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Alumna Peppy Then, Peppy Now

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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hen Barbara Blanchard didn’t make the Oneonta High School cheerleading squad, she didn’t pout or cry in the locker room.

Instead, she formed the Pep Club to organize pep rallies, arrange buses to take students to games and work with the Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Heath Green, a Cornell Urban Design student who was a intern at City Hall this summer, outlines prospects for redeveloping the former D&H yards at a presentation Tuesday, Oct. 1, at Foothills/DETAILS, A7

Gibson Votes Nay, Aye Over D.C. Standoff

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.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, voted against Republicans Sunday, Sept. 29, then with them the following evening at the federal government moved toward shutdown.

Sunday, the House bill funded government, but the bill delayed Obamacare for a year. Monday, the House funded government, but required Congress to be covered by Obamacare and to exempt citizens from penalties during 2014.

The Senate rejected both bills, and the federal government shut down at midnight Monday. While not required, Gibson laid off half his staff.

GET INSURED: For details on how to sign up for Obamacare in New York State as of Tuesday, Oct. 1, follow the link from WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM BUDGET GAP: Tallying up departmental requests, Common Council Tuesday, Oct. 1, learned there is a $2.1 million gap in the city’s 2014 budget. Mayor Miller and City Manager Long have plans to pare it/SEE PAGE A7 CORN TIME: A Corn Festival is planned again this year 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at the SwartWilcox House, sponsored by the Otsego County Historical Association.

Barbara Ferguson then is Barbara Blanchard today.

cheerleaders to support the sports teams. “That’s what I really wanted to do,” she said. “I wanted to cheer on the team.”

It’s a pep she kept throughout her life, joining the OHS Alumni Association when it formed in 1999, where she served as treasurer and helps with the annual golfing fundraiser. And it’s what made her the 2013 Alumna of the Please See ALUMNA, A6

Bresee’s IS BACK

Emporium, Studio To Open This Week In Renovated Space

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Buzz Hesse examines the 257.4pound cannon believed to have been lost in the Susquehanna during the 1779 Clinton expedition.

One-Of-A-Kind Cannon Found In Susquehanna

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or Theresa Cyzeski, owner of Theresa’s Emporium, a store in Bresee’s was a dream, even when the former department store was boarded up. “I said, ‘If they ever open that back up, I want to move in!’ I have all these childhood memories of riding that escalator.”

Artifact ‘Of Incalculable Value’ Tied To 1779 Clinton Campaign

By JIM KEVLIN OTEGO

O Kari Pollock has begun hanging art in Pedigree’s.

And with the opening of Klugo’s Parkside Place, that wish has come true. Cyzeski, along with Kari PolIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA lock’s Printigree, are the first two busiMary Verrelli is helping her aunt, Theresa Cyzeski, nesses moving into the renovated Please See BRESEE’S, A6 move Theresa’s Emporium into the former Bresee’s.

TOURISM ABOUT TO BE PRIVATIZED

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he county Board of Representatives Wednesday, Oct. 2, was prepared to privatized the county’s Tourism Office. For a report on the outcome, see WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

n Aug. 11, 1779, Brig.

Gen. James Clinton’s forces, en route to destroy the Iroquois, encamped between here and Oneonta, across Route 7 from Pie in the Sky. A few days before, General Clinon Aug. 7, Clinton mission: had blown up the dam ton’s Destroy the at Cooperstown, and Iroquois. water from backed-up Otsego Lake carried his 200 bateaux swiftly down the Susquehanna, past Oneonta and, eventually, to Tioga Creek.

Those bateaux were flat-bottomed craft, not particularly stable, said Buzz Hesse, the Please See CANNON, A3

Almost $200,000 Raised In Jim Elting’s Memory

By JIM KEVLIN

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n slightly more than a year since Dr. Jim Elting’s passing, 90 donors – 54 from the Oneonta area – have contributed $195,000 to a Hartwick College scholarship in his memory.

While there are larger

scholarship funds, said Jim Broschart, Hartwick vice president of college adDr. Elting vancement, “none (were) raised this quickly to such a

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Dr. Elting, a New Jersey native and orthopaedic surgeon, opened his practice in Oneonta in 1973 and soon

became active in Hartwick College. He was chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees when he passed away suddenly on Aug. 10, 2012.

Elting’s wife, Karen, said her husband was a believer in “giving back. He was able to attend Yale Please See ELTING, A6

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OTSEGO CHAMBER WINS TOP ACCOLADE

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The Otsego County Development Corp. elected new officers at its annual meeting Thursday, Sept. 26, at Holiday Inn/Southside. From right are Bob Harlem, Oneonta Block, president; George Allen, Northern Eagle Beverage, new board member; Len Marsh, Medical Coaches, treasurer; Jim Jordan, Richfield Springs architect, vice president, and Jamie Reynolds, regional executive, NBT Bank, secretary. During the meeting, Allen, Ioxus President Mark McGough and Bresee’s developer Chip Klugo updated the gathering on the progress of their enterprises.

Brian Hutzley, Gilbertsville, who chairs the Otsego County Chamber board of directors, expresses thanks to the New York State Business Council on receiving its “Chamber of the Year” award Friday, Sept. 27, at The Sagamore resort on Lake George. From left are Heather Briccetti, Business County president/CEO; Eric Mower, Business Council vice chair and president/CEO of Eric+Associates, and Barbara Ann Heegan, president/CEO, Otsego Chamber. Hutzley is SUNY vice chancellor/CFO.

Michael Brightman, Leslie Kaplan Catch Sharks, Announce Engagement

Michael Brightman poses with his second sand shark, caught off the waters of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.

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ichael Brightman of Oneonta was in the middle of proposing to his girlfriend, Leslie Kaplan of Cooperstown, on the sandy shores of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., when there came a tug on his fishing line.

“He said, ‘Excuse me, but I have to get this’,” said

Brightman and Kaplan

Kaplan.

The 100-pound, 5-foot long sand shark took half an hour to catch, using bluefish bait.

It was the first of three sharks Brightman caught on the trip.

And after finishing his proposal, he caught the other two, a smaller sand shark and a feisty 4 1/2 foot black tip

that tried to bite him while he was removing the hook.

The couple has been vacationing in New Smyrna for two years and it has always been Brightman’s dream to catch a shark, said Kaplan.

All three sharks were returned safely to the ocean.

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Clinton’s army re-embarked, and some two miles downstream, near a sharp bend in the river, one of the shaky boats tipped over in the still-swift current.

Hesse knows this because, about a year ago, he received a call. A fisherman, trolling along the river, had noticed a rusted object.

On closer examination, it turned out to be a canon, of Revolutionary vintage. “I never saw one like this,” Hesse said the other day.

“As far as I know, no one has.”

Archaeologist Richard M. Gramly, who plans to collaborate with Hesse on an article for a military history journal, called the find “really rare,” and said it is of “incalculable value.”

While Revolutionary

era cannons are common enough, it is most unusual that a particular piece can be put in the context of a specific military campaign, as is the case here, he said.

The canon weighs 257.4 pounds. It is 2 feet, 3 inches long, and has a 2-inch-wide bore. The bore, Gramly said, is 18 inches long. The canon would have been mounted on a wooden frame, perhaps a swivel.

Likely it did not fire a cannon ball, which would have done little damage to the enemy deployed in the underbrush. Conceivably, Hesse surmised, the shot could have been pebbles washed smooth by the river.

Whereas a British or Dutch gun would be marked, this piece has no markings. That is further confirmation of its patriot origins, said Hesse. Making the gun, probably in the Schenectady area, the origin

of the Clinton foray, “was treason,” he said. If the British had regained control of what today is the Capital Region, “they’d be taken out and shot.”

The Sullivan-Clinton Expedition was ordered

by General Washington to eradicate the Iroquois threat to Upstate after the 1778 Cherry Valley Massacre and other depredations.

Sullivan’s army came up from Easton, Pa., Clinton’s from the north; the two units united near Binghamton and went on to fight the Battle of Newtown, near Elmira, which broke the military might of the Six Nations.

Hesse, who worked for the Office of the State Archaeologist before starting Hesse Auctions, said a couple of fallacies surround the campaign.

While Clinton is credited with destroying Oquaga, the Iroquois capital near

Bainbridge, that had actually been accomplished the year before – 1778 – by a Schoharie County force under William Butler.

Further, he argued that, while coincidental with the American Revolution, the Sullivan-Clinton campaign was actually part of the New York Border Wars, fought to pacify territory beyond

Unadilla Creek (then the colonial boundary) so settlers could migrate west.

That would suggest a strategic prowess: That Washington could fight the Revolution and authorize a campaign that looked beyond Britain’s eventual defeat to the needs of a new nation. “My view is that the history books should be

changed,” Hesse said.

Hesse has put together a personal collection of extremely unusual pieces that came into his hands – for instance, three letters, two from Joseph Brant and one from Walter Butler that surfaced in Schoharie County six years ago. He considers the cannon part of that collection.

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It’s Up To Keator To Show He Can Fill Crowell’s Shoes

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ertainly, the Democratic Party’s effort to find a candidate for county treasurer has been a mess. But that doesn’t mean incumbent Dan Crowell isn’t the best candidate for the job.

Before Crowell, who was a reservist when he was elected in 2009, was called up – he has been receiving special ops training at Fort Bragg since January – he excelled as county treasurer. While other treasurers – not all, but most – have been able, Crowell took the job well beyond efficient bill paying and bookkeeping.

He is a big-picture guy. Piece by piece, he wrapped his mind around the daunting financial challenges the county faces, from a shortfall in Medicaid reimbursement to an understanding that, due to changes in state and federal reimbursements, Otsego Manor is no longer viable.

He did so calmly, clearly and convincingly, winning the respect of entities as varied as Citizen Voices and Sustainable Otsego, as well as the Republican-majority county Board of Representatives.

Soon he was being mentioned as a possible county manager/executive, if that were to happen, as a challenger to state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, or as a candidate to replace Assemblyman Bill

Magee when the Nelson Democrat retires. On all counts, he demurred, and did so convincingly.

You got the idea he had something else on his mind.

• And that turned out to be the case.

A Cooperstown Central grad (1994), he went on to Gettysburg College (magna cum laude), and won a Fulbright Scholarship to study rural development in Africa, Latin America and south Asia. He earned a master’s at the London School of Economics, then joined the World Bank. He then studied India’s madrasa system and became intrigued with the challenges the U.S. faces in the world’s largest democracy and neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan.

When he first ran for county treasurer in 2009, he had already applied for special-ops training – he knew he might get called up, even then, he said in an interview the other day – and was in the midst of a years-long security-clearance process that only resolved itself when he was called up a few months ago.

While waiting to serve his country, you can’t expect a young man to put his life on hold. He married, took on two daughters, and he and wife Dee had a son.

FOR THE RECORD: FROM THE TOP

Mayor Miller: Short Of Merger, City Will Collaborate With Town Editor’s Note: Here is Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller’s observations on a town study of municipal consolidation that recommended continuing collaboration, short of merger.

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irst, I applaud the fact that it has been completed and am impressed with the thoroughness and obvious hard work, as well as the number, of those involved. The study confirms much of what we have known and while I might take issue with a conclusion here or there in the document it is on target.

The fact that more people in the town are open to the

Can Ed Keator, left, fill Dan Crowell’s shoes? That is the question for voters.

Approached to run for treasurer, he agreed. There was no assurance the security clearance would ever be granted. Even so, just in case, he walked onto Russ Bachman’s Edmeston porch and knocked on his door. From the beginning, Crowell knew he might be called up, and Bachman, former CFO of a private company in New Jersey, former Otsego Manor manager and candidate for treasurer in 2005, was an ideal fallback, one who might never be called to serve.

• Things really got complicated in July, when Crowell, returning from special-ops training and conferring with Dee, decided not to seek a second term. It turned out that it was too late to remove his name from the Nov. 5 ballot.

There was an option: The party considered nominating him for a town race in, say, a Republicandominated Herkimer County town, a race he was sure to lose. That would have gotten him off the treasurer ballot. Advisedly, Crowell chose not to go that route.

The Democrats scrambled to submit petitions to put Bachman on the ballot and, when challenged in court by the Republicans, acknowledged the documents would not withstand scrutiny. So Crowell is back in. His name will be on Row A, front and center, on the ballot when you go to vote on Nov. 5.

Crowell’s special-ops training, including some heavy-duty tests to see how he hold up under extreme duress, ends in December so, if elected, you can expect he will be sworn in for a second term on the first of January.

In the interview, he said it is “likely” he will be called to active duty during in 2014 for “three to six months.” After that, it is unlikely he will be called up again, “unless there’s another 9/11” event. Then, all bets are off – for Crowell and all of us.

Crowell said he is prohibited by law from offering the treasurer’s job to anyone. And, if elected, he’ll serve. But, since Bachman

LETTERS BOUNTIFUL CELEBRATION

idea, as expressed in the Zogby study, than might have been anticipated is encouraging and indicates a base of support should a town leader choose to make consolidation a source of effort by him or her.

While I firmly believe that the Oneonta community will benefit from a merger, and that the facts in the report support that position, the discussion will never move forward without leadership from within the town itself.

Until that day, I will continue to work with town officials in areas where combined effort will be mutually beneficial.

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he subject of paid parking was raised.

Jeff recalled a conference on municipal parking issues he and Mayor Carol Waller attended in 2007.

Listening to other municipal administrators, they realized the prospect of free parking on Main Street and in Doubleday parking lot enticed visitors away from

using the trolley lots.

Instituting paid parking at Doubleday and this summer along Main Street created more than a little negative feeling, which Jeff believes will subside.

The financial outcome of paid parking is what village ratepayers should consider. “With paid parking, we saved a 10.6 percent increase in village taxes,” Jeff said.

The paid-parking machines were paid for by August. Looking at all the factors, Jeff believes that paid parking is going to stay.

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Beth Rosenthal Is Intelligent, Available, Consensus Builder To the Editor: We are writing to express our support of Beth Rosenthal for reelection as county Representative in District 7 (Middlefield, Roseboom, and Cherry Valley). She is running on the Democratic and Sustainable Otsego lines.

Beth has been an important addition to the representation of district’s interests in county matters.

We have found her to be fiscally minded and forward thinking, with a clear vision of what our area should be working towards to bring clean economic growth to Otsego County while maintaining our rural heritage.

We have seen her work well with the other members of the county Board, striving to reach consensus among disparate views, yet remaining firm in the face of pressure over issues upon

Mayor Katz: Income Will Show Residents Paid-Parking’s Benefit Editor’s Note: Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz provided this status report on paid parking to the Rotary Club recently, according to the club’s newsletter, The Oil Can.

has filled in adequately, even well, in Crowell’s absence, voters can expect that, if and when the treasurer is away, the seasoned surrogate will step in.

• Crowell has been an outstanding county treasurer. He took a hum-drum position, added intelligence and strategy, and by thinking through and understanding Otsego County’s challenges, turned himself into a bi-partisan leader of highest stature.

Still, as the poet had it, the best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men Gang aft agley – i.e., life is messy.

And this is a messy situation.

It’s a month until Election Day, and the Republican-backed candidate, Ed Keator of West Oneonta, who lost to Crowell in 2009, has been an able Cooperstown village treasurer.

Whoever is elected, no one can predict the future. Voters have to decide whether having Crowell as treasurer for four years, minus “three to six months,” is better than having Keator fulltime.

Can Keator become the leader of stature and consensus that Crowell became? If Keator can answer that question in the affirmative in the next four weeks, then he deserves election. Right now, that’s an open question.

which she knows cannot be compromised.

Beth is always available by email or by phone to explain a county Board issue or listen to a constituent’s opinion or concern.

She is a regular participant in Town Board meetings, showing up to report on current matters at the County level and meet and chat with her communities’ citizens.

Beth Rosenthal is a woman of intelligence and integrity. Middlefield, Roseboom and Cherry Valley are very lucky to have her as our Representative on the County Board. Middlefield Neighbors urges the citizens of District 7 to re-elect Beth Rosenthal.

KIM JASTREMSKI Middlefield Editor’s Note: In all, 42 residents signed this letter.

Superintendent Candidate Pernat Helped Otsego Handle Flooding

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A long banquet table stretches along Cooperstown’s Main Street from Fair to River streets Sunday afternoon, Sept. 29, during the community’s second annual Harvest Dinner, sponsored by Growing Community.

Harvest Dinner Means Community To the Editor:

Oh, I hope the Sept. 29 photo turns out!

Late on a sunny afternoon, the Cooperstown FD’s hook-and-ladder truck had wound its ladder upward to about 150 feet to take a shot down Main Street – down Main Street and down 400 feet of lined-up tables. The

tables were laden with potluck food and crowded by hundreds of folding chairs and and hundreds of seated, cheering people all waving toward the top of the ladder.

Cooperstown’s Community Harvest Dinner! What an event! What a community!

Jim Atwell Fly Creek

To the Editor: I am urging voters to support the election of Bryan Pernat for superintendent of highways for the Town of Otsego on Election Day, Nov. 5. Brian is an outstanding young man who was raised and educated right here in our town.

I recall working with Brian in 2006 when he was appointed highway superintendent by the Town Board following the departure of our long-serving and highly respected Superintendent Spike Boyd. Bryan as a young man had some “big shoes” to fill, and he did a wonderful job. I worked closely with him at the time in my capacity as a member of the Otsego Town Board.

In June 2006 when disaster hit with the worst flooding in memory, Brian rose to the occasion. He inventoried

road and bridge damage and prioritized the work to be done. Teams were created and independent contractors were called on to assist the Highway Department workers to get our infrastructure back on-line.

Bryan has proven himself and demonstrated his ability to do the job and work effectively with others. However, even more important he was respected by the Highway Department workers. I do not recall any staff turnover during his time as Highway Superintendent.

Please consider Bryan Pernat with your vote. You will find him on the “Safe Highways” party line. You will not be disappointed with his performance or the maintenance of our town roads.

ORLO BURCH Town of Otsego

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History

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

125 Years Ago

The Local News: Miss Minnie Wilbur of Portland, Connecticut lost her pocketbook containing $15 in cash and valuable papers, upon the Oneonta fairground the last day of the fair. She had very little hopes of ever seeing it again, but advertised her loss and the pocketbook was returned by a Mrs. Hotaling who found it.

The old “Indian Mound” on Walling’s Island, a mile above the village, the wonder for generations of small boys who have imagined “hundreds of Indians to be buried there,” has been shorn of its ill-deserved reputation. The mound was recently dug into and was found to be a natural deposit of earth.

October 1888

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100 Years Ago

Educational and legislative measures to correct the dangerous practice of walking on railroad tracks is advocated in an article titled “A Nation’s Neglect,” by Marcus A. Dow, general safety agent of the New York Central Railroad. Statistics show that for the decade ending in 1910, 103,452 trespassers were killed or injured upon railways in the United States. In the same time, 5,754 trespassers were killed and injured on the railroads in Great Britain and Ireland. One large factor that made for the difference in the figures is that in Europe the laws against trespassing upon the railroad tracks are very severe. During the year ending June 30, 1912, the number of trespassers killed on the railroads in this country was 5,284. Mr. Dow believes that most of this slaughter is needless and due entirely to carelessness.

October 1913

80 Years Ago

Expenditures amounting to several thousand dollars are being made in changing the Sheffield Farm Company on lower River Street from a manufacturing to a bottling plant.

The Sheffield Company has charge of the alterations and about 15 men, many of whom are residents of Oneonta, have been given employment. New machinery will include bottling machines of double units, two bottle washers and two fillers, according to John A. Lambrecht, superintendent.

The new automatic filling machines are each said to fill and cap 80 bottles of milk per minute.

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built the present two-store, three-story brick block there, carting the brick in from Fort Plain. The corner store (currently owned and operated as the History Center of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society) was first occupied by the hardware business of G.Z. Saunders, one of the builders. In 1868, he was succeeded by Edwards and Liddle and that firm by M.L. and D.A. Van Wie. David Wilber brought his private bank from Milford to Oneonta in 1873 and until 1875 it, and its successor, the Wilber National Bank, occupied the rear portion of the store. In 1872, Walter L. Brown, lured by the building of railroad shops, came to Oneonta from Albany and, with Romeyne Brown, bought out the Van Wie interests in the hardware store which became Brown & Brown. In 1919, the block was sold to John Laskaris who remodeled it extensively and moved his confectionary business October 2003 there from across the street. Laskaris operated the premises as a popular restaurant until 1949.

October 1973 Arthur Lee Shelley, age 19, of Maple Grove, was driving along Walnut Street about 8:15 a.m. yesterday when police officer Roy Turner stopped him to investigate a noisy Cozy Avenue is just what it sounds like – a snug little resmuffler. An hour later, Shelley pleaded guilty in City Court idential dead-end lane off of Oneonta’s Dietz Street. But at to a charge of driving with inadequate brakes. City Judge times Cozy Avenue is not easily found for those unfamiliar John L. Van Woert gave him a choice of $25 fine or 25 days with the area. It seems that some people take such a fancy in jail. The youth paid the fine. In his information, Officer to the Cozy Avenue sign that they just have to have it. The Turner told how he got into the car, rolled it along at 20 thieves take the sign off the pole and walk away. “They just miles per hour and then applied the brakes. The car stopped love the name,” said Fourth Ward Alderman James Sheff. after some 135 feet, he said.

The latest replacement for the missing sign was stolen three October 1953 days after its installation. According to Ted Christman, city parks and streets superintendent, street sign theft is more common in Oneonta when the colleges are in session.

October 1983 History of Buildings – Every structure on the south side of Main Street from Broad to Chestnut was erected following a fire which destroyed a building which had previously occupied the site. Such was not the case on the other After more than a year in the planning stages, a new day side of the street from Dietz to Chestnut Street. The brick care center for senior citizens is almost ready to open its structures on those sites are older, in most cases, than their doors in Oneonta. Senior Daybreak, Inc. recently leased the neighbors across the street. The block on the northeast house at 16 Ford Avenue and plans to begin its program by corner of Dietz and Main is the oldest brick structure in the the end of December. “We’ve come a long way in a year city. Jacob Dietz came to the tiny hamlet in 1812 and built – everybody told us we couldn’t do it,” said Penny Brewer, a small store and a fine residence on the site of Bresee’s. the program’s executive director. The program aims to offer Some of the out buildings occupied the land on what is now a stable environment for senior citizens in Otsego, Delathe corner of Dietz and Main Streets. In 1850, these were ware and Chenango counties who require supervision. razed and Turner McCall built a home there. This was gone October 1993 by 1866 when George C. Saunders and William D. Bissell

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Alumni Organized Classmates, And Still Is Today ALUMNA/From A1 Year, to be honored at the induction ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 5. “It’s an honor to be singled out,” she said.

“She’s been a member of the organization since it started,” said Carla Balnis, alumni president. “She doesn’t know how to say no, and she just keeps us all going.”

In addition to the Pep Club, she was also the president of the Girl’s Leadership Club, lead by gym teacher Panny Byard. “She was an

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BRESEE’S/From A1 landmark, and plan to open in the next few days.

Cyzeski opened her counFriday, Oct. 4 • 8 a.m., Golf Tournament, Oneonta Country Club try goods and gifts store in • 6 p.m., Alumi Gathering, Armory 2006 in the back of West Saturday, Oct. 5 End Archery but quickly • Noon, Hall of Fame and Wall of Distinction Inductions, outgrew the space. Now at Belden Auditorium 193 Main St., the store has • 1 p.m., OHS Tailgate Luncheon, hosted by Booster Club once again become too big.

• 2 p.m., Homecoming Game, including halftime ceremo“The new store is double nies the space,” said Kathy Ver• 4:30-8 p.m., Pit Run Pasta Dinner, Boys & Girls Club relli, Cyzeski’s sister and Sunday, Oct. 6 co-owner. “We have several • 8 a.m., Farewell Breakfast, Elks Club large pieces we haven’t been • 10:45 a.m., Pit Run, Neahwa Park able to use – Santa’s sleigh, a table, a cart – and now we when the alumni associayear. can put them in the wintion had its first meeting, Though she retired from dow.” she joined as soon as she the treasurer position, she Theresa’s Emporium will got back. “I like doing it, passed it along to her daughopen in the former Matand I want to keep doing it ter Laurine, and helps her thew’s Clothing store, which as long as I can,” she said. out as “co-treasurer.”

“It’s a lot of work, but even And you can expect to see Bresee’s turned into its teen shop in the 1980s. The new after we’ve been doing this her on Friday night at the for 10 years, there’s always Armory, welcoming alumni space will allow them to something new that comes back. “When we see people offer a larger selection of coffees and teas, including up.” come in and greet people a counter where visitors can She has also helped orga- they haven’t seen in years, enjoy a cup while they shop. nize the Class of ‘54 reunion that’s the real thrill,” she “They can sit down and reevery 10 years, coming up said. “And we add more lax,” said Verrelli. “But we on the 60th reunion next people every year.”

influence on the lives of so many girls,” she said.

After her graduation as Barbara Ferguson, she married Herbert Blanchard, an OHS alumnus, Class of 1943.

He passed away in 2004. She raised four children, all OHS grads themselves, and worked at the Normal School, then transitioned with it when it became SUNY Oneonta.

After 30 years, she retired in 1995.

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In describing the Hartwick stalwart, Broschart remembered Elting’s “passion for scholarship,” calling him a “strong yet warm leader” with “contagious enthusiasm.”

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While the particulars are still being worked out, the scholarships may be targeted at students considering careers in medicine, sports medicine, sports management or a related field, “where Jim’s interests all came together,” he said.

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Cyzeski’s husband, David, has been recruited to make new shelves, and Scott Parker, a cabinet maker from Hartwick, will also set up some displays. “He’ll have his work here instead of a showroom,” said Verrelli.

For Pollock, who moved to Oneonta from Manhattan three years ago, moving into Bresee’s was a way to experience the history of her new hometown. “I wanted to be involved in the story of Bresee’s,” she said. “I’m very into antiques—and those windows! It’s very Victorian, very steampunk.”

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Groundwork Laid For D&H Yards, Airport Development

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neonta’s rail yards – the largest underdeveloped tract in the city – could become a home for light industry or for transshipment of bulk materials, according to report presented Tuesday, Oct. 1, at Foothills Performing Arts Center by a consultant group brought in to address the issue.

Design Connect, which is affiliated with Cornell University, examined the site for a year at the request of GOEDC, the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council, an ad hoc

group of local business people, said Heath Green, a graduate assistant and leader of the group that examined the rail yards and Oneonta Municipal Airport. Green said that his group’s focus, at the request of GOEDC, was restricted to business applications.

Design Connect is offering two alternatives for the rail yards.

Under one, a road would bisect the site from east to west, and the developable land would be broken into roughly 2-acre sites.

Under the second option, the road would skirt the wetlands, leaving a 30-acre site for a large occupant and several smaller tracts.

The airport is more straightforward, with proposed development along the southeastern side.

Among the possible businesses, Green said, would be a processing center for criminal evidence. New York City, he said, has a months-long backlog and has to outsource much of the work to the Midwest. Oneonta, less than an hour away by air, he said, would offer a quicker turnaround.

What are needed in both locations, Green said, are entrepreneurs willing to invest in start-up businesses, convinced that Oneonta is an advantageous location.

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above the $538,000 target set by the city to gradually eliminate annual deficits, Mayor Miller said in a document handed out at the council meeting.

However, both he and City Manager Michael Long, who marked one year in his position that day, emphasized the city is early in its budget process, with a workshop scheduled for Tuesday the 8th, where the 2014 budget will be discussed in more detail.

The deadline for completing it falls in mid-November, Miller said.

Departmental requests typically are more akin to wish lists and rarely survive the budget process intact. “We’re just getting the numbers together,� Long said. “It’s very fluid.

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Miller added that flat state aid and the property tax cap left little room to increase revenue, while obligations for salaries, benefits and pensions would continue to hamstring the city’s efforts to reduce the deficit to zero. Other than shifting inevitable capital costs to future years, the city’s main path to zero deficits would require reductions in the workforce, he said, prefer-

ably via attrition. “We need to look at some major impacts as far as personnel,� Long added.

The workshop, which will be open to the public, is scheduled for Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.

In other business: • The council, as part of its consent agenda, voted to turn over the northern end of Blodgett Drive to the developer of the Hillside Commons student housing project for $1. Newman Development would be responsible for all upkeep on that section of the road, which has no other properties bordering it. Long also said that stormwater-mitigation at the project is nearly completed, and that the city is happy with the progress so far.

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At Robbery Scene, Customers Panicked, But Officer Took Action mentarily stunned. Coming out of BROTHERS/From B1 had left his gun locked in his OPD it, “Rick grabbed the gun as they wrestled. It went off.” locker. He and wife Deb offered “Even after Rick was hit,” the to buy the required food for the brother recounted, “he hung onto gathering: “We’re going to go the guy so hard, that when they to the store. We’ll be back in 45 arrested him in Colorado, he had minutes.” Next thing Sid rememblack and blue marks under his rib bers, the phone rang. It was Deb. cage.”

“I think Rick was shot,” she said.

Sid picked up Deb and “And it’s not good.” met the rest of the family at Immediately, Sid drove Fox Hospital’s emergency to the scene. As he crossed room. “They came out and Lettis Highway, an ambutold us, ‘Rick’s gone’.” lance, lights flashing, came Speechless, they were racing from Southside. escorted in. There lay their Through his rear view mirloved one on a gurney, his ror, “I could see them in body covered, only his head the back window, perform- Dick Ovens, “a big showing. ing CPR.” man with • As Sid later learned, gentle Within two hours of the Ricky and Deb had been words,” shooting, the whole city was at the back of the former there locked down. En route back Grand Union, near where was for Sid. to the Grand Union to pick OfficeMax is today, when up their brother’s car, Sid they heard “a big bang.” and Steve were stopped at three A mom came running down the roadblocks. aisle in a panic, one kid on each They arrived at a parking lot hand. The supermarket was being filled with police cruisers, from robbed. the state police, county Sheriff’s Rick took control. “Get everyDepartment, the OPD. In a daze, one out of the store. Call 9-11,” Sid crossed the police tape. A big he told the employees. Said Sid, tall trooper – Sid didn’t recognize “They recognized Rick. They him; he must have been from out knew who he was.” One woman of the area – sought to block his later told the brother, “I wanted way. “Suddenly I heard a voice.” so bad for him to help us. But I A familiar drawl. “Don’t you KNEW something was going to touch him,” the voice of command happen to him.” ordered.

Rick sidled toward the front of It was Commander Mike Corthe store. He saw the perpetrator, pin, the brothers’ BMO. He had 5-foot-8, 180 pounds, at the courbeen reassigned to from the acadtesy counter, sawed-off shotgun emy to the top job at the Richfield in hand, demanding money from Springs barracks. terrified managers.

The brothers returned to BelHe waited. As the robber mont Circle, where the shocked headed toward the door, the offamily was contemplating its loss. ficer plunged. Ricky tackled the At 2 a.m. on the 21st, there suspect so hard he flattened him, was a knock on the door. It was but then skidded into the plate James W. McMahon, superinglass window so hard he was mo-

outside,” he told Sid, “and throw some chairs around.”

After a mass that overflowed St. Mary’s on Elm Street – 10,000 officers attended from around the state – and a huge reception at SUNY Oneonta, Sid returned to his empty home. There was Dick Ovens. They walked over to a pile of 250-pound blocks the brothers had been using to build a retaining wall. Sid, effortlessly, would put them in place one at a time; sometimes, he would haul two over, one in each hand, he told Ovens.

That afternoon, Sid had been one of the pallbearers, along with HOMETOWN ONEONTA In the years since May 20, 1994, the Parisian family turned Ricky’s pal Steve Havens, brothers Randy, Terry and Steven, and their tragedy into service to the community, winning such brother-in-law David Currie. The accolades at St. Mary’s School 2011 Distinguished Educasket was heavy, real heavy, Sid cation Partner Award. Patriarch Al Parisian, who passed said. He and Ovens computed away later that year, is surrounded by family. Standing, from left, are Lisa Parisian, Jennifer McGrath, Edythe Parithe weight each man had to bear: sian, Scott Georgia, Janice Parisian Currie and her husband About 250 pounds. Why do you David, Mark “Sid” Parisian, Deb Parisian and Steve Parithink it felt so heavy? Ovens sian. In front with her granddad is Cheryl Parisian. asked. Sid didn’t know. “Because you didn’t want to carry it,” said tendent of the New York State community grief followed. At Ovens. the viewing, mourners waited Police, the first officer to rise up Said Sid, “these are the things four hours outside the Lester R. the ranks from trooper to the top that Dick Ovens did for me.”

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The ordeal wasn’t over. law-enforcers and law-breakers, “Rick was the first trooper killed Three days after the shooting, including two young men, often under his watch,” said Sid. “I Colin Hyde, a 24-year-old from arrested, who Ricky had always saluted him. I welcomed him to Morris, flew to Colorado. In treated with respect. The brothers Denver, he tried to pass bills spotour home.” had sought to treat the law-biding Sid remembers McMahon’s ted with blood and was arrested. and less law-biding with consider- DNA testing, then in its infancy, words: “We are going to find out ation; as locals, they would have who did it. We’re going to go to made the connection: Ricky had to live with the aftermath. “Do the end of the earth to find him. bled into Hyde’s knapsack and you realize how much it took for And we’re going to be here for onto the stolen money. them to walk into this place?” Sid you every step of the way.” With Hyde was arrested and brought said. him were two men, Dick Ovens back to Otsego County, charged As the person most familiar – “a big man who spoke gentle with robbery and murder, second with his family and Deb’s, Sid words” – and Mike Kirby. McMadegree. It turned out Hyde had stood between the survivors, intro- been fired by the supermarket. hon had just created an employee ducing the long line of mourners assistance program for just these “He was angry at the Grand Union who knew one family but not the kinds of situations, and appointed and needed money,” said Sid. other. At one point, he snapped at “This was his way to get money those two men to staff it. an organizer, and Dick Ovens was and revenge.”

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Birds Sing, And Survivors Remember BROTHERS/From C1 Hyde went on trial the following summer in highceilinged Courtroom #1 in the historic county courthouse in Cooperstown. Sid attended every day of the trial. “I never cared what he got as a penalty,” he said.

“I wanted to make sure the process worked – and it did.”

At the sentencing, Sid had the chance to say his piece.

“I saw the defendant laughing. I saw him being able to hug his mother.” Because of Hyde’s actions, Ricky would never experience those everyday pleasures again. “We cannot keep him from smiling. We cannot keep him from laughing.

But we can keep him from doing it outside a prison cell.” The packed courtroom broke into applause.

Hyde received 25 to life for the murder, 12 1/2 to life for the robbery. “It was 37 1/2 years before he would be eligible for parole,” Sid said.

• A few weeks later, Sid was invited to a meeting at the former state police barracks on Southside, next to where Airgas is today. It was organized by then-Lt. Kevin Molinari – as major, he retired last spring as Troop C commander – and Tim Catella, a boyhood friend of Ricky’s from the Belmont Circle neighborhood. About two dozen of Ricky’s longtime pals were there.

The idea of a 10K memorial race emerged, and planning began for what became the Pit Run, which will be run for the 20th time on Sunday, Oct. 6.

It was a 10K, which attracts only the most ardent runners. October is late in the year; the 10K season had passed. One of the organizers, a marathoner, tried to cushion the others not to expect too much.

But that October morning, when Sid arrived at Neahwa Park, many hundreds of people had gathered between Hodge Pond and the swimming pool; 849 ran the grueling race.

While cooler than August, the first run included “The Frying Pan.” A map shows the route passing other sites important to Ricky: St. Mary’s, the junior high school when it was on Academy Street, OHS, SUNY Oneonta, where he met Deb. Brooks’ BBQ has been an annual staple since the beginning. John Brooks was ill, and – as Sid tells it – son Ryan, back from Atlanta to help out his dad, was stunned by the turnout.

“To see how this community responded to this, I don’t want to be anywhere else,” Ryan said, and he’s running the House of BBQ today.

The first run was so successful, “we formed a foundation.” While he didn’t have any of his own, Ricky loved kids, his brother said.

So, for 20 years now, the Ricky J. Parisian Memorial Scholarship Foundation has been helping local boys and girls get through college.

Presentations are made at an annual dinner, usually in January.

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• Sid believes the Pit Run shows Oneonta’s community character, which he describes this way: If a stranger from out of town pulls up to Stewart’s and goes in for a cup of coffee, all the regulars will ignore him. If he drives into Stewart’s parking lot with a flat tire, all the regulars will be out there, helping him change the tire.

In 1995, Binghamton Patrolman Lee Barta was shot and killed. In 1996, Ithaca officer Scott Padula died from stab wounds received in the line of duty.

Memorial runs were organized in their honor, and the three events were promoted jointly. After a half-dozen years however, only the Pit Run continued. Oneonta didn’t forget Ricky Parisian.

A 2-mile stroll was added, then a 5K and, finally, a fun run. The record is 1,800 runners, with participation settling into the 1,6001,800 range. That defies bad weather. Remember the 2008 flood? A week before the run, high water closed Neahwa Park. Sid showed up at 5:34 a.m., asking himself, “Why am I doing this?

Nobody’s going to show up.” At 10:05, “I looked out into that field; it was full.

1,500 people showed up.”

Sid has run all 19 runs, and plans to run the 20th.

Brother Steve does the heavy lifting organizationally; you’ll see him there Sunday as well.

Three years later, the annual Law Enforcement Benefit Ride began. At first, it was limited to police and firefighters and drew 30-35 riders, but it was soon expanded to the general public. This August, it attracted 220 motorcyclists, who gather at the Oneida Street barracks, ride up Route 28 to Cooperstown and Glimmerglass State Park, returning to Wilber Park for a Brooks BBQ feast.

Ricky got his Harley after all.

• After things settled down, Sid and Deb went separate ways, only to find themselves sitting next to each other six years later at a family barbecue. “I remembered we had once been close friends,” Sid said. Today, the two are inseparable.

Still, what ifs tortured the family, particularly in the early years.

What if Ricky had his gun with him?

It had been a little chilly the night of the 20th, and Ricky stopped by the house to pick up a sweatshirt for Deb. Driving on to the Grand Union, “every single

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Cooperstown’s Josh Edmonds accepts the first-place plaque after winning the 2012 Pit Run.

traffic light was green,” she later told Sid. “If they had hit one red light, they would have missed it.” What if?

“If I was there, would something have been different?” Sid asked himself.

What if?

A year and a half after Ricky’s passing, the New York State Trooper Association began annual Survivors Weekends, which feature grief workshops and a memorial service. Most important, it enables families united by that single experience to meet, talk and share.

“You meet people who have gone through what you’re going through,” said Sid. The community that had been a comfortable home for the Parisians was suddenly different. Once, at a family dinner in the crowded backroom at Ruffino’s, the Parisians broke into laughter. Suddenly, they realized the rest of the room had fallen silent. “Are they questioning why you’re laughing?” Dick Ovens asked Sid when he raised the matter. “Or are they looking for permission?”

“They” – a community that had also suffered a trauma – “were looking for permission,” Sid concluded.

“You laughed before this all happened. Why not laugh after,” said Ovens.

Ricky’s mother, Margaret, passed away on June 21, 2009, at age 81. Dad Alvin, 86, was honored by St. Mary’s School as Distinguished Partner In Education in 2011 for the raffles the couple had organized for years to benefit the school.

He passed away that Sept. 9.

At one Trooper Foundation session, the counselor asked the gathering, “Why do birds sing?” No one knew the answer. So the session continued and, 90 minutes later, Ovens asked again, “Why do birds sing?”

Again, no answer.

“Birds sing because they have a story,” Ovens said.

“However you tell your story, that’s your loved one singing.”

• Four years after being sentenced to a maximum-security prison in the Hudson Valley, Colin Hyde attacked his guard while being treated at a Kingston hospital and escaped. He was recaptured in the parking lot and, after trial, received another sentence.

Later, he fashioned a shiv, stabbed his cellmate and was put in longterm solitary confinement.

He suffered a stroke and died in prison on May 16, 2004.

If Hyde’s forgotten, Ricky is not. In addition to the run, and the memorial ride, and Ricky’s memory alive in the people who received his scholarships, there’s a memorial on OfficeMax’s cinderblock west wall, a simple plaque.

Four times a day, Southside Mall security officers make their rounds, swiping magnet cards to record their passage. At some point, mall management put a card swipe next to the plaque.

“So four times a day, they check Rick’s plaque,” Sid said with some satisfaction.

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