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uiseppa Avanzato, 90, matriarch of the Oneonta family, died from injuries received in a car crash Sunday night, Nov. 11, in Goshen.

Her son, Vincent, who operates Ristorante Stella Luna with his brother, Tony, is recuperating from injuries in Orange Regional Medical Center.

The crash occurred at 8:41 p.m., when an eastbound Jeep jumped the median on Route 17 and struck the Avanzato’s Audi head-on.

The Jeep’s driver died at the scene.

For Mrs. Avanzato’s obituary, see www.allotsego.com

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Wayne Gregory and Gary Ballard served as the color guard during the Veterans’ Day services at 11 a.m.

Sunday Nov. 11, in Neahwa Park.

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Otsego County Weaver Crafted ‘Lincoln’ Shawl

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f you go to see Steven Spielberg’s epic “Lincoln” – it opens Friday, Nov. 16, at the Southside Mall Cinema – keep a close eye out for a little piece of Otsego County around Daniel Day-Lewis’ shoulders.

“It’s an 1860s Scottish shawl, stripes on the top and bottom and a twisted fringe,” said Thistle Hill Weavers’ Rabbit Goody – Weaver to The Stars, if you will – who reproduced the shawl the character of President Lincoln wears in a key scene from a surviving one at the Please See WEAVER, A6

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DARLINGS DEBUT: The Derailing Darlings first roller-derby match of the season, “The Gory Gobbler,” at 6:16 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at Interskate 88, will benefit the Lord’s Table food pantry.

Bring two cans, save $1 on your ticket.

GRAND PRIZE: The Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s fundraising raffle – tickets, $20 – is offering a first prize of $2,000, second prize of $1,000, third $500 and 10 prizes of $50. Buy tickets at History Center, 183 Main. Drawing is Dec. 31.

acing some resistance from Common Council about leaving two police-officer positions vacant, Mayor Miller’s revised 2013 budget proposes a task force to conduct a complete review of OPD operations.

The two positions are two of seven City Hall slots the mayor is proposing to leave open next year.

He estimates that would save more than $350,000 in a budget that nonetheless predicts a $441,000 deficit in the general fund.

“The budget presented is based on aggressive interventions, principally through reducing headcount through attrition,” the mayor wrote in a memo that accompanied the fiscal plan he distributed to council on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

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The president’s shawl in Spielberg’s “Lincoln” was made in Otsego County.

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F Above, Jim Williams raises his rifle to salute the flag burned in honor of their fallen brothers.

At right, Col. Bob Stewart, foreground, Staff Sgt. George Sluti and son, Marine Sgt. Jonathan Sluti stand and salute as “Taps” is played.

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riends are dismayed and mystified by what they term a “senseless” tragedy that took the lives of Wendy and Willis Brown, who they describe as a loving couple, wonderful parents HOMETOWN ONEONTA and valuable commuAttendees at the Brown nity members in Frankmemorial service received lin, where they lived, a daffodil bulb to plant as and Oneonta, where she a living memorial. worked and was active in Rotary president, choking civic life. up. “Willis was barbecuing “This past June, they up a storm. She was chophosted the Group Study ping vegetables. The house Exchange at their house,” was packed with friends said Paul Patterson, Oneonta and there was so much love.

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very year, somebody jokes, ‘Which one’s the turkey?’” jokes the Rev. Mel Farmer, pastor, River Street Baptist Church, as he picked up a 15-pound frozen Thanksgiving bird at Hannaford.

Pastor Mel is anything but.

For the sixth year, Hannaford will donate 20 turkeys – public contributions double and triple that Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA – to the pastor’s sixth annual Olivia Parrish, 5, gets into the spirit of OWL’s fifth annual Paint Fest, which was based this year on Jackson Pollock’s splashy style. There was paint Thanksgiving Turkey Giveon everyone at OFO’s Headstart site on Lower River Street. away, joining Brooks BBQ and the WalMart McDonald’s in helping feed Otsego County’s hungry.

“It’s a matter of helping people out,” said Farmer.

“We’re striving to give everyone a Thanksgiving meal.”

Last year, Farmer’s effort gave away 83 turkeys, and this year, he’s hoping to feed 100 families with turkeys, chicken dinners and Value Meals. “We’ll give them whatever they want,” he said.

The program started when Farmer saw people in the It’s hard to be delicate Sebastian Perez, 22 months, eagerly followed at Paint Fest, but Anna the lead of older brother Nicholas, 8, in coloring community going hungry Claire Higgins, 4, tried. on Thanksgiving, and put his Paint Fest T-shirt.

“If we’re going to feed everyone, we going to need donations,” he said.

He also started a letter writing campaign, reaching out to local businesses and asking them for donations.

And so far, 50 turkeys and 55 Value Meals have been donated, but the letters are still pouring in: • “We’re trying to help our daughter but social security doesn’t go very far.”

• “I never thought I’d be unemployed, unable to find Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA work and hungry.”

Pastor Mel shows off “You really take it to one of the 20 turkeys heart,” he said.

Hannaford donates anHe reads all the letters nually to his drive. and makes a list of families together donations of 21 tur- who will receive turkeys. keys. The program – and the The families are then requests – have more than contacted, and can pick up quadrupled since then. “Peo- the turkeys at Hannaford ple write us letters, saying starting the Sunday before they’ve lost their jobs, they Thanksgiving. For those have kids, they don’t think who live alone or don’t they can do Thanksgiving have the means to cook, a because of the economy,” he Brooks’ chicken dinner or said. “Some of those letters a McDonald’s Value Meal are real tearjerkers.” may be requested.

His TV show, “InspiraFarmer is the city’s lontion Time,” and his radio gest-serving minister, havshow, “Gospel Hymn ing stood at the River Street Request Time,” reach nearly Baptist pulpit for 40 years.

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First Choice Cleaners are donating dry cleaning services for the garments. The program is especially in need of children’s and infant’s winter coats, snowsuits and snow pants.

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On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the couple was found dead in their 41 Main St. home in Franklin. The Delaware County Sheriff’s Department said the husband had called at 6:40 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 7, reported shooting his wife, and said he intended to take his own life.

“It’s been a very, very difficult time,” said John Nader, SUNY Delhi provost and former Oneonta mayor, who served with Willis on the college’s budget and finance board. “No one can make sense of this – this was someone we knew and respected.”

Willis, who joined SUNY Delhi in 2005, was an assistant professor of applied sciences and building technologies, and taught electrical theory, as well as intermediate math courses.

He was tenured in 2011, and was named the 2012 Faculty Tutor of the Year, “and he did it entirely on his own time,” said Nader.

Wendy was a financial adviser with the Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley, operated in Oneonta by her sister, Erna Morgan McReynolds.

The couple had two sons, Garrett and Daniel.

Wendy, who served as Rotary vice

president this year and was in line to succeed Patterson as president next July, was remembered for her dedication to local causes and organizations, including Rotary, the Franklin Stage Company and the Catskill Symphony Orchestra.

“There wasn’t a time at the Franklin Stage when Willis wasn’t on the front porch, selling refreshments,” said Patterson. “Even their sons were involved – either on stage or helping backstage.”

“The best way to sum up Wendy was that she was a kind and gentle soul,” said Martha Forgiano, chair of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra, where Wendy was a board member.

“She worked diligently and unselfishly because she had a passion for supporting the arts. She saw it as the right thing to do.”

Wendy was often found working “behind the scenes” to organize an event, including fundraising and finding guest conductors for the cabaret.

“She was the kind of member who drew attention to the organization, not herself.”

At the joint memorial service on Sunday, Nov. 11, attended by 500 in the Foothills Performing Arts Center Atrium, Wendy was awarded a posthumous Paul Harris Fellow – Rotary’s

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highest honor – awarded for her dedication.

Hours after he heard the news from Franklin, Patterson received an envelope – inside was $1,500, from Wendy, money raised for their annual Tribute to Veterans concert earlier Sunday. “When I received those funds, Wendy’s results, it was such a painful reminder that she wasn’t going to be there.”

The show went on, bringing tears to the eyes of the veterans sitting in the front row. “This may be the last time many of those veterans hear those songs from the 40s’ and 50s’ played live,” he said. “That all happened because of Wendy.”

Nader visited Willis’ lab and was surprised to find that, instead of showcasing his own work, Willis asked his students to show the Provost what they’d been learning. “They could explain the difference between high and low quality electrical work,” he said. “And they took pride in the quality of the work they were able to do in his lab.”

And that is what makes their deaths so baffling to those who knew them.

“You never saw a more loving family,” said Patterson. “You don’t do those types of things without love in your heart.”

BUDGET/From A1 All the positions are already vacant, requiring no layoffs, he said.

The OPD task force – it would be modeled after one that did a complete review of the fire department in 2011 – would include the mayor, City Manager Michael Long, Police Chief Dennis Nayor, Council Members Maureen Hennessy and Mike Lynch, and others, including representatives of the police and sergeants’ unions.

When Miller first briefed Common Council on his plans earlier this month, Lynch opposed the police vacancies. “If we needed them last year, we need them this year,” he said. “If anyone’s been paying attention to police reports, business is booming.”

Addressing that concern, Miller likened the dilemma to buying life insurance: “How much is enough? You never have enough at the wrong time.”

To convene in the new year, the task force would study appropriate staffing,

leadership structure, dispatch and administration, space, technology, relationships with other local law-enforcement agencies, and the history and culture of the department, Miller said.

“We’ve got to think through how we’re going to deal with this situation. We have to have a strategy,” he said, noting the police department makes up 30 percent of the city’s budget, and personnel costs 65 percent.

The proposed budget will be discussed at the Tuesday, Nov. 20, council meeting – citizens may provide input during the public-comment period – and go to a public hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 27.

Council can revise the document, but must approve it by Tuesday, Dec. 4.

“If they go in and say, we want to fill that position and that position, that means the deficit goes up. That’s their decision to make. Our job is to place before them our best judgment,” he said.

He also reduced the mayor’s pay to $12,000, but let council-member pay stand.

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EDITORIAL

Keep Charting Manor’s Future Step By Step. Don’t Stampede

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hese days, you can find the source of pretty much anything via Google. Not so with: “We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we aren’t going to get out of it overnight.”

While the source – an Aesop, Samuel Johnson, Emerson or Snoop Doggy Dog – isn’t immediately evident, the phrase – and an infinite number of variations – thrives because it is apt in so many varied contexts.

It rings true because it is true.

• Six months ago, the Otsego County Board of Representatives and many of its constituents were ready to run for the door on Otsego Manor, the county’s intelligently conceived and exceptionally humane nursing home in Index.

Medicaid “reform” out of Washington D.C. was squeezing the states by reducing reimbursements, and Albany, after encouraging counties to provide care to the elderly, was squeezing the counties beyond fiscal endurance.

The county board voted in September to seek a buyer. Action, happily, provoked reaction, with residents’ families, concerned citizens and residents themselves emphasizing how important – in most case, irreplaceable – The Manor is.

Particular credit is due to Maureen Culbert, East Springfield, inspired by the care her mother

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Otsego Manor is divided into five neighborhood-like “wings,” so residents get to know each other and have more control over their schedules. For a look inside how Otsego Manor operates, see B1.

received at The Manor signed on as a volunteer after her death in 2009; to Carol Kirkey, Oneonta, who has poignantly described The Manor’s role since husband Terry contracted early onset Alzheimer’s, and resident Claire Cardinale, stricken in her 50s and forced to sell her home to qualify for The Manor – what now?

• Their efforts and those of many others – plus happenstance: We watched Delaware County’s privatized Countryside Care Center self-destruct before our

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Local Democratic Party Trending Toward Victory To the Editor: It was a battle hard fought, and although our Democratic candidate lost the Congressional seat we had the momentum going into Election Day. In 30 days, we went from 18 points down, to losing by six points, five points in Otsego County. What a great accomplishment, and with more time I know Julian Schreibman would have won. Now it is time for our party to reflect on our losses, and build on our victories.

And what great achievements we had on Election Night. Our president won, U.S. Sen. Gillibrand won, Assemblyman Bill Magee won, and our new Town of Otsego Councilman Tom Hohensee won. I am so proud of our supporters, who made phone calls, knocked on doors and talked to their friends and neighbors.

Everyone worked so hard for our candidates and the

Otsego County Democratic Party: You all made this possible. These victories are yours.

We can’t stop here, we have more battles ahead and we need to work together with President Obama, our two U.S senators, Governor Cuomo and our local Democratic officials in building our party in Otsego County.

Together we will move forward in achieving our goals of putting Americans back to work, reducing the deficit by asking all to pay their fair share, protecting rights and freedoms, and electing those who will fight for what the Democratic Party – and most Americans – stands for.

I would like to congratulate Congressman Gibson on a great win, and all our elected officials. We wish you luck with the challenges ahead.

RICHARD D. ABBATE Chairman Otsego County Democratic Party

eyes – helped put the brakes on a stampede and, as many things seem when calm is allowed to prevail, things don’t seem quite so dire. There are options.

One, suggested by county Rep. Keith McCarty, R-Springfield, is a temporary quarter-percent add-on to the county’s sales tax dedicated to stabilizing The Manor’s finances while the situation is worked through. Given that much of the sales tax is paid by our summer visitors, this is a relatively painless stopgap.

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“Alternate M,” now endorsed by the county board, would inject the short-term benefit of 600 construction jobs into the local economy as soon at 2014. Longterm, the natural-gas pipeline would bring $3-5 million annually in new property taxes to municipalities, school districts and, yes, county coffers.

These aren’t permanent solutions, but they would provide considerable breathing space.

At his League of Women Voters’ debate against Democrat Howard Leib, state Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, thought perhaps one or two of The Manor’s five “wings,” now skilled nursing, could be repurposed in ways that would better contribute to the bottom line.

Generally, ever more emphasis is being put on ways to keep elderly folks in their homes, so this is an evolving situation. In a year, there may be an answer, full or partial, that we haven’t perceived yet, or doesn’t exist yet.

• The ferment also prompted the Otsego Manor Committee to embrace quality as its watchword going forward – first, in finding a consultant to guide its deliberations and decisionmaking.

“We want wisdom,” said county Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, the committee chair. “The consultant’s job will be to help us craft an RFP to let potential buyers know exactly what we’re looking

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for. That is, quality thresholds.

Criteria and a methodology for assessment, numbers-based.”

Then, in deciding whether to sell or not and, if the former, who to sell it to. “We are not going to consider anybody who doesn’t have a really strong financial background,” said Stuligross. “We also will not consider anybody who does not have a strong history of providing high-quality care.”

Yes, she said, “this leaves open the possibility we will not find anybody” – not the worst option.

“My thinking,” she continued, “is there are a number of high-quality companies out there that will apply.”

Meanwhile, the nation has a president who doesn’t have to worry about reelection. Maybe Barack Obama will face up to the challenge of coping with an exploding population of aging Baby Boomers, politics aside. Plus, we have a problem-solving governor in Andrew Cuomo.

• The point is, dumping Otsego Manor was, at best, always a lousy solution. In effect, it’s no solution.

Breathe deeply. If the steady leadership evident lately on the county board continues, we’re going to get out of this mess – the fiscal morass, that is, not the exceptional care that everyone wants to keep – but we’re not going to get out of it overnight.

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Oneonta veterans were invited to a pancake breakfast and Veterans’ Day exhibit Sunday, Nov. 11, at The Plains at Parish Homestead. Front row, from left, are Capt. Ken Baldwin, Landon VanBuren, Capt. Gordon Jones, Staff Sgt. James Sampson, Artilleryman Herman Warmke, Radioman Ted Sumner, Navyman Larue Allen. Middle row, from left, are Maj. Bill Coote, Machine Gunner James C. Vagliardo, Navy Readyman Charlie Thuma, Marine Cpl. Leon Dard, Spec. 4 Wilber Cleveland, Navy Cook Warren “Doc” Knapp, Army Cpl. George Bassette. Back Row, from left, are Army Cpl. Albert Hughes, E4 Sgt. Don Seeley, DP2 Pam Tanner, Navy Signalman Russell Southard, USMC Sgt. Michael Davidson, E4 Neil Riddell of the 101st Airborne and Col. Carlton Cleveland, 82nd Airborne.

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During World War II, Warren “Doc” Knapp served as a cook on the Amphibious Navy landing craft that took Gen. Douglas “I Shall Return” McArthur back to the Philippines. “It’s so nice of these people (here at the Plains) to honor our veterans,” he said.

Russell Southard Sr. shows a display of his Navy memorabilia in one of his own handmade shadow boxes at the Plains Veterans’ Day Memorabilia Exhibit.

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125 Years Ago

When found in the laboratory of his lamp factory in Newark, from which 4,000 lamps a day are now sent out, Thomas Edison said that the commercial phonograph is now the most interesting thing in the world to him. It is perfectly finished, and tools are being made for its manufacture upon a large scale. The stories which Edison tells of what his perfected phonograph will do are so extraordinary that he scarcely expects people to believe him, and yet he says that the apparatus is so simple, so effective, and so immediately useful that he is certain of its rapid introduction into business – far more certain than he was of the universal adoption of the telephone as a business instrument. “My phonograph I expect to see in every business office. The first five hundred will, I hope, be ready for distribution about the end of January. Their operation is simplicity itself and cannot fail. The merchant or clerk who wishes to send a letter has only to set the machine in motion, and to talk in his natural voice and at the usual rate of speed into the receiver. When he has finished, the sheet, or phonograph, as I call it, is ready for putting into the box made on purpose for the mails. We are making the sheets in three sizes – one for letters from 800-1,000 words; another size for 2,000 words; another size for 4,000 words. The receiver of a phonogram will put it into his apparatus, and the message will be given out more clearly, more distinctly, than the best telephone message ever sent.�

November 1887

80 Years Ago

The imperative necessity to the railroads of a cut in governmental costs and a resulting reduction in the national tax burden which now amounts to $14,500,000,000 billion or about $125 annually for every person in the country is stressed in a statement issued by Frederick E. Williamson, president of the New York Central lines. The 1931 taxes paid by the New York Central were 42.88 percent of the company’s net revenue from railway operations. This year, for the first eight months, tax accruals have risen to 51.63 percent or more than half of the company’s net revenue from railway operations. “Our taxes,� Williamson points out, “have reached a point where they are stifling the purchasing power of the railroads, which normally are the country’s largest single purchaser. As a result, many of the largest industries in the country, that normally employ many thousands, are suffering severely because of our inability and that of other railroads to purchase needed supplies even on a scale commensurate with our reduced traffic.�

November 1932

100 Years Ago

reported its findings Wednesday. The committee’s overall conclusion is that “health education throughout America, especially in non-white areas, is a neglected, underfinanced, unhealthy, fragmented activity� which requires a major overhaul. The investigative committee, staffed with private health professionals, also found that “no agency, in or out of government, is responsible for establishing health education goals.� To remedy the problem, the committee recommends a major new commitment of federal money and a reallocation of current and future funding by federal, state, local and private sources so the money will be spent more wisely.

November 1972

30 Years Ago

Are the following statements true or false? Teachers tend to discipline boys more harshly than girls. Women are absent from jobs more often than men due to illness.

Most young women do not need to plan careers as they will be homemakers. Most high school students feel that boys should pay the expenses on a date. Teachers talk more with girls than they do with boys. These questions are part of a game found in a program kit that examines expanding roles for young people and challenges youth to consider their November 1912 own outlooks on sex-role stereotyping without pressure to change their minds. The program was pioneered through the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

November 1982 Advertisement – The Eight Friendly Shopping Services at Bresee’s – The purchase refund event: The drawing on our big Purchase Refund Event takes place every ThursAn Elmira high school junior was removed from school day night at 9:30 p.m. – up to $5,000 refunded on ten sales slips. Parcel Checking – Make shopping more enjoyable by after she went to class with packaged condoms decorating her clothing and hair. Thursa Hargrove, 16, said she checking your parcels at our checking desk located on the second floor. Ladies Lounge – Ladies, relax while shopping wore the prophylactics as both a statement for safe sex and fashion. “It was a fashion statement at first, but there are a in our newly decorated and comfortable lounge located on the second floor. Health Bar Restaurant – Meet your friends lot of teenagers out there that are embarrassed about them,� said Hargrove, who is the mother of an 18-month-old son. at the famous Health Bar Restaurant – famous for good “People need them and shouldn’t be embarrassed by them,� food and courteous service. Public Address System – We she said. But officials at Elmira Free Academy, a public are able to locate anyone at anytime over our Public Adschool, said the wearing of condoms was distracting to dress System – also to bring you special announcements.

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“Of course I said yes,” Rabbit said. “But they sent me an image of the shawl folded up – a very poor quality image, very little detail. I needed more. Goody asked if she could travel to see the actual shawl in the Smithsonian, but Spielberg’s company wouldn’t foot the bill for her research. Instead, she contacted the curator of the Smithsonian, who sent her a better image.

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MLS#85366 - Spectacular lake views. Totally modernized year-round Canadarago Lake home on 3 levels. Direct access to 40-ft dock from family rm deck. Rent weekly during summer for $2,500 per wk, rented 12 wks in 2012. $429,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512

MLS#85154 - Greek Revival 4 BR, 1 ½ bath, w/eat-in kitchen, DR, LR, office/den, storage/workshop, original wood flrs, newer carpeting, lrg back deck w/nice yard, gardens, and 2+ car garage. New septic, hot water heater and newer furnace! Cooperstown Schools. $139,000 Call Kathy @ 607-267-2683

MLS#85997 - Completely renovated Victorian!

Wrap-around porch, attention to detail, stunning finishes, 2 large BRs, 2 baths, Walk everywhere! $189,000 Call Brad @ 607-434-9234

MLS#87014 - Well-maintained historic 4+ apt building.

Live in one unit and let your tenants pay your mortgage. $179,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603

MLS#85252 - Private setting for country living. Rustic log cabin features a spacious open floorplan and wrap-around deck, pool, walk-out basement. Additional land available.

Priced right at $147,500 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

MLS#86251 - Ranch home a mile from town with 4 BRs, open floorplan, garage, nice backyard…many updates! $139,000 Call Brad @ 607-434-9234 MLS#86265 - Great location! High traffic and great visibility on Main St in Oneonta. 3000 sq ft bldg, numerous rooms, office space, bathrms, clean full basement, parking for 20+ cars, handicapped accessible, very well maintained. $235,000 Call Brad @ 607-434-9234 All offers considered!

MLS#84567 - Contemporary chalet home, 3-car garage, 2 pole barns, pond and 3 tax parcels of almost 50 acres w/gorgeous views! This1990 home w/3300 sq ft and 3 flrs of living space is offered by original owner. 12 miles from Cooperstown. $599,000 Call Kathy @ 607-267-2683

MLS#86741 - Bring the hammer, the farmhouse is gutted.

Renovate to taste, or flip this house. Set on almost 16 acres w/great views. No oil or gas lease on the property!

88+ additional acres available. See MLS#86742. $65,000 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068

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MLS#85750 - Colonial w/3200 sq.ft., 4-5 BRs, 3 baths, on over 10 acres in Cooperstown school district. Lge unfinished 3rd flr, insulated basement w/radiant heat. Custom ceilings, 2-sided FP and eat-in kitchen w/island and pantry.

Wood floors, insulated windows. $315,000 Call Chris @ 607-376-1201

E IC ED PRDUC RE MLS#85776 - Great view of Canadarago Lake. 3 BR, 2 bath ranch home on 7.9 acres. Freshly painted interior w/all new carpets and flrs. 2-stall garage plus outbuilding.

Finished basement w/family rm and workshop. $174,900 Call Rod and Barb 315-520-6512

MLS#84000 - Log cabin, 4-car garage, 5 acres, State land nearby. $186,900 Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436 MLS#86175 - Totally rebuilt 4 BR, 2 bath home w/garage and workshop. New kitchen, full bath (up), laundry/ ½ bath combo (down), fireplace in LR. New flooring, sheetrock walls and ceilings. New electric, plumbing, furnace, water htr, windows, roof and fresh ext paint. $149,900 Call Tom Platt @ (607) 435-2068 New Listing! MLS#87005 - Farmhouse, barn, on 20 acres. $159,000 Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436

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This 3 bedroom East Street charmer has much to offer. Spacious, light filled rooms with hardwood floors and a gorgeous sunken family room addition off living room offering beamed vaulted ceilings and brick wood burning fireplace. Slider off family room leads to a screen room overlooking deep tree lined back lot. Seller has meticulously maintained the property so exterior paint, roof, retaining wall, water heater and chimney were all done in the last 2 to 3 years. Great location within walking distance to SUNY & Middle/High School. $174,500. MLS#85960

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MLS#84612 – Close to Oneonta and Delhi on 10.8 acres, this secluded location is convenient to schools, hospitals and shopping. Move-in condition. $229,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

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Cooperstown Village CirCa 1850 (7572) Settle down in quiet elegance or entertain vibrantly in this dazzling 3 BR/3+ bath residence with great Red Creek valley views. Custom kitchen with granite counter top and breakfast nook, formal DR, den, Moraviantiled fireplace, main-level master BR, radiant-floor heat, additional outdoor wood furnace, thermal glass, cherry floors, large-view front porch, 2-car garage w/studio apt.

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(7110) Historic 4 BR/3+ bath Greek Revival home replete with French doors to gracious LR, family room with fireplace and built-in bookcases. Hardwood flooring, main-level master BR, eat-in kitchen w/cherry cabinets and bay window, 2-car garage, picket fencing.

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