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Sustainability Soars

Technology May Yet Save Planet, Forum Discovers In Crafting Local Action Steps

By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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he keynoter started with a bleak vision.

If nothing’s done, temperatures will rise by 38.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, up The Freeman’s Journal to 70 percent of plant and In preparation for Ash animal life will be extinct, Wednesday, March 5, floods will be common, Father John P. Rosdroughts longer and Storm son blesses burning Sandys will double. palms on the steps of But it doesn’t have to St. Mary’s “Our Lady be, Neil Murphy, retired of the Lake” Catholic Church, assisted by Peter Deysenroth. Father Mark Michael of Christ Episcopal and the Rev. Betsy Jay, Bassett chaplain, participated.

president of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science & Forestry, told 120 people who, Retired ESF concerned about just President those issues, Murphy buoyed at- had gathered tendees.

Saturday morning, March 1, for a Sustainability Summit at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center.

For the next half hour, before he was cut off for lack of time, Murphy ticked off one initiative after another – many that have been accomplished on the ESF campus, some that can be accomplished in our local societies at large.

Some 89,000 TW – 89 trillion megawatts – of the sun’s energy reaches the earth’s surface. “Can’t we capture 600 TW?” he asked, though initiatives as simple as using direct daytime sunlight to light and heat Please See SUMMIT, A7

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While the Sustainability Summit grew out of Oneonta City Hall, participants came from around the county. Cooperstown Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, left, led the Economic Development breakout group, while county Rep. Beth Rosenthal, D-Roseboom, tallied the ideas in SUNY Oneonta’s Craven Lounge.

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tate Education Commissioner John King was due to spend a half-day at Cooperstown Central School Wednesday, March 5, arriving at 10:30 a.m. CCS Superintendent C.J. Hebert said King was interested in observing the school district’s enthusiastic implementation of the Common Core Curriculum, which has been controversial in many of the state’s district. For more, visit

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CS voters will return to the polls 7 a.m.7 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, to vote on a $5.9 million bond issue, reduced 10 percent from a $6.6 million bond that fell to a tie vote in December.

The bond issue includes $537,000 for a high-tech lab designed to prepare students for STEM careers, including those created by the coming nanotechnology boom at SUNY/IT, near Utica.

The bulk of the money is for routine maintenance that will be largely reimburse by state aid. Details at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM CANDIDATE FORUM: The League of Women Voters will host a “Meet Your Candidates Night” for unopposed Village Board candidates 7-9 p.m. Monday, March 10, at 22 Main.

SPRING FORWARD: Daylight Savings Time arrives Sunday, March 9; turn your clocks forward one hour.

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The Clark Sports Center’s Doug McCoy drives northeast from Springfield Center on Route 26A toward Route 20, halfway through the 26-mile route of what will be the county’s first marathon.

County’s First Marathon Due This Summer

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ike beverage tours, farmers markets and museums, Cooperstown has an abundance of 5K and 10K races. “We host eight runs

26-Miler Aims To Help HoF Celebrate 75th and officiate at least eight more,” said Doug McCoy, Clark Sports Center events coordinator.

Add a marathon. Otsego County’s first marathon, too, a tribute to the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary.

“It’s about time!” said McCoy. “There are events in Syracuse and Albany, but nothing too local.”

The county’s first 26.2mile run, scheduled for Saturday, June 14, will start at the sports center, pass The Otesaga, The Farmers’ Mu-

seum and The Fenimore Art Museum, then up through Springfield and back on East Lake Road. “You’ll have the lake on your right the whole time,” McCoy said. “It’ll be a good way to bring people here who might not have been to Cooperstown before.”

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That may change.

And to get the conversation going, the trustees’ Economic Development & Sustainability Committee Please See FALK, A7

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2 Cooperstown Gymnasts Due In NY Tourney

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014 SWEET SMILE AT SUGARING OFF The sweet smile on the face of Cooperstown’s Cameron Jones, 5, reflects a satisfied customer at The Farmer’s Museum’s first Sugaring Off Sunday on March 2.

The pancake breakfast, plus oldfashioned maple syrup making on the grounds and games for kids, continues every Sunday in March.

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rayden, 11, and Declan, 10, White, sons of Dr. Brian and Susan White of Cooperstown, have qualified for the state Gymnastics Championships March 14-16 in Binghamton.

Brayden and Declan compete for Valley Gymnastics, New Hartford, and are members of USA Gymnastics.

ANGERER GRAD: Sarah Angerer of Cooperstown Organizers Mike Otis and Theresa Drerup pick out their bowls for the Empty graduated from SUNY Bowls lunch on Saturday, March 1, at the Christ Episcopal Church Hall. The Morrisville at the December annual fundraiser for the Cooperstown Food Pantry raised $7,000 from 320 commencement. She was on attendees. In back, Anna Lambert, 10, the youngest volunteer, helps her the President’s List for the grandmother, Mary Ann Deitz, and Cheryl Wright keep the bowls orderly. fall semester.

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Films, Hymns Highlights Of Ecumenical Lenten Soup Series COOPERSTOWN

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uring Lent, which began March 5 with Ash Wednesday, four Cooperstown churches will unite to present “The Wondrous Cross,” programs each Wednesday on The Cross in arts, cinema, music

and theology. Beginning with 5:30 with soup suppers, the programs are: • March 12, “Images of the Cross on Film,” First Presbyterian Church.

• March 19, “Theology of the Cross,” Christ Episcopal Church.

• March 26, “The Cross

in Hymns,” First Baptist Church.

• April 2, “The Cross in Art and Architecture,” Cooperstown Methodist Church.

The performance of a radio play, “The Cross in Drama,” will end the cycle April 9 at Christ Church.

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ON DEAN’S LIST: Laura Harmon of Milford is on the President’s List at SUNY Morrisville for the fall semester.

BU HONOREE: Caley S. Sky-Shrewsberry of Cooperstown is on Boston University’s Dean’s List for the fall semester.

WILCOX CITED: Abby Wilcox of Fly Creek is on the Dean’s List at Genesee Community College in Batavia for the fall semester.

VALTON CITED: Sarah Valtin of Milford is on the Dean’s List at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire for the fall semester.

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More than 1,000 people attended the show and raised $300 for the Cooperstown

Food Pantry.

The winning quilt – an 18-year effort begun as a block-of-the-month project in 1993-94 – was chosen from among 100 full-size quilts, wall hangings and baby quilts in the show.

Erin Cullings of Cooperstown won the raffle, a quilt of flowering containers, each produced by a different club member.

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Years Of ‘Summits’ Have Served City, County Well

t Oneonta’s Sustainability Summit the other day, former mayor Kim Muller was reflecting on her first experience with such, a citywide summit in the late 1990s. “There were nine recommendations,” she said.

“And we did them all.”

The first round ranged from very big – attracting a hotel downtown, what is now the Clarion on what is now Muller Plaza – to the redo of Water Street; remember when, instead of smart brick sidewalks and turnouts, it featured rows of dumpsters? A second Muller summit in the early aughts urged the Bresee’s renovation, today also a reality.

• In February 2012, a city Housing Summit that packed the old Center Street School gym spawned an affiliation with Housing Visions, the Syracuse nonprofit redevelopment firm that repairs rundown properties and puts them back on the tax rolls. Today, Visions is acquiring properties and also planning senior housing in the Silver Creek neighborhood, according to Common Council member Dave Rissberger, who chaired the Housing Task Force

that summit spawned.

The task force has done much more, but Rissberger cited two other initiatives in particular: One, tax incentives that were available statewide – for green buildings, for first-time homebuyers of newly built homes, for converting multiple units back into single-family homes – but hadn’t been adopted by the local Common Council (but now have). And two, a soon-to-be-enacted vacanthome fee (and registry), to encourage owners of empty houses and banks with foreclosed houses to get them filled again.

• An Arts Summit that Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller convened in March 2011 has less to show – herding creative types can be a bit like doing similarly with the cats of the aphorism. But Miller points in particular to the repositioning of the former UCCCA, as one-C CANO, the Community Arts Network of Oneonta.

Instead of ranging the Catskills, CANO is Oneonta-focused, one of the mayor’s priorities. A feuding board has been replaced with an amicable one under the able and energetic Raina D’Amico. And

business leaders that the mindset of a high-tax, over-regulated New York State is passé, being replaced by the nanotechnology boom – 20,000 jobs in UticaMarcy in the next 10 years, with regional spinoffs – and the tax-free Start-Up New York, which SUNY Oneonta is participating in.

• Specific ideas have come out of all these summits. More important, leaders are encouraged they are not alone in caring about critical issues. And would-be leadThe Freeman’s Journal ers – who meet other would-be Attendance by Adrian and leaders at these gatherings – are Antoinette Kuzminski, Fly inspired to step up.

Creek, at the Sustainability “Everybody knew there was Summit Saturday, March 1, at SUNY Oneonta, undera problem,” Rissberger recalled scores the countywide reach of the Housing Summit. “But it of the issue. helped flesh out what the problems word is circulating that funds have were and what we wanted to do been identified to fix up the Wilber about it.” Some 150 folks showed up (similar to the number at the Mansion headquarters, which has Sustainability Summit). “When I gotten a bit dog-eared. saw the turnout,” said Rissberger, The benefits of state Sen. Jim Seward’s two Economic Develop- who had just finished chairing the Charter Commission, “I was ment Summits, the first in March surprised, but thrilled.”

2012 at The Otesaga, the second The point is, summits – while last Nov. 14 at Foothills, have they are rare locally outside been heralded frequently in this Oneonta, and should be attempted space. But they probably are the in Cooperstown, at the county foremost case in point, educating

level, everywhere, really – are working in and for Otsego County.

In part, because people care. In part, because brainy, educated, committed people care. In part, because of an energized leadership. Miller is the poster child, of course. SUNY President Nancy Kleniewski has attended all summits since her arrival in 2008.

Adrian and Antoinette Kuzminski, originators of Sustainable Otsego, were at the most recent, sending an important message: Sustainability is an issue (one of many) that calls for countywide solidarity. From the other end of the spectrum, Citizen Voices’ cochairs, Bob Harlem and Tom Armao, among other CV adherents.

Significantly, county board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, was there, as were county reps Craig Gelbsman, Janet Hurley Quackenbush and Beth Rosenthal. And county Planning Director Karen Sullivan and Senior Planner Psalm Wycoff. Also, Cooperstown Village Trustees Lou Allstadt and Jim Dean.

The Three Musketeers were right: United we can stand, all 61,709 of us. Divided? Well, we limp along.

LOU ALLSTADT OTHER VOICES

It’s Time For Exxon Mobil To Shift From Oil, Gas To Alternative Fuels Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Lou Allstadt, retired Mobil executive vice president, was prompted to write ExxonMobil Chairman, President and CEO Rex Tillerson after reading he was objecting to a fracking tower near his Texas home.

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ear Rex, We have never met, but I worked for your company for six months immediately after the ExxonMobil merger, the

implementation of which I coordinated from the Mobil side. That was after 30 years with Mobil Oil, where just prior to the merger I had been an executive vice president and operating officer for Exploration & Producing in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

I now live in Upstate New York. For the past five years, I have been actively trying to keep your company and the rest of the industry from fracking here.

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I understand from several press articles that you have fracking issues of your own, with a fracking water tower and truck traffic possibly detracting from your view and

the value of your home.

In response to the prospect of fracking ruining our communities, many New York towns have passed zoning laws that prohibit heavy industry, including any activities associated with drilling for oil and gas.

Those laws, along with very little prospect for economic gas production in New York, mean that we probably will not have to look at fracking water towers, let alone live next to fracking well pads.

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I say probably, because your industry is still fighting those zoning laws in the courts.

Ironically, your reasoning at the Bartonville, Texas, town council meet-

ings is virtually identical to the reasoning that I and many other citizens used to convince our local town councils to pass laws that prohibit the very problem you have encountered, plus all of the other infrastructure and waste disposal issues associated with fracking.

No one should have to live near well pads, compression stations, incessant heavy truck traffic, or fracking water towers, nor Please See ALLSTADT, A6

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lower contribution limits, elimination of loopholes, robust disclosure and a small donor match public financing system of elections, all of which were recommended by the Moreland Commission.

The inclusion of the campaign finance reform in the budget presents an opportunity to get the reforms we so desperately need. The legislature and governor must not let this opportunity pass.

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To the Editor: Governor Cuomo’s 201415 budget proposal includes important steps in the direction of campaign finance reform and The League of Women Voters calls upon the legislature and governor to make comprehensive reform a reality with the passage of this budget.

Our current campaign finance system erodes public trust and negatively effects democratic engagement.

New York needs robust and independent enforcement of campaign finance laws,

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Surely You Jest. Now, What’s The Real Plan?

To the Editor: I got a big laugh from the headline in your Feb. 20 paper in which you stated that all the trees on Main Street are to be cut down. I realize we have had a February thaw of late, but it really is too early to be playing April Fools jokes on us. I’m glad this story was all in jest, right?

I loved your facetiousness in stating that the Village Board’s Streets & Building Committee had decided that with this June’s Baseball Hall of Fame 75th Anniversary and the expected oversized crowds for this year’s Induction weekend, this would be a good time to denude Main Street and tear up the sidewalks for thousands of visitors to “enjoy.”

Timing is everything, as they say.

Oh... and the Boston Pops concert in August! Of course the Committee would like to make a good impression on the thousands of fans coming during this busiest time of the summer season. And

of course there are the usual seasonal visitors here for the Glimmerglass Festival, and presentations at Fenimore Art Museum and the Famers’ Museum. I applaud your sense of humor.

Help Handicapped In Sidewalk Redo To the Editor: Being a handicapped person, I feel that now that the village is redoing sidewalks on Main Street, the accessibility to the shops and restaurants should be taken into consideration as well. Very few are easily accessible for people who are disabled.

Most shop and building owners have not complied with the federal mandate that all should be easily entered by people in wheelchairs, as well as those using canes and crutches.

Now that the major construction and tree planting will be taking place, ramps and low steeps should be built for use by handicapped visitors as well as those living in the village.

BOB LETTIS Cooperstown

I’m so happy you placed this bogus news story on the front page where we could all get a good chuckle.

This winter has been so brutal; we need your dry sense of humor to get us to better days this spring.

Soon “Tree City, USA” will be able to celebrate Arbor Day by memorializing our village fathers, who took such great pains to beautify Main Street and make Cooperstown “The Perfect Village” by planting our beautiful trees.

Thank you so much for this piece of puffery. We are so thankful that our “Village Fathers” won’t ever consider such a bizarre plan. This was a great parody of where some village leaders can go wrong.

PETER CLARK Pierstown

Getting Names Right Important To HoF’s Bill Guilfoile To the Editor: Re: Article on 43rd president, “He Bought Texas Ranger Hat, Soon After Bought Team Itself,” in the Feb. 13-14 edition.

You’re probably scratching your head and wondering what you did to be receiving a thank-you card.

Hopefully, it’s what I am intending that you do for

the hordes of Bill Guilfoile fans out there in Cooperstownland and beyond our boundaries.

Mr. Guilfoile was the past P.R. director, then associate director, and lastly vice president of the Baseball Hall of Fame. I worked with him for many years in the P.R. department, and in the Education Department.

Mr. Guilfoile did his job(s) in a superior manner and researching the spelling of people’s names when we referenced someone was extremely important to him.

I hope it is for you also.

Please print an apology and correction regarding his name.

PAT LAFOND Cherry Valley

p.s. A loyal reader but, more importantly, a friend and admirer of Bill Guilfoile.

Editor’s Note: Regrettably, we did misspell Bill Guilfoile’s name as “Guilfoyle” in the AllOTSEGO.life feature story. Thanks, Pat, for the heads-up.

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Editorial Card – S.R. Brown, the late Editor of the Saratoga Patriot, an eccentric and versatile being, yet firm and persevering in his purposes, when powerful incentives stimulate to exertion, respectfully informs the American people, from St. Croix to Sabine, from the Atlantic to the wilds of Louisiana, that, life, health and contingencies permitting, he will on Monday, the 28th of February, instant, issue from the press of Mssrs.E. and F. Hosford, State Street, Albany, the first number of a weekly paper, to be intitled “Geographical & Military Museum. The objects, nature and conditions of the intended publication will then be made known. Editors of newspapers who may wish to exchange, will confer an obligation by inserting this notice in their gazettes. Not a single subscriber is obtained – a few, however, are expected. Don’t laugh, Gentlemen.

March 5, 1814

Double tragedy struck the home of a Toddsville family on Monday morning. Mrs. Priscilla Wright, a 44-year-old hospital nurses’ aide employed at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, and a mother of three, is believed to have shot to death her 19-year-old son Gordon and then taken her own life with the same .244 rifle. The double shooting took place in a second floor bedroom in the Wright home in Toddsville. Mrs. Wright’s husband Reginald had departed on a business trip to Brooklyn, and their youngest son Mark, age 16, had gone to school in Cooperstown.

March 11, 1964

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175 YEARS AGO

Action is necessary, spirited action, on the part of all those opposed to any and all of the projects to divide the County (Otsego County). Some among many reasons which go to oppose a division are that in small counties, the burden of taxation is heavier than in large; and that proximity to the county courts is calculated to increase litigation.

Remonstrances, we understand, are in circulation, or about to be, which all are requested to sign who are opposed to a division.

March 4, 1839

150 YEARS AGO

Summary of News – A new telegraph line has been established between this place and Herkimer. It is already completed to Springfield Centre, and the wires will be extended to Cooperstown as soon as the frost is out of the ground. For this new enterprise we are mainly indebted to certain go-ahead gentlemen at Richfield Springs.

Income Tax – Persons who have an income above $600 per annum, should make out a statement of last year’s receipts, and be prepared for the call made by the Assessor.

March 4, 1864

125 YEARS AGO

Japanese – That was a pleasant entertainment which was afforded a few friends by Mr. and Mrs. Heber White on Saturday evening last, when, by kind permission of “His Serene Highness, the Mikado,” a dozen or more of our village lads and lasses, arrayed in the costumes of their almond-eyed cousins, executed the coquettish “Fan Drill,”

March 8, 1939 followed by a Shadow Dance and ending with a Sleigh Ride Symphony; altogether a dainty feast for eye and ear. Much credit is due to the ladies interested in the affair, for the taste and ingenuity displayed in the devising of the varied costumes and decoration, and especially to Mrs. Heath for the skillful drilling necessary for its success. Could it not be repeated in the spacious parlors of one of the village hotels, for the benefit of the Orphanage?

March 8, 1889

100 YEARS AGO

Hot Basketball –There was a lively and intensely interesting basketball contest at Friday night’s meet between the Leatherstockings and Fort Plain Husky Athletes. No grass was permitted to sprout under the feet of either team, strenuous endeavor being the constant and very necessary conviction of every man of the contestants. The first division of the game was well in favor of the visitors, the score showing 19 to 14. In the closing half the home lads got into their stride, and overhauled the visitors after a determined struggle, tying the score when within a few minutes of the time whistle. At this point Withey threw for the basket and made it, but was roughly fouled at the same time by Waters, gaining thereby two points for the basket and one point penalized for fouling, with the privilege of free throw for the goal. The game closed with the score of 34 to 31 in favor of the Leatherstockings.

March 4, 1914

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Graham Jones of Boy Scout Troop 7 in Fly Creek, and Bob Cook, president of the Cook Foundation, recently discussed plans for a nature trail to be constructed this spring on Brookwood Point, part of the Brookwood Estate on Otsego Lake just north of Cooperstown. Jones is planning and organizing the project as part of his Eagle Scout Award.

Brookwood was donated to a nonprofit foundation in 1985.

The grounds, formal gardens, and garden house have been open to the public on a limited basis for the past three years.

March 8, 1989

10 YEARS AGO

Bassett Healthcare has established the Mithoefer Center for Rural Surgery to improve general surgery training and patient health in rural communities in the U.S. and abroad.

In December of 2003, the Robert Keeler Foundation of Cincinnati committed $1 million over five years in memory of Dr. James Mithoefer, a general surgeon who practiced at Bassett in the 1950s and 1960s. Educated at Harvard Medical School, Mithoefer (1914-1963) was an experienced and skilled surgeon, an outstanding clinician and a stimulating teacher. Starting his career at Bassett in 1950 as a general surgeon, Mithoefer developed an Orthopedic and Plastic service, established a Tumor Registry, and was devoted to teaching and research investigation. At the peak of his career, Mithoefer died in 1963 in a tragic accident. The Center for Rural Surgery will address the shortage of general surgeons practicing in rural communities. Nationwide, just 10 percent of the practicing general surgeons serve 24 percent of the U.S. population who reside in rural areas. Rural areas also lack specialists and general surgeons are called upon to perform many different types of surgery.

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Allstadt Urges Exxon Mobil President: Invest In Alternatives Energy Please See ALLSTADT, A6 should they have their water or air contaminated. You and I love the places where we live, but in the end, if they are ruined by fracking or frack water tanks, we can afford to pack up and go someplace else. However, many people can’t afford to move away when they can no longer drink the water or breathe the air because they are too close to one of your well pads or compressor stations.

My efforts to prevent fracking started over water — not the prospect of having to see a water tank

from my home, but rather regulations that would allow gas wells near our sources of drinking water, in addition to well pads next to our homes, schools, hospitals and nursing homes.

These issues are legitimate, but they are localized. I am now much more concerned with the greenhouse gas impacts of fossil fuels in general, and particularly the huge impact of methane emissions from natural gas production and transportation. These are global problems that local zoning cannot protect against. Only a major shift

toward renewable energy sources can begin to mitigate their catastrophic climate impacts.

Before closing, I should explain why I have referred to ExxonMobil as “your company.” For several years after retiring I thought of ExxonMobil as “my company.”

I thought that the company’s rigor and discipline in investing in sound projects was as good as it gets, and ExxonMobil was my largest single investment. I no longer own any shares of ExxonMobil or any other fossil fuel company. I would prefer to be an

First Glimmerglass Marathon This Summer RACE/From A1 The course was designed, in part, by McCoy’s cyclist friends, who had pointed out the trip around Glimmerglass is just about marathon length. Newly appointed to his event coordinator position, he began mapping and organizing the full race.

But it won’t just be a pleasant jog. “When you get to Springfield, you’ve got quite a long hill,” he said. “There’s a lot of elevation.”

But for those who aren’t quite ready to take on 26 miles, there’s a half-marathon, 13.8 miles, starting at the Springfield Community Center. “They’ll start just before the other runners pass by, so they can all finish at the same time,” said McCoy. The marathon isn’t the only new event McCoy is bringing to The Clark Sports

of a carbon fee would be one way to move the company into the 21st century. Recognizing that methane emissions disqualify natural gas as a “bridge fuel” is another.

Good luck with that fracking water tank. I hope you don’t have to move, and also that you will help a lot of other people stay in the homes they love.

Regards, LOU ALLSTADT Cooperstown

SNOMMEGANG BRINGS 1,000 TO DOWNTOWN ONEONTA After 1,000 people attended the first Snommegang Saturday, March 1, on Main Street, Oneonta, Brewery Ommegang said it will repeat the beer fest in 2015. Attendees, including DJ Chuck D’Imperio, sampled beers from 20 breweries nationwide.

Center. He is also designing a course for a satellite race of the 9/11 Memorial 5K in New York City, held Saturday, April 27.

“My friend Michael Garrett, a state trooper, went down to volunteer a few days after September 11,” he said. “He asked if I’d heard about this race, and I started looking into it – they ask runners globally to start at the same time as their race does, but so we’re going to be the first official satellite.”

He’s hoping to design the course so that runners pass by the Cooperstown Fire and Police stations.

McCoy’s ultimate goal is to make the marathon an annual event. “Marathoners need a race too,” he said. “They train to do this, so we want to get the runners that would normally go someplace else and keep them local!”

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Village Trustees Revisit Commercial Zone

FALK/From A1 is convening a “town-hall style” meeting at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 19, at the county courthouse to see what people think.

“It’s a tricky area,” said Trustee Cindy Falk, the committee chair. “There are people who work there.

There are people who live there.”

The village’s commercial district – distinct from the business district, which runs along Main Street from the Hall of Fame to Bruce Hall’s – generally follows the former railroad track, including Railroad Avenue, part of Grove, and pieces of Main, Leatherstocking, Chestnut, Walnut and Linden.

Since there are homes in all parts of the commercial district, the special permit was required to try to protect homeowners from obtrusive uses, Falk said. But the extra hurdle to development may have limited commercial activity

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Her committee plans to recommend changes in the zoning code to the Village Board, but wants to get a sense of the community before doing so. “It’s a change in philosophy,” said Falk, “but it’s a pretty significant change.”

In its deliberations, the committee has come to envision small shops, restaurants and even hotels as uses that might simply be permitted. More intenses uses – for instance, apartments, offices, gas stations or even light manufacturing in such buildings as the former Where It All Began

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A press release announcing the meeting said Falk’s committee “is charged with finding ways to advance economic development that meet the needs of present residents without compromising the character of our village for future generations.

Committee recommendations that have been adopted so far include tax incentives to encourage the redevelopment of upper floors in the business district, and the recently adopted law allowing sidewalk cafes.

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Mayor Dick Miller, who co-hosted the morning with Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood, told the gathering, “It’s gratifying to see people here under 40 years old – it’s your game, not ours.” He was encouraged by the turnout, and also that “so much of what you’ve talking about it already being done – not everything, but parts,” so the region’s headed in the right direction.

Likewise encouraged, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who chairs the county Board of Representatives, said, “The time to do things is now.

You know how I am: We need to move.”

Attendees, gathering at 8 a.m. in the Morris center’s Le Cafe, split into seven breakout sessions to brainstorm action steps.

After Murphy’s speech at mid-morning, the sessions reconvened to prioritize suggestions – each member was given five stickers to “vote” on their individual prioritized. At morning end – in addition to a buffet lunch featuring local cheese, yogurt, hydroponic lettuce – a spokesman for each breakout group reported back to the full gathering.

At day’s end, attendees were asked to sign up to help pursue the identified goals, and 32 did, according to Mark Davies, who chairs the city’s Sustainable Task Force. The lion’s share, 11, signed on for economic development, but interest was also shown in energy, land use, agriculture & forestry, and transportation.

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Noting that the city’s effort is named “Oneonta 2030,” Masterjohn said the task force, which will meet in the next week to decide on next steps, is looking as “low-hanging fruit we can put in a state grant application in the next year” along with longer-term inititiaves.

The idea of composting – diverting organic waste to create fertile soil; a pilot project is under way at the county’s Meadows Complex – seems “very doable,” she said. “Lots of excitement” about how value-added farm products can assist economic development makes that at natural, too, she said.

But while the summit was a city initiative, northern Otsego County was well-represented by,

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There are 50 TW of wind energy available. “Can’t we capture 3 TW?” he asked.

Murphy’s answers, many reflected in Vision CNY, a state-funded, Syracusebased sustainability plan, were as simple as a son and mom processing used cooking oil from local diners to run their 30-year-old diesel Mercedes. Inspired, ESF began processing cooking oil from its dining halls to heat its buildings.

What about building a local charging station for electric cars? What about a light rail system? What about CHP (combined heat & power), using renewable fuels to create heat and electricity at the same time, a process that can raise power-plant efficiency from 35 to 80 percent? What about biomimicry, applying nature’s solutions to man’s problems? (Look it up, but Murphy touted its promise.)

“These are all things that would define Central New York” – and, by extension, Greater Oneonta and Otsego County – “as a unique place,” he said. “It will improve the quality of life dramatically.”

Murphy’s speech was bookmarked by a morning of structured discussion about how to make this area more sustainable, organized by the city’s Sustainability Task Force. “I was so happy that so many people showed up,” said Hannah Masterjohn, the organizer and a task force member, “the

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