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Mariann Baker, Oneonta, center, works with her daughter Teri-Ann Baker, left, and Shayla Truesdell, Oneonta, at carving pumpkins at the FOR-DO Harvest Dinner on Saturday, Oct. 14.

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n OPD sergeant fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his police vehicle into a pole the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 10, Police Chief Doug Brenner confirmed Saturday According to Brenner, Sgt. Eric Berger was driving on patrol on Chestnut Street in a marked Ford SUV around 3:30 p.m. when he fell asleep at the wheel; the SUV went up on the curb and struck a utility pole at Chestnut and Watkins.

Brenner said the accident happened on Berger’s first day of a day-shift schedule; he had previously worked a night shift. The officer was not injured in the crash and has since returned to work, and no tickets were issued.

RIBBON CUTTING: State Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, will cut the ribbon on the West 1566 Community Center in the old American Legion building in Milford at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20. The center was relocated from the Milford United Methodist Church, which burned in March.

BELL RINGERS: The Salvation Army will host a a Bell Ringer Orientation Meeting at noon Wednesday, Nov. 1, at The Salvation Army, 25 River St., Oneonta. Call 432-5960 for more information

eorge Saunders, whose New York Times best-selling novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” was written while living in Oneonta, received the prestigious Man Booker prize on Tuesday, Oct. 17, in a London ceremony.

Baroness Lola Young, chair of the 2017 judging panel, said the form of the “utterly original novel” – it includes voices of souls in the graveyard - “reveals a witty, intelligent and deeply moving narrative.”

The Man Booker prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in literature, is awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in the UK. Americans authors have only been eligible for the award since 2014.

Saunders, 58, was one of six authors shortlisted for the prestigious award, alongside British writers Ali Smith and Fiona Mozley, fellow Please See BARDO, A3

Matt Masterjohn, Oneonta, of the Crystal Palace barber shop gives Bruce Zimmer, Gilberstville, a shave for St. Baldrick’s Day, a fundraiser to fight childhood cancers, held at the Red Jug Pub on Saturday, Oct. 14. Zimmer, a bus driver for the Oneonta School District, told his kids they would be having a new driver on Monday as a joke, knowing he was getting his first haircut in nearly six years. He raised $1,525 for the haircut.

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possible “halfdozen” successors to SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski may be visiting campus before the end of the semester, she told attendees at her final annual Community Breakfast Wednesday, Oct. 11, at Morris Hall.

The local search committee – it includes College Council members David Brenner, Joe Bernier and Diane Georgeson, – will recommend “preferred candidates” to SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, with the hope a president can be named by spring to succeed Kleniewski, who is retiring at academic year’s end.

FOXES AND DEER AND SKUNKS, OH MY!

A Walk On (Oneonta’s) Wild Side

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heck your flocks carefully – you might be missing some geese.

“I was in Neahwa Park, and there were three beautiful

Those “wild swans” in Hodges’ Pond belong to somebody.

swans on Hodges Pond,” said Mayor Gary Herzig.

“I did some research, and they look to be Chinese geese, a domesticated breed.”

“A domesticated species like Chinese geese escape farms all the time,” said Please See WILD, A2

When Mr. Nazi Came To Town 50 Years Before Charlottesville, Va., ‘Rambunctious’ Crowd Filled SUNY’s Old Main, Heckled George Lincoln Rockwell

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harlottesville has nothing on Oneonta.

Fifty years ago last

December, the Nazis came to town.

“Here was a person, head of the American Nazi party, who was against everything we stood for. But we felt free speech was important to democracy,” recalled Emile

B. Gurstelle, now a Ph.D. and a principal in Wayne Psychological Group, LLC, a thriving practice in Butler, N.J. On the evening of Dec. 12, 1966, then a SUNY Oneonta This photo of George Lincoln Rockwell, junior and a member of the founder of the American Nazi Party, was Please See NAZI, A7 taken about the time he visited Oneonta.

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Wildlife Offensive Sweeps Defenseless City WILD/From A1 Larry Bifaro, a wildlife biologist, DEC Zone 4. “They may not leave the area like migratory species, so you’ll see them mixing locally with mallards and other types.”

With recent spotting of geese, foxes, skunks and plenty of deer in Center City, just going out for a stroll can be a walk on the wild side.

“My husband and I were taking a walk around the upper part of the SUNY Oneonta, and we saw what we thought was a dog,” said Council member Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward.

“When we crested the hill, we saw it wasn’t a dog, but a fox, and he was eating a banana.”

He skittered away before she could get a photo, but he’s not the first one she’s seen. “When we first moved here, a grey fox lived under our shed, and we would see her with her babies.

But as soon as we could, we got them out of there, humanely.”

In early September, Patricia Crow, Myrtle Avenue, reported her own fox sighting in Center City to Common Council. “Last Thursday (Sept.

14) I sighted a fox in my neighbor’s backyard. It was traveling through the yard to the sorority’s backyard…it

Life is calling

Common Council member Melissa Nicosia snapped deer eating apples from a tree in a neighbor’s backyard on College Park Drive.

Deer are frequenting lawns and backyards around SUNY Oneonta’s campus.

is not safe for the citizens of Oneonta, visiting college students and particularly children and pets, including chickens.”

But Bifaro says that foxes pose no threat to humans, so long as they are not

cornered. “They won’t they won’t go after dogs, they might go after a stray cat or a chicken, but they’re really after mice and voles,” he said.

“They really don’t harm anyone,” said Nicosia. “It

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really wasn’t a big deal.”

But Police Chief Doug Brenner confirmed that a fox was found in the Center City area, and later destroyed by police. “He didn’t look right,” said Brenner. “We’ve had issues with foxes in the past, but they generally move on. This one was clearly sick.”

And foxes aren’t the only wild creatures making their presence known in Center City. “We’ve had a lot of reports of skunks,” said Brenner. “We’ve had to destroy at least six skunks this summer, maybe as many as 10. You can tell when they’re sick; they’re out in the daytime, they’re unafraid of humans, they’re walking in circles.”

And more still are hit by cars; including one recently on Chestnut Street and two out on Southside.

“We have one living under our porch,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “It has not been a pleasant experience.

I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that there have been an increase in skunk sightings this year.”

As the complaints come in, he advises that residents make sure their garbage cans are tightly fastened or stored in closed areas.

“They love to prowl through garbage,” he said.

It is, however, illegal for homeowners to trap and release or destroy wild animals onto other people’s property, said Bifaro.

And with a photo of a deer in the produce aisle of the Cooperstown Price Chopper last week, Oneonta residents are starting to snap their own pictures of Bambi.

“There’s a tree laden with apples at the end of College Park Drive,” said Nicosia.

“There was a mom and two babies, and the mom just stood up to get some apples.

It was the luckiest shot I ever got in my life.”

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Tourists Walter and Marion Hollander (Steve Dillon and Kristin Schultz) cower in the US Embassy in “Don’t Drink The Water”

30 Years Later, Director Dillon Reprises Role That Shaped Him

After Dillon’s performance, Alicino encouraged Dillon to continue with theater. “He saw something ONEONTA special in me and told me that theater might be my hirty years after starring as American tour- calling,” said Dillon. He has since gone on to perform ist Walter Hollander in Woody Allen’s classic spy in shows with the Glimmerglobe Theater, as well farce “Don’t Drink the Waas productions ter,” Steve Dillon through his A Bigis once again step- IF YOU GO: ger Boat company, ping into Holland- “Don’t Drink the including “Franer’s Hawaiian shirt Water,” 8 p.m. kenstein” and “The Friday-Saturday, in a production Oct. 20-21, and 1 Elephant Man.” of the play at the p.m.

Sunday, Oct. But in revisitFoothills Perform22. Same follow- ing the role, Dillon ing Arts Center ing weekend. has not only been this weekend. reminded of how “This is one of much he loved my favorite shows,” said the show, but might have a Dillon. “It was fun back in better understanding of what high school, but I’m having it means to play Hollander. a blast this time around.”

“In high school, I was really Written in 1966, “Don’t just pretending,” said Dillon.

Drink the Water” follows “Now I can relate a little the Hollander family, who better and I have a better seek refuge in an American understanding of what it’s Embassy after accidentally sneaking into a high security like.”

He and Stevens brought facility to take pictures. The together a cast of 15 local show is directed by Gary E. actors, including Kristin Stevens and produced by Schultz, Paul Patterson, Dillon.

Kristin Sloth, Andy Puritz As a senior at Cooperstown Central School, and Matt Jahnke.

And although Alicino Dillon played Walter, a brash New Jersey caterer. “I hadn’t passed away in 2004, Dillon is dedicating the show done much theater before then, but my English teacher, to his memory. “Nick was Nick Alicino, encouraged me instrumental in helping me find my passion for theater,” to try out,” he said. “I was surprised when I got the lead Dillon said. “It just seemed right.” role.”

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Oneonta’s Saunders Wins Man Booker Prize, $66,000 In London BARDO/From A1 Americans Paul Auster and Emily Fridlund, and British-Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. Saunders is only the second American author

to win the prize, after Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” in 2016.

It took five hours of deliberations before the panel, also including novel-

ist Sarah Hall, artist Tom Phillips, literary critic Lila Azam Zanganeh and the travel writer Colin Thubron, made their unanimous decision. The Duchess of Corn-

wall presented Saunders with the trophy at London’s Guildhall.

Along with the £50,000 prize ($66,000 U.S. currency), Saunders receives a rather unique honor - Royal Mail will apply a congratulatory postmark bearing his name to millions of items of stamped mail on Wednesday and Friday, reading “Congratulations to George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize.”

Though “Lincoln” is Saunders’ ninth book, it is the first full-length novel.

He is best known for his short story collection, including 2013’s “Tenth of December,” which won the Folio Prize and the Story Prize.

Saunders bought many of the books he used for researching the novel at The Green Toad, the Oneonta bookstore, and has said that he often walked around

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The Guardian snapped this photo of Oneonta’s George Saunders today in London.

the cemetery in Morris for inspiration.

Since its publication in February, “Lincoln” has been acquired for film development by “Parks and Recreation” stars Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, who both helped narrate the audiobook of the novel. In 2015, Offerman had interviewed Saunders for his own book, “Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom With America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers.”

In addition, Saunders is currently working on the TV series “Sea Oak,” for Amazon Studios. Based on a short story from his 2000 collection “Pastoralia,” the series stars Emmy award winner Glenn Close as Aunt Bernie, a working-class woman who dies during a home invasion in the Sea Oak housing complex, only to come back from the dead to get the life she never had.

Saunders executive produces with Jonathan Krauss; Kier McFarlane and Lael Smith serve as co-exec producers.

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he county Department of Health is reporting an individual is being treated after being bit by a rabid bat in the Town of Richfield.

The bat was captured, and subsequent testing revealed today it had rabies; the person bit is undergoing a series of vaccinations, according to Matt Johnson, health department R.N. Such reports are very rare, and this one is the first in a few years, Johnson said. It’s uncertain how widespread rabies might be, he said, so “the general rule is don’t handle wild animals, because just don’t know.”

Rabies is a fatal viral infection, transmitted by a bite or scratch from an infected animal, according to a health department press release.

“Any person who awakes with a bat in their room, finds a bat in a room with an unattended small child, or has a pet in contact with a bat should capture the animal and call the health department” at (607) 547-4230.

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EDITORIAL

Free Speech Out Of Fashion, But Fashions Change

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he good news is, the First Amendment lives. At least, the debate about our embattled First Amendment lives.

The Cooperstown Veterans Club’s decision – an 8-0 vote by its board of directors – to ban the airing of NFL games until players stop “taking a knee” during the National Anthem is a perfectly appropriate expression of the veterans’ First Amendment Rights.

And it’s not a decision

without consequences: Attendance Sunday afternoons – and, no doubt, attendant revenues – are down 10 percent. For his part, Colin Kaepernick has foregone possibly millions. People are willing to sacrifice to exercise their First Amendment Rights; that means those rights have value.

It might be argued the veterans’ protest is more to the point than Kaepernick’s which, some might say, is mixing apples and oranges.

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don’t think he (George Lincoln Rockwell) swung over any people to his point of view. I thought then and, to some extent, I still think people need to hear how nutty the other side can sound.”

EMILE GURSTELLE Chairman, 1966, of SCOHR, former SUNY Oneonta speakers bureau

What in the Anthem would encourage police officers to shoot unarmed black men? In effect, aspiring to be “the land

of the free,” you would think, is exactly what Kaepernick – and every American of good will – want.

In that light, the NFL players “taking a knee” is not a protest, but a provocation. A better and more unifying approach might be to embrace the Pledge of Allegiance and live up to “liberty and justice for all” – the ideals of all Americans, who include peoples from all nations.

In other words, don’t dis the Anthem, proselytize the Pledge . Why use our common ideals to divide?

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In the midst of the “taking the knee” controversy came an interview with Emile B. Gurstelle, long-ago chairman of SCOHR, SUNY Oneonta’s Student Council on Human Rights, which in 1966, a half-century ago last Dec. 12, invited George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party president, to speak at Old Main.

The place was packed beyond its 850-seat capacity with, as Rockwell put it, a Please See EDITORIAL, A5

DECADE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNY Oneonta President Kleniewski’s Credo: It’s All About The Students Editor’s Note: SUNY President Nancy Kleniewski detailed 10 years of accomplishment in her final address to what have been annual Community Breakfasts, this one Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Morris Hall. This is an excerpt.

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ne of the proudest accomplishments we can have as a public institution is to help more students get access to a college education. First through the Educational Opportunity Program, then the College Assistance Migrant Program, and now the Access to College Excellence program, we have helped hundreds of lowincome and first-generation students enroll in college and graduate.

Last year’s inaugural class of our ACE program for first-generation students did very well academically and we expect that the class that joined us this year will succeed as well. Our CAMP program recently received a renewal from the U. S. Department of Education for five more years, and we are one of only two universities in the

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Oneonta Job Corps Director Chris Kuhn congratulates SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski after what will be her final address to the President’s Community Breakfast.

Northeast US to host this program for children of agricultural workers.

Part of students’ success is due to the support they receive in the form of scholarships. Through the College at Oneonta Foundation and institutional funding, one in six of our undergraduates now receives a scholarship from the college, in addition to their federal or state financial aid. Thanks to all of you who donate money to support scholarships.

We are very grateful to our partners who recognize that private gifts and grants are necessary to supplement the income we receive from state support and students’ tuition. Through our two capital campaigns, annual giving, and careful investments, we now have an endowment approaching $55 million. Private gifts support student scholarships, research, travel, active learning, faculty development, and community outreach. We hope to infuse the campus and our extended Oneonta commu-

nity with the spirit of philanthropy based on the trust that your gifts will be used for the highest priorities of the institution. I truly appreciate the spirit of collaboration and generosity with which many of you have contributed to our work. 95% of the money we raise goes directly to programs: scholarships, research, internships, travel funds, and faculty development, not to administrative overhead. For this reason, the website Charity Navigator rates us as 4-stars, their highest rating.

Another great accomplishment over the past decade has been our continued ability to attract and retain high-achieving students even though the number of 18-year-olds in New York State has been decreasing. This semester we enrolled our largest freshman class ever while maintaining high academic achievement (approximately a 90 average and 1129 SAT).

We suspect that the Excelsior Scholarships helped in that process, even though the Please See STUDENTS, A5

LETTERS

In Albany, Locally, Opioid Epidemic Attacked To the Editor: As former director of residential addictions treatment at one of Florida’s homeless shelters, and as a mother who lost her oldest son to an opioid/alcohol overdose, it has been my privilege this past year to have met a number of our community’s leaders who serve on the Otsego County Opioid Task Force.

Today, as I joined in an online Town Hall presentation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, I was struck by Schneiderman’s announcement confirming the numbers of deaths in 2016 due to opioid drugs at 50,000! This, he said, is greater than the numbers of deaths attributed to guns or automobile accidents!

And while the news of some of New York’s innovative approaches to dealing with addiction and today’s heroin epidemic is reassuring, I was even more encouraged by Schneiderman’s announcement that the state has joined in a multi-state investigation, going after the entire pharmaceutical industry and questioning Big Pharma’s responsibil-

ity in the current opioid epidemic.

At this time there are 40 other states participating in the investigation. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, in the end, Big Pharma’s ill-gotten gains could provide TO DOWNLOAD the funds for the long-term a copy, Google “hhs opioid residential treatment programs epidemic comso essential to recovery. munity toolkit” No community is immune to this scourge! People young and old, from all walks of life, are struggling with opioid addiction right here at home. I urge everyone to support the work of the Otsego County Opioid Task Force led by LEAF’s Dr. Julie Dostal.

In addition, request a copy of the Opioid Epidemic Community Toolkit available through the Department of Health & Human Services. I’ve given a copy of this guide to a member of the Morris school board and urge you to do the same in your town.

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To the Editor: In 2014, the Relay For Life of Otsego County made over $98,000 to donate towards finding a cure for a terrible disease called cancer.

This staggering number helped the American Cancer Society find answers to bring us closer to a cure, fund invaluable programs and services for those affected and their families, and bring awareness to this disease all over Otsego County.

Today, the numbers are not so staggering, and we need your help to revive the Cooperstown Relay For Life in its 20th anniversary year.

The Event Leadership Team is seeking new perspectives and fresh minds who want the opportunity to

make a tangible impact in the fight against cancer, gain valuable leadership skills, and receive the honor and satisfaction of helping others in the community.

Let’s make this 20th anniversary a Relay to never forget!

But we can’t do it alone – we need your help to make it happen.

Otsego County residents need our help to keep working towards the cure.

To learn more, please call me at (607) 766-6925 or email Lauren.

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It’s Historic! Beyond That, Details Fuzzy

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However, since Taylor’s Mini Mart It is a rare example of a former Esso opened a long time ago, we decided lighthouse gas station that is still sellwe needed to do a bit of research to ing gas. There is a convenience store see if our memories are correct. And and a car wash at the location. The while we could not find any informafive-story lighthouse structure

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Here’s “The Lighthouse” at Mirabito’s Cooperstown outlet.

occupies the east corner of the building. On the top is a balustrade surrounding a windowed cupola.”

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History

Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

150 Years Ago

How it Happened – Some boys were playing marbles on Main Street, when a gentleman stepped on a marble and slipped against a lady who fell on a hog, which ran between a man’s legs, who, in falling, clutched a kite string, bringing down the kite before a span of horses, who took fright and ran down an alley, alarming a man in a carpenter’s shop so that he dropped a match with which he was lighting a cigar, among a pile of shavings, which ignited, fired the building, caused an alarm of fire, and brought out a steam engine which frightened a pair of horses attached to an omnibus who ran off and embankment, upsetting the bus and breaking the legs of a passenger. Ten cents invested in a Railway Passenger Insurance Ticket by that man would have secured him fifteen dollars per week during total disability, or his family three thousand dollars if the marble business had resulted in his violent taking off. Al Sabin, the Station Agent, sells the tickets. Travelers try them.

October 1867

125 Years Ago

When train 19 rolled into Oneonta Sunday noon the sight of a Fitchburg day coach, with windows crowded with dusky faces, at once attracted the attention of the by-standers. An inscription running along the side of the car conveyed the information that the occupants were the inhabitants of an Eskimo Village, en route from Boston to Chicago and the World’s Fair. Curious spectators at once crowded the platforms and peered into the coach and into the baggage car attached, which contained cooking utensils, tents, beds, implements of the hunt and for domestic use – in short all the appurtenances of an Eskimo village. The Eskimos in the party are 57 in number, ranging in age from the tiniest infant in its mother’s arms to gray-haired men and women. All were plump, round-faced and apparently healthy, their color being darker than that of the average Indian. In size they were all below the medium.

October 1892

100 Years Ago

Out of a class of thirty young men, all college graduates, or with an equivalent education, DeForest W. Ingerham of Oneonta is one of two who successfully passed grueling examinations for enlistment in the Officer’s Reserve Signal Corps as a candidate for aerial observer. He has been recommended for a first lieutenancy. Mr. Ingerham has just returned from New York City where he spent four days taking the tests at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital.

20 Years Ago

at 21 Broad Street are to be arraigned this morning. The defendants are Willard Tarbox, 34; Eugene Altier, 37, of 29 Chestnut Street; and Gilbert Hale, 26, of 2 Fonda Avenue.

October 1937

60 Years Ago

An Oneonta woman will have dinner today with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. Miss Katharine H. Tobey, 79 Chestnut Street, is a member of the English Speaking Union, which is giving the dinner. She left several days ago for Manhattan. Miss Tobey also attended a dinner in the Waldorf for the Queen Mother several years ago, also given by the English Speaking Union. A retired educator, Miss Tobey formerly was Dean of Women at Oneonta Normal School and its successor, Oneonta State Teacher’s College.

October 1957

40 Years Ago

Convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt says he doesn’t think a scandal such as Watergate could happen October 1997 again because “I don’t think you would have the same type The examinations that Mr. Ingerham went through were of fearful people in the White House again.” Hunt, who severe, especially the physical. As an aerial observer he will served 32 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges have to go up with an aviator to operate the machine gun, of conspiracy stemming from the 1972 Watergate break-in, draw maps or take photographs of enemy territory. He will has been on a speaking tour since February. be placed many times and suddenly in various positions that October 1977 will test his sense of balance. An examination devised to test his sense of balance involved his sitting in a revolving chair, whirling around, and then told to touch a man’s hands The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America standing near him. The side to which he leaned and how is getting harder. Across the nation Americans are unable to rapidly he touched the extended hand determined his sense stretch their dollars to the next payday as they juggle higher of poise. He was also asked to walk in a straight line in his rent, food and energy bills. It’s starting to affect middlestocking feet after belladonna had been placed in his eyes. income working families as well as the poor. It has also October 1917 reached the point of affecting day-to-day calculations of merchants such as Wal-Mart, 7-Eleven and Family Dollar. Food pantries are reporting severe shortages and reduced governTwo of the five men arrested in police raids last Saturment funding at the very time that a surge of new people are day afternoon were fined by Judge Sterling B. Harrington seeking their help. Industry analysts and some economists following a hearing in City Court. Chris Kleeman, 42, fear the strain will get worse as people are hit with higher of 11 Grand Street was fined $25 and given a suspended costs for home basic medical care and heating bills this winsentence of 30 days in the county jail. George Michaud, 43 ter and mortgage rates go up. Many consumers, particularly of Myrtle Avenue, paid a fine of $15 and escaped a senthose making less than $30,000 a year, are cutting spending tence of 20 days in the County jail. Both pleaded guilty to on nutritious food like milk and vegetables. They may also a policy slip charge. They were taken into custody when skimp on medical care and other critical services. “The realpolice raided the City Billiard Parlor at 16 Broad Street and ity of hunger is right here,” said the Rev. Melony Samuels, seized punch-board equipment, lottery tickets and cards. director of a church-affiliated food pantry.

Three men arrested in the raid on an alleged “horse room” October 2007

10 Years Ago

80 Years Ago

Vets Practice Their First Amendment Rights, And Protect Those Of Others EDITORIAL/From A4 “rambunctious” crowd.

What followed was, indeed provocation. “Mein Kampf” for America, if you will.

American Jews, he suggested, controlled the banks and media and, thus, the nation. Blacks, he sympathized, can’t get a break – and thus should seek their fortunes in Africa.

Some of the stuff was downright silly. Check canned food, he advised: If a circled “K” and

“U” appear on the label, it’s been blessed by a rabbi. (Even if true, so what?)

Reporter Pete Dobinsky’s detailed account in the next day’s Binghamton Press reads as just the facts, folks. But your typical editor in these days of “safe spaces” would hold his or her breath, awaiting the onslaught.

In truth, all the particulars wouldn’t see the light of day. (We aren’t repeating them here.) Is that progress?

Fortune reported the other week, “Nearly half of the millennials polled in a recent University of Chicago survey say that colleges should limit freedom of speech ‘in extreme cases,’ like slurs and other intentionally offensive language, and costumes that stereotype certain racial and ethnic groups.” Is that progress?

The good news is support for “free speech,” like most things, is cyclical. Gurstelle, now a psychiatrist in practice in New Jersey,

put it sensibly: “I don’t think he swung over any people to his point of view. I thought then and, to some extent, I still think people need to hear how nutty the other side can sound.”

Amen.

• A final thought: Not just locally, but nationally, the American Legion and VFW are decrying those who “take the knee.” That’s their right. But they might also embrace as a point of pride what Kaeper-

nick is doing: He and his fellow NFL stars are exercising a right that military men and, more lately, women, have fought to protect for 241 years now.

You may have seen the bumper sticker on the back of that white van driving around the county lately: “If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.”

We can disagree with Colin Kaepernick and still say, thank you, veterans.

SUNY President Reports On Progress In Recruiting Minority Students, Faculty STUDENTS/From A4 program was not announced until very late in the admissions cycle. ...Our graduate enrollments have also risen substantially.

One of SUNY Oneonta’s enduring values is inclusive excellence, the belief that all students, faculty, and staff bring assets to the campus because of, not despite, our differences. Many individuals and groups are working together to increase diversity and inclusion on our campus. I’m happy to report that this first year class includes an increase from less than 20 percent to a new high of 28 percent of students from underrepresented ethnic and racial groups and that

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our faculty members from underrepresented groups now make up 20 percent of the faculty.

But inclusion is not just about enrollment, it’s about success. We have put many supports for students in place, such as the Tapestry of Diversity Award, the Bias Acts Response Team, the Kente graduation celebration, and the SUNY Pride Conference. We have also increased the number of staff supporting diverse populations, including veterans, students from underrepresented ethnic groups, and LGBTQ students.

Our efforts were recently recognized by Insight into Diversity magazine, which

awarded us the 2017 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award for the second time.

Teaching and learning are the key components of our mission, and in support of that mission we have increased the number of full-time teaching faculty by 27 percent over the past nine years and have increased the proportion of the college budget that goes to instruction while decreasing the proportion allocated to administration.

We have also invested significant resources in improving student learning.

For example, we know from research that learning by doing is more meaningful

The Calling

watched her leave Walking to an appointment While I parked the car.

Her hands were gripping Her purse as she walked along The ramp to the entrance.

She played Carnegie Hall once Minuet in G at the age of 16 Her dad listened intently His persistent cough from the audience Gave him away.

She knew he was there.

Her fingers would dance across the keyboard Memorizing scores of sheet music.

Now those same long fingers are misshapen and twisted Like branches on an old Indian Bent Tree

Pointing to what may lie ahead for her.

Her feet took her where she needed to go, With a small little hop A shuffle, Almost tripping over one another So unlike her Friday night at The roller rink, Where she would meet Tex, A tall blond man They skated together as one.

She talks about her loneliness these days, And longs for a time when, She would be called on, Unlike the Calling which Awaits her.

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for students than listening to lectures and taking tests. So we have increased the focus on applied learning opportunities for students, including internships, supervised research projects, studying abroad, and doing servicelearning in community settings...

One longstanding point of pride for our campus is our sense of community and the bonds between students, faculty, and staff. One of the most cherished traditions, Freshmen Pass Through the Pillars on the day before their first classes is now complemented by Senior Pass Through the Pillars the day before they graduate.

Five years ago we established the Common Read, inviting students, faculty, staff, and community members to read and discuss a book related to diversity and to hear the author speak at the Mills Distinguished Lecture. I saw know that some of you attended this year’s lecture by Margot Lee Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures, and I hope you will come next year to hear Bryan Stephenson’s lecture on his book, “Just Mercy.”

We are fortunate to be located in a beautiful setting, and we do our best to make the campus the best possible environment for learning, living, and working.

In the past nine years we have worked to rebuild and modernize the campus, by building two new buildings and renovating 11 more,

revamping the main quad... are elected and appointed We have worked diligent- members of the faculty, ly to make the campus more staff, students, alumni, and environmentally sustainable, Foundation, as well as two designees of SUNY. Applirevamping how we run the campus, our lighting, heatcations and nominations are ing, waste recycling, storm already being accepted, and water retention, and building methods.

But sustainability also includes education and influencing people’s Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA habits In this year’s freshman class, students about how they from underrepresented groups rose from 20 to 28 percent, the president use resources, told community leaders. taking the stairs instead of elevaabout a half dozen canditors, refilling their water dates will eventually be bottles at the fountains, and chosen to visit the campus, buying gently used clothing presumably before the end at the campus thrift shop. of the fall semester.

One of our most successful Upon recommendation community collaborations of the search commithas been (with) Oneonta tee, the College Council Public Transit, leading to will forward the preferred record ridership... candidates’ names to the Finally, I want to update Chancellor, who will have you on the progress of the the opportunity to interview presidential search, which several finalists and recomoperates according to the mend one of them to the SUNY Board of Trustees Board of Trustees. If all guidelines. The search goes according to schedule, committee is chaired by the new president will be our College Council Chair, appointed next spring to Patrick Brown, and includes take office next summer.

College Council members I am confident that SUNY Oneonta will attract Dave Brenner, Joe Bernier, and Diane Georgeson. Also an outstanding leader. on the search committee

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COLUMN: Vote Due On Constitutional Convention COLUMN/From A4 remaining working ‘Esso Lighthouses’ still in existence in the Northeast.”

RoadsideArchitecture.com notes, “The Cooperstown building is the only one still selling gas. It is now known as both Taylors Mini Mart and the Village Tower. It has a car wash now in what was probably the service bay building.

“The only other one of this type that I know of was in Roscoe, NY. The building was destroyed by a fire and demolished. I believe these Tower Gas stations were actually Colonial Beacon gas stations which later became Esso stations.”

• And RoadsideAmerica. com offers the following: “Cooperstown, New York: Lighthouse Gas Station: The current minimart with the lighthouse sold Humble Oil gas in its

original career as a Tower gas station, a chain favoring useless nautical beacon architecture. It later served as a used car sales office.”

Since there seem to be differing views as to the history of The Tower/Taylor’s Mini Mart establishment, the question is, of course, which one of these online sources should be believed?

Dare we hope someone will give us a clue to the correct history? However, we do think without any more information whatsoever, it is safe to say that the Cooperstown location recently acquired by Mirabito is an interesting part of our community’s history.

• We were somewhat surprised when our absentee ballot arrived in the mail this past week. We fear, given the weather this fall, we have not yet adjusted to the fact that the Nov. 7 elec-

tion is much closer than we realized. We also came to the conclusion, after looking over the ballot, that we had a bit of research to before we marked our ballot.

We were pleased to discover that on the Town of Otsego ballot, four of the 10 open offices are contested.

Thus the voters will have some choice, although the majority of candidates are still running unopposed.

Nonetheless we hope the voters will be informed of the positions of the candidates running in contested contests.

Likewise, voters will have to decide just how to vote on the three New York State propositions also on the ballot. And since we knew little about the issues of these three proposals, we headed online in order to learn more about them.

• Proposal Number One

asks “Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same?” On this issue, we discovered on The New York State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse website an interesting selection of editorials, letters to the editor and blogs on the issue. We also found an in-depth discussion of the Constitutional Convention in a League of Women Voters booklet which can be accessed online.

Information on Proposal Number Two, “Allowing the complete or partial forfeiture of a public officer’s pension if he or she is convicted of a certain type of felony,” is covered on the website Ballotpedia.org.

And, Proposal Number Three, “Authorizing the Use of Forest Preserve Land for Specified Purposes,” is explained in an online New York Times article.

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ere at the URLs of sites referred to in this week’s “Where Nature Smiles”: ►On Lighthouse Waymarking.com website: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMPQ11_Lighthouse_Gas_Station_Cooperstown_ NY RoadsideArchitecture.com website: http://www.roadarch.com/ gas/ny2.html.

RoadsideAmerica.com: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/ tip/42597. ►constitutional convention The New York State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse: http://www.newyorkconcon.info/?page_id=202.

The League of Women Voters booklet: http://www.lwvny.org/programs-studies/concon/2016/ Briefing-Paper-on-the-Constitutional-Convention.pdf.

Ballotpedia.org: https://ballotpedia.org/New_York_Proposal_2,_Pension_Forfeiture_for_Convicted_Officials_Amendment_(2017).

New York Times article: https://www.nytimes. com/2017/10/09/nyregion/forest-land-bank-ballot-question-referendum.html

• We would encourage all voters to check out these websites. And for those without internet access, we would hope that family and friends who do have internet access will share the information with them.

PLEASE NOTE: Comment on this column by mail to 105 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, NY 13326, by telephone, 607-547-8124 or by e-mail at cellsworth1@ stny.rr.com. Or visit cooperstowntoday.com.

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In 1966, Oneonta Was Charlottesville

if I can stop him.’”

NAZI/From A1 As Rockwell began Student Council on Human to speak, the newspaper Rights (SCOHR), Gurstelle reported, Jacoby shouted, got behind the wheel of his “Shut up!”

1957 Dodge and pointed it “Nobody is going to toward a rendezvous with change my mind by beatone of the most notorious ing on me,” responded personalities of an equally Rockwell. “He’s not going tumultuous time. to shut me up by punching On the edge of town, Gurstelle drove up to an RV me in the nose. As far as I’m concerned, this – the containing George Lincoln academic community – is Rockwell, American Nazi the last vestige of Party president (and freedom in this Rockwell’s bodycountry.” guard). By pre-arAt the time, the rangement, a city defeat of German police car followed Nazism was only along, just to make 20 years past; most sure nothing untowof the undergraduard happened. ates in the audience, Back at what was their fathers had then called the State University College Emile B. Gur- fought in World at Oneonta (in the stelle, now a War II. Rockwell said he didn’t blame midst of transition psychiatrist them for feelfrom Oneonta State in New Jering “something is Teachers College), sey, chaired Old Main, the hulk SCOHR, which wrong with a guy at the top of Maple invited Rock- who calls himself Street, was abuzz well to town a Nazi,” but that he with an SRO crowd out of a com- had been duped to mitment to “fight for Commuof 850. free speech. nism.”

“It was a huge “Shut up,” Jacoby turnout. There called out again. was an overflow. They put At that point, as Gurstelle speakers in the lounges,” remembers it, Rockwell said Gurstelle. “I can’t said, “Please, Mr. Jew, be remember any turnout that quiet.” (As it happened, was bigger.” Rockwell Jacoby wasn’t Jewish, characterized the crowd as although Gurstelle, Rock“rambunctious.” “At the well’s host, is.) time,” said Gurstelle, “I didn’t know what ‘rambunc- ►‘A Little Scuffle’ tious’ was. I had to look it “After that, Jacoby did up.” walk up on stage,” said Gur►Found ‘Not Deployable’ stelle. “He didn’t jump up there, but he got up there in Born in 1918, Rockwell a hurry. They got in a little pursued a career as a Naval scuffle on the stage.” officer, serving during Jacoby was quickly World War II and Korea. restrained by city police, Influenced by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Com- “who wrestled him off stage, out through a back munism, he turned toward door and put him in a prowl anti-Semitism and became car,” Dobinsky reported. He an early Holocaust denier. was charged with disorderly With 19 years of service, he was cashiered in 1960 as conduct and paid a $50 fine.

He later moved to Boston, “not deployable.” then L.A., where, age 69, he The year before, he had passed away in 2000. founded the American Nazi Rockwell returned to a Party; he ran for president speech containing anti-Seon that ticket in 1964; his mitic themes, and expressWikipedia entry has him ing sympathy to blacks, polling 5,730 votes, 1.02 who he said would be better percent of the total. pursuing success back in By the time SCOHR Africa. Done, he was “esissued the invitation – the corted out of Old Main by honorarium, $200 – it had already hosted such notables police, climbed into a car as William Kunstler, radical and left campus,” Dobinsky reported. lawyer for such groups as Since the Aug. 13 conthe Black Panthers. “It was frontation between White discussed,” Gurstelle said of the Rockwell invitation, but Supremacists, including he didn’t recall a hot debate. Nazis, and protesters at the University of Virginia, “I think most people went Gurstelle said he’d been along.” thinking about that long-ago “The administration episode at his alma mater, didn’t like the idea,” the even before receiving a SCOHR chairman remembers, “but they didn’t forbid reporter’s call. “It brought back memories, certainly,” it either.” He briefed thenhe said, also given “discusPresident Royal Netzger sion at the University of who, unenthusiastic, acquiCalifornia about not allowesced. “I guess the invitaing certain people, of certain tion’s already been made,” extreme groups, to speak. he told the undergrad. “We “And that’s coming from can’t take it back.” If he the left. On the left, you’re had known what he later supposed to be for the First learned about the pre-fronAmendment,” he said. As tal cortex, Gurstelle said, for Rockwell, “I don’t think “I don’t think I would have he swung over any people to extended the invitation.” his point of view. I thought ►Protesters Organize then and, to some extent, I A protest group formed still think, people need to on campus, and there was hear how nutty the other one particularly vociferous side can sound.” objector to Rockwell in the During his undergraduate community, Steve Jacoby, years, Gurstelle remembers who operated the Tryworks Bookstore at 115 Main. “He SUNY Oneonta as working through the transition promised not to show up,” from a normal school to a said Gurstelle, “but he did full-fledged college, and show up.”

Introducing Rockwell, the sees SCOHR as part of that transition.

20-year-old said, “SCOHR “We had a teach-in. It feels that in a free univerwas during the Vietnam sity, all viewpoints should War.” The administration be aired and all viewpoints let it happen, “but they should be open to question, didn’t allow us to call it a no matter how hateful or amiable they happen to be.” teach-in,” since the activity had become associated with Soon, however, trouble anti-war protest. He met began. As reporter Pete his wife, Krystina, a week Dobinsky wrote in the before graduation at the next day’s Binghamton Press, “bearded Mr. Jacoby opening of a Gene McCarjumped to his feet, faced the thy for President office. audience and cried that milOneonta was trying to lions of Jews were killed by adjust, too. “It was very Nazis during World War II: interesting,” said Gurstelle.

‘George Lincoln Rockwell “We had a memorial march. will not speak here tonight The town fathers at the time,

they weren’t crazy about it.

But they allowed us to walk half a block on Main Street, then on back streets.”

“I felt, overall, I had a very good education. I have no regrets,” he said.

He graduated with highest honors and went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. at Hofstra.

►Friendship Forged

As for Rockwell’s appearance, “It certainly got a lot of reaction. It certain started debate,” said Gurstelle.

“Somebody named Gerard Colby Zilg writes an article in the student newspaper, ‘SCOHR Fails to Score.’

I’m reading the article, and I’m really disagreeing with so many of the points. So I

wrote a very long letter to the editor.”

Gurstelle took it over in person to the editor. “He said to me, ‘why, I’m Zilg.”

After the resulting conversation, “we grew into the best of friends.” Senior year, they rented an apartment together. “He was very right wing,” Gurstelle said.

“But he swung completely around.”

Zilg, as Gerard Colby, became quite famous, writing, “Dupont: The Nylon Curtain,” and “Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil.” “I’d like to think I had a part in that,” said Gurstelle.

Called “Mr. Jew” by Rockwell, Stephen Jacoby, 36, jumped on the stage at Old Main to confront the American Nazi Party president. He was arrested for disorderly conduct and paid a $50 fine.

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n the nine-year Kleniewski Era, SUNY Oneonta has done so many renovations, it practically has a new campus.

“We’ve added 300,000 square feet to the campus,” said Tom Rathbone, who retired last Friday, Oct. 13, as associate vice president/facilities & safety. “We’ve done hundreds of projects, from HVAC and windows to gut renovations.

“To a certain extent, it is a new campus.”

In the last nine years, 11 buildings on the 1960s campus Red Dragon Outfitters, have undergone complete reha- Bookstore, Completed 2017, bilitations, and two new ones New Building, $7.9 million rose: the expanded Red Dragon Outfitters and the Welcome Center, scheduled to open Jan. 2018.

“We are fortunate to live in a beautiful setting, and we do our best to make the campus the best possible environment for learning, living and working,” said Dr. Nancy Kleniewski, heralding Rathbone’s accomplishment in remarks at her final Community Breakfast Wednesday, Oct. 11, in Morris Hall. “In the past nine years, we’ve Please See RATHBONE, B3

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pooks and spirits abound throughout Cooperstown with two tours through historic haunts. At The Farmers’ Museum, take a candlelit tour around the historic village and hear about mysterious happenings.

5:30-8 p.m. Info, 607-547-1450 And over at Hyde Hall, take a tour through sites in the mansion where ghostly manifestations have been reported for 150 years. Tours start at 6 p.m., reservations reqired. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 20-21. Info 607-547-5098 ext. 6.

HELP OUR NEIGHBORS: Bid on items in the silent auction or bring donations. Proceeds benefit Unidos for Puerto Rico and Unicef. 7-10 p.m.

Roots Brewing Company, 175 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-2925.

FALL FUN: Trick or treating, a corn maze, a costume contest, a haunted house and more are all part of the Scare Fest. Noon-Midnight Saturday, Oct. 21, Otsego County Fair Grounds, Morris.

FURRY FRIENDS: A pet costume contest, adoptable animals, live music and more. All proceeds will go to Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans towards veterinary expenses and spay/neuter services for animals in need. $5 entry fee for costume contest. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

HOPS FOR HISTORY: Beer sampling preview followed by beer and food pairings at restaurants around Oneonta.

Cost $30. Space is limited. 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0960.

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WORKFORCE SUMMIT – 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Human services summit with professionals to address challenges and solutions to recruitment and retention in Upstate New York. The Kennedy-Willis Center at Pathfinder Village, 3 Chenango Rd., Edmeston.

Call 607-965-8377, ext. 117.

RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.

- 6:30 p.m. Find great things.

Bag sale begins 4 p.m.

Church of Christ Uniting, 22 Church St., Richfield Springs.

Call 315-858-0126.

RESOURCE FAIR – 10 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Senior are invited to explore what resources

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO are available in Otsego county. Connect with the organizations and agencies in our area. In the Lobby, Bassett Clinic, 48 River St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5476691.

RUMMAGE SALE – Noon-5 p.m. Find good items, enjoy the bake sale. Fly Cree, Methodist Church, 811 Co. Rd. 26, Fly Creek.

TOUR RECEPTION – 5 7 p.m. Meet the President

of WSKG, Greg Catlin, on his tour of the arts around the region. Enjoy wine, food, 3 great exhibits. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5479777.

GHOST TOURS – 5:30 8 p.m. Take a candlelit tour of the museum and learn about mysterious happenings in the historic village. A tour begins every half hour. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

HYDE & SHRIEK – 6 p.m.

One-hour tour visits sites in the mansion where ghostly manifestations have been reported over 150 years.

Tours leave at 6, 6:30, 7, & 7:30. Reservations required, tickets $20. Call 607-5475098 ext. 6.

POETRY FESTIVAL – 6:307:30 p.m. Free reading open to the public features nationally recognized poets; Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Robert

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Pinsky. Auditorium, Sharon Springs Central School. Call 518-284-3426.

PUERTO RICO FUNDRAISER – 7-10 p.m. Bid on items in the silent auction or bring donations. Proceeds benefit Unidos for Puerto Rico and Unicef. Roots Brewing Company, 175 Main St., Oneonta.

Call 607-433-2925.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Performance of Woody Allens “Don’t Drink The Water.”

Cost, $10-$15. The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-431-2080.

Saturday October 21

COOPERSTOWN FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

101 Main St., in Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown.

ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Muller Plaza, Oneonta. E-mail oneontafarmersmarket607@ gmail.com RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.

- Noon. Find good items.

Includes $2 bag sale. Fly Creek Methodist Church, 811 Co. Rd. 26, Fly Creek.

POETRY WORKSHOPS – 10 a.m. - Noon. 2 workshops headed by Paul Muldoon and Major Jackson. Pre-registration required. Sharon Springs Free Library, 129 Main St., Sharon Springs. Call 518284-3126.

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In all, SUNY has spent $131.6 million on bringing the 50-year-old campus into the 21st Century. “It’s easy to think about razing a building, and we frequently take that journey,” said Rathbone. “But these buildings have good bones, and it’s often a waste of time and money to tear it down

Fine Arts Building, classroom, exhibit space, office renovations, 2006, $1.8 million

and start over.” studying and relaxing in a Rehabbing the old buildbright, well lit atmosphere. ings also preserves the “I love walking by a lab character of the campus, he and seeing students doing said. “It creates a unity to research, or coming out of the architecture. The colors their dorms,” he said. “I like of the trim, the concrete, to build things, and I like they’re all unified. When to see students use them. you raze a building, you risk I get so much satisfaction altering that character.” out of that.”

Rathbone came to the And looking ahead, his Littell Hall, complete dormitory rehab, 2011, $11.3 million area in 1983 from Hagersuccessor, yet to be named, stown, Md., after retiring will oversee the completion of the Alumni Field House residence hall.” from the Navy. He and his in 1998. When Kleniewski Since then, Wilber, Gold- of the Milne Library renowife, Lola, bought a 40 acre arrived in 2009, he was vations, with the first floor ing and Littell dorms have farm in Milford to raised ready to open in January drawn into developing a been similarly upgraded, their four children, Olivia, and the second and third Facilities Master Plan of with beds, kitchenettes and Isaac, Miriam and Hannah. floors scheduled for 2019. maintenance, rehabilitations fitness centers added. “It “We were intrigued by the The budgeted total cost is and new construction. was an ‘oldest first’ stratlow cost of real estate,” he $8 million.

In 2008, he had just egy,” said Rathbone. said. “We bought a farm completed renovations to There were also and raised most of our own the Tobey Residence Hall. upgrades to classroom food.”

“We had originally looked spaces, including He worked for the at building a new dorm with the Physical Science Cooperstown & Charlotte 200 beds,” he said. “But we building in 2017, his Valley Railroad until 1988, realized that if we rehabbed largest project: $34.8 when the position at SUNY four of the existing dorms million. The anthroopened up. “This seemed and added 50 beds each, we pology, chemistry and like a good opportunity,” he could achieve our goals to physics department said. rehab old buildings and get got upgraded quarters, His first big challenge what amounted to a new including classrooms was overseeing construction and labs, and a redesign Human Ecology, and expansion of the AJ Pedagogical Space, 2003, Read Science Discov- $11.1 million ery Center.

Additionally, both the In 2014, Fitzelle Hall Hunt Union and McDuff underwent a $32.2 million rehab and expansion project, Hall are on the list for gut with classrooms and offices rehabs.

“We’ve touched every added in the math, computer building in one way or anscience and psychology other,” he said. departments, plus a café and increased student spaces for

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Extensive periods of walking and climbing stairs are required on this tour.

It is not handicapped accessible or appropriate for those with difficulty walking.

HOPS FOR HISTORY – 1 - 3 p.m. Beer sampling preview followed by beer and food pairings at restaurants around Oneonta. Cost $30. Space is limited. Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0960.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to hone your craft. Hosted by published author Jennifer Donohue. Registration preferred. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

SCARE FEST – 2 - 7 p.m.

Bring the kids to a fun fall event featuring potato sack races, wheel barrow races, hayride, pumpkin painting, country music, a costume contest, more. Otsego County Fair Grounds, Mills St., Morris.

Call 607-263-5289.

CHICKEN DINNER – 4 p.m.

Enjoy all you can eat chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes, vegetable, more. Followed by bingo game for prizes.

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Lodge, 119 W. Broadway St., Oneonta.

GHOST TOURS – 5:30 - 8 p.m. Take a candlelit tour of the museum and learn about mysterious happenings in the historic village. A tour begins every half hour. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

HYDE & SHRIEK – 6 p.m.

One-hour tour visits sites in the mansion where ghostly manifestations have been reported over 150 years.

Tours leave at 6, 6:30, 7, & 7:30. Reservations required, tickets $20. Call 607-5475098 ext. 6.

JAZZ CONCERT – 6:30 p.m. “The John Colonna Trio” perform orginal compositions live. Dunderberg Gallery, 118 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. Call 607-783-2010.

EVENING CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Enjoy an evening with music from Mozart, Schubert, others. Cost $30/adult, $15/child under 18. Christ Episcopal church, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5479555.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19-20, 2017 In 1997, the foundation is poured and the walls begin to rise on Brewery Ommegang’s signature plant, inspired by a typical Belgian farmstead.

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The sales pitch worked.

Four Belgian brewers, including Duvel Moortgat, the brewing giant and now Ommegang’s sole owner, invested in the dream and, on “the first brew date,” Oct. 17, 1997, after six months of construction on a former hops farm south of Cooperstown, the FeinbergLittlefield dream came true.

When they founded VanBerg & DeWulf, there were only 67 breweries in Ameri-

ca. By the time Ommegang was founded, there were 1,000.

Today, there are some 5,400. And Doug Campbell, Ommegang president, reports that, if today’s Dons and Wendys act on all the permits issued, there will be 7,000 by the end of the year.

While in the last year or two, there’s been talk of a shakedown – somebody’s got to go, industry observers reason – Don Cazentre, Syracuse.com and the PostStandard beer critic (who sipped an Abbey Ale poured

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from a brew tank weeks before it was put up for sale on Jan. 1, 1998), isn’t sure.

“My sense is this: A lot of the new breweries are very small operations – Council Rock, those kinds of places.

There’s an almost unlimited market for things like that.

They make their own beer, sell it to their customers.

Where the issue comes is when you are of a little bit bigger size,” said Cazentre, who planned to visit Ommegang Wednesday, Oct. 18, for a 20-year assessment.

A little bigger, and beers must compete for space on trucks on shelves – there’s just so much room, he said, but Ommegang’s “leveraging the partnership,” through parent Duvel, with Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City and Firestone Walker Brewing Co. of Paso Robles, Calif., “puts them in a more competitive position.”

As of its 20th birthday, Ommegang was producing some 35,000 U.S. barrels annually at its Town of Middlefield plant, employing 63 people fulltime, plus 20 in the summer, and distributing in 48 states – all but Alaska and “one of the Dakotas,”

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Campbell said – and the District of Columbia.

Ommegang has six staples – Abbey Ale (its first), Hennepin Farmhouse Saison (its second), Rare Vos Amber Ale, Witte Ale, Three Philosophers and BPA, a Belgian pale ale. But, under brewmaster Phil Leinhart, (named best brewer in the world for a mid-size brewery at World Beer Cup competition last year in Philadelphia), there’s constant experimenting in specialty beers.

The other day, Marketing Director Larry Bennett had just added up the specialty beers – 73 over the past three years, including the “Game

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Campbell called the six stalwarts “tried and true,” but the brewery is continuing to experiment, with sours – intentionally tart beers – as well as blends and mixing up barrel-aging – the 20th Anniversary Ale, for instance, was aged in Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrels.

The brewery’s goal is “the perfect glass of beer,” while never reached, must always be the goal, he said.

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at concerts by such national headliners as Elvis Costello, The Shins, Bonnie Raitt, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Wilco and Modest Mouse. The hillside behind the evocative Belgian-farmhouse-like plant is recognized as the largest concert venue between Albany and Binghamton.

Events created by the founders two decades ago – Belgium Comes to Cooperstown (now shortened to BCTC) and Waffles and Puppets – continue to thrive.

BCTC – its original intent was the say “thank you” to the community, Littlefield said – has expanded into a weekend of dining and beer pairings that attracted 3,000 fans from across the country.

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IN MEMORIAM Dr. Ronald Brzenk, 68; Math Professor At Hartwick ONEONTA – Dr. Ronald Brzenk, Ph.D., 68, who retired after 41 years as a Hartwick College mathematics professor, passed away Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, at his home, surrounded by his loved ones, following a brief but courageous battle with cancer.

He was born on Jan. 30, 1949, in Jersey City, N.J., son of Francis and Anna Brzenk. He graduated from St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Notre Dame, where he met Karen and

started their family.

Upon completion of his graduate work he accepted a professorship at Hartwick, where he remained until retiring in 2015. Ron was a dedicated professor who was born to and lived to teach.

He received many professional accolades along the way, which always seemed more important to his family than to the man himself.

He was an active member of St. Mary’s Parish in Oneonta, his faith being an important part of his life.

Ron was generous with

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SIDNEY – Funeral enjoyed Lorie Hurlbert, Kay and Paul services are scheduled for four Harrington, Sr., Win Barse, William Barse, 66, Sidney, wheelHarry Barse, and Mike and the truck driver who died ing in the Sandy Barse; sisters-innumerous in a truck accident Friday, woods law and brothers-in-law, organizaOct. 13, 2017, at a quarry in with Debra Smith, Timothy and tions and Deposit. his son Tammy Schunk, Tom and charities He was born Sept. 6, and his Teri Schunk, and ,any nieces, benefiting 1951, in Sidney, son of the friends. In nephews and cousins. those close late Benjamin and Isabel his down In addition to his parents, to him. He William Barse (Nichols) Barse. time, Bill he was predeceased by intended to Bill worked with his liked to read; most recently parents-in-law Ronald and spend his father and later owned Ben’s science fiction was his genre Dorothy Schunk, and brothDr. Ronald retirement Brzenk Mobile and Manufactured of choice. Spending time ers-in-law Robert Smith and lying on his Homes in Unadilla. He was with his family and friends Ronald Schunk. couch in was most important to Bill.

A funeral was held his slippers, watching televi- a truck driver, driving wide loads over the road most of He is survived by his Wednesday, Oct. 18 at the sion, catching up on his wife, Melinda (Schunk) C.H. Landers Funeral Chareading, visiting his children his life. For the last three pel. Burial was in Evergreen and grandchildren, but most years, he drove for Schaeffer Barse; three children, Enterprises in Deposit to be Celeste Barse, Jessica and Hill Cemetery in Unadilla. important to him was sharcloser to home.

Rod Hunt, Billy Barse and Arrangements are ening this time with his wife Bill loved to hunt, mostly Kailey Kinsella; grandchiltrusted to the C.H. Landers who was his incentive for big game and especially dren Tristan and Brayleigh; Funeral Chapel. waking each day. siblings Fred Barse and Ron was a dedicated son, with family and friends. He brother, husband, father, friend and colleague. He held the weight of the worMILFORD – Cameron “Cam” B. Walters, daughter, Avalyn Walters of Cooperstown ries of everyone he knew 37, died unexpectedly Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. and her mother, Carrie O’Brien. He is also on his shoulders and used Born Oct. 14, 1979, he was the son of survived by his grandparents, Gordon and his strength to support them Bernard and Katherine (Hill) Walters of Priscilla Hill of Big Pine Key, Fla.; eight often before thinking of Milford. aunts and uncles; and many, many cousins. himself.

He grew up in Nashville, Tenn., and In lieu of flowers, donations may be made He is survived by his moved to Oneonta before his senior year. He to the Give Back Yoga Foundation. sons, Kevin (Denise) Brzenk attended Oneonta High School and Mohawk A celebration of life was held Wednesday, and David (Tricia) Brzenk; Valley Community College.

Oct. 18 at the Upper Susquehanna Cultural his grandchildren, Alex, Cameron is survived by his parents, BerCenter.

Samantha, Tiffany and Jack nard and Katherine Walters of Milford; his Arrangements are under entrusted to the Brzenk; his great-grandsister, Autumn Walters of Los Angeles; his Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown. child, Kambri Brzenk; his brothers, Frank and Rich Brzenk; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Ron was predeceased by his wife of 46 years, Karen Brzenk.

Ron will be dearly missed by more friends than he realized he had. The support he received as a result of the loss of his wife and the onset of his disease was more than humbling to him.

Friends are invited to greet the family from 5 to 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23, with eulogy to conclude, at Lester P. Grummons Funeral Home, 14 Grand St., Oneonta.

Due to the closure of Saint Mary’s Catholic Church for renovations, the funeral mass will be held at 36-Month Introductory Period After Introductory Period St. James Episcopal Church at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24, with the Rev. David Michiewicz officiating.

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In lieu of flowers, donaTake a vacation. Get that new car. Add on a room or deck. tions in Ron’s memory are Fund college. Or consolidate bills at a great low rate. The sky’s the asked to be made to St. limit with your Bank of Cooperstown Home Equity Line of Credit.

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THEATER – 8 p.m. Performance of Woody Allens “Don’t Drink The Water.� Cost, $10$15. The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call

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BOOK CLUB – 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Teens and adults are invited to read & discuss “American Street� by Ibi Zaboi The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-8898.

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CCAL MEETING – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Learn about upcoming courses for Continuing Adult Education. The Otsego Grill, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta.

Call 607-441-7370 SUNDAY PROGRAM – 2:30 p.m. “The Archaeology of Cooperstown� focuses on the prehistory, history of Cooperstown and the connection we have to the past.

Cooperstown Village Library.

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FILM CLASS – 5 p.m. View and discuss films with the group. Cooperstown Graduate Program, 5838 St. Rt 80, Cooperstown. Call 607-5472586.

DOCUDRAMA – 7 p.m. This month, explore the relationship between politicians and the press with a focus on Edward Murrow’s reporting of Joseph

McCarthy’s anti-communist activities in 1953. Free, open to the public. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown.

Call 607-547-9371.

Monday October 23

LEGOS – 3 - 4:30 p.m. Play with the library’s Lego collection. Cooperstown Village Library. Call (607-547-8344.

OPEN PLAY – 3:30 - 7:30 p.m. Tinker with 3-D printing.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Call 607-432-1980.

STRESSBUSTERS – 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Monthly class with Bonni Canavan and Jackie Madden offer simple tips and tricks to reduce stress and enhance peace of mind. Free.

3rd Floor Community Room, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

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FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 p.m. Non-instructional drawing with a live model. Cost $12 per class. The Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-4358718.

DRAWING GROUP – 7-9 p.m. Come practice drawing with a live model. $10 donation. To attend call the Cooperstown Art Association.

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TINKERING TUESDAY – 3:30 - 5 p.m. Draw or design Fidget Spinner to be 3-D printed. Material fee $2.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

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