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Cooperstown’s Frank Wilsey breaks the tape to win the Fly Creek Fire Department’s first 9/11 Heroes 5K Run Friday, Sept. 11, in 23:08. Ardath Johnson of Burlington led the women, finishing in 24:42. Thirty-one runners competed/OTHER

HARVESTING VOTES

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fter two hours of debate, the Otsego Town Board agreed that its worthwhile to explore if Brookwood Gardens should be a town park.

At the end of the regular town board meeting Wednesday, Sept. 10, the town board agreed to meet PHOTO, A3 again at 5 p.m. Monday, Seward Says Oct. 21, to prepare a proposal to the Otsego Land Trust, He Won’t Run which is seeking to find to take over all or For Congress someone part of the 22-acre property tate Sen. Jim Seward, alongside Otsego Lake.

Cooperstown resident R-Milford, announced Chip Northrup outlined a Sunday, Sept. 13, that plan that uses wedding renthe will not run for retiring als, docks and kayak storage Congressman Chris Gibson’s racks to allow the town to 19th District seat in 2016. break even on a park.

“While serving in WashBut audience members ington D.C. would allow Sheila Ross, John Phillips me to address a number of and others expressed conimportant issues facing our region,” said Seward, “I feel cern that unanticipated costs would make the town regret that at this time my standit had every decided to do ing as a senior member of the project. the New York State senate majority enables me to better serve my district.”

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UP IN AIR: Hartwick town supervisor Republican and Democratic primaries will be decided Friday, Sept.

18 by a recount.

ENERGY EXPERT: Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president, will speak on “What Will It Take To Convert To Renewable Energy?” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, at the Village Library, the Friends of the Library’s first Sunday program of the season.

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Suffragettes rallying for the vote were a novelty at this year’s Farmers’ Museum Harvest Fest Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 12-13, the annual evocation of autumn in 19th century rural villages, from shearing sheep to picking potatoes. Templeton Player Anastacia Marco declaimed on The Green, supported by pickets Sapphira Koerner, left, and Crystal Beven.

After Years As John Adams, Sam Goodyear Trying ‘Ulys’

By JIM KEVLIN

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fter two decades, John Adams is becoming “Ulys.”

Sam Goodyear, formerly of Cooperstown and Oneonta – and of theater groups in both communities, has been depicting the second president of the U.S. for 20 years, ever since performing in the 1995 Leatherstocking Theater Company’s Hyde Hall production of Howard Ginsberg’s “Jefferson & Adams.”

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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t was a session rife with excitement about things no one could talk about.

MV500 co-chair Alicia Dicks, leader of a sixcounty effort – it includes Otsego – to obtain $1½ billion from Governor Cuomo’s Upstate Development Fund, came MV500 coto the Base- chair Alicia ball Hall of Dicks.

Fame’s Bullpen Theater Monday, Sept.

14, to brief local people on the progress of the economic-development initiative.

She reported that the region – Oneida, Herkimer, Schoharie, Fulton and Montgomery, in addition to Otsego – has been able to identify the five-one private-public match necessary to access the state funding.

This, it was clear, was a big deal. Asked about particulars by Otsego Now Please See $$$, A6

200 SUBARUS AT GILBERT LAKE

No World Record, But Lots Of Fun

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tsego County didn’t break the world record for largest parade of Subarus, but then our 60,000 population is dwarfed by Moscow’s 12 million.

On Aug. 15, Subaru Russia set a new Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Guiness Book of World Records’ mark by Adams depictor Sam Goodyear has a new attracting 549 of the cars to the Moscow persona.

Raceway. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Gilbert Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Lake State Park, some 200 local Subarus Goodyear has been perGuenther in his 1970 Subaru 360. forming in that play annual- showed up.

Regardless, the Make-A-Wish Foundation ly at Colonial Williamsburg, “We had a great crowd,” said Guenther. and also playing Adams in a got a contribution – $4,222 – and, accord“There were well over 600 people – each ing to Five Star co-proprietor Ben Guenther, car brought on average about three people. one-man show he prePlease See GRANT, A7 everybody had a good time.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

LOCALS 47 Members Of CCS Class of 1965 Celebrate At 50th Reunion

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he Cooperstown Central School Class of 1965 gathered Saturday evening, Sept. 12, at the Cornfield Hall, Fly Creek, to celebrate its 50th reunion.

Seated, from left, are Terry Pugliese, Cynthia Derr, Margaret Winnie, Frank Demaree, Patty Callahan, Jim Chase, Kathy George, Denis Wilshere and Cliff Brunner.

Middle row, from left, are Bill Crain, Jim Gallagher, Kernan Cross, Nancy Bullock, Patti Wright, Fran Zigon, Patty Schultz, Pam Grady, Cindy Barnes, Katie Tennant, Lynda Wood, Piek van der

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Reijt (exchange student from the Netherlands), Alan Wright, Bunny Teeple, David Kull, Amy Clark, Marjorie Shepard, Michele Van Dyke and Joni Stevens.

Back, from left, are Bruce DeVinny, Lee Winnie, Ned Walker, Kay Winne, John Sheffield, John Tedesco, Dennis Tuller, Jim Dow, Linda Moran, Janet Potter, Carolyn Mook, Bill Murdock, Phyllis Bridger, Nancy Powers, Benn Goddard, David Sanford and Wayne Moakler.

John Mitchell and George Weir also attended, but aren’t in the photo.

Class of 1965 members who graduated from other schools who attended were Veronica Gil, Margaret McGown and Peter Severud.

Attendees acknowledged classmates who are now deceased: Priscilla Austin, Dawn Bailey, Keith Benson, Sarah Butler, Kathleen Christman, Robert Duncan, Gerald Ellsworth, Ronald Fazio, Allen Holden, Patricia Kelly, Nancy McRorie, John Miller, Thomas Mottram, John Nevil, Douglas Preston, Mary Pugliese, Polly Rathbun, Dorothy Shannon and John Tabor.

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Rose M. Enjem, 91, Town Supervisor’s Mother, Passes Away On Primary Day

ILION – Rose M. “Cito” Enjem, 91, mother of Perms Richfield Town Supervisor Fran Enjem, passed away on Wash, Cut Primary Day, Tuesday, Sept.

2015, at Sitrin Health & Style 8, Care Center, New Hartford.

Born in Utica on Aug. 7, 6208 State Highway 28 • 547-7126 1924, Rose was the daughter (On the Corner in Fly Creek) of the late Peter and Mora

(Zady) Joseph. She was raised and educated in Utica schools. At one time she was married to Joseph F. Enjem, whose relationship led to the blessing of their three sons. During her working years, Rose held positions at General Electric, Remington Rand, MDS and was last

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Although she worked outside of Rose M. the home, Enjem providing for her family at home was the source of strength and comfort to her. She sacrificed as a loving mother, was an adored grandmother and greatgrandmother and they loved their “Cito Rose.” Rose will always be remembered for her charity. She gained great satisfaction from being able to help others which she did in so many different ways. She gave selflessly of herself, volunteering at the Catholic Charities Food Pantry and driving those in need to church. All in all, it had been a wonderful life, filled with family, faith, and compassionate friends. Rose loved to cook for her children and grandchildren and will be remembered for her pies, salad, and Lebanese food. In her younger years she was an avid bowler.

Rose was a member of the Frankfort Senior Citizens, Red Hats Society, Catholic Daughters, and a parishioner of Annunciation Parish of Ilion.

In addition to Supervisor Francis J. Enjem and his wife, Bonnie, she is survived by two other sons and daughters-in-law, Anthony J. and Eileen Enjem of New Hartford and Joseph P. and Mary Enjem of Ilion; grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

The funeral was planned for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

16, at the Enea Family Funeral Home, 4309 Acme Road, Ilion, with Deacon James Bower, officiating.

Remembrances Mark 9/11

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Rev. Bill Delia, pastor, Cooperstown United Methodist Church, leads a service of remembrance on Friday evening, Sept. 11, the 14th anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing. Behind him is the Rev. Sylvia Barrett, Milford UM. That morning, St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church celebrated a mass, followed by an 8 a.m. flag planting and tolling of the church bells.

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Four members of the Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Department completed the 9/11 Heroes 5K in full regalia. Approaching the finish line Friday evening, Sept. 11, are, from left, First Assistant Chief Steve Baker, Fire Company president Christine Voulo, Fire Chief Mike Thayer and EMS Jennie Johannesen.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

EDITORIAL

‘Privilege And Prejudice’ Summons Us To Our Better Natures

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hat a book!

Clifton R. Wharton Jr.’s “Privilege And Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer” will tell you many things you don’t know.

• Of working with South American farmers on agricultural methods to elevate them above subsistence, then building bankable business plans based on their new skills.

• Of recruiting scholars in postcolonial Southeast Asia to earn Ph.D.s in the U.S., so they can return and help their homelands build the intellectual capital independent nations require.

• Of building a caring campus community in the midst of Vietnam-fueled student protest, not to mention petty politics.

• Of bending SUNY, the nation’s largest system of higher education, toward the pursuit of an excellence we celebrate today in the Oneonta campus, the CGP and the Biological Field Station.

• Of awakening TIAA-CREF, the massive education pension fund, to computerization and diversification, assuring a secure retirement for hundreds of thousands of educators. (Non-educators, lament the lack of such a

champion for the rest of us.)

Only in the cut-throat culture of Bill Clinton’s State Department did Clifton Wharton decide, finally, that it was time to embrace an ultra-active retirement in New York City and in Cooperstown, where he continues to serve the community and the world, even as he approaches his 90th birthday.

Throughout, you will learn lessons of self-discipline and hard work harnessed to a larger purpose: To make the world a better place.

• From the many offerings in “Privilege And Prejudice,” let’s focus on two.

One, reading about Wharton’s work as an economist for Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela and an academic in Southeast Asia, it’s hard not to be wistful of a time when the American impetus was generous and simple – to help farmers grow, to help scholars learn.

Since, disillusionments and deceptions of Vietnam, Kissinger’s Realpolitik and our ultimate national betrayal – cooking the books on the Iraq invasion to create a Middle East implosion without end – made cynics of us all.

a South Carolina officer shooting a fleeing black man eight times in the back. All Americans of good will have to be ruefully questioning our national ideals after the cavalcade of injustices that have marched from our TV sets since the killing of young Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a year ago August.

If anyone deserved better than to have others “gauge my worth on a single dimension – my color!” it was Clifton R. Wharton Jr. And yet this cultured, educated, disciplined, public-spirited man met snubs and humiliations throughout the years, even as he rose above them victoriously.

“Occasionally,” he writes, Former SUNY Chancellor Clif- “younger blacks ask me whether ton R. Wharton Jr. will deliver the problem disappears when you a lecture at a book-signing reach the upper strata or power at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, in The Fenimore Art Museum levels of society. They are always disappointed when I tell them that Auditorium. Reserve your seats at a.holland@nysha.org it has recurred in all my careers throughout my life.”

As a nation, we have to do Wharton’s early chapters rebetter.

An individuals, we have capture that innocence, of a world to examine our consciences, to rewhere every problem wasn’t a nail and every hammer wasn’t a drone. commit to acceptance of racial and ethnic differences at a gut level, Can that happier past be prelude? not just an intellectual one. Even Two, racism exists – less overt, we think, until a video surfaces of the exclusivity implied in the use of “we” jars. “We” has to become

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Standing Firm On SAFE

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ndrew Cuomo, that the Second Amendment as we all know, to the United States Constiis a hard driving, tution protects their right to focused strategist. This own their individual killing occasionally Machiavelmachines. lian politician sometimes In fact, the gun culture is doesn’t stop to consider the alive and well in the United consequences of his actions. States and as a result, we When it is appropriate, I are witnessing one catastrohave pointed some phe after another. of those instances The right wing gun out. On the other nuts say that they hand, there are need their guns times when I reto fight the govally admire the ernment when it man’s courage. His comes after them. stance on gun conThat may be so, trol, for example, but we continue to deserves our supsee one senseless port. The reaction gun crime after anGovernor Cuo- other with horrific to his SAFE Act was immediate and mo signs SAFE results.

Act in January dramatic.

When the shootA lot of Ameri- 2013. ings at the Sandy cans and New Hook Elementary Yorkers, particularly School wiped out all of Upstate New Yorkers, love those beautiful children, their guns. There are milit was more than Cuomo, lions of guns out there. The who has his own kids, could right wing Republican-apbear. He used every tool pointed majority of the Suat his disposal to push the preme Court of the United SAFE Act through the LegStates has pacified this islature and it was brutal. angry beast by affirming Please See SAFE, A6

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The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce Thursday, Sept. 9, announced that Marcy Birch, center, proprietor, Barnyard Swing, Hartwick Seminary, has won this year’s Key Bank 16th annual Small Business of the Year Award, and Northern Eagle Hop Pelletizing Co., represented by George Allen, left of Birch, is the Excellus/Blue Cross Breakthrough Business of the Year. Others, from left, are Community Bank’s Joe Sutaris, the chamber board chair; chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, and, representing Key Bank, Allen Ruffles, Cooperstown branch manager. The dinner will be Thursday, Oct. 15, at The Otesaga. For reservations, call 432-4500.

LETTERS

Hidden Land Mines In Northrup’s Brookwood Propoals

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all-encompassing, all-embracing – and, thus, extinct.

It must be done as a nation, but it must be done one by one, on our own streets, our downtowns, our workplaces and our hearts.

• “Privilege And Prejudice” is a long book, small type, 534 pages, densely packed. Do yourself a favor: Don’t read it as one book, but as several, taking your time with each – a boyhood reminiscence, a foray into an emerging Third World, an insider’s look at higher education, a walk down Wall Street, a political expose and, finally, reflections on a life welllived.

It is also a romance – the story of a life-long love match between two brainy, caring, tough, ambitious, public-spirited people; and a handsome couple, for that matter, star quality – that imbues the whole enterprise.

In short, buy the book, savor each “book” within the book, and learn that, indeed, the world can be a better place, if only all of us can be good enough and strong enough; perhaps half as good and half as strong as Clifton and Dolores Wharton would be a good place to start.

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To the Editor I don’t think that Chip Northrup’s proposal was meant to be hilarious, but as I read it I laughed all the way through it.

Firstly, there were many hidden expenses that he did not consider –the high cost of a new septic for public use, handicap precautions, new driveway access, (the present access is much too narrow for the amount of traffic his proposal would require) and complete renovations to the tea house for his rental income. (Would these changes be in keeping with the Otsego Land Trust’s strict covenants on historical structures?)

And the huge amount of landscaping that would be required in keeping with

the Otsego Land Trust’s mission. Last but not least, a new barn to store this equipment.

While I read on I do believe Bob and Harry Cook (former and last owners of Brookwood) would turn over in their graves to learn that this might happen to their beloved Brookwood.

Mr. Northrup’s proposal would be a burden to the Town and to the residents of our county with higher taxes to support his proposal. As it is now, we are exporting our artisans - the carpenters, the plumbers and the housekeepers because they cannot afford the high taxes in Otsego County.

Chip, if you really love the community you live in why not get in touch with your state senator and ask him to

widen the roads around the lake. Why? (Number 1, to save lives and, Number 2, at the same time install bicycle paths around the Lake and perhaps another bicycle path on the back road to Fly Creek.)

By so doing, this would bring a new type of tourist in our area. They would stay long enough to visit Brookwood on the new bicycle path, the museums, the opera, the Glimmerglass State Park and the Fly Creek Cider Mill, all on one bicycle path. Bicycles do not create potholes on our roads, pollute the air we breathe and the waters we drink.

VERA TALEVI Town of Otsego (Resident and property owner in Otsego County since 1955.)

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by TOM HEITZ with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

175 YEARS AGO

200 YEARS AGO Hartwick Seminary – The Rev. Ernest Lewis Haselius, of New Germantown, State of New Jersey, having accepted the call as Professor of Divinity, and Principal of the Academy in Hartwick Seminary, the operation of the Institute will commence about the first of November next, in the Town of Hartwick, Otsego County, near the Susquehannah river.

The following branches of literature will be taught in the Institute – viz: the Classics; the Latin, Greek and Hebrew Languages, and Theology; conformably with the will of the Testator. John G. Knauff, Executor of Hartwick’s Estate.

September 21, 1815

150 YEARS AGO The End of the World – A British army officer, Captain W.A. Baker of the Royal Bombay Engineers has at last settled an oft-disputed date – the year in which the world will come to an end. In a work just published in England, entitled, “The Day and The Hour; or Notes on Prophecy: A Sketch of the Future, extracted from the Bible,” he imparts a considerable amount of information, which is certainly “important, if true.” The day of judgment he tells us, is fixed for September 30, 1878; the hour, sunset; the translation of the Saints having previously taken place at one o’clock in the morning of the 25th of January, 1875.

It is important to our village that the Fort Plain road is kept in its present good condition. There is still a great deal of travel on it, and will continue to be until there are railroad facilities for the western travel. All our western freight must be hauled over it. A stone arch bridge should be constructed over the Susquehanna, to be paid for by the Village of Cooperstown and the Towns of Middlefield and Otsego. A bill to facilitate that enterprise should be perfected and passed at the next session of the legislature. It is a work which should be done at the public expense, and not by private subscription.

September 22, 1865

125 YEARS AGO If your hay crop is large and you wish to feed it out on the farm, call at Dr. James’ when you come to the Fair, and have your horse’s teeth put in order. Chris Post says that his horses eat three times the amount they did before he had their teeth floated.

Ladies Cloaks – You certainly must buy you a new cloak this

is believed that it will be possible to revive the growing of hops in this area on a large scale and return to the farmers an income that was theirs half a century or so ago. A yard will be established on the grounds of the Deerfield Foresters and plantings made under the direction of the experts from the school with the cooperation of the Geneva Agricultural Experiment Station.

September 18, 1940

50 YEARS AGO At the annual meeting of the Upstate Home for Children, held at the Home in Milford Center, the membership present approved a change in corporate powers and purposes to permit operation of a home for mentally retarded children September 21, 1840 of ages 8 through 18 at entry. The change is subject to court approval as well as approval of the State Department of fall, for B.F. Murdock & Sons are offering them cheaper than Social Welfare and the State Commissioner of Education. ever. They have an elegant stock to select from, and feel confiSeptember 15, 1965 dent that they can please all, both as to quality and price.

September 19, 1890

100 YEARS AGO During the summer numerous repairs have been in progress at Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County’s oldest institution of learning which opens for the fall term Tuesday, October 5. A basement has been put under the south wing and the toilet with tub and shower baths placed there. A new cesspool has been dug and connected with the new basement. All the rooms on the third floor, both wings, have been wainscoted and sides and ceiling covered with beaver board and painted in pleasing colors. New hard wood floors have been laid.

The same has been done on the second and first floors of the south wing. New doors have been hung and casings repaired where damaged. Window sashes likewise. The roof with eave troughs have been repaired and painted.

September 15, 1915

75 YEARS AGO An agricultural experiment based on the theory that hop vines that have persisted in many of the old abandoned yards of Otsego County have become immune to the blue mold and downy mildew that helped cause the death of the industry here, has been launched by Senator Walter W. Stokes of Cooperstown and George Van Yahres, head of the Deerfield Foresters, a camp-school established near Cooperstown last spring. If the theory is proved correct it

25 YEARS AGO

Mother Nature’s kind ministrations to her children in the form of raindrops and the plucky fielding of “Little Egypt” Reid for the Cat Town Scholars, combined to defeat the Cardiff Giants by a 9-5 tally on Sunday, bringing an end to the regular season town ball schedule at The Farmers’ Museum. It was in the second hand that the stakes were loaded for “Slick” Reese of the Cardiff Giants who caught one with the meat of the bat and sent it high and deep in the direction of the General Store. The ball entered the top of a tree and began a slow descent through the limbs before dropping into the waiting palms of “Little Egypt” Reid who gathered the object to her bosom as a mother would a favored child.

September 19, 1990

10 YEARS AGO A whole roasted pig, coleslaw, baked beans, and dessert will be featured at a benefit dinner for the Fly Creek Historic District initiative. Sponsored by the Fly Creek Area Historical Society, the dinner will be served at the Fly Creek Grange on Cemetery Road from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 24. The pulled pork, a donation from Portobello’s of Fly Creek, will be slow-roasted on the Grange lawn. The cost is $7.50 for the meal.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 Subaru enthusiasts were drawn from throughout the region, including Ron and Anne Bishop of Cooperstown.

MV500 Believes Region Can Win $½ Billion And that excitement brimmed over into other aspects of the discussion before an audience of about 30 people – it included state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Oneonta’s new mayor Gary Herzig and his Community Development Director Bill Kerbin, county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Otsego County Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, and several entrepreneurs and representatives of local companies, like Brewery Ommegang spokesperson Alison Capozza and tech-business owner Matthew Tabor.

It seems the MV500 stra-

$$$/From A1 board chair Bob Hanft and others, however, she said that would tip our region’s hand to the six other regions it is competing with for the big pot of money.

Still, it was clear from Dicks, and the three Otsego representatives in the MV500 group seeking the half-billion – Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, Hall of Fame Vice President Ken Meifert, who is also Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce board chair, and Otsego Now President Sandy Mathes – that lining up the match gives the local effort a big edge.

Your clear choice!

tegic plan for the money has three parts: STEM, building out from the $1.5 billion nanotechnology development at SUNY Polytechnic, north of Utica; tourism, with pods of success (the Hall of Fame) and opportunity (upgrading Doubleday Field) to build on; and agri-business, and not just hops.

Dicks reported “every third farmer” is telling her, “I got a call from someone in California or someone in Europe, looking for farms.”

The first callers are running out of water; the second are looking to break into the U.S. market.

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cord of success in all these areas,” said Meifert. “It (the half-billion) is changing the scale of it. It’s injecting the jet fuel.”

The governor unveiled his $1.5 billion Upstate Development Fund in Rochester in January, financed by fines agreed to by Wall Street wrongdoers. He proposed that seven of the state’s economic development regions come up with proposals, and the top three proposals receive $500 million each for economic development.

By spring, the six counties in the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council – including Otsego – had formed MV500, a working group to prepare the application.

The application is due at the MVREDC’s office in Utica in October, to be reviewed and forwarded to Albany for a decision by December.

The folks in the Bullpen Theater were bullish about the local odds. “’WHEN we won the money,’” Dicks said at one point, picking up on someone else’s comment. “I caught that. That’s good!”

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hamburger, hot dogs and other picnic-style food.

There were lawn games and live music. The dealership gave away merchandise including T-shirts, hats and sweatshirts, as well as two Subaru bicycles and an I-Pad mini.

“It was a perfect day, really,” said Ben. “The rain held off, but the cloud cover made it so it was not so hot.

The parade was great. We had a long line of Subarus.

The road around Gilbert Lake is about two and a half miles and there were cars all the way around the lake.”

Five Star Subaru will host the same event next year, he said.

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Even though the Moscow record stands, the primary purpose of the event was achieved, he said: to raise money for Make-A-Wish, the organization that helps terminally ill children realize a final wish.

Guenther’s daughter, Jessica, organized the event, her dad said, adding, “I would like to personally thank the entire staff of Five Star Subaru for their hard work in helping us raise this money for Make-A-Wish.”

The money raised came from donations from participants, who indulged in

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SAFE/From A4 The result was that a few Republican Senators lost their seats. I think it was Cuomo’s finest moment.

As the bad news continues, Cuomo is now at a place where he throws up his hands and admits defeat. He knows, and says that he knows, that what we have is not a state problem but a national problem.

The gun runners transport guns from one state to another and sell them on the street to the very outlaws that people hate. Look, sooner or later people are going to have to make hard choices about the proliferation of guns in this country. There has to be recognition that at the very least, everyone who buys a gun must be subject to a background check.

It is far from a fix all but every life that is saved will be crucial. Frankly, I am still shaking my head that the Sandy Hook massacre of those innocent children wasn’t enough to reach the tipping point.

Governor Cuomo used a tremendous amount of his political capital to get his SAFE Act passed. I doubt that he can do much more than he did when he was at the height of his political popularity and his public opinion numbers were higher.

In fact, there are some indications that he is trying to assuage some of the angry gun owners who are so unhappy with him. But my advice to him is to continue to stand tall. My bet is that he will not be able to pull the gun people back over the line.

There are times when a politician’s moral compass has to be the guidance system. When it comes to guns, Andrew Cuomo is speaking form the heart. He needs to do it more and his polls will go up.

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Adams Transformed Into Grant GRANT/From A1 miered in 2000 at the Adams National Historic Site in Quincy, Mass. In March, he appeared as Adams at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis.

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No one immediately came to mind. Goodyear thought about it, then replied, “I can do that.”

“OK,” said Goode, and the deal was made.

Since, Sam, who joined WSKG Public Radio as an announcer two years ago and has been living in Binghamton (although he visits Otsego County friends frequently), has immersed

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Some of what Sam’s discovered – the general’s name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant; it was misrecorded when he registered at West Point – is on the surface: His family called him “Ulys” – “U-liss.”

Other discoveries have impressed Goodyear profoundly. For instance, Grant’s humility: “He was not a man of many words.

He never sought fame. He never dreamed to be a general – or a president.”

“He didn’t want to wage war,” Sam continued. “The only reason he waged it was to end it – and save the Union.” When he started something, he finished it – which served him well when his Army of Tennessee reopened the Mississippi and split the Confederacy, and in leading the Army of the Potomac to ultimate victory with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.

At West Point, young Grant was considered the best horseman in America.

As for his reputation for heavy drinking, Sam doesn’t believe it: The general couldn’t have been drunk and won the battles he did.

And despite Grant’s selfeffacing manner, when he traveled with wife Julia after the war “he was lionized the world over.”

Goodyear also discovered the general and his wife Julia were supposed to be in the box with the Lincolns at the Ford Theater the night the president was assassinated. They begged off, taking a train to Philadelphia to visit their children in New Jersey.

As it happened, someone tried to break into their private rail car – another would-be assassin, it turned out, Sam said. Later, the general received a note: “Happy to have failed in my mission.”

Before this assignment, Goodyear had a nodding acquaintance with Grant.

Since studying his life – Jean Edward Smith’s and William McFeely’s biographies but, in particular, the famous “Memoirs,” Sam said, “I’m deeply inspired

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When Grant wrote “Memoirs,” he was broke and dying of cancer. Mark Twain published the volumes, which generated $300,000, a fortune in those days, and restored the family’s fortune.

En route to his Sept. 26 performance, Goodyear plans to stay at The Bailey House, a B&B in Georgetown, Ohio, the town where Grant was raised, and he’s been assured a private tour of Grant’s boyhood home.

Meanwhile, Goodyear happened on a vintage clothing store in Binghamton, New Me, that was going out of business, and was able to obtain a frock coat, a black velvet waistcoat and grey striped pants for $75.

With a top hat on order and a newly grown beard, the actor expects to look much like Grant in a famous photo while writing his memoirs on that Adirondack porch.

He and Grant were about the same height, although Sam, who is 71, is worried a bit that Grant was 63 when he died. And while the actor’s beard is real right now, he’ll have to shave it when he goes back to playing John Adams. If Grant gigs multiply, he’ll have to find some good false whiskers.

Sam planned to try out his new regalia on a visit this week to Grant’s Tomb on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive. If anyone questions him, he planned to say, “I’m coming to see who’s buried in my tomb.”

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Clifton R. Wharton Jr.’s ‘Privilege And Prejudice’ Documents ‘Firsts,’ From SUNY To Fortune 500 THE WHARTON FILE BORN: Sept. 13, 1926, in Boston PARENTS: Clifton R. Wharton, Sr., first U.S. career diplomat, and Harriette Mae Banks RESIDENCE: Doeclif, Cooperstown; New York City EDUCATION: B.A., Harvard,; M.A., Johns Hopkins; Ph.D. University of Chicago.

PROFESSIONAL (partial): • 1958-1970, with Rockefeller Foundation’s Agriculture Development Council, in Singapore and Malaysia, then in U.S., rising to vice president.

• President, Michigan State, 1970-78 • Chancellor, SUNY, 1978-87 • President, TIAA-CREF, 1987-93 • Deputy secretary of state, 1993 DIRECTORSHIPS (partial): 1969, Equitable Life, first black to serve on board of one of 10 largest U.S. corporations.

Also, Ford Motor Co., NYSE, Time-Warner; locally, NYSHA, Clark Foundation, Bassett.

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FAMILY: Wife of 65 years, the former Dolores Duncan; two sons, Clifton III (deceased) and Bruce.

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Outside SUNY headquarters in Albany in 1978, the year he became chancellor of the nation’s largest state university system.

commerce and government, even an occasional Hy Rosen cartoon – into a unique and compelling memoir.

“Privilege And Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer,” was published Sept. 1 by the Michigan State University Press and will be introduced locally by the author at a lecture and book-signing at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, in The Fenimore Art Museum auditorium, emceed by retired SUNY Oneonta President Alan B. Donovan.

The “Raiders of the Lost Ark” parallel doesn’t end with the warehouse scene, for “Privilege And Prejudice” encompasses: • An adventure story, from training in 1945 with the Tuskegee airmen, peaking in a 1969 riot-punctuated mission to South America with Nelson Please See WHARTON, B3

ORPHEUS ‘GYPSY’: Orpheus Theatre presents the musical “Gypsy.”

7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Sept. 1819 & 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Bldg, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, www.orpheustheatre.org.

SHARON SPRINGS FETE: Annual Harvest Festival, Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 19-20. Vendors, food, music, more.

Free. Info, www.enjoysharonsprings. com COMING UP: Sierra Leone former child soldier Ishmael Beah, author of best-selling book “Long Way Gone,” lectures 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta.

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THANK YOU Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr.

for your contributions to our community and nation.

Jane Forbes Clark The Bassett Healthcare Network The New York State Historical Association Celebrate the publication of Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer at a lecture and book-signing, Saturday, September 26, at 5 p.m., at The Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium.

To reserve seats, please call 607-547-1433 or e-mail a.holland@nysha.org.

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THE WHARTON YEARS

From left, posing jauntily with other Tuskegee airmen; production director at Harvard’s WHCN; parrying with students who took over the Michigan State boardroom during 1970 protest; with Gov. Hugh Carey; the two would spar.

In Academia, Business, Government, Clifton R. Wharton Jr. Did Overcome WHARTON/From A1 Rockefeller where the emissaries “time and again careened down narrow streets, where anyone with a rifle or grenade could have hidden on a rooftop above.”

• A love story, marrying Dolores Duncan, a recognized beauty and a brainy one, on April 15, 1950, in Marian Anderson’s studio in Danbury, Conn. A success story in her own right, serving on the boards of Kellogg, Phillips, Gannett, the Asia Society, MOMA and much more, she emerges as an equal – and brilliant, and tough – partner in his success.

• A family saga, tracing the interaction of slaveowning whites and longfreed blacks. In Wharton’s lifetime, his parents’ divorce after years of separation caused by World War II – his father on African assignments, his mother tending four children in Boston – deflected the angry and disillusioned elder son from a career in diplomacy that would have resulted in a markedly different reminiscence.

• A daunting memoir of Michigan State’s student protests post-Kent State in 1970. “Often with Dolores by my side, I stood face to face in front of a jeering mob” on the steps of the president’s mansion in East Lansing, “answering challenges and presenting views without showing any intimidation.” Spit upon by a co-ed, he stopped the proctor from going after her: “She can spit on me, but I will do nothing in reaction to tarnish the dignity and reputation of the presidency.” In a month of turmoil and strife, he dropped from 178 to 153 pounds.

• Reportage from the corridors of power, on pulling together 64-some silos in the SUNY system in 1980 for the first time to convince the state Senate and Assembly to restore $22 million in funding, overriding Governor Carey’s veto. The SUNY Oswego president told him, “As a system, we could win; you proved it to us all.”

• A tragedy, the sudden death of Clifton III, the couple’s eldest son and children’s services librarian at the Pratt Institute in Baltimore, at age 48 from a brain embolism, causing “a ragged tear in the normal order of life. It leaves scars on your soul that never fade, never stop aching.” The Whartons have a younger son, Bruce, a hospitality executive.

• And, finally, a happy ending: retirement to Cooperstown, buying “Doeclif” with a panoramic view of Otsego Lake, serving on NYSHA, the Clark Foundation and Bassett boards, and experiencing

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A LOVE MATCH, 65 YEARS AND COUNTING: Newly minted Mr. and Mrs. Clifton R. Wharton Jr., upper left, on their wedding day, April 15, 1950, in Marian Anderson’s studio in Danbury, Conn. Lower left, Michigan State President Wharton and first lady Dolores at Cowles House, the president’s residence on the East Lansing campus. Right, the Whartons today, at their Cooperstown summer home, “Doeclif.”

the pleasures of summertime small-town life, (and, in the winter, New York City’s urban offerings from the couple’s United Nations Plaza apartment). Jane Forbes Clark is singled out for note, but so are contractors Mark Schoellig, Matthew Kane, Rob Mulligan and Wayne Granger, who preserve and protect the Whartons’ property from the ravages of Upstate winters.

The TIAA-CREF chapter, where Wharton demonstrated adept skills as “change agent,” computerizing the stodgy education-industry pension fund and diversifying its holdings, has the pace of “Barbarians at the Gate.” The backstabbing in Clinton’s State Department is must reading for any aficionado of D.C. infighting.

In the background throughout is the United States’ great unresolved dilemma: the ugly legacy of slavery and racism that continues to burn in today’s headlines, almost 240 years after our nation’s founding.

Clifton R. Wharton Jr. was conceived, as he reports in the first sentence of the 534-page volume, on Dec. 16, 1925, after a pre-Christmas ball hosted by the president of Liberia; his namesake father, Clifton Sr., the first black career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, was posted to Monrovia.

The baby boy was born the following Sept. 13 at the Lying-In Hospital in Boston, where much of his extended family lived.

When young Clif was 6,

his father was reassigned to Spain’s Canary Islands, and he recounts those happy boyhood years in detail. So it wasn’t until age 10, back in the U.S. for a stay, that, during his first trip south of the Mason Dixon Line with his grandfather to visit relatives in Virginia, that he encountered racism: They were bumped to the “Negro car” at Washington D.C. “Especially in the South, Pop told me resignedly, Negroes had to tolerate separate, poorer accommodations … Negroes had to use different public lavatories and different water fountains, cracked stained basins labeled ‘Colored Only.’ We couldn’t eat in ‘white’ restaurants … We weren’t supposed to enter white homes through the front doors,” he writes.

“I was dumbfounded. I had never even heard the term ‘segregation.’”

As he entered elementary school in Boston, then Boston Latin, then Harvard (before the days of Affirmative Action), he struggled with this new reality: “It perplexed me to realize that many, maybe even most of my compatriots would gauge my worth on a single dimension – my color!”

Told “you’re still just a nigger” after he excelled at a grade-school assignment, his mother told him, “Clifton, this is the way some people try to put you in a box and label you as inferior. Don’t let them do it. Be proud that you are a Negro, and never see yourself only

as a Negro or as inferior because of it. Be proud of everything you are.”

Young Wharton navigated in a black aristocracy that celebrated its accomplishments and supported its members. At all-black Camp Atwater, among campers from “middle-class, fairly comfortable Negro families,” Clif’s sense of “self worth and pride” were affirmed by new friendships (and boxing), even though “the next sneer or slap might be just a blink away.”

If the snubs at Harvard were relatively genteel, not so in the Deep South, where Wharton, a Harvard junior, volunteered for the Tuskegee airmen in the waning days of World War II. In the first test of flying skills, two able cadets washed out before he took the controls.

“The minute we leveled from taking off, the (racial epithets from the flight reviewer) began … At every jab I gritted my teeth and kept silent … I wouldn’t, I told myself, let him get under my skin. When we landed and I was standing at attention, expressionless but steaming, (he) glared at me and intoned in a flat voice, ‘OK. You pass.’”

“There was nothing I could do about it,” Wharton said in a recent interview.

But he learned “I should never lose my cool. I should always maintain my control.”

That iron self-discipline emerges, clearly but often inexplicitly, throughout “Privilege And Prejudice.”

s part of a national tour to promote “Privilege And Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer,” Clifton R. Wharton Jr. will appear at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, in The Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, for a lecture and book-signing. Former SUNY Oneonta President Alan B. Donovan will emcee.

The Cooperstown program is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. To ensure a seat, contact Amanda Holland at 547-1433, or e-mail A.HOLLAND@NYSHA.ORG. The publicity tour begins Sept. 21 with a by-invitation appearance at TIAA-CREF headquarters, where the author will be interviewed by Bill Moyers, the PBS broadcaster and former press secretary to Lyndon Baines Johnson.

On Oct. 5, a program is planned the SUNY’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute, which Dr. Wharton helped found while chancellor. Moderating will be Harry Rosenfeld, Washington Post city editor during Watergate and, editor at large for the Times Union, Albany.

On Nov. 2, he and wife Dolores will return to the Michigan State campus in East Lansing, where he will be interviewed by MSU President Lou-Anna K. Simon at the campus’ Clifton and Dolores Wharton Center for the Performing Arts.

But Wharton’s surface qualities – hard work, dedication, congeniality, intellectual engagement, ambition – are explicit as the narrative takes him from success to greater success.

Those qualities were evident when, as an agricultural economist for Nelson Rockefeller in South America in the 1950s, he showed farmers how to improve their yields, then made those new skills the foundation of business plans to obtain commercial financing.

And in the Far East, based in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, where he sought out dozens of budding scholars for Ph.D. training in the U.S. so they could, in turn, train the intellectuals needed in their newly independent nations.

At Michigan State, where the couple’s efforts are manifest in the Clifton and Dolores Wharton Center for the Performing Arts. At SUNY, where in the early 1980s he began to shift Albany’s focus from the state’s fine private colleges to public colleges, a battle that today has been largely won by the Oneontas, Geneseos and New Paltzes.

“Privilege And Prejudice” is full of mind-bending perspectives that, once stated, are self-evident, none more than the central one – the hero of the piece may be self-defined and defined by society as black; the reality is, he’s white. Or white, too.

“My white great-grandfather was a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army,” he pointed out in the interview, adding that a great-

great-great-great grandfather “was a free Negro.” So when he’s questioned about “my slave family,” it doesn’t resonate.

Locally, the Whartons discovered that a white ancestor, Philadelphia merchant Thomas Wharton, received a huge tract by patent from King George III; thus Wharton Creek, near Edmeston. “I was bemused that one of my extended family ancestors had operated (here) at the time of the legendary Cooper and Clark families,” he writes.

Despite the burden of blackness, if you will, it was recognized early that Clifton Wharton could rise above it. “You do not behave as if you are solely a Negro,” a pastor friend, the Rev. Herbert King of Grace Congregational in Harlem, told the young man. “…When you walk into a room, you walk in just like anyone else, not as though you were a Negro expecting to be treated as a Negro … You can be a pioneer for our people, and you can break barriers in whatever field you choose.”

Clifton Wharton has accomplished much, “Privilege And Prejudice” documents, but much remains.

“Occasionally,” he writes at another point in the book, “younger blacks ask me whether the problem” – racism, subtle or otherwise – “disappears when you reach the upper strata or power levels of society. They are always disappointed when I tell them that it has recurred in all my careers throughout my life.”

Yes, much remains.

TO RESERVE SEATS AT LECTURE & BOOK-SIGNING AT 5 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, AT FENIMORE, CALL 547-1433 OR E-MAIL A.HOLLAND@NYSHA.ORG

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Executive Director Otsego Land Trust seeks a leader with passion for protecting land who demonstrates the ability to energetically engage the community, foster strategic partnerships, close deals, and broaden support for rural conservation efforts. Responsibilities include strategic planning, outreach and fundraising, land conservation and stewardship, community relations, financial management, and team/staff leadership.

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Tuesday, September 15

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Join Oneonta Common Council members for coffee & chat. Main Street Creamery, 254 Main St., Oneonta.

MOBILE LIBRARY — 9:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tuesdays (also Thursdays). Fourcounty Cybermobile visits West Oneonta, Oneonta, Fly Creek, Schuyler Lake, Mt. Vision & Wells Bridge Sept. 15. Then Oneonta, Schenevus, Westford, South Valley & Middlefield, on Sept. 17.

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Fenimore Art Museum, Rte. 28, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org HARTWICK HISTORY — 7 p.m. Monthly Hartwick Historical Society meeting. Auction of cool & creative donated items. Kinney Memorial Library, Hartwick. Info, email htownhall10@stny.rr.com MORE CALENDAR, B7

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OBITUARIES Dr. Gary S. Dunbar, 84; UCLA Professor Retired To Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Gary (1952), Phi Eta Sigma (1949) Seamans Dunbar, Professor Emer- and Phi Kappa Phi (1956) honor itus of the University of California societies. at Los Angeles, died peacefully on On April 4, 1953, he married Aug. 16, 2015, at Bassett Elizabeth Tighe in RochHospital. He was 84. ester. In 1956, at age 24, At the time of his death, he earned his doctor of Dr. Dunbar had lived philosophy from Louisiin Cooperstown for 27 ana State University and years, moving here after embarked on a career of retirement from the UCLA teaching and scholarship Department of Geography. in the field of geography.

His first introduction to After a year teaching Cooperstown had been in at Longwood College 1952 when, as a graduate in Farmville, Va. (1956student at the University of 1957), Dr. Dunbar acceptDunbar Virginia, he came here to Gary ed a teaching position at at UCLA. research the cultivation of his alma mater, the Unihops for his master’s thesis versity of Virginia, where and was captivated by the village, he taught from 1957 to 1967, risOtsego Lake and the surrounding ing to the rank of associate profescountryside. sor and serving as chairman of the Gary Dunbar was born June 8, department from 1963 to 1967.

1931, in Clifton Springs, Ontario While associated with the County, the son of Alvin Robert University of Virginia, he spent a and Esther (Seamans) Dunbar. year at the University of Dacca, After graduating from Avon East Pakistan (now Dhaka, BanCentral High School in Avon in gladesh), as a Fulbright Senior 1948, Gary attended the UniverResearch Scholar. He also taught sity of Virginia where he earned a for two years at Ahmadu Bello bachelor of arts with distinction in University in Zaria, Nigeria (19651952 and a master of arts in 1953. 1967).

He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa Returning to The States in 1967,

Dot Kidder Smith, 99; Architect’s Wife SPRINGFIELD CENTER – Smith, Dorothea F. Kidder Smith, wife of the late G.E. Kidder Smith, the architect, author and photographer, passed away Tuesday, Sept.

8, 2015. She was 99.

She was born New York City, March 27, 1916.

Dot graduated from the Brearley School in 1933 and from Bryn Mawr College in 1937. She accompanied her husband on world travels, contributing to his books on architecture.

As a member of various

organizations and clubs, she delighted in life. She was an enthusiastic tennis player and gardener.

Survivors include Kidder Jr. of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Hopkinson of Basel, Switzerland. Also grandchildren, Zacharias, Samuel, Tatjana, and Alice. Dot was daughter of the late Dorothea and Throop Martin Wilder and sister Sylvia Wilder.

Memorial contributions may be made locally to St. Mary’s Church, Springfield Center, NY 13468.

Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

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Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

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Gary Dunbar with his wife, Elizabeth, who survives him.

he accepted a position as a visiting associate professor of geography at UCLA and continued to work there until his retirement in 1988, earning the rank of full professor in 1970. Gary wrote nine books during the course of his life and published about 160 articles, notes and reviews, continuing to publish after his retirement.

Endowed with an insatiable curiosity and desire to explore, Dr. Dunbar traveled widely throughout North and South America, the West Indies, Europe, Asia and Africa. He almost always included his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children in his adventures.

When the children were grown, he

and Elizabeth continued to travel together.

While living in Cooperstown, Dr. Dunbar served on the Editorial Board of the New York State Historical Association from 1997 to 2005, as president of Friends of the Library, and enjoyed 25 seasons of the Glimmerglass Opera. He was a long-time member of First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown.

His family and many friends will remember his integrity, generosity, intelligence, thoughtfulness, dry wit and quick sense of humor, amazing memory, deep and resonant speaking voice and his courtesy. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 62 years, Elizabeth (Tighe) Dunbar; his three children, Emily Dunbar-Smith and her husband, Frederick Harold Smith, of Jackson, Miss., Elihu Sidman Dunbar and his wife, Maria de la Luz Joachin Palafox Dunbar, of Santa Fe, N.M., and Esther Dunbar-Cullum and her husband, Peter James Cullum, of Sonoma, Calif.; and four grandchildren, Tighe Elijah Dunbar, Katherine Elizabeth

Dunbar-Smith and her fiancé, William Walsh George, Jesse Peter Dunbar Cullum and Esme Olivia Dunbar Cullum. Also by his brother, Alvin Webb (Pete) Dunbar and sister-in-law Waynne Boyden Dunbar; his sister, Sara Dunbar Widlund; his sister-in-law, Jean Daniels Dunbar; and five nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents Alvin Robert and Esther (Seamans) Dunbar and by his brother, Bruce Rex Dunbar.

The family is planning a memorial service for the spring of 2016.

Memorial contributions may be made to New York State Historical Association, The Farmers’ Museum, the First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown or to the charity of your choice. Mailing addresses for the three organizations listed are as follows: New York State Historical Association, P.O. Box 800, Cooperstown, NY 13326; The Farmers’ Museum, P.O. Box 30, Cooperstown, NY 13326; the First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown, 25 Church St., Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

Raymond F. Key Sr., 80; Farmer, Wildlife Officer COOPERSTOWN – Raymond F. Key Sr., 80, the Pierstown farmer who for the past 14 years has been a state-licensed local wildlife nuisance control operator, passed away Saturday, Sept.

12, 2015, at home after a long battle with cancer.

Born May 13, 1935, in the Town of Richfield, Ray was one of five children of Frederick and Mabel (Sullivan) Key. He attended Leonardsville and Cooperstown Central Schools. On Sept. 30, 1956, he married Bernice Bailey and they had one son, Raymond E. Key, Jr. Ray spent most of his life in farming on the family dairy farm on Pierstown Road. Since 2001, he was licensed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation Department as a wildlife control operator, assigned to Otsego and surrounding counties.

He was a member of the Cooperstown United Methodist Church.

He active in the Cooperstown Sportsman’s Association, serving as president for several years, including the years the new clubhouse was planned and built. He also served as the association’s representative to the Otsego County Federation of Sportsmen. He was a member of the National Rifle Association, Ducks Unlimited and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

He was also a member of the New York Farm Bureau and the Otsego County Cooperative Extension, and for a number of years served as a committeeman for Agway Petroleum and

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Ray loved the outdoors and was an avid and skilled fisherman, hunter and trapper.

Predeceased by his parents and his brother Frederick Key, he is survived by Bernice, his wife of 59 years. Also his son, Raymond E. Key, Jr., and Raymond’s wife, Pamela (Bullock) ,and their children, Carrie (Brett) Offen, Sarah Key and her fiancée Corey Blick, and Scott (Katie) Key. Also,

two great-grandchildren, Emma Bernice Offen and Luke Vernon Offen and by his brothers, Donald (Mary Katherine) of Deerfield, and Kenneth (Ann) of Richmond, Va.; a sister, Carol Jean Key of Cherry Valley; a sister-in-law, Patricia Key of Westmoreland; a brotherin-law, Donald Bailey of Cooperstown, and by several nieces and nephews.

Calling hours were planned 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home. The funeral service was planned at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept.

17, at Cooperstown Method-

ist Church, with Rev. Bill Delia, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in the Leonardsville Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820, or to The Cooperstown United Methodist Church Capital Fund, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326, or the Cooperstown Fire Dept. Emergency Squad, PO Box 322, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.

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RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMIN MORRELL, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; SHARON MURWIN, DEBRA DESILVA, DONNA MORRELL, ROBERT MORRELL, JR., ROXANNE MORRELL, DONALD MORRELL, KENT MORRELL, KELLY MEYERS, DARYL MEYERS, KIM DIXON, VIRGINIA CARMEL, LEROY GLENN MORRELL III, MANDY MORRELL, CHRISTOPHER MORRELL, KEVIN MCLOUGHLIN, ROBERT BREWER, GERARD BREWER, BRIAN MORRELL, RICHARD MORRELL, JR. STEVE MORRELL, AND KATHALEN PARKER, AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMIN MORRELL, DECEASED; CAPITAL ONE BANK; SPRINGLEAF HOME EQUITY, INC. F/K/A AMERICAN GENERAL HOME EQUITY, INC. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION

The William J. Weinell Agency LLC Articles of organization filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on Sept.

9, 2015. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY seig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The William J. Weinell Agency, LLC. 21 Railroad Ave Suite 2-1, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any legal purpose.

6LegalOct23 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given than a license, (number to be assigned), for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 291 Main Street, City of Oneonta, County of Otsego, for on premises consumption.

Carpaj, Inc. D/B/A Hill City Grill 2LegalSept24 LEGAL NOTICE SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS

Index No. 20150286 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF OTSEGO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, S/B/M TO CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC, S/B/M TO CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, -vsTHE HEIRS AT LARGE OF

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AND FINANCE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants.

Mortgaged Premises: 14 RIVER STREET, OTEGO, NY 13825 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this

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summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. That this action being amended to include SHARON MURWIN, DEBRA DESILVA, DONNA MORRELL, ROBERT MORRELL, JR., ROXANNE MORRELL, DONALD MORRELL, KENT MORRELL, KELLY MEYERS, DARYL MEYERS, KIM DIXON, VIRGINIA CARMEL, LEROY GLENN MORRELL III, MANDY MORRELL, CHRISTOPHER MORRELL, KEVIN MCLOUGHLIN, ROBERT BREWER, GERARD BREWER, BRIAN MORRELL, RICHARD MORRELL, JR.

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STEVE MORRELL, AND KATHALEEN PARKER AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMIN MORRELL, DECEASED. That this action is also being amended to include CAPITAL ONE BANK as a necessary party to the action.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial.

The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises.

Dated: JUNE 23, 2015 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE,LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Section: 317.15 Block: 2 Lot: 33.00 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of OTSEGO, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein.

TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. MICHAEL V. COCCOMA, a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated AUGUST 19, 2015

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and filed along with the supporting papers in the OTSEGO County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage.

The premises is described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Village of Otego, County of Otsego and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEING the same land as conveyed to Ronald B. and Shirley Morrell by deed as recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office in Liber 585 of Deeds, at Page 557; BEGINNING at a survey monument set on the southwesterly boundary of River Street at the easterly corner of land of John Pochis and Kathleen M. DeMatteo (L 737/P 765), said monument being S 32-34 E, 408.7’ from a rebar bound at the back of sidewalk intersection of the southwesterly boundary of said River Street and the southeasterly boundary of Main Street (N.Y.S. Route 7); thence S 30-41-30 E along said boundary of River Street, 66.00’ to a survey monument set at the northerly corner of land reputedly of the Presbyterian Church Society; thence S 60-00-00 W along said church land, 165.27’ to a survey monument set on a northeasterly boundary land of Jeffrey M. Sakowski (L 766/P 499); thence N 30-41-30 W along said land of Sakowski, 66.00’ to a point in a 12” Maple tree (painted and flagged) at the southerly corner of said land of Pochis and DeMatteo; thence N 60-00-00 E along said land of Pochis and DeMatteo, 165.27’ to the place or point

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of beginning.

Premises known as: 14 RIVER STREET, OTEGO, NY 13825 4LegalOct8 LEGAL NOTICE WOODCHIPS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 09/08/2015. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 359 Delaware County Hwy 11, Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalOct22 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of LLC Formation: Gaits of Glory LLC. Articles of Organization filed w/ Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/21/2015.

Office in Otsego County NY. The designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served shall be mailed to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Suite 202, Brooklyn NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose and agricultural operations.

6LegalOct16 LEGAL NOTICE OTEGO HIGHWAY 8 LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/21/15. Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Maria Mori, 3 Enste Court, Commack, NY 11725. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Hame: CAREFREE GARDENS, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/12/215. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 558 Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalOct8 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Brownstone Patios LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York State (SSNY) on August 20, 2015.

Office locations Otsego County.

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

Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process accepted on behalf of the LLC to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activities.

6LegalOct8 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: CAREFREE GARDENS, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/12/2015.

Office Location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 558 Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326: Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalSept24 LEGAL NOTICE Mount Equity LLC. Art. of Org. filed SSNY as Foreign LLC 06/25/15. Principal Office: 20 Lewis St, Oneonta NY 13820, Otsego County. SSNY designated as process agent. Process Service address: 16192 Coastal Hwy, Lewes, DE 19958. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalSept24 LEGAL NOTICE MICHAELJEAN’S, LLC

Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/23/2015. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Kehoe & Merzig, PC., 8-12 Dietz St., Ste. 202 Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalSept17 LEGAL NOTICE GOOD2GREAT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/07/2015. Office loc: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Willis Phillip Ke, 235 Sherman Rd, Milford, NY 13807. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Thursday, September 17

WRITERS’ SALON — 7:30-9 p.m. 3rd Thursday salon with mystery writer Lesley A. Diehl.

Open mic, where guests are invited to read their writing, followed by presentation from featured author. Free; public welcome. Refreshments served. CANO, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta, Info, www.canoneonta.org

Friday, September 18

RUMMAGE SALE — 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (also 9 a.m.- noon, Sept.

19). Fall rummage and bag sale, to benefit church. Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rte, 28 Hartwick Seminary.

BASSETT PREPAREDNESS FAIR — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Bassett Medical Center’s annual Emergency Preparedness Fair. Learn more about preparing for times of crisis. Free. Bassett Clinic, River St., Cooperstown. Special presentation on state’s Citizens Preparedness Corps 3-4:30 p.m. in Bassett’s Clark Auditorium.

Info, www.bassett.org AUDUBON TALK — 7:30 p.m.

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bird carvings at Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society meeting. All welcome; free. Refreshments served. Elm Park Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, www.doas.us MUSICAL THEATER — 7:30 p.m. (also 7:30 p.m., Sept. 19 & 2 p.m. Sept. 20). Orpheus Theatre presents “Gypsy.” Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, www. orpheustheatre.org, (607) 4329392.

SQUARE DANCE — 7:30-10 p.m. First dance of season, Western Square Dancing, hosted

by Doubleday Dancers. Ray Taylor calls; Emma Taylor cues.

Cooperstown Elementary School, Walnut St., Cooperstown. $5 at

door.

Info, (607) 547-8665.

Saturday, September 19

FLY-IN BREAKFAST — 7:3011:30 a.m. Middlefield Volunteer Fire Dept. & EAA Chapter 1070 offer all-you-can-eat pancake/ egg/sausage breakfast. Drive-ins also welcome. $7.50 adults; $5 under age 12. Cooperstown/ Westville Airport, Rte. 166, Cooperstown.

RUMMAGE SALE — 9 a.m.noon. Fall rummage and bag sale, to benefit church. Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rte., 28 Hartwick Seminary.

SHARON SPRINGS FEST — all day. (Also Sept. 20). Annual Harvest Festival. Over 100 juried

vendors. Farm-fresh food, music, more. Free. Main St., Sharon Springs. Info, www.enjoysharonsprings.com Also annual Harvest Feast at The American Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18-20. $65.

192 Main St., Sharon Springs.

Reservations, www.americanhotelny.com KITE FESTIVAL — (also Sept.

20). 2nd annual NYKE kite festival, hosted by professional kite flying volunteers (NYKE). Free.

Food, vendors, kids’ activities.

Edgewood Mountain, Laurens, Info, Mike Harter, (607) 4342380.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS WALK — Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 11:30 a.m. Annual community walk to raise awareness and aid prevention of suicide.

Chinese raffle, food, guest speakers. Oneonta Moose Lodge, West Broadway, Oneonta. Info, donnalange30@yahoo.com.

EQUESTRIAN PARK OPEN HOUSE — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Vaulting & dressage demos, free pony and wagon rides, Chinese & silent auction, bake sale, therapy dog meet & greet, more. Proceeds will fund riding equipment, vaulting clinics and competitions.

Cooperstown Equestrian Park, 3444 County Hwy. 11, Hartwick.

Info, (585) 797-7256 or email zemifarm@gmail.com TEACHER APPRECIATION — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Teacher Appreciation Day “Thank You.” Teachers invited to visit without students to preview newest exhibitions and learn more about programs and resources. Pre K-12 teachers admitted free with valid ID or proof of educator status. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 28, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org or (607) 547-1461.

GARLIC FESTIVAL — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Susquehanna Valley Garlic Festival. Live music, face painting, kids activities, garlic tasting, growing tips, more. All welcome.

Field near Woodbull Antiques , 3920 Rte. 28, Milford. Info, www.svgarlicfestival.com QUILTING WEEKEND — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Also Sept. 20.) Included with museum admission.

The Farmers’ Museum. 5775 Rte. 28, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org CITY OF THE HILLS FEST — 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 13th annual City of the Hills Art & Music Festival.

Regional artists & crafters offer handmade wares outdoors.

Live music, food vendors, craft brew tent, demonstrations, kids’

activities. Wilber Mansion galleries open. Free. Dietz St. parking lot, behind CANO, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, www.canoneonta. org.

FILM SCREENING — 11 a.m.

Weekend Flicks Film Screening “Little Shop of Horrors” (73 mins). Included with museum admission. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 28, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org RODEO — 1 p.m. K-F Championship Rodeo; fundraiser for Oneonta Outlaws. Bull riding, barrel racing, steer wrestling, team roping, more. $30 adults, kids under 12 free. Damaschke Field, Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

Info, www.oneontaoutlaws.com.

SPAGHETTI DINNER — 5-7 p.m. With meatballs, sides, beverage, dessert. By donation, with all proceeds going to pastor’s emergency fund and food pantry.

Social Hall, Laurens Presbyterian Church, 3 Main St., Laurens.

MUSICAL THEATER — 7:30 p.m. (Also 2 p.m. Sept. 20). Orpheus Theatre presents “Gypsy.”

Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, www.orpheustheatre.org, (607) 432-9392.

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Charles Schneider, Music Director & Conductor

FEATURING RON CARTER performing classical and jazz favorites Saturday, October 3, 2015, 7:30 p.m.

Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta

Tickets are available at the door or in advance.

Email: cso@oneonta.edu Phone: 607/436-2670 Online: catskillsymphony.net Tickets: $30 Free tickets for children/students with accompanying adults!

Call the CSO office for details.

This performance is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

This performance is also supported by SUNY Oneonta.

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SCHENEVUS DRAGON RUN — 11 a.m. Schenevus Foundation for Excellence in Education 2nd Annual Dragon Run 5K Run & Hike. 5K scenic trail. Fundraiser for school programming beyond regular budget. $20 registration online until Sept. 18 at www. dragonrun.itsyourrace.com.

Race-day registration 9:45-10:45 a.m. for $25. Kids under 10 free and welcome if with adult. Fee covers race t-shirt, water and lunch. Info, email foundation@ schenevuscsd.org FILM SCREENING — 11 a.m.

Weekend Flicks Film Screening “His Girl Friday.” Included with museum admission. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 28, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org MUSICAL THEATER — 2 p.m.

Final performance of Orpheus Theatre’s “Gypsy.” Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, www. orpheustheatre.org, (607) 4329392.

LIBRARY PROGRAM -- 3 p.m.

Friends of the Village Library Sunday series program “What Will It Take to Convert to Renewable Energy?” Presented by Lou Allstadt, former VP of Mobil Oil Corp. Free, all welcome. Downstairs meeting room, Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

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2013 PATHFINDER SL

Full Pwr, Lthr, 50K, Stk: C942580 SALE PRICE $342MO/$24,644

2014 OUTLANDER SPORT SE AWD Pwr Equip, 14K, Stk: C100926 ................................ $259MO/$19,271 2013 SPORTAGE EX AWD Pwr Equip, 44K, Stk: C100981A ................................ $263MO/$19,517 2013 PATHFINDER SV Full Pwr, 38K, Stk: C942650 ................................ $324MO/$23,491

2014 OUTLANDER SE AWD Full Pwr, Snrf, Lthr, 3rd Row, Less than 1K, Balance of 5Yr/60K Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty Stk: 941790 SALE PRICE $378MO/$26,995

2015 SORENTO LX AWD Pwr Equip, 5K, Stk: C101172A ................................ $347MO/$25,001 2014 OUTLANDER SE AWD Full Pwr, Lthr, Snrf, 3rd Row Seat, <1,000 miles Stk: 941800......... $409MO/$28,995

2013 FRONTIER CREW SL 4X4 Pwr Equip, 43K, Stk: C100758A SALE PRICE $370MO/$26,487

2013 SORENTO SX AWD

Full Pwr, Lthr, Snrf, Nav, Run Bds 19K, Stk: C942640 SALE PRICE $378MO/$26,995

C in stock# denotes Certified Warranty. *R in stock# denotes rental. Pre-owned financing 2011 and newer up to 72 mos @ 3.49%, ‘10 up to 66 mos @ 4.59%, ‘09 up to 60 mos @4.69%. Payments based on $2,500 down or trade equity, sales tax, title, and fees due at delivery for Tier 1 qualified borrowers. Certain conditions may apply with approved credit. Not responsible for any typographical errors, mistakes, or omissions.

Monday, September 21

Tuesday, September 22

PIPE BAND OPEN HOUSE — 7 p.m. Leatherstocking District Pipe Band hosts open house.

Meet kilt-clad pipers, learn about Scottish bagpipes and Scottish drumming. Parade, performance and competition band. Free. St. James Episcopal Church (corner of Main & Elm Sts.), Oneonta.

Info, www.facebook.com/leatherstockingpb

Wednesday, September 23

DEC BIOLOGIST TO DISCUSS BLACK BEAR

State DEC Wildlife Biologist Larry Bifaro will present a slide show/lecture on black bears in New York at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, at St. James Manor. The presentation includes photographs of black bears, and personal anecdotes of his experiences in the field. The public is welcome.

AUTHOR VISIT — 7 p.m. Sierra Leone former child soldier Ishmael Beah, author of best-selling book “Long Way Gone,” tells his story of hope and redemption. Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.oneonta.edu

Thursday, September 24

RUMMAGE SALE — 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (Also 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 25 & 9-11 a.m. Sept. 26). Hosted

by Women’s Fellowship. First Presbyterian Church, Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

Friday, September 25

RUMMAGE SALE — 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (Also 9-11 a.m. Sept. 26).

Hosted by Women’s Fellowship.

First Presbyterian Church, Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

Saturday, September 26

RUMMAGE SALE — 9-11 a.m.-4 p.m. Hosted by Women’s Fellowship. First Presbyterian Church, Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays; live music 10 a.m.-noon. Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontafarmersmarket.com COOP FARMERS MARKET — 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday 101 Main St., Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown.

Rain or shine. Info, www.CooperstownFarmersMarket.org BIKE RACE — “Drops to Hops” 23-mile & 43-mile race starts and ends at Brewery Ommegang; party at finish line. Must be 16+ to race; 21+ to drink. Info, www. clarksportscenter.com AUDUBON OPEN HOUSE — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society open house at its Hawkwatch sanctuary, featuring raptors. Free. Full schedule of activities for any age. Hawk watch throughout day; refreshments served at the barn. Directions to sanctuary off Grange Hall Rd. on Oneonta’s Southside, at www.doas.us.

DUCK DERBY -- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (Also Sept. 27). Weekend of rubber duck racing down Fly Creek, family entertainment,

and a chance at prizes. Benefits Cooperstown Lions Club. Free parking. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, www. flycreekcidermill.com WILD FOODS WORKSHOP — 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Autumn wild foods foraging Walk with Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower. $20 ($15 for NYSHA members.) Registration required; call (607) 547-1461.

The Farmers’ Museum, 5798 Rte. 28, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org LUNCH & LECTURE — 12:30-2:30 p.m. “Food for Thought” lunchtime lecture “Lavern Kelley: The Art of the Farm,” with museum president Paul D’Ambrosio. $22 NYSHA members, $25 nonmembers.

Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Pre-register (607) 547-1461; info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org TRAIN ‘ROBBERY’ — 1 p.m.

(Also Oct. 10). Experience an Old West train robbery, with period costumes, shootouts, fun. About 2 hours. Adults $19; seniors $18; ages 3-12 $16; under 3 free. Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Depot, 136 E. Main St., Milford. Reservations, (607) 432-2429. More rides, info, www.lrhs.com LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING — 5 p.m. Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. talks about his new biography “Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer.” Wharton is a university president, corporate executive, and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.

Free; public welcome. Seating limited. Auditorium, Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 28, Cooperstown. RSVP to Amanda Holland at (607) 547-1433 or a.holland@nysha.org.

Sunday, September 27

DEPARTMENT STORE STORIES — 2-4 p.m. Vicki Howard discusses the rise and fall of the department store and signs her book “From Main Street to Mall.”

Free. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org