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Oneonta, N.Y., Thursday, September 5, 2019 IN COOPERSTOWN

Food Pantry Director To Plead, Repay $18K

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After Burglary Spree, District Attorney Says 29-Year-Old Charged Fashion Models Bilked CHERRY VALLEY

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t least three burglaries over the past week have been solved with the arrest of an Oneonta man.

Kyle A. Ives, 29, was charged in Ives a series of break-ins – two homes and vehicle – in Center City. “With one arrest, we were able to solve three cases,” Please See IVES, B6

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ictoria Pressly’s agency promised models and actors all over the country she could get them into magazines and onto the red carpet, said Otsego County District Attorney John Muehl.

Pressly But it wasn’t always so, he said.

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Canadian Corporation Growing Hemp Locally

County Energy Task Force Due To Meet As One

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tsego County’s Energy Task Force’s subcommittees were scheduled to meet as one at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, in the Oneonta Town Hall.

The task force was appointed in January after the Otsego County Chamber’s all-day energy summit at The Otesaga, and are aiming to prepare an optimum plan for the county’s energy future by the end of 2020.

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►uber cars in Philadelphia will be covered with a “wrap” with “Come to Cooperstown” messages, Destination Marketing of Otsego County’s latest idea to attract visitors. ►INCOMPLETE CONSTRUCTION caused Oneonta City School to delay start of the 2019-20 school year until next Tuesday. ►BASKIN ROBBINS and Dunkin’ Donuts are planning a cobranded outlet at Main and Walnut in Cooperstown. ►smu’s dataarts annual survey has named Oneonta and Otsego County the eighth most vibrant arts community in the nation. ►Congressman delgado spent two hours with Opportunities for Otsego officials this week and found what he heard “illuminating.”

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he Cooperstown Food Pantry will get back the $18,000 stolen by its former director as part of Antoine Bourbon-Parme’s guilty plea, according to District AtBourbontorney John Muehl.

Parme “He’s never been convicted of a crime and he’s making a payment up front,” said Please See PANTRY, B6

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Kasia Swift and daughter Madilyn say hello to Bob, a sulcata tortoise from the Utica Zoomobile as he munched his way around the Balloon Fest grounds in Neahwa Park on Saturday, Aug. 31/MORE PHOTOS, A3

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he buzz from hemp is an economic one and Otsego County is starting to get it Last spring, the Canadian cannabis company, Canopy ►HEMP HAVEN Growth, bought Stitzel’s WaWaterpoint terpoint Farm, Farm which closed its Springfield AD H RO dairy operations Center SMIT in 2017, and this 80 fall will harvest k E ree UT nC O its first hemp yde R Ha crop – 300 acres’ worth – in mid-October.

The hemp will be dried and milled at the farm, then sent off-site to be processed for its cannabinoid or CBD oil – the nonJennifer Hill/HOMETOWN ONEONTA hallucinogenic chemical used for numerous medical conditions and ailments Branson Skinner, Canopy Growth’s farm manager for New York State, examines the hemp

Please See HEMP, A7 crop at Waterpoint Farm on Smith Road, Springfield Center, the former Stitzel dairy farm.

FIRST RETREAT HELD LAST WEEKEND

Artists From Antarctica Drawn To Laurens Hills

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usician Henry Kaiser had never met Cheryl Leonard before, but they both knew they had more than music in common.

Both had been part of the National Science Founda-

tion’s Antarctic Artist & Writers program, which invites artists to the seventh continent to work with scientists, usShaffer ing what they see, hear and experience as material in their artwork.

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Conductor Candidate #1 Is Here Silas Huff Rehearsing With CSO; ‘Firebird’ Planned This Weekend

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rom the time he was seven, Silas Nathaniel Huff knew he was going to be in music.

“I was a guitarist, so I thought I was going to be a rock star,” he said. “Then I got into college and discovered classical music.

I thought I’d be the next John Williams.”

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Silas Huff conducts the CSO in a performance of “The Firebird” Tuesday, Sept. 3, in SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.

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Antarctic Artists At Retreat In Laurens

RETREAT/From A1 “She said she used animal bones and rocks to make music,” said Kaiser. “I’m recording a composition with Weddell Seal sounds, and I found a skull for her to play on my piece.”

“I love the wilderness and using natural objectS as instruments,” said Leonard.

“And Antarctica is some of the last wilderness we really have.”

The two met during the Reunion of Antarctic Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Artists & Writers, a retreat Gerald and Stephanie Raymonda, Oneonta, cross put together

by Elaine the finish line at the second annyal Rothenberger Road To Recovery 10K finish line with their dogs Hood – known as the “den mother” of the Antarctic on Saturday, Aug. 31 in Neahwa Park. artists – and hosted at Karen Shafer’s arts incubator, Aunt Karen’s Farm, in the hills outside Laurens.

The retreat, over this ONEONTA winter coat raises a child’s past weekend, drew a self-esteem by giving them dozen artists from across he Oneonta Rotary something new that is their the United States and as far Club will once again own,” said Chad Smith, co- away as Germany. “How auction off $500 chair of the Operation Warm many people have been to worth of scratch-off lottery committee and Rotary past Antarctica?” said Shafer. tickets to raise funds for president.

“We’ve only been going their Operation Warm drive, Tickets will be available there for a little over 100 which provides new winter on Saturday, Sept. 7, during years. It’s a small group, coats to children in need. the Grand and Glorious but they’ve all shared this “The gift of a new Garage Sale, Main St.. adventure.”

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Photographer and sculptor Helen Glazer shows the catalogue from her traveling exhibit “Walking in Antarctica,” during the first Retreat of Antarctica Artists and Writers, held over Labor Day weekend at Karen Shaffer’s retreat.

And Shafer, who retired as a funding compliance officer at Lincoln Center in 2011, is no stranger to Antarctica. “I knew someone who had worked there, and I thought to myself, ‘One day, I am going to do that.’”

When she retired in 2011, she drove truck across the ice shelf for two years.

“They called me ‘Shuttle Shafer,’” she said. “I drove this big truck, and when it was time to get in, they’d all come out and watch me climb up into it!”

In 1988, she bought a farmhouse here, and over time, bought the houses around it. She eventually turned the campus – it includes four houses – into an artist’s retreat.

She knew Elaine from her time in Antarctica, and they worked with composer Glenn McClure to invite the artists to the retreat, marking the first gathering of its kind.

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about who the other alumni were,” said Shafer.

“Since I had been there, I thought my farm would be an appropriate place to host the first As “Shuttle Shaffer,” Karen Shaffer gathering.” drove trucks across the Antarctic ice The shelf for two seasons. gathering getting killed.” included He said that he adapted composers, photographers, quickly to the frigid condisculptors, textile artists and tions. “The only time I was writers. “To get into the cold was when I was out on program, an artist has to the snowmobile and I got propose an agenda,” said windburn on my face,” he “Ghetto Cowboy” author said.

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Greg Neri. “I had a broad Other than that, you can agenda, making science adapt quickly.” accessible to inner city Sculptor Helen Glazer, kids, so I was allowed to who photographed icebergs, go around with a couple different teams. The mission glaciers and ice caves, 3D prints her imagery and is to do the research you recently finished an exhibit need to do your art, without at the Baltimore-Washington International terminal, will give a talk about her work at Colgate University in October. “I was interested in ice, how wind and water shaped the landscape,” she said. “And Antarctica was the best place to see it!”

Shaffer is hoping to make the gathering an annual event. “I didn’t want anyone to produce any new work,” said Shafer. “This was about sharing what they did in Antarctica and Remodeling | Flooring | Painting | Decking to begin to think about Siding | Pavers | Retaining Walls how we can expand the Driveways | Plant Design | Excavation conversation.”

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Oneonta’s Mark Spaziani and Fran Colone of The Roundhouse Rockers, get the crowd on its feet at Susquehanna Balloon Fest on Saturday, Aug. 31.

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Kolby Polomcean, Otego, sets upright an upside-down Cooper Reed, Mohawk, inside one of the inflatable Battle Balls, one of many inflatable attractions from New York Bounce House.

Faith Tiemann, above photo, Oneonta, knows ‘We’re Onta Something” at Balloon Fest!

Aboard the Wild Ride, a hot air balloon sponsored by Five Star Subaru, Dave Markowitz, Town of Maryland, and Ben Wagoner, Bristol, illuminate the balloon while surrounded by crew members Stephanie Douglas, Gofftown, Michael Butler, Cooperstown, Nick Scherer, Schenevus, and Beth McGown, Cooperstown, during the balloon glow on Friday, Aug. 30, at the Susquehanna Balloon Festival in Neahwa Park.

And at left, Payton Wheeler, Oneonta, takes her turn on the climbing wall under the supervision of Tony Sanders, New Lisbon.

Meanwhile In Cooperstown, 2 Art Fests On 2 Lawns In 2 Days Kathy Lloyd, Cooperstown, browses through prints at the annual Fine Arts On The Lawn Sunday, Sept. 1, at the Cooperstown Art Association.

In the background is Cooperstown’s mayor, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch.

Tenor sax player Brian Madden, Morris, top photo, jams along with bass player Rich Mollin, Davenport, and other members of the Neo Trio Marcel Smith, which added music to the ambiance at the Cooperstown Artisan Festival Saturday, Aug. 31. At left, Sophie Richardson, Oneonta, buys flowers from Terry Wnuk, who was minding the Garden Mentor booth for his wife Janice.

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hat? In a United States that some insist on characterizing as a burning dumpster, can there be good news?

Well, here it is: Oneonta, as Otsego County’s “urban core,” has been ranked the eighth mostvibrant small community in America in Southern Methodist University’s fifth annual Arts Vibrancy Index Report.

According to the Census Bureau’s American Factfinder, there are 16,360 towns in the U.S. Not all of them, of course, are “small communities.” Still, eighth puts Oneonta and Otsego County in a very elite sliver of artsoriented locales The Freeman’s Journal And, of course it is.

Former Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller presides over an Art It is home to the Catskill Summit he called in January 2011 to explore how to orgaSymphony Orchestra, which thrives nize arts organizations and optimize the economic benefit while such cities as Honolulu, of the sector’s energy to benefit the community at large.

Syracuse and Albuquerque have

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ather than base the list on popular vote or on our own opinion about locations, we take an empirical approach to assessing a variety of characteristics that make up a community’s arts vibrancy. Our method involves measuring community traits, such as the number of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations per capita. Although this may appear to some like a counting exercise, there is more to it. All else being equal, more arts and cultural organizations in a community translates to more availability of arts experiences for people to engage within that community. It also means more variety. A community with 50 arts organizations most likely has a greater range of options than a community of comparable size with only five organizations, so a greater diversity of interests, preferences, and cultural expressions can be met. This is just one example of the 12 measures we use.

From Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities in America (2019)

lost their orchestras. Shock of shocks, even one of the nation’s “Big Five,” the Philadelphia Orchestra, went through

Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011.

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At the Aug. 26 Cooperstown Village Board meeting, Trustee MacGuire Benton, ad hoc Vexillology Committee chair, says, “If they (members of the public) have a specific flag they want to fly and they feel passionately about it, they should run for this office.” Trustee Joe Membrino, left, objected, saying there should be some way to allow public input.

Editor’s Note: Here is the text of the flag policy approved by the Cooperstown village trustees on Aug. 26, when the decision to fly the Pride Flag from the flagpole at Main and Pioneer was also affirmed. Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh advised the trustees can approve flying any flag they wish; but if they then reject a request to say, fly the Stars & Bars, that decision would not be defensible in New York State courts. ►Section 1: The Village of Cooperstown hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. On July 22, 2019, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown directed that the Pride, or Rainbow, Flag be displayed on the flagpole at Pioneer and Main Streets annually throughout the month of

June to commemorate LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

B. It is desirable that a flag policy regarding the display of commemorative flags be incorporated with a general policy regarding the ongoing display of federal and state flags, as well as the POW-MIA Flag, at Village facilities, including provisions for displaying

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From COOPERSTOWN POLICY ON DISPLAY OF FLAGS

flags at half-staff.

C. The Village’s flagpoles are not intended to serve as a forum for free expression by the public, but rather for the display of federal and state flags, the POWMIA flag, and any com-

memorative flag as may be authorized by the Board of Trustees as an expression of the Village’s official sentiments. ►Section 2: Purpose.

This policy provides Please See POLICY, A6

A Front Porch Perspective

Tara Barnwell

Managing Editor

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he Village’s flagpoles are not intended to serve as a forum for free expression by the public, but rather for the display of federal and state flags, the POW-MIA flag, and any commemorative flag as may be authorized by the Board of Trustees as an expression of the Village’s official sentiments.”

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But What’s Her Name?

’m at ease on my front porch on a beautiful afternoon, admiring the perspective up tree-lined Delaware Avenue. As the long last block heads toward Chestnut Street, curbs and sidewalks seem to draw together, trees conspire more closely over the street, and the two rows of handsome house fronts, bedecked with flags and hanging planters, draw closer till the last ones opposite each other almost block sight of traffic flashing by on Chestnut.

But now, heading toward me down the sidewalk, is an old friend of my own age. She’s being led along by her leashed dog, Bijou, who, spotting

me on the porch, speeds up, tail wagging. The old friend also sees me and waves. Defying perspective, she and Bijou grow larger and clearer as they approach.

I wave back, JIM smiling. How good ATWELL to see her!

I’ve known her for donkey’s years.

Memories flash back – lake sailing, picnics before the opera, Anne and I huddled under a big umbrella next to

this dear woman and her husband, all of us laughing like fools as rain buckets down on us and on the sheep dog trials. And on the broad field before us, the morose, sodden sheep pushed through their paces by dogs just as wet and bored with the whole business!

What good fun, and what good company with those two. But now, panic in me.

What’s her name? This dear old friend – what’s her name?

Of course I know that aging alone brings with it this sort of forgetfulness.

For instance, I remember a half-dozen Cooperstown ladies of some years ago, Please See ATWELL, A6

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History

HOMETOWN

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

150 Years Ago

Brutal Outrage in Hartwick – A young Irishman, one James Kelley, was passing through the Village of Hartwick, on his way from Cherry Valley, where he had been employed as a laborer to the Midland road. He had money with him, which was seen by several of the citizens, also a watch, razor, and tobacco. He was intoxicated, and soon fell among thieves. The village plug-uglies, who for years have held undisputed sway in that place, soon detected by professional scent, the game ahead, and no time was lost in securing the unfortunate fellow. He was induced, in his intoxicated state to visit the Lodge of Good Templars, assured that it was a brothel kept in the place. As a consequence, the victim was thrown down the stairs by members of the Lodge. He was enticed away by those having him in charge, and upon the four corners of the streets, in a clear moonlit night, he was garroted, his money, watch, razor and tobacco taken away from him, and the poor fellow left bleeding upon the ground.

His hair was sheared from his head in a barbarous manner and he was left to seek refuge in an out building.

August 1869

100 YEARS AGO

been assigned to the American College for Girls in Cairo, Egypt, where she will teach music. This instruction includes violin, voice, theory and appreciation, general music classes and choir. The school consists of study from the first grade through the second year of college. Nine tenths of the student body of more than 1,000 are Egyptians. About one-third are Christians, while the remaining students are Muslims. Fourteen of the teachers in the school are Americans. The college was founded by the United Presbyterian Church in 1910 and since then has aided in the education of upper class Egyptian women who include the daughters of royal parents, cabinet ministers and foreign ambassadors.

August 1959

40 Years Ago

Latches have been removed from refrigerators behind Dundam’s Furniture on Chestnut Street following an inspection according to City of Oneonta engineering aide Bruno Bruni. City enforcement officials checked the site recently to find most of the machines were tied shut with string, a closing that would not meet with safety regulations if the locks were still in place. When re-checked, officials verified that the locks had been removed. John Dundam said the refrigerators are stored temporarily in back of his store while waiting for repairs or to be junked.

August 1979

125 Years Ago

Baseball English as she is wrote for the edification of the public is luridly picturesque. The other day, I went up to the Polo Grounds to a prettily played game and enjoyed it.

Later, I glanced over a published account of the same game and found that my impressions of it, formed on the grounds, were entirely wrong. In the first place, players who were supposed to have family names hadn’t any such. In the paper, one was “Midget.” Another was “Spud.” There was a “Fatty” with “Skeleton” to keep him company.

The first man who came to bat did not make a base hit.

He “walloped out a single.” The next batter did not do anything so tame. He got real demonic and “fungoed to center.” The centerfielder wasn’t a bit terrified either, “for he hugged the musty fly.” What I had taken for a three-base hit was nothing of the kind. It was worse than crying twins.

It was a “whistling triplet.”

August 1894

80 Years Ago

The communities of Fort Plain and Cooperstown joined Saturday afternoon in observance of Alexander Cartwright Day on the Baseball Centennial All-Summer Program.

The Centennials defeated the Fort Plain team at baseball on Doubleday Field 8-5. The program opened with a parade through Main Street to the field, headed by the Cooperstown band, augmented with musicians from Fort

Forget Names? Here Are Ways For Coping ATWELL/From A4 weekly luncheon partners for years, who faced this problem and solved it with great good humor. Each agreed to answer to any name another called her, and to respond in kind. The more outlandish the name, the better. And so: “Good morning, Lackawanna!” “Hi there, Antibellum.” “ Hello, Sarsaparilla! You’re running late this morning.” “Not as late as Delilah Mae – but here she comes.”

And finally, after Ferdinanda and Leoninny had arrived, into lunch they’d go laughing together. The grinning waitress, hands on hips, would always ask, “OK, now who’s who today?”

Well, that was a great solution, but not applicable as my old friend got closer to the porch. And so, knowing her dog Bijou’s name, I improvised and addressed the dog.

“Hello, Bijou. Good to see you! And you’ve brought a friend with you. Would you introduce us?”

And my old friend, bless her, likely recognized my plight and sympathized at once.

She mimicked a high Bijou voice.

“Why this is my mistress, Mary Ellen.”

(Of course!) But she continued in the doggie voice.

“And, sir, I’m so sorry, but my memory’s failing me! What was your name again?”

Jim Atwell, a retired college administrator and Quaker pastor, observes life from his Delaware Street porch.

August 1919 Plain. The $5 prize for the best costumes in the parade was won by the Red Men’s organization of Fort Plain. Little Mary VanDeusen of Portlandville won the second prize of $2.50, wearing a beaded Indian costume. A life-size photograph of Alexander Cartwright was autographed by Cooperstown Village and Centennial officials and the participating ball teams. It will be returned to members of the Cartwright family in the Hawaiian Islands. Ceremonies included a 10-minute pantomime in which America Russo, representing Cartwright and five other young men, depicted the laying out of the dimensions of the playing diamond. Members of the two ball teams were decorated with floral leis sent to Cooperstown by the Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce.

August 1939

60 Years Ago

Ruth Ray, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Mark S. M. Ray, 2 Walling Avenue, has been appointed as a special term missionary by the commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the United Presbyterian Church. She has

20 Years Ago

Although formal campaigning is banned at the New York State Fair, elected leaders from the governor down to local lawmakers have become a common sight strolling the fairgrounds over the years. Governor George Pataki extended that tradition again this year when he helped officially open the 1999 fair on Thursday. He was joined by more than two dozen state, county and local elected office holders – even a few Democrats – looking for a chance to be seen and heard by the public. “I don’t think people go to the fair to see politicians. But I do think the public has come to expect that politicians come to the Fair,” said Tom Young, the State Fair’s Director for a decade and a two-term Mayor of Syracuse.

August 1999

10 Years Ago

The start of classes at Hartwick College on Tuesday, Sept. 8, will mark the beginning of its “Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Program” option that has won nationwide attention and interest, saving participants $40,000 on a college education.

September 2009

THE VIEW FROM FLY CREEK

Refocus $500M From Pipeline To Renewables

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attended a hearing recently in Binghamton on rate increases proposed

by NYSEG for a number of projects, including a nearly three-fold expansion in the capacity of the DeRuyter gas pipeline serving Oneonta.

The hearing was run by the Public Service Commission (PSC), a New York State agency which is supposed to regulate utilities like NYSEG. The atmosphere wasn’t very promising. The deserted streets and empty storefronts of downtown Binghamton were a reminder that the city, like ADRIAN much of Upstate, is a shadow KUZMINSKI of what it once was. The brutalist architecture of City Hall, where the hearing was held, evoked a prison rather than a civic space.

Nevertheless, about 70 people made their way into the City Hall chambers.

After a brief presentation by three NYSEG representatives who, embarrassingly, were unable to answer a series of basic questions from the audience, the hearing itself began.

Even more embarrassing, only one PSC commissioner showed up, accompanied by an administrative law judge and a recording secretary.

The PSC ought to understand that not having a decent complement of commissioners show up at a hearing looks disrespectful to the concerned citizens who took the time and trouble to get there to testify.

The whole point of direct testimony is to put a human face on what are otherwise abstract issues.

Citizens feel, rightly, that such appeals can influence commissioners in ways that nothing else can.

The alternative is to submit written comments to the PSC, but, given the lack of attendance by commissioners, it is hard to have full confidence that written comments will be as carefully examined as they should be.

The deeper question is why NYSEG and the PSC are even entertaining a rate case involving the expansion of a gas pipeline.

The recently passed Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (CLCPA) in New York State mandates steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels like natural gas.

There’s no way an expansion in the capacity of the DeRuyter pipeline can be justified in the face of that law and current state energy policy.

Binghamton’s brutalist City Hall provided a chilly venue for PSC hearing.

To cover the cost of the pipeline, NYSEG is asking for combined gas and electric rate hikes of 27 percent. Speakers at the hearing complained of these steep increases being foisted upon ratepayers, especially in light of frequent outages and winter heat shutoffs. They also were concerned about the lack of incentives for Please See KUZMINSKI, A6

EDITORIAL: Arts Here Great – 8th Best – Can We Do More?

EDITORIAL/From A4 free and clear, which – hindered by the Great (and long) Recession – is finally getting traction under the steady leadership of Executive Director Bill Youngs and board chair Roxanna Hurlburt.

Over a typical academic year, Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta offer a vast range of top talent from around the nation at the Anderson Arts Center and Goodrich Theater respectively, and in their art galleries.

Oneonta theater troupes? Four, count ’em: Orpheus, Bold Theatrics, Bigger Boat and Stuff of Dreams. Does any similar-sized community have so many. And three dance troupes – Elite, Donna Decker and Jillian’s.

All this in a small city of 14,000.

• Beyond the “urban core” of Oneonta, DataArts goes on to single out the Cooperstown

museums – the Fenimore and Farmers’ – the Glimmerglass Festival, all nationally known and appreciated. All three are strong, and The Fenimore, beginning this summer with Herb Ritts’ photos from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, began reaching out to a whole new audience, younger, hipper – the future, if you will.

(For whatever reason, Brewery Ommegang has dropped its summertime popular-music concerts, but performers like Norah Jones and Elvis Costello proved there’s a wide draw, at least in summer months.)

Below the Big Three, there are thriving entities like Linda Chesis’ Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, Cherry Valley Artworks’ full series of professional performances at the Star Theater, plus its semi-annual Sculpture Walk.

Gilbertsville’s Major’s Inn has a concert series through the summer, plus arts-related pro-

gramming year-‘round. (Oneonta filmmaker Joe Stillman is showing his latest documentary, on LBJ’s attorney general, the humanitarian Ramsay Clark, at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday at the Major’s as a fundraiser for the historic venue.)

That reminds us of Barton Kaplan’s Magic Mountain Music Farm in the hills between Gilbertsville and Morris: Top music students from New York City and beyond practice intently for the summer and put on a weekend of performances in a Gllbertsville church.

The monthly Coffee House at the Schuyler Lake Methodist Church – folks with guitars and more – is another example of a decentralized artistic fervor. Here’s another: The Church in Mount Vision, which has been presenting plays all summer long for three years now.

This is hardly comprehensive, and it underscores what a great idea Oneonta’s ArtSpace project

is – 66 studio-residential units in a four-story building due to rise on the city’s Dietz Street next year.

• The point: While we bemoan what we don’t have – yes, we’re out of natural gas and electricity, if anyone wants to open a factory here – we should be developing what we do.

The DataArts ranking brought to mind former Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller’s Arts Summit in January 2011 at Foothills – it was terrific.

There must have been 100 artists and arts enthusiasts there.

Miller was his usual droll self, telling the bubbling gathering, ““I’m not in it for the arts; I’m in it for the economy.”

But he had a point. He offered $200,000 from a City Hall budget surplus – yes, those WERE the days – to help get a comprehensive effort to promote arts off the ground. It never got any traction,

but why shouldn’t it?

County Rep. Meg Kennedy, R-Mount Vision, is leading up a countywide Energy Task Force.

Why not a countywide Arts Development Task Force?

It wouldn’t have to be government based; there’s plenty of arts leadership clout around here.

Something like the 55-member Energy Task Force might be too much. But how about a six-member task force with heavy hitters like The Fenimore’s Paul D’Ambrosio and SUNY Oneonta’s Janet Nepkie, who created the college’s amazing Music Industry major. It could be privately run.

Now, arts is a summer magnet.

How about a summer and fall magnet? Then maybe a summer, fall and Christmas magnet? Then add in a winter carnival component.

As SMU DataArts documented, we have what it takes to be much more.

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Here’s A First Look At What New Susquehanna Animal Shelter Will Look Like

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ith the Aug. 24 groundbreaking, the final push is on to raise $3 million by Christmas Day to complete the new Susquehanna SPCA Animal Shelter on Route 28 in Index. Here are some of the artist’s renderings, not yet finalized, on how the shelter will look. From left are the exterior, and lobby and the dog adoption corridor. ►Full set of drawings at www.allotsego.com ►Donate to “Shelter Us” at https://sqspca.org/

Policy Specifies Pride, POW-MIA Flags, But What About Others?

POLICY/From A4 procedural guidance for (1) the display of the Flag of the United States and the State of New York flag; (2) the display of the POWMIA flag; and (3) the display of commemorative flags at Village facilities. ► Section 3: Responsibility for Policy.

The Village Administrator or his or her designee shall be responsible for ensuring the proper execution of this policy at all Village facilities. ►Section 4: Procedures.

Flags are to be displayed in conformance with Federal and State statutes, including Title 4 Chapter 1 of the United

States Code. Additionally, the standards below shall be followed regarding the display of flags. ►Section 5: POW-MIA Flag. (a) The POW-MIA Flag is a nationally recognized flag, created in 1971 and recognized by an act of Congress through the adoption of U.S. Public Law 101-355, to represent concern of individuals who are identified as prisoners of war or missing in action. The POW-MIA Flag has become a symbol of commitment to achieving the fullest possible accounting for those in the future who may become prisoners of war, missing in action, or otherwise unaccounted for as a result of hostile action.

(b) The POW-MIA flag shall be displayed on the flagpole at Main and Pioneer Streets during the month of November. ► Section 6: Commemorative Flags. (a) Commemorative flags may be displayed as an expression of the Village’s official sentiments.

Consistent with the Village’s vision, mission and guiding principles, it is expected that these flags incorporate themes of diversity, equity, social justice and inclusion. (b) The Village’s flagpoles are not intended to serve as a forum for free expression by the public. The Village will not display a commemorative flag based on a request from

Efforts Stymied To Curb State Spending

SEWARD/From A4 and the cost really adds up. New taxes on internet purchases and grocery bags.

A new commuter tax. The elimination of the muchneeded property tax rebate checks. And, now $25-$45 a pop for every vehicle New York families put on the road.

Back in 2009, our governor at the time attempted a similar scheme. I joined with county clerks and Republican legislators to fight the fee and our strong opposition, along with public outcry, forced the governor to drop his plan.

Now it is time to stand up again. I am urging the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to terminate this misguided plan and revoke any requirement forcing New Yorkers to pay for new license plates they simply don’t need. You can voice your opposition as well by signing my online petition available on my website at: www.seward.nysenate.gov.

state. Policies like: • A comprehensive package of tax cuts to help millions of hardworking New Yorkers; • Help for small businesses including a plan to cut taxes and allow small businesses to participate in the STAR Program; • A loan forgiveness program for recent college graduates who choose to stay and work in New York; • An end to unfunded mandates and an assurance that no new laws will be approved in Albany that pass costs on to our local governments and schools, and ultimately, our taxpayers; • A two-percent cap on state spending.

I will continue to fight for these policies moving forward, and oppose blatant cash grabs like this license plate scheme.

State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, represents the 51st Senate District, which includes his home in the county of Otsego.

Along with fighting this license plate fee hike, I am working on a legislative fix to prevent this situation from coming up again in the future. I am co-sponsoring legislation (S.6663) that would require the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles commissioner to waive the $25 fee for any license plate mandated for replacement by the state due to a design change.

As I have stated in the past, New York ranks first in the nation for people moving out of state, and 40 percent of current New Yorkers believe they can no longer afford to live here. State government needs to pay attention to those facts and change course.

Raising taxes and constantly enacting new fees will only exacerbate the problems we are now facing.

During this past legislative session, I advocated for a number of proposals to make New York a more affordable

a third party, nor will the Village use its flagpoles to sponsor the expression of a third party. (c) Commemorative flags shall be displayed only by adoption of a resolution of the Board of Trustees. (d) Commemorative flags shall not show religious preference or encourage a specific vote in a particular election. (e) Commemorative flags shall be displayed for a period of time that is reasonable or customary for the subject that is to be commemorated, but no longer than 45 continuous days. (f) Commemorative flags may be displayed on the flagpole at Main and Pioneer Streets and/or at

It’s About Money, And How To Spend It KUZMINSKI/From A5 air source heat pumps, and of failure to upgrade the electrical grid to accommodate local inputs from wind and solar farms.

Speakers also pointed out that the gargantuan amount of money to be spent on the DeRuyter pipeline – NYSEG estimates at least $203 million, and other sources up to $500 million – is money that would be diverted from investment in renewables.

What the critics of renewables never mention is that, once in place, they require NO FUEL. With fossil-fuel energy systems you not only have to build an infrastructure (wells, pipelines, refineries, power plants, compressor stations, tank trucks, gas stations, etc.) you then have to continuously feed that infrastructure with coal or gas or oil to keep it going.

Renewables like wind towers, solar panels, and air-source and ground-source thermal units, by contrast, need no feedstock once they are built. The only cost of renewables is their infrastructure.

Their energy source – the sun, directly or indirectly – is free.

Consumers of fossil fuels, on the other hand, are burdened with the perpetual costs of the coal, oil and gas they have

to buy to feed power plants, furnaces, vehicles, stoves, and so on.

According to a recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Energy “wind farms have gotten so cheap that you can build and operate them for less than the expected costs of buying fuel for an equivalent natural gas plant.”

The big battle here is about money, about where to allocate what limited investments we can afford for the public benefit. NYSEG’s current policy would lock us into fossil fuels for decades while making significant renewable energy development impossible.

This all but guarantees that our region will remain an economic backwater.

Lack of investment in a renewablefriendly infrastructure will ensure that local power capacity remains limited, that consumers will be vulnerable to future rate hikes, and that the job opportunities the renewable-energy sector promises will not be realized in our area.

It’s time for the PSC to reflect state law and public interest and deny expansion of gas infrastructure proposed by NYSEG. Adrian Kuzmkinski, retired Hartwick College philosophy professor and Sustainable Otsego moderator, lives in Fly Creek.

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How To Predict Recessions; Plus, Reading Entrails

To the Editor: Predicting an economic future? Just forget the past LETTERS and reliable evidence.

1. No society has survived by increasing debt and reducing income – that is our present national pattern of lowering taxes and inflating expenditures.

2. Whatever minor tax relief given average citizens, increased fees and higher prices for goods limit their spending ability.

3. Because of new tariffs, U.S. farming communities already face depressed markets and massive reductions of income.

However, ancient methods do exist for any commentator who erases experience to celebrate a blank slate.

Divination pretends to foretell the future with signs – and there are dozens of them beginning with the a’s – alectryomancy, a chicken eating grains placed next to letters in a circle – ending with xylomancy – the use of supposedly predictive twigs.

When any of these inevitably fail, mythic futurists can turn to road-kill: haruspex forecasts the future when interpreters “read” entrails.

One may become infatuated with ignoramuses, but national decisions based on their actions and statements result in destructive economic policies.

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THURSDAY, September 5, 2019

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7

Foremost Canadian Cannabis Company Grows Hemp In Springfield

HEMP/From A1 – in mid-October.

With U.S. sales of CBD products projected to generate about $2 billion in sales by 2022, industrial hemp may play a role in reversing Otsego County’s economic decline.

“Hemp is a transformative crop for many reasons,” said Branson Skinner, Canopy Growth’s farm manager for New York State, who works out of Waterpoint. “It uses fewer resources than other crops, especially cotton, and you can get a greater biomass for paper than trees.”

According to Canopy Growth’s website, in 2014 it became the first cannabis company in North America to be publicly traded, and recently was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

It provides a full range of cannabis products, from hemp and medical marijuana to “adult-use cannabis.” In New York, the state Legislature failed to legalize marijuana, but the Democratic leadership plans to try again in the next session.

Meanwhile, there’s hemp: a strain of cannabis with much lower concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the chemical that gives users the high – 0.3 percent versus 2 to 19 percent in cannabis used for medical and recreational use.

Until Congress passed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 last December, which legalized the growing of hemp nationwide, farmers could only grow hemp in states with pilot programs.

“The 2018 Farm Bill allowed money to be moved legally, for banks to accept money from hemp sales,” Skinner said. “And that opened up the whole industry.”

Hemp plants cannot have THC concentration above .3 percent and farmers must regularly test hemp to ensure the THC stays below that level, which can make growing the crop labor-intensive.

“If you have one plant that tests above .3 percent, you have to throw out the entire field of hemp,” said Janice Degni, Cornell Cooperative Extension field crop expert.

Skinner said they had not detected any THC in Waterpoint’s hemp when testing it. The hemp varieties used at the farm are “CBD-heavy” ones, and CBD neutralizes THC. “You could smoke this whole field and not get high,” he asserted.

CBD hemp can be laborintensive as well because CBD only occurs in the female plants’ flowers, so hemp growers have to check for male plants in the field and clear them out.

While Skinner attests no male plants have grown at Waterpoint, he spoke of another phenomenon they have to watch out for.

local economies, and really, to transform agriculture.”

That transformation has already begun at Waterpoint Farm, with the conversion of the farm’s dairy structures into ones that will be used for the hemp.

“Canopy Growth purchased Waterpoint not just because it had the good land for hemp, but it also had the housing, electrical infrastructure, buildings, diesel tanks,” Skinner said.

“We weren’t just buying 1,200 acres of land.”

An old bunker silo is already being converted, and other buildings and silos will be repurposed in the next 2-3 years, for storing, drying and milling the hemp. The dried hemp is then sent to a processing plant for CBD extraction.

Waterpoint has also gone Jennifer Hill/The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA from having one employee to about 20 during the peak Branson Skinner, Canopy Growth’s farm manager for New York State, checks the quality of the of cultivating the hemp over hemp growing outside Springfield Center, where the summer. There are now dairy cows grazed just two years ago. six full-time employees and eight temporary/seasonal “Some female plants will explained. “So, we have to ones. With plans to double become hermaphrodites look for and remove pollen the production of hemp next by pollenating themselves sacs from them.” summer – from 300 to 600 if they ‘sense’ male plants Skinner said “part of acres – the farm will be aren’t around or they’ve Canopy Growth’s mission is hiring more. been stressed by, say, too to support small farmers and And Waterpoint could much water,” Skinner communities, to improve

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ere’s a list of Otsego County farms participating in the state’s Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program, but may not be everyone growing hemp locally.

• WhatCannaDo, Aidan Woishnis, Gilbertsville • WhatCannaDo affiliated grower, Keith Klingman, Gilbertsville • Elk Creek Farm, William Weinert, Schenevus • Sugarhouse Farms, Jeremiah Ford, Hartwick • S&G Industries, Scott Fickbohm, Burlington Flats

become an agricultural “hub” for the region and boost dairy farmers, Skinner said.

“We have a network of smaller farms near Plattsburgh who contract with us,” he explained.

“We provide them technical support and a guaranteed market for hemp they grow on their farms. It could give

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Such a farm network has not formed in Otsego County yet, but Skinner said after the October harvest, he will begin developing one.

“I’m a community planner,” Skinner said. “I’m looking forward to working with local farmers next season.

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Harold Schneider, who died in Cooperstown in 1996, recorded FDR’s Fireside Chats for NBC.

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Amid all her father’s memorabilia, Dianne Koffer’s most treasured is the microphone Harold Schneider used to record FDR’s Fireside Chats.

Dianne with Kate Smith during a visit to Lake Placid.

Harold Schneider’s photo nestles among his Apollo 11 radio logs.

ne Christmas Eve, Diane Koffer remembers her mother Gertrude getting a call from her husband, Harold Schneider.

“He said that Bob Hope’s plane couldn’t take off because of fog, so he was bringing him home for Christmas dinner,” said Koffer.

“He told her not to tell anyone, that it was going to be low-key.”

Schneider, an audio A lighter engineer for the NBC Eisenhower radio, then television, gave Schneider network, was supposed during the 1952 Presidential to fly with the fabled comedian to where he campaign. would entertain to the troops for Christmas. “Of course, my mom told my aunt next door, and they rushed to get the fine china and the silver all laid out.”

Harold came home to find the living room filled with friends and neighbors. “But he didn’t have Bob Hope with him!” said Diane.

“The fog had lifted and his plane had taken off. He was pretty mad at my mom, though.”

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Deb and Sue Ackerman, who created a “fairy garden” for Bunny Hamilton’s delight, have moved it next to her patio so she can continue to enjoy it.

‘Fairy Garden’ Continues To Delight In New Locale

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

do something special for Bunny.” f you drive Bunny, a past past Bunny president of and Lewis Cooperstown Hamilton’s Lake & Valley historic home on Garden Club and a the corner of Main local benefactress and River streets, generally – The you might just feel Fenimore Art a little magic.

Museum’s lakeside “We had built amphitheater is named in a fairy garden for Mrs. Hamilton’s her honor – was a dedicated my own mother a favorite bluebird. gardener for years. few years back,” As she got older, she said Deb Ackerman. “She wasn’t able to do her own loved it, and we wanted to gardening, so she brought in

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“We could never figure out what to do with the wishing well,” said Deb. “Because there wasn’t good access to water, anything we planted in there died

very quickly.”

The solution was to turn it into a “fairy garden,” complete with moss and statuary. The fairy garden was a hit, especially with Bunny’s great-grandchildren.

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There’s music and food too, including the famous “Walking Taco.” 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 7, Main Street, Oneonta.

• The machines of the LIBBY past comes to life at 36th annual Dan Rion CUDMORE Memorial Antique Engine Jamboree & Powerfest. Steam power demos, music, BBQ, activities, more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith.

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• Country living is where it’s at!

Celebrate good life with vendors, cornhole tournament, pumpkin patch, farmers’ market, demonstrations on backyard beekeeping, fly fishing, cider pressing and more. 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Kallan Fields, Well’s Ave., Hartwick. Info (607) 293-8123.

• Honor heroes, veterans, families and first responders of 9/11 with a 5k, 10k and kid’s fun run. Runners, walkers of all ages, abilities welcome. 10 a.m.

– 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company, 832 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. (607) 547-2800.

• The Oneonta Concert Association presents Evidence Dance Company, fusing contemporary dance and spoken word. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. (607) 433-7252.

• Play tennis to support regional Junior Tennis Scholarship. Cost, $20/person. 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, continues Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 7-8, Oneonta Tennis Center, 32 Rose Ave., Oneonta. Info (607) 432-0700.

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OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Group exhibit “The Land on Which We Gather,” honoring new SUNY president Barbara Jean Morris. Features works by Native American artists in various mediums. Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-3456.

DISCUSSION – 6 p.m. “Gender Equality: Are Women Still Being Held Back by Stereotypes?” with Angie Eichler.

Butternut Valley Room, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta.

►Friday, September 6 OPENING RECEPTION – 5 p.m. Exhibit “Mannequin Expressive by Mannequin Depressive: Who is Watching Whom?” by Edward Garbarino.

On display through 9/22.

Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

607-432-2070.

CHARITY TOURNAMENT – 6 - 8 p.m. Play tennis to support regional Junior Tennis Scholarship. Cost, $20/person. Continues 9/7 & 9/8.

Oneonta Tennis Center, 32 Rose Ave., Oneonta.

607-432-0700.

FILM – 6:30 p.m. Presenting “Shaft.” Cost, $3/person.

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HISTORY TALK – 7 p.m.

Learn about native plants, extraordinary American horticultural developments, the American Revolution, with Barbara Melara of Harvesting History. Sayre Greenhouse reopens, fiddle music, refreshments. Free, open to public.

Greater Milford Historical Association, North Main St., Milford. 607-547-2536 ext. 0.

CONTRADANCE – 7:30 p.m.

Fun group dance to music by Balter with caller Mary Collins.

1st Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown.

607-547-8164.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Evidence Dance Company focuses on the integration of African Dance with contemporary choreography, spoken word. Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta.

607-433-7252.

►Sat., September 7 GOLF TOURNAMENT – 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Benefit tournament for Studio B Company Dance Team. Game, basket raffles for all, more. $64/ golfer, 4-person teams. Afton Golf Club, 175 Afton Lake Rd., Afton. 607-563-7280.

GARAGE SALE – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Find great items at great

prices, music, food, fun at the 41st annual Grand & Glorious Garage Sale.Supports the Catskill Choral Society. Main St., Oneonta.

ENGINE JAMBOREE – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 36th Annual Dan Rion Memorial Antique Engine Jamboree & Powerfest celebrates the ingenuity of the past. Steam power demos, music, BBQ, activities, more.

Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. 607278-5744.

ARTS FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. Find artists showing off their best works including paintings, fabric arts, sculptures, photography, music, activities, more at Colorscapes Chenango.

Free. East and West Parks, Norwich. 607-336-3378.

HEROES RUN – 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. 5k, 10k, and Childrens’ race to honor the heroes of 9/11, veterans, first responders, families of the fallen. Runners, walkers of all ages, abilities welcome.

Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company, 832 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. 607-547-2800.

BENEFIT AUCTION – Noon - 3 p.m. Annual auction to support fire department.

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Daughter Has Keepsakes Of Dad’s Exciting Career RADIO/From B1 Koffer, who has retired to Cooper Lane apartments with her husband, Fred, still has much of her father’s ephemera from his days at NBC, which started during World War II, when an injury to his hand prevented him from going to the front lines.

“NBC sent him to do defense work on the West Coast,” the daughter said. “After the war, they sent him to MIT to continue his training.”

Harold Schneider quickly became NBC’s pool engineer, putting him front and center for some of the biggest events of the century. “He

started in radio, recording FDR’s Fireside Chats,” she said. “At the end, President Roosevelt gave him the microphone he used” – and which she still has.

He developed a close working relationship with “God Bless America” singer Kate Smith during her weekly “Kate Smith Sings” broadcasts. “He would go to her house up on Buck Island, near Lake Placid, so we rented a house there. We called her Aunt Kate.”

Smith invited Diane and her siblings to a birthday party she threw for her niece. “She gave all of us a

gold bracelet with a charm that had a diamond, a ruby, a sapphire and an emerald,” she said. “But I lost mine down my grandmother’s well in Middlefield!”

Diane’s friendship with Kate continued for many years. “I invited her to my wedding, but she wasn’t in good health,” she said. “She sent us a lovely note.”

NBC sent him on a 27day tour with Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. “He went to bed thinking Dewey had won!” she said.

Later, he lugged his equipment across the country on Dwight D. Eisenhower’s whistle-stop tour during his 1952 campaign for president, and received an engraved lighter as a gift

Sisters Move ‘Fairy Garden’ For Benefactress GARDEN/From B1 This year, mobility issues prevented Mrs. Hamilton from getting down the steps to the garden, so the sisters moved the garden to where she could enjoy it.

“I love her dearly and wanted her to be included in the garden again,” Deb said.

“She loved her dollhouse, so I knew she’d love a fairy garden.”

The garden is now wheelchair accessible from the Hamiltons’ patio, just a few feet from her door.

Bunny and Susan planned the layout while Deb shopped for accessories and statuary to put in the garden.

“We wanted to do a few distinct sections,” she said.

The first, closest to the house, is a small house and patio for the fairies to reside.

“I wanted to find a house that looked like hers!” she said. “I didn’t, but I found a cute one that’s sort of similar and a few fairies.”

There is also a unicorn section, complete with tiny unicorns and fairies, and a little farm stocked with sheep, cows and ducks. “I just keep finding animals and adding to it,” said Deb. “She enjoys that

immensely.”

Rivers of polished stones wind through sections, and wrought-iron fencing sections them each off individually. They also added lights to make the garden magical even after dusk.

But it isn’t a garden without plants. “For the other garden, we had brought in lots of annuals and perennials, lots of color,” she said. “We had to go with stuff that doesn’t take a lot of water.”

Some of those flowers,

planted earlier this summer, were moved from the lower garden for texture and color, and Deb gathered moss from the woods.

As fall approaches, Deb and Susan are beginning to think about what else they want to do with the garden before the season ends. “We’re thinking about putting together an autumn version of the garden,” she said. “Maybe a little red wagon, filled with pumpkins, hay bales and little trees.”

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“He stopped in Staten Island, so my dad took my mom, and told her, ‘Whatever you do, do not get off that train, because when he gets back on, they’ll take off,’” she said. “But two cameramen persuaded her to get off and go wave at all the people lined up, and the train took off without her!

NBC had to fly them to the next stop.”

He was on hand for the launch of the Apollo 11, setting up the audio for Chet Huntley and David Brinkley as they announced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had successfully walked on

the moon.

“Mom had planned a surprise party for his birthday,” she said. “He came home early, said ‘I’m leaving’ and packed his suitcase. He had to go cover the space shot, so we watched it on TV.” She has his reel-to-reel tape of the liftoff in her collection. “It’s 50 seconds of the actual lift-off and tracking voice,” she said.

Later, he designed an editing machine for NBC, considered its first computer.

“They gave him $1 for it,” she said. “Because he had used their parts.”

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in 1978 after a stroke left him unable to work. “His last story was going with Ivan Sanderson” – the man who captured the famous Bigfoot footage – “into the jungle looking for Bigfoot,” she said.

He and Gertrude moved to Cooperstown in his retirement, and died in 1995 at age 75.

She is hoping to have all his tapes and video converted to digital in hopes of making his legacy more accessible. “There was a man who was going to write a book about him, but he died,” she said. “But the material is all there.”

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►Sat., September 7 PAWSITIVE PAWSIBILITIES – Noon - 2 p.m. Meet adoptable pets from Susquehanna SPCA. Front Lobby, Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-547-8111.

COUNTRY LIVING FEST – 1 p.m. Celebrate country life with cornhole tournament (1-6:30), pumpkin patch, farmers’ market. Features demonstrations of backyard beekeeping, floral arrangements, fly fishing, cider pressing. Kallan Fields, Well’s Ave., Hartwick. 607-293-8123.

BOOK SIGNING – 2 - 4 p.m. Meet local author Jamie Franklin Rowe, get your signed copy of her book “We’ll Always Remember the 11th of September.” The Green Toad Book Store, 198 Main St., Oneonta. 607-433-8898.

OPENING RECEPTION – 3 - 5 p.m. Celebrate exhibit opening “Museum of Strange Desires” by David Graziano.

Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. 607-829-5055.

IRISH CONCERT – 6 p.m.

Traditional Celtic and Folk, Jazz Instrumental music with world class musicians Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman. Cost, $20. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. 607-5475098.

SCREENING – 7 p.m. Award winning documentary “Citizen Clark ... A Life of Principle” a chronological look at the life of Ramsey Clark, US Attorney General/human rights activist. Gilbertsville filmmake Joseph C. Stillman will discuss the film. Admission, $10. The Major’s Inn, 104 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. 607-783-2769.

DANCE – 7:30 p.m. Put your dancing shoes on and enjoy perennial favorite “The Rubber Band” performing Cajun-Zydeco music. Admission, $10/person. The Star Theater, The Foundry, 44

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Notice of LLC Formation of Valley Hill Dairy, LLC, a NY limited liability company (LLC). Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State (NYSS) on 08/22/19.

Office: Otsego County.

NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: 564 Gay Brook Road, Oneonta, New York 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Former Otego School Back on the Market At last week’s regularly scheduled Board meeting, the Board of Education voted to withdraw from the contract to sell the closed Otego Elementary School to AgZeit, an indoor organic farming start-up based in Endicott, NY. In August 2018, the Board had chosen AgZeit, one of four proposals submitted, to develop the former school which had been closed since August 2017, but delays had plagued the process.

Ultimately, after several time extensions, the CEO of the firm could not meet the latest deadline to make a deposit on the property and the

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CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Catskill Symphony Orchestra presents “The Firebird” with music director candidate finalist Silas Nathaniel Huff.

Ballroom, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-2670.

►SUN., September 8 ARTS FESTIVAL – 11 a.m.

Artists show off their best works at Colorscapes Chenango. See Saturday Listing.

MUSIC – 11 a.m. Jazz standards performed by Old Masters. Franklin Farmers’ Market, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607-829-2672.

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PICNIC – Noon. 3 Church picnic includes burgers, hot dogs, childrens games. 113 N. Main St., Milford.

FILM – 1 & 6:30 p.m.

Presenting “Shaft.” Cost, $3/ person. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

►Mon., September 9 COMEDY – 9 p.m. Enjoy ‘Joke-e-oke’ in which participants pick their favorite comedy routine to perform for

the crowd. Cost, $3/person.

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Big O’ Poetry Slam presents featured poet Christopher Michael, author, SlamMaster for Austin NeoSoul. Free, open to public. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta. 607-4363013.

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Board felt it best to return the building to the market.

The resolution to withdraw from the agreement followed a yearlong process that started in August 2018 with AgZeit’s designation as the preferred developer following a Request for Proposals which generated four viable offers.

The Board has decided to issue a second RFP within the next week in an effort to secure a suitable developer for the property.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: KLB EXCAVATING AND SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 22 August 2019.

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 3103 Co Hwy 31, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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

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UNATEGO CENTRAL SCHOOL NOTICE is hereby given that the school tax roll for the Unatego Central School District, Towns of Otego, Oneonta, Butternuts, Unadilla and Laurens of Otsego County, Franklin and Sidney of Delaware County State of New York, has been sent to the Community Bank, N.A. for collection of school taxes for the 2019-20 school year.

The tax warrant runs from September 1, 2019 – November 5, 2019.

September 3 – October 4, 2019 No Fee October 5 - October 31, 2019 2% November 1 – November 5, 2019 3% Taxes postmarked after November 5, 2019 will be returned to sender and books are sent to the County Treasurer in Cooperstown and Delhi who will add additional penalties.

School taxes will be collected at the Main Entrance of Unatego MS/HS, 2641 State Highway 7, Otego, NY 13825, Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m.

– 2:00 p.m. except for Columbus Day, October 14, 2019.

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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, 438 Mansfield Avenue, Levittown, NY, 11756.

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

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Notice of Formation of MT321 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/9/19.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 283 County Hwy 57, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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FORMATION OF Bobnick Enterprises II LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/8/2019.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Stan Bobnick, 754 County Highway 24, Richfield Springs, NY 13439 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NATE LULL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/6/2019.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Nate Lull, LLC, PO Box 185, Gilbertsville, NY 13776 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Grasslands Farm LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State (SSNY) on 4/25/2019.

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SSNY shall mail process to: 1342 County Highway 10, Laurens, NY 13796.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Tafel Dairy Farm LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State (SSNY) on 4/25/2019.

Official Location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 1342 County Highway 10, Laurens, NY 13796.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF J. Gorman Fine Jewelry,LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/24/2019.

Office Location: Otsego SSNY Desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: 947 CO HWY 33 LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 7 August 2019.

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 947 Co Hwy 33, 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 HOME NUISANCE SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/2/2019.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 130 Perkins Rd., West Edmeston, NY 13485.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of Base Camp Construction, LLC, a Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) with offices located in Otsego County, for the purpose of any lawful act or activity under the Limited Liability Company Law. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on July 3, 2019. SSNY is the agent designated to receive service of process on behalf of the LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of such service of process to Michael P. Burns, 372 Christian Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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Purpose: Any lawful acts or activities.

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Notice of Formation of SafetyHealth First LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/31/19.

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, c/o Michael Gildea, 60 Brunlar Court, Apartment 47, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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Privitera Properties, LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on May, 23, 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to:

DIPASQUA AIR LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/18/2019.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 500 Crumb Hill Rd., Winfield, NY 13491, which is also the principal business location.

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IN MEMORIAM

Eva G. Chamberlin, 98; Taught 6th Grade For 18 Years At Oneonta

SOUTH HARTWICK – Eva G. Chamberlin, a long-time resident of South Hartwick and retired elementary school teacher, passed away peacefully early Friday morning, Aug. 30, 2019, at the home of her daughter in Harrisonburg, Va. She was 98.

Born July 14, 1921, in Gloversville, Eva Grace Martin was the daughter of Charles Edward Martin and Grace Vida née Odell Martin.

A graduate of Milford

High School, Eva attended the State Teachers College in Oneonta.

Upon graduation in 1943, she first taught in a district schoolhouse in Denver, Delaware County, and then elementary grades in Roxbury, Davenport and Otego. For 18 years, she taught sixth grade in the Oneonta City School District and retired in June 1976.

On June 26, 1946, Eva married Eddie George Chamberlin in a ceremony

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at the parsonage of the Milford Methodist Church.

In 1951, the Chamberlins purchased a house in South Hartwick that they fixed up over time and continued to live in until shortly after Eddie’s passing in 2006.

Along with her husband, Eva was a member for over 50 years of Westville Grange #540, as well as the New York State Historical Association, the Hartwick Historical Society, and the Hartwick United Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Otsego

County Retired Teachers Association and the New York State Retired Teachers Association.

Eva is survived by her two daughters, Mary Eloise Bowser and husband Barry Lee Bowser of Middletown, Va., and Marcia Emily Chamberlin of Harrisonburg, Va.; two grandchildren, Bryan Edward and Brooke Allison Bowser; her brother, Peter L. Martin of Fly Creek; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband of 59 years,

Eddie G. Chamberlin, who died April 12, 2006; and three brothers, Homer Frederick, Charles Eva G. Herbert and Chamberlin, Odell Dart Martin.

A memorial service will be offered at 2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 7, in the Hartwick United Methodist Church, with the Rev.

Richard D. Howard officiating. Immediately following the service, Eva’s family will receive friends in the church hall.

The Service of Committal and Burial will be private in Hartwick Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Hartwick United Methodist Church, 3080 County Highway 11, Hartwick, NY 13348.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

Nancy J. Meade, 67; Retired From OFO, SUNY Milne Library ONEONTA – Nancy J. Meade, 67, who retired after years with OFO and SUNY Oneonta’s Milne Library, passed peacefully on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at home in Oneonta, surrounded by family.

She was born in Corry, Pa., the daughter of the late Donald and Myrtle (Scott) Ruslink.

She married William “Bill” L. Meade on Aug. 19, 1978. He predeceased her on Dec. 12, 2017.

Nancy was a graduate of SUNY Oneonta. She retired after many years employed with Opportunities for Otsego and SUNY Oneonta in the Milne Library.

She is survived by her son, Brian (Lea), of Long Island; her daughter, Alison, of Oneonta; her grandchildren, Thomas, Taylor and Elliana; and her siblings, Bill Ruslink, Marge (Jack) Skinner, Carol (Rob) Glasier and Donna Deck.

She was also deeply loved by her brothers and sistersin-law, nieces, nephews and countless friends.

In addition to her husband, she was also predeceased by her sister-in-law, Sherry Ruslink; and brother-in-law,

Jack Deck.

Friends are invited to greet the family from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Nancy Lester R. Meade Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand Street, Oneonta.

A funeral service will take place at 11 a.m., Friday, Sept. 6, at the Elm Park

United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta, with the Rev. Donna Martin officiating.

Burial will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Nancy’s memory are asked to be made to the Elm Park United Methodist Church, or the GCS Project at https://gcsproject. org/donate/.

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

Saturday Interment For Walter Clapper, 48; Auto Mechanic ONEONTA – The interment for Walter W. Clapper Jr., 48, will be 10 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 at the Oneonta Plains Cemetery.

Clapper, an auto mechanic and car race enthusiast, passed away August 28, 2019 at Wilson Medical Center, Johnson City after an extended illness.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.

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First Visiting Conductor Ready To Lead Orchestra In ‘Firebird’ CSO/From A1 But fate – or rather, his classmates – intervened.

“We had to take a conducting class to get my master’s degree, and my classmates said, ‘Silas, you’re not that good of a composer, but you’re a great conductor!’”

Huff is the first of three finalists for the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s music director position and will conduct Igor Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite, 1919” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.

“It’s like a first date,” he said. “It’s exciting and intimidating. I get to meet them and hope they like me, and hope that I like working with them. The decision about which conductor, like dating, will be all about chemistry.”

His first task was to work with the symphony to design the program. “It took a little negotiating,” he said.

“But once we decided on ‘Firebird,’ we were able to work backwards from there.”

He chose his program based around the number of solos – 10 in all – to showcase the orchestra’s individual talent. “It’s like testing out the orchestra,” he said. “But it’s also about giving them that spotlight. It makes them feel good too.”

Huff is also dedicated to expanding what people think of as an orchestra performance. “If someone asks you, ‘Do you want to go to an intimidating venue where you have to dress up and stay silent?’ You’re going to

Miss Nevada Among Models With Local Complaints

PRESSLY/From A1 as someone who has say, ‘No, I’d rather go get connections and can get a beer,’” he said. “So why models and actors onto the don’t we bring the orchestra red carpet, exclusive events, to a brewery?” photo shoots and interHe also wants to highlight views,” said Muehl. “But the work of contemporary the complaint is she gets the composers, including retainer up front and doesn’t Kenneth Fuchs, Alan Shultz, do anything.”

Scott McKenzie and Rachel Pressly, 53, owner Whelan. “Who’s today’s of Victoria Pressly PR Beethoven?” he said. “I want Celebrity Agency and to find that person.”

HYPEPRnow in Cherry “For me, putting together Valley, was arrested a program is about the and charged with Grand orchestra asking itself, what Larceny, third degree, are some great pieces we and Scheme to Defraud, know our audience loves, first degree, following an and what music is our investigation by the District audience going to love,” he Attorney’s office. said. “That’s how I program.

According to the You’re going to like it, so complaint, between Nov. let’s listen, shall we?”

5, 2018, and Jan. 15, 2019, Huff is married to “Hello Gorgeous!” author Taylor Morris. The couple live in Lawrence, Kansas, a recent move for Huff when PANTRY/From A1 he became Washburn Muehl. “That’s what’s University’s director of keeping him out of jail.” orchestras. He also orgaBourbon-Parme, 59, nizes workshops for young was arrested in April after conductors to practice with a an investigation found live orchestra. $18,579 missing from the “Unless you are a organization’s accounts over millionaire and can hire an 16 months between October orchestra to play for you, 2017 and this January. you don’t get a chance to It was found he forged the practice much,” he said. names of Audrey Murray, “With these workshops, I retired director; Stacey hire an orchestra and bring Smith, director, and Sharon in an older maestro to Oberriter, president, on critique the young conduceight checks, and deposited tors. You’d be amazed how the checks in his own bank much better you get, just by account. doing it for a week.”

The investigation also Throughout the week, he revealed that, as Anthony will meet with community Gerard Cazzari, a.k.a. de leaders and symphony Bourbon-Parme, he was patrons, as well as rehearse arrested in 1999 in Lower with the orchestra ahead of Makefield, Pa., north of Saturday’s performance.

Philadelphia, and charged

Pressly “did steal property Tuesday afternoon. valued in excess of $3,000.”

“Being new to According to Muehl, Hollywood, this woman aspiring models paid her told me she could elevate a retainer with the undermy career but instead she standing that she would be SCAMMED me and has able to book them for photo been scamming other models shoots, red carpet appearand actresses for thousands ances and interviews in and thousands of dollars!!!” national publications. she wrote. “She scammed “She advertised herself as me out of $4,300!!!” a PR person,” he said.

She also encouraged However, the clients victims to share the post alleged that she never deliv- and report their experiences ered on any of the promised with Pressly. “She has been services, and when they getting away with this for complained, she blocked 20+ years and it’s time for them on social media and her to stop.” stopped returning calls.

Emmy Adams, the 2016 Miss Nevada, claimed she was one of Pressly’s scammed clients in a post IVES/From A1 on her Facebook page said OPD Chief Doug Brenner.

Last weekend, the two houses were broken into and credit cards taken, plus $100 with stealing $300,000 from in cash and personal items.

12 victims across four states “He took change from the cars and a jar of change,” by posing as an interior said Brenner. “It’s a quick designer. grab.”

Police said a Lower The personal items were Makefield couple arranged all recovered, said Brenner. for Bourbon-Parme to But police are still seeking decorate two homes with a suspect in burglaries on furniture, wallpaper and Main Street around the same draperies, but failed to deliver the promised items time. Both the Hospice and Super Heroes in Ripped and services. Though charges were filed, he was Jeans thrift stories were never convicted of the crime. broken into and items and During his sentencing on money taken.

“We are truly disheartened Friday, Aug. 27, Bourbonto share that our thrift shop Parme will plead to one was burglarized over the count of grand larceny, weekend,” read a post on fourth degree. the Super Heroes in Ripped In addition to paying Jeans’ Facebook page. “This full restitution the day of his guilty plea, he will also store is completely volunteer run and all the proceeds be sentenced to probation for between 3-5 years, said benefit the rescue. Not only did we sustain a loss, now Muehl.

Pressly was also charged with scheming to defraud clients, with the indictment alleging that she “did engage in a scheme constituting a systematic ongoing course of conduct…by false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises.”

At present, Muehl said, she is being charged with taking $4,500 from clients without booking them any of the promised promotional appearances.

Muehl said “several” of the clients have already come forward.

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we need to spend money on new equipment.”

“It’s sad that people are stealing from charitable organizations,” said Brenner.

“They just ransacked the place.”

Two other locations in the Main Street area were also broken into, but Brenner declined to identify them, citing investigation protocol.

“We’re looking through the Main Street camera footage right now,” he said.

“Trying to see if we got anything.”

For the Center Street burglaries, Ives was charged with two counts of burglary in the second degree, two counts of grand larceny – for the credit cards, said Brenner – and one count of petit larceny.

“We don’t believe Ives is tied to the Main Street burglaries,” he said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Oneonta Police at (607) 432-1113.

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