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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, March 28, 2019

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Dialogue Possible On Eco-Park Idea It’s Unclear If City Hall, Otsego 2000 Can Agree

By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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dent, has sent a preliminary e-mail The Rev. Tom Lebeau, to Mayor Gary Herzig on exploring pastor, Cooperstown whether there is common ground on estabUnited Methodist Church, lishing an eco-commerce park in the former offers condolences to Erdem Kahyaoglu and D&H Railyards. others at Osmanli Dergahi, a Sufi community in Sidney, during a gathering Sunday, March 24, in solidarity after the March 15 shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, where 50 Muslims died.

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t’s cats versus dogs as the Susquehanna SPCA hosts its very first “March Matchness,” where donors can help move their chosen pet through the brackets to victory, just like NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

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Common ground between economic development and Green initiatives, that is.

“We would be thrilled if a green eco-park could be placed there,” she said in response to a question during an interview. “We would be the first in the state. We would get all sorts of good publicity.”

A rapprochement, however, wasn’t immediately embraced.

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FATHER ROSSON RETIRES APRIL 1 FROM ST. MARY’S

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ather John P. Rosson is retiring after 19 years as pastor at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown.

Father Father Rosson Rosson is also well-known in Oneonta, where he was campus minister at Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta in the 1980s.

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Cooperstown Distillery Unveils Plan To Double Its Plant, Hire 10 More

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ith five years of success behind it, the Cooperstown Distillery is looking ahead and planning to more than double the size of its plant on Railroad Avenue.

“We outgrew our space

Cooperstown Distillery Proprietor Gene Marra stands next to one of two new stills installed in February in preparation for a proposed expansion.

many years ago,” proprietor Gene Marra told the Village Board on Monday, March 25. “Our production has been limited by our physical space.”

The planned 7,500square-foot expansion will more than double the building’s existing footprint on the back portion of their Railroad Avenue lot, adding Please See MARRA, A7

EVENTS SET MARCH 29-30

Was Justice Achieved?

Hall, Legion Collaborating On Centennial

►CONGRESSMAN DELGADO urged Attorney General WilBy LIBBY CUDMORE liam Barr to make public the full report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s findings in COOPERSTOWN the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 Trumphe American Legion, especialClinton presidential campaign. ly through American Legion ►AN EMPLOYEE of Wahl to Baseball, and The National Wahl auto parts, Town of Middlefield, was charged by Baseball Hall of state police with stealing parts have had a special from his employer and selling relationship for them to another man. over four decades. ►EX-COOPERTONIAN, artist “American Leand realtor Bob Schneider gion Baseball was was elected village mayor in founded in 1925 Stamford, where he moved to further citizenship through sportsfive years ago.

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CASALE: ‘Gotcha’ Politics May Backfire For Democrats

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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emocrats are in for “a huge beating,” Otsego County Republican Chairman Vince Casale said in the wake of Spe-

cial Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s non-indictment outcome of a two-year investigation of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“They’ve hung everything they’ve had on ‘collusion’ over the past two years,” said Casale, Please See CASALE, A7

SWAN: ‘It’s Up To Us To Keep Officials Accountable’

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etails matter.

“A four-page summary should be the tip of the iceberg,” said Aimee Swan, Otsego County Democratic chair.

“There were 2,800 subpoenas, 500 witnesses, but there is not a single word from Robert Mueller in Barr’s letter. We need to see the full report.”

She was referring to Attorney General William Barr’s letter summarizing Mueller’s investigation Please See SWAN, A7

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After a hiatus of several years, the Village of Cooperstown’s Historical Preservation & Architectural Review Board revived its annual Preservation Awards and presented 10 in Village Hall’s Ballroom this evening. Honorees, from right, are: William and Kathryn Dystra, 17 Elm St.; Perry and Cathy Ferrara, Railroad Inn; Luke and Lynae Ann Wycoff, 36 Delaware St.; Bill and Deb LeCates, 87 Chestnut St.; Rev. Joe Perdue, standing, First Baptist Church; Karen Crissmann, seated, 9 Pine Blvd.; Michael Bottiggi, standing, CVS store manager; Veronica Gil Seaver, sitting, 160 Main St., and Teresa Drerup, standing, 18 Cooper Lane. The Dystras, Wycoffs, Lecates, Karen Crissman, and Drerup and husband Kurt Ofer were cited for Thoughtful Rehabilitation; the Ferraras for Sensitive Accessibility Improvements; Perdue and Seaver for Window Restoration, and CVS for Sensitive New Construction. HPARB chair Liz Callahan emceed after a welcome by Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch.

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he Otsego County Chamber of Commerce will honor Pathfinder Village and funeral director and community leader Les Grummons at its annual gala at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at Foothill Performing Arts Center.

Pathfinder will be named as Distinguished Business and Grummons as Citizen of the Year.

Pathfinder Village, based in Edmeston, has a four

decades’ long commitment to providing communitybased and individualized service to residents with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities.

It employs more than 200 people.

Les Grummons of the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home in Oneonta is the recipient of the Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr., and the Distinguished Citizen Award from Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative Care. Since 2002 this award has been given to Otsego County

citizens who have made a long-term impact on our region and who have given back to the community through their businesses.

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Hall Helps American Legion Celebrate 100th Anniversary LEGION/From A1 Legion’s HQ in Indianapolis.

“Every year our player of the year is honored at the Hall of Fame Classic game at Doubleday Field.”

And this week, to celebrate the American Legion’s 100th anniversary, the Hall and Legion will co-host special exhibits and tours Friday-Saturday, March 29-30, focusing on the connection between the military and baseball.

“Seeing that baseball is America’s game and American Legion Baseball is one of our programs and that 77 – soon to be 81 – Hall of Famers got their start in organized baseball playing on American Legion teams, working with the Hall seemed to be the right thing to do,” said Gary Schacher, the Legion’s New York State commander.

Founded in 1925, American Legion Baseball gives players the chance to continue playing the game after high school.

The Hall will offer a guided tour of the Plaques of the Gallery and the museum, with a special focus on highlighting artifacts used by the military members, such as “Mo Berg: Big League Spy,” and Ted Williams’ war mementos from Korea, and share stories of artifacts not on display.

“We want to highlight those stories that tie baseball and the military together,” said Jon Shestakofsky, the Hall’s VP/Communications.

“American Legion Baseball is part of the fabric of America.”

According to the Hall, a quarter of the 329 members of the National Baseball Hall of Famer have roots in Legion ball, the first of the 81 being Bob Feller, inducted in 1962.

And this year four of the inductees are former American Legion players: Harold Baines, Lee Smith, Mike Nusian, and the late Roy Halladay.

Smith will be on hand to participate in several programs, including a welcome event at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Plaque Gallery, and a Q&A at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the Grandstand Theater.

“It was an important part of his career growth,” said Shestakofsky.

And when your tour is finished, you can take a few moments to write to an active-duty soldier or veteran through “Operation Gratitude.”

“The celebration at the Hall of Fame was one of the things I wanted to do this year,” said Scacher, who spearheaded the event with the Hall. “I was elected as NY state commander in July to the one-year position. I am the first Iraqi war veteran elected to the post.”

In addition to the celebrations at the Hall of Fame, Schacher said the legion posts in Cooperstown and Richfield Springs will be open to welcome the American Legion family.

Legion members can purchase half-price tickets for admission to the Hall and entrance is free for active duty and retired military members.

“This event is part of a long relationship that we’ve had with the Hall of Fame,” said Field.

In Oneonta, the American Legion will commemorate the occasion on Saturday, May 4, with a catered roast beef dinner. Dinner is free for veterans, and past state commander Jim Yarmouth will be speaking about the history of the Legion.

Congrats to the American Legion, and thank you for all that you do for our community!

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American Legion Centennial Weekend March 29 & 30 • National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum A special weekend is planned with military-themed events and activities!

Welcome with Class of 2019 Hall of Famer Lee Smith 10:30 am Plaques of the Gallery Tour – 2:30 pm Friday; 10:30 am Saturday.

Guided Museum Tours – 1:30 pm Friday; 2:30 pm Saturday. Curator Spotlight: Moe Berg Exhibit – 11:30 am Friday.

Operation Gratitude – 10 am-2 pm Friday and Saturday. Honors the military personnel and veterans by writing letters to soldiers and veterans. All letters will be sent to Operation Gratitude.

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We appreciate our community and we have supported: Veteran Thanksgiving Food Basket • Adopt a local Veteran Family for the Holidays • Christmas Care Packages for local military personnel stationed overseas • Medical Equipment Assistance for local Veterans • Graveside Military Honors for Veterans • American Flags for local Veteran Graves Annual buring ceremony of American flags collected by local merchants Sponsor of American Legion Youth Baseball Team • Mohawk American Legion • Cherry Valley American Legion • Cooperstown High School Americanism Awards • Cooperstown High School Nursing Award Cooperstown High School Veterans Scholarships • Cooperstown Central School Athletic Hall of Fame • Cooperstown Community Salutes • Boys State • Polar Bear Jump • Cooperstown Central School Prom Project 4H Junior Livestock Show • Sitrin Foundation • Otsego Food Bank

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THURSDAY, March 28, 2019

A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL EDITORIAL

All Richfield Folks, Not Just Faction, Should Map Future

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s it stands, regrettably, the Town of Richfield’s proposed Comprehensive Master Plan hasn’t yet accomplished its mission.

So the Town Board – it meets on the second Monday of each month, and may act on the plan in either April or May – should put it on hold, at least for the time being, until the community’s will can be dispassionately determined and the plan revised to reflect it.

A Comprehensive Master Plan’s goal is to capture the aspirations of a community and write those goals down so they can be systematically pursued; Richfield’s has been captured by a faction, judging from interviews recounted in this newspaper’s last edition.

So all townsfolk of good will – and their leadership – should stop, reflect and try again.

• Here’s the story, as best we could determine it.

When the six-turbine Monticello Hills Wind Farm was proposed in 2012 on the town’s west end,

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OTSEGO.com ►Type “windmill” in the search line to read last week’s article, “Windmill Foes Take Control In Richfield.” ►Type “election” in the search line to find out how to run for town office.

whom saw the wind farm as welcome tax relief.

The suit would eventually fail, but when Otsego Now’s effort began in August 2015 to update the town and village existing comp plans for economic-development purposes, the neighbors saw it as another opportunity to protect their neighborhood, and got involved.

Others began seeking appointed or elective office on the key town boards and commissions.

By the time the draft of the updated Comp Plan went to public hearing March 12, wind-farm opponents controlled the Zoning Commission that prepared it, the Planning Board that must review it, and the Town Board that must approve it.

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Developed by opponents of the Monticello Hills Wind Farm, the proposed Town of Richfield Comprehensive Master Plan does indeed block “industrial wind.” It also sets aside an estimated 85-90 percent of the town’s land mass for agriculture uses and single-family homes.

some neighbors objected.

According to Dan Sullivan, one of the founders of the resulting Protect Richfield, which sued to

block the wind farm, the neighbors found town government had little interest in their concerns.

Town government, they con-

cluded, was under the control, primarily, of people living in the Village of Richfield Springs and other parts of the town, many of

OTHER VOICES

Press Ahead On D&H Development, Or Oneonta, DRI In Doubt Editor’s Note: This is a comment on the DGEIS on the redevelopment of Oneonta’s D&H railyards, after the plan was pummeled at a March 5 public hearing at Foothills. Al Colone is founding president of Oneonta’s former National Soccer Hall of Fame.

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ear Mayor Herzig and Common Council members: The 270 acres of the former D&H railyards are the most important real estate within the boundaries of the City of Oneonta.

I’ve often said the land in question and its relationship to the city is analogous to the core of an apple; and since the 1960s a gradually rotting core.

I believe that unless and until something meaningful happens ALBERT there the rot will persist, having a dire COLONE impact on the rest of the fruit: Oneonta, its City center, its neighborhoods and its allied assets.

What happens there will determine the future of our community and the surrounding area. Will development there bring growth and much-needed prosperity, or will Oneonta continue to flounder, sadly without fulfillment of its incredible potential?

Please accept this email letter as a formal comment in support of your ongoing processing of the Generic Environmental Impact Statement.

I urge the Council to approve

the GEIS review of the IDA’s 90 acres of the yards, as prepared

by Delaware Engineering, understanding that this action is a very preliminary and necessary first step in any future development.

I believe it’s very premature to try and confirm or finalize a development-site plan and/or an energy program, knowing those important determinations are really in the hands of others: committed private developers and state agencies.

It’s outside financial resources that will answer those issues.

Nothing will happen in a major

capital way on the 90 acres for several years, unless you have a major private investor in your back pocket, or anticipating a $40-million grant from New York State, or some combination.

For the what it’s worth department, here’s my advice on an incremental strategy going forward: ►Immediately approve the GEIS! ►Have the IDA apply for $651,450 grant to clear and seed the 50 non-wetlands acres of the IDA’s 90 acres, improve the existing Roundhouse Road with Please See COLONE, A5

LETTERS

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and reviewed the proposed generic redevelopment plan.

They took time to consider the impact this plan might have on the health, environment and safety of their community. They formed questions. They researched the issues. They collected data. They wrote clear, well-thought out questions and raised concerns. They offered suggestions for use of the area.

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To the Editor: What does democracy look like? It looks like the March 5 meeting of the Oneonta Common Council.

The public was invited to review Otsego Now’s plans to redevelop the D&H railyards and to respond publicly.

Democracy looks like engaged citizens who participate in decisions that will impact their lives and their communities. Citizens read

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The responsibility of democracy was taken seriously. Responses were delivered in a respectful manner. Those in the audience listened, respectfully.

This is what democracy looks like.

This may not have been the public response that was preferred by Mayor Herzig, but this is what democracy looks like.

Engaged, active citizens who take responsibility to consider issues and take a public stand on those issues is essential to democracy.

Public discourse is the backbone of democracy.

What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like!

BETSY HOLLAND Oneonta

Is Downtown Cooperstown Destined To Relive ‘Last Picture Show’s’ Fate?

To the Editor: Smalley’s, is long “The Last Picture gone, and now so Show” was the last too is the General movie of the season Store. The building in the film series where CVS stood sponsored by the lies vacant. Driving Friends of the Village down a darkened Library. The 1971 film Main Street after the is directed by Peter film, one couldn’t Bogdanovich, based but notice other on a Larry McMurtry shuttered storefronts novel. and blinkered The black-andbuildings. white film is set in a West Texas’ Royal moviehouse went, This is the so did Cooperstown’s Smalley’s. small, dying, North economic decline of Texas town. There is rural America at our little to do, and the only movie house, on doorstep. Economists opine that small-town Main Street, is about to close for good. A declines are irreversible. So do we roll over cold wind blows, and winter melancholy and let the town die? evokes of a ghost town in the making. It is We know what ails us: Young people, not a pretty picture. finding no opportunity here, go elsewhere, Here in Cooperstown, the movie house, Please See SEWARD, A6

Donate! 25 Years Ago, New Kidney Saved My Life

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very month of April, we celebrate National Donate Life Month. On April 17, I will celebrate the 25th year of my very successful kidney transplant.

After battling the disease that caused a loss of kidney function over time, my energy level and quality of life were at a low point.

That was truly a donation that changed my life and was given from the remaining family of a 17-year-old boy who lost his life in a two-car accident on April 16, 1994. Through the curvy roads in the hills south of Delhi, the family met another car head-on which resulted in this horrific

accident.

That accident resulted in the death of his mom, dad, and sister along with three people in the other car. The family with their son were on their way home to NYC from a STEVE college trip to look BIERITZ at SUNY Delhi.

As tragic as that may be, the decision that was made by the remaining sisters in New York City changed my life and I am forever

blessed with their brother’s kidney.

Dr. David Conti at the Albany Medical Center, a major transplant hospital, deserve credit for the professional job he and his team did.

As our own Mike Covert struggles with his kidney issues, the matter of organ donation is on folks’ mind.

My involvement with the Kidney Foundation over these years brings awareness to the need, and importance of the Gift of Life.

I have asked The Northeast Kidney Foundation to be in touch with Mike, and they have offered their support with his struggles. With over 100,000 Please See BIERITZ, A6

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THURSDAY, March 28, 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

Advertisements – Geo. Griffith, Post-Rider is yet alive, and keeps faithful and steady to his old calling. But he cannot pursue his old course, unless people pay him, so as to enable him to purchase bread and cheese for himself, and a few oats for his horse. And, there’s the lynx-eyed Printers, who now look at him every week and speak a language he dislikes very much. Do gentlemen – be punctual. March 29, 1819.

ONE CENT REWARD – Ran away from the subscriber, on the 23rd instant, an indented apprentice boy, named Barnabas Beebe, 16 years of age. Whoever will take up the said runaway shall receive the above reward, but no charges. All persons are forbid harboring or trusting him on my account. William Millikin, Burlington, March 24, 1819.

March 29, 1819

100 YEARS AGO

been promoted from the rank of Captain to that of Major.

The men are cousins. Major Kenneth W. Root, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Root of Susquehanna Ave., was a mechanical engineer with the Niagara Hudson Corporation at their steam power plant at Oswego. Major Douglas Lee Root, son of Mrs. Fannie G. Root of Chestnut Street, was for several years prior to enlisting in the armed services had been a practicing physician in Albany. Major Kenneth W. Root is currently a sub-base engineering officer stationed in England, but has also served two periods in North Africa. Major Douglas Lee Root is with a medical unit in North Africa where he has been stationed for the last 15 months.

March 29, 1944

50 YEARS AGO

The Otsego County Head Start Program is perhaps the strongest overall program of rural development visited recently by Joseph Murphy, task specialist, “From the top administrative levels through staff, volunteers, and parents, there is evident a sincere attitude and genuine effort toward active programming and self-help,” his report states. “Both the C.A.P. Director Alva C. Welch and Head Start Director, Mrs. Esther Fink, are attuned to the needs of poverty-level people, and possess the skill to organize programs to meet those needs,” he said. “As administrators, they are actively involved with program development in the field as well as in the office. It would be extremely beneficial for other rural Head Start personnel to observe this program in operation,” he concluded.

March 26, 1969

175 YEARS AGO

School Libraries 1844 – H. and E. Phinney, Cooperstown, beg to state that they have added to their large selection of approved Books for School Districts many new and interesting works not before offered among which is the following publication: “The Characters and Manners of the Chinese in the History of Their Intercourse with Foreigners” by Jacob Abbott, to which is added an account of the late war between China and England with 20 illustrations. This, although a book of facts, has the happy style of the well-known author, all the interest of a novel.

March 25, 1844

150 YEARS AGO

The winter took leave on the night of the 21st of March after giving us the sharpest touch of his icy breath which we have had this season, viz. 14 degrees below zero.

No doubt the grim monarch will look in on us several times before he releases us entirely from his hold, for there is no season in Otsego so loath to resign the reins of power to a successor as the winter. April is not usually the most genial of months with us, and May frequently performs vagaries which serve to remind us that it is not always May even when it professes to be. But the rigors of March must be borne with equanimity if we hope for early spring and summer. We must have some compensation for the very mild and pleasant months of January and February, and better now than four or five weeks later. We shall have had at this week’s publication of the Journal, 111 days of continuous sleighing and this with the mildest winter on record for ten years past. Altogether, the winter of 1868-1869 has been one of the most pleasant and enjoyable in our record of 21 years past. The same night the above was written we were favored with about six inches more snow.

March 26, 1869

Fate Of City Depends On D&H Yards COLONE/From A4 cul-de-sacs at each site entrance, name and install “project” signage in appropriate high-visibility locations. There are some very creative rail-themed names that could be considered! ►Immediately put a recruiter on the road to evaluate potential capital prospects, to define and refine development concepts, and to sign prospect commitments towards future capital construction and operations at the former railyard site.

For the record; I continue to believe food, beverage and innovation have the greatest economic growth potential for both the railyards and DRI zone. ►Take other action towards addressing future private site development.

Good luck in moving the railyards’ projects forward: The economic future of the community and area is in your hands. Best wishes!

125 YEARS AGO

March 25, 1919

Dr. George C. Thayer will have a handsome suite of five rooms, two of them for office purposes, on the second floor of the Schneider Block, corner of Main and Chestnut Streets.

J.B. Silvernail, a few weeks since, made a change of quarters from Delaware Street to the house of Mrs. E.M. Hatch on Pine Street. Mrs. Hatch is now living with the family of her nephew, Fred Pennington, on Walnut Street, and Mrs. Mulkins takes possession of the house recently purchased by her and vacated by Silvernail. E.B. Thompson now resides in one of J.H. King’s houses. The house on Grove Street which E.B. Thompson vacated on Elm Street is occupied by Henry Grover, who recently purchased it. H.C. Winne has moved his Music Store to the Short Store on Main Street and the premises vacated by him and C.D. Cook will be used as a Chinese laundry in the near future.

March 29, 1894

75 YEARS AGO

Families of two Cooperstown officers with the United States forces overseas were notified last week that they had

25 YEARS AGO

Three members of the Cooperstown Redskins’ basketball team were honored as selections for the Center State Conference’s East Division All-Star Team. Cooperstown senior and all-time leading scorer Seth Schaeffer was named a first-team All-Star. Junior Reid Nagelschmidt was named to the second team and senior Brad Perry was an honorable mention selection.

March 29, 1994

10 YEARS AGO

It’s still a year out, but Carol Bateman Waller, Mayor of Cooperstown since 2002, has decided not to run for a fifth term when her current term expires next March. Although a Republican and wife of the village Republican Chairman, Waller is endorsing her deputy Mayor, Democrat Jeff Katz, to replace her at the village’s helm. “He’s worked very hard.

He loves this village. It’s what’s best for Cooperstown, and that’s all that matters really.” (Katz lost in 2010, but was elected mayor in 2011.)

March 27, 2009

ONE’S ENERGY IS STORABLE; THE OTHER’S, NOT YET

What Are Fossil Fuels? And Renewables?

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ased upon what I read in our papers, there seems to be a lack of information and/or understanding about fossil fuels and the so-called “renewables.” This might be a good time to attempt to get all of us on the same page.

The descriptive term “fossil fuels” includes coal, oil and natural gas - the energy sources that were formed millions of years ago as sedimentary deposits in lakes and oceans. They represent plant and animal material MIKE that settled to the bottom ZAGATA of those water bodies and were, over millions of years, subjected to pressure. As a result, they were transformed into coal (hard coal or anthracite and soft coal or bituminous), oil and natural gas.

Because they took millions of years to form, they are considered to be non-renewable – some day we will run out of them. ►COAL is a solid form of carbon and often contains “contaminants”

that would result in pollution when the coal is burned to release its stored energy if it weren’t for environmental laws and regulations that require coal-burning power plants to install expensive pollution-abatement equipment.

Because it is a solid, coal is mined – either in surface mines near the earth’s surface or in deep mines well below the earth’s surface – and then transported by truck or train to coal-burning power plants.

It contains “stored” energy that can be burned to heat our homes and to generate electricity that is transported across the “grid.” It is either used to power equipment, re-charge electric vehicles, heat buildings, manufacture products or is eventually “lost”/wasted.

XOIL is a liquid form of carbon and can be used as a lubricant, in the manufacture of plastics, tires and countless other products. It can also be refined into gasoline to fuel our cars and lawnmowers, diesel to

Reading Anthracite photo

Anthracite – black diamonds – the hardest, clean-burning coal, once warmed most homes on the East Coast.

fuel trucks and heating oil which is burned to heat our homes and buildings by releasing stored energy.

Oil generally has fewer “contaminants” than coal and thus burns

cleaner. It requires energy to transport fossil fuels from where they were produced (coal is mined, oil and gas require wells to be drilled) to where their stored energy is ultimately used by a consumer. ►NATURAL GAS represents the gaseous phase of a fossil fuel (contains carbon) and is generally transported via pipeline from where it is produced to where it will be stored and/or consumed. It can be used as a feedstock in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other products or it can be burned to release its stored energy to cook, heat our homes or generate electricity.

The important part that often gets overlooked is that fossil fuels consist of stored energy. That means they can be relied upon 24 hours a day and 365 days a year to meet our energy needs when and where we need them.

That is an extremely important point. They only release their energy to meet a specific demand when called upon by one of us to do so, i.e. when we turn on the stove burner.

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Take Town Back: Run For Supervisor, Town Board. Petitions Due April 1-4 EDITORIAL/From A4 As you might expect, the plan prohibits “industrial wind farms.”

• That, however, was not the limit of Protect Richfield’s vision: For 95 percent of the town’s land space, the updated Comp Plan envisions only farms, singlefamily homes and agri-tourism.

After the public hearing, Andela Products President Cynthia Andela said, she met with Sullivan, and obtained two concessions: ►One, a “Route 20 overlay” in the plan, which limits development to 500 feet on each side of the center line, was expanded to 1,000 feet, although she’s not sure even that is enough. ►Two, “home occupations”

permitted in rural parts of the town – that includes such activities as building contracting – were limited to three employees each, and Sullivan agreed to lift that limit altogether.

But she was also concerned that a limited commercial-industrial zone around the village itself, where municipal water, piped-in natural gas and sewerage are available, isn’t big enough to accommodate future growth.

And, she said, other sites should be considered for such development, perhaps around the NYSEG substation on Federal Hill, which Otsego Now thought promising enough to put down $50,000 on a right of first refusal.

•

The point is: Comprehensive Master Plans are intended to map a route to achieve the will of the community, and the Town of Richfield plan fails to do that.

Yes, it fills the goal of the resurgent west end to block wind farms, but even with wind, is there another area of town where turbines might help deliver tax relief?

Even Otsego 2000, the environmental group – Sullivan is a board member – is touting Richfield, where natural gas is already available for development, over the City of Oneonta’s D&H yards. Doesn’t it make sense to expand the commercial zoning around the village?

With Richfield Springs Central School’s K-12 enrollment at 425, isn’t there a desire for more

single-family homes for young families with children, and jobs for the parents?

And is the potential for lovely Canadarago Lake sufficiently reflected in the plan?

As to agriculture, a couple of weeks ago, in response to a question from Otsego County’s Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19th, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue painted a bleak picture of dairy farming in Upstate New York. “We’re not compelled to keep anyone in business if it’s not profitable,” he said.

Does any local community want to hitch its wagon to that star?

• As it happens, there’s something that people of good will can do about all this: Run for town office

this Nov. 5.

But time is running short: Petitions to run for town supervisor or the two Town Board vacancies must be submitted by April 1-4. The good news is, only 16 signatures are required to run as a Democrat, 33 as a Republican, two as a Conservative, five as an Independent, and less on other lines.

To their credit, Protect Richfield members were motivated to get involved in town government. But town government should be everyone’s. And Protect Richfield’s success is an inspiration others can follow. Individuals do make a difference.

In the Town of Richfield, as everywhere in a Democracy, everyone should help chart everyone’s future.

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‘Disgraceful’ Article Miscasts ‘Independent, Intelligent’ Volunteers To the Editor: I read with disbelief the factual errors, insinuations and conclusions put forth in this past week’s edition concerning the Town of Richfield’s governance. I have only been on the Town Board two years, hardly enough time to “take over” anything as implied.

A fundamental rule of democracy is the voters get to decide who best represents them. I ran openly advocating for a Comprehensive Plan and the corresponding update to our land-use law to support it.

Everyone would know I opposed the industrial wind project.

I support people who support the

goals of putting the town and village in a strong position to economically expand using the principals of Smart Growth which allow us to expand our economic base while maintaining the character of our community, all in an environmentally sensitive way.

This is exactly what our awardwinning Joint Comprehensive Plan promotes.

The Comprehensive Plan was created by a group of volunteers with professional guidance. There was no selection process for this committee. If you wanted on the committee, you were allowed on, hardly a takeover.

It’s true many people now involved gained a new appreciation of why they needed to get involved after our Planning Board, led by Don Urtz, voted to approve the Monticello Hills industrial wind project. Our current law should have protected us and didn’t.

The industrial wind permit approval happened over the objections of a majority of the residents who would actually live among the machines. Over 200 people signed a petition specifically stating they objected to the project because of the negative effects it could bring – an important fact ignored by most of the Planning Board.

Most of the Planning Board at the time also ignored landowner agreements between some of the project neighbors and the wind developer which contained specific easements for the negative effects the wind project could inflict.

These negative effects are specifically named in the current ordinance as the reason why the permit should have been denied. When people realized their health, safety, value of their property, and the “right to quiet enjoyment of their property” were not being protected, they got motivated.

Many voted and some took positions as they became available.

We Can Support Economic Development Without Gas

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This photo, from an application from North Wind Farm in St. Lawrence County, submitted to the state Department of Public Service.

Fossil Fuel Can Be Stored; So Far, Renewables Can’t ZAGATA/From A5 That stored energy is not “wasted” in the meantime. When fossil fuels are burned to generate electricity, some of their energy is lost during their conversion from “stored” energy to electricity and more of it is lost due to the energy required to move that electricity across the grid. The loss that represents the energy it takes to move the electricity across the grid is called “line drop.”

• ►RENEWABLES consist of energy sources like solar, wind, and hydro.

They do not represent a form of stored energy like fossil fuels and thus don’t release a “stored” form of energy on demand. The energy they produce needs to be used or sent into the grid immediately, as there is no existing way to store it at a scale large enough to meet our ravenous appetite for energy.

Current storage technology involves lithium-ion batteries and the raw materials needed to make them are mined outside the U.S. Is it a good national strategy to put the control of our energy in the hands of foreign governments? Remember what OPEC did to us in 1974 – a time when people shot one another while waiting in line to fill their automobile with gasoline.

Renewables are generally used to create another form of energy that is in a form we can transport and use. That form of energy is electricity.

Solar panels convert solar energy into electricity. Wind mills convert wind

energy into electricity, and hydropower converts the energy from moving water into electricity.

It takes energy to create electricity and thus energy is lost in the process. It also takes energy to move the electricity (line drop) from where it is created to where it will ultimately be “used” to heat your home, charge your electric car or power your electric lawn mower.

Creating and moving electricity via renewables is an inefficient process and one that produces heat. It also takes time to move the energy from where it is being created to where the demand for it is located. That’s why we have a “grid” consisting of sub-stations and transmission lines. They are constantly “moving” electricity across the grid.

However, there are times when the demand for that electricity is low and much of it is “wasted” due to line drop, and there are times when the demand is very high, and the system may not be able to move enough electricity fast enough to meet that demand. When that happens, we get a “rolling brown-out” or a “blackout.”

• Solar energy is produced by the sun. Therefore, at a minimum, it is not produced at night. In upstate New York we get about 160 sunny days per year. Even though some solar energy is produced on cloudy days, it is not a reliable energy source in and of itself. To date, we do not have a way of storing the solar energy produced during daylight hours for use at night.

Wind energy is produced when the wind blows. It has the same shortcomings as solar.

Hydro-power represents energy captured by using running water to spin turbines that generate electricity.

During periods of normal or above water flow, it is a reliable source of electrical energy and can normally be brought on-line quickly. The problem with hydro-power is that historically it used the water stored behind dams – think of the Goodyear Lake dam - to power the turbines that produce the electricity. The state and federal relicensing processes required for existing dams may take decades to complete while getting approval for a new dam is simply out of the question. In addition, the source of the hydro-power (dam) may not be close to where the demand for electricity exists and thus energy will be wasted while getting the electricity to where it is needed (function of the “grid”), Aside from what we all would like to do with regards to our energy sources, the reality is this: If it’s below zero and you want to keep your pipes from freezing right now, fossil fuels will provide the energy when and where you need it. Hopefully the day will come when that is not the case and renewables will play a more reliable, significant role.

Mike Zagata, Ph.D. former DEC commisisoner in the Pataki Administration and an environmental executive with Fortune 500 companies, lives in West Davenport.

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Dillingham Invites Herzig To Sit Down Over Railyards Plans RAILYARDS/From A1 If invited, Herzig said he is willing to meet with her - “I’m happy to meet with anyone who has ideas and wants to talk,” he said – but he said the railyards redevelopment is in the early stages, and the land is owned by Otsego Now, the county IDA. Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky was more pointed: “I’m not sure what Otsego 2000 would bring to talks other than more misinformation.”

Dillingham was among 30 speakers, several from Otsego 2000, at the public hearing on the GEIS, the Generic Environmental Impact Statement on the railyards, Tuesday, March 5, at Foothills, that was overwhelmingly critical of railyards development.

The following Monday, Otsego Now released a 20-page commentary on the GEIS, that criticized a

consultant’s 2006 finding that pollutants in the railyards were not sufficiently high to rule out redevelopment.

The commentary, which now becomes part of the GEIS record, also found undue consideration of protecting wetlands on the 88-acre site, 55 acres of which are being eyed for development.

The idea of an eco-commercial park first surfaced during the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s Energy & Infrastructure Summit Thursday, Jan. 31, at The Otesaga, suggested by Hartwick College Professor Mark Davies, who chairs the city’s Environmental Board.

When you’re selling a particular place to a company, if we have a forward-looking idea about development that has an environmental focus, some companies would certainly be intrigued about building here,” Davies said in an interview.

While true, many residents currently serving on the various boards recognize the issues which come with industrial wind, this has not been a sudden, hidden agenda.

It is a disrespectful insinuation that these individuals are only participating to stop wind. They are independent, intelligent, hardworking people who want to see Richfield prosper and recognize the current ordinance hinders that goal instead of fostering it.

Using industrial wind to frame the updated ordinance is disgraceful.

LARRY FRIGAULT Town Board member Town of Richfield

While he isn’t sure he’s the person to facilitate such meetings, he said he’s been encouraging Zakrevsky and the Otsego Chamber’s energy committee to take such a step.

As for an eco-park, Herzig said, “There’s nothing not to like about it. But the first question is, what does it mean.

Talk to 10 different people, you get 10 different definitions.”

At base, it’s “an ecologically friendly center for jobs,” and that could encompass a lot of ideas, he said.

Job One is to eliminate “confusion” and complete the GEIS before anything can be done. One point of confusion, he said, is the GEIS is not a SEQRA review, the state Environmental Quality Review Act requirement that any project would undergo before it could be built.

“I believe most people are in agreement that we want to stimulate the local economy and we want to do

so in the most environmentally friendly way,” Herzig continued. “Some ‘outliers’ are seeking to block anything using any natural gas. That, obviously, would kill the entire region.”

For her part, Dillingham said she’s “optimistic” something can be done. The mayor, Common Council and Otsego Now have to take the lead, but “I’m just one of the people who want this. There are a lot of people who want this.”

She said there are other opportunities for Oneonta to be cutting-edge as its $14 million state-funded Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) moves forward. For instance, a plan to replace downtown sewerage would be an opportunity to create a “geothermal loop” to provide low-cost heat throughout the downtown, another idea that surfaced at the chamber’s summit.

To the Editor: This letter is in response to Dick Downey’s excellent letter from last week’s edition.

Mr. Downey may share a feeling that I do – that maybe my previous letter and assertions may incorrectly characterize his views, just as I think his words do not accurately summarize mine. So, I hope this will clear up some of that and further anchor my main point – it is the right course of action for our country, our state and our local governments to seek ways to reduce gas usage and incorporate renewable energy, specifically wind and solar.

Mr. Downey, although not explicit, suggested that my point of view is synchronized with the Green New Deal. I have not endorsed it, nor do I intend to. I have run for public office in the past and intend to do so again, and my platform will be wholly based on what I think is the best path forward for all of us.

I think Mr. Downey and I can agree on our opposition to components of the Green New Deal. However, these letters are for argument and debate, and for purpose of my argument with Mr. Downey, I feel strained in the need to further lay the case about climate change and the manmade effect on it. Mr. Downey took issue with my use of the term “settled science,” so instead of using conclusions this time, I will put forward measurements.

The amount of gas burning and greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere is, and the temperature changes we are experiencing are measurable.

CO2 is being released into the atmosphere faster than any time in the last 66 million years and, every day, 110 million tons of manmade pollution is released into the atmosphere.

These are measurements.

The consequences are also measurable, and in my opinion linked to the production measurements – 17 of the 18 hottest years on record recorded since 2001; forestfighting seasons that average three more months per year out West and the likelihood of so-called one in 500-year weather events and floods happening every few years.

(This is not a comprehensive list).

Mr. Downey may not be ready to call a link or causa-

tion between the rate of CO2 release and the measured climate changes, but I am. If it is a question of calling for absolute proof, Mr. Downey may not get it. But I think the case is very convincing.

I do not contend Mr. Downey is wrong to be skeptical, because the question of proof is up to each person to decide. My contention is that action cannot wait for absolute certainty because we may never get complete consensus on causation.

Mr. Downey may think I am sounding an alarm about the effects of climate change. My response is YES! – we need to take concerted action to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases going to the atmosphere, however, I am not claiming that we only have twelve years before “doom”, nor am I contending we are ready to “flip the switch” off gas. The tipping point that Mr. Downey eludes to is a topic for another discussion.

Mr. Downey favors the proposed decompressor station investment, and I do not. However, I do agree with him that doing so would not impede the development of other energy production.

The question that needs to be answered is whether or not this is good use of taxpayer money. I contend we can support business and job growth without adding to gas infrastructure.

I am in complete agreement with Mr. Downey on natural gas as a replacement for coal and as a bridge fuel.

We are on that bridge. Since 2001, New York has gone from nuclear and natural gas making up 55 percent of energy production to 70 percent in 2017, and, coal, which was at 16 percent in 2001, has dwindled to nearly nothing. In that same period, the United States as gone from 51 percent coal and 17 percent natural gas to 30 percent coal and 32 percent natural gas. This is progress but it is not a destination.

Although emissions have reduced to 1987 levels, and we are squeezing out coal, we are not there yet. The goal posts are set – 100 percent renewable by 2050. Let’s work to make it happen and get off the bridge.

DAN BUTTERMANN Oneonta

‘Last Picture Show’ Lives SEWARD/From A4 leaving an aging population behind; inadequate infrastructure in the form of farm-to-market roads and bridges, power grids, and rural broadband keeps us stuck; affordable housing is scarce, the retail base has been devastated (there used to be two hardware stores on Main Street), farmlands are vulnerable as zoning and master plans go unenforced, practices for climate resilience are wanting, and rural poverty gets worse.

What, I wondered that night, did the several local politicians and local notables in the audience think, having seen the same movie I did?

Was it just a classic film

made 48 years ago about a faraway town with no resonance to the present?

In the film, Sam the Lion says, “You see? That’s what I get for bettin’ on my hometown ball team. I otta’ have better sense.”

But we do! There are plenty of organizations and entities in the area, but seemingly little coordination. It behooves community-based organizations, philanthropy, and the public sector to work together and proactively come up with solutions that cross boundaries and purviews. If rural lives matter, we expect no less.

ROBERT SEWARD Town of Middlefield

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Distillery Seeks To Double Size CASALE: ‘Gotcha’ Politics

MARRA/From A1 a “rackhouse” for storing barrels of whiskey and bourbon, as well as secondfloor production space.

“We want to make more whiskey, more bourbon,” said Marra, who asked for and received the trustees’ blessing for a $60,000 grant needed to bolster the $400,000 project.

“They are the silver lining in the distilling world.”

Marra opened the distillery – Otsego County’s first, and still its only one – in October 2013. Since then, it has won more than 50 gold medals. In 2015, he opened the Cooperstown Beverage Exchange in the former Augur’s Bookstore at Main and Pioneer, and his Spitball cinnamon whiskey was featured in the Wall Street Journal.

The grant application calls for the creation of low- to moderate-income jobs.

Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky, who accompanied

James Benjamin

Marra, said the jobs wouldn’t require a college degree.

Though the grant will cover four employees, Marra believes the expansion will create as many as 10 jobs.

“You can’t run this with just four people,” he said.

In addition to expanding production and storage space, the project would also increase on-site parking for employees.

As a Community Development Block Grant, only municipalities can apply for the funds, which they would then disperse to the business, which Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh said was a daunting task. “When I first received this email from Gene, I thought this was something we could endorse, but we don’t have the staff to write or process this grant.

But Zakrevsky had an answer – the Village can also designate an organization like Otsego Now to handle the grant on their behalf.

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SWAN: ‘It’s Up To Us To May Backfire For Democrats Keep Officials Accountable’ directing Barr to release the CASALE/From A1 who is also a political consul- full report. Casale was of the same mind. tant in statewide campaigns “You investigated and you in New York. “Now they’re found nothing. Now you’re sitting there, hat in hand.” going to release information Speaking Monday, March on people who did nothing?”

25, the day after Attorney Casale asked. “This country’s General William Barr issued a synopsis of Mueller’s findings, never done that: released information on innoCasale characterized the cent people.” whole undertaking as an Barr’s “got to make extension of “gotcha” the responsible decipolitics set in motion by sion of what should be President Richard M. released – not just release Nixon’s forced resignait because you say so … tion in 1974.

That’s not American.

“History has shown That happens in other that usually the Casale countries – like Russia,” opposing side wants he said. there to be a scandal Given the loss of the state more than the real truth: that Senate in the 2018 Midterms there is no scandal,” he said, and redistricting looming in whether the issue is President 2021, Casale was asked, if Reagan and the Contras, or Democrats overreach, will “Monicagate.” that help the GOP retake a He added at another point, House in Albany.

“When are we done with the Asked about his friend, smear campaign? That’s all Roger Stone – Casale hosted it’s been.” him at the 2017 GOP annual Casale anticipates the dinner at The Otesaga – the Democratic House of GOP chair said, “It’s become Representatives will continue clear now: Roger Stone’s investigating for the next two indictment was Mueller’s years leading up to Election only skin. Mueller was going Day 2020. to grab this. It was the only Meanwhile, “the thing they could call a victory.

Republicans need to move “There was a sensationalforward with their agenda,” ized raid on the most colorful he said, “tax reform, putting person they could have money in people’s pockets pegged on this. They used – there are more jobs than this as an opportunity to there have ever been.” put all the focus on Roger, Bottom line, he said: because they don’t have “We’re a stronger country today then we were four years anything else.”

He recalled what lawyers ago.” say: “You can indict a ham Monday afternoon, Senate sandwich.” Proving wrongMajority Leader Mitch doing is another thing, McConnell, R-Ky., blocked he said. a non-binding resolution

But she took relief in SWAN/From A1 Barr’s assertion that Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether found the Trump campaign did not reach out to Russia or not President Donald for help in interfering with Trump obstructed justice. the 2016 elections.

Swan praised the “integrity” “That is good for America,” of Mueller’s investigation. “It she said. “But Trump has was a successful investigation, taken the word of Putin over not a partisan witch hunt,” she our intelligence agensaid, echoing Trump’s cies, so it’s good to see favorite phrase on their work confirmed Twitter. “Republicans that Russia did try to held all three branches influence the election.” of government when Though Manafort, Mueller was appointed.”

Gates and Cohen have She also pointed out been found guilty, that the investigation Stone, who was a had led to multiple keynote speaker at arrests and indictments, Swan the Otsego County including Trump’s “fixer” Republicans’ 2017 dinner, Michael Cohen, campaign is awaiting trial on charges chair Paul Manafort, former of obstruction of justice, National Security Adviser witness tampering and lying Michael Flynn, campaign aide to Congress. “It will be Rick Gates and, most recently, interesting to see how it will former adviser Roger Stone. play out,” she said.

“All the officials involved Going forward, she said, did a great job of getting to the bottom of these investiga- she would like to see more transparency in the process, tions,” she said. “They asked including congressional good questions, and they got testimony. “I feel we’ll learn good answers.” a lot more there,” she said.

But while Barr’s letter But she doesn’t want to stated Trump had been exongo forward on seeing and erated of any wrongdoing, interpreting the full and final Swan believes there is more report through what she calls to it than that. “We knew “a partisan lens.”

Barr’s opinions before he “It shouldn’t be about was named attorney general,” winning or losing,” she said. she said. “He said he didn’t “It’s about the integrity of believe in the validity of the our elected officials. There investigation. We need to should be a trust, a loyalty to know the context and know our intelligence community.” what details of the investigaThe best case, she sees, tion went into him drawing is that if the full report that conclusion.”

Swan said the report reiter- reveals evidence that Trump committed obstruction of ated that Russia did make justice, he would be held active attempts to influence accountable. the 2016 elections.

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Entrepreneur Adding 5 Apartments In Former Stevens, Next To Bresee’s redevelop the former hardware store.

A few weeks ago, ONEONTA Klugo began demolishing and framing hird time’s the five new apartments charm. and a first-floor store.

“I fell in love with “You’ll be able the Stevens (Hardware) to move in by the building,” said Chip Klugo, end of the year!” he who redeveloped Bresee’s predicted.

Department Store, opening Stevens Hardware The original bill his Parkview Place apartclosed in November for Stevens’ ments there in 2014. “We after the death of John elevator? $1,650. O. Stevens, whose stayed on it and we didn’t give up.” grandfather opened the It was the next year, 2015, nearly store in 1882. Stevens had worked four years ago, that he set out to Please See KLUGO, B3

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The Young Turks Benton On Cooperstown Board; Oliver, Wells Seek To Join County Reps the community has led me to public service.”

Oliver and Wells are both running ommunity engagement doesn’t for seats on the Otsego County have a minimum age requirement.

Board of Representatives.

MacGuire Benton, 21, of Wells, an independent, also ran Cooperstown, and two Oneontans, for the District 14 seat in 2017.

Clark Oliver, 21, and Wilson Wells, 23, This time he’s facing Democrat have all thrown their hats into the ring Jennifer Basile for a seat now held of local politics.

by Democrat Liz Shannon, who’s “Our age group is horrible about stepping down at the end of her term. voting,” said Oliver. “And I think part Oliver is running in District 11 to of that is that we don’t have people who succeed the board’s vice chairman, look like us running for office.”

Gary Koutnik, who is also retiring.

Benton is already in: Tuesday, March Petitions do not have to be filed Ian Austin / OTSEGO.life until April 1-4, so more candidates 19, he was elected to an uncontested, turks in this year’s local political one-year seat on the Cooperstown Village Young may surface for both seats. campaigns include, from left, Wilson Wells, Board. “I never thought I’d be a politiWhile they’re young, the three relative veteran at 23, and MacGuire Benton cian,” he said. “But my engagement in Please See CANDIDATES, B3 and Clark Oliver, both 21.

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Removing the covering on Stevens Hardware’s west wall, Chip Klugo discovered a soundproofing stone common wall with the Novelty Lounge next door. The wall runs from basement to roof line. When it closed in 2012, Stevens was the longest operating store in Oneonta’s downtown.

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The front of 151-153 Main St., Oneonta, signals: Somethin’s going on in the neighborhood. Who you gonna ask?

Chip Klugo.

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Breona Talbot, 3, Cooperstown, is presented with a balloon animal, made specially for her by BJ the Clown during the 2017 Crayon Carnival, scheduled again for Saturday, March 30.

A Colorful Carnival Song & Dance Shows And A Food Festival

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pring is filled with colors and so is the Crayon Carnival! Kids can get their fortune told, play carnival games for prizes or win a cake in the Cake Walk!

11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, March 30, Cooperstown High School, Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info cooppta@gmail.com.

• The Boys of Summer take the stage in Orpheus LIBBY CUDMORE Theatre’s production of “Damn Yankees!” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday March 29-30, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31. $20 adults, $10 kids. Bettiol Theatre, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Info, tickets (607) 287-1288.

• OHS brings the “Lullaby of Broadway” right here to Oneonta as they perform “42nd Street.” 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, March 29-30, Oneonta High School, East Street, Oneonta. Info (607) 433-8243.

• Rescheduled because of snow, the annual Cooperstown Methodist Rummage Sale is back on for bargain hunters! 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Friday, March 29, bag sale 911 a.m. Saturday, March 30. Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-9515.

• Sample delights from 30 different restaurants and place bids on great items to benefit Catskill Area Hospice as part of the 19th Annual Epicurean Food and Wine Tasting. $90, reservations required. 3-6 p.m. Sunday, March 31, The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Reservations (607) 432-6773.

• Retired general surgeon Bob Davidson has a new career as an author as he signs his new book “Scripture Sonnets.” 2-4 p.m. Saturday, March 30, Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8898.

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THURSDAY-Friday, March 28 - 29, 2019 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. 1-888345-0225.

RUMMAGE SALE – 10 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Find great bargains at the Annual Rummage Sale.

Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown. 607547-9515.

MUSICAL – 7 p.m. OHS Drama Club performs “42nd Street.” Oneonta High School, East Street, Oneonta. 607433-8243.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m.

Orpheus Theater performs “Damn Yankees.” $20 adults, $10 kids. Bettiol Theatre, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-287-1288.

Saturday, March 30

MAPLE SEASON – 9 a.m. Noon. Tour an exhibit on local

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO maple syrup production. Free coloring books and temporary tattoos! The Edmeston Museum, 1 North St., Edmeston.

RUMMAGE SALE – 9-11 a.m. Bag Sale. Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown. 607-547-9515.

CRAYON CARNIVAL – 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Carnival games, fortune teller, cake walk and more. Cooperstown High School, Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

Info, cooppta@gmail.com.

MEET AND GREET – 12-2 p.m. “Pawsitive Pawsibilities at the Y” aims to connect new families with companion animals from the

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Half Price Pizzas and BOGO On all hOuse drinks*

www.boccaosteria.com · 607-282-4031 5438 State Hwy 28 · Cooperstown, NY 13326

Every Friday 5 pm to 8 pm *Bar service only

new york pizzeria 2 large plain pizzas $25* Tax included! Toppings extra

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Susquehanna SPCA. YMCA lobby, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-547-8111.

OPERA – 12:55 p.m. Live streaming “Die Walkure” by Wagner. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607431-2080.

BOOK SIGNING – 2-4 p.m.

Bob Davidson signs new book “Scripture Sonnets.” Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. 607-433-8898.

ART OPENING – 4-6 p.m.

Nora Ashwood, founder of The Old School Student Gallery, showcases her work.

The Art Garage, : 689 Beaver Meadow Rd, Cooperstown.

Info, leartgarage@gmail.com.

MUSICAL – 7 p.m. OHS Drama Club performs “42nd Street.” See Friday Listing.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m.

Orpheus Theater performs “Damn Yankees.” See Friday Listing..

Sunday, March 31

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. 607547-8111.

ART WORKSHOP – 12-4 p.m. Make art for the Eco Art Contest at the 2019 Earth Festival. $5 per child/OWL members free. Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Ave. (Fortin Park) Oneonta. Info, worldoflearning@live.com THEATER – 2 p.m. Orpheus Theater performs “Damn Yankees.” See Friday Listing.

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Immediately following the opening ceremony at 4 pm Wilber Park, Milford

You’re invited as our guest!

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Otsego County would like to honor your fight against cancer! Our Relay for Life Planning Committee is extending this invitation to celebrate our community survivors at this SURVIVOR RECEPTION. To RSVP for the Survivor Dinner and/or the Survivor Caregiver Lap at the Otsego County Relay for Life, please return this completed and signed form to Catherine Faughnan at 3 Beech Street, Johnson City, NY 13790 or call Jennifer Mickle 607-287-3586 Name ____________________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________ Phone/Email ______________________________________________________ T-shirt size (circle one) S M L XL 2XL 3XL or Kids YM YL RSVP: Survivor Dinner _____________ Survivor/Caregiver Lap _____________ Guest/Caregiver Name______________________________________________

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Suddenly, Younger Candidates Abound CANDIDATES/From B1 candidates have experience working for political campaigns.

Benton, the former chair of the Otsego County Young Democrats, worked last year for both Bryan Flynn’s 19th Congressional primary campaign and on the campaign of state Sen. Jen Metzger, whose 14th District runs from south of Poughkeepsie to across southern Delaware County.

Oliver, current chair of the county’s Young Democrats (a job Benton held before him) was the campaign staff for Joyce St. George’s Senate campaign against state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford.

Wells, a SUNY Oneonta graduate with a double major in Political Science and Criminal Justice, worked the reelection campaign of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. For Wells, his campaign’s key issue is transparency.

“I’m not focused on party politics,” he said. “I have a vision of the government for the people, by the people.”

He has pledged weekly town halls with not just his constituents, but anyone who wants to meet with him. “And I plan to explain every vote and why I voted the way I did,” he said. “I don’t want there to be any questions. I want it all on

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the table.”

Oliver, meanwhile, is focused on putting the County Administrator/ Manager debate to rest. “The manager (system) works in other counties,” he said. “So much of what the County Board does in their meetings could be done by a manager, so that we can empower the legislature to spend more time innovating instead.”

“My biggest concern is that an unelected manager wouldn’t be accountable to the people,” Wells countered. “We need some sort of administrator, but I think it needs to be an elected position.”

Oliver said that, if elected, he will push for a conclusion on the administrator/manager discussion.

“It’s time we deliver,” he said. “It’s one of the reasons we’re being left behind.”

All three agreed that climate change and sustainability is a key focus of their campaigns. “It’s reflective of the younger generation, regardless of party,” said Oliver. “If we don’t act now, we won’t be able to move forward.”

Both Oliver and Wells agreed redevelopment of the D&H railyards is necessary if Oneonta is to grow in the future, and agreed that environmental sustainability must work hand-in-hand with economic sustainability.

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“I’d like to see, for every $1 spent in the railyards on fossil fuels, another dollar spent for green energy,” said Clark. “I really want to bring economic and environmental stakeholders together.”

“I wouldn’t feel comfortable putting a ton of money in fossil fuels in the railyards,” agreed Wells.

“But sustainability is most efficient at the local level, rather than the federal.”

For his part, Benton wants to keep sustainability at the front of his mind on the Village Board.

“In a county where we rely so much on agriculture and tourism, we have to keep our county clean and beautiful,” he said. “A lot has been accomplished, and I want to continue that good management. For example, could we look into a community buy-in for solar?

Sustainability is a passion of mine.”

While Benton get acclimated in his new role, Oliver and wells will be campaigning until Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5.

“I want to get a recordbreaking turnout,” said Oliver. “I plan on knocking on every door in my district.

This isn’t about being partisan. It’s about bettering our community.”

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Klugo had his eye on Stevens – with a stuffed moose and other trophies on its walls, it was a local novelty – since he first began developing the former Bresee’s. “I always loved talking with the family, but there just wasn’t enough money to do Bresee’s and the apartments on Dietz,” he said.

He sought state CFA funding, but it fell through.

In meantime, the building was sold in 2016 to two New York City investors.

“I heard they were going to put in a coffee shop,” Klugo said.

The coffee shop never came to fruition. Soon, the building was for sale again, and Klugo bought it in 2017.

“The owners didn’t care what we had to do, they just told me, ‘Buy it or we’ll sell it to someone else.’”

Using Empire State Development and CFA funding, he purchased the building for $270,000 in 2017. “I love Oneonta,” said the man from East Corning.

“This is such a friendly town. I know what Bresee’s meant to people, and I

want to do the same with Stevens.”

The five apartment will be one and two bedroom.

“They’ll all have different flavor, no cookie-cutter here,” he said. “We’ll put in granite countertops, and maybe even a few fireplaces.”

The building is old enough that many of the walls are covered with bead-board, rather than sheetrock, and Klugo said he plans to refinish and preserve that, as well as the original floors. “We want to keep the historical theme of the building. It’s another great Oneonta building with a 100-year history.”

The existing freight elevator will be restored and converted into a passenger elevator. In excavating, he found the 1923 order for the elevator: $1,650, or $24,390.67 in today’s dollars.

He also found repair tags from 1917, and, inside one of the walls, a garage door, which he plans to incorporate into the design.

Tenants will be able to park in the lot that also serves Parkview, a feature Klugo said are particularly enticing in the downtown area.

“Parking, to me, is

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as essential as heat for a building,” he said. “No one wants to carry their groceries three blocks.

That’s what made this building such a beauty.”

People on the waiting list at Klugo’s Parkview Place will have first dibs on the new apartments. “They’re market rate, but with luxury feel,” he said.

The first floor will be retail space, but Klugo is mum on who might be moving in. “I have a prospective tenant,” he said. “Someone who owns an existing business that is growing.”

He also recently received a DRI grant from the city to improve the façade, but does not plan on applying for funding for upper floor housing. “I want to spread the wealth that the city receives,” he said. “We want to get as many projects going as we can – it’s all good for the city!”

And with several buildings for sale downtown, including the former Oneonta Hotel, Klugo hopes his investment will inspire others. “If you put a little elbow grease into fixing them up, we can get people downtown and create the good foot traffic we need,” he said.

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2LegalApr.4 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of NY Limited Liability Company Name: COLONE GIRLS LLC. Articles of Organization Filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 19 March 2019.

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SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and SSNY shall mail process to Patricia Colone, 4 Stanley Road, Swampscott, MA 01907.

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6LegalMay.2 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS OTSEGO INDEX NO.: EF2018-843 Plaintiff designates OTSEGO COUNTY as the place of trial based upon the location of the premises herein described having tax map Section 191.00, Block 1, Lot 67.01, Mount Vision, NY, County of Otsego CITIBANK, N.A., NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF NRZ PASSTHROUGH TRUST VI, PLAINTIFF, -againstBETH A. NEER, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF RITA M. ROOD A/K/A RITA MARIE ROOD, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and

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Roach & Lin, P.C., attorney for Plaintiff, 6901 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 240, Syosset, NY 11791.

Tel: 516-938-3100.

To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, a Justice of the Supreme Court, State of New York, dated February 15, 2019 and filed with the Otsego County Clerk together with the supporting papers thereon. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage held by Plaintiff on the premises known as Section 191.00, Block 1, Lot 67.01, Mount Vision, NY, County of Otsego as described in the complaint on file and commonly known as 644 GARDNER TOWN RD, MOUNT VISION, NY 13810. 62287 4LegalApr.18 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 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

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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 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: Sagasti Properties, 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 39 Prospect Street, Oneonta, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.18 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

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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 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.

6LegalApr.11 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS 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

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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, 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

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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 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 ATTOR-

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NEY 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

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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: None.

6LegalApr.4 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company GOLDEN GRIFFINS 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.

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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.

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Notice of Formation Limited Liability Company (LLC)

Notice of Formation of

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

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.

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THURSDAY, march 28, 2019

OBITUARIES

Gladys ‘Nicky’ Smith, 91; ‘Mom’ To Many Sang Daily RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Gladys E. “Nicky” Smith, 91, died Monday, March 18, 2019 at Cooperstown Center surrounded by her loving family.

Born May 14, 1927, in Bridgewater, she was raised and lived most of her life in the Bridgewater, Sauquoit, Clayville and Van Hornsville area. She married Leland Smith in December 1944.

Nicky was a homemaker, cook, mother, wife, friend and “mom” to many. The Smiths were dairy farmers and their home and farm were the perfect place to raise their eight children.

She was perfectly suited to life on the farm – she loved animals of all types, especially cats, and could be seen feeding the animals (including foxes, skunks, raccoons, etc.) daily. Nicky also loved to garden and would spend many hours tending to her flowers.

She was an avid reader (when she found the time), especially of “westerns”.

She would sing every day while she worked and was an accomplished artist with a pencil. She referred to her many friends and “children” as “little angels.”

When she lost her home

and most of her possessions to a fire in 2004, she didn’t miss a beat. She didn’t dwell on the loss but rather cherished what she did have – her family and friends.

Nicky is survived by seven of her eight children, Leland R. Smith (Linda) of Virginia, Patricia Hectus (Joe) of Ilion, Mark Smith (Debbie) of Florida, Victor Smith of Cooperstown, Wendy Willsey (Bruce) of Cooperstown, Carol Hectus (Steve) of Jordanville, and Sandra Mary Swatling (Ron) of Hartwick. She is also survived by 27 grandchildren and many great and great great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her daughter, Linda Ramos, in 2007 and by her beloved husband, Leland, in 2001 after 57 years of marriage.

Funeral services were held Friday, March 22, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home.

Father Dane Boston, rector of Christ Episcopal Church Cooperstown, officiated.

Burial will be in the spring on the family plot in the Springfield Center Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Tillapaugh Funeral Home.

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Shirley M. (Busse) Walrath, 76; Cook At Many Local Restaurants COOPERSTOWN – Shirley M. (Busse) Walrath, 76.

One of Cooperstown’s gems “Shirl the Pearl” Walrath responded to her final job interview and joined the staff in heaven on March 20, 2019.

Born June 5, 1942, in Cooperstown, Shirley was the daughter of Cecil and Hilda (Bennett) Chandler.

She was a lifelong Cooperstown resident and a well-known “local institution.” Shirley was one of Cooperstown’s biggest fans; she loved living in the village.

From a young age, Shirley took care of others. She left high school to care for her father and brothers when her mother died. She was a hard and dedicated worker

always giving 110 than receiving. She percent. adored each of her She worked as a grandchildren and cook at one time or great grandchildren another for many as well as her cat of the restaurants in “Smokey”.

Cooperstown, among Shirley is them the Lakefront, survived by her Hitching Post, sons, Richard Glimmerglass Café, (Kathryn) Busse Shirley of Cooperstown, TJ’s, Toscana’s and Walrath Mel’s, as well as volRobert (Trudie) unteering at the Vet’s Club.

Busse of Cooperstown, and Shirley always had a big Jacob Busse of Florida. smile, a loud and uniquely She is also survived by distinctive voice and gave six grandchildren, Derek, an affectionate greeting, “Hi Kristen, Carly and her honey” to everyone she met. husband Thiago Brentini, And, she made it her misRobert Jr., Lucas, and sion to greet everyone. As a Jacob Jr., and by two great struggling and single mom grandchildren. she raised her three boys Shirley was predeceased and worked to make sure by her two husbands, Albert they had what they needed.

Busse, to whom she was She enjoyed giving more married from Oct. 28, 1961,

RICHFIELD SPRINGS – James J. Stearns, 69, of Hugick Road, a retired dairy farmer whose interests ranged widely to include Percherons, raising unusual chickens, growing roses and day lilies, and playing the organ, passed away on Thursday morning March 21, 2019, at Bassett Hospital.

James was born on Sept.

18, 1949 in Troy, a son of the late James J. and Jean Doney Stearns. He was raised in Averill Park and graduated from Averill Park

High School. After high school he attended SUNY Cobleskill Ag & Tech, obtaining degrees in Animal Husbandry and Agricultural Machinery Repair.

On June 10, 1972, he married the former Rose Weir in Troy. He and his wife Rose owned and operated the Oh Never Done Dairy Farm in Central Square for 28 years, retiring in 1992. They moved to Richfield Springs in 2010.

Besides dairy farming, James had many interests.

Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home 14 Grand Street, Oneonta • 607-432-6821 www.grummonsfuneralhome.com

The family of Shirley (Busse) Walrath would like to thank all for the heartfelt support and kindness shown to them after her passing.

The overwhelming number of friends who gathered to celebrate her life was truly appreciated by us.

Tillapaugh Funeral Service Our historic Family Room

Our Chapel comfortably seats over 200.

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until his death on Aug. 6, 1981, and by George Walrath to whom she was married from March 17, 1984, until his death on Dec. 24, 2004.

She was also predeceased by her parents and by her three brothers, Cecil, Ernest and Robert Chandler.

A memorial service was held Sunday, March 24, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home, with Rev. Thomas LeBeau, pastor of the Cooperstown United Methodist Church, officiating.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests that those who so desire make contributions in Shirley’s name to the “Cooperstown Veteran’s Club Woman’s Auxillary”, 60 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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A special thank you to the Cooperstown Veterans Club and Auxiliary who fulfilled her last wish with a wonderful gathering for Shirley.

Thank you to those that donated food for the celebration.

Everything was delicious!

Our family greatly appreciated all the efforts of Martin Tillapaugh, who provided us with what was a wonderful, touching day at his funeral home.

Finally a special thank you to Rev. Thomas LeBeau, Cooperstown Methodist Church, for a lovely service in her memory.

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He had raised chickens, mostly Bantams and Old English, as well as Percheron draft horses . Having a green thumb he grew roses, irises and had over 1,600 day lilies.

He loved playing the organ and had done so for many churches. He also had an interest in trains, especially steam locomotives.

Surviving him are his wife Rose of 46 years, his sister Melanie Henderson and her husband Stewart of Excelsior, Minn., his three nieces Allison, Christina and Robyn all of Minnesota.

A funeral service for James will be private.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home.

is currently hiring for the following positions: Housekeeping Front Desk Breakfast Bar Overnight Housekeepers Please apply in person at 225 River Street, Oneonta.

No phone calls please!

All OTSEGO. opportunities Administrative Specialist General Supervisor Streets & Facilities Superintendent The Oneonta Municipal Civil Service Commission announces open-competitive exams for the above titles on May 11.

Application deadlines are April 5. Applications and exam announcements are available at the Personnel Office, 258 Main St. or at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel EOE

Brewery Ommegang is seeking individuals for the 2019 season for work in our Tap House. Positions include Servers, Hosts, Beertenders, Line Cooks, Store Staff/Tour Guides and Bar Back/Bussers. Qualified candidates will have strong customer service experience, excellent communication skills, a positive attitude, a passion for good beer (especially Ommegang!) and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. A flexible schedule is a must, including holidays, nights and weekends. Please apply at www.ommegang.com/about-us/job-openings/ Brewery Ommegang is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, March 28 - 29, 2019

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Reservations, 607-432-6773.

FOOD FESTIVAL – 3-6 p.m.

The 19th Annual Epicurean Food and Wine Tasting features samplings from 30 different restaurants, as well as a silent auction, all to benefit Catskill Area Hospice. $90, reservations required.

The Otesaga, Cooperstown.

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.

Sunday, March 31

Monday, April 1

All OTSEGO. opportunities Heritage at tHe Plains at ParisH Homestead CaPital senior living Community

Come work with us and get a rewarding experience working with seniors!

Resident Care Aides PT & FT 2nd & 3rd shifts

Housekeeper FT

All positions require some weekends.

We train. Please apply in person.

Heritage at The Plains 163 Heritage Circle Oneonta, NY 13820 www.plainsatparish.com

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The Unatego School District is

accepting applications for the

position of Elementary School Principal (Gr. K-5). NYS Certification

as School Building Administrator

required. Salary Competitive.

Appointent Date

on or about July 1. 2019.

Please apply on www.pnwboces.org/olas

Deadline:

April 12, 2019 EOE

Join Our Team of Dedicated and Caring Professionals Home-Based Family Partner Center-Based Family Partner Assistant Teacher Center Associate Classroom Teacher Early Head Start Caregiver I Campus Coordinator/Advocate OFO is a family-oriented organization offering competetive wages, excellent benefits and opportunities for professional growth. For an application, submission instructions, benefit package summary and descriptions of all employment openings, visit EOE www.ofoinc.org/jobs The leader in developing innovative solutions to promote healthy lives, thriving families, and caring communities since 1966.

The Farmers’ Museum and Fenimore Art Museum seek applicants for the following positions:

Custodian/Maintenance Worker

Full-time, year-round position with benefits Applicants with basic construction and carpentry knowledge for small to moderate repair jobs are sought. Some of your responsibilities would include routine cleaning/ maintenance of public and office spaces, light carpentry/painting, and special event setup. If you are a steady, reliable worker; have a valid driver’s license; are capable of operating power equipment and enjoy working both inside and outdoors year-round, please apply today!

Painter/Building Maintenance Worker

Full-time, year-round position with benefits Applicants with interior and exterior painting experience, including exhibits, special projects and outside architectural elements, and working knowledge and experience in all phases of construction wanted. Responsibilities would include caring for and monitoring of painting materials and equipment; maintaining records for each project; prioritizing and coordinating multiple projects. Successful candidates will be detail-oriented and understand conservation procedures.

To apply for any position contact Human Resources at 607-547-1462 or email j.zinger@fenimoreart.org.

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KNITTING – 1 - 2 p.m. Knit, crochet, or handcraft with friends. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-8580230.

LECTURE – 6 p.m.

Dr. Walter E. Little to speak on Mayan textile production in Guatemala. Free, open to public. Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College. 607431-4839.

Wednesday, April 3

WRITERS GROUP – 3:30 p.m. Discuss current writing projects, get inspired, have fun. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-6732314.

Thursday, April 4

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. 518-673-2314.

Friday, April 5

HEALTH EXPO – 9 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Lectures, panels and presentations on everything from Rabies and Lyme Disease awareness to substance abuse and mental health awareness. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607547-4230, www.LHEOtsego. com DINNER – 4-7 p.m. Honor the memory of Ralph Vanderlip with a baked ham and haddock dinner, using his own recipe from the Unadilla House. $10. Unadilla First Presbyterian Church, 156 Main Street, Unadilla. 607369-4630 ART OPENING – 5-7 p.m.

New exhibits feature art by Raymond Han and Celia Clark. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-9777.

MUSICAL – 7 p.m. Milford High School performs “The Addams Family.” Milford

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Central School, 42 W. Main Street, Milford. 607-2867721 ext. 8207 FILM SERIES – 7 p.m.

Showing “North Country”.

Discrimination Matters film series. Open discussion to follow. Free, open to public.

Light snacks available, or bring your own. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta.

CONTRADANCE – 7:15 p.m. Monthly contradance.

Music by Uncle Joe and the

Rosebud Ramblers; Casey Carr, caller.” First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown.

Suggested donation, $8 adults, $4 students/kids, $20 family. 607-965-8232, 607-547-8164.

THEATER – 8 p.m. The Catskill Community Players present “The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby.” The Weiting Theatre, 168 Main St., Worcester. Info, www.catskillplayers.org