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All of the fallen from the Vietnam War will be rememNews-Argus photo bered when In Goldsboro, N.C. the “Wall that Heals” comes to Doubleday Field Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday-Monday, May 25-27. It is

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Cherry Valley’s Clarence Jay Baldwin and Franz Tines.

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But those eight northern Otsego soldiers, and the 25 other Otsego County men who died in Vietnam, will be on local minds in particular when the half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. arrives here.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame has announced it will “honor the longtime connection between

baseball and America’s military” by hosting the travelling memorial.

The visit coincides with the Hall of Fame Classic on Saturday the 25th as well as the traditional local Memorial Day remembrances that Monday.

Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson called The Wall “one of America’s most moving reminders Please See WALL, A7

MIDDLEFIELD WINS COURT CASE

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CCS’ Lucy Ford, running the 1600 relay in the Don Howard Invitational, won the high jump and the title, Field Event Athlete/ MORE PHOTOS, B1

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here is not a bottle left of the 200 cases of Iron Throne Blonde Ale in the gift store, and the café gulped through all 15 sixtels – 850 pints of beer total – over three busy weekends.

One last small shipment of the beer, a promotional tie-in to HBO’s hit show “Game of Thrones,” will arrive in mid-May at the gift store, said Allison Capozza, brewery spokesperson. It was the brewery’s largest and fastest-selling limited release, she said.

A second, yet-unnamed beer is planned for a fall release, Capozza said.

FINDING FAME: “Diamond Mines,” an interactive exhibit that links MLB stars with the scouts who found them, opened Saturday, May 4, at the Hall of Fame, with Hall of Famer Pat Gillick in attendance.

LOTS OF FOOD: Saturday, May 11, leave non-perishable foods for your letter carrier, who is participating in the National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, the nation’s largest one-day food drive.

Ban Secure, Frack Foes Consider Next Horizons

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tsego County’s Davids beat Goliath – and now they’re looking for the next Goliath.

“This has lot of implications, nationally, even globally,” said Adrian Kuzminski, Dillingham moderator of anti-fracking Sustainable Otsego, said the day after a state appeals court affirmed

the Town of Middlefield’s right to ban fracking. “This is the first time anyone has said no to the industry.”

“This is a big issue. It’s a big battle. And it’s not going to end here,” said Nicole Dillingham, president of Otsego 2000, which helped marshal the Kuzminski forces for Middlefield’s court battle.

First, she said, Otsego Please See FRACKING, A7

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Hartwick President Drugovich and her team gather at the Campbell Fitness Center, under construction.

eclaring “it’s personal,” Hartwick College is planning a two-day celebration Friday-Saturday, May 9-10, to launch a major fund drive – not for bricks and mortar, but to help individual students come to Oyaron Hill and thrive.

Details will be laid out at “A Blue Bash!” luncheon for Please See DRIVE, A7

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Furthur, which includes two original members of the Grateful Dead, performs before a sell-out crowd Friday, April 19, in Port Chester.

Get Ready, Cooperstown: Dead Heads Are Coming

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hat a long, strange – and very crowded – weekend it will be when Furthur, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s Grateful Dead successor band, comes to Cooperstown on Sunday, July 14.

“The population swells,” said Carol Bran-

don, town clerk of Lewiston, which hosted the band at the Artpark, perched above the Niagara River, in 2010. “We had 10,000 people there.”

“They bring a very loyal following,” said Steve Williams, general manager of the Constellation Brands/Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua, where the band performed in 2011 and 2012. “People follow them from city to Please See CONCERT, A7

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“My dad, Monty Domion, was a senior playing against George Mitchell in that game” said CCS athletic director Monica Wolfe.

The game was held at Doubleday field, and in the end, Cooperstown slammed Richfield with a 12-6 lead, landing the Redskins in a 3way tie for the Center State conference.

Mitchell is just one of six students and two teams to be named to the CCS Athletics Hall of Fame in its fifth induction ceremony at 6 p.m.

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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013

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EDITORIAL

Strong Court Decision On Fracking Ban Gives Breathing Space

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he Margaret Mead quote, “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,” has been circulating locally in recent months. (In particular, Teresa Winchester, who is running against county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, is an adherent.)

And the thought bears pondering today in Otsego County, following the Thursday, May 2, news that the Town of Middlefield’s ban on fracking within its boundaries has been upheld by the Appellate Division, Third District, state Supreme Court.

There are many heroes of this piece, foremost, certainly, Adrian Kuzminski, the hard-driving and brainy moderator of Sustainable Otsego, but also Middlefield Town Supervisor Dave Bliss; Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham; Brewery Ommegang President Simon Thorpe and his director of communications, Larry Bennett; Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president; John Kosmer, a Sustainable founder and lately, outspoken county rep; Ron Bishop, the SUNY Oneonta chemistry teacher; the iconoclastic Chip Northrup, himself an oil man (who nonetheless maintains his intellectual independence); the Otsego Land Trust’s sensible and business-savvy Harry Levine; attorney Michelle Kennedy, who helped come up with the town-ban strategy.

And many more – Middlefield Town Attorney

David Clinton; Henry Weil and Neil Newman on the town Planning Board; Winchester herself, who led the charge in the Butternut Valley; Otsego 2000 executive Ellen Pope; Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller, who swiftly put a fracking ban in place in the county’s largest community; Cooperstown Village Trustee Jim Dean, who chairs the Environmental Sustainability Committee … this list could go on and on, and still people would be missed.

“This has lot of implications, nationally, even globally,” an elated Kuzminski said the day after the news broke. “This is the first time anyone has said no to the industry.”

Our local Davids toppled Goliath.

• Work remains.

The Otsego County towns in the Otsego Lake watershed – Middlefield, of course, Otsego and Springfield – have banned fracking. The Town of Warren, just over the northern line in Herkimer County, has not, but Dillingham says there may be no need for worry: The Marcellus Shale formation is thin there, and the Utica probably unproductive. Still, a ban in Warren would plug the final hole in the dike.

Elsewhere in the county, eight towns, plus the City of Oneonta, have banned fracking. Three towns have adopted moratoria. Seven more are considering bans or moratoria. Only five – Decatur, Edmeston, Exeter, Richfield and Worcester – have done nothing, and should certainly revisit the

Over the same period, a couple of hundred of our neighbors have been killed in car crashes, untold thousands have died of cancer and heart attacks, a dozen have been injured or killed in hunting accidents, and a handful have been murdered by their loved ones.

(The county reps’ Public Safety Committee learned the other day that there are 15,000 registered firearms in the county. Wow.) Let’s not even get into 16-ounce sodas.

Let’s have a little perspective, people. Even if the 62,000 of us in Otsego County went off the grid tomorrow, that would be not Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal a drop in the ocean of interGene Marner leads anti-pipeline protesters Thurs- national energy use. And, day, May 2, on Market Street, Oneonta. unless we were determined to freeze to death, all those issue in light of the ruling. let’s declare victory and wood stoves (until the wood The beauty of the town come home. ran out) would probably ban is it provides local • control – home rule. The That was emphasized the contribute more to global industry says technology evening of the day the court warming than our local economy does now. will eventually make frackdecision was issued, when • ing perfectly safe. (There 50-some pickets protested That said, let’s all emwas an interesting piece in across Market Street from brace the contribution the the New York Times last Foothills Performing Arts anti-fracking movement December, “Race Is On To Center in Oneonta, where – our local anti-fracking Clean Up Hydraulic Fraca routine annual pipelinemovement – has made to the turing,” detailing promising safety training session was state and national dialogue. technologies.) Fine, if and being held.

If fracking occurs in New when that happens, a local As blameless local folks ban can be revoked by any – mostly emergency-service York State, it can be controlled – or barred, locally town that wishes to do so. types and people who work – and it’s likely – if citizens’ Until then, localities are in businesses associated protected. with pipelines – filed peace- vigilance is maintained – it • ably into the seminar across will only happen with sufficient regulation to ensure In the past, you would the way, the chant went up, its relative safety. have heard John Kosmer “Pipeline safety is a lie, While the anti-frackers and other adherents argue pipes blow up and people can be infuriating – what fracking is “the only isdie.” true believer isn’t? – they sue.” The court decision Well, maybe. In the 50 continue a proud local and the authority it gives to years the Tennessee pipeline tradition of protecting the localities, however, reduces has crossed northern Otsego Glimmerglass, an interfracking to one priority County, no one’s died or, for national symbol of enviissue of several. As the late that matter, even been inronmental purity.

Let’s George Aiken was credited jured. And pipelines crissembrace that, too.

(And with saying about Vietnam, cross the county generally.

let’s pause and reflect on the enduring contribution of Henry S.F. Cooper, the continuum of critical thinking he set in motion in the 1970s when someone had the bright idea of running kV lines along the ridge to the west of Otsego Lake.)

In that context, anti-antifracking is not a viable option. The latest Siena Poll showed 47 percent of people in the Southern Tier oppose fracking, with 15 percent undecided; it’s rare to find someone outspokenly favoring it locally. Fear of fracking – it’s legitimate – has won many Upstate hearts and minds.

• It was pointed out the other day that Bill Mirabito, the Oneonta Town Board member and scion of the regional energy company, was elevated to vice chairman of the Republican County Committee when it met in April, and is heir apparent to Sheila Ross. Interesting choice, but with county Democrats having a betterthan-ever chance of taking control of the county board this fall, is it the right one tactically?

Say Ed Lentz of Garrattsville does win the Milford-based seat, and the very able county Rep. Beth Rosenthal of Roseboom maintains hers, and even Kosmer hangs on, it will be particularly important to move beyond “the only issue” and face up to the issue that defines our local future: Otsego is a poor county in the midst of decades-long decline.

Fracking behind us, “the only issue” is: What are we going to do about THAT?

LETTERS

Otsego’s Julie Huntsman Began Banning Process To the Editor: The first petition to amend the town land-use ordinance to specifically ban shale gas industrialization was the Town of Otsego’s.

Otsego includes most of the Village of Cooperstown, of which we are summer residents.

I wrote a petition to ban fracking based on a similar petition that Harry Levine had written for the Town of Springfield (at the head of Lake Otsego). Julie Hunts-

man organized the signatories, specifically included prominent local Republicans.

She organized phone banks and they called virtually everyone in town - and got a supermajority of signatures. The town board subsequently adopted landuse ordinance language supplied by Judge Lang Keith.

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Editor’s Note: Nicole Dillingham, Otsego 2000 president, provided this narrative of events leading up to the Thursday, May 2, appellate court affirmation of the Town of Middlefield’s fracking ban.

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he court decisions issued Thursday, May 2, in the Dryden and Middlefield cases supporting home rule have prompted many to ask how this movement developed and grew.

The push for zoning and/or police power control over heavy industrialization – including, specifically, gas drilling – began to take hold in late 2010 and 2011. Many of us worked hard on the comments to the first dSGEIS filed at the end of 2009. Immediately thereafter we felt the need to expand education of the general public and began discussing a local coalition to oppose gas drilling.

In the early stages we were not uniformly for a ban; we were just opposed to “unsafe gas drilling,” and this was how the name of our regional coalition was chosen: the “Coalition Against Unsafe Gas Drilling” or CAUD. We began in late 2009 with a group of eight individuals (myself, Harry Levine, Lang Keith, Adrian Kuzminski, Chip Northrup, Ron Bishop, Lou Allstadt and Erik Miller) and grew from there.

One of the first items we focused on was how to help towns prepare resolutions supporting more study and a statewide moratorium. Resolutions did not carry the risk of retaliatory lawsuits, could be adopted more quickly than actual moratoria or bans, and served as a vehicle for public education and political momentum building.

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Confrontations punctuated the evening when pro- and antifracking adherents sought to lobby the county Board of Representatives at a July 2010 hearing at the county courthouse in Cooperstown.

We prepared sample drafts of proposed resolutions for towns to consider on or about Nov. 13, 2009.

Early adopters of resolutions favoring a moratorium and more study were Middlefield (11/16/09), Cherry Valley (11/23/09) and Springfield (12/14/09).

Shortly after CAUD was formed, the landscape changed when the DEC announced by press release on April 23, 2010, that the New York City and Syracuse watersheds would be carved out for special treatment. This confirmed the fear we had that certain regions would successfully lobby to secure protections unavailable to smaller communities. Self-help and

political organization became all the more crucial and demands for a statewide moratorium grew.

By May 30, 2010, our local coalition mustered nine signatories to support a moratorium on gas drilling then in the Assembly. These were: Action Otsego, Advocates for Cherry Valley, Butternut Valley Alliance, Crumhorn Lake Association, LAND, Middlefield Neighbors, Otsego 2000, Residents of Crumhorn Mountain and Sustainable Otsego. (The state Senate passed the statewide moratorium that summer and the Assembly on Nov. 30, 2010; Governor Paterson shortly vetoed it.)

It was during the same time frame, spring and summer of 2010, that Gastem was making strong inroads in Otsego County. By this time, Gastem owned rights to approximately 30,000 acres in our region. Gastem quickly developed a relationship with the Otsego County Board of Representatives and was invited to give a presentation about the benefits the county could expect if gas drilling were welcomed.

One of the first letters written by our Coalition was dated July 2, 2010, urging citizens to take notice that the county was working with Gastem in gearing up to commence drilling and encouraged interested citizens to attend the next county board meeting to express their concerns.

Later in the year, on Nov. 8, 2010, when Gastem began seismic testing and re-fracturing of the Ross 1 well, the CAUD coalition sent a letter of protest to every single member of every town board in the county demanding that the county adopt a moratorium until procedures for notice to affected Please See HISTORY, A6

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

175 YEARS AGO

The Cherry Valley Gazette announces that the Central Bank at Cherry Valley resumed the payment of specie upon all its liabilities on the day previous. (Ed. Note: The banking crisis of 1837-1838 resulted from the issuing of private currency, or specie, by banking interests that had insufficient resources to redeem the notes) The Banks of New England, that intend ever to resume, will soon follow the excellent example of the New York and Boston banks. This general resumption at the North, made effective by the vivifying influence upon the country of a return to the sober pursuits of industry, will cause a speedy return of confidence in every department of business. It may be relied upon with certainty, that business will resume its former activity just as rapidly as the productive interests of the country shall furnish for it a solid basis to act upon. As a nation, and as individuals, we have for the year past, been in debt more than we have had the means to pay. Now, you might as well attempt to tame the hyena as to repress the animation and activity which will at once pervade every department of business.

May 7, 1838

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Local – The Railroad Meeting, held in this village on Saturday evening last, was well attended, and considerable interest was manifested on the subject. The general impression and feeling is that Cooperstown will not long be without railroad communication; but the village cannot be expected to do the whole work. Other towns must aid, and if possible, companies already established must be made interested in the work. A road from here to the Central, or the Susquehanna, would be a valuable feeder.

May 8, 1863

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Local – Mr. Shaw – It is quite a number of years since that famous game of old-fashioned baseball was played in Cooperstown. Why not try it over again, between the two parties to the “railroad war”? It would afford amusement and diversity, and help restore general good feeling. If I may make use of names, I would suggest as leaders – Siver, Brooks and Bundy on one side, Watkins, Pierce and Potter on the other, and Harris and Wilber as umpires – refreshments to follow at the close of the game. (Ed. Note: The famous game of old-fashioned baseball referred to above took place in mid-August 1877 using the rules of Town Ball rather than the New York Knickerbocker rules) “The village of Cooperstown,” says Mr. Cooper in his

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the purpose of accommodating the Library and a Lecture Hall. The new building is to be situated west of the tower and will be two stories high. The ground floor will provide rooms for various hospital purposes. The second floor will be on a level with the present library which is now located in the tower. The structure will have the same general character as the other units of the hospital and the building material will be stone with wood cornices and trimmings.

The architect is Frank P. Whiting of Cooperstown.

May 11, 1938

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Eleven members of the Junior class at Cooperstown Central School were inducted into the National Honor Society at an assembly held Friday morning. New members included David S. Baldinger, Randall B. Brown, Patricia A. Dewey, Ellen M. Feury, Michael S. Jastremski, Susan V. Langerhans, Lawrence G. Nelson, Peter B. Rames, Gretchen L. Sahler, Santa G. Sapienza, and Robert T. Williams. Speaking on the four principles of the Society were Miss Diane J. Hanson on the topic Character, Miss Susan Swatling, Service, Thomas H. Troeger, Scholarship and May 8, 1813 Lynn E. Green, Leadership.

May 8, 1963 Chronicles, “dates properly from 1788 for while the idea of a town is earlier, it was not systematically planned until the summer of 1788. The name of Cooperstown appears in one Excerpt from a Column titled “The Water Rat” a series or two newspapers as early as 1786. A village map was published in the summer season by Phil Frisbee: “I have made by Wm. Ellison, dated September 26, 1788.”

May 11, 1888 seldom known anyone to regret spending an afternoon on a boat. More than once I have heard the acclamation, ‘This is the life of Riley!’ It is no news that this life is finite, Ah Choy has sold out his laundry business and expects to and that its time is precious, but sometimes we forget this leave soon for his native country of China. He says, howev- wisdom. We shouldn’t. If an opportunity beckons, it ought er, that he is only going to make a visit to his relatives there to be grasped. If you live near a river or a lake or an ocean, the waters are there to be enjoyed. Enjoy them.” and will be back to Cooperstown within a year or two.

May 11, 1988 Choy came here from San Francisco fifteen or sixteen years ago and is a very popular citizen of the place. He is honest, courteous and generous. He shed his pigtail several years ago and adopted the American style of dress. The purchasBrian Clancy, village of Cooperstown Public Works ers of the laundry are each named Harry Chu. There are Superintendent and nine-year veteran on the CCS Board of two of them. One of them is the little fellow who has been Education, has been selected as the 2003 recipient of the employed by Ah Choy for some time. The other came from League of Women Voters’ Public Service Award. Clancy New York on Monday. They are cousins, both members of was nominated by school board President Kelly Brannigan. the Chu family.

Brannigan noted his willingness to volunteer for extra duMay 14, 1913 ties. “Whenever a volunteer is needed, Brian is there. He quietly steps in and does whatever is needed, whenever it is needed.”

Work is commencing this week upon the erection of a May 9, 2003 new building at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital for

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Ban Secure, Frack Foes Consider Next Horizons

By JIM KEVLIN

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tsego County’s Davids beat Goliath – and now they’re looking for the next Goliath.

“This has lot of implications, nationally, even globally,” said Adrian Kuzminski, moderator of anti-fracking Sustainable Otsego, said the day after a state appeals court affirmed the Town of Middlefield’s right to ban fracking. “This is the first time anyone has said no to the industry.”

“This is a big issue. It’s a

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big battle. And it’s not going to end here,” said Nicole Dillingham, president of Otsego 2000, which helped marshal the forces for Middlefield’s court battle.

First, she said, Otsego 2000 can help provide legal and land-use planning advice to other towns that may

now seek to enact bans.

“We would like to see a ban on this process in New York State until a healthimpact study is completed,” she continued. “New York State is required to do that and they have not done it.”

For his part, Kuzminski said Sustainable Otsego may now turn its attention to implementing a plan that came out of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment in March to achieve sustainability in New York State by 2030, primarily through 15,000 windmills and solar-energy

technology.

“We’ve got to get off of these fossil fuels,” he said.

“It’s do or die. We’ve got to do this or we’re going to choke to death.”

The Middlefield Town Board, led by Supervisor David Bliss, banned fracking in 2010, but the ban was challenged by Jennifer Huntington, whose Cooperstown Holstein Corp. on Route 33 had leased 400 acres for natural-gas development.

In 2012, state Supreme Court Judge Donald Cerio, sitting in Wampsville, ruled in favor of the town, but his

decision was challenged, and moved to the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, Third Department, in Albany.

The court heard arguments in March, in the Middlefield case but also a similar one regarding the Town of Dryden.

Cooperstown Holstein’s lawyers argued that the state Oil, Gas & Solution Mining Law preempted local zoning, but the court’s decision, handed down Thursday, May 2, dismissed that argument.

Dillingham, herself a law-

yer, said the appellant’s next step would be to appeal the case to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, or to the U.S. Supreme Court, but she expressed doubts that any further appeal would have success.

Appeals courts choose to hear only 10 percent of the cases appealed, she said.

Further, she added, “it’s clear. There are no disputed cases that go contrary to this case. The court usually gets involved – as does the Supreme Court of the United States – when there is a dispute.”

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HISTORY/From A4 towns and further study of risks could be done.

During the same time, with the strong encouragement of county board members Steve Fournier and Jamie Powers, the county Planning Board developed a gas-drilling link on the county web-site giving encouragement to the industry.

Part of this website contained legal articles purporting to tell local town boards that zoning restrictions on gas drilling were fruitless because they were preempted by ECL 2-303, and would lead to litigation which the towns could not afford and would lose. It was during this period that we started focusing on the need for legal support for towns and counties willing to consider zoning and bans to protect their existing environmental and cultural resources.

We considered preparation of draft laws that could be modified and adapted by local towns.

The search for lawyers to

do this work commenced.

We sought the help of Zarin & Steinmetz of White Plains, and Bob Freilich of Colorado. These lawyers were highly experienced, but we were concerned they would be viewed as outsiders and that towns would not be willing to accept their help. Also it became clear that the preliminary issue of preemption needed to be addressed.

There was an early article written in 2010 by Todd Mathes of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna (the firm which ultimately represented Middlefield on appeal to the Third Appellate District) which suggested that there was authority for the proposition that home rule was not preempted. We wanted to get additional support for this view.

Who would perform this analysis and be credible with the towns we were trying to persuade became a key an issue. Several lawyers had conflicts because they were representing the industry or would work only

for municipal governments.

I even asked the Association of Business Trial Lawyers to assist us on a pro bono basis to no avail, again due to conflicts.

Finally I met with Terry Bliss, then county planning director, to ask him who would be persuasive to the county with the idea that the work done might be of benefit to the county.

Mr. Powers vetoed this idea. However, Terry Bliss steered me to Robert Heller at Bond, Schoeneck & King who indicated a willingness to take the issue on.

To get things moving in the fall of 2010, Michelle Kennedy, recently relocated back to New York and now living in Cooperstown, was retained by Otsego 2000 to draft an initial legal memorandum summarizing the law on preemption for a very small stipend.

Her work was excellent and was eventually converted to a published law review article, but at the time she was a relatively new, solo practitioner and we felt we

still needed a bigger name to back her up.

We (Otsego 2000) then decided that we would retain Bond, Schoeneck & King to write a memo on preemption that would support and build on Michelle’s work. When the firm’s executive committee balked at working directly for Otsego 2000, we suggested that Middlefield retain them while Otsego 2000 agreed to finance the expense.

The Town of Middlefield agreed to retain Bond, Schoeneck on March 10, 2011. Meanwhile, Rapport Myers and John Lyons of Grant & Lyons, both representing Middlefield, and independently, attorneys David and Slotje, Ithaca, were hard at work on the same theories. Most of the research was generously shared and the belief, now supported by multiple legal opinions, that towns could adopt enforceable bans as part of their police and/or zoning powers gained traction.

John Lyon’s (Lyons &

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Grant) memorandum supporting this theory was dated Jan. 6. 2011. Michelle Kennedy’s law review article was published on Jan. 26, 2011, the Bond, Schoeneck memo was shared with the community in May 2011, and two Slotje memoranda, dated Jan. 27, 2011, and April 19, 2011, were widely distributed and read.

With reports circulating of the legal opinions that provided strong legal support for home rule, citizens began pressing their local town boards to take action.

Before the Karen Edelstein maps were a reality, I started manually keeping a list of towns that adopted resolutions, moratoria or bans. The earliest bans, I believe, were Sullivan County (adopting a ban on drilling on county lands on July 25, 2010) and the City of Pittsburgh (adopting a ban on Nov. 24, 2010). In terms of bans adopted in Otsego County

my records reflect the following: Otsego (5/13/2011); Middlefield (6/14/2011); Springfield (6/ 2011); Cherry Valley, (7/16/2011).

The precise date a town adopted a ban was not relevant, as each had unique circumstances and stages to go through to comply with comprehensive planning and zoning adoption. What was significant was the willingness of town boards in our immediate region (and throughout the state) to lead on these issues and to proceed in spite of threats, and ultimately lawsuits.

The recent Third Appellate Division decisions in the Dryden and Middlefield cases clearly vindicate these early efforts. We hope these decisions will encourage other towns to look closely at their own community assets and develop planning and if appropriate zoning to protect their existing cultural, environment and economic resources.

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Towns Wanting Bans Urged To Act Now FRACKING/From A4 2000 can help provide legal and land-use planning advice to other towns that may now seek to enact bans.

“We would like to see a ban on this process in New York State until a healthimpact study is completed,” she continued. “New York State is required to do that and they have not done it.”

For his part, Kuzminski said Sustainable Otsego may now turn its attention to implementing a plan that came out of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment in March to achieve sustainability in New York State by 2030, primarily through 15,000 windmills and solar-energy technology.

“We’ve got to get off of these fossil fuels,” he said.

“It’s do or die. We’ve got to do this or we’re going to choke to death.”

The Middlefield Town Board, led by Supervisor David Bliss, banned fracking in 2010, but the ban was challenged by Jennifer Huntington, whose Cooperstown Holstein Corp. on Route 33 had leased 400 acres for natural-gas development.

In 2012, state Supreme Court Judge Donald Cerio, sitting in Wampsville, ruled in favor of the town, but his decision was challenged, and moved to the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, Third Department, in Albany.

The court heard arguments in March, in the Middlefield case but also a similar one regarding the Town of Dryden.

Cooperstown Holstein’s lawyers argued that the state Oil, Gas & Solution Mining Law preempted local zoning, but the court’s decision, handed down Thursday,

May 2, dismissed that argument.

Dillingham, herself a lawyer, said the appellant’s next step would be to appeal the case to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, or to the U.S. Supreme Court, but she expressed doubts that any further appeal would have success.

Appeals courts choose to hear only 10 percent of the cases appealed, she said.

Further, she added, “it’s clear. There are no disputed cases that go contrary to this case. The court usually gets involved – as does the Supreme Court of the United States – when there is a dispute.”

As of today, eight other Otsego County towns, plus the City of Oneonta, in addition to Middlefield, have banned fracking, according to the fractracker.org website.

Hartwick Seeks To Assure Affordability DRIVE/From A1 faculty and staff in the Arnold Rain Garden Friday, but college President Margaret Drugovich said the money raised will be used for student-focused purposes: • One, endowment growth, to increase scholarships to worthy but needy students. Alumni, “friends of Hartwick,” parents (and former parents) of students, and foundations will be solicited.

• Two, to ensure students aren’t denied January Terms abroad – essential to the Hartwick experience, Drugovich believes – because they can’t afford the $3,500 extra to pay for air tickets, room and board.

• Three, “modest improvements” to the physical plant, including upgrading locker rooms at the Binder Facility, making the pool handicapped accessible, renovating the Anderson Center of the Arts, and upgrades esti-

mated to save 30-40 percent of energy costs.

The goals, she said, are “in direct alignment with our mission statement” developed in a strategic-planning process she set in motion on arriving from Ohio Wesleyan in 2005.

It reads, “Hartwick College, an engaged community, integrates a liberal arts education with experiential learning to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, personal courage and an enduring passion for learning.”

Asked if cost is barring worthy students from Hartwick, Drugovich answered, “Absolutely.”

Of 3,500 students admitted to the incoming class, 500 “came back and appealed their financial aid. They want this experience and they need us to partner with them.”

“The reality is: To create a personalized education like we have here at Hartwick

takes resources,” she said.

On the Jan Term, the president pointed out that Hartwick College is 21st in the nation in the number of students who study abroad.

And the experience of her daughter, Elizabeth – she graduated last May – in Madagascar and Greece affirmed Drugovich’s belief in the value of travel to a liberal education.

The improvements to plant, she said, dovetail with the $3 million Campbell Fitness Center now under construction – a large gift from Intuit President/CEO Bill Campbell made it possible.

Brian Wright, retired Wilber Bank chairman – he has received the college’s Citizen of the Year Award, a Presidential Medal and an honorary doctorate – has agreed to be honorary chair.

“This truly takes Hartwick to the next level of performance,” said the retired executive.

Get Ready For Dead Head Invasion CONCERT/From A1 city all summer. They’ll start arriving the day before the show and fill up your campgrounds.”

Within three days of the announcement on April 15, online tickets for Furthur were sold out, being mailed as far as Florida, according to Josh McMahon, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce membership services coordinator. “I hear that’s pretty routine for them.”

Three weeks later, there are only 2,700 tickets left, available for purchase at the chamber office at Chestnut Street and Fowler Way. (Some of the $55 tickets are also available online – for $109.)

“The vendors in Buffalo set up a miniature tent city hours before the concert,” said Terry Duffy, managing editor of the Lewiston-Porter Sentinel, who saw Furthur at Art Park and at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo in 2011. (He might even make the trek to Cooperstown in July.)

“I think it’s how some of them make their living,” said Williams. “They’ll set up

tents and sell glow sticks, T-shirts, day-old doughnuts. It’s very unique to that scene.”

Yes, Duffy acknowledged, there were some “incidents” in the Artpark parking lot – people selling drugs. “It’s not out of the ordinary for The Dead,” he said. “That’s the kind of element they bring in.”

But Williams says that it’s no cause for concern. “They’re a very peaceful, polite, laid-back group,” he said. “They’re the only concert crowd I’ve ever seen who thanked the local police officers for their service.”

And all those Deadheads have a huge economic impact as they come through town. “The bars and restaurants do extremely well when these concerts come in,” said Duffy. “Traffic remains in the community from about 4 p.m. until midnight.”

Ultimately, Duffy says, the Furthur experience is a positive one for the community.

“We’d welcome them back if they wanted to come,” he said. “They really enveloped the whole community.”

Three towns have adopted moratoriums. Seven more are considering bans or moratorium. Only five – Decatur, Edmeston, Exeter, Richfield and Worcester – have done nothing.

The court decision lifts the threat of expensive legal challenges from towns that enact bans.

But, “if New York State does allow fracking, which is still a possibility, fracking could still come to New York State. If it came, and somebody gets a permit in a town that doesn’t have the zoning to cope with it, it may be too late.

“Now is the time to act on it,” he said.

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

33 Otsego County Names Listed On Replica Of Wall

WALL/From A1 of the sacrifice of war.”

At the noon time Cooperstown Game Day Parade that precedes the 2 p.m. game, the 10th Mountain Division color guard and band will be featured, as well as Hall of Famers Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, Rickey Henderson, Phil Niekro and two dozen former Big Leaguers.

The original monument – a 500-foot-long swath of black granite that slices into The Mall and bears the name of 58,000 men and women who died in Vietnam – is the most visited site in Washington, D.C., attracting

4 million people a year.

Since the 250-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. began touring in 1996, it has made 350 stops in the U.S., plus visited Canada and Ireland. In all, 2 million people have seen it.

Each of its two wings is 123-feet long and meet at 121-degree angle, peaking at 5-foot tall. The names are etched on panels of black aluminum.

The replica is sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Trust, Federal Express, Geico, AON Corp. and New Century Transportation.

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— Robbin Scobie, Vice President of Nursing/Chief Nursing Officer “I was recently hospitalized at Fox. I know that if I have to be admitted again, I can look forward to a brand new, large private room with all the comforts of home!”

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Secluded 40+/- acres surrounded by state land. Sun porch, deck and waterfall. Cooperstown Schools. $699,000 Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683

MLS#88713 - Custom-built home w/4 BR, 3½ baths, breezeway, cherry kitchen island, maple and cherry floors, master suite w/Jacuzzi tub/shower, formal DR, den w/built-ins. Laundry, wrap-around front porch, sun room, 3-car attached garage w/bonus room, storage garage, 3.58+/- acres. Cooperstown Schools. $479,000 Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683

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MLS#84128 – Immaculate, well maintained and freshly painted home awaits your offer. Walking distance to downtown shopping. 4 BR, DR, LR, kitchen, 2 full baths, den and sunporch. 2-family home could easily be renovated back. $159,500 Call Linda Wheeler @ 607-434-2125

MLS#87021 – Fully furnished 3 BR, 3 bath home in Cooperstown Village. Off-street parking and 1-car garage. $245,000 Call or text Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

MLS#86175 - 4 BR, 2 bath home w/3-bay garage and workshop. Lots of new: kitchen, flooring, sheetrocked walls and ceilings, electric, plumbing, septic, windows, roof, freshly painted exterior, furnace, wtr htr, full bath, laundry/ ½ bath, woodburning fireplace in LR. $149,900 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068

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MLS#88326 - Cooperstown Village (Irish Hill) Well maintained and upgraded home. Open concept LR/DR w/wood-burning fireplace, newer cherry floors and pellet stove. Being sold below assessed value. Cooperstown Schools. $265,000 Call or text Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

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