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Hawkeye Heroes Make History CCS Hawkeyes’ team captain Jack Lambert leads his triumphant teammates Noah Lifgren, Calvin Sandler, Jesse Funari, Ryan Lansing, Ryan Burns and Ben Tafuro off the court following their 7161 Class C Championship win over the Middle Early College Kats on Sunday, March 17 at the Veteran’s Memorial Arena in Binghamton. It’s the first time the boys’ varsity basketball team has won a state title.

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At the Fly Creek Philharmonic, Tim Peters plays the mandolin Saturday, March 16, during the annual performance at Fly Creek United Methodist Church. Peters is director of Otsego Rural Housing Assistance.

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Dewey Is Top Vote-Getter In Coop Election COOPERSTOWN

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ncumbent Trustee Jeanne Dewey garnered the most votes (128) in the Tuesday, March 19, village elections.

Incumbent Richard Sternberg was second (119) and newcomer MacGuire Benton third (114).

The election, for three seats on the Village Board, was uncontested.

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ALLIES CONTROL ZONING, PLANNING, TOWN BOARDS

Windmill Foes Take Control In Richfield Only Petition Drive May Stop Anti-Turbine Bloc From Approving Restrictive Plan

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for the six-turbine, 18.45-megawatt Monticello Hills Wind Farm surfaced for the Town of Richfield, neighbors there viewed the project “as a threat to the west end of town,” said Dan Sullivan.

However, “people in the village thought it was the best idea in the

►WHIPPED BY HIGH WINDS, fire hat a difference not even gutted a home in Westville a decade makes.

Sunday afternoon, March 17.

In 2012, when plans ►CONGRESSMAN DELGADO co-sponsored legislation to create an Office of Oversight & Coordination for Tick-Borne Disease and create an office to combat the disease that’s

By LIBBY CUDMORE spreading in Otsego County. ►IRISH DANCERS performed at St. Mary’s Parish Hall on LAURENS Saturday the 16th and Christ Church on St. Paddy’s Day, the eed help with some spring cleaning?

17th. See photos.

Feed the dog while you’re out? Watch ►OTSEGO NOW CEO Jody the kids on a night out?

Zakrevsky has begun holding “Town Halls” around the coun- Just call Cadence. ty on his agency’s mission.

Cadence Koren, 11, is using her hustle to raise

world – to get tax relief,” Sullivan said, and Village of Richfield Springs’ residents controlled the town’s Planning and Town boards.

Seven years later, neighbors who formed “Protect Richfield” in the face of the threat to their rural tranquility have turned that around.

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Girl Fundraises So Friend Can Take D.C. Trip Good Samaritan Cadence with brother Gavin and mom and dad Melissia and Frank.

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In mid-April, perhaps mid-May, a Town Board controlled by the antiwindmill bloc is poised to approve what former Town Supervisor Nick Palevsky and other people interviewed see as a restrictive code that promotes farming, single-family Please See BLOC, A7

Gay Wedding, Pastor Ban Divides Local Methodists

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n 1996, when Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell threw a 10th anniversary party for husband Dana, a guest said something that changed her life forever.

“Kirk was our funeral director, a good Christian and gay, but it wasn’t safe for him to be out,” she recounted. “He came up to me and said congratulations, but he also said that he and his partner had been Please See CHURCH, A3

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THURSDAY, March 21, 2019

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LOCALS Daughter Vivi Born To Danielle, Michael Henrici, Brother Dash

SPURBECKS REOPENS TO DELIGHT OF HUNGRY PATRONS

Harrison Kessler Celebrates Bar Mitzvah

Harrison Sanford Kessler, second from left, son of Richard and Jeryl Anne (Bellantoni) Kessler, recently made his Bar Mitzvah on his 13th birthVivienne Celeste (Vivi) day. The celebration was held at Temple Solei in Henrici was born at Encinitas, Cali. Mother Jeryl Anne, a graduate of 11:38 pm at Bassett CCS, 1982, is the daughter of John and Jean Hospital on Sunday, March 17, 2019 to Dani- Finch of Toddsville.

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal elle, above, and Michael Henrici, 7 lbs 13 oz. 20 After months of waiting, Spurbeck’s Grocery has finally reopened! Proinches. She joins her prietor Mike Swatling, center right, assisted by his aunt, Kristi Swatling, said. brother Dash, and, Dani- MILFORD and Ashley Young of Cherry Valley, foreground, take sandwich orders over elle reports. “The family Lightly used clothing of the noon hour. The venerable landmark at Railroad and Leatherstocking is blissfully complete.” ollowing the success all kinds, without stains, opened today after months of extensive interior renovations. Lining up to Danielle and Michael are be served are Jeremiah Parr, Lucas Busse and Matt Kehoe, who work for of last year’s clothing tears or strong scents can BTS, installing fiberoptic cable for Middleburgh Telephone’s new downtown are Founding Co-Artistic swap, where more be dropped off at the school Internet “hotspots.” The new Spurbeck’s has tables and chairs if you want Directors of Glimmer than 200 participants traded cafeteria beginning Saturday Globe Theatre and Danito lunch in, and a beer cave is being added in the basement. morning. Clothing will be out their old duds for newelle teaches acting as to-you, organizer Angelica put on display in the school an adjunct professor for Attention Palmer is bringing the trade cafeteria, and anyone is free SUNY Oneonta, as well Music lovers! back to the annual Earth to take what they want, no as serves as President Fest on Saturday, April 13 at limits. At the end of the day, of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. the Milford Central School. remaining clothing will be Michael is the Demo“Not only did thousands donated to area charities. cratic Commissioner of garments find new homes “Last year’s clothing of Elections for Otsego with local residents, but swap was a great success County. many people learned that and we’re excited to do

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Young Samaritan Helps Friend Make D.C. Field Trip SAMARITAN/From A1 “I like helping kids,” she said. “In Safety Patrol, we learn about being role models and helping people out.”

The year caps off with a trip to Washington D.C., where students tour the Capitol and other sites around the city. “The 7th graders told us all about it, and we were all excited to go,” she said.

But when Cadence found out that one of the boys on the patrol couldn’t pay the $300 fee, she put her training in helping fellow students to practical use.

“I thought, I have all this free time, so why don’t I put it to something good?” she said.

She cleaned her room and sold some of her own things online, and in the last week she went in to the community, offering to work around her neighbors’ houses. “I helped my aunt with her chickens, and my grand-

mother asked me to help me rearrange her pots and pans.”

Utilizing Girl Scout fundraising experience, she has raised nearly $100 towards her endeavor. “He was so excited when I told him,” she said.

Cadence is available for organizing and other “odd jobs,” especially babysitting. She can be hired through her mother’s Facebook page, Melissia Ann Koren, or by emailing her at melissia14@hotmail.com. Donations can also be arranged by contacting Frank at jrlegacy23@yahoo.com.

“My mom has a daycare, and I’ve always wanted to be a babysitter,” she said. “Right now, I’m babysitting some of the kids who aren’t in her daycare anymore.”

And although she’s doing the work herself, the rest of the community is getting involved to help her reach her goal. Lou’s Auto Repair in Oneonta has pledged $100, and her mother,

Melissia, a Thirty-One saleswoman, is taking all of the proceeds from her sales this month and donating them to her daughter’s fundraising efforts.

Melissia also set up a page so those who may not need any work done can donate directly. The funds must be raised by April 12.

And if she raises more than $300, the remaining proceeds will go into a fund to help other students on Safety Patrol who might be struggling with the cost of the trip.

The Safety Patrol at Laurens Central School is a program for sixth graders, who volunteer at the beginning of the year for “posts,” including assisting students with mobility issues to get to and from the buses, and folding the flag.

“This was 100 percent her idea,” said dad Frank. “She’s always had a soft spot for this kid, and we’re so proud of her.”

Some Pastors Feel Torn After Methodist Ban On Gay Pastors, Marriages CHURCH/From A1 together longer than we had, but would never get a party like this. It really opened my eyes.”

The pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta since June, SwordsHorrell has welcomed the LGBTQ community, handing out water at the Gay Pride parade and hosted a play about a gay teen when a local school wouldn’t.

But in February, 53 percent of delegates at a United Methodist Church special conference in St. Louis, Mo., voted for a “Traditional” plan, one of three options. U.S. delegates would have supported a “One Church” plan, but delegates from more conservative congregations in Asia and Africa didn’t.

The plan prohibits Methodist ministers from performing gay marriage, subject to a one-year suspension, and upholds the Book of Discipline’s forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from becoming clergy. The “One Church” plan would have allowed both.

“When they voted on the Traditional plan, it caught me by surprise,” SwordsHorrell said.

At the Cooperstown United Methodist Church, Rev. Thomas LeBeau said he personally agrees with Swords-Horrell. But, he added, “Our church doesn’t have one voice. Some in our congregation are on board with the Traditional plan, but others aren’t.”

He hasn’t been asked to perform a gay wedding.

But, it asked, he said he would, “even with the repercussions.”

On Sunday, March 17, Bishop Mark Webb, Upper New York Conference, hosted a livestream where he affirmed his commitment to the plan that was adopted.

“He plans on enforcing it,” said Swords-Horrell.

“I’m not surprised, but many of us are sad and frustrated.”

The Oneonta church was the Oneonta District location for the livestream, and Swords-Horrell said 100 people from the 60 churches across the district attended.

“There were a variety of different reactions,” she said. “Some were very discouraged, others were

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The Rev. Marti SwordsHorrell wears a “rainbow stole” during Sunday service March 17 at First United Methodist Church, Oneonta.

encouraged. We’re a very divided denomination.”

This divide concerns LeBeau, who expressed worry that the church might splinter into different factions.

“I hope this doesn’t mean a split,” he said. “It saddens me that there might be.”

But LeBeau was encouraged by Webb’s belief that the church could work through this. “He’s a man of integrity,” he said. “I believe him when he says this doesn’t need to be a dividing issue.”

The Oneonta church has been part of the Reconciling Ministry Network since 1989, allowing gay weddings to take place in the church and supporting the LGBTQ community.

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Perspectives

THURSDAY, March 21, 2019

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Pride, Exhilaration Of Championship Run Are Ours Always

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columnist – a dad, too – wrote in Psychology Today a few years ago: “My hope is that their involvement in sports will help to build their character in positive ways. I’d like them to learn to cooperate with others, work together for a common goal, respond appropriately to victory and defeat, and grow in virtues like courage, humility, patience and perseverance.”

Why did the CCS

Hawkeyes varsity basketball team come to mind?

One, because they just claimed the first-ever state championship in a highly competitive sport. Not everyone plays golf, or even

football. But it’s the rare American boy who hasn’t spent many an hour playing pickup basketball, dribbling and shooting and, from time to time, spraining an ankle.

But, two, because this Hawkeyes basketball team stuck to business, stayed cool when challenges arose, worked hard on their skills, and supported each other on the court the way the best teams do.

They didn’t face the challenge of defeat too often this

year, but many of the eight veteran seniors – tri-captains Jack Lambert, Noah Lifgren and Calvin Sandler, plus Ryan Burns, Jesse Furnari, Kyle Meyer, Kyle Santello and Ben Tafuro – had suffered disappointments in past seasons.

In victory, the guys – they included sophomores John “Big Man” Kennedy and Spencer Lewis, and highjumping junior Ryan Lansing – had a lot of class too.

And what an experience

for Head Coach John Lambert, coaching his son to a state title within a year of the passing of his father, retired superintendent (and former coach) Paul Lambert, who had run drills with his now-judge son in a run-up to the state tournament in the 1990s.

A very rich experience, and very rich for fans, too.

Fandom has its own rewards.

Following a winning team connects with a continuum of traditions and connections

with their hometown.

The cheering hundreds around the flagpole as the Hawkeye Heroes rode into town on the firetrucks will never forget the pride and exhilaration that will buoy them in the years ahead.

Judging the honors and recognition the Oneonta Yellowjackets received on winning the state baseball championship a few years ago, the fun for the Hawkeye boys is just beginning.

SAVING OUR PLANET

Is Nuclear Power The Answer After All? Editor’s Note: Len Carson, the former county rep from Oneonta and DC Marketing president, circulated a video of Michael Shellenberger’s 2016 Ted Talk, “How Fear of Nuclear Power is Hurting the Environment,” to Citizen Voices, the local businesspeople’s group, for discussion at its Wednesday, March 13, meeting.

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lean energy has been increasing…

But when you look at the percentage of global electricity from clean energy sources, it’s actually been in decline from 36 percent to 31 percent.

And if you care about climate change, you’ve got to go in the opposite direction to 100 percent of our electricity from clean energy sources, as quickly as possible.

Now, you might wonder, MICHAEL “Come on, how much SHELLENBERGER could five percentage points global electricity be?”

Well, it turns out to be quite a bit. It’s the equivalent of 60 nuclear plants the size of Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear plant, or 900 solar farms the size of Topaz, which is one of

In the 1956 children’s book “Our Friend the Atom,” Walt Disney imagined nuclear power as a genie that could finally grant the wishes humankind has always dreamed of: Power, food, health and, finally, peace. It was written by scientist Heinz Haber, at the behest of the Eisenhower Administration.

the biggest solar farms in the world, and certainly our biggest in California. A big part of this is simply that fossil fuels are

increasing faster than clean energy. And that’s understandable. There’s just a lot of poor countries that are still using wood and

dung and charcoal as their main source of energy, and they need modern fuels.

But there’s something else going on, which is that one of those clean energy sources in particular has actually been on the decline in absolute terms, not just relatively. And that’s nuclear. You can see its generation has declined 7 percent over the last 10 years. Now, solar and wind have been making huge strides, so you hear a lot of talk about how it doesn’t really matter, because solar and wind is going to make up the difference. But the data says something different. When you combine all the electricity from solar and wind, you see it actually barely makes up half of the decline from nuclear. Let’s take a closer look in the United States.

Over the last couple of years – really 2013, 2014 – we prematurely retired four nuclear power plants. They were almost entirely replaced with fossil fuels, and so the consequence was that we wiped out almost Please See NUCLEAR, A6

LETTER

Otsego 2000 Challenges DGEIS Brownfield Findings

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development. It is purely a choice about what kind of jobs and what kind of development is suitable.

To answer this question, state law (known as SEQRA) requires the owner/ developer, Otsego Now, to inform the City of Oneonta and the public of its plans; the city as lead agency is required to analyze its envi-

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To the Editor: The flood of editorials trying to divide our community regarding heavy industrial development in Oneonta are discouraging.

They may help sell newspapers, but they lack integrity. This is not a choice between jobs or no jobs. It is not even a choice between development or no

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ronmental impacts. The city hired Delaware Engineering to conduct the required environmental review.

Its review resulted in a flawed draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (“DGEIS”). It is a “ghost.”

It is 113 pages of headings and charts, but entirely lacking in substance. The city paid as much as $200,000 for this empty vessel. It did not get its worth.

After Delaware Engineer-

ing was hired and scoping required by SEQRA was completed, Otsego Now disclosed for the first time in a grant application submitted July 26, 2018, that it planned to construct a gas decompressor station in the Town of Oneonta, fueled by high volumes of compressed natural gas transported from Pennsylvania by tractor-trailer, to deliver gas to the railyards.

Otsego Now’s plans also called for expansion of the DeRuyter pipeline and construction of miles of new pipelines to bring gas to the site. Mayor Herzig confirmed by letter, dated Please See DGEIS, A6

IN APPRECIATION

Joe Campbell – A Class Act

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came to know Joe held anything back, while teaching but he was a gentleand coaching at man with regards Oneonta High School. to how he made our He was my assistant differences known. coach for the JV footI always knew where ball team and helped he stood and I always us go undefeated for knew he would go to four straight years.

Joe Camp- the mat for me or the Joe was a gentle team. bell in his person who cared There’s really not football deeply about his coach days. a greater tribute one athletes. He was a can pay to a person fitness advocate and, and friend than to believe me, our athletes say he was a class act – and were fit. They looked forJoe was, in every sense of ward to our games as they the expression, a class act. were “easier” than practice.

We’ll miss him.

In the four years we MIKE ZAGATA worked together, Joe never West Davenport

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What’s The Matter With NY? Too Much Spending

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hat is the truth about New too much. We York State? Why do we lose whine about high so many good people? Why taxes. But there is do our businesses struggle, especially a glaring reason we Upstate? Why do our schools, cities have high taxes. and towns struggle? Why are parts of New York must our infrastructure dilapidated? tax heavily. To Our politicians offer us a blizzard of cover its ridiculous reasons. Every government department spending. explains.

If anyone TOM Here is a truth that cuts through it suggests we cut MORGAN all. back, why the New York State spends too much. It squeals of pain is that simple. To cover that spending erupt. Maybe yours is among them. it has to tax its people and businesses Take education. New York could not

possibly cut back on spending on our dear pupils. Cuomo wants to add a billion more in the latest budget.

Well, New York already spends 90 percent more per student than the national average. It spends nearly double what the average state spends per student. Yet it cannot find ways to cut that spending?

Consider our state budget: New York has 10 million fewer people than Texas. Yet it spends $60 billion more.

And it runs three times as much debt as Texas. Because it has had to borrow Please See MORGAN, A6

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THURSDAY, March 21, 2019

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

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

200 YEARS AGO

It is now almost two years since DeWitt Clinton was called to the Executive Chair, without an opposing candidate. What then have been the leading features of De Witt Clinton’s administration? We have seen attention paid to internal improvements, equally honorable to our state, and favorable to our permanent interests. The great plan to unite the Hudson and Lakes of the West, has been vigorously prosecuted. We have the fairest inducements to believe, that before the end of another season, the middle section of this canal will be open for navigation.

The northern canal, connecting the Hudson with Lake Champlain, is in a great state of forwardness, and all the happy benefits expected from the projection and completion of these great undertakings, which even give luster to our nation, as well as to our state, will be realized beyond the color of doubt.

March 22, 1819

125 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

175 YEARS AGO

Mr. Merrick, the Chairman of the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads in the United States Senate has reported some amendments. He now proposes that all drop letters shall be charged at the rate of two cents each, and all advertised letters with the expense of advertising in addition to the postage. He increases the standard size of newspapers from 1,325 to 1,600 square inches and newspapers sent from their place of publication free for all distance under 30 miles, instead of within the counties only, as in the original draft. Newspapers are defined to be any printed publication issued in numbers consisting of no more than two sheets, and published at stated intervals of not more than a week. The privilege of free exchanges for Editors is restored as in the Law of 1825.

March 18, 1844

150 YEARS AGO

The New York Times reports accounts from private sources that discourage going south for a milder climate during the raw and inclement weather of our spring. There

available house in all the available towns of that vicinity, as of nearly every other in the Southern States. Even in Savannah, where the hotel accommodations are better than in most southern cities and where the climate is not especially inviting, guests are constantly turned away for lack of room.

March 19, 1869

March 22, 1894 seems to be no room in the South as every place is already full! Passengers from Savannah by boat to Florida very frequently return in the same boat because they can find no accommodations whatever. Invalids from the North already occupy every

Poetic Protest: “Sour Grapes” – Our village streets are quite a sight with uniforms of all descriptions – but the one that makes me want to fight needs no lengthy definition. It is the outfit of the service, the service in the air – and no matter where you take yourself you see them everywhere.

The boys who fill these honored clothes are nearly all Lieutenants – and they look upon town boys like me – like on one doing penance. They’ve taken now my girl from me and I am in the lurch – and instead of Sunday at her house, I only go to church.

Each time I ask my girlie “Will you go to the dance with me?” She answers in a haughty tone: “I’ll go with a Lieu-ey, see.”

I’ve stood it plenty long enough and I told her the other day – if she didn’t drop those Lieu-ey boys, I’d go away and stay. She cried and begged me not to go and said that she’d be true – but last night she was at the movie show not with one of them, but two.

So I’ll teach my girl a lesson – for some day those boys will go and then she may cry her dear eyes out ‘ere I take to a show. Now our own home boys are returning from the battlefields of France. Will our own girls let them die of grief while with flyers high they dance? All honor to our own brave boys who battered Hindenburg’s line – but I’ll teach those aviator guys and that thoughtless girl o’ mine. –Tan. March 22, 1919

75 YEARS AGO

Susan P. Clarke, daughter of George Hyde Clarke and Mrs. S. Beach Cooke of Cooperstown was a member of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) class 44-W-2 which graduated at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas receiving her silver

wings and diploma. Miss Clarke, a former student of Packard Business School, New York City, was a bank and Flying School secretary before joining the WASPs. She has logged about 96 hours of private pilot time. The insignia was pinned on Miss Cooke’s uniform by General Hapgood Arnold, commander of the Eighth Army Air Force who, when he learned her home address, told her that all of his own ancestors came from Cooperstown.

March 22, 1944

50 YEARS AGO

Republicans will outnumber Democrats by a margin of 2 to 1 in Otsego County, according to enrollment figures supplied this week by Mrs. Violet Schallert, Deputy Commissioner of the Otsego County Board of Elections. Last November 5, there were 15,817 persons enrolled as Republicans and 7,924 Democrats. The Republicans increased their enrollment by 949 over the previous year’s 14,868, while the Democrats picked up 497 over their 1967 total of 7,427. Only one of Otsego’s 54 election districts has a Democratic majority. In the Sixth Ward of the City of Oneonta, there are 396 Democrats enrolled and 313 Republicans.

March 19, 1969

25 YEARS AGO

Many things have changed on Main Street in Cooperstown but the Mohican Club has remained one constant. The club was formed in 1891 after Hose Company No. 3 from the Cooperstown Fire Department became inactive and its remaining members wished to stay together in some capacity. They started a social club so they could continue to meet. For the first several years the club met in rooms on the first floor of the First National Bank on Main Street. In 1894, the club bought a former residence at 138 Main Street as a meeting place and have remained there ever since. The group was incorporated as “The Mohican Club of Cooperstown” on May 7, 1894.

March 22, 1994

OTHER VOICES

RSS’s Housing Project Not Right For Oneonta To the Editor: good homes for hard-workThe proposed housing ing families. But, don’t be project by Rehabilitation fooled, that’s not what RSS Support Services (RSS) of is planning. The housing Altamont in Oneonta’s Sixth they want to build is primarWard is a flawed developily for folks receiving public ment. RSS wants taxpayers assistance of one form or to pay for it; they are trying another. to circumvent public input Of particular concern to and they’re using me is the units set strong-arm tactics aside for individuals to get approval to recovering from drug start construction. and alcohol abuse.

Therefore, I According to the oppose it.

National Institute on RSS wants to Drug Abuse, 40 to build a 64-unit 60 percent of people project for low- and with substance-abuse moderate-income problems in rehab Rep. Lapin people that will eventually relapse, include 14 apartreturning to a life ments reserved for individu- dominated by drinking als recovering from drug and and illegal drug use. That alcohol abuse. Subsidized behavior potentially brings rents will range from $520 additional social problems to $1,067, well below and crime to our community. market rates for Oneonta.

There are also environRSS is applying for about mental concerns related $23.7 million in governto this proposal. The RSS ment grants to pay for the plan is to clear 6.5 acres of project. The mental-health mostly wooded land beand substance-abuse sertween River Street and West vice organization says it Broadway. RSS has not is willing to pay property said how it will address the taxes, but would rather get impact on our air, water and a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes wildlife. plan. In other words, they Another issue is the faildon’t really want to pay city ure of RSS and the City of and school taxes at the same Oneonta to seek public input rate as their home-owner for the project. The Sixth neighbors.

Ward is a strong, tight-knit In short, RSS is asking community whose residents taxpayers to pay twice for pride themselves on their the project. First, to cough close connections and willup construction grant money ingness to help one another. and second, give RSS a The RSS development was property tax break. presented to the city in a I am all for building way that gave residents and more affordable housing in the owners of Oneonta that will provide Please See LAPIN, A6

At Fly Creek ‘Phil,’ Youth, Beauty, Strength Evident To the Editor: As a deaf guy, I don’t attend many musical performances. They are largely exercises in frustration for me. Before my hearing loss, I appreciated music, and I still appreciate memories of music, but the reality is that the notes don’t resonate when you are missing enough frequencies.

I attended last night’s performance to acknowledge the support provided by the Fly Creek Philharmonic for the Otsego Lake Association. I enjoyed every minute of it. This was the second or third time I attended a Fly Creek Philharmonic performance.

Knowing the visuals would be important and hoping that my lip-reading skills would help to understand the lyrics, I stood in the rear last night.

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The It Girls of the evening – from left, Vicki Gates, Scottie Baker and Julie Huntsman – perform a symphony on kazoos during the Fly Creek Philharmonics’ annual concert Saturday, March 16, at the United Methodist Church. More photos at www.

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Standing helped me to see both the performers and the audience. Watching both groups left my face aching from the nearly two hours of

DISMISS SMOKESCREEN HYPE ABOUT DUBIOUS JOBS

Elephant In Room Undergirds Discourse

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n last week’s editorial in this newspaper, Oneonta Mayor Herzig is quoted as saying: “We should not let those who are economically secure, by comparison, tell those who need jobs they can’t have them.”

The mayor was reacting to the March 5 hearing he moderated at the Foothills in Oneonta, where a long series of speakers pushed back almost unanimously against the gas-expansion project proposed by the city and Otsego Now to develop the D&H railyards.

ADRIAN The mayor’s insinuation KUZMINSKI of class warfare is totally out of line. No one at the ON THE RECORD hearing told anyone they can’t have a job. On the contrary, the point was t has long been an open secret in repeatedly made – by many people Upstate New York that the dairy distinctly not “economically secure” industry has been able to survive only – that the development of renewable energy and retrofitting buildings to by relying on undocumented immigrants for be more energy efficient was far its work force.” more likely to produce jobs than the Reporter CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM, proposed railyards project. in March 18 article in The New York Times.

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grinning. The thoughtfulness, imagination and inventiveness of the Fly Creek Philharmonic program and performance were incred-

ible. The involvement of young and old and all ages between was heartening.

All those good feelings were amplified by the knowledge that the performance required an amazing amount of preparation and was intended for two small audiences of community members attending in a single weekend.

As you know, I spent nine years in Japan. Japanese culture has a focus on Sakura, the cherry blossoms.

The Japanese Sakura focus is on the ephemeral beauty of cherry blossoms, youth, beauty, strength and so much more. The “Water, Water Everywhere” performance exemplified Sakura.

Please thank everyone involved.

PAUL LORD Pierstown

jobs; it was about getting good jobs without the downsides of the railyards project of pollution, emissions and declining property values, as documented by speaker after speaker.

The editorial goes on to talk about “intimidation as the local environmental movement’s preferred tactic.” A strange remark. It’s true that local groups have exercised their rights in filing suits in court on environmental issues.

Their success demonstrates they had a point, and that the courts concluded they were acting in the public interest.

Perhaps some appreciation is in order?

Also, the editor’s weird view, that since we’re so small it doesn’t matter what we do, boggles the mind. Does that mean that it’s OK for individuals to cheat on college exams, or income tax, or pollute the air? Is this our new public morality?

In his letter in the same edition, local Republican county chair, Vince Casale, makes a series of wild remarks about

the railyards hearing. “A small group of people with an unreasonable view on the environment put a complete stop to an announcement concerning the DRI (Downtown Revitalization Initiative) and particularly the future development of the D&H Railyard.”

He says the crowd “hijacked” the meeting “with external radical rhetoric.” They represent, he tells us, only a “fringe group” who “believe in socialism and an extreme liberal agenda and wish to invoke their values and will on us at any cost – literally.”

Mr. Casale’s distorted account appears to be born out of fear and desperation. It bears no relationship to what actually happened at the hearing.

Far from being a “small group,” an overflow crowd of hundreds packed the room.

Far from being “external” or “radical,” the rhetoric was home grown and pragmatic. Far from being obscured, the Downtown Revitalization Initiative was described at great length

by Mayor Herzig and former Mayor Muller before the hearing began.

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Environmental Advocate: Wind, Solar Won’t Deliver; Only Nuclear Power Can Save Planet NUCLEAR/From A4 as much clean energy electricity that we get from solar. And it’s not unique to us.

People think of California as a clean energy and climate leader, but when we looked at the data, what we found is that, in fact, California reduced emissions more slowly than the national average, between 2000 and 2015.

What about Germany? They’re doing a lot of clean energy. But when you look at the data, German emissions have actually been going up since 2009, and there’s really not anybody who’s going to tell you that they’re going to meet their climate commitments in 2020.

The reason isn’t hard to understand.

Solar and wind provide power about 10 to 20 percent of the time, which means that when the sun’s not shining, the wind’s not blowing, you still need power for your hospitals, your homes, your cities, your factories. And while batteries have made some really cool improvements lately, the truth is, they’re just never going to be as efficient as the electrical grid. Every time you put electricity into a battery and take it out, you lose about 20 to 40 percent of the power. That’s why when, in California, we try to deal with all the solar we’ve brought online – we now get about 10 percent of electricity from solar – when the sun goes down, and people come home from work and turn on their air conditioners and their TV sets, and every other appliance in the house, we need a lot of natural gas backup…

So, let’s just take a closer look at nuclear. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has looked at the carbon content of all these different fuels, and nuclear comes out really low – it’s actually lower even than solar. And nuclear obviously provides a lot of power – 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

During a year, a single plant can provide power 92 percent of the time. What’s interesting is that when you look at countries that have deployed different kinds of clean energies, there’s only a few that have done so at a pace consistent with dealing with the climate crisis.

• So nuclear seems like a pretty good option, but there’s this big problem with it, which all of you, I’m sure, are aware of, which is that people really don’t like it. There was a study, a survey done of people around the world, not just in the United States or Europe, about a year and a half ago. And what they found is that nuclear is actually one of the least popular forms of energy. Even oil is more popular than nuclear. And while nuclear kind of edges out coal, the thing is, people don’t really fear coal in the same way they fear nuclear, which really operates on our unconscious.

So what is it that we fear? There’s really three things. There’s the safety of the plants themselves – the fears that they’re going to melt down and cause damage; there’s the waste from them; and there’s the association with weapons. And I think, understandably, engineers look at those concerns and look for technological fixes. That’s why Bill Gates is in China developing advanced reactors. That’s why 40 different entrepreneurs are working on this problem. And I, myself, have been very excited about it.

We did a report: “How to Make Nuclear Cheap.” In particular, the thorium reactor shows a lot of promise.

So when the climate scientist, James Hansen, asked if I wanted to go to

“Peace” was the third wish for nuclear power, so far unrealized, after “Power” and “Food and Health.”

China with him and look at the Chinese advanced nuclear program, I jumped at the chance. We were there with MIT and UC Berkeley engineers. And I had in my mind that the Chinese would be able to do with nuclear what they did with so many other things – start to crank out small nuclear reactors on assembly lines, ship them up like iPhones or MacBooks and send them around the world. I would get one at home in Berkeley. But what I found was somewhat different. The presentations were all very exciting and very promising; they have multiple reactors that they’re working on. The time came for the thorium reactor, and a bunch of us were excited …

What about the other reactors?

There’s a reactor that’s coming online now, they’re starting to sell it. It’s a high-temperature gas reactor. It can’t melt down. But it’s really big and bulky, that’s part of the safety, and nobody thinks it’s going to ever get cheaper than the reactors that we have. The ones that use waste as fuel are really cool ideas, but the truth is, we don’t actually know how to do that yet. There’s some risk that you’ll actually make more waste, and most people think that if you’re including that waste part of the process, it’s just going to make the whole machine a lot more expensive, it’s just adding another complicated step.

The truth is, there’s real questions about how much of that we’re going to do. I mean, we went to India and asked about the nuclear program. The government said before the Paris climate talks that they were going to do something like 30 new nuclear plants. But when we got there and interviewed people and even looked at the internal documents, they’re now saying they’re going to do about five. And in most of the world, especially the rich world, they’re not talking about building new reactors.

We’re actually talking about taking reactors down before their lifetimes are over.

Germany’s actually pressuring its neighbors to do that. I mentioned the United States – we could lose half of our reactors over the next 15 years, which would wipe out 40 percent of the emissions reductions we’re supposed to get under the Clean Power Plan. Of course, in Japan, they took all their nuclear plants offline, replaced them with coal, natural gas, oil burning, and they’re only expected to bring online about a third to two-thirds.

So when we went through the

numbers, and just added that up – how much nuclear do we see China and India bringing online over the next 15 years, how much do we see at risk of being taken offline – this was the most startling finding. What we found is that the world is actually at risk of losing four times more clean energy than we lost over the last 10 years. In other words: we’re not in a clean energy revolution; we’re in a clean energy crisis. So it’s understandable that engineers would look for a technical fix to the fears that people have of nuclear. But when you consider that these are big challenges to do, that they’re going to take a long time to solve, there’s this other issue, which is: Are those technical fixes really going to solve people’s fears?

Let’s take safety. You know, despite what people think, it’s hard to figure out how to make nuclear power much safer. I mean, every medical journal that looks at it – this is the most recent study from the British journal, “Lancet,” one of the most respected journals in the world – nuclear is the safest way to make reliable power. Everybody’s scared of the accidents. So you go look at the accident data – Fukushima, Chernobyl – the World Health Organization finds the same thing: the vast majority of harm is caused by people panicking, and they’re panicking because they’re afraid.

In other words, the harm that’s caused isn’t actually caused by the machines or the radiation. It’s caused by our fears.

And what about the waste? Everyone worries about the waste. Well, the interesting thing about the waste is how little of it there is. This is just from one plant.

If you take all the nuclear waste we’ve ever made in the United States, put it on a football field, stacked it up, it would only reach 20 feet high. And people say it’s poisoning people or doing something – it’s not, it’s just sitting there, it’s just being monitored. There’s not very much of it. By contrast, the waste that we don’t control from energy production – we call it “pollution,” and it kills seven million people a year, and it’s threatening very serious levels of global warming.

KUZMINSKI: Railyard Foes Seek Plan For Future, Not Past KUZMINSKI/From A5 Far from “hijacking” the meeting, local citizens waited patiently to exercise their right to speak against a perceived threat to their community, and in hopes of a more productive economic policy for jobs than the railyards project.

Speakers included both city residents and neighbors like myself, for whom Oneonta remains our major commercial hub. We are no more outsiders than Mr. Casale, a Cooperstown resident.

The fact is that Mayor Herzig and Republican chair Casale didn’t like what they heard. No one – not a single person – spoke in support of the Railyards project.

Even the remarks by Seth Clark, quoted approvingly by the editor, failed to endorse the project. He simply pointed out, rather plaintively, that “we need hundreds and hundreds of jobs,” without saying where they should come from. I don’t think anyone who spoke at the hearing would have disagreed with him.

But the mayor is prepared to soldier on. It’s not clear who his pro-railyards constituency really is. By any measure so far, it’s not the ordinary people of Oneonta. They want jobs, yes, but they apparently don’t care enough about the railyards’ job prospects to show up and support it. The only immediate beneficiaries of the project would be a few local businesses who stand to gain short-term contracts for some of the work.

That’s fair enough, but to

leverage that opportunity, as Otsego Now has done, into smokescreen hype about dubious permanent industrial jobs that might be created – while dismissing well-documented objections about the harmful effects to the local population, as well as ignoring the potential of the environmentally oriented jobs we could and should be pursuing – is disingenuous at best and cynical at worst.

Unfortunately, local debate has morphed into desperate name-calling and innuendo by the project’s supporters.

Terms like “radical,” “intimidation,” “external,” “socialism,” “extremist” and “economically secure” are labels here used to besmirch opponents and denigrate public testimony, revealing a profound disrespect for fellow citizens.

No one is saying we can get off fossil fuels tomorrow. No one at the hearing said so; they know better. Everyone knows the DeRuyter pipeline is a current necessity to heat homes, businesses and institutions in Oneonta. Fixing it so it doesn’t blow up is obviously in order.

The elephant in the room is global warming and climate change affecting us all. The policies that got us into this fix are not going to be the ones that get us out of it. Expanding natural gas consumption in Oneonta is NOT the way to go.

Adrian Kuzminski, retired Hartwick College philosophy professor and Sustainable Otsego moderator, lives in Fly Creek.

To Save New York, Spend Less MORGAN/From A4 borrow so much more. To cover its ridiculous spending.

New York also has to tax us punitively. To cover its spending excesses. Texas taxes gas at 20 cents per gallon. New York taxes gas at 61 cents per gallon. Texas taxes cigarettes at 1.41 per pack. New York 4.35.

New York taxes income.

It starts at 4 percent and runs up to 8.8 percent on upper income folks. Texas levies no income tax.

New York splits hairs.

It tells us why it cannot reduce any of its spending.

It explains away its obvious stupidity. The state can offer a thousand reasons why it must spend so much. Just as that bankrupt couple did.

But the state cannot escape a brutal truth: IT SPENDS TOO MUCH! The state is a spendthrift!

New York is just about the top-spending state in the union. Try suggesting to its politicians that they

cut 5 percent of spending, across the board. If the state outspends virtually all other states, surely we must run a bit of fat. Surely we could find a few places to save.

Nah. Cannot be done.

Nope.

And since it won’t cut spending, it must tax tax tax.

We camouflage and hide the taxes. We sugar-coat them.

But we are desperate for money to pay for our ridiculous spending. Desperate because we cannot break our spending habits. We are addicted.

I use “we” at this point for a good reason. If New York ever really slashed its outrageous spending we would howl. You can’t touch our school budget! Where are the grants for restoring our main street? These kids will go hungry if the state cuts back.

Few of us can really handle the truth.

Tom Morgan, a retired Oneonta investment adviser, lives in Franklin.

...Well, what about the weapons?

Maybe the most surprising thing is that we can’t find any examples of countries that have nuclear power and then, “Oh!” decide to go get a weapon. In fact, it works the opposite. What we find is the only way we know how to get rid of large numbers of nuclear weapons is by using the plutonium in the warheads as fuel in our nuclear power plants. And so, if you are wanting to get the world rid of nuclear weapons, then we’re going to need a lot more nuclear power.

As I was leaving China, the engineer that brought Bill Gates there kind of pulled me aside, and he said, “You know, Michael, I appreciate your interest in all the different nuclear supply technologies, but there’s this more basic issue, which is that there’s just not enough global demand. I mean, we can crank out these machines on assembly lines, we do know how to make things cheap, but there’s just not enough people that want them.”

And so, let’s do solar and wind and efficiency and conservation. Let’s accelerate the advanced nuclear programs.

I think we should triple the amount of money we’re spending on it.

LETTERS But I just think the most important thing, if we’re going to overcome the climate crisis, is to keep in mind that the cause of the clean energy crisis isn’t from within our machines, it’s from To the Editor: within ourselves.

Re Mike Zagata’s March 14 remarks about socialism, the National Debt, and energy: • Our health, education and welfare can be entrusted to our legislatures and executives whom we vote in or out. Or they can be run by big corporations over which we have almost no includes tax exemptions flood waters. If this site is control. paved over, how will wetland granted of $43,000 per job, • Social security, our public schools and Medicare may be mitigation and stormwater and expenses of $33,483 per socialistic, but whatever we call them, they serve us pretty well. control be handled and job gained. How many jobs • Yes, the national debt is much too high, but Reagan and paid for? will the Railyards developTrump raised it and Clinton lowered it. And two big reasons it’s Further, the DGEIS calls ment create? Can we afford so high are excess military spending and reduced tax income for extensive road work in the these costs for construction from the very rich. city and the town. What costs of a heavy industrial park in • If we do need more nuclear power, let it be under profesand impacts will this have on Oneonta? We must insist on sional … not for-profit management! residents? rational development based on NICHOLAS CUNNINGHAM M.D, D.Ph. facts, not false choices.

Finally, the DGEIS must Springfield Center disclose the true costs of the Just this month, Oneonta proposed development to proudly issued a Downtown ratepayers and taxpayers.

Revitalization Initiative and a The gas supply cost is proposed new Comprehensive estimated as $17.5 million Plan, celebrating its environsial land-use proposal with an LAPIN/From A5 for the decompressor alone, mental assets and boasting applicant who is accustomed adjacent property, including and $50-100 million for of its two universities and to aggressive tactics to get Oneonta Christian Academy, expansion of the DeRuyter advanced medical facilities. their way. Is this the kind of only two months to respond. pipeline. Additional millions For its part, the county has There has been little or development we want in the will be spent for miles of appointed an Energy Task City of Oneonta? no meaningful attempt at pipelines to bring the gas to Force, with representation Rather than taxpayersustained public engagement the Railyards. Otsego Now is from the city, to investigate funded new construction, or empowerment. also considering an electric energy needs and supply in we should focus on infill As the county representapower plant at the site. What the region. Shouldn’t Oneonta tive serving the Sixth Ward, development. We should will the total costs be for these await the results of this work rehabilitate properties that I have not been invited to developments? before shackling Oneonta to could house populations in speak with RSS representaOtsego Now has a terrible a future out of sync with its need throughout our City. We tives. Rather, in a response track record for cost control. own planning documents, should explore those opporto concerns aired by the City State comptroller records burdening the City for decades of Oneonta in January 2019, tunities before considering show that Otsego Now has to come with infrastructure RSS’s divisive project.

RSS elected to label those of spent as much as $76,000 costs it cannot afford?

DANNY LAPIN us concerned about the project per job created, much more NICOLE DILLINGHAM as NIMBYs. County Representative than similar agencies in President , Otsego 2000 Wards 5-6, Oneonta This inflammatory rhetoric neighboring counties. This Cooperstown by RSS combines a controver-

In Whom Do We Trust?

Wait For Energy Task Force Findings Before Acting On Railyards DGEIS/From A4 Oct. 15, 2018, that he was “completely unaware” of these plans when environmental review began.

As a result, the plans to construct gas infrastructure to supply gas to the railyards were not disclosed to the public as part of the SEQRA process. The DGEIS completely ignored these new plans, although by the time the Common Council voted in January 2019 to accept the DGEIS, both Mayor Herzig and Delaware Engineering were fully aware of these facts.

The failure to discuss the plans for construction of gas infrastructure in the DGEIS is a serious error. SEQRA requires that all related projects be considered as part of a coordinated environmental review. This clearly did not occur.

Due to this omission, the DGEIS must now be supplemented and the public given full notice of all plans for construction of infrastructure to supply energy to the site.

A revised GEIS must also consider alternatives to heavy

industrial development, such as an Eco-Park, constructed to the highest energy conservation standards and powered by renewable solar and/or geothermal energy.

It is significant that Mayor Herzig, the new Downtown Revitalization Initiative, and the new City of Oneonta Comp-rehensive Plan, all call for green and renewable energy to be used where possible. Why not at the railyards? This question should be answered, before this option is rejected.

There are additional questions which must be answered. It is common knowledge that the railyards is contaminated from prior industrial use. When soil is disturbed during excavation and construction it can release harmful particles, causing health risks for people breathing the air. How will this brownfield contamination be remediated and at what cost?

Also, the DGEIS calls for building directly on delineated wetlands that drain into the Susquehanna River and serve a crucial role in retaining

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THURSDAY, March 21, 2019

Feeling Unprotected, Anti-Windmill Bloc Takes Over Town Government BLOC/From A1 homes and “agri-tourism,” and prohibits windmills of the kind Monticello Hills proposed, and limits business generally.

The code’s fate it being decided by: • The three-person Zoning Commission, which drew up the plan. It includes of Sullivan, the chairman, and Carol Frigault, whose name appears on lawsuits against Monticello Hills. The third member, Brad Smith, the retired Cooperstown Central teacher and Richfield Springs school board member who lives along Canadarago Lake, is expected to vote aye as well.

• The five-person Planning Board, which is reviewing the zoning code now, prior to forwarding it to the Town Board. It consists of Sullivan, chairman, and three board members who others describe as Monticello Hills foes who favor of the plan: Mike Reid, Janet Sylvester and newly appointed Joe Zvirdin. The only member who may vote nay is Bill Klemm.

• The five-member Town Board, which is split 3-2 in favor, with board members Larry Frigault, Carol’s husband and a wind farm opponent, Rex Seamon and his nephew Kane, poised to vote aye. Town Supervisor Paul Palumbo, who isn’t running again this year, and Steve Eckler, who has been outspoken against the plan, are expected to vote nay. (A test vote came two months ago, when Frigault and the Seamons were nays in an 3-2 vote that prevented the reappointment of Don Urtz to the Planning Board, where he’d served 30 years, much of it as chairman.)

If the zoning ordinance were to be adopted, appeals of its provisions would go to the Zoning Board of Appeals, where Tim Cantwell, Carol Frigault’s brother, is chairman.

In short, windmills foes – vulnerable six years ago – now control the Zoning Commission, the Planning

vated to oppose Monticello Hills were also motivated to get involved in town government, he said.

He likened the situation to what happened in Meredith, Delaware County, captured in the movie “Windfall,” where turbine opponents ousted a longtime supervisor and took over the Town Board. There’s a link to the “Windfall” trailer on www.protectrichfield.com, the opponents’ website.

Larry Frigault, proprietor of a New Hartford insurance agency, concurred with Courtesy Observer Dispatch Sullivan. Energized, he ran Fearful that town twice for Town Board, losing government wouldn’t the first time. Now he can protect them from the say of the pending zoning Monticello Hills Wind code, “Industrial wind is not Farm, the Frigaults an allowed use.” got involved in town One potential hurdle that government. He is a remains is the state’s Town town board member; Law 265, which can require a she serves on the 4-1 super-majority for Town Planning Board.

Board approval. To force that, Board, the Town Board and owners of 20 percent of the the Zoning Board of Appeals, land in the Town of Richfield the whole apparatus of must sign a petition.

Richfield town government.

Palevsky said he has And, “industrial wind is not circulated petitions and has an allowed use,” said Larry the necessary signatures, Frigault, adding, “I think (the (although it is unclear Zoning Commission) has done whether he should have a really good waited until the job. I’ve read the zoning code is ordinance and I actually approved.) like it.”

“I have not submitted it,” he Cynthia Andela, presisaid, “but I have dent of Andela in hand something Products, the like 25 percent Town Supervisor glass-recycling Paul Palumbo, of land included company, said right, and Zoning in the zoning the zoning Commission chair change.” code was put Sullivan was Dan Sullivan, left, together by skeptical, and said are on different “people with an sides on the new he works closely agenda.” “The zoning code. with county plan was written Planning Director to prohibit windmills, to Karen Sullivan (not related), prohibit business, and to and she’s assured him the prohibit businesses on Route law won’t apply in this case.

20,” she said.

Asked about it, she said, “I’m Palevsky and even Sullivan not right now ready to talk and Larry Frigault agreed through that,” but she did that the anti-wind group has e-mail a copy of Town Law the upper hand, although 265, highlighting Page 52, the Sullivan, a retired teacher relevant passage.

Another moving part: from Rockland County and Otsego 2000 board member, With Palumbo retiring, petisaid “there was no grand tions to succeed him are due design.” Rather, people moti- April 1-4 at the county Board

The proposed Town of Richfield zoning code originally limited business to the orange area adjacent to the Village of Richfield Springs.

That may now be adjusted.

of Elections at The Meadows, Town of Middlefield.

Palevsky, the former supervisor, said he’s planning to run again. Also circulating petitions is the Rev. David Simonds, pastor of Touchpoint Fellowship Church, who’s been going door to door with petitions, telling prospective voters he hoped to bring the community together. Other candidates may still surface.

The chain of events now reaching a peak began in the summer 2015, when Otsego Now obtained a $200,000 grant to hired Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, to created an updated Comprehensive Master Plan for the town and Village of Richfield Springs.

By that time, “Protect Richfield” was already in court seeking to block the Monticello Hills turbines.

At the outset, Sullivan said, Elan planners – principal Lisa Nagle and a staff planner – advised 15 people involved in the town-village effort to begin working on zoning to expedite eventual outcomes.

So when the Comp Plan update was issued, a zoning code was unveiled the following week, which avoided public input, Palevsky said. “Most of the law remains entirely in the dark as to its origin,” he said, and no town-wide survey was done.

Sullivan and his allies, however, say, at Elan’s recommendation, two well-

attended “charrettes” – gatherings designed to focus public inputs – were held.

The process culminated Tuesday, March 12, when the Zoning Commission convened a public hearing in the high school cafeteria, which Palevsky said was three-quarters filled, adding, “Everyone who spoke in favor of the law was one of the people on the lawsuit against the windmills.”

People who spoke against the plan were concerned it will limit business, said Palumbo, the town supervisor. “That’s the issue: 85-90 percent of the entire map is home-based business only,” he said. “You can’t have a convenience store on Route 20 heading toward Richfield Springs.”

However, last Friday, March 15, Andela said, she met with Sullivan, and he agreed to several key changes.

For one, in the “Route 20 overlay” zone that would limit development to 500 feet on each side of the center line. Sullivan agreed

to widen that to 1,000 feet, although Andela said she isn’t sure that’s enough.

Two, in “home businesses,” the only enterprises allowed within the ag zones that comprise most of the zoning map and include such enterprises as contractors. The proposed code allowed no more than three employees, but Sullivan agreed to remove the limit altogether, Andela said.

She would still like to see the business zone expanded; the code limits it to a small area around the village that can be served by municipal water and sewer. And she would like to see While the action now moves to the Town Board, the question that started the resulting ferment is still unanswered: on May 21, 2015, the Appellate Division if state Supreme Court reversed a lower court, affirming a town Planning Board special-use permit and allowing the project to go forward.

And, Monticello Hill’s Manager Patrick Doyle – the company is affiliated with Maple Hill Wind, which erected 195 windmills outside Lowville on the Tug Hill plateau – said 11 neighbors of the projects signed documents of support, as did another 10 landowners in the neighborhood.

A Siena Poll conducted for Monticello Hill’s also found a sizeable majority of town and village residents support the project, he said.

Asked about the future, Doyle said, “Good projects never die.”

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His personal cheering section whoops for Ryan Lansing and the CCS Hawkeyes as the team headed for the first boys’ basketball state title in school history Sunday, March 17. From left are Kevin Lansing, Emily Stupka, Krista Stupka, Dave Stupka (sitting), Mara Hartwell (sitting), Dustin Collier (sitting behind Mara), Kristen Lansing, Jacob Lansing (standing behind Kristen) Wendy Lansing and Hollie Lansing.

Saturday’s Triple OT Braced CCS Hawkeyes For Sunday Win

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COOPERSTOWN ongtime CCS basketball fan Fred Lemister knows a championship team when he sees one.

“I have seen remarkable teams and remarkable talent on that floor,” he said. “But I have never seen the cohesion, the camaraderie that I saw in this team.”

This is the first time a Cooperstown boys varsity basketball team brought home a Class C state championship – as Hawkeyes or Redskins – in a 71-61 win over the Middle Early

College Kats of Buffalo on Sunday, March 17.

“I was confident going into the season, knowing the kids I had and the kind of leadership involved,” said Head Coach John Lambert. “I’ve had them in my grasp since third and fourth grade, and they’re a special group.”

Escorted home up Route 28 by fire trucks, and boys mounted the aerial truck and the 1952 Mack and were carried down to the flagpole to be hailed by fans.

Lambert, in his first year of coaching, is the second line in a family legacy that now includes his son, senior Jack Lambert. His father,

Paul, also coached CCS basketball, and Lambert himself was on the ‘85 and ‘86 sectional championship team.

“I know there’s a coach up in heaven who’s super proud right now,” he said. “I may be the guy who brought the plaque home first, but there were a lot of great players and coaches before us.”

Saturday’s semi against the Greenport Porters at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton stretched into triple overtime before the Hawkeyes were able to break out for a 10-point lead, Please See HISTORY, B3

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CCS guard Jack Lambert, left, won Class C Championship’s Most Valuable Player; sophomore center John Kennedy made the AllTournament Team.

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A crowd favorite on Sunday, John Kennedy goes for a shot against Jamond Jones and Ja’kari Nettles.

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Fancy footwork like Calvin Sandler’s, right, kept the Kats like Keyunte Jones on their toes.

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Ryan Lansing shows his speed, dashing past Jamond Jones during the Sunday, March 17, state championship game at Binghamton, which Cooperstown won, 71-61, to bring home CCS’ first boys’ basketball title.

Noah Lifgren jumps for a shot against Traemelle StevensRichardson and Anthony Smith of the Middle Early College Kats.

The moment of victory!

Captain Jack Lambert, Coach John Lambert, Noah Lifgren, John Kennedy and Calvin Sandler leap to their feet and rush onto the court to meet their team as their victory of the state championship becomes final.

Fans cheer the returning heroes at “The Flagpole” in downtown Cooperstown late Sunday afternoon.

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Flu Bout At Midseason Buoyed Hawkeyes For Run To Finals HISTORY/From B1 ending the game at 108-98 achieving another first: most points scored in a Class C Final Four game.

“That game was the best boys’ basketball game I have ever seen,” said Jack Vineyard, the former baseball coach who has followed the team since moving to Cooperstown in the 1970s. “Jack Lambert is smooth on the court and his shots are so beautiful. John Kennedy has improved so much this year, and Noah Lifgren is in the game every minute he’s on that court.”

Just over 24 hours later, the boys were back on the court noon Sunday before a full stand of cheering fans, and handily defeated the Kats, who lagged 10

points behind for the majority of the game, closing the gap to eight points in the third quarter but never getting any closer.

“I thought it would be tougher,” said Kennedy, the 6-foot-8 former wrestler who joined the team this year as center. “I think that us winning yesterday carried over into today.”

On Sunday, the team’s fancy footwork helped propel them to the lead early on, with Jesse Furnari scoring the first basket.

“We have to be strong with the ball and trust that he’ll be there when you pass,” said Jack. “It’s all about trust.”

“We run passing drills every practice,” said his father. “Some teams don’t.”

Those practices paid off on

Sunday. “Jesse passed to Ryan Lansing, who passed to Noah, who passed to Jack, who carried for three points,” said the coach. “You just saw the wind go out of their sails.”

With 20 seconds to go, the crowd began singing the Alma Mater, and jumped to their feet with a deafening roar when the buzzer went off.

“To say you expect to be here is arrogant,” said Lambert. “But if you believe you won’t, you will never make it.”

But the season wasn’t without its low points.

In early February, with Lifgren out with the flu and other players under the weather, the boys lost to Holland Patent on a Friday, and on Monday lost a second game to

Utica Academy of Science.

“They gave it everything they had, but in 72 hours, we lost two games,” said Lambert. “But it was a blessing in disguise, and it helped them refocus on the rest of the season.”

The Hawkeyes faced Utica Academy of Science again in the sectional championship on Sunday, March 3, at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, and trailed until the fourth quarter, when they managed to rally and defeat the Atoms 61-57.

Following Sunday’s Championship win, the Hawkeyes arrived back in Cooperstown to a fire truck parade, and tributes are sure to follow.

For instance, state Sen. Jim

Seward, R-Milford, said he’s planning to honor the team with a resolution on the Senate floor and a pizza party at the Capitol.

“What a team, what a season and what an honor not only for Cooperstown, but for my entire region, to see them bring home a state title,” he said. “I’m looking forward to having them in the galley as all of New York State applauds their achievement.”

Though eight of his seniors graduate at the end of this year, Kennedy, Lansing and Spencer Lewis will remain, and Lambert says he has several JV players anxious to join the varsity team, and he will continue coaching.

“We wouldn’t have won without him,” said son Jack.

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Drago’s ’jackets Reached Pinnacle In 1960

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efying predictions, a boys’ basketball team from a small Otsego County town takes an early, wide lead over a big city team in the state’s final tournament, dominates throughout, and wins its first-ever state championship.

That happened on Sunday, March 17, 2019, when Cooperstown’s Hawkeyes beat Buffalo’s Middle Early College,

71-61, for the Class C state championship.

Almost 60 years ago, March 27, 1960, virtually the same thing happened.

The local team was the Oneonta High School Yellowjackets.

In 1960, the boys took an early, wide lead over Syracuse Central Tech, kept the lead throughout the game – at one point, they were 19 points ahead – and won, 64-53. It was OHS’ – and the county’s – first state-level win.

“They called that game ‘The Meetin’ of the Unbeaten,’” recalled

Tony Drago, now 96, the legendary OHS basketball coach who then coached the team to sectional titles in 1962 and 1964. “Oneonta was undefeated and Syracuse Central Tech was undefeated.”

In those days, high schools were divided into 11 sections and the sectional championship signaled the end of play. There was no competition between sections for a class-level statewide title, as there is today.

So Tony considers the Hawkeyes true state champs, and his team sectional champs – although his Yellowjackets went as far as they could at the time.

The Syracuse Lancers, were considered “the best shooting team,” according to a March 28, 1960, newspaper account the final game. But the Yellowjackets dominated throughout.

“We took a pretty big lead in the beginning,” Drago said.

That “pretty big lead” was 12-0 within six minutes.

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By halftime, the Lancers managed to get the score to 30-16. But the Yellowjackets landed 59 percent of their shots, the newspaper reported, which “had Tony Drago shaking his head in disbelief at the uncanny accuracy of his own team.”

“My kids played the game of their lives,” Drago said. “Six thousand people watched it.”

News of the Yellowjackets HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal victory over the Lancers Reviewing paper coverage from 1960, legendary spread quickly to Syracuse. Oneonta coach Tony Drago relives his unbeaten, untied Yellowjacket team’s finest hour.

“My best friend from OHS, Charlie Swart, lived in Syracuse and had played Lambert in 1949, who was One difference, he said, is for the Syracuse profesyoung Jack’s grandfather, the changes in some of the sional basketball team,” who was Cooperstown’s rules in basketball. said Drago with a chuckle.

MVP. And he is the “We didn’t have a “He said to me after we won, father of the coach, John 30-second clock or a three‘Because of what you’ve Lambert.” point shot,” he said. “If I done, you’ve made living in “Paul Lambert married got ahead by two points, I Syracuse easy for me.’”

Barbara Syron,” he continued, could just sit on the ball so As a former basketball joking that Jack Lambert’s the other team doesn’t get coach of a thrice-state basketball prowess was a chance to shoot and get championship team, Drago “those Lambert-Syron genes ahead. And there was no followed the Hawkeyes’ at work again.” three-point shot.” games throughout the But Drago said there were The 30-second rule season and was thrilled at two differences between the especially, he said, “makes their victory on Sunday.

Yellowjackets’ 1960 and the the game more exciting now “I also watched because Hawkeyes’ 2019 historic and forces players to think there’s a little bit of history wins that he believes made more strategically and use involved here for me,” the latter’s victory more more skills.”

Drago said. “I knew Paul impressive.

But the main difference he sees is OHS won a sectional title in 1960 while Cooperstown “truly” earned the state championship this year.

“When I was Oneonta’s basketball coach, New York State was divided into 11 sections,” he explained.

“In 1960, Oneonta won their section, the Section 3 championship. The highest We’re very proud of you all! level you could win was at the sectional level.”

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he date is uncertain. But it happened at the Clark Gymnasium in a building on Cooperstown’s Main Street a few years before the turn of the 20th Century. Someone propelled a large round ball into the cone of a metal hoop in the middle of the gym floor “to score a basket” for the first time.

Likely no day has since passed in the intervening 125 years in this village without a ball passing through a hoop. First conceived as a winter indoor agility and upper-body exercise by Dr. James Naismith at Springfield College in western Massachusetts, basketball evolved into a competitive enterprise separately for both genders before World War I. By the 1920s basketball had emerged as a favored winter indoor sport.

In the spring of 1925, Red Bursey, a four-letter man and

All-American athlete from Springfield College, arrived to become the high school’s first collegetrained coach in basketball, baseball, TOM football and HEITZ swimming.

Bursey’s tenure at Cooperstown Central School extended into the 1960s and his life in the community 20 years beyond that.

Fifty years ago, in mid-February 1969, the school district dedicated its new gymnasium to Bursey.

Since 1969, more than 1,200 basketball games, played by girls and boys, have taken place there.

Along with basketball, hundreds of other athletic contests and events have been held in Bursey Gym. But, most of all, Bursey

Gymnasium has been the venue where our youth, both boys and girls, have been coached, have practiced and competed in basketball games.

They have learned to play together, to play fairly, within the rules, unafraid and respectful of opponents, to win or lose gracefully.

While our children demonstrate their enthusiasm and love for basketball, Bursey Gymnasium is where we gather to witness their skills, not just as parents, but as a community. And not infrequently, parents and grandparents watch wistfully as their children, their grandchildren and perhaps one day their great grandchildren, engage in basketball competition on Bursey’s hardwood floor.

However, Bursey Gymnasium has never been the only basketball venue in our community. The Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium of the 1890s, long since re-

located to a sprawling campus in Middlefield, has become a nursery for future Cooperstown basketball players, both boys and girls. Available at times and seasons when the school is closed, the Clark’s gym floor serves as an incubator for future hoop stars.

There, expert instruction, competitive peer experience, and hours of solitary practice have honed the skills of basketball athletes for decades.

Last Sunday, at Binghamton, the Cooperstown Hawkeyes’ boys won a Class C New York State Championship.

I have been privileged for the past 30 years to be the public address announcer at home games at Bursey for the Cooperstown boys’ teams. But, I first encountered most members of the current 2019 New York State Class C championship team at the Clark Sports Center.

Their ages were then but single

digits. They could barely dribble or raise the ball to the hoop.

Years passed, and as I took my exercise on the track above the Clark Sports Center gymnasium, I saw them grow from peewees into sizable teenagers and formidable basketball players under the tutelage of “Living-Legend” coach Sharky Nagelschmidt.

In recent years, the current Hawkeyes came into the care of junior varsity coach John Lambert, himself a former player, now completing his first year as varsity coach.

Truly, the Cooperstown Hawkeyes’ boys’ team of 2018-19 accomplished something of multigenerational proportions. It will echo through their lifetimes and resonate in our own memories for decades to come.

Tom Heitz, 30-year announcer for Cooperstown home games and a former Hall of Fame librarian, lives in Fly Creek.

Beloved Tradition Now, Welcome-Home Parade Dates Back To 1999 And Girls’ State Soccer Title

By JENNIFER HILL COOPERSTOWN

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n Sunday, fire trucks and throngs of people up and down Main Street greeted the state champion CCS Hawkeyes’ boys’ basketball team with sirens and cheers.

It’s a given now: When a CCS team wins the Class C state championship, the fire department breaks out its fleet and people pour out onto the streets to celebrate the top athletes’ victories.

But this special ritual wasn’t always around, and how it started 20 years ago was no accident. In 1999, CCS girls’ soccer team tied Cold Spring Harbor in the

finals at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta to become a state co-champion, the first in the school’s soccer program.

That same year, Gary Kuch, now Otsego town justice and Clark Scholarship Foundation director, was both CCS’s principal and Cooperstown fire chief.

As principal, Kuch saw what an important moment it was for the girls’ soccer team to play in state finals, not just for the school, but for the community as a whole.

“I asked businesses and people in the community to donate money, and I used it to have seven buses take school children to the game,” he said. “It was a big deal.”

“More people than just

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parents watched that game,” Kuch said. “There were a lot of people there.”

Kuch went to the game as well. As he watched the girls tie and become state co-champions, he put his fire chief’s helmet on.

“I started calling – assistant chiefs, drivers – to set up a parade for the girls,” Kuch said. “They were such a tremendous act and a class act. I wanted us to appreciate them.”

“It was more challenging to do it back then without cell phones,” he added.

Village firefighters leaped into action. They readied the fire trucks, including the 1952 vintage Mack that carried some of the boys Sunday, plus the hook-andladder. The flurry of action at the firehouse and a few

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Next time you’re at the Doubleday Cafe, check out this photo of that first-ever welcome-home parade for the CCS 1999 Girls’ Varsity Soccer Team, state co-champions.

the trucks, with some sitting in the old Mack’s bucket seats. Fire department volunteers stood on the trucks to make sure they didn’t fall off. The trucks drove off down Chestnut Street to people’s cheers.

Kuch left his position as principal in 2009 to become Worcester Central superintendent, but his colleagues

at the school continued the tradition.

“Unbeknownst to me, the fire parade was a cool idea,” Kuch said. “Firemen love parades.”

This year, Hartwick’s and Fly Creek’s departments joined in the parade, too since those towns are now part of the Cooperstown Central School District.

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well-placed calls brought out the crowd.

“It spread like wildfire,” Kuch quipped.

When the girls arrived, six firetrucks were waiting for them and townsfolk had lined up alongside Main and Chestnut Streets, holding signs they had already drawn up.

“People had made signs before we got there,” Kuch recalled. “The fire department already had a sign at the station and signs on the trucks.

“Everyone just stopped what they were doing. They came out of restaurants – diners and staff. Out of businesses, homes, and they watched. Main and Chestnut streets were packed,” Kuch said.

The girls climbed on to

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Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Nationwide Fundraising, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 2/19/2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Nicholas Mangano PO Box 183 4285 State Hwy 28 Milford, NY 13807-1143 Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.25 Legal nOtice PLEASE TAKE NOTICE Invitations to submit a proposal will be received by the Town of Oneonta for work to remove the existing Air Conditioner units/ condensers located at Town hall and replace them with comparable Air Conditioner units and condensers.

Proposals are subject to prevailing wage rates as established under the New York State Department of Labor prevailing wage case #2019003212 at www.labor.state. ny.us.

Specifications are available at Town Hall, 3966 State Highway 23, West Oneonta, NY 13861 (607-4322900).

All proposals must be enclosed in a securely sealed envelope with the notation “PROPOSAL – CONDITIONERS”.

Proposals will be accepted at Town Hall, c/o Cheryl L. Shackelton, Town Clerk, P.O. Box A, 3966 St. Hwy. 23, West Oneonta, NY 13861 until 5:00 pm on April 8, 2019 at which time they will be publicly opened.

The Town reserves the right to reject any and all proposals.

Cheryl L. Shackelton Town Clerk 1LegalMar.21 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Articles of Organization of Keto Mena, LLC (“LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on March 6, 2019, effective on the date of filing.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 137 Valley View Estates Road, Maryland, New York 12116, which shall be the principal business location.

The purpose for which the LLC is formed is to engage in any lawful act or

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activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the NYS Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalApr.25 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: All The Perks LLC Article of Organization file date with Secretary of State on 2/26/2019 Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY Shall mail copy of process to: 699 Fish and Game Rd., Burlington Flats, NY 13315 Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.18 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name:

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CNY INDOOR GROW SUPPLY & MORE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/2018.

Office location, County of Otsego.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: any lawful act.

6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of LVM DAIRY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/16/2018.

Office loc: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1148 State Highway 80, Edmeston, NY 13335.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Sagasti Properties, LLC.

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Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 5 March 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 39 Prospect Street, Oneonta, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: DRI 6, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 5 March 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street Suite 11, Oneonta, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.18 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of North Landing Property Group LLC Filed 1/3/19 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 149 County Highway 44, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. EF2018-627 Mortgaged Premises: 7 SIVER STREET A/K/A 7 SILVER STREET UNADILLA, NY 13849 District: Section: 334.14 Block: 1 Lot: 48.00 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2004 PARK PLACE SECURITIES, INC. ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2004MHQ1, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

MARY PIZZA, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD A. PIZZA; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD A. PIZZA any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors,

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trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the abovenamed Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $61,655.00 and interest, recorded on October 18, 2004, at Liber 1376 Page 35, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 7 SIVER STREET A/K/A 7 SILVER STREET UNADILLA, NY 13849.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial

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because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: SAHAR HAMLANI, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of JANKY PAINTING & TOILET COMPANY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/22/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to : 505 Cornish Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. EF2018-507 Mortgaged Premises: 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 A/K/ A 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 GILBERTSVILLE A/K/A BUTTERNUTS, NY 13776 Section: 283.00 Block: 1 Lot: 13.02 F/K/A Part of Lot 13 DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, Plaintiff,

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Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

DANIEL MILLS, SR., AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; BARBARA PALMER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; STEPHANIE MYLES, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; if living, and if she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF MARLENE GAIL WARD; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE;

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF THE CWHEQ INC., HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-S4, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the abovenamed Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $64,000.00 and interest, recorded on September 2, 2005, at Liber 1458 Page 300, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 A/K/A 1590 COUNTY HIGHWAY 4 GILBERTSVILLE A/K/A BUTTERNUTS, NY 13776.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on

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the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: DYZIO J. GUZIEROWICZ, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalMar.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation Limited Liability Company (LLC) The name of the LLC is Sal’s Pizza of Cooperstown LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on February 14, 2019.

The purpose for which the LLC has been formed is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is to be located is Otsego.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 704 Sachem Circle, Slingerlands, NY 12159.

6LegalApr.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) 24 34 Property Holding, LLC, Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/16/19.

Office Location: Chenango County.

SSNY designated LLC agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 24 34 Property Holding, LLC, Attn: Michael O’Reilly, 1103 County Road 19, Norwich, NY 13815.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Date of dissolution:

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6LegalApr.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company GOLDEN GRIFFINS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 11 February 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

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

6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 127 State Highway 165, LLC Articles of Org. Filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/13/19.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon Whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Emily Cooperstein, 1270 County Highway 33, Cooperstown,NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose 6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Leatherstocking Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 5, 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

The SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom processes against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC, 328 Stone House Road Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

6LegalMar.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of RFP Management LLC Art. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/13/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 6 Orchard Street, Oneonta, New York 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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THURSDAY, march 21, 2019

OBITUARIES Richard S. Armstrong, 95; Eminent Cleric, Local Pastor’s Father

COOPERSTOWN – The Rev. Dr. Richard Stoll Armstrong, 18 days shy of his 95th birthday, died peacefully at his home at the Princeton Windrows in Plainsboro Township, N.J., on March 11, 2019, surrounded by his children and beloved caregiver.

Born in Baltimore, Md., on March 29, 1924, he was the second child of Elsie Stoll Armstrong and Herbert Eustace Armstrong, Sr. Dick, as he was known to his family and friends,

grew up in Baltimore and attended McDonogh School, a semi-military academy in Owings Mills, Md..

After graduating from McDonogh in 1942, Dick was awarded a Maryland Regional baseball scholarship to Princeton University, where he majored in economics. He played varsity basketball one season and varsity baseball on five different teams, including two war-time summer seasons, and was the only freshman on the

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1943 baseball team. He was awarded the Underclassman Cup in 1943.

Having enlisted in the Navy in December 1942, Dick was assigned to a V-12 unit at Princeton as an apprentice seaman, and was ordered to the Navy Supply Corps School in the Midshipmen/Officers Course (MOC) at Harvard School of Business Administration in June, 1944.

He was commissioned as ensign that October, and after graduating from the MOC in May 1945, was assigned to the USS Chandeleur as disbursing officer, and later promoted to supply officer.

Dick was Honorably Discharged as lieutenant (jg) from the Navy in July 1946 and that September, reentered Princeton as a senior under the G.I. Bill, graduating in June 1947.

In January 1948, Dick married the love of his life, Margaret Frances Childs (Wellesley, 1947) in a ceremony in the Princeton University Chapel. He served as the business manager for the minor

league Portsmouth Athletics in the OhioIndiana League (19481949), and then as the Rev. Dr. first public Richard S. relations Armstrong, director for two major league clubs, the Philadelphia Athletics (1949-1952) and Baltimore Orioles (1953-1955).

In October 1953, Dick was lured back into professional baseball when he had the opportunity to establish the first public relations department for the new American League Baltimore Orioles, where his father had also been appointed business manager. Among Dick’s then innovative ideas as the Orioles’ first PR director were creating the first “live” Major League mascot, “Mr. Oriole,” who made his debut in 1954 and developing the first Major League club fan survey. A permanent “Dick Armstrong Collection” has been

established at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1958, Dick began his pastorate career, serving as pastor of both the Oak Lane Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia (1958-1968) and Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis (1974-1980), and minister of worship at the Interdenominational Congregation of Pennswood Village in Newtown, Pa. (2002-2018), Dick was an exceptionally creative person who wrote poetry and music throughout his life. His song “The Connie Mack Swing,” published in 1950 as part of the year-long Golden Jubilee celebration Dick created to commemorate legendary Philadelphia Athletics’ owner/manager Connie Mack’s 50 years with the club, became the A’s unofficial theme song while still in Philadelphia..

Dick is survived by his son-in-law, Michael Kanarek; his son and daughter-in-law Andrew and Caroline Armstrong;

his son and daughter-inlaw William (Woody) and Christine Armstrong; his daughter and son-in-law the Reverend Elsie and Thomas Rhodes; his grandson Derek Kanarek and his wife Rebecca; his grandson Graham Kanarek and his wife Marnie; his grandson Orion Kanarek; his granddaughter Alyssa McGlinn and her husband Francis; his granddaughter Olivia Armstrong; his grandson Seth Olsen and his wife Mary; his grandson Samuel Rhodes; his great-grandsons Charlie, Will, Elliott, Gabriel and Julian; step-greatgrandson Chili; and a large extended family of nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased by his devoted wife of nearly 66 years, Margaret Childs Armstrong, brother Herbert Eustace Armstrong, Jr., daughter Ellen Armstrong Kanarek, and son Richard Stoll Armstrong, Jr. Burial will be private.

A memorial service is planned 1:30 p.m., May 9, Miller Chapel, Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer St., Princeton.

Genevieve Licci, 92; Moved To County To Be Near Daughter FLY CREEK – Genevieve M. Licci, 92, Fly Creek, died Saturday morning, March 16, 2019, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing.

Born Oct. 2, 1926, in Queens, she was adopted as a baby by John and Catherine (Sullivan) Kelly.

On March 25, 1945, Genevieve married Anthony Joseph Licci according to the Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Church of St. Gabriel in Corona.

She was first employed as a long-distance telephone operator for New York Telephone, and then became a hairstylist and was employed in this capacity at Pilgrim State Psychiatric Hospital in Brentwood on Long Island.

Upon their retirement, Genevieve and Anthony moved to Leesburg, Fla., in 1983. In 2000, they moved to Fly Creek, where they resided on a farm near their daughter’s home.

Genevieve is survived by her loving daughter, Ann Carr and her husband, Richard of Fly Creek; her devoted son, Carl (Chuck) Licci and his wife, Luisa, of Fruitland Park, Fla.; eight grandchildren, April

(Richard) Sirvinsky, Richard (Kim) Carr, Sandra and Eric Licci, and Frank, Richard, Valerie and Nicholas Scilabro; her niece, Patricia (Nicholas) Cioffi of Cape Coral, Fla.; and four nephews, Nicholas Cioffi, Jr., James Kelly and Charles and Joseph Licci. She will be truly missed by her

great-grandchildren, Lauren, Alex and Marissa Carr and Stefanie Scilabro.

Genevieve and Anthony were married for 63 years.

She was predeceased by her husband, Anthony, who died Oct. 28, 2008, and two brothers, Charles and William Kelly.

A service to commemo-

rate the life of Genevieve M. Licci will be offered later this Spring.

She will be laid to rest with her husband in the Fly Creek Valley Cemetery.

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

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO

Friday March 22

CRAFT & CHAT – 3:30 p.m.

Bring current knit, crochet project and chat with the group. Ages 10+. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

RUMMAGE SALE – 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Find great bargains at annual rummage sale.

Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown. 607-547-9515.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. The Mask & Hammer Theatre Club presents “The Shadow Box” about three terminally ill patients as they face the end of their lives. $5, $3/student. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Center, SUNY Oneonta.

Info, tickets.oneonta.edu.

Saturday, March 23

RUMMAGE SALE – 9-11 a.m.

Bag Sale. United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown. 607-547-9515.

MAPLE SEASON – 9 a.m. Noon. Tour exhibit on local maple syrup production. Free coloring books, temporary tattoos! The Edmeston Museum, 1 North St., Edmeston.

MEET AND GREET – 12-2 p.m. “Pawsitive Pawsibilities at the Y” aims to connect families with companion animals from Susquehanna SPCA. YMCA lobby, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607547-8111.

HISTORY TALK – 1:30 p.m.

Historian Tom Heitz speaks on “How Print Advertising Reflects and Documents Local History.”

Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-0960.

DINNER – 5:30 p.m. Kenyan cuisine buffet to raise money for The Mali Education Project. $15 adults. Unitarian Universalist Society, 75 Ford Ave, Oneonta. Info, reservations 607-433-1272.

CONCERT – 8 p.m. The Tesla Quartet performs as part of the

Honest Brook Music Festival. $30. Stamford Methodist Church, 88 Main St, Stamford. Info, tickets 607-746-3770.

COFFEE HOUSE – 7 - 9 p.m.

Music in range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome.

Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church. Church Rd., Schuyler Lake. 315-858-2575.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. The Mask & Hammer Theatre Club presents “The Shadow Box” See Friday March 22 for details.

Sunday, March 24

PANCAKE BREAKFAST – 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sugaring Off Sundays include pancake breakfast with fresh maple syrup, demonstrations and tours of The Farmers’ Museum. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Route 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org.

MEET AND GREET – 12-4 p.m.

“Sundays at Brandow’s” aims to connect new families with companion animals from the Susquehanna SPCA. Brandow’s Feed & Seed, 4119 NY-7, Oneonta. 607-547-8111.

THEATER – 2 p.m. The Mask & Hammer Theatre Club presents “The Shadow Box”. See Friday March 22 for details.

Monday, March 25

TAI CHI – 10-11 a.m. Tai Chi for Arthritis classes for ages 60 and older. Free, donations accepted, registration and commitment to a minimum of 11 classes required. Meadows Complex, 140 County Hwy 33W, Cooperstown. 607-547-4232.

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

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

315-858-0230.

BOOK TALK – 2:00 p.m.

Author Jim Johnson tells of the

1919 fishing trip of 4 men in the Adirondacks detailed in his new book at Woodside Hall, One Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-0600 Ext 101.

AWARDS – 5:30 p.m. Reception honoring the 10 village properties recognized by the Historic Preservation and Architectural Review Board. All welcome. Ballroom, Village Hall, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, Liz Callahan, 607-437-1934

Tuesday, March 26

GATHERING PLACE – 2 p.m.

Jim Johnson presents “See You Next Year: 15 Days of Early Angling in the Adirondacks” about 4 friends from Upstate New York headed to the southern Adirondacks in 1919. Refreshments to follow. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-5470600 ext. 101.

Wednesday, March 27

OPEN HOUSE – 4-6 p.m.

Tour Woodside Hall, enjoy light refreshments and music by Jack Cooper. 1 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, Janet Sylvester, 607-5470600 ext. 102.

WRITERS GROUP – 5 p.m.

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

518-673-2314.

MAPLE SEASON – 6 -8 p.m..

Tour an exhibit on local maple syrup production. Free coloring books and temporary tattoos!

The Edmeston Museum, 1 North St., Edmeston.

LECTURE – 6:30 p.m. Dr. Carmen Greenwood and Theresa Oellrich discuss “Ticks & Lyme Disease: What You Need to Know.” Free, pre-registration requested. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, registration, www.occainfo.org.

Thursday, March 28

TAI CHI – 10-11 a.m. Tai Chi for Arthritis classes for ages 60 and older. See Monday listing.

CRAFT & CHAT – 3:30 p.m.

Bring your current knitting or crochet project and chat with the group. Ages 10+. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518673-2314.

PUBLIC SPEAKING – 6:15 p.m. Practice your public speaking with the Toastmasters.

The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Visit oneonta.toastmastersclubs.org TRIVIA BINGO – 7 p.m. Test your knowledge of history with the League of Women Voters in a trivia contest. Prizes, snacks available. Cooperstown Fire Hall, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown.

Info, cynthia.g.falk@gmail.com

All OTSEGO. opportunities Tour Guides Needed Enjoy working with the public? Tour guides needed at Hyde Hall Historic Site from Memorial Day through Oct 31. Contact Larry Smith at 607-547-5098 X5 or larrysmith@hydehall.org.

Friday March 29

TRAINING – 9 a.m. – noon.

Don Shelton teaches a threepart course on “Leadership for Supervisors.” Free, all attendees must be actively enrolled with the CDO Workforce. Also April 5 and April 11. CDO Workforce, 189 Main St., Suite 500, Oneonta.

Info, registration, Maggie Gilbert (607) 832-5781.

AWARENESS EVENT – 10 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Main Street Oneonta goes blue for colon cancer awareness. Raffles, refreshments, giveaways and take-home screening kits. Muller Plaza, Oneonta. Info, 1-888-345-0225, https://www.bassett.org/medical/services/cancer-institute/ cancer-services-program-centralregion THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Orpheus Theater performs “Damn Yankees.” $20 adults, $10 kids.

Bettiol Theatre, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Info, (607) 287-1288.

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