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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, December 2, 2016

By LIBBY CUDMORE

“The Marys” – Mary Ann Hartmann, West Oneonta, and Mary Southern, Otego – both marked 20 years serving the community dinner Thanksgiving Day at the Elks Club/RELATED

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secret since he was 12. “He told me, ‘I can help change the world’,” recalled his father, Hank. “And he made a real difference.”

To mark the occasion – and commemorate World Young Hank Nicols with AIDS Day on Thursday, Please See NICOLS, A7 mom, Joan.

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he Oneonta YMCA won’t renew its contract to operate the Oneonta Teen Center at the Armory on Academy Street next year, Mayor Gary Herzig told his Common Council colleagues after the Monday, Nov. 28, public

1st Local Solar Farm Rising Near Laurens

County Expects $50,000-60,000 In Cost Savings

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ould it be people, for the time being, are sick of government?

Common Council and the county Board of Representatives each held public hearing on their 2017 budgets Monday, Nov. 30, but no one showed up.

Both the city’s $19 million budget and the county’s $110 million one keep taxes steady.

By JIM KEVLIN LAURENS

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TREE LIT UP: Oneontans aplenty planned to be in Rockefeller Center Wednesday, Nov. 31, to watch the lights turned on to illuminate the 95-foot-tall spruce from the Eicher family’s home on Country Club Road. Get details as they happen at

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TREELIGHTING: The community Christmas tree will be lit at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in Muller Plaza and Santa will take up residence for season in his cottage there.

ONLINE COLLEGE: Hartwick College will offer 22 courses next summer in three four-week sessions starting June 5, 2017. Check www.hartwick.edu WKC FOUNDER: It was learned at press time that longtime Oneontan Grace Marie Kathmann, 75, a founding member of the West Kortright Center, had passed away/OBITUARY, B6

hearing on the tentative 2017 city budget.

Still, the money for teen programming remains in the tentative budget, available if some other entity want to do comparable programs.

“It is not the council’s intent to remove that funding,” Herzig said in an interview the next day, and the city Please See TEEN, A3

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SolarCity Project Manager Ryan Smith, left, and county Senior Planner Erik Scrivener examine one of the Trina Solar panels at the solar farm the company is building in the Town of Laurens to supply power to the County of Otsego, which expects $50,000-60,000 annual savings for 20 years. Panel installation begins this week.

t’s a giant soon-to-be-electrified Erector Set. It’s the county’s first solar farm, being built a couple of miles north of the Village of Laurens by uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SolarCity, which calls itself “America’s #1 full-service solar provider,” for the County of Otsego.

The project is expected to produce 1.09 megawatts annually, half of what the county government uses, and save taxpayers $50,000-60,000 a year.

Karen Sullivan, county planning director, said this is county government’s biggest undertaking since the construction of Otsego Manor 14 years ago.

And, with no fanfare – SolarCity likes it that way – the project has been underway since the beginning of OcPlease See SOLAR, A3

Oneontan’s Crossword Puzzles Published In New York Times This Week, And Often

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hen Kristian House tore off the page of his New York Times “Page a Day Crossword Puzzle” calendar Tuesday, Nov. 29, the puzzle he

was looking at was his very own.

“I recognized it right away!” he said.

The day before, his puzzle, “Duck Duck Goose,” appeared in the New York Times edition of Monday, Nov. 28.

House, who owns Monkey Barrel Toys in the Shops At Ford and Main with his wife, Kwan, began building crosswords as Please See PUZZLER, A7

Crossword puzzles by Kristian House of Oneonta are appearing regularly in the New York Times, most recently Monday, Nov. 28.

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD

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HOMETOWN People Drugovich Joins 100 Presidents In Anti-Hate Letter

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Kristin Preston knows that it’s important to keep your head covered, and a turkey hat is just the way to do it! She and Chris Norman both ran in the annual Turkey Trot 5K for Hospice on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 24. 600 balloons were released, all with handwritten notices of runners’ thanks. The race, the second in the new O-Town Triple Crown series, saw 656 runners and walkers racing through the Sixth Ward. The final race in the series, the Frostbite 5K, will be held Saturday, Dec. 31 and benefit the Oneonta YMCA.

artwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich added her name to an open letter to Presidentelect Trump – co-signed by more than 100 college and university presidents – urging him to speak Drugovich out against recent acts of hate and violence.

The letter is needed, the presidents write, because of hate crimes taking place nationwide, including many on college campuses. “Members of our communities, our children, our families, our neighbors, our students and our employees are facing very real threats, and are frightened.”

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Over 500 diners packed the Oneonta Elks Club to celebrated together at the annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 24. The servers of the dinner line are no strangers to the event, having 25 years worth of volunteering between them; From right: Ambrose Santiago, Debra Berrios, Maui Schneeberg, Alanna Berrios, and Janet Quackenbush, all of Oneonta.

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bram X. Kendi, former SUNY Oneonta assistant history professor, just won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive Ibram X. History Kendi of Racist Ideas in America.”

“In the midst of the human ugliness of racism, there was the human beauty,” he said in his acceptance speech when the awards were announced in New York City. “There is the human beauty in the resistance to racism.”

Currently an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida, Kendi joined SUNY Oneonta in 2009 and later moved on to SUNY Albany.

Lately, he has conducted a workshop at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, and in September delivered a lecture at First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown.

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roceeds from admissions to the Laurens Lady Leopards Game on Tuesday, Nov. 29 were donated to a scholarship fund named for Pat “Coach” Grasso.

“The coaches of our opposing teams have boath had long, devoted friendships with Coach Grasso during their coaching careers,”said Margie Barker, LCS Booster Club Secretary.

A longtime PE teacher ansd coach, Grasso died Feb. 23 at age 82.

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County’s First Solar Farm Rising In Town Of Laurens SOLAR/From A1 tober in a 5-acre corner of a 25-acre county Highway Department “staging area” off County Route 11.

From Route 11, you see nothing.

The only tipoff is orange diamondshaped road signs, “Trucks Entering Highway.” But turn into what looks like a former quarry and crest a nearby hill, a network of pipes stretches from a few feet ahead up a slope to a far hill.

Some 500 posts are being pounded into the ground. Pipes are being attached from post to post – lasers keep the pipes lined up straight – to form 53 rows.

By the time you read this, the crew of 12 (there are also contractors for specialized functions) will be attaching solar panel after solar panel – 3,600 in all – along those pipes. Each panel will face west at a 60-degree angle to maximize production.

Walking the site the other day, Ryan Smith, SolarCity project manager, expressed delight at the NEXTracker Generation 2 system being installed.

“Putting bolts together, that’s it,” he said.

Stacked in crates in a corner of the site, the solar panels are already producing DC current, Smith said. To be usable, the DC current must flow from the panels through an “inverter” that turns it into usable AC power, and hence through transformers into northsouth NYSEG lines just beyond the site’s eastern fence.

Smith, a young electrician from Philadelphia and a veteran of numerous SolarCity installations over the past six years – the Northeast is currently the company’s busiest region, he said – expects to meet the county’s deadline for completion: year’s end.

In an interview, Planning Director Sullivan said the possibility of a county solar farm only surfaced in October 2014, when MEGA (the Municipal Electric & Gas Alliance) – its CEO is Ron Feldstein of Otego, the former county rep – put out an RFP for a

SolarCity Project Manager Ryan Smith, right, and county Senior Planner Eric Scrivener examine a solar-panel footing, as the installation under construction stretches behind them.

consultant to walk its members (Otsego County is one) down the road to solar power.

“It happened very fast,” said Sullivan, who remembers making cold calls that Oct. 24 to see what other counties – Sullivan, Madison, Tompkins and Onondaga – were doing. In short order, SolarCity received MEGA’s contract to prepare applications to NYSERDA (the state’s Energy Research & Development Agency), the Otsego board of reps was on its way to a solar-powered future.

The county originally planned for a 2.3 megawatt plant – enough to provide all its power – but NYSEG lines near the site couldn’t handle the flow, and upgrading them was too expensive.

In the early months of 2015, Sullivan and Senior Planner Erik Scrivener, her right-hand man in this venture, sought out sites countywide – one at ONC BOCES, Milford, was ruled out: education law limited it to five-year contracts, and this is a 20-year agreement.

In the end, they came up empty. So in April 2015, the county board cut the project in half and went back to the Town of Laurens option.

Under the agreement, SolarCity will supply power at a steady 6.9 cents

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Despite the split with the Teen Center, the YMCA plans to seek the funding from the city and develop more varied teen programs, according to YMCA Executive Director Frank Russo. The YMCA also has reached out to potential collaborators to develop the new programs.

“The Teen Center in its current location, the Armory, offers some limitations, and we don’t feel it’s what best represents the YMCA, and how we Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA want do business,” Russo said. percent functional – or make another “We wanted to be able to better arrangement for electricity with someserve the teens and offer more body else.

Asked for an estimate of the project’s in unique locations and do unique events.” cost, Sullivan said she doesn’t know: The city budget had funded SolarCity is building it and will own it the Teen Center which the when it’s done, and hasn’t shared that YMCA would operate, but number. The company will maintain without the YMCA to oversee the site for the life of the contract. it and disseminate the budget When that will happen is unclear. money, the Teen Center will NYSEG has up to nine months to acSmith discusses crates be unable to operate without cept power from a solar project. The holding 3,600 solar panels another organization’s involvecounty planners alerted the utility four to be installed beginning ment. months ago to what was coming. But, this week.

“The Teen Center could even if the project is done by New partner with another not-forYear’s Day, NYSEG can leave it idle per kilowatt hour through 2036. The profit organization which county has paid as much as 12 cents for through April. would allow the Teen Center Sullivan and Scrivener hope it isn’t Kw hour; the latest bill was 10.9 cents. to apply for grants,” said Ian so: As soon at the county starts buying SolarCity’s site, through NYSEG, Austin, the Teen Center direcSolarCity power, it starts saving money. feeds electricity directly into the Until this point, the only other com- tor. “So a partnership with a grid. The county will draw power company that has like interests munity exploring a solar farm was the – not necessarily the Laurens power in mind … would be a perfect Village of Cooperstown, but it found – from the grid at upper Main Street, fit.” (Austin is also a photognuclear power it received from the Cooperstown, or the Meadow Office rapher for this newspaper.) plants at Oswego was too cheap to Complex, Town of Middlefield – and The Teen Center’s other opmake solar cost-effective. pay the lower price. tion is to become its own entity But the SolarCity plant inspired the The expectation, the planners said, in order to directly receive the Town of Laurens to follow suit: It is is that power costs will continue to rise funding. Organizations can applanning a solar community power over the life of the contract. ply for the budget money once At the end, the county can either buy project double the size – 2.3 megawatts the city seeks services.

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YMCA Cuts Ties With Teen Center

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EDITORIAL

Otsego County Historical Trail? Huge Idea Deserves Support

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ou may have caught up with this: Time magazine’s current issue, “The Most Influential Photos of All Time” – on newsstands through Monday, Dec. 5 – includes “The image that created the national parks,” Yosemite through the eyes and lens of Carlton Watkins of Oneonta.

“Of all time” – it’s hard to top that, alongside astronaut Bill

port local historians laboring alone in the dozen or so local societies across the county.

Through such events as a local history expo last January at the Springfield Community Center, to staffing a booth at the county fair in Morris, to bringing Butternut Valley historians together behind a historic marker for Cato Freedom, a freed slave who farmed near Garrattsville (the unveiling is May 20), OCHA is getting independent souls “to think of themselves more collaboratively,” Mackenzie said.

(Look at the society’s Facebook page for a sense of the range of the activities.)

Deb remembers attending Cooperstown Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Central School when the library had Deb Mackenzie at the marker in front not a one of James of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hartwick Seminary.

Fenimore Cooper’s novels, and – with Anders’ image of the earth and a dearth of local history in local moon during the 1968 moon shot, classrooms – wonders why U.S. windswept Jackie by paparazzi Supreme Court Justice Samuel Ron Galella (1971), Emmett Till Nelson of Cooperstown’s supportin his coffin (1955), “The picture ing opinion in the Dred Scot decithat humanized AIDS,” David sion can’t be used to illuminate Kirby’s moment of death (1990) issues of racial injustice, as well as surrounded by his weeping family. the complexity of the high court’s Time credits Carleton’s photos, inner workings. “decades before Ansel Adams ever • saw Yosemite’s jagged peaks,” In the near-completed budget with inspiring Abraham Lincoln process, Mackenzie, who pubto sign the Yosemite Grant Act in lished “Historical Markers of 1864, laying the groundwork for Otsego County” in 2015, aptoday’s National Park System. proached the county Board of • Representatives seeking about Coincidentally, the issue arrived $700 a year toward erecting hisin the mail a few days after local torical markers (which cost about history promoter Deb Mackenzie $1,500) in a planned fashion that, was interviewed on a novel idea, when complete, would comprean Otsego County History Trail, hensively reflect county history. picking up on the Beverage Trail County Treasurer Dan Crowell idea. (Perhaps sippers will pick says there’s a “clear consensus” up a little context amid the IPAs.) among reps in support of this, Mackenzie, who works at with the idea the public will match Bassett and lives in Hartwick, is $700 with $700, as we should: president of OCHA – the Otsego The history belongs to all of us.

County Historical Association With funding or not – at some – which seeks to connect and sup- point, angels will undoubtedly fly

Time magazine places Oneonta photographer Carleton Watkins’ images of Yosemite among the most influential in American history, inspiring President Lincoln to create the first national park.

in – Deb’s idea is, over this winter, to solicit ideas from local historians on possible markers, discuss them (and solicit more ideas) at five forums next spring – in each corner of the county, plus one in Oneonta – and start work on what will be a years-long undertaking.

There’s so much to do, the task might seem deterring. For instance, the Pomeroy Foundation in Syracuse will pay for markers, but

they must be applied for through a 501c3 certified non-profit, a status OCHA hasn’t yet achieved, although it hopes to soon.

For that reason, among others, the Pomeroy funded only one Otsego marker this year, marking “Old Unadilla,” one of the three Iroquois headquarter towns on the Susquehanna, along with Bainbridge and Oquaga (Afton).

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Astonishingly, Mackenzie pointed out, there are no historical markers in Oneonta. Not a one, not for the site of the largest roundhouse in the world, not for the caboose where the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen formed. Not Old Main, font of so much that has followed.

Not at the mansion built by Congressman George Fairchild, first chairman of the IBM board, where his son, aviation pioneer Sherman Fairchild, founder of Fairchild Industries, was raised.

Not for Collis Huntington, one of California’s Big Four in creating the Central Pacific Railroad. Not for his railroad magnate nephew Henry Huntington.

Not even for the greatest photographer, Carleton Watkins himself.

For now, the Greater Oneonta Historical Association is fully occupied completing its ambitious renovation of 183 Main into a fullservice History Center – archive, research library, exhibition space and meeting hall.

How great that OCHA can step in where the GOHS simply can’t immediately?

• As for the Cooperstown area, key sites surrounding Cooper’s mightiest characters – Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook – go unrecognized: “Leatherstocking of the Region” David Shipman’s Toddsville grave and his homesite at the 11C bridge are unmarked, as is anything associated with Richfield Springs’ Brushell family, descendants of the wise and mighty brave.

In the past year, even the historical marker on West Lake Road marking Sunken Island, from Cooper’s “Deerslayer,” has silently disappeared – post removed, post hole filled – and is likely gathering dust in a state or municipal highway garage. We’re retreating, not moving ahead.

Go for it, Deb. Get started, even as much remains to be done.

LETTERS

Donald Jackson? Andrew Trump? No Way! To the Editor: Trump has been rationalized and sanitized by faux comparisons to President Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party, a congressman, senator, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

He’s also been compared to the General Patton, a 1912 Olympian, West Point graduate, devoted husband and commander of the Third

Army in Europe.

Presumably Lincoln and Mother Teresa are next in the comparison line.

Politically, Trump is little more than a Twitter demagogue who lost the popular vote by almost 1.5 million votes.

Ten days after the election, this serial con man admitted that “Trump University” was a complete fraud and paid a $25 million

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To the Editor: In regard to your lead article, headlined “What Now?”, in last week’s paper: How dare you belittle the emotions we all feel after the death of a loved one by stating that 90 Progressives were grieving. I think you need to read Kubler-Ross to understand exactly what grief really is. The subheadline could have accurately read, “90 Meet, Chart Future.”

The grief rituals in my faith, for example, are much more complex than just being very unhappy about an election result. And as to

being “Progressive,” I hope that my and others’ attitudes about equality without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender or any other personal definition, put me squarely in line with the majority of Americans, or at least those who claim to follow the Constitution.

Also, as you are quite aware, I am and have acted fiscally conservatively while on the Cooperstown board of trustees.

This is not the first time you have mischaracterized my state of mind. In The Freeman’s Journal

of Nov. 10, you described me as being “astonished.”

I certainly didn’t say that and you didn’t ask me about my emotional status when I gave you a statement.

If you wish to have a reputation for journalistic integrity, you need to, unemotionally and without overlying your own feelings and attitudes, report the news.

There is plenty of room for giving your opinions in the editorial section.

In “What Now?”, Vince Casale, Otsego County Republican Party chairman, declared the gathering “an Please See STERNBERG, A6

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settlement.

Trump’s closest comparison in politics is actually Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, a media billionaire who played to the same lowest common denominators that Trump tapped among the gullible, the deluded, and the disenfranchised.

Or, for that matter, the Wizard of Oz, who, when the curtain was pulled back, turned out to be nothing more than an All American snake oil salesman.

Old Hickory revisited ?

Get real.

CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown

Grief Much More Than Mere Unhappiness

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e have many teachers telling kids the country’s gone to Hades. Because voters chose Donald Trump.

We have professors and college administrators coddling upset students.

With safe zones. And grief counselors.

And sympathy.

Please pardon me for my stupidity.

But it seems to me that this election is a gold mine for good teachers. By good teachers I mean those who leave their political biases home. And those who use today’s events to urge stu-

dents to think.

Here are good questions for a lesson plan: What just happened in our election? Why did something similar happen with voters in the UK? Why does someTOM thing similar brew in MORGAN various countries of the EU? In France and The Netherlands in particular.

Why have Democrats lost so many governorships in the last 8 years? As well as control of state legislatures? As well as both houses of Congress? They hold as few elected offices as they have for almost 100 years. What is going on with them? Or with the voters

they no longer have? This is a huge development.

How did Trump get to be Presidentelect? How did he vanquish two massive political machines named Clinton and Bush? How did he hog-tie 16 Republican opponents? He did this despite the war big media waged against him. In fact, he spat in their faces. He did this despite the education profession. Teacher unions spent millions to defeat him. Academia roared its disapproval of him.

Most Hollywood and TV stars openly despised him. Many prominent Republicans worked openly against him. Many others did so quietly.

Conservative magazines and websites viciously undercut him.

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150 Years Ago

An Apology – Our readers must excuse my lack of interest in the paper this week and the delay in its publication.

The editor and proprietor has been confined to his house for nearly three weeks by sickness, and there has been only two hands in the office (and some of the time one of them sick) to do the work; and, as is always the case when short of help or in sickness, there is a rush of job work. The readers have been served pretty punctual and we trust they will not get out of patience at this time. Hereafter, they may expect to be served “on time.”

Thanksgiving Day was observed on Thursday last with a degree of unanimity that indicates that it has already become a national institution. It was celebrated from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. Telegrams from the Pacific coast announce that it was observed generally in California and Oregon.

December 1866

10 Years Ago

“It’s nice to have a man around the house,” said Mrs. Frank Fitch of Delhi, RD 1, yesterday, “provided he keeps his old phonographs out in his shop.” Frank’s hobby is collecting old phonographs. His collection includes seven Edison machines which play cylindrical records and at least fifteen Edison diamond disc machines. He also owns a natural voice Columbia, RCA Victors and Brunswicks. In addition he has more than 400 old Edison cylinder records, and some of the large old Columbia cylinder records. “I’ve picked up most of my phonographs at auction sales during the past four years. I have a 1906 model Edison with a morning glory horn which I bought over at Shavertown for $16. Its original cost without the horn was $20.” All of Frank’s machines are in working order. When not collecting phonographs, he’s collecting old clocks. And then to get away from his mechanical hobbies, Frank takes his two coon dogs and gets plenty of coons.

December 1956

125 Years Ago

The Otsego County Farmers’ and Dairymen’s Association met at the Opera House in Milford on Tuesday with the President, Major C.P. Root, in the chair. D.F. Wilber read an interesting paper on the Holstein-Friesian cattle. The points made were that the Holsteins are enormous “milkers,” and in all late tests have stood first as butter makers; that they are large, vigorous feeders, their calves usually strong, and, in short, taken all in all, that they are the most profitable stock to keep for the dairy. At the afternoon session G.N. Bissell spoke in behalf of the Herefords as a beef-producing breed. Henry Clay imported the first Herefords early in the present century and wonderful advancement has been made in their beef-producing qualities.

December 1891

100 Years Ago

The second meeting of the Fortnightly Club for the season of 1916-1917 was held Tuesday evening at the home of Dr. Merton L. Ford on Chestnut Street. There was a large attendance and all present listened with close attention to the paper of J. Fremont Thompson, Esq., who, for half an hour, considered the theme of “Commercialism.”

In his introduction Mr. Thompson referred to the fact that labor in these modern days does not entirely, or perhaps even chiefly, refer to following the plow or the digging of ditches. With equal force it applies to teaching, managing factories or railroads, operating a store or preaching the gospel; and that as civilization has advanced conditions have so changed that a large part of the population of every village and city is made up of those who do not labor principally with their hands. In earlier times, necessities were fewer and each family was able on its own premises to provide most of the essentials for food and shelter.

December 1916

60 Years Ago

40 Years Ago

Military authorities investigating a racial clash last month confiscated a list of 16 white U.S. Marines who are members of the Ku Klux Klan. However, one admitted Klansman declares: “We’ve got more (members) in secret.”

Officials said the incident that set off the investigation involved seven white Marines drinking beer in a barracks who were attacked by an unknown number of blacks armed with knives, clubs and screwdrivers. Six of the whites were hospitalized and charges have been filed against 12 black Marines. Some Marine officers theorize that the blacks thought they were busting in on a Klan meeting. “NowaDecember 2006 days, everybody’s trying to force both sides to mix, but I don’t think either side wants it,” said Corporal Daniel L. Bailey of Norfolk, VA, a Marine who said he is active in the Klan. “The Marines take away from the white Marines and Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University, said give more to the blacks to the point its reverse discriminatonight, “I do not find myself perturbed” over charges by tion,” Bailey said.

State Senator John J. McNaboe that Cornell is “a crater of December 1976 revolutionary Communistic propaganda.” In a formal statement President Farrand said “ My information is that there are 25 or 30 students with Communistic leanings or convicThe harmful effects of smoking are generally well tions, which in a student body of 6,000 does not strike me known. However, the hazards of starting smoking early in as creating in any way a serious or unwholesome situation. I life are particularly bad and few parents seem to appreciate am disturbed by the thought that an elected representative of the significance of smoking among adolescents. The earlier the people of New York State could make this indirect attack a teen starts smoking, the more likely it is they will become on the whole spirit of free inquiry, of free discussion, and of addicted to nicotine and the harder it will be to stop smokfree assembly, which is the inherent right of any university ing. Sixty percent of adult smokers began before age 14. worthy of the name. I trust that Cornell will always maintain December 1996 its traditional liberal attitude on the fundamental American principle.” Meanwhile, editors of the Cornell Daily Sun, the university’s student newspaper, invited Senator McNaboe to deliver an anti-Communist address on the campus.

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On Thanksgiving, Thanks For Your Generosity To the Editor: Thanksgiving is a perfect time for us at the Cooperstown Food Pantry to tell the greater Cooperstown community how grateful we are for your incredible generosity, from the many individuals who donate time, money and food, to the numerous community organithat support our mission LETTER zations of providing food to those challenged to feed their families.

We are so grateful for the more than 100 volunteers who help to unload nearly nine tons of food each month, as well as those who work at our pantry so that we can be open six days a week to make food easily accessible.

We are especially grateful for the extraordinary commitment of our volunteer directors who spend countless hours attending to the myriad details necessary to the running of the pantry programs.

We thank local businesses for their ongoing commitment and support.

We thank local foundations and trusts for their financial support.

Should we attempt to name each individual, business and organization, we would fill pages of this publication!

And where would we all be if a wonderful woman, Ellen St. John, hadn’t begun this community service 40 years ago!

Her simple response to a request for food for one family has grown to serving over 200 families, representing over 800 individuals each month and to a backpack program which sends home supplemental food each weekend with children in our school, which, in turn, has inspired other schools in the county to institute the backpack program.

So to you all, we are most thankful. Happy Thanksgiving!

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With Election 2016,We May Miss Our Star To the Editor: What have we done?

The road ahead looks dark and daunting.

We chose to blow up our house to fix the holes in our foundation.

I know that revenge is sweet, but we still need to eat.

After lighting the fuse, was the plan to go into the fields and pick the lettuce?

The damage done is beyond estimation. The worst is yet to come, and come it will.

Decades and decades of very hard work, by so many people,

for so many good causes, to improve all of our lives, is going to be severely damaged or destroyed.

Some of us will not live long enough to see it repaired, if repair is possible.

What have we done?

What can I say? I am stunned.

I am not stunned by those who voted differently than I did. We had our honest reasons.

I am stunned by the calamity that we have brought down upon our heads.

I do not know what to think?

Winter is coming. We do not have a house.

What have we done?

“If you don’t know the kind of person I am, “and I don’t know the kind of person you are, “a pattern that others made may prevail in the world, “and following the wrong god home, “we may miss our star” – William E. Stafford JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown

Patriotism Not Love Of Country, But It’s Love Of Our Countrymen To the Editor: By it’s very definition religious dogma is uncompromising. Tolerance isn’t enough to ensure that every American is a valued citizen. Genuinely compassionate people understand that patriotism requires loving each other.

At the Democratic National Convention, Senator Cory Booker pointed out: “Look, I respect and value the ideals of individualism and self-reliance.

But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British. It didn’t get us to the moon. It didn’t build our nation’s highways. Rugged individualism didn’t map the human genome. We did that together.

“And so this is the high call of patriotism. Patriotism is

Grief More Than Just Unhappiness STERNBERG/From A4 overreaction” and went on insinuate that people present did not accept the result of the election, know who the president is, or respect the office of the president. I disagree.

• One, the candidates have a right to ask for a recount when the results are close or there are potential irregularities with voting. Our laws guarantee it.

The election is not over until the results are certified, which is not until the votes of the Electoral College are counted by the president of the Senate (i.e. vice president of the United States).

• Two, everyone present knows that Barack Obama is the president of the United States and will remain so until Jan. 20, 2017.

• Three, I do not, and I doubt anyone else who was present, disrespects the office of the president of the United States.

For someone who is a strict constructionist of the Constitution, at least as it relates to the Second Amendment, I don’t understand why he is so casual about the First Amendment and “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

RICHARD STERNBERG, MD Cooperstown (Sternberg is a member of the Cooperstown Village Board)

Vital Academic Topic: What Happened?

LESSONS/From A4 Ohio’s popular Republican governor spurned him. He refused to help Trump through his network of political workers. Yet Trump won the state.

Meanwhile, he spent a fraction of the money those who opposed him spent.

So how did he pull this off?

This guy who had never held an office? He had never run a campaign.

Students, let’s define extraordinary. Now, whether he is your hero or your Hitler, can you see how this man is extraordinary? He achieved what most politicians and political “experts” claimed was utterly impossible.

So how did he do this? How did out-think these guys? What did he see they did not? And why do you suppose he saw it and they missed it? Did his opponents have biases that blinded them to the realities Trump saw?

Does Trump represent a major movement in American attitudes? Will this election realign the political parties?

To guide them a teacher might chalk a straight line across the blackboard. (Am I old? The last blackboard died 30 years ago.) The line represents the spectrum of political positions in America.

On the center-left we place Democrats. On the far left, Bernie and his Socialists. Beyond them, Communists. On the cen-

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extreme green beliefs.

And why did Democrat voters move toward him? Why did they back off from Hillary?

Why did Republicans offer the bird to many of their leaders to vote for Trump?

Pose questions like this to American students. Identify propaganda in their responses.

Force them to think about this election. Get them beyond the blurbs from party spinmeisters.

This may turn out to be one of the most significant elections in our history. We should alert our young people to this possibility.

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Our Declaration of Independence ends: “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

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ter-right, the Republicans. Further right, the Conservatives.

Etc. The further left or right we go the more the people cling to ideologies. Closer to the center we find less ideology.

Is it possible, students, that Donald Trump plopped his campaign square in the middle of this line? In doing so, did he suck the oxygen from the right?

Did he lure many from the left who did not share the ideology Democrats promoted? Did he win with Democrats near the middle who don’t lay awake worrying about trans-gendered bathrooms. Or political correctness. Or safe rooms. Or

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25 Years Ago, Boy Scout Began AIDS-Education Campaign NICOLS/From A1 Dec. 1 – the Nicols family will host a screening at SUNY Cortland of the HBO documentary “Eagle Scout: The Story of Henry Nicols,” shot in 1993 as Henry and his sister Jennifer Nicols Curtis toured the country discussing his diagnosis.

Tuesday evening, Nov. 29, the film was shown to Hank’s Boy Scout Troop 1254 at its regular meeting at Cooperstown Elementary.

Henry was born with hemophilia and received blood transfusions; one in 1985 tainted him with HIV. “We were seeing doctors in New York City in secret,” said his father, Hank, Troop 1254 scoutmaster. “But one morning, he came downstairs and said ‘I don’t feel good.’ He had thrush, which was a case-defining illness. We rushed him to the emergency room at Bassett, and the doctor told him he had AIDS. He said ‘I know’.”

Six years later, on March 8, 1991, tired of keeping his secret,

Henry announced his diagnosis to his Cooperstown high school classmates.

The story was picked up by the AP, and soon Henry was on the cover of People magazine, Parade and more.

He decided to make educating people about AIDS his Eagle Scout project.

“Traveling with Henry, I met so many parents who had children who were diagnosed, uncles who were gay and had never told anyone and were now dying, all of these families who were living with this stigma,” said Curtis, now a professor of health sciences at Cornell University; formerly, she taught at SUNY Cortland. “It was the first time that I realized that illness isn’t just biological, it’s a social construct, how we talk about what diseases are okay and which ones still have that shame attached.”

At one high school in Western New York, the Nicolses cancelled an event after a parent expressed fear that classmates would discover their son’s diagnosis.

“Their son was also a hemophiliac, but he was on the basketball team and was likely to receive a scholarship,” she said. “They thought he would be cut from the team if they heard Henry’s story and connected the dots to their son, so we called up the principal and told them Henry had a fever and we wouldn’t be able to make it.”

Young Henry testified before Congress, met with both President George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and spoke at the FBI Academy twice. “The FBI limo picked us up at the airport in rush hour traffic,” recalled Curtis. “And Henry managed to convince the driver to put on the lights and sirens! Traveling with him was like that. Everything was an adventure.”

Another time, Henry’s father recalled, he and his wife Joan received a call that Henry was sick in San Diego.

“This was before cell phones, so we got the next flight out,” he said. “The doctor thought he had meningitis and

that it was the end.”

But when they got to the hotel, Henry was nowhere to be found. “He was out water-skiing!” said the father.

“They had given him some antibiotics and he was feeling much better.”

“He always made the most of what he had,” said Curtis. “He taught me that no matter what happens, we always have a choice to respond with love and compassion.”

Henry passed away on May 8, 2000, at age 27. “So much has changed since then,” said Nicholas.

“HIV and AIDS are manageable now, it’s no longer a death sentence, and with the Affordable Care Act, no one can be denied coverage because of that. Healthcare needs to remain a right, and if the Founding Fathers were writing the Constitution today, I think Heathcare would be up there with Freedom of Speech.”

And though she doesn’t do as much with AIDS activism since Henry’s passing on May 8, 2000, Curtis

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Hank Nicols Tuesday, Nov. 30, unveils square in his son’s honor that will be added to AIDS Memorial Quilt. remains active with other health initiatives designed to reduce stigma around mental health and leprosy in India.

“25 years is a long time,” she said.

Oneonta Puzzle Creator Finds Times Using His Crosswords PUZZLER/From A1 a high school math teacher in Springfield, Mass.

“One of my co-workers recommended the crossword puzzle documentary ‘Wordplay’,” he said. “In it, they interviewed Merl Reagle, a famous puzzle constructor, and I was intrigued, so I gave it a shot.”

His first puzzle, “Broken Heart,” was published in The Times in February 2009. “I’ve always sort of solved since I was a teen, but I’m not great at it,” he said, “I’d much rather write.”

“Duck Duck Goose” is his 17th puzzle for The Times, and he’s published in the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal and several books.

To start, House comes up with the theme. “I’m always looking for inspiration,” he said. “With the New York Times, the Monday-Thursday puzzles are themed, so I prefer to make those puzzles.”

There are guidelines. “Most puzzles have a 180-degree symmetry,” he said. If there’s a theme answer in the top left, there has to be one in the bottom right. You can’t just throw answers on a grid.”

Because of these guidelines, House says, puzzle construction attracts a lot of people like him. “Math and science people, even musicians, make the best

constructors,” he said. “They’re drawn to these kind of rules.”

Prior to “Duck Duck Goose,” his most recent crossword appeared in The Times on a Friday in September. “I was on a themeless kick for awhile,” he said.

And he occasionally slips a local clue into his puzzle. “I’ve used ‘Utica’ before, and I’ve got a puzzle on submission where I reference Oneonta,” he said. “But because people all over the country are doing these, editor Will Shortz likes to keep it fairly general, so I can’t get too specific.”

He currently has several puzzles on submission to The Times, but doesn’t know that they’ll be published until a week before they appear in the paper. “It’s goofy, but I really like doing it,” he said. “And I’m always looking for the inspiration for my next puzzle.”

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or Elena Doyle, fruitcake is no laughing matter.

“There’s that old joke that there’s only one fruitcake in the whole world and it just keeps getting passed around,” she said. “But it has such an undeserved bad rap!”

But Doyle, who ran the former Elena’s Sweet Indulgences on Main Street in Oneonta, isn’t talking about

the cello-wrapped, red-and-green brick most people call fruitcake. “I make my fruitcakes with the old world fruits,” she said. “Dried apples, apricots and plums, soaked in rum to rehydrate them.”

Now a private caterer, she also uses pecans, blending her Britishstyle recipe with southern fruitcake traditions. “People used what they had large quantities of on hand,” she said. “That might be apples, pecans or walnuts. Whatever was regional. I like to mix the recipes.”

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It’s Community’s Clinic, Benefactor Insists is still a mainstay of health and caring 15 years later in northern Otsego County’s largest community.

RICHFIELD SPRINGS “It’s a tribute to Jud and his persistence and passion about the project,” hen Charles “Jud” PannaMike Stein, the former Bassett Health ci and his mother looked vice president for development, now out of the front window a private fundraising consultant, obof their Union Street home that day served the other day. in early 1998 to see the Genovese A funeral director, Pannaci, a Restaurant in flames, little did he Gloversville native, had worked in know it was the beginning of what Westchester County, but had always would be one of the most satisfying hoped to operate a funeral home of episodes of his life. his own. In 1977, in partnership with For slightly less than four years Jim Kevlin/ OTSEGO.seniority his mother, Mary Strong Pannaci later, he would be among those cut- Outside Richfield Springs’ Bassett Clinic, – she owned the building, he the busiting the ribbon on a state-of-the-art Charles “Jud” Pannaci reflects on the ness – acquired J. Seaton McGrath on Bassett Clinic, which began accept- community fund drive he organized 15 years West James Street. ago that made it happen. ing patients on Nov. 19, 2003, and Please See PANNACI, B3

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oin Mr. and Mrs. Claus on Main Street, Oneonta, 5 p.m., Thursday Dec. 1, for horse-drawn wagon rides, live reindeer, dancers, street carolers, ice sculptures by SUNY Delhi, an ugly sweater contest, Christmas shops and refreshments.

The tree lights up at 6 p.m. in Muller Plaza.

Free family fun for all presented by Destination Oneonta.

CAROL! Spend an evening with the Catskill Choral Society as it presents Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols,” Kirke Mechem’s “Seven Joys of Christmas” other works. Two concerts: 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 3, First United Methodist Church, Oneonta and Sunday, Dec. 4, 3 p.m. First Baptist Church, Cooperstown. $19 adults ($22 day of); $15 seniors ($18 day of); $12 students; under age 12 free.

Info, tickets www.catskillchoral.org WEAVER’S STUDIO: Don’t miss Rabbit Goody’s 20th annual Thistle Hill Weavers open studio and show room, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3-4. Mill tours, refreshments, holiday cheer, gifts. Lecture on Hyde Hall curtain fabrics, Sunday, 2:30 p.m., 143 Baxter Rd., Cherry Valley (between Cherry Valley and Sharon Springs).

Info, (518) 284-2729, thistlehillweavers. com, rabbitgoodythw@gmail.com While in Cherry Valley, check out the Holiday Market noon-6 p.m., through Dec. 22 at the Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley.

Info, (607) 264-9530, cherrybranchgallery. com GREENS: The Oneonta Federated Garden Club hold its Annual Greens Sale and Lunch offering large variety of fresh arrangements, wreaths, garlands, and holiday baked goods Friday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, Pamela Tausta pftausta@yahoo.com AND TREES: Glimmerglass Festival of Trees, Friday evening, Dec. 2, 6-8:30 p.m. family night includes wagon rides to see the holiday light displays, Santa and his elves.

Also Sat. and Sun. events, noon- 4 p.m.

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Info, email Pamela Tausta pftausta@yahoo.com INDIAN CRAFT SALE– 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free Trade crafts and fashions from India with book signing by Dr. Ashok Malhotra.

The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta.

COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 3-6 p.m.Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown.Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ PHOTOGRAPHY – 4-5:30 p.m.

Series exhibit by Rosa Maun and Aislin Glenn “A Close Translation.” 5th floor, 189 Main St., Oneonta. Through early February.

OPENING RECEPTION – 4:307:30 p.m. Return of the ‘Taj Garage: Finery & More from India and Nepal.” One weekend only.

Free admission. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, (607)5475327, leartgarage@gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/ TheArtGarageCooperstown/ ART EXHIBIT – 5-7 p.m. Art by Marcus Villagran. The Dunderberg Gallery, 118 Marion Ave.,

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Holiday shopping event featuring the work of local artisans. The Empire House, 136 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. The Stone House Emporium, 128 Marion Ave, Gilbertsville. Gilbertsville Valueway, 3 Commercial St., Gilbertsville.

Info, Carol Ralbag (607) 7832156, (607) 783-2897 FESTIVAL OF TREES – 6:308:30 p.m. Family night. Take a wagon to see the holiday light displays, see Santa and his elves. Decorate trees with ornaments for wildlife, and watch holiday movies. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. friendsofglimmerglass.com/ FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m.

“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” Admission, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY

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Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu HOLIDAY HOUSE TOUR – 7-9 p.m. Annual “Dressed for the Holidays” tour featuring 5 historic Gilbertsville homes. Tickets, $10 at Gilbertsville Library, 19 Commercial St., Gilbertsville. Info, Library, (607) 783-2832 CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m. Music by Men in Black, caller Peter Blue. Otsego Dance Society at Presbyterian Church, corner Church and Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Suggested donation $8 adults, $4 students and teenagers, free 12 and under.

Info, (607) 965-8232, (607) 5478164, www.otsegodancesociety. blogsport.com FILM SCREENING – 9 p.m.

“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” Admission, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu

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Cooperstown Boy Scout Troop 1254 collects your clean, returnable bottles and cans. Please have them on the curb or visible from the street. For special pick-up, large amounts, or any questions call Bruce, (607) 2676730.

WEAVERS STUDIO – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 20th annual Thistle Hill Weavers open studio and show room. Mill tours, refreshments, holiday cheer, gifts. Thistle Hill Weavers, 143 Baxter Rd., Cherry Valley (between Cherry Valley and Sharon Springs). Also Sunday.

Info, (518) 284-2729, thistlehillweavers.com, rabbitgoodythw@ gmail.com COOP FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine.

Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org CHRISTMAS BAZAAR – 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Wide selection homemade crafts, decorations and gifts. Bake sale, Chinese auction, and white elephant items. Gilbertsville Baptist Church New Life Fellowship Hall, Commercial St, Gilbertsville. Info, (607) 783-2993 HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-4 p.m. featuring quality, handmade crafts by local and regional crafters. Free admission. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta.

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Return of the ‘Taj Garage: Finery & More from India and Nepal.”

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Info, (607)547-5327, email leartgarage@gmail.com, or visit https://www.facebook.com/ TheArtGarageCooperstown/ DIY PHOTOGRAPHY – 10 a.m.-Noon Take holiday photographs with creative backgrounds, create videograms and other photo based gifts.

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15 Years Ago, ‘Pannaci Community Challenge’ Funded Richfield Clinic PANNACI/From B1 As her emphysema worsened in the 1990s, Pannaci sold the funeral home so he could help care for her.

In an interview a few days before the clinic’s 15th anniversary, he recalled how caring Christina LaBarre, family nurse practitioner at Bassett’s then-clinic on Lake Street, was in his mother’s final years.

Labarre would come to the house – ever more unusual in the past half-century – and, since her patient had trouble breathing on lifting her head, would sit on the floor beside her.

“Her compassion meant everything to me and my mother,” the son recalled.

A few months after the Genovese fire, on Aug. 9, 1998, Mary Pannaci passed away at age 83.

Jud’s satisfaction with his mother’s care contrasted with a more critical view of Bassett’s existing Richfield Springs clinic, a local Rotary Club initiative after Dr. James Utterback, the village’s only doctor, closed his practice in 1984 and moved to Utica.

It was in the only handicapped-accessible rental space available at the time, but it was cramped, with patients’ records in file cabinets filling half the waiting room, and it lacked parking.

“We deserved better,” Pannaci said.

When he raised these

concerns with Bassett in the spring of 1999, “the hospital agreed,” the would-bebenefactor said, and then he proposed a $500,000 plan.

He would acquire the property, give the site to the healthcare system, and pay $100,000 for architectural drawings, site preparation and start-up costs. And he would offer a dollar-for-dollar match for every dollar contributed up to $200,000 – a $400,000 total.

“If we cannot meet our goal, you will have the property and the $100,000, and” – not having to provide the match – “I will be $200,000 richer,” he recalled telling his Bassett collaborators.

As Pannaci envisioned it, the new building would have a separate file room, a room for staff to take a break, and “a cupola – a

beacon,” like the Bassett symbol, only simpler.

The look of the building – Craftman-style, wood beams and stone trim – was based on a bank he had seen near Malta driving back from visiting friends in Saratoga.

(He particularly relishes the reaction of Bassett thenpresident Bill Streck when it was complete: “It looks like a Bassett Clinic.)

The idea of a community room had to be set aside when it pushed the price well beyond the half-million price tag.

What set apart the resulting “Pannaci Community Challenge” was Jud himself.

“It’s always important to have that personal relationship to undergird the task – that’s the most powerful thing,” said Stein.

In the interview, he said at one point, “this was my

A Lady Ostapeck portrait of Pannaci’s mother, Mary Strong Panacci, is observed by all patients entering the treatment rooms at the clinic.

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Benefactor Jud Pannaci poses with today’s staff at Bassett’s Richfield Springs clinic. From row, from left, are Kassidy Webster, Mr. Pannaci, Dr. Tara Jones, Taylor Simonds. Back row, from left, are Aprile Lincourt, Vickie Richards, Diane Long, Karen Elderkin.

challenge.” But he later referred to “the community’s clinic – not MY clinic.”

When he mentioned where “my photo” would hang in the completed building, Bassett planners misunderstood him; he was talking about the striking portrait that photographer Lady Ostapeck took of Pannaci’s mother.

The first call the two men made together, Jud developed what would be the standard approach. After outlining the program and memorializing possibilities, he said, “Here is a pledge card. After we leave, in your heart, you decide what

YOU want to do.”

“This was the ‘softest sell’ ever done for a Bassett campaign,” he would say later. That first donation $30,000.

On receiving $100 from Angelina Morrow, he noticed the check was made out to him, not Bassett, and stopped by for a revised one. In their conversation, he noted his dad was the first Italian-American physician in Gloversville.

The check she handed back to him was several times larger.

Jud signed all the solicitation letters himself, (and licked the envelopes.) If the

solicitation was too formal, he would cross out “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and write in “John and Mary.”

“It was all based on personal relationships,” Pannaci said.

That was a model in how to do it, as recognized in a national publication, Modern Healthcare. An article, “The Science of Giving,” in the May 14, 2001, edition, heralded Dr. Gerald Levey of Los Angeles, who raised $1 billion for UCLA – and Charles “Jud” Panacci of Richfield Springs.

“They’re nonpareil healthcare fundraisers,” the magazine said.

Butt Of Jokes, Fruitcake Still Has Supporters – 2 Local Chefs Included FRUITCAKE, From B1 But to lure in the fruitcake skeptics, she would often make “jewel fruitcakes” in a small bundt pan and presents each in a gold cup, complete with her famous ribbon. “It’s very cute,” she said. “People are more likely to try it if it’s just a tiny bite. No one is going to eat a full fruitcake.”

Traditionally, fruitcakes were made for weddings as well as the holidays, since they were dense enough to travel well in a bumpy carriage. “They really do last forever,” said Doyle.

“That’s where the joke comes from.”

Rashida Germain, Oneonta, grew up making fruitcakes in Trinidad with her family. “This recipe was passed down from my great-grandmother,” she said. “From the time I was 10, I was making fruitcakes with my mother.”

Beginning in October, she starts soaking her fruits – she prefers citron, raisins, currants, pineapple and walnuts – in a mixture of cherry brandy and rum. “For the longest time, I couldn’t find cherry brandy around here.

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I had to have a friend bring it back from Trinidad.” she said. “Then just this last year, I saw it at Best Wine and Spirits!”

Her fruitcake recipe calls for a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a dozen eggs and as much as two pounds of flour, which yields four small cakes. “In Trinidad, we had salt butter, and my sister and I, our job was to wash the butter to get the salt out,” she said.

But the secret, she says, is to not add too much flour.

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bowl,” she said. “Then, it’s ready.”

And, of course, a generous helping of rum poured over top helps. “The longer you leave it in the liquor, the better it tastes,” she said. “It preserves itself.”

Germain gives away as many as 12 fruitcakes to friends every Christmas, as well as making them as custom orders. “I almost didn’t do them this year,” she admitted. “But when I told people that, they said

they were counting on me to make them!”

She even sends two to her children, daughter Sacheen in Florida and son PJ in California. “I made a fruitcake for Sacheen’s wedding,” she said. “For that, we put a white frosting on top, but not one that’s too sweet. Just sugar, butter and a little water.”

For her Christmas catering, Doyle also makes German stollen, Italian pannettone and plum pudding.

“A lot of people have never had plum pudding,” she said. “It’s a steamed cake, so it’s very moist. It doesn’t actually have plums in it, so I made a glaze with plum liquor and drizzle that over top, then put dried plums on as decoration.”

“Nothing has the punchline of a fruitcake,” said Doyle. “But a homemade one is really something different.”

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To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 20th day of October, 2016, at Cooperstown, New York.

Section 300.00 Block: 3 Lot: 65.01 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Oneonta, County of Otsego, New York and is more fully described as follows: BEGINNING at a maple tree on the north bounds of Southside Drive, which point is 243.80 feet +/- west of the property line dividing the lands of Galasso and Sutch; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive N 76° 31” W a distance of 137.76 feet to a point; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive N 69° 28’ W a distance of 65.04

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Subject to easement, covenants, and restriction of record.

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The post office address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is Michael F. TenEyck, P.O. Box 94, Worcester, NY 12197.

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THURSDAY-Friday, DECEMBER 1-2, 2016

Saturday, December 3

INDIAN CRAFT FAIR – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free Trade Crafts and Fashions from India with art auction at 2 p.m. The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta.

HOLIDAY PICTURES – 10 a.m.3 p.m. Pet pictures with Santa.

5x7 pictures $19. Brandow’s Feed & Seed, 4119 St. Hwy. 7, Oneonta. Info, http://www.brandowsfeedandpet.com/ ONEONTA SANTA – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Muller Plaza, Main St., Oneonta.

COOKIES & CRAFTS – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Enjoy cookies while shopping through a selection of crafts by local artists. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, http://uuso.org/ HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Includes book sign-

ings by local authors, , exhibit of original historical Christmas cards, unique handmade gifts by local crafters and artisans, and Santa’s Sleigh for family photos.

Fort Plain Museum, 389 Canal St., Fort Plain. Info, https://www. facebook.com/Fort-Plain-Museum-109880805699881.

OPEN HOUSE – 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. 40th Annual “Christmas at the Barn” in c. 1848 post- & beam carriage barn. Also Sun. Butternut Barn Primitives, 427 Butternut Rd., Richfield Springs just outside Village. Info, (315) 858-0964, www.butternutbarn. com/ CRAFT FAIR – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Will include local crafters, baked goods, and garage sale items.

Oneonta Community Christian School, 158 River St., Oneonta.

Info, (607)432-0383.

WASSAIL WEEKEND – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Demonstration

on how to make Wassail, the traditional holiday drink. Savory spices blended with sweet cider at The Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, 1800-505-6455, flycreekcidermill. com WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Create fun holiday gift baskets.

Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, flycreekcidermill.com SOUTHSIDE MALL SANTA – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Southside Mall, 5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta.

FESTIVAL OF TREES – Noon4 p.m. Holiday Tree and Gift Raffles. Also collecting Toys for Tots and non-perishable food donations. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. friendsofglimmerglass.com/ HOLIDAY MARKET – Noon-6 p.m. Final show of the season opens at Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley.

Through Dec. 22. Info, http:// cherrybranchgallery.com/ CHRISTMAS TEA & BAZAAR – 1-4 p.m. United Methodist Church of Cooperstown, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9540.

COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 1-5 p.m.Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ GIFT WRAPPING – 1-4 p.m.

Cooperstown Vet’s Club, 60 Main St, Cooperstown.

HOLIDAY MEETING – 1 p.m. Iroquois Chapter DAR invite you to celebrate the season. Also drawing the winners of the school fundraiser and presentation of DAR Community Service Award to a Worcester resident. Wieting

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UGLY SWEATER RUN – 1:30 p.m. Run around Cooperstown in your ugliest sweater. Begins and ends at Pioneer Park. Info, clarksportscenter.com/events/ rockin-around-cooperstown-uglysweater-run-walk/index.php SELF HELP WORKSHOP – 1:30-4:30 p.m. “Who am I” For anyone going through a transition in their life. Green Earth Market, 4 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, http://www.greenearthoneonta.com/ CHRISTMAS PARTY – 2-4 p.m. Children’s party with crafts, games, and a magic show. Join Santa for a party. Cooperstown Fire Hall, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownfd.org SANTA TRAIN – 2-4:30 p.m.

Afternoon train ride with Santa and Mrs. Claus and their helpers with holiday music, goodies and

refreshments. Dress. Tickets $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 for children (3-12), under 3 free.

Weekends through Dec. 17.

Reservations required, seating limited. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429.

CHARITY DINNER – 4-6 p.m.

Shepherds pie dessert. Dinner $6, take-out $8. Bring gloves, socks, hats or scarves. Items to be given to Family Services for those less fortunate. River St. Baptist Church, 133 River St., Oneonta. Info, raybernicegiannotti@hotmail.com or visit http://riverstreetbaptistchurch. weebly.com/ HOLIDAY DINNER/AUCTION – 5 p.m. Tickets $7.50. Benefits sponsored youth programs. Info, www.richfieldspringscommunitycenter.org or call (315)858-3200 FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m.

“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” Admission, $3.

Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu CONCERT – 7 p.m. Juice Newton performs her greatest hits.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St. Oneonta. Info, http://foothillspac.org/ CHORAL CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Catskill Choral Society presents “A Ceremony of Carols, The Joys of Christmas..” Also works by Pergolesis, three variations of Ave Maria from Franz Bieble, Franz Liszt and Morten Lauridsen. Cynthia Donaldson leads the Youth and Children’s Choirs singing “Christmas Bells Are Ringing” and more! 19 adults ($22 day of); $15 seniors ($18 day of); $12 students; under age 12 free. Info, tickets www. catskillchoral.org First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info, http:// catskillchoralsociety.com/ (Also Sun., 3 p.m. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown.)

FILM SCREENING – 9 p.m.

“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” Admission, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu

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WEAVERS STUDIO – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 20th annual Thistle Hill Weavers open studio and show room. Mill tours, refreshments, holiday cheer, gifts. 2:30 p.m.

Lecture on Hyde Hall curtain fabrics. Thistle Hill Weavers, 143 Baxter Rd., Cherry Valley (between Cherry Valley and Sharon Springs). Info, (518) 284-2729, thistlehillweavers.com, rabbitgoodythw@gmail.com HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. featuring quality, handmade crafts by local and regional crafters. Free admission. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta.

OPEN HOUSE – 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. 40th Annual “Christmas at the Barn” in c. 1848 post- & beam carriage barn. Also Sun. Butternut Barn Primitives, 427 Butternut Rd., Richfield Springs just outside Village. Info, (315) 858-0964, www.butternutbarn. com/ WASSAIL WEEKEND – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Demonstration on how to make Wassail, the traditional holiday drink. Savory spices blended with sweet cider at The Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, 1800-505-6455, flycreekcidermill. com MORE CALENDAR, B7

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Joseph Ruffino Sr., 78; Oneonta Restaurateur ONEONTA – JoSicily, for the United seph Ruffino Sr, States. In the years 78, who estabthat followed, he lished Ruffino’s worked hard in his Pizzeria in downnew country as a town Oneonta, farmer and later as a passed away construction worker. on Wednesday, Working in New Nov. 23, 2016, at York City, he was Bassett Hospital. reintroduced to He was born on Rosaria Altadonna, Joseph March 1, 1938, in whom he had known Ruffino, Sr. Carini, Sicily, the from his hometown son of Giuseppe in Sicily. As their and Rosa (Sgroi) Ruffino. relationship grew to marIn the late 1950s, barely riage, so grew their vision of 20, young Joseph, stone together finding the Ameriquarry worker, left Carini, can Dream. They were

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The lure of the countryside he so loved in Sicily and the influence of other family who preceded him here drew Giuseppe and his young family Upstate in the early 1970s. In 1972, he opened Joe Ruffino’s Pizzeria & Restaurant on Main Street.

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She was born on July 11, 1941; the daughter of Adaline Goss and Herman Kathmann.

In May 1963, Grace was elected as the youngest President of the Oneonta Jayncees. Continuing her social and civic duties, she attended the first Earth Day Celebration in 1970. There after she was an avid recycler and always found a second use for everything.

She volunteered to teach adult literacy and would spend her free evenings teaching in the Huntington Library in Oneonta. She was a founding member of the West Kortright Centre, in East Meredith. She will be remembered for her beautiful handcrafted birthday and wedding cakes. She made cakes for so many; including a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.

Throughout her career as a surgical tech, she was employed at AO Fox Hospital in Oneonta, Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA, and ended her career as traveler surgical tech; working in hospitals around the United States while enjoying seeing the country until she retired.

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She retired to Belleview, Fla. where she was an active as a member of the Belleview Art Club and with her church, collecting wedding dresses for women in Haiti.

She enjoyed antiques, outdoor activities, and hosting guests who came to visit her homes in Pennsylvania, Florida and New York; hosting both elegant dinner parties in her home to roasting hot dogs in her camping cabin with her grandchildren. Recently Grace moved to Canandaigua, and lived in Quail Summit Retirement Community where she met a true gentleman with whom she forged a special bond as her best friend and companion.

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SOUTHSIDE MALL SANTA – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Southside Mall, 5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta.

ART EXHIBIT – 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Return of the ‘Taj Garage: Finery & More from India and Nepal.�

One weekend only. Free admission. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, (607)547-5327, email leartgarage@gmail.com, or visit https:// www.facebook.com/TheArtGarageCooperstown/ GIFT SALE – 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church Chapel, Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, Mary Dunkle mdunkle@stny.rr.com FESTIVAL OF TREES – Noon-4 p.m. Holiday Tree and Gift Raffles. Also collecting Toys for Tots and non-perishable food donations. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown.

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Afternoon train ride with Santa and Mrs. Claus and their helpers with holiday music, goodies and refreshments. Dress. Tickets $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 for children (3-12), under 3 free.

Weekends through Dec. 17.

Reservations required, seating limited. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429.

CHORAL CONCERT – 3 p.m.

Catskill Choral Society presents “A Ceremony of Carols, The Joys of Christmas..� Also works by Pergolesis, three variations of Ave Maria from Franz Bieble, Franz Liszt and Morten Lauridsen. Cynthia Donaldson leads the Youth and Children’s Choirs singing “Christmas Bells Are Ringing� and more! 19 adults ($22 day of); $15 seniors ($18 day of); $12 students; under age 12 free. Info, tickets www. catskillchoral.org First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown.

Info, http://catskillchoralsociety. com/ CONCERT – 3 p.m. Friends of Music of Stamford present piano music and songs by Franz Schubert in honor of founder Lisa Kovalik, pianist. Stamford United Methodist Church, 88 Main St., Stamford. Info, http://www. friendsmusic.org MEMBERS RECEPTION – 5:30-7 p.m. NYS Historical Association Holiday Reception.

Celebrate the arrival of the holiday season and the release of “Art of the North American Indians� The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum.� RSVP by Mon., Nov. 26, (607) 547-1536.

Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5471536, fenimoreartmuseum. org/holidayreception FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m. “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children� Admission, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu CHRISTMAS CONCERT – 7 p.m. Join us for the 32nd annual Richard and Janet Nevins Young concert featuring the Catskill Brass Ensemble. Millpond community Center, Rte.. 80, Van Hornesville. Info, Carleton Clay (607)263-5230 or email claycc@ oneonta.edu or visit http://www. vhccorp.org/ FILM SCREENING – 9 p.m. “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children� Admission, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu

Monday, December 5

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Make a 3-D ornament in this workshop Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St, Oneonta.

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Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ READING CIRCLE – 6:30-8 p.m. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in New York State. Discussing “African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote� by Rosalyn Tarborg-Penn. 5838 NY-80, Cooperstown. For info email hartj35@oneonta.edu or call (607) 547-2586.

Tuesday, December 6

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Come see holiday decoration, art, gifts, Santa, and more. Cherry Valley Museum, 49 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, cherryvalleymuseum.com, (607) 264-3033.

3-D PRINTING – 1:30-3 p.m.

Design and print a snowflake.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ LWVNY MEETING – 7-9 p.m. League of Women Voters plans consensus study on issues in state legislature of outside income and full vs. part time legislature. Presbyterian Church House, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, Maureen Murray, president, (607) 547-2853 or email coopmurray@msn.com or Martha Clarvoe, membership chair, (607)293-6654 or email Martha.clarvoe@gmail.com ELEMENTARY WINTER CONCERT – 7 p.m. Milford Central School, 42 W. Main St., Milford.

Info, web.milfordcentral.org

Wednesday, December 7

HOLIDAY MARKET – 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Open house, art display, and handmade gifts. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, http://cherrybranchgallery.com/ RABIES CLINIC – 4-6 p.m.

Free rabies vaccination for cats, dogs, ferrets. Previous certificate must be presented for 3-year booster. Dogs on leash; cats and ferrets in pillow case or carrier.

Limit of 15 pets per person.

Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 NY 28, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-4230.

CHRISTMAS PARTY – 7 p.m.

Cooperstown Criterion Club holiday party. Members and guests should bring a gift to exchange.

Cooperstown Vet’s Club, 60 Main St., Cooperstown.

YARN CLUB – 6:30 p.m. For knitters and crocheters to learn and share skills and to work on winter projects. Registration preferred. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/adult-programs/

Thursday, December 8

TOASTMASTERS – 6-7 p.m.

Improve speaking and leadership skills and have fun in supportive Toastmasters club. Green Earth Natural Foods, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://oneonta. toastmastersclubs.org JR. HIGH WINTER CONCERT – 7:30-9 p.m.. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, http://www.cooperstowncs.org/

Friday, December 9

COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 3-6 p.m. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m. “The Accountant� starring Ben Affleck. Admission, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu FILM SCREENING – 9 p.m. “The Accountant� starring Ben Affleck. Admission, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu

Saturday, December 10

COOP FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine.

Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org BREAKFAST WITH SANTA – 9-11 a.m. Free and open for all ages. Reservations required.

Call Rost 783-2104, Laura 7832452. Grange Hall, 7 Bloom St., Gilbertsville.

ONEONTA SANTA – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Muller Plaza, Main St., Oneonta.

WASSAIL WEEKEND – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Demonstration on how to make Wassail, the traditional holiday drink. Savory spices blended with sweet cider at The Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, 1-800505-6455, flycreekcidermill.com SOUTHSIDE MALL SANTA – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Southside Mall, 5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta.

SANTA TRAIN – 2-4:30 p.m.

Afternoon train ride with Santa and Mrs. Claus and their helpers with holiday music, goodies and refreshments. Dress. Tickets $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 for children (3-12), under 3 free.

Weekends through Dec. 17.

Reservations required, seating limited. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1-2, 2016

A CHILLY RUN FOR A GOOD CAUSE Runners and walkers gathered on Thanksgiving Day to raise money for the Cooperstown Food Pantry and take a morning loop around the village. Front row, from left, are Emma Spinosa, Nancy Potter, Molly Pearlman. Second row, from left, are Alison Gridley w/baby Adalynn, Dee Crowell, Rose Craine, Greis Gomez, Meg Kiernan, Colette Tangel, Kyle Mackie, Stephanie Gannon, Christine McBreartyHulse. Third row, from left, are Aliza Curtis, Melissa Marietta, Mike Stein, Jim Hill, James Hill, Mike Hodgman, Ken Root, Jen Hulse.

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