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Mark and Wendy Brannigan of Richfield Springs had quite a fish dinner Chief after spending a recent Pidgeon afternoon ice fishing on examines Otsego Lake off Public mementos Landing Road, Town of of his Springfield. The frigid retireweather has brought ice ment, fisherman out from Goodincluding year Lake to Allen Lake. a flag carried aboard Marine One, the President’s COOPERSTOWN helicopter, with a UNY Oneonta Discitation in tinguished Professor his honor.

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Life’s Goal Accomplished, Pidgeon Retires

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he Dark Horse fire,” Oneonta’s retiring fire chief, Pat Pidgeon, immediately responded when asked about the worst blaze he

tackled in 36 years with the OFD. Pidgeon was strapped into the jump seat of the fire engine as it arrived around 5 a.m. March, 1, 1992, at 18 Market St. “There was an explosion,” he said. He looked over his shoulder.

“A beam blew out, and landed on a line of cars. I knew it was going to be a long night.”

The site was what’s now that parking lot a couple of buildings east of the Green Earth health food market. Also on fire was the attached J.J. Maloney Building, a candy distributorship at 12-14 Market.

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Focused on finishing her doctorate, Sarah Spross, an assistant commissioner in Maryland’s Department of Education, drove up last summer and closeted herself at Cooperstown’s Landmark Inn.

On Aug. 28, she turned on the TV and saw the news: Bill Crankshaw, Cooperstown Central School superintendent since 2016, had resigned to return to his hometown and the Greater Johnstown School District.

It clicked, and Monday, March 1, Spross was seated at Crankshaw’s former conference table at Cooperstown Central School, being interviewed on her first day as CCS superintendent.

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lection Day is still six months away, but in the past few days it’s been off to the races, the local races.

With Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig’s announcing his retirement last week, three candidates immediately emerged to succeed him, a Democrat and two Republicans.

Leading up to Tuesday, March 2, the first day nominating petitions can be circulated, a similar outpouring occurred in races for the Otsego County Board of Representatives.

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POLICE REFORMS ON CENTER STAGE AT COUNTY BOARD

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he county Board of Representatives planned a forum at 10 a.m. Wednesday on its review of policies in procedures in the county Sheriff’s Department.

Ordered by Governor Cuomo after George Floyd’s death, plans for all local police departments are due in Albany by April 1.

Cooperstown approved and sent off its plan last week, and Oneonta expects to act next Tuesday.

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TV Spot Piqued Educator’s Interest

By JIM KEVLIN

Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” Offenbach’s “Songbird” (La Périchole), and the world premiere of “The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson,” a new play with music about the founder of the National Negro Opera Company.

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pera will be back on Otsego Lake’s shores this summer.

The Glimmerglass Festiindustry are using in discussing the news val announced today it will that the two youth-baseball camps, Dreams build an outdoor stage on Park in Hartwick Seminary and All Star the festival grounds, where it Village in West Oneonta, are seeking will present four operas. permission to open someway, somehow, The 2021 season will in the 2021 season. run July 15 through Aug. “If they can conform to the state’s re17 with performances of Please See CAMPS, A2

Quarantine Rules Also Turn Off Some Families

Gretchen Sullivan Sorin is a finalist for a 2021 NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Literary Work/ Non-Fiction,” for her book Sorin “Driving While Black.”.

The 52nd NAACP Image Awards ceremony will air live on BET March 27 at 8 p.m.

She’s in good company: Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” is competing in the same category.

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Changing State Regulations, Quarantines Cloud Baseball Camps’ Return CAMPS/From A1 quirements and do it safely, they should be allowed to open,” said Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. Others interviewed echoed her sentiment.

Dreams Park is planning to extend its season from May to September, with fewer players, who would stay off-campus with their parents. All must present negative COVID tests on arrival.

Dreams Park’s local lawyer, Gar Gozigian, is looking for state Health Department guidance and permission to proceed.

All Star Village issued a more general statement, saying it would implement all health and safety measures, and concluding, “As things change we are confident restrictions will expire and we will update.”

People who have spoken to Mike Walter, Dreams Park CFO, said

he reports the company is simply waiting for Health Department approval of its concept to move forward.

State Sen. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, said he was contacted

by Rick Amo, All Star Village proprietor Marty Patton’s property manager, which prompted the senator to write a letter to Governor Cuomo, noting that, since high school sports are starting up again, why not youth baseball camps.

“As you are aware, 2020 was disastrous for the tourism sector,” wrote Oberacker in a letter sent Feb. 8. He had received no reply as of this week.

Governor Cuomo did say Wednesday, Feb. 17, that he has given preliminary approval for summer camps, including day camps and sleepover camps. Final guidance will be forthcoming on how the camps can open.

“I asked if baseball camps are included, and they said yes,” said county board Chairman David Bliss, who participates in the Mohawk Valley Regional “control room,” the official conduit of COVID information from Albany.

But Cuomo said camps would not be allowed to open until June at the earliest, which would interfere with Dreams Park’s plans.

As he understands it, Bliss said, the baseball camps will have to present detailed plans to the county Health Department and Public Health Director Heidi Bond. As of Tuesday, he didn’t know if that has been done.

Another wrinkle is the state’s quarantine regulations: Travelers must be tested for COVID three days before arriving in New York State. On arrival, they must quarantine for three days. Then, they must obtain another COVID test and wait until the results are back before they

can get out of quarantine.

“Parents are reaching out, trying to find ways to get around testing requirements,” which would require them to take an extra week’s vacation as part their trip, said Cassandra Harrington, director of Destination Marketing of Otsego County.

Meanwhile, restaurants and lodging that depend on the youthbaseball camps are accepting reservations, with the understanding they may have to return their deposits.

The desk manager at Holiday Inn Express, who identified himself only as Gregory R, said the Hartwick Seminary hotel is almost fully booked. However, the company accepts cancellations up to 48 hours before check-in, so what happens remains to be seen.

“Providing that people follow the rules put forward, and are tested before getting here, the feedback I’m getting from visitors who are

booking with us is that they’re still excited,” said Sal Furnari, proprietor of Maskot’s Pizza & Grill, across Route 28 from the Dreams Park entrance.

But patrons are asking, “if the park cancelled the day before we get there, will we get our refund?”

At Cooperstown Stays, the foremost rental agent for Dreams Park families, proprietor Lunetta Swartout said, “because final payments were due March 1, some teams elected to back out, and get into tournaments in other parts of the country.”

It’s a shame, she said, because Dreams Park is considered the gold standard “by everybody,” she said.

“Coaches have told me, Cooperstown is the pinnacle of youth baseball.

Why is that? Because they run a top-notch tournament. An immaculate, clean facility. And they provide a total experience for teams and families alike.”

Oneonta’s Pat Pidgeon Had A Dream: Fire Chief – And He Achieved It

CHIEF/From A1 Chief Francis “Cootie” Russo, set up a 2½-inch hose at the hydrant at today’s Cooper Fox, at the back end of Clinton Plaza.

“I remember the blue flames from all the alcohol that was burning,” he recalled.

At one point, as the fire appeared very close to a neighboring apartment house, he and Russo hammered on the doors of apartments in the building, awakening college coeds and protecting them with their shields as the girls hurried to safety.

That building was saved and is still student housing today.

He learned a lot that day: One, he drove a Bobcat for the first time; two, he participated in his first investigation; three, he applied boyhood lessons of hard work.

“When you’ve got work to do, you’ve got work to do,” he said.

“That’s how we were raised.”

Finally leaving the scene at 6 p.m., 12 hours after he arrived, “I was covered in a sheet of ice,” he said. “I walked into the firehouse, walked upstairs and got in a hot shower to take off my coat.” The clips had been frozen solid.

As the ninth member of the Pidgeon clan to join the fire department, his future career was always part of his life.

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Pat Pidgeon and long-time friend Judy Sweet are enjoying their retirement.

Hodge’s Pond in Neahwa Park on Feb. 12, 1974, when a D&H train derailed at Emmons and one of the tankers exploded. “I could see it glowing in the sky,” he said.

He called his mother, Marlene, on a pay phone, and she told him to hurry home to Monroe Avenue, near Center Street School, a Pidgeon family enclave. His dad and two uncles has been on the scene when the tanker exploded.

Uncle Ronnie had his rubber coat melted into his back. His father and his Uncle Joe were in the hospital, treated for injuries and released that night.

Ron and Joe and cousin Jeff were OFD captains – the department is divided into four crews, each with a captain – and his dad Charles, Uncle Herbie were captains in the call fire department, where Herb’s son Brett also served. The chief’s brother Michael served in the call department, as did cousin Ronnie Emmett.

Other Pidgeons were active in the Boy Scouts’ Explorer post, an OFD affiliate.

But the chief, whose last day on the job was Feb. 12 – he’s eligible for vacation pay and other time through the end of March – has fond memories, too.

He remembers the department’s summer clambake, when Uncle Ronnie would drive to New York City’s docks in the wee hours and bring back 8-10 burlap bags with 1,000 clams each. He would join the boys scrubbing clams in a tilted trough, the youngest at the bottom end.

Pidgeon graduated from OHS in 1982, and drove for North American Van Lines and Schuman’s until March 21, 1985, when he joined the OFD’s call department.

Along with Frank Russo, the chief’s son (now Family Y director), he entered the professional OFB in 1988.

There were 20 active firefighters in those days, in four crews, plus 8-10 parttimers to fill in and 30-40

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In 1992, he was one of the department’s first “critical care technicians.” Now, all firemen go through multi-stepped training, from first responder to paramedic, the peak.

As to why he retired now, at age 55, Pidgeon said “I hated politics,” and it wore him down.

He was particularly disheartened when Common Council defunded his assistant chief’s position a few months ago.

Now, he plans to “enjoy life” with his long-time significant other, Judy Sweet. But his legacy is secure.

His eldest son, Ryan, 30, is a firefighter with the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, and a volunteer firefighter with the Hyattsville department.

Son Matthew, 28, lives in Unadilla and, as did his dad, drives trucks for Schuman’s.

To mark their father’s retirement, they presented him with a flag flown aboard Marine One on Sept. 30 over Washington D.C., “in honor of Fire Chief Patrick W. Pidgeon for his 36 years of faithful and honorable service to the Oneonta Fire Department.”

Most important to his chief, he accomplished his foremost goal: “To make sure the men went home to their families at the end of the day.”

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call firefighters, about 20 who were “pretty active.”

Staffing is pretty much the same then as now, although calls have increased from 1,200 a year in 1988 to 3,600 today.

From the beginning, he said in an interview, he intended to be chief. “I thought I could do it,” he said, and soaked in all the training offered and studying for the Civil Service tests that would take him there.

In the fall of 2003, he made captain, earning a slot in FLIP school, the First Line Officer Program at Fort Totten, Queens, with 57 other officers, 20 from Upstate.

The numbers “4 and 2” stuck with him. In New York City, four engines and two trucks respond to every call. In Oneonta, “4 and 2” means “four firefighters on one engine and two on one truck,” he related.

“We do with six guys that it took 100 guys to do there,” he said.

At the end of 2009, Chief Robert Barnes retired, and Captain Pidgeon achieved his life’s goal on Jan. 1, 2010.

Over his career, the biggest change in the OFD’s role is the development of EMT squad: “75 percent of what we do now is ambulance and EMS. Everybody has to be dual-roled, cross-trained.”

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Kendi, a history professor and now director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has built his academic career on the study of racism. He views racism – rather than race itself—as a defining feature of Last year at the University of Vermont, Rogers, now Ibram Kendi and a American history and renowned public intellectual, spoke to a packed house.

Young Ibram argues in his writing Rogers sports that this history is of eight years since he became Kendi and Africana & Latinx Studies departments. a grin during – a public intellectual and media go-to for This gave him time to finish his dissertation, an ongoing “battle his SUNY commentary on race issues. said professor emeritus Kathleen O’Mara in between racists and Oneonta days.

Kendi (then Rogers) came to Oneonta in a Skype call from her home. antiracists.”

2008 as a 26-year-old graduate student. He At the time, O’Mara chaired the ALS This past year has been Kendi’s moment got a one-year teaching fellowship, a joint Department, and she remembers hiring in the spotlight. With every new book, he appointment in SUNY Oneonta’s History Please See KENDI, A7 has risen in stature, becoming – in a span

At Woodside Hall, Not One COVID Case In Year The Rules Are Clear, Says Proprietor, But They Must Be Enforced Every Day

Woodside Hall proprietor Stephen Cadwalader, left, and Administrator Joel Plue discuss antiCOVID strategies in the bright drawing room.

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COVID-19 is like polio?

That’s what went through my mind.”

So here we are, a year since the coronavirus arrived – Governor Cuomo reported Tuesday was the anniversary of the first in-state COVID case – and not a single case has appeared at Woodside Hall, a nursing home in Please See NOT ONE, A7

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Vaccines Are Here. Keep Trying. You’ll Get Your Shots

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lsewhere on this page, Dr. Charles Hyman, Bassett Hospital’s infectious disease specialist, says, “It’s time for hope.”

Yes, indeed, all the signs are good.

Earlier this week, Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director, said, “I think it will open up pretty quickly with Johnson & Johnson,” a reference to the new one-shot vaccine approved over the weekend.

It’s even encouraging to read the daily reports in the doom-andgloom national newspapers.

Monday, March 1, the Washington Post told us the seven-day average of “cases reported” dropped from 248,128 to 68,040.

As of that day, WAPO said 50 million Americans had been vaccinated, about the same number of us over 65.

Now, that’s progress.

After the state website kept complaining the whole State of

LETTERS

New York had only been receiving 400,000 vaccines a week for its 16 million eligible citizens, Monday, March 1, it posted: “New York is expected to receive approximately 164,800 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this week, pending final FDA authorization.”

That, plus 400,000 a week we’re already getting: It would still take 80 weeks to serve New York’s eligible citizens, but it’s accelerating.

• The good news is if New York

State gets the vaccine, New York State can administer it.

Someone who experienced the Bassett vaccine clinic at the Clark Sports Center, then the one at SUNY Polytechnic in Utica reports both were efficient and, considering, relatively pleasant.

At both, those receiving vaccines filled out the questionnaires we’ve become familiar with, registered, got the shot, sat for 15 minutes in case of a negative reaction, and were out the door in no time.

Everyone was pleasant, even cheerful.

The Utica site – the school’s Wildcat Field House – was roomier, of course. It was staffed by a National Guard unit from Harlem, deployed there until September. (The snow will melt in May, one private was assured.)

And the interactions were pleasant and professional.

From Cooperstown, the Stone House Road route, to Route 8, then Route 12, taking the exit after you see a Lowe’s on the right, can actually be done in about an hour, without pushing it too much.

Bassett administered 300 shots Please See EDITORIAL, A5

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to condemn people who challenge the woke mob and cancel every icon of American life – the founders of our nation, the historical monuments that adorn our cities, the books we grew up reading – has reached a tipping point.

Even the famously leftwing Bill Maher is calling for an end to the excess, telling his TV audience, “Cancel culture is real, it’s insane and it’s growing exponentially.”

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The same boneheads who claim that the “mister” in Mr. Potato Head is overly “exclusive,” that Aunt Jemima syrup encouraged racial stereotyping, that math is a vestige of White supremacy and that gender reveal parties are “transphobic,” want you to find racism in the pages of “Hop on Pop.” This is absurd, of course, and makes Democrats who applaud such virtue signaling look stupid. But the urge

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The Otsego Lake Association’s Fourth of July Boat Parade gives boaters – ever more of them since the Biological Field Station began tracking them in 1975 – a chance to celebrate the Glimmerglass they love. In the background is Mount Wellington, the Sleeping Lion.

Since 1975, Larger Boats On Otsego Lake, But Owners Using More Smaller Craft, Too Editor’s Note: Bill Harman has led SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake since its founding.

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istorically, as in all our inland lakes after the original European settlement, rowboats, canoes, and sailboats capable of carrying a few passengers dominated Otsego Lake.

Early on it provided a corridor between the waters of the Mohawk drainage and the Southern Atlantic states via the Susquehanna River and was of national importance. It was used for a diversity of commercial and military activities over that

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length of time.

The first dirt road was built up the east side of the lake by William Cooper in 1787. By 1818, sections of road had begun to be built along the west side of the BILL lake between HARMAN Cooperstown and Springfield, but there was no direct route until about 1917.

Those early roads did not provide access to hotels and residences along

the lake since they were constructed along the ridgetops to avoid the necessity of building bridges over the many streams running to the lake.

During that period, the lake itself served for commercial as well as recreational transportation. The first steamboat was launched in 1858.

The last commercial steam vessel plied the lake in 1933. During the height of those activities in 1894, 10 steam-powered vessels were active on the lake. At least two, the “Natty Bumppo” and the “Cyclone,” could carry more than 300 passengers.

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t’s time for hope.

The fact that we now have two incredibly effective COVID vaccines approved by the FDA (with more on the way) is amazing and heartening to me. Those responsible for that speedy development with such fantastic efficacy deserve high praise, and our thanks.

Let’s talk about what comes next.

• Understanding the Shot The remarkable speed of development of these COVID vaccines makes some of us understandably wary and concerned as to whether corners were cut.

I believe the answer to this is: “No.”

Researchers sped up their trials by using existing clinical trial networks. Drug companies assumed a financial risk by beginning manufacturing while the trials CHARLES were taking place.

HYMAN And the FDA and CDC let the vaccines cut in line, setting aside other reviews and approvals.

In that way, labs, businesses, and government agencies accelerated the

process without sacrificing safety protocols.

The development speed is also due to the technology. mRNA vaccines (short for messenger RNA) can be produced faster than traditional vaccines.

This begs the question: Is this new technology safe?

Although these are the first mRNA vaccines approved by the FDA, mRNA technology has been used for decades, and this type of vaccine has been in development for years. This is really an expanded application of established techniques.

It is also reassuring that we have Please See HOPE, A6

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The revenues of the state school fund may for the present be estimated at $36,427.64, arising from the following sources: $20,160.64 interest on bonds and mortgages; $10,665.00 dividends on bank stock; $1,600.00 collections from quarters used for dormitories; $4,000.00 net proceeds of the clerk’s offices of the Supreme Court. (Ed. Note: A portion of clerk’s fees for legal proceedings retained in excess of expenses was diverted to education) March 2, 1811

185 YEARS AGO

(Ed. Note: Prior to the advent of the present-day Republican Party in the 1860s, the Democratic Party frequently referred to its members as “republicans.”) The town elections in this county have all been had, and the result shows twenty republican supervisors to two of the opposition. Richfield and Decatur are the only towns estranged from the great democratic family. In the Town of Westford, where the opposition have carried the election for years, the struggle was severe, but the entire republican ticket succeeded by an average majority of over 30.

William Kirby, a capable, sound democrat, is chosen Supervisor, and we congratulate him in the good cause, upon the revolution effected in the political character of their town, so long under the dominion of federal anti-Masonic whiggery.

March 7, 1836

160 YEARS AGO Col. Dorrance’s Lecture on Saturday evening last, was listened to by a highly respectable audience. The lecture consisted of a “brief mention” of many of the most eminent women of past

generations as well as the present, and a hasty review of the more prominent characteristics of his heroines. It was evident to all that Col. D. has an exalted opinion of Woman, and is an ardent admirer of the Sex. March 8, 1861

20 YEARS AGO

60 YEARS AGO

Cross the country in seconds?

This magical feat and other wonders of dial telephone service which began last week in Cooperstown will be explained Friday, March 3, when the New York Telephone Co. holds an open house at its new building at 60 Pioneer Street. Special invitations have been sent to all Cooperstown telephone customers. Visitors will see telephone switching equipment that connects Cooperstown to a nationwide dialing system. Known as direct distance dialing, this system enables telephone customers here to dial station-tostation calls to any of 62 million telephones from coast to coast in seconds. The switching equipment also provides toll-free calling from Cooperstown to Cherry Valley, Hartwick and Milford.

March 1, 1961

135 YEARS AGO

A Disgusting Fashion – The adornment of ladies’ hats with dead birds has gained but small foothold in country communities. How any person of culture and refinement could be brought to adopt such a fashion is one of the things not easily understood.

Nothing is more sickening than a dead bird on a hat. It contributes nothing to the good taste of the wearer. I have seen a woman in the horse cars recently with a whole front of a prairie chicken on her hat; with shriveled beak and glass beads for eyes, projecting in the same direction as the woman’s nose. The expression on her face seemed to say, “What a nice ornament I wear on my hat.” In Massachusetts, many thousands of sea swallows are killed every season, and their skins sent to France to be dyed for millinery purposes.

It is in the direction of fashion that the destruction of our many birds is most to be feared.

March 6, 1886

110 YEARS AGO

James A. Davidson has been engaged to have charge of the Y.M.C.A. building. Mr. Davidson will be here about the 15th of March. The building will be closed for a short interval and will reopen the first of April as a club for men and boys. While the plans are yet immature, it may be stated that the change of policy will divorce the institution entirely from the Young Men’s Christian Association. The wholesome amusement and in-

struction of boys will go on, however. But there will be provided reading rooms and game rooms for men, where cigars will not be prohibited. In discussing the matter with the Journal, Mr. Johnston, the agent of the Clark Estates, expressed the idea that were a sufficient number of churches in the village to look after the religious welfare of the community, and that a club for men and boys could do considerable good.

March 1, 1911

85 YEARS AGO

James Fenimore Cooper, an attorney in Albany and a grandson of the novelist, is president of the Otsego County Historical Society, one of several groups planning the centennial commemoration of the invention of baseball in 1839 by Gen. Abner Doubleday

when he was a schoolboy at Cooperstown. Others active in the project are Lester J. Clark, mayor of the village of Cooperstown; O.L. Van Horne, president of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce; Stephen C. Clark, vicepresident of the Otsego County Historical Society; Dr. Marguerite S. Cockett, artist and historian, and Alexander Cleland, secretary of the Cooperstown Baseball Centennial. Mr. Cleland, an old country Scot out of Glasgow, who lives in Jersey City and does social settlement work in New York City, says that more than 10 percent of Cooperstown’s 3,000 residents pay membership dues in the Doubleday Field Association, organized last year to promote baseball and cooperate in the arrangements for the centennial.

March 4, 1936

HARMAN: Concerns About Boating Unchanged BOATS/From A4 conducting summer censuses of boats on the water, as well as those placed for immediate access and including those involved in rental operations.

Between that time and 2019, the total numbers of boats increased gradually from 864 to 1,366 with the biggest increase from 1991 to 2000 due to a rapid increase in canoes, followed by kayaks and most recently, paddleboards.

Personal Watercraft (PWCs), Jet Skis and their like, appeared on the scene during that same time. This assessment does not consider boats launched for day use at public or private launches, which have the potential to increase traffic on the water.

Since 1975, sailboats on the lake have undergone a gradual decrease.

Early on, the larger day cruisers and recognized classes of larger racing boats were most abundant.

The loss of the Star fleet of keelboats at the Cooperstown Country Club and the popularity of boats designed for one individual (Sunfish, Lasers, etc.) changed the character of sailing on Otsego despite activities at the Cooperstown Sailing Club that continue to this day, and the popularity of wind surfing between 1991 and 2010. The latter have been recently replaced by paddleboards.

There has been a slight but steady decrease over time of powerboats, despite an increase in pontoon boats powered by outboard engines since 2000. Changes from low horsepower outboards, primarily smaller fishing boats in part due to the loss of large commercial rental establishments (Thayer’s Livery with over 200 boats, for example) to larger watercraft brought changes to the character of power boating on Otsego, as did the loss of classic inboard runabouts and large cruisers which have now been re-

OTSEGO LAKE BOAT CENSUS SINCE 1975

Data Courtesy Biological Field Station

placed by inboard/outboard runabouts.

PWCs, which were not documented before 1991, have moved from standup to sit-down models that have become quieter, somewhat larger and are now less of a concern than when they were when first introduced. Larger jet boats were not documented on Otsego before 2011-19.

Changes in recreational boating on Otsego Lake since 1975 have reflected increasing population densities and users that have become more affluent operating larger, higher-powered vessels. Many of those same individuals and their families also use small sailboats, kayaks and paddleboards.

These changes can be interpreted with the potential lake impacts in mind, as the types of watercraft in use have implications for the degree of shoreline disturbance experienced; various types of watercraft generate different stressors and impacts due to their mode of operation, size of wake generated, typical use patterns (single trips, slow speed, continuous operation, etc.).

Boats capable of generating larger wakes for water sports (e.g. wakeboarding) cause stronger wave action

on the shoreline than smaller boats; these boats also tend to operate continuously for longer periods of time.

Therefore, while the number of motorized boats may be a smaller percentage of the total boats, the impact that they have in terms of shoreline disturbance may well be greater than the typical motorized craft of previous decades.

Non-motorized craft are not associated with shoreline disturbance in this way, though there are risks of conflicts with motorized traffic and safety concerns during high traffic periods.

The above statements are validated by intensive studies in 1993 by France and Albright that showed a correlation between the intensity of cruising boats traveling within 500 feet of the shoreline, phosphorus concentrations and turbidity in the water column.

High amounts of sediment turnover and deposition attest to more serious impacts in areas protected from the prevailing winds (France and Albright) These data provided much of the information that led to the development of Otsego Lake’s 200-foot no-wake zone along the shorelines.

all of Otsego County in four days.

• Now, when you call the various hotlines, all of a sudden you’re getting an answer – one couple got shots at Kinney’s the next day; another, at a CVS near Albany.

Yes, the pharmacies, getting supplies directly from the federal government for the past week, are starting to come online, as Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and county board Chairman David

Bliss said they would.

So Google CVS, Kinney Drugs, Walgreens and Rite Aid when you get up each morning. Or make a list of their hotline numbers and simply call them each morning sequentially.

Google “am I eligible” to find out availability at New York State’s mega sites, and register.

The point is, help, if not here, is nigh. Let’s get our shots.

35 YEARS AGO

Harold Hollis, Democratic candidate for mayor told a candidates’ night gathering sponsored by the local League of Women Voters that he had recently learned the village might run its first deficit in about 40 years, a sum estimated at $4,200. “I don’t know what happened,” Hollis said, alluding to the fact that financial matters were “pushed off” by the current administration on first-year trustee Pam Washburn. “It was sort of a crummy thing to do to such a nice person,” Hollis added.

Village trustee Bill Burnett, a member of the finance committee, said the budget tracking system is still in place, and that Washburn has always alerted the committee if a monetary figure seemed out of line. “And, we act on it,” Burnett said.

March 5, 1986

LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

If Offered J&J Vaccine, Take It, Stop 3rd Wave

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EDITORIAL: Now, Redouble Effects To Get Shots EDITORIAL/From A4 in six hours last Saturday at the Clark; 1,000 shots were administered the day our friend visited Utica. But it was done smoothly; it was clear there’s plenty of person-power to handle more.

Bond reported earlier that when the state required local health departments to conduct countywide vaccination exercises after SARS, her team and volunteers found they could vaccinate

March, 2001

his past Sunday the ously approved.

Director of the CDC One, the J&J vaccine has (Centers for Disease essentially the same effecControl and Prevention) tiveness against severe and approved the use of the fatal infections. Secondly, COVID-vaccine produced the testing of this vaccine

by Janssen/Johnson & was done at different times, Johnson. The day before under different circumthe FDA determined that stances, against multiple the vaccine was safe and strains of the virus rather effective for the prevention than essentially one stain of COVID-19 and gave it for which they were specifian EUA (emergency use cally designed against, than authorization). for the Pfizer and Moderna On Monday, the state ones. Statistics also suggest Task Force unanithat the one-dose mously recommended J&J is more its use. effective than The entire curonly one dose rent inventory of of the other two.

3.9 million doses is Since the scheduled to ship this J&J vaccines week. J&J says it only requires plans to manufacture one vaccination enough additional rather than two, doses to ship 16 this effectively RICHARD million by the end allows twice as of March. New York STERNBERG many people to State is supposed to be adequately receive somewhere between vaccinated for each dose 93,000 doses and 160,000 manufactured, with half this week depending on the distribution and cliniwhether you believe the cal administration costs. It Feds or the state. In any is much more easily stored event, this is very good and transported than either news. of the other two.

• • There have been some Another reason that it concerns from some people; is best to get immunized two called me today. They with whichever vaccine is are concerned that this available is that it seems we vaccine is not as effective may be heading into a third as those already approved. spike in cases.

They want to know if they The decline in documentshould get the J&J vaccine ed cases, hospitalizations, now if available, or wait to severe cases and deaths naget either the Moderna or tionally seems to be reversPfizer one. ing itself and increasing.

The answer to that is a This is theorized to be both bit nuanced. a consequence of newer, Government experts are more virulent strains, but saying it is better to get any also that, again, people are vaccine now rather than relaxing precautions under waiting for a different one the theory that now that later. I agree with that but, there are vaccines, things moreso, I am not scienwill continue to get better. tifically convinced that the Sadly, as people start beJ&J vaccine is actually less coming cavalier about the effective than the two previ- Please See STERNBERG, A6

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Candidates, Candidates Everywhere

CAMPAIGNS/From A1 The early entries, a half-year in advance of the elections, are required by changes implemented in January 2019 by Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature, then newly in control of the Democrats.

State and local primaries were moved from the second Tuesday in September to the fourth Tuesday in June, to align with federal elections.

The idea, Democrats said, was to save money and to increase turnout for local elections.

However, with petitions in local races due to be filed with the county Board of Elections between March 22 and 25, it also extends the campaign season for local offices from four to six months.

In the past few days, Democratic Common Council member Mark Drnek, and two Republicans, Council member Len Carson and Craig Gelbsman, all announced they’re running for mayor.

Both Carson and

Gelbsman are former county board members. The Republican City Committee endorsed Carson on Sunday, Feb. 28, and Gelbsman hasn’t yet said whether he will continue or not.

All three own local businesses: Drnek, Sweet Home Productions, an internet marketing firm; Carson, DC Marketing, which owns the electronic billboards on I-88; and Gelbsman, First Choice Cleaners and Rage Production, a regional concert organizer.

A similar outpouring – with more to come – is happening in races for the Otsego County Board of Representatives.

• In District 5, Hartwick, Milford and New Lisbon, Emily Popek, former Daily Star managing editor who does public relations for Capital District BOCES, announced on her Facebook page that she will challenge the board’s vice chair, Meg Kennedy, the board’s sole Conservative Party member.

• In District 7, part of Cooperstown, plus the towns

of Middlefield, Roseboom and Cherry Valley, Democrat Charlie Varney, a Cooperstown barber, said he will challenge the county board chairman, Dave Bliss.

• In District 10, Oneonta Wards 7-8, the Democratic incumbent, Clark Oliver, the county Democratic chairman, announced he will run for a second term.

On the Republican side, county Rep. Dan Wilber, Burlington, who is leading the effort to find candidates this year, announced that all six Republican incumbents have agreed to run again.

He said he intends to run candidates in the seven Democratic districts, including four in Oneonta, which usually goes Democratic but have supported three Republicans in recent years.

Wilber’s Democratic counterpart, Leslie Berliant of Middlefield, who Oliver said is recruiting her party’s candidates in county board races, did not return a telephone message.

Kismet Brings Superintendent To CCS SPROSS/From A1 “I wanted to return to country living,” said the new superintendent, who has lived in Baltimore for decades, but was raised in Millbrook and summered in the Goodyear Lake vicinity, “and to be impactful in a school district.”

She has an offer on a home in Cooperstown for herself and her 11-year-old son, and that morning had just completed a meeting with her leadership team.

Moving 1,200 miles north from a city of 609,000 people to a community of 1,900 isn’t the only adjustment she’s facing.

In Maryland, the Education Department only 24 school district, ranging from 8,000 to 150,000 students. In New York State there are 288 school districts, many Upstate ones, like Cooperstown Central ֪– at 800 students, it’s among the largest in Otsego County.

Spross brings 25 years’ experience in special education, lead teacher and administrator in Florida and New Jersey, joining the Maryland education department 16 years ago.

She received her bachelor’s from Goucher College

in Towson, Md., and her master’s from Towson State College.

While she was reluctant, on her first day, to get into her plans for her new job or the school board’s expectations – it’s simply too soon, she said – she spoke of her proudest achievements to date.

One, in charge of the Division of Educator Certification & Program Approval, she streamlined how teachers were certified to teach in that state.

The process had been taking 1-2 years. When she left, “the oldest case was eight days old.” Typically, a certified teacher can now obtain Maryland certification in 1-2 weeks.

Two, in Florida, she worked with the Seminoles to ensure students from the tribe were best placed to benefit most from the programs.

And three, she was able to elevate graduation rates of special-ed students in Maryland.

One of the first challenges Spross and the school board face is how to introduce her to the community in time of COVID-19. “How do I meet the community?” she asked. “How do I meet the community leaders?”

She was planning a Zoom meeting with faculty, and more will be forthcoming as the outreach is worked out.

HYMAN: After Dark Year, Hope

HOPE/From A4 been studying coronaviruses for years.

Although COVID-19 was a novel strain, we are working from a base knowledge of how that family of viruses operate.

• Getting the Shot All of us wish the vaccine were available for all tomorrow. But the reality is that demand far outstrips current supply.

Producing hundreds of millions if not billions of doses of vaccine is going to take time. So we need to be patient. Your turn will come, but it will take some time.

Vaccine distribution is determined by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), so delaying your own immunization does not help anyone else get theirs.

When your turn comes to get vaccinated against COVID, I strongly encourage you to get it. Every person vaccinated is a step toward forming herd immunity and getting back to normal.

• Side Effects Are Normal When you receive the vaccine, review the list of side effects provided by your vaccination center. Prepare yourself for the possibility that you might experience things like pain at the injection site, tiredness, aches or fever.

In other words, you might feel sick. But you need to remember that you’re not.

The vaccine teaches your immune system to recognize and protect your body from certain proteins found in the COVID virus.

Some people’s bodies produce symptoms

during that learning process. However, since mRNA vaccines do not include actual coronavirus, it is not possible to be infected by the injection.

Simply monitor yourself and contact your practitioner if necessary.

If you do experience side effects, you should still return for your second shot unless instructed otherwise by your doctor.

• Masks and Social Distancing Are Still Important Researchers are still studying whether we can carry and spread the disease after vaccination. So until we know the answer to this question it will be important to continue wearing a mask and keeping 6 feet of space between yourself and others.

There are practical concerns as well. With no way of knowing who has and who hasn’t received the vaccine, our businesses and community spaces will still be administering COVID policies uniformly. We don’t want to stymie our economic and social recovery.

• Finishing Strong This pandemic has been a grueling marathon for all of us. 2020 is over and we want to put it behind us and get back to normal. I think the vaccines we have and will have are the road back to normality, and that is why I start this year with hope.

Charles Hyman, M.D., is a senior attending physician in Infectious Diseases at Bassett Medical Center. Learn more about COVID, the vaccines, and possible side effects at www.bassett.org/covid-19.

STERNBERG: Don’t Worry About Vaccine STERNBERG/From A5 disease, they leave themselves open to catch and spread the disease.

Right now, only about 8 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated against the disease. More than 90 percent of the population do not have full or in most cases any immunity.

In my opinion, only when 80-85 percent of the population has immunity, due to vaccination or having had COVID-19, will we have reached reasonable herd immunity.

While we have heard talk about 70 percent being adequate with measles, there are high risks unless we have 90-percent immunity. I don’t think COVID19 is significantly different.

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Finally, decrease in acute death should not be the only outcome that we worry about. I have discussed the syndrome of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).

We are also beginning to learn about Long-Haulers Syndrome where people recover from the acute infection but have long term consequences of their neurovascular, cardiac, renal, and other systems.

Bottom line, get vaccinated as soon as possible, do not travel unnecessarily, maintain social distancing, wear your masks (doubled) correctly, and avoid people who won’t follow the rules.

Richard Sternberg, retired Bassett Hospital orthopedic surgeon, is providing his professional perspective weekly during the COVID-19 threat.

Also a village trustee, he lives in Cooperstown.

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Kendi Defined New Movement On 1st Anniversary Of C-19 In NYS,

KENDI/From A1 him. From the beginning, “his honesty rang through, because you know, you’re used to, in academia, all these people who promise you the world,” said O’Mara.

“We were struck by his honesty. He didn’t budge.

He was honest, he told us straight up, ‘This is where I am, this is how fast I work.

You know, I find writing easy, and I will get it done in a year.’ Okay? And he did.”

A year later, Kendi had finished the dissertation that later became his first book, “The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965– 1972”. SUNY Oneonta was hiring for a permanent position in African-American history.

Kendi applied and no one was surprised that he was one of the finalists, said O’Mara.

They were surprised, however, by what happened during the interview process.

Each candidate, after a day of on-campus interviews, meets more informally with the search committee over dinner.

“We were meeting at Stella Luna. We’re sitting in the window, you know, at our table, the interview committee, faculty. And when I look out I see Ibram on the corner, across the street, and a cop car.

Right? So on his way to his job interview, he was stopped for walking while being black.” O’Mara was appalled, contacted the college’s then-President Nancy Kleniewski, and demanded she follow up with the police.

• A Teachable Moment The incident eventually led to public meetings between SUNY Oneonta students and faculty and the Oneonta Police Department, to discuss racial profiling.

Rather than being antagonistic, Kendi saw this as an opportunity, a teachable moment.

“He offered to meet with police officers to talk about racism. I think he had two sessions with police. I’m sure he learned something about Oneonta in those workshops … I think it also taught him a lot about how, you know, you hope for change. It’s going to be beyond glacial,” O’Mara said, In his first year at SUNY Oneonta, Kendi announced his career aspirations to colleagues. “He’s very honest. He said that what he hoped to do in life was become a public intellectual, which is different than succeeding as an academic, right?” said O’Mara.

“Kudos to Ibram. He had a game plan. He had a life plan, he had a career plan.

Kathleen O’Mara saw greatness in Ibram Rogers, manifest in Ibram X. Kendi.

And part of that is to learn along the way. It’s not just that I’m passing through, it’s I’m here and I’m learning and I’m moving up.”

It appears he has succeeded. He left Oneonta in 2012, the same year his first book was published. He got married in 2013, and he his wife Sadiqa, a pediatrician, both changed their surname to Kendi, which means “loved one” in the Meru language of Kenya.

In 2016, Kendi’s book, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

His best-selling 2019 book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” is an interesting mix of memoir and call to arms. In it, he argues that discussions of how to end racism focus too often on individual racist acts such as hate speech, but overlook how racism is structurally embedded in all our policies and institutions.

• A Younger Audience In 2020, Kendi collaborated on two books ostensibly for younger readers. “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” is a “remix” of the 2016 book, rewritten for a teen audience with poet and young-adult author Jason Reynolds.

“Antiracist Baby” is a board book, a polemic written in rhyming couplets with cute drawings of multicultural activist babies written more for parents than toddlers: Susquehanna “No one will see racism if we only stay silent/ Landscaping LLC If we don’t name racism it 607-226-1970 won’t stop being so violent.

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“After all,” said the “We look at resiproprietor, “it’s a disease: dents as an extension in many cases uncontrolof our family,” said lable. We followed a Plue, sitting in the very sensible middle-ofbright drawing room the-road consensus.” across from the grand And Plue credited piano. what he called “a very The home’s secret? collective effort. I’m It’s not so much a very proud of the staff.” secret, it turns out, as Woodside Hall is one rigorously applying Jim Kevlin/ OTSEGO.life of Cooperstown’s most generally accepted Woodside Hall, state Sen. notable mansions, where standards.

Stokes’s family mansion for President Martin Van First, Plue decades, has been an adult Buren was hosted and continued, “we take home since 1965. toasted during an 1849 care of our staff. If visit to the village. they arrive with even For more than a century, it was owned a sniffle, they’re sent home. They come back to work as soon as they test negative.” by eminent local families, and finally was bequeathed by former state Sen. Walter Second, the home was shut down “two W. Stokes to the Diocese of Albany on his weeks ahead of the curve – we enacted a death in 1960. shutdown even before Governor Cuomo From 1965 to 2006, it was an adult rest called for it.” home. Closed for two years, it was considThree, continuous testing. “To this day, ered for a boutique hotel and other uses, we’re still administering the Nares test until the Cadwaladers – Stephen, an art every week.” dealer in New York City, and his mother, Added resident Jim Atwell (and columKaren, a clinical social worker – reopened nist for this newspaper), who had entered it as an adult retirement home. the room and had been listening to Plue, Currently it has 17 residents, but it has a “I’m proud of this place; I’m proud to be capacity for double that. part of this.”

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They divided 400 years of history in five-year chunks, and recruited AfricanAmerican contributors to write about each period. The authors include academics, but also journalists, novelists and poets.

“Four Hundred Souls” is reminiscent of Howard Zinn’s 1980 classic, “A People’s History of the United States,” a radical retelling of American history from the perspective of the disempowered and oppressed. Zinn’s book was part of a movement that shifted the focus of popular history away from stories of wars and victors but has been criticized for a solitary radical perspective that failed to examine opposing viewpoints.

Kendi’s previous books have received similar criticisms.

Kendi and Blain’s new book differs from Zinn’s in an important way—its collaboration. “Black Americans can be defined as individuals of African descent in solidarity…the womb of community,” Kendi writes in the introduction.

• “I Have Not Lost Faith” With 90 authors, “collectively this choir sings the chords of survival, of struggle, of success, of death, of life, of joy, of racism, of antiracism, of creation, of destruction—of America’s clearest chords, year after year, of liberty, justice and democracy for all.”

Kendi helped create Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research last year. In a founder’s statement on the website, Kendi writes that he has “seen racism in all its ugliness in our time and across centuries. But… I have not lost faith in the beauty of human potential, and the possibilities of a world where life, health, equity, and justice are inalienable human rights.

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BOOK CLUB – Month of March. Read ‘The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper’

by Hallie Rubenhold to be discussed with the group on March 30. Hosted by Huntington Memorial Library. 607432-1980.

WELLNESS CHALLENGE – Ongoing. Start the Spring right. Each week Leaf will issue 3 challenges to do, visit, or find to get you out of the house. Snap a selfie, or a groupie and post it to their page to share the fun. Enter for chance to win gift cards to local businesses. Complete 2 challenges each week for chance to win a bonus prize of a $75 gift card. Continues through 4/20. Presented by LEAF. 607-432-0090.

VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 p.m.

Walk through ‘The Thaw Gallery of American Indian Art’ with manager of arts education Kevin Gray. Free, registration required. Suggested donation $5. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1400.

CONSERVATION – 7 p.m.

Join the museum for discussion with landscape painter Ellen Wong, and Associate Professor LIsa Tessier on the rural and working landscape of Otsego County. Presented by the Hanford Mills Museum, East Meredith. 607-2785744.

gently used artworks to donate to the CAA Spring Cleaning Bazaar. Drop off weekdays through March 5.

Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

607-547-9777. cooking with kids – 3 p.m. Try new recipes while having fun with your kids.

Interactive classes open to income-eligible families. Complete 6 and get a gift card to The Shoe Department.

Presented by The Cornell Cooperative Extension. 518234-4303 ext.115.

HEALTH LECTURE – 7 p.m.

Hartwick presents spring O’Connor Chair Lecture.

Listen to panel of experts on ‘Self-Care in Times of Stress: Strategies to Promote Stress Relief, Coping, and Overall Psychological Well-Being.’

Presented by Hartwick College. 607-431-4790.

TRIVIA NIGHT – 7 p.m.

Test knowledge in 3-round game night all about renewable energy. Play as a team or on your own. Presented by A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. 607436-2011.

►Saturday, March 6 VIDEO WORKSHOP – 1:30 - 3 p.m. Learn how to use Shotcut and Audacity to add audio to a video. For youths age 10 - 18. Presented by Huntington Memorial Library.

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►Friday, March 5

►Monday, March 8

SEMINAR – 8:30 - 11 a.m.

Learn about progress of expanding broadband internet in Otsego County from Otsego Electric Cooperative CEO Tim Johnson. Free, registration required. Presented by The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce. 607-432-4500.

DONATIONS – 11 a.m. 4 p.m. Last day to donate.

Check your closets for

DRAGON DATES – 5 p.m.

Teens are invited for relaxing evening making cozy, no-sew, knotted lap blankets to round out this frigid winter. Be prepared with scissors & ruler.

Register by 3/3 to receive fleece from the Teen Scene.

Free, registration required.

Presented by the Family Resource Network. 607-432-0001.

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Office: Otsego County.

NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: 2274 State Highway 166, Cooperstown, New York 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.8 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of SAFE AIR MANUFACTURING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/28/21.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Joel S. Charleston, 11 Pearl Street, Valley Stream, NY 11581.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of ARMOR CONSTRUCTION ONEONTA LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on January 27, 2021.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: ARMOR CONSTRUCTION ONEONTA LLC, 21 Country Club Rd Oneonta, NY 13820 The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalApr.1 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Palumbo Property Management, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/17/21.

LLC’s office is in Otsego Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 804 Pegg Rd,

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Morris, NY 13808.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.1 Legal nOtice NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, March 25, 2021 at the NYSDOT, Office of Contract Management, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. 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 5% 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. The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot. ny.gov/doing-busi-

p.m. “Railroads in Schoharie County: Travel from Esperance to Sharon Springs & Middleburgh to Schoharie Junction” with Bob Holt.

Free webinar, pre-registration required. Presented by Sharon Historical Society. Call 518-860-5513.

►Tuesday, March 9 COVID-19 UPDATE – Noon.

Learn about COVID-19 vaccines & variants with Douglas Rahner, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Family Health Network of Central New York.

Learn state of the pandemic locally/nationally, risks/benefits of the vaccine, more.

Jr.’s Birthday. Free, registration for Zoom conference required. Presented by The Cornell Cooperative Extension. 518-234-4303 x120.

MANAGEMENT SERIES – 6 - 8 p.m. Own, care for, or just love horses? Take this series of 5 courses to learn all about how to care for them. Cost, $10/class. First session learn about horse basics for new or prospective horse owners.

Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension.

TAX PREPARATION – 6 - 9 p.m. Accounting students at Hartwick College partner with the IRS to help community members prepare their 2020 taxes. Free, appointments required. Hartwick College, Oneonta. vita@hartwick.edu

►Wed., March 10 CURATOR SPOTLIGHT – 2 p.m. Hall of fame curators give glimpses of artifacts in the museums collection

from each of the five American League West Teams, featured from the ‘Starting Nine’ exhibit. This exhibit is a great introduction to the 30 MLB teams. Free, registration required. Presented by Baseball Hall of Fame. 607547-7200.

INTERNATIONAL NIGHT – 5 - 8 p.m. Enjoy 3-course meal from abroad. This week enjoy dinner from Korea.

Cost, $20/person. Reservation required. Take-out available. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-544-2524.

►Thursday, March 11 VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 p.m.

Zoom meeting featuring walk through of ‘The Thaw Gallery of American Indian Art’ with manager of arts education Kevin Gray. Free, registration required. Suggested donation $5. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

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From Ingalls Blueberry Hill Frozen BlueBerries at only 4 locations this winter: • Cooperstown Natural Foods • Weavers Amish Farm Market in Morris • The Carrot Barn in Schoharie • Oneonta’s Green Earth • Smoothies and Yogurt at Cooperstown’s Stagecoach

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ness/opportunities/ const-planholder.

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

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

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where subcontracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to D/W/MBEs. The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat.

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 Regula-

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tions, 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.

BIDDERS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT AWARD OF THESE CONTRACTS MAY BE CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL BY THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Please call (518)457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

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Binghamton, NY, 13901 D264469, PIN 980734, FA Proj Z24E-9807343, Chenango, Otsego, Schoharie Cos., Job Order Contract: Bridge Maintenance, Various Locations In Chenango, Otsego & Schoharie Counties, Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $40,000.00), Goals: DBE: 5.00% 2LegalMar.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Cherry Valley Market LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/29/2021.

Office: Otsego County.

United States Corporation Agents, Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States Corporation, Inc. at 7014 13th Ave, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.25 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

dining&entertainment Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday beginning March 2!

►Thursday, March 4

Presented by New York StateWide Senior Action Council.

800-333-4374.

VOICES OF THE GAME – 2 p.m. Celebrate Women’s History month. Join Jenny Dalton on Zoom to discuss her baseball career, and her experience in the Colorado Silver Bullets as well as her part in the 2010 USA Women’s Baseball team in Venezuela when they brought home the bronze medal. Free, registration required. Presented by Baseball Hall of Fame. 607-547-7200.

VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 p.m.

Walk through exhibit ‘Cooper, Cole, and the Hudson River School’ with manager of arts education Kevin Gray. Free, registration required. Suggested donation $5. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

607-547-1400.

FOOD WEBINAR – 2 - 3 p.m. Learn about food, recipes, and nutrition info you can use everyday. This week celebrate Martin Luther King

If you feel like an egg or two, There’s only one thing you can do, Forget the sausage, bacon and spam, Come in and have

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Name of LLC: NED’S SPIRITS LLC; Date of filing: November 12, 2020; Office of the LLC: Otsego Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at Reinhardt Corp., 3919 State Highway 23, West Oneonta, New York 13861; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Some Pup Films LLC. Filed with the SSNY on 11/19/20.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 189 Winney Hill Rd., Oneonta NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Jim Jam’s Pizza

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Notice of LLC Formation of Purcell Brickhouse Farm, LLC, a NY limited liability company (LLC).

Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State (NYSS) on 01/05/2021.

Office: Otsego County.

NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: 139 Brickhouse Road, Richfield Springs, New York 13439.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the limited liability

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company is: BQT Consultants, LLC (the “Company”).

The date of filing of the Articles of Organization of the Company with the Secretary of State was January 29, 2021.

The county in which the principal place of business of the Company shall be located is Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company, to Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP, Attn: Christopher L. Roma, 80 Exchange Street, Ste. 700, Binghamton, NY 13901.

The purpose of the business of the Company is any lawful business purpose.

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Notice of Formation of The Holscher Team LLC. Filed 12/21/20.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: 155 Peebles Hill Rd, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: General.

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THURSDAY, March 4, 2021

IN MEMORIAM

Virginia B. Miner Oct. 7, 1936 - Feb. 23, 2021

SIDNEY – A good person, a nual destination. At 63, she well-lived life. retired and regularly traveled Ginny traveled many on bus trips and cruises with miles since she was the Eastern Travel; Alaska, Hawaii, only student in her grade Canada and Nashville were at the one-room school in her favorites. She was an avid Colchester, part of the Walton reader and enjoyed life stories School District. Later, she about people. There wasn’t a attended Franklin dog she didn’t love, Central School and especially Zaza. graduated at age 16 In retirement, from Sidney, where Ginny committed the business courses herself to volunteer and bookkeeping work. She was a prepared her well for member of Sacred the future.

Heart Catholic Her first job was Church in Sidney at Public & Loan in was honored as Sidney, and then a Parishioner of the bookkeeper at HotalVirginia Miner Year in 2011. She ing Ford Sales, where maintained a leadshe fell in love with cars. ership role in NYSEG Oneonta She was very proud of her Quarter Century Club, ensur34-year career at New York ing that a clam bake and a State Electric & Gas, attaining pancake breakfast would be the highest Customer Service enjoyed by long-serving emRepresentative A position. ployees. Ginny was active in Among her colleagues and the Sidney Alumni Association customers, she was known and was instrumental in orgaas the “go to” problem solver. nizing class of ’53 reunions.

Ginny understood the value of A cancer survivor, Ginny life learning and throughout was active in the local ACS her life enrolled in courses at Relay for Life. She served on SUNY Oneonta and Delhi. the Catskill Symphony OrchesA skilled bowler, her team tra’s Administrative Council routinely went to the state and was a key organizer of championships. Ginny travthe Christmas gift-wrapping eled with friends for every vafund raiser. She volunteered cation. Las Vegas was an anat Saturday’s Bread for over

15 years and was a respected member of the A.O. Fox Hospital Auxiliary.

Ginny was predeceased by her parents, Raymond A. Miner and Alba M. (France) Miner, and her sister, Anna Mae (Miner) Light. She is also predeceased by her niece, Grace Ann (Light) Fink, and nephew, Glenn Arthur Light.

She is survived by nephews Raymond John Light (Joan) and Roger Ervin Light (Chris).

Also surviving are many dear and caring friends she also considered family, key among them, Peg Froelich.

Friends may call 10-11 a.m.

Monday, March 8, at CH Landers Funeral Chapel 21 Main St. Sidney. A Funeral Mass will follow at 11 am from Sacred Heart Church, 15 Liberty St., Sidney. Committal services will be at Walton Cemetery at a later date.

Condolences and memories may be shared online at www.landersfh.com.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Ginny’s name may be made to the Susquehanna SPCA, 4841 Route 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Arrangements are under the direction of C.H. Landers Funeral Chapel, Sidney.

Nancy Garufi, 83 With Husband, Founded Tino’s Pizza

ONEONTA – Nancy Garufi, 83, who founded Tino’s Pizza with her husband, passed away Monday, March 1, 2021, at Fox Nursing Home.

She was born on July 12, 1937, in Frazzano, Sicily, the daughter of Lorenzo and Rosalia Frisenda.

At 18 years old, Nancy came to the United States and settled in Cold Spring, Putnam County. Her first

job was at the dress factory there. She married Agatino “Tino” Garufi Sr. in August 1961. He predeceased her on June 27, 1998.

Moving to Otego in 1973, she and her husband became co-owners of Pizzaland with Tino’s sister, Frances, and her husband, Peter, until 1982.

In 1985, Nancy and Tino opened their own restaurant, Tino’s Pizza. She enjoyed making salads and knew all

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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her customers by their order.

She retired in 2017.

Nancy was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and enjoyed traveling.

She is survived by her two sons, Tino Garufi Jr. and his wife, Debbie and their two sons, Tino III and Joshua, and Vincent Garufi and his two daughters, Alissa and Cassondra and his companion, Jennifer Mannion (Alex and Carter); and her special nieces and nephews, Peter Puglisi (Patty) and their three Nancy Garufi children, Peter, Jessica and Michaela, and Sarah Lynch (Daniel) and their three children, Kevin, Patrick and Katie whom is also her goddaughter.

Nancy was predeceased by her brothers, John and Ubaldo.

Calling hours will be held Monday, March 8, 2021 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta. Please wear a face covering, maintain social distancing and be prepared to wait to enter the building.

A private funeral mass will be held at the convenience of the family at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Oneonta with the Rev. David Mickiewicz as celebrant.

Burial will be at Mt. Calvary Cemetery at a later date.

In honor of Nancy, anyone she has ever made a salad for, please raise a fork in her memory.

Memorial contributions in loving memory of Nancy may be made to a Heart Association of your choice.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www. lhpfuneralhome.com.

OBITUARIES Noel Dries, 82, Springfield; Stalwart In Hyde Hall’s Revival

SPRINGFIELD CENTER active member of St. Mary’s which is the nine-wicket – Noel Dries, who played an Church in Springfield version. About 20 years important role in the overall Center, serving for many ago he took it up again with establishment and mainteyears on the Vestry, Bradley Goodyear Smith nance of Hyde Hall, passed currently as senior warden. and several friends. As the away unexpectedly Monday In honor of his devotion players became more serious morning, Feb. 8, 2021. A to Springfield, he was in the game, they switched lifelong resident of Cary named a grand marshal to six-wicket croquet sancMede, Town of Springfield, along with Jim Weeks of the tioned by the U.S. Croquet he was 82.

103rd Springfield Fourth of Association, and brought A teacher, historian, and July Parade in 2019. in professional players tireless researcher Perhaps closest for coaching. They called and well-loved to Noel’s heart was themselves the CMCC, or Springfield resiHyde Hall, where Cary Mede Croquet Club. dent, he was born he served on the A professional croquet May 30, 1938, at Board of Trustees court was built at Cary what was then a since 1999 and was Mede and cutthroat games tiny Mary Imogene currently serving were enjoyed for many Bassett Hospital in as vice chair. He years, after which all would Cooperstown. worked tirelessly, adjourn to the Cary Mede He was the only day in and day porch for drinks, their motto Noel Dries child of Frank out, through good being, “Win before gin.”

Lawrence Dries, Jr., at Hyde Hall times and bad, Noel will be greatly missed fundraiser. and the former Ruth to maintain this

by Jeanette Goodyear Margaret Kelly. jewel at the head Weldon and husband His mother’s family went of Otsego Lake.

William, and their children, back several generations in As chairman of the William James Weldon IV, Springfield, while his father, Collections Committee, he Bradley Goodyear Weldon, who was from Brooklyn, dedicated countless hours and K. Gunter Weldon of came to the Springfield area to studying and analyzing Cooperstown, and Susanne during the Depression and the documents in the Clarke Smith McAvoy and husband worked at Cary Mede as a Family Papers, and was inti- Matthew and their children groundskeeper. mately aware Christian Gallagher In his youth spent at Cary of the history of McAvoy Mede, Noel developed a the home and and John (Jack) lifelong love of Otsego its relevance to Goodyear Lake, and had great fun as a local history.

McAvoy. child learning to swim in it.

Always He was He attended Springfield searching for preceded in death Elementary School in documents that by his father, Springfield Center, and could prove Frank Dries and graduated with the Class or disprove his mother, Ruth of 1956 from Springfield theories about Dries; Bradley High School in East how the Clarkes Noel Dries, right, Goodyear Smith Springfield. He then stitched together with Jim Weeks and her husband, went on to study science their huge agri- after they were T. Gunter Smith; at Syracuse University, cultural empire, named co-grand and his beloved where he graduated with a Noel managed marshals of the dog, Bella. degree in secondary science to solve many 103rd Springfield At a time in the education. longstanding future, there will Fourth of July For 28 years he taught mysteries, often Parade in 2019. be a memorial chemistry and physics in calling out, “I service for Noel at the Walton Central School found it!”

St. Mary’s Church District. Upon retiring In addition, Noel spent a in Springfield Center. He from teaching in 1994, Noel lot of time and research on will be laid to rest near became the caretaker of George Clarke’s bedroom, his parents in Springfield Springfield Cemetery and and personally funded the Cemetery. faithfully served in this posi- restoration of this room to In a 2014 Cooperstown tion for close to 20 years. the 1820 period. He was Graduate Program His devotion to the extremely proud of the Community Stories Town of Springfield was result. In recognition of his interview, Noel noted legendary. He worked for contributions to historic that Otsego Lake is our many years to assure his preservation and cultural treasure, and in the winter well-loved town’s history awareness, Noel was the he couldn’t wait for the ice was maintained in good recipient in 2015 of the to leave and for it to get order. A long-time member 5th Annual Anne Hyde warm so everyone could be of the Springfield Historical Clarke Logan Cultural on the lake. He concludes Society, he served as presiPreservation Award for his the interview by stating, dent for many years and was notable achievements in “Spring is around the at the forefront of creating preserving the heritage of corner.” the Springfield Historic the Leatherstocking Region As a way to memorialize District. of Central New York.

Noel, please consider a donaUpon the closing of the Throughout his entire tion to any of the organizaCatlin Library in Springfield life, Noel resided at Cary tions that were near and dear Center and the Clinton Mede, the Goodyear-Smith to him throughout his life.

Library in East Springfield, family’s summer home in Arrangements are under Noel served as president of Springfield. His favorite the care of Connell, Dow & the newly formed Springfield pastime was croquet, begin- Deysenroth Funeral Home Library Association. He ning as a boy at Cary Mede in Cooperstown. was also a faithful and with Backyard Croquet,

Edward F. Danielski, Jr., 89; Radiologist At Bassett, Fox

COOPERSTOWN Miniere, whom he married – Edward F. Danielski, in 1960.

Jr., a radiologist at Bassett He became board certified Hospital and later director in Radiology, Radiation of Fox Hospital’s radiology Therapy and Nuclear department, passed away Medicine after studies at at home on Sunday, Cornell Medical Center. He Feb. 14, 2021. and his wife moved The son of to Cooperstown Edward Danielski where he became Sr. and Jennie an associate Danielski, Edward radiologist at was born on Bassett Hospital.

July 12, 1930, in He later established Greenfield, Mass. his own Radiology He attended department at Deerfield Academy Fox Hospital in and graduated from Oneonta, where he Edward F. Harvard College, served as director.

Danielski, Jr. cum laude, in He was inter1953. He went to Columbia ested in extending radiology Medical School and served advances to underdeveloped his internship and residency countries, introducing the at the Columbia division first arteriograms to the of Bellevue Hospital under Dominican Republic and the service of Drs. Andre the first myelogram to Cournand and Dickinson Tunisia under the auspices Richards, who had recently of CARE-MEDICO. He is a received Nobel prizes in past president of the Otsego medicine. chapter of the American He served in the Army as Cancer Society and the Fox a captain and radiologist at Hospital Medical Staff. the 57th Field Hospital in Edward loved skiing, Toul, France, where he met sailing and gardening. He Anne Marie Philippot de was a gifted amateur piano

and harpsichord player. His greatest love was his wife of 60 years, Anne Marie.

Together they enjoyed traveling internationally, spending time at their home in Ste. Maxime, France, and many projects, including building a harpsichord and caring for nature.

Edward is survived by children Philippe Danielski and his wife Anne of Vrilly, France; Valerie Danielski Greenberg and her husband Steven of Westport, Conn., and five grandchildren whom they loved spending time with: Lewis Danielski, and Benjamin, Daniel, Sam and Noah Greenberg.

In lieu of a funeral, there will be a grande fete on Bastille Day, his favorite holiday, where his life will be celebrated with his favorite beverage: Veuve Cliquot. Donations in memory of Edward may be sent to the Otsego Land Trust P.O. Box 173 Cooperstown, NY 13326 or via https://donatenow. networkforgood.org/ otsegolandtrust

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Glimmerglass Festival Will Move Outdoors

THE DOG CHARMER

Griff Must Learn To ‘Drop-It’

OPERA/From A1 cesca Zambello, Festival artistic & general director. “While this move outdoors is primarily for the health and safety of our company members, audience members and community, it is in harmony with what people love about Glimmerglass – innovative art and performances in a beautiful location.”

The Andrew J. Martin-Weber Lawn Stage will be built on the south side of the property, and the law will be divided into distanced “Festival Squares,” each shared by up to four people of the same party. Patrons are encouraged to bring low-profile chairs or blankets and more to enjoy their portion of the Festival Lawn.

Andrew Martin-Weber, Metropolitan Opera advisory director, made “the outdoor stage possible,” said Zambello.

In addition to the Squares, the Festival will offer Glimmerglass Boxes, booths which provide cover and seating for up to six people of the same party. Festival Tables are also available for audience members in the same party.

Tickets go on sale March 31. For more information, visit www.glimmerglass. org.

Dear Dog Charmer: We are hoping that you might settle a family dispute. We have a 6-month-old pup who loves to play tug-of-war. Some books advise that tug-of-war is a good game for dogs to play, helping dogs burn energy and gain confidence; this is the side my husband takes. I’ve found that the more our puppy plays tug-ofwar, the more she tends to bite; she is very gentle, but uses her teeth more on us, which I find disagreeable, and which causes considerable stress when we have visitors with young children or who are less comfortable with dogs. Any advice?

Curious in Cooperstown Dear Curious in Coop, The easiest part of being a dog trainer, is training the dog.

The hardest part of being a dog trainer is what I call the “leash transfer”, getting the owners to

do what I tell them to do, to get their dog cooperating. Having had over 800 training appointments a year I quickly realized that in addition to training the dog and training the owners, a third skill was needed, that being the tactful expertise of a mediator.

The first line of the question above is asking me to settle TOM a family SHELBY dispute. I’ve lost count of all the “how to” quarrels and disagreements I stepped into the middle of when it came to parenting the dog. As for the tug-of-war dispute, you are all correct, or will be with a little bit of training.

With repetitive consistency

your dog (based on the picture I’ll call her Grif) can easily attain a large vocabulary. Tug-of-war is a great game, as long as you initiate, and control the game.

She needs to be taught, “drop it!”. (The “Drop It” command can save her life if she picks up gum with xylitol in it). Offer her the tug toy saying, “Grif, wanna play tug?” as you hold it out for her to grab. In your other hand is a treat, and after a bit of happy growling tug play put the treat under her nose as you say “drop it!”.

In the great majority of cases the treat will be more attractive than the toy and she’ll immediately drop the toy for the treat.

If she’s one of the rare, but intense tuggers, you may have to ratchet up the treat to a piece of people food.

As for her putting her teeth on you gently, teeth and flesh are a “no-no!” Have Grif drag 4 ft. of a flat leash with the handle cut

off (only under supervision and not in a crate). When she mouths you, puts her teeth on your hand, don’t pull your hand away, but rather grab the leash, and with a little pressure on it tell her “No teeth”, and release the leash with a smile and quick thank you praise the split second she takes her teeth off you.

At 6 months of age Grif is right in the heart of “punk age” experimenting with what she can get away with. As she matures and gets more cooperative, cut the drag leash shorter and shorter till it’s unnecessary. But don’t be in too much of a hurry. I remember a Doberman of about 9 months of age that saluted you with total obedience when he dragged the leash, and flipped you the bird when you took it off.

Good luck and enjoy the tug games.

Dog Charmer

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