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Volume 205, No. 17

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By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN

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he reading room at the Village Library and an art classroom above it have been closed indefinitely after a chunk of

ceiling plaster in the 1898 structure broke loose and fell on a patron.

At 12:25 p.m. Monday, April 22, the library’s smoke alarm went off and Chief Michael Covert rushed upstairs to see that a piece of ceiling plaster in the adult reading section, Please See LIBRARY, C2

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Doubleday Field’s new manager Quinton Hasak with Village Trustee Jim Dean, who chairs the Doubleday Field committee.

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Avenue, bringing a growing national trend of “micro” or “boutique” distilleries into Otsego County.

Preliminary work has begun at the former Agway warehouse at Railroad Avenue and Leatherstocking Street, and the Village Board, at its April meeting Monday the Please See DISTILLERY, A6

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BUD FOWLER WEEKEND

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uinton Hasak, a 2006 CCS graduate, has assumed duties as Doubleday Field manager, replacing Joe Harris, who retired over the winter.

Hasak, who is also a SUNY Oneonta grad, has been with Greener World Landscaping, Fly Creek, specializing in its sports turf management program.

A Morris resident, he is engaged to Meghan Higgins.

HISTORY DAY: A record

500 middle and high school students from across the state will compete in New York State History Day Monday, April 29, at The Farmers’ Museum and the Hall of Fame. A 5 p.m. awards ceremony at CCS will cap the day.

CLEANUP TIME: Begin-

ning at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 4, the Cooperstown Lions Club will fulfill its AdoptA-Highway commitment by cleaning up Route 28 between Maple Street and the transfer station. Tom Hohensee is coordinating.

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Two images will appear on the Pay & Display machine screens this summer in the downtown: One will advertise Doubleday Field; the second, the village’s trolley service.

CCS varsity baseball tri-captains Nico Knull, Ethan Bliss and Sawyer Haney unveil the “Fowler Way” sign at the Saturday, April 20, Bud Fowler commemoration. At left, Mayor Katz and Senator Seward look on.

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OOPERSTOWN – Susan Fenimore Cooper Weil, 90, a direct descendant of William Cooper, Cooperstown’s founder, and his son James Fenimore Cooper, died Saturday afternoon, April 20, 2013, at her home in Cooperstown.

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‘Hawkeye’ New CCS Nickname

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal

Bud Fowler, Hall Of Famer? urday, April 20, at the Village of Cooperstown’s Bud Fowler Commemoration at Doubleday COOPERSTOWN Field that followed the unveiling of the “Fowler Way” street sign ajor League in honor of the first black profesBaseball’s official sional baseball player. Fowler historian John was raised in Cooperstown in Thorne the 1860s.

Thorn made it explicit: “If Jackie Robinson walked Some 120 fans and wellwishacross a bridge, he also walked ers, including members of the 19th CGP students Ashley Bowden and Century Committee of SABR Ryan Leichenauer are applauded for across Fowler Way.” Thorn was featured speaker SatPlease See FOWLER, A3 the Fowler exhibit at Doubleday.

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id Chase of Chase Organ Co., Worcester, called it an “organ transplant in its purest form.”

Steve Rinnell, a member of Evangeli-

cal Lutheran Church congregation, called it “Franken-organ” or, conversely, “Organ-stein.”

But the outcome of “Doctor” Chase’s operation, due by 2014, the church’s Terquasquicentennial (175th

anniversary), will be no musical monstrosity.

Chase, who is using parts from two other organs – one that ended up in a Hudson Valley convent after being Please See ORGAN, C2

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s of July 1, “Redskins” will be the “CCS Hawkeyes.”

At a brief meeting Tuesday, April 23, the full CCS board voted unanimously to adopt the new nickname, ending three months of controversy in four minutes.

“Hawkeye” refers to one of James Fenimore Cooper’s most famous characters, the Zen-like scout, brave, selfless and calm, in “The Last of the Mohicans.”

The school board affirmed a decision reached tentatively Wednesday, April 17, when Superintendent C.J. Hebert announced a canvas of stakeholders: A majority of students, alumni and the public who participated favored Hawkeyes.

The faculty backed Huskies, the Hartwick school district’s nickname before it Please See MASCOT, A3

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April 11 at The Leatherstocking Corp. and The Clark Foundation’s Employee Recognition Breakfast at The Otesaga. Seated with Barown are honorees Eileen Kukenberger, center, and Donna Bogart.

Standing, from left, are Joe Middletown, vice president, Leatherstocking Corp.; Jane Forbes Clark, president of both entities; Gary Kuch and Peter Severud, current and retiring directors respectively, foundation Scholarship Fund; honorees Raymond Miller, Scott Whiteman and Curtis Hurley; Mike Bouton, director of horticulture, foundation greenhouses; Val Paige, director, Clark Sports Center; honoree Mathew Vatovec, and Douglas Bauer, executive director, The Clark Foundation. Miller and Kukenberger were honored for 20 years at The Clark Foundation; Bogart for 15 years at The Clark Sports Center; and 10-year awards went to Hurley and Vatovec at the foundation and Whiteman at the sports center.

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Clara Welsh Thanksgiving Home Director Laurie Blatt , in purple, welcomes visitors to the Open House on Tuesday, April 23, where volunteer Susan Kenyon reads to some of the residents. The home was originally founded as a hospital for Civil War soldiers and opened as an elder care facility in 1868.

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Canadian Sports Hall May Honor Bud Fowler Before Cooperstown Hall Does FOWLER/From A1 (the Society of American Baseball Research) that was meeting over the weekend at the Hall of Fame, witnessed the unveiling, then walked down Fowler Way to Doubleday Field for speeches, the unveiling of a plaque, and to review a twopanel exhibit on Fowler’s accomplishment prepared by three Cooperstown Graduate Program students.

“This is a way to reclaim his important legacy,” Mayor Jeff Katz told the gathering, which he organized to mark the 100th an-

niversary of the death of the man who, despite hosting the Hall of Fame, is perhaps Cooperstown’s greatest claim to baseball fame.

For on April 24, 1878, Fowler played a game for the Lynn (Mass.) Live Oaks.

It is the first record of an African-American playing pro baseball. According to the exhibit, he played in 13 leagues and 20 clubs over 30 years, and was the first black to manage an integrated club.

But as the window closed on post-Civil War Reconstruction in 1878, and after

the 1887 “Gentleman’s Agreement” in Buffalo, where International League team owners agreed to exclude blacks from play, Fowler found himself increasingly marginalized. He died in February 1913, and was buried in an unmarked grave at the Oak View Cemetery in Frankfort.

U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19th, who spoke at the ceremony, had introduced remarks two days before into the Congressional Record calling Fowler “an incredible role model for all Americans, displaying what can be accomplished beyond all hurdles faced in life.”

The commemoration also received some national attention, on SABR’s website and in a Monday, April 15, feature story in the New York Times. National Public Radio’s David Sommerstein attended the weekend’s events, and said he expects a segment to be broadcast on an upcoming Weekend Edition.

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At the Bud Fowler commemoration at Doubleday Field Saturday, April 20, Village Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch contemplates her parents accomplishment: Her father George, a SABR member, and mother Marjorie, then village historian in the 1980s, were able to determine John A. Jackson’s connection to Cooperstown, and identify his gravesite at Oak View Cemetery, Frankfort. To her right is husband Gary Kuch and fellow Village Trustee Joan Nicols.

The question is, what now?

The next morning at 25 Main as the SABR committee wound up its Cooperstown sojourn, John Thorn repeated his praise for Fowler’s accomplish-

ment and said “a very good case could be made” for his inclusion in the Hall of Plaque. But he observed that he, as MLB historian, and SABR are scholars seeking to determine the facts, not proselytizers lobbying for

New Nickname: ‘CCS Hawkeyes’ MASCOT/From A1 merged into CCS in 1958.

“From the public response, the ‘CCS Hawkeyes’ is the clear favorite,” said Hebert.

Tentatively, because the town team is the Cooperstown Hawkeyes, and the school board sought to ensure the team’s owner, Tom Hickey, was comfortable with sharing the name.

A “letter of understanding” agreed to over the ways declares, “By adopting the ‘mascot’ name of ‘Cooperstown Central School Hawkeyes’ or ‘CCS Hawkeyes,’ (the school district) will not use the ‘C with feathers’ logo or anything similar.”

“We hope the relationship can be developed so it’s beneficial to both,

CCS and the Cooperstown Hawkeyes,” said Hickey.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Public Relations chair Jean Schifano read the resolution making the new name official as of July 1, keeping the school colors orange and black, and maintaining the school’s logo, based on “The Indian Hunter” statue in Lakefront Park.

Objections to the nickname “Redskins” had last been a controversy in 2001, and became so again in January, when CCS board President David Borgstrom proposed a change.

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Standing to one side, however, was Bill Humber, a “selector” for Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, who said, since Fowler played for the Guelph, Ont., Maple Leafs, our neighbors to the north may beat the Cooperstown institution in honoring the village’s own baseball pioneer.

While the Hall of Fame Committee reexamining 19th century players doesn’t meet again until the fall of 2015, the Sports Hall of Fame meets annually, and may do just that, Humber said.

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Let’s Partake Of Opportunities In Hops Growing – And Salud!

n the first round of grants under Governor Cuomo’s new economic development regimen in 2011, Long House Holdings, an affiliate of Garrattsville’s Butternuts Brewery, received EDITORIAL $175,000 to help launch a contract-brewing operation in Cobleskill.

Say you’ve developed a pretty tasty ale in your bathtub and want to go public. You could contract with Long House to produce, bottle and market the product.

You pay Long House for the service. Simple, affordable. Otherwise, you would need to come up with the capital to set up your own brewery, an impossible obstacle for most folks, and marshal the expertise to operate it.

However, Long House – the principals are Chuck Williamson, Butternuts Brewery proprietor who recently bought Cooperstown Brewery in Milford as well, and John Lorence, a maintenance engineer formerly with Procter & Gamble’s Norwich operation – has run into obstacles of its own.

The idea was to locate in the former Guilford Mills property, that sizeable,

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Madison County Cooperative Extension Agent Steve Miller strolls past a harvester available to hops farmers in the Morrisville area. Miller was recently in Otsego County, briefing GO-EDC on opportunities related to hops growing and microbreweries.

empty industrial building you see on the east side of I-88 as you pass by Cobleskill, but negotiations with the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors to buy the property appear stalled, according to reports in the Times Journal, the local newspaper there.

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triguing about hops growing, particularly around here, given that for a halfcentury before World War I, Upstate New York was the nation’s hops-growing section, particularly eight counties centered around Otsego.

It was generally believed that a blight had ruined the crop locally, but Michael

A. Tomlan, in his “Tinged With Gold: Hop Culture in the United States” (1992), argued convincingly that it was Prohibition that did it in.

During Prohibition, hops growing halted in the East.

But in the West, particularly in Washington State’s Yakima Valley, hops were grown and shipped overseas to breweries in China and Japan. When Prohibition ended in 1933, those farms were ready to supply the new demand; Upstate hops growers never caught up.

In recent years, however, microbreweries are multiplying in New York. There are more than 100, Madison County Cooperative Extension Agent Steve Miller told Al Colone’s GO-EDC economic-development study group in Oneonta the other day.

To encourage these new ventures, the state – Otsego County’s assemblyman, Bill Magee, D-Nelson, was a prime mover – passed legislation requiring that at least 20 percent of the hops these micros use be grown in-state. Over time, that will rise to 90 percent.

So what we see locally today – Williamson’s two breweries, Brewery Ommegang, Council Rock Brewery in Hartwick Semi-

nary and the prospective Roots Brewery in downtown Oneonta – is part of a growing trend.

• A growing trend means a growing opportunity.

Some community is going to be the center of Upstate brewing, but which community? That’s still in play, even though Madison County’s Cooperative Extension is ahead of most of its neighbors.

A brewing center would be a source of expertise, perhaps something our local colleges could provide. It could be a source of supplies – hops, barley, equipment. It could be a transportation hub, shipping from a central warehouse by big rig or rail.

It could centralize promotion and direct tourism, similar to the Beverage Trail that local breweries, wineries and the Fly Creek Cider Mill have been developing over the past couple of years.

It could host micro-breweries and related pubs and restaurants. It could – here goes – host a contract brewer, an entity similar to what Williamson and Lorence are contemplating.

A hops center would, but its very existence, encourage hops growing region-

ally, putting land formerly used for dairying back into productive use, a barrier to sprawl.

• Why not Otsego County?

Within the county, Oneonta is the logical prime candidate.

In the past couple of months, county Economic Developer Carolyn Lewis sought out Lorence and showed him through the former Covidien warehouse in the Pony Farm Business Park in the Town of Oneonta.

No doubt other communities are soliciting them too, so – absent reports to the contrary – it’s time to ratchet up the intensity level before someone beats us to it.

If the key leaders in the city and town of Oneonta, or the County of Otsego, haven’t approached the Long House principals yet, it’s high time to do so.

It was simply luck that South Edmeston is now the Greek yogurt capital of the world. But we can see microbrewing follow a similar, if less dramatic, trajectory.

Let’s seize the opportunity, or in five years or 10, find ourselves ruefully observing another county or city, a Cortland or Norwich or Auburn, that has taken a

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County Shouldn’t Hide Behind Curtain Of LDC To the Editor: The Otsego County Board of Representatives should think carefully before deciding to use a Local Development Corporation (LDC) to sell Otsego Manor.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has accurately described the all-too-common use of LDCs as a distortion of their original purpose, which was to promote economic development – not help counties dispose of their elder care facilities. In his own words, LDCs have become a form of “shadow government,” allowing counties to skirt normal finance rules and avoid public accountability.

In the case of The Manor, creating a LDC gives board members a convenient way of ending the politically uncomfortable debate about whether the county’s elder-care facility should be privatized, while simultaneously passing responsibility for determining its future off

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Everything written about Bud Fowler notes, if only in passing, how he continued to practice the barber trade he had learned from his father. Many contemporary newspaper stories mention it . But what baseball writers have overlooked is that this made him a Knight of the Razor – a black barber who shaved white customers. Like his ancestors, Bud Fowler was a member of an almost unique fraternity – almost a medieval guild – in nineteenth century African-American culture.

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to an unelected body.

The particular recipe invented by Harris Beach, the law firm advocating this questionable approach, involves the board immediately transferring The Manor to a LDC, which would then eventually pick a buyer and sell the property.

In the interim, the county would continue to operate the facility through a lease-back arrangement that cleverly shields the board from accountability while keeping taxpayers on the hook for whatever financial or legal liabilities ensue.

This may be a sweet arrangement for politicians, as well as attorneys who created a process that will keep them employed defending Otsego County from the same suits Harris Beach has provoked elsewhere. But it is a bad deal for taxpayers, residents of The Manor, and care providers who work there.

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lines, and often closely related by family ties. They formed a network around the country, in which traveling black barbers like Bud Fowler could count on finding colleagues and work .

At the same time, black barbers learned to practice outward manners that would please their white customers. They were polite – even when insulted; calm – even when angered; persistent – even when life grew diffiJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal cult; and apparently subserVillage Historian Hugh MacDougall reflects on Bud vient – even when they felt themselves superior to those Fowler’s story during a centennial commemorathey served. tion of the first black professional ballplayer ‘s death Saturday, April 20, at Doubleday Field.

After the Civil War, black barbers faced increasing mother was the daughter of scholar: competition in big cities a barber, and they had many “Barbering was servile. from white immigrants, barber cousins in towns like White customers felt comespecially Italian barbers Fort Plain along the Mofortable being shaved by a hawk Valley. black barber. The proprieties who brought their craft with them to America. Some What was this guild of were preserved. The black turned to serving black barbers, who dominated the man was in deferential atcustomers in the rapidly barbering trade during much tendance on the white man. of the nineteenth century, African-American men who growing black parts of those cities. Others moved to competing successfully were careful to show they against whites, and form“knew their place” could do smaller communities in the interior. In Otsego County, ing a great percentage of well as barbers.” the number of black barbers the small African American And they did. The grew from zero in 1850 to middle class? How did they Knights of the Razor be11 in 1875 – and then zero succeed in a nation filled came a tightly-knit comagain by 1900. with racial discrimination? munity of men, organized In the words of one modern along traditional trade-craft

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ometime after 1870 Johnnie left home, and in 1877 we find him playing baseball in a Boston suburb for the amateur Chelsea Franklins, under the name of John Fowler.

He pitched several games against the professional Lynn Live Oaks, a team belonging to the International Association, and The New York Clipper gave him his first review, writing of one game that “The pitching of both clubs was excellent.”

Why he left Cooperstown, what brought him to Chelsea, and why he permanently adopted the last name of Fowler, all remain mysteries today.

Because John Fowler routinely ad-

dressed fellow players as “Bud,” he was given that nick name, and after about 1890, as in modern baseball writing, he was usually called just Bud Fowler. That is how he signed his public letters, and what I call him in this paper.

Then on April 24, 1878, Fowler pitched for a so-called “Pickup Nine” team, largely chosen from the Chelsea Franklins, against the professional Boston Red Caps – a National League team which would eventually become today’s Atlanta Braves. Its more experienced and older pitcher, Tommy Bond, was already a rising baseball star. Nevertheless, the amateurs de-

feated the Boston Professionals 2 to 1, with Fowler on the mound. Perhaps as a result, when the Lynn Live Oaks’ regular pitcher developed a lame arm, Fowler was asked to join that team as pitcher for at least three games. This made him the first African-American to play professional baseball in America – the title he has born ever since.

Local newspapers were impressed.

The next year Fowler pitched for the Malden team of the Eastern Massachusetts league, and then disappears from the papers for a time. His entry into baseball was written up in SABR’s Nineteenth Century Notes.

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Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

The lyrics to a song sung by American sailors titled “Constitution Lane” – “Yankee sailors have a knack, Haul away! Yeo ho boys! Of pulling down a British Jack, ‘Gainst any odds, you know, boys. Come three to one, right sure am I, If we can’t beat them, still we’ll try, To make Columbia’s colors fly, Haul away! Yeo ho, boys! Yankee sailors, when at sea, Haul away! Yeo ho, boys! Pipe all hands with merry glee, While aloft hey go, boys! And, when with pretty girls on shore, Their cash is gone, and not before, They wisely go to sea for more, Haul away! Yeo ho boys! Yankee sailors love their soil, Haul away! Yeo ho, boys! And for glory ne’er spare toil, But flog its foes, you know boys! Then while its standard owns a rag, The world combined shall never brag, They made us strike the Yankee flag, Haul away! Yeo ho, boys!”

April 3, 1813

30 YEARS AGO

project, with the result that more than 400 miles of stream fishing rights have been acquired. With an increasing population, the advent of the automobile and a greater interest in recreation, the problem of preserving the traditional American system of free public hunting and fishing becomes yearly more difficult.

April 6, 1938

50 YEARS AGO

Dr. John H. Powers will retire July 1 as surgeon chief of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital after 33 years on its staff, the past seven as head of the Department of Surgery and clinical professor of surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In April 1944, Dr. Powers reported to the Committee on Convalescence and Rehabilitation of the National Research Council on the progress of 136 Bassett Hospital patients who were allowed to sit up, or even walk, from one to three days after undergoing major surgery. Dr. Powers’ contributions thereto were the subject of numerous articles in popular magazines such as Saturday Evening Post and Readers Digest.

April 3, 1963

175 YEARS AGO

Slavery – A meeting for the discussion of Slavery is now in progress in the Court House, in the Village of Cooperstown. It will be continued through the day and evening of Monday, the 2nd of April next. Gerrit Smith, Esq. is attending the meeting. Cooperstown, March 31, 1838.

Large pig – Mr. Uri Jackson of Butternuts, killed a pig on the 3rd of January last, one year and nine months old, which weighed when dressed, 530 pounds, and produced 60 pounds of tried lard. The pig was fattened only three months.

April 2, 1838

25 YEARS AGO April 1983 Beer is retailed, especially in the country, at too high a price – five cents for a small glass, or ten cents for a little less than a pint; about $25 a barrel. If reduced to six cents a pint, it would be about $15 a barrel – a sum large enough to give an ample profit to both the brewer and the dealer.

If the beer drinkers would “strike” for that price, doubtless they would effect the change. There are a great many laboring men who buy a pint of beer a day on average; and a difference of four cents is a matter of about $14 a year to them, enough to buy a common suit of clothes.

April 6, 1888

150 YEARS AGO

Judge Nelson is soon to break ground on the lot on the corner of Main and Chestnut streets, for the erection thereon of two three-story brick stores which will be completed during the approaching summer. The Mssrs. Cory are to remodel their stone store, which will be enlarged and modernized. The front will be of brick. About every available place of business in the village is now occupied, and perhaps a few more stores could be rented without leaving others tenantless; still, trade cannot be increased beyond a certain point; some think it has nearly reached its limit, unless manufacturing be introduced – and it remains with those owning available land to determine where it shall be done.

April 3, 1863

75 YEARS AGO

The sportsmen of New York are financing the purchase of hundreds of miles of streams in order that permanent public fishing rights may be preserved, says C. Monroe Dailey, secretary of the New York State Conservation Council. The money is coming from the Conservation Fund, into which go all of the license fees paid by the anglers and hunters of the state. In the past two years, $150,000 has been appropriated and largely spent on this

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The Higgins Cottage was rescued from demolition in April 1986 when the village board acted to preserve the structure after the Leatherstocking Corporation proposed to demolish it. The Higgins Cottage is one of two remaining structures in Otsego County which were used as tenant buildings for farm laborers.

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Micro Distillery Planned In Cooperstown DISTILLERY, From A1 22nd, began the regulatory process necessary for the venture to go forward.

According to the Cooperstown Distillery Facebook page, the facility is being planned by Gene and Montell Marra.

Gene Marra, who is known locally as a consultant for the Blue Mingo Grill, is listed as associated with Melon Ranch Vineyards and Chestnut Mountain Winery in northeast Georgia, Marra’s Seafood Grill in Atlanta, and several enterprises in Sarasota, Fla. Most recently, he resided in Boca Grande, Fla. According to the zoning application presented to trustees, Marra (his engineer is Jon McManus) plans to renovate the building “to support a micro distillery/restaurant” where “distilled products can be consumed and purchased onsite.”

Parking would be avail-

able across the street on land owned by Mike Manno, the owner of the 21 Railroad Ave. office building and redeveloper of the former Agway.

To ensure everyone’s clear on the timeline, Mayor Jeff Katz proposed a meeting with Marra, Zoning Enforcement Officer Tavis Austin and the chairs of the Planning and Zoning boards. “My goal is to expedite a decision – not to expedite what the decision should be,” Katz explained.

The trustees took four preliminary actions, setting a public hearing for 7 p.m.

Monday, May 20; referring the “special use permit” application to the village Planning Board and county Planning Department, and defining the distillery as a “Type 2” SEQR project, allowing a short-form application.

While Marra has been keeping a low profile until all the approvals are in place, the venture is already getting

some positive notice. Bill Dowd, retired Albany TimesUnion editor, declared on his Notes On Napkins food blog recently, “For those bar owners, restaurateurs and consumers who have a liking for craft distilled spirits, particularly those from New York State’s burgeoning niche industry, keep an eye on Gene Marra.”

Fly Creek Cider Mill’s Bill Michaels, a prime mover in the local Beverage Trail, said the brewers and vintners in the group are “very excited” about the prospect of welcoming the distillery to the effort.

When Rustic Ridge Winery in Burlington Flats and Butternut Brewery in Garratsville joined the marketing collaborative, all the other members – Ommegang, Cooperstown Brewery and Bear Pond Winery among them – saw business increase, Michaels said.

Don’t Use LDCs To Evade Responsibilities LETTER/From A4 representatives are willing to think outside of the tiny box that Harris Beach has built for them.

One option is that the Board could simply abandon the controversial LDC tactic and appoint an advisory committee of knowledgeable individuals to research potential buyers and make recommendations. This is how government normally works.

If, however, the board is determined to create a LDC, this can still be done without transferring The Manor immediately. In this scenario, a LDC could be established to perform the due diligence of interviewing potential buyers while the county continues to operate the facility (essentially

what both entities would do anyway through the Harris Beach transfer/lease-back approach).

However, by maintaining county’s ownership of The Manor, the ultimate decision on selling would remain with the Board of Representatives, where it belongs.

If representatives buy into questionable claims that a LDC created by the board somehow has greater authority to select a qualified buyer than the board itself, then The Manor could still be transferred to the LDC as an interim step later on.

Furthermore, even if representatives are nervous that elections could possibly cause a change of course, as some have suggested, the board would still have until January to either sell The

Manor or transfer it.

Without incurring any delay, there is certainly no harm in deferring transfer until confidence is built that the LDC approach is functioning and suitable buyers can be found.

Perhaps most importantly, the greatest advantage of either of these alternatives is one of integrity. By retaining ownership of The Manor while potential buyers are sought, the Board of Representatives can honor its word of remaining open to ways in which this gem of Otsego County might be saved from privatization – something that cannot honestly be said if the board forfeits its authority to a LDC next month.

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Thursday, April 25

CHEESE -- 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Country Pride Cheese. Skylight Dr., Fox Hospital, 1 Norton Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2000.

SALE -- 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Rummage, Book, & Bake Sale.

Proceeds benefit the mission projects of United Methodist Women. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4102.

TAI CHI -- 4-5 p.m. Regain mental and physical balance.

Community Room. Green Earth Health Food Market, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 4326600.

BURRITOS -- 4:30-7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church Chicken and Cheese Burrito Dinner. Adults $8, Children $4. 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4286.

CHESS NIGHT -- 5-10 p.m.

Chess Night at Capresso Coffee Bar, 215 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-5233.

BUDDHISM -- 5:30 p.m. Diamondway Buddhism Meditation.

Green Earth Health Food Market, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 527-5185.

RIBBON CUTTING -- 5-7 p.m.

Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Business-After-Hours celebrates Artists Off Main featuring local artists, vintage jewelry, handmade cards and more. The Commons Plaza, NY Hwy 28, Hartwick Seminary. Info, RSVP, becky@cooperstownchamber. org, (607) 547-9983 ext. 4.

CHILD RESOURCES -- 6-8 p.m. Parenting Resource Center hosts workshop “Get Your Kids on Your Team.” Child care and refreshments provided. Registration required. 277 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2870.

AARON CARTER -- 6 p.m.

Oneonta Theatre presents Aaron Carter with special guest Chrystian. VIP tickets include meet and greet with Carter and autographed photo available by phone. 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1252.

SWING DANCE -- 6:30-9:30 p.m. First Night Spring Swing dance series. $10 includes free lesson, music by Blues Maneuver. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 21 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-0090.

JAZZ NIGHT -- 7-10 p.m. The Red Caboose Restaurant & Bar. 214 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 267-4966.

CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Aaron Carter with Chrystian. $17 advance. The Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1252.

HEALTH FAIR -- 7 p.m. Diabetes Support Group celebrates 10 years with a mini health fair, prizes and refreshments. Free, all welcome. Elm Park Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, Sharon Wheeler, (607) 432-7052.

THEATER -- 8 p.m. Mask and Hammer presents the Gershwin’s “Of Thee I Sing.” Free with SUNY ID, $10 public. Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.oneontatickets.com.

KARAOKE -- 9 p.m. Karaoke Night at Legends Filling Station.

84 Main St, Oneonta. Info, (607) 441-3099.

Friday, April 26 Arbor Day

SOFTBALL -- Registration for men’s and women’s softball leagues ends today. Registrations accepted in the Neahwa Park recreation office. Players must be 18+. Play begins May 20th. $400 per team plus $92 refundable forfeit bond. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, (607) 4320680.

RUMMAGE -- 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Rummage, Book, & Bake Sale. $1-a-bag sale held today. Proceeds benefit mission projects of United Methodist Women.

First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4102.

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DOWNTON ABBEY -- 5-7 p.m.

Downton on Main: An Evening Set in 1920s England, Echoing Downton Abbey TV series.$10 donation goes to Cooperstown Food Pantry. Wine tasting and light fare. Mohican Flowers, 207 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8822.

RECEPTION -- 5-7 p.m.

Celebrate Oneonta Concert Association’s 85th anniversary at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Mini-exhibit and window display. GOHS, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0960.

WINE TASTING -- 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sommelier Series at the Otesaga Hotel, Chad Douglass continues with Sparkling Wines and Champagne. $35 per person. Reservations required.

Otesaga Fenimore Room, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, Lori Patryn, (607) 544-2524.

ART AWARDS -- 6-9 p.m.

“High on Life,” LEAF Art & Poetry Contest awards reception.

Awards presented to top three in adult and under-18 categories for art and poetry exploring the beauty of living a life free of addition and self-destructive behaviors. Refreshments served.

CANO Gallery, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, Carol Mandigo, (607) 432-0090 ext 106.

MOVIE -- 6:30, 9 p.m. “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.” $3 general admission, free with SUCO ID. SUNY Oneonta Red Dragon Theatre, 108 Ravine Pkwy, Oneonta. Info, (607) 4363500.

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288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, (607) 547-9692.

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ONEONTA FARMERS’ MARKET -- 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Garage walkway, Main St. Plaza. Info, www.

Oneontafarmersmarket.com OCCA GARAGE SALE -- 9 a.m.3 p.m. OCCA “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” dale. Cooperstown Farmers’ Market Building, 101 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-4488.

BASEBALL KICKOFF -- 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Triple Crown Baseball Factory Big Kickoff Weekend. Group Lessons, private instruction, batting cage, and pitching lane rentals. First round of clinic sessions begin Sunday, noon-6 p.m. Refreshments served. 174 Roundhouse Rd., Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-8222.

WRITERS -- 10:30 a.m.

Oneonta Freewriters. Capresso Coffee Bar, 215 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-5233.

Friday, April 26, 11 am to 3 pm Holiday Inn, State Route 23, Oneonta

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The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, is pleased to be sponsoring the 2013 Job Fair.

Space is limited, so please contact the Chamber to register as soon as possible.

If you have any questions, please contact Shelly Giangrant at The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce in Oneonta at 607-432- 4500, ext. 207.

Deadline April 19

OPERA -- Noon. Metropolitan Opera in High Def. Handel’s Giulio Cesare. 2012-13 Season finale. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 431-2080, www. foothillspac.org ZUMBA -- 1-4 p.m. Zumbathon and silent auction to benefit May 17th Relay for Life. 25 vendors include 31 Gifts, Pampered Chef, Lindt Chocolates, more. Door prizes. $5 per person. Holiday Inn, 5206 NY 23, Oneonta. Info, Jamie Moxham, jamielee101@ hotmail.com.

GREEN WORKSHOP -- 47 p.m. Green Jobs Green NY Workshop shows home owners how to make their homes energy efficient. Registration requested.

Edmeston Central School Auditorium, 11 North St., Edmeston.

Info, (607) 723-0110, www.energywiseotsego.eventbrite.com.

MOVIE -- 6:30, 9 p.m. “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.” $3, free with SUCO ID. SUNY Oneonta Red Dragon Theatre, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3500.

THEATER -- 8 p.m. Mask and Hammer presents the Gershwin’s “Of Thee I Sing.” $10, free with SUNY ID. Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.oneontatickets.com.

CONCERT -- 7 p.m. Patrick Calleo presents CheHo Lam and Joseph Yungen, performing violin and piano. Beethoven, Ravel, Faure, Respighi. $20 donation suggested, but all welcome.

Grace Episcopal Church, 32 Montgomery St., Cherry Valley.

Info, www.patrickcalleopresents. com CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Catskill Symphony Orchestra Hans and Edith Wilk Memorial Concert.

Dvorak Serenade for Strings, E-major, Op. 22; Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Bach’s Brandenburg No. 3. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta. Adults $30; students $15. At the door or in advance. Info, tickets, www. catskillsymphony.net.

JAZZ -- 9:30 p.m. Jazz quartet, Compass at The Autumn Cafe. $5 cover. 244 Main St. #1, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6845.

Sunday, April 28

PANCAKES -- 8 a.m.-noon Cooperstown Sportsmen’s Association pancake and sausage allyou-can-eat breakfast. $6 Adults, 6-12 $4, 6 and under free. Club House, North of Cooperstown on Rte. 20. Info, (607) 547-8575.

SHOOT & DINNER -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Turkey shoot & spaghetti dinner, $8. Shoot 10-noon; dinner noon-2. Hartwick Rod & Gun Club, Rte. 205 South of hamlet.

Info, (607) 293-8841.

OCCA GARAGE SALE -- 10 a.m.-3 p.m. “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” garage sale. Cooperstown Farmers’ Market Building, 101 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-4488.

MOVIE -- 1, 6:30, 9 p.m. “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.” $3 admission, Free with SUCO ID. Red Dragon Theatre, 108 Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3500.

THEATER -- 2 p.m. Mask and Hammer presents Gershwin’s “Of Thee I Sing.” $10, free with SUNY ID. Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta.

Info, www.oneontatickets.com.

RECEPTION -- 2-4 p.m. Greater Oneonta Historical Society honors Tony Mongillo with Albert E. Morris Award. GOHS History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

All welcome. Info, (607) 4320960.

OPEN MIC -- 6-9 p.m. Community Open Mic Night sponsored by students of Milford Ed. Foundation. Music, dance, comedy, poetry. Free, all welcome -- no charge to perform. Refreshments. Student artwork. Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center.

Rte. 28, Milford. Info, to register to perform, contact Kerri Hogle, (607) 286-7721.

CONCERT -- 6 p.m. West African Dance Showcase with Artist-in-Residence Godwin Abotsi. Performances by Godwin Abotsi, SUNY Oneonta World Percussion Ensemble, & Riverside Elementary School 3rd Graders.

Suggested donation $3. SUNY Oneonta, Hunt Union Ballroom, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info Julie Licata, (607) 436-3441. benefit the mission projects of United Methodist Women.First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4102.

Help Wanted

The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce 189 Main Street, Suite 201,Oneonta

Need someone to disc 80’ x 30’ sod in West Oneonta.

Portal-to-portal pay.

Call Ed: 937-207-9706

AHC Expands to Schoharie County Recruiting Full-time RNs and PT At Home Care, Inc. (AHC) is a not-for-profit Medicare Certified Home Health Agency affiliated with the Bassett Healthcare Network.

Ranked among the Top 25% of all home care agencies in the U.S. for quality outcomes, AHC is recognized as a progressive home health care leader, and is enthusiastically expanding to provide in-home health care to the residents of Schoharie County.

Available Positions Include: Professional RNs, Physical Therapist Professionals: Min. 2 yrs. acute care and electronic patient record experience preferred. AHC offers a competitive wage and benefit package.

For more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact HR: 800-783-0613 or 607-432-7634 or e-mail: lvosburgh@ahcnys.org www.bassett.org/athomecare

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MLS#88048 – Charming Colonial w/wide pine, maple and cherry floors throughout. LR w/fireplace, DR w/original cupboards and French doors to 40-ft covered porch, kitchen w/cherry cabinets. Downstairs 2 BR and 2 baths. Upstairs 4 BR and 3 baths. Master BR w/dressing room and private bath. Detached 2-car garage, pond, horse barn w/3 box stalls. Cooperstown School District. $369,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 or Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026

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MLS#87096 - 4 BR, 2 bath Cape is move-in ready. Over 8 acres in Cooperstown School District. Open floorplan w/kitchen, full bath and 2 BRs on first floor. Spacious master BR has skylight and cathedral ceiling. Second floor has full bath, 1 or 2 BRs, family room, office, and laundry room. $249,900 Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026

MLS#87366 - 19th century farmhouse w/some renovations. 18 acres w/meadows, orchard, Otego Creek and pond. Large rooms, woodshed, detached garage. May be subdivided. Newer well, septic and updated electrical. $149,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

MLS#87336 - In the country but other folks around. Large lawn, nice home, reasonable taxes and easy commute to Cooperstown, Richfield or the valley. $79,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512

MLS#88491 - 4 BR, 3 bath Victorian w/lots of charm.

Original detail, studio apt, access to I-88. B&B potential! $199,000 Call/Text Eric Lein @ 707-483-1236

MLS#87446 - Cooperstown restaurant on State Hwy 28.

3 dining rooms, bar and an oversized commercial kitchen.

Many updates! Turn-key business with owner financing.

Only $850,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

MLS#86798 - Be your own boss! Well established B&B, restaurant, bar and brick oven pizzeria on 2.8 acres.

Located in Richfield Springs RT 20.

Only $695,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

MLS#84459 - Multi-family Cooperstown home. Motivated sellers. Bring a fair offer. All offers considered.

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New listing! MLS#87961 -3 BR, 2½ bath home features oak floors, kitchen w/island, LR w/woodstove, den.

Upstairs has master BR w/private bath. Wrap-around porch, 2-car garage w/woodstove. Cooperstown School District. $339,000 Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026 MLS#84272 – Richfield Springs village home. 5 BRs, country kitchen, pellet stove, newer roof, windows and carpet.

Only $110,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

MLS#87807 - Everything is new: roof, interior, refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, carpet, all flooring, doors, bathtub, shower and more. Roomy LR w/large windows, 2 good-sized BRs, large kitchen w/dining area. Situated on 5.52 acres w/stream and over 600’ of road front. Cherry Valley school district. $83,000 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512

MLS#87014 - Well-maintained historic 4+ apartment building. Perfect to live in one unit and let your tenants pay your mortgage. $179,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603

MLS#87328 - 4 BR, 2 bath farmhouse on 254 acres w/ stream, woods, waterfalls and great farmland. Includes barn & 2-story 3 car garage w/ studio. Total privacy. $600,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603

MLS#87819 - Great starter or income home on a quiet street in the village. Safely walk to school, church, shopping. Large yard. Property can be purchased separately or w/Richfield Car Wash MLS #87821. $64,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512

New listing! MLS#88039 - Quaint 3BR ranch w/land, large garage and shed. Close proximity to great employment opportunities: New York Central Mutual and Chobani! $119,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

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MLS#84612 – Location, seclusion, and views make this secluded location convenient to schools, hospitals and shopping. A private world on 10.8 acres. $189,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

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ABSENTEES CAN VOTE

NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to Not-for-Profit Corporation law Section 1411(d) (3), the Otsego County Board of Representatives (the “County”) will conduct a public hearing to consider the proposed transfer by the County to a newly formed local development corporation of the Otsego County Nursing Home facility, known as “Otsego Manor” located at 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Road, Cooperstown, New York 13326, and operated by the Country under Certificate number 3859300N as a 174 bed Residential Health Care Facility.

NOTICE is hereby given that there has been duly introduced before the Board of Representatives of the County of Otsego, New York, a Local law entitled: A Local law amending Local Law No. 2 of 2003 by changing each Representative’s number of votes as determined by the 2010 census and as required by Local Law No. 2 of 2003.

COOPERSTOWN - Applications for absentee ballots are available to Cooperstown Central School District residents for the May 21, 2013 budget vote and School Board election.

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NOTICE is further given that the Board of Representatives will conduct a public hearing on the proposed transfer in the Otsego County Courthouse, in the Village of Cooperstown, new York on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. at which time all persons interested will be heard. The location of the public hearing is accessible to persons with a mobility impairment.

Dated: April 12, 2013 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1Legal Legal notice NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF THE OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the direction of Kathleen Clark, Chair of the Otsego County Board of representatives, a call of a Special Meeting of the Board of representatives is hereby made pursuant to Section 152 of the County Law and Rule 4 of the Rules of Order of the board of Representatives to be held on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. in the Otsego County Courthouse, Cooperstown, New York.

The purpose of this special meeting is to ratify the procedure used to set and advertise the public hearing to consider the proposed transfer by the County to a local development corporation of the Otsego County Nursing Home facility, known as “Otsego Manor.”

Dated: April 19, 2013 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalApr25 Legal notice NOTICE OF MEETING Pursuant to the Rules of order of the otsego County Board of representatives, it appears that the Representatives’ Chambers may not be adequate to accommodate members of the public who wish to attend the monthly meeting of the Board. Therefore, notice is further given that the Board of Representatives will conduct its regular scheduled monthly board meeting in the Emergency Services training room at the Meadows Building, 140 county Highway 33W, in the Town of Middlefield, New York on May 1, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.

Dated: April 19, 2013 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalApr25

NOTICE is further given that the Board of Representatives will conduct a public hearing on the proposed Local law in the Emergency Services training room at the Meadows Building, 140 County Highway 33W, in the Town of Middlefield, New York on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 9:45 a.m. at which time all persons interested will be heard. The location of the public hearing is accessible to persons with mobility impairment.

Copies of the Local law are available for viewing at the Clerk of the Board’s Office, County Office Building, Cooperstown, New York during regular business hours.

Dated: April 19, 2013 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalApr25 Legal notice Notice of formation of Earth’s Harvest Farm, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/29/13. Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 2835 State Hwy. 51, Morris, NY 13808 . Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay23 Legal notice GPH HOLDINGS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/10/13. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 519 Robert Williams Rd., Unadilla, NY 13849. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay23 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION of 188 BISSELL LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/25/2013.

Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 3rd St., Manhasset, New York 11030. Purpose; Any lawful activity.

6LegalMay16 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION of 196 BISSELL LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/19/2013.

Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 3rd St., Manhasset, New York 11030. Purpose; Any lawful activity.

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Anyone maintaining permanent residency in the District who will be unable to vote on the day of the referendum can apply for an absentee ballot.

Those district residents who are permanently disabled and are registered voters in Otsego County will automatically receive an absentee ballot from the District.

Absentee ballots are available from the office of the Clerk of the Board of Education, Cooperstown Central School District, 39 Linden Avenue, Cooperstown, New York 13326 or by calling (607) 5475364 during the regular business hours of 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday.

All absentee ballot applications must be received by the Clerk of the Board no later than May 9, 2013 if the ballot is to be mailed or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally.

All ballots must be submitted to the Clerk no later than 5:00 PM on May 21, 2013.

Attention Otsego County Residents: On April 29, the Otsego County Board of Representatives will hold a public hearing on the fate of Otsego Manor, our County nursing home.

At this hearing, board members will vote on a scheme to create an additional, unelected level of government to control the fate of our county nursing facility. That means a shadowy group that has no accountability to you or anyone else could make important decisions that affect Otsego County families – such as selling the facility. Those decisions could leave taxpayers on the hook for big costs with no recourse to challenge the actions.

It’s bad government and It may not even be legal.

Voting will be held from 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM on Tuesday, May 21, 2012 at the Cooperstown Middle/High School Room 304. Voting will be on the 2013-2014 Budget, proposition and two (2) threeyear seats on the Board of Education.

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Across New York there are horror stories resulting from county governments walking away from responsibility, leaving seniors and their families with no place to turn — we saw it happen next door in Delaware County.

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Otsego County’s leaders should act to preserve Otsego Manor’s legacy of caring as a public facility.

Americasxtreme, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/21/13. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2898 County Route 8, Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay9 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is Home Farm at Leatherstocking Falls LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on February 6, 2013.

The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is P.O. Box 1171, Cooperstown, NY, 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act of activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalMay9

attend the april 29 public hearing at 6 pm, Otsego County Courthouse, 193 Main Street, Cooperstown

Call your representative at

607-547-4202. tell them – Keep otsego manor County-owned.

Otsego County lawmakers can do better for our vulnerable seniors and taxpayers.

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were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 18,2013.

Office Location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 210 Patterson Road, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Purpose : For agricultural production and sales.

6LegalMay2 Legal notice NOTICE, is hereby given that license for beer, liquor and/or wine, NYS Code 252, has been applied for by the Redneck Bar-BQue, LLC, to sell beer, liquor and/or wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 4938 State Highway #28, Cooperstown, Town of Hartwick, Otsego County, New York for onpremises consumption.

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Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 2013 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 WOLF RD, 1ST FLOOR, SUITE 1CM, ALBANY, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Transportation for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using Bid Express (www.bidx.com).

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

LIMITED LIABILITY LAW Name: ALMEDA CHANCE, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 6, 2013.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to P.O. Box 602, Morris, NY 13808.

Purpose: To engage in any and all business for which LLCs may be formed under the New York LLC Law. 6LegalMay2 Legal notice Notice of formation of Simple Integrity LLC. Articles of organization filed with SSNY on 2/14/13. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Simple Integrity LLC, 7613 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: All lawful purposes.

6Legal May2 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: Mihulka Farms, LLC. Articles of Organization

Electronic documents can be obtained from the NYSDOT Plan Sales Unit, 50 Wolf Road, 1st Floor, Suite 1PS, Albany, NY 12232, (518) 457-2124; the Region of record; or Bid Express.

No Amendments are included on the CD. Amendments are posted at www. dot.ny. gov/doingbusiness/opportunities/const-notices and Bid Express.

The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid.

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Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where sub-contracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to, D/W/MBEs. The Contractor must comply with the Regulation relative to non-discrimination in federally-assisted programs of the USDOT 49 CFR 21.

Please call (518) 457-3583 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

BIDDERS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT AWARD OF THESE CONTRACTS MAY BE CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL

BY THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Reg. 09, Jack Williams, Regional Director, 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 D262189, PIN 9806.61, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie & Sullivan Cos.,Job Order Contract - Highway Maintenance Bid Deposit $75,000.00, NO PLANS, Proposals on CDs $10, plus $8 Postage. A PREBID MEETING IS SCHEDULED. SEE PROPOSAL FOR DETAILS. BIDDERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO ATTEND. Goals: MBE/WBE 13 - 7% 2LegalApr26 Legal notice Notice of Formation of HealthTV LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/13. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Stuart Schultz, 2624 State Hwy 80, Burlington Flats, NY 13315, also the registered agent and the principal office address. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 626 Vanderlyn Lane, Slingerlands, NY 12159.

6LegalMay31 Legal notice Notice of Formation of UGE Farm, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/17/13. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 115 Eggleston Hill Rd., Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: any lawful activities.

6LegalMay30 Legal notice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 2012-0164 Date of Filing: April 11, 2013 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO CITIMORTGAGE, INC, Plaintiff, -againstGENE L STOCKING, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said GENE L STOCKING, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; CACV OF COLORADO LLC; CAPITAL ONE BANK; PALISADES COLLECTION LLC AS ASSIGNEE OF PROVIDIAN NATIONAL BANK; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of

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April 1, 2013, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, State of New York.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by GENE L STOCKING to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR HCI MORTGAGE, in the principal amount of $64,093.00, mortgage dated May 3, 2002 and recorded in Otsego County, State of New York, on May 22, 2002, in Book 1052 at page 61. Said mortgage was assigned to the plaintiff CITIMORTGAGE, INC., by assignment of mortgage dated September 23, 2010 and recorded on October 27, 2010 in Instrument No. 20105030.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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

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

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on

Images provided by Police Chief Michael Covert show where the ceiling fell onto easy chairs in the Village Library’s readig room.

Library Ceiling Falls On Patron

LIBRARY/From A1 just above the fireplace, broke loose. “All the dust set off the alarm,” said Covert. “It was pretty dusty.”

“We just heard this loud noise,” said Village Clerk Teri Barown, who was downstairs in the office when the accident happened.

“And this huge section of plaster had come down!”

Covert described the piece as an 8- by-12-foot oval section. Only the liSaid premises brarian, Tory Redjives, and a being known as 63-year-old male were in the and by 24 JOHNlibrary at the time, but the SON STREET, man was seated just below RICHFIELD where the plaster fell. “It SPRINGS, NY hit him on the right arm and 13439. shoulder,” said Covert. “We got him an ice pack and had Date: February 28, 2013 EMS transport him to the Batavia, New York hospital.” He was treated Victoria E. Munian, for bruises.

The library and Esq. Cooperstown Art AssoROSICKI, ciation were immediately ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. closed off. The next morning, however, Library Attorneys for Director David Kent said the Plaintiff reading room would remain Batavia Office 26 closed, but the rest of the Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 library was open. The CCA 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process.

Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process.

Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure.

There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state. ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

gallery was reopened, but the second-floor classroom above where the plaster fell was closed.

Early Monday afternoon, Village Trustees Cindy Falk, chair of the Buildings & Grounds Committee, and Lou Allstadt, a committee member, did a “thorough walk-through” with Cooperstown engineer Jon McManus. By that evening’s Village Board meeting, McManus, at no cost, had prepared specs so bids could be sought to repair the damage.

Allstadt, who is also a leader of the private Friends of 22 Main organization, said a “thick building construction report” had been done on Village Hall in 2004. “This was not in there,” he said.

According to Covert, the plaster is original to the building, which dates back to 1898, but there haven’t been any leaks or structural damage that would explain the break. “We don’t know what caused it,” he said.

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Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hartwick Seminary – from left, Dr. Marshall Pedersen, Glenn Linsenbardt and Steve Rinnell – unload the organ that will be used to restore the church’s instrument.

‘Organ Transplant’ Aims To Make Beautiful Music ORGAN/From A1 built for the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair – expects the melodies that waft through the historic church to be more beautiful than ever when he’s done.

The organ repairer was interviewed Wednesday, April 17, as the pieces of the 1964 M.P. Moller instrument was being unloaded after a trip from Immaculate Conception Convent, Hastings-onHudson, former home of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin.

The convent, closed in 2012, was recently sold, and the new owner declared “it would go into the dumpster” if no one could be found to take the 600-pipe organ, said Chase. Martha Frey, former Otsego 2000 executive director, is assessing the Sisters’ historic properties and, knowing of the Hartwick Seminary need, connected

the parties.

The church has a 1920 organ, also built by M.P. Moller, Hagerstown, Md., and, over the years, the leather pouches that control the flow of air into the pipes have become dried and rigid. The leather will be replaced with electrical devices from the Sisters’ organ.

Make that organs. A second apparatus has been acquired from a former Slovakian Catholic church in Johnstown; its “trumpet pipes” will emit brass-like sounds.

Members of the congregation, however, will see no difference. The current organ case, quarter-sawn oak, will be preserved, containing the new works, Chase said.

The organ rehabilitation is a $20,000 project. The church has raised $10,000, but is looking to raise the rest.