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Sheriff, County Clash Over In-Jail Incident HERZIG TO FIRE COMMISSIONERS: DO THE RIGHT THING

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Ryan Scott shows off the new offerings at Foxcare Fitness, which completed its renovations with a ribbon-cutting Friday, March 3, and followed with tours of an Olympic lifting platformm, a flipping tire and more.

Mayor Herzig said he can’t control townspeople, but hopes they continue supporting OFD coverage.

Behind him is City Attorney David Merzig.

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ounty Treasurer Dan Crowell of Fly Creek has announced he will not seek a third term, retiring at year’s end.

The Democrat said he will support his deputy, Republican Allen Ruffles of Edmeston, to succeed him.

The treasurer’s post is one of only three offices elected countywide, along with sheriff and county clerk.

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TALK ISSUES: “Community Conversations” between citizens and Common Council members will resume 8-9 a.m. Tuesday, beginning March 14, at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main. All welcome.

ART SOUGHT: Arc Otsego is soliciting art for its 13th annual “Voice!” exhibit which opens July 27 at SUNY Oneonta’s MartinMullen Art Gallery.

HEROIN ARREST: During a traffic stop, Vickie E. Tolbert, 48, of Oneonta, was arrested with 20 bags of heroin and a gram of cocaine, OPD reports.

SPRING FORWARD: Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 11.

County Reps, DA Weigh In March 9

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Town Rejecting Trained Firefighters Would Be ‘Devastating,’ Mayor Says

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ayor Gary Herzig didn’t mince words when it came to the Town of Oneonta fire commissioners’ proposal to create a volunteer fire department to cover Southside, and the West and East ends just beyond the city line.

“We all recognize that sharing professional-level fire protection

IF YOU GO: Town of Oneonta Fire Commissioners’ public hearing on creating a volunteer fire department to replace OFP coverage, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, March 14, Elm Park Methodist Church, Chestnut Street.

offers the greatest level of safety,” he told Common Council at its Tuesday, March 7, meeting.

On his recommendation,

Council then passed a resolution stating the city would accept any of the three formulas for negotiating contractual agreements with the town: • One, the “historic formula” used from 2005 to 2014, based on sharing costs based on proportional assessment.

• Two, use the “cost allocation” outlined by VFIs of York, Pa., a consultant hired by both Please See FIRE, A2

he county Board of Representatives investigation of Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. and “workplace violence” in his department continued to pick up momentum this Devlin Frazier week: • On Tuesday, May 7, the sheriff was due to be served with a subpoena from the county board’s Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee, according to its chair, Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla. The subpoenas directed the sheriff to turn over personnel Please See DISPUTE, A7 ►For the text of the county board’s resolution launching the investigation, and ►For the outcome of Thursday’s Public Safety Committee meeting and D.A. Muehl’s findings, go to

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When ‘Ma Sage’ Reigned, Newspapers Ruled Karyl Sage shows a photo of ‘Ma’ and Ralph Sage, who distributed dozens of newspaper titles from the site of today’s post office.

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f a boy was getting into mischief in Oneonta, the police knew where he could go to get straightened out.

“The police would bring him up to the Oneonta News Company and my motherin-law would give them a job,” said Karyl Sage. “She ran a tight ship, you couldn’t get away with anything, but she’d straighten those boys out.”

Ella Mae Sage – or Ma Sage, as she was better known – ran the Oneonta News Please See MA SAGE, A7

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he Oneonta Democrats put out a Call to Action, and on Sunday, March 5, the people responded.

“Sometimes it takes a volcano going off to stop people from HOMETOWN ONEONTA being desensitized,” said Run for office, former Donna Shultz, mayor Kim Muller advises Democrats. the local realtor.

Former Oneonta Mayor Kim Muller, Common Council member David Rissberger and city school board member Dan Please See MULLER, A2

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Run For Office, Muller Urges Democrats MULLER/From A1 Buttermann invited citizens to a meeting at Roots Brewing Company to encourage them to run for local office, help register voters and get more engaged in the political process. “When I started getting involved in local politics, I was told you either have to find a candidate or become a candidate,� said Muller. “So I became that candidate, and I served on the Otsego County Board for eight years. I know first-hand the assets the Democratic Party can provide.�

This year, there are 94 vacancies to fill, including all 14 County Board seats. “I would really like to see someone run for every single one of these positions,� said Richard Sternberg, the Cooperstown village trustee who is recruited candidates on behalf of the Democratic County Committee. “It’s not as hard as you think,� said Buttermann, who

lost a County Board bid in 2013 before winning a school board seat. “All you need is a vision of what you want to accomplish.�

Getting on a municipal committee or commission is “a good way to start learning how government works,� Muller said. “I see it as a springboard to running for office.�

Some require petitions and signatures to join, others are a matter of simply asking the chair. “The Republicans figured out that change begins at the local level,� said Rissberger. “You can enact change in local laws and school funding.� “We need to get young women and millenials involved,� said Earl Thaxton. “If you know young women in this community, ask them, ‘Why don’t you run for something?’ Millenials want to be involved in a progressive movement.�

But for those who aren’t ready to run, Rissberger said,

there is always help needed to canvas, collect signatures and fundraise. “I’ve spoken to women who would be wonderful for these seats,� said Molly Swain. “But the comment I’ve always gotten is ‘I can’t afford it.’ We need to show that yes, WE can afford it.� “Some of these positions pay,� said Sternberg. “Some of these are full-time jobs.�

Two jars were put out for donations, and soon filled.

Rissberger also acknowledged that all the effort is meaningless without a vote. “It’s easy to say that your vote doesn’t matter, so why do it,� said Rissberger. “But if it didn’t matter so much, people wouldn’t be trying to take that right away.�

This year’s primary is Sept.

12, with a general election Nov. 7. The filing deadline for school board is in April.

FIRE/From A1 the town commissioners and the city. He took into account account not just assessment, but call volume, square mileage and population. • Three, based on the fire district’s current payment of $1.1 million, arrived upon by state Supreme Court Judge Michael V. Coccoma in January 2016 when both sides couldn’t agree on a new contract.

Council acted as a public hearing set by the fire commissioners to enable the formation of a volunteer company nears.

It is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, at Elm Park Methodist Church, Chestnut Street. “The reality is that there was no significant difference in cost with either of the three different methodologies,� Herzig said. “The historical formula or the consultant’s method are more unpredictable, whereas the current agreement offers

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But Herzig says the city will honor the wishes of the people in the town. “If they don’t want to continue with paid fire protection, we have no choice but to accept that,� he said. “But that decision needs to be made by the people.�

However, Herzig warns, removing the town from the Oneonta fire protection district could have devastating consequences for the city. “It changes everything,� he said. “Everyone feels better when you share resources. Yes, paid fire protection is expensive, but it’s also safer.

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Currently, the town is paying $1,050,000 for services; in 2018, they’ll pay $1.1 million.

Herzig also put a June 30 timetable on the negotiations. “A year and a half ago, a lot of people were under a lot of stress about this,� he said. “We don’t want to put resolution out there and have them say ‘We’ll get back to you,’ and then wait until the last minute. “We want this resolved in a timely way.�

The current contract extends through Dec. 31, 2018. “What we cannot do is roll back the price we’ve agreed upon,� he said.

Council Members Joe Ficano, Eighth Ward, and Dana Levinson, Fifth Ward, have said that they plan to attend; Herzig will not. “This is a hearing for the people of the town to express their interests and desires,� he said. “I hope there’s a large

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ACA Reforms That Protect Our Neighbors Most Desired

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hat Bill Streck told a local audience of 75 people, many from the medical field, about “repeal and replace” or whatever’s happening to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is even more relevant today since Congressional Republican leadership – the rank-and-file is split – unveiled its reform package Monday, March. 6.

He spoke Thursday, March 2, at Cooperstown’s Templeton Hall. A second meeting, on what we might do locally about it, is 7-9 p.m.

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this Thursday, the 9th, in the same venue.

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rienced people like Streck, the eminent former Bassett president/CEO, and at universities and think tanks across the country are parsing what all this means on a macro-level.

Our desire in this space is much narrower: That any and all citizens from Unadilla to Unadilla Forks, from The Chyle to South Worcester, young, old, ailing, or generally healthy, have access to sufficient, efficient and professional medical care – which, by the way, doesn’t push them into bankruptcy.

IF YOU GO: What can we do locally about healthcare reform?

7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Templeton Hall, Cooperstown.

Dr. Chris Kjolhede moderates.

Call us Commies if you will, but there it is.

Obamacare took us as a nation and a county in the direction of fuller coverage, but it’s been clear in recent months, as premiums and deductibles spiked in the ACA’s second year, that many of our neighbors are again being pushed

out of the system. We know this, not because there’s a PhD in ACAology hanging on the wall, but because people – you and you and you – tell us.

Some adjustment is needed, but – our opinion – it needs to be in the direction of more and better medical care, not less.

• Streck’s PowerPoint talk was illuminative, because it provided information on the local scene that, outside of the Bassett sysPease See EDITORIAL, A5

RANDY VÉLEZ OTHER VOICES

50 Years After SAC-Base Posting, Nuclear War’s Terrible Possibilities Vivid Editor’s Note: Randy Vélez of Cooperstown, a deacon in the Catholic Church, is currently assigned to St. Thomas The Apostle, Cherry Valley.

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n 1965, I was assigned to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth Texas, part of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). At that time, SAC controlled all of the United States’ nuclear weapons except for missiles installed in Navy submarines. Our base was headquarters to 32 B-52 bomber aircraft, each capable of carrying two 20-megaton nuclear bombs.

I can recall having an orientation for support personnel on nuclear-weapon protocols. In that session, I was shown a film of a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb. In the fire ball,

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This is one image from an archive of photos declassified just last year of one of two U.S. Army nuclear bomb tests on the Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in August 1946.

the entire New York City skyline was superimposed and the narrator explained that the temperature in the fire ball would vaporize steel. I also learned from other sources that the United States and the Soviet Union combined had enough nuclear weapons to exterminate the human race.

The detonations would kill millions instantly and would be over in an hour or two. Those who survived would die more slowly and painfully as the radioactive residue, carried by the prevailing winds enveloped the rest of the earth. This was and remains the reality of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

Tension with the Soviet Union was very high after the Cuba missile crisis and the routine activities of the Please See VÉLEZ, A5

LETTERS

Professional Firefighting Best Insurance To the Editor, I am writing to express my opinion on the current discussions about future fire protection with in the Town of Oneonta. Many opinions and personal explanations have been presented by political leaders and others from both sides, each talking about the large costs and more.

Many look at the numbers, millions of dollars and feel that the cost is too much. How about looking at these numbers a little differently. Compare what

each of us pay for our home insurance and compare that number to what we pay for professional fire protection.

Most of us have never needed to use our home fire insurance but we continue to have it. Is the protection of a professional fire department a luxury or well-spent insurance to protect our families and property. Like your fire insurance, there is a difference in which coverage you have.

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To the Editor: Fact checking statements that President Trump makes, which are often demonstrably false, is not the same as “attacking” the President. Claims by Trump loyalists that the recent profusion of media scrutiny constitutes willful bias are ridiculous on their face.

It’s depressing that some people actually buy into that because, of course, it is the refusal by media to investigate the veracity of demonstrably false statements that actually suggests willful bias. Attempts to claim otherwise are crazy – crazy like a FOX. Proponents of that idiocy want us to shoot the messenger while they attempt to divert our attention by knowingly barking up the wrong tree.

“Empire of Illusion” by Pulitzer Prizewinner Chris Hedges speaks to this phenomenon. As outlined in an Amazon online review of the book: “We now live in two Americas. One – now the minority – functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate

illusion from truth. The other – the majority – is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic.”

In the former, multiple sources and honest debate are standard, science is trusted and facts and words matter. In the latter, believers are pitched to at a sixth-grade reading level and newspapers and books have been replaced by Facebook and Twitter in “an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.”

Perhaps years from now, a documentary will be made about the corrupt Trump administration à la “All the President’s Men,” and, if released, those same loyalists who played defensive linebacker for Trump’s team will undoubtedly and unabashedly be singing the praises of those brave main street journalists who, together with unnamed sources, made the movie possible.

I only hope, if a DVD version is ever released to the public, that it will be available in Region 1.

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sioners. Four of the five current commissioners are past members of the City of Oneonta Fire Department.

Each of them knows what it takes to operate a fire department and the service it provides.

I would like to believe and sincerely hope that each of them are measuring the pros and cons of their actions, and are not operating on different levels of emotion. Remembering that they are dealing with people’s lives, their properties and in some cases people’s jobs.

SHANE E. MATTICE Oneonta Mr. Mattice has been in fire service for 40 years, five as a volunteer, 35 with the City of Oneonta

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Famous Fala Drawn Into 1944 Campaign

nimals have always held a secure place in the American psyche – even at the topmost levels at the White House.

Horses were always major inhabitants in the ROBERT executive stables before the MOYNIHAN first auto, a White Steamer, appeared in the William Howard Taft administration. Lincoln himself unsuccessfully rushed in his nightshirt attempting to save his dead child’s favorite pony from a stable fire.

Plans for a goldendoodle Grant while president kept a fancy num- for Barron Trump at the ber of fast racers, even getting a ticket for White House fell through.

speeding. Taft kept a cow named Pauline Wayne in a pasture near the White House.

Wilson had a flock of sheep on the mansion’s grounds during World War I. Calvin Coolidge liked to sport a tame raccoon on his shoulder – to the discomfort of political visitors.

Publicity, however, favors the canine.

A photo of a sorrowful Airedale can be seen grieving after the death of Warren Harding, and first lady Grace Coolidge has one of the better memorial paintings of any presidential distaff with her collie, Rob Roy. Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover liked Please See COLUMN, A5

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

150 Years Ago

On Saturday last we saw for the first time since we came to Oneonta, several men in the streets in a state of beastly intoxication. It was indeed a sad sight to see manhood degraded and grey hairs disgraced by such a spectacle – but who is to blame? The laws, deficient and imperfect as they are, forbid the selling of liquor to any intoxicated person; they also provide for the summary arrest of such persons in the public streets and prescribe due punishment. The people should ask and insist that officers should do their sworn duty in all such cases. A few instances of prompt justice will greatly check the evil and prevent a repetition of such scenes.

March 1867

80 Years Ago

40 Years Ago

A plan for the phased sale of land in the proposed downtown shopping center to developer Joseph Dobson was discussed last night by the Common Council and the Urban Renewal Agency. Under the proposal, the agency would sell the property between Main and Market Streets, in the heart of the downtown area, to Dobson in pieces. In the beginning, Dobson, who is president of Oneonta Investors, would buy just the area off Market Street where a proposed supermarket is to be built. Dobson would have a lease with an option to buy the property where a 150-car parking lot will be built. Last to be sold would be the portion that faces onto Main Street. A large retail store and several small shops are scheduled to be built there. Last night’s joint meeting of the agency and the Common Council was closed to the public because the plan was in tentative form.

However, according to Mayor James Lettis the contract contains numerous confusing escape clauses that would allow Dobson to get out of the contract if he is not successful in finding a tenant for the department store he plans to build on the Main Street part.

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125 Years Ago

Andrew Nearing of Maple Grove, who recently received serious injury by being hooked in the eye by a cow, has dehorned his whole herd of 40 cattle. The animals are said to have suffered but little and there is an end to hooking cattle on his farm.

Mr. H.E. Huntington soon goes to San Francisco as Assistant General Manager of the Southern Pacific railroad system. Mr. Huntington has for several years been general manager of the Kentucky Central railroad and is considered to be one of the best railroad men in the United States.

It is reported that a long distance telephone line is to be put in between Oneonta, Cooperstown and Richfield, connecting with all the leading cities in the eastern states. The long distance telephone is a very good thing, but what is needed most to increase business for the Central New York Telephone Co. is a more liberal spirit in dealing with customers, lower rates, and a spirit of accommodation.

March 1892

100 Years Ago

Aroused by the disclosure of Germany’s plot to unite Japan and Mexico with her in a war upon the United States and convinced by official evidence of its authenticity, Congress today abandoned the delays and obstructions which have checked Wilson’s efforts to be clothed with express authority to deal with the submarine menace. The House of Representatives, after a ten-hour debate, and by an overwhelming majority passed a bill to empower the President to arm merchant ships and provide for a million dollar bond issue. However, the bill does not contain the grant of au-

White House Dog Days COLUMN/From A4 German shepherds, the better to ward off dangerous political impulses and attempted invasions of their privacy.

The most famous presidential First Dog, however, might be the Scottie Fala, who not only grieved over the dead master in 1945 – attending the burial at Hyde Park – but first insured FDR’s fourth presidential election in 1944.

Yes, those nasty political opponents had circulated a story that the unelected pooch had been sent from a military ship during wartime to be at the president’s side.

With Barrymore skill and timing, Roosevelt sharpened his rhetorical needles. He and Eleanor did not mind being attacked, even his family did not mind, but “Fala does.” This political lie “offended his Scottish soul.”

Other incidents of canine aggression, though, occurred before the W. Bush dog bit a reporter – an incident never punished. The Franklin Roosevelts had an aggressive shepherd that pursued reporters, and one of the pre-Fala Scotties bit a reporter on her lip. He was promptly put down by the first lady, Eleanor. One must be clear – the dog, not the reporter.

Little Fala was reincarnated, sort of, in the election of 1952. During that campaign, Richard Nixon claimed in his “Checkers Address” that his slush fund was allowable. That he always voted in the interest of his donors was merely an accident, for the bigger issue was “subversion.”

Yes, a man in Texas had sent a black and white spaniel, and an agent at the D.C. train station had called Nixon

to retrieve the package.

The Nixons supposedly repaired to the baggage claim and retrieved the animal, named by the two Nixon daughters.

And “no matter what happens, we’re not going to give it back.”

Facts and opinions in politics have a habit of curious inbreeding.

It begs credulity that Nixon himself drove the family Oldsmobile to the station, taking time out from poring over suspicious “pumpkin papers” to retrieve a mere spaniel.

Following the latest selection of a White House pooch, however, it is fitting to remember a dog who did NOT make it to the White House. This animal was returned by a presidentelect shortly after his victory and at his own expense – a matter not to be lightly dismissed in our present debt-ridden and bargain basement era.

After his presidential victory in November 1884, Grover Cleveland returned a “fine Newfoundland dog” to one William J. Leader, explaining: “I hope that you will not deem it affectation on my part when I write you that I am very averse to the receipt of gifts. … The acceptance of presents of value which could involve an obligation, I should deem in my present position entirely inadmissible.”

There are many, perhaps too many, monuments in Washington – but a statue of this nameless canine, with Cleveland’s message, should have pride of place in front of the White House.

Robert Moynihan, the retired SUNY Oneonta English professor, summers in Middlefield.

ten to fifteen year old age group. Shots were administered at yesterday’s clinic by Doctors J. Herbert Dietz and Sarah Flanders. Nurses on duty were Mrs. Gertrude Cornell, Miss Winifred Marcley and Miss Marguerite Waters. Gray ladies who volunteered their services were Miss Ava Jenks, Mrs. A.F. Briguglio, Mrs. W.L. Stapleton and Mrs. Alvin Nichols.

Others assisting were Mrs. Carl Cornell, Mrs. Christine Moanna, Mrs. Dolores Muckle and Mrs. Florence Delamater.

March 1957

thority to use “other instrumentalities” which President Wilson specifically desired. When the House bill is received in the Senate tomorrow, the Senate bill, which the administration fully commends will be substituted, and that is finally expected to be accepted by both houses as the law.

March 1917

60 Years Ago

The second polio vaccine clinic held for residents of the Town and City of Oneonta resulted in 388 children in the five to nine year age group receiving initial shots of the Salk vaccine. During the past two weeks clinics have been held in the Wilber Mansion. Starting next week, clinics will be conducted in the high school building for children in the

20 Years Ago

With a trip to Glens Falls and the Class B Boys final four on the line, Section One Champion Walter Panas High School of Peekskill took a 57-54 win over Section Four champs Oneonta in the quarterfinal. Josh Brown had a game-high 25 points for Oneonta and Quame Patterson added 14 points, with 11 rebounds and 7 assists. Meanwhile the 24-0 undefeated OHS girls upset Our Lady of Lourdes 41-37 in their quarterfinal. Tiffany Hurley led all scorers with 15 points and Stacy Knapp added a hard-fought 9 points. Oneonta will face Section Three Jamesville-DeWitt (23-2) on Saturday at Hudson Valley Community College.

March 1997

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This stuck out: 70 percent of Bassett’s patients are covered through Medicaid, Medicare or both. If ACA reform – as seems to be the intent – cuts either or both, that comes off Bassett’s bottom line, and Bassett’s ability to treat everybody.

This stuck out, too: the states – New York and California among them – that most embraced the ACA’s bolstering of Medicaid for poor people, stand to take the biggest hit from cuts. Albany has two choices, to find the money somewhere else, or push it down to the counties. Ask county board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, a constant critic of “unfunded mandates,” how she thinks that’s going to go.

And this: Because states are split into winners and losers, the GOP is fractured.

This would give Upstate New York’s

“Group of Nine” Republican congressmen, like Otsego’s John Faso, considerable clout if they can agree what’s best for their constituents and work as a bloc.

One of Streck’s slides showed the ACA – a red block – only addresses 10 percent of the care-needing population, a relatively small proportion. But in Otsego County, about 5,700 will lose coverage if the ACA goes – that’s equivalent to the whole year-’round population of Oneonta.

Finally, it was surprising to many listening to Streck how much market forces are taken into account by the ACA. (Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising: Obamacare was actually Romneycare, a Republican concept initiated when Mitt was governor of Massachusetts.) Out of concern for the private insurance industry, it ensures people who could afford to pay would pay more, and those who

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could afford less would pay less.

OK, that’s Karl Marx, but it’s just common sense: No private entrepreneur goes after customers who are broke.

What Streck dramatized is: All of us in Otsego County have a stake in an affordable, well-funded, public-private insurance regimen. Throwing people off the rolls will damage them, and Bassett, and, through higher taxes and less service, all of us.

President Trump told Otsego County (and all Americans) in the presidential debate on Oct. 9 in St. Louis, “You will have the finest health care plan there is.”

In the richest country in the world, we should. And he promised it – sure, build The Wall, and do this too.

This week, he tweeted about the “wonderful new healthcare bill.” If it really does make America great again in a sector that’s a national embarrassment, terrific. But for the time being, everybody’s from Missouri on that one.

Quick Response Needed, So President Authorized To Push Button VÉLEZ/From A4 SAC bomber squadrons all over the world reflected it. In rotating shifts, half of the B52s were airborne at all times, each aircraft armed with nuclear bombs and assigned a specific target. En route, they were instructed to remain orbiting at a fail-safe point and await further instructions.

After a period of time and not having received the launch codes, the aircraft returned home, and were replaced by others. This routine was carried out 24/7/365.

I am sure that after 50 years, the details of my recollection may not be completely accurate. Nevertheless the essence of my experience remains very clear. While our ability to destroy the world has been enhanced further with the addition of intercontinental ballistic missiles, our understanding of the complete and irrevocable consequences of nuclear war has not. The launch codes have become a punch line for political humorists who never lived on the brink of total annihilation.

The launch codes are not a joke. They are a reality placed exclusively in the hands of the President of the United States.

Since the advent of the United States having deliverable nuclear weapons, a deadly protocol has existed to ad-

dress the worst-case scenario.

Under normal circumstances, the President must ask the Congress for a declaration of war before taking overt military action. In a nuclear war, that would not be feasible. The weapons launched against us would strike their targets in a matter of hours.

For this reason, the President of the United States is empowered to retaliate to a nuclear attack unilaterally. While the launch code protocols were designed to address our need to defend ourselves by quick response, as far as I know, the President’s power is not limited in that way. He or she can launch our nuclear weapons preemptively in a first strike,

simply by declaring that an attack on the U.S. is imminent.

The strategies of the Cold War are in large part obsolete. We live in a world of nuclear proliferation, where many countries have strategic or tactical versions and more are developing them. We can’t put the genie back into the bottle. Additionally, our political discourse has degenerated to insults, animosity, vulgarity, petty and personal vindictiveness and even “alternative facts” that fly in the face of empirical truth.

These tenuous circumstances and the broadening prospect of world annihilation demonstrate that it is past time to revisit our nuclear launch

protocols.

Our initial strategy regarding the use of nuclear weapons was predicated on sober deliberation by our leaders and a deep respect, perhaps even a reverence, for the irrevocable consequences of such actions. Such an attitude no longer exists in the Office of the President. Nevertheless, someone needs to be the adult in the room, because the stakes are far too high to simply let everything play itself out. We the people are complicit in that we elected this president. Now we need to demand that Congress take a closer look at the extent of his ability to single-handedly end the world.

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Constitutional Convention Amid Political Passions Poses Threats To System To the Editor: A very dangerous – but largely unknown – legislative initiative is on the agenda of many state legislatures across the country.

It seeks a national Article V Constitutional Convention in order to approve a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Already, 28 states have passed the authorizing legislation. Think what you will about the amendment itself – the danger is in the convention.

Under Article V of the Constitution, a convention to make specific amendments can be called when two-thirds of the states (34) pass legislation petitioning for such a convention.

However, there are no safeguards in the U.S. Constitution that limit such a convention in any way or govern its rules. And there are no guiding precedents – in our country’s history, there has never been an Article V convention.

In this time of political passions, there is a very real threat of a runaway convention making a range of ill-considered changes to the Constitution.

Convention proponents need just six more state legislatures to call on Congress to hold a constitutional convention. Legislation calling for the convention is already active in states including Texas, Wisconsin, Idaho, Kentucky, Arizona and Wyoming.

But note that efforts are also active in other states to rescind their earlier approval of the convention – these states are Maryland, New Mexico and Nevada.

The League of Women Voters is actively working at state levels to prevent such a convention. We ask that you join us – contact your friends, relatives, etc. in these states and urge them to make their voices heard to their state representatives.

The League’s full position on this issue may be seen at: http://lwv. org/press-releases/constitutional-convention-needssafeguards.

STEVEN LONDNER Oneonta Mr. Londner is writing on behalf of the Steering Committee of the Oneonta Area League of Women’s Voters

Confidentiality Issue Clouds Sheriff Investigation To the Editor: The reporting of www.

AllOtsego.com on the investigation of the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department appears to be largely accurate but at this point many people are likely left with more questions than answers. I would like to offer some clarifications and my own personal views on the matter.

First, some readers may be under the impression that misconduct is widespread.

That is not my sense. Most CO’s and other sheriff’s staff operate with the highest competence and integrity and perform admirably in their public service. Any alleged misconduct was limited and the inquiry should be as well.

The County Board’s decision to investigate was not made lightly and only came

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Sunlight is the best disinfectant and a transparent investigation and the actions that come out of it should reaffirm the public’s confidence in the integrity of the department.

Given the crisis of confidence people have in federal and state government, we must at least work to increase trust at the local level. Nowhere is this more important than in law enforcement, given the nature of the power vested in those important public servants.

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2 Candidates Help To Library To the Editor: I am writing in my capacity as president of the Village Library board of trustees to express my support for Lou Allstadt and Ellen Tillapaugh for re-election as Cooperstown village trustees.

During Lou’s and Ellen’s tenure on the Village Board, the library has experienced a renaissance in which Lou and Ellen have played a significant role. The village and library trustees have worked together to improve our facility at 22 Main St., helping the library to land two state Library Construction grants in two years, totaling $67,000. These funds allowed us to replace the crumbling tile floor in the main entryway; restore the West room to its original dimensions; replace the carpet; improve the lighting and wiring; and put new shelving in the West room to match that of the East room.

I can attest that Lou is someone who does his homework before every meeting and researches all aspects of an issue at hand.

Ellen, too, in my experience, is well-prepared for discussions and asks pertinent questions that lead to improved outcomes. These qualities indicate that both Ellen and Lou keep their constituents in mind when making decisions on their behalf.

The past several years have seen an incredibly fruitful working relationship between the library and the current Village Board. There is much value in the continuity of such relationships, and so I urge village residents to vote on March 21 to give

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County Reps, DA Weigh In March 9 DISPUTE/From A1 records resulting from a January dispute between two correctional officers by the following afternoon.

• Also Tuesday, District Attorney John Muehl said he had the results of a state police criminal investigation on his desk, and was scheduled to brief the Public Safety Committee meeting at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday the 9th on its findings. After that he will make the results public, he said.

However, the rapid-fire developments of the past week since the county board voted, 14-0, on Wednesday, March 1, to launch its investigation could quickly be wrapped up by week’s end, depending on what the personnel records and investigatory report contain.

The events leading to the confrontation date back to January, when the Public Safety Committee, at its first meeting of the year, was advised of what Frazier termed a “workplace violence report” at the county jail in the Town of Middlefield.

The committee directed the county Personnel Department to look into the matter, and issued what Frazier called a “non-judicial subpoena” for the personnel records. Devlin declined to comply.

At its March 1 meeting, the county board went into a 45-minute executive session, and the reps emerged and voted unanimously to issue a “judicial subpoena” requiring the sheriff to surrender the records. The resolution cited County Law Section 209, empowering the board to conduct investigations into “any subject matter within its jurisdiction.”

The sheriff’s initial response was to call the investigation “a witchhunt” set in motion by county board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego.

On receiving the committee’s original request for the files, Devlin said later, “I sought guidance from my sheriff’s association. They advised me the subpoena was improperly served.”

The state Sheriff’s Association suggested he file a legal action to block the Public

Safety Committee from acting, but he decided against it. “I provided the committee with some paperwork,” he said. “I didn’t provide the files.”

Personnel files are confidential under state law, and he was concerned about violating the rights of his employees as specified in Civil Service Law, the sheriff said. “I’m certainly not hiding anything,” he said.

However, in a separate interview, Frazier pointed out that, if discipline is being applied inconsistently, the county could be sued. “We are co-employers – the sheriff and the county,” he continued. “We should be able to look at personnel files.

He has the right to discipline, but we should have review on whether or not it was fair. “ He said at another point, “Flat out: If we feel he’s not disciplining appropriately, we are still on the hook if someone brings a lawsuit. And who pays? That’s where I feel I have a right to review.”

County Rep. Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield, a new member of the Public Safety Committee, said the inquiry involves interactions between correctional officers, and between correctional officers and inmates. “If something happens to these inmates, we’re liable,” he said, adding, “It’s not a great situation.”

Other committee members are county Reps. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, Dan Wilber, R-Garrattsville, and Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta.

After the resolution was approved, Frazier met with the county’s labor lawyer, Matt Ryan of Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux, the Albany firm.

Ryan and county Attorney Ellen Coccoma intended to send out the new subpoenas that Friday afternoon, but the five-hour power outage after a mishap at NYSEG’s Goodyear Lake plant shut down county computers and delayed action until Monday.

Frazier said he is not presupposing any wrongdoing, but establishing the county board’s right to get its questions answered. “If there’s no there there, there’s no there there,”

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The company had its roots in Norwich in 1929 after Ralph Sage, a train conductor, slipped on some ice on the platform and fell under the train. “It was right before the Great Depression,” said Karyl. “Ma Sage had done some nursing training, so while he was recovering, she’d help the neighbors – if one of them had a baby, she’d stay with them for a few days and get paid to help them out.”

When Ralph got a prosthetic, he began delivering papers and handbills for the Acme Market.

And when they got old enough, his sons, Robert and Charlie, helped him. “Robert could never play sports after school because he had to meet the train and get the papers,” said “Ma’s” daughter-in-law.

In 1945, A.M. Pierson of Binghamton hired Ralph to manage the Oneonta News Company, where the Post Office is now.

“They started at 95 Main St., but there wasn’t enough room,” said Karyl. “It was a big building out back along the creek, with a few barns and six rooms of rental property in the front.”

She and Robert were married in 1956, when she was a student at SUNY Oneonta. “I saw him driving down the street in the convertible and thought, ‘That looks nice!’” she said.

She joined the family business, helping out on Sunday mornings. “We’d get there at 5 a.m. and start loading papers,” she said.

There were racing sheets and paperbacks, newspapers out of Scranton and Il Progresso ItaloAmericano, Albany’s Times Union and the Binghamton Press & Sun, as well as, from New York City, The Times, Mirror and Daily News.

“The Sunday Times came in sections throughout the week,” she said. “The society section

one day, the arts and the comics.

The sports and the main paper came in late Saturday, so Sunday morning, we’d had to put them all together. It was a total workout!”

The boys assembling the Tribune and the Times would race to see who could finish their sections first. At the end of the line, someone would fill out an order blank – for example, 300 Daily News, 200 Times to Palace Cigar (then located where Community Bank is now), and tied them all together in bundles and loaded them onto the panel truck.

“I used to be able to carry 10 Sunday Times in each hand,” she said. “We’d load up our trucks and deliver them all over – The Duke, Friendly Grocery, the West End Pharmacy, then to Laurens, Arnold’s Lake, Portlandville and back into Oneonta.

She’d even take papers to the college and the Homer Folks TB Hospital. “The Times had a student incentive program so, because I was still taking classes, they’d pay me a penny a paper that I sold,” she said.

They were usually done by 1 p.m., and were paid $5 a week for their efforts. “That bought our groceries,” she said.

But in early 1960, Ralph died suddenly, leaving Ma Sage, Karyl and Robert to run the thriving business. “I was teaching at Greater Plains and he was working at the Oneonta Sales Company, but we would get up and deliver the daily papers before work.”

And Ma Sage also had delivery boys to help her. “She never turned one away,” said Karyl, who estimated that 100 boys worked there over the years.

But urban renewal in 1966 saw an end to the Oneonta News Company. “We were getting tired, and Ma Sage wanted to retire,” she said. “The city wanted that land for the new post office, so we sold it.”

Ma Sage died in 1991 at the age of 90, and Robert died in 2014.

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Whenever Willie Nile & His Band performs in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen – a big fan – often joins them. Nile plays at The Otesaga this weekend.

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Kevin and Melissa (nee Wildenstein) Rowe’s low-key wedding at the bride’s family farm in Unadilla inspired her parents to launch Far View Farm, a rustic wedding venue that is a first-time exhibitor at the 2017 Foothills Bridal Expo Sunday, March 12. Other members of the bridal party in the Francis Wildenstein’s 1946 Chevy pickup are, from left, Chris Militello, Carly Scalfani, Corinna Rowe, Tori Golden and Shane Burger.

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Betty Li, Foothills Bridal Expo organizer Luisa Montanti and Tai Qazi set up the exhibit for Bloom & Branch, a firsttime participant in this year’s event.

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NORAH DOYLE, Rainbow’s End orget Tulle-wrapped Jordan almonds and crystal chandeliers. For “Brides are frugal, they’re saving the modern bride, it’s all their money and planning ahead,” said about the rustic and the Luisa Montanti, this year’s chair of the real.

Foothills Bridal Expo, noon-3 “People like to be creative,” IF YOU GO: p.m. this Sunday, March 12, said Oneonta’s Angie Eichler, 2017 Foothills in the Atrium, where Bloom & who with friend Rachael Bridal Expo, Branch is an exhibitor for the noon-3 p.m.

Shaughnessy co-owns Bloom first time.

Sunday, March & Branch, which puts on a “Couples are paying for these 12, 24 Market weddings themselves, so we’ve monthly crafting class at The St., Oneonta.

Green Earth. “Homemade seen a real drop in last-minute is always better than storeweddings,” said Montanti. bought.”

Among the most popular items They’re tapping into DIY, the do-itfor wedding favors are seed packets, yourself craze fueled by Pinterest.com, monogrammed wine glasses, succu“the world’s catalogue of ideas,” and lents or food favors, like jars of honey brides themselves.

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Carmela Warner at the former Masonic Temple that has served as Franklin Stage Company headquarters since 1996.

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n 2008, Carmela Marner saw a production of Euripides’ “Medea” that helped her look at the famous barbarian princess

in a new light.

“Medea is always vilified,” she said. “But so much of it is about what it takes to lose a home, and to go home again. So I’m writing a one-woman show of it, inspired by my decision 20 years ago to come to this place.”

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ock ’n’ roll veteran Willie Nile – his first major gig was 35 years ago with The Who, and he’s an enduring favorite of Bruce Springsteen, will perform with his band at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11, at The Otesaga, the final performance of this season’s Cooperstown Concert Series. The band includes guitarist and Oneonta native Matt Hogan, who was inducted into the SUNY Oneonta Hall of Fame in 2016.

SEASON HIGHLIGHT: Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s Cabaret Concert – local VIPs Les Grummons, Jeff Joyner, and Neal Miller will compete for the honor of conducting the CSO – is 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11, in SUNY Oneonta Alumni Fieldhouse. Always good fun.

CONGRESS BOUND: “An Artistic Discovery” – the annual Congressional art show whose national winners are showcased in D.C. – opens with a reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 10, at the Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St. SNOMMEGANG AGAIN: Come sample beers from all over the country and enjoy live music and performances in heated tents. 2-6 p.m. Saturday, March 11, Muller Plaza, Oneonta.

CHILI HISTORY: Sample chili and cornbread and vote for the best 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 12, at Hartwick Community Center, 450 County Route 11, to benefit Otsego County Historical Association.

WOMEN’S MONTH: International Women’s Day panel, “Women in a Changing World,” 11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at Hartwick College’s Shineman Chapel.

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“Farm-to-table favors are huge,” said Eichler. “Anything people can take home and use are always good wedding favors.”

And they’re speaking from experience. “When I got married, I made seed packets, and Rachael had sparklers,” said Eichler.

“When I got married, everything was so expensive,” said Shaughnessy.

“I looked at a lot of it and thought, ‘I could do this,’ so we want to show brides that they can do it too!”

And for Sandy Wildenstein, Unadilla, a do-it-yourself project turned into a full-scale business, Far View Farm, another new entry into the field.

“My daughter Melissa was getting married and we couldn’t find a venue in our budget,” she said. “But we have

Angie Eichler and Rachael Shaughnessy are rolling out Bloom & Branch.

90 acres on our farm, a pond and a pavilion, so why not use that?”

The wedding turned out so beautifully that this year, she’s opening up the property as a wedding venue. “We saw that rustic weddings were increasing in popularity,” she said. “We

love where we live, and we wanted to share it with other people.”

In addition to the insulated barn, pavilion and pond, Far View Farms offers the perfect spot for wedding photos. “From the top of our hill, you can see all the way to Franklin Mountain,” said Wildenstein.

You can also have a four-legged friend join your party. “We have a cow that’s a pet,” she added.

And with a working sawmill on the property, the Wildensteins planning to increase their authentic offerings, including the long farmhouse tables and chairs. “We can seat 10 people at each of these big tables,” she said. “We’ll do those this fall, and we’ll start making our chairs for next year.”

But that’s not to say that the more formal wedding venue is completely out. “The upside of a more traditional wedding venue is that it can be more

cost-effective,” said Bobbi Harlem, owner of the Carriage House event center. “If you’re just doing a tent in a garden, you have to bring your own tables and chairs, rent a tent, rent toilets. It can add up.”

Many traditional wedding venues often have a caterer on staff, and some even provide the cake, saving the bride valuable time.

But there are some things that are best left to professionals – like the dress. “It’s difficult to fit yourself,” said Norah Doyle, owner of Rainbows End Weddings and More. “When I got married, I had been sewing for 15 years and I still didn’t make my dress.

It’s just a lot of added stress during an already stressful time.”

But for the brave bride, the secret, Eichler said, to any DIY project is to give yourself plenty of time. “One time we tried to make chalkboard

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wine glasses, and the chalk paint would not set up,” she said. “You do not want to try this the day before your wedding.”

But also, she said, make a time to enjoy with your friends, mother, and future mother-in-law. “Have a plan, get a few good friends, set aside and afternoon and have some wine,” she said.

“Don’t be intimidated by a project,” said Shaughnessy. “You can do anything you want to. Just jump right in!”

Far View Farms will have a table at the Bridal Expo and is taking bookings for this fall. Bloom and Branch will also have a display, as well as project sheets.

“We want people to look at these ideas and make them their own,” said Eichler. “It’s a nice way for everyone to remember your special day.”

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FSC/From B1 And with her final bow at the Franklin Stage Company, she’s ready to write it. “It’s time to back and explore,” she said. “It feels good to be writing again.

Marner, who has served as executive director since 2001, announced she was stepping down on Tuesday, February 29.

“My energy just wasn’t there,” she said. “I could have gone on, but it had stopped bringing me satisfaction.”

Her parents, Eugene Marner and Carole Luchia Satrina, bought the former Masonic Temple on Institute Street in 1996 and founded the theater company. Carmela and her thenhusband, David, joined them every summer, often coming from New York City or L.A., where they lived and performed.

And every summer since, the company has put on free theater productions – donations accepted! – ranging from classic Shakespeare and Chekhov to clown, puppet and one-man shows. “It’s a full-time commitment,” she said. “My heart and brain have been saturated, and there has to be room for me.”

In 2013, she married Matt Munisteri, a Brooklyn-based jazz musician. Last August, her son Felix started college early at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Mass. “It really opened up the possibilities of where I could live,” she said. “I haven’t had a summer since 1996.”

Tom Butts, the former Franklin village mayor, board president and co-founder, has taken on management for the 21st season, which runs July 1-Labor Day weekend.

Board member Patricia Buckley and Leslie Noble are planning the season, including a staged reading of Gogol’s “The Government Inspector” and a full production of Arthur Miller’s “The Price.”

“Pat and Leslie had a clown troupe years ago, so they have a long history of working together,” she said. “And honestly, this team approach is great for Franklin Stage. I imagine they will have a lot of success.”

“People talk about legacy, but I don’t live in that kind of place,” Carmela said. “I don’t have a sense of ownership of this place. It belongs to the community. Together we are the Franklin Stage Company.”

Though dividing her time between Brooklyn and Franklin, she will also continue to adjunct at SUNY Oneonta, where she teaches in the Theatre Department. “I’m not leaving for something else,” she said. “I’m just stepping down from these decades of my life.”

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75.00-1-11.01 Res 8.90A Palmer Rd Fatigate David 75.00-1-11.02 Res 9.85A 381 Palmer Rd Decatur Lum Larry 152.00-1-31.01 Res 28.63A 524 Co Hwy 37 Fuller Jeffrey 167.02-1-17.00 Res 0.28A 110 Co Hwy 37 Sharp Thomas 168.00-1-26.02 Res 4.93A Co Hwy 38 Baryk Michael D 169.00-1-14.00 Res 2.50A 194 Fish And Game Rd Edmeston VanVorst Tina L 108.13-1-12.00 Res 0.51A 56 North St Vanpelt Bridget 122.04-1-17.00 Res 0.30A 4352 Co Hwy 18 Barton Darryl W 122.04-1-6.00 Res 0.22A 219 Co Hwy 20 Mooney Kevin 124.06-1-33.01 Res 0.32A South St Simmons James L 138.00-1-3.01 Res 27.16A Co Hwy 18 Simmons Robert 138.00-1-3.06 Res 54.50A Michael Ln Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.05 Res 1.33A 4126 Co Hwy 18 VanPelt Ronald H 138.00-1-4.07 Res 52.70A 4137 Co Hwy 18 Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.31 Res 111.44A Michael* Ln Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.32 Res 35.86A 224 Michael Ln Hume Michael B 138.00-1-4.41 Res 6.40A Co Hwy 18 Hume Bruce 138.00-1-4.42 Res 9.00A Co Hwy 18* Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.44 Res 8.26A 4122 Co Hwy 18 Bateman James J 140.00-1-27.00 Res 2.19A 1291 St Hwy 80 Baker Kimberly M 140.00-1-5.00 Res 0.63A 1392 St Hwy 80 Koniewicz Walter A 62.00-1-11.03 Res 44.82A Mill Creek Brown Dale L 62.00-1-19.04 Res 2.37A 128 Junior Hickling Rd Brownell Terry E 76.00-1-9.00 Res 2.52A 335 Coontown Mountain Rd Belden Elsie L 76.02-1-22.00 Res 0.49A 203 Co Hwy 18C Baldwin Glade L II 76.02-1-8.00 Res 0.33A 139 Co Hwy 18C Baldwin Glade L 76.02-1-9.00 Res 0.23A 141 Co Hwy 18C Hilts Enterprises, LLC 92.00-1-15.22 Res 2.09A 333 Louie Dickinson Rd Hilts Enterprises, LLC 92.00-1-15.42 Res 2.22A 300 Louie Dickinson Rd Exeter Wolcott Claude 50.00-1-29.00 Res 0.37A 2175 Co Hwy 19 Cahoon Richard L 50.00-1-30.00 Res 2.18A 2207 Co Hwy 19 Johnston Brian 67.00-1-16.01 Res 12.89A St Hwy 28 Travis Clarence 67.09-1-39.01 Res 0.31A 7352 St Hwy 28 Travis Clarence 67.09-1-39.22 Res 0.32A St Hwy 28 Shaw Richard Rev 81.00-1-11.01 Res 0.57A Co Hwy 16 Donnelly William J 82.00-1-8.00 Res 4.12A 7071 St Hwy 28 Hartwick Ruiz Wanda 129.00-1-10.00 Res 117.61A 396 Bush Rd Thering Henry J 129.00-1-33.00 Res 70.67A 3712 Co Hwy 11 Dimick Charles J 129.00-1-38.03

Res 3.72A 104 Persons Rd Schiavo John P 130.00-1-1.221 Res 37.36A 200 Bice Rd DiLorenzo Mark 130.15-1-7.00 Res 3.88A 742 Co Hwy 59 Chase Peter H 144.19-1-53.00 Res 0.19A 6 Park Ave Clivaz Elizabeth J 146.04-1-16.00 Res 0.21A 4889 St Hwy 28 Thorn Jeffrey S 160.00-1-16.01 Res 82.95A 178 East Hill* Rd Neff Barbara 177.04-2-28.01 Res 0.14A 279 Lake Rd Griswold James A Jr 193.02-1-5.00 Res 0.21A 45 Lake Rd Laurens O’Neill Brian T 208.01-1-18.00 Res 0.74A 183 Co Hwy 11B Weygand Freda E 208.01-1-43.00 Res 0.47A 2428 St Hwy 205 Falsetta Albert P 223.00-1-18.03 Res 3.06A Naylor Corner Rd Moxley Grant 224.00-1-17.01 Res 84.75A 452 Pool Brook Rd Ramsadeen Deonarine 238.00-2-17.00 Res 9.87A 2795 St Hwy 23 Roseboom Freeman 238.00-2-32.00 Res 2.33A 1205 Co Hwy 10 Dieppa Anthony 239.00-1-23.00 Res 3.54A 2957 St Hwy 23 Fraser Richard T 239.00-1-43.00 Res 26.47A Co Hwy 10 Roberts Kenneth J 240.00-1-56.01 Res 17.14A Co Hwy 11 Roberts** Gail F 240.00-1-56.02 Res 1.42A 705 Co Hwy 11 Poersch Joyce B 240.00-2-33.01 Res 1.75A 135 Co Hwy 11A McCarthy Otis L 240.00-2-33.02 Res 1.99A Co Hwy 11A Diescher Lisa 240.00-2-9.01 Res 7.65A 1102 Co Hwy 11 Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-11.00 Res 5.46A Hathaway* Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-13.00 Res 5.11A Hathaway* Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-17.00 Res 5.02A Hathaway Rd Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-4.01 Res 5.28A Hathaway Rd Melex, LLC 256.00-1-10.03 Res 22.37A 3146 St Hwy 23 Lincoln John H. 256.00-1-9.00 Res 3.60A 3100 St Hwy 23 Maryland Race Diane L 213.00-1-10.00 Res 0.95A 149 Norton Rd Stefanow Rand J 213.00-1-28.01 Res 5.13A 409 Co Hwy 34 Norton Robert A 213.00-1-4.00 Res 1.71A 327 Sperry Hollow Rd. Carotenuto Brando Francesco 213.00-1-5.05 Res 12.94A 176 Norton Rd Race Diane L 213.00-1-9.01 Res 3.81A Norton Rd Krom Vanessa 229.00-1-33.00 Res 0.82A 385 Dog Hill Rd Gregory Dennis 230.19-1-75.00 Res 0.15A 131 Main St Petrone Mary A 230.19-2-38.00 Res 0.00A 35 Arch St Osborne Clifford A 245.00-1-2.02 Res 1.00A 157 Dog Hill Osborne Clifford A 245.00-1-2.04 Res 2.04A Dog Hill Rd Plankenhorn Russell D 246.00-1-19.00 Res 3.64A 729 Center Degruchy Gerald M 261.00-1-25.02 Res 3.13A 257 Stone House Rd Becker Aaron 263.00-1-3.04 Res 5.11A Dragoo Ext Rd Emilio Richard John

263.00-1-3.31 Res 5.29A 1032 Country Rd Lambert Ann Marie 263.00-1-7.00 Res 157.05A 164 Dragoo Rd Williams Kenneth T 277.00-3-14.09 Res 65.01A St Hwy 7* Williams Kenneth T 278.00-1-3.00 Res 58.51A Easy* Ln Williams Kenneth T 278.00-1-4.00 Res 73.83A Easy* Ln Marcotte Stephen 278.00-2-2.00 Res 10.25A Easy* Ln Humphreys Robert L Jr 278.00-2-31.00 Res 8.03A Easy Pl Middlefield Yager Ida M 100.00-1-6.03 Res 0.50A 178 Fish Rd Stalter Joel 101.00-1-3.14 Res 20.49A 460 Hubbell Hollow Rd Stalter Caroline 101.00-1-3.15 Res 5.07A Boyd Rd Bonacci Brittany 117.00-1-27.62 Res 13.71A St Hwy 166* Romaine Richard A 132.00-1-9.44 Res 4.35A 402 Blacks Rd Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1Bear Kevin 148.00-1-12.01 Res 0.66A 3329 Co Hwy 35 Partridge Jay Patrick 178.00-2-3.01 Res 45.67A Co Hwy 33* Nathan Richard C 179.00-1-22.00 Res 88.50A 438 Co Hwy 33 Eggleston Jane R 179.00-1-31.02 Res 15.64A Eggleston Hill* Rd Hribar Patricia J. 180.00-1-9.02 Res 2.20A 934 St Hwy 166 Yaniga Robert 180.01-1-13.00 Res 0.24A 2657 Co Hwy 35 Miller, William 164.00-1-16.05 Res 0.63A 1233 St Hwy 166 Milford Adair Hugh R Jr 194.20-2-31.00 Res 0.51A 15 Maple St Gibbons Edward 194.20-2-54.00 Res 0.19A 38 Division St DDN Properties LLC 194.20-2-60.00 Res 0.02A 94 W Main St Cowan Michael 193.00-2-12.01 Res 3.35A Bliss Gulf Rd Cowan Michael 193.00-2-12.221 Res 8.30A Bliss Gulf Rd Yager Julia 195.00-3-27.01 Res 266.14A 2096 Co Hwy 35 Foley Mark L 195.00-3-32.01 Res 2.62A Co Hwy 35 Kropp Dennis 210.00-1-26.00 Res 4.55A 286 Tansey Hill Rd Foley Mark L 211.00-1-7.00 Res 61.05A 1834 Co Hwy 35 Yager Robert E 227.00-1-19.00 Res 0.47A Co Hwy 35 Yager-Krol Katherine A 227.00-1-5.24 Res 5.38A St Hwy 28 Bradley Theresa 242.00-1-10.01 Res 57.27A 287 Upper Dutch Hill Rd Couse Richard S Jr 243.00-1-35.01 Res 12.39A 180 Friis Ln Couse Richard S Jr 243.00-1-35.05 Res 0.19A Co Hwy 35* Aho Erika E 243.14-1-31.00 Res 0.40A 2870 St Hwy 28 Leo Thomas E Jr 243.18-2-18.00 Res 0.44A 103 Happy Valley Road Spur Leo Thomas 243.18-2-24.00 Res 0.07A Happy Valley Spur Rd VanLoan Timothy J 259.00-1-3.00 Res 0.93A 697 Gifford Hill Rd Kropp Dennis 260.00-1-11.00 Res 1.31A 323 Co Hwy 35 Staats Frederick

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 9-10, 2017 260.00-1-56.00 Res 4.90A 159 Lichenburger Rd Eggleton Douglas E 260.06-1-1.00 Res 0.16A 136 Happy Valley Rd Blakeslee Patricia 260.09-1-5.00 Res 0.10A 183 Lake Shore Dr N Daley David K 260.13-1-64.02 Res 0.66A 119 Larsen Rd Duncan Donna Darlene 260.13-1-65.04 Res 0.42A 403 Co Hwy 35 Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-8.00 Res 0.06A Sunnycrest Rd Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-9.00 Res 2.01A 133 Lincoln Cir Rose Peter A 277.00-1-19.01 Res 0.61A 6349 St Hwy 7 Williams Kenneth T 277.00-1-56.01 Res 1.00A 168 Castle Lake Estate Ln Williams Kenneth T 277.00-1-56.02 Res 10.20A 117 Castle Lake Estate Ln Morris Stafford Peter A 221.13-1-38.00 Res 1.03A 23 Church St Henness Theron M 221.13-1-40.00 Res 0.29A 18 Liberty St Stafford Peter A 221.13-1-52.00 Res 0.19A 19 Church St Madero Joseph J 221.13-2-2.00 Res 0.20A 18 Church St Dunham Jason 221.13-2-6.00 Res 0.21A 117 Broad St Morris Shrodo Adrian M 205.00-2-5.02 Res 3.10A 399 Potato Farm Rd Humphris Terry 221.00-2-11.00 Res 3.84A 216 Co Hwy 49 Puylara-Boyd Joanne 222.00-1-56.00 Res 25.79A 595 Gulf Hill Rd DeLuca Michael 222.00-3-15.00 Res 4.47A 418 Pegg Rd Huntley Linda D 234.00-1-14.00 Res 0.38A 1683 Co Hwy 18 Burlingame Kenneth 234.00-1-23.00 Res 0.56A 1698 Co Hwy 18 YK&TS Living Trust 254.00-1-29.07 Res 16.08A 151 Starr Corner Rd New Lisbon Friedman Dorothea 141.00-2-22.00 Res 180.30A 914 Co Hwy 17 Friedman Sidney L 143.00-1-29.00 Res 63.08A Quinlog Rd Bundy, John 157.00-1-6.02 Res 41.37A 102 Bundy Rd Martinez Robert J 158.00-1-12.08 Res 6.96A Backus Rd Cold Spring Farm LLC 159.00-1-10.00 Res 79.76A Balcom Cold Spring Farm LLC 159.00-1-4.00 Res 219.38A 271 Texas Rd Cifuni Robert E 173.00-1-30.01 Res 38.76A Bardin Rd Finneran Barbara 173.00-1-32.00 Res 39.71A 312 Myers Mills Rd Bullock Robert 174.00-1-27.05 Res 5.51A 490 Bardin Rd Michelsen Matthew 174.00-1-49.00 Res 19.67A Co Hwy 14 Friedman Dorothea 189.00-1-30.01 Res 142.87A 3537 St Hwy 51 Finneran Barbara 189.00-1-8.00 Res 3.73A 311 Myers Mills Rd Eklund Robert 189.00-1-9.02 Res 13.88A 268 Myers Mills Rd Sanchez Beatriz 190.00-1-21.03 Res 26.24A 318 Wheat Rd Iniguez-Errais

Bismarck Patric 190.00-1-23.00 Res 12.01A 299 Stahl Rd Seymour Thomas E 190.00-1-3.03 Res 7.25A Co Hwy 14 Bradley Jennifer Lee 190.00-1-9.04 Res 11.86A 418 Wheat Rd Oneonta

Res 0.24A 100 Chestnut St Johnson James V 131.05-1-50.00 Res 0.35A 96 Chestnut St Phinney n/f 131.06-2-83.00 Res 0.05A Elm St Summers Linden D III 131.06-3-65.00 Res 0.22A 1 Elk St

Elmer E 20.00-1-16.01 Res 38.41A 977 Co Hwy 21 Ray Surr Trust 20.00-1-32.00 Res 46.88A 270 Griffith Rd Voorhees Lester R 33.00-1-68.00 Res 25.02A 6358 Co Hwy 18 Richfield

Senchyshyn Joseph 113.00-1-74.22 Res 4.16A Cook Rd Clinton Dale R 114.00-1-79.01 Res 8.55A St Hwy 28* Groom Thomas 52.11-1-10.00 Res 0.23A 141 Marble Rd Rasbach Patricia W 52.11-1-29.02 Res 0.20A 202 Bibik Rd Quarmby Robert 53.00-1-17.00 Res 99.51A 2255 Co Hwy 26 Francis James M 67.00-2-10.00 Res 6.76A 788 Keating Rd Thompson Gary A 68.00-1-5.01 Res 0.84A 2101 Co Hwy 26 Cooper John A 84.00-1-15.04 Res 2.30A Reiss Rd Bloomfield William 84.12-1-9.01 Res 4.55A 6471 St Hwy 80

Werner Brian 13.20-3-41.00 Res 0.19A 16 Elm St Grishaev Mikhail 14.13-1-14.00 Res 1.12A 29 Ann St Gibson Cosby 14.17-1-28.00 Res 0.30A 5 Sylvan St Stefanec Lisa M 14.17-1-38.00 Res 0.35A 16 Sylvan St Thompson Gary A 24.08-1-13.00 Res 2.34A Prospect St Moss Erik ** 12.02-1-29.00 Res 1.41A 977 Co Hwy 25 Yerdon Alberta J 13.00-1-37.00 Res 1.40A 2714 Us Hwy 20 Lawson Evan F 25.00-1-28.00 Res 0.11A Bloomfield Dr Casscells George A 38.71-1-29.02 Res 1.23A 7862 St Hwy 28 Scerra Mary Ellen 38.71-1-5.02 Res 0.21A 128 Cooks Rd

Pittsfield

Roseboom

Lent Donald 272.00-1-12.01 Res 16.12A 1125 Co Hwy 6 Mahmood Tariq 272.00-1-15.00 Res 89.72A 1595 Co Hwy 8 Chickerell Debra Lee 272.00-1-72.02 Res 6.73A 114 Stoneybrook Rd Barron Vickie 272.00-1-74.03 Res 9.95A 1937 Co Hwy 8 Volckaerts Laura I 272.00-1-74.07 Res 0.18A 1302 Co Hwy Dugan Michael J 272.00-2-31.00 Res 5.00A Co Hwy 6 Holthusen William R 272.00-2-5.00 Res 5.02A 110 Nemith Dr Frailey Mark E Jr 285.00-1-33.03 Res 2.26A 1034 Co Hwy 7 Preldakaj Vere 306.00-1-24.00 Res 1.48A 952 Co Hwy 5 Thayer Shawn 307.00-1-36.00 Res 0.92A 626 Co Hwy 7 Chambers Jeffrey W 308.00-1-22.04 Res 5.03A 1169 Co Hwy 48 Hurlburt David 308.00-1-53.01 Res 29.82A 1085 Co Hwy 48 Golinski William 318.00-1-20.11 Res 8.37A 3710 St Hwy 7 Sousa Frederick J Jr 324.00-1-47.03 Res 0.37A St Hwy 7 Mugford Daniel 324.00-1-7.04 Res 0.73A Tiffany Ln Mugford Daniel 324.00-1-8.29 Res 0.07A Underwood Dr Thompson Gary 324.18-1-15.00 Res 0.94A 102 Maplecrest Way Mugford Daniel 324.18-1-57.01 Res 0.34A Underwood Dr BRS Real Estate LLC 325.00-1-2.01 Res 107.90A 162 Co Hwy 48

Green Daniel Jr 154.00-1-14.00 Res 63.40A 3584 Co Hwy 18 Salvatoriello Keith 154.00-1-22.03 Res 1.59A 186 Parker Rd Vossbrinck Jonathan H 155.00-1-37.03 Res 4.75A E Parker Rd Ext Vossbrinck Jonathan H 155.00-1-37.05 Res 6.08A E Parker Rd* Ext Wyman Ron 155.00-1-55.00 Res 14.56A Camp* Rd Dacastafaro Kelly Jean 156.00-1-2.01 Res 1.81A 144 Nichols Rd Olsson Lillian 156.00-1-23.00 Res 12.81A 1407 Co Hwy 49 Smith Codie 156.00-1-4.01 Res 53.23A Co Hwy 17 Patrick Faye A 170.00-1-12.00 Res 0.50A 157 St Hwy 80 Green Daniel Jr. 170.00-1-19.00 Res 0.49A 148 St Hwy 80 Davisson Barry L 170.00-1-28.00 Res 0.71A 103 Clarence Howe Rd Green Daniel R 171.00-1-38.03 Res 0.80A 120 Dunham Rd Fish** Elizabeth 172.00-1-29.00 Res 0.67A 694 Ketcham Rd Terwilliger Carl 172.00-1-30.02 Res 43.83A 119 Jennison Rd Bear Tammy L. 186.09-1-30.00 Res 0.17A 101 Park Ln Patrick Alyssa N 186.09-2-12.00 Res 0.25A 106 Grove Ave Harrington Brian G 187.00-1-30.00 Res 0.53A 1207 Co Hwy 13 Tooley Kathy J 187.00-1-41.01 Res 92.08A 147 Young Rd Drzal Jerald T 187.00-1-51.00 Res 18.44A Co Hwy 13 Tooley Michael D 188.00-1-27.04 Res 1.61A 290 Hawks Rd Miller Timothy L 188.00-1-6.03 Res 2.20A 210 Hawks Rd Papasidero Jeffrey D 202.00-1-1.224 Res 14.18A Co Hwy 18 Papasidero Jeffrey D 202.00-1-1.226 Res 18.57A Co Hwy 18 Noriega Esther M 202.00-1-1.32 Res 10.05A Co Hwy 18 Noreiga Joseph H Jr 202.00-1-1.33 Res 14.97A 2662 Co Hwy 18

Rickard Brian Scott 102.02-1-25.00 Res 0.42A 3200 St Hwy 166 Grimm Eloise 103.00-1-12.04 Res 1.60A 122 Grimm Ln Buschmann Gregg J. 104.00-1-25.22 Res 71.21A 876 Co Hwy 50 Sawyer Brittany 105.00-1-18.00 Res 0.38A Rosenburg* Rd Giammarino Lucio 120.00-1-14.00 Res 10.77A 200 Adair Rd Phillips Alexis 120.00-1-17.00 Res 4.67A St Hwy 165 Ellis Timothy 120.03-1-27.00 Res 1.94A 1155 St Hwy 165 Calabrese Marina 89.00-2-28.01 Res 3.56A Co Hwy 50

Otsego

Plainfield

Davis Mark 274.00-2-26.00 Res 29.02A St Hwy 205 Kropp Dennis 275.00-1-28.00 Res 34.75A East St Kropp Dennis 275.00-1-47.00 Res 0.91A 350 East St Stilson Dolores 287.15-1-13.00 Res 0.11A 250 Winney Hill Rd Rotolo Anthony 289.00-1-16.01 Res 0.71A 5539 St Hwy 7 Rotolo Anthony 289.00-1-6.01 Res 16.84A St Hwy 7* Liddell Robert T 299.07-1-11.00 Res 0.17A 5 Raymond Ave RBFD INC 299.07-3-60.00 Res 0.15A 24 Ceperley Ave Marsh-Kamerling Cynthia 300.00-3-10.02 Res 1.29A 142 Glen Dr Otego Marsh Michael A 317.15-1-31.00 Res 0.29A 67 Fair St Sullivan Jeffrey J 317.19-1-1.02 Res 0.46A 197 Main St Barron Marvin 317.19-1-33.00 Res 0.36A 12 Averill St Ford Marion J 317.20-1-49.00 Res 0.31A 72 River St Bonacci Brittany M 317.20-1-51.00 Res 0.14A River St Otego

Andrews Phillip 115.18-3-38.00 Res 0.11A 96 Main St Bailey Richard J 131.05-1-49.01

Otsego

Reckeweg Frederick 20.00-1-1.32 Res 5.22A 372 Griffith Rd Ostrander

Springfield Hartmann Steven J 15.00-1-34.02 Res 1.42A St Hwy 80 Macaluso Joseph 41.06-1-27.00 Res 0.75A 7667 St Hwy 80 Macaluso Joseph 41.06-1-57.00 Res 0.64A St Hwy 80 Owner Unknown 54.00-1-48.00 Res 2.77A Buddle Rd Boyce, Inc German F 69.28-1-17.00 Res 0.17A St Hwy 80 Opto Generic Devises Inc 7.00-1-4.01 Res 107.23A 174 Pumpkin Hook Rd Unadilla Davis Brian 334.14-1-2.00 Res 1.65A 74 Kilkenny St Conley Robert N Jr 334.14-1-29.00 Res 0.62A 10 Ontio Ter Shaffer Mathew 334.14-1-54.00 Res 0.70A 11 Lyons St Rosenberg Jeffrey M 334.15-1-40.00 Res 0.55A 53 Maple Ave Brown Anthony T Jr 334.18-2-23.00 Res 0.26A 138 Main St Steinbacher Shelley 334.18-2-64.00 Res 0.38A 13 Fellows St Rodriguez Louis A Jr 334.18-2-68.00 Res 0.33A 8 Bridge St Connors Michael A 334.19-1-54.00 Res 0.08A 192 Main St Rudolph Richard 334.19-2-57.00 Res 0.26A 23 Martin Brook St Gass Dustin William 334.19-2-63.00 Res 0.23A 5 Martin Brook St Innes Jamie Santic 338.05-1-1.00 Res 2.66A 17 Main St

LEGALS

THURSDAY-Friday, march 9-10, 2017 Unadilla Livolsi Salvatore 305.00-1-33.00 Res 3.67A Lulu Coon* Rd Bryant Bridget 312.00-1-8.00 Res 0.44A River Rd Christianson Robert P 313.00-1-14.00 Res 0.75A 639 Ideuma Rd Thompson Gary 313.00-1-6.05 Res 5.01A 139 Black Ash Swamp Rd Smith Richard L 313.00-1-6.07 Res 4.50A Prentice Gorge Rd Andrews Clark E 314.00-1-34.00 Res 1.57A Butternut Rd Lent Janet 314.00-1-61.31 Res 5.02A 708 Co Hwy 3A Stark Barry D 322.00-1-34.02 Res 0.42A Co Hwy 3* Brandenburg Delores 323.00-1-15.01 Res 5.85A 105 Merriman Hill Rd Brandenburg Delores 323.00-1-15.10 Res 5.39A Co Hwy 3A* Higbie Steven D 323.00-1-69.01 Res 27.92A Co Hwy 4 2365 Wells Bridge Trust 324.03-1-19.00 Res 0.26A 2365 St Hwy 7 Higbie Steven 324.03-1-20.00 Res 0.28A 2367 St Hwy 7 Higbie Steven 324.03-1-22.00 Res 0.07A St Hwy 7 Higbie Steven Daniel 324.03-1-38.01 Res 0.28A 2391 St Hwy 7 Clow Shawn A 324.03-1-4.02 Res 0.29A 116 Pitcher Ln Seymour Frederick H 327.00-1-21.21 Res 1.18A 101 Hutchinson Hill Rd Queb-Cantun Maria G 328.00-1-5.03 Res 0.35A Lockwood Hill Rd Brownell Cale 329.00-1-13.22 Res 2.51A 142 Hardknocks Rd Wright Roger O 329.00-1-14.01 Res 12.33A 563 Co Hwy 3 McKee Jody 329.00-1-25.02 Res 10.05A 470 Kilkenny Rd Thompson Gary A 329.00-1-42.02 Res 0.57A 536 Co Hwy 3 Hunt William A Sr. 329.00-3-23.00 Res 7.34A Hardknocks Rd Grow Richard W 332.00-1-8.00 Res 0.72A 351 Co Hwy 1 Torres Juanita 333.00-1-39.21 Res 11.24A 197 Ingalls Rd Davis Brian 334.00-1-19.00 Res 13.03A Kilkenny* Rd June Gilbert J 336.00-1-12.00 Res 1.79A 265 Valleyview Rd Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-19.00 Res 2.72A St Hwy 7 Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-20.00 Res 1.77A 271 St Hwy 7 Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-22.01 Res 21.71A St Hwy 7 Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-23.00 Res 0.49A 293 St Hwy 7 GR Enterprises of the Northeast 336.00-1-46.01 Res 1.82A St Hwy 7 Hunt William A Jr 336.02-1-44.00 Res 0.67A St Hwy 7 Hunt William A Jr 336.02-1-46.02 Res 0.25A 25 Plan A Home Dr Eastman Johnny N 336.02-1-73.00 Res 0.22A 378 St Hwy 7 Bonacci Brittany 336.02-1-81.00 Res 0.13A 333 St Hwy 7 Air Tight Builders, LLC 337.00-1-54.00 Res 4.78A 654 St Hwy 7 Westford Reed Jacob W 150.00-1-18.01 Res 43.39A 414 Middlefield Rd Makzides D 166.01-1-39.00 Res 0.26A 1760 Co Hwy 34 Banks Mae

180.00-2-27.07 Res 4.98A 730 Badeau Hill Rd Franklin Lucy 180.01-2-13.00 Res 0.90A 2654 Co Hwy 35 Evans Donald T 182.00-1-13.00 Res 116.86A 653 Co Hwy 36 Yacono John 182.00-1-5.00 Res 50.46A 355 Greenbush Rd Jablonski David M 183.00-1-6.03 Res 2.03A 486 Co Hwy 36 Yager Julia 195.00-2-1.00 Res 34.67A Co Hwy 35* Pacherille Anthony 196.00-1-1.01 Res 17.11A 1267 Co Hwy 42 Worcester Race Daniel L 184.00-1-22.02 Res 1.74A 912 West Hill Rd Norton William 184.00-1-32.00 Res 1.80A 969 West Hill Rd Reina Dorothy F 185.00-1-59.01 Res 1.50A 100 Alvord Rd Sperbeck Michael 185.13-1-10.00 Res 0.28A 47 Main St Eager Bruce A 185.13-1-82.00 Res 0.50A 30 Main St Rost Deborah 198.00-3-18.00 Res 2.22A 108 Up County Rd Schiltkamp Adriaan 199.18-3-43.00 Res 0.13A 10 Mill St Roe Josephine B 199.18-3-62.02 Res 0.53A 38 Mill St Dennehy Robert 199.19-1-5.00 Res 0.19A 285 Main St Carneiro Paulette 200.00-1-47.02 Res 1.24A St Hwy 7 Chesla Christopher 200.00-1-5.00 Res 0.33A 144 Brighton Rd Thompson Gary 200.00-1-60.00 Res 2.96A 10099 St Hwy 7 Gavett Richard R 201.00-1-22.00 Res 48.77A 177 American Way Kisiolek Malgorzata D 215.00-1-29.313 Res 8.99A Co Hwy 39 Sawyer Brittany 215.00-1-48.03 Res 2.48A South America* Rd Ives Douglas C 215.06-1-23.00 Res 0.36A 10 Depot St Ives Douglas C 215.06-1-8.00 Res 0.09A 2 Church St Currie Bria 233.00-1-4.00 Res 3.32A 495 Mooney Rd F. Pops’ Property Inc. 248.00-1-18.01 Res 13.59A 522 Hall Rd F. Pops’ Property Inc. 248.00-1-18.22 Res 14.11A Hall Rd Stevens Donald R. 248.00-1-6.02 Res 6.43A 391 South America Rd McGuckin Elizabeth J 249.00-1-10.01 Res 6.88A 373 Center Valley Rd. Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Nature of proceeding: Such proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such petition. No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition.

Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the of-

fice of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax District and the Otsego County Courthouse and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Dan Crowell, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 1st day of May 2017.

Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed in the office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the above date mentioned as the last day for redemption.

Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Enforcing Officer Dan Crowell Otsego County Treasurer Attorney for Tax District Ellen Coccoma Otsego County Attorney 197 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 1LegalMar.9 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WhatCannaDo LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State on January 27, 2017. The office location within New York is in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to c/o THE LLC, PO Box 108, Gilbertsville, New York 13776.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Marlinspike Operations, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the N.Y. Secretary of State on February 22, 2017.

Purpose: Any law-

ful purpose.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State is the designated agent of the LLC, upon whom processes may be served.

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SUPREMECOURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No. 2016-248 Date Filed: 4/21/2016 SUMMONS Premises being foreclosed: 3-5 Canadarago Street Richfield Springs, NY 13439 ACTION TO FORECLOSE MORTGAGE ON PROPERTY SITUATED IN OTSEGO COUNTY Santander Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff, -againstSilvio V. Villavicencio, Rosa J. Villavicencio, Seamus Enterprises, LLC “JOHN DOE “ through and including “JOHN DOE#25”, the defendants last named in quotation marks being intended to designate tenants or occupants in possession of the herein described premises or portions thereof, if any there be, said names being fictitious, their true name being unknown to plaintiff,

Defendant(s).

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of the Summons exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. In case of your failure to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in this Complaint.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Otsego County dated Feb. 2, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office.

THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a mortgage recorded on the 22nd day of October, 2008, in Book 1586, mortgage page 1077, covering premises k/a 3-5 Canadarago Street, Richfiels Springs, NY 13439 a/k/a Section 25.5, Block 3, Lot 29.

Plaintiff designates OTSEGO County as the place for trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an

attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: March 29, 2016 Carle Place, New York Pranali Datta, Esq. Stein, Wiener Roth, L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff One Old Country Road, Suite 113 Carle Place, New York 11514 (516)-742-1212 71083/ SANTANDER #91093 4LegalMar.30 Legal nOtice

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO NS0153, LLC, Plaintiff, -againstJILLIAN BOS A/K/A JILLIAN E. BOS; LINDA SCHUERMANN; JOSEPH A. GALATI, JR.; UNKNOWN HEIRSAT-LAW OF THE ESTATE OF CARMEN GALATI, NEXT-OF-KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY OR THROUGH SAID DEFENDANT WHO MAY BE DECEASED,

BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, ANY RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST IN AND TO THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT; GEORGE GALATI; JOSEPH A. GALATI, III; DOMENICA SCOLES, Defendants.

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Mortgaged Premises 165 Wileytown Road Hartwick, New York 13348 Section: 128.00 Block: 2 Lot: 14.00 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 165 Wileytown Road, Hartwick, New York 13348 To the Above Named Defendant(s): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA B-5 against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Mortgage to secure $140,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on May 23, 2007 in Book 1522, Page 915 Document Number 200700055188, covering premises known as 165 Wileytown Road, Hartwick, New York 13348.

The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is located.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This Communication is from a debt collector in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 85 Broad Street, Suite 501 New York, New York 10004 T: (212) 471-5100 F: (212) 471-5150 Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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Notice of formation of BAILE PROPERTIES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on February 10, 2017.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Oteego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail. a copy of any process against the’LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 273 Southside Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a vessel under the alcoholic beverage control law at 6761 State Highway 80,

Cooperstown, NY Otsego County for on premises consumption.

Michele Barry Cooperstown Cruise Company, LLC 2LegalMar9 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: Cooperstown Beaver Valley Campground LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 January 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 704, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: Cooperstown Baseball Camp LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 January 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 704, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Oak River Park, LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on February 15, 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 404, Cooperstown, New York 13326.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DIAMOND CONCRETE & DEVELOPMENT LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/2017.

Office Location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 173 West Hill Road, Hartwick, New York 13348.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr6 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Balance By Day LLC. Articles of Formation was filed with the NY secretary of state on February 13, 2017. The office of this LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. The NY Secretary of State may mail copy of any process to the LLC at 25 grand St apt#2 Oneonta NY 13820. The purpose of the is to abide by all lawful acts and activities.

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Advisornet Property & Casualty, LLC .

Filed: 12/1/16 .

Office: Otsego Co. Formed in WI: 4/24/08.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1121 N 7th St PO Box 289, Sheobygan, WI 53082.

Foreign add: 1121 N 7th St, Sheobygan, WI 53701.

Arts. of Org. filed with Wi Dept Of Financial Institutions Secy Lon E Roberts, 201 W Washington Ave # 500, Madison, WI 53703.

Purpose: General.

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Notice of Formation of Avery-Burdick Stable,LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 2/10/17 Office LOC: Otsego, CTY. SSNY desig. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1078 County Hwy 6, Otego NY 13825 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 4504 Hoxie LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4038 Seton Ave, Bronx, NY 10466.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalMar16 Legal notice

Notice of Formation of 4230 White Plains Rd LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4038 Seton Ave, Bronx, NY 10466.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 40 Oneonta LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4038 Seton Ave, Bronx, NY 10466.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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CJMFD Enterprises LLC Art. of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 01/20/2017, Office in Otsego Co. NY, SSNY desig agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 14 Chester Street, Oneonta, New York 13820 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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75 Chestnut Street Property Group, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16 Legal notice

Vista Hermosa Street, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln., Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16 Legal notice

2128 County Highway 22 Property Group, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln., Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16 Legal notice

5438 State Highway 28 Property Group, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln., Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16 Legal notice

126 Main Street Property Group, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: P.O Box 1897 Richfield Springs, NY 13439 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar9 Legal notice

133 Chestnut Street Property Group, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln. Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar9 Legal notice

Notice of Formation of SPRINGBROOK HOUSING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/17. Office location: Otsego County. Princ. office of LLC: 2705 State Hwy. 28, Oneonta, NY 13820-9753. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Executive Director at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Center Street Deli and Bakery LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on January 19, 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to : The LLC, 82 Center Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: BILLY PHELAN’S 300, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/20/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 20 Bronner St. Richfield Springs, NY 13439 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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IN MEMORIAM Barbara Sweeney, 85; Babysitter, ‘Gramma’ ONEONTA – Barbara N. Sweeney, 85, known as “Gramma Sweeney” to the many children she babysat, passed away Tuesday, March 2, 2017 at Chestnut Park Rehabilitation and Nursing.

Barbara was born on Feb. 13, 1932 in Northampton, Massachusetts to Mary (Cote) and John Lucas Sr. On January 16, 1956, she married Ernest E. Sweeney, Sr. in Canaan.

She moved to the area in 1961 and babysat many local children in a 20-year career. In 1983 moved to Jacksonville, Fl. In 1990, she and Ernie moved to Kernersville, N.C., and then in 1996 they moved back to Oneonta. For the last seven years, she lived with her daughter, Marilyn and sonin-law, Bill.

Barbara was a member

of the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta.

She loved to knit, crochet, and sew as well as being an Barbara Sweeney avid reader.

Barbara is survived by her children: James and Ronda, Otego, Marilyn and Bill Waterhouse, Oneonta, Ernest Jr. and Tammy Sweeney, Davenport, Mary Walser, Syracuse, David Sweeney, Jacksonville, Fla., Brian Sweeney, St. Augustine, Fla., Matthew and Amanda Sweeney, Palm Coast, Fla, and Randall and Kim Lockwood, Watertown. She is also survived by her beloved cat, Baby.

She is further survived

by her siblings: Elaine Haney, O’Fallon, Ill., Faith and James Rodman, Saugerties, brother John Lucas Jr., North Las Vegas, Nev., brother-in-law, John Fournier, Northampton, Mass., sister-in-law Sandra and William Kicza, Oldsmar, Fla, 16 grandchildren, 32, great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her husband, Ernie in 2010, and recently her sister, Jacqueline Fournier.

A funeral was held Wednesday, March 8 at the Lester R. Grummons funeral home, with Rev. David Rockwell officiating.

Interment will be in the spring at Ouleout Valley Cemetery, Franklin.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

George Fleck, 86; Former Priest Lived At Plains ONEONTA – George Vincent Fleck, 86, who resided at the Plains at Parish Homestead since 2008, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 2, 2017.

Born Sept. 6, 1930, in Brooklyn, George was

ordained a Catholic priest in 1956. He left the priesthood in 1967 and married Angela Kenny and they adopted two children. She passed in January 1988.

In 1990, George married Jean Rieb, a fellow teacher

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at Northern Valley Regional High School. They retired in 1995 to Fly Creek, where they filled their 1860s farmhouse, and George enjoyed his fully equipped wood working shop making many improvements.

George volunteered at Bassett Hospital for many years, and spent many hours as a Hospice volunteer visiting patients in their homes.

The Flecks were active parishioners at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta, where George was a eucharistic minister and brought communion to one of the local adult care homes for several years. He loved singing in the church choir.

The couple moved to The Plains when George was diagnosed with dementia, George is survived by his wife Jean and daughter Amelia. Eight of his 12 original siblings survive.

A funeral mass was planned at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 9, at St. Mary’s, with Father David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating.

Kevin Klumpp, 47; Photographer, Artist UNADILLA – Kevin W. Klumpp, 47, a local artist and photographer, died Tuesday, March 2, 2017, at his home in Unadilla.

Kevin had many interests, including horseback riding, swimming, bowling, artwork, and photography. Kevin enjoyed taking photos of the outdoors and doing graphic drawings. Some of this artwork was displayed locally.

He is survived by his mother, Sharon Corey, Unadilla; father, Wayne Klumpp (Sherry), Victor; sisters, Cheryl Evens (Scott), DeWitt, Karen Scott (Michael), Guilford, Conn.; nephews David Evans, DeWitt, Oscar and Calder Scott, Guilford, Conn; niece Audrey Scott, Guilford, Conn., and special friends Kirk McLaughlin, Ed Deforest and Terry Palmer.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Springbrook.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

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ART RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m.

Opening of Annual Congressional exhibit “An Artistic Discovery” exhibit of Otsego County high school students’ art. Winners move to state competition.

Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www.cooperstownart.com/ SHAMROCK SWING – 6-9 p.m.

Mother & Son dance w/ dinner, dancing, activities, prizes, raffle, more. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, http://foothillspac.org/ AMERICANA CONCERT – 7 p.m. Robert Jones and Matt Watroba perform ‘Music That Matters.’. $20, benefits church window restoration project. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 811 Cty. Rd. 26, Fly Creek. Info, (607) 547-9946.

SQUARE DANCE – 7:3010 p.m. Doubleday Dancers St. Patrick’s Day dance. $5.

Cooperstown Elementary. Info, (607) 264-8128, (607) 5478665.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Comedy ‘Steel Magnolias.’ Hamblin Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Info, http:// www.orpheustheatre.org/season. html or call (607) 432-9392.

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PANEL DISCUSSION – 11 a.m.-2 p.m. International Women’s day event presented by the departments of Biology, History, Music, Nursing, and Spanish.

Celebration room, Shineman Chapel House, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, matthewsh@ hartwick.edu, (607) 431-4428, http://www.hartwick.edu/campus-life/student-affairs/intercultural-affairs/ HOT MEAL PROGRAM – 11 a.m.-1 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://www. firstumc-oneonta.org/ GRANGE – 11 a.m. Otsego County Pomona Grange meeting.

Needlework, quilting, and woodworking, photography, art. Westville Grange Hall, Cty. Rte. 35, near Milford. Info, Anna Ritchey, 755ritchey@frontiernet.net KNITTING MAKERSPACE – 12:30-2 p.m. Experienced and beginner knitters invited to share.

Cooperstown Village Library. Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar OPERA – 12:55 p.m. “La Traviata.” The Met streaming live in HD. $18/seniors, $20/adults, 10/students. Season pass $200.

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Info, (607) 431-2080, www. foothillspac.org/ HISTORY – 1 p.m. “Tracking Oneonta History” with Sarah Livingston. Presented by Oneonta Chapter DAR. Masonic Temple, 322 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 334-5756.

SSPCA FUNDRAISER – 1-4 p.m. Ross Park Zoomobile and animal-themed crafts, games, snacks, face-painting, more.By donation. Unitarian Universalist Church, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

Info, http://uuso.org/ WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

SNOMMEGANG – 2-6 p.m.

Annual beer festival with 30 of the best beers from around the country with live music, food, and activities. Muller Plaza, Main St., Oneonta. Info, https://americaontap.com/event/snommegang/ PLAY READING – 6:30 p.m.

“Sunset Painting” by local playwright Greg Klein. Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, http:// www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/ CONCERT – 7 p.m. Robert Jones and Matt Watroba present ‘Music That Matters.’ $20, children 12 and under free. Benefits church window restoration project. Fly Creek U.M. Church. 811 Cty. Rd. 26, Fly Creek. Info, (607) 547-9946.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. “Willie Nile” live at the The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5471812, http://cooperstownconcertseries.org/willie.html CABARET – 7:30 p.m. Catskill Symphony Orchestra annual guest conductor competition, Les Grummons, Jeff Joyner, and Neal Miller. SUNY Oneonta Alumni Field House. Info, http://catskillsymphony.net/ THEATER – 7:30 p.m. ‘Steel Magnolias.’ Hamblin Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Info, http://www. orpheustheatre.org/season.html or call (607)432-9392.

Sunday, March 12 Spring Forward!

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS – 2 a.m.

Daylight saving time begins Move clocks forward one hour!

SUGARING-OFF SUNDAY – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Historical and contemporary maple sugaring demonstrations with a pancake breakfast and fun activities for the kids. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. farmersmuseum.org/sos SOUP! – 11 a.m.-2 p.m.,

“Second Sunday Soup,” serving homemade hot soup. Takeout available. All welcome, donations appreciated. At The Little White Church, Schuyler Lake.

BRIDAL EXPO – Noon-3 p.m.

Get up close and personal with area wedding experts. Cost $5.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://foothillspac.org/index. php/shows/bridal-expo/ TREP$ MARKETPLACE – 1-3 p.m. CCS students bring their businesses alive. Cooperstown High School, 39 Linden Ave.. Info, (607) 547-8181, https://www. facebook.com/CooperstownTREP-1508685209401557/ CHILI CONTEST – 1-3 p.m.

Vote on chili and corn bread.

Music by John Hopper and some crafters. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Cty. Rd. 11, Hartwick. Info, Caren Kelsey, (607) 293-7530.

THEATER – 2 p.m. Comedy ‘Steel Magnolias.’ Hamblin Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Info, http:// www.orpheustheatre.org/season. html, (607) 432-9392.

CONCERT – 3 p.m. Warm yourself at the annual “Summertime in Winter” concert by the Oneonta Community Concert Band. Fox Care Center’s “Main Street USA,” Oneonta. Info, (607) 437-0152.

HISTORY PRESENTATION – 3 p.m. “Frances Rowe & Her Gifts to Oneonta” from GOHS member J. Taylor Hollist. Presentation will show some of her life and the house she donated. Free, all welcome. Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-0960, http:// www.oneontahistory.org/ CORN BEEF DINNER – 4-6 p.m. Take out available. $8. River Street Baptist Church, 133 River St., Oneonta. Info, http://riverstreetbaptistchurch.weebly.com/ SNATCH GAME – 5:30-6:30 p.m. Women’s history-themed game, Johnstone Science Center, Room 201, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, matthewsh@ hartwick.edu, (607) 431-4428.

FILM SERIES – 6:30 p.m.

“Indie Lens Pop-up Film Screening: Newtown.” Fenimore Art Museum auditorium, 5798 NY80, Cooperstown. fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/films WOMEN’S LIBERATION FILM SERIES – 7 p.m. Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, 547-9371.