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AG Probes Focus 4 Charged With Failing To Tend 94-Year-Old

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Young Madison Collman, Oneonta, tries her hand at steering a carnival truck ride under the watchful eye of Caroline Stilson as the 2016 Otsego County Fair got under way Tuesday, Aug. 2, in Morris/MORE PHOTOS, A3

Coalition May Prepare City For Refugees

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he Oneonta Refugee Resettlement Coalition, led by the Rev. Teressa Sivers, First United Methodist Church pastor, has formed to examine possibility of hosting refugees, Council Member Michelle Osterhoudt, Fourth Ward, told Common Council Tuesday, Aug. 2.

The coalition will look into a two-year plan to bring refugees here, similar to what Utica has done, she said.

The task force is part of the Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights, which meets at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, in Council Chambers. The public is invited to attend.

DECK PAINTING: Parking will be limited on the downtown deck’s top and middle floors through Friday the 5th as city crews complete a painting job there.

IN MEMORIAM: Mark Zimmerman, 43, the general sales manager of Royal Chrysler and related auto dealerships, died suddenly Wednesday, July 27/SEE OBITUARY, B6

SEASON ENDER: The Mohawks topped the Outlaws 8-1 at Amsterdam Tuesday, Aug. 2, keeping the Oneontan team out of PGCBL playoffs this year.

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lizabeth Raphaelson, owner of the Underground Attic Vintage Clothing store, might have a fairy godmother.

“We had set up a GoFundMe campaign to help us with moving expenses,” she said. “We wanted to expand, but we needed money for a deposit on a new place, as well as new fixtures.”

On the advice of her interns Toni Shea and Tamara Sines, she made a video and set up a GoFundMe page, hoping to crowdsource her expenses.

“The theme was ‘Make Your Own Big Break’,” she said. “It’s about taking whatever tools you have, whether it’s a trowel or a spoon, and digging until you break through.”

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arrested and charged with endangerment after an investigation by the state Attorney General’s office revealed that they left a 94-year-old woman in a recliner for nearly two days.

“It’s tragic,” said county Rep. Kay

Stuligross, D-Oneonta, who chairs the board’s Health & Education Committee. “We are concerned people, but there is nothing the county can do. It’s out of our hands.”

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he day after five police officers were tragically killed in Dallas, Texas, Erin Moussa, director of the annual Pit Run, checked her voice mail to find a message that had accidentally gone unchecked.

Trooper Frank Valetta of Troop A, Batavia, was calling to say that he had recently acquired a K9 partner, a 15-monthold bloodhound His hometown honors Trooper named Paris in Parisian at the honor of fallen annual Pit Run. Trooper Ricky Parisian. “He had left the message on May 20 – the anniversary of Ricky’s death,” said Moussa. “I ran to Deb Parisian’s house and said ‘Ricky says hi!’ It’s like he’s still watching out for us.”

Valetta, a 12-year veteran, was inspired to become a K9 trooper after dogs were used to track inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt after Paris, seen her with her handler, Trooper Frank their escape from the Clinton CorrPlease See PARIS, A7 Valetta, plans to attend the Pit Run in her namesake’s honor.

With Planters, Downtown Blooms

Mary Ball and Phyllis Gunther of the Oneonta Garden Club admire the new plantings.

Oneonta Garden Club’s Green Thumbs Create Multi-Colored Delight

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t’s a Main Street morality fable: Near the OPT annex are two crumbling grey cement planters filled with dust and weeds.

But half a block up, bright Dragonwings and hearty grasses bloom from cheerful terracotta colored pots.

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BLOOMS/From A1 work planning flowers in the 27 new planters downtown.

“The new planters give downtown a more attractive feeling,” said Jeff House, interim Community Development director. “The Garden Club always does such a great job,” The Garden Club has been planting flowers in Main Street’s planters for over 20 years.

“We got started a little later than we usually do,” said member Marilyn Ball.

“The planters came in late, and Anita (McChesney) at Mount Vision Garden Center was guarding our plants with her life!”

Late Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller asked member Phyllis Gunther to represent the Garden Club when getting rid of the old planters was being discussed. “We thought we would never be able to get rid of them,” she said. “But then City Manager Mike Long got the

Streetscape grant!”

“We were starting to wonder if it would ever really happen,” said Ball. “We were really pleased!”

They planted “indestructible” SunPatiens, Petunias and Dragonwings, as well as grasses in the center. “We used to do geraniums, but the deer would come in and eat them!” said Gunther.

And with brand new soil, planting was much easier. The city also hired a groundskeeper to keep the plants watered. “With these temperatures in the 90s like we’ve had, they would have all been dead by now,” said Ball. “But this is the most lush they’ve ever been.”

House says the city is looking for funding to redo the old planters by the OPT, or may consider removing them all together.

In addition to the flower pots, 25 trees, including Locust, Gingko Bilboa, Snowgoose Cherry, Aristocrat Pear, Accolade Elm and

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Katsuratree were planted by the city in fenced-in beds.

“These trees were identified as ‘street trees’ by Cornell University,” said House.

“They’re resistant to salt and temperature extremes.”

But hungry travelers be warned – the cherry and pear trees will not bear fruit.

“These varieties just flower,” said House. “Otherwise, we’d be picking rotting fruit off the sidewalk.”

Short, three-sided fencing was set up around the trees to keep pedestrians from accidently stepping in the flower beds, while the street-side is open to allow for easier maintenance, according to House.

The Garden Club is already planning next year’s plantings, as well as its annual plant sale fundraiser at St. James, which helps them raise the $1,500-$2,000 to plant the flowers along Main Street. This year’s plant sale is Friday, Dec. 2 at St. James Church.

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Aida Rogers, Colleen Andrew, Cathy Deleski, Melinda Murdock, Terry Basdakis and Julia Goff pose for a photo on the stage at the B-Side Ballroom Tuesday, July 26, where 100 Women Who Care Otsego donated $7,200 to OFO’s Violence Intervention program. The group, now in it’s fourth year, selects three charity organizations at random from members’ suggestions. Representatives must then pitch their 501c3 program in front of the group for a chance to be chosen to receive the funds collected that year. Past winners have included The Lord’s Table, Family Services and Athelas Therapeutic Riding.

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9-Year-Old Nets 4.94 Pound Bass, Wins City Derby

he catch of the day went to Jordan Galluser, 9, of Oneonta, who reeled in a 4.94-pound bass at the city’s 59th annual Youth Fishing Derby Saturday, July 30, at Neahwa Park’s Hodge’s Pond.

Other winners were: • Ages 5-8, Mason Hill of Oneonta, combined weight, 2.12 pounds • Ages 8-11, Jordan Gallusser, combined weight, 6.99 pounds • Ages 12-15, Aiden Harrison of Oneonta, combined weight, 4.04 pounds The event was cosponsored by the city, the Susquehanna Bass Association, and the Lions Club.

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Otsego County Fair Underway In Morris Serenity “Bunny” Hoag of Oneonta walks away from a carnival game with a newly won toy.

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Experiencing the Typhoon’s stomach-churning thrills on the Otsego County Fair’s opening day, Tuesday, Aug. 2, are, from left, Waylon Casell, Cooperstown, Michael Chase, Cooperstown, Quincey Chase, Cooperstown, and Robyn, Gavin and Brooke of Plymouth.

Dancing to the Bee Gees’ “Staying Alive” are Milford’s Blue Ribbon Cloggers, from left, Anita Semp, Worcester; Laura Hanson, Maryland; Ellie Sosnowski, Milford; Doris Carman, Walton; Shirly Campbell, Milford, and Debbie Mack, Exeter.

Miss Otsego County Fair Hannah Faulkner, Laurens, was on hand to meet her subjects.

In the cow barn, everybody helps keep things tidy. Here, big sister Samantha Berringer, Morris, and her little sister Kristena take out soiled hay.

Oneonta Sees Rise, Cooperstown Sees Dip

2 Superintendents: Common Core Scores Not Meaningful Yet

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he Common Core results are in for 2016, and Oneonta’s rose while Cooperstown’s dropped.

But with changing test companies, varying test requirements and swaths of students opting out of taking the exam, Oneonta and Cooperstown superintendent of schools say the scores must be taken with a grain of salt.

“I am cautious about giving the data much weight,” said Oneonta’s Joseph Yelich. “These tests are diagnostic in nature, but the data aren’t clean because so many parties are absent.”

Cooperstown’s interim superintendent, Michael Virgil, said much the same: “With our opt-out numbers,

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it makes the test an invalid vehicle through which to see how our kids are doing.”

The results were publically released Friday, July 29, by the state Education Department. The English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics assessments have been in place since 2010, Yelich said. Before then, other New York-specific tests were administered instead of Common Core, a national assessment.

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opting to take it, a trend mirrored by the results from the Oneonta City School District, but not those of Cooperstown.

In Oneonta, ELA proficiency scores were up 5 percent while Math results remained constant from 2015. Cooperstown saw about 50 more students take each test, but proficiency rates decreased.

Data for the tests are broken down according to gender, ethnicity, and other socio-economic factors. A disclaimer above the data caution against comparing proficiency rates between years because of changes in the 2016 exam.

Virgil, like Yelich, said he believes the tests can be useful and that the objective is a change for the better.

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than simply collecting data, the Common Core assessments are heading in the right direction, both administrators said.

“A large part of the problem is that the new curricula were rolled out much too quickly,” Virgil said. “But if we don’t have quality data, we can’t make improvements.” Looking forward, he said, “I would encourage students not to opt out.”

In Oneonta, Yelich said the tests had been somewhat useful for creating appropriate interventions in student learning – that is, how best to help individual students.

He said he is confident the district has made “quality progress” from having taken intervention seriously.

“Instructionally, we paid closer attention to sequencing of skills, trying to refine

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our curricular and instructional approach. We want to try and meet the kids where they are, provide the structure that makes them produce,” Yelich said.

Sequencing means how one skill builds on the next, he said. From words, to sentences, to paragraphs, to a story – the test ensures a foundation of skills for learning in many arenas.

“Another issue is that we get these results after these kids have moved on to the next grade, so we have to look ahead. A post-test is almost next year’s pre-test,” Yelich said. “The test is a 30,000-foot view, but we work on the ground.”

An addition to the list of obstacles is the consternation that arose from how the tests are also used to diagnose teachers’ perfor-

mances. Both superintendents said that was a major reason for parents wanting their children to avoid it.

“We don’t use these results as a real foundation,” said Yelich. “They are a small factor in a larger list of understanding student performance. We’ll continue doing that until the state tests settle down.”

The tests underwent some turbulence as the state shifted between test-makers, from Pearson to Quest Star. Currently, the state Education Department has embarked on rewriting the exams, a change that will take effect in 2019.

“I think that, over time, there will be less angst over taking these assessments,” Virgil said. “The revamping is heading in the right direction.”

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There’s A Place For Community In Induction Weekends

couple of sticky situations surfaced in the past few weeks, giving Otsego County a tiny taste of the nation’s and even world’s current Number One concern, close and personal.

Leading up to the Hometown Fourth of July celebration in Oneonta, a psychic from Georgia posted on Facebook about a vision he’d had of an explosion during the Neahwa Park fireworks.

You never know. City police treated the matter with all seriousness, alerting the FBI, which concluded the threat was insufficient to cancel any of the celebrations.

Events bore them out. Nothing happened.

Leading up to the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend, word circulated in Cooperstown that plainclothes Homeland Security personnel were everywhere, questioning innkeepers and gun owners in particular. Trauma docs were going to be on call over the weekend, it was said; (that turned out to be the case.)

There was so much chatter,

you’d think some specific threat might have surfaced but, it turned out after the fact, these were just precautions (in the Cooperstown case) and nuttiness (in the Oneonta one). Still, we’re going to have to live with much of this until the current tide of international terrorism subsides.

• Because of the heightened alert we all live under these days, there’s a tendency to leave everything to the security experts.

That’s as it should be in that one area of expertise. But it doesn’t mean that, as communities, we should forgo planning for particularly big Inductions like the Griffey Jr.-Piazza one we just experienced.

A good model to build on would be former Cooperstown mayor Carol B. Waller’s from 2007, the Ripken-Gwynn year, where – it is now estimated – a record 82,000 fans were in Baseball’s Mecca.

That spring, Mayor Waller convened a meeting and invited a wide range of attendees to partici-

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Mayor Waller on the job in 2007 ~ planning wasn’t the half of it.

pate – from law enforcement, for sure, but also from the Hall, and fire departments and emergency squads, plus town officials, county reps, anyone who had a stake in the weekend’s success and relative tranquility.

That’s gone by the wayside.

This year, the village public works superintendent, Brian Clancy, and – no doubt – village Police Chief Mike Covert participated in the planning, but the mayor, trustees and general public did not.

Induction Weekend, of course, is a Hall of Fame event. But, given that 50,000, or 60,000, or during the upcoming Derek Jeter year, who knows, will come to a 1,900-person village in 61,000person Otsego County, Inductions impact everyone.

• The other evening, Mickey’s Place proprietor Vin Russo, dean of the downtown merchants, attended the July Village Board meeting and suggested an “entity” – a committee, or delegation, or the like – be formed to do a postmortem of Hall of Fame Weekend 2016 now, while it’s fresh in everyone’s minds.

This makes a lot of sense, and Mayor Jeff Katz designated Cindy Falk, the able trustee who chairs the board’s Economic Development Committee, to take the lead.

Certainly, the law-enforcement initiative is well-grounded, but – looking forward – key civic leaders should be in the loop and in a position to provide inputs.

Much is in play beyond the lawenforcement purview.

For instance, the tightly packed crowd behind the iron barricades during the Legends of Baseball parade is worrisome.

The way the downtown, including the post office, is barricaded off beginning at noon Friday is certainly an inconvenience. Is it a necessary one? After all, Friday is a day of business.

Russo observed that people with concerns don’t know where to raise them. The Hall? Village Hall? Village police, or deputies, or troopers or who?

The Waller Model led to a major initiative: The satellite parking lots in Fly Creek and around. If there hadn’t been discussion, that need wouldn’t have even been identified. If the planning is as closely held as it now seems to be, who knows what might be missed.

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Cooperstown Village Hall’s Architect Made NYC Tenements Livable Editor’s Note: With the renovation of Cooperstown Village Hall’s front façade, here is an excerpt from Village Historian Hugh MacDougall’s 2009 “Ernest Flagg, Architect Extraordinary,” on the landmark at 22 Main.

uptown, and their original homes had been chopped up into tenement apartments, often paired with so-called rear tenements at the back of the lot, with windows only in those few rooms at the front or rear.

In 1879 the Board of Health made what Flagg

By HUGH MacDOUGALL called “feeble efforts at reform,” and launched the creation of so-called dumbbell houses, 90 n 1894 Ernest feet long, which Flagg published were built in great an article in numbers throughScribner’s Magaout the City. Each zine called “The floor was divided New York Teneinto two or four ment-House Evil “railroad style” and its Cure.” apartments of Ernest had lived in three to seven lower West Side rooms, reached tenement buildErnest Flagg by un-lit interior ings when he was stairways, and with selling codfish at narrow halls on each floor Fulton Fish Market years with communal toilets and before, and he never forgot washing tubs. They were the experience. called “dumbbell houses” The long rectangular because a four- by 40-foot blocks that cover most of airwell was placed between Manhattan had been laid each pair of buildings. This out in standardized lots created, in Flagg’s words, 25 feet wide and 100 feet “wells or shafts of stagnant deep. On them New Yorkair at the sides, acting as ers built their town houses side by side, with gardens at conductors of noise, odors, and disease from one apartthe back. By the mid-19th ment to another.” century, however, wealthier …This, Flagg continNew Yorkers had moved

ued, was as uneconomical as it was terrible: “Great sums of money are yearly squandered upon making the structures unfit to live in.” …Instead, Ernest Flagg designed a new kind of building, built around an open court on a 100 foot square lot, and two years later Elizabeth Scriven Clark (Jane Forbes Clark’s great-grandmother) gave him the opportunity to build it. The Alfred Corning Clark Buildings on West 69th

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The recently renovated facade of Cooperstown’s Village Hall, 22 Main St.

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raphy around the turn of the 20th century did more than anything else to awaken America to the plight of

then our urban poor. In 1899, he visited the completed project, and wrote -- in an Atlantic Monthly article on “The Tenement: Curing its Blight”, as follows: “…The houses are built around central courts, with light and air in abundance, with fireproof stairs and steam-heated halls.

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LETTERS

‘Lovingly Speaking Truth’ Is Not ‘Hateful Speech’ To the Editor: In response to my letter to the editor, Andrew Stammel in his July 15 letter does nothing to foster a civil debate.

He shamefully tries to discredit what is true and recites the worn-out phrase of the left against those who disagree with them: We are engaging in “hateful speech.” Frankly, I am tired of defending what should not need to be defended. Lovingly speaking the truth is not hateful. When I warn others to avoid homosexual behavior, it is out of love, not hate.

I found the rest of his letter humorous although I’m sure he didn’t mean it to be. He seems to be saying two things: First, if only everyone

Editor’s Note: Letters agreeing or disagreeing with Pastor Kabat will be accepted until noon Monday, Aug. 15. All will be published in the editions of Aug. 18-19, and we’ll close the door on the topic for now. would agree with him we would live in harmony. “We’ll be one big happy family. Just agree with me.” Second, even more funny, he indicated that if we voice our disagreement with homosexual behavior, as I did, the local economy is going to tank. We won’t be able to keep and attract new business. Never mind that New York is the

most regulated and one of the highesttax states in the country. Upstate must be in a perpetual recession because we oppose homosexuality. Ha, ha.

Linda Randall was equally humorous in her July 15 response when she accused me of being sexist, while backhanding men in the first part of her letter. But more importantly her letter repeated the New Big Lie. The Big Lie theory was originally cited by Adolf Hitler and later used successfully by the Nazis. It goes that if you tell a lie big enough and repeat it continuously the people will believe it. Her lie (which I’m sure she believes since it’s been repeated ad nauseum) is that Please See KABAT, A6

County Should Reimburse Animal Shelter, Then Dependably Fund It Going Forward To the Editor:

What’s with the representatives on the Otsego County Board?

First, they claim they can’t afford to own and operate the Otsego Manor nursing home, and then sell it to a private company for about $18 million, as was reported.

Next, they say they can’t afford to repair the county highways, such as County 47, from Emmons south, and then explain they are waiting to have the repairs paid for by the Constitution Pipeline Co., should the pipeline ever get approved.

Now, in March this year, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department rescued seven dogs because of neglect inflicted upon them by their owner, and turned these dogs over to the Susquehanna Animal Shelter in Hartwick Seminary, the only animal shelter in Otsego County. The shelter willingly accepted possession of these dogs, all in extremely poor health, but wanted the Sheriff’s Department to reimburse them for expenses incurred in caring for these dogs, about $6,000.

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The Sheriff’s Department claimed it had no authority to reimburse the shelter. Then the Sheriff’s Department presented the issue to the county Board of Representatives so it would consider reimbursing the shelter. Apparently the county board claimed it had no budget provisions to do that, and questioned who was legally liable for those expenses.

Can one imagine that the county wouldn’t authorize an emergency payment of only $6,000? The shelter is now waiting for the county board to deliberate and approve an appropriate reimbursement. This has been going on for about four months!

So, I ask, why can’t county residents, many being dog owners, prevail on the county to do the right thing and promptly reimburse the shelter, and, more important, to establish regular future funding for the shelter? Wouldn’t one agree that’s a reasonable and honorable thing to do? Please give your support.

To the Editor: I would just like to take a moment and thank the Town of Oneonta Board and specifically the Department of Highway, Water and Sewer: Jim Hurtubise and his coworkers did a fantastic job making a new path by the pump house in Morningside Heights.

It may be a short cutthrough path, but it’s very well appreciated by the residents who use it, and there are many who do. You all did a fantastic job at making it a reality with very little pain to the resident(s) who live adjacent to it Thank you for opening back up the path!

DAVID M. BRANDT MARTIN WEISSMAN Oneonta Oneonta

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History

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

125 Years Ago

Case of Elopement reported in the Albany Express – Last Thursday afternoon a telegram was received at police headquarters from one Jacob Winne of Oneonta, requesting the arrest and detention of his wife Sally Winne and Lemuel Higgins, who had eloped together, and would arrive in this city on the afternoon train. Detectives Hale and Bradt proceeded to the Susquehanna depot, and upon the arrival of the train arrested the runaway couple, and took them before Justice Parsons. Mrs. Winne, who, by the way, is rather prepossessing in appearance, stated that she did not elope with Higgins; that they accidentally met each other on the train; that she was going to Catskill while Higgins was bound for New York. She had a valise which contained a quantity of clothing. She gave as a reason for leaving home that her husband had treated her badly. She said that she had been married ten years and had three children.

Higgins is a stage driver and has a wife living at Delhi. As the parties had committed no criminal offense on which the magistrate would be justified in holding them, they were set at liberty. We learn that they left together on the 4:40 p.m. train for New York.

August 1866

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60 Years Ago

Preliminary plans for a Kindergarten building at Center Street School have been approved by the State Department of Education. The building, to be constructed on the former Coy property at the corner of Center Street and Ivy Court, will house about 100 children. Completion of the new school building is expected next spring. The Kindergarten will consist of an indoor play room, a general purpose classroom, a quiet reading and rest area and project work areas. The Center Street side of the building is to be blacktopped as an outdoor play area. Two teachers will be employed in the Kindergarten. It is expected that half-day sessions will be offered with 25 students under each teacher.

August 1956

20 Years Ago

The city’s parking garage will turn into a party space featuring music, food and festivities from 5 p.m. to midnight on Saturday. The Downtown Oneonta Improvement Taskforce (DOIT) has lined up three bands to play at “Up on the Roof.” The event is geared to promoting awareness of the parking garage and its convenience to downtown businesses, DOIT Coordinator Mark Drnek said. More than two dozen vendors will offer a range of eats, treats and merchandise for sale. Other activities include an antique car show at the bottom level of the parking garage from 5-8 p.m. with a “peoples’ choice” award ceremony at 7:30 p.m.

Participants are encouraged to bring lawn chairs. No beverages may be taken into the event. Admission is free but August 1976 donations will be accepted. DOIT estimates the cost of the event at $2,700 but officials expect to break even.

August 1996

100 Years Ago

George W. Fairchild, representative in Congress from the Thirty-fourth District, is President of the International Time Recording Company and chief stockholder in the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company of which the I.T.R. is a unit or subsidiary company. He vigorously opposes any plan to move the plant from Binghamton. The company plans to increase the size and capacity of the Endicott plant by one-third and employ hundreds of new and skilled workmen. He declares his natural interests are in the business growth of Binghamton and its vicinity and insists that, so far as the manufacturing development of time recording appliances is concerned, the company must select Endicott as its chief plant and gradually centralize the time recording industry in Greater Binghamton. Congressman Fairchild points out that the Endicott site is an ideal one. The present plant is a model manufactory, unexcelled anywhere with plenty of room to grow, good railroad shipping facilities and all other advantages. The growth of the I.T.R. business has been due chiefly to the financial backing and business insight and ability of George W. Fairchild, who has been President of the company for many years. Due credit must be given, however, to the capable management of the company by the late Harlow E. Bundy, a man of strong business purpose and capacity; also to A. Ward Ford and in the earlier years to George E. Green.

August 1916

80 Years Ago

Besides issuing books and helping patrons find the reading matter they wish, members of the Huntington Memorial Library staff often are called on to pick up lost articles and try to locate the owners who have left them in the library.

Property ranging from pet dogs and cats to spectacles, combs, snapshots and letters have been forgotten by readers and left in the building. Sometimes a dog or cat will follow its master or mistress into the library and will be deserted when the owner leaves, forgetting that the animal is there.

Occasionally pets have stayed several days and have been reluctant to return home. A passerby once picked up a dog that had been hit by a passing car and not knowing where else to take the victim, took it to the library and laid it in a corner of the hall. Help was secured from a veterinary surgeon who took the animal to his home, and a day or two later the owner was located.

August 1936

10 Years Ago

A longtime supporter of the Springbrook agency for the disabled has left a $2 million living trust to the institution.

Robert Kraemer of Esperance in Schoharie County died last fall, but not before his living trust of IBM stock had accumulated $2 million. A longtime barber in his hometown, Kraemer worked in his earlier days as a custodian at IBM. While there, he purchased 40 shares of IBM stock.

Using the original 40 shares, Kraemer reinvested all of his stock dividends, year after year. He placed the portfolio in a Wilber Bank living trust in the 1980s. Income from the trust will benefit Springbrook in perpetuity. Springbrook Executive Director Patricia Kennedy said it was a wonderful, heartwarming, amazing story. Plans are underway to memorialize Kraemer’s generosity on the Springbrook campus near Oneonta.

August 2006

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KABAT: Sexual Orientation Is A Choice

KABAT/From A4 sexual orientation is not a choice. This is based on flawed research by Simon Le Vay, a homosexual (do you think he might have researcher bias?), done in 1993 on a grand total of 35 cadavers in which he noticed different brain sizes between alleged gays and straights. Ergo, it must be in the genes. The research was never replicated, leading experts to believe that the study was not valid. Other legitimate questions were raised as well. However, that didn’t stop Gay Inc. from promoting the New Big Lie. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control came out with credible evidence that sexual orientation is due to personal history, including sexual abuse and violence. In other words, it is learned behavior. Learned behavior, as most social scientists will tell you, can be unlearned.

The New Big Lie also flies in the face of basic Christian doctrine. We are all born into sin.

The human experience includes sin at its very core. But through the redemptive power of Jesus Christ we can be freed from our sinful nature.

But in a way, Ms. Randall is correct. For many, many homosexuals the behavior is not a

choice in that it is compulsive. It is compulsive like drinking is to an alcoholic or smoking is to a smoker. However, there are millions of alcoholics who have conquered their drinking as have thousands of former homosexuals who conquered their homosexuality. Christians including myself believe that we cannot conquer the enslavement of sin without Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We have no choice in our sinning until we are freed by Christ. With God, what seems to be impossible becomes possible.

Does this offer a glimmer of hope to those in the snare of sin? Definitely, YES! If there is anyone out there who might be questioning their homosexuality, look me up. I would be more than happy to engage with you in pursuing the straight alternative. No condemnation. No pressure. Only acceptance and compassion in walking alongside of you.

JERRY KABAT Oneonta Kabat is director of the Calvary Hill Retreat Center, Oneonta

Famed Architect Built Cooperstown Village Hall FLAGG/From A4 so the sound is not transmitted from one apartment to another.

Without, the houses have none of the discouraging barrack look. The architecture is distinctly pleasing.” And, Riis might have added, each apartment had its own private toilet -- and the buildings paid their owners a five percent dividend.

More important, Flagg’s scheme became the model for other similar buildings all over Manhattan, and eventually prompted significant changes in New York City’s Zoning Laws.

Ernest Flagg’s connection with the Clark family would last for many years. He designed a series of commercial buildings and homes for Frederick Bourne, who from 1889 to 1905 was president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company – as well as a luxurious New York City mansion for Elizabeth Scriven Clark herself. In 1896 Flagg designed the 10-story Singer headquarters at 149 Broadway. And in 1897 he planned the Library building which we know today.

The Cooperstown site, at the corner of Main and Fair Streets, had once been occupied by the Otsego Hotel, which had burned in the great fire of 1862. From 1868 to 1889, it was occupied by a huge, unfinished, decaying building known popularly as the Skeleton Hotel. Parts of it were used to store hops until its remains were bought by Alfred Corning Clark and the haunted monstrosity was demolished.

After Alfred’s death in 1896, his widow Elizabeth Scriven Clark engaged Ernest Flagg to design a building for the local Young Men’s Christian Association, a library, and a museum.

The YMCA, in those days, was primarily a club; the squash courts behind the Library, now the Cooperstown Art Association, were not added until 1914.

Flagg wanted his building to be beautiful and indeed striking, but at the same time to blend in with its historical and visual surroundings.

He used the same local stone

from which many other Cooperstown buildings are built, adding a Greek-revival facade of columns that reflect those on the 1830 Otsego County Bank Building across the street. The viewer’s eyes were also directed upwards by the balustrade that originally decorated the roof on all sides – and that I for one hope may one day be restored.

Excavations began on April 13, 1897. Local papers record at least two visits to the site

by Ernest Flagg – in July and October. As autumn ended, the giant wooden columns, produced by Cooperstown’s Pioneer Mills on Grove Street, were being erected. The following spring, in May 1898, the scaffolding came down, and on Aug. 17, 1898, Elizabeth Scriven Clark held a lavish ball on the upper floor, officially opening the building and celebrating the 21st birthday of her son, Robert Sterling Clark.

As originally laid out, the room to the right of the entrance was a library; that on the left had the YMCA Pool Tables. Behind were rooms for playing cards, and for the building manager. In 1932

Robert Sterling Clark presented the building to the Village of Cooperstown. It was not one of Ernest Flagg’s largest projects, but surely one of his finest.

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Gray was arraigned on the misdemeanor charge of willful violation of health laws.

They appeared Aug. 2 before Otsego Town Justice Gary Kuch in Fly Creek. The defendants were released on their own recognizance.

“Our healthcare workers have a basic duty to care for their patients, to provide required care, keep them safe and not to injure them,” Schneiderman said in the release.

“My office will bring to justice caregivers who hurt and neglect patients, who ignore the law and safety protocols, and who falsify records to cover up their crimes.”

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Calls to county board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Focus Executive Director Jeff Emhoff were not returned by deadline.

In 2014, the county board sold Otsego Manor to Focus for $18.5 million in a 4-3 vote, following informational meetings held around the county over the previous winter. Due to changes in state and federal reimbursement rates, the Manor was costing the county $5 million a year, half the total raise by local taxes.

“We didn’t want to sell it,” said Stuligross. “But financially, we couldn’t keep it.”

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FOCUS/From A1 man’s Office posted a press release Tuesday, Aug. 2, reporting the arrests of LPN Lorraine Caldwell, 54, Holland Patient; LPN Amanda Gus, 30, Hartwick; Sarah Schuyler, certified nurse assistant (CNA), 29, and CNA Donna Gray, 48, Sidney.

Each of the four face charges they failed to provide care to a 94-year-old resident over the Memorial Day weekend this year.

According to the press release, surveillance camera footage shows a resident, identified only as “M.P.,” was left in a recliner for 41 hours, receiving only one meal, one round of her medications and one change of her briefs. At the end of the 41-hour period, the resident was removed from the recliner, returned to her room and diagnosed with a pressure sore measuring slightly less than one by 2 inches.

“This is just beyond terrible,” said Stuligross. “It’s hard work, the pay is low and finding dedicated people is

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K9’s Heroism, Caring Echoes Qualities Of Her Namesake, Ricky Parisian PARIS/From A1 ectional Facility in Dannemora last June. “I was up there on the last day,” he said. “They had two bloodhounds in service, but with one getting ready to retire, they decided they wanted to get two more.”

So Valetta applied to be a handler. “I have always wanted a bloodhound for deer hunting,” he said. “It was another step for my ca-

reer, and I thought I should take it.”

K9 are always named for fallen Troopers, and previously, Parisian has been honored with dogs named Ricky and Pit, his Oneonta nickname.

Paris was brought up from a breeder in Louisiana, along with her sister, who is serving a trooper in the Adirondacks.

The two trained for three

months at the K9 school on Chicken Farm Hill, outside Cooperstown. “We’d track eight or nine miles a day,” he said. “We’d send someone into town, into the woods and she would find them.”

Bloodhounds are used for live tracking of criminals and missing persons. And already, Trooper Paris is showing Ricky’s dedicated spirit, helping to find an injured, intoxicated woman

and bring her safely home.

“Earlier this month, we had a suicidal woman who jumped out of a bathroom window,” he said. “She ran into the woods without shoes, and was hiding in a pit by an abandoned house.

It was so overgrown that the troopers couldn’t see her, but Paris went right to her. She was face-down. I thought she was dead. But we got her in the ambulance and she was OK.”

Paris still has a lot of puppy in her, the handler says. “She thinks she’s a 75-pound lap dog!” he said.

“She’s super-friendly, everybody loves her. When I take her to schools, she lays down for belly rubs. She isn’t aggressive at all.”

And although she’s proven her talent at finding missing persons, she still gets a little excited when she’s working. “She chases squirrels, butterflies and

birds,” said Valetta. “It’s not a great thing to do when we’re trying to work!”

Valetta plans to attend the Pit Run on Sunday, Oct. 2, and bring Paris with him. “I want to meet Ricky’s family,” he said.

And Paris might even be up for a run, possibly joining him for the 5K. “We always say it never rains on race day,” said Moussa.

“That’s just one more way Ricky watches over us.”

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And then, $1,000 from the crowd-funding site, announcing Raphaelson as the winner of their monthly Giveback contest.

“GoFundMe’s IT Manager, Jay Siller, nominated me,” she said. “He said he was inspired by the passion we showed in our video and that helping small businesses was why they started GoFundMe. I started freaking out. I was crying.”

In all, she raised $5,620, just over the $5,500 goal she set.

“I’ll also be using my savings to move,” she said. “Everyone has been so generous.”

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“I asked Jay if he wanted to come and make a speech and

give a champagne toast,” she said. “He said he’s going to try and make it!”

The store started as an Etsy shop, evolving into a small “pop-up” during Christmas

2014 and opening as a full store above Roots Brewing Company in January 2015.

She’s using the funds to relocate the store to the former Rose and Laurel bookstore.

“Peter Clark is redoing it to look like an old-fashioned dress shop, with a fireplace and stained glass,” she said. “He actually approached me and asked if I wanted to move in there.”

In addition to twice the space as her current location, she’ll have access to basement storage, as well as an office to continue the online portion of her business. “I’ll actually have four interns next semester, so they’ll be able to work out of there,” she said.

Though she hasn’t started moving yet, she hopes to open the new store in late September. “I’ve had unbelievable help through this whole thing,” she said. “And we were able to break through.”

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Sondheim, who has been called “the greatest lyricist ever” for “West Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival Side Story” and other productions, Lyricist Stephen Sondheim is interviewed at conversed with Jamie Bernstein, the Glimmerglass Festival by Jamie Bernstein, whose father partnered with him on “West Side Leonard Bernstein’s daughter, for Story.”

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over an hour Saturday, July 30, on the Glimmerglass Festival stage, drawing laughter and applause throughout from the sold-out gathering. “Sweeney Todd” has been playing at the festival since opening weekend.

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ART FEST IN ONEONTA: The City of the Hills Art & Music Festival returns to Main St. Oneonta, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, August 6 with fine arts, crafts, live music, performances, community art projects, children’s activities and more. Free admission. Main St. Oneonta, between Ford and Chestnut streets. Info, cityofthehillsartsfestival.com And more art... at The Cherry Valley Artworks Gala, 7 p.m. Saturday August 6 at the Star Theater. Music, dancing, food and fun and Yes! The Cigar Box Auction is back! Info, www.cvartworks.or, (607) 264-3080.

HAYDN IN VILLAGE: Philadelphia’s Jasper String Quartet with Linda Chesis performs works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and more, Friday, Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownmusicfest.org, 1-877-666-7421.

POTTERY PLUS: The Smith Clay Studio Open House Weekend. is 1-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5 and 6. Demos, sales and activities. Free, all welcome to tour the studio at 1 Otsego Ct., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8671, gallery@smithyarts.org, www.smithyarts.org.

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troll amid the work of the region’s best painters against the backdrop of Otsego Lake. The ninth annual Art by the Lake festival is Saturday, August 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and includes entry to summer exhibitions featuring Ansel Adams, Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler.

Adults $12, members children 12 and under free Music, kids’ activities, locally crafted food, wine, beers. Also on the museum lawn, 7-9 p.m. Friday Aug. 5, Lake Effect Concert featuring Diane Ducey at the Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater, $12 adults, $10 members/seniors, $5 children..

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OTSEGO COUNTY FAIR– 8 a.m. gates, 10 a.m. buildings.

Rides for all ages, harness racing, demolition derby, tractor pull, livestock and horse shows, kiddie corner, tasty food, more!

Through Aug. 7. 48 Mill St., Morris Info, (607) 263-5289, www. otsegocountyfair.org.

HONEST BROOK – 4 p.m.

Matthew Lipman, violist, and Henry Kramer, pianist perform works by Poulanc, Chopin, Brahms and Beethoven. Enjoy summer chamber music concert in a preserved dairy barn! $25 per person per concert K-12 free.Honest Brook Festival, 1885 Honest Brook Rd., off Rte. 28 between Delhi and Meredith.

Info, tickets, (607) 746-3770, hbmf.org STEPHANIE BLYTHE – 4:30 p.m. Mezzo-soprano makes her Glimmerglass debut with concert featuring song cycle “Vignettes: Ellis Island” by composer, pianist and poet Alan Louis Smith.

Second half of concert includes sing-along program “Sing, America!.” Tickets $40, $15/youth.

Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Hwy. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-2255, www. glimmerglass.org CAR SHOW – 5 p.m. Fabulous First Friday Classic Car Show.

Classic cars line Oneonta’s Main St. for First Friday event.

Children’s Activities at the history Center 5-8 p.m. Music, fun and Main St. specials. Off the Road plays classic oldies. Main St. Oneonta, www.mainstoneonta. com BROWNIES! – 5-8 p.m.

Oneonta History Center serves sundaes with homemade brownies, ice cream, and whipped cream for $1.50 donation in recognition of 150th anniversary of the Bissell Block. Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Info, GOHS, (607) 432-0960, info@ OneontaHistory.org, www.OneontaHistory.org MEGA SPORTS CAMP – 5:308 p.m. A sports camp for kids in 1st-5th grades. Free, all welcome. Soccer, basketball, cheerleading. Oneonta Assembly of God, 1667 Cty. Hwy. 28, Oneonta. Info, registration, (607) 432-4863.

BELGIUM – 6-8 p.m. Belgium Comes to Cooperstown. Evening dinner to registrants. General admission Saturday. Brewery Ommegang, , 656 Cty. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5441800, www.ommegang.com LAKESIDE JAZZ – 7-9 p.m.

Lake Effect Concert featuring Diane Ducey. $12 adults, $10

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members/seniors, $5 kids (12 and under. Light refreshments available for purchase. Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater, back lawn of Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-1453.

FAIR CONCERT – 7 p.m.

Bucky Covington (from American idol) and Jason Wicks at The Otsego Co. Fair. FREE! 48 Mill St., Morris. Info, (607) 2635289, www.otsegocountyfair.

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JASPER STRINGS – 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia’s Jasper String Quartet with Linda Chesis.

Works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Amy Beach. Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownmusicfest.org, 1-877-6667421.

THE OPHELIA PROJECT – 8 p.m.Soprano Cree Carrico explores the many colors of Ophelia’s madness in riveting

one-woman theatrical creation, part opera/ part play about the doomed heroine of Hamlet.

Through Aug. 7. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 Institute St., Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700.

Saturday, August 6

OTSEGO COUNTY FAIR– 8 a.m. gates, 10 a.m. buildings.

Rides for all ages, harness racing, demolition derby, tractor pull, livestock and horse shows, kiddie corner, tasty food, more!

Through Aug. 7. 48 Mill St., Morris Info, (607) 263-5289, www. otsegocountyfair.org.

GILBERT LAKE SWIM – 8:30 a.m. Oneonta Family YMCA Gilbert Lake Open Water Swim.

1/2 mile, 1 mile or 2 mile swim in Gilbert Lake. 9:15 a.m. mandatory pre-race meeting.

Benefits Oneonta YMCA Orca Swimteam. $35.00. Tee shirts,

if available, $15. Gilbert lake State park Beach, 18 CCC Rd., Laurens. Info, Lisa Birdsall, (607) 432-0010, X202.

RAILFAN DAY – 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Fund celebration includes track speeder rides, velociped and pump car rides, Hy-rail truck rides and more. Milford Depot Museum and Equipment Shop Facilities open for viewing.

Scenic train with opportunities for viewing. Photo Freight Tickets $17 Adults, $16 Seniors, $14 Children (3-12) , Under 3 Free.

Tickets available day of event.

Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 432-2429, http://www.lrhs.com/ SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m. Troop 1254 invites Cooperstown residents to place clean returnable bottles & cans on curb or porch steps visible from street. Monthly bottle drives fund troop activities, events, and trips. Troop thanks the community for support. Special pickups,

questions, call Pam at (607) 267-9273.

ART BY THE LAKE – 10 a.m.5 p.m. Juried art show featuring the region’s best painters and photographers selling their work -- all with the backdrop of picturesque Otsego Lake. Entry includes summer exhibitions featuring Adams, Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler. $12, members and children 12 and under free.

The Fenimore Museum, 5798 Rte 808, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1461, fenimoreartmuseum.org FREE FAMILY SATURDAY – 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. at Hanford Mills Museum. Special handson activities for families and tours and demonstrations of historic water-powered sawmill, gristmill and woodworking shop.

Up to two adults admitted free when accompanied by a child (preschool through high school).

51 Cty. Hwy. 12, East Meredith.

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First Full Bassett History To Be Published Next Spring BASSETT/From B1 its completion, and in 1918 the near-complete building was offered to the Army for aviators suffering from “nerve shock” – today’s PTSD. That little-known period – Ludwick was an “alienist,” an early term for “psychologist”; he, his team and their patients occupied 22 Main, today’s Village Hall, for several months before the hospital building was ready – is just one episode in Bassett’s history that will be illuminated in Davis’ book, six years in the making, Charles but now due Ashley for publication next spring.

While Davis has been associated with Bassett for 52 years, and introduced to it almost 60 years ago, he had the same experience as newcomers have to the now-nine-county healthcare system: “Nobody has any awareness of what happened before they arrived.”

He became particularly aware of that after retiring in 1995. Because of his long tenure, he’d be asked to identify people in old photos. Soon, he put together a slide show – later embracing PowerPoint – and was giving lectures. “People began to think of me as ‘the historian,’” he recalled in an interview in the study of his Ottaway Road home, where he’s spent many hours over the past six years.

“I was a little nervous about that.”

Then, in 2010, Bill James Bordley III Streck, thenpresident/CEO, called Davis into his office and proposed he write Bassett’s history. “I said, ‘OK,’ without any idea of what it was all about,” he said.

Soon, he was spending 10 hours a week on the project; it later would expand to 4-5 hours a day.

He delved into another “treasure trove,” the NYSHA library. He reached out to other local historians – Gilbertsville’s Leigh Eckmair, Tom Heitz and Hugh MacDougall in Cooperstown, NYSHA’s Garet Livermore and C.R. Jones, Wendell Tripp, Gib Vincent, the CGP’s Will

From “Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown: 200 Years of Healthcare in Rural America”

Some 350 photos are planned in John Davis’ upcoming Bassett history, including, upper left, construction workers in 1917; Edward Severin Clark is at middle right in squared-off white hat. Upper right, Army Medical Corps staff in front of 22 Main, which served as a temporary hospital until the Bassett building opened in 1919. Lower left, Dr. Harvey Gurian tries out the first computer terminal in 1968; others, from left, are Dr. Ted Peters, Dr. Carlyle Voss, Dr. Edward J. Carey and a sales representative. Lower right, a novel mobile electrocardiograph in 1930, powered by a car battery.

Walker – who provided “an incredible historical overview.” A former Bassett photographer provided six boxes of photos.

In all, Davis would conduct 54 interviews.

Because of the Bassett family’s medical legacy – the first, Benjamin, a veterinarian, settled near Garrattsville in 1815 – Davis saw the opportunity to explore the evolution of rural medicine before hospital’s founding. Mary Imogene’s father, Wilson, opened a medical practice in 1845 in Mount Vision; her mother, Mary Augusta, obtained an M.D. in 1866 and the family moved to Cooperstown.

Mary Imogene obtained hers in 1887, and joined her father’s practice on her mother’s death in 1893.

The stops and starts of Bassett’s first decade are fairly well known: Conceived in 1916, it was reinvented in WWI, repurposed for the flu pandemic

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ohn S. Davis, M.D., was born in 1930 in Buffalo, and grew up in Orchard Park. He graduated from Hamilton College, meeting his future wife, Jean, a junior at William Smith, during his senior year; the couple married a year later, after he finished his first year at Harvard Medical School.

After graduating from Harvard in 1956 and a two-year internship at Bassett, he spent three years in the Army, assigned to the military hospital in Neubrücke, Germany. After a fellowship at the University of Rochester, he returned John Davis to Bassett, where he spent his career as the hospital’s first gastroenterologist.

In addition to his medical career, he has been active in environmental causes, serving on the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society, Otsego 2000 and OCCA boards of directors. He estimates he has given more than 60 talks on the history of Bassett.

He and Jean had four children who were raised locally, Will, Benjamin, Marn and Hugh. Mrs. Davis passed away in 2010.

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in 1925. Then, in 1927, a young physician, Henry S.F. Cooper (his grandson is Bassett doctor Henry F. Weil), convinced Stephen

C. Clark Sr., Jane’s grandfather, to reopen the hospital.

As Davis ruminated on his research, three organizing themes emerged: • One, medical education – the link with Columbia Presbyterian has continued since the beginning, extant in today’s medical school; • Two, research – the Bassett Research Institute flowered with E. Donnall Thomas, who with Joseph Ferrebee performed the first bone-marrow transplant locally that later won him a Nobel Prize. The institute, focused on population studies, thrives to this day; • Three, the network – as hospitals needed to get bigger to survive, Bassett enfolded six hospitals and opened 30 clinics regionally.

Davis sees the 2010 BassettFox affiliation after decades of competition as a critically important achievement.

Davis identified other key decisions that molded the Bassett we know today,

from putting doctors on the payroll Year One to Dr. Chris Kjolhede pioneering school-based health clinics.

The historian has also emerged from his research with a reinforced respect for the physician/ administrators who guided Bassett. First, George M. Mackenzie (1929-47) established the three-point Bill abiding misStreck sion: patient care, teaching and research.

Second, James Bordley III (his son, James IV, is a Bassett doctor and his grandson went through the medical school program) championed the Research Institute. Third, Charles Allen Ashley (1967-84) pioneered the regional clinic network.

In 1984, Streck became the first president/CEO, and, recognizing how the hospital field was changing, he brought in the six hospitals, beginning with Delhi’s O’Connor and Cobleskill, and built the five-story Bassett Clinic.

The book will end with Dr. Vance Brown succeeding Streck in 2014.

After years of solitary toil, Davis, with the help of Garet Livermore, connected with Felicia Halpert, an editor in New Jersey, and the writer is praiseful of her help focusing the manuscript into a 300-page volume divided into 25 chapters.

“Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown” will be a hardcover, with a dust jacket – Davis and his editor are now considering cover art for Vance the jacket.

Brown Meanwhile, Dr. Davis had a chance to test his conclusions about Mother Bassett, suffering a heart attack at his desk while preparing the book. (He now has a pacemaker.)

He was transported to the ER, where no one happened to know he was a retired physician. “I got a whole new picture of these people I was writing about,” said Davis. “They blew me away. I was incredibly impressed.”

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SHOWTALK – 10 a.m. Bohemians Onstage: Boheme(s) to Rent. Like Puccini, Ruggero Leoncavallo was inspired to write and opera based on Henri Murger’s portrait of the artistic life. Excerpts from Leoncavallo’s opera, along with other musical and literary selections featuring working artists. Music Director Joseph Colaneri hosts. $25, $10/youth. The Otesaga Resort Hotel, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown.

Info, tickets, Glimmerglass Festival Box Office, 18 Chestnut St., Cooperstown, (607) 547-2255.

CITY OF THE HILLS – 11 a.m.-6 p.m. City of the Hills Art & Music Festival returns to Main St. Oneonta. Fine Arts, crafts, live music, performances, community art projects, children’s activities and more. Free admission. Main St. Oneonta, between Ford and Chestnut streets. Info, cityofthehillsartsfestival.com BOOKS! – 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Oneonta History Center sidewalk sale of books! Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Info, GOHS, (607) 432-0960, info@OneontaHistory.org, www.OneontaHistory. org CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT – 11 a.m. start. $30/ two person team. Prizes! All proceeds to benefit the Sitren Stars and Stripes Program to help local veterans. Rustic Ridge Winery, 2805 St. Hwy. 80, Burlington

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Info, register, (607) 547-8671, gallery@smithyarts.org, www. smithyarts.org BELGIUM – 2:30 p.m. tickeholders, 3 p.m.-7 p.m. general admission tastings. Live music, 3 p.m.-midnight. Belgium Comes to Cooperstown. Brewery Ommegang, , 656 Cty. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5441800, www.ommegang.com

CHICKEN BBQ – 4:30 p.m. Pierstown Grange BBQ. Eat in or take out.

Adult dinner $10, 1/2 chicken $7, child under 12, $7. Pierstown Grange Hall, 137 Wedderspoon Hollow Rd. Info, (607) 264-3069.

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 THE OPHELIA PROJECT – 8 p.m.Soprano Cree Carrico explores the many colors of Ophelia’s madness in riveting one-

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Sunday, August 7

OTSEGO COUNTY FAIR– 8 a.m. gates, 10 a.m. buildings.

Rides for all ages, harness racing, demolition derby, tractor pull, livestock and horse shows, kiddie corner, tasty food, more!

Through Aug. 7. 48 Mill St., Morris Info, (607) 263-5289, www. otsegocountyfair.org.

THURSDAY-friday, AUGUST 4-5, 2016 CAR SHOW – 9 a.m. -3 p.m.

Richfield Springs Lions Club 35th Annual Car Show. Reg. gates open 8:30-noon, $8 day or show or pre-register for $6. All cars, Trucks, motorcycles welcome.

Show is free, open to the public.

Spring Park, State Hwy. 20 & Church St., Richfield Springs.

2017 PREVIEW BRUNCH – 11 a.m. Artistic & General Director Zambello preview 2017 opera season with members of the Young Artists Program. Also Aug. 14, 21. Tickets $55, $10/ youth. Glimmerglass Festival Pavilion, 7300 State Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5472255, www.glimmerglass.org SWART-WILCOX – 1-3 p.m.

1870’s lighting with Rich Tyler, collector. Learn history of oil lamps and variety of styles and types. Bring your heirloom lamp!

Light refreshments served. Summer Sunday Series, Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta, across from Riverside School. Info, www.swartwilcoxhouse.wordpress.com SMITHY OPEN HOUSE – 1-6 p.m. Smith Clay Studio Open House Weekend. Demos, sales and activities. Free, all welcome.

Smithy Clay Studio, 1 Otsego Ct., Cooperstown. Info, register, (607) 547-8671, gallery@smithyarts.org, www.smithyarts.org BLUE PARSLEY BOYS – 3 p.m. Familiar and humorous a cappella arrangements by one of area’s premier a cappella ensembles. 3 p.m., doors 2:30

p.m. $12 general, $10 members, $6 students and children under 18. Earlville Opera House, 18 E. Main St., Earlville. Info, (315) 691-3550, www.earlvilleoperahouse.com OPENING RECEPTION – 3-5 p.m. “Art for the Young: Paintings, Prints, and Sculptures,” art of Treadwell & Paris artist Joseph Kurhajec. Refreshments served.

Through Aug. 26. Bright Hill Literary Center Word & Image Gallery, 94 Church St., Treadwell.

Info, (607) 829-5055, wordthur@ stny.rr.com THE OPHELIA PROJECT – 5 p.m. Soprano Cree Carrico explores the many colors of Ophelia’s madness in riveting one-woman theatrical creation, part opera/ part play about the doomed heroine of Hamlet. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended.

Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 Institute St., Franklin.

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As Sondheim Visits, His ‘Sweeney Todd’ Staged At Glimmerglass Festival SONDHEIM/From B1 tion with Bernstein, with whom he worked on ‘West Side Story,’ and told stories of working with him and Arthur Laurents on the smash hit production.

“He was in the habit of building bridges and tearing down walls between genres,” he said. “But he used to complain we were tramping down his opera aspirations. He wanted Maria to have a suicide aria. Maria doesn’t need or deserve a suicide aria.”

“Singing ‘How many bullets are left in this gun?’ doesn’t work,” agreed Bernstein.

Sondheim also admitted that he’s not much of an opera fan. “I don’t need to hear someone sing ‘Take out the Karli Cadel/Glimmerglass Festival garbage’ for five minutes,” Stephen Sondheim was also visiting to attend the Glimmerglass Festival’s he said. “But I have always version of his “Sweeney Todd.” Here, Luretta Bybee is Mrs. Lovett and Greer Grimsley is in the title role. been attracted to operatic elements, like leitmotif. I leitmotif.” plaud,” he said. “Applause with the idea to turn “Sweegrew up on movie muBut for him, it’s all about is a mini-catharsis.” ney Todd” into a musical. sic, and you always know the applause.

“For musical He also shared some of “The original play, based when a certain character is theater fans seeing opera, his favorite theater stories, on the story ‘A String of on screen because of that they don’t know when to ap- including how he came up Pearls’ is quite silly,” he

said. “It has Sweeney Todd saying ‘Heh heh heh, I’ll polish him off.’ A man named – and I swear this is true – Tod Slaughter made his career in the 1920s playing that Sweeney Todd.”

In the 1970s, Sondheim reported, an actor named Christopher Bond needed “a Christmas play” for his company, and pulled out the old script. But finding it unsuitable, he set about to rewriting it, adding the revenge motive and Todd’s tragic backstory.”

“I saw that version in London at the Stratford East – a real working man’s theater, with a pub right next door,” said Sondheim.

“They would intersperse the acts with street songs, and I thought ‘This would make a great musical’!”

The show premiered in 1973 and won the Tony Award for Best New Musical, and even gained traction among opera fans. “When I saw that it was done for the first time at the New York

Opera, the audience was completely astonished that the Beggar was Sweeney’s wife,” he said. “They’d never been 19 blocks south to Broadway, it was common knowledge!”

And after some gentle prodding from Bernstein, he revealed his upcoming project with David Ives: a musical adaptation of two Luis Buñuel films, ‘The Exterminating Angel’ and ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,’ set to open at the Public Theater in 2017.

The audience was invited to submit questions, pulled from a hat by Bernstein. “I think someone submitted a rabbit,” he joked as he peered in.

“Since July 30 is National Cheesecake Day, I think the audience all wants to know this,” read Bernstein. “What is your favorite flavor of cheesecake?”

Sondheim laughed. “I’ll just say this,” he said, face splitting into a grin.

“Cheese.”

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The Oneonta Municipal Civil Service Commission announces an open-competitive exam for Senior Clerk on October 29.

Application deadline is September 23.

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

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Grant Manager

This position is responsible for coordinating the implentation of grants for the city. This career opportunity offers a competitive salary and excellent benefit package.

Applications and a full job description are available at the Personnel Office or can be downloaded from our website at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel. To apply for this position, please send a letter of interest, fully completed application, resume and the names and contact information from three professional references to: City of Oneonta Personnel Office, 258 Main Street, City Hall, Oneonta, NY 13820

This position may be filled as a provisional appointment, subject to a competitive civil service examination. Salary will be based on qualifications and experience.

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ZONING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER (PaRT-TIME) The Village of Cooperstown, listed in the Glimmerglass Historic District on the National Register of Historic places, and a Certified Local Government, seeks qualified applicants for the position of part-time Zoning Enforcement Officer. Duties include explaining and interpreting the Village zoning ordinances to contractors and the general public, reporting to the various zoning boards and Village Board of Trustees, investigating complaints of violations, attending monthly meetings of the zoning boards and Board of Trustees, assisting the public in applying for zoning permits. Preference will be given to applicants with experience in municipal planning, zoning enforcement, historic preservation or related field. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships between the public and Village representatives is an essential component of this position. Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

Please send resume, cover letter, and references to the Teri L. Barown, RMC, Village Clerk, Village of Cooperstown, P.O. Box 346, Cooperstown, NY 13326 or by email to vcooperstown@stny.rr.com.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Any questions regarding this position should be directed to the Teri Barown at 607547-2411. Candidates must be Otsego County residents at the time of appointment. EOE.

BOAT WASH ATTENDANTS

The Village of Cooperstown has openings for Boat Wash Attendants at the Village of Cooperstown Boat Launch. Positions will be starting immediately and run through October, 2016 and salary is $15.00 per hour. Applicants must be a resident of Otsego County. For further information including application please contact the Village Clerk at the address listed below or by calling 607-547-2411.

Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled.

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Program Specialist Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego Counties, Inc. (FOR-DO) is seeking applicants for the position of Program Specialist. This position reports to the Executive Director and will be responsible for program planning and evaluation, resource development and public relations, including but not limited to survey development and distribution, meeting with community providers and stakeholders, composing monthly newsletters, developing educational handouts, marketing of the Center. This is a full-time position with benefits. Some evening hours may be required.

Minimum Qualifications: Committed to the organization’s mission, knowledge of addiction and recovery, and a desire to work with the recovery community. A demonstrated ability to interact well with people from all walks of life and backgrounds, fostering cooperation and teamwork when collaborating with diverse populations. Should possess a minimum of a GED or high school diploma and familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel, excellent written, verbal and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications: An Associate’s degree and one year experience working with people. Familiarity with other non-profit and human service agencies serving Delaware and Otsego County.

Please mail resumé, cover letter to: Kelly Liner, Executive Director 22 Elm Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 Deadline: 8/15/16 or email to kelly@friendsofrecoverydo.org More information about our agency can be found at: www.friendsofrecoverydo.org - EOE

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IN MEMORIAM F. Roger Hickey, 74, Oneonta; Chaired Hartwick Physics Dept.

ONEONTA – F. Roger Hickey, 74, longtime chair of Hartwick College’s physics department, passed away on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, at his home, surrounded by his family.

Roger was born June 8, 1942, in Troy, the son of the late Frank R. and Ann (O’Malley) Hickey. He attended Catholic Central High School in Troy. He received his bachelor’s in physics from Sienna College, and both his master’s and doctorate in physics from Clarkson College.

He retired in 2011 as professor emeritus from Hartwick College, where he worked for 42 years. He was department chair from 1976 until 1991. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Science Discovery Center of Oneonta, the Advisory Board of Oneonta Newman

Foundation, eucharistic minister and usher at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta and a F. Roger founding Hickey member and treasurer of the Oneonta Region Chapter of the Compassionate Friends for 20 years.

He had numerous papers published in The Physics Teacher, research publications in the American Journal of Physics and publications in Physics Education. He also marketed the computer programs “Galileo” an adventure-type game in physics, and “PhysWiz” a collection of 37 interactive pedagogic programs. The

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programs are for use at the introductory college or high school level.

He was also an avid gardener. He loved animals and traveling. Mr. Tibbs, his cat, was his constant companion the times he was bed bound.

Roger is survived by his wife, Paula W. Hickey of Oneonta; his daughter, Sharon Ann Hickey of Oneonta; his brother, Robert Hickey, Ph.D (Catherine Donohue); cousin Patricia Jennings and her children Erin and Ryan Jennings; his sisters-in-law, Helen W. Alford (Nelson R) and Victoria W. Dinehart (Wendell) and his nieces and nephews, Michael Hickey (Jessica), Caitlyn Hickey, Jonathan Alford (Jennifer), Daniel Alford (Jocelyn), Michael Alford (Meredith), Matthew Dinehart, Sarah Dinehart Wible (John) and Benjamin Dinehart.

He was predeceased by his parents, and his son, Kevin D. Hickey..

A funeral mass was held Wednesday, Aug. 3, in St. Mary’s Church, Oneonta, with Rev. John P. Rosson, pastor of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church in Cooperstown, officiating. Interment will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

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

Thomas G. O’Neil, Age 99; Sidney; Lawyer, Mayor, SIDNEY – Attorney Thomas G. O’Neil, 99, former Sidney village mayor, passed away July 29, 2016, at the state Veterans’ Home in Oxford. He would have been 100 on Oct. 25.

A lifelong Sidney resident, he attended Hartwick College, married Gertrude Keeler, earned his law degree at Albany Law School, and served as a Navy lieutenant during World War II, first in the Pacific and later as a member of the JAG. Back in Sidney, he practiced law until age 87. He was a member and president of the Delaware County Bar Association and the Bar Association of the Sixth Judicial District.

At age 35, he was he was elected mayor. He was a 20year member and the president of the Sidney Hospital Board of Directors, and was involved in the addition to the hospital in 1957.

He is survived by his daughter, Judith O’Neil Scott (Bill) of Pinehurst, N.C.; sons Jeffrey T. O’Neil (Sarah) of Bainbridge, and David F. O’Neil (Mary Pat) of Binghamton; eight grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial with military honors was in the Prospect Hill Cemetery, Sidney.

Arrangements are entrusted the direction of C.H. Landers Funeral Chapel, Sidney.

Mark Zimmerman, 43; Father Of 4, Manager At Oneonta’s Royal Chrysler ONEONTA – Mark Stephens Zimmerman, general sales manager at Royal Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Oneonta, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday, July 27, 2016. He was 43.

Born March 30, 1973, in Buffalo, Mark was the son of Greg Zimmerman and Barbara (Zauner) Reinhardt.

He graduated from Grand Island Senior High School Possessing a life-long love of cars, Mark enjoyed rebuilding antique cars and going to car shows, as well as riding his Harley whenever he could. He was involved in automobile sales for 22 years, in his current role at Royal Chrysler since 2001.

Mark loved spending time with his children. He also enjoyed searching for vinyl records for himself and his children, who also

had a great love of music like their father.

He will be deeply missed by his family Mark and many Zimmerman friends.

Mark is survived by his four children, Samantha Ann, Katelyn Sydney, Ryan Nicholas and Emily Elizabeth, and their mother, Elizabeth Zimmerman; his mother, Barbara Reinhardt; his father, Greg Zimmerman and his wife, Sue; his sister, Eileen Helms and her husband, John; his mother-in-law, Barbara A. Dickison; as well as nieces and nephews, cousins, and countless business associ-

ates and customers.

He was predeceased by his step-father, Robert J. “Bob” Reinhardt, who died Aug. 8, 2013, and his father-in-law, William S. Dickison, who died in 2003.

Calling hours were held Monday, Aug. 1, followed by a reception at Cornfield Hall, Fly Creek, for a time of refreshment and fellowship.

At the request of Mark’s family, funeral services will be private.

For those who wish to remember Mark by making a memorial gift, please consider the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312.

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

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OPERA– 5 p.m. “At This Moment.” 2016 Artist in Residence Jay Hunter Morris shares musical inspirations: guitar, jazz, Wagner, Puccini and more, plus a few tales from the operatic trail. Tickets $40, $15/youth.

Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Hwy. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-2255, www. glimmerglass.org JESUS & RACE – 7 p.m.

Forum examining worldwide art throughout history, engaging in conversation about portrayals of Jesus from a variety of cultural settings. Free, all welcome. First Presbyterian Church Chapel, 27 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8401.

ARTWORKS GALA – 7 p.m.

The Cigar Box Auction is back!

Plus music, dancing, food and fun. Cherry Valley Artworks concert at The Star Theater. Cherry Valley. Info, www.cvartworks.org, (607) 264-3080.

SINATRA AT 100 – 7:30 p.m. Sinatra at 100. Saxophonist Loren Schoenberg and multi-generational jazz all-stars present an instrumental tribute to “Ol’ Blue Eyes.” Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at The Otesaga Resort Hotel, Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownmusicfest.org, 1-877-6667421.

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TROUT UNLIMITED – 5:30 p.m. Last fishing and picnic meeting of season at Joe Hanrahan’s pond pavilion.l p.m. Burgers and hotdogs served; bring a dish to pass and beverages and table service. Members and guests participate in catch and release fishing at the pond. Info, (607) 563-1978.

reef, trombone and singer, Lou Smaldone, bass, Kevin Corkery, drums, Tommy Ziniskey, keyboard and George Ehrmann on trumpet. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Spring Park, Richfield Springs, under the pavilion.

JAZZ – 7 p.m. Saints Jazz Quintet Plus One performs jazz standards, Dixieland, Blues, Bebop and Big Band. Ed Badgley, soprano/tenor sax, Museyb Sha-

CHENANGO CO. FAIR – 169th Annual, through Aug. 14. 168 E. Main St., Norwich. Info, (607) 334-9198, www.chenangocoun-

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FOR THE BIRDS– 5 p.m.

Boheme(s) to Rent. Are magpies really larcenous? Just how romantic is the turtledove? Consider the facts of bird behavior alongside avian representations in art, music and literature. Tickets $20, $10/ youth. Glimmerglass Festival Pavilion, 7300 State Hwy. 80,

Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5472255, www.glimmerglass.org OPERA GALA/AUCTION – 6 p.m. Guild of the Glimmerglass Festival Gala and Silent Auction. Info, Dennis Banks, (607) 432-5652. Auction contributions, Carol Steigelman, (607) 353-0016.

LAKEFRONT CONCERT SERIES– 7 p.m. Bets & Frets, high energy harmonies and cool covers of timeless tunes from the 50s through today. This duo provides full sound of a whole band! Free, all welcome.

Bring a lawn chair, blanket, your dancing shoes! Lakefront Park, Cooperstown.

HISTORY TOUR– 7 p.m. Walking Tour of Emmons Farm with Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Followed by refreshments at Woodchuck Knoll. Tickets $6, $5 GOHS members. Limited space!

Meet at Farmhouse Restaurant, 5649 State hwy. 7, Oneonta.

Info, registration, GOHS, (607) 432-0960, info@OneontaHistory. org

Wednesday, August 10

CHENANGO CO. FAIR – 169th Annual, through Aug. 14. 168 E. Main St., Norwich. Info, (607) 334-9198, www.chenangocountyfair.homestead.com BASEBALL AUTHOR SERIES – 1 p.m. “Cuba’s Baseball Defectors,” by Peter Bjarkman.

Noted Cuban baseball expert reveals complete truth behind the wave of Cuban big league talent coming to MLB. Included with Museum admission. National Baseball Hall of Fame, Main St., Cooperstown. Info, 888-4255633, www.baseballhall.org WINE & UNWIND – 5 p.m. doors, 6-8 p.m. A Paint & Sip Party Series with Caitlin CookWightman. $45 includes all materials, complimentary beverage with light snacks. Cash Bar available. Discount for all five seatings. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., oneonta. Info, reservations, (607) 431-2080.

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