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hings are moving fast. County reps sat down Tuesday, Feb. 13, to formally address the question of hiring a county manager for LEADING the first time, DEBATE and in 30 minutes had decided they may have a referendum on the question as soon at the Nov. 6 elections. “The time Kennedy for talking ►VIDEO of should stop,” IGA Commitcounty Rep. tee discusAndrew sion is at Marietta, D-

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Lacey Perry, right, and friends Kelsey Jacha and Brynnlee Burr ride a huge inflatable duck, one of the highlights of the Winter Carnival’s Blizzard of Family Fun in Lakefront Park.

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he Cooperstown Winter Carnival may not have had as many contests to

win, but it sure was fun. “We tried to make things for kids more fun and less competitive,” said Marcy Birch, a member of this year’s Winter Carnival Committee. Cooperstown’s annual Winter Carnival, the 51st, drew a strong

crowd this past weekend, in part, the organizers believe, because of the family-friendly atmosphere. One big change was a move away from tubing races at Lakefront Park and instead, allowing all children to ride down the hill at Please See CARNIVAL, A2

Spurbeck’s Reopens, Enters Chamber Hall

HELP WANTED: The Cooperstown food pantry By PARKER FISH seeks volunteers to pick up donated fresh produce and assist with monthly food de- COOPERSTOWN liveries. For more informaithin three days tion, contact director Stacey of the grand reSmith at directorcfp@gmail. opening under the com or call (607) 547-8902. new ownership of Michael GELBSMAN STAYS: Former county Rep. Craig Gelbsman of Oneonta will remain on the Otsego Now board of directors. County Rep. Andrew Marietta will HARTWICK replace him as the county board’s official liaison. cy roads caused an Details at XNG truck to slide www. OTSEGO.com off Route 205 north of Hartwick on Friday evening, Feb. 9, within a mile of where another of the

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Jordan Clemens, Otsego County Soil & Water Conservation district manager, told the county Board of Representatives Wednesday, Feb. 7, these signs will start appearing in county forests to discourage illegal dumping.

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eighbor Vickey Nodine liked to play hide and seek with Kiley and Cody Sullivan. “Cody would hide his eyes and try to count while Kiley and

I would hide,” she said, “He would point out who was hiding where.” Nodine, who also lived in the 498 Dehning Road apartment complex that burned in an early morning fire, is now Please See 2 TOTS, A6 ►OBITUARIES for Kiley and Cody appear on B6

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Jack Morris Meets Pals On Hall Of Fame Visit

Focus On Family Fun Boosts Turnout At Cooperstown Fest

Crisman Appointed As Deputy Treasurer

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Former Detroit Tiger pitcher Jack Morris, wife Jennifer and son Miles were all smiles as they posed in front of the place where Morris’ plaque will soon enter the Hall of Plaques in Cooperstown during his pre-induction tour on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Stopping to view Al Kaline and Lou Brock’s plaques and others’, Morris at one point said, “Here are my guys!” He is one of five Major Leaguers who will be inducted into the Hall on July 29, and the first of this class to undergo the tour.

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ifelong Otsego County Resident Andrew Crisman was appointed Deputy Treasurer under County Treasurer Allen Ruffles last week. Following the retirement of former treasurer Dan Crowell, Ruffles ran unap$8M Scriven Grant Aims posed to win the position. Before the Deputy TreaTo Upgrade Patient Care surer appointment, Crisman COOPERSTOWN spent 11 years with NBT Bank, most recently as the assett Hospital announced it has received an $8 mil- Assistant Branch Manager at lion grant from the Scriven Foundation to upgrade NBT Bank on Pioneer Street patient-care equipment. in Cooperstown. The money will buy surgical instruments, patient-moniCristman is a 1996 gradutoring and lab equipment, and patient exam tables, among ate of Owen D. Young High other purchases. School and a 2001 SUNY “We always seek to provide the highest possible degree of Cortland Grad. comfort and safety for all of our patients, and this gift will ensure that we meet our goal in every instance,” said WAIT HONORED: Dr. William LeCates, the hospital’s acting president, in a James Wait, Cherry Valley, statement thanking the foundation. Scriven Foundation President Jane Forbes Clark said the was named to the Fall 2017 Dean’s List at Lycoming gift comes as Bassett “refocuses on strengthening fundaCollege for maintaining a mental patient-care quality and safety issues,” and said the foundation will continue to work with LeCates and the hos- 3.50 GPS for the semester. pital on “improving health outcomes across the region.”

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Kyle Morris and Jesse Pascale, Cooperstown, were hard at work making oven roasted loaded baked potato grilled cheese sandwiches for the crowds who came out to the Farmer’s Market for their annual Grilled Cheese for a Good Cause fundraiser on Sunday, Feb. 11.

CARNIVAL/From A1 their own pace, including plenty of rambunctious rides in a giant, inflatable rubber duckie, inflatable swans and other animals. Birch said they were provided by Utica-based Wilcor International, a company she uses through her summertime business, Barnyard Swing in Hartwick Seminary. “Based on public feedback, we wanted to move away from competitive events this year,” said Rich McCaffrey, carnival board chair. “We really just wanted to be able to focus on having fun.”

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As many as 300 people came out to the park for roasted marshmallows, Jax Wax maple-syrup-on-snow demonstrations, and rides on ponies and horse-drawn sleighs. And with plenty of fresh snow and temperatures hovering at a comfortable 38 degrees, the day was made for good times. “Surprisingly, the weather cooperated with us, which helped a lot,” said McCaffrey. But just in case of freezing temperatures, there was plenty planned for indoors too. “One new event that we had this year was the kids trivia and hot chocolate

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at the Tunnicliff Inn,” said Birch. “We weren’t sure how that would be received, but that place was jam packed for the event.” And the grown-ups got to show off their knowledge too, with a full house for trivia at the Templeton Lounge on Friday night. In place of the annual food and drink competitions, which previously pitted local restaurants against each other for the title of best wings, Birch helped put together the “Fly The Coop” wing trail, encouraged guests to visit each participating restaurant to taste their wings. “One goal was to try to bring as much business to village stores as possible,” said Birch. With that, over 200 poems by elementary school students lined the windows of the Main Street stores, creating what McCaffrey dubbed the “Poetry Stroll.” And when people weren’t sure what to do next, they could visit the new Welcome Tent in Pioneer Park, which proved a valuable source of information on businesses, events and hot beverages to warm up with. McCaffrey estimates that over 200 people visited the tent.

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Dick Sliter, Cooperstown, retired businessman and former interim pastor at First Baptist Church, ladles broccoli and cheese chowder for his 25th year at the church’s Soup ‘r’ Chili luncheon, the traditional Winter Carnival launch.

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Revelers at The Otesaga’s Fire Pit enjoyed an added benefit Saturday, Feb. 11 – 51st Annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival fireworks set on The Leatherstocking Golf Course. The carnival featured three days of winter fun, Feb. 9-11. Peg Walrath, left, savors the multicolored offerings at the Fenimore Quilt Club Show at 22 Main. Launched with the Winter Carnival, it continues until Feb. 25.

A determined Alexander Kahn (108) led runners off the starting line at Saturday’s Bob Smullens 5K Run. But it was Christian Hill’s Frank Wilsey (116), in red top, who crossed the finish line minutes ahead of the secondplace winner.

Waiting on the buffet line at the Friends of Bassett’s Valentine Soiree at The Otesaga are, left, Bill and Karen Mirabito, and Rich and Debra Harlem, all of Oneonta. In the spirit of the Winter Carnival, from left, Bassett’s Bruce Kramer, Mike Rutledge, Barbara Petersen and Laura Kilty stage a “warm-up” to next week’s Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump, hopping into the Susquehanna at Mill Street on the carnival’s first day.

Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA Managing Editor Libby Cudmore hands the $500 prize for finding the Winter Carnival medallion to John Janitz Jr. of Fly Creek and his girlfriend Katie Marvel of Oneonta. Flanking them are Carnival Committee members Marcy Birch and Rich McCaffery, chairman.

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Perspectives

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EDITORIAL

VILLAGE, CITY OR COUNTY MANAGER IS SIMPLY...

Someone Who Can Get Things Done

aybe we’ve been overthinking this manager thing. A county manager or city manager or village manager isn’t Napoleon on a horse. He or she is simply an administrator, someone who can turn the will of the citizenry – distilled through the county board, Common Council, or Village Board – into reality. In other words, someone who can be assigned a task and get it done. • While Oneonta’s city manager position – a job now filled by the able and seasoned George L. Korthauer – is again under

undeserved fire, the Village of Cooperstown made the transition to professional, efficient management seamlessly a year ago September. It’s been running fine ever since. In an interview this week with Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, he and the village trustees did a number of things that helped ensure success. First, they sought expert advice, inviting in a “little task force” from NYCOM (the state Conference of Mayors) led by Jerry Faiella, executive director of the state City/County Managers Association, to assess the situation. (The City of

Oneonta has also consulted with Faiella.) Katz bluntly advised the task force there was “no way” the village could afford to create a $70,000 job. The visitors, after spending a day nosing around Village Hall, observed that Village Clerk Teri Barown was already doing much of the work of a village administrator. As it happened, the trustees were looking to merge village treasurer and deputy treasurer into one job. That Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal saved $15,000, and applying Cooperstown Village Administrator Teri Barown, that amount to what Barown second from right, is surrounded by her team: from left, Treasurer Deb Guerin, Police Chief Mike was already making took Covert, Administrative Assistant Patricia Windsor, the pay to the desired level. The new administrator DPW Superintendent Mitch Hotaling.

wouldn’t have to “prove” her worth, dollar for dollar. This also avoided the vaunted “nationwide search,” which brings in an unknown quantity who must then prove his or her worth anew. Teri had been village clerk for a decade, and a largely stable board had been working with her for four years – Katz, as trustee, then mayor, for the whole 10 years. The mayor and trustees knew Barown. She knew them. They had achieved a level of confidence in her abilities and prudence. In effect, they had learned to trust her. Conversely, she Please See EDITORIAL, A5

VALENTINE VERSE

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Education Helps City-Manager Regimen Run Smoothly Editor’s Note: Sarah Patterson, a member of the original Oneonta Charter Revision Commission appointed by Mayor John Nader in 2009, read this letter at the Tuesday, Feb. 6, Common Council meeting, decrying of City Hall’s failure to embrace professional governance.

everal events have prompted me to write this letter. One, it’s a new year and that’s always a good time to re-assess and make new beginnings. Two, this past month, an informational forum was held with respect to the issue of a county manager. And finally, three, this past The Freeman’s Journal week, the Daily Star editorial of Sarah Patterson addressJan. 23 cited the City of Oneonta ing Common Council.

as an example as to why a manager may not be a good idea. I was a member of the Charter Commission established in late 2009 to rewrite the city charter because it was acknowledged that City government was operating outside its charter and it hadn’t been updated since 1964. This was a two-year process, with no preconceived notions on our part, resulting in a new charter which was passed in a referendum in 2011. One of the primary recommendations we made at the time was that education needed to take place by all involved so everyone understood what their roles were in this new form of government. Regrettably, this did not occur and the first city manager was let go after less

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call you my honey Not because you’re sweet (you are) But because you stick You stick to me like honey sticks To spoon, to lip, to fingertip. As honey leaves its telltale trace On every surface it encounters So you leave your mark, your sign On everything that I call mine. Let airy poets prattle of Idyllic love, romantic bliss, For Venus and Adonis swoon Under rapture’s fickle moon. You give me more substantial stuff Constancy, kindheartedness Love not measured by the hour Love with honey’s staying power. Here then do I praise the glue That binds forever me to you For by now it should be clear The reason you’re my honey, dear Is that you stick, you stick. DOREY MUNCH Oneonta

than two years. At that point, Mayor Miller asked some of the commission members to assess what happened and we again compiled a list of recommendations, one of which was, “To ensure a clear common understanding of the city manager system of government, there needs to be a formal education/orientation for all city entities, including: the mayor, the Common Council, department heads and all other city employees. The training should be led by an external facilitator experienced in government organizational transition.” I’m quoting from the final report of the Charter Review Commission submitted on July 31, 2014, addressing the issues Please See VOICES, A5

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unemployed persons to gain critical manufacturing skills wanted by local companies. The two-week program runs from March 6-16. The program enables trainees with manufacturing skills needed for entry-level positions with many local and regional companies. The training components cover a number of areas identi-

To The Editor: SUNY Broome Community College, in partnership with the Otsego Chamber of Commerce and CDO Workforce NY, is seeking unemployed persons to enroll in the Manufacturing Basics Training Program. A $75,000 NYS Department of Labor award granted to the college will enable

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fied by local companies as a “plus” to being hired by their companies. The Manufacturing Certification consists of classroom training in Hand Tool Usage, Shop Floor Math, Reading Measuring Devices, Assembly Drawing Interpretation, Technical Report Writing, Quality Overview, Computer Basics and MS Excel. Participants must score an average of 80 or better on the post-tests to be certified. Successful completion of this program guarantees set-aside inter-

notice of termination or layoff, as a result of any permanent closure of, or any substantial layoff at, a plant, facility, or enterprise; • was self-employed, but is unemployed as a result of general economic conditions or, because of natural disasters; • is a displaced homemaker; or • is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty and who has experienced a loss of employment as a direct result of relocation to accommodate

a permanent change in duty station of such member. All candidates must be screened at the CDO Workforce NY in Oneonta and Norwich for eligibility. To participate, conact Tylena at 334-2201, ext. 128 at the Norwich CDO Workforce NY Center or Deb Barton at 432-4800, ext. 115 at the Oneonta CDO Workforce NY Center. Deadline, Feb. 28.

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2 Cooper Heroes: Bumppo, MacDougall

e have recently learned an extraordinary person in many that at the 21st Inways, and when spending time ternational Cooper with him, it doesn’t take long to Amanda E. Willsey Larissa Ryan Conference, held in Oneonta last recognize his vigorous energy or Business Manager Office Manager/Circulation September, Cooperstonian Hugh his encyclopedic knowledge. One Thom Rhodes Parker Fish Ian Austin MacDougall was recognized as quality that has stood out for me as Advertising Consultant Reporter Photographer founder of the Cooper Society I have tried to carry on Hugh’s legand long-time Cooper Conference acy in editing the Cooper Society’s Kathleen Peters & Andree Baillargeon • Graphics & Production participant. At the conference, publications is Hugh’s passion for a handout entitled “A Tribute to outreach. CATHERINE Judith Bartow Tom Heitz Hugh MacDougall,” was distrib“Hugh’s vision for the Cooper LAKE Billing Consultant uted to the attendees. And while Society has made it distinctive in ELLSWORTH the world of author societies. He IN MEMORIAM: Mary Joan Kevlin, Co-Publisher, 2006-17 we have not had the opportunity to read all of the tributes to Hugh, we has aimed to appeal to academics OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER FOR would like to share part of the one written and non-academics alike, reaching out with Otsego County • Village of Milford • Town of Middlefield Cooperstown Central School District by Steven Harthorn, Executive Director for nearly evangelical fervor to attract interest Publications for the Cooper Society. in Cooper from scholars, students, local Subscriptions Rates: Otsego County, $48 a year. All other areas, $65 a year. Natty Bumppo depicted First Class Subscription, $130 a year. Harthorn wrote: “Hugh MacDougall is Please See COLUMN, A6 in Classic Comics.

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

200 YEARS AGO

Look Out! One dollar bills of the Bank of Utica are in circulation, altered to ten. By close examination the fraud may be easily detected. The original figures and letters in the parts altered were evidently extracted by a chemical process, by which the bill is considerably injured. The letters and figures supplied are inferior in point of beauty to the rest of the bill. Uncommon Cold Weather in Albany – Wednesday morning will be long remembered as the coldest which has been experienced in a long series of years. The quicksilver in different thermometers in this city, indicating differently according to their exposure from 24 to 34 degrees below zero. February 16, 1818

175 YEARS AGO

Common Schools in the State of New York – There were 10,893 school districts in the state on the first of July last year. Of that number 248 have made no returns. The number of children in the remaining districts on the first of July, 1842, exclusive of New York City was 601,765. Of that number those who attended school at any time during the year was 571,130. The number that attended in the City of New York was 27,619 making a total of 598,749. The average time during which the schools were taught was eight months. Less than one-half the children attended the schools in their respective districts regularly, and the residue derive comparatively little benefit from a brief and uncertain attendance. Of the school houses, 6,072 were frame buildings, 734 were built of logs, 364 of brick, and 364 of stone. February 13, 1843

150 YEARS AGO

The School House – At the adjourned meeting held on Monday evening, it was unanimously resolved to purchase Mr. Burditt’s lot on Susquehanna Avenue, and to proceed with construction of a new District School House next spring. More specific plans and specifications will be submitted at an adjourned meeting to be held March 2. A tax levy of $5,000 was on motion of Mr. Ellery Cory, voted to be made. The old lots are to be sold at auction after due notice. February 18, 1868

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75 YEARS AGO

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Clark announced last week that the large stone house with its spacious grounds on the Fenimore Farm will be opened in the spring as a club for men of the armed forces. The building is the former home of the late Edward Severin Clark, Mr. Clark’s brother. It will be known as the “United Nations Service Club” and will afford a place of rest and recreation for the men in the services. Miss Lillian A. Douglas, formerly director of Nursing at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, will be the director of the new servicemen’s club, and Miss Harriet Jane Smith will assist her. February 17, 1943

50 YEARS AGO

Roy L. Butterfield, aged 85, noted teacher, educator and historian, whose home was at the White House, two miles north of Hartwick, died Tuesday morning at the Oneonta Nursing Home. Mr. Butterfield was born in the Town of Lisle, Broome County, on July 28, 1882. His father was a farmer and iron worker. He attended a one-room school and February 16, 1893 was graduated from the Orange, New Jersey High School and Cortland State Normal School. He taught briefly in rural schools and was Principal at Lafayette and Lyndonville before moving on to prominent positions in education in the Rochester school system. Mr. Butterfield began the restoraOf the 36 men reporting for draft in the National Army on tion of his ancestral home in 1935 and moved there in 1947. Tuesday, 17 passed with flying colors; seven were disqualified and the remainder will have to be examined by the district The dwelling was originally built Revolutionary War soldier Major James Butterfield, who in later life farmed and board at Utica. Those who passed from Cooperstown were: kept a tavern. Roy was a fourth generation Butterfield. Earl St. John, Orville Grover, Clarence Stevens, and William February 14, 1968 A. Rathbun. Those who were disqualified from Cooperstown: Wm. Carter Burnett and Clyde Sponenburgh. The following men from Cooperstown have been called to appear on FebruThe CCS Redskins rolled over the out-gunned Herkimer ary 13 at 9 a.m. – William Rufus Wikoff, Jr., Joseph Thomas boys’ basketball squad for the second time in a week with Lynch, Floyd Tuttle Page, Theodore G. Pappas, Leon Leonard a lopsided 108-61 score. Seth Schaeffer, the Redskins’ Smith, Harold D. Withey, Fred Walrath, James A. Moakler, 6’3” swingman, blasted through the thousand-point career Roland Charles Gruby. Those from Cooperstown summoned milestone with a 32-point performance that brought his to appear on February 15 at 9 a.m. – Laverne Alonzo Light, season total to 451 points (30-poins-per-game-average over James Bernard Kiley, Adelbert Franklin Clinton, Gerald Fred15 games). With two games remaining on the conference erick Withey, Raymond H. Standish, Charles Delos Briggs, Harris Augustus Chase, George Arthur Basinger, Percy Clarke, schedule, the Redskins’ overall record is 14-4 and their conference mark stands at 15-3. Joe Malandrino, Leo Lawrence Kiley, Theodore F. House, February 17, 1993 Damino Giacome, Goldy I. Carsy and Thomas W. Coleman. February 13, 1918

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STATE OF THE FOREST: PART II

Wildlife Flourished In 10 Million Acres Of Abandoned Upstate Farmland

ow that we share a rudisuccessional mentary understanding stages – it gave of how forest succession them a speworks, let’s take a brief look at cific place to how we got where we are. hunt game and When the Europeans arrived at our gather fruit. shores, they discovered large tracts When their of mature northern hardwood forhunting ground ests (beech, maple, yellow birch matured and and hemlock interspersed with was no longer MIKE chestnut, oaks and ashes). productive, ZAGATA Within those large tracts were they moved on openings created by wind, fire and to another “young forest.” deliberate burning by Native As our nation was settled, the Americans. Those openings, forests were cleared by loggers depending on their age and the and farmers. The hemlocks were severity of the event that caused cut and their bark, containing them, contained grasses, brush tannic acid, were used in the (blackberries and raspberries, tanning industry. The white pines alder, beaked-hazel, etc.) and were cut and floated down the young-forest trees (aspen, Susquehanna and Delaware rivers viburnums). to our coast and then used to make Over time they would again masts to hold the sails of the early become northern hardwood forests. sea-going ships. However, in the interim, they As the farmers cleared the provided habitat for the birds, deer forests to create space for agriculand other wildlife that relied on ture, they hand-picked the rocks them for their habitat. and used them to build the stone That’s why the Native Ameriwalls we see today. Those walls cans used fire to create those early may have been a property bound-

VOICES: Get Everyone On Same Page VOICES/From A4 we found. The government of the City of Oneonta is still operating outside its charter. Not only has that education still not occurred but, after the second city manager was let go, the mayor and council saw fit to amend the charter in 2016 before it had actually been fully and properly implemented. To date, there have been two poor hiring decisions and charter amendments made without any education about the city manager system of government taking place. I believe the council never fully grasped or stepped up to its responsibility to invest in understanding the charter’s significant intentions and implications, or its potential to reshape their own roles for the betterment of city government and the city residents who voted for this. So now, we have a newly elected mayor, and all but two members of the Common Council have served in that capacity before election. I submit to you that now is the time. Governing is not innate, most of all good governing. It requires constant attention and a capacity for learning.

There is a lot the county Board of Representatives and Otsego County citizens can learn from the city experience. To draw the correct lessons, they have to understand the real history. It is not too late to demonstrate to the city, and to the county, the full benefits to be realized by a legislative body focused on strategy, policy and long-term issues working in partnership with a manager empowered to implement their vision and to run day-to-day operations. The planning and implementation for a successful transition to this form of government is the responsibility of the Common Council, mayor and the city manager. You are all still relatively new in your positions and I implore you to undertake the education piece, to do it right. Do not slip back into “that’s the way we do things around here”. This is precisely the point. We shouldn’t be doing things “the way we do things around here.” It’s no surprise that folks in the city wonder why we have a city manager form of government. They really don’t know what it looks like because it hasn’t really happened.

ary marker or an indication of where the soil changed from bad to worse (Delaware County). Clearing the forest did more than merely create space for agriculture – it also allowed sunlight to reach what had been the shaded forest floor. In the presence of sunlight, the shade-intolerant plants like grass, including Zea mays or Indian corn (maize), could once again flourish and help feed the growing population. “Manifest destiny” was alive and well, and the industrious – albeit not necessarily ecologically astute – settlers conquered the land, at least for the time being. Photos of the Oneonta area in the 1920s show an entirely different picture than what we see today – trees were few and far between and sheep were everywhere. Nature, combined with changing economic times and technology, has a way of fighting back. In the 1940s about 100,000 family-run dairy farms, unable to compete due to a variety of factors, went out of business in New York.

When that happened, about 10 million acres went fallow (no longer being actively managed/ farmed) and it should now be no surprise to you what began to happen. The pastures were invaded with wood-stemmed plants that allowed them to grow tall and shade out the grass. The land was in the process of being reclaimed by the forest. As a result, the 1960s were a time of wildlife abundance for those who enjoyed bird watching or hunting ruffed grouse, American woodcock or deer. It was a time of brush aplenty, and that meant early successional species had what they so desperately needed, then and now: habitat. How would I know this if I wasn’t a trained ecologist? Those of you who were “young” enough to have birded or hunted in the 1960s know the answer. The predominate deer rifle of that time was the Winchester Model 94 lever-action in either the 30-30 or 32-Special calibers. It was affectionately known as a

“brush gun”. Today hunters use a long-range, flat-shooting cartridge and have a 3X9 power scope mounted to their rifle. Why? It’s not because our eyesight has gotten poorer. Rather, it’s because there is no understory beneath the canopy of our forests and thus we can see – and shoot - much farther. The forests have reclaimed the land and, as a result, many of our “young-forest” species that were so abundant during the 1960s are in trouble because their habitats have been shaded out. We have the ability to recreate that habitat via logging, including clear-cutting. To its credit, Region 4 of the DEC is actively engaged in doing that and has 27 clear-cuts either underway or completed. Oneonta native Mike Zagata of West Davenport is a former DEC commissioner and environmental executive with Fortune 500 companies. His column appears every other week in this space.

EDITORIAL: Managers Simply Get It Done EDITORIAL/From A4 knew the mayor and trustees, how they worked, what they considered important, which buttons not to push. • There were a couple issues that became sticky at City Hall, where a new charter, developed by an independent Charter Revision Commission, had been approved at referendum in November 2011, creating the city manager position. The village code already included a village-administrator position going back to an unsuccessful experiment in the early 1990s. Both had a residential requirement, but the village trustees were able to go through a simple law change. That changed would have required a new referendum in Oneonta. Barown lived (and lives) in Fly Creek, although she was raised in Cooperstown. The city had an education requirement: A master’s, and a specific one, in public administration. The village’s law did not. Since the mayor and village trustees already had full confidence in Barown, neither require-

ment really mattered to them. In the midst of ambitious improvements to village streets and Village Hall, the mayor and trustees wanted to get things done, and were looking for a way to do so smoothly and efficiently. Seven part-time Village Board members directing five co-equal department heads – village clerk, police chief, DPW superintendent, treasurer, zoning enforcement officer – was unwieldy at best. They saw an administrator as a solution, not a complication. Tell Teri; she’ll make sure it gets done. And, from reports to date, she has. • In an interview following the letter community leader Sarah Patterson read at Common Council Tuesday, Feb. 6, (printed on page 4), Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig gave a spirited defense of how, after two false starts, things are evolving just fine since Korthauer has arrived from a successful 30-year tenure in Petoskey, Mich. “It’s all about people working together as a team,” said the mayor, “trusting each other,

responding to each other – not just their official roles and responsibilities, but also to their individual strengths and capabilities, and utilizing them. “This is about people, not robots,” he concluded. (Incidentally, Sarah Patterson had a point: If the city-manager system is finally working at City Hall, the mayor and Council members should figure out a way to let the citizens know.) • These lessons are important after the two-party Intergovernmental Affairs Committee of the county Board of Representatives, meeting Tuesday, Feb. 13, began developing a vigorous process to bring professional management to Otsego County government. At base, what’s needed is someone who can marshal 24 departments heads in a $110 million operation to get things done. The village, and city, and county are not looking for a man or woman on a white horse to save the day, but a helpmate in the cause of a better, more efficient Otsego County. Let’s do it.

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Shipman Modeled Natty Bumppo, MacDougall Celebrated Him contributions to the COLUMN/From A4 James Fenimore history buffs, book collectors, recCooper Society, not reational readers, and others from the least of which all over the world. was encouraging us “Even today, after Hugh has to join. stepped back from some of his forAnd while we mer duties with the Society (which often think some of now take several people to do), he still delights in serving as ‘Ask MacDougall the articles are way above our underFenimore,’ ably fielding whatever standing of Cooper, we always Cooper questions people might feel we learn something new with throw his way. Hugh always each and every one of them that believed in making knowledge we read. And we would encouraccessible with minimal barriers, providing editorial guidance while age anyone who is interested in letting the ideas of his contributors Cooper’s many works to also join the Cooper Society. speak for themselves...” • We could not agree more with Interestingly enough, at the Harthorn’s thoughts and thank him same time we received the most for sharing them. They are not recent edition of the James only completely appropriate, but also most deserved, when it comes Fenimore Cooper Society Journal, we also received the most recent to acknowledging Hugh’s many

copy of the Fly Creeker, both of which mentioned possible people who served as Cooper’s inspiration for the character of Natty Bumppo. Under “Fly Creek Area Historical Tidbits,” the Fly Creeker notes, “The hero of James Fenimore Coopers’s novels lived in the Fly Creek area. David Shipman (1730-1813), fictionalized as ‘Natty Bumppo,’ ‘Deerslayer,’ and ‘Leatherstocking,’ lived in a log cabin on the east bank of Oaks Creek, about half-way between Fly Creek and Toddsville. He is said to be buried in an unmarked grave in Fly Creek’s Adams Cemetery.” And, in the Cooper Society Journal, we read an article entitled “The Leatherstocking Fountain in Edenkoben, Palatinate, Ger-

many,” written by Robert Becker. He explains that this fountain in Edenkoben features a statue of Leatherstocking, with his rifle, dog and two beavers as well as Leatherstocking’s Indian friend, Chingachgook. Becker points out that that on the current site of the fountain in “...1952, a memorial plaque was unveiled in honor to a certain Johann Adam Hartmann (17431836), former citizen of Edenkoben. This Hartmann fellow is purported to have been a ‘model’ for Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo – the Leatherstocking.” Needless to say, we found this particular article in the Cooper Society Journal to be rather interesting as it is certainly something we had never heard before. However, we hasten to point out that we

have decided we are not going to take either side in these “Model for Natty Bumppo” claims. We shall leave that up to finer minds than ours. However, we will point out that having a goodly supply of reading material, such as the Fly Creeker and the James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal, did make it much easier to get through Mother Nature’s misguided notion that we would actually enjoy having the many piles of snow round and about the area. NOTE: Comments regarding this column may be made by mail to 105 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326, by telephone at 607-547-8124 or by email at cellsworth1@stny.rr.com. Or visit the website, cooperstowntoday.com.

XNG Truck Slides Off Route 205 On Ice

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Trooper Mike Slawek, Troop C, stands watch over the scene of the doublefatal house fire at 478 Dehning Road, Town of Davenport.

2 Tots Killed In Davenport Blaze

2 TOTS/From A1 mourning the loss of Kiley, 3, and Cody, one, who both died after the fire began in the apartment they shared with their father, Carmen. “Two beautiful children,” she said. “I was so blessed to have had them in my life. I had grandchildren their age, and those babies called me Aunt Vickey. That bond was very special to me.” Nodine called Delaware County 911 to report the fire at 1:46 a.m. and alerted responders that the two children were trapped inside. Crews were on the scene within 10 minutes, but found the building fully involved. “The flames were through the roof,” said Steve Hood, director, Delaware County of Emergency Services. Fire and EMS units responded from East Meredith, Pindars Corners, Davenport, Delhi, Bloomville, Franklin, Meridale, as well as Oneonta Fire and EMS, and Cooperstown Medical Transport. Just before dawn, crews were able to go into the house and retrieve the bodies of Kiley and Cody, who were each in a separate bedroom. Their dad was taken to Upstate Medical in Syracuse for burn injuries. He was released Monday. In addition to Nodine, all but one of the building’s seven residents were home at the time of the fire. The four-apartment building had two two-bedroom and two one-bedroom apartments. Her grandson, Hector Padilla III, a junior at Charlotte Valley Central School, was not home at the time

of the fire. “We sent out an email Friday afternoon, and by the end of the day, our faculty and staff raised $500 for Hector and his grandmother,” said principal Tom Molle. “I picked them up and took them into Oneonta to get clothes and necessities, but they still need so much.” No other injuries were reported, but the building – an all-wood structure that once operated a machine shop on the first floor – was considered a total loss.

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No cause of the fire has yet been determined, but the investigation is ongoing. Hood believed there were smoke detectors in at least one apartment, but did not know if the ones in the Sullivan’s apartment were present or functional. Davenport Code Enforcement declined to answer, citing the ongoing investigation. The last fatal fire in Delaware County was in 2016, when Phillip Kurt was killed in a fire that destroyed an apartment house.

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the back of the truck off the pavement. After inspecting the vehicle to make sure it was safe and fully operational, the tow trucks were placed in front and in back, and managed to push and pull the XNG truck back into the roadway. The scene was cleared by 8:30 p.m. and the truck was able to continue along the roadway without incident. A neighbor snapped The XNG trucks – perthis photo of the XNG haps making as many as 80 truck that slid off one-way trips a day – are Route 205 Friday, Feb. part of a “virtual pipeline” 9 ferrying fracked natural gas Services, as well as a towing from Northeastern Pennsylvania to the Iroquois pipecompany and both first responders and two tow trucks line near Little Falls. Since they began going were dispatched. Thayer said that when the back and forth last February, the traffic has engendered trucks arrived, their drivers some community opposition found the front of the cab along the route. still on the shoulder, but Thinking of Remodeling? Think of Refinancing!

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By November, Voters Could Be Deciding On County Administrator

and I came MANAGER/ onto the From A1 board in elected 2016, seven executive or of us were appointed brand new managers, coming onto only eight the board. – includFifty percent ing Otsego of the board – don’t. changed. Meeting This year, Tuesday, four people Feb. 23, the are new to IGA memthe board. bers seemed There’s determined to Michelle Farwell, Ddo something Morris, wants to begin just no continuity.” about that. researching how other “We need The IGA counties have done to place chair, Meg in their management deadlines Kennedy, R- searches. and time Hartwick/Milford/New Lisbon, suggested limits on making these decimore fact-finding is in order. sions because I could see it “The idea is that we want to becoming extremely openended in terms of looking make our decision as fully at every single county and informed as possible, and that should guide our discus- what they did,” said Michelle Farwell, D-Morris, sion,” she said. Having discussed the issue among themselves during the second half of 2017, and having attended a presentation in December by Gerald Benjamin, SUNY New Paltz vice president and an expert on local government, most IGA committee members agreed that, for time and efficiency, they should try to come to a consensus among themselves on what to do. “Who better in essence to understand what our needs are than us?” said Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus. “My idea then goes to having some of the committee actually research the merits of an appointed manager, and have the other half with an elected executive.” While most committee members agreed on conducting the study internally, there was some disagreement as to the timeframe of the study. With two-year terms, the idea seemed to resolve this matter in that time-frame. “All 14 representatives run every two years,” said Marietta. “When Meg, Pete

a freshman. “I’m not sure doing it that way is necessarily going to be a good use of everybody’s time.” The next step in the process, for the sake of gathering as much information as possible, will be the IGA to research what similar counties have done. “There is a ton to learn, and we’ve all got to learn it,” said Farwell. “We all should be reading the job descriptions and local laws of a few counties that are similar to ours.” With so much information to process, Kennedy proposed an additional meeting before the full board’s next meeting March 7. This second meeting, scheduled for Feb. 27, will focus exclusively on whether a county manager should Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal be appointed, or an elected Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown, is anxious to get started on the process executive should be sought. of bringing professional management to the county.

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President James Garfield’s father, Abram, lived on a farm in Worcester prior to 1827, when he moved to Ohio, where his son was born. Check out the historical marker across Route 7 from Stewart’s at I-88’s Exit 19.

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George Washington visited Otsego Lake’s outlet in 1783 to view where General Clinton blew up the dam that allowed his army aboard bateaux to surprise the Iroquois at Oquaga (Afton), disperse the tribe and open the way for New Englanders to settle Otsego County after the American Revolution.

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t would have been a perfect setting for a visit by Chester Alan Arthur, the 21st president of the United States (18811885): Oneonta’s Central New York Fair. From 1873 to 1927, The Fair was The Place for a politician to get his message – in those days, most politicians were hims – to the voters of Greater Oneonta, including Cooperstown, each September during the week-long local celebration of agriculture and much more. Typically, 30,000 people attended the Floral Parade, a high point of the Oneonta Union Agricultural Society’s fair at Belmont Park, now the City of the Hills’ Belmont Circle neighborhood behind Fox Hospital. After 1897, the focal point of most political speeches – and magicians, animal acts, weddings and even “The Golden Globe of Death,” where a woman would ride a motorcycle inside a 20-foot tall circular cage – would have been the Roof Garden, about where 12 North Please See ARTHUR, B3

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said Congressman George Fairchild hosted Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft at different times at his mansion at Main Street and Grand Avenue, Oneonta, now the Masonic Temple. Fairchild, publisher of the Oneonta Herald, would later be first chairman of IBM. ALMOST HILLARY: The former

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first lady and secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, would have been a prospect for a presidential profile here if she had won the 2016 Presidential election, as then U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan brought her to Alex’s Bistro in Cherry Valley and other points when she ran to succeed him in 2000. 3 FOR COOPERSTOWN:

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WEIRD SCIENCE: Two days of scientific fun for kids. On Saturday, Feb. 17, bring the kids for morning story hour, learn about electrons at the Electricity Alive demonstration at 11:30, learn about robots at 1, and tap your sense of wonder at the planetarium matinee show at 2. 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, Free, registration required. A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-2011, And on Sunday, Feb. 18, explore a wide collection of engineering kits, activities, plus a thematic challenge. Admission, $5. Noon - 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18, Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta. Call 607-431-8543.

FROZEN TOES RACE: Warm up those feet with a fivemile race on an outdoor race on hiking trails. Cost, $20/person. Registration 9 - 10 a.m. 10:30 start. Saturday, Feb. 17, Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-2800. PLAY READING: A staged reading of “Happy Birt’day, Greta Garbo” a new play by Central New York Playwright Sandi Dollinger,. presented by local actors Feedback welcome, admission by donation. 4 - 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471400. CONSERVATION FILM: “Defenders of Wildlife: Racing Extinction” film screening, panel. 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

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CONSERVATION FILM – 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. “Defenders of Wildlife: Racing Extinction” film screening, panel. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980. FROZEN TOES RACE – 10:30 a.m. Frozen Toes 5-mile race on outdoor hiking trail. Cost, $20/person. Registration 9-10 a.m. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-2800. SCIENCE SATURDAY – 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Morning story hour. Learn about electrons at the Electricity Alive demonstration at 11:30, learn about robots at 1, and tap your sense of wonder at the planetarium matinee show at 2. Free, registration required. A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-2011. SNOW TUBING – 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Enjoy the winter. Cost $5/person. Glimmerglass

State Park, 1527 Co. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. POLAR BEAR JUMP – 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Jump in a frozen lake to raise money for local children, adults, organizations. Goodyear Lake, Portlandville. Spectators welcome! Call 607-432-4500. WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to improve your craft. Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980. PLAY READING – 4 - 6 p.m. Presenting “Happy Birt’day, Greta Garbo” a new play by Central New York Playwright Sandi Dollinger. Feedback welcome. Admission by donation. Next reading, 3/3. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471400. POTLUCK DINNER – 6 p.m. Enjoy dinner with friends. Bring a dish to pass. Plates & beverages provided. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 811 Co. Rd. 26, Fly Creek. Call 607-547-9946. MARDI GRAS – 6 - 10 p.m. Celebration includes Buffet Dinner, Karaoke, music, a Kings & Queens court, silent auction, 50/50 raffle, more. Tickets, $15/person. Benefit for Orpheus Theater. Oneonta

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Arthur Not Only New York President To Never Make It To This County ARTHUR/From B1 Belmont Circle is today. Too late for Arthur, but “since the earliest days of the fair, political speeches had become an established traditional, hosting such notables as Teddy Roosevelt,” Loudon reported in his book, “The Oneonta Fair” (Square Circle Press, 2013). Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke there in the 1920s. In 1907, Gov. Charles Evan Hughes, who would be the Republican candidate for president in 1916, declaimed to a throng on the need for everyday citizens to get involved in government to keep politicians on the straight and narrow. From time to time, someone will mention that Chester Arthur did visit and speak at the Central New York Fair, but Loudon, in his research, uncovered no such visit by a son of Upstate who would become one of the most accidental presidents in U.S. history. That may seem unusual,

This 1903 map shows the Central New York Fair grounds sandwiched between Valley View Street to the north and the D&H line.

even today, for a president from New York not to have visited Otsego County, but it isn’t: the Hall of Fame Library has no record of Donald Trump, either as a boy or man, visiting Baseball’s Mecca. Of the seven presidents from the Empire State, the two Roosevelts – Teddy, more than once; and Frank-

lin, when he was governor – made well-documented visits to Oneonta. Of the other four beyond Trump, future president Grover Cleveland of Buffalo was known to attend a Republican state convention in Richfield Springs. Millard Fillmore of Buffalo, was elected in 1848, in the infancy of railroads, so

travel was difficult and there are no reports of him in Otsego County. While president, Martin Van Buren visited Cooperstown in 1839, coming down the west side of Otsego Lake on the Pierstown Road, although Cooperstown Village Historian Hugh MacDougall doubts the famous story about “Little Van” getting lost in Woodside Hall’s gardens trying to find his way back to the village after nighfall. (Van Buren, and Barack Obama in 2014, were the only two sitting presidents to visit the county.) While unaware specifically of Chester Arthur visiting Oneonta, his latest biographer, Scott Greenberger, said it’s plausible he might have. Arthur was born on Oct. 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vt., to the Rev. William Arthur and wife Malvina Stone, but by the time the boy was 5 the family had moved to Upstate New York.

Thenceforth, the future president’s father “spent a lot of time in a lot of different places,” said Greenberger, whose “The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur,” was published in 2017. Pastor Arthur “was a staunch abolitionist and he frequently alienated congregations. He moved and his family moved with him. He (young Chester) was cer-

In his 30s during the 1850s in New York City, the young attorney was winning key Civil Rights’ cases.

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tainly in the region. He was all over Upstate New York,” said Greenberger. The future president attended Union College in Schenectady, then taught school as he studied to be a lawyer, according to www. history.com. He was admitted to the bar in 1854, and began practicing in New York City, winning several high-profile civil rights cases. During the Civil War (1861-65), he was quartermaster for the State of New York, responsible for marshalling food and supplies for Union troops – another opportunity to visit places like Oneonta, (although the railroad, the Albany & Susquehanna, didn’t arrive here until the war’s end.) This was the era of machine politics, and Arthur became associated with U.S. Sen. Roscoe Conkling’s patronage system, which had statewide reach, according to Greenberger, who is Please See ARTHUR, B4

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Arthur Shifts From Spoils System To Civil Service ARTHUR/From B3 personally acquainted with Upstate through boyhood summers spent at Camp Baco in Minerva, near Lake Placid. (His children now spend summers there and at the sister camp for girls, Che-Na-Wah.) If a state convention were held in Oneonta in the 1850s or â€™60s â€“ itâ€™s unclear if one was â€“ itâ€™s possible Arthur could have attended, his biographer further surmised. In 1871, President Grant appointed Arthur as customs collector for the Port of New York, and thatâ€™s the point that Richard J. Sternberg, the Cooperstown village trustee and a presidential history buff, becomes interested in his story. â€œHe was a Republican political hack, a party politician,â€? said Sternberg, who has some 150

books on presidents in his Westridge Road home. â€œHe did what he was told â€Ś A lot of money flowed through the custom houses.â€? Two years after former Civil War general Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president in 1876, he ousted Arthur from the custom house job in a drive against the spoils system, history.com recounts. In 1880, however, another Civil War general, James Garfield, won the Republican nomination, and the Conkling group won the vice-presidential nomination for Arthur. These days, you might have figured a vice presidential candidate would barnstorm through his own state, including such places as Oneonta, but not Arthur, said Greenberger. â€œHe had a lot of experience with New York Stateâ€™s political machine. He helped

run Garfieldâ€™s campaign; he didnâ€™t do a lot of barnstorming himself.â€? The Garfield-Arthur ticket was successful. â€œOne of their own is now president of the United States,â€? said Sternberg. The Conkling Machine figured, â€œitâ€™s going to be easy pickings.â€? They sent an emissary to visit Arthur at the White House. â€œHe comes back: â€˜I didnâ€™t get anythingâ€™.â€? Asked to explain, the emissary said, â€œHeâ€™s no longer good old Chet â€“ heâ€™s now the president,â€? Sternberg recounted. Breaking with his past, President Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Act in 1883, which required certain jobs to be filled on merit, not political clout; it also prohibited the firing of workers for political reasons Please See ARTHUR, B5

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In trying to figure out the election of 1880, U.S. Sen. Roscoe Conkling, the state’s political boss, didn’t count Chester Arthur in. Eventually, Conklin got him the vice president slot, and within six months, after President Garfield’s assassination, Arthur was in the White House.

just one “Chester Arthur” – Chester Arthur Miller, born in 1880, the year of the Garfield-Arthur campaign. A school teacher, he bought the Democratic Oneonta Press newspaper, then served a term in the Assembly. There, he became a supporter and friend of FDR, who was then governor. Miller – also known by the nickname “Chet” – was rewarded when FDR became president with an appointment as Oneonta postmaster. He held the postmaster job for 16 years, rising to national office in National Association of Postmasters.

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April 28 Service Set For Bill Parsons, 65

COOPERSTOWN– He is survived Services for William by his daughter H. Parsons, Jr., 65, Sarah Parsons, his who passed away son Daniel Parsons, Monday, Jan. 29, his daughter-in-law 2018, will be held Sinead Parsons, his April 28 at Christ grandson Hunter ParChurch. sons, and his brother Bill grew up in Gary Parsons, as well Cooperstown, graduatas hundreds of family William ing from Cooperstown members and friends. Parsons Central School in He was predeceased 1970, and went on to attend by his father William H. ParVassar College, receiving a sons Sr., his Mother Therese bachelor’s degree in Geology. A. Parsons, and his sister Soon after, he started his own Claire A. Parsons. masonry and restoration A service for Bill will be business, working on historic at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 28, sites like The Noah Webster at Christ Episcopal Church, House, The Farmers’ Museum, followed by a reception at Fenimore Art Museum, Double- Templeton Hall. day Field, and The National If you plan to attend, Baseball Hall of Fame. please notify Donna Parsons After moving to New York at donnaparsons500@aol. City to manage the restoracom or (860) 805-3215. tion of Belvedere Castle In lieu of flowers, donain Central Park, he met his tion towards Bill’s memorial future wife Donna and the service may be sent to Dan two moved to Granby, CT to Parsons at 541 Pleasant St, have their children. Hanson, MA 02341.

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Dorothy ‘Dot’ Weir, 97; Milford Church Organist 68 Years MILFORD – Dorothy Marie Smith Weir, 97, the organist at the Milford United Methodist Church, died Monday, Feb. 12 after a short illness. Dorothy was born in Bethany, Pa., the daughter of Methodist Rev. Joseph H. Smith and Marie E. Albertson. She attended various schools prior to moving to Oneonta. Dorothy graduated from Oneonta High School, Class of 1939. After graduation, she attended Syracuse University, majoring in Music and Fine Arts with a minor in organ. On Feb. 7, 1942, she married Richard L. Weir. The family was raised in their Milford Center home from 1948 to present. She stayed home to raise their children. In 1960, she went to work for Otsego County, and later became the Accounting Department supervisor of

Donald Sternberg, 91; Father of Village Trustee 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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COOPERSTOWN – Donald D. Sternberg, 91, father of Dr. Richard J. Sternberg, the retired Bassett orthopedic surgeon, passed away Feb. 10, 2018, at Centers Health Care, the former Otsego Manor Nursing Home. He was born on March 4, 1926, in New York City, son of Morton and Donald Jeanette Sternberg Sternberg, and attended Dewitt Clinton High School. He enlisted during World War II, and served as a pharmacist’s mate at Parris Island, S.C. Following the war, he attended the University of Wisconsin. On Sept. 20, 1951, he married the former Nadine Fox. The Sternbergs lived in Oceanside, L.I., before moving to Cooperstown in September 2016. They had been residing at the Thanksgiving Home. He spent his career in men’s clothing, as a salesman and later as a buyer for major chains, including at Macy’s headquarters in New York City. Mr. Sternberg is survived by his wife, Nadine; two sons, Richard in Cooperstown, and Douglas in Oceanside, and five grandchildren, Dr. Sternberg’s two daughters, Marisa and Jeanna; and Douglas’ three children, Daniel, Jessica Crawford and Miriam. A gravesite service is planned Tuesday at Old Montefiore Cemetery, Queens. Arrangements are with Gutterman’s Funeral Home in Rockville Center, L.I.

Social Services. ences began at the She worked there family house on until her retireSilver Lake in the ment in 1985. summer, where Throughout all she continued to of her life, her travel in the sumfamily and faith mer months with held great signifiher children, and cance. She played grandchildren. organ for the Dot loved to Milford United watch her OrangeDorothy Weir Methodist Church men of Syracuse for over 68 years, University play and was a member of mulbasketball. tiple different committees, She also was an avid Yanand organizations for the kee baseball fan, following church. She played the orher favorite Derek Jeter into gan for countless weddings his retirement. and gave piano lessons to Dorothy is predeceased many in the community. by her two brothers, John Dorothy had a variety of Phillip and Joseph H. Smith. skills and talents. She enShe is survived by her sister, joyed sewing, knitting, and Marjorie Reichard; her three embroidery. She enjoyed children; Richard L. and gardening, and spending Bonnie, Donna and Ross, time with their horses, and and James and Cynthia. in her earlier years she Also, by eight grandwas an avid swimmer and children; William and Pam, canoer. Mike and Monica, Kate and Many of these experiClint, Colleen and Chris,

Sharon and Thom, Rebecca and Chris, Kim and Lorne, and Shannon and Sam. She is survived by her 13 great-grandchildren; Katherine, Mason, Andre, Jordan, Lilli, Ashlynn, Ryleigh, Henry, Brycen, Peyton, Madilyn, Luke, and Liam. Calling hours will be 5-7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, at the Milford United Methodist Church, 113 North Main St. in Milford. The Celebration of Life Service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, in the sanctuary of the Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street in Cooperstown. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Milford United Methodist Church Memorial Fund. Arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Services.

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VetCor of Oneonta LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/26/18. Office location: Otsego County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/23/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalMar.15 Legal nOtice supplemental summons SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Wells Fargo Bank, NA Plaintiff, -againstJohnathon Ogborn a/k/a Johnathon S. Ogborn if living and if he be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, Stephanie Ogborn a/k/a Stephanie L. Ogborn, United States of AmericaInternal Revenue Service, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Defendants. Index #: 608/2017 Filed: 1/30/18 Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED

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to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York January 22, 2018 FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01085632-F00 4LegalMar.1

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Mortgaged Premises: 6242 STATE HIGHWAY 28 FLY CREEK, NY 13326 Section: 114.5 Block: 1 Lot: 5 INDEX NO. 690/2017 Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property CIT BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -againstKATHIE EMERSON-ARMSTRONG, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD W. EMERSON; RICHARD EMERSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD W.

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EMERSON; JEFFREY EMERSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD W. EMERSON; STACI EMERSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD W. EMERSON; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above-named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the

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NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $330,000.00 and interest, recorded on June 8, 2009 in Liber 1577 at Page 203, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 6242 STATE HIGHWAY 28, FLY CREEK, NY 13326. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

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NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE AN-

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for me.” Smith decided to sell the store and retire in late 2017 when his wife, Dorothy, was diagnosed with cancer. “It was time to hang it up and enjoy life with my wife,” he said. Under the new ownership, Swatling plans on offering a wide array of new services in the stores, in addition to the lunch-counter classics and quick-stop groceries. “We’re now offering breakfast sandwiches,” said Swatling. “We’re trying to do more with the regular morning routine. We’re going to try to distribute morning newspapers.” Swatling also installed tables and chairs, as well as Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal a window-facing counter for those who want to sit and New owners of the newly honored Spurbeck’s are Mike Swatling with Carrie O’Brien, Royce Swatling, 17 months, and Michael Swatling, 3 months enjoy their sandwich. Aside from catering more Spurbeck, then a railroad in the 1950s, and her son his mom in the store for heavily to the early birds, worker, who leased the Roger took over full-time much of his life. he has expanded the deli to storage room of Johnny’s in 1996 after retiring as “I ran the store for all cater to larger meat orders, Lunch, a small diner. His Cooperstown postmaster. of 50 years,” said Smith. carrying a wide range of daughter Gert took over He had worked alongside “Things went pretty well Boar’s Head meats. “Now,

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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. 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.

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with a full service deli, people can come in and buy meat by the pound if they’d like,” said Swatling. Spurbeck’s, known for their fully stocked walk-in beer cooler, will still be fully stocked with a wide array of local small batch brews and larger, more wellknown beers. “We’re going to try to stay current with our beer,” said Swatling. “We’d like to stay competitive pricing-wise, but that all depends on how many customers we get. The more people that come in and shop here, the more we can play with pricing.” But the old favorites are still there. “My wife and I are extremely happy that the new owners kept the name and are continuing with on with Spurbeck’s cheese,” said Smith. “You can’t beat that cheese,” said Hazzard.

SCAVENGER HUNT – 10 - 11:30 a.m. Get the kids out, enjoy the winter wonderland with OCCA. Riddell State Park, Riddell Rd., Davenport. Call 607-547-4488. SOUP-TO-GO – 4 - 5 p.m. Enjoy a bowl of free, homemade soup. The Elm Park Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-6552. INTERNATIONAL NIGHT – 5:30 - 9 p.m. Enjoy food from around the world. This week it’s from China. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-9931. HISTORY SEMINAR – 6 - 7 p.m. “Roots Seminar: A PowerPoint Event Honoring Black And Hispanic Military Heroes And Heroines.” Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Call 607-431-4428. HEARING HEALTH – 6 - 7 p.m. Learn about Tinnitus treatments with Dr. Carl Chiassen. 3rd Floor, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980. BE INFORMED – 6:30 - 8 p.m. “Ticks and Lyme Disease: What You

Need To Know.” Kick off the OCCA lecture series, refresh your knowledge with Tick Season just around the corner. Free. Community Room, Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-4488. MEETING – 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Richfield Springs Chamber of Commerce Meeting. Community Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs. Call 315-217-1485. CHESS NIGHT – 7 - 11 p.m. Chess enthusiasts of all levels welcome to play. Includes free lessons for beginners. Hunt Union Cafeteria, SUNY Oneonta. E-mail dmv2012@aol.com

Thursday, February 22

BOOKMOBILE – Check out the mobile library. 10 - 10:30 a.m. Schenevus Valley Lodge, 4 Main Street, Schenevus. 10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Fire Station, 1812 County Highway 34, Westford. 12:30- 1 p.m. a.m. First Christian Church, 1160 State Highway 165, South Valley. 1:15-2 p.m. a.m. Town Hall, 3717 County Highway 35, Middlefield. www.4cls.org or call 607-723-8236.

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