Otsego County’s retiring congressman, Chris Gibson, R-19, announced Monday, May 2, he won’t run against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018. He had formed a committee to explore the race, but said he will accept an offer to be a visiting lecturer at Williams College for a year and is exploring other opportunities in academe.
He also said he plans to spend more time with wife Mary Jo and their three teenagers. See his full statement at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
NO CREDIT: State police at Richfield Springs have charged Virginia A. Reichhold, 60, of Oneonta, with charging $70,000 to fraudulent credit cards last year.
CHECK IT OUT: The downtown parking deck was closed for two days this week to undergo a thorough cleaning.
BEATLE SISTER: Julia Baird, John Lennon’s sister, will be at the Oneonta Theatre Friday, April 7, with the Mersey Beatles tribute band and to promote her book on her brother/SEE B1
SAFE AT HOME: State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, is back at his Milford home, recuperating from a bladdercancer operation at Albany Medical Center last month.
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in oneonta Schools, Happy Days return
Budget Allows Hiring, Pool Renovations
By LIBBY CUDMORE
Ding, dong, the Gap Elimination Adjustment is dead, and joy is returning to the Oneonta
City School District.
After years of tight purse strings and staff cuts, the $38 million proposed 2016-17 budget will restore eight staff positions and still raise Please See GEA, A6
Huntington Library Goes Into Brave, New E-World
By LIBBY CUDMORE
printing, LittleBits electronics kits, coding small robots – but it’s not the science lab, it’s the Huntington Library. Increasing STEM offerings and “makerspaces” – DIY gathering places – are just two of the initiatives laid out in the library’s long-term plan. “It’s sort of like the old knitting groups,” said Library Director Tina Winstead. “We want members of the community
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2 mayors may Discuss Heroin-Fighting effort
By JIM KEVLIN
Islamberg Mayor Rashid Clark told his story.
And the 100-plus audience in the Unitarian Universalist Church Sunday afternoon, May 1, rallied to the support of his community, which is threatened with unspecified mayhem by a motorcycle gang from Tennessee that plans to pay a visit Sunday, May 15.
“We’re going to be very, very privileged
to be down there,” said Paul Conway, the SUNY Oneonta poly-sci professor emeritus. “This is an opportunity to fight against ignorance and bigotry.” Speakers ranged from Bill Simons, UUP president – “No one should be made to feel afraid,” he declared – to Council Member Michelle Osterhoudt, who read a proclamation from Mayor Gary Herzig declaring Oneonta “stands firmly with our Muslim residents.” Ken Sider, president of Please See MUSLIMS, A7
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sked by the Cooperstown Village Board at a special meeting Thursday, April 28, for a progress report on the PAARI anti-heroin effort, village Police Chief Mike Covert, a former deputy sheriff, made a convincing case. He also dropped a couple of remarks that caught people’s attention.
ONEONTA Chief Covert details PAARI successes to date.
One, that the Oneonta Police Department hadn’t embraced PAARI, The Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative, because officers were more interest in arrests than solutions.
Two, that county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., his former boss, simply wasn’t interested.
When the report of the meeting was posted on www.AllOTSEGO. Please See PAARI, A7
Congressman Gibson marching (with former mayor David Brenner in the Santa Parade in Oneonta in November.
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Carleigh Bettiol Heads To Tonys With ‘Hamilton’
Carleigh Bettiol is headed to the Tony awards with “Hamilton”.
With nominations in every category, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” – and with Oneonta’s Carleigh Bettiol on the celebrate cast – has made Tony Award history with a total of 16 nominations.
The Broadway smash hit, which includes Carleigh in the chorus, but also as an understudy for Phillipa Soo (Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton), won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater album this past February, as well as a Pulitzer Prize.
“Hamilton” has been nominated for a Tony in every musical category, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Book of a Musical and Best Musical, as well as designs in lighting, scenery and costumes.
Bettiol has been a member of the cast since the show opened at the Public Theater in February 2015.
The Tony Awards will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 12 on CBS.
‘FROzEn’-THEMEd PARTY AT Y WARMS KIdS
Marissa Stanton, Oneonta, is twirled around the dance floor by the Hill City Ice Queen at Elsa’s Royal Party at the Oneonta YMCA Saturday, April 30. The soldout event featured games, arts and crafts, snacks, yoga, obstacle course, dancing, wall climbing and a snowball fight.
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EDITORIAL
Let’s Prepare For World’s Rediscovery Of Natty Bumppo
Who isn’t familiar with the image at the right? Daniel Day Lewis reinvented “The Last of the Mohicans” for a modern audience, although – believe it or not – that movie version (1992) came out almost a quarter-century ago. It’s time for another reinvention for the PS4 generation, and that inevitably will happen.
And, yet, here in the home of Hawkeye, or Natty Bumppo, or The Leatherstocking, or “La Longue Carabine,” he’s largely forgotten – but for his descendant Bruce Shipman. (And, of course, Hugh MacDougall, Cooperstown village historian, key player in the founding of the James Fenimore Cooper Society in 1989, which necessarily is a celebration of Cooper’s greatest creation and one of the most enduring characters in American literature.)
Enduring, even in the face of ahistoricity.
(Imagine discarding “The Leatherstocking Region,” richly evocative, if somewhat obscure to the contemporary reader of highway
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signs? And renaming it the bland “Central New York Region,” as the state tourism bureaucrats decided to do a half-dozen years ago now. Shucks, we aren’t even in Central New York!) Yes, the next “Last of the Mohicans” hit movie is inevitable. But are we ready to celebrate – and capitalize on – our most famous citizen (the fictional one, but also his human counterpart) when that happens?
• When you think about it, it’s quite shocking how little David Shipman, who James Fenimore Cooper acknowledged as “the Leatherstocking of the region” in “Chronicles of Cooperstown” (1838), is recognized around here.
As SUNY Binghamton professor Thomas Jordan put it as recently as 2012, “Bumppo reflects the core qualities of the burgeoning American character – rugged individualism, self-reliance, moral certitude in the face of difficult ethical dilemmas, and freedom from the potentially stifling strictures of society.”
Once Pure Water Is Gone, It’s Contaminated Forever
To the Editor:
Re. the letter, “Fracking Bad Here, But Not Everywhere.” What always amazes me is how the fracking supporter never mentions the fact as to what happens to the water supply if the fracking process backfires. The undisputable fact is once the water supply is contaminated, it stays that way forever. Look no further than what has happened in those states that continue the practice! TOM DAHULICK Omaha, Neb.
Vote For Village Library Budget May 17 On CCS Annual Ballot
To the Editor: The Village Library of Cooperstown is a unique civic institution. Where else in our community can you find a warm, inviting and comfortable space, open every day to residents and visitors alike, where there is something for everybody, but one needn’t buy or endorse anything? On Tuesday, May 17, voters will see a small increase
(less than 2 percent) in funding requested by the library, reflecting higher operating expenses due to increases in cost of liability insurance and employee benefits. Please support the library by endorsing the new library tax levy.
Respectfully, ANTOINETTE KUZMINSKI Fly Creek
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Think National Security State, and Natty Bumppo has never been more relevant.
In our PC-burdened national dialogue, Cooper’s hero – and his companion, Chingachgook (related to the Brushells of Richfield Springs, it’s said) – also reflect a more complex reality, of newcomers and American Indians living side by side, the good allied against the bad among settlers and natives alike.
• David Shipman as Cooper’s inspiration was clouded by Ralph Birdsall’s
seminal (and very readable) “The Story of Cooperstown” (1917), which lays out Hoosick Falls’ argument for the alternative Nathaniel Shipman.
But Alan Taylor’s Pulitzer-winning “William Cooper’s Town” (1996), which researches the complicated relationship between David Shipman and the Cooper family, proves outright our local Leatherstocking’s status.
Taylor confirmed that in a recent e-mail: “I certainly consider DS to be the model for JFC in crafting the character of Natty Bumppo.”
• That is the final word, and should bring all local historians behind Bruce Shipman of Richfield Springs in his effort to place a historical marker on his ancestor’s grave in the Toddsville Cemetery on Route 56 just east of Fly Creek.
Shipman, patriarch of the extensive Shipman clan, has sought the support of the Fly Creek Area Historical Society, and he should have it, and from the Otsego Town Board, and he should have it. But David Shipman is bigger than any single local community.
County Treasurer Dan Crowell’s parents live on Otsego Manor Road, and he will tell you that the legendary Shipman’s cabin was on the far end of that property. As you cross the Route 11C bridge between Routes 28 and 33, look to the northwest, and you’ll see a V formed where Oaks Creek meets the Susquehanna. That’s where it was. That deserves a historical marker.
And the Leatherstockingtopped obelisk in Lakewood Cemetery (there’s a whole
other story there) – that deserves a historical marker.
• The point is that James Fenimore Cooper’s novels may be dated, but The Leatherstocking is not. He’s waiting to be reinvented in the next Hollywood block-buster, and to be rediscovered by scholars seeking to understand the nation’s complex ethnic interplay.
Meanwhile, we should be prepared for that inevitable day. Celebrating Hawkeye would be a high-profile project for high-energy OCHA (the Otsego County Historical Association). It would be a worthy project for the Cooperstown Graduate Program’s scholars. As a community, we should understand Natty Bumppo’s significance, as Hannibal, Mo., should understand Huck Finn. Let’s digest Alan Taylor’s research, and recognize Cooper’s greatest hero with one historical marker, or two, or as many as necessary, and figure out how to tell “La Longue Carabine’s” story to the rest of the world.
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Herzig: Oneonta Strives For Acceptance, Equality
Editor’s Note: Oneonta Common Council member Michelle Osterhoudt read this proclamation from Mayor Gary Herzig supporting Islamberg’s right to be left alone to a gathering at the Unitarian Universalist Society Sunday, May 1.
Whereas, the history of the world has innumerable examples of persecution and crimes against humanity due to bigotry, such as the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide; and Whereas, there are prejudicial and unjust actions in our nation’s history, such as the internment of Japanese residents in WWII, that show the harmful consequences of blaming entire groups of people because of who they are and what they believe in; and
Whereas, the United States of America was created by immigrants seeking peace and freedom; and
Whereas, incidents of violence and inflammatory comments have increased; and
Whereas, the Muslim community and in particular Islamberg, near Hancock, N.Y., is often regarded with suspicion and threatened; and Whereas, the City of Oneonta and its surrounding community attracts newcomers and students from many ethnicities and religions coming from many areas of the United States and from many countries of the world; and Whereas, the City of Oneonta is endeavoring to encourage a society which is diverse racially, religiously and ethnically and which encourages
Editor’s Note: Kenneth Sider, Ph.D., president, Temple Beth El, Oneonta, read this statement of solidarity with Islamberg at the same gathering
As president of Oneonta’s only synagogue, I want to join with you to make a clear declaration of civility, dignity and respect for Islam, and especially the Muslim community in our area.
Over the past 20 years, an entire generation of American children has come of age in a society that has allowed and even encouraged anti-Muslim sentiment and hatred to
gender equality; and Whereas, Muslims are integral members of our community and are represented in many professions, including store clerks, physicians, college professors, musicians and business leaders; and Whereas, President Obama, in a recent speech, stated that “Muslim Americans are our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes, and … our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country…’” and Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Gary Herzig, mayor of the City of Oneonta; together with the City of Oneonta Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights and the Oneonta Area Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of
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infiltrate the press, media, businesses, classrooms and playgrounds. It is long
overdue that we gather to speak out. Throughout Jewish history, we have known persecution and we have a moral obligation to speak out. Our own sorrows compel us to challenge not only inflammatory and dangerous speech against Muslims, but also the irrational and hate-filled actions by citizens who have closed their hearts to compassion and coexistence. The congregation of Temple
El joins all of you in denouncing discrimination, stereotyping, and hate, and we strongly defend the civil liberties and civil rights of our Muslim friends, colleagues, and neighbors.
Hawkeye lives! Daniel Day Lewis reintroduced Natty Bumppo to the modern audience in the 1992 “Last of the Mohicans.”
Kenneth Sider, Temple Beth El president, at May 1 gathering.
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Regina Betts of the NAACP, Oneonta Chapter, some of whose family perished in the Holocaust, listens to speeches at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Oneonta Sunday, May 1. Behind her is Joanne Fisher, Davenport, wife of Lee Fisher, the NAACP moderator that afternoon, and Tom Heitz, from the First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown.
HOMETOWN History
Compiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
150 Years ago
a condemnation of the revealing nature of the fashionable tilting hoop skirt as observed in New York City – “The hoop skirts now worn by fashionable females are a burning shame to society, and the wearers ought to be indicted by the civil authorities for willfully and knowingly exposing their persons. There is an extreme in everything, but of all the extremes the hoop skirt surpasses, and is one that has its penalty, which the indulgers will have to pay sooner or later. How any female with any kind of pretension to modesty, can indulge in the scandalous exhibition, we do not see, and what is still more wicked, many young girls of twelve or fourteen years of age, are imitating to their destruction, those followers of fashion. on sunday, walking home from church through many fashionable streets, we noticed women with tilting skirts walking from where they had been pretending to say their prayers, and on all the corners and hotel fronts we saw rows of well-dressed blackguards standing, observing and laughing, and commenting on what these women were exhibiting. out on this indecency that would disgrace honest Pagans! Let every honest woman who has been tricked into getting the traps of the harlot as the latest fashion, pull them off, and burn them!”
May 1866
125 Years ago
The Local News – a raid made saturday night on a disreputable house on Front street enabled the police to gather seven persons into the judicial net. one person was bailed out. The others were released without bail. several of the parties are said to have since left town for more congenial localities.
The ball game on saturday between the Normal nine and the Delaware Literary Institute team was hotly contested for the first four innings. after that the visiting club weakened and the oneontas got in 15 runs before the close of the game. The Franklin club got in only four runs, all in the seventh inning.
May 1891
40 Years ago
May 1976
ent location, has been purchased by albert Hutson, who, after a course at the state Normal school, entered the store 13 years ago as a clerk. He has since completed a course at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy where he earned the degree of Doctor of Pharmacy. For the past six years he has been engaged with scatchard, the druggist. Dr. M.I. Ford, who has been connected with the business for some 37 years, will retire from active business for the present, but retaining his residence in this city.
May 1916
100 Years ago
oneonta’s first drug store, widely known as Ford’s, established in 1865 by the late Newton I. Ford at the pres-
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sir Hubert Wilkins, a famous explorer, Father Paul schulte a roman Catholic priest, known as the “flying father,” Karl ritter, a high german foreign office official, William B. Leeds, an american U.s. Naval airship commander, and Lord Mayor Fritz Krebs of Frankfort-on-Main will be among the 50 passengers aboard the new dirigible Hindenburg when it leaves germany tomorrow on its first
voyage to the United states. seven newspapermen will also make the inaugural trip. Dr. Hugo eckener will command the Hindenburg. Much interest has centered on Father schulte because of his plan to say mass daily aboard the craft. He obtained permission from Pope Pius to do this during the voyage and for the first time in air history a church altar was installed aboard the aircraft. The Zeppelin Company declines to publish the full list of passengers until the airship has actually taken off. The giant craft is expected to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, sometime saturday.
May 1936
60 Years ago
New York state civil defense officials have announced new air raid warning signals for the entire state, to go into effect on Thursday. adm. alan g. Kirk (ret.), Chairman of the New York state Civil Defense Commission, said the changes in long-established signals were adopted reluctantly to conform to a national standard. The new “alert” signal is a steady blast of three to five minutes duration. This signal will be sounded by sirens, whistles, horns or similar devices, signifying that emergency instructions or directions are about to be issued. a three-minute warbling or fluctuating tone of varying pitch will mean that an enemy attack is imminent and all should take cover in the best available shelter. The all-clear signal has been eliminated but may be given locally by radio announcement when an area has become safe from radioactive fallout.
May 1956
10 Years ago
More than 300 volunteers, the majority of them students from the state University College at oneonta, will take part in the annual “Into the streets” volunteer day on saturday. sUCo’s Center for social responsibility and Community is sponsoring the event for the 11th consecutive year. according to Linda Drake, the center’s director, the volunteers will take on half-day projects at more than 30 sites. The center will donate more than $17,000 in services this saturday, and has donated more than $2 million in the center’s 11-year history. “Into the streets” is a national student-led event founded in 1991.
May 2006
National
Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, provides monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.
I’m proud to be affiliated with the National Weather Service. Sure, they miss from time to time, but their forecasts, both short term and long term since late last summer, haves been right on the mark. First, they forecast that the autumn months would be milder than normal, bull’s eye! Then, the NWS predicted that the winter of 2015-16 would be much milder than normal, with much less snow than average, and boy were they right!
Lastly, they told us that April 2016 was going to be colder than average…right again. Pretty good job of forecasting what Mother Nature had in store for our area.
April was 4.1 degrees colder than the norm. It was the first month since November 2015 that our mean temperature was colder than normal. Oneonta had 3.76 inches of precipitation in April, which
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is a half inch above normal. That’s with a two-week, mid-month stretch, with less than a 10th of an inch of measurable snow or rain! It was tinder dry and there were plenty of brush and forest fires around. A big “thank you” goes out to all firefighters and EMS folks in our area, who risk their lives daily to keep us safe. Please thank them for their service.
The Cooperstown/Oneonta area saw 8.8 inches of snow in April, which is more than twice the norm. Normal year to date snowfall is 55.7 inches, in 2016, we’ve seen just 25.4 inches! Now that the days are growing longer and temperatures are moderating quickly, get up off the sofa, dust yourself off and go hiking, fishing. Take in a high school, college sporting event, Little League games and youth soccer are always fun to watch. Get your
Number of Days at or below zero F..................................0 for April 5 for 2016
Number of Days at or below 32°F.......................23 (65 for 2016)
gardens planted, vegetable, flower or both. It’s really beautiful to watch thing “green up,” so please spend some time outdoors. Just a quick mention again: May and June have more severe weather activity than any other two-month period of the year, so please pay attention to forecasts, watches and warnings. Please check out www.AllOTSEGO.com for a complete list of all the neat things that are going on in the area this month. A very dear, sweet, and
lifelong friend, Frances Bliven, gave me this nifty little ditty that I’m sure you’ll enjoy. See if you can master it, even work on it with your children and grandchildren. Fran tells me it was written by an “expedition team to Antarctica”. I sure you’ll enjoy it.
“Whether the weather is cold, or whether the weather is not, we’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.” I hope you have some fun with this, so until next month, remember… Keep Your Eye on the Weather.
Return Of State Funding Allows Oneonta Schools To Breath Again
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the tax levy no more than .66 percent.
“We were always really cautious and smart with our money,” Superintendent of Schools Joseph Yelich said in an interview. “So now we’re able to see some growth.”
Another reason is Albany ended the Gap Elimination Adjustment this year. In effect since 2010-11, the GEA simply made up the state’s budget shortfall by reducing aid to schools accordingly.
The polls will be open noon-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, at Foothills for the budget vote. Two school board seats, now held by Darren Gaisford and Melissa Jervis, are up for election.
This year, Yelich said, the end of the GEA brought $449,000 in additional state funding to the district. Over the years it was in place, “we lost over $16 million,” he said. In addition to the .66 percent levy increase, the budget overall is increasing just 2.24 percent, from $36 to $38 million.
The school also saved money last year with the mild winter and the low cost of gasoline, and retirement costs were down by almost $200,000.
Some of the money will allow the hiring of one teacher for Spanish and French. “This means that Wesley Harter can return to teaching commencement-level German,” he said. “Having foreign language in the middle and high school is unprecedented these days.”
The new money will add a math teacher at the elementary level, and another at the high school, a special ed teacher, and a computer science teacher. It also restores an assistant coach to the boys swimming team.
The golf club and 11 additional student clubs, many of which were cut in the 2009-10 budget, will return. “Extracurricular activities create connections that are important to these students. These are the kind of relationships that help them stabilize and help them graduate,” Yelich said. Outside the classroom and beyond extracurricular activities, the budget will add a social worker and a psychologist. “We want to make sure we’re
programming for the social and mental health of our students,” he said. “We’ll share the psychologist with Unatego and we’ll create a partnership with another school as a cost-saving measure, but for now, it’s in the budget to ensure we have it.”
Add a wrestling mats, a baby grand piano and new water fountains in the middle school, complete with faucets for water bottles. “The way we see it, if a kid fills up their water bottle, they’re not missing class to get a drink,” he said.
The long-awaited pool project will begin in June, and new LED lighting will be put indoors and out. “The older lights consume a lot of power,”
he said. “Putting in LEDs is an investment, but because they conserve power, it’s one that pays for itself very quickly.”
Three 30-seat, handicapped accessible buses are also
included.grants and pay in cash to save on financing. “Our programs generate a lot of interest,” he said. “And we hope that passing this budget will continue to allow us to grow.”
E-WORLD/From A1 to come in and share their knowledge.” Throughout 2015, Winstead and the library staff surveyed, interviewed and assessed community leaders, residents and area libraries to figure out what the best needs for the library were. They came up with three key priorities to increase interest in the library and bring more patrons in the door.
“The first thing we want to do is do better helping our readers find new authors and genres,” said Winstead. “In the old days, you used to look at who checked it out last on the library card, but now we find that people are going to the shelving cart and taking books from there!”
With a donation from Janet Bresee, a book display case was purchased to highlight new novelists and acquisitions.
The Juvenile Room also underwent changes to make it more fun and innovative, with an eye toward attracting young readers. “We moved everything to make room for the LEGO challenge table,” Winstead said. “Every week we have a different challenge to build, and sometimes, we have to remind adults that it’s for the kids only!”
Digital literacy is another key component of the plan, inspired by the many of the high-need, low-income patrons. “The mission of libraries is about lifelong learning,” she said. “If you want to succeed in the workplace and civic
life, you have to be able to get online.”
In addition to the STEM kits for the juvenile room, the library is purchasing a 3D printer, and will open up makerspaces to teach people graphic design, photo editing and other digital skills. “Libraries have always offered open access to benefit the community,” she said. “It makes sense that we should have access to cutting-edge technology.” Getting their history collection online was their third priority, so they joined the New York Heritage website, a free search portal to local history collections. “Someone in California will be able to look at our papers,” she said. “Our local history is just sitting there in boxes. There’s value in accessibility.”
Using a $1,700 grant from the South Central Regional Library Council, the library will hire someone to digitize the papers on the Temperance movement in conjunction with the Council’s focus on women’s history. And with the three projects in place, Winstead is now looking ahead to making sure the library is a comfortable, attractive place to enjoy the new offerings. “We’re completely redoing the room that overlooks the park,” she said.
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Oneontans Vows To Keep Vigil With Islamberg On Day Bikers Arrive
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Temple Beth El, expressed his community’s support for the embattled Muslims.
Lee Fisher, president of the NAACP, Oneonta Chapter, which organized the rally, asked if he should charter a bus so local people who want to stand vigil at Islamberg May 15 will be able to do so together.
“Yes!” audience members called out in response.
“We are very excited that so many people are reaching out to us,” said Fariq Buqi, a spokesman for the Islamberg community who accompanied Clark. He said his community’s unsure when the motorcycle gang will arrive, but is anticipating perhaps early afternoon.
Clark said he has been in contact with Maj. James Barnes, commander of state police Troop C, and precau-
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tions are being taken. For instance, a quartermile driveway leads up to Islamberg from a dirt road that connects Routes 10 and 17. The bikers will be prohibited from stopping on that road, Barnes told Clark, as they would be blocking a public thoroughfare.
The centerpiece of the afternoon was Mayor Clark’s even-toned recounting of his life’s story. He considers himself a Wildcat, he said, speaking from the yellow oak podium beneath a stained glass window – a Hancock Central School Wildcat, as in the mascot of his Delaware County alma mater.
“I still said my prayers when I went home,” said the mayor of Islamberg, founded in 1980 by Sunni Muslims 36 miles southwest of Oneonta, recalling his
school days. “And I did my homework.”
His grandfather was a Christian minister. His father came Upstate as a prison chaplain. Men of peace.
Today, Clark’s a union man, a member of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters. One of the jobs he’s particularly proud of was inside West Point, building the Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. barracks, named in honor of the academy’s first black cadet, who toughed it through four years of shunning and onto a successful military career.
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Lee Fisher addresses almost a full house Sunday, May 1, inside the Unitarian Universalist Society.
When construction began on Global Crossings, the futurist computer chip plant in Malta, a key building block
of the state’s nanotechnology boom, the FBI denied him expedited security clearance. “I had an escort wherever I went until I got my ID clearance,” he said. By the time he was done, his bosses were so pleased
with the work he did “I was one of the last carpenters to leave.”
He’s just “a citizen. I’m just like every other American.” If he removed his kufi, his prayer hat – he took it off to prove his point
– you wouldn’t distinguish him from any other black citizen around here. “I want to see people live safely and in harmony,” he said, his talk interrupted a several points by supportive applause.
He want on tell the story of the motorcycle gang from Tennessee, American Bikers United Against Jihad, which is claiming Islamberg is one of 13 Jihadist training camps in the U.S. “They tell us they are going to come up here and leave no one alive,” said Clark, shaking his head: “There are more children there than adults.”
Some of the audience members, the NAACP’s Regina Betts among them, recounted how they came to this country to escape the Holocaust. “Never again,” said Nathan Batalion, some of whose relatives died in the Holocaust. “We can never allow this to happen again on our planet.”
Chief Covert’s Remarks May Reopen Talks On Common Anti-Heroin Front
PAARI/From A1 com, both Sheriff Devlin and OPD Chief Dennis Nayor quickly demurred. In the end, it appeared that Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz might take up the conversation with Oneonta
Mayor Gary Herzig and the sheriff to see if a more unified approach is possible.
PAARI is the Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative, developed by the Gloucester, Mass., police department, but now
spreading nationwide. The idea is to get an addict who wants help into a treatment program as soon as possible, no questions asked.¬
Devlin called to say he has never been formally approached by the Village of
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pre-production and production cycles of our newspapers and web page. You will coordinate ad creation, production, proofing and billing, collaborating with the editor, ad director, office manager and staff. You will update pages and process copy for our website. Organized, cheerful, calm on deadlines? We want to talk. Send us your resumé: Iron String Press, PO Box 890, Cooperstown, NY 13326 or info@allotsego.com.
Part -Time Civilian Dispatcher
The City of Oneonta Police Department is accepting applications for the position of Part-Time Civilian Dispatcher. Candidates must be available weekends. Applications and job description are available at the PersonnelOffice, 258 Main Street, or online at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel. Application deadline: May 16, 2016
Cooperstown about PAARI; he said he’d be happy to discuss a possible participation.
“We certainly wouldn’t turn someone away who asked for help,” the sheriff said.
At OPD, which had considered PAARI last year, Nayor objected to Covert’s observation that the OPD was focused on arrests rather than treatment.
“Some of this is driven by what our resources allow,” said Nayor, but added, “We would rather find a solution rather than just put out fires by making arrests.”
But, he continued, “If someone comes to us, seeking help, then we’re going to try and help them.” Just the other day, Lt. Douglas Brenner referred an addict seeking help to a local chemical dependency clinic. Brenner, who serves in the county’s Opioid Task Force, said “we’re looking at providing a pathway of those away from addiction.”
Herzig, who has been in the Oneonta mayor’s chair since October, said he has arranged for LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal, county Social Services lawyer Susan Lettis, and other experts to begin briefing Common Council on ways to address the heroin epidemic at its Tuesday, May 17, meeing.
“The first step is for the City Council to get some education on the problem,” he said. “There may be multiple presentations; it may lead to recommendations. The Cooperstown model is certainly one they should consider.”
For his part, Cooperstown Mayor Katz said, so far, the Village Board has left outreach to other departments to Chief Covert.
“My preference is for chief to chief,” said Katz. “It shouldn’t start with me and Gary. It should start with people who are the law enforcement people.”
However, “If Gary thinks it’s a good idea – he knows his council better than I do,” it might be time to start a
conversation.
“Clearly, the audience for this extends far outside the village to the county,” he added. “I would certainly welcome as much participation outside the village as possible.”
At its meeting with Covert, the Cooperstown board appeared satisfied that the chief was making progress without using too many Cooperstown resources. With that story, and news that five of the 55 local addicts being treated through the Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative are from Cooperstown, it appeared that trustees Ellen Tillapaugh, village Police Committee chair, and Bruce Maxson, who is also county public defender, were sufficiently satisfied to let the PAARI go forward.
However, both expressed concern that other departments – Covert mentioned the County of Otsego and Oneonta Police Department – have yet to step up and assist with the program. After the meeting, Mayor Jeff Katz supported Covert’s continuing role, but also sympathized with the two trustees’ concerns.
“When Mike presented the idea of the program, the thing we said was, we don’t want to take this thing on alone, particularly in cost and time,” Katz said. But, he added, “I think that the presentation made the board feel good, even though he’s the lead and sole person.”
In a businesslike recitation of progress since the local program was launched Thanksgiving Day, Covert noted that the three original heroin-fighting goals have been met: Implementation of PAARI locally, training the public in administering NARCAN, which can stop overdoses in their tracks, and installation of a drug drop-off box at the police station on the Fair Street entrance to 22 Main.
“We’ve accomplished all of that,” said the chief. Of addicts who have called Covert, 55 began rehab, and 45 are still in it.
Herzig Proclaims Oneonta’s Support
Job Opening at Bassett Medical Center., Cooperstown, NY. MD and NY State Med. License required. Must have completed Hematology Oncology Fellowship as of 07/01/2016. Send resume to michelle.empie@bassett.org
HERZIG/From A4 Colored People, hereby declare that fear will not divide us; that we recognize that the threats posed by Islamophobia to our American values of religious freedom and cultural diversity are threats against our very way of life in the City of Oneonta, the County of Otsego, the State of New York and the United States; and that we as a community stand firmly with our Muslim residents; and
Be it further resolved, that a copy of this proclamation be sent to U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand, to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, to New York State Senator James Seward and to the NAACP New York State Conference. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of Oneonta, New York, to be affixed this 27th day of April, 2016.
Lee Fisher
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 5-6,
Julia Baird poses with halfbrother John Lennon’s statue outside the Cavern Club,, where the Beatles hit it big.
She’s At Oneonta Theatre This Weekend
John Lennon’s Sister Julia Visits
By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
To so many, John Lennon was an icon. But to Julia Baird, who will accompany The Mersey Beatles when they
IF YOU GO: Julia Lennon and Mersey Beatles, 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 6, at Oneonta Theater.
perform Friday, May 6, at the Oneonta Theatre, he was simply “my brother John.”
“There’s such a split
between the world icon, John Lennon, and the brother who used to help me with my times tables or take me swimming,” she said. “But I can also see him there up on the stage the way the rest of the world did.”
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QUINN LIVE AT THE OPERA
Judge Turpin’s “lackey” Beadle Bamford (Quinn Bernegger) beats Anthony Hope, a sailor who has fallen in love with Johanna, whom the judge has confined in his mansion.
SAM GOODYEAR
ART BEAT
Quinn Bernegger, CCS ’09, played Beadle Bamford, live (and not so live) in the Tri-Cities Opera production of “Sweeney Todd” last weekend in Binghamton.
Beadle Bamford May Be ‘Slimy,’ But He’s Break For Bernegger
By LIBBY CUDMORE
BINGHAMTON
Everybody sings in the car – but for Quinn Bernegger, that back-seat karaoke was the start of a promising theater career.
Local Singer Has ‘Commanding Grace’
Editor’s Note: Sam Goodyear reprised his “Art Beat” column to review Quinn Bernegger’s operatic debut.
BINGHAMTON
What with mistaken identities, disguises, poisonings, ladies jumping off parapets, and con-
venient coincidences, opera is not short on improbabilities. Add to this the improbability of two important opera companies within less than 100 miles of each other in a largely rural region of New York State. I refer, of course, to the Glimmerglass Festival near Cooperstown and Tri-Cities
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“Sammy and Barbara Bayes were directing ‘Oliver!’ at Orpheus Theater, and they were looking for kids to audition,” he said. “One of the women said, ‘Well, my friend’s son likes to sing in the car a lot.’ So they asked me to audition, and I got the part of The Artful Dodger. From there, I was hooked on the process.”
(It must have been a lucky show; the girl who taught him the Cockney accent he auditioned with was none other than future “Hamilton” cast mem-
ber Carleigh Bettiol).
Bernegger, a 2009 CCS graduate, was featured as the nefarious Beadle Bamford in the Tri-Cities Opera’s performance of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” Friday, April 29-SunPlease See OPERA, B3
Celebrate mom and the return of spring with a twirl around the maypole on the Hyde Hall lawn this weekend.
Springtime, Tea-Time At Hyde Hall Festivities
elebrate Mother’s Day with a garden party for mom at Hyde Hall. 1-5 p.m. Saturday, May 7 Free. Tea & sweets in the dining room, maypole dancing, book signing, dramatic readings, live music, more. Guided tours till 4 p.m. Hyde Hall historic site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. Info, www.hydehall.org
CAKE WALK: 4th annual cake walk at Oneonta History Center. 5-8 p.m. Friday, May 6. Buy a ticket to walk around numbered squares; if you’re on a winning square when the player piano stops, take your pick of a dozen locally made cakes! 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org
GILBERTSVILLE FEST: Spring Festival time at Copes Corners Park, Friday-Sunday, May 6-8. Music, food, vendors, games, more. 620 NY-51, Gilbertsville. Info, www.copescornerspark.org/events. And, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, May 7, it’s Open House at the historic Major’s Inn in Gilbertsville. Info, www.themajorsinn.com.
YAGER DAY: An “Afternoon at the Museum: Family Fun Day at the Yager.” Noon-4 p.m. Saturday, May 7. Dig for artifacts, create your own Pop Art photo prints, listen to Iroquois tales, watch spear throwing & more. Free. Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, www.hartwick. edu/museum.
PAINT & SIP: Enjoy a glass of wine and a chance to make a beautiful painting. $35 per person includes one glass of wine or cider, hors d’oeuvres, art lesson and supplies. 2-4 p.m. Saturday, May 7, CANO, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, registration, (607) 432-2070, CANOneonta.org
AUTHOR ‘ODYSSEY’: Gwen Cooper, New York Times best-selling author of “Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale” appears in benefit for Susquehanna Animal Shelter. 1 p.m. Saturday, May 7. $10 suggested donation. Country Inn & Suites, 4470 Rte. 28, Milford. Info, (607) 547-8111.
Photos courtesy Tri-Cities Opera, Binghamton
To those who know him, Quinn Bernegger is an unlikely villain, but he plays against type as Beadle Bamford.
OTSEGO . dining & entertainment
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO
Friday, May 6
CFA WORKSHOP -- 8-10 a.m.
City of Oneonta and Otsego Now informational event on Sixth Round of Consolidated Funding Applications (CFAs). Guest, Ken Tompkins, Regional Director, Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council. Otsego Now offices, 189 Main St., 5th Floor, Oneonta.
ARTWORK DEADLINE -- 11
a.m.-5
p.m. Deadline for artwork submittal for 25th Annual Regional Juried Art Show (open to NYS artists 18 yrs +) to Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. (81st Annual National Juried Exhibition deadline submittal is May 15.) Info, (607) 547-9777, www.cooperstownart. com
CAKE WALK! -- 5-8 p.m. 4th annual cake walk at Oneonta History Center. Buy a ticket to walk around numbered squares; when player piano stops, person on “winning” square gets one of 12 local cakes of choice. 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org NETWORKING NIGHT -- 5-7
p.m. Small Business Networking Night (families welcome). Bring rack cards, business cards, brochures, menus. Food truck available for purchase, free miniature golf, free soft-serve ice cream. At Barnyard Swing, 4604 State hwy. 28, Milford. RSVP To Kelly Zack-Decker, Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, (607) 432-4500, Ext. 207, kelly@otsegocc.com
OPENING RECEPTION -- 5-8
p.m. “Fracture in the Crystal City” by Nathan Meltz, “Art and Occult Nonsense by Rv. Panik, “Fiendish Friends,” by James Price. Through May 22. Free, all welcome. Music by pianist Michael Frye-Hunt. CANO, The Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2070. FIRST FRIDAY -- 5:30-7:30
p.m. Destination Oneonta’s Fabulous First Friday Community Picnic. Celebrate First Anniversary of Destination Oneonta Welcome Center. Musical entertainment, Brooks’ BBQ,, more. Main St. Oneonta. Info, destinationoneonta.com, (607) 432-2941. MORE CALENDAR, B3
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Opera in Binghamton.
This past weekend, improbability abounded in Binghamton with Tri-Cities Opera’s masterful production of Stephen Sondheim’s ”Sweeney Todd” with a story line that tests credulity to its limit. A barber murdering clients with joyful abandon, the victims’ remains subsequently providing the filling for meat pies? Now, just wait a minute! Yet I bought it from the start. Lurid organ music à la Vincent Price accompanies the rise of the curtain and we are immediately plunged into Dickensian London, dark, desperate and menacing. I was hooked.
Surreal as the premise is, it is a measure of Sondheim’s skill, as well as that of Hugh Wheeler who provided the book, that the audience needs little encouragement to suspend disbelief. This production’s stage director, Jonathan Pape, furthered the sense of realism by drawing from the performers, principals as well as chorus, natural human impulses and interaction. Along with the darkness there were genuinely comic moments as well. The orchestra, under the taut direction of Braden Toan, bolstered the action with vigor, sweetness, and the occasional jolt to awaken the sleepy. I doubt that there was anyone who nodded off. I certainly didn’t, scared out of my wits by the gleaming razor. The singers were uniformly excellent, and it is with pride that I single out Cooperstown’s Quinn Bernegger as The Beadle. He has a commanding vocal presence and moves around the stage, as well as up and down staircases, with natural energy and grace. His future looks bright. Bravo!
By Christopher Durang
One more improbability: Both Glimmerglass and TriCities scheduled “Sweeney Todd” this year. How lucky is that, for if you missed it in Binghamton, the summer is not far off and you can catch it on the shores of Lake Otsego.
CCS Grad Debuts In Tri-Cities Opera’s ‘Sweeney’
OPERA/From B1 day, May 1. “He’s such a creepy character,” he said. “I felt like I have to wash off the slime after every rehearsal.”
Despite getting leads in high school shows, also under the direction of the Bayes, he resisted the call as he went to Middlebury College, studying chemistry instead. “My mom bought me Michael Caine’s book on acting, and in it, he said that if you can imagine doing anything but acting, you should, because it takes that much dedication,” he said. “I loved science, environmental issues, so I thought I didn’t need to go down the acting path.” He sang in the college choir, and in his junior year, got a summer job pouring wine at the Glimmerglass Festival. “I was hanging out with all these young opera stars, and it made me miss it,” he said. “I got talking to Patrick Calleo” – Rickey Calleo, former lead tenor at the New
York City Opera – “and he offered to give me voice lessons in exchange for working in his garden.”
When he got back to Middlebury, he changed his major to music. “Suddenly I was able to sing things I couldn’t before,” he said. “There was a shift in my body, my voice that opened up a whole new world of music that I didn’t have access to before. It changed my life.”
He played Cinderella’s Prince in “Into the Woods” and closed out his college career as Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables.” “The week after my last performance, I graduated,” he said.
He was hired as a young artist at the Opera Company of Middlebury and studied German for singers while he applied for graduate programs. “I didn’t get any offers,” he said. “I opted to defer a year and see what happened next.”
But he was accepted that
HAPPENIN’
Friday, May 6
FROM B2
SPAY/NEUTER CLINIC -- by appt. Feline low-cost spay/neuter clinic with Dr. Joan Puritz. Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 St. Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. Call (607) 547-8111
$40 per person, $70 per couple. Stella Luna Ristorante, 58 Market St., Oneonta. RSVP www. hartwickalumni.org/wine16. Info, (607) 431-4032, macdonaldd@ hartwick.edu
MOM MAGIC! 7 p.m. Brian
“The Amazing Great” Foley and Sean “The Prankster” Doolan perform “Mother’s Day Weekend Magic and Comedy.” $15 ($12 for seniors, students, and children), bring your Mom for free! Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta. Info, tickets, http://bit.do/magicshow,
OTSEGO
(607) 431-8890.
CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Hartwick College Chamber Choir. Theater, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, www.hartwick.edu
GREASE -- 7:30 p.m. Orpheus Theatre presents “Grease,” the throwback musical that follows the 1959 greasers and Pink Ladies at Rydell High School. Goodrich Theatre, SUNY Oneonta. Also 7:30 p.m. Sat., May 7, and 2 p.m. Sun., May 8. Info, tickets, www.orpheustheatre.org, (607) 432-9392.
CONCERT – 8 p.m. Tribute band the Mersey Beatles, four lads from Liverpool who played for years at the Cavern Club, where the Beatles began. Preshow, John Lennon’s sister, Julia Baird, signs copies of her book “Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon.” VIP tickets include 6:30 p.m. meet & greet. Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Tickets, www.oneontatheatre.com MORE CALENDAR, B6
summer to the Seagle Music Colony’s young artist program, playing Fenton in Verdi’s “Falstaff” and Jack in “Into the Woods.”
“Susan Ashbaker of the Tri-Cities Opera was there scouting for a tenor resident artist,” he said. “She offered me a job on the spot and gave me until the end of the night to decide.”
Naturally, he accepted, and performed in the chorus in “The Barber of Seville,” as Almeric in “Iolanta” and in the Jazz Trio in “Trouble in Tahiti.”
But the role of Beadle Bamford was something a little different. “He’s a long way from Danny Zuko in ‘Grease’!” he said. “I have a very young look, so I’m often cast as the romantic lead, so
to play this slimy henchman is something I never expected!”
He has one more show with the company this season, the “Bravo Broadway” revue, which will feature opera residents and SUNY Binghamton students. And two weeks after that, he’ll head out to his first leading role, Nanki-Poo in Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Mikado” at the Chautauqua Opera Company.
And when the summer is over, he’ll return to his studies at the Boston Conservatory, under the tutelage of “Sweeney Todd” director Jonathan Pape. “I have fallen in love with opera,” said Bernegger. “The music has so much depth, and it can be whatever you want it to be.”
LegaL notice
NOTiCE Of COMPLETiON Of THE TENTATiVE SOLiD WASTE USER fEE ROLL
Notice is hereby given that the Otsego County Planning Department has completed the tentative Solid Waste User fee Roll for the year 2016. The Solid Waste User fee Roll contains solid waste billing units established for each parcel. A copy has been filed in the Planning Department Office located at 140 County Highway 33W, Cooperstown, New York, where it may be seen and examined by any interested person during regular business hours or by calling the Otsego County Solid Waste Department at 607-5474225.
Please call in advance to set an appointment.
Karen Sullivan Director Otsego County Planning/Solid Waste Dept.
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NOTiCE is hereby given that the fiscal affairs of the County of Otsego - Probation Departmentignition interlock Program for the period beginning on January 1, 2010 and ending on .March 10, 2015 have been examined by the Office of the State Comptroller and that the Report of Examination performed by Office of the State Comptroller has been filed in my office where it is available as a public record for inspection by all interested persons. Pursuant to Section thirty-five of the General Municipal Law, the governing board of the County of Otsego may, in it discretion, prepare a written response to the Report of County of Otsego may, in its discretion, prepare a written response to the Report of Examination by the Office of the State Comptroller and file any such response in my office as a public record for inspection by all interested persons not later than August 3, 2016.
Dated: April 28, 2016
Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalMay5
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SUPREME COURT Of THE STATE Of NEW YORK – COUNTY Of OTSEGO
iNDEX# 2015-745
fiLED: 4/05/2016
SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS AND NOTiCE
Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises are situated.
WELLS fARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff, against SAMERA WiLSON, if they be living and if they be dead, the respective heirsat-law, next-ofkin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said Defendant(s) who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the Complaint, and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, the last two names being fictitious, said parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, WTEX LLC, WEBSTER ASPHALT iNC. DBA WEBSTER PAViNG, THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT Of TAXATiON AND fiNANCE, and THE UNiTED STATES Of AMERiCA iNTERNAL REVENUE SERViCE, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME if YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THiS SUMMONS AND COMPLAiNT BY SERViNG A COPY Of THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS fOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO fiLED THiS fORECLOSURE PROCEEDiNG AGAiNST YOU AND fiLiNG THE ANSWER WiTH THE COURT, A DEfAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME.
SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOU CASE iS PENDiNG fOR fURTHER iNfORMATiON ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDiNG A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WiLL NOT STOP THiS fORECLOSURE ACTiON. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERViNG A COPY Of THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY fOR THE PLAiNTiff (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND fiLiNG THE ANSWER WiTH THE COURT.
YOU ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
NOTiCE Of NATURE Of ACTiON AND RELiEf SOUGHT:
THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage in the sum of $152,692.00 dated September 3, 2010, executed by Defendant SAMERA WiLSON to WELLS fARGO BANK, NA recorded on September 15, 2010 in instrument No. 20104279, in the Office of the Clerk of the County of OTSEGO, covering premises known as 63-65 Church Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 (Section 288.17, Block 4 and Lot 16). The relief sought within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed along with the supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the City of Oneonta, County of Otsego and State of New York, Section 288.17, Block 4 and Lot 16, said premises known as 63-65 Church Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.
YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTiCE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTiNG TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY iNfORMATiON OBTAiNED WiLL BE USED fOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage,
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or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. By reason of the aforesaid, there is due and owing to Plaintiff the sum of $140,764.80, with interest thereon at 4.87500% per annum from April 1, 2015.
UNLESS YOU DiSPUTE THE VALiDiTY Of THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTiON THEREOf, WiTHiN THiRTY (30) DAYS AfTER YOUR RECEiPT HEREOf THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTiON THEREOf, iS DiSPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAiNST YOU AND A COPY Of SUCH VERifiCATiON OR JUDGMENT WiLL BE MAiLED TO YOU BY THE HEREiN DEBT COLLECTOR. if APPLiCABLE, UPON YOUR WRiTTEN REQUEST, WiTHiN SAiD THiRTY (30) DAY PERiOD, THE HEREiN DEBT COLLECTOR WiLL PROViDE YOU WiTH THE NAME AND ADDRESS Of THE ORiGiNAL CREDiTOR. if YOU HAVE RECEiVED A DiSCHARGE fROM THE UNiTED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LiABLE fOR THE UNDERLYiNG iNDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAiNTiff/ CREDiTOR AND THiS NOTiCE/DiSCLOSURE iS fOR COMPLiANCE AND iNfORMATiONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP fOR HOMEOWNERS iN fORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully.
SUMMONS AND COMPLAiNT
You are in danger of losing your home. if you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.
SOURCES Of iNfORMATiON AND ASSiSTANCE
The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. in addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during
this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York state Banking Department at 1-877Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www.banking. state.ny.us
fORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS
Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303
NOTiCE YOU ARE iN DANGER Of LOSiNG YOUR HOME
if you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERViNG A COPY Of THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY fOR THE PLAiNTiff (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND fiLiNG AN ANSWER WiTH THE COURT.
Kozeny, McCubbin & Katz, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200 Melville, NY 11747
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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS index No. 20150837 STATE Of NEW YORK SUPREME COURT –COUNTY Of OTSEGO BENEfiCiAL HOMEOWNER SERViCE CORPORATiON, Plaintiff, -vsTHE HEiRS AT LARGE Of
HAROLD A. BARRETT A/K/ A HAROLD ALLEN BARRETT, DECEASED, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; DONiELLE BRADLEY; SCOTT A. BRADLEY; CHRiSTiNE BELLiNGER; UNiTED STATES Of AMERiCA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT Of TAXATiON AND fiNANCE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants.
Mortgaged Premises: 108 SUMMiT HiLL ROAD, JORDANViLLE, NY 13361 AND STATE HiGHWAY 80, JORDANViLLE, NY 13361
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEfENDANT(S YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. in the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.
NOTICE
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME
if you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose
your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERViNG A COPY Of THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY fOR THE PLAiNTiff (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND fiLiNG THE ANSWER WiTH THE COURT. That this action is being amended to include DONiELLE BRADLEY, SCOTT A. BRADLEY AND CHRiSTiNE BELLiNGER, AS POSSiBLE HEiRS TO THE ESTATE Of HAROLD A. BARRETT A/K/ A HAROLD ALLEN BARRETT, DECEASED. OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: DECEMBER 23, 2015 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. fEiN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400
The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of OTSEGO, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEfENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. MiCHAEL V. COCCOMA, a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated JANUARY 22, 2016 and filed along with the supporting papers in the OTSEGO County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. The premises is described as follows:
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“All That Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being in the Town of Springfield, County of Otsego and State of New York, more particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGiNNiNG at a point marking the intersection of the centerline of New York State Route #80 and the intersection of the Springfield Town Road, com-
monly known and designed as “Willsey Hill Road”, and running thence along the centerline of said Willsey Hill Road in a generally easterly direction 654+ feet to a point in the centerline of said road opposite a fence post; running thence in a generally southwesterly direction along a fence line and through the remaining lands of Waldman 643+ feet to an oak stake marking the southeast corner of the premises hereby conveyed; running thence in a generally west-northwesterly direction through the remaining lands of Waldman and through a 14” cedar tree 660+ feet to a point in the centerline of New York State Route #80; running thence in a generally in a northeasterly direction along the centerline of New York State Route #80 490+ feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 8 ½ acres of land more or less by estimation.
“The aforedescribed parcel of land is a portion of the premises conveyed by Catherine D. Sippel to ira Waldman in a Warranty Deed dated October 15, 1976, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego on October 15, 1976, in Liber 651 of Deeds at Page 927.
“The aforedescribed premises are conveyed subject to the rights of the public in and to New York State Route No. 80 and Town of Springfield Road known as “Willsey Hill Road”, and are further subject to all rights of way, easements and other encumbrances affecting the premises which may be discovered by an inspection of the premises or of the records of the Clerk of the County of Ostego, including, but not limited to, the rights of way and easements given by Catherine Delaplain Sippel to New York Telephone Company and Harry A. and Clarinda Bennett to New York State Electric and Gas Corporation.
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All that tract or parcel of land situate on New York State Route 80 in the Town of Springfield, County of Otsego and State of New York, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the center of New York State Route 80 which point or place of beginning marks the northwesterly corner of the premises herein described, and which point is located approximately 477 feet southwesterly as measured along the centerline of New York State 80 from
the intersection of Koenig Road and New York State Route 80; proceeding from said point or place of beginning south 62° 55’ 26” east through an iron rod set in the easterly boundary of New York State Route 80, 682.44 feet to an iron rod marking the northeasterly corner of the premises herein described; thence south 47° 49’ 20” west 489.31 feet to an iron rod marking the southeasterly corner of the premises herein described; thence north 63° 25’ 26” west 603.90 feet to a point in the centerline of New York State Route 80 and passing through an iron pipe located along the easterly boundary of New York State Route 80; proceeding from said point in the centerline in a northeasterly direction approximately 465 feet more or less, to the point or place of beginning, containing 5.08 acres of land. Premises known as 108 SUMMiT HiLL ROAD, JORDONViLLE, NY 13361 AND STATE HiGHWAY 80, JORDONViLLE, NY 13361 4LegalMay5
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Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Otsego
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Action to Foreclose a Mortgage index #: 2015-30 Mortgaged Premises: 89 Main Street Schenevus, NY 12155
SBL #: 230.19 - 1 - 36.00
Wells fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff vs William Dorvillier AKA Bill Dorvillier if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives,
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widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to Plaintiff; 89 Main Street Apartments LLC, New York State Department of Taxation and finance, People of the State of New York, United States of America Acting Through the iRS, John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, persons or corporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the property described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.)
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To the above named Defendant:
You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Otsego.
The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.
To: William Dorvillier AKA Bill Dorvillier Defendant in this Action.
The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of Hon. Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the fourteenth day of March, 2016 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, in the City of Cooperstown.
The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by William Dorvillier dated the
May 21, 2007, to secure the sum of $121,500.00 and recorded at Book 1523 of Mortgages at Page 773 in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk, on the June 1, 2007.
The property in question is described as follows: 89 MAiN STREET, SCHENEVUS, NY 12155
NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME
if you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.
Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERViNG A COPY Of THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY fOR THE PLAiNTiff (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND fiLiNG THE ANSWER WiTH THE COURT.
DATED: March 28, 2016 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221
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SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS
index No. 20150286
STATE Of NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY Of OTSEGO
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATiONAL ASSOCiATiON, S/B/M TO CHASE HOME fiNANCE LLC, S/B/M TO CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATiON, Plaintiff, -vs-
THE HEiRS AT LARGE Of RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMiN MORRELL, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mort-
gagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; SHARON MURWiN, DEBRA DESiLVA, DONNA MORRELL, ROBERT MORRELL, JR., ROXANNE MORRELL, DONALD MORRELL, KENT MORRELL, KELLY MEYERS, DARYL MEYERS, KiM DiXON, ViRGiNiA CARMEL, LEROY GLENN MORRELL iii, MANDY MORRELL, CHRiSTOPHER MORRELL, KEViN MCLOUGHLiN, ROBERT BREWER, GERARD BREWER, BRiAN MORRELL, RiCHARD MORRELL, JR. STEVE MORRELL, AND KATHALEN PARKER, AS POSSiBLE HEiRS TO THE ESTATE Of RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMiN MORRELL, DECEASED; and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; MiCHELLE BREWER, DEREK BUTZ AND MEGAL CULHANE, AS POSSiBLE HEiRS TO THE ESTATE Of RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMiN MORRELL, DECEASED; CAPiTAL ONE BANK; SPRiNGLEAf HOME EQUiTY, iNC. f/K/A AMERiCAN GENERAL HOME EQUiTY, iNC. UNiTED STATES Of AMERiCA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT Of TAXATiON AND fiNANCE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 14 RiVER STREET, OTEGO, NY 13825 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s
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attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. in the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.
NOTiCE YOU ARE iN DANGER Of LOSiNG YOUR HOME if you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERViNG A COPY Of THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY fOR THE PLAiNTiff (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND fiLiNG THE ANSWER WiTH THE COURT.
That this action being amended to include MiCHELLE BREWER, DEREK BUTZ AND MEGAN CULHANE, AS POSSiBLE HEiRS TO THE ESTATE Of GERALD BREWER, DECEASED, AS POSSiBLE HEiR TO THE ESTATE Of RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMiN MORRELL, DECEASED. That this action is also being amended to include THE HEiRS AT LARGE Of GERALD BREWER, as said individual is deceased.
OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises.
Dated: NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Mark K. Broyles, Esq. fEiN SUCH & CRANE,LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main
The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of OTSEGO, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein.
TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. MiCHAEL V. COCCOMA, a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated fEBRUARY 4, 2016 and filed along with the supporting papers in the OTSEGO County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. The premises is described as follows:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL Of LAND, situate in the Village of Otego, County of Otsego and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEiNG the same land as conveyed to Ronald B. and Shirley Morrell by deed as recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office in Liber 585 of Deeds, at Page 557; BEGiNNiNG at a survey monument set on the southwesterly boundary of River Street at the easterly corner of land of John Pochis and Kathleen M. DeMatteo (L 737/P 765), said monument being S 32-34 E, 408.7’ from a rebar bound at the back of sidewalk intersection of the southwesterly boundary of said River Street and the southeasterly boundary of Main Street (N.Y.S. Route 7); thence S 30-41-30 E along said boundary of River Street, 66.00’ to a survey monument set at the northerly corner of land reputedly of the Presbyterian Church Society; thence S 60-00-00 W along said church land, 165.27’ to a survey monument set on a northeasterly boundary land of Jeffrey M. Sakowski (L 766/P 499); thence N 30-4130 W along said land of Sakowski, 66.00’ to a point in a 12” Maple tree (painted and flagged) at the southerly corner of said land of Pochis and DeMatteo; thence N 60-00-00 E along said land of Pochis and DeMatteo, 165.27’ to the place or point of beginning. Premises known as: 14 RiVER STREET, OTEGO, NY 13825 4LegalMay19
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Notice is hereby given that a license, “Pending” for beer, liquor, wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, liquor, and/or wine at retail in a restuarant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 6027 State Hwy. 28 State Hwy 80 & Co. Route 26, fly Creek, NY 13337 for on premises consumption. Portabello’s in fly Creek, inc., (DBA) Portabello’s 2LegalMay5
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NOTiCE Of fORMATiON Of LiMiTED LiABiLiTY COMPANY
The name of the entity is Leatherstocking Construction LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on April 26, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 313 Brunner Road, Cooperstown, New York 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.
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Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company
The name of the entity is Ed’s Repair Shop LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on April 26, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 3213 Co. Hwy. 16, Burlington flats, NY 13315. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act of activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.
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Notice of for-
mation of J.E.L. Transport LLC. Art. of Org. filed SSNY on 03/08/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. LEGALiNC CORPORATE SERViCES iNC. designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALiNC CORPORATE SERViCES iNC., 90 STATE STREET, SUiTE 700 BOX 80, ALBANY, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Damulis Trucking, LLC. Purpose is to transport goods within and outside New York State. filed articles of Organization on 4/12/2016. The Secretary of State has been designated as an agent of the LLC, and the service shall be sent to 451 Gulf Rd, Burlington flats, NY 13315.
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MiTTMAN ONEONTA LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/4/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10467 East Raintree Dr., Scottsdale, Arizona 85255. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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NOTiCE Of fORMATiON
195 BiSSELL, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/2016. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Third Street, Manhasset, New York 11030. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune2
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NOTiCE Of fORMATiON
REELTOURS 360 LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/2016. Office Location: Otsego County. Princ. office of LLC: 28 fair St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Stephen Mahlum at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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Notice of formation of All About The Girls
By May, LLC on 3/31/2016 filed with Secy. of State. Office Location: 147 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. in Otsego County. The Purpose of business is women’s fashion jewelry and accessories, gifts. The 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 to All About The Girls by May, LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activities.
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D&R ENTERPRiSES i, LLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/16/2015. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 16 Water St., Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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Notice of formation of Aspire Performance Coaching, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/25/16. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 53 fair St, Otego, NY 13825. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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Notice By Publication of formation of Limited Liability Company
Cohn Media Group LLC filed articles of organization with the Department of State on April 5, 2016. its principal office is in Otsego County, New York. The street address of the LLC is 1314 County Highway 35, Maryland, NY 12116. 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 LLC is 1314 County Highway 35, Maryland, NY 12116. The registered agent is Christopher Cohn, 1314 County Highway 35, Maryland, NY 12116, and the registered agent is to be the agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.
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Notice of
formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC)
Name: MiLfORD CORNER LOT, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secreatry of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/24/26. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 99 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326: Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegaMay 26
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GRECO ROMAN LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/11/16. Office: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 286116, NewYork, NY 10128. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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NOTiCE Of fORMATiON Of Byler Brothers Construction, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on March 22, 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, 2168 U.S. Highway 20, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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MDM Dolan, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/16. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to C/O David Dolan, 174 Main St, Otego, NY 13825. Purpose: General.
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Notice of formation of DOLEZEL HOLDiNGS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secreatry of State on february 5, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego Country. 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, 42 Covar Lane, Otego, NY, 13825. The purpose of the LLC is to engae in any lawful act or activity.
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Mildred I. ‘Millie’ Hodges, 91; Worked At Bresee’s, Taught At Riverside
ONEONTA – Mildred I. “Millie” Hodges, 91, a former teacher at Riverside School, passed away on Sunday morning, May 1, 2016 at the Chestnut Park Nursing & Rehab Center in Oneonta.
Millie was born on Dec. 13, 1924, in Owego, a daughter of the late Leon and Hazel (Snyder) Hobbs.
Shortly after her birth, Millie’s family came to Oneonta where she grew up and attended Oneonta schools. She was an Oneonta High School graduate, Class of 1943. Following high school Millie worked at Bresee’s Department Store where she was made the manager of the store’s record department, choosing which records the store would keep in stock and scouring for the latest hits.
On May 28, 1946, Millie married the love of her life, Norbert J. Hodges, at the Lutheran Church of Atonement in Oneonta. Millie and Norbie celebrated 35 years of marriage together until his passing
in December of 1981.
A little later in life, she began working at Grover’s Trailer Sales in Sidney, and it was while working there that she first developed her love of camping. When Grover’s opened their Hobby Store, she took on responsibilities there as well. Her working career would take one more turn however, as she realized she had a real desire to teach. She began her teaching career at the River Street Elementary School, and when the school moved and changed its name to Riverside Elementary, she moved along with it. It was a running joke between Millie and her co-workers that when the school moved, only
Millie and the old school’s bell came with it.
Although she was a very hard worker, Millie enjoyed her free time as much as she could. She loved to travel and took little vacations whenever time allowed. Some time after her and Norbie started their family, they would pack up their camping supplies and head out into the great outdoors for fun filled weekends of playing cards, relaxing in nature, and visiting with family. Her favorite place to visit was Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. After Norbert passed away, she maintained her love of traveling by frequently taking bus trips and tours all over the northeast; she especially loved bus trips to Boston. She also traveled for almost two decades with her son Bruce all across the U.S. to railroad conventions as a local officer in the National Railway Historical Society
After her retirement, Millie became involved in several organiza-
Karl Anderson, 94; Oneonta Native Was Scintilla Retiree, Played Clarinet
ONEONTA – Oneonta na-
tive Karl Baker Anderson, 94, who lived in Sidney during his four-decade career at Scintilla, passed away, April 23, 2016, in the Fox Nursing Home, where he made his home for the past several years.
tions involving the area’s railways. She became the corporate secretary and Board Member of the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society, a position she held for 34 years and served right up until her passing. She was also an active volunteer on the Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley Railroad since 1999.
Millie will be remembered most for her strong devotion and love of her family. She was a dedicated wife and mother. Millie will also be remembered fondly by her family for her intense love of shopping, and her keen sense of always being able to find a sale. She is survived by her sons, David Hodges, and his wife Shirley, of Mountain Top, PA, and Bruce Hodges of Oneonta; her five grandchildren, Christopher Hodges, Stephanie Uthoff, Tammy Carvin, Katrina Kern, and Tonya Adamczyk; 12 great grandchildren, and 7 great-great grandchildren. She is also survived by her
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sisters, Christine Malloy, Sylvia Secord and Audrey Smith, all of Oneonta, and by her brother, Leon Hobbs, Jr. of Fairport.
Millie was predeceased by her husband, Norbert; her daughter, Rhonda Hodges; a sister, Patricia Ploutz, and a brother, Kenneth Hobbs.
Friends may visit from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m Saturday, May 7 at the Bookhout Funeral Home. A Celebration of Life service will follow, with the Rev. Judith Thistle officiating. Following the service, Millie will be laid to rest in the Oneonta Plains Cemetery in Oneonta.
In lieu of flowers, Millie’s family requests that you kindly consider making a charitable donation in her memory to the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society, P.O. Box 681, Oneonta, NY 13820.
Arrangements are entrusted to the Bookhout Funeral Home.
On March 5, 1944, he was married to Shirley Hubbell in Oneonta. They had four children.
After graduating from the Oneonta High School he did an apprenticeship in the Tool & Die Maker Program through Scintilla Magneto
Karl was born on Aug. 8, 1921, to Maybelle and Basil Anderson in Oneonta.
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Corp. He was hired in July 1941 and worked at the plant for more than 40 years.
During his last few years he enjoyed playing his harmonica and clarinet with the Foxy Fellows at the nursing home.
He is survived by a brother and sister-in-law, Harold (Dick) and Joyce Anderson; two daughters and sons-in-law, Sylvia and Harvey Graham, and Karen and Richard Prue; two sons and daughters-in-law, Steven and Elaine Anderson, and William and Marilyn Anderson; six grandsons, two granddaughters, five great-grandsons and 11 great-granddaughters.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Norman, Derwin, Wesley; one sister, Arlene Schmitt; his wife, Shirley; and many friends and relatives.
A celebration of life is planned at 1 p.m., Monday, May 9, at the Main Street Baptist Church, with the Rev. Grant Smith, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow the service at The Plains Cemetery in Oneonta.
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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.
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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
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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
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Notice of Formation of OLDESCHOLE, LLC
Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/12/16. Office location: Otsego County. Princ. office of LLC: PO Box 800, Morris, NY 13808. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against
it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Joseph Norman at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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Notice of Formation of OTSDAWA BERRY, LLC
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– 8-11 p.m. Otsego Dance Society monthly contradance. Peter Blue calls, music by Uncle Joe and the Rosebud Ramblers. Suggested donation $8 adults, $ students, fee 12 and under. Presbyterian Church, corner Pioneer and Church Sts., Cooperstown. Info ^607) 9658232, 547-8164
Saturday, May 7
HARTWICK CLEANUP -- 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Town of Hartwick
“Clean Sweep” day. Bring outdoor garbage, waste, unwanted items and recyclables to Hartwick Town Hall. Also roadside cleanup volunteers needed. For info or to volunteer, call Martha Clarvoe, (607) 293-6654, or Town Clerk Sarah McGuire, (607) 293-8123. 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. Special pickups, questions, call Bruce at (607) 267-6730. FLY FISHING CLINIC -- 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Dave Brandt Chapter of Trout Unlimited hosts a one-day intro. $40 with discounts available; bring bag lunch. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Cty. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Register: Dave, (607-643-2004 SPRING FEST – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Town of Butternuts 2nd Annual Spring Fest at Copes Corners Park. Festivities kick-off with the grand-re-opening of the park, flag ceremony and caretaker meet and greet. Family activities throughout the day include the Ross park Zoomobile, Zumba by Zoe, bonfire.Food, vendors, games. 6 p.m. concert by Tumble-
MAJOR’S INN OPEN HOUSE -- 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Open House, with free tours and refreshments. Tour historic 55-room 1897 Tudor Inn. The Major’s Inn, 104 Marion Ave.., Gilbertsville. YAGER MUSEUM FAMILY DAY -- Noon-4 p.m. “Afternoon at the Museum: Family Fun Day at the Yager,” offers educational and hands-on activities for kids and their families. Dig for artifacts, create your own Pop Art photo prints, listen to Iroquois tales. Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, www.hartwick.edu/museum or (607) 431-4423 MORE CALENDAR, B7
Mildred Hodges
Sister Recalls John Playing Piano-Accordion At Home
LENNON/From B1
Now touring the states with The Mersey Beatles, Liverpool’s premier Beatles tribute band, Baird, who authored the book, “Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon,” is sharing the stories of their childhood with his fans.
Born in 1947, six years after John, to Julia Lennon and John Dykins, Baird remembers her mother teaching the future Beatle to play the piano-accordion, ukulele and the banjo. “We were a very noisy house!” said Baird. “He used to practice with his groups in the kitchen.”
Those first groups – Johnny & The Moondogs, Johnny & The Rainbows, Blackjack and, eventually, the Quarrymen – were the first inklings of The Beatles. “It’s hard to believe the Beatles started with a banjo, a washboard and bass made from a tea chest, some washline and a broom handle!” she said. “It was nothing like we think of The Beatles today!”
Around that time, John met Paul, who lived down the street. “John said he liked Paul because he looked like Elvis and could play ‘Long, Tall Sally,’ even though he couldn’t remember the words!” she said.
John and Paul’s first public show – as The Quarrymen – was in 1957 at the 750th anniversary of Liverpool’s founding, where they played on the back of a coal lorry. “My sister Jackie and I had gone on a Sunday school trip. And when she picked us up, we thought we’d just go home, but she took us into town to see John play,” she said. “It was so strange to see what had been played in the kitchen be played on the street!”
They were so young, she recalled, that Paul had to miss his first gig at the Cavern Club in 1961 because he was on a Scout trip.
And when Beatlemania first hit, Baird was less than thrilled by fan reactions to her brother’s shows. “In 1963, they were opening for Roy Orbison, and throughout his whole set, the girls were screaming for The Beatles!” she said. “I was hor-
rified. I had come to see Roy Orbison, and you couldn’t hear him sing. I didn’t like that, and neither did my brother.”
Another time, he brought her and Jackie to a show in London, but told her to stay in the wings to watch the set. “We saw that there were four rows of empty seats up front, so we went and sat in the second row,” she said. “But as soon as they came on stage, all the girls rushed to the front. There were no more empty rows, and no more Jackie and Julia! John turned from the mic, whispered ‘Go get them!’ to security, and we were pulled on stage and into the wings.”
When John moved to the U.S. in 1971, the two stayed in touch over the phone. “I asked him once what his favorite song was, and he said ‘Stand By Me’,” she said. “So I love hearing him sing that.”
He invited her to visit, but by then, she had two kids, Nicholas and Sara, (David was born in 1980) and was working as a special needs teacher and school psychologist. “When he asked me to come visit, I couldn’t go because my kids were in school, but I never thought…”
Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman on Dec. 8, 1980. But she still sees his widow, Yoko Ono, at events in his honor, as well as Paul McCartney. “The Mersey Beatles & I saw him play at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, and I got backstage. He saw me and said, ‘It’s John’s little sister’!”
Now the director of Cavern City Tours in Liverpool, she became friends with the Mersey Beatles in 2004, and joined them on their tour to introduce them at shows and promote her book. And she enjoys meeting the fans whose lives her brother’s music touched. “We were just in DC, and across from the White House was a man with a tent that said, ‘Give Peace a Chance’,” she said. “I went over to him and said, ‘I’m John’s sister,’ and he said, ‘I can see that,’ and we had a hug.”
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO
Saturday, May 7
From B6
GARDEN PARTY -- 1-5 p.m.
Celebrate mom with a Garden Party at Hyde Hall. Free; all welcome. Tea & sweets in the dining room, presentation of new carpets, maypole dancing, book signing, dramatic readings, live music. Guided tours till 4 p.m. Learn about the new Hyde Hall Carpets! Guided tours from east portico until 4 p.m. Hyde Hall historic site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown.
HOMES FOR RENT
Beautiful 2BD, 2BA home in West Laurens. Wood stove, oversized 1 car garage and sits on 2 acres. No large dogs, no cats. Available May 1st. (607) 267-4214
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Available April, Spacious 3 or 4 BR, 2 Bath, Kitchen w/Island, Den, LivRm w/ Fireplace, Dining & FamRm w/ Pellet Stove, Enclosed Porch, Garage, 15 Acres, Located 3 Miles From Cooperstown. $1900. Mo. + utilities. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ (607) 2672683 (cell) TFN
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT
Cooperstown multi-use commercial /w Main St. & Doubleday lot access. Optional 1st floor double retail space, outdoor courtyard. 2nd floor: 4 private rooms/ offices. Restrooms/central air/alarm/phone. Call to discuss ideas/options. Kathy Fistrowicz 607-267-2683 TFN
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
Info, www.hydehall.org, (607)
547-5098.
AUTHOR VISIT -- 1 p.m. Gwen Cooper, best-selling author of “Homer’s Odyssey A Fearless Feline Tale” appears in benefit for Susquehanna Animal Shelter. $10 suggested donation. Country Inn & Suites, Rte. 28, just south of Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547.8111
PAINT & SIP -- 2-4 p.m.
Mother’s Day paint & Sip. $35 per person includes one glass of wine or cider (more available for purchase), hors d’oeuvres, art lesson and supplies. CANO, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, registration, (607) 432-2070, CANOneonta.org
SOUP! – 11 a.m.-2 p.m., “Second Sunday Soup,” serving homemade hot soup every 2nd Sunday of month. All welcome, donations appreciated. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church, Church St., Schuyler Lake.
