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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, June 7, 2012

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Pastor Suggests 1st Step Toward Reconciliation

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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onversation may begin.

The Rev. Thomas Pullyblank, pastor for Fly Creek’s Lippitt family has pro-

posed an initial meeting to the pastor of Anthony Pacherille’s family, Father John P. Rosson.

“I write you, not in my capacity as the Lippitt family’s pastor, nor in consultation with them, but only as a fellow person of the cloth who, like you, takes seriously his responsibility for peacemaking in Jesus Christ’s name,” wrote Pullyblank in an e-mail to the priest.

Pullyblank, pastor of the Fly Creek and Schuyler Lake United Methodist Churches, suggested he and Rosson sit together at the baccalaureate service planned the evening before Cooperstown Central School’s graduation at the First Presbyterian Church.

Father Rosson, pastor of St. Mary’s “Our Please See PASTORS, A8

Covert New Police Chief

After his Tuesday, June 5, swearing-in, Village Police Chief Michael Covert poses with his officers.

From left are Marina Begumoff, James Cox, James Kelman, Sgt. Mark Fassett, Kevin Voce, Scott Sheldon, Greg Rogers and William Henn. Conferring in the background are trustees Lynne Mebust, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Walter Franck.

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Rosemary Kusmierz of Morris, foreground, was one of 30 Milford BOCES students that repaired winter damage to Lakefront Park’s buffer strip Friday, June 1.

Springbrook Graduation Is In New Gym SPRINGBROOK

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or the first time, the School at Springbrook’s graduation will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 14, in the new gym that is part of the school’s $15 million expansion project, “a huge milestone and a wonderful day of celebration,” according to Springbrook spokesperson Kira Delanoy.

A grand-opening ceremony is planned Sept. 20, Delanoy said.

REFORM EXPLORED; Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, will discuss workers’ compensation reform when the Citizen Voices business group meets at 8 a.m. Friday, June 15, at the Carriage House on Southside Drive, Oneonta.

HISTORIC PRIZES: The deadline for nominations for Otsego 2000’s Historic Preservation Awards is Friday, June 15.

For applications and details, see www.otsego2000. org/awards.htm.

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Retired Sheriff’s Investigator 2nd-Generation Lawman

By LIBBY CUDORE COOPERSTOWN

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nlike many retirees, Michael K. Covert didn’t hit the golf course or take up wood-

working. After retiring in 2011 from the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department, he is back in law enforcement as village police chief.

Village Clerk Teri Barown, who was a year a behind him in high school, swore in the new chief at 10:15 Tuesday, June 5.

‘League Of Their Own’ Heroines Gather In Cooperstown In Fall

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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t’s been 20 years since “A League of Their Own,” 40 years since Title IX gave girls the chance to earn sports scholarships to college and 70 years since Philip K.

Wrigley got the idea to form the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.

On Sept. 21, “the girls” – 50 are expected; in all, 550 women played, but many have passed on – will reunite at the National Baseball Hall of Fame to tell stories, catch up and fondly recall the old days among Please See LEAGUE, A7

“I’m a people person,” said the new chief. “I like the fact that I work with the public. It’s a small community, but it’s one of the most popular vacation spots around. It should be good.”

Covert, who moved from New Jersey to Hartwick as a teenager and

graduated in CCS’ Class of 1978, is a second-generation police officer.

His father, Robert Covert, was a police lieutenant in Oakland, N.J. After graduating from SUNY Cobleskill with a degree in environmental design, he started at the Please See CHIEF/A8 “A League of Their Own,” the 1992 hit movie with Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna, put the AAGPBL back in the public eye.

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drian Adamo, who will be a sophomore journalism major at Emerson College in Boston this fall, has been awarded a New York State Press Association summer internship with The Freeman’s Journal.

She reports for duty on Monday, June 11.

Adrian, 18, daughter of Paul and Ann Adamo, is an Oneonta native and Adamo graduate of Oneonta High School, where she was co-editor-in-chief of the school paper and also a teen columnist for the Daily Star.

“We’re delighted to have Adrian with us this summer, and look forward to expanding the offerings to our Oneonta readers,” said editor/publisher Jim Kevlin.

“She’s a lively writer with a fresh perspective that we welcome.”

The NYPA awarded 12 of the competitive scholarships this year for college students to gain professional experience on community newspapers throughout the state.

SALVATORE WINS: Victor Salvatore took first place with a score of 5,130 when four tables of Senior Citizen Bridge played Tuesday, June 5, at the Clark Sports Center. Mary Leary was second with 4,730; Irma Cizek third with 4,560. Jane Brayden got the special prize. Info, call 547-9970.

BELLO GRADUATES: Edward Bello of Richfield Springs was awarded his degree from SUNY IT at commencement May 5.

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work in the strength training room. He was honored during the 2010 College World Series for having the team’s highest GPA. Pohl had to overcome the loss of his mother, Christine, who died of cancer while he was a freshman at Clemson.

Phil Pohl In community service, Pohl read books to children at elementary schools and was a member of the StudentAthlete Advisory Committee. In 2011 he served as a speaker at the IPTAY (Clemson’s fundraising organization) national meeting.

Pohl was a second-team All-ACC selection in 2011 after hitting .333 with 43 runs, a team-high 22 doubles, four home runs, 33 RBI and five steals in 60 games. A versatile athlete, he played catcher, first base, outfield and DH as a Tiger.

GENESEO HONORS: Five students from Cooperstown, Amy Bishop, Shane Clark, Scott Evans, Paul Kennedy and Jamie Sharratt are on the Dean’s List at SUNY Geneseo for the spring semester. Also, Alexandra French, Milford.

OXLEY SHINES: Sean Oxley, Cooperstown, a Computer/Info Sci-BS/MS major, was named to the President’s List at SUNYIT for the spring semester.

HVCC HONOREE: Kyle Hohensee, Fly Creek, is on the Dean’s List at Hudson Valley Community College for the spring semester.

OSWEGO HONOREES: Deirdre Donley (wellness management), Cooperstown, and Ariel Powers (meteorology), Milford, are on the Dean’s List at SUNY Oswego for the spring semester.

Laura Cox, former managing editor of The Freeman’s Journal and founding managing editor of Hometown Oneonta, and her husband Matt are parents to their first child, Leatrice Annette, born at 11:50 p.m. Monday, May 28, in Minneapolis’ Twin Cities. Leatrice, named after Laura’s maternal grandmother, weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 21.75 inches long. Laura spent two years as managing editor while Matt was a student at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies. Congratulations may be sent to laurajohnson917@gmail.com

Gillaspie Wins Thomas Prize For Cancer-Insulin Research COOPERSTOWN

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or work on the relationship of high levels of insulin and colon cancer, Erin Gillaspie, M.D., a surgical resident in her fourth year of training at Bassett Hospital, has won the E. Donnall Thomas Outstanding Research Presentation Award for 2012.

Her study, “Insulin Resistance and the Impact on Colon Cancer” studied tumors in the setting of obesity and high circulating levels of insulin. “We are hoping the research will help us to define the pathways by which hyperinsulinemia promotes tumor growth, with the ultimate goal of being able to design new, focused treatments for cancer,” she said.

Gillaspie worked closely with Michael Greene, Ph.D., and Darin Lynch from Bassett’s research lab.

She earned her medical degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and will Gillaspie complete her surgical residency locally in June 2013.

She will then pursue a fellowship in thoracic surgery.

“I’ve always been passionate about treating cancer and interacting with cancer patients; they are amazing people,” said Gillaspie.

Given annually to a Bassett trainee, the award is named in honor Bassett’s physician-in-chief from 1955 to 1963, who was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his pioneering work in bonemarrow transplantation. He performed the world’s first human bone marrow transplant at Bassett in 1956.

Cooperstown Artist Martha Sharer Illustrates Cover For ’60s Memoir COOPERSTOWN

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ooperstown artist Martha Sharer has illustrated the book cover for “Mango Lassie: A Memoir of the Sixties,” by Doug MacKenzie, which is now available at The Book Nook.

The cover is a whimsical watercolor of two college boys in a sports car flying over the spires of George-

town University’s Healy Hall.

Martha, who lives on a farm near Cooperstown with husband Jim, is known for painting cows and other animals. Her work has often been displayed at the Cooperstown Art Association.

The mother of two, she has been youth services librarian at the Village Library of Cooperstown for 17 years.

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Cook Fencing’s Wayne Schneider prepares to lift rolls of chain-link fence so it can be put in place to protect spectators in the Doubleday Field grandstand from errant balls. The mesh that has protected viewers for past decades was removed Tuesday, June 5, and replaced with the chain-link in time for the 5 p.m. Wednesday opener of the Cooperstown Hawkeyes season.

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Their Otsego Manor colleagues rolled out the red carpet Wednesday, May 30, for retiring Director of Nursing Connie Crist, Burlington Flats, and Bonnie Arnold, Milford, executive adminstrator of the nursing staff. The two had worked at the county nursing home – before the Manor, it was the Meadows – since 1978 and 1988 respectively. The two retirees were taken by limo from Otsego Manor to Bocca Osteria, the Cooperstown restaurant, where they were treated to a retirement dinner.

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With Local Economy Ailing, New Chamber Execs Ideal Choices

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ou’ve heard or read that the 14 million Americans out of work are competing for 5 million jobs. Still, Wall Street Journal columnist David Wessel points out, companies are complaining they can’t find qualified help and are leaving vacancies unfilled.

One reason, he says – citing an essay, “Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs,” by the Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli – is that big companies are using screening software that, unable to assess candidates’ non-objective qualities, is bumping many perfectly able people out of the applicant pool.

“A Philadelphia-area human-resources executive told Mr. Cappelli that he applied anonymously for a job in his own company as an experiment,” Wessel write. “He didn’t make it through the screening process.”

There’s a related issue. If you’ve ever advertised to fill a vacancy on Monster or some other job-posting site, you know you get floods of resumes from unqualified people. It’s so easy for anyone to hit “reply” and fire off a vita.

At an organizational meeting of the CORE Institute in Milford a couple of months ago, Bassett Healthcare’s Colleen Donnelly reported the hospital fills 500 positions a year, but sorting through the 25,000 applications, most from online sources, makes filling those vacancies a huge paper-shuf-

fling chore, As programs (although the like Con“paper” is of stant Contact the digital sort.) multiply, they The good become less news is, it and less effecdoesn’t have tive. We see it to be. in the newspa• per business: Let’s face In days of yore it. The world, (a year or two in the end, is ago), folks The chambers’ new directors: analog. (E.M. Cooperstown’s Pat Szarpa, left, seeking publicForster’s 1909 and Oneonta’s Barbara Ann ity would drop prescient short Heegan. a postcard in story, “The the mail, fire Machine Stops,” comes to mind. off a one-paragraph e-mail or, He envisioned a world where heavens, pick up the phone and machines provide all humanity’s call, or, double-heavens, stop by! needs, and then, well, the maNow, increasingly, lengthy chines stop.) weekly e-newsletters, requirThis is brought to mind by ing two or three or four clicks to changing of the guards at the access, are showing up in e-mail Otsego County Chamber and the inboxes along with dozens, even Cooperstown Chamber of Comhundreds, of often-unsought and merce. The new executives, able unwanted electronic missives. and familiar as they may be in the The Internet alone is not going digital world, are analog people. to accomplish the bigger job.

Both – the Otsego’s Barbara • Ann Heegan and Cooperstown’s And what is the bigger job?

Pat Szarpa – said their first job In Szarpa’s case, it is rallying would be to apply shoe-leather Cooperstown’s merchant comto the sidewalk, to get out there, munity. (She’s already started meet their membership and try to doing so.) Since Polly Rencken’s understand the challenges loretirement four years ago, the cal businesspeople are facing. dozens of merchant promotions Heegan and Szarpa are face-toshe pioneered have been reduced face people; they’ll shake your to less than a handful. The chamhand and engage you in conversa- ber must once again embrace its tion. central role: Bringing customers That’s such a relief and welwith money in their pockets into come change. village stores.

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scratch-offs, Internet gambling, Dice, Texas Hold’em, Power Ball and Mega Millions are just a few of the types of gambling that kids are exposed to regularly.

Early exposure can be as innocent as penny poker with family, a scratch-off ticket in a Christmas stocking, or a trip to the track with Dad. Because kids are geared to seek excitement, gambling is often an irresistible hook.

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(and that the student census in our schools is down 30 percent.)

That’s got to turn around, and Heegan and Szarpa are ideal field generals in this campaign.

In Cooperstown, let’s start developing the mostly vacant block between Railroad Avenue and Grove Street (the former Agway, beautifully redone, and the Where It All Began warehouse are for sale) for commerce or light industry. Job One, zone it appropriately; the special permit now required for anything but a church or a playground is a non-starter.

In Oneonta, Southside Mall is booming, with TJ Maxx and Dick’s Sporting Goods recruited in the past year alone, and more to come. It’s only a quarter-mile from downtown. There must be a way – let’s find it – to ensure Southside Mall and Main Street flourish together.

It’s time for our chambers to get back to basics, and Heegan and Szarpa are promising personalities to help our business community do so. The two chambers may have different missions – the one, Greater Oneonta and all that implies; the other, exploiting while preserving the Glimmerglass Region’s charms. But, apart and together, they have a common mission – even more, a responsibility – to strive and goad and rally their different but complementary communities to achieve a more prosperous whole for our Otsego County.

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New Worry For Parents: Children Gamble More To the Editor, Parents have much to do in raising healthy, happy kids. It seems that there is something new to worry about every time the evening news comes on. I would like to share with your readership that gambling is quickly becoming one of them.

Young people have more access to gambling than ever before. And, according to a Yale study, of the kids who start gambling as teens, 15 percent of them will develop serious problems with gambling. That is a much higher than people who begin gambling later in life.

Gambling, as a form of recreation, has become pervasive in our culture.

Raffles, bingo, brackets,

In Heegan’s case, she needs to refocus a chamber that was mostly concerned with statewide issues – business taxes, workers’ comp reform, big picture stuff – back on the locality of Greater Oneonta.

Otsego is one of 67 counties in the state with 60,000 people in a population of $19.4 million people – 0.003 percent. Certainly, state Sen. Jim Seward’s seniority gives us disproportionate clout, but depending on Albany for our salvation is a low-odds venture.

The fracking controversy has shown the two chambers have different missions – Cooperstown’s is promoting eco- and baseball tourism; Greater Oneonta’s, retail and jobs. This doesn’t suggest antagonism. Quite the opposite.

The missions are complementary.

We can have it all, just not in precisely the same geographic space.

Heegan and Szarpa, as no doubt they will, should maintain cordial relationships and collaborate when they can. Looking down the road, a Commerce Chenango concept – economic development, tourism promotion and the chambers come under the same umbrella, sharing services and reducing costs – may make sense, but that doesn’t mean one chamber will subsume the other.

• Another role that has been lacking in each chamber is economic development. It’s damning that we have the same number of jobs in Otsego County as 20 years ago,

Jamie Smith • Rob D’Aloisio Sales Associates Libby Cudmore Reporter

Mary Joan Kevlin Associate Publisher

Amanda Hoepker Office Manager Tom Heitz Consultant Ian Austin Photographer

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Flis Blum of Cooperstown represented Titanic survivor Emily Borie Ryerson at a reenactment of her testimony at an inquiry into the tragedy Saturday, June 2, at Hyde Hall.

In left photo, Mrs. Blum is flanked by three lawyers: White Star Line’s Charles Burlingham (Jonathan Maney), left; and George Betts (Keyes Hill-Edgar) and Oscar Houston (Mitchell Owens), right, for the government.

Mrs. Ryerson’s Account Of ‘Night To Remember’ Revisited Editor’s Note: At the Saturday, June 2, opening reception of “Titanic: A Springfield Family’s Night To Remember,” there was a dramatic recitation of Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson’s testimony at a Limitation of Liability hearing held 1:30 p.m. June 6, 1913, at the Cooperstown home of Grace Scott Bowen, the Ryerson children’s governess on the Grand Tour that ended in the Titanic’s sinking. Here is an excerpt.

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hat was the first thing you knew of the accident, Mrs. Ryerson?

A. I felt the ship stop – the engines stop.

Q. What did you do then?

A. I got up and looked out, down the corridor, there was no sound, I opened the window in our room, and

IF YOU GO: The display, “Titanic: A Springfield Family’s Night To Remember,” is open to the public daily at Hyde Hall through Oct. 31. Details at www. hydehall.org there was still no sound, and I put on an extra wrapper because it was bitterly cold, much colder than it had been. When we went to bed it was bitterly cold, I couldn’t get to sleep I was so cold. I looked out a second time and saw some people going on deck, and wondered why that was, and a man passenger ran up and said “Put on your life – belt and come up on the boat deck.” I said, “Where did you get those orders?” and he said, “From the Captain.”

Q. When you looked out of the

window, was the weather clear then?

A. It seemed to me so, perfectly clear.

Q. Could you see the stars?

A. Stars were shining, and everything perfectly quiet.

Q. You finally did go on the boat deck, Mrs. Ryerson?

A. Yes, I waked up all the children and my husband, and Miss Bowen and my daughter next door were awake, and we went up on A deck, enclosed deck, and later we were ordered to go up to the boat deck by Stout, second steward in the diningroom, whom I knew. He was the only one I saw that night I knew of the ship’s officers and company.

Q. Were you able to see anything of any icebergs when you were on deck after the accident?

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

200 YEARS AGO

Advertisement – Carding Notice – The Subscribers have entered into a co-partnership in the Carding business, and have furnished themselves with a good Picking machine, and two Carding machines, which are entirely new. One of them is covered with the finest kind of cards, suitable for carding Merino wool. The machines are in complete operation at Fairchild’s Mills, on the Oaks Creek, one mile west of Captain North’s Inn, in the Town of Otsego; said machines are under the immediate direction of Mr. Asahel Jarvis who is engaged to tend the same through the season, and whose experience in the above business is not surpassed by any in the county. Their accommodations, the complete order their works are in, and the faithfulness of the tender prompts them to warrant satisfaction to all who employ them, and as no other works erected on the dam shall interfere with carding business, different customers may depend on being served with punctuality. Most kinds of produce received in payment. Wm. Fairchild. Wm. C. Jarvis. Josiah Stevens. June 1812 June 6, 1812

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formed an organization for a timely, thorough, systematic and intelligent warfare against the dreaded blue mold which first made its appearance in Otsego County last year. An expert from Cornell University has been secured who will be on the ground during the hop growing season, carefully watch the appearance of the enemy and direct the forces against its ravages. Sulphur is coming in by the carload and there will be no letup in the struggle until the crop is secured. Already, mold has appeared in several hop yards, earlier than last year.

June 12, 1912

75 YEARS AGO

The Hon. Robert J. Leamy, whose appointment as Otsego County Judge was announced last week took the oath of office before county clerk Geary L. Wilmot on Tuesday and immediately assumed the duties of the bench. He plans to continue to hold weekly terms of County Court at Cooperstown on Mondays, and Childrens’ Court Tuesdays in the Municipal Building in Oneonta. Otsego County’s new Judge, who is only 28 years of age, is the youngest County Judge in the state.

June 9, 1937

175 YEARS AGO

(Ed. Note: The following editorial was occasioned by the banking panic of 1837 which gave rise to currency and banking reforms) As a man becomes wise by his own follies and vices, so a community may reap wisdom from its own experience of evil. Hence, much good may arise from the present circumstances of the commercial world, inasmuch as the people may obtain an insight into the ways and means by which a certain few have, for several years past, been endeavoring to grow rich at the expense of their fellow citizens. People will be led to inquire into the nature of wealth, and into the causes of these several fluctuations in the value of property which have so frequently taken place, during the last 20 years. They will find out by these inquiries that the general cause of such fluctuations is the present system of banking, aided by numerous secondary causes, such as overproducing one kind of manufacture, and speculation in various articles of consumption.

June 12, 1837

150 YEARS AGO

Correction – About Face! Gentlemen who are to put up eleven new buildings this season on the north side of Main Street object to the location given in our “local” of last week; while Mr. Keyes thinks it would be inconvenient for him at this stage of proceedings to place his hotel other than on the south side of the street. Well gentlemen, have it your own way!

June 6, 1862

50 YEARS AGO

More than 4,000 persons attended the formal opening of the Woodland Museum Memorial Day on Route 80 three miles north of Cooperstown. Major General Conrad F. June 7, 2002 Necrason, commander of the 28th Air Division of Hamilton Air Force Base California, who was born and lived as a youngster in a house a short distance from the site, addressed the large audience, and the two children of Louis Editorial – It is a matter of just concern that the governBusch Hager, the museum’s founder, cut the ribbon. ment has stowed away in its vaults some $70,000,000 in June 6, 1962 silver dollars uncovered by outstanding certificates. It is actually buying silver bullion and coining it into about $30,000,000 each year. Its surplus revenues over and above Dr. Herbert Marx will speak on the nuclear arms freeze at all its expenditures are $100,000,000 a year. It has called the Pierstown Grange Hall at 8:15 next Tuesday. Marx is a in the last dollar of interest-bearing debt that it has any member of the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the right to pay before it is due. It has outstanding a demand Nuclear Freeze Committee of Otsego County. The meeting indebtedness in the form of circulating notes to the amount is open to the public. of 346,000,000, against which it is maintaining absolutely Dr. Herbert Marx of Cooperstown was recently honored idle in the treasury a reserve in gold of $100,000,000. It for his distinguished volunteer service to the American is therefore within its power during the year, to pay off Heart Association, Central New York Chapter. Dr. David $100,000,000 of these notes without imposing a penny of Vaules, also of Cooperstown, presented Dr. Marx with an taxation upon the country, and should be authorized by award plaque during a meeting of the local and state Heart Congress to do it. When these notes were first issued, they Association volunteers in the chapter’s Utica office. Vaules were regarded as a forced loan to meet the expenses of the said Marx has worked unselfishly for the American Heart war – and the general understanding was that they should Association for many years. Dr. Marx is a graduate of Cobe retired from circulation as soon as practicable.

June 10, 1887 lumbia University, is married, and has three children.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012

Mrs. Ryerson Relived Fateful Night At Inquiry TITANIC/From A4 A. Nothing.

Q. You finally embarked from the A deck?

A. Yes, we were ordered down the stairs again.

Q. You remember the lifeboat you went in?

A. Yes, perfectly.

Q. What was its number?

A. Number 4.

Q. In command of whom?

A. A man named Perkis – he seemed to be just a sailor, he wasn’t an officer.

Q. Did you have any difficulty in getting the boat lowered to the water?

A. It seemed to stick, and somebody said we were going to upset, and I thought we had a tremendous drop, but we were so near the water, and finally the davits got loose and we dropped a short distance.

Q. Where did your boat go after your got her in the water?

A. It didn’t go anywhere particularly.

Q. It remained near by?

A. It remained near by.

Emily Borie Ryerson and son Jack, both of whom survived the Titanic’s sinking. The testimony that was the basis for the Hyde Hall presentation demonstrated her formidable personality, according to Jon Maney, the mansion’s executive director.

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Q. Did you find any gangway beyond?

A. We didn’t go, for people said “don’t go there� and

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Q. When you went down into the water, from the boat, did you notice anything about the portholes in the side of the ship?

A. Yes, a great many were open.

Q. Did you notice anything in particular about the portholes on the water?

A. Yes, the water was washing in the portholes, and later I think some of the square windows seemed to be open, and you could see in the cabin and see the water washing in and the gold furniture and decorations, and I remember noticing you could look far in, it was brilliantly lighted – which deck I couldn’t tell.

Q. Did you notice any of the lines of portholes disappear after you got in the boat?

A. Yes, she was sinking very rapidly then, we saw two lines and then we saw only one; it was very brilliantly lighted and you could see very distinctly.

Q. Did you have any lights or compass in your boat, so far as you could see?

A. No. Someone said afterwards they were there; but people piled in so quickly we couldn’t find them.

Q. Did the weather continue cold while you were in the boat?

A. Yes, very cold.

Q. Did you see anything of any ice or icebergs after you were in the boat?

A. Not until dawn we saw a great field of ice and icebergs pink in the dawn, and ice very near, it was in close around us.

Q. Were they in one direction, or around you?

A. They seemed to be around us, so far as I can remember.

Q. When did you see the Carpathia?

A. Just about the same time, at dawn. Several lights we had seen, people kept saying it was a ship, and

then we saw her.

Q. Was a lookout being kept during the night to see if anything was at hand?

A. No, I think the orders were – Perkis said – I was up in the bow close beside him – and he said “Our orders are to keep together if we can, to tie up.� We rested on our oars, didn’t row, practically.

Q. Were you looking around to see what you could see during the night?

A. Oh, yes. Everybody was.

Q. Was there any swell of waves during the night?

A. No, it was still.

Q. Was there any at the time your boat went down into the water?

A. Not that I remember.

Q. Did you see any rockets being set up from the ship?

A. Yes, when we were on the boat deck they were sending up rockets then; there was a very great list on the ship.

Q. When did you first notice there was a list on the ship?

A. That was the first time, when they began to send up rockets, when we were up on the boat deck.

Q. When was that after the ship stopped?

A. I couldn’t tell you – must have been after one o’clock, because I said to my husband “They wouldn’t send those rockets – unless it was the last.�

Q. You rescued some men?

A. Yes. Q. Did you also take on some men from the overturned collapsible boat?

A. Yes. Q. You reached New York afterwards, on the Carpathia, did you?

A. Yes. Q. With all your family, except your husband?

A. Yes. Q. Was the reason you were not going on deck during the first part of the voyage, was because you had suffered a loss of a member of your family?

A. Yes.

LETTERS

Share Extra Seeds With Needy Families To the Editor: Do most of us have extra seeds left over from various packets of vegetable seeds we need for our gardens? We could save them for next year, or here’s an idea: Share them with the families who come to the Cooperstown Food Pantry.

The Food Pantry encourages its clients to grow nutritious veggies if they have access to a small plot of ground or planters. Buying seeds can get expensive, so shared seeds would save them money and help the Food Pantry promote eating nutritious, non-fattening food.

If anyone would like to share extra seeds, they would be most welcome. The Food Pantry, at 25 Church St., is open 10 a.m.-noon and 2-4 p.m. weekdays.

ELLEN ST. JOHN Co-Director, Cooperstown Food Pantry

State Funding Comes With Strings Attached To the Editor: I agree with last week’s editorial that we must “learn the rules� to benefit from the state comprehensive funding application (CFA) submitted through our Mohawk Valley Economic Development Commission. What is often left out of these conversations, as was left out of this editorial, is exactly what it takes to get funding. So let’s look reality squarely in the eye at the specifics.

When I spoke to Kenneth Tompkins of the Empire State Development Corp., the regional director of the Mohawk Valley regional office, he explained the procedure. The grants are usually for no more that 20 percent of the total project cost and often only 10 percent, according to Ken. That means if you want $10,000, you have to find $90,000. If you want $100,000, you have to find $900,000. If you want $1 million, you have to find $9 million more. Sobering.

In addition, many of these grants come with provisions that you guarantee a certain number of new permanent employees. After all, the baseline of these grants is to create jobs. If you do not deliver on that promise, New York State can recover the grant it gave you. That’s the good news.

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The implications of this system are staggering. It means that you can get a top20 rating regionally, and not get a grant because Albany gives you a low rating. More shocking, you can get a dismal regional rating, and Albany can give you a grant.

That is hardly the bottom-up, local decisionmaking this system alludes to being. In the best circumstance, Albany can follow the recommendations of local regions It explains why Ommegang. and Chobani received grants and why Amphenol and Bassett might get one the next time around. They are bonafide companies capable supplying funding for 90 percent of their project and creating permanent jobs.

It also speaks to the limited value of these multiple economic meetings being held associated with state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford.

These grants are not about self determination and targeting sectors. They are about getting the other 90 percent yourself and then guaranteeing jobs.

It may be prudent to note that James Seward has been our region’s state senator for 26 years. That’s a long time to help our area’s economic development. During his tenure our region’s economic well-being has steadily declined. Now he is leading the charge. Too little, too late?

JOHN KOSMER Fly Creek County Representative District 8

Parents, Beware, Gambling Rising LETTER/From A4 that they can come to you. • Educate yourself and your kids. • Know what behavior is normal. • Establish family rules and enforce them As I work in and around Otsego County, I am keenly aware that parents want the very best for their children.

Talking about gambling is one more way that kids can be supported in growing up exactly as parents dream of: healthy, content and ready to take on the world.

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7

Illinois Raiders leftfielder throw the ball back into the infield after a base hit by the Cyclones.

A Coachs 3N2 Sluggers runner heads for third on a teammates base hit.

Cheryl Clough

photos for The Freeman’s Journal A Pacifica Torture pitcher delivers a pitch during his team’s 10-6 loss to Coachs 3N2 Sluggers.

The Pacifica Torture and their coach meet at the mound during a pitching change in their game against Coachs 3N2 Sluggers Sunday morning.

The Torture first baseman jumps for a high throw from his right fielder but the throw sailed over his head allowing the runner to be safe at first. Teams from all over the nation arrived at Cooperstown Dreams Park Thursday, May 31, for the first of 13 weeks of youth baseball near the Home of Our National Pastime.

A Raiders base runner dives back into first on attempted pickoff by the Cyclones pitcher.

Cyclones second baseman runs back to position after holding a runner at the bag.

Raiders shortstop steps on second and throws to first to complete a double play.

‘League Of Their Own’ Reunion Planned Sept. 21 In Cooperstown LEAGUE/From A1 photographs and team relics.

At 79, Lois Youngen is one of the younger members of the league. She was the catcher for the Fort Wayne Daisies and then for the South Bend Blue Sox over the years 1951 to 1954, when she also played left field. “Halfway through the season the Blue Sox lost their catcher, so I had to go fill in,” she said.

The league’s annual reunion will be in Syracuse, with a banquet. An exhibition game on Sept. 22 will feature associate members, such as reunion coordinator Shelley McCann, as well as

a few members of the AAGPBL. “Some of them could outplay me any day,” Shelley said.

Though Youngen Lois will not play in the exhibition game, she says she can still pitch and catch “pretty well.”

The day before – the 21st – the Hall of Fame will host the league for a private tour of the museum, including the permanent exhibit that commemorates the episode

in baseball history. “Every girl who ever played for us – even for one day – was listed there,” said Lois.

“Our song had the line ‘one for all and all for one’.”

“We’re going to welcome them with hospitality,” said Craig Muder.

The women’s league had been a largely forgotten piece of baseball history before “A League of Their Own,” a huge hit that starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell and others. The final scene, a league reunion, was filmed in Doubleday Field.

The movie was inspired by the “Girls of Baseball”

exhibit that went up at the Hall of Fame in 1988 to a record crowd. Movie director Penny Marshall saw the exhibit, and that inspired her to do the movie.

Marshall’s son attends Syracuse University and will be interning at the Alliance Bank field where the game is planned, but no word on whether she or the other film stars of will attend.

Marshall did attend the San Diego reunion in 2011 and was given an honorary membership.

Youngen’s claim to fame was catching a perfect game, one of only two played in the league’s history, on Sept.

3, 1953, against Kalamazoo.

“Jean Faut, the pitcher, she did all the work, all I had to do was hang onto the ball” Lois said. “Every time I see Jean at a reunion I refer to her as the girl who made me famous. And I can still vividly see a ball headed to right field that Betty Wagner caught – that’s what gave us a perfect game over a shutout. No one got to first base.”

Lois is also proud of the home run she hit over the fence, a triumph for a girl she said was the “runt” of the team. “Hitting that home was kind of amazing,” she said.

She used the money she made playing baseball in the summer for tuition to Kent State. She went on to get her master’s at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Ohio State, working at the University of Oregon as the director of physical activity and recreational services.

“It’s a special reunion because it’s in Cooperstown,” said Lois. It will be her first time visiting the exhibit.

“It’s all about them,” said Shelley. “This will probably be their last trip to Cooperstown, and I want them to have time with each other.”

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-8

THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012

Pastor Suggests Meeting

PASTORS/From A1 Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church, said he had received the e-mail and was considering his response. He said he was unsure the baccalaureate, which focuses on the graduating class, is the best venue for such a first step.

The two pastors have become identified with the two sides in the community divide that grew out of the Good Friday 2010 shooting in Cooper Park.

Anthony Pacherille, now 18, now imprisoned in the shooting of a classmate, Wesley Lippitt, also 18, was a member of St. Mary’s parish. The Lippitts are in Pullyblank’s congregation.

Pullyblank wrote Rosson that he was picking up on a suggestion in a recent editorial in The Freeman’s Journal.

“Although I firmly and vigorously disagree with (the editorial’s) interpretation of events leading up to the tragedy of April 2, 2010, and firmly and vigorously

disagree with his opinion of the current situation, I affirm (the) suggestion that those of us involved in the dispute engage in acts of peacemaking,” Pullyblank wrote.

He called sitting together at the baccalaureate “a simple act of cooperation.”

Perhaps the Rev. Elsie Rhodes, who will preside at the baccalaureate, “could recommend a psalm of praise for us to share at the event. Perhaps you have an alternative suggestion for a peaceful act of cooperation.

If so, I am eager to hear it and willing to consider it.

“Whatever we might do, I hope and pray that someday you and I – two leaders who, for many, personify the divisions within our community – might, at least for a moment, lay aside our private piques and publicly expressed antipathies and be seen together as two children of God who earnestly desire peace, even as we each seek that peace via very different paths.”

Paul Donnelly/The Freeman’s Journal

Three CCS grads who were once “Girls On The Run” themselves – standing, from left, Sarah Dewey, SUNY Geneseo, Cailin Huggins, Nazareth, and Deirdre Donley, SUNY Otsego – assist Lisa Carrasquillo, left, coach of the Stamford team, and Catherine Snyder, whose niece had run far ahead.

Snyder was lagging with her two daughters, baby Molly and Elyse in the carriage. More than 1,000 girls ran in the 10th annual event Sunday, June 3, which departed from the Clark Sports Center.

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Editor’s Note: Due to a miscommunication with the printing plant, this page failed to appear in the May 30 edition of The Freeman’s Journal, so it is reprinted this week.

Alan Christman, left, and Dan Naughton place a memorial wreath on the stone at the top of Pine Boulevard in memory of the fallen.

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Rich Balcom, Mike Boyson and Mark Rowley fire the salute to fallen soldiers during Cooperstown’s Memorial Day observances Monday, May 28, at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument at Main Street and Pine Boulevard. At right, Martha Sherwood covers her ears.

Spry veteran Bruno Talevi still fits in his original Navy uniform from decades ago.

Cooperstown Again Observes Its Memorial Day Traditions Two ladies with family ties to The Freeman’s Journal had a chance to chat after the ceremony. Frank Carpenter, father of Nancy Carpenter Dunn, left, was editor/publisher of The Otsego Farmer at the time Walter Littell, fatherin-law of Eileen Littell, right, was editor/publisher of The Journal. The newspapers were sister publications during much of the 20th Century.

Past American Legion Post Commander Doug Walker, center, emceed the ceremony at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument. At left is veteran Bill Haase; at right, Mayor Jeff Katz.

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MLS#84525 - 2 bedroom 1 bath Quaint Cottage! Country Living! New Roof, New Kitchen $80,000 Call Gabriella Vasta for showing @ (607) 267-1792

MLS#81281 - Western side of Otsego Lake, Contemporary Style MLS#81852 - Great location for a perfect fixer upper. Make this Cedar Built 7200+/-SqFt home w/5 bedrms, 4 full baths & a 3 house a home with a little paint and elbow grease. Convenient Car Garage. Soaring walls of glass, 2 ½ stories high. 1000+SqFt location on rt 20 for easy access to Cooperstown, Utica, Otsego of gleaming wood flr, full length fireplace & spacious wrap lake, Canadrago Lake, and The Baseball Hall of Fame. around decking. Chef’s dream kitchen, w/culinary island, granite $58,000 Call Adam Karns @ (607) 244-9633 countertops & stainless Jenn Air appliances. 24’x15’ family rm, 24’x18’ home theater/media rm & a 28’x16’ game rm!! 24’x21’ master suite w/a 14’x11’ bath w/Jacuzzi tub, shower & double sinks, a 12’x12’ closet w/laundry & secluded balcony. Mostly wooded 21.50+/-acres. $895,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683

MLS#84524 - Calling All Buyers! Priced to Sell! Remodeled 1900s Victorian, 3 bedrms 1 ¼ bathrms, an oversized kitchen, dining rm for entertaining, spacious yard, detached garage, & much more. Located near local bookstores, coffee shops, Covidien (Tyco), ski mountains, bike & hiking trails. NEW hot water heater & furnace. Updated plumbing & electric. $145,000 Call Gabriella Vasta for showing @ (607) 267-1792 MLS#82197 - Beautiful country setting for relaxed living.

Owner financing available, close to Stamford and near Oneonta.

Reduced $74,000 Call Adam Karns @ (607) 244-9633

MLS#77855 - Vacant land, 5.9 wooded acres, possible building site, hunting, recreation, electric and phone available. $20,000 Call Gabriella Vasta for showing @ (607) 267-1792

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MLS#82038 - Hunter camp on just over 4 acres with small pond, garage to keep 4 wheelers out of the elements, outhouse and hunters cabin. $24,900 Call Adam Karns @ (607) 244-9633

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new LIStInG - MLS#84527 - Pierstown 74.43 acres surround this Log Cabin w/3 or 4 bedrms & 2 full bathrms.

Beautiful stone fireplace, 1st flr bedrm w/entrance to a mahogany side deck, 32’x8’ front deck/balcony & a finished walkout basement w/stone patio, overlooking a lrg stocked pond. Otsego Rural electric & has both electric & gas heat, along w/a Jotul gas fireplace & a brand new Rinnai tankless hot water heater. Newer energy efficient appliances. 2 tax parcels include 3.28 acres w/home & a 26’x34’Garage, & a 71+/- acres w/2 barns, & about 40 acres of woods. $497,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683

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MLS#84245 - Lrg restored farmhouse on over 112 beautiful & level acres in the Town of Springfield & only 10 minutes from Cooperstown.

This home offers 4 lrg bedrms, 1 full & 2 half baths, 1st flr master bedrm, wide pine wood flrs, (some cut nail) lrg living rm, formal dining rm, & oversized kitchen w/breakfast nook. Also a lrg accessory apartment w/seperate entrance, 3 bedrms,1 full bath, kitchen, dining, and living rms w/french doors leading to private deck. 2 lrg barns, workshop, chicken coop & 2 ponds. Home can be sold w/less property for lower price. $399,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

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MLS#81588 - A Steal at $149,000 for large home, with Koi pond, garage can hold 8 cars, chestnut floors, South New Berlin.

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MLS#81221 - Beautifully maintained 3 bed 2 bath home in beautiful Fly Creek. Full finished walk out lower level, oversized garage with work shop and walk up loft for crafts or hobbies all on almost 2 acres with a stream out back. $199,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

for ULTIMATE PRIVACY. 27+ acres w/a LRG POND STOCKED W/TROUT & BASS, 3 br, 3 ba ranch w/2 car att gar, updated Cherry kitchen, granite countertops, NEW SS appliances, fossil stone fireplace, hardwood flrs, completely renovated MASTER BEDRM SUITE ON THE 1ST FLR. Finished basement w/laundry, family rm, shop area, & walk out to the garage. A spacious (24’ x 56’) Una-Lam BARN w/2nd flr loft, woodstove, & electric. $299,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

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Currently set up as a turn key hair salon with attached living space, this property has many possibilities. Easily converted to offices or other business, subject to government approvals. 1,000 square feet is currently dedicated to business use, which is four rooms and 1/2 bath on first floor front. 1,200 sqft rear two story unit is occupied for home/ apartment use. Excellent condition throughout with many recent updates including kitchen and baths.

Great location in Oneonta’s West End. Perfect opportunity for home based business.$139,900. mLS#82222

MLS#83628 - Beautiful 3 bed. 2 bath home with 2 car garage, Otego Only $169,000 Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436

new LIStInG - MLS#84237 – OUT OF SIGHT from the road new LIStInG - MLS#84180 – Older single-wide mobile home on over an acre w/new furnace, windows, well, some new appliances.

Currently rented for $500 per month plus utilities. Might make a nice CHEAP investment property or remove the mobile home & the building lot is already improved w/well, septic, & electric! Seller is motivated, MAKE AN OFFER! $19,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

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DRIVE! Located just minutes from downtown Oneonta, this CLEAN on almost 70 PRIVATE & PEACEFUL ACRES of mostly wooded PRIME 3 br, 2 ba ranch w/a full, finishable, DRY basement & oversized 2 HUNTIING property w/a creek & ATV trails throughout. CATHEDRAL car garage situated on a QUIET DEADEND ST. features LOTS OF NEW CEILINGS, loft bedrm, loft family rm, ceramic tiling. The wood stove windows, appliances, furnace, water heater, UV water filtration system heats the whole house w/INEXPENSIVE COOP ELECTRIC baseboard as & water softener. *** BONUS! Master bedrm suite being used as backup. Ideal for hunters or a great family home. efficiency apt. but could be converted back to a Master Bedrm Suite $239,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068 w/private bath. $135,000 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

MLS#84003 - Newer Ranch home, energy efficient, radiant heat, Davenport, $229,000 Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436

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new LIStInG - MLS#84423 - Home offers 4 bedrms, 2 baths, living rm w/wood burning fireplace, dining rm & lrg family rm w/vaulted ceiling & woodstove, kitchen w/lrg pantry & glassed in breakfast rm. Mature trees offer a park like setting. 4 car garage & 3 other outbuildings w/plenty of storage. Could also make a wonderful B&B. $289,000 Call Lynn Bass @ (607) 437-2174

new LIStInG - MLS#84136 – COUNTRY LIVING WITHOUT THE MLS#81749 - HUNTERS’ DELIGHT! Beautiful ALMOST NEW Cape Chalet

PRICE REDUCED!! 5-unit, 13-bedroom investment property has been recently renovated, separate utilities, laundry room, hard-wired smoke system, off-street parking. $409,995 #82943 Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner Cricket Keto, Lic. Assoc.Broker John Mitchell, Lic. Assoc. Broker Stephen Baker,Lic. Assoc. Broker Peter D. Clark, Consultant

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COOPERSTOWN AREA 2 FAMILY HOMES Investment Opportunity Priced to Sell!

Both apartments feature 2 bedrooms, eat in kitchens, living rooms and baths.Sunny downstairs apartment has back yard door access to sun deck and large fenced in backyard. Ample parking & walking distance to downtown & Bassett Hospital, with a great rental history. Price Reduced $149,500.00.

Located in a terrific location, close to Cooperstown, Baseball Dreams Park and Glimmerglass Opera, this 2 family property is suitable for many situations. Renting out for Dreams Park Rental for 13 week season at $1250/week, a live in and rent out 2nd unit to help pay mortgage, and a 100 % investment which would bring about $1250/month on a year round basis.

Listing Price: $149,000 MLS# 84452

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Situated a corner lot facing Lake Street overlooking the golf course.

The house has had updating with new stainless steel appliances and a gas kitchen range; mechanicals have been updated. Ease of access from the attached large garage. Mudroom entry from garage. The house has good natural light in all rooms. There are two wood-burning fireplaces – one in the living room and one in the dining room. Two baths have been totally redone – full and three quarter. Private backyard with patio. Perfect location within walking distance of the golf course, the Otesaga Hotel and all village locations. Convenient one floor living with a big house feel!

DynamiC otsego lakefront lake-View ranCH!

(7587) Exceptional Canadarago Lake views in this charming 3BR/2BA residence situated on 7 acres. Ideal offerings include dining room w/ glass doors leading to patio, Brick post entrance and fully fenced, two-car garage plus an additional large garage. Newer flooring, newer furnace. It wins hands down for real value.

Richfield Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $179,000

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(7451) Cherish this superbly-kept 3BR/2BA home on a serene street near schools. Fine features include rocking-chair front porch, hardwood flooring and Jotel woodstove. Main-level master bedroom, modern kitchen. Garage, enclosed patio retreat. Come home to an air of comfort and welcome.

Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $257,500

(7353) Treat yourself to this terrific, 3-bedroom home with panoramic lake views on a full acre w/100’ of private lakefrontage. Nicely-kept, one-owner residence providing a bright open floorplan, den and woodstove, lower level basement. Modern kitchen w/oak cabinets. Laundry room, Sliding glass doors to large wrap-around covered deck, metal dock, storage shed. It shows off beautifully! Hubbell’s Exclusive. $625,000

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(7514) A real treasure! You will want to see this 3BR/2+BA centrally located home. Among its features are newer kitchen with Corian counter top, Pergo flooring and newer furnace. Cozy fireplace. Spacious living room, family room, walk-up attic. Formal dining room. Garage, newer roof, deck, central air. Mature plants. Fully remodeled. Come home to an air of comfort and welcome. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $279,000

Main Street Cooperstown (6447) Business block on Main Street. Four 2 BR apartments.

2 commercial spaces. 2,500 sq ft total commercial space. New windows, new hot water furnace. Storage space in cellar.

Well-kept stone and brick building. Good income producer.

Hubbell’s Exclusive $525,000 Cooperstown Otsego Lake Lot (7185) Lake View vistas! Last of the lake lots in the Village. 100’ of lake privileges directly in front. Beautiful beach and dock area.

Village water & sewer hook-ups. Good road access.

Once in a lifetime opportunity to build the house of your dreams.

Hubbell’s Exclusive $225,000

7 Factors of the “Just Right” List Price It is very difficult to find the right price at which to list your home. There are loads of moving pieces, competing priorities and voices to be sorted through, internal and external.

This is a short list of factors that will help you price your home at the price at which it will sell without lagging.

1. The Comps. 2. Days on the Market.

3. List price vs. Sales price. 4. Competition Level.

5. Timing. 6. Motivation Levels. 7. Agent and Market Feedback.

Once you have the information listen to it and factor it in, along with other factors that you may have.

For reliable, honest answers to any of your real estate questions, Don Olin Realty at 607.547.5622 or visit our website www.donlinrealty.com

Cooperstown Village Home

(7504) A delightful discovery near Clark Sports Center, shops, & schools. Make a great move to this spotless, tastefully remodeled 3BR/2+BA home. Ideal features include walk-up attic suite, oak flooring and ceramic tile baths. Secluded den, newer windows, newer kitchen with oak cabinets and cork flooring. Formal dining room.

Nice private yard, Newer siding, Deck, Front porch.

Reflecting pride of place! Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,900

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