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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, June 10, 2016

Father Of Streetscape Leaving City Bill Kerbin Packed A Lot Into 13 Months

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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fter 13 months as City Hall’s community development director, Bill Kerbin is stepping down to pursue his dream as town manager of Onancock, Va.

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Oneonta’s Carol Baker, right, receives a SUNY Oneonta alumni award Saturday, June 4, at a Hunt Union Ballroom ceremony/DETAILS, A2

Who’s Would Be Best Choice For Manager?

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f City Hall were into the game show business, it’s next show might be, “Who Wants To Be Oneonta’s Next City Manager?”

After going through two city managers in three years, and about to start the search for a third, just what kind of person has the best chance for success is a question Mayor Gary Herzig wants Common Council to ponder.

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FOX KINGPIN: Bassett orthopedic surgeon Reginald Knight has been appointed a vice president at Fox Hospital, looking to create a “center for excellence” in orthopedics here/DETAILS, A2 WATCH FORUM: The forum of Democratic and Republican candidates seeking to succeed U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, June 8, at Foothills, may also be viewed on public access Channel 23.

FILL THE GATOR: Cazenovia Equipment Co. is accepting donations of non-perishable items for this month’s annual “Feed the Gator” Food Drive at 7443 Route 23, to benefit local food banks. The goal is to fill the bed of a John Deere Gator utility vehicle SHE’S TOPS: Laura Miller was the top finishing Oneontan in the sixth annual Cooperstown Triathlon Saturday, June 4, at Glimmerglass State Park.

“It’s been a career goal of mine to become a town manager,” said Kerbin. “A family member informed me of this opportunity, and I went for it.”

With a population of 1,263, Onancock is 30 miles from Kerbin’s hometown of PocoPlease See KERBIN, A6

Bill Kerbin packed a lot into his year at City Hall.

Deputies Arrest Edmeston Bank Heist Suspect

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n Earlville man is in Otsego County jail, Dennis D. Gelatt, 31, after he was arrested Sunday, June 5, and charged with robbing the NBT Bank branch in Edmeston on May 23.

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LA GROUP REPORTS TO COUNCIL

Czar? Someone Needs To Perk Up Downtown

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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owntown Oneonta lacks an “economic-development delivery system.”

“There is no consistent focus on small business retention and improvement,” said Jim Martin, a consultant with LA Group, Saratoga, told the Common Council that hired him to figure out how to revive center city.

“This city’s number one need is for a Local Development Corporation (LDC) to develop new downtown projects, business recruitConsultant ment and business Jim Martin: retention. We need Someone needs to drive an entity that can be responsive to business downtown. needs.”

That recommendation was in the LA Please See DOWNTOWN, A7

WHAT A WEEKEND FOR

KIDS Daniel Walker has a front row seat to talent as his mother Carina Walker, Oneonta, paints a snake on the face of Autumn Tompkins during OWL’s Ice Cream Social Sunday, June 5, at Fortin Park.

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Local Welder In National Contest

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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rowing up, Bradley Layton always wanted to be a blacksmith.

“I’ve always liked metal,” the West Oneonta lad said. “I’ve always been interested in making weapons, crosses. I made an ax for my welding teacher,” Ed Bordinger.”

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Clara Serrano, Brewster, visiting her grandmother, Brigitte Beehler, in Oneonta, rides therapy horse Daisy at the Family Resource Council’s Rubber Ducky Races Saturday the 4th in Neahwa Park.

Dorothy Stiefel stays as still as possible for Jacob Matthewson, who was using her as a template for chalk drawing on the parking lot during Fabulous Friday activities, held on the 3rd at the Huntingon Library.

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SUNY ALUMNI STANDOUTS RECOGNIZED AT BRUNCH

Bassett Doctor Named To Help Fox Become ‘Center Of Excellence’

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r. Reginald Knight, succeeds Dr. Ben Friedell, orthopedic surgeon in that role for the past six at Bassett Hospital, years. Friedell is stepping has been named vice presidown to return to full-time dent of medical affairs practice at Oneonta at Fox Hospital, effecFamily Practice. tive July 5.

Part of his oversight Among his responwill include recruiting sibilities will be exphysician leadership, panding Fox’s orthoto act as confidant and pedic offerings. When adviser to physicians, it was announced in and to focus on the April that Fox’s birth- Dr. Knight expansion of orthopeing room would be dics and other service consolidated with the one in lines at Fox. Cooperstown, the Oneonta Knight graduated from hospital was also identified SUNY Upstate Medical Cenas a possible “center of exter and completed an internIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA cellence in orthopedics.” ship in general surgery and The 2016 SUNY Oneonta Alumni award winners, honored Saturday, June 4, at ceremonies in the Hunt Knight has been an atan orthopedic residency at Union Ballroom, are, from left, Diane Georgeson, Malcom Hardy, Meaghan Kristol, Maj. Gen. Anthony tending orthopedic surgeon New York Medical College, German, Dr. Carol Denson, Dr. William Pietraface, Michele Randall-Williams, Carol Baker, Mark at Basssett since 2009.

He a spinal surgery fellowship Delligatti, Bob “Duke” Gallagher, Andrea LaMantia and Kathy Gallagher. At right is SUNY Oneonta is also director of Bassett’s at the University of RochesPresident Dr. Nancy Kleniewski. spine care institute and pres- ter School, and a masters of ident of the medical staff.

Health Administration from At vice president, he Capella University.

German, Baker, Pietraface, Georgeson Join Honorees

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he SUNY and Oneonta resident Oneonta Alumni was appointed comAssociation mander of the New York today presented an State National Guard by award to Maj. Gen. Governor Cuomo March Anthony German, ’81, 9. He had previously adjutant general for commanded the state’s the State of New York, Air National Guard. and the first general Also receiving 2016 from Oneonta since Alumni Awards were: the Civil War, during • Educator Carol the college’s Alumni Baker, ’66, ’71 G, of Weekend brunch Oneonta, Oneonta ColSaturday, June 4, in the lege Foundation board General German Hunt Union Ballroom. member and a key The Schoharie player in the recently County native, SUNY Oneonta grad completed “Possibilities Full of Prom-

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• Catherine Raddatz, Cooperstown, coordinator of alumni affairs at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, and collaboration of SUNY Oneonta and the New York State Historical Association.

• Bill Pietraface, Oneonta, retired biology professor and College Foundation board member.

• Diane Georgeson, Oneonta, local physician and member of the College Council since 2009.

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neonta Dollars for Scholars Board of Directors were to honor scholarship winners, parents, sponsors and friends to their annual awards program Wednesday, June 8, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.

Sixty-one scholarships were to be presented, and honorees shared a personal achievement or experience of which they are most proud.

The Dollars for Scholars program seeks to financially assist local students with the increasing costs of higher education and lessen the amount of debt from their respective schools.

Karen Brown, SUNY Oneonta director of admissions and mother of OHS senior and honoree Rachel Brown, was to give the welcome and the closing comments. Dollars for Scholars President Jacqueline Rowe was to present the certificates.

Zoe Akers (SUNY Broome Community College) William & Esther Fink Memorial Scholarship

Garrett Hassard (SUNY Polytechnic Institute) Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship

Ethan Beckerink (SUNY Buffalo) George H. Lambros Memorial Scholarship

Taylor Hitchcock (Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences) Winifred Marcley Memorial Scholarship

Emily Berrios (SUNY Canton) Dr. Rudolph & Gwen L. Schuster Scholarship Sarah Brackett (Roberts Wesleyan College+) Nancy Weeks Memorial Scholarship Rachael Brown (SUNY New Paltz+) Shane Robert Marmet Memorial Scholarship Patrick Calhoun (SUNY Cortland) Oneonta Football Booster Club Scholarship Joseph Casassa (Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst) Future for Oneonta Foundation Inc. Scholarship & Robert Squires Memorial Scholarship Michelle Chen (School of Visual Arts+) Janice “Denny” Lennox Memorial Scholarship Brenna Decker (SUNY Geneseo) Herb & Rae Froh Memorial Scholarship & Christine M. Schermerhorn Memorial Scholarship Rory Decker (Kings College) Dewar Foundation Scholarship & Oneonta Teachers Association Scholarship Bennett Eggler (SUNY Oneonta) Stan & Linda Syvertsen Family Scholarship Claire Garfield (SUNY Stony Brook University) Bruce Rowe Memorial Scholarship & The Zuretti Family Scholarship Bhanupratap Gaur (SUNY Oneonta) Dewar Foundation Scholarship Emily Harter (SUNY New Paltz+) Jim Konstanty – “That’s a Good Start…”

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Jennica Holoquist (Clemson University) The Hon. Robert A. Harlem Scholarship Aanyah Jhonson-Whyte (Binghamton University) Frederick A. Puritz Memorial Scholarship

Daniel Mazzei (SUNY Polytechnic Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering) Oneonta Rotary Community Service Scholarship Molly Medina (University at Buffalo) Frank W. Getman, Sr. Memorial Scholarship Mary Miller (Broome Community College) Brooks’ House of BBQ Charitable Foundation Scholarship

Dalton Sheehan (SUNY Delhi) Robert J. Shultis Memorial Scholarship Amy Shultis (SUNY Oneonta) Margaret W. Ouimette Memorial Scholarship Aliya Sider (University at Albany) Edward & Florence Ostrowski Memorial Scholarship

Gavin Monroe (SUNY Plattsburgh) Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship

Brianne Smith (University of Vermont) Clifford A. & Elizabeth P. McVinney Memorial Scholarship

Holly Keown (Nazareth College) Charles T. & Doris B. Gallagher Memorial Scholarship

Sarah Nader-Marcus (Daemen College) Dewar Foundation Scholarship

Kasie Stamp (Wells College+) Walter J. & Anna H Burchan Scholarship

Sarah Nader-Marcus (Daemen College) Susan Remillard Memorial Scholarship

Jamie Keown (American International College) Michelle R. Goodhue Memorial Scholarship

Hang [Brittney] Nguyen (Bridgewater State University) Thomas M. Hughson Scholarship

Bekka Struble (SUNY Oneonta) Sixth Ward Athletic Club Association, Inc. Scholarship

Michelle Kimball (SUNY Cortland) Southside Association Scholarship

Anne Nobiling (SUNY Geneseo) Robert W. & Joan F. Moyer Scholarship

Sapphira Koerner (SUNY Oneonta) Anthony & Marcella Drago Scholarship

Clark Oliver (SUNY Oneonta) Oneonta Rotary Breuninger/Forman Award

Nisha Labroo (Pennsylvania State University) James & Carol Baker Family Scholarship

Kaylee Packard (Nazareth College) Forgiano Family Leadership Award

Abigail Loucks (SUNY Oneonta) Eugene Francis Murphy Memorial Scholarship

Kaylee Packard (Nazareth College) Reverend Richard H. Frye Memorial Scholarship

Emily Loucks (Pennsylvania State University) Angie Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship

Abigail Picinich (SUNY New Paltz+) Daniel & Jean Rothermel Memorial Scholarship

Kimberly Kamina (SUNY Oneonta) C. James & Lois S. Herrick Memorial Scholarship

Robert Lyall (Siena College) John K. Miller Memorial Mathematics Scholarship

Antonio Russo (SUNY Delhi) Jared S. Trotti Memorial Scholarship

Noah Maben (Temple University) James C. Austin Memorial Scholarship

Christina Sakoulas (SUNY Oneonta) Dewar Foundation Scholarship

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EDITORIAL

Otsego County, Upstate Banking Capital Of Future?

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t was quite a tableau on Sept.

12, 2012, on the shores of Otsego Lake: Ministers from the across the county blessing the waters in a demonstration against fracking.

That was among many dramatic anti-fracking manifestations – hundreds of opponents at local FERC hearings, rallies at the state Capitol, Governor Cuomo’s loss of 39 Upstate counties in the 2014 Democratic primary – an impressive marshalling of public sentiment for a cause.

Happily, the threat of fracking in the Otsego Lake watershed and, for that matter, the county generally has disappeared. The best guarantee: There’s simply not enough natural gas to tap profitably. Better than most places inhabited by humans in the 21st century, our natural environment is pretty well protected.

Yet, another challenge remains: How do we create a sustainable local economic environment for human beings themselves.

• A very encouraging sign – and a new entry in the discussion – comes from Farm Credit East, which provides loans, crop insurance and other financial services to farmers from 21 offices around the Northeast.

It is planning a 50-job office building, merging its Sangerfield and Cobleskill offices, on Route 80 – East Lake Road – on the old Ryerson estate across from the Otsego Golf Course, a few hundred yards from Otsego Lake.

Otsego County is “an attractive place to recruit talent,” said Farm Credit East CEO Lipinski, left. With him is Cooperstown native Mike Reynolds, a regional VP.

And these are good jobs, accountants, appraisers, investment counselors.

The project went to public hearing before the Town of Springfield Planning Board last Thursday, June 2. Otsego Land Trust chair Harry Levine, representing Advocates for Springfield, was in the audience. So was Danny Lapin, an OCCA environmental analyst.

Uh, oh, anyone intrigued by the idea might have concluded on scanning the crowd.

Not to worry, it turned out.

“In simple terms,” Levine said when the time came for the public to speak, “we DO support this project.” At few minutes later, Lapin added, “We do not have any environmental concerns.”

And the stunner: Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham and her husband, Gaylord, had sent a personal letter to the Planning Board with an “enthusiastic endorsement” of the project.

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Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from the “opportunities/strategies” section of “Focus on the Future of Main Street,” presented to Common Council Tuesday, June 7, by the LA Group, consultants from Saratoga.

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ggregate personal income (in Oneonta) is projected to grow 13 percent between 2015 and 2020, which will support commensurate growth in consumer spending potential that downtown Oneonta can tap into.

Opportunities for growth in downtown Oneonta include: ► STORES, APARTMENTS New downtown commercial and residential developments in vacant and underutilized structures and properties will offer new business development and market-rate housing opportunities. New development has the potential to create growth opportunities for existing businesses, new homes for smaller households of professionals, empty nesters and seniors, and more attractive tourism infrastructure with new visitor amenities, such as hotel, restaurants, retail, public-assembly, event, and entertainment venues.

Redevelopment, infill and new development also create new space for existing busi-

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ness growth and new business attraction from outside the City, local area, and region assuming appropriate organizational capacity. Reuse developments should focus on activating upper floors of existing historic buildings that are noticeably vacant in Oneonta and have been for far too long in some instances. Persuading property owners to make investment and connect to development resources if needed will be a critical role the city can play. Infill development should focus on vacant/underutilized properties (e.g. parking lot on Main Street) and all of Market Street, which currently has low density to the point where significant business activity cannot be supported … ► DOWNTOWN MANAGEMENT Improved and more centralized downtown management is required to overcome existing governance and operational fragmentation in the current economic development delivery system in Oneonta. Downtown management entities help to promote effective, transparent and equitable partnerships for downtown operations that effect public safety, cleanliness and maintenance. These are mutually beneficial to public and private partners and support public-realm improvement and more positive visitor experience. Without centralized downtown management, however, an array of partners that take on various roles and functions of a downtown Please See STRATEGY, A6

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• In his comments, Farm Credit East CEO Bill Lipinski, who had driven up from Enfield, Conn., for the hearing, and added something new to the conversation. The Otsego Lake region is “an attractive place to recruit talent” for the financial sector.

When you think about it, Otsego County should be. Already, in-migrants are all around us.

We have Cooperstown, with The Otesaga, access to Glimmerglass, a national symbol of pristine nature, the cultural attractions – the NYSHA museums, the Glimmerglass Festival (a half mile south of Farm Credit’s site), Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA the Hall of Fame – Oneonta’s colCooperstown architect Kurt Ofer describes how the lowleges and educated population, and slung building will be hidden from Route 80 by existing scenic beauty at every turn. trees. At right is Springfield Town Supervisor Bill Elsey.

Economic-development efforts to live up here fulltime? Why not – energetically pursued by Otsego artifacts and traffic, even “darknight certification,” ensuring parkmany of them? Why not a miniNow in recent years – have tilted ing-lot lights aren’t too light.

Wall-Street north? toward manufacturing, and why If anyone wants to stop anyOtsego Now’s renewed effort not: A single manufacturer hirthing, a reason can be found. to obtain broad-band funding, ing 100, 200 or more employees So Otsego 2000, the Land Trust, after New York State’s initiative would have a major beneficial OCCA and Advocates for Springwas delayed a year by personnel impact on the local economy. field supporting the Farm Credit changes, will only accelerate that.

But as everything from the East plan – granted, Altonview There’s more, of course, the biomass plant at Pony Farm to the Architects of Cooperstown came prospective Oneonta “food hub,” Constitution Pipeline suggests, up with a design that will keep craft food and beverages generally, nothing much is going to happen the two-wing building low to the the water-park plans, the redevelaround here if local environmenground – is good news indeed. opment of the D&H years around talists don’t come aboard.

• rail, Interstate and air transport, That was emphasized as the Anyone who lives around here spinoffs from the nano-boom at Planning Board went through Part any amount of time runs across Utica-Rome.

2 of the SEQR process the other Wall Street bankers and investors, Perhaps the stars are finally night: There are 104 categories retired around the lake, or here aligning in our county, where – as where environmental objections for the opera or to play a round at in most of Upstate New York – almay be lodged to any undertakmost all the economic news has ing, from proximity to wetlands, to the Leatherstocking Golf Course. impact on wildlife, archaeological Why wouldn’t some of them want been bad.

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Volunteerism Gave Shelter Opportunity To Be ‘No Kill’ To the Editor: The article on the Susquehanna Animal Shelter makes the point that, “... animal care runs in the red.” As a former board member and past board chair, (of the SSPCA, now the SAS), I can categorically state the annual budget always ran in the red.

Maybe it was better that way as it made us board members work hard to balance the budget.

We never did. But thanks to the generosity of the community and the dedication of the volunteers at the “Better Exchange,” we got by, kept the doors open, the animals cared for and even had some fun at fundraising events.

Most important, we remained true to our mission as a “no kill” shelter.

You pose the question, “Who should help pay shelter costs?” The obvious answer is those who use the service.

Unless things have changed, a fee is charged for each surrendered animal.

These fees never begin to cover

the average cost of care and feeding, but they are a token of the owners’ admission of responsibility for the animal. The ongoing expense is the responsibilSAS volunteer ity of the SAS and Sue Leonard that is why people and rescued were asked to pit bull Reavoluntarily donate gan. while the board and others ran fund drives.

So who should pay for seized animals? Certainly not the deputy; he did his job by enforcing the law. Further if you want to produce a chilling effect on officers doing their duty and bringing in abused animals, just keep asking them to commit their bosses to a financial burden.

Nor did the sheriff or the county taxpayers create this situation.

The responsibility belongs to the person from whom the animals were seized. Assuming that the officer issued a summons for animal mistreatment the prior owner will be appearing in town court.

A spokesperson from the SAS should be present with pictures, and any bills the animals have incurred.

Remember, these animals were not voluntarily surrendered, they were rescued from a bad situation.

The spokesperson should ask the court for a judgment against the former owner. As many of us can testify, this has worked in the past, most notably in a case in the Town of Worcester where, thanks the untiring efforts of the DA Muehl and ADA Parshall, the SSPCA recovered $67,000, which had been spent on the medical care, boarding and feeding of some 51 mistreated dogs.

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History

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

150 Years Ago

The Ladies Freedmen’s Aid Society – It may be generally known that the young ladies of our village are working very earnestly for the cause of the Freedmen. We understand that they invite all to a Strawberry Festival on Monday evening June 18 in E.R. Ford’s new building on Broad Street by which they will “kill two birds with one stone” – gratify our palates and increase the funds in their Treasury. It will undoubtedly prove the most brilliant affair of the season.

Admission: 10 cents.

Excerpts from the account of a visitor to Oneonta from a southern state: “We have recently returned from a tour northward and among the various places of note and beauty which we visited, none struck our fancy so much as the Town of Oneonta, Otsego County, New York. It has about 1,500 inhabitants and is situated near the banks of the Susquehanna River which rises within a few miles of the place. This, together with its railroad connection and its flourishing weekly Journal, renders it a desirable business locality. But its chief attraction lies in the beautiful scenery which surrounds it. On all sides rise lofty hills which, with their towering trees and green verdure reflect a loveliness as well as a grandeur to the admiring gaze of the stranger.

These hills are places of resort for the citizens on summer evenings, and beneath the many lofty trees are frequently held picnics, festivals &c. We advise our friends to visit that place should ever an opportunity be presented. They will surely return – as we have – gratified beyond measure especially with the striking beauty of its ladies whose fairy images can never be lost in one’s memory.”

June 1866

125 Years Ago

Two very convenient shortcuts from Dietz Street have recently been closed up – one to Chestnut Street via the Windsor Hotel and the other to Reynolds Avenue across the lands of John Amsden. There is great need for public streets in both these places, there being now no east and west highway between Main and Washington streets.

Oneonta milkmen have combined and increased the price of the lacteal fluid to five cents per quart. The new arrangement is doubtless very satisfactory to producers. But, consumers who know that four cents a quart is about double the price paid by creameries, where dairymen usually wait two or three months for their pay, feel that the old price is fully high enough.

June 1891

100 Years Ago

Thanks to the efforts of the Oneonta Chamber of Commerce, there is to be a substantial addition to the already considerable list of local industries. The new industry is a

60 Years Ago

80 Years Ago

West Oneonta’s two-room school will not re-open for classes in September. Instead, the 32 or 33 pupils in grade one through four will be sent on a contract basis to other schools. The decision was made at a special meeting of school district voters last night in west Oneonta’s new fire house. Of the 64 voters who attended, 17 voted to adopt a budget for continued operation of the little school at a tax rate of $43.50 per $1,000 of valuation. But the majority vote was 47 in favor of a budget for contracting with other schools at a tax rate of only $17.50 per thousand of valuation. The tax rate for the current year is $20.50. Voters designated Laurens, Otego, Plains and Oneonta as the school districts with whom they will contract.

June 1956

40 Years Ago

C. James Konstanty, 59, of 215 Main Street, Worcester, die Friday, June 11, at Fox Hospital, Oneonta, after a brief illness. Konstanty, a pitcher for the pennant-winning Philadelphia Phillies in 1950, was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player for his work on the mound that year.

He was also named 1950 Athlete of the Year by the United Press. Konstanty was born March 2, 1917 at Strykersville, a son of John and Apolonia (Gurgel) Konstanty. He was graduated from Arcade High School and from Syracuse University with a B.S. degree in 1939. He married Mary Burlingame of Worcester on May 29, 1949.

June 1976

20 Years Ago

June 1936 glove factory which will be conducted by the firm of Julius Kayser & Co. The firm is one of the largest in its line, having a large number of factories in this country and in Germany and Great Britain. The Kayser Company’s factory at Sidney gives regular remunerative employment to about 200 persons. If help can be secured there is no reason why as many more may not be employed here. The factory will be located on the second floor of the building on Wall Street which was formerly known as the Windsor Livery and which has since been greatly repaired and improved by its present owner F.H. Bresee. For the present time the glove works will occupy a room 30 by 40 feet and employment will be given at once to 25 people. If there is need of further accommodations, an adjoining floor space of 60 by 30 feet will be utilized. The company manufactures both silk and suede gloves. For the present, the Oneonta factory will be employed on the cotton suede gloves.

June 1916

Fred and Alma Beecher have shared 27,395 days of married life together since they exchanged wedding vows on June 9, 1921. Surrounded by nearly a hundred family members and friends, the Walton couple celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary on Saturday at the home of a daughter. Looking back, the Beechers credit hard work and faith for the longevity of their marriage – and of their lives.

“We’ve had our kicks and tumbles, but I guess everybody has them,” says Fred, 96. “We’ve had a lot of good days.”

June 1996

10 Years Ago

A Binghamton man was arrested Tuesday after swallowing a diamond ring. Michael T. Kuchinski, 35, was charged with petit larceny after he allegedly stole the ring while working as a furniture deliverer in a Guilford home. When the owner confronts Kuchinski, he swallowed the ring. The ring was recovered after it passed through Kuchinski’s system.

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LA Group Outlines Ideas For Downtown Oneonta

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Miriam Nelson’s Exercise Regimen Greatly Increases Elderly’s Strength To the Editor: A recent picture of our Hartwick Senior Exercise Class by Ian Austin, and a nice article by Libby Cudmore – thank you both – appeared recently on your AllOTSEGO.life page.

I just have a correction. Our group can’t take credit for going in the nursing homes. We just follow the strength-training program recommended by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., in her book, “Strong Women Stay Young,” one of several she has written on extensive scientific research.

Two from Tufts University went into a nursing home in the late 1980’s and worked

with six women and four men – volunteers for the program – ages from 86 to 96 years.

This was a work-out three times a week for eight weeks, lifting weights.

The results, published in JAMA in 1990, were remarkable. In just eight weeks, these 10 participants increased their strength by an average 175 percent. Two participants discarded their canes.

I’m just glad the county Office of the Aging started classes in different areas of Otsego County. Our members range in age from 65 to 90 plus. It’s a plus for seniors.

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After 13 Months, Kerbin Becomes Town Manager KERBIN/From A1 moke City, Md. “It’s a little smaller than Oneonta,” he said. “But they’ve got a nice downtown, and I want to continue the success I’ve had here down there.”

As town manager, he’ll oversee the finance, personnel, public works and the police department, as well as handle the day-to-day activities.

In April 2015, Kerbin was hired to his newly created Oneonta position by a 5-3 vote of Common Council.

Previously, he had been the housing planner with the Kent County Planning, Housing & Zoning Department in Chesterton, Md., for eight years, specializing in housing projects for low income families.

At the time, he said he and wife Karen Emerson were looking forward to being near her family in Delaware County.

“Bill was the first to fill the position,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “He initiated several successful applications and worked with business owners to help build the future of Oneonta.”

In his year-long tenure, Kerbin continued his commitment to housing with the rental-rehabilitation project, securing grant funding to help rental property owners rehab some of the city’s old and under-developed housing, on the condition that 51 percent of the rentals be occupied by low-moderate income tenants.

He worked on the LA Group’s “Focus on the Future of Main Street” survey and oversaw the city’s microenterprise grants, which are currently helping 10 Oneonta businesses with everything from equipment upgrades to shelving and flooring.

Among those businesses are HannieBee Lane, Jamaican Creation and Roundhouse Indoor Golf.

But he considers the Streetscape Plan his legacy, securing grant funding to Thinking of Remodeling?

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update the city’s sidewalks, trees, benches and planters. “I was glad I was able to see that project through, from beginning to end,” he said. “It’s going to be a huge addition to downtown and will help attract visitors.”

Though the project is slightly behind the anticipated end of June schedule due to a wet, cold spring, Kerbin believes it will be finished by early July. His last day as community development director is Friday, July 1; he starts as town manager on Monday, July 18.

STRATEGY/From A4 manager require more clearly delineated roles, Please See PLAN, responsibilities and expectations for partners. The next step towards a more integrated downtown management is to develop a strategic action plan for downtown development that engages a broad base of public and private partners that span downtown, local and the regional economies. Following are key program areas of downtown management and identification of the organization that is primary or lead partner in each program area of downtown management: ► ADVERTISING, MARKETING Destination Oneonta is looking to expand the definition of a Main Street organization to encompass other parts of Oneonta, importantly the campuses and Southside Mall, which is a destination driver for regional residential traffic to the area. Downtown should have a reciprocal and compatible relationship with the Southside Mall because they both serve important functions.

However, there are multiple websites (e.g. city website, downtownoneonta. com, mainstreetoneonta.com, destinationoneonta.com) already advertising downtown, which may create a barrier to building unified downtown marketing programs, not to mention regional websites like thisiscooperstown.com, otsegocc.com, and otsegonow.com.

► EVENTS Destination Oneonta and other volunteer community organizations, with support from the city, sponsor and produce premier community events such as First Night Oneonta.

This model appears to work as events are very popular. As in most communities, longterm sustainability of events is contingent upon perpetuating them, and can be challenging over the long term due to burn out, staff and volunteer change, and changing community demand for events.

Though they can take a lot of resources, both volunteer and financial support, downtown events were identified by all stakeholders as some of the most important activities going on downtown… ► LETTING OTHERS KNOW Business outreach to build awareness locally and regionally is critical to growing existing businesses and recruiting new businesses.

The Chamber has the primary role of nurturing and supporting existing businesses. In that capacity, they support the expansion and retention of these businesses through their programs, such as Leadership Otsego and the Tri-County Young Professionals, and services offered through the Business Resource Center. The Chamber also conducts regular outreach to businesses downtown, and throughout the region, through its membership activities, which support building awareness of down-

town activities and business investment opportunities.

Business recruitment is currently the responsibility of Otsego Now. However, these efforts are primarily focused on industrial businesses outside of downtown Oneonta. ► WHAT’S AVAILABLE? Downtown residential and commercial space finder is an integral part of downtown marketing and keeping the pulse on business activity.

Property owners and brokers are currently the primary advertisers of available space for sale and for rent. Many do this with just a sign and a phone number in the window.

The current “system” reflects fragmentation as well as lack of focus on unified downtown marketing and positioning.

Regularly updated and linked property, building and business databases are a hallmark of effective downtown management and a foundation for regular market analysis and updates. Such a system is currently lacking for downtown Oneonta.

This opportunity to building a downtown-property and space-finder database may have broader applications. The space finder would showcase available commercial and residential space for sale and rent, and be supported by regular capture and data integration with assessor’s data, sales transactions and rental occupancy throughout downtown and broader City and County as appropriate …

It is suggested that a local

economic development corporation (LDC) be formed to fulfill this role. The downtown LDC is envisioned to be a stand-alone, autonomous entity structured according to a corporate charter and governed by a board of directors. … ► BE WELCOMING Public space improvements are a big opportunity to promote functional and attractive streetscape, signage and way-finding, visitor information, parks, plazas and open spaces.

The benefits of publicspace improvements, including better accessibility to, from and within downtown, more connectivity, especially between Main and Market, with new development, enhanced multi-modal transfers (e.g. vehicle, bus, bike, pedestrian, etc.) and a more pleasant and repeatable visitor experience for residents and tourists is an important consideration for improving downtown. This is largely the city’s role to promote public space, because they implement physical infrastructure improvements on regular

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Young Welder’s Skills Take Him To National Competition WELDER/From A1 A second-year Welding Arts student ONC BOCES Area Occupational Center in Milford, his talents in metal sculpture have taken him all the way to the SkillsUSA National Championship, held in Louisville, Ky., June 20-24.

His sculpture, “The CrossOver” depicts a winged cross rising out a skull. “It depicts the moment of death, of crossing over into the afterlife,” he said.

After his teacher suggested he enter, he began designing his sculpture. “Originally, I wanted the skull to have wings, but the first casting failed,” he said. “The original skull was normal size, but it didn’t come out right.”

After building his own aluminum smelter in the backyard of his parents’ West Oneonta home, he made a foam mold and buried it in a bucket of sand, pouring molten aluminum ingots in to create a mold.

“It incinerates the foam,” he explained. “I would come home and spent the evening prepping the materials, then cast it in the middle of the night.”

The second casting worked, but he had to redesign the sculpture to stay within the dimensions set forth by the competition.

“The wings wouldn’t fit the

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Bradley Layton’s sculpture, “The Crossover,” is taking him to national competition in Louisville.

way I wanted to, so I added the cross,” he said.

The wings and cross were cut from sheet aluminum with a plasma cutter at the BOCES center. “The wings took me eight hours to sand by hand,” he said. “If you catch it in the sunlight, they catch the light just right.”

He first took the sculpture – as well as a binder full of sketches and photographs detailing every step of the process – to the Regional competition in February.

“The judges really liked it,” he said. “They all asked me how I made the skull.”

He took first prize for welding arts, and it was on to States, held April 28 at the

Downtown Renewal Requiring Someone To Lead The Charge DOWNTOWN/From A1 Group’s report, “Focus on the Future of Main Street,” packed with information and suggestions for making downtown busier and more enticing.

“You mean, like a czar?”

Council member Paul Van der Sommen, First Ward, asked about the LDC. “Oneonta is great, but maybe we need someone who can say ‘How many tattoo shops do we need to have downtown’?”

“They (the LDC) would have the consumer survey right on the corner of their desk,” replied Martin. “This effort would focus on the needs of the market so that a property owner doesn’t have to say, ‘Sure, I’ll let this fourth tattoo parlor come along and pay the rent.’ They would recruit solid business people.”

The LDC was the foremost, but one of several recommendations brought forward from the study, which had the LA Group meeting with business owners, city leaders and residents, as well as soliciting a survey for what people wanted to see in their downtown. In all, 1,300 responded to the online survey.

Downtown, 184 businesses, providing 1,800 jobs, were inventoried.

“Downtown has 95 percent storefront occupancy,” said Martin. “That’s healthy real estate. There are some vacancies, and they can be challenging to get filled.”

To this end, James Stevens, a senior associate with ConsultEcon in Cambridge, Mass, was brought in and studied where the sales gaps exist in downtown. “Money is ‘leaking’ out of the area because sales don’t meet the required level of consumer expenditure,” said Martin.

“That money can be retained by filling in the sales gap.”

To make up this gap, Stevens estimates that downtown can handle 110,000 square feet of clothing and accessory stores, 46,000 square feet of food service establishments, 18,000 square feet of furniture and furnishing stores and 5,000 square feet of electronics stores.

“Right now there’s only five clothing stores downtown,” said Martin. “That needs to double in order to become a shopping destina-

tion.”

He also acknowledged the simultaneous strength and weakness of digital commerce. “E-commerce makes up a great amount of sales, but smaller businesses can sell through portals like Amazon to keep some of that money here,” said Martin.

He further supported creating more mixed-use space, including turning the Westcott Parking Lot into housing and commercial space.

Housing was a big issue, and among his top recommendation was assessing the James F. Lettis apartment complex. “It serves a vital need in providing a low-income option, but it may have served it’s useful life,” said Martin. “The physical condition needs to be assessed as to whether it can be rehabbed or needs to be replaced.”

He also cited Klugo’s Parkview Place as a housing achievement in the downtown. “There’s a big demand for ‘active senior’ housing that’s close to downtown shopping and dining,” he said. “The success of that building indicates that there’s a need for that housing choice.”

And some of the ideas presented, including the Food Hub, were already in progress. “It’s good to see consistency in these reports,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “They reinforce each other.”

But with the departure of the city’s first Community Development Director, Bill Kerbin, the city can now assess whether or not to rethink that role with the “economic development delivery system” in mind.

“It’s good to assess what the important aspects of that job were, and figure out the best way to go forward with those responsibilities,” said Herzig.

The recommendations will now go on a future agenda of Council’s Community Development Committee, who will discuss what items to take action on. “We will keep this in front of us,” said Herzig. “We want to take a closer look.”

Syracuse Fairgrounds. “We were in the cow barn, with all these other welders and carpenters, some of them doing

live demonstrations,” he said.

He placed first again, and heads to the Nationals just days before his graduation.

“We have to drive down there and drive right back!” said his father, Rex. “That was what we agreed on.”

Over the years, several students in BOCES programs have made it to Nationals, but Layton is the first of Bordinger’s students to attend in over 25 years.

“It’s not every year this happens,” he said. “Bradley is a good kid and he loves to do the unorthodox stuff. He doesn’t want to go into heavy construction or pipe lining, he wants to make art, repair things.”

“SkillsUSA is serious,” he said. “You have to wear a

bright red suit, and you can lose points if you don’t wear black socks.”

After graduation, he plans to continue his welding training at SUNY Delhi. But he hasn’t given up on blacksmithing either. “I just got back from taking classes at the Adirondack Folk School,” he said. “I bought a forge off a guy for $80, so I’m using my welding skills to fix that up.”

And he plans on using his welding arts as a way to make a living. “I’d like to do renaissance fairs and sell things,” he said. “Last weekend I made hooks, a bottle opener and a bunch of nails.” Bradley Layton pursues “He’s a good kid,” said his passion for welding Bordinger. “And I wish him – and he’s good at it. luck.”

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That phrase stuck with D’Ambrosio, and he repeated it again the other day as he walked through the two exhibits Please See ART, B2

TRIPLE ART: Recent paintings by Richard Saba; “Petite Plantings,” annual miniature show and 51st Annual Fine Arts Show of the Leatherstocking Brush & Palette Club. Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, June 10, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, www.cooperstownart.com PUPPET SHOW: Photo & Supply, with handmade puppets and dynamic sets, this collective of Brooklyn artists brings to life a store about community and collective memory. 7 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, June 10-11. “THE CHURCH (Artist Residencies & Performance Space”), 2381 State Hwy. 205, Mt. Vision. Info, upsi-ny.com GET YOUR FIBER: Weaving, yarn, fleece and more at the 6th Annual CNY Fiber Arts Festival. Over 100 booths under cover. Yarn, supplies, fiber & fleece sale, demos, exhibits, unique gifts, children’s activities. Food, free parking. $6, children under 12 free. No dogs allowed. Rain or shine! 10 a.m.

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Sun. Butternut Hill Campground, Rte. 20, Bouckville. Info, www.cnyfiber.org CAR WASH: NAACP “Get Rid of Grime” car wash fundraiser. Free-will donation (suggested $5). First 30 car owners receive an “Oneonta ONE” bumper sticker. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11. Benefits Oneonta Branch NAACP programs and activities. Info, Lee Fisher, 607-432-5850.

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ART/From B1 that opened over Memorial Day Weekend: “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Bohemian Paris” and “The Perfection of Harmony: The Art of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.”

The two headliners joined Ansel Adams, whose “Early Works” opened April 1. The NYSHA president credits that, and a marketing effort underwritten by NYSCA, the state arts council, with a 73 percent leap in visitors (over the same period the year before) to the museum on Glimmerglass’ shores.

“A lively cultural atmosphere, that’s what we want,” said D’Ambrosio, pausing in front of “Divan Japonais,” his favorite poster in the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition. “It’s fairly rare to see so many of his posters in one place,” he observed, “and to see them in good condition.”

The dominant image in “Divan” is Jane Avril, a performer in the cabarets that Toulouse-Lautrec frequented in “La Belle Époque” of the late 19th century, when rail travel made Paris’ temptation more widely available.

When the artist first depicted her, Jane Avril lashed out at “that little monster.”

By her career’s end she would say, “I owe every bit of my celebrity to ToulouseLautrec.”

“He branded them,”

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After dropping their son off at the HOBY (Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Conference at SUNY Oneonta) Friday, June 3, Peter and Laurie Carpenter of South Glens Falls took in the James McNeil Whistler exhibition at The Fenimore Art Museum.

D’Ambrosio explained.

In the upper left corner of “Divan,” he pointed out, was the singer with black elbowlength gloves, painted from behind. That would have been Yvette Guilbert. As for Avril, the artist focused on her distinctive nose and mouth.

If the actresses came to celebrate the tiny artist, so did “the cabaret owners,” said D’Ambrosio, who is also The Fenimore’s chief curator. “They loved him.

He made them rich.”

From Toulouse-Lautrec on

the lower level to Whistler on the second floor, what remains constant are “inspirational, innovative, influential” creations. Also, the influence of East Asian art, which flooded European and U.S. markets after Japan was opened to trade in 1854.

The simplicity and color of Japanese scrolls inspired Whistler and others to break with the formality – historic subjects, detailed, with classical themes predominating – of the Royal and American academies. “Art for art sake” was the new credo,

D’Ambrosio said, presaging Impressionism and capturing what Picasso wouldn’t say for decades: “Don’t paint what you see. Paint what you know is there.”

The Toulouse-Lautrecs are a travelling exhibit from the Herakleidon Museum in Athens. The Whistlers are from the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., but there are added twists. D’Ambrosio’s spouse, Anna, director of the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, provided additional Whistlers from the Utica museum’s collection.

They are slightly larger, and black-framed, including a set of lithographs of Japanese and Chinese porcelain.

To dramatize “Tonalism,” the genre Whistler was founding – “Whistler’s Mother,” D’Ambrosio notes, was actually “Arrangement in Gray and Black”; other examples among The Fenimore lithographs are called “nocturnes,” as if the works were music – D’Ambrosio borrowed “The Beach at Selsey Bill” from the New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art.“ The two museums have often helped each other fill gaps or enhance exhibits.

“Selsey Bill,” loosely painted figures against a dominant flat beach, is an example of what Whistler’s was experimenting with in his lithographs.

Another outlier, “The Giudecca: Notes in Flesh Colour” – the Grand Canal – loaned by Amherst College’s museum through a gift from Dr. Harvey and Joan Leventhal of Cooperstown, is an example of how local benefactors help make the exhibits special. (Nellie and Bob Gipson of Unadilla and Fenimore Asset Management, Cobleskill, helped underwrite “…In Bohemia.”)

Two other elements from past collaborations with the Glimmerglass Festival are back: One, The Toulouse-Lau-

trec exhibit includes “La Boheme” costumes from The Met. In fact, it was when D’Ambrosio learned Francesca Zambella planned to set the Puccini opera in La Belle Epoque that he was determined to get the Herakleidon exhibit here.

Two, with Robert Ward’s operatic adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” the Glimmer Globe Theatre Company will be performing Miller’s version at The Fenimore’s Lucy Hamilton Amphitheater, beginning July 6. The performances are Wednesdays, the one day there are no operas.

(Glimmer Globe will also be providing a ToulouseLautrec and Whistler to walk visitors through the exhibits on Sunday afternoon.)

While the gate this spring has leaped, when the opera arrives, “it’s like throwing a switch,” said D’Ambrosio, with fans lining up outside the museum when it opens at 10 a.m. to experience “a perfect Cooperstown day,” the museum in the morning and a matinee in the afternoon.

People have referred to The Fenimore as “our mini-Metropolitan,” and D’Ambrosio likes that characterization. “Our stock in trade is to bring great art and culture to this region,” he said. “We’re here to enrich people’s lives. That’s why we’re here.”

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Creativity, Paired With Consistency, Took Ommegang, Leinhart To Heights THE BEST/From B1 his sophomore year at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Last month, Leinhart and Brewery Ommegang reached a peak that’s going to be hard to surpass.

At the semi-annual World Beer Cup in Philadelphia, Ommegang was named the best mid-size brewery in the world; Leinhart, best brewmaster in the world at a mid-size brewery.

A new beer, Rosetta, won a gold medal in the Belgian-Style Fruit Beer category, besting 58 entries and contributing to Ommegang’s overall score.

In an interview from Kansas City, Mo., Simon Thorpe, president of Duvel/Moortgat USA, Ommegang’s parent company, sees a common link in that double achievement.

Ommegang, which turned 20 this year, “isn’t a brewery that’s a flash in the pan: This is part of a long-term commitment to quality.” Same with Leinhart, who has shown “consistency over time and commitment to quality,” said Thorpe.

A former Ommegang president, Thorpe promoted two years ago to build “a family of beautiful breweries in the U.S.,” as it had done in Europe. It acquired Boulevard Beer, Kansas City, Mo., in 2013, and Firestone Walker Brewing Company from Paso Robles, Calif., in 2015.

Still, Ommegang remains “a

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Thousands of brewers from around the world packed the Philadelphia Convention Center Friday, May 6, for the biennial World Beer Cup competition, where Ommegang and Brewmaster Leinhart were declared best in the world among mid-size breweries.

small, beautiful gem at the top of our portfolio of breweries,” he said. As for Phil Leinhart, ”He’s still as creative today as he was 1015 years ago. And he’s maintained a steady, underlying commitment to the quality of the beers.”

Phil was the youngest of seven brothers raised in Ridgewood, N.J., the sons of a Dupont engineer, Russell Leinhart, which may have influenced how the brewer’s career developed.

A sipper of Molson’s and “Pottsville Porter” as a young man, Leinhart was entranced by “the craft” as described by author Michael Jackson’s influential 1977 “World Guide to Beer.” Inspired, he remembers, he wanted to create.

“I was the most opinion-

ated about brewing before I even stepped foot in a brewery,” he said today. “I had ideas in my head that were hearsay, and I thought they were fact.”

For a while, that youthful self-confidence served him well.

“What could you possibly learn at Anheuser-Busch?” he’d say.

He spent a year as head brewer with Commonwealth Brewing Co., a year at Massachusetts Bay Brewing Co. (where he put his mark on Harpoon Winter Warmer) then four years at The Lion Brewery WilkesBarre, Pa., as it branched out from its century-old production of the Stegmaier brand.

By the time he “broke into the big leagues” in 1995, joining Busch’s Newark, N.J., brewery,

the engineer’s son was ready to learn what his new employer had to teach: the checks and doublechecks that allowed for consistency over millions of gallons of beer, year after year.

“There was so much control, such tight control,” said Leinhart.

“It was just so demanding.”

Another of Phil’s brothers, Gus – Dr. Gus Leinhart, chief of Bassett’s Emergency Department – had moved his family to Fly Creek in 1990, so Phil and wife Anne Marie, would come up to visit.

They learned early on of Ommegang founders Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield’s plans for a Belgian-style brewery on Route 33. “I was out here (in 1996) when Don and Wendy poured the foundation,” he recalled.

In 2003, Don and Wendy sold their shares to partner Duvel Moortgat, the multi-national Belgian brewer, “that really got my attention.”

On learning the brewery was looking for a brewmaster, Phil came up for a conversation with then-president Laurent Demuynck, Thorpe’s predecessor, and got the job. He joined Ommegang in January, and Anne Marie and their two daughters, Olivia, now 18 and heading to St. Lawrence University in the fall, and Colette, now 13, followed him from New Jersey when the school year ended.

Small is beautiful, and Leinhart found himself “part of something

that’s fun to do, and doing it with some great people.” Of course, he brought the quality-control lessons with him from Busch, expanding the lab, but also became more involved in the development of individual brews.

Still, he echoes Thorpe, who arrived in 2009, in talking about the team effort that goes into beermaking. “People ask, ‘Who’s responsible for this beer?’” Leinhart answers, “We’re all responsible for this beer.”

He doesn’t admit to any eureka moments, but Leinhart does say he had a good feel about Rosetta – a beer he’d had in mind for a while – from the first taste.

Ommegang didn’t have the capacity to make a soured fruit beer, so a sister brewery in Belgium, Liefmans created it, following his recipe. Fruit beers are usually “so tart or so fruity,” the brewmaster was quoted as saying. “Beer lovers struggle to have more than one … I wanted a sour fruit beer that invites you to have another.”

Looking ahead, Leinhart isn’t sure the rising popularity of craft beers he’s seen throughout his career will continue forever. “Everyone and their brother wants to be a brewer now,” he said.

Still, he anticipates Ommegang will continue to grow, but added something you might expect from someone who creates and doublechecks, “not just volume – but capability.”

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Operation Kidsafe and Country Club Nissan free digital fingerprint and photo safety program.

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Country Club Nissan, 55 Oneonta St., oneonta. Info, (607) 4322800, countryclubnissan.com BLOOD DRIVE – 12:30-6:30 p.m. American Red Cross blood drive at Bassett Medical Center, Bassett Hall Auditorium, intersection of Beaver and Pioneer sts., Cooperstown. Appointments may be made at RedCrossBlood. org, by calling 1-800-RedCross (1-800-733-2767), or contacting the Clinical lab office at (607) 547-3701. Walk-ins welcome.

HISTORY – 1 p.m. Otsego County Historical Assoc. interactive presentation on “Leaders and Legends of Otsego County.

Historical marker book will be given to participants. New Lisbon Town Hall, 908 Cty. Rd. 16, Garrattsville. Info, (607) 965-2112.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. Recent Paintings by Richard Saba; Miniature Show: “Petite Plantings,” annual miniature show and 51st Annual Fine Arts Show of the Leatherstocking Brush & Palette Club Show.

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PUPPETS! – 7 p.m. Photo & Supply, with handmade puppets and dynamic sets, this collective of Brooklyn artists brings to life a store about community and collective memory. In the face of a changing neighborhood, Phyllis, who has run a photo development shop for many years, must close its doors for good. In protest, boxes unpack themselves, floor tiles shake, and long-forgotten photographs burst to life.

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CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. “Eight is Eneuf”, a cappella that spans the centuries and the world. Admission $10. Bring the whole family.

Cherry Valley Artworks concert at The Star Theater. Cherry Valley.

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SQUARE DANCE – 7:3010 p.m. Doubleday Dancers Wester Square Dance Club ice Cream Social Dance. Ray Taylor calls Mainstream and Plus dances and Elma Taylor will cue. $5 per person, at the door.

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Saturday, June 11

RACE THE LAKE MARATHON – 3rd annual event takes racers around beautiful Otsego Lake.

26.2 begins at 8 a.m. at Clark Sports Center; 13.1 race at 9:30 a.m. at Doubleday Campground (ends at Clark Sports Center.)

USATF certified. Registration includes BBQ lunch: marathon $80; half marathon $65. Info, (607) 547-2800, Ext. 111, www. clarksportscenter.com. Register at itsyourrace.com CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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CAR WASH – 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.

NAACP “Get Rid of Grime” car wash fundraiser. Free will wash donation (suggested $5). First 30 car owners receive and “Oneonta ONE” bumper sticker.

Benefits Oneonta Branch NAACP programs and activities. .Info, Lee Fisher, 607-432-5850.

BOOK SALE COLLECTION – 10 a.m.-noon. Friends of Cooperstown Village Library for annual summer June 25 sale. Used books, CDs, DVDs to Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. (NO encyclopedias, reference books, textbooks, magazines or travel guides.

LAKE FEST– Noon-5 p.m. 8th Otsego lakes festival. Paddleboard demonstrations, lake ecology tours, kids activities, educational exhibits, food, vendors, fish printing, live music and more!

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Crafts, famous bake sale, Brooks’ Chicken BBQ (11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., plus dogs and burgers at community center booth. Also June 12. Spring Park, Rte. 20, Richfield Springs.

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ANTIQUE APPRAISAL – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $5 per item to be appraised. All proceeds benefit Cornfield Hall Society’s building preservation fund. Cornfield Hall, 655 Cty. Hwy. 26, Fly creek.

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Saturday, June 11

FLEA MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Second Saturday Flea Market at Timber Creek Saloon parking lot (former Robbins Nest/ Country Rock). 2957 NY 23, West Laurens. Info, (607) 441-3080.

DELIA OPEN HOUSE – 1-4 p.m. United Methodist Church of Cooperstown honors the Rev. William H. Delia on the occasion of his retirement. Community is invited to the celebration with Pastor Bill and Regina at the church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown.

KITCHEN CABINET HEALING – 1 p.m. Learn the amazing healing power of common herbs and spices as part of Nature’s Prescription Weekend, Sat. and Sun. from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Entry included with your paid museum admission: Adults $12, seniors $10.50, youth $6, children (6 and under, free) as are activeduty and retire career military.

The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info & free $2-off regular adult admission coupon, www.FarmersMuseum. org MINIATURE WORKSHOP – 7 p.m. Amy Tingle and May Stein of The Creativity Caravan , a rolling workshop and exhibit of more than 100 miniature artist’s books, offer a workshop on making miniature books. Reception follows. Free, all welcome.

Info, register, (607) 829-5055, wordthur@stny.rr.com Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell.

Info, (607) 829-5055.

PUPPETS! – 7 p.m. Photo & Supply, with handmade puppets and dynamic sets, this collective of Brooklyn artists brings to life a store about community and collective memory. In the face of a changing neighborhood, Phyllis, who has run a photo development shop for many years, must close its doors for good. In protest, boxes unpack themselves, floor tiles shake, and long-forgotten photographs burst to life.

“THE CHURCH (Artist Residencies & Performance Space”), 2381 State Hwy. 205, Mt. Vision. Info, upsi-ny.com BLUES EXPRESS – 7 p.m.

Saturday night blues train featuring best bands in upstate N.Y. Riders enjoy food and drink.

Cooperstown Blues Express, depart Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429, (607) 432-2824.

Sunday, June 12

CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

37th annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by Church of Christ Uniting, Richfield Springs.

Crafts, famous bake sale, Brooks’ Chicken BBQ (11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., plus dogs and burgers at community center booth. Spring Park, Rte. 20, Richfield Springs.

Info, 222.rschurchofchristuniting. com FIBER FEST – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 6th Annual CNY Fiber Arts Festival. Focus on any /all types of weaving. Over 100 booths under cover. Yarn, supplies, fiber & fleece sale, demos, exhibits, unique gifts, children’s activities.

Food, free parking. $6, children under 12 free. No dogs allowed.

Rain or shine! Butternut Hill Campground, Rte. 20, Bouckville.

Info, www.cnyfiber.org

The Blue Mingo Grill & Sam Smith’s Boat Yard have the following open positions:

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HOUSE TOUR – 1-4 p.m. Tour historic 1980 Simeon Barnes house (later home of hops dealer William Smith) with Greater Oneonta Historical Society. First floor tour of brick Victorian Gothic gem, as fascinating inside as out! $10 GOHS members, $12 nonmembers. Refreshments served.

35 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607)432-0960 info@oneontahistory.org HERBAL VINEGARS – 1 p.m.

Learn of the marriage of flavor and nutrition with master herbalist Judith Millar at the Bump Tavern as part of Nature’s Prescription Weekend, day-long from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Entry included with your paid museum admission: Adults $12, seniors $10.50, youth $6, children (6 and under, free) as are active-duty and retire career military. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info & free $2-off regular adult admission coupon, www.FarmersMuseum.org INSECT HIKE/ SCAVENGER HUNT – 1 p.m. Explore insect roles in ecosystem function and collect micro-fauna in different types of habitats in Otsego Land Trust hike led by Dr. Carmen Greenwood, professor at SUNY Cobleskill. Tools and materials supplied, space limited. Light refreshments provided. Info, registration, Sara, (607) 547-2336, sara@otsegolandtrust.org SOLAR TOUR – 1-4 p.m. Butternut Valley Alliance Solar Tour.

Self-guided driving tour, choose locations that you want to visit.

Host will illustrate their systems and answer your questions.

Interactive tour map available at https://batchgeo.com/ map/2016-BVA-Solar-Tour.

HANDBELL CONCERT – 3 p.m. Sacred and secular music for English Handbells performed by the four handbell choirs of First United Methodist Church, Oneonta. Free, all welcome.

Goodwill offering, benefits Youth Handbell Travel Team. Sanctuary of First United methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, www.firstumc-oneonta.org MORE CALENDAR, B7

TRIATHLON – For The Pain Of It At 62, Cherry Valley’s Greg Noonan went the distance.

Third-place Peter Edmonds, CoopJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal erstown, pauses Race official Sue Spina welcomes Cooperstown’s Sarah Purdy across the to chat with secfinish line at the sixth annual Cooperstown Triathlon Saturday, June 4, at ond-place Shawn Glimmerglass State Park. Cheering her on, from left, are other CooperstoParkhurst, who will nians, volunteer Michelle Rissoto, Deb and Emily Ferrari and volunteer Kate be competing in the Donnelly. Sara (runner) partnered with Deb (swimmer) and Emily (biker) to World Games in Cocompete as a relay team. zumel in September.

CCS Principal Mike Cring finishes the bicycle leg, and passes the baton to CCS physed teacher Monica Wolfe. The third team member was Chris Ells, Fulton.

The Gleason family of East Durham, formerly of Schenevus, congratulate dad Dennis on completing the triathlon. From left are mom Rebecca, son Colin, 14, and daughter Shannon, 17.

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2016-2017 ANTICIPATED OPENINGS Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton Central School The Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton Central School District has the following anticipated openings for the 2016-17 school year: Teachers: Elementary, Secondary Math, Secondary Science with concentration in Chemistry and/or Physics Long-term Substitutes (09/01/16 to approx. 02/01/17): Occupational Therapist (OT or COTA) Secondary Special Education Teacher • Aide

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IN MEMORIAM Anne Bookhout, 68; Public-Health Pioneer In Ithaca ONEONTA – Anne Bookhout, 68, an Oneonta native who, with an Ivy League education and a nursing degree from Hartwick College, launched a countywide public health agency in Tompkins County, died unexpectedly May 28 at her Brooktondale horse farm.

Bookhout was born March 23, 1948, in Oneonta, the fourth child of Judge Richard J. and Florence Fieg Bookhout. She attended Bugbee School and Oneonta public schools, graduating from Oneonta High School in 1966 and from Cornell University in 1970. She worked in various capacities in the healthcare field

in Oneonta after receiving a nursing degree from Hartwick College.

In 1984 she returned to Anne Cornell Bookhout to earn a master’s in healthcare administration.

Anne then founded a key city-county public health agency, Visiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins County, serving 20 years as chief executive officer.

Having owned and loved horses since the age of 12,

she later founded Quickland Stables, a commercial equestrian riding and boarding facility at her residence in the Ithaca suburb of Brooktondale. She operated the business until her death.

Anne is survived by her husband of 25 years, Robert Morgan, whom she assisted in running a commercial trucking fleet.

She is also survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Andrew and Denise Shedlock of Tallahassee, Fla., and their children Madeline and Ryan; a step-daughter and her husband, Janice Morgan-Solano and Nickie Solano of Edmonton, Ont., and their son Kyle. Anne

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also leaves siblings Kathryn Bookhout Biggerstaff of Delmar, William Bookhout of St. Augustine, Fla., Mary Bookhout Wolcott of St. Augustine, Fla. and Richard Bookhout, Jr. of Troutman, N.C. Surviving nieces and nephews include Jennifer Boggs Murphy and Kathy Boggs Clancy, both of Cooperstown.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Elizabeth Bookhout Boggs, of Oneonta.

Funeral services were held June 5 at Bangs Funeral Home in Ithaca.

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Constance L. Paparteys, 66, Took Up Backpacking In Her 50s ONEONTA – Constance L. Paparteys, 66, the third oldest of a family of 10, passed away Tuesday, June 1, 2016 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law after a courageous battle with cancer.

Constance was the daughter of William J. and Alice E. (Roberts) Atwood the third of 10 children. She was born on September 16, 1949 in Margaretville.

On December 12, 1976, Constance married Vincent C. “Steve” Paparteys.

He passed away May 23, 1993.

In 2007 she began backpacking with her daughter, Lori. They also enjoyed traveling especially to Vermont to the see the covered bridges and their trips to Ocean City, MD. She also enjoyed

just getting in the car and driving, putting on her Englebert tapes and just driving to nowhere in particular. In her younger years she liked to go fishing with Steve. She also enjoyed knitting and Constance crocheting. Constance Paparteys always had laughter in her heart and a smile on her face no matter how bad things got.

She leaves behind her precious daughter, Lori Lynn Paparteys and her fiance, Steven Currie of Oneonta; three sisters, two brothers; many nieces

and nephews; her best friend, Sharon Ruggles who was always there for her; and special friends, Peggy Jo Travis of Sidney and Brandon Waldholz of Oneonta; as well as her precious puppy, Dakota who misses his mommy and her many kitties.

A funeral mass was celebrated on Monday, June 6 in St. Mary’s Church, Oneonta with Rev. Bernard Ampong, pastor, officiating. Burial was in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

Memorial donations in Constance’s name may be made to Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc., 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, New York 13820.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Bookhout Funeral Home.

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Minnie Swayer, 96, Of Edmeston; Repaired TV, Radios With Husband EDMESTON – Minnie Swayer, 96, who operated Rock Swayer TV & Radio Repair with her husband, then their son passed away on June 1, 2016, at Chase Health Care in New Berlin after a long illness.

Minnie Dina Harberts was born on the family farm on Jacobs Road, Burlington Green, to William and Tillie (Tjden) Harberts on Feb. 14, 1920.

Minnie attended the oneroom Basswood School in Burlington Green. She married Cary Roscoe Swayer, Jr. on June 1, 1945.

She was a member of the Second Baptist Church of Edmeston.

Rock and Minnie Swayer started the TV and repair business and were later joined by their son, David Swayer. For 62 years, 19522014, she was the first voice most who needed TV or radio repair would hear when

calling for service or stopping by the shop for help.

Minnie loved cooking, needlework, gardening, bird watching and most of all, her family.

She is survived by her children; Dina (Manfred) Schmidt of New Jersey, David Swayer of Edmeston, and John (Laura) Swayer of South New Berlin; also, four grandchildren, Jennifer (Brian) Herring, Julie (Daniel) Braeckman, John (Karen) Swayer, and William (Kelly) Schmidt as well as six great-grandchildren; Erin & Ethan Herring, Hannah and Carter Swayer and Brandon & Justin Schmidt.

She was predeceased by her husband Roscoe Swayer, her parents, and her siblings, Susie Fitch, Bill Harberts, Tillie Phillips, Hajo Harberts and John Harberts.

A private service will be held at the convenience of the family.

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Sunday, June 12

WINDFALL DUTCH BARN – 4 p.m. A Peace Gathering. Songs of nonviolence and tolerance.

Vocals by Claire Wettemann, inspired by Louise Moore’s vision.

Folk songs with guitar, mountain dulcimer and psaltery. Admission $5. Refreshments. Windfall Dutch Barn, Cty. Rte. 31, 5 miles north of East Springfield. Info, (518) 993-2239, kmacgreg@ roadrunner.com, www.windfalldutchbarn.com

Monday, June 13

TALKING OPERA – 7 p.m. The Thieving Magpie: Maestro Colaneri and Director Peter Kazaras will discuss Rossini’s opera and the Glimmerglass Festival production. View the Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in Bohemian Paris exhibition, including La bohème costumes from the Metropolitan Opera. The Fenimore Art Museum auditorium. Fenimore Art Museum, Lake Rd., Cooperstown.

ONEONTA OUTLAWS – 7 p.m.

Geneva Red Wings v. Oneonta Outlaws. Damaschke Field, Oneonta.

Tuesday, June 14

HISTORY LUNCHEON – 11:30 a.m. Fly Creek Area Historical Society Luncheon, 210 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek.

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Annual Customer Appreciation BBQ. Multiple Vendors! Prizes and Giveaways!

Bruce Hall Home Center, 206 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.brucehallhomecenter.com QUILT LECTURE – 2 p.m. “The Gathering Place” at Woodside Hall presents “Talking Quilts” with members of The Fenimore Quilt club. Bring your quilt to share.

Refreshments follow. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-0600.

RABIES CLINIC – 6-8 p.m.

Otsego County Free Rabies Clinic for dogs, cats and ferrets. Limit of 15 pets per person, dogs must be leashed, cats and ferrets in a pillow case or carrying case.

Edmeston Town Barn, 2257 Cty. Hwy. 49. Info, (607) 965-8139.

VALLEYVIEW CONCERT – 1:30 and 7 p.m. Valleyview Elementary School Spring Concert, 4046 Valleyview St., #108,.

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Wednesday, June 15

BOOK CLUB – 1:30 p.m.

Hartwick Literary & Zucchini Soup Society meets and discuss-

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Info, 9607) 293-6600 MIDDLE SCHOOL AWARDS NIGHT – 6 p.m. Oneonta Middle School Awards Night. 130 East St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 4335262.

THE CRUCIBLE – 7 p.m. Behind the Curtain of The Crucible.

“Puritanism and The Crucible.

George Hove, Assoc. Prof. English, SUNY Oneonta, discusses Puritan theology reflected in this play. Examines 17th c. documents including Salem Witch Trial transcripts and Michael Wigglesworth’s popular Puritan New England poem, “The Day of Doom.” Free, all welcome. Village meeting room, Village Hall, 121 Main St., Cooperstown.

Thursday, June 16

GREATER PLAINS CONCERT – 7 p.m. Greater Plains Elementary School Spring Concert, 60 West End Ave. #1, Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8272.

ONEONTA OUTLAWS – 7 p.m.

SFCU Kids Night at the Ballpark.

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