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“I don’t have any answers right now, but I’ll know a lot more in a few weeks, after the partners meet to discuss what we COOPERSTOWN want to do,” said Ferrara. “The partners are curious if there is a demand for a hotel eviving plans for a high-end hotel in the downtown area of Cooperstown.” is one idea former TJ’s Place ownHe expects the meeting will happen er Perry Ferrara will discuss with before the end of the month. his two partners in BTP Cooperstown, A one-time haberdashery, for years, Ted Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal Tom Lagan and Bob Hurley.

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R A few days after hiding in a bunker in Hawaii, fearing a missile strike, Katie and Robert Duncan, daughter and sonin-law of “Big” Chuck D’Imperio, welcomed Tessa Marie Duncan on Tuesday, Jan. 16/FULL STORY, A2

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ant to help make the 51st annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival even more fun?

Learn how you can volunteer at a public reception noon - 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Tunnicliff Inn, sponsored by the Lions Club.

Lions will also be available 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sunday the 21st at the Welcome Center tents in Pioneer Park seeking dozens of volunteers for the carnival, planned Feb. 9 - 11 throughout the village.

END OF ERA: Father John P. Rosson, veteran pastor of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church, has told his congregation he will retire in 2018.

BLOW TO PIPELINE: On Jan. 11, FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) declined to overrule New York State’s blocking of the Constitution Pipeline, saying the company missed an application deadline. The company plans to appeal.

atskill Area Hospice’s new combined headquarters on Oneonta’s River Street has allowed it to hire three more nurses and expand its service regionwide, Hospice President Dan Ayres said during an open house at the site.

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Car Plows Into Home On Rte. 28 Noise Wakes Milford Family Odyssey and veered off the right shoulder, striking a snow bank.

His vehicle continued over a MILFORD snowy front lawn and crashed through the wall of the ike most people in Jones’ kitchen.

Otsego County, at “He tried to back the 1 a.m. on Sunday, car out, then got out and Jan. 14, Tammy and asked us to help him Barry Jones were asleep leave,” said Tammy. in the downstairs bed“Then he asked if he room of their Route 28 could use our bathroom. home when something “I said ‘no.’ That was shook the whole house. not an option.”

“It was a rude awak- Driver Ray She called 911, and Agard was ening,” said Tammy. within minutes, the charged in Downstairs, she found Milford Fire Department “there was a car right in the crash. and sheriff’s deputies front of our dishwasher.” responded. “This isn’t an According to Otsego County everyday occurrence, but we’ve Sheriff’s deputies, Ray Agard, had it happen before,” Sheriff 68, Fort Plain, was northbound Richard J. Devlin Jr. said later. out of this village when he “It was just a shock,” said lost control of his 2005 Honda Please See CRASH, A2

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The hole in the Jones’ kitchen wall.frames Deputy Chris Solovitch, one of the first responders at the scene, Sunday, Jan. 14.

Tough Problem? Summon Stuligross! Now She’s Leaving

VALENTINE FUN: The Kay StuligFriends of Bassett’s second ross leans on a newel annual Valentine’s Soiree post in her is 6:30 - 11 p.m. Saturday, mansion Feb. 10, at The Otesaga, with district proceeds going to a state-ofhome, the-art operating room. $150 which per person. she’s put-

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Adept In Politics, It Was People Who Motivated Veteran County Rep

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er first week after retiring from the Otsego County Board of Representatives, Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Kay Stuligross was as busy

as ever.

“I had to make a presentation to the Oneonta Concert Association and went line dancing at the Elm Park Methodist Church,” she said. “Haven’t had time to

do that in awhile!”

Stuligross, 81, who served a decade as District 14 representative, declined to run for a sixth term, and Democrat Liz Shannon was elected Nov. 7 to succeed her as of Jan. 1.

“I found politics very Please See KAY, A6

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THREE DAYS LATER, LITTLE TESSA ARRIVES

‘Big Chuck’s’ Pregnant Daughter Fled Missile Scare

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Lyman Townsend, left, the Leatherstocking Corp.’s director of maintenance, directs the removal of the former Cooperstown General Store sign from the front of 32 Main St., at the end of last week.

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ettled down for an afternoon nap, Chuck D’Imperio awoke to a message no parent ever wants to see.

“We just got a message: Missiles are coming to the island,” wrote his daughter, Katie, who lives in Hawaii with her husband Robert Duncan and their son, Connor, 3. “We are headed to a shelter.”

“I was in shock,” said D’Imperio. “I turned on my TV, trying to figure out what was going on. I talked to a lot of people who had family who either

lived down there or were on vacation, and they all got the same message.”

Katie was days away from giving birth to the couple’s second child, and was upstairs resting when the alert came in at around 8 a.m. last Saturday, Jan. 13 “Robert’s parents were there, and everyone’s phones went off,” he said.

“He went upstairs to get Katie; they all got in the truck with the dogs and drove to the designated shelter.”

Katie described the shelter as “a mountain with a hole in it.” “She said it was dark and dank, with a dirt floor,” he said. “All she could think was, ‘I’m having my baby in a hole in the hill.’”

Thirty-eight anxious minutes later,

it was revealed that the message had been sent in error and that there were no missiles headed towards Hawaii.

“Everyone assumed they were going to die,” said D’Imperio. “When you get that kind of message, you believe it’s true. But I never want to wake up to a message like that again.

And I hope I never have to send one.”

But the story has an even happier ending. On Tuesday, Jan. 16, Katie gave birth to Tessa Marie Duncan, a healthy, 8-pound baby girl and D’Imperio’s third grandchild. “It’s been a real roller coaster!” he said.

“You can’t make this stuff up.”

The proud granddad will go to Hawaii this summer to meet the new addition to the family.

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When Tammy and Barry Jones hurried downstairs after hearing a crash early Sunday, Jan. 14, this was the scene that greeted them in their kitchen.

Loud Noise Heralds Car In Kitchen CRASH/From A1 Milford Fire Chief Don Eckler. “There was 5 feet of the car’s body in their kitchen.

It was a mess. Think the last time we had something like this was five or six years ago.”

Neither the Jones’ nor Agard were injured in the accident.

Eckler called Kirn’s Body Shop in Cooperstown to haul away the car, and Agard was arrested and charged with DWI after, deputies said, a test found a BAC of .10. Deputies also alleged there was cocaine in his possession, and he was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, seventh degree, driving on shoulders and

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The Jones’ son Russ points to temporary repairs to the side of the house where the car went through. It’s across the street from the new Milford United Methodist Church.

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But with temperatures hovering around -3 degrees and a large hole in their home, the Jones family had to work fast to fix the damage as best they could. ”The wall was knocked off the foundation,” she said. “Our counter is now in our stove.”

The Milford Fire Department – Tammy and her sons Russ and Andy are members – helped the family board up the hole. “We have an awesome community, and we’re so grateful they came and helped us out,” she said. “It only took 15 minutes. We all pitched in and made short work of it.”

The family is working with the insurance company to see if they will be able to stay in the house while repairs are made or if they will have to relocate.

“We’re in the process of trying to recover,” she said.

“We’ve lived here 27 years, and we’re going to have to rebuild our home. It’s not an experience I’d wish on anyone.”

“It’s slow going,” she added. “But it’s a new beginning.”

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Rev. LaDana Clark, aka LadyJam, Oneonta, mixes her empassioned mixture of inspiration and hip-hop in “Don’t Loose Sight Of Your Dreams.”

Fr. David Mickiewicz, pastor at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, raises his arms in celebration as he delivers the Welcome and Invocation of the 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on Sunday afternoon.

All Hail The King!

Keynote speaker Dr. Luvelle Brown, Superintendent Ithaca Public Schools, is introduced by NAACP Assistant Secretary Joanne Fisher, Oneonta.

Members of Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian Church sing “We Shall Overcome” during a candlelight vigil held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, Jan. 15, what would have been his 89th birthday.

Nationally acclaimed Soprano Simone Paulwell, a member of the Glimmerglass Festival, sings “If I Can Help Somebody” in front of the congregation at the Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Elsie Armstrong Rhodes, Cooperstown, leads the congregation in worship at the First Presbyterian Church during a special gathering in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Standing next to a statue of Buck O’Neil in the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 15, The Hall’s John Rankin explains why O’Neil was an important figure in baseball: A star first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues, he eventually went on to become the first African-American coach in Major League Baseball. After his death in 2006, The Hall Of Fame created the Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award to honor those that have made a significant impact on the game.

Manuel Frank of Freeville, Tompkins County, listens as Matt Burch, Cooperstown, shows off a replica of a bat used by Jackie Robinson. As a way of honoring black baseball players on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the museum ran special tours that showcased the talents of players such as Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Buck O’Neil.

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THURSDAY, January 18, 2018

EDITORIAL

Getting Downtown Hotel ‘Right’ Important To All

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hen a client approaches a lawyer or architect with a plan, the client deserves three pieces of advice: This, this and this are slam dunks. That, that and that are good possibilities, although they will require variances or adjustments.

The third category, those are the nonstarters: You can fight about those for a year and a half, spend a lot of money but, in the end, they will probably derail the undertaking.

Hearing that assessment from a development lawyer a few months after June 29, 2015, when the Cooperstown Village Board unanimously rejected plans for a four-story hotel at the former TJ’s Place, it rang true.

Of course, the expert who spelled out that scenario continued, sometimes the client won’t listen. That might have been the case with the three partners in BTP Cooperstown, which proposed the downtown hotel. Entrepreneurs Perry Ferrara, Tom Lagan and, presumably, Bob Hurley, are determined men.

• The lawyer’s lesson is suddenly relevant again, as Ferrara revealed the other day that, while – shortterm – the partners are looking to put three stores in the former TJ’s, they plan to sit down in the next couple of weeks

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Perry Ferrara, partner in plans for a downtown Cooperstown hotel, cuts the ribbon last Sept. 7 on his Railroad Inn, assisted by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. Others, from left, are chamber Executive Matt Hazzard, Inn Manager Bob Holt, Village Trustee Cindy Falk, Perry’s wife Cathy, chamber President Danielle Henrici, and chamber Office Manager Hannah Bergene.

to decide whether to make another try at the downtown hotel.

Thinking back, there were three fatal factors in the original BTP plan.

• One, it called for valet parking, something explicitly rejected by the village’s zoning code.

• Two, a bamboo-faced façade – it would

have looked like real brick, but nonetheless…

• Three, the height: The plan would have put the utilities on the roof – as well as a bar and pool – and that pushed the project over the 42-foot height limit.

In the grand scheme of things, none of these things were a big deal. (By the way, 17 variances in all were being sought.) But each of them gave opponents an argument to use against the downtown-hotel idea.

After H-PARB, the historic review board; the Zoning Board of Appeals AND the Planning Board voted nay on BTP’s plan, the village trustees – Mayor Jeff Katz, at least, and several others, liked the hotel idea – had no choice but to vote no.

• Fast-forward three years and, more than ever, there is a pressing need for a first-class hotel in downtown Cooperstown.

Foremost, the loss of the two biggest 12-month magnets – CVS and the Cooperstown General Store – threatens to make downtown a tourist ghetto, the worst fear of everyone who loved Cooperstown’s completeness as a community and mourns the erosion of that former reality.

As recently as the other day, when asked Please See EDITORIAL, A5

LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL • APRIL 16, 1963

Much Remains To Do Since King’s Night In Jail, But Much Achieved

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Editor’s Note: Written 55 years ago, this excerpt from Martin Luther King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” reawakens the burning sense of injustice all rightminded Americans felt at the time.

It also underscores that, while much remains to be done, astonishing progress has been achieved since April 16, 1963.

ou suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your 6-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children...’

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e have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and Godgiven rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch

counter.

Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, “Wait.” But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will, and drown your sisters and

brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your 20 million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the

midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your 6-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a 5-year-old son who is asking: Famous photo from the “Daddy, why do white people Please See MLK DAY, A5 Birmingham, Ala., jail.

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called me to say that he was instructing the staff to add the laws to the website.

This is very satisfactory.

I am still waiting to hear about the fee but that is minor compared with the freedom of access to the laws we are obligated to obey.

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To the Editor, I would like to share the follow-up to the incident that I wrote to you about in last week’s newspaper.

I handed to Chairman Bliss a letter, very similar to the one I sent you, regarding my difficulty and the fee charged to get a copy of the county laws and regulations.

The very next day he

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How Did ‘True’ Information Sabotage U.S. 2017 Election?

To the Editor: I saw “breaking news” on MSNBC the other day.

Someone admitted hearing a rumor that Russia was going to provide “dirt” on Hillary to Trump’s campaign. It is part of the endless boogieman conspiracy theory of a Democratic Party that has lost its constituency because it has abandoned its supposed principles and promises to the poor and downtrodden.

The Democratic Party is nothing more than the

flipside of the Republican party, just another militaryindustrial-corporate political party, with the greed of the rich its priority rather than the needs of the poor.

Sure, there is some window dressing to make the parties look as if they differ; the Democrats at least do lip-service to the idea of social justice and equality.

But they are right on the front line when it comes to the endless, illegal wars waged by the military Please See HAMMOND, A6

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To the Editor: Kudos to your newspaper (editorial, Jan. 11-12) and to Russ Ahrens (Other Voices) for not forgetting the grave injustice that the powersthat-be in the finance office of Otsego County delivered to Maria Ajello in 2014.

That flagrant case of governmental overreach and indifference to common decency has left a black eye on the integrity of Otsego County.

The self dealing and benefiting one of their own

while ejecting a fellow employee, a widow, out of her home while she was valiantly trying to correct a tax deficiency.

County bureaucrats hide behind a questionable point of law exercised in a flagrant violation of ethics.

It is not too late for the reconstituted Otsego County Board of Representatives to take action and rescind this grave injustice inflicted upon Maria Ajello.

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Gardening In January? Now That’s Strange!

e have come to the conclusion that thus far this year, the weather has been rather strange. While the concept of a January thaw is certainly not new, we must say we cannot remember a time when such a thaw topped 60 degrees while reducing the accumulated snow fall to practically nothing.

During the height of the thaw, we even noted a neighbor digging in some front yard flower beds. We are not certain whether the goal was to finish up some yard work not completed before the snow arrived or to get a head start on the spring clean-up season. Either way, we think it is not something any-

one should plan on as being a part of any future January thaw.

And while we did not undertake any outside work of late, we did find ourselves in the CATHERINE somewhat disturbing position of LAKE having to replace ELLSWORTH our printer which had served us well for a number of years.

Interestingly enough, when we were in Ohio our son’s printer, which

was the same model we had, died. So he gave us his ink cartridges, one of which was brand new, so we could use them up. However, under the circumstances that did not work out as our printer seemed to give up the ghost with the same issue that befell the printer in Ohio.

And while we were able not only to replace the printer, but also set it up correctly, in good time, the demise of our old printer left us with a goodly supply of ink cartridges which we can no longer use. Thus, if there is anyone who can use HP ink cartridges #92 (black) and # 93 (tricolor), please let Please See COLUMN, A5

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2018

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

200 YEARS AGO

Actions of the Congress: The Compensation Bill passed the House of Representatives on January 7, fixing the pay of members at $8 a day and the same sum for every twenty miles of travel.

Mr. Comstock offered for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, that it is expedient to provide by law for placing on the pension list the officers of the army who have been wounded in battle during the late war with Great Britain.

A bill was twice read and committed to a committee of the whole, and made the order of the day for tomorrow, fixing the compensation of the members of Congress at nine dollars per day.

January 19, 1818

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175 YEARS AGO

After several months of investigation and committee work, the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce has purchased of Otsego Lodge, No. 138, of Free and Accepted Masons, the three story stone building located on Pioneer Street. The consideration was $4,500. The Lodge will rent the second and third floors for a term of years, using the same for a lodge room. The lower floor will be used by the County Farm Bureau and the Department of Home Economics. A well-equipped comfort station will be provided as well as a rest room which will be partitioned off from the main room with chain railings. This village now enjoys the distinction of being the only village of less than 3,000 population having a properly financed Chamber of Commerce, a full-time paid secretary, and a Chamber of Commerce building planned to take care of all community activities.

January 23, 1918

150 YEARS AGO

Medical science is making great advances in its efforts to cut down the number of fatalities caused by diseases of the heart, according to Dr. Malcolm I. Page, physician-inchief at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. Speaking at the regular weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club at the Hotel Otesaga, Dr. Page said one of the more dramatic contributions to this decrease in the number of heart-related fatalities has come from a cardiac-monitoring unit similar to one recently installed and placed in operation at Bassett.

Where such units are in operation the death rate from cardiac arrest has dropped fifty percent among persons hospitalized for heart disease.

January 17, 1968

Marriage versus Insanity – A Boston paper presents some very important and interesting results showing that the “single” of both sexes have need to be peculiarly careful in their mental self-discipline. From the examinations of many reports, out of every five of all the lunatics sent to American hospitals, three are unmarried and only two are married, and that almost all of them are over 21 years of age. On the other hand, it is pretty certain, that in all the community over 21 years of age, there are more than three times as many in as out of wedlock. If this be the case, then the unmarried are more than four times as liable to become insane as married people.

January 16, 1843 The burnt district of the village of Edmeston is being rebuilt as fast as could be expected, considering the time of year when the fire occurred. Mr. Bootman has built a very fine shop upon his old grounds and much larger than the one destroyed. He has got it running with a portion of the machinery he intends to put in. The upper room is used by the “Good Templars” who are running full blast, and doing some good for young men who were in the habit of taking too much strong drink. Mr. Simmons has got quite a start with his tannery. Dr. William Spencer is pushing his building along finely, has his grounds prepared for his wall, and timber and lumber fast coming, with plenty of help engaged to erect his house in early spring. One would think from the quantity of logs at the mill, he was going to build a church – but we people here conclude it will be a dwelling, and one of the finest in town. The fire was a large loss for a small place, but if times are favorable, it will soon be made up, and our village much improved in appearance. I presume there

Social Security Giveth, Social Security Taketh COLUMN/From A4 us know as we would be more than happy to pass them on.

• We also found ourselves musing over the information sent to us to inform us of our Social Security benefits for 2018. As promised, our monthly payment increased by $14, which turned out to be the exact amount our Part B Medicare Premium went up. As a result, for the fourth year, the amount Social Security we will deposit monthly into our checking account remains exactly the same. We also tend to find it interesting that since 2013 Social Security benefits have increased by 5.6 percent while Part B Medicare Premiums have gone up 27.7 percent.

Of course, health insurance premiums are not the only monthly expense scheduled to go up. As we understand it, all Spectrum customers will need a box on each and every TV by Feb. 6, at which time Spectrum will begin encrypting its signal.

Customers who already have boxes on their TVs will not be affected. But any customers who have received cable by plugging it directly into their TV sets will need boxes from Spectrum because their signals will be scrambled.

We received a telephone call from Spectrum with this less than happy news as we did not respond to a letter they sent us but that we evidently never received. When we called Spectrum to ask about getting a box we learned that we could get boxes for all of our TVs at no change. And using them would be free for a year after which each box would cost $5.99 a month. Needless to say, we were not pleased, although we do think our area is one of the last to be hit with this news.

We grudgingly agreed to order one box, which we must admit did arrive in jig time. In fact, we did not even have time to figure out how our TV viewing needs could be met with the one box that we currently have. Fortunately, with a bit of thought, we think we have managed to do just that, which means our next chore will be returning the box we received to Spectrum. Of course, we tend to think we have a year to accomplish that feat.

• And while we find all these various increases to not be to our liking, we are happy to report that we have found one of our Christmas gifts to be of help in keeping costs down. We asked for a supply of gently used plastic grocery bags, which Santa seemed to be able to supply with no trouble.

Therefore, we are set for quite a while when it comes to having bags with which to dispose of both our trash and our recyclables. And in this day and age, every little bit seems to help.

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50 YEARS AGO

January 20, 1943 will not be a time in the present generation when there will be as little insurance in Edmeston as there was at the time of the fire – only $800 on the whole property burnt.

January 24, 1868

125 YEARS AGO

Our Common School System – There is a growing and well-founded dis-satisfaction with the practical workings of the Common School System of this State; and in the opinion of some thoughtful people who have given the subject careful study, it is high time it was subjected to a thorough overhauling and revision. The tax-payers are not getting back a fair return for their twenty millions a year. There are farmers who are complaining bitterly of the operation of the present School Law. They say that they are subjected to very heavy taxes, that they have little voice in the choice of Teachers, and that those as competent as any of the Normal School graduates are shut out of teaching except under a six weeks permit. Said one farmer in this town a few weeks since: My district is a small one and under the operation of the present law my school tax will be more than my county and state taxes. He added: “We farmers must have relief from this burden.”

January 19, 1893

25 YEARS AGO

Coach Dick White’s boys’ basketball squad recovered from a loss to the Emerald Knights of Hamilton Central School on January 8 and cruised to two conference wins in Bursey Gymnasium last week. On January 14, CCS rolled to an 86-58 rout of New York Mills. Then two nights later, CCS repeated the 86-58 winning score against the Maroon Knights of Frankfort-Schuyler. Seth Schaeffer logged a rare triple-double statistical feat against New York Mills when he posted 27 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. The 6’ 3” junior guard now has 263 points in nine games for a 29.2 scoring average. Schaeffer has canned 33 three-point baskets in those nine games.

January 20, 1993

LETTERS

From You-Might-Guess-Where, And Proud Of It To the Editor: I am the proud product of some of the Finest S-Holes on this dear planet. My great grandfather Kelleher came from the Original S-Hole of Europe, Ireland, to Texas by way of the United States Army, which was, at the time, a S-Hole Unto Itself. Absent that Good Old SHole of Kerry, I would not exist.

My grandmother’s Romig’s ancestors, like Trump’s grandfather, were Palatine Germans, which was, once upon a time, the S-Hole of Central Europe, and, ac-

cordingly, they were persona non grata to some pre-existing Americans, notably Benjamin Franklin: “Those (Germans) who come hither are generally of the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own Nation.”

My other grandmother’s ancestors came to Texas in 1848, from what, at the time, was a starkly beautiful, but pretty bleak S - Hole, the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides. She was a McLeod, like Trump’s mother.

My grandfather Northrup’s family

came from the East Ridings of Yorkshire, from a hamlet near Battersea on the North Sea. Not properly a bona fide S- Hole, but Belgravia, it isn’t.

It is almost axiomatic: Unless your ancestors came from England as landed planters, like the Hyde-Clarkes, or under a land patent from the King of Spain (like some of my Texas pals), they probably came here from less than ideal settings. Like say, the green hills of Kenya.

CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown

Much Needs To Be Done, But Progress Impressive MLK DAY/From A1 treat colored people so mean?”; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading “white” and “colored”; when your first name becomes “nigger,” your middle name becomes “boy” (however old you are) and your last name becomes “John,” and your wife and mother are never given the respected title “Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe

stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness”--then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.

You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the

Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws.

One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?”

The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.

Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

End Of CVS, General Store Raises Stakes On Hotel EDITORIAL/From A4 how Cooperstown has changed, freshly minted centenarian Homer Osterhoudt recalled the intact downtown of groceries, hardware stores, jewelries, a produce stand, haberdashers and, not just a shoe store, but a shoe-repair shop!

It’s unlikely that’s ever coming back – during the Christmas season, mail carriers reported working Sundays to sort four huge pallets of gifts arriving weekly from amazon.com, up from a mere one a year ago. Drive down Main Street today, and you’ll see more and more shops closed until April, with Baseballism at 131 Main even brown-papering its windows. Ouch.

• The only solution is to bring more people downtown year ’round.

The 22 Main renovations, championed

by Trustee Lou Allstadt and unstintingly

Failure to meet a 42-foot height restriction was one factor that led to the rejection of BTP Partners’ first proposed downtown Cooperstown hotel in 2015.

supported by the mayor and other trustees, are part of the answer – the redone ballroom is ever-more frequently filled with activities: dances, lectures, performances, political gatherings – that previously were done elsewhere or not at all.

Another is installation of as much

market-rate housing in the upper floors of downtown buildings as possible.

(Langan, one of the BTP partners, has espoused as much, and word is he plans to act on his intentions on the upper floors of the former Paterno Brothers, which he acquired last year.)

A third, of course, is a first-rate downtown hotel. (The Atherton, in State College, Pa., comes to mind, functionally if not architecturally.) And Ferrara, who’s shown what he can accomplish with the very smart Railroad Inn that opened last Sept. 7 on Railroad Avenue, is just the guy, along with partners Langan and Hurley, to get it done.

Please, fellas, if you won’t listen to your lawyer and architect, listen to this editorial: Confer with your friends at Village Hall in advance, craft a plan that fits the village code, and build that hotel.

Everyone has a stake in your success.

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After Decade, Stuligross’ Dream Of Professional Management Still Unrealized KAY/From A1 very rewarding,” the veteran said in an interview. “But it’s time for me to move on so someone else can bring new ideas.”

Stuligross plans to sell her home in Oneonta’s Mansion District later this year and move to a retirement community outside of Philadelphia, near her son John. “I’ve already scouted out the library and the church. I’m not just going to sit around.”

A native of Oberlin, Ohio, Kay moved to Oneonta in 1981 when her husband, the late Jack Stuligross, an economist, joined Hartwick College’s faculty. “We were living in Wisconsin, and that August, he sent me to find a house in Oneonta,” she said.

“It had to be within walking distance of Hartwick College and the high school.”

She found 10 Walnut St.,

She worked as a substitute teacher, and when Jack was on sabbatical, taught ESL in China, the Ukraine, South Africa and other countries, bringing home artwork, textiles and more to decorate their home with.

“I would never have anticipated all that I’ve done,” she said. “I’m still Facebook friends with some of the students I taught in China.”

And while she was home, she continued to explore a HOMETOWN ONEONTA yearning that had been tug& The Freeman’s Journal ging at her since Wisconsin.

Embrace professional “I was planning to run management, county for county board there,” she Rep. Kay Stuligross urges her colleagues said. “I hadn’t told Jack, and at her valedictory in then he told me we were December. moving to Oneonta. The first week I was in Oneonta, and Jack soon joined her.

They raised five boys – Joe, I joined the League of Women Voters, where I John, Robert, David and served on the board, was Michael – and also opened president for a time and their home to 10 foster children. “Oneonta is such a served on the state board.”

Following her husband’s nice community,” Kay said.

sudden death in 2006, she mounted a campaign for county board, prompted in part by her interest in introducing professional management to county government.

“County government was my passion,” she said. “And I’ve always been interested in social services.”

That latter interest prompted the county board chair, Kathy Clark, ROtsego, to assigned Stuligross in 2011 to shepherd through the sale of Otsego Manor, the county-owned nursing home.

Selling the manor was controversial, but Stuligross was up for the challenge.

“We had a good committee and we looked at 15 different nursing homes,” she said. “We spent many hours observing how the staff treated residents and how management treated staff.”

LETTERS

John Clemens’ Use Of Classics To Teach Leadership Unparalleled To the Editor: It was with great sadness that I read of the passing of John Clemens.

(Please see obituary, B5.)

I vividly recall his presence and his influence during my time at Hartwick’s Alumni Affairs Office in the mid- to late-1980s. After the turn of the century, when I served as head of human services for a large Sarasota, Fla., nonprofit organization, it was Clemens’

book, “The Classic Touch: Lessons in Leadership from Homer to Hemingway,” co-authored with Hartwick associate professor Douglas Mayer, that I routinely presented as gifts to members of my management team.

Clemens’ view on the application of the classics in management was unparalleled at the time. And I have often reflected upon his examination of Shakespeare’s King Lear as a clas-

After Otsego Manor was put up for sale in 2012, there were problems, but after the state designated it a “special focus facility” required to address issues of understaffing, poor food preparation and allegations of abuse, Focus to begin consulting with Centers Health Care.

“I’m hearing good things,” Kay now says. “I have several constituents who are there for rehab, and they’re having a wonderful time.

From the beginning, putting a county manager in place – a professional to help administer the $110 million budget – was a front-burner issue for Stuligross.

“We went to meetings, found presentations and talked to county managers about what it means and what the cost is,” she said.

“I talked to one in Olean, and he said that he saved the county more in the first year than would be his salary for

sic example of the repercussions for a leader who fails to plan for his/her succession!

My personal copy of “The Classic Touch” is valued among my collection of books and bears this inscription by the author: “For Maureen, Thanks for your support and friendship, John.”

Maureen Dill Morris

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information “sabotages” the American election, but fraudulent campaign tactics employed by the Democratic Party to deny Democratic primary voters their true choice for presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, don’t even make the news.

The answer is obvious, political corruption, and a media that is owned and controlled by the same puppet-masters who tell both Democrats and Republicans what to say and do.

I’m no fan of Sanders, since other than his isolated opposition to Bush’s war

in Iraq, he has been right in line with the usual military interventions perpetrated by the U.S., including the disgraceful and tragic bombing of Kosovo by Bill Clinton. The usual pious justifications at the time were that the bombing needed to be implemented to ‘stop the killing.’ I’m no math genius, but the war in Kosovo had claimed 2000 lives up to that time, and the U.S./NATO bombings killed at least 6000. Somehow, it doesn’t add up. To top it off, experts predicted in advance that the bombings

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would result in more killing in its aftermath, and that is exactly what happened.

I’m no fan of Sanders, but Hillary worshippers and other disgruntled Democrats should realize that if the corrupt DNC hadn’t cheated in the primaries, and Sanders had become the Presidential candidate, Donald Trump would most likely not be President today. But the Democrats would rather blame the Russians…

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Where Did They Fail? Instead, Democrats Blame Russians HAMMOND/From A4 empire known as the United States, and, as far as their record goes, their last president upped the ante in the slaughter of innocents with drone murder machines, far beyond what his Republican predecessor had done.

It has been documented elsewhere that these remotecontrol assassins only kill their intended targets one out of nine times; the other eight are farmers, mothers and children. And then Americans wonder why people in other countries hate us… Even if these killer drones hit their target every time, it would still be an abominable extrajudicial assassination that is completely illegal under international law. The Democrats never flinched at their president’s weekly drone slaughters, and the complicit corporate news media didn’t bother to report this human rights atrocity. Business as usual.

But let me return to the topic of the “dirt” on Hillary, and the supposed sabotage of the election that was caused by the release of what no one disputes were accurate copies of emails within the DNC that proved the Democrats fraudulently undermined Bernie Sanders’ campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton, with her close confidante, Debbie Wasserman, at the controls. Wasserman had to resign when the news broke about her sabotaging Sanders, but Hillary immediately thanked her ‘longtime friend’ for her service at the DNC, and took her on board as “honorary chair” of her campaign.

The thing I can’t figure out is why releasing true

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He initial push for a county manager foundered by 2008, but it now seems the idea may be revived.

During her time on the county board, she served on the original City of Oneonta Charter Commission, helped start the Oneonta Free Clinic, worked with the Family Service Association and Habitat For Humanity, helped lead the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta and sang in the Catskill Choral Society. “All of these things focus around people,” she said.

And she still found time to continue her world travel, including time spent in Bali, Greece, Costa Rica, Cambodia and Egypt. “I’ve had the most wonderful life imaginable,” she said.

Though she doesn’t plan to put her house on the market until after her grandson’s wedding this summer, she is looking forward to seeing what the next phase of her life has to offer.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2018

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

Idea Of Downtown Hotel Revived In Cooperstown HOTEL/From A1 “The Mayor of Main Street” Hargrove operated the building as TJ’s Place, a restaurant, baseball store and, on Hall of Fame weekends, headquarters for Major Leaguers signing autographs.

In 2012, TJ’s closed, and a successor restaurant, Batter’s Up, operated until 2014, when BTP Cooperstown acquired the building and proposed a ho-

tel there. A stormy regulatory year followed, until the Village Board rejected the plan on June 29, 2015.

“They shot us down,” said Ferrara, proprietor of the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum and the Hardball Café, who went on to develop the Railway Inn, which opened last September on Railway Avenue.

Lagan is an investor from the Albany area; Hurley operates local Subways.

When advised about the news, Mayor Jeff Katz said he’s happy to revisit the proposal, but some things would have to change from the initial plan. “I think the Village Board would like to have a hotel downtown, but with little to no zoning variances,” said Katz. Ferrara’s initial hotel plan required 18 different variances to village zoning laws, and it was rejected by the HPARB, the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Planning Board.

Among other issues, the proposed building would have exceeded a 42-foot height limit. “To be clear, there are other buildings on

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Main Street that exceed that height ordinance, but they predated the current zoning laws,” said Katz.

The hotel is only one option, Ferrara said.

“There are basically four things that the partners will be discussing: whether or not we want to put stores on the bottom; if we want to put in long-term rentals

or not; whether or not we want to put in a hotel; and if we do, whether or not we’ll work to comply with the zoning laws,” he said.

A rapidly growing energy storage company that develops, manufactures and sells advanced, high-performance ultracapacitors and ultracapacitor-based energy storage systems is looking to fill the following position:

Cell ProduCtion teChniCian The Technician fabricates a finished component through all necessary stages of assembly. May build an entire production run, including mixing, coating, pressing, stripping, welding, winding, cell assembly and testing. Place parts in ovens and operate at the specified time-temperature to produce a properly dried assembly.

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Hartwick College seeks a part-time (12-month) Faculty Secretary for the English, Modern Languages, Psychology, and Theatre Arts departments.

For complete details, please visit http://www.hartwick.edu/employment. EOE

Part-time Child Care Providers First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown is looking for two reliable and experienced individuals to serve as Child Care Providers during Sunday school and Sunday morning worship.

Individuals must be at least 18 years old, have or be willing to submit to background screenings, have current CPR training/certification for infants and children or be willing to complete a CPR course. Send resume/references to cooppreschurch@gmail.com or call 607-547-8401.

The Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship (CADE) in Oneonta, NY, seeks an Executive Director. Established in 1991, CADE is a small not-for-profit organization whose mission is to increase the number and diversity of successful farm enterprises and related businesses in the Catskills, Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier Regions of New York State. The successful candidate should have knowledge of the current small scale farm and food industry and a desire to further the agenda of sustainable agricultural development in Upstate New York. The Executive Director is responsible for managing all aspects of the organization’s operations and overseeing the work of direct reports as well as several outside consultants. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree and significant management experience or related activity in the food and farm sector consisting of program development, grant writing and reporting, and budget and personnel management. Demonstrated success with fundraising and state, federal and foundation grant writing is preferred. For a complete job description and an overview of our Programs visit www.cadefarms.org..

To apply, send cover letter and resume to search@cadefarms.org. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt, and the position will remain open until filled, although preference will be given to applications received by January 24, 2018.

CADE is an Equal Opportunity Employer who offers health benefits to its full-time employees and their families including domestic partners of employees, and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation/preference and gender identity/expression.

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Groundskeeper & Custodial Worker The City of Oneonta is currently accepting applications for a full-time Groundskeeper and a full-time Custodial Worker. Both positions offer a comprehensive benefits package. Applications and job descriptions are available at City Hall, 258 Main St. or at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel.

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Teller - Cooperstown, Schenevus, or Oneonta

These full-time Teller positions are located in Cooperstown, Schenevus, or Oneonta. Major responsibilities include providing exceptional customer service, handling cash accurately, meeting customers’ financial needs, and promoting bank products and services. Qualifications for this position include a high school diploma or equivalent, excellent communication skills, accuracy, and basic math skills. Reliable transportation is required. Prior cash handling and customer service preferred.

Teller - Various locations centered in Oneonta

This full-time floating Teller position is based out of Oneonta. Major responsibilities include providing exceptional customer service, handling cash accurately, meeting customers’ financial needs, and promoting bank products and services at various office locations throughout the Central Region. Qualifications for this position include a high school diploma or equivalent, excellent communication skills, accuracy, and basic math skills. Reliable transportation is required. Prior cash handling and customer service preferred.

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This substitute Courier position is based out of our Oneonta Main Street location. Major responsibilities include transporting interoffice mail and stock supplies between branches in a company vehicle. The person selected will be required to learn multiple routes and will be expected to be on call as needed. Other than the training period, hours will be limited to call-in times only. Qualifications for this position include an excellent driving record and driving skills, ability to read and interpret a map, as well as excellent communication skills. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.

If you are interested in applying for either position, please complete an application available from the Careers page at www.communitybankna.com, submit online or print out the form and send it to: Community Bank N.A., Attn: Human Resources, 245 Main Street, PO Box 430, Oneonta, NY 13820; or employment@communitybankna.com.

An Equal Opportunity Employer Male/Female/Disabled/Veteran

The Watershed Agricultural Council, a non profit organization working to protect the NYC Watershed while supporting farm and forest land uses, is seeking individuals for the following positions: • Engineer for its Agricultural Program. The Engineer will serve as a program engineer to work cooperatively in the design and implementation of Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the Watershed Agricultural Program (WAP) in the West of Hudson Watershed. Salary: approximately $65,000. Review of resumes to begin immediately.

• GIS/Database Assistant. The GIS/Database Assistant will be responsible for managing al programmatic spatial and tabular data of the organization. Salary: $45,000 maximum. Review of resumes to begin February 1, 2018 • Forester II for its Forestry Program. The Watershed Forester II will work with landowners, loggers and foresters to implement the various initiatives offered by the WAC Forestry Program in the Catskill/Delaware watersheds. These initiatives include: the Best Management Practices (BMP) Program, Management Assistance Program (MAP), 480a Incentive Program, Trained Logger Certification and MyWoodlot.com. Salary: high $50,000s. Review of resumes to begin February 9, 2018 Qualifications and requirements for each position detailed in position description available at http://www.nycwatershed.org/careers. Excellent benefits package including but not limited to 8% employer contribution to 403(b) pension; health, dental and vision insurance (employer pays 95% of cost of plan); and portable term life insurance policy. To apply: Send cover letter and resume to Amy Faulkner, Watershed Agricultural Council, 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856; or e-mail afaulkner@nycwatershed.org. EOE.

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Recording A Life Caroline Harter looks over a wall of family photographs – including she and husband Bruce – at her home in Fly Creek.

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Caroline Harter’s 2 Reminiscences Stir Even More Memories Natural curiosity, combined with her father’s love for talking and thinking, inspired Mrs. Harter, nee Grey, now 92, to write a first and, now, a second collection of her memories. The latest is entitled, “The Path That Winds.”

“This isn’t so much about me,” the author said in an interview at her home. “It’s about the learning process. Life is like taking a trip. You need to pay attention to where you are and tie all your trips together.

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er brother Stewart was a sickly baby, needing a lot of his mother’s care, so little Caroline Harter spent a lot of time with her dad. Charles Grey “was a great talker and thinker,” his daughter remembers. “I was a curious kid, and my parents did not subscribe to ‘children should be seen and not heard’.”

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family members, friends and well-wishers in the basement of First Baptist Church last Sunday, Jan. 14. They had gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of a unique Cooperstonian.

Asked about his father’s sunny outlook, which he’s maintained through the past three years at Woodside Hall – from time to time, deer walk right up and peer through his window, Homer reports – son Darrell replied, Please See HAPPY, B3

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WHAT YOU NEED: From cupcakes to pet-sitting and everything in between, CCS students show off businesses they’ve created at the a TREP$ Marketplace. Sunday, Jan. 21. 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Gymnasium, Cooperstown High School. Info, 607-5478181.

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POPS CONCERT: The Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble presents Mid-Winter Concert featuring tunes from the 20s, a medley from “West Side Story,” themes from James Bond, and more. 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, The First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-7085.

FILM SCREENING: View Joseph Stillman’s documentary, “Citizen Clark... A Life Of Principle.” Admission, $10. 2 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 21, Community Arts Network, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

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CONCERT SERIES: Americana group Burns and Kristy perform with a full band. Saturday, Jan. 20, The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1812.

BUILD YOUR OWN: Build your own burger dinner with assorted salads. Includes 50/50 raffle, lottery wreath raffle, basket raffle. Cost, $6. 5 - 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, Oneonta Moose Club, 119 W. Broadway, Oneonta.

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LABOR LAW – 8:30 - 10 a.m. Seminar focusing on labor & employment law for small employers. Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, 189 Main Street, Suite 500, Oneonta. Call 607267-4010 Ext. 104.

BURGER DINNER – 5 - 7 p.m. Build your own burger with assorted salads. Includes 50/50 raffle, lottery wreath raffle, basket raffle.

Cost, $6. Oneonta Moose Club, 119 W. Broadway, Oneonta.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m. Showing “Murder On The Orient Express,” (2017). Tickets $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

SEUSSICAL – 7 p.m. The 7th & 8th Graders present their first ever musical based on several tales by Dr. Seuss.

Cooperstown Central School.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, january 18-19, 2018 FILM SERIES – 7 - 9 p.m.

Cabin Fever film festival presents “King Kong” (1933).

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Free, open to the public.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471400.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Presenting “Love, Loss, And What I Wore.” The Production Center, The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607432-5407.

Saturday, January 20

COMMUNITY ART DAY – 10 a.m. - Noon. Create an underwater scene with the Japanese art of “gyotaku,” (fish printing) using rubber replicas of Otsego Lake fish. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft.

Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington

Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980.

BROADBAND INFO – 2 p.m. Public meeting to update the community on the Broadband project. Questions welcome. Laurens Central School, 55 Main St., Laurens.

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SEUSSICAL – 3 p.m. The 7th & 8th Graders present their first ever musical based on several tales by Dr. Seuss.

Cooperstown Central School.

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JAZZ CONCERT – 3 p.m.

Performance by the John Colonna Jazz Trio featuring Evan Jagels on bass and Graeme Francis on drums. Tickets $20/adult. Dunderberg Gallery, 118 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. Call 607-783-2010.

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MARKETPLACE – 1 - 3 p.m. CCS Students hold a TREP$ Marketplace to show the businesses they have created. Come out to shop and support tomorrows entrepreneurs. Gymnasium, Cooperstown High School.

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FILM SCREENING – 1 p.m.

Showing “Murder On The Orient Express,” (2017). See Friday Listing.

THEATER – 2 p.m. Presenting “Love, Loss, And What I Wore.” The Production Center, The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

POPS CONCERT – 2 p.m.

The Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble present the Mid-Winter Concert featuring tunes from the 20s, a medley from “West Side Story,” themes from James Bond, and more.

The First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-4327085.

FILM SCREENING – 2 p.m. View the documentary, “Citizen Clark... A Life Of Principle.” Admission, $10.

Community Arts Network, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-2070.

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Tuesday, January 23

PRESENTATION – 8:30 - 10 a.m. Jane Clark speaks to Cooperstown Chamber members on the current states of Clark entities & businesses in Cooperstown and provide a look into the future. Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, Cooperstown. Call 607-5479983.

AUDITIONS – 4 - 7 p.m.

Catskill Choral Society holds auditions for new members and Dox Apprentices. All welcome. Unitarian Universalist Church, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 431-6060 or e-mail ccc@catskillchoralsociety.com ROUNDTABLE – 5 - 7 p.m.

Join local environmental activists & leaders for a conversation on environmental issues impacting Otsego County.

Share ideas & feedback. Red Shed Brewer, 709 Co. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Call 607731-6454.

YARN WORKSHOP – 5 - 6:30 p.m. Work with instructor Tori to create something for yourself or loved one. All

BOOKMOBILE – Check out the mobile library: — 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. Town Hall, 3966 NY-23, West Oneonta.

— 10:10 - 10:50 a.m. Little Lambs Children Center, 383 Co Rd 11, Oneonta.

— 12:20 - 12:45 p.m.

Methodist Church, 811 Co Rd 26, Fly Creek.

— 1:15 - 1:35 p.m.

Methodist Church, 2343 NY-205, Mt Vision.

— 2:10 - 2:30 p.m. Firehouse, 116 County Rd 4, Wells Bridge. www.4cls.org or call 607-723-8236.

TINKERING TUESDAY – 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Design and Print a 3D item. Material fee applies. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5478344.

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DRAWING CLASS – 5 - 7 p.m. Free Beginners class on how to draw. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta.

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As Mrs. Harter Writes Memoirs, Long-Forgotten Memories Come To Surface MEMOIRS/From B1 life in Jordanville with her late husband, Bruce, a veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge, as she joined Owen D. Young Central School in Van Hornesville in 1976.

“Bruce was carrying mail, caring for the heifers and working nights at Remington Arms,” she wrote. “I was tearing my hair. I was thinking of going to work, something that wouldn’t leave the children unattended.”

That February, Principal Bob Woodruff called and asked if she would take on a newly created library program in the elementary school. Later, she took on additional duties at the Jordanville Library, helping transition it into the Mid York Library System.

But more than just a memoir, it is also a history of the library and ODY. Her first collection, “My Early Years: Memories of My Childhood” was written 1995 and details the first seven years of her life in Burke, including a bout with scarlet fever, the peddler’s wagon, the farm’s hired men and neighborhood children, and a “traveling store,” a big bus with shelves and groceries, sent out by Humiston’s grocery store every Friday to go into the countryside.

“My first 15 years might as well have been in the 1700s,” she said. “No electricity or running water, just a ring-a-ding telephone.”

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he Depression hadn’t arrived and, since I was the first child, I had nice toys.

Aunt Edna (Flossie) was unmarried and worked in Montreal. She would come for a visit and bring her Boston bulldog. I seem to recall the dog’s name being “Boots.” She would always bring me gifts.

I remember dolls in long boxes. Those dolls were very beautiful. I think she brought me nice clothes also.

Early in the spring of 1929, I came down with Scarlet Fever. I was terribly sick,

I’ve heard mother say I was delirious for a time and tried to climb the wall at the head of the bed.

Because Scarlet Fever was considered so contagious and dangerous, the house had to be fumigated. Everything I had played with had to be burned. I remember standing at the west window in the dining room, watching my dad light a bonfire of all my toys, bedding, clothes, etc.

From “My Early Years: Memories of My Childhood” by Caroline Swanson Harter.

newspaper articles, she decided it was important to compile her memories for the next generation.

“My granddaughter Janelle was born, and she was the inspiration,” she said. “We want our children to know it all, pass this onto her.”

Carol and Bruce (he would passed away in 2014) moved from Jordanville to the Fly Creek Valley in 2005, buying a large parcel and sub-dividing it. “For a time, we were living across the street,” she said. “In 2007, we built the house and moved over here.

My son Jason cut the trees for the floor in the living room.”

Mrs. Harter writes the first drafts by hand, then her neighbor, Judy Vidal, compiles and types up her notes.

“I never took a course in writing!” she said. “But I taught myself reading before I was in school. I would hide in the hay-mow and pretend I couldn’t hear anyone calling me, so I could read the Bobbsey Twins.”

And she almost didn’t even get to go to college. As she was about to depart for Plattsburgh State Teacher’s College, “our best cow died,” she said. “My parents had to replace her, and I wasn’t going to be able to afford to go to college. But my Uncle Stewart stood in the door and said ‘I’ll put $1,000 in the bank so you can go.’”

As she wrote what she remembered, she found she remembered more. “Now that I’m in a mode for remembering, many glimpses of my childhood seem to be emerging,” she wrote in an updated version of “My Early Childhood” in 2002.

And she encourages all seniors to take the time to chronicle their memories. “When one becomes ‘older’,” she writes. “We be-

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Caroline Harter examines a sample from her extensive scrapbook collection, the basis for much material in her two memoirs of growing up on the Canadian border.

gin to realize how each ‘happening’ lead us to the next where the ‘past’ one prepared us for the ‘present.’”

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Unique means singular; one of a kind. Homer Osterhoudt isn’t the only surviving local attendee at that first, famous Hall of Fame Induction in 1939 – Babe Ruth, et al.

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But only Homer then stayed the course, attending every one of the 75 Induction ceremonies but three.

(There were none between 1942 and 1947, during World War II.) No one has emerged to challenge what must be a record.

Last summer, age 99, he was camped in front of the state Supreme Court Judge

Michael V. Coccoma’s office at Chestnut and Leatherstocking with Darrell and Priscilla, his wife, and daughter Dana Roesner, for the Heroes of the Game parade, then attended the ceremony the next day.

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By age 19, he recalled the other day, he was working for Bedford Construction, which was building the Hall of Fame. He was most proud of mixing the cement necessary in all aspects of the construction, although he also put up scaffolding and laid brick.

An amateur photographer, not only did he attend the first Induction, he recorded it, snapping Ty Cobb and other immortals as they disembarked at the passenger rail station on upper Main Street, and FDR’s Postmaster General Jim Farley as he marched in the parade.

A number of his photos, 8 by 10s, are in the Hall of Fame’s collection, and he has a sampling on in his Woodside Hall room.

Certainly, his interest in the world around him adds to his cheerfulness in achieving the hundred-year mark. He also credits the 10 miles a day he walked for 30 years as a mailman in the village, with his fitness extended by years of squaredancing as a Doubleday Dancers stalwart.

Interviewed on a day when it was -7 outside, he observed that such days weren’t the bane of his mail-carrying days. “Freezing rain, sleet – that was the hardest to take,” he said.

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BOOKMOBILE – Check out the mobile library: — 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. Town Hall, 3966 NY-23, West Oneonta.

— 10:10 - 10:50 a.m. Little Lambs Children Center, 383 Co Rd 11, Oneonta.

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Methodist Church, 811 Co Rd 26, Fly Creek.

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Methodist Church, 2343 NY-205, Mt Vision.

— 2:10 - 2:30 p.m. Firehouse, 116 County Rd 4, Wells Bridge. www.4cls.org or call 607-723-8236.

CABARET NIGHT – 5 p.m. Enjoy an evenings entertainment

with FOMA. Features Brooks BBQ, auction, 50/50 raffle, and student, faculty, & family bands performing. Tickets, $15/adult. Coopertown High School. Call 607-547-8181.

GALLERY RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Opening reception for “Cotton: The soft dangerous beauty of the past.”Reception features gallery talk and dance performance. Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-3456.

COOKING CLASS – 5 - 7 p.m. Learn to make a variety of dishes, bring the kids to learn with you, eat what you’ve made. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta.

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JOB READINESS – 5 - 7 p.m. Work on interviewing, resume creation, job searching, more. Pre-register, space limited. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Call 607267-4435 or e-mail kyle@ friendsofrecoverydo.org.

COMMUNITY EDUCATION – 5:30 - 8 p.m. LEAF presents

“Shauna Has A Secret,” an interactive program to teach parents the signs of drug use in teens, followed by a panel discussion of the opioid crisis. Town of Otsego Town Hall, 811 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek.

Call 607-432-0090.

TINKERING THURSDAY – 6 - 7:30.m. Design and Print a 3D item. Material fee applies.

Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

YARN CLUB – 6 - 7:30 p.m.

For knitters and crocheters of all skill levels and accompanied youths. Learn a new skill with April from April’s Yarn Basket. 3rd floor, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980.

SUPPORT GROUP – 7 - 8 p.m. Supporting family, friends of addicts. New members welcome. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-3291.

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Thursday, January 25

24th-Annual Citrus Sale!

Oneonta First UMC. Calif large navel oranges, 18 for $10. Other quantities available; also Florida pink seedless grapefruit. Order by 1/29 for 2/15-16 pick up. Free delivery Oneonta area.

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Notice of Formation of

Notice is hereby given

BRIAR CREEK PARTNERS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/15/17.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Dennis O’Hara, PO Box 407, Otego, NY 13825.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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that the annual meeting of the lot owners of the Hartwick Seminary Cemetery Association will be held at the home of Joyce S. Jones, 4685 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326. This meeting will be Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 2 p.m. to transact such business as may properly come before the meeting and the election of Officers and Trustees.

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Democratic Caucus Village of Cooperstown, NY

Notice of Formation of

The purpose of said Caucus is to Nominate candidates for the following offices (or any office that may become vacant) to be voted upon at the General Village Election on March 20, 2018 Office of Mayor - 2 Year term Office of Trustee - 3 year term Office of Trustee - 3 year term For more information, contact Lynne Mebust (607-5441418) 1LegalJan.18

TASTE NEW YORK – 6 p.m. Enjoy craft wines & beer from the Cooperstown area in the setting of a 4-course meal. Cost, $99/person. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-9931.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m. Showing “Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri,”.

Tickets $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

FLOAT NIGHT – 6:45 - 8:30 p.m. Enjoy a family movie and a root beer in the pool with friends. Must be accompanied by a YMCA member. The Y, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

Call 607-432-0010.

FILM SERIES – 7 - 9 p.m.

Cabin Fever film festival presents “Loving Vincent.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Free, open to the public. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

Call 607-547-1400.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Presenting “Love, Loss, And What I Wore.” The Production Center,

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The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607432-5407.

Saturday, January 27

BOOK COLLECTION – 9 a.m. - Noon. Donate your gently used books to be sold at the FOVL Book Sale during the Winter Carnival.

Cooperstown Village Library, Fair St. entrance. Call 607547-8344.

QUILT ENTRIES – 10 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Deadline for Quilters to drop off entries for the CAA

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A Caucus of the enrolled Democratic voters in the Village of Cooperstown, NY will be held on Monday, January 29, 2018 at 7:30pm Upstairs Ballroom, Village Hall, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY

Friday, January 26

Go Team Six, llc.

Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/21/17.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 101 Hade Hollow Road Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on February 08, 2018at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 WOLF RD, 1ST FLOOR, SUITE

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1CM, ALBANY, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

Bids may also be submitted via the internet using Bid Express (www. bidx.com).

A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Transportation for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot.ny.gov/ doing-business/opportunities/constnotices Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/ const-planholder.

Amendment may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification. Contact Robert Kitchen (518) 457-2124.

APARTMENTS FOR RENT 1 Bed, LR, full kitchen,

1 bath, small office, garage.

City of Oneonta, walk to town. 12/1 Occupancy. $625/mo utilities not included. 631-353-1324.

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Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where sub-contracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to, D/W/ MBEs. The Contractor must comply with the Regulation relative to nondiscrimination in federally-assisted programs of the USDOT 49 CFR 21.

Please call (518) 457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

BIDDERS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT AWARD OF THESE CONTRACTS MAY BE CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL

BY THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Reg. 09, Jack Williams, Regional Director, 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 D263666, PIN 9806.22, F.A. Proj. Z2329806-223, Otsego Co., Replacement of Existing Culvert with Precast Concrete Box Culvert on NYS Route 80 over Trout Brook in Town of Springfield., Bid Deposit $75,000.00.

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Notice of Formation of THE GROVE OF BUTTERNUT VALLEY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/02/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Brian K. Norton and Christala M. Norton, PO Box 36, Morris, NY 13808.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of SOUTHERN TIER CONNECT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Hinman Howard & Kattell LLP, Attn: Christopher L. Roma, Esq., 80 Exchange St., Binghamton, NY 13901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of formation of MEULENBERG HOLDINGS, LLC Articles of Org.

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filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/19/2017.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 2518 County Hwy 35, Schenevus, NY 12155, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of Mp Rentals, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/13/17.

Office: Ulster Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Legalinc Corp Srvcs . 1967 Wehrle Dr #1-086 Buffalo, NY 14221 General Purpose 6LegalFeb.1 Legal nOtice

Notice of formation of CC&S LAND HOLDINGS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/13/2017.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail to 333 County Hwy 2, Mt. Upton, NY 13809, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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2-Bed, 1-Bath in Fly Creek.

Heat, off-street parking, snow removal included. $825/mo. Available Nov. 1 Contact Rob Lee at 607-4345177.

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Quilt Show. Cooperstown Art Association. Call 607-5472709.

THEATER – 10 a.m. Presenting “A Year With Frog and Toad: The Musical,” by Willie & Robert Reale. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College Oneonta. Admission, $10. Call 607-431-4227.

COFFEE HOUSE –7 - 9 p.m. (and every 4th Sat. of month).

Music by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church.

Church Rd., Schuyler Lake.

heat, electric, water. 1,400 sq. ft. No pets, No smoking. Years lease. Off street parking. Call Hubbell’s Real Estate. 607-547-5740 TFN

Cooperstown Village 2-BR Flat. $1,400 month plus 1 month security. Includes

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Notice of formation of

Notice of formation of

NAP 58 MAPLE STREET LLC.

HINMAN HOLLOW, LLC.

Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/14/17.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 19-43 77th Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11370.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/08/17.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Meagan O’Brien, 1202 County Highway 45, Milford, NY 13807.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of Chestnut Np, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/29/17.

Office: Ulster Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Legalinc Corp Svcs 1967 Wehrle Dr #1-086 Buffalo, NY 14221 General Purpose 6LegalJan.25 Legal nOtice

Notice of formation of Sweet Sweat Fleet, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/21/17.

Office: Ulster Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Henning Grentz 67 Old County Rd 1 Kingston, NY 12401 General Purpose 6LegalJan.25

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME:

Name: OAKVIEW LODGE, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/29/2017.

Office Location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 182 Toy Farm Road, Hartwick, NY 13348 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of

King Kuupa LLC,

WOODWARD LAKE PROPERTIES LLC.

Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on 08/22/2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 1740 State Highway 7, Unadilla, NY 13849.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/01/17.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Bob Lesperence, 297 River St, Ste 3, Oneonta, NY 13820, which also serves as the registered agent address.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2018

OBITUARIES

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL B-5

John Kirk Clemens, 77; Professor Led Hartwick Leadership Institute ONEONTA – John Kirk Clemens, Hartwick College professor emeritus of business administration, passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 8, from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease.

John began his professorial career at Hartwick College in 1980.

In addition to teaching, a passion he held throughout his 34-year career, he established the Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute as a result of receiving a substantial grant from the Kellogg Foundation to fund the creation of a leadership development program and complete a library of 100 leadership cases. These cases were used at Hartwick, at other universities and in corporate training

programs nationwide. He wrote in refereed journals, as well as articles for the national business press. He co-authored four books.

John Born Dec. 13, Clemens 1939, in Kansas City, Mo., John with two brothers and their father, Arnold Wayne Clemens, moved to Glendale, Calif. Following the death of their mother, Grace Kirk, in 1940. Francise Batterton joined the family in 1943 as stepmother.

John graduated high school in Glendale and completed undergraduate and graduate degrees

Baby Jazmin Manley, West Winfield WEST WINFIELD – Jazmin Manley, 6 pounds, 1 ounce and 19 3/4 inches long, died January 14, 2018, at Bassett Hospital. She was born to Carol Johnston and Chris Manley.

Calling hours will be 10 - 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Delker & Terry Funeral Home. A service will follow with Pastor Terry Brant of First Christian Church of South Valley officiating.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Delker & Terry Funeral Home.

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

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

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

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at the University of Illinois. He served two years in the Navy as a supply officer aboard the USS Boyd.

John’s business career began in 1966 and included marketing executive positions with Pillsbury and Lawry’s Foods. Sensing there might be more to life than, as he would say, “fluffy white frosting and seasoned salt,” he answered the call of the sea, sold everything, flew to Europe, and sailed the Mediterranean for five years, teaching business courses at the University of Maryland Overseas Division in Germany and Italy when he needed money. Inspired by time at sea, a taste of the classroom experience, and writing the

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(Bill) of Newtown, Conn.; grand nieces and nephews, Sam, Sean and Katherine Clemens, Heather and Bryan Scott and Charlie and Connor Plunkett.

He was pre-deceased by his parents and step-mother.

A memorial service will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 27, at the First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St. A reception will follow in the Foreman Gallery in the Anderson Center for the Arts.

Gifts in memory of John may be made to the John Clemens Scholarship for Study in Business, c/o Office of College Advancement, Hartwick College, PO Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820 or online at www.hartwick.edu.

Josephine Colburn, 87; Craftswoman Raised Goats, Ponies

BURLINGTON FLATS – Josephine Elizabeth Jacobs Colburn, 87, Burlington Flats, who raised goats and ponies with her late husband, passed away Monday Jan. 8, 2018, in Cooperstown.

Josephine was born on Dec. 16, 1930, on Christian Hill in Fly Creek, the daughter of the late Charles Eugene and Myrtie Thompsons Jacobs.

Josephine was a lifetime resident of the area. She was devoted to her family, and loved spending time with her grandchildren.

Many years ago, she and Ken raised goats, and ponies. She was also well known for her crafts which included wind chimes, knitting, and crocheting. Most people knew her for her dishrags and hats.

More recently, she and Louie traveled the area attending church functions, dinners, craft shows, and special times with his family. They also delivered meals on wheels.

She is survived by a son Kenneth S. Colburn Jr

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book, “Contingency Seamanship,” John decided that being a college professor might be his real calling.

John is survived by his loving family, including wife, Karyl, brother Wayne (Barbara) of Concord, MA and children Bob (Shelley) of Columbia, Md., Sandy Scott (Paul Riley) of Northborough, Mass. and Jim (Karen) of Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H.; twin brother David of Irvine, Calif., and daughters, Amy (Sergei Andruha) of San Francisco and Ashley Thomas (Rob) of Washington, D.C.; father-in-law Bill Burgher of Venice, Fla.; sister-in-law Judy Lorette (Bob) of Fairfield, Conn. and children Topher of San Francisco and Meghan Plunkett

BURLINGTON FLATS – Edward Jene Duncan, 65 passed away unexpectedly on Friday afternoon, Jan. 12, 2018 at the home of his daughter Crystal Dibble in the town of Warren.

He was born on Sept. 26, 1952 in Cooperstown, son of the late Edward J. and Rosetta Mondore Duncan.

Surviving him are his wife, Janet, three sons, Kevin Bond, Kenny Duncan and Jake Duncan, two daughters,Crystal and Melissa, three brothers, William, Earl and James, three sisters, Rosemary Oldick, Elizabeth Walsh, Betty Abrams, seven grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Besides his parents Edward was preceded in death by his son Jerry L. Duncan in 2007.

Calling hours will be held 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan, 7 at the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home. A funeral service will follow immediately after with Pastor Alan Miler officiating.

Arrangements are entrusted to the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home.

(Joanne Kighton-Chamberlain) of Mount Upton, daughters Janice Smith (Nick Costello) of Montrose, Pa., Donna Rowe of Burlington Flats, Rose Walton (Kellie) of New Berlin, Lois Colburn (Dan Miller) of Webster, Fla.; a brother Fred Jacobs of Deansboro; a sister Helen Thompson of Fayetteville, Pa.; randchildren Julie, Paul, Brian, Mark, Daniel, Jessica, Rebecca, Michelle, Monica, Corrine, Ashley, Matthew, 16 great-grandchildren, and

several nieces and nephews.

She is also survived by her special friend and companion Louis “Louie” Josephine Colburn Mayne of Burlington Flats.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband Kenneth S. Colburn Sr. in 2001, a daughter Carol Riordan in 1989, a grandchild Amanda Lynn Walton

in 1991, a sister, and three brothers.

A funeral was held Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Burlington Flats Baptist Church with Pastor Jay Henderson officiating.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Friends of Bassett c/o Gall Bladder Surgery/Education (Josephine Colburn) 1 Atwell Road Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Arrangements were entrusted to Delker & Terry Funeral Home.

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