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Misericordia University Dean Named suny oneonta provost

Farmers’ Market In Chamber Hall Of Fame

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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or Ellen Pope, Otsego 2000 executive director, The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market isn’t just

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a place to pick up some fresh produce for Health Sciences & Education at dinner. It’s a piece of the community.

Misericordia University, Dallas, Pa., is new provost at SUNY Oneonta.

“Having it here has added to our quality The top academic position has of life,” she said. “It gives people a reason been open for four years, since Maria to come downtown on the weekends.”

Thompson became president of a The Farmers’ Market is one of six Baltimore college in 2015. businesses that will be inducted into Please See HONORED, A7 ►FOR DETAILS, SEARCH ‘KAHANOV’ AT www.AllOTSEGO.com

We Must Decide If We Want Them Here Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal

Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump organizer Jamie Waters gives a high-five to mascot Goodie before taking the plunge Saturday, Feb. 17/MORE PHOTOS, A3

MARIJUANA SHOPS?

Trooper Hurt In Fight Along Interstate 88

County Board Must Give OK To Pot Stores

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t least one state trooper was injured in an altercation that took place near the Schenevus exit on I-88, according to Aga Dembinska, Troop C public relations.

According to Rob O’Brien, director, Otsego County 911, a passerby called 911 to report what appeared to be two subjects fighting along the side of the highway. State Police were dispatched to the scene and it was believed that the trooper was injured at the scene.

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►DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, the indie rock sensation, has been announced as the first band in Brewery Ommegang’s summer concert series, at 7 p.m.

Friday, June 21. ►AT LEAST FOUR CARS were involved in accidents, including two flipped cars, during slick conditions on Monday, Feb. 18. Miraculously, no major injuries were reported. ►PAYLESS SHOESOURCE, which operates a store in Southside Mall, confirmed it will close all of its 2,100 stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It started liquidation sales Sunday.

DELGADO PACKS HOUSE

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ou can smoke it in Otsego County if marijuana is legalized – but can you sell it?

Legislation now being considered in Albany would legalize use of recreational marijuana statewide, but individual counties must decide whether dispensaries SHOULD would be MARIJUANA STORES be al- permitted to lowed in Otsego sell pot.

County? Cast If such your vote at dispensaries AllOTSEGO.com were approved, the City of Oneonta, towns and villages would be able to decide where they are allowed, when they can be open, and other aspects of their operation.

Otsego County Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Mount Vision, a new member of the state Association of Counties’ board, got a crash-course on legal Please See POT, A7 ►GET READY for marijuana

legalization, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig advised a Common Council committee, determining if and where marijuana dispensaries should be located. For details, search “marijuana” at

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Work Starts On County’s Energy Plan

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Hilda Wilcox, with husband Sam to her right, applauds the congressman’s arrival in Village Hall’s ballroom. In the foreground are Richard and Ann Blabey.

Hearty Applause Greets Freshman Congressman

ow, the hard work begins.

What’s now called Otsego County 21-member “Energy Working Group” will convene for the first time at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Old City Hall.

And coming out of the Otsego County Chamber’s “Energy & Infrastructure Summit” two weeks ago at The Otesaga, the word Please See ENERGY, A7

With Gas Aplenty, Andela Predicting Jobs For Richfield

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ntering the ballroom at 22 Main St., Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, looked around for a flag.

“I like to start these events off with the pledge,” he said as he took the mic.

There was one by the window, and he led the 400 attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance before launching into his remarks at his first Cooperstown “Town Hall”

Delgado in Cooperstown

since defeating Republican John Faso on Nov. 6.

“I take pride in representing this Please See DELGADO, A6

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ndela Products President Cynthia Andela outlined her plans for a gas-fueled commerce park on 55 acres owned

by Otsego Now south of this village to the Richfield Springs Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, Feb. 19.

When complete, she anticipates Andela and subsidiaries Ruby Lake Glass will be adding nine more jobs to their 20-job workforce..

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LOCALS Six Named To RIT Dean’s List COOPERSTOWN

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irginia Aswad, Cooperstown, a biomedical science major at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s List.

Also on the list were: • Shane Tang, Cooperstown, computer

science program.

• Jessi Falke, Springfield Center, ASL-English interpretation program.

• Adam Kruh, Maryland, electrical engineering program.

• Alexis Slentz, Edmeston, chemistry program.

• Nathaniel Wilcox, Fly Creek, electrical engineering program.

Mom Jasmine, Puppies Find Foster Home In Davenport

AVASATTHI INTERNS: Rima Avasatthi, Milford, a student at Wilkes University, has won an internship at The Institute for Public and Economic Development.

LEINHART ABROAD: Olivia A. Leinhart, Cooperstown is participating in a St. Lawrence University off-campus study abroad program during the Spring 2019 semester in Bordeaux.

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Jasmine, who gave birth to a litter of puppies at the Susquehanna SPCA last week, has found a foster home with Jeni Metch and her family. Sons Colton and Wyatt named the puppies – three boys, Cocoa, (pictured) Reese and Ruger, and girl, Ruby. Though Jasmine gave birth to six puppies last Tuesday, two of them died at just a few days old, according to Stacie Haynes, SSPCA executive director, but the four surviving are healthy.

ADDY LAWSON CROSSES 1,000-POINT MARK AT COBLESKILL

Addy Lawson, Milford, center, a junior guard for the SUNY Cobleskill Fighting Tigers basketball team, reached the coveted 1,000 point mark in career scoring.

From left, Marie Curren Headley, SUNY Cobleskill Athletic Director, Addy Lawson, and Katie Koller, SUNY women’s basketball coach.

WHEELER ON LIST: Cayla L. Wheeler, Edmeston, a junior graphic design major, has been named to the Fall 2018 President’s List at SUNY Oswego.

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WARM HEARTS – COLD EVERYTHING ELSE

County Rep. Danny Lapin, D-Oneonta, joins friend Dan Buttermann in the hot tub following their “jump into election season.”

Above, Tim Reese, Oneonta, a member of the Troop C Dive team, hands Jon Savoie, Cooperstown, his shoes, which he lost in his swim.

At right, Oneonta friends Luke Moran and John Ellis make their jump together.

Ruby Wright, a past recipient, came dressed as a polar bear to cheer on the jumpers with mom, Kristen.

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Morgan Dutcher, Milford, takes her turn in the ice cold water of Goodyear Lake.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL EDITORIAL

INTERVIEW WITH DR. GERALD BENJAMIN

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH UPSTATE? I t all began with a technological breakthrough – in Syracuse. Air conditioning.

Its development by General Electric in that central New York city opened the way for the industrial development of the South and Southwest, and the decline of the Mohawk Valley, which post-WWII was the most powerful and prosperous manufacturing corridor in the history of the world.

“We invented a technology that allowed industry to shift internally,” particularly in textiles, an irony noted

by Gerry Benjamin, director of New Paltz’s Benjamin Center, formerly the Center for Local Government.

He’s perhaps the wisest and

most insightful observer of New York State government and politics, drawing on more than a half-century of involvement.

He was posed the question, What’s the matter with New York? Coincidentally, that very morning Amazon announced it was abandoning building its HQ2 in Long Island City, on the shores of the East River across from Manhattan, and taking 27,000 jobs, most in the $100,000 range and up, somewhere else.

Benjamin was rueful: “25 to 40,000 jobs are being declined downstate – while Upstate has no work. It’s a contextual fact.”

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After his address, “County Manager or County Executive?” in December 2017 at Springbrook, Gerry Benjamin, director of SUNY New Paltz’s Benjamin Center, discusses pleasures of local governance with Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig.

ing alone didn’t do us in.

“Nelson Rockefeller launched very ambitious government programs.

The assumption was you couldn’t damage the New York economy,” said Benjamin. “Over a long period of time, it weakened the whole New York economic system.”

Even then – the 1970s – international competition was eroding Upstate’s advantages, with more dependable and efficient Japanese cars delivering body blow after body blow to the Big Three – GM, Ford and Chrysler. Upstate, it delivered a “double whammy,” staggering automotive plants in Buffalo and Tarrytown that had regional impact.

“We got into a destructive cycle,” he said. “We didn’t have the jobs. So people moved away. So there’s less available workforce.

There’s a hollowing out and an aging of a population.”

• Still, “we’ve partially adapted,” said Benjamin, through places like Springbrook, where in December 2017 he spoke on the topic, “County Manager Vs. County Executive,” to the Otsego County Board of Representatives and other community leaders.

A decade ago, its executive director, Patricia Kennedy, concluded that, instead of boarding handicapped young people at outPlease See EDITORIAL, A5

CUOMO: ‘Fundamentals That Attracted Amazon Here Remain’ Editor’s Note: Governor Cuomo issued this statement after Amazon announced Thursday, Feb. 14, it is backing out of the 27,000-job HQ2 planned for Long Island City.

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mazon chose to come to New York because we are the capital of the world and the best place to do business.

We competed in and won the most hotly contested national economic development competition in the United States, resulting in at least 25,000-40,000 good-

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small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo reacting to Amazon pullout

paying jobs for our state and nearly $30 billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing,

schools and countless other quality of life improvements.

Bringing Amazon to New York diversified our economy away from real estate and Wall Street, further cementing our status as an emerging center for tech and was an extraordinary economic win not just for Queens and New York City, but for the entire region, from Long Island to Albany’s nanotech center.

However, a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community – which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported

bringing Amazon to Long Island City – the state’s economic future and the best interests of the people of this state.

The New York State Senate has done tremendous damage. They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity.

The fundamentals of New York’s business climate and community that attracted Amazon to be here – our talent pool, world-class education system, commitment to diversity and progressivism – remain and we won’t be deterred as we continue to attract world-class business to communities across New York State.

JULIE DOSTAL FIGHTING THE SCOURGE

Statistics Here And Nationally Indicate: Heroin Tide Is Ebbing

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I did not know when this day would hap-

pen, but it finally has. It looks like we have just begun to turn a corner in the public health crisis of opioid addiction, overdose and death.

It is not over and we cannot let our guard down.

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Editor’s Note: This column, by LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal, is the final in a 12-month cycle of columns by Otsego County Opioid Task Force members, and the news is good.

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better in New York State and in our county.

The Otsego County Coroner’s Office reports a 90-percent drop in opioid overdose deaths since 2016.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that opioid related deaths in New York State have dropped 15 percent since last year.

In light of the 72,000 people that died from overdose in the U.S. last year, our local and state numbers are the hope we needed to see.

So, what changed to make the difference? Actually, a lot of things changed.

It was vital that we as a society began to accept that

addiction is a disease. It is a chronic, progressive, relapsing disease with too-often fatal consequences.

I’m not sure we’re there as a society, but many of our systems now are.

The government has come to understand it can play a major role through sound public health policy.

Firefighters, EMS and police are carrying the lifesaving overdose antidote most commonly called Narcan. Community members are responding to training opportunities, films related to the crisis and other community forums to educate themselves on the issue.

Healthcare has changed its approach to helping the person with a substance use disorder. They are no

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longer “those people,” but instead are “our patients.”

Individuals can now receive addiction care by walking into their Primary Care. Emergency departments can begin medication-assisted treatment right on the spot.

Insurance carriers are being held accountable for

covering addiction in the same way that they would cover any other chronic illness. No longer must a person with opioid use disorder “fail first” at outpatient treatment before being admitted into a longer-term treatment facility.

The Otsego County Opiate Task Force has been active in our communities to support, advocate, and participate in these changes.

Although we can’t take credit for the changes, we have been working hard to be part of the solution. There is still much work to do.

The truth is, we have an addiction crisis, not just an opioid crisis. But, we are happy to take the glimmers of hope where we can find them.

LETTERS

Plea To Biological Field Station: End Pesticide Use To the Editor Five years ago, CVS Pharmacy Corp., as a healthcare-product provider, made the costly but ethical decision to discontinue the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

Cheers to them!

With springtime approaching, I am reminded by the CVS example of applied ethics of the decades-long silence by the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station on West Lake Road, regarding

the use of pesticides and herbicides on the Leatherstocking Golf Course on Otsego Lake, the source of drinking water for the Village of Cooperstown and camps along its shore.

Since the Susquehanna River originates at the south end of the Glimmerglass, we have a downstream responsibility to the Chesapeake Bay as well.

Since biology is the study of life, where is the fundamental concern over

the use of chemicals designed to kill weeds on the shore of our drinking water?

The often-heard excuse – “Nothing has ever been found in the tests” – is not reassuring.

When it does show up, it will be too late.

Martha’s Vineyard has an organic golf course. Cooperstown should as well.

MICHAEL WHALING Cherry Valley

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THURSDAY, February 21, 2019

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

200 YEARS AGO

Otsego County Convictions – At the last term of the County Court held in this Village last week – John Cunningham was convicted of Grand Larceny and sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison at hard labor, for the term of 3 years and 6 months. Jacob Vanderhoof was also convicted of the like offense and sentenced to the state prison for the term of 3 years and 6 months, at hard labor. John Stewart, petit larceny, sentenced to pay a fine of $50, and to stand committed till the fine be paid. The Grand Jury found 16 bills of Indictment at the present term. Moses Simmons, who was lodged in prison last October, for killing his father in Springfield, will doubtless have his trial in May next.

February 22, 1819

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100 YEARS AGO

Carl Temple, well known in Cooperstown, having gone out from here with one of the draft contingents last April has written to his father Seth D. Temple from Base No. 236 in France concerning his life there. Carl has been selected for entertainment duty. He and another give poses and a short wrestling exhibition. They travel from one town to another, using the base as their headquarters. They participated in a minstrel show before the officers and nurses. Carl writes that they even stood on chairs to witness their act.

He says their act went so well that they are going to send them to Chaumont to put it on before General Pershing and his staff. The officers want to send Carl to Paris and enter him in a wrestling tournament there. He told them all he wanted to do was to get home. In a German trench the other day they unearthed a chest of coins, silver and gold. Carl grabbed a gold spoon as his share and says he is going to bring it home to his mother.

February 19, 1919

175 YEARS AGO

A correspondent states that petitions are in active circulation in some sections of this county for abolishing the Poor House System and selling the farm and buildings devoted to that object. He desires us to caution citizens to examine the question in all its bearings, before committing ourselves in its favor. Besides being of doubtful expediency on the score of humanity and benevolence, such a project, if successful before the Legislature, would necessarily cause a considerable sacrifice to the county, for it is scarcely to be presumed that the farm &c. would sell in market for more than half of the $10,500 which it has actually cost.

February 26, 1844

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150 YEARS AGO

A Warning – One day last week a laboring man working on the railroad came before Esquire Wilson and stated that he came to Cooperstown with $30 in his pocket, having just been paid off. Here he indulged rather freely in the “ardent spirits” which was not customary with him. Towards evening two young fellows – who pick up a living by doing chance jobs about the place – followed him to a remote spot and there robbed him of a portion of his money. These boys, aged about 18, were promptly brought before the Justice, and the case being a clear one they made a full confession, pleaded guilty of petit larceny, and were sentenced to 90 days imprisonment in the County Jail. Had they got before Judge Sturges the chances are that they would have been sent to State Prison. In the hope that this may prove an effectual warning to them, and that as soon as released will go about some steady employment, we suppress names.

This case is a warning to men to let whiskey alone, and to deposit their earnings where they will be safe – a warning also to parents who are bringing up their children in comparative idleness, instead of teaching them some useful trade or business.

February 26, 1869

125 YEARS AGO

February 23, 1944

Burning of the Normal School in Oneonta – It created a painful sensation throughout this village last Thursday evening when it became known by telephone that the Normal School building was on fire – to help subdue which the aid of the Cooperstown Fire Department was asked. The response was of course quickly given in the affirmative – but while hasty arrangements were being made to get the steamer and hose cart on the road, word came that the building could not possibly be saved. The loss is a severe one and considerable inconvenience will result. There was no loss of life and no one was injured. The Legislature being in session, prompt action will be taken to rebuild. There was an insurance of $75,000 on the building. The cost of the building, furniture, etc. was about $150,000. The spring time is almost at hand and in a few weeks the masons can be at work.

February 22, 1894

AC, Rockefeller Set Stage For Upstate Decline EDITORIAL/From A4 of-state institutions, New York State would be better off funding an expansion of in-state Springbrook: It would be cheaper, create in-state jobs and make it more convenient for parents to visit their children.

That observation turned the modest Upstate Home for Children into one of Otsego County’s top five employers.

“We’ve had certain successes in agriculture. Yogurt was one of the big ones. The local development of wine, beer and whiskey is another,” Benjamin continued. (Locally, that would be Chobani, Fly Creek’s Pail Shop Vinyard, Brewery Ommegang et al, and Cooperstown Distillery.)

“But generally, Rocky spent, those haven’t and eventubeen at the scale ally New GE pioneered air-conditioning in or level of vitality Syracuse, and Syracuse declined.

York State became un- that would susnew Democratic-controlled Albany to competitive. tain a strong local allocate $1 billion in new money for economy. The pay public education this year. scale is lower; there are fewer jobs.”

“I’m very much in favor of qualA partial urban success story, he said, is Utica, which stabilized its pop- ity education,” he said. “What do we ulation by become an immigrant center have to do to assure quality education – from the Balkans and elsewhere. “In for the number of people we have to educate? How do we understand the general,” though, “the major Upstate realities of the demand change?” cities have lost their economic base” • – think Kodak in Rochester, GE in A Republican – although a skeptical Syracuse, General Dynamics around Utica – “and have not found a locus of one: “With all due respect, we can’t economic energy to sustain themselves depend on the President for smart thinking” – Benjamin nonetheless and restore growth.” turns to a Mao quote, “let a thousand • flowers bloom,” as the most sure-footAs former chairman of the Ulster ed way to approach Upstate problems.

County Board of Legislators – an academic with real-world experience – As Upstate characteristics created the Empire State – lots of fast streams Benjamin can confidently say, “We’re turned water wheels that powered sustaining a governmental system that the Mohawk Valley miracle – so we is out of proportion to our need.” should look to Upstate assets for our Poster child of the problem: “We solutions. still have all the school districts Proximity to the world’s largest – but we don’t have any kids,” he market, beauteous nature (tourism), the said. “If you published 20,000 highest quality private colleges in the papers, and that dropped to 15,000, you might have to adjust your work- country and biggest state-university system, good roads, they all come to mind. force. We were educating 200 kids, As we’ve noted in this space, Govnow we’re only educating 150, but ernor Cuomo has been a pretty good still trying to maintain that educagovernor for Upstate, Benjamin said, tion community. although the scandals and resulting tri“750 school districts doesn’t make a als sharply slowed the Buffalo Billion. lot of sense to me, committing millions The concept – extend the industries more dollars to educating fewer people.” of the future, from solar-panel manufacAnd, he noted, there’s a push in

turing to biotech to nanotechnology from Albany to Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo – is sound, and is still being pursued in a lessheralded way – could be transformative. It already has been in the Hudson Valley.

• Today, New York State – Upstate and the city – faces the same challenges faced nationally.

Returning to the Amazon debacle, he said one is “the degree some populations can be mobilized on ideological grounds. But it’s also the tone and character of contemporary politics.

“The national model is confrontational politics every day – people pick that up as a model,” he said.

Wrapping up, he returned to earlier themes. “When I was in politics, I always was a big believer in indigenous activities, not trying to get people from somewhere else, but looking to people who are there and are creative and have a commitment to the locality. That’s sustainable.”

That means BOCES and community colleges training young people in the jobs of the future, and IDAs looking to grow those jobs locally, (as, happily, appears to be happening here in part, with recent state grants to Andela Products, Red Shed Brewery and Steiner Meat Packing in Otego.)

“Better let 1,000 flowers bloom than plant one oak,” he said.

• Recent calls for Upstate to break away from downstate are “neither smart or viable.”

“It’s amazing. We have this exceptional downstate. New York (City) is different than Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester. It’s essentially a world capital, with major industries, cultural activities, a massive labor force. It’s an increasingly attractive place to live, although expensive.”

His conclusion: “The place we’re going to go for resources to renew Upstate is downstate.”

A basic human need works in our beloved Upstate’s favor: “People want to live where they came from. I know a number of people who moved back home from California.” New Yorkers, even in Tempe or South Carolina, still ♥ New York.

That goes for Gerald Benjamin, too, who at 73 can still say, “I’m not ready to walk.”

Thousands of people gathered in Cooperstown over the weekend to help make the “Winter Magic” Carnival one of the most successful ever staged here. The carnival began on Friday night and continued through Sunday with huge crowds attending each event and hundreds of entries for the various categories. About 400 were at the skating rink on Lake Street when Miss Janet Graham, CCS senior, was crowned queen of the carnival. She received the WDOS trophy, a tiara given by the festival committee and a $100 savings bond presented by the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. Other contestants in the queen contest included Mary Guiney, Becky Fields, Pat Weir, Linda Feltz, Chris Roberts, Tina Rathbone and Joyce Schellhammer.

February 26, 1969

25 YEARS AGO

There has been a lot of grumbling about the weather this winter. Has it been that bad? According to Harold Hollis, a cooperative observer for the National Weather Service, this winter is stacking up to be one of the worst on record. “If we stay on track this February, it would make it the coldest February in 75 years,” Hollis said.

February 22, 1994

10 YEARS AGO

The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce has named The Otesaga Hotel as its NBT Bank Distinguished Business of 2009, and state Supreme Court Judge Robert A. Harlem Sr. as its Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr. Distinguished Citizen.

(Editor’s note: Judge Harlem passed away in 2012).

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he Otsego County Chamber board and president deserve a heartfelt “thank you” for having the vision and courage to host the “Energy Summit” Thursday, Jan. 31, at The Otesaga.

Speakers from New York and Pennsylvania talked about fossil fuels and renewables, including biomass, ethanol, electric cars, wind, solar and geo-thermal. At the end of the day, it was clear that, although promising for the future, renewables are not MIKE currently capable of ZAGATA replacing or offsetting our demand for energy provided by fossil fuels.

• That does not mean we should abandon our pursuit of alternative sources of energy that emit less carbon and are cost-competitive with fossil fuels. Natural gas, our cleanest-burning fossil fuel, is currently abundant and inexpensive relative to renewables and thus offers us a bridge to the time when one or more renewables is capable of replacing it by being available, reliable and cost-competitive.

If a renewable is going to totally replace a fossil fuel, it must available 24 hours a day and 365 days per year.

If it can’t meet that criterion, then it will be relegated to being part of a mix or blend of energy sources.

At present, solar does not meet that criterion as the sun doesn’t shine 24 hours per day and we don’t yet have a mechanism of storing energy created during the day while it is shining.

Both Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, echoed the need to pursue future renewable alternative energy sources, but they were clear in their recognition of the fact that we need natural gas and we need it now.

As the temperature hovered around -2 degrees and attendees were talking about frozen pipes, one speaker said that we shouldn’t upgrade our infrastructure for natural gas now because it might derail their agenda to replace it with one or more renewables.

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Before Anything, Renewables Must Serve 24/7 ZAGATA/From A5 I couldn’t help but wonder if the organization he represented would be willing to pay to thaw the pipes that froze in the meantime. Should they be required to?

• What is a realistic timeline for making the transition a reality? If we wanted to site a windfarm or large solar facility, we would likely be, after going through the SEQRA process, 8-10 years out. We don’t have 8-10 years of going without enough natural gas to meet our current, no less future, needs.

That’s why the natural gas decompression station currently under discussion makes sense. It is a much-needed bridge to help get us to the point where renewables are proven, reliable 24/7 and can be brought on-line.

• Another speaker spoke of all the things he had done to remove himself from the grid. Again, I couldn’t help but wonder how he paid for it – solar, geo-thermal and a $100,000 Tesla electric car. Would the savings ever allow him to recover those incremental costs?

Maybe that’s not important to him, but it’s been my experience that if something is going to be widely accepted, the buyers expect it to be cost-effective. As I’ve said before, a healthy environment and a healthy economy are not mutually exclusive, rather they are inextricably intertwined.

He went on to say that he is totally

Another speaker talked about how renewables are becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuels like natural gas.

Unfortunately the cost number he used for offshore wind delivered to market - $.05kwh – was one-fifth - $.245kwh – the actual cost.

What that means to you and me is this. If we are forced to buy something that is subsidized, provides rebates and still costs more than natural gas, either our utility bill is going up, our taxes The Freeman’s Journal & are going up or, as is most often the HOMETOWN ONEONTA’ case, both are going up.

Cornell professor and antiWhat’s more, looking only at cost fracking foe Tony Ingraffea said comparisons ignores the other half of his Ithaca-area home has a the equation – reliability. It doesn’t negative carbon footprint. mean anything to a homeowner whose pipes are freezing that solar is cheaper off the grid and that he charges his than gas if it’s nighttime. If he or she electric car (the one that took two can’t get the energy needed to heat his times as much energy to produce as a or her house, the pipes are going to traditional combustion engine vehicle) solely from the solar panels on his roof. freeze.

• I thought about that on the way home The fact that we now able to have and asked myself if that meant he only this discussion without shouting at drove his car at night – it would have one another is a good thing.

As the been charging during the daylight hours Chamber’s board chair, Al Rubin, so as that’s when the sun shines. eloquently stated, “the work has just Besides that, I know someone from begun.” If we can focus on the goal this area who installed solar only to – clean, abundant energy now and a find that during our recent “dark days transition to clean, abundant renewable of fall” he spent considerable time on energy for the future, then we will have a the grid. When I left the conference, future. If we don’t, our future is unclear.

I took a rough count of the mix of vehicles in the parking lot – about 75 Mike Zagata, former DEC commispercent were relatively low mpg SUVs sioner in the Pataki Administration – including mine. and an environmental executive with We still have to match our actions Fortune 500 companies, with our rhetoric. lives in West Davenport.

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DELGADO/From A1 district,” he said. “There aren’t a lot of truly diverse districts like ours in D.C., so their representatives aren’t motivated to find common ground. My hope is that we can all come together and be civil.”

In opening remarks, he spoke about visiting the Coast Guard in Saugerties during the shutdown, his bi-partisan bill to extend federal-contracting preferences to surviving service-disabled veterans’ spouses, co-sponsoring the Family Leave Act, support for Universal Background Checks, and efforts to bring down prescription costs.

Many of his comments brought applause from the audience. infrastructure. Therefore, “Despite the longest it is proper for us to debate shutdown in our nation’s whether or not our state history, me and my team are is investing in the right infrastructure for the future. still working,” he said. “We need to restore integrity back As we heard at the Jan. into the system.”

31 Energy Summit, there He then opened up the is an exciting debate about room to questions. how we can construct Ken Ostrander and energy policy and initiatives Quaker minister Jim Atwell, that will support economic both of Cooperstown, asked growth and sustainability. for Delgado’s thoughts on The state routinely plays a Special Counsel Robert role in economic developMueller’s investigation. ment by tipping the scale.

“Will you guarantee that the The question is whether or public will be able to see not the state is picking the the Mueller Report, which right side of the scale. we have paid for?” asked I am ready to debate that question, and I am thankful Ostrander.

“I can’t guarantee that,” that Mr. Downey is too.

DAN BUTTERMANN Delgado replied. “But I will Oneonta do everything in my power to make sure it sees the light

On Energy Future, State Must Pick Right Side Of Scale To the Editor: My letter relates to previous submissions regarding energy development, specifically Dick Downey’s letter from the Jan. 31-Feb. 1 editions.

Mr. Downey brings forward two frustrating points. The first is that Climate Change may not be real or related to human activity, and the second that renewable energy is viable only with state support.

I will start with Mr. Downey’s view on climate change, and his contention that resistance to expanding fossil fuel development is because of a “feeling” it will lead to Climate Change.

This is not a feeling. I am

often accused of not having enough feelings, but in this case, I don’t need them.

In my view this is settled science.

We can give Mr. Downey room for doubt and not call it fact, but we cannot dismiss the acres of research on this topic with the widely accepted and simple conclusion – the burning of gas increases greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which in turn warms the planet.

Mr. Downey also brings forward another point, and it is one worth debating because it does not yet have a settled course of action, and that is if the state should tip the scale, or pick winners and losers.

All

He claims the scale of measurement of gas versus renewable is not equitable because of subsidies favoring renewables. He is absolutely right to look skeptically at these conditions and the economic value of each, and to try to draw a fair comparison, but his letter omits an important consideration – gas receives state support too.

The very thing that brought about this wave of discussion of energy policy was Otsego Now’s application for a grant to support the construction of a gas-decompressor station in Oneonta. That grant is state money, or taxpayer money, going to support gas

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Similarly, Atwell asked if he supported impeaching President Donald Trump, whom he called “mentally ill.”

“I’m going to do whatever the truth requires me to do,” he said. “This process has been thorough and extensive, but I intend to read the Mueller Report and make my decision from that.”

Candace Shannon, Brookwood School board president, asked what he would do to support students struggling with poverty in rural schools, as well as those in need of special needs and mental health services.

“Our young people are being left behind,” Delgado said. “We spend more money on corporate welfare than we do on the Department of Education.

We need to invest in education, including Universal Pre-K.” He also said he supported a variety of student-loan debt-relief programs, including loan forgiveness for public service jobs, such as the Peace Corps or Teach for America. “Young people feel paralyzed by their debt,” he said. “The government needs to step in, lower the interest rate on student loans and free up young people to the business of living their lives freely.”

A member of the Ag Committee, he spoke about farm bills, which he wants to see give small farms the same access to programs such as value-added products, that corporate and “mega-farms” do.

“We need to prioritize rural farmers,” he said. “I drive this district, and I don’t see corporate farms, but for too long, that concentration of wealth and power is sucking the life out of communities like ours.

But guess what? I’m on the Ag committee.”

Following the meeting, Delgado stayed to meet and greet with constituents, including posing for photos.

He lamented that he hadn’t had a chance to talk about infrastructure and the opioid crisis, both issues which he is concerned about.

“Eighty percent of the roads in this county are in disrepair,” he said. “We need to support rural infrastructure, and that includes highways, but it also includes rail, cell service and broadband. Robust infrastructure can do that.”

He also wants to decriminalize drug use, focusing on treatment rather than incarceration. “We need more treatment centers and better treatment,” he said.

“And we need to make sure companies who are overprescribing highly addictive medications are held accountable.”

Delgado will host an open house 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 at his new Oneonta Office, 189 Main St, Suite 500.

“I am here to be your representative,” he said. “I am only beholden to you.”

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Farmers’ Market Chosen For 3rd Class In Cooperstown Chamber Hall Of Fame HONORED/From A1 the 2019 class of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce’s Business Hall of Fame at a March 28 ceremony at Brewery Ommegang.

The market was founded in 1991, with a handful of farmers renting stalls.

“Farmers were facing a declining landscape, and this was a way of connecting them directly with their customers,” said Pope.

These days, as many as 32 farmers – that’s the maximum number of stalls the Pioneer Alley location can hold – sell apples to spinach, bread – with gluten-free varieties available – maple syrup, meats and cheeses, even puppets, wood carvings and freshmade sandwiches.

“We have fresh-cut

flowers nearly year ’round,” she said. “You can get rabbit, duck and smoked trout here. That didn’t exist in the early days, because we didn’t have those producers. Over the years, we’ve seen them come in.”

That’s uncommon for a farmer’s market, she said.

“The range of goods is what makes this market so unique,” she said. “We’d love to get milk in here, but pasteurization is so expensive.”

Meg Kennedy, the county representative who sells flowers from her family’s Mount Vision greenhouse, mans the stall her father founded in 1991. “It’s a great opportunity to provide to a local market,” she said. “Direct marketing is a continuing trend in farming.”

She says it dovetails with

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ENERGY/From A1 “compromise” is in the air.

“I don’t see compromise as being a dirty word,” said county Rep. Michele Farwell, who with Meg Kennedy, C-Mount Vision, is leading the effort. “I see compromise as being able to actually accomplish genuine movement forward. I feel that this is what my constituents look for in county government – getting the real work done.”

Still, they expect challenges. She and Kennedy both “noticed a pattern,” Farwell continued. “One side says, we need jobs. And the other side says, we need to protect the planet.”

All 21 members of the Energy Working Group – divided into four groups: Building & Efficiency, Energy Supply & Distribution, Economic Development, and Environment – are expected at the first meeting.

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be a group of “technical advisers,” from an engineer to a lawyer.

At this point, the timeline, according to Kennedy is that “the plan will be ready for SEQRA review in 18 months. Hopefully ready to adopt in roughly 24 months.

An ambitious goal, but I think we can manage.”

After the initial meeting, each group will meet and select a leader who will keep a Leadership Group – Kennedy, Farwell, Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood, City Engineer Greg Mattice and the OCCA’s Leslie Orzetti – apprised monthly on progress.

The Leadership Group will attend meetings on a regular basis, and continue with monthly groups.”

Locavore program” – for consumers of local produce – now in its second year, where you get a stamp for every winter market you attend,” she said. “If you attend 10 of the 13 markets between January and April, you get a long-sleeve T-shirt with the ‘Hardy Locavore 2019’ logo.”

This year, the market is offering a chance to buy two visits, for those who might be out of town and miss Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal their market, for $25. “We Otsego 2000’s Ellen Pope buys some of the have people who go away produce she promotes: Spinach for a stew she on vacation,” she said. “We was planning. call it being a ‘Friend of’ the her county board work. to two in the summer Farmer’s Market.”

“Some of these farmers – Tuesdays and Saturdays Pope’s own bag – reushave received grants – and stays open through able, of course – was filled through the county so that the winter. Last summer, with her own groceries: they can continue to grow Tuesday hours began in June Fennel sausage, spinach, their business here at the to accommodate the high eggs, cheese and shallots Farmers Market,” she said. traffic, which was estimated for a stew she was making.

As the market grew, it to be over 900 a week.

“You can do all your expanded from one day “We have our Hardy grocery shopping here.”

The market also accepts SNAP benefits, as well as EBT and Fresh Connect.

But more than a market, Pope emphasizes their community connection. “We have live music nine months out of the year,” she said.

“When the Glimmerglass Festival had their hip-hopera ‘Stomping Grounds,’ they workshopped it here. We’ve had a dance, and the annual Youth Food Movement student conference is held here. We’re proud of the fact that we’re rooted in the community.”

They also just had their annual “Grilled Cheese For a Good Cause” fundraiser, which raised $6,000 for the market.

“It’s a wonderful honor,” said Pope. “It’s a vital gathering place, and it’s nice to be recognized by the Chamber.”

County Must Decide If Pot Stores Wanted POT/From A1 pot’s prospective complexities at NYSAC’s 2019 Legislative Conference at the end of January.

“There is a lot to learn and process,” she said.

Speakers discussed marijuana for medicinal purposes, legal in New York since 2014, growing hemp, and adult recreational use.

“Medicinal use and hemp farming didn’t generate much controversy at the conference,” Kennedy said.

“But recreational use of marijuana is pre-loaded for controversy.”

Speaker Cheryl Sbarra of the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards detailed what worked and what had unintended consequences.

“Massachusetts went through the legalization process,” Kennedy said, “so we can see what could work and not work for us,”

she said.

For instance, Sbarra praised the state’s Cannabis Control Commission and its Advisory Board for striving to be “inclusive,” providing expertise on under-represented business communities, impairment detection and evaluation, and legalization’s other impacts.

One unintended consequence was “big cannabis” – corporations like Phillip Morris pushing small local businesses out of the business by offering communities higher impact fees required in Massachusetts law.

A NYSAC report Kennedy picked up warns, “Local law enforcement should be prepared to spend increased amounts of time and money on enforcing new laws surrounding legal marijuana.”

Marijuana use could

lead to “increased impaired driving and car crashes,” it says, and advises counties to offer classes on the risks of driving under the influence of marijuana, and to train police to focus on “signs of impairment while driving” instead of possession of marijuana.

Another concern that young people will be able to obtain and buy or sell pot more easily, despite the 21year-old limit on all those.

“A couple of people spoke (and) said they had told their kids to stay away from marijuana their whole

lives,” Kennedy reported.

“They wondered, what were they supposed to tell their kids now?”

Other risks include: environmental impact (high energy costs and reduced water quality associated with growing marijuana), monitoring a cash-only industry, ensuring federal law – it still considers possession and selling illegal – is obeyed, and what to do about people jailed for pre-legalization violations.

“There is no easy, oneway answer to them,” Kennedy said.

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Monument Planned For 20 Killed In Limousine Crash Foundation are raising money to install a permanent memorial to the crash victims, who were en route to SCHOHARIE Brewery Ommegang when the modified 2001 Ford Excursion limousine they were riding in plowed into ithin days of the Oct. a parked car in the Apple Barrel 6 limo crash that parking lot before crashing into killed the ravine.

20 people in the parking All 17 passengers, the lot of the Apple Barrel driver and two pedesCountry Store, memorials trians were killed. began to spring up.

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►PASSENGERS: Axel J. Steenburg, 29 Amsterdam Richard M. Steenburg, 34 Johnstown Amy L. Steenburg, 29 Amsterdam Allison King, 31 Ballston Spa Mary E. Dyson, 33 Watertown Robert J. Dyson, 34 Watertown Abigail M. Jackson, 34 Amsterdam Matthew W. Coons, 27 Johnstown Savannah D. Bursese, 24 Johnstown Patrick K. Cushing, 31, Troy Amanda D. Halse, 26, Troy

Erin R. McGowan, 34 Amsterdam Shane T. McGowan, 30 Amsterdam Amanda Rivenburg, 29 Colonie Adam G. Jackson, 34 Amsterdam Rachael K. Cavosie, 30 Waterford Michael C. Ukaj, 34 Johnstown ►LIMOUSINE DRIVER: Scott T. Lisinicchia, 53, Limousine Driver Lake George ►PEDESTRIANS: Brian Hough, 46 Moravia James Schnurr, 70 Kerhonks

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After Decades Breaking Otsego Lake Ice, HEAT! She’s bundled up against the cold now, but this April Paula Wikoff will be cutting up Otsego’s ice floe from the heated comfort of “Bubba’s” cabin.

Watch For ‘Bubba,’ ‘Darling Tug,’ This Spring

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ou may have noticed a tug boat, “Bubba,” parked in the snow between the Lakefront Hotel & Restaurant and the lighthouse.

There’s a story behind it.

Last April, as her family – beginning with grandfather

Alfred Engelmann – has done for 63 years, Lakefront proprietor Paula Wikoff headed out in a 30-foot steel cutter – let’s call it “Blue” – to chop up Otsego Lake’s ice pack before it could break up and damage docks along Cooperstown’s lakeshore.

The ice floe “can be a mile wide. It can be two miles, coming at us,” she explained.

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Dog-Shelter Fundraising, Plus Theater

njoy more than 20 local beer and cider tastings and help Superheroes In Ripped Jeans raise funds to buy the former Crescent Pet Lodge on Winney Hill Road, Oneonta. A $25 VIP ticket gets you tastings at 4 p.m., $15 general admission starts at 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, My Father’s Place, 5690 NY-7, Oneonta. Info, shirjfundraising@ gmail.com.

• SUNY Oneonta’s Mask & Hammer Theatre Club presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Exception and the Rule.” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 22-23, 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24.

Also 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Feb, 26-28. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta.

Info Oneonta.edu/theatre.

• Peek into your future, relax with massages and energy healing, and perk up your soul at the Spirit Fest. Free admission, but registration is recommended. 9:30 a.m. -4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, Lotus Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. Info shiftnewyork@gmail.com.

• There’s fun to be had on even the frostiest days at SUNY Oneonta’s Winter Festival. Horse-drawn sleigh rides, a snowshoeing hike, downhill sledding, or relax by the cabin fire with hot cocoa. Free. Saturday, Feb. 23, SUNY College Camp, East Street, Oneonta. Info (607) 436-3455.

• Orpheus Theatre needs actors who love ABBA for production of “Mamma Mia.” Light choreography, scenes provided. 2-4 p.m. SaturdaySunday, Feb. 23-24, Foothills Atrium, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info www.orpheustheatre.org.

• Heathcare Job Fair brings together organizations seeking nurses, caregivers, other health practitioners. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, Foxcare Center, Oneonta. Info (607) 432-4800.

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FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Bumblebee” Cost, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. SUNY Oneonta’s Mask and Hammer Theatre Club presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Exception and the Rule.” Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta.

Saturday, February 23

THURSDAY-Friday, FEBRUARY 21-22, 2019 SPIRIT FEST – 9:30 a.m.

- 4 p.m. Cabin Fever Spirit Fest offers psychics, complimentary health practitioners, gifts, more.

Free admission, registration recommended. Lotus Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. Info, shiftnewyork@gmail.com JOB FAIR – 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Job Fair brings together local health care organizations seeking employees. Foxcare Center, 1 Foxcare Drive, Oneonta. 607432-4800 WINTER FUN – Noon-4 p.m.

Horse-drawn sleigh rides, snow-

shoeing, sledding, more. Free.

SUNY College Camp, East Street, Oneonta. 607-436-3455.

BAKING CONTEST – 1 p.m.

The Great Franklin Bake-Off invites kids 8-14 to bring best homemade dessert to Franklin library for judging. Franklin Free Library, 334 Main St, Franklin.

Info, fr.ill@4cls.org.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join writers to improve your craft. Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980.

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AUDITIONS – 2-4 p.m. Audition for Orpheus Theatre’s production of “Mamma Mia.” Light choreography, scenes provided.

Foothills Atrium, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.orpheustheatre.org FUNDRAISER – 5 p.m.

Save the Tails with Ciders & Ales features tastings from local breweries, cideries to raise money for new shelter for Superheroes In Ripped Jeans.

Special VIP Tasting at 4 p.m.

My Father’s Place, 5690 NY-7, Oneonta. Info, shirjfundraising@ gmail.com.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Bumblebee” See Friday Listing.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. SUNY Oneonta’s Mask and Hammer Theatre Club presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Exception and the Rule.” See Friday Listing.

COFFEE HOUSE – 7 - 9 p.m.

Music in a range of genres by local performers; light refreshments; all welcome. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church.

Church Rd., Schuyler Lake. 315858-2575.

Sunday, February 24

THEATER – 2 p.m. SUNY Oneonta’s Mask and Hammer Theatre Club presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Exception and the Rule.” See Friday Listing.

AUDITIONS – 2-4 p.m. Audition for Orpheus Theatre’s production of “Mamma Mia.” See Saturday Listing.

MUSIC FESTIVAL – 4 p.m.

Honest Brook Music Festival

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO winter season presents Pianist Tomer Gewirtzman. Cost, $30/ person at-door. Stamford United Methodist Church, 88 Main St., Stamford. 607-746-3770.

BASKETBALL – 4 p.m. Cheer on Oneonta Octane basketball team at home game. SUNY Oneonta. 607-432-0001.

Monday, February 25

KNITTING – 1 - 2 p.m. Knit, crochet, handcraft with friends.

Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs.

315-858-0230.

NEEDLEWORK– 1-2:30 p.m..

Bring stitch, knit, crochet project to work on. Harris Memorial Library, 334 Main St. Otego.

607-988-6661.

PUBLIC SPEAKING – 5:30 p.m. Practice public speaking with the toastmasters. All welcome. The White House Building, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1466 or e-mail b.fischer@fenimoreart. org.

SCOUT DINNER – 5-7 p.m.

Cooperstown Troop 1254 Boy Scout Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser. Homemade sauce, sausage and meatballs, sides, beverage, dessert. Takeouts available. $10 adults; $8 ages 12 and under.

Cooperstown Vets Club, Main St., Cooperstown.

NICOTINE ANONYMOUS – 7 p.m. Meetings for those who

new york pizzeria 2 large plain pizzas $25* Tax included! Toppings extra

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Half Price Pizzas and BOGO On all hOuse drinks*

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desire to live free of nicotine.

Front Meeting Room, St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. 845-332-7803 or visit nicotine-anonymous.org

Tuesday, February 26

MEMORY BOXES – 2 p.m.

Sarah Ells leads program on Memory Boxes made by residents of Woodside Hall. 1 Main St. Cooperstown. 607-547-0600 ext 101.

FUNDING WORKSHOP – 4 p.m. Frances Gubler will speak on Preserve New York and the Preservation League’s Technical Assistance Grant Programs.

Stella Luna Ristorante, 58 Market St., Oneonta. Registration, 518-462-5858.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. SUNY Oneonta’s Mask and Hammer Theatre Club presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Exception and the Rule.” See Friday Listing.

Wednesday, February 27

SOUP TO GO – 4 - 5 p.m.

Stop by for free, homemade soup with neighbors. No age, socioeconomic, or church membership requirement. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-4326552.

WRITERS GROUP – 5 p.m.

Discuss current writing projects, get inspired, have fun. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie.

518-673-2314.

GAME NIGHT – 5:30 - 7 p.m.

Play board games and card games with the family. Harris Memorial Library, 334 Main St. Otego. 607-988-6661.

CHESS MEETING – 6 - 11 p.m. Weekly meeting welcomes players of all levels. No fees.

Cafeteria, College Union, SUNY Oneonta. Call Dom at 607-4847240.

POT LUCK – 6 p.m. Fly Creek Area Historical Society hosts their annual pot luck. Bring a dish to pass and an antique or special item to share with the group. Free, open to the public.

Fly Creek Methodist Church, 852 Co Rd 26, Fly Creek. Info, (607) 547-9334.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. SUNY Oneonta’s Mask and Hammer Theatre Club presents Bertolt Brecht’s “The Exception and the Rule.” See Friday Listing.

Every Friday 5 pm to 8 pm *Bar service only

Attention Music lovers!

Cabin Fever Spirit Fest Saturday february 23 9:30 am to 4 pm Diana Friedell, Psychic Medium Marie Inglee, Hand Analysis Kristen Niles, Tarot Card Reader Melissa Lavin, Tarot Card Reader Renee Ranke, Mystical Moments Psychic Autumn, Leslie Ford, Sara Delafield

COME TO THE CABARET! Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pM SuNy ONeONta aluMNi Field hOuSe paul Masse

Oneonta Native Guest Conductor

tickets: $50 • 607-436-2670 www.catskillsymphony.net Headlined by

SultaNS OF StriNG Energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!

This concert is generously sponsored

by The Table Rock Group at Morgan Stanley, in loving memory of Wendy Brown.

Guest Conductor Competition Candidates BIG CHUCK, emcee

Al Rubin President A&D Taxi

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This performance is made possible with funding from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

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Coffee House

saturday February 23 7 to 9 pm

at the schuyler lake united Methodist church on church street in schuyler lake open mic— sign up to perform.

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Tugboat ‘Bubba’ Will Break Up Otsego Lake Ice This Spring BUBBA/From B1 ‘blowing by then, pushing the ice away from the shore. Last year was another story, she recalled with a shiver, “there was a Northwest wind, 30 miles per hour, that never stopped.”

In warm Aprils, the mere wake of the cutter could break up the ice. “Last year, we had to cut it with the boat,” she said. “You’re getting the boat up on the ice and cracking it. We broke six engine shafts.”

“It was 10 days of this,” she recounted. “I didn’t get to bed for 10 days.”

Nonetheless, frozen nature overwhelmed, knocking out the Lakeland Shore Association dock.

“We cut straight for 48 hours,” Paula explained. “We left the lake for a half hour to fuel up. I ran up to get sandwiches. By the time we got back the dock was gone.”

Then, the ice pierced “Blue’s” hull. Water got into the hold and, when Paula got back the next morning, it had frozen and cracked both engines.

As it happens, the cutter was unheated. And Wikoff and brother Fred Zoeller – she operates the hotel; he the restaurant – finished the ice-cutting in “a little fishing boat” with steel welded around it; it also lacked heat.

Again she shivers, thinking of the experience.

The cutter was sent off to Canada for repairs. “But I said to my brother: ‘This is it. I’m not doing this if we don’t get another boat’,” said Paula.

Ed Smith, who passed away in 2017, used to make a contribution to the effort, since the ice-cutting

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Paula Wikoff examines “Bubba,” the tugboat from the Port of Seattle she hopes will allow her to break up Otsego Lake ice this spring from the comfort of a heated cabin. This is the 63rd year her family has been providing the service to Cooperstown’s waterfront.

helped protect his dock at the end of Pioneer Street. The Village of Cooperstown, which expanded its docks at Lakefront Park, benefits too, and Paula is a bit miffed that Village Hall has never made a contribution.

Be that as it may, the family’s investment in dockage at the end of Fair Street, plus being good neighbors at Lakeland Shores – developed by Engelmann and

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his wife, also Paula, in the 1950s – doesn’t leave the family much choice.

First, Paula approached John Scarano, an Albany boat builder who had created the Glimmerglass Queen, the tour boat that plies Otsego’s waters each summer. He was happy to build them another boat – for $140,000.

“For a 10-day, two-week thing every year? I said, ‘That’s too

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much’,” she continued. “We found some boats, but they were really rough.” They spread the word they were looking for a boat, and Tom Swatling of Cherry Valley, looking online, happened on “Bubba,” docked in Seattle.

Paula called out there to owner Garrett Newman and was intrigued. The marine survey showed Bubba, which had been

used since the 1950s to bring larger boats to dock in the Port of Seattle, only had 585 hours of use. The price was $13,900; the replacement value, $130,000.

“I did my first wire transfer the next day,” she said.

The boat had been on the market for a year. But, wouldn’t you know, as soon as Newman got the money, he was approach by another buyer, urging him to cancel the deal with the Cooperstown woman and offering twice as much.

“Garrett, you made a deal with me,” Paula said – emphatically, you can imagine. “I’m not letting you get out of this.”

The next question was, how to get it here. In the end, the owner drove it cross country. It was 24feet tall – “the hull is really deep, which is what we want” – so it was tricky traversing the roads.

“It arrived on Halloween.”

Wikoff said to herself, “I hope this isn’t a bad omen, coming on Halloween.”

Garrett wanted to leave the next day, but Paula insisted on a trial run, retrieving the rudder from the hold and attaching it.

“We took it up to Kingfisher Tower and back,” the new owner said.

“By the time we came back, people were calling the office: ‘What is that cute boat on the lake? It’s really a darling boat.’”

This year, with the tug and the steel cutter back from repairs in Canada with two new engines, Paula’s almost looking forward to ice-cutting. Watch for it in April.

Best of all, from Paula’s point of view: the cabin is heated.

Permanent Monument Will Replace Makeshift Crosses At Site Of Crash

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Josh Loden, whose family owns the Apple Barrel, looks at the touching makeshift crosses at the site of a fatal crash that took the lives of 17 young people plus three others, and envisions a permanent monument there. He’s participating in a fund drive to make that a reality.

MEMORIAL/From B1 her birthday, and Janet Steenburg was picking up some Foundation merchandise,” he said. “They’re our family now. When they need to talk, we’re here.”

It was in those conversations that the idea of a permanent memorial arose.

“We want to honor the victims and give the family a place to grieve,” he said.

“We’ve been having discussions about what they want.”

Loden, himself a former First Responder, also wants the memorial to honor those who rushed to the scene.

“Those guys really saw some things,” he said. “I can’t imagine what they’re going through after that.”

Once the concept is finalized with the families, they’ll put out a Request For Proposals, seeking artists, sculptors and designers to submit ideas for the memorial.

“We want to give the community a chance to be part of this,” he said.

“We’re still talking with the families, trying to figure out what they want it to be.”

To raise funds for the memorial, the Apple Barrel began selling merchandise featuring artwork from the Iroquois Museum of the “skydome,” a Native American motif representative of the whole universe.

“In trying to figure out a common theme between Schoharie and Amsterdam, we went back to our Mohawk roots,” said Loden.

“We worked with the Iroquois Museum to design something that reflects Mother Earth, the Celestial Tree, and that life continues on in the Skyworld.”

Harney & Sons Tea of Millerton, Dutchess County, donated a basket of teas as a prize for the store to raffle off as a fundraiser. Emeric Harney, “head of merchandising had heard what had happened and came into the store on a delivery and dropped it off,” he said.

“People have been incredible with donations.”

So far, the foundation has raised $30,000 towards the memorial, which will also be used as a permanent fund for maintaining the project.

On June 1, the foundation will host an all-day fundraiser in Amsterdam, featuring music, food, carnival games and more.

“We hope to have some concept art or a prototype ready for people to see then,” said Loden.

An investigation into the crash revealed that the vehicle, owned by Prestige Limousines, had failed inspections and that the driver, Scott T. Lisinicchia, was not licensed to drive that vehicle.

On Oct. 10, state police arrested Nauman Hussain, operator of Prestige Limousines and the son of the owner, former FBI informant Shahed Hussain, and charged him with criminally negligent homicide.

Loden hopes the memorial will be built in time for the 1-year anniversary of the crash. But until then, he said, people are welcome to bring flowers or reflect at the memorials already in place.

“We encourage anyone who wants to come to come,” he said.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 80 Susquehanna Ave, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federallyassisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award.

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Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT 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/const-notices.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company CKB3 LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 31 January 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 970 Wiley Town Rd, Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”) Name: P3 Consulting East LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 01/16/2019.

Office Location: Otsego County.

The “SSNY” is designated as agent of the “LLC” upon whom process against it may be served. ‘SSNY” shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 297 Winney Hill Road, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: 47 MACDOUGAL STREET LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 31 January 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 125, Cherry Valley, NY 12320.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Hasbrouck Olson Adventures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/1/2019.

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, 871 County Highway 26. Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Cooperstown Sports Bar & Grill LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/28/19.

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: 4874 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.14 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Glimmerglen Farm LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State on 12/13/18.

Principal Business and Office Location: 463 Johnstons Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail process to 558 Greenough Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.7 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: Evan Kirby, LLC Filed: 11/6/2018 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 175 Pony Farm Road Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws 6LegalMar.7 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Supreme Court of New York, Otsego County.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BLUEWATER INVESTMENT TRUST 2018-A, Plaintiff, -againstJACQUELINE GRAVES AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GERARD GRAVES, if living, and if she/he be dead, 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 kind, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such

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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 states, are unknown to plaintiff; M.R.G., A MINOR, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTE OF THE ESTATE OF GERARD GRAVES, BY AND THROUGH HER NATURAL GUARDIAN, LAURA HOYT; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF GERARD GRAVES, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action, such unknown persons 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 states, are unknown to plaintiff; JIM WOLK S/H/A JOHN DOE #1; LORI COUSE S/H/A JOHN DOE #2; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOE #3” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last ten 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, Index No. 2017-339.

Mortgaged Premises: 84 Spruce Street, Oneonta, New York 13820 Section: 288.18 Block: 3 Lot: 47 To The Above Named Defendant(s): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America,

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if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT - THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Consolidation, Extension, and Modification Agreement to secure $88,040.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on February 15, 2013 in Instrument Number 2013824, covering the premises known as 84 Spruce Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is located.

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. This communication is from a debt collector in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

4LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: SENTINEL BISON LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/04/19 .

Office Location: Otsego County.

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cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 129 Fred Field Road, Hartwick, NY 13348 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Articles of Organization of Mission On Main, LLC (“LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on January 3, 2019, effective on the date of filing.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 138 Balford Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820, which shall be the principal business location.

The purpose for which the LLC is formed is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the NYS Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Northern Landing Property Group LLC Filed 1/3/19 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 149 County Highway 44, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BioSistemas Network LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 13 November 2017. Certificate of Amendment filing date with the SSNY was 9 March 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 471 County Highway 40, Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: CLEARVIEW OF HARTWICK LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL B-5

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019

OBITUARIES

Corinne Hillman, 98; Teacher, Cooperstown Cotillion Mainstay

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COOPERSTOWN – Corinne Hillman, 98, a retired teacher known to a generation of Cooperstown Area eighth graders for teaching them to ballroom dance for the annual Cotillion at The Otesaga, passed away on Friday Feb. 15, 2019, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing.

She was born on Jan. 1, 1921, and grew up in New York City. She attended Hunter College and New York University, and earned her master’s degree and teaching certificate in elementary education.

Corinne married Harry Hillman in January 1941 in New York City. Later they moved to Great Neck on Long Island where they

raised their family.

She is survived by a daughter, Kathi Hillman McElroy (Hugh) of Port Jefferson and a son-in-law, Harlan D. Alpern, M.D., of Cooperstown. She is also survived by her two grandchildren, Micah (Sarah) Alpern of Mountain View, Calif., and Rebeka Seelinger (Brian) of Erie, Pa., as well as her four great-grandchildren, Bobby, Emma, Hazel and James.

For many years Corinne taught third and fourth grades in the Manhasset Public School in Manhasset on Long Island. Following her retirement from teaching she moved to Cooperstown in 1988.

While living in Cooperstown, she worked in

the education department at the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a museum guide for Corinne children Hillman visitors, was on the Board of Glimmerglass Opera.

In her honor, the Corinne Hillman Award is given each year at the Cotillion to the 8th grade young lady and gentleman who show an aptitude for the new dance steps.

Corinne was devoted to her family and had many friends in Cooperstown and across the country. She had

a long, active, and successful life and will be missed by her family and friends.

She was predeceased by her husband, Harry Hillman, who died March 25, 1976, their daughter, Sandee Hillman Alpern, who died Jan. 10, 2019, and both of her siblings.

Burial will be in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens.

For those that wish to honor Corinne’s life and memory, a donation could be made to the Cooperstown Cotillion, c/o Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Avenue, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Arrangements are with the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

Gregory L. Hext, 74; Vietnam Vet, Worked For Remington RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Gregory L. Hext, 74, a Vietnam veteran who worked for Remington Arms, passed away peacefully Tuesday evening, Feb. 12, 2019, at Bassett Hospital.

Greg was born Sept. 28, 1944, in Herkimer, a son to the late Gerald and Florence Price Hext. He was raised in educated in Richfield Springs.

After high school, he served in the Navy during Vietnam.

On June 25, 1966, he

married the former Marilyn Pierson in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richfield Springs, a blessed union of 52 years.

He was a machine operator for many years at Remington Arms in Ilion.

Greg was a member of Sons of the American Legion, Richfield Springs. He was president of the Schuyler Lake Cemetery Board.

He truly loved the outdoors. During the summer he would enjoy a round or two of golf, but the best time for him was deer season. He was always ready in the woods with his trusty .270.

Greg will always be

remembered as a kind man with a great sense of humor.

He always had a joke that would brighten your day. A friend to many, he will never be forgotten.

Besides his wife, Marilyn, he is survived by his daughter, Laurie Hext of Richfield Springs; adopted son, Ashley Ross Matteson and his wife, Sandy of Sierra Vista, Ariz.; adopted daughter, Helene Ejdestam and her husband, Lars Erickson of Sweden.

He is further survived by his brother, Gerald Hext Jr. and his wife, Sharon of Maine; four sisters, Sue Winne of Schuyler Lake, Penny Vandenburgh and her

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husband, George of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Starr Madaras of Schuyler Lake and Florence Thompson Gregory and her Hext husband, Richard of Mississippi; adopted family members Bill and Hidie Stetson and family; as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by a brother, James Hext.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Church of Latter Day Saints, Herkimer, with President Sean Davis officiating.

The family kindly asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be considered to the American Heart Association. Envelopes were available at the church.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home, 40 W. James St., Richfield Springs.

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Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BOB PUTNAM AGENCY PROPERTIES, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been

designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 606, Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: THREE BELL FARM LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

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Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2209 Cty Hwy 33, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 381 Co Hwy 26, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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nization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3050 Co Hwy 8, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: OSTERHOUDT CAPITAL LLC.

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Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 320 Eddy Martin Rd, Milford, NY 13807.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 January 2019.

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SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1020 State Highway 80, Edmeston, NY 13335.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalFeb.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability

Name: BIG E & MIMI LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 17 December 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 192 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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a NY Limited Liability Company Name: COOPERSTOWN DINER LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 17 December 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 192 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Are you looking for an employment opportunity in a local public school district? Would you enjoy working in a positive environment; in a culture that encourages both personal and professional growth?

Do you enjoy working with children?

We are presently seeking:

substitute Bus Drivers and a Full time school nurse at LCs! For the School Nurse position, the successful candidate must hold a valid NYS RN Certification and have NYSED fingerprint clearance. Please apply online at www.olasjobs.org/southern or send cover letter, completed LCS application (available on school website), resume, and a minimum of three letters of recommendation to:

Mrs. Romona N. Wenck, Superintendent Laurens Central School PO Box 301 Laurens, NY 13796 Submit all required information by March 1, 2019

Symphony Manager The Catskill Symphony Orchestra seeks a highly organized individual to oversee the overall management of the symphony. This is a part-time position, averaging 20-30 hours per week; weekends as required for concerts (4-5x/year) and special events. The Symphony Manager is responsible for managing and executing all concerts and must demonstrate the maturity and interpersonal skills to work effectively with the Board and donors, Music Director, Music Librarian, Personnel Manager, and on occasion, the musicians’ union, SUNY Oneonta staff and outside soloists/groups invited to perform with the CSO. Must be available to attend and take minutes at monthly Board meetings and Administrative Council meetings.

Required skills/experience/training: Proficiency with QuickBooks, Word/Excel, Social media (Website, Constant Contact) and Database Management.

Event management experience preferred.

Resume including contact information for 3 references may be sent to Catskill Symphony Orchestra, PO Box 14, Oneonta, NY no later than March 15th.