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County Loses 1,094 People, Census Finds

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tsego County lost 1,094 population since Census 2010, a 1.76 percent drop, according to updates to the 2010 Census released in recent days.

It ranks 34th among the state’s 62 counties in population loss.

In all, Upstate counties lost 65,638 people, or 1.04 percent. Downstate gained 43,330 people, or 0.33 percent. Overall, the state lost 22,308 people, or 0.12 percent.

MEETING VOTERS: Common Council member Paul van der Sommen will host his first First Ward meeting Thursday, March 31, at Valleyview Elementary School. Melissa Nicosia’s first Second Ward meeting is Monday, April 4, at Oneonta Middle School. Both are at 7 p.m.

NEW MURAL: The Greater Oneonta Historical Society will unveil a third mural, “Brown’s Hardware,” on the Dietz Street wall at 6 p.m. Friday, April 15, during the first Fabulous Friday of the season. “Gallin’s” and “Laskaris’” have already been installed.

ew equipment in kitchens, new facades in stores, new apartments for residents and even a little golf when the weather is bad.

With the flood of grants Oneonta has received in the past year, it’s almost a new Oneonta.

“We have more grants now than we have in the past,” said City Hall’s Community Development Director Bill Kerbin. “We’re really looking to help businesses create a more vibrant downtown.”

In total, there are 16 active grants, ranging from money for housing rehabilitation to the new downtown “Streetscape,” micro-enterprise grants and funding for new roofs on downtown buildings storefronts.

Marty Brunswick, owner of the new Roundhouse Indoor Golf, requested $35,000 in micro-enterprise grant funding for the two Golf Simulators. “They cost $85,000 Please See GRANTS, A2

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Gavin Tandle, 2, of Oneonta, rides Merry the Dog on the Empire Carousel with dad Michael after finding the Golden Egg in the Easter Sunday egg hunt at The Farmers’ Museum.

The Golden Egg contained a year-long pass to the carousel, which is marking its 10th anniversary this year. His mom is Michelle.

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riving home to Scranton, Pa., after services at St. Innocent’s Ukrainian Orthodox Mission in the basement of St. James Episcopal Church, Rev. Fr. Vasil Dubee was caught in a storm on I-88.

“The rain was coming in sideways,” he said.

“It was like a hurricane. Driving past Unadilla, I could see the Susquehanna River swelling over the banks.”

He prayed to St. Innocent, the patron saint of the church, who, in 1825, would travel between his church in Unalaska to Rev. Fr. Vasil Fox and Pribilof Dubee’s first islands in the Ber- assignment as ing Strait in just a priest brought a small canoe. “I him to Oneoncould only imagine ta’s St. Innothe storms he must cent Mission. have encountered,” said Dubee.

But by his exit at Sanitaria Springs, the rain stopped and his journey was clear. His prayers, he believed, had been answered.

In October 2015, Dubee, 30, was ordained, and two months later he arrived Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA at St. Innocent’s, his first assignment.

Wearing traditional vestments, Rev. Father Vasil Dubee The parish was founded in 1997 as reads the psalter in the basement of St. James EpiscoPlease See PRIEST, A2 pal Church, which is hosting the Ukrainian Orthodox Holy Innocents Mission as it gets a foothold in Oneonta.

College Presidency Luring Collaborators Plan To Revive John Nader To Long Island Newest Development Around Pursuing Dream, He Bids Hometown Adieu, For Now

dale’s president Thursday, March 24. “People have to do more than just serve hen John S. Nader themselves. I hope in some moves into the way I’ve been able – and President’s House will be able – to emulate at SUNY Farmingdale “on that.” or about July 15,” he will John Nader’s appointbe taking along life lessons ment marks the culminalearned from his venerable tion of a 34-year academic father, 96-year-old Sam John S. Nader career at SUNY Delhi, Nader. rising from economics pro“My father has shown – not just to fessor, to dean of liberal arts to, for me, but to other people – the way to the past seven years, provost. be committed to goals beyond oneThe departure from his native city self,” the son said in an interview afalso marks the culmination of a civic ter he was appointed SUNY FarmingPlease See NADER, A7

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esidents at Winney Hill Commons are getting a few new neighbors, as broker Rodger Moran and entrepreneur Jim Tomaino have begun reviving a development that, 13 years old, is still Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Greater Oneonta’s newest. Rodger Moran shows off the two newest houses on School House “Since we started in Road, “a big step forward in 2003, I’ve always advercompleting the Winney Hill Comtised the development as mons Development.”

Oneonta’s newest,” said Moran, associate broker With affordable housing one with the Benson Agency. “That of the biggest concerns in the continues to be true.”

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PRIEST/From A1 a mission church from the Diocese of New York and New Jersey of the Orthodox Church in America. The small group of parishioners met at other churches before settling into the former youth center – nicknamed The Catacombs – in 2014.

“St. Innocent built his home, his churches by hand,” joked Dubee, a second generation Ukrainian-America. “When we moved here, we were just trying to find an apartment that wasn’t a student rental.”

While he was growing up in Scranton, Dubee’s family was active in the local church. He served as an altar boy, and his Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA parents sang in the choir.

If you see Rev. Fr. Vasil Dubee, But it was a conversation with his say hi. He’s Oneonta’s new grandfather, Alexander, a veteran of World Ukrainian Orthodox pastor.

War II, that set his life’s path in motion. “I that they would both be killed, the man went to visit him in the hospital when he was dying, and he told me about the Battle kept carrying him, still singing.

When they reached the road, the man of the Bulge – a story he’d never even told set him down and flagged down a medic. my father.”

While helping Alexander, they stared back The story went like this: Alexander, towards the river. “They told him that the badly wounded by a German grenade and man who brought him went into the river,” bleeding from machine-gun wounds to said Dubee. “And he didn’t come back his stomach, saw a man coming out of the river towards him, singing a song he knew out. He knew then that it was his guardian from church. The man picked him up, and angel.”

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“One of the biggest challenges in starting a business is the start-up financing,” said Tanya Harman, owner of HannieBee Lane boutique, who received $30,900 for fixtures and inventory. “This grant gives me the stability to focus on the day-to-day operations of running my store without worrying how additional funding will come in.”

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micro-enterprise grants, totaling $175,000. “It’s amazing what people are doing with this funding,” said Kerbin.

And for existing businesses, state Main Street grants will help with façade improvements, from new roofing to upgrading flooring. “We awarded grants to five businesses,” said Kerbin. “Capresso, the Greater Oneonta Historical Society and 189 Main were all recipients.”

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He studied at St. Tihkons in South Canaan, Pa., graduating in 2009. He met his wife, Lesya, while visiting his grandfather’s birthplace in Velykiy Berezniy, Ukraine. They were married in 2010 and have a 2-year-old daughter, Veronika.

“In the Orthodox tradition, if you’re going to get married and start a family, you have to do that before you become a priest,” he said. “So after Veronika was born, I decided it was time to get ordained.”

And he’s bringing many of his Ukrainian traditions to Oneonta. Because Orthodox Christianity follows the “old” calendar, they are in the middle of Lent, with Easter on May 1.

But every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 p.m. people can come learn to make Psanky eggs, elaborately adorned Easter eggs. “I grew up making them,” he said.

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And to further encourage business growth, the results of Jim Martin’s Economic Development Study, also paid for by a state grant for $75,000, will be presented to Common Council at their meeting on Tuesday, April 5.

“We’re really looking to help business owners to create a more vibrant downtown,” said Kerbin. “But it’s not just about Main Street, it’s about all of Oneonta.”

There are infrastructure grants as well, such as the $600,000 Raw Water Transmission grant, given as part of last year’s state’s annual Economic Development grants, which aims to re-line pipes from the lower reservoir to the sewage treatment plant.

And although the Susquehanna Greenway project grant has expired, Kerbin is looking into ways to get the project underway. “We had received $325,248 from the Department of Transportation to create trails along the Susquehanna, but the grant expired before we could plan the project,” he said. “We’re going to meet sometime soon and discuss how we want to proceed and whether or not we want to look into getting an extension.”

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“People aren’t looking for $300,000 homes in Oneonta,” said Tomaino. “They want something small, something entry level.”

“There’s not a lot of new development in Oneonta,” said Moran. “When you move here to work for Ioxus or Corning, you’re either looking at a rental or buying an older home.”

The Commons was the brainchild of James Baldo, who purchased the lot and began building in 2003. He built 36 homes there, with Moran acting as the primary marketing manager. “We went to home shows, held weekend houses, anything to get people into these homes,” said the broker.

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Tomaino is also hoping to create housing for an aging population looking to move out of the large homes they raised their families in. “Our senior population wants to move into smaller, one-story homes,” he said. “I want to put something affordable on the market for the people of Oneonta.”

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t 1:15 p.m. Friday, March 25, traffic was clogged, inching along, from the Route 28 intersection at Main Street to the Southside Mall entrance.

Every traffic light marked a failed intersection – east-west traffic was backed up through the intersection when the lights turned green for north-south traffic: At Home Depot, at Hannaford’s, at BJ’s and at McDonald’s.

Hold on to your patience, drivers, it’s only going to get worse.

On Wednesday, March 22, Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood and his town board approved two water districts for Southside Oneonta that, against all logic, they have been noodling forward for years.

While not inevitable, a disastrous step for Greater Oneonta – traffic is the least of it – is now more likely.

• County Rep. Andrew Stammel, D-Town of Oneonta, who likewise championed the flawed concept when he was a town board member, couldn’t resist showing up one last time to cloud the issue.

He defined it as clean water. No one disagrees homes and businesses need clean water. But that never was the issue. The issue was smart growth vs. dumb growth.

The water could have been provided, simply and more cheaply overall, by simply by piping the City of Oneonta’s surplus

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Caught in a traffic jam on Southside Oneonta? Get used to it. But that’s just the beginning of the bad news.

along Lettis Highway.

This would have allowed the town to keep future commercial development – and associated new tax revenues – within the town, the Oneonta City School District and Otsego County.

Instead, the town has been insistent about building its own plant near Emmons and bringing municipal water through Delaware County to the outer reaches of Route 23.

This will open up development beyond the Otsego County line, allowing big boxes and commercial development generally to move out of the town, out of the school

district, and out of the county.

New commerce in Delaware County will likely sap the existing Southside commerce. This has happened in virtually every other Upstate city, and now it’s going to happen here.

• While the town is being, at best, shortsighted, the state’s role in this is downright mystifying.

While Albany gives lip service to consolidation and shared services, the state Environmental Facilities Corp. and federal entities have provided $4 million in grants

for the project, plus $4.8 million in no-interest loans.

That $9.8 million flies in the face of the New N.Y. Government Reorganization & Citizen Empowerment Act of 2010, which assists shared services and consolidations, and scoffs at a key point of Governor Cuomo’s 2016 state budget proposals – a $20 million competition to encourage efficiency.

It simply doesn’t make sense, and calls for a review by someone like state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli before this disastrous concept, state-funded, moves forward.

• The districts have been approved, but it’s not too late to adjust the plan locally. Town Supervisor Wood and the City of Oneonta’s new mayor, Gary Herzig, should make one last effort to keep future development under the control of Greater Oneonta.

Perhaps some of that $9.8 million – a fraction of it, no doubt – could be used to equalize water rates for the more sensible collaboration.

Pure water is a necessity, and Southside homeowners and businesses need it. Happily, we can have it all – clean water and smart growth.

Or we will find ourselves a few years hence, watching ruefully as customers inch along a clogged Route 23 en route to spending their money and taking their tax revenues somewhere else.

ISSUE & DEBATE Life Without Fossil Fuels?

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Pipeline Won’t Cure Otsego County’s Poverty Editor’s Note: Kate O’Donnell, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Hartwick College.

Editor’s Note: Mike Zagata, Ph.D., who lives in Davenport, is a former commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

nize early on that there is no such thing as a “free lunch” when it comes to energy.

Each alternate we seek, be it solar, hydro-power, tidal power, wind power, etc., will have environmental impacts. here is virtual agreeFor example, with wind ment that we must power there is move away an issue with the from fossil fuels to impact of the energy sources that vanes on birds. are renewable, for at With hydro-power least two reasons. there are fisheries First, fossil fuels impacts like the are non-renewable, declines of Westi.e. at some point we ern salmon runs. will run out of them.

In the long run, Second, there are it will become a scientists and politimatter of trade-offs cians that believe Mike and political will. the burning of fossil Zagata There are those fuels contributes to who argue we climate change. should cease producing and No matter which reason burning fossil fuels right one chooses to support, now. There are others who there is a legitimate need to favor using them as a bridge begin now to seek energy to provide our energy until sources that are renewwe have feasible alternaable and increasingly more environmentally friendly. It tives. A mere year ago there Please See ZAGATA/A6 is also important to recog-

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ural poverty is widespread and persistent in the U.S. Rural labor options, mass centralized industrialization, and urbanization cause rural people, usually the young, to migrate to urban areas for better paying jobs in more diverse labor sectors.

These structural forces have produced outmigration from U.S. rural areas since the 1800s. In our area, the existence of the railroad and subsequent educational and healthcare developments diversified our local economy and created more job opportunity than in more solely agriculture-dependent areas.

Corporate globalization has led to capital mobility. This process has accelerated since the 1970s and is supported through global institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. The impact is international competition and job displacement. Nationally and locally, wave after wave of U.S. businesses and their

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workers have lost out.

Rural areas have been hard hit by overseas job displacement. Brown and Schafft (2011) report that in 19972003, 1.5 million rural jobs were lost in non-durable manufacturing like apparel, textiles, shoes, wood and food processing.

The decline in manufacturing was more rapid in urban areas but manufacturing is centrally important to rural KATE areas. A decline in farm and mining O’DONNELL jobs in rural areas accompanied this trend.

Those workers who have been displaced tended to have less education and were concentrated in lower skill jobs. In the U.S., those remaining in rural areas find service sector jobs that have lower pay than those in urban areas. 40 percent of rural workers have jobs in low-pay personal and consumer services. Rural workers are also more likely to be underemployed.

Female-headed households are

the poorest. In Otsego County, 27.8 percent of female-headed households live in poverty. The majority of the poor are working but earning poverty wages. By 2005, there was an increase in the urban-rural wage gap. Per the state Community Action Association 2013 Poverty Report, in Otsego County, to be able to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rate, an individual working 40 hours a week, full time, would have to earn $16.17 per hour.

In addition to low wages, lower levels of education and underemployment, rural communities suffer from irregular cell and electric service and a lack of transportation, broadband, affordable childcare, mental health and addiction treatment services, job training programs, and affordable housing.

Oneonta is beginning to address the affordable housing situation.

In his March 10-11 op-ed in this newspaper, Mike Zagata claims that the Constitution Pipeline will fix these situations. How? While pipeline jobs pay well, they are largely temporary construction and tree removal jobs for men and employ a significant number Please See O’DONNELL

LETTERS

Print ‘Otsego County, New York’ On Every Single Tourist Brochure To the Editor: Very nice article about my Delaware Street neighbor Devin Morgan becoming the new chair of Otsego Now. I like his “grassroots economic development is my thing” approach to the job. His support of local entrepreneurship is an important part of what Otsego County needs, in my view. I hope he is including outreach for bringing in entrepreneurs from outside Otsego County.

AllOTSEGO.com tells us that Otsego County lost 1,094 people in the last six years.

They were difficult years, but it is still a troubling indicator that I believe can be slowly turned around with a serious commitment to rebuilding the county’s population and economy.

While driving back from New

York City last week I stopped at the large Destinations of New York State information center at the Thruway’s northbound Sloatsburg rest area next to New Jersey. It is the first and largest of three information centers on the Thruway northbound. In the summer, more than 700 visitors a day look for travel information. Many Upstate counties were well represented with colorful, attractive, full-size booklets filled with information on all that is available to see.

You could see them on the walls from across the room.

I said I was from Cooperstown and asked the representative if they get many inquiries for Cooperstown and she said yes. I asked if they had some information on the Please See DEAN, A7

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The letter, addressed “To Judy & Ron,” was sent to non-existent address.

Carriers Solve Mystery, Find Note’s Destination To the Editor: Thank you, thank you, thank you! … to Cooperstown postal employees who made sure this mail found its proper home.

Our friend is getting a little forgetful and could not remember our last names or exact address.

But you found us, and I am sincerely grateful.

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125 Years Ago

Perhaps the most serious and extensive wreck ever known on the Albany & Susquehanna railroad occurred Friday, March 27, when Train No. 4 eastbound and much behind time and running at the rate of 55 miles an hour, collided with the accommodation train for Binghamton, which leaves this station at 1:50 p.m. Train 17 was in charge of conductor Wm. Ferris, Wm. LaGrange being engineer. Frank Vincent was conductor of the express and Wm. White, familiarly known as “Reddy,” was engineer.

The collision occurred at the big curve about one mile east of Wells Bridge and directly in front of the house of Casler Moak. Neither engineer was aware of the peril until the trains were within thirty rods of each other. LaGrange, who first saw the danger, whistled down brakes and with his fireman jumped in safety from the cab. On the express, engineer White reversed his engine and put on the air brakes, but not in time to escape collision. The two engines crashed together and fell over the bank toward the river.

Three of the fifteen cars on the westbound train followed, the first car passing its engine and landing on its side near the highway. The second car fell into the river and the third was piled upon the wrecked engines. The express and baggage cars on No. 4 were also telescoped and demolished.

Fireman Pierce was found dead at the scene and others suffered severe injuries. The freight car loaded with granulated sugar was thrown into the highway where it burned. Many spectators took advantage of the opportunity afforded by broken barrels to secure a supply of the sweetening gratis.

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Weight & Long Life – Don’t get too heavy after you pass the age of thirty. Recent investigations show that the longest life and best health are not to be found among those of average build at any particular age. On the contrary, it is discovered that in those of younger age who are slightly overweight and at the older ages among those who are distinctly underweight, the longest life and best health will be found.

Overweight above the age of thirty is a definite disadvantage to health. It means staleness, lack of elasticity, clogged up tissues and lack of power of adaptability to invading germs.

April 1916

80 Years Ago

Fingerprints for Identification – Potters’ fields contain the bodies of hundreds who have died under circumstances

10 Years Ago

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40 Years Ago

In the fifth such incident in two days, 15 cars of a southbound Delaware & Hudson freight train derailed at 4 a.m.

Friday in the hamlet of Central Bridge, tearing up an estimated 1,000 feet of track and damaging a vacant trackside building. It was also the second derailment in two days, the other having happened early Thursday when two cars were derailed. The train to which the mishap occurred was NE87-bound Mechanicville to Wilkes-Barre. The derailment apparently struck the 48th car near Creek road and continued southward into the heart of Central Bridge and just past the firehouse. There was no fire and no injuries. Most of the derailed cars were empties. One car was loaded with furniture. The crew of NE-87 included Engineer Laverne Utter, a April 2006 former Oneontan, Conductor Fred Rose, Oneonta, Fireman Al Kulash and trainmen Walter Stanis and Floyd Felthouser. which precluded their identification, causing long months April 1976 and even years of uncertainty over the whereabouts of a friend or relative. There are, too, many other circumstances when positive identification is highly desirable. However, James L. Seward of Milford, the chief legislative aide for identification can now be assured for any person in this State Senator L. Stephen Riford, is expected to announce country who will take the time to have his fingerprints today that he will run for his boss’s seat. Riford (R-Auburn) recorded. M.L. Thomas, fingerprint expert of the Oneonta said last week that he will not seek a third term as Senator Police Department, is well equipped to make such prints, this November. Riford’s district, the 50th, covers Otsego, and there is no stigma attached. The cards are kept in what is Chenango, Cayuga, Cortland and Tompkins counties. known as the “civilian file” as differentiated from the “crimi- Seward has also served as aide to Assemblyman Peter Donal list” which many persons think of when fingerprints are kuchitz and Senator Charles Cook before joining Riford’s mentioned. But, even if the two lists were merged, it would staff in 1983. Seward is chairman of the Otsego County Remean nothing to the upright, honest citizen. publican Committee and regional vice chairman of the New April 1936 York State Republican Committee. Among other activities he is a member of the board of directors of Pathfinder Village, a school for “Down’s Syndrome” children.

A combination of history, art, research and reporting, April 1986 along with cooperation and planning has resulted in learning some important scientific principles for sixth graders at Chestnut Street School. Teacher William Swain says Angela Rab of Oneonta was crowned 1996 Miss Otsego the class was in the process of studying light as part of County Teenager at a Pageant on Saturday night in Slade its science program when the Junior High School sent an Auditorium at Hartwick College. Rab, age 14, took home invitation to participate in the annual Science Fair. Through top honors in a field of a dozen contestants vying for the class discussion, it was decided that an exhibit showing the crown and for the dozens of gifts donated by area busiprogress man has made in developing and using light would nesses. “I loved it,” Rab said. “It feels good. I got a lot of be an interesting project. “It doesn’t matter whether a prize support from everyone – from my friends and family.” Rab is won at the Fair,” said Mr. Swain. “The opportunity to is a ninth-grader at Oneonta high school. explore what happens in the world around us, uncovering April 1996 new information and putting efforts on display is rewarding

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enough.” The sixth graders won third prize in their division.

April 1956

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Applications and announcements are available at the Personnel Office, 258 Main Street, or at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel.

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Actors Wanted MALE ACTORS NEEDED! Glimmer Globe Theatre Company in Cooperstown, NY, is seeking male actors from the ages of 20 to 65 to audition for roles in our summer productions of THE CRUCIBLE and ROMEO & JULIET. Everyone is welcomed to audition! If interested, please contact Andie Alban at 607 547 1453 or a.alban@nysha.org for more information, or to set up an audition time. These acting positions are paid, and the opportunity is not to be missed!

Mel’s at 22 is seeking help for all positions in our restaurant and culinary team. Accepting applications for summer and year-round employees.

Call 435-7062, or stop in at 22 Chestnut St, Cooperstown, for an application.

Now takiNg applicatioNs for poteNtial summer help • Lifeguards & Swim Lesson Instructors • Welcome Center (desk) staff & Summer Program Staff

Caretakers and Lifeguards for Village Parks The Village of Cooperstown has seasonal openings for the positions as listed above. For further information including applications please contact the Village Clerk at the address listed below or by calling 607-547-2411. Positions will be needed from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day for caretaker and lifeguard positions at both Three Mile Point Park and Fairy Spring on Otsego Lake. Caretaker positions at both parks include housing for the season. Applications will be accepted until positions are filled. EOE.

Teri L. Barown, RMC, Village Clerk Village of Cooperstown, PO Box 346 Cooperstown, NY 13326

Case Manager Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie Counties is seeking a full-time (35 hours per week) Case Manager for our Oneonta and Delaware County offices to provide emergency assistance for families and individuals who are struggling to meet their basic needs through our Caring Connections Program as well as to provide Dispute Resolution services to the general public. A valid NYS driver’s license is required. Catholic Charities is an equal opportunity employer.

If interested please send cover letter with resume by April 15 to: Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie Counties, attention: Lynn Glueckert, 176 Main Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 or via e-mail at lglueckert@charitiesccdo.org.

Required for above: Proven experience.

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Sure, End Dependence On Fossil Fuels – But Not Right This Minute ZAGATA/From A4

were people who argued that the problem would take care of itself as fossil fuels would price themselves out of the market. As we now know, just the opposite has happened and gas is now less than $2 at the pump.

Let’s take an honest look at what life in the US would be like if the government banned the use of fossil fuels tomorrow.

Those fortunate enough to be able to afford to install solar panels on their roof or in their yard would appear to have an advantage over the rest of us. Is that really the case?

They might well have enough electricity to heat or cool their home during the daylight hours. However, solar panels don’t generate electricity at night. What would happen then? They would be like the rest of us and freeze during winter and swelter during summer.

If they drove their electric car to work expecting to recharge it overnight guess what – they’re out of luck. You see that wall outlet or fancy

recharging station formerly got its electricity from a coalfired plant. Coal is a fossil fuel and thus can no longer be burned to generate electricity.

If they’re going to recharge their electric vehicles, it will have to be done at work if they have enough of a charge to get there.

Those of us who awaken to the aroma of bacon and eggs would need to awaken much earlier to stoke up the wood stove (wood consists of the same ingredients as coal, but it’s not yet “fossilized” so it might be legal to burn). Our gas stove or electric stove that gets its electricity from generating plants that burn coal or gas (God forbid we use nuclear energy!) would no longer have a fuel source as fossil fuels are banned.

Wood stoves emit particulates that, when conditions are right, may cause inversions where polluted air is trapped near the ground and people are forced to breathe it. That’s not good for people with emphysema or other lung issues. Air quality in Denver, Colo., got so bad as a result of wood-burn-

Pipeline Won’t Cure Poverty O’DONNELL/From A4

of out of state workers. By the industry’s own estimate, the pipeline will create seven permanent jobs.

In terms of community impact, states like Pennsylvania and North Dakota report that the gas industry labor situation raised competition for housing and increased housing costs – exactly what we do not need.

In Pennsylvania in 2007-2013, during the gas-fracking boom, the poverty rate increased from 11.6 to 13.8 percent (Census Bureau, American Community Survey) with rural communities with gas development like Green experiencing rates as high as 18 percent.

Jobs in services, retail, transportation, and construction can be obtained from infrastructural investments and sustainable energy – not only through gas.

The upside of sustainable development is that such jobs would be permanent, open to men and women, and not be associated with increased health costs, health problems, environmental damage, property loss to eminent domain, property devaluation, increased insurance costs, and further farm loss.

So, who is pushing this gas agenda? The same people who oppose increasing the minimum wage, affordable healthcare for all, and environmental protection legislation. Politicians and business organizations favored “free” trade agreements like NAFTA which, beginning in 1994, exported U.S. jobs for the cheapest labor in Mexico where workers were earning $2 a day in U.S. factories. Today, that target is Asian workers who earn 17 cents per hour in Bangladesh. Locally, the pro gas group, Citizen’s Voices, a group which Mr. Zagata has addressed, opposes minimumwage increases.

What price tag do we put on despoiling our water, air, soil and food? What price tag do we place on adverse health

effects including increases in cancer, childhood leukemia, lung disease, and heart ailments seen in areas that have fracking, pipelines, and the associated compressor stations?

Like Flint, our children would also be particularly affected by daily environmental contamination. The discussion of negative health and environmental impacts is missing from every discussion of political pipeline cheerleading, on industry and area gas “development” websites, and even in the Otsego County Community Needs Assessment Report of April 2014.

The Renaissance of Upstate New York will not come through gas. As a matter of fact, such a move will thwart the emergent agritourism of our region, which includes small- and medium-size farming, organic products, specialty dairy product development like cheese and yogurt, farm to table enterprises, and craft beverages.

In our area, the amazing local hops and beer initiatives, which local legislators and business groups have supported, will be undermined. For example, Handsome Brook, one of Upstate New York’s most successful organic egg and blueberry farms, is located in Franklin, where the Constitution Pipeline is proposed.

The fate of Upstate New York and the nation are interlinked in a sustainable future which includes living wage jobs, affordable and accessible education, healthcare, and childcare. Locally sourced food, renewable energy sources for household and business use, domestic product manufacturing, agritourism, and upgrading infrastructure including broadband and rail systems will produce jobs in these arenas that will be local and enduring.

Embrace the Renaissance.

Gas is a passing fancy. We are looking for leadership, wisdom, and smart stewardship.

ing stoves, that the city banned their use during certain weather patterns. Having to cut our own wood might provide an unexpected health benefit as we would likely become more fit. Cutting more trees might even benefit certain songbirds that rely on openings in the forest for food.

For those of us who like to drive to meetings so we can plan our strategy for protesting something, we would be in for a shock. As previously discussed, electric vehicles would likely be home-bound.

Our cars and trucks definitely would be. Gasoline is a fossil fuel; burning it would be banned. Not only would our freedom to travel via the car

be restricted – so would our ability to travel via the airplane as jet-fuel is also derived from fossil fuel. There went those mid-winter breaks to Florida.

What about overnight mail via FedEx or UPS? The Post Office would need to revert back to the pony express.

Even if we could burn the gas, diesel or jet fuel, we wouldn’t have a car, truck or plane to burn it in. Cars and trucks are mostly steel and plastic and, you guessed it, natural gas is used in the manufacture of steel and petroleum products are used to make plastic. Airplanes are mostly aluminum and manufacturing aluminum is very energy intensive. Even more surpris-

ing is that petroleum is used to make synthetic rubber and 70 percent of our rubber today is synthetic. It takes about seven gallons of petroleum to make one typical tire. What happens when we run out of the existing stock of tires if fossil fuels are banned?

Our clothing would also undergo a dramatic change.

Synthetic fibers are petroleum based. Cotton fields and sheep would again dot the countryside as we would be forced to use “natural” fibers like cotton and wool. Packaging, as we know it today, would be a thing of the past.

Instead of bacon and eggs we could eat cereal – or could we? Petroleum is a key

ingredient in fertilizer and pesticides/herbicides. Instead of going to the local grocery store, we would be maintaining our own garden and that can be labor intensive – especially without a way to control pests.

The examples are real – just as the need to continue using fossil fuel as a bridge to the future is real. Please take a minute and reflect on all the things you use every day that require fossil fuels. Without them our lifestyle would undergo a dramatic change for the worse.

With them we have a window of opportunity to find alternatives that will both enable us to maintain our lifestyle and protect the quality of our environment.

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FRIDAY, April 1, 2016

After 60 Years, John Nader Won’t Be In Oneonta NADER/From A1 career that, arguably, has made John Nader the most prominent Oneontan of his generation, representing his city on the county Board of Representatives, Common Council, and – like his father before him – serving as mayor.

Since leaving elective office to become provost, he has taken on the role of kingmaker locally, recruiting former Hartwick College President Dick Miller to run for mayor, and serving in recently elected HOMETOWN ONEONTA Mayor Gary Herzig’s kitchen Mayor John Nader, center, debates returns with cabinet, including taking former mayor Kim Muller, left, and incoming on what’s turned out to be a mayor Dick Miller on Election Night 2010. thankless task: chairing Herchancellor at the University perb president.” zig’s ad hoc Charter Reform of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, was At Farmingdale – it has Committee. appointed at the same SUNY 8,694 students, almost triple While Nader was pursutrustees’ meeting as Nader, Delhi’s 2,989 – Nader, 60, ing a public career, he was called her provost “an outwill find a stable situation as on a less-public parallel track standing leader,” and predicted he succeeds retiring nine-year in academe, an ambition that success for him in his new job. president W. Hubert Keen. began as a teaching assistant “He saw the chance to move “We’re in a really good place at Ithaca College. He majored ahead, and I’m glad he did,” in terms of enrollment and in political science, but found said SUNY Oneonta admincampus morale,” said Kathy it unsatisfying. “I still believe istrator Kim Muller, whom Coley, director of communicaeconomics is really a way of Nader succeeded as mayor. tions. thinking that provides insights “He has the skills to be a suShe predicted Nader “will into how people make decihit the ground running. sions and how the world He knows the SUNY works,” said Nader, who, system. People are while at Delhi, went very excited he’s joinon to obtain his Ph.D. ing Farmingdale.” in economics at SUNY In Nader’s campus Albany. visits, the college comHe has been pursumunity was impressed ing a SUNY college by his success in presidency for a while navigating the chal– he was a finalist for lenges of bringing new Herkimer Community programs to Delhi: As College’s top job last dean of Liberal Arts & year – and he thanked Sciences, environmenhis boss, Delhi President tal studies and criminal Candace Vancko, for her justice; as provost, RN support: “She encouraged and bachelor degrees in me to look at presidennursing. cies. She mentored me.

Farmingdale, located She spoke to other people on the Nassau/Sufon my behalf.”

For her part, Vancko, Young John holds the Bible as dad folk county line, has placed 90 percent of whose successor, MiSam Nader is sworn in as Oneonta its students in jobs chael R. Laliberte, a vice mayor in 1962.

– in business, technology and health sciences, nursing, dental hygiene, graphic design, horticulture, aviation – within six months of graduation, Coley said. It is now seeking approval of a management technology major, she said.

“I will miss people here very, very much,” Nader acknowledged. But, he added, “the people at Farmingdale have been incredibly welcoming.”

In his observation, he said, “it is important that a new president listen and learn. I will devote a lot of time to doing that in the early months.

Farmingdale is enviable in that it has a very clear set of goals for the next several years.”

Those goals include not just adding new programs, but recruiting fulltime faculty, adding more residential students, and creating at least one online academic degree. Nader said he will apply himself to those challenges.

“A college president should be the institution’s chief vision officer,” Nader said, drawing on Vancko’s example. “In some ways the college is indescribably better than when she arrived 17 years ago.”

Created ‘Otsego Couinty, NY’ Brand DEAN/From A4

Cooperstown area. She said they had very little and showed me a Quench brochure and a card from ThisIsCooperstown. com, (that did not contain the words “Otsego County NY”).

She said she was waiting to receive new, larger booklets from the same organization.

I asked if she needed more information on the Cooperstown area to give out and she said yes. I asked if she gets inquiries for Otsego County and she said no. I asked if she thought people knew that Cooperstown was in Otsego County and she said no. She said, “No one knows about Otsego County”.

How many people, not familiar with our area, know that Cooperstown, Ommegang, other craft breweries, Fenimore Art Museum, Otsego Lake, SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College, Farmers’ Museum, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown Dreams Park, Glimmerglass Festival, the City of Oneonta, Glimmerglass State Park, The Otesaga, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Fly Creek Cider Mill, Cooperstown Distillery, Hyde Hall, Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum, Clark Sports Center, Foothills Performing

Arts Center, Doubleday Field, Leatherstocking Golf Course, etc., etc., are all very close to each other in Otsego County, New York? My guess would be zero! To me, this is a major advertising missed opportunity of the highest order.

How many people would go out of their way to visit Otsego County if they knew they could visit all or most of the attractions listed above with one visit to a small area in New York State? Many more than are coming now, I am sure.

Otsego County needs a major and sustained, shared branding initiative to continually reduce its customer acquisition costs and increase its customer retention base as it moves toward its long-term goals of building out a larger, integrated, sustainable, economy.

Not including “Otsego County, New York” in all tourist and business outreach, advertising, and website information is a very expensive way to get very little return on investment, in my view.

“Build it and they will come” only works if people have heard about Otsego County, New York and they know where to find it.

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It’s A Dog’s (And Cat’s) Life For Thanksgiving Home Pair

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or Cooper, life at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home is the cat’s meow.

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Or even in the middle of the hallway.

Cooper is the Thanksgiving Home’s resident feline, and he makes it known he’s in charge.

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Cooper, who turned 1 on Tuesday, March 29, pays a mid-morning visit to Thanksgiving Home resident Martha Quinn.

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BRICK BULWARK Be the first to see “Yosemite Valley, High Clouds, from Tunnel Esplanade” at The Fenimore Art Museum’s “Ansel Adams: Early Works” opening Friday, April 1.

Bob Brzozowski, at right, executive director, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, reviews a Laskaris menu that includes such affordable delicacies as sirloin steak, 75 cents, and banana splits, 30 cents.

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Below, Alex Osterhoudt, left, and Isaac Medina stroll past the 150-yearold landmark.

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By JIM KEVLIN

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ooking around us, we sometimes think that what is had to be. That’s not so, as the 150th anniversary of the Bissell Block, downtown Oneonta’s oldest brick commercial building, demonstrates.

At the time of the groundbreaking in the spring of 1866, Oneonta, built on “two Indian trails that crossed at Main and Chestnut,” was in a period of intense competition for economic dominance with Worcester, Schenevus and Emmons, according to Tom Heitz, the Town of Otsego co-historian who staffs the Oneonta History Center, current Bissell Block occupant.

Since the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad had arPlease See 175TH, B3

1874 postcard depicts Bissell Block, age 8

1866/George Saunders, who built the “Bissell

Block” at 189 Main St. with William Bissell, opens hardware store in space now occupied

by Oneonta History Center. A.B. Morrison opened a grocery in the west side of the building, now long since separately owned and occupied by the Cutting Edge Salon.

1872/After three owners, Walter Brown, future assemblyman and senator, buys hardware store, which he operates as Brown’s Hardware, then Corner Hardware, with various partners until retiring in 1920.

1873/Milford-based “David Wilber’s Bank,” Please See SENTINEL, B3

►GOHS BENEFIT: FOR BISSELL BLOCK 150TH, JOIN 150 CONTRIBUTING $150/DETAILS, B3

SPAGHETTI SQUAD: Come support the Cooperstown Fire Department’s Emergency Squad’s spaghetti dinner fundraiser, 4-8 p.m. Saturday, April 2. Cooperstown Fire House, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 544-4393.

TASTY TREATS: Over 40 local chefs will contribute culinary delights for a good cause, at Cooperstown’s 17th annual Epicurean Food & Wine Tasting, 3-6 p.m. Sunday, April 3.

Live music and a silent auction, all to benefit Catskill Area Hospice. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, Bob Escher, (607) 432-6773.

DIVA NIGHT: The female quintet Too Many Divas offers “hot musical stylings of the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s” at 6 p.m., Sunday, April 3 $25. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta.

Info, res, (607) 432-2053.

COMING UP: Former New York City Public Advocate and author Mark Green delivers the Leslie G. Rude Memorial Lecture. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5 at the Anderson Center for the Arts Theater, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, Alisha Fish at (607) 431-4021.

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Cooper And Lucky Make Thanksgiving Home Even Happier Place

COOPER/From B1 Laura Black, personal care supervisor. “I’ve never seen such a friendly cat.”

The Thanksgiving Home has had cats since it opened in 1928. “It gives the residents a sense of purpose when they can care for a pet,” said Laurie Blatt, administrator. “They feel like they’re part of the family.”

“We’d have a horse if we could!” said Black. “We’re big animal people.”

Cooper came to the Thanksgiving Home a year ago, after the passing of Ginger. “A stray got

pregnant and came to our house,” said Sheila Jones, who works in the home’s dining services. “We kept her through the winter, and she gave birth to a litter, so I kept the sister and brought Cooper in here!”

Cooper shares the limelight with Lucky, a labradoodle who serves as the home’s therapy dog. “We had a resident who had to go to the hospital, and he waited right by her side until the ambulance came,” said Blatt. “She said that having him there helped her stay calm.”

Jack, now 3, came to the Thanksgiving Home from a trainer in Indiana. “One of his brothers was sent to a Boston Bombing victim,” said Blatt. “Another was sent to a home for children with neurological disorders.

They’re good dogs, and their breeding makes them hypo-allergenic.”

Residents who want Cooper or Jack to come visit can leave their doors open, and Cooper has been known to make a little mischief now and again. “He’ll get on someone’s bed and when she gets off, it sets off the

bed alarm,” said Black.

“And he loves sports – he’ll sit on people’s laps to watch the game.”

And he’s even popular with the staff. “I picked him up and he snuggled against my shoulder,” said Kathy Lindberg, the dining services manager.

“The staff always takes Lucky outside to play with him,” said Blatt.

Because the staff takes care of the feeding and toilet needs, residents are free to enjoy the animals without having to worry about cleaning up after them. “It’s

an extension of our caring, compassionate staff,” said Blatt. “It adds so much to their life here.”

And for those who aren’t cat or dog people, the home also has birds and fish. “We even brought in Angel, a therapy horse,” said Blatt.

Residents can join the Cat or Dog Committee, where they discuss what the animals needs are, including planning a birthday party for them, held Tuesday, March 29.

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175TH/From B1 rived on Aug. 29, 1865, Oneonta was becoming the natural – and burgeoning – depot for Otsego County crops, where “the building of streets and roads” had begun immediately with the railroad’s arrival, said Heitz.

Two or three wholesale warehouses were opened, and for the first time that fall, carloads of apples were shipped to Albany and metropolitan markets beyond; before rail, local folks either ate or canned their own fruit, or sold in within a few miles. Farmers were suddenly getting $1 or $1.25 more per basket of apples. But what about rich Delaware County, more easily accessed by natural passes to the east of the future “City of the Hills”?

Undeterred, Oneonta’s forward-looking business people – Collis Huntington, now living in California and en route to becoming one of that state’s Big Four who built the Union Pacific Railroad, was still visiting his hometown twice a year – created the Oneonta & Ouleout Turnpike Company in January 1866, and drove the road over Franklin Mountain, opening up an easy way for Delaware County farmers to bring crops here.

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To mark the 150th anniversary of the Bissell Block, home of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s home at 189 Main St., the GOHS is asking 150 local history fans to donate $150 each over 150 days.

The 150-day drive begins Monday, April 4, and extends to Aug. 31.

Members of the GOHS 150 will receive a limited edition commemorative item and be recognized in the society’s quarterly news letter.

The $22,500 raised will be used to bolster the society’s permanent endowment and help extend its service to Oneonta’s history for another 150 years.

Donations can be made by cash, credit card, or check payable to GOHS and dropped off at the Oneonta History Center or mailed to GOHS, PO Box 814, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Credit card payments may be made via PayPal at http://www. oneontahistory.org/donate.htm. Designate GOHS 150 on the Purpose line. and Emmons would become Worcester, Schenevus and Emmons, not Oneonta, the county’s commercial hub for the past century and a half.

Into this vibrant commercial mix came George Saunders and William Bissell, and Heitz, who delivered an anniversary lecture on the Bissell Block’s 150th earlier this year, reported their plans were immediately noticed by Leman P. Carpenter, editor of the Oneonta Herald.

“We notice that Messrs.

Saunders and Bissell or digging the cellar for their new brick building on the corner of Main and Dietz street,” Carpenter wrote on May 16, 1866. It would be three stories tall, 70-feet long and 48-feet wide, “suitable for two stores” – today, the History Center and, next to it, the Cutting Edge Salon – “each fronting Main Street.”

You might think Saunders and Bissell were inspired to build a monument to Oneonta’s newfound enterprise, but Bob Brzozowski, GOHS executive director, believes the inspiration was more practical.

“They realized a growing, stable community couldn’t afford to have wooden buildings on Main Street – fires were just too devastating,” he said. And, despite Saunders and Bissell’s forward thinking, massive fires “would continue for four decades.”

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“The city as we know it today was starting to evolve,” observed Heitz, whose detailed observations were culled from close reading of the Herald for the past eight years, as he’s been writing the weekly Hometown History column in Hometown Oneonta, sister newspaper with The Freeman’s Journal.

Leman Carpenter both reported the happenings around him, and sought to channel the new money into positive investments, ranging from paved streets, to a boarding house, to a plaster mill, to cheese factories, to a bakery shop. “I think he wanted a doughnut with his morning coffee,’ Heitz surmised.

In the Herald’s pages, Carpenter editorialized, “We would suggest to these gentlemen the idea of putting the third floor into a public hall … A hall for public lectures, concerts, etc., is much needed in this village.”

The only public meeting spaces in the future city were churches, whose use was limited to spiritual topics, Heitz said. Saunders and Bissell acted on the editor’s advice, and the third floor – used in decades to follow by the Masons and K of C, and for D&H Christmas parties – is today being renovated by the GOHS for future public use.

By Sept. 6, 1866, the Herald reported the foundation was nearly complete, and “the men will begin laying brick next week.” In those days, Heitz said, the bricks themselves provided the structural support.

(One of the first steps in the Historical Society’s ongoing renovations was the addition of structural supports from the basement to the third floor.)

By this time, ads in the Herald showed a general store had been opened by the Mendel family – one of “our Hebrew brethren,” Carpenter called the Mendels in reporting why the store had closed on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. A boot and shoe shop had moved up from Binghamton. Hoop

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skirts were all the rage with the local ladies.

1866 controversies included the first mention of breaking Oneonta out into a separate county: As it stood, all legal cases – criminal and civil – required a 22-mile trip to Cooperstown, a great inconvenience to busy community members.

In his readings of the Herald, Heitz also discovered that, while the Bissell building was the first downtown block, the Walling family had already built the first brick house.

Regardless, on Feb. 22, 1867, the Herald reported the Bissell Block was complete, and Saunders opened a hardware store, that must have met some challenges: It changed hands twice in five years.

In 1872, Walter Brown bought the building and brought some stability to the property, operating Brown’s Hardware and Corner Hardware with a number of partners for the next 50 years, as Brown himself was elected to the Assembly and then, state Senate.

In 1873, “David Wilber’s Bank” – ancestor to today’s Community Bank – rented a space in the hardware store, the Milford bank’s first foray into Oneonta; a couple of years later it moved across Dietz Street into the Central Hotel.

Brown lived in the mansion now occupied by Michael Stoltzer Art Gallery, next to today’s police and fire complex, and donated acreage across the street for Brown’s Park, which today is occupied by Clinton Plaza and the parking deck.

All that’s left of the park is that square of grass where the Clinton-Sullivan Expedition marker stands, Brzozowski said.

As downtown changed, so did the Bissell Block’s uses.

In 1919, John Laskaris bought it and put the ice cream shop,

Ads from Jo-Ann Dress Shop’s heyday trumpet the Bissell Block as home to high fashion.

SENTINEL/From B1 with son George I. Wilber as cashier and Edgar A. Scramling as teller, rents a portion of Brown’s Hardware, the bank’s first Oneonta location. It moves across Dietz Street to Central Hotel in 1876, and eventually to current site at Main and Ford.

1919/John Laskaris, who operated ice cream shop across street since 1898, buys 189 Main St., adds tile floor, tin ceiling, glass transom windows and new entrance, opens soda shop, candy store and restaurant.

1948/Laskaris moves to corner of Main and Chestnut, where the Metropole and Corfu diners were operated until 2011, when Simply Thai opened there.

1949/Antonia Chrones, Laskaris’ daughter, opens Jo-Ann Dress Shop – “Oneonta’s Newest, Smartest Fashion Center,” according to opening-day ad – in 189 Main St. The name combines Antonia and sister Georgia’s nicknames.

1968/Galinn’s Jewelry, owned by Carl Puylara Sr., who bought operation in 1962 from Jacob and Martha Gallin, moves into 189 Main, adding aluminum front, creating recessed entry, and erecting neon sign. He buys building from Laskaris family around 1978.

2001/Greater Oneonta Historical Society buys building, which had been vacant since Gallin’s close in 1999, and created today’s Oneonta History Center. candy store and luncheonette there, still fondly remembered by many older Oneontans. (One tragedy dimmed those fond memories: in 1941, Laskaris’ nephew, John Georgeson, got caught between the floor and elevator and was killed. The elevator was removed for 75 years; one was reinstalled this year as part of the renovations.)

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129.00-1-9.00 Res 7.72A 417 Bush Rd Decker Lavester R 130.15-1-16.00 Res 0.60A 548 Greenough Rd West Timothy 144.00-1-2.21 Res 13.96A 126 Manley Rd Althiser Lawrence 144.00-1-67.01 Res 2.47A St Hwy 205 Althiser Lawrence 144.00-1-68.01 Res 0.90A 3528 St Hwy 205 Althiser Lawrence 144.00-1-68.02 Res 2.18A 3524 St Hwy 205 Monroe Ronald W 144.19-1-40.00 Res 1.35A 3546 St Hwy 205* Althiser Lawrence 160.00-1-22.00 Res 8.97A 3487 St Hwy 205* Konopka Teresa E 161.00-1-22.00 Res 9.80A 1438 Co Hwy 45 Duke Richard 161.00-1-33.00 Res 2.07A 878 Co Hwy 45 Arnot David R 176.00-1-17.01 Res 22.46A 580 Pleasant Valley Rd Kane Matthew D 176.00-1-38.02 Res 3.00A 2376 Co Hwy 11 Powers Daniel 178.00-1-18.00 Res 79.10A Goey Pond West Rd Martinez Zoe 178.00-1-40.00 Res 32.66A 383 Co Hwy 45 Powers Daniel 178.00-1-42.01 Res 75.47A 462 Co Hwy 45 Partridge Richard J 178.00-1-49.00 Res 11.83A St Hwy 28* Martinez Zoe 193.00-1-12.00 Res 2.79A Chlorinator Rd

7540 St Hwy 7 Balbuena Jacqueline Kilts 245.10-1-7.00 Res 1.26A 7581 St Hwy 7 Alessi Rosa 246.00-1-40.00 Res 33.49A Co Hwy 56 Kibbe** Teresa 261.00-1-52.00 Res 23.99A 129 Blueberry Ln Rickett Robert M 261.00-1-67.00 Res 1.03A Leonard* Rd DeSantis Michael 262.00-2-22.00 Res 15.20A Bush Hill Rd Moan Patrick 264.00-1-19.01 Res 13.13A Center Rd

Res 0.75A 134 Sunnycrest Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-50.00 Res 0.49A 140 Sunnycrest Rd Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-51.00 Res 0.38A 144 Sunnycrest Rd Manchester Kathy 260.18-1-53.00 Res 0.05A Cliffside Cir LPD Construction Company LLC 276.00-2-20.00 Res 0.25A 6147 St Hwy 7 Manchester Stephen V 277.00-1-20.01 Res 0.90A 6353 St Hwy 7

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Llewellyn Stella 52.30-1-14.00 Res 0.10A 7728 St Hwy 28 Nickerson Jack 52.38-1-9.01 Res 0.11A 104 Mill Rd Lyncourt Eric 64.00-2-8.06 Res 1.96A 442 Munson Rd Lyncourt Eric 64.00-2-8.41 Res 42.75A Munson Rd Stegen Arthur A 64.00-2-14.01 Res 13.37A 2036 Co Hwy 19 Chapman William J 65.00-1-1.02 Res 0.34A 2170 Co Hwy 19 Bancroft David 67.00-1-11.00 Res 0.87A 1574 Co Hwy 22 Knollwood Associates 67.00-1-16.102 Res 23.88A St Hwy 28 Donnelly William J 67.09-1-28.12 Res 0.75A 7303 St Hwy 28 Duncan Frank Sr 67.09-1-49.00 Res 0.87A 1510 Co Hwy 22

Moxley Daniel J 224.00-1-17.02 Res 0.63A 416 Pool Brook Rd Knarich George A. 238.00-2-9.07 Res 7.23A 183 Peterson Rd Holmes Raymond 240.11-1-38.00 Res 0.35A 136 Co Hwy 12 Turrell Richard 274.00-1-25.01 Res 235.68A Co Hwy 11

Town of Hartwick Ray Christopher Scott 128.00-2-29.32 Res 1.04A Gulf Rd West Timothy M 128.00-2-56.31 Res 1.58A 3836 St Hwy 205 Sierra Robert

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Town of Maryland Jaquish Glenn 198.00-2-21.03 Res 25.68A 117 Waterman Rd Herr Doreen 230.19-1-3.01 Res 0.32A 15 Main St Scott Allen F 230.19-1-54.00 Res 0.24A 16 West St Murphy Patricia A 230.19-2-41.00 Res 0.21A 53 Race St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-9.02 Res 2.79A Main* St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-68.00 Res 1.02A Main* St Sisson Brett J 244.00-2-18.02 Res 5.78A 186 Crumhorn Lake Rd Alvarez Edward W 245.09-1-30.00 Res 1.94A

Town of Middlefield Holbrook James S 86.01-1-22.00 Res 0.60A 3152 Co Hwy 33 Campbell Alan W 118.00-1-2.03 Res 1.00A 2672 St Hwy 166 Willis Jane B 133.00-1-12.14 Res 23.73A Rezen Rd Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1-7.00 Res 0.33A 3692 Co Hwy Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1-64.00 Res 0.12A Co Hwy 35 Holbrook James S 147.00-1-13.00 Res 19.50A Sibley Gulf Rd Gibbons Barbara 147.00-1-40.01 Res 93.56A 420 Sibley Gulf Rd Oliver Robert A 164.00-1-13.07 Res 41.87A Co Hwy 35 Beatty Robin Bryant 180.01-1-6.00 Res 0.48A 2685 Co Hwy 35 Wahl Anthony S 195.00-1-29.02 Res 34.07A 568 St Hwy 166 Wahl Anthony S 195.00-1-30.00 Res 4.90A 533 St Hwy 166 Village of Milford Summers Linden D III 194.20-2-63.00 Res 0.10A 63 S Main St Wahl Anthony S 194.20-2-78.00 Res 0.08A 68 S Main St Wahl Anthony S 194.20-2-79.00 Res 0.11A 70 S Main St Munro David A. 195.17-1-4.00 Res 1.58A 161 E Main St Brown Gerald L 195.17-1-19.00 Res 0.29A 101 River St Town of Milford LPD Construction Company LLC 195.00-3-2.00 Res 0.37A 15 Kilts Rd Roe Kenneth J 209.00-1-40.03 Res 4.16A 621 Lougheed Rd Teixeira Nancy 226.00-1-2.00 Res 4.94A 215 Concrite Rd Spence James A 243.18-2-17.00 Res 0.66A 109 Happy Valley Road Spur Sobey Albert Jr 260.05-3-73.00 Res 0.54A 185 Lee Dr Brower Steven 260.05-3-75.00 Res 0.41A Lee Dr Brower Steven 260.05-3-77.00 Res 0.11A 178 Lee Dr Apple Mansion Estate LLC 260.13-2-6.00 Res 0.25A 149 Sunnycrest Rd Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-49.02

Village of Morris Foster Diane 221.18-1-2.00 Res 0.23A 74 Broad St Town of Morris Sieck Richard K 204.00-2-17.05 Res 72.72A St Hwy 51 Santelia Edward A 220.00-1-11.00 Res 3.08A 111 Hilsinger Rd Best Kenneth J 221.00-1-46.00 Res 2.79A Co Hwy 49* Imbrosciano Frederick 221.00-1-53.00 Res 0.26A 133 Co Hwy 49 Schacht Robert 221.00-1-57.00 Res 0.90A 2009 St Hwy 23 Owner Unknown 221.00-1-74.00 Res 1.82A St Hwy 23* Williams Theodore F Jr 222.00-1-21.00 Res 46.02A 2277 St Hwy 23 Town of New Lisbon DeVries Thomas 141.00-4-3.00 Res 9.57A 4703 St Hwy 51 Srdepot And Co Inc 141.00-4-10.00 Res 4.42A St Hwy 51 Dorothea 189.00-1-37.00 Res 140.06A 3527 St Hwy 51 Martin George 189.00-1-39.00 Res 0.37A 1700 Co Hwy 12 Heins John 189.00-1-76.00 Res 3.97A 774 Pegg Rd Sanchez David 190.00-1-15.00 Res 11.16A 113 Wheat Rd Scollard John S 191.00-1-27.00 Res 4.75A 148 Falls Bridge Rd Barker William A 191.00-1-39.02 Res 6.97A 128 Jacobson Rd Wulff David 191.00-1-56.02 Res 18.50A 350 Gardner Town Rd Harris Winston Jr 205.00-1-2.00 Res 1.53A St Hwy 51 Harris Winston Jr 205.00-1-5.00 Res 55.67A 3312 St Hwy 51 Town of Oneonta Goodrich Rita S 274.00-2-21.00 Res 0.99A 984 St Hwy 205 Goodrich Rita S 274.00-2-22.00 Res 3.47A 980 St Hwy 205 Goodrich Rita S 274.00-2-24.00 Res 0.99A 976 St Hwy 205 Davis Mark W 274.00-2-27.00 Res 7.26A 954 St Hwy 205 Carpenter Roger 274.00-2-46.00 Res 8.84A 461 Winney Hill

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Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-2-20.00 Res 29.48A Co Hwy 8 Cyzeski David 287.09-1-85.01 Res 7.84A 3996 St Hwy 23 Golinski William 287.15-1-16.00 Res 0.22A Winney Hill Rd Chen Bang Hua 287.19-1-54.00 Res 0.39A 61 Richards Ave RCBR Properties LLC 287.19-2-21.00 Res 0.39A 38 Richards Ave Welch Elwyn D 288.00-2-22.00 Res 0.07A Cemetery Hill Rd Szerwinski Michael 289.001-25.00 Res 1.64A St Hwy 7* Browne Christopher 289.00-1-79.00 Res 0.21A 204 Riverstone Rd Polley Robert 289.00-1-89.01 Res 37.49A 130 Riverstone Rd Warner Brenda L 299.07-4-72.00 Res 0.35A 1A Orchard St Galasso Martin A., Jr. 300.00-3-67.21 Res 9.50A St Hwy 23 Randazzo Giuseppe 309.001-47.00 Res 43.32A St Hwy 28* Village of Otego Wessells John S Jr 317.16-1-26.00 Res 0.95A 390 Main St Adkins Virginia 317.19-1-23.00 Res 0.53A 301 Main St Spataro Barbara A 317.19-1-24.01 Res 2.40A 307 Main St Town of Otego Giannini Donna 272.00-1-60.01 Res 0.29A 2150 Co Hwy 8 Dugan Michael J 272.00-2-31.00 Res 5.00A Co Hwy 6 Welch John W 273.00-2-22.01 Res 42.89A 110 Welch Ter Schwed Karl R 285.00-1-17.00 Res 1.30A 1866 Co Hwy 8 Hunsucker Fred 285.00-1-24.01 Res 124.87A 1261 Co Hwy 7 Hunsucker Fred 285.00-1-24.02 Res 5.90A Co Hwy 7* Hunsucker Harry L 285.00-1-26.00 Res 6.13A Co Hwy 7* Perry Samuel H Jr 285.00-1-34.04 Res 5.44A 347 Upper Green St Packard Amy 285.00-1-38.00 Res 0.77A 970 Co Hwy 7 Conklin Charles R 286.00-1-10.02 Res 1.38A 107 W Oneonta Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-1-26.00 Res 65.52A West Oneonta Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-1-27.00 Res 4.23A West Oneonta Rd Strickland Wayne R 286.001-35.81 Res 1.90A 136 Forest Way Grabo Randy J 297.00-1-34.04 Res 5.48A 308 Upper Green St Turrell Richard L 298.00-1-10.00 Res 61.00A Mill Creek Rd Lawyer Garry W 306.00-1-39.01 Res 1.11A Haney Rd Mowers Kenneth L Jr

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308.00-1-41.02 Res 1.29A 3985 St Hwy 7 Butler Vernon J 316.00-1-33.01 Res 67.34A Wheaton Creek Rd Klinger George H Jr 317.00-1-11.42 Res 19.22A 161 Haney Rd Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-25.00 Res 0.26A 272 Flax Island Rd Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-26.00 Res 0.31A 276 Flax Island Rd Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-31.04 Res 96.76A 215 Anderson Ln Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-50.00 Res 0.35A 74 Otsdawa Ave Savage** Norma 318.00-1-5.01 Res 5.12A 3493 St Hwy 7 Savage** Norma 318.00-1-5.04 Res 1.21A 3489 St Hwy 7* Brown Karen 318.00-1-52.05 Res 0.66A 112 Mick Lane Ext Bond Faron 325.00-1-12.00 Res 0.58A 462 Co Hwy 48 Freudenmann Tamara 325.00-1-17.01 Res 2.18A 831 Franklin Mt Rd Village of Cooperstown, Town of Otsego Gadomski Christopher R 115.18-2-36.00 Res 0.40A 4 Pine Blvd Stabinski Eric 131.06-1-23.00 Res 0.23A 58 Chestnut St Dimick Charles John 131.06-2-47.00 Res 0.03A Main* St Lewis Constance S 131.10-1-41.00 Res 0.21A 39 Delaware St Davis Nancy M 131.10-1-44.00 Res 0.26A 45 Delaware St Town of Otsego McCord John 67.00-2-2.02 Res 14.48A 1772 Co Hwy 22 Congden Jeffrey S 67.00-2-12.00 Res 0.86A 822 Keating Rd Summers Sylvia V 69.00-1-9.02 Res 1.13A 6743 St Hwy 80 McNulty Family Trust Murial 82.00-2-2.21 Res 2.91A 551 Keating Rd Reiss Howard K 84.00-1-15.12 Res 3.22A Co Hwy 28 Holbrook James S 84.00-1-30.00 Res 0.28A 379 Co Hwy 28 Jones Henry W 96.00-1-7.00 Res 6.66A Thayer Rd Jones Henry W 96.00-1-8.01 Res 119.80A Thayer Rd Jones Henry W 96.00-1-8.02 Res 1.38A 170 Thayer Rd Jones Henry W 96.00-1-9.00 Res 96.36A Thayer Rd Ostapeck Alma 98.00-1-1.01 Res 4.26A 1133 Co Hwy 26 Bancroft David L 113.00-1-20.01 Res 10.38A 107 Cemetery Rd Klein Gregory L. 113.00-1-51.00 Res 1.86A 461 Christian Hill Rd Wright Therese A

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332.00-1-83.21 Res 79.44A 342 Co Hwy 1 Lopez Gary J 333.03-2-42.00 Res 0.30A Sanly Rd Unadilla Shamrock Village LLC 334.00-1-47.00 Res 3.09A 1676 St Hwy 7 GR Enterprises of the Northeas 336.00-1-46.01 Res 1.82A St Hwy 7 Button Karel 336.02-1-32.00 Res 0.81A 117 Co Hwy 1 Yale Susan 336.02-1-39.01 Res 2.33A 187 Old Hill Rd Roldun Judith A 336.02-1-39.05 Res 1.92A 185 Old Hill Rd Hunt WIlliam A Jr 336.02-1-45.00 Res 0.21A 459 St Hwy 7* Savino Hildegard 336.02-1-63.02 Res 0.66A 430 St Hwy 7 Town of Westford Gaskin Brian 149.00-1-10.00 Res 12.16A 361 Tabor Rd Rifenbark Matthew 150.00-1-36.03 Res 3.91A 2082 Co Hwy 34 Marullo Joseph 166.00-1-43.03 Res 1.56A 908 Co Hwy 36 Regg Frances A 166.00-1-46.00 Res 0.85A 674 Co Hwy 36 Parsons William H 166.01-1-20.00 Res 3.24A Middlefield Rd Parsons William H 166.01-1-31.00 Res 0.15A 1759 Co Hwy 34 Scott Nancy 166.01-1-43.00 Res 0.14A 1753 Co Hwy 34 Traweek Adrienne 180.01-2-4.00 Res 0.72A 2702 Co Hwy 35 Pagillo Richard 196.00-1-16.02 Res 1.28A

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Nature of proceeding: Such proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such petition.

No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

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

Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the office of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax District and the Otsego County Courthouse and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for

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redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption.

Such payments shall be made to Dan Crowell, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 30th day of May 2016.

Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure.

Such answer must be filed in the office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the above date mentioned as the last day for redemption.

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

Enforcing Officer Dan Crowell Otsego County Treasurer Attorney for Tax District Ellen Coccoma Otsego County Attorney 197 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 1LegalMarch3 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Brower Property Management, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 01/25/2016.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC,

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17 Spencer Dr., Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: any legal purpose.

6LegalMarch31 Legal notice Notice of formation of MELODY PINES FARM, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on February 17, 2016. The office of 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 him/her to: The LLC, 608 County Highway 51, Morris, New York, 13808. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalApril7 Legal notice Visions of Home, LLC The name of the limited liability company is “Visions of Home, LLC” The date the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York was February 23, 2016. The County within the State in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Otsego County.

The Secretary of the State of New York has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the State of New York to which the Secretary of the State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him is: Visions of Home, LLC, 101 Spruce Street, Oneonta, NY 13820. The purpose of the business of the limited liability company is any lawful business purpose.

Counsel for the Company: The Dalton Law Firm, LLC 112 Spring Street-Suite 307 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 518-587-9600 6LegalApril7 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF New Hyde Park Construction, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on February 16, 2016.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to : The LLC, PO Box 404, Cooperstown, New York 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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MP Test Equipment, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 February 2016.

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 2121 County Hwy 22, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalApril7 Legal notice WILLSUE, LLC ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF WILLSUE, LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law The name of the limited liability company is: WILLSUE, LLC The county, within this state, in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located in OTSEGO. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 50 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 The limited liability company is to be managed by: ONE OR MORE MEMBERS. I certify that I have read the above statements, I am authorized to sign these Articles of Organization, that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and that my signature typed below constitutes my signature.

WILLIAM C. GREEN, ESQ., ORGANIZER (signature) WILLIAM C. GREEN, ESQ., ORGANIZER Filed by: GREEN & GREEN 50 MAIN STREET PO BOX 148 Cooperstown, New York 13326 6LegalApril7 Legal notice TROIX REALTY GROUP, LLC Notice of formation of Troix Realty Group, LLC, a limited liability company (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (the “SSNY”) on 2/26/16. Office location: Otsego County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served.

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The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 54 Lancaster Street, Cherry Valley, New York 13320.

Purposes: are to acquire, own, hold, improve, manage and operate the real property, including the property located at 157 First Street, in Troy, New York (the “Property”); to incur indebtedness, secured and unsecured; to mortgage, finance, refinance, encumber, lease, sell, exchange, convey, transfer or otherwise deal with or dispose of the Property; to enter into and perform contracts and agreements of any kind necessary to, in connection with or incidental to the business of the Limited Liability Company.

6LegalApril14 Legal notice NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Bassett PPS, LLC filed articles of organization with the Department of State on February 23, 2016. Its principal office is in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the Company is One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The purpose of the Company is to serve as a lead entity for the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program and any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. 6LegalApril14 Legal notice LUNDIN CHRISTMAS TREES LLC, Articles of Org. filed N.Y. Sec. of State (SSNY) 18th day of February, 2016.

Office in Otsego Co. at 12 Forster Street, Otego, New York 13825.

SSNY desig. agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 12 Forster Street, Otego, New York 13825. Reg. Agt. upon whom process may be served: Spiegel & Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden Lane, NYC 10038 1 800 576-1100 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApril21 Legal notice Notice of Formation of ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MONETARY SERVICES, , LLC. Arts. Of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/9/15. Office Location: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it

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SSNY shall mail process: Robert A. Gouldin, Esq., 93 Main Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: any lawful activities.

6LegalApril21 Legal notice BLUEBIRD HOMES, LLC Notice of formation of Bluebird Homes, LLC, a limited liability company (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (the “SSNY”) on 3/11/16. Office location: Otsego County.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 54 Lancaster Street, Cherry Valley, New York 13320.

Purposes: are to acquire, own, hold, improve, manage and operate real property, including the property located at 59 Elm Street, in the Village of Cooperstown, New York.

6LegalApril28 Legal notice SEELEYS ALL SEASON SERVICES LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/03/2016.

Office loc: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Mark Seeley, 129 Skyline Drive, Bainbridge, NY 13733. Reg Agent: Mark Seeley, 129 Skyline Drive, Bainbridge, NY 13733. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

6LegalApril28 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Brown Associates Prince George LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/16. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Brown Associates LLC, c/o Barbara Utter, 859 County Hwy. 5, Otego, NY 13825. Purpose: any lawful activities.

6LegalMay5 Legal notice Notice of formation of Chicory Creek Farm LLC (“LLC”), a limited liability company. On 3/28/16 Articles of Organization were filed with NYS Sec’y of State. Office location: Otsego County. Sec’y of State designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. Sec’y of State shall mail a copy of such process to Chicory Creek Farm LLC, 2722 State Highway 205, Mt. Vision, NY 13810. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity 6LegalMay5

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NOMINATION DEADLINE -- Last day to nominate local person or business for Otsego 2000’s 2015 Historic Preservation Awards for Otsego & Schoharie Counties.

Info, nomination forms at www. otsego2000.org or (607) 5478881.

BLOOD DRIVE -- 1:30-6:30 p.m. American Red Cross blood drive. Appointments at www.

RedCrossBlood.org, or 1-800733-2767, or call Clinical Lab office at (607) 547-3701. Walkins also welcome. Bassett Hall Auditorium, Bassett Medical Center (Beaver and Pioneer Sts), Cooperstown.

CHICKEN & BISCUIT DINNER -- 4:30-7 p.m. Dinner with trimmings, homemade desserts; takeouts available. $10 adults; $5 kids. Benefits Jamaica mission to Pringle Home Orphanage.

First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info (607) 432-4286.

CANO RECEPTION -- 5-8 p.m.

Opening reception for exhibit “Pinholes, Pixels & Paint,” running through April 17, featuring works by current and former Hartwick College staff members Katharine Kreisher, Annie Gohde, and Vern Burnett. Free. CANO at Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, www.canoneonta. org FENIMORE RECEPTION -- 5:307 p.m. Spring members’ reception to celebrate opening day of spring exhibitions, including “Ansel Adams: Early Works.” Kindly RSVP to Kate Morgan at (607) 547-1536 or k.morgan@nysha. org. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m.

Otsego Dance Society hosts.

Music by Crooked Sixpence, of Ithaca. Ed Bugel calls. No partner or experience needed. Suggested donation $8 adults; $4 students and 18 & under; ages 12 & under free. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown.

Info, www.otsegodancesociety. blogspot.com CONCERT -- 8 p.m. The Garcia Project and special guest, Acoustically Speaking. Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Tickets, www.oneontatheatre.com

Saturday, April 2

SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE -- 9 a.m.

Troop 1254 invites Cooperstown residents to place clean returnable bottles & cans on curb or porch steps visible from street.

Monthly bottle drives fund troop activities, events, and trips. Troop thanks the community for support. Special pickups, questions, call Bruce at (607) 267-6730.

BENCH PRESS COMPETITION -- 10:30 a.m. Monster Bench Press Competition. Lifters, preteen to age 70-plus, may weigh-in anytime Friday, April 1, at Clark Sports Center fitness center desk.

Also register to compete at 9 a.m. day of event; rules review at 10 a.m. Clark Sports Center, 124 Co. Hwy. 52, Cooperstown, Info, www. clarksportscenter.com HD OPERA – 12:55 p.m. Live HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” Foothills Production Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, tickets, www.foothillspac.org TEACHER FREE DAY -- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Pre K-12 teachers admitted free with proof of educator status, at The Farmers’ and Fenimore Art museums, Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org or www. farmersmuseum.org FIRE DEPT. DINNER -- 4-8 p.m. (or until food runs out). Spaghetti dinner fundraiser, hosted by Cooperstown Fire Dept.’s Emergency Squad. Takeout available; limited delivery to Bassett facilities in Cooperstown. Cooperstown Fire House, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5444393.

ART OPENING - 5-7 p.m.

Cherry Branch Gallery re-opens for season with exhibition of new works by 20 New York State artists. Free. Refreshments, music

by Angus Mackie and the SMRT Quartet. Exhibit runs through April 24. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, (607) 264-9530.

GOODS & SERVICES AUCTION -- 5:30 p.m. silent auction; 6:30 p.m. live auction. Annual Goods & Services Auction. Enjoy snacks and beverages while bidding on

services, jewelry, antiques, art, baseball memorabilia, a violin, wine, meals, yard work, home repair, concert tickets, tour guide & more. Unitarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-3491.

SUPPER CLUB -- 9 p.m. American roots recording artist Marc Berger. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, res, (607) 432-2053.

Jack G. Stahl, 82; Professional Pianist Here, In Europe

2016, “Re-Mixes: From Photography to Collage: The Art of Carmile S. Zaino,” by the NYC and DeLancey artist. Artist talk at 4 pm. Free. Refreshments, all welcome. Exhibit through April 22. Bright Hill Word & Image Gallery, 94 Church St., Treadwell.

Info, (607) 829-5055.

SUPPER CLUB -- 6 p.m. (Doors open 5 p.m.) Female quintet Too Many Divas musical stylings of ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s. $25 includes hors d’oeuvres. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, res, (607) 432-2053.

Florence Boyle, 84; Treasurer James C. Bell, 88; D&H Retiree – James C. great-grandchildren, MatFor Morris, Milford Schools Bell,ONEONTA 88, who retired from thew, Wyatt, Jordan, Jaelyn,

ONEONTA – Jack G. Stahl, 82, of Oneonta, a pianist who played at establishments across New York and New Jersey, passed away on Thursday, March 24, 2016, at home.

Sunday, Jack was born on Nov. April 3 25, 1933 in North Fenton, in FOOD & WINE TASTING – 3-6 Broome County, the son of p.m. 17th annual Epicurean Food the late Gilbert and Tressa & Wine Tasting, to benefit Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care. (Snow) Stahl. He took up the piano at age 3, and Local culinary delights, wine, silent auction, music. $80 per studied for eight years under person. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Frances P. Kelly.

Cooperstown. Info, Bob Escher at Serving in the Army, he (607) 432-6773. played the piano throughout OPENING RECEPTION -- 3-5 Europe. p.m. Opening for first exhibit of

He married Jennie Wakin on July 8, 1956, in Oneonta.

He was a member of St. Mary’s Church, a life member of the Musicians Union Local 380 and 443, and was a member of the Sixth Ward Athletic Club.

Jack is survived by his wife of 60 years; his sons, John M. Olden-Stahl and his wife Susan of Poolesville, Md., and Richard J. Stahl of Oneonta.

Also his grandchildren, Dr. Natalie Olden-Stahl Boone and husband, Matthew, Julia Olden-Stahl,

Aaron Stahl and wife, Jessica, and Cameron Stahl; four great grandchildren; his brothers and sisters, Irene Foster (RichJack Stahl ard), Jane Treadwell, June Hanley (Robert), Jean Pelham, James Stahl and Rex Stahl (Judy) and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased

by his parents and sisters, Marie Mika, Grace Donahue and Gail Hendershot.

Calling hours will be held 10-11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 31, at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta. A funeral mass will follow at noon in St. Mary’s Church, with Father.

David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

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

ONEONTA – Mrs. Florence “Flo” Boyle, 84, who for many years was treasurer of the Milford and Morris central school districts, passed away March 24, 2016, at Focus Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Index.

Born Oct. 4, 1931, to Tuesday, Frank and Florence (MahnApril 5 ken) Ulm of Queens Village, OCCA HIKE– 10 a.m. Join she graduated from Grover Otsego County Conservation Cleveland High School.

Association’s Jeff O’Handley and In her early years, she enthe local Adirondack Mountain Club chapter, for hike in R. Milton joyed traveling and visiting Hick State Forest. Free. Meet at with family. trailhead on Perry Hill Rd in RoseOn April 12, 1980, boom. To carpool with AMC, meet at Oneonta Price Chopper parking Flo married Barrie McKlot, Rte. 7 at 9:15 a.m. Dress for ennan Boyle in a cerweather, bring water. Pre-register emony at Christ Church, at www.occainfo.org. Info, www.

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In addition to her husband OPEN HOUSE -- 11 a.m.-7 of 35 years, she is surp.m. Open house for community feedback on Cooperstown vived by two sons, Ronald Comprehensive plan. Drop in.

Kyser and his wife, CasCooperstown Fire Hall, 24 Chestsandra, of St. Paul, Minn., nut St., Cooperstown. Info, visit and Randall Kyser and his www.coopplan.wordpress.com wife, Christine, of TallaUKRANIAN EGG WORKSHOP -- 5 p.m (Tues & Thurs until April hassee, Fla.; one daughter, 21). Learn Ukranian “Pysanky” Kathleen Daniels and her egg decoration. $10 supply husband, Destry, of Lost donation. Orthodox Mission Creek, W. Va.; a stepson, Chapel, basement of St. James John Boyle of Alameda, Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta.

Calif.; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; a brother, William Ulm of Seminole, Fla.; a sister, Irene Jervis of Oneonta; and several nieces and nephews She was preceded in death by her first husband, Douglas M. Kyser; a son, Michael Kyser; two brothers, Frank and Raymond Ulm; two sisters, Marie Poole and Claire Sluzenski; and a stepdaughter, Ellen M. Boyle.

The Office of the Burial of the Dead with Holy Eucharist was held Wednesday, March 30 in Saint Agnes Chapel at Christ Church, Cooperstown, with the Father Matthew R Stromberg, curate, officiating.

Interment was in Hartwick Seminary Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

the D&H after a long career, passed away peacefully with his family at his side on March 22, 2016.

In his retirement, he enjoyed hunting and fishing.

He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Ruth (Silvernail) Bell; his daughters, Jean (David) Christensen and Joan (Ron) Martini; grandchildren, Amy (Justin), Brad (Jessica); Marissa (Jeff) and Mary (Andrew);

and Jenevie; a brother, William (Phyllis) Bell; a sister, Laura (Ben) Haney; a sister-in-law, Lois Bell; many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his siblings, David Bell, Dorothy (John) Winn and Barbara (Alfred) Winn.

A private burial will be held at a later date.

Arrangements are by the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, Oneonta.

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Patricia Lutz, 86; Daughter Survives ONEONTA – Patricia Ann Lutz, 86, passed away peacefully on March 26, 2016, at Fox Nursing Home.

Her only daughter, Patti Tarricone of Oneonta, survives her.

She was born on Feb. 1, 1930, in Brooklyn, a

daughter of the late John and Catherine McCann.

She and James Lutz were married on May 7, 1953, he passed away in 2000. Because of James’ career in the Air Force they lived in many different states, retiring to McAdoo, Pa.

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Restrooms/central air/alarm/ phone. Call to discuss ideas/ options. Kathy Fistrowicz 607267-2683 Oneonta Retail Space For Lease! Over 8,000 square feet of space featuring loading dock with overhead door and warehouse area, plus a light and bright retail space second to none in the downtown lower hub of the city. $2950 per month. Call Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC for BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Oneonta Business For Sale!

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LAND FOR SALE 34 Acres - Excellent opportunity to build on property adjoining a golf course. Property lends itself well to hunting.

Added bonus: Located within a short distance to two of the areas largest employers. Call now to see this exceptional opportunity while still available. (Sell Broker) Rodney Campbell (315) 868-0148.

CHILD CARE Hiring summer care for 9 year old girl. Must be 18, have a car, and an interest in working with special needs child.

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Payments are for a 2016 CHEVROLET Cruze Limited 1LT with an MSRP of $21,020. 24 monthly payments total $4,296. 23 monthly payments total $4,117. Mileage charge of $0.25/mile over 20,000 miles. - Payments are for a 2016 CHEVROLET Malibu 1LT with an MSRP of $25,895. 39 monthly payments total $7,761. Mileage charge of $0.25/mile over 32,500 miles. - Payments are for a 2016 CHEVROLET Equinox LT Preferred Equipment Group with an MSRP of $27,345. 24 monthly payments total $4,776. Mileage charge of $0.25/mile over 20,000 miles. - Payments are for a 2016 CHEVROLET Trax 1LT Preferred Equipment Group with an MSRP of $23,540. 39 monthly payments total $7,761. Mileage charge of $0.25/mile over 32,500 miles. - Payments are for a 2016 CHEVROLET Traverse FWD 1LT Preferred Equipment Group with an MSRP of $34,900. 39 monthly payments total $10,491. Mileage charge of $0.25/mile over 32,500 miles. Tax, title, license, dealer fees and optional equipment extra. Take delivery by 03-31-2016. See dealer for details.

after all offfers

$1,119 DUE AT SIGNING

PER MO. FOR 39 MOS

DEPOSIT $0 SECURITY DUE AT SIGNING

$269

MONTHS

24 DUE AT SIGNING AFTER ALL OFFERS

No security deposit required. Tax, title and license extra. Payments are for 2016 Buick Verano 1SD with MSRP of $24,405. 39 monthly payments total $7,761. Mileage charge of $.25/mile over 32,500 miles. See Dealer for details. Must take delivery by 3/31/16.

$199 PER MONTH FOR 39 MOS. DOWN $ 1ST MONTH'S $0SECURITY $0PAYMENT DEPOSIT 0 PAYMENT

Ultra Low-Mileage Lease for Well-Qualified Lessees with a Non-GM Lease

2016 BUICK VERANO 1SD

No security deposit required. Tax, title and fees extra. Payments are for a 2016 Terrain SLE-1 with an MSRP of $28,320. 24 monthly payments total $4,776.

Take delivery by 3/31/16. Mileage charge of $.25/mile over 20,000 miles.

See Dealer for details.

PER MONTH

$199

$2,119

Ultra Low-Mileage Lease for Qualified Lessees with a non-GM lease

2016 GMC TERRAIN SLE-1

$137 $149

SILVER, 52K, 2210B, $11,369 ..............

SILVER, 44K, 2173A, $12,127 ..............

$470

6 SPD, RED, 7K, 1942C, $32,875 .............. /mo

$293

GRAY, 732075, 25K, $21,473 ..................

V6, LTHR, WHITE, 38K, 732049, $25,463 ....

2014 TERRAIN SLT

/mo

$353

/mo

$332

WHITE, 55K, 1463A, $16,387 ..............

2011 EQUINOX LT AWD

$311

CONV., BLUE, 15K, 732064, $22,684 ............ /mo

/mo

/mo

$311

2015 BUICK ENCORE AWD

CONV., BLUE, 15K, 732063, $22,684 ............

2015 BUICK ENCORE AWD

2013 TERRAIN SLE1 AWD

/mo

$277

BLACK, 44K, 2223D, $20,396 ..............

2014 TERRAIN SLE AWD

$275 /mo

/mo

$246

BLACK, 39K, 732074, $20,387 ............

2013 TERRAIN SLE1 AWD

FRT. WD, BLUE, 23K, 2235A, $18,397 ..............

2013 EQUINOX LT

$206

$215

$236

SILVER, 64K, 1814B, $15,923 .............

BLACK, 60K, 2230A, $16,382 ..............

GRAY, 73K, 1974A, $17,733 ..............

2013 SONIC 2LT

$385

PARTS & SERVICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 8am-5pm, Sat. 8am-1pm. SALES DEPT. FWD, SNRF, MAROON, HOURS: Mon.-Thurs. 8am-8pm, Fri. 8am-6pm, Sat. 8am-5pm. FAC. #4390001 36K, 1998A, $27,366.......

/mo

2013 CADILLAC XTS LUXURY

/mo

$219 Pre-Owned Vehicles: Payments based on $2500 down or trade equity plus sales tax, title and fees. Pre-Owned financing 2011 and newer 3.49% for 72 months, 2010 3.79% for 66 mos, 2009 3.79% for 60 mos, 2008 4.49% for 48 mos, 2007 4.99% for 48 mos.

All Brands Wanted!

2014 MALIBU 2LT

GRAY, 43K, 732092, $16,625 .............

/mo

/mo

$186

$186

2014 CRUZE LT

WHITE, 40K, 732088, $14,525 .............

2014 CRUZE LT

/mo

$186 SILVER, 40K, 732089, $14,525 .............

The demand for pre-owned vehicles is strong right now & our inventory is at an all time low.

The season is here, the time is right, Trade In, Trade Up Today!

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GRAY, 39K, 732091, $14,525 .............

/mo

$186 GREEN, 39K, 732090, $14,525 .............

/mo

$136 BLUE, 37K, 732099, $11,287 .............

2014 CRUZE LT

/mo

$385

/mo

$458

/mo

$457

OTHER PRE-OWNED CARS

WT, V8, SILVER, 2K, 2025A, $32,276 ..............

YOUR TRADE!

V6, MAROON, 10K, 2212A, $27,369 ..............

/mo

$364 2015 GMC CANYON EXT SLE 4WD

V6, LTHR, NAV, WHITE, 18K, 731990, $25,929 ....

2014 SIERRA 2500HD REG CAB

4WD, BLACK, 15K, 1725A, $31,973 ..............

/mo

$422

2014 GMC SIERRA DBL CAB SLE

GRAY, 11K, 2155A, $29,738 ..............

/mo

$415

2013 GMC SIERRA EXT 4WD SLE

4WD, BLACK, 14K, 732080, $29,427 ............

/mo

$414

2013 SILVERADO EXT CAB LT

4WD, RED, 6K, 2207A, $29,373 ..............

2014 CRUZE LT

/mo

/mo

/mo

/mo

$354

2014 GMC TERRAIN SLT AWD

4WD, GRAY, 47K, 2121A, $25,386 ..............

/mo

$408

2012 GMC SIERRA EXT CAB SLE

BLACK, 63K, 2077A, $28,995 ..............

/mo

$404

2012 TAHOE LS 4WD

732102, 38K, $28,554 ..................

/mo

$401

2015 TRAVERSE LT AWD

CONV., BLACK, 41K, 732105, $28,397 ............

/mo

$398

2013 BUICK ENCLAVE AWD

4WD, WHITE, 46K, 2117A, $28,179 ..............

2014 SILVERADO DBL CAB LT

$387

LTHR, SNRF, NAV, AWD, PREMIUM, BLACK, 9K, /mo 1033A, $27,492 ..............

2014 BUICK ENCORE CXL

WANTED

2013 EQUINOX LT AWD

2013 EQUINOX LS AWD

2012 EQUINOX LS AWD

/mo

$199

52K, 732069 $15,387 .....

2011 GMC SIERRA 2WD REG CAB 2011 SILVERADO EXT LT Z71 V6, LWB, WT, WHITE,

CERTIFIED TRUCKS

2011 CORVETTE

/mo

$170

GREEN, 29K, 732107, $13,450 ............

2014 CRUZE LS

$161 /mo

/mo

/mo

SNRF, BLUE, 50K, 2333A, $12,927 ..............

2013 CRUZE LT RS

2011 IMPALA LT

2011 IMPALA LS

/mo

$130

6 SPD, SILVER, 71K, 1862A, $10,873 ..............

/mo

$122

2013 CRUZE LT

6 SPD, BLUE, 47K, 1946A, $10,397 .............

2013 CRUZE LS

CERTIFIED CARS

No Worries.â„¢

/mo

$470

/mo

$485

/mo

$155

/mo

$229

2107A, 61K, $20,864.......

2009 GMC SIERRA EXT SLE Z71 4WD

V6, 3RD ROW, SILVER, 45K, 2222A, $20,867.......

/mo

$338

/mo

$284

/mo

$230

2011 DODGE DURANGO AWD

V8, WHITE, 55K, 732062, $17,487 .............

2011 FORD ECONOLINE E100

AWD, BLACK, 76K, 2009A, $17,293 ...............

/mo

$193

2013 GMC TERRAIN SLE2

GRAY, 58K, 2211B, $12,979 ...............

2009 PONTIAC TORRENT AWD

WHITE, 71K, 1647A, $12,526 ...............

2012 GRAND CARAVAN SE

/mo

$414

TRUCKS

21K, 2059A, $29,395 ...........................

/mo

$920

2013 CTS AWD PERFORMANCE

SNRF, NAV, MAROON, 15K, 2284C, $61,875 .....

/mo

$576 2015 YUKON DENALI

SILVER, 10K, 2087A, $39,873 ..............

/mo

$522 2015 SILVERADO 2500 HD DBLE CAB 8FT BOX LT

LTHR, 2098A, 38K, $36,387 .................

/mo

$509

2012 SUBURBAN LT 4WD

4WD, LTHR, BLACK, 19K, 2328A, $35,388.....

/mo

$499

2014 GMC SIERRA DBLE CAB SLT

4WD, BROWN, 19K, 2044A, $32,957 ..............

2015 SILVERADO DBL CAB LT

WHITE, 22K, 2297A, $33,783 ..............

/mo

$485

2015 SILVERADO 2500HD REG CAB LT

V8, 20K, 1475A, $33,948 ..........................

2015 SIERRA DBL CAB SLE V

LTHR, AWD, BLACK, 38K, 2061A, $32,985......

/mo

$463

2014 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL

GRAY, 37K, 2356A, $32,395 ..............

/mo

$459

2014 YUKON SLE 4WD

4WD, Z71, BLUE, 21K, 2118A, $32,179 ..............

2014 SILVERADO DBL CAB LT

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$199

ULTRA-LOW MILEAGE LEASE FOR CURRENT QUALIFIED GM LESSEES

ULTRA-LOW MILEAGE LEASE FOR CURRENT QUALIFIED GM LESSEES

after all offfers

after all offfers

2016 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE

$2,779 DUE AT SIGNING

$2,219 DUE AT SIGNING

$0

PER MO. FOR 24 MOS

SECURITY DEPOSIT DUE AT SIGNING

$199

ULTRA-LOW MILEAGE LEASE FOR CURRENT QUALIFIED GM LESSEES

2016 CHEVROLET EQUINOX LT

PURCHASE CASH ALLOWANCE ON SELECT 2016 SILVERADO MODELS IN STOCK

$1,000

2016 CHEVROLET TRAX 1 LT

after all offfers

SECURITY DOWN FIRST MONTH'S DEPOSIT PAYMENT PAYMENT

$0

PER MO. FOR 39 MOS

SECURITY DEPOSIT DUE AT SIGNING

$199

ULTRA-LOW MILEAGE LEASE FOR CURRENT QUALIFIED GM LESSEES

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$179 $0 $0

ULTRA-LOW MILEAGE LEASE FOR CURRENT QUALIFIED GM LESSEES

2016 CHEVROLET CRUZE LIMITED 1LT

Based on MSRP of $46,760. Not available with special financing, lease and some other offers. Take delivery by 3/31/16.

2016 SILVERADO 1500 CREW CAB LT ALL STAR 4WD

$3,750 TOTAL ALLOWANCE $3,000 FACTORY REDUCTION BELOW MSRP + $750 OPTION PKG DISCOUNT

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