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dmission to the annual First Night celebration will be free this year, thanks to a donation by LEAF and Five Star Subaru.

With the theme “Here Comes The Sun,” the alcohol free event features performances, magicians and headliners Alex Torres and his Latin Orchestra Dec. 31 at Foothills.

The parade also returns this year, starting at 6 p.m. on Main Street.

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►STATE SEN. JIM SEWARD, RMilford, and Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. will be sworn in at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1 at Foothills. ►FORTIN PARK will now be smoke- and tobacco-free, thanks to signage from the Advancing Tobacco-Free Communities program. ►LT. GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL spent Wednesday morning in Oneonta, first touring Corning and then shopping and dining on Main Street. ►KEVIN PERRY’S murder of his parents is the subject of a new in-depth report by the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin. ►TABLE ROCK BOULDERING, an indoor rock-climbing facility, will have it’s grand opening at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31.

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Stacie Haynes poses with members of her Susquehanna SPCA team – and cats up for adoption.

Others, from left, are Arlene Nygren, Goodyear Lake, Becca Daly, Oneonta, Darla Youngs, Hartwick, Betty Steele, Hartwick, Patty Johnson, Richfield Springs, Sue Leonard, Cherry Valley, Allison Hungerford, Mount Vision, Sara Haddad, Bainbridge, and Tania Puglia, Cherry Valley.

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he dorms were closed that holiday break, but Daniel Webster’s women’s basketball team had games to play, so the Nashua, N.H., college rented an off-campus townhouse for the players, and provided a food stipend.

When Coach Cori Hughes got the expense

vouchers, she called senior captain Stacie Haynes into her office.

“Some of the sophomores had gone out and gotten groceries,” Haynes remembered.

“And the receipt had cigarettes on it.”

Instead of reimbursement, Coach Hughes parceled out a series of sprints, not just for the second-years, but for everyone, and sent the team captain out to impose

the penalty. “I had to run sprints with the whole team,” Haynes said.

Only the sophomores had erred, but the whole team was punished. But instead of resenting what happened, Stacie, who a decade later reveres Cori Hughes as one of her many mentors, took it as a lesson in leadership.

“We’re a team. We own this. All of us,” said Haynes, who now leads a team of loyal staff and volunteers as director of the Susquehanna SPCA, and whose leadership, drive and can-do approach won her selection as Citizen of Please See CITIZEN, A4

County’s Heroin Epidemic Waning, Experts Say

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hen LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal heard the news, she could hardly believe it. “Terry Knapp, the coroner, told me that he has seen a 90 percent drop in heroin deaths over three years,” she said.

Chief Brenner, Judge Burns, LEAF’s Dostal, D.A. Muehl

“For the first time since 1993, we are starting to see a decrease in heroin usage.”

Three years after Dostal (The General), along with County Judge Brian Burns (The Oracle), District Attorney John Muehl (The Enforcer) and Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert (The Samaritan) were named Citizens of the Year for “Fighting Please See HEROIN, A3

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ne single small coin will help to make many people’s Christmas a little merrier this year, thanks to three anonymous benefactors, who donated an 1899 gold coin to Lettis Auctions, which auctioned it off for $510 to once again benefit the Salvation Army.

The 1899 coin is made from 97 percent gold and is considered in extra fine condition.

“The coin itself is not uncommon, it was how people were paid back then,” said one of the donors. “It was week’s salary at the time and is roughly equivalent to $320 today.”

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Barr, Sidney, was named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s List at Coastal Carolina University.

Barr is majoring in Marketing.

“In year’s past, one gentleman would drop a coin in one of the red kettles in the area.” explained Peter Davidson, Lettis Auction business manager. “But then you ran the risk of it getting lost, or thrown out if someone didn’t know what it was. By auctioning it off, it makes sure it is not lost and that every dime goes to the Salvation Army.”

“I’ve been blessed.” remarked one of the donors.

“I didn’t have much growing up, I was pretty poor. But a light shined on me and I worked hard and I wanted to give back. There are a lot of people out there who need basic things like food and clothing to keep them warm.

(The Salvation Army) can get them that. It’s just a good thing to do this time of year.”

TWO ARE TOPS: Melissa Roberts, Morris, was honored by SUNY Oneonta for completing leadership milestones in their LEAD program.

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The biggest reason for the decline, said Burns, is that all agencies involved in the crisis – prevention, law enforcement and healthcare – came together to fight it, creating the countywide Opioid Task Force in 2015.

“One of the big causes was that no one talked about it,” said Burns. “So we created partnerships. It wasn’t just a criminal-justice matter, it was a public health crisis. So we started treating it as one.”

Education was a key component, said Dostal. “We’ve given presentations to parents, professionals, medical providers and schools,” she.

“We have actively engaged with lawmakers on policy decisions, because we’ve found that when you lower access to the drug, fewer people use it.”

But education just wasn’t for potential users. “The pharmaceutical industry had doctors convinced that these pills weren’t addictive,” said Muehl. “But they were, and when people got cut off, they switched to heroin.

“Now,” he said, “doctors are more careful about prescribing them, they prescribe fewer of them and for shorter amounts of time.”

“Seventy percent of the people who showed up for heroin in my drug court was because they had run out of meds and they turned to the street,” said Burns.

“The number of people who have come in because they got addicted through legal prescriptions has gone down significantly.”

Additionally, the availability of Narcan – which helps bring users back from an overdose – has brought the death toll way down. “I have peers who got into recovery after they were brought back from an overdose and they tell their story,” said Dostal.

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Treatment is also easier to get, thanks to changes in insurance that require companies to cover treatment.

“It used to be that you had to fail in an out-patient program before you could go to an inpatient clinic,” said Dostal.

“But failing with opioids was often fatal.”

And though heroin arrests and usage is declining, the usage of cocaine and methamphetamines – and the manufacturing of the latter – are starting to rise.

While dangerous and illegal, cocaine doesn’t kill the way heroin does, Muehl said, and meth users generally aren’t selling their product.

“Users form a meth co-op and use what they cook,” he said.

The decline of heroin also means the decline of what Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner calls “ancillary crime.”

“When people are addicted to heroin, they commit a lot of smaller crimes,” he said. “Breaking into cars, breaking into houses. With fewer people addicted, we’ve seen those crimes decline.”

And now, said Burns, it’s about helping those in recovery move forward with their lives.

Earlier in December, Burns had a young Oneonta man graduate from his drug court. “He told me, ‘I woke up and I was 28-years-old, I haven’t achieved anything and I’m facing a felony charge for distribution,’ he said.

“He used to be a leader, well-respected on his sports teams, and we’re thrilled to have him back in the community.”

So thrilled, Burns said, that he reached out to Karen Brown, SUNY Oneonta’s admissions director. According to Burns, she has offered to give informal admissions counseling to anyone who graduates drug court.

“A few years ago, we didn’t even know help was needed,” he said. “Now, people in this community are willing to do whatever they can to help.”

But Dostal said there is still work to be done.

“There’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. “But the tunnel is very long.”

Friday, December 28

BUILD-A-THON – 10 a.m.

Children can build something with Magnatiles this holiday break.

Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

BLOOD DRIVE – 1 - 6 p.m.

Donate blood, save a life. Main Dining Room, Cooperstown Center, 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Road, Cooperstown. 607-5442672.

FUNDRAISER – 6 p.m.

Cat Yoga with Lisa Brown and Susquehanna SPCA. All proceeds to Susquehanna SPCA. Suggested donation, $10. Bring your own mat, be prepared to meet adoptable kitties. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown.

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FUNDRAISER – 6 - 10 p.m.

Celebrate the end of 2018 with Superheroes in Ripped Jean at ‘Cat tails & Cocktails’ event.

Semi-formal wear encouraged, award presented to best dressed.

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Covers admission, 2 drinks, hors d’oeuvres, raffle ticket. My Father’s Place, 5690 St. Hwy. 7, Oneonta. 607-441-3227.

Saturday, December 29

CELEBRATION – 11 a.m.

- Noon. Celebrate a new year with games, themed crafts, a ‘toast’ at noon. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-0230.

Monday, December 31

FROSTBITE 5K – 1 p.m. Run through scenic Oneonta this New Year’s Eve. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-4320010 ext. 205.

SIT N’ KNIT – 1 - 2 p.m. Work on knitting or hand-stitching project. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-0230.

CELEBRATION – 6 p.m. Midnight. Free admission! Fireworks at 10. Ring out 2018 with pizza party before parade down Main St., performances by Alex Torres and his Latin orchestra.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Visit firstnightoneonta. com FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9

p.m. Non-instructional drawing with live model. Poses chosen by consensus. Cost $12/class.

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Tuesday, January 1

SWEARINGS-IN – 1 p.m., State Sen. Jim Seward, Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr., new coroners, 1 p.m., Foothills Atrium, South Market Street, Oneonta.

SWEARING-IN/WEDDING – 5 p.m., Assembly Chris Tague (Cherry Valley, Roseboom, Decatur,Worcester) and Dana Buzon, SUNY Cobleskill Bouck Ballroom.

Wednesday, January 2

STATE OF STATE BREAKFAST – 8 a.m. Local state legislators discuss upcoming session, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta, sponsored by Otsego County Chamber, $25 per person, reservations due by Friday, Dec. 28, by calling 432-4500, ext.

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Friday, January 4

FILM SERIES – 7 p.m.

Discrimination Matters film series presents “Loving,” about the story of Richard and Mildred Loving.

Open discussion to follow. Free, open to public. Light snacks available, or bring your own. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta. https://oneonta. campuslabs.com/engage/ event/2747307 CONTRADANCE – 7:30 p.m.

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Stacie Haynes Latest ‘Citizen’ To Win Everyone’s Appreciation

n early 2015, when the credentials of Hometown Oneonta/ The Freeman’s Journal “20 Under 40” honorees were published in this newspaper, Stacie Haynes – one of the 20 – called to say how impressed she was by everyone’s accomplishments.

“I’m not worthy,” she said.

It was explained to her that an independent panel of community leaders from Oneonta and Cooperstown had convened, reviewed nominations from the public, and chosen the 20 as among the most promising young people in Otsego County.

The newspaper’s editors hadn’t made the selection and, under the guidelines, had no standing to add or remove anyone.

This year, though, Stacie Haynes, now executive director of the Susquehanna SPCA, more than proved the “20 Under 40” judges’ confidence.

• Again and again, through no effort at publicity on her part, Haynes appeared in the pages

of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal.

The most dramatic instances came on April 14, when 103 starving farm animals were discovered near Garrattsville, and Oct. 3, when a Milford woman surrendered 53 Lhasa Apsos. But the year was peppered with animalcruelty crises.

In each instance, Haynes and her team of volunteers leaped into action, finding medical care and shelter for dogs in need, and cats and pigs and donkeys – you name it. Even a parakeet.

What was most astonishing was Stacie’s demeanor through all this, relaxed, in-control, even cheerful.

If, as Conan Doyle had it, “My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built” – then Stacie’s mind is built for the task at hand.

• Which, of course, prompts ruminations about all of this newspaper’s Citizens of the Year, who have been named annually since

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When streets needed cleaning during the record Cal Ripken Jr. induction, Citizen of 2007 Carol B. Waller got to work.

2006, when Cherry Valley Town Supervisor Tom Garretson jousted with windmills and won.

So many of those citizens were

happy warriors, taking on tasks others would find daunting, even forbidding, and bringing them to successful completion.

In 2007, Cooperstown’s thenmayor, Carol B. Waller, was the Citizen for the village’s successful hosting of Cal Ripken Jr.’s Induction, the largest on record. That photo of the diminutive lady grabbing a broom and sweeping up trash on Main Street is iconic of what all “The Citizens” do.

Margaret L. Drugovich, 2016 Citizen, steered Hartwick College through the difficult Great Recession and emerged victorious, obtaining funding for $66 million in construction and long-delayed renovations.

Pastor Sylvia Barrett, 2017 Citizen, is rebuilding her Milford Methodist Church from the ashes of a raging fire, as witnessed by anyone driving along that stretch of Route 28 lately.

State Sen. Jim Seward, 2013 Citizen, is rising above the Republican’s loss of the state Senate on Nov. 6, emerging as ranking

minority member of the powerful Finance Committee. You can’t keep a good person down.

• Of course, Stacie Haynes biggest challenge is just beginning: In 2019, Susquehanna SPCA is seeking to raise $2 million for a 21st century animal shelter to replace a worn and never-optimum decades-old campus.

With everyone’s help, the fund drive will succeed, and a large part will be due to Stacie. SPCA Board President Gaylord Dillingham described her as “indefatigable ... She works incredibly hard, and she always does it with a smile on her face.”

That tribute could apply to most of the two-dozen Citizens of the Year to date (that includes the dozen Citizens of 2011: the whole City of Oneonta Charter Commission).

We’re lucky to have them among us. Thanks to you all, and to the many among us not yet recognized on our pages, but revered by their neighbors.

‘She Works Incredibly Hard ... With A Smile On Her Face’ surrenders and adoptions, CITIZEN/From A1 the Year for 2018 by Home- which have doubled since Haynes became executive town Oneonta, The Freedirector at the end of 2015. man’s Journal and www.

“She is indefatigable,” AllOTSEGO.com.

Stacie Haynes’ mettle was said Gaylord Dillingham, tested this year in particular Susquehanna SPCA board by two of the largest animal- president. “It can be a seven-day job. Whatever cruelty cases in the history the issue, she’s there. She of the Hartwick Seminary facility with Otsego-county- works incredibly hard, and she always wide reach: does it with a • On April smile on her 14, 103 starvface.” ing animals “There – pigs, donaren’t many keys, chickens leaders who and tightly understand caged dogs, the concept of including Pyrneeding help,” enees – were said Barremoved from bara Carr, Erie a farm near County SPCA Garrattsville.

The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA Stacie Haynes with executive • On Oct. Stacie Haynes meets one of her charges on the day of her appointment in Misty, who engendered director and 2, 53 ailing October 2015.

With her are Susquehanna SPCA Vice President Kathy Clarka consultant Lhasa Apsos her love of animals. son, past president Bill Elsey, and incoming president Gaylord Dillingham. to the local were surrenshelter. “…Stacie is like dered by a Milford woman, tive Downsville, Delaware 2007 at Suffolk University the wheelchair. It gives you this giant sponge who wants County. Stacie’s younger the largest single influx on in Boston. That added poli- the right perspective from to know more and more, and brothers, Danny, now 34 record in the shelter’s 100tics to her enthusiasms. The the first day. It was a life better and better. year history. and a basketball coach at campus was right behind the lesson.”

“Not only is she a good Then there were the cats a Maine prep school, and Massachusetts’ statehouse In 2008 she joined in a West Oneonta hoarding leader now, she’s going to Dusty, now 32 and a driller on Beacon Hill, and she’d Delaware County Hospital be a greater leader all her situation, dogs abandoned in New York City, rounded walk back the forth to class in Walton in “fund developlife because of the way she in Oneonta, pigs found out the family. through protests. ment,” experience that will looks for information. It’s neglected at the end of a Stacie quickly became Master’s in hand, Patches be helpful in the year ahead very impressive,” Carr said. close to granddad Art dirt road in Laurens, and brought her home – that as the $2 million “Shelter Stacie was born in Virgin- Shaver – “a Shaver of two chained and emaciated was her mother’s Bluetick Us” campaign for a new hounds in the Town of Pitts- ia, but her parents, Nancy Shavertown,” a hamlet now Coonhound/Bassett mix, “a shelter proceeds to compleand Gary Haynes, soon field woods, not to mention submerged in New York nasty dog,” “a garbage dog” tion; the plan is to open the moved back to their nathe daily give and take of City’s Pepacton Reservoir.

– “my mother tried to give doors in May 2020.

He introduced her to her her away a couple of times,” One highpoint of her year first dog, Misty, a Colliesaid Stacie. Of course, she there: A colleague set up a Sheltie mix, an elder sister’s loved Patches nonetheless, blind date for her with Luke perfect “therapy dog” when and “I wanted to be home Spencer, an estimator with dealing with two “wild, for her when she moved on Jet Industries (now Kiewitt crazy” younger brothers. to Doggie Heaven.”

Corp.) in Colliersville, ex& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch The little girl thought The enthusiasm Stacie plaining – as Stacie declares James C. Kevlin “Misty was my dog,” only displays today is evident as with her disarming frankEditor & Publisher realizing when the lovshe talks about her career ness – “He’s a weirdo, you ing little doggy died at age before joining the SPCA, are a weirdo. You ought to Tara Barnwell 15 that she really was her beginning in 2007 with Arc meet.”

Advertising Director & General Manager grandfather’s dog. Noneof Delaware County, and its It worked out. The theless, Misty cemented “vantage point” orientation. two married and are raisLibby Cudmore Stacie’s growing love of Day One, everyone who ing a family – so far, two

Managing Editor animals. joins Arc “spends a day in daughters, Meadow, 4, and Going through Downs Amanda E. Willsey Larissa Ryan ville Central School, Stacie

Business Manager Office Manager/Circulation was immersed in sports – soccer, basketball, soft Thom Rhodes Ian Austin ball; her senior year, she

Advertising Consultant Photographer added track. “It was my Kathleen Peters • Graphics & Production life,” she said.

Considering college, “I

Judith Bartow Tom Heitz wanted to play soccer,” and

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She graduated from E-mail: info@allotsego.com • www.allotsego.com Daniel Webster (since closed) in 2005, and went on to obtain a master’s in The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA Stacie Haynes lets one of the 53 Lhasa Apsos surpublic administration in

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rendered Oct. 2 to the shelter know is it loved.

Eleanor, 15 months – in his hometown of Westford.

(Ellie is named after Stacie’s current dog.)

A six-year stint followed at DCMO BOCES in Norwich, organizing enrichment programs like the Regional Scripps Howard Spelling Bee and Odyssey of the Mind. There, another mentor, Kerrie Johnston, now a Sidney Central assistant superintendent, entered her life.

“She is just so levelheaded and intelligent in every move she makes,” said Stacie.

She remembers an early example: One year, somehow the usual souvenir T-shirts hadn’t been ordered for an off-site BOCES program and the host teacher “was upset, yelling and making a scene.”

Johnston was unflappable. “We hear you, we understand you. This is really good feedback,” Johnston advised the angry woman consolingly.

Said Stacie, “She totally de-escalated a situation that was out of control.

I’ve used that experience a lot in my life.”

Kerrie also pushed Stacie to grow, enrolling her in 2013 in the county chamber’s Otsego Leadership program. “I made so many friends and contacts,” she said, among them Fly Creek Cider Mill proprietor Bill Michaels and Meg Kiernan, now the Otsego town supervisor. “These people really helped me.”

That led to Stacie organizing the annual Cider Run fundraiser at the Cider Mill, which now benefits the shelter annually, this year to the tune of $8,000.

In 2014, as Haynes moved to ONC BOCES’ CROP program – commuting to Norwich, she had been dropping off baby Meadow at daycare at 7 a.m. and not picking her up until 5:30 – she was also selected by an independent panel as one of this newspaper’s “20 Under 40” honorees, and was celebrated with 19 cohonorees in February 2015 at a reception at Springbrook.

Later that year, shaken by the shootings at Sandy Hook, she ran for the Schenevus school board and was elected; the interim superPlease See CITIZEN, A5

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Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

150 Years Ago

Calling at the new Methodist Episcopal Church on Chestnut Street the other day, we found the work going ahead rapidly. The joiners will soon be ready for the plasterers and soon after the seats, pulpit and other work will follow. We like the plan of the house very much. It seems to combine so many conventional and comfortable features for the choir, the classes and the Sunday school. Great credit is due to the contractors, Messrs. Cornish and Hasbrouck for the thorough manner in which they are doing up the job which will soon be one of the chief ornaments of our village.

December 1868

80 Years Ago

nally,” Donald Roe, Oneonta RD2 said. “One of my friends found it in an attic on Fonda Avenue several years ago, and it has been kicking around ever since.” Donald wants to find out how it is played. Donald plays the Spanish guitar and the 32 stringed instrument fascinates him.

December 1958

40 Years Ago

Unlike cities across New York State, Oneonta’s Salvation Army post will not have to cut back on services in the coming year. Collection amounts during the holiday season were down throughout New York State. This will mean, in many locations, that services will have to be either curtailed or cut out altogether for the coming year unless a windfall develops. In Oneonta, however, Salvation Army spokesman Captain Edsel Wheatley said holiday donations held steady with last year’s. He said that while collections were slow at the start of the organization’s holiday fund drive, a spurt developed during the past two weeks which has driven totals to last season’s levels.

December 1978

125 Years Ago

One of the most “taking” window signs in Oneonta during the holiday season was that which was displayed by W.A. Hunter’s. A life size figure of a clown in motley garb tapped every half minute on the window and with alluring winks beckoned the passerby. All day Saturday a crowd stood in front of the store, watching the clown.

The “Black Crook” will be on the boards at the Metropolitan Theatre Saturday evening. T.H. Dickson, well known in Oneonta, is a member of the company, taking the part of “Rudolph.” Mr. Dickson writes us, requesting that we invite “all the ladies to turn out in full force, as there is nothing immoral in the piece.”

December 1893

100 Years Ago

Oneonta Italian Wounded fighting for the U.S. – One Oneonta soldier is included among the casualties reported Tuesday by the War Department. He is Private Sista Sardiello, an Italian, and his next-of-kin is Sam Sardiello, 3 Grace Place, Oneonta. Private Sardiello is listed among those who were slightly wounded in action. In letters recently received from men of the Twenty-Seventh Division they describe graphically the heavy fighting at Kemmell Hill and the later advance across the Hindenburg line.

Fighting with the British, New York State men hacked their

December 1938 way to victory until the signing of the Armistice found the division in the task of re-conquering a part of war-ridden Belgium. One description of the battle says an American barrage on Kemmell Hill made the earth look like “boiling water.” Sergeant Ben A. Franklin writes that he has seen mere boys stop in the inferno and calmly light a cigarette, and then go on. “They showed no more agitation than a fan at a baseball game in the Polo Grounds.”

December 1918

60 Years Ago

It has 32 strings, is 28 inches long, about 5 and a half inches wide and an inch and a half deep. It is called a Hawaiian Art guitar. The big problem seems to be – how to play it. “I don’t know exactly where it came from origi-

Haynes Faces Biggest Challenge: $2M Fund Drive

CITIZEN/From A4 intendent was Mike Virgil, another mentor. About that time, SPCA began a search for a new executive director, and Shannon Stockdale, an Oneonta friend, suggested Stacie.

“I immediately said yes,” Haynes remembered, even though the salary and benefits were less than at BOCES. “If you’d asked me when I was 10-years-old, I would have said that was the job I wanted. Also, president of the United States.”

As she arrived at her job in the low-slung buildings at 4841 Route 28 in Hartwick Seminary with a vision, shaped by Kerrie Johnston and her BOCES experience: “I wanted us to run like a professional organization.

You can’t achieve that overnight.”

First, Stacie focused on maintenance, cleaning up the buildings, eradicating as much of the mold as possible.

She sought to put a more friendly face on the operation. It used to take four days to adopt, now people can leave with an animal on the first visit. That follows National Humane Society guidelines, based on reasoning that 23 hours a day in a kennel is a less-than-optimum situation.

Weekly, students visit from Springbrook, Arc Otsego and Pathfinder Village, as well as Boy and Girl

Stacie Haynes holds daughter Meadow, now 4, and husband Luke Spencer holds daughter Eleanor, now 15 months, at Ellie’s baptism. The dogloving mom named her youngest daughter after her current pet, a 12-year-old retriever mix.

Scouts. Some perform specific tasks, others just want to pet cats, which is fine.

“The more cats get used to people, the more they feel loved, the more likely they are to be adopted,” said the director.

While it’s an animal shelter, “what we do here also impacts people,” Stacie said.

She tells the story about a young man who broke into tears in the lobby. He was dropping off two dogs that his grandparents could no longer care for, and he was prohibited from having pets in his apartment. “He left here feeling much better,” she said.

She also welcomed the arrival of Barbara Carr, a top consultant who spends a few days a month locally, and

recently got Stacie onto the board of the influential New York State Animal Protection Federation. Generally urban-focus, the APF would benefit from someone with a more rural orientation, Stacie reasons.

While the “Shelter Us” fund drive is job one, it’s not the only forward-thinking initiative: She’s approached District Attorney John Muehl and county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., and they are enthusiastic about collaborating on an Animal Cruelty Task Force to approach the challenges systematically.

All this has been possible through a forward-looking

board, she said. When she arrived, most of her board members were brand new, “so no one’s clinging to the past.”

All of this feeds her enthusiasm. At the end of a challenging, even grueling year, she says, “It’s a dream job. You get to meet the best people on earth, people who love animals and want to take care of animals.”

Yes, animal cruelty is a problem. “But for every one or two people who are cruel to animals, there are 50 people who want to help.”

To end where we began, Stacie’s team-captain support for her cigarette-smoking Daniel Webster teammates is just half the story: Her senior year, she was caught with beer in her dorm room, a training violation.

As her punishment, mentor Cori Hughes ordered her team captain to attend an alcohol-counseling class.

“I was really upset,” Stacie remembers. “I let my coach down. I let my team down.”

When she went to the class, though, the teammates she’d run sprints with showed up in a show of solidarity, respect and affection.

As Stacie Haynes is proving again at the Susquehanna SPCA, if the leader is there for her team, the team is there for their leader.

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Decisions by the boards of A.O. Fox Hospital and Bassett Healthcare to forge a new relationship with Fox as a Bassett affiliate will provide opportunities to coordinate the delivery of health care services within the region and to support the missions of both organizations according to Dr. William Streck, president and chief executive officer of Bassett Healthcare. For Fox this means serving as a community hospital for the Oneonta region with support of specialty services provided from Bassett. For Bassett this means serving as the source of specialty care for the region and continuing the initiatives in research and education that comprise the other missions of Bassett. For both organizations this means effective use of resources, more convenience for patients and learning from one another as we move forward,” Streck writes. This affiliation is timely given the politics of healthcare regionally and nationally.

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By Far, ‘Shelter Us’ Contributors Winning Benefactor’s Contest in the lead in total donations,” said Laura DeStefanis, Staffworks brand ith just 104 manager. donors, the This means that in all, Susquehanna more than $70,000 could SPCA has raised $50,048, be donated to the shelter’s as part of the $2 million capital Staffworks Savecampaign, which a-Life campaign. will help build “These are just a new shelter, the early stages complete with a of community surgical suite, two outreach, but the entrances – one response has been ►TO DONATE, for adoptions and follow link at good,” said Gayone for surrenders SQSPCA.org lord Dillingham, – as well as rooms board president where potential and chairman of the $2 families can get to know million “Shelter Us” cam- their new pet. paign aimed at building a The hope is to break new shelter. ground in spring 2019 and Twenty animal rescue move in a year later. organizations across CenWhen the capital tral New York were chosen campaign launched in late for the campaign, and November, $780,000 was Staffworks will match up raised, with $500,000 of to $10,000 in donations. that coming from a state An extra $10,000 will be grant. given to the organization In addition to the Save-a-Life donations, which raises the most money.

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MEETING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Representatives of the County of Otsego will hold its regular meetings on the first Wednesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. However, when the date fixed for a regular meeting of the County Board falls on a legal holiday, the meeting shall be held on the day following. The meetings will be held in the Board Chambers on the second floor of the County Office Building in Cooperstown, New York.

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Dated: December 27, 2018

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Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/26/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Reg. Agents, 90 State St., Ste. 700, #40, Albany, NY 12207.

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NOTICE OF A 30 DAY PERIOD FOR INCLUSION OF LAND INTO CERTIFIED AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS

Notice of Formation of

THIS NOTICE is given pursuant to Article 7 of the Open Meetings Law.

NOTICE is hereby given that Otsego County has established an annual 30 day period during which landowners can submit proposals to include viable agricultural land within certified agricultural districts outside of the eight year review period.

NOTICE is further given that said annual 30 day period in Otsego County begins January 1 of each year and closes 30 days thereafter.

NOTICE is further given that during this 30 day review period any landowner may submit proposals of viable agricultural land to be included into a certified agricultural district by filing requests with the Clerk of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, said requests to include the agricultural district into which the land is proposed to be included, a description of the land and the tax map identification number(s).

NOTICE is further given that at the termination of the 30 day period all proposals will be submitted to the Otsego County Ag-

Melody Village Manager LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/26/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Reg. Agents, 90 State St., Ste. 700, #40, Albany, NY 12207.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of Melody Village Owner LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/26/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Reg. Agents, 90 State St., Ste. 700, #40, Albany, NY 12207.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formation of MDFARMEQ, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed

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with the SSNY on 12/12/18.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 807 County Highway 35, P.O. Box 155, Maryland, NY 12116.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: OSTERHOUDT MECHANICAL LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 December 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5940 St Hwy 7, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of formation of Friends of the Trans Adirondack Route, LLC. Article of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) 5/21/13.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

Purpose of LLC: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Street address of Principal Business location is 246 Southside Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.

County of Principle Business is Otsego.

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Notice of formation of Sugarhouse Farms Limited Liability Company in Otsego County.

Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on December 4, 2018, NS is designated as agent upon whom process may be served, NS shall mail service of process (SOP) to 3 Michael Drive, Schenectady, NY 12303.

The purpose of Sugarhouse Farms LLC is to operate

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County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it to: The LLC, 45-75 159th St., Flushing, NY, 11358.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 568 St Hwy 166, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of formation of B.C.E. HOME SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/12/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 304 Main St., Schoharie, NY 12157, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of The Parish Paper, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/1/2018.

Office Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 41 Ford Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) HUNT’S REAL ESTATE PROPERTIES LLC The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on October 29, 2018.

OFFICE LOCATION: Otsego County.

The Secretary of state is designated as Agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 297 Shaw Brook rd, South New Berlin, NY 13843.

PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: SUMMIT GROVE BUILDERS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 13 November 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 8211 St Hwy 80, Springfield Center, NY 13468.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: ANTHONY WAHL PROPERTY LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 1 November 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 568 St Hwy 166, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of Craft 174 LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/20/18.

Off. loc.: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: 174 Underwood Dr., Otego, NY 13825.

Purp.: any lawful purp.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the limited liability company is: DMT Holdings I, LLC (the “Company”).

The date of filing of the Articles of Organization of the Company with the Secretary of State was July 30, 2018.

The county in which the principal place of business of the Company shall be located is Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company, to Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP, Attn: Ronald L. Greene, Esq., 80 Exchange Street, Suite 700, Binghamton, NY 13901.

The purpose of the business of the Company is any lawful business purpose.

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Name: ANTHONY WAHL REAL ESTATE LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 27 November

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. 1023/2014 REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC

Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

DANIEL CROWELL, OTSEGO COUNTY TREASURER, AS ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; RONALD CHESLA, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; CHRISTOPHER CHESLA, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; PAMELA CHESLA, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; CRYSTAL (SURNAME UNKNOWN), AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF

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NEW YORK; Defendants.

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 79 SOLAR BLUFF WORCESTER, NY 12197

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 Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; 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.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $165,000.00 and interest, recorded on June 11, 2007, at Liber 1524 Page 661, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 79 SOLAR BLUFF WORCESTER, NY 12197.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclo-

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sure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: Matthew Ingber, Esq. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalJan.3 Legal nOtice

Notice of Formation of Professional Service Limited Liability Company (PLLC) Name: Leatherstocking Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and NP in Acute Care Services PLLC; d/b/a: Leatherstocking Anesthesia and Acute Care. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 21, 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

The SSNY has been designated as the agent of the PLLC upon whom processes against the PLLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the PLLC, 225 Bristol Road Hartwick, NY 13348. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of David Benjamin LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/8/18. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 165 W. End Ave, Apt 17D, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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FRIDAY, december 28, 2018

IN MEMORIAM Gregory P. Savage, 70, Oneonta; Retired Submariner, Hartwick Music Grad ONEONTA – Gregory Philip Savage, 80, a Hartwick College music major and retired submariner, died in his home peacefully on Dec. 21. Survivors include his wife in Oneonta.

Gregory was born on Nov. 6, 1948, in Hudson, the son of the late Evelyn and Philip Savage. He grew up in Stuyvesant, and graduated from Ichabod Crane High School.

He attended Hartwick College as a music major.

While attending there he also directed the choir at Elm Park Methodist Church.

In 1970, he enlisted in the Navy, serving his country for 20 years in the subma-

rine fleet. After retiring as a chief electrical petty officer, he worked at Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan for 13 years.

He then went back to the love of music and took his talent to creating wedding videos and owned Digital Memories Video until 2017.

Besides his wife of 47 years, Eleanor Beach Savage of Oneonta, survivors include his son Christopher and wife Rosa of Boca Raton, Fla., daughter Nicole Alysse and husband Brian of Lakewood, Ohio, eight grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Also surviving is his sister Shannon M. Savage of Amsterdam.

Letha M. Hulbert, 95, Oneonta; Worked At Hartwick, Greater Plains ONEONTA – Letha M. Hulbert, 95, who worked in Hartwick College’s and Greater Plains Elementary School’s dietary departments, passed away Dec. 19, 2018, at Fox Hospital.

She was born March 29, 1923, in Beerston, near Walton, the daughter of Jesse and Anna (Pearsall) Beers.

Letha married Clifford Hulbert on March 24, 1940, in Franklin. He passed away on Nov. 15, 2012.

Letha worked in the dietary department at Hartwick College and was a lunch aide at the Oneonta Greater Plains School. She was a member of the Women of the Moose and the Sidney Boat Club.

She is survived by her children, Randolph (Susena) Hulbert and Carla (Paul) Simonds; son-in-law, Joe McAdams; daughter-in-law,

Janice Hulbert; 16 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; numerous great-great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her children, Patricia McAdams, Harry Hulbert and Vaughn Hulbert; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild, and her siblings, Earl Beers and Pauline Peck.

A funeral was held Saturday, Dec. 22, at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, with the Rev. Sylvia Barrett, officiating. Interment will be at the Cook Cemetery followed by a reception at the West Oneonta Baptist Church.

Donations may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital or Cook Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley and Pietrobono Funeral Home.

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A celebration of life for Gregory will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday Dec. 29, at Elm Park Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta, with Rev. Donna Martin, pastor, officiating.

In lieu of flowers please consider donating to The American Kidney Foundation, or Elm Park Methodist Church music fund in Greg’s name.

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MLS#119170 $164,900 Beautiful Cape Cod Home Built in 2003 on almost 3 acres w/3 BRs, 1 bath, stunning kitchen w/granite counters, hickory cabinets, hardwood floors.

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MLS#117614 $349,000 Fabulous 3-story Colonial 3,884 sq ft on 6+ acres.

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MLS#119271 $59,900 Beautiful Setting Nestled in the Catskills hamlet of Bloomville. Views of valley and river below. 3-BR, 2-bath home at an affordable price.

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WEEK 2 A few moments after this swearing-in, county Rep. David Bliss, RCooperstown/ Town of Middlefield, was elected chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, ending the heavy handed sixyear tenure of Kathy Clark, R-Otego.

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Three pensive Lhasa Apsos, a breed that guards palaces and monasteries in Nepal, look out from kennels at the Susquehanna SPCA on Tuesday, Oct. 2. They were among 53 of the little dogs rescued from a Milford home, the largest seizure in the animal shelter’s history. The cache of doggies was discovered after an Otsego County sheriff’s deputy was called to the scene the day before to resolve a neighborhood dispute.

Within a week, all the adorable pups had been adopted by families from across Central New York.

WEEK 29

Former Schuyler Lake fire chief Bob Hugick, the officer in charge at the scene, stands in the depression where an XNG rig carrying compressed natural gas flipped off Route 28 just south of Schuyler Lake on July 11. The crash, the fourth involving XNG trucks since the Bostonbased company started its “virtual pipeline” between Pennsylvania’s fracking fields and the Iroquois pipeline near Little Falls in February 2017, prompted calls by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and others for the company to rethink its strategy. By October, XNG had reduced number of trucks crossing the county daily from 80-90 to a handful, shifting the traffic to straighter, wider Route 8 in Chenango County.

WEEK 38

Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado is swamped by thrilled fans like Ginger Heitz, Cooperstown, and Kat Chiba, right, Cherry Valley, when he dropped by the Cherry Valley Kite Festival Sept. 22. At that point, Delgado had already defeated six other candidates in the June 26 Democratic primary, and would go on to defeat the incumbent U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, in the Nov. 6 general election, despite – or because of – attack ads built around the Rhodes Scholar’s and Harvard Law School grad’s short career as a rap artist in Los Angeles a decade earlier. In the background is Phil Durkin, Roseboom, the former county rep.

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WEEK 1

EDITIONS OF JAN 25-26: Pastor Sylvia Barrett shakes hands with convicted arsonist Gerald Althiser after he was sentenced for setting the March 12, 2017, blaze that destroyed the Milford United Methodist Church.

WEEK 3

EDITIONS OF JAN. 4-5: Mike Inserra, aka Mike the Juggler, Oneonta, tosses his pins while the First Night Sun Spirit looks on during New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Foothills Performing Arts Center.

WEEK 5

EDITIONS OF JAN 18-19: Katie and Robert Duncan, daughter and son-inlaw of “Big Chuck” D’Imperio, gave birth to their daughter Tessa just days after having to hide in a shelter in Hawaii after what turned out to be a false threat of incoming missiles.

EDITIONS OF FEB 1-2: Tossing his head, Captain Max shows a champion’s spirit while owner Donna Wilson looks on admiringly.

Along with Royal Rex, the pair of Rolling Meadow Clydesdales, Town of Richfield, had racked up a serious slate of awards, including Max being named Reserve All American.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The dates on the captions represent the editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal in which they were published.

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WEEK 6 EDITIONS OF FEB. 8-9: Wearing his official Fédération Internationale de Ski uniform, Milford’s Douglas Hall holds up his official credential that opened doors for him when he arrived in Seoul, South Korea, a few days to ensure consistent conditions for women’s ski events at the Yongpyong Alpine Center during the Winter Olympics.

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EDITIONS OF FEB. 22-23: Exhilarated Reporter Parker Fish and Anna Giangregorio emerge from icy waters at the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump, which raised a record $128,000 for local recipients. Parker wrote a first-person account of the experience.

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EDITIONS OF 15-16: Lacey Perry and friends Kelsey Jacha and Brynnlee Burr, ride a huge inflatable duck, one of the highlights of the Cooperstown Winter Carnival’s Blizzard of Family Fun in Lakefront Park.

EDITIONS OF MARCH 1-2: Gretchen Sorin, director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, spoke to a packed room at First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown, about her thesis on “The Green Book,” a guide for black travelers during the Jim Crow era before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 integrated all public facilities. The book is the basis of a documentary, “Driving While Black,” that famed filmmaker Ken Burns’ brother Rick is directing, to be broadcast on PBS next year. In November, Sorin and Burns again packed a hall, this time The Fenimore Museum auditorium, for a Q&A and initial screening of the film.

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EDITIONS OF MARCH 8-9: Tentrr Director of Manufacturing Jim Hanley shows off a “glamping” suite being produced by a 22-worker assembly line in Oneonta’s Pony Farm Industrial Park. The operation closed for the winter, but is expected to reopen when camping weather returns in the sprlng.

EDITIONS OF MARCH 22-23: With the March elections, Cooperstown native Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, a veteran village trustee, was elevated to mayor of Cooperstown, succeeding Chicagoan Jeff Katz, who retired after six years at the helm, 13 on the Village Board.

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EDITIONS OF MARCH 1516: Will the real Craig Van Cott please stand up?

Aided with masks and a Sergeant Pepper costume, the Unalam president won the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s Guest Conductor Contest Saturday, March 10, helping raise a record $42,991 at the annual fundraiser.

EDITIONS OF MARCH 29-30: Toby Green, Milford, drew 40 bullet holes in his sign to show how quickly an AR-15 could kill innocent people as part of the March For Our Lives walk on Saturday, March 24, in Oneonta that sought to raise consciousness about gun violence after the Feb. 14 killing of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

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State of the State Breakfast Wednesday, January 2 · 8 am Registration 8:00 am Breakfast & Program 8:30 am SUNY Oneonta • Morris Hall Otsego Grille

Join us to learn more about the state of Otsego County in this informative breakfast meeting!

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EDITIONS OF APRIL 12-13: Buzz Hesse points out a projectile made of Macungie jasper from Pennsylvania that suggests the range of early hunter-gatherers documented in his Hesse’s Archaeological Museum, just opened on his Otego property. Hesse, a trained archaeologist, collected many of the artifacts over a decades-long career as an auctioneer.

WEEK 16

EDITIONS OF APRIL 5-6: Vincent Diglia, Unadilla, a veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, shows off his two largest LEGO models: The Super Star Destroyer and the Millenium Falcon during a show at the Southside Mall, Oneonta. He credits building LEGO kits with helping him recover from injuries sustained during combat.

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EDITIONS OF APRIL 26-27: After 45 years of conducting for Oneonta-based Catskill Symphony Orchestra, Chuck Schneider, Frankfort, retired Saturday, April 28. But never one to stay still, he plans to write a symphony of his own and has continued to play in the area. In an interview, he recounted recruiting Dustin Hoffman as a guest performer at an early concert in the 1970s.

EDITIONS OF MAY 10-11: Betty Bettiol receives a proclamation from state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, honoring her late husband Gene Bettiol Sr., who was named Otsego County Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen of 2018 at a Thursday, May 3, banquet at Foothills.

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WEEK 18 EDITIONS OF MAY 3-4: Cutting the ribbon Friday, April 27, on Farm Credit East’s new offices in the Town of Springfield are, from left, Greg Doyle; Executive VP & Regional Manager Gary Bradley; state Ag & Markets Commissioner Richard Ball; Farm Credit East CEO Bill Lipinski; Board Vice Chair Laurie Griffen; Senior VP Craig Pollock; VP Robert Yukewecz; Country Living Director David Pugh, and Paul Vandenburgh. Doyle and Vandenburgh are the longest-serving local employees. The company, which provides banking services to farmers, combined its Cobleskill and Sangerfield offices on Otesgo Lake’s shores, bring 40 white-collar jobs to the county.

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EDITIONS OF MAY 17-18: Four tiny bobcat kittens were found by Marcy Birch, owner of Barnyard Swing (and Cooperstown Central school board president), in one of the outbuildings on her mini-golf course in Hartwick Seminary. When the mother didn’t come back, a wildlife rehabilitatior took the kittens in to raise and release them. But don’t be fooled by their cute faces – they will grow into deadly predators and will take a chicken or two right out of your backyard.

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EDITIONS OF MAY 24-25: Hartwick College Geology Professor and proud papa Dr. David Griffing places the ceremonial undergraduate hood around the shoulders of his daughter, Rachel Griffing. Student Senate president, she delivered the greetings at the beginning of the Saturday, May 19, commencement.

She’s a business and poli-sci major.

WEEK 24

EDITIONS OF JUNE 7-8: Busch Beer made sure that Joe Gray’s family knew that all he wanted for Father’s Day was a beer, turning Cherry Valley into a tribute and surprising him with banners and posters plastered downtown. A commercial was also filmed as part of a national campaign.

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EDITIONS OF MAY 31-JUNE 1: Emcee and past Cooperstown Veterans’ Club commander Doug Walker introduces, from left, Jim Tallman, Beth Kane, who delivered a tribute to her father, killed in WWII; Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, and Dr. Paul Russo, the keynoter, participants at the village’s Memorial Day ceremonies Monday, May 28, at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument.

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EDITIONS OF JUNE 14-15: Court filings charging Focus, the former county nursing home Otsego Manor, with failing to provide sufficient staffing to care for residents revealed that 91-year-old “R.B.”, a man who died after sustaining a head injury after falling out of a bed without supports, was Robert Banta, revered long-time chair of the Otsego County Soil & Water Conservation District. Focus’ top two executive, CEO Josephy Zupnik and COO Daniel Herman pleaded guilty Sept.

12 to related criminal charges, and were sentenced to community service. At right, Banta poses with wife Shirley and family on 50th anniversary.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF SUNY ONEONTA IN 2018!

Philanthropy at SUNY Oneonta YEAR IN REVIEW

K N A H T S R U O Y O Y N U S 01 2 N I

SUNY Oneonta is thriving. Through a combination of traditional classroom and applied learning experiences, our students are gaining knowledge and skills that stand the test of time and serve our graduates throughout their lifetime.

Year after year, the generosity of local alumni, volunteers, businesses, and non-profit organizations enhances our student-centered learning community.

Simply put, our student’s lives would not be as great without you. Thank you.

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STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TOTALING $2,100,000+

$62 Million ENDOWMENT AND NET ASSETS

STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION

VISION STATEMENT: The State University College at Oneonta Foundation will provide a $100 million endowment supporting affordable access to high quality academic experiences for students at SUNY Oneonta. Alumni and friends will be engaged through the Foundation to identify and promote programs that enhance our students’ college experiences and long-term goals.

T . g n i v i r h t s i c a t l n a o n e o i n t i O d a Y r t N f o c SU n n e o i i r t e a p n i x b e g m n i co n r a now

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EDITIONS OF JUNE 21-22: As tens of thousands of departing undergraduates have done before her, SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski passed through the pillars of Old Main for a final time as president on Friday, June 22 after a 10-year tenure marked by a student focus and a leap in the college’s endowment to over $50 million, the largest among SUNY’s consolidated colleges.

She retired to Rhode Island.

EDITIONS OF JUNE 28-29: CCS Senior Class Adviser Nick Marcantonio heads for shelter during a graduation downpour Sunday, June 24, on the back lawn of The Fenimore Museum.

All local high school graduations were held that weekend, mostly inside.

WEEK 27

EDITIONS OF JULY 5-6: SUNY Oneonta’s new president, Barbara Jean Morris, was introduced to the City of the Hills as grand marshal of the Hometown Fourth of July Parade. An educator from Colorado, she began work on Monday, July 2.

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The Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God Tuesday, 1 January 2019 Mass during the Day - 10:00 am The Solemnity of the Epiphany Saturday, 5 January 2019 Mass for the Vigil – 5:00 pm Sunday, 6 January 2019 Mass during the Day – 10:30 am

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WEEK 28

EDITIONS OF JULY 12-13: Mark Petengill, third from left, Centers Healthcare’s Resident Council president, details the challenges of Saturday, June 30, where for the second time in two weeks Centers ran out of food to serve the residents. The Council detailed poor food quality, lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, and even instances where residents who were asleep at mealtimes were later denied their meals. Centers responded by hiring and training new staff and creating a Dining Council to improve meal quality.

WEEK 30

EDITIONS OF JULY 26-27: Twins Andrew and Aiden sit on mom Jamie Durkin’s comforting lap in happier times.

On Sunday, July 22, the body of Andrew, 3, was recovered from the Susquehanna River after – due to confusion, as the boys were similarly dressed – he wandered from his family and accidentally drowned near Goodyear Lake.

WEEK 31

EDITIONS OF AUG. 2-3: Pastor Sylvia Barrett, center, joins congregants, from left, Tom and Lola Rathbone, Erica and Laura Eggleston, Milford Mayor Brian Pokorny, architect Jim Hunt, the Rev. Tom LeBeau, Cooperstown Methodist, and Annika Murray, breaking ground on a new church to replace the one that burned March 12, 2017.

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WEEK 33 EDITIONS OF AUG. 1617: Phyllis O’Sullivan, daughter of Brooks’ BBQ founders Frances and Griffin Brooks, was still smiling on passing her 60th anniversary waitressing at Brooks’ House of BBQ in Oneonta, which was founded in 1961.

“You have to smile, be friendly and communicate with your customers,” she advised.

EDITIONS OF AUG. 9-10: County Attorney Ellen Coccoma, left, briefs former Oneonta mayor Kim Muller, first chair of the first Otsego County Ethics Board at its first meeting Tuesday, Aug. 7, at Otsego Chamber offices. Muller resigned in November, but has recommended people willing to succeed her to county Board chairman David Bliss, so an appointment may be pending Jan. 2.

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EDITIONS OF AUG. 23-24: Hartwick Vice President Karen McGrath poses at the new Founders’ Way, where the college’s incoming 225th class inaugurated a new tradition with a Sunday, Aug. 26 march on its arrival on Oyaron Hill. Founders’ Way is a centerpiece of $66 million in renovations engineered by President Margaret L. Drugovich and aimed at creating a more pedestrian-friendly campus.

EDITIONS OF AUG. 30-31: While in the Navy, Oneonta’s Dave Rees was part of the efforts to find future Sen. John McCain, a Navy pilot shot down over North Vietnam.

He later befriended McCain at a conference and the two kept in touch for years.

On McCain’s death, he holds a portrait given him by the senator’s wife, Helen.

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WEEK 37

EDITIONS OF SEPT. 13-14: Almost magically, Cooperstown’s Cathy Raddatz’s hand was drawn to one of the plaster hands on “You Heal,� a painting artist Judy Stiner-Grin describes as an instinctive reaction to 9/11. Raddatz brother, George Morell, a Cantor Fitzgerald investment counselor, died when the Twin Towers collapsed 17 years ago.

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EDITIONS OF SEPT. 27-28: Unable to fill her evening shift, Cooperstown Diner Manager Cindy Bissell closed at 2 p.m. for three weeks. A dearth of labor generally was highlighted the following month at an Otsego Chamber Workforce Summit, where Oneonta consultant Al Cleinman urged reinventing the county as a “knowledge economy.�

WEEK 41 EDITIONS OF OCT. 11-12: Eric Michelitsch, Bob Scanlon, Rob Lishansky, Deb Parisian, Sid Parisian and Mike Butler stand beneath the newly installed, permanent arches in Oneonta’s Neahwa Park – inspired by the Unalam basketball hoop that fallen state trooper Ricky Parisian never got to install in his home – that mark the Pit Run’s finish line.

EDITIONS OF SEPT. 6-7: AgZeit’s Jim Dutcher believes his 20,000square-feet of plantings in Union-Endicott High School can produce the equivalent of 170 acres of standard crop lands inside the former Otego Elementary School. The novel undertaking bested two senior-citizen-housing proposals and one from The Kildonan School, Dutchess County, to transform the mission-style building into a school for students with dyslexia.

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EDITIONS OF OCT. 1819: The Cooperstown Bat Co. made it into the MLB this year, as both Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez and Houston Astro second-baseman José Altuve hit homeruns with the local bats in the run-up to the World Series. Sox left-fielder Steve Pearce was also photographed using a Cooperstown Bat. With his bat, Vazquez hit a single his first time up in Game Four of the World Series Saturday, Oct. 27, helping the Sox win the championship.

Here, Tim Haney, who owns the company with wife Connie, lovingly examines one of the bats he has been developing since buying the company from Don and Sharon Oberriter in 2008.

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EDITIONS OF OCT. 25-26: Bob Orlando, owner of gutted 4703 Route 28, Hartwick Seminary, hugs Yipsie. He said his tenant, Rodney Abrams, went back into the burning home the night of Saturday, Oct. 20, to save the little dog. After an outpouring of support through Cooperstown’s Angel Network, Orlando and the Abrams family were reunited in a home in Toddsville, which they are renting together until they can find a permanent home.

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Andy Puritz and Nancy Couch recite the Kaddish as mourners from across Otsego County filled Oneonta’s Temple Beth El to reflect on the slayings of 11 people killed by a white supremacist during services at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct 27 in Pittsburgh.

EDITION OF NOV. 8-9: State Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, congratulates Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. for turning back a strong challenge from retired state trooper Bob Fernandez, husband of county Rep. Kathy Clark. Fernandez refused to concede, but a canvass a few days later confirmed Devlin’s victory. Seward also won, and handily, but Republicans lost control of the state Senate.

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WEEK 47 EDITIONS OF NOV. 15-16: Carleigh Bettiol, left, wows a local crowd that attended the new Broadway hit, “Cher,” Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Neil Simon Theater in New York City.

While attending the show with Carleigh’s grandmother, Betty Bettiol, and others, state Sen. Jim Seward’s wife, Cindy, who snapped this photo, realized that the woman sitting in front of her was none other than Cher herself.

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WEEK 50 EDITION OF DEC. 6-7: Former mayor John Nader accepts a plaque from Mayor Gary Herzig on behalf of his father, former mayor Sam Nader, inset, after Oneonta Common Council unanimously voted to rename the Oneonta Municipal Airport as The Albert S. Nader Regional Airport on Tuesday, Dec. 4. In the 1960s, the elder Nader steadfastly pushed for and achieved a modern airport for the City of the Hills, despite a local newspaper labeling it “Nader’s Folly.” Built, it provided daily passenger service to New York City for 26 years.

Sam Nader, now 99 and unable to attend the ceremony, watch the ceremony, streamed on Facebook, from his River Street home.

EDITION OF NOV. 29-30: Michael Tracy holds up a feast in the “tasting nook” of Elena’s Michael Catering, which he founded to honor his Oneonta partner and entrepreneur Elena Doyle’s local legacy as a famed chef – that’s her jacket on the left. Elena passed away in April.

EDITIONS OF NOV. 22-23: In a scoop of international proportions, this newspaper was first to report that an FBI analysis of a Fabergé frame and locket on display at the Russian History Museum at Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, contained locks of hair that, once and for all, proved that remains found in the Ural Mountains in 1979 were indubitably those of Tsar Nicolas and Tsarina Alexandra, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

EDITIONS OF DEC. 13–14: SUNY Oneonta senior Juliet Morin, shows off her model of the Kennewick Man, the first to be modeled with Native features.

Previously, the early American, discovered in the Northwest, was depicted as Caucasian or with Japanese-like features.

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ing out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let her go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.’

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EDITIONS OF DEC. 20-21: Cleaning out her mom’s apartment, Dawn Spinola found her dad’s Santa suit. Her parents, Mary and Fred Bunt, portrayed the Clauses in Unadilla for more than 20 years, receiving the Unadilla Chamber of Commerce’s Good Neighbor Award in 2009.

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