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Amatrice Hails ‘Angel’ Vinne Avanzato Stella Luna Proprietor Delivers $3,000 Raised From Oneontans For ’Quake Relief By LIBBY CUDMORE

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inne Avanzato was hailed as a hero after delivering a $3,000 check – raised by customers dining on Bucatini all’Amatriciana at Stella Luna – into the hands of Sergio Pirozzi, mayor of the earthquake-ravaged Amatrice, Italy. “People were thanking him for giving back,” said his brother, Tony, who Vinnie Avanzato delivers is receiving e-mail reports from his check to Mayor Pirozzi.

brother in Italy. “They were so happy that an Italian-American was giving back to his country. They even told him they wished more Italians were as generous as we were!” Vinne, his wife Ruth and their daughter Giuliva had already booked an October visit to Italy to visit their son Diego and other extended family in Sicily when the earthquake hit in the early morning hours of Aug. 30. “There was so much devastation,” said Tony. “But the clock tower, the Please See DONATION, A3

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ocus Otsego and its workers’ union have announced a “joint effort” to address staffing shortages at the facility. The plan includes higher wages, a scale to recognize experience, incentives for new employees and training aimed at maximizing quality care. See details at

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CANO President Annie Kuhn received the Albert E. Morris Award for careful renovations of the Wilber Mansion, and downtown property owner Peter Clark, the Eduard Hofbauer Outstanding Service Award for storing Greater Oneonta Historical Society archives during renovations, at the GOHS annual meeting Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Traveling Exhibit Goal: Teaching From Tragedy ‘I Stand With Amy,’ 100 Declare, Rising

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tate Senate and Assembly candidates will meet at a forum at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Incumbent Republican Jim Seward and Democrat Jermain Bagnall-Graham are running for the 51st Senate seat. Incumbent Democrat Bill Magee and Republican John Salka are seeking the local Assembly seat. Oneonta Town Board candidates Michael Stolzer and Randal Mowers will also appear. RING BELLS: The Salvation Army is taking applications for bell ringers for the 2016 Red Kettle Campaign, which starts Saturday, Nov. 12 until Christmas Eve. Call 432-5960 or stop by the Salvation Army, 25 River St.

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my Stock would have turned 50 Tuesday, Oct. Amy Stock 11, 2016. “Instead of celebrating, I’m dedicating a Stop DWI Memorial,” said her sister, Eileen Anania. “And tomorrow I’ll go to the cemetery with bright yellow mums.” Amy’s family gathered at the county Emergency Services garage at The Meadows to unveil the Stop DWI Amy Stock Memorial Please See AMY, A3

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A sometimes tearful Eileen Anania of Cooperstown introduces the Mary Stock Memorial, a teaching tool featuring the car her sister was driving when it was hit by a drunk driver, to 100 well-wishers at a dedication Tuesday, Oct. 11, at The Meadows. Medical Coaches of Oneonta fabricated the memorial.

25 Years Ago, ‘God Called,’ Good Followed

nated and many of us got ill, there were red ants and mosquito bites galore. But all these negatives n 1992, a group of First Preswere far surpassed by the realizabyterian Church worshippers tion of how much we were needed HELP TROOPERS: got out of a van in front of by these kids.” State police are seeking the Pringle Home for Children in On Sunday, Oct. 9, the church the public’s help in finding rural Jamaica for a week of miscelebrated 25 years of affiliation a 2013 Ford F150 pickup sion work. with the Pringle Home, includtruck, color gray, license “Conditions were harsh,” said ing 21 on-site visits, one this past plate 20811JV, missing from Bonnie Manes, who led the misJuly. “God has called us to do his a home on Winney Hill sion along with the Rev. Marie work and we have answered faithIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Road since 2 a.m. Sept. 22. Bonnie Manes reflects on a King, the pastor at the time. “The fully,” said Manes, who has Call Troop C at 432-4844 or 25-year Jamaica mission. water and food were contamiPlease See MISSION, A3 432-3211.

Trump’s Revelation No Surprise To One Who Covered Him As NYC Reporter, Mathisen Saw Presidential Candidates Close Up By JIM KEVLIN

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he afternoon before, veteran New York City radio reporter Don Mathisen, now living in Oneonta, was recounting his experiences covering both presidential candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. As a reporter for WCNY, the city’s largest NPR station, then Bloomberg News and, finally, Fox, he covered leading New York politicos for decades, and described Clinton as testy, chilly with local reporters, and Please See MATHISEN, A6

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Oneonta Native Jim Kozubek Publishes First Book, On Genetics

artwick College alumni Jim Kozubek’s first book, “Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9,” was published Sept. 30 by Cambridge University Press.

An OHS graduate and a member of the class of 2001, Kozubek studied philosophy at Hartwick, then earned a master’s in genetics from the University of Connecticut. He is a staff scientist at the Brigham

and Women’s Hospital with affiliation to the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also written for Scientific American and the Boston Globe.

HOMETOWN People Newborn Silvana Burdick Meets Great-Grandmother Alice Talbot

Alice Talbot holds great-granddaughter Silvana M. Burdick, then 19 days old, in her arms during a family visit to Silvana’s great-grandmother at the Thanksgiving Home in Cooperstown. At left is Alice’s daughter, Julia T. DeLaurentiis; at right, Julia’s daughter Teresa M. DeLaurentiis with her daughter Fiorenza M. Burdick, 3, on her lap. Silvana was born Aug. 11, 2016, at Bassett Hospital. She was 5 pounds, 4 ounces, and 17 ¾ inches long at birth. She is the daughter of Teresa M DeLaurentiis and William C Burdick of Morris. Silvana’s grandparents are Thomas and Julia DeLaurentiis of Morris, William and Jean Cornell of South Edmeston and Diane Ford of Boonville. In addition to Mrs. Talbot, her greatgrandparents are Henry Mancini of New York Mills, Charles and Loretta Cornell, New Berlin.

Hartwick Professor Jing Chen Explores Authority In China

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ing Chen, Ph.D. an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hartwick College, has published her book, “Useful Complaints: How Petitions Assist Decentralized Authoritarianism in China” with Lexington Books. The book focuses on how the public petition system aids the governmental process in China. Supported by a mix of case studies and statistical analysis of field data, Chen outlines the benefits of the petition system to the Chinese Communist Party. “I find that a key institution, the petition system,

provides the Chinese state with an information edge in its power game with citizens and local officials. Readers who are interested in China, authoritarian politics, central-local relations, and information politics will enjoy reading the book,” she said. Chen received her B.A. in international politics from Peking University, China, and her Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. At Hartwick, she teaches courses on comparative politics and international relations with a focus on East Asia and other developing countries.

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Amy Stock Traveling Memorial to Discourage DWI Statewide AMY/From A1 Trailer, a multi-media exhibit designed to warn people of the fatal consequences of drinking and driving. Stock, 48, was killed on July 19, 2015, when Kadeem Fowler, 22, drove at 75 mph through a stop sign on an Albany street and crashed into her car. Fowler had .27 blood-alcohol level, nearly three times the legal limit. He is serving a 8- to 24-year prison term.

Inside the trailer that has been converted into the Amy Stock Memorial, the mangled car is visible behind glass, surrounded by photos and news stories. A video on two TV screens shows crash footage, TV coverage, and even plays the last voice mail Amy left for a family member. As the video played, several audience members wept quietly. “I don’t know how anyone

could look at this trailer and not think twice about driving under the influence,” said county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “Even as a seasoned law enforcement veteran, it still has an impact on me every time I see it.” After the crash, her family gathered at her apartment to process her death, and decided to use the car as a teaching tool. “I did what anyone would

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do – I got on Google,” said Anania. “I saw a trailer for a woman that was killed in Texas, and I thought we could do something like this with Amy’s car. People said it would be hard, but you know what would have been harder? Sending her car to the junkyard.” “Destiny implies a future with something great in it,” said Amy’s brother, Tom Stock. “When we were going through Amy’s things, we found a folder from a SADD assembly when she was in high school in the ’80s. She organized the speakers; education and advocacy are in her blood. I give you Amy’s destiny.” The trailer was sponsored by New York Central Mutual and built by Medical Coaches. “It was a labor of love for my company,” said owner Len Marsh. “We still had other

every night out of respect for Amy.” Edmeston’s Prolifiq sign company created the graphic wrap-around. NYCM created the #IStandWithAmy hashtag for social media, and Stock encouraged everyone who talks about their experience with the trailer to HOMETOWN ONEONTA utilize the hashtag. “I stand Sheriff Devlin comforts with Amy Stock,” he said. Amy’s parents. “Who do you stand with?” “I stand with Amy Stock,” projects in the plant, but my said Eileen, rising to her feet. guys would take a few hours And soon, everyone in the here, a few hours there to work room was standing and repeaton this.” ing, “I stand with Amy Stock.” Auto service tech students The trailer will make its at ONC BOCES preserved debut on Thursday, Oct. 13 the car for the display. “I was at Teen Safety Day at the so proud of these kids,” said Veterans Memorial Arena in Director Joe Booan. “They redowntown Binghamton, and alized it could have been their 77 teens are expected to see mother, sister, aunt or even it. “I have never met Amy,” them. They took great care said Devlin. “But through this of the vehicle, they covered it project, I feel like I know her.”

Mission To Jamaica Marks 25th Year MISSION/From A1 coordinated and traveled on every trip. The mission was the brainchild of Rev. King, who wanted teenagers to experience working and visiting in a Third World country. Adults went too, including Don Copenheaver. “They did all their cooking outside,” he said. “Our first morning there, we had hot dogs for breakfast. We had to get water from a spigot every day, and they made us chicken for lunch one time, and it still had feathers on it!”

Because the Pringle Home was in such poor condition, the group focused on improvement projects, including building a chicken coop, installing cement floors, rebuilding cabinets, even buying a new refrigerator. “We had some extra money left over after buying the fridge, and we asked what we could do with it,” said the Rev. Mark Montfort, the current pastor. “They kept talking about a weed-whacker. Now, I’m thinking a weed-whacker isn’t a big purchase; they’re $20 at Home Depot, but the one they wanted was like a

weed-whacker combined with a Harley Davidson! This thing could take down a small tree.” They also make time for play, reading to the children, hosting a Vacation Bible School and doing crafts, as well as bringing shoes, clothes and “sweeties” ranging from candy canes to Twizzlers to even Pringles potato chips. “We do a movie night with unlimited popcorn,” said Manes. “We take that for granted here, but in Jamaica it’s a real treat.” Members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the First United Presbyterian Church and Schuylerville Church have also joined on the mission. The trip is funded from several sources, from two chicken and biscuit dinner fundraisers, an annual Christmas bazaar and collecting bottles and cans. In addition to work at the home, the church also sponsors children, including Damian Williams, a boy found abandoned in a ditch at the age of 2. They paid for his post-Pringle home schooling and have kept in touch with him after ending financial support in 2000. “One afternoon, we were playing outside and Damian motioned me over,” wrote Niki Pearson in a letter read by Debbie Guise, Bonnie’s daughter. “He had two piles of dirt, one big, one small. He said the small one was him, and the large one was God, so much bigger than all of us.”

Amatrice Gets $3,000 Raised By Oneontans DONATION/From A1 landmark in the town, didn’t crumble. The town is still pretty devastated; it will be a long process to rebuild.” Vinne was staying in Rome, but drove 65 miles north to find Amatrice. “We didn’t even know if he would be allowed in the city,” said Tony. “It’s boarded up and roped off, and a month ago, they were only letting rescue workers in.” He took with him a certified check for $3,000 in hopes of delivering the funds raised by the restaurant to someone who could best help the town. “Our parents only had a fourth grade education,” said Tony. “But the lessons they taught us of generosity, love and of giving, were not learned in a school. They were great educators of values, honesty and respect.” He was able to get in touch with Mayor Pirozzi, who accepted the check on behalf of the town’s rebuilding efforts. Tony and Vinne began serving the pasta dish – the town’s signature dish, made with hollow pasta noodles in a spicy tomato sauce flavored with salted pork jowl and peperoncino – as a fundraiser for Amatrice one week after the earthquake hit. “Our friends over there told us there were foundations we could donate to, but they would take 20-30 percent,” said Tony. “I said, ‘Not gonna happen!’ Our customers, our friends, are giving their hard-earned money. It should all go to the people who need it. This is close to my home, close to my heart.” Throughout September, they dedicated 100 percent of the sale of Stella Luna’s Bucatini all’Amatriciana went directly to the town.

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EDITORIALS

Hartwick, Wahl Show: Opportunity Around Us

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nthony Wahl’s story brings George “It’s A Wonder Life” Bailey’s to mind. Anthony studied finance in hopes of working on Wall Street, only to graduate in 2008 as the Great Recession began. Unable to get a job, he returned to Wahl to Wahl, his father’s used-car business and auto graveyard in the Town of Middlefield. Again preparing to depart, his dad died, and Anthony needed Wahl to Wahl revenues to support his mother. So he stayed, computerized, and today is selling car parts to customers in all 50 states and around the world. • As Wahl was getting traction, Hartwick College happened on an opportunity of its

own, the Center for Craft Food & Beverage, designed to provide lab testing that breweries and local food producers need to achieve consistency as they grow, but can’t afford to do on their own. The idea grew out of the interaction between Alex Sessions, an intern at Ommegang, and the brewery’s Scott Britton, and the customer base has grown from one to 53 in the past year. • Sure, Upstate has down-slid in the past half-century, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities, and the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce is at its best when it ferrets out and recognizes these success stories around us and celebrates them, as it plans to do Thursday,

Oct. 20, at The Otesaga. Plan to go. It’s a fun night. • This all brings to mind Temple University president Russell Conwell’s “Field of Diamonds” speech, much celebrated in the 19th century, on a world traveler seeking his fortune, only to find a field of diamonds in his backyard at home. State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, made what Hartwick is doing sound pretty simple, calling it “a classic example of identifying an unmet need and filling it. That’s exactly what they did.” And it’s exactly right: Let find needs, fill them and prosper. It applies perfectly to what Anthony Wahl did, too.

Donald Trump’s Crudities Evoke Alternative Vision

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hy did Donald Trump’s crudities sadden? A reader reminded us of an alternative vision, in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”: Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. Life is hard enough. Let us support our beloveds.

ISSUE & DEBATE PRO: Constitution Pipeline Can Create Jobs, Save Amphenol Editor’s Note: This is the draft of a letter asking Governor Cuomo to put his support behind completion of the Constitution Pipeline. The draft was not completed in time to be considere by the Otsego County Board of Representatives at its October meeting on the 4th.

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ear Governor Cuomo: Recently, an editorial written by Tom Vilsack, the U.S Secretary of Agriculture appeared in a local newspaper. He wrote the following, “We know when rural communities do well, America does well. Rural America provides us with the food we eat, the water we drink, and the energy we use … That’s why it’s good news that in all corners of rural America we’re seeing real, positive change take hold for the first time in the years since the Great Recession.” Unfortunately this does not apply to Otsego County.

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County Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, briefs colleagues on status of letter asking Governor Cuomo to open the way for the Constitution Pipeline.

Opiate addiction and overdose, alcohol abuse and DWI, domestic violence and child abuse are at epidemic proportions here. Poverty is the illness. Good jobs are the cure. To this end Otsego County and its neighbors need the Constitution Pipeline. This pipeline has the potential to provide natural

gas to industry and business as well as local municipalities and individual homes. Where will the gas go if the Constitution Pipeline is not built? It will go by pipeline to Louisiana and Mexico. In Louisiana it will be converted to liquid and sent overseas. In Mexico it will supply cheap clean

energy for new industries and jobs there. Following two devastating floods, Amphenol rebuilt in Sidney, N.Y. The promise of a natural gas pipeline was calculated into their building plans. Other industries which might locate here won’t make the same miscalculation. Potential new jobs won’t materialize. Older established jobs will leave. Rural America, specifically the Marcellus Shale, provides the natural gas. Rural America should benefit. Please reconsider the many benefits the Constitution Pipeline could provide to our area, and direct the Department of Environmental Conservation to work constructively with the natural gas industry for the pipeline’s completion. Sincerely, JAMES POWERS R-Butternuts EDWIN FRAZIER R-Unadilla

ANTI: Save Jobs? Blocking Pipeline Will Save Humanity To the Editor: Otsego Country Representatives Powers and Frazier ignore the “costs” of oil and gas infrastructure build-out, both in terms of the public health threat to those living along the route (and especially near the compressor stations required to keep the gas flowing where benzene and other volatile organic chemicals are vented to the atmosphere, or leak into the atmosphere, posing an imminent health risk to those down-wind), and the cost of adding many tons of natural gas to the atmosphere on an annual basis, which will speed-up climate change (methane is about 85 times more potent at trapping solar radiation than is CO2). Simply put, THEY DON’T CARE! Republicans are nihilistic and display a depraved indifference to protecting public health and safety, and the environment, and they cannot grasp

how close our addiction to fossil fuels has put us to self-annihilation. The analogy of where we are at today is: driving in a thick fog towards a cliff with the pedal to the metal. If constructed, the Constitution Pipeline will transport 650 million cubic feet of gas per day. Dr. Howarth at Cornell calculates a leakage rate up to 12 percent, meaning the Constitution could leak methane at the rate of 78 million cubic feet per day, or 28.5 billion cubic feet per year (around 806,042 metric tons per year), with an annual “social cost” of about $2.5 billion dollars per year. The “real cost” of constructing this pipeline far outweighs the economic benefits of this proposed project. Given what we know about the volatile organic compounds also being vented to the atmosphere Please See AVERETT, A6

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Create European-Style, Cobblestoned Plaza Over Asphalted Doubleday Parking Lot To the Editor: Doubleday parking lot is a major eyesore in the Village of Cooperstown. Building a parking garage there and inviting in more traffic would only make things worse and preclude better uses. Our village trustees

surely would not go down that road, despite a consultant’s recommendation. Nonetheless the problem of Doubleday lot remains. Consider this approach: ban cars and convert the whole space into a public square, let’s say a Euro-

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A multi-floor garage there could be nestled in, and accommodate a fair number of cars without visually impacting the village. Spaces might be reserved in the summer for people with village parking permits. Main Street could be made one-way, going east from the traffic light, and angled parking could be reintroduced on both sides (as it

used to be), further compensating for parking lost in Doubleday. Pie in the sky? Maybe. But it’s one way to think about creating a pedestrian public space in the village, eliminating an eyesore, and addressing the parking issue, all at the same time.

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vehicular access can be allowed for deliveries, dropoffs and pickups, etc., as it is in most European squares. What about the current parking spaces which would be lost? Automobiles aren’t going away. If a parking garage must be built, a better location would be behind the General Store, where a small parking lot already exists off Church street.

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pean-style piazza paved with cobblestones (not asphalt), a fountain in the center, maybe including the Sandlot Kid, with cafes and shops around the periphery, and Doubleday Field at the head. Include some space for public performances and events. Open access to Willow Creek. Figure out how to ensure continued access to current business. Limited

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Professor: ‘Rigged Elections’ Pioneered Here Editor’s Note: Chip Northrup of Cooperstown sent along a link to Politico’s “If Trump Disputes the Election,” by Ohio State professor Edward Foley. This excerpt tells of Otsego County’s involvement in the first “rigged election.” By EDWARD FOLEY

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not the United States. And for that, we can blame the electoral system set up at this country’s birth, when the Founding Fathers made two crucial – and mistaken – assumptions. First, they thought they could prevent political “factions” from coalescing into two stable and antagonistic

political parties that might find themselves directly at odds over an election and its results. Second, the Founders were unfamiliar with chief executive elections; the British king had appointed most colonial governors, so the Founders only had experience with disputes over elections to the British parliament or their own colonial legislatures. Because a fight over a single legislative seat was Please See RIGGED, A6

The Cooperstown ballots, which William Cooper kept in his store, came under dispute in the Clinton-Jay race.

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

150 Years Ago

On Thursday morning last as the 7:30 a.m. train from Albany neared Worcester the engineer saw a man on the track, blew the whistle and stopped the train as soon as possible. The man had abundant opportunity to get out of the way, but failed to do so. The cow catcher cut off one leg below the knee and threw him up about ten feet, striking against the embankment and smashing in the back part of the skull causing death. His name was John C. Clow, 49 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children. He was going to East Worcester at the time of the accident, and it seems was partially deaf. He, however, attempted to get off the track when his cane caught and threw him back. No blame whatever is to be attached to the employees of the road. October 1866

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80 Years Ago

Pledges totaling $3,374.50 were reported when workers in the financial campaign of the Neighborhood Association met at the Hotel Oneonta for breakfast yesterday. This is considered a very gratifying figure since only about 125 individuals were represented. Workers, committee chairmen and key men in the canvass of institutions employing more than 15 workers are urged to attend the breakfast this morning, if possible, and to make a final report at the Friday morning breakfast. There will be some final work done Saturday and possibly Monday. Indications were that the first of the larger institutions would qualify for the 100 percent cards showing that all employees had made some gift to the fund. October 1936

125 Years Ago

The McCammon Piano Company is now getting into running order. Work has already begun in every department and last week the first piano, one which was brought from Albany in an unfinished state, was shipped to Ohio. The regular output, once the factory is in full running order, will be ten pianos weekly. The company already has forty orders booked with new ones coming in every day. The outlook for the McCammon Company is flattering indeed. So many accidents have of late resulted from the practice of boys catching upon moving trains that the enforcement of the full statutory penalty for the offense might have a salutary effect upon offenders. The full penalty is “imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by both. October 1891

100 Years Ago

Ed. Note: A century ago on the eve of the 1916 Presidential election, Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate opposing incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, had this to say regarding relations with Mexico in a campaign speech:

we are not courting struggle; but I do say with all seriousness that we have been living in a period of national humiliation. Our citizens have been murdered, their property destroyed and our commerce interrupted. The alternative of a weak and vacillating policy is not war – it is a firm insistence upon known rights in a world where all nations desire our friendship, and we desire the friendship of all, and where only the most inexcusable blundering could drag us into war.” October 1916

60 Years Ago

Dr. and Mrs. LeRoy S. House, Colliscroft, have announced the engagement October 2006 of their daughter, Susan Ford House, to Herbert Boyd Plantz of Olean, son of Mr. “We have heard in recent days that the and Mrs. Wilber E. Plantz, Amsterdam. alternative of the policy of the present ad- Miss House is a graduate of Oneonta High ministration is war. I think the alternative School and Elmira College, class of 1955. of the present administration is peace with She is employed as a case worker for the honor. I am a man devoted to the pursuits Otsego County Welfare Department. Mr. of peace. We cherish the ideals of peace. Plantz is a graduate of Wilber Lynch High We entertain no thought of aggression; School, Amsterdam and St. Lawrence we are not covetous; we are not exploitUniversity. He served in the Air Force durers, but we are Americans and American ing World War II. He is employed by C.I.T. rights must be maintained throughout Credit Corp at Olean. the world. That is the cornerstone of our October 1956 security; that is the essential basis of our peace. We are not as I have said truculent;

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40 Years Ago

Delhi College President Francis J. Hennessy said Wednesday he would quit rather than endure any more “harassment” over his housing arrangements. He said publication of a report that students are helping build a house for him on Scotch Mountain would lead to trouble for himself and his family. “I’ve had two job offers in the last three years. The next one I’ll take,” he warned. “I don’t need Delhi if this is the way I have to live,” he said, recalling that he had not been in the village one week before he was “attacked” at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Hennessy has become embroiled in local controversy over whether he, like most other presidents in the state university system, should live in a state-provided house. At present the state rents an Andes road home for Hennessy who pays a maintenance charge deducted from his salary. He plans to move into the Scotch Mountain residence within two years. Until Wednesday, students from the college’s vocational courses were working on the building as part of a regular laboratory experience. Hennessy provided all materials plus 15 percent to reimburse the college for wear and tear on equipment. October 1976

20 Years Ago

The landscape in Meridale was irrevocably changed this week when bulldozers brought down some of the most familiar landmarks in the Delaware County countryside – the barns of Meridale Farms. The giant sales barn where buyers from all over the world looked over the famous farm’s prized Jerseys early in the 20th century; the 1900 creamery where the herd’s ultra-rich milk was processed into butter and cheese; and the “40” barn, which housed 40 cows and stood sentinel on a hairpin turn along Route 28, all fell before the wrecking machines. October 1996

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AVERETT/From A4 (like Benzene), including nitrogen oxides (NOx) and radon 222 and lead, this translates to hundreds of children with respiratory illnesses, dozens of lost babies or infants born with deformities, scores of cases of cancer, and endocrine disorders added to potential damage from pipeline leaks, explosions and floods. That’s a “real cost” that New Yorkers will have to pay to subsidize the Constitution Pipeline, if constructed.

Furthermore, building out more oil and gas infrastructure (in New York and elsewhere) is going to increase global warming over the short-term, which will cost the nation far more (orders of magnitude more... like in the trillions of dollars) than the loss of productivity (calculated to be in the billions of dollars...) implied by NOT allowing this (and all the other pipelines) to be built. The cost of Superstorm Sandy alone to New York State was around $42 billion, and this was a

single event. Ignoring climate change in favor of creating more pipelines, compressor stations and oil refineries is NOT an option for the U.S. any longer, and our very survival as a country and for our species depends on taking drastic action now instead of pretending that a few jobs created by Industry are a reason to continue down this path of madness. RICHARD AVERETT Otego

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the Founders decided to leave “I was shocked!” declared MATHISEN/From A1 claims of fraud in congressional the reporter, who concluded, manipulative. and state legislative elections “He’s a blowhard. Is he a good up to those respective chambers His stories depicted Trump businessman? I don’t know. I to resolve. as a bully. And he told how know that he likes once, when the They also, regrettably, ashimself.” real-estate mogul sumed that Congress could While he is was cooling his handle disputes in presidential supporting Hillheels in the ornate elections, and state legislatures ary Clinton for City Council in gubernatorial elections. president, his chambers, the two Were they ever caught by personal experi– the only ones surprise! As early as 1792, two ence bolsters her opposing political parties alin the balcony reputation for – spent several ready had formed: the Federaldistance and un- ists and the Jeffersonians … hours together, trustworthiness. where Trump The first major allegations of After she was vote rigging after the adoption recounted, often elected to the U.S. of the Constitution were in New in great detail, his Senate in 2000, sexual conquests. York, where the Federalists had Mathisen – he had convinced John Jay to run for Little could covered Daniel Mathisen know governor in an effort to unseat Patrick Moynihan the Jeffersonian incumbent, how even more and Al D’Amato George Clinton. relevant what he before her, and had to say would …The gubernatorial election Chuck Schumer be within 24 was exceptionally close, and it Mathisen at his since – found her turned on disputed ballots from hours, when Don- microphone. very controlling ald Trump’s “lockCooperstown, which was then with the press, heightening er room conversations” about controlled by (Cooperstown groping women – “when you’re security, requiring everyone to founder) William Cooper himshow IDs, and often passing a star, they let you do it” – in self, an ardent Federalist. them through metal detectors. a leaked 2005 videotape with Naturally, the Jeffersonian While reporters often apBilly “Access Hollywood” proached the other senators Bush became public, shocked the nation and put his campaign before press conference to chat and joke, “Hillary would never in dire circumstances. do that.” In a follow-up interview When she held a rare press Tuesday, Oct. 11, Mathisen, conference, she played to the who retired to Oneonta to be national networks, ignoring the near a daughter and grandson, local press. “She planted shills said he was not surprised at all in the audience” who would by the revelations. cheer. “Yay, Hillary, yay!,” a “He talked about his sexual tactic not done since Al Smith. conquests like teenage boys “People say she’s charming,” would in a locker room. That’s Mathisen concluded. “Maybe the way he was,” said the radio she is. I never saw it.” reporter, who currently is host of a weekly civic-affairs program on WIOX-FM Roxbury. “I don’t know if he used the words he used in the videos that came out, but that’s the way he talked about women, yes.” The week before, Mathisen had first recounted how, after a press conference in the penthouse of the Chase Manhattan Bank on Fifth Avenue, Trump, with a pretty 20-something on his arm, had confronted city Parks Commissioner Henry Stern in the elevator, insisting ASHLEY CONNOR he name a plant – a power city parks commissioners possess 29 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown · 607-547-4045 – after his girlfriend. Patricia Bensen-Ashley – Licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner Stern rejected the request outright, and soon Trump was screaming in Stern’s face, as his embarrassed date pleaded with him to drop it. “There’s nothing subtle about his negotiating style,” Mathisen observed drily. 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MLS#107335 $259,000 Beautiful 1800s Queen Anne in the Catskills. Completely renovated including 16’ x 18’ addition. Call Gabriella Vasta @ 607-267-1792 (cell)

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MLS#107000 $39,900 1890 Colonial Farmhouse Some remodeling done. 2 BRs, 2 baths. Laundry room off eat-in kitchen. Cooperstown Village home.sold Seller paysCash closing costs (up Needs TLC. Home is being as-is. offers. to Call$3,000 Frankw/acceptable Woodcock @offer). 607-435-1389 (cell)

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Hartwick Craft Food Center Aims To Revive Ag Economy Craft Food Center Director Aaron McLeod, lab technician Meghan Douglas and student intern Abby Lipp pause from their labors.

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he 16th annual Upstate New York Classical Guitar Festival features regional and world class performers, master classes, student ensembles and more, Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 15-16. Celil Refik Jaya, Sat. 7:30 p.m. recital ticket $20. $15, two-day all-events pass, society members $35, others $40, includes Sunday’s 1 p.m. Collegiate Honors Recital; 3 p.m. Rifenbark Memorial Recital with Dr. Ken Meyer of SU. SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Center, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 8658775, www.cgsuny.org FILM CYCLE: Glimmerglass Film Days offers “Rising from the Ashes,” story of first Rwandan national cycling team, many genocide survivors, 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY 80, Cooperstown. Tickets @ glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events. Companion 24mile bike rides around Otsego Lake offered by ORCA, 9:15-11:30 a.m. $5 registration, from the Clark Sports Center, Susquehanna Avenue, Cooperstown.

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ing parts to friends, and his dad told him he had to move them.” That was 1991. Today, “we’ve got 1,500 vehicles on 23 acres,” said the son. “We’re a full-service salvage yard, and we sell used cars. We ship parts to all 50 states and overseas. Please See PARTS, B2

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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)

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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) GrafiQa Creative Services (now Vibrant Creative) (2007) • T.S. Pink Corp. (2006)

LITTLE LIBRARY OPENS: Little Free Library, small, front yard book exchanges found in 70 countries, opens 42-44 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Library stewards Andrew, Melissa, Caroline and Charlotte Marietta. Sunday, October 16, 1-2:30 p.m. Local author book raffle, book-themed games, refreshments. Come as your favorite book character! Info, facebook.com/CooperstownLittleFreeLibrary PHILATELISTS: The Leatherstocking & Tri County stamp clubs co-sponsor a stamp and postcard show, sale at Holiday Inn/Southside in Oneonta, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 15. Statewide dealers; free stamps to collectors under 16. Experienced and beginning collectors welcome. PUMPKIN TRAIN: 1 p.m. Fun and games for the whole family. One pumpkin per child included in ticket price. Adults $20, Seniors $19, Kids (3-12) $17, under 3 Free. Train Depot, Cooperstown and Charlotte Railroad, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 432-2429, lrhs@lrhs.com.

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PARTS/From B1 “We’re the largest auto recyclers in Otsego County.” That growth and expansion will be celebrated Thursday, Oct. 20, when Wahl to Wahl is honored as 2016 Small Business of the Year at an Otsego Chamber of Commerce banquet at The Otesaga. Though Anthony was raised by his mother, he came to work for his father during college. “I wasn’t into cars as a kid,” he said. “I wanted to work on Wall Street, doing investments.” After four years in the Navy aboard an aircraft carrier in Japan, Andrew got his associates in business at Broome Community College and a B.A. in economics with a minor in business and finance. “I graduated in 2008” – at the start of the Great Recession – “and it was not a good time to go work on Wall Street, so I thought I would help my dad’s company until I could find a job I wanted.” But in 2011, Andrew died suddenly, and Anthony had a choice to make – sell the business or take it over. “I had really started to like the business,” he said. “And I’ve been running it ever since.” He immediately set to improving how the business was run. “Dad was old school,” the son said. “If someone called and asked for a part, he would go out in the yard to look for it and call them back. Now we inventory everything as soon as it comes in.” Anthony computerized, set up a Website and began accepting credit cards. “Now people can see what we have and call up to order it,” he said. Wahl to Wahl doesn’t do online ordering, but it’s part of a commitment to customer service. “A lot of times, people don’t exactly know what they’re looking for,” he said. “They call the part the wrong name or get the model year wrong, or they need the passenger side but ask for the driver’s side. We take steps to make sure they’re getting the exact right part they need.” Three-quarters of the parts go to auto body shops; the remaining 25 percent to individual purchasers. He tripled the number of employees, from three to nine, and is in the process of organizing, cleaning and expanding the lot. “Before, we might have three Corollas, but they’d be in three different spots,” he said. “Now we’ve got all the Volkswagens together, all the Subarus, all the GMs all together. It’s taken us five years, and we’re

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In Year, Hartwick’s Craft Food Center Client List Up From One To 53 Moortgat, the local brewery’s parCENTER/From B1 ent company, in Belgium. McLeod said to himself; he knew “Scott was very interested the service didn’t exist anywhere. in more collaboration with the “I want to be part of it.” college,” recalled Mary Ellen, a Since the wiry, high-energy biology professor now doing origiman arrived a year ago July on nal research into links between the campus overlooking the Susquehanna River, the Center for microbes, hops health and beer spoilage. Alex alerted his dad, Craft Food & Beverage has come Stan Sessions, another Hartwick a long way toward proving it is biology professor, indeed a promising and science students idea for the college began to do some and agriculture. initial testing for the When McLeod brewery. got here, he Separately, had one cusHartwick Presitomer: Brewery dent Margaret L. Ommegang. Drugovich, inThe other day, trigued by GoverMaggie Arthurs, nor Cuomo’s CFAs Hartwick direc– comprehensive tor of corporate, funding applicafoundations and tions, the entry government relapoint to state fundtions, received his ing – and the call latest report: That for higher education one customer has to get involved in grown to 53. economic developThat success Center Director Aaron ment, asked Arthurs – of an idea that’s McLeod has a bookbarely a half-decase-full of examples of to explore what the college might do. cade old – and products from customShe sent a what it promises ers the center serves. blanket e-mail to for the future, has the Hartwick faculty, soliciting won Hartwick College’s entrepreneurial venture the Otsego County ideas, and Stan Sessions replied, suggesting students could play Chamber of Commerce’s 11th annual Breakthrough Award, to a greater role in quality-control testing for the craft-beer industry be presented Thursday, Oct. 20, recently singled out for attention at the 17th annual Small Business Banquet at The Otesaga. (In May, in Cuomo’s Farm Brewery Act of Hartwick College was also named 2012. (In return for eased regulations and more opportunities, the Otsego Now’s “Partner of the act requires that 90 percent of Year.”) licensed breweries’ raw materials State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, called the center initiative “a to be New-York grown by 2022.) In April 2013 and again that classic example of identifying an May, Drugovich and Arthurs conunmet need and filling it. That’s vened two on-campus meetings exactly what they did.” – in Dewar Union’s Eaton Lounge Said McLeod, “We have an opportunity to transform the sluggish and Bresee Hall’s comfortable lobby – each attended by about a Upstate agricultural economy.” dozen representatives of breweries Like penicillin in the petri dish, and wineries, grain growers and the original idea of the Center natural-food farmers. for Craft Food & Beverage was “They saw a need for testing, stumbled upon, at least somewhat. a need for help with marketing, a One element may be traced back to 2011, when Alex Sessions, need for business plans,” said Arthurs. “People were immediately a Hartwick biology student, obexcited about it – because it makes tained a Brewery Ommegang insense.” ternship under Scott Britton, then By this time, a steering commitquality & regulatory compliance tee had formed, chaired by Susan manager, now in R&D at Duvel Young, the chemist. It included

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Arthurs, biologists Mary Ellen and Carli Ficano, and chemist Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad. The year before, the Empire State Development Corp. expanded CFA eligibility to include colleges, and the committee applied in August 2013 for a $60,000 planning grant, which – with Seward’s support – it received that December. In August 2014, the program received another $125,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission. And by January 2016, when Seward brought in another $250,000 grant – “this one’s on me,” he quipped – the center was nearing $1 million in federal, state and private encouragement. Since arriving a year ago July, McLeod said, he’s faced some nervous moments – “You wonder, are the walls going to be up in time for the opening?” But “once we launched” – in the basement of the Johnstone Science Center in January – “and we saw the great response from industry … It’s been very rewarding for me.” Brewers need regular testing to ensure the alcohol level is what’s

advertised. Malt houses – there are already eight in the state – test for starch and coloration. Hops are tested for moisture level and bitter acids. “Brewing is just one giant biochemical feat,” McLeod observed. While beer is the center’s foundation sector now, he sees opportunity across agriculture. As they grow, artisanal bakers will need grains they can depend on. Distillers need to be sure they are getting high-quality wheat and rye. Cideries are just now taking off.. Chobani doesn’t need the center; it’s big enough to do its own tests on-site, said Ellen. But the tests require expensive equipment; for instance, costly AAA (atomic absorption spectroscopy) instruments that use light to determine chemical content. Only big companies can afford that; through the center, many producers can share the cost. More central to Hartwick’s central mission, “It’s also proved a huge benefit to our students in on-the-job training, doing realworld testing right on campus,” said Ellen. “It’s a phenomenal

opportunity.” Already, the benefits are clear. Recent grad Matt Plunkett is working in his field at Shmaltz Brewing in Clifton Park. Meghan Douglas is McLeod’s first fulltime employee. Six science students are running tests parttime in the Johnstone lab, and two business students are developing and implementing the center’s social media strategy. If how and where the center will grow isn’t completely clear, McLeod – and Drugovich – see an ever-more-solid future for the entrepreneurial enterprise. Meanwhile, the college and trustees’ commitment is strong, the president said. “When I met with our new students this year, I told them the story of the Wright Brothers,” she recounted. “And I told them how it took the Wright Brothers over seven years to create a plane that could lift one human being off the ground for one minute. “You’ve got to dedicate yourself to the idea over time,” she said. “That’s how something happens.”

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Hartwick College director of Career Services, recommended creating an award, and Megan Scrivener, SUNY Oneonta internship coordinator, agreed. “It’s a great way to collaborate with both colleges.” Zambrzycki, a business major, also found his career calling through his internship at the state Small Business Development Center. “I saw the call for an internship and realized that I had to start focusing on what I was going to do after college,” he said. He became interested in financial projections, helping businesses to see what they need to survive and thrive, as well as research into regulations. “It’s the stuff most people wouldn’t think about when they decide they want to start a business,” he said. He worked on the business plan for J&D’s Wagon Wheel on Main Street, as well a bakery in Deposit. “Every day it’s different,” he said. “One day, you could be helping someone get a loan to open a pizza place, the next day, someone with an excavating company.” After graduation, Manesis plans to continue her law enforcement studies at Herkimer Community College. “I’m really interested in joining the state police,” she said. “But everyone I’ve talked to said I should get my paramedic certification first.” And Zambrzycki hopes to go into banking, as well as possibly starting his own small business. “I want to invent something,” he said. “But I’d be willing to jump in on an idea if I could get with the right people.”

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PUMPKIN PATCH TRAIN – 1 p.m. Fun and games for the whole family. One pumpkin per child included in ticket price. Adults $20, Seniors $19, Kids (3-12) $17, under 3 free. Train Depot, Cooperstown and Charlotte Railroad, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 432-2429, lrhs@lrhs.com OPEN STUDIO – 1-5 p.m. Artists Dave and Ann Kiehm share their work. 1020 Cty. Hwy. 46, Oneonta. 3-D PRINTING – 1 p.m. Design your jack-o-lantern with Tinkercard. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/3d-printing/ WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m. Bring works to read aloud, for critique, or just write something new while you’re there. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info: http://hmloneonta.org/hml-writers-group/ RECOVERY EVENT – 4-7 p.m. Celebrating Unity in Recovery. Waterfront Cafe, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy, Oneonta. Info, Kyle Smallin (607)267-4435 psoutreachfordo@outlook.com GHOSTS! – 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30 p.m. Candlelight Ghost Tours visits all places in mansion where ghostly manifestations have been reported over 150 years, including those identified by Ghosthunters! Fri. and Sat., through Oct. $20 per person, reservations required. Hyde Hall National Landmark Historic Site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5475098, www.hydehall.org COMMUNITY DANCE – 7 p.m. Small Town Big Band to play at Pierstown Grange Hall, 137 Wedderspoon Hollow Rd., Cooperstown. Donations appreciated. Info, (607) 547-1347 GUITAR FESTIVAL – 7:30 p.m. Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York Classical Guitar Fall Festival. Celil Refik Jaya, recital ticket $20. Two-day all events pass, classical guitar society members $35, nonmembers $40. Also Sun (Dr. Ken Meyer and Collegiate Honors Recital). SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Center, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 865-8775, www.cgsuny.org MUSIC – 7:30 p.m. Guild of Glimmerglass Festival presents “An Evening of Music” featuring local stars Dr. Burce Harris, pianist, with Amanda Brin, violin, Jonathan Brin, violincello, John Cannon, organist, Christ Church, Soprano Joelle LaChance and pianist Will Kelly performing Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn, Handel and Bernstein. Tickets

$30 adults, $15 for those under 18. Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Info, tickets, (607) 547-2255. THEATER – 8 p.m. “Stop Kiss” a two-act drama by Diana Son. Tickets $5. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Center, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy, Oneonta. Info, http://oneonta.universitytickets. com/user_pages/event_listings. asp

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BIKE RIDE – 9:15-11:30 a.m. Ride around the lake with Otsego Regional Cycling Advocates (ORCA). Companion event to 2 p.m. film, “Rising from the Ashes,” recounting story of Rwanda’s first national cycling team. Meet 9:15 a.m. at Clark Sports Center, 124 Cty. Rd. 52, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events/ related-event-rising-from-theashes-ride DOUBLEDAY DOG WALK – 11 a.m. Come, walk, play! Participants walk dogs around perimeter of Doubleday Field, Cooperstown to live music;

vendors, raising funds for Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Raise $100, receive T-shirt; bandana for your dog. Adoptable cats, dogs will be available to meet. Info, pledge sheets, (607) 547-8111, thesas.org. GUITAR FESTIVAL – 1 p.m. Collegiate Honors Recital, 3 p.m. Carolyn Rifenbark Memorial Recital, Dr. Ken Meyer (Syracuse University). Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York Classical Guitar Fall Festival. General admission $15. Two-day all events pass, classical guitar society members $35, non-members $40. SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Center, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 865-8775, www.cgsuny.org LITTLE LIBRARY – 1-2:30 p.m. A Little Free Library arrives rain or shine and open to the public. Dress up as your favorite book character. 42-44 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info: facebook. com/CoopertownLittleFreeLibrary FILM – 2-4:30 p.m. “Rising from Ashes” recounts the story of Rwanda’s first national cycling team and its emergence on the international cycling circuit.

Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Tickets: glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events ONEONTA HISTORY – 2 p.m. Dr. Alan Donovan invites you to share your stories of Oneonta’s aviation history. “Kitchen Table Conversation” to be available online. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, OneontaHistory.org, (607)432-0960. FILM SERIES – 2 p.m. “The Amazing Mr. X” (1948). Fenimore Auditorium, Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/films THEATER – 2 p.m. “Stop Kiss” a two-act drama by Diana Son. Tickets $5. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Center, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine pkwy, Oneonta. Info, http://oneonta.universitytickets. com/user_pages/event_listings. asp PROGRAM – 3 p.m. “Policing Cooperstown” with Chief Michael Covert. Friends of the Village Library Lecture Series. Village Meeting Room, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info @ Sunday Programs page villagelibraryofcooperstown.org.

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