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Spirits High At ‘20 Under 40’ Celebration The Freeman’s Journal

Flipping flapjacks outside The Farmers’ Museum Louis Jones Center Sunday, March 1, was a sign of the season: Sugaring Off Sundays are underway, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. weekly through the end of the month.

CCS Girls Vie For Sectional Hoop Crown COOPERSTOWN

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he CCS Hawkeyes girls’ basketball team is headed to the sectional finals against Weedsport at 12:45 p.m.

Saturday, March 7, at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse.

A victory would set the stage for the state finals the following weekend at Hudson Valley CC in Troy/SEE

NYSHA Education Director Danielle Henrici receives applause on her introduction at the “20 Under 40” recognition ceremony Thursday, Feb 26, at Springbrook’s Oneonta campus, the culmination of a program co-sponsored by the Cooperstown and Otsego County chambers and The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta newspapers.

he temperatures will be creeping back up this week, but Cooperstown isn’t out of the cold just yet, which ebruary’s avprompted Village Hall erage nightover the weekend to time low was issue the first “freeze -0.1; normal is 8 warning” in 25 years. above, Weather “Unfortunately, Observer Dave when the temperature Mattice reports/ goes up, the frost goes SEE A5 further down,” said Brian Clancy, superintendent of the village Department of Public Works. “We’ll be looking at this for a long time.”

The brutally cold February is the coldest on records dating back to 1854. “You lived through history,” said Dave MatPlease See COLD, A7

Key Community Player To Depart For Post At WVU Katie Monser/The Freeman’s Journal

Surgeon Borgstrom Led CCS, CYB Through Controversy, Achievement

By JIM KEVLIN

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HONOREES SOUGHT: Otsego 2000 is now accepting nominations for its 2015 Historic Preservation Awards. Nominators should call 547-8881 to ensure their nominations meet criteria.

CLASSIC COMING: Tickets for the 2015 Hall of Fame Classic, scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend, are on sale at www. baseballhall.org. Hall of Famers Rollie Fingers, Tom Glavine, Phil Niekro and Ozzie Smith will be among the players at the 2:05 p.m.

Saturday, May 23, game at Doubleday Field.

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Origins Café’s Dana Leonard is congratulated

by Art Newell, honoree Danielle Henrici’s dad. At center is Andy Bustin.

Honoree Andrew Marietta, left, NYCON regional director, is congratulated by Jason Tabor, representing the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. Holding the plaque is newspaper co-publisher MJ Kevlin.

s president of Cooperstown Youth Baseball, he moved the Little League from Baseball Town to a field Borgstrom outside Hartwick hamlet.

As a member and president of the Cooperstown Central school board, he navigated the school district through the Pacherille shooting case and the bullying Please See BORGSTROM, A6

Incumbents Dean, Falk Engaged On Parking, Bassett More Jim Dean Thinks Global, Sees Opportunities Here

By JIM KEVLIN

SPRING FORWARD, at COOPERSTOWN 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8. hen he ran for a full term three years ago, Village Trustee Jim Dean was

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thinking globally and acting locally – against fracking.

Today, as he runs for reelection in the Wednesday, March 18, village election, his thinking is the same, but the topic has changed.

With a state fracking ban in place Please See DEAN, A6

Cindy Falk Wants To See Main Street Plan In Place

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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illage Trustee Cindy Falk is in the middle of many things. “There’s all this

planning stuff going on, and it’s critical, but you don’t really see it,” and that has her running for a second term. “Main Street,” she said, “I want to see that through.”

Falk and Elizabeth Horvath, county Industrial Development Please See FALK, A6

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CCS Swimmers Do Fine At First NY State Meet

SENATOR GREETS 4HERS AT CAPITAL DAYS State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, welcomes Blake Guzy, Cooperstown, and Adam Agoglia, Oneonta, to the annual 4-H Capital Days in Albany Tuesday, March 3, where they enjoyed a legislative breakfast and quizzed him on pending legislation, local issues of importance and the inner workings of the state Senate.

“The ideals I learned while a 4-H member helped give birth to my interest in public service and continue to foster my passion each and every day,” said Seward.

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FATHER, SON AT AWARDS CEREMONY Father Dr. Ted Peters, the retired Bassett researcher, was on hand Thursday, Feb. 26, when son Dr. Ted Peters, the Hartwick College economist, received the Otsego County Chamber’s Community Service Award from chamber President/ CEO Barbara Ann Heegan during a networking luncheon at The Otesaga.

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Sunday – Friday · March 8 to 13 · in the Parish Center unless otherwise stated

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Posing with Coach Cheryl Rock are the first four members of the CCS boys swim team to make it to the state meet. From left, they are Michael Kern, brothers Sean and Ted Mebust, and Ian Robinson.

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C 2 HONORED: Senior Natalie Grigoli and sophomore Alexis Devenpeck, both of Cooperstown, are on the Dean’s List at Elmira College for the fall semester.

CS sent the first four boys in its swimming team history to the NYSPHSAA State Swim Meet at Ithaca College Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 2628, and they did fine.

Junior Sean Mebust finished eighth in the 100 freestyle in the public school meet and 12th in the NYSPHSAA meet for public and private schools with a time of 47.43 seconds, according to the Observer Dispatch.

Mebust, Ian Robinson, Michael Kern and Ted Mebust were sixth in the 200 free relay in the public meet and 14th in the combined meet with a time of 1-minute, 28.30 seconds.

Sean Mebust and Robinson both swam the 50 free, the O-D repoted. Mebust’s time of 21.69 seconds left him 13th in the public meet and 15th in the NYSPHSSA. Robinson finished in 21.86 and was 16th among public school swimmer and 20th overall.

Are Your Legs Tired and Achy at the End of the Day?

Sunday, March 8—Third Sunday of Lent · Forgiveness & Pot Luck Dinner

Do you have to forgive someone who never apologizes to you? Can you force someone to apologize? What does it mean to “forgive and forget”?

Jesus call us to forgive “seventy times seven times” – is that possible?

3:30 pm—Presentation: Fred Boehner, Catholic Worker, Albany 5 pm—Pot Luck Dinner

Monday, March 9—“And God said...” The Bible 101

The Scriptures are a great treasure that many of us do not realize we are invited to explore, share, and cherish. This presentation will give a background and then some ways to make the Scriptures our own.

11 am—Presentation: Sr. Kitty Hanley, CSJ, Assistant Dean, Saint Bernard’s Institute, Albany 7 pm—Repeat presentation

Tuesday, March 10—7 pm Taize prayer (Church proper) Wednesday, March 11—Who Do You Say That I Am?

We all profess belief in Jesus Christ, but who is this person that we believe in? True discipleship requires a true understanding of the man who lived, died and rose for us.

So we must be ready to answer: “Who do you say that I am?”

11 am—Presentation: Fr. Robert Longobucco, Pastor, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Parish, Niskayuna 7 pm—Repeat presentation

Thursday, March 12—The Two Feet of Love in Action: Taking Our Faith Into the Public Square

This interactive presentation will address two overlapping issues of Catholic Social Teaching: Immigration and Minimum Wage.

11 am—Presentation: Deacon Walter Ayres, Director, Commission on Peace and Justice, Albany Diocese 7 pm—Repeat presentation

Friday, March 13

4 pm Fish Fry Dinner sponsored by the Knights of Columbus 7 pm Stations of the Cross presented by the Youth Ministry (Church proper)

Complimentary Consultation and Leg Ultrasound Screening On Saturday March 15 9 am to 3 pm (Other dates available too)

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, march 5-6, 2015

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150 family members and friends turned out Thursday, Feb. 26, at Springbrook’s Oneonta campus to honor the “20 Under 40” Class of 2015. Front row, from left, are Bud Lippitt, Chad Angellotti, Megan Scrivener, Hannah Morgan, Zoë van der Meulen, Jonathan Philby, Dan Buttermann and Brent Baysinger. Back row, from left, are Andrew Marietta, Danielle Henrici, Sarah Manchester, Dana Leonard, Heather Mann, Shannon McHugh, Stacie Haynes, Corinne Smith, Chad Welch and Dan Crowell. The recognition program is sponsored by Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, and the Cooperstown and Otsego County chambers of commerce. For more photos, see slide show at www.allotsego.com

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County Treasurer Dan Crowell accepts his plaque from this newspaper’s Editor & Publisher Jim Kevlin. In the background, from left, are Advertising Director Tara Barnwell, Jason Tabor, Greg Lippitt, honoree Bud Lippitt’s dad, and the Lippitt grandchildren.

Three of the “20 Under 40” judges toast a job well done.

From left are Southside Mall manager Luisa Montanti, Oneonta Job Corps Director Chris Kuhn, and Springbrook COO Seth Haight. Other judges were Five Star Subaru proprietor Ben Guenther, Clark Sports Center Director Val Paige, and attorney Martin Tillapaugh.

Claire Smith, daughter of honoree Corinne Smith, was entranced by Springbrook’s hors d’ouevres.

Bud Lippitt, right, accepts congratulations, while honorees Chad Welch, left, and Dan Buttermann get to know each other.

Honoree Sarah Manchester receives her certificate from Joe Sutaris, Community Bank’s regional executive and chairman of the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

PHOTOS BY KATIE MONSER

for HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal

Stacie Haynes, right, shares a laugh with fellow honoree Sarah Manchester and her husband Michael.

Unalam Vice President/Operations Leif Van Cott helps his daughter wend her way through the crowd. They were there to help honor Leif’s sister, Zoë van der Meulen, vice president/communications.

Perspectives

THURSDAY, march 5, 2015

A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL

EDITORIALS

Finally, A Chance To Cast A Vote For (Cooperstown) Democracy

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n-street paid whatever reason – to parking is a poi- COMMENT on seek out one single candithe election son in the Vildate since the March 2011 on the www. lage of Cooperstown’s debacle, so voters have allotsego.com’s been unable to express body politic.

It was imposed on the Facebook page, their opposition at the villagers, despite strong- or send Letters ballot box. to Editor to info@ ly expressed opinions In the world’s great allotsego.com against it, after Demodemocracy, Cooperstown crats took control of the democracy atrophied: Village Board following the nasty Voting dropped from more than March 2011 election campaign.

650 ballots cast in 2011 to a mere Since then, on-street paid park94 in 2014, (both non-mayoral ing has been expanded in the face years). of a sullen electorate.

Now, a single Republican has Mystifyingly, the village’s stepped forward on his own, John failed Republican committee has Sansevere. His credentials, as been unable – or unwilling, for detailed in a Freeman’s Journal ar-

The Freeman’s Journal

A vote for Sansevere would help revive local democracy.

ticle that can be reviewed at www. allotsego.com, are satisfactory.

He has a background in banking, and – in addition to interfacing with village commissions for 15 years living in the village

fulltime – he has served on the Zoning Board of Appeals.

He was provoked into running

by Village Hall’s little sense of customer service. He also believes in government by rules, instead of opinions, having heard too many opinions on the ZBA. The two Democratic incumbents up for election this year, Cindy Falk and Jim Dean, are fine trustees and fine people. And, as anyone watching will tell you, Falk has been a visionary leader, (although not everyone has agreed with her vision and the projects she’s championed.) The Village Board has been energetic and cre-

ative, for good and/or not.

But the question to be decided in the Wednesday, March 16, balloting is: Do we want a return of democracy to Village Hall, or not? While one Republican isn’t sweeping change, it’s enough to dent the unanimity of the Village Board’s dialogue.

If you agree democracy matters, cast a single vote, for Sansevere.

Even if he fails to win, a sizeable tally in his favor will send a muchneeded message to the Village Board: Voters matter, people matter, the whole community matters, not just the part that happens to agree with the incumbents.

Oneonta ‘Warm, Comfortable, Wonderful’ And, Now, Cool Too.

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t was pretty un-cool for Oneonta City Hall to remove the scarves from downtown fences and trees tied there by a family of Good Samaritans during the coldest month on record. Very un-cool.

Why not wait a week or two? Surely it will warm up by mid-March. Then take down the scarves, dry clean them with a few dollars from the petty cash account, and donate them to the Salvation Army for cold spells of the future.

A week ago, whether City Hall was cool or not wouldn’t have mattered. But, out of The Freeman’s Journal the blue on Feb. 24, the Matador Network Erik Mazarak lashes the “Oneonta Life – the biggest online travel network in the Enjoyed” image to a billboard welnation/slash world, although most of us probably never heard of it before now – de- coming people to the cool town. clared fair Oneonta the 14th coolest town in now has a rep that City Hall and the rest of the U.S. us need to maintain. (Or is that, in itself, How cool is that! The City of the Hills

un-cool: to care about your coolness.)

Icons of coolness identified by Matador include the Latte Lounge (run by cool guy Dave Zummo), Hartwick College’s Table Rock loop, an afternoon detour to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and a few brewskis and music in the evening at the Black Oak Tavern. Proximity to Catskill skiing was also noted. (Asheville, N.C., is #1. For full list, check out www.allotsego.com) • The colleges are noted, but Matador’s anonymous reviewer also says, “Oneonta manages to have an identity beyond just being a college town.”

It sounds like a place, by golly, where people enjoy life, or enjoy living, or where life is enjoyed, or somesuch.

“Oneonta Life Enjoyed” creator Nancy Clark, who has renamed her Glen Group

consultancy in New Hampshire as Drive Brand Studio, agreed with Matador’s conclusion “totally, and I’ll tell you why.”

In devising the tag line in 2010, Nancy’s staffers descended on Oneonta’s restaurants, bars, stores and gathering places. “One of the things that impressed us the most was, all these people had come back to the community because of the lifestyle. Because of how good their life is there. And how warm and comfortable and wonderful the community is.”

“It’s got this really nice, laid-back lifestyle,” she continued, “but with the energy and vitality of the colleges there. A really comfortable place to live. It wasn’t like hippy. But it was that kind of, I’m really happy here.”

And happy is the ultimate cool.

COOPERSTOWN VILLAGE BOARD OTHER VOICES

Trustees Make Available Cooperstown’s Aura In Fight Against Global Warming Editor’s Note: The Cooperstown Village Board unanimously passed a Tuesday, March 3, resolution, excerpted here, making itself available in the fight against global warming.

Mayor Katz said the hope is that Glimmerglass’ iconic place in American’s environmentalism may be leveraged in the cause.

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HEREAS an overwhelming majority of credentialed scientists, in the United States and abroad, support the findings that climate change is happening and that human activities are a key contributor to it; WHEREAS the U. S. National Academy of Sciences and the U. K. Royal Society have stated, “It is now more certain than ever, based on many lines of

evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate.

The atmosphere and oceans have warmed, accompanied by sea-level rise, a strong decline in Arctic sea ice, and other climate-related changes;” WHEREAS the 2014 National Climate Assessment, reviewed extensively by the National Academy of Sciences and a Federal Advisory Committee, states that in The Village Board hopes to leverage Coopersthe Northeast “Heat waves, town to fight global warming. coastal flooding, and river that the effects of climate Nations International Panel flooding will pose a growchange are “threat multion Climate Change has ing challenge to the region’s pliers that will aggravate reported “Impacts from environmental, social, stressors abroad such as recent climate-related exand economic systems… poverty, environmental tremes, such as heat waves, [which] will increase the degradation, political instadroughts, floods, cyclones, vulnerability of the region’s bility, and social tensions and wildfires, reveal signifiresidents, especially its most – conditions that can enable cant vulnerability and exdisadvantaged populations;” terrorist activity and other posure of some ecosystems WHEREAS the 2014 forms of violence;” and many human systems to Quadrennial Defense WHEREAS the United current climate variability Review of the U.S. Department of Defense states LETTERS

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It’s An Insult To Charge Residents To Just Park To the Editor: The 17 residents who spoke at the Cooperstown Village Board Monday, Feb. 23, spoke for all of us.

Paying for parking in residential neighborhoods is an insult to all tax-paying residents.

The Village Board should first and foremost represent the people who live in Cooperstown. Mayor Katz said that paid parking is here to stay, but what he means is that he wants more paid parking.

Having served with some 14 different boards, including an international board in Beirut with very complex challenges, I find it hard to believe that the Village Board did not do its homework.

Surprise! Those cars parked near our churches at various times belong to volunteers working to make things better. Did no one on the Village Board know what the volunteers parked at the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and at the food pantry do in serving our community?

In closing, I wish to add that the coverage of this issue by The Freeman’s Journal has been excellent.

Stanley E. Hall Cooperstown

… WHEREAS the Union of Concerned Scientists has called “for government and corporate decision makers to reduce the threat of global warming by: • Expanding the use of renewable energy and transforming our energy system to one that is cleaner and less dependent on coal and other fossil fuels.

• Increasing vehicle fuel efficiency and supporting other solutions that reduce U. S. oil use.

• Placing limits on the amount of carbon that polluters are allowed to emit.

• Building a clean energy economy by investing in efficient energy technologies, industries, and approaches;” RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown:

1) urges the County of Otsego, the State of New York, and the Congress and President of the United States of America to take prompt and effective measures to rapidly address climate change by promoting and encouraging a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and their associated infrastructure, improvement in the efficiency of energy systems, and the development and installation of renewable energy systems; and 2) stands ready to work with any level of government to achieve these goals, that will in the process create safe, sustainable jobs and provide real, clean energy solutions for generations to come.

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Wet, Frozen Scarves Removed Before Things Got Out Of Hand To the Editor: The City of Oneonta applauds the efforts of those responsible for placing scarves and mittens in Muller Plaza for those in need to take. Initiatives like this are an example of what makes Oneonta a welcoming and friendly city. This good deed quickly got the positive recognition it deserved and others started to bring hats, gloves and sweaters too.

With the increased volume of clothing being donated the articles were being hung on light poles, trees and fences. It isn’t news to anyone the amount of snow that fell in February and soon the clothing was wet, covered in snow and frozen.

It was brought up at the last meeting of Common Council’s Facilities, Technology, Opera-

tions & Community Improvement Committee and discussed, and we felt that with the volume of clothing and its condition it would be of better use dry. The committee instructed the city manager to have our DPW department take it down and give it to one of the charities in the city for distribution My suggestion would be drop boxes or clothes trees in the walkway that connects Main Street to the parking garage.

This way the articles of clothing are dry and available for use right away. Another alternative is to work directly with one of the many local charities to get this clothing to those that need it.

RUSS SOUTHARD Acting Mayor Oneonta

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

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

175 YEARS AGO

Sally Van Horne – The case of this unfortunate and much abused girl was mentioned in our paper of last week, not for the purpose of wounding or injuring the feelings and much less the rights of the persons implicated in the extreme abuse of this unfortunate and interesting child. She was brought into our village as a menial or servant and she has remained in that capacity in the hands of those who brought her here, having no relatives or friends to protect or guard her from insult and injury except those in whose charge she was.

March 2, 1840

200 YEARS AGO

150 YEARS AGO

Insane Paupers in Otsego County – There are sixteen lunatics in the poor house of Otsego County, and it is a remarkable circumstance that fifteen are American-born. Four are males and twelve are females. Two of this number have been insane since 1837, and one since 1845. Five have been treated in an asylum and returned to the county poor house. Eleven have never had the opportunity for a care that an asylum affords. Five of the sixteen are violent, and three are filthy in their habits. Four of the 16 require mechanical restraint.

One male and four females are capable of doing some labor. Their only amusement is to saunter about the grounds when the weather will permit. Though the house has 130 inmates, there is not a bathing tub in it. The house is supplied with water and the insane are washed once a week. They are visited by a physician once each week.

March 3, 1865

125 YEARS AGO

The membership of the Baptist Church of this village, as recently stated, is about 265, of whom several are non-resident, and a few others too old or too feeble to attend public service. The Pastor last month gave notice last month of a “roll call” meeting of the members, desiring a verbal or written reply – and last week Thursday, 217, all but 48, responded in person or by letter. The church dining room was occupied for the first time, and was

March 2, 1815 found to be very convenient. About 100 persons can be seated at the tables.

March 7, 1890

100 YEARS AGO

W. Dean Burditt as Village President for the past two years has given excellent attention to his job. He personally superintended the construction of the Macadam pavement from Chestnut Street to the corporation line, and the other macadam pavement on Susquehanna avenue.

March 3, 1915

75 YEARS AGO

With its sixteen-game regular season schedule completed, Cooperstown high school’s high-scoring basketball team will endeavor to add more laurels to its already imposing string. Boasting a record of fifteen wins against one defeat, Cooperstown will enter the Section 4 play-offs of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association next week, competing in Class B for high schools with an enrollment between 201 and 500 students. Coach Bursey’s charges, the winners of the Schohanna League title for the eighth consecutive season, will travel to Oneonta on Monday night to take on a strong Walton quintet in the only Class B Eastern Division game on the schedule with eight teams vying for the Class B title.

March 6, 1940

50 YEARS AGO

Local News – A pair of gray and white sport socks has been turned in at our “Lost & Found” Department in the newspaper office. If you have lost a pair, please come in and pick them up.

The Cooperstown Fire Department was called out at 11:30 a.m. Sunday night in response to an alarm sounded from the home of Mr. and Mrs. George G. Tillapaugh on Pioneer Street. An oil fire had broken out in a Chrysler sedan Mr. Tillapaugh was using to transport incoming passengers from Cooperstown airport to the Hotel Otesaga. Mr. Tillapaugh had returned from the airport and left the car engine idling when he went into the house to make a phone call. When he came out, he saw what he believed to be steam coming from the front portion of the car, but it was a fire. He used a fire extinguisher in an attempt to put it out.

When the attempt failed, he called the fire department.

March 3, 1965

25 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown varsity boys’ basketball team ended an outstanding season last Saturday suffering a tough 69-45 loss to Beaver River in the Section Three, Class C-2 championship. The Redskins finished their season with a 21-2 record. The team was ranked among the top ten Class C schools in the state most of the season.

Ken Fetterman led the scoring for CCS with 21 points before fouling out. The Redskins played without the services of injured starter Tim Osterhoudt.

March 7, 1990

10 YEARS AGO

Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett has become the first person to fly around the world solo without stopping or refueling. His flight lasted 67 hours in the air and covered 23,000 miles in a spindly-looking experimental singleengine jet aircraft equipped with 13 fuel tanks. Fossett, age 60, already holds the record for flying solo around the globe in a balloon. He took off and landed in Salina, Kansas.

March 4, 2005

EYE ON THE WEATHER Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, is providing monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.

FEBRUARY 2015 Highest Temperature...............................................35°F (Feb. 23) Lowest Temperature................................................-17°F (Feb. 24) Average Maximum Temperature..........................................18.8°F Average Minimum Temperature.............................................-1°F Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................9.4°F Precipitation Total.....................................................................2.6″ Most Precipitation in One Day.....................................63” (Feb. 1.)

Thunderstorms...........................................................0 (0 for 2015) Snow.............................................................36” (54.9” for 2015) .............................................................79.6” for winter of 2014-15 Most Snow in One Day...............................................9.4” (Feb. 1) YTD Precipitation.....................................................................1.89” Number of Days at or below 0°F.........................13 (22 for 2015) ..................................................................20 for winter of 2014-15 Number of Days at or below 32°F.......................28 (58 for 2014) Comments: WHETHER YOU’RE 8 OR 88, YOU JUST LIVED THROUGH THE COLDEST, MOST BRUTAL FEBRUARY ON RECORD! Remember, all I can do is tell you about it, I didn’t like it either! The mean temperature for the month was a just 9.4 degrees, the normal mean temperature is 22.7 degrees, so we were 13.3 degrees BELOW NORMAL! That is UNBELIEVABLE! February made last month look mild: It was only 5.7 degrees below normal in January. What a winter! While writing this column on Monday, March 2, I spent two fun hours on the phone with an old buddy, Mitch Gilt, who has been with the National Weather Service in Binghamton for as long as I’ve been involved with the weather. We made some interesting but not surprising observations about February 2015. There was only one day when the mercury climbed above the DAVID freezing mark: We hit a balmy 35 degrees on Feb. 22. Average daytime high temperaMATTICE tures in February range between 29 degrees and 36 degrees; in 2015 our average was 20.3 degrees. Average nighttime lows range from 8 degrees to 16 degrees; in 2015 our average was -0.1 degree. Normal precipitation, which is rainfall, sleet and freezing and the water equivalent in the snowfall, was 2.60 inches; normal is 2.55 inches, pretty much right on the mark. We usually see 18.8 inches of snow for the month; this year we received 36.1 inches, a lot of dry and light-to-lift snow! For the winter we’ve had 79.6 inches of snow; 80 inches is normal with March looking down the gun barrel at us! For the year we’ve been blessed with 54.9 inches; normal is 36.7 inches. Kudos and thanks to the road crews for trying to keep us safe. Hats off to all EMS, firefighters, police and fuel delivery people; it’s been tough on all of you for sure. Mitch told me that the greater Binghamton area shattered records for February as well and the residents there are looking forward to springtime, as we are! Let’s turn the page and move on. Hopefully March will modify; the days are getting longer, so we’ve almost made it. In fact, this Sunday, March 8, we “spring” the clocks forward. Don’t forget! It will be embarrassing to walk into your house of worship as the congregation is leaving. I’m looking forward to the day when I can write and tell you things are normal. Hopefully that will be in March. But until then, remember, KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE WEATHER!

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THURSDAY, march 5, 2015

Borgstrom Dispatched ‘Redskin,’ Move CYB Field, Created Medallion Hunt BORGSTROM/From A1 scandal that followed, guided renaming sports teams “Hawkeyes” in place of “Redskins,” and facilitated the school’s successful embrace of Common Core standards.

Both his daughters, Samantha and Catherine, now in college, were notable scholars and athletes while at CCS. Catherine was one of three students who gained national recognition in the push to change the CCS nickname.

In his day job, Dr. David C. Borgstrom was a surgeon, serving as director of Bassett Hospital’s Trauma & Surgical Critical Care, and program director, Surgical Residency. At one point, he was mentioned as a possible successor to

Bassett President/CEO Bill Streck, who retired last year.

Now, Borgstrom will be leaving the community in June, after a decade. He has accepted the position of chief of general surgery, Department of Medicine – Department of Surgery, at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

Among the enduring impacts he and wife Donna, an attorney with the Trossett Group, Fly Creek, will leave behind – unprecedented among Bassett doctors in recent memory – is the Cooperstown Winter Medallion Hunt, sponsored

by The Freeman’s Journal, an idea the Borgstroms brought from St. Paul, Minn.

CCS Superintendent C.J. Hebert,

whom Borgstrom helped recruit here in 2010, praised the departing president as “a strong leader who stood by his educational convictions. He was very involved in all aspects of the school community, including serving as chaperone on more than one overseas trip with our students.”

Hebert said Borgstrom was “an ardent supporter of increasing opportunities for students and enhancing rigor at all levels,” an approach that included the creation of the position of “executive principal” and bringing in Lynn Strang to ensure CCS would be on the cutting edge of Common Core implementation.

The state Education Department recognized CCS as a “high-perform-

ing school” in the 2013-14 school year.

Still, his initiatives were often controversial. Adopting a new athletic nickname prompted two stormy school board meetings, where long-time residents and officers of the CCS Alumni Association argued for the status quo. Likewise, Borgstrom’s idea of relocating Beanie Ainslie Field to Brooklyn Avenue when Blue Lot construction adsorbed CYB’s home met with resistance from neighbors there, resulting in the shift to Hartwick.

Bassett’s Chief of Surgery Dr. Nicholas Hellenthal said, “While we are disappointed to be losing Dr. Borgstrom, this new position represents a wonderful opportunity

for him. We wish him well and thank him for his contributions to Bassett.”

In particular, Hellenthal said, Borgstrom’s leadership in the Surgical Residency program helped Bassett “establish a national reputation for preparing surgery residents for broad-based general surgery careers” Borgstrom said, “I’ve loved my time at Bassett, made great friends and learned a lot … I like to think I’ve contributed positively to the lives of my residents and my patients, and while it is bittersweet to be leaving, it is an opportunity and challenge I couldn’t pass up.”

Dean: Thinking Globally, Locally Falk: Much Remains To Be Done Downtown, In Infrastructure DEAN/From A1 – for now, he emphasizes – the “big challenge” is the economy.

“The money is being vacuumed to the top,” he said in an interview. “Everybody else is left with having to make a life and a living with what’s left … I have a concern for young families, how they are going to make a living and where they are going to live. They are entitled to a fair share.”

The Cooperstown area is part of the solution, Dean said. The cost is living is reasonable, compared to New York City. And here, people can pursue “small scale” opportunities, in agriculture, local business or, through modern communication tools, around the world.

“We have to let people around the U.S. and New York that they can have a nice life in Upstate New York,” he said. “Our challenge is to get the message out that we are here, not just as Cooperstown, but as Oneonta and Otsego County … Young people are our future.”

A 20 percent drop in the village’s population since 1990 and a projected 30 percent drop in CCS enrollment over the next 15 years are temporary symptoms that macro trends will fix, the candidate said.

“I personally think New York State is going to be repopulated,” he said, “because that’s where the water is …

We need to actively invite young entrepreneurs. We can’t just live here and hope people will show up.”

On specific issues, Dean said: Paid Parking: “I think the bulk of paid parking is now in place. I don’t see any thrust into the future. I don’t see any space for it.” He said he believes the idea of resident parking permits will be the next priority.

Downtown Hotel: “I cannot support a hotel on Main Street, for one main and specific reason: It’s going to paralyze the movement of traffic.”

Downtown Initiatives: The requirement of a federal grant that the single traffic signal at Chestnut and Main be replaced with eight lights is problematic, he said. “We’re going to have a public hearing to see how people feel about the intersection. But we do want to do whatever we can to help the businesses on upper Main Street, to get people across Chestnut and eventually to find their way to Railroad Avenue.”

Bassett’s Future: “Short story: I support Bassett.” But the hospital campus has little

space for expansion, and it can only be accessed by narrow streets. “I will try to help them in any way I can: But Dean there’s got to be some shared responsibility and shared communication,” which he said is more evident in recent months.

Dean was appointed to a one-year term in 2011, then was elected to the three-year term. At first, he chaired a Sustainability Committee (now absorbed into Trustee Lou Allstadt’s Economic and Environmental Sustainability Committee).

Still, he spearheaded the Village Board’s statement opposing fracking, championed a policy, now in place, to not use pesticides to maintain Doubleday Field, and lately got approval of a ban on residents using rock salt on sidewalks.

A New York City native, Dean and his family – wife Eileen, two daughters and a son – moved to Cooperstown in the 1970s. Daughter Colleen is an acupuncturist and Janice is chief of state at Pace Law School, and son Jeff is a software engineer in Colorado.

An Air Force veteran who served in Pakistan, he has operated a construction and stair-building company for 40 years.

FALK/From Page 1 Agency COO, are co-chairing the committee that with Elan, the Saratoga Springs planning consultancy, is updating the village’s 1994 Comprehensive Master Plan and developing a data-driven development strategy for downtown.

“A lot of what was done in 1994 will stick,” she predicted. However, pre-Dreams Park, tourism was hardly mentioned. Bassett Hospital doesn’t get much mention.

“While businesses weren’t completely ignored,” she said in an interview, the updated plan will be “more sensitive to the needs of our business owners, and ways to create a more year-around business environment that benefits residents as well as tourists.”

In 2012, when she ran unopposed, Falk had served on the village Planning Board and the Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board, which were bound by laws passed by the Board of Trustees that she believed should be adjusted.

“Some of it we’ve actually be able to do,” she said.

For instance, “a little more flexibility in off-site parking” for businesses was adopted a couple of months ago. Instead of deeded parking spaces, businesses now only need to show they have leased the required parking spaces for five years. The required size of parking spaces has been reduced from 9x20 to 9x18 to create more of them.

Such flexibility may allow development of the JGB

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Properties site between Chestnut Street and Pine Boulevard, or for Mike Manno to rethink the former hops Falk barn he renovated at Glen and Railroad avenues, or a fresh approach to the railroad property along Grove Street where developer Joe Galati got stymied a few years ago, she said.

Coming out of the Feb. 26 public hearing where two streets were spared paid parking, Falk said, “we need to continue the conversation,” particularly to see if residential permits, which require state legislative permission, are do-able.

“What we heard pretty loud and clear was philosophical concerns about business in residential zones,” she said.

“But also a practical concern: ‘I get home from work and there’s no place to park’.”

Falk also sees a limit to how much revenue paid parking can generate. The Pay & Display machine generates 80 percent of the maximum: “That’s huge,” she said. But other P&Ds are generating just 30 percent.

Data from the first full season of on-street paid parking, 2014, also suggests “a very limited season. Even by the middle of August, our numbers start to drop off. It happens with trolley ridership. It happens with revenue

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from paid parking. October through April, it’s probably not going to cut it for us.

There is a real sharp dropping off point.”

Still, there are “hubs” around the village that might be profitable: the waterfront, around Bassett, around the county courthouse. “We need to think critically about whether we want to go there,” she said.

Bassett Hospital, she said, is an enigma: “I don’t know what they’re going to do. I don’t even know if they know what they are going to do …

The most important thing going forward is that Bassett and the village realize they have to work together.

“It’s good for the village that Bassett is here. At the same time, Bassett needs to understand what’s good for the village’s residential quality is what entices doctors to

come to Bassett.”

If Falk has a wish list, Doubleday Field would be on it: “Its 100th birthday is in 2020. It would be wonderful to have a plan in place to address its critical needs, particularly the left-field side of things,” she said.

Falk, a full professor at the Cooperstown Graduate School in Museum Studies, was born in Wolcottville, Wayne County, on Lake Ontario. Her family moved to D.C., then the Philadelphia suburbs. She received her bachelor’s at Penn State, master’s at Winterthur, and Ph.D. at the University of Delaware.

Her first job in her field was at CGP, and she and husband Glen arrived in 2000.

They are raising two children, Lizzy, 14, a ninth-grader, and Isaac, 12, a seventh-grader.

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THURSDAY, march 5, 2015

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

February History Making, Says U.S. Weather Observer Mattice COLD/From A1 tice, National Weather Service observer in Oneonta.

“You’ve lived through the coldest, most brutal February on record.”

According to Mattice, not one day in the whole month rose above 32 degrees. The mean temperature for the month was just 9.4 degrees, 13.3 degrees below the average temperature of 22.7 degrees.

“We’re battling the cold,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “But when it’s 11-below, you have to be conscientious.

No one wants to see pipes burst.”

The cold created frost as far as 5 feet into the ground and in turn, Clancy reported, standing water in pipes froze solid. On average, frost reaches a depth of 3½ to 4 feet.

So on Saturday, Feb. 28, Clancy issued the Frost Warning, urging people to keep a steady stream of water running from at least one faucet in the house. “As long as the water is running, it won’t freeze,” he said. “If it’s standing still, the whole service line can freeze up.”

While there haven’t been any problems in village buildings, more than two dozen calls have come in from residents with frozen pipes. “Our pipes froze,” said Katz. “We’d done some repair work on the house, and the radiator pipe wasn’t turning on. Luckily, we caught it before there was a disaster!”

Monday morning, March 2, Ben Novellano at the Bieritz Agency came in to find the pipes at the 209 Main St. offices frozen.

“The plumber was here

for three hours,” he said.

“We’ve been borrowing water from next door to use the bathroom.”

But if your pipes freeze, there are a few solutions.

The first is to put a heater next to the pipe to thaw them out. But if the pipes are buried, a plumber may have to come in and flush out the pipes with hot water, or a welder to run a current along the pipe. “We’ve compiled a list of companies who do the thawing on the village’s website,” said Clancy.

Novellano hoped that a welder will be able to melt the water, which has frozen the line all the way to the fire hydrant.

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But if your pipes are PVC instead of copper, Jeff Haggerty, at Ace Haggerty Hardware, has a product called “Liquid Fire,” which promises to warm up frozen drainpipes. “It’s gotten a lot of good feedback from contractors who come in to buy it,” he said.

Rock salt and ice melt, rooftop snow-scrapers and space heaters are the big sellers, said Haggerty, as winter trudges on. And though the frost may move deeper, many are hoping that spring is just around the corner.

“Hopefully this will be the last round of this,” said Katz. “I think we’ve all had just about enough of it.”

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(7732) 3-BR expanded Cape offers center-hall layout, LR w/fireplace, formal DR, custom kitchen and eating area w/large windows and skylights.

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Hubbell’s Exclusive—$385,000

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Cooperstown on one aCre

(7892) This elegant 3-BR home offers a newer great room w/bluestone fireplace, skylights, and beamed cathedral ceiling. Formal DR,1 full and 2 half baths, den w/fireplace, custom kitchen w/work island. Stone walls and large front porch lead to entrance. Inviting backyard w/patio, deck, and gardens. 2-car garage.

Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive—$499,000

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(7925) Gorgeous 4-BR, 2-bath colonial on a tranquil street features elegant gardens, full landscaping w/accent stone wall, deck. Formal DR, family room, woodstove, eat-in kitchen w/ cherry cabinets and quartz countertop.

Cooperstown Schools Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive—$479,000

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31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)

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Visionside – Offering 3,800+/- sq ft of living space on 2.33 acres.

Private setting yet within walking distance of Bassett Hospital and Main Street in Cooperstown Village. High ceilings, large rooms, hardwood floors, fireplaces. Updated in the 1990s w/custom kitchen, master BR and bath, sauna in game room, step-down music room, new furnaces, plumbing, electric and roof (updated as necessary). Carriage house underwent extensive restoration including new framing and roof. 3 or 4 BRs, 3½ baths, upstairs laundry, double walk-in shower in master bath, custom closets, balcony, porch, gardens, stone walls, play house.

Visionside is the ultimate Cooperstown Village residence.

Priced below assessors valuation.

Offered Exclusively by Ashley-Connor Realty $549,000 Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com FOR APPOiNTmENT: Patti Ashley, Broker, 607-437-1149 • Jack Foster, Sales Agent, 607-547-5304 • Robert Schneider, Associate Broker, 607-282-2814 • Donna Skinner, Associate Broker, 607-547-8288 • Chris Patterson, Sales Agent, 518-774-8175

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