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Wright, Raddatz New Board’s Leadership – have announced the formation of an alliance “for the purpose of enhancing the experience of the arts” locally.

According to the announcement, the two entities’ boards on Friday, May 30, voted to create a “corporate union” with a single board and

executive director, but the Smithy and CAA would remain separate non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations with “independent art screening processes.”

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Lynne Trona, Burlington Flats, hugs rescue dog Dakota during the Bark For Life anticancer walk Saturday, May 31, at Fortin Park in Emmons.

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he Bassett Healthcare Network is planning three public receptions Friday, June 13, for people to join in saluting President/CEO Bill Streck, who is retiring July 1 after three decades at the helm of the eight-county system.

The receptions will take place in Cooperstown on Bassett Hospital’s terrace, 7:30-9 a.m., noon-1:30 p.m. and 4-5:30 p.m.

BACKING MULVEY: Otsego County Committee has endorsed a Republican, state Supreme Court Judge Robert Mulvey, for another term presiding in the Sixth Judicial District.

ID INVASIVES: Learn how to identify invasive species 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m.

Friday, June 6, at the SUNY Biological Field Station boat house, 7016 Route 80 (West Lake Road). Questions, email paul.lord@oneonta.edu or call 435-4989.

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More than 700 girls dash out the driveway of the Clark Sports Center Sunday, June 1, the largest turnout for a Girls On The Run 5K, the culmination of a 10-week curriculum to teach girls self-confidence. Teams from Otsego and five other counties participated/MORE PHOTOS, A2

Anticipated Winslow Homers Here Exhibit At Fenimore Opens 6/6

O’ER THE WAVES: The COOPERSTOWN Otsego Sailing Club’s daily sailing camp for youngsters, nd there it is, Winslow Homer’s ages 6-10, is 1 to 4:30 p.m.

“Watching the Breakers,” at eyeball starting June 30. Info, www. level. otsegosailingclub.com.

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“It’s exciting. And it’s challenging,” said Trustee Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president and clean-energy advocate who is leading the conversation. He is also a member of the Village Board’s Sustainability & Economic Development Committee.

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Butterflies Replace Elephant On Glimmerglass Fest Lawn

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adame Butterfly” ends in tragedy.

Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as

George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival Saturday, June 1.

Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Please See LAWN, A3

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Standing out of 700 runners in their fluorescent yellow T-shirts was the Morris contingent, including Carissa Richards, 8, and Justine Morton, 9, on the starting line at the Girls on the Run 5K in Cooperstown on Sunday, June 1. In addition to the 700 girls, 300 family and friends joined the 5K.

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A web-based marketing firm, Mantra bases the award on client satisfaction, outstanding service, the agency’s marketing program and an overall rating of independent insurance agencies in and around the village.

“We are proud to earn this award and look forward to continue being of service for the community in which we serve,” said Bieritz.

Started in 1990, Bieritz also has an office in Morris that has been in business for 75 years.

SUNY SCHOLARSHIP: CCS senior Patrick Wilson of Fly Creek has received a $2,000 annual Auxiliary Services Merit Scholarship to pursue a bachelor’s degree in physics at SUNY Oneonta.

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Eagle Scout candidate Charles Gannon, standing at left, Saturday, May 31, obtained the help of his fellow Troop 1254 scouts for signs at the two Route 28 entrances to the village welcoming visitors to Cooperstown’s churches. Others standing, from left, are Tim Walker, Daniel Rudloff and Nathaniel Miller. Front row, from left, are Matthew DENISON GRADUHulse, Eric Deysenroth, Leo Gannon and Steve ATES: Cherry Valley’s Matthew Denison received a Ratliff. Also assisting were Josh Briggs and BFA film degree from New Anthony Birch.

York City’s Pratt Institute at its 125th Commencement ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.

Robert Hogan and son Brayden, 5 months, Richfield Springs, cheer on the girls loud and proud.

Future Girl on the Run, Gabby Green, enjoys a ride in the race from daddy, Kevin, of Cooperstown.

CUM LAUDE GRAD: Julia A. Nelson of Fly Creek received a bachelor’s in fine arts, cum laude, from Alfred University during May 17 graduation exercises. A CCA grad, she is the daughter of Peter and Solomonia Nelson.

2 UVM GRADS: Two CCS graduates graduated from the University of Vermont at the 213th commencement Sunday, May 18: Clark Dickson, B.A., economics, and Campbell Moffat, B.A., English.

HONORED: Michele Jones of Cooperstown has been named to the President’s List for the spring 2014 semester at SUNY/IT.

SLU HONOREE: Graduate Savannah M. Crowley of Cherry Valley was on the Dean’s List at St. Lawrence University for the spring semester. She was a global studies major.

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So this summer, when Puccini’s tragic “Butterfly” is performed inside the Alice Busch Theatre, during intermissions opera-goers will be able to ponder happier visions of flight in the colorful banners that now line the walkway from the parking lot to the main building.

Peters – the step-father-inlaw of Cherry Valley’s Pam Livingston, he was one of the originators of the semi-annual Kite Festival there – and his creative partner, Melanie Walker, now of Boulder, Colo., won a commission offered by Francesca Zambello, the Festival’s general & artistic director (Last year, you may remember, Elizabeth Schoonmaker, the Town of Plainfied sculptor, installed a huge wicker elephant, inspired

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George Peters installs “Flight Patterns” on the Glimmerglass Festival’s front lawn. the Town of Springfield line on West Lake Road.)

This year, Zambello asked Sydney Waller, chair of the new Cooperstown Arts Council, to “find something butterfly-like on the grounds to express ‘Madame Butterfly’,” Waller said.

A giant metal butterfly was considered, “but that would have been very expensive,” she said. Then artist Patti Erway Engle, just moving back to Cherry Valley from Texas, suggested George Peters.

Contacted, he proposed butterfly-shaped banners.

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Assisted by Charlie Bremer, the Otego sculpture – one of his benches is part of another installation planned on Glimmerglass’ grounds this summer – Peters was on site Saturday, May 31, installing the flags.

“It’s like painting with butterflies,” the artist said, pausing from his labors. “What could be better than that?”

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s when machinery forced farm workers into the cities in the 19th century, and cars and highways shifted populations from cities to suburbs in the 20th, we are living in an age of disruption.

The Internet has juggled the formula in retail, media, politics, entertainment, you name it. In effect, human transactions are being replaced by electronic transmissions. It comes as no surprise that chambers of commerce – in Otsego County, as elsewhere – are facing the future with some uncertainty, as is every sector.

Traditionally, chambers brought businesspeople together; can the web ever fully replace human interactions? Chambers, like Cooperstown’s B&B referral service, connected customers with members; the web has to a degree replaced that. Chambers aggregated small businesses to obtain group rates on health insurance; the electronic exchanges spawned

by Obamacare are challenging that.

Nationally, as reflected in a recent report of Chamber Strategies, a consultancy, there’s a lively debate about what chambers need to do to remain relevant.

• What’s amazing is how many of those things Barbara Ann Heegan, who has just passed her second anniversary as director (now president/CEO) of the Otsego County Chamber, is doing. Be visible, Chamber Strategies recommends, and isn’t she everywhere? At least it seems that way.

“It’s all about membership,” says Chamber Strategies, and Heegan – she and Scott Davis,

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Otsego County Chamber President/CEO Barbara Ann Heegan sometimes seems like she’s everywhere, like marching in the May 24 Hall of Fame Classic Parade in Cooperstown.

co-owner of Country Club Automotive and chair of the Otsego Chamber board, sat down for an interview the other day – gets an A+ in this very challenging area: In Heegan’s two years, membership has risen from 400 to 520, almost 30 percent.

“Build solid relationships,” Chamber Strategies says. The Otsego Chamber’s quarterly networking luncheons are at capacity.

Likewise its two annual galas.

The Annual Banquet & Celebration of Small Business, Octobers at The Otesaga – at the latest, Brooks BBQ won the Breakthrough Award and Five Star Subaru, the Small Business Award – had a healthy crowd. The chamber’s annual Dinner & Celebra-

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To the Editor: Last week’s editorial posed the question, “How much can we expect from Obama, or any president?” I would like to offer a few thoughts on that question.

We should expect our President to know something about management. He should know what issues his cabinet secretaries are dealing with and should hold them accountable in solving the nation’s problems. I do not understand a President who keeps telling us he learned about this problem or that one from the media.

We should expect our Commanderin-Chief to be a forceful leader at home, with our allies and especially against those who intend to do us harm. As a veteran who served as a commissioned officer, I was the commanding officer of an Army prison and later was the company commander of the 6016th Company. I assure you that

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leading from behind does not work.

It’s elementary, my dear Watson, as the British would say!

We should expect our President to know something about financial management, how the economy and the marketplace work, how to balance the federal budget and stop increasing our national debt which makes a great country weaker every year.

We should expect every President to know what the new programs he proposes will do to the country. How

about those recent pledges…if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor…or health care costs will go down under Obamacare. Now we learn that the administration signed a $1.2 billion contract with Serco to process written applications for Obamacare and the people hired to handle those applications have little or nothing to do.

We should expect from our President to make sure his cabinet secretary stream-lines the bureaucracy and stops wasting taxpayers’ money. In 2013, the current administration issued 80,000 pages of new regulations for us to deal with. That is a stack of paper 50 feet high, weighing some 800 pounds.

The government is much too large, grossly inefficient and getting worse.

Building a bigger castle in Washington is not the answer.

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n 1930, a reporter asked Babe Ruth how it felt to be holding out for a salary of $80,000 a year from the New York Yankees – a princely sum in the depths of the Great Depression and greater than President Herbert Hoover’s salary of $75,000.

“I know, but I had a better year than Hoover,’’ Ruth replied.

That may be one of the few times the fan-in-chief came out on the losing end of an association with baseball. Since Abraham Lincoln, who played the game on the White House lawn, presidents have been only too happy to bask in the glow of our national

pastime.

Grover Cleveland was the first president to invite a championship team – the 1886 Chicago White Stockings – to the White House.

Benjamin Harrison was the first sitting president to attend a game, in 1892. In 1910, William Howard Taft began the presidential tradition of throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game.

Every president since has rubbed up against the sport.

Today, in another presidential first, President Barack Obama plans to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. He’ll be there to promote tourism, but a little self-promotion in the mythical birthplace of baseball couldn’t hurt his sagging approval ratings.

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county Board of Representatives – embracing the “SPOC” strategy – appeared ready to shift its economic development office under the IDA purview.

Knowing this, and listening to Heegan and Scott Davis, it was easy to get excited at how the chamber’s 500 members, fully on board, could be a powerful engine to ensure SPOC’s success. Who is more qualified than these 500 to tell Otsego County’s compelling story to prospective new businesses and manufacturers?

• There has been some talk – evident at the first Otsego Leadership panel discussion at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in the spring – that prospective enterprises from elsewhere shouldn’t get breaks not available to companies that have been serving the local market for years.

This, of course, is self-defeating. When a major employer is recruited – sooner or later, but inevitably – everyone doing business in Otsego County will benefit.

Behind the scenes, attention is no doubt being paid to making the Otsego County Chamber a full participant, along with its Cooperstown partner. Certainly, the chambers may lack the economic-development expertise that the IDA is building; but that’s not the chambers’ role.

But by ensuring the 500 are fully knowledgeable and supportive of the consensus drive to ensure a more prosperous future for everyone, the Otsego County Chamber, with the Cooperstown Chamber at its side, will be performing a service well beyond Chamber Strategies’ most glowing vision.

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tion of Business in the spring – in March, Brewery Ommegang was the Distinguished Business and attorney John Scarzafava the Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen – drew a record 320 to SUNY’s Hunt Union Ballroom This is a two-fer: In addition to building relationships, the banquets honor outstanding executives and their enterprises. Chamber Strategies would be pleased.

Barbara Ann has done much more, launching “Think Local First” with the Cooperstown Chamber’s Pat Szarpa, reviving the Otsego Leadership program for business leaders of the future, spreading TREPS to Laurens Central (and beyond) to inspire young entrepreneurs, affiliating with

Broome Community College (a session on workforce development is planned this fall) and, most lately, affiliating with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to plug local members into the national dialogue.

With Scott Davis’ level-headed leadership, which will be extended when Joe Sutaris, Community Bank’s regional executive, succeeds him Jan. 1, there’s plenty of reason to feel good about the Otsego Chamber’s future, particularly after the success of its leadership – then-board chair Roxanna Hurlburt was particularly outstanding – in moving past traumatic difficulties in its insurance program in pre-Heegan days.

• As the chamber met so many of its challenges, the community’s economic-development leadership was also going through a challenging and promising repositioning.

Fueled by the two “Seward Summits” on economic development, one at The Otesaga in March 2012, the second at Foothills last November, a strategy coalesced around a “single point of contact” that would identify and develop “shovel-ready sites” and seek employers to fill them. This was recommended by “Seward Summit” keynoter Dick Sheehy of CH2M Hill, one of the nation’s top industrial recruiters, and he was completely convincing.

The Otsego County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has committed some $3 million of its reserves over the next three years to the effort, and recruited Sandy Mathes, one of the state’s most successful business recruiters, to lead it. Wednesday, June 4, the

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Mr. President, First, we would like to welcome you to our state.

But, visiting Cooperstown will not present you with a true picture of New York.

Cooperstown will deceive you about the reality of New York.

We, in the surrounding areas of Upstate New York, are struggling to survive, with trying to keep our homes and businesses, to pay taxes, with the rising

cost and threat of healthcare, the loss of our property and personal rights and to keep our kids in New York. Our economy is critical. Tourism is not an option.

There is nothing for tourism in our rural areas, unless you consider the neglected, abandoned farms, farm land and businesses. And, perhaps, the multiple “For Sale” signs throughout our towns and rural area.

Mr. President, we request

that you use your influance to encourage and promote the natural gas drilling in our New York State. That is crucial to stimulate our state, create jobs for our youth and stop our dependance on foreign countries.

Tourism will not do that.

Thank you for your consideration.

CLAUDE & HILDA HOLBROOK West Oneonta

To the Editor: In your May 22-23 edition heralding the imminent arrival of President Obama in Cooperstown, you headlined on Page A3, “Obama 1st Democrat to Win Otsego County since LBJ” in 1964.

Wrong.

I waited to see if in the next edition there would be a self-correct or if one of the local Democratic leaders might set the record straight.

Neither occurred. Bill Clinton carried the county twice, in 1992 and again in 1996.

2. Why is fracking exempt from Clean Those of us who were Air and Water Legislation? active Democrats in the 3. If important to our energy indepenlate ’60s through the ’80s dence, why not make the industry sell only remember that it was a little to the United States? lonely and at times hostile Number one disturbs me the most. around here, but “the times Most respectfully, they are a-changin” indeed!

PAM STEWART DENNIS M. SHEA Oneonta

Why Are Books Cooked In Favor Of Fracking?

Mr. President, Let’s end hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. I have three questions for your consideration.

1. If safe, why do proposed regulations ban fracking in the New York City watershed? Is a child in New York City more important than a child in my city?

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

200 YEARS AGO

Dispatch from Charleston, S.C.: Valuable Prize – Arrived at this port yesterday, the large and elegant British ship Pelham (late Capt. Boyd), Alexander Taylor, prizemaster, prize to the privateer Saucy Jack, Capt. Chazal, of this port. Her cargo consists of dry goods, hardware, &c, and is invoiced at 13,000 pounds sterling. The Pelham was captured on the 30th April, off Cape Nicholas Mole, after a well contested action of upwards of two hours. She was finally carried by boarding after her crew had made a stout and gallant resistance of from ten to fifteen minutes on her own decks.

We learnt on board that the officers and crew of the Pelham behaved throughout the action in the most heroic manner, and did not yield until actually overpowered by numbers.

The Saucy Jack had her first lieutenant and one man killed, and second lieutenant, captain of arms, and seven men wounded. On board the Pelham were four killed and eleven wounded – among the latter Capt. Boyd, dangerously in the breast. He, along with the passengers, landed at Port au Prince. The Pelham is 540 tons, coppered to the bends; mounts ten 12-pound carronades, and long 6s, and had a complement of from 35 to 40 men, exclusive of several passengers. Her cabin is hung round with a great variety of large and elegant colored naval prints in rich gilt frames.

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corporation line. It will be completed this week and is being constructed in Michael Mack’s best manner under the supervising eye of Mayor Burditt. There is a 10-inch base of crushed stone beneath the surfacing material. Several of the poles are to be removed from the vicinity of the crossing and the street widened at that point, doing away somewhat with the curve. The trolley company is cooperating to the extent of raising its tracks and filling in between them at the crossing.

June 3, 1914

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The Centennial lid comes off completely in Cooperstown June 12th. That’s the day when Cooperstown, where baseball was born a century ago, climaxes the nationwide celebration of the game’s centennial with the dedication of the Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame and the Cavalcade of Baseball at Doubleday Field. The events are in two parts: The dedication of the Baseball Museum and Baseball Hall of Fame and the dedication of Doubleday Field, named for Abner Doubleday, originator of the national game.

June 7, 1939

50 YEARS AGO

A highlight of the New York State Historical Association’s open house at The Farmers’ Museum will be the preview opening for Cooperstown area residents of the new church on the grounds. The Farmers’ Museum acquired the church in Cornwallville in 1962. It was moved to Cooperstown piece by piece and re-erected at the south end of the Village Crossroads overlooking a small pond. It will be dedicated officially on July 12.

June 3, 1964

175 YEARS AGO

Lamentable Occurrence – On Sunday morning, about 10 o’clock, six persons – Abraham Walter, Catherine Walter, Nancy Walter, Caroline Barringer, Charles Hardendorff, and Celinda Walter, attempted to cross Lake Summit, situate in the north part of the town of Springfield, in a small, leaky boat. Before they had reached half the distance they were alarmed at the increase of the leakage and commenced bailing out the water, the women using their shoes for that purpose, but to no effect, as it increased rapidly in depth, and the boat filled and sank in about fifteen feet of water and thirty rods from the shore. The five first named were drowned. Celinda Walter, aged about fourteen years saved herself holding onto the boat, which came to the surface bottom upwards, and was rescued by a person who came to her relief in a boat, having heard the cries of the sufferers from a half mile distant.

June 3, 1839

125 YEARS AGO

An appalling catastrophe is reported from Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, the meager details of which indicate that the city of 25,000 inhabitants has been practically wiped out of existence and that thousands of lives have been lost. A dam at the foot of a mountain lake eight miles long and three miles wide, about nine miles up the valley of the south fork of the Conemaugh river, broke at four o’clock this afternoon and the whole tremendous volume of water swept in a relentless avalanche down the mountain side. The flood swept onward to the Conemaugh like a tidal wave, over twenty

25 YEARS AGO

June 3, 1864 feet in height, to Johnstown gathering force as it tore along and quickly swept everything before it. Houses, factories and bridges were overwhelmed in the twinkling of an eye and with their human occupants were carried in a vast chaos down the raging torrent. The great calamity exceeds anything of the kind that ever afflicted any portion of our country. Upwards of eight thousand lives were destroyed in an hour.

June 7, 1889

100 YEARS AGO

An excellent piece of Macadam pavement is being laid on Chestnut Street from the railroad crossing south to the

Rolf Beutelspacher of Morelia, Mexico will be the Cooperstown Rotary club’s youth exchange student in the coming school year. Beutelspacher is the son of Moises Beutelspacher and Sigrid Veronika Hirsch, both veterinarians. He was born in Germany but has spent most of his life in Mexico. He is 16 years old and enjoys swimming, skateboarding, collecting key chains, listening to music and helping his parents in their animal clinic. This will be the 25th year that the Cooperstown Rotary Club has participated in the international exchange program.

June 7, 1989

10 YEARS AGO

Everything is a “go” for the concert with music legends Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson at Doubleday Field on Friday, August 6. With a crowd of 10,000 to 12,000 expected concerns were raised about the number of police officers required to ensure public safety. The concert contract calls for 20 state troopers and two supervisors at a cost of $20,000.

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That matters, because Homerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career and artistic development can be traced through the 23 works, Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ambrosio points out, walking from painting to painting hung against the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soft blue walls.

First, an early oil from a Civil War camp from the 1860s, when Homer began his career as an illustrator for Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Weekly.

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In the 1870s, Homer discovered watercolors, said Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ambrosio as he paused in front of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moonlightâ&#x20AC;?

(1874): â&#x20AC;&#x153;He realizes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good at this. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, watercolors sell. It secures his financial future.â&#x20AC;?

Homer gave up illustration for good.

Then, oils from that same decade, rural scenes down Maine, are â&#x20AC;&#x153;more Impressionistic,â&#x20AC;? looser, less detailed. Finally, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the end of his career,â&#x20AC;? exemplified by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watching the Break-

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ersâ&#x20AC;? (1896), a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very stark style,â&#x20AC;? Darwinian in contrast with â&#x20AC;&#x153;the pastoral harmony between man and natureâ&#x20AC;? evident in early works. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The drama,â&#x20AC;? said Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ambrosio, stopping in front of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breakers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The effective use of heavy colors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; dark blue, slate, dark brown.â&#x20AC;? The wave towers above the three figures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your imagination adds to the experience.â&#x20AC;?

The show opens Friday, June 6, and already is attracting notice. The Wall Street Journal will make note of it over the weekend.

The other day, a reporter visited from The Detroit News.

Except for one painting from the Metropolitan Mu-

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Given the revived debate on the role of women in American society, the Met offering may be of particular interest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inside The Barâ&#x20AC;? (1883) show fishermen cowering in two boats in the stormy background, while a bold woman, basket under her arm, strides purposefully atop a stone breakwater at oceanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge.

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Village May Have Solar Program In Place Within Year SOLAR/From A1 Allstadt, he said, and a meeting was held in the past few days that also included Mayor Jeff Katz and Town Supervisor Anne Geddes Atwell. Bob Eklund, a New Lisbon Town Board member, is participating as liaison to The Solutions Project, a national sustainable energy advocacy group.

“Maybe we can do something that is good for the municipalities and good for the residents,” Allstadt continued, “and at the same time do something to slow the pace of climate change.”

The news surfaced Monday, June 2, at a presentation, “Transitioning To A Renewable Energy Future,” sponsored by Sustainable Otsego at the county courthouse. Allstadt spoke, as did economist Jannette Barth and Jessica Azulay of the Syracuse-based Alliance for

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He said there are a range of strategies that could be pursued, and he outlined

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• In a community-wide undertaking, the village and/or town would make an agreement for a contractor to build a solar farm and the savings would be shared village- and/or townwide. The “farm” wouldn’t have to be in the community: There are “remote metering” systems that would feed the resulting power into the grid and allow residents to benefit from afar.

For now, though, there are questions to be answered. “It’s easy to say let’s do it,” said Allstadt.

United, Smithy, CAA To Encourage Diversity UNITED/From A1 That arrangement, which was put together with the guidance of NYCON (the New York Council of Nonprofits), is similar to that of The Farmers’ and Fenimore Art museums, according to Cheryl Wright, longtime CAA board president who will serve as president of the new organization, which has not yet been named.

Each campus – the Smithy in Cooperstown’s oldest building, 55 Pioneer St., and the CAA in Village Hall, 22 Main – will continue to be maintained, and each will have “independent art screening processes for each campuses.”

“The combination of administrative duties will allow for a more effective organizational economy by consolidating mailing lists, fundraising ventures and marketing,” the announcement said. “The supervision of the two organizations under a single executive director will unite them by

creating and overseeing programming, event and exhibition calendars for both campuses.

“This opportunity will ensure artistic diversity by reducing duplication, while also retaining ad promotion the personality and integrity of both the Smithy and the CAA.” The boards are already working on enhanced art classes for children and expanding fine arts and pottery programs.

Don Raddatz, vice president of the Smithy board, will serve in that capacity on the new board. Henry F. Weil, a Cooper descendant and president of the Smithy board, will serve as a board member.

Janet Erway, CAA executive director, will continue in that capacity with the new entity. The Smithy’s executive director position has been vacant since the resignation of Danielle Newell in the spring, although Kristin Bergen has been serving on

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“Janet and the board of this new organization look forward to a vibrant, positive conversation with artists and the art enthusiasts in the area,” according to the announcement. “It is a perfect time to express your ideas, hopes and dreams for arts in our community.”

She welcomed volunteers to step forward and call Erway at 547-9777.

The decision to create the new umbrella organization followed two focus groups convened in March and April by Weil and Wright at the CAA annex on Pioneer Street.

“You have to be careful about the details of how you do it and where you do it.

“The village and town are investigating what might be possible. That involves tossing a lot of ideas around and seeing if any of them can actually come through with something that makes sense.”

“It’s very cool stuff,” said Mayor Jeff Katz, who also attended the Sustainable Otsego program. The mayor said he’s been trying to “leverage the Cooperstown name,” to link it to innovative projects, and this fits into that approach.

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Exclusively offered at $475,000

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