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It’s Easier Being Green Environmental Sensitivity Wins Top Grant Here

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Emerson Riley, 4, was fully able to amuse herself the Foothills’ Atrium Tuesday, Jan. 1, as state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and others were sworn into high office. She is the granddaughter of Martha Messner and the Rev. Paul Messner, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hartwick Seminary/ MORE PHOTOS, A3

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att Damon’s latest, the anti-fracking movie “Promised Land,” opens Friday, Jan. 4, at Southside Mall.

Damon plays a leasing agent for a natural gas company who experiences life-changing events after arriving in the fictional McKinley, Pa. Frances McDormand and Hal Holbrook co-star/REVIEWS, A4

FAMILY FOES: Watch for Cooperstown’s Bill and Jeannette Weldon in the stands at the National Football championship Monday, Jan. 7. He’s a Notre Dame alum; she, Alabama.

INVADER ALERT: Otsego County Cooperative Extension is asking us to alert them if we observe an invasive-species outcropping. Check www.nyis.info for details.

HAPPY 205TH! With this edition, The Freeman’s Journal enters its 205th year of publication.

Editor’s Note: This is the first of articles exploring Otsego County projects that won Cuomo Administration economic-development grants.

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hen newly elected Village Trustee Cindy Falk took office last April 1, the need to do something about the bad impression made by CooperHOW DID stown’s deterioWINNERS rating sidewalks DO IT? was largely PART ONE accepted.

The previous Village Board had contracted with Cooperstown’s McManus Engineering, which had already conducted a preliminary survey that, among other things, established that the pedestrianunfriendly sidewalk at the village’s one stoplight could be shortened by several feet.

Still, Falk, who Mayor Jeff Katz appointed to chair the Streets & Buildings committee, reflected over a cup of tea the other day: “It was clear ... there was no money to follow through.”

Still, the Cuomo Administration had just completed its first round of grants, processed by 10 regional development councils, intended to rationalize the annual distribution of $1 billion in economic-development money to localities based on strategic plans developed Please See GRANT, A7 Notre Dame fan Bill Weldon tries to explain himself to his household of skeptical Alabama fans: mom Jeanette and kids Bradley, Gunter and Will.

es, it has been 50 years since the Beatles descended, and the world’s never been the same. That momentous anniversary was commemorated in “All You Need Is Love,” this year’s Friends of Bassett New Year’s Eve gala at The Otesaga.

Above, The Cast of Beatlemania – members of the original Broadway show who are touring the country this year, play “She Loves You, Yea, Yea, Yea,” and much more.

At right, Cooperstown’s Fab Four are, from left, Peg and John Leon, and Bob and Maureen Moglia, dressed for the occasion/MORE PHOTOS, A3

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Why, Dad, Are You Notre Dame Fan? ’Bama Brood Mystified, But Others Here Think Like Bill Weldon

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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ooperstown’s Bill Weldon is a Notre Dame fan. From a Notre Dame family. Or at least he used

The most support he’s getting lately in the Weldon family’s Main Street home is from son Will, 9, a CCS fourth-grader: “He’s rooting for Notre Dame – to come in second in the nation,” said the dad.

Bill wasn’t always in such company.

He was raised in the New York City suburbs in a family that bled gold and blue.

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State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, is sworn in for a 14th term by the state Supreme Court Judge Michael V. Coccoma, Cooperstown, on New Year’s Day. Cindy Seward holds the Bible. In the background is Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller, who emceed the gathering in the Foothills’ Atrium. Seward also hosted swearings-in of Assemblymen Bill Magee, D-Nelson, and Claudia Tenney, R-New Hartford, who represents the county for the first time.

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Is 40 Years Of Paving Best Use For Millions In Parking Fees?

K, so we have paid parking downtown.

Whoopee!

Now let’s think about what we’re going to do with all that new money.

Right now, the plan is to spend all of it on street repair for the next four decades, so in Year 40 we can bring Chicken Farm Hill Road up to whatever the standards will be then. (If we’re even driving. Let’s hope by then that we – the “we” still alive, that is – will be scooting around in hovercrafts. Source: The Jetsons.)

• The Jetsons – George and Jane, daughter Judy, son Elroy, Let’s ask it: Does the emperor and Astro (courtesy Hanna-Barbera) – visit Cooperstown in – Lamont Engineering’s strategy 2053. The streets were great, but they didn’t notice. for the Village of Cooperstown’s streets – have no clothes? Well redo, with sewerage and water lenge, as the sage Wendell Tripp some, maybe, but is he completely lines; not all today, but sequenput it, is simple arithmetic: In the dressed? tially. Others can get by for now summer, there are more cars than Lamont’s plan for Cooperstown with pothole patches. Some are spaces – many, many more cars. to spend $1 million a year on good for 5-10 years with a millThe problem with paid parking street repair – as village consultand-fill, where the pavement is is that it works as a revenue source ing engineer, it gets a share – is scraped up, melted down and refor 22 Main and for baseball not affordable to a village of 1,820 laid. One size doesn’t fit all. merchants and others who appeal souls, and is therefore irrelevant.

We all know what the critical to the seasonal trade, it doesn’t Yes, some of it has to go to streets are: Main and Chestnut, work for mainstay businesses – a completing the $1.9 million Main foremost. Beaver, which leads to NYCM, say; or, for that matter, Street redo, off to a nice $639,000 Bassett, has already been redone. the Hall of Fame. start with a recently announced Elm, Susquehanna and Glen are Take a business like, say, The state grant. But since it’s too the second tier. Hot spots – the Freeman’s Journal. Most of our costly to implement year in, year Walnut rail crossing, which is 10 staffers – reporters and ad out, let’s rethink it. being done next spring – can be salespeople – come and go, so First, the Village Board should picked off one at a time. we can’t move downtown. (We dust off the working document Looked at that way, getting to don’t want to move anyhow: Our former Mayor Joe Booan and where we want our streets to be offices at 21 Railroad Ave. are Streets Superintendent Kurt Carmay very well be doable over the delightful.) Due to lack of spaces man put together in Booan’s last next few years, certainly less than – not the $25 permit fee – the staff year in office. a decade. would waste half the workday The Booan-Carman philosophy: • driving around looking for spots.

Not all streets are created equal Cooperstown’s parking chalYes, it’s ONLY the summer, but – the key ones require a complete

IBM’s Founding In County Provides Lessons For Today Editor’s Note: This is the fifth of a number of position papers that Citizen Voices, the business group headed by Oneonta businessmen Bob Harlem and Tom Armao, has prepared for publication. We welcome these articles, and welcome any ensuing debate. To participate, e-mail Letters to the Editor to jimk@allotsego.com

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greatest strengths or assets – joining together to support our own and the community.

All of the performances were sold out – a clear demonstration of support of a common goal.

Now the question is: How can we do the same with regards to our economic future?

We have talked about the public-sector component of our economy. Now let’s take a brief look at the manufacturing and retail/services sectors.

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One, put half of it into the trolley system, which will only work if it’s free, dependable (pickups every 10 minutes) and heavily promoted (as free and dependable).

Let’s fully use that largely empty 320-space Gateway lot.

Two, dust off former Trustee Pam Washburn’s comprehensive plan from two decades ago, which called for a parking deck in Doubleday Field’s vicinity – it can be designed and scaled to fit into the streetscape – and for expanded Hall of Fame parking in Cooper Park’s fallow space at River and Church. And start implementing.

Happy days! A quarter-million – $1 million every four years.

Let’s not use it to turn the South Avenue cul de sac, or non-through streets like Eagle, or delightful country lanes like Spring into superhighways. Let’s invest it in our general prosperity. Prosperous, we can then afford to do what we might with our streets – beam us up, Scotty.

• Final thought: Maybe the way to start is some community visualization. What do we, the Greater Cooperstown Community – residents, merchants, people in Bowerstown, Fly Creek and Hartwick seminary, who are part of the same orbit – want Cooperstown to be? (“Best Streets In The Universe” is no one’s preferred slogan.)

Achieve a unified vision – there are consultants who do that (a subsidiary of Lamont, perhaps?) – and decisions would flow naturally from there.

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‘CITIZEN VOICES’ SPEAK

omething happened on a recent Saturday night in Oneonta that merits discussion before continuing with our series about our local economy.

Several of us had the chance to attend Orpheus Theatre’s performance of “The Sound of Music” at SUNY Oneonta. The actors did an absolutely wonderful job of entertaining us. However, the actual entertainment is only one of the things that impressed us.

What we got in addition was a brief glimpse of what was one of our community’s

that’s a quarter of the business year: Year-’round businesses can’t move downtown. Elimination of another 40 all-day spaces – to be enshrined in a residential permit system, if the state Legislature OKs it this spring (don’t!) – on Lake, River and Fair has made things worse for everybody but a few of the few dozen folks who own homes there. (And plumbers and contractors doing work for them are getting ticketed.)

Downtown apartments lack convenient parking, too, so rents are depressed. And that lack hinders the redevelopment of downtown Cooperstown as an attractive place to live – more people living downtown would allow the merchant base to diversify, something we all say we want.

Want proof? Look no further than the Key Bank building. A developer bought it a half-dozen years ago with plans to upgrade the office space and turn the top floors into luxury condos – for retired baseball stars, perhaps.

Those plans were choked off by lack of planning and it remains a mostly empty, cavernous hulk.

• That metaphor – choked off – applies generally: The lack of summertime parking – not just for tourists, but for all the other uses that create a vibrant year’round community – is choking off the downtown and, in turn, the village’s economy.

So instead of laying the $250,000 reverentially at the altar of Lamont, what’s a village to do?

Let’s blue-sky a bit.

Tom Heitz Consultant

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MOVIE REVIEWs/’Promised Land’

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his wispy, over-earnest movie stars Matt Damon as Steve Butler, a good corporate road warrior for a $9 billion energy company whose speciality is persuading poor farmers to lease their lucrative land for a relative pittance. He’s so good at closing – and bringing deals in “under the price point” – that he’s up for a big promotion ... (In McKinley, Pa., however,) there are a few naysayers, chiefly a local teacher played by Hal Holbrook, who asks inconvenient questions about soil contamination and tap water bursting into flames. Soon, Steve and Sue are faced with an interloping environmentalist in the person of Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), whose name pretty much says it all.

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here’s an obstacle it fails to overcome: it’s from the perspective of privileged outsiders looking in. Unfortunately, Damon’s performance contributes to that flaw; his self-detestment and incompetence often feel forced, while the scenes where Steve gets back to his roots are (and yes, this sounds

it was also secretly funded

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Kyle Smith New York Post

A Matt Damon stars in “Promised Land,” a movie with an anti-fracking message that opens Friday, Jan. 4, at the Southside Mall Cinemas.

mean) like watching a politician rolling up his sleeves, pretending to be a blue-collar worker.

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liding on Danny Elfman’s ethereal score and cinematographer Linus Sandgren’s bucolic vistas, “Promised Land” (unlike Josh Fox’s searing 2010 documentary “Gasland”) isn’t a howl of anger against corporate callousness. Channeling its environmental concerns through the character of a quietly eloquent retired scientist (Hal Holbrook), the film maintains a homey, humorous tone that only occasionally crackles with

anger or disappointment.

JEANNETTE CATSOULIS National Public Radio

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romised Land” is a fine place to start appreciating Matt Damon, who always makes it seem as if everybody else is acting and he’s just going through the movie being natural.

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uch has been made of the fact that “Promised Land” was partly funded by the enemies of our domestic gas industry – the foreign oil nabobs in the United Arab Emirates. But the film gets so cheesy that I suspect

ny prospects of a compelling denouement evaporate in the film’s final act, when the plot veers cartoonishly, doing for the gas industry what John Grisham has long done for big law firms. Nuance leaves the theater.

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hile there’s little doubt about where “Promised Land” is going (you don’t think a Gus Van Sant movie is going to side with a corporation, do you?), it’s a pleasure to watch it go there.

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f you want to see an effective film about the dangers of fracking – the controversial process by which natural gas is extracted from the ground – check out Josh Fox’s monumentally alarming “Gasland.” Or browse YouTube: Footage abounds of fracking-country residents lighting their tap water on fire.

Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Chicago

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

175 YEARS AGO

Young ladies are now-a-days taught a multiplicity of arts and accomplishments, and nothing which can add to the graces of mind and manner, seems to be omitted or forgotten. Only one requisite is wanted to complete the system.

It is that these intelligent and accomplished young ladies should be sedulously instructed in the art of applying their knowledge and exhibiting their graces advantageously. Not that they may procure a good establishment, which as the term is now understood, means a fine house, fine furniture, and a husband who has money in his purse, but that they may be fitted to discharge those important duties which can only make woman useful, respectable, truly beloved, and consequently happy. The aim of female education, therefore, ought to be, not to exalt those who enjoy its advantages above their sphere, but to make them more capable of performing the part which the laws of society, and indeed, the nature of things, allots as the peculiar province of the female. “She looketh well to the ways of her household,” is a commendation which everybody who is the mistress of a family should be ambitious to deserve; and should she possess genius, and even talent, yet still let her remember, that to make a happy home for her husband and children, is far more praiseworthy than to make a book.

January 1, 1838

Hospital and assumed her duties on Monday. Mr. Ellsworth returned to Rochester, where he will take a course in accounting at the Rochester Business Institute.

January 5, 1938

50 YEARS AGO

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Kniskern have announced the sale of their electrical appliance and service business, Ray’s Electric, to Mr. and Mrs. Theron Van Benschoten, who have operated Van’s TV and Appliances, Inc. in Richfield Springs for the past eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Kniskern will retain ownership of the block on Main Street which houses their store, and also will continue to operate Cooperstown Video Company, the community television antenna system they founded seven years ago. It now services some 600 customers in Cooperstown. Mr. Kniskern has been in the electrical appliance and service business here for more than 32 years with the exception of the years during WWII. Late in 1929, he purchased Maytag Cooperstown from the late William Wright. Mr. Kniskern plans to devote his time exclusively to video matters and is planning to add FM radio channels, plus Channel 9 (Syracuse), Channel 10 (Albany) and Channel 12 (Binghamton) television circuits to the system.

January 2, 1963

25 YEARS AGO

January 2, 1813 additional layers may be put in of thicker ice in the part left vacant for that purpose. When it comes to be used the thin ice may be taken out first if both parts of the house are equally accessible from the door.

January 6, 1888

150 YEARS AGO

War Commentary – Evils which existed only at the South a year ago as the result of the war are now prevalent enough at the North. We have high prices, a depreciated currency, no specie in general circulation, enormous taxation, and a great deal of discontentment among the people – a discontent which is constantly increasing. Letters from the army, almost without number, show the anxiety among the soldiers that the war should be brought to a speedy end.

The frequent changes made in commanding officers, and the evidence constantly furnished them of jealousy and ill feeling existing among our leading generals, are not calculated to increase their confidence. They also see and feel the efforts made by unprincipled speculators and contractors to conduct the war only with a view to their own pecuniary gain.

January 2, 1863

The Freeman’s Journal announces the return of the Richfield Springs Mercury. The Mercury, first published in 1867, stopped printing in 1972. Its name and mailing addresses were then purchased by The Freeman’s Journal.

Until a few years ago, the Richfield Springs Mercury had its own page or section within the Journal. Unfortunately the section became smaller and soon disappeared. With your help, we want to bring back the Mercury. We are currently interviewing for a Richfield Springs correspondent to gather news from the community which will be published on page four in both the Wednesday and Friday editions of The Freeman’s Journal.

January 6, 1988

100 YEARS AGO

The Parcels Post – The postal authorities have just finished the task of shipping to 60,000 postmasters and 45,000 rural carriers the necessary printed matter, supplies and equipment for the parcels post system which will go into operation today. These shipments have contained 70,000 scales, 110,000 rubber stamps and 10,000,000 insurance tags. In addition, 153,292,455 parcels post stamps and 12,058,435 postage due stamps have been sent out in separate consignments. No service ever introduced by the government has roused so much interest among the general public.

January 1, 1913

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A vicious one-two punch of powerful snowstorms blanketed the area with several feet of snow as 2002 turned into 2003. Bassett Healthcare officials blame the winter weather for an increase in hospital visits. “Since the Christmas storm we have seen an average of three to four patients each day related directly to snow removal,” said Bassett’s Leslie Raabe. “The types of injuries vary,” she continued.

“The most common are finger injuries from snow blower accidents and back injuries from shoveling.”

January 10, 2003

75 YEARS AGO

Filling Ice Houses – Although our northern winters are cold, there is some uncertainty about them. Occasionally we have a season when it is difficult to get ice of good quality and thickness. Those who have ice houses have learned to take them by the forelock, getting some ice early, even when it is comparatively thin. If the weather turns colder

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Back then, Oneonta was encouraging growth and, as a result, prospered and grew. Today we are passing moratoria to restrict the use of our roads and to the keep “unwanted” business out.

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The capital and labor are needed to fulfill the vision of an entrepreneur seeking to make a profit.

When we think of manufacturing, we think about what we have observed with Chobani Yogurt in South Edmeston. They invested in buildings, machinery, equipment, trucks for distribution and hired about 1,500 local people (labor). Together the people and equipment take raw material, including milk, from nearby farms (if they can meet the need), water and energy to create a product that has a greater monetary value than the sum of the costs it took to make it. That value is what we know as profit and it’s that profit that drives a healthy economy.

Often times the manufacturer will sell its product to distributors at a wholesale or discounted price. The distributors then sell it to retail outlets across the country or the world. IBM is a good example. Their headquarters is in Armonk, and they have several manufacturing facilities that eventually provide product to a retail dealer who sells to the pub-

lic in Oneonta.

If the manufacturing concern is locally owned, there is a very strong likelihood that it will be using other local businesses such as farmers, banks, insurance companies, energy providers, local retailers and other services.

If a business is deemed “successful” and attracts outside investors, it may go “public” and issue shares of stock that people in our community could buy. If that happens those buyers expect, no demand, “their” company make a profit so that they, the shareholders, get an acceptable return on their investment in the form of dividends, additional shares or an increase in the value of the shares they hold.

In the meantime, businesses that sell products to this manufacturer and businesses that sell products to that business’ employees prosper – as does the public sector. Because these manufacturers have a tie to the community they generally are generous in their support of local “causes” or needs.

Much of this area’s “old money” resulted from investing in IBM stock when it was just starting up.

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Growing new manufacturing businesses will help stop our current “brain drain” by providing career paths that enable our children to find quality work and will attract new talent to our area.

The retail/services sector provides the goods and services that we use in our everyday lives. This sector is impacted by location (remote or close to population centers) and population density. Over the years retail has changed from being dominated largely by local entrepreneurs to one which is now dominated by the “Big Boxes”.

In the past there were many “Ma & Pa” businesses which were the backbone of our community, e.g. Stevens Hardware or Hotaling’s Grocery store on lower River Street. They not only provided the goods and services the community required, but they also supported the community by using local non-public sector services such as banks, insurance companies, car dealers, etc.

They served on the local school boards, in local government, service groups and not only gave their time but also donated their resources.

This has changed with the dominance of the “Big Boxes.” The “Big Boxes” use very few local services and generally do not take an active role in the communities they serve. However, their large product selection and perceived low price attracts customers from outlying towns and villages to come here to shop, eat and buy gas.

The area benefits from the sales tax generated and the property taxes and wages they pay. Unfortunately, the money spent in those “Big Boxes”, except for salaries and taxes paid, doesn’t stay here and re-circulate, thereby reducing the wellknown “ripple effect.”

These “Big Boxes” do not use local services such are banks or insurance and their commitment to an area may be limited. Thus a mix of locally owned and operated businesses and businesses that are part of a chain based somewhere else seems to be the logical alternative.

With the advent of the Internet, the retail business has been dramatically changed.

We were accustomed to retailers like L.L. Bean that used a catalog to reach customers who lived a long way from Freeport, Maine.

Today that scenario has been repeated on a grand scale as retailers like Cabela’s grow their local presence by opening new retail stores and, at the same time, use both catalogs and the internet to reach customers living too far from a store to shop there.

Being “home” to one of these internet businesses or distribution centers could be a good thing. Cabelas, for example, tends to create centers of economic activity around their stores. Is that a model worth pursuing?

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Sidewalk Replacement Was Adjusted To Seek Water-Cleanup Money GRANT/From A1 regionally.

The main vehicle to accomplish this was the CFA, the comprehensive funding application. “It was so fortunate that the CFA project came along,” said Falk.

The new trustee, a tenured professor at SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, had applied for grants in the past. But they had been personal in nature: To the University of Delaware for a fellowship to obtain her Ph.D. there, bolstered by grants from the duPont family’s Winterthur, the arboretum/decorative arts museum.

Figuring the process was similar, she obtained a list of state grant programs – 46 pages in all – from the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council (MVREDC), which includes Otsego County.

In August, she attended the Vernacular Architecture Forum on Madison, Wisc., where she heard an enthusiastic presentation on that downtown’s “rain gardens” – aka, “bio-retention areas” – and loose-fitting pavers, designed to

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Coopertown Village Trustee (and SUNY Oneonta prof) crafted the CFA that captured the county’s largest EDC grant.

clean up runoff into the city’s four lakes.

Eureka. Back home, Falk thumbed through the 46 pages and identified money available through the Environmental Facilities Corp.’s Green Innovations Grant Program. The village rethought its sidewalk upgrade in an environmentally friendly way, and applied for $1.9 million.

Now when it rains, water runs over the deteriorating concrete sidewalks and down Main and other streets directly into Otsego Lake or the Susquehanna. The money would be used to replace the sidewalks with historically evocative bricks or other pavers that would allow rainwater to sink into the earth, to be slowly strained of impurities before it

eventually leaches into the lake.

Rain gardens – in effect, larger openings around trees (replaced, in some cases, with species that better flourish in the damp) – would be installed. Flowers would be planted in the openings – again, to absorb water – and in some cases, perhaps, vegetable patches.

“The idea is to ‘treat it where it falls’,” said Falk.

On Thursday, Dec. 13, word arrived: Of the $1.4 million awarded to Otsego County in CFA’s second round, the Village of Cooperstown would receive $639,000.

It was, by far, the largest incounty grant. The second was $350,000 to Oneonta’s Custom Electronics for further research into ultracapacitors and other futuristic electricity-storage devices.

Falk suggests several reasons for the village’s success: • The survey, via McManus, and some of the initial engineering had already been done.

• The application made clear that, without the state money, the work wouldn’t be done. Other municipalities, Falk said, had

already budgetted for projects, which put them at a disadvantage.

• And there was a job-creation component: To avoid interrupting the tourist season, work will be done in the “shoulder seasons” – fall and spring – thus keeping people working who would otherwise be laid off outside the construction season’s peak.

One challenge remains: The $639,000 grant is only about one-third of the project’s $1.9 million price tag. The challenge is shared by others. For instance, the $50,000 awarded to Foothills Performing Arts Center is only a quarter of the full $200,000 needed for the optimum acoustical treatment.

“So it’s not enough,” said Falk.

“Can we do it in stages?” Perhaps Chestnut to Fair, beginning next fall, instead of River to Pine? “We just don’t know what the answer to that question will be.”

It’s a question many applicants no doubt planned to ask Ken Tompkins, MVREDC director, when everyone got back to work after the holiday break.

Fans Gear Up For Notre Dame-Alabama Game FANS/From A1 Six of his close relatives – his dad, an uncle, a brother and a sister, and a sister-in-law AND brother-inlaw – attended Notre Dame or St. Mary’s, its sister school in South Bend, Ind. His wife, Jeanette, however, came from the other end of the continent: Raised in Mobile, Ala., she attended the University of Alabama.

Until now, no problem.

But at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7, in Miami’s Sun Life Stadium, Alabama and Notre Dame face off in the BCS National Championship Game, and that’s made Bill a bit of an odd man out in his own household.

Not only is wife Jeanette an Alabama alum, she and the team’s quarterback, A.J. MCarron, went to the same high school, St. Paul’s Episcopal in Mobile, (with a student

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The Weldons’ three children, Will, plus Bradley, 7, and Gunter, 4, all can, and do, sing the Alabama Fight Song, “Yeah Alabama.”

In Cooperstown, though, Dad Weldon is not alone. You may have noticed the Christmas wreath on the Elm Street door of Betsy and Stratton Danes, friends of the Weldons: It’s decorated with gold and blue Christmas balls and tiny Notre Dame football helmets.

Betsy describes connections to Notre Dame that, if anything, are even more intense than Bill’s: “Dad went there,” she said. “Granddad taught at the law school. Mom grew up in South Bend. Mom went to St. Mary’s.”

And Betsy ended up at Notre Dame, too, majoring in economics.

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in Alabama red, the Danes’ children – son George, 10, is a friend of the Weldons’ Will, plus Emma, 11, and the Danes’ Will, 7 – are wearing Notre Dame regalia these days.

Betsy has found a lot of fellow fans in the community. She hadn’t heard that Jim Gates, the Hall of Fame library director, is a Notre Dame grad. But she had run into another alum, Dr. John May, and learned two of his daughters had gone to South Bend. So did Frank Annese.

For her part, Jeanette Weldon recognizes that, as an Alabama grad, she’s in the minority around here.

“As far as I know,” she said, “I’m the only one in the village.”

What’s a family to do? “In South Bend, football is a religion. In Alabama, it’s a way of life,” Bill lamented.

In her hometown, people don’t

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Betsy Danes and children George, 10, Will, 7, and Emma, 11, are dedicated Notre Dame fans.

say hi, said Jeanette, they say, “Roll Tide!” They don’t say bye. They repeat, “Roll Tide.”

The good news is, by Tuesday, Jan. 8, it’ll all be over.

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(7551) 1850s eyebrow Colonial with a valley view. This 3 BR home features back porch, beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, formal DR. Offering horse barn w/4 box stalls, riding rink, hi-tensile fence. A fix-up! CV-S Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $134,000

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Main Street CooperStown

CooperStown Village CoMfort

(7589) Partake of the delights in this superbly kept 3 BR home. Many extras include formal DR, hardwood floors, modern kitchen, garage, and large front porch. Near shops, lake, and golf course. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $285,000

(6447) Business block on Main Street. Four 2 BR apartments. 2 commercial spaces—2,500 sq ft total commercial space. New windows, new hot water furnace. Storage space in cellar. Well kept stone and brick building. Good income producer.

Hubbell’s Exclusive $525,000

46 aCreS

(7601) Mostly wooded with 2 building sites, underground electric and phone, 170' drilled well.

1374' road frontage with good access, sub-dividable.

Hubbell’s Exclusive $125,000

A great location close to Cooperstown. This 3 bedroom, 2 full bath home is ready to move into. Direct TV/ Internet is Clarity Connect.

Quiet neighborhood with similar well kept homes. One floor living, easy to live in, low maintenance home. The back and side yards are perfect for children and pets to safely enjoy. Room outside for 4 seasons of fun! Full basement could be finished into more space if desired. Large garage provides ease of entry plus additional storage. Kitchen/dining area has sliders to a private rear deck overlooking the backyard. All within minutes of the village.

Exclusively offered at $199,500.

CooperStown Village Cape

(7497) Well kept 4 BR, 1¾ bath home features formal DR, built-in bookcases, fireplace, eat-in kitchen, playroom, oak floors, and newer furnace. Garage, workshop, basement, and enclosed porch. Close to hospital, sports center, and schools. One owner.

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,000

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