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Oneonta’s Danielle Simon and daughter Jaidyn fly down Main Street in search of sweet treats on Halloween afternoon. At 7 p.m., the Halloween Parade marched down Main/PHOTOS, B8
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e won statewide, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo (5,677, or 37.9 percent) lost Otsego County to his Republican challenger, Rob Astorino (7,651, or 50.79 percent). As expected, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19th, handily defeated the Democratic challenger Sean Eldridge, districtwide, but also in the county, by 10,027 (66.93 percent) to 4,951 (33.05 percent). Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-121st, turned back Republican challenger John Salka district wide and locally, 5,543 (57.37 percent) to 4,103 (42.47 percent) Locally, Trish Riddell Kent kept her seat on the Oneonta Town Board, turning back David Rowley, 1,034 (67.89 percent) to 489 (32.11 percent). EBOLA HOTLINE: Bassett Healthcare Network, which includes Fox Hospital, has established a call in line for patients concerned that they may have been exposed to Ebola. It is (607) 5475555. WEATHER WATCHER: David Mattice has just entered his 32nd year as a National Weather Service observer and Sky Warn Severe Weather adviser. See latest Eye On Weather column/A5
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Every seat was filled in Foothills’ Main Theater Sunday, Nov. 2, for a celebration of Mayor Richard P. Miller Jr.’s life.
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ayor Dick Miller would have enjoyed the celebration of his life. “If you knew my dad, you knew he hated funerals,” said his son Jason, head lacrosse coach at St. John’s. “He thought they were morbid necessities, but he wanted Liam with his granddad’s flag.
things to be light, respectful and humorous.” More than 800 citizens, friends and family packed Foothills Performing Arts Sunday, Nov. 2, to standing-room-only capacity to bid farewell to “a vibrant and forceful leader and an extraordinary citizen,” as his long-time friend and Rochester attorney Robert Latella described him.
Among mourners were U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and Oneonta’s first city manager, Mike Long, who retired to Auburn last May. All Oneonta’s former mayors, Sam Nader, David Brenner, Kim Muller and John Nader, were there, their ranks diminished not just by Miller’s sudden passing on SaturPlease See MAYOR, A3
Monument Planned For 9 From OHS Killed In Vietnam Gene Schmidt holds up a rendering of the Vietnam memorial he plans to have ready to be dedicated in Neahwa Park by next Memorial Day.
Veteran Gene Schmidt Hopes Aims For Memorial Day ’14 Dedication By JIM KEVLIN
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ene Schmidt drove into Sidney after the flood of late summer 2011 devastated that village. From the light at River and Main, he saw the flood’s detritus scattered in all directions.
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Make checks out to “Oneonta Vietnam Memorial Fund” and mail them to: Gene Schmidt 1715 Hwy. 7 Unadilla, NY 13849
“These people need a break,” the Vietnam-era Marine told his wife, Barb. Gene got moving, soliciting donations from local business people and from Willow Run Foods, Kirkwood, which sent over a dozen cases of fully cooked spareribs, hundreds of foot-long hot dogs, Please See FALLEN, A7
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“Spider-Man,” by Stephen Joseph, is one of the works in the Lincoln Center exhibit.
Stephen Joseph To Exhibit Photos At Lincoln Center
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neonta native Stephen Joseph’s latest show, “Broadway Revealed: Photographs of Stephen Joseph Behind the Theater Curtain,” opens with a reception 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at Lincoln Center in New York City. The exhibit will be in the Astor Gallery, which is part of the New York Public
Library for the Performing Arts’ Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center . It runs through Jan. 31. Joseph As the title of the show implies, Joseph has gone behind the scenes
at Broadway theaters to tell the stories of the people backstage who make the whole thing work (electricians, grips, costumers, wigmakers, set designers, carpenters and the like) in more than 100 works, rendered in his unique style of 360-degree photography. The artist, raised in Oneonta, is son of Dr. How-
ard and Bernice “Bunny” Joseph. This show follows up on his earlier show, “Portrait of a Town: Stephen Joseph Celebrates Oneonta,” which was presented in 2008 at SUNY Oneonta’s MartinMullen Gallery and which furnished the material for his book, “Oneonta 360.” The exhibition at Lincoln Center was organized by the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California, and was initially shown at the Lesher Center’s Bedford Gallery. Its presentation in New York has been funded in part by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, with additional support from a Kickstarter campaign.
Lori Kelly-Bailey and Joel Plue are interviewed for public TV on “Champ-o-saurus,” their latest film.
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neonta filmmakers Lori Kelly-Bailey and Joel Plue will premiere their latest independent feature film, “Champ-o-saurus,” a spoof on the Lake Champlain monster, at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in the Oneonta Theater’s Lobby Lounge. Local actors include Plue and Kelly, Korey Rowe, Randy Miretello, David Kelly and Peggy Walters. In the movie, documentary filmmakers visit the Adirondacks attempting to de-bunk the legend of Champ, the lake monster. Town folks offer the film
crew little cooperation, until rumors of a reward surface, and the competition and pranks turn deadly. “The goal of Tandem Cage Productions was to produce a feature film that would bring attention to the residents, towns and businesses surrounding Lake Champlain,” said Kelly, “to promote tourism and create a renewed interest in the legend. I believe we have achieved our goal with this fun and family-friendly film.” Tickets may be purchased in advance at Maxwell’s or The Green Toad Bookstore.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2014
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EMEMBERING DICK MILLER
For More Than 800 Mourners, Laughter And Tears
MAYOR/From A1 day, Oct. 25, but the death of Jim Georgeson a few days before. But the VIPs were far outnumbered by his constituents, gathered for a final farewell. “All of us are here today clearly demonstrates how many lives he touched,� said Latella. The Hartwick College a cappella choir, Not So Sharp, sang the National Anthem at the beginning of the service. “He loved that song more than any other,� said Jason. Steven Nanni, a State celebrated Sen. Jim tenor and Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Former mayor Kim Muller, left, Seward and Michelle Eastman, friends of Hartwick In the foreground, a member of the U.S. Army contingent that conducted a flag ceremony and wife the Miller family, prepare to escort in Mayor Miller’s honor salutes his family. In the back are Oneonta firefighters and police, instructor, Cindy. mourners to their seats. including Fire Chief Pat Pidgeon, center left, and Police Chief Dennis Nayor, center right. sang Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Infinite Shining Heavens,� with its Joe Ber“Uncountable angel stars; nier, City Hall’s Showering sorrow and retired light,� and, later, Albert Hay director of Malotte’s treatment of “The commuLord’s Prayer.� nity develThe mayor’s son Matopment, thew read Psalm 121, “I consoles will lift mine eyes unto the Carolyn hills, from whence cometh Lewis, my help.� “He loved the former hills around Oneonta, and county I think it’s for that reason economic developer. that he loved this psalm,� he said. “Also, it’s short.� Each speaker shared a story that showcased Miller’s signature sense of humor, drawing laughter from the often tearful crowd. “He was a joker in many ways,� said Latella. “He was bigger than life, always smiling, and he had The mayor’s stepdaughter Fable, center, shares her memoa voice that could bring a ries, flanked by her two brothers, Callum and Rossco. ship safely into a harbor in a fog.� “When he was running for mayor, he was running Former against another Miller, mayors Sam and we needed a slogan to Nader, left, and David differentiate our Miller,� reW. Brenner, membered Bob Hanft, Pierright, await stown, who was Hartwick the start trustees’ chair when Miller of the cerwas hired; retired, Miller emony. In drafted Hanft to serve as his the center is campaign treasurer “Most Susan Plantz, would have shied away David Hayes, a friend and supporter of Mayor Miller, leads his Nader’s sisfrom a double entendre, but wife Julie to their seats in the SRO Foothills main theater. ter-in-law. he went for it – and we kept having to order more signs COO Seth Haight, who to call him my stepfather,� Miller’s life: the Stars he wouldn’t be offended.� sofon, ’17, sang “God Bless because college students Miller recruited to Hartwick said his stepdaughter, Fable, & Stripes, and MiddleBut everyone stayed, as America� and gestured to kept stealing them!� and promoted to a vice 19. “I just wish he were bury College’s, Hartwick city police and firemen, in the crowd, all joined her, “I will think of Dick president. “When I’m fachere to hear me say it. I still College’s and the City of full uniform, escorted two filling the auditorium with whenever I see an obsesing a tough challenge, I play don’t believe he’s gone.� Oneonta’s. representatives of the U.S. patriotic song. sively trimmed lawn or his words over in my head “His place in our lives The service was more Army who performed a flag “Each of us are part of a someone who sets a bed– ‘focus and finish’.� cannot be filled,� said than an hour long, which ceremony, then presented photo mosaic that made up time for their dogs,� said his As there was plenty of Hanft, his voice catching as Jason joked would have the tightly folded banner to Dick Miller, said Latella, stepson, Callum. laughter, so there were he finished his remarks. “I driven his restless father Miller’s youngest grandwho arrived on a busload of “He was the inventor of also plenty of tears. “Dick will miss a good friend.� crazy. “He had mastered child, Liam. the late mayor’s Rochester the world’s shortest meetalways said he was so proud Flanking the stage were the Irish Exit,� he said. “If And when Hartwick Colfriends, “and he was a part ings,� said Springbrook of me, and I am so proud four flags meaningful to anyone wants to sneak out, lege soprano Margaret Eliof ours.�
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2014
DAVID W. BRENNER IN APPRECIATION
‘You Made Us Better And Stronger As We Face An Uncertain Future’ Editor’s Note: David W. Brenner, former Oneonta mayor and chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, and SUNY Oneonta associate vice president emeritus, delivered these remarks to the Oneonta Rotary Club on Thursday, Oct. 30.
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resident Rosalie asked me to say a few words about Dick Miller at today’s luncheon. First, I concur with the comments made by those who knew him well and worked closely with him. Many of them in different situations had the same positive feelings.
Second, each of them saw him as an innovator, a stimulator, a person with unbounded energy and enthusiasm, a great sense of humor and a desire to bring people together to build a better Oneonta. Full of ideas, there was not one that he would not invest himself in fully. I asked him once if he ever had a bad idea. He said, “Nope, some were just less good than others.” Continually upbeat, he took on the tough problems. His priorities were well-defined – and made achievable by his careful, yet tenacious way of accomplishing them. Many are still unfinished; his legacy is not
fully written. It is up to us and the community – at large – to determine how much we can still accomplish. They say that grieving is the task of the living – to recover, to develop a lasting memory and to appreciate life. I really did not know if Dick was a churchgoer – or not. But I am reminded of one last line in the most popular hymn of our time: “When we’ve been there 10,000 years, bright shining as the sun, we have no less days to sing God’s praise than when we first begun.” Persons of faith would say Dick has begun a new journey, with a bundle of new
ideas – all of them good – and ready for review by someone. Others would say, Dick’s work is done; he has shown what can be accomplished; he made us aware of what lies ahead; and we are ready to complete things that are undone. Let us continue to build and work together and let us remember Dick Miller when he said, “Enjoy life, love your community and family; life can be enjoyed in Oneonta.” To our friend, Dick Miller, a job well done – a life well-lived. Rest in peace, my friend. This community may not see one like you again, but you have made us better and stronger as we face an uncertain future.
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Let’s Do What Dick Miller Said. Start By Raising The Bed Tax
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eflection on and mourning for Dick Miller, the mayor of Oneonta, who passed away Saturday, Oct. 25, has taken all of the oxygen out of the air in recent days, a testimony to the man’s reach, impact and influence. He was one of a kind. The turnout Sunday, Nov. 2, for his memorial service at Foothills underscored the point. Chairs were added to expand the 620-seat venue to 745, and still that wasn’t enough. People stood in the back and the side aisles. Another 100 chairs were set up in the Atrium and audio piped in to handle the overflow. Sure, the VIPs in the crowd, from Congressman Gibson and Senator Seward to leaders in government and business from both parties from around Otsego County, were notable enough. Even more notable was the presence of just people, people who Dick Miller, ever-present everywhere, touched in his five-year tenure. • It now remains for those of us he left behind to fill a large gap in the county’s leadership fabric, and there are many steps we should take: • Town-city merger. Miller, a numbers man, showed conclusively the merger of city and town would result in a fully solvent, unprecedentedly prosperous Greater
Hartwick and other municipalities that bear the brunt of tending tourists and tourism, Otsego County’s foremost industry. We’re bleeding the sources of our local prosperity. It just doesn’t make sense. And, when Dick Miller concluded something didn’t make sense, he went after it. He and his Cooperstown counterpart, Jeff Katz, have been beating the drum on this issue for several months now, largely to deaf ears. Now’s the time for action. The county Board of Representatives needs to make the request to Senator Seward, and then he must shepherd it through the state Legislature in Albany. There’s simply no downside. Few people locally would ever pay it. It would be a surprise if even a single one of the half-milIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA lion tourists who visit us annually even notices. At base, it would Jason Miller, the mayor’s son, remembers his father being firm, but calm, in the midst of inevitable boyhood calamities while his sons were growing up. allow host communities to better promote our attractions, better Oneonta, benefitting from unified hind the county IDA’s strategy of by mid 2013, and adjusted revfund our chambers of commerce, planning and a greater share of “single point of contact” economic enues and expenses accordingly. better underwrite local festivals Southside sales-tax revenues. (A development and “shovel ready Perhaps SUNY Oneonta or the and celebrations that attract visismall first step: The town should sites.” The IDA is fronting $3 chambers can bring together tors, and better serve those visitors end plans for its own water district million to make it happen; there’s the expertise to allow the Miller when they get here. In effect, it and work with the city in providno reason for anyone to hold back. Method to be applied at the county would create an upward spiral ing water to Southside.) • Five-year fiscal planning. level and all the municipalities. of quality of life – and enhanced • Collaboration and cooperaMiller, former president of a • revenue. tion. Once and for all, the Otsego Rochester-based national printing What everybody can get behind Let’s do it for Dick Miller. County Board of Representatives company, later the SUNY system’s right away is a 2 percent hike in Even better, let’s do it because it and the Otsego County Chamber chief fiscal officer, played out City the county’s bed tax, from 4 to makes sense. That’s an argument of Commerce should stop fussing Hall’s fiscal trends for five years, 6 percent, dedicated to Oneonta, Dick Miller would understand. over minor points and get fully be- saw they would mean insolvency Cooperstown, the Town of
EDITORIAL
Diz LaMonica Captured Mayor Miller: ‘Jo-Ann, There’s A Smart, Class-Act Guy’ To the Editor: Last Thanksgiving, I had the pleasure to go to The Farmhouse for dinner with family and friends. We were sitting in the diningroom having a cocktail when I looked out the window and saw Dick and a young man coming in the front door. I asked the waitress to have
Dick stop at our table before he went downstairs at the lower level to have dinner. Over Dick came with his son and greeted us with a huge smile. The rest of his family had to work that day, so it was just the two of them. We had some delightful small talk and off they went.
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side of mine. He was laughing so hard he couldn’t stop. Then he got all of us laughing. He put his head out the window and yelled, “That’s what you get, LaMonica, for playing ‘big shot!’” Nothing but the best wine and food for my dear friend, Dick! As I recall this story, I only wish that, as we approach the holidays this year, I would again have the opportunity to wish Dick the very best and yes, buy him another top-shelf bottle
of wine. We all know that can never be. What a loss. My late husband, Diz, had a strong bond with Dick. Diz always said to me, “Jo-Ann, there’s a smart, class-act guy.” I can still see the tears rolling down Dick’s face at Diz’s funeral, as Dick was a pall bearer. Our community has lost a brilliant, class-act man. Yes, we will get another mayor; however, Oneonta will never, ever forget what
Mayor Dick Miller did for so many people, myself included. In closing, I in my heart feel that if a person is lucky enough to know three people in their lives that truly made a difference in their opinion, then how fortunate they are. I am one of those people. Diz LaMonica, Father Paul Roman, and now Mayor Dick Miller – heaven will never be the same. JO-ANN LaMONICA Oneonta
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As our tab came and I picked up the check for my family and friends, I said to myself, I’ll pick up Dick’s tab. So I directed the waitress to give me their tab and off we went. I will say that my pocketbook was a lot lighter leaving The Farmhouse than it was coming in. I laughed and said to myself, “Only the best for my friend, Dick, and company.” As we were coming out the road of The Farmhouse, I saw Dick’s car pull along-
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To the Editor: Mayor Miller was a daily source of inspiration and encouragement for me and my husband Tim. Always ready with a smile, a pat on the back, and a reminder of something he needed us to do, Dick had a comforting presence that was always on display around town – a combo of experience, authenticity, and let’s-do-this attitude that made him fun to be around. I was skeptical of moving back to my little hometown after 10 years living in cities all over the country. I was worried it would be stuck in the past, struggling economically, not much to offer for my family. Thanks to Mayor Miller, that was not the case. We saw that the city, in partnership with county and state agencies, was
thinking big about how to grow and thrive. We received a grant to help start a local business, still employing 20 people two and a half years later. Dick invited my husband to play golf and meet fellow businesspeople. He invited us to events, and checked in nearly every single day to make sure all was well. His vision for our community and his ability to pull people together to make it happen are unmatched. Not to mention his knack for convincing people to work very hard, for free. He talked Tim into becoming chair of Destination Oneonta (formerly Main Street Oneonta), and offered daily advice on how to make it a success. He talked me into organizing the Oneonta Sustainability Summit we
hosted at SUNY Oneonta in March, and made sure I had the people and resources to make it happen. When Tim’s brother and sister-inlaw moved to town with their young family, he immediately set about the task of finding them jobs, encouraging new business ideas and making personal introductions. The amazing thing is, we know he didn’t just do this for our family. He did it for everyone. We believe we can remember him best by pulling together as a community, finding leaders who can think big and then each doing our part to make this community such a good place to live, work and play. HANNAH & TIM MASTERJOHN Oneonta
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125 Years Ago
The Local News – A sea gull, a rare bird for this region, was shot near the upper reservoir a few days since by Albert Richardson. Taxidermist Wm. McCrum has it mounted in fine shape. November 1889
10 Years Ago
OCTOBER 014 Highest Temperature...............................................75°F (Oct. 15) Lowest Temperature.............................29°F (Oct. 12, 13, 20, 31) Average Maximum Temperature..........................................59.9°F Average Minimum Temperature...........................................41.5°F Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................50.7°F Precipitation Total.....................................................................4.50″ Most Precipitation in One Day.................................0.52” (Oct. 16) Thunderstorms........................................................1 (18 for 2014) Snow.............................................................Trace (50.9” for 2014) Most Snow in One Day..............................................Trace (Oct. 20) YTD Precipitation....................................................................37.83” Number of Days at or below 0°F...........................0 (20 for 2014 ) Number of Days at or below 32°F.......................7 (120 for 2014)
100 Years Ago
The Oneonta Department Store is now busily engaged in moving into the new building recently erected at the rear of the Main Street stores which is connected and forms a part of the main store. The task is not an easy one to care for the regular business and at the same time move considerable of the old stock and receive and re-arrange the new. The spacious new section is well lighted and when all is completed the store will be one of which the city may well be proud. One of the attractive features is the rest room for the women shoppers where easy chairs and sofas will permit those weary or seeking a few minutes rest to secure same. Toilets and other provisions are made and the women from the surrounding country will find the convenience most acceptable. Horace Taylor, recently with F.H. Robinson at Fly Creek, has moved to Oneonta and commenced work with the store in the dry goods department. Mrs. Harry Perrine and Mrs. Hunt have also recently taken positions with the firm. Edward House, formerly with Mr. Robinson and recently with Mr. McLaughlin at West Exeter, has taken a position with the firm and will remove here to reside within ten days. November 1914
80 Years Ago
By arrangement with Doctor Charles W. Hunt, principal, a staff of specialists from the State Department of Health will assist with special tests and X-rays of students at the State Normal School. The study aims to improve general health but its main purpose is to detect any slight tendency toward tuberculosis. November 1934
60 Years Ago
Passenger car production in 1955 is expected to top the total of 5,250,000 cars indicated for 1954. New Ford automobile models go on showroom display on Friday, November 12. Chrysler models will be offered on November 17; Lincolns on November 23; and Mercury on December 2. Pontiacs and Chevrolets, the first of the new General Motors models, went on display in September. High-styling, steppedup horsepower and improved automatic transmissions mark the new models. November 1954
40 Years Ago
James and Alan Paret, whose plans for a restaurant in the former Viking Studio at Dietz & Walnut streets were blocked by a zoning change in the Oneonta Common Council, have relocated a block away on Ford Avenue. The brothers are redecorating a large nine-room house at 23 Ford Avenue formerly owned by O. Charles Koenig. November 1974
30 Years Ago
Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, is providing monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.
November 2004 out the student vote. The Oneonta State College Student Association is providing a 15-passenger van to take students to the eight polling places in the city. The van will leave Schumacher Hall every half hour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. About 3,000 SUCO students are registered to vote locally. The Hartwick College Student Senate is providing rides to the polls with a 10-passenger van leaving Arnold parking lot six times during the day. November 1984
20 Years Ago
Twenty local merchants face fines of up to $300 following an underage undercover operation aimed at snuffing out sales of cigarettes to teens. In the county-wide sting, sponsored by the anti-tobacco coalition known as Project A.C.T.I.O.N., a 16-year-old girl tried to purchase cigarettes over the counter in 31 area stores – 20 times she walked out with a pack. November 1994
Comments: Thanks to all of you who did the warm weather dance. It worked! October was WARMER than normal, albeit by only 0.8 degrees. I hope I don’t see a pattern developing. May (the fifth month of the year) and October (the 10th month of the year) are the only months in 2014 that have experienced abovenormal temperatures. Four colder-than-normal months before the next warmer-than-normal month would be intolerable, so let’s be happy that only an old statistician would notice such a thing and that there is no scientific basis to DAVID my observation. The month was wetter than normal with an excess of 1.42”, and our year- MATTICE to-date total is 5.01” above the average. We had quite a dry summer, in most areas, so this is great news going into the winter. We even saw our first flurries, but that is completely normal for late October. The Atlantic Ocean remains ghostly quiet and for the second year in a row there has been minimal tropical storm and hurricane activity, unlike in the Pacific Ocean, which has experienced several very nasty, destructive and deadly storms. The tropical storm season closes Nov. 30, because waters cool significantly, but we can’t let our guard down yet. November is usually a month of extremes, we can be in the 60’s on any given day and have a significant winter event a few days later. Please pay attention to forecasts. The first snowfall always brings a “gazillion” fender benders and some serious accidents as well, so please be cautious and slow down. As temperatures continue to fall and the “rut” begins in our area, whitetail deer begin roaming around a lot more, so be prepared! Make sure you have some good winter or all-season tires on your car; you may need them in the near future. Late fall/early winter is a great time of year here in the greater Oneonta/Cooperstown area. There is still a lot to do and see so get outside and enjoy the beauty. Have a great Thanksgiving with your family and friends, travel safely and, as always, Keep Your Eye On The Weather!
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Maybe It’s Easy To Be Cynical About Politics, But Don’t Relinquish Your Vote ALBANY
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n the end, very few eligible voters actually turn out to participate in our elections. There are many reasons why they don’t. Some people are just too lazy. They have other things to do that day. Then there are those like my late friend, the brilliant political philosopher Sebastian De Grazia, who used to tell me, “I don’t know enough.” Here was one of the most brilliant academics and political scientists of all and he claimed he didn’t know enough to vote. He was right. You’ll never really know enough about the dirty deals to vote intelligently. Because the game is so loaded and so many things are going on that we don’t know about, the most cynical among us simply
say, “I don’t vote, it only encourages them.” Our politics are so dependent on money, so dependent on what Woodrow Wilson would have called, “Secret deals secretly arrived at,” one wonders, “What’s the point?” We are appalled at the strident, frequent, obviously phony appeals. We scratch our heads and we don’t know who to root for. The manipulators send out the cheerleaders as well as those who try to scare us half to death by appealing to our competitive and fearful natures. They warn us that unless we pay up, the other side is going to win. Everything is strategic. The enemy is advancing. The consequences will be catastrophic. Our e-mail in-boxes are filled with personal appeals for support and money. We are told by the biggest recognizable political names, “I’m
begging you for the money,” Or, “Bad news, we’re losing.” It’s as if a foreign army was invading our shores and we are being called to arms. The sides are drawn up. The potential consequences are terrible and unthinkable. The thing is, it all convinces some people. The political camps wouldn’t be doing it if it didn’t work. Meanwhile, all the frenzy simply makes some people believe they are being lied to. They begin to hate all politicians. During the election cycle, we are engaged in team sports but once the elections are over, the parties seem to merge and become what so many people are now calling the “Republicrats.” The real winners are the people with the big bucks – the lobbyists with their fine suits who descend on the politicians and have their way with them. The
politicians know that they need the filthy money that the lobbyists spread around, buying votes in much the same way they would buy bananas at the grocery store. Our politicians tell me that they spend hours on the phones, begging people to give them a couple of thousand dollars or much more. There are ways to funnel money into elections. There may be limits on how much you can give to an individual candidate but there are no limits on how much you can give to a political party and its “housekeeping” efforts. The party then will spend the dirty money any way they want to make their side win. We allow the leaders of each of the political parties to draw their own legislative lines and when the people figure out that this is anything but fair in a democracy,
those same leaders come up with a way to fool us into voting for a Constitutional Amendment that will ultimately preserve the status quo. So now the dirty game is exposed for what it is. On the one hand, newspapers do their jobs and explain the seamy side of the process. On the other, they properly encourage us to do our duty and to go out and vote. What else can they do? They are right, of course. The vote is paramount. Once we relinquish it, those with the most money will have even more control. We just have to do better or we all lose. Downer. Alan Chartock is president of WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, broadcast to Oneonta and Cooperstown. Send comments to alan@wamc.org
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Otsego Manor Sale, A Vicious Circle To the Editor: Well, I see The Manor has sold. Now let me see if I have this right: The county sold The Manor because it couldn’t afford to take care of the older people who had worked in the county and paid taxes to the county for most of their lives. So the county sold the manner to a private firm. A private firm means that the primary goal is to make a profit. So now the private firm will pay people less so the people in the county will be making less money,
spending less money and paying less taxes. Since they have less money, they will probably have nothing when they get older, so the county will have to take care of them. How can a private firm make a profit but the county can’t? What else can’t the county do that we think they are doing? I hope those people who sold The Manor end up in The Manor when they are old, to get a first-hand experience. Just a thought. R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest
Seek A More Inclusive County At Oneonta Summit To the Editor: On Saturday, Nov. 8, from 8:30 to 1:30 at the Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta, there will be an Inclusivity Summit that will address the primary question: What does an inclusive and more welcoming Oneonta look like? Keynote speaker, speaker Mark D. Vaughn, Ph.D., of Corning Inc.’s Technology Community, will be followed
Miller Mentored Robokronos And Many Other Oneontans
To the Editor: The entire Otsego 4-H FIRST Robotics Team, better known as RoboKronos, lost a great friend with the passing of Oneonta Mayor Richard Miller. Our thoughts that highway buses offload go out to Mayor Miller’s on private property or at the family, friends and the comremote lots. munity. You know what to do He was a friend and menabout that last group. I can’t tor to many young people vote there, but you can. (and not-so-young). He CHIP NORTHRUP was a champion of our high Cooperstown school team, even declaring
Why Can’t Cooperstown Figure Out Buses As Other Towns Do? To the Editor: I was never in favor of moving the buses onto Fair Street (per your Oct. 28 posting on www.allotsego. com) - and said as much when Jim Dean suggested that at the first preliminary meeting. That was not what the petition was all about. It was about getting the village to enter the 21st century on handling large highway tour buses the way all grown-up towns and villages do in this country and Europe - by keeping them out of the village center. Dreams Park represents more than half of the highway buses, so moving them to trolleys or shuttles is a plus. DP has to contract with Birnie Buses, which runs the village trolleys, before next season. But that leaves long-haul tour buses idling in front of the HOF and circling residential streets twice - once after they drop and the 2nd time when they leave. Mike Manno’s suggestion: offloading at Double Day, is not as good as the remote lots, but is far better than highway buses idling on Main Street. There are three culprits in this: Dreams Park, for inappropriately using highway buses as shuttles; the HoF, for neglecting to provide an on-site private bus stop; and the village trustees, for failing to insist
by breakout sessions to address various topics of interest to the community. Having spent the last few months on the committee that has helped bring this summit and much needed discussion to the city and town of Oneonta, I can honestly say that if you live, work or raise your family here, then you should be a voice in this discussion. While the city is still reeling from the loss of our mayor, we can perhaps
Feb. 5 “RoboKronos Day” in the City of Oneonta. We all loved his enthusiasm, his can-do attitude, and his eye toward the future. Mayor Miller was always quick with a high-five, a hug, and a smile. He made Oneonta a better place, and our team, like our community, will always be grateful. CHASE THOMAS Captain, on behalf of RoboKronos Oneonta
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seek solace in the fact that he was integral part in helping make Oneonta a better community. He is the reason why this summit is taking place. I urge members of the Oneonta community to participate. For more Information and to register for this event, please call Destination Oneonta at (432-8871, extension 210). MICHELLE OSTERHOUDT Oneonta
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Very Special Fly Creek Location —This 2,556+/- sq ft l800s farmhouse was renovated by the current owners in 1970. It offers large kitchen w/sunroom dining space, woodstove, and lovely view of 2-acre pond. Front-to-back LR w/fireplace, master BR, ¾ bath and laundry on the first floor. Upstairs are 3 BRs, good hallway space, 1½ baths. Covered front porch, stone patio. Systems seem to be in good shape. The property consists of 6.25+/acres w/lawn, fenced garden, pond, pretty open areas. Large 2-story barn can be used for small animals or, w/ some changes, horses. Wood shed, garage across the road w/2-story, 2-BR, 1-bath guest or rental apartment. House and barn sit beautifully on the property w/views of the pond and hillside. The house offers lots of sunlight and the setting itself certainly justifies a renovation bringing it up to today’s standards. Offered Co-Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty—$599,000 (with 80+ acres—$699,000)
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Assisting In Benefit Tourney, Schechtman Dealt The Cards For The Greats Of Poker By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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abe Schechter calls Johnny Moss “The Ty Cobb of Poker,” a comparison to perhaps the nastiest baseball hero in the Hall of Plaques at 25 Main. Moss was the first World Series of Poker champion and, “by consensus, the greatest poker player of his generation,” said Schechter, the baseball writer and former Hall of Fame researcher who, you may not know, was also a dealer at the World Series of Poker for several years in the 1980s and ‘90s. Moss “was also the most ornery, nasty and abusive of players,” hence the Ty Cobb allusion, said Schechter, who has been thinking back to his poker-dealing days lately while helping Ron Visco organize a Hold ‘Em Tournament, a Cooperstown novelty, at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, in New York Pizza’s upstairs room, to benefit the Susquehanna SPCA. Schechter remembers one celebrity poker tournament in particular, at Las Vegas’ Golden Nugget. Juliet Prowse was playing against the professional gamblers, and Lainie Kazan. Sarah Vaughan was among the celebrities at Schechter’s table – and Johnny Moss. “First hand, Moss had the best hand,” said the dealer. “But, out of luck, one of the celebrities won.” Johnny Moss blew up. “He called me every other name.” When one of the celebrities, taken aback, pointed out to Moss that no money was at stake -- the tournament was simply a charity benefit, he replied, “this (expletive)” – pointing to Schechter – “has been dealing me out of money all month.” Schechter was “raised by card players” in New Jersey. “My mother was a life master. My pappy taught me to play poker.” An undergrad at Colgate, Class of ‘73, he recalls the revolving bridge and poker games at The Coop, the student center. He went on to grad school at the University of Oregon, then to three years teaching freshman comp at the University of Montana at Missoula where, he discovered, poker was legal. “I taught in the afternoon, wrote bad novels in the evening and, late at night, I went out and played poker,” he recalled. “Then I caught a few hours sleep and went back to class.” To get away from winter “and write my fourth bad novel,” Gabe moved to Nevada in 1980, where “I became the Damon Runyon of Las Vegas. I met all these wonderful characters. It was just a gold mine of material. It fascinated me on that level.” First, he played poker, too. “I didn’t quite
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Gabe Schechtman is fascinated by the “infinite variety” of both baseball and poker.
make a living at it,” so he turned to dealing in 1981. He discovered the pressures of the job and observed that there’s a fairly high attrition rate, but he also develop a code, a code or honor, if you will. “I think my strength was my commitment to maintaining the integrity of the game, which is a fancy way of saying I didn’t let things slide, I didn’t let players take advantage or bully each other. Intimidation is a big part of some players’ arsenals. I tried to protect the interest of all players.” The profession was challenging enough to keep him at the tables until 1991, when he moved to Cooperstown, spending most of a year researching what became his first baseball book, “Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw’s Giants.” As Gabriel Schechter, he’s published three more since. He went back to Las Vegas in 1992, moved to California in 1995, where he lived among the Redwoods on the Central Coast. He was then hired by the Hall of Fame, where, back in Cooperstown, he spent 2002-10 as a researcher in the Hall of Fame Library. “I must be fascinated by games,” he said, when asked about his double interest. “There’s something in my psyche that is interested in the concept of infinite variety. It exists in a lot of things. Music: A finite number of notes, infinite variety. “What baseball and poker share is a finite number of events, but a seemingly almost infinite number of results and patterns. And that’s what interests me.” He’ll be dealing Saturday night. Better sign up soon (New York Pizza’s Art Boden has sign-up sheets): half the spots were taken by mid-week.
Vietnam Era Veteran Seeks To Raise $6,500 To Honor Fallen OHS Alums FALLEN/From A1 and 700 bags of Frito-Lays potato chips. Within a few weeks, the Schmidts put on the Susquehanna Survivors Picnic, feeding more than 300 people at Sidney’s First Baptist Church, just down River Street from the site of Gene’s original inspiration. “We had a ball,” he recalled the other day. With the left-over food distributed to the Salvation Army and local food banks, Gene estimates 1,000 people were “touched” by his idea and his determination in carrying it out. Lately, Gene Schmidt, a 1966 OHS grad who served as a jet mechanic at El Toro Air Station near Irvine, Calif., for the final two years of his 1967-71 deployment during the Vietnam War, has been on a new mission. The goal: To add a 4- by 5½-foot granite marker to the cluster of monuments to Oneonta’s fallen honoring the nine OHS graduates whose deaths brought home the impact of that distant conflict to their home city of 14,000 people. So far, Gene has raised $4,000 of the $6,500 estimated cost of the modest monument. “I don’t want it to look like a midget,” he said during an interview at Oneonta’s Stewart’s, Main and River, the other day. “And I don’t want it to stick out like a sore thumb because it’s too big.” As the Susquehanna Survivors Picnic suggests, Schmidt is a man of action.
the go-ahead. Again, Schmidt’s fundraising adrenalin kicked in. He approached individuals, businesses and veterans groups. The latter was a bit sticky since Gene had found, on discharge from the Marines, HOMETOWN ONEONTA that vets clubs just weren’t The monument would for him. One veteran told join the circle of war him, you won’t join us, but memorials in Neahwa you want our money. Gene Park. replied, “I don’t want your He got the idea for the city money – those nine guys monument when, returnwant your money.” And that ing from a family funeral ended it. in Tennessee last spring, he So far, the American stopped at the National DLegion has contributed, Day Memorial in Bedford, and the DAV intends to. Va. “I really didn’t know Schmidt has also solicited much about it,” he said. the VFW. “It’s mammoth. It’s kept up. While he’s a little leery It’s impressive.” of politics and politicians, As he read the names Gene did raise the project on the plaques, he thought, with Mayor Dick Miller “Why doesn’t Oneonta have during the OHS Alumni Assomething like this?” sociation reception Friday, The cluster on Neahwa’s Oct. 3, at the Armory, and Veterans Memorial Walkthe mayor shared some way does include a county daunting memories of comVietnam monument with bat in the Pleiku region in the names of Otsego men 1966. who died in Vietnam, and Schmidt looked forward when he first raised the idea to turning over the memorial locally, it was suggested an to the warrior mayor, who asterisk be placed next to passed away last month, the Oneonta names. Gene during 2015 Memorial Day demurred. “It would look observances. like a second thought,” he That’s not to be. But, said. if anything, that’s only When he broached the increased Gene Schmidt’s idea of an exclusive monudetermination to complete ment for the city’s Vietnam his mission. Working with Era fallen in early SeptemBainbridge Monument, he ber with the Parks & Recintends to have the granite reation Commission, “they were all for it,” in particular plaque, carved with the names of his fellow OHS the chair Tim Catella. By alumni, placed among that month’s end, then-acting cluster of the city’s fallen by city manager Meg Hungernext May. ford advised Gene he had
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