative groups and calls for corporate backers to halt donations. “We’re getting other American cities, will be graphically shown in a “no incredible, positive support for the action we took,” the orpunches pulled” motion picture that is coming to the city soon. How air power beat Japan and how Russia can deliver ganization’s president Judy Vredenburgh said. The BBBSA has endorsed nondiscrimination principles for 25 years that A-bombs to any part of the United States will be told in an cover sexual orientation, race, religion and ethnicity. Only official Air Force film to be shown at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 3, in Oneonta City Court Room. Postmaster last month, however, did the provision about sexual orientaSamuel J. Bertuzzi, supervisor of Oneonta Aircraft Warning tion become mandatory policy for all BBBSA affiliates.

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Dr. Elting Key Player At Local Hospitals, Hartwick College, Oneonta Community ELTING/From A1 said Mitchell. “This was before everything was under one medical conglomerate.” Previously, limping patients had to drive across town from doctors’ offices to physical therapy. The one-stop approach is now standard at the Foxcare Cen-

ter and Bassett Healthcare’s facilities.

And for Dr. Elting, Oneonta was more than just a place to practice and raise his family. It gave him the chance to celebrate athleticism in the best way possible: A defeat of a rival team.

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“One November, Hartwick played Harvard in soccer.

Being a Yale man, he got even more excited to root against Harvard that day!”

“He spent a lot of time with the athletes,” he added.

Elting’s expertise won his assignment as on-site orthopedic physician at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. An athlete himself, to the end he was a rower (and founder of the Yale Old Fellows Rowing Association) and ran in the Marine Corps Marathon.

Dr. Elting was Fox Hospital’s first orthopedic surgeon, and in 1995 he affiliated with Bassett, serving as senior orthopedic surgeon. Though he gave up performing surgery when he turned 70, he continued to see patients and served as an assistant professor of orthopedic surgeons with the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He also published papers in national orthopedic journals.

“We shared many good times together,” said Mitchell. “We watched each other’s children grow up.

We went skiing together ... He was a really good friend.”

Calling hours were planned 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, in Hartwick College’s Lambros Arena.

James Jerow Elting born on Aug. 4, 1939, in Neptune, N.J., to Julia Thompson and Stephen Gerow Elting. He attended high school in Belleville, N.J., where he was introduced to rowing, a lifelong passion.

He attended Yale, majoring in English, and competed on the varsity men’s rowing team. Graduating with hon-

Dr. Jim Elting and wife Karen. ors in 1961, he attended Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University, where he helped found the Old Blue Rugby Club, which he would proudly say went on to become one of the most feared rugby powers in the country.

Dr. Elting interned at Bassett Hospital in 196668, then served in the Navy as the USS Columbus’ first medical officer. He completed a residency in orthopedic surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital at a time when joint-replacement surgery was changing the field dramatically.

Otsego Orthopedics logo, a spouting whale, became common locally after 1973, adorning T-shirts, programs and advertisements for the numerous sporting events and charities he supported after returning to Otsego County.

During his years in private practice he traveled extensively, teaching surgical techniques and lecturing throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. His papers were

published in national journals of orthopedics, and he held several patents for total hip design.

In addition the Hartwick trustees, he served on many boards, including the Ricky J. Parisian Foundation and Planned Parenthood of Delaware and Otsego Counties.

Dr. Elting was a member of the John Christopher Hartwick Volunteer Program since 1999, past president of Hartwick’s Citizens Board and a college trustee for 21 years. He was on the presidential search committees that recruited now-mayor Dick Miller in 2002 and his successor, Dr. Margaret Drugovich, the current president, in 2007.

Hartwick’s Elting Gallery was named for the doctor and his wife Karen in 1990. The Binder PhysEd building’s fitness center is dedicated to him. The Eltings were Hartwick’s Outstanding Citizens of the Year in 2006.

In 1977 through Care Medico, he volunteered for a month at a Kabul, Afghan-

istan, hospital, and in 1985 the Eltings spent a month caring for refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan.

In addition to the Marine Corps marathon, Jim competed in numerous masters rowing competitions around the world on teams that brought home medals from Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Scotland and Canada, as well as the U.S. He also crewed on several ocean sailing races, most notably in the TRANSPAC, a two-week race from Long Beach, Calif., to Honolulu.

In recent years Dr. Elting had become an enthusiastic member of the Oneonta Sportsmen’s Club, and had added a new group of friends to his life.

And he looked darn good in a kilt.

In addition to Karen, his wife of 31 years, survivors include children, Kimberley Elting and her husband, Stewart Cohen, Laird Elting and her husband, Jean Robert, and William M. Elting; stepchildren Regan Wesson and her husband, Steve, and Clay Curley and his wife, Anne Marie; and grandchildren Amy, Mark, Teal, India, Reid, Matthew and Petra. Also his brother, William W. Elting of Houston, Texas; and several sistersand brothers-in-law.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Old Blue Rugby Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 892, New York, NY 10021-0002; Friends of Bassett, 1 Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326; Hartwick College, College Advancement, P.O. Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Condolences may be made online at www.grummonsfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

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In no time, the department had entered the pre-candidacy stage, and by 1998 had achieved candidacy status, a five-year process of self evaluation and improvement. The plan was, one, to upgrade the 20 professors’ credentials and, two, to get the faculty to publish more original research in peer-review journals.

As the 2002-03 year approached, there was much anticipation. Thomas and his cadre believed the department had gotten to the point where the AACSB would send a Peer Review Team to decide on accreditation.

When the time arrived, however, the AACSB revised its accreditation process. Pre-candidacy, candidacy and peer review were replaced by two steps, pre-accreditation and accreditation, with a mentor helping the department through the process. “Actually, it worked in our favor,” said Thomas, although it slowed the final recognition.

While this was going on, the world of business education was changing. “In the 1990s,” Thomas said, “something went horribly wrong. People lost interest in the profession nationally,” a further goad to modernize the curriculum.

By the time business education was back in vogue, the department emerged with a new concept: As students moved into upper division courses, they learned management information systems, production management and organizational behavior, then capped it with a strategic management course – “the capstone” – that wove the other disciplines together, resulting in a well-rounded graduate.

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Accomplishment Hard, But Maintenance Has Own Challenges BUSINESS/From A7 dents, and brought home a prize from Price Chopper’s Ultimate Innovation Competition.

In 1989, when Thomas arrived here from Ithaca College, there were no scholarships dedicated to business education. Dr. Grace T’sao, a retired professor and member of the College Foundation, established a $2,000 scholarship in her husband’s memory in 2003-04, and today $30,000 is distributed annually from various scholarships.

A Business Advisory Council that includes two Ernst & Young Partners, John DeMelis and John Doherty (council chair), and Richard Yamarone, senior economist with Bloomberg Television, keeps the academics connected with the world of business.

All of this ferment was capped a year ago this month, when AACSB International finally bestowed its blessing, accrediting the department with what AACSB President John F. Fernandes termed “this widely

sought hallmark of excellence in management education.” Only 2 percent of business schools internationally have achieve this.

SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski called it “a proud moment for our college,” declaring, “Meeting the uncompromising standards of the AASCB affirms SUNY Oneonta delivers a premier education across business disciplines.”

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After the 15-year “long, hard slog,” it’s hard to stop, as Wade Thomas puts it, “raising the bar.”

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012

Town Board Asks Comprehensive Plan Committee To Ask Residents About Police MERGER/From A1 – that’s a bigger problem.”

The town board concluded that, before going any further, it should ask the town’s Comprehensive Plan Committee, which is surveying residents on how to update the existing 2004 plan, to add a question about police coverage.

“We want to publicize the ongoing discussion to encourage dialogue like we’ve had here tonight,” said Town Supervisor Bob Wood. “We will not burden

the taxpayers unless there’s an interest.”

The town was policed by two constables, but the town board fired them in 2010 for unexplained reasons. Since, new constables have been hired, but the town is still in litigation with the original ones.

“Right now, we want to upgrade the service we are offering,” Wood said. “In the future, if town residents want a higher level of services than we can provide ...”

He appeared to leave the question open.

For now, however, the supervisor said he believes the town could hire part-time officers with experience working in other municipal departments and the right “attitude” toward their work.

As the town continues to grow, Wood said, he expects residents will look toward more professionalism in law enforcement.

For his part, city Mayor Dick Miller said he had spoken in detail

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Responding to a personal plea from Miller, the town board in May formed committees, under the oversight of Town Councilman Scott Gravelin, to begin studying issues surrounding town-city merger.

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new LIStInG - MLS#85820 - Very Nice Country Home with 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths and a 2 Car Garage, just minutes to the village and a few miles from both Otsego and Canadarago Lake. $139,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683

centrally located. $210,000 Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436

MLS#83995 – Richfield Springs 2 family with rental income. 2 single b.r. apts. Capability to convert back to 1 family. Only $84,400 Call Jim Vrooman @ 1-603-247-0506

new LIStInG - MLS#85326 - 142 Beilby Rd, Otego -

Private & Secluded, yet 5 mins to Oneonta. High & dry w/river frontage.

3 bed doublewide w/2.44 ACRES. Garage & many updates.

Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436 Only $89,000

MLS#84002 – Fly Creek 58+ acres on State Hwy 26. Cooperstown Schools. $135,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 1-603-247-0506

new LIStInG - MLS#85803 - 45 FT OF DEEDED LAKE FRONTAGE ON CANADARAGO LAKE. Completely furnished 4 bd, 2 bath home on 1.4 acres. 2nd flr totally remodeled. Covered 10 x 16 front porch facing lake w/70 ft of aluminum dock & boat lift. $169,900 Call Rod & Barb @ 315-520-6512

MLS#85182 – Village Victorian beauty totally renovated 2 BR, 2 BA home with off street parking. Would make a GREAT investment property! $159,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ (607) 434-1061

MLS#83328 - PRICE REDUCED! Tons of natural sunlight & only a short walk to both colleges. Porch, deck & sunrm provide ample outdoor space. 3 BR, 2 full baths, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, original hardwood flrs. Brand new roof (6 mos.), new front door, new skylight & new carpet. $128,000 Call Linda Wheeler @ (607) 434-2125

MLS#81120 - OWNERS MOTIVATED. A grand Colonial that is move in ready. Come take a look at this wonderful 4 bedroom 2.5 bath home located in the village of Bainbridge. $170,000 CALL OR TEXT SHARON @ 607-267-2681

MLS#85790 - Set majestically & PRIVATELY on 51.07 BEAUTIFUL acres this is a well crafted CONTEMPORARY home built w/high QUALITY materials & WORKMANSHIP. This home offers 3 bedrms, each having sliding glass doors that lead out to a deck or balcony. $750,000 CALL OR TEXT SHARON @ 607-267-2681

MLS#84923 - 257 Stannard Hill Road, Cherry Valley NY - Renovated 3 BR, 2 ½ bath farmhouse on 3.2 acres. Country kitchen w/stainless appliances, formal dining rm, 2 fireplaces. Fencing, run-in shed & barn for horses or livestock. $250,000 Call Michelle @ (518) 469-5603

PRICED TO SELL!! This home needs some TLC with the potential to be a great house. Nice big yard, enclosed porch, large rooms with a paved driveway.

Close to school and park. $69,900 #85625

SUPER WEST END home in great condition!!

Extra-large back yard, nice front porch, 2-car garage.

2 BRS, office, walk-up attic easily finished into 2 more BRs. $129,000 #85858

locally owned & operated single & multi-family homes, commercial property & land

office 441.7312 • fax 432.7580 99 Main St Oneonta • oneontarealty.com

TURN KEY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY CAN BE YOUR CORNER ON THE MARKET! Owners have operated this local food market and deli for over 25 years. Business known as Center Street Food Store has been in operation for decades, and zoning will not allow any new competition - your corner on the market!

Currently sell grocery items, beverages, subs, sandwiches, breakfast, coffee and home-cooked foods and deli items.

Excellent year-round trade from locals and student population, summer tourists, baseball families, college/athletic busloads, and construction trades. Additional income from solid duplex on the corner is leased to 6 students during the school year and is city-approved for baseball families in the summer - more instant customers! Separate coin-operated laundry for added income and tenant convenience. Immaculate store breezes through DOH inspections time after time. Excellent small business opportunity! Income information is based on just the students’ rent.

Summer weekly rentals rent for $1000 a wk per side. Loads of possibilities to expand your business. Catering, bakery items etc. Wherever your imagination takes you. $699,000. MLS#85412

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DramatiC & Dazzling

attraCtive greek revival

(7625) Bring your dreams to this 3BR/2BA home. Everything as you like it, with formal dining room, French doors and hardwood flooring. 3-car garage. den, office, original millwork. Large front porch, playhouse, barn.

ALSO 14x20 original country store now a studio/guest house. Don’t miss seeing this outstanding home!

Edmeston School. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $135,000

Contemporary Cape on 3.9 aCres

(7535) Everyone applauds this nicely-kept 5BR/3+BA Contempo on a pastoral site on 3.90 acres. Appealing Cape highlighting spacious living room, family room, wide plank and hardwood flooring. Formal dining room, Eat-in Kitchen w/oak cabinets, built-in bookcases and finished basement. Woodstove, active solar. Energy efficient. Two-car garage, large view deck, back porch.

Stocked pond, hot tub, 2 story barn. No comfort overlooked! Cooperstown School.

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $525,000

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3 bd, 2 bath mint condition ranch on 7.9 acres. Freshly painted interior w/new carpets & flr covering. 2 stall garage plus 24 x 24 outbuilding. Finished basement w/family rm & 12x27 workshop. MOVE IN CONDITION $178,500 Call Rod & Barb @ 315-520-6512

Fly Creek Home on 2+ aCres

(7622) Get ready to snap up this secluded 4BR/2+BA Dutch Colonial attuned to bay window with great valley view. Ideal accents include Fireplace w/woodstove, den and family room, finished walk-out basement, circular drive, home office, oak and pine flooring. Two-car garage, large view deck. A celebrity(7623) Custom, spotless 3BR/3BA Pierstown countryside Dutch style home! Well-maintained only 3 1/2 miles from C’town.

Colonial enriched by valley views on 9.58 acres. Admirably light Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive. $329,000

and airy, with finished basement and formal Living and dining rooms. 2 Rumford fireplaces. Large working Kitchen w/ eating area and comfy keeping room. Gracious Four season room w/pellet stove leading to Patio, large deck, and hot tub. Hand hewn beams and period hardware, wide pine flooring throughout. Handsomelystyled Colonial ambiance! One-owner. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $479,900 Cooperstown Otsego Lake Lot (7185) Lake View vistas! Last of the lake lots in the Village. 100’ of lake privileges directly in front. Beautiful beach and dock area. Village water & sewer hook-ups.

Good road access. Once in a lifetime opportunity to build the house of your dreams. Hubbell’s Exclusive $225,000 1 Acre (6989) Pierstown area just minutes from Cooperstown.

Nice building lot good area. Possible owner finance.

Good access on main road. Country views. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive $49,000

216 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 • Tel: 607-547-8551/Fax: 607-547-1029 www.johnmitchellrealestate.com • info@johnmitchellrealestate.com

Village of Cooperstown two family Home

Investment Opportunity Priced to Sell!

Both Apartments Feature 2 Bedrooms, eat in kitchens, living rooms and baths.

Sunny downstairs apartment has back yard door access to sun deck and large fenced in backyard. Ample parking & walking distance to downtown & Bassett Hospital, with a great rental history. Price Reduced $149,500.00.

Dave LaDuke Broker 435-2405; Mike Winslow Broker 435-0183; Tony Gambino 516-384-0095; Rob Lee 434-5177; Mike Swatling 435-6454; Joe Valette 437-5745; Laura Coleman 437-4881

DEERFOOt FaRm

Exclusively offered at $875,000.

Welcome to Deerfoot Farm!

Situated on 96 acres, this colonial farmhouse has the charm of yesteryear with the convenience of today. Two ponds, stream, open fields and a view from the front patio of Otsego Lake; there is a second stone patio in the rear of the house. The house features a generous entry, large living room with a fireplace and a bow window with a window seat that overlooks the lake.

A formal dining room, large kitchen, office space, full bath and a large den with a woodstove and a wet bar complete the first floor. Upstairs, lovely MBR with full bath, dressing area, walk-in closets. There is also a one bedroom suite with a full bath and a second bedroom. Wide pine floors throughout the house. Nestled snugly in the woods is a writer’s cottage. There is also large, renovated barn with silo and a three car attached garage. Two ponds, fields, woods and views in all directions complete the picture. The house is located very near to Glimmerglass Opera, the Cooperstown Theatre Festival and Route 20. The Village of Cooperstown is but a short drive along the scenic Lake Road.

This property is definitely a must see!

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CHarming near Cooperstown

(7550) Live comfortably in this well-maintained 4BR/3BA Ranch-type featuring country scenery on 1.80 acres. Offering cathedral beamed ceilings, great room, finished basement. Spacious floorplan, main-level master bedroom w/jacuzzi. Eat-in Kitchen w/oak cabinets, laundry room. Energy efficient, Two-car garage, 12x24 workshop, decks. Tiered deck. Be sure to see this delightful home just 2 1/2 miles from Cooperstown!

Cooperstown Schools Hubbell’s Exclusive. $225,000

For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie – Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King – Associate Broker – 547-5332 Don Olin – Associate Broker – 547-8782 Eric Hill – Associate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois – Associate Broker – 547-5105 Tim Donahue – Associate Broker – 293-8874 Cathy Raddatz – Sales Associate – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie -Sales Associate -547-4141 Carol Hall - Sales Associate -544-4144

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