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Brownies sell cookies The girls of Brownie Troop 61019 set up shop over the weekend at Westlake Ace Hardware on Route 28 in Cooperstown to entice shoppers with boxes of the annual favorites, grate cookies for sale to delight sweet tooth cravings of all ages. Troop members Isabelle Oceguera, Chelsey Hribar, Helena Betancourt, and Sophia Vazquez handled the sales and inventory for the Sunday afternoon event; their troopmate Joselynn Flores was not able to join them but they were delighted to be sure we added her name to the picture.

INSIDE ►EDMESTON RACKS UP COINS FOR UKRAINE: The school’s Spanish Club challenged fellow students to empty their piggy banks and came up large, page 2. ►DONOR DRIVE: Cooperstown Central makes it easy for people to check their bone marrow donor status, page 6. ►GET A WASH (clap clap) RIGHT AWAY: Perhaps not right away, but a new car wash is headed to Oneonta’s southside, page 3. ►A FEW THOUGHTS ON IMPORTANT THINGS: Our columnists this week shine the spotlight on Otsego County’s Butternut Valley, connect the musical past to a revived musical’s present, ponder the possibility of an Andrew Cuomo redux, and focus forward at CCS, pages 4 and 5. ►COMMUNITY CALENDAR AND LOCAL BRIEFS: National Guard spotlight, state’s burn ban, and what’s happening around the County, page 10.

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Cooperstown Central School Junior / Senior High School Principal Karl O’Leary is out seven months into what was his first year at the district, escorted from the building on the afternoon of Friday, March 18.

Superintendent of Schools Sarah Spross told The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta the mid-year switch was “not a distraction for faculty, staff, or students” as they returned to the classrooms on Monday, March 21.

“There is a team of teachers and administrators here who are all about the kids,” she said. “They’ve executed graduations, AP exams, Regents exams, state-required exams. I’ve been here for a little more than a year, they’ve been here for years before that. First thing Monday morning I had people coming up to me to say ‘I can help with this’ and ‘let me help you with that.’ The teamwork here is phenomenal.”

The students, she said, are focused more on looking forward to closing out a school year free of the COVID restrictions that limited activity in the last two years.

“They’re so excited about things like the Senior Prom and class trip,” she said. “Morale and motivation are strong.”

Ms. Spross said she spent Monday meeting with staff across all levels of the school. Her immediate task, she said, is to ensure support for any projects left open prior to Friday’s dismissal.

“Transparency and communication are very important to me,” she said. “We met throughout the day — our core administrative team, the larger administrative team, grade Continued on page 6

Blood disorder stymies doctors as family perseveres (Editors note: Our January 13 edition included an update on Vincenza Alessi, the 2012 CCS grad whose bone marrow transplant didn’t take. We bring you up to date on her condition and urge you to get tested as a transplant participant. See sidebar for specifics.)

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“We brought Vincenza home to Cooperstown from Columbia Hospital in New York City about a month ago,” said Ln Alessi, Vincenza’s mother. “Her only option left is to have a second bone marrow transplant. We brought her home to strengthen her emotional, physical and psychological health. She must get stronger in all of those categories in order to have that second transplant.”

Since coming home to Cooperstown, the Alessi family goes to Bassett Medical Centers Oncology department three to five days a week, depending on Vincenza’s hemoglobin and platelet counts. “We spend several hours at the center just for the transfusion, then another half-hour to make sure she doesn’t have a reaction.”

A normal platelet count is between 150,000 and 450,000. Vincenza’s is 2.

A normal hemoglobin count is between 12 and 15 for women. Vincenza’s is 4.5.

“These transfusions are supposed to increase blood counts so she can live; the cells carry oxygen to her system,” Ln said. “After the transfusions, Vincenza’s cells are not Continued on page 6

Tackling big gas prices on small business tour Dutchess County Executive and Republican candidate in the race for Otsego County’s 19th Congressional District, Marc Molinaro, teamed up with New York State Senator Peter Oberacker and Assemblyman Chris Tague to visit the Singh Family’s Apple Food & Grocery on Route 28 in Milford to discuss small business challenges and the senator’s proposal that would suspend the state’s gas tax for the summer driving months. Pictured here in front of the market are, from left to right, Malkit Singh, Tony Singh, Inderjit Singh, Paul Singh, Monty Singh, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, Gurdev Singh, Assemblyman Chris Tague, Senator Peter Oberacker, Harry Singh and his daughter, Javin Singh, and Billy Singh. For more on the story, see page three.

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Edmeston Central students make change for Ukraine

Photo courtesy of Susie Knight

Each one of those jars on the table represent a class at Edmeston Central as they race toward $4,000 in donations to support Ukrainian refugees. They’re still collecting at press time and encourage everyone to empty their piggy banks to help a worthy cause! Pictured here from left to right are some of the members of the school’s Spanish Club: Susie Knight, advisor (kneeling), Caragen Gaiser, Ella May Sporaco, Arissa Bolton, Ella Tomlins, Collin McEnroe, Avery Bolton, Jennadee Cotten, Haylie Lund, Molly Rifanburg, Julia Vunk, Emily Spear, Austin Galley, Jason Reinert and Preston Graham.

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Edmeston Central School’s Spanish Club already had set March aside as International Month with the theme “Friends Around the World,” then made it a tangible outreach by hosting a coin drive competition to raise funds to aid the people of Ukraine.

Spanish Club advisor Susie Knight said the Edmeston Rotary Club approached her group with the idea to join forces in Ukraine relief efforts, explaining that Edmeston native son Eric Holdorf now lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. His club, Rotary Club Geneve International, partnered with a fellow Rotary in Faltaceni, Romania, near the Ukrainian border, to assist refugees escaping the wartorn nation.

Mr. Holdorf and a fellow Rotarian drove to Romania to deliver the funds they collected and immediately were put to work processing refugees, unloading and distributing trucks of donated goods, and filling in as needed to assist other relief workers.

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counting machine usage fee for the Spanish Club project (as it did for Milford Central School’s eighth grade coin drive for Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans in Oneonta), making the school’s partnership with the Rotary that much less burdensome.

Edmeston Rotary has donated $2,000 from its budget for disaster relief and from individual club member donations and, along with the school’s students, they continue to accept donations to pass along to the Switzerland Club’s on-the-ground efforts. Send a check payable to the Edmeston Rotary Club, P.O. Box 223, Edmeston, New York, 13335. The Club notes that such donations are not taxexempt, as individual Rotary clubs without specific foundations for accepting donations are not tax exempt entities.

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THURSDAY, March 24, 2022

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Leaders eye late-summer start for project

Town of Oneonta clears path for new southside car wash

The Hoffman’s Car Wash website includes this photo of its store on Route 7 in Niskayuna — a model of the fully automated state-of-the-art store planned for the Town of Oneonta on Route 23.

A pair of dilapidated signs is all that remains of Christopher’s Restaurant and Lodge on Oneonta’s busy southside Route 23, but that’s due to change when Hoffman’s Car Wash comes to town.

Town of Oneonta Supervisor Randy Mowers told The Freeman’s Journal/ Hometown Oneonta he was excited to see the development.

“You know what pays the bills?

Commerce,” Mr. Mowers said. “We have to take care of the people and give them what they need and want to visit and stay in the town.”

“I want people to know the Town of Oneonta is open for business,” he said. “This is common sense. We’re well aware of the need to protect the environment and that’s a priority while we’re moving forward.

As for Hoffman’s, he said, “They followed every step of the process with the planning board to make sure they answered our questions.

“They don’t mess around,” he said. “They use a new water system where they recycle 40 percent of the water they use — the top side of the car gets the fresh, they use the recycled water to blast out the dirt on the bottom of the car.”

“This is a great project for our town,” he said.

Company CEO Tom Hoffman, Jr., said the Town of Oneonta project is one of several on the docket for the car wash giant, with stores on the way in Gloversville, Utica, Rome, and elsewhere. Mr. Mowers said he hopes to see work begin as early as Summer 2022.

“It’s an exciting addition to the Town of Oneonta,” said Town Board member Skylar Thompson. “The Christopher’s space has been vacant for a long time and we are happy that it is being filled with a big asset to the town. We hope there are many more to come.”

With Starbucks on the way later this summer, Mr. Mowers said he is not concerned about traffic congestion on the already-busy stretch of road.

“When we talk to people about coming to the town to build, one of the first things they ask is ‘Do you have a Starbucks,’” he said.

“I am so glad to tell them that we do. Now we get to tell them we have a couple of great carwashes along the way, too.”

“Traffic is there anyway,” he said. “We’re tourism here. We attract a lot of visitors. We can deal with the traffic.”

Senator, Assemblyman host candidate to talk gas tax relief and small biz challenges Sen. Peter Oberacker (R-Schenevus) and Assemblyman Chris Tague (R-Schoharie) hosted Congressional candidate Marc Molinaro on a March 18 trip through Otsego County to visit area businesses and discuss plans to relieve rising costs for small businesses and consumers.

The trio spent an hour at Apple Food & Grocery on Route 28 in Milford to meet at the family business with Paul Singh and customers and talk about Sen. Oberacker’s proposal that would suspend New York’s gasoline tax from April 1 through September 1 and, thereafter, dedicate a certain portion of tax revenue to highway and bridge funds.

“I had to turn off my political brain and turn on my business brain,” Sen. Oberacker said. “If I had proposed a repeal for an entire year, it would’ve made no progress.

My proposal has a definite start date and a definite sunset. We hope people will return to the roads after COVID and the gas prices right now are just killing them.”

“This isn’t pandering,” he said. “It’s the best relief we can give right now. Then when we reinstitute the tax, we make sure that we dedicate money directly to highways and bridges and ensure a better return on the investment every New Yorker makes when they fill their car at the pump.”

Dutchess County Executive Molinaro, now challenging Antonio Delgado in the race to represent the newly redrawn 19th Congressional District, said government is taking “too much advantage of New York drivers.” He said he wants Washington to partner with state governments to reduce the entirety of the gasoline tax burden passed along to consumers.

“The least that Washington and Albany can do is provide some relief at the gas pump,” Mr. Molinaro said. “This federal government can take a break from picking the pockets of the families and small businesses, reduce some of the massive increases in spending, and give a little back.”

“It’s always offensive to me when I hear the same tired old argument that govern-

ment can’t cut costs,” he said. “When the Republicans are in the Majority after this fall’s elections, we’ll use the power of the House to demand efficiency.”

“As a kid who grew up on food stamps, I can see the pressures that everyday costs put on a family,” he said. “Take a look around. Farmers, lawn and gardening companies, truckers, tourists — they’re all getting hit hard every step of the way with this increase in gas prices.”

Apple Food & Grocery’s Paul Singh, who owns the popular local business with his family, said he talks daily with customers about the challenge of paying for a full tank of gasoline. He said his customers have been understanding to date, and he’s hoping conditions improve in time for summer travel.

“New York comes back when people start moving around the state again,” he said. “Dropping the gas tax for the summer would be a stimulus to the economy. It puts money back in peoples’ pockets, and then, they’re more likely to stop at a small local shop like ours for a soda and supplies on their way to a barbeque in the park.”

“The price of gas has a massive impact to all of us in the small business world,” he said. “We’re hopeful the market calms down and this is a short-term problem.

Until then, we need our leaders in the federal and state governments to do what they can. Tap the reserves, finish the pipeline, suspend the tax — anything that gets this state moving.”

Sen. Oberacker’s legislation, introduced alongside Binghamton Senator Fred Akshar, stands among a handful of proposals from both sides of the aisle seeking some kind of temporary suspension of the state’s taxes on gasoline. The issue likely would become a topic of discussion in negotiations for the state’s new budget, due April 1, 2022.

Paul Singh just wants to stay competitive for his customers.

“We respect every person who comes through our door to spend their hard earned money here,” he said.”

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Forward Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School Principal Karl O’Leary’s March 18 dismissal seems abrupt. New York’s voluminous education law and its attendant rules and regulations, however, abide no impetuous action when it comes to personnel matters. Save for a handful of egregious situations, the Cooperstown Central School Board of Education and its sibling boards across the state are bound by strict legal procedure that demands any allegation of misconduct or malfeasance be addressed with the greatest of care, detail, and discretion. This takes time; a frustrating amount of time.

This newspaper has reported and editorialized for the past few months on concerns students and parents raised to the CCS Board with regard to someone they called “a member of the administration” — a person they could not name in accordance with some of those procedural rules of engagement. We heard but did not report off-therecord rumors — some corroborated, others dismissed — so there’s no doubt school district parents, teachers, and students have been abuzz for months.

The public’s natural curiosity notwithstanding, Mr. O’Leary’s seemingly sudden dismissal will do nothing to end conjecture or lift salient fact out from underneath the weight of legal limitation. It will, however, take decisive and highly visible steps forward in a process that can have only one goal: the quality of education in Cooperstown Central School.

Speaking to The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta after Mr. O’Leary’s dismissal, Superintendent of Schools Sarah Spross called the district’s sevenmember, all-volunteer Board of Education “uniquely committed to its focus on quality education.” Quality education can’t happen in an atmosphere rife with tension and rumor.

The law constrained the district to follow — and continue to follow — a process that for many can be painstakingly slow and impossible to quantify. We recognize the difficulty and commend the board and administration for taking the tough steps that seem to have been necessary in the case at hand.

The only direction is forward. We think it pointless to look back if it’s for the sole purpose in second-guessing decisions that this Board or others before it had rendered in a hiring process. Hindsight works only when it helps restore broken relationships or heal any damage that might’ve been done along the way.

We are confident the Superintendent and her administrative team — along with the Board of Education — have a clear picture of what has been. They’ve heard from eloquent and passionate students about their concerns with “a member of the administration.”

They’ve heard from parents concerned about the atmosphere in the school.

We are confident, too, that those creating, collaborating on, and implementing school policy have a positive and sustainable roadmap for the district’s future and a focus on quality education. We are encouraged by the anti-bullying and anti-discrimination presentations about which we reported two weeks ago — cheered even more so by the student and faculty response to those sessions.

We are encouraged by last Friday’s action.

All of this is a burst of activity in a short period of time that sends an important signal to students, teachers, and parents that their voices have been heard and those responsible for questionable behavior will be brought to account — be they student, teacher, or administrator.

These steps don’t erase the past, but they help clear the path to a sustainable and improved future.

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It was just one month before COVID shut the world down in 2020 and tempers were short in New York’s state Capitol. I don’t remember exactly why the governor and legislature were sniping back and forth, but I do recall sitting down for a mid-February meeting with one of Governor Cuomo’s top policy people.

“I know it’s chaos around here,” I said to her, sympathetically.

“Thank you for taking the time to meet with me.”

“Hey, it is chaos,” she shrugged.

“That’s the way the boss likes it.”

••• Andrew Cuomo strolled to the microphone in New York City last week with characteristic swagger, carrying the binder that contained either his prepared remarks or, perhaps, a playbook filled with trick plays that end with the ultimate Hail Mary pass — a trip back to Albany as governor of New York State.

It was his second appearance on what looks like a mea culpa tour of friendly locations in New York City, and this time, he spoke with gubernatorial intonation and confidence about the need to revisit bail reform to combat the region’s rising crime rate. (This would be the same bail reform that he jammed through the state Legislature in 2019.)

Within hours, his successor, Governor Kathy Hochul, had leaked a memo outlining a 10-point bail and discovery reform bill she plans to inject into state budget negotiations, the process over which her office wields considerable control.

She offers moderate-to-conservativefriendly proposals such as granting more discretion to judges, revisiting bailable offenses, and allowing detention for repeat offenders.

Wait. Haven’t Senate and Assembly leaders already shot this down, particularly as part of any budget deal? Yes. Haven’t we heard ‘this is a time to govern, not a time for politics’ a few times already? You bet.

Forget it, though: this is gloves-off steel cage death match time.

I don’t think it unreasonable to suggest that Governor Hochul had no plan to put bail reform in the budget. She knows the Legislature’s leaders need to protect their incumbents deeply vulnerable to primary challenges from the Democratic Party’s far left who will declare any vote for bail reform to be a return to policies of blanket incarceration.

That’ll score big points with lefty activists most likely to turn out to vote in a June primary contest. Those same leaders — particularly in the state Senate — have to think about their suburban members, particularly a Long Island delegation that delivered the Senate Majority to the Democrats in 2018 but right now is a collective sitting duck for primaries from the party’s more moderate, prolaw-enforcement wing.

Politically, they can’t easily afford to mix bail with budget. Not until the primaries are in the rear-view and the incumbents are safe.

Yet thanks to Mr. Cuomo’s sideline dancing, the governor has to be looking at the political calendar now and thinking this guy might be a problem come June. If he’s out there ginning up his still-fierce cadre of supporters with talk of the need for bail reform, she has to cover that particular flank pronto. She already had Rep. Tom Suozzi’s push for the party’s center with his own calls for bail reform. She had New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams play to the far left with his demand

that everyone leave bail reform alone.

Already this week, activists rallied inside the state Capitol to demand no changes to bail — one Assembly member even vowing to go on a hunger strike; the next day, candidate Suozzi rallied with his supporters outside Governor Hochul’s New York City office to demand the bail changes she proposed.

So let’s say Andrew decides to jump in to the Democratic primary for Governor with that $16 million or so burning a hole in his campaign fund pocket. The winning candidate in a four-way race would need only 26 percent of primary day turnout to win — not an impossible hurdle.

Primaries, traditionally, are lowturnout events to begin with. The party faithful — or a charismatic candidate’s rabid fan base — are the ones who show up to vote on a midsummer day.

It’s how Mr. Cuomo’s power struggle nemesis Bill de Blasio became Mayor of New York City in 2013 — he entered a Democratic primary crowded with candidates, aced the calculus, and knew all he needed was to squeak past all comers to win the nomination.

One Albany pundit suggested Mr. Cuomo would chase the seat as an independent in a party of his own making. He’s royally peeved with his Democratic homeground for pretty much abandoning him during and after his self-created time of need. Perhaps he’d have no problem with splitting the Democrat vote in November and either winning it all himself as an independent or holding the door open for the Republicans, just out of spite.

Chaos. If I remember correctly, that’s just the way Mr. Cuomo likes it.

if he could check out the piano. The response was, “Certainly.”

My son walked over to the instrument, lifted the keyboard cover and fingered a G7 chord.

“Do you play? the old man asked.

“I took lessons.”

“Let’s hear something.”

Jonathan sat down and produced a bouncy rendition of an old tune we like to call “Pick You Up in a Taxi Honey.”

“I remember that song well,” the listener said, humming as Jonathan was nearing the end. “You know you should practice every day — if you want to achieve perfection.”

“I don’t always have time,” my son responded.

“You have to make time.”

“Easier said than done.”

“My name is Charles Stern. I used to be Leonard Bernstein’s partner.”

“Is that right?” Jonathan said with forced enthusiasm.

“Yes, we were at Harvard University together working on dramatic musical

productions and among the many things we cowrote were songs like “I Want To Grow Up To Be Yours” and “It’s Not So Hotsy Totsy Being A Nazi.”

Again, Jonathan worked up an enthusiastic “Wow!” That night, on his way home from work, my erudite young son made his usual endof-the-day call to tell me about this old timer he’d met whose name was Charles Stern and to ask, “Who’s Leonard Bernstein?”

“Remember the movie ‘West Side Story’?” I asked. “Well, he wrote the music.”

“Oh,” Jonathan surmised. “Then he must have practiced to perfection.”

“What?”

“Something Charles Stern told me.”

“Coincidentally,” I added. “I read somewhere that Stern and Bernstein co-wrote another song called “Now I Know.”

“Is that right?” my son said “That’s right.”

“So now I know.”

“Know what?” I asked.

“How the passage of time wears at celebrity.”

“Maybe with Spielberg’s new movie your generation will learn the name of the guy who wrote the music.”

Terry Berkson A W est S ide S tory My son Jonathan calls up to the farm almost daily to let me know about his air conditioner installation business in crowded New York City. One would think it impossible to find parking for a truck but he has an app on his home computer that enables him to look at street signs to find out when it’s legal to park near the address he’s headed for. He’s even able to look on his monitor to see the building he’ll be working in to find out how the air conditioners appear to be mounted.

Despite the assistance in reconnaissance that internet technology affords, Jonathan occasionally gets a discouragingly expensive parking ticket.

The other day, his destination was a co-op on the fourteenth floor of an exclusive building on the upper west side of Manhattan, which is a difficult place to find parking, but he did. A distinguished old man let him and his hand truck with tools and a new air conditioner into the apartment. The window installation went smoothly, and while my son was working he couldn’t help but notice stacks of handwritten sheet music and a beautiful baby grand piano sitting at the far end of the living room.When finished with the job, Jonathan hesitated but managed to ask the man who looked to be well above 90 years old

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Spotlight: Butternut Valley Alliance Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

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Mrs. Martha P. Graham’s recipe for a crimson dye — To two gallons of poke berries, when they are quite ripe, add half a gallon of strong vinegar, made of the wild crab apple, to dye one pound of wool, which must be first washed very clean with hard soap. The wool, when wrung dry, is to be put into the vinegar and poke berry juice, and simmered in a copper vessel for one hour; then take out the wool and let it drip awhile, and spread it in the sun.

The vessel must be free from grease of any kind.

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[Editor’s note: The Community Foundation of Otsego County (CFOtsego.org) brings us this week’s “News from the Noteworthy,” spotlighting the Butternut Valley Alliance. CFOC’s mission: We lead and inspire community-wide efforts that significantly improve the quality of life and the prosperity of the Otsego County, New York area.]

The Butternut Valley Alliance is an all-volunteer group established to encourage the Butternut Creek watershed to become a better place to live, work, and play.

The 40-mile length of Butternut Creek encompasses an area of 130 square miles in the southwestern part of Otsego County, with a population of some 5,000 residents living in eight towns and two villages.

The region is home to five school districts, a dozen New York State and Otsego County forests, and parks open to the public.

Nearly 60 percent of the landscape is forest, with agricultural properties accounting for another 31 percent; nearly 1,700 acres in the valley are privately conserved, including Cranberry Bog Science station.

The Butternut Valley Alliance aims to connect communities, protect the environment, promote the arts, and encourage economic development.

“We act as a connector, incubator of innovation, and community

partner to realize our vision: to lead the watershed toward a sustainable future,” says the group. “We dare to dream what this area could be in 20 years. We aspire to model regional leadership that grows from the ground up and that creates opportunity.”

The Alliance counts these community events among its major programs: • The Summer Harvest Festival, featuring local farmers, arts and crafts, and music, alongside historical and environmental exhibitors; • “On the Trail of Arts,” a roving two-day art exhibit in one of the State Forests, featuring more than 150 student and adult artists; • Butternut Creek Float, a community ‘paddle’ in kayak, canoe, or other floatation device cosponsored with the Otsego County Conservation Association; and • New Lisbon Gravel Grinder, a cycling event co-sponsored with local cycling club Central New York Cycling.

The group also hosts educational programming — history of local mills, pearly mussels, and riparian buffers — and gives the ‘Visionary Scholar Award’ to an outstanding high school student who envisions the future of the valley watershed.

Serving between 200 and 500 families each year, the Butternut Valley Alliance relies on private donors and small grants for its

funding. The group partners with Otsego 2000, the Otsego Land Trust, Wetlands Trust, Otsego County Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Morris and Gilbertsville school districts. A 15-member board directs the group’s work, in the hands of what they gratefully call “countless community members” who volunteer along with the board members.

The Alliance faces challenges akin to groups of its size as it looks to the future — expanding funding sources, move its executive director position from part-time to fulltime, and expand its relationships across generations, professions, and organizations. They also hope to co-create a regional economic development plan with community, farm, and business leaders, create and maintain nature and hiking trails in the watershed’s five state forests, and lead the implementation of the Butternut Creek Watershed Management Plan.

Learn more about the Butternut Valley at butternutvalleyalliance. org, at its Facebook page, and at https://www.chesapeakebay.net/ news/blog/photo_essay_butternut_ valley_new_york.

For more information, contact Board Chair Ed Lentz, 230 Dockstader Road, New Lisbon, New York, 13415, or by e-mail at edlentz@mac.com.

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A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Bassett staff and community support keep hope alive

Family hopes second transplant takes hold Continued from page 1 They finally did some blood work and found she had very retaining the oxygen like they are supposed to. Anything low hemoglobin counts. If this accident hadn’t happened, below 5.2 on the hemoglobin count is considered dangerous. we wouldn’t have realized she had a blood disorder until much later.”

A 4.5 is extremely dangerous.”

They took her to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester “She is tired all of the time, she has very little energy,” where she spent a month undergoing tests that found she said. “She has total body pain; everything hurts all of nothing.

Her spleen was removed in May 2021 in the the time because of the low oxygen levels in her system.” hopes that would help, but Doctors remain unable it did not. The family turned to determine the root of to other options, including a Vincenza’s disease and “Be the Match” Bone Marrow Drive bone marrow transplant. why the transfusions aren’t Vincenza’s brother was the working.

In honor of Vincenza Alessi, a 2012 Cooperstown first bone marrow donor and “It’s very frustrating; they Central School graduate ill with bone marrow he will be the second donor don’t understand why the failure of unknown origin, the school will host as well.

“Fortunately, we hemoglobin breaks down a bone marrow drive on March 29 from 3 p.m. had a family member who in her system and doesn’t — 5:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. was a close match.

Of all of carry the oxygen that she Those interested in donating must be between the people that need a bone needs to live,” said mom Ln, ages 18 and 40.

Text VincenzaCCS2012 to 61474 marrow transplant, 30% praising the staff at Bassett to register to have a swab taken at the school or find a match within their Healthcare’s Oncology Clinic. to receive a test kit in the mail. family. The other 70% have “Many people are involved to rely on unrelated people in her daily care and are kind getting tested and hopefully and compassionate and are matching,” Ln said. rarely recognized for their commitment to care,” Ln said.

“We have a lot of hope.

The outpouring of love from the “That helps us get through the day.” community has been overwhelming. We pray that Vincenza Vincenza’s story began in January of 2020.

“Vincenza is a special education teacher,” Ln told The will regain her strength so we can start healing,” Ln said.

Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta. “She got hit in the “We are very lucky Vincenza’s brother was a close match; face with an iPad at school one day and had head trauma we hope the Bone Marrow Drive will bring people out so issues and couldn’t breathe; overall she just didn’t feel well. they are registered for another person down the road.”

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Call for ‘red dress’ installation donations Artist Jaime Black will exhibit her REDress project at Hartwick College’s Foreman Gallery from August 22 – October 20, 2022, and is putting out a call for donations of red dresses to be installed throughout the college and gallery.

Gallery and Exhibitions

Coordinator Sydney Shee-han said the REDress Project “draws attention to the absence, while evoking the presence, of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.”

“Black’s project is an aesthetic response to the staggering rates of violence that Indigenous women face and serves as a visual reminder

of the women who are no longer with us,” she said. “The empty red dresses, hanging in public spaces, confront viewers with the horrifying number of Indigenous women who have been taken from their homes, families, and communities; a number which has only increased since the pandemic.”

Ms. Sheehan said the gallery hopes to collect red dresses from localresidents as a way to raise awareness and offer tangible support for the REDress Project.

For more information on the Project and/or how to donate a red dress for the upcoming installation, contact Hartwick College’s Sydney Sheehan at sheehans@hartwick.edu.

Principal out at CCS Continued from page 1 and department chairs. I’m honest when I can answer and honest about the times that process prohibits me from answering.”

Ms. Spross said neither she nor the district’s Board of Education could speak to any details of Mr. O’Leary’s March 18 dismissal but allowed this: “I can assure everyone that there was no safety issue for anyone that needed to be addressed.”

As word spread over social media of Mr. O’Leary’s sudden departure, parents commented on the high turnover rate in the principal’s chair at Cooperstown Junior/Senior High.

“I can’t speak to what happened before I got here,” said Ms. Spross, whose tenure as Superintendent began March 1, 2021.

“We’ve been through this before here when our last principal left March 28, 2021, so it’s not the first go-around for me.”

“We want continuity in the administration,” she said, noting the district brought Assistant Principal Amy Malcuria on board in November 2021. “We’ve leveraged administrative tasks across our schools and through our BOCES partnership.”

She said the district follows an “extensive hiring process” for all teachers and administrators, advertising through local, state, and national channels and then

following a rigorous interview process.

“A candidate for principal first meets with a sevenmember committee of teachers, a parent from the PTA, and administrative and staff support,” she said. “The candidates they approve go on to the superintendent’s panel, which includes Board of Education members, checking professional references, the entire careful and diverse process.”

Their favored candidate in May 2021 ultimately declined the job, citing family relocation concerns; Ms. Spross said the school re-advertised the position in June 2021 and followed the same rigorous interview process.

She said finding and recruiting qualified candidates is an increasingly difficult task for Cooperstown Central and schools throughout the country.

“As you look at recruitment and where we are nationally across the board for schools, it’s a tough challenge,” she said. “There are several leadership posts available right here in this area. The teacher and administrator shortage is a reality for us here in Cooperstown as it is elsewhere.”

COVID, she said, made the task more difficult.

“No one got into teaching or school administration thinking they’d have to become a public health director,” she said. “It has had a huge impact on us.”

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OBITUARIES Lee Carlton Winnie, 75 Oct. 25, 1946 – Mar. 17, 2022

FLY CREEK – implement busiLee Carlton Winnie ness. As a liflong died peacefully on resident of Fly Creek, he is Thursday, March 17, 2022 at his most well known home in Fly Creek, for working surrounded by for MOSA and his loving wife of Otsego County at nearly 40 years and the Cooperstown Lee Carlton his two sons. He dump for many Winnie was 75 years old. years, where he Lee was born October helped people with their 25, 1946 in Cooperstown, recycling and local gossip. the son of Ernest and Gerda Lee married Susan Jane (Christiansen) Winnie. He Dubrey on October 2, 1982 graduated from Coopers- at the Fly Creek United town Central School in the Methodist Church. He and Class of 1965. his wife loved to travel, most After graduating high recently making yearly trips school, Lee attended Hudson to Florida to see his eldest Valley Community College son, making sure to take and studied as a mechan- every back road and visiting ical draftsman. Shortly every hole-in-the-wall after college in 1967, he museum along the way. was drafted into the United Lee was a collector of States Army and served antiques and treasures, in the Vietnam War. As a a hobbyist builder and mortarman, Lee received mechanic, animal lover, several commendation racing fan, and an avid medals for his heroic actions outdoorsman. He could in Dak Seang in 1968. often be seen at the Fly After being honorably Creek General Store grabdischarged in 1969, Lee bing coffee, scratch-offs, and returned to work at his father chatting with local friends. and uncle’s farm machinery Lee is survived by his wife,

Susan (Dubrey) Winnie, and his two sons, Zachary (Laura) Winnie of Geneva, Illinois, and Michael Winnie of Fly Creek.

He is also survived by 4 siblings, Joanne (Craig) Travers of Hopedale, Mass., Margaret Winnie of Asheville, North Carolina, Jean Winnie of Williamsville, and Richard (Kathy) Winnie of Ocala, Fla. A date for gathering to celebrate Lee’s life and to share stories will be announced at a future time.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to one of the following: Fly Creek Fire Company, P.O. Box 218, Fly Creek, NY 13337; Helios Care, 297 River Street Service Road, Oneonta, NY 13820; Cooperstown American Legion, P.O. Box 1193, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Arrangements are under supervision of Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.

Deborah G. Kabat, 69 March 1, 1953 – March 14, 2022

O N E O N TA She had recently - Deborah G. been attending Kabat, 69 of St. John’sWi l l i a m s p o r t Newberry United and formerly Methodist Church. of Oneonta, Deb could often valiantly fought be found reading, an illness for gardening, going a year after for walks, hiking Deborah G. receiving the and bike riding, all Kabat COVID vaccihobbies that she nation. She passed on enjoyed. She loved to laugh Monday, March 14 at home. and had a giving heart. She Surviving is her loving enjoyed sewing and knitting husband of 45 years Gerald for her family and would “Jerry” A. Kabat. also donate hats and scarves Born March 1, 1953 in she had made to Sojourner Cortland, N.Y., she is a Truth Ministries. daughter of the late John and She volunteered her time Virginia (Evans) Graffius. at the West End Christian Deb was a 1971 graduate Community Center and of Vestal High School. She Sojourner Truth Ministries. earned a bachelor’s degree Deb was a founding from SUNY Brockport member of Calvary Hill and a master’s degree from Retreat Center, an organiNazareth College. Deb spent zation near and dear to her 35 years as a Speech Lan- heart, where she was instruguage Pathologist working mental in the rehabilitation with preschool children in of the property. Deb wasn’t the Oneonta area. afraid to tackle projects as She was a member of she relished in the hands-on Elm Park United Methodist work and seeing the finished Church, Oneonta New York product of her labor. Her where she also served as servant heart, quiet, thoughta youth group leader and ful, and caring ways will familyministrychairwoman. certainly be missed by those

who knew and loved her.

Surviving in addition to her husband are three children; Alison Hill (Tim) of Williamsport, Benjamin Kabat (Laura) of Rochester, and Theresa DiMaggio (Anthony) also of Williamsport; three granddaughters who she adored Elena, Makayla, and Scarlett; two sisters, Nancy Gage of Woodland Park, N.J. and Patricia Card (Larry) of Binghamton, N.Y. A funeral service to honor the life of Deborah was held Saturday, March 19 in Williamsport.

Additionally, a celebration of Deb’s life will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, April 2 at Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St, Oneonta, N.Y. The family will receive friends following the service.

Memorial contributions may be made in Deb’s name to Calvary Hill Retreat Center, PO Box 782, Williamsport, PA 17703.

Online condolences may be made on Deb’s memorial page at www.

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ONEONTA – Lois I. Brenner, 89, passed away peacefully at home on March 14, 2022.

Lois was born November 3, 1932 in Brooklyn, the daughter of Henry and Isabel (Corry) Erickson.

Lois graduated from Fort Hamilton High School in 1950. Following graduation, she worked in the financial district in New York City at Hanover Bank for several years.

Lois married David W. Brenner on September 5, 1954 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. Following their marriage, they moved to Oneonta so David could attend college at SUCO. Lois held several office jobs in Oneonta prior to the birth of her children and raising her family. She enjoyed playing bridge in several organized clubs

in Oneonta with She is survived friends at times by her children, hosting the groups Janice Brenner at her home. In and husband, 1968 she started Stephen Courter working what she of Milford, Donald thought would be Brenner and a temporary partPatricia Foland of time job out of Raleigh, N.C.; and Lois I. Brenner her home for the Douglas Brenner Otsego County Employees and Kathleen Henderson Federal Credit Union. Over of Oneonta; grandchilthe years, the temporary dren, Mariah (Courter) part-time position became and husband, Nick Adams; a fulfilling full-time career. Jaclyn Courter, Luke After several mergers Courter, Sophie Brenner, including with the Sidney Maxwell Brenner and Federal Credit Union, Erickson Brenner; her sister, she was appointed branch Carol MacKenzie and many manager of the Sidney nieces and nephews.

Federal Credit Union office She was predeceased by in Oneonta, retiring in her parents, her husband, 1995.

David W. Brenner on March She was a member of 4, 2022 and brother, Kenneth St. James Episcopal Church, Erickson. served on the Vestry and as Lois’ love for her family, the church treasurer for over dedication to church and 25 years.

beaming smile will be missed.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 24, at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.

The funeral service will be 11 a.m., Friday, March 25, at St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta, with the Rev. Kenneth Hunter, as celebrant.

Interment at the Glenwood Cemetery, Oneonta, will be held at a later date.

Donations may be made to St. James Episcopal Church Mission Committee, 305 Main St., Oneonta, NY 13820 or to Helios Care, 297 River Street Service Road, Oneonta, NY 13820 Online condolences may be sent to, www.lhpfuneralhome.com

Caroline M. S. Harter, 96 May 24, 1925 – March 14, 2022

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FLY CREEK – Caroline “Carol” Mary Swanston Harter died of natural causes at her home in Fly Creek, on Monday, March 14, 2022.

She was 96. Carol was a loving mother, daughter, sister, aunt and grandmother. She was an inspiration, a caring friend and a special confidant to many people, both young and old. She was pre-deceased by her husband, Bruce H. Harter, who died December 15, 2014, parents John K. and Janet Gray Swanston, brother Stewart, and brotherin-law Ernest Gero. Carol is survived by three daughters, Lucinda Henson of Fly Creek, Melissa (Charles Tangemann) of Hastings, Neb., Janet (Les Saucier) of Brevard, N.C., and son, Jason (Jeanine Dykstra) of Fly Creek. She is also survived by three grand children, Janelle Harter (Jason) and Brent and Jonathon Henson (Lucinda), and siblings Jack Swanston (Shirley) of Chateaugay, N.Y., and Genevieve Gero (Ernest) of Burke, N.Y., as well as three great grand-

children, several members of nieces, nephews, the Jordanville grand nieces and Federated Church, nephews, and a until 1995 when great grand niece they moved to and two great Burlington Flats. grand nephews.

Ten years later, Carol was the couple reloborn in Burke, cated to Fly Creek, Caroline M. S. where they built a N.Y., on May 24, Harter 1925. Her parents home and lived owned a family farm near the remainder of their lives. the Canadian border. Carol In 1967, Carol began attended District 14 Country work at Owen D. Young School and Chateaugay High Central School (ODY), School. Upon graduation, Van Hornesville, N.Y., Carol enrolled at Plattsburgh first as the school’s librarian State Teachers College (now and then in a Title 1 Remedial SUNY Plattsburgh), where Education Program. During she graduated in 1946 with a her career, Carol wrote degree in home economics. multiple grants for governCarol then taught at ment funding and was able Richfield Springs Central to establish a student reading School, Richfield Springs, program for the school. until 1951.

While being an active parent On August 7, 1949, Carol to four children, all of whom married Bruce H. Harter of attended and graduated from Jordanville, N.Y. They were ODY, Carol touched many married at the North Burke lives of both students and Presbyterian Church, after- colleagues. She retired in wards living in Jordanville, June 1985. where they owned and In 1968, Jordanville operated Lime Top Farm Public Library became a until 1967. Carol and Bruce member of the Mid-York remained in Jordanville, Library System and Carol where they were devoted took on the task of being its

librarian. For 20 years, she organized many children’s summer reading programs and worked diligently with other community members to make the library a valuable asset to the area. Carol retired as librarian in 1988.

A memorial service for Carol will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 6, 2022, at the Jordanville Federated Church with Reverend Scott Hocking presiding. A reception will be held from 2 to 5pm at Knotting Hill Farm, 259 Main St., Jordanville, formerly known as “The Swift House” where the Harter family resided from 1967 to 1995. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in memory of Carol to the Jordanville Public Library, 189 Main St., Jordanville, NY 13361, and the Jordanville Federated Church, PO Box 83, Jordanville, NY 13361.

Lastly, sincere thanks Helios Care of Oneonta, whose in-home caregivers treated Carol with compassion and respect during her final days.

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Legal nOtice STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY COURT, OTSEGO COUNTY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INDEX NO. 2020-693 In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens by Proceeding in Rem pursuant to Article Eleven of the Real Property Tax Law by Otsego County PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 11th day of March, 2022, the Otsego County Treasurer, hereinafter the Enforcing Officer of Otsego County, hereinafter the “Tax District “, pursuant to law filed with the Otsego County Clerk a PETITION AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. Such petition pertains to the following parcels: Cert # Taxmap # Street Address Owner names City of Oneonta 3 288.14-1-39 5 Normal Avenue Tikaroy, LLC 7 288.14-3-44 46 East Street Kropp Amy D; Kropp Dennis M 10 288.17-1-27 13-15 Silver Avenue Hass Holdings LLC 11 288.17-2-22.3 Clinton Street Maine John C; Maine Joanne G 24 288.17-4-59 26 Cherry Street Gell Jonathan M 26 288.18-1-44 88 Elm Street Pluta Monika 46 299.12-1-27 47 North Fonda Avenue Roux Duane J 47 299.12-3-13.2 142-1/2 River Street Rockton Real Estate LLC; Kalman Everson; Byrd Sean; Byrd Courtney 50 299.12-3-47 19 Fonda Ave DeAndrea James P 51 299.16-1-29 part of 299.12-2-37 West Broadway Rehabilitation Support Services Inc 52 299.16-1-30 part of 299.12-2-37 West Broadway Rehabilitation Support Services Inc 80 300.6-2-5 8 Grand Street Randolph Charles 81 300.6-2-51 24 Grand Street Grand Rentals LLC 88 300.7-4-50 514-516 Main Street 514 Main Street, LLC; Fong-Lee Jenny; Lee Ronald 94 300.9-1-44 11 Meckley Avenue Abbott Carol 95 300.9-1-45 13-15 Meckley Avenue Abbott Carol 97 300.9-3-81 30 Luther Street Smoot Gregory R; Smoot Jean M Town of Burlington 102 109.00-1-4.04 247 Gardner Road Yezek John A; Yezek Tracie L 106 125.00-1-7.03 Sam Holdridge Road North Daniel R; Storms Shannon 107

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126.00-1-1.01 451 Gulf Road Damulis Anthony P; Damulis Darlene A 109 126.00-1-12.02 County Highway 16 Damulis Anthony P 110 126.00-1-28.00 County Highway 16 Parker Lou Ann; Ibbitson Susan 111 126.00-1-3.00 Gulf Road Damulis Anthony P 122 78.00-1-43.01 223 Arnold Rd Wright Richard W 132 94.00-1-23.09 County Highway 16 Delgado Damaris 134 95.00-1-16.05 338 Hovick Road Bull Michael 135 95.00-1-2.01 117 Hovick Road Hernandez Brett Village of Gilbertsville

137 282.06-1-3.00 Marion Avenue Stahl Dennis 138 282.06-1-4.00 123 Marion Avenue Stahl Dennis 139 282.06-1-5.00 125 Marion Avenue Stahl Dennis Town of Butternuts 146 234.00-2-17.00 156 St Hwy 23 Beardsley Edward M, II; Lester Andrea M 147 234.00-2-2.00 102 State Highway 23 Antonakas Chriss; Xenaki Frangoula; Xenaki George; Xenaki Joseph 149 234.00-2-4.00 106 St Hwy 23 Fitch Robert 154 251.00-1-14.00 121 Brickner Lane Brickner Thomas 157 251.00-1-20.07 Oppermann Road Galindo Cinto Jose Luis; Galindo Amy SJ 161 251.00-1-55.00 346 Nelson Road Holmes Wayne W; Williams Holly J 164 267.00-1-14.01 949 County Highway 18 Berthel William E; The Estate of Catherine M. Berthel 167 268.00-1-15.04 444 Musson Erwin Road Ozimek Rafal; Ozimek Beata 168 268.00-1-15.08 Musson Erwin Road Ozimek Rafal 170 268.00-1-28.06 506 Musson Erwin Road Forbes Meagan 173 269.00-1-13.21 State Highway 51 Mellott Robert J; Mellott Karen M 177 269.00-1-32.01 1625 State Highway 51 Mellott Robert J; Mellott Karen M 180 270.00-2-36.03 191 Bell Hill Road Penny John; Penny Dorothy 181 271.00-2-15.02 479 Taylor Road Hurd Betty; Hurd John 182 271.00-2-20.01 Taylor Road Stahl Dennis 186 281.00-1-13.02 680 Oregon Road McNamara Tina J; Gregory Bruce J; Scanolon Tyler J; McNamara Rylan M 196 282.00-1-53.00 Guy Beardsley Road Geldmacher Albert 197 282.00-1-60.07 County Highway 4 Geldmacher Albert 198 282.00-1-60.08 2187 County

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Highway 4 Geldmacher Albert 205 284.00-2-15.00 752 Taylor Road Stahl Dennis 209 294.00-1-26.00 McCarthy Lane Zapatero Carmen; Zapatero Jaime 210 294.00-1-28.00 McCarthy Lane Hoag Damion 212 295.00-1-12.01 Lulu Coon Road Gallagher James; Tambasco Gallagher Anna 220 313.00-2-9.01 658 River Road Mumbulo Nathaniel S; Mumbulo Tracy J

76.00-1-17.04 County Highway 18 Davis Frank G; Davis, Jr Edwin A 320 76.00-1-17.62 5443 County Highway 18 Davis Frank G 323 76.02-1-8.00 139 County Highway 18C Baldwin, II Glade L 324 76.02-1-9.00 141 County Highway 18C Baldwin Glade L; Baldwin Tresa M 330 92.00-1-15.21 Louie Dickinson Road Hilts Logging and Excavating, LLC

Village of Cherry Valley 231 58.14-2-26.04 56 Main Street The Estate of Michael K Swatling, Sr

Town of Exeter 343 51.00-1-19.22 County Highway 22 The Estate of Jane Carroll 351 64.00-2-8.06 442 Munson Road Lyncourt Eric; Lyncourt Tammy Lynn 352 64.00-2-8.41 Munson Road Lyncourt Eric; Lyncourt Tammy Lynn 356 67.05-1-10.00 7383 State Highway 28 The Estate of James A Hext 360 67.09-1-15.00 122 Church Street Gewirz Bruce 369 67.09-1-52.22 County Highway 22 The Estate of Clarence G. Travis; Donnelly-Travis Shannon 372 67.09-1-57.00 County Highway 22 The Estate of Clarence Travis; Travis Shannon

Town of Cherry Valley 236 30.00-1-30.54 County Highway 32A McGovern Elizabeth J 237 30.00-1-42.00 351 County Highway 32A McGovern Ronald L; McGovern Elizabeth 241 43.00-2-5.03 Irish Hollow Road The Estate of Raymond H Guisti, Sr 252 72.00-2-6.03 3732 County Highway 33 P & L Properties VII, LLC 252 73.00-1-39.00 429 Oneil Rd Stalzer Steven; Stalzer Amy Beth Town of Decatur 264 152.00-1-10.02 285 Mravlja Hill Road Rezek Miroslav; Rezek Shawn E 271 167.02-1-18.00 116 County Highway 37 Hogan James B 274 168.00-1-3.01 Lease Lot Hill Road Mravlja Peter; Mravlja Kristine 275 168.00-1-36.22 Ivan Mereness Road Zuba Ronald; Zuba Carmen 276 168.00-1-37.02 292 Ivan Mereness Road Zuba Ronald; Zuba Carmen 277 183.00-2-10.04 263 Ivan Mereness Rd Hart Jeffrey A Town of Edmeston 282 108.00-1-9.01 194 Bert White Road Hoagland Jason 287 108.17-2-54.00 27 South Street Reidenbach Katrina 288 108.17-2-56.00 South Street Reidenbach Katrina 306 139.00-1-21.03 Dutch Valley Road Jackson Teague 307 140.00-1-11.22 Monson Road Stimson Charise 308 140.00-1-11.32 438 Monson Road Mutone-Conley Lori 315 63.13-1-6.00 West Summit Road Warnock William 316 63.13-1-7.00 146 West Summit Road Warnock William 317 76.00-1-16.00 5442 County Highway 18 Davis Frank G; Davis, Jr Edwin A 318 76.00-1-17.03 County Highway 18 Davis Frank G; Davis, Jr Edwin A 319

Town of Hartwick 377 129.00-1-10.01 396 Bush Road Ruiz Wanda; Sierra Robert; Sierra Brenda L 378 130.00-1-21.01 313 Brunner Road P & L Properties V, LLC 379 130.00-1-21.02 321 Brunner Road Belmonte Paul J 387 144.18-1-3.01 Weeks Road Hart Michael G; The Estate of Zondra Hart 389 145.00-1-16.11 Maples Road Gough John; O’Sullivan Michael 403 146.04-1-11.01 4902 State Highway 28 The Estate of Georgina St George 407 160.00-1-16.01 178 East Hill Road Thorn Jeffrey S 409 160.00-1-45.00 2816 County Highway 11 Chapman III John C; The Estate of Fae M Chapman 410 161.00-1-22.00 1438 County Highway 45 Konopka Teresa E 411 161.00-1-33.00 878 County Highway 45 VanBuren-Duke Tammy 420 176.00-1-17.01 580 Pleasant Valley Rd Arnot David R 422 176.00-1-72.00 County Highway 11 Fieg Gregory 424 177.00-1-31.00 Chlorinator Road Jioia Robert; Caminiti Dominick 427 178.00-1-18.00 Goey Pond West Road Powers Daniel; Weigel Cynthia 428 178.00-1-35.00 132 Clintonville Road Icthus Properties

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LLC 429 178.00-1-37.01 4189 State Highway 28 Icthus Properties LLC 430 178.00-1-4.02 State Highway 28 The John D. Ramsey Foundation Trust 431 178.00-1-40.00 383 County Highway 45 Martinez Zoe 432 178.00-1-42.01 462 County Highway 45 Powers Daniel; Weigel Cynthia 433 178.00-1-49.00 State Highway 28 Partridge Richard J 438 193.00-1-12.00 Chlorinator Road Martinez Zoe Village of Laurens 444 240.15-2-68.01 16 Louden Drive 7120 Ft. Hamilton Pkwy LLC; Endicott Building Management LLC 445 240.15-2-79.00 22 Main Street Holbrook Keith N; The Estate of Glenna R Holbrook 446 240.15-2-85.00 4 Main Street Walsh Nancy 447 240.15-2-9.00 25 Craft Street Walsh Nancy L Town of Laurens 454 208.01-1-45.00 State Highway 205 Smith Michael 463 223.00-1-20.00 301 Naylor Corner Road The Estate of Douglas V Sperry; Sperry Wanda L 466 224.00-1-19.00 397 Pool Brook Road Baxter Marilyn E 476 240.00-1-49.09 400 New Road Perry Rebecca A 481 240.00-2-44.05 State Highway 20 St 7120 Ft. Hamilton Pkwy LLC; Endicott Building Management LLC 486 255.00-2-33.00 125 Fisk Road Talbot Derrick J; Rose Lizabeth 490 255.00-2-59.00 Mud Road Zurenko Charles 500 256.00-1-1.03 YMCA Road Cetta Donald T Jr; Wright Mary H 503 256.00-1-31.06 327 YMCA Road Marcone-James Margaret; Quiles Beatrice Margot; Marcone Dominick Henry; Marcone Violeta Inez; Marcone Joseph Enzo 504 256.00-1-4.00 3010 State Highway 23 The Estate of Linda Drotar; Gorton Donna Town of Maryland

516 213.00-1-10.00 149 Norton Road Kawash Kelli 518 213.00-1-9.01 Norton Road Kawash Kelli 491 213.00-1-29.00 404 Co Hwy 34 Smith Christina; Ritton Brian 523 228.00-2-2.07 Axtell Road McTigue Gwen 524 228.00-2-2.08 Axtell Road McTigue Gwen 530 230.00-1-38.01 238 Valder Road Adolfsen-Robinson Therese A 532 230.19-1-3.01 15 Main Street Herr Doreen 538

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230.19-2-41.00 53 Race St Murphy Patricia A 539 230.20-1-2.00 149 Main St Reset New York Inc 530 245.09-1-5.00 107 Dog Hill Rd The Estate of Esther Byam 537 245.09-1-8.02 7525 St Hwy 7 Morlock Curtis; Fancher Stacy M 544 245.10-1-17.01 7647 State Highway 7 Adair Frederick M; Adair Kathrina L 545 245.10-1-18.00 7651 State Highway 7 Adair Frederick M; Adair Kathrina L 546 245.10-1-29.00 7592 State Highway 7 Uhle Frank M 551 246.00-1-35.00 County Highway 41 Green Joshua T 553 246.07-1-14.01 2 Depot Street The Estate of Timothy Pineo 554 246.07-1-14.02 8 Depot Street The Estate of Timothy Pineo 558 262.00-1-10.00 Iron Kettle Road Novotny Stephen 563 262.00-1-8.00 940 Iron Kettle Road Novotny Stephen 564 262.00-1-9.00 Iron Kettle Road Novotny Stephen 565 263.00-1-3.08 Country Road Mahalik Mara Lee 567 264.00-1-3.03 County Highway 41 ACD Holding Corp 568 264.00-1-4.00 104 Bliven Road D’Alessandro Vito R 569 264.00-1-6.00 Bliven Road ACD Holding Corp 570 264.00-1-7.00 Bliven Road ACD Holding Corp 720 277.00-1-56.01 168 Castle Lake Estate Williams Kenneth T 557 277.00-3-14.09 State Highway 7 Williams Kenneth T 559 278.00-1-3.00 Easy Lane Williams Kenneth T 560 278.00-1-4.00 Easy Lane Williams Kenneth T Town of Middlefield/ Village of Cooperstown 577 131.07-1-22.00 3 Main Street Cadwalader Stephen M Town of Middlefield

580 101.00-1-3.07 Boyd Road Stalter Michael 581 101.00-1-3.14 460 Hubbell Hollow Stalter Joel; The Estate of Jackie Stalter 585 116.00-1-25.02 303 Pink St Eissler Robert G; Eissler Frances M 593 118.00-1-2.03 2672 State Highway 166 Campbell Alan W 600 132.00-1-9.07 State Highway 166 Lipari Frank A; Sims Katelyn 607 146.00-3-16.00 1129 County Highway 33 P & L Properties VI LLC 608 147.00-1-13.00 Sibley Gulf Road Holbrook James S

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612 148.00-1-12.01 3329 County Highway 35 Bear Kevin 625 178.00-2-1.11 163 Waters Edge Drive Gaynor Grant R 630 179.00-1-10.00 283 Cooper Road Fowler III Albert E 631 179.00-1-26.01 Cooper Road Fowler III Albert E 632 179.00-1-32.01 Eggleston Hill Road Hosein Anthony; Swire Debra 633 179.00-1-4.03 152 Fred Ottaway Road Knoblauch Sr. Charles A 635 180.00-1-9.01 948 State Highway 166 The Estate of Joseph Melagrano; Melagrano Margarite 636 180.00-1-9.02 934 State Highway 166 Simonds Briana 637 180.01-1-6.00 2685 County Highway 35 Beatty Robin Bryant; Beatty Beth Marinne 641 72.00-1-12.02 County Highway 33 P & L Properties VII, LLC Village of Milford

646 194.16-1-5.00 137 Main Street N. A.L. Liguori Property Management, Inc. 648 194.20-1-36.00 69 Main Street W. Cynthia Eckler Hall Family Trust 650 194.20-1-5.01 119 Main Street N. A.L. Liguori Property Management, Inc. 652 194.20-2-27.00 Center Street Laible Denise; Laible William R; Midfirst Bank 654 194.20-2-56.00 82 Main Street W. Belmonte Paul; Belmonte Linda M 658 195.17-1-23.00 River Street Partridge Robert C Town of Milford 666 195.00-3-8.00 111 River Street Partridge Robert C 673 210.00-1-63.01 3644 State Highway 28 P & L Properties III, LLC; Paul Belmonte 676 211.00-1-39.41 County Highway 35 The Estate of Doris Jane Redlien 678 226.00-1-10.00 419 Lower Dutch Hill Rd Hoag Brian A; Bordeau Brian 680 227.00-1-11.00 County Highway 35 Doyle Tina; The Estate of Steven Doyle 681 227.00-1-12.00 116 Cold Spring Lane Doyle Tina; The Estate of Steven Doyle 690 242.20-1-5.00 2575 State Highway 28 Elliott Claudia; Elliott William 721 276.00-2-40.00 Gifford Hill Road Slanski-Lee Georgiana Village of Morris 736 221.13-2-38.00 86 Broad Street Huffman Tanner J 738 221.18-1-16.00 22 Hargrave St Etzl George J; Etzl Sarah S Town of Morris 749

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220.00-1-17.00 637 Jones Road The Estate of Brian McKinney 752 221.00-1-15.00 436 County Highway 49 Byrne, III John L 760 234.00-1-37.02 3558 County Highway 4 United States of America 762 234.00-1-8.07 1739 County Highway 18 Inga Leslie 769 238.00-1-5.00 148 Ellis Road Belmonte Paul Town of New Lisbon

774 141.00-2-5.02 231 Turtle Lake Road E Hall Charles 783 158.00-1-32.23 704 County Highway 16 Brimmer Rodney J; Farnham Tina Marie 788 158.00-1-8.02 244 Backus Road Jackson Teague 790 173.00-1-2.222 518 Elliott Road Berdon Jennifer R 799 189.00-1-20.02 3627 State Highway 51 The Estate of Diane E Wilson 801 189.00-1-26.02 172 Myers Mills Road Johnson Alan 803 189.00-1-31.22 173 Myers Mills Road Johnson Alan D 804 189.00-1-37.00 3527 State Highway 51 The Estate of Jacob Friedman; The Estate of Dorthea Friedman 806 189.00-1-9.02 268 Myers Mills Road Eklund Robert 807 190.00-1-15.00 113 Wheat Road Sanchez David Town of Oneonta 829 286.00-2-20.00 County Highway 8 Turrell Richard L; Turrell Rhonda L 835 287.19-1-19.00 Winney Hill Road Bailey Marguarita C 836 287.19-1-20.00 148 Winney Hill Road Bailey Marguarita C 839 288.00-2-22.00 Cemetery Hill Road Rutland Kathleen 848 289.00-1-77.00 170 Riverview Road Knapp Robert F 851 299.00-1-19.00 State Highway 7 Guckian Kevin W; Fezza Andrew M 858 299.07-4-72.00 1A Orchard Street Gelbsman Jeffrey A 866 300.00-3-87.01 State Highway 23 Apple Mansion Estate LLC 869 300.14-1-19.00 135 Southside Drive Ross Ella Mae 874 301.00-1-64.00 390 County Highway 47 Austin Graig W; Austin Marsha R 881 301.11-1-5.00 115 Valley Street Ward Braden D; Ward Kathy S 882 309.00-1-21.02 439 State Highway 28 Cox Carla Village of Otego 893 317.19-1-24.01 307 Main St Spataro Barbara Angelika 897 317.19-1-57.00 284 Main Street

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1037 139.00-2-15.02 885 State Highway 80 The Estate of Arnold G Whitehill; Phetteplace Catrina L 1048 155.00-1-52.01 146 Pecktown Store Road Grant Martin W; Grant Amy 1056 156.00-1-38.02 121 Burski Rd Etzl George; Etzl Sarah 1074 171.00-1-32.131 117 Ouleout Road Wilson Brion; Wilson Wanda 1075 171.00-1-32.132/1 Ouleout Road Hoag Robert W 1082 172.00-1-14.00 County Highway 49 Markert John 1084 172.00-1-28.05 699 Ketcham Rd Baker Kristoffer H 1088 172.00-1-31.00 1309 Co Hwy 49 Etzl George J; Uhle Sarah 1094 186.00-1-17.02 725 Texas Hill Road Franca Theresa 1096 186.09-1-15.00 111 Prospect Place The Estate of Frederick R Platt 1097 186.09-2-12.00 106 Grove Ave Patrick Alyssa N Town of Plainfield

1120 20.00-1-27.15 171 Frost Hill Road Dinigro Joseph S 1121 20.00-1-27.16 Frost Hill Road Dinigro Joseph S 1122 21.00-1-27.00 410 South Road Davis Jeremy C 1124 33.00-1-9.32 County Highway 18 Cortes Anthony 1131 47.00-1-31.00 760 County Highway 19 Korosec William F; Korosec Marian M 1136 8.00-1-9.00 7220 County Highway 18 Gates Kenneth C; Gates Steven M Village of Richfield Springs 1138 13.20-2-41.00 6 Lakeview Avenue Moglia Donna; Moglia Francis 1160 25.05-4-12.00 18 Johnson St Shafranov Igor Town of Richfield 1163 12.00-1-15.00 County Highway 24 Madaras Brant 1167 12.00-1-66.02 770 County Highway 25 Bond II Larry E; Coolis Jean; Bond Fred 1170 12.02-1-29.00 977 County Highway 25 Moss Erik; Moon LeVerne 1171 12.02-1-30.00 987 County

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1245 334.14-1-2.00 74 Kilkenny Street Davis Brian 1258 334.19-2-5.00 44 Martin Brook Street Dishmey Rudy; KAJA Holdings 2, LLC Town of Unadilla 1265 338.05-1-1.00 17 Main St Innes Jamie Santic; Lints Jackie

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1270 313.00-1-13.00 645 Ideuma Rd Carvin David; Carvin Cheryl 1271 313.00-1-6.01 137 Black Ash Swamp Road Ware James; Crane John 1272 313.00-1-9.09 Prentice Gorge Road Nichols Dustin D 1275 314.00-1-25.00 1195 Butternut Road Palombo Louis D 1276 314.00-1-29.00 1239 Butternut Road Andrews Alice M 1278 314.00-1-42.00 211 Burrows Road The Estate of Thomas Filecco 1280 314.00-1-61.01 690 County Highway 3A Washburn David; Washburn Wilford 1282 315.00-1-25.00 245 Sisson Hill Road The Estate of Raymond Hyer aka Raymond Graham 1285 315.00-1-47.00 512 County Highway 4 Smith Donna M 1294 324.03-1-20.00 2367 State Highway 7 Higbie Steven 1303 329.00-1-13.01 County Highway 3 B & D Real Estate Developers, LLC 1306 329.00-1-20.02 640 Kilkenny Road Brownell Karrina E; Thurston Sher 1310 329.00-3-31.221 Hardknocks Road B & D Real Estate Developers, LLC 1312 330.00-1-4.132 148 Overlook Drive Richardson Dennis 1313 330.00-1-4.134 Ledgewood Acres Lloyd Darryl 1326 334.00-1-19.00 Kilkenny Road Davis Brian 1331 334.00-1-36.06 Butternut Road Bourdon Jeffrey Normand; Bell Patricia Ann 1332 334.00-1-36.07 Butternut Road Bourdon Jeffrey Normand; Bell Patricia Ann 1334 334.00-1-47.00 1676 St Hwy 7 Unadilla Shamrock Village, LLC 1335 334.00-1-58.00 118 Latham Road Barnes Timothy P 1338 336.00-1-42.00 202 County Highway 1 Wheeler Mark H 1340 336.00-1-6.04 114 Chessapeake Drive Foster Dale A; The Estate of Elizabeth P Foster 1341 336.00-1-7.00 106 Chessapeake Drive Foster Dale A; The Estate of Elizabeth P Foster 1349 337.00-1-54.02 State Highway 7 Air Tight Builders, LLC Town of Westford

1353 149.00-1-22.00 Tabor Road Rifanburg Dennis 1360 150.00-1-33.01 171 Strong Hill Road Raiha Bradley 1367 166.01-1-16.00 County Highway 34 Gohde Gianina M 1377 180.00-2-27.08 722 Badeau Hill Road Scott Gibeault Realty Trust 1380 180.01-2-6.00 2684 County Highway 35 Renwick Everet;

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1398 185.00-1-58.00 108 Alvord Road Knapp Jason A 1465 185.13-1-12.00 59 Main Street Burton Eric J 1404 185.13-1-60.00 58 Main Street Robinson John E 1407 198.00-3-4.01 382 Up County Road Lane Virginia; Michaud Daniel 1408 199.00-1-10.00 281 Tuscan Road Bracken Bridget 1416 199.18-3-39.00 252 Main St Hartt Anthony M; Hartt Janet A 1420 199.19-1-13.00 101 Brighton Road Schrull Nicole Marie 1422 199.19-1-52.00 13 Mill Street Larock Christopher J; Larock Dorothy A 1423 200.00-1-22.00 139 Gulf Road The Estate of Drew Figary 1431 215.00-1-13.00 Mill Street McLean Jestina 1434 215.06-1-13.00 6 South Hill Road W McFee John Joseph 1438 233.00-1-1.04 646 Mooney Road Ferrugiari Ronald; Fontana Deborah J Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Nature of proceeding: This proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such petition. No personal judgement will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the Office of the Otsego County Treasurer and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified as the last day for redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption.

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Ruffles, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 30th day of June, 2022.

Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the Attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure.

Such answer must be filed in the Office of the County Clerk and served upon the Attorney for the Tax District on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption.

Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgement in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Enforcing Officer: Allen Ruffles Otsego County Treasurer Attorney for Tax District: Phillips Lytle LLP Richard M. Beers, Jr., Esq. 28 East Main St, Ste 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 (585) 238-2000 3LegalMay.19 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING AND BUDGET HEARING FOR 2022-2023 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET FOR THE VILLAGE OF COOPERSTOWN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown will conduct the Village of Cooperstown Organizational Meeting for the 2022-23 Village year in the Village Office Building, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, New York on Monday, April 4th, 2022 at 6:30 PM and will also hold a public hearing at 7:00 PM that evening or as soon thereafter as can be heard for the purpose of hearing public comment on the proposed 2022-23 tentative budget. The Village of Cooperstown encourages comments regarding the budget to be mailed or emailed to the Village Clerk at the contact information below. Copies of the budget are available in the Village Office, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, and can be obtained during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. or can be viewed on the Village website at www.cooperstownny.org.

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hearing. Disabled citizens, who require assistance in attending said public hearing, or in furnishing comments or suggestions, should contact the Village Clerk’s Office at (607) 547-2411 to request assistance.

Jenna L. Utter, Village Clerk Village of Cooperstown 22 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 547-2411 (phone) jutter@cooperstownny.org (email) Dated: March 25, 2022 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MISS VIKKI LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State on March 10, 2022.

The office location within New York is in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to c/o THE LLC, 330 Nelson Road, South New Berlin, New York 13843.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalApr.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of T.S.T. HOLDING PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/10/22.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 1 West St., Farmingdale, NY 11735.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.28 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF A FORMATION OF A NY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Appliance Maintenance Services LLC Articles of Organization filing date with the Department of State (SSNY) February 15, 2022.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 1251 County Highway 11 Laurens, NY 13796 Purpose: To engage in any and all business activities and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalApr.28 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of JOSH’S TREE SERVICE, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 03/02/2022.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Josh’s Tree Service, LLC, 986 County Highway 22, Burlington Flats, NY 13315 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of THE MENAGERIE AT THE COREY HOUSE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/31/2022.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The Menagerie at the Corey House LLC, 1291 Co Hwy 33, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.28 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Donut Depot LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/11/22.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 102 Depot Rd., Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.28 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Boat Owners United LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/13/22.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Boat Owners United LLC, 116 West Hill Rd, Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company Name: MSJ Storage, LLC., Articles of Organization filed with NYS Department of State on February 10, 2022.

Office Location: Otsego County.

NYS Department of State had been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 218 Pegg Road, Morris New York 13808.

Purpose is to engage in any lawful act or activity under the LLC Law of New York.

6LegalApr.21 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: DRI 9, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 2 March 2022.

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 393 Main Street Suite 104, Oneonta, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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formation of Glimmerglass Move Managers, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/15/22.

Cty: Otsego.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served and shall mail process to 191 Skillen Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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against it may be served and shall mail process to: 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr., #100, Sacramento, CA 95833, principal business address.

LLC does not have a specific date of dissolution.

Purpose: All legal 6LegalMar.31 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Brigadoon Staffing LLC

filed w/ SSNY 2/21/22.

Off. in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served & shall mail process to the LLC, 352 Main St, #1204, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Any lawful purpose.

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Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/08/2021.

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 Brigadoon Staffing LLC, 6959 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Hooker Valley Farm LLC.

DuBois Timber Frames LLC.

Filed 1/27/22.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: 1053 Co Rd 42, Maryland, NY 12116. Registered Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Bklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: General.

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Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/05/2022.

Off. Loc.: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 381 CO HWY 36A Schenevus NY 12155.

Purpose:any lawful.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY UNDER NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW

Notice of Qualification of Cardinal Green Investments LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/14/22.

Office location: Otsego County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/1/19.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Erin Tulley, 2500 Sand Hill Road, Ste 240, Menlo Park, CA 94025. DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

6LegalApr.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of ISMALIA HOLDINGS, LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 11/18/21.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: C/O Hrbek Law LLC, 295 Madison Ave., 22nd FL, NY, NY 10017 Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalMar.31 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company Arts. of Org. of SSH Alliance, LLC (“LLC”) filed with Dept. of State of NY on August 3, 2021.

Office location: Otsego County.

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1. The name of the limited liability company (“LLC”) is Good Taste Associates LLC. 2. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is February 4, 2022.

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

4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: 230 Nichols Rd, Gilbertsville, NY 13776.

5. The character or purpose of the business of the LLC is any purpose allowed by law.

6LegalMar.24 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of ROSEANNE’S PROPERTIES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 01/27/2022.

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

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 26 College Ter., Oneonta, NY 13820.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Monthly meeting of the Leatherstocking Beekeepers Association. Open to all to learn about beekeeping and share their experiences. Hosted at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. in OtsegO COunty Visit leatherstockingbeekeepers.com

‘Don Carlos,’ a tragic story of doomed love among royalty set to the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Cost, $20/adult.

Lunch available for purchase separately. Showing at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080.

MOVIE – 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Join Tobacco Free Communities for showing of the Oscar -nominated film ‘A West Side Story.’ Free, open to public.

Film is rated PG-13. Sidney Memorial Public Library, 8 River St., Sidney. Visit facebook. com/gotobaccofreedos SNOMMEGANG – 2 - 6 p.m.

The Snommegang International Beer Festival returns after the 2-year hiatus. Tickets, $50/person. Muller Plaza, Main St., Oneonta. 607-2802900 or visit ommegang.com/ events/snommegang-invitational-beer-festival-2022/ SYMPHONY – 7 p.m. The Catskill Symphony Orchestra presents their Cabaret fundraiser, featuring works from Strauss to Dvořák with guest star Mandy Harvey who is an award-winning jazz and pop singer. The program followed by the guest conductor competition to see who will wield the baton for Sousa’s ‘Stars & Strips Forever.’ Cost is $50/ adult. SUNY Oneonta. Visit catskillsymphonyorchestra.org

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UKRAINE – 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.

Panel discussion ‘The Pain You Cannot Escape: Ukraine, the Ethics of War, and Refugee Sanctuary’ presented by philosophy professor Dr. Achim Koeddermann, featuring Ukrainian academics sharing their insights on the current war.

Q&A session will follow. Hodgdon IRC Lecture Hall #2, SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-3603.

JOB FAIR – 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Stop by and see what job might be right for you with Staffworks and Chobani. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-334-5055.

OPEN STUDIO – 11 a.m. Noon. Stop by the art studio with current knitting, drawing, or painting project to work and socialize. The Art Department, 8 Main St., Cherry Valley. Visit facebook.com/Theartdeptny SENIOR LUNCH – Noon. The Otsego County Office for the Aging invites residents aged 60+ for a delicious lunch.

Must call 24+ hours in advance. Suggested donation $3.50. Milford United Methodist Church, 113 N. Main St., Milford. 607-547-6454.

AUTHOR SERIES – 2 p.m.

Join author Anika Orrock to discuss her book ‘The Incredible Women of the AllAmerican Girls Professional Baseball League.’ Free, registration required. Presented

by The Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200.

FIBER ARTS GROUP – 3 - 4 p.m. Bring knitting, crocheting or other fiber art to work with the group on a current project.

Springfield Library, 129 County Rd. 29A, Springfield. 315-8585802.

WORD THURSDAY – 7 p.m.

Enjoy presentations from award-winning poet Skye Jackson and writer John Robert Lee. Registration required. Presented by the Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, Treadwell.

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BEEKEEPING – 7 - 9 p.m.

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BLOOD DRIVE – 9 a.m.

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WALKING CLUB – 10:30 11:30 a.m. Enjoy walking with friends old and new and listen to music of the 70s. Free for members, non-members aged 50+. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 547-2800, ext.

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►Saturday, March 26 THRIFT SHOP – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Stop by thrift shop and boutique to support Helios Care at $1 Bag Sale. Helios Care Thrift Shop & Boutique, 261 Main St., Oneonta. 607432-5335.

OPEN HOUSE – 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Meet artists Elizabeth Nields and Marcus Villagran in the Midwinter Art Show, who will discuss their ceramic art & practices. Free admission. Midwinter Art show open through 4/5. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. 315-941-9607.

COMMUNITY COOKING – 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. All invited for fun, collaborative cooking class to create a healthy & nutritious meal. Open to all. Children aged 8+ must have an adult with them. Registration required. Presented by the Cornell Cooperative Extension at SUNY Oneonta. 518-2344303 ext. 120.

OPERA – NOON! View live performance of the Metropolitan Opera, streaming live in Oneonta. This week the Met presents the 5-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera

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National Guard promotes two from Otsego Two Otsego County residents earned promotions in the New York Army National Guard in recognition of their capability for additional responsibility and leadership.

Hannah Barber of West Edmeston, assigned to the Headquarters and Support Company, 42nd Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, received a promotion to the rank of private on February 9, 2022.

Cameron Kellogg of Burlington Flats, assigned to Company G, 427th Brigade Support Battalion, received a promotion to the rank of sergeant on January 25, 2022.

Major General Ray Shields, the Adjutant General for the State of New York, announced the promotions, each given based on overall performance, attitude, leadership ability, and development potential. The promotions recognized the best-qualified soldiers as the Guard attracts and retains citizen

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lands/68329.html; at press time, Otsego County stands at ‘moderate’ alert levels.

The DEC urges residents to contact local fire departments for information about local burning laws.

Absent stricter local authority, the state’s burn ban does allow camp or outdoor fires less than three feet in height and four feet in width. The ban also permits small cooking fires, and, under certain conditions, ceremonial or celebratory bonfires. Burning loose leaves or leaf piles is illegal.

Open burn ban in effect New York calls open burning ‘the single greatest cause of wildfires’ in the state and again this year brings a halt to the practice with its annual burn ban, in place from March 16 through May 14, 2022.

The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation updates its fire danger rating map weekly at https://www.dec.ny.gov/

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