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Slickered against light rain, “Cowgirl from Heck” Karin Lange winds up the 101st annual Springfield Fourth of July Parade/MORE PHOTOS, A3

Vote Delayed On Merger Of Scout Councils ON CRUMHORN MT.

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he Otschodela Scout Council’s executive committee delayed a merger vote until Wednesday, Aug. 5, saying not enough local scout leaders are sufficiently familiar with the concept.

Otschodela Council president Hank Nicols, Cooperstown, said scouts will be camping at the Henderson Reservation here over the next month, and can be briefed on the proposal.

The executive committee delayed voting on the merger with the Utica-based Revolutionary Trails Council on meeting here Tuesday, July 7.

– By ANNE LEONARDO

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Cooperstown Community Band Director Julie Solomon prepares to cut off the musicians on the final note of “Stars & Stripes Forever” in Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park Friday, July 3, as the crowd awaited the fireworks. Boats dot Glimmerglass, and in the background the profile of Cooper’s famed Sleeping Lion, Mount Wellington, looms.

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Glimmerglass’ 40th Season Opens With Mozart ‘Flute’

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peared in the Glimmerglass production of “Lost in the NEW LEADER: The he Glimmerglass Fes- Stars” and was a recent CCS board’s organizational tival launches its 40th finalist on “America’s Got meeting was scheduled for anniversary Talent,” will sing 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, season this week, Tamino. Jacwhere a new chair was to IF YOU GO: featuring “singuqueline Echols, be elected to replace David Glimmerglass’ lar works from a Glimmerglass Borgstrom, a Bassett surgon season opens four centuries of Young Artist for who accepted a position in with Mozart’s operatic history,” West Virginia.

“Magic Flute” at the past two seain the words Ar7:30 p.m. Friday sons, is Pamina. tistic & General Soloman HowORDER NOW: Freethe 10th and ard, a rising star man’s Journal reporter Libby Director FrancVerdi’s “Macesca Zambello. at Washington Cudmore’s debut novel, beth” at 8 p.m.

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“The Magic Flute” in a new as Sarastro, will repeat the The publication by Harper English translation directed role here.

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by Madeline Sayet, a reOn Saturday, July 11, imprint is planned Feb. 2. cipient of the White House “Macbeth,” Verdi’s first Champion of Change Award adaption of Shakespeare, for Native America. opens, starring Grammy-Sean Panikkar, who apPlease See OPERA, A2

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COOPERSTOWN “We need them to protect our officers,” he Cooperstown she said. “If someone Police Department is drunk or belligerent, is armed: With they might not remembody cameras. ber what they said.

The cameras were This will help show worn over the Fourth of what happened.”

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Key Bank’s Jim Empie Retires COOPERSTOWN

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im Empie, a player on the Otsego County he Cooperstown Robanking scene for tary Foundation has 45 years, retiring Monday, selected CCS graduJune as Key Bank’s vice ate Isabella Anania as the president/manager at the first recipient of the newly Cooperstown branch in established Catherine Black landmark 103 Main St. Scholarship.

A native of Worcester Isabella was and graduate of SUNY acknowledged Cobleskill and RIT, Emat this year’s pie joined the management CCS Comtraining program at the mencement National Commercial Bank Ceremony on & Trust in Albany in 1970.

June 28 and As the bank went through a received the number of transitions before Isabel $1,200 schol- becoming part of ClevelandAnania arship at the based Key Bank, Empie Rotary Club’s helped manage branches in Pass the Gavel Dinner on Cobleskill, Worcester and June 29 at Glimmerglass Cooperstown, as well as Festival. serving as area manager for Isabella was found to Otsego County. reflect Rotary’s “Service Active on the Otsego Above Self” motto. She plans County Chamber Board of to attend the University of Directors, he helped initiate Alabama, majoring in early the annual Key Bank/Otsego elementary education, and go Chamber Small Business on for a master’s in special Award, now in its 14th year. education.

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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Jim Empie is flanked by longtime associates – Personal Banker Peg Chicorelli, right, a colleague since 1973, and Lead Teller Nicole Vanderwerker – on Monday, July 6, his last day as the vice president/manager of Key Bank’s Cooperstown branch.

plans for his retirement, other than to continue his duties at Worcester fire chief, and enjoying his and wife Michelle’s daughter Kristen, son Seth and four

grandchildren, all living in Worcester.

His successor in the corner office at Main and Pioneer Alley will be Allen Ruffles, an Edmeston native.

‘Magic Flute,’ ‘Macbeth’ To Launch Glimmerglass’ 40th Season

OPERA/From A1 award winning bass-baritone Eric Owens in his debut in the title role.

Melody Moore, who appeared as Senta in “The Flying Dutchman,” is Lady Macbeth and Soloman Howard is Banquo. Glimmerglass Music Director Joseph Colaneri will conduct.

Glimmerglass has long been known for its baroque repertoire, so it is fitting that this anniversary season includes an American premiere of an opera by Vivaldi: “Cato in Utica” depicts the dramatic confrontation between Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger as the Stoic philosopher attempts to stop the takeover of Rome.

Tazewell Thompson, who has directed operas ranging from Poulenc to Gilbert & Sullivan at Glimmerglass, is directing his first baroque production.

Tenor Thomas Michael Allen is Cato, confronting a dazzling young countertenor, John Holiday, as Caesar. “Cato in Utica” opens Saturday, July 18.

The fourth Glimmerglass production brings us to the 20th century with Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. This musical transformation of Voltaire’s satire was created for the Broadway stage, but has since been rewritten, revised and reconstructed so that it now appears on concert stages and in opera houses as well as musical theater venues.

Candide is a co-production with Opera National de Bordeaux and Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse; Zambello is directing and Colaneri will conduct.

Former Glimmerglass Young Artist Andrew Stenson will sing the title role and Kathryn Lewek, who re-

cently sang Queen of the Night at the Metropolitan Opera, is Cunegonde.

“Candide” opens Sunday, July 19, in a matinee.

• Eric Owens is this year’s Artist in Residence and will give a concert with Metropolitan Opera tenor Lawrence Brownlee on Sunday, August 2.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will continue her wildly popular exploration of Law and Opera with a presentation on Saturday, July 18.

Opera superstars Deborah Voigt and Frederica Von Stade will give master classes for Glimmerglass Young Artists in August.

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Livy Ottman, Libby Bresee and Sheena House lead Cherry Valley-Springfield Girl Scout Troop 49 in a rousing rendition of the National Anthem during the 101st annual Springfield Center Fourth of July Parade, considered one of the oldest in the nation. A light rain failed to dampen spirits.

At 84, Velma Armstrong tried something new: Her first ever ride on a parade float, Tanner Hill Herb Farm’s, to promote the Pierstown Grange.

lIGHT RAINS DON’T DOUSE SPRINGFIELD’S FOURTH OF JULY SPIRIT A jaunty trio – from left, Kyle Pelletier, Brandy Lusk and Breanna Ostrander, all of Springfield Center – appeared undeterred as they march toward their vantage point as the parade was about to start.

CV-S Marching Band trombonist Kaitlyn Webster, a 2015 grad, showed some swagger in the front row of the first-place winning musicians.

The Osterbergs of Hartwick – from left, mom Liz, son Evan, 10, and dad Don partook of Brooks’ BBQ at the Springfield Community Center.

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EDITORIAL

By Understanding Their Public Purpose, Can Businesses Prosper?

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tsego County has major institutions whose reputations reach well beyond its boundaries to the nation and even the world – the Baseball Hall of Fame, the NYSHA museums, Oneonta’s colleges, the Glimmerglass Festival, Hyde Hall.

Sure, small IS beautiful.

But given that there are so many more small entities than large ones, it is particularly noteworthy when a single one is spotlighted on the world stage. Such an example surfaced in recent days, when Barron’s, the eminent financial magazine, chose The Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley, 493 Chestnut St., Oneonta, as one of “three of the best teams in the industry” in a cover story on how, in the ever-more complex world of high and personal finance, teams of advisers are replacing “individualists – entrepreneurial, competitive and driven by personal connections with their clients.”

Erna Morgan McReynolds, we’ve been reporting annually for years, is routinely on Barron’s list of the “Top 1,200 Financial Advisers.” Impressive enough. But among the top three best of the top 1,200?

That’s almost beyond comprehension.

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Run into Erna McReynolds in the midst of one of her many local involvements – she and husband Tom Morgan, now retired from the business, are, among other civic roles (NYSHA, Bassett), Catskill Symphony mainstays – and you immediately know you’ve met someone special. In an interview after this latest proof of that, what most impressed was the simplicity of her concept – caring about the customer – and the discipline in adhering to it.

“The key was listening.

Not just listening to clients, but hearing them, so we could understand their concerns and where they were coming from,” explained McReynolds, a Gilbertsville native who returned to her home county a quartercentury ago, shifting from journalist (she had been a top producer for NBC’s “Today” show) to financial adviser.

The plan is one thing – “we can craft perfect financial plans,” she said.

But the plan has to fit the client. What are their fears?

What are the family dynamics? How will they react if the market goes up – or sharply declines? What if they lose a spouse, or a child, or their health deteriorates. How do they spend money? What are their

Morgan Stanley photo

Managing Director Erna Morgan Reynolds, seated at left, is joined by the rest of her team at Oneonta’s Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley. Seated at right is Assistant Vice President Janet Branigan, Standing, from left, are Senior Client Service Associate Vicky Gardner, Assistant Vice President Lori Cudney, Registered Associate Daniel Brown, and Client Service Associate Christianne Hughes.

expenses – every single one of them? “We have to help them think through things without telling them,” said McReynolds.

You can see how a team approach would help achieve the best outcome.

One of McReynolds’ associates is a teacher – “and that’s helpful.” Another ran her own business. Another has a degree in psychology. Someone’s trained in banking. “It’s been very

important to us to bring in someone from the younger generation” – Daniel Brown, in the business since 2012. “Rags to riches in three generations – we don’t what that to happen,” Erna said.

• This approach – tight focus on the client by a team that brings varied experience to the enterprise – has brought exceptional results.

“The team manages

nearly $600 million,” Barron’s reports, “even though” – even though!

– “it’s based in Oneonta (population 14,000) in rural Upstate New York. Morgan McReynolds and her colleagues serve more than 1,000 clients, who have an average account size of $572,000. ‘The bulk of our clients are people who have worked hard and saved their money,’ she says.

“When it comes to investing, Morgan McReynolds, along with veterans Janet Branigan and Lori Cudney, take a better-safe-thansorry approach. ‘If you can protect clients’ money on the downside, then you don’t have to make as much money on the upside,’ comments Morgan McReynolds.

‘We try to develop strategies that are a little bit more tortoises than hares.’

“That makes sense,” Barron’s continues, “given the conservative nature of many of the team’s clients: retirees, endowments, and even foreign governments’ retirement systems.” (The group manages social security systems for Anquilla, St. Lucia and other Caribbean countries.)

This is good stuff.

• Success in a small town – that’s the part folks from big cities have the hardest time understanding, Erna

said. But it shows that, wherever, businesspeople who take care of the right things today are most likely – no guarantees, but most likely – will prosper tomorrow.

“We’re not bringing in a client, making some money, and spitting them out,” Erna said. “They are part of our lives. We are doing something different. We’re trying to care for our clients.

We’re trying to care for each other. Imagine being trusted with that honor.”

Of course, caring about customers isn’t limited to financial services, and superb local practitioners come to mind: Art Bodin at Cooperstown’s New York Pizza comes, and Gordie Breslin, now of McLaughlin’s Shoe Department in Oneonta (by way of Zim’s Shoe Store and Bresee’s.)

How often, though, do business people reflect on the public purpose of their enterprise, their role in contributing to the general prosperity and happiness of a community – through service, product, price, mission. Those that do, no doubt, are those that are thriving, for the good of all.

In the Morgan McReynolds Group, it’s great to have a model, affirmed through Barron’s, that we can continue to look toward as an example.

ISSUE & DEBATE

Why Study An Idea – Merger – That Has Failed To Gain Traction In Half-Century? this as a project that is imperative that we do this year, the very low attendance at the meetings they have held seem to indicate apathy towards the study at best.

Bob Wood Since I have been involved in politics locally for almost 25 years, there have been several studies done. In 1996, I was part of a group of community leaders led by Barry Warren that came to the conclusion that, if the city and town merged and pre-empted sales tax, property taxes could be wiped out. This concept has remained the driving force since then.

In 2008 the state Commission on Local Government Efficiency & Competitiveness did a study of three Upstate communities (including Oneonta) and offered

By ROBERT T. WOOD

Oneonta Town Supervisor

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wo City of Oneonta residents, Albert Colone and Bill Shue, who formed GOEDC, have been holding meetings, mostly within the City of Oneonta, promoting a study of whether the city and town should merge. This is not a new idea. It has been discussed for more than 50 years.

On Feb. 3, 1965, the Daily Star ran a story where Mayor Albert S. Nader stated: “Economically, geographically and in the best interest of everyone, the city and parts of the town should be joined. Being a realist I am aware that politically this natural marriage will never come to pass unless the people at the grass roots – those who will benefit the most – make their feelings known.”

That sentiment is still true today. While GO-EDC is touting

ways they could save money. This study looked at the services provided and is the real basis of the current proposal from GO-EDC. This study suggests that increased sales tax and increases in AIM funding to the “New City”, combined with the savings of essentially doing away with the town government, would result in a substantial tax savings also. This study had a few errors that may or may not have made a difference if they were corrected. These errors involved the number of water and sewer districts in the town.

In April 2012, Mayor Richard Miller came to a Town Board meeting and asked for a joint study of a possible merger between the city and the town. The Town Board declined, but did agree to have a group of prominent town residents to study the issue to see if there were any apparent benefits for town residents.

This group did find a potential

savings of an estimated $459,000 in administrative costs, certainly nothing to ignore. Also, for the first time, a report from the County Treasurer gave us some insight into the sales tax benefit question.

Mr. Crowell estimated that sales tax collection could increase between $722,103 and $1,734,397.

Once again, substantial numbers (though not substantial enough to wipe out property tax as was once supposed).

As part of the study, after equalizing property values, tax rates for the city and the town would have been $10.49, and $4.14 or $3.45 per thousand of assessed valuation respectively (town rates differ by which fire district they reside in). Next, using the administrative savings and high and low estimates of increased revenue from sales tax I was able to prepare an estimate of what taxes in the city and town would do under those circumstances. That

estimate was a combined “New City” rate of between $4.64 (high side sales tax estimate) and $5.76 (low side sales tax estimate) per thousand. That is a 45-56 percent reduction for city residents and a 12-39 percent increase for town residents. If state AIM funding were to increase by $557,000, as GO-EDC claims is available (I am not confident that the state will come through with funding, especially on an indefinite basis) tax rates could fall to between $5.15 and $4.04 per thousand. That would still mean a substantial increase in parts of the town. Many other variables would need to be considered, some would increase costs some may create additional savings.

For the town to expend an unbudgeted $12,500 for a study that the vast majority of residents do not support would be to betray the constituents who elect us. I Please See WOOD, A6

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he first time I heard the name Stammel was a couple of years ago, likely at a GO-EDC meeting. It was brought-up in the context of a new “bright light” in local political leadership – that Andrew Stammel was a bright new force in local government, with new ideas and a great ability to get new things done.

Then I read his op-ed in last week’s Freeman’s Journal citing his opposition to the notion of consolidating the Town and City of Oneonta. It was the same old “clap-trap” that has come out of the Town Hall forever. My bubble of hope for progressive leadership in the town was popped. There went my hope for new ideas and, for that matter, it would seem Mr. Stammel in his own words may have put the figurative nail in his own political coffin.

Gosh, I’ve been in meetings with

Andrew on a couple of important local issues, one concerning water-sewer planning for Greater Oneonta.

During an hour+ long meeting, he hardly spoke. He offered no insight, no new ideas.

He came to the Al Colone Dec. 15 “bold initiatives” meeting, where GO-EDC presented important information on three topics: planning a comprehensive city/town water-sewer system to better meet the needs for a 21st century Oneonta, a tourism-promotion agency based in Oneonta, and consolidation.

He sat through the meeting in the back of the room and never asked a question or offered a comment.

I approached him, offering to meet at his convenience to provide details on all of GO-EDC’s initiative, especially the issue of consolidation. He outright rejected my request. Then

I corresponded with all of the Town Board members, asking to meet two board members at a time; still nothing from Andrew, with only one board member responding to also reject my offer. Then a number of presentations on municipal cost savings, and still no Mr. Stammel.

Mr. Stammel, like Mr. Wood, has always based consolidation opinions on studies; studies the town has never done. The Town Board did advance a citizen review in 2011-12 of CGR’s 2008 study commissioned by the state Department of State. A number of citizens who served now say the final citizen report was manipulated. They did a Zogby survey, not a study, of citizen opinions – 45 percent of town respondents either favored consolidation or wanted more information. If the survey had a question – “If you knew your property taxes would be reduced through consolidation, would you support such action?” – the numPlease See COLONE, A6

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Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, Courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

175 YEARS AGO

Ed. Note: In 1840, the addressees paid the postage for mail received under their names. This practice resulted in many letters remaining unclaimed for want of postage.

Excerpts from a list of letters remaining in the Post Office at Cooperstown on the first day of July, 1840: Peter Augur, William H. Augur, Mrs. Betsey Bissell, Joseph Bennett, H.M. Coburn, Cyrenus Clark, Rich’d Cooper, Esq., Jabez Green, Miss Roxy Gibbs, Mrs. Eunice Fox, Nelson Graves, John House, Thomas Keys, Daniel Lamb, Miss Mary Jane Moshier, Samuel Pashley, Geo. Pratt, David Reed, J.R. Redfield, Mrs. Naomi C. Rogers, Mrs. Mary Ann Snyder, Miss Juliette St. John, Platt St. John, Rev. Mr. Swart, Stephen H. Tabor, Mrs. Sarah Wells, Thomas Wilcox, and Mrs. Julia A. Young. S. Doubleday, Post Master.

July 13, 1840

200 YEARS AGO

aspects gravely threatening the free institutions upon which the Government of the country was founded.

July 7, 1915

75 YEARS AGO

After being unoccupied for three days, three hours and thirty-five minutes, the Otsego County jail again had an inmate on Friday morning of last week. Carl Schmidt, age 38, of Brooklyn, who is a native of Germany and not a citizen of the United States was arrested in Oneonta on the charge of disorderly conduct, arraigned before Judge Sterling B. Harrington, City Judge of Oneonta, and sentenced to ten days in the Otsego County jail.

July 10, 1940

50 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown Indians’ amateur baseball club will continue with their Saturday matinee season program of competition at Doubleday Field against a team of semi-pros at 3 p.m., the nightcap of a doubleheader following the American Legion game between Cooperstown and Derby, Connecticut. Indian players include John Hendricks, Stu Collier, Carroll Munson, Jack Seiler, Doug Dickinson, Fran Weeks, Brian Truhn, Dave Lounsberry, Dick Haight, Mike Barlow, Len Talbot, Dave Hoyt, Dennis Kirk, Ed Weeks, Bill Warner, Robin Turner, and Bob Wright.

July 7, 1965

150 YEARS AGO

The Gallant 121st Regiment returned from the war “glory crowned,” last week and was at Little Falls on July 4th. The regiment was recruited principally in Otsego and Herkimer counties, and was mustered in at Camp Schuyler, Mohawk, Herkimer County, on the 23rd of August, 1862. It went out with 1,016 men and returns with 358. It had 750 men added to its ranks while on the field, and was the only Regiment from this State that was filled up with drafted men. It left in the field 445 who were transferred to the Sixty-fifth New York. It was engaged in the following battles: Crampton Gap, First and Second Fredericksburg, Salem Heights, Gettysburg, Funktown, Rappahannock Station, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Wilderness, May 5 and 6, 1864, Spotsylvania Court House (three days), Cold Harbor, Petersburg, July, 1864, Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, Hatcher’s Run, Petersburg, March 25, 1865; charged with enemy’s work near Fort Fisher; April 2, 1865; Sailor’s Creek. The Regiment captured four rebel flags at Rappahannock Station, and two at Sailor’s Creek. These trophies are borne in their ranks. It lost in killed men, 250; and in wounded between 600 and 700. Less than 40 men were taken prisoner. Two of the officers who went out now return with the regiment. Sixteen officers were killed and 26 wounded.

July 7, 1865

125 YEARS AGO

Will Retaliate: The Chinese Minister for the United States arrived at New York on the 7th inst. He said: “Unless the United States government repeals the law which excluded my countrymen from this country we shall treat Americans to a dose of their own medicine. I mean that we

July 13, 1815 shall exclude citizens of the United States from the Chinese empire.” He said that the Chinese government has lived up to its treaties, and the United States government has disregarded them.

July 11, 1890

100 YEARS AGO

Republican Prosperity – Republicanism, as it is exemplified in this country by the party which bears its name, is the creation and distribution of prosperity and contentment by and through a select and superior group of the more “intelligent” and “financially able” men of the country. The Republican Party believes, and it practices the belief, that the socalled common people will be better off if the class referred to is so favored by legislation as to be able to dole out to the great majority a share of what is received. It is but entirely natural that such a policy of government should sometime bring into life a commercial aristocracy which should contain

25 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown Assembly of God Church will sponsor free bus transportation to the Friday, July 13, Billy Graham Crusade meeting. The church invites anyone to join them.

Seats are mostly filled. However, there may be several more left. The buses will leave at 5:15 p.m. Friday evening and return at 11 p.m. the same night.

July 11, 1990

10 YEARS AGO

Charles Arthur Bateman, long-time Cooperstown civic leader, businessman, Otsego County representative, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, died unexpectedly on Friday evening, July 1, 2005, in his beloved garden at his home on Beaver Street. He was 84. Charlie was the proprietor of Mohican Flowers, a business he built up together with his daughter Carol Waller to employ 10 people. In 1979, Charlie successfully ran for the Cooperstown village board of trustees but was then appointed to the County Board of Representatives where he served 25 years.

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Village Police Join Sheriff’s Department In Using Body-Worn Cameras CAMERAS/From A1 expensive. We appreciate the donation,” Covert said.

The cameras are mounted on an officer’s shirt, recording exactly what he or she can see.

All officers will be required to wear them during their shifts, and turn them on whenever they respond a call.

“Any time the lights are activated, the camera has to be turned on,” the chief said.

“Any arrests, domestic dispute or mental health calls, any time you interact with the public.”

While some police officials see the cameras as secondguessing officers in the field, Covert has a more positive

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outlook: “Our concern is to document calls we receive so that we’re held to the highest standards. If there is a complaint, we have evidence documenting whether something did or didn’t happen.”

The Otsego County Sheriff’s Department has been using the cameras since the beginning of the year, both on the road and in the jail, and already it’s protected one deputy’s job, said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. “A person in custody claimed that our officers

had injured them when they were brought into custody,” he said. “We reviewed the footage and saw that the injury was self-inflicted.”

On a recommendation from the county Board of Representatives, 28 body-worn cameras were leased. “The thinking is that the deputies are out there by themselves,” said county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, who chaired the board’s Public Safety Committee when the decision was made. “It can be hazardous. This makes

a record so that if something goes wrong, we know what went wrong.”

The cameras are worn by deputies and corrections officers alike. “In the jail, if there was an issue, we used to have to run and get the camcorder,” Devlin said. “By then, the issue was usually solved.”

The footage can also be used in court, although the sheriff says that no such case yet has been presented. “It’s another tool to be utilized,” he said. “People’s demeanor

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MLS#101023 Fly Creek $525,000 This spacious country home sits on 16+ acres in Fly Creek.

Amenities include hardwood floors, cook’s kitchen, wide open great room, crown molding throughout, built-ins, luxurious tile and glass showers, walk-in closets in all 4 BRs and an enormous third story w/extra living space.

Lower level has garages and additional kitchen, bath and living space. Enjoy mountain views while sitting around the firepit, or bring the farm animals. Outbuilding would make a great studio. Offered at $150k below assessment.

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Glimmerglen Road Building Lot ±5.43 acres – May be the perfect piece of land for you. Lightly wooded, sloped, lot flattens out at top. Lovely views w/clearing.

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Hartwick Countryside Acreage +/-14.1 surveyed acres – Lightly wooded, Southern exposure, quiet country road, 3 miles to Dreams Park, close to Cooperstown, Cooperstown Schools. Offered for sale well below assessed value.

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Fly Creek Privacy ±7.07 acres – Lightly wooded parcel w/stream on Tripp Hill Road, Fly Creek. Cooperstown Schools.

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Exclusively offered at $574,900 ProPErty DEtails —1.79 acres —Deeded lake rights —Private well and septic —Landscaped yard

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said. “We’re making it mandatory for whenever a prisoner is transported, and we’re suggesting they use it with interacting with citizens. People’s attitude when they see a camera sometimes makes them less confrontational.”

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Oneonta Retail Space For Lease! Over 8,000 square feet of space featuring COLONE/From A4 loading dock with overhead ers would have flipped. The door and warehouse area, Zogby survey questions look to have been fashioned to get a plus a light and bright retail space second to none in the predetermined result. downtown lower hub of the Andrew spent a lot of copy city. $2950 per month. Call bad-mouthing the city. It was Benson Agency Real Estate, the town that failed in extending water and sewer to Brook’s, LLC for details at 607-4324391. TFN costing the town, the state and IDA a fortune. It was the town BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY that has failed in a go-it-alone, very expensive water project Oneonta Business For to the Southside. That last 20 Sale! Turn key, established percent will be the toughest to Bar/Restaurant business in get. They need sewer out there busy center city location. and the town can’t deliver. The Contact Benson Agency Real town couldn’t even develop a Estate, LLC at 607-432-4391 Frisbee golf facility at Fortin for more details. TFN Park. And then on neighborhood deterioration, the town Business for sale in has the worst neighborhoods Oneonta, NY. Established Pet in Oneonta; “wink-wink!” And Board members pass by them every day. Where will the $1.9 million in road improvement funds come from as recently cited by the state Comptroller’s Office? Townsfolk, your property taxes are positioned to rise.

So, what you have at the Town Hall are unified voices who reject most everything; nothing new, no new ideas, just the same ole, same ole. Far be it of me to try and influence voices in the town on how they should vote in the November elections, but let me say if Andrew’s is running for the county board, people in the Town might want to think about keeping Ms. Hurley Quackenbush in office. Why change horses in mid-stream; They both oppose hydrofracking, they both oppose consolidation and they probably agree on most everything else. At least Janet has a couple of years of experience on the County Board and would likely have more backbone towards independently speaking out and making forceful decisions.

These are my personal views and not those of GO-EDC.

will not do that. The numbers that I use in this letter were all provided by different people with no particular stake in this matter. I simply did the math.

I am very skeptical of the numbers being bandied about

by GO-EDC. I would ask them to please verify them before disseminating them as fact.

The Citizens Empowerment Tax Credit is not $1 million.

It is 15 percent of the levy, up to $1 million. I am also very concerned about increasing our reliance on state funding, as that seems to change regularly.

I would also like an accounting of the $4 million number that GOEDC is throwing around.

Playing fast and loose with numbers and inaccurate projections will not win the hearts and minds of town residents.

in the heat of the moment is much different than it might be three weeks later. This helps us document the situation.”

However, Devlin doesn’t yet have policy for when a deputy must be recording. “It’s at the discretion of the deputy,” he

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MLS#99506 $249,000 4 BRs, 2 baths, built 2004, open floorplan, kitchen island, wood floors, master w/private bath, finished lower level, front and back deck. Cooperstown Schools.

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MLS#99365 $158,000 Best Year-Round Deal! 50’ lakefront, furnished, dry in the flood, great condition, new roof, 130’ well.

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MLS # 100853 $289,900 Year-Round Ranch - 218’ private lake frontage.

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MLS#100107 $91,700 4-Unit Rental Property Village of Milford. Three 1 Bedroom Apartments and One 2 Bedroom Apartment. Furnished.

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MLS#98850 $149,900 Amazing Buy! Beautifully restored village home.

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MLS#95206 $155,000 Nicely maintained home on a quiet street has 4 BRs, possible 5th BR. Built-in cabinets, newer windows, screened sunroom, freshly painted front porch.

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MLS#100426 $39,000 9.969 acres in beautiful Fly Creek valley, surveyed, driveway, hillside, views, mostly wooded w/level and open building site. Cooperstown schools.

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MLS#100361 $385,000 Lakefront Year-Round Home! 4 BRs, 3 baths, 3-car garage, home gym, terraced gardens. Otsego County.

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Affordable and Unique Building Lots! are adjacent to 1,000+ acres of State Land in Hartwick. Surveyed, wooded and loaded w/deer! Several to choose from!

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REMEMBERING EDI HOFBAUER

Edi Hofbauer and former mayor Dick Miller discovered an affinity: Both had sold skis on the road.

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Heidi Hofbauer-Buzzy pauses with a smile at the bench at the Oneonta Country Club’s 14th hole crafted from skis that adorned her dad Edi’s Alpine Ski Hut for decades.

The bench memorializes the longtime downtown merchant, who loved skiiing and golfing.

The USA Baseball women’s team will play against Japan’s Madonna Stars, as well as host workshops for kids at Doubleday Field.

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Y “Skiing and golf were my husband’s two loves,� recalls Ingrid Hofbauer.

ou golfers may have noticed an unusual site at the 14th hole of the Oneonta Country Club – a bench made entirely of vintage wooden skis, dedicated to Eduard Hofbauer.

Edi Hofbauer, as anyone who ever skied around here knows, operated the Alpine Ski Hut for 45 years in downtown Oneonta before his sudden passing in late

When he got out of the Army and went into the business, Van Hill Skis were the first brand he sold.

That was in 1964, when he was working at a New Jersey ski shop owned by his friend Warner Seher.

But it was only a winter “In loving memory...�

The plaque makes senti- job, and he had a new wife, Ingrid, to whom he would ment for Edi Hofbauer be married for 48 years. explicit.

They had gotten to know 2012, but that’s not the only Herb Trappenberg of Staminspiration. ford, who invited Edi to sell “He never got rid of Van Hills on the road. In anything,� said his daugh1967, Trappenberg would ter, Heidi Hofbauer-Buzzy.

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He Helped Restore Community Of Free Blacks, And Is Honored vicinity of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum – “a very beautiful area� – and researched and wrote the EAST SPRINGFIELD itinerary for a walking tour for the Parkway-Stuyvesant Community n 1964, Jim Hurley, after two & Housing Council, and trained the tours in the U.S. Embassy in guides.

Lahore and four years at the In the process, he found a refUniversity of London’s School of erence in a local history book to Oriental & African Studies, found Weeksville, a 19th century communiHurley himself called to Brooklyn on a ty of free blacks that, he discovered, in 1972 family matter, and expected to be had been involved in every major there for a year or two.

African-American improvement efThe Civil Rights movement was heating fort over several decades before the urban up, and he volunteered with a tenants’ orgrid imposed on fast-growing Brooklyn in ganization in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a hotbed the 1880s largely obliterated it. The self-of community ferment. He moved to the Please See HURLEY, B2

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HOSPICE BENEFIT: Start your weekend with the Hospice Celebrity Party, featuring country stars Gavin DeGraw and Kelsea Ballerino. 5 p.m. Thursday, July 9, 6th Ward Booster Club Field, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6773.

JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW: Opening of 68th annual show, with more than 300 area youths ages 8-18 presenting their livestock. Chicken BBQ, music, ice cream social at 5 p.m. Sunday, July 12 (Show continues MondayTuesday July 13 & 14). Iroquois Farm Showgrounds, 1659 County Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, Meg, (607) 5471452.

ART PARTY: The Cooperstown Art Association celebrates 80 years with a gala and juried exhibit. Preview Party and opening reception, 5-7 p.m. Friday, July 10, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9777.

DOLL TALK: Barbara Blanchard shares collection of doll bed quilts; free lecture. 1-3 p.m. Sunday, July 12, Swart-Wilcox House Museum, off River St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0960.

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East Springfield’s Jim Hurley looks over “Brooklyn’s Promised Land,� published last November on the Weeksville restoration.

HITCHCOCK THRILLER: Last chance to see “Dial ‘M’ for Murder,� live. 7 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, July 8-9; 8 p.m. Friday, July 10. $15 adults; $12.50 ages 7-12; other discounts. Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1453 or www.farmersmuseum.org.

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he best in women’s baseball arrives for an inaugural four-game series.

It’s the #2 world ranked USA Baseball Women’s National Team against Japan’s Madonna Stars. Home games are 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Saturday, July 11 and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12 at Doubleday Field, Cooperstown. Also free clinics for boys and girls on Sunday. Info, www. cooperstownclassicbaseball.com

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from the Secret City.� Donations welcome. FSC, Chapel Hall, 25 CHURCH SALE -- 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Institute St., Franklin. Info, www. (also bag sale 9-11 a.m. July 11). franklinkstagecompany.org First Baptist Church, Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9371.

CAA GALA -- 5-7 p.m. Preview OCCA LAKE DAY -- 8 a.m.

Party, awards, 80th Annual Nationbirding for kids, adults; 1:30 p.m.

by Andy Puritz, music by The Tim al Juried Art Exhibition. Catering by aquatic life search at Beaver Pond Iversen Trio. $15 ages 13-64; Mel’s at 22, music by+VMJFUUF (PSEPO -PX 4BNVFM ' # .PSTF "MJDF -BXMFTT Mary Doherty $12.50 ages 7-12; other discounts. for kids. Free with park admission. & Ian Feulner. Cooperstown Art Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Glimmerglass State Park. Free %JE UIFZ FWFS SFBMMZ MFBWF Association galleries, 22 Main St.. lunch for registrants; (607) 547Museum, Cooperstown. Info, www. www.cooperstownart.com 4488 or email programdirector@ farmersmuseum.org.

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The Haunting of Hyde Hall Young Love, Young Death...

Experience the haunting history of Hyde Hall, up close and very personal! ‌meet Jennie Cooper, whose portrait haunted Cooperstown and now haunts Hyde Hall ‌meet Edward Steers, who shot himself for love on the Hyde Hall dock‌or did he??? ‌meet George and Susan, two Clarkes who were tragically killed during WWII

‌BE PREPARED! July 14, 28 • August 4 & 11 • 6 pm, 7 pm $15 per person Call for reservations 607-547-5098

Jim Hurley Rediscovered Lost Weeksville HURLEY/From B1

contained community included an African Civilization Society, an orphanage, an old folks home, a cemetery, two black churches, a school – its amenities went on and on.

At the time, the Pratt Institute was operating a neighborhood college, and Hurley taught a course aimed at developing walking tours of Bed-Stuy and New York City generally. Among his half-dozen students were Patricia Johnson and Dolores McCullough. “They were gung-ho about Weeksville,� he recalled in an interview the other day. “They were black.

They were my entrance in the community. Without them I would have been whistling in the wind.�

What followed – an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the few remnants of a once-thriving community and its lessons of self-reliance – was recognized Wednesday, June 10, at the 2015 Weeksville Social, where Hurley, Johnson and McCullough were among the honorees at the annual gala of a thriving Weeksville Heritage Center, whose goal is to preserve a story of “entrepreneurship, engagement and dedication to community.�

In McCullough and Johnson, Hurley discovered a dream team of drive and scholarship. He nicknamed Dolores “the mouth that roared� – the fearless advocate. While Patricia was “very quiet: She just wanted to do the research.�

What had been Weeksville, Hurley and his students learned, was about to be cleared for low-income

housing through LBJ’s Model Cities program, but they convinced the city to allow an archeological dig in advance of construction, and recruited neighborhood students to help explore the site where Colored School No. 2 had once stood.

By the time their work was done, Weeksville’s last four remaining wood-frame houses had been identified and preserved, and in 1971, the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant History had been formed, with hard-driving Joyce Maynard leading the effort to keep the mission moving forward. Maynard, later the first black member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation board, raised $7 million as a firm foundation for the society, which today is housed in a $14 million, 190,000-square foot Heritage Center that welcomes thousands of visitors a year.

Hurley was born and raised in Holyoke, Mass., joining the Navy in 1946 at age 17.

After two years there and four years at Columbia, went to Washington, D.C., and joined the Foreign Service in 1954.

Trained as an ethnologist, “I was naturally interested in people,� and his Weeksville efforts were a natural outgrowth of that.

By 1972, when the Weeksville Society was incorporated with Hurley as board chair, he had joined the Long Island Historical Society, becoming executive director in 1973. In 1978, he joined Queens College as a reference archivist, moving on to city Landmarks Commission in the early 1980s as its first archivist.

He retired to East Springfield in 1991, where for years he operated James Hurley Books, dealing in out-of-print and rare books about South Asia. He had remained active on the Weeksville board for 10 years, “then I moved.� But it was a heroic period. “I never really got away from it,� he says today.

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18 holes with golf cart

Monday – Friday $18 per person Saturday – Sunday $22 per person 9-hole rates available Kids under 14 play free with adult Please call for tee time

Drumquest will be returning to St. James Retirement Community for another grand performance and enjoyable mix of African music and popular sing-alongs!

The talented Jim Talbot encourages laughing and singing.

Come join the fun!

Thursday, July 16 at 1:30 pm

Honorees: Edward Stack and Noel Dries Lawn games, cocktails, auction, dinner, and dancing under the stars

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Soulful bluegrass by The Handsome Hearts

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Unadilla Carnival of Sales

$195 per person (30 and older) $100 per person (under 30) Buy tickets online at www.hydehall.org, or call 607.547.5098 For more information, email Gala@hydehall.org

Saturday, July 11 9 am to 4 pm

267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd, HydeHall.org

Village-Wide Yard Sales Vendors and Food Community Field Entertainment by Mike Herman (Blues) and Round House Rockers

Sponsored in part by a grant from Otsego County Government Sponsors: Coughlin & Gerhart; Country Computers & Publishing; Mirabito Holdings, Inc.; Richard W. Wakeman, Inc.; Sidney Federal Credit Union; Chambers & O’Hara Truck Center; Waste Recovery Enterprises, LLC; and Westcott-Madden Funeral Home

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STORIES FROM THE SECRET CITY

METTAWEE RIVER THEATER COMPANY

written & performed by Chris Wells, with music by Jeremy Bass An intimate, hilarious and illuminating evening of stories and songs Friday July 10th & Saturday July 11th at 8

Come Join Our Community Now!

For more information, or to arrange a personal tour, call Kathy Clarkson at 607-436-9974 or visit us on the web at www.stjamesmanor.com

Otsego County Office for the Aging

Senior Picnic Thursday, July 16 Glimmerglass State Park

Coffee, donuts and music at 10:30 am Lunch at Noon MENU Hot Dog or Hamburger (specify when ticket purchased) Potato Salad, Carrot Raisin Salad, Watermelon and Cake Coffee, Tea, Milk Up to an hour of Bingo after lunch Tickets: $6 - Age 60+ | $10 - Under age 60 Deadline for ticket purchase - July 6 Call 607 547 4232 or 855 547 4390 This event is held in cooperation with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation – Central Region

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Over 150 Displays!

38 Years of Homecooking!

Rt. 7 East End, Exit 16 Off I-88, Oneonta

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he Clark Foundation Scholarship Program, founded in 1973, has announced awarding 202 scholarships, $788,400 in all, to graduating seniors in 11 schools districts and ONC BOCES in the Otsego County region. The Foundation expects to award a total $3.9 million in multi-year scholarships in this year. The awardees are:

CHERRY VALLEY-SPRINGFIELD Madeline Rae Archer Jane Elizabeth Auld Daniel Beck Bosma Macklin Thomas Brigham David Allan Burr Benjamin Jake Drugatz Jacob Morris Fassett Emma Marie Gohde Emily Rebecca McDermott Olivia Catherine Preston Patrick Michael Reid Mallory Lynn Timpano Lee Marguerite Whelihan John Townshend Clarke Zaengle COOPERSTOWN CENTRAL Isabella J. Anania James Brennan Anania Kara Colleen Aufmuth William John Cadwalader Alexander Damien Davenport Patrick John Dewey Kevin Robert Frevele Renee Sophie Friedman Gabriella Rose Furlan McKenna Claire Hage Grace Z. Heneghan Sarah Heneghan Michaela Christine Laden Tae John Livermore Julia Joyce Marcantonio Brittany Paige Marino Aisling Rose McGoldrick Rebecca Jane Morosko Christina Maria Noto Rebecca Louise Odell Katherine Marie O’Handley Michael Francis Perrino Jacob Nathaniel Russell Elizabeth Mary Russo Steven Richard Serafen Jordian Marie Siver Jennifer Leigh Snyder Emily Margaret Stephenson Lyman Bass Townsend Nathaniel Duane Wilcox Alexandra Rose Williams Michelle Zhang EDMESTON CENTRAL Daniel Earl Berryment Rachel Ann Eckert Kirsten Renee Greene Leigh Earle Harrington Lindsay Ann Holdorf Kyle William King Cole Howard Plows

Mackenzie Elaine Porter Alexis Elaine Slentz Kristina Elizabeth Smith Faye Titcombe Curtis Allen Walter GILBERTSVILLE-MOUNT UPTON Jenna Elizabeth Bakhuizen Autumn Patricia Butler Shay Kendall Christian James Mealey Meghan Rose Meers Tayler Lynn Marie Nichols Nicholas Christopher Weidman LAURENS CENTRAL Ryan Scott Archibald Mitchel Lewis Barra Dustin M. Clark Jared E. Conklin Claire Marie Fraser Lynzi Carrington Poje Jordan Jayson Shaul Derek Michael Sherry Kyle McKew Sherry Gerald Allen Soucia, Jr Evamarie Rose Weitzel MILFORD CENTRAL Samuel S. Aldridge Zachary Steiner Aldridge Rima Vijay bhai Avastthi Carly Barry Fiona Brennan Blake Robert Elliott Lexus Marie Jahnke Jean Pierre Jam III Sadie Elizabeth Kenyon Devin Taylor Kiser Max Andrew Lang Jay Patrick Partridge Alyssa Nicolle Quick Michael Strenck William Bennis Ward Emily Frances White MORRIS CENTRAL Stacey Lee Benjamin Lexi Estell Bookhout Allison DiStefano Katiemarie MacLeod Eklund Kayln Marie Oliver Alicia Beth Randall Alexis Marie Richards Paisley Nicole Sellers Brandon Wallach

MOUNT MARKHAM CENTRAL Hannah Grace Barrett Raymond Alfred Benson II Diana Brutsky Kaleigh Bryce Morgan Ann Buss Heather Ann Curtin Trever Keith Gates Shelby Hatch Alicija Joslynn Hill Brittany Marie Hoke Bryn Lauren Hoover Nathan Aaron Hull Ashley Johnston Mitchell Koch Judah Mahar Maegan Brooke Maine Taylor Jordan Manley Joseph Richard Maugeri Shannon Rosemary McElwain Elizabeth Anne Norkevich Amanda Otis Christina Riley Sarah Elizabeth Slowik Olivia Ann Thomson Ryan Zachary Treen Nadine Marie Waite Adam Lee Westbrook Megan Ann Wool Karol Ann Zinkovitch OWEN D. YOUNG CENTRAL Matthew J. Cristman Ryan Crouse Mark Andrew Loiacono Joshua D. Mayton Dustin J. Monk Madeline Marie Snyder Shelby Lynn Talbot Jeffrey Kent Weeks II RICHFIELD SPRINGS CENTRAL Morgan Bailey Brashear Christopher Calkins Meghan Elizabeth Cantwell Hayley Mae Crist Heather Marie Federow Nichole Amber Matthews Petra Nicole Peretin Kaity Kathleen Richvalsky Brandon Reece Shokey Rebecca Anne Smith Michael Andrew Twomey Shannon Johanna Vigh Leanne Nicole Yerdon

SCHENEVUS CENTRAL Jordon James Burton Bryce Warren Freling Stephanie Nicole Pepaj Danielle Marie Tefft Alyssa Paige Turner WORCESTER CENTRAL Joseph Thomas Aho Everett Benjamin Bishop Molly Doherty Philippa Doherty Gabrielle Nicole Feldman Elisabeth Anna Jones Ryan Matthew Perrillo Nathan Kinch Powers Riley Joseph Powers Monica Lyn Ridgeway Lindsay Jenel Willenbacher Madison Elizabeth Wright OTSEGO OCCUPATIONAL CENTER Brian Matthew Atwell Tiahna Manetta Bree Banks Jacob Caryl Buttery Kyanne Kali Clark Mary Grace Cotton Grant Alexander Davine Jack Michael Donnelly Chelsea Caroline Donovan Leah Echstein Hunter James Fistrowicz Rebekka Elizabeth Fox Mason Douglas Handy Caitlyn Marie Kilts Amy Lee Morgan Evelyn Rose Manchester Logan John Mancuso Emilie Paige Mertz Garret Carver Owen Logan Pettit Zachary Edward Pick Jacqueline Lee Pondolfino Julius William Preston Adam Joseph Renwick Joseph Edward Rodenas Antonio John Salvatore Courtney Lorraine Sherry Emily Caitlyn Slaga Kenneth Charles Stahl Charles Foster Thomas Amber Elizabeth Verrelli Scott Westbrook Anissa Wilkens Johnny Zhang

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SPONSORED BY THESE FRIENDS OF ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENT

SINCE 1880S, CLARK FAMILY HAS SUPPORTED ASPIRING STUDENTS

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or over 130 years the Clark family has supported the educational pursuits of local students. In the early 1880s, Alfred Corning Clark established The Edward C. Clark Punctuality Prize for students at Cooperstown schools with perfect scholastic attendance over a term. The students were allowed to select a book from a local bookstore. These prizes were awarded until 1961.

In the 1960s, The Scriven Foundation, named in honor of Elizabeth Scriven Clark, established The Scriven Scholarship Program to replace the Punctuality Prize.

Scholarships of $1,000 went to the top two graduates of Cooperstown Central School.

Gradually, the number and dollar amounts of scholarships increased.

The current Clark Foundation Scholarship Program was established in 1973 and

absorbed The Scriven Scholarship Program.

The Clark Foundation Scholarship has expanded to include nine additional school districts: Cherry Valley-Springfield, Edmeston, Laurens, Milford, Mount Markham, Owen D. Young, Richfield Springs, Schenevus and Worcester plus the O.A.O.C. BOCES in Milford. In 2014 Gilbertsville-Mount Upton and Morris schools were added.

– From History of Clark Foundation Scholarship Program

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THURSDAY–FRIDAY, JULY 9-10, 2015

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Pavement maintenance · Seal coating · Hot crack fill Pothole repair · Crusher-run driveways installed and repaired Stone shed pads · Dumptruck and Bobcat service Lawn installation and mowing

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The Clark Sports Center is looking for a full-time Athletics Programs Specialist. This is a full-time position developing new and supporting current athletic programs. Job responsibilities include instruction and coaching. Candidate must enjoy working with children and adults of all ages and abilities. Excellent customer relation skills a must. Full benefit package. Email resume to Barry Gray, grayb@clarksportscenter.com, by July 22. www.clarksportscenter.com

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Peter Sciallo 607-547-2185 607-437-4851 cell Richard Bartlett 607-221-7812

Part-time Laborer The City of Oneonta is seeking applications for a Part-time Laborer. Applications are available in the Personnel Office, 258 Main Street, City Hall, Oneonta, NY or download applications from our website at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel.

Application deadline: July 20, 2015

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Administrative Specialist

The City of Oneonta is accepting applications for the position of Administrative Specialist in Public Service and Engineering Departments. Application should be submitted by July 17, 2015. Applications and job description are available at the Personnel Office, 258 Main St., Oneonta or download from our website at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel.

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Faithful Friends Pet Crematory, Inc.

1977 State Hwy 23, PO Box 404, Morris, NY 13808

Pet urns • Pet markers • Pet caskets • Pet jewelry Paw prints • Locks of fur • Clergy services available

Pets are members of our families and we strive to offer a quiet and serene environment in which to memorialize them.

Arrangements can be made through your local veterinarian or contact us directly at 607-263-2363 faithfulfriendsofmorris.com

Jeffrey T. Smith — Licensed Agent Medicare Health Insurance Plans

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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 3692 State Highway 28, Milford, NY 13807, Town of Milford, County of Otsego, for on premises consumption.

Tango’s NY Pizza Kitchen LLC 2LegalJuly10 Legal notice SUMMONS AND NOTICE Filed August 27, 2015 Index No.: 2014-0878 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF OTSEGO U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MERRILL LYNCH FIRST FRANLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-3, Plaintiff: Mortgaged

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Premises: 32 Church Street Oneonta, (City of Oneonta) NY 13820 vs.

Defendants: KATIE PA LOWSKI; TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner 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. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of April 11, 2007, executed by Katie Pawlowski to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee

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for First Franklin Financial Corp, an OP. Sub. of MLB&T Co., FSB to secure the sum of $120,600.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County on April 17, 2007 in Document Number 2007 00054203.

That Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Franklin Financial Corp., an OP. Sub. of MLB&T Co., FSB duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to LaSalle Bank National Associ tion, as Trustee for Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2007-3 by Assignment dated December 18, 2008 and recorded on February 20, 2008 in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County in Document Number 200900069457.

That Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Franklin Financial Corp., an OP. Sub. of MLB&T Co., FSB duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MERRILL LYNCH FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN

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HELP WANTED

The Cooperstown Veteran Post is looking for a part-time bartender. Applicant should be neat and presentable and able to work well with people.

Please apply after 11 am in person at: 60 Main Street, Cooperstown 607-547-8282

Experienced Servers Needed

Come grow with the change and form the Focus at Otsego Team!

• CNAs full-time and part time • LPNs full-time and part-time • P/T and F/T Housekeeping & laundry • Part-time kitchen and dietary aides • RN-Supervisor

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The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the saleof the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mor gaged Premises is situated. Section: 300.5 Block: 3 Lot: 5 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on 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

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Sending a 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. DAVIDSON FINK LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, New York 14614 Tel: (585) 760 8218 WE ARE A TEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. SCHEDULE A LEGAL DESCRIPTION ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Oneonta, Otsego County, New York: BEGINNING at the northerly bounds of Reynolds Avenue and at the easterly bounds of Church Street and runs THENCE northerly along the easterly bounds of Church Street fortyeight feet more or less to the lands of William G. Shannon; THENCE easterly along said Shannon’s land one hundred eight feet

FOCUS Home Care at Otsego: • HHAs and PCAs continuous recruitment • HHAs part-time weekends only • Per Diem PT, OT and HHA

Excellent new pay rates and competitive benefit package Apply in person: Focus at Otsego, 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Road, Cooperstown Email your resumé: jinsetta@focusotsego.com

Apply online at www.lmtownsendcatering.com

TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN A SET- BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-3 by Correction Assignment dated July 15, 2014 and recorded on September 29, 2014 in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County in Instrument # 20144414.

The New York State Historical Association and The Farmers’ Museum are currently accepting applications for full-time and part-time custodians. Successful candidates will be enthusiastic, willing to learn, and possess a positive, customer-service oriented demeanor. Interested candidates may call (607) 5471462 for an application, or download one from our website. www.farmersmuseum.org.

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more or less to the lands of Fred A. Carpenter; THENCE southerly along said Carpenter’s land forty-eight feet more or less to the northerly bounds of Reynolds Avenue; THENCE westerly along the northerly bounds of Reynolds Avenue one hundred eight feet more or less to the place of BEGINNING 4LegalJuly23

on 11/20/2014.

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 66 Church Street Apt 6, Oneonta, N.Y. 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: DOOALOT, LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 5 May 2015. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 255 County Highway 27, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of Nina Marie’s Pizzeria, L.P., Cert. of LP filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 5/29/15.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 7361 Route 28, Schuyler Lake, NY 13457. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities. Latest date: 12/9/2017.

6LegalJuly30 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, (LLC) Name: Lamb and Sheep Productions, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY)

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Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: PENNINO PROPERTIES LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 4 May 2015. Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent

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of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 123 East Main St, PO Box 395, Milford, NY 13807. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalJuly16 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Feast of Dreams, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on June 5, 2015. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agend of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 87, Richfield Springs, New York 13439. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalJuly16 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: Holcomb Holdings, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State (SSNY) on 5/20/2015. Office Location: Otsego County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC. upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC. 113 DeShaw

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Dr. Bainbridge NY 13733 Purposes any Lawful Activity.

6LegalJuly16 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: RICHFIELD 148 RENTALS, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/29/2015. 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 P.O. Box 1439, Richfield Springs, N.Y. 13439. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalJuly16 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Bavarian Hop Farms, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 5/15/15. 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 174 Bowen Rd., Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: any lawful activities 6legalJuly9

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THURSDAY–FRIDAY, JULY 9-10, 2015

Hofbauer’s Skis Converted Into Memorial SKIING/From B1 lend the Hofbauers the $5,000 needed to open the Alpine Ski Hut. Those Austrian-made Van Hills were on display in the shop for decades.

After Hofbauer’s death, “our friend Jim Forbes took one look at them in the shop and said, ‘We need to make a bench’,” said Heidi.

The Alpine Hut had sponsored the 14th hole during a fundraising effort at the Country Club a few years back, so it was the natural location. “Skiing and golf were my husband’s two loves,” said Ingrid.

Even after he opened the Alpine Hut, Edi continued working as a sales rep for several ski companies. (A

decade ago, in chatting with Hartwick College’s thenpresident – later Oneonta mayor – Dick Miller, Hofbauer realized they had both been on the road selling skis at the same time.)

Eduard enlisted Heidi and his other daughter, Monika, to decide which brands the stores should sell. “We would meet on Stratton Mountain and try all the skis we wanted,” said Heidi.

“We swapped skis all day, and then we’d talk about what we liked about them.”

The tradition continued through Heidi’s college years; by then, he’d found another hobby – golf. “He never thought he’d play,” said Ingrid. “He always said it was a stupid game, trying

creative • dress • boutique Attention friends & customers of Zondra Hart, shop & share memories at the boutique on

Friday, July 10 • 3 pm to 5:30 pm 261 Main Street #5 • Oneonta

Celebrate Zonnie’s great taste in clothing, jewelry & accessories that made us look great and feel good for years!

All merchandise & accessories are on sale!

Light refreshments will be served

RSVP to Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, Barbara Ann Heegan via email baheegan@otsegocc.com • Walk-ins welcomed!

to get a little ball into a hole - but I changed his mind, and once he got out there, he made friends.”

The Hofbauers were active in the country club for 35 years. In addition the bench, Forbes made chairs out of skis for the family.

There is also a plaque by a small tree on the green: “In Everything, He Did Life Above Par.” “I know friends who stop and have a beer out on his bench and make a toast,” said Ingrid. “It’s special to them.”

And though the ski businesses has tapered off, the business remains in the family, operating as Alpine Awards & Engraving, run

by Heidi and her husband, Brett. “It’s time to transition to the next generation,” said Ingrid.

Saturday, July 11

CONTINUED FROM B2 CHORAL SOCIETY SALE -- 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Catskill Choral Society garage sale to benefit its youth choirs (ages 6-14). Rain or shine. 10 Walnut St., Oneonta.

Info, Sue, (607) 434-7696.

SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE -- 9 a.m.

Troop 1254 invites Cooperstown residents to place bottles & cans on visible curb or porch steps.

Benefits troop activities. Special pickups, Bruce at (607) 2676730.

CHURCH SALE -- 9-11 a.m. bag sale. Bring any size bag; no computers or TVs. First Baptist Church, Elm St., Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-9371.

ART OPENING -- 4-7 p.m.

– Reception for Lilian Voorhees, Recent Paintings & Tom Nussbaum, Constructions and Prints.

Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-5327.

UKE-E-OKIE -- 8 p.m. Cherry Valley Artworks invites all to “Uke-e-okie” (karaoke) to live ukelele-driven band. Many styles; lyric sheets provided. $5 admission; cash bar. Star Theater, 44 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, www. cvartworks.org THEATER -- 8 p.m. Chris Wells and comical “Stories from the Secret City.” Donations welcome.

Middlefield Community Day Sunday July 12, 2015 9am to 4pm

ROTARY GOLF -- 2:30 p.m. tee time. Annual Cooperstown Rotary Foundation Golf Tournament fundraiser. Prizes, picnic; $60 fee. Sponsor a hole for $100.

Meadow Links Golf Course, 476 County Hwy. 27, Richfield Springs. Info, (607) 547 5646.

ORGAN RECITAL - 4 p.m. Evelyn & Richard VanAuken play at historic church. Free; donations welcome. Old Palatine Church, off Rte. 5, Fort Plain. Info, www. oldpalatinechurch.org

Monday, July 13

TROUT UNLIMITED -- 7 p.m.

Monthly meeting of David Brandt chapter. Free. Guest speaker Dave Brandt; write questions on a 3x5 card. The Plains at Parish Homestead, 163 Heritage Circle, Oneonta. Info, (607) 643-2004.

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Mildred Wedderspoon, 103; Witness To Seven Decades Of Pierstown Life

PIERSTOWN – Mildred Josephine Wedderspoon, 103, a Pierstown mainstay for seven decades and first-hand witness to a rural lifestyle that is no more, died peacefully Thursday afternoon, July 2, 2015, at Woodside Hall in Cooperstown.

Mildred was born in New York City Jan. 23, 1912, a daughter of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Joseph and Agnus (Balvin) Stadler.

Raised in Mount Kisco, Mildred was introduced to

retired ministers and their wives. The home closed when she was 75 years old and she went to work for the Cooper family, helping with high teas.

Mildred was a member of Christ Church, Cooperstown, as well as Pierstown Grange No. 793 and Otsego-Hartwick-Arbutus Chapter No. 201, Order of the Eastern Star.

A funny, fun-loving and jovial person, Mildred’s quick wit and sense of humor inspired many friendships over the years and many more among the residents and staff at Woodside Hall, where she had lived for the past several months.

Energetic and selfsufficient into her late 90s, when the DMV Mildred Wedderspoon on took her license at age her 100th birthday.

98, she challenged the this area by a friend whose decision and got it back. son attended Hyde Bay She is survived by one Camp for Boys. She met cousin, Agnes Sorm of her future husband, Ford Cleveland and her daughter, Dana Wedderspoon, and Emily; her friend, George they married in October Hymas of Pierstown and 1945. He died in 1955, but her special companion cat, Mildred loved the area and Julie. remained in Wedderspoon In addition to her husHollow for the next 60 band, Mildred was predeyears. ceased by her sister, Agnus.

For many years Mildred A graveside service for waited tables at Fynmere, Mildred will be at 11 a.m. which was operated by the Wednesday, July 8, at Board of Pensions of the Springfield Cemetery with Presbyterian Church as a Rev. Susan R. Burdsall, pasresidence for the Church’s tor of the First Presbyterian

Robert L. Banta, 91; Honored By Soil, Water Conservation District

COOPERSTOWN – Robert L. Banta, 91, former chairman at the Otsego County Soil & Conservation District, whose headquarters was named in his honor, died on June 24, 2015, at Bassett Hospital.

Bob, as he was known to his many friends, was born Sept. 20, 1923, the son of George D. and Helene Jensen Banta in Brooklyn.

On April 20, 1946, Bob married the late Shirley Earl.

In 1948, he began his career working for GLF Petroleum, which became Agway.

In 1965, he joined NYSEG as a senior ag representative,

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Throughout much of his career he was a steadfast volunteer for the county Soil & Water Conservation District and ultimately became its chairman.

Bob had been a member of the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown since 1956 and chaired its trustees.

He is survived by his four children, Allen Banta of Binghamton, Kathryn Reinhardt of Apex, N.C., Marilyn Pettis of Westerly, R.I., Nicholas Banta of Granville; and four grandchildren.

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In lieu of flowers, those wishing to honor Mildred may send memorial gifts to Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 or Cooperstown Emergency Squad, P. O. Box 322, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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