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Looking Toward Jeter, Security Tightened Up Ominously, a dump truck blocked Cooperstown’s Chestnut Street just as Tim Iversen (on banjo) and his combo launch the Parade of Legends at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 29.
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MILFORD AWARDED: The Village of Milford fire department has been awarded $120,000 to replace their aging air packs, U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced.
Cooperstown’s Homer Osterhoudt attends his 70th of the 73 total Inductions. With him is daughter-in-law Priscilla of Springfield, Va., and granddaughter Dana Roesener of Springfield, Mo.
here were helicopters overhead, dump trucks blocking the parade route and state troopers positioned on the roof of Mickey’s Place. It must have been hard for 27,500 fans not to notice the high security as they flocked to the village’s outskirts to see MLB stars Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Iván Rodríguez, former GM John Schuerholz and Commissioner Bud Selig inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. “We’re never going to go back to the way things were in 1980,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “I don’t mean Chairman Jane Forbes Clark welcomes fans. It is Please See SECURITY, A7 her 25th year on the Hall of Fame board.
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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-3 Milleta Oldick of Van Hornesville, left, belts out the National Anthem at the start of Induction.
Among firefighters helping out with security and traffic control were, in front, Laurens’ Lt. Dana Weygand and Ken Gracey; back, Cheryl Vandenburg and Steve Weygand, who are engaged to marry.
With Main Street closed off, Parking Enforcement Officer Quentin Powers spent the weekend giving directions and help to visiting fans.
OTSEGO COUNTY goes to INDUCTION Among the 27,500 at the Sunday, July 30, Induction were Oneonta Outlaws owner Gary Laing, left. Sitting to his left are son Joshua, Outlaw Nick Camilleri and wife Karen.
Pals cheering passing Parade of Legends VIPs on Main Street, Cooperstown, Saturday, July 30, are, from left, Margaret Raff, Cate Bohler, Sydnie Streek, Stephanie Rudloff, Reilly Mooney and Lauren Martin.
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Cooperstown firefighters Matt Burch and Frank Liberati, atop the department’s aerial ladder, had the best view in the village at the Baseball Hall of Fame Weekend’s Parade of Legends Saturday, July 29, down Chestnut and Main streets. Standing are firefighters Joe Carentz, left, and John Phillips.
Upstate restaurant maitre d’ Art Boden raised $850 over the weekend for Friends Helping Friends, which grew out of a community outpouring of support when he was first stricken with cancer. The Bank of Cooperstown provided its parking lot. Son Dan stopped on the way to work to give his dad an attaboy.
During last year’s Parade of Legends, Bruce Pohl, in photo at left, appeared to be sipping a beer with George Steinbrenner outside the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum. When he showed up for this year’s parade, he found a “Reserved for Bruce” sign on the door.
Norm and Karen Johannesen watch the Legends Parade from the comfort of their stoop at F.R. Woods, Cooperstown’s oldest baseball store, with daughter and son-in-law, Kim and Patrick Shepard.
Kiernan O’Donnell of Massena, left, and Leah Purtell of Old Bridge, N.J., who are working at Safe At Home this summer, snap a selfie as they watch the Legends Parade.
To the chant of “don’t wait, hydrate!” Milford Central School’s Sarah Andrews, left, and Amanda Pickwick raise money for their Class of 2018 senior trip to Los Angeles from fans headed to the Induction ceremony at the Clark Sports Center.
Susquehanna Animal Shelter director Stacie Haynes and daughter Meadow enjoy the parade.
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A police helicopter circles the Clark Sports Center field as Induction gets underway.
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uppa, wuppa, wuppa, wuppa.” Sounds like a scene from “Apocalypse Now.” But the view below is not the Mekong Delta, with the smell of napalm in the morning, but verdant and serene Otsego County. What’s going on, nobody in the general public is exactly sure, but it’s all part of the growing security apparatus surrounding the annual National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend. Just a few years ago, a security guard or two posted along the low stone wall on outer Lake Street was found sufficient to prevent autograph-seekers from hopping the fence onto Leatherstocking Golf Course fairways. This year, there must have been a dozen state troopers filling that role. While baseball’s immortals are processing down Main Street atop Smith Cooperstown’s shiny new Ford pickups in the ever-more-popular Parade of Legends, mysterious frowning figures
Whomever scrutinizes the crowd from the roof of Mickey’s Place.
– on rooftops around the flagpole, some in fatigues – are scrutinizing fans now securely hemmed along the sidewalks by heavy metal barricades. Dogs in front of the Hall? For drugs or explosives? Police cruisers everywhere, this year with strobe lights constantly flashing. Check points aplenty before access is granted. This year, press cards included the bearer’s mug
shot for the first time. And that tank behind the stone fence across from the Induction ceremony, wow! A particularly chilling innovation: As the Parade of Legends was about to begin, a heavy dump truck lumbered down Leatherstocking Street to block Chestnut at Fowler Way, this coming just a month after a terrorist-driven car careened onto a sidewalk near London Bridge on June 18, killing one pedestrian and hospitalizing a dozen others. Not going to happen here. • If this sounds critical, it’s not meant to be. It’s simply a description of a new reality that, 363 days a year, doesn’t touch us here in Shangri La. For two days, or maybe three, the Otsego County seat is the focus of national attention, as a televised celebration of the America’s Buzkashi and a recognition of the game’s greatest heroes roll out. Logically, those couple of days a Please See EDITORIAL, A6
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When You Need One, Is There Always A Doctor In The House? To the Editor: We hopped in the car to drive 20 minutes to Cooperstown to the hospital. We had both been bitten by ticks. My bite seemed to have gone away, but she had big red splotches. When we got to the hospital they said she could not see a doctor. “You have to call your prime care and get an appointment…” Last time I tried to make an appointment for myself with my doctor, I was told I would have to wait for over two months! If you know anything about Lyme Disease you know treatment sooner, rather than later, is better. She did not want to go to the emergency room, which was another option. The emergency room is
incredibly expensive and it was not a life-threatening situation that demanded immediate attention. So we got back in the car drove half an hour back down the road to Oneonta, to the clinic at Fox. Can you believe all those fancy buildings, all of those fancy machines, all the space they take up and yet a doctor is not available when you need one? What is the purpose of medicine anyway? We are in real trouble when the medical profession spends millions of dollars on buildings and equipment but there’s no doctor available when you need one. What do they think the medical profession is all about ? R Scott Duncan Hardwick Forrest
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an unforgettable World Series with our nation’s leader, the President of the United States, standing proudly and courageously on the mound in Yankee Stadium. The World Series was a great American spectacle that had as much positive sociological influence as anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. Baseball in its small way helped this country heal. 2001 was a reaffirmation that baseball was a social institution with social responsibility. • The social responsibility is why we now honor Jackie Robinson every April 15, why we retired his jersey No. 42 in perpetuity. His breaking of baseball’s color line did not change the sport, it changed our country. April 15, 1947, remains the single most important Please See SELIG, A6
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he SRO-plus turnout and praiseful Q&A in the Hall of Fame’s Grandstand Theater in January 2016 when Jane Forbes Clark agreed to give a Sunday afternoon talk for the Friends of the Library were testimony to the community’s affection to Cooperstown’s benefactress. So it was expected that last week’s list of her astonishing accomplishments over the past quartercentury would prompt people to call with accomplishments missed. Here are three: • The Thanksgiving Home, which – after it burned in 2002 – she rebuilt to the original scale, only with modern materials and in accordance with contemporary building codes. The Clark family continues to support the exceptional residence for the elderly. • The state police K9-training facility on Chicken Hill Farm Road, hosted and supported on Clark property. The graduates contribute to the safety and security of not just 1,800-person Cooperstown, or 61,000-citizen Otsego County, but of all 20 million New Yorkers. This is Jane Clark’s doing. • The SUNY Biological Field Station – the Clark family provided the original land on Otsego Lake and around Moe Pond, and, during Miss Clark’s tenure, the Clark Foundation continues to support Glimmerglass-focused undertakings outside the strictures of the university system’s budget. Keep the inputs coming.
he late Bart Giamatti … had so much wisdom and passion for the game. He so often said that baseball is a metaphor for life, and that is true. It is also true that baseball is a social institution with social responsibility, and it is in Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA that area where I am most When FDR asked, baseball continued during World proud of the role baseball War II – as it has whenever a national crisis occurs, has played. Commissioner Selig said in his Induction speech. At the beginning of World War II, President Franklin news of war. families of victims with Delano Roosevelt urged In that same way I’m whatever measure of comCommissioner Mountain proud of the role baseball fort they could. Landis to keep playing played in our nation’s recovWe did something beautibaseball. He said Americans ery from the terrorist attacks fully American: We played would be working harder of September 11, 2001. Our baseball. We steered the and longer than ever before, players did magnificent conversation at least for and that baseball would pro- work in assisting recovery a couple hours a day to vide respite from the daily efforts and providing the games, pennant races, and
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e note that the next meeting of “The Gathering Place” at Woodside Hall will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15, when the Cooperstown Living Waters Team will present a program on their work in Honduras. The Cooperstown Living Waters Team takes water purification systems to rural communities in the mountains of Honduras. In January 2018, the team will install an ozone water purification system in the community of Tatumbla. Susan and C.R. Jones and Brent Leonard will discuss the team’s work, which is done with the assistance of the Cooperstown Presbyterian
Church. Following the presentation refreshments will be served. For more information contact Karen Cadwalader, LCSW at 607-547-0600, Ext 101. CATHERINE • LAKE We also note ELLSWORTH that the Village of Cooperstown is once again tackling the issue of sandwich boards with a public hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8 in the vil-
lage meeting room. Under discussion will be the newly proposed Local Law No. 12 of 2017 which has the goal “to amend Chapter 227 (signs) of the Code of the Village of Cooperstown to regulate the placement of sandwich board signs.” We point out that this goal is the same one which appeared in the earlier version, namely Local Law No. 9 of 2017, of a law to regulate sandwich boards which was not enacted earlier this year by the village board. And although some changes seem to have been made to the new proposed law, it nonetheless would enable the use of Please See COLUMN, A6
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150 Years Ago
Moung Kyan, a native of Burmah, who accompanied the Rev. Thos. Allen, a returned missionary from Burmah, to this country, will deliver a Free Lecture on the “Habits, Customs and Religion of His Native Land,” at the Presbyterian Church in Oneonta, on Monday evening, August 12 at 8 o’clock. Moung Kyan will be dressed in his native costume, such as he was accustomed to wear in Burmah. He will exhibit an image of Gaudama, the God whom he was accustomed to worship in his childhood. He will illustrate his lecture by many curiosities, among which are the Sounding Brass and Tinkling Cymbals, and a bean pod three feet long! He will sing in Burmese and repeat a prayer that he was taught to repeat before his heathen god. Moung Kyan is now a student in Madison University preparing to go back as a missionary to his benighted countrymen. August, 1867
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A considerable increase in employment by the Delaware & Hudson R.R. in Oneonta appears in the offing with the unveiling of plans by D&H management to restore the local yards and shops to their former status as a major switching and car repair center. An outline of the plans for Oneonta were passed along to city officials by William J. Ruby, D&H senior vice president in charge of operations, and by Howard W. Hontz, Jr., the line’s general superintendent. These two gentlemen held a mid-day meeting with Mayor James F. Lettis and city’s D&H liaison Supervisor James Catella. Plans include upgrading all the tracks in the Oneonta yard to make it a “production” yard. This, Catella explained, means that Oneonta, which has gone downhill in recent years, would be restored to the status it held years ago when it was one of the largest switching and marshaling points east of Chicago. This news was preceded by the unexpected resignation of D&H President Carl Sterzing whose leadership has been credited with keeping the D&H solvent as numerous other lines have been forced into bankruptcy. August 1977
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The women of Central New York, like their sisters throughout the United States, have an especial interest in the approaching World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The creation of a board of women managers was authorized by Congress, to take charge of the participation of their sex in the Fair and to give an adequate idea of the extent and value of what has been done by women in the arts, sciences and industries. Two women managers have been appointed from New York’s Sixth Judicial District, embracing the counties of Otsego, Delaware, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland and Schuyler. In fine arts the women are likely to have a prominent place at Chicago – wall paper, carpet and portiere designing, decorated china, wood carving, embroidery, literature, etc., are among the lines in which women are the intended exhibitors. The board has decided that where competitive exhibits are placed, it will not separate the exhibits of women’s work from that of men, for the reason that as women are working side-by-side with men in all the factories of the world, it would be practically impossible, in most cases, to divide the finished result of their combined work; nor would women be satisfied with prizes unless they were awarded without distinction as to sex and as the result of fair competition. August 1892
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The recent death of Guglielmo Marconi revived for William J. Williams of 4 King Street, Oneonta, memories of days when he worked on the equipment for the first wireless apparatus and thought the “father of radio” a “little crazy.” Mr. Williams was a blacksmith in a shipyard at Hayle Cornwall, England, when his employers contracted for the job of making the wireless equipment for Marconi. The men on the job knew nothing about how the equipment was to be used or for what. They had never seen anything like it
and the telephone company in efforts to restore and maintain service to customers. Men who completed their work at 4 a.m. and were returning home were called back after a telephone pole was broken on Oneida Street in an automobile accident. Telephone service was interrupted for about 200 subscribers. After working around the clock crews were dismissed at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. August 1957
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Advice for Drinking Alcoholic Beverages: Alcohol is a mood-altering drug associated with over 18,000 traffic deaths a year, ranking it as the leading cause of premature death and accidental injury. A person should never consume more than one ounce of alcohol per hour. One ounce of alcohol is roughly equal to one 12-ounce container of beer, one 4-ounce August 1917 glass of wine or one mixed drink. Drink slowly. Don’t drink on an empty stomach. Eat at least 15 minutes before conbefore, but worked from blue prints. Some of the ironwork, suming your first drink and continue consuming food while however, was similar to ship masts, Mr. Williams said. “We you drink. Never drink and drive or operate machinery. The LEAF Council on Alcoholism/Addictions. thought he must be a bit cracked,” Williams commented. In 1901, the equipment made at Hayle-Cornwall was used August 1997 to transmit a message from Newfoundland to England. Out of this experiment has grown the present-day radio. Mr. Williams came to this country in 1903 and is employed as According to wireless communications industry sources, janitor at the Citizens National Bank and Trust Company. about 24 percent of Americans are without cell phones August 1937 and that number is shrinking every year. An estimated 233 million Americans or about 76 percent of the population currently use cell phone service. About 10 percent of houseLightning on Saturday night caused power failure in 14 holds have abandoned their land lines altogether and rely New York State counties causing blackouts in parts of Dela- entirely on cell phone communication. According to the Pew Research Center those most reluctant to abandon land ware and Otsego counties for about 30 minutes. In Otsego County a six-hour storm with lightning and wind gusts lines are over age 65. added difficulty for linemen from both the light company August 2007
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EDITORIAL: How Do You Ramp Back National Security State? You Don’t EDITORIAL/From A4 year, Cooperstown might be a target for someone trying to prove a point, make a splash, or who knows what. Yes, we all know: Locals are talking about this. Nervously. Writing this is uncomfortable. By airing such worries, does it make such an occurrence more likely, even infinitesimally so? Or does it keep the public sensitive to suspicious activity? There’s an iron logic to intensify scrutiny: If everything that
might be done isn’t done, and something happens because of a single lapse … well, no one wants that to happen on his or her watch. No one’s told us this, but that means the growing surveillance and security measures surrounding Hall of Fame Induction Weekend are only going to get moreso. The Department of Homeland Security’s budget has grown from nothing 16 years ago to a proposed $44.1 billion for 2018. This isn’t just a local dynamic. Despite all the decrying of loss
of civil liberties – freedom from snooping, if you will – since 911, the National Security State has marched ever onward. And it will, outside Trump Tower and outside the Hall of Plaques, until international terrorism is quelled and the Mideast is reintegrated into the international mainstream. Certainly, there’s no short-term fix, and certainly not a local one. (Although Mary Ann Whalen’s welcoming posters are the kind of small steps any community can take.)
Or perhaps Induction Weekends, armaments bristling, crowds tightly controlled, wuppa, wuppa, will become so unpleasant people will stop coming. After all, we can watch the action on our iPhones. Regardless, we can fondly remember the good old days, before autographs became worth something, when fans could wander into the Hawkeye Grill and maybe have a sarsaparilla with Sandy Koufax. Or to 1939 and many Inductions
that followed on the Hall of Fame steps, where crowds surrounded the stage, and fans from boys to men could sidle close enough to almost touch such immortals as Babe Ruth, or Joe Dimaggio, or Jackie Robinson. Or to the Doubleday myth, to neighborhood pals batting and pitching and running bases in the cow pasture that is now Doubleday Field, whiling away summer days, their fates and fortunes still undefined. Ah, the good old days: Not for-
ELLSWORTH: Regarding Proposed Law, When Do Sandwich Boards Become Just Clutter? COLUMN/From A4 sandwich board signs by any fixed-location establishment throughout the village. In considering the proposed law, we think it is appropriate to refer to the stated intent of the sign ordinance, which reads in part: “It is the intent of this chapter to authorize signs that: “(c) Minimize distractions and the adverse effects of visual clutter; “(d) Promote the health, safety and general welfare of the Village;” Interestingly enough, a local resident recently took the time to record just what is located on the sidewalk on the south side of Main Street from Cooper Park to the stoplight. She noted that there are 14 lamp posts, 20 rain gardens with trees, six garbage/recycling containers, 17 benches, three separate chairs, nine planters not including those attached to a
building, seven cafes and/or table-chair combos, 22 do’s, do not’s, FYI signs, three parking machines, three vending machines, two fire hydrants and one Post Office box. And while many of these things are instrumental to maintaining order within the village, they all add, in one way or another, not only to the congestion on the sidewalk but also to the visual clutter on Main Street. • The village has allowed sandwich boards in the past. However, that law was eventually repealed. And, if the previous reign of sandwich boards on Main Street is any indication, sandwich boards will not
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only impact the already existing visual clutter, but can also have an impact on the safety and welfare of those individuals using the sidewalks. Experience would seem to indicate not only do people trip over the sandwich boards, the boards also have a decided propensity to fall over, especially when someone bumps into one. With our mobility issues, we find accessing Main Street in the summer already most difficult. If we are fortunate enough to park in the handicapped space on the northeast corner of Main and Pioneer Streets, there is a bench on the sidewalk next to the space which prohibits opening the car door completely. And thus, that
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getting in or out of the car is all that much more difficult. We can’t help but think that is not the only parking spot on Main Street from which it is difficult to get from a vehicle to the sidewalk. Plus given the foot traffic on the sidewalk, we often find it difficult to negotiate, with our walker, to our destination. We can’t help but think that adding sandwich boards to the mix will only make it more difficult for those of us with mobility issues. • Therefore, before enacting this law to allow sandwiches boards throughout the village, it might be prudent to weigh whatever benefits the proposed law
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ideas.� The theme of the event is “Tipping Point.� “It’s a very diverse slate of 12-15 minute talks, including farming, addiction issues and positive psychology, several led by local speakers,� said Buttermann. “We had 25 who applied and selected nine. The primary criteria was how much diversity we could have.� Dostal’s topic will be “Expendable People.� CADE’s Rebecca Morgan, local food systems. Green Earth owner Dean Roberts’ “Dumb Plans and Lucky Brakes (cq).� Several out-of-town speakers are coming for the day, including Australian tennis coach Emma Doyle, who speaks on using psychology to inspire young athletes. “She found us through the TEDx website,� said Buttermann. “It’s good to have local people, but having people from outside of the region is a benefit too.� Unlike a traditional TED conference, where the presenter speaks from the stage and the audience watches, Buttermann plans to set up tables to facilitate discussion. “The idea is that people get to know and talk to each other, not just stare at the stage,� he said. “It’s not a concert performance.�
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OTSEGO COUNTY FAIR – 8 a.m. Gates. Buildings 6208 State Highway 28 • 547-7126 open 10 a.m. Open to 9 p.m. (On the Corner in Fly Creek)
Admission, $5. Fairgrounds, 469 Mill St., Morris. COOPERSTOWN FARMERS MARKET – 8 a.m.-2 p.m. 101 Main St., in Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown. ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Muller Plaza, Oneonta. BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m. Have clean, recyclable bottles, cans on or visible from curb to support Boy Scout Troop 1254. Special pick-ups, large amounts, or other issues call Bruce @ 267-6730. FESTIVAL – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Take walk through City of the Hills Art & Music Festival featuring ďŹ ne arts, crafts, live music, dance, community art projects, writers read-in, children’s activities, face painting, magician. Main St., Oneonta. Call (607)432-2070 FARM FAMILY TOUR – 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Come discover life of family in 1845. Includes hands-on activities about learning, playing , working in 19th century. Included with museum admission. The Farmers Museum,
Cooperstown. TALES FOR TAILS – 11 a.m.-Noon. Children pick up a book, read to volunteer service dogs. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. MUSIC FEST – 11 a.m. Families are invited to use their musical imaginations at a performance by the Jasper String Quartet. Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. WOMEN’S RIGHTS – 2 p.m. Vignettes by the Templeton Players portray life as a woman in the 1800’s. Attend Reverend Bush’s address on women’s place in society at 2 p.,m. and participate in Carrie Finkles rally calling for equality and liberty at 2:30. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. FISHING DERBY – 4-5 p.m. Free “catch and releaseâ€? ďŹ shing competition for children. Bring your own pole, bait/ lures, and bucket. Hodges Pond, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Call 607-432-0680 BICENTENNIAL GALA
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Harman’s Team Has Turned Back Clock On 50 Years Of Lake Degradation HARMAN/From B1 rence Seaway – “the whole lake ecology had changed drastically,” he remembered in a recent interview. The growth had reduced wave action that used to clean the pebble beach of his boyhood, which was now a stretch of mud and decaying plant life. “I felt I’d left home, and now there was no home to come back to,” said the 49-year veteran of SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary Friday, Aug. 18, with a dinner that includes such local delicacies as zebra mussels. (What do they taste like? “Garlic salt and butter,” he deadpanned.) “Bill really had a vision to do something very innovative and timely,” said SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski when asked about Harman’s tenure. Turning out five masters in lake management a year – SUNY Oneonta’s program is the only one of its kind in the U.S. – his impact will spread across the nation, she said. The shock Bill Harman experienced on Seneca’s shores spurred the young veteran into the state College of Forestry in Syracuse (now the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry), where he immersed himself in the study of bivalves – clams, whose health can predict if a lake or pond is heading for trouble. His bachelor’s pending, he approached Dr. Clifford Berg,
All 12 buildings at the BFS’ Thayer Farm have been adapted to educational uses. This corn crib is a small dorm; the former chicken coop is a computer lab. eminent etomologist at Cornell and soon Harman’s mentor, who shifted the young man’s sights to snails; (there was research money available). Skipping a master’s and going directly for his Ph.D., in 1968 he saw an ad for director of a new Biological Field Station at SUNY Oneonta. The year before, the Clark Foundation had donated a half-acre on the lake, and 365 acres around Moe Pond, above The Farmers’ Museum, for an expanded lake-research program. Those were the Rockefeller Years, when the State University system was flower-
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ing and SUNY Oneonta was growing out of Old Main on Maple Street into an expansive campus on the hill. Harman was invited to deliver a guest lecture to a group that included college President Royal Netzger and professor John New, who would soon be chairman of a newly formed Biology Department. As is happens, the director job had already been filled. But impressed by his recently developed enthusiasm for snails’ utility – “and competence, I hope” – the college created a job for him, teaching in Oneonta and conducting research on Otsego Lake from the shed on a sliver of lakeside land where the smart office building it now shares with the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies would eventually rise, in 2011. No sooner had Harman arrived than Otsego Lake turned green. The new Glimmerglass State Park on Hyde Bay was attracting 7,000 campers a weekend, and the sand-filter sewagetreatment system leading into Shadow Brook was spurring algae growth lake-wide. With the BFS’ intervention and expertise, the state Parks Department was convinced to pump sewage inland to an inground system. Harman, realizing phosphorus runoff from farmland was part of the problem, also began a program to teach farmers lower-impact methods, including recreating wetlands that had been drained
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Bill Harman examines tanks of zebra mussels, part of an experiment to determine the lowest dosage of substances that can effectively put the bivalves out of commission. for cropland a half-century before. Years of progress followed. The field station’s first lab was completed (1971), collaborations were formed with entities like the OCCA (Otsego County Conservation Association) and The Clark Foundation, and Land Trust founder Earle Peterson provided access to his 1,000-acre Greenwoods Conservancy in the Town of Burlington. Bradley Goodyear donated the Goodyear Swamp (near the Glimmerglass Opera) in 1982, and in recent years Rufus Thayer’s 256-acre farm at the Springfield town line
was acquired with an endowment, providing buildings for housing, classrooms and offices – and dock space at the venerable Thayer Livery for the BFS’ 12 powerboats, including the research vessel Anodontoides, appropriately named after one of Harman’s bivalve friends. The next crisis arrived in the mid-1980s, when alewives were illegally introduced – stocked by fishermen, Harman believes. “Alewives are efficient feeders on zooplankton,” Harman explained. “Greatly reduced, the zooplankton couldn’t feed on algae. Algae increased tremendously.”
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The result: Glimmerglass’ historical species – Otsego bass, ciscoes (a salmonid), rainbow smelt and “a diversity of minnows” disappeared. By this time, the challenges faced and lessons learned were clarifying the need and mission of the BFS. In the early 1990s, SUNY Oneonta’s new president, Alan Donovan, gave the field station independent status, moving it out from Biology Department oversight and naming Harman director. “It was an easy decision,” Donovan said the other day. “And he was successful. He’s a great fundraiser, a great environmental steward. He’s done a great job. I would say he’s one of the icons of conservation in the county.” In 1996 came the publication of “The State of Otsego Lake, 1936-1996”, in which Harman and colleagues Leonard Sohacki, Matt Albright and Dan Rosen distilled 30 years of experimentation and experience. That became the basis of the 1998 “Plan of Management of the Otsego Lake Watershed,” which in turn was the basis for the masters in lake management curriculum approved in 2014, the only one of its kind in the nation. Already 10 graduates – five a year – have earned the degree and are applying Bill Harman’s approach to lakes from Long Island to the Buffalo area. “Its reach has gone way beyond Otsego County to other lakes in New York State and, potentially, to lakes across the country,” said Kleniewski. Now 80, Harman – he and wife Barbara have a combined family of four children – doesn’t intend to ever retire, but he’s looking ahead nonetheless. Please See HARMAN, B4
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He holds two titles, the endowed Rufus J. Thayer Chair for Otsego Lake Research and BFS director, and has been grooming two of his associates as possible successors, Daniel Stich, a University of Maine Ph.D.
in wildlife conservation, and Florian Reyna, a UConn Ph.D. with specialties in parasitology and invertebrate zoology. In addition to continuity, said Kleniewski, “There are certain things we’re going to preserve. The public
service. The educational mission. Those are going to be there in perpetuity.” After struggling with the alewives’ predations, in 2000 Harman decided to try something new, stocking Otsego Lake with walleye. It was a hunch that worked,
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turning back what happened previously on the alewives themselves. “The walleye decimated the alewives,” Harman related, “enabling the zooplankton to increase, which means they were stopping algae growth. The few native fish that were left – Otsego bass – are coming back strong. We’re beginning to see more smelt, more of the minnows.” “The water quality indicators are the same as they were 50 years ago,” the director adds, “which is a big improvement.” Fifty-six years after the dismayed Navy diver stood on the muddy shores of Kashong Point, Willard N. Harman can declare victory.
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FIRE CEREMONY – 79:30 p.m. Full Moon Vedic ‘Indian’ Fire Ceremony & Potluck Dinner. Bring a dish to share, BYOB. Darlinghill Farm Retreat, 404 Ed Herman Rd., Westford. Call 638-5111, RSVP storyducey@gmail.com
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SUMMER SUNDAY SERIES – 1-3 p.m. Learn about the History of Antique Toys with Marilyn Sassi. Bring an antique toy to share. Junction of Wilcox Ave. & Henry St., Oneonta. PADDLE & PULL – 1-3 p.m. Paddle and help OCCA pull remaining Water Chestnuts out of Goodyear Lake. Canoe/ Kayaks available. Registration preferred. Meet at NYS Fishing Access site, St. Rt. 28, Portlandville. Call (607) 547-4488
ANTI-RENT WAR VIGNETTES – 2 p.m. Templeton players perform short vignettes. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. DANCE – 4-9 p.m. Round and Square dancing with the Tri-County Dance & Social club. All persons 18 and up are invited. Meet people and have a good time. Oneonta Moose Club, 87 W. Broadway St., Oneonta. Call (607)4356871. CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. “Folk Inspirations” with pianist Gilles Vonsattel” featuring pieces by Dvorak, and Beethoven. Vonsattel is joined by the Jasper String Quartet and flutist Linda Chesis. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. The Fenimore String Quartet. The Star Theater, The Foundry, 44 Main St., Cherry Valley. Call Jane Sapinsky @ (607)2643080.
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ERIC KITCHENS A/K/A ERIC HERBERT KITCHENS, Defendants. To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days
after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, 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. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Honorable Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 16th day of June, 2017 at Cooperstown, New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage on the following property: Tax I.D. No. 230.00-1-12.00 ALL THAT tract or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the Town of Maryland, County of Otsego and State of New York, on the westerly side of the public highway leading from the Schenevus-Westford State Highway near the residence
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RUNNING THENCE Westerly in a straight line between said lands three hundred feet to a point; THENCE Northerly in a straight line parallel with said highway and three hundred feet Westerly therefrom to a point two hundred feet Southerly of lands of Russell French; THENCE Easterly in a straight line parallel with the first line herein described to the center of said highway; and THENCE Southerly along the center of said highway to the place of BEGINNING. EXCEPTING RESERVING from this conveyance a right of way fifteen feet in width along the southerly line of the premises above described as a means of access for first parties and their assigns from said highway to lands of first parties lying westerly of above premises. Subject to easements, covenants, and restriction of record. These premises are also known as 173177 Valder Road a/k/a 177 Valder Road, Maryland, NY 12116 a/k/a Schenevus, NY 12155.
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WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, NY 14614
Mortgaged Premises: 34 Walnut Street Richfield Springs, (Village of Richfield Springs (Town of Richfield)) NY 13439
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Index No.: 2017100 QUICKEN LOANS INC., Plaintiff, vs. Any unknown heirs to the Estate of SEAN C. COX, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, as well
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as the respective heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; REBECCA WELLER, NATURAL GUARDIAN OF MINOR: C.C.; CHARLES COX; SUSANNE BERTHOLD LAWRENCE; SALLY COX BENOIT; and “JOHN DOE” and “MARY DOE,” (Said names being fictitious, it being the intention of plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein.) Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. 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 captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing
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the date of July 2, 2014, executed by Sean C. Cox, a single man to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (“MERS”) acting solely as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. to secure the sum of $71,657.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County on July 14, 2014 in Instrument No.: 2014-3158. That Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (“MERS”) acting solely as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to Quicken Loans Inc. by Assignment dated December 28, 2016 and recorded on January 9, 2017 in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County in Instrument No.: 2017-131. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated. Section: 13.20 Block: 3 Lot: 20.00 DATED: 06/01/2017 Rochester, New York 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.
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6LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 88 Chestnut Street Realty Group, LLC Filed 6/26/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 29 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: Truitt LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/22/2015. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: PAUPER PRINCE, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 19 June 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 228 West St Ext, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalAug.3
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nity spaces,” she said. “We called it ‘Art in the Hood,’ but it started to get some real attention.” But as the trail grew more popular, Sapinsky brought in curators and invited regional sculptors, and by 2012, the idea had developed a national reputation. “People ask about it every year,” she said. Sapinsky had previously brought the locals together for art in 2003, when Cherry Valley Artworks hosted “A Day in Cherry Valley” and handed out disposable cameras, asking residents to document life in the village.
One photo was selected from each camera and displayed in an art opening. “Now that everyone has a camera on their phone, we might bring it back,” she said. The sculpture trail goes on every other year, alternating with the Cherry Valley Kite Festival. “Each of them are a huge undertaking,” said Sapinsky. “We can’t do both.” To set up the trail is not as easy as hanging a painting on a wall. “Cherry Valley Memorials brings their crane truck to help us set up
the larger pieces,” she said. “This year, we had to install three big pieces, two on the lawn of the Triangle Tavern and ‘Rings’ at the bank, and that one came in four pieces!” To travel the trail, a map is available at the Cherry Valley Museum, with the first in front of the Old School and the last at the Triangle Tavern. But others, like Liz Cucco’s “This Is a Site For Reflection” are hidden at various locations, just waiting to be found. Her work, which pieces colored glass panels to public fixtures, is
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IN MEMORIAM Heather T. Hotaling, 53, Oneonta; SUNY Oneonta Graduate, Manager
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At West Kortright Center Reunion, Summers With Shakespeare Remembered ALUMNI/From A1 do Shakespeare together,” he said. “That’s how I knew about this area, and I came back.” Van Vorste, who works at Oneonta’s Green Earth, was one of nearly 50 alumni at the 30th reunion of the Shakespeare in the Valley Saturday, July 29, where old friends
gathered on the grounds to reminisce about past shows and, just like they did when they weren’t on stage, throw a Frisbee around behind the former church. “Alumni Rachael Castell flew in from London last week and told me, ‘It feels the same, it smells the same’,” said Mar-
tha Van Burek, WKC executive director. “So many parents come to our shows every year so that they can show their kids how they spent their summers. It was important to them.” The director of the first play Nancy Fales-Garrett, a playwriting teacher at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, who has
a farm East Meredith. “I had taught an improv workshop up here the previous summer, but I wanted to do something with young people,” she said. “Martha asked if I wanted to do the workshop again, and I said ‘I’d rather direct ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’” It was the company’s first Shakespeare, and it was done twice more, including this year on the outdoor stage. The annual workshop puts kids together performing, making costumes and designing sets, under the direction of theater professionals, with a full production, at the end of the month-long rehearsal.
Garrett brought her friend Bob Briggs to build the first sets, and his daughter, Olivia, performed. “When I was 13, we did ‘A Winter’s Tale’ and the boy I was partnered with was so gorgeous,” she said. “Nancy told me, ‘Now you have to kiss.’ And he dipped me, and my whole world just exploded.” “I’ll never forget Nancy screaming ‘You have to act like you’re giving birth! Feel the pain!’” recalled Olivia Throssell, who came up from Philadelphia for the reunion. “I was 12, I didn’t know anything about that!”
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