Hometown Oneonta 02-02-18

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$500 MEDALLION still out there FOR SECOND CLUE, SEE A3 • ALSO, POEMS PRAISE WINTER, A4

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& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, February 2, 2018 Visit www.AllOTSEGO.com E!

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Volume 10, No. 17

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Oneonta’s Vets’ Club 185-Year Closes For Super Bowl

radition Ends

Cooperstown’s Isn’t, Saying Pats, Eagles Won’t Take A Knee’ By LIBBY CUDMORE Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Athena Gill, Little Delaware Youth Ensemble business manager, presents conductor Uli Speth with a framed concert poster signed by all the players as a token of their appreciation after the Sunday, Jan. 28, performance at Hartwick College’s Anderson Center.

Police Say He Peeped At 14 Bassett Staff COOPERSTOWN

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nderson Lee, 27, of Cooperstown, the Bassett Hospital nurse arrested for allegedly placing cameras in an employees-only bathroom, remains in the Otsego County Jail after being charged with 28 counts of unlawful surveillance. He was Lee arrested Thursday, Jan. 25, for 12 counts of unlawful surveillance, second degree, a Class E felony. On Friday, two more victims, both female, were found to have been filmed. Orders of protection were issued for all 14 victims. He remains jailed on $100,000 cash bail. OPEN SEATS: There

are two vacancies on the Oneonta City School Board that will be filled in the May 15 election/budget vote. Petitions to run, available at the District Office in the former Center Street School, may be picked up during working hours, when absentee ballots , due no later then 4 p.m. Election Day, may also be picked up.

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decades-old tradition will cease when the Oneonta Veterans’ Club closes its doors on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 4, in a counter-protest to NFL players who “took a knee.” “We want to honor our flag and our country,” said manager Wayne Gregory. “When those players took a knee, we voted to no longer show football games at the club.” The governing body of the Oneonta club – made up of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, DAV, VVA, Legion Auxiliaries, Sons of the Legion and Legion Riders – voted in mid-October to cease showing professional football games at the club, following the ongoing national debate about players declining to Please See PROTEST, A7

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Remaining congregants gather around First Baptist’s last pastor, Randy Palada, center right.

Baptist Church Members Reminisce, Depart By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA Church sold in 2014

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t 56, Gail Baird, is the oldest member of the First Baptist Church of Oneonta. “My mom

was pregnant with me when she first came to this church,” she said. And on Sunday, Jan. 28, she joined her fellow parishioners in saying goodbye to the church she was born into. “When the building was sold, I waited until the last possible minute to go through Please See Church, A7

Milford Hosts 7th Senior Meal Site – And It’s Packed County Office Now Serves 7,700 Elderly Diners Monthly

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unday, Jan. 21, when Lola Rathbone looked at the signup sheet for the new Senior Meal Site at the Milford United

Methodist Church, there were only four names. But Wednesday, Jan. 24, all 40 seats at the tables were full. “We thought it would be received well by the community,” said Tamie MacDonald, Otsego County Office

Columnists Zagata, Kuzminski To Explore Spectrum Of Issues

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wo eminent observers of public life, locally and nationally, are joining the editorial pages of Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal and www. AllOTSEGO.com. Mike Zagata, Gov. George Pataki’s DEC commissioner and a top environmental executive for Fortune 500 companies, and Adrian Kuzminski, the philosopher, author and founder of Sus-

for the Aging director. “This is a three-month pilot program, so if we want to keep it going, it’s up to you to bring family and friends.” While the diners enjoyed roast pork, spinach and sweet potatoes, Doug Hallberg played piano, and

state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, gave a brief talk at the conclusion of the meal. “When Pastor Sylvia Barrett called me, I accepted,” he said. “I’m qualified by age, and I love roast pork!” With that successful launch, Milford’s becomes the seventh senior Please See MEALS, A7

RARE CRMO HAS YOUNG ONEONTAN IN PAIN

Polar Plunge Offers Cecily Hope Cecily Ellis with parents Heather and Jonathan at Sunday, Jan. 28, benefit auction in Milford.

By PARKER FISH MILFORD Zagata

Kuzminski

tainable Otsego, will write columns that will appear on alternate weeks on the Op-Ed page, A5. Please See ISSUES, A6

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ecily Ellis, 7, Oneonta, was among volunteers helping to read ticket numbers at the annual Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump Chinese Auction on Jan. 28. But she’s more than just a volunteer. Cecily is one of this year’s 11 recipients Please See CECILY, A2

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


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