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he illuminated sign in front of the Chestnut Street fire house is about to be replaced with a digital one from Stewart Signs, “America’s Premier Sign Company,” of Sarasota, Fla. At its April meeting on the 29th, the Village Board gave the go-ahead to the fire department, which is paying for the placard. The village is exempt from its sign law. Fire Chief Jim Tallman said the sign can play several messages sequentially, and will be a help in directing citizens in emergency situations.
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ou may have heard your neighbors remarking on the “I♥NY” TV ads where incoming Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Joe Torre urges us to “join me in Cooperstown.” It turns out conversations about those ads are going on throughout the New Please See TORRE, A7
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rop off your dog at Dog Wild’s “doggie hotel” before you go on vacation, and the hard part may be getting Fido to come home. “It’s a homelike environment,” said owner Dana Rice. “There’s no chain link, no runs – each dog has their own little room so they can relax and have a good time.” She and her husband, Ray Ouellet, owners of the Dog Wild Canine Supply Store here, bought the Route 28 house and lot two years ago, and the former Bassett “blue shirt” has been doing all the construction himself. “We want to bring back the old oak floors,” he said. “I wouldn’t want my dogs staying in a place with wire and concrete. People will feel like they’re walking their dog into their own livPlease See DOGS, A6
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Cooperstown Village Patrolman James Kelman Jr. of Milford, Shannon Mott of Worcester, center, and Montana Rodriguez of Cooperstown show the second annual Cider Run Saturday, April 26, beginning and ending at the Fly Creek Cider Mill, is not for the faint of heart. Zachary Godfrey and Meghan Voorhees won the 5K and Ellee Fichthorn and Corey DuBois, the 10K.
ooperstown’s zip code is heavily stocked with New York Yankee fans, the New York Times’ new “Upshot” staff has discovered in an interactive map that went live in recent days. Using Facebook data, the newspaper concluded 63 percent of 13326 residents back the Yanks, 15 percent the Boston Red Sox, and 4 percent the New York Mets. Follow link to the map at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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NEW HOURS: Effective May 1, the Cooperstown her work that was beyond Transfer Station will be By LIBBY CUDMORE her capability and punish open 7 a.m.-noon, Mondays, her for not finishing it.” Wednesdays and Fridays, ONEONTA Thus, her senior film and 8-noon Saturdays. (Closed Tuesdays and documentary, “The Politihat started as Thursdays.) cal Economy of Walmart complaints in Central New York,” from friends 1:30 AT 22 MAIN: was born. The 30-minute The Friends of the Library’s has become a rallying cry documentary addresses for SUNY Oneonta senior Sunday, May 4, panel on a such issues as living wage Emily Knapp. proposed ballot resolution and local farming, as well “I grew up in Morris, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal as interviews with people to be on the May 20 CCS so I thought of Walmart SUNY Oneonta’s Emily Knapp ballot is at 1:30 p.m. – not 4 as the place you go that interviews protesters at Con- who work at the Norwich, p.m., as reported in the last Cobleskill and Oneonta has everything,” she said. gressman Gibson’s office. edition – at 22 Main. Walmarts. “It’s a very “But I knew a girl who made it very clear she was timely, especially with the worked there and she would being discriminated against Please See FILM, A7 tell me these stories that as a woman – they’d assign
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Relay For Life Paints Cooperstown Purple Mayor Jeff Katz signs a proclamation in support of the Northern Otsego Relay for Life FridaySaturday, May 16-17, at Cooperstown Dreams Park. Organizers Dawne Dietz, left, and Rena Lull said this year’s goal is $115,000.
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ingers and instrumentalists are invited to perform Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” after the local premiere of “Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of
Beethoven’s Final Symphony,” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at CCS. The rehearsal is 3-5 p.m. that afternoon, led by Fideliz Chavez, a music director who teaches at Hartwick. To participate, contact
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ooperstown Graduate Program graduate Gail C. Andrews, director of the Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art since 1996, will return at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8, to deliver the annual Bruce Buckley Lecture on her specialty – quilts – at The Fenimore Art Museum auditorium. Since her CGP thesis on quilts in the NYSHA collection, Andrews, who has contributed to more than 25 publications and three
books, will discuss her work with historic and contemporary quilts and quilters in the Deep South Andrews in “Lessons Learned: Alabama Quilts and Oral Tradition.” Bruce Buckley, an early CGP faculty member, was a folklorist, musician and movie producer. The lecture is free; public welcome.
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hree CCS students placed in New York History Day competition, hosted Monday, April 28, by the New York Historical Association. • Pierce Snyder for “Curt Flood vs. the Reserve Clause: A Turning Point in Major League Baseball,” which took second place in the Junior Paper category. • Grace LeCates and Ilsa Dohner, “Let Them Come to Berlin: The Division Between Democracy and Communism,” which took second place in the Junior Group
Exhibit category. Placing second make the local students eligible to compete in June at National History Day in College Park, Md. The special award presented by the Middlefield Historical Association went to Emily Cooper, Sarah Cooper and Natalie Mitchell of Schoharie High School for “The Rights of the Citizens and the Responsibilities of the Government During Natural Disasters: Schoharie County Flood of 2011.” Hundreds of students, grades 6-12, travelled to Cooperstown to present papers, exhibits and websites.
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imply due to age,” the front porch of The Leatherstocking Corp., 19 Main St., is being replaced, with the work due for completion in May, well in advance of the neighboring National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary activities. “Everything will be as near to a perfect restoration as possible,” said Joe Middleton, Leatherstocking Corp.’s senior vice president. For instance, the decking, originally Douglas fir, will be replaced with Douglas fir, he said, adding, “We will be maintaining exact proportions, dimensions and pitch of the porch.”
The four Doric columns, now propped up, will be largely preserved, although the lower ends have rotted and will be replaced with the same “tapered flute” foundation. Middleton said he could find no records of previous work on the porch, but said “some of the materials and some of the fasteners” in the structure date are of early20th-century vintage. The stone building dates back to 1831, when it was occupied by the Otsego County Bank, the village’s first, which had been chartered the year before. The bank carried the building’s cost on its books at $3,310.93.
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Sidewalk Project Will Get Done And, Eventually, We’ll Love It
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ne middle-timer observed the other day: City folks fall in love with our rural towns, move here, and the first thing they want to do is install sidewalks and curbs. The romance of small towns, you might argue, is in their unique serendipity, their accretions of tradition that are valued, not because they are good or bad in themselves, but because they are “ours” and have been so for a while. This is going back a ways – a couple of decades, maybe – but wasn’t it that Dr. Varghese, in his memoir of AIDS coming to Tennessee, who argued that the ugliest corner in any small town is recalled with affection because, later on, it becomes an entry point to fond memories. Thus, the noon whistle – a crazy idea, if anyone proposed it today – wasn’t an ear-splitting noise to people raised in Cooperstown. It evoked memories of men, women and children racing to the fires of yesteryear, of excitement and communal purpose. Thus, the CCS mascot,
source of vast pollutants that came close to killing Chesapeake Bay. And yet, we’ve been dumping tons of dirt, plus some nitrogen and phosphates, into their slightly murky waters (that quickly become moreso, certainly south of Dreams Park). Sure, who doesn’t hate to see mature trees go. And, by the way, roots pushing up sidewalks, and wind roaring (with distant majesty) through the tops of tall oaks and maples, were always The Freeman’s Journal among small towns’ foreVillage Trustee Cindy Falk may look diminutive most charms. between two giants (Mayor Katz, left, and engiPerpetually smooth neer Jon McManus), but don’t underestimate her. sidewalks and those stubby things that line the typical the “Redskin,” recalled the stown’s sidewalks. Argusmall-town street these days revered Red Bursey, and the ably, the $2 million project undefeated 1962 football under way this year – before are, well, logical. That’s about the best you can say team, and cold fall nights, Memorial Day and after for them. and first romances. (Over Labor Day, to minimize the • time, it can be expected that impact of the National BaseEnough of that. Let’s “Hawkeyes” will likewise ball Hall of Fame’s 75th angrow in local affection.) niversary celebration – is an hold our noses, if we must, and say what needs to be • example of best practices. said. Sigh. Well-meaning peoHere we are, on the Cooperstown’s $2 million ple may thunder in favor of shores of James Fenimore sidewalk project is bold: “best practices.” But, when Cooper’s Glimmerglass, its Who would have had the “best practices” arrive, those very name evoking pristine nerve to chop down every same individuals – nostra nature, and at the source tree – 17 in all – between culpa – can have a hard time of the mighty (mighty Hoffman Lane and the dinaccepting them. shallow, at many points) er? Or, instead of incremenTake the redo of CooperSusquehanna, itself the
tally replacing one concrete square at a time, to rip them all up at once, blocking customers from stores just as the weather turns warm? It’s very gutsy. And, dollar-wise, the project’s a bonanza. State government and the feds are paying for 60 percent of the price tag. Without that money, would the sidewalks have ever gotten done? It’s strategic. There are no grants for sidewalks, but Village Trustee Cindy Falk discovered there is money for “stormwater infrastructure” through the state’s Green Initiative Program. And that’s what’s being built, “stormwater infrastructure” that, when complete, will be covered with brand-new sidewalks. And it’s futuristic. The “rain gardens,” planted with shrubs that thrive in wetness (plus like-tending trees) will divert runoff – it now goes directly into storm drains and, thence, the lake and river – into the ground, where it will be filtered, filtered, purified when it arrives at water’s edge. • Certainly, Trustee Falk
deserves some of the inevitable blame that comes with any sizeable project. But she most certainly deserves the lion’s share of the credit for being bold, dollar-wise, strategic and forward-looking. Don’t let her mildmanner demeanor fool you; she is one determined person. Jeff Katz, who, on the merits, will probably be judged in retrospect as a pretty good mayor, has been foresquare behind Falk, but he’s inner-directed. If he likes an idea, he’ll push for it, period, damn the torpedoes. His stolidness in recent challenges is what we’ve come to expect. Despite all, the varied village trustees have pulled together. If the Village Board were splintered and argumentative, can you imagine a major project so quickly accomplished? Alas, fair Cooperstown, ye may not be recognizable when all this ferment – there will be more – settles down. But let’s relax. We can be sure that today’s unfamiliar will be tomorrow’s tradition and, then, we’ll love it regardless.
CARLETON WATKINS In This Age Of Worsening Global Warming, Oneonta Photographer’s Works Matter More Editor’s Note: The first major Bay Area exhibit in 15 years of Oneonta native Carleton Watkins’ photographs has opened at Stanford University’s Cantor Art Center. This is an excerpt from Ken Baker’s Friday, April 25, review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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role in global warming has intensified. The Cantor survey movingly underlines the coincidence between a new medium of witness - photography entered the world just a decade before Watkins did – and revelations of littleknown terrain that America would soon claim as fundamental to its national identity. The show can leave visitors shivering with a revivified sense of their own historical position. That SFMOMA show “Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception,” marked
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170 years since Watkins’ birth in 1829. That exhibition put more emphasis than the Cantor one does on the intrusions of industries – mining, lumber, railroads – into terrain nearly immune to human influence for millennia before. Yet visitors will feel tremors of ecological foreboding from Watkins’ work more sharply in the Cantor show. There are quite a few images from SFMOMA’s show that appear in the present exhibition, which celebrates the federal Yosemite Valley Juxtaposing the tall fir tree with the “lofty trestle” in “Magenta Flume/ NeGrant Act, spearhead of a national parks initiative that vada Co. Cal.” (c. 1871), “appears to our eyes – as perhaps it did to WatPlease See EXHIBIT, A6 kins’ – ominously direct,” writes critic Kenneth Baker.
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Artworks’ Sculpture Trail, Kite Festival Already Boost Cherry Valley Economy To the Editor: I read with great interest your editorial of April 17 on the role of the arts in Otsego County, but was struck by an extraordinary omission. There was no mention of Cherry Valley Artworks! We are a healthy and active organization that has been functioning for some 10 years as a registered nonprofit institution devoted to all of the arts. Our home is in Cherry Valley’s historic Judd’s Foundry. More recently the Village Hall, this old stone building is now being transformed into a permanent community arts center. During our existence we have established two widely recognized biennials: the Sculpture Trail and the Kite Festival. Our last Trail brought exhibitors from as far as Iran. And every two years, as it will this September, the Festival brings to Cherry Valley some 1,200 participants and visitors. Each summer we present close to a dozen events at the Foundry’s Star Theater. The 2013 season featured the premier of a new multimedia work by composer John Glover and artist
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Mark Mastroianni. The utilization of our facilities by other performers and groups gave us last season’s fully staged production of Stravinsky’s “L’histoire du Soldat” by musicians and staff of the Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra. Our theater plays to a full house, and our biennials accomplish what no other arts-related events in this county have been able to do: prompt the interest and participation of an entire community. We are anxious to begin the renovation of the Star Theater so we may make permanent a much needed yearround venue for the dramatic and musical arts. And we have several other exciting ideas on the drawing board. We have a track record. But we need help. If your readers are further interested in Artworks’ activities, they can visit us at www.cvartworks.org. If any might wish to more directly aid us in the development or realization of specific projects, we can be contacted at cherryvalleyartworks@ live.com. ANDY MINNIG Cherry Valley Artworks
To the Editor: In recent weeks, you have published letters about the library. I would like to chime in. Libraries must be supported so that information can be provided to the citizens. Many use the library for access to entertainment or hobbies; but fundamentally, the library is there to bolster literacy and be the portal to the process of self-government. Yes, much is on-line, but not everyone can access it, not all of the sites are free and not all its “information” is accurate nor in a usable form. Libraries and organizations of libraries monitor this for us. In a democracy, we must have a place that provides information that is accessible and free. The public schools that we support inform our youth. The libraries exist to continue that for adults. We may (sadly) choose not to use the voting booth, but we insist it be there in order to have faith in our system. Similarly, we may not visit our libraries often, but we must safeguard their presence in our communities for the same reason. MARCIE SCHWARTZMAN Cooperstown
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Fire! Last Thursday, about one o’clock p.m. our citizens were again alarmed by the cry of fire, which proved to be in the shop occupied by Messrs. Benjamin & Barnard, cabinet-makers. The shop, together with tools, and a quantity of stuff were consumed; but a number of articles of furniture, of considerable value, were preserved, and by the usual activity of the citizens the further progress of the flames, which threatened destruction on either side, arrested. The whole side of Esq. Foote’s dwelling house next the fire was burnt to coal, and the wood house of J. Russell, Esq. was unroofed to prevent the progress of the fire in that quarter. The fire is said to have caught from burnt shavings falling from the stove and communicating with those on the floor. This is the second loss of the kind Mr. Benjamin has sustained within the last 18 months. April 30, 1814
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Death disappoints the fondest hopes by taking the young as well as the old. Willie Everett Murdock was never a robust boy, though of late he had apparently grown stronger, and it was hoped he had outgrown his early tendency to rheumatic troubles; but about three weeks ago he took cold; he had a fourth attack, and this time it went to the heart, which beat its “funeral march” on the night of April 26th. A skillful doctor’s attendance, a tender father’s constant watch-care, could not this time avail, and as the morning was breaking on Thursday, his spirit passed through “the gates ajar” to meet his sainted mother and the two young brothers who had preceded him. Willie was a boy who drew to him the love of all who knew him, in the family circle, the Sunday school, and the Academy, and he bid fair to make a man of sterling worth. He was 15 years and two months old. May 3, 1889
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Cure for the Cancer – A Mr. Thomas Tyrrel, of Missouri, has been cured of a very inveterate cancer, by the free use of strong potash, made of the ashes of red oak bark boiled to the consistence of molasses, and applied as a poultice, taking care to cover the whole with a coat of tar. Two or three appliances of this nature will entirely remove all protuberances, after which it is only necessary to heal the wound by a common salve. A remedy of this cheap and convenient nature, for the cure of so wretched and often fatal disease, should be borne in mind by all friends of humanity. April 29, 1839
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The Sanitary Commission – Major Bush, of this village, delivered a lecture on Monday evening at the Presbyterian Church, presenting the claims of the Sanitary Commission. The weather was unfavorable, and as consequence, the audience was small. Mr. Bush made some interesting statements relating to the operations of this
of this town. Mrs. M.F. Foote was unanimously chosen as the manager and also as correspondent and manager for the county. (Ed. Note: In lieu of a government funded Veterans’ Administration, the Sanitary Commission was a national effort to support the physical and social needs of seriously wounded soldiers returning from the Civil War battlefield, and their families) April 29, 1864
100 YEARS AGO May 6, 1964 worthy organization. He spoke of its several departments, and gave some illustrations of the systematic and efficient way in which its work is performed, in relieving the sick and wounded. At the close of the Lecture, a Society was formed as an auxiliary in the work of the Commission. Similar societies have been organized in nearly all the towns of the county. A committee of 12 ladies of Cooperstown were elected as the Executive Committee for the “Soldiers’ Aid Society”
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The proposition to install an approved fire alarm system in Cooperstown was defeated at the special taxpayer’s election by a vote of 68 against and 40 for. There were 14 blank ballots. The Cooperstown people will pay out in the insurance rate on dwellings during the next three or four years more than the $4,500 required for a new fire alarm while our volunteer firemen and citizens generally will continue to be a loggerheads to know which way to go when the present fire alarm rings. A rumor was current that the new fire alarm would not
reduce the insurance. A letter received Monday by the Secretary of the Board of Trade, reiterated the previous statements that it would surely place us in Class A. April 29, 1914
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The summer-long celebration of the founding of baseball at Cooperstown will get underway on Saturday afternoon of this week with a game between two of New York State’s outstanding military schools, Manlius School and Albany Academy. The game will be played on historic Doubleday Field, named for Major-General Abner Doubleday, who invented the game here 100 years ago. (Ed. note: The Doubleday creation story prevailed in 1939, but has long since been abandoned as a myth rather than historic fact) May 3, 1939
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An estimated 75 gallons of fuel oil originating from tanks at “Glencrest,” the residence of Bruce Rathbone at 25 Glen Avenue overflowed into Willow Brook which runs through the village and into Otsego Lake. Neil McManus, Town of Otsego Codes Enforcement officer said a “concerned citizen” saw oil in the brook and reported it. The incident occurred when the oil was being transferred from an outdoor tank to a second tank in the basement of 25 Glen. Rathbone was away from the residence when the spill occurred. May 3, 1989
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A young musician and composer from Cooperstown has been recognized for the second consecutive year by the Child Composer Project at Hartwick College. Chloe Ford, 12, a sixth-grader at Cooperstown Central School, received an honorable mention for her song “Ode to Mommy.” Last year Ford entered a winning melody in the competition titled “Hey Mozart!” Ford is the daughter of Tara Sumner. April 30, 2004
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Couple Creates Canine Hotel Next To Dog Wild Store DOGS/From A1 ing room.” It’s part of a new, more holistic approach to boarding animals, much like Breezy Acres in Burlington Flats and Mossy Creek in Cherry Valley. The hotel will have 16 rooms for vacationing dogs, as well as common areas, four play yards and a live-in caretaker housed on the second floor. “It helps take the stress off,” said Ouellet. “When dogs get stressed, they chew at themselves and furniture.” They moved to Cooperstown in 2002, where Ray worked at
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building next door to the hotel, with a grand re-opening in June. “We’re going to have fish food, equine supplies, things customers asked for but that we didn’t carry,” he said. “My customers know that if it’s in my store, I did the research – no wheat, no corn, no dyes or by-products. If you want to buy junk, you have to go to the supermarket.” The retail portion of the store will be downstairs, Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal while upstairs will host a Ray Ouellet strolls past the former house on utility space to be used for Route 28, Hartwick Seminary, that he’s spent the training classes, adoption winter converting into a canine hotel. says and doggie daycare. Bassett and Dana was the devote myself full-time “Maybe even dog birthassistant director at the to her store,” he said. “A day parties,” added Rice. Glimmerglass Opera. month later, we were open They’re also looking to But it had always been in the Doubleday Court.” have three groomers on Dana’s dream to own a dog In 2008 they moved to the staff, and possibly a memsupply store and in 2006, Maple Ridge location, but bers-only dog park behind Ray offered her this: “I quit they’re planning to move the store. “There’s no my job and told her I would the business down to a new dog park in the area,” said
EXHIBIT/From A4 Watkins’ landscapes helped to propel. But the SFMOMA show took a wide view of Watkins’ work. It put more emphasis on San Francisco views and included images made in Arizona and Utah. The Cantor focuses on images of Northern California and the Columbia River and environs in Oregon, drawing on three albums of mammoth plate prints that reside in the Stanford libraries. The more we hear about the acceleration of future drift toward an unlivable planet, the more we think about when and how that process began. And the more weight we accord to an image such as “Oswego Iron Works/Willamette River” (1867) or “Magenta Flume/ Nevada Co. Cal.” (c. 1871), in which the conversion of tall fir trees into a lofty trestle appears to our eyes as perhaps it did to Watkins’ - ominously direct.
Oulette. “We have to make it members only, or we’ll be swamped.” They hope the hotel will be open and taking canine
clients in late summer. “We want the dogs to relax and have a good time,” said Rice. “We’re full-service dog.”
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Cottage with otsego Lake Access This very sweet cottage is in move-in condition w/most furnishings being negotiable. Everything has been redone. Nicely renovated kitchen w/maple cabinets, pine breakfast bar leading into DR which has doors to the deck w/a privacy fence and lake views. LR area has lake-view window and woodstove. 2 BRs and full bath. Lower level has a pine-paneled room for storage or perhaps extra sleeping space. Lake access is at Hickory Grove Point as well as a 5’ lake right-of-way on Lake Shore Drive. This darling cottage is available for immediate occupancy. Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty $169,900
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Devlin: No Help Available For 60% Of County Inmates Who Are Addicted HEROIN/From A1 tried to commit suicide, and he was committed to the psychiatric ward. “They said, ‘He’s a heroin addict, cut him loose’,” she said. “We sacrificed his college fund to try to get him into treatment.” But even after another stay in rehab, Jeremy relapsed and wound up back in jail. “One month after he got out of jail and one week after his 23rd birthday, my son successfully committed suicide,” she said. The audience gasped. People struck by the heroin scourge joined doctors, politicians, police and treatment center managers at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom Monday, April 28, for the state Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction. “There are real people behind the numbers and statistics,” said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, a task force member. “We need to know what we can do to be helpful to you.”
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Among those telling state Sen. Jim Seward’s task for that more money is needed to combat heroin abuse are, left photo, Dr. Kelly Robinson, medical director at Fox Hospital’s emergency department, and Dr. August Leinhart, Bassett chief of emergency and trauma services; center photo Sheriff Richard Devlin; and, right photo, Dr. Steven Graham, Bassett OB/GYN.
The state Legislature formed the task force to combat the epidemic of heroin problems in Upstate New York, evident in a spike in thefts, overdoses and arrests. “Our resources are tapped out, our jails are full of addicts,” said Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “60 percent of our current jail population has an addiction, and we have no resources to deal
with withdrawal or the underlying causes.” The stories related here were all the same – no one started with a needle in their arm, but rather, with medicines prescribed by a doctor. That’s how Mylea Buffo got hooked, taking up to six Oxycodone a day, plus other pain pills. “I hid behind my prescriptions,” she said. “They were legal, so I wasn’t an addict.”
Torre TV Ads Hit Home Run For Hall TORRE/From A1 York Metropolitan Area, and Torre’s pitch is working. Brad Horn, Hall of Fame vice president for communications, said 160 percent more visitors – yes, 160 percent – went through the turnstile at 25 Main St. in the nine days before Easter this year, compared to the same period in 2013. Richard “The Newman I♥NY’ campaign and the governor’s tourism focus has been a major driver in the decision for families to visit,” said Horn. This was no accident, according to Richard Newman, executive vice president/state marketing strategy for the Empire State Development Corp., which runs the “I♥NY” campaign. “This is part of a much larger initiative,” he said in an interview, “to drive economic development through tourism throughout the state.” Governor Cuomo has committed $60 million to the campaign, Newman said. Because of the Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary cel-
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Hall of Fame VP/Comunications Brad Horn with Joe Torre during the former Yankee manager’s orientation visit to the 25 Main St. on March 25.
ebration, the Cooperstown spot was a natural, he said, but it was one of four. The others featured Whiteface Mountain, “the highest vertical drop east of the Rockies” and its proximity to Lake Placid; the Tug Hill Plateau south of Watertown, which heavy snowfall makes ideal for snowmobiling and cross-country skiing, and Dia: Beacon in the Hudson Valley, “the world’s largest contemporary art museum.” The Torre TV spots, running in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania, are part of a “fully integrate campaign” that also includes “There’s more to New York than NY” posters in MTA stations and on billboards. Newman’s office has been tracking results, and they are impressive: In 2013 over the year before, 8.8 million more people visited New York State, a 4.7 percent hike. They spent $61.3 billion in the state, a 7 percent increase. Statewide, 808,700 people are now working in the leisure and hospitality industry, making it the state’s third-largest sector. Locally, where the county Tourism Office was privatize the first of the year, Executive Director Deb Taylor said the new effort plans to complement what “I♥NY” is doing, and reach into markets beyond the state effort. In Boston, where Red Sox archival Torre will have little traction, plus Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre and central Pennsylvania, the local effort is placing banner ads on websites and tablet displays, as well as “pre-rolled videos,” the 15-30 second spots that run before your typical
“Kids see it as medication,” said Julie Dostal, LEAF executive director. “We have to teach them that just because it has an Rx doesn’t mean it’s safe.” I-Stop laws, which prevent over-prescribing of opioids, are helping reduce the practice of doctor-shopping, but without the prescription, many addicts are turning to heroin. “In Delaware County, I don’t know of a
single case that didn’t start with prescriptions,” said Christopher Kemp, that county’s Chemical Dependency Program manager. Education is a key component in combating the problem, and cuts to schools and programs have damaged the ability of teachers to reach kids. “We used to have substance-abuse counselors and D.A.R.E. programs in place,” said
Student Filmed Protest At Gibson Office FILM/From A1 larger discussion of wage increases,” she said. She received a $1,000 grant from the school, which helps her cover the cost of travel for both her and her cameraman. For the documentary, she also followed a group of protesters to U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson’s Cooperstown office Tuesday, April 1, where they rallied in favor of raising the minimum wage to $10 and against Republican obstructionism in the House of Representatives. The petition, which circulated on moveon.org, called for nationwide protests that day. As it happened, the group learned when Gibson’s local aide, Carol Waller, got spokesman Matt Sheehey on the phone, the congressman co-sponsored bi-partisan legislation to immediately raise the wage to $9. “It’s been $7.25 since 2007,” Gibson said in a follow-up interview. “If we couple a raise in the minimum wage with pro-growth measures such as small business tax cuts and repealing the medical device tax, then I believe we can actually create more jobs.”
Knapp is unconvinced. According to Opportunities for Otsego, the living wage for a single adult in Otsego County is $9.40 for a 40 hour work week. “When you pay people a living wage, they don’t have to work two or three jobs to stay out of poverty,” she said. “How you pay people has a ripple effect. It impacts the local and the national economies.” According to Glassdoor. com, a website that monitors company salaries, the starting wage at Walmart is $8.86 an hour, with associates making between $7 and $18,000 a year. Assistant managers make an average of $44,076 a year, while pharmacists make an average of $120,358 yearly. Calls to WalMart’s media room were not returned. “I don’t want to come across as an opponent of Walmart,” she said. “I started with an unbiased view, but I haven’t come across a single person who works there who has anything good to say, even after only
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MLS#93199 $995,000 Magnificent Otsego Lake home w/stunning views of the lake. This property has a lot to offer. Call Kristi J. Ough 607-434-3026 (cell) Virtual tour: http://www.cooperstownhome.net/
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