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Kathy Clarkson, St. James Manor manager, surveys decorations from the former Bresee’s that grace the retirement home’s dining room.
Elaine Bresee. “Just like they did Macy’s down in New York City.” anta Claus isn’t “If you grew up the only Father here, you remember Christmas. In seeing them in the Oneonta, at least, window,” said Kathy there was also Charles Clarkson, manager of Vechtold. St. James Manor, Town Vechtold, the of Oneonta. “I used MEANWHILE... Footdisplay manager of to like seeing the girl hills’ “Day of Giving,” Bresee’s Department with the iron; she was planned in conjunction with Store in 1942-65, was always in the window, the concert, went on, and responsible for build- A smiling ironing away.” Santa’s two trucks plus a stationwag- ing and mechanizSince 2004, St. James helper from on of non-perishable food ing the stores famed Manor has decorated its Bresee’s. were collected and donated Christmas window lobby with the mechanto St. James’ and St. Mary’s displays. “People used ical carolers, reindeer food pantries/SEE PHOTO, A3. to come from everywhere to and elves that once filled the look at those windows,” said Please See BRESEE’S, B6 ONLINE STAR: SUNY Oneonta, with five graduate programs with online IF YOU GO: Take a look at the Bresee’s components, is No. 7 on the Christmas decorations 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, list of the 37 “Most Affordduring a holiday open house at St. James Manor. able Online Colleges in New York” compiled by AC Online. According to AC Online founder Dan Schuessler, the rankings recognize colleges that offer students “quality, flexibility and affordability.” By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Jerry Reed, Whitesboro, who was raised in Oneonta, provided this photo of his years-ago visit to Santa at Bresee’s.
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All smiles, Alex Scheidelman of Oneonta carries son Christian, 3, from the Thursday, Dec. 5, Community Tree Lighting in packed Muller Plaza. Behind him, one of Santa’s helpers leads him back to his cottage, where he spent the rest of the evening listening to youngsters’ wishes. The evening was organized by MSO.
Dancer Rose Wake performs in the window of Tina Marie’s Salon after the lighting of the community tree, as Isabella Giacomelli, 7, of Oneonta, watches in delight.
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Piper Hurd, 3, and her brother Raylan, 7 months, weren’t too sure how they felt about the Clauses at Southside Mall Saturday, Dec. 7. The kids are from Oxford, but dad works in Oneonta.
SUNY students downtown in Christmas regalia Sunday, Dec. 8, included, from left, Lauren Tierney, Jen Sullivan, Kelsey Dulmovits, Hannah O’Neil, Kelly Ann Callahan and Lauren Pennino.
Soloist Kasey Stewart, mezzo-soprano, sings “Esurientes implevi bonis” (“The hungry he has filled with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away”) during the Catskill Choral Society’s performance of Bach’s “Magnificat” Saturday, Dec. 7, before a full house of 300+ at First United Methodist Church.
Carol Blazina, president of the Foothills Performing Arts Center board of director, stacks cans of food in the Atrium during the “Day of Giving” Sunday, Dec. 8. Behind her are volunteers Roxana Hurlburt and Mitch Lynch.
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s it true that Samuel B. Morse noodled through his epochaltering code in an upstairs room at Cherry Valley’s Masonic Lodge? That came to mind the other week, en route home from Philadelphia and stopping at the I-81 Visitors Center just north of the state line, where there was a brochure, “Auburn’s Historic Hometown,” in the rack. “The Mark of Mike Long” immediately came to mind. The Oneonta city manager, before he was Poughkeepsie city manager, had spent 26 years in the City of Auburn, where his interest in historic preservation eventually flowered into history tourism.
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City Manager Long takes trip to “Auburn’s Historic Hometown.”
Yes, he acknowledged later, many of the attractions in “Auburn’s Historic Hometown” grew out of his tenure there. • The flowering of history-related tourism in The City on The Owas-
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co began with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s 1998 visit, part of her “Save America’s Treasures” campaign, Long said. Some 4,000 people were on hand when she appeared at Auburn’s Harriet Tubman home, where, pre-Civil War, the “Moses of Her People” plotted the freeing of thousands from slavery and transporting them to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Auburn built on that, promoting attractions that came to include the Willard Memorial Chapel (close to Long’s heart, it includes the only intact Louis Comfort Tiffany interior), a fancy Schine Theater, and the Seward House. (The latter got a big boost last year from
Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” featuring a knockout performance by David Strathairn as Abe’s secretary of state.) ’Nuff said: If you picked up “Auburn’s Historic Hometown,” you’d likely want to visit. • What does that mean for Otsego County? Long pointed out the other day that Binghamton takes credit as IBM’s natal place when, in fact, Big Blue’s origins were in Oneonta, where in 1900 Postmaster Harlow Bundy raised the money from his neighbors for what became the International Time Clock Co. When it eventually grew into
IBM, former congressman George W. Fairchild of Oneonta was first chairman of the board. What’s more, the Fairchild mansion, (er, IBM Tourist Center), now the Masonic Temple at Grand Avenue and Main, is a time capsule: Fairchild’s books are untouched in the sitting room, which also contains the original furniture. Oneonta, “The Birthplace of IBM!” • Another neglected opportunity is James Fenimore Cooper Tourism, which used to be a big draw until Mark Twain sharpened his literary shiv. “Last of the Mohicans” can be a heavy read – how Please See EDITORIAL, A6
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ou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
James Johnston, SUNY Oneonta Student Association president Quoting Dr. Seuss in during Dec. 8 address to December grads
Cooperstown’s Lou Allstadt, left, and Chip Northrup at Cornell Oct. 30, where they presented findings that, except for a strip west of Binghamton, there is too little natural gas in Upstate New York to be profitably fracked.
Listen To Frack Findings Or Boycott Presentation? Editor’s Note: This is a sequence of posts from the Sustainable Otsego listserve that followed the announcement of a repeat presentation of Lou Allstadt, Chip Northrup and others’ findings that there is insufficient natural gas in Otsego County for fracking to happen profitably. From: Darla M. Youngs <admin@occainfo.org> Date: Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM
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ave the Date: January 17, 2014 Presentation: “New York Shale Gas Potential” Time and Location: 7 p.m. at The Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta (doors open at 6 p.m.) Moderator: Prof. Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University Speakers: • “Geographic Extent of New York Shale Gas Potential,” James “Chip” Northrup, private investor • “Geologic Variables in Shale Gas Productivity,” Brian Brock, geologist • “Forecasting Marcellus Productivity in New York,” Jerry Acton, retired aerospace systems engineer • “New York Shale Gas Potential,” Lou Allstadt, retired executive vice president, Mobil Oil • From: Anne Marie Garti Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 9:58 AM To: stop_the_constitution_pipeline@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Unconstitutional Pipeline] Fwd: Save the Date: “New York Shale Gas Potential”
Local members of the College Council, Joe Bernier, right, and David Brennan, were on hand for the ceremony.
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Two of SUNY Oneonta’s five deans appointed during a reorganization announced in August lead the recessional: Susan Turell, left, head the School of Social Science; Venkat Sharma, right, heads the School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Behind them are, respectively, President Nancy Kleniewski and Provost Maria Thompson.
OMP & ACCOMPLISHMENT Assistant Professor Gwen Frank, lower left, poses with her elated students in the college’s Elementary Education & Reading program. They were among 335 December grads honored at SUNY Oneonta’s Candidate Recognition Ceremony Sunday, Dec. 8, in Dewar Arena.
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eople should consider boycotting or picketing this event, not promoting it. The presentation is very one-sided, and never mentions any of the contradictory evidence. It also undermines what many of us spend countless unpaid hours trying to accomplish – that we need to ban fracking, and stop the build-out of gas infrastructure. As an industry spokesman said in response to the last presentation, and I paraphrase: if Please See DEBATE, A6 Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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In a further effort to protect President Reagan and the White House from terrorism, the Secret Service has the ability to use ground-to-air missiles to shoot down suspicious aircraft flying near the White House without authorization, a source said Monday. The disclosure follows a series of steps to insulate the White House from terrorist attacks. The source said the Secret Service monitors aircraft flying into and out of nearby National Airport from a control center in the Old Executive Office Building across a driveway from the White House. The monitoring is done in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Administration. An attack on the U.S. Marine Headquarters in Beirut that killed 240 servicemen and an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait that killed four people have prompted steps to further protect the White House. Since the Beirut attack, the Secret Service has brought in dogs to sniff all incoming cars for explosives, even those of White House aides who park in the driveway. December 1983
Maternal influence: Why do men mostly part their hair on the left side? – Because they are brought up to it from infancy. A mother facing her boy always holds the comb in her right hand, and it being easiest to comb the hair left to right, she parts it on the left. The boy, when he grows up and is able to comb his own hair, finds the part on that side, and follows the line marked out by his mother. The wet snow of Saturday night weighted the wires to the extent that many were broken, and communications in nearly all directions cut off. The colored folks’ ball on the evening of December 27 promises to be a great success. Many visitors from other towns are looked for. The merchants of Oneonta are now displaying a fine assortment of goods for holiday presents. Never before was there so great a variety. It is a good plan to make selections early. December 1888
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Oneonta school pupils to the number of 1,000 will take part in the annual Christmas music festival at the Oneonta Theatre Friday morning at 10 o’clock under the direction of Mrs. Iva Shutts. Parents and friends will be welcome to attend. World friendship is the theme of the program. Carols and folk songs of other nations will be sung by groups from the various schools. Authentic translations of the carols are sung. Because the music is the primary interest, no costuming or dramatization is used. Placed in a file on Mrs. Hazel Foster Brady’s desk in her office at the Community House is a stack of cards containing the names of persons for whom Christmas will be just another day unless some Oneontan helps to transform it into a “red letter occasion.” There are Oneontans, the executive secretary of the Family Welfare Association, believes, who are particularly anxious to aid persons less fortunate than themselves, but do not know whom to help, or how to spend their money for this purpose to the best advantage. If they will send their money, no matter how small an amount, to Mrs. Brady, she will be glad to use it to make Christmas happy for those whose names she has listed. December 1933
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The Yellowjackets of Oneonta High School got off to a good start in the Iroquois League last night, defeating Herkimer High School 76 to 53. Coach Hurley McLean’s boys were sharp in the first two periods, running the score up to 48 to 21. But, in the last two periods, they were hardpressed to keep up and were outscored 32 to 28. In the first three minutes of the game, Pete Axhoj was put on Caution
With less than a month of fundraising left, the United Way of Delaware and Otsego Counties has raised $237,839, almost 82 percent of its $290,000 goal. “Certainly we have the potential to make goal but we still need folks to get their pledges in before the end of the year,” said Kathy Lindberg, the agency’s executive director. Employee campaigns, which make up 32 percent of the total campaign, have been very December 1913 successful this year,” Lindberg said. All three of this year’s pace-setters – United Parcel Service, Deltown Specialties, and the 16 United Way membership agencies – met or exceeded their fund raising goals. Several employee campaigns, including Bassett Hospital, Fox Street with four fouls and was taken out for a breather. Dick Hospital, and Hartwick College, will be coming in this Vroman, who replaced Axhoj, heated up the hoop with month, according to Lindberg. eight baskets and did some fine rebounding. Dick Jacobs December 1993 had 19 points and Lambros had 15. The Oneonta Jayvees, however, dropped a close one 44 to 40. December 1953 The efforts of an Oneonta third-grader to help those less fortunate have drawn the attention of State Senator James Seward, R-Milford. Eight-year-old Charlotte McKane The Oneonta Savings & Loan Association has moved wrote to the Senator last summer about the high cost of into its new main offices in the remodeled building across getting a tax-exempt number for purchases she was makWall Street from its former offices. The new offices, in the building that formerly housed Montgomery Ward and S&H ing with donated funds from friends and supporters to stock the hygiene closet at the Family Service Association Stamps, opened for business Monday. The old building at in Oneonta. While Miss McKane worked that problem out 54 Chestnut Street will be demolished next year. The land, on her own, the Senator recently arranged to visit with his adjacent to Huntington Park, will be used to expand the Savings & Loan’s parking facilities. The new quarters have young constituent to learn more about her project. Charlotte has been raising about $120 a month from family and 11,000 square feet of floor space, about twice what the old friends to buy such items as shampoo and diapers for the building had. December 1973 association’s assistance program. December 2003
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Fracking Presentation Stirs Debate DEBATE/From A4 there’s no gas in NY, then let us drill. I was at a regional oil and gas summit a few weeks ago, filled with lawyers and fractivist leaders. It was almost unanimous that this road-show is a terrible idea. If I had some free time I’d write a critique, but we have a pipeline to stop. That’s the pipeline that Cooperstown was ready to oppose until Lou Allstadt spoke, saying that the connection between pipelines and fracking is nonsense... • From: rnied@ruralcommunities.org Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 11:42:32 -0500
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agree with Anne Marie. This presentation is highly flawed and ignores historical evidence that geo-political instability can dramatically alter oil and gas markets, spike prices and make marginal fossil fuel sources attractive to those wishing to leverage that instability for the sake of short-term profits. It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of shale gas extraction was not considered feasible. I am not comforted or should you by claims that NY State is not a viable target for fracking. It may not be this week but it certainly may be next year or the year after. Fracking is a reckless practice that is a real global threat... Any presentation that claims fracking will never happen in Upstate NY while people are losing land to pipeline companies through eminent domain, or facing late night evacuation orders because of compressor station accidents can only be viewed as myopic and ignorant of any holistic understanding of the gas/land exploitation scheme. Bob Nied • On Dec 8, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Ron Bishop wrote:
any of them suggest that we should relax our vigilance regarding the petroleum industry in any way, and I don’t share that part of your concern about their collective message. They have attempted to describe current realities to the best of their considerable abilities, now to face criticism from you and others who are inclined toward speculation about what could happen if... maybe.... I don’t find fault with anyone who is convinced of petroleum industry operators’ nefarious intent (there is plenty of evidence for that), or those who are troubled by the many unsolved problems with petroleum transportation infrastructure – which, as I recall, Lou mentioned in his presentation as an ongoing threat. I find fault with the idea of boycotting an event dedicated to presenting current facts on the ground because they may be inconvenient truths for your cause. Ron Bishop • On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Carole Marner wrote:
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hank you. This divisive episode has been very troubling and I deeply appreciate your thoughtful and constructive comments. Carole Marner To join the debate, sign up for the listserve at www. sustainableotsego.org.
EDITORIAL: Don’t We Love ‘Birthplaces Of...’ EDITORIAL/From A4 about a “translation” into the vernacular? – but that Daniel Day-Lewis’ 1992 movie is an enduring hit demonstrates its modern-day power. Bruce Shipman of Columbia’s emergence as senior spokesman for the many Natty Bumppo (David Shipman) descendants underscores how “The Birthplace of Natty Bumppo” lives, paradoxically, even in his Toddsville burial site. There’s eternal Glimmerglass; there’s Natty Bumppo’s celebrated cave somewhere on its eastern shore; there’s Sunken Island of “Deerslayer” fame; there’s The Freeman’s Journal,
tourism effort will be privatized under the mantra, “Heads in Beds.” The effort, no doubt, will look to the Internet to fulfill its mission, but there’s work – content, it’s called these days – to be done at home. Otsego County – with the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass Opera, the NYSHA museums, Hyde Hall, Ommegang, etc., etc. – is already “sticky.” But our historic “birthplace of” headlines – of IBM, of Natty Bumppo, of the Morse Code – would make it even moreso. Dare we mention “The Birthplace of the Fountain Pen”? Decatur, here we come!
Y, City Hall To Collaborate On Recreation YMCA/From A1 in a November interview. “It’s something we already do, and we thought we could help out.” Lawson, operations manager, presented the proposal to four Common Council members on the Community Improvement Committee Monday, Dec. 9. The proposal includes incorporating the Wilber Park pool and Neahwa Park’s summer “drop-in” recreation program. “We have childcare programs,” Russo had explained earlier. We give over 700 swimming lessons every year. We used to run a Y camp in Laurens. We have the experience.” Under the YMCA, the drop-in program would run
five days a week from 9 a.m. to noon, with a new two and a half hour afternoon “Hike and Swim” program offered in Wilbur Park three days a week. Both programs offer a chance for children to engage in supervised play, group activities and arts and crafts. “We’re trying to offer new and innovative programs to fill a community need,” said Lawson. The city would pay $65,000 to cover the cost of staffing and services for 2014. To help with the cost, the YMCA also proposed the possibility of charging non-residents a fee for using the Wilbur Park pool. “We feel like the city’s taxpayers are footing the bill for non-residents to swim,”
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said Lawson. City residents would continue to use the pool for free. The city is considering offering the YMCA a one year contract for these services. The Common Council will take up the discussion at their meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 17, and may decide to vote on the proposal at that time. “We’re excited that they’re willing to take it to the next stage,” said Lawson.
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riends, I have known Lou Allstadt and Chip Northrup for a while now, and I have yet to see either of them ignore evidence (historical or otherwise) in any discussions or presentations. I haven’t known Jerry Acton as long, but his research approach is solid and his conclusions are appropriately conservative. I have never seen or heard
Hometown Oneonta’s sister founded by Cooper’s father. (Admission free; copies $1.) • The Morse thing is almost completely ignored, (even though he, along with James Fenimore, was featured in David McCullough’s “The Greater Journey: Americans In Paris,” published just two years ago.) Also a noted painter in his day, Morse’s most famous work, “Gallery of the Louvre,” hung first in Hyde Hall. And “The Birthplace of The Morse Code” is just a few miles up the road. With the new year, Otsego County’s
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New Listing! MLS#92256 - Horse farm on 26 acres includes renovated 3 BR, 2 bath farmhouse, 2 barns, 12 stalls w/water and electric. Plenty of open land, electric and wooden fenced areas for the horses. Between Cooperstown and Richfield Springs. $295,000 Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
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MLS#85578 – Perfectly situated on over 26 acres this solid contemporary home is within minutes of Cooperstown Village. Hot tub, deck. Property also includes 200’ additional road frontage and well on County Rte 33. Poured concrete foundation could be finished for additional living space. $189,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell)
MLS#91986 - Great place for your dream home or camp w/500’+/- road frontage, open fields w/easterly views. Cooperstown school district and ¼ mile from state land. This property would make a fantastic place to build all your Dream Park rentals! $38,500 Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell) MLS#92176 - Cooperstown Village home close to Otsego Lake. 4 - 5 BRs, 2½ baths, open eat-in kitchen w/granite counters, island. Wood-burning fireplace, built-in window seats, bookshelves, duo front LRs. Hardwood and ceramic-tiled baths on all 3 levels. Front porch, back deck, patio, stone walls, 2-car garage. $479,000 Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
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MLS#91760 - Renovated 1880s farmhouse, w/newer 2-car garage, 11+ acres w/pond and guest house. Renovated kitchen, open concept DR/LR, maple floors, pellet stove, master suite w/private bath, cathedral ceiling, gas stove. New roof and windows, high-efficiency gas furnace, on-demand hot water. Spacious back deck. Cooperstown school district. Being sold below assessed value! $364,000 Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
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MLS#91066 - Charming farmhouse just 3 miles from Cooperstown w/6+ BRs, 3 full baths, eat-in kitchen w/double-sided fireplace, maple floors and butcherblock countertops. Great room w/2 sets of French doors (1 leads out to deck), formal DR. $269,999 Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)
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MLS#84923 - Renovated 3BR, 2½ bath farmhouse on 3.2 acres. Country kitchen w/SS appliances, LR and formal DR w/fireplaces, large master suite. Fencing, run-in shed and barn for horses or livestock $250,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603
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them to the manor. In 2010, Elaine and Marc Bresee donated additional figures they had stored at their home. “I was holding onto them for sentimental reasons,” said Elaine. “It was hard to let them go — but when I saw how beautiful the ones they had looked, how much people enjoyed them, we donated ours.” It was a chance encounter with “Big Chuck” D’Imperio that helped reunite Sue with her father’s creations. “He told me where they were, and I was so excited, I just started crying,” she said. “They let me go down in the storeroom to see them, and sent me pictures of the display at Christmas.” “Those figures brought the windows to life,” said Elaine. “It makes me so happy to see people enjoying them. I know they’ll be taken care of forever.”
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BRESEE’S/From A1 department store windows. Twice a year, Vechtold would go down to a warehouse in New York City to purchase parts for the displays. “He took my sister Lynne and I once,” said his daughter, Sue Eliot, a 1962 OHS grad now living in Sequim, Wash. “It was 15 floors of fantasy land!” The girls’ mother, Carol, also helped, sewing flannel nightshirts and aprons for some of the figures. “I’m sure she repurposed some of our old clothes,” said Sue. Like so many others, she was dismayed when she heard Bresee’s had closed. “It broke my heart to think that those figures had been thrown away,” she said. What she didn’t know was that Bob and Carol Whitling bought the figures at the auction that followed after Bresee’s 1994 closing and, after a time, donated
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Community Alliance, and other groups will be integral to our ultimate success. “Otsego County’s stakeholders are committed to working collectively for the greater good. There is bona fide energy, excitement and expectations coming together and I feel we are on the cusp of a true breakthrough that will pay long-term dividends,” the senator said. Key players at the meeting also expressed satisfaction at the outcome. “I’m happy that people are stepping up to the plate, recognizing the need and working together for the common good,” said Clark, the county board chair who was reelected by a landslide Nov. 5 in her Otego-Laurens district. Said Miller: “The IDA board, working with Doug, moved a long way from their initial position from not wanting to be at the center to willing to be at the center … I couldn’t be more delighted. From my perspective, it’s exactly the right thing to do. We’re in a good place now.” “I think the results are positive,” said Bob Harlem, Citizen Voices cofounder and new OCDC president. “I think everybody is starting to line up. Everybody’s working together. It’s very rewarding to see everybody pooling their energies.”
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Lewis, the county’s economic developer, announced in April that she would be resigning the job in August. In a role that was described as “reactive,” the IDA, through its bonding authority, has enabled such projects as Springbrook’s $15 million expansion and the $15 million, 350-student Hillside Commons housing complex near SUNY Oneonta. While appreciating that role, county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, the county board’s rep on the IDA, Miller and members of Citizen Voices, a pro-growth businesspeople’s group, argued for a more “pro-active” role in bringing jobs here. “Now,” said Seward, “a definite course is established and we are prepared to embark on a new path toward future economic growth and prosperity in Otsego County.” The interim IDA director since Lewis’ departure, Doug Gulotty, had argued for an inclusive economicdevelopment initiative, and Seward embraced that as well. “Along with the identified public agencies, I fully expect that other essential allies, such as the Otsego and Cooperstown chambers of commerce, Citizen Voices, the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council (GO-EDC), (Mayor Miller’s) Oneonta
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EC-DEV/From A1 The plan is, first, to hire a consultant with expertise and a track record to restructure the IDA with the new mission in mind, according to a press release from the senator’s office. The consultant will also advise the IDA on the hiring of an economic-development director, and help train that new individual in what’s necessary to attract jobs, both from such in-state efforts as the nanotechnology initiatives in Albany, Utica and Binghamton, and elsewhere. While that new director is being recruited and trained, the consultant will begin identifying future employers to pursue and perhaps even start the pursuit, according to people at the meeting. In his statement, Seward harkened back to his second “Economic Development Summit” Nov. 14 at Foothills: “One of the chief takeaways … was the need for a central point of contact that will serve as a vehicle to link outside economic entrepreneurs with internal Otsego County resources. “The IDA, with some new personnel, will take that lead role and I am confident we will excel,” the senator said. The announcement resolves a debate that has been underway since Carolyn
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SKATES/From A1 he describes as, yes, a skateboard shop and museum. Robinson, a 2007 SUNY Delhi grad, was inspired by Skatopia in Rutland, Ohio, and the Skatelab in Santa Cruz, Calif. While the enterprise is a work in progress, Robinson said his collection of vintage skate decks, added to skateboards and related apparel, gave The Museum Skate Shop its name. “I want to show the history of skateboarding,” he said. “It’s about bringing skate culture to Oneonta.” It’s a passion that dates back to Robinson’s high school years, when a friend taught him to skate in their Brooklyn neighborhood. “My best friend, Patrick Chonas, he was THE skater,” Robinson said. “He
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IN MEMORIAM Robert W. Riddell, Sr., 81, Retired Farmer, Ordained Baptist Deacon ONEONTA – Robert W. Riddell Sr., 81, a retired chicken farmer and an ordained deacon in the Baptist church, passed away Thursday, Dec. 5 at his home. Born on the Ouleout in Meridale on Jan. 12, 1932, to parents Neil and Mary (White) Riddell, Bob moved away from home at age 11. He met his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Odell, at 15 while attending Franklin Central School. After graduation, they married on April 1, 1951. Their first child, Leta Mae, was born 10 months later. Scrappy and hardworking, Bob spent time as a butcher, carpenter, mailman, farmer, landowner and later milk-hauler and entrepre-
neur. In 1952, Bob ventured into the chicken business, starting with 8,000 egglaying birds. By 1961, he Robert W. had grown Riddell, Sr. the business more than six times to 53,000 started pullets. With his own hands, he both built the chicken houses the new birds were caged in, and helped renovate his own expanding family’s home. In 1963, Bob bought a Chevy truck, and with it a business delivering bagged shavings to area farmers.
That purchase laid the foundation for the milk-hauling firm Riddell Brothers. One of Bob’s greatest joys in life was working alongside his son, Robert W. Riddell Jr., so in 1981 he decided to leave chicken farming permanently, to help Bobby run the new company. Bob gave his life to the Lord and was baptized in 1958 at the First Baptist Church in Oneonta. As his belief in Christ grew, he preached and taught God’s Word as a lay minister and Sunday school teacher. Bob and Mary resided on Southside Drive from 1951 to 2003. In retirement, he and Bobby restored the old one-room schoolhouse on Southside.
He served on the Davenport Town Board and was a trustee for the Oneonta Plains Cemetery. The Riddells were retired in Inverness, Fla., from 2003 to 2012. In 2004, Bob became an ordained deacon at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Inverness, where he served and taught an adult Sunday school class. In 2012, the couple moved back home to Oneonta, where he served briefly at Wesleyan Southside Church. He taught his last Sunday school class and preached his last sermon on Labor Day Sunday 2013. In addition to his wife of 62 years, Mary of Oneonta, he is survived by three children, Leta Newhart of
Michael A. Swiderski, 45; Represented City On County Board ONEONTA – Michael A. Swiderski, 45, who represented the City of Oneonta’s Wards 5 and 6 on the Otsego County Board of Representative when he was in his 30s, died suddenly on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, of a heart attack. Mike was born in Oneonta on Feb. 9, 1968, to Janis R. Bigwood-Swiderski and Eliguisz Swiderski. He was educated in Oneonta schools, graduating from Oneonta High School and
attending SUNY Oneonta. He married Michelle Shultis of Schenevus and together they created a family with Andrew Michael and Jameson Edmund. After running his family business, Country Club Liquors, Mike joined Opici Wine Co. of New York, East
Syracuse, as a wine and liquor consultant. In addition to Andrew and Jamie of Schenevus and their mother, Michelle Shultis-Swiderski, survivors include his mother, Janis Swiderski of Largo, Fla., and two sisters, Emilia Borelli and her husband, Nicholas,
and their son, Cooper, and Dr. Marianne Soden and her son, Justin. Calling hours were Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Grummons Funeral Home. A funeral mass was planned at 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12, at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta.
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