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NO MORE CLASSES ‘LIKELY OUTCOME’ After his Sunday, Aug. 30, press conference announcing a two-week hiatus in classes at SUNY Oneonta, the new chancellor, Jim Malatras, high-elbows SUNY Oneonta criminal justice major Chris Frommeyer for asking “the toughest question” – Why weren’t students tested when they returned to campus?

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Jaclyn Origoni, who owns the Latte Lounge with her husband, Adrian, met with Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, on his tour of Main Street Oneonta to discuss how businesses were coping during the COVID-19 outbreak on Monday, Aug, 31.

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lans are being made for two virtual town halls on COVID-19, Mayor Gary Herzig announced in Common Council on Tuesday, Sept.1.

He and Council member Mark Drnek are working on the plan, he said. “We’re trying to get it together as quickly as we can.”

Though no date has been set, Herzig said that one meeting will be for businesses; the other for the public. “The questions may be different,” said Herzig.

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AllOTSEGO.com ►SUNY ONEONTA is running out of rooms for students who must be quarantied. ►WITH ONLY TWO CASES, Hartwick College classes go remote. ►THREE SPORTS TEAMS’ parties started outbreak ►armory, st james, Foothills to host free rapid testing. ►NEW SUNY CHANCELLOR hurries to Oneonta. ►sUNY TO TEST ALL students for COVID-19. ►sUNY INVESTIGATES off-campus parties, suspends sorority.

►TUESDAY, AUG 25: Two SUNY Oneonta students living off-campus test positive after “large party.” ►WEDNESDAY, AUG 26: Five COVID-19 cases surface in off-campus students. ►THURSDAY, AUG 27: Six more SUNY students test positive, four living on campus. ►FRIDAY, AUG 28: SUNY reports 15 more cases.

Sorority suspended; Rush Week cancelled. All oncampus students ordered tested. Hartwick bars public from campus. ►SATURDAY, AUG 29: 29 more SUNY students test positive, including sixth from original party. ►SUNDAY, AUG. 30: Cases top 105; Chancellor Jim Malatras shuts campus for two weeks, requires all students to shelter-in-place. Governor Cuomo orders virus-testing SWAT team to city. ►MONDAY, SEPT 1: Foothills, Armory, St. James Episcopal will be free testing sites, beginning Wednesday. 83 new SUNY cases surface.

Hartwick reports first case. ►TUESDAY, SEPT 2: SUNY reports 68 cases, bringing the total to 245. Hartwick reports second case, moves to all online classes for two weeks.

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Call 833-NYS-TRNG, To Get Free Test For COVID Tyler Jermyn swabs his mouth Tuesday, Sept. 1, part of COVID19 “pool testing” by Upstate Medical.

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ithin one week, SUNY Oneonta’s COVID-19 explosion appears to have toppled face-to-face oncampus learning.

“We are going to reassess Michael Forster Rothbart/HOMETOWNN ONEONTA in two weeks,” said Kim

MacLeod, college spokesperson. “But of all the possible outcomes, going fully remote has the biggest potential to be the outcome.”

According to SUNY Oneonta’s figures, 245 students had tested positive as of press time Tuesday evening, Sept. 1, and numbers were expected to rise over 300 on Wednesday.

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s Fox Hospital president, Jeff Joyner, new COO of the Bassett Healthcare Network, brings people together.

“Jeff knows that things get done when you work with other people,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, president of the

Fox Hospital Board. “And he realized that Fox Hospital, standing alone, wasn’t going to be effective unless the network was Joyner effective.”

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hen he was in first grade in the Greater Johnstown School District, young Bill Crankshaw counted to 100, and Mrs. Ruby Walter, his teacher, celebrated by singing “How Much Is That Doggy in the Window.”

In second grade, Mrs. Greco made sure his samples of cursive writing were Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWNN ONEONTA submitted every time there was a contest.

“Stay positive,” “Stay creative,” are on His penmanship usually won. a list of exhortations Superintendent Please See CRANKSHAW, B3 Crankshaw gave to his key managers.

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In 2009-13, Betrus he was vice president of professional services at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D..C, part of Johns Hopkins.

In 2003-09, he was vice president of patient support services at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. In 1993-97, he served two terms in the Main State Legislature. He holds a bachelors in business administration from the University of Maine at Farmington and a master of health administration from the University of New Hampshire.

As Fox president, Joyner has been reducing redundancy of services. “Two years ago, we had FoxNow at FoxCare and Bassett Convenient Care, three miles down the road from each other,” he said.

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dated them, and now we have a much better product for the community.”

In fall 2018, Fox was awarded an “A” from The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade, placing the organization among the top facilities nationwide for patient safety excellence.

He continued his outreach, and in 2018, the network acquired Tri-Town in Sidney.

“By continuing to create more efficiency with services in both the Oneonta and Sidney regions, Fox and the greater Bassett Healthcare Network are in a strong position to continue providing high-quality care in an ever-changing health care environment,” he said.

“He put two of the former board members on the Fox Board,” said Zimniewicz.

“He brings people together who can make a difference.”

And those connections came in handy as the COVID-19 pandemic bore down on the county. “We have come together to deal with the pandemic head-on,” he said “With everything at SUNY, our colleagues in Cobleskill and Cooperstown reached out to ask what they could provide. We’re not an island, we’re part of a team.”

And he didn’t leave his staff out of the renovations.

When the patient dining room was expanded, the employee dining room was also modernized, complete with a “mini arcade” in the lounge to entertain staff on breaks.

“One of the greatest attributes of Fox Hospital is the people who work here,” he said. “I’ve seen first-hand the care they provide, and I get letters telling me about what a good job we’ve done.”

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The other three key appointments are: • Michael Thompson, vice president/systems improvement. Most recently, he was vice president/provider service for Integris, Oklahoma City, where Ibrahim was executive vice president and chief physician executive before his appointment here May 20.

• Lisa Betrus, as senior vice president/chief strategy and transformation officer.

Since 1998, she has been CEO/administrator of Valley Health & Valley Residential Services, Herkimer, taking on the extra role of network vice president for continuum of care in 2017.

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Hartwick’s Relative Success Underscores Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive

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-20 hindsight is easy but…

Aug. 21-23 was critical. That was the first weekend back for SUNY Oneonta’s 6,500 students. For Hartwick College 1,200; but, as it turns out, that was less impactful.

For Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and Common Council, the focus had been on bars and gatherings on Main Street, but that turned out to be under control.

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there, but the heightened public concern, and tavern keepers’ wariness about losing their licenses, plus state regulations preventing people from actually standing at the bar, avoided the COVID-19 petri dish that downtown might have been.

It turns out, a better focus would have been offcampus festivities – several “large parties,” as SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras put it, Please See SUNY, A5

LETTERS

Germans Allowed Nazism; Don’t Allow Donald Trump To the Editor: I remember, as a child in the late1940s, sitting under a table listening to the radio, as I often did, before we had our first television.

I never forgot the constant news reports, in real time, about the thousands of concentration camps and millions of mass killings found in and around Germany at the end of World War II. I never forgot. It was always with me. How could that happen? Why? I spent most of my life trying to understand how the German people could support

such a deranged leader, and a horrible and devastating government that killed millions upon millions of innocent people simply because it did not like them, and the German people, voluntarily or not, participated in the killings.

The Germans killed thousands of people a day, 24 hours a day, every day, for years. They used their engineering skills and industrial methods to kill people any way they could and as fast and as efficiently as they could. Sometimes with soldiers spending days Please See DEAN, A6

To the Editor: The first Presidential candidate that I supported was Barry Goldwater in 1964. That was not a popular position in Texas, where LBJ was revered. I got into a few arguments.

I did so because of Goldwater’s integrity, his personal ethics, his honor.

The second political candidate I supported was JFK – for the same reasons – compared to Nixon, JFK was a paragon of integrity.

I have tried to support the candidate with the most integrity in each election,

which is why I could not support Bill Clinton.

The first qualifications of a President are integrity, honor, and dignity.

This year, the choice is clear: Joe Biden has integrity, dignity and honor. His opponent has little honor, little veracity and little integrity.

We cannot honor a man who has no honor. We cannot believe a man who has no veracity. We cannot follow a man who has no integrity.

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Students line up for COVID-19 tests Sunday, Aug. 30, outside SUNY Oneonta’s Chase gym.

t’s been reported that SUNY Oneonta’s volunteer quarantining was a SUNY-wide policy.

If so, then we can expected similar COVID explosions at Cobleskill, Delhi, Binghamton and across the 64-campus system, unless the campuses can quickly apply SUNY Oneonta’s new regimen of 100percent testing and a two-week hiatus.

Throughout the pandemic threat, there have been calls for uniform policies and instruction from Washington D.C. (or the CDC in Atlanta), so a nation of

320 million people can proceed lock-step against a common foe.

That’s fine, but there’s a downside: If some central authority gets it wrong, then we all get it wrong.

New York State got it wrong – it was a fiasco, but Governor Cuomo led us out of it – allowing other states to learn and adapt, albeit not perfectly.

• There’s another reason for Hartwick College’s rigor vis a vis SUNY Oneonta’s fuzzier focus. President Margaret L. Drugovich undoubtedly underPlease See HARTWICK, A5

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“Pete Souza: Two Presidents, One Photogapher,” opens Saturday, Sept. 5, featuring 56 photos of the Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama presidencies, when Souza, now a professor at Ohio University, was the chief official White House photographer. ►In top photo, Ronald Reagan

(1981-89) and First Lady Nancy host Michael Jackson. ►At left, Barack Obama (2009-17) and First Lady Michelle.

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Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Dr. Mary Anne Whelan’s justpublished “Freddie’s Last Ride,” the retired Bassett Hospital neurologist’s assessment of the controversial case of a black teenager in Baltimore who died in police custody in 2015. It is available through www.amazon.com.

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pril 12, 2015, … police saw a young black man, Freddie Gray, and without provocation other than his identity, chased him when he ran and pinned him when he stopped for them, slammed him face down, knelt on him, dragged him up

and stuffed him into a police van.

This, also, was not unusual. But on this occasion, rather unusually, even for the Baltimore police, they had broken his neck before stuffMARY ANNE ing him in.

WHELAN • It is not too much to say that the outcome of the trials of the six charged officers … was determined

before the first person took the stand.

To a major extent, the prosecution had to depend on proving charges which depended on circumstantial evidence and upon knowing the state of mind of the defendant.

(Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn) Mosby, who brought those charges, certainly should have known better.

Unfortunately, Mosby relied upon the autopsy report and in interpreting confused autopsy evidence, in the usual sense, with opinion, which the pathologist had derived from what the police told her about the state of the Please See WHELAN, A6

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150 Years Ago

Oneonta and Area Items – Quoit pitching seems to be the popular game at the depot.

Just received at the Crockery Store of J. B. Roberts, some fine plums and delicious grapes.

The rain of Saturday night raised the brook on Dietz Street – the first it has run this summer.

Our thanks is due to A.A. Whitcomb for a quantity of large tomatoes.

A young man named John Bonfoy, who has for some time been employed in New Berlin, committed suicide by hanging himself. He was a young man of excellent character.

French’s Grand Oriental Circus and Egyptian Caravan, with a renowned and rare exhibition of animals, gave two exhibitions in this village on Friday afternoon.

The Singer Sewing Machine is used by all of the manufacturing tailors and clothing merchants of Oneonta.

September, 1870

125 Years Ago

60 Years Ago

This past year, 8,018 residents of New York State have turned to the U.S. Census Bureau for help in proving they were born.

These persons were among an estimated 30 million U.S. residents who were without proof of age or birth. The historical records of the Census Bureau provide the only source of this information for most of these 30 million people. Proof of age or birth is needed today to collect Social Security and other retirement benefits. It is needed to obtain passports. It is needed to qualify for jobs carrying certain age or citizenship requirements and some forms of insurance.

Since 1920 the Census Bureau has provided more than 3.5 million persons with copies of their Census records.

September 1960

100 Years Ago

The largest potato of the season thus far was dug last week from the garden plot of J.E. Goodsell at Oneonta Plains and weighed one and three-quarters pounds.

It was one of the Bovee variety which quite uniformly weigh 8 to 10 ounces.

Mr. Goodsell grew last year some eight bushels which averaged about that size.

While motoring with a party of friends through the Catskills recently, Edwin Jahn of Oneonta stopped on Mt. Usayantha, near Stamford, and while walking in the woods with Howard Yager, also of the party, had the rare good fortune to come upon a buck deer, who obligingly stood still about 20 feet from them long enough for Mr. Jahn to photograph him, and looking directly into the camera. The two think that the buck would have held his pose longer had the rest of the party not come upon them and frightened him away.

Tagged and labeled like a parcel post consignment, Robert Johnson, aged five years, of Eastwood, in Onondaga County, started alone on a recent night on a month-

West Davenport; Miss Velma Green, Butts Corners, and Miss Rena Smith, Oriskany.

Private Lawrence Herring of Madison Barracks spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Clark. Mrs. Hettie Rous had the misfortune to fall last week and break her hip.

September 1940

40 Years Ago

Primary Day Polls Open Next Tuesday September 1895 – Next Tuesday, September 9, registered long journey to Alaska, where he will make Republicans and Democrats in New York State go to the polls to cast their ballots for his home with his grandparents.

September 1920 desired candidates for Senator and Congressman. For U.S. Senator, incumbent Republican Jacob K. Javits is hopeful of winning over his challenger Alphonse M. West Oneonta News Items – Daniel Ling- D’Amato. Democratic hopefuls for the ner of the U.S. Army, stationed at Mitchell Senate candidacy include former New York Field Long Island spent the weekend with City Mayor John V. Lindsay, John Santucci, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Lingner.

Bess Myerson and Elizabeth Holtzman.

Miss Helena Barney, R.N. is caring for Mrs. Republican Congressional hopefuls in the Weeks at Hartwick. Mrs. George Kilquist 32nd District include Peter J. DiGiorno, of Otego and daughter Helen of BinghamHerbert D. Brewer, Mayor of Oneida, ton, called on Miss Lillian Smith Monday.

George C. Wortley, newspaper publisher Percy Fairfierld of Massachusetts spent the and Pat R. Bombard, automobile salesman. week with his cousin, Mrs. Arthur Fairfield. Democratic challengers include Gary NichTeachers who have been spending the sum- olson and Jeffrey S. Brooks. The currently mer vacation with their parents, returned serving Democratic Congressman, James to their schools Tuesday. Miss Erna VarHanley of Syracuse is retiring from office. ney, Salisbury, Vermont; Miss Avis Smith, The 59 polling places in Otsego County will

80 Years Ago

the SA’s contract with Hale Transportation of Clinton was abruptly cancelled. where a handful of students passed the On his Sunday, Aug. 30, press conference infection to other students who went back to campus and passed it on to others, 245 as of at SUNY Oneonta, Chancellor Malatras also announced a high-ranking official, Hank Tuesday, Sept. 1. Kapow!

Bennett. the SUNY system’s In addition to patrolling downtown, deputy director of operations, city police were supposed to be patrolhas been deployed from Albany ling for large parties. According to to advise the local campus’ Police Chief Dave Brenner, a cruiser administration. responded to a single party, and issued It’s a shame it had to come to a noise complaint. that, but there it is.

With 20-20 hindsight, there you • have it.

The good news is, as of this • New SUNY writing, at least, there have been On the SUNY campus, the policy infections, but not all are active. was to ask incoming students to self- Chancellor quarantine for seven days, and those Jim Malatras It seems young people are more at SUNY at-risk than originally thought, coming from “hot-spot” states to but not as much as older citizens. quarantine for 14. Dreamin’, as was Oneonta.

This may change by the time underscored by the course of events you read this, but by press time no one had since then. been hospitalized, and it was expected all In contrast, Hartwick College insisted SUNY students would be tested. students get tests in advance to prove they We’ve learned collaboration is better than were clean, and tested them again when not, that tough decisions are necessary, that they arrived on campus, and will continue there’s no substitute to dusting ourselves off to do so. and moving forward.

That SUNY Oneonta had to test all its After Malatras raised the alarm, Governor students on an emergency basis AFTER 105 Cuomo dispatched a virus-testing SWAT cases erupted on the Saturday of Weekend Two – underscores that Hartwick’s approach team to the City of the Hills, which set up testing sites Wednesday, Sept. 2, at was better.

Foothills, the Oneonta Armory and It’s nice, perhaps, that the first default of SUNY Oneonta’s administration was to trust St. James Episcopal Church.

For now, in Oneonta, you can get tested; students to be dependable – but we’re in a so, get tested. That allows contact tracing, pandemic, folks. Nice doesn’t do it. quarantining and, eventually, let’s expect At the time, the SUNY Student Association’s opting out of City Hall’s ban on night- and anticipate, an end to this unhappy episode and a return to whatever the time buses between the campuses and the New Normal may be. downtown seemed like a bad idea. Since,

In preparation for its thirtieth anniversary season the Catskill Choral Society will audition new singers beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 7 at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Ford Avenue. This fall, the group, under the direction of Dr. Jirka Kratochvil, will present the American premiere of “Requiem” by Czech composer Antonin Reicha (1770-1836). All voice parts are welcome. Weekly rehearsals begin that evening and will continue on Thursdays at the First Presbyterian Church in Oneonta.

Performance dates are Friday and Saturday, December 1 and 2.

“End of Life Decisions” will be the focus of a public lecture by Timothy E. Quill on September 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Agora, Dewar Hall, Hartwick College. Quill is a Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is the author of two books on end-of-life decision-making. His presentation titled “Partnership and Non-Abandonment Critical Values in End-of-Life Care” is sponsored by Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc., Bassett Healthcare, Fox Care and Hartwick College.

September 2000

10 Years Ago

Cuyle Carvin, born and raised in Oneonta, has been making his way to television screens.

His latest appearance is a public service announcement titled “He Knows Safety” where he is admired by cartoon characters Olive Oyl and Betty Boop. Olive and Betty admire Carvin for wearing a life jacket.

The admiration and affection bestowed on Carvin by the ladies makes Bluto jealous.

“He Knows Safety” airs as part of an award-winning children’s cable television series “Drawing With Fred,” which can be viewed on YouTube.com. Carvin’s latest film, “Assault of the Sasquatch,” is scheduled for DVD release in October.

September 2010

Even Now, Is Enough Being Done?

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SUNY Oneonta seems to hose who do not learn from hishave relied on completely tory are doomed responsible behavior and to repeat it,” wrote self-reporting on the George Santayana. part of its students.

What about the It refused to allow recent history of an open letter to the spread of COthe entire college VID-19 and the atcommunity from Oneonta’s mayor to tempted reopening of colleges was so be distributed to the difficult for SUNY students; it included Oneonta to learn? warning them of How can you the consequences of RICHARD trust 6,000 adoviolating the law.

STERNBERG lescents and very When cases young adults to started popping up, do what is correct when set the mayor requested a meetfree after being cooped up at ing with the president of the home with their parents for college and was denied it.

At last count (Tuesday six months?

Why are we now having a health crisis locally, which was preventable, which will OTHER VOICES definitely cause long-term disability and perhaps cause the death of some community members?

How does one private college do so much better in he right’s dominance protecting its students and on Facebook, specificommunity then a public cally, is something to college in the same town, behold. Here are just a few given the public one has data points I pulled from more resources and certainly CrowdTangle this week: has more personnel to deal • The conservative comwith the problem? mentator Ben Shapiro has • gotten 56 million total Otsego County and the interactions on his Facebook City of Oneonta had been page in the last 30 days. doing so well in keeping That’s more than the main down the number of COVID pages of ABC News, NBC put many of Upstate’s fine private colleges 19 cases. Then students News, The New York Times, at a competitive disadvantage that will erode came back to town.

The Washington Post and Hartwick College came their effectiveness over time, maybe even NPR combined. (Data from up with a comprehensive their ability to exist. a different firm, NewsWhip, plan that effectively tracked showed that Mr. Shapiro’s Yes, Cornell, RPI, Colgate, Niagara, RIT, every single student and Hamiltion, Union and, yes, Hartwick, are alnews outlet, The Daily Wire, ready feeling the pinch. Earlier this year, sup- placed them in a bubble on was the No. 1 publisher on portive alumni pulled Aurora from the brink. campus.

Facebook in July.)

No student was to leave When we eventually get to the New • Facebook posts by campus. No living in outside Breitbart, the far-right news Normal, part of it should be a revisiting of Excelsior Program to ensure an equal play- housing. They required a outlet, have been shared four contract between school ing field. First, all students should have million times in the past 30 and the students on how the days, roughly three times as some skin in the game. Second, the state students would behave and Legislature should make sure tuition aid is many as posts from the ofequitably spread across the board, to SUNY were prepared to enforce it. ficial pages of every DemoThey made sure that there cratic member of the U.S. colleges and private institutions alike.

The SUNY Oneonta fiasco (227 cases at would be social distancing Senate combined. presstime) – and, fingers crossed, Hartwick between all students at all • The most-shared Facetimes. Hartwick has had one book post containing the College’s relative success to date (two positive case. cases) – underscore: e pluribus victoria.

Diversity Needed, Hartwick Effort Shows HARTWICK/From A4 stood that, if Hartwick didn’t get it right, there might be no Hartwick.

Within the SUNY system, there’s a different understanding: There will be hard times, there will be cuts, but the big bureaucracy will continue churning along. Thanks, taxpayers.

SUNY Oneonta had to get it sorta right.

Hartwick had to get it perfectly right.

What does this tell us?

Nationally, we need diversity among the states to come up with solutions. With COVID-19, we need a diversity of institutions of higher learning to ensure a diversity of solutions (and diversity of thought, for that matter, but that’s for another day.)

Excelsior Scholarships, the SUNY system’s free tuition for children of families with incomes of less than $125,000, have

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morning) we have 178 active cases in the city, most of them among students and contrary to what the students expected, a lot of them are getting sick.

Now that the case numbers are getting higher and the SUNY chancellor just came to the college to see for himself what is going on and speak to the administration, we are finally getting a response. Still the response seems to be relying too much on students doing the right thing.

• In my opinion, the following needs to be done.

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term “Black Lives Matter” over the past six months is a June video by the right-wing commentators The Hodgetwins, which calls the racial justice movement a “damn lie.” The second most-shared Black Lives Matter post? A different viral video from The Hodgetwins, this one calling the movement a “leftist lie.” (The Hodgetwins also have the 4th, 6th, and 12th most shared posts.)

• Terrence K. Williams, a conservative comedian and Trump supporter, has averaged 86,500 interactions per Facebook post in August, more than twice as many as Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, who has averaged 39,000 interactions per post. (Mr. Trump outdoes them both, naturally, with an average of 92,000 interactions per post.)

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DEAN: U.S. WHELAN: Retry Freddie Gray’s Case STERNBERG: Is It Time breaking Gray’s neck. with (Assistant Medical A4 Is A Problem WHELAN/From For Draconian Measures?

Examiner) Carol Allen and • victim and the timing of the

DEAN/From A4 machine-gunning local residents to death in the middle of their own towns and villages. Then simply driving away, with no effort to hide anything, because there was no one to do anything about it.

“Everyone knows what we bring” said one German soldier.

In exchange for the years of mass killings, the German people were promised a country of white people with blond hair. The master race.

What they received was the total destruction of their country by the Allied Forces, led by the president and the government of the United States of America.

For much of my life I saw the German people as a potentially violent and dangerous people.

At the same time, I was also very confident that we Americans were far different than the Germans and that nothing like that could ever happen in our country.

We were the heroes of the world, the good guys, the people the whole world looked up to for our ideals, our courage to defend the weak, the poor, the struggling.

I have now come to understand, 70 or so years later, that I was wrong. I was very wrong.

I can now see that some of the American people can also be slowly turned into a people who would turn on their neighbors, persecute them, and kill them with the support of their president, and some of their local law enforcement, and participate in the slow destruction of our noble experiment of human rights, individual freedom and self-rule.

Someone once referred to the “thin veneer of civilization”. I had always hoped that it was not true. That civilization was stronger, and deeper, and was constantly in the ascendant.

I am seeing now, in ordinary American people, who see themselves as good, God-fearing, hard-working people, and American patriots, slowly being turned into people who would turn a blind eye to, or fully participate in, the killing of their neighbors, who, they have been told by their deranged, power-hungry president, are inferior to them, or do not look like them, or do not believe in their God, or who are not carrying their own weight, or who are taking their jobs…

An extremely dangerous and homicidal president who only cares about himself, and who sees Americans dying, for any reason, as an inconsequential inconvenience not worth mentioning.

How do they expect all of this insanity to turn out if nothing changes?

I know how it is all going to turn out.

It took me 70 years to understand why.

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injury.

She therefore brought charges which, in greatest part, had to do with an event presumed to take place inside the van. And the media followed suit.

This error of construction was the determining factor in the acquittal of the four officers tried – Porter, Nero, Goodson and Rice – and of charges being dropped against the others.

It was a calamitous error.

• The argument about which stop Gray was injured at was irrelevant to begin with, as it had to be, given the misplaced charges based on the assumption that it had happened in the van. It was like disputing the number of angels that could fit onto the head of a pin.

What can be essentially taken away from these arguments is that there was no hard factual evidence to support any timing, only opinion, acknowledged speculation and misinformation.

• And what is perhaps the most notable of all: No one person, or persons, were ever actually charged with

All of this is to say that there is another, very largely unaddressed, area of ethical responsibility for individual physicians. That is the moral obligation to speak out, and to offer voluntary input, professional but unreimbursed, in individual and obvious cases.

• If, in the end, the crucible of justice in the courts failed Freddie, there was plenty of blame to go around.

The failure of the informed neurosurgical community to come forward individually and collectively deserves blame.

Mosby largely blamed the lack of independent investigation, the absence of community oversight into the inquiry, the police, and the judge, saying that she could have tried the case a hundred times with no different outcome.

She was entirely right with regard to the problem of police investigating police and their subordination of the prosecution investigations. Losing witness testimony, among other things, is not pretty.

But it is impossible not to assign her, along

(Chief Medical Examiner) David Fowler, a large part of the responsibility for the outcome.

Mosby herself, in tracking the misleading assessment of the autopsy report without close reading of its separation of opinion from medical evidence, was ultimately to blame.

Her charges were inappropriately conceived. She did not seek appropriate medical input before bringing them.

She failed to insist on an independent investigation.

And while (Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry) Williams could certainly be criticized for some of his decisions – most notably, on the seatbelting issue, but also in terms of his framing of the time of Goodson’s awareness of Grays condition – he was honorable, experienced and competent.

In ignoring the obvious video evidence and the testimony of eyewitnesses and by failing to charge the arresting officers specifically with homicide, Mosby must bear the major responsibility.

It didn’t happen in the van. The arresting officers broke his neck.

The case should be retried.

STERNBERG/From A5 Unfortunately, not acting earlier requires somewhat draconian measures now.

Any student not properly social distancing and wearing a mask or otherwise violating rules needs to be suspended immediately and, in the more extreme cases, expelled. Students who knows of a violation and does not report it must suffer consequences themselves.

(This is essentially the service academies’ Code of Honor).

Only students who are living on campus, where the environment can be controlled to any extent, should be allowed to attend classes in person. Some exceptions might be made for graduate students.

Campus police, city police, the county sheriff’s department, and state police now must aggressively enforce state and local laws and executive emergency orders.

No exception. No further warnings – 245 cases are warning enough (and by the time this is printed and read,

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Citizens notifying the police of violations need to have their identity protected to prevent retribution.

Aggressive testing has been started in the community and this will need to be continued.

A local law to mandate mask wearing everywhere in public needs to be implemented and enforced.

Does it also now need a sharp uptick in local fatalities to initiate further action?

Possibly this outbreak can be turned around with minimal damage to the health and welfare of the citizens of the City and County and a slowing of damage to the students. Only highly aggressive actions now are acceptable.

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‘It’s Like A Ghost Town’

With COVID Exploding, Students Got Message By Weekend 2

By LIBBY CUDMORE

In 23 years, OPD Lieutenant Witzenberg had never seen Main Street so deserted on a Saturday night.

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n 23 years with the Oneonta Police Department, Lt. Christopher J. Witzenburg had never seen a Saturday night like Aug. 29.

“It’s never been this quiet,” he said. “It’s a real departure from last weekend, where we just had a ton of house parties. It’s like a switch

flipped.”

With more than 200 students sickened with COVID-19 following “several large parties” last weekend, SUNY Oneonta issued threats of suspension and Mayor Gary Herzig had strong warnings to try and quell the outbreak.

The Red Jug, a popular pub with college students, was closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. There were no lines of Please See DESERTED, B3

REOPENED, Raj and Rohid Patel, Oneonta, browse the fresh fruit aisle in the remodeled ALDI, which reopened last week on Oneonta’s Southside after extensive renovations.

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ara Neer, Otego, will have plenty to brag about on her “ALDI Nerds” Facebook group – she spent Friday morning, Aug. 28, shopping at the newest store in the 80-store Tully region, on Oneonta’s Southside.

“I love it,” she said. “We had been going to Norwich, which is a schlep, but this is bigger and has more of a selection of vegan and

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vegetarian food, plus junk food for my teens. Pizza and tofu – that’s the ALDI experience!”

Closed since July, ALDI’s Southside redo is one of 25 planned makeovers this year in the region served by the Tully Distribution Center, increasing the store from four aisles to five and rearranging product locations based on new buying habits from their customers.

“There’s been an increased demand for fresh, healthy and organic products,” said Aaron LeFever, Cortland-based director Aaron LeFever, Cortland-based director of operations, Please See ALDI, B2 stands in the new fifth aisle at Oneonta’s ALDI, added in renovations.

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ydney Waller presents an exhibit on Lavern Kelley’s “Folk Art In Wood,” showing the wood carvings he made of tools and scenes of rural life. Free, reservations required. 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, Hanford Mills Musuem, 51 Co. Rt. 12, East Meredith. www.hanfordmills. org/folk-art-in-wood/ • LIBBY Enjoy first look at the CUDMORE Glimmerglass Festival’s ‘The Fairies’ a fantasia on Wagner’s ‘Die Feen’ portraying the forbidden romance of a mortal prince and a fairy princess. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

3, www.glimmerglass.org/events/glimpsefrom-the-diary-of-sally-hemings/.

• Opening day of the ‘Two Presidents, One Photographer’ exhibit, featuring more than 50 of Pete Souza’s photographs of Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican President Ronald Reagan.

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• CANO opens their first exhibit of the season with Lindsay France’s “Abandoned History,” Vernon Burnett’s “Trails From The Emerald Ash Borer,” and works by Gia Sabatani. Displayed through 9/13, by appointment only. 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

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Fans Flock To Bigger ALDI With More Fresh Offerings

ALDI/From B1 of operations, who was on site locally for the grand opening.

Vegetables, and meat: “We needed to increase refrigeration space. Now, we have 28

feet of shelving for meat, which we have a very high demand for,” he said, with 90 percent of the products store-brand.

“At 12,000 square feet, it’s much easier to navigate

than a big-box store,” added Tully Division Vice President Aaron Sumida, who joined LeFever.

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are now 17,000 ALDI stores in the U.S., plus thousands more in Germany, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Switzerland and Australia.

The company also owns Trader Joe’s.

Over the decades, ALDI has developed a fan base.

“We bought our house in West Virginia, in part, because it was close to an ALDI,” said Sophie Kurbin, an Oneonta native who had returned for the summer to visit her mother. “We have different products at our store, but I wanted to come here and see what they had that we didn’t.”

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The Oneonta store originally opened in June 1996.

“Since we reopened, a lot of our customers have been reuniting in the aisles,” said manager Kylee Hale. “This Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life community loves ALDI.” The renovated ALDI has New to the Oneonta store reopened on Southside is the refrigerated “On-theOneonta.

Go” section, right next to the entrance, which includes pre- Fleming said. “You go in for made salads, snack packs and eggs, and you come out with beverages. “We added this a dog bed!” for the shopper who wants to And although the expanded duck in on their lunch break aisles weren’t planned and pick up a healthy snack,” because of COVID-19, they said LeFever. make shoppers feel much “I love the fresh mango safer. slices,” said Hale. “You can’t “The aisles in the old store always find mango around were so close, you couldn’t here.” help but make contact with Fresh produce and bread people,” said Alsada Wilson, was moved to the front of Otego. “But now, two people the store, and an expanded can easily get through. That’s selection of dairy products important these days, with lines the back wall. the virus.”

“We expanded our cheese Though the pandemic offerings at Christmas and meant the store couldn’t host people were really excited,” a ribbon-cutting or openingsaid Hale. “Now we have day events that might draw more, and we’ll be bringing a crowd, Sumida said the in other new ones for the remodeling and expanholidays. I can’t wait to see sion was, in part, to help what we get.” customers stock their pantries “There are so many with good food at low prices. choices, I feel like I’m at ALDI is on track to Wegmans,” said Brenda becoming the third largest Fleming, Oneonta. “I need a U.S. grocery retailer by store map to find everything!” count by the end of 2022, and Also expanded is what “we’ve actually accelerated ALDI fans call the “Aisle of some of our growth to better Shame,” which the company serve customers during the calls ALDI Finds, a twopandemic,” Sumida said. “We week rotating assortment of are continuing to monitor the home goods, toys, tools and COVID-19 situation and are seasonal items. doing everything we can to “We call it that because support as many customers as there’s always new stuff,” possible.”

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Weekend One, Busy; Weekend Two, ‘Like A Ghost Town’

DESERTED/From B1 waiting customers outside other bars on Main and Water streets.

According to Police Chief Doug Brenner, two

Students ticketed are then referred to the college’s disciplinary system. So far five students have been placed on an interim suspension and three organizations have been suspended for the remainder of the academic year.

“The college has been taking swift action on suspending Lieutenant Witzenburg patrols the students who not-too-mean streets of Oneonta. host these parties,” said Brenner. “I think by tickets were issued for Saturday, the word had noise complaints on Friday gotten around and tempered evening Aug. 28. “They a lot of the student activity.” seemed surprised when we On Saturday, the few showed up,” he said.

“We show up, ask people students who were downtown, Witzenburg noted, politely to leave and then were mostly masked. refer them to the college,” “It’s a ghost town,” said said Witzenburg. “We’re Mayor Gary Herzig. trying to do things differHerzig himself has been ently, but still hold people observing the streets since accountable.”

Weekend One, and found himself in a minor altercation when he came upon a group of young men, “acting rowdy.”

“They were not wearing masks,” said Herzig. “But they all split when they saw the cops pull up.”

City Hall’s “tip line” – established to report large gatherings and unmasked revelers – kept Witzenburg busy, following complaints of house parties throughout Center City.

There were less there than expected.

At one, five of the six people who were, as the call reported, throwing a “large party,” lived in the house.

The sixth was a boyfriend of one of the residents.

At another, where loud music could be heard through the window, Witzenburg observed three people playing beer pong in the living room.

“Every single one of the calls was unfounded,” he said. “We showed up to

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He drove past a house with a “Happy Hour” sign lit up in the window. There were colored party lights on, but he couldn’t see anyone inside.

“I keep saying it,” he said. “But it really is surreal.”

Crankshaw Leaves ‘Guaranteed Curriculum’ CRANKSHAWFrom A1 In third grade, Mrs. Ramsay enrolled him in every spelling bee.

One semester, the future Cooperstown Central School superintendent received 12 A’s. His dad, George, who spent his 42-year career at the Johnstown Knitting Mill, would give him 25 cents for each A – quite a cache for a 9-year-old.

It was in Johnstown schools that young Bill – his family has been in Montgomery County since the American Revolution, and he would become the first Crankshaw to get a college degree – developed a love of music.

“I played everything I could get my hands on,” he said.

After obtaining a music degree at Ithaca College – he focused on saxophone and vocal skills – and a master’s from St. Rose, he taught music for 14 happy years at Glebe Street Elementary.

He moved to Northville as elementary principal (2009) and Remsen as superintendent (2013) before arriving at CCS on Jan. 1, 2017, succeeding C.J. Herbert, who had died in an ATV accident the previous March.

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“I think you’d be a perfect fit,” Ziskin told Crankshaw.

“The name ‘Johnstown’ is the only school district I would have replied to,” said Crankshaw in a Monday, Aug. 31, interview, three days after the news of his departure broke.

He was offered the job in 2-3 weeks.

Here, finding a successor may be a little more complicated, said school board President Tim Hayes: ONC BOCES Superintendent Nick Savin, who will lead the search, is retiring, and will also be occupied with “his own transition.”

With Crankshaw expecting to start his next job “Dec. 1 or sooner,” the first step will be find an interim superintendent “who wants to take on the responsibility at this unprecedented time.”

When Crankshaw was hired, “we had a good amount of applications.” But with economic uncertainty, New York State’s requirements and COVID-19, “I can’t even begin to predict what the applicant pool will look like,” Hayes said.

The school board planned to begin that discussion when it met at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2.

He added, “I’m very pleased to have two principals in place, after a significant amount of turnover, who are really working hard to make sure our school is moving in the direction we need to, pandemic or not.”

For his part, Hayes said, Crankshaw is leaving two strong principals in place: Ann Meccariello, promoted from elementary- to highschool principal in March; and Morrisville-Eaton High School Principal Tracy Durkee, a nationally certified fellow of the Common Core Institute, hired in May as elementary principal.

In addition to the hometown draw, Crankshaw said he is looking forward to tackling the Johnstown district’s financial challenges.

His strategy, he said, is to determine “what education means in the community

and how we’re going to pay for it.” CCS – the state’s COVID-related 20-percent cut in aid, $1 million, will accelerate that conversation – is going to have to answer the same question, but less urgently, he said.

During his four-year tenure, Crankshaw said he’s most proud of the creation of “a guaranteed and viable curriculum: We can tell you, every week, what’s being taught in K-12.”

He found a good staff in place, he said, but in the past four years, through “robust recruitment” of 30-some teachers, “we’ve attracted some amazing educators.”

Another necessary step, he said, was increasing the counseling department from 3½ positions to five, ensuring a full-time social worker at both the elementary and high schools. “We recognized the level of need,” he said.

After seven years of seeing each other on weekends, Crankshaw said he’s also looking forward to being reunited with his spouse, Wally Hart, Lexington Foundation executive director. The couple bought an Otsego Lake-side property in Hickory Grove, but maintained a home base in Gloversville, part of the Johnstown district.

As he contemplates his next step, the 30-year educator had an experience Sunday evening that confirmed his vocation.

He was invited to a private recital at Hyde Hall, organized by Rickey Calleo and Faith Carmichael, that featured Vicente Nunez, a Crankshaw pupil from Glebe Street.

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The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it to: The LLC, 147 River Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF Maria P. Dingman, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Hale E. Dingman, Petitioner, ~ against~ John Doe et al., and any persons or entities found to have an interest in the property subject to this action but not yet named.

Respondent( s).

Petitioner, by her attorney Donovan Laughlin and Laughlin, LLC, Dennis B. Laughlin, Esquire, respectfully shows, upon information and belief: 1. That she is the Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Hale E. Dingman, her late Husband.

2. Hale E. Dingman passed away on 7 July 2018. On 19 October 2018, Letters Testamentary were duly issued to Maria P. Dingman, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Hale E. Dingman by the State of New York Montgomery County Surrogate’s Court. A true copy of the Letters Testamentary are annexed hereto and made a pait hereof as Exhibit “A.” Property I 3. That since the 30th day of December 1994, Hale E. Dingman has been the owner in fee and in actual possession of the following described real property situate in the County of Otsego, State of New York, claiming under the Deed hereinafter mentioned: All that tract or parcel of land lying and situate in the Town of Cherry Valley, County of Otsego and State of New York more particularly designated as follows: Tax Map Parcel Number Location 18.03-1-25.00 County Highway 31 30.00-1-9.01 County Highway 32A 30.00-1-9.02 Salt Springville Road 4. That on the said 30th day of December 1994, the above described real property was

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conveyed to Hale E. Dingman by Deed in Otsego County.

duly recorded in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk in Liber 1018 of Deeds at Page 325 as Instrument Number 17359. A duly certified copy of said Quit Claim Deed is annexed hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit “C.”

5. That on the 26th day of January 1995, said Deed was duly recorded in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk in Liber 778 of Deeds at Page 772. A duly certified copy of said Deed is annexed hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit “B.” 6. That said conveyance was made in fee simple between Marion I. Dingman and Hale E. Dingman. Marion I. Dingman was the mother of Hale E. Dingman.

7. That both parties in the above mentioned conveyance are deceased, the said Marion I. Dingman having died in the County of Montgomery, State of New York on 28 April 2010, and the said Hale E. Dingman having died in the County of Montgomery, State of New York on 7 July 2018.

8. That there are no liens or incumbrances which now exist on said real property.

9. Petitioner has had exclusive, complete, actual, open, notorious, and continuous undisputed possession of the property since 30 December 1994.

10. That no persons other than Hale E. Dingman and the Petitioner have been in actual possession of said real property during the past ten (10) years claiming title as owners in fee.

11. That no persons, other than Hale E. Dingman and the Petitioner, have in the past ten (10) years made any claim as to title as owners in fee.

Property II 12. That since the 16th day of September 2003, Hale E. Dingman has been the owner in fee and in actual possession of the following described real property situate in the County of Otsego, State of New York, claiming under the Quit Claim Deed hereinafter mentioned: “All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Cherry Valley, County of Otsego and State of New York, described as Vacant Land, 2.86 acres, *Co. Hwy. 32A, Tax Map Number 30.00-1-26.00, formerly assessed to Roy and Joyce Tyler.”

13. That on the said 16th day of September 2003, the above described real property was conveyed to Hale E. Dingman

by Quit Claim Deed in Otsego County.

14. That on the 22nd day of September 2003, said Quit Claim Deed was

15. That said conveyance was made in fee simple between the County of Otsego, a municipal corporation of the State of New York having it’s office and principal place of business located in the Village of Cooperstown, New York, and Hale E. Dingman.

16. That one party in the above mentioned conveyance is deceased, the said Hale E. Dingman having died in the County of Montgomery, State of New York on 7 July 2018.

17. That there are no liens or incumbrances which now exist on said real property.

18. Petitioner has had exclusive, complete, actual, open, notorious, and continuous undisputed possession of the property since 16 September 2003.

19. That no persons, other than Hale E. Dingman and the Petitioner, have been in actual possession of said real property during the past ten (10) years claiming title as owners in fee.

20. That no persons, other than Hale E. Dingman and the Petitioner, have in the past ten (10) years made any claim as to title as owners in fee.

21. That no previous application has been made for the relief prayed for herein.

WHEREFORE, the Petitioner prays for an order declaring that the title of Hale E. Dingman to the above described real properties has been judicially established, and granting such other and further relief as the Court may seem just and proper.

Dated: 10 August 2020 Attorney signature pursuant to Sec. 130-1.1-a of the Rules of the Chief Administrator (22 NYCRR) Dennis B. Laughlin, Esquire Donovan Laughlin and Laughlin, LLC Dennis B. Laughlin, Esquire, of counsel Attorney for Petitioner Digitally signed by Dennis B. Laughlin, Esquire Date: 2020.08.10 23:45:36 -04’00’ Donovan Laughlin and Laughlin, LLC Dennis B. Laughlin, Esquire, of counsel 15 South Main Street, Suite 103 Oneonta, New York

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: SPRINGMEADOWS FARMS LLC. Certificate of Conversion filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 4 August 2020.

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 307, 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: EDITH’S ESTATE LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 11 August 2020.

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 46, West Oneonta, NY 13861.

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

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Notice of Formation of Patriot APS, LLC Filed w/ SSNY 8/10/20.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail to 5001 St Hwy 23 Suite 3-148, Oneonta NY 13820.

Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF J&R PROPERTIES OF WORCESTER, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/1/20.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Kehoe & Merzig, PC, 8-12

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Dietz St., Ste. 202, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Principal business location: 27 Solar Bluff, Worcester, NY 12197.

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failure to appear or Answer thereto, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may Answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

Rd Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT Gary W. McCoy a/k/a Gary McCoy Nature of this action: foreclosure action involving real property commonly known as 2900 State Highway 80, Burlington Flats, New York seeking a judgment of foreclosure and sale for the amount due and owing to the Plaintiff, NBT Bank, National Association, under the Note and Mortgage with a current principal balance of Nineteen Thousand One Hundred Ninety Three and 53/100 Dollars ($19,193.53) together with interest, late fees and other charges.

AMENDED SUMMONS Index No.: EF2020-34 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF OTSEGO NBT BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -againstGARY W. McCOY a/k/a GARY McCOY; ELIZABETH McCOY; ELIZABETH V. ROONEY; ERIE MATERIALS INC.; ALLIED BUILDING PRODUCTS; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A.; VELOCITY INVESTMENTS, INC; CAVALRY SPV I, LLC; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, said Individuals being fictitious and intended as possible occupants of the premises which are the subject matter of this action, and whose identity is unknown, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or if the service of the Summons is made by any means other than by personal delivery to you within the State of New York, within thirty (30) days after such service is complete.

In case of your

Otsego County is designated as the place of trial, the basis of venue in this action is the location of the mortgaged premises.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT, GARY W. McCOY a/k/a GARY McCOY Dated: January 13, 2020 Clifton Park, New York BURGESS & ASSOCIATES P.C. Melissa H. Pugliese, Esq. Attorneys for plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 646 Plank Road, Suite 103 Clifton Park, New York 12065 (51 8) 371 -0052 4LegalSept.10 Legal nOtice

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF RADICALLY ALIGNED LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/27/20.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 238 Percy Holmes

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Notice of Formation of the Local Gal, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/11/20.

Office location: Otsego.

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

SSNY should mail process to 56 Center St, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 2229 County Highway LLC filed w/ SSNY 7/29/20.

Off. in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served & shall mail process to the LLC, 1945 County Hwy. 22, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Arnold Lake, LLC .

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

Office location: Otsego County.

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

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: HOTEL PRATT LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 17 June 2020.

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 50 Pioneer St, 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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Properties, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/20.

Off. loc.: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail 33 Ford Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purp.: any lawful.

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Notice of Formation of GREULICH REALTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/23/2020. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Jeff Greulich, 9 Roaring Rock Rd., Washington, NJ 07882.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Principal business location: 40 Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY 13849.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: PRIME’S OUTDOOR POWER LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 July 2020.

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 5715 US Hwy 20, East Springfield, NY 13333.

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: SPRINGFIELD CAMPGROUND LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 July 2020.

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 7761 State Highway 80, Springfield Center, NY 13468.

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

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SUNY Counterattacks COVID As Toll Is Rising Toward 300

IN MEMORIAM

Dr. Paula Holleran, 82 ONEONTA – Dr. Paula Holleran, 82, of Oneonta and Sarasota, Fla., passed away on Aug. 25, 2020, while surrounded by her family.

The SUNY Oneonta professor emeritus fought a difficult 16-month battle with a bone marrow disorder which progressed into Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Born on Nov. 7, 1937, in Brooklyn, to Angelo and Jean Rizzo, Paula spent a happy childhood playing stoop ball and stick ball with her neighborhood friends and beloved pink Spauldine ball. She loved her roller skates and Columbia bicycle and never parted with either.

Paula went to Bay Ridge High School in Brooklyn where she served as the president of the school. She attended Brooklyn College and graduated with honors in English, and then headed to the University of Connecticut to complete a

Nov. 7, 1937 - Aug. 25, 2020

master’s degree. Later, she states and traveled extenwent on to earn a Ph.D. at the sively throughout Europe, University of Massachusetts.

Canada, South and Central In 1964, she joined the fac- America, Russia, and Africa. ulty at SUNY Oneonta where Her favorite trips were to Italy, she taught psychology for the especially Sicily. She was very next three decades. proud of her Italian She thoroughly heritage, and as an enjoyed teaching and adult became nearconducting research. fluent in the Italian She authored and language, which she co-authored several loved speaking at papers and publicaevery opportunity. tions, and also served She also loved as department chair. sports and the outShe retired in 1995. doors: hiking, canoeIn 1969, she met ing, kayaking, skiing, Dr. Brian Holleran, golf, biking and Dr. Paula also on the SUNY above all, tennis, her Holleran Oneonta faculty. favorite lifelong activThey were married in ity, which she played 1970 and later became the several times a week until last loving and proud parents of year. Paula also loved many Tracy and Brett. On Aug. 22, other activities including they celebrated their 50th reading, painting, and writing. anniversary.

She was a member of several Paula loved adventure and book clubs, bridge and Mahspent over 60 years traveling jong groups, both in Oneonta the world. She visited all 50 and her second beloved home

IN MEMORIAM

of Sarasota.

Paula is survived by her loving husband, Brian; her two children and their spouses, Tracy (Steve Mattus) of Fairfield, Conn., and Brett (Mica) Holleran of Oneonta, and four grandchildren, who were the lights of her life; Hayden Mattus, Campbell Mattus, Brett Holleran Jr., and Bella Holleran.

Due to the current COVID19 restrictions, funeral arrangements will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Paula’s honor to Helios Care (Catskill Area Hospice) helioscare.org/ donate or St. Mary’s Catholic Church, stmarysoneonta. weshareonline.org/ Expressions of sympathy may be shared on, www. lhpfuneralhome.com, the website of Oneonta’s only family owned funeral home, Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono at 51 Dietz St.

BARBARA JEAN MORRIS SUNY Oneonta president

On Tuesday, Aug. 25, the first two students, living off-campus, tested positive after attending one of – in SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras’ words – “several John’s agile mind could large parties” blamed on create a solution to any three athletic teams. challenge a building job “We had a super-spreader presented. He practiced his event last weekend with craft with pride and a work three athletic teams who ethic that was envied by all. invited first-year students to John is survived by his a party, then those students loving fiancée, Melanie came back to campus,” Renner; daughters, Jennifer SUNY Oneonta president R. Timer and Chrystal L. Barbara Jean Morris told the Timer; five siblings, Albert “Oneonta Control Group” Timer Jr. (Lee), Marilyn – a town-gown assembly Garman (Gary Wickham), – at its first meeting Betty Burgess (Les), Monday, Aug. 31.

Maryanne Timer (Mark

By Sunday, Aug. 30, Packer) and Jim Timer those cases had topped 105 (Kim).

– up from 14 on Friday, John is also survived by prompting Malatras to move nephews, Zachary Dobler, his scheduled Monday Joshua Timer (Katie) and meeting up a day, citing Travis Timer (fiancée, the school as the “worst Emily). John loved his outbreak in the 64 SUNY grand-nieces, Kinze Timer school system.” and Kasten Timer.

“This is an all-handsServices will be held on-deck situation,” he told privately at the convenience a press conference on the of his family. quad in front of Chase Gym, Arrangements are where undergrads were lined entrusted to the Johnston & up for testing.

Stanimer Funeral Home.

The school ordered 3,000 rapid-tests for staff and students, who could take the test or face suspension.

Meanwhile, the three dorms were being evacuated by 5 p.m. Tuesday to house those husband, who tested positive.

Nicholas, It was off-campus was diagstudents who were being nosed with sent to the Marriott or asked Parkinson’s to go home.

Disease, The county Department of she again Health is doing a daily video fought on check-in with quarantined to remain students, and Oneonta police Lorraine by his side are doing random drive-bys Dono and care for to make sure quarantined him. After students are home. the summer of 2018, when A week after the first two Nicholas passed away and students tested positive, when her brain tumor came the cases neared 300. “We out of remission, Lorraine expect there will be over bravely decided to forego 300 positive by the end of further treatment and to live the week,” said Mayor Gary out the remainder of her life Herizg, or perhaps as soon on her own terms. as Wednesday.

Let it not be said that she • lost her battle with cancer, “We are now asking all but rather with love and students to refrain from tenacity, she fought past her interacting with SUNY 2011 prognosis of only three students.” to six months to live, to MARGARET L. DRUGOVICH witness the birth of her fifth Hartwick College president grandchild and continued to live life another nine years.

Meanwhile, at Hartwick Lorraine is survived by College, only two students her sister, Elaine Veneziano; have tested positive, but sons, Richard (Deborah) President Margaret L. and Jonathan (Mary Ellen); Drugovich Tuesday took grandchildren, Gregg, classes remote for two Matthew, Anya, Jamie weeks as a precautionary and Beckett; and, as she measure. would call them, her “bonus “We want to take every grandchildren,” Jourdan step that we can now to (Jillian) and Zachary and stop possible further spread her “bonus great-grandof the virus,” she wrote to child,” Aurelia. students and staff. “Our She will be dearly missed campus-based testing and fondly remembered. protocol (every two weeks In lieu of flowers, donauntil Nov. 20) will continue. tions may be made to Super If you have any concerns Heroes in Ripped Jeans pet about your health or potenshelter, 697 Winney Hill tial exposure, I encourage Road, Oneonta, NY, superyou to also take advantage heroesirj.org. of the rapid-testing sites Arrangements are that have been established entrusted to the Bookhout

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anything. He loved tractor pulls, winning several meets, ultimately winning the New York State Tractor Pullers Association Championship in the Modified Class in 2003.

John loved anything to do with tractors, trucks, pulling and racing. He enjoyed truck pulls, tractor pulls and demolition derbies, and supporting family and friends as they competed, while also enjoying any chance he had to be behind the wheel. John loved snowmobiling and helped maintain and groom many trails.

He was a lover of practical jokes.

John’s skills in building and carpentry were second to none. He proudly owned his own building company, John R. Timer Carpentry, building hundreds of barns, farm structures and homes with attention to excellent craftsmanship and detail.

Lorraine Dono, 79, Oneonta; Lived 9 Years Past Prognosis ONEONTA – Lorraine Dono, 79, who helped her husband through chronic illness and lived nine years past her own cancer prognosis, passed away Aug. 21, 2020.

Lorraine was born on Aug. 6, 1942, to Thomas and Nancy Russo of Brooklyn.

It was in middle school that Lorraine first met Nicholas and their friendship soon blossomed into love. Upon Nicholas’ graduation from Fordham University, they were wed in 1962 and, despite misgivings from their families, left all that they had known in Brooklyn to start their family in rural Dutchess County.

Lorraine was a loving partner to Nicholas, a fierce advocate of her children and a fantastic and generous grandmother. She was famed for her craftswomanship, sewing and artistry and her Christmas cookies were the stuff of legends.

When her beloved

COVID/From A1 Three dorms with 137student capacity were being prepared for quarantines and isolations, but it was feared that wasn’t enough.

More rooms had been rented for that purpose at the Courtyard by Marriott on Southside.

Governor Cuomo’s virustesting SWAT team was in the city, setting up sites at Foothills, the Armory and St. James Episcopal Church.

Testing is 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

All Greater Oneonta residents are being urged to participate. To make an appointment, call 833-6978764 (NYSTRNG).

“We are very serious about containing this virus,” said MacLeod.

• “Obviously this came on fast and hard.”

Students were required to show a negative COVID test before they arrived on campus last week, and those who traveled from “high risk” states were still placed in quarantine as a precaution.

But after the SUNY outbreak, Drugovich told the Control Room that 38 students were placed in quarantine after they were found to have had contact with a SUNY Oneonta student.

“We asked students to come forward if they or their roommate had contact,” she said. “And we are now asking all students to refrain from interacting with SUNY students.”

Additionally, 36 other students remain in statemandated quarantine after coming to campus from “high-risk” states.

Three students, Drugovich said, were suspended for throwing a party off-campus.

“They broke the rules of the social contract,” she said. “They have been put on administrative leave and were not allowed to enroll in their fall classes.”

Hartwick students are required to do daily self check-ins and undergo COVID testing every other week, and although 75 percent of classes are held in-person, they are hybrid and socially distanced.

“It’s working very well and it is very reassuring,” said Julian Kovacs, a Hartwick student. “I know that when I leave my dorm, I’m safe and the people around me are safe.”

• “Until we have those results, we don’t know the extent of spread.”

MAYOR GARY HERZIG

Since the start of the SUNY outbreak, three people in the Oneonta community have tested positive for COVID-19, according to county Public Health Director Heidi Bond.

Assisting the SWAT team, Bond’s staff will deploy 71 contact tracers and eight case investigators.

“Anyone who thinks they may have had contact or aren’t feeling well, for their health, everyone else’s, get tested,” said Herzig.

More than that, he said, the testing will give the city information on whether or not the outbreak has spread from the college into the community.

“Until we have those results, we don’t know the extent of the spread,” he said. “Right now, we have no reason to believe this has spread. We do believe we have caught this in time.

Shutting down the college is going to allow us to stop the spread, but the widespread testing will allow us to confirm.”

Herzig said he has scheduled his own test.

“If we find there has been very little transmission, we’ll all breathe that sigh of relief and that we can continue to reopen and move forward without concern,” he said. “But if we see there has been spread, we have to work closely with DOH to determine if we have to have restrictions.”

Presently, Cuomo had no plans to visit the college, he did have words for the students who violated the SUNY’s COVID Code of Conduct.

“You wanted to party, now you have to stay in your dorm room,” he said.

And he had a warning for any other college students across the state who might be willing to risk it all for a night on the town. “When you get suspended, you can explain that when you get home,” he said. “You can party with your parents.”

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