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HIGH WINDS, BUT LITTLE DAMAGE

Super Storm Sandy Is Anti-Climate-Tic

By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN

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Arnie Drogen, businessman and philanthropist, shows off the Citizen of the Year Award he received from the Hartwick College Citizens Board Saturday, Oct. 27, at a Foreman Gallery reception/MORE PHOTOS, A7

PARADE DELAYED: Due to Superstorm Sandy, the city’s Halloween Parade has been delayed from Oct. 31 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, on Main Street.

WATER REBOUNDS: Due to recent rains, the city Board of Public Service has lifted voluntary wateruse restrictions. The lower reservoir is full, which will allow Wilber Lake, still low, to recharge.

DEADLINE NEARS: FERC’s deadline for public comment on the Constitution Pipeline and “Alternate M” is Friday, Nov. 9. Go to www.ferc.gov and type in the docket number, PF129.

CHASE HONORED: The Calvin W. Chase’71 Men’s Soccer Team Room was dedicated to retired banker (and Number 1 Hawks’ fan) Cal Chase Saturday, Oct. 27, during the college’s Community Appreciation Day/PHOTO, A7 MANOR PROTEST: Otsego Manor residents protested Friday, Oct. 26, against the county nursing home’s possible sale/SEE B1 GIVE COATS: Coats for Kids is collecting gently used winter coats through November. Drop them off at the Bassett Clinic building or First Choice Cleaners in Cooperstown. The coats will be distributed Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Info, 547-3914.

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aylor’s Mini Mart on Oneonta’s East End ran out of bottled water. The shelves Wal-Mart dedicates to camping stoves were picked clean.

In Cooperstown, cars lined up outside Stewart’s as drivers filled gas tanks in case they needed to evacuate their families.

And as the winds howled and the rain fell across Otsego County, resiToni Christendents hunson, Laurens, kered down and Darlene and waited Clifford, Milford, anxiously for stack cots at the Red Cross shel- Hurricane ter at St. Mary’s Sandy – now Superstorm Parish Center.

Sandy – to hit.

And then it didn’t, or not to the degree expected, or the degree experienced in New York City, Philadelphia and the rest of the East Coast.

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Robert Behnke of Otego watches as Mark Hitchcock of Davenport sweeps debris into a pile after a tree fell onto the roof of the AAA New York office Monday afternoon, Oct. 29, on Oneida Street, one of the few buildings in the city to be damaged at all.

“We had no calls,” said Fire Chief Patrick Pidgeon on Tuesday morning, Oct. 30. “And that’s a good thing.”

While water dumped up to a foot

of rain elsewhere, Otsego County stayed fairly dry. “One of my students measured just over half an inch in the rain gauge on top of the Science Building,” said Dr. Jereome

In Ithaca, Students Elected To Office Move Into Key Leadership Positions

Blechman, SUNY Oneonta Earth & Atmospheric Sciences professor.

According to Blechman, the “Frankenstorm” was put together Please See STORM, A3

FERC HEARING PACKED

In Oneonta, Hearing Monday, Nov. 5, On Giving Colleges Majority In Ward 5

By JIM KEVLIN

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he City of Oneonta wrote college students out of the political script in the 1970s.

But in the 1980s, the City of Ithaca specifically wrote them in.

Since then, Cornell students have regularly been elected to Ithaca’s Common Council and the Tompkins County Board of Representatives. Today, one of those students is Svante Myrick, 25, one of the nation’s youngest mayors.

Another, county Rep. Nate Shinagawa, elected soon after graduating

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, left, and Congressional candidate Nate Shinagawa went from Cornell into local politics.

from Cornell in 2005, is running for Congress in the 23rd District.

Irene Stein, who chairs the Tompkins County Democratic Committee, which sued in the 1980s to ensure college students could vote locally, called the results “varied.”

“We’ve had students who should never have run,” she said, taking a break from the phone bank at the Shinagawa campaign. “They did not have the time; we did not perform due diligence.

“Then,” she added, “we’ve had some good ones.”

College students make up roughly half the residents of Please See STUDENTS, A9

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Attorney General Clark Discusses Film ‘I Am’ Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, left, with Dr. Ben Friedell, former Mayor Dave Brenner, NAACP’s Lee Fisher, Hartwick professor Stan Sessions, County Judge Brian Burns, Rev. Teressa Sivers and filmmaker Joe Stillman during a Q&A session after a public showing of the film “I Am” at Foothills on Saturday, Oct. 27.

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Mark Eaton (French President Hollande), Mike Tilford (Greek President Papoulias) and Felicia Curry (German Chancellor Merkel) of the Capitol Steps comedy troupe perform “Greece!”, a parody medley mocking the troubles in the European economy, during the sold-out Food Festival for Foothills Sunday, Oct. 28, in the arts center’s Atrium. The 300 attendees howled with laughter as both parties’ leading lights were spoofed.

Felony Melanie and other Derailing Darlings were on hand to wait tables during the Food Festival portion of the Foothills benefit.

Linda MacKenzie-Ranc, left, shares a laugh with Carol Blazina, the retired SUNY Oneonta vice president and the Foothills board member who organized the fundraiser, along with Executive Director Huemac Garcia, Dean Roberts and Rob Robinson.

Inspired By Students, Kathy Chase Publishes Poems

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t was Kathy Chase’s Cooperstown Central School students who

inspired her to be a writer.

“I made a big push for their authentic writing,” she said. “And I discovered, indeed, I could write.”

The retired teacher and art mission director at the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta recently published her first book of art and poetry, titled “Melodies of Life.”

Chase will be holding a reading and a signing from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Green Toad Bookstore.

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ew York City’s subways were flooded and Otsego County families waited with anticipation as Superstorm Sandy headed our way Monday, Oct. 29. But despite gusts up to 51 MPH overnight, we awoke to sunny skies and little damage Tuesday morning.

A 25-foot-long tree fell across Jean Howland’s lawn at the corner of Bugbee and Crestmont, but missed the house. Only three fallen trees were reported to the city Fire Department during the storm.

One of a long line of oaks along Route 28 just north of the Smith-Cooperstown Ford dealership was toppled during a storm in May; Superstorm Sandy took a second.

FIASCO THAT (THANKFULLY) WASN’T

City Fire Chief Pat Pidgeon scrutinizes the NYSEG site detailing where power was still out Tuesday morning.

Ava Leon, walking her dog along Church Street, was among thousands of Otsego County pupils delighted to miss a day of school. With her is mom Caroline.

Fly Creek Valley Road near Goose Street was closed by sparking wires Tuesday morning, awaiting the arrival of a NYSEG crew.

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Bob Hill’s home on Main Street, Westford, suffered the most damage of any when a 100-foot-long evergreen was uprooted by the wind and crashed across the roof.

Hill was living with daughter Carol at the other end of the hamlet, so was spared any injury.

Frankenstorm Gusts Up To 51 MPH, But No Monster After All STORM/From A1 from several different weather situations: A Category 2 hurricane, plus an upper cold air trough and the jet stream to drive it southeast to northwest in what’s called a “negative tilt.”

“It picked up Sandy and brought it in,” Blechman explained.

As of presstime, 1,000 people in NYSEG’s Oneonta Division, which includes parts of Broome, Schoharie, Chenango, Delaware and Ulster, as well as Otsego, were still without power.

Jim Foote of Otsego Electric Co-Op had crews working to restore power to 400 homes in Cherry Valley, Otsego and Westford, down from 1,412, the peak, just before midnight on Monday, Oct. 29.

The Red Cross set up a shelter ready to take in 100 people – and a tractor-trailer for pet crates – in St. Mary’s Parish Hall on Monday

night, but by Tuesday morning it was closed down.

With the Tuesday morning news dominated by images of flooded NYC subway tunnels and Atlantic City’s washed-out Boardwalk, residents were breathing a collective sigh of relief. “We dodged a bullet,” said Kurt Carman, Cooperstown Village street superintendent.

In Oneonta, only three trees were reported down, including one on the AAA New York offices on Oneida Street. “I was sitting in my office and all of the sudden I heard a crash,” said Michael Butler, regional president. “The whole building shook and I thought the wall was coming down. I was an Oneonta fireman for 20 years and not a lot shakes me, but I went running out of my office.”

The tree crashed onto the new roof, but did no damage and spared the Hertz rental cars parked

below.

The worst damage happened in Westford, across the street and down from the general store, where a 100-foot-tall evergreen was uprooted by the wind and crushed the Greek revival home owned by Bob Hill, who, as luck would have it, now lives with his daughter Carol on the other end of the hamlet.

In Cooperstown, a tree was knocked down on Delaware Street, but that was removed shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30. “We took a lot of precautions,” Carman said – for instance, Sunday a crew came in to remove leaves piled up by homeowners on the sides of streets; this prevented storm sewers from being clogged. Six truckloads of leaves were removed.

Last fall, Hurricane Irene “weeded out some of the weaker stuff”; another storm in May “took down 4-5 trees,” and that contrib-

uted to the relatively little damage, Carman said.

Said Brian Clancy, public works superintendent: “No leaves – there’s less for the wind to catch.”

NYSEG had crews out overnight, working on trees down and outages on Cornish Hill and Route 33 south in the Cooperstown area.

Tuesday morning, a live wire was still sparking alongside Fly Creek Valley Road between Route 28 and Goose Street, which was closed off pending the arriving of a NYSEG crew.

But Tuesday dawned clear, with only slight scatterings of rain as any hint of the storms before.

School had been cancelled in Oneonta, as it was across the county, and Eva Leon took the day off from school to walk her dog and play outside. “I’m going to have a playdate,” she said. “And then go trick-or-treating at the college.”

The annual Oneonta Halloween Parade was moved to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, on Main Street.

People were grateful that there wasn’t more damage. “We got about as good as we could have hoped for,” said Blechman. “It was just plain dumb luck that it pursued a path further south.”

“It was quite a bit better than we expected,” said Kevin Ritton, Otsego County emergency service coordinator, who reported gusts up to 51 MPH. “It was still a long night, but nothing overwhelming.”

“It was the storm that didn’t happen,” observed Mary Ann “Cookie” Travis, Cooperstown Village Court clerk and Roseboom town justice.

“Everyone’s safe, that’s the main thing,” said Pidgeon. “We used it as a drill – it’s going to happen again. We have snow coming, we need to be prepared for anything.”

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ENDORSEMENT EDITORIALS

Fight Risk-esia! Vote For Barack Obama, Julian Schreibman

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en Franklin had it right 160 years ago.

A member of Union Fire Company, his and other Philadelphia fire companies formed the Philadelphia Contributorship, the first successful fire insurance company in the 13 colonies.

The concept: PRESIDENT, Share the risk.

CONGRESS In 1886, Otsego County farmers together formed the Leatherstocking Cooperative Insurance Co., which celebrated its 125th anniversary last year.

Barns, struck by lightning or subject to spontaneous combustion, had been burning down. Alone, the individual farmer couldn’t afford to rebuild the sizeable structures; through Leatherstocking, they could.

The simple, logical concept: Share the risk.

A few years ago, we Americans suffered, let’s call it risk-esia: We don’t need each other. Let’s go it alone.

The first manifestation came in

1978 with 401Ks: Mitt Romney, the Rather than pool Republican nomiour resources in nee for president, a pension that we or share-the-risk all can depend on Barack Obama, (even if not all the Democratic of us will live to incumbent. benefit from it), The contrast is let’s go it alone. most dramatic in We’ll contribdivergent views Barack Obama and Julian ute a little bit on the future of Schreibman are better each week to be choices for our nation and Medicare. Rominvested in the ney supports a region at this time in hisstock market. At tory. voucher system. the end of a 40Instead of assured year career, we’ll have enough, all coverage when we most need it, by ourselves, to retire. we’ll be given vouchers to buy Of course, the methodical ants our own coverage in the private contributed; the grasshoppers marketplace. Rots of ruck! didn’t and are in particular trouble.

Obamacare – the president has But the Internet bubble burst in finally embraced what was intend2000 and the real-estate bubble in ed to be a perjorative label – looks 2007 – stocks rose not at all in the to share the risk, and to share it in first decade of this century – so new ways, with 30 million needy even the ants are in trouble.

Americans not covered now, with We didn’t share the risk, and college students who can stay on here we are. their parents’ policies until age 26, • with our ailing fellow citizens who And that’s the choice Americans can no longer be cut off for preface Tuesday, Nov. 6: Go-it-alone existing conditions.

not go back. Vote Obama.

• The race for our local 19th Congressional District has come to mirror the national campaign, with Republican Chris Gibson embracing a voucher mentality and Democrat Julian Schreibman tilting toward sharing the risk.

Based on their individual qualities – both are brainy; Gibson, perhaps through long experience as an officer in our polyglot army, comes across as more warm and approachable; Schreibman, more academic, perhaps, has shown he can be a scrapper – both men would be adequate representatives of the Central New York district.

But we can’t go back. Gibson is an adherent of go-it-alone; Schreibman of share-the-risk.

We go with Ben Franklin. Fight risk-esia. Vote Schreibman.

The lion – and vulture – exult in the Law of the Jungle. But what about everyone else?

OTHER VIEWS

LETTERS

Pipeline Is Not Fracking, Would Benefit Economy To the Editor: I consider myself to be a native of Oneonta. I have lived here 60 years, went to school here, returned after college to live here, raised my family here and have built my business here.

My family’s roots are here. My brother and sister live here and have also raised their families here.

Our families have been and are active members of the community. This is an area we truly call home.

With that said I feel it’s important to note that we will never do anything to jeopardize that what we call home.

A natural gas pipeline, such as the Constitution Pipeline, is not a novelty to this area. We have over halfcentury of history regarding how a gas line will impact the people and the environment.

History has proven that a pipeline is one of the safest ways to transport natural gas. One need look no further than the Tenneco or Texas Eastern pipe lines to see the benefits.

The Constitution Pipeline “Alternate Route M” will provides a reliable source of natural gas that can be used to provide clean energy at

reasonable prices, while also providing much-needed tax revenue for the towns, villages, counties and schools, not to mention the very real possibility that jobs will be retained and most likely be added to existing businesses.

You have heard many reason why people are concerned or fear the pipeline, but I would ask you to consider the facts and not the misrepresentations of a certain vocal few. You have heard and will continue to hear that the area will suffer because the Constitution Pipeline will facilitate hydrofracking. The two are not related.

We need to build a tax base if we are going to survive. There is a need for clean energy that will allow us to meet the energy needs of the community while providing a cleaner alternative that diesel or coal.

Please look favorably upon the Constitution Pipeline “Alternate Route M,” as the benefits outweigh the concerns and will help to insure the future of not only the approximate 100 associates at our companies but all the people and communities along its path.

ROBERT HARLEM JR. Oneonta

Rude Behavior At Hearing Appalls To the Editor: Having attended the Oct. 25 FERC meeting at Foothills, I was appalled and embarassed at the rude behavior and the intolerance toward any difference of opinion as exhibited by the sign-waving Kuzminski group. It was like an attack

Bassett Healthcare’s Bill Streck – hospitals, incidentally, have bought in, anticipating they’ll make up lost revenues with more patients – observed Obamacare has expanded coverage, but hasn’t tackled too-quickly rising costs.

That remains to be done. All businesspeople, in enterprises large and small, and Americans generally share deep concern about that lapse. But turning back – as Romney proposes – would be a disaster.

We need to tackle the challenges the future holds, and not just in health care – in energy, in Social Security, in tax reform and income equity, in justice for all, including spanking our national bankers for their recklessness and giving a leg up to Americans still coping with the fallout.

Letting free markets be free markets, enticing as that might seem, didn’t work and won’t work.

The run-up to the 2007 financial fiasco was proof positive. Let’s

of SEIU. I support the pipeline and the jobs and the affordable energy it may bring to Otsego County. It is a delivery system, not a drilling site. Living on a pension, I just paid over $3,000 for fuel oil. I want and deserve Please See LETTER, A6

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Back Sustainable Environment, Sustainable Economy Editor’s Note: The day after being booed at the FERC hearing on the Constitution Pipeline Wednesday, Oct. 24, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller issued this memo to ‘My Environmental Friends.”

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know that many of you, perhaps all, are disappointed in the position I have taken reference the proposed pipeline. Simply stated, and as you know, I believe that pipelines are safe and that this particular project will have no impact on whether hydrofracking ever takes place in areas that are of legitimate concern to the Oneonta community. I’m pleased that Lou Alstadt concurs.

My position on the issue of the expanded use of natural gas in our country is best articulated by Tom Friedman in a recent article of the New York Times. Paraphrasing, he said in summary: ● strictly regulate extraction ● use low cost, clean burning natural gas (when compared with other fossil fuels) to reduce pollution and stimulate the economy ● use increased financial resources created by expanded use of natural gas to accelerate development of sustainable energy technologies I believe the city’s environmental record is a good one. During the last three years: ● the city passed an ordinance banning hydrofracking ● the city submitted an amicus brief in support of Middlefield’s request for

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Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller voices support for the Constitution Pipeline as boos arise and protesters begin to wave placards in a packed 700-seat Foothills main theater Wednesday, Oct. 23, during a FERC hearing.

home rule ● the city has invested over $4,000,000 in energy conservation projects – the resulting utility cost savings will pay for the project in 15 years during which the project has a positive impact on the city’s budget every year ● the Common Council has adopted a report, “Oneonta 2030 ... Growing Into a Sustainable Community” (prepared by a citizens’ task force) and has begun implementing it ... many measures are included in the $4,000,000 project noted above, acceleration of being a “bike friendly community”

and a number of other projects under development and consideration ● the city is working diligently with surrounding towns encouraging them to enact ordinances that assure the safety of our water supply ● the city is using funds created from the selective harvesting of timber on city-owned properties in the surrounding towns, to plant hundreds of 6to 8-foot-plus caliper trees throughout the city on public and private property I suspect that I will always be more interested than you in the economic Please See MILLER, A7

If FERC Says Yes To Pipeline, It’s Just The Beginning Editor’s Note: This is the testimony of county Rep. John Kosmer, D-Fly Creek, at the hearing.

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bring only one thing for FERC to take away from this meeting.

Five years ago when we began to inform our communities about the dangers of fracking, we were told it was impossible to stop the most powerful industry on earth, the oil and gas companies, from fracking New York State.

Today, that area has constricted from New York State to possibly only five counties. It is also doubtful if fracking will happen here at all. That turnaround, due to our efforts with a coalition of grass roots groups, includes four main points: • One, 80,000 comments, lobbying Albany and demonstrations that have caused the DEC to extend their final DSGEIS report until a health impact study is done that may cause them to possibly miss their deadline, requiring them to restart the process.

• Two, hundreds of people in New York State local towns that signed petitions for a ban. To date that has

zations have made great strides against fracking in the past, now and will continue to in the future. We have added to those efforts opposing the Constitution Pipeline, which is inexorably tied to fracking and liquid natural gas export.

When I took office, I swore to uphold the New York State and United States constitutions. Our grass-roots efforts are in service to upholding the New York State and United States constitutions and our citizen’s rights County Rep. John Kosmer, D-Fly under them. They include but are not Creek, emphasizes a point during limited to, our New York State constitutional right of Home Rule and our his remarks.

United States constitutional right of caused 230 municipalities, using their freedom of speech, the right of peaceNew York State constitutionally guarable assembly and the right to petition anteed “Home Rule” rights that have been upheld in 3 New York State court to the Government for a redress of grievances. cases, to pass bans, pass moratoriums The one thing I bring for FERC to or progress to institute them. Those take away from this meeting is that if numbers grow every day. they do not accede to the will of resi• Three, peaceful demonstrations at dents to reject this pipeline, then just fracking related sites. as happened with the New York State • Four, potential New-York-Statewide lawsuits that threaten to go on for DEC DSGEIS hearings on fracking, these FERC hearings are not the end many years. but just the beginning.

Our coalition of grass-roots organi-

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History

Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library sored event evoked not a single complaint to police about mischief.

November 1952

125 Years Ago

A narrow escape from a terrible accident was had at Quaker Street last Friday, when engineer Houghton, drawing the Albany excursion train, ran into the rear of a freight train which had out no flag. Fortunately, engineer Houghton, by reversing promptly and applying sand, managed to stop the force of his train to the extent that no passengers were injured. The engine, however, was quite badly wrecked in the collision that followed, as also were a caboose and one or two other cars. Engineer Houghton and his fireman saved their lives by jumping.

November 1887

40 Years Ago

Phillip A. Luce, the one-time member of the Progressive Labor Party turned right-wing libertarian, will appear on the State University at Delhi campus, Thursday. Luce, speaking on the topic, “Why the New Left Should Hold No Attraction for You,” will be at the Little Theater at Farrell Hall on the Delhi Campus at 4 p.m. As a college student in the early 1960s Luce was active in many facets of politics of the far left, visiting Cuba on one occasion and arranging trips to the island nation for others. Luce later changed his mind about politics and became a member of the right wing Young Americans for Freedom. His visit to the Delhi area is being sponsored by the local YAF chapter.

November 1972

100 Years Ago

One of the finest musical entertainments ever held in this city was the piano forte lecture and recital given in the assembly hall of the high school building last evening by Edward Baxter Perry, the famous blind musician. The hall was well filled and the audience listened with the closest attention to the interesting description given by Mr. Perry of the circumstances under which the several musical numbers on the programme were composed. The musical was given under the auspices of the Woman’s Club. In technique and finish, in force and feeling and in interpretation and expression, Mr. Perry demonstrated that he is a master of the science to which he is devoted. Every number on the programme received the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Perry distinguished serious music from popular music saying that the latter combines “a sudden jingle, dash and stir with a more or less insipid sweetness, which is commonly styled ‘pretty.’” As a matter of fact, he held, the best music is not intended to be ‘pretty’ at all, but deals with the intelligence, the emotions, and everything that goes to make up the heights and depths of human experience. True music is the kind which will stir the brain or warm the heart of a cultured human being.

November 1912

80 Years Ago

President Hoover on Monday said that “if Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States and the Democratic Tariff policy adopted, the grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.” Hoover asserted “that to embark upon this inchoate New Deal, which has been propounded in this campaign, would be to undermine and destroy our American system. “This campaign,” Hoover said, “is more than a contest between two men. It is more a contest between two parties. It is a contest between two philosophies of government. We are told by the opposition that we

30 Years Ago

Governor-elect Mario Cuomo went jogging and chatted by phone with defeated Republican opponent Lewis Lehrman as he took time off Wednesday to savor a sweet but narrow victory. Cuomo defeated Lehrman by about 164,000 November 2002 votes in the race to succeed Hugh Carey. It was the lowest margin in a New York gubernatorial race since 1954 when must have a change, that we must have a New Deal. It is Democrat Averill Harriman beat Republican U.S. Senanot the change that comes from normal development of tor Irving Ives by 11,125 votes. Cuomo spent Wednesday national life to which I object, but the proposal to alter the relaxing at his home in Queens and working on plans to whole foundations of our national life which have been form a transition team. The first person named to the team builded through generations of testing and struggle, and of – to head the operation – was Cuomo’s 25-year-old lawyer the principles upon which we have builded the nation.” son, Andrew, who has served as a top adviser throughout November 1932 his father’s campaign. Lehrman conceded defeat 16 hours after the polls closed.

November 1982 Ultra-modern spooks came out of their eerie haunts last night, under the spell of an Indian Summer moon, and cavorted before 6,000 bewitched onlookers in that parade A city of Oneonta committee reports that it will not ask ground for pixies known as Main Street. The annual “Night Otsego County to cut back the hours that bars remain open. of Fun” frolic was distinguished this year by up-to-the-min- Tavern hours are set by the county, and Oneonta’s repreute goblins, ghosts, gremlins, elves and spritely little folk. sentatives to the county board had indicated they would Space cadets, a man from Mars, walking ballot boxes, the support a move by city leaders to shorten tavern hours and Statue of Liberty, and most everything except a witch in mandate closing at 1 or 2 a.m. instead of 3 a.m. The call a helicopter, were prancing in line with the orthodox little to have bars close earlier has come in the wake of alcopeople. The Oneonta high school band, directed by Carmen hol-related violence that has plagued downtown Oneonta.

Caiazza went through strictly new maneuvers and exhibited However, the committee believes a change is unnecessary. a musicianship and precision that was outstanding. There “Based on what we’ve seen, based on the efforts of differwas a time when fearful property owners anchored their ent organizations – the city, the colleges, the bar owners and houses and things lest the mischief-makers move them to the students – our committee doesn’t feel at this time we different wards. But, the Rotary-Kiwanis-Lions Club-spon- want to petition the county to bring the drinking time back,” said Robert Bard, 5th Ward Alderman.

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HAPPY HAUNTINGS ABOUND IN ONEONTA! Hartwick College Resident Adviser Emma Jorgensen, left, hands out candy to trick or treaters in her residence hall on Sunday, Oct. 28. Kids are, font to back: Oneonta’s Dylan Shaughnessy, Logan Temming, Ethan Temming, Jarett Innes, Tyler Innes and Payton Rosen.

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Oneonta has two new witches in town, sisters Avery, left, and Kara Piefer, who enjoyed Southside Mall’s Malloween Sunday, Oct. 28, with their brother Logan, who went dressed as Felix Baumgartner, who recently broke the speed of sound freefalling from space, in his space pod.

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To the Editor: Mr. Schreibman’s campaign continues to print erroneous information about Congressman Gibson. The spin is so furious I’m surprised Mr. Schreibman can stand it and is not nauseous.

The falsehoods can be proven and are a matter of public record for those willing to pursue them.

• “Gibson is a radical.”

False. He’s proven to be the third most independent voter in the House. He’s a bi-partisan voter. Are you, Mr. Schreibman?

• “Gibson wants to end Medicare as we know it.”

False. What ends Medicare is the status quo. This is not an option for Gibson.

He wants to preserve the pledges made to Medicare and the people.

• “Gibson voted against the Small Business Research Fund.” False. Congressman Gibson voted four times (HR366, HR2608, S1082, and HR1540) to extend and reauthorize the SBRF. • “Gibson’s votes send

jobs overseas.” Ridiculously false! To paraphrase a quote: The only jobs that Gibson has ever sent overseas were his, and his troopers, to protect the freedom that Mr. Schreibman’s campaign enjoys, but chooses to distort.

Mr. Schreibman may claim he has no control over what supporters may put out, but he can take the honorable tack and apologize for these falsely spun, wide spread claims. I did hear this a.m. that infamous quote: “Oh, It’s Just Politics as Usual.”

But I recall a more famous quote by a man I voted for, JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Chris Gibson has, and is living, this life style!

We can have Hope that civility will return and change the political process for the better. It’s been going on too long, some 200+ years! But then, I’m a realistic dreamer.

BILL GLOCKLER Fellow vet, Cooperstown

Rudeness At Hearing Appalls LETTER/From A4 cheaper energy, independent of countries abroad who hate America and want me dead.

Do not be misled again by Kuzminski and his “Sustainable Otsego,” a brilliant slogan but as empty as Clint Eastwood’s chair, a smoke screen that is far more insideous than the anti-fracking pretense it claims to champion. This is a far left group whose agenda, is to keep business development and energy development out of our county. This includes natural gas, coal, wind-generated power and atomic energy, which France has heavily used for 40 years.

To this bunch, all these are taboo. We are supposed to remain an area of tourism with quaint pastoral dairy farms, though most of our farms are now gone. Ommegang, one of Kuzminski’s supporters and contributors is owned by a socialist European nanny-gate country, Belgium.

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Cast aside the clever misleading rhetoric; pay attention to actions, particularly the spending and your taxes, both of which go up every year.

These progressive liberal secular Kuzminski puppets are big spenders and have permeated your schools, your local and county government thanks to the last election. I commend the courage of the county board and the two Kuzminski implants, now under threat, for doing what is best for the people.

A recent study (Bassett) shows Otsego to have the highest percentage of people below the poverty line of any other Central New York county. Why? Connect the dots.

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Hartwick College Honors Arnie Drogen As Citizen of Year

City Council Member Madolyn Palmer, left, a former Hartwick College Citizens Board Citizen of the Year, chats with Phil and Honey Young after this year’s presentation ceremony in the Foreman Gallery.

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In introducing the evening’s honoree Saturday, Oct. 27, Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich suggests Arnie Drogen stand next to a list of his new compadres – past recipients of the Citizen of the Year Award presented annually by the college’s Citizens Board. In his acceptance remarks, Drogen recalled how his parents, Paul and Mildred Drogen, founders of Drogen’s Appliances, had revered their association with the college.

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Oneonta’s new city manager, Mike Long, center, and his wife Diane, get acquainted with Michael G. Tannenbaum, Hartwick provost and vice president of academic affairs, at the Drogen reception.

Stephanie Rozene, center, Hartwick College assistant professor of art, samples the hors d’oeuvres. The professor’s pottery decorated the wall of the Foreman Gallery for the Citizen’s Award presentation.

SOCCER ROOM NAMED FOR CAL CHASE

“Tom Hohensee is smart, dedicated, efficient, and forward thinking. He will make a great new addition to the Town of Otsego Board.” ~Bennett Sandler “Tom has always been very involved, and helpful with Town issues. He shows the utmost integrity in everything he does. He’s the best kind of community servant: with a big heart and a cool head! I trust him and he’s got my vote.” ~ Julie Huntsman

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Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich announces that retired banker Cal Chase, often referred to as the Hartwick Hawks’ Number 1 fan, would be memorialized in the Calvin W. Chase ’71 Men’s Soccer Team Room in the college’s Binder Physical Education Center. When Hartwick was considering letting its NCAA Division 1 soccer affiliation lapse a decade ago, Chase led a fund drive that raised sufficient funds to keep the 1977 National Championship team competing at the highest level. The announcement was made Saturday morning, Oct. 27, during the college’s Community Appreciation Day.

Miller: Let’s Respect Each Other’s Views MILLER/From A4 considerations of decisions we make on issues related to the environment. I believe that we have to have both a sustainable environment and a sustainable economy.

The evidence of our declining private-sector economy has perhaps been exemplified by declining property values in the city, the closing of the Center Street School, and the critical condition of notfor-profit entities that have historically depended on private support.

The city has been shel-

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tered from this decline by extraordinary reserves and significant underutilized debt capacity. But, that cushion is evaporating and we will soon have to begin cutting essential services.

The major potential impact from such revenue sources as PILOT agreements with the colleges, consolidation of the city and town, and increased state support are years away, if they will ever be realized.

So too will be the results of a more vibrant private sector economy. But, I believe that I have an obligation

to do everything I can to stimulate that.

I believe that the only area where you and I differ, to this point at least, seems to be the pipeline. I would like to think that we could come together on it, but I’m not naïve.

I write simply to explain my position on the subject in the context of broader environmental and economic issues.

I am entirely comfortable with my position and hope that you will respect it. I respect yours.

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In Oneonta, a redistricting commission in the 1970s, with students’ anti-war demonstrations fresh in mind, divided up the student population into as many wards as possible, minimizing their electoral impact.

The new city charter approved last November requires a redistricting every 10 years after the Census, and a redistricting commission’s initial report, released in October, would create a student majority – 1,100 of 1,694 voters, or 64 percent – in Ward 5, which encompasses Hartwick College.

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In Wards 2 (around the SUNY Oneonta campus) and 3 (the Maple/Elm neighborhood), 46 percent of the voters would be college students, mostly from SUNY. A public hearing on the new plan is 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, in City Hall.

According to Stein, the party figured that enabling college students to vote locally would turn Tompkins County Democratic, which happened. And there was a fairness issue, she said, assuring “the right of people who lived here most of the year to participate in the

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The Facebook page from Myrick’s mayoral campaign cites a “Clean Up Collegetown” campaign and a resulting master plan for that neighborhood among his Common Council achievements, as well as a law to ban smoking in city parks.

Shinagawa’s campaign Web site cites achievements in both economic development and environmental protection, as well as his effort to halt the closing of Lakeside Nursing Home, Tompkins County’s equivalent of Otsego Manor.

Mark E. Smith, a Hartwick senior and president of the Student Senate, said he’s from Binghamton, and a SUNY Binghamton student is running for Common Council for the first time.

“I’m a senior now, so I won’t have that opportunity,” he said. “But 2-3 years ago, as a political science student, I certainly would have been interested.”

The college’s Student Senate collaborated with the poli-sci department and the League of Women Voters on a registration campaign this fall, and in three days registered 115 Hartwick students to vote locally, he said.

As one issue in particular that would interest students, he pointed to City Hall’s efforts to raise Hartwick’s water bill. “That would directly affect college tuitions,” he said.

At SUNY Oneonta, Student Senate president Jimmy Johnston wasn’t sure of the impact. “In all honesty,” he said, “I don’t think enough students are registered in Oneonta. Certainly, it would happen. Personally, I don’t know anyone with that much time to commit.”

He pointed out that SUNY students are more likely to be education or music-industry majors than political-science majors.

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Smithy Executive Seeking Grants For Cinema Center In Cooperstown

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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magine a Cooperstown of aspiring directors and famous filmmakers?

Danielle Newell does.

Newell, Smithy Center for the Arts executive director, sees Cooperstown as the next in an ever-growing list of small towns and offthe-path locales that have become destinations for cinema buffs and cameramen alike.

“Tourists would come out just to see where the movies they saw were shot – the

way they come to the Hall of Fame to see where ‘A League of Their Own’ was filmed,” she said. “I want it to become Newell a hub for filmmakers, and what better way to accomplish that than through a Cooperstown Cinema Center?”

In recent days, Newell has been preparing an application to ArtPlace, a coalition of the National Endowment of the Arts, na-

tional and regional foundations and banks, for a grant to allow her plan to move forward.

“There are nights I stay awake writing grants,” she said. Plus, she would welcome any contributions that might be forthcoming from the community. “I’m determined to make this happen.”

Meanwhile, she’s been scouting the village for appropriate venues, and has identified three possibilities.

The former Agway, for instance, restored to its original hops-barn ambience by Mike Manno, has open space that might work. Or the former Smith-Cooperstown Inc. Ford dealership across Chestnut Street from

the Cooper Inn. Or perhaps even the former Smalley’s movie theater on Main, now home to the Seventh-Inning Stretch baseball store.

Mayor Jeff Katz, who supports Newell’s idea, is partial to the former cinema: “When we moved here, the old Smalley’s Theater was closed. I had a thought of an upstairs balcony theater, and I always fantasized about restoring Smalley’s.”

He added, “I’ve talked to people who think a film festival would work.”

The idea is that, in the summer, the cinema will screen a variety of films, from summer blockbusters to indie flicks to appeal to both locals and tourists families, generating a profit.

That profit will carry the

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will be a way to bring the film arts to the youth of the community. “I’m a huge proponent in arts in education,” she said. “It’s great entry point. It helps kids communicate effectively and explore their emotions.”

With recent cuts to technology programs, Newell also hopes to offer free production classes to students during the school year. “It’s so crucial that kids get educated in new media,” she said. “We’re at a disadvantage because none of these kids have the skills to compete. It’s extremely important that we all support arts and technology in our school systems.

If we can create more media and tech jobs locally, people will stay.”

A central location is a must for Newell. “I want to have it within walking distance of Main Street,” she said. “So kids can walk up there by themselves.”

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The cinema center, as Newell envisions it, would also have a production studio, where local filmmakers can rent space to edit or record sound, and hopes to have film festivals showcasing locally produced films.

“There is truly no more beautiful place in the world to film,” she said.

In addition to the revenue from the ticket sales and concessions, there’s an economic benefit: “They’ll bring film crews to stay in our hotels, patronize local shops, eat in our restaurants,” she said.

She cited such places as Red Bank, N.J., where director Kevin Smith made films such as “Clerks” and “Chasing Amy,” or New Zealand, where Peter Jackson filmed “Lord of the Rings.”

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Exclusively offered at $339,000 Situated a corner lot facing Lake Street overlooking the golf course. The house has had updating with new stainless steel appliances, soapstone counters, newly painted kitchen cupboards and a gas kitchen range; mechanicals have also been updated. Ease of access from the attached large garage. Mudroom entry from garage. The house has good natural light in all rooms.

There are two wood-burning fireplaces – one in the living room and one in the dining room. Two baths have been totally redone – full and three quarter. Private backyard with patio. Perfect location within walking distance of the golf course, the Otesaga Hotel and all village locations. Convenient one floor living with a big house feel! Ready for immediate occupancy.

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