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COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County has announced it will reopen its grant program for community events through Friday, May 28.

Sponsors must explain their event and tell the Board of Representative’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee how the event will draw visitors to the area. If it is a new event, the application must describe the market segment the sponsors are trying to attract.

Go to www.otsegocounty. com and click on Community Events Grants Application 2021 for more information.

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Oneonta’s Common Council will likely meet its self-imposed June 1, deadline to review, and change or adopt, the city’s Community Advisory Board’s recommendations for the Oneonta Police Department, Mayor Gary Herzig said Tuesday, May 17.

Among the topics being discussed are the status of no-knock raids in Oneonta, making statistics of crime

and arrests available to the public and a review board to examine the high number of arrests of people of color.

“The city’s process has been very good. We’ve had input from a large number of community members,” Herzig said. “The council is researching our ability to implement those plans … I’m happy with the fact that we took the governor’s order to heart and out of it came a very robust report.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed executive order 203 in June, calling on local communities to set up boards for which to examine and update as needed policing practices and policies.

The proposal by the CAB is that no-knock raids should no longer occur for cases of non-violent crimes.

District Attorney John Muehl called limiting no-knock raids “naive,” saying that drug dealers are often armed.

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Interim Oneonta Police Chief Christopher Witzenberg echoed these sentiments in a conversation with Iron String Press.

“No-knock raids are not something we take lightly but there is a place for them,” Witzenberg said.

“Often times non-violent crimes are committed by violent people.”

He also said that the document put out by CAB confused pretext stops, See POLICE, Page A2

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Caden Keto, 3, of Westford, plays soccer Friday, May 14, at the Oneonta Family YMCA on Ford Avenue, during an outdoor session with, ‘Coach Jason.’

By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART ONEONTA — A blue-and-white sign stands in the grass at the entrance to Southside Mall in the town of Oneonta: “JOBS! Cooperstown All-Star Village APPLY NOW.” In either direction, along the mile-long commercial strip from Walmart to Home Depot, at least eight stores advertise available positions.

Outside Home Depot, in the afternoon Monday, May 17, two employees in masks help an older customer with curbside pickup, loading 2x4 boards over the passenger seat into his Buick sedan. The store has more than 70 employees and is now hiring people for eight positions, mostly part-time.

“We’re short six people, now that the college students just left,” said the older employee, who declined to be identified.

Next door at Hannaford, the grocery store has more than 120 employees and is hiring people part-time to work 30 to 36 hours per week. Starting pay is about $12.70 per hour, but there are opportunities for raises after three- and six-month reviews.

The Kwik Fill gas station is looking for employees See JOBS, Page A2

After year of COVID, SUNY Oneonta bids grads farewell

By KEVIN LIMITI ONEONTA — After a tumultuous year, SUNY Oneonta celebrated the graduation of the class of 2021, Saturday, May 15.

A virtual graduation highlighted student life, achievements and an acknowledgement of the particular difficulties faced during the past year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Today we acknowledge a major life achievement for not only the graduates but also their families and those they care about,” Acting President Dennis Craig said during the ceremony.

“If we learned anything over the past year it’s that our successes are only possible from the support of those we love and those that we have been inspired by.”

The ceremony opened with video showcasing student life and videos of congratulations from students and staff. The Leatherstocking District

Pipe Band played bagpipes and drums and 2021 graduate Zoe Johnson sung the national anthem.

Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also made remarks via video, congratulating the graduates.

“You are special and I wouldn’t want to miss congratulating you, COVID or not,” Schumer said.

He had a particular message for the parents.

“As a parent myself, I know how hard it is to raise kids and how you invested in them,” Schumer said. “But it all paid off as you watch your son and daughter receive their diploma and become an adult before your very eyes.”

Schumer said the past year had been challenging, but the country was reaching the “end of the tunnel” with COVID. “Everyone says your senior year in college will be the most memorable and for many of you it probably has been, but certainly not in the way you expected,” Schumer said. “These have been See SUNY, Page A2

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New SUNY Oneonta graduate Anthony G. Barone poses with his parents, Nata and Anthony Barone after graduation Saturday, May 15.

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Jobs are available but workers have options

JOBS/Continued from A1 to work first and second shifts, paying $13 an hour for 30 hours per week.

In downtown Oneonta, along four blocks of Main St., seven businesses have signs posted about job openings, including four restaurants, a tattoo parlor, one non-profit and one newly-opened store, Cloud Kitchen. The Latte Lounge was doing brisk business Monday, and is hiring staff to make drinks, work the grill and register, paying $12.50 an hour for eighthour shifts.

Employment rates plumMichael Forster Rothbart/The Freeman’s Journal meted in Otsego County Help wanted signs can be seen throughout Otsego in April 2020, when the County, including this one at Kwik Fill in Oneonta.

Kevin Limiti/The Freeman’s Journal county lost 3,500 jobs in Main Street was closed for part of the day Saturday as the city and SUNY one month, data from the by the C.D.C.” Although don’t want to work, and celebrated the end of a tumultuous school year.

New York Department of he anticipates tourism in why would we give them Labor shows. Although Cooperstown to be lower incentives to not work?’” local employment has than normal this summer, Martini suggested the climbed slowly but incon“as more people are vacciquestion should be flipped: class president, spoke toward professor, every extracurSUNY/Continued from A1 sistently since then, there nated, more people will be “even if they do work, will the end of the ceremony. ricular activity, every sports unusual and difficult times. were still 1,100 fewer jobs comfortable moving out and it actually pay their bills “Between the madness, the game, every performance The challenge of these in the county in March 2021 about traveling,” he said. and support their lives? And and every smile shared on moments are truly unique but wonderful, the stressful and than in March 2020.

Nevertheless, Bliss said the answer, by and large, the unimaginable we have campus has become that so has been our collective Overall, Otsego County he remains concerned about is no,” because minimum defied the odds and reached much more meaningful.” response…Nothing, nothing has fared better than some workers’ reluctance wage has not kept pace with the finish line,” Dilluvio Main Street was closed off can take away from the fact many places in the state, to return to work, and the the cost of living. said. “Each memory I cannot on Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. that you’ve earned a degree according to Brion Acton, prospect that higher wages State Department of make again has become that as part of a celebration for from such a fine institution an economist for the could lead to inflation.

Labor statistics show that much more special: every the class of 2021 and to allow of higher learning.”

Mohawk Valley office of “It seems that with the locally, the industries with class, every friendship, every outdoor dining and shopping.

Danielle Dilluvio, senior the state Department of enhanced unemployment the highest percentage job Labor. Before the pandemic, benefits, lengthened and losses were in the “leisure ·· metropolitan areas had enhanced, people don’t and hospitality” sector, lower unemployment than have an incentive to work which includes accommorural counties, but the situa- if they can have their basic dation, food services, arts, tion has reversed. needs taken care of with entertainment and recreIn the first year of the unemployment,” he said. ation. In Otsego County, pandemic, through March, “It’s a blessing and a “leisure and hospitality unemployment rose 7% curse,” Bliss said. “It’s nice declined 600 (jobs), or POLICE/Continued from A1 in New York City, nearly to have that for those who -23.1% since March 2020,” where someone is pulled over 2% in many urban areas really need it. But there’s said Acton. “Using private for a minor traffic violation Carpet, LVT, sheet vinyl & including Utica (1.9%) and a lot of people, you hear sector employment as a but is then investigated for Albany (1.6%), but less the stories, and I’ve heard benchmark, we see that MUCH MORE! a more serious crime, with than 1% in rural areas such firsthand, people say, ‘Well, the education and health racially motivated stops. must present coupon *exp. 5/31/21 as Otsego County.

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Representative Adrienne the county are in education a concern of the community Outsego County Board Martini, D-Oneonta, said and health services. Before that (no-knock raids) are not of Representatives Chair Bliss is wrong about the COVID, one third of the abused.”

David Bliss, R-Cherry reasons low-wage service Otsego County civilian During discussion about To place effective employment Valley, Middlefield, jobs are going unfilled. workforce was employed appropriate use of force ads, call 607-547-6103 Roseboom, said he is “We keep blaming people in these fields, about 9,760 at the advisory board cautiously optimistic about at the lowest rung of the employees total, according meeting Tuesday, May 18, Otsego County’s economy, ladder because they’re an to a report published by Councilmember Mark Drnek, citing the “substantial drop” easy target,” Martini said.

Otsego Now. Initially, 1,500 D-Eighth Ward, read a statein unemployment, increased “It’s pretty popular to say, of those jobs were elimiment from Muehl. vaccinations and the “lifting ‘well these people are just nated, but half those jobs “What do the members of COVID restrictions inherently lazy, and they have since returned. of common council or the committee know about police The Farmers’ Museum and Fenimore Art Museum use of force that makes them seek the following positions: qualified to review policies, make recommendations or examine the use of force Security/Safety Guard incidents,” the statement read.

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Junior firefighters provide big lift to Fly Creek department

By KEVIN LIMITI FLY CREEK — The Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Department is creating and nurturing future firefighters with its junior firefighter program and four young men have already reaped the benefits while serving their community.

Three junior firefighters including Troy Hight, 18, Wayton Cassell, 14, and Connor Voulo, 17, have all been training as Fly Creek firefighters.

“I’m sort of an outcast in school,” Hight said. He said he was referring to his feelings about high school course work, but he found a home with the fire department. His father encouraged him to join, calling it an “amazing experience.”

“It’s a really big family,” Hight said.

Cassell said he was introduced to the fire department Kevin Limiti/The Freeman’s Journal by a friend and is considFly Creek Fire Department members, from left, Lt. Eric Deysenroth, Connor Voulo, Troy Hight and ering as a career in fireWayton Cassell pose Monday, May 17, in Fly Creek. fighting either in California or New York City. communities.” is alway in need of new One person who has bene- get involved in the commuVoulo said he has been However, he downplayed people, he said. fitted from the junior firenity,” Deysenroth said. around the fire department his receiving the award saying “A lot of young kids, stay fighter program especially The junior firefighters entire life. He was recently he “put in a lot time, but it’s for awhile and then go off to has been Eric Deysenroth, a serve in a support role honored with the FASNY not really about that.” college,” Chief Voulo said.

2019 Cooperstown Central during fire calls, assisting Gerald J. Buckenmeyer According to Chief Chris The junior fire department School graduate who has scholarship award for, Voulo, Connor’s father, a lot is helping to bring new blood recently made lieutenant according to the website, of firefighters get involved into the department and help and is going to school at “exemplary members of with the department because fill in the gaps that older Onondaga Community the youth fire service who of family. firefighters are leaving College for fire science. also contribute to their Still, the department behind, he said.

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the senior firefighters in their duties. They attend all trainings with the entire fire crew.

Their duties include changing air bottles, supplying equipment to firefighters, and handling exterior hoses.

They attend training drills and go on ambulance runs.

The program is open for people ages 14 to 18.

The junior firefighters acknowledged that some of things they see in the line of duty could be difficult.

“You’re gonna see some stuff in this business that you don’t want to, but it is what it is,” Deysenroth said.

There is definitely a lack of people volunteering for the fire department. Chief Voulo said that programs like the junior firefighters are vital for that very reason. He said he wished more fire departments had programs like this.

“It has to start somewhere,” Chief Voulo said.

“They are the future because a lot of us, we are getting older.”

The junior firefighter program is a “real worthy part of the fire department,” he said.

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The return of the Old Badger: ‘The First of the Mohican’ Robert Badger Seaver: The Badger Bob Seaver was born in Boston in 1924 and spent his childhood summers on Otsego Lake in his grandfather’s camp, Wranglehurst, now called Highview, near Hickory Grove and, for reasons no one knows, across the lake at Camp Chenango.

His mother was from Springfield Center and his father was a pilot from WWI who was recuperating in Cooperstown. Bob attended Phillips Andover Academy and Amherst College, graduating in 1946 as an English major, then joined the crew of the U.S.S. Niblack as first Lieutenant in the Pacific at the end of WWII. He taught school in Philadelphia and San Francisco and for several summers at the Mohican Reading

School in Cooperstown, before he moved permanently to Cooperstown in 1960 to become supervisor of the experimental “talking typewriter” reading program for dyslexic and autistic children at Bassett Hall.

On the side, he taught at the Cooperstown Elementary School and ran an antiques shop near Hickory Grove.

He was president of the PTA in the early 1960s, a founding member of the Brookwood Foundation, a member of the Otsego Golf Club, the Mohican Club, the Friends of the Cooperstown Library and an original member of the Town of Otsego Planning Board. All these organizations, their members, friends and the people Bob ran into during See BADGER, Page A5

Foundation stresses needs of community

The Community Foundation of Otsego County is up and running and wants you to join us as one of our Founders.

We are OF the community, FOR HARRY the community, LEVINE and want to do everything in our power to improve the quality of life for all residents of Otsego County.

We also want to live by our values which include taking direction from the community we serve.

The concept of forming a philanthropic organization to serve one’s community is not new. There are over 750 community foundations across the nation. Successful foundations exist in New York counties to our north, east, south and west. The essential difference between a community foundation and a more common private foundation is that we are a public enterprise. Our funding is from our public and our responsibility is to our public – our friends and neighbors.

Many of the successful community foundations in our region of New York have taken decades to grow to the level where they are able to make a difference. Small but sure steps. One dollar at a time, invested so that spending was limited to earnings at the rate of 4 or 5% per year. The early emphasis was on asset building.

This is an important strategy and one that we are working on too. But we want to make a difference NOW. How can we do that?

Our approach is to raise seed capital that we are willing to invest in our community instead of in the stock market. Thus, our Founders Campaign is to secure $2 million. These funds will be used over the next five years, while our other strategy (accumulating investment assets) is pursued to secure our future sustainability.

Ours is a modern model. It borrows from the world of See FOUNDATION, Page A5

First published in The Freeman’s Journal on March 24, 1976: “If at first you don’t succeed,” must have been mouthed by many Cooperstonians as they left the lakefront without having witnessed the scheduled launching of the Mohican.

They did try again, and on the 4th of July, 1905, the good ship Mohican began its long career on Otsego Lake. The following reports from the Freeman’s Journal of that year tell the story: June 29th 1905: “Miss Marie Anheuser Busch to Christen Boat Thursday.”

“Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock the new boat Mohican of the Otsego Lake Transit Co. will take her initial dip in the waters of Otsego Lake. As soon as the boat is free to move, Miss

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“The Mohican is Launched – at about 1:40 on Saturday afternoon in response to the persuasion of a couple of jack screws placed against the bearings on either side, the big boat slid gracefully down the ways and kissed the waters of Otsego Lake. There was

The myth of the good minority hurts everyone

Editor’s Note: In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we asked some of the speakers at the recent rally against violence against people of Asian descent to submit their speeches as columns. This week’s submission came from SUNY Oneonta Professor of Anthropology Sallie Han. Thank you to the organizers for inviting me to take part in this gathering and to all of you here today for being present and taking a stand for truths and against lies and myths. Our commitment to truths brings us together, Asian and Black and White. Lies and myths manipulate and divide us.

Let me speak a little truth, or at least my truth, about what it means to be the American born daughter of Korean immigrants in this moment. Because I am also a professor of anthropology, I sincerely believe in the importance and necessity of learning and particularly of the study of humanity as a foundation for the understanding and unity that we need. Because I am standing here at this gathering today, I know that I am not alone in desperately wanting to find the ways toward righting the wrongs of the lies and myths.

I want to speak a little truth against one specific myth, which segregates people like me from the rest of American society by holding up Asians as a “model minority.” Some of us might already know this term—the model minority myth—and be familiar with the concept. Others of us might not

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Marie Anheuser-Busch, daughter of August A. Busch and granddaughter of Adolphus Busch, will christen it with champagne and the words, “I christen thee Mohican.” The public is cordially invited to witness the ceremony, which will take place at the Corporation dock.”

July 6, 1905: “Large Steamer in Otsego

a high splash and the craft rode out jauntily about 50 feet, bringing taught the line, with which it was tied to its mooring at the Cooperstown Wharf. As it moved toward the water, Miss Osborne, daughter of the builder, broke a bottle of wine on the bow and spoke the words, “I christen thee Mohican.

“Welcomed by every patron of Otsego Lake, the big excursion steamer seemed reluctant to take her first dip. The launching had been advertised to occur at 4 o’clock on Thursday, and at that hour the Lakeside was thronged. It was the first real nice day in several and the village folks and summer boarders were out in glad array. In the bow of the boat, Marie AnheuserBusch, a winsome lass of See LAST, Page A5

have realized that this is the name given to set of assumptions that are likely familiar to a lot of Americans.

All of us, I hope, can learn to question and criticize it.

SALLIE The model minority HAN myth goes like this: Of all the ethnic minority groups represented in the U.S. today, it is claimed that Asians are the highest achieving and most successful.

We’re good at math! We become doctors or work in tech! We’re living the American dream! Our tiger moms put pressure on us, but we’re otherwise uniformly uncomplaining and non-problematic.

Some claim it’s due to traits in our genes. Others claim it’s due to “Asian” culture.

On surface, this myth seems like it might be a “positive” one, but I think all of us understand that true freedom comes from justice and equity and our recognition of unhappy truths and our rejection of even the happiest lies.

Like every other stereotype, the model minority myth conceals a diversity of experiences. It distracts us from the histories and circumstances that make the American dream realistic or not for every one of us. I can assure you that Asians do not inherit a math gene and particularly as a cultural anthropolo-

gist, I can assure you that the values of learning and teaching are foundational to every human culture. The chances that I would have attended and graduated from college as well as earned a doctoral degree likely have less to do with my being Asian and more to do with the fact that both of my own parents, too, graduated from college and earned medical degrees.

Over time, I have come to understand that the model minority myth is not so much about lifting up Asian Americans, but more about putting down other Americans. The model minority myth barely conceals a condemnation.

If Asians are the “model,” then what about the other “minorities”?

The model minority myth is one that in fact my parents and their closest Korean immigrant friends and their families and even myself at one time embraced and aspired to. The fact is it felt good not to be seen as “bad.” It was about as close to acceptance and being valued as it seemed possible for us to imagine.

The minority myth was alluring, I think, because the alternative was to be invisible. Indeed, invisibility is a strategy for being where we are made to feel we do not belong. Try not to draw attention. Get along and get by quietly. Do not speak up to avoid being spoken about or worse, acted against.

For me, the myth of the model minority is that it makes us free to be See HAN, Page A5

Life’s sketches

Pen pal letters brought good news from France For several years my friend Charlie ran an international pen pal business that he had inherited from his father. When I expressed some interest in the many countries people were writing from Charlie asked if I’d like a free subscription for my daughter and I accepted.

“You pick out the country and the pen pal,” Charlie said.

I’ve always been a Francophile so I chose France and a girl named Alessi Geoffrey. To my surprise my normally contrary teenaged daughter, Elizabeth, went for the idea and almost immediately drafted a letter and even took it to the post office so that it would be sent out ASAP. In less than ten days a letter from Alessi arrived. To my worried surprise Alessi turned out to be a boy whose name if Americanized would be something like Jeff Alessi. I told my friend Charlie about the mix up and he responded with, “Don’t look at me.

You’re the one who picked out the name.”

My daughter wasn’t disappointed that she had inadvertently written to a boy and after several correspondences Geoffrey invited Elizabeth to come to France. Being TERRY the responsible father of a fifteen- BERKSON year-old girl I said to my daughter, “You tell Geoffrey that if he wants to see you he has to come to America!”

A little more than two weeks later plans for a visit from the Frenchman were almost entirely in place. He would be coming in August when my family is at the camp on Canadarago Lake near Richfield Springs. I didn’t mind having to meet his plane in Syracuse but when Elizabeth came down with a bug and had a fever of 102º, I found myself in charge of entertainment!

When I vented to Charlie, he said, ”Don’t look at me.

You’re the one who picked

out the name.”

The first thing Geoffrey said at the airport was, “My mother told me to tell you that I have a bad back and that I shouldn’t do anything strenuous.” So, the next day while Elizabeth was still with fever I took him waterskiing—and later fishing. He didn’t seem at home with either activity but he survived. What the kid was comfortable with was what I considered vulgar impersonations of the then very popular Michael Jackson. That, and repeatedly voicing the word “deescusting” when he didn’t like something, seemed to be a big part of the kid’s repertoire.

On another day, for want of something to do while Elizabeth was still recovering I took Geoffrey for a top-down ride in my roadster and stopped off for a unique lunch at the Jor-

danville monastery where we ate a vegetarian meal with the monks--in silence.

Later, I asked the kid if he liked the food and predictably he came out with, “Deescusting!” followed by a Michael Jackson move.

I felt like sending the kid back to France and again phoned my frustration to Charlie who of course said, “You picked the name.”

A few days later Elizabeth was better and to the Frenchman’s delight we were all headed for a week in Brooklyn. On the ride down to the city in the station wagon Geoffrey thought he was going to sit in the back seat with Liz but I had him sit up front with me. Being from Paris he seemed a lot more at home in a concrete maze than up in the country and was forever wanting to go for walks with Liz--to explore the neighborhood. I should mention that Charlie offered a free pen pal to my son Jonathan but he wasn’t See SKETCHES, Page A5

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200 YEARS AGO 175 YEARS AGO The following is copied from the London Courier: The sea is ours, and we must maintain the doctrine – that no nation, no fleet, no cockboat shall sail upon it without our permission. America declares that England must not presume to declare a port in a state of blockade, unless she can keep a force actually before that port.

England must replay; we will not condescend to mince and carve out and dwindle down our system of blockade. We will not talk of this port and that port. There is but one Navy in the world, the British Navy. The whole continent we consider as one port, and so long as Bonaparte persists in his present system, we warn all powers that the Continent is in a state of blockade, and they must not presume to trade with it without our leave.

This is the doctrine which we must enforce, and the sooner we do it the better!

May 18, 1811

150 YEARS AGO

The preparations for lighting our village with gas are progressing with commendable diligence.

The company has had on hand an army of laborers, the past week, laying the foundations for their manufactory, and putting down their network of iron pipes through the streets. They hope to be able to light up about June 20, and then the people down Milford and Oneonta way, may look out for a new luster to the northern lights.

When our shops and dwellings are aglow with gas, won’t we talk to

75 YEARS AGO

May 16, 1836 the rural districts about the convenience of gas-light and other appendages of city life!

May 24, 1861

125 YEARS AGO

Personal: Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark and son arrived here on Thursday last, stopping a few days at Carr’s Hotel while “Fernleigh” mansion and cottage are being put in order for occupancy.

A fair estimate by a manufacturer in New York of the number of baseballs made for the present season is said to be 5,000,000, or one for every ten or eleven of the population of the entire country.

That so many balls have been made for the present season is not surprising, when it is remembered that there are scores of private clubs – juvenile and otherwise – in almost every large town in the Union, and each member of these numerous clubs is the possessor of from one to ten base balls.

May 22, 1886

100 YEARS AGO

Cooperstown is one of the most beautiful and most delightfully situated villages in the world. Its many advantages as a healthful and in every way desirable place of residence have been told so long in song and story that none can forget. It is a shimmering lake reflecting the foliage of the surrounding mountains—its pure air, its pure water, its historic and literary environment, and its home-loving and enterprising citizens—all together form an asset of which any community would be proud. It is not, therefore, because Cooperstown is in dire need of improvement that the Village Improvement Society is formed. It is, rather, to preserve the spirit of the village loyalty and perpetuate the present good standard, always with the idea in mind of making things better.

May 17, 1911

The Leatherstocking Corporation of Cooperstown has purchased of the Otsego Lake Transit Company the latter’s Lakefront property at the foot of Pioneer Street, known as Otsego Lake Park. With this transaction the Otsego Lake Transit Co. will go out of existence. M.E. Lippitt, who was president of the Transit Company, will continue the boat business at the foot of Fair Street under the title of the Otsego Lake Boat Co. The Otsego Lake Transit Co. was organized in 1905 and until 1933 operated passenger service on Otsego Lake, in addition to conducting a boat livery. At one time as many as six regular trips around the lake daily were made by the company’s boats.

May 20, 1936

50 YEARS AGO

The regular meeting of the Woman’s Club of Cooperstown was held on May 10 at 3:30 p.m. with Mrs. Robert A. Streett, president, presiding. Miss Doris S. Bliss, program chairman, introduced guest speaker, Dr. James Bordley, III, of Cooperstown, whose topic was “Birds of the Cooperstown Area”. Dr. Bordley stated that in a recent three-year period 234 species of birds were identified in this area. Following his talk, Dr. Bordley showed slides of birds that are permanent residents here, winter birds and transients. Five garments made by area high school 4-H girls were on display in the tea room.

May 17, 1961

25 YEARS AGO

Several months ago at spirited rallies, Laurel Graham, a junior at Coopersrown Central School, stood among some friends screaming Corazon Aquino’s campaign slogan “Laban (fight)” and wearing Aquino’s color, yellow. At one point, Graham, who was in the Philippines as a Rotary exchange student for 10 months, stood at a rally within a few feet of Aquino.

Aquino later became the Philippine president after a people’s revolution boosted her into office.

Graham is now at her home in Hartwick with her mother Gladys Graham. Before leaving for the Philippines, she said she was told by those in the Rotary exchange program to refrain from showing political preference. But, when she got to the Philippines, the nuns in the Catholic school she attended allowed students to leave classes for rallies and she became involved. Graham served as a poll watcher in the ensuing election between Marcos and Aquino.

May 21, 1986

10 YEARS AGO

The Brookwood School is hosting its first annual Big Rigs event this Sunday, to entertain and educate children of all ages about the workings of all kinds of different motorized vehicles. Among the 20 vehicles on display will be an ambulance, a cement truck, farm vehicles, a back hoe, a fire truck, and a ‘Humvee.’ The show has been spearheaded by Brookwood parent Mandy Robinson.

May 18, 2001

The Mohican fills void left by Natty Bumppo Pen pal visit provides many memories, laughs LAST/Continued from A4 about 12 summers, the daughter of August A. Busch and granddaughter of Adolphus Busch, who recently purchased the beautiful estate adjoining Three Mile Point, held the bottle of wine in readiness to christen the Mohican.

Miss Busch, who is a remarkably pretty little lass of the brunette type, wore a cool white dress, with hat, shoes and stockings to match. Her hat was trimmed with daisies. In the boat also were about 75 other persons, including members of the Busch family, village trustees, editors, clergymen and whatnot with their wives and families. The band was there, assisting with all its might to make the occasion a successful and enjoyable one. Even the village popcorn stand was not absent.

“For two hours every known device was utilized to get the Steamboat to slide down the ways, but all to no purpose. She refused to budge! The band played “Slide, Kelly, Slide,” “Under the “Anheuser-Busch” and, finally, “We Won’t Go Home Until Morning.”

At 6:00 o’clock the crowd began to thin out, and just after the town clock had struck the supper hour, the ladies and their escorts began descending the flimsy ladder by which they had gained the deck of the craft two hours before. “The Otsego Farmer,” containing the full account of the launching, was being recalled from the local post office.

“On Friday, the ways were given a more acute slant and grease anew, so the effort on Saturday succeeded. It did not take place, however, until several hours after the time set.

“The Mohican makes a fine appearance in the water. She is a double deck steamer,

80 feet long and 19 feet wide. She will be lighted by electricity and have all the modern sanitary conveniences. A searchlight will be operated from the upper deck. The Steamboat inspectors were here Friday and gave her a carrying capacity of 400. Her speed is about 12 miles an hour. Her cost was between $7,000. and $8,000.

“The Mohican made a trial trip on Monday and on the 14th made two excursion trips, carrying nearly 200 each time. Owner and passengers alike were greatly pleased with her. After some further painting she will make three trips around the Lake each week day unless transferred to special excursion service, when she will be replaced in the regular trip by another boat.

“The Mabel Coburn and Pathfinder, the other two steamers of the Otsego Lake Transit Co., are licensed to carry 95 and 90 passengers.”

“Otsego Lake has needed an adequate excursion boat ever since the old Natty Bumppo went out of service five or six years ago. The old Natty was 90-foot keel, ten feet longer than the Mohican. She was a side wheeler, slow and cumbersome, but for 30 years she was the only large excursion boat. Her carrying capacity was not as great as the Mohican, although the system of steamboat inspection was not then so rigid as now. The Natty Bumppo was launched July 4, 1871. One year later, July 11, 1872 she burned to the water’s edge. After being rebuilt, she was again launched in November 1872.

“The first steamboat on Otsego Lake was the Mary Boden, launched by Capt. D.B. Boden in 1869.”

Myths about The Badger saw village with an on-the-ground view Asians hurt BADGER/Continued from A4 everybody his daily strolls on Main Street served as bait for The Badger.

In the early 1970s, Bob, who had been writing “Bits of my mind, written on paper,” regularly since he was in 7th grade, began submitting a weekly column about, in his words, “anything,” to The Freeman’s Journal. It was to be called The Badger, which was Bob’s middle name (and also a somewhat nasty omnivore that is related to otters, polecats, weasels, skunks and ferrets).

Bob left us more than The Badger; Badger Lane, near Hickory Grove, is home to a few old camps on Otsego, and Badger Park, once the Village Gardens, was donated to the Village of Cooperstown by Bob and his family to provide a skating rink for the kids.

The Badger—tales, observations and histories about everything and anything he found interesting, humorous or annoying, appeared regularly in the paper for the rest of Bob’s life. It was one of the most popular columns the Journal published. About half of them, 111 to be exact, have been compiled in a book—Cooperstown, Otsego and the World … as seen by The Badger, published in 2005, just before Bob died. The Freeman’s Journal has been given permission to reprint them here. Additionally, Bob’s wife, Veronica, is hard at work on Volume II, as envisioned by Bob, and we look forward to bringing these further stories to our readers in future editions.

HAN/Continued from A4 visible. We are not. I am not free from the fear of harm to myself or to the people I love.

The model minority myth also extorts from me the high price of my silence. The awful, hard truth about the myth is it invites my complicity and participation in the institutionalized racism that threatens harm to me. It is a lie that divides Asian and Black and other racialized communities from each other and divides all of us as Americans from each other.

So, this is our moment.

Let’s build a new model for a new majority acting in coalition. Here. Now. We can speak and listen to each others’ truths. Together.

Thank you.

SKETCHES/Continued from A4 interested. Still in charge of entertainment, I took the family to Coney Island where I put Geoffrey on the Cyclone, one of the roughest roller coasters in the world.

After we hit the first almost 90-degree drop he was whiteknuckled and petrified and started doing a breathing exercise that reminded me of a Lamaze class Alice and I took when she was pregnant with Liz. When his two-week stay was up the kid flew back to France carrying rave reviews which resulted in a formal invitation from Geoffrey’s parents for Liz to visit them Contributed in Paris the following Pen pal Geoffrey Alessi is seen in this undated summer. Somehow I overphoto. came my protective posture and sent Liz off to France. She had a great time but was puzzled when the Alessis discretely placed an unopened bottle of Heinz catsup on the table at every meal which may have been a commentary on American cuisine. I felt proud to have given my daughter the experience of visiting another culture and country.

Now, more than a decade has passed and Liz has an American husband and lives in Tennessee with three very active little boys. Guess who’s getting married and wants Liz to attend the wedding, in France! Geoffrey! And who’s going to baby sit the three little boys? My wife Alice! And who’s going to have to shop and cook for himself and do the dishes and make his own bed and mow the lawn and tend the chickens all by himself? Me. I called Charlie to tell him about the latest pen pal development and he said, “No good deed goes unpunished. You’ve been complaining about that free subscription for years!”

“Who knew it would come to this?” I said.

“Glad you picked the name.”

One very big revelation that would have saved me a lot of worry back then, Geoffrey is marrying Kenneth.

Early success gave Foundation guide for future giving to the community FOUNDATION/Continued from A4 venture capital and private equity. It is founded on the bedrock confidence that our community will support our work. It is responsive to today’s needs.

The formation of Community Foundation of Otsego County is a vitally important step in the health of our county. It is an opportunity for neighbors and friends to join together to work smartly to address issues that need addressing.

We hope that many of you decide to join us as Founders. The amount of your support is up to you. We want broad participation. We have made it easy to join us. Send us a check. Make a five-year pledge (to match our five-year business plan). Donate appreciated stock or real estate. Use your credit card or Pay Pal. Set up a monthly or annual payment program. Go to our website to get more information (cfotsego.org). Or simply mail us a check to P.O. Box 55, Springfield Center, NY 13468.

How are we doing so far, you ask? Well,

our goal is $2 million. Today, we are 90% of the way to that target. Our entire board has joined as Founders as well as more than 100 others.

And are we making a difference now?

Absolutely yes!

Our COVID Emergency Fund disbursed $200,000 in 27 awards. We have helped families put food on their tables, provided shelter to homeless individuals, supported over 100 small businesses and much more.

In 2021, we have allocated another $200,000 to meet challenges facing our community.

Please visit our website for details on our award programs.

Will you join us as a Founder? This is a once only opportunity to be part of a group of like-minded friends and neighbors dedicated to creating a force for good in our community.

We deeply believe that caring together makes us stronger together.

Please join us.

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MOBILE COACH – 9 a.m.

- 2:30 p.m. Stop by at mobile cancer screening coach for free mammograms, more for women over 40 with no insurance or underinsured. Price Chopper, Richfield Springs.

1-888-345-0225.

LIVE STRONG – 1:15 p.m.

Cooperstown Senior Community Center exercise program is designed for standing or sitting. Led by Carole. Emphasis on range of motion, balance, and toning. Brick building behind St. Mary’s Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. coopseniorcenter@gmail.com.

CURATOR SPOTLIGHT – 1:30 p.m. Join HoF curator Tom Shieber to explore “Picturing America’s Pastime: Historic Photography from the Baseball Hall of Fame Archives.” Free, registration required. Presented by The Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200.

►Wednesday, May 26

_______ THEATER – Stream on Demand. Get your tickets for local production of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ by Tennessee Williams. See Friday Listing.

YARD SALE – 8 a.m. - ?

Find household items, book, baked goods, toys and more under the tent in the parking lot. Prices negotiable.

Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 852 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. 607-547-9946.

PLANT SALE – 9 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Stop by the Master Gardeners Spring 2021 plant sale for perennials, annuals, vegetables, and flowers that do well in Otsego County.

Mask/social distancing required. Proceeds support education & outreach conducted by Master Gardener volunteers. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. 607-547-2536 ext. 228.

HERITAGE PLANT SALE – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Find organic plants from olden days. Get a jump start on your garden.

Outside the main entrance of The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

OPENING DAY – 10 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Historic mansion reopens for tours. Includes exhibit from the clothing colONEONTA lectionHOMETOWN including an 1830s gown, a butlers, outfit, hunting coat, more. Cost, $15/adult. Masks/social

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BLOOD DRIVE – Noon - 5 p.m. Donate blood, save up to 3 lives. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 800733-2767.

LIVE STRONG – 1:15 p.m.

Cooperstown Senior Community Center invites area seniors for fun exercise program. See Tuesday Listing.

AUTHOR SERIES – 2 p.m.

Join Rico Petrocelli of the Boston Red Sox for a discussion of his book ‘An All-Star’s Cardboard Memories.’ Free, registration required. Presented by The Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607547-7200.

►Friday, May 28 THEATER – Stream on Demand. Get your tickets for local production of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ by Tennessee Williams. The play is a tender, and sometimes bitter, memory of the Wingfield family with matriarch Amanda Wingfield watching over her children Tom and Laura and attempting to control their lives. Tickets, $15. Presented by Stuff of Dreams Productions.

distancing required. Reservations required. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. 607-547-5098.

STUDIO DEMONSTRATION – 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Last day to view ‘The Sibling Show.’ See Sat. May 22 listing.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m. See Sat. Mayh 22 listing.

►TUESDAY, JUNE 1 YOUTH ART EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. CCS students present exhibit ‘Young at Art! Inspired by Community’ sharing their experience of community during the pandemic and how art grew their relationships online and at home.

On view through June 26.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

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BLOOD DRIVE – 11:30 a.m.

- 4:30 p.m. Donate blood, save up to 3 lives. St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. 800733-2767.

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DIGITAL HELP – 6:45 - 7:45 p.m. Call for help with your digital devices. Presented by Huntington Memorial Library.

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YARD SALE – 8 a.m. Find household items for sale or free. Benefit for Fly Creek Historical Society. 931 Co. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek.

ART EXHIBITS OPEn – 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. 3 exhibits open.

The Annual Regional Juried Art show celebrating talents of NYS artists with Jane Carr & Bruce Goddard as jurors; ‘Wild Things—Wild Places’ by last year’s Juried Art Show winner David Kiehm who specializes in wildlife art & The Cooperstown Central School Art Exhibit. Showing at The Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

607-547-9777.

CHICKEN DINNER – 4:30-6 p.m. Enjoy a take-out Brooks chicken dinner including a half chicken, coleslaw, baked potato, and a roll. Cost, $12/ dinner. Pre-orders by Wednesday encouraged. First Baptist Church of Cooperstown, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown.

Contact baptistcooperstown@ gmail.com with name, number, quantity.

ART EXHIBIT – 5 - 7 p.m.

In-person exhibit ‘All Together Art Show’ will feature local artists residing in Otsego, Chenango and Delaware counties. Free admission. COVID-19 restrictions in place.

SPRING CLEANING – 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Come by the Sportsmen’s Club to clean up for the season. Tasks include cleaning, maintenance, handyman tasks, more. Whatever your preference, there’s something for you to do.

Donuts offered at 8:30, lunch will be served at Noon. Free.

Oneonta Sportsmens Club, 251 Rod & Gun Club Rd., Oneonta. 607-433-0515.

PHOTOGRAPHY – 10 a.m.

Learn the ins and outs of portrait photography on your favorite camera with experienced photography Trevaughn Smith. Limited spots available for in-person class.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

607-432-1980.

ELECTRIC CAR SHOW – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Come view electric vehicles on display by local owners and dealers.

Learn what options exist in our area, benefits of owning an EV, more. Damaschke Field Parking Lot, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-3973815.

STUDIO DEMONSTRATION – 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Experimental video artist Julien Miller, whose works are on view in ‘The Sibling Show,’ will demonstrate animation techniques on a digital drawing pad, and traditional and experimental animation processes. All ages welcome.

Call to reserve a time. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. 607-5475327.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m. Join supportive group to share your writing, get constructive criticism & encouragement, participate in writing exercises. Presented by Huntington Memorial Library.

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LIVE STRONG – 1:15 p.m.

Cooperstown Senior Community Center invites area seniors for fun exercise program designed for standing or sitting. This week led by Carole.

Emphasis will be placed on range of motion, balance, and toning. Brick building behind St. Mary’s Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. coopseniorcenter@gmail.com.

NOBLE EAGLE – 2 p.m.

Cooperstown Senior Community Center presents Joshua Ives sharing his story of his military experience in Afghanistan through photography. Brick building behind St. Mary’s Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. coopseniorcenter@gmail.com.

WRITERS SALON – 7:30 p.m. Open mic followed by presentation by author Michael Amos Cody, ‘Gabriels Song Book’ & ‘The Twilight Reel.’ Free, open to public.

Presented by Community Arts Network of Oneonta. 607432-2070.

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Madeline Silber poses for a photo Thursday, May 13, during a tour of her exhibit at The Community Arts Network of Oneonta.

Artist experiments with different forms at CANO

By KEVIN LIMITI An Oneonta resident whose art thrusts viewers into a world of abstract thoughts and concepts is on display at The Community Arts Network of Oneonta.

Originally from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Madeline Silber is a professional artist, graphic designer and art teacher at SUNY Oneonta.

Her show is called ‘Along the Way,’ which shows old and new work that reflects her life journey as an artist.

“Along the Way is a connection between the older and newer drawings,” Silber said during a tour of the gallery Thursday, May 14. “I’m primarily a painter but I’ve been drawing for the past year and I love it.”

Some of Silber’s drawings bring to mind otherworldly dimensions. The

drawings were created with charcoal, ballpoint pen, colored pencils and gel-rolled pens.

The newer pieces are smaller compared to the older ones but Silber said she believes this is a necessary component to the works. She said they are abstract pieces which are meant to be evocative of figures and bodies.

“I love how intimate they are,” Silber said.

“To me they’re about connections, relationships and how things fit together ... they’re abstract but pretty representative of figures formed between space … I really like creating forms that are threedimensional even though they’re in two-dimensional space,” Silber said.

Silber has an MFA in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and has been entrenched in the art world with residencies at Yaddo, the

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay Colony. She has had shows in New York City, San Francisco, Minneapolis and even as far as Germany and Monaco.

As a graphic designer, she designed the logo of the Green Toad Bookstore on Main Street in Oneonta.

“A lot of my time is teaching and doing my graphic design ... it’s hard to make a living as an artist,” Silber said.

“Everything I do is connected to art.”

This is the first show with a public reception that CANO is having in a year. She says that she wanted to do it because she wanted to see people.

Silber is also going to be part of a group show at the Smithy in Cooperstown in June.

For more info on Silber’s art, go to www. msilberdesign.com/ fine-art.

Electric vehicles will be on display in Oneonta as a special show Saturday, May 22.

Drawings by Madeline Silber.

Concert series to return with Oshima Brothers

By GREG KLEIN

The last time the Oshima Brothers were in Cooperstown, they played as the opening act for Caitlin Canty at the Otesaga Resort Hotel and it was a show they said they will never forget.

“It was a beautiful place,” Sean Oshima said during a phone interview the brothers did with Iron String Press on Friday, May 14. “I remember the magnificence of that place.

“I remember the last time we played the show in Cooperstown, we were the opening act, so we played a shorter set before the set from the main artist,” he continued. “They crowd was so great, we ended up playing an encore, which doesn’t usually happen when you are the opening act. It was special.”

Sean and his brother, Jamie, will return to Cooperstown and the Cooperstown Concert Series for a return performance.The show will take place Contributed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 22, in The The Oshima Brothers, Sean, above, and Jamie, Otesaga’s ballroom.

It will not only be the first concert said they enjoyed their previous concert in series show in more than a year, because Cooperstown and look forward to playing of the coronavirus pandemic, but it will Saturday, May 22.

also be the brothers’ first show “back on the road.”

“We’re so excited to be back,” Sean said. “We have played a few shows in Maine, but this is the beginning of us getting back to touring.”

The hiatus has been productive for the brothers, but also hard. As the Canty show showed, they felt they had been making great progress reaching new fans and promoting their music. But like everyone during the pandemic, they found new challenges to working.

“We’ve gotten through with some luck and a lot of hard work,” Jamie said.

“We’re excited for the concert and to be able to see people’s faces again,” Sean said.

“We want to show people what we have been working on, new songs, new arraignments and a lot of exciting things for us.”

Sean, 27, and Jamie, 23, grew up in a musical family in a rural town on the coast of Maine. They migrated to Portland, where they said there is a growing music and arts scene.

Their influences come from the music their parents listened to, they said, and it shaped their brand of music, which they See Oshima, Page B2

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At the car show there will be dealers as well as local owners discussing purchasing, ownership, maintenance, and their experiences of driving an EV in the Northeast. Oneonta Outlaws concessions will be available for purchase along with ‘bird friendly’ coffee.

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• The Cooperstown Art Association has three exhibits opening: The Annual Regional Juried Art Show featuring talented artists from upstate New York; ‘Wild Things — Wild Places’ by David Kiehm who won the Regional Art show last year; and the Cooperstown Central School Art Exhibit featuring works by local students. Masks and social distancing required. The show is at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., Friday, May 21, at 22 Main St. in Cooperstown. 607-547-9777 or visit www.cooperstownart.com.

• Another great art exhibit is also opening in Oneonta this weekend.

Come view ‘All Together Art Show,’ featuring works by artists from Otsego, Chenango and Delaware counties.

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AllOtsego people: Post-rally, Bohler’s life is that of average teen

By GREG KLEIN COOPERSTOWN – When at least 250 people gathered May 3, on the lawn of the Otsego County Courthouse to show support for the area’s Asian-American population, and then stayed for an hour to listen to speeches during a rainstorm, many of the speakers marveled that the rally was organized by a 15year Cooperstown Central School freshman, Cate Bohler.

They were not alone in their surprise. Bohler and her mom, Jeannine Webster, told The Freeman’s Journal on Friday, May 14, that they were surprised, too.

“I kind of feel like I didn’t really realize what I was doing,” Bohler said. “I think it was when I was hearing the speakers speaking and then it started raining and people stayed mostly.”

“All of the young people involved learned a powerful lesson about community,” Webster said.

“Looking back I am not really sure how it came together.”

An early meeting, in the basement of the Cooperstown Baptist Church where the participants

could spread out, Bohler’s spark of an idea turned into the rally, to coincide with May’s designation as Asian American and Pacific Island Heritge Month. A small group of friends helped her, including a few Asian friends.

“They were full of thoughtful ideas,” Webster said. “It took on momentum of its own.”

Adopted from China, Bohler has grown up in Cooperstown, a place she said is not very diverse, but has always been kind and supportive to her and her friends. It was the idea – at a time when violence against people of Asian descent is spiking – that her friends could experience harm someplace else later in their lives that caused her to take action, she said.

Despite her leadership and thoughtfulness this spring, Bohler’s normal life is like most Cooperstown teens. She’s athletic and artistic and adjusting to the pandemic and its changes like everyone else.

This month she is running track and preparing for finals.

Athletically, she also plays soccer and does summer crew on Otsego Lake, but she sounds

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Cooperstown freshman Cate Bohler poses with her mom, Jeannine Webster, on Friday, May 14.

more excited when she talks about music. Bohler plays clarinet and violin, does school band and orchestra. She is a part of the Lit Team, Quiz Team and Battle of

the Books clubs. She said she also likes to write, paint and draw.

Bohler said she has not begun thinking about colleges and careers. “It’s too early for that,”

she said.

Bohler has a cat and a dog; she is definitely a cat person, she said.

Bohler will be vaccinated soon, she said, and she and her mom are looking forward to a vacation soon. The last time they were able to travel they went to New York City for the Lunar New Year celebration in January 2020.

Looking back on an amazing month, mother and daughter said they were moved by the show of support Bohler and her friends inspired and the kind words Otsego County officials spoke about her.

“I was definitely honored and very surprised,” Bohler said.

Webster, who teaches at SUNY Oneonta, said she was touched a former student of hers came up from New York City for the event.

“I had a student who was from China. She was teaching Cate Mandarin for a while,” Webster said. “She’s back in the city, but she took a couple of vacation days to come up for the rally.

“It was really inspiring,” Webster said.

Art Garage to hold open studio, final viewing

A fond fairwell

There will be a free open animation studio with Julien Miller, experimental video artist in The Sibling Show, which is on view.

Miller will demonstrate digital drawing pad and traditional and experimental animation processes.

The last day to see Miller and his siblings’ show is Saturday May 29. Featuring Julien, Sophie and Ginger Miller, and even both parents: painter Tracy Helgeson, designer/artist Doug Miller. See FB/ArtGarageCooperstown.

Saturday May 29, from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. is also the last open studio with Miller.

All ages welcome. See FB/ArtGarageCooperstown. To reserve a visit time, call 607-547-5327, text 315-941-9607.

Or just stop by, at 689 Beaver Meadow Road, just outside of Cooperstown, in the town of Middlefield.

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Members of the Arc Otsego leadership team on Academy Street in Oneonta wave goodbye Friday, May 14, to Pat Knuth, the outgoing executive director, who has worked for the Arc for more than 30 years. May will be her last full month with the agency.

Brothers find music success OSHIMA/Continued from B1 call “contemporary folk and acoustic pop.”

“Our parents loved to play music and loved to listen to music,” Sean said.

“I know I learned to play the drums to Beatles records, thanks to our parents,” Jamie said. “There was definitely a love of harmony and a lot of music with drums, guitar and piano.”

The brothers said they are big baseball fans, but did not get to see the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum the last time they were in the village.

“Maybe we can go this time. That would be fun,” Sean said.

Growing up in Maine, where Boston is the biggest city in the region, the boys are avid Red Sox fans, they said.

“We’re big baseball fans,” Sean said. “We root for a team that it might not be popular to root for there.”

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For Mead, family separation became too tough

By CHARLIE VASCELLARO

It came as a surprise to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the baseball community at large when Tim Mead stepped down from his position as President of the Hall of Fame after less than two years on the job.

What would seem to be the dream job for almost anyone who works in the baseball industry was never fully realized for Mead whose Contributed brief tenure coincided with Former National Baseball Hall of Fame and the onset of the coronavirus Museum President Tim Mead, left, poses pandemic and was marred by with his predecessor and successor, Jeff the unprecedented passing Idelson, in this 2019 photo. of 10 members of the Hall of

Fame in about a year.

“What Dale and Jeff (former presidents Petrosky and Idelson, respectively) had been able to accomplish in terms of the travel and all, obviously we had 10 Hall of Famers pass away and we weren’t able to attend those services, the only one I was able to go to was Whitey Ford’s mass and Jeff was able to fly in from San Francisco for that one,” Mead said in an interview before his departure from the Hall on May 15.

With the 2021 baseball season underway and the Hall of Fame announcing its decision to hold this year’s induction ceremony indoors in

the Hall’s Plaque Gallery, and without fans in attendance, Mead announced his decision to step down from his post on April 16.

“It’s particularly tough with family being back (in California),” he said. “I have a grandson that is 30 months old and a granddaughter coming in September. That aspect of things has been a bit more challenging than perhaps I allowed myself to believe it would be.

Mead was hired to replace Idelson in June of 2019, presiding over the Hall of Fame’s 2019 Induction and represented the Hall of Fame at the Major League All-Star

game in Cleveland.

Entering his second year as president and first full baseball season in 2020, Mead took a group of sponsors on a spring training trip to Arizona’s Cactus League in March and was there when the pandemic forced the cancellation of the spring training season and postponement of the regular season until July.

Mead said he returned to his California residence when the Hall was shut down at the outset of the pandemic and remained there from March through the end of May. He was back at his office when the Hall reopened June 26.

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Coop baseball stays undefeated with big conference wins

By GREG KLEIN Cooperstown won two blowouts and a tight conference game with a controversial ending in a four-day stretch to stay undefeated in baseball.

The Hawkeyes started the weekend by honoring their seniors at Doubleday Field on Friday, May 14, before a 14-1 win over Frankfort-Schuyler in a Center State Conference game.

Chris Ubner hit a grand slam home run and pitched four scoreless innings for the win.

Cooperstown led 11-0 before F-S got on the scoreboard off reliever Derek Moore in the sixth inning. Treston Emerick relieved Moore and got out of a bases loaded, oneout jam, getting two outs on four pitches.

Emerick finished the game with a scoreless seventh inning.

Ubner went 2-for-4 with 5 RBIs and two runs scored. He faced just 12 batters in four innings, although his defense helped him with two double plays. He got five strikeouts and gave up one walk and one hit.

Kendall Haney also had a home run, to almost the same spot in left center field where Ubner cleared the wall, and went 1-for-2 with two runs. Moore went 3-for-4 and scored two runs and Alex Poulson went 1-for-3 and scored three runs.

“I feel bad for them this year,” Cooperstown Coach Frank Miosek said.

“Their football ended late. They just began practice. They did not get a lot of guys out. They don’t even have a J.V. team. It is hard this year. If you are not around the school or the kids are not at school, it makes recruiting harder.

“We got lucky,” he continued. “We almost won the state title two years ago and they were supposed to go to South Carolina for

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Cooperstown senior Chris Ubner, center, tips his helmet following a grand slam to left center field at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown on Friday, May 14. Ubner had five RBIs on the day and was the winning pitcher.

a spring break baseball camp before it got canceled by COVID. This year they did go.

It was not a school thing, but Coach (Matt) Hazzard and some of the parents went.

They did not get to play a lot of games, but they practiced together every day and it clearly helped them as a team.”

Cooperstown honored seniors Haney, Alex Hage, Alex Hascup, Poulson, Moore

and Ubner, the heart of what Miosek called his best multi-year group of players he has had in more than three decades coaching at Cooperstown.

The players gave Miosek a special bat from Cooperstown Bat Company and noted that two of their fathers, Bruce Haney and Brian Hascup, played on Miosek’s first CCS team 31 years ago.

In addition, Moore’s step-father, Luke Banner, played for Miosek a few years after Haney and Hascup.

Saturday in Canastota, Poulson struck out 15 Canastota batters during six scoreless innings as the Hawkeyes improved to 6-0 with a 10-0 win.

Cooperstown broke the game open with a See BASEBALL, Page B4

Roundup: Milford, Coop softball, Unatego baseball keep winning STAFF REPORT Marley Lippitt pitched a threehit shutout through six innings and Cooperstown took advantage of a big third inning to beat host Sauquoit Valley in a Center State Conference softball game Monday, May 17.

Sauquoit pitcher Marley Ingalls got out of a bases loaded jam in the second inning with back-to-back strikeouts, but the Hawkeyes caught up to her with two outs in the top of the third inning, using four hits, an error, a walk and a passed ball to take a 4-0 lead.

Dani Seamon had an RBI triple and Ellie Hotaling had a double in the inning. Hotaling plated an insurance run in the top of the seventh inning, scoring Katie Crippen, who went 2-for-4 with two runs scored.

Lippitt struck out seven batters in six innings while walking one batter and hitting another. She let two batters on in the sixth inning, only to see her fielders make several plays to get her out of the inning.

Seamon pitched a flawless seventh inning, sandwiching two strikeouts around a pop up to the catcher.

Cooperstown (5-0, 1-0) will host West Canada Valley in a Center State Conference game at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 19.

Milford 17, Edmeston 2 Cheryl Clough Leanna West turned in another Whitney Point’s Jameson Breward protects the ball while strong pitching performance getting by Oneonta’s Andrew Webb. OHS lost 15-1. Kai throwing a one-hitter and notching Fielder had the lone goal for Oneonta.

12 strikeouts as Milford defeated

Edmeston 17-2 on Monday, in a Tri-Valley League game.

West helped her own cause collecting three hits and four RBI. Teammate Tia Vagliardo went 5-for5 with 4 RBI. Michayla Bateman took the loss for the Panthers, who Milford played at Laurens on Wednesday after deadline, hosts Roxbury at 4:30 Thursday, May 20, visits Schenevus on Friday, May 21, for a key TVL battle, and hosts Morris at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 22.

Edmeston plays at Brookfield at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Cooperstown 6, Adirondack 5 Katie Crippen hit a two-run, walkoff double in the 10th inning to keep Cooperstown undefeated in softball with a 6-5 win over Adirondack at Cooperstown Central School on Wednesday, May 12.

Crippen went 4-for-6, including two doubles. She also had two stolen bases.

Marley Lippett struck out 13 batters and got the win, facing all but two batters.

Dani Seamon started the ninth inning in the circle, but after an out and an error, Lippitt returned to the pitcher spot. Adirondack loaded the bases on two bunts, but Lippett got two strikeouts to end the inning.

The game was tied, 2-2, from the third inning until the ninth, when both team pushed across a run. Adirondack scored two in the top of the tenth inning, setting the stage for Cooperstown’s rally in the bottom of the tenth.

Baseball Unatego 7, B-G 0 Braedon Johnson struck out 12 batters while allowing only four hits as Unatego beat visiting Bainbridge-Guilford, 7-0, in a Midstate Athletic Conference baseball game in Otego on Monday.

Johnson, who pitched all seven innings for the Spartans, also went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Tyler Birdsall went 2-for-3 with three runs scored and Seamus Barber went 2-for-3 with a triple.

Nolan Hawkins took the loss for B-G, giving up five earned runs and two unearned runs on eight hits in six innings pitched.

Unatego hosts Deposit at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

Edmeston 9, SS/CV-S 0 Josh Martin shut out Sharon Springs/Cherry Valley Springfield for seven innings and went 1-for3 with two runs and an RBI to lead Edmeston to a 9-0 win in a Tri-Valley League baseball game Friday, May 14, in Cherry Valley.

Martin had nine strikeouts and no walks, giving up three scattered hits to SS/CV-S. Edmeston collected 13 hits in the game and took advantage of four errors.

Luke Dubben took the loss in the start for SS/CV-S, giving up three earned runs and three unearned runs in 3.1 innings. Owen Johnson relieved him and gave up three more earned runs.

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Weekend success: Hawkeyes get two big routs, controversial forfeit from Sauquoit Valley

BASEBALL/Continued from B3 seven-run sixth inning.

Ubner had two hits, an RBI and a run scored and Haney and Moore each scored two runs for Cooperstown.

Monday May 17, at Doubleday, Haney struck out five of the seven batters he faced and had a two RBI triple as the Hawkeyes stayed undefeated in baseball with a 6-3 win over visiting Sauquoit Valley in a Center State Conference game.

The game ended abruptly when Sauquoit Valley Coach Kory Lewandrowski got ejected following a disputed call at first base in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Cooperstown’s leadoff hitter, Poulson, had been called out on a hit to third.

However, the home-plate umpire ruled that SV first baseman Nicholas Miller came off the bag and overruled the first-base umpire.

Lewandrowski argued the call, then threw his helmet

at the dugout, leading to his ejection. SV did not have another coach with them and the game ended in a forfeit.

“It is an official game,” Miosek said. “Their coach got thrown out of the game and they did not have another coach available.

“It’s sad, because it took us out of a game,” Miosek said.

Cooperstown hit SV pitcher Ben LoGalbo well from the start.

With one out in the first inning, Haney got a single, advanced after a throwing error by Miller on a pickoff, and scored on Ubner’s single to right center field.

Ubner stole second and scored on Hascup’s double to right center field. Hascup advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Treston Emerick’s RBI single in the hole between third and short.

In the bottom of the second inning, Ethan Kukenberger led the inning off with a walk and Poulson got hit by a pitch. Haney

then tripled to the right field wall to score both runners, making it 5-0.

Emerick relieved Haney, who was on a pitch count, and gave up three runs in the top of the third inning, following a hit batter, a walk and RBI singles by Seamus Crowe and Anthony Nasser.

However, Emerick got a strike out to end the inning.

Cooperstown got a run back in the bottom of the third inning when Hage walked, stole two bases and scored on a wild pitch for a 6-3 lead.

Emerick settled down in the top of the fourth and got three straight outs after hitting Miller in the lead-off spot.

Poulson led off the bottom of the fourth, leading to the game-ending contested call.

Haney was awarded the win and LoGalbo took the loss.

Cooperstown (7-0, 2-0) visits West Canada Valley in a Center State Conference game Wednesday, May 17.

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Cooperstown’s seniors pose with Cooperstown baseball Coach Frank Miosek before the senior game Friday, May 14. With them are two of the players’ fathers, Bruce Haney and Brian Hascup, who were on Miosek’s first Cooperstown team, more than 30 years ago. From left: Bruce Haney, Kendall Haney, Alex Hage, Alex Poulson, Chris Ubner, Frank Miosek, Alex Hascup, Derek Moore and Brian Hascup.

Mead: pandemic made travel hard, being a baseball ambassador harder MEAD/Continued from B3 He said he also returned to California this year, from January to April.

“It was long, but you make those adjustments,” Mead said. “The hardest part was not being able to get into the flow of the job, Mead’s two-year stint as president coincided with perhaps the two most tumultuous seasons in Major League Baseball’s history

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“But all of that aside, said Mead, “it has been a fantastic experience. It is an honor and a blessing and privilege to have worked at the Hall of Fame - that’s the way I look at it.”

Mead is the seventh president in the 82-year history of the Hall of Fame,

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with distinct memories about what it felt like to be in his position and to work at the Hall.

“When you walk in that plaque gallery or even when I’m alone and I walk past certain exhibits … you know where you’re at, and you know what you’re looking at and out of the respect we have for the game reverence is a big part of it for me,” Mead said.

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“It’s almost like walking on a baseball field when you work for a club. If you ever took that for granted it’s time to look for something else. If you walk through the plaque gallery and you don’t feel that reverence and you’re not inspired or awed then I would suggest you might consider something else as well,” he said.

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL B-5

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021

OBITUARIES

Claud D. Folds, 71

Awarded Silver Star for gallantry HARTWICK - Claud D. missions deep in enemy Folds, better known to his territory- holding the rank of Sergeant. LRRPs would family and friends as Flip, joined Our father in Heaven eventually become today’s in the early morning hours Army Rangers. of Tuesday May 11th, 2021.

Flip finished his time Born in Oneonta on April in the Army as part of the 2, 1950, Flip was the only 198th Infantry Brigade until child of John and Doris an injury sent him home.

Folds. Because of During his four his father’s service years of service, he in the US Air Force, was awarded The Flip had the unique National Defense opportunity to grow Service Medal, up in a variety of the Vietnam locations, including Service Medal, the Texas, Alaska Vietnam Campaign (moving there just Medal, the Combat two days before The Infantry Badge, Great Earthquake,) four Overseas Claud D. Izmir, Turkey, and Service Bars, The Folds Purple Heart for Northern Africa, just to name a few. This life wounds received in combat, afforded Flip a perspective and the Silver Star Medal on the world that few people for gallantry in action have the chance at. against an enemy of The Flip enlisted in the US United States—the third Army in 1968 to serve his highest honor awarded by country during The Vietnam the Armed Forces for valor Conflict. He received sniper in combat. Flip returned certification at Fort Benning, home to Hartwick in 1972 Georgia in November of following his Honorable 1968 as one of the first Discharge from the Army. members of the hand-picked In June of 1975, Flip group of volunteers from married Connie Andrews in each battalion to be a part of a small ceremony to “make the class. me an honest man,” he Flip served in many would often joke. The truth capacities, including the is he loved Connie deeply.

23rd Infantry Division They had two daughters and (formerly known as The adopted a grandson. Flip Americal Division; the very worked a variety of jobs in same as his father during home improvement—particWorld War 2.) Flip was ularly painting—and even part of the Long Range formed his own company, Reconnaissance Patrol- a partnered with his best friend Paul Mullins in the team of 6 well-armed men that performed patrols and late 1980s.

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Flip enjoyed many outdoor activities, particularly salmon fishing, trapping, and hunting in the fall.

He also loved gardening… especially marijuana, which he partook in as a way of coping with the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that plagued him following his service in Vietnam.

Above all else, Flip enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, often telling the parents they were too strict for having simple rules. “Grandpa Prerogative”, he would declare.

After 37 years of marriage, Connie passed away peacefully in her sleep following a series of heart issues on February 2, 2012 with Flip at her side.

While Flip would have easily been content to spend his remaining days alone, drinking coffee at his kitchen table and still spoiling grandkids, Our Lord had other plans for him and delivered to him another opportunity for love.

Flip met Nellie Loomis, and they began a relationship in late 2012. Nellie brought to Flip what he had been missing since Connie’s passing—she was his peace, his boss, his best friend, and his love.

Of course, there was the additional bonus of Nellie having several children… which meant even more grandchildren to spoil!

In 2016, and only after Nellie said she was out the door if he refused to go, Flip’s doctor at the VA discovered esophageal cancer. Flip began treatment immediately and beat it. He credited Nellie’s love and “nagging” for saving his life. He teased, but it was always good natured.

In August of 2020, following routine tests, it was discovered that Flip’s cancer had not only returned, but had metastasized. Several treatments were attempted to slow the cancer until late April of 2021, when it became clear that the difficult choice between quantity and quality of life needed to be made.

Demonstrating the same gallantry that earned him that Silver Star, Flip chose quality and asked to go home with the assistance of family and hospice.

On May 6th, 2021, following the long engagement period of 8 years, Flip married Nellie at his home; fulfilling his final wish of making Nellie “an honest woman.” His grandson Sam and his daughter Nicki (there was no step-anything in Flip’s vocabulary…you were family. Period.) stood at their sides.

Having completed his last request, Flip peacefully passed away a few days later, but only after reminding Nellie that he loved her.

Left behind to share Flip’s adventures and stories are Lisa (Brian) Morgan, Lynn (Owen) Wellman, Charlotte (Michael) Thayer, Christine Schorer (Ashley Renwick), Nicki Wakefield (Kyle Crispal), Sheon Wakefield, and Jeremy Folds; his 16 grandchildren; and several great grandchildren. Also Darlean Roe and family, and Jennifer Deselets and family.

Flip was predeceased by his parents John & Doris Folds, his prior wife Connie, one granddaughter, and two great grandchildren.

At the family’ request, there will be no calling hours.

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John Gale Goddard, 79

Oceanography pioneer, world traveler, volunteer Cooperstown - John John believed in civic Gale Goddard, former engagement, big and small.

In 1969 in Piermont, John resident of Cooperstown passed away May 6, 2021, and two friends collected in Nyack, NY. He was 79. newspapers for recycling John was born in and supported local enviCooperstown to Arthur ronmental preservation with John Goddard and Ramona the proceeds. After moving Gale Goddard and graduate to Nyack in 1971, he from Cooperstown became active in Central School in the Friends of the 1960. He earned Nyacks, the Nyack a B.A. in chemCo-op Market, the istry from Harpur YMCA, and the College (now Nyack Recreation SUNY Binghamton) Department. He in 1965 and a M.S. was a member in Geology from and then chair of CUNY Queens the Nyack Zoning John G. College in 1969.

Board of Appeals.

Goddard John was an He served several expert in the roles at the First measurement of carbon Reformed Church, volundioxide in sea water. teered with the Soup Angels, He joined the staff at and at the Nyack Center Columbia University’s Breakfast Club where he Lamont Doherty Geological was a favorite picture-book Observatory in Palisades, reader and double-dutch NY in August 1965 and turner. After retirement supported that research John spent a lot of time enterprise until 2019; he in the Adirondacks. There also taught oceanography he was a brakeman on the at Fairleigh Dickinson Upper Hudson River Scenic University in the 1980s.

Railroad, active member of He sailed on more than 20 Trout Unlimited, a board oceanographic expeditions member and treasurer of the in the Atlantic, Pacific and Tannery Pond Community Southern Oceans and travCenter, volunteer driver eled to all seven continents. of the North Creek His efforts contributed to Business Alliance shuttle bus, member of Protect better understanding of global climate change, the Adirondacks and the biogeochemical cycling, Garnet Hill Homeowners ocean circulation, oceanAssociation where he atmosphere interaction, monitored water quality and and earthquake prediction. loon population.

The quality and importance John loved listening to of his contribution to the live and recorded music of collective scientific accomall kinds. He found joy in plishments of LDEO is many pursuits: photography recognized. and printing, pewter-

smithing, beer-making, silkscreen-printing, fly-tying, canoe-building, camping and hiking, cooking, and especially golf. He was a do-it-yourselfer; he could sweat any joint, wire any circuit, and fix any engine.

He loved to solve crossword puzzles.

John had a giant and generous spirit—he was kind, thoughtful, deliberate, honest and ethical, even when no one was looking.

He believed in showing up, driving blue highways, following rivers, and getting the job done. John traveled the world but said his favorite port of call was home.

John is survived by his wife of 52 years Mary (nee Conklin), his son Ethan (Dawn), daughter Rachel (John), grandchildren Hudson, Fiona, Eamon, Ilene, Calder, sister Sally, sister-in-law Carol (Bill), and nieces and nephews Douglas, P. J., Jeanne, Peter, Sally, Cyndy, and their partners.

Memorial services are planned for 11 a.m. on June 12 at the First Reformed Church of Nyack NY, and June 26 at the Garnet Hill Lodge in North River, NY. Memorial Contributions: John supported the work of these organizations: Soup Angels of Nyack – P.O. Box 565, Nyack, NY 10960 (www.soupangels.com) Protect the Adirondacks – PO Box 48, North Creek, NY 12853 (www. protectadks.org)

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ROUNDUP: Spartans top Jackets RESULTS/Continued from B3 went 4-for-4, including a double and a triple, with three RBI and a run scored. Kyle Ough went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI and Gavin McEnroe went 2-for-4 with one run for Edmeston.

Unatego 7, Oneonta 5 Unatego rallied from a 5-3 deficit in a comeback win over Oneonta at Joe Hughes Field on Thursday, May 13.

Down 5-3 entering the sixth inning, Unatego scored four runs to take a 7-5 lead.

Unatego took advantage of seven walks by OHS pitchers and two costly errors. Unatego was lead at the plate by Matt Serrao, who had two hits and scored two runs.

Garrett Backus picked up the win, allowing only one run over his three innings of relief work.

Seamus Catella lead Oneonta at the plate with three hits, while Aidan Breakey and Carter Neer each had two hits for the Jackets.

Golf Leatherstocking holds junior tournament The New York State PGA Junior Championship, an invitational tournament Cheryl Clough where the best young golf players from New Milford senior Tia Vagliardo went 5-for-5 as Milford defeated Tri-Valley York compete, took place Sunday, May 9, at the League foe Edmeston, 17-2, Monday, May 17.

Leatherstocking Golf Course in Cooperstown,

with Tyler Berkman, 15, of Potsdam, and Kennedy Swedick, 14, of Albany, winning for the boys and girls overall divisions respectively.

The championship was reduced to a single 18hole round because of rain and course conditions from bad weather Saturday, May 8.

Berkman scored 38-37 – 75 for two over par, one shot better than the closest competitor, Kieren Cummins of Loudonville.

Swedick scored 38-39 – 77 five over par and cemented her victory also one shot above her competitor, Lily Zhang of Williamsville.

Tim Quirk, golf director at Leatherstocking Golf Course, said the wins were impressive considering the conditions of the course.

“Those are great scores for how tough the golf course was with the rain and the cold,” Quirk said. “It’s a tough course to begin with, let alone having wet conditions.”

As a result of their wins, Berkman and Swedick advance to the New York State Golf Association Junior Championship at the Seven Oaks Golf Club in Hamilton on Tuesday, July 27 and Wednesday, July 28.

The competitors came from four different sections in New York state: Central NY PGA, Metropolitan PGA, Northeastern New York PGA, and Western New York PGA. Ages ranged between 12 and 14.

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