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School Health, General Prosperity Linked

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he latest enrollment figures are in from ONC BOCES, and they forecast an 18 per-

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Enrollments To Dive, But Oneonta Stable

By JIM KEVLIN

Model Tracy Ross had future brides and their mothers rapt as she walked the runway at Bridal Show Oneonta Sunday, Nov. 16, at Holiday Inn/Southside.

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cent drop in high school enrollment in its 19-district region by 2027.

In some of ONC BOCES’ districts, the forecast is considerably

worse: Milford Central can expect a 46.8 percent decrease, almost half of its high school population. Jefferson Central, in Delaware County,

Mayor Southard Vows Hard Work, Prudence Thar’s Gold In Them Thar Attics

HAIL, FAREWELL: The Green Toad Bookstore’s new owner, Jim Havener, is planning an open house noon-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, to meet his customers and give them a chance to bid farewell to founder Michele Barry.

HALEY’S COMETS: Foothills announces it will be hosting Bill Haley’s Comets Holiday & Greatest Hits Show at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6.

EXPLORING ROOTS: The DAR Iroquois Chapter will conduct a Genealogy Workshop at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Weiting Building, Worcester.

Circumstances Hand Him Gavel In City Hall Matters

By JIM KEVLIN

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f he follows the lessons he learned from his father – “work hard and stay within your means” – City Hall promises to be well served by Acting Mayor Russell A. Southard Jr. over the next year.

He learned those HOMETOWN ONEONTA lessons early on, when Mayor Southard Russell A. Southard Sr. moved his young presides at Comfamily – six daughters mon Council. and one son, the fifth of the seven children – from Oneonta back to the family farm in Otego.

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ith a hearing on the county’s $103 million budget scheduled for 9:15 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 20, in the County Office Building in Cooperstown, the fate of the Oneonta and Cooperstown DMV offices was still in doubt at presstime.

As of Tuesday, county Rep. Don Lindberg, RWorcester, the budget committee chair, favored cutting $100,000, requiring an unspecified adjustment. But county Rep. Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield, planned to vote to keep the current set up intact.

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may lose 41.5 percent.

Cooperstown Central can expect a 30.9 percent drop, and Edmeston, Gilboa, Morris and Worcester are also in the 30-39 percentile.

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Stephanie Penguillan, SUNY Oneonta student, shows off a framed print, donated

by Julie Signitze, at the GOHS Goods & Services Benefit Auction Friday, Nov. 10, at the Unitarian Universalist Church. DJ Chuck D’Imperio is auctioneer. An elated GOHS Executive Director Bob Brzozowski reported $6,000 was raised.

Highlights included a cigar mold donated in memory of Lois Herrick. After lively bidding, Al Cleinman was high bidder for a 1938 Molinari’s Restaurant calendar, then donated it back to the GOHS for its permanent collection.

BORN: Oneonta, raised in Otego FAMILY: Wife Tammy, children Reisa, Brandon, Tyler EDUCATION: Unatego High School, Class of 1974; SUNY Morrisville CAREER: Mirabito Energy Products, account executive CIVIC LIFE: Common Council member, 2012-14; Mayor, 2014-

All First-Night Action OPT Model For Handicapped Applauded Under Foothills’ Roof At Two-State Transportation Conference New Year’s Eve Parade Shifted To July 4th

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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ike the snowflakes that flutter down on New Year’s Eve, each First Night celebration is different. “We’re always starting new tradi-

tions,” said David Hayes, one of the organizers.

“We’re not afraid to try new things.”

This year, you won’t even have to face the snow and cold to enjoy the magic of the celebration.

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very morning, Karen Schrader leaves her house, gets a bagel at the Latte Lounge, and gets on the OPT West End bus to go to work.

“She’s just like everybody else,” said Paul Patterson, Oneonta Public Transit director.

But Schrader isn’t like everybody else – she’s a shining example of how public transportation can Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA help special needs citizens become a bigger part of OPT Director Paul Patterson Please See OPT, A7 and Karen Schrader.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014

HOMETOWN People

GIBSON JOINS HOSPICE, FOCUS IN VETERANS DAY COMMEMORATION

Oneonta Vet Spearheads State Regulatory Reform

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tate Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, has presented Dr. David Leahy of Community Veterinary Center in Oneonta with a pen certificate from Governor Cuomo commemorating the signing of Senate Bill 2742B into law.

The legislation amends the state Veterinary Practice Act, Senator Seward presents Dr. clarifying that animal Leahy with the pen Governor dentistry is a specialty Cuomo used to sign the veterinarian’s legislation. included within the the executive board with scope of veterinary the state Veterinary Medical medicine.

“This new law languished Society, brought the legislafor sometime in Albany until tion to Senator Seward’s Dr. Leahy took up the cause attention and helped initiate definitive action on the bill. and successfully advoThe legislation ensures cated for its adoption,” said Seward. “This is a clear-cut that pet owners seeking dental treatment for their beexample of how one person Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA can make a difference.” loved animals are not misled U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, joined representatives of Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative and Focus by unregulated practitioners.

Dr. Leahy, a member of Rehabilitation & Nursing Center (formerly Otsego Manor) on Tuesday, Nov. 11, to recognize veterans on Veterans Day. Standing, from left, are Bob Escher, Hospice director of development/marketing; Gibson; Kelly McGraw, Hospice community relations coordinator; Tammy Christman, Hospice director of volunteer services; Nick Ciccarello, Hospice volunteer; Joseph Zupnik, Focus CEO, and Kurt Apthorpe, Focus administrator. Gibson awarded 17 certificates to veterans.

In Africa, Lamb Meets Boy He Sponsored For Years MARYLAND

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fter sponsoring Francis, a child at the Sunshine Home in Naivasha, Kenya, for several years, Randy Lamb finally got to shake hands with the child who’s life he has changed.

“Like all the boys in the Sunshine Home, Francis was living on the streets,” he said.

“We had lunch with him and the rest of the kids at the home.”

Lamb, who lives in Maryland and is an interpreter at Hyde Hall, made his fifth visit to Kenya, a two-week trip, Oct. 26- Nov. 10.

The former pastor of disabilities at West Shore Evangelical free Church in Mechan-

icsville, Pa., he was invited to teach a group of local pastors about bringing people with special needs into the church. “It was the subject of my graduate thesis,” he said.

“I gave them some challenges and some practical ideas for integrating people with disabilities into the church.”

He also visited Joseph, a young man his former church in Pennsylvania sponsored, at his prep school. “ The last time I saw him he was 13,” he said. “Now, he’s getting ready for college.”

While there, he and Bell also planted trees in memory of former members of their congregation and toured hospitals to visit with patients and their families.

Rutledge Reports To Americorps SCHENEVUS

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Randy Lamb shakes hands with Francis, the child he has sponsored at the Sunshine Home in Kenya.

lijah Rutledge of Schenevus was on Wednesday, Nov. 5, inducted into a 10-month term of service in the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), an AmeriCorps program.

The son of Mike Rutledge and Kara Rutledge, he began work on the first of four long-term service projects the week of Nov. 9.

Rutledge arrived at AmeriCorps NCCC’s Pacific Region Campus in Sacramento, Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 8, to receive training

for 10 months of full-time service with the program.

This training emphasized teamwork, leadership development, communication, service learning, and certification by the American Red Cross.

As a corps member, Rutledge will be responsible for completing a series of six- to eight-week-long service projects as part of a 10- to 12-person team. Their first service project will end on Dec. 19, at which time his team will break for the winter holidays and begin a new project in a new location in January.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014

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First Night Plans New Year’s Celebration Under One Roof – Foothills’ FIRST/From A1 First Night has teamed up with Foothills to bring the city-hopping party under one roof.

“It was tough for families, especially with young children, to go to a venue, then have to bundle everyone back up and walk back across town to see something else,” said Carol Mandigo, who chairs the First Night board. “It’s a great partnership.”

Acts will be divided up between the Atrium, the 620-seat Main Stage, and the Production Room Theater and smaller Upstairs Theater in the administration building. In the future, Mandigo hopes heated tents can be placed outside to bring in more performers.

Though at first they were worried that people would think First Night was shrinking or on the verge of vanishing completely, Mandigo said she’s heard nothing but good things about the change. “People are relieved,” she said. “Last year was so cold, and some venues weren’t as well attended as other because people didn’t want to have to walk.”

For the first time in a while, there will be no First Night parade on New Year’s Eve. It has been shifted to the two-day Hometown Fourth of July, celebrated for the first time this year in

Neahwa Park. “It’s much easier to recruit musicians and community groups in warm weather,” said Hayes.

“If we’re going to do a parade, we want it to be a robust one.”

Instead, an opening ceremony, featuring puppets, dance troupes and Cosmic Karma Fire dancers is planned at 5:30 p.m. at Foothills, with a special dedication to Mayor Dick Miller. “We want to celebrate everything he has done to support First Night over the years,” said Mandigo.

With Gandolf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams as the headliner,

THERAPY INTERN: Jessica J. Terrano of Oneonta, a SUNY Oswego biology major, took part in an offcampus internship this fall at Robert Berkley Physical Therapy, Oswego, through the college’s Center for Experiential Learning.

AMONG ORACLES: Katrina Clark, a junior film, photography and visual art major in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, was inducted Nov. 3 into the Oracle Honor Society.

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Mandigo hopes the event will have a “three-ring circus” feel. “We’re a month out and we’re hiring more clowns and magicians,” she said. “We want to provide something unusual, something people haven’t seen before.”

Popular First Night performer BJ the Clown has even added to her repertoire for an enhanced carnival feel. “She took a balloon sculpture workshop, so she’s going to put together a big ‘Life Enjoyed’ sculpture in the atrium,” said Mandigo.

“There will even be a balloon drop from the ceiling just before the fireworks!”

Volunteers are still needed for the event, and volunteers get a free admission button. To volunteer, sign up at www.firstnightoneonta.com.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014

EDITORIAL

Enough Cuts. Let’s Rebuild Otsego County To The Gold Standard

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or the past few months, Maria Ajello, a Town of Richfield widow – her husband, Ken, who died in 2008, was a decorated Vietnam veteran – has been tearfully appearing before the Otsego County Board of Representatives, begging that the tax sale on their home be overturned.

County representatives and the county Treasurer’s Office have pointed out, convincingly, that all the procedures were followed, all the notices given, and they were ignored until it was too late.

So last Aug. 20, as she wept in the audience at the privately run county tax sale in the Holiday Inn/Southside, Mrs. Ajello’s property was sold for $75,000, covering her $7,500 tax bill; the balance went into county coffers.

Again, to listen to officials, there’s little doubt that everything was done by the book. Still, it’s hard to watch a $111 million enterprise throw a woman out of her home over $7,500 and feel any pride in being an Otsego County citizen.

As Christmas approaches, be merciful: Let the widow pay her back taxes and give her back her home. And make sure future communications in these matters are so crystal clear there needs

be no turning back.

• In the past 18 months, the county board has gone on a binge of privatization and retrenchment where there are winners and losers, and many stories no doubt as dramatic as Mrs. Ajello’s.

Otsego Manor was sold, converting more than 200 public jobs with excellent benefits to more than 200 lesser private jobs, (and saving $5 million a year, now being devoted to roads, a long-awaited emergency communications system, and delayed maintenance and repairs.)

MOSA, the three-county garbage-processing authority, was sold off, the function privatized, and hours significantly reduced at the transfer stations. (This resulted in a one-time $800,000 boon to the county.)

County bed-tax revenues, some of which were spent locally, were diverted to a private entity, all to be spent outside the county in hopes of generating more “heads in beds” and more bed-tax revenues. (A positive report is expected soon.)

In themselves, these steps were good. Each, separately, was endorsed by this newspaper.

But all of them resulted in job cuts, less money in the local economy (privatization

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Maria Ajello, her late husband’s flag under her arm, completes a plea to the county Board of Representatives to let her pay her back taxes and get back her Richfield home. From left are county reps Ed Frazier, Jim Powers, Linda Rowinski, Craig Gelbsman and Keith McCarty.

moves profits to corporate headquarters) and less service to county residents.

Taken to the extreme, this approach contributes to hollowing out the local economy and local community.

The latest debate, over saving $20,000 in the county Department of Motor Vehicles by laying off two employees and either reducing both offices – Oneonta and Cooperstown – to half-time or closing Cooperstown altogether, suggests things are going too far. (A decision was due at the county board’s budget

hearing Thursday, Nov. 20.)

• The DMV situation is part of the same piece.

The two paychecks at risk – $100,000, salaries and benefits – would typically go through the local economy 2.5 times a year. That means that saving $20,000 will cost the local economy $250,000, not to mention the inconvenience (and costs incurred) by auto dealers and drivers.

The other area of current debate is whether to merge Oneonta’s “Gathering Place,” a senior-citizen nu-

trition and hospitality site at Elm Park Methodist Church, with one at Nader Towers.

It’s not a terrible idea, but it’s $13,000 in savings, or one-10th of 1 percent, in the $11.2 million tax levy.

Enough. Yes, The Manor had to go; the world of healthcare had changed.

Yes, MOSA had to give way to efficiencies. Yes, some privatization of county tourism promotion was prudent.

But cutting is only half the challenge, and enough’s enough.

The county Office of the Aging, where squeezing has gone on for a while now – last year, hot meals were replaced with frozen dinners – is probably a good place to start the turnaround. Instead of figuring out how to save a nickel on everything, it’s time for the county reps to start thinking again what services the county should provide, services that private enterprise can’t or won’t.

What’s the Gold Standard in service to the elderly?

How can our Office for the Aging provide it? How can we pay for it? It’s time for the county board to invest in an optimum way of life instead of simply cutting.

It’s part of the larger question: What’s the Gold Standard of county government? Let’s achieve it.

• County Treasurer Dan Crowell pointed out a couple of years ago that Otsego County taxes are among the very lowest in the state.

Separately, you hear county reps say if taxes go up $40 on a typical property, people will lose their homes.

That combination shows that too much county government isn’t the overriding problem. The overriding problem is too little money in the local economy.

By refusing to participate in “single point of contact” economic development – happily, that seems to be changing now – the county has delayed what should be its primary goal: Getting more money and more jobs into the local economy, and more help for those of our neighbors who need it.

On this edition’s front page is a report that school district in the ONC BOCES may lose 18 percent of their students in the next decade.

The answer isn’t pushing people away, but creating a more welcoming and prosperous Otsego County, a magnet.

Sure, the county representatives are right to be prudent, but let’s stop devouring ourselves. We aren’t going to cut our way out of the mess that is Central New York.

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Knowledgeable Folks In County DMV Help Cut Through Albany Bureacracy Editor’s Note: This is a letter from attorney Les Sittler, Fly Creek, to Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the county Board of Representatives chair.

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read recently, with much concern, that the Board of Representatives of Otsego County is considering closing the DMV office in Cooperstown.

As you may know, I have been an attorney practicing in the northern part of Otsego County since 1988.

During this period of time, I have had the pleasure of working with DMV representatives in the Cooperstown office, who have time and again proved how knowledgeable and helpful they are, especially in navigating the bureaucracy of the state Depart-

ment of Motor Vehicles.

In addition, I have observed the volume of traffic there through the years, sometimes almost daily, as I go about my duties as an attorney in the County Office Building.

I am further well aware that Attorney many people Les Sittler in this part of Otsego County are of limited financial means and I am mindful of the expense and hardship that they would undergo in traveling to Oneonta to conduct business at that DMV office.

I think that if you end up closing this office, you will not

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be saving any money. You may think you will but you won’t.

This is because much of the business will go elsewhere and not be processed here in Otsego County.

Furthermore, I would ask you to reflect upon what it is that we taxpayers and residents of Otsego County really get from our county government. I would offer that one of the best benefits is our local DMV office.

Because of all this, I strongly urge you to work with County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner and come up with an effective solution that does not eliminate the Cooperstown DMV office.

Surely, these can be ways to keep the office and still save money. I thank you very much for the opportunity to write about this important matter.

AUTO DEALERS ECHO OBJECTIONS Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from auto dealers’ letters to the county Board of Representatives telling how their businesses would be negatively impacted by the closing of the Cooperstown DMV.

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his would be a hardship for us as we use the Cooperstown branch several times a month. The next closest DMV office is located in Herkimer, which is twice the distance. Please consider keeping the Cooperstown office open for all the customers who use it regularly.

Ann Gelber Owner, Turnpike Auto Sales East Springfield

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e are one of the largest Mercedes-Benz dealerships on the East Coast, and we have many New York customers. We have dealt with other offices in the past, and they have not been able to handle our workload. Dealing with the Otsego office is a true pleasure and we could not do it without them.

We look forward to continuing our relationship with them for years to come, as our company continues to grow.

Josephine Missero Title Administrator Benzel Busch Motor Car Co. Englewood, N.J.

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n the past five calendar years of being in business I have put hundreds of vehicles through this office. Now to tell us that the DMV here may close and that we will now have to travel at least a minimum of 30 miles each way to do what we should be able to do in our own town is confusing and absurd. The amount of inconvenience and money that this will cost me as well as every other business and individual in the area that uses this office on a daily basis will be astronomical! I don’t see how closing this office will be beneficial to either party here.

CORY DANIELS Daniels Auto Sales Fly Creek

Ag Commissioner Richard Ball: Farming Is Economic Development

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griculture is increasingly understood in New York State as economic development, Richard Ball, the recently appointed state agriculture commissioner, told 200 people at NYSHA’S “Celebration of Our Agricultural Community” Saturday, Nov. 15, at The Farmers’ Museum.

“We get to work and farm a couple of hours away from the biggest appetite in the country,” said Ball, himself a Schoharie County farmer.

He concluded, “If New York is New York’s customer, we’ll be just fine.”

He also reported Ag & Markets has opened a marketing office in New York City, upped the amount of farm products being sold to the Department of Corrections, and expanded a beginning farmers’ program.

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History

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

125 Years Ago

The Local News – The return to large hats has brought ostrich feathers again into prominence. Nothing can take their place for dressy wear. They are always becoming, make plain faces look attractive and pretty ones veritably charming. It is the fashion this season to wear black hats with dresses of any hue.

W.F.S. Risley of the railroad shops had the misfortune to lose the ends of two fingers while running a lathe Monday afternoon.

There is too much whiskey sold in this town on Sundays.

Is there no one whose duty it is to see that at least a show is made at enforcing the law?

Burglaries are frequent nowadays. A gang of thieves apparently infests this locality. It would be well to trot out the shot gun, see that it is well loaded, and sleep with one eye open.

November 1889

100 Years Ago

80 Years Ago

Inherited monkey characteristics are responsible for humankind’s widespread use of the telephone, radio, talking pictures, and similar inventions, Dr. Orestes Caldwell, engineer and editor, asserts. “Outstanding traits of the monkey tribe,” said Dr. Caldwell, “are love of chatter and overwhelming curiosity – traits which have carried our own evolution to its present level of civilization. Monkeys like to gather in the treetops and chatter. And today, their human descendants delight to gather in conventions, night clubs, legislatures and afternoon teas. How acute is this love of chatter on the part of humans is attested by the fact that the anthropoid home of today has invented elaborate mechanisms and systems to carry this chatter from place to place, until the present capital investment based on human chatter totals billions of dollars.” (Ed. note: Dr. Caldwell’s observation 80 years ago is reflected in our present-day “treetop chatter” via cell phone texting, twitter, e-mail, and the internet in general) November 1934

60 Years Ago

The Oneonta Chamber of Commerce continued its drive yesterday to “put the spirit of Christ back in Christmas,” with judgment of paintings for the proposed Nativity Scene Creche for the Oneonta Post Office lawn. Judges were hard pressed to decide which of 16 entries would be used. The field was finally narrowed down to three. The three artists from whose work will be chosen one for display are Louis E. Chicorelli, 225 Chestnut Street; Celia Clark, Delhi, RD 2; and Martha Wadsworth, a senior at Oneonta High School. Judging the sixteen entries were David Cooper and Gabriel Harris of the Community Art Center; the Rev. Scott Farley, representing the Oneonta Rotary Club; Harold Gray of Hartwick College; Michael Lawrence and J. Herbert Dietz, Sr. November 1954

30 Years Ago

A student rental house at 52 Maple Street was condemned as unsafe by city code enforcement officials Monday. It is the seventh rental house to be condemned under the city housing code in the past three months. Student tenants face eviction proceedings if the building is not brought up to code within 30 days according to Peter Friedman, city code enforcement officer. Nine students live in the building in separate rooms according to landlord Vincent Gramaglia of Morris who said he intends to comply with the city order. The violations cited by Friedman include a fire alarm and detection system not properly maintained; exit light not working; exits not properly protected by appropriate fire-rated construction; padlock devices on sleeping room doors could prevent exit from rooms; holes in walls could allow spread of fire; a cellar space used as kitchen has no fire separation from boiler; and hotplates and refrigerators are in sleeping rooms not wired for such use.

November 1984

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40 Years Ago

Most department heads in the City of Oneonta are in line for 10 percent pay increases under the terms of the tentative budget for 1975. The budget does not call for salary hikes for the city’s six aldermen or for Mayor James Lettis. The aldermen receive $1,200 annually for their services. Lettis will continue at his salary of $5,000.

The highest paid Oneonta official is City Engineer John Buck who will receive $19,250, an increase over his present rate of $17,400. Fire Chief George McGurl is slated for an increase of $2,250, bringing his annual salary to $13,050, putting him on a par with Police Chief Joseph DeSalvatore. City Judge Frank W. Getman will receive $12,100 next year, an increase from $11,000 for the part-time job. Acting City Judge Harold C. Vrooman will continue at a salary of $1,000 annually. Police Attorney Walter L. Terry, Jr. will receive a $1,000 raise, bringing his salary for part-time work to $9,000 annually. City personnel technician John Insetta will move from $10,000 to $11,000 annually.

November 1974

Hartwick College Art Professor Phil Young has received a $10,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation based in Brooklyn. Young uses his paintings and creative works to delve into the desecration of sacred lands and native cultures. He said a sophisticated native culture thrived in North and South America long before Columbus discovered the Western Hemisphere. The foundation’s 1994 grant program distributed $180,000 to 18 recipients in the New York metropolitan region. Awards are intended to help artists and sculptors further their artistic careers.

November 1994

10 Years Ago

Partially turning the Social Security system into a private venture is not the way to save it according to Edward Gramlich, a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board.

“I frankly am suspicious that every one of you would save enough for retirement,” Gramlich told the audience at the Anderson Center for the Arts at Hartwick College. “Personally, I’m not wild about that plan,” he added. Gramlich served as chairman of the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security between 1994 and 1996. However, Gramlich foresees other changes in the system. One of those changes, he suggested, would mean increasing the age at which someone retires at the same rate that life expectancy increases. Transitional funding and borrowing to keep pace with retiree entitlements won’t necessarily work.

The easiest way to have our own house in order is to start balancing the budget,” Gramlich said.

November 2004

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Couple Moved To Atlanta, But Pull Of Family Brought Them Home MAYOR/From A1 As a boy, Russ spent his summers baling hay and mowing lawns. If something was going on in the village, he never asked his folks for a ride; he hopped on his bike and pedaled there.

The father, now 94 and living on River Street with his son and daughter-inlaw Tammy, bolstered that example by his own work ethic: The World War II veteran was a carpentry foreman on such major projects at the Downsville and East Sidney dams. At night, he built homes.

Oneonta’s citizens can also expect hard work will be tempered by other qualities. His brother-in-law, Paul Catan, proprietor of the city’s Sears store, described Southard as “hardworking, open minded, patient – and very supportive of community life. He’s a lifelong resident of the area and he loves Oneonta.” (When asked, Russ listed similar qualities, then, with a grin, added “fun-loving.”)

Southard believes that, on agreeing to become deputy

ing mayor.” “I wanted to continue to represent the Sixth Ward,” he said in an interview.

If Mayor Miller had passed away before Sept.

20, Merzig said, the office would have been filled in the Nov. 4 elections. As it is, he said, the position will be filled in the Nov. 3, 2015, elections, where the winner will serve the two-year balance of Miller’s term, then run again for a fouryear term. Said Southard, “I don’t really, at this point, have any intention to beRuss Southard Jr. and Russ and Tammy Southard with their children, Sr. The son says his come mayor.”

Reisa, Brandon and Tyler. father’s example taught His first challenge, said him to work hard and 6-foot-4, he played center first child was born in the the new mayor, is “to try handle money prudently. and get my arms around ev– “baseball,” he said.

South.

He received a business After two years, though, erything Dick was involved mayor, he made a commitdegree from SUNY Morristhe couple missed family. in.” Southard said he will ment to Dick Miller, and ville, then entered the busi“We wanted our children “he had to abide by his word do what he can to keep all ness world, selling cars at to know their grandparents initiatives going, and his that he would take care of Country Club Automotive, – and their cousins.” That Council colleagues have the city,” said Catan. “I working on Interstate 88’s turned out to be about two offered their help.

“We’re give him a great deal of construction, then spenddozen first cousins.

(In adgoing to try to keep everycredit.” ing five years at Amphenol. dition to Russ’ six sisters, thing covered as a group,” His Common Council When his department was Tammy was one of six sishe said. colleagues, outright, could transferred out of Sidney, ters.) And so they returned.

Growing up, young Russ have appointed Southard Southard joined a boyToday, daughter Reisa, attended Otego Elementary – or any other citizen of hood pal, Bob Underwood, 28, is an LPN in Schenectand Unatego High School, Oneonta, according to building homes in Atlanta. ady, and Russ and Tammy graduating in 1974.

“In a City Attorney David MerHe was married by then to are expecting their first small school, you played zig. But they agreed with Tammy Georgia, and their grandchild next month. Son football, basketball” – at his preference to be “act-

Brandon, 25, Saratoga Lake, is a contract carpenter with a company that builds Panera Breads and Red Robins, and renovating malls.

Tyler, 23, just out of Syracuse University, is living in Charleston, S.C. – the Southards were en route on learning of Mayor Miller’s passing. He is pursuing a career in sports management.

Back in Oneonta, Southard joined NYSEG, conducting energy audits and, over 14 years, working his way into the sales force, specializing in natural gas.

He shifted to Mirabito’s sales force 14 years ago now, and in recent years has been the regional sales contact in the company’s Oneonta offices on Carbon Street.

Facing a new set of challenges in City Hall, Russ Southard is drawing strength from a frequent observation of his boss, company president Joe Mirabito: When things are good, they’re never as good as they seem. And when they’re bad, they’re never as bad.

BOCES Enrollment Forecast To Drop 18%, But Oneonta May Remain Stable STABLE/From A1 By contrast, the Oneonta City School District looks to be stable, losing perhaps 2.1 percent of its enrollment.

Only three districts – Andes, Cherry Valley and Hunter-Tannersville – grow in the BOCES projections, but their enrollments are so small that one student one way or another can skew the statistics, said Nick Savin, ONC BOCES superintendent.

These numbers are from an analysis Savin prepares each fall, comparing enrollment by class to live births.

He advises superintendents to compare live births in the most recent four years available – this year, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 – to high school enrollment.

If nothing major happens to attract families or encourage them to leave, those babies will comprise the high school enrollment in ONC BOCES’ districts in the 2027-28 school year, 10 years from now.

“I don’t like to go out that many years; too many things change,” said Savin.

“Economic conditions can change. People can move into the area. There are a lot of variables.” Still, he said, “we’re following the pattern of Upstate New York.”

At Cooperstown Central, Superintendent C.J. Hebert pointed out that until very recently – for instance, 2009, the year before he arrived – CCS graduated 100 students. Now, classes are in the 60-70 range.

He concurred with Savin, noting that, other than the Capitol District, fueled by the nanotechnology boom, some suburbs of Syracuse and Rochester, and around Fort Drum, Upstate school enrollment is in decline.

Recognizing how economic development can turn the situation around, Hebert attended both “Seward Summits” and other economic development forums.

CCS is already involved in collaborations – handling Schenevus Central’s busi-

ness office functions and sharing a cafeteria manager with Milford – and Hebert sees only more Yelich of the same down the road. “School districts, school boards and residents have to be open-minded.

We have to reconsider all options and envision new options,” he said.

At Milford Central, Superintendent Peter Livshin said, ONC BOCES’ figures aside, a study conducted for the district showed enrollment will be fairly stable for the next five years, which provides some breathing space.

MCS has a unique problem: So many people are

renting homes to Dreams Park families during the summer months that few families with children can find year-’round homes or apartments to rent. “This is not to knock people who rent their houses out to Dreams Park,” he said. “It’s just a fact.”

He also pointed to collaborations, Milford’s biomedical program in particular.

“We’re the base member,” he said. “We charge a fee to these other districts. They get services out of this.”

As it happened, Livshin said local superintendents had gathered across town at ONC BOCES’ Milford school just a few days before, on Thursday, Nov. 13, to hear Alan Pole, retired Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES superintendent, now a consultant, outline collaborative

options.

Pole, now working out of Syracuse, said he provided four options, the first being shared service. School districts can also close schools and pay tuition for another district to take their students, they can create regional high schools, or districts can fully merge.

“What is inevitable is some kind of change,” he said.

In Oneonta, Superintendent Joseph Yelich faces a happier situation: possible growth, particular if the next round of state economicdevelopment grants, due to be announced in mid-December, funds the redevelopment of the city’s D&H yards or the expansion of the Pony Farm Commerce Park in the Town of Oneonta.

“I’m not sure what the true demographic trends

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Elementary space is more of a challenge – Center Street School, where district offices moved after pupils were moved to other elementary schools – is operating at near capacity.

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Schrader accompanied Patterson to the state Career Development & Occupational Studies Conference Sept. 25 in Binghamton, where he spoke about how public transportation can help people with special needs transition from school to the workplace. “The state isn’t doing a good enough job helping special needs people transition from school to existing on their own,” he said. “With public transportation, they have to count out the money, signal the driver to get off at their stop. It gets them out into the community, gives them life experience.”

At the conference, he presented a short film following Schrader on her daily bus routine, and Schrader distributed copies of her book “OPT & Me,” to conference attendees.

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