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Well, not quite, Kevin Jensen, SUNY Oneonta associate vice president & enrollment management, cautioned the other day in an interview anticipating the Thursday, Aug. 24, arrival of the first Excelsior students, the Class

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Folk music royalty Sarah Lee Guthrie, daughter of Arlo and granddaughter of Woody, performed to a full house Thursday, Aug. 17, at the B-Side Ballroom.

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U.S. Circuit Court has affirmed the state Department of Conservation’s decision not to grant necessary waterquality permits to the Constitution Pipeline, planned to carry fracked natural gas from Northeast Pennsylvania to East Coast markets.

Pipeline foes hailed the decision, issued Friday, Aug. 18, as a victory. But the pipeline company said another court decision has given jurisdiction to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where it is hoping for a different outcome.

APPOINTMENT DUE: The Otsego Now board was planning to appoint a successor to Sandy Mathes, its president, when it met at 8 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 24.

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of 2021. Classes begin Monday, Aug. 28 at both SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College.

Excelsior, he emphasized, is a “last dollar” program, intended to close the final gap for stu-

dents whose families’ incomes are $100,000 or less, and who might not otherwise be able to afford SUNY Oneonta or the 61 other colleges and universities in the state system.

“You might get $12, you might get $2,000,” he said. Federal tuition assistance programs like Pell Grants and existing state aid must be tapped first before students qualify for the “final dollar.”

Still, Jensen, from briefings for him and his counterparts at other SUNY schools, said Excelsior is expected to have a significant impact Please See EXCELSIOR, A7

SUN MEETS MOON IN ONEONTA SKIES

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n Hartsville, Ky., the central line of totality, LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal and Chris Rolko got A Robert Iversen a reminder of images from southern hospi- southern Illinois. tality during her viewing of the solar eclipse.

“We found a farm stand at about 8:30 a.m. and asked if we could hang out with them,” Dostal said. “They were thrilled!

They had been hoping people would come, and they made lunch for everybody – pulled pork, ambrosia salad, fresh tomatoes. That’s what we call a spread down here.”

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA But soon, 30 people showed up Dr. Kevin Schultz, center, an astronomy teacher at Hartwick College, points to the shadow to join them. “I counted 10 states of the moon as it is projected onto a screen using a professional grade pinhole projector.

Please See ECLIPSE, A3 He is joined by onlookers Mike Gardner, left, Oneonta, and Linda Randall, Davenport.

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By LIBBY CUDMORE 22, appointment David Hotaling director of Oneonta Public Transport, succeedng MILFORD the retiring Paul Patterson. fter a March 12 fire razed the Milford $50,000 AT ISSUE: United Methodist State Police Sunday, Aug. Church, the Rev. Sylvia 20, announced the arrest of Barrett was determined to the Burlington Flats Fish & be in a new church by Game club treasurer, acThanksgiving 2018. cusing him of embezzling “I’ve already invited the $50,000 since 2010. bishop to our Thanksgiving

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worship service,” Pastor Barrett said the other day, confirming the purchase of the Milford Manors Farm store on Route 28.

For now, the congregation will worship in the store as the new church rises in the front parking lot.

Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA With the charred ruin Burton Kaplan at his Magic Mounas goad (it has since been tain Music Farm, which is planning demolished), Barrett put Please See CHURCH, B8 25th anniversary concerts in Gilbertsville Labor Day Weekend.

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hen the YMCA’s Summer Parks Program was facing the ax during last year’s budget talks, Michele Frazier knew she had to step up. “I felt like we needed to support our kids,” she said.

“It’s what makes Oneonta a great community, and I knew I had to get involved in politics.”

Frazier, an Oneonta native, was appointed by Common Council to fill Paul van der Sommen’s vacated First Ward seat during their meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 15. “I’m very excited about having Michele on Council,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “She has a strong background, she’s community-minded and she went into politics for the right reasons.”

An Oneonta native, Frazier grew up on Southside Drive, where family owned Frazier’s Greenhouse. A

1996 graduate of OHS, she got her bachelor’s in pre-law at the University of Chicago, Frazier got a Masters in Theology from Harvard and studied Justice Law at American University.

“I was away from Oneonta for 15 years, but when we had kids, we wanted to move back to a community where they could bike to the neighbor’s,” she said.

She and her husband John Boecke, have three children; Kyden, 6, Cohen, 4 and Shepherd, 2. She has served on the Oneonta World of Learning board, as treasurer for the First United Presbyterian Church and was the

CFO of Frazier’s Greenhouse. She is also a realtor with the Benson Agency and teaches World and American politics, as well as Theology and Religion, at SUNY Delhi. In her role as the First Ward Council Member, Frazier hopes to shape Oneonta the way she sees her neighborhood. “We have an annual block party, and I think it’s the best way for a city to flourish,” she said. “I want people to know their neighbors so they can share a cup of sugar, help with kids when they see them outside or take care of their elderly neighbors.”

Though her appointment to Council is only through Dec. 31, she has launched a formal campaign for her seat on the Nov. 7 ballot on the Otsego United Independent line and the democratic line.

If elected, she will serve the remaining part of van der Sommen’s term, until 2020.

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Katherine Monroe, Salisbury Center, holds Lincoln David Monroe, one of four babies born at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown during yesterday’s eclipse.

Born at 1:56 p.m., Lincoln was born closest to when the moon crossed the sun’s path in Otsego County.

May-Britt Joyce of Cooperstown experiments with viewing eclipse through perforated paper while Domenica Galati and Story Ducey cheer her on.

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Julie Dostal and Chris Rolko watched the eclipse from a farm stand in Hartsville, Ky., with 30 other travelers from 10 states who all gathered to view the center of totality, sharing snacks, glasses and views through the telescope. Afterwards, the owners invited everyone to stay for a free picnic lunch.

Robert Iversen, Cooperstown, peeks at the eclipse through his telescope in the backyard of a friend’s home in Carbondale, Ill.

Chris Rolko and Julie Dostal had just a few moments to snap this eclipse selfie before they had to put their glasses back on.

The Rissberger family – from left, Julia, Rachel, Sandy Knight, David and Gabriel – all donned their eclipse glasses to watch from St. Louis, Mo.

Otsego Countians Show Their Enthusiasm At Home, And Along ‘Totality’ ECLIPSE/From A1 on license plates,” she said.

“Ken from D.C. walked us all through the phases so we could experience it to the fullest.”

In Carbondale, Ill., Robert Iversen of Cooperstown and his mother, Tamara Razzano of Little Falls, observed the full solar eclipse from the backyard of a friend’s house. “Down the street, the University of Southern Illinois opened up their stadium for 15,000 people, so we could hear them cheering.”

For a moment, Robert was worried he might miss the eclipse. “The clouds covered everything,” he said. “But then we saw the sliver of sun, just before the totality, and then it got very dark, like

midnight in Cooperstown. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.”

Dostal learned to watch for the “shadow waves” – quick, undulating shadows that start as the eclipse reaches totality – the “diamond ring” and then the Baily’s Beads effect, the last part of the sun to show before the totality.

“Once we saw that, we knew we could take off our glasses and look at the corona,” she said. “I have never seen anything like it. Everyone cheered, and then we got quiet and settled into the moment.”

“All the birds stopped singing,” said Rachel Rissberger, Oneonta, who viewed the eclipse from St. Louis, Mo.,

with her husband, Third Ward Council member David Rissberger and their kids, Julia and Gabriel. “The sky took on this greenish hue as it got darker and the temperature dropped significantly. Then this confused bunny hopped out of the woods and came right up to us like it was looking for help.”

Locally, at 2:40 p.m., people came out of shops and homes to take a peek at the eclipse, which peaked at around 70 percent. Though eclipse glasses were sold out across the county, people shared their glasses or used pinhole projectors – even colanders – to view.

At the Huntington Library, 30 pairs of eclipse glasses were passed around among 250

people, and Hartwick professors Dr. Kevin Schultz and Dr. Lawrence Nienart brought projectors and telescopes. Visitors could also watch a live feed of the totality inside.

All along Main Street, Cooperstown, baseball tourists and Dreams Park families donned eclipse glasses as 2:40 p.m. approached and could be seen staring at the sky.

Outside the New York, Susquehanna & Southern on Railroad Avenue, Ed Gwilt and Phil Fazio were experimenting with a shadow box to capture the eclipse’s shadow.

On a dock on Otsego Lake’s eastern shore, May-Britt Joyce was experimenting with perforated paper, while friends Story Ducey, Domenica Galati

and Francesa Vanesco gathered around.

At Bassett Hospital, four babies were born the day of the eclipse, with Lincoln David Monroe, Salisbury Center, born closest to the actual event, at 1:56 p.m.

“We knew he was due that day and I went in at 7 a.m., but there were two other emergency c-sections before me, so he ended up being born during the eclipse!” said his mother, Katherine. “But he’s healthy, 7 pounds, 7 ounces, 20 inches.”

For Dostal and Iversen, the totality of the event lasted just over two and a half minutes.

“It went by so quickly,” said Iversen. “But I was able to see enormous arcs of plasma.”

“We saw a solar flare,” said

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Dostal. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, and someone got a picture on the telescope to confirm that’s what it was. And when we saw Baily’s Beads again, we knew we had to put our glasses back on.”

“We could see the moon in front of the sun,” said Rissberger. “We were in darkness for just over a minute.”

Although Iversen had brought a homemade “camera obscura,” he found that it didn’t work for his purposes. “I ended up going back and forth between the telescope and my camera,” he said. “It’s good practice for the next eclipse.”

He’ll be waiting until April 8, 2024. The good news: He can watch it as near to home as Buffalo and Rochester.

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Reform Caucus Needs Single Seat To Take Control

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he “I ♥ Otsego” ietta. The cause of better dustup, with Repubgovernment in Otsego lican Tim Walker County may need it. locking up the ballot line As regional directhat county Rep. Andrew tor of the state Council Marietta, D-Cooperstown/ of Non-Profits, he has Town of Otsego, used in guided strategic-planwinning election in 2015, ning at dozens of local shows the intensity of organizations, from the that contest in the at-play Greater Oneonta HistoriHOMETOWN ONEONTA District 8. cal Society to Foothills County Rep. Jim Powers’ On Tuesday, Aug. 15, to the successful merger retirement and a split in the first day to submit of the Cooperstown Art Republican ranks in his petitions to run on an Association and Smithy Butternuts Valley district is independent line in the Pioneer Gallery. creating an opportunity for Tuesday, Nov. 8, local Since his election Democrat Michele Farwell. elections, Marietta arrived in 2105, he has been which in the past decade at the county Board of seeking to apply the same has swung from Democrat Elections in the afternoon to process to county governNancy Iversen to Republidiscover his opponent had ment: In effect, identifying can Jim Johnson to Democlaimed the “I ♥ Otsego” top priorities, then pursuing crat John Kosmer to Repubname that morning. them. lican Rick Hulse to, now, Since Marietta carried Thus, he’s a key player Marietta. over “I ♥ Otsego” to his in a bi-partisan Reform The current majority website and Facebook page, Caucus that has emerged on certainly wants that seat. it might present something the county Board of RepWhat’s more, the majority of a marketing challenge. resentatives that includes may need it to survive.

It’s a bit of mischief that Republicans Len Carson • raises Tim Walker’s name of Oneonta, David Bliss No doubt Cooperstown’s recognition, no doubt. But of Cooperstown/Town of energetic Democratic orgait underscores the battleMiddlefield, and Peter nization plans a get-out-theground status of the district, Oberacker of Schenevus, vote effort on behalf of Mar-

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iscussions raised by the Reform Caucus are already having an impact. ►On the Ethics Board.

At the Aug. 2 county board meeting, Rep. David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego, who has been seeking candidates for an Ethics Board, created in the 1990s but never activated, proposed Jack Henson, retiring county Veterans Affairs director, as the first of three members. It’s going to happen. ►On a nepotism policy.

The need was dramatized when a disciplinary issue surrounding sheriff’s son, a correctional officer working under his father, arose in January. Close family ties are said to exist in at least eight situations. Also Aug. 2, the Administration Committee reported a nepotism policy is under development.

The cavalry’s on the way. County voters simply need to affirm the course. and Democrats Andrew Stammel, Town of Oneonta, and Gary Koutnik and Kay Stuligross, City of Oneonta.

This group is one seat

short of a working majority, but still has been able to rally the board as a whole to implement its strategic plan, a $40,000 undertaking that

was headed for the shelf, and to begin serious discussions about the need for a county manager.

• If the Reform Caucus can survive the Nov. 8 election intact, all it needs is a single new adherent to give it a majority.

Look at the arithmetic.

Right now, the Reform Caucus controls 2,887 weighted votes (an archaic system, itself is a prime target of reform). County board Chair Kathy Clark’s current majority controls 3,341 votes.

That’s a 454 weightedvote gap. That means if 228 weighted votes shift, the majority changes.

Every county rep controls more than that; the smallest district, Kay Stuligross’ District 14 in Oneonta, is assigned 339 votes.

So if Clark loses a single ally, she’s out. If the Reform Caucus gains a single Please See EDITORIAL, A5

LETTERS

Caught In History’s Crucible, Robert E. Lee Deserves Study, Not Statues To the Editor: I would view Robert E. Lee as an educated, highly intelligent and, perhaps like all such persons, highly conflicted man concerned with honor and caught in the crucible of history. He deserves to be remarked upon and reflected about.

This process has little to do with erecting statues which emphasize only the dimension of his military actions as leader of the Army of Northern Virginia, a post arrived at after much internal debate as he rejected previous offers of command.

He could not but be influenced by the received loyalties of the time, which made it impossible for him to turn against his own state and region.

But his denunciation of slavery and his decision to free his own slaves predated his allegiance in the Civil War, and that in turn was post-dated by his role in actively furthering the education of black

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persons.

He was complex, powerful, and imperfect. The latter quality I believe is inevitable, a part of the human condition and its susceptibility to the cultural influences of the time and place in which one

finds oneself historically.

That is not to embrace his imperfections or to defend their content, but to try to put them in context.

It is deeply saddening that such a person has been reduced to the

frozen martial poses which ignore and distort the depth of his thinking and the morality of his behavior as he considered it. His statues have become the flash points for all the latent resentments and pseudo-justifications for racism,

intolerance, and pent-up ignorance and violence. As such, I think they should come down.

Lee deserves better than such reductionism: The lessons that could be learned from his life are really worthwhile. But they cannot be learned from selling little tokens of a symbol which has become a code for white supremacy and racial injustice.

It is utterly lacking in decency and the capacity to think beyond stupid slogans, to wave around little Confederate flags and claim that as a matter of “free speech” or whatever else gets claimed in its name.

It is malignant, and it should not be offered or defended as anything other than what it is: the opportunity to show off a little ignorant rebelliousness, matched with the opportunity to make a buck.

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Dukes Of Hazzard Editorial Naive: Ignorance Begets Fear, Fear Hatred, Hatred Evil To the Editor: I am astounded as well as deeply troubled, if not offended, by the naivete of your editorial in last week’s edition, and feel compelled to take issue with a number of its elements.

I disagree with your con-

tention, “Ignorance and fear are less formidable than evil and hatred.” It is ignorance that gives rise to fear that, in turn, gives rise to hatred, and hatred begets evil making ignorance the most formidable of all.

Furthermore, tempering

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was the acknowledgement of the reality that that same flag was not just a “battle flag.” It flew over the capital of the Confederacy symbolizing secession from the country and the endangerment of its very core, in large measure, because of the South’s strong support of slavery as an institution.

Furthermore, that same flag was carried by Ku Klux Klan members as

they burned crosses in front of the homes of blacks, featured at rallies accompanying the lynchings of innocent black people, and displayed in front of buildings where justice for black people was, instead, a mockery of human dignity.

Those who watched that show did so naively and ignorantly, just like those of us in Cherry Valley in the Plesae See WEBB, A6

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of monumental proportions.

You state that the plots in the show The Dukes of Hazzard sound “harmless enough” with the fun Bo and Duke were having with their cousin Daisy, all white, being set against the backdrop of a South frothily represented by the Confederate flag displayed on the roof of their car.

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ignorance requires that we address fundamental issues and processes that call upon us to re-examine the work of our institutions and the other basic functions that undergird our society. This is a formidable, complex and very difficult task. We are currently suffering from an epidemic of ignorance, certainly of history, both social and political, that is creating fear, hatred and evil

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t its next Community Evening program at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, Woodside Hall will present a musical concert featuring Suzanne Rudy on the harp. She will perform music from Broadway as well as classical pieces on her beautiful 5-foot tall pedal harp for the residents of Woodside Hall and members of the public.

Suzanne is an accomplished harpist and had a career teaching music in New

York City schools before retiring to Cooperstown to run the Baseball Bed & Breakfast CATHERINE with her LAKE husband ELLSWORTH John.

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more information contact Karen Cadwalader, LCSW at 607-547-0600, extension 101.

• Not long ago we received an email from one Kimberly More which informed us that our invoice for $1,621.09 was due by August 14, 2017. There was a link upon which we could click to get more information about the bill. Not only HOMETOWN ONEONTA do we have no idea who Please See COLUMN, A5 Book explores poet of Indian Burial Ground.

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The Picnic-ians are an extensive organization and out nearly every fair day in full force. They are known in the morning by their nice clothes, full baskets, expectant faces and hurried steps. In the evening they are worn and tired, insisting with languid speech that they have had a nice time.

Long live the picnic-ians!

The New York Medical College for women will begin their Fifth Annual Term of 20 weeks at the College in 12th Street, two doors east of Fourth Avenue, the first Monday in November. Address the Dean, Mrs. C.S. Lozier, M.D., 361 West 34th Street, N.Y., or the Secretary, Mrs. C.F. Wells, care of Fowler & Wells, N.Y. August, 1867

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young women talking earnestly with men in various cars on Main Street and scratched his head in bewilderment. Then, after he was informed by Mr. Capron, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, that a complaint had been received he arrested Arline Anderson, 20, of Moorhead, Minnesota, Jane Hunter 22, no address, Mary Allegro, 19, of Tacoma, Washington, Loretta Lindner, 19, of Menomine, Michigan, and Geraldine Jenkins, 20, of Lakeland, Florida. City Court Judge Sterling P. Harrington accepted their guilty pleas to selling magazines without a license and fined them each $5.

August, 1937

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A contractor drilling for hard quarry stone on South Side struck what was reported to be two silver veins. The strike was on the same farm where a silver mind was operated about 75 years ago. The strike is not expected to cause a mining boom for the two veins are small, one about three feet deep and the other about eighteen inches. The site is on the Ray McDonald farm on the back road to Otego opposite the sewage disposal plant. The big hole opened in the late nineteenth century is still there, but has been mostly filled.

August. 1957

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Load Up Your Shotgun – A couple of healthy looking tramps called at a house on upper Main Street, Schenevus, Monday, and asked for something to eat. The lady of the house, after furnishing them with refreshments, inquired why they were not at work earning an honest living. They informed her that they drank so much whiskey they could not work, and to affirm the assertion pulled out a bottle and each took a good “big swig” before leaving. They called at another house and as they were refused, gave the aged couple, as they termed it, “a good damning.” Every one of these vagabonds, as soon as they put in an appearance, should be arrested and sent to the penitentiary.

August 1892

100 Years Ago

Thousands of brave American soldiers and sailors are now in France and thousands of others are on the way. As soon as they are in trim they’ll go into the trenches, in the slippery mud and sweltering heat, to fight for democracy.

The United States government clothes and feeds them and the Red Cross will care for the wounded and the sick. But, there has been no means provided for furnishing them with tobacco. Unless those who know the consolation there is in a pipe, or their friends come to their relief, the soldiers must sit in the trenches with empty pipes longing for a puff or two that would bring untold comforts. The “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund” will provide this necessity for America’s fighting men at the front. The organization is purely a patriotic one, all supplies and labor being contributed so that every cent that is donated goes for tobacco, which is bought at cost. Every dollar contributed pays for a bundle of tobacco that would cost $1.80 if bought from a retail dealer. There’s nothing like a good old pipe to make a soldier forget his troubles. Imagine a bunch of fellows you know, sitting in a trench at night waiting, whispering and wondering what is going to happen next, and longing for smoke to soothe them. And all they can do – unless you

New Book Revives Poet, Rector COLUMN/From A4 Kimberly More might be, we are reasonably certain we do not owe anyone $1,621.09.

Thus we chose to delete the email without hesitation.

Nonetheless, the fact that we would have received such an email makes us think that such scams are not limited to telephone calls but have also taken to using email to lure in unsuspecting victims. As a general rule, we always delete any suspicious email that we might receive. We are of the opinion that if we inadvertently delete a legitimate email, the sender will no doubt resend it. And thus far, with all the emails we have deleted, that has never happened.

• We note that we have read yet another book written by a retired physician at Bassett. Earlier in the summer, we greatly enjoyed reading “Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York: 200 Years of Health Care in Rural America,” by John Davis, MD. And now we have added to our enjoyment by reading “Conflict and Genius: A Brief Introduction to a Complex Man –19th Century Scholar, Poet & Priest,” researched and written by David S. Svahn, MD. The gentleman about which Dr. Svahn has written is William Wilberforce Lord, 1819-1907, who was the ninth rector of Christ Church in Cooperstown. But, as is pointed out in the book, “Locally Lord is perhaps best known for a few moving words that honor the Native Americans whose bones had been disinterred and reburied in the Fernleigh ground near the headwaters of the Susquehanna River...”

However, having read the book, there is no doubt that Lord’s nearly 30 years in Cooperstown, where he stayed after his retirement in 1882, were but a part of

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a very complex, as well as most interesting, life. It seems that Lord was torn between being a priest, a professor or a poet. And while he ultimately chose the priesthood, he was not one to give up his love of academics or poetry. Thus, his life was seemingly a most unusual one. We must say that we found of particular interest Lord’s experiences in the south during the Civil War, where he strongly supported the rebel cause despite his northern roots.

We found the book to be a very interesting read, made all the more interesting given its Cooperstown connection. As we understand it, the book is available from the author, who can be contacted by email at dsvahn65@gmail.com. Copies may also be purchased at the Christ Church Parish House office, located at 69 Fair Street in Cooperstown, as well as at The Freeman’s Journal office located at 21 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown.

• In closing, while doing research for a book upon which we are currently working, we came across the following item from “Where Nature Smiles” in July of 1996, which we have chosen to share this week for whatever it might be worth: “Not too long ago, one life-long resident of the village went next door to greet a new neighbor. In the course of the conversation, the newcomers learned that the Cooperstonian had lived in the village about all of her life and that she and her husband had lived in the same home for more than 40 years. Both of these things seemed to flabbergast the newly arrived residents, causing one of them to exclaim, ‘Goodness, how many more like you are there?’

Indeed, how many?”

20 Years Ago

A summer youth tournament series at the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s Wright National Soccer Campus on State Hwy. 205 is a big enough deal to attract 295 teams from across the country and two Canadian provinces for 11 weekends of competition with participants ranging in age from under 10 to over 40. Last year 304 teams participated.

As part of the Soccer Hall’s financial reconfiguration, the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce agreed to manage the summer tournaments and paid the Hall $12,000. “It turned out to be very successful,” said Chamber Executive Director Rob Robinson. “I’m glad we did it.”

August 1977 August 1997 help – is to sit there disconsolately and finger their empty pipes or draw in vain on a briar that had served them so well in days gone by.

About 70 freshmen from the State University College at August 1917 Oneonta spent their first full day at college Monday volunteering in the community. In its second year, Freshman Service Day provided entering freshmen an opportunity Coming to town with their crew manager and his wife, to get introduced to Oneonta through community service, five attractive young ladies started soliciting magazine said Linda Drake, Director of the SUCO Center for Social subscriptions along Oneonta’s Main Street. The procedure Responsibility and Community. The students volunteered was to select an eligible looking male sitting in a parked for several Oneonta non-profit organizations including Opcar, open the door, sit down beside him and start in with the portunities for Otsego, Head Start, Susquehanna Greenway, sales talk. Frequently it was necessary for the saleswoman Oneonta Nursery School, Oneonta Family YMCA, Bugbee to lean closer toward the client to point out some benefit Children’s’ School, and the SUCO College Camp. At the to be derived from her magazines, an action which gave Opportunities for Otsego Community Connections Food the appearance of close friendship to those not aware that Bank, ten students inventoried and organized shelves. “It a mere man was having his sales resistance broken down. was really a great success,” Drake said.

Patrolman Young, on duty on Main Street noticed several August 2007

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EDITORIAL: One Seat Will Make All The Difference EDITORIAL/From A4 seat, it’s in.

An interesting for-instance is developing in Rep. Jim Powers’ District 2 seat along Unadilla Creek. He is retiring, (although he’s running for one of two seats in a four-way race for Butternuts Town Board).

Two Republicans emerged to succeed him, James Hoffman and William Hunt, and a GOP primary was expected in September. However, the county Democratic Committee challenge their petitions, Hunt’s were found wanting,

and he lost the Republican line, even though he was preferred by the local GOP establishment.

So in November, Hoffman, on the GOP ballot line, and Hunt, who ended up with the Conservative and independent ballot lines, stand to split the Republican vote. That opens the way to victory for the sole Democrat, Michele Farwell, who has good local political credentials, having served as deputy supervisor on the Morris Town Board.

Powers seat carries 503

votes. A Farwell win would drop the current majority from 3,341 to 2,838, and raise the Reform Caucus from 2,887 to 3,390.

• It doesn’t have to be Farwell.

It could be Adrienne Martini, a Democrat challenging Rep. Craig Gelbsman, a Republican in a majorityDemocratic seat in the City of Oneonta. Missing two out of the last three county board meetings, Gelbsman seems to be looking toward the next chapter anyhow.

It could be Cathy Nardi vs. incumbent Clark in Otego, or Tom Spychalski vs. incumbent Ed Frazier in Unadilla, or Pat Ryan vs. incumbent Meg Kennedy in the Hartwick-Milford district, or Nicole Dillingham vs. incumbent Keith McCarty in East Springfield.

A shift in any one of those districts could set the stage for a much-needed era of reform on the Otsego County Board of Elections.

One shift; that’s all.

Yes, it’s going to be an interesting campaign season.

LETTERS: Problem Not Medicaid, Federal Reimbursements To the Editor: If county Rep. Ed Frazier is serious about correcting the perceived injustice of New York counties sharing in the cost of Medicaid, he should be lobbying the federal, not the state government.

Currently New York State is penalized by receiving the lowest possible federal reimbursement for Medicaid spending, at 50 percent, (the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, or FMAP).

“Average” states receive 57 percent.

(Up to 82 percent is permissible.) Although median income is one determinant of the FMAP, other more qualitative and potentially political criteria are involved as well.

If the FMAP for New York State were too be increased to a fairer 54 percent, the resulting $2.3 billion federal dollars would erase the need for county support for Medicaid entirely.

Democrats in Congress, recognizing this problem, are sponsoring the Empire State Equity Act (HR 2088) which proposes this adjustment. Too bad John Faso isn’t a co-sponsor. He should be.

Meanwhile, Frazier continues to champion legislation such as the Faso-Collins amendment, which does not solve any problems for New York State taxpayers, and threatens to destabilize the local economy, which is heavily dependent on Medicaid dollars (see this newspaper’s coverage, Aug. 10, 2017).

This is despite the informed and sensible testimony of more than 20 constituents against this concept at last month’s county board meeting.

Even if the burden of paying for Medicaid were simply transferred to Albany, there’s no guarantee at all that the counties would stop collecting property taxes. You can bet some other use would be found for that money.

But more importantly, the Medicaid bill must be paid by somebody, and that will still be you and me. If and when we see a new surcharge on our New York State income tax to cover Medicaid, we’ll call it the FrazierFaso-Collins Tax. ANTOINETTE KUZMINSKI, MD Fly Creek

Cutting Back Medicaid Would Do Many Of Our Neighbors Harm

To the Editor: Our county Board of Representatives has been asked by Vice Chairman Ed Frazier to adopt a resolution supporting a federal law that would bar federal Medicaid reimbursements to New York State for charges raised from local governments.

These are important federal reimbursements, which if stopped could seriously hurt the state and Medicaid spending for our citizens.

This newspaper was right in advocating caution regarding

Mr. Frazier’s efforts to support federal bill H.R. 1871.

First, the wisdom of Ed’s proposed resolution will be impacted by final action on the American Health Care Act, which is now stalled.

Caution dictates that we wait until we know what any changes to Medicaid may be enacted before tampering with existing Medicaid funding.

Second, it is not clear how prohibiting federal reimbursements for Medicaid payments to New York will

help our county. New York State might just choose to keep the present system in place, which requires a local contribution, without federal reimbursements and raise other taxes to make up the difference. Our property taxes may not go down!

Most importantly, the proposed resolution is misleading. Medicaid costs paid by our county are 90 percent of property taxes, but are only 10 percent of the full county budget, which includes bed taxes, sales taxes, and state

and federal reimbursements.

Ten per cent of the county budget may be an appropriate Medicaid expense for a county with our demographics. This fact is not discussed

by Mr. Frazier.

Before we act we should know more about how this will impact our county, our state, and those who rely on Medicaid.

NICOLE DILLINGHAM Candidate for County Representative, District 9 (Richfield/Springfield)

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Ignorance, Fear, Hatred, Evil Part Of Lives Here WEBB/From A4 late ’50s when the school’s faculty and administrators, students, and even community members alike, staged minstrel shows to the delight of all who attended them.

Fortunately, more attention has been paid to these matters in the last 30 years so that the Duke boys’ frolic and the antics of whites in black face can no longer appear so fun-filled today making nostalgic recollection of those times offensive . . . and, dare I say, ignorant.

Your claim that you “don’t run into much of either (evil or hatred) day-to-day around here” must be due to the fact that you indeed “aren’t running in the right circles.” All you have to do is read the “Sound Off” section or Chuck Pinkey’s column in The Daily Star, overhear criticisms leveled at poor people who supposedly “take more than they’re entitled to from the Food Pantry” or who eat at soup kitchens just so they don’t have to pay for their own food, or viciously negative comments about undocumented immigrants who, in many cases, are actually neighbors or children in the local schools or people who have cared for our local sick.

More conveniently yet, read some of the comments in the Facebook debate that you published in the same issue as your editorial. None of this is rare around here, so yes, ignorance, fear, evil and hatred are very much a part of daily life in our area.

Lastly, your reference to and picture of the pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1934 is totally baffling. Yes, the Nazis were defeated in World War II under the flags of multiple nations, one being the Stars and Stripes. But then you go on to state that “. . . flags are just pieces of colored cloth,” and you advise us to “not get distracted by pretty, fluttering colors.”

It’s true that the swastikabearing banner is “pieces of colored cloth,” but it flew as the emblem of those who perpetrated hateful and horrific crimes against humanity that defy imagination except for those who suffered, were imprisoned or died under it. Recent events show that it is still very present today such that, were it to be paraded down the Main Street of Cooperstown, some might possibly cheer as they did in Charlottesville.

However, one cannot discount what the pieces of cloth mean to those whose family members experienced the horrors that it represented OR the ignorance and hatred that they still represent in a nation that is supposed to be the world’s beacon of justice for all. Likewise,

When Closing Surfaced, Marietta DID Communicate

To the Editor: County Representative Andy Marietta sent us a text at 12:14 a.m. on Aug. 1 when the Confederate flag alerting us to the fact that the Northern is flown in front of people’s Transfer Station would be closed from homes and displayed in venAug. 21 through Sept. 30 for a significant dors’ booths, or if it were to be amount of work, including replacing the paraded down Cooperstown’s scales, complete reconstruction of the Main Street, one cannot ignore road and pavement and more. He had or discount the truth that Afri- only just found about the closure himself, can-Americans as a group were along with the rest of the county board and forever traumatized by people county staff. for whom that flag has been an Our county rep went on to note that emblem. while the work is needed (we agree!), the That other assemblage of pieces of colored cloth that you refer to is the one we lower when valued members To the Editor: of our communities and our I’d like to correct some of the statenation die. It is in front of ments made about the library in the those pieces of colored cloth last issue of Hometown Oneonta. Most that we stand, some with hand importantly, the library is not seeking across the heart, some simply freedom from the City of Oneonta nor will in respectful silence, when it have access to more dollars. Our interest we acknowledge those fallen in becoming a Public District Library is to preserve our democracy or when we contemplate what we based on what’s best for the library and no other factor. It will provide for a more stand for as a nation. equitable funding stream and it will bring They are hardly just pieces of cloth sewn together like the the democratic process into the governance others. Yet you urge us to “not of the library.

There are three types of libraries in New get distracted by pretty, flutYork State and HML doesn’t fit neatly into tering colors,” as if they were, any of them. Libraries can be chartered as in essence, all the same. That a municipal library, a district library or an elevates the sickle and hammer, association library. HML is considered a the swastika, and the symbol of the Confederacy to the same municipal library, yet doesn’t follow the level as the Stars and Stripes or rules of governance as outlined by the state lowers the Stars and Stripes to Department of Education. HML has the only charter in the state with these unique the level of emblems of ignobylaws that were established by the state rance and hate.

We live in very difficult and Board of Regents in 1893.

Becoming a Public District district does frightening times. If we are to not allow access to more dollars as stated emerge from them as a stronger and better nation, we must in last week’s Hometown Oneonta. HML’s undertake the daunting task of charter is complicated and confusing. Most exploring and dealing with the sources of the ignorance that spawn the fear, hatred and evil.

Without that search inward, we will never move forward. And we certainly will not move forward if we do as you have suggested and just “give each other a break” in the anticipation that Jon AUTO • HOME • LIFE “our nation will be fine.” That, Hansen BUSINESS dear editor, is NOT a given.

It’s naïve … and ignorant.

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timing was not great and just three weeks’ notice was very short. He explained that residents could take bagged trash and recyclables to Richfield or Cherry Valley.

Since that time Exeter has been added as an additional site.

While we appreciated the quick communication to elected officials on this matter, it was more important that this news was spread throughout our district. Marietta did this on his Facebook page and had done so the evening of July 31 in advance of his text. This online presence complemented the county’s press releases, website

announcement, and flyers distributed at the transfer station, which all conveyed a consistent message about the closure.

The three of us have served in local government for years, and have never had as much constructive, honest communication from our county rep as we have had since Andy Marietta won his seat in 2015.

MEG KIERNAN Otsego town supervisor CINDY FALK Cooperstown village trustee JEFF KATZ Mayor of Cooperstown

Reforms Might Share Library Funding More Fairly Among Patrons Board of Trustees is approved by the municipality’s governing board. At HML, this process is carried out by communicating directly with the mayor.

The Library Board is currently exploring options to become a Public District Library. No decision has been made. The biggest impetus is to more evenly distribute funding for the library among its patrons. At this time, city residents pay 90 percent of public revenues yet make up only 44 percent of our patrons.

Becoming a Public District Library will HOMETOWN ONEONTA also allow the public to practice demoThe Huntington Memorial Library’s charter is like no other cratic principles and elect members of the Library Board and vote for the library in the state, according to the budget. A Public District Library will put library director. the library in the hands of the community, municipal libraries are a line item on the where it belongs. municipal budget and are considered a At this time, it is too early to say if the department.

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Kleniewski: Free Tuition Program A Boon

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iting the program’s stringent guidelines and Hartwick College’s own financial aid offerings, the college will decline to participate in the Enhanced Tuition Awards offered by the state.

While Utica College and the College of St. Rose are both participating, Hartwick saw “a variety of issues,” said Karen McGrath, vice president/Enrollment Management.

“The guidelines for the program were issued very late,” she said. “We usually work for 18-24 months with our families in creating a financial aid package, and we felt like we didn’t need the ETA to make a good education affordable.”

Additionally, students who accept ETA funding are required to remain in New York State for the same number of years as they use the funds. “We want our

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think we’re already pretty attractive, and this helps us become even more attractive.”

According to Jensen, other aspects of Excelsior are boons SUNY Oneonta.

One, Excelsior is aimed at full-time students. This benefits SUNY’s 12 “comprehensive colleges,” like Oneonta, over community colleges, where students tend to be parttime.

Requiring Excelsior beneficiaries to complete 15 credits a semester – “15 to finish” is the mantra – fits in with to one of the Kleniewski Administration’s goals, to help students save money on a college education by finishing in four years.

And it’s only going to get better, Jensen said. This year’s $100,000 upper limit on family income will rise to $115,000 next year, and $125,000 after that.

Plus, the SUNY trustees have frozen tuition for Excelsior students for the next several years, although it will continue to rise incrementally for non-Excelsior students, Jensen said.

For undergrads, tuition this year is $6,670. If a student chooses to live at home – every New York State citizen is said to be within 60 miles of a SUNY facility – he or she can also avoid the $20,794 room and board. That leaves only fees: $1,466 a year.

To Kleniewski, with Governor Cuomo’s initiative, New York State is getting ahead of an important “national conversation about going to college, and how important going to college is. We have to send more of our children to college, or how will they compete?

“I think the governor was very forward-thinking in this proposal.”

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with two-week application deadline.

To SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski, easier access for more prospective students is only going to benefit the college, expanding and improving the quality of the pool of prospective students.

“We will become more attractive as an affordable alternative to private institutions,” she said. “I

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Without Excelsior, 578 of SUNY Oneonta’s 5,950 would not be paying tuition.

With Excelsior, 346 can be added to that number.

That happened even with the governor’s announcement coming in April,

Concerns Keep Hartwick Out Of Program For Now students to make an impact on the world,” she said. “Requiring them to stay in New York might not be in their best interest.”

Though the ETA program offers up to $6,000 towards a private school education, McGrath stresses that it is not in addition to TAP funding. “If a student is deemed eligible for ETA, then the ETA is a total of up to $6,000, which is inclusive of the TAP award,” said McGrath. “So, if a student has a TAP award of $4,000, then they would be eligible for up to $2,000 in ETA.” The ETA funding a student does receive is split between the college and the state, and although the colleges decide how much they want to invest in the program, it is the state that decides which students the awards are given.

“We wanted to put our financial aid resources up front, rather than asking families to go through the motions for an extra $2,000,” she said. “That’s what I find troubling.”

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MLS#111294 $189,900 Perfect piece of property to hunt, hike, fish or even build a home. This 104-acre lot w/updated hunting cabin is 10 minutes from downtown Oneonta.

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MLS#107981 $275,000 Secluded Log Cabin 11 acres in the Catskills, 3 BRs, 2 baths, renovated kitchen w/new SS appliances, 3-car garage w/full basement, woodstove.

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Updated bathroom has skylight. First-floor laundry w/storage. Vinyl siding, replacement windows, newer roof. Enclosed porch, large deck, nice yard, sap house, lean-to, paved driveway. Underground dog fence includes about an acre. Walk to Charlotte Valley school. Minutes to downtown Oneonta.

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S Tom Rathbone takes a stroll around the new Red Dragon Outfitters, which features beams by Unalam and a grassy “green roof.”

UNY Oneonta may be the home of the Red Dragons, but at the new Red Dragon Outfitters, it’s all about the green.

“When we were looking to build the new building, we looked at all the sustainable features,” said Diane Williams, executive director, Oneonta Auxiliary Services. “We learned about green roofs, so we installed one!”

The Sedum Rooflite is a 6-inch deep soil system that, when installed on a rooftop, helps absorb rainwater, rather than sending it down the gutters and sidewalks, risking flood and water damage in heavy storms.

“The water actually helps grow plant material on the roof,” said Tom Rathbone, associate VP for Facilities & Safety. “It’s the perfect place for it, a good height, with good sunlight.”

Though Sedum offers rooftop gardens, complete with flowers, Please See SUNY, B3

Hartwick College Opening 21st-Century Dormitory

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e inspired and be informed at the first annual Be Positive festival.

Learn about volunteer opportunities to help better the community, paint Positivity Rocks, hear speakers give talks on sustainability, world and local issues and dance the night away with your neighbors during a free community event. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, Aug, 26. Various locations, downtown Cooperstown. Info, (607) 638-5538. Type “be positive festival” on Facebook search line.

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tanding in the Walmart parking lot, David Lubell looked toward Oyaron Hill. “I could see the new apartment complex all the way from Southside!” said Hartwick College’s media relations manager. “It really just pops.”

Hartwick’s $7 million apartment complex, built on the site of the old pole barn, opens this week for returning students.

With 72 student beds in two- and fourroom apartments, the building is the most advanced residence hall on campus.

“It’s the first new housing we’ve built since the Oyaron and Hilltop in 1995,” said Lubell. “It’s been over 20 years since we had new housing, and this is the kind of housing students are looking for.”

Each apartment has a common living area, a full kitchen and single-occupancy bedrooms. “For every two bedrooms, there’s a full bathroom, with the vanity and sink on the outside.” said Gregg Fort, vice president/college advancement.

And though many of the dorms take advantage of Hartwick’s million-dollar view toward the Catskills, those who don’t have a window will have a little more space in their rooms to make up for it. Each apartment is also climate-controlled for individual comfort.

And on the first floor, a multi-purpose

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FOR THE DOGS: Origins Cafe goes to the dogs with a “Dog Day of Summer” event with food, music, dog show with adoptable dogs to benefit Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Registration required. 6-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25, Origins Cafe, 558 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 437-2862 Jack Gillett, front, Oneonta, and John Webster, both employees of Endwell Rug, gather armloads of window blinds, among finishing touches to the new dorm before students move in this week. Hartwick VP Gregg Fort, right, watches the action.

room will be equipped with four 65-inch TVs, easy-to-move furniture and doors that open out onto the porch. “We want this

space to be used for conferences, classes and recitals,” said Fort. “The building was Please See HARTWICK, B5

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AT BALLGAME: Oneonta Job Corps sponsors free ballgame with bulldog base run, dance off, fireworks at 9. Damaschke Field, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 6:15-9:15 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25. Info (607) 431-1455.

SPIRIT FAIR: Meet psychics, mediums and healers, find spiritual gifts. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, Institute for Spiritual Development, Lotus Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. Call (607) 433-2089 OLT PICNIC: Picnic, hike, listen to music, support Otsego Land Trust. Tickets $25 adult, $14 children 14 and under.

11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, Greenwoods Conservancy, 800 Zachow Rd., Burlington. Call Julie at (607) 547-2366.

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Friday August 25

MEDITATION GROUP – 11 a.m.-Noon. Join FORDO for 11th step meditation group every Friday. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta.

Call (607) 267-4435 BLOOD DRIVE – 1-6 p.m.

Help save patients in the hospital. Donate blood, platelets. Church of the Latter Day Saints, 107 Balmoral Dr., West Oneonta. Call 1-800RED-CROSS ART RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m.

Opening reception, Fine Art invitational exhibit showing works by Upstate New York artisans working in wood and Solo Exhibition in Watercolor

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Cooperstown Art Association.

SUNNY MOMENTS EXHIBIT – 5-7 p.m. The closing reception of “Sunny Moments” exhibition. The Arc Otsego’s Main View Gallery & Studio, 73 Main St., Oneonta.

BENEFIT CONCERT – 6 p.m.

Linda Chesis and Sarah Cunningham on viola da gamba perform with Bradley Brookshire on harpsichord to support Hyde Hall and CSMF. Admission $35. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Road, Cooperstown. Call (607)547-5098 DOGS OF SUMMER – 6-8 p.m. Come to the ‘Dog Day of Summer’ event featuring food, music, dog show

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO with adoptable dogs from Susquehanna Animal Shelter.

Registration required. Origins Cafe, 558 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Call (607) 437-2862 GAME NIGHT – 6-8 p.m.

Enjoy pizza, fun night of games with friends. Classics like Scrabble, chess, Legos available. Feel free to bring your own. Cooperstown Village Library. Call (607) 547-8344.

COMMUNITY BALLGAME – 6:15-9:15 p.m. Enjoy a ballgame with your friends, see the bulldog base run, a dance-off, fireworks at 9 p.m.

Damaschke Field, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Call 607-4311455 or contact feliu.adina@ jobcorps.org.

FAMILY FLOAT NIGHT – 6:45-8:30 p.m. Have fun with floats in the pool. Admission, $5 public, $18, family.

Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

STARSTRUCK – 7:30 p.m.

Local teens perform classic broadway hits from plays like Annie, Wicked, Matilda, more in Starstruck Summer Cabaret. Tickets, $15.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call (607) 432-9392.

Saturday August 26

TENNIS TOURNAMENT – All day. Youth progression orange ball tournament for any child 10 and under. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call (607) 434-0830.

CARS & COFFEE – 8-11 a.m. Have a car interest?

Meet others at this casual gathering. All vintages, marques, interests are welcome. Mt. Wellington Market, 7471 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. Call (607) 221-4201 MORE CALENDAR, B7

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Saturday & Sunday, September 2 & 3 Join the Cooperstown Art Association for

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Diane Williams, executive director, SUNY Oneonta Auxiliary Services, is not on the lawn of the new Red Dragon Outfitters; she’s on the roof. The grassy topping aims to enhance the new building’s energy efficiency.

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New On Campus? Red Dragon Outfitters, With Welcome Center, Library Redo Soon SUNY/From B1 Williams went with a low-maintenance grass variety, which will require periodic weeding, but not much else. Similar projects have been installed at the Nashville (Tenn.) Music City Center, the federal building at 50 U.N. Plaza in San Francisco, and the Target Center in Minneapolis.

“It’s a prototype, but we’re very optimistic,” he said. “If this works out, we’re going to look at putting it on other buildings.”

The Green Roof is one piece of the $7.9 million free-standing Red Dragon Outfitters, expanding the SUNY Oneonta bookstore out of the Hunt Union. The Outfitters had a soft opening earlier this summer, and in the bookstore, student workers spent the last week stocking the shelves in anticipation of the first week of classes.

“We’re ready for showtime,” said Rathbone.

And make sure to look up – the exposed beams are made by Unalam, the Unadilla-based Glulam fabricator with national reach. Food service Sodexo and the Auxiliary Services Department have offices on the second floor.

“Expanding the bookstore was part of the facilities master plan,” said Rathbone. “We wanted to give retail their own building and free up the student union for experiential learning, internships and career development.”

Though plans to move over those departments are not yet finalized, the former Red Dragon Outfitters in the union has been reutilized for this year as a student lounge. “While the work is being done in the Milne Library, we moved the furniture in here,” he said. “We’ll likely begin the construction in 2019.”

Across the street, the new $5 million

Welcome Center is also giving rise. “The big idea is that candidates arrive and they start their journey with this million-dollar view,” he said.

Built on a former parking lot, it overlooks modernistic Fitzell Hall. There will be a presentation area for future students to learn about all that SUNY Oneonta has to offer. “It’s the first impression for the student,” he said. “We consider the Welcome Center the storefront of SUNY Oneonta.”

The Welcome Center is nearing completion, with ribbon-cutting planned for January, ready to welcome the Class of 2021.

And the Milne Library is undergoing what Rathbone calls an $8 million “gut rehab,” with the first floor turned into a learning commons with computer access, better access to the circulation desk and Jazzman’s Coffeeshop now replaced by Argo’s Tea. CADE Tutoring will take over the second floor, and the third floor will be classroom space.

And the books?

Many of them will be relocated to the subbasement, where new compact shelving will allow for clean, dry storage – and when you need a book, a librarian will fetch it for you. “We can store a lot more books this way,” said Rathbone.

“And this way, we’re not encumbered by a bunch of aisles.”

The first floor will be open for the spring semester, the second and third by November 2018.

And although Rathbone is retiring in October, he’s still looking ahead to new projects. “You have to be several years ahead in designing and planning,” he said. “In some cases, it’s 10 years from when you think about a project until you cut the ribbon.”

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September 5th from 4-6pm for youth and children First Presbyterian Church 296 Main Street, Oneonta, NY

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Adult Tap Ballet Contemporary Hip Hop Jazz Tap Musical Theater pointe stretch

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Last names beginning N-Z Thursday, August 24, 5 to 8 pm

Free Jillian’s Dance Arts t-shirt for new students with paid registration!

All paid registrants will be entered into a drawing for 1 of 2 free recital costumes!

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Notice of Formation of Hulse Hill Farm Bed & Breakfast, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 08/17/2017.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 190, Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of TRIUMPH OF FLORA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at: 53 Chestnut St, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of formation of Sportzstraw LLC Filed with SSNY on 6/29/17.

Office: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 345 W 58th St Ste 6M NY NY 10019.

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Public Notice of formation of Denninger Construction, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State (SSNY) on June 22nd, 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to: PO Box 480 Cherry Valley NY 13320.

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

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 127 STATE HIGHWAY 165 CHERRY VALLEY, NY 13320 District: Section: 102.2 Block: 1 Lot: 48 INDEX NO. 2017-

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167 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs.

PAMELA FREDERICK, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; VERONICA H. WHITE; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12, “the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff the persons or parties intended being the tenants occupants persons or corporations if any having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, 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 Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $150,000.00 and interest, recorded on October 13, 2011, at Liber 2011-4690 Page , of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 127 STATE HIGHWAY 165 CHERRY VALLEY, NY 13320.

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

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

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: August 9, 2017 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY:DANIEL GREENBAUM, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalSept.7 Legal nOtice

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. 24/2016 Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 228 LOCKWOOD RD MOUNT UPTON, NY 13809 Section: 328 Block: 1 Lot: 37 CIT BANK N.A., Plaintiff,

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JAMES ROXBURY, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THEODORE ROXBURY; THEODORE J. ROXBURY, JR., AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THEODORE ROXBURY; DEBRA PATTERSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THEODORE ROXBURY; KAREN JUCHA, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF THEODORE ROXBURY; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NATIONAL BANK TRUST COMPANY; OTSEGO RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE, INC.; INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICEUNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE TAX COMPLIANCE DIVISION-C.O. -ATC, “JOHN DOE 1 to JOHN DOE 25”, said names being fictitious, the persons or parties intended being the persons, parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the abovenamed Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally deliv-

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ered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $123,000.00 and interest, recorded on November 19, 2007, in Book 1539 at Page 408, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 228 LOCKWOOD RD, MOUNT UPTON, NY 13809.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: August 9, 2017 Westbury, New York RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: DANIEL GREENBAUM, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalSept.8 Legal nOtice

Notice of formation of COOPERSTOWN BEVERAGE COMPANY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed

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with the NY Secretary of State on July 20, 2017. The office af the LLC is to be located in Otsego 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 hirn/her to: The LLC, P.O. Box 827, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name of LLC: Royal Equities of Cooperstown LLC; Date of filing: 7/26/17; Office of the LLC: Otsego Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 5069 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, New York 13326; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name of LLC: Royal Ford Motors of Cooperstown LLC; Date of filing: 7/26/17; Office of the LLC: Otsego Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 5069 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, New York 13326; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 20160786 Date of Filing: July 13, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO JAMES B NUTTER & COMPANY, Plaintiff, -against-

THOMAS D. LYNCH, JR. A/K/A THOMAS D. LYNCH, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through

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said THOMAS D. LYNCH, JR. A/ K/A THOMAS D. LYNCH, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE 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. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION

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OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on June 28, 2017, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, State of New York.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed

by THOMAS D. LYNCH, JR. A/K/A THOMAS D. LYNCH, to JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY bearing date April 4, 2008 and recorded in the County of Otsego on April 25, 2008 in Book 1551 of Mortgages at Page 42.

Said premises being known as and by 32 FAIR STREET, ONEONTA, NY 13820, which is more fully described in the attached Schedule “A.” Date: June 12, 2017 Batavia, New York Andrea Clattenburg, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process.

Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises.

The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state. ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

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Notice of Formation of Leatherstocking Trolley Company, LLC Filed 7/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated

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as agent for process & shall mail to: 328 County Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalSept.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: GOHDE ENTERPRISES RENTALS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 26 July 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 319, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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

6LegalSept.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Focus & Connected LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/2017.

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.

6LegalAug.31 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of AMT Goods LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/2017.

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.

6LegalAug.31 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 473 Main Street LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/17.

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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Hartwick College’s new upper-class dormitory rooms have it all, from kitchen, living room/dining room, to bedroom suites. Students arrive this week.

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HARTWICK/From B1 designed around social spaces.”

There is a second full kitchen on the first floor to serve the building’s community, as well as “pocket lounges” on each floor.

Future plans for the building include the possibility of a fire pit out back and white rocking chairs on the porch.

“It’ll be interesting to see how students utilize this porch,” said Fort.

The dorm is also the most advanced on campus in terms of security – students must use their all-purpose WICKit cards to get in the building, use the elevator and open doors to their rooms.

The dorm finalizes Hartwick’s vision for “progressive” housing model. “Students start with traditional dorms, then move to townhomes and finish

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in apartments,” said Fort.

“These are a lot like what students will live in when they graduate and get their first job.”

Though renovations to the dorms and townhouses have been ongoing, the competition of the new apartments is the final piece in the housing plan. The project broke ground two years ago, tearing down a storage barn on the far end of campus.

“It was such a shame that our best view was being used for storage,” said Fort.

The architecture pays homage to buildings throughout campus. “The front staircase harkens back to the Memorial Staircase and the columns are like the ones on Bresee Hall,” said Fort. “And the red and white motif is like the brick in Clark and Bresee.

We wanted to make sure it tied to the other parts

of the college.”

Students move in over the weekend, and a formal ribbon-cutting will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 31.

“Alumni and parents have

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Requirements - a Clean NYS Driving License, the ability to lift 50lbs., the ability to be mandated on shift as required & a HS diploma or GED. FT Benefits include: Paid time-off and sick time, medical and dental insurance, shift differential and referral bonuses.

Please stop by Joshua house Inc. at 10 Division Street, Sidney for information or an application.

Resumes can be faxed to 563-9936 or mailed to PO Box 387, Sidney Center NY 13839

GRANTS MANAGER The Oneonta Municipal Civil Service Commission announces an open-competitive exam for Grants Manager for the City of Oneonta on Oct 28. Application deadline is Sept 22. Applications and announcements are available at the Personnel Office, 258 Main St., or for download at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel.

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Street Superintendent The Village of Cooperstown has an opening for the position of Street Superintendent. This is a full-time position with a salary of $40,000 annually and attractive benefits. Applicants must be a resident of Otsego County. Candidates must possess at least four years of satisfactory experience in the maintenance and repair of streets. Preference in appointment may be given to candidates with a valid Class A or B CDL. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The Village of Cooperstown is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For further information regarding the position and to obtain an application please contact the Village Administrator’s Office at 607-547-2411 or send your resumé and cover letter to: Teri L. Barown, RMC, Village Administrator, Village of Cooperstown, PO Box 346, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

School croSSing guard The Village of Cooperstown has an opening for a School Crossing Guard. Applicants must be a resident of Otsego County. For further information and applications please contact the Village Administrator at the address listed below or by calling 607-547-2411. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

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COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY SEEKS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Cooperstown Food Pantry is seeking an energetic, well organized person who enjoys working with people and wants to make a difference as full-time Executive Director who will be the chief administrator of the organization with overall responsibilities for planning, administration and management of all programs and internal systems. The Executive Director is responsible to the Board of Directors for all areas of agency operation and policy implementation.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of an associate degree or a high school diploma with two years experience in a non-profit or related field.

Resumes may be mailed to Cooperstown Food Pantry, 25 Church Street, Cooperstown NY 13326 or emailed to director@ cooperstownfoodpantry.org by September 1.

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IN MEMORIAM Edward Hogan, 83, Oneonta; Honored With Scouting’s Top Award ONEONTA – Edward Paul (Papa) Hogan, 83, a city native and an honored participant in the Boy Scout movement, passed away unexpectedly Aug. 16, 2017.

A lifelong resident of Oneonta, he was born Feb. 15, 1934, to Raymond Francis and Madeline (Egglestine) Hogan. He graduated from Oneonta High School, where he sang in school musicals and state choir competitions.

Working at The City Drug Store, he met his future bride, Nancy (Southern).

They were married on Sept.

11, 1960. After years in the Men’s Department of Bresee’s, he began his 27-year career as a SUNY Oneonta custodian.

He was a three-degree member and treasurer of the Knights of Columbus for many years. He enjoyed calling and serving Texas Hots with Nancy on Bingo nights.

In 1972 he became assistant scout master of Troop 111, sponsored by St. Mary’s Church. A Boy Scout leader for 44 years, he held positions with the troop, district, and council,

serving on several committees as a member and chairman. For over 30 years he was the camp commissioner at the Crumhorn Mountain camp.

Upon nomination by the local council and with the approval of the National Court of Honor, he was honored for distinguished service by receiving the Silver Beaver Award. The Silver Beaver is an award given to those who implement the Scouting program and who have made an impact on the lives of youth through service given to the council

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Ed volunteered with the Fox Hospital Auxiliary for over 20 years.

He is survived by his wife of almost 57 years, Nancy; daughter Linda (Scott) McAdams; son Barry and his fiancee Tracy Cates; granddaughter Kayla (Adam) Bouton; grandson Kasey, granddaughter Elizabeth, great-granddaughter Lily Bouton, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, Ed is predeceased by sisters Cathrine, Mildred (Fred) Cannistra, Mary Agnes and Gertrude (Hogan) Crannell;

brothers Raymond, Jr., James, and Joseph (Jean) Hogan.

A Funeral Mass was held Wednesday, Aug. 23, at Saint James Episcopal Church, with Rev. David Mickiewicz, St. Mary’s Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that you volunteer your time to one of Ed’s passions or a monetary donation to the Fox Hospital Auxiliary.

Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.

John J. Riordan, 80; State Trooper At Oneonta, Troop E Commander

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through hard work, self-sacrifice, dedication, and many years of service.

He enjoyed crochet making and donating afghans, hats, scarves and mittens to Fox Hospital and Family Services for decades. Countless crochet hats were sported by Scout Leaders at the winter camporee, a different color each year.

He enjoyed retirement and his grandchildren. Always a fan at OHS football and baseball games, the teams received crocheted hats and mittens for the cheerleaders too!

ONEONTA – John J. Riordan, 80, a retired state trooper who served in increasingly responsible positions in Troop C’s Oneonta barracks, then rising to commander of Troop E (Canandaigua), died Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, at the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center in Albany.

John was born in The Bronx Hospital, New York City on Nov. 8, 1936, to the late John J. and Catherine A. (Furey) Riordan.

Joining the Army, he worked out of the 18th Precinct as a member of the Armed Forces Police Detachment (AFPDNYC); later, when transferred to the Republic of South Korea, John was assigned as an investigator for the Provost Marshal’s Office. He served a 13-month tour of duty in South Korea and missed being present for the birth of his oldest son.

John enlisted in the State Police and served most of his career in Oneonta as trooper, sergeant, station commander and zone sergeant. In 1979, he attained the rank of lieutenant and served as the Zone One commander in Troop E (Canandaigua). At Headquarters (Albany) he served as the Division Quartermaster and Emergency Management Officer. John retired in May 1991.

He was a member of the State Police Benevolent Association and the Association of Former New York State Troopers.

Midway through his State Police career, John attended college on the GI Bill and received a bachelor’s degree in literature from SUNY Oneonta. He loved to write

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short stories and had five published in regional magazines during his “retirement” years.

He also enjoyed music and played the Great Highland bagpipe. As a long-time member of the Albany Police Pipes and Drums Band, John traveled with his bandmates to Dublin, Ireland in 1991, to march in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.

He is survived by Janie (Wall) Riordan, his wife of 56 years; their three loving children, James (Stacy) of Vienna, Va., Kenneth (Linda) of East Greenbush and Karen Smith (Ray) of Saratoga Springs; brother, Patrick (Clara) of Saville; and sister, Marianne Lange of Holland Patent. He was blessed with four grandchildren, as well as several won-

derful nieces and nephews.

A funeral mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 26, at St. Clare’s Catholic Church (1947 Central Ave., Albany).

There will be a Celebration of Life reception with the family in attendance directly after Mass at the Midway Fire Station.

A private burial service will be conducted later.

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COOPERSTOWN FARMERS MARKET – 8 a.m.-2 p.m. 101 Main St., in Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown.

FCAHS COMMUNITY DAY – 8:30 a.m. Meet the neighbors, pick up needed items, or find a bargain at the Community Yard Sale. Fly Creek.

Call (607) 547-2501 ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. It’s Childrens day featuring free

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tastings, balloons, and a free children’s craft with Branch & Bloom. Muller Plaza, Oneonta.

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BE POSITIVE FESTIVAL – 10 a.m.-10 p.m. First annual festival for all ages.

Activities include speakers, volunteer opportunities, workshops, art, music, food, dancing in locations in Downtown Cooperstown. Call (607) 638-5538 GARLIC CELEBRATION – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Celebrate the Garlic Harvest. Enjoy garlicky food samples, get growing tips, find seed stock. Follow Signs on Allen Lake Rd. to Ainslie Rd. Call (315) 858-0506.

ENGINE SHOW – 10 a.m.4 p.m. Engine enthusiasts from across the state join together to display their prized antique cr engines from the 1900s. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek.

Call (607) 547-9692.

SPIRIT FEST – 10 a.m.4 p.m. Register for sessions with psychics, mediums, or find spiritual gifts. Institute for Spiritual Development, Lotus Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-2089.

FARM FAMILY TOUR – 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Discover family life in 1845. Includes hands-on activities on 19th century farm. Included with museum admission.

The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

OLT PICNIC – 11 a.m.2 p.m. Bring family, friends for food, games, auction, music, hikes, more to support conservation efforts of Otsego Land Trust. Tickets, $25 adult, $14 children 14 and under. Greenwoods Conservancy, 800 Zachow Rd., Burlington. Call Julie at (607) 547-2366.

AUCTION – 11 a.m. Enter Chinese Auction with lottery board and 50/50 raffle.

Support Eclipse Winterguard.

Oneonta Moose Lodge, 87 West Broadway, Oneonta.

Call (607) 282-2366 or e-mail Jodi Christian at Jodi.Lynn13@yahoo.com.

SUNDAY SOUNDS – Noon4 p.m. Usually held Sunday, this fun event features comic lyricist and impressionist Ody B. Goldy entertaining the audience with humorous

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tributes to well known celebrities. Guess the song and you could win some cider. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Call (607) 5479692.

TRUNK SHOW – 12:301:30 p.m. Presenting “Box and Cox” (1847) by John Madison Morton and performed by some of the best actors in our area. Also Sunday. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS – 2 p.m.

Vignettes by the Templeton Players portray what it means to be a woman in the 1800s.

Attend Reverend Bush’s address on women’s place in society at 2 and participate in Carrie Finkles rally calling for equality and liberty at 2:30. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

POETRY SLAM – 5 p.m.

The First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown.

Call (607) 638-5538.

DANCE – 7-10 p.m. All invited to multi-cultural, multi-generational dance capping off the Be Positive Festival with music by local bands. The Farmers Market, Cooperstown. Call (607)6385538 CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Simpler Times and guest artists present Evening of Indie Rock. The Star Theater, The Foundry, 44 Main St., Cherry Valley.

Sunday August 27

ENGINE SHOW – 10 a.m.4 p.m. Engine enthusiasts from across the state join together to display their prized antique cr engines from the 1900s. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Call (607) 547-9692.

SUMMER SUNDAY SERIES – 1-3 p.m. Learn about arti-

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facts found in the fields at the Swart-Wilcox house from the Revolutionary War. Swart-Wilcox Hosue Museum, Oneonta.

Mediumship Workshop – 1-3 p.m. Connect with loved ones, bring questions. Darling Hill Farm Retreat, 404 Ed Herman Rd, Westford. RSVP Storyducey@gmail.com ANTI-RENT WAR VIGNETTES – 2 p.m. The Templeton players perform short vignettes portraying historical events, characters, and folklore.

The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

OPEN MIC – 3 p.m. The Barn welcomes public to share thier poetry with public at the Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Rd., Cherry Valley.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Performance of “Four Seasons: Vivaldi and Piazzolla” by violinist Joseph Lin. The Otesaga, Cooperstown.

Monday August 28

PHOTOGRAPHY WALK – 6:30-8 a.m. View the sunrise over Otsego Lake with photographer Kevin Gray. He will give tips on composition, light and shadow, camera techniques.

Bring a camera to capture the view of the sunrise on the lake. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

Call (607) 547-1510.

CPR CLASS – 2-5 p.m. Get certified in CPR/AED with FORDO & the American Red Cross. Space limited, registration required. Fee, $25 due on registration. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta.

Call (607) 267-4435.

BLOOD DRIVE – 2:306:30 p.m. Donate blood, platelets. Richfield springs Community Center, Walnut St., Richfield Springs. Call 1-800-RED-CROSS.

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THURSDAY-Friday, AUGUST 24-25, 2017 Pastor Barrett and Trustee Lola Rathbone walk the Milford Manor Farms property where new church is planned.

Magic Mountain Music Farm Planning 25th Concerts For County Community KAPLAN/From A1 their key,” said Kaplan, who has been developing “the technique of selective inattention” here (for three decades) and in New York City (for more than a half-century).

In that time, he estimates he’s helped launch the careers of some 1,500 musicians, from Scott Anderson, principal clarinetist at the Honolulu Symphony, to Adele O’Dwyer, principal cellist at the Irish Chamber Orchestra, who is at the farm right now.

She is among a number of Magic Mountain alumni practicing together for the 25th anniversary of Summermusic, featuring Beethoven, Mozart and more this year at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, and Saturday, Sept. 2, at the First Presbyterian Church in nearby Gilbertsville. Free; public welcome.

Every performer has a favorite piece, and the concerts are being built around each performer’s best, their director said.

Kaplan, who’s turning 80 this year, roomed with future Franklin Stage founder Gene Marner at Columbia in the mid-1950s. A violinist, he then spent two years with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, returned to Juilliard in 1958 and in 1963 got a job teaching in the music department at Hastings High School in Westchester County.

“That’s where it happened,” he recalled the other day, a warm breeze crossing the front porch that extends the length of the former farmhouse that is now his music camp. “I fell in love.

I was compelled and intrigued.”

He calls the approach he’s been developing ever since “totally nonjudgmental.” His goal is not to drill music into his students’ heads and hands, but to coax forth their talents.

Studying with him, “people let their hair down,” he said.

By 1969, he was chair of the string department at the Third Street Music School Settlement, the nation’s oldest community school of arts. In 1973, he joined the Manhattan School of Music, where he’s been ever since.

The journey to Magic Mountain soon began, as he and wife Sally Ricketts rented a house in Red Hook to provide

Movement of the 1960s – that all of us have huge untapped potential; the role of education is to set it free – he began to earn a reputation: “If you’re stuck, then you come to me.”

He built his sessions around the academic year: A week in October, two weeks in January, one in March, four sessions in the summer. Students practice alone, but – this is key – also perform for fellow students.

Using a metronome, Kaplan slows the beat – tick, tick, tick – to a tempo the performer can control. At that pace, the resulting performances draw “the validation of the audience,” motivating students in their solitary practice sessions, “our chambers of silence.”

“To me, it’s fascinating to watch someone put themselves at ease,” he said. “In five minutes, the person reveals their profile.”

To a non-musician, this may seem a little obscure, but in the course of an hour-long interview, the Kaplan approach is revealed in flashes.

“If you think, this is not good enough, it has to be better, then you are lost.”

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Farm alumna, practices for the And, “Better is perfect. Perfect 25th anniversary concerts is irrelevant.” upcoming Sept. 1-2, while It must be working. He has directed teacher and Music Farm the Empire State Youth Orchestra and founder Burton Kaplan listens. other orchestras in such venues as students with intensive training during Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, to summers. In 1985, the couple shifted praiseful reviews. summer operations to Danby, Vt. “Mr. Kaplan has fashioned the The Marners – he and wife Satrina orchestra into a disciplined, precisely are also movie producers – spent a year honed ensemble,” one New York Times in Europe on a shoot, and made their review put it, “one that plays with Franklin home available to the a crisp biting attack and an obvious Kaplans. It was during that year relish of making music in a vigorous Sally – a violist then, now a clinical extroverted manner.” psychologist, some remember her from So, 30 years later, he’s still at it, her residency at Bassett Hospital – working on his latest book: “The began scouting properties locally.

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An adherent of the Human Potential

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Congregation From Gutted Church Buys Milford Manor Farms Building CHURCH/From A1 together a task force that included Lola Rathbone, the retired Catskill Area Hospice executive, and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford – both members – to begin looking at sites for the new church.

“The congregation agreed that we wanted to rebuild, but not on the site of the original church,” she said. “We wanted a new building that would be one level, handicapped accessible and have more parking.”

The task force looked at “five or six” properties throughout the village, but wanted to stay close to the original site. “We asked Ollie Gonzalez if he would be willing to sell his property, and he agreed,” said Barrett.

The congregation will be moving into the grocery building in mid-September and will worship there through the winter while finding an architect to draw up plans.

“We hope to break ground on the sanctuary next spring,” said Rathbone. “This is 2,300 square feet, and we’ll add 4,000 square feet in the sanctuary, with this building being used as our fellowship hall.”

“There’s a kitchen we can use, and we’ve already ordered chairs,” said Barrett. “We’ve got the altar, the pulpit and the communion table from the old church, so we’ll be able to put familiar things in an unfamiliar place.”

In addition, the stained glass

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windows salvaged from the fire will be re-installed in the front of the new sanctuary. “We haven’t decided what we’re going to do with the bell yet,” said Rathbone.

“We may put it out front, or hang it again.”

The church still owns the former site, and discussions are still being held on how best to utilize it.

“We’ve talked about making a prayer garden or an outdoor worship space to commemorate our forefathers,” said Barrett.

Following the fire, the congregation moved the Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center, a former Presbyterian church. The food pantry and clothing drive was moved to the former Legion Building, which Barrett has been turning into the West 1566 Community Center.

“The community has really come together,” she said. “It’s a win-win for all of us.”

The fire was later determined to be arson, and in July, police arrested Gerald E. Althiser Jr., 20, of Springfield Center and charged him with setting the fire.

“After he was arrested, Susan Matt from the Otsego County Mental Health department asked if she could come make a presentation to the congregation,” she said.

“She was looking for a place to starting a support group for people with mental illness, so I offered her space in the community center.”

She added, “Good things can come out of sadness.”