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hen this year’s winner – Amsterdam – of the state’s $10 million DRI award was announced last week, the list of this year’s also-rans included the Village of Cooperstown.

With little fanfare, the village has been seeking Downtown Revitalization Initiative money for the past three years, said Trustee Cindy Falk.

Oneonta won the money in 2016.

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Artspace Aimed At Ford Site

Build Internet, Now, City Hall Might People Follow, Forget It, Mayor Says Frazier Asserts

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onnectivity is a future focus of economic development and Common Council member Michele Frazier wants the Hill City to do more.

“People are able to work remotely,” Frazier said at the Tuesday, Oct. 2, meeting. “We have a wonderful community, we are a perfect place for workers who want to live in a place like this and work remotely.”

She asked her colleagues to consider building a municipal Internet system, coupled with a market to attract tech-savvy workers.

GO BALD: Red Jug Pub will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation head-shaving event to raise money for childhood cancer research noon-4 Saturday, Oct. 6.

SOME PAINT LEFT: Five-gallon cans of beige/tan paint, left over from the annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day, is available at 607-547-4225.

GRANTS DUE: The Kiwanis Club of Oneonta is accepting applications for up to $300 in mini-grants to non-profits that benefit children. Send letters to: Kiwanis Club, YCPO, Box 491, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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y proposing a distillery for the former Oneonta Ford building, a group of entrepreneurs has jumped claim on the city’s preferred site for Artspace, ►EDITORIAL: according to Mayor It’s time for Common Gary Council to take Herzig. the Oneonta “We Ford site by have condemnadevelopers tion/SEE A4 who are interested in that property,” said Herzig, who has been negotiating with the Twelve Tribes, the religious community that also owns the adjacent Yellow Deli, for more than a year.

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Three of 53 Lhasa Apsos look quizzically at their new home, the Susquehanna Animal Shelter.

Volunteers Take Dozens Of Dogs From Milford Home

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s the rain poured down, Susquehanna Animal Shelter staff and volunteers descended on a Milford home Tuesday morning, Oct. 2, and carried off 53 Lhasa Apsos to the shelter’s safety.

‘Friendliest Guy’ Now OHS Alumnus Of 2018

By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA

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hether you called him Everett Alligator or Sweet Pea in high school, one thing about Everett Baroni remains true 37 years after graduation.

“I was voted ‘Friendliest Guy’ by The Echo, our school newspaper,” he said.

The Oneonta Baroni High School Alumni Association agrees, Please See BARONI, A2

“This is the most animals we’ve ever taken from a home,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director. “On Monday, the Sheriff let us know of the situation so we could get organized and packed. With so many dogs, we have to make sure we get them properly labeled.”

The owner surrendered the dogs to the shelter; they ranged from puppies to 16 years old. “She started out with

a couple of dogs, but it soon became too many dogs,” Haynes said. “She did the right thing by surrendering them to us.”

The situation began Monday, Oct. 1, when a sheriff’s deputy was summoned to a dispute at a property in Milford, unidentified because no charges are expected to be filed.

At the scene, deputy noticed the Please See DOGS, A3

Hands-On Training At Hartwick Nursing Lab Instructor Marie Louise Maya Silber watches Gabrielle Boli take Anna Dickson’s blood pressure.

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creaming mannequins, a pad of simulated skin and a doublepronged stethoscope.

It’s not a haunted house – it’s Hartwick College’s new, state-of-theart Nursing Simulation Lab. “We had a blank room in Smith Hall that used to be a lounge,” said Monica Please See NURSING, B8

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Democrats Elect Swan As County Chairman

Brenner, Burns Honored For Work With Recovery Community

OHS Names ‘Friendliest’ Alum Of ’18

Aimee Swan, the new county Democratic chair, is flanked by, from left, co-chairs Andrew Stammel and MacGuire Benton, Secretary Dick Breuninger BARONI/From A1 and Treasurer Bill Elsey. Swan, elected Sept. 27, and has named Baroni its succeeds Kim Muller.

2018 Alumni of the Year.

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Julie Dostal, LEAF executive director, left, and Deborah Berrios, FOR-DO director, right, presented leadership awards to Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner, and Otsego County Judge Brian Burns (accepted by Court Attorney Nathan Getman) at the 9th annual Here Comes The Sun Recovery Awards Dinner on Friday, Sept. 28, at the Quality Inn on Southside.

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He will be honored at noon Saturday, Oct. 6, along with Wall of Distinction inductees Harold Anderson, ’48, Howard Canfield, ’32, Maryann Corrao Feree, ’72, Diane Georgeson, ’75, and Athletic Hall of Fame inductees Geoff Bean, ’03, Terry Deery, ’68, George McGurl, ’67, Carl Delberta and the 2002 Boys Track Team.

“I’m humbled by this,” he said. “I’m following in the footsteps of people I have tremendous respect for, so to be recognized means a lot to me.”

Though he played on the OHS golf team, he wasn’t active with clubs, and didn’t get involved with the alumni association until 2010, when Tony Drago asked him to help out with the golf tournament.

“I was selling mulligans, and I thought, ‘I think I can be a positive force for this organization.’”

He joined Drago and Bruno Scavo to help raise money, and in 2013 they raised a record $7,000.

“They were going to people and asking for money,” he said. “I started sending letters and emails to bring in more people.”

And he brought in plenty.

“We used to have 17 teams,” he said. “This year, we have 31. We had to turn four teams away, which we didn’t like doing.”

He also helped with the alumni newsletter.

In high school, Baroni earned his “Most Friendly” reputation. “I always despised people who picked on other kids,” he said. “It’s horrible.”

His senior quote was from Ben Franklin: “We must all hang together or surely, we will hang separately.”

“I still live by that today,” he said. “The hate in our country is deplorable.”

And he keeps it up even now. “There was one kid who was in the special education classes, and we always make sure to invite him to every reunion and bring him a gift,” he said. “We want him to feel included.”

Following his graduation in 1981, Baroni moved to Concord, Calif., where he met his wife, Janice, while both were working for a Hilton Hotel.

In 1986, the two moved back to Oneonta. “I don’t think there’s any community better than this,” he said. “When I was a kid, people left their doors open, their keys in their car. It’s a great place to raise a family.”

It was, however, a new experience for his wife. “I had never seen snow before!” she said. “I’m from Hawaii. I didn’t own boots!”

His three children, Penny, Andy and Janet, are also alumni, and Andy is in the Alumni Hall of Fame as a member of the 1999 Soccer Team.

And as for those nicknames…

“My brother worked for Green Giant and he had a hat that said ‘Sweet Pea’. I wore it to a party,” Baroni said, “and the nickname stuck! And someone called me Everett Alligator because I always wore the shirts with the little alligator on them.”

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, October 4-5, 2018

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-3

Susquehanna Animal Shelter Rescues 53 Lhasa Apsos From Milford House DOGS/From A1 dozens of dogs and was unsure they were being cared for properly, so he alerted Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. “The living conditions for the humans and the animals were very poor,” said Devlin.

“We met with the shelter, and then we all went over to meet with the owners. They agreed

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that the situation was not proper, and surrendered the animals.”

The dogs were not spayed or neutered, leading to inbreeding. Though not malnourished or abused, the cramped conditions were manifested in skin disorders, fleas and “cherry eye,” where the inner eyelid prolapses and protrudes from the eye.

“With proper nutrition and clean space, in a few weeks these dogs will be very adoptable,” Haynes said.

“The animals weren’t neglected to the point of dehydration or malnourishment,” said the sheriff. “The owners cared about the animals, they just couldn’t care for them.”

Only one dog, the 16-yearold male, was considered seriously ill.

Haynes reached out to other shelters to help with the sudden influx of animals.

“We don’t want to be in a hoarding situation ourselves,” she said.

The shelter also plans on seeking foster families when the animals are healthy enough to leave the shelter.

“Luckily, we had a lot of empty kennels,” said Haynes.

“We had a good summer and

adopted out a lot of dogs.”

Lhasa Apsos originated in Tibet, where they guarded monasteries by alerting the Buddhist monks of intruders.

The average cost for a Lhasa Apso puppy is $500, but with papers one can cost as much as $5,100.

The county allocated $5,000 to the sheriff’s department to help the shelter when animals are removed from dangerous situations. At a standard surrender fee of $40 a dog, Haynes will bill the department $2,120, nearly half the allocation for the year.

“It is vitally important that we get support from the community,” she said.

The biggest cost will be spaying and neutering the animals, and donations are accepted through the shelter’s website. “Having to spay and neuter this many dogs creates a bottleneck and slows down the process,” she said.

“We’ve reached out to the Mohawk-Hudson Humane Society; they have their own in-house spay and neuter clinic. We’re hoping they can help.”

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dogs were seized from South Side Kennels in Worcester, a puppy mill owned by Frank Popolizio Sr. In 2016, 40 cats were rescued from a hoarding situation in West Oneonta.

And earlier this year, the shelter helped place more than 100 neglected farm animals after they were rescued from a Garrattsville farm, including five dogs that were housed at the shelter and later adopted.

“In the three years since I’ve been here, this is my first dog-hoarding case,” Haynes said. “But we don’t know what we don’t know, and there may be others out there.”

SAS Vet Tech Sara Haddad, Bainbridge, puts eye drops in the oldest dog taken from the Milford home; it may not survive.

Helping are Bob Wood, Oneonta, and Sue Leonard, Cherry Valley.

Soaked volunteer Arlene Nygren ferries a rescued Lhasa Apso from her van into the Susquehanna Animal Shelter.

Because the dogs were surrendered, Devlin does not plan to arrest the owner.

“She loves dogs, no question,” said Haynes. “And

when they’re spayed and neutered, she can come back and adopt one, and we’ll work with her to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

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FRIDAY, october 5, 2018

EDITORIAL

Isn’t It Time For City To Act, Or Get Out Of The Way?

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ou know, of course: Creativity is making something out of nothing.

Or, better, recognizing potential where nobody else does.

The scoop in last week’s paper is a case in point: A group calling itself The Market Street Alliance is proposing a distillery in the former Oneonta Ford building, that dreary, long-empty, black-painted hulk at the foot of Chestnut Street, across from Foothills.

But that’s just the beginning: The idea is to make it a centerpiece for a downtown Oneonta transformed into a beverage center, with breweries, wineries, even mead-makers. (Yes, mead, that honey-based brew quaffed by King Hrothgar and his knights.)

The local CPA and investor in

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the prospective distillery, Johna Peachin, got the idea from a visit to her son in Walla Walla, Wash., where she participated in a monthly Sip & Stroll event.

• At the Walla Walla – “twice as nice,” promoters say – Downtown Foundation, Events Manager Cindy Frost says her region is being marketed these days as

“The New Napa Valley.”

There are over 100 wineries in the Walla Walla valley, and threedozen wineries have tasting rooms in the downtown, attracting toptier restaurants and hotels there.

Last summer, the foundation came up with the idea of the Sip & Stroll, which has just finished its second May-to-September season.

One evening a month, the wineries waive the fee on their tastings, and about 100 people have been buying $10 tickets to partake.

Many participants, of course, then buy a glass or two, shop, dine, etc., making it worthwhile for the downtown establishments.

The evening’s a magnet, which is what every downtown wants.

The $1,000 revenue is used to Please See EDITORIAL, A5

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If entrepreneurial Market Street Alliance can revive Oneonta Ford as a distillery, fine. But what if it can’t?

“My concern is the building will sit as it is for very many years to come,” said Mayor Herzig.

PRESS RELEASES OF THE WEEK Delgado: Foe Lies About My Medicare Plank Editor’s Note: Excerpts from press releases on the same topic from each 19th District Congressional candidates will appear weekly through Oct. 25-26 in this space.

mission to bring access to universal quality, affordable healthcare has been clear. He supports getting to universal coverage as fast as possible by creating a public option which gives everyone the choice to opt into Medicare. ►HEADLINE: Faso Local and national reporting Continues to Campaign has repeatedly stated this and on Lies and Deceit it has been written time and • time again. Yet the latest ohn Faso can’t run on Republican Super PAC ad his record in Congress, makes a completely false so he and his allies conclaim that Delgado supports tinue to campaign on lies. The a “radical government-run latest Republican Super PAC HOMETOWN ONEONTAl takeover of healthcare.” ad peddles yet another lie, this Democrat Antonio “Every aspect of John time trying to mislead voters on Antonio Delgado’s position Delgado in Richfield Faso’s campaign has relied on Springs Aug. 23. falsehoods and dishonesty,” on healthcare. said Delgado for Congress Faso has lied to Andrea campaign manager Allyson Marcus. “First Mitchell, lied about his healthcare votes, they tried hateful and divisive attacks – that lied about Antonio’s background and now didn’t work, so now they’re now attempting he’s lying again about Antonio’s healthcare to misrepresent Antonio’s position on position. creating access to universal quality, affordAs Delgado has been running to bring able healthcare. real representation back to NY-19, his

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Faso: ‘Truth’ TV Ad Disputes Rival’s Claim ►HEADLINE: New Ad: Faso Campaign Releases ‘Truth’ SECONDARY HEAD: Testimonial from Mary Frances Faso Rebuts False Attacks

“Through the surgery, the treatments, the recovery, by my side every step of the way.

“John knows first-hand how important healthcare is for families.

“The truth is he voted to guarantee coverage for people ALATIE – Faso for with pre-existing conditions, Congress released and to protect seniors on a new ad, entitled Medicare.

“Truth,” which rebuts false “That’s the man I know.

Delgado and Pelosi PAC “Working to help people. attacks on healthcare. The ad Making a difference. features John’s wife, Mary “And that’s the truth.

Fran, who describes her “JF: I’m John Faso and I fight with cancer and John’s HOMETOWN ONEONTA approve this message.” commitment to maintaining Republican John Starting today, “Truth” will Faso in Richfield protections for seniors and be running on cable and broadSept. 20. those with preexisting cast television outlets throughmedical conditions. out the 19th District.

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LETTERS

CNG Trucking Is Risky; State Should Revisit Constitution Pipeline To the Editor: I was born and raised in Oneonta, but left many years ago. Now retired, I follow New York energy and environmental policy and became interested in the Town of Oneonta decompressor-station proposal.

I consider myself a pragmatic environmentalist who wants to see policy decided by a science-based rational tradeoff between environmental risks and the needs of society. I am a numbers and history guy who believes that the tradeoffs have

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to be quantified as much as possible to determine the best policy alternative.

Aug. 8, Otsego Now President Jody Zakrevsky described the decompressor-station proposal to the Oneonta Town Board.

There isn’t enough natural gas for heating on the 30odd coldest days of the year from the existing pipeline to Otsego County, so bigger users have to curtail their use so that homeowners

do not have to maintain a backup heating system.

Two hospitals, several manufacturers, and SUNY Oneonta need energy-dense, constantly available fuel to supplement their natural gas use when that fuel is curtailed.

They have considered setting up their own decompressors to replace higherpolluting, less-efficient fuel oil so Otsego Now, the economic-development entity,

submitted a proposal for a grant to explore the possibility of a single centralized decompressor station to provide the necessary natural gas.

I did not listen to all the speakers who attended the town board meeting to protest the decompressor station because the arguments I did hear all seemed confined to emotional pleas for “cleaner, greener” alternatives.

My problem is that I do not believe numbers or history support such alternatives. For all those who oppose the decompressor proposal and opposed the Constitution pipeline, could you please explain how you propose to solve the specific problem of heating Fox Hospital on the coldest days of the year?

I do not think that the decompressor station, rePlease See CAIAZZA, A6

Allowing Smoking Simply Enables Tobacco Addiction To the Editor: Michael Stolzer of Center City Rentals in Oneonta has made his student rentals totally tobacco-free starting this fall semester.

While Mr. Stolzer has not permitted smoking of traditional combustible cigarettes in the homes he owns and services for the past 18 years, he’s recently revised his leases to prohibit all tobacco/nicotine products including e-cigarettes/vape pens and smokeless (chew) tobacco.

Mr. Stolzer stated, “I care about student renters and will always provide them with clean, safe and secure houses or apartments. I know that smoke-free/tobacco-free housing policies can reduce health risks, smoke damage and fire risk.”

He added, “I don’t know why any landlord would want smoking and tobacco use in their homes and apartments. In the past I’ve lost some

Michael Stolzer at his Center City Rentals on Main Street, Oneonta.

potential renters because of the lingering smell of smoke and it certainly costs more to renovate apartments in which people have smoked.”

Advancing Tobacco Free Communities in Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie Counties (ATFC-DOS) worked with Mr. Stolzer to help him amend his leases and provided some tobacco-free signage and window clings that will be posted at the 13 properties Mr. Stolzer owns in Oneonta.

ATFC-DOS, a grant-funded program of the NYS Department of Health’s Bureau of Tobacco Control, educates the community and decision makers, mobilizes community members around the problems that tobacco addiction causes in local communities, and helps decision makers understand the types of choices that they have to address these problems.

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History

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

150 Years Ago

Local Notes By The Way – Watkins’ stage line from this station to Cooperstown is doing a full business, and generally go all loaded to and from all the trains.

The Democrats at Portlandville are not well pleased at the effect of Walter H. Bunn’s mass meeting. It is said that Walter carries a pocket dictionary full of big words. He told the “brethren and friends” that the state was in great danger of falling into the hands of the Radicals, and went through the regular copperhead program on taxes, Negro suffrage, &c. In the bar room below bad whiskey produced its usual effect.

Milford is growing slowly. Eddy and Wilber are buying and shipping large quantities of hops. The depressed state of the hop market will lead many farmers to give up that branch and give more attention to the dairy.

October 1868

40 Years Ago

Czechoslovakia. Alfred Duff Cooper, the man who until Saturday was Chamberlain’s Lord of the Admiralty, sobbed as he cried out that the price of peace at Munich “stuck in my throat.” But Chamberlain replied: “I have nothing to be ashamed of. Those who have may hang their heads.”

October 1938

60 Years Ago

President Eisenhower said Wednesday it is the duty of all Americans to comply with the Supreme Court’s school integration rulings. “Any other course, as I have said before, would be fraught with grave consequences to our nation.” The President did not spell out the extent to which his administration might go in backing up the U.S. Supreme Court’s decree.

Meanwhile, integration trouble erupted at Wheelwright, Kentucky for the first time since mixed classes began at a high school three years ago. About one hundred yelling, rock-throwing students broke windows at the school after a white girl and a Negro girl had a fight in a restaurant.

Classes were suspended indefinitely.

October 1958

125 Years Ago

The Local News – The Union School now enrolls 758 pupils. Geo. B. Shearer opens a branch store at Cooperstown this week with H.C. Winne in charge. Water rents are now due.

Frank B. Roberson lectured on “Japan and the Japanese” before a good-sized audience at the Normal Assembly Hall Tuesday evening. The lecture was delivered in the costume of the Orient and was illustrated by a large number of excellent views.

The Herald and the New York Weekly Tribune are still offered to old or new subscribers for $1.75 per year in advance. The best local paper and the best city home and farm journal for a little more than the price of one. Send in your subscriptions to this office.

The brick made just across the river at this village appear to be of unusually good quality and color. They are being used quite generally in buildings here. Among the structures to be built of them is Ford and Rowe’s new elevator. The brick yard has apparently come to stay. It is an industry worthy of encouragement.

October 1893

100 Years Ago

No election commission will be allowed to visit the battlefields of France this fall by order of the War Department. New York State men and women in the service overseas will not be given an opportunity to vote in the present campaign through a ruling of the War Department. There will be no wastage, however, of the election supplies, which were prepared for use overseas, for these will be used in handling the soldier vote of New York State in the larger training camps in this country. The election commission which New York State proposed to send abroad, and which

October 1978 was to have sailed this week, will remain at home.

Gasless Sundays a Success – Sufficient gasoline was saved by patriotic automobile owners during the first four “Gasless Sundays” to enable Uncle Sam to load ten cargo boats of gasoline of 50,000 barrels each for delivery to France.

October 1918

80 Years Ago

Ken Chase to be honored at dinner – Successful in his first year in the major leagues, Ken Chase, young southpaw pitcher with the Washington Senators, will be honored at a testimonial dinner to be held at 7 p.m. this evening at the Hotel Windsor. Open to the public, the dinner is under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Advance reservations indicate an attendance of 200. Speakers will include Hon. A.L. Kellogg, Assistant Fire Chief Joseph Scanlon, and Dr. Francis H. Marx, all of Oneonta. Also attending will be Harold “Whitey” Anderson of Binghamton and Albert Jones of Norwich, all of whom are identified with Chase’s early successes as a pitcher.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain drove home to the somber House of Commons his blunt belief that four men at Munich – Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and himself had saved civilization “as we have known it.” He steadfastly backed all he had done. Voices of dismay, humiliation and rage preceded and followed his 55-minute address explaining and justifying the accord at Munich which dismembered

LETTERS

Democrats Control Assembly, So It’s Just Practical To Keep Magee, Send McEvoy There To the Editor: It is of practical importance and crucial to the success of our county that we have rural Democratic assembly members in the Democratically controlled New York State Assembly. Fortunately for us, we have two immensely talented and high-quality candidates.

I can’t say enough about Bill Magee. As our assemblyman in the 121st District, Bill has always delivered to our area. I know this first hand. In my six years as mayor of Cooperstown, Bill was constantly available and concerned, easily accessible and willing to help.

There are multiple projects that couldn’t have started without Bill’s assistance.

Rebuilding our Wastewater Treatment plant, which could never have been financed on the back of rate payers, is now in progress.

Bill’s ability to acquire $2 million towards that project was crucial. As long as Bill Magee is willing to

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20 Years Ago

Through her knowledge and some hard labor Oneonta resident Jeane Bennett-O’Dea has crafted a private garden outside her home and turned an old, abandoned lot into an urban landmark at the corner of Clinton and Spruce streets.

The garden landscape is now complete with stone walkways, plants, flowers and some wildlife. Alice Siegfried, a friend of Bennett-O’Dea’s and an admirer of the garden, said her friend built the garden out of nothing. “She made beauty out of nothing,” Siegfried said. “Her work in the garden really makes you appreciate nature.” The lot was once owned by the Lutheran Church of Atonement. The lot had been given to the church, but through neglect became overgrown. The church offered the lot to Bennett-O’Dea and ownership was transferred.

October 1998

10 Years Ago

Several hundred people attended the OHS Alumni Association’s induction for the 2008 Athletic Hall of Fame in the Charles Belden Auditorium on Saturday, honoring graduates for their achievements – either in the Hall of Fame for high school athletics, or in the Wall of Distinction for achievements after graduation. “This honor means more to me than any award I’ve ever received,” said Hall of Fame inductee Kristen Zeh, class of 1999. Zeh was chosen for her accomplishments in basketball and soccer.

October 2008

Natural Gas Is A Bad Investment

t’s obvious we have to get off fossil fuels, yet we keep hearing that fossil fuels – natural gas in particular – are essential to local economic growth. While “solar and wind serve us in the Assembly, would be a viable source for electric,” I support him.

Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky In District 101, we’re wrote in The Freemans Journal & lucky to have candidate Hometown Oneonta in the Aug. 30Chad McEvoy. Chad is an 31 editions, “it (the solar and wind Otsego local, living in the Town source) does not currently provide a solution to companies that need exof Westford. With treme heat in processing.” For them, his background in public policy, Chad he tells us, natural gas is a necessity. will be a strong advocate for small town and rural concerns when he joins the majority in Albany.

A fighter for access to broadband and cell service, single-payer healthcare, infrastructure improvements (including green energy), and protecting our rights and civil liberties, Chad brings a new, and important voice to the Assembly. Unlike his opponent, he will not use taxpayer dollars to communicate with voters during campaign season.

Otsego County, and New York, will be better off with Bill Magee and Chad McEvoy in the New York HOMETOWN ONEONTA Assembly.

Otsego Now’s Zakrevsky outJEFF KATZ lines plans for a decompression Former mayor station Aug. 9 to the Oneonta Village of Cooperstown Town Board.

Richfield attract industry.

Further, they are the companies he Yet Otsego Now seems bent on dethinks we need for future economic growth. pleting the public purse to bring more Zakrevsky points out that two proj- gas to Oneonta, leaving citizens and ects with potentially 475 jobs failed consumers (taxpayers and ratepayers) to materialize recently due to the lack to bear the costs of the project. of natural gas essential to The few businesses involved, including NYSEG, their operation. That’s hardly surprising. Companies that would, whether they realize can’t function without natuit or not, in effect be making ral gas have been locating a profit on the backs of the in places where adequate public. Yes, some jobs would gas infrastructure already be created, but they are exists, and that is clearly not unlikely to support whole Oneonta. families (few jobs today do).

Bringing more natural Meantime, the public as gas to Oneonta would cost a whole would be impovADRIAN a fortune: $17.5 million, erished by having to pay KUZMINSKI Zakrevsky estimates, for a for the project, arguably decompression station and leading to less, not more, overall economic growth. And money related infrastructure. But many millions more would be needed to replace invested in natural gas is money that and expand the DeRuyter pipeline. is not invested in other job-creating Why aren’t the local businesses industries – like renewables.

Even worse, this project, which who would benefit raising the money themselves? Perhaps it’s because calls for a 25-percent increase in the no serious investor would fund a amount of natural gas delivered to Oneonta, would re-enforce the project importing natural gas when industry can locate far more cheaply current, unnecessary use of natural elsewhere, where gas is abundantly gas by residential and institutional available. consumers.

That’s as it should be. Natural-gas These consumers are not dependependent industries ought to go to dent upon natural gas for industrial natural gas rather than spending more processes requiring “extreme heat.” money to get natural gas to come to Non-polluting alternatives would them. That’s economic efficiency. serve them (and the climate) far better, Even then, there’s no guaranand create jobs too. That should be the tee businesses will come. Look at priority.

Richfield Springs in our own county.

Yes, it’s true that our electricity supA surplus of natural gas hasn’t helped Please See KUZMINSKI, A6

Entrepreneurial Idea Promising – If $3.5 Million Not Allocated Otherwise EDITORIAL/From A4 promote the event, Frost said.

• Peachin said she and fellow investors have a sales agreement with the Twelve Tribes, the religious community that owns the adjacent Yellow Deli.

She mentioned Ken Wortz, an owner of Kymar Distillery in Charlotteville, Delaware County, as an investor. And landlord Brian Shaughnessy and businessman Al Rubin accompanied her to the July 26 Otsego Now meeting where the original pitch was made.

The timeliness may not be great – just a few days before this news broke, Peachin had exploded negotiations between the Town of Oneonta Fire District and City Hall. City officials may not be too interested in accommodating her right now.

Still, the idea is intriguing.

• Hold on a minute.

As outlined on this week’s front page, City Hall and the DRI (the state’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative), see the Oneonta Ford site as THE prime prospect for

Artspace.

Artspace is that Minneapolisbased national entity that has been creating combinations of housing and studio space for artists across the nation since 1987. (Check www.artspace.org; very exciting.)

The colleges are active partners, seeing Artspace as a way to attract students; City Hall, as a way to keep them here after graduation.

Doesn’t downtown Oneonta as an art magnet sound much more enticing than Oneonta as a beer and liquor magnet, which, to a degree, it already is?

Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig low-keys it: It’s the preferred site, but if the Twelve Tribes has another deal, the DRI, the most exciting news for the City of the Hills in a century, will just look somewhere else.

Come on. Are we serious or aren’t we? The state has already committed $3.5 million to cleaning up the Oneonta Ford property and building something new there, with more – likely – to come.

Enough dithering. Common Council should man and woman up, condemn what’s been an

eyesore and a hazard for decades, pay the fair market value, and get started.

The Peachin group may make it work; but it may not.

If it doesn’t, the site could be locked up for decades to come.

Our great-grandchildren will be seeing the same mess we are today, only moreso. Does anyone want that?

If Peachin’s creativity spurs City Hall – finally – into action, she certainly will deserve the community’s thanks and appreciation.

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Forget Natural Gas. Embrace Broadband – That’s Where Jobs Of Future Are KUZMINSKI/From A5 ply is also constrained, but renewables can expand available electricity, which should be prioritized over gas.

And there’s the safety issue. Otsego county’s Public Safety Committee, to its credit, after several virtual pipeline gas truck rollovers, has called for the trucks to be taken off local roads.

Also, keep in mind, according to the New York Times (Sept. 14, 2018), “since 1998, at least 646 serious gas distribution episodes

have occurred across the country, causing 221 deaths and leaving nearly a thousand people injured, according to data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.”

The whole Otsego Now project is in effect a massive subsidy by the public for a polluting and unsafe industry which would better be located elsewhere. It’s time for local planners – and politicians like state Sen. Jim Seward – to abandon economically non-viable proposals for bringing more

fossil fuels to this area. In spite of its history, Oneonta’s no longer the place for fossil-fuel dependent heavy industry.

The essential infrastructure we need – as I’ve argued in my last column – is state-ofthe-art broadband for all, not obsolete gas pipelines for a few. Real internet would help give us a new economic base, which in turn would help finance sustainable local enterprises.

This is the vision that our economic planners should be pursuing, and for which they ought to be fighting to find money. Earlier

this year, New York State announced $1.4 billion for 21 renewable energy projects, including 22 solar farms, three wind farms, and one hydroelectric project.

That’s the kind of money Otsego Now should be going after if it wants to invest in the future of Otsego County.

Adrian Kuzminski, retired Hartwick College philosophy professor, author and Sustainable Otsego co-founder and moderator, lives in Fly Creek.

LETTERS

Town Of Oneonta Grew Without Using Natural Gas To the Editor: I am disturbed by the lack of public information about the “decompressor station” and the fact that the IDA worked with NYSEG, Senator Seward, the colleges and the hospitals, but never involved the board of the town in which this project was to be situated. When they met March 22, 2018, it was discussed that the only short-term solution is a CNG station.

As a member of the Oneonta Town Board, I learned of these plans from a community member, not the IDA. This hardly represents “keeping us in the loop”.

The bottom line, I believe, is that the people who reside in a community should be the ones who decide the character of that community. It is not OK when a few people designate themselves as the only people capable of making decisions for the public good.

When these plans are formulated and initiated without any transparency or public input, that alone is a statement acknowledging that these plans will involve “a real strategic problem,” to quote an IDA board member.

An organization such as IDA – Otsego Now – whose members are appointed by the county board, not elected – is not an appropriate body to be determining the energy policy of a town or the placement of a fracked gas facility that will so clearly impact nearby residents.

Our business community has grown immeasurably in the last decade under the supervision of Mr. Wood without the need for a facility with such potential negative impact.

Heavy industry requiring intensive use of fossil fuels has no place in this community. The encouragement of a new $17.5 million fossil-fuel infrastructure to satisfy the need for less

than five days of interruptible fuel use is environmentally irresponsible.

There is use of gas and oil by homes and businesses at this time because of the way the systems were set up when alternatives were few. The answer is not to continue with fossil fuel as the only answer, as usual, but to move forward.

As long as these sorts of facilities are encouraged, nothing will change because the impetus to develop alternative sources will not be there.

We need to continue our progress and encourage new business, as we have been, in an environmentally responsible way to ensure the future of our families.

Thousands of families have chosen to live here because of the beautiful place that Oneonta is.

PATRICIA JACOB Town Board Member Oneonta

He Remembers: Natural Gas Made Life Easier For Oneontans CAIAZZA/From A4 quiring compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks, is a particularly “good” solution.

From a pollution standpoint, using natural gas is better than fuel oil and my experience with fuel switching is that process also has implementation risks which could cause heating problems, so I agree that using natural gas is preferable.

Clearly moving CNG by truck during the winter is risky and I understand why they are described as “bomb trucks.” The safer solution is to have enough natural gas pipeline infrastructure in place to prevent curtailments.

Because that is not available, the proposal to have

a central station just off Interstate 88 rather than decompressor stations at each location that faces curtailment requirements reduces transport risk and makes sense.

I must point out that the Constitution Pipeline would have solved this problem so the folks who claim that preventing it is a victory have to accept some culpability for what I believe is a worse alternative.

I expect that the opponents will claim renewables can provide the answer to providing heat for Fox Hospital. I would love to see quantitative support for a solution to the need for constant, dense energy for heating the hospital on the

days when not having heat would surely exacerbate illness and maybe even cause deaths.

Renewables are intermittent and diffuse. What kind of storage solution do they propose for this winter problem when the available solar energy is low and, on the really cold days, when winds are light?

The hospital uses a heating plant with a boiler that provides hot water for heating and hospital use.

The problem with renewable electrical energy is that there is no way to provide in-kind replacement for the boiler fuel. To provide heat with renewables the whole heating system would have to be replaced probably with

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Those systems have their own problems on these cold days. Proponents of renewable energy have to provide a solution and costs to make their case that there is a viable and affordable alternative to the proposal.

When I was growing up in Oneonta during the 1950s, I missed the Delaware & Hudson Railroad steam-engine era when there were over 100 coal-fired locomotives operating in the area.

However, I do remember the excitement when natural gas came to town so that my family no longer had to deal with maintaining our coalfired furnace fire, dealing with the ashes and having a coal bin in the basement.

I am not aware of any records of the air quality in Oneonta when coal was the preferred heating source and the roundhouse had coalburning locomotives but I am sure that it was poor.

That has changed thanks to oil and natural gas.

Ultimately the opponents of the decompressor station must rely on emotional arguments because a rational analysis supports the proposal as a reasonable, albeit not “good”, solution to a problem caused by the lack of sufficient pipeline infrastructure.

ROGER CAIAZZA Liverpool

Fracked Gas Giving U.S. Control Of Energy Future To the Editor: Economic growth and JOBS that retrain young families depend on affordable energy. At this time, renewables won’t cut it. Three stories; California, Germany and South Australia.

A California homeowner recently shared his electric bill in the Wall Street Journal. The first 441 kilowatts per hour (kWh) bills at 21 cents. The next 1,324 kWh escalates to 28 cents. From there it skyrockets to 43 cents. His yearly average for a three-bedroom home with the thermostat set at 78 degrees is 29 cents. By the way, the guy heats with gas.

Otherwise, if he heated with electric, he’d be packing for Idaho.

These rates are coming East. Governor Cuomo’s objectives and game plan is the same as California’s, Germany’s, and South Australia’s. Same plan, same results – higher prices to the consumer, minimal change in CO2 emissions.

Currently, New Yorkers pay an average about 12 cents per kWh with mixed generation from coal to hydropower. If gas is zeroed out and only renewables are allowed to grow at the expense of other fuels, prices will rise.

Even though Germany is wedded to green virtue, 79 percent of German electricity is still produced by fossil fuels.

17 percent is renewable, 5 percent is nuclear. The Germans pay 48 cents per kWh, FOUR TIMES the NYS average.

After spending billions upon billions on energiewende, their plan for a renewable future, they’ve plateaued with emissions. The reason: wind and solar always need back-up. In Germany, the back-up fuel is dirty “brown coal.” To cut emissions, Germany is building Nord 2, the Baltic Sea pipeline, to import Russian gas.

Russian gas is Germany’s clean-up hitter. And American LNG is in the batter’s box. Germany is looking to gas to save energiewende’s . . . goals.

South Australia has lots of sun and wind, gets 40 percent of its energy from renewables. The problem is that renewables are expensive. Rates are high, THREE TIMES higher than

the U.S. average. Managing a renewable grid adds expense. South Australia hired Tesla to build a football field sized storage battery. While costs are unknown, we do know ratepayers are paying Tesla 79 cents a kWh to absorb surplus energy off the grid. Tesla then sells electricity back to the same customers. Nice deal for Tesla, collect coming and going. Lots of sun in Australia but only the customers get burned.

All this expense is unnecessary, predicated on a fallacy – to save the planet we must use renewables.

Few know that the United States leads the world in the suppression of CO2 emissions. According to the Energy Information Agency, the U.S. has lowered emissions to a level not seen in 25 years, in spite of a growing economy and a growing population. The U.S. is Number One in total tonnage of emissions reduction, outstripping the next five nations combined. According to Bloomberg, we are the only nation that has a chance of meeting its Paris Accord goals, even though we’ve pulled out of the Accord.

Credit all this to fracked natural gas.

On the economic side, during the previous administration’s “new normal” of 2 percent GDP, fracking lowered the Cost of Living Index by keeping fuel affordable. It’s given hope to the Rust Belt, burnished Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier, reversed the trade patterns of oil and gas, thus reducing our deficit. It has spurred new industry, revived old ones.

Renewable energy has a bright future. Even now it is cost-effective in specific markets. Hawaii comes to mind. But if the antis were really serious about helping lower worldwide emissions TODAY, they’d be applying for jobs on the rigs or learning welding skills to work on the pipelines. That’s where the real environmental gains are happening.

America is leading the way. Fracked gas is making it happen.

DICK DOWNEY Otego

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Quietly, Cooperstown Has Been Seeking DRI Status, Too – And $10M

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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he City of Oneonta has been celebrating its selection by the state’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative and the $10 million that comes with it for the past two years.

Meanwhile, the Village of Cooperstown has been quietly seeking to join the DRI club.

“Why not, right?” asked Village Trustee Cindy Falk – 22 Main’s top grantsman – after Cooperstown was mentioned as an also-ran when Governor Cuomo

announced Wednesday, Sept. 27, that this year’s DRI designation for the Mohawk Valley Region would go to Amsterdam, the city of 18,000 Trustee Falk in Montgomery County.

“We’ve submitted one every time,” said Falk.

Year One – 2016, when the $10 million went to Oneonta – the focus was “very, very general,” she said, “probably focused on the downtown.”

Year Two, the focus was

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Year Three – this time – “the instructions were a little different,” said Falk, who is also a professor at SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate School in Museum Studies, “because they included housing as a potential use.”

The trustee thought that would assist Cooperstown’s application, since the village’s recently approved Comprehensive Master

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The application identified the Railroad Avenue area, long spoken of as a prospect for commercial development and housing, as the target area.

In the application, Falk defined is as extending from where the railroad track enters the village at Walnut Street, down Grove Street and Railroad Avenue to the former stone passenger station, now a home, next to Bruce Hall Hardware on Upper Main.

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Until now, the idea was to raze the former car dealerships and building a Food & Beverage Innovation Center there that would include three floors of housing. That idea, proposed during Sandy Mathes’ tenure as Otsego Now president, appears to have been set aside.

Last week, Johna Peachin, the CPA and controversial chair of the Town of Oneonta Board of Fire Commissioners, confirmed she is involved in The Market Street Alliance, which she said has a contract to buy Oneonta Ford, a long-unused and deteriorating building, for a distillery.

She mentioned Ken Wortz, an owner of Kymar Distillery in Charlotteville, Delaware County, as another investor. When she briefed Otsego Now on the idea July 26, she was accompanied by student landlord Brian Shaughnessy and Al Rubin, the local businessman.

The city and Twelve Tribes leaders have each gotten appraisals of the property’s worth, and have been negotiating on a price. Common Council has the authority to take the property by condemnation, but Herzig stopped short of advocating that.

“The owner has the right to sell the property to whomever,” the mayor said. “I respect that. As this point, we will move on” to other downtown sites.

said, “that we’re in the game, that we aren’t closed out to new ideas.”

She doesn’t know why Cooperstown hasn’t been chosen.

“We don’t get any feedback,” she said.

While Cooperstown is a village of only 2,000 people, Falk agreed that because it is an international tourism magnet, the greater its success, the greater the positive impact regionally.

Village officials also emphasize that, when Amsterdam gets a DRI designation, it’s a local story, albeit a big one. When Cooperstown gets a $10 million grant, it’s a national, even an international story, she said.

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ReUse Center Has It Manager Bill Hardy has it all.

Maybe not all, but Florida Panthers may be surprised to find this unusual table at the Otsego County ReUse Center.

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The Pit Run is hard work, but lots of fun, as Alex Exton, Oneonta, Alan Begeal, Masonville, and Jeff Dickson, Louisville, proved in 2017.

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ed metal cabinets for $5. A preacher’s pulpit for $25. A doctor’s

BREAKTHROUGH AWARD exam table for $99, a five-piece dinette set for $150.

“What do you want?” asked Bill Hardy, manager of the Otsego ReUse Center on Duane

Street in the city’s Sixth Ward.

“We’ve got it.”

And to think – all of that could have ended up in a landfill.

The Otsego ReUse Center isn’t just good bargains and the occasional curious find – it’s

also helping the environment and Arc Otsego, and for its good work, it has been named the Excellus Blue.

“In 2016, I had breakfast with Karen Sullivan,” – the Otsego County Planning Department Please See REUSE, B4

Baby Made 3, Prompting Pop To Start Directive – It Now Serves 11 Countries back,” Chris said. “There were so many times I should have just quit, but I didn’t. I still enjoyed the work when it was hard.”

Directive, on Pony Farm Road in Oneonta, will receive the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s Key Bank NA 19th Annual Small Business of the Year Award Thursday, Oct. 11, at a banquet at The Otesaga.

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The Chases realized a fast-food job wasn’t going to pay to raise a family, and Chris and Charlotte are living an entrepreneur’s dream.

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Ask Chris Chase, who founded Directive, a computer technology business, 25 years ago.

“When I discovered computers, and I found I had a knack for it, I just kind of fell in love with it and never looked

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PAST CHAMBER/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS HONOREES

Keller Williams (2017) • Wahl to Wahl (2016) • Barnyard Swing (2015) • Lutz Feed (2014) • Five Star Subaru (2013) Benson Agency Real Estate (2012) • Gruver Zweifel & Scott, LLP (2011) • Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal (2010) James Jordan Associates, Architects (2009) The Shipping Room (2008) • ISD (2007) • Eastman Associates (2006) H.W. Naylor Co. (2005) • Gordon B. Roberts Agency (2004) • Cooperstown Bat Co. (2003) • Ultimate Broadcasting (2002) Sport Tech (2001) • Fly Creek Cider Mill (2000)

PAST CHAMBER/Excellus BREAKTHROUGH AWARD HONOREES

Springbrook Engagement Center (2017) • Hartwick College Center for Craft Food & Beverage (2016) Northern Eagle Hop Pelletizing (2015) • Fox Hospital & John Remillard (2014) • Brooks BBQ (2013) • Green Earth (2012) Cleinman Performance Partners (2011) • Green Toad Bookstore (2010) •Ioxus (2009) • Cooperstown Cookie (2008)

ften called “The Best Day in Oneonta,” the annual Pit Run offers a 10K, 5K, 2-mile stroll, a Kids Run and even a virtual run for those who can’t make it to Oneonta but still want to honor the memory of fallen Trooper Ricky J. Parisian. 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info (607) 432-8068.

• Cheers to Cooperstown! Cooptoberfest features vendors, games, bounce houses, live music, cornhole tournament. Followed by Eat Drink Cooperstown featuring tastings of local craft beer, food 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, Main St., Cooperstown.

(607) 547-9983.

• Take a jog up Oyaron LIBBY Hill during the inaugural CUDMORE Dan Gilbert ’17 Run to the Top, or take a leisurely stroll along Founders Way. $20. 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, Anderson Center, Hartwick College, Oneonta. (607) 431-4064.

• If you prefer to get your adrenaline rush with some spooky thrills, Hyde Hall has once again opened for their annual Hyde & Shriek candlelight ghost tours. Friday-Saturday Oct. 5-6 and throughout October. $20, reserve online. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Road, Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-5098 • A killer is on the loose at Foothills!

Stuff of Dreams productions presents Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None.” $17. 7:30 p.m. FridaySaturday, Oct. 5-6, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7. Production Center, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

(607) 432-5407.

• Get on your dancing shoes and appetite! The annual Polka Fest returns with live music and a turkey dinner. 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, Cornfield Hall, 655 Route 26, Fly Creek. (607) 547-8055.

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Started From Scratch, Directive Now Markets For Firms In 11 Lands DIRECTIVE/From B1 the business in the early 1990s when they found out they were going to become a family with a plus one.

“I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken, working at the fryer, and Charlotte told me she was pregnant,” her husband remembers “I knew I wouldn’t be able to support a family working in fast food, so I bought a vending route. As I grew the route, I needed a computer to do inventory.”

As Chris talked about his company’s beginnings, his eyes lit up and his friendly face broke into a grin.

“I really liked messing around with the computer, I found out I had a knack for it. Soon, I was helping people with their computer problems. I would tell them: If it

Chris Chase, right, and wife Charlotte, in black top, began making Thursday lunch for a handful of employees years ago.

Now, they do so for 40 people. Sons Dillon and Devin, behind their dad, also work for the company.

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really liked messing around with the computer, I found out I had a knack for it. Soon, I was helping people with their computer problems. .”

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takes me five hours because I didn’t know something, and it should have taken me three hours, I will only charge you for three hours. People were nice enough to let me learn while I worked.

“I still have my first customer as a client.”

While 40 people work there, Directive is a family business. Chris and Char-

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lotte’s two sons, Devin and Dillon, work in the business.

Family members know all parts of the business, from technical and hardware to building websites and writing security programs. Their

newest venture is a foray into video production.

The company has 780 clients in 11 countries in industries that include manufacturing, service, medical, educational and government. In addition, Chris said the company gives back

a least one percent of its profits in pro-bono work for non-profit entities.

Company climate is very important to the family. They began making lunch for their employees every Thursday when the company only employed

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five people. The routine continued and has grown to accommodate all of the employees in various ways.

“We do Crockpot Thursday, but now it is a lot bigger,” Chris said. “I make two things really well, chili and sausage gravy, and that is how it started. I would put on a crockpot of chili early in the day every Thursday, and people could eat any time they wanted to throughout the day. Now it is more of an event.”

The company often does a spoof video when preparing Crockpot Thursday.

One video featured Chris in his best Barry White voice crooning about bacon, tomatoes and lettuce as those ingredients were prepared for lunch.

Directive also allows their employees to bring their pets to work on specific days of the week including ‘Puppy Tuesday’ and ‘Feline Friday.’

“Company culture is not just about having fun,” Chris said. “I want people to be inspired here.”

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Helping Others Changed Interns’ Lives asked to see if it should be included with a pistol permit application.”

ONEONTA Ahlqvist, a senior English major from Oneonta, spent elsey Prest and the summer Emily Ahlqvist had INTERNS as an intern never met, but they OF THE for the Otsego had two things in common: YEAR County They had both interned Courts, workwith county Judge Brian ing alongside D. Burns – and both are the Nate Getman, principal Otsego County Chamber’s court attorney. “I did a lot of Interns of the Year. research for them,” she said.

Prest is at Hartwick ColShe also sat in on the trilege; Ahlqvist at SUNY als for Teddy Faison and JaOneonta, and both will be son Chase, both drug cases. honored at the chamber’s “I loved seeing how District Small Business Banquet Attorney John Muehl quesThursday, Oct. 11, at The tioned them,” she said. “He Otesaga. The prize is spon- was so professional, and he sored by NBT Bank. was always so personable Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life “Judge Burns asked me to with me.”

Emily Ahlqvist of Oneonta, right, and Kelsey research mass shootings to But much of what she Prest, Northfield, Mass., will received the Otsego see if they had any indicaresearched had to be kept Chamber/NBT Bank Interns of the Year awards tion of violence on social confidential, and was used Oct. 11 at the Small Business Banquet. media,” said Ahlqvist. “He in pre-trial hearings. “They all trusted me immediately,” she said. “It gave me a sense of integrity.”

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explain why he made the ruling he did,” she said.

She hopes to attend law school after graduation. “My dream would be to work for the ACLU,” she said. “There are so many underprivileged people who don’t have the means to get a lawyer. I want to help people who need it – drug court really solidified that for me.”

Prest, of Northfield, Mass., an intern with Catholic Charities, was responsible for preparing the necessary documents to re-start the organization’s Child Care Resource and Referral Program. “A lot of parents in Oneonta don’t have child care,” she said. “They can come in, fill out paperwork and we can refer them to a provider in the county.”

The program had ended in 2015, due to lack of funding, but she was able to put together the paperwork to get funding back in place. “I didn’t know there was such a need for help in the community,” she said. “I wanted

hen you’re young, you think nothing bad will happen to you, and when it does, it really impacts you. No one should have to go through that alone.”

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to focus on helping people.”

She assisted the Child Care Support Services Program by helping shop for the Summer Food Service program in Neahwa Park, as well as hand out the meals.

“It made my view of Oneonta so much different,” she said. “People don’t have meals or childcare, there are all these nooks and crannies that need attention.”

She also spent time at the Otsego County Drug Court, which Burns oversees, alongside Ameen Aswad, the case manager for Catholic Charities Offender Based services. “The drug court graduation has so many high emotions,” she said. “It really helped people get out of using drugs and alcohol.”

A psychology major with a criminal justice minor, Prest hopes to work as a court liaison officer, assisting juveniles as they face their offenders in court.

“I’ve always been interested in criminal justice,” she said. “When you’re young, you think nothing bad will happen to you, and when it does, it really impacts you.

“No one should have to go through that alone.”

“You can’t just sit behind a screen and help people,” said Prest. “This internship really changed my perspective on what I want to do.”

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REUSE/From B1 director – “and told her I was looking for ways to give work experience to people with developmental disabilities,” said Pat Knuth, Arc executive director. “She told me that she had seen a ReUse Center out west.”

What came out of that conversation will be recognized with the Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Breakthrough Award at the Otsego Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Banquet Thursday, Oct. 11, at The Otesaga.

ReUse Center isn’t just another thrift store. “All our inventory is donated by people replacing or upgrading their homes,” said Hardy. “And places like Lowe’s give us their discontinued merchandise so we can sell it.”

Shutters that might cost $100 each in-store can sell for as little as $30 here, and ReUse has developed a coupon program so lowerincome households can afford to upgrade their homes.

“We want people to be able to afford what we sell,” said Hardy.

A former contractor, Hardy spread the word to other developers that they could donate old items – even sinks, toilets, plumbing and

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Bill Hardy and Arc Otsego’s Pat Knuth look over inventory, including buckets of bolts.

HVAC components – rather than destroy or dump them.

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picks up and delivers.

In the first year since they’ve opened, they’ve kept over 175,000 pounds from entering landfills.

The ReUse Center also gives people with developmental disabilities a place to test their skills. “They can come work for a few days and see if they like retail,” said Knuth. “Their assessors can come with them and see what skills they have and what they need to work on.”

“I clean up the items and put on the price tags,” said employee Melissa Marling.

And how, said Hardy: “I was going out to Nelson Ellis Furniture in Binghamton for a pickup, and everything was going into the dumpster. Cabinet parts, hinges, upholstery tacks, and I told them to stop, that I would take all of it. I brought it back here and Melissa sorted it all.”

The money raised by the center helps provide funding for programs at Arc Otsego that might otherwise be underfunded.

Word quickly spread, and soon it outgrew its

Cooperstown Estate Sale Sat & Sun Oct. 4 & 5 10-5 Antique furniture, early toys, lamps, clocks, oriental rugs, dishes, paintings and more. 4881 St. Hwy 28 Across from Dollar General 1Class.Oct.5 HUGE Moving Sale Sat-Sun 10/6-7, 8 am - 4 pm Household item, linens, hand/power tools, etc. Copper cookware, pewter and silver serving pieces, China and lots more. 379 Roscoe Jones Rd., Middlefield. Rain or shine. No early birds 3Class.Oct.5 HOMES FOR RENT Rentals! Cooperstown Area, spacious 1-BR, 1 BA cottage ($1,500/mo) and a 4-BR, 2-BA ($1,600/ mo); both have laundry, permit pets, A/C, 15 min. to Cooperstown and much more. Rob Lee, Benson Agency 607-434-5177 TFN APARTMENT FOR RENT 1-Bdrm Apt for Rent 114 Main Street, Cooperstown $700/mo includes water/ waste. Available now. 607434-9306 3Class.Oct.12 Nicely furnished 1+ BR apartment on ground floor, living room, smaller BR

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The ReUse Center is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, with other hours by appointment. “We’re very pleased that we’re being honored,” said Knuth.

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little shop. Mark Bresee offered to let them use the old Bresee’s warehouse next door, allowing them to fill the space with dressers, desks, couches and other large items.

It’s a DIY paradise.

“I looked on Pinterest to see what someone could do with a doctor’s exam table and there were three pages of ideas!” said Knuth.

“People turned them into bars, cabinets.”

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GOLF TOURNAMENT – 8:30 a.m. Par for Paws tournament invites players, sponsors to support Susquehanna Animal Shelter.

For golfers who love games, animals, historic setting. Registration, $300/team. Otsego Golf Club, 144 Pro Shop Dr., Springfield Center. 607-5478111.

TRUE BLUE WEEKEND – 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Hartwick College welcomes students, community with weekend events featuring Nursing Symposium celebrating programs 75th year, open classrooms, 27th Annual Hartwick Athletics Golf Classic, Golden Jubilee Reunion, Women’s Volleyball, Kick-off party, more. Hartwick College, Oneonta. 607-4314064.

RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.

- 4 p.m. Largest sale ever features baked goods, household items, clothing, collectibles, more. Parish Hall, Christ Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. 607-547-9555.

FESTIVAL OF COLORS – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 24th annual quilt show features works by area quilters including Fenimore Quilt Club, “Winter Wonderland” Quilt Guild, “It’s A Mystery” Ladies of Sew Nice. Includes quilting demonstrations. Admission, $5 donation. The Major’s Inn, 104 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville.

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COSTUME SALE – Noon - 7 p.m. Find beautiful costumes from Glimmerglass Opera’s past productions just in time for Halloween. Glimmerglass Festival Rehearsal Hall, 4152 St. Hwy. 20, Warren. 607547-2255.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5 p.m. Presenting “Bedroom Ghosts,” exhibit by Ryan Chase Clow using images to explore privacy, anxiety, (un)intentional sharing of private info in public space. On display thru 10/21. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-2070.

GHOST TOURS – 6 p.m.

Visit spooky places in a mansion where ghostly phenomena have been reported. Tours leave every half hour to 7:30.

Cost, $20/person, reservations required. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Road, Cooperstown. 607-5475098 ext. 6.

FILM SERIES – 7 p.m.

Showing “Smoke Signals” (1998). Discrimination Matters film series. Open discussion follows. Free, open to public. Snacks available. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Production of “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie. Admission, $17/adult.

Production Center, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-432-5407.

CONTRADANCE – 7:30 p.m. Fun dance featuring Rosetree playing, Ted Crane calling. Arrive at 7:15 for introduction to steps. Admission, $8/adult. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. 607-547-8164.

►Saturday, October 6

TRUE BLUE WEEKEND – 8 a.m. - 11 p.m. Hartwick College welcomes students, community with weekend events featuring Founders Way Walk, Griffiths Center dedication, BBQ, Home-

coming Tailgate, Fall Fest at Pine Lake, Block Party, Contradance, more. Hartwick College, Oneonta. 607-4314064.

RACE TO THE TOP – 8:30 a.m. Dan Gilbert ‘17 Run to the Top, unique challenge to area runners this True Blue Weekend. Race to top of Oyaron Hill. Entrance fee, $20/general public. Advance registration suggested. Anderson Center, Hartwick College, Oneonta. 607-431-4064.

FESTIVAL OF COLORS – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 24th annual quilt show. See Friday Listing.

COSTUME SALE – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Find beautiful costumes from Glimmerglass Opera. See Friday Listing.

CUPOLA RACE – 10 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Fun 5K race for whole family, open to first time runners. Cost, $20, receive t-shirt when registering online. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800.

COOPTOBER FEST – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Celebrate Cooperstown’s Main St., community, artistry, history.

Features vendors, games, music, more. Followed by Eat Drink Cooperstown featuring local craft food, beer. Main St., Cooperstown. 607-5479983.

TRACTOR FEST – 10 a.m.

- 5 p.m. Explore world of tractors through exhibits, demonstrations, activities, more. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

FORESTRY WALK – 11 a.m. Walk along Willow Brook, Cooperstown, learn about trees roll in stream ecosystem with OCCA Executive Director Leslie Orzetti. Ends at Council Rock. Meet in

front of Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. 607-547-4488.

FUNDRAISER – Noon - 4 p.m. Get head shaved to support St. Baldrick’s foundation to end childhood cancer. The Red Jug Pub, 195 Main St., Oneonta. 607-267-4703.

FALL PUMPKINS – Noon - 2 p.m. Have fun, pick pumpkins, visit Utica Zoomobile, more. Cullen Pumpkin Farm, 587 Cullen Road, Richfield Springs. 315-867-3878.

OPERA – 12:55 p.m. Live streaming “Aida” by Verdi, from Metropolitan Opera.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 3:30 p.m. Join writers to help improve your craft. Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

BOOK SIGNING – 2 - 4 p.m.

Meet author Connie Spanhake, purchase signed copies of book “Finding Me.” Green Toad Book Store, 198 Main St., Oneonta. 607-433-8898.

GHOST TOURS – 6 p.m.

Visit spooky places in Hyde Hall. See Friday Listing.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m.

Performance of classic novel “And Then There Were None”

by Agatha Christie. See Friday Listing.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Start season with Violinist William Hagen presenting Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn with Catskill Symphony Orchestra. Ballroom, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta.

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►Sunday, October 7

TRUE BLUE WEEKEND – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Last day of True Blue Weekend features,

memorial gathering for alumni who’ve passed in past year, women’s lacrosse, field hockey, more. See Saturday Listing.

TRACTOR FEST – 10 a.m.

- 5 p.m. Explore world of tractors. See Friday Listing.

PIT RUN – 10:45 a.m. Run a 10K, 5K, 2 mile stroll, or virtual pit run. In memory of Ricky J. Parisian. Start at Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607432-8068.

FESTIVAL OF COLORS – 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. 24th annual quilt show. See Friday Listing.

FALL DINNER DANCE – 12:30 p.m. Annual Polka Fest, dinner features catered turkey dinner followed by Cleveland-style polka. Cornfield Hall, 655 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. 607-547-8055.

GARDEN HACKS – 1 - 2 p.m. Learn tried and tested gardening tips. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1450.

THEATER – 2 p.m. Performance of classic novel “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie. See Friday Listing.

►Monday, October 8

COLUMBUS DAY! GET KIDS OUT – 10 - 11:30 a.m. Get kids out to explore world of trees for Columbus day. Kids explore, learn tree identification, have fun. Mohican Farm, 7207 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. 607-547-4488.

SIT N’ KNIT – 1 - 2 p.m.

Work on knitting, hand-stitch project. Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs.

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PRESENTATION – 2 p.m.

Photographer Kevin Gray presents on work, life of American photographers,

processes they used 1850s1930. Includes wet plate ambrotypes, tintypes, glass plate negatives, sheet film, studio cards, Kodak, more. Don’t miss more Path Through History events throughout the weekend. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-0960.

PUBLIC SPEAKING – 5:30 p.m. Practice public speaking with the toastmasters. All welcome. The White House Building, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1466 or e-mail b.fischer@fenimoreart.org.

PAINTING WORKSHOP – 6 - 8 p.m. 4 session class to learn to paint 3-D object, vegetables, on 2-D surface, with David Kiehm. Bring your own materials. Cost, $95/ non-member. Cooperstown Art Association. 607-5479777.

FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing with live model.

Poses chosen by consensus.

Cost $12/class. The Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-4358718.

GARDEN CLUB – 7 p.m.

Presentation by Dr. Robinson, curator of The Jewell and Arline Moss Settle Herbarium containing specimens from the Northeast spanning 1898-2015. Learn about history, function of teaching herbariums, their importance to past, future of plants. Club also offering free bags of daffodil bulbs. Includes refreshments, free, open to public.

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IN MEMORIAM Lucille K. Fink, 93, Oneonta; Member of Italian American Club ONEONTA – Lucille R. Fink, “Lucy,” 93, an active member of St. Mary’s Church and the Italian American Club, passed away on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.

She was born on Oct. 7, 1924, in Oneonta, the daughter of Sisto and Carmella (D’Ambrosini) Sardella.

Lucy worked for many years at the Triangle Shoe Store as an assistant manager.

She was a member of St.

Mary’s Church, past president of the Rosary Society, member of Young at Hearts, as well as the Italian American Club.

She is survived by her son, Craig B. Fink of Oneonta; granddaughter, Rene Fink of Oneonta; grandson, Aaron (Vikki) Fink of Victor; great-granddaughter, Macy (Steven) Engler of Oneonta; greatgranddaughter, Nicole Harmer of Oneonta; greatgrandson, Carter Fink of Victor; great- granddaughter Ciara Fink of Victor;

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great-great-grandchildren, Gabriella and Samuel Engler; sister-in-law, Sandy Sardella; as well as nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her mother and father; son and daughter-in-law, John and Corinne Fink; and brother, Joseph Sardella.

A funeral was held Monday, Oct. 1, at St Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Interment was in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

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

MILFORD – Richard Perry O’Brien, Jr., 69, a lifelong area resident and father of Hartwick Town Supervisor Robert O’Brien, passed away unexpectedly Sunday night, Sept. 23, 2018.

He was born July 28, 1949, in Cooperstown, a son of the late Richard P. (“Dixie”) O’Brien, Sr. and Helen Gorney. He was raised on the family farm on Panther Mountain in Fly Creek Valley by an aunt and uncle, Joseph and Ruth Peplinski, whom he considered parents. He attended schools and Chad A. Ross, 38; Cooperstown graduated with the Class of Enjoyed Wrestling, 1967.

Football, Workouts On Oct. 3, 1968, Richard enlisted in the United States UNADILLA - Chad Navy and proudly served his A. Ross, 38, passed away country at the Alameda Naunexpectedly on Tuesday, val Air Station in California.

Sept. 25, 2018, at his home in Upon receiving his HonorUnadilla. able Discharge in 1969, He was born on July 8, Richard returned home and 1980, in Oneonta, the son of helped run the family farm.

Anthony and Sandra (Fisher) On February 19, 1977, Ross.

Richard married Deborah Chad was a lover of the Lourdes Tilbe in a ceremony gym, wrestling, music and at St. Patrick’s Church in football. He was a warm, Clayville kind, loving man, who loved Following Debbie’s death his family and friends.

He is survived by his parents, Tony and Sandra Ross of Unadilla; two sisters, Ashley (Jarrett) Brown of Oneonta, and Michele (Todd) Ross-Fuller of Selkirk; a brother, Gregg Sawdy (Robyn Efurd) of Chandler, Ariz; four nieces, Kinlee Brown, Jordan and Lanie Fuller and Annabelle Sawdy; as well as several aunts, uncles and cousins.

A funeral was held Monday, Oct. 1, at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand St, Oneonta.

Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

at the age of 38 due to cancer, Richard continued to raise their four children and worked as an oil truck Richard driver for O’Brien W.L. Taylor & Son, Inc. and Bruce Hall Corp. in Cooperstown.

Richard eventually met Marcelle Joussé and the two were married in Schuyler Lake on July 13, 1991. She was the love of his life and she will miss him more than words can ever express.

In addition to his beloved wife, Marcy, Richard is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren, who called him Pop Pop: Robert Joseph O’Brien and wife, Beth, and their children Abigail, Hannah, triplets Hunter, Noah, and Lucas and Robert Jr.; Patrick Daniel O’Brien of Hartwick; Meagen Beth O’Brien of Brooklyn; and Katie O’Brien Cannistra and husband, Steven, and daughter Isabella of New Hartford;

and step daughters Marcelle Denninger of South Jersey and her daughter, Makayla Love Denninger, and Dawn Malin and husband, Matthew of Brooklyn.

He is further survived by a brother, John K. Cankar; two sisters, Carol L. Boulay and Joanne K. Tarbox; three step sisters, Judy Brown, Janet (Robert) Adam and Irene Young; and many nieces and nephews.

Richard was predeceased by his first wife, Deborah L. O’Brien who died Nov.7, 1989; his father, Richard P. “Dixie” O’Brien, Sr. who died Sept. 29, 1990; and his mother, Helen M. Cankar who died April 29, 2003.

A funeral was held Thursday, Sept. 27 at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, 82 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown from 2-4 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Hartwick Emergency Squad, PO Box 208, Hartwick, NY 13348.

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

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Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of NYS on 6/8/18.

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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 the LLC, 127 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville, NY 13776.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: WALDO JOHNSTON ENTERPRISES LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 5 September 2018.

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SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5425 Sol Rue Circle, Vero Beach, FL 32967. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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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 229 Main St, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

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with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 21 March 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 119 Shulgay Rd, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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6LegalNov.8 Legal nOtice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO

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Plaintiff, Index No. 2017-0250 Plaintiff designates OTSEGO County as place of trial Venue is based upon County in which premises are being situate SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, -against- GREGG EGGLESTON AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF VALARIE L. HAFELE; MATTHEW HAFELE AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF VALARIE L. HAFELE; DARCEE LEWIS AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF VALARIE L. HAFELE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF VALARIE L. HAFELE WHO WAS BORN IN 1957 AND DIED ON JUNE 14, 2017, A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF OTSEGO, WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS 696 STATE HIGHWAY 7, LOT 55, UNADILLA, NY 13849, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. If you fail to so appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

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

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Alex Zamenhof, Esq. Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 565 Taxter Road Suite 590 Elmsford, NY 10523 Phone: (914) 3453020 NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS: FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS FORECLOSING AGAINST THE OWNER OF THIS PREMISES. IF YOU LIVE HERE, THIS LAWSUIT MAY RESULT IN YOUR EVICTION. YOU MAY WISH TO CONTACT A LAWYER TO DISCUSS ANY RIGHTS AND POSSIBLE DEFENSES YOU MAY HAVE. NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above-entitled action is to foreclose a mortgage to secure $52,500.00 plus interest, recorded in the Office of the County Clerk/City Register of the County of Otsego on September 13, 2006 Document Number: 2006-00048618 covering the premises described as follows: 2 Killkenny Road, Unadilla, NY, 13849 The relief sought in the within action is final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage described above.

The Plaintiff makes no personal claim against any Defendants in this action.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Michael V. Coccoma, JSC dated June 11, 2018 and filed June 21,

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Help for Homeowners in Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process.

Please read it carefully.

Summons and Complaint

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MORTGAGED PREMISES: 143 Cross Road, Gilbertsville, New York 13776 SBL #: 304 – 1 – 29 Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial; venue is based upon the county in which the mortgaged premises is situate.

You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home.

Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF OTSEGO

Sources of Information and Assistance

The Estate of Mary F. Quinn; Unknown Heirs of The Estate of Mary F. Quinn, and all the heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid defendants, next of kin, distributees, devisees, grantees, trustees, lienors, creditors, assignees and successors in interest of any of the aforesaid classes of person, if they or any of them be dead, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to plaintiff, except as herein stated; Lois Quinn a/k/a Lois Quinn Pondolfino individually, as Heir to The Estate of Mary F. Quinn and as Trustee for William Joseph Wilson; William J. Wilson a/k/a William Joseph Wilson; United States of America o/b/o Internal Revenue Service; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; Defendants,

The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at (800) 342-3736 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs. ny.gov.

Rights and Obligations YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law.

Foreclosure Rescue Scams Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home.

There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

4LegalOct.25 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE INDEX NO.: 20160444 Date Filed: 07/20/2016

The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-14, Plaintiff, -against-

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR

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CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $21,150.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on November 4, 1999, in Book 832, Page 85, covering premises known as 143 Cross Road, Gilbertsville, New York 13776 – SBL # 304 – 1 – 29.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendants and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises.

TO the above named Defendants, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Otsego, dated May 08, 2018.

Dated: September 24 2018

McCalla, Raymer, Leibert, Pierce, LLC /s/____________ Marika Dagounis, Esq. 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840 New York, New York 10170 p. 347-286-7409 f. 347-286-7414 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process.

Please read it carefully.

SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your

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lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-2265697) or visit the department’s website at: http://www. dfs.ny.gov RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale.

Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law.

FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home.

There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

4LegalOct.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Cherry Valley Brewing Company, LLC Articles of Organization of this Limited Liability Company (LLC) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 12, 2018.

The LLC maintains its office in Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served to Cherry Valley Brewing Company, LLC, 201 Main Street, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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

6LegalOct.25 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Dudman Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 September 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street, Suite 11, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalOct.25 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: DRI 5, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 30 August 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street, Suite 11, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalOct.25

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business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalOct.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of SARANNIKA, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/31/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION

1 HAWKINS ROAD LLC.

Name of the LLC: CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN PROPERTIES LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NYS Sec. of State on 06/20/18.

Office location is Otsego County.

SSNYS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNYS shall mail process to The LLC, P. O. Box 93 (3 Bronner St.), Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalOct.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Silly Goat Creative LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 08/02/2018.

Cty: Otsego.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Richard Robinson, 540 St. Hwy 165, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

General Purpose 6LegalOct.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of BP FISHER PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/20/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 213 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalOct.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of BLACK MOOSE LAND HOLDINGS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/27/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 359 Delaware County Hwy 11, Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal

Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/31/18.

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, 20 Moreland Road, Suite 3, Hauppauge, NY 11788.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalOct.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Shultis Family LLC Filed 8/30/18 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 20 Lewis Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalOct.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Eleventeen Properties LLC Articles of Organization Filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 08/28/18.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Michael Trosset, PO Box 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose 6LegalOct.11 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Keyed-up Transcription, LLC. Filed 4/23/18.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 122 Mt. Vista Dr Apt. 2, Oneonta, NY 13820. Registered Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: General.

6LegalOct.11 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of The Farmers Mechanic LLC Articles of Organization of this Limited Liability Company (LLC)

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were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 14, 2018.

The LLC maintains its office in Otsego County.

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

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

6LegalOct.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: COWBOY ENTERPRISES LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 19 July 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 1304, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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

Office location: Otsego County.

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

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

6LegalOct.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of YOUNG LAKE HOUSE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

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

6LegalOct.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Scoreboard Classics LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/26/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 43 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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THURSDAY-Friday, OCTOBER 4-5, 2018

Hartwick College’s New Nurse-Training Lab Builds On 70-Year Tradition NURSING/From A1 Calzolari, the college’s chief marketing officer. “We converted it.”

With the ribbon-cutting set for 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, the lab includes 16 beds, quadruple the size of the four-bed lab in Johnston Hall with the help of a $300,000 grant from the Clark Foundation of Cooperstown.

“This means there’s only one or two students to a bed, giving them more hands-on time,” said Jodi Krzystan, assistant professor of nursing.

Photo courtesy Hartwick College The ribbon-cutting is a Members of Hartwick College’s first class of highpoint of the college’s nurses relax after a hard day of training. The True Blue Weekend, the ancollege launched its program of U.S. Cadet nual alumni gathering that Nurses at the end of World War II, part of an includes a day-long symArmed Forces campaign to meet a need.

All OTSEGO. dining&entertainment Join us as we celebrate the kickoff of National Wolf Awareness Week!

Animal enrichment programs throughout the day including the fun to watch wolves and the wolf pups, foxes, and coyotes as they receive their stuffed pumpkins!

Other events scheduled: • Sled Dogs of Smokey Hill • Utica Zoomobile • DEC K9’s • Kids’ Tent

• Magician Jim Okey • Native American Crafts • Mother Earth Drum & Singers • Food Vendors, Gift Shop & More

$5/Person Admission * Children Under 5 FREE CASH ONLY - Please No Credit or Debit Cards

12th Annual Honoring the Spirit of the Wolf Sunday October 7 • 11 am - 4 pm • Wolf Mountain Nature Center 562 Hopkins Crandall Rd • Smyrna, NY • www.thewolfmountainnaturecenter.org

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posium on nursing, the first Dan Gilbert “Run To The Top,” and other events.

The lab is for first-year students only, allowing them the space to learn to take vitals and other basic nursing skills, such as toileting and turning a patient.

There’s even an elevator to teach students how to get a patient in a wheelchair onto the elevator, and out of the elevator and into a bed.

“Hands-on, live application allows them to practice theory and put all the pieces together,” said Krzystan.

“They’re excited, and it helps them develop the critical thinking that’s crucial to nursing.”

In the first few weeks of classes, students practice on each other, taking blood pressure and pulse, as well as listening to heart beats with a special, double stethoscope that allows the instructor to listen alongside the student.

Later, they’ll move on to working with special mannequins that can be programmed with a variety of reactions, forcing students to assess the “patient’s” needs.

“Some of the mannequins are equipped with a button I can press to make them scream or cry,” said Krzystan. “My favorite is: If a student leaves a bed up too high and walks away, I’ll make the mannequin scream and tell the student, ‘Your patient just broke their hip.’”

The mannequins can also simulate respiratory distress or other critical conditions.

“It puts (nursing students) in real life situations so they can make mistakes without hurting anyone and learn from them,” she said. “They need to learn to pick up on the subtle signs and see what they did wrong.”

Later in the semester, students will begin visiting local nursing homes, including Chestnut Park and Fox Nursing Home, as well as Robinson Terrace in Stamford, to practice what they’ve learned.

“Part of it is learning how to talk to patients, how to have good bedside manner,” said Calzolari.

“Even with the mannequins, we have them ask their name, date of birth and explain the procedure,” said Krzystan.

Fifty-eight of Hartwick’s 102 nursing students live in Smith Hall, making access to the lab that much easier.

It also allows students easier access to open labs, where they can come in and practice their skills in their free time.

The nursing program

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dates back to World War II, when the government asked colleges to start training nurses as the Cadet Nurse Corps. “Students in these programs got free tuition, free room and board, and were sent directly to hospitals and the armed forces after graduation,” said David Lubell, media relations manager. “Hartwick was one of the few colleges to take part.”

In 1945, the first two post-war graduates went into the working world.

Since then, Hartwick has turned out 25-30 graduates

a year, many of who remain to serve patients locally.

“There’s a high demand for nurses in a rural area,” said Calozari.

In addition to the commencement exercises, nursing students attend a “pinning ceremony” on Friday before graduation, where they receive their lab coats, pins and a flower.

In the future, the nursing department hopes to collaborate with other departments. “We’d love to work with theater arts,” said Krzystan. “They can be our patients!”

All OTSEGO. opportunities Cornell Cooperative Extension Association of Schoharie and Otsego Counties announces the opening position for an Ag and Farmland Implementation Specialist, to be housed at its Cooperstown, New York office. For a full description and to apply go to http://cceschoharie-otsego. org/about-us/job-opportunities.

CCE is an equal opportunity employer and educator. Individuals who bring a diverse perspective and are supportive of diversity are strongly encouraged to apply.

Join Our Team of Dedicated and Caring Professionals Bus Driver Classroom Teacher Center Associate Center-Based Family Partner Children’s Center Associate OFO is a family-oriented organization offering competetive wages, excellent benefits & opportunities for professional growth. For an application, submission instructions, benefit package summary & descriptions of all employment openings, visit

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Morris Central School has the following openings for 2018-2019

Permanent Substitute: Starts at $105 per diem, after one month goes to $110 per diem.

Must be a NYS certified teacher.

Substitute Teachers: Certified starts at $95/day Substitute Teachers: Non-certified starts at $85/day Substitute Teacher Aides Substitute Food Service Workers Substitute Cleaners Substitute Bus Drivers: CDL preferred, will train Substitute Nurses: RN $95/day, LPN $85/day Send letter of interest and resume by October 19 to: Judy Matson, District Clerk, Morris Central School, PO Box 40, Morris, NY 13808 EOE

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Immediate Openings Activities Coordinator

See over 60 vintage and modern tractors and other machinery. Enjoy games and activities for children. Watch the tractors parade through the museum grounds on Sunday at noon. Ride the Empire State Carousel. Get great food and drink in the Crossroads Café. Find a $2 off coupon and more about the event on our website.

Tractor Fest is free with your paid museum admission.

Adults (13-64) $12, Seniors (65+) $10.50, Children (7-12) $6, Children (6 and under) and museum members are free.

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