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Volume 4, No. 51

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Dr. West Salves The Pain

City of The Hills

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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haven’t been here in 18 years,” Dr. Cornel West said. “But I’m back with the same fire!”

The author, artist, professor and actor spoke passionately – punctuated by thunderous applause, A Teach-in: Remembrance and Reconciliation cheering and shouts of encouragement – to a packed and overheated crowd Tuesday, Sept. 4, at SUNY Oneonta Alumni’s Field House.

Beyond the List

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Jackets running back Scott Conrade, who scored OHS’ sole TD in the 45-7 loss Friday, Aug. 31, wiggles past a Sidney defender. The home opener is at 7 p.m. Friday vs. Chenango Forks.

Tea Partiers Plan To Rally For Jim Blake

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he CNY Tea Party Patriots are planning a get-out-the vote rally at noon Saturday, Sept. 8, at River Valley New Holland, Route 7 west, for Jim Blake, who is challenging state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford.

Among the speakers will Republican Carl Paladino, who in 2010 competed for the governorship with Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

Activity

Location

Ongoing

The Black List Timeline

10-11:15 a.m.

Black List Documentary and Discussion

10-11:15 a.m.

Racing the Body: What Forensic and Medical Anthropologists Can Tell Us about Race

Craven Lounge at the Morris Conference Center

10-11:15 a.m.

Race, Power & Illusion

Waterfront Room at the Hunt College Union

10-11:15 a.m.

What is Race?

Milne Library, Third Floor

Instructional Resource Center Room 5

Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building

UP, UP

11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Global Chef

1-2:15 p.m.

Ethnic Notions

1-2:15 p.m.

Oneonta: The Legal Odyssey

Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building

1-2:15 p.m.

Why the Black List Still Matters

Mills, Wilsbach and Hulbert Dining Halls

Instructional Resource Center Room 5

Instructional Resource Center Room 1

2-3 p.m.

Round Tables: Moving Forward

Otsego Grille at the Morris Conference Center

2-4 p.m.

Street Corner University and Ice Cream Social

Academic Quad*

2:30-3:45 p.m.

Race & Media: Profiling

Instructional Resource Center Room 3

4 p.m.

Atonement Ceremony

President’s Garden**

7 p.m.

Keynote Address

Hunt Union Ballroom

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“Don’t tell me how much money you got,” Dr. West roars from the podium.

“Tell me about your courage!”

‘Good Neighbor Policy’ Spurred

By Disturbances

*Chase Gymnasium in the event of rain **Hunt Union Ballroom in the event of rain

& away..

City Hall, 2 Colleges Collaborate On Policy, Brochure For Students

By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN

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f college students get in trouble downtown, SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick officials are going to know quickly.

That is one of the outcomes of an “Ad Hoc Group on Student Behavior,” brought together by Mayor Miller, which met four times over the summer.

“This was driven by several incidents in the spring which involved students who demonstrated a lack

CLEAN WATER: Rev. Craig Schwalenberg of the Unitarian Universalist Society and Rev. Cynthia Walton-Leavitt of First United Presbyterian will be among Oneonta clergy at an anti-fracking “Blessing of the Waters” planned noon Thursday, Sept. 6, on Otsego Lake behind The Fenimore Art Museum.

POLITICAL FUN: The Capitol Steps, the comedy troupe noted for its bipartisan humor, will perform Sunday, Oct. 28, the week before the Presidential election, at Foothills Performing Arts Center.

HIGHER RANK: Washington Monthly has moved Hartwick College 42 spots higher on its annual ranking of liberal arts colleges, from 254th to 167th.

As the keynote speaker “Beyond the List: Teach-in, Remembrance and Reconciliation,” he was tasked with capping off a day of lectures, discussions and atonement.

Atone for “The Black List,” on the 20th anniversary of the day when 125 black and Hispanic students were targeted for questioning about a robbery in 1992 simply because the victim identified her assailant as black.

At times, West was a poet and a preacher, not content to simply stand at the podium and read off a page. He moved with power, he gesticulated, he spoke with energy and conviction.

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of respect for police authority, which I felt could have let to more serious consequences,” Miller wrote in a Tuesday, Miller Sept. 5, memo updating Common Council.

Police Chief Dennis Nayor represented the city.

Other members included Hartwick Student Affair VP Meg Nowak and Director of Campus Safety Tom Kelly, Please See GROUP, A7

Swart’s Corn Crib Home At Oneonta’s Oldest Site

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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Oneonta’s John Blasetti took his first balloon ride at Susquehanna Balloon Festival 2011, but this year he talked his sister, Janet Riley, into joining him on a Saturday, Sept. 1, ascendance. At top, the barn-shaped balloon – a novelty this year – rises at the start of the Balloon Glow, when a half-dozen of the conveyances depart at dusk. First Night’s David Hayes, who organized the festival’s music offerings, said authorities told him 5,000 people were drawn to Neahwa Park that evening/RELATED STORY, A2

t was a long trip for a 200-year-old corn crib, carried away by Hurricane Irene floodwaters from Middleburgh to Schoharie, trucked 38 Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA miles to Mount Vision, Neighbor Alex Gracias then nine miles back to shows the corn crib to Oneonta. daughter Isabella, 7.

But it is now being rebuilt in friendly territory, Even better, Jon Edgerton, the side yard of the Swartwho is restoring the corn Wilcox (Oneonta’s oldest) crib, it erecting it on an “old House, the homestead of the rock” he believes may have same Swart family that built been the cornerstone of the it on its original site.

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HOMETOWN People OFF TO FIGHT FRACKING

Teresa Winchester photo Some 50 Otsego County fracking foes gathered in the Southside Mall parking lot Monday, Aug. 27, to bus to Albany for a star-studded protest against allowing the controversial gas-extracting method in New York State. Actress Debra Winger, author Bill McKibben and “Gasland” filmmaker Josh Fox were among the featured speakers. From left are Patti Jacobs, Oneonta; Paul, Dee Stein and Montana Stein, Pittsfield; Paddy Lane and Dave Grodsky, Morris; Suzy Winkler, Burlington; Florence Carnahan, Burlington; Kathy Shimberg, Mount Vision; Stacia Norman, Morris; Roberto, Ingrid and Na’ama Romano, Otego; Norman, Michele and Maya Farwell, Butternuts; Dee Mackie, Morris; Carole and Eugene Marner, Franklin; William Turachek, Laurens; Brian Wind, Gilbertsville; Laura Malloy, Laurens; Kate O’Donnell, Oneonta; Mark Harvey, Butternuts; Barb and Olivia Monroe, Milford; Maureen Dill, Morris; Ellen Sokolow, Sidney; Walter and Tomoko Gurbo, Gilbertsville; Bill and Pat Moore, Morris; Nancy Moen, New Lisbon; Loren Sokolow, Sidney; Sandy Salisbury, Oneonta; Peter and Linda Bevilacqua, Franklin; Diane Nixon and Robert Ashley, Delhi; Craig and Cain Rodriguez; Lynn Beken, Laurens; Heidi, Wendy and Bonnie Stanton, Oneonta; Janet Glantz, Oneonta; David MacKenzie, Morris, and Becky Todd, Unadilla.

Father, Daughter, Get (Balloon) Ride Of A Lifetime

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hen balloon pilot Rick Buckles of Typnady Balloon Adventures, Rochester, pulled up in his van at 6 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, in Neahwa Park, Jeff Gardner feared he was going to be told the dawn balloon ride had been cancelled.

And he’d dragged daughter Amethyst out of bed at 5:30 a.m. for the occasion. Instead, the father and daughter got the ride of a lifetime.

“They needed people to help launch the balloon,” said Gardner, business manager at First UM. “They asked if we would help.”

Jeff Gardner photo The two helped get the Oneonta, viewed from the balloon Typnady, on basket out of the van and Saturday morning, Sept. 1

helped lay the balloon – christened Typnady – the 90,000cubic-foot balloon, flat on the ground. A Gardner gas-powered fan filled it with cold air, the pilot light was ignited, and the balloon went straight up.

As a reward, Buckles gave the two a ride over early morning Oneonta. “It was an incredible experience to see Oneonta, the town I grew up in, from the air,” Gardner said.

Stock Car Hall of Fame Inducts 3 From County MORRIS

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hree Otsego County drivers will be inducted into the Central New York Stock Car Hall of Fame during the Hall of Fame reunion on Sunday, Sept.

9, at the Mid-State Speedway at the Otsego County Fairgrounds: • Larry Smith of Mount Upton started racing in 1968 in a 1961 Chevy. He continued to compete until 1979.

• Glen Hawley of Maryland was the former president of the Mid-State speedway. He helped partner with Utica Club Brewery and brought both the first qualifier and the first pace car to the raceway.

• Willie Wightman of Schuyler Lake got his first race car, a ‘35 Ford Coup, at age 15. He started racing in 1958 at the age of 19 and continued to race until 1969.

The Hall of Fame day will include old racing movies, prizes, a Cruise-In, raffle and entertainment.

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Beyond the List

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6-7, 2012

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DAY OF REFLECTION, REMORSE, RENEWAL A Teach-in: Remembrance and Reconciliation

Time

Activity

Ongoing

Location

The Black List Timeline

Milne Library, Third Floor

10-11:15 a.m.

Black List Documentary and Discussion

Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building

10-11:15 a.m.

Racing the Body: What Forensic and Medical Anthropologists Can Tell Us about Race

Craven Lounge at the Morris Conference Center

10-11:15 a.m.

Race, Power & Illusion

Waterfront Room at the Hunt College Union

10-11:15 a.m.

What is Race?

Instructional Resource Center Room 5

11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Global Chef

Mills, Wilsbach and Hulbert Dining Halls

1-2:15 p.m.

Ethnic Notions

Instructional Resource Center Room 1

1-2:15 p.m.

Oneonta: The Legal Odyssey

Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building

1-2:15 p.m.

Why the Black List Still Matters

Instructional Resource Center Room 5

2-3 p.m.

Round Tables: Moving Forward

Otsego Grille at the Morris Conference Center

2-4 p.m.

Street Corner University and Ice Cream Social

Academic Quad*

2:30-3:45 p.m.

Race & Media: Profiling

Instructional Resource Center Room 3

4 p.m.

Atonement Ceremony

President’s Garden**

7 p.m.

Keynote Address

Hunt Union Ballroom

*Chase Gymnasium in the event of rain **Hunt Union Ballroom in the event of rain

Joey Katz, Cooperstown, was among audience members swamping Dr. Cornel West Tuesday, Sept.

4, after his keynoter capping SUNY Oneonta’s 20th anniversary commemoration, “Beyond the List: Remembrance & Reconciliation,” of the widespread targeting of black students for a local crime in 1992.

Nate Leonard of SUNY University Police and sophomore Lauren Mirand spoon water onto a tree to be planted in the Center for Multicultural Experiences in remembrance of Sept. 4, 1992.

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SUNY junior Jenny Leiman, rear, watches Chefs Megan Benzadi, front, and Meica Mider, prepare the Korean dish bibimbap, part of the global menu at the Wilsbach Dining Hall.

At the “Race & Media” panel, Alex Jean-Charles speaks of being shamed by authority figures: “We need to ask, ‘What is my moral obligation when I interact with other human beings?” Behind him are Brian Dolber and Bill Wilkerson.

Attorney Scott Fein, who brought Brown v. City of Oneonta: “The police would stop every black person they saw with such frequency, sometimes as much as every block, that every time a black saw the police they raised their hands.”

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“This is a very special day in a very special institution,” he said. “What took place today is a profound healing of the painful – though no way an end, it was an unleashing of progressive possibilities.”

He repeatedly commanded the audience to have the courage to engage in selfexamination, centering his

lecture around the “Socratic note” that “the unexamined life is not worth living.”

“You need to let go of ways of thinking. Give up assumptions. Raise questions,” he said. “In doing that, you die a little. You need to learn how to die.”

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Crow.” He even addressed the issue of fracking, calling it “the catastrophe of nature.” He offered his empathy to the students, saying, “I salute you under the age of 25 – I don’t know if I could deal with what you’re up against.”

He went on to talk about the film “The Social Network,” saying, “I saw greed, I saw misogyny, I saw survival of the slickest – that’s what you’re up against ... and I said, that boy needs to go to Oneonta, get some deep education!”

But ultimately, West’s message was one of spreading kindness, forgiveness and love. “I am anti-injustice,” he said. “I hate injustice because I love people. Somebody loved me. Somebody loved you.

That’s why you’re here tonight.”

The conclusion was greeted with a standing ovation. When he stepped off the podium, he was swamped by students and crowd members, some who were crying. He hugged, signed autographs and posed for pictures, encouraging people to “keep telling the truth.”

“I will stand up for something bigger than me,” he said. “I aspire to be what I teach.”

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

EDITORIAL

Maybe Worcester Has Small-Scale Answer To Big-Scale Question

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ig picture. Small picture. They don’t look the same.

That was brought to mind by a piece in the New York Times the other week about the Obama Administration’s inability to revive the housing market.

The high priests – Geithner and Larry Summers, in particular – figured out how to bail out Big Banks, but couldn’t wrap their brains around the individual dilemmas some 3 million families with underwater mortgages are facing.

Lately, its being concluded that so many people with their cash tied up in their homes, unable to spend it otherwise, are braking the recovery.

An Ohio State University law professor was quoted: “When you have economists like Larry Summers working on things — well, Larry Summers is a macroeconomist. He’s not a caseworker.”

Not a caseworker. Uh huh.

• In that light, let’s revisit Worcester Central School.

Worcester itself is a bit of a mystery.

When the leaves change, take a Sunday drive up I-88 from Oneonta or over Hooker Mountain from Cooperstown. You’ll be surprised.

While windshield surveys suggest many of our local villages and hamlets are in decline, not Worcester. The downtown includes a local supermarket, two realtors, a hardware store and an enticing restaurant/ hotel, the Worcester White House Inn. There’s a new gazebo in a nicely appointed downtown park, set off by hops vines.

There’s the Weiting Theater; it shows a full schedule of movies, presents locally produced plays, and houses the public library.

In the neighborhoods, Queen Anne mansions, modest and less-modest homes built

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Worcester Central School’s thensuperintendent Gary Kuch helps George Basso cut the ribbon on the $29 million renovation/expansion May 19.

in high Victorian fashion and an occasional imposing, bepillared Greek Revival are almost all nicely maintained on tidy grounds.

And so to Worcester Central School.

A $32 million expansion and renovation – with cheap and available financing, the state’s EXCEL money and tight oversight by general contractor W.H. Lane of Binghamton, it may end up at $29 million – is complete but for repointing of the original 1930s building. Leftover funding is allowing restoration of the original slate roof.

• In May, at the time of the ribbon-cutting,

you may have read a piece in this space decrying a state of affairs that allowed that much money to be spent on such a small district, 406 students in a town of 2,200, plus tiny Decatur and Westford.

Wouldn’t it have made much more sense to think through educational infrastructure needs for Otsego-Delaware county schools and move forward deliberatively? Larry Summers would certainly agree.

And yet, something’s going on in Worcester.

Joan Fredette of Worcester, whose son was performing with the Skinny Guys With Glasses at the Brush & Palette Club crafts fair outside the Clark Sports Center Labor Day Weekend, said professionals from the two hospitals – her husband is a doctor at Fox – have discovered it’s a delightful town and a pleasant commute.

Jim Empie, manager of Key Bank’s Cooperstown branch and Worcester fire chief, said that young people raised in Worcester choose to get jobs in the region and to stay there, adding vitality and civic muscle.

Gary Kuch, the former CCS high school principal who recently retired as Worcester Central school superintendent, said he isn’t sure what’s going on, but that the community’s charm je ne sais quoi are among the things that attracted him there.

• In an interview, Kuch argued convincingly that upgrading the school was simply the responsible thing to do. The old building, it’s fuses blowing when lights and a pencil sharpener were used at the same time, was a danger to the youngsters it contained.

Some classes were held in closets. Special ed was in the auditorium’s balcony.

The cafeteria was in the basement, with limited access and exits. Band, choir, art, the tech class were held in the bus garage,

with gasoline and diesel oil close at hand.

The new building, prize-winning yet, is “beautifully designed without being ostentatious,” he said – visit it; that’s true. And its high-tech SMART boards, white instead of black, and well-wire computers will allow the students to benefit from all manner of distance learning, some not even envisioned yet.

(The Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation, whose mission confines it to Stamford and Worcester, N.Y., and Winchendon, Mass., is planning to finance the redo of the Steinway piano in the auditorium. All the sprucing up made it look a little shabby.)

As for consolidation, Worcester and Schenevus voters had rejected the idea.

And maybe, just maybe, the wave of the future is not big centralized schools, but convenient, smaller-scale local schools, technology tied to expertise, not just around Otsego and Delaware counties, but well beyond. Beside, Kuch said, even as it is, some of his Worcester students had hourlong bus rides to school.

He credits Michelle Empie, the former school board president, Sean Ralph, her vice president and successor, and John Selover, superintendent who envisioned what might be, although he retired before it came to pass.

• Let’s look at it another way, Larry. Sure, Worcester Central’s bucking the macro vision. But with a 21st-century school, community pride, attractive downtown, affordable housing stock and easy accessibility to I-88, halfway between Oneonta and Cobleskill, 45 minutes from the Capital District, why shouldn’t Worcester be Otsego County’s go-to place?

Maybe looking at today’s big solution, we missed tomorrow’s more ambitious one.

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LETTERS

Chris Gibson ‘Boilerplate’?

Such An Idea Is Laughable To the Editor: Many people have asked me, who is Chris Gibson, this candidate for Congress, and whether he’s just another “boilerplate” politician, as described by some sources.

Chris Gibson grew up in Kinderhook, in Columbia County. Attending Siena College and graduating Magna cum Laude with a degree in history, while earning an ROTC commission. Chris holds a doctorate in government from Cornell University. He is the author of “Securing the State,” a book on national security decision-making.

Over his 24-year Army career, Chris rose to the rank of colonel. Chris had four combat tours to Iraq, and deployments to Kosovo, the southwestern United States for counter-drug

operations, and to Haiti, commanding the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team during the opening month of that humanitarian relief operation in January 2010. This was proved to be invaluable experience as shown by his service in Delaware County after Irene.

Chris taught cadets politics/government at West Point. He served as a Congressional Fellow for the House Defense Appropriations Chairman, and completed a Hoover National Security Affairs Fellowship at Stanford University. He was the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

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Why Aren’t ‘The Girls’ In The Hall Of Fame?

hy are there no women in Cooperstown?

Granted, that’s not 100 percent true. Effa Manley was elected in the mass Negro League election from 2006. But, that was as an owner.

Why are there no female players in the Hall of Fame? Chafets brings up women in baseball when he discusses a Hall exhibit, but points out that none have officially been inducted.

At first, you might point out that there are no women in Major League Baseball, which is true. There aren’t players from the NPB either. Cooperstown is pretty much just for MLB players then, right?

But that isn’t totally true, either.

There weren’t any African American players in the Major Leagues from 1890 to 1946 either, but the Hall has since chosen to recognize the Negro Leagues and their players.

And, to prevent anyone from taking a “slippery slope” stance, the Hall’s official name is the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum – inducting women wouldn’t mean that you’d be forced to recognize players from other international leagues.

And the Hall wouldn’t be without choices. The most obvious choice would be the players from the AllAmerican Girls Professional Baseball League back in the 1940s and ‘50s. I really know nothing about the league,

UPCOMING: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League will spend Friday, Sept. 21, in Cooperstown, part of the annual reunion in Syracuse.

Dorothy Kamenshek, first baseman and lead-off hitter for the Rockford (Ill.) Peaches, passed away earlier this year a 84.

so I’m not sure who they should elect.

However, there are stats for the league, and even a provisional Women’s Hall of Fame that already has five members from it.

Those seem like good places to start investigating.

They wouldn’t necessarily have to stop there. If they’re willing to recognize women’s softball (which, for all intents and purposes, seems to have

supplanted women’s baseball), there’s the National Pro Fastpitch league.

The drawback with that is that no one (myself, an hour ago, included) knows about it.

There’s also the women’s national team. The U.S. team dominated the Olympics, much more than even the men’s baseball team. Players like Jennie Finch and Cat Osterman stood above the rest of the competition like the best baseball players have, to the point where people recognized their names during the Olympics (which, given regular-season softball’s lack of publicity, is a pretty big feat).

Basically, I guess my argument boils down to this: softball is now, in spirit, women’s baseball. Even failing that, there actually was women’s baseball in the past.

If the National Baseball Hall of Fame exists to recognize the biggest players in the sport, and they’ve already recognized non-MLB players, why not recognize the top women in the sport, too?

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Fracking Debate Divides Upstate Communities

he battle over high-volume hydraulic fracturing is being waged town-by-town across Upstate New York.

From Buffalo to Albany, Syracuse to the Catskills, about 100 municipalities have enacted temporary moratoriums on the natural-gas extraction process known as fracking, while about 35 have banned the practice altogether.

Meanwhile, nearly 60 towns and villages have passed resolutions in support of fracking or against the idea of a ban. Dozens of other communities are debating the issue now.

The race to sway towns comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers allowing fracking in Upstate communities that express support for it.

A four-year-old state Department of Environmental Conservation review of fracking is continuing, and the Cuomo administration is expected to announce a decision before the end of the year. ...Communities along the Pennsylvania border have generally supported allowing fracking in the Marcellus Shale.

Opposition is concentrated in central and western New York, along

the northern edge of the Marcellus Shale and in the Utica Shale—regions that could be exploited for natural gas but where some say drilling will be unlikely.

Experts said the municipal actions won’t be the last word on fracking.

Several towns along New York’s border have looked across the border with envy at Pennsylvania ... But opposition has grown as environmental groups have raised safety concerns.

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HOMETOWN

History

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

125 Years Ago

There is no denying that the hops crop this year in New York State will be far heavier than was estimated. In some cases yards are yielding fully one-half more than was calculated upon a few weeks ago. The quality has not been surpassed in many years. Growers are selling freely at 18 cents. John R. Scott has bought the growth of A.G. Morris & Son, 125 bales, at this price, and also the growths of George Rose and Enoch Wright at the same figure. Other dealers have also bought freely at 18 cents. At Hubbardsville, on Saturday, the growth of I.S. Allen, 150 bales, was sold at 18 cents. These hops are mainly for foreign shipment. In Cooperstown, on Tuesday, 20 cents was paid.

September 1887

100 Years Ago

New Postal Regulations – Beginning with the present month the young woman who receives letters at the general delivery window instead of at home will have to convince Uncle Sam that there is nothing out of the way about it. The new regulations to prevent abuses of the general delivery window will then go into effect. These are questions which the clerk in all post offices in the country may ask: Are you 21 years old? Are you using a fictitious name? Is this correspondence illegal? If the first two are answered in the affirmative, the clerk will answer: “The mail will be delivered at your home by the regular carrier.” The law is intended to prevent young women making arrangements with men without their parents’ knowledge.

September 1912

80 Years Ago

With the opening game less than two weeks away, Coach W.E. “Shorty” Long lost no time with the opening of school Tuesday to sound the initial call for candidates for the 1932 football squad of Oneonta High School. Forty-three upper classmen responded, six of which were lettermen.

The squad will be augmented today by many freshmen aspirants. For the first week, Coach Long intends to concentrate on conditioning work, fundamental drills and passing.

Coach Long expects this year’s squad to average between 155-165 pounds. Among the upper classmen reporting were 12 backfield men. They included Captain Eddie Hague, Ray Baker, Al Townsend, George Wilber, Len Stanton, Bill Horan, Henry Lare and Pierce Ward of last year’s eleven.

Veteran linemen who answered the call were Vic Wolchick,

10 Years Ago

relations. Based on CSEA-City of Oneonta negotiations, the position is to be advertised and an examination given but Insetta will serve pending the examination. Insetta will begin his duties on October 2. Insetta, who is presently unemployed, came to Oneonta at the end of June. He is a former operations manager of the Uni-Flex Corporation in Manhattan. He attended Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri and Wagner College, Staten Island. He is married to the former Linda Matthews of Staten Island. The couple has three children.

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Organizers of the “Little Red Caboose Festival” are soliciting contributions to defray the expenses of the September 2002 four-day celebration. Festival chairman Wayne Miller said approximately $2,000 is needed to get the festival out of the center; Bard and Trinkino, guards; Doherty, tackle; and Paul red. He said approximately $10,000 was made during the festival honoring the 99th anniversary of the Brotherhood and Pete Ritchko, ends.

September 1932 of Railroad Trainmen. “We made a ton of friends and only an ounce of money,” Miller said. Two expense items, train rides and beer keg sales lagged behind expectations. “We were hoping to make $2,000 on the train rides, but we only Getting clothing for distribution to unfortunate families is one of the most pressing problems for the Family Service made $25,” Miller noted. Scheduling problems accounted for the lack of rides, he said. Approximately 9,700 rides Association, Inc., according to its executive secretary, Mrs. were given on the carnival’s midway. The festival was Frank G. Sherman. “A man came to the office one day to say that his wife had left him with four small children, rang- jammed with people after Sunday night’s fireworks display.

“That was $3,000 worth of fireworks,” Miller said. “Fireing in age from seven months to six years,” Mrs. Sherman reported. They live in two small rooms in a crowded flat. As works aren’t cheap.” Miller said.

September 1982 another example, Mrs. Sherman told how “another young man came in because he had just made a payment on a home he had bought. He had just been asked to move so he State police continued searching Tuesday for a burglar had to have a place for his four children. The house needed who broke into an Oneonta home last week and injured lots of repair, but he could do that,” she said. “However, he a 77-year-old woman in a scuffle. The woman defended did not have money enough left to buy shoes for his chilherself from the knife-wielding burglar and suffered cuts on dren to go to school. Could I loan him the money?” Our her hands and wrists as a result. The woman, whose identity agency does not make a practice of loaning money, since has not been released, was staying in a home on Meadow we do not have it to loan, but I did loan this man money,” Brook Lane northeast of the city’s boundary off East Street. she said, “and it will come back to us.”

September 1952 The victim was asleep when the man entered the house at about 1:30 a.m. Friday. She woke up and the scuffle began.

The only description given was that the man was black.

Blood at the scene indicated that the burglar was injured, John Insetta of 562 Main Street was named temporary possibly on his hand or arm, according to H. Karl Chandler, personnel technician for the city in a special Common state police investigator. “We’ve tried to examine the hands Council meeting held last night, after the Council created of all the black people in the community,” Chandler said. the $8,000 per year job. Insetta will assist the local Civil September 1992 Service Commission and the city with personnel and labor

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the whole family. The spacious living room with wide plank hard wood floors has coveted built-in shelves, surrounding the propane fireplace to enjoy cozy cool nights.

Or let the kids enjoy the sunny family room conveniently located off the kitchen, while making dinner in the ample sized kitchen with island work space.

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Strategies Seek To Control Rowdy Students GROUP/From A1 and SUNY Oneonta Student Development VP Steve Perry and interim University Police Chief Dan Chambers.

Since the incidents that troubled Miller “did involve members of both genders and included individuals of historically underrepresented minorities,” the mayor invited Regina Betts and Lee Fisher from the local NAACP chapter to participate.

The update outlined eight strategies that will be pursued to keep matters from getting out of hand, among them: • All college students will receive a copy of the Oneonta Police Depart-

ment’s “Good Neighbor Policy” brochure, and it will be reviewed in future freshman orientations.

• SUNY Oneonta will “adjust its Code of Conduct” so that, if problems arise, charges against students can be more quickly adjudicated.

• Nayor, Chambers and Kelly will meet weekly to ensure all three are current on law-enforcement matters related to students.

• OPD officers will “promptly contact” Nayor when “serious behavior issues” occur, and he will communicate with his oncampus counterparts.

The college presidents, SUNY Oneonta’s Nancy

Corn Crib ‘Home’ At Swart-Wilcox House CRIB/From A1 property’s original barn.

The floorboards that were left were damaged by the floor, so an entirely new set, made from high-quality Tamarack Timber, was put in place. By Friday, Aug. 31, Edgerton and his crew had the skeleton up.

“He’s a superb craftsman,” said Debby Clough.

“It will look perfect when it’s done ... He had to make a lot of new parts. He’s using all the old tools, chisels and hatchets and such. It’s a real historic restoration.”

The interior walls of the corn crib survived the floor relatively intact, and date back approximately 100 years, while the main sup-

Kleniewski and Hartwick’s Margaret Drugovich, signed off on the Ad Hoc Group’s recommendations before Miller made them public.

Group members reached Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 4, expressed satisfaction with the outcomes to date.

The discussions were “a great way to confirm that many of the practices we here at Hartwick College have in place are on par with what other agencies and institutions are currently doing as well,” Nowak said.

“The more involved you can make a student in their destiny, the better off they’ll be,” said Interim Chief Dan Chambers. “It’s about education and communication.”

port timbers date back 200 years, supported by handhewn peg joints. Edgerton handcrafted new joints to replace missing or damaged ones.

“Each day it’s been a huge change,” said Helen Rees. “It’s coming along much faster than we’d hoped.

The siding and slats still need to be finished, as well as the roof. “By the end of the week, it should be done,” said Clough.

Though the work is being done by Edgerton and his crew, Clough hopes the community will pitch in to help paint the corn crib at a later date.

Fundraising efforts

brought in enough money to get started, but the remainder – nearly $10,000 – is needed to finish paying off the restoration costs. “We just started a massive letter writing campaign,” sad Clough. “We sent letters to anyone and everyone we thought might be interested.”

The official unveiling of the corn crib will be Sunday Oct. 14 at the Corn Fest, where visitors can tour the corn crib, hear about the history, make crafts and play a few rounds of beanbag toss and corncob checkers. “It’s not just about the corn crib,” Rees said. “It’s also a fun fall activity.”

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of living space w/4-5 bedrms, 3 full baths on over 10 private acres in the Cooperstown school district. Lrg unfinished 3rd flr bonus rm. Insulated walkout basement w/radiant heat. Custom ceilings, & 2-sided fireplace between formal dining rm & eat-in kitchen w/cooking island, pantry, & sliding doors leading to rear deck. Wood flrs, high ceilings, & lrg insulated windows. 3 bedrms, hallway bath, & lrg master suite walk-in closet & bath. On-demand hot water htr, back-up generator, & new John Deere all terrain lawn tractor w/bagger is included in the sale. $349,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

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(7634) Just count the extras in this winning 3bedroom Cape Cod. Ideal features include arched doorways, hardwood flooring, country kitchen deck, and dining room. Large yard, Two-car garage, 3season room, newer furnace, newer hot water heater, replacement windows. A fine choice for comfort! Just 4 miles from C’town. Cooperstown Schools Hubbell’s Exclusive. $109,000

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