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ith a 5-2 split on party lines and one abstention, Oneonta Common Council Tuesday, Oct. 6, moved closer to applying the state’s “Mask and Face Coverings” law locally, Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA potentially bringing it into everyone’s living rooms.

Cooperstown Police Chief Frank Cavilieri Echoing the state law, the local law that is dusts defaced signs for prints.

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Oneonta Garden Club members Phyllis Gunther and Laurie Zimniewicz pack up 4,500 daffodil bulbs for the clubs annual giveaway at the Oneonta Farmer’s Market on Saturday, Oct. 10.

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even members of a wedding party came down with COVID-19 following the weekend event in Oneida County, according to Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health.

Six of them live in the Town of Oneonta; one lives in Middlefield. Additionally, two other cases were traced from the event, one each to Delaware and Schenectady county.

Additionally, SUNY Oneonta reported the first positive COVID test among their employees.

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AllOTSEGO.com ►the first EMPLOYEE at SUNY Oneonta tested positive and student infections keep climbing. ►THE VICTIM IN Sunday’s fatal fire in Fly Creek was identified as Robert Huestis, 77. ►county treasurer Allen Ruffles finds way to keep 2021 budget under tax cap. ►COOPERSTOWN’S MAYOR and two trustees were sworn in for new terms after a nail-biting tie election last week.

Unveiling the sign on Route 201 honoring a fallen Hartwick Marine are, from left, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Assemblyman John Salka, RBrookfield, Christine and Michael Winslow, his brother and sister-in-law; sister Maria Winslow Folts and her husband Donald.

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n the end, damage to 11 of the Village of Cooperstown’s mask-ordinance signs totaled just under the $250 threshold for a felony charge.

“The total damage came to $238.74,” said Cooperstown Police Chief Frank Cavalieri.

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Village Police arrested Please See ARRESTED, B5

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Route 205 Dedicated To Fallen Marine’s Memory

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he last weekend Michael Winslow spent with his brother, Marine Sgt. John

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members Hartwick boyhood with Sergeant Winslow/See A4

Kempe Winslow, the two went hunting up on hill overlooking their hometown of Hartwick.

“We successfully hunted two

bucks,” he said, pointing over his shoulder at the hill behind him.

“We always enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping.”

Now, in the valley below that hill, a sign dedicated to Winslow, who was killed by a “friendly fire” Please See MARINE, B3

Wenck: CCS Students ‘Happy To Be Here’ Oneonta, Laurens, Milford Schools Will Open Next Tuesday, Oct. 13

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t Cooperstown Central School, it’s good to be back.

“Last week, the faculty and staff were all saying, ‘We can’t wait until Monday,’” said interim Superintendent Ramona Wenck,. “The kids are happy to be here too. It’s like they say – you don’t know what you have until

you’ve lost it.”

Divided into “A” and “B” cohorts, students returned to the campus on Monday, Oct. 5, with plenty of precautions in place, including masks, social distancing, temperature Please See SCHOOL, B3

n 2016, administering a halfdozen major state and federal grants at the same time, Cooperstown’s part-time, unpaid village trustees concluded they needed more administrative fireTeri Barown power at 22 Main.

A Village Board committee – Mayor Jeff Katz and Trustees (now mayor) Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Lou Allstadt – invited a team from NYCOM, the New Please See BAROWN, B3

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ounty Rep. Rick Brockway, R-West Laurens, was expected to present petitions bearing 3,295 signatures to the county Board of Representatives Wednesday, Oct. 7, asking the reps to declare a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” in the county, where the state’s SAFE Act would not be enforced, according to Garret deBlieck, a 2AS organizer.

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TWO AT ALL-STATE: Gilbertsville-Mount Upton seniors Emily Hammond and ith costumes, Gavin Bonczkowski have decorated cars been selected to perform in and group photos, the 2020 NYSMA All-State the Oneonta Rotary Club Festival. will hold its first Road Rally Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser DEBUT FILM: Cuyle from 1-4:30 on Sunday, Carvin’s 2011 directoral October 18. debut “Absurd,” filmed Participating teams will locally, is available on the follow clues, answer riddles, Tubi streaming service. and stop to take pictures

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Layla Butterman, 8, Oneonta, chats with incumbent Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, on a campaign and sign-distribution stop on Sunday, Oct. 4, in Cooperstown’s Pioneer Park.

Behind her is dad, Dan, who is running for state Assembly against incumbent John Salka, RBrookfield. Others, from left, are Melinda Hardin, Richard Sternberg, and former Cooperstown mayor Jeff Katz.

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EDITORIAL

Allen Ruffles Figures It Out

County Treasurer Bridges COVID Era Gap, Avoids Tax Hike

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t 194 Main St., Cooperstown, the seat of Otsego County government, there’s been wailing and gnashing of teeth since COVID-19 arrived six months ago.

Revenues dried up. Fiftynine jobs were chopped.

The county board waited fearfully as state and federal mandarins declined to pay back money spent on mandated programs in 2019. The county reps pondered raising taxes above the 2 percent state cap, political hari kari.

County Treasurer Allen Ruffles cut through all that

in a preliminary pared a budget budget he prethat: sented to the • One, squeezes county board’s the prospective Budget Commit2021 deficit from tee Thursday, $13.5 million to Oct. 1. $5.4 million; he It balances. cut wherever he It provides cash could. flow. And it won’t • Two, he’ll raise taxes. borrow $4 million In consultaat a historically Author of The tion with county Ruffles Budget. low interest rate board Chair Dave – 1.0043 percent Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town – due in 12-24 years. of Middlefield, and Budget • Three, Highway SuperCommittee chair Meg Kenintendent Rich Brimmer’s nedy, C-Hartwick, Milford, crews will get as much road New Lisbon; Ruffles prework done as early next

LETTERS

Let’s Come Together To Build Better Nation

To the Editor: I grew up in a small town in Upstate New York where the streets were lined with big maple trees. Some streets had still had slate sidewalks.

There were many of those big beautiful old Victorian houses you see in villages across Central New York.

I remember marching down the street in the parades. I was a Cub Scout and then a Boy Scout. I think I even got to carry the American flag one time. We would end up at the American Legion where they would serve hotdogs and bug juice as many of the village residents milled around.

In those days I was proud of America, it was my country, it was a nation of immigrants who all came together for a better way of life. That’s the way I saw it at my young age.

As I got older I discovered the truth about many things: the shootout at OK corral with Wyatt Earp had nothing to do with justice.

It was about a monopoly of gambling and prostitution.

The founding of my country was the result of mass liquidation of the indigenous species that were already here. Millions were murdered.

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Decades Of Easy Living Make Nation Vulnerable To the Editor: There’re many points that could be debated. I’ll touch on one. The most crucial for the future of our great country and our grandchildren.

SOCIALISM. Radicals, who have no use for this country as it has been, have taken over our Democratic Party. They favor government control over every aspect of our lives.

America’s founding fathers fought to prevent this. It’s why our ancestors migrated here. Our soldiers fought, giving their lives and limbs to maintain freedom.

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Why is this occurring when it’s been proven over and over around the world that Socialism doesn’t work?

First, our mainstream media has become an arm of this new Democratic Party.

If mainstream media is the primary source of information, we only know what they deliver, much like government-controlled media in other countries.

Secondly, we’ve endured many decades (my whole life) of primarily easy living. My parents told of hard Please See BECKERT, A6

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ith Teri Barown, the Village summer as possible, freeing of Cooperstown got up $6.7 million in CHIPS professional managemoney, road funding that is ment right. still flowing from Albany.

In 11 years as vilHe’ll use the $1.0043 lage clerk, Barown percent loan money to pay earned the confidence for road-repair supplies, and of numerous village The Freeman’s Journal pay it back whenever. And boards, of Democratic Administrator Teri Barown he’ll use the $6.7 million and Republican trust- outside Village Hall. to pay short-term bills on ees alike. everything else.

When the Katz AdminisWith NYCOM’s blessing, • tration launched a $10 milBarown was promoted from With a little luck, a vaccine lion redevelopment of the clerk to administrator. A and new treatments will downtown – the Tillapaugh busy, drama-free, five-year wrestle COVID-19 to the Administration continued period of accomplishment ground in the next few it – it soon became clear followed. months. Blessed tourists will grantsmanship was too timeJust before Teri was proreturn in 2021 – hosanna! consuming for an unpaid moted, the City of Oneonta Please See RUFFLES, A5 part-time board.

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IN MEMORIAM: JOHN KEMPE WINSLOW, 1947-1969 State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, welcomes more than 100 wellwishers Monday, Oct. 5, to the rededication of a section of Route 205 in honor of Marine Sgt. John Kempe Winslow, who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1969.

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Sgt. Winslow Ceremony Evokes Memories Of Hartwick Boyhood Editor’s Note: K. Wayne Bunn recounted these boyhood memories at the rededication of Route 205 through Hartwick hamlet in honor of Marine Sgt. John Kempe Winslow Monday, Oct. 5.

each day during the warmer months. During the summer vacations, I spent most days with Johnny and our other close friends (Darrell Risley, Ken Tabor, Ron Hurtibise, Orlo Burch, etc.) doing what young uring the 1950s, kids did back then durI grew up two houses ing the summer: We from Sgt. John WAYNE played backyard football, Kempe Winslow, known BUNN baseball, basketball, rode back then as Johnny, on our bikes, Little League South Street in the hamlet of Hartwick. He was one year younger baseball, Boy Scouts, got into minor trouble, fished for trout in the Otego than I was, and one year below me Creek, hiked, and pretended to hunt in school, but we became close deer in the woods around Hartwick. friends at a very early age.

Some of the best times we had We both attended the former growing up were days spent swimHartwick High School, which after ming at “The Fly,” a large deep hole 1957 became the Hartwick Grade Please See BUNN, A5 Center, and rode our bikes to school

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his month marks the first anniversary of my move to Woodside Hall, One Main St., Cooperstown. Half of that time has been spent in lockdown due to the coronavirus. And oh my, has my life changed!

In my 98 years, I have never been restricted in any way as to where I can go. Now the extent of my travelling is a few blocks to Bassett Hospital for doctor’s appointments.

However, if I have to be restricted, Woodside Hall is the place to be.

Karen Cadwalader and Stephen Cadwalader, owners and directors of

Woodside Hall, have abided by all the rules and regulations to keep us safe.

Tape on the floor indicates spots six feet apart, where it is safe to stand or sit. Diners are seated six feet apart GRACE at mealtime. Masks KULL are required to be worn if you are closer than six feet. All staff wear masks and have their temperature taken before

they are admitted to the house and are routinely tested for COVID-19.

They are all cheerful and helpful and do everything and anything for us: Keeping our rooms clean, doing our laundry, helping with personal hygiene if required, giving meds, serving delightful meals prepared by our talented kitchen staff. I thank them all.

The most unhappy part was that, for six months, we could not have visitors inside, and had to visit through closed windows. That meant no physical contact with our families. That’s hard.

Barbara Sullivan, activities direcPlease See KULL, A6

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150 Years Ago

The Oneonta Post Office is open for business from 7 o’clock a.m. to 8 o’clock p.m. On Sunday, from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and half an hour at Noon. Mails close as follows: First Railroad Mail East: 10 a.m.; Second Railroad Mail East: 4:10 p.m.; First Railroad Mail West: 11:15 a.m.; Mails for Morris Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mails for Laurens Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mail for Delhi via North Franklin, Tri-Weekly: 11:30 a.m. The 4:10 p.m. mail carries no matter for points this side of Albany. Mails for Delhi are sent via West Davenport Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. And via North Franklin and Meredith Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Boxes 40 cents per year; 10 cents per quarter. Stamped letter and circular envelopes and stamped newspaper wrappers constantly on hand of the different sizes, qualities and sizes.

October 1870

100 Years Ago

Associations. Mr. Getman is the son of Damon L. Getman of Cooperstown and Mrs. Julia Getman of Oneonta. He is married to the former Miss Margaret Lynch of Oneonta.

They have two children.

October 1960

40 Years Ago

Music by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Dukas and Beethoven will highlight the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the season Saturday, October 11. Music Director Charles Schneider will conduct and Janet Brady, concertmaster, will be the violin soloist. The performance will be held at 8 p.m. in the Hunt Union Ballroom at the State University College at Oneonta. Saturday’s concert will open with the Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich.

“Though brief, it is a rousing exuberant piece of perpetual motion, and it shows the depth and skill achieved by our brass and percussion sections over the years,” Mr. Schneider observed. Regarding the Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra by Camille Saint-Saens, Mr. Schneider commented: “We are fortunate to have Janet Brady, our concertmaster and our soloist, a violinist who lives right in the upstate area, and we know she will do justice to the brilliance and virtuosity of the work.”

October 1980

125 Years Ago

The Doctor: There is something more than beauty and attractiveness to be considered in caring for the fingernails.

Beneath them is a space which forms a nidus or resting place for bacteria. Bacteriologists have found a score or more of different kinds of organisms under the nails, many of them harmless, it is true, but some of them exceedingly dangerous to health and life. He who bites the fingernails takes the risk of getting into his mouth and swallowing the germs of some infectious disease. Bacteria may be anywhere and the nails have a peculiar aptitude for scraping up particles of dust and dirt which may be swarming with germs. There is no better method of cleansing the nails than with a good brush and plenty of soap and water.

October 1895

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Courses on “Understanding the Christian Way of Life,” and lectures on “Understanding the Bible” have been arranged for the Seventh Annual Epworth League Institute of Oneonta which opened Monday night at Elm Park Church, Oneonta. The theme song will be “O Young and Fearless Prophet.” Lecture courses include “What Can Youth Expect from the Church?” by the Rev. Wheaton P. Webb, Worcester; “Meaning and Power of Friendship,” by the Rev. Wilfred I. Lyon, Hartwick; “Family Relationships and the Home,” Miss Evelyn Hodgon, Oneonta State Normal; “The Sacrament of Union by Dr. David Kydd, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown; and “Preparation for Marriage,” with different leaders.

The annual luncheon of the Otsego County Children’s Society will take place at The Oneonta Country Club Saturday, October 12 at 12:30 o’clock. The principal speaker will be James Bruno of New York City, Director of the Public

20 Years Ago

The Oneonta Job Corps, established in 1980, is struggling with some success to become a constructive part of the Otsego County community, an educational and civic asset rather than an alien, federally funded institution isolated October 1920 from its surroundings. In recent months, following the mandate of its own Business and Industry Council, an advisory Welfare Committee of the State Charities Aid Association. group of business leaders, the Oneonta Job Corp Center He will explain the plans of the Society for the coming year. has been sending its 370 students out into the surrounding His address is of special interest because the Society decided community to volunteer their time and energy for blood in June to place the children’s ill health work under the juris- drives, non-profit building projects, and community events. diction of the Otsego County Department of Public Welfare. The volunteer initiative is more than a public relations ploy.

October 1940 It is part of the effort to train young students how to meet strangers and make them friends.

October 2000 Frank Getman of Oneonta will succeed Scott E. Greene of Cooperstown as Otsego County’s Assistant District Attorney. Mr. Getman, who practices law in Oneonta with the Amanda LoPiccolo will tell you, “I do a lot of races. You firm of Farone and Steidle is a graduate of Oneonta High kind of get in a routine.”

School and of Colgate University with the class of 1952.

Still, there was nothing routine for Amanda, 27, in the 17th He served for three years in the U.S. Marine Corps and saw Ricky “Pit” Parisian 10K Run that she ran – and won, the action in Korea during the Korean War. He received his law first Oneontan to do so in the event’s history – Sunday, Oct. degree from Albany Law School in 1958 and was admitted 3, virtually alone on the final stretch in Neahwa Park. to the bar that same year. He is the Secretary/Treasurer of “It’s really cool to come into the race as a local person and the Oneonta City Bar Association, and a member of the win,” said the Unatego grad – maiden name, Laytham.

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60 Years Ago

10 Years Ago

BUNN: Boyhood Pastimes, With No Inkling Of What The Future Held

BUNN/From A4 in the Otego Creek near the bridge on North Street, where we would change our clothes in the bushes.

Another favorite time was riding on the back of Ken Foster’s milk truck as he picked up milk from area farms and then riding on top of the milk cans along the conveyor line with rollers which led into the former Hartwick milk plant.

As we got older, I would spend many days with Johnny at the Winslow camp on Otsego Lake where we would swim, fish, canoe, camp out, and hike around the area. We remained friends throughout high school and rode the school bus to Cooperstown each day. He was a very talented wrestler and golfer at CCS and he played the accordion.

Johnny was just a great kid, liked by everyone – I do not recall anyone not liking Johnny. I left for college one year before Johnny

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did, so I did not see him as much after high school, especially after he joined the Marine Corps in 1965.

Johnny, like all Marines, was very proud to serve in the Marine Corps and serve his country.

During his first tour of duty in Vietnam, Johnny was wounded in the leg and spent several months recuperating in a hospital on Long Island. I recall talking with Johnny when he was discharged from the hospital and spent some time at home before resuming his duties.

He received the Purple Heart for his wounds in combat.

For whatever reason, he wanted to return to Vietnam and serve a second tour - perhaps to support his fellow Marines - but he never told me why and I never saw him again after that day. I just know that he was a true Marine and loved the Marine Corps.

Johnny followed in the footsteps of a military family - his

father served in the Army in World War II and his older brother Chet served in the Army in the early 1960s.

It was a very sad day for me in July of 1969 when our neighbor Ford Risley told me that Johnny had been killed in Vietnam - he was only 22 years old.

Unfortunately, he was killed by a misguided friendly air strike during a combat operation in Quang Tri Province. He was scheduled to return home and be discharged from the Marine Corps in August of 1969.

It was a very difficult time when my mother and I visited the Winslow family at their camp to express our sympathy - my mother was Johnny’s third-grade teacher.

I was able to drive several members of Johnny’s family during the funeral service which followed.

Johnny was always late when it came time to do anything and we always told him that he would be

EDITORIAL: Barown Shows How

BAROWN/From A4 lost its first city administrator. Over the next four years, it lost two more.

So what lessons might be drawn RUFFLES/From A4 from Teri Barown’s successful tenure?

– and sales tax and bed tax • coffers will overflow. Happy • One, she was a known quality. days will be here again.

No surprises, and that lesson’s If the COVID threat been learned. Looking toward a new continues for 5-6 years, we’re all sunk anyhow. But, Oneonta city manager, City Personnel Director Katie Böttger’s and City chin up, America. That’s Engineer Greg Mattice’s names have unlikely to happen.

As the sign at Schneider’s been mentioned. At the county, Bakery says, “This Too Shall Treasurer Allen Ruffles is in play.

• Two, flexibility in hiring matters.

Pass.” That’s as good a In addition to having a gem already prediction as any. on staff, the Village Board saved tens The Ruffles budget is a of thousands of dollars by promoting preliminary spending plan Barown and giving her a raise from county treasurers are required $55,000 to $70,000 (with incremental to submit to Albany by midbumps since then.)

Common Council November. has paid well over $110,000 and up Bliss, Kennedy and the just to start.

Teri didn’t have an MPA, Budget Committee appear to like the Ruffles formula. So, as required in Oneonta’s City Charter; but she got things done. right now, Ruffles’ formula • Three, she respects (and likes) may carry the day. people.

The result: stable taxes, Asked what advice she has for cash flow to get through ’21, her successor, she said “maintain an and low-interest debt to pay openness.”

To trustees, she said, “Hire when the economy rebounds. someone who can handle the duties, Well done, Allen. Why and work with the staff that’s here. not?

We have excellent staff here.”

She called village clerk and, then, administrator, “dream jobs,” where she could serve a community of people she had known since girlhood.

• She was a good employee, excellent really.

Former Mayor Jeff Katz said: “She cared, but it was more than that.

She’s emotionally invested in her job and the wellbeing of the village.

Whatever was thrown her way, she did it gladly and she did it well.

She’s tenacious that way.”

That’s an employee everybody wants.

• She could handle politics.

While she was administrator, the Village Boards contained all Democrats. ‘Nuff said. Politics connects people with government; don’t cut that connection.

• County board chairman David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, and Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, have been coming to similar conclusions.

In effect, hire the right person – someone with commitment, experience and people skills – and let them do their job.

late to his own funeral.

In fact, he was - the detachment from the Marine Corps from Albany was late in getting to the Patterson Funeral Home in Hartwick before the church service in Cooperstown so the service was delayed until they arrived.

To this day, 51 years later, I still miss Johnny.

I have very fond memories of Johnny and the Winslow family because they were so good to me over the years. Johnny’s father, Chester J. Winslow, Jr. – also known as “Big Chet” – was an attorney in Hartwick and had a profound influence on me as I was growing up, including why I attended Syracuse University (his alma mater).

I wanted to be an attorney like “Big Chet” but I struggled with English, reading, and writing so I pursued a career as a civil engineer. It is interesting to note that “Big Chet” told me one time that

he wanted to be a civil engineer but struggled with math and science.

I was so happy when I read in 2019 that a section of State Highway 205 in Hartwick was going to be named in honor of Sgt. John Kempe Winslow – 50 years after his death. What a great tribute to Sgt. John Kempe Winslow and his family, including his brother Mike and sister Maria who are here today.

A big “thank you” to the Hartwick American Legion Post 1567 for promoting this idea and, especially, to State Sen. Jim Seward and Assemblyman John Salka for sponsoring the bill that was passed by the State Legislature and signed by Governor Cuomo to so honor Sgt. John Kempe Winslow.

I am so proud to call Sgt. John Kempe Winslow my long-time friend and to be a part of this dedication.

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he good news is that the this very differently than if you president seems to be do- are young and healthy. Though ing OK medically. how anyone could consider The bad news is that greater than 210,000 people around him are excess deaths in the United States from being put at risk because COVID-19 reasonable of his refusal not only not to restrict himself in is beyond me. any manner but, in fact, Tell me that the his flaunting his ability mortality rate is acto do anything he wants, ceptable when it’s whenever he wants. your close relative.

So many of his senior My cousin’s father and staff, their staff, Secret aunt have died from it.

RICHARD Service, White House Remember my column workers and people who STERNBERG from last week about were at his recent camthe 28-year old doctor paign events are turning who died of it. up positive or exposed and they I read the criticisms of my column posted on Monday, Oct. have to restrict themselves.

Also, the FDA and CDC 5, and found myself agreeing on which are both supposed to some points. But if the person function based on science, are writing remembers that over making decisions based on two months ago I said that, if politics. everyone wore a mask all the • time outside of the home, almost If you have friends and family all restrictions could have been members who have died, or dropped by now. have been very sick, you look at Please See STERNBERG, A6

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DUNCAN: Everyone Should Benefit In Big-Tent U.S.

DUNCAN/From A4 And then there was the fact that there had been wars almost every year since the founding of this country.

We are an island: Why do we invest so much in military? Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex, but nobody listened. Greed and power were too tempting.

The AMA was created to form a monopoly to drive away homeopathy doctors. It was not about freedom or a better healthcare system. The American Cancer Society was started to form a monopoly. So much power and greed.

I am embarrassed. The reality is every country in the world has blood on its hands. It’s time to stop whining about the past, forget about restitution. We should just move forward as a country and try to do better America has evolved into a petty country. We think everything is black or white. Democrats or Republicans,

socialism or democracy, communism or democracy.

Politicians spend time backbiting each other. It’s more about their character and how much money they can put into advertising than the quality of their character or the ability to do the job.

Then there are all those people who fear socialism or communism – it’s like they feel it’s an either/or situation.

Sure socialism can breed lethargy, but then capitalism breeds greed and self-centeredness.

Hopefully, one of these days we will get somebody who focuses on the needs and problems of the people, not the government and corporations.

The corporations have gained so much power and control they have taken away much of our freedom.

So think about what America really is and what it can be – for all, not just you!

I am not well-versed in history but I think the early settlers saw this land

as a place of new beginnings for all people regardless of race or religion.

A land of opportunity in fairness for all … equality and justice…

When it’s time to vote in any election, forget about what he said or she said, think about what they can do for all the people and not just the One Percent or yourself.

It’s not a popularity contest, it’s not about protecting your beliefs. It is a responsibility to run a nation. It should be done with dignity, compassion, iron-willed determination and a love for a nation that embraces all races and religions and all economic needs in a peaceful environment.

Whether we like it or not, it is not just ourselves anymore but we are part of a global community and we had better start acting with maturity, and not like a reality TV show.

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BECKERT: In Prosperity, Americans Forget It Isn’t Guaranteed BECKERT/From A4 times in the first half of last century and prior. This gave them and my grandparents an appreciation for what is required to stay warm and fed.

The big picture: government can’t provide this. However, if you’re warm, well fed and happy you’re more vulnerable to be sold a bill of goods. This country won’t be taken militarily, but

instead from within.

How has radicalism/Socialism become prominent? It’s the global force of wealthy, powerful liberals whose vision for this country and world is very different.

There have always been power hungry people with vast amounts of money.

They support this new Democratic Party and mainstream media.

Call me crazy, but I sincerely ask you to research resources that are factual, rather than mistruths from Democrats and mainstream media. Our grandchildren deserve to experience the same kind of life and opportunities we have.

Therefore, Election 2020 is crucial!

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KULL: Long Hair, Lack Of Family Contacts Among Novelties KULL/From A4 tor, always has interesting activities planned for us, be it games, painting, crafts or discussion groups. And of course, BINGO. Even I add to the “entertainment” by reading aloud from my two books of letters and Jim Atwell reads to us from his book about living in Fly Creek.

Mary Margaret Kuhn, besides planting and tending to the lovely gardens outside, leads interesting activities inside. She even brought a huge container of flowers from her home garden for us to arrange in vases to brighten tables around the house including our own rooms if we choose. Love it.

The biggest change in

me over this time is in my appearance. I have always worn my hair quite short, but after six months with no haircut, my hair is down past my ears. When I look in the mirror, I see that famous portrait of George Washington with his white wig on. Do you know the one I mean?

I can’t wait for Doris Loiacona, who used to come in and keep us well coiffed, to be allowed in again so I can have a haircut and look like my own self again.

I also can’t wait for this whole pandemic to be over and for the world to be back to normal, if that will ever

really be possible. I for one, doubt it. But it will be better.

This too shall pass.

Grace Kull, a former Cooperstown village trustee, retired to the Plains at Parish Homestead, Oneonta, before moving on to Woodside Hall.

STERNBERG: Tumult In Trump’s Care Is Confusing STERNBERG/From A5 I would be comfortable in that situation. Instead we are averaging over 35,000 new cases daily in the U.S. over the past two weeks.

• The president is probably getting care available to no one else on Earth but himself.

He is on at least two and possibly three experimental medicines. They haven’t been released for general care and no one has any idea if they have unforeseen complications when taken together.

He is still highly contagious. He has multiple risk factors. If I was his doctor, I would have put myself on the line in order to keep him in the hospital. I would have refused to do something I knew defied standards of care. Nevertheless, he is the president.

The White House medical unit can create an environment equivalent to an ICU if need be if it doesn’t already have an ICU bed standing by at all times. The care he will get there is world class.

Basically, it is equivalent to Walter Reed but without the immediate access to special testing capabilities or surgery.

If he needed something it would probably take 30 minutes. But with a medical versus a surgical diagnosis this is not much of a risk.

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It’s hard to tell if he is manifesting side effects from the steroids which is very common. Dexamethasone is associated with psychological changes including mood changes such as increased aggressiveness. There is also dizziness and headache among other side-effects.

• Bottom line; I still have no idea which direction the president’s illness is going.

He is getting great care, better than you or I ever could. If there are no negative changes

by Monday, he should be out of the woods. If things change, I will update.

Richard Sternberg, a retired Bassett Hospital orthopedic surgeon, has agreed to provide his professional perspective while the coronavirus threat continues.

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COVID Can’t Dampen PIT Run Spirit Fewer Runners In Virtual Race, But Donations Bigger Than Ever

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ven in the 27th year of the annual PIT Run, Sid Parisian said that his late brother’s spirit continues to find ways to surprise him.

“We’ve been doing a walk from the house to the park for our course,” he

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Trooper Ricky “Pit” Parisian was killed May 20, 1994, trying to stop a robbery at the Great American. The date is 5/20; the distance, 5.20 miles.

“He continues to freak us out,” Sid said.

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or her son William’s 12th birthday, Ellen Pernat had the idea to go to a corn maze. “We couldn’t find one close

Ellen Pernat built a corn maze she couldn’t find one locally.

by,” she said. “And I didn’t want to drive three hours.”

So they built one.

Now in its third year, the Fly Creek Valley Corn Maze is one of the region’s most popular autumn

attractions, drawing as many as 500 visitors a day to try and navigate the wrong turns, switch-backs and loops of the six-acre maze.

“We were featured in an ‘I Love NY’ ad,” said her husband Mark Pernat. “We have people come from New Rochelle, Plattsburgh, specifically to walk our maze.”

The long-time dairy farmers had always grown pumpkins for their kids, but as dairy prices continued to drop, they began looking for other ways to provide for their family.

“We sold some pumpkins on the side of the road and started making hundreds of dollars,” she said. “So I said to Mark, ‘Why not do a corn maze?’”

Mark’s brother Matt is in charge of designing the maze every year, taking his riding mower out into the field and cutting all the twists, turns, dead ends and circles when the corn is waist-high. The when corn itself is cross-planted so visitors can’t see through the rows, and heavily fertilized so it grows tall enough to block a view of any mountains that might help orient a guest.

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LIBBY Friday – Monday, Oct. 9CUDMORE 12. www.farmersmuseum. org/ • Come show support for the USA and all who live here by defending it against racism. Noon – 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, Muller Plaza, Oneonta. www.facebook. com/events/672946079998383.

• Downtown Oneonta’s free drive-in movie series continues with ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.’ Movie starts at dusk. 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, Foothills Performing Arts Center Parking Lot, Oneonta. (607) 353-7143.

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“He knows the whole maze,” she said. “If it’s been awhile since we’ve seen someone, we send him in so he can lead them out – if they want.”

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They’ve also added a pumpkin patch, and their corn-hole boards are still available for use.

In addition to the daytime hours, they also offer some night tours, including one this past Friday, Oct. 2.

“We always tell people to bring flashlights, but with the full moon on Friday, you didn’t even need one,” said Ellen.

For the very brave, on Saturday, Oct. 24, and Friday, Oct 30, the corn maze is haunted by the Pernats and their friends.

“Last year, I was hiding with a pumpkin mask and holding a chainsaw, and this group came by and said, ‘You don’t scare us, pumpkin man,’” said Matt.

“But they weren’t looking behind them, so I followed them for a ways, and when they came to a T, I went up right behind a woman and whispered, ‘You should go right,’ and she screamed!”

Fewer Run But More Donate To Virtual PIT Run PIT/From B1 new 100K challenge in this year’s Virtual Pit Run, which invites runners to tally up their miles throughout the month of October.

“It’s 62 miles, so that’s two miles a day,” said Sid. “That’s 10 10Ks for the month … Breaking it down, it’s like eating an elephant – one bite at a time.”

Though the annual Race Day event was cancelled due to COVID-19, the race itself was moved to a virtual format, allowing racers to choose when they run and on what course.

“It’s always a community event,” said Sid. “I know how healing it was for us in 1994, and I was hoping we could return that, but there was just no way to do it safely.”

Sunday, Oct. 4, the originally scheduled “race day,” the family gathered at the finish line, where the Unalam arch – styled after basketball hoops – was installed in 2018, to cheer on the racers who did take to the course that morning, including Don Guinta, husband of Deb’s college roommate, Susan, who came up from Long Island for the day. “It’s my third Pit Run,” he said. “And it feels good.”

He completed the 5K in 36:29.

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River streets at 10:45. “It’s my first time running in four months,” he said. “It’s not the Pit Run, but let’s just say I decided to run the old Pit Run course.”

Though the number of registered racers was much lower – only 160, a far cry from the 1,400 that ran last year –there were more donations than ever before, Deb said. “We saw that, instead of registering to run, people just donated,” she said.

“Last year we had $1,000 extra in donations, but this year, so far, we’ve had $3,000.”

The addition of the 100K has drawn the most participants, with 70 people signed up to take on the challenge. Daily totals are added to a virtual “leaderboard,” to determine who currently holds the highest rankings.

Registrations are still open through Oct. 15.

With the event itself cancelled – including the music and the post-race Brooks BBQ chicken dinner – 100 percent of the proceeds from the race go to the Ricky J. Parisian Memorial Scholarship fund.

And true to the legend that it never rains on Race Day, the grey skies gave way to sunshine on Sunday, Oct. 4.

“Now someone just needs to bring me a Brooks’ chicken dinner to eat in the park!” said Sid.

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MARINE/From A1 airstrike during his second tour of Vietnam on July 30, 1969, marks the portion of Route 205 that cuts through Hartwick hamlet, his hometown.

“My hope is that every time motorists go by, they’re reminded of his service and sacrifice,” said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. “This is a fitting way to honor him, and after 51 years, it’s long overdue.”

In 2018, Seward was approached

by Hartwick and Cooperstown veterans’ clubs, asking him to put through legislation to dedicate the route in Winslow’s honor.

Seward won approval for the bill in the Senate, and Assemblyman John Salka, R-Brookfield, in the lower house, and it was signed by Governor Cuomo, the sign’s unveiling was delayed from spring until Monday, Oct. 5, by the coronavirus threat.

“This proves that Hartwick is a special place where American

ideals, like John embodied, are still present,” said Seward.

John’s friend Wayne Bunn recalled their idyllic boyhood days in the hamlet.

“In the summer, I spent most of my Michael days with Johnny,” Winslow he said. “We’d recalls hitch a ride on hunting with Ken Foster’s milk his brother. truck, then we’d sit on top of the milk cans as they rolled down the conveyor belt at the Hartwick milk plant.”

A talented wrestler and golfer, he was also well-liked by his Cooperstown classmates. “I don’t recall ever meeting someone who didn’t like Johnny,” Bunn said.

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Central School in 1964, Winslow enlisted in the Marines. His father, Chester J. Winslow Jr. had served in the Army World War II and his brother, Chester J. Winslow III, had also served in the Army, stationed in Okinawa, Japan, where he trained German shepherds.

Winslow was injured in the leg and sent to Long Island to recuperate in a hospital there, where he received the Purple Heart. “It wasn’t just a band-aid,” said Michael. “I remember him pulling shrapnel from his leg weeks after coming home.”

But when he recovered, and was assigned to Camp Pendleton, where he volunteered for a second tour.

“I remember my parents going out there to try and discourage him from going,” said Michael. “But he said the Marines needed experienced men to help train the new recruits. He told me if Dad could survive Patton’s army in World War II, he would be just fine.”

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BAROWN/From A1 York Conference of Mayors, to assess operations.

When NYCOM recommended creating the village-administrator job, there was a roadblock.

“We can’t afford a new salary,” Katz recalled telling the team.

“You don’t have to,” came the reply. “You’ve got that person”: 11-year Village Clerk Teri Barown. “Give her the title.

Give her a raise commensurate to the title” – at the time, from $55,000 to $70,000.

And that was it.

“Whatever success we had when I was mayor couldn’t have been done without Teri,” Katz continued. “She was crucial to it all. It was one thing to get the money; another to administer the grant.”

But all good things must come to an end.

Monday, Oct. 5, village trustees accepted Teri Barown’s retirement letter: She plans to care for two grandchildren – son Mike’s Blake, 8, and Olivia, 6, whose parents are strapped for childcare in time of COVID-19.

“She made herself absolutely essential to our village opera tions,” Tillapaugh said in announcing the news at the Village Board’s organizational meeting.

The trustees decided to advertise the village clerk position – Barown continued to fulfill those responsibilities – and reassign duties until a way forward becomes clear.

Barown obtained her “dream job” in 2005 when she was hired as village clerk, and villageadministrator job was even better, she said on her promotion in 2016.

A native of Cooperstown, Barown is a 1979 CCS graduate.

She attended Herkimer Community College to become a paralegal, then studied business administration at Utica School of Commerce’s Oneonta campus.

She worked in the late Attorney Lynn Green’s offices on Main Street for eight years, then spent 12 years in Otsego County government as assistant county personnel officer. She joined the village after three years as NYSHA (now Fenimore Museum) membership manager, and four as Laurens Central School district clerk.

Son Mike, Town of Maryland, works for Norfolk Southern out of Hartwick. Teri also has two daughters, Julie, on maternity leave with 5-week-old Rhyder from L.M. Townsend Catering, Cooperstown. And Nicole, who is single and working at Bassett Hospital’s accounting department.

Looking ahead, Barown hopes to travel at some point, maybe to Ireland. “I’d love to get back to Hawaii,” where Julie was married.

For a while, Barown has been the longest-serving municipal administrator in Otsego County.

The City of Oneonta, the only other community with professional management, has had three administrators since 2012.

Barown was actually the village’s fourth administrator, after Village Clerk Doug Walrath was promoted to administrator in 1990. He was succeeded by Dick Linn, who served two years, and was succeeded by Trustee Giles Russell, an unpaid volunteer.

When Russell stepped aside in 1995, the position was vacant for 20 years.

Why did Barown succeed?

“She’s a super-hard worker,” Katz said.

“She cared,” he continued.

“But it was more than that. She’s emotionally invested in her job and the wellbeing of the village.

Whatever was thrown her way, she did it gladly and she did it well. She’s tenacious that way.”

Add as single mom she raised three children and got them through college, he remembered telling her once, “You’re like a hero.”

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Winslow friend John Reynolds shares an e-mailed remembrance from the sergeant’s friend.

“He never told me why he wanted to return,” recalled Bunn. “But I never saw him after that day.”

He was killed in July; his return

date was scheduled for August. “I still miss Johnny,” he said.

Classmate John Reynolds read an email from Randall Brown sent when the sign was announced, reporting meeting a vet named Van Crowder in Florida who remembered his comrade.

“He got out a few weeks before John’s scheduled release date,” Brown wrote. “Soon after John’s release date came, Van drove from Ithaca, where he was from, to Cooperstown to locate John and welcome him back to New York.”

Crowder arrived in Cooperstown late and slept in his car, only to be awoken by a policeman the next day.

“He told the officer why he was there,” Reynolds read. “The cop said he was sorry to have to tell him, but they’d buried John just the week before. Van loved John Winslow, and he named his son Nathan Winslow Crowder.”

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“The kids have been great about all of it,” she said.

Students in the “A” group attend classes Monday and Wednesday; students in the “B” group attend Tuesday and Thursday, with Friday as a virtual day for all. When not on campus, students will learn remotely.

Masks must be worn throughout the day, but students will be given “mask breaks” at times when social distancing can be maintained, or while eating.

In the elementary school, students can still do recess and gym class, although lunches are made “grab-and-go” and students eat in their classroom.

“In gym, they have to be 12 feet apart, but it’s amazing what the teachers are able to do that is engaging for students in the gym and learning remotely,” she said.

In the high school, students still go between classes as normal, but are divided into three lunch groups. Tables in the cafeteria have been replaced with desks for adequate social distancing.

“It’s been great so far,” she said. “We’re very excited to have the children back.”

Students in Oneonta, Laurens and Milford will return to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

“It’s consistent with our reopening framework,” said Oneonta Superintendent Thomas Brindley. “Based on our current infection rate and the fact that the widespread transmission from the COVID infection at the college was less than

we had feared, we were encouraged by the Department of Health to go ahead and reopen.”

Their “A” cohorts will attend classes in person on Monday and Tuesday, with the “B” cohort on campus on Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesday will be a distance learning day for all students.

“It’s a lot to ask our faculty and staff to work remotely and in-person, but I know they’re up to the challenge,” said Brindley.

Families were given the option to remain remote; Brindley said approximately 200 students would learn from home.

“Hopefully as schools ease back into instruction and infection rates continue to decline, we might be able to ease up some,” he said. “But families who aren’t comfortable returning have the option of staying home.”

But before classes begin, there are still some kinks to work out, he said. “The biggest challenge is being able to serve meals six feet apart,” he said. “But with every passing day, we get closer to figuring these things out.”

An “isolation room” has been set aside for any student or faculty member who begins showing symptoms at school, and students need to pass a daily screening to gain entrance.

Brindley is also hoping that wearing masks – and staying home when you’re feeling sick – will also help keep colds and flu from spreading.

“We’ve never been here before,” he said.

“I’m anxious, but I’m also excited to have our students back.”

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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, PO Box 1224, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company CLEARVIEW OF HARTWICK PROPERTIES LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 29 September 2020.

Office location: Otsego County.

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IN MEMORIAM Carol Rumenapp, 72; Former Milford Town Justice MILFORD – Carol Ann Ferguson Rumenapp, 72, Milford town justice for decades, retiring in 2018, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully with family by her side Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, at her home in Milford.

Carol was born in Weehawken, N.J., on Oct. 1, 1947, to Glen and Antonette “Rita” Ferguson.

As a child, she enjoyed spending summers with family in West Virginia, riding horses, watching logging competitions and playing along the creek with her brother Glen, where she earned the nickname “Crock-A-Do Lolly.”

She then went on to live most of her life on Edson

Corners Road, Milford.

She was a graduate of Milford Central School and pursued public service as a career, working in the Otsego County Probation Department and Otsego County District Attorney’s Office. As town justice,, she touched lives and hearts with her wit, humor and intellect.

As a single mom, her life was a lesson in strength, resilience and perseverance.

She taught us the importance of getting up early, being grateful for what we have, working hard, helping others, living in the present, spending wisely, continuously learning and always putting family and God first.

Values to live your life by…

She loved taking care of her flowers and growing vegetables, cooking Carol Ann for friends Rumenapp and family, maintaining a beautiful home and helping others whenever she could. Most of all, she loved being a mom, spending time with her family and spoiling her grandchildren. Smart, driven, loving, responsible, funny, generous, hard working and beautiful are words often used to describe this incredible woman.

She is survived by her

‘Masks On Main’ Signs Defaced, Suspect Known

ARRESTED/ From A1 a Cooperstown man for spraypainting Xes across four large and seven small “Masks on Main” publicizing the must-wear mandate between Main to Pioneer in the Business District.

Though he was charged with criminal mischief, fourth degree, and issued a ticket, his name was temporarily withheld, pending a The Freeman’s Journal Wednesday & HOMETOWN ONEONTA arraignment in “Masks on Main” signs in rain Otsego Town gardens along Main Street were Court. also defaced.

On Monday, her and miss her smile. he’s a criminal per se. He Oct. 5, village Adele was the last did a criminal act, but he’s officials were notified that surviving member of her stressed and frustrated with the signs had been taken generation in her family. everything going on in the and vandalized.

According She was predeceased by country.” to Cavalieri, the three large her husband, Kaare; eight Deputy Mayor Cindy signs were found spraysiblings, Paul, Carl, Fred, Falk, who helped initiate the painted and discarded in Robert, Catherine, Adolf, “Mask on Main” program, front of District Attorney John and Emanuel; all of said she had seen some John Muehl’s office; the her in-laws and her cousin, pushback when the law smaller signs from the rain MaryLou Mooney, who was was first passed. gardens were found behind like a sister.

“What surprises me the Pioneer Alley.

She was also predeceased most is that it took this “We believe he sprayby two of her daughters, long,” she said. “When I painted them there,” the Patricia and Lise. first put out magnets on chief said. “There were She is survived by her parking meters and trash traces of spray paint on children, Ellen Berg (Joe cans, I saw immediately that the ground.”

Teixeria), Kathy Berg some were taken or moved.”

The suspect was caught (Ed Fersch), Paul Berg Because the signs are on camera footage provided (Donna) and Linda Berg printed on plastic, Tillapaugh to police by local business (Jon Meads); son-in-law said, any solvent used would owners, the chief said Steve Brown; grandson, damage the image and text, adding, “We collected a lot Gabriel Fersch (Hazel); so new signs have been of evidence.” granddaughters, Kristina According to Mayor Ellen ordered.

Brown, Alisa Fersch (Henry “It’s the law,” Cavalieri Tillapaugh Kuch, the suspect Adams), Amanda Berg said, “The reason for it turned himself in Tuesday (Ryan Healy) and Maria is to protect our most morning. “He must have Berg; great-granddaughter, compromised citizens. If realized there was mounting Aleya Fersch; and numerous you have the possibility of evidence against him,” she nieces and nephews. said. “When you have video saving someone’s life by Adele’s wish that her wearing a mask, I don’t evidence, it’s hard to argue children have happy understand why there would against it.” memories of growing up be pushback.”

“He made a mistake,” on the beautiful farm of said Cavalieri.

“I don’t think their beloved Uncle Charlie in Bussey Hollow was certainly realized.

Her ashes will be interred next to her husband’s in the Andes Cemetery.

Explaining his vote, EVERYWHERE, From A1 now going to public hearing Murphy said, “Two days ago, I was walking past requires people to where someone on Main Street, masks in all “public and After being injured in and it was so busy that we private indoor and outdoor a vehicle accident, Jerry locations” when they cannot couldn’t get six feet apart retired from his work and without going on someone’s socially distance. moved to Florida. lawn. Luckily we both had “This law covers nothing Jerry is survived by his masks.” that isn’t already covered wife, Lillian; daughters, “It’s about marketing,” in the Governor’s executive Lee Adele and Pamela; said Drnek. “People don’t orders,” said Mayor Gary granddaughter, LaKiesha want to come to Oneonta Herzig. The law is intended Wilson and great-grandsons, to enable OPD to enforce the because they have a percepVontavious, Marquice, tion that it’s unsafe, but provisions, now in Public Zerrian and Ja’Kwan when I wear a mask, and Health Law, within city of Florida. He is also you wear a mask, we know limits. survived by his sister, it’s safe to shop, to dine, to “Right now, it’s difficult Susan of Hutto, Texas and to write a ticket because we visit local merchants. Our brother, Jon (Linda) of community needs to know don’t have a way to referOtego; as well as many it’s safe to be in downtown ence the executive order,” nieces and nephews.

Oneonta.” said Police Chief Doug He was predeceased “I’ve taken more engageBrenner, “This just makes it by his first wife, Sharron; ment on this than any other easier, like we were writing parents, James and Emma; a ticket for littering.” issue since I started,” said brothers, Paul and J. David; Carson. “And 99 percent “The police aren’t going and great-granddaughter, of the people I speak to are to go around knocking on KeLoni Wilson. people’s doors,” said Herzig. totally against this.”

“I understand the impor“If someone calls in a large, tance of wearing a mask,” noisy party and the police said Harrington. “But I find that there is not approspoke to a lot of people priate social distancing, this in my ward, and they feel gives them the authority to like it’s an overreach, that ticket them under city law.” they’re adults and they know Democratic Council the guidelines.” members Luke Murphy, “We have a public health First Ward, David law, and I never hear complainRissberger, Third Ward, ing about the masks,” said Kaytee Lipari Shue, Fourth Rissberger. “But as soon as Ward, John Rafter, Seventh we’re about to solidify the Ward and Mark Drnek, law, people get upset, which Eighth Ward, all voted yes. makes me wonder if they’re The nays were really wearing the mask.

Republicans Len Carson, It’s no different than the Fifth Ward, and Scott seatbelt law or the car seat Harrington, Sixth Ward. laws. If the public health Democrat Mark Davies, law isn’t overreach, than Second Ward, abstained. neither is this.”

“As an employee of SUNY, The law now moves to I need to recuse myself,” a public hearing, which he said.

“I disagree with that state- will be held Tuesday, Oct. 20. Following the public ment,” said City Attorney David Merzig. “The law will hearing, Herzig will then have to sign the law. be applied to all citizens.” best friend and life mate, Tim Knapp; son, Derrick (Amy) Rumenapp; daughter, Katie (Jason) Haag; the apples of her eye, her grandchildren, Megan and Matthew Rumenapp and Ryan Haag; brother, Glen (Janet) Ferguson; niece, Melissa (Mark) Silver and nephew, Glen Ferguson III; and nieces, Sarah Murray and Emily Silver.

In celebration of her life, a small private gathering will be held at her house per her wishes.

Donations in her honor may be made to the Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern NY in Albany.

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

Adele Margaret Berg, 98; Made WWII Airplane Parts ONEONTA - Adele Margaret Berg, 98, who worked in factories during World War II, passed away peacefully on Sept. 16, 2020.

She was born in Brooklyn on Nov. 12, 1923, one of nine children born to Frederich and Katharine Fellner.

Growing up, she spent time in both Brooklyn and Andes.

Adele graduated from the prestigious Girls High School in Brooklyn. During World War II, like many women of her generation she was employed in a factory making war supplies. In her later years, she honored her work making airplane parts at Bendix Aviation in Teterboro, New Jersey, by proudly displaying the classic “Rosie the Riveter” image in her apartment.

Upon the death of her mother in 1944, she became the caretaker for her three younger brothers.

The family lived on the farm of her uncle, Charles Lutjen, up Bussey Hollow in Andes. Adele didn’t drive so she got a ride to Andes every week on the milk truck. Aasta Berg saw this intelligent and industrious

person and thought she would be a fine date for her brother, Kaare, who had Adele Berg recently returned after serving in Japan during the war. She arranged a double date for New Year’s eve 1946. Adele and Kaare were married 11 months later. Together they raised six children on Uncle Charlie’s farm.

Adele’s life wasn’t always easy but she never complained. She met every challenge with a sense of optimism and a determination to make the best of the situation. Her family struggled during the Depression. When she took on the role of caretaker for her siblings and her uncle, she had little experience in cooking or sewing.

She learned and was soon baking wonderful pies and sewing clothes for the family. She was a thoughtful person who showed kindness to everyone. She was always ready with a cup of coffee or a snack for the fuel deliverymen, meter readers

and any others coming to the farm.

Music was a great love and she had eclectic taste.

She hummed or sang while she cooked or sat at her sewing machine. Her voice was strong and clear to the end and she enjoyed singing along with church hymns whenever she could. She was a member of the Andes Methodist Church and the First United Methodist Church of Oneonta.

Adele loved to travel and the list of places she hoped to see included the mountains of North Carolina, the Texas hill country and the Pacific Ocean.

She and Kaare moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1992. After Kaare’s death, she flew to Seattle to visit her daughter, Linda, where she frolicked in the sand on the Pacific beach. Sadly, she never made it to the Texas hill country.

She was fiercely independent and relished living in her own apartment in Oneonta. When she could no longer safely live by herself, Adele became part of the family at Robynwood in Oneonta where the residents and staff all loved

Gerald A. Ferris, 70; Managed Grossman’s Lumber

ONEONTA – Gerald A. Ferris, 79, former manager of Grossman’s Lumber, Pony Farm Road, passed away Sept. 15, 2020, at his

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