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Fenimore, MFA Unite Oneonta Billet Maker To Sell Bats To Host Top Art Here LEATHERSTOCKING TIMBER BUILDS STORE

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hen you’re watching your favorite baseball team play, chances are they’re hitting home runs with a bat made, in part, right in Oneonta.

The Freeman’s Journal Matt Kent, owner of Leatherstocking Oneonta-based Leatherstocking Timber Please See BAT STORE, B7 is building a bat store in Hartwick.

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Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Chipper Jones announced that he and his wife, Taylor Higgins, would be naming their baby, due Induction Weekend, “Cooper.”

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ith his Induction date quickly approaching, Chipper Jones has another date on his mind – his wife’s Taylor Higgins due date.

“So the induction is on July 29,” Jones said during his Hall of Fame orientation.

“Taylor’s due date is on the 30th” In his press conference at the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday, April 10, Jones revealed that they would name their child “Cooper.”

“We figured that the name was only fitting for such a big occasion.”

LAVALLEY RETIRES: Mark LaValley, network coordinator for Cooperstown Central School, announced his retirement, effective July 2, on Facebook this afternoon BE MINDFUL: Cooperstown Central School is hosting a free community mindfulness retreat from 1-2 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Clark Sports Center, organized by the CCS Mindfulness Steering Committee.

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he Fenimore Art Museum is leading the way for the nation’s greatest museums to share “masterworks” with great regional museums.

In recent days, a $2 million collaboration was

announced between the august Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Fenimore and three other museums of American art in New England and Upstate New York to make MFA-owned masterpieces available to regional audiences.

First out of the gate is The Fenimore, which will be opening an exhibit of Please See ART, A7

BIG PHARMA SUED Joining 60, Otsego Seeks To Reclaim Heroin-Crisis Cost

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n the midst of its battle against the heroin epidemic, Otsego County has joined almost every Upstate county in filing a lawsuit against Big Pharma, blamed for manufacturing gateway opiods.

“There are about 60 counties in the state that are preparing litigation against these large pharmaceutical companies,” said county Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla.

“It seems to be very similar to the lawsuit against the large tobacco companies a while back.”

At its April 4 meeting, the county Board of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution to file the lawsuit, which will argue the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture prescription opioids lied about their addictive nature.

“It’s not quite a class action yet,” said Please See PHARMA, A7

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Cooperstown Playing A Role In Richfield Trustee’s Vision

By JIM KEVLIN

HOUSING GRANT: Otsego Rural Housing RICHFIELD SPRINGS Assistance has received a $351,500 grant to replace eyton Carter, the new owner-occupied mobile Richfield Springs trustee homes. For details and eliwho led balloting in the gibility requirements, visit March 20 village elections, is a www.otsegoruralhousing.org. man with a mission.

He’s sharing that mission – reThe Freeman’s Journal vive the village’s downtown, Peyton Carter in Please See TRUSTEE, A3 Richfield Springs.

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After reading a proclamation – her first – in his honor, Mayor Tillapaugh hugs Mayor Katz.

ollowing a loss in the 2010 Cooperstown mayor’s race, Jeff Katz reports spendTo further accoing “a sleepless night” lamenting the lades, Marge Landers served vanillaloss.

But it turned out chocolate layer cake with Swiss for the best: “Had butter cream.

I won in 2010, we wouldn’t be here in the village we are in. I am fortunate to have served with people who were like-minded. It’s nice to have people come to your side.”

The departing mayor shared that observation standing at the front of the crowded Village Hall ballroom at his farewell party Please See KATZ, A3

FACILITY MAY BE HUB FOR REGION’S CARE

‘Southern Tier Connects’ May Created 40 Springbrook Jobs

By LIBBY CUDMORE MILFORD CENTER

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pringbrook may be overseeing one of the smallest of New York State’s seven new “Care Coordination Organizations,” but CEO Patricia Kennedy

sees that as their biggest strength.

“When you’re making big decisions, you need a small provider,” said Kennedy.

“Bigger isn’t always better.”

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State Academy Of History Honors Wayne Wright, NYSHA Librarian

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ayne Wright of Oneonta, retired head librarian at the New York State Historical Association Library, has received the New York Academy of History’s Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Service Award for his contributions in his role at NYSHA. The award was presented last Thursday at the Academy’s gala at the Retired NYSHA Head Librarian Wayne Wright, Cosmopolitan Club in left, receives the Lehman New York City.

Award from Garet LiverThe medallion bears more. the image of Governor historian for the state Office Eunice Sanders turned Lehman, who served in the of Parks, Recreation & His101 Wednesday, April state’s highest office from toric Sites, a CGP student Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal 4, at the Cooperstown 1933 to 1942 and as a U. S. Center (formerly Focus) senator from 1949 to 1957.

Milford Senior Jason Pick, playing Kenickie, leans on his car, “Greased when Wright headed the Lightning”, during a dress rehearsal for Milford Central School’s production and was feted at a celNYSHA library.

Garet Livermore, former of “Grease.” Shows will run 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday April 13-14 and Sunday ebration at the facility.

In 40 years at the NYSHA NYSHA vice president and She was born April 4, at 2 pm.

Library in Cooperstown, now executive director of 1917. Eunice, who had COOPERSTOWN NAME-CHECKED ON ‘BOB’S BURGERS’ the Sagamore Institute of the Wright helped build the lived in Milford, was a research collection of hisAdirondacks (Camp Sagahousewife, married for Cooperstown torical materials, make the 65 years. She has four more) presented the medaland the Baseball collection accessible to the children – Don, Doris, lion.

Hall of Fame got public, and guide researchLinda and Richard – and Other local attendees a shout-out as ers to the material they 12 grandchildren. With included CGP Director a hot vacation her at the party is son required. He currently volGretchen Sorin, who predestination from Richard and daughterunteers in the book consersented the Distinguished Jimmy Jr. (H. Jon in-law Lorie vation program, and volunBenjamin), right, Service Award to Cordell teers at the Greater Oneonta and Zeke (Bobby Reaves, African-American MOROSKO LAUDED: Historical Society.

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75 Toast Retiring Mayor Katz At Reception In Village Hall Ballroom KATZ/From A1 Sunday, April 8.

Katz choked up as he thanked his supporters over the 13 years he spent as trustee and then mayor.

“I cannot say enough about everybody in this room,” he said.

His successor, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, read a proclamation – her first – in Katz’s honor, and teased him about his own stark design.

“Teri Barown Outgoing First and I added Lady Karen nice gothic font smiles as and the village good wishes logo,” she said. are expressed.

“It’s much prettier now.”

But she also spoke about his contributions to village life. “We are in the best fiscal shape, with paid parking as a steady source of financing, we have received grants and we have done a lot of infrastructure projects,” she said. “It has been a privilege to serve with Jeff and to have him as a mentor.”

Tillapaugh served alongside Katz as a trustee when they ran, alongside Jim Dean, in 2012. The three of them won their board seats in what Tillapaugh called “The Camelot Years.”

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Mayor Katz is congratulated by Cindy Seward and her husband, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. Members of different parties, the two men collaborated, particularly in seeking state grants for Cooperstown projects.

“That first year was a little rough,” said Dean. “But when Jeff became mayor, he smoothed it all out and it stayed smooth.”

“He made it fun,” said Trustee Lou Allstadt. “We always felt accomplished when we finished board meetings.”

Predicted Katz is “destined for greater things,” Dean presented

him with a reproduction 1880s aerial map of Cooperstown. “Almost every building in this picture is still standing,” he said. “We don’t want him to forget about us.”

Former Trustee Lynn Mebust shared a memory of campaigning with Katz. “He walked the village and asked everyone what their

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concerns were, and then made to leverage that brand into somethat the basis of his campaign,” place people want to come. And she said. “I always kept that in the he taught me that while many of back of my mind – if I was strugthese buildings on that map are gling with something, I would ask still here, that we need to think myself, how would this impact the residents?”

Katz was credited with finding funding for a multitude of projects, including the renovations to 22 Main Street and the upgrades to the Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The accolades at an end, Katz thanks “Jeff was not shy attendees for the support he’s received about asking for over the years. money,” said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. “But about and plan for change.” even though we were from difAnd, accepting an engraved ferent parties, we agreed that we gavel, he remarked, “On that were both for Cooperstown. It’s sleepless night, I never thought been a personal and professional this would be the case.” privilege to work with him.”

He said that, following the passing of the state budget, he would be introducing a legislative resolution honoring Katz’s service.

Trustee Cindy Falk credited Katz with guiding her in her in her government career and instilled in her three lessons.

“He taught me that you don’t have to be from here to be passionate about Cooperstown,” she Two former mayors, Katz said. “He saw that Cooperstown and Tripp (with wife Maria) was a brand, and he knew how share war stories.

Richfield, Cooperstown Collaboration Explored TRUSTEE/From A1 partly through collaboration, not competition, with neighbors – with his Village Board colleagues and Richfield chamber members.

And he’s sharing it with their counterparts in Cooperstown, attending last week’s Rotary Club meeting at The Otesaga with the new mayor, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, and afterwards sharing his hopes with her in the hotel lobby.

As this edition went to press Tuesday, April 10, he was planning to connect, at Tillapaugh’s recommendation, with Cooperstown Chamber Executive Director Matt Hazzard, whom the mayor has just named

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to Village Hall’s Economic Sustainability Committee.

Three days before last year’s village elections, Peyton Carter – he the investment banker from New York City who has had a home on Elm Street here for 14 years (living here fulltime for four) – decided to run for trustee.

“I got a third of the vote” – not bad, he said.

So this year, he decided to run in earnest. He mapped out the village, and determined to knock on every door – a goal he said he’s achieved.

“Sometimes, people weren’t there. Sometimes they invited me in and we talked for two hours,” he said in an interview the

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other day, after winning a village trustee seat with 149 votes, well ahead of the rest of the ticket. (The other new trustee, Kevin Putnam, got 83 votes. Trustee Robin Moshier defeated Ron Frohne for mayor, 94-90.)

In part, that may have been because of his mission: “Bringing business back to downtown is THE issue for the town and village.

Everything else we do is dependent on that.”

As he details it on his website, peytoncarter.org, here’s why: ►It would increase the village’s tax base, creating more revenue for the fire department, street repair and the library without increasing taxes. ►It would attract young families, further expanding the tax base and increasing enrollment at Richfield Central School, which is down to 400 students.

“I don’t want to compete with neighboring communities, I want to complement them,” said Carter, to identify “absent businesses” that aren’t here, and recruit them.

For instance, what about a Play It Again? The New Hartford store has new and used sports equipment, ideal for Dreams Park players who, in the excitement of coming to Cooperstown, forget their catcher’s mitt or bat.

The prices are such that local kids playing baseball, basketball or football – you name it – would patronize the store in the off season.

What about capitalizing on the village’s bowling alley, maybe working with the Tally Ho or the Foo Chow Chinese restaurant on package deals?

What about a movie house? From Richfield Springs, the closest cinemas are 30 miles away, in Oneonta or Utica.

In effect, Carter is trying to identify “absent businesses” that you can’t fine here.

Carter was raised in Manhattan, attended the Buckley School and graduated in 1994 from New England College in New Hampshire.

He worked for hedge funds in New York City, rising to vice president of one; with the rise of the Internet, he’s been able to work from his Elm Street home for the past four years.

He and wife Luca have a merged family that includes three sons, Parker, Peyton and Avery.

Perspectives

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Facing Trade War, Let’s Buy U.S. Pork, Apples, Wine

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hen did tariffs become a dirty word?

In the early days of the Republic, tariffs were used liberally to allow the development of such mainstay domestic industries as coal, iron and textiles in the face of Great Britain’s overwhelming advantage.

When Henry “The Great Compromiser” Clay died in 1852, obelisks were raised in his honor: Not for saving the Union, but for championing the tariff.

Beginning with Mexico’s addition to NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, in 1994, manufacturing jobs began to stream out of the U.S. Predictably, since wages were so much lower south of the border. (In 1992, president candidate Ross Perot had famously predicted that Strike a blow in the trade war: with a nice loin of pork. “great sucking sound.”)

Further free-trade agreements in arguably led to Donald Trump’s the quarter-century since comelection as president in 2016. pleted the job on U.S. manufacturYou hear it said that jobs that ing, and the resulting disaffection were the mainstay of the American

middle class – Shurkatch, making fishing tackle in Richfield Springs, and places like Oneonta Dress were steady providers of local employment forever – are gone forever.

No, they’re just gone forever from the U.S., unless trade policy changes.

• You may have read one of the recent reviews of “Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World,”

by Joshua Freeman, or seen his C-Span appearance.

He discusses Fabconn, the Chinese company that produces Silicon Valley’s products. No one’s sure how big its factory is, but Freeman estimates it at 400,000 workers, “making sleek and expensive gadgets like Apple’s iPhone,” as one reviewer put it.

New jobs exist, too. They just don’t exist in the U.S. When new industries emerge, there’s a development stage that

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ou can limit the impact of prospective Chinese tariffs by buying these U.S.-made foods and drink, most available at Price Chopper, Hannaford, Aldi’s, Tops, BJ’s, Walmart and other local supermarkets, as well as local liquor stores. ►Pork, 25% tariffs, including fresh or frozen pork chops, roasts and loins ►Nuts, 15% tariffs, including Brazil nuts, cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, pistachios, macadamia, pine, betel ►Fruits, fresh or dried, 15%, including bananas, plantains, dates, figs, avocados, guava, mangos, oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, watermelon, cantaloupe, papaya, apples, pears, cherries, nectarines, peaches, berries (including raspberry, blackberry, blackberry, cranberry), kiwi, lychee ►Wines, 15%: California, New York and other state wine industries are bracing for impact.

creates few jobs. Then there’s taking the innovation to market; that’s when huge numbers of jobs are created. That happened with rail, with cars, with flight.

It didn’t happen with high-tech, thanks to the lack of trade barriers.

The jobs went to China.

Thanks, Steve Jobs.

It may also be argued that the

loss of jobs and resulting idleness created the hopelessness that paved the way for our national heroin epidemic.

• Theoretically, free trade works, by allowing production of goods to go to the cheapest venue. But only theoretically: Saving a Please See EDITORIAL, A5

BILL CRANKSHAW OTHER VOICES

Teaching Challenging, But Rigor, Relevance, Relationships Can Help Editor’s Note: “Rigor, Relevance and Relationships” was the topic of CCS Superintendent of Schools Bill Crankshaw’s talk to the Friends of the Village Library Sunday, March 18.

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he teacher or administrator who focuses on content and the top third of the class, pushing assessment in almost quiz-show fashion. Homework assigned for every spare moment of the day.

Assessment and practice are not necessarily tied to learning, but – by God – you’d better memorize, score high,

and complete all 45 pages of reading and 75 questions about the Neolithic Revolution in Mesopotamia – even if there’s no time to really discuss the invention of the wheel, the first planting of crops, and the development of writing and math there.

It’s more than that…

Ways that we’re working to build rigor is through a fundamental examination of our curriculum in our courses at every level. We have made substantial progress toward our Comprehensive Instructional Plan, which includes a scope and sequence curriculum document for nearly all subjects at every level. We are in the process of building those scope and sequence documents and

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Bill Crankshaw, Cooperstown Central school superintendent, fields questions at a Friends of the Library talk Sunday, March 18.

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wars, expresses no repentance over the children, women and innocent men of other countries slaughtered by our armaments and drones, never gives us any genuine reasons for this endless fighting, and does no tribute to our fallen

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To the Editor: The wars of America rage on in silence, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and many other countries all over the world.

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important factor in the success of daily instruction in the classroom, as much as it is in a quality assessment.

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earning must always be relevant. We live in a world where the gap between a changing world is far outpacing a school’s response to it. We keep changing the trajectory without changing the structures and programs and practices that will meet that trajectory.

There is so much talk now about the job market now as compared with 30 years ago, and where it will Please See RIGOR, A6

POEM TO THE EDITOR

While Wars Fought In Our Names, Citizens Do Nothing

continually addressing the strengths and weaknesses of them. Now we can actually look at what is taught at CCS comprehensively.

We can talk, more specifically, about the vocabulary we use, the content we cover – where the redundancies are and where we can build rigor and relevance into what we need to teach.

Assessment is a significant piece of this work, and we are currently working to turn the tides on the perils of poor assessment. We are making assessment part of instruction, a learning experience, and absolutely rigorous through the questions we ask and the purpose and design of each question.

Quality questioning is an

soldiers (in my opinion, every fallen soldier should get a five-minute biography on the prime-time news channels, so Americans can appreciate the costs of these endless foreign military adventures).

The mainstream media simply plays on the fears of the populace, and utters over and over again the unquestioned mantra of “the war on terror,” ignoring the words of so many experts who have said that the only thing these wars have done is to create more terrorism.

Those who push these wars are some of the richest and most privileged members of American society, people whose lives will never be touched by the horrors of war, whose children will not be sacrificed, and who look with disdain on the cannon fodder who bleed and die to enrich the fortunes of these people who already have far more than they need.

They hide in the shadows and pull the strings of our elected officials with Please See LETTER, A6

Tara Barnwell

Horn Of Plastic Our poor oceans Our poor seas For all the fishes That used to be.

Once forever.

Wasting time. .

Cod, salmon, Turtles, bass, Sharks, whales.

Bear this task.

Plastic bottles Plastic cans Plastic wrap Plastic sham.

Thoughtless waste.

Thoughtless times.

All our garbage.

All our trash.

All our oceans.

Bounties past.

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We assumed that such removal would be a relatively simple office procedure for which we would owe a $30 copay. However, that did not prove to be the case.

As it turned out, the removal of the impacted earwax was considered to be outpatient surgery. And since at our first ENT appointment it was determined that we also had an earwax problem in our left ear, in which we

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Thus, getting our ears cleaned cost us $120.96 and our insurance company $64.88.

• And as outrageous as this seemed to us, the fact that the ear cleaning was deemed to be outpatient surgery is a Please See COLUMN, A5

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

200 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: One Cent I will pay for the transportation unto the most distant confine of the nation, of my dear beloved husband – that silly old Peter, who has left my bed and board – a poor, foolish creature! For my dear young children, by their father forsaken, my mind is distracted, my heart is now aching – May God to the fatherless a guardian prove – Inspire them with knowledge, imbue them with love. No debts will I pay of Peter’s contracting. All persons are forbid with him business transacting. To live at a distance, I hope the tipler can like, from his children and wife.

Elizabeth Van Slyke.

April 13, 1818

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175 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from “Regulations for the Fair” to be held commencing October 4, 1843: “All animals must be on the ground by nine o’clock a.m., and immediately take the places assigned to them by the committee of arrangements, which will be designated by them previous to that day, and no animals will be received after ten o’clock unless the owner can get permission by applying to the executive committee.

The Judges will commence their duty at 10 o’clock precisely, and all owners of animals must be prepared with statements in writing properly made out, to be handed to the Judges as they visit the animals for examination. Butter, Cheese, Silk, and all other articles of Domestic Manufacture, must be deposited in the assembly room of William Lewis at, or before 9 o’clock a.m. so as to be properly arranged by the Clerks before exhibition, which will take place at 10 o’clock.”

April 10, 1843

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The Impeachment a Failure – The prosecution substantially closed their case on Saturday last. And, those who have closely watched all the proceedings, who have read all the testimony – most have come to the inevitable conclusion – not only that the President cannot be justly and fairly impeached, but that the Senate can find no possible justification for sustaining the impeachment. The managers have signally failed to make out a case. Butler made the most of the materials at hand.

He handled them with conceded ability, but he has failed to fasten a “conspiracy” on the President – failed to prove that he contemplated using “force” in removing Stanton. We have heretofore regarded the conviction of the President a foregone conclusion – a political necessity, as urged by Stephen Greeley, and other leading Radicals – but we do not see how the Senate dare render such a verdict in the face of the whole world on such proof as the managers have submitted.

April 10, 1868

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We ate and slept on the train and every day the officer in charge took us out and drilled us to limber us up. The drilling here is very strenuous but is a great thing for development. We arise at 5 a.m., wash up, then drill for about an hour before breakfast. After mess we clean up our tents and straighten up our bunks and blankets. Then we stand for tent inspection and then we drill and do detail work. Detail work is anything in the line of work. We have to wash up for all meals because a sergeant comes around and looks us over. We drill about eight hours a day and after supper we are expected to do athletic drilling such as boxing, wrestling and playing baseball.”

April 10, 1918

125 YEARS AGO

Mrs. Una Clayton Griffin, aged 92, of Cooperstown, died Wednesday, April 3, following a long illness. Mrs. Griffin was born April 9, 1875, in Kosoag, the daughter of Van Rensselaer and Julia (Davy) Keyes. She married Herbert Griffin on February 5, 1915, in Chicago. Mr. Griffin died in 1949. She was a professional actress from 1893 until 1956. In addition to her long theatre career, Mrs. Griffin was a playwright, creating many plays for Broadway and theatres throughout the country. She moved to Cooperstown in 1965. Surviving are a brother, Raymond L. Keyes of April 14. 1943 Cooperstown and a son by a previous marriage, John Glendon Halsey of Morris Plains New Jersey.

April 10, 1968

Local – The hotels in Cooperstown can conveniently accommodate about 200 summer guests. There are a number of furnished houses still to rent for the season. Citizens who desire to spend the summer on Otsego Lake will find comfortable quarters here.

The Baptist Church and parsonage are to be repainted and repaired this spring. The trustees may deem it good policy to replace the heavy slate roof on the church – which the architect should never have planned for that structure – with one of metal shingles. The slate roof has always leaked more or less, to the damage of the walls, and the rear of the edifice spread apart because of the great weight upon it and the lack of adequate interior bracing. The money is on hand for doing all this work.

April 13, 1893

100 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from a letter from J. Fremont Clarke, stationed for military training at Fort Bliss, Texas to Mr. and Mrs. J.W. West of Richfield Springs: “Arrived a week ago today and this is the first good chance I have had to write. I live in a tent now. About 183 fellows came on the same train I did.

25 YEARS AGO

The National Grange has proclaimed April 18-24 to mark the 31st anniversary of Grange Week which is celebrated by 4,000 communities nationwide. Founded in 1867, the grange was the first fraternal farm organization in the country. Today, it is recognized, also, as a family-oriented, rural community service organization. There are 300,000 members in 37 states. Westville Grange 540, chartered in 1888 was the second grange organized in Otsego County.

April 14, 1993

10 YEARS AGO

What a game! CCS Redskins baseball coach Frank Miosek lost a lot of power at last year’s graduation, but you wouldn’t know it by the Tuesday, April 8 game against Ilion at Doubleday Field. With catcher Phil Pohl catching behind the plate, senior Jim Fort pitched a no-hitter. He struck out 13, walked two and hit one batter. Cooperstown won the game 3-0 and raised its season record to 3-0.

Quite a game.

April 11, 2008

Audubon Now Says: Young Forest Desireable

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ou’ve just read the Spring 2018 issue of “Living Bird” magazine published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and were startled, and excited, to read: “Overall, specialists say a healthy forested landscape should include roughly 10 percent of young woodlands.” (Right now, that number for our forestland hovers around 2 percent.)

That’s a dramatic shift from just a few years ago when Audubon was adamantly protecting mature forests at the expense of young forests.

In other words a few years back, it wasn’t OK to cut a MIKE few trees, even clear-cut five ZAGATA or 10 acres, but it is now.

Why the shift in policy – you already know the answer having read the previous articles in this series.

Now the questions become what to do about it and how?

You own 50 or so acres and you’d like to harvest it to generate some cash, and you also want to benefit those wildlife species, including many songbirds, American Woodcock, ruffed grouse and deer, which rely on young forest (grasslands and brush) for their habitat.

To whom do you turn for help?

You’re now aware of the risk associated with trying to manage the timber sale yourself: risk of not getting what you should for your trees; risk of not

knowing which trees to cut and which ones to leave; and the risk of not knowing how to manage the logger so that he or she does what you want done.

• There are some places to turn to for advice.

Your regional office for the DEC (ours is located in Stamford) has a regional forester on staff who can walk you through the process and maybe even put you in touch with the consulting foresters who service this area.

The National Resource Conservation Service (part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) has an office on Route 33 just south of Cooperstown and can assist you.

Cornell’s Cooperative Extension Program offers forest-related workshops and has a Master Forest Owner Program (MFO), providing forest landowners with a free visit by a MFO who listens to what you want to accomplish and then explains how to go about doing it.

Another good source of information is the state Forest Owners Association. (www.NYFOA.org). They have 10 chapters located around the state that host “Woods Walks” to help explain how to manage a forest and many of their members participate in the MFO Program and volunteer as MFOs.

Basswood Pond in Burlington Flats is one of Otsego County’s state forests.

• What do you do if you forest has been logged repeatedly using the highgrading approach where they took “the best” and now you’re left with “the rest”?

There traditionally has not been a strong market for low-grade wood (“the rest”) in New York. Landowners who wanted to re-invigorate their forest or manage it for wildlife via techniques that allow light to reach the Please See ZAGATA, A6

Arise, Patriots, And Fight Tariff War With Pork, Apples, Wine EDITORIAL/From A1 couple of bucks on a T-shirt doesn’t do much good to a factory worker who’s lost his or her job.

• Now, nationally, there’s weeping and gnashing of teeth because the Trump Administration imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum.

What China was doing wasn’t any secret. “We’ve had a tough time with aluminum because the Chinese market is always dumping aluminum, making prices plummet,” our junior U.S. The Henry Clay obelisk senator, Kristen Gillibrand, in Pottsville, Pa. told a gathering in Massena in state money applied to last year. save 600 good jobs at Alcoa, At issue was $73 million which means China’s preda-

tions are costing all of us New York taxpayers. (Our North Country neighbors had already lost Reynolds Aluminum’s jobs.)

• Let’s weep for those aluminum workers, not Beijing. And, as Americans, let’s show a little gumption and patriotism.

In response to U.S. tariff proposals, the Chinese plan to impose 15 and 25 percent tariffs on 128 American products, many of which can be found in Otsego County supermarkets and liquor stores.

Some of them – steel pipe, for instance – the typical American consumer

doesn’t buy every day, if at all. But others – primarily pork, most fresh and dried fruits, and domestic wines – are also on the list.

The tariff game between the U.S. and China is highstakes poker. Let’s stay cool, and not throw in our hand too soon. Meanwhile, we as individuals – as citizens – should do what we can to limit the impact on American producers.

For dinner this Sunday, how about a nice pork roast with apple sauce, accompanied by a nice California chardonnay – or even better, a nice blend from Pail Shop Vineyards in Fly Creek?

Ganbei!

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New ‘Three R’s’ Get Ahead Of Changing World RIGOR/From A4 need to be in the future. We recognize that that the majority of jobs are found in the lower and upper middlelevel skill groups; yet we are not training students for them. There are projections through all sorts of studies, focus groups and think tanks – tied to data – that we are charged to prepare students for jobs that haven’t even been invented yet. Not Photo courtesy CCS helpful, but alarming.

Cooperstown Central School, where the Three We must adopt a growth R’s are Rigor, Relevance and Relationships. mindset – drive academthe content you teach, know service – milk, newspapers, ics into art, music, PE and how to deliver the content laundry, appliances, lumCareer & Technical opportunism and drive art, music, in meaningful and engaging ber – and had this exceed ways – that is what makes a expectations?

PE and Career & Technical great teacher. First, howopportunities into academever, you have to care – you ics. We must give students RELATIONSHIPS have to care so much about tools to reason, find soluthe meaning and worth of tions, and think creatively. the content, but also of the hink back to that This is a highly active persons you’re teaching, but teacher, that class process and we can’t do the then you need to be a great that you just loved work for students. There’s reader of students. because of the teacher, welan urgency that we have This reminds me that a coming, affirming, etc. This to insist that students work great reader isn’t one with person knows everyone by hard, but also smarter and great fluency only; it’s one name, who was so friendly, in a more focused way that with great fluency, great who really sugar-coated will make them successful. expression, great delivery, life. Not a challenging bone We can’t sugar-coat, give great eye contact, great in their body. They didn’t handouts, and ask low-level questions that push the teach a darn thing or they questions. student to wonder, condidn’t move the needle on You can have one or the nect, and to learn more, school improvement, but other – rigor or relationand the follow up discus– by God – they always had ships – but relevance only a desk full of hard candies. comes when you know how sion – where the teacher isn’t the one answering or Everybody’s friend. Didn’t to read your audience, know working for it; the students learn a thing. what is important – read are.

Great teachers ask We must always consider them – what is important great questions, but they the student in everything. to them? And know the are also great at delivery.

They are why we’re here. content, how it relates to Who has ever had a delivery We’re not here to simply get the scope and sequence of

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paid or to fulfill our contractual obligations, to construct strategies to meet mandates, etc. We really need to adopt a philosophy that actually puts students first. How we treat them, give them voice, how we perceive them, understand them, how we build lessons around them, how we discipline them, and, in general, how we engage them. Do students consider school to be a good place? Do they feel that they belong? Do they feel that the adults around them care about their success and well-being? Do they feel safe? Do they feel recognized as individuals?

If we frame all of the work we do in the context of Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships we will provide a great service to students. It will be our common thread and vocabulary as we do our work at CCS. I believe that an education devoid of these Three R’s certainly contributes to perils for a student in developmental years, a lack of motivation and efficacy for them academically, emotionally, and socially.

At CCS, our overall philosophy of continuous learning can improve the work we do with students as we offer rigorous learning expectations for our students, teach everything with a focus on relevance and build relationships through every interaction.

Who’ll Rise Up Against American War-Making?

LETTER/From A4 the lifeblood of campaign contributions and the arm-twisting of secret meetings bought with their “access money,” payments for ZAGATA/From A5 power that ordinary folk could never afforest floor again have had to ford. The wars enrich them, opening new bear the burden of the cost. markets, selling their weapons, and bringHowever, with Governor ing them lucrative contracts to “rebuild” the Cuomo’s stated goal of hav- nations that we have destroyed. ing 50 percent of our electricMeanwhile, our sheepish representaity come from “renewable” tives in Congress ignore their duty to debate (like trees) by 2030, the and authorize all of these wars, and hand a future market for low-grade blank check to the executive branch to do wood or “biomass” seems the bidding of the wealthy contributors who much brighter.

If my memory serves me right, Oneonta had an opportunity to capitalize on that trend, but it, along with so many other options, was rejected. Colgate University, on the other hand, chose to take advantage of the opportunity and heats with biomass.

finance their political campaigns.

It is time for those of us who bear the costs of these wars, in the form of hardearned tax dollars and fallen relatives and children, to demand change and call our corrupted politicians to account for their dereliction of their duties.

The people of America brought an end to the Vietnam War with their protests and civil disobedience. It is time to rise up and fight against these brutal, pointless wars once again.

TOPHER HAMMOND Cooperstown

Springbrook Chosen To Be Region’s Care Coordinator SPRINGBROOK/From A1 Springbrook is the majority holder in Southern Tier Connects, a Coordinated Care Organization that will open eight offices to service 14 counties – Otsego, Delaware, Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Fulton, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Schoharie, Tioga and Tompkins – in the Southern Tier.

Kennedy anticipates that between 30-40 new jobs will be created by the organization in order to fully staff the eight offices with coordinators, IT professionals, finance managers and nurse managers.

In January 2017, the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities began searching for proposals for CCOs, which will replace the Service Coordinator system families previously used.

“Service Coordinators would look at services related to individuals, such as respite or day programs, whereas Care Coordination is more holistic, including health care and employment opportunities,” said Kennedy. “And it’s about working with a person’s circle of support, whether they are 3 or 30 or 73. A CCO insures that all of that is organized in an appropriate way.”

It will also help agencies connect with one another to provide care, such as giving the Department of Health or a hospital access to an individual’s medical records.

“It really increases connec-

tivity between families and hospitals in having access to this sort of information,” said Kennedy. “Technology and information sharing is a big piece of this.”

But more than that, a CCO is with an individual for the long haul. “It’s bigger than a social worker,” said Kennedy. “A Care Coordinator follows a person through their life changes. When you work with someone with developmental disabilities, you have to know where they were five years ago. It’s about lifetime planning.”

Care Coordination is especially important, Kennedy stressed, during the transition into adulthood. “That transition is stressful for everyone, but especially an individual with developmental disabilities,” she said.

When the call for proposals was announced, Springbrook immediately put in letter of intent. “We put in our application that we were community-based and close to where people live,” said Kennedy. “We don’t want to work out of a big office in Rochester or Albany. We know the region, and we know the resources available.”

They were selected as one of seven CCOs statewide.

“We just found out last week,” she said. “We were jumping up and down.”

Eight offices are planned in Oneonta, Binghamton, Cobleskill, Cortland, Delhi, Ithaca, Norwich and Utica to make care easier to access for families.

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Fenimore Pioneers National Initiative To Show Great Art In Rural Museums ART/From A1 Hudson River School artists on Memorial Day Weekend entitled “Thomas Cole & The Garden of Eden,” and featuring Cole’s “Expulsion from the Garden of Eden,” considered an American masterpiece.

This is part of what is being called the “single masterwork” phase.

One summer in the next two or three years, the plan is for the MFA to provide 15 pieces to The Fenimore as the centerpiece of an exhibit; by Year Six, 30 pieces. “Anytime you get 15 or 30 works, you’re going to have marquee exhibits,” said Fenimore President Paul D’Ambrosio.

The MFA-led collaboration is funded by the Terra Foundation-Art Bridges

program, brainchild of Alice Walton of the Walmart family, founder of the Crystal Bridges Museum D’Ambrosio of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., where the huge discount retailer is headquartered. “Our country’s significant works of art should be available for all to see and enjoy,” Walton said in announcing Art Bridges’ founding last September.

By then, D’Ambrosio and representatives of the other regional museums – the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, the Mat-

tatuck Museum in Waterbury, Conn., and the D’Amour Museum of Fine Art in Springfield, Mass. – had already met with MFA principals to begin planning the sharing of fine art.

In addition to “Expulsion” here, Asher Durand and Thomas Doughty’s “Icebergs” is headed to Waterbury and Thomas Hart Benton’s “New England Editor” to Springfield.

D’Ambrosio said his first inkling something was up was when he “accidentally bumped into” Elliot Davis, chair of the MFA’s Art of the Americas Wing at The Fenimore last spring. He walked her through “Andrew Wyeth at 100,” only realizing later she was vetting the museum as one of 18 finalists

Thomas Cole’s “Expulsion From The Garden of Eden” (1828) will be exhibited at The Fenimore Art Museum, beginning Memorial Day Weekend, the first phase of a six-year collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

to participate in the Terra-Art Bridges initiative.

“Apparently, they started out with dozens of possible partners,” said D’Ambrosio.

“They whittled it down to 18. She traveled for weeks looking at each one, making

anonymous visits.”

“They picked us,” he continued, “because we’re so important to our community.

We’re in an underserved rural area. And the MFA felt comfortable with us: Because we are accredited, they knew they weren’t putting any of their art works at risk.”

Plus, the MFA had already loaned The Fenimore a painting, for “Winslow Homer: The Nature & Rhythm of Life” in 2014.

“You have a great collection. You have great Native American and folk art,” explained Davis when reached by phone in Boston.

She added: “Every institution brought something. If we were going to have four partners, we had to be sure there was a balance.”

“I couldn’t believe it when she called,” said D’Ambrosio. “And there were no strings!”

When he was studying for his Ph.D. at Boston University in the early 1980s, D’Ambrosio said, he spent a lot of time at the MFA and got to know the Coles and Carol Troyen, Davis’ predecessor as chair of the American Wing.

Reconnecting with her when the partners first gathered in Boston last July, he convinced her to write the text in the catalogue for “Eternal,” now being prepared in advance of the May 25 opening.

The Chicago-based Terra Foundation and Art Bridges plan to spend $15 million over the next few years to create similar collaborations across the country. When the MFA grant was announced, so was a smaller grant to the Detroit Institute of Arts to devise a similar program in Michigan.

“We’re looking to develop a useful model for larger museums with greater resources to share with museums in rural communities with fewer resources,” said Davis.

Joining 60 Counties, Otsego Suing Big Pharma For Costs PHARMA/From A1 Frazier. “But one of the major contentions for the case is that some of the big drug companies misrepresented the potential for addiction to these drugs and the health risks that come with it.”

“There is a lot of evidence that shows that many of these drug companies ignored the fact that some of these medications are being used improperly,” said County Attorney Ellen Coccoma.

“Besides impacting the health of Otsego County residents, it also increases health costs, law enforcement costs and emergency service costs for the county.”

County Rep. Michele Farwell, D-Morris, echoed Coccoma’s sentiment. “There’s plenty of evidence to support that these companies were well aware of the risks and the dangers these drugs posed and yet they paid off doctors, bought medical journals, bought off research programs at universities, and bought off

regulators at the FDA. They should pay for the cleanup - not the taxpayer.”

The lawsuit will be handled by the Napoli Shkolnik law firm in New York City, which is representing a majority of the New York counties that are bringing suits. The lawsuit is low risk for the county, due to the structure of the contract with the law firm, said county Rep. Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego.

“The nice part about this is that Otsego County doesn’t have to pay any legal fees,” said Marietta. “So basically, it cost us nothing, but if we’re successful, the law firm will get a portion of the settlement, and Otsego County will get a portion.”

According to Coccoma, all of the cases in New York are still in the infancy stages, and it may be some time before the case goes to court.

However, once the first case goes to trial, it could open the floodgates.

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Buzz Hesse points out a projectile made of Macungie jasper from Pennsylvania that suggests the range of early huntergatherers documented in the just completed Hesse’s Archaeological Museum on his Otego property.

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The American String Quartet brings “Death and the Maiden” to the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.

Chesis On Flute, Quartet Launches Fest’s 20th Year

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he Cooperstown Summer Music Festival kicks off 20th season with concert “Death and the Maiden,” featuring string quartet and Linda Chesis on flute.

Program features peices by Schubert, Debussy, and Griffes. Tickets, $25. 4 p.m. Sunday, April 15, The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Call 877-666-7421.

WALK FOR THE FIGHT: Raise awareness, money for local families battling cancer with a night of food, music, more. Entry, $15. 6 p.m. - midnight, Friday, April 13, Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-3310

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Buzz Hesse’s An Original – So’s His Museum

By JIM KEVLIN

►IF YOU GO: To arrange visits to Hesse’s Archaeological Museum, call Buzz as (607) 287-5320.

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hen Buzz Hesse was at Sidney High School in the 1950s, the coach finally talked

the lanky 6-foot-2 lad into going out for football.

Young Buzz applied himself, worked out, attended all practices.

But on the day of the first game, passing where the Sidney Municipal Airport is today, he saw a just-plowed farmer’s field.

Just south of the Susquehanna River, it was a particularly tempting target for a hunter of Native American artifacts.

“I had to make a choice,” Buzz remembers some 60 years

later as he gave a tour of his justcompleted Hesse Archaeological Museum above the triple-wide garage on the grounds of his 18th century home here. “For every action there is a reaction.”

Long story short, he didn’t make it to the game. His highschool football career was over.

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WITH SHOSTAKOVICH, CHUCK SCHNEIDER DEPARTS CSO

After 45 Years, Founding Conductor Retiring “It’s a grand and glorious piece,” said Laura Dohner, CSO executive director. “He wants to go out with a bang.” ►IF YOU GO: The ONEONTA The performance will open with Beethoven’s CSO performs at 7:30 “Overture to Prometheus,” C major, Op. 43, folp.m. Saturday, April ith the triumlowed by John Rutter’s choral work, “Mass of the 28, SUNY Oneonta’s phant 2nd, Children,” both led by Hartwick choral conductor Hunt Union Ballroom.

3rd and 4th Lee Wright. movements of Dmitri “We intended to do a different piece, one that Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, D minor, Op. 47, required a large orchestra, but the composer Photo courtesy CSO didn’t get it finished in time,” said Dohner.

Maestro Charles Schneider, 80, will say goodbye to the Catskill Symphony Orchestra he has conducted Chuck Schneider has conduct- “Charles really wanted to do this piece. It was ed Otsego County’s symphony for the last 45 years.

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LIVE THEATER: The 4H Hartwick Theater Guild presents “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.”

Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co. Rte. 11, Hartwick. 7 p.m. Friday, April 13, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14.

Call 607-547-2536.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: OHS students present “A Chorus Line.” Tickets, $10. 7 p.m. FridaySaturday, April 13-14, 4 p.m. Sunday, April 15, Belden Auditorium, Oneonta High School, 31 Center St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-8200.

BENEFIT AUCTION: Annual event with live and wall auctions featuring Phish tickets, art, jewelry, vacation, antiques. 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14, Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-3491.

WELLNESS EXPO: Love The Life You Live Expo features fashion show, 25+ local vendors, presentation

by Fabulous Beekman Boys. 11 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

Call 607-431-2080.

SADD WALK/RUN: 5K, health fair, more. Registration, 11:30 a.m., $20 to run. 1 p.m. Sunday, April 15, Oneonta High School, 31 Center St., Oneonta. Call Cathy Lynch, 607-433-8200.

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- 4:30 p.m. Last day to enter artwork and poetry in the LEAF Art & Poetry Contest.

Call 607-432-0090 ext. 106.

CONFERENCE – 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. The SUNY-O Philosophy club and Philosophy department welcome students from across the country to present their papers on topics ranging from Plato to happiness, to objectivism. Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta.

Call 607-436-2550.

TELEAUCTION – 2 - 4 p.m.

Central NY Beef Producers bid on beef calves. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. Call 607-547-2536 ext. 226.

KIDS ART CLASS – 3:15 - 5 p.m. Kids learn to first draw, then paint a lion, tiger, panther, cheetah, or even their own ferocious house cat.

Cost, $20. Cooperstown Art Association. Call 607-5479777.

MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m. For makers of all ages.

Materials provided for many different hands-on activities to inspire creative thinking and problem-solving. Everything from crochet to coding, more. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie. Call 518-673-2314.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5 7 p.m. Celebrate the opening of exhibits “In Motion,” featuring works by Christopher Murray and Akira Nitsu, and the solo exhibit “Possum’s Persimmon Picnic” by Mary Lou Ganio. Cooperstown Art Association. Call 607-5479777.

FIGHT WALK – 6 p.m.

- Midnight. Enter to raise awareness and money for local families battling cancer.

Features food, activities, music. Entry, $15. Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-4363310.

OPEN MIC – 6 - 8 p.m.

Writer, poets, songwriters

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, APRIL 12-13, 2018 are welcome to share their work and get inspired. The Meeting Place, 187 Main St., Suite A, Unadilla. Call 607765-7386.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “12 Strong.”

Cost, $3/person. The Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

PSYCHOLOGY PRESENTATION – 7 - 8:15 p.m. Keynote address on “Innovations in Recruiting, Developing, & Retaining Talents.” Features Hartwick College alumni.

Celebration Room, Shineman Chapel, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Call 607-431-4593.

DRAMA CLUB – 7 p.m.

OHS students present “A Chorus Line.” Tickets, $10. Auditorium, Oneonta High School, 31 Center St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-8200.

HISTORY SOCIETY – 7 p.m.

The National Railway Historical Society, Utica and Mohawk Valley chapters, meet. Begins with business meeting followed by discussion of the annual Trolley Night. All invited. Lutheran Church, 630 French Rd., New Hartford. Call 315-327-8653.

THEATER – 7 p.m. The 4H Hartwick Theater Guild presents “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.” Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co. Rd. 11, Hartwick. Call 607547-2536.

SQUARE DANCE – 7:30 p.m. Celebrate spring with your friends and the Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown. Ray Taylor calls, Elma Taylor cues. Admission, $5. Cooperstown Elementary School. Call 607-547-8665.

THEATER – 8 p.m. “Bloody Murder,” a hilarious parody of the classic British WhoDunnit presented by the Catskill Community Players. Tickets, $18. Weiting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester.

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Saturday, April 14

CLEAN-UP – 8:30 - 11 a.m.

Help pick-up litter from St. Hwy. 80 in Springfield and Cooperstown. Bags, gloves, and safety equipment provided. Wear long pants and dress to get dirty.

Volunteers age 12+. Pre-registration required. Meet at Mohican Farm, 7207 St. Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. Call 607547-4488.

CONFERENCE – 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. The SUNY-O Philosophy club and Philosophy department welcome students from across the country to present their papers on topics ranging from Plato to happiness, to objectivism. Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta.

Call 607-436-2550.

JOB FAIR – 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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FoxCare Center, St. Rt. 7, Oneonta. Call 607-267-4010.

FUNDRAISER – 10 a.m.

Support the Richfield Springs Community Center at this 2k or 5k run, 2-mile walk, or children’s Fun Run starting at 9:45. Register at The Vets Club, 13 Lake St., Richfield Springs. Call 315-749-3286.

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SEMINAR – 10 a.m. Noon. Presentation on Harriet Tubman. Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta.

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CHALLENGE – 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Thematic challenge for the kids. This month, explore the building potential of paper, create the tallest free standing structure, more.

Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta.

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HISTORY SHOW – 10 a.m.

- 3:30 p.m. Visit the Postcard and Ephemera Show featuring a display of vintage postcards, sheet music, posters, documents, trading cards, more. Elm Park Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0960.

GARDEN WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Learn to make and set up a hot-frame to give your garden a jump on the growing season. Cost, $110/ non-members. Includes hot-frame kit. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1450.

STUDENT EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. See the juried works of students.

Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genesee St., Utica. Call 315-797-0000.

SCIENCE SATURDAY – 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Bring the kid for the morning story hour, learn about electrons at the Electricity Alive demonstration at 11:30, participate in an archaeological dig at 1,

and tap your sense of wonder at the planetarium matinee show at 2. Free, registration required. A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-2011.

PORTRAITS – 11 a.m. 1 p.m. SUNY Oneonta student will be available to photograph families for her final project with consent of the families. Portraits will be available, free, to the families.

Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta.

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OPERA – 12:30 p.m. See Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” streaming live from The Met. Tickets, $20/adult. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-431-2080.

HISTORY SOCIETY – 1 p.m. Annual meeting of the Oneonta Chapter National Society of the American Revolution focusing on the NYS Archives Partnership Trust.

All invited. Learn about the DAR’s projects to preserve history. Masonic Temple, 322 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607432-6625.

MINDFULNESS – 1 - 2 p.m.

The community is invited to learn and practice mindfulness exercises and skill to use in their lives such as mindful movement, journalling, intention setting Dr. Lorie Ostrander will lead the retreat. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call 607-2821038.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft.

Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980.

CONDUCTORS CIRCLE – 2 - 3 p.m. Discuss Haydn’s classic Orotorio, “The Seasons” with Music Director G. Roberts Kolb of the Catskill Choral Society. Includes a musical preview. The society will perform the concert in May. Heritage Room, The Plains,

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The concert will open with Beethoven’s Overture to Prometheus, C major, Op.43. John Rutter’s choral work Mass of the Children, led by Hartwick choral conductor Lee Wright, will follow. The Mass will feature Hartwick College, the Oneonta Youth Choir and members of the Catskill Choral Society and the Octavos Singers from Schenectady choruses.

The second half of the program

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will conduct the 2nd, 3rd and 4th movements of Symphony No. 5, D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich

celebrating Maestro Schneider’s long career Join us for awithreception CSO immediately after the performance !

Tickets: $30 • 607-436-2670 • www.catskillsymphony.net CSO gratefully acknowledges the support of 5 STAR SUBARU, ROBINSON-BROADHURST, STEWART’S SHOPS and O’CONNOR This performance is made possible with funding from New York State Council on the Arts.

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BENEFIT AUCTION – 5:30 p.m. Annual event with live & wall auction featuring Phish tickets, art, jewelry, vacation, antiques, more. Free child care available. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-3491.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “12 Strong.”

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MUSIC – 7 - 9 p.m. CCS Thespians present the 4th annual Hawkeye Revue. Auditorium, Cooperstown High School. Call 607-547-8181.

DRAMA CLUB – 7 p.m.

OHS students present “A Chorus Line.” Tickets, $10. Auditorium, Oneonta High School, 31 Center St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-8200.

THEATER – 8 p.m. “Bloody Murder,” a hilarious parody of the classic British WhoDunnit presented by the Catskill Community Players. Tickets, $18. Weiting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester. Call 607397-8500.

THEATER – 8 p.m. The 4H Hartwick Theater Guild presents “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.” Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co. Rd. 11, Hartwick. Call 607547-2536.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Presenting “Hand to God” following the story of a troubled teen boy and his relationships with his pastor, his neighbor, the school bully, and his mother.

Admission, $10. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Call 607431-4227.

Sunday, April 15

INTERFAITH – 9:45 a.m.

A Season of Faith and Understanding continues with a presentation by Pastor Teressa Sivers. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. E-mail ksider@hotmail.com.

WELLNESS EXPO – 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Love the Life you Live expo features a fashion show, 25+ local vendors, and a presentation from the fabulous Beekman Boys. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-431-2080.

CHALLENGE – Noon - 4 p.m. Thematic challenge for the kids. This month, explore the building potential of paper, create the tallest free standing structure, more.

Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta.

Call 607-431-8543.

SADD WALK/RUN – 1 p.m.

Support your local school and help keep kids safe. Learn at t he Health Fair. Registration, 11:30 a.m., cost $20.

Oneonta High School, 31 Center St., Oneonta. Call Cathy Lynch at 607-433-8200.

GARDEN HACKS – 1 - 2 p.m. Learn tried and tested gardening tips. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1450.

FILM SCREENING – 1, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “12 Strong.” See Friday Listing.

MUSIC – 2 - 5 p.m. CCS Thespians present the 4th annual Hawkeye Revue. Auditorium, Cooperstown High School. Call 607-547-8181.

THEATER – 2 p.m. “Bloody Murder,” a hilarious parody of the classic British WhoDunnit presented by the Catskill Community Players. Tickets, $18. Weiting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester.

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URBAN RENEWAL – 2 p.m.

Oral History session about Oneonta in the 50s, 60s, and 70s facilitated by Alan Donovan and Gary Wickham.

Session will be posted as part of “Kitchen Table Conversations.” Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

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SCHNEIDER/From B1 important to him in celebrating his legacy here.”

Maestro Schneider, who lives in Frankfort, has served as CSO music director since 1973, receiving three ASCAP awards for his conducting.

“In late summer of 1973, when I drove my rental truck across the G-W Bridge, I had no idea what to expect,” Schneider wrote in a letter that will appear in this concert’s program.

“Little did I realize that we would eventually become one of the best community orchestras in the country – as confirmed by the NEA and others.”

He is also the founding music director of the Glimmerglass Opera, and served in that capacity for 13 years, and co-founder of the Catskill Conservatory. He served on the music faculties at SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College, Colgate University, Hamilton College and San Diego State University.

The Highly Acclaimed Society for New Music in Syracuse has frequently called upon Mr. Schneider to conduct their productions. In 2000, he received a citation from both Congress and Gov. George Pataki for his outstanding musical contribution to the mid-state area.

“We have played an important role in the renewed interest of Classical music, and we raised the cultural standard in our area to new heights,” he wrote.

The Mass will feature the combined choruses of Hartwick College, the

Oneonta Youth Choir, and members of the Catskill Choral Society and the Octavos Singers (Schenectady).

Wright, the choral conductor at Hartwick, stepped in for Schneider at the annual Cabaret Concert in March, and Dohner says that next season will feature guest conductors while a search for a new conductor is undertaken.

A reception celebrating Maestro Schneider’s long career with the Catskill Symphony Orchestra is immediately after the performance.

Single tickets to the concert are $30. Thanks to an anonymous donation, free tickets are available for students and up to two adult chaperones per student order. This offer is also valid for unaccompanied high school and college students.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www. catskillsymphony.net or call (607) 436-2670. To stay connected to CSO throughout the year become a Fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ catskillsymphonyorchestra.

The performance is supported by the state Council on the Arts and, in part, by the A. Lindsey and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation, the Otsego County Community Events Grant Program, Five Star Subaru and Stewarts Shops. Vital support for this performance is also provided by SUNY Oneonta.

“We must continue to inspire, entertain and provoke thought for our current and future audiences,” Schneider wrote.

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narrow, moderately sidenotched projectile point, made of very black chert,” he recalled. It is on display among several thousand items in his museum.

Was it worth it? “Oh, yeah,” he asserted immediately.

For four decades until February 2016, Buzz ran Hesse Galleries, home to some of the best house auctions in the area. When he saw an item that particularly appealed to his wide-ranging curiosity, he would acquire it for his collection.

Many of those artifacts are in the new museum: Little bronze crosses from the 1630s that Jesuit missionaries would give to Indian converts. Iroquois “false face” masks. A Union soldier’s rifle and uniform carried into battle by Fabian Mitchell Bressett of Cherry Valley. A slim but lethal tomahawk.

Still, dominating the collection are items associated with Buzz Hesse’s lifelong love: The early nomadic people who ranged the Upper Susquehanna – and, the artifacts show, far beyond – for some 2,000 years around the time of the birth of Christ.

He and a pal, John Knoetgen, a retired state police diver from Afton (formerly of Cooperstown), organized and hung the displays in January and February. An elegant hanging sign – still to be hung – leans against the wall in the garage downstairs, soon to be put in place.

Hesse was born in Endicott in 1940 and raised in Deposit (when “it was a vibrant, lively place”). From ages 6, 7 and 8, the boy had an “insatiable curiosity,” fed by his time outdoors as a Cub, then a Boy Scout, always picking up rocks and sticks.

He almost completed high school in Sidney in 1958, then took a final course – in American history – at Unadilla High School, to get his diploma. He then spent a decade in the research department at Scintilla in Sidney, now Amphenol.

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Buzz and pal John Knoetgen, a retired state police diver from Afton, assembled the thousands of items in the Hesse Archaeological Museum in January and February of this year.

The late 1960s found him at SUNY Oneonta, studying anthropology and sociology, and visiting pre-Iroquois Owasco sites on high ground in the Mohawk Valley. Those studies led him to explore the hillsides around Otego, settling first on what turned out to be an artifact-rich rock overhang he would christen “West Shelter One.” Among the many arrowheads – called “projectile points” these days – bear jaws, broken in a uniform way, intrigued Hesse. There were no indications they were tools – were they part of ceremonial regalia? He’s not sure, but a half-dozen of them are displayed.

“It was pretty exciting,” recalled Hesse, who spent several years with the state Archaeologist’s Office, then occupied by Robert Funk, his mentor. “It” – discovery – “is always a thrill.”

That first cache prompted Buzz to find eight more overhangs showing signs of occupation. Uniquely, eroded limestone in the Otego hillsides neutralized rainfall washing over the rocks, preserving items that would otherwise have disappeared by now.

All the overhangs are south-facing, and Hesse imagines groups of hunters and gatherers huddling together for warmth under the rocks’ shelter from 950 A.D. to 1,100 B.C. (Clovis points found randomly from time to time put the region’s earliest habitation to 12,000 B.C.) Other artifacts he discov-

ered locally – a point from Flint Ridge in central Ohio; salt-water shells that SUNY Biological Field Station Director Bill Harman confirmed are from the Atlantic – showed his nomads’ range.

In addition to the bear jaws and jasper blades from Pennsylvania, Hesse’s personal favorites on display include a black rock “flared bit ax” discovered near Emmons, and a weight for an atlatl (pronounce AT-ell, AT-ell), a device the increases the speed of a spear’s flight, discovered

by Everett “Goldie” Goldsmith of Roxbury.

There’s a nose ornament from 1600s that would be in style with a certain set today.

This slender tomahawk, crafted by a Colonial blacksmith, is what you’d use to chase a prospective victim through the woods, Hesse avers.

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by Joseph Brant, the Iroquois chief whose predations – from the Cherry Valley Massacre to Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley – spurred George Washington to order the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, and the tribe’s destruction.

(The proud Brant visited England and George III, but spurned protocol, declaring, “I bow before no man,” particularly endearing him to Buzz.)

While he’s retired now, Buzz is still conducting occasional auctions. For instance, some 800 18th and 19th century items from the estate of Richard “Smitty” Axtell later this month, on the 27th and 28th.

What are Hesse’s eventual plans for his collection? For now, certainly not an institution – a library or museum.

(From time to time, he’s been critical of the off-handed treatment of some collections.)

“I would rather see it go to people who love it, understand it, appreciate it, and share it,” he said, looking around the forest-green room and brightly lit glass cabinets set around a canoe carved out of a log.

Be that as it may, Buzz Hesse’s curiosity is not at an end.

Last year, Danish friends invited him and wife Jackie to a vacation home in burgeoning Alicante, Spain, on the Costa Del Sol. (The Hesses have two children Matthew in East Greenbush and Lori in Ipswich, Mass., and two grandchildren in their 20s.)

The last day, Buzz took a stroll across one of the few remaining vacant lots across the street.

He returned with a hand ax, 35,000 to 40,000 years old, that he spotted amid the rubble. It’s now in a place of honor at Hesse’s Archaeological Museum.

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Single tickets $25; students $6.

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Sunday, April 15

CHAMBER MUSIC – 3 p.m.

First performance of the season features The Argus Quartet performing Mendelssohn, Thomas, des Prez, & Lutoslawski. Admission by donation, suggested $12/ adult. Stamford United Methodist Church, 88 Main St., Stamford. E-mail FoMAdmin@ friendsmusic.org.

EXHIBIT OPENING – 3 - 5 p.m. Celebrate the opening of the Word and Image Gallery exhibit featuring Belaski & Thomas, and Jane Higgins. Suggested dona-

tion, $3. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. Call 607-8295055.

SUNDAY PROGRAM – 3 4:15 p.m. Climate Change expert Dr. Kevin Shultz presents on “Climate Change in New York State: What is Happening and How to Change It.” Cooperstown Village Library.

Call 607-547-8344.

SUMMER CONCERTS – 4 p.m. The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival kicks off with concert “Death and the Maiden” featuring the American string quartet and Linda Chesis on flute. The program features peices

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DRAMA CLUB – 4 p.m. OHS students present “A Chorus

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Monday, April 16

BOE NOMINATIONS – Petitions to nominate candidates for Cooperstown School Board Due. Cooperstown High School. Call 607-547-8181.

PRESENTATION – 1 - 2 p.m. Casella presents “The Future of Waste.” Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing with live model.

Poses chosen by consensus.

Cost $12/class. The Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-4358718. annual ymCa member meeting nOtiCe

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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, 121 Township Rd., Oneonta, NY 13820. Reg Agent: U.S. Corp.

Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, pending, for beer, liquor and wine, has been applied for by Nancy E. Areliusson on

Tuesday, April 17

BOOKMOBILE – Check out the mobile library.

9:30 - 9:50 a.m. Town Hall, 3966 NY-23, West Oneonta.

10:10 - 10:50 a.m. Little Lambs Children Center, 383 Co Rd 11, Oneonta.

12:20 - 12:45 p.m. Methodist Church, 811 Co Rd 26, Fly Creek.

1:15 - 1:35 p.m. Methodist Church, 2343 NY-205, Mt Vision.

2:10 - 2:30 p.m. Firehouse, 116 County Rd 4, Wells Bridge. www.4cls.org or call 607-723-8236 KNITTING GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5478344.

TINKERING TUESDAY – 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. Print a 3D figurine or bust of yourself.

Material fee applies. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980.

ART STUDIO – 3:30 p.m.

Young artists and their families are invited to explore basic art techniques, from acrylics to watercolors. All welcome. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. Call 518-673-2314.

COMPUTER NIGHT – 5 - 7 p.m. Bring your device and get free advice from the technology instructor. Community members welcome to use computers and internet.

Free. Cherry Valley - Springfield Central School, 597 Co. Hwy. 54, Cherry Valley. Call 607-264-3265, ext 518.

READING SERIES – 7:30 p.m. Christine Kitano, author of “Who You: The Issei” a collection of oral histories about first generation immigrants in Hawaii, shares her writings for the Red Dragon Reading series. Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-3446.

Wednesday, April 18

BLOOD DRIVE – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Give Blood, Save Lives.

Levine Center, A.O. Fox Hospital, 1 Norton Ave., Oneonta.

Call 1-800-733-2767.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT – 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. Tour the exhibit “Edward Weston: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist” with Arts in Education coordinator and photographer Kevin Gray. Cost, $30 non-members. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1400.

DISCUSSION GROUP – 3 - 5 p.m. Discussion of current events. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Call 607-547-

8344.

BOOK CLUB – 5:30 - 7 p.m.

The YA Book Club discusses “Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds. The Green Toad Book Store, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-433-8898.

MEETING – 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Richfield Springs Chamber of Commerce Meeting. Community Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs. Call 315217-1485.

BOE MEETING – 7 p.m.

Library, Cooperstown High School. Call 607-547-8181.

READING SERIES – 7:30 p.m. Sandra Steingraber, acclaimed ecologist and author exploring links between human rights and the environment, shares her writings for the Red Dragon Reading series. Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-3446.

AL-ANON MEETING – 7:308:30 p.m. Support meeting for the families and friends of Alcoholics or those suffering from chemical addictions. Cooperstown Center, 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Rd., Cooperstown.

Thursday, April 19

BOOKMOBILE – Check out the mobile library.

10-10:30 a.m. Schenevus Valley Lodge, 4 Main Street, Schenevus.

10:45-11:30 a.m. Fire Station, 1812 County Highway 34, Westford.

12:30-1 p.m. a.m. First Christian Church, 1160 State Highway 165, South Valley.

1:15-2 p.m. a.m. Town Hall, 3717 County Highway 35, Middlefield. www.4cls.org or call 607-723-8236 COMPUTER CLASS – 10:30 - 11:45 a.m. Learn how to download free digital books.

Overview of OverDrive, Libby, and Flipster apps. Bring your App store or Google Play login information, library card.

Community Room, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980.

FAMILY ART HOUR – 11 a.m. Young students with their families learn about art in a variety of mediums. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie. Call 518-6732314.

BLOOD DRIVE – 1 - 6 p.m.

Give Blood, Save Lives. Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Call 1-800-7332767.

ART MEETING – 1 p.m.

Annual Members meeting of the Leatherstocking Brush & Pallette Club to elect officers for the next 2 years. Upstairs classroom, Cooperstown Art Association. Call 315-8586013 MORE CALENDAR, B5

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behalf of Dunnie’s Diner to sell beer, liquor and wine, at retail in a restaurant, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 4874 State Hwy. 28, Cooperstown NY. 13326; Town of Hartwick; County of Otsego, for on premises consumption.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: BioSistemas Network LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 29 March 2018.

Certificate of Amendment filing date with the SSNY was 9 March 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

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against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: 115 Fork Shop Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

the LLC at: Sharon Boustani, 366 Coye Brook Road, South New Berlin, New York 13843 Purpose of the LLC: any lawful purpose.

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Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State: March 13th, 2018 Office of the LLC: Otsego County The New York Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. The Secretary of State may mail a copy of any process to

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RED ONION FARM, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/16/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 83, Fly Creek, NY 13337, which is also the principal business location.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SWATLING BROTHERS, LLC

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Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/16/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 83, Fly Creek, NY 13337, which is also the principal business location.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of HH Wellington LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/4/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Jack Howell, 64 East Elm Street, Unit 4, Chicago, IL 60611.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of Frog Hollow Apartments, LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 03/08/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 523, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of 4M Enterprise, LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 03/08/2018.

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Notice of formation of HARTWICK HIGHLANDS CAMPGROUND, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/2017.

Office location, County of Otsego.

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OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. Exhibit “To Grow A Farmer,” a photographic essay of farming families in upstate New York. Project Space Gallery, Fine Arts Center, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-3456.

ANTHROPOLOGY TALK – 5 - 6 p.m. Dr. Amy B. Scott presents “Saving a Cemetery: Coastal erosion and bioarchaeological excavation at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS Canada.”

Waterfront, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta.

YARN CLUB – 6 - 7:30 p.m. knitters, crocheters of all skill levels meet to work on projects. Accompanied youths welcome. The Study, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1980.

DOCUMENTARY – 7 p.m.

Showing “Unfractured” the documentary on the fight against hydraulic fracturing in NYS. Followed by discussion with biologist/activist from the film Sandra Steingraber and filmmake Chanda Chevannes. Tickets, $9/adult.

Martin Kappel Theater, 27 West Main St., Norwich.

SUPPORT GROUP – 7 - 8 p.m. Supporting family, friends of addicts. New members welcome. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-3291.

WRITERS SALON – 7:30 - 9 p.m. Present your writing at the open mic. Reading by the featured author John Verdon, author of the Dave Gurney series of mystery thrillers.

Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607432-2070.

Friday April 20

MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m. For makers of all ages.

Materials provided for many different hands-on activities to inspire creative thinking and problem-solving. Everything from crochet to coding, more. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie. Call 518-673-2314.

ROAST PORK DINNER – 6 p.m. Celebrate spring.

Reservation required, takeout available. Middlefield Baptist Church, Middlefield. Call Dorothy, 607-547-9093, or Sue, 607-264-8042.

MOVIE NIGHT – 7 - 8:30 p.m. Screening of “Landfill Harmonic,” a film about ‘The Recycled Orchestra,’ a group of children from a Paraguayan slum who play instruments made entirely of garbage.

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INTERFAITH – 7:15 p.m. A Season of Faith and Understanding continues with a presentation by Rabbi Molly Karp, Temple Beth El, 83 Chestnut St., Oneonta. E-mail ksider@hotmail.com CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

OCA presents award winning ensemble, The Verona String Quartet. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Presenting a performance of “Of Mice and Men.” Tickets, $17/adult.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607431-2080.

Saturday, April 21

HISTORY PRESERVATION – 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Partners in Preservation features speakers Jim Havener, on

running a historic house, and Deb Mackenzie, on making exhibits “pop.” Includes booths with local historical associations. Milford Community Cultural Center, St. Rt. 28, Milford. Call 607-293-6635.

CIDER RUN – 10 a.m.

5K/10K run open to children and adults to benefit the Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Call 607547-9692.

EARTH DAY SPECIAL – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Learn about planting for pollinators, composting, natural pest control, soil evaluation for your garden this Earth Day. The GROW exhibit, The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471450.

CONTAINER GARDENING – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Kids learn to make an upcycled container for gardening. Bring any container you can punch a hole

Lifeguards for ViLLage Parks The Village of Cooperstown has seasonal openings for the positions as listed above. For further information including applications please contact the Village Administrator at the address listed below or by calling 607-547-2411.

Positions will be needed from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day for lifeguard positions at both Three Mile Point Park and Fairy Spring on Otsego Lake. Applications will be accepted until positions are filled. EOE. Teri L. Barown, RMC Village Administrator Village of Cooperstown PO Box 346 Cooperstown, NY 13326

Hartwick College seeks a full-time, Assistant Director of Financial Aid responsible for assisting with the dissemination of general financial aid information to families of current and prospective students and counseling families on financial aid procedures and options. For detailed information, please visit: https://www.hartwick.edu/about-us/employment/ human-resources/employment-opportunities/ staff-positions/. EOE

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in, boots, basketball, bottles, eggshells, more. Other materials provided. Admission, $5.

Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta.

Call 607-431-8543.

KIDS DAY – 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Enjoy fun activities ranging from a visit with the goats of NY Goat Yoga fame, an open swim, and OH fest.

Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-4320010.

SPRING GARDEN DAY – 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Features exhibits, vendors activities and workshops from the Master Gardeners. The theme is “Try Something New.” Workshops include “Native Plants: Gardening with Nature,” “Herbs 101”, “Seed Starting,” and “Growing Shiitake Mushrooms”. Admission, $10. Register by 4/16. Milford Central School, 42 Main St., Milford.

Call 607-547-2536 Ext 0.

RECYCLING – 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Otsego County Conservation Association will be accepting items for recycling.

Accepted items include styrofoam, non-working Christmas lights, used fishing line, natural cork, tennis balls, cell phones, used pens/markers/mechanical pencils, inkjet cartridges, cell phones, chargers, tablets, more.

Shredding of personal documents also available, up to 5 boxes/person. Milford Central School, 42 Main St., Milford.

Call 607-547-4488.

OH FEST – 1 - 5 p.m. Street fair features inflatable rides, arts & crafts, food truck, live music, more. Main St., Oneonta.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft.

Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980.

HAMILTON PANEL – 4 p.m.

“Alexander Hamilton: What You Should Know” panel discussion on the life of the American statesman featuring Doug Ambrose, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Hamilton College, as moderator. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

Call 607-547-1472.

BUFFET & BAZAAR – 5:30 p.m. Enjoy an Egyptian buffet and a presentation the SUNY-O drumming class.

Meal reservations required.

Cost $15/adult. Benefit for the Mali Education Project.

Unitarian Universalist Soceity of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-3491.

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Excellent salary and benefits package.

All interested applicants should apply at www.FarmCreditEast.com/Careers.

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RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Ralph “Red” Osterhoudt, owner of Parkview Liquors, died April 4, 2018, at Albany Medical Center, following a 13-year battle with cancer.

Ralph was the first born of Bessie Stoddard Osterhoudt and Ralph Hopkins Osterhoudt.

Ralph Osterhoudt He was raised with two brothers, Ron and Chuck and one sister, Janice Misencik.

He graduated from Richfield Springs Central School in 1963 and married Sheila Curcio in 1965.

He served his country in the Vietnam War, was a charter member of the Richfield Springs Lions Club and was owner and operator of Parkview Liquors for the last 39 years.

Cory’s cherished son was born in 1980. He married Lisa Asher, formerly of Clinton, in 2012, and they, along with their children, 4-year-old Jack Thomas and 5-month-old Ella Irene, have been a constant and tremendous source of comfort and joy.

In addition to his wife and children, he is also survived by his nieces and nephews A funeral was held Wednesday, April 11 at J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home. Interment with military honors, in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Richfield Springs, will be be announced.

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

there and New York City, where Mr. Cotter is co-chief art critic for the New York Times. For the past several years, Mr. Rosch lived Upstate full time. He and Mr. Cotter were married in 2012 by the Rev. Elsie Rhodes at the First Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown.

A painter and collagist, Mr. Rosch’s interest in art and its history was wide. He was an anti-authoritarian activist and social justice advocate all his life. He treasured the natural world, particularly as embodied in the back hills of Otsego County.

He loved and respected all four-foot, winged and finned fellow creatures, among them the cats, dogs and birds that that were always part of his extensive household.

He is survived by his spouse; by his stepmother Renee Rosch Lewis of Essex, N.Y. and Naples, Fla.: by two sisters, Susan Fleming of Seattle, Wash., and Brucie Rosch of Saratoga Springs; by a brother, Ted Rosch of Jacksonville, Fla.; and by a niece, Jessica Rosch of Seattle.

At his insistence, there will be no memorial service. Donations in his memory can made to the Susquehanna Animal Shelter in Cooperstown.

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ily Heise (Bowers), William Bowers, Elisabeth Penree and Madeleine Penree. Six grandchildren. Six siblings: William Penree, Jr. (Kathy), Mary Ann Pratt, Clarence Penree (Mary Ann), Catherine Doolen (Darrell), Michael Penree, Peter Penree (Michelle). He is also survived by his mother-in-law, Patricia S. Ryan; several godchildren; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and close friends, and comrades.

He was predeceased by his parents, William Penree, Sr. and Sophie (Hula) Penree.

The family will be present to meet friends 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, April 7, and again 4-7 p.m. on Monday, April 9, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home, 28 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

Funeral services will be held (with military honors accorded) on Tuesday, April 10, at 11 a.m. at St. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church, 305 Main Road, Herkimer, with Father Thaddeus Franta, rector, and Father James Jadick, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, co-officiating.

Arrangements are entrusted toTillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.

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tion Support Group; and served in Poland as branch chief of CAX Division of NATO JFTC. His final overseas tour was with the NATO Rapid Deployment Corps as the G6 deputy plans officer in Betera, Spain, before returning to The States to his final duty station to serve as the deputy commander of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in April 2015.

His deployments include two tours in Bosnia (2000 and 2004), three tours in Afghanistan (2002, 2010, 2012), and two tours in Iraq (2005-06). Among his many military awards were the Bronze Star, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Joint Service Commendation Medal.

He was one of the founding members of the Dust Devil Band and The Mechanix and was also a member of the Cedar Valley Band.

He started the Cooperstown Redskins pee-wee wrestling club and was cubmaster of Pack 72, Hartwick.

He is surivived by his wife of 27 years, Patricia Penree, and six children: Jonathan Penree (Karen), Justin Penree (Makoto), Em-

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Officer in 1984 through the Officer Candidate School at Empire State Military Lt. Col. John Penree Academy. He branched to the Signal Corps in 1988, where he was stationed in Fort Gordon, Georgia, and later rejoined the Active Duty ranks in 1999 where he was stationed at Fort Drum, New York.

He was stationed at Fort Drum with the 10th Mountain Division; served in Sarajevo, Bosnia with the Combined Joint Special Forces Task Force; spent over three years in Larissa, Greece, with the NATO Joint Command South Center as deputy commander of Communications Informa-

CHERRY VALLEY – Joseph Eugene Rosch, a resident of Cherry Valley, died at his home on East Hill March 25. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to his spouse, Holland Cotter. Mr. Rosch was 67.

He was born on Sept. 7, 1950, in Albany and he grew up in Ballston Spa. He majored in European history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, studying with the Reformation scholar Richard Marius. He did graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia University, with religion historian James Melvin Washington, focusing on the history of the African-American church.

In the 1970s, Mr. Rosch was active in the anti-war and burgeoning gay liberation movements. He held a variety of jobs, as an auto factory worker in Los Angeles, as a driver for the black-owned City Cab Co. in Detroit, and in New York City for many years as a restaurant cook. In the 198Os, he was a test writer for the Stanley H. Kaplan Company in Manhattan.

In 1993, he and Mr. Cotter bought a small 19th century farmhouse on East Hill in the hamlet of Centre Valley, commuting between

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HARTWICK – Lt. Col. John W. Penree, 61, who served in the Army and National Guard for more than four decades, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va., on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

A native of Utica, he was born on Dec. 26, 1956, to William and Sophie (Hula) Penree. He was the third oldest of seven children, having four brothers and two sisters. Lieutenant Colonel Penree attended Frankfort-Schuyler Central High School.

He enlisted in the Army on Aug. 30, 1974, at Fort Dix, N.J., at 17. He received his associate degree from City University of Seattle, going on to obtain his bachelor of engineering from Columbia University.

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Oneonta Company Entering Cooperstown Souvenir Bat Business BAT STORE/From A1 Timber Products, has been making the wood billets used to make some the finest baseball bats in the world since 2008. “We make bats that are used at every level, from little league right up to Major League Baseball.”

And now, he’s building “The Wood Bat Factory” on Route 28 here, next to the Redneck Bar-B-Que, and will sell finished bats from all the companies that use his billets.

“We’re the largest supplier of high-quality wood billets in the world,” said Kent. “We ship our product to bat companies all over the world.”

Kent’s billets – long, wooden cylinders used to make the bats – are created

mons and West Davenport.

“When wood is hand-split, it naturally follows the tangential grain instead of forcing the cut with a saw, strengthening the bat and all but removing the chance of a slope of grain failure.”

Kent’s new store sits on some of the most valuable business property in the county, directly in-between the Cooperstown Dreamspark Youth Baseball Tournament and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Parker Fish/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal Cooperstown. But despite Jim Bridger, proprietor of Jim Bridger ConstrucCooperstown’s saturated tion, Town of Maryland, helps put the frame in baseball market, Kent beplace on the post-and-beam structure that will lieves that he can tap into an house the new bat company. unrepresented market. with a hand-split method. the bat and making it vul“The problem with “Often, logs produced at nerable to dangerous breaks Cooperstown is that there a sawmill are sawn across or multiple piece fractures,” isn’t any representation the radial and/or tangential said Kent in an interview at of high quality bats,” said slope of grain, weakening his sawmill, between EmKent. “What we’re trying to

do is create a showcase where people can buy more than just a trophy bat.”

Now, in an effort to Matt Kent expand Cooperstown’s high-end wood bat market, Kent is building The Wood Bat Factory to sell the bats that he helps to produce.

“Basically, I wanted a place to showcase our customers’ products,” said Kent, who ships his billets to several major bat retailers. “It will probably end up being the single largest selection of high end wood bats in the world.”

But Kent knows not to put the proverbial cart

before the horse when it comes to his new business.

Kent hired local contractor Jim Bridger of Maryland to build his store.

“It’s pretty cool to put as much focus on the building itself as much as what is actually going in the building,” said Kent.

The Oneonta businessman’s affection for timber frame style buildings is clearly evident in his new store, with the large wooden beams for the structure being erected this week.

Kent’s goal is to have the store open by Memorial Day weekend, just ahead of the opening of the 2018 tourist season in Cooperstown.

Anyone interested in the new business can learn more at www.thewoodbatfactory. com

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OH FEST CONCERT – 6 - 9 p.m. End the day with a concert featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie. Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

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TOURNAMENT – Noon - 4 p.m. Fourth annual Terrence Parker Basketball Tournament to raise funds for the Terrence Parker Memorial Scholarship. SUNY Oneonta.

GARDEN HACKS – 1 - 2 p.m. Learn tried and tested gardening tips. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1450.

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Cooperstown Village Library.

Call 607-547-8344.

CANDIDATES FORUM – 6 - 8 p.m. Democrat Congressional candidates for the 19th district, Jeff Beals, David Clegg, Erin Collier, Antonio Delgado, Brian Flynn, Gareth Rhodes, and Pat Ryan discuss issues, more. HIRC Lecture Hall 1, SUNY Oneonta.

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BLOOD DRIVE – 1 - 6 p.m. Give Blood, Save Lives.

Worcester United Methodist Church, 111 Main St., Oneonta. Call 1-800-7332767.

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RSVP required. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0001.

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Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

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