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The Thursday, Dec. 11, news HOMETOWN ONEONTA of a $19,000 CFA grant for a market The Sugar Plum Fairy study of an “entertainment district” (Rose Wake), Clara (Saalong Market Street is just the latest in die Tucker) and Sadie’s a string of good news for downtown brother Fritz (Grace Oneonta: Craig) preview “The • Ten days earlier, a $200,000 Nutcracker” for Owl’s CDBG grant was announced that will Nest youngsters Saturday, Dec. 13. Fokine upgrade storm-water sewers along Ballet performs ThursPlease See DOWNTOWN, B4

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he Oneonta DMV office will be open until 6:45 p.m. Thursdays, beginning in 2015, County Clerk Kathy Sinnot-Gardner has announced.

This comes after some county representatives proposed cutting the city office back to three days a week during recent – and now completed – budget negotiations.

Gardner said the later hours may encourage the revival of activity in downtown Oneonta on Thursday evenings, when – in times past – D&H workers received their paychecks.

FRACKING’S FATE: Governor Cuomo caused a stir in this region and statewide when he declared Monday, Dec. 15, on WCNY’s “Capitol Pressroom” that he expects a decision on fracking in New York State by year’s end.

SENIORS SOUGHT: The county Office on Aging is seeking nominees for its annual volunteerism awards.

Call 432-9041.

LONGER DAYS: Sunday, Dec. 12, is the shortest day of the year.

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NY Ec-Dev Funds Look To Develop D&H Yards

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Oneonta DMV Will Be Open Late Thursday

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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, December 19, 2014

CFA Funds Study Of Entertainment Zone In Oneonta

day-Saturday, Dec. 1820, at SUNY Ononta’s Goodrich Theater.

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THINK LOCAL FIRST

Study To Find Use For 200-Acre Site

2014 CFA GRANTS (Round 4) CITY OF ONEONTA ► SUNY Oneonta, for “green” sidewalks, storm sewerage, $910,000 ► Market Street Entertainment District, market study, $19,000 ► Microenterprise Assistance Program, to help 7 businesses, $200,000 ► D&H Rail Yards, development plan, $47,500

TOWN OF ONEONTA

► Southside Water District, $600,000

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

► Baseball Hall of Fame, digitalizing, marketing collection, $750,000 ► Springbrook, community residence renovations, $400,000 ► Ag Microenterprise Program, to help 10 farmers, $200,000 ► Glimmerglass Festival, 40th anniversary celebration, $64,600 TOTAL FOR STATE: $709.2 MILLION TOTAL FOR MOHAWK VALLEY REGION: $59.6 MILLION (8.4% OF NY TOTAL) TOTAL FOR OTSEGO COUNTY: $3.27 MILLION (5% OF MVREDC TOTAL) FOR COMPLETE LOCAL LIST, GO TO

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Salvation Army Striving To Fill 900 Wish Lists

By JIM KEVLIN

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anta Cuomo didn’t have everything the Otsego County IDA wanted in his sack of state economic-develMathes opment funding this year, but he has handed out $47,500 for a marketing study for Oneonta’s long-vacant 200-acre D&H Rail Yards.

“We’re eager to get the process started,” said Sandy Mathes, CEO Please See RAIL YARDS, B4

Dr. Carey W. Brush, 1920-2013 Retired SUNY Oneonta crosscountry coach Joe Fodero looks over the plaque that will be placed next to Dr. Brush’s portrait in Milne Library.

506 Families Also Seeking Food

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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ith a record 900 children to care for, Capt. Evelyn Hopping of the Oneonta HOMETOWN ONEONTA Captain Hopping hold Salvation Army wants up gold coin donated to make sure that not one of them has to go to this year’s drive. without new toys under the Christmas tree. “It’s important to us that these kids wake up knowing they got something from Santa,” she said.

The Salvation Army oversees two holiday giving programs; the Adopt-a-Family and the Angel Tree. “It seems like we have quite a few more Please See 900 KIDS, A2

Arc’s Main Street Gallery To Close After Exhibition

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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he Main View Gallery & Studio’s seventh annual Holiday Gift Show’s opening Friday, Dec. 5, was also a farewell.

Arc Otsego’s Center for Self Expression, which operates the Main View, is losing the $80,000 “Option for People Through Services”

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Friends Recall SUNY Oneonta Chronicler ‘Honor, Good Faith’ Author Honored year since Dr. Brush, 93, who wrote “In Honor and Good t Dr. Carey Faith” (1965), the Brush’s mefirst history of SUNY morial Oneonta, died service on Friday, on Dec. 29, Dec. 12, the truth 2013, in Vanfinally came out: couver, Wash., “His jokes were where he and terrible,” said Dr. his wife Tinker Vince Foti. “But lived. His wife because we were declined to post all below him, we Dr. Brush an obituary, so laughed. Puns were many of his friends his favorite.” didn’t know he had It has been almost a passed.

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Dr. Vincent F. Foti, Sr., retired dean, shares memories of Dr. Brush with President Kleniewski.

“After six months, we realized there wouldn’t be a service here,” said Foti. “So

we put one together.”

Dr. Brush was professor and acting chair

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

HOMETOWN People

Salvation Army Aims To Help 900 Kids

Homer Folks Exhibit Dedicated At Job Corps

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GOHS Executive Director Bob Brzozowski congratulates Job Corps HR Assistant Amanda Reader, who helped design the exhibit.

ow, whenever Oneonta Job Corps students walk through the front lobby, they can reflect on the history of the former Homer Folks Tuberculosis Hospital – and the future of Job Corps.

“It is a great honor for Oneonta Job Corps to have this exhibit right here in our halls,” said Shelby Key, a medical assistant student. “It gives students and visitors a chance to see the amazing history that started here.”

On Wednesday, Dec. 10, Oneonta Job Corps dedicated the permanent installation of the exhibit, which had been on display at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society last fall.

“The cooperation of OJCA staff was instrumental as GOHS planned the exhibit for the Oneonta History Center on Main Street,” said GOHS executive

director Bob Brzozowski in a statement. “OJCA students and staff played a vital role in a public tour of the grounds on Sept. 29, 2013.”

The exhibit focused on the Key patients, the staff and the history of TB in New York.

As a tuberculosis hospital, Homer Folks served thousands of patients from 1935 to 1973, when the disease was eradicated by advances in medical science.

“The Homer Folks Hospital Exhibit shows the full circle of the historical site it is on,” said Key. “It starts with the first patient and ends with the last student. I only hope it enriches us all from the moment we walk in to the moment we graduate.”

900 KIDS/From A1 children this year,” she said.

“There are so many families who are struggling right now.”

With both campaigns finishing this week, the Salvation Army is hoping last-minute donations come in to assure every child has a happy holiday. “We will buy toys if not everyone is provided for, but we’re hoping we don’t have to,” said Hopping. “We’ve put out a plea hoping more will come in.”

There are 22 families who will receive packages from the Adopt-a-Family program, which encourages businesses to collect wrapped gifts for a single family. “We look for families who have special circumstances, such as losing a job or taking on custody of a grandchild or relative,” said Hopping. “It gives them a little bit of help, and it makes the holiday extra-special for the child.”

The Angel Trees are set up in

businesses, banks and grocery stores with lists of what each child wants from Santa. “Most of the kids get exactly what they asked for. We have 15 bikes here to give out, and lots of Barbies and ‘Frozen’ dolls.”

And even the kids get in on the gifting. “One woman came in and told me that her granddaughter collects Monster High dolls, so when she saw that another girl on our Angel Tree wanted one too, she spent her own allowance to pick out a doll, a sweatshirt and put the money left over in a card for the girl,” said Hopping. “What a wonderful way to get a child in the spirit of giving!”

More than 500 families also signed up for the Christmas food basket. “We give them potatoes, stuffing, fruits and vegetables and a gift card for a turkey,” she said. “We also include some soups, pasta and sauce so that families can feed their children.”

First Baptist Church Elm Street, Cooperstown

Rev. Robert Turner, Interim Pastor

607-547-9371

Sunday, December 21 10 am Service, Sermon: “Let It Be”

CHRISTMAS EVE CANDLELIGHT

7 pm Sermon: “Good News of Great Joy”

Cooperstown

United Methodist Church

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services

Wednesday, December 24

7 pm Candlelight Worship with Children’s Christmas Pageant 11 pm Candlelight Worship with Holy Communion

All Are Welcome!

Cooperstown UMC 66 Chestnut Street Cooperstown, NY Rev. Bill Delia, Pastor

First Presbyterian 25 Church Street Cooperstown 607-547-8401

Sunday, December 21

10 am Worship “The Story Is in Your Flesh”

Christmas Eve

Wednesday, December 24 4:45 pm - Carol Sing

5 pm - Candlelight Worship with Christmas Pageant

10 pm - Candlelight Worship with Communion - “Holdfast”

The Rev. Elsie Armstrong Rhodes, Pastor

Otsego County Lutheran Parish

The Reverend Paul Messner, STS Sandra Shear, Associate in Ministry Atonement, Oneonta • 1 Center Street, Oneonta Evangelical, Hartwick Seminary State Hwy 28, 4 miles south of Cooperstown St. Matthew, 125 Main Street, Laurens St. John, 2546 State Rte 80, West Burlington

Christmas Eve: December 24 Holy Communion and Candlelighting 6 pm St. Matthew • 6 pm St. John 8 pm Evangelical • 10 pm Atonement

In a religion that was born in a barn, an open door goes without saying.

Our church invites you to join us in the worship and fellowship of Jesus Christ. The door is always open.

Christmas Eve December 24 3-5 pm

Christmas Day: December 25, Holy Communion

Living Nativity (at 22 Elm Street)

10 am Atonement

First Sunday of Christmas: December 28

5 pm

Commemoration of the Holy Innocents Lessons and Carols - 8:30 am St. Matthew Holy Communion - 9 am St. John Service of the Word - 10:30 am Atonement Holy Communion - 10:45 am Evangelical

Lessons and Carols

10:30 pm

Service and Carols

11 pm

Second Sunday of Christmas: January 4

Festival Choral Eucharist

Holy Communion - 8:30 am St. Matthew Lessons and Carols - 9:30 am (new time) Evangelical Holy Communion - 10:30 am Atonement Service of the Word - 11 am (new time) St. John

Feast of the Epiphany: Tuesday, January 6

at Evangelical Potluck Supper (bring dish to pass + table service) - 6 pm Worship with Holy Communion - 7 pm Dessert and Gift Exchange - 7:30 pm

First Sunday After the Epiphany (The Baptism of Our Lord): January 11

Holy Communion and Affirmation of Baptism at All Services

Christmas Day

December 25 - 10 am Holy Eucharist

JoinJoin usushere atSt. St.James’ James’ Church as here at Church as we celebrate the Coming of the Christ Child

St. James Episcopal Church

305 Main Street, Oneonta • 607-432-1458 stjamesoneonta.org

St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church “Our Lady of the Lake”

Christ Episcopal Church 46 River Street, Cooperstown www.christchurchcooperstown.org

Christmas Eve Pageant and Family Eucharist – 4 pm Christmas Eve Choral Concert – 9:30 pm Festival Eucharist – 10 pm Christmas Day Eucharist – 9 am Christmas Lessons and Carols December 28 – 8 and 10 am Epiphany Eucharist – January 6 at 5:30 pm

Cooperstown

December 18

Advent/Christmas Confessions 6:30 pm

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

Christmas Vigil Mass 6:30 pm Christmas Midnight 9:00 pm (Candlelight)

Mass 8:30 am & 10:30 am

December 25

December 24 Christmas Eve Mass 4:00 pm

Please join us in our celebrations!

Rev. John P. Rosson, Pastor www.stmaryscoop.org • 547-2213

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

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Colleagues Remember Carey Brush, Who Wrote SUNY Oneonta History BRUSH/From A1 of Social Sciences. He was named the first director of Liberal Studies in 1963, and vice president for Academic Affairs in 1970. He was acting president during the 1987-88 academic year, between the administrations of Clifford Craven and Alan Donovan.

“I never had an opportunity to meet him, but I feel like I knew him,” said President Nancy Kleniewski, the first speaker at the memorial service. “Before I arrived, I read every word of his books, and it helped me to understand the importance of this college.”

“He is best remembered for overseeing the transition from a teacher’s college to a liberal arts institution,” said Foti. “He took great pride in developing the liberal arts program, and each new 

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major was like a member of his family.”

“I often asked myself what it was that made him so special,” said Dr. Ernest Goodman, emeritus professor of political science. “It was that he had a mixture of reserve and warm responsiveness.”

The service was originally slated to take place in the Alden Room of the Milne Library, where his portrait hangs and where much of his research was done, but due to finals, it was moved to the Craven Lounge. “You can’t think of Cliff Craven without thinking of Carey,” said Frank O’Mara, emeritus professor of communications. “It’s appropriate to have it here.”

“I thought I heard his footsteps earlier,” said Dr. William Simons, professor of history. “It’s final exams, and he used to walk to halls during exam week.”

His friends and colleagues also spoke with affection about his slow softball pitches and his seriousness at the poker

table. “I considered Carey a friend, but there were two places he had no friends – the softball field and the poker table,” said Foti. “He was the manager, coach and pitcher, but he pitched so slow you could count the stitches on the ball!”

But it was Lief Hartmark, retired vice president for finance and administration, who recounted a notorious pun. Hartmark bought a house in Fly Creek from a Dr. Dyer, who Brush also knew. “It was on a creek, so the house itself looked like it was on a little island. Carey asked about it, and then said, ‘Well, I guess you’re living in Dyer Straits!’”

A plaque will be installed beneath Brush’s portrait in the library. Dr. David Brenner, emeritus associate vice president of academic affairs, said the idea was to be positive and reflective.

“Take a moment to think about him and what he did for this university.”

“He was the backbone of this college,” said Foti.

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GALLERY/From A1 grant that has funded the gallery’s operating budget since 2007.

“Ours is one of the last to close,” said Pat Knuth, Arc Otsego’s assistant executive director. “But we have a lot to figure out.”

Foremost, whether to cut staff and supplies. “The question is how we keep the essence of this program alive,” said Knuth. “We all agree it’s too valuable to give up.”

The Center for Self-Expression opened in July 2007 as a space for adults with developmental and other disabilities to be more active and creative through the arts.

“A traditional day program focuses on daily living activities, individual care and maybe some physical therapy,” she Knuth. “We wanted to help individuals become more engaged in the community.”

The attached Main View Gallery hosted annual art shows. In 2013, it published a book of poetry, “Suddenly There Were Leaves,” through Bright Hill

St. Mary’s Catholic Community of Oneonta

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Funding Cut, Main Street Gallery To Close

St. Mary’s Church

39 Walnut Street, Oneonta

Christmas mass sChedule Christmas eve Wednesday , December 24 Masses at 5 and 10 pm Christmas day Thursday, December 25 Mass at 10 am solemnity of mary, mother of God Thursday, January 1 Mass at 10 am

Press. Artists were provided with materials and, if their works sold, they split the proceeds.

With the funding cut, the gallery itself may be the first to go. “We’re going to have to cut back on the quality of the materials and reduce the size of the gallery,” said Knuth. “And we’re going to have to go to straight com-

missions if the artists want to sell anything.”

She stressed, however, that the program will continue to focus on arts-related creative activity. “We will now be supporting individuals to express their creativity for self-growth and creative expression as opposed to creativity for the purpose of selling their work.”

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Thank you for your patronage. God bless our troops!

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Saturday, December 20 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Main Street, Franklin 7pm

A Hometown Christmas

Richard & Janet Nevins Young Christmas Concert Sunday, December 21 • Millpond Community Center, Rt. 80 Van Hornesville 7pm Featuring THE CATSKILL BRASS JoHAnA ARnoLD, soprano • KIM PATTERSon, keyboards ALonE ToGETHER: The Mollin-Clay Jazz Duo Both concerts are FREE, on a walk-in basis For more information, call 607-436-3419

First United Methodist Church 66 Chestnut Street, Oneonta 607-432-4102

Join us Christmas Eve! 7 pm Family Service with Children’s Pageant 8 pm Christmas Tea 10 pm Candlelight Service with Choirs and Communion A Reconciling Congregation · Handicap Accessible · All are welcome

Revs. Teressa Sivers and Emily Huyge, Pastors

The “Red Door” Church (First United Presbyterian) Welcomes You Join us for Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 7 pm - Wednesday, December 24

Main Street and Walling Avenue, Oneonta (across from Friendly’s) Church Office: 607-432-7520 The Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Walton-Leavitt

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

EDITORIAL

Fresh, Brainy Town Board Needs Issue: Create Greater Oneonta

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ay you were elected to the Oneonta Town Board, determined to prevent fracking from happening in the town.

Then, you discover, there’s no natural gas under the town.

Now what? You’re bright, energetic. You get along well with your equally brainy and motivated colleagues, who find themselves in the same quandary.

That came to mind Monday evening, Dec. 15, at the discussion on town-city collaboration organized by Albert Colone and Bill Shue’s GO-EDC in the Oneonta Middle School cafeteria.

Common Council representation was spotty, although Mayor Russ Southard and Council members Bob Brzozowski and Madolyn O. Palmer were there, (plus City Manager Martin Murphy, Fire Chief Pat Pidgeon, Finance Director Meg Hungerford and other City Hall staffers.)

But the town board members – plus Town Supervisor Bob Wood, who played the evening’s central role – were there in force: David Jones, the first anti-fracker elected to the board, three years ago now; freshmen Patty Jacob, Andrew Stammel, and Trish Riddell Kent.

The Oneonta Town Board – clockwise from upper left, David Jones, Patty Jacob, Trish Riddell Kent and Andrew Stammell – should focus their energies on creating a Greater Oneonta.

They were curious, attentive and—as evident in their back-and-forth after the meeting—having lots of fun working together.

This group, you quickly conclude, is a juggernaut in search of a target. (Hold that thought.)

• Supervisor Wood was his usual restrained, diplomatic and cannily obscure self, but he’s been a reluctant passenger for too long on the locomotive Colone and Shue are trying to stoke anew.

As the presentations —on a town-city water and sewer district; on O-STAR, a combined sports, tourism and recreation agency, and on actual consolidation of the two municipalities into a Greater Oneonta—underscored, unity offers too many benefits to ignore (or, in Wood’s case, to parry.)

Bottom line: Greater Oneonta might save as much as $500,000 if it unified services, and might receive $2 million, $3 million, or even more in sales-tax revenues if the two municipalities became one.

One stumbling block has been the tax rate of the combined entity, down in the city, up in the town. But Shue reported, per a law passed in 2011, that can be negotiated in the consolidation agreement so that rural areas with few services pay less than urbanized neighborhoods.

Another stumbling block, allegedly, is that it would cost less for the town to build a whole new plant and distribution system to supply water to the Southside than it would for the city to run a pipe across Lettis Highway to Route 23. But consultant Fred Krone of GEMS (Grants and Essential Management Services,

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Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood was the personality in the room at GO-EDC’s forum on “collaboration, cooperation and consolidation,” but has the issue passed him by?

Utica) said that the USDA and other agencies, so sold are they on consolidation, would help offset any inequity, so (former) town ratepayers wouldn’t be subsidizing (former) city ones.

With state and federal governments so eager to reduce New York State’s 4,200 taxing jurisdictions, Krone said, any consolidation “rings a whole lot of bells with lots of agencies.”

• And yet, Governor Cuomo’s CFA system, supposedly bottom-up and rational, gave another $600,000 toward the town’s go-it-alone Emmons-based

water system. Go figure.

Not only is the Emmons plan dumb growth—promoting sprawl and allowing businesses to hopscotch from the Town of Oneonta/ County of Otsego into the Town of Davenport/County of Delaware—the grant flies in the face of state policy, which is supposed to support “collaboration, cooperation and consolidation,” a phrase much-heard Monday night.

Politics—someone’s pulling the strings—not rationality, is at play here, with potentially devastating effects for everybody a generation hence, if not sooner.

(Also, given the otherwise relatively paltry CFA grants announced in the last few days, this ill-considered project is draining the well for everyone else.)

Forget fracking. Here’s a real issue for the brainy Oneonta Town Board to tackle, with Wood or without: How to achieve “collaboration, cooperation and,” finally, “consolidation” of the two Oneontas.

What does success look like? A prosperous, wellfunded Greater Oneonta, with a flourishing downtown and tidy neighborhoods, adding needed infrastructure, prudently and consistently, from the center out, rather than willy-nilly.

Oneonta Town Board members—Jones, Jacob, Stammel, Riddell Kent —don’t take our word for it. You’re fresh to the issue.

Drill down. Understand it.

Come to your own conclusions.

We may be wrong, but likely—very likely—you’ll embrace smart growth and work toward the greater benefit of Greater Oneonta, which—with 6,000 people working in the city and living outside it—will benefit everyone in the City of the Hills’ orbit.

OTHER VOICES

Letter To Governor: Science, Economics Don’t Support Allowing Fracking In NY Editor’s Note: Governor Cuomo revealed Monday, Dec. 15, on WCNY TV’s “Capitol Pressroom” that a fracking decision may be forthcoming by the end of the month, prompting this letter signed by 140 members of Elected Officials to Protect New York, including 25 from Otsego County, to send this letter to the governor the following day.

been made public.

New information that is publicly available includes new concerns about direct and collateral damage from fracking, and anecdotal evidence has become empirical data. Currently the independent group Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy has cataloged more than 400 peer reviewed studies on fracking and its related activities, nearly all demonstrating harm.

The body of evidence on health impacts is significant and growing, including links to: • high levels of ozone; • a range of dangerous toxins in high concentrations in ambient air near fracking infrastructure, including formaldehyde and the carcinogen benzene; and • numerous water and air pollutants (including carcinogenic radon) that pose a

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hat has happened – what have we learned – since

2012?

The current “health review” notwithstanding, the necessary studies have not been done and the standard of safety for all of New York has clearly not been met. There has been no additional review or analysis by the DEC concerning cumulative environmental impacts or socioeconomic costs, at least none that has

25 Local Officials Among 140 Signators

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ere at the Otsego County officials among the 140 signators: • Town Supervisors: Diane Addesso, Worcester; Bill Elsey, Springfield; Anne Geddes-Atwell, Otsego; Todd Lewis, Plainfield; Robert Wood, Oneonta • Cooperstown Village Board members: Jeff Katz, mayor, Lou Allstadt, Jim Dean, Cindy Falk, Joan Nichols • Otsego Town Board: Carina Frank, Tom Hohensee, Julie Huntsman Oneonta Town Board: Patricia Jacob, Bennett Sandler • County Board of Representatives: Rick Hulse, Otsego; Ed Lentz, New Lisbon; Beth Rosenthal, Roseboom; Kay Stuligross, Oneonta • Also, Pam Deane, Otsego town clerk; Bob Eklund, town board, New Lisbon; Laura Gray Malloy, formerly on town board, Laurens; Mary Leonard, vice president, CCS board; Paul Stein, town board, Pittsfield direct threat to human and animal health.

The list of environmental issues goes on, with significant impacts across the country, including: • Anecdotal accounts of fouled wells became 248

confirmed of cases of water contamination, ultimately acknowledged by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

• Other states have also suffered surface and groundwater contamination;

and explosions, leaks, spills, and blowouts are common.

• More data and studies reveal that well casing and integrity failures are endemic problems without a solution – meaning that a significant percentage of wells will leak gas and chemicals into groundwater and the atmosphere.

• Early concerns about seismic impacts and earthquakes, associated not just with injection wells - but with fracking itself – have been confirmed.

• Climate change has made extreme weather events and flooding more common, a disaster when combined with fracking sites.

• One of the biggest unresolved issues is how to responsibly handle the enormous quantities of toxic wastewater created along with radioactive drilling wastes. Sending this waste

to Ohio’s injection wells, to New York landfills, or spreading it on roads (illegally, or under a “beneficial use determination”) is environmentally irresponsible and completely unsustainable.

A great deal of attention has been given to potential economic benefits of fracking, but time has confirmed much of the initial skepticism over promised jobs and overstated economic benefits.

• In Pennsylvania, only a fraction of the promised jobs materialized; many of them temporary and filled by out of state workers.

• Royalty payments have fallen far short of what many landowners were promised due to “creative business restructuring” by drillers.

• Serious socioeconomic impacts have been docuPlease See FRACKING, A6

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Search For ‘Unclaimed Funds’ Ends In Disappointment To the Editor: If you received the giant postcard from state Sen. Jim Seward’s office stating you may have “New York State Unclaimed Funds waiting for you! …There’s never any charges to search or file for unclaimed funds.” Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it.

I was surfing the Internet a while back and decided to look into that site. I put in the names of my mother and stepfather and, sure enough, their names came up saying that there were funds available.

To make a long story short I contacted my brother, since I had turned executorship over to him. He was the one that had to fill out the forms. We ended up going to the county seat and spending around $70 to get the forms needed. Also there was the money I spent in gas driving over to Sherburne and back a couple times.

The government would not tell us

how much money was there until we bought and sent in the forms. I also sent a copy of my birth certificate, which it cost me $20 or $30 plus a three-month wait.

As we were getting the forms together we discovered my mother’s lawyer had never closed the estate.

How is it the government did not required him to do this? He is now dead, so we would have to pay another lawyer to close the estate. There goes another $300 plus? So we sent in the paperwork we had.

They sent us a request for more documentation! At the time they told us there was a grand total of around $90! So we told him we did not want to pursue this matter any more. It was costing more money for form of proof than what we would get back. What’s the point?

So we requested a return of our

documents. They have refused to return the documentation that we paid for. The documents belong to us as we paid for them. If they had any intelligence they would copy or check off receiving the documents and return the originals.

To me, it seems the whole affair was just another way for the government to get more money from us by having us purchase all these forms and documents from the government. If the documents where already part of government why did we have to purchase them again? Couldn’t they have just looked them up?

Another example of government incompetency and their lack of understanding that they are public servants.

We pay their salary, they are not supposed to make life harder for us.

R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

HOMETOWN

History

HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5

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

125 Years Ago

The Local News – The noble army of baldheaded men in Oneonta, who for years have been wasting their funds on various alluring decorations said to possess the power of restoring a hirsute covering to their shiny polls, will take courage on hearing of the discovery of Dr. Gaymonne, an eminent French physician, who announces that he finds the bacilli that produce baldness may be exterminated by smearing the hair – or the spot where the hair has been in happier days – with a mixture consisting of cod liver oil and the juice of onions.

December 1889

30 Years Ago

40 Years Ago

After nearly thirty years on the Oneonta Parks and Recreation Commission, E.C. “Dutch” Damaschke, has resigned and will retire as of December 31, 1974. Damaschke has been chairman of the board since its inception in 1945.

“You can tell the world that I enjoyed every moment of it,” the 81-year-old Damaschke wrote in a letter to Mayor James Lettis. Damaschke is a retired 50-year employee of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad was named to head the board in 1945 by then Mayor Dr. Alexander F. Carson. During the administration of former Mayor Albert S. Nader, the city’s athletic stadium in Neawha Park was named in his honor.

December 1974

100 Years Ago

Local News – Ice at the Electric Pond at East End is about eight inches thick and that at the Plains Lake six inches.

If the cold weather continues, it will not be many days before the Ice Company will be marking out its fields and preparing to commence the annual harvest. The skaters are already improving the opportunity.

Turkeys are quite plentiful in the local market and are commanding 28 and 30 cents. Other poultry is also plentiful and lack of fat pocketbooks is all that will prevent all having a good Christmas dinner.

December 1914

80 Years Ago

The 1935 Dodge, which has been called the “New Value” Dodge,” will go on exhibition today at the Waight-Emery Motor Corporation, 359 Chestnut Street. Loren Emery and Walter Redmond of the Waight-Emery firm have just returned from the Dodge factory, and drove back one of the new cars, making the trip in two days. Ninety-five new improvements are claimed.

Interiors have been refined and are available in Bedford cord or mohair. The new instrument panel has a large “ship-size” speedometer, as well as ammeter, oil and fuel gage and engine temperature indicator on the satin-finished dash panel. This year the ignition lock, door and spare tire operate with a single key. Interior improvements include a transparent visor, larger parcel compartment and an ash tray on the rear of the front seat.

virus that was originally highly paralytic to test animals. These tamed strains have been found capable of producing signs of polio immunity in chimpanzees and a few human volunteers.

December 1954

20 Years Ago

At the end of 1992, 442,000 children were living in outof-home care, a 9 percent increase from 1990 and a 69 percent increase over 1982. The median age of children in care was 8.6 years old in 1990, compared to 12.6 years in 1982.

Of those children, 39.3 percent were white, 40.4 percent December 1984 were black, and 11.8 percent were Hispanic. The numbers for minorities had increased since 1982, but dropped for Windows slide back, then down. The exterior reveals a sloping whites. radiator with silvery, grilled horns set into the fenders.

December 1994 December 1934

60 Years Ago

Dr. Albert B. Sabin, one of the nation’s leading virus investigators reports there now is evidence suggesting that a non-virulent form of the polio virus may exist in nature. This may be an important factor in explaining the fact that the vast majority of human beings develop immunity to polio without suffering paralysis. Dr. Sabin told about laboratory development of strains of non-virulent or “tamed” polio virus, from

10 Years Ago

Bring a fresh approach to teaching social studies with the “Using Historical Buildings to Teach Social Studies” will be the goal of a January 24, 2005, presentation by Cynthia Falk, assistant professor of material culture at SUNY Oneonta and the Cooperstown Graduate Program.

December 2004

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140 Leaders Say: Don’t Frack FRACKING/From A4 mented, among them: rising violent crime, traffic fatalities, enormous amounts of heavy truck traffic, and strain on volunteer first responders.

• Financial institutions and insurance companies have identified threats to mortgages and home insurance, potentially undermining municipal tax bases.

As we have noted before, New York State’s review of the economics of fracking is not only inadequate, but one-sided, reporting inflated potential benefits and neglecting entirely to analyze negative municipal or economic impacts.

Any review of the evidence on fracking that is truly based on science, rather than politics, must also include a hard look at the contribution of this industry to climate change.

New research since 2012 gives reason to expect that fracking accelerates climate change. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, 86 times worse than carbon dioxide for the first 20 years it is in the atmosphere. Fugitive emissions of methane occur as part of the fracking process, along the pipelines, and in distribution lines under city streets. As we know that time is running out to stop the disastrous upward trend of global warming, an acknowledgement of fracking’s contribution to

climate change should factor into your decision. You have made laudable initiatives to promote renewable energy, the right path forward for New York.

Allowing fracking now would clearly roll back that crucial good work.

Hundreds of health professionals, scientists, and numerous medical societies have reviewed the science, and based on that review, have asked for a firm moratorium of at least three to five years.

We strongly “second” this motion and believe anything less would be negligent.

Our call today for a firm, extended moratorium is in line with our original 2012 request to you. We need to know the real impacts to public health, the cumulative environmental impacts, and the true costs versus the benefits to our local economies. These questions, among others, remain unanswered. Furthermore, new, critical scientific studies are underway or planned; an extended moratorium allows the time for these answers to come forth.

Governor Cuomo, we acknowledge and appreciate the restraint and caution you have shown thus far.

Given your vow to protect the water and ensure the health of all New Yorkers, a longer term moratorium is the right path to take.

Letter Misleads On State Of Town Of Otsego Affairs To the Editor: As supervisor, I wish to clarify some points in Sheila Ross’ letter of Nov. 21 implying the Town of Otsego awarded raises LETTERS to many at the expense of the highway workers.

The only raise awarded in the new budget was a costof-living 1.5 percent raise to the town clerk, whose office hours are 16 but who is on call when outside her regular hours. She attends many meetings and covers for other workers who do not have many office hours.

The highway workers’ annual raise is in the three-

year union contract signed in early 2014 with the workers’ full agreement. In the contract, the startup hourly rate is raised from $12.50 to $13.11 per hour and there is an annual 30 cent an hour increase for each of the next three years. They are the only employees at the town who can receive benefits.

I personally both like and respect all the Town of Otsego highway employees.

They are good, decent men and their job is important to the Town.

The town and village courts consolidated in March 2014 with extra work and hours, especially

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parking tickets. A part timer is scheduled to be involved during the summer.

Before consolidation, the court clerk worked 10 hours per week part time for the town and full time for the village. After consolidation, she works 30 hours per week and her income rose in the town because of that.

That is not a raise!

The assessor was hired mid-contract to fill a vacated position by the former assessor. His salary is unchanged from that sevenyear contract. He works both in and out of the office as well and being willing to step up and complete the town’s 2015 reval.

ANNE GEDDES-ATWELL Otsego Town Supervisor

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References and credit check required. $950 month + security. Call Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC at 607-432-4391.

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Two bedroom, two bath, LR, DR, one car garage, W&D hook-up, Rt.31, furnished, $850. per mo plus utilities, plowing, lawn care & garbage removal. No pets. References required. Call Patti at (607) 547-4045.

TFN Fly Creek 3 or 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Fireplace, Sun Porch, Patio, Garage, Yard & Woods, $1500. plus utilities 607267-2683 Kathy Fistrowicz Broker Associate RealtyUSA Cooperstown TFN For Rent, Center Village Home.

3 BR, 2 baths, den, modern kitchen, laundry, DR, breakfast room, 1 car garage. Excellent Location. $1400. per month plus utilities, snow & garbage removal, lawn care. Lease.

References required. One dog ok. No cats allowed. Call Ashley-Connor Realty 607-547-4045. TFN

APARTMENTS FOR RENT Cooperstown 2 bedroom, first floor, edge of village $950.00 with heat and electric included. Lease. No pets. Dave LaDuke, John Mitchell Real Estate, (607) 547-8551.

TFN Village Studio Apartment available. Walking distance to hospital. Ideal for one or two persons. Heat, electric, snow removal and lawn care included. Cooking facilites. Long or short term. $700/Month.

Contact: Robert K. Lee Benson Agency 607-434-5177

MLS#97784 Minden $299,000 Here is a wonderful opportunity to own this tastefully updated Colonial on over 50+ acres w/mountain views for miles. 3 BRs, 3 baths. Updated galley-style kitchen overlooks rear sunroom and in-ground pool w/Trex decking.

Spacious LR w/brick gas fireplace, large DR. Master BR features walk-in closet and private bath. Plenty of storage space in the full walk-out basement and 2-car garage.

Cherry Valley/Springfield schools.

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Village Treasure Exclusively Offered at $225,000

Village of Cooperstown home is close to downtown, and within a block of Bassett Medical Center. This is a great opportunity for family living with a very nice backyard, mature plantings and entertaining space on the back patio. The house is in need of cosmetic updating, and the price reflects this.

PrOPErTy DETails —Home built in 1840 —.25 acres —Village water and sewer —Mature gardens inTEriOr FEaTurEs —1,798 sq ft —3 BRs —2 full baths

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ExTEriOr FEaTurEs —2 stories —Frame construction —Vinyl siding —Open front porch, side porch —Attached 1-car garage —Attached garden greenhouse —Asphalt shingle roof

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18-19, 2014

MLS#97634 $45,000 Owner Says Sell! 2,000+ sq ft raised ranch sits on almost 6 acres, lots of privacy, near Cooperstown and Oneonta. REA Co-op electric. Won’t last long!

Call Mark Frank @ 607-267-6612 (cell)

MLS#96160 $275,000 Across the Street from Dreams Park! Mint 1.4 acres. As rental, solid 8% R/R for the 13 weeks.

Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.rodshousetour.com

MLS#97018 $249,900 2.3+ acre lawn, lake access right next door. 2-3 BRs, 2 baths, LR w/wood-burning fireplace, family room w/ pellet stove, garage/workshop. Move in immediately.

Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)

MLS#93207 $249,000 Remarkable Buying Opportunity! 1927 Tudor revival with over $186k in recent renovations! Like new w/old-world craftsman sophistication.

Call Tom Spychalski @ 607-434-7719 (cell)

MLS#93004 $224,900 Selling Under Value! 25-acre horse farm w/large Morton barn in Morris. 3-BR, 2-bath ranch, arenas.

Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.morrishorsefarm.com

MLS#95904 $629,000 Center-hall Colonial features LR w/fireplace, DR w/original cupboards. Downstairs: 2 BRs, 2 baths.

Upstairs: 4 BRs, 3 baths. Pond, horse barn, 2 cottages.

Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)

MLS#97402 $395,000 Rare Cooperstown Area Land! Owner Must Liquidate! 138 acres selling below market!

Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.cooperstownland.com

$69,000 In Mountain View Park, well maintained single-wide w/Florida room, 3 BRs, 2 baths, central air, double lot.

Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/725738

MLS#96570 $239,900 Investment Potential! Positive Cash Flow!

Pristine Lakefront Home! 4-BR, 2-bath home is completely renovated and furnished.

Call William Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)

MLS#96011 $395,000 10 Minutes to Cooperstown! New in 2007, 3+ acres, 4 BRs, 3½ baths, finished basement, AC. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.leatherstockinghomes2.com

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MLS#96275 $149,900 63 acres - ½ mile of prime, buildable, frontage on the Susquehanna River in the rapidly developing corridor between Cooperstown and Oneonta! Priced to move.

Call Thomas Spychalski @ 607-434-7719 (cell)

MLS#93729 $111,500 Across from Hartwick College in Oneonta 3-BR, 2-bath home w/hardwood floors, deck.

Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/712437

! ld MLS#97070 $107,900 $25k in Renovations! New hardwood flooring, windows, wiring, insulation, barn, frost-free hydrant, water, electric. 10.69 acres.

Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

MLS#88473 $26,000 Waiting for Your Dream Home! Two sloping acres.

Open with 212’ of road frontage. Minutes from Cooperstown and Richfield Springs.

Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

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MLS#97712 $115,000 4-BR, 2½ bath home sits on 6.2 mostly wooded acres.

Open floorplan, 2 outbuildings, front and back decks w/ramps. Includes rental lot for a single-wide mobile.

Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)

Move Right In! Beautiful Victorian home in center city Oneonta w/hardwood flooring, natural woodwork, crown molding, high ceilings, pocket door, formal LR, DR, family room, 4-5 BRs, 2 full baths. Master BR has walk-in closet w/hardwood flooring under the carpet. Laundry on the second floor. First floor BR w/bath or use as office. Enclosed second floor porch, detached 1-car garage, paved driveway. Newer roof and furnace. Dry basement. Walking distance to downtown, parks, bus route. Easy access to I-88. $234,900 MLS#97781

MLS#95942 53 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown Beautiful 3BR, 3 bath home in Cooperstown.

Just sold by Kathy Fistrowicz!

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MLS#97672 $29,900 Exceptional Value! Desirable Location! Babbling brook and 10 wooded acres are just a short drive from the NYS Thruway. Priced to sell immediately.

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MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS#95274 $124,900 Charming Otsego County farmhouse w/large barn!

Spacious BR, 2 bath house is close to I-88.onLarge 4+ BRs, 24baths, 2-story home w/pond 13+ backyard, workshop/garage, small shed. Make your acres.

Great restoration potential! appointment today. Priced to go this week!(cell) Call William Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598

MLS#92555 213 Cemetery Road, Bainbridge Lovely country home, 3 BRs, 2 baths, 8.5 acres.

Just sold by Donna Anderson!

MLS#95584 $209,900 Investment Opportunity! Could be owneroccupied. 3-unit, multi-family w/COC, many Cooperstown Villagedetails. home.Ample Seller pays closingparking. costs (up upgrades, original off-street to w/acceptable Call$3,000 William Vagliardo @offer).

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MLS#95413 $79,900 Best Buy on Canadarago Lake! Family affordable!

Cozy 3-season cottage w/2 BRs, 1 bath. Great getaway for all your summer fun.

Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

MLS#91517 41 Nelson Avenue, Cooperstown Breathtaking 5 BRs, 5 baths, Queen Anne Victorian home, in the heart of COOPERSTOWN. Just sold by Kristi Ough!

Unique opportunity to purchase this historic former rail station,

circa 1892, lovingly restored by the current owners to its former glory!

Proven location is close to Foothills Performing Arts Center, Clarion Hotel and Main Street, Oneonta. The building is ideally equipped for retail, medical/professional or service business opportunities—even a 3-store mini-mall which offers separate heating. Bring your own food establishment ideas as well: all contents and equipment are negotiable. This location provides exciting opportunities!

Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner Cricket Keto, Licensed Assoc. Broker Peter D. Clark, Consultant

$849,900 MLS#97178

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(7895) Appealing 3-BR, 3-bath Otsego Lake-view contemporary home on a full acre. Large LR w/fireplace, formal DR, den, 3-season room, oak flooring, main-level master BR. 2-car garage, large lake-view deck, lake rights.

Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$374,000

Jon

Hansen

artfuLLy OriginaL

(7862) Historic 1840s Colonial w/views of rolling hills.

This 4 BR, 2+ bath residence features gracious LR, formal DR w/access to stone front porch, custom kitchen w/ window seat, butler’s pantry. Custom closets, built-ins, wide pine plank floors, heated 2-car garage. Professionally landscaped, stone walls, brook. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$775,000

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(7874) Secluded 3 BR, 2+ bath contemporary Cape on 3.50 acres has LR w/gas fireplace, den/office, main-level master BR, formal DR, eat-in kitchen, sun room w/passive solar heat. 2-car garage, wrap-around deck, valley views. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$479,000

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