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Brush & Palette Abandons Arts, Craft Fest 50-Year Tradition Follows PumpkinFest

By LIBBY CUDMORE

Leatherstocking Brush & Palette Club’s 49th annual Labor Day Arts & Crafts Show, to start arranging vendors, she was surprised to discover there will be no show.

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get the minutes,” she admitted.

At the November meeting she missed, the 20-member group had voted to cancel the half-century tradition. “It wasn’t a unanimous decision,” said VanWormer. “But

majority rules.”

The number of vendors has been declining, and attendance was down “significantly,” “The vendors weren’t making enough money,” said Janet Teschke, outgoing president. “Last year, some vendors Please See FESTIVAL, A7

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Mike Reynolds of Fly Creek hangs the “open” flag at his Woodland Cycles, which opened Thursday, March 6, at 28 South Main St. (Route 28), Milford.

Mike, a CCS grad with a SUNY New Paltz archaeology degree, began working in local bike shops at 14.

NY Ed Chief’s Visit Makes CCS History

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he polls will be open noon-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, at the fire hall for voting on three unopposed candidates.

Mayor Jeff Katz and Trustees Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Lou Allstadt are running for second terms.

• Wednesday, March 12, the polls are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. at CCS for voters to decide the fate of a $5.9 million bond issue.

• Also Wednesday, at 8 a.m., Sandy Mathes, “single point of contact” for county economic development, addresses Citizen Voices at the Carriage House, Southside Oneonta.

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Exercises Will Echo Ukraine-Like Model

By JIM KEVLIN

$500 AVAILABLE: CCS seniors graduating this June are invited to apply for the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership $500 Scholarship. Deadline is April 15. For applications, call Rich McCaffery at 547-5256 or check www. cooperstownchamber.org

MAKE A BOOK: Youngsters will have a chance to make their own books under artist Karla Andela’s guidance at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 22, at the Village Library of Cooperstown.

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Villagers Vote Tuesday, 3/18

SEED EXPERT: Barbara Melera, president/CEO of the D. Landreth Seed Co., New Freedom, Pa., the oldest seed house in America, will keynote the ninth annual Earth Day Festival at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 12, at Milford Central School.

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State Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr., participates in Kristin Butler’s elementary school math class Wednesday, March 5, where Common Core concepts have been implemented.

King Converts ‘Improper Fractions’ To ‘Mixed Numbers’

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here was a big new pupil in Kristin Butler’s CCS Elementary School math class Wednesday, March 5, but he sure knew his fractions.

Mrs. Butler’s pupils each had an orange flash card bearing an “improper fraction,” and one by one they converted them into “mixed numbers,” calling out their answers, mostly correct. When it came to the new kid, his 6-foot-3 frame folded into a thirdgrader’s chair, sure enough, he got his right too.

As the man who’s rolled out the

Common Core Curriculum – the CCS class was an example of the innovation in progress – the acumen of John B. King, Jr., New York State’s education commissioner, must have been reassuring to Superintendent of Schools C.J. Hebert and ONC BOCES Superintendent Nick Savin, who escorted the VIP guest during the Please See KING, A7

ounty Treasurer Dan Crowell departed Tuesday, March 11, for two weeks of military training in Louisiana in a situation that parallels Ukraine’s.

Crowell left for the JRTC – the Joint Regional TrainCrowell ing Center – at Fort Polk, for two weeks of “simulated battles in support of a caucus-based country. It’s not wildly different from the current scenario,” he said.

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Mayor Jeff Katz joins Michelle Waters and Julie Darling at a Red Cross flagraising at Pioneer and Main streets Wednesday, March 5, in honor of National Red Cross Month. In the background, Police Chief Mike Covert does the honors. The flag will fly throughout the month.

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A crane loads one of the 422 sections of the Constitution Pipeline off a truck at the rail yards in Guilderland on Monday, March 10. The pipeline, which has yet to be approved by FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), is due to go to public hearing again Tuesday, April 1, at Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. If approvals are forthcoming, the company, a partnership of Williams, a pipeline company, and Cabot Oil & Gas, anticipates beginning construction in 2015 of a pipeline to transport natural gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to a substation near Schoharie.

Trucks and trains both carry sections of the pipeline; So far, three of the 125 miles of pipeline have arrived, with the rest anticipated by the end of summer, and is currently being stored at the Guilderland rail yards.

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very expert on negotiations will tell you the same thing: Both sides have to get something for an agreement to be reached.

That’s why the Village of Cooperstown’s unilateral insistence that Otsego County Board of Representatives give it $100,000 a year has gone nowhere. The county reps don’t see where they gain anything from giving the money, so Mayor Jeff Katz’s pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

Monday, March 10, at the League of Women Voters forum in Village Hall, the mayor repeated that the issue is one of “equity.”

Granted, only Oneonta, mostly due to Southside’s big boxes, generates more sales tax than the Cooperstown area, and the village gets only one percent of the total, part of the 12 percent distributed to towns and villages under a formula worked out in 1992.

Granted, Cooperstown generated 21.55 percent of total bed-tax revenues in 2011, the first year the Cooperstown numbers were broken out from the Town of Otsego.

But it receives zero percent, nada.

It’s just not fair, Mayor Katz will tell you.

• Katz may have a point. But the reality is that the county board, itself facing daunting financial challenges – even if Otsego Manor can be privatized by year’s end – isn’t inclined to distribute money it doesn’t have to without perceiv-

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Mayor Jeff Katz makes a point during a League of Women Voters’ forum Monday, March 10, for the unopposed candidates in the Tuesday, March 18, village elections. Also running are Trustees Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, left, and Lou Allstadt.

ing a compelling benefit. What’s in it for the county reps?

The one year the county did allocate $100,000 to the village was 2010. That was engineered the fall before with county Rep. Jim Johnson, R-Fly Creek, who was seeking to curry favor in an election year. There’s a motive, self interest, even though that didn’t work out particularly well: Johnson was unseated by Democrat John Kosmer regardless.

Outside the village, you quickly pick up that Cooperstown is perceived as self-absorbed and standoffish, a community with little interest in its neighbors’ woes.

If fairness is the issue, it’s hard to argue, big picture, that Cooperstown hasn’t received more than its fair share, anyhow, even without county help. The beneficence of the Clark family, from Singer Sewing machine partner Edward Clark until today, is the

foundation of village prosperity – The Hall of Fame, Bassett Hospital, the NYSHA museums, The Otesaga. In a cold and uncaring universe, Cooperstown has received more than its share of good fortune.

The fairness argument is a nonstarter.

• Let’s go at it from another angle.

The other week, someone remarked on Morning Edition that NPR’s brand is worth $400 million. How much more must the brand “Cooperstown” be worth?

And, as a geographic name, it can’t be trademarked, (although the Village Board is in the process of trademarking “Doubleday Field”). We can all use it.

And yet, because of the unproductive local dynamic – the village standoffish, the rest of the county resentful – we’ve haven’t capitalized on one of the most valuable brands in the world. “Canton”?

“Springfield”? Who cares? But “Cooperstown”? Pure gold, unmined.

All this came to mind, in part, as the Otsego County IDA begins considering a name change, perhaps something with “Susquehanna” in it, not even considering “Cooperstown.”

Wouldn’t an entrepreneurial baseball fan in the Silicon Valley be intrigued by a Cooperstown Regional Commerce & Technology Park rather than the Upper

Susquehanna whatever, even if it were located at I-88’s Worcester exit?

Similarly, could I ♥ NY have come up with a more humdrum name than “Central New York” to describe our tourism region? Why not “Baseball’s Home” or “New York’s Infield,” something like that?

Cooperstown can be a font of countywide prosperity, and it should be.

• A good first step in beginning to lower the barricades around Castle Cooperstown came at the county’s State of the State Breakfast on Jan. 2, at Foothills, where a Cooperstown mayor spoke (Katz, and splendidly) for the first time.

Trustee Allstadt moderating the Economic Development breakout session at Oneonta’s Sustainability Summit earlier this month was another step in the right direction.

The mayor speaks frequently about the current Village Board’s interest in facing stubborn challenges and resolving them. Here’s one for his next term: Resolve to become truly part of Otsego County. Reach out. Share Cooperstown’s bounty. Be sincere and energetic about it. Be a friend.

There are obstacles, but what better challenge.

If done right, if achieving a common cause and a true partnership can happen, who knows: The village might even get the hundred-thou.

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To the Editor: A scary thing happened last night...

We had a chimney fire. Our woodstove got burning too hot and the creosote in the stovepipe began to burn. Outside it was glowing and burning red at the top of the chimney.

I immediately got everyone out of the house, called 911 and reported the chimney fire. They called the Springfield Fire Department and there were several trucks and loads of firemen on site within 15 minutes.

By the time they arrived the creosote had burned itself out and there really was no issue, but there could have been, and I want to do two things.

1) I want to warn you that if you burn a woodstove this could happen to you too. We clean our chimney out each fall, and yet by this time of year we have once again accumulated a fair amount of creosote in the chimney.

By accidentally allowing the fire to get too hot, that creosote began to burn. We were lucky, I recognized the problem, shut down the wood fire and the conditions did not allow for any fire or flame to ignite any structure. One of the squad members indicated it is actually suggested you clean out creosote once a month.

2) I want to extend a huge THANK YOU to the Springfield Fire Department Squad. They were caring, concerned, professional, and thorough. Even though no fire remained by the time they arrived they climbed up on the roof, inspected the chimney for any flame, removed

existing creosote, inspected the woodstove and chimney inside the house, and used a camera to insure there was no fire burning inside the walls. They got up and out of bed at 11 p.m. to help their neighbors. THANK YOU. Each of you deserves far more than the pat on the back and the hand shake you got last night. What I can offer you is my sincere gratitude for a job well done, and an additional donation to the Fire Department. Our thanks for all you do to keep our community safe, secure and alive. I have witnessed your response to a neighbor in health distress, I have witnessed your response to a neighbor in trouble on the water, and now I have witnessed your response to my own problem - a fire - there is nothing more scary than watching the prospect of your home going up in flames. I am glad you were there for us.

Our sincerest thanks to each of you and may you continue to perform the fine work that you do.

BARB & BILL HARMAN Springfield P.S. We will be making extra donation to The Springfield Fire Department. You don’t think about emergency services until you need them; but when you need them, you want them there doing the excellent work that they do.

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To the Editor: Did I hear right? Say that again!!

They are going to cut the trees down on Main Street in Cooperstown. I can’t believe it.

I never lived in Cooperstown, so I probably don’t have a right to protest. I would love to live there but I can’t afford it. My ancestors lived there before William Cooper came to town. I don’t know how they would feel. I think they would like what’s best for the village. So I’ll just make a suggestion. I know the powers to be always ignore suggestions unless they come up with them.

The Freeman’s Journal Hawkeye descendant Bruce ShipI know several people from other man looks over the family archives states. What they say to me is,“ What at his Town of Columbia home. a beautiful quaint little town.” They enjoyed their visits. Everyone knows is ample time after the tourist season. where Cooperstown, N.Y., is located.

A tree takes time to root and spruce up.

They all know it is on Otsego Lake.

Don’t be in a hurry. Wait until fall.

But, without trees, “IT AIN’T I will finish by saying, you have a QUAINT!!!” beautiful village and to keep it quaint is I drove down Main Street last Friday a great idea. The idea for Main Street is and had lunch at Batters Up. I agree not a bad idea, but the timing is a tersome of the trees could use a little trimrible idea. ming. Some of the larger limbs should BRUCE A. SHIPMAN be lopped off.

Columbia My suggestion is, don’t do the whole street now. Trim what needs to Editor’s Note: Bruce Shipman is a be trimmed, but wait until after tourist direct descendant of David Shipman, season is over. If there is time now to do the model for James Fenimore Cooper’s the job before tourist season, then there Leatherstocking, Natty Bumppo.

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n the upcoming elections for the Village of Cooperstown, the candidates for mayor and two trustee positions are running unopposed. This situation spares voters from listening to and reading a lot of electioneering rhetoric. However, it unfortunately denies voters an opportunity to question the candidates on issues facing the

village and also denies candidates an opportunity to explain the actions they have taken and to state their views and positions on upcoming issues. Although board meetings frequently find us debating the best way to accomplish our goals, the three of us have common views concerning the needs of the village. We think clarifying our positions on some issues might be useful.

Much of our time as trustees is spent trying to deal with the large and aging infrastructure of the village, including: ancient sewer and water pipes under many of our streets, six parks, a National Landmark baseball field, an

historic village hall, a water treatment plant, a sewer plant, a fire hall, and several miles of streets. Maintaining all this requires careful balancing and prioritization to make sure village taxpayers get the most for their money.

For example, state and federal law require us to reduce seepage from our old sewer pipes. We are continuing to consolidate sewer projects, along with replacing old water pipes in several streets in the same area, and then completing the sewer and water line replacements. We then completely resurface those streets and replace curbs Please See TRUSTEES, A6

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, Courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

“Geographic & Military Museum” We have received the first number of a paper published in Albany, by Samuel R. Brown, under this title. We would recommend it to the attention of the public as worthy of patronage. In the meantime, we give our readers his very eccentric Dedication. “To the brave and patriotic, who are willing to expend blood or treasure in defence of the Republic; no matter in what state or on what river residing, or to what party or sect belonging, the Museum is most respectfully dedicated – not with a humble ‘s’il vous plait,’ for patronage, but with full confidence that it will deserve and command it. I shall conduct this paper according to my own notions of propriety. The seductive influences of smiles, frowns, friendship, resentment, gratitude, party-feeling, local attachments and state interest, shall not divert the Museum from its object…the national interest. After this brief explanation, it will be useless for anyone to approach me with a collusive wink of the eye and a whisper.”

March 12, 1814

an earnest preacher, and only 31 years old.

50 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

The body of Francis McRorie of Milford, who had been missing since the blizzard on March 1, was found by Dick Winnie, almost completely covered by snow two and one half miles from his home and some distance from his horse and cutter which he had abandoned during the blizzard.

McRorie had journeyed to Middlefield where he called upon Miss Lucy Pratt at the home of Claire North. Despite the efforts of the North family to induce McRorie to remain overnight, on account of the raging blizzard, he determined to start for Milford at 5 o’clock. The following Saturday, March 7, searchers found McRorie’s horse lying on its back in a drift 40 rods from the road that passes the Dubbin and Bedell farms. Then, 30 rods from the horse, near a rail fence, they found McRorie’s body lying face down with his hands doubled beneath him.

March 11, 1914

75 YEARS AGO

175 YEARS AGO

Panel discussions by three women speakers of the subject “Women In a Modern World” before the Woman’s Club of Cooperstown last week were summed up in the concluding remarks of the first speaker who quoted Millicent Taylor in these words: “Woman’s work, at any time is, to our mind, whatever a woman can do best to fit into her place as an individual in the world..”

March 15, 1939

Otego – At a special town meeting of the Town of Otego, County of Otsego, held at the hotel of O. Baldwin, on the second day of March, 1839, pursuant to public notice, to take into consideration the subject of dividing the County of Otsego, and placing a County seat at Oneonta. A committee of five was appointed to draft and submit resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. Resolved: “That the project now before the Legislature, presented by citizens of the Town of Oneonta for the division of the County of Otsego, is incompatible with the interests of a very large majority of the inhabitants of the territory proposed to be embraced.”

March 11, 1839

25 YEARS AGO

150 YEARS AGO

Suicide – Mr. James Tyler, of the Town of Westford in this county, committed suicide by cutting his throat and then butting his head violently against several trees on the morning of the 3rd inst. He lingered in great pain until the 5th. He was about 60 years of age and leaves a wife and four children; was a farmer in good circumstances. It is believed he was laboring under partial derangement of mind at the time. (Ed. Note: Lead poisoning from well water piping was likely the cause of derangement).

The credit system must sooner or later be abolished in all retail trade. The men who sell for cash and thus incur no risk of bad debts, should sell for less than those who give general and long credits. And, of course, those who always buy for cash, do better than those who get trusted.

March 11, 1864

125 YEARS AGO

A Sad Thing – The Rev. Charles Hudson Smith, a former

March 15, 1889

March 18, 1964 pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown was recently installed as Pastor of a church in Dorchester, Mass., and was to have preached his first sermon on Sunday last.

The last he was seen was the previous afternoon, when a hat containing his name was picked up near the river. The supposition is that in a fit of sudden insanity he drowned himself. He lost an only child in August last, and since then his parents have been seriously ill. Mr. Smith is of light build and a highly nervous temperament, and he has for months been under severe mental strain. He was a very bright man,

The Friends of the Parks have received a folk art style painting by Janet Munro which will be used to raise funds for the new buildings at Three-Mile Point. Mayor Harold Hollis will unveil the painting in a special ceremony at Pioneer Park on Sunday, May 28, at 4 p.m. It will be placed on display at Gallery 53 following its unveiling. “The painting has our local parks as its subject matter. It is such a delightful rendering that we feel it will appeal to many people,” said Jane Patrick, chairman of the friends.

March 15, 1989

10 YEARS AGO

On Friday, March 5, the Cooperstown High School Student Council hosted the third annual Jared Good Memorial Ping-Pong Tournament. The tourney was set up to serve in loving memory of Jared Good – known to many as an avid Ping-Pong player – who lost the battle against cystic fibrosis in the winter of 2000. Participants pay a fee of $1 to compete. All proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in the name of Jared Good. Finn Duesenberry won the boys’ title and Dory Dawson dominated the girls’ division.

March 12, 2004

EnDow nEw YorK’s FuTurE

These are the faces of New York’s future. They are the workers, healers and leaders of tomorrow. But state funding cuts to SUNY could make their futures a lot less secure.

Because of years of state underfunding, SUNY students are paying more for tuition—and they’re getting a lot less for their money. They face crowded classrooms, fewer courses and delayed graduations, all because the state refuses to pay its fair share of the cost for a quality public higher education.

And students fear their studies will leave them buried in debt.

It’s enough to discourage many from achieving their dreams.

United University Professions The union that makes SUNY work President Frederick E. Kowal, Ph.D.

There is a solution. Tell state lawmakers to increase state aid to SUNY. Tell them it’s time to create a public higher education endowment to rebuild academic departments at SUNY and CUNY. The endowment will be used to hire more full-time faculty and professional staff and ensure the quality of a public college education for years to come.

The state must be willing to spend more today for a better tomorrow. Our students deserve nothing less.

Call 1-888-866-2561

Tell lawmakers to establish a Public Higher Education Endowment in this year’s state budget.

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2014

A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL

3 Candidates Appreciate ‘Cooperative Atmosphere’ On Village Board TRUSTEES/From A4 where necessary. While this process creates detours and disruptions for nearby residents, it is by far the most cost-effective way to address these projects. Replacing all the old pipes is an enormous task, and building up enough funds in the reserve accounts takes several years. We completed a major project on Walnut and nearby streets last year. The next major sewer, water, and resurfacing project will probably be in 201516. To extend the life of streets not due for major work, we have developed a planned maintenance program to coat several streets each year with oil and stone.

Another area showing its age is Main Street, where the sidewalks are deteriorating rapidly and tree roots have heaved the sidewalks to the point that the Village crew has had to grind them down repeatedly to minimize tripping hazards.

Also, some trees have died and others have outlasted their life expectancy. The village has managed to obtain two grants to cover the major portion of the cost of upgrading the Main Street sidewalks,

replacing the trees, and restoring the street lamps and converting them to cost-saving LED bulbs.

The first construction phase of that project will start as soon as the weather breaks. Several people have questioned the timing of the project and the need to remove the trees. No time is perfect for going through the disruption of a project like this or seeing old trees come down.

This year we expect a large crowd for the Hall of Fame induction. However, a few years from now we will probably see a much larger influx of visitors for some really huge inductions. We have ensured that our contract requires the Main Street work to stop during the peak summer tourist season. Our target is to get all sidewalk work completed on the north side of Main Street prior to Memorial Day, with any uncompleted area cleaned up and accessible during the summer.

The new trees will be planted as soon as the landscape subcontractor determines that they will have the best chance of survival, even if that means planting during the

tourist season. The sidewalk work will start up again in the fall.

A number of less visible aspects are involved in keeping the village going. For instance, last year we redesigned the employee appraisal system to help make clear to employees that part of their job responsibility is to help hold down village expenses. While a direct link between such initiatives and subsequent benefits might be difficult to prove, we have seen a reduction in the amount of salt used, and the village crew has plugged up interior vents in the Village Hall to reduce the amount of heat escaping.

Another example of behindthe-scenes work is the budgeting process currently under way. We see several opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining services, through outsourcing some activities, by streamlining some operations and possibly by sharing equipment with other municipalities. Some of these ideas are in the early stages of discussion; however, one plan that we hope to implement this year is the outsourcing of trolley operations.

We spent much of last year investigating how to replace the village’s aging DOS-based accounting system, in terms of what software is most appropriate, who would install the new system and how we can assure backup and a smooth transition between the old and new systems. We are now ready to move ahead and will be requesting bids on the new system.

In addition to streamlining the accounting process, the new system will make analyzing expenses much easier and will assist in planning beyond the next budget year.

The Village Board has frequently discussed the need to improve communications with residents. We hope you have seen increased information in our local papers about upcoming projects and explanations of our infrastructure challenges. We will try to do more – in the media, online, and at Village board meetings. The board welcomes comments at public meetings and will try to respond to comments and questions raised from the floor while also ensuring that our board meetings run

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MLS#91862 Springfield $279,000 Very private, authentic 1850s farmhouse features kitchen w/butcher-block counters, loft overlooking DR, exposed beams, skylights, wood floors, and large deck in the back near the babbling brook. Home was stripped to the beams, rewired, spray-foamed, and renovated in a contemporary Adirondack style. Barn would be great as a play room or workshop. 9 miles to downtown Cooperstown, 5 miles to Glimmerglass State Park. Residency includes access to Springfield boat launch and docks.

29 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY

607-547-4045

Patricia Bensen-Ashley – Licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner

smoothly.

The inequitable distribution of both the sales tax (one percent to the village) and the county bed tax (zero percent) has been a sore subject for many years. With our large village infrastructure and small tax base we must continue advocating for our fair share of revenue.

Recently we have been extraordinarily successful at seeking out and obtaining grant money to assist with infrastructure projects.

We intend to build on this success and expand our efforts to increase funding sources.

A major factor in our seeking reelection is the common focus of the entire Board of Trustees on finding sensible, cost-effective solutions to the many challenges the Village faces and being an advocate for Cooperstown throughout our region. We value the commitment of our fellow board members and the cooperative atmosphere of our board and committee meetings. Even though the three of us are running unopposed, we believe support of the voters is vital to our continued efforts. We hope you will show your support by voting

Brian Guzy 607-547-7161 John LaDuke 607-547-8551 Madeline K. Woerner 607-434-3697

To the Editor: As we all know, Tuesday, March 18, is our village election, and I would urge everyone to go to the polls and support our friends and neighbors who have stepped up to offer help.

Jeff Katz and Ellen Tillapaugh have, for years, given unselfishly to our community. They are both involved in many of our local clubs, charity events, fundraisers, cultural and historical preservation projects, environmental causes, community events, etc.

They are smart, dedicated and motivated, and they have been working hard, for free, to help us be better prepared for our future. They have done a remarkable job of planning, budgeting, cooperating, and actually accomplishing.

The list of their achievements is long and impressive: Increased outside revenue (less taxes for us), millions in grant money (good for us), no more poisonous pesticide runoff from Doubleday Field (good for us and our children), no more poisonous herbicide spraying by our lake (good for us all), better streets and infrastructure (good for us).

John J. Mitchell, Realtor

Residential • Commercial • Land • Farm Over 35 years of local experience!

MLS #92120 Offered at $175,000 Just south of Garrattsville, this well-built older home with many updates is situated on approximately 7½ beautiful acres with a stream. 4 BRs, 2 baths, LR, DR, family room, kitchen with extra storage room and a summer kitchen. Deck, porch, plenty of outside storage, outbuilding.

Village Victorian—Brand new to the market, this move-in condition home offers just over 2,000 sq ft of living space in a walk-to-everything location.

Lovingly restored, property offers pretty entry hall w/open staircase, stained glass window, parlor w/French doors, formal DR w/pass-through original cupboards to nicely renovated kitchen, plus library/den and half bath. Chestnut woodwork, hardwood floors and true Victorian features throughout.

Upstairs are 3 nicely sized BRs, hallway nook, full bath. Walk-up attic is ready to convert to more living space. All systems replaced. The basement houses heating system, etc. and laundry area w/standing sink. All appliances are new. Charming wrap-around front porch, 2 sweet porches on either side of kitchen. Carriage house w/parking, electric, water—possible studio space.

We are delighted to be offering this very nice home for sale.

Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty $279,000

Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com For APPoiNtmeNt: Patricia Bensen-Ashley, Broker, 607-437-1149

Jack Foster, Sales Agent, 607-547-5304 • Donna Skinner, Associate Broker, 607-547-8288 Christopher Patterson, Sales Agent, 518-774-8175

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The list goes on and on.

(I have to wonder where those who chose to not endorse our progress would have us go? For us, backwards is not an option.)

Lou Allstadt is also running for a Village Board seat, and I believe we should support him as well. He has shared his wealth of experience with us, and has been very helpful in analyzing data and making sensible recommendations for moving forward. Also good for us.

In my view, that is what this election is about.

Moving forward. We have come a long way in the last several years. From dysfunction and division to functionality through unity, sensibility and mutual respect. From political posturing to negotiating policy.

We are on the right path for staying on the map as a place where others want to visit, but more important, as a place where we locals can live, raise our families, and retire in a rural yet stable community.

Let’s give our volunteers a pat on the back. Let’s let them know that even if we don’t always agree with them, we always appreciate them. Let’s acknowledge that no one stepped up and said “I can do better than them!” Let’s exercise our constitutional right to vote, and say “I voted for you, now you have to at least listen to me.” I’m sure they would appreciate your input at least as much as they would appreciate your vote.

Remember: If you don’t vote, you can’t complain.

MARK diLorenzo Chairman, Village Democratic Committee Cooperstown EXHIBIT FUNDING: The Scriven Foundation’s $50,000 grant underwrote this year’s Winslow Homer exhibit at The Fenimore Art Museum, but was not used for conservation of the Arkell Museum paintings.

Home Of The Week Untouched Greek Revival landmark was built about 1850.

Unique home on 6+ acres features 4 BRs, 2 baths, large LR and DR, kitchen, den, wrap-around porch and 2-bay attached garage.

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MLS #92873 Offered at $135,000

John J. Mitchell, Realtor Cooperstown Realty 265 County Highway 59 Cooperstown, NY 13326 Primary: 843-457-3968 Secondary: 607-435-4093

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2014

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

Artist’s Rendering Show Downtown Before, After Sidewalk Construction

Brush & Palette Club Abandons Art Festival Half-Century Tradition

FESTIVAL/From A1 didn’t sell a single thing.”

At its peak in 2007, 150 artists showed up for the two-day festival in the field to the east of the Clark Sports Center. Last year, that was down to 57 vendors, and sales were so weak they closed the show an hour early on Sunday.

“It’s the economy,” lamented VanWormer.

“Vendors had to cut down on shows. The fees, the gas, the lodging – they had to decide which shows they were able to do.”

This is the second With some concern being expressed about the $2 million sidewalk project, due to begin in the next Cooperstown fall festival few weeks on the north side of Cooperstown’s Main Street, Village Trustee Cindy Falk, who chairs the to be shuttered this year; Streets & Buildings Committee, released these before and after renderings. Above left is the sidein early February, the walk in front of Key Bank as it is today; at right is the prospective view, including the rain gardens.

Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce confirmed Pumpkinfest, with its giant pumpkin judging and pumpkin regatta, would be ended,

replaced with a “Fall into Cooperstown” weekend still being developed “I just found out myself,” said Pat Szarpa, chamber executive director. “If someone wants to talk to us about taking it over, I’d be willing to discuss it with the board.”

And as of now, no one has stepped forward to take over the show. “It’s a lot of work,” said Teschke. “It took too much time and energy from club members.”

The club plans to remain active, including building a website, increasing their class and day-trip offerings, and planning the annual Fine Arts Show on Wednesday, June 4.

“It’s a tough time,” said Teschke. “But hopefully, it will get better.”

Army Calls Up Dan Crowell For Two Weeks Of Exercises

Above is the west side of the Key Bank building; at right, an artist’s rendering of the view after the sidewalk repair is complete. One of the issues raising concern is the need to remove all existing trees to implement the plan.

State Ed Commissioner – First, Perhaps – Visits CCS KING/From A1 during the half-day he spent here.

“He’s the smartest guy in the room” said state Education Department spokesman Tom Dunn, who reports King, appointed the state’s top educator in May 2011 by Governor Cuomo, visited 75 schools across the state last year. “He wants to know what’s going on,” Dunn said.

That King visited was impressive enough. The visit may also have been historic.

No one could be found locally who remembers a state education commissioner ever visiting Cooperstown schools. “I think it’s very flattering,” said Paul Lambert, a longtime observer of the local school scene who retired as CCS superintendent of schools in the 1980s.

Pausing from his students, King said, “I’ve heard very positive things about Cooperstown Central,” particularly in rolling out the Common Core, “and I wanted to see it first-hand.”

Mrs. Butler’s class exemplified some of the core’s key approaches, he said. First, through use of the orange cards, all pupils in the class participated.

Then, the lesson was applied to solving a real-life problem, he said.

What happened in that classroom, said Hebert, “gets to the heart of Common Core instruction.”

Traditionally, students were taught “one method of problem solving.” Different students learn differently, he continued, and the new approach uses more of the senses – sight, hearing, touch – “engaging both sides of the brain” to get the message across.

Hebert knew of King’s school visits, and volunteered to host him here.

As it happened, he was attending a conference of the New York State Council of School Superintendents Monday, March 3, where Common Core was under discussion, when he got the word: King’s people had called to say he planned to visit two days later.

“He was looking for

examples of school districts with success in implementing the Common Core,” said Hebert, who, in the midst of statewide criticism of the new approach, has been enthusiastic in its implementation, even creating an executive principal position, held by Lynn Strang, to help ensure CCS’ success.

After his visit to Mrs. Butler’s class, King, a Harvard graduated who was a high school principal and administrator in New York City schools before his appointment, lunched with a group that included the two PTA presidents, Marielle Ainsworth and Molly Toulson;

former high school principal Gary Kuch, now director of the Clark Foundation scholarship program, and Mayor Jeff Katz, among others. In the afternoon, he visited the high school.

The Common Core initiative set national standards implemented by the states, but when the results of the first round of testing came back last year, parents statewide were dismayed by how poorly the state’s students did. Instead of looking at the numerical scores, Hebert looked as how CCS scores stacked up to other schools and found, if anything, they were better than under

previous methods. You have to compare “apples and apples,” he said.

“I do think an increase in rigor is a good thing,” he said in an interview a few days after the King visit. “I do think expecting more from students is positive.”

And, he added, “our students are taking the new standards seriously. Our goal is not to discourage students, but to challenge them appropriately.”

(By the way, in an “improper fraction,” the top number is larger than the bottom one. A “mixed number” is a whole number, followed by a fraction.)

CROWELL/From A1 and future.)”

The county treasurer, who won reelection by a landslide last November despite questions about the impact of his military duties on his treasurer duties, called this two weeks “routine.”

During the last year of his first term, he had been sum-

moned for six months of Special Forces training after a years-long background investigation had been successfully completed.

“My unit wouldn’t be the first to go, for example, to Ukraine,” said the captain, “although I would say the Ukraine is highly unlikely.”

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