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Peter Macris Envisioned County As Arts Mecca Choral Society, Symphony, Opera, Orpheus Theater, Foothills Part Of Same Piece

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hat do the Catskill Choral Society, Glimmerglass Opera, Orpheus Theater and Foothills Performing Arts Center, four cornerstones

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Library Director David Kent and assistant Claire Ottman were catching up on administrative work as the Village Library remains closed until Saturday, Jan. 16, while the hall’s flooring is replaced.

The red “X” marks soft spots on the subflooring revealed when the tile was removed last week.

of the arts in Otsego County, have in common?

Peter Macris, 84, who passed away Saturday, Jan. 9 in Suffield, Conn., where he and wife Ursula lived since 2008, was a founder of each.

On arriving in Otsego County in 1964,

he discovered singers, musicians and actors, and spent the next 40 years creating the outlets they needed to thrive artistically, is how Dorothy Caswell, a Choral Society co-founder, explains him.

“Peter was an idea person,” she said, as Please See MACRIS, A3

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ooperstown’s new county reps on the Otsego County Board of Representatives received their assignments at the Wednesday, Jan. 6, organizational meeting.

David Bliss, R-Middlefield, will serve on the Public Works, Human Services, and Health & Education committees.

Andrew Marietta, RTown of Otsego, will serve on Public Safety & Legal Affairs and Solid Waste & Environmental Concerns committees.

MEL’S ABOARD: Mel’s at 22 this year joins the lineup at Otsego 2000’s fifth annual Grilled Cheese for a Good Cause Sunday, Jan. 24, at The Farmers’ Market.

LET IT SNOW: At this edition went to press Tuesday, Jan. 13, the first substantial snowstorm of the season was underway, with 4-7 inches predicted overnight.

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Julianna Britton, Berne, models a flower girl’s dress at the Rainbow’s End fashion show.

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s modern-day Marys and Josephs may find in baseball’s Bethlehem, there’s no room at the inns of Cooperstown.

“Our rooms have been sold out since the 2015 Induction,” said owner Marc Kingsley. “We’ve had groups that have booked every Baseball Hall of Fame photo year since we Ken Griffey Jr., left, and Mike reopened in Piazza meet the press Thursday, 1985.”

Jan. 7, at the New York Athletic With the Club after being named to the Thursday, Hall of Fame’s 2016 class the Jan. 7, anevening before. nouncement that Mets catcher Mike Piazza and Seattle Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. are this year’s Baseball Please See INDUCTION, A7

Famed Fish & Chips Feature Of Kingfisher Cafe’s Reunion

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Bride-to-be Katie Monser, Hartwick, above, and her mom Karla stop at one of the 43 vendors at Foothills “I Do” Bridal Expo Sunday, Jan. 10, traditionally the first bridal show of the year.

Janet Quackenbush, right, briefs Hazel Coyle of Oneonta and bride-to-be Eileen on Sunrise Catering’s goodies.

Springbrook, Polar Bear Jump Collaborate

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f Springbrook CEO Patricia Kennedy has her way, COO Seth Haight will take the polar plunge into Goodyear Lake on

Saturday, Feb. 20.

“Who do we want to see jump?” she asked the crowd gathered for a pep rally to support the 21st annual Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump.

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f you’ve been craving Pam Welch’s famous Kingfisher Cafe fish & chips, crave no more.

“People have been telling me that they’d love to have my fish and chips again,” said Welch. “So I met with Kevin Johnson and Jennifer Sterling at Tango’s and noticed they had a fryer,” she said. “I asked if we could have

a fish fry.”

And so, a reunion of The Kingfisher Café’s staff Remember and the Railroad Avenue sign? stillloyal customers will happen Friday, Jan. 15, aT Tango’s in Milford. There will be two seatings, at Please See CAFE, A7

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Polar Bear Jump To Benefit Springbrook JUMP/From A1 “Seth!” the crowd shouted back.

For the first time this year, Springbrook is one of this year’s recipients of funds raised by the brave jumpers at the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear jump.

“We’ve helped children at Springbrook before, but this is just another way to bring the community closer together,” said Brenda Waters, who organizes the jump every year with husband Jamie. “The idea just popped into my head, so I made the phone call.”

During the pep rally, students were treated to a visit from Goody, The Polar Bear. “It was like bringing Santa Claus into the room,”

said Springbrooks’ Stacey Grady. “It was so awesome seeing those kids so excited.”

“You mix Goody with kids and you can’t go wrong,” said Waters. “We want to do a few more school visits too.”

Students also decorated 100 donation boxes, which will be taken to schools and businesses to help raise money. “People can put in a dollar or two, even a note to the jumper or to the family of one of the recipients,” said Grady.

“It’s a good way to get younger kids involved, since they can’t jump,” said Waters. “A lot of these recipients are kids their own age.

It helps raise awareness.”

She’s hoping that classrooms will use the boxes to challenge each other to raise money. “Last year we raised thousands of dollars with Penny Wars,” she said. “I want people to be creative.”

And with 16 other recipients, including the Milford Fire Department, Hospice and the Portlandville Methodist Church, Waters is hoping to break the one million dollar mark. “We raised $127,000 last year with over 300 jumpers, and the was our coldest year yet!” she said. “If we do that well this year, we will have raised over a million dollars since we started.”

Within one week of taking sign-ups, nearly 100

people have already vowed to take the plunge. “I think people are saying ‘I did it last year, so this year will be easy’!”

Among those are several Springbrook employees, and many of those who aren’t ready to dive through the ice have offered to volunteer at the event and at the annual auction, held this year at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31 at the Milford Central School.

Though not earmarked for anything specific, the funds for Springbrook may be used to build the Family Engagement Center, set to break ground in 2016, where families can stay during visits to their children.

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Springbrook CEO Patricia Kennedy gets a hug from the Polar Bear Jump’s mascot at a pep rally Friday, Jan. 8, to announce the two entities’ collaboration this year.

foster that family connection,” said Grady.

And although she’s not yet standing out on that frozen lake, Waters is already excited for February. “I’m

getting goosebumps,” she said. “I think people like to see their donations stay local, and 100 percent of what we raise goes to people who need it.”

Salvation Army Canteen Torched Over New Year’s

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marks on the inside back corner. “It looked like someone had broken in, rifled through some boxes and lit a candle, possibly to keep warm,” said Brenner.

“I don’t think they were trying to destroy it, but the fire got out of hand.”

No evidence of drug or

very scenario for the fire in the Salvation Army canteen truck saddens Oneonta Police Lt. Doug Brenner.

“They show up and they help people, so I don’t know why anyone would want to hurt them,” he said. “But New Year’s Eve was one of the colder nights, so someone might have broken in to keep warm, and it’s sad that they felt they had to go that way.”

The canteen truck had been moved to her Henry Street home just before Christmas to make room in the parking lot for those who would deliver donations from the The Freeman’s Journal Salvation Army toy drive to the families Maj. Sharon Harford, commander of the Salvation Army, in need.

Oneonta, surveys damage done But at around 3 a.m. on New Year’s to the post’s canteen truck by a New Year’s Eve fire. Police are Day, Major Shainvestigating. ron Harford heard someone pounding on her door, but she didn’t illicit activities were found. answer it. “I didn’t feel safe The fire is being investigatanswering, so I stayed in my ed as arson, although police bedroom,” she said. have made no arrests.

The next day, she noticed The vehicle, which will that several of the plastic now need to be towed and crates had been thrown out refurbished, is used during into the snow, and there disasters to feed workers. were scorch marks and “It serves the commumelted plastic in the drivenity,” said Harford. “It is way. The back door of the very much needed.” van wouldn’t open, and the “They’ve been to several engine wouldn’t start. “It of our big fires to feed our looks like something caught guys,” said Brenner. “They fire and they just threw do a lot of good.” everything out in the snow,” Anyone with any inforshe said. mation is encouraged to call She called the police, the Oneonta Police, (607) who, in the course of their 432-1113 and ask to speak investigation, found burn with Det. Sgt. Witzenburg.

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lmost no one ever succeeded in saying no to Peter Macris.”

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‘Impresario’ Built Otsego County’s Artistic Infrastructure MACRIS/From A1 word of Macris’ passing began to circulate over the weekend. “He had a concept of this area, the Oneonta area, as being a mecca for artists.

And so the things he founded were part of that.”

Macris’ wife Ursula agreed, but added, “It wasn’t so much a plan. It was in him. He wanted to see these things happening. It was part of him.”

Through all these arts initiatives, he also had a fulltime job: Professor of German at SUNY Oneonta, later chairman for 22 years of the Foreign Language Department, where, Ursula said, if a student sought to study an unusual language – Swahili, for instance – her husband figured out a way to make it happen.

Peter John Macris was born in Oct. 6, 1931, in Buffalo, the youngest of nine children of John and Panagiota Macris.

His father was a Greek immigrant; the family was poor; his mother died when he was 2 years old, and he was raised by his older siblings.

Graduating from high school, he began taking voice and acting lessons, and was active in community theater in Buffalo. He moved to Hollywood to seek a career in show business but, disillusioned, returned after nine months and enrolled in Buffalo State. A tenor, he continued to study voice, and was a runner-up in the Metropolitan Opera’s Voices of Tomorrow Contest, according to his wife.

Graduating in 1956, he won a scholarship to pursue a master’s in music, but was drafted into the Army, and chose an 18-month assignment with an Army band and chorus in Germany, playing the clarinet.

Discharged in 1958, he chose to remain in Germany, teaching in the U.S. Army and Air Force school system, continuing his voice lessons at the conservatory in Frankfort, and studying German language and literature. In 1962, he enrolled in a master’s program that Middlebury College offered in Mainz, Germany.

While on the Mainz campus, he directed “My Fair Lady,” also starring as Professor Higgins. He was “handsome, very handsome,” remembered his wife, who sang in the chorus. On their first date, they attended the opera.

They married before moving to the States in 1963, where Macris completed most of his Ph.D. course work at NYU before joining SUNY Oneonta the following year.

He completed his Ph.D. in 1968.

By then, he had been drawn into the artistic life of Otsego County. He, Chuck

The Glimmerglass Opera, left, and Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta were envisioned and promoted by Peter Macris, who died Saturday, Jan. 9, in Suffield, Conn.

Burnsworth and Dorothy Caswell founded the Catskill Choral Society in the late 1960s. When Chuck Schneider arrived to conduct the Catskill Symphony Orchestra in 1974, Macris was playing the clarinet in the woodwind section.

But the full force of Macris’ personality was about to flower.

“Almost no one ever succeeded in saying no to Peter Macris,” recalled Paul Scheele, retired SUNY political science professor, a colleague who also sang in the Catskill Choral Society.

“There was a manner about him that was so earnest and so determined – he had prepared answers to almost all of your doubts. And he was prepared to keep presenting until he had won you over.”

There’s some lack of clarity about Glimmerglass Opera’s founding. There was a first meeting. MaryJo Merk, who joined at the second meeting, believes it included Macris, Dorothy Caswell and her husband Allen, Gwen and Fred Ermlich, Tom Goodyear and perhaps Beekman Cannon, the Yale music professor who had a home in Cherry Valley.

“Everybody loved the idea,” said Merk. “In thinking about it, Peter had a gift for finding and combining the right groups of people to get something accomplished.

I think that was his greatest gift. And his second greatest gift,” she said, echoing Scheele, “was his ability to persuade people to see his vision and see that it could work.”

She continued, “He was the quintessential Renaissance man. He was a singer himself. He was a tenor himself.

He was an actor. Nothing embodied those things better than opera.”

About this time, Macris ran into Chuck Schneider in the parking lot of the Hunt Union. “Oh, Chuck, before you leave I’ve got something to run by you. I have this committee. There’s a huge interest in starting an opera company. Would you be interested in conducting?”

Schneider didn’t hesitate: “I’d love it.”

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He ended up conducting “La Boheme,” and continued as the opera’s conductor through the opening of the Alice Busch Opera Theater on Otsego Lake in 1986.

That same season, he conducted “Pirates of Penzance” in the new building.

Macris rented a flat in the Cooper Lane Apartments – no furniture – where the cast used to gather after rehearsals, standing up, to practice and chat into the evening.

Two of the Macris children, Harry and Sabine – they were both in “La Boheme” – would be asleep on a mattress on the floor in the bedroom, Merk remembers.

While wife Ursula performed in “Boheme,” baby John was tended backstage.

Macris could be charming, yes, but tough when he had to. Merk remembers him hiring an Italian soprano for “La Traviata” in season two; she brought her voice coach, a huge man with a heavy accent

and a wool cloak that he wore whatever the heat.

The coach kept secondguessing director Macris, who told his star that, during the opera’s climactic argument, she was not to throw the champagne glass at the tenor – it was plastic; it would bounce; that would look ridiculous.

In the performance, when the critical moment came, following her coach’s insistence, Merk said, “she throws the champagne glass. She hits him, the ginger ale splashes on him. The champagne glass goes bounce, bounce, bounce, and hits (musician) Tim Perry in the head,” Merk remembered.

The voice coach was unrepentant. “Aha, aha, she is brilliant,” he said. “She does not need Glimmerglass.

Glimmerglass needs her. She will listen TO ME.” “Peter went backstage at the end of the show,” Merk said. “And he fired her.”

There was quite a bit of resistance in Cooperstown to expanding the opera, remembers Sam Goodyear, who first met Macris in 1975, about the time “the impresario,” as Sam thinks of him, convinced his uncle, Tom Goodyear, to support the undertaking.

“I was so struck by his demeanor and his cordiality and his refinement,” said the younger Goodyear. “He just obviously had what it took.

We had no idea it would develop into what it is today.

People forget it was actually his idea and his effort and him out pounding the pavement, drumming up support that made it happen.”

When the New York Times began to discover Glimmerglass, it reported Paul Kellogg as the opera’s founder, which had Sam fuming. “I never heard Peter complain or be negative about any of the things he had to go through,” said Goodyear.

“He never said anything nasty

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Sabine Macris and Tim Tucker dance in “The Sound of Music,” Orpheus Theater’s first production, staged at Oneonta High School. The community theater, a Macris project, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.

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about anyone in my presence.

He was modest, humble and tolerant.

In the early 1990s, Macris repeated the performance in the creation of Orpheus Theater, the community troupe that celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014. And in the early years of this century, he collaborated with Eugene Bettiol and Arnie Drogen in developing the plans that grew into Oneonta’s Foothills Performing Arts Center.

As the years went on, Macris had a falling out with Glimmerglass and, later, with Orpheus. “Operas, theater, schools – creations are like children,” Sam Goodyear believes. As they grow, “there’s friction between the children and the parents.”

If so with the performance arts, not so in the family circle. “He was always my hero,” said his daughter, now Sabine Klein. “He had big shoes to fill. As his daughter, I always just accepted this as the norm. But as I grew older, I saw he was such a visionary. Such big dreams.

He always wanted Otsego County to have a vital artistic life.”

As the Macrises 40th year in Oneonta passed, they began to look for somewhere to retire. Sam Goodyear took them to see New Haven, then West Hartford, near Sabine.

Once, lunching at Oneonta’s Autumn Café, Macris said, “one of the main reasons I don’t move is I don’t think I’m ever going to find something like the Autumn.”

Eight years ago, the Macrises did move to Suffield, near Sabine, where he passed away Saturday, Jan. 9.

In addition to Ursula, his wife of 52 years, and daughter Sabine, now in South Windsor, he is survived by sons Harry of Fort Wayne, Ind., and John, of Harpenden, England, daughters-in-law Ruth and Michelle and grandchildren Sarah, Ben, Ellie, Marlena, Caroline, Zoe, Peter and Sophia.

Ursula remembers the Autumn, too. When they would go there for dinner, her husband would stop at a halfdozen tables, shaking hands and sharing news with friends and allies, before the couple would finally sit down.

“Once we moved to Suffield, he really relaxed,” she said. “One of his greatest joys was his dog, Bonnie, a Sheltie. He enjoyed walking the dog. He absolutely loved the grandchildren. It was just a different phase, home-oriented.”

The family is planning a memorial service at noon, April 2, at First Church of Christ, Congregational, in Suffield. But talk is circulating on a possible memorial in the county where so much of his life’s work is evident.

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Help On Way For Small Business, Broadband, Airport, More

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overnor Cuomo has been barnstorming across the state, promoting a laundry list of big ideas – 14 by his own count – from the $15 minimum wage to a $3 billion redo of Penn Station (under Madison Square Garden).

He will restate them – plus, no doubt, add several new surprises – at his State of the State address to the state Legislature at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13. (As this is being written, it hasn’t happened yet; when you read this, it will already have happened.)

Of particular interest in the struggle to revive Otsego County’s economy are: ► Proposal 4, which promises at sixth round of Regional Economic Development Council grants – CFAs, as they’ve come to be known – next December. It also includes tax breaks for small businesses, a sensible counterbalance to raising the minimum wage. After all, fledgling small businesses – the nation’s prime new-job creators – are probably least able to shoulder an 80 percent hike in low-end wages. (The

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Governor Cuomo was due back at “The Egg” Wednesday, Jan. 13, to deliver his State of the State speech.

McDonaldses of this world can take care of themselves.) ► Proposal 10, to “dramatically expand and improve access to high-speed Internet.”

This signals the reawakening of a grant program for rural areas like ours. Otsego Now hoped for $30 million two years ago for an ambitious broadband program, but it was sidetracked by a bureaucratic reorganization. Now, we may finally see the money in the next several weeks.

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Count On ‘Stretch’ To Be On Duty, Focused On Keeping Kids Safe To the Editor: Dropping children off at school on the way to work in the morning, it daily amazes me to see the riveted attention that Tom “Stretch” Redding brings to managing the intersection of rushing cars and small children on foot.

For years he has been stewarding children across this intersection, in all types of weather, utterly reliable and dedicated to their safety. It would be easy to get distracted – most of us do – but one never sees Stretch waver in his focus, not even on those 20-below mornings.

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• Finally, Proposal 9 – a “municipal consolidation and efficiency competition” – appears to be an effort to actually do something to promote collaboration and even jointure of New York State’s some 4,500 independent jurisdictions, from cities to towns to water districts.

Do the right thing, the governor says, and get a chunk of $70 million to underwrite it.

Every good government advocate, every administration has long praised collaboration, but nothing with teeth had been forthcoming from Albany since the post-Sputnik push to centralize school districts. And Sputnik went into orbit almost six decades ago.

The battleground locally has been the two Oneontas – the city and town – long identified in state studies as one of two or three of the most promising merger possibilities statewide. But there are many more local candidates.

• Many of our county’s villages are so small – Morris, population

583; Cherry Valley, 520; Milford, 415, Laurens, 263 – that merging into surrounding towns should at least be studied. While former county rep Alex Shields led an unsuccessful drive to merge the Town of Richfield and the Village of Richfield Springs a few years ago, he was undoubtedly right on the merits.

A few years before, Bill Waller, then-mayor Carol B. Waller’s husband, proposed creating a City of Cooperstown, only to discover Albany wants fewer jurisdictions, not more.

Lacking that, conversations with the towns of Otsego and Middlefield would undoubtedly find some reasons for collaboration – whether in building a new sewer plant or transforming Brookwood Point into a three-municipality park.

Bigger alone isn’t necessarily better. But sharing costs and administration of essential services probably is. It’s hard to argue against doing more with less.

In always pushing, pushing for better ways to do things, Governor Cuomo has usually been right.

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Peter Macris: A Crazy, Wonderful Combination

ou remember where you were, if you were alive then, when you heard the news that John Kennedy had been assassinated. Similarly you remember where you were when you heard about the attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Catastrophes seem to make an indelible mark on us.

But there are happy markers, too. How about Man’s first landing on the Moon?

That was a moment for wonder and celebration, all right, not to be forgotten. In that same category I put an evening in March of 1976, at my grandmother’s house at the north end of Otsego Lake. It was on that occasion that I met Peter and Ursula Macris.

Those were the early, heady days of Glimmerglass Opera Theatre. I wasn’t living in the United States at the time and, frankly, an opera company in the middle of upstate New York sounded like an improbable enterprise to me. Until I met Peter.

He was, as always, elegantly dressed and had the unmistakable air of an oldworld impresario with all the refinement and none of the affectation. And I’ve noticed ever since that Peter’s dress and demeanor defy categorization. If you were to see him at an internation-

modest. They don’t work out every day and keep fit.

They are usually not cordial and unflaggingly polite and considerate. They are not generous. They almost never have an unerring instinct for musical and theatrical talent.

I have known Peter now for thirty-two years. He has been a mentor and a friend. I have profited from his creations, appearing in 10 Glimmerglass Opera productions, performing in Glimmerglass Opera photo 7 Orpheus Theatre proPeter Macris, right, met with fellow Glimmerglass ductions (besides being a Opera pioneer Mary-Jo Merk and Paul Kellogg, founding board member), his successor as artistic director, during the singing for 3 years in the opera’s 40th anniversary commemorations last Catskill Choral Society, and summer.

I am now affiliated with al airport, say, it would be a Musical Theater ComFoothills. My life has been hard to pin a nationality on pany. How about throwing made rich by the differhim. He is a sort of singular in a Performing Arts Center ence Peter has made. Many Everyman. for full-blown insanity? people’s lives have been Of course, he is Greek.

Peter may be crazy (some made rich by the difference And an artist. A fatal comof my best friends are crazy) Peter has made. bination. Of all the crazy but he is not a lunatic. Far I have long described our combinations, there can be from it. Look at his charmregion as a sort of Florence. none crazier. But, thank ing Ursula. A lunatic can’t There is so much art and of God for the crazies of the begin to attract as fine a such singular quality at that. world. Look at the invenlady as she. Look at his True culture seems to flourtors, writers, poets, compos- children: Harry, Sabine, ish here to a surprisingly ers, architects, philosophers John – and their spouses, high degree. A Florence and countless innovators and all those grandchildren. has to have a Medici, and who were laughed out of Lunatics don’t preside over we do. Ladies and Gentlecourt in their lifetime and families like that. men, let us rise and toast the who have, in the end, had And lunatics don’t head Medici in our midst, Peter such an important influence foreign language departMacris. on mankind. ments at State UniversiAn opera company? ties, as Peter so ably did Cooperstown’s Sam Yeah, right. Talk about for years and years. LuGoodyear is currently a crazy. Next you’re going to natics don’t have charm. classical-music broadcaster want a Boys Choir, I supThey don’t have a sense for WSKG, Binghamton. pose, or a Choral Society, or of humor. They are rarely

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► Proposal 11, a $200 million competition to revitalize Upstate airports. Stalwarts Dennis Finn and Ed May have been joined on the Oneonta Airport Commission by Len Carson, the new county rep, and Jeff Back, who ran a very impressive, albeit unsuccessful, bid for Common Council in the Nov. 3 elections.

The city airport – in effect, it is a county airport, particularly on Hall of Fame Weekend – is ready for revival. In Mayor Sam Nader’s 1960s administration, daily Catskill Airways flights were going back and forth to New York City. 9/11 dealt air travel a blow, but it’s time to get back on the horse – or flight. ► Proposal 12, to combat poverty through a $25 million program. $25 million isn’t a lot in a state of 20-plus million people – a little over $1 apiece.

Still, Oneonta’s new mayor, Gary Herzig, who is also Opportunities for Otsego COO for a few more months, applauds the measure, particularly in addressing “our local issues of inadequate housing and underemployment.”

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Consultant: To Fight Fires, City, Town Need Each Other Editor’s Note: A $33,000 study of the Oneonta Fire Department, commissioned by Common Council last May, encourages City and the Town of Oneonta Fire District #1 to maintain good relations. Here is an excerpt from the Center for Public Management Safety report.

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ecommendation: The city should maintain its current relationship with the Town of Oneonta Fire District in providing fire protection under this intermunicipal agreement.

The proximity of the fire district to the city is ideal for this type of contractual relationship. Fire and EMS services are provided more efficiently when done on a regional basis. Fire district officials speak highly of the services they are receiving and feel that the cost for these services are reasonable.

There are, however, strains in the relationship in that the fire district does

not feel that it can provide realistic and impactful input to the city regarding service delivery and the costs for fire services. It would behoove the city to develop some type of budget/review process that enables the town’s fire district board to have some input regarding fire service delivery in their jurisdiction.

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

200 YEARS AGO

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50 YEARS AGO

The effectiveness of fluoridated water in reducing tooth decay was demonstrated long before formal scientific investigation even began. Nature had conducted its own experiment among some seven million residents of 1,900 communities where water supplies had been fluoridated naturally. It was the observation of dentists in these areas that the residents developed less tooth decay than the national average. This led to investigations as to the reason and it was during these studies that the theory linking cavity prevention to fluorides was conceived.

January 12, 1966

175 YEARS AGO

News from the New York State Legislature – The conclusion of Governor Seward’s message furnishes some excellent specimens of the art of “soft sauntering” the different classes of people, for which its author is so famous. To those who were too badly frightened at the picture of ruin which the orators and journals of his party drew last fall, he says we are prosperous. To the lovers of internal improvements, he says they are rapidly going on. To those who demurred at his approving a Registry Law for the only city of six in the State which gave a Democratic majority, he says that legislation concerning the elective franchise ought never to be governed by partisan views. To satisfy those who objected to his peculiar kindness in relation to the education of foreign children he spends time in modifying his recommendation to their tastes. His sympathy for “that unfortunate race” is doubtless intended for the abolitionists.

January 18, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

Thanksgiving Hospital. Extract from the proceedings of the Otsego County Medical Society at a meeting held in Cooperstown on January 16 – Resolved: As the sense of this Society, that a well-constructed and well-ordered Hospital of moderate extent, is an Institution much to be desired in this county; and that the enlightened benevolence which should erect it, would prove true economy eventually, and receive an adequate reward in benefits bestowed. Resolved: That there is no apparent reason why small local hospitals should be less needed, or their advantages less sought for here, than in England, where village hospitals have long been in successful operation. Resolved: That we heartily approve the plan and efforts of the “Thanksgiving Hospital Association of this county and vicinity.” Horace Lathrop, Sec’y Pro Tem January 19, 1866

hunting the prized white-tail. Of this total there were three drowned, two died of heart attacks and the remaining eight met death by bullets either from their own guns or from those of hunting companions. Sixteen persons were wounded or injured during the open deer season.

January 15, 1941

25 YEARS AGO

The League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown area believes recycling is the most cost effective and environJanuary 16, 1891 mentally safe method of reusing and saving our natural resources. The League opposes burning of trash as a method to reduce the waste stream. Burning mixed paper, Styrofoam, plastic, and magazines, etc. by been proven by In Our Town – The air of mystery which pervades the New York State Health Department to produce hazardFreeman’s Clothes Shop suggests that the interest in the ous chemicals. The smoke and exhaust given off by such annual masquerade ball to be held at the Village Club on burning often settles near the ground and is a proven health Friday evening is about as usual. Freeman has the advanhazard. The practice of burning such waste in barrels, tage of being the only man in town who is able to identify the strange characters who invade the club on this occasion outdoor fireplaces, or wood stoves is not a suitable solution to reducing the trash that goes to the landfill. Martha B. – and he won’t tell.

Clarvoe The annual mid-winter contest in declamation and recitaJanuary 16, 1991 tion will be held at the high school assembly hall, Friday evening, February 11. The following students of the high school will participate in the contest – E. Ethel Apman, Grace E. Farquharson, Marion V. Greene, Edna P. Grover, Barbara Robinson, who, with her husband, Gordy, owns Marion Steere, Robert G. Cobbett, John L. Cronauer, AnRobinson Service Station on Chestnut Street, reports that drew C. Davidson, Ernest Hotaling, and Wilber D. Wilson. contaminated soil at the station is in the final stages of beJanuary 12, 1916 ing hauled away. “This is the last part of the journey,” we hope,” she said. Although contaminated with petroleum products, the soil is considered non-hazardous and is being hauled to a landfill in Albany for disposal. The Robinsons The 1940 hunting season in New York State claimed the specified that the work be done by local contractors. Scott lives of 28 persons and brought varying degrees of injury Ubner began the work which was completed by John Schalto 159 others the Conservation Department announced last lert, Jr. The project was monitored by Tom Lane of the New week. The figures for the 12-month period included all York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The accidents reported and were slightly under those of a year Robinsons are now hopeful of selling the property to an ago. In 1939, 30 persons lost their lives while 175 others were wounded or injured during the hunting season. During unnamed buyer.

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EYE ON THE WEATHER for 2015

Otsego County Was Colder In 2015, Wetter, With Less Snowfall. And Records Abounded Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, provides monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.

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ots of records in 2015, and a wild roller coaster ride! After suffering through a brutally cold and frigid January through March in 2014, things got even worse in 2015!

January through March 2015 was even more bitter and frigid than the same three months of 2014, if you can believe it! It was the coldest start to a year since the 1800’s.

January 2014 was 5.2 degrees below normal. January 2015 was 5.7 degrees colder than the norm. February 2014 was 4.3 degrees colder than usual. February 2015 was the coldest ever recorded, 13.3 degrees below normal.

That’s the biggest deviation from normal ever experienced since record keeping started

here in 1854.

March 2014 was 7.9 degrees colder than average.

March 2015 was 8.3 degrees below the norm, the second coldest March ever. The winter of 2015 was the coldest winter that anyone reading this article, or their parents for that matter, ever lived through.

A few more factoids regarding temperatures for the 2015 winter – everyday, except for one, saw temperatures below freezing. January had 9 days below 0 degrees, February had 13 days below 0 degrees, and March had three days below 0 degrees. We had 18.9 inches of snow in January, 36.0 inches in February and 10.1 inches in March, which totals 65.0 inches. Normal

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snowfall for that period is 51.5 inches.

Things began to let up a bit in April, but temperatures were 3.0 degrees below normal with average precipitation.

Things really changed in May, when we enjoyed temperatures that averaged 5.3 degrees above normal, but it was very dry. Our area received only half the normal rainfall for the month. We had 10 days in the 80s in May. It was a tough planting month for our good friends, the farmers.

June was 2.7 degrees cooler than normal and we received 9.36 inches of rainfall, which is 5.74 inches above average. The poor farmers!

July was also cooler and much wetter than normal. Temperatures averaged 2.6 degrees under par and the area saw 7.12 inches of rain. Again, the poor farmers!

August was just slightly cooler and drier than normal.

It was a comfortable summer for those of us who don’t like the heat. One good thing,

below normal. It’s amazing… two months out of 161 Highest Temperature...............................................89°F (Sept. 8) years of record keeping when temperatures were farthest Lowest Temperature......................................-16°F (Feb. 24) Average Maximum Temperature..........................................55.2°F from their normal were both Average Minimum Temperature...........................................33.5°F in 2015! Everyday but two in Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................44.4°F December saw temperatures Precipitation Total..................................................................46.46″ above freezing, a record.

Most Precipitation in One Day................................3.68” (Nov. 11) Our first measurable snowThunderstorms..............................................................................14 fall for winter was the latest Snow.........................................................................................66.5” ever recorded when 0.9 of an Most Snow in One Day................................................9.4” (Feb. 1) inch fell on December 19th, a Number of Days at or below zero F.............................................23 record. We only received 1.1 Number of Days at or below 32°F.............................157 for 2015 inches of snow for the entire month and that is also a record! What a month indeed! there was not a lot of severe for the month.

Just to sum up the year, it storm activity, we only had 14 November was 3.6 degrees was cooler than normal. Our thunderstorms. warmer than average and we mean temperature was 1.2 September was great for received about an inch more degrees below the normal, warm weather lovers. Temrain than we usually see. our precipitation totaled peratures were 3.4 degrees However, there was no mea46.46 inches, normal is 39.36 above normal and we only had surable snow for the month! inches, so we finished ahead six days with measurable rain. Strange!! by 7.1 inches.

Snowfall usuThe month was very dry until And then there was Deally totals 78.0 inches.

We 2.04 inches of liquid sunshine cember. Temperatures were had 66.5 inches for the year fell on us on Sept. 29.

13.6 degrees above average! or just above a foot shy of our October was 3.3 degrees That’s the biggest deviation normal total! colder than normal. October from normal since 1854!!!

What a year… it will be hard was dry like September, but on Remember back to February to beat and hard to forget!!!

October 28th 1.53 inches of 2015, that is now second at rain brought us to near normal 13.3 degrees, and that was

2015 IN REVIEW

Consultant: City, Town Will Depend On Each Other More, Not Less, For Firefighting STUDY/From A4 representatives, to provide realistic input into the costs and service delivery model provided under the fire contract between the city and the district.

The fire district operates in a manner consistent with any governing body with taxing authority. It must manage its costs and be accountable for its expenditures. To do this requires sound accounting practices and transparency.

The ability for the Town Fire District to have some say in the annual expenditure of nearly $950,000 in tax dollars is not unreasonable. CPSM believes that the city should provide this accommodation and include representation by the district’s board during budget deliberations regarding the Oneonta Fire Department.

The current funding formula is very complex and is difficult for the lay person to understand. While the financial concepts utilized in this formula are based on sound principals, including comparative valuation adjustments and an equalization rate, the complexity appears unnecessary and may contribute to the difficulties in the city and district reaching a service agreement.

Fortunately, the city and town are not restricted on the type of methodology by which a contract amount is established. Though it is crucial that the process be transparent and decided upon in a public forum, CPSM believes that a more simplified process will assist the parties in building needed trust.

The current contract cost of approximately $950,000 annually has been the basis for agreement in the past. CPSM believes that the city should attempt to propose that a new base rate for service be established and that a multiyear contract agreement negotiated, with an annual cost of living increase to adjust for inflation. When larger capital purchases are required, for example for a new apparatus or the construction of a new fire station, we would suggest that these added costs be addressed through a subsequent negotiation for determining

an appropriate cost-sharing formula for these isolated expenditures.

Recommendation: The city and fire district should move to simplify the funding formula for the fire services contract and move to a multiyear agreement that is built upon a new base rate with annual cost of living adjustments.

In addition to the fire district’s participation in the OFD’s budget review process, CPSM believes that a stronger day-to-day working relationship is needed between OFD and the district.

The district’s board has monthly meetings during which it conducts public business; CPSM recommends that OFD provide a departmental liaison to the board to

attend these meetings. This liaison would provide periodic updates regarding the OFD, report on call activities, new equipment purchases, upcoming service events, etc. The fire chief would normally be the appropriate representative to serve in this capacity; the assistant fire chief may also be a suitable representative for this assignment.

Recommendation: OFD should assign a liaison to the fire district to serve as the official point of contact between the Oneonta Fire District and OFD regarding the fire contract.

The Town of Oneonta is experiencing growth at a more rapid rate than the rate of growth occurring within city limits. Much of the area’s commercial growth

is occurring in the town and as this growth continues, it will create greater demand for emergency response and prevention efforts.

It is not unrealistic to anticipate that a second fire station and added response personnel may be needed as a result of this growth. It is also likely that these additional resources would need to be located outside the city and within the town. The ability to expand emergency services and construct an additional fire station facility will require direct communication and skillful collaboration.

Strong relationships are built around good communications and trust. CPSM feels that it is in the best interest of both the city and the fire district to work diligently toward improving their working relationship.

CPSM believes that the relationship between the city and the town is crucial to the ongoing success and efficiency of the fire department. We believe this relationship is extremely viable, but it will require a concerted effort from both parties to ensure that the lines of communications remain open and substantive dialogue takes place. The city and town should formalize the avenues for viable input regarding key service delivery decisions. The strategic planning process would be an ideal venue for city and town officials to design the future service network for emergency services.

It is very likely that future service demands will require a multiple station format and this may even necessitate the relocation of the current fire station to ensure optimal cov-

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The strategic planning process can provide significant benefit to both the city and town. In this effort, key stakeholders can align in determining the future design of the department and the measurement of its service performance outcomes.

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Historic preservationist Jessie Ravage was present on that historic evening: When “The Last Fish Fry� was served at the Kingfisher Cafe on Railroad Avenue.

Former Kingfisher Cafe Proprietor Plans Reunion, Including Famed Fish & Chips

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5 and 6:30 p.m. A fish & chips dinner, with coleslaw and dessert, is $20.

Welch and her then-husband Art Brush opened the Kingfisher Market in the basement of 21 Railroad Ave., now the Bassett Pain Management & Physical Therapy Clinic, in 1981. “We started as a seafood and produce market, but then we moved upstairs and opened the cafĂŠ,â€? she said.

The cafĂŠ was a central

gathering place for locals, The groovy mural that once graced the south especially in the summer side of 21 Railroad Avenue has since been tourist months. “We were painted over. off the beaten path, and the the famous painted mural it’s light,� she said. “Some locals really appreciated along the southside wall. people put beer or spices in that,� she said. “A local artist wanted to their batter, but I prefer one Sometimes, music was paint a mural, so we let that doesn’t take away from on the menu. “We would her,� said Welch. “But the flavor of the fish.� have Ernie Williams and when it was finished, Lady “It’s a great fish fry,� said the Wildcats or the RubOstapek said ‘That cannot Johnson. “It’s really light ber Band,� she said. “And remain in Cooperstown’.� and flavorful.� everyone would dance!�

The mural was painted If there was still room, It was also an arts scene, a diner could get a piece with craft nights where din- over a few years later.

Most remembered were of Pam’s carrot cake or ers could decorate pysanka, the plentiful helpings of peaches and cream tart, and those elaborate Ukrainian her famous fish & chips. on Friday, Johnson will be

painted eggs. “I use an English batter, so making crème brule.

And many will remember

In Baseball Bethlehem, No Rooms At The Inns INDUCTION/From A1 Hall of Fame inductees, the phones began ringing. “They’re ringing off the hook,� said Matt Hazzard, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce executive director. “We’ve been telling people that they may have to stay as far out as Utica or Albany.�

The Chamber website did show that a few motels, including the Hickory Grove Motor Inn and the Lake and Pine motel, did have rooms available, but they’re likely to go fast, even with prices in the $300 range. “We had to put up notices on Facebook to tell people we were booked,� said Kingsley. “People would call up, and when we told them we didn’t have any rooms left, we got called liars, they were screaming at us. They didn’t want to take no for an answer.� “I had friends in Manhattan trying to get hotel rooms, and they ended up booking ones in Amsterdam,� said Mayor Jeff Katz. “Now’s the time when people start calling me asking if they can sleep over at my place.�

Even as early as three years ago, Katz recalled, some cousins asked him at a family member’s wedding if

they could camp in his back yard for Piazza’s induction.

This is his fourth year on the ballot. “I checked, and it doesn’t seem like there’s any laws about setting a tent up in the backyard!� said the mayor.

But since Piazza’s announcement that he would be entering as a Mets player, Katz believes that many fans will drive up from New York that morning, as Boston fans did for Pedro Martinez last year.

Griffey Jr., son of “Big Red Machine� player Ken Griffey Sr., broke Tom Seaver’s 1992 voting record, garnering 99.32 percent of the votes. “When I called Tom to tell him that his record had been broken

by Ken, he said, ‘I always knew he would be a Hall of Famer’,� said Idelson.

Griffey Jr. played for 22 years and racked up 630 home runs. He was a 13time All Star and won 10 Golden Glove awards.

And with 83 percent of the ballot, Piazza played 16 seasons, most notably with the Mets and the L.A. Dodgers. He was a 12-time All-Star and 10-time Silver Slugger Award winner as a catcher, with 427 home runs.

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COOPERSTOWN ormer mayor Carol B. Waller has lived here most of her adult life, and thought Kingfisher Tower had been built by the Clark family as a jobs project.

But she – and many of the 200-plus people who packed the Hall of Fame’s Grandstand Theater Sunday, Jan. 10 (more than 100 had to be turned away) – learned something new in a rare local public address by Jane Forbes Clark, whose “Birthplace of Baseball” license plate, #1, reflects her

The SRO crowd listened raptly, and applauded frequently.

status in the community and Otsego County at large.

In the 1870s, Miss Clark related, her family was planning to build the landmark Dakota apartment building at 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City (a century later, John Lennon’s final home), and were considering a young architect, Henry J. Hardenbergh, for the job.

To test his skills, the architect was brought up to Cooperstown to design 60foot-tall Kingfisher Tower, on Otsego Lake’s Point Judith, and the lodge behind it, Jane reported. Delighted, Edward C. Clark, Miss Clark’s greatgreat-grandfather, awarded The Dakota contract to Hard-

enbergh, who went on to an eminent career.

“I thought it was wonderful. I think everybody in this room learned something,” said Waller, as elated audience members reluctantly departed after the hour-long Friends of the Village Library’s Sunday Afternoon Program, including 40 minutes of Q&A. For instance, did you know: • When Jane’s grandfather, Stephen C. Clark, brought home the dog-eared “Abner Doubleday Baseball” to the family’s Fernleigh mansion, her grandmother, Susan Vanderpoel Clark, declared, “no, no, not on my mantelpiece.” The relic was exiled to 22 Main, becomPlease See LEGACY, B3

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“I was talking with Julie Dostal at LEAF

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and Jeanette Tolson at Friends of Recovery and we were trying to think of how we could fill the gap,” she said. “There are so few opportunities to detox in a medical

environment here in Otsego County.”

With ties to the holistic and faith communities, Feik reached out to create a new environment for heroin users to abstain. “It’s not a medical process,” she said. “It’s a supportive environment where symptoms of withdrawal can be supported and treated.”

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Kinder, Gentler Rehab Tested EASE/From B1 “From what I understand, withdrawal from heroin is like the flu times a million,” said Feik. “We would have a list of symptoms and a menu of holistic and overthe-counter remedies for each of them. This aromatherapy oil for nausea, this tea for diarrhea, and it would all be stocked in the room.”

Upon check-in, an E.A.S.E volunteer, trained through Friends of Recovery, would help set up appointments for reiki, energy and massage treatments and prayer, as well as human services and medical appointments.

“By using the word ‘abstaining’ instead of ‘detox,’ it says to the addict that this is a choice, that they can say, ‘I can abstain for an hour.’

It’s hopeful.”

“I don’t know of any place else that treats addiction like this,” said Dostal.

“We’re creating something from scratch that will help people here in Otsego County.”

It is that hope of a life free from addiction that sustains the Crossroads Inn. “We’ve served 75 people since we opened in 2013, with an average stay of four

months,” she said.

A former motel on Route 7, Crossroads has been turned into a series of studio apartments where recovering addicts can live in a sober environment. The Feiks help them find work and meet appointments, and they can participate in craft activities, prayer and Bible studies and other group activities.

But recently, the death of Kasia, first person she and Brad ever housed, has inspired her to work harder at helping those in recovery.

“She lived in our house for three months before we even opened Crossroads, and she overdosed last September,” she said. “I’ve been talking to Senator Jim Seward about putting forth a bill that would extend the Department of Social Services insurance coverage for a time after someone is released from jail to give them time to get their own insurance in order.”

“Senator Seward was extremely moved by her story,” said Jeff Bishop, Seward’s communications director.

As a member of the Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction, the senator is bringing the mat-

ter to the attention of his colleagues on the task force and is working to develop and draft appropriate legislation.”

And the Feiks are hoping to expand their services, including buying a new building so they can house more people on their path to recovery. “Our goal is to get more people in here so they can leave us,” said Nicole.

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Curious Crowd Explores Family History LEGACY/From A1 ing an early centerpiece of the collection that, in 1939, became the Hall of Fame.

• Not only are a horse – Jane’s great-uncle Ambrose Clark’s favorite thoroughbred, Kellsbro Jack – and a dog – Buttons, his favorite retriever (of 3,866 birds) – buried at the Irish Tower, off Beaver Meadow Road, so are Ambrose Clark and his second wife, Meg. • When the Japanese fallow deer you see grazing in the fenced-off meadow across from the Clark Sports Center were acquired by Ambrose Clark in 1930, they were waist tall. Since, “some other deer have jumped the fence,” resulting in a somewhat taller mixed breed, Miss Clark reported.

Jane Forbes Clark has headed her family’s interests since the passing of her father, Stephen C. Clark, Jr., in 1992, and she detailed the particulars of main entities: • The Clark Foundation, founded in 1931, best known for the scholarship program that, since its founding in 1961, has spent $97 million helping 11,000 students in 13 local school districts with their college tuition.

• The Scriven Foundation, founded in 1950. It gives $2 million grants a year to in-county beneficiaries that range from Springbrook to the OCCA, Hyde Hall and the SSPCA. It also funds Miss Clark’s grandmother’s

Cooperstown’s Diane Koffer participates in the question-andanswer session.

horticultural outreach: Begun with four hanging baskets in downtown Cooperstown in 1950, it soon expanded to decorating altars of the five local churches with poinsettia at Christmas and tulips at Easter. Today, it is a community beautification effort led by Mike Bouton and a staff of 10 operating out of 16,000 square feet of greenhouse.

• The Clark Sports Center, founded downtown in 1891 as the Alfred Corning Clark gym, after Jane’s great-grandfather. On outer Susquehanna since 1983, the sports center has almost 5,000 members, and is supported with a $2 million Clark stipend annually. The 50,000-square-foot addition, due for completion by fall, will double the facility’s size

and include Bassett Hospital’s physical-therapy clinic.

• Mohican Farm, at West Lake and Allen roads, which is experimenting with ways “to support the needs of the current population” of Otsego County. (Its manager, Bob Sutherland, will detail its activities at a 3 p.m., April 17 Sunday Afternoon Program at 22 Main.)

• The Leatherstocking Corp., the for-profit arm of the Clark Enterprises, which operates The Otesaga, Cooper Inn and Leatherstocking Golf Course.

Miss Clark listed the environment, preservation, education and jobs – today, the entities provide 4,000, of which 3,000 are fulltime – as the historic mission of her family since Edward C. Clark, her great-great-grandfather and a partner with Isaac Singer in the Singer Sewing Machine Co., took a Cooperstown bride, Caroline Jordan, in 1835, and began spending time in his adopted hometown.

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Dr. Davis is writing a history of Bassett due for publication later this year.

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Clark Scholarship Made My Career, Says Ph.D. LEGACY/From B3 and, opening the floor to questions, was the recipient of 40 minutes of accolades and fond reminiscences.

Hartwick professor Ted Peters Jr., recalled the Christmas program, featuring Broadway stars, the Clarks hosted annually in the quarry at Chicken Hill Farm Road. Miss Clark recalled it was one of her grandmother Susan’s favorite activities.

John Webb, who recently returned to Cooperstown after a career as a Princeton professor, told how, raised Miss Clark accepts the standing ovation at the on a farm, he was unsure how to pay for college. In session’s end.

1964, he wrote the Clark camp on Glimmerglass in Scholarship Program and, the 1950s – was particularly four years later, “graduated appreciative the Clarks had from college debt-free.” preserved the east side of “There is no other place in Otsego Lake from developthis country that receives ment. this level of generosity,” he Miss Clark, who has no testified. children, was asked about Recalling summer boythe future, and was reashoods, David Rowley, the suring. “Everyone,” she former interim Oneonta City said of her colleagues in the Schools superintendent, Clark organization, “is all attending with his cousins single-mindedly committed – their fathers had bought a to the family vision here.

So I don’t envision any changes for the next couple of generations.”

That was certainly the hope in the room, as repeated applause and a standing ovation at the end punctuated. “I was very impressed,” Wendell Tripp, another former village mayor and retired editor of NYSHA’s New York History journal, said of the program. “But I’ve been impressed by everything about the Clark family for decades.”

Tripp said he particularly admires how the Clark organization operates quietly, doing good outside the limelight.

At the time the doors closed, the queue of people waiting to get in snaked back and forth through the Hall of Fame lobby, out the front door and along the sidewalk as far east as the door to the Hall’s administration building.

Lynn Mebust, Friends’ president, said, because of the demand, Miss Clark has agreed to give the talk again at a later date.

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Thursday, January 14

NOVEL DISCUSSION - noon Thursdays through Feb. 4. Study C.S. Lewis, exploring life choices, and the vast difference between heaven and hell. Free. Parish Hall, Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown.

WOODSIDE HALL TALK -- 6:30 p.m. Woodside Hall presents “New York State’s Black Bears: Biology, Behavior and Management” with Larry Bifaro, state wildlife biologist. Free. Reception after. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.woodsidehallcooperstown.com.

DINNER THEATER -- 6 p.m.

GMU Drama Club presents “100 Years of Broadway.” Dinner & show $15; balcony seating (no dinner) $5. All proceeds benefit GMU Board of Education Scholarship Fund. Gym, GilbertsvilleMt. Upton School, Gilbertsville.

Please call (607) 783-2207, x140 to reserve tickets.

LIBRARY BUDGETING CLASS -- 6:30 p.m. Citizen’s Bank presents “Money Matters,” a free class on building wealth through budgeting, with Valerie Tiffany.

Free take-home guide. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call library at (607) 432-1980 to register.

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Friday, January 15

SENIOR NOMINATION DEADLINE -- Otsego Co. Office of the Aging deadline for nominations for local outstanding senior volunteers (60 & older), for recognition during Older Americans Month in May. Nominees can be an individuals or couple.

Activities can be through an organization, or informal helping of others. Info, nomination forms at Cooperstown office (607) 5474232 or Oneonta office (607) 432-9041.

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With purple pinkies and T-shirts, members of David Peplinski’s 6th grade class announce to their classmates Friday, Jan. 9, they are raising funds to help eradicate polio. The class gave a presentation on polio and Rotary International’s campaign to end it worldwide. This week, the class set up collection tables 8-8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. A sister campaign is planned at the high school next week. Money raised will be turned over to the Cooperstown Rotary. Any donations received will be matched 2-to-1 by the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation. Vaccination of youngsters in parts of Nigeria and Pakistan, the last holdouts of the disease, costs $1 each.

Cooperstown. English-style fish & chips, coleslaw and dessert. $20, by reservation. Tango NY Pizza Kitchen, 3692 Rte. 28, Milford.

Res, Tango at (607) 286-4054, or Pam Welch at (607)376-1257.

THROW A BOWL -- 6 p.m. (also 1 p.m. Sats. Jan. 16 & 23). Create and decorate some unique chili bowls for Oneonta’s upcoming “Chili Bowl Cookoff” fundraiser for the Community Arts Network of Oneonta. All materials provided. No charge, just help make chili bowls! All ages welcome. Carriage House Art Studio (behind CANO at Wilber Mansion), 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-2070 CABIN FEVER FILM -- 7 p.m.

Annual free “Cabin Fever” film series, every Friday through Feb. 12. Presented by the Baseball Hall of Fame and Fenimore Art Museum. Tonight: the musical “Rent.” Refreshments available, to aid Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org AUDUBON PROGRAM -- 7:30 p.m. Noted nature photographer

Rick Bunting shows his “Favorite Photos of 2015.”. Free; hosted by the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society. See Bunting’s photos of birds, insects and other natural subjects. Free; refreshments served. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 643-5680; info@doas.us

Saturday, January 16

COOP FARMERS MARKET -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan-April. Seasonal fruits, veggies, local meats, handmade goods, more. 2016 is market’s 25th anniversary.

Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), Cooperstown, Info, (607) 5476195, www.otsego2000.org ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET -9 a.m.-1 p.m. Locally-grown food, flowers, crafts, more. Indoors Nov.-April at Main St. Garage Walkway, at Dietz St., Oneonta.

Info, www.oneontafarmersmarket.com BRIGHT HILL WORKSHOP -- 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. two Saturdays, Jan. 16 & 23. for grades 7 -12.

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All materials provided. No charge, just help make chili bowls! All ages welcome. Carriage House Art Studio (behind CANO at Wilber Mansion), 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2070 or www.canoneonta.org

Sunday, January 17

MLK CELEBRATION - 2-4 p.m.

Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration, hosted by Oneonta NAACP and City of Oneonta Commission on Community Relations and Human Rights. Free. Readings, jazz ensemble, Oneonta MLK Choir, spirituals, poetry, more. Birthday cake and other desserts. Choir leader Robin Seletsky invites all to join in; no experience needed, but please arrive at 1 p.m. for rehearsal.

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Jean Elizabeth (Smith) Kafchinski, 89; Hartwick College Bursar Retired In ’95 ONEONTA – Jean Elizabeth (Smith) Kafchinski, 89, retired Hartwick College bursar, passed away Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at Fox Hospital.

A longtime resident of Oneonta, she was born on Dec. 7, 1926, in Lymanville, Pa. A loving wife, mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother, she was the daughter of the late Garney and Anna (Lyman) Smith.

Jean graduated from Springfield High School in Springfield, Pa., moving to Oneonta in 1952. She was a member of the Jaycees in her early years. In 1990 Jean joined St. Mary’s Catholic Church and continued to be a part of the RCIA team for many years.

She worked in the business office at Hartwick College for 33 years, retiring from as bursar – college finance officer – in Decem-

ber 1995.

While Jean had only one sibling, she had numerous loving sisters in Beta Sigma Phi, which Jean Kafchinski she joined in 1972 and became a lifetime member.

She held the position of each office, including the position of President, several times. She received her Chapter’s Woman of the Year award four times and the International Award of Distinction honor in 2011.

On July 18, 1945, she was united in marriage to Stanley Kafchinski in Lymanville. He predeceased her on April 1, 2013.

She is survived by her three children, Ronald and his wife, Linda of

Sykesville, Md,; Rodney of Unadilla; Regina Baker and her husband, Cecil of Oneonta, and one former daughter-in-law, Patricia Green Kafchinski; eight grandchildren, Robert Kafchinski of Millville, Del., Joseph Kafchinski and wife, Cara of Herndon, Va., James Kafchinski and wife, Mary Ellen Withrow of Chevy Chase, Md., Bradley Baker and husband, Matthew Powell of Chicago, Ill., Amanda Baker Tolbert and husband, Chris of Hanahan, S.C., Marcia Kafchinski Lundin and husband, Jeff of Springfield, Va., Garrett Kafchinski of Brooklyn, and Nathan Kafchinski of Unadilla. She also had three great-grandchildren, Alexandria and Hudson Tolbert, and Jane Lundin.

She is also survived by her one and only dear cousin, Sally (Skinner) Sandford

Ronald Thompson, 72, Cherry Valley; Air Force Veteran, Volunteer Fireman CHERRY VALLEY – Ronald M ( Ronnie ) Thompson of Cherry Valley died Saturday Jan. 9, 2016 at Bassett Hospital.

Born in Cherry Valley on Jan. 23, 1943, to Harold (Pete ) and Jessie Margaret Montgomery Thompson, he was a 1960 graduate of Cherry Valley Central School. Ron served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1970.

He was a past member of

Frederick Sousa Jr., 64; Self-Employed Mechanic In Oneonta ONEONTA – Frederick J. Sousa, Jr., 64, a self-employed auto mechanic in Oneonta for many years, passed away Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 at Fox Hospital.

He was born on Dec. 15, 1951, the son of Frederick J. Sr. and Geraldine (Eckler) Sousa, who survive him.

A life-long Oneonta resident, Fred was a 1969 graduate of Oneonta High School.

He attended and graduated from Delhi Ag & Tech College with a degree in automotive Mechanics.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta.

Fred is survived by his parents, Frederick J. Sr. and Geraldine Sousa; his children, daughter Laura and husband Matthew Wahlberg and their children, Rachel, Cadence and Megan; son Frederick III and his wife Colleen Sousa and their children, Evan and Corrine; son Kevin and his wife Tammy Sousa and their son Zackary; and son Brian and his wife Kristen Sousa and their children, Nicholas and Alexes; sisters and brothers in law, Pamela Rifanburg; Debra and Tom Elwood; and Michael and Mary Sousa; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

the Cherry Valley Fire Department and was a 37 year member of American Legion Post 1360 of Cherry Valley.

He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Bonnie Costello Thompson; his daughter, Dawn Thompson Gage and her husband Dennis, and two grandsons. Also surviving are his brother Walter and his wife Mollie, a sister Marjorie Dubben and her husband Sam, and a brother Jon and his wife Jill.

Calling hours will be 7-9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

Funeral services with military honors will be at 11 a.m on Saturday, Jan. 16, also at Ottman Funeral Home. Internment will be at the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in the spring.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

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Ronald R. Robinson, 75; Retired Nabisco Executive

CANAJOHARIE – Services were held Friday, and husband Fred of Annap- Jan. 9 for Ronald R. Robinolis, MD and several nieces, son, 75, a former Nabisco nephews and their families. executive who passed away peacefully on Dec. 30, 2015, Jean was predeceased at Bassett Hospital, while by her parents and her one holding the hand of his wife, brother, L. O’Dell Smith.

Nancy, to whom he was Calling hours are 4-7 married for 49 years. p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, Ron attended Morrisville at the Lester R. Grummons Junior College, received Funeral Home.

A funeral mass will be at his master’s degree in food chemistry at the University 10:15 a.m. Thursday, Jan. of Georgia, where he was 14, in St. Mary’s Church, president of the Delta Tau Oneonta with the Rev. Delta fraternity. He graduDavid Mickiewicz, pastor, ated in the first MBA class at officiating.

Burial will follow in the the Stamford branch of the University of Connecticut.

Mount Calvary Cemetery, Ron was a marketing Emmons. director at Nabisco for over In lieu of flowers, con25 years. tributions may be made to Following his retirement Catholic Charities of Dela- he and Nancy moved back ware, Otsego and Schenevus to Innsboro Farm in Buel, Counties, online at www. where they shared their charitiesccdos.org. happiest and most peaceful Arrangements are by the years surrounded by wonderLester R. Grummons Fuful friends and neighbors. neral Home, Oneonta.

He is survived by his wife Nancy Turturro Robinson,

their children, Kellie and (Josh) Emily and Alexis; Corky (Derek) Sturtevant, Riley, Luke, and Jake; Stacy (Eugene) Jarka, Drew, Mallory, Sydney; his son Brett, and fiancée, Jacci DiTullio, Caitlin (Daniel) Petrelle, Wyatt and step-grandchildren, Daniel, Aryion and Jacob. He was pre-deceased by his infant grandson, John Eugene Petrelle.

A wake was held Friday, January 8, 2015 at the Ottman Funeral Home in Cherry Valley. A celebration of his life was held Jan. 9 at the Reformed Church of Canajoharie.

For five years Ron received extraordinary care at Bassett Hospital. The family requests that any donations in his name be made to the Bassett Cancer Center, 1 Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13226 Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home.

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Tuesday, January 19

MOBILE LIBRARY - 9:30 a.m.2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tuesdays & Thursdays monthly.

Four-county Cybermobile visits West Oneonta, Oneonta, Fly Creek, Schuyler Lake, Mt. Vision & Wells Bridge Tuesdays Jan. 19, Feb. 16 and March 15. Info, times, (607) 723-8236 or check Twitter (@4clsCybermobile) YOUTH CHORAL AUDITIONS -- 4:30-7 p.m. Catskill Choral Society Youth Choir auditions for ages 6-14. No preparation needed; director will provide music. Performances April 8-9.

First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info, or to set appointment, (607) 431-6060, option 2. www.catskillchoralsociety.com.

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Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Registration required; call library at (607) 432-1980.

MIND-BODY MEET -- 6 p.m.

Spring back from the holidays with some friendly fellowship.

First 2016 meeting of Mind Body Spirit Collective. All welcome; please bring a dish or beverage to share. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, email Angela Deleski at spatch1224@yahoo. com (subject line MBSC).

Wednesday, January 20

LIBRARY AFTER-SCHOOL -- Starting day for fun afterschool adventures for ages 8-12.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Registration required; call library at (607) 432-1980.

SUPPER CLUB -- 7 p.m. Becca Frame and the Tall Boys (acoustic rock, blues, Motown, country).

B Side Ballroom & Supper Club, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, www.bsideballroom.com.

Friday, January 22

RICHFIELD SPRINGS FORUM DEADLINE -- Deadline to submit online Richfield Springs Community Center Collaboration Forum survey, to share community “goals and needs.” 5-minute survey to be followed by public meeting announcing results, time TBA. Survey at www.richfieldspringscommunitycenter.org.

CABIN FEVER FILM -- 7 p.m.

Annual free “Cabin Fever” film series, every Friday through Feb. 12.

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Thursday, January 21

NOVEL DISCUSSION -- noon Thursdays through Feb. 4. Study C.S. Lewis’ classic novel “The

WINTER CARNIVAL -- (Also Jan 22-31) Annual Lions Club Winter Carnival in Richfield Springs. Activities, entertainment, displays, more. Info, Community Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs, (315) 858-3200.

MOBILE LIBRARY - 9:30 a.m.2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tuesdays & Thursdays monthly.

Four-county Cybermobile visits Oneonta, Schenevus, Westford, South Valley & Middlefield, Thursdays Jan 21, Feb. 18 & March 17. Info, times, (607) 723-8236 or check Twitter (@4clsCybermobile) YOUTH CHORAL AUDITIONS -- 4:30-7 p.m. Catskill Choral Society Youth Choir auditions for ages 6-14. No preparation needed; director will provide music. Performances April 8-9.

First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info, or to set appointment, (607) 431-6060, option 2. www.catskillchoralsociety.com.

Presented by the Baseball Hall of Fame and Fenimore Art Museum. Tonight: “Sweeney Todd.” Refreshments available, to aid Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org SQUARE DANCE -- 7:3010 p.m., Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown hosts. $5 per person at door. Rod Taylor will call. Emma Taylor will cue.

Cooperstown Elementary School, Walnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8665.

Saturday, January 23

LBA BEEKEEPING CLASS -- 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Snow date Jan.

30). Beginner’s class covers bee biology, getting started, equipment, management, diseases, pests, hive products, Q&A. Presented by LeatherStocking Beekeepers Association. $30 fee. Cherry Valley Springfield High School, Cherry Valley. Preregister at (607) 264-3265 or email pjohnson@cvscs.org.

CCE BEEKEEPING WORKSHOP -- 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schoharie & Otsego hosts beekeeping workshop. $38 fee. SUNY Cobleskill Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources (new building on north campus near greenhouses), 2nd flr, Room 208. Bring own lunch. Register at (518) 255-5528.

BRIGHT HILL WORKSHOP -- 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. two Saturdays, Jan. 16 & 23. for grades 7 -12.

Topic: “A Feast of Words: The Hazel Poetry & Visual Arts Workshop III.” Led by Bertha Rogers. $45 fee, but local scholarships available. Snacks provided, but bring lunch. Bright Hill Press and Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. Info, (607) 829-5055, or email wordthur@stny.rr.com KIDS WORKSHOP DEADLINE -- Deadline to register for Bright Hill’s annual Winter Literary Workshops for Kids. Theme: “Winter weather: who/what lives in & under it?” Workshop dates: Sats, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Feb. 6, 13, 27 & March 5, 12. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. Info, email wordthur@stny.rr.com or (607) 829-5055.

QUILT SHOW REGISTRATION -10 a.m.-3 p.m. Calling all quilters and quilt collectors. One-day registration for 2016 Fenimore Quilt Club Show, to run Feb. 6-21.

Bring no more than two quilted items to Cooperstown Art Association galleries, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, Jean Lyon at (607) 547-2709 or CAA at (607) 547-9777.

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RICHFIELD SPRINGS AUCTION -- 5 p.m. Helping Hands Club Chinese Auction fundraiser at Richfield Springs Central School, 93 Main St., Richfield Springs.

Info, (315) 858-0610.

CHAMBER AFTER HOURS -- 5:30 p.m. Business After Hours event hosted by Otsego County Chamber of Commerce. Group tour information night for Sicily, Italy. Stella Luna Ristorante, Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4500 or www.otsegocc.com.

Friday, January 29

CABIN FEVER FILM -- 7 p.m.

Annual “Cabin Fever” film series, every Friday through Feb. 12.

Free. Presented by the Baseball Hall of Fame and Fenimore Art Museum. Tonight: “The Way We Were,” starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Refreshments available, to benefit Susquehanna Animal Shelter.

Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum. org.

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Adults $15; seniors & students $12; under age 12 $10. Foothills (Production Center), 24 Market St., Oneonta. To reserve tickets, (607) 434-6606.

SUPPER CLUB -- 9 p.m. FrenchAmerican singer-songwriter Francesca Blanchard (acoustic folk).

B Side Ballroom & Supper Club, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, www.bsideballroom.com.

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Sun. Jan 31). Tony Award-winning play “The Elephant Man,” by Bernard Pomerance. Featuring local cast. Adults $15; seniors & students $12; under age 12 $10.

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Sunday, January 31

THEATER -- 3 p.m. Tony Awardwinning play “The Elephant Man,”

by Bernard Pomerance. Featuring local cast. Adults $15; seniors & students $12; under age 12 $10.

Foothills (Production Center), 24 Market St., Oneonta. To reserve tickets, (607) 434-6606.

Friday, February 5

WINTER CARNIVAL -- (Also Feb. 6-7). Annual winter fete in Cooperstown for villagers and visitors, hosted by the Cooperstown Lions Club. Full schedule soon at www.cooperstowncarnival.org.

CABIN FEVER FILM -- 6:30 p.m. artifact preview; 7 p.m. film.

Annual free “Cabin Fever” film series, every Friday through Feb. 12. Presented by the Baseball Hall of Fame and Fenimore Art Museum. Tonight: “Rudy.” 6:30

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AUTHOR VISIT -- 7:30 p.m.

SUNY Oneonta Red Dragon Reading Series hosts local author and journalist Libby Cudmore, whose new mystery novel, “The Big Rewind,” is described as a “clever noir romp through hipster Brooklyn.” Free. Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.oneonta.edu

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CABIN FEVER FILM -- 6 p.m. party; 7 p.m. film. Final night of 12th annual free “Cabin Fever” film series. Presented by the Baseball Hall of Fame and Fenimore Art Museum. Tonight: family-friendly animated hit “Minions.” At 6 p.m., a “Minion” themed party for kids (and their parents) leading up to film.

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Grandstand Theater, National Baseball Hall of Fame, 25 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org.

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HD OPERA BROADCAST -- 12:55 p.m. Live HD broadcast from The Metropolitan Opera: “Turandot” by Puccini. Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, tickets, (607) 431-2080 or www. foothillspac.org CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m.

Cooperstown Concert Series presents “The Canal Street String Band.” Trio offers fiddle tunes, sea shanties, cowboy songs, western swing. Tickets at Ellsworth and Sill, Church & Scott, Fly Creek General Store, and at door. Rain or shine, snow or ice.

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