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Dusty Hill, bassist for ZZ Top, kept the party going at Catskill Area Hospice’s new Upstate Food Truck Festival.

With a packed house, the band played hits like “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Le Grange.”

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affle tickets to benefit the Rotary Club’s second annual Operation Warm Scratch-Off Madness Fundraiser will be available this weekend at the Susquehanna Balloon Fest.

The following weekend, they will be available at the Grand & Glorous Garage Sale on Main Street.

Oneonta Rotarians are again seeking to raise funds to provide 240 winter coats for students in the Oneonta and Laurens school districts.

CANDIDATES HERE: Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado and the Republican incumbent, John Faso, were both in Otsego County the past few days.

Faso was in Oneonta; Delgado in Richfield Springs.

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At his Five Mile Point summer home, Oneonta’s Dave Rees shows his Navy log book recording his efforts to find future Senator McCain.

Owner: City Seizing My American Dream Parker Fish/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

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ity Hall is awakening her from the American Dream, Oneonta Hotel co-owner Melania Pervu said this week in her first interview with this paper since efforts began to condemn her building.

“I have come to America to pursue the American dream,” said Pervu, tears running down her face. “I put all of my savings into this building. This is my job, I am here at least 50 hours every week to keep an eye on my residents.”

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‘Connectivity’ Latest Theme At TEDx Talk

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SUSTAINABLE U: ONEONTA SUNY Oneonta has received a STARS silver rating for or Dan Buttermann, it’s all about sustainability achievements connection. from the Association for the “In April, I attended TEDFest Advancement of Sustainabilin Brooklyn,” ity in Higher Education, the IF YOU GO: TEDx he said. “I spent college announced.

Talk, 6 p.m., three days talking Friday, Sept. to people from CAR WASH: The Oneonta 14, Goodyear China, Russia, Theater. ReserGirls Junior Varsity Soccer Australia, sharing vations, tedxoprogram will be having a notes about how neonta.com fundraising car wash 10:30 Ted Talks affected a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Saturday, their community. I Sept. 1 at Stewart’s on lower would go from table to table, introduc Main Street.

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Rees Deployed On Mission To Rescue McCain; Later, Senator Instructed Him: Appreciate Life Sidney McCain III, Navy pilot and the future U.S. senator from Arizona and 2008 presidential FIVE MILE POINT candidate. McCain died Saturday, Aug. 25, at his Arizona rving as a Navy home after a battle with brain airman in Vietnam, cancer.

Oneonta’s David Rees “We didn’t quite know who flew 115 missions over hostile exactly we were looking for, but North Vietnam. But one searchour job was to follow those A-4 and-rescue mission in October jets and to make sure that they 1967 stands out in his mind. got in and out safely.”

“We were all loaded up and At the time, Rees served a raready to go on a strike mission, dar intercept officer, flying in the and just before we left, they backseat of F-4 Phantom fighter cancelled the mission, which jets launched from the aircraft was highly unusual,” Rees carrier USS Coral Sea. said. He was then assigned a “I always viewed the F-4 as new objective: escorting four one of the top dogs ever built.

A-4 jets on a recovery mission They only ever made about 5,100 near Hanoi, the North Vietnam of those aircrafts,” said Rees, Dave Rees’ wife Helen gave him a who retired last year as propricapital. gift of John McCain’s portrait.

“Up to that point, I can’t etor of Rees Marine. remember any other searchMcCain served at the same that I was involved in.” and-rescue missions over North time, stationed on another aircraft The objective he was lookVietnam,” he said. “At least none Please See McCAIN, A3 ing for was none other than John

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New Dorm Residents Welcomed By Former Ones Aiden Davies, right, got to meet the former occupant of his room, Kevin Sutton, ‘16.

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hen SUNY Oneonta freshman Aiden Davies arrived at his Littell 148 for the first time on Tuesday, Aug. 21, a letter was already awaiting him.

“I didn’t know what to expect when I opened it,” he said.

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Otsego County Dairy Ambassador Hannah Bonczkowski, Gilbertsville, pours a glass of fresh milk for her mother Sandy Bonczkowski at their refreshment tent at Muddy Rivers Dairy Farm in Otego on Saturday morning as part of the annual Family Farm Days.

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Breitmaier Elected Vice President Of SUNY Oswego Honor Society

ayce Breitmaier, Oneonta, was recently elected as an officer for the State University of New York at Oswego chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest collegiate honor society..

Parker Fish/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Breitmaier, senior majoring in accounting and business “Legs” hitmakers ZZ Top rocked a full house in Oneonta at the end of the Upstate Food Truck Festival, administration at SUNY Oswego, was elected to the position sponsored by Catskill Area Hospice. The fundraiser, which combined the annual Celebrity Party and of Vice President and will serve during the 2018-2019 term. the Epicurian Festival, featured food trucks from across the state, as well as beer tastings and a Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi inducts approximately corn hole tournament.

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Oneonta, sings on stage with bassist Chris Watrous, Buffalo, and the rest of The Horseshoe Lounge Playboys on the main stage during the afternoon portion of the festival.

HELLO MILLER: Shane Miller, Oneonta, was welcomed as a member of the class of 2022 to Wilkes University during the college’s Welcome Weekend, on Aug. 24 - 26. Miller is entering as a Pre-pharmacy GS major.

TWO GRADUATE: Madison Allen, a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Michaela Mancini, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, both of Oneonta, Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA were named to the Spring Ward Oles, Cooperstown, serves a chicken cordon 2018 Dean’s List at Le bleu hand pie to Al Rubin, Oneonta, as he helps Moyne College. out his mother Patricia Reed, Hancock, at her Twisted Sister food truck.

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KEOWN HONORED: Jamie Keown, Oneonta, a sophomore biology major, Oneonta, was recognized with the Outstanding Achievement in Biology Award during American International College’s (AIC) Academic Awards ceremony this spring. This award is presented to the student in each class year who has demonstrated excellence in the subject area.

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‘Connectivity’ Theme For 3rd Local TEDx Talk Sept. 14 At SUNY TEDx/From A1 ing myself, telling them what worked at TEDx Oneonta and asking about their talks.”

Buttermann is once again organizing TEDx Oneonta on Friday, Sept. 14, this time at SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich Theater. “We had

such a good turnout last year (at Foothills) and there was so much brainstorming afterwards,” he said.

“We wanted to build on last year’s theme, ‘Tipping Point’.”

Buttermann also hosted the TEDx Women’s conference in November, with the

theme of “Bridges.”

This year’s theme is “Connect,” inspired by post-Talk conversations and Buttermann’s experience at TEDFest. “When we connect people to ideas, we create new ideas,” he said.

“And those new ideas create value.”

This year, 60 speakers applied, double the number from last year. “There’s a lot more interest,” he said.

“We found speakers who have an idea that they want to spread in a place where it can move.”

Among the speakers is Ricardo Sierra, Cherry Valley, who founded the Hawk Circle Wilderness Education Summer Camp Program in 1989 and the Earth Mentoring Institute in 1999 to help children and teens connect with nature. His talk is

titled, “Saving I-Gen Children: Why Grandparents Might Be Our Best Choice To Solve The Digital Age Crisis.”

“All of our speakers have experience with what they’re talking about,” said Buttermann.

Also speaking is Maja Kazazic, an internationally recognized motivation speaker who, after losing her left leg in rocket-propelled grenade attack during the Bosnian genocide, fled her homeland, learned to speak English and started a software company. Her talk, “Genocide and Happiness: The Power of You” will focus on overcoming adversity.

Additional speakers include: • Wellness expert Lauren Parsons, “No Time For

Exercise? Try This!”

• Speechwriter Dawn Herscher, “Words Wisely: Use Them or Lose Them.”

• Deborah Koetzle, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “What Works? Addressing Crime and Drug Use Through Community Intervention” • Laverne Berry and Steve Miller, former volunteer voter-protection lawyers, “How To Affect Change With a Couple of Friends” “We wanted to ensure diversity with our speakers,” said Buttermann. “They all have tremendous ideas, and each topic relates to the next topic.”

The conference will start at 6 p.m. with a brief history of TED Talks, followed by the talks themselves and an

intermission, where activities will help attendees share ideas amongst themselves.

“Last year, we had it at Foothills, so people could gather around tables,” said Buttermann. “Since it’s at Goodrich, we’ll have a longer intermission, with food, so people will keep talking.”

Following the intermission, more talks will be given, and the conference will wrap up with more engagement exercises. “It’s about the same time commitment as a concert,” he said.

Though last year’s TEDx Oneonta was free, this one costs $25, which Buttermann says will help fund future conferences.

“You get ideas by sharing ideas,” he said. “Connecting with others is easier than it might seem.”

Freshmen Get Letters From Former Dorm Room Occupants DORM/From A1 had lived in Littell 148 during his freshman year in 2012. “Congratulations,” he

wrote. “You’re about to live in the best room in Littell Hall.”

“We had the idea that it would be cool for students to hear from alumni,” said Lisa Miller, director of marketing for the college.

“And we thought it would be cool for alumni to share their memories.

Miller put out a call on Facebook, and 70 alumni wrote in, including six employees. Several joined forces with their roommate to write a letter.

“My roommate Ryan and I lived together every year,” said Sutton. “Our room was the main hangout for our group of friends. We’d stay up all night, talking and

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Sutton, who graduated in 2016, now runs the college’s “Making Cent$” program, which helps students learn about budgeting, credit scores, student loan repayments and other financial planning.

Davies, South Glens Falls, is majoring in Communication Studies with the hopes of becoming a state trooper. His roommate, Justin Wittington, was a friend from high school. “It worked out that we got put in a room together,” said Davies.

The oldest letter was from a woman who lived in Littell in 1965, who wrote that, despite living halfway across the country from one another, she still keeps in contact with one of her roommates from that room and tries to see her once a year.

And some new students got more than one letter.

Abby and Sarah, Littell 303 in 2012, both wrote letters, recalling eating Chinese food together in their dorm and watching movies.

Littell 104 also had double letters; one from an alumni who lived there in 1967 and another from a 2015 resident.

“My wish to you, as you sit in our room, is that you

can still hear our sweet harmony singing one of our favorite Leonard Cohen songs, ‘Suzanne,’” wrote Janet Lynn Allen, ‘71. “And that you find as good a lifelong friend as I did in Alison.”

Others wrote lists of Oneonta “To-Do” ideas, including lunch at the Yellow Deli, College Camp and coffee at the Latte Lounge.

Others sent pictures of what the dorm looked like when they had it.

And some, like Sutton, hoped that the new occupants wouldn’t make the mistakes the old occupants did. “Ryan and I were not the cleanest people,” he wrote. “Neither of us ever wanted to take the recycling bin to the trash room, so it would become a mountain of empty bottles and packages.”

“We would play a game where we would throw bottles from the desk into the bin,” he said. “When they got to where we couldn’t throw any more in, we’d take it to the garbage room.”

Sutton and Davies got to meet on Sunday, Aug, 26, when Davies attended “Making Cent$.” “I told them about living in Littell and how I was still close with Ryan,” said Sutton.

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EDITORIALS

A Good Idea From Fire Commissioners: Dissolve, Let Town Negotiate OFD Pact

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hen one least expects it, a breakthrough.

The Town of Oneonta’s Board of Fire Commissioners has voted, 3-2, to set a hearing to consider dissolving. The vote could come at the end of the hearing, scheduled at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Elm Park Methodist Church.

Good idea. About time.

If the fire district is dissolved, a “fire zone” continues to exist within the town, so coverage will continue.

The Town of Oneonta would assume responsibility for negotiating with the city.

HOMETOWN ONEONTA That’s good too.

A packed house at Oneonta’s Elm Park Methodist Church in April 2017 There’s probably no one urged town Board of Fire Commissioners: Renew the fire-protection better than Town Supervicontract with city’s paid Oneonta Fire Department. Sixteen months later, sor Bob Wood, previously a talks are still stymied.

longtime fire commissioner himself, to bring talks with the city to a sensible conclusion.

For more than two years, negotiations have gone nowhere on extending the contract with City Hall for professional fire protection for the town’s Southside, and neighborhoods beyond the city’s East and West ends.

Only state Supreme Court Judge Michael V. Coccoma imposing a two-year settlement in January 2016 assured businesspeople and homeowners coverage as negotiations continued.

The two commissioners objecting to dissolution are the newcomers, Al Rubin Please See EDITORIAL, A5

Cathe Ellsworth Departure Stills A Fearless Voice

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t is with sadness that her friends at this newspaper, and the many among our subscribers, bid farewell this week to Catherine “Cathe” Lake Ellsworth, who for 34 years has shouldered the weekly joys and burdens of our historic “Where Nature Smiles” column.

Cathe, first with husband Jerry and, since his passing at a too-young 53 in 1999, on her own, has delivered always thought-provoking – and often piquant – insights into village life and the state of the world in general.

A tenure of more than three decades has allowed her to provide context on current issues unavailable anywhere else. Plus, Cathe has been fearless – an authentic voice that will be missed.

WHERE NATURE SMILES

After 34 Years Of Observing Cooperstown, A Wistful Goodbye Editor’s Note: This week, our colleague Cathe Ellsworth ends 34 years of weekly column writing – more than 1,700 -- as she moves to Mount Vernon, Ohio, to be near her son Christopher, the famed “we-we.”

ties to connect and work with people on a wide variety of undertaking which we found most interesting, entertaining and eaving Cooperstown is enjoyable. proving to be one of the CATHERINE • most bittersweet experiLAKE There is no ences of our life.

ELLSWORTH doubt we are Not only has Cooperstown been reluctant to the place in which we have lived leave the community that we have the longest, it is also the place in known so well for the past 36 which we most definitely found years. Yet while we will no longer ourselves surrounded not only be able to claim Cooperstown as by a caring and concerned comhome, we nonetheless will take all munity, but also by a community which offered so many opportuni- our wonderful, and certainly un-

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forgettable, memories of our time here. Plus, given modern technology, we suspect we will be able to keep abreast of the comings and goings of the community from our new vantage point in Ohio.

Over the years we have had the opportunity to discuss with anyone who would listen the many local issues that have cropped up from time to time. Whether those discussions provided any clarity is no doubt open to debate. Nonetheless, we always enjoyed the discussions and trust that all those people who joined us did also.

• We will also remember most fondly the countless lunches and Please See COLUMN, A5

Charles and Enid Ellsworth, Cathe’s husband’s grandparents, built the house at 105 Pioneer that will go out of family hands after 117 years.

LETTERS

As Jesus Said Of Shepherds, Will Bishops Lay Down Their Lives For Their Flocks?

To the Editor: Back in the day, Roman Catholics affectionately referred to their “Holy Mother Church.” She was the seat of all wisdom and truth and seemed completely above reproach. With the Pope as the successor of Saint Peter and the bishops as the spiritual descendants of the

Apostles, it was steeped in a tradition of unquestioned spiritual leadership. Bishops were the shepherds and the congregants were the sheep. The Church’s influence extended virtually unchallenged throughout contemporary life.

Of course, this image of the Catholic Church was

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flawed at the outset, because it failed to acknowledge that God’s wisdom was being filtered through ordinary human beings. Instead of acknowledging this vulnerability, the hierarchy built an enormous, worldwide infrastructure to insulate itself from public scrutiny while perpetuating its claim of absolute moral authority.

Today, the Catholic Church is finally starting to address its human frailty.

While this is a good thing, it is important to note that it is occurring in large part because of public outrage and

criminal prosecutions. The practice of quietly transferring the offending cleric to another parish is no longer viable. Nevertheless, the Church’s efforts to date are far from adequate.

The focus of the Church’s reforms has been on detection and turning over to civil authority those identified as a threat to the wellbeing of children. To that end, they have undertaken a massive training effort to sensitize the clergy, employees and volunteers to recognize and report such threats.

Nevertheless, this is

analogous to locking the barn door after the horse has gotten out. The damage has already been done.

What is needed is a proactive effort to identify potential predators before they are ordained. In that way, the threat to children is neutralized safely. The Church has demonstrated a willingness to invest financial resources to this issue.

A battery of psychological tests and evaluations should be administered to every man aspiring to ordination as deacon or priest.

Such evaluations should be

conducted independent of Church oversight and the recommendations should be binding and without appeal.

While contrite public statements from bishops are superficially comforting, actions speak louder than words. Jesus said the shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. It is past time for the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church to demonstrate that level of dedication to those whose spiritual and moral wellbeing has been entrusted to them.

Randy Vélez Cooperstown

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Zakrevsky: No Natural Gas = No Jobs Editor’s Note: Jody Zakrevsky is CEO of Otsego Now, the county’s economic development arm.

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tsego Now is an umbrella organization comprised of Judith Bartow Tom Heitz the Otsego County Industrial Billing Consultant Development Agency, the Otsego IN MEMORIAM: Mary Joan Kevlin, Co-Publisher, 2006-17 County Capital Resource Corp. and the Oneonta Railyards Local DevelMEMBER OF opment Corp. The agencies’ mission New York Press Association • The Otsego County Chamber Published weekly by Iron String Press, Inc. is to assist in the enhancement and 21 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown NY 13326 diversity of the economy of the County Telephone: (607) 547-6103. Fax: (607) 547-6080. of Otsego by supporting projects in the E-mail: info@allotsego.com • www.allotsego.com county that create and/or retain jobs and/or to promote private, whether

for profit or notfor-profit, sector investment.

In January of this year, we were approached by the State of New York to see if we had an available site with the necessary JODY infrastructure (i.e.

ZAKREVSKY municipal water, municipal sewer, electric, natural gas, acreage and proximity to an interstate highway) to support the requirements of a company

looking to build in New York State.

The company would have employed 175 people to start – or as one of my board members correctly points out, 175 families. We couldn’t supply the required natural gas or electric. In researching the history of the lack of available gas, it became evident that this problem has existed for years.

At the same time, we were working with a local company that planned on building a new 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and employing some 300 new jobs – 300 more families. We called for a meeting with Please See ZAKREVSKY, A6

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HOMETOWN

History

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

150 Years Ago

Pole Raising in Otego. The Republicans of Mill Creek and vicinity met in large numbers on Saturday afternoon last, and erected one of the finest poles ever put up. It is 92 feet in length, a beautiful taper and straight as a chalk line, from the top of which floats a new Star Spangled Banner inscribed with the names of the standard bearers, Grant and Colfax. The meeting was ably addressed by Harvey Hunt and E. Blakeley, Esqs. of Otego.

Albany & Susquehanna Railroad Co. – At the annual election held on August 1, the following persons were chosen Directors of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad for the ensuing year: Joseph H. Ramsey, Jeremiah J. Austin, Jacob Leonard, Wm. A. Rice, Albany; Charles Courter, Cobleskill; John Westover, Richmondville; John Cook, Worcester; Azro Chase, Chaseville; David Wilber, Milford; Eliakim R. Ford, Oneonta; Samuel North, Unadilla; Ira E. Sherman, Sidney Plains; Alonzo Everts, Binghamton.

The following were chosen officers for the year: Jos. H. Ramsey, President, Jonathan H. Herrick, Vice-President; Wm. L.M. Phelps, Secretary and Treasurer.

August 1868

40 Years Ago

Dorr Hickey, head of the Empire State Oil Co., Inc. Walter M. Cary, veteran transport pilot with more than 4,000 hours of flying, will be at the controls of the liner which has a 90foot wing-spread and weighs 18,500 pounds. The Boeing craft is powered by three air-cooled Pratt & Whitney Hornet motors which develop 1,725 horsepower. The Boeing has lavatories, cloakrooms, individual ventilation, hot and cold water, radios, and complete equipment for night or “blind” flying. The ship costs about $110,000.

August 1938

60 Years Ago

125 Years Ago

Accident on the D. & H. There was a wreck at Altamont last Thursday evening. Train 4, consisting of a locomotive and two baggage, one parlor and three passenger coaches, while at full speed ran on a piece of track where the rails had spread. The locomotive, baggage cars, parlor car and one passenger car left the track. All the passengers were shaken up, but the only person on the train who was seriously bruised was John Kelly, a baggage man, who was pitched forward in his car and received painful cuts about the head. The company suspects train wrecking and has offered a reward for the offender. Engineer Osmer Whittaker attributes the accident to the heavy storm which had disturbed the ballast and allowed the rails to spread.

August 1893

100 Years Ago

Captain Augustus M. Gurney of the Fifth Artillery doing his share in the present drive in France writes home to his many Oneonta friends: “Things are pretty lively here and there is little time to do anything but work, work all the time. Things are coming out our way now and everything looks bright except the weather. Have been moving around a bit again and am now liaison officer between the United States artillery and the French aviation. At present am liv-

August, 1978 ing in a railroad station, one of the little ones they have in France at the road crossing. It is pretty badly stove up, but is still good – a real house at any rate. Just think – a year ago I left the United States and am still on this side. Our troops have been fine. I knew they were good, but they are wonderful. I have been with the French troops enough to know what they can do, and our men can do more.”

August 1918

80 Years Ago

Oneontans will have an opportunity Friday afternoon to ride in one of the largest land passenger planes now being operated in this country. The large Boeing air liner, which has accommodations for 28 passengers and two pilots, will land at Keyes Oneonta Airport early Friday and take guest riders for short flights over the city under the auspices of

The U.S. Supreme Court set up a special session for this coming Thursday – five days before a crucial deadline – to consider the school segregation crisis at Little Rock, Arkansas. The tribunal must determine whether to allow or forbid a delay in racial integration at Little Rock. The high court is up against a September 2 deadline for the re-opening of schools in the Arkansas capital. Violence broke out there just a year ago when nine Negroes enrolled at Central High School under a federal court order calling for desegregation of public schools. The impending Supreme Court decision has sweeping implications. It has been four years since the court outlawed racial segregation in public schools and ordered desegregation to proceed with deliberate speed.

At Little Rock, members of the state legislature assembled for a special session called by Governor Orval Faubus to consider three segregation bills. One bill empowers Faubus to close Central high school. A second moves the school opening date to September 8 and the third allows white students to retain state aid and enroll elsewhere if displaced by a closed school.

August 1958

20 Years Ago

Worried that he remains in political peril, President Clinton is weighing whether he should address lingering questions about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Many Democrats lament that Clinton’s televised address last week struck the wrong note in opening with an admission of guilt and regret, but then veering into an angry attack on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Uncertain of the truth and facing midterm elections in November, many Congressional Democrats have distanced themselves from Clinton, refusing to defend him against talk of impeachment or resignation. The Lewinsky issue also is likely to dog Clinton in Russia next week, when he is certain to be hit with embarrassing questions at a news conference with Boris Yeltsin.

August 1998

Readers Kept Ellsworths Going With Much Appreciated Suggestions COLUMN/From A4 dinners we enjoyed with friends and family at any number of restaurants in the area.

Our many trips to Pop’s Place usually ended with delicious ice cream. Taking in the “International Dinners” at the Hawkeye introduced us to cuisines we would never have experienced otherwise.

The view while lunching at the Blue Mingo has always been one of our favorites. And we thoroughly enjoyed our weekly take-out dinners from the China Wok, although we must admit we always seemed to find ourselves puzzling over the fortunes we found in the fortune cookies.

To say that we greatly enjoyed eating our way through the restaurants of Cooperstown is probably an understatement.

• Of course, we were most proud when our son, Christopher, a member of the CCS Class of 1992, became a third-generation graduate of Cooperstown Central School.

His grandfather, Charles D. Ellsworth, graduated in 1925.

His grandmother, Enid Brady Ellsworth, graduated in 1930. And his father, Gerald B. Ellsworth, graduated in 1965.

The Ellsworth roots do indeed run deep in Cooperstown. And nothing bespeaks of that more than the fact that we lived our entire time in Cooperstown in the home on Pioneer Street which was built in 1912 by the he-we’s grandparents, Gerald D. and Maude Ellsworth. The home has indeed served the Ellsworth family well.

•

And without doubt, writing a weekly newspaper column for some 34 years has to have been one of the greatest highlights of our time here. We note that on Jan. 4, 1984, when Cooperstonians opened their copies of The Freeman’s Journal to page two, they found themselves reading: “We thought this was an excellent time of year to take a stab at continuing a column which appeared in The Freeman’s Journal for more years than we can remember. In the first place, all those many organizations that you may from time to time connect us with tend to take a break for the holidays leaving us with something we are not accustomed to, namely free time. We had to find something to do.

“Secondly, the holidays are a good time for finding all sorts of

It Makes Sense: Bob Wood To The Rescue EDITORIAL, From A4 and Michelle Catan, who since their election last December have been foiled in efforts to get the talks moving again.

The three in the majority bloc, chair Johna Peachin, veteran commissioner Fred Volpe and Ron Peters, who is associated with Peachin’s accounting firm, have not responded to city Mayor Gary Herzig’s requests for negotiations, the mayor says.

• As noted here before, Coccoma imposed a regimen that allocates one-third of the costs of the city’s Oneonta Fire Department (OFD) to property owners in the town fire district; the remaining two-thirds would be covered by city taxpayers.

An independent consultant agreed to by both sides came up with roughly the same formula.

Still, no movement.

The majority bloc has been tangled up in the issue of revenues created by the OFD’s ambulance squad,

which generates about $1 million of the fire department’s $4 million budget.

In effect, those revenues – insurance payments generated whenever a city ambulance carries a patient from either the city or town to Fox or Bassett – pay down the total, meaning there’s less for city taxpayers and fire-district property owners to split.

The bloc believes the way it’s being done is illegal, but so far hasn’t found anyone with authority to agree.

Again, if an “i” or two needs to be crossed to bring everything up to Hoyle, Bob Wood has the understanding to figure it out amicably with Herzig.

• There are implications for the future.

For one, a town can’t operate its own fire department under New York State law, an option the fire commissioners have been threatening to pursue in negotiations with City Hall.

However, if it came to that, the town could create a town-wide fire district that

could do so, a lengthy process – but slower is probably better. Plus, that may never happen and shouldn’t – the town and city’s fates are linked.

Arguably, given the $1 million contribution from townsfolks, it makes sense for a liaison to be brought into discussions with Common Council on policies regarding the OFD. Perhaps Al Rubin, who has tried to be an honest broker since joining the fire board, would be a good prospect for this role.

Regardless, it’s time to move forward. If the majority-bloc fire commissioners have concluded they can do no more, it makes sense to leave the scene.

The Oneonta Town Board is more sensitive to what the public wants – only a handful or two of voters turn up at Fire District elections – and the public has said it wants the standoff resolved.

With Wood at the helm, along with town board members of good will, an end to a worrisome situation may finally be within reach.

people going all sorts of places to do all sorts of things. We managed to take note of at least a few of them.

“And thirdly, arm twisting, all four of them, on the part of the editor and publisher, works every time. So here we go, where nature smiles.”

• Little did we – the he-we and the she-we – know back in 1984 when we wrote that, that we – unfortunately just the she-we – would still be writing “Where Nature Smiles” today. And while it has been a long haul, it is one we would not trade for anything in the world.

We have always thought that the column lasted as long as it has because we have the best readers in the world who were always willing to contact us with greatly

appreciated suggestions. They were also ready to compliment us when the column struck their fancy and equally willing to complain when it did not. It has been a great run and we shall indeed miss writing it week after week after week after week.

• But, we do think our trusty pen has finally run out of ink. And our time of writing “Where Nature Smiles” has drawn to a close. And thus we end this column, as we did so many others, with...

We remain, Where Nature Smiles, The Ellsworths PLEASE NOTE: Comments may be made by mail to 125 Colonial Woods Dr., Mt. Vernon, Ohio 43050 or by e-mail at cellsworth47@icloud.com

Rising To The Fly On Natural Gas

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ne of the main reasons that local brook trout don’t get very big is that they tend to rise to and take the first dry fly that is drifted over them.

During my professional career, I have avoided “rising to the fly,” but my fellow columnist, Adrian Kuzminski, in his Aug. 23-24, 2018 article, floated one that was just too tempting. He was commenting on my article the week before, where I stated, “To date, we don’t know if those green plants, found on land and in fresh and marine waters, aren’t able to process the carbon dioxide that is being produced. If there was more of it, could green plants produce more oxygen MIKE and sugar, or if there was more than ZAGATA they could process would it affect the climate? Answering those questions will take some good minds and pretty heavy-duty computers.”

He twisted that to read, “Zagata admits as much by worrying if plant growth will absorb the extra CO2”.

So it’s time, once again, to look at the science.

• Natural gas is the cleanest burning fuel.

It produces CO2 (carbon dioxide) and H2O (water) when it is burned. That is exactly what animals, including us, do during the process of respiration. We take in food, digest it, and, in the presence of O2 (oxygen), burn it in our cells to produce energy needed to sustain us and CO2 and H2O are

the waste products. Our blood carries the dissolved CO2 to our lungs and we exhale it and also inhale new Oxygen. Some of the dissolved water also gets exhaled and some gets filtered out by our kidneys and leaves our body as urine.

That means that each of us are polluters – we emit the same gases that are produced when we burn natural gas. We also pollute when we create mulch piles or manure piles or eat beans, as they give off methane as a byproduct of decomposition.

• Many homes in our area heat with propane – a heavier version of methane that also yields CO2 and H2O when burned – and it is transported to our homes by truck.

We drive to our meetings in cars fueled by gasoline, a fossil fuel, to plan on how to best protest against the next attempt to bring energy into our area – and these protests are not limited to just fossil fuels. We have protested against renewable energy sources as well, including wind turbines and biomass.

It is likely that, once we realize just how visually unattractive solar farms are and how much they adversely impact farmland, forests and wildlife habitat, we will protest against them as well.

It will be easy to do, because solar energy Please See ZAGATA, A6

THURSDAY-Friday, AUGUST 30-31, 2018

A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

With Founders’ Walk, Hartwick College Prepares For 225th Anniversary Editor’s Note: Here are Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich’s remarks on launching a new tradition Sunday, Aug. 26: Leading incoming freshmen – this year, the 225th class – in a march down the new Founders’ Way, the campus’ scenic pedestrian walkway.

lation book, the opening convocation, and the ringing of the Hartwick bell. Other traditions, like the wearing of freshman beanies, are no longer observed.

The importance of this beanie is that it was worn by Rev. Dr. Robert Earl Hefffner, who graduated from Hartwick in 1948 and who eventue should ally became the always college’s chaplain rememand then dean of ber where we come students for many from. years.

We should I brought it here always celebrate tonight because, those who walked like Dr. Heffner, before us. you will now walk Tonight, you will MARGARET up this hill as he walk in the footDRUGOVICH did many times. steps of the foundYou are the first ers of Hartwick to create this new tradition College. of walking down Founders’ You are the first entering Way. Every new class to class to walk the Founders’ follow will walk in your Way, a path through the heart of the Hartwick campus footsteps.

Let us take a walk and we that was dedicated during True Blue Weekend in 2017. will stop at the pergola.

• There are many traditions (At the pergola, President at Hartwick.

Drugovich continued her Some have endured, like remarks.) the signing of the matricu-

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of where we stand now.

The seminary educated over 3,000 women and men before it established its four-year “college department.”

In March 1927, members of the Oneonta community went door to door to raise funds to move the Hartwick to Oneonta. Over a span of 10 days, they raised $208,000 (the equivalent of over $2.5 million today); by the end of May 1927, they Hartwick photo by David Lubell had raised $637,479.51.

Four months later, in President Drugovich holds up a Hartwick beanie, September 1927, a commiswhich freshmen used to be required to wear.

Once considered a building of esprit de corps, the sion of 14 members – from practice has long been discontinued. However, the seminary board, the she told freshmen on Founders’ Walk Sunday, Aug. Lutheran synod, the alumni 26, many worthy traditions thrive on Oyaron Hill. and the citizens of Oneonta – recommended to the Johannes Christophorus rivers.

Board of the Trustees that a Hartwig arrived in New The Lutheran minister campus be established here, York in 1746. A theological for whom this great college student in Germany, he was named, John Cristopher with a gift from the citizens was called by the Lutheran Hartwick, dreamed of a uto- of Oneonta of 110 acres of church to serve five conpian society that included an land (donated by Mr. and gregations – Rhinebeck, institution of higher learning. Mrs. Fred Baker, Mr. TimoGermantown, Livingston, Though he did not realize thy Horan, Mr. D.F. Keyes, and Mr. and Mrs. Millard.)

Ancram and Wurtemburg. this aspiration during his A separate Board of He came from Germany to lifetime, the trustees of his Trustees for Hartwick Collead mission congregations estate assured the founding lege was formed later that of settlers scattered along of Hartwick Seminary in same year.

There were 10 the Hudson and Mohawk 1797, just a few miles north

County Energy Crisis Is Here, Now

ZAKREVSKY/From A4 New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) to express our concern and disappointment with the lack of service to our county. Not only do they hold the franchise for natural gas and electric in our region, they were granted rate hike increases to replace the main gas line from Norwich to Oneonta to alleviate this problem.

The project never happened, though residents are still paying for the project. The president of NYSEG himself promised to have his best people look into finding a solution – first for gas, and then electric.

Otsego Now met with various companies trying to find its own solution. One company indicated it could build a de-compressed gas facility in our industrial park to handle the needs for the company looking to expand for about $1 million.

We were then approached by a consortium of businesses known as the “interruptible supply group” that had read we were meeting with NYSEG concerning the lack of gas in our area. This consortium included SUNY Oneonta, Fox Hospital, Lutz Feed, Chenango Memorial Hospital and Chobani Yogurt, and Alvogen Pharmaceuticals and Bio-Kerry Life Science, both in Norwich.

These companies, during extreme cold weather, are asked to switch from NYSEG-supplied natural gas to alternative energy, i.e. oil, much costlier and some say more environmentally unacceptable. Estimates for assisting them raised the anticipated cost to $5 million.

When we discussed with NYSEG whether we could build a system to handle the interruptible supply group, the proposed expansion of the local company, and have enough gas to build out our two industrial parks – the estimate rose to $15 million.

The increase was not so much the cost of the decompressor station, but the cost of installing a new reinforced pipeline to handle the projected demand.

During this same time, we met with various groups including several environmental organizations. We did not hide or sugar coat what we were working on.

We explained what we saw as the problems and we explained the two options we saw to bring in additional natural gas: One, a de-compressor station at a site which would require minimum truck traffic off the Interstate (as opposed to having multiple companies

build their own de-compressor stations); two, to have NYSEG rebuild the pipeline from Norwich to Oneonta.

We did in fact collaborate with these groups on more than one occasion. To date, none of the environmental organizations have supported our proposed solutions, instead recommending conservation and the use of renewable energy instead of fossil fuels.

And while it is certainly worth pursuing for future projects as solar and wind energy would be a viable source for electric, it does not currently provide a solution to companies that need extreme heat in processing. Also, while many of the current solar projects provide income to residents to off-set the electric bills, they currently don’t increase our supply of energy.

Without building battery backup systems, the solar energy goes into the electric grid of NYSEG and doesn’t increase our own ability to have more energy.

With that said, we have consistently indicated that we would look at a balanced approach to our energy shortage. This includes natural gas, compressed gas and liquified gas, solar, wind power, geo-thermal and conservation. We have been and continue to seek input from those who can offer realistic solutions to our energy crisis – both in terms of natural gas as well as electric shortages.

I have personally met with two companies that can supply compressed gas, two companies that can supply liquified gas, one solar energy company on several occasions, and three companies that build wind farms. I have meetings being schedule with a Canadian company which uses trees to make oil and met with several individuals who recommend looking into geo-thermal.

I agree with those who say we are talking about a global crisis increasingly affecting us all. But by telling Otsego County it can’t have needed natural gas and electric to support the business community, we are only shifting economic growth to other communities In the absence of federal policy, companies throughout the nation will continue to grow using natural gas – just not here. The environment will be not better off. I also agree we need an energy task force now – to take immediate action.

Why wasn’t this done five years ago? In the absence

of doing nothing, Otsego Now is still committed to promoting economic growth and investment. If a task force is created, it must be created with real deadlines to accomplish real projects to solve this real crisis.

And Otsego Now, as I have said, is not the energy office of the county. This is just one project we are working on as the economic development organization of the county. This year we have worked to bring in TENTRR – with 40 new employees. We have finalized an agreement with Corning to invest some $11 million in the Oneonta facility to include system upgrades which will provide for better efficiency and reduce energy costs and keep some 175 people (families) here for the next fifteen years.

We have been working with Andela Products and Ruby Lakes Glass to build manufacturing facilities in Richfield Springs. We have applied for $750,000 to help Custom Electronics expand their operations in the Town of Oneonta and create 50 jobs. We have been trying to assist Steiner’s Meat Processing facility in Otego on their needed expansion.

We are studying how to improve the Oneonta Airport to become more financially stable and allow for additional airport improvements. We are assisting with the expansion of Wi-Fi capacity in Cooperstown and have been working to assist financially with Lutz Feeds rail-siding improvements project.

We need to address this problem now – not wait another five years as we have done in the past. As we do nothing, companies will leave our area. The company which planned to expand in our industrial park in 2020 is now looking at other counties. They will build their 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility, they will employ 300 people and they will use natural gas – just not in Oneonta.

And their existing 40 employees, 40 families, will likely move to their new location; another loss to our County. And this doesn’t account for the loss in new real estate taxes of the new manufacturing buildings to the town, county or school districts nor the loss in sales tax revenues to the County.

I welcome those who have solutions to the problem to work with us, but work with us quickly as the energy crisis in our county is here and now.

students in the new college department, with one dedicated teacher, Miss Elbina L. Bender, who came to Oneonta from a college in Pasadena, Calif.

Ground was broken for the first academic building in June 1928, 90 years ago.

The name Oyaron, which means “Hill of Dreams,” a reference to idea that the power inherent in natural objects is more potent than the power of humans, was suggested by Willard Yager, who later donated his collection of Native American artifacts, and for whom the Yager Hall is named.

Let us remember the vision John Christopher Hartwick, the steadfast trustees of his estate, the leaders and students of the seminary, the citizens of Oneonta who made it possible to establish this campus on this site, the faculty who have taught, the students who have learned, and the staff who have supported them here, at Hartwick, as we look out over this beautiful valley.

LETTERS

Sins Of Son Don’t Fall On Father To the Editor: Your newspapers’ Aug. 16-17 front-page headline pertaining to Ros Devlin’s alleged off-duty behavior was a disgusting form of journalism.

To cast aspersions by blatantly pointing the finger at incumbent Sheriff Devlin – insinuating that the behavior of his son should be reason to elect challenger Fernandez – is childish.

Should the sins of the son be cast upon the father?

This form of smear tactic speaks more to

the challenger’s character, not to mentoin the willingness of the publisher to print this.

I have been a supporter of your newspapers for years and do not intend to withdraw my support.

However, I am disappointed that the article in question was allowed to be published.

What has happened to reporting integrity?

Judge the man – not his son – in the upcoming election.

F.J. HESSE Otego

Are Citizens On Board With USS Cooperstown?

To the Editor: I read with interest the Aug. 16-17, 2018, article about Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh traveling to Wisconsin to witness the “keel-laying” of the U.S. warship that has been named after Cooperstown. The ship, built by one of the largest munitions manufacturers in the U.S., Lockheed Martin, increases an already bloated arsenal of machines of death, and further enriches a corporation that turns war into huge profits.

I couldn’t help but wonder if all of the citizens of Cooperstown are on board with this celebration of war. I know many locals who have been protesting every Wednesday at the Cooperstown Post Office for over 15 years, in regard

to the wars that our country wages all over the world. I doubt they would celebrate a warship being named after their hometown.

The mayor cited the “close relationship between the U.S. Navy and the Baseball HOF.” I wrote recently about the problematic aspects of this relationship, and how baseball has been used as a tool of propaganda by the U.S. military to garner support for questionable wars promoted by the CIA and other organizations shrouded in secrecy and darkness, wars that many experts say have caused an increase in the threat of terrorism to U.S. citizens, rather than a decrease.

These endless wars have brought death, destruction and mental health disasters

to the families of many of our veterans, and have resulted in countless incidents of “collateral damage” where innocent civilians in other countries, including mothers and children, have been slaughtered by weapons paid for with our tax dollars.

I think we should have a public meeting for our citizenry to have the opportunity to express to their representatives whether they want them to be showing support for the continuing U.S. violence against nations that are so remote from U.S. shores that their alleged threat to the United States is highly speculative at best.

That is what democracy is all about.

TOPHER HAMMOND Cooperstown

Rising To The Fly On Natural Gas ZAGATA/From A5 doesn’t totally replace the need for energy derived from fossil fuels – the sun doesn’t shine at night, so when the temperatures drop below zero during periods of darkness, the “grid” that supplies our energy relies on energy from fossil fuels like coal.

And what about those hazardous wastes in the solar panels that must be disposed at the end of their useful life?

• Why is it that it’s still OK to pull up to the gas tanks and fill our cars with gasoline, a non-renewable fossil fuel, that, when burned, yields some nasty air pollutants like NOX (Nitrous Oxides) and SO2 (Sulfur Dioxide) but it’s not OK to burn natural gas – and gasoline is delivered by trucks?

Even if you’re the most rabid anti-gas person, that can’t make sense to you.

Why is it still OK to heat our homes with fuel oil, a non-renewable fossil fuel that emits far more air pollutants than methane or natural gas, when burned? And, it’s delivered by trucks.

Why is it still OK to use propane to heat our homes or fuel our barbecue grills? It’s a non-renewable fossil fuel and, because it’s heavier than air and thus stays close to the ground when leaked, may lead to a potentially explosive situation. And, it’s delivered by trucks.

Shucks, why not just vote like the County Board and ban all trucks transporting any

kind of energy. It doesn’t take long to figure that one out now does it?

• The other issue that those against natural gas like to wave like a red flag in front of a bull is that of fugitive emissions – the natural gas that allegedly leaks from pipes, wells, etc.

If you were a company that produced (drilled for) or transported (pipeline) natural gas, would you knowingly allow it to leak?

The company that produces the gas and the company that transports that gas make their money by selling the gas to customers.

Does it make sense to you that they would knowingly allow gas to escape and thus not be available to be sold?

If you were a shareholder in a company that did that, would you be happy about it? If the paper allowed me more space, the story about the “studies” that claimed gas was leaking would be fascinating to debunk.

• All of us are tempted, like the young brook trout, to rise to the fly and devour it.

In the future, before rising, please take the time to reflect on what is being said and ask yourself, in light of what you know about the topic, does it really make good sense?

Mike Zagata, a DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and former environmental executive for Fortune 500 companies, lives in Davenport.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 30-31, 2018

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7

Searching For Fallen Pilot Forged Lifelong Ties Between Senator, Rees McCAIN/From A1 carrier, the USS Oriskany, where he flew bombing missions regularly over North Vietnam in an A-4 Skyhawk.

According to Rees, most of the pilots on the carriers focused solely on their own ships and didn’t pay much attention to the others.

“We didn’t know what the Kitty Hawk was doing or what the Oriskany was doing. We just knew what our missions were,” he said.

“From carrier to carrier, as a member of each ship, you were very involved in what was going on with each mission and your specific objectives.”

McCain was flying on a bombing run near the city of Hanoi when his A-4 Skyhawk was struck by a missile, forcing him to eject from the jet and land in a lake near Hanoi.

McCain was captured by North Vietnamese forces, and subsequently held prisoner of war for five and a half years before being released in March 1972.

During this time, he was sometimes tortured daily, withstanding severe physical and emotional abuse.

“How John survived in

In the best-selling “Faith of Our Fathers” McCain described his ordeal as a POW in the “Hanoi Hilton.”

those conditions for so long, I just can’t even imagine,” said Rees.

McCain and Rees’ paths would cross again.

Back home, McCain be-

gan his political career, winning election to the House of Representatives from an Arizona district in 1982, then to the Senate in 1986.

He had settled in Arizona with his second wife, Cindy.

In 2000, the Arizona senator announced his run for the presidency. Crisscrossing the nation, he met David Rees at a campaign rally in Milford, N.H. “I introduced myself, and I showed him my log book,” said Rees.

In a small notebook, Rees Senator McCain’s had logged every flight he official portrait. made while serving in the Navy. Information such as the date, the specific aircraft photo taken together.

“It was actually pretty he flew and mission type. funny,” Rees said the other The mission type, Rees day in an interview in his explained, is classified by a summer home on Otsego small code.

Lake.

“He and I were talk“Here’s a code that not ing, and I started to notice many people had in their that we were getting shoved logs. Code 1X3, basically around a little bit. meaning ‘to protect aircrafts “I looked up and a crowd flying over enemy terriwas starting to form around tory’.” us.”

That 1X3 code came Rees was so inspired by from the recovery mission his meeting with McCain for McCain, and it’s the one that he offered to work for that Rees showed the presihis presidential campaign in dential candidate in 2000.

2008.

“He was just taken “I just said to him, ‘I’d aback,” said Rees. At the like to help you however I rally, the two discussed their can.’

So I worked as a camtime overseas and had a

paign aide in Otsego County and Upstate New York. I travelled down to New York City a few times, and then I wound up as an alternate delegate at the 2008 Republican National Convention” in St. Paul, Minn.

Rees and wife Helen travelled to the national convention. In a scrapbook, Rees still has several of the souvenir stickers, buttons, and credentials that were handed out.

All told, David Rees met Senator McCain over half a dozen times.

“He would certainly recognize me when I walked up to him,” said Rees. “I liked him because of our shared experiences in Vietnam. One of the things he always said was ‘the best friends and closest connections you’ll ever have in life are with the people that you fly with,’ and I agree with that.”

But one of Rees’ biggest takeaways from his relationship with McCain was his appreciation for life.

“You always heard him talk about how fortunate he was and how he never regretted anything. I feel the same way.”

McCain Showed Toughness, Common Touch To County People Who Met Him

By PARKER FISH COOPERSTOWN

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ave Reese isn’t the only local person who met and liked Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican claimed by brain cancer Saturday, Aug. 25.

In 2008, former assemblyman Tony Casale of Cooperstown worked on the McCain campaign

and was a McCain delegate at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

“I got to know Senator McCain a little bit during that campaign,” said Casale. “He was tough as nails, and he wouldn’t waiver on his principles. Whether you agreed or disagreed with him, you knew that he always had the best interests of the country in mind, and was always a true patriot.”

Casale was even invited to the

senator’s funeral in Annapolis, Md., but will be unable to attend.

Another Cooperstown connection with McCain was more happenstance.

CCS grad Scott Waller, son of former Mayor Carol Waller and her husband, Bill, ran into the senator at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport a month after he was defeated for president by Barack Obama in 2008.

“Scott was returning to Wash-

ington, D.C. from a seminar when his flight was delayed,” said his father Bill. “While he was sitting at the gate, Senator McCain came up to him and spoke to him.”

He took interest in Scott’s Gonzaga College High School sweatshirt, the school where Scott taught and coached. The two had a lengthy conversation, and discovered that a friend McCain served with in Vietnam was one of Scott’s neighbors in D.C.

“He said on his next visit he would stop by and say hello to Scott’s family,” said Waller. “A month later, the Senator knocked on Scott’s door just to say hello.

It’s still is a nice story about a great man.”

On the same flight, McCain sat in front of Scott in coach. A stewardess come up and said, “We have a seat for you in first class.”

McCain replied, “I’m OK where I am.”

A-8 HOMETOWN ONEONTA

FRIDAY, august 31, 2018

City Hall Asks Judge To Evict Tenants From Building Ruled Unsafe HOTEL/From A1 out onto the streets without anything, without anywhere to go. These poor people, where will they go,” Pervu said.

The city and the Pervus, Melania and her husband Nicolae, will appear in court Tuesday, Sept. 4, seeking enforcement of last November’s Public Service Board order to evict residents from an unsafe building.

“The property was declared unsafe, and that declaration remains in effect,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “We have ordered the building evacuated and the landlord has refused to comply.”

In its order, the board identified a litany of code violations, including missing covers on heating elements, inoperative hood vent fans and lights, leaking traps, water stained ceilings, missing or incorrectly installed smoke and carbon,

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the Sheriff’s department may be called to assist with evictions of the remaining tenants, said Merzig.

“The City has no authority to evict anyone, we are not the property owners,” he said. “We are asking Judge Coccoma to enforce the order which they have been in violation of.”

Last November, Pervu was ordered by the city to cease renting apartments, but has continued to do so, advertising studio apartments for $600, one-bedroom apartments for $700, Cathy Nardi/HOMETOWN ONEONTA and two-bedroom apartAs of Tuesday, Sept. 28, tenants were still being ments for $900 in the front sought for apartments in the condemned Oneonta window of the building.

Hotel.

“I just don’t know,” Pervu said. “When people come monoxide detectors, an open declared unsafe,” said City in to look at the apartment, Attorney David Merzig. junction box and misfunc“There have been numerous I tell them that I don’t know tioning emergency lighting. what will happen. We are At the time, the board code violations. We are fixing the building. Look gave the Pervus until April asking the court to tell the at this old fuse box, we 30 to bring the building up Pervus to empty the buildreplaced five of them.” to code, and concluded they ing of its residents.”

According to Tracey had failed to do so.

If the owner will not “The building has been comply with the court order, Martindale, Catholic Chari-

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ties program director, most of the people who obtained assistance to live at 195 Main St. have been housed at other locations.

“We don’t house people, but we do make referrals, and I know most of those agencies have known about this for some time,” Martindale said.

But others remain in the building despite the conditions.

“I am not going nowhere,” said Paul Lee who lives in apartment 417. “I have a severe physical condition, and I don’t have nowhere to go. Nobody has come to see me about going someplace else.”

“We are trying to do what they want,” Melania Pervu said. “But they want us to use only the people they want us to use. I called these people and asked for an estimate, they said to me, ‘how much money do you have?’

This is my building, I get to hire who I trust. I come from a communist country - this is how they act. It’s not supposed to be like this in America. Do you see that building across the street?

Do you see it is empty? This

is why.”

Pervu and her husband are from Romania. She said they moved to New York City in 1995, and bought a building for $145,000. They sold the building in 2015 for $695,000.

“Now, that is the American dream,” Pervu said. “I worked hard. My family lived in a small room. We sacrificed so we could make our dream come true. We came here because we wanted to get out of the City, so our daughters would have a nice place to live.”

The building, which is more than 100 years old, has seen better days, but there is still some of the old-world charm evident in the marble steps, high ceilings and intricate detail on banisters and rails. There are signs of ongoing work - the walls are plastered and primed for paint in several areas. But there is a lot of work that needs to be done.

“We’re at the end of our ropes,” Merzig said in court.

“We are not going to be held responsible if there is a fire in that building and 20 people die in downtown Oneonta.”

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Notice of Formation of The Farmers Mechanic LLC Articles of Organization of this Limited Liability Company (LLC) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 14, 2018.

The LLC maintains its office in Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served to The Farmers Mechanic LLC, 3792 Co Hwy 33, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Purpose: for any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be formed under the law.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: COWBOY ENTERPRISES LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 19 July 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 1304,

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Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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Notice of Formation of CANADARAGO LAKE COTTAGE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

Princ. office of LLC: 8203 State Hwy. 28, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of YOUNG LAKE HOUSE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

Princ. office of LLC: 4192 State Hwy. 20, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC.

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Notice of Formation of

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Scoreboard Classics LLC,

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC)

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Notice of Formation of KKM Associates LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w SSNY on 7/09/18.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for process & shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6 Normal Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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Notice of Formation of Upstate Property Makeovers, LLC with SSNY on 8/16/18.

Office: Otsego.

SSNY desg as agent for

Name: OSBORNE FAMILY REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 8, 2018.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 7937 U.S. Highway 20, Sharon Springs, NY 13459.

Purpose: to engage in any and all business for which LLCs may be formed under the New York LLC law.

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Notice of Formation of JENNISON FUELS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/1/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 183 Crumb Hill Rd., West Winfield,

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Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Fierson Enterprise LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/08/2018.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 204 Emmons hill Road, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BILL CLAUDY CONTRACTING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/07/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

Princ. office of LLC: P.O. Box 239, Hartwick, NY 13348. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Bill Claudy at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of

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with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 30 July 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1981 Co Hwy 31, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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Arts. of Org. filed with Dept. of State of NY on July 20, 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

United States Corporation Agents, Inc designated agent of LLC, upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 7014 13th Ave Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY. 11228 principal business address. LLC does not have a specific date of dissolution.

Purpose: All legal purposes.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company

Filed 2/21/18.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 178 Chase Rd, Coopertown, NY 13326.

Purpose: General.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: OLIVER WOODS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date

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process&shall mail to: Po Box 69, Albany, NY, 12201.

Any lawful purpose.

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Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/26/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 43 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Name: Otsego Properties Group LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 July 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 130 Chestnut St, Apt 1R, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name:

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130 Chestnut St LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 July 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 130 Chestnut St, Apt 1R, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: 2 Eagle St LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 July 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 130 Chestnut St, Apt 1R, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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Notice of Formation of

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BlaMoNew, LLC Articles of organization filed with the SSNY on 5/31/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon her to P.O. Box 966, Cooperstown, NY 13326, which is also the principal business address of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of 14 Elm Street, LLC Filed 6/29/18 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: P.O. Box 1208, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalSept.6 Legal nOtice

Notice of Formation of Darling Hill Farm LLC Articles of Organization filed 05/21/2018 Office in Otsego County SSNY desiganated agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to P.O. Box 1313, Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 30-31, 2018

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►HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO COUNTY ►Friday,August 31

Works available for purchase by silent bidding. Showing thru 10/28. West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Road, East Meredith.

607-278-5454.

MUSIC – 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Enjoy favorite Jazz standards with upbeat twist performed

by Triple Play. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-547-9931.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Cost, $3.

Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

FLOAT NIGHT – 6:45 - 8:30 p.m. Enjoy Summer Fun in pool. Guests must be accompanied by member. Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-0010.

PUB THEOLOGY – 7 p.m.

Enjoy beer, wine, non-alcoholic beverage, discussion, God. Sit, talk with people of various philosophy’s, traditions, perspectives, more.

Alex’s Bistro, 149 Main St., Cooperstown. E-mail cynthia. g.falk@gmail.com CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. “3 Programs of Musical Pleasures: The Virtuoso and the Intimate” featuring Millennium Strings with guest artist Cullen Bryant performing works by Beethoven, Bottesini, Brahms, Koussevitzky, Mozart, more. First Presbyterian Church, 19 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. 607-263-2304.

MUSIC – 9 p.m. Enjoy mix of folk, blues, light rock played by Jeff Syman Quartet.

The Otesaga, Cooperstown.

607-547-9931.

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer, brewing, hops, followed by tour of hop yard, house.

The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

FILM SCREENING – 2 p.m.

Showing Disney’s “Christopher Robin.” Tickets, $5/ adult. Wieting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester.

MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m.

Makers of all ages create, learn, experiment. Materials provided. Everything from crochet to coding, more. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

RAFFLE – 4 p.m. 50/50 raffle to support GOHS Building Fund. 1$/ticket or $5/6 tickets. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

607-432-0960.

BALLOON FEST – 4 - 9 p.m.

See balloons inflate, take a ride in one, more. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-432 2941.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Celebrate opening of 2018 finale art show “Poetica Obscurum.” Features works

by Robert Grinder, Pooh Kaye (screening stop-motion animations from The Backyard Series), Gail Peachin exhibiting compelling collages based on black & white photographs. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown. 607-547-5327.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Multimedia benefit exhibit features works by local artists on theme “Flight.”

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►Saturday, September 1

MEMORIAL RUN – 9 a.m.

Rothenberger Road to Recovery Run features color walk/ run, 10K run. Cost, $30 for 10K, $25 for 5K, $20 for 1K walk. Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

607-267-4435.

CARS & COFFEE – 9 - 11 a.m. Join fellow gearheads for relaxed display of multi-brand, multi-period cars. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. 607-547-9692.

FINE ARTS – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fine Arts on the Lawn features arts & crafts for sale by local artists, members of CAA. Cooperstown Art Association. 607-547-9777.

ARTISAN FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Regional artists, crafters sell works. Find handmade jewelry, textiles, soap, furniture, glass art, pottery, photography, more at Otsego County Campus, 197 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-5479983.

FAMILY SATURDAY – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Family field trip features hands-on activities for kids, guided tours, demonstrations of water-powered sawmill, gristmill, woodworking shop. Admission, $9/ adult. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. 607-278-5744.

BENEFIT CAR WASH – 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Support Oneonta Girls Junior Varsity Soccer Program. Stewart’s, 47 Main St., Oneonta.

AUDITIONS – 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Try out for role in chaotic family comedy “Christmas Belles” with Catskill Community Players. Performance dates for December 7, 8, & 9.

Lotus Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. 607-433-2089.

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer. See Friday Listing.

THEATER – Noon. “A Case For Eviction” following struggle of Frank, Dora to evict temporary resident from their guest room. Leatherstocking Stage, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

FILM SCREENING – 2 p.m.

Showing Disney’s “Christopher Robin.” See Friday Listing.

BALLOON FEST – 2 - 9 p.m.

Watch balloons, take a ride, more. Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

607-432 2941.

VIGNETTES – 2 p.m.

Guided tour showcasing three site-specific performances

by Templeton Players on struggle for Women’s Rights.

Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

BAND – 6 - 10 p.m. Ship of Phools return performing Grateful Dead tunes this Labor Day Weekend. The Lake House, 2521 Co. Hwy. 22, Richfield Springs. 315-8582058.

MUSIC – 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Enjoy piano stylings of Mark Lubell. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-547-9931.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Solo: A

Star Wars Story.” See Friday Listing.

CONCERT – 7 p.m. Carolyn Wonderland performs Texas Blues mixed with variety of other musical influences.

Cost, $10-$40. Earlville Opera House, 18 E. Main St., Earlville. 315-691-3550.

FALL CONCERT – 7 p.m.

Presenting rock band “American Authors” with “Stealing Oceans.” General admission, $30. Dewar Arena, SUNY Oneonta. .

THEATER – 7:30 p.m.

Performance “Cry Havoc” featuring Stephen Wolfert performing works from Shakespeare’s “Richard the III.” Includes workshop for area vets. Free admission.

Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607829-3700.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. 3 Programs of Musical Pleasures: The Virtuoso and the Intimate.” See Friday Listing.

PERFORMANCE – 8 p.m.

Dust Bowl Faeries present tapestry of songs, stories, aerial movement, video, archival film projections to create journey through darkness, light. Cost, $15/adult.

The CHURCH, 2381 NY-205, Mount Vision. 607-638-5119.

MUSIC– 9 p.m. DJ Raphael brings his widely varied tastes of instrumental, vocal music to The Otesaga, Cooperstown.

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►Sunday, September 2 HORSE SHOWS – 9 a.m.

- 6 p.m. Chensego Hunter Association shows features riders jumping cross rails in morning, natural obstacles, logs etc, in afternoon. Gilbertsville Horse Shows, 107 Bloom St., Gilbertsville. 607783-2227.

FINE ARTS – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fine Arts on the Lawn.

See Friday Listing.

ARTISAN FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Regional artists, crafters come together to sell their works. See Saturday Listing.

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer. See Friday Listing.

WEST KORTRIGHT FAIR – Noon - 6 p.m. Celebrate regions agricultural bounty with afternoon fun, music, food featuring PALEFACE, Richie and Rosie, The Big Takeover.

Enjoy local food, group art show, silent auction, rummage sale, activities, local vendors, more. West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Road, East Meredith.

607-278-5454.

THEATER – Noon. See the “Box and Cox Trunk Show” features best performers in region. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown.

607-547-1450.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT – 12:30 p.m. Presentation “Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham” with Kevin Gray touring special exhibit showing unusual, iconic images highlighting 70-year career, why Cunningham is one of most important photography

- 2 p.m. Learn tried, tested gardening tips. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1450.

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FALL CAREER FAIR TUES, SEPT 18

2-6 PM

105 CAMPUS DRIVE, ONEONTA, NY 13820 Stop in anytime between 2 pm and 6 pm to learn about a meaningful career at Springbrook. Enjoy free food and refreshments, meet students and residents, meet managers and employees, and interview at the event.

Free childcare available.

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A-10 HOMETOWN ONEONTA

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2018

IN MEMORIAM Vivian M. Brown, 85, Oneonta; Mother Survived By 7 Children ONEONTA – Vivian M. (Goodspeed) Brown, 85, of Oneonta, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018, at Fox Nursing Home.

She was born Oct. 29, 1932, in New Berlin, to the late LeRoy C. and Rose V. (Decker) Goodspeed. She married Robert A. Brown on Sept. 10, 1949; they had 58 years together before he predeceased her on May 13, 2008. He was a D&H

retiree.

For many years, Vivian was a stay-at-home mom, but in later years she worked at FBC and JJ Newberry, and later retired from Aramark Food Services. In more recent years, she did volunteer work in the Hospice Thrift Store.

She is a past member of the F.O.E. Ladies Auxilliary.

She is survived by her children, Robert (Carole)

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Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home 14 Grand Street, Oneonta • 607-432-6821 www.grummonsfuneralhome.com

versar y Our 130th anni

Tillapaugh Funeral Service Our historic Family Room

Our Chapel comfortably seats over 200.

George M. Tillapaugh (1888-1913) · Revo and Anna Tillapaugh (1913-1958) George G. and Marjorie Tillapaugh (1935-1988) · Martin H. Tillapaugh (1988-Present)

dignity · tradition · continuity 28 Pioneer Street, cooPerStown • 607-547-2571 Proudly serving area families since 1888

Brown, Cheryl (Frank) Woodcock, Bruce (Robin) Brown, Nancy (Stan) Meyers, James (Yon) Brown, Lee Brown, and Michael (Nicole) Brown; 19 grandchildren, plus their spouses and/or significant others; and 22 great-grandchildren.

She is also survived by four brothers and a sister, as well as many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents and husband, she is also predeceased by a son, David; two brothers; and a sister.

Calling hours are 6-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand St., Oneonta. A memorial service will be held at the funeral home at 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, with the Rev. Donna Martin officiating. Burial will follow in the Oneonta Plains Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the A.O. Fox Nursing Home Activities Department.

Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.

Christina M. Clark Dies After Long Fight With Illness ONEONTA – Christina M. (Whitehead) Clark passed away Aug. 23, 2018, after a long fight with illness.

Crissie was survived by her grandparents, James and Elizabeth Fontaine of Clifton Park; her parents Ernie Remillard of New Lisbon and Cindy Remillard Christina of Otego; Clark her brother Walter J. Whitehead of Nashville Tenn.; brothers Eion J. Whitehead and fiance Renee L Peschel (Whitehead), James Miles of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Christopher J Kelley of Oneonta; sisters Connie M. Zachow of Otego, Casandra M Remillard of Auburn, Carrie and Christopher Sargent of Otego, and Melissa Ponodillo of Ballston Spa. Crissie’s passion was for her family and above all her nieces and nephews Terrence, Rebekah and Jazmine Whitehead, Jordan and McKenzie Whitehead, Faith Remillard, Tyler Zachow, Jada, Rome, Jayce, Braxton Drayton, Carter J Sargent, and Emily Clapper.

Crissie was pre-deceased by her daughter, Brianna E. Clark; grandparents Edna and George Remillard of Clifton Park.

A celebration of life took place Sunday, Aug. 26, at Betty Wilber State Park in Worcester.

Josephine Croce, 96; Oneonta Moved To County From Staten Island ONEONTA – Josephine Croce, 96, of Oneonta, whose husband was Wilber Bank branch manager in Oneonta, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, at Chestnut Park Rehab & Nursing Center.

She was born on April 28, 1922, in Brooklyn, the daughter of James and Elsie (Abruzzo) Maceli. She married Alfred Croce on Nov. 12, 1949. He predeceased her on May 27, 2008.

In 1971, Josephine and her family moved from Staten Island to Worces-

ter. Staying there 25 years, she eventually settled in Oneonta in 1995, where her husband had retired as Wilber Bank branch manager in 1985.

She was a member of St Mary’s Church in Oneonta as well as a former communicant of St. Joseph’s Church in Worcester.

She is survived by her daughter, Christine (Jeffrey) Wiltsie of Oneonta; her son, Alfred (Janet) Croce Jr. of Sayville, Long Island; four grandchildren, Alfred J. (Beth) Croce III, Kyle

(Veronica) Croce, Justine Wiltsie and Jeffrey (Amber) Wiltsie; two great-grandchildren, Madeline and Cate Croce; and a special niece, Mary Croce and her daughter, Serenity.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Friday, Aug. 24. at St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta.

Burial will take place privately at the convenience of the family in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Worcester.

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

Howard R. Harder, 86; Unadilla Trained Bird Dogs, Including NY Champ UNADILLA – Howard R. Harder 86, a union carpenter who raised bird dogs and won a state championship with his dog, Popper, passed from this life on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, at the Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing.

He was born the son of the late Robert and Lula (Chickering) Harder, Sr. in Charlottesville. There,

Howard went to school in a one-room schoolhouse, then moved to Oneonta and later to Sidney where he graduated with the Class of 1949.

Howard worked as a union bricklayer and was also a great finish carpenter, having built many fireplaces and kitchens in the area.

In addition to raising bird dogs, Howard loved to hunt and fish.

Howard is survived by six nieces and nephews, and special friends Bill Cerosaletti, Jim Pinney, Kelly Moore and Sue Mott. He was predeceased by brothers Robert and Donald and a sister, Vivian.

Graveside services were held Aug. 27, in Evergreen Hill Cemetery in Unadilla.

Arrangements are with Landers Funeral Chapel.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, august 30-31, 2018

FILM SCREENING – 1, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” See Friday Listing.

CONCERT – 2 p.m. “3 Programs of Musical Pleasures: The Virtuoso and the Intimate.” See Friday Listing.

ANTI-RENT WAR – 2 p.m. Enjoy performances by Templeton Players depicting Anti-Rent Movement. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

GALA PARTY – 4:30 p.m.

Celebrate 30th anniversary of Otsego Land Trust. Registration required, admission $100 to support OLT. Brookwood Point, 6000 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. 607-547-2366.

THEATER – 5 p.m. Performance “Cry Havoc” featuring Stephen Wolfert. See Saturday Listing.

MUSIC – 5 - 9 p.m.

Cooperstown Community Band performs patriotic marches, show tunes, , jazz, themes, more. Free, open to the public. East Lawn, The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-547-9931.

MUSIC – 6 - 8:30 p.m. Enjoy piano stylings of Mark Lubell.

See Saturday Listing.

►Monday, September 3

FOOD FOR THOUGHT – 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. “Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham” presented by Kevin Gray touring the special exhibit showing highlights of her 70-year career. Cost, $30/non-member.

COOPERSTOWN-2 houses for rent fully furnished; exceptional condition. 5 bedroom, 4 bath - $895/mo + util. 2 bedroom, 1 bath - $695/mo + util. Available 9/1/2018 to 5/1/2019.

Please call: 315-867-3931 or 518-568-2776 3Class.Sept.7 AUTO FOR SALE ‘99 Silver Corvette, 29,000 miles. Excellent condition, very clean. Asking $14,500 ‘79 Russet Brown Roadster Supercharger, 5-speed transmission, many extras.

Very good condition. Asking $11,500. Call 518-231-1899.

3Class.Sept.7 LAND FOR SALE 13.25-acre Approved Building Parcel, upscale Pierstown area, perfect solar home site, views, fields, ponds, woodlot, 1,800’ frontage on two roads, Cooperstown schools, broadband this year, $139,000 CooperstownProperty.com 607-435-0255 6Class.Sept.14 APARTMENT FOR RENT Cooperstown, 4-bdrm, 2-bath, very close to hospital in historic carriage Thinking of Remodeling?

Think of Refinancing!

professional services Directory

CLASSES – 7 a.m. First Day of Classes. Milford Central School, 42 W. Main St., Milford. 607-286-7721.

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Village Library, Cooperstown. 607-547-8344.

TINKERING TUESDAY – 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. Design, print custom Jack-O’-Lantern.

Material fee applies. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980.

BOOK CLUB – 6 - 7 p.m.

Discuss “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History Of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein. The Green Toad Book Store, 198 Main St., Oneonta.

607-433-8898.

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For all your prescription needs Church & Scott Pharmacy

607-437-5267 · www.cooperstown-airport-transportation.com • Best prices to/from all airports, train stations • Clean, well maintained vehicles • Safe, experienced, friendly, non-smoking drivers • Available 24/7

5396 State Highway 28 Cooperstown www.churchandscott.com

607-547-1228

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►Tuesday, September 4

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►Sunday, September 2

Study Center, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

607-547–1510.

MUSIC – 6 - 8:30 p.m. Enjoy piano stylings of Mark Lubell.

See Saturday Listing.

FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing, live model. Poses chosen by consensus. Cost $12/class. Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

607-435-8718.

COMEDY – 9 - 10:30 p.m.

American English comedy tour featuring Jacob Williams (Wild n’ Out). Featuring 2 comedians, one American one English, bringing unique perspectives, sharing hilarious stories about cultural differences. General admission, $3.

Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta.

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Daily, weekly or monthly Free estimates • References available 607-293-8390 (H) • 607-287-2089 (C)

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Personal Computer Services Student discounts available • New and refurbished Sales and service • Virus/Malware/Adware Removal Specialists Mac & PC Repairs • Data Recovery Service Custom Gaming Systems • Stop in & see our extensive inventory

387 Chestnut Street ● Oneonta ● (607) 433-7272 www.pcsoneonta.com

4857 State Hwy 28, Cooperstown | 607-286-7228

house. Skylights, hardwood floors. No pets, smoking. $1150+utilities. Call 941445-7744.

3Class.Sept.7 Center City Oneonta!

Remodeled one bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. $725 per month, includes heat and hot water. NO Pets!

References and current credit check required.

Contact Betsy or Becky at Benson Agency Real Estate, 607-432-4391.

TFN Studio Apartment, furnished and move-in ready. Located in the Village of Cooperstown. Convenient to Bassett Hospital and just about everything else. Heat included. $750/month.

Available September 1st.

Contact Rob Lee (Benson Real Estate) at 607-434-5177 or Steve at 201-874-6887.

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AllOTSEGO.homes HUBBELL’S REAL ESTATE

COOPERSTOWN-2 houses for rent fully furnished; exceptional condition.

5 bedroom, 4 bath - $895/ mo + util. 2 bedroom, 1 bath - $695/mo + util. Available 9/1/2018 to 5/1/2019.

Please call: 315-867-3931 or 518-568-2776.

3Class.Sept.7 LGROUP@STNY.RR.COM www.leatherstockingmortgage.com 607-547-5007 (Office) 800-547-7948 (Toll Free)

New Purchases and refinances • Debt Consolidation Free Pre-Qualification • Fast Approvals • Low Rates Registered Mortgage Broker Matt Schuermann NYS Banking Dept.

Loans arranged by a 3rd party lender.

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

Home of the Week

607-547-5740•607-547-6000 (fax) 157 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326

E-Mail: info@hubbellsrealestate.com Web Site: www.hubbellsrealestate.com

On the Edge of Cooperstown

Generous-sized Home

Lake-View Ranch

(8491) 3-BR, 2-bath ranch w/Otsego Lake views. Formal DR, fireplace, large LR w/large windows, den w/cherry built-ins, hardwood floor, master BR. 2-car attached garage, deck. Otsego Lake rights w/dock.

Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$339,000

(8466) Historic 5-BR, 2-bath, brick 1871 high Victorian w/rolling hills view on 10 acres. Gracious LR w/fireplace, bay window, formal DR. Bookcased library, family room, oak flooring, custom eat-in kitchen w/cherry cabinets. Front/side porch, large carriage barn w/2 box stalls, riding ring.

Close to hospital and sports center. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$995,000

Originally called “The Jewel of Pierstown”, this wonderful Victorian is filled w/nooks and crannies. Main floor offers kitchen w/bay, formal DR, large entry hall, LR, den, pantry, full bath, family room, 3-season sunroom w/stained glass windows. Upstairs: 4 roomy BRs w/good closets, 2 full baths, laundry room w/built-ins, hallway/sitting area. Full walk-up attic. Front and back staircases.

Wood floors, chestnut trim, wainscoting, tin ceilings, wrap-around front porch, stone patio, lovely gardens, old-growth trees. Wall fixtures include antique store and lawyer’s office fixtures. 73+ acres w/open fields, stream, originally a hops farm. House is in excellent condition, offering opportunity for B&B or lovely family home. Seasonal studio apartment over 2-car garage could be year-round. Full high-ceilinged basement. New windows and roof.

Lots of original features. 2 barns plus “playhouse/she-shed”.

Offered Co-Exclusively by Ashley-Connor Realty

$795, 000

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(8388) Delightful Cooperstown Village residence offers eat-in kitchen, hardwood flooring, back porch, 4 BRs, 1½ baths, LR, parlor, home office, mud room, original natural woodwork, hot water heat.

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MLS#113506 $289,000 This 110+ acre parcel is an ideal wildlife preserve.

Professionally installed spring and cistern for future use for building. Excellent road frontage.

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MLS#117441 $95,000 3-BR, 1-bath home has many improvements and updates, large attached garage.

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MLS#107955 $850,000 7-BR, 2-bath, 1,675 sq. ft. home on 157± acres has a family kitchen, open deck, valley views. Pole barn, and smaller barn which could be a horse barn.

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Spacious 4 BR, 2 bath house is close to I-88. Large backyard, workshop/garage, small shed. Make your MLS#116162 appointment today. Priced to go this week! $199,000 Virtual Tour:Oneonta www.RealEstateShows.com/708598 Beautiful 4-BR, 2½-bath home has custom kitchen, master BR suite. Quality craftmanship at a price you can’t believe. A steal of a deal!

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Income of over $42,000 and tenants pay utilities.

Total of 8 BRs, 5 baths.

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MLS#114808 $159,900 Beautiful 2-family Home Can be an investment property or owner-occupied w/income towards your mortgage.

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MLS#105019 $160,000 This equestrian farm has a dairy barn, turn-out sheds and never-ending water. 35 acres w/building sites, electric, water and telephone.

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MLS#115710 $135,500 Amish-owned farm has 1836 Colonial w/high ceilings, all wood floors. Interior is almost finished, exterior needs work. 19.8 acres, 3,000-sq-ft barn.

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MLS#117896 $159,900

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Oneonta’s Finest! 8,000 sq ft home in a park-like setting offers attached 3-car garage, front porch, in-ground pool w/patio, deck, pool house. Main floor features grand entry open to LR, formal DR w/hardwood floors, updated kitchen w/large island attached to family room w/fireplace, ½ bath, laundry room, sunroom, 2-story master BR suite w/double walk-ins, private deck, full bath w/Jacuzzi tub, upstairs office loft, private balcony. Upstairs: open concept den/sitting area w/bar, guest BR w/private bath, Jack & Jill bath between 2 more BRs, and fifth BR. Fully finished basement w/workshop, music room, family room, office!

Apartment above the garage is currently rented as an Airbnb.

MLS#117958 $499,900

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country house from 1900 w/1980 addition is perfect for a B&B or an inn. Two living spaces w/separate utilities, kitchens, BRs, baths. Most of the land must remain agricultural; some could be developed. Theater building has full stage, dressing rooms, screened DR, service area.

Perfect spot to develop dinner theater, hops farm or vineyard. Could be year-round facility w/trails, winter activities. Limitless opportunities.

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ExtErior FEaturEs —Wood and aluminum siding —Asphalt shingle roof —Detached 3-car garage

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Cherry Valley Creek Farmstead ±42.38-acre farmstead has spectacular views of the Cherry Valley! Just minutes from Cooperstown, this farm affords many options: good farm to raise beef, horses, sheep, or goats.

Currently comprised of ±25 acres of pasture, ±5 acres tillable, ±11 acres woodland, 2 ponds, small orchard. ±2,500' frontage on the Cherry Valley Creek, ±1,600' road frontage.

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Updated 3-BR, 1-bath farmhouse w/covered porches, and large deck for entertaining.

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Enjoy Harvest Fest To Santa, With Cooptoberfest In Between

Then 2, Layla Giles, Blenheim, was thrilled by the 2016 Farmers’ Museum Harvest Fest goats.

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ust because the boys (and girls!) of summer have all gone home doesn’t mean that the fun in Otsego County is over – far from it!

• This weekend, take to the skies with the annual Susquehanna Balloon

Festival, with rides and a Trooper Ricky Parisian with majestic balloon glow at a 10K, 5K and kids’ fun run, dusk, plus food, music and Brooks BBQ, music and more. 4-9 p.m. Friday, Aug, more. 10:45 a.m. Sunday, 31, 2-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

Oct. 7, Neahwa Park. Info, 1. Neahwa Park, www.pitrun.org. all-autumn Oneonta. Info, • (607) 432-2941.

Celebrate our hops things to do • heritage – or just When you’re back have a cold one! At on the ground, peruse Cooptoberfest, 50the Cooperstown some breweries help Artisans Festival, you toast the fall. featuring painting Street fair begins at to pottery, fiber arts 10 a.m. with food, and more. Saturlive music, corn hole day-Sunday, Sept. tournament, bounce LIBBY 1-2, Otsego County CUDMORE houses, more. Beer Courthouse Lawn, fest starts at 4 p.m.

Cooperstown. Info, (607) Saturday, Oct 6, downtown 547-9983. While you’re Cooperstown. Info, there, swing over the Art On (607) 547-9983.

The Lawn at Cooperstown • Art Association, 22 Main St. It’s hard to pick what’s • best about fall, but The Need some board games? Farmers’ Museum is right New skis? A macramé wall up there. With the annual hanging? Whatever you’re Harvest Festival, you can looking for, you’re going to learn about autumn on 19th find it at the Grand & Glori- century farms. 10 a.m.-5 ous Garage Sale. Stretching p.m. Saturday-Sunday, down Main Street, vendors Sept. 15-16. The Farmers’ line up with good stuff at Museum, Cooperstown. great prices. Everybody (607) 547-1450 loves a bargain! 9 a.m.►ON THE COVER 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, Tom Morgan, whose “Tales Oneonta. of the Empire” will be • reprised in September at Coined “The Best Day in The Farmer’s Museum, reOneonta,” the 25th annual visits Gilbertsville’s Empire Pit Run funds scholarships House, his muse. in memory of fallen State

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autumn at the theater

‘Tales Of Empire’ Revived With Eye On Broadway, TV

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Tom Morgan, who ran Gilbertsville’s Empire Hotel in 1970-71, shares war stories with the current owners of the 1843 establishment, “Q” and Aileen Khashaie. Now specializing in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine, the Empire is marking 10 years of the Khashaies’ ownership.

running Gilbertsville’s Empire Hotel that he performed on the Franklin Stage between 2008 and 2011.

COOPERSTOWN “There were diamonds of humor, great personalities, funny and uried treasure. moving adventures amidst the A rooster in the tap disappointments, the tragedies,” he room. recalled of 1970-71 when, called A major theft, undiscovered for back by his fathers’ suicide from 15 years. a new life he was A young woman building in New ►GILBERTSVILLE IN pregnant by two Zealand, he took SPOTLIGHT AGAIN different men. responsibility for Tom Morgan, keeping the family •tom morgan’S four-part syndicated newsbusiness going.

“Tales of the Empire” will be staged 7-8:30 p.m. on paper columnist, “He trapped us,” four Fridays in September local philanthropist, the son said.

(7, 14, 21, 28) in Fenimore retired investment Now, pared from Art Museum auditorium. counselor, was two hours to 75 Single performance, adults, minutes, the four ticking off the doz$15; for all four plays, ens of oddities and $30. Discounts for seniors, “Tales” are returnsurprises in “Tales ing to the stage, one children. Details at www.

From The Empire,” play at 7 p.m. each fenimore.org the four-part, onePlease See MORE FALL THEATER, Pg. 4 man recollection of TALES, Pg. 4

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‘Tales’ Transformed Playwright

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Plus, “Money Talk” was TALES/From Pg. 3 also a weekly radio program, Friday in September – the and he had mastered cadence, 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th – in enunciation and projection.

The Fenimore Art Museum’s So a simple reading develauditorium. oped into something more.

With the April retirement “Since I acted out characof his wife, Erna Morgan ters,” he says today, “you McReynolds, from their can call them plays.” A pal, Oneonta investment counselOneonta businessman Arnie ing firm – most recently, a Morgan Stanley affiliate – one Drogen, had a background in theater and directed his of the couple’s long-harbored friend. ideas has come to the fore.

A success, “Tales” went Since “Tales From The on the road, to Oneonta’s Empire” was so locally acclaimed, why not stage it off- Foothills and the Lucille Ball Broadway, or – given the new Theater in her hometown of Jamestown.

Golden Age of Television At first, Tom thought the – perhaps even interest PBS or A&E in turning the quartet plays were “guy stories” – his father, ruined by an addicinto a mini-series? tion for playing the horses; Erna, a network news the habitues of the Empire’s producer before returning taproom, the characters who to Oneonta and her secondshowed up there. career in 1980, will do the But “when I looked back, marketing, he said. The I realized they were about Fenimore performances will women” – his grandmother, be videotaped and added to who set aside earnings to a promotional package that will also excerpt earlier tapes buy a grocery after her husband’s jewfrom the business Franklin ►THIS FALL ON STAGE elry was ruined; Stage pro•“Cry Havoc!” Saturdayhis mother, ductions.

Sunday, Sept. 1-2, Franklin slipping into “Tales” Alzheimer’s; began almost Stage. www.franklinstagecompany.org his sister, who by accident.

• “Angels in America” Bold was mentally The couple’s Theatrics, Friday-Sunday, retarded. Even neighbor in Sept. 7-9. www.boldtheathis mother’s Franklin, rics.com sister, a nun. syndicated • “And Then There Were Writing humor colNone” Stuff Of Dreams/ the play took umnist Jim Bigger Boat Productions.

Morgan into Mullen, had Friday-Sunday Oct. 5-7, his past, to a done a series 12-14. boyhood in of readings Syracuse and at Franklin in the Midwest as his father Stage, and the director, Carpursued a career in finance, mella Marner, asked Tom if finally buying a grocery in he’d like to do the same.

But the undertaking took a Glenfield, Lewis County, and returning to the North different turn.

Country.

“Some of the stories I “I was 19 when he bought had been telling for years; the Empire,” said the son. some I had condensed in the At his father’s suicide, column” – Morgan’s “Money Talk,” the syndicated column “I was very angry for many years,” the son said. “I began of business advice. “As I to realize I have to choose to worked and developed the remain bitter all those years.” characters, more came to Writing “Tales,” followed mind.”

While he’d never acted be- by a particular family tragfore, he and Erna had led per- edy, strengthened his resolve.

Events of the future, he haps 150 business seminars nationwide, along the lines of concluded, “are not going to do to me what I allowed my “George Burns and Gracie.” father to do to me.”

Erna played the straight man to Tom’s more comic role.

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autumn IS APPLE TIME

Sweet Cider Pressing Starting For Season

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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ome traditions never get old.

“Making cider is a family thing,” said Dale Dyn, who owns Dyn’s Cider Mill, Town of Richfield. “We do custom pressings, so people can pick their apples and bring them here.

We wash, grind, press, pasteurize and bottle, whether you bring your own bottle or buy ours.”

The mill dates to 1929, when her husband Ken’s grandfather, John, opened the mill inside a former cheese factory to press cider for the locals who brought

in apples from their backyard orchards. “Back then, people would bring barrels to load up on hard cider,” she said. “We may have made cider during Prohibition!”

John’s son Walt took it over.

He died in 1974, and Dale and Ken have run it ever since. The husband handles the press – the apples come from orchards in Lafayette – and the wife runs the store and bakes more than a dozen treats, from pies to pastries to homemade fudge. On Wednesdays, Dyn’s offers a spaghetti dinner, and on Sundays a breakfast menu.

For custom pressings, eight Please See APPLES, Pg. 6

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Dale Dyn displays taste of fall – fresh apples and sweet cider. The season is on at Dyn’s Cider Mill, Route 28, Town of Richfield.

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Savor The All-Natural Apple Red Delicious, Cortland, APPLES/From Pg. 5 Macintosh, Jonagold and bushels is the minimum, Macouns.” creating 25 gallons of cider.

Three bushels, with apAnd with plenty of apples in the county – you could even proximately 88 apples each, will make three gallons of pick some at Middlefield cider, and the mill turns out Orchards – it shouldn’t be more than 20,000 gallons a hard to pick plenty enough year. for cider.

Like Dyn’s, the Fly Creek “The best cider comes Cider Mill was built to press from a mixture of apples,” the apples for local farmers. she said. “I like Northern Spies and Honeycrisp mixed “They drank sweet cider until it started to bubble in together.” the barrels, and that’s how But in case you can’t you knew it was turning into make it to the orchard, hard cider,” he said.

Dyn’s also sells its own Prohibition slowed the bottled cider, made right on mill down. But the press in in 1962, when the store. ►HOW SWEET IT IS! Bill’s parAnd cider • Dyn’s Cider Mill, 7915 ents, Barbara vinegar, NY-28, Richfield Springs. and Charlie, which Dale (315) 858-2078. bought the said is one • Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 mill, they of their bigGoose St, Fly Creek. (607) began sellgest sellers 547-9692 ing mill-made among both • Middlefield Orchards, cider and other the chefs 2274 NY-166, Cooperproducts. and the stown. (607) 547-8212 And if cider health-con• Sharon Orchards, 573 Chestnut St, Sharon isn’t enough scious.

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Mill, the first of the autumn The Fly Creek Cider apples have already arrived.

Mill will begin pressing on “The apples are free,” said Saturday, Sept. 8, and will owner Bill Michaels. “We continue every weekend unjust sell empty bags, so til Thanksgiving. “The best make sure to fill it to the time to view is between 10 top!” and 3,” said Michaels.

Right now, Zestas and And whether it’s served Ginger Golds are in, and hot or cold, hard or sweet, in while those make good a slushie or in a glass, both eating, the “early apples,” Bill and Dale agree it can’t as Bill calls them, make for be beat. thin cider. “We put six vari“It’s all natural,” said eties into our cider, running the range from sweet to tart” Dale. “There’s nothing artificial.” he said. “We use Empires,

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autumn MEANS ANTIQUING

With Thousands Of Items, Call It Wood Bull Museum Proprietor Kip Coburn looks out over a four-story cornucopia of treasures at the Wood Bull, Route 28 just north of the Village of Milford.

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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rosthetic legs with mismatched shoes.

A fencer’s mask, a baby elephant jaw, 1,500 chairs.

Peek around any corner of The Wood Bull, and these such curiosities – and thousands more – are waiting.

“I like stuff that tells a story,” said proprietor Kip Coburn. “They don’t have to be complete and functional.

I just want something that has life to it.”

Part antique store, part museum, the Wood Bull has been a part of the Route 28 landscape since 1980.

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specialized in inflatable sculptures, had a gallery in SoHo, and would sell things he found at auctions. “I was fascinated with them,” he said. “We didn’t have that in the city. You could come up here and fill up a car for $20.”

His wife, Judith, was a

teacher, and on weekends would sell their auction finds in a booth on Canal Street. But she was looking to get out of teaching, and they both loved Upstate New York so much they decided to move here permanently.

When they bought the

barn, there were no doors and the roof had holes. “We were selling stuff out of boxes,” he said. “I’d work on the roof and then go to auctions and yard sales.”

Back then, he said, a lot of farms were going out of business, so he would buy tools and broken farm

equipment. “I really like the industrial – gears and wheels,” he said. “It wasn’t popular for awhile, but now people want it again.”

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Wood Bull Almost Museum ANTIQUES, From Pg. 7 it had these beautiful rams painted on either side,” he said. “The door folded down, and there were these hand-forged hooks inside.

The butcher would have a lamb or a pig hanging in there, and go from door to door selling chops.”

But it doesn’t have to be antique, just interesting.

“There’s a lot of reproductions of the Buddha or Victorian urns,” he said.

“I gravitate towards those, even if they’re not old.”

Even with four floors, eventually, there wasn’t enough space for everything, and now there are treasures to be found on the lawn. “I added paths and ponds,” he said. “The land, to me, is like a big block of wood and I’m chiseling it out. There’s a big difference if something is here or there.

It’s like mixing colors on a great big palette.”

In addition to his shop, he also welcomes the annual Cooperstown Antique Festival in the field next to the barn. “The antique show was about to dissolve because they couldn’t find anywhere to have it,” he said. “I offered to let them use the field.” (Wood Bull also hosts the annual Susquehanna Valley Garlic Fest, coming up 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22.)

People are drawn to antiques, Coburn said, because you’re all but guaranteed that no one else will have anything like it. “I had an old drafting table and someone bought it to use as a dining room table,” he said.

“It was very interesting, not just something you would go into a Pottery Barn and find.”

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QUAFFING autumn ALES

Inspired By Oktoberfest, Dark Beers Planned Here

By PARKER FISH

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hile the seasons change, one thing always changes with them: Beer.

“In the summertime, people tend to drink lighter beers because it’s hot out and they’re thirstier,” said David Olson, owner of Red Shed Brewery on Route 33 south of Cooperstown. “But there is a tendency to lean more into darker beers as the weather begins to turn.”

Brown porters and darker brews tend to be “comfier” in colder weather, he said.

Opening last November, the Red Shed Brewery is Otsego County’s newest brewery, (although it continues to operate a tasting room opened in 2015.)

Now, Olson is preparing his brewery’s first autumn beer: Pumpkin spice amber lager. “The lagering process takes months so we’ve already started making it,” he said.

Red Shed Brewery is planning to release its Oktoberfest beer at its own celebration, a little early: Sept.

21-23. It will also feature German food and music.

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Red Shed Brewery Owner David Olson pours a glass of Jessica’s Red Ale, one of several brews that Olson created for his brewery on Route 33 south of Cooperstown.

Olson is in the process of organizing an Oktoberfest celebration at the brewery.

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September 1 Free Family Saturday See Champion Farrier Jeremy Scudder at work, play horseshoes, tour the mill

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September 8 Antique Engine Jamboree & Powerfest Celebrate the ingenuity of the past and present.

Bluegrass, BBQ, kids’ activities.

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Thursday-Friday, August 30-31, 2018

Most County Breweries Plan Fall Beers BEERS/From Pg. 9 Phil Leinhart, brewmaster at Brewery Ommegang, a couple of hundred yards south of the Red Shed, said the term “fall beer” is a bit more ambiguous than beer fans may think.

“There really is no official definition as to what exactly a ‘fall beer’ is,” he said. “It really comes down to whatever you want to market

each beer as.”

But what makes slightly darker beers more popular in the fall? It may go back to beer’s German roots, Leinhart said.

“Historically, it all generates around Oktoberfest and all of the different beers that breweries in Munich produce leading up to the festival,” he said.

Oktoberfest, the Bavarian

harvest celebration, has been celebrated in Munich for over 200 years, and brings 6 million visitors to Munich annually over 16 days to guzzle down 7.7 million liters of beer.

Oktoberfest’s main beer is an amber lager style brew, which is produced around the world in coordination with the event.

At Cooperstown Brewing

Company in Milford, Manager Lauren Ward said it’s releasing a brand-new bear, Mr. Oktoberfest. “It’s a marzen style beer, brewed with Munich and Vienna malts,” she said. “It will have a copper color and a slight sweetness to it.”

Roots Brewing Co. in Oneonta is also planning its first autumn beer. “I’m working on a fall Belgian dubbel,” a dark malty beer with caramel notes, said brewmaster Jason Parrish.

“It’s exciting. It’s a new beer for us. We’ve never done

this one before.”

At Butternuts Beer & Ale in Garrattsville, owner Chuck Williamson is creating an autumn pumpkin brew.

The recipe includes 10 pounds of pumpkin for every 30 gallons, he said, and the brewery is filled with locally sourced gourds from a Middlefield patch.

“People love the pumpkin saison,” Williamson said.

“I’ve had people that don’t drink beer that come up to me and say that they can’t wait for it to come back.”

Roseboom Pizzeria Pizza • Pasta • subs • Wings

Tue - Thu: noon to 8 pm Fri - SaT: noon to 9 pm

BOSTON BRASS

Come and get it!

3220 Highway 166

Friday September 21st

Cherry Valley • 607-264-3600 Like us on facebook!

7:30 pm First United Methodist Church 66 Chestnut St. Oneonta www.bostonbrass.com

Tickets available at the door or at The Green Toad Bookstore and The Eighth Note. Single tickets $25; students $6.

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Hartwick College Department of Music

Next concert: Renaissance Men, Oct. 12, First United Methodist, Oneonta

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Thursday-Friday, August 30-31, 2018

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autumn’S AWESOME FOLIAGE

SATURDAY 9/8/18 10 - 6 SUNDAY 9/9/18 11-5 IN DOWNTOWN NORWICH, NY

By CATHY NARDI

RAIN or SHINE FREE ADMISSION Colorscape Chenango is a FREE juried exhibition of art and fine crafts in an interactive atmosphere featuring artist demonstrations, literary, dance, music and arts activities for all ages; student art exhibit; competitive poetry slam; and creative food vending.

Entertainment on three stages.

2018

Performers

NBT MAIN STAGE EAST PARK

Sponsored by NBT Bank & Grants from the Follett Foundation, Greater Norwich Foundation in memory of Cyrus Higley and Decentralization

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH

10:00 ..NATE GROSS 11:00 ..OPENING CEREMONY 11:15 ..MUSTARD’S RETREAT 12:30 ..JEREMY WALLACE TRIO 1:30.....LENI STERN GROUP 3:00.....VANCE GILBERT 4:30.....THE ADAM EZRA GROUP

11:00 ..ANSWER THE MUSE 12:00 ..THE KENNEDYS 1:00.....THE JOHN HALL BAND 2:30.....THE ADAM EZRA GROUP 4:00.....THE SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMS

PLUS entertainment all weeked long in West Park on Peggy’s Stage & the Art Zone Stage!

info@colorscape.org • www.colorscape.org PO Box 624, Norwich, NY 13815 • 607-336-FEST

Chenango

Visit www.chenangoNY.org or call 607-334-1400

® NYSDED

Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival is made possible in part by the Broome, Chenango & Otsego Decentralization Program, administered by the Chenango Arts Council and made possible by the NewYork State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature.

DESTINATION

Enjoy Colors By Train, Canoe, Horseback, Foot

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rguably the most beautiful time of the year in Otsego County is autumn, with leaves drenched in reds, oranges and gold tempting

►TRY THESE FALL

FOLIAGE WALKS

Here are venues foliage trails.

• Wilbur and Betty Davis State Park, Worcester, with view south and west, and hardwood forests.

• Glimmerglass State Park, including the Sleeping Lion trail, 2½ miles with views of Otsego Lake.

• Brookwood Point, 22 acres of diverse ecosystem, including meadow and forest, seasoned and young trees, wetlands and shorefront, and historic cultivated gardens.

• Gilbert Lake State Park’s trail trail loops the lake. Also available are non-motorized boat rentals, picnic areas, camping and a bandstand.

MORE HIKE IDEAS AT OTSEGOOUTDOORS.ORG

many to enjoy the outdoors.

Starting Sept. 29, the society’s fall foliage train will leave Milford Depot at 1 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday from Sept. 29 through Columbus Day, (when the train departs at 11 a.m.), for 2½ hours of leaf peeping, crossing the Susquehanna River twice and passing through farms and forests. For reservations, call (607) 432-2429.

For those who prefer to see foliage from the water, Canoe & Kayak Rentals & Sales in Portlandville has boat launches on Goodyear and Otsego lakes, the latter at Brookwood Point.

Rent kayaks, canoes and stand-up by the hour, halfday, full day and weekly.

The Portlandville store and dock are open through Columbus Day, weather permitting.

Or you can ride on horseback through the colors, with Brass Ring Farm, 4015 Route 28, Milford, renting horses to riders 10 and older. A preliminary lesson is given before each trail ride. For details, call (607) 286-9333.

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We’re back!

Thursday-Friday, August 30-31, 2018

IS GROWING!

We welcome these fine establishments!

formerly Snack Shak

“Thanks to all of the people that have supported our return!

Southside Mall was home to us for so long, we’re very happy to be back! Good to see our friends from before and we look forward to meeting new friends!”

Come see us!

--Mike Perrucci

Located in Southside Mall (former Subway location) Route 23 • Oneonta

607-441-3144

Visit our other fine retailers at Southside Mall!

Applebee’s • AT&T • Bath & Body Works • Bed Bath & Beyond Claire’s Accessories • Cricket • Cutting Crew • GameStop • Dick’s Sporting Goods Five Guys • GNC • Harmony Martial Arts & Fitness • Kay Jewelers • JC Penney Live In Style Threading • Maurices • Meyers Cabinetry Mt. Fuji Japanese Restaurant • Office Max • Payless ShoeSource • Panera Perrucci’s Pizza • Petco • Piercing Pagoda • Rent-A-Center • Rue 21 Shades of Distinction • Shoe Dept. • Southside Cinemas Sunburst Reflections • Sweet Frog • TJMaxx

5006 State Hwy 23, Oneonta 607-432-4401 www.shopsouthsidemall.com