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Heroin Kills ‘At Least’ 36 In ’16 No Authoritative Count Exists

‘...Your Friends Left You, And You Could’ve Died’

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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erry Knapp of Oneonta, one of four Otsego County coroners, said on Monday, Oct. 17, he had been called to 28 heroin deaths so far this year.

Tuesday the 18th, he called back: It was now 29. “The number goes up every day,” he lamented.

At least 36 people have died of heroin and Please See DEATHS, A7 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Deb France shows off an uncanny sense of balance bringing plates of food to attendees at the popular Elm Park Harvest Dinner Thursday, Oct. 13.

SUNY Offers City Kids Fun On Halloween

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UNY Oneonta’s Order Of Omega will be hosting city children to a Halloween Carnival, followed by trick-or-treating, Friday, Oct. 28.

The carnival will be 5-6 p.m. at the Hunt Union, with “Halloween in the Halls” following until 8 p.m. in the residence halls, where student volunteers will provide snacks and other treats.

The Order of Omega is an honor society for fraternity and sorority members.

CAMPAIGN OFFICE:

Democratic Congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout is opening an Oneonta campaign office at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at 254 Main St., the Shops At Ford & Main.

It will be open seven days a week through Election Day. SHOES SOUGHT: The

Oneonta Family YMCA is conducting a shoe collection drive through Jan. 17, 2017.

Anyone can help by dropping off gently worn, used or new shoes at Family Y 20-26 Ford Ave. MARTIAL ANCESTORS:

Hartwick College’s U.S. Colored Troops Institute will welcome 50 students to a mini-conference Oct. 2122, where they will present research on military ancestors who served between the Civil and Korean wars.

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Chief Covert tells of heroin’s toll.

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Sheriff Proposes Full Road Patrol $½ Million Plan Includes 7 Hires, 4-Zone Coverage

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omeone is lurking outside the house, an elderly woman caller reported to the county Sheriff’s Department on a recent night.

Two hours later, the deputies arrived.

“That’s unacceptable,” said Undersheriff Cameron Allison, in telling the story Tuesday, Oct. 18, to the county Board of Representatives’ Public Safety committee, chaired by county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta.

“These are urgent calls,

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burglaries in progress, shots fired, domestic violence incidents,” added Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “Our response times are dismal, sometimes 12, 15 minutes. There are times where our cars have no back up, and these are calls that can’t wait.”

But Devlin had a plan. He proposed to the committee that the county board consider investing a halfmillion a year into training seven new officers to increasing road patrols.

“In the last 20 years, calls are up 300 percent,” he said. “These statistics show a need, so last year we worked it into our strategic plan.”

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taking the lead in Otsego County’s fight against the heroin epidemic last Thanksgiving Day. Then in July, he was summoned to Lakefront Park, where a young man was Please See COVERT, A7

Donovan, Cleinman Help Find City Exec Mayor Brings Public Into Manager Hiring

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Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. outlines plans for full-county road patrols to the county Public Safety Committee Tuesday, Oct. 18.

n a break with the first two city manager searches, Common Council Tuesday, Oct. 18, expanded the search committee to include two eminent Oneonta citizens.

They Herzig are former SUNY President Alan Donovan and Alan Cleinman, president of Cleinman Performance Partners, a nationwide consultancy for optometry practices.

“During the last two searches, there was considerable comment from the community about the lack of community input on the Please See SEARCH, A3

Hartwick’s Prof Understood Dylan’s Prowess Tom Travisano of Oneonta reviews the Dylan selections includes in “Postmodernisms, 1950Present.”

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y 2012 – and probably well before – Tom Travisano and his collaborators on “The New Anthology of American Poetry” had concluded Bob Dylan was “one of the creative giants of the past half-century.”

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Dylan selections in Volume III, “Postmodernism, 1950-Present,” was already reporting in 2012, “He is perhaps the only individual ever to win multiple Grammy Awards, an Academy Award (for “Things Have Changed”), a Pulitzer Prize (for his autobiography, “Chronicles”), and” – yes – “a Nobel Prize nomination for Please See DYLAN, A3

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Justine Leonard, center, holds up the Joslin Award certificate presented to her Friday, Oct. 14, in recognition of her excellence as an Arc Otsego employee. Others, from left, are Arc COO Todd Hanson, Executive Director Pat Knuth, NYSID Account Representative Sara Erickson, and Arc Vocational Services Manager Bob Lawrence.

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ustine Leonard, who has worked 37 years in The ARC Otsego’s Vocational Training Center, Friday, Oct. 14 , received the statewide Joslin Award from NYSID (New York State Industries for the Disabled Inc.).

For 13 years, the Joslin Award has recognized excellence employees with disabilities who work on NYSID Preferred Source contracts.

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When asked if she has plans to retire, Justine said she plans to “keep working for a long, long time.” Then she added with a smile, “but not too long.”

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Broadening the search committee has been advocated by members of the original Charter Revision Commission that was active in 2008-10, and subsequent Charter Revision Committees brought in after the first city manager, then a second, left under pressure.

Laurie Zimniewicz, a community leader who served on those charter revision groups, expressed satisfaction. “It’s good for the committee to have other opinions,” she said.

Herzig also named Police Chief Dennis Nayor to the committee as a representative of City Hall’s department heads. “He has a lot of experience conducting searches for police officers,” the mayor said. “He has set very high standards.”

The three supplement four Council members, Melissa Nicosia, Dave Rissberg-

er, Russ Southard and John Rafter, chairs of the four Common Council committees.

The four were selected for their expertise in hiring practices. Southard and Rissberger were on Councils that hired the last two city managers, and Rafter and Nicosia both have experience working in HR. When Council member Paul van der Sommen expressed interest in participating, Herzig added him as well, bringing the total membership to eight.

Herzig intends to sit in on discussions, but will not formally participate. “I want to be a liaison to council,” he said.

But not everyone was immediately convinced about he mayor’s plan, although it was eventually approved unanimously.

“I don’t see why we need a separate committee,” said Council member Michelle Osterhoudt, Fourth Ward. “Are we on the council all so sure that we couldn’t be involved?”

It was a matter of scheduling and balance, said Herzig, as well as wanting to get community members on board. “But I

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He also reassured his colleagues: “The search committee has no authority to make decisions regarding applications, unless the Council gives them that power.”

“Let’s say we get 20 applications,” explained Herzig. “The search committee can come before Council and say ‘We would like to narrow this down to 10’ and Council can say yes or no. The search committee only has the power that Council gives to it, and that role can be defined on a week to week basis.”

The next step, Herzig said, is to send the job description to Novak Consulting, the consulting firm hired by the Council at their Oct. 4 meeting.

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So you might think that Travisano, the celebrated Hartwick College English professor (his 2008 “Words in Air,” letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review) may have been the least surprised person in Oneonta and well beyond when the Nobel Committee broke the news.

Instead, “my reaction was one of surprise and delight,” said Travisano. “I hadn’t really been thinking of him as a Nobel candidate. But when I heard the news, I thought, wow, fantastic! That’s absolutely The late Irwin Gooen of right!”

Oneonta, who passed away The decision to include in 2010, was a photograDylan in Volume III had pher in Greenwich Village emerged logically. in the early 1960s and took “From the start,” before ths photo of a young Bob the turn of the 21st CenDylan performing in a coffee tury, Travisano and his col- house there in November laborators – Steven Gould 1961. Gooen dropped off Axelrod of the University this photo in 2008, shortly of California/Riverside and after Dylan performed at Camille Roman of WashCooperstown’s Doubleday ington State University Field.

– “really wanted to include American song,” he said in made any effort to get in touch an interview. “We thought they with Oslo. were an important part of the In the end, the three profesAmerican poetic tradition.” sors settled on “The Times Volume I, “Traditions and They Are A-Changin’” and Revolutions, Beginnings to “Like a Rolling Stone” from 1900,” included even Native the 1960s, which Travisano American songs, as well as Ne- called “iconic songs, almost gro spirituals and folk songs. anthems for my generation.”

Volume II, “Modernisms, He lobbied for “Blowing in 1900-1950” dipped into Cole the Wind” as well but, in the Porter, Irving Berlin and such end, agreed with “Times Have standards as “Brother, Can You Changed” (2000), which is Spare Me a Dime.” “obviously a reflection back on The first volume came out ‘The Times They Are A-Chanin 2003; the second, in 2005. gin’’ – he’s looking back on So by the time the team began how his world changed since working on Volume III, includ- he was a young unknown.” ing songs was “pretty consisBob Dylan is not just imtent with what we had done.” portant for his songs, but for “The Number One writer “the way he combines so many we wanted to include was Bob traditions.”

Dylan, because he was the best “Surrealism pervades this of his generation, in poetic songwriter, as it does the terms, at least among American Beatles,” Travisano continued. poets,” said Travisano.

“You could argue that Bob The trio would have liked Dylan, along with Lennon and to include a number of Dylan’s McCartney, brought Surreallyrics, but – with Bob Dylan ism into popular culture in a still alive and performing – ev- way that had never happened. erything was under copyright.

It had been of interest to a “Songs are typically more small minority of aesthetically expensive,” said Travisano. minded people.”

Performers “are used to getHe continued, “Also, there’s ting a lot of money every time an awful lot of ambiguity in someone uses their songs. A his work – who’s speaking to poetry anthology has a limited whom; it’s not always clear. market.”

There’s multi-layered diaOf course, there’s status in logue that changes as the song having your songs added to the evolves. literary canon. The antholo“At the same time, he was gists would approach songwrit- someone who could appeal to a ers: “We’d love to have your mass audience.” work in there with T.S. Eliot In Hartwick poetry classes, – but we can’t afford to pay Dylan has turned out to be a what you might be getting from great teaching tool. other sources.”

Also, it’s an affirmation of Sometimes that worked, but Travisano’s generation. “We not with Dylan, who by this all grew up with Dylan as a writing, a week after the Nobel real focal pont. Not just a Prize was announced, still star, but a really, really good hadn’t responded to the Nobel writer.”

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Hillary’s The One – Can She Deliver Hope And Change?

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onald Trump has been compared to a Molotov cocktail.

Do a majority of Americans really want to throw that Molotov cocktail?

No way.

The scariest context is his cavalier attitude toward nuclear weapons. “If we have them, why can’t we use them?” he reportedly asked three times during a national security briefing last summer.

But his what-me-worry? attitude covers the gamut of issues, all the way to the “They Let Me Do It Because I’m A Star” tape.

He can’t win and shouldn’t.

True believers, let it go.

• The only option going into Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, is Hillary Clinton,

however flawed and unpleasant some may find her. Americans’ only option is to vote for her and hope for the best.

The good news is how the WikiLeaks of the past few weeks revealed she doesn’t really believe in much. She wants to be president, but – the internal e-mails showed – doesn’t know why.

If that leads to a practical, open-minded, nonideological approach to the HOMETOWN ONEONTA problems the nation needs At least she knows where we are: Hillary Clinton fixing, that may work out signing autographs in Cooperstown in 2000 just fine. during her run for U.S. senator from New York.

The issues, of course, are many: Income insemagic again?) killing young black men!) curity. Blind faith in free Global warming. Health Guns; (who needs an astrade; (explode it?) Wall care; (expand Medicare to sault rifle for a legitimate Street excesses; (jail a few all?) Secure Social Secupurpose?) Fix the roads, bankers?) College debt; (let rity. Change the culture bridges and national grid. bankruptcy laws work their of law enforcement; (stop Expand broadband.

Amid the forest of issues is a single bedrock truth voters have been reacting to this year: The federal government and elected political establishment aren’t taking very good care of Americans.

Hillary Clinton was clueless, until Bernie Sanders blind-sided her. She still doesn’t feel it in her bones.

(Donald Trump is much more effective: “I’m going to bring jobs back,” period.)

The heroin epidemic is the foremost example of Washington indifference: 90 percent of poppies are grown in Afghanistan, a fact our government willfully ignores as our children overdose in Cooperstown, Oneonta, and everywhere in between and beyond.

Let’s defoliate the fields and

drive the street price out of sight.

• Hillary’s the only one left standing. But, mah fella Americuns, don’t despair.

We elected Barack Obama on a promise of hope and change, only to get eight years caution and compromise.

We may elect Hillary with reluctance, only to find she’s got guts and gumption – we DO know that – to rescue, yes, rescue, the 85 percent of Americans – “deplorables” (an unfortunate remark) and everyone else – who still haven’t recouped family finances since the Great Recession of 2008.

Is Hillary an empty pant suit? The campaign didn’t answer that, but a third Clinton Administration will.

Together, Seward, Faso, Magee Offer Best Representation For County As for the other races on the Nov. 8 ballot: ►SEWARD FOR SENATE Jim Seward has fully earned reelection to a 16th term. He’s effective, experienced and much in evidence around Otsego County.

He said at the League of Women Voters’ debate the other night: “If it’s Jun Seward important to you, it’s important to me.” He’s proved that to be true. When anyone – Republican, Democrat or otherwise – needs help, he’s available. There’s no reason for any resident of our county not to cast a vote for Senator Seward’s reelection.

In addition to everything else he’s done, his leadership – through his “Seward Summits” on economic development – made possible the transformative Otsego Now initiative that is already bearing fruit in the $10 million grant Oneonta received this year, and there’s much more to follow.

Thank you, senator.

The Democrat, Jermaine Bagnall-Graham, is from Sherburne.

Why would we want to cede to Madison County the benefits that come from having a veteran senator who is a lifelong neighbor, a Hartwick College grad who married a local girl and raised his family here? Short answer: We shouldn’t and, it seems certain, won’t.

Bagnall-Graham is well-spoken and agreeable, and he has blessed youth. Maybe at some point in the future, but not now. ►FASO FOR CONGRESS Democrat Zephyr Teachout is heading places, but probably not any place in Otsego County, where she has even declined to debate during the waning days of her race with Republican John Faso.

In their debate on Oct. 13 in Troy, she envisioned a 19th District of small farmers and small businesses. Is that really where we need our economy to go – i.e., nowhere? We need a bolder, more ambitious vision of the Upstate’s future.

Faso, a former state Assembly minority leader from Kinderhook,

is a former colleague of Senator Seward and a neighbor of the congressional incumbent, Chris Gibson. He knows the territory and the personalities here and, as a former gubernatorial candidate, statewide.

Plus, even this year, it’s likely the GOP will hang on to the John Faso majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, meaning Faso from the start will have access on our behalf.

Meanwhile, Democrats should start looking for a homegrown candidate or two. Both Teachout and the 2014 Democratic candidate, Sean Eldridge, parachuted in, looking for a fast track to national office. (So, for that matter, did Faso’s Republican primary opponent Andrew Heaney.) Aren’t any of the hundreds of thousands of our neighbors in the 19th suitable to serve us in Congress?

Zephyr Teachout has a bright future. She’s smart, energetic, am-

bitious. Go for it, but not necessarily from a 19th District base. ►LET’S KEEP MAGEE We had intended to endorse the energetic, charismatic Republican John Salka for Assembly, but the 26-year incumbent, Democrat Bill Magee, changed our minds at the League of Women Voters debate.

Otsego County, stay disciplined.

Stay focused. Magee, as chairman of the Agriculture Committee and a member of the Higher Education Committee, can help us now as he has in the past in a way a freshman Republican in the majority Democratic lower house simply cannot.

As he has for decades, Magee and Seward should continue the successful Mutt & Jeff routine – not the original loveable losers in the comics, but loveable winners – for the good of the county.

As long as Democrats control the Assembly, we need to have a Democrat representing us there.

In these final two years, Magee and the county Democratic Committee must put a sensible succession in place to ensure that.

Maybe someone like Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz

or county Rep. Andy Marietta. Or like Matt Hazzard, the Cooperstown Chamber executive. (Is he a Democrat?) Or from Oneonta, someone like Dan Buttermann or Andrew Stammel. Extend the winning concept.

There was Bill Magee a snippet in Time magazine the other week about how most retirees, be they doctors or lawyers or hourly workers, don’t pine for the jobs they left behind. They refocus their lives around interests they neglected for decades, and they’re happier for it.

It’s time for Bill Magee to partake of those pleasures. He’s not well. He’s not particularly current on issues outside his specialties.

But he has served our county well, and deserves everyone’s thanks.

That said, the Republicans have someone in John Salka, maybe for state Senate from Madison County next time around. He’s got it, just not here or right now.

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From Advocacy, To Tenneco, To DEC Heights Editor’s Note: Oneonta native Mike Zagata’s love of the environment took him to a Ph.D., to leading roles in the Wildlife and National Audubon societies, to environmental vice president for Tenneco, and to state DEC commissioner.

Now retired in West Davenport, he continues bring an independent voice to environmental issues, a perspective captured in his just published book, “A Journey Toward Environmental Stewardship.” Here is an excerpt from the final chapter, “Lessons Learned.”

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hile in academia, my pride a great boss who was very supportive was derived from my stuand willing to share his knowledge dents’ success. At the time, about how the Council really worked. that success was measured in their test Being there was the epitome of being scores and growth in self confidence. anchored in science – or so I thought.

Upon graduation, the meaThe scientists who labored IF YOU GO: suring device became how to prepare the reports had the Mike Zagata will well they succeeded in the utmost integrity. However, be signing copies the political appointees who real world...

In the conservation com- of “A Journey ran the agencies were subject Toward Environmunity, success is derived to political pressure. Learnmental Stewardfrom educating the public ing to recognize that and ship” 2-4 p.m. about something that elicits Saturday, Oct. deal with it is a part of life’s your passion. That public 29, at The Green lessons. may include Congress and When I entered corporate Toad Bookstore, one or more government America, calling me wet 198 Main St., agencies. Knowing that you Oneonta. behind the ears would have have built a relationship been an understatement. I based upon trust and integknew the subject matter for rity is rewarding in many ways... which I was hired, but I had no clue It was somewhat easy working in as to how to effectively deliver it to the conservation community. I say my clients – the company’s various that because you worked with people business units. They included two oil of like mind and you could feed off companies, a natural gas transmission one another’s energy and knowledge company, a chemical company, a coal... Going to work for the National Re- and-other-forms-of-energy company, search Council was a joy at first. I had a fragrances company, a land-holding

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Overall, the first company I worked for made me proud on numerous occasions. We helped form the National Wildlife Federation’s “Corporate Conservation Council.” It was intended to Please See ZAGATA, A6

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ism than the little blueprints of a planned economy, than the disciplined citizenry which this administration would like to foist upon us. Its foundation is just government – a government that does not abuse its powers at the expense of the liberty and independence of the citizen. The Kansan governor addressed a crowd estimated at 75,000 gathered in the Los Angeles Coliseum which seats 106,000. “In the last three and one-half years,” the Republican nominee said, “this administration has led us far from the spirit of our Constitution. It has led us far from the principles of the American form of government. That this has been deliberate there can be no doubt.”

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versity of New York at Oneonta where he earned his B.S. degree, and of St. Lawrence University where he earned his M.Ed. Prior to moving to Colorado, Mr. Sparaco was employed at Hartwick College as Administrative Assistant for Special Studies. He has also taught Social Studies at Oneonta high school.

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150 Years Ago

White House Anecdotes – Some good stories are told of the Irishman “Edward,” for four years doorkeeper at the White House. Edward went with Fillmore to look at a carriage which the necessities of some Southern magnate had thrown upon the market. “Well, Edward,” said the President, “and how will it do for the President of the United States to buy a second-hand carriage?” “And sure, Excellency, and you’re only a second-hand President, ye know.”

Mr. Fillmore took the joke but not the carriage. This anecdote was told me by Mr. Lincoln and called up by the following: One dark and rainy evening we had got as far as the door on our way to General McClelland’s headquarters, without an umbrella, and Edward was sent back after one, the President telling him whereabouts he might find it. In a few minutes he came back announcing a fruitless search and adding, “Sure, Excellency, and the owner must have come for it.” The President laughed heartily and Edward found us another umbrella.

October 1866

100 Years Ago

Henry N. Kopf, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kopf of 33 Hudson Street was fatally injured about 4:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, being hit by the automobile of Leslie M. Payne, now residing at East Worcester, but whose home is in North Blenheim, the accident occurring in front of 500 Main Street, just beyond Arnold Place, while on his way home from school. The boy sustained a fracture at the base of his skull and died shortly after reaching the Fox Hospital where he was taken in the Payne car. Payne was held by Coroner Getman for examination on Thursday. County Judge Kellogg fixed bail for Payne at $2,000 and with Fred Wolcott as surety the bond given was approved. Payne declares the boy darted across the street suddenly without heed. Ralph Payne, his brother, who was a passenger in the 1913 model Studebaker roadster, testified the vehicle was moving

125 Years Ago

60 Years Ago

Oneonta High School’s fighting Yellowjackets stung, stunned and stopped a game but hapless Vestal Central football team, 13-6 Saturday afternoon to score the biggest victory for an Oneonta team in 32 years of scholastic football. It was a team effort all the way as Coach Lloyd Baker’s crew of husky players ran, blocked, and tackled in a display of spirit and ability seldom seen in high school football circles. When it was all over, an Oneonta crowd estimated at 4,000 broke loose in a wild, yelling mass of humanity. They swirled onto the field at Neahwa Park and swept the winning team October 1891 and coaches through the players’ gate to the field house. The players in the middle of the 12 to 15 miles per hour when two boys mob picked up Lloyd Baker and Ed Pushrushed into the center of the street. Leslie kar, their two mentors, and tossed them into Payne sounded the horn and applied his the Neahwa Park pond while fans cheered. brakes. The older of the two boys stopped It was Oneonta’s 14th victory in two seaand reached for the younger one who was sons and their sixth straight this year. hit by the car.

October 1956 October 1916

80 Years Ago

Accusing the New Deal of abusing government power at the expense of “individual liberty and independence,” Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas called tonight for a “return to our Constitution” through President Roosevelt’s defeat. “Let us remember,” the governor said, “there is a larger American-

40 Years Ago

Gary J. Sparaco, a resident of Oneonta, has been appointed Operations Analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Sparaco is the son of Florence Sparaco, 1 Hill Place, and Anthony Sparaco, restaurant owner, now deceased.

Mr. Sparaco is a graduate of the State Uni-

20 Years Ago

Opportunities for Otsego, Inc. will host a hands-on workshop designed to discover how women’s leadership styles are changing the way business is being conducted, how women can make a difference, and how they can further hone their skills in critical areas of leadership. The six-hour workshop will include topics such as delegation, recognizing personalities, the leadership attitude, prejudices, coaching and counseling, goal setting and resolving conflicts. Kathy Donoghue, a national speaker and seminar presenter will lead the workshop. She is noted for hands-on presentations, fresh innovative ideas, and common sense advice targeted to specific needs.

October 1996

10 Years Ago

The former Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives will face ethics investigators in what could be the most important testimony yet on how GOP leaders handled complaints about Rep. Mark Foley’s behavior toward House pages. GOP leaders are facing scrutiny over whether they or their aides did too little to stop Foley’s inappropriate behavior toward pages when problems surfaced years ago. House GOP lawmakers John Boehner of Ohio and Tom Reynolds of New York both say they spoke with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, (RIll) about Foley. But, Hastert has said he does not recall those conversations. Foley resigned from the House on September 29 after being confronted with sexually explicit messages sent to a former page.

October 2006

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20-21, 2016

A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Over Career, Zagata Witnessed All Sides Of Environmentalism

EYE ON THE WEATHER for SEPTEMBER 2016

Weather Service Predicts Normal Winter. We’ll See Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, provides monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.

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ast month, like August, was warmer than usual.

The mean temperature was 1.1 degree above what we usually experience in September, not a big deal. As I write this report on Oct. 1, the biggest issue for most all of New York State and the entire northeastern U.S. is the lack of precipitation for the last month and a half.

Although the first 11 days of August were much wetter than normal, we have been starving for precipitation ever since!

Aug. 12-31, we had only 3/4 of an inch of rain.

During the first nine days of September, we didn’t see more than a drop or two, and only a half inch of liquid sunshine fell during the next week. Finally, on the 18th we were blessed with a nice general rain that produced 1.37 inches but only 0.04 inches fell during the rest of the month!

At my home in Emmons, there hasn’t been a thunder-

storm since Aug. 13. The extremely dry weather has adversely affected the color change of our leaves here in the Cooperstown/ Oneonta area and beyond, and lowered many streams and creeks to no more than a trickle of water. Some crop production is well below normal.

In some parts of New York, new wells are being drilled because some of the old ones have dried up! On the other hand, local contractors, golfers and other outdoor enthusiasts appreciated the rain holding off so they could make the most of the mostly sunny days.

For you record keepers, September only saw a little over 2 inches of rain, and our year to date precipitation is just 0.04 inches from where it should be for the first three quarters of the year.

The National Weather Service has issued its winter forecast and it calls for temperatures near or slightly below normal with near-nor-

DAVID MATTICE

september 2016 Highest Temperature.................................86°F (Sept. 8) Lowest Temperature..............................................32°F (Sept. 26) Average Maximum Temperature........................................73.5°F Average Minimum Temperature.........................................48°F Monthly Mean Temperature................................................60.8°F Precipitation Total...................................................................2.51″ Most Precipitation in One Day...............................1.37” (Sept. 19) Thunderstorms........................... ............................0 (18 for 2016) Snow...............................................................................................0 25.4 inches for 2016 Most Snow in One Day....................................................................0 Year-to-Date Precipitation.....................................................29.78” Number of Days at or below zero F..................................0 for June 5 for 2016 Number of Days at or below 32°F.........................1 (68 for 2016) mal precipitation. I have a friendly bet with a few of my colleagues at NWS that they will be wrong...I’ll let you know in the spring.

For you heat and humidity lovers, I hope you enjoyed the past four months; I can’t say that I’m sorry to see cooler temperatures and lower humidity.

By the time you read this it will be Columbus Day weekend! Wow! There is so much going on here in our beautiful part of the state, take advantage and get outside and enjoy yourself. For the record, the last quarter of the year is my

favorite, and I know a lot of other folks who feel the same way.

As the temperatures begin to fall your thoughts should turn to safety. If you burn wood make sure that your chimney is in good shape and flue is clean.

It’s good idea to have your furnace or boiler serviced once a year, and please make sure that you have ample smoke and carbon dioxide detectors in your home. Make sure to replace the old batteries with new ones!

And, as always, Keep Your Eye On The Weather!

Devlin: Expand Road Patrols To Countywide Force PATROLS/From A1 The plan would work toward coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week, lowering response times, performing more traffic enforcement and, Devlin hopes, reducing crime by having an “increased footprint” in the county.

Right now, the deputies work with the state police to patrol the county, relying on “closest car” when a call comes in. “If there’s a DWI accident, a car could be on the scene for two hours,” he said. “If a call comes in, there might only be one other car that can take that call.”

Some days, he added, his 17 officers – 13 deputies, two sergeants and two investigators – respond to calls in as many as 12 towns countywide. “It’s a manpower issue,” he said.

“People in the county are waiting, and cases aren’t getting investigated as thoroughly because deputies are going from call to call.”

Sharing patrolling with state police is not enough,

Devlin said. “The state police (out of the Oneonta barracks) service three counties,” he said. “They serve the state. If there’s a state-wide manhunt or disaster, they can be called out someplace else.”

Sheriff’s departments in Chenango and Delaware counties have already beefed up their patrols.

“We would have overlapping shifts during our busy time in the late afternoon and early evening,” he said.

“It would reduce overtime

by forwarding calls to the oncoming shift, rather than having deputies stay late to handle them.”

Devlin wants to hire seven deputies over two years, with three in the first and four in the second.

With a year for training, if the program went into action in 2017, it would be fully implemented by 2019. “The public expects these services,” he said. “Right now, we’re not able to provide them.”

But it would add half a million dollars to the department’s budget to cover salaries and benefits.

“I’m 100 percent behind this,” said county Rep. Dan Wilber, R-Burlington Flats.

“But how do we come up with the money?”

It was a question Devlin didn’t have an answer to.

“I’m satisfied that the board is at least receptive to listening,” he said. “We just wanted to start the conversation.”

ZAGATA/From A4 help its corporate members work with the Foundation to identify emerging environmental issues and, by so doing, get a jump on compliance. Together we wrote the Foundation’s “Wetlands Policy”. Tenneco’s CEO was invited to join Foundation’s Board – a first for both parties.

We also helped form the Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council (WHEC)…

The idea behind WHEC was that the member corporations collectively owned over a million acres; those acres often lay fallow until they were put to some specific use. Why not identify opportunities to improve them for wildlife in the meantime?

Doing so led to several tracts either being donated to states or conservation organizations or having conservation easements placed on them. It put a spotlight on those properties within the company and that generally led to very positive steps being taken...

Being allowed to develop the nation’s first wetland mitigation bank and to spearhead the “Rigs to Reefs” program made me proud as an ecologist and made me proud of the Thinking of Remodeling?

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company for doing so. It wasn’t just the highly visible projects that made me proud. It was also the daily decisions to do what was right and the steps taken by my supervisors to integrate the EH&S (environmental health & safety) functions into the way we conducted business.

Having everyone throughout the organization understand that doing it right pays dividends made my job easier. Being inducted into the Offshore Energy Industry’s “Hall of Fame” was merely icing on the cake.

Yes, we made some mistakes, but we didn’t make them twice. Management made that happen. When the president told one of the potential buyers of the company that all this environmental “stuff” made us money, it was a clear testament to the fact that he understood and he believed.

What should be intuitively obvious to the reader but might get missed is that for me to succeed I had to have the support of senior management. Because I had that support at Tenneco I was able to do things that saved the company money, made the company money and brought positive recognition at the national level.

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Authoritative Numbers Lacking On Extent Of County Heroin Epidemic DEATHS/From A1 opioid overdoses across the county since January, with two in September. “We’ve seen a real increase in deaths,” said Coroner James Dow of Cooperstown.

He reported four heroin deaths in his area this year. Mike Fox, the coroner at Cherry Valley, reported three. Gordon Terry, the coroner at Edmeston, didn’t return a call.

Frustratingly, Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert said, that many suspicious deaths aren’t always investigated, meaning the real number could be much higher. “If you’re taken by ambulance to the hospital and you die there, the coroner doesn’t attend the death,” he said. “There may not even be an autopsy.”

Recently, Covert said, he saw a report that listed the cause of death as “cardiomyopathy.”

“That’s when your heart stops.

That’s what we all die of,” he said.

“The question is, what made a young person’s heart stop? But people don’t want to admit that this is a problem, so it’s not being accurately reported.”

As it stands now, there is no authoritative Coroner tally of in-county Knapp heroin deaths. At a talk he gave in Cooperstown Sunday, Oct. 16, Covert reported three heroin deaths the weekend of Oct. 8. Following up, however, he was unable to confirm those deaths.

Dow, Knapp and Covert attribute the recent spike to heroin laced with fentanyl, or even stronger completely synthetic opioids.

In September, Knapp got a call

from Dr. Robin Eastman-Abaya, the pathologist at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton. “You need to contact law enforcement,” she told him.

She’d done two toxicology reports that day, one on a man from Worcester and another in a Broome County case.

Both came back with positives for a deadly mix of fentanyl and furanylfentanyl, a designer drug, a synthetic version of the narcotic, most likely sold on the streets masquerading as pure heroin.

“It was the first time either of us had seen that,” he said. “This is not just the poppy from Afghanistan. Dealers are cutting heroin with fentanyl, morphine, Oxycodone. It’s stronger than what the user is used to, and they overdose.”

Identifying heroin and opioid overdoses at the scene isn’t always easy, said Knapp.

“Each person who passes away of an overdose does something differ-

ent,” he said. “Some slump in their chair and their airway gets closed off.

Others aspirate their vomit, some go into cardiac arrest. Then it’s up to the police investigation and the autopsy to determine if the death was drug related.”

Toxicology reports are sent to a lab in Pennsylvania, where they can take as long as 10 weeks to come back with the results determining whether it was an overdose. “We have to send them out of state,” he said. “If we sent them to a lab in New York, they’re so backed up that we’re looking at 16-20 weeks for results.”

And even the autopsies come back differently. “It’s usually a combination of drugs,” he said. “One had six pages listing all the drugs he had in his system – hydrocodon, oxymorphone, fentanyl, furanyl-fentanyl… there were 44 products in that dose.

And every single dose is different.”

“This isn’t about one bad batch,”

said Covert. “It’s people doing bad drugs.”

And overdoses requiring medical transport have seen a sharp uptick since the beginning of the month, with eight reported so far across the county.

Over the past two weekends, state troopers in Richfield Springs responded to two separate overdoses, reviving the victims with Narcan and saving their lives.

“We’ve responded to three overdoses this month,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “The drug problem is spiraling out of control.”

“We responded to an overdose on Tuesday” – one of 30 handled by the Oneonta Fire Department this year, according to Assistant Chief said Jim Maloney.

“This year we’ve had 131 overdose cases called into 911,” said county 911 Director Rob O’Brien. “Calls involving heroin are on the rise and concerning.”

Tales From Front Lines Of County Heroin War

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Rena Lull, left, and Bill Waller, both of Cooperstown, had front-row seats in an almost full house listening to Chief Mike Covert’s presentation Sunday, Oct. 16, at Cooperstown Village Hall. the recent local cases, the perCOVERT/From A1 petrator cut the canvas top on a overdosing on the deadly drug.

Jeep and stole 200 CDs. Officers were able to shake He knew heroin had arhim awake, but when the tried rived in force in Cooperstown to apply Narcan, an overdosea couple of years ago when 43 halting medication, he stopped cars were broken into in one them. weekend, and one car stolen.

“It’ll ruin my high,” he told The chief urged attendees to Covert.

Officers took the young man lock their cars and their homes, and suggested installing moto Bassett’s emergency room, tion-sensitive lights. Also, if and an hour later he was back your car is broken into, report on the job at a local establishit. “If we don’t know, we can’t ment. respond,” he said.

The 30 audience members At one point, 90 percent of listening to the chief speak Oct. 16, at the Friends of the Village local heroin addicts had gotten hooked through pain-killers Library’s Sunday Afternoon prescribed by physicians, and Programs, gasped, as they had he urged people to take unused several times in the previous pills to the drop-box at the Fair hour.

Street entrance to the Village Covert, who has become Police Station, so they can be immersed in the heroin scene destroyed. (There is a similar since enrolling the department drop-box at the Oneonta Police last November in PAARI – the Department.)

Police Assisted Addiction & He divided the drug trade Recovery Initiative – had gripinto three levels. The big ping stories to tell, but overall his message was a positive one. dealers, who don’t use, and are strictly in the trade for the profHe was prompted to get involved, he said, after the son of its. Arrest one in a local motel, “day after, someone else is in a classmate from Cooperstown the same motel, same room, High School and another same cell phone … This is a friend’s daughter in Kingston non-stop source coming from died of overdoses. the city.”

“We have drugs in the vilSecond, dealer-users, who lage,” he he told the gathering.

“We have every kind of drug in sell smaller amounts to feed their own habits. Caught, they the village you may imagine. are diverted into county Judge We’re not immune to that.”

Brian Burns’ Drug Treatment Under PAARI, addicts can Court. “You need to test clean, surrender their “kits” to police or you’re locked up, sent to without fear of arrest, and – if rehab, and stay there until your they have insurance – can be spirited away to a detox and re- probation’s up.” Third is the habilitation facility – usually in addicts who steal to feed their habits.

Florida or California; there are The information was trouinsufficient rooms in New York bling, but it was the stories that State – within 24 hours. were most wrenching.

To date, 87 people, mostly In September 2015, village from the county, but some police were ready to raid an from as far away as Buffalo apartment on Pioneer Street and Elmira, often relatives of where drug activity had been local people, have participated. reported. The afternoon before, A hurdle is the state’s Fidelis officers were summoned by a Medicaid, he said: It provides 911 call. just four days for detox, when Covert and his officers detox requires 10 days; and 14 arrived to find a young man, days for rehab, when rehab can unconscious, standing upright take a year. in the shower under a stream Given recent car breakof cold water. “We pulled him ins on Walnut Street and out of the shower and gave him Susquehanna Avenue, the chief Narcan,” said Covert. “Five gave the gathering a primer on the economics of addiction: An minutes later, he sat up. He had the clearest blue eyes I’ve ever addict may start by snorting seen.”

2-3 “baggies” a day of heroin, Suddenly he exclaimed, “Oh $25 each. But soon, they are my god, I’m going to be late injecting themselves with up to for work!”

25 baggies a day – $625 a day, Instead, the officers took him or $4,375 a week.

Thus, 10 addicts would need to the Bassett emergency room.

An hour later, Covert caught up $43,375 a week to feed their habits. They steal from parents with him in Trauma Room #3.

“There’s something miss– a set of silver can be pawned ing,” the chief told the young for 10 percent of its value (and man. “Where are all your melted down for resale) – from relatives and friends, then begin friends?”

“They left me,” came the breaking into cars and homes, reply. the chief said.

“Yes,” said Covert, “and you “Whatever they can sell, could have died.” they sell,” he said. In one of

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BEST BETS Originators of the séance, the Fox sisters of Hydesville, near Rochester, will be channeled at The Farmers’ Museum Halloween activities. (See “Bump,” below)

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fter 61 years, Ben Nesbitt is coming home.

“I sold my house in West Oneonta because it was hard for me to get up the stairs with my hip,” he said. “I asked my fiancee, Julie O’Brien, to help me look for a new one. I wanted something with more one-floor living, but she didn’t want just a ranch house.”

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right away it was the one. “We were at our winter home in Florida and on the first night, she asked me to come look at a picture of one in Laurens – it was the house I grew up in!”

He and O’Brien, a former interior decorator from Indiana, immediately purchased the house and have begun renovations. “Everything will stay the same as the original structure,” he said.

“But we want to put in new walls to accommodate electric and heating.”

From 1945 to 1954, Nesbitt, the retired senior VP in charge of banking investments at the former Wilber Bank, lived in the house at 93 Main St. (then called Market Street) with his mom Mary and dad Clarence, as well as brother Duncan and sister Betty.

The family owned West Nesbitt Feed Co., but that didn’t stop them from occasionally engaging the services of a rival. “The Stanton Feed Store was across the street,” he said. “When my mom Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.seniority played bridge or golf, she’d take me over there for Ben Nesbitt has bought his boyhood home in Laurens, and a nap!” renovations are bring back decades-old memories.

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Bunny Joseph, Christine Barnes, Carol Wall and Julia Clay drawing the model on Thursday, Oct. 13.

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njoy ghostly wanderings and visit all the places where ghostly manifestations have been reported over 150 years, including those identified by Ghosthunters! Friday, Saturdays through October, on half-hour (6, 6:30, 7, and 7:30 p.m.) at Hyde Hall National Landmark Historic Site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-5098, www. hydehall.org BUMP IN THE NIGHT: Ghostly hourlong tours at The Farmers’ Museum are starting on the half-hour, 5:30-8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through October. At each tour’s end, Templeton Players dramatizes an Edgar Allen Poe’s classics. After final tour, 9:15 séance “performed” in style of Fox sisters, who originated public séances in 1850s for such notables as James Fenimore Cooper, (Séance not recommended for children under 12.) Reservations required. $10 per person (3 and up), séance $10 extra for adults, $7.50 for students, seniors, members. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org HOPS FOR HISTORY: Hop between Oneonta’s finest eateries and enjoy progressive food pairings with a Cooperstown Brewing product, 5-8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 22.

Begin at the newly rehabbed Oneonta History Center, 183 Main, (tickets, wrist bands available there 3-5 p.m.), optional tour of renovations, and proceed to Autumn Cafe, B Side Ballroom, Hill City Grill, Red Caboose, Roots Brewing Co. Tickets, commemorative beer glass, $25. Tickets at History Center, participating venues, and this newspaper’s Cooperstown office, 21 Railroad Ave., Start at History Center, Info, OneontaHistory.org, (607) 432-0960 OKTOBERFEST: Celebrate, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, with German Buffet by Chef Brian Wrubleski of Mel’s at 22.

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Friday, October 21

SEMINAR – 8-10 a.m.

“Digital Marketing.” Registration required. Cost: $35. Otsego Co. Chamber of Commerce session meets at Northern Eagle Beverages conference room, 41 Browne Street, Oneonta. Info, Kelly Decker, (607) 432-4500, Ext. 207, kelly@otsegocc.com, otsegocc.com HALL OF FAME – 11 a.m. Tour of “One for the Books: Baseball Records and the Stories Behind Them” exhibit with museum curators. National Baseball Hall of Fame, 25 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://baseballhall.org/events/curator-spotlight-Oct-16?date=0 RUMMAGE SALE – Noon-5 p.m. Fly Creek Methodist Church, 811 Cty. Rd. 26, Fly Creek.

STEAMQUEST – 3:30-5 p.m.

Tinker and learn STEAM after school. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Info: http://hmloneonta.org/ steamquest/ DINNER – 4:30-7 p.m.

Chicken ‘n Biscuit Annual dinner.

Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4636 State Hwy. 28, Hartwick Seminary.

DINNER – 5-7 p.m. Introducing USCTI members, its Alumni Advisory Council, and Harriet Tubman mentors will be introduced. USCTI Mini-Conference Saluting African American History Museum. Chesebro Room, Hartwick College, 1 Hartwick Dr, Oneonta. Info, Harry B. Matthews, matthewsh@hartwick.edu BUMP IN THE NIGHT! – 5:30, 6, 6;30, 7, 7:30 and 8 p.m.

Hour-long tours of The Farmers’ Museum during the most HAUNTING time of year. Also, Sat. Oct 22, Fri. and Sat. Oct. 28-19. Reservations required. $10 per person (ages 3 and up), séance is $10 extra for adults, $7.50 for students, seniors and members. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, www.farmersmuseum.org 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) 547-

5098, www.hydehall.org 4-H ACHIEVEMENT NIGHT – 68 p.m. Potluck dinner followed by award ceremony. Call with what you plan to bring. Info, Melinda McTaggart mmm459@cornell. edu (518) 234-4303 ext. 120, http://cceschoharie-otsego. org/events/2016/10/21/4-hachievement-night DANCE – 6:30 p.m. Swing to the Big Bands. Proceeds to Saint Mary’s Church renovation fund. Cost: $50. Info, tickets, (607)432-3920 saintmarysoneonta.org ST. FRANCIS FILM – 7 p.m.

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Ben Nesbitt is once more at home: At the home in Laurens where he lived as a boy when his father ran the West Nesbitt Mill there.

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“None of these trees were here,” he said. “When my mom bought the house, there was another house on the lot. She had it torn down and put in a horse ring. We used to have horse shows on the front lawn.”

Lately, Nesbitt learned that house that was torn down may have been a tavern – and a haunted one at that. “The original owner was a woman, Rose, and her husband. She didn’t like alcohol, but he opened a tavern anyways, and one night, some patrons were inebriated and she screamed at them,” said Marie Lannotti, Laurens historian. “Now, they say if you walk past there at midnight, you’ll still hear Rose screaming.”

At the back of the property sits the old Laurens post office, long abandoned.

Nesbitt’s next door neigh-

Renovations are underway at the once and future Nesbitt home in Laurens.

bor, Cathy Taylor, is the granddaughter of the former postmaster, Myron Taylor.

The horse barn he helped build remains. “The last owners tore out the stalls,” he said. “Julie loves restoring antique furniture, so this will be her workshop.”

Upstairs was a basketball hoop, as well as a chicken coop. “My brother Duncan raised chickens and sold the eggs,” he said.

Inside the house, Nesbitt found that the old claw-foot tub he bathed in was still in use, and plans to retain it for the upstairs bathroom.

However, he was heartbroken to find out that the chandeliers and the doorknocker had been sold at auction.

“We want to keep this architecture,” he said.

“Around the doors, the frames are almost art deco. I’ve had people come through here and say they’ve never seen anything like this before.”

And he plans to once again sleep in his old bedroom on the second floor.

“When I was little, I really loved Superman,” he said. “I put a sheet around my neck and jumped out the window, thinking I could fly!”

Horses were such a big part of his family that in the closet of his old bedroom, he found remnants of horse wallpaper inside. “We really loved horses,” he said, laughing.

The original house had a large porch, and was cedar shake siding. The home’s more recent owners put on vinyl siding, as well as a new roof.

They moved when he was 12, to a house in the Laurens countryside to continue their focus on raising horses. “I had a good upbringing in that house,” he said. “Those were good years.”

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From 40 Years Ago At Main And Chestnut, To Wilber Mansion Today how accomplished these ARTISTS/From B1 women were.”

“Shirley’s our resident The group meets every teacher,” said Dee Singer.

Thursday, rain, snow or “She’s got a lot of experisunshine, to sketch and ence!” paint a live model. “The They are joined by spontaneity of having a live members Raina Damico, model is so Dee Singer, exciting,” said Christine Clay. “There’s Barnes and an authenticCarol Wall, ity there, the and begin to emotional work. They qualities that chat about locome across cal art shows, in those conthe opera, ditions.” politics. “I “We get a probably talk lot of suptoo much!” port,” said said Julia.

Dee. “But there’s Jean Manley, front, and “You look always a lot Shirley Sweet sketch of conversa- out Jill Stevens’ form. forward to it, growing tion.”

Faith Huston arrives later together,” said Carol.

For three hours they paint to do sketches. “I have arthritis and can’t walk well and sketch the model’s pose in 20-minute increments. when I get up in the morning, so they moved the time “Having a live model is the biggest draw of the class,” we start to accommodate,” Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.seniority said Bunny. she said. “They’re a very Drawing model Jill Stevens in CANO’s Wilber Mansion are Oneonta artists who have been develop“We had one model who supportive group.” ing their skills together for 40 years. From left, they are Bunny Joseph, Christine Barnes, Carol Hall, was pregnant and posed for Julia Clay, Raina Daminco, Shirley Sweet, Jean Manley and Dee Singer.

The group started 40 us every month,” said Jean. years ago when Karen EltBut they’re not beyond and the Glimmerglass Festi- Julia. now, and we’ll take our “Then the week after she ing invited Bunny to join learning new forms themval – as a group.

And although some mem- lunch over there, visit and gave birth, she brought in her in a studio above what selves. “I discovered a love “We all really like each bers are no longer able to show her the work we’ve the baby!” is now Simply Thai. “I of portraiture and of pen other,” said Carol. come, they make a point to been doing. We helped Many of the women started inviting friends,” and ink,” said Clay. “I had In 2012, they moved to a keep in touch. “Peg Hatha- Karen after Jim died.” said Bunny. “And we start- retired from successful art way was a longtime mem“The weaving of all our careers; Shirley was a fash- never explored that medium space in the Wilber Maned doing shows together. before joining, but everyone sion, above the CANO galber, but she had a stroke a experiences has made us We had one show where we ion designer and a teacher, is so willing to share their leries. “I still kind of miss few years back,” said Jean. very close,” she added.

Bunny and Jean were sucposed the same models the expertise.”

Main Street,” lamented “She lives on Southside cessful graphic designers, same way for a year.”

They show their work Faith was a ballet and an “It’s a different experifrequently, both in group art teacher, Dee designed ence working in a group,” and solo shows. Each memhigh-end bathrooms and said Carol. “It’s so enrichber pays a fee that covers ing, being with other artists kitchens, and Reyna was in the cost of the space rental art advertising. and having a weekly comand the model, and after “Shirley, Dee and Reyna mitment.” all attended the High School every session, the group “I had been looking for has lunch together at a local of Art and design in Mansomething beyond just restaurant. hattan,” said Jean. “Not curating,” said Damico.

They also frequently at the same time, but they “They approached me at a still all wound up in Otsego attend the opera – both the CANO show and invited Foothills live broadcasts County!” me. I was blown away by

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For applications and minimum qualifications, visit our web page at www.otsegocountyemployment.com or visit the Otsego County Personnel Office at 183 Main Street, Cooperstown. EOE

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Saturday, October 22

COOP FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Bounty of seasonal fruits and veggies, local meats, fresh fowl, eggs, cheese, yogurt, honey, maple syrup, sweet treats.

Handmade goods. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine.

Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org HARVEST PARTY – 9 a.m.-Noon Games, Prizes, and Snacks. Parking lot of State Fame, 291 Chestnut St., Oneonta

CONFERENCE – 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Honoring the National Museum of African American History & Culture. Includes presentations of research. Hartwick College, 1 Hartwick Dr., Oneonta. Info, Harry B. Matthews, matthewsh@ hartwick.edu RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.noon. Fly Creek Methodist Church, 811 Cty. Rd. 26, Fly Creek.

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Learn the process of creating 19th century wet-place tin types. Registration

required. Cost: $150. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5471461, fenimoreartmuseum. org/Wet-Plate-Tintypes, BLACKSMITHING WEEKEND – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. All about the forge! Hear the bellows blow and watch hot iron worked by hammer in the 1827 Field Blacksmith Shop. Also Sun. $12 adults, $10.50 seniors, $6 juniors. Children 6 and under and NYSHA members, free. A Step Back in Time Weekend at The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80,

Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org OPERA – 12:55 p.m. “Don Giovanni.” The Met streaming live in HD. Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Cost $18/seniors, $20/adults, 10/students.

Season pass $200. Box Office: (607)431-2080, http://foothillspac.org/index.php/shows/metropolitan-opera-in-hd/ 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/ CATSKILL FOLKLORE 2 p.m.

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Independent Nurse Contractors

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Varick Chittenden exploring the link between fold art and the natural environment. Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury. Info, catskillsfolkconnection.blogspot.com/ CATSKILL FOLK MUSIC & DANCE – 2 p.m. “Old Time Tunes and Dances in Rural New York” by Jim Kimball. Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd., Roxbury. Info, catskillsfolkconnection.blogspot.com/ PANEL DISCUSSION – 2 p.m.

Area residents share their firsthand experiences of farming in the 1940s/50s as part of the “Lavern Kelley: Harvest Time” art show. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown.

Info: leartgarage@gmail.com or (607)547-5327 HOPS FOR HISTORY – 3-6 p.m. Tour of newly rehabbed History Center and progressive tasting and food pairing at five popular downtown Oneonta eateries (Autumn Cafe, b side, Hill City Grill, Red Caboose, Roots Brewing Co.). Tickets $25, includes evening entertainment at the b side.and commemorative beer glass. Tickets at History Center, participating venues, and The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta offices at 21 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown. Start at Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, OneontaHistory.org, (607)432-0960 CHURCH – 5 p.m. Pr. Paul Messner will lead an informal afternoon service at Atonement Lutheran Church, 1 Center St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6852, (607) 287-4534.

OKTOBERFEST – 5:30-7 p.m.

Celebrate Oktoberfest with a German Buffet by Chef Brian Wrubleski of Mel’s at 22. Pork schnitzel, bratwurst with sauerkraut, German potato salad, soft pretzel, beverage and dessert. $10 adult, $5 children 5-12.

Church Hall, St. Mary’s Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown.

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Hour-long tours of The Farmers’ Museum during the most HAUNTING time of year. Also Fr. and Sat., Oct. 28-29. Reservations required. $10 per person (ages 3 and up), séance is $10 extra for adults, $7.50 for students, seniors and members. The

Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org MUSIC – 6 p.m. Alone together: The Mollin-Clay Jazz Duo. The Empire House, 136 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. Info, (607)7832859 or empirehousefinedining. 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 HALL OF FAME – 6:30 p.m.

Spend the night with Baseball’s legends. National Baseball Hall of Fame, 25 Main St, Cooperstown. Info, http://baseballhall.org/events BOMBAY RICKEY – 7 p.m. $11-$15. Operatic Surg Noir.

West Kortright Centre, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith. Info, (607) 278-5454, www.westkc.org BAND – 7 p.m. Zink and Company. Also, art exhibit featuring Christine Giulian opens 6 p.m.

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CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

“The Suitcase Junket.” 47th Cooperstown Concert Series season opens with Matt Lorenz performing at The First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, (607)5471812, info@cooperstownconcertseries.org, http://cooperstownconcertseries.org/suit.html THEATER – 8 p.m. “Duets” by Peter Quilter. Optional dinner before. Wieting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester Info, (607)3978500, catskillplayers.orc SEANCE – 9:15 p.m Recreated 19th Century Séance, part of “Bump in the Night” celebration. $10 adults, $7.50 for students, seniors and members. . The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, reservations (required), (607) 547-1461, farmersmuseum.org/ghost-tours MORE CALENDAR, B7

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IN MEMORIAM Michael Hassick 68; Earned 2 Purple Hearts In Vietnam ONEONTA – Michael Howard Hassick, 68, of Oneonta, a Marine and decorated Vietnam War veteran, passed away Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, at Bassett Hospital.

He was born on May 17, 1948 in Hancock, the son of Arvilla (Hassick) Jordan and Robert W. Jordan. He graduated from Oneonta High School in 1966.

Michael served with the Marine Corps from 1967 to 1970. He was on Hill 881S during the siege of

Khe Sanh in 1968, where he earned two Purple Hearts.

He was a life time member of the DVA, Military Michael Order of Hassick the Purple Heart. Also a member of the VFW and American Legion.

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ceased him in 2015.

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He is survived by his sons, Robert (Janine) Hassick of Canajoharie and Brian (Kristina) Hassick of Milford; four grandchildren, Kyle, Marina, Logan and Josh; sister Christina (Daniel) Hromada, David (Gina) Hassick, Robin (Peter) Conte; god-daughter Brittany Conte; several nieces and nephews.

In addition to his wife, he was predeceased by both his parents and his oldest sister, Patricia Kelsey.

The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20 at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta. Burial with full military honors will take place in Glenwood Cemetery, Oneonta.

In lieu of flowers please feel free to donate to the American Diabetes Association or Oneonta American Legion.

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

Elizabeth Kump, 97; Operator At AT&T In NYC ONEONTA – Elizabeth P. Kump, 97, who retired to Oneonta after 30 years as an AT&T telephone operator in New York City, died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, at Fox Nursing Home.

She was born Jan. 15, 1919, in Rahway, N.J., the daughter of Matthew and Louise (Matzelle) Kump.

After a career at AT&T, she moved to Oneonta, where her sister and brother-in-law, Madeline and George Seger, reside. She was a member of St. Mary’s Church and of The Third Order of the Society of St. Francis.

In addition to her sister and brother-in-law, she is survived by nieces and nephews, Virginia and Phil Fireci, George and Anne Seger, Christopher Seger, Nancy Seger, Claire and Jim O’Connor; and Mary Lou and Maryellen Seger; and many great nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by sisters and brothers, Louise, Mary, George and Albert; as well as a niece Madlyn.

A funeral mass was held Tuesday, Oct. 18, at St. Mary’s Church, Oneonta, with Rev. David Mickiewicz, officiating.

Joanne I. Puylara-Boyd, 65; Worked For Years At Father’s Gallin Jewelry ONEONTA – Joanne I. Puylara-Boyd, 65, who was involved for years in managing her father’s Galinn’s Jewelry Store in downtown Oneonta, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 at her home.

She was born May 22, 1951, the daughter of Carl Angelo Puylara Sr. and Sophia (Sobers) Puylara. She was raised in Oneonta and graduated from OHS. While still in high school, she began working parttime at Galinn’s, located where the Oneonta History Center is today. Over the years, she became more involved full time in the daily operations until its closing in 1999.

She is survived by her loving and devoted

husband, Lloyd Boyd Jr., whom she married on May 12, 1973; her loving four legged babies, Carluchie and Ting-Ting aka Itsie; two dear cousins, John and Kathy Sobers and Jimmy and Jeanette Puylara; and special friends, Laura and Marcia.

She was predeceased by her beloved parents.

A graveside service was held Monday, Oct. 17, at the Oneonta Plains Cemetery, with the Rev. Judith A. Thistle, officiating.

Donations may be made to Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birchwood Dr., Oneonta, NY 13820 Arrangements were entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.

Nigel Schell, 46; Tailor In New York City WEST ONEONTA – Nigel L. Schell (Ni Ni), 46, of West Oneonta, who operating his own tailoring and clothing business in New York City, passed away suddenly on Oct. 8, 2016.

Nigel was born in Atlantic City, N.J., on April 13, 1970, to Oran and Deborah Schell.

He attended Atlantic City Public Schools, and received

his diploma from an Alternative Education Program in Atlantic County.

At 12, Nigel became an apprentice in a tailor shop in Atlantic City, and continued to hone his skills at Mangano’s Tailor Shop in Atlantic City. He later purchased the tailor shop and became the owner/ operator of Touch of Class Tailoring.

In 2005, Nigel moved to New York, and continued in tailoring. At the time of his death he was owner/operator of Touch of Class Tailoring II, and S3 Custom T-Shirts.

A funeral was held Saturday, Oct. 15 at the Johnson Funeral Home in Morris.

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BLACKSMITHING WEEKEND – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. All about the forge! Hear the bellows blow and watch hot iron worked by hammer in the 1827 Field Blacksmith Shop. $12 adults, $10.50 seniors, $6 juniors. Children 6 and under and NYSHA members,

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO free. A Step Back in Time Weekend at The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

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canoneonta.org LUNCH & LECTURE– 12:302:30 p.m. “Food for Thought” lunchtime lecture series. Arnold Newman (speaker TBD). $22 NYSHA members, $25 nonmemSociety monthly meeting, 210 bers. Fenimore Art Museum, Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek.

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THEATER – 2 p.m. “Duets”

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Info, (607) 436-3455 LUCK OF THE DRAW – 5-7 p.m. 80 tickets at $80 each and 80 works of art valued at $80 + donated by local and regional artists. Benefits Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com

Monday, October 24

4 days learning the art of blacksmithing. Field Blacksmith Shop, Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Members: $385 Non-members: $425 Juniors (1216): $10. Registration Required.

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CONCERT – 5 p.m. “Touche Amore, Tiny Moving Parts, and More.” Hunt Union, 108 Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta. Info, Sarah Waxberg MIC@oneonta. edu PRESENTATION – 6:30 p.m.

“Population Health (Challenges and Opportunities for Fox Hospital)” by Jeffrey Joyner, new CEO Fox hospital. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, Dolores Noonan (607)432-8096 COMEDY – 9 p.m. Show with Tommy Ryman. Hunt Union Waterfront, 108 Ravine Pkwy, SUNY Oneonta. Info, activities@ oneonta.edu, (607)436-3730

Tuesday, UNITED NATIONS DAY – All Day The anniversary of the ratifiOctober 25 cation of the U.N. Charter.

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. Spend p.m. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

LECTURE – 7 p.m. “Corals on  Acid - Impact of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs” by Dr. Adina Paytan. Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy.,  Oneonta. Info, bulletin.oneonta.  edu/2016/10/06/mark-your-calendar-for-the-cghk-environmental-lecture-october-25/

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CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

EXHIBITION – 12:30-2:30 p.m. Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info: fenimoreartmuseum.org/lectures DISCUSSION GROUP – 3-5 p.m. Current events. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

OPEN HOUSE – 5:30-8:30 p.m. Celebrate opening the Clubhouse, Unadilla Teen Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs.

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ART RECEPTION – 5:30-7 p.m. Art Exhibition opening, Kevin Gray “Copse.” 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info: fenimoreartmuseum.org/Community-Exhibition-Covered-Bridgesof-CNY TOASTMASTERS – 6-7 p.m.

Improve speaking and leadership skills and have fun in supportive Toastmasters club. Green Earth Natural Foods, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://oneonta. toastmastersclubs.org LECTURE – 7 p.m. “350 years of Firearms” by John Phillips. Fort Plain Museum, 389 Canal St.,

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MINECRAFT – 3-4 p.m. Open hours in childrens’ area. First come first serve. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info: http://hmloneonta.org/minecraft/

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SEMINAR – 8-10 a.m. “MWBE Certificaton Process.” Registration required. Cost: $35. Otsego Co. Chamber of Commerce session meets at Northern Eagle Beverages conference room, 41 Browne Street, Oneonta. Kelly Decker, (607) 432-4500, Ext. 207, kelly@otsegocc.com, otsegocc.com STEAMQUEST – 3:30-5 p.m.

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Adults $10, Child $5. Info, (607) 547-0397, http://baseballhall. org/events/world-series-gala-16 BUMP IN THE NIGHT – 9:15 p.m Recreated 19th Century Seance. $10 Adult. Reservations required, (607)547-1461, farmersmuseum.org/ghost-tours

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Hour-long tours of The Farmers’ Museum during the most HAUNTING time of year. Also Sat., Oct. 29. Reservations required. $10 per person (ages 3 and up), seance is $10 extra for adults, $7.50 for students, seniors and members. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, www.farmersmuseum.org CARNIVAL – 5-6 p.m. Halloween Carnival. Hunt Union, 108 Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta.

SUNY TRICK OR TREAT – 6-8 p.m. After the carnival, tour guides lead parents and children through a trick-or-treat in the residence halls of SUNY Oneonta.

108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, http://suny.oneonta.edu/news/ students-host-halloween-events, (607) 436-2514.

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 LECTURE – 7 p.m. “Farming Success in an Uncertain Climate”

by D. Wolfe Ph.D.. Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown.

Free. Info, Todd Kenyon pr@ nysha.org, (607)547-1472.

HALL OF FAME – 7 p.m.

Halloscream: Fright Night. Take a haunted tour of the galleries.

National Baseball Hall of Fame, 25 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://baseballhall.org/events VILLAIN CABARET DINNER – 710 p.m. Dinner and Villainous show tunes. Elks Club, 84 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Tickets, (607)432-1800, orpheustheatre.org, ST. FRANCIS FILM – 7 p.m.

“Clare & Francis” (2007). Film Series continues Nov. 4. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta, Info, (607) 432-1458.

BUMP IN THE NIGHT – 9:15 p.m Recreated 19th Century Seance. $10 Adult. Reservations required, (607)547-1461, farmersmuseum.org/ghost-tours

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