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Public debates Chestnut Street project

CFD announces donation in honor of Fred Kerr

About 30 speakers discuss pros, cons of Chestnut Crossing apartments in lengthy public hearing

The Cooperstown Fire Department announced Tuesday, June 29, that it has received a donation to honor the memory of Fred Kerr.

The donation will go to the purchase of an extractor washer/dryer for cleaning turnout gear and lowering the risk of cancers in volunteers.

Kerr served as fire chief in Bristol, Ohio, in the 1980s.

He loved Cooperstown and his family had a cottage on Otsego Lake for more than a century, his widow Carol Kerr said in the media release.

The donation came from the D Squared Fondation.

By GREG KLEIN COOPERSTOWN — More than 50 people packed the Cooperstown Central School cafeteria for a public hearing on the proposed Cooperstown Crossing apartment complex at 10 Chestnut St. The Cooperstown Village Board of Trustees moved the meeting to the middle/high school because of the public hearing, the first official chance for residents to speak for or against the 13-unit apartment complex proposed by Josh Edmonds and Francesca Zambello for two pieces

►NUMBERS DECLINING: Otsego County Department of Health releases good news about coronavirus numbers locally, statewide. ►Farmers’ Celebration: Local museum announces traditional Independence Day celebration will be held. ►OUTLAWS UPDATES: Local PGCBL team enters second month of play. ►Open for Business: Caribbean food restaurant opens in Oneonta. ►Program Milestone: Springbrook holds ceremony for residents.

more than two hours and the meeting itself wrapped up after 11 p.m, but Tillapaugh said she expected as much.

“It is important for everyone to have the opportunity to speak and be heard by all,” she said. “I expected it to be a large crowd and a late night.”

The views on the project were clearly divided, with about 60% of the speakers in favor of the project, but nearly every single neighbor and Pine Boulevard resident against the density of the project, which they argue is too big for the lots, See PROJECT, Page A3

Cooperstown graduates return to form for 2021

By GREG KLEIN

Cooperstown Central School returned to its grand graduation ceremony Sunday, June 27, as 84 Village to hold hearing seniors graduated on the lawn of the about 20 Glen Avenue Fenimore Art Museum in the town The Cooperstown Board of of Otsego.

Trustees will hold a public New Superintendent Sarah Spross hearing at 7 p.m., Monday, told the students that Cooperstown’s July 26, at Village Hall, about future is in good hands with this subdividing and issuing a year’s class. She said the students special-use permit to the have learned key skills during the owners of 20 Glen Avenue. coronavirus pandemic that limited their activities during their final two INSIDE years of high school. She said if the students can take from the experi►NEw HAll LEADER: Josh Rawitch to take over as Hall of ence the skills of resiliency, service and a sense of humor, then they will Fame president in September. go on to live good lives.

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As is the tradition, the school’s ►CASE CLOSED?: Defense, top four students gave a combined prosecuting attorneys discuss Dylan Robinson murder case speech. For the class of 2021, following the guilty verdict.

Brayden White, Caroline Whitaker, Page A12.

Abby Miller and Will Weldon ►graduation 2021: More compared grade school to popular stories and photos from high movies, “Good Will Hunting,” “The school graduation weekend.

Lion King,” “The Breakfast Club” PageS A8-9. and “Forrest Gump.” ►Post-Season Honors: Unat“From Mr. Lippitt’s extra toe ego’s Stepp, Cooperstown’s token races, to Mr. Pep’s medieval Seamon among athletes given catapult contests to Ms. Parr’s post-season awards. Page A7. leaf project, we have all been the benefactor of strong mentor’s in Follow Breaking News On our life,” White said, comparing the teachers to Robin Williams’ OTSEGO.com character in “Good Will Hunting.”

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of land they own on Chestnut Street and a third on Pine Boulevard.

The overflow crowd did not disappoint, with about 30 people speaking on the issue and two more speaking about a proposed licensing law for village-owned Cooperstown icons. Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh lifted the typical one-hour limit length for public hearings, gave each speaker five minutes to speak on each issue, and even allowed a handful of people to speak a second time or ask limited questions.

The public hearing portion of the meeting took

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From left, Lindsey Trosset, Anna Lambert and Joey Bertram celebrate Sunday, June 27, after their graduation from Cooperstown Central School.

Whitaker quoted the Lion King in speaking about how the graduates all needed help to get to where they were Sunday. “No one here can say their success is all their own,” she said. “Little bits of it are owed to those who supported us.”

Class President Alexander Bohler marveled that he will graduate with good feelings about all of his class-

mates. He spoke of the need for his classmates to help fight against climate change.

“I don’t say these things to ruin everyone’s mood,” he said. “”I say them to make a point. Every one of us is capable of aiding the fight against climate change.”

Bohler quoted Charles Dickens: “‘It was the best of times, it was

the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.’ Let’s now enter into the world as people who understand that duality. Let’s fulfill our greatest potentials in the spirit of sustainability and wisdom. Let’s let the good times win over the bad times.

“It’s been a pleasure to grow up beside all of you,” he concluded.

AllOtsego people: Local radio legend announces retirement

By PATRICK DEWEY After 32 years, local radio legend Chuck D’Imperio turned off the microphone on his WDOS morning show for the last time Tuesday, June 29.

The retiring radio host got his start in 1988 at what was then Hastings Broadcasting in Oneonta. The best offer owner Gordon Hastings had for D’Imperio was an unpaid Contributed position changing tape reels and ‘Big Chuck’ D’Imperio, seen at a monitoring the station during recent book signing, is retiring from three-hour broadcasts for the local radio after more than 50 years. Boston Pops.

D’Imperio said the time around the station early on was enough to further his radio interest.

Soon after, Hastings sold the broadcast company to Jan Laytham and paid opportunities for D’Imperio emerged. There was mutual respect between the two, and D’Imperio soon became the morning host on AM 730, WDOS. Laytham coined D’Imperio’s radio name “Big Chuck.”

“When she made me Big Chuck, she gave me the chance of a lifetime,” D’Imperio said.

D’Imperio and Laytham partnered with Eastern Travel to or-

ganize “Big Chuck’s Bus Trips.”

Though unsure whether there would be interest, D’Imperio agreed to Laytham’s idea. The team would end up hosting 52 weekend bus trips for listeners.

“We made so many great friendships and saw many great shows.

Those trips were a highlight of my career,” D’Imperio said.

For 20 years, D’Imperio was the host of “Thursday Night Jukebox,” a two-hour show on 103.9 WSRK featuring songs from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.

D’Imperio said being a radio See BIG CHUCK, Page A3

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Mackenzie Catan Oneonta Rotary Community Service/ Selean “Sam” Koury Award

Ian House Johns Hopkins University Daniel & Jean Rothermel Memorial Scholarship

Dylan Davi SUNY Delhi 2021 Sam Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship

Sabrina Scianimanico The Willies Family Foundation Scholarship Matthew Shultz Janice “Denny” Lennox Memorial Scholarship

William Moody Hudson Valley Community College Sam Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship

Anessia Simonds Russell Sage College Pasquale & Mary Leone Memorial Scholarship Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Scholarship

Samuel Moore SUNY Delhi Edward & Florence Ostrowski Memorial Scholarship

Dylan Sorensen SUNY Albany Helen Stam Memorial Scholarship

Emily Moore Syracuse University Hon. Robert A. Harlem Memorial Scholarship

Takira Spoor SUNY Oswego First Responders Scholarship

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Nicholas Stalder SUNY Cobleskill George A. & Isabelle L. Niles Scholarship

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Village residents largely supportive of housing in general, but neighbors leery of density of Crossing project

PROJECT/ from Page A1 which total just less than a half-acre.

Edmonds and Zambello also gave a presentation about the project, which would replace a dilapidated building of approximately the same size and footprint. The project would have eight two-bedroom apartments, one onebedroom apartment and four studio apartments. The apartments would be for long-term rentals only, with at least one-year leases, no pets allowed and no outdoor amenities, in an effort to funnel the residents to the village parks and keep them away from close proximity to the neighbors.

Late in the evening, Edmonds said the project needed the density to make the numbers work for a bank loan.

“We can quibble about 12 units versus 13 units,” he said. “At 10, there is no project. It is just the stark reality of right now.”

Cooperstown Fire Chief Jim Tallman asked a series of questions on behalf of the department, making sure there would be continued access to the property. However, later in the evening he said he favored the project in general because Cooperstown is aging out of its fire department and needs new recruits, new families and new revenues.

Tallman said the village is moving toward a professional fire department and that would inflate everyone’s taxes.

Greg Klein/The Freeman’s Journal “I think as a community, we are better than saying not in Artist’s rendering for the Chestnut Crossing property proposed for 10 Chestnut St., shows the alleys, my backyard,” he said. parking area and adjacent property on Pine Boulevard that will act as a buffer between the 13-unit rental However, for the residents on Chestnut, Pine and Main property and its neighbors.

Street the quality of life issues gave them passion and pause. Most said they favor some development, and they like Edmonds and Zambello generally, but they worry about traffic on Pine that is already busy from Otesaga customers all summer.

“I love what I am hearing about the project, but I am 100% against the density,” said Frank Panzarella, who lives Join Our Team of Dedicated and Caring Professionals at 16 Pine, across the street from the back of the project. “I want to see the land developed. I think the building is an To place effective employment ads, call 607-547-6103 eyesore there. So much of what has been said here today is Building Healthy spot on about the density.”

Families Specialists With 21 bedrooms, the project needs 21 parking spaces, four of which will come through an easement on the Pine property, which may also be developed at a later date.

Emergency Housing Coordinator Tillapaugh said she laid out a schedule for the proposal that includes the trustees thinking about what they heard before deciding on a special-use permit to allow the higher Residential Associates density. She said there will be a dedicated meeting on the issue at 6:30 p.m., Monday, July 12, where the trustees can to deliver newspapers to high-traffic spots FT Head Start Positions discuss the issues and come to a final ruling on the specialin the greater Oneonta/Cooperstown area use permit. with school breaks If the project is approved July 12, then the design and every Wednesday afternoon. & Summers off safety issues would be worked out in the village’s Planning Must have reliable transportation, valid Board, Historic Architectural Review Board and Zoning Bus Driver driver’s license, registration and insurance.

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D’Imperio also writes books about local history, sightseeing BIG CHUCK/from Page A1 personality is a lot of fun, but when hardship or tragedy comes, the on-air host needs to be ready. “You need to make sure listeners know that you are serious and can be trusted,” D’Imperio said.

Two of the most significant tragedies D’Imperio remembers covering are the 1994 murder of State Trooper Ricky J. Parisian and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“Those were very somber but very important times to be on the air,” D’Imperio said.

Fellow Oneonta radio personality Leslie Ann Parmerter, who can be heard weekday mornings on WZOZ 103.1 and WDHI 100.3, has worked with D’Imperio for 26 years. A few years back, they came up with the idea of having “Watercooler Conversations” that would air on both of their shows. The two have had hundreds of these discussions, which can be described as talking about nothing and everything.

D’Imperio and Parmerter have also used the platform for more serious discussions, including about the coronavirus pandemic.

“He has been such a positive force in my life,” Parmerter said.

D’Imperio’s retirement “marks the end of an era,”

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In addition to being a local radio icon, D’Imperio has also published 10 books about New York. He has two more planned for release this year. He is also looking forward to traveling with his wife, Trish, a teacher in Schenevus.

Despite the end of D’Imperio’s WDOS show, WDHI and WZOZ will continue to have new “Watercooler Conversations” between Parmerter and D’Imperio, and D’Imperio will still contribute articles to www.cnynews.com.

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The Old Badger: The joy of the old pavilion still makes people smile Editor’s note: This column was first published May 11, 1977.

An announcement: The Mt. Otsego ski slopes are not on the slopes of Mt. Otsego. Ta-daah! Mt. Otsego is almost a mile beyond the skiing area and 500 feet above it. Ta-dum! And Mt. Otsego is “… the highest point of land in Central New York, 1,000 feet above and overlooking Otsego Lake.”

Tan-ta-rah! (The last item was the (erroneous) claim put out by one of the large hotels when hustling the public with the beauties of Cooperstown in 1890.)

The only problem with continuing in this manner is the confusing intelligence that the real Mt. Otsego goes by two names: Mt. Otsego and Rum Hill. These prominences are not separate.

They are one and the same. Not juxtaposed, not side by side, not next to each other, but the same hill, with two names.

The original name was Rum Hill. Harken to G. Pomeroy Keese, writing in Lippincott’s Magazine in May of 1880:

“When the whites first came into this part of the country, they sought to obtain from the Indians the right to hunt unmolested over a certain part of it. As this was the highest land hereabouts, they agreed to meet on the hill where they could see over the broadest expanse of country; and in order to close the treaty on the spot, they brought their presents with them that the Indians might have no chance to change their minds.

Among the important things to the Indians’ minds or palate was the ‘fire water,’ which was to seal the compact. A barrel of rum was therefore, with some difficulty, conveyed to the top of the hill and, the treaty being concluded,

the bung was knocked out and the liquor freely dispersed. It was not long before the potent spirit had its effect and the Indians fell to quarreling and fighting over the prize. In the tussle, the barrel went rolling down the steep side of the hill and, the bung being out, the liquor flew with every revolution.

The Indians, seeing their treasure escaping, started in pursuit. Some fell in their drunken frenzy, others tumbled over them, while the barrel careered on its way until the contents were gone forever; and from that day forward the spot was known as Rum Hill.”

There you have it. Rum Hill. Far from the madding crowd. Now. But it was not always so. It was not always as remote as it is today.

The principal thoroughfare from Richfield Springs to Otsego Lake and Cooperstown used to skirt the base of the hill in the hey-days, when both towns overflowed with tourists attracted to the baths, the springs and the memory of our illustrious novelist. Many people rode or climbed to this highest

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point for the view which was, on a clear day, nothing short of spectacular. And many brought picnics.

Rufus Wykoff, who owned the top of the hill, was not unaware of this traffic. He built an observation tower on top. He built a tollgate at the bottom. Soon the broadsides read something like this: SEE: The Mohawk Valley SEE: 4 states

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Free facilities This canny farmer was also aware that the word Rum had some evil sounding companions such as Demon and Devil – and forthwith named his structure the Mount Otsego Observatory. Thus, with one bold stroke, he elevated the tone of the area, raised the expectations of the traveler, upped his take at the till and shoved the name Rum Hill into the backwaters of local history.

But it was still Rum Hill to the nearby hop farmers. And it is said that during the hop harvest time many wagon loads of hop pickers were drawn from the farms to the hill-top picnic grounds on Saturdays to dance and, of course, to purchase some spirits. “Spirits which had generously been hauled there that very afternoon by the same hop farmers” in order to recover the wages just distributed, lest pickers get into town and fall prey to those greedy merchants.

Today most evidence of the tower and toll house are gone.

However, there are many indications that spirits are still being hauled up the tortuous trail. And no doubt there’s been dancing.

And probably some of our modern Indians have fallen to tussling and quarreling and gone careering down the hill. Surely they will not soon forget this storied name, this relevant name, this real name …

Rum Hill.

Next time: The Badger revisits Miller’s-On-The-Lake.

Up on Hawthorn Hill

Series could do more Wondering where have all the bluebirds gone to review racial issues Ever since we moved into our house on the hill, there have been recurring Our community is fortunate to have the Friends of the natural patterns that have enriched our Village Library to organize important conversations and lives.

One of those is the annual return events like the “Looking in the Mirror” program. I have of at least one pair of bluebirds. attended a few of the series including racism in education Some summers we have been lucky and in healthcare and had come to expect a decent program enough to share the place with two when tuning in. nesting pairs. If my notes are accurate On Feb. 10, I listened to The Cooperstown Reflects on (trusting notes more than memory Racism and Law Enforcement Series with my wife hoping these days!) normal bluebird behavior for an invigorating and forward-thinking conversation. is to hang out here for a few days upon The event had the express goals of: arrival, check the place out, scope out 1) Examine the impact of racism on our community and available real estate, grab a few meals institutions; and then disappear for a week or so 2) Learn how to confront bias and inequities locally; before returning to set up shop. Last 3) Identify actions that individuals, groups, and the spring, a lone male appeared, perched community can take to address racism and create a more atop a locust fence post not far from equitable Cooperstown.

The speakers during their presentations and the Q&A did two available boxes, helped himself to the local fare for several days and then not address, examine or achieve any of these goals. I have flew off, never to return again. spent the last four months thinking about this event and When it became all too clear to pondering what can be done to jumpstart the difficult disme that we were to be forsaken once cussion that works to foster the growth and honest converagain, my spirits plummeted. Truth is, sation needed if we are to address the goals of the series.

Our community must strive towards achieving these goals I start thinking about their return once the snows ebb and warmer weather enuntil we succeed if we hope to create actual change in our ables me to sit on our deck in a semiworld. Ignoring these goals is to ignore racism which only meditative state to watch and wait. perpetuates white supremacy by propping up the racist Their annual return has for me institutions and power structures in our community and in what Wordsworth characterized as a our country. “renovating virtue.” The first sighting Below are my reflections on Racism and Law Enforcement utilizing the above goals as my guide. My intention by always enlivens my spirit. It revives me. It reassures me that nature’s expressing my thoughts and feelings about this event and more largely racism and bias in our community is not to at- enduring patterns are intact and that all is right with the world. tack the speakers and attendees of The Cooperstown In these disturbing times, any spiriSee LETTERS, Page A5 tual buoyancy that one can feel is well worth the wait.

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chirpy house wrens would show up well after most of the ideal real estate had been claimed.

Over the years, I have put up several wren boxes, but always far away RICHARD deROSA from the other boxes. That has always seemed to allot just enough space and preferred housing for all our finicky summer guests. I normally leave the boxes out over winter, but after the first wren swarm of two years ago, I took them all down, putting them up only when I felt that perhaps setting them out a bit later might deter the wrens from lording over the place.

Not so. Last year several pairs of tree swallows found suitable homes, while in the bluebirds’ absence, the wrens appropriated every other available box.

One pair, deciding that two families are always better than one, took up residence in my grandson’s box that just happened to hang on a hook several feet from the chair I sit in on the porch to read most warm afternoons. If they were not perched atop the box roof belting out their peculiarly cacophonous chatter, they would alight on the hammock several feet away in the woods and croon for all the world to hear.

They won this territorial battle most of time. I am one of those people who requires absolute silence when reading. Thoreau wrote that he had never found a companion as companionable

as solitude. We are kindred spirits on that score. This from one of perhaps a very few people who cannot abide fireworks. Or, noise of any kind. To me, there is music in silence.

This spring, the world regained its balance. Without much waiting and watching at all, a pair of bluebirds showed up right on schedule, followed by several pairs of tree swallows.

Without much fanfare and, I might point out, ideological or territorial bickering, each pair found a suitable home and went about the work of nest building. The swallow kids fledged a week ago and are now way up in the sky swirling about doing their swallow thing.

Unfortunately, the bluebird kids did not make it. I watched momma for several weeks build her nest while dad kept guard. Then one morning it occurred to me that something was amiss. Quiet in the nest box and neither male nor female anywhere in sight.

I opened their box and found four lifeless babies. I took the nest out, laid it softly on the ground, and then walked away.

A line from a W.S. Merwin poem came to mind: “Death, however reckoned, is hard to dispose of.” Happy that the bluebirds are back, yet sad that for whatever reasons these little guys’ lives were just not meant to be. I said that things were again in balance.

Death is part of that balance.

Still, and I am sure Gabby would agree, it too is a reality difficult to dispose of.

Life sketches

Vivid memories were made working on the farm Of all the farms I worked on as a boy, the most memorable was the old Borden Farm, which was on the east side of Canadarago Lake outside of Richfield Springs.

By the time I came along, it had recently been sold to Bill and Shirley Weingates. Back then, they were milking about 200 cows on one of the biggest operations in the area. The first job I had was leveling chopped grass as it was being blown into a silo. I foolishly knocked myself out trying to level it as fast as it was coming in, so that when I climbed out of the silo I was so dehydrated that I must have drunk a gallon of water from a spigot in the milk house. I would later clean the barn and when the spreader was full, I mounted a tractor for the first time and gloriously towed it up Rocky’s Road to give nourishment to the land—not without some mishaps that let the manure to hit the fan.

I enjoyed all kinds of jobs, even cleaning calf pens, because at the time, I was kind of standing outside of myself, watching this kid from Brooklyn

doing these country boy things. I had recently read Thomas Hardy and at times I was seeing all that I was doing through the great writer’s eyes.

I never enjoyed the country more than TERRY at that time of very hard work.

BERKSON Mostly I pitched hay, and of all the days over the several summers I worked there, one particular day stands out above the rest. We were hauling bales in highracked trucks from a large field several miles east of the farm. A lot of hay had been cut. The baler dropped the 60-lb. squares on the ground and we’d walk along loading them onto a truck. A large crew had been hired for the big day to save time and make up for the long haul to the barn. There was chesty Andy Hugick, hefty Eddie Morgan, smilin’ Rod Sullivan, muscular Jerry Smith, big Bob Bernhardt, me and this

little guy Winnie who chewed tobacco and used a pitchfork to lift the bales up when the load was high. Bill Weingates drove the tractor with his young red-headed son Gary seated on the fender next to him. Frank Kasprowicz drove one of the trucks.

I’m sure I’m forgetting somebody but it was a long time ago, back in the late 50s.

Most of the crew was working in the hay mow. I was out in the field with big Bob Bernhardt, who could pitch a bale as though it were a basketball.

Sometimes he’d spin around like a shotputter and let the bale fly over the high side-rack of the truck. I was the youngest of the crew and in awe of Bob, but I made sure I held my own, lifting my share of the bales onto the truck, without any of the fancy moves.

At noon, we rode back to the farm to join the rest of the crew around a bountiful dinner table. I washed up at the kitchen sink and when it was time to dry my hands, I was careful not to grab the towel before Bill Weingates See SKETCHES, Page A5

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210 YEARS AGO

Celebration of Independence at Hartwick – An assemblage of 1,200 republicans, at 10 a.m. took place, at the house of Philo West, in the Town of Hartwick, and a procession formed by Capt. Calvin Comstock, officer of the day, which marched to the meeting house, escorted by Captain Baker’s and Captain Bowen’s companies of militia in the following order: Officer of the Day, Clergy, Orator, Civil Authority, Militia Officers. The Declaration of Independence was first read, and a sermon appropriate to the occasion was delivered by elder Bostwick, and an oration by Dr. Comstock. The procession then returned in the same order to Mr. West’s, where they set down to an excellent dinner prepared for the occasion.

After dinner the young people performed a number of dialogues, &c. to the great satisfaction of all present, after which they retired to their respective homes. Not a jarring sound was heard during the day, nor was anyone known to be intoxicated.

July 6, 1811

185 YEARS AGO

The account of a speech in the U.S. Senate by a Mr. Wright regarding a bill to authorize deposits of federal funds in state-chartered banks–“It was his judgment (Mr. Wright) the wisest protection of the public interests to offer the deposit banks such terms as would make it their interest to discharge promptly, honestly and faithfully, their duties to the treasury, and to keep carefully and safely the public moneys entrusted to them; and he could not consent to adopt any parsimonious policy which would so tie down these banks as to compel them to make an unsafe and hazardous use of the moneys in deposit to indemnify themselves against our exactions. Such a course would be to draw the most unsafe banks only into our service, and to excite them to a use of the public moneys dangerous to the institutions and insecure to the public.”

July 4, 1836

160 YEARS AGO

Gas was first “let on,” in this village, last Friday evening. Everything worked to a charm; and if the Company continues to furnish gas of the same quality, there can be no reasonable cause of complaint, and the number of consumers will undoubtedly increase.

Otsego County Bible Society–The fortyeighth annual meeting of this Society was held at Milford, June 5, 1861. The venerable President, George Pomeroy, who has been connected with this Society ever since its organization in 1813, called the meeting to order, expressing his gratification at being privileged again to meet his brethren, and giving it as his impression that this might be the last meeting he would have the privilege to attend.

July 5, 1861

35 YEARS AGO

135 YEARS AGO

According to the census report of 1880 there were 33 counties in the United States whose farm products exceeded four millions of dollars each–and all but seven of those counties are in eastern states.

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, heads the list with farm products amounting to $9,320,202. Otsego County stands No. 10 in this list with farm products amounting to $5,284,929. Hops in 1880 sold at 16 to 24 cents, according to quality. New York had 14 counties on the list. Let Otsego County farmers take courage!

July 3, 1886

110 YEARS AGO

The Vitagraph Company, the largest manufacturers of motion pictures in the world, have decided to spread the fame of Cooperstown by producing a series of pictures of the Cooper Tales taken upon the shores of Otsego Lake. Mr. L. Trimble of the Vitagraph and Mrs. Trimble arrived in Cooperstown Sunday to look the ground over, and were registered at Otsego Hall.

building. This tower is not noticeable unless one looks carefully and sees the slits high on the east wall. The tower has two entrances, one in the basement through a door from the “swing room,” or post office employees’ service room, and one through a door off the postmaster’s office.

A government inspector is the only person who has a key to these doors. When the inspector makes his unannounced tour of inspection he will most likely use the basement entrance, going up an iron ladder to the observation tower. Through the six slits in the wall every nook and cranny of the post office is visible. The inside walls of the tower are painted black so he will not be noticed by anyone from the floor who may happen to look up. The floor is covered with linoleum to deaden the sound of footsteps. There are no lights in the tower.

July 1, 1936

60 YEARS AGO July 2, 1986 Mr. and Mrs. Trimble took an auto to ride around the lake Sunday afternoon, stopping to visit points of interest. They have given assurance that they will be here with a strong company of moving picture actors including Miss Florence E. Turner, the well-known Vitagraph girl; the family collie dog Jean; and probably Kenneth Casey, the renowned boy actor, all of whom are frequently seen in moving pictures here.

The Vitagraph Company will probably be here during the Boy Scout Encampment in order to get a scout picture.

July 5, 1911

85 YEARS AGO

As the new building of the Cooperstown post office nears completion, a unique part of the structure has been brought to light– a “spy tower” or post office inspectors’ observation gallery on the east side of the

The Village Board of Trustees has secured an option to purchase the Otsego lakefront property of Mrs. Louise M. Fish of this village for $27,000. Also included in the option is the Fish residence at 16 Lake Street, the docks extending from the lakefront site into Otsego Lake, four rowboats and a canoe.

July 5, 1961

20 YEARS AGO

The Women’s Club of Cooperstown has selected Susan Drake as president for 2001-2002. Co vice-presidents are Grace Kull and Bert Chapin. Joyce Degelmann is treasurer. Marjorie Schellhammer is recording secretary and Ruth Livermore is recording secretary. Board members are Lois Warrell, Elizabeth Dunbar, Maggie Risdon and Helen Davis.

June 29, 2001

LETTERS

Cooperstown’s Critical Race Theory debate is a missed opportunity to editorialize The question of whether AllOtsego should publish any editorial opinions was raised, weeks ago, on these pages.

The importance of timely editorial opinions for readers who are often ill-informed or baffled by complex issues was obvious after the

recent, very controversial, Cooperstown Board of Education meeting. Many attended or subsequently read about that meeting. The issue was whether “Critical Race Theory” should be taught in Cooperstown or elsewhere. AllOtsego had

no timely editorial on the subject. Fortunately, the Oneonta Daily Star did.

As the Star editors suggested, no one has suggested that teachers should be required to teach or believe Critical Race Theory (CRT).

CRT is simply a theory that

teachers can consider and perhaps discuss with high school students. Citizens and parents should be encouraged to google CRT online to determine for themselves whether the theory is dangerous in any way.

The Star editorial suggested

that teachers should not be prohibited from discussing the concept of race, or why racism exists, or whether it is systemic in our society, with their students. Presumably very few—on the political left or right—want to allow students to be po-

litically indoctrinated. But teachers should be allowed (and encouraged) to discuss many important theories without being intimidated by hysterical parents or administrators!

Paul Conway Oneonta

Cooperstown, Otsego need to go deeper when exploring, addressing racial issues LETTERS/Continued from Page A4 Reflects on Racism and Law Enforcement Series. I hope by presenting this alternative path the community will create space for a more critical analysis of the power systems that influence our lives.

1) Racism has impacted our community and institutions in such a profound manner that we cannot imagine a justice system that is not based on punishment.

We instead can only see a world where being one of the earliest adopters of Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 203: NYS Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative in the state means that our community is progressive and welcoming. Eager adherence to such mandates by the government shows Cooperstown’s pro-policing nature which does not work to dismantle the systems of oppression at the foundation of our country.

Racism has impacted our community to the point where we allow the institutions of the police department and mayor’s office to use the majority of their time during this series to ask for more funding and support for policing in our community instead of

addressing the stated goals. The influences of racism are made tangible when the “communal we” thinks that adherence to a policy calling for police to “… promote community engagement to foster trust, fairness, and legitimacy …” is understandable and necessary.

Giving police more money and increasing the size of our police force does not make the community a safer place.

2) I spent my time during college learning about Black studies, education and history. Even with a degree based on analyzing racism within the United States, I find myself lacking the tools needed to gracefully confront bias and inequities. The Cooperstown Reflects on Racism and Law Enforcement Series could not and did not confront bias and inequities locally nor did they offer any steps or tools to handle racist events and interactions. There was a missed opportunity to highlight activists and scholars who have accessible works that are listed on the Friends of the Village Library website such as Patrisse KhanCullors, Michelle Alexander, and Ibram X. Kendi or to introduce

folks like Prison Industrial Complex Abolitionist Mariame Kaba who strives to create a transformative justice system in our country through organizations like Project NIA and Interrupting Criminalization. As a majority White community, we must actively struggle against the systems that benefit us the most. Recognizing that racism is not always overt actions and statements of bigotry is necessary if we hope to effectively dismantle powerful institutions such as the institution of policing which is founded in racism and white supremacy.

3) Instead of continuing to allow racism to exist in our space, we must imagine a different world for ourselves. If there is a community that can take this bold step against racism and white supremacy it is Cooperstown. The magic of myth-making is powerful enough to warp realities. The people of Cooperstown know this to be true, as the story about a simple game being born in these hills changed our world. We can use the same imagination that created the reality where people come to our town every year because they love base-

ball and want to share in the glory of its perceived, albeit imagined birthplace. Let that imagination envision a world where our justice system is not based on punishment and banishment and instead is based on healing and learning as a community. Removing a person from the community by locking them up in prison through our judicial system or by “canceling” them for their racist/sexist/misogynistic/unacceptable behavior does not delete these unacceptable behaviors. It destroys lives and homes while leaving a wound in communities where we could have instead taken the opportunity to learn, grow and heal.

A major action that we can take as a community to create a more equitable Cooperstown and Otsego County is to abolish the village police department and to shut down the county jail. The funding and staff can be reallocated and transferred into adjacent fields where their skills and experiences can be utilized allowing the employees to continue to serve our community in a meaningful way. Having staff transition into positions with fire departments

or local EMT companies while reallocating money to mental health and other social services is a great example. Another fantastic example is the S.T.A.R. (Support Team Assisted Response) Program in Denver, Colorado, and Eugene, Oregon which sends mental health professionals instead of police to respond to emergency calls when appropriate. The road ahead will be bumpy and the temptation to settle for half measures will arise.

With this in mind, we must continue ever forward, holding ourselves and each other accountable and on course. When we stumble and falter we must be gentle with ourselves and remember that change even when necessary can be difficult.

Destroying white supremacy and racism will not occur overnight however with time and with the bravery to dream of a truly changed world we, the Cooperstown community, can and will take the arduous journey together.

Josh Simpson Milford

Driving around Canadarago brings back summer memories of working on the farm SKETCHES/Continued from Page A4 was finished with it. That was one of his pet peeves.

Another pet peeve of his was leaving a bale on the ground, so that the truck would have to waste time making another pass. If you complained, Bill would close one eye, cock his head and quietly say, “The road goes both ways.” For lunch, there was a mountain of mashed potatoes, platters full of pork chops, fresh string beans, delicious hot apple pie and whole milk from the barn. Because of the hard work and gentle Shirley’s good cooking, I don’t think I ever enjoyed food more.

We worked late, chaff stuck to the sweat on our arms, and dog-tired, triumphantly cleaned every bale off of that seemingly

endless field before the evening dew set in. It may have been one of the hardest work days of my life but it was also one of the best. This all happened more than five decades ago. Since then, I’ve been to Weingates many places and done different kinds of work but I never felt more of a sense of accomplishment than being the youngest of the hard working crew on that 1,600 bale day.

Several years ago, I took my roadster for a drive around Canadarago Lake. As I passed the farm I tooted to old, bearded Bill who was crossing the road to the barn for about the 60,000th time.

Standing on the other side was little Gary, all grown up, a middle-aged man and himself a father.

Hard workers. I admire their ability to keep on keeping on. They are living monuments to the pastoral writings of Thomas Hardy. In my mind, I grip my calloused hands around the twine of a square bale, walk it to the truck, lift and kick with my knee. The bale falls onto the truck and silently slides across the bed, like the leaf of paper this finished story is written on whispers across my writing table.

Bob Bernhardt, 1938 - 2018

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All individuals in attendance will be required to wear a mask at all times and social distancing will be observed to the extent practicable whether such individual is vaccinated or not.

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Frieda M. Scanlon, 85 Jan. 16, 1936 – June 25, 2021

WESTVILLE – Frieda M. Scanlon, 85, of Westville, passed away the morning of June 25, 2021, at her home, after a long battle with dementia.

She was born January 16, 1936, in Smyrna, one of six children of Luman S. and Esther L. (Knochenmus) Ward. Her family eventually settled to Carlisle. She graduated from Cobleskill High School.

She was preceded in death by two daughters, Sueann and Carolyn Scanlon, one sister, Florence White and three brother’s William,Winston and Warren Ward.

Frieda is survived by a sister Fannie (Claude) Bartholomew of Middleburgh; a daughter Barbara (Thomas) Renwick of Westville; and four sons, Rexford (Susan) Scanlon of Taberg; Charles (Toni) Scanlon of Buhl, Idaho, Roger (Sharon) Scanlon of Westville, and Robert (Missy) Scanlon of Herkimer. She is further survived by grandchildren Christopher, Monica (Andrew), Adam; Rebecca (Herb), Eric; Shawni (Josh), Jadie, Bradley (Diana); Stephanie, Samantha (John), Zachary; Jessica (Tom), Michael (Brianna), Michelle, Carla,

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Allysa, Sandra, Zachary, Frieda’s greatest loves Joie, Emilee; Cecil, Landon, were her family and Gabriel, Quinn, Harmony, working with kids. If there Andrew, Jase, Saylor; and was a child in need of great great grandchildren anything she was one of Michael, Kaylee, Olivia; the first to help them. She Avery, Presley, Aidan, loved to travel and Elijah. as well as work Frieda was a in her garden in member of the former the summer. She Westville United dedicated much Methodist Church of her life to and the Westville Milford Central Grange. She was a School, where she long-time employee was a teacher’s of the Milford Central aide. She enjoyed Frieda M. School. doing playtime Scanlon Frieda was a and assisting any depression era farm girl teacher that needed her help. at heart. She was a strong She enjoyed helping the woman that liked to follow music department as she the rules but had a very soft would state that she couldn’t spot for anyone that needed carry a tune if she wanted. help. She was a funny lady Frieda enjoyed everything that had a very dry sense of about food, from raising her humor and loved to have a chickens, to planting her good time. She had a love garden and teaching all of for the community where her children the importance she was involved with 4-H, of preserving our own food.

Westville Grange, Westville She loved her BBQ chicken, Junior Grange, Square coleslaw and cheesecake.

Dancing, cooking for the She would also always say Milford Rotary, operating her a loaf of bread and a pound Snack Shack at the Otsego of meat with all the mustard County Fair, assisting in you can eat is all you need the Little League concesfor a good road trip. Her

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favorite saying lately was “an apple a day will keep the doctor away, jackass” and she was correct.

Family and friends paid their respects from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, 82 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown.

A funeral service will was offered at 11 a.m.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home with Pastor Rose Bellen, pastor of the Westford United Methodist Church officiating. The Service of Committal and Burial followed in Westville Cemetery. Following the service at the cemetery there was a gathering at Frieda’s home.

Memorial donations can be made to Helios Care, 297 River Street Service Road, Suite 1, Oneonta, NY 13820, and the Milford Fire Department and Emergency Squad, PO Box 359, Milford, NY 13807.

Arrangements are under the care and guidance of the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

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Name: The Sweet Life Animal Ranch LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on‚ May 11, 2021.

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Hall picks Diamondbacks VP, Rawitch, as new president STAFF REPORT COOPERSTOWN — The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Monday, June 28, that Josh Rawitch has been named President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum effective after the 2021 Induction, according to a media release.

Rawitch will start in his new role Sept. 9. Until that date, Jeff Idelson will continue as interim president, which he has held since returning May 15.

Rawitch, 44, has spent 27 seasons working in baseball, including the last decade with the Arizona Diamondbacks, serving as the team’s senior vice president of content and communications for the past six years. He joined the

Diamondbacks after 15 relations, corporate years as part of the Los communications, Angeles Dodgers’ front broadcasting, content office. production, social “On behalf of our media, creative services, Board of Directors, I am in-game entertainment, delighted to welcome spring training Josh as the Hall of business operations, Fame’s next President, team archives, alumni and to welcome relations, publications Rawitch him and his family to and photography.

Cooperstown,” Hall Board Chair A native of Los Angeles, Jane Forbes Clark said in the Rawitch joined the Dodgers’ media release. “Josh brings to the staff in 1995 and spent parts Hall of Fame a wealth of expertise of five seasons in the team’s from his many years representing marketing department before the game as a respected baseball shifting to public relations. He executive. We are very much left the organization to serve as looking forward to his Presidency a beat reporter for Major League at the National Baseball Hall of Baseball Advanced Media from Fame and Museum.”

2001-02, after which he returned In his most recent role, Rawitch to the Dodgers, eventually rising has overseen player and media to the position of vice president of

communications.

Rawitch becomes the eighth president in the Hall’s 82-year history, following Stephen C. Clark, Sr., founder of the Hall of Fame and grandfather of current chair, Paul Kerr, Edward W. Stack, Donald C. Marr Jr., Dale A. Petroskey, Jeff Idelson and Tim Mead, who in April announced he was stepping down from the role.

“I am truly honored to join the team at the Hall of Fame, a revered institution that is fundamental to the preservation of the history of our game and its legends,” Rawitch said in the media release.

“Cooperstown is a special place and every baseball fan who has set foot in the village knows how

powerful that experience can be, while those who haven’t visited undoubtedly have it on their bucket list. My family is looking forward to being a part of the community for many years to come.

“I am also humbled by the trust placed in me by Jane Forbes Clark to help carry out a vision established more than 80 years ago, and I am proud to follow in the footsteps of two great friends in Jeff Idelson and Tim Mead,” he continued. “I will forever be thankful for the support of Ken Kendrick, Derrick Hall and everyone at the D-backs who have made the last decade unforgettable both personally and professionally.”

In 2018, Rawitch received the See HALL, Page A11

‘Starting Nine’ turns museum into personal scavenger hunts

By CHARLIE VASCELLARO COOPERSTOWN — Like Dorothy taking her first steps on the Yellow Brick Road in the Land of Oz, first time visitors to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum are often advised that “it’s always best to start at the beginning” moving in a linear and chronological fashion through the game’s formative years and early history.

Returning visitors to the museum and more seasoned veterans might make a beeline to a new installation or favorite exhibit moving through the museum at their own pace or in a more unorthodox fashion; like former New York Met Jimmy Piersall circling the bases backwards when he hit his 100th career home run.

The Hall of Fame’s new “Starting Nine: The Must-See Artifacts from Your Team” and “Ultimate Fan Experience” allow fans to carve their own path through the museum on an interactive scavenger hunt through their favorite teams’ histories.

Devised by the Hall of Fame’s curatorial staff, “Starting Nine” highlights National Hall of Fame and Musuem nine team-specific objects for each team, culled from tens of 1,000s of One of the artifacts for New York Mets fans to artifacts in the Hall’s collection. discover in the ‘Starting Nine’ program is the Visitors can begin their journeys jersey Mike Piazza wore in his first game back almost anywhere they choose after after the Sept. 11, attacks. receiving a team “line-up card” avail-

able at the Hall on its mobile website.

Looking through teams’ Starting Nine lineup cards, the game’s history and evolution unfolds and stirs the reflective imagination and makes one realize the depth of the Hall of Fame’s collection, including: The catcher’s mitt that Yogi Berra wore when he caught Don Larsen’s perfect World Series game in 1956; Roberto Clemente’s retired No. 21 Pittsburgh Pirates jersey; The glove Brooks Robinson wore when he made so many spectacular plays in the Baltimore Orioles 1970 World Series victory; Frank Robinson’s 500th home run bat; Lou Gehrig’s Yankee Stadium Locker; Hank Aaron’s Atlanta Braves uniform from the game in which he broke Babe Ruth’s All-Time home run record;

and Babe Ruth’s Home Run Record Crown presented to the Bambino by admiring fans after he hit 59 home runs in the 1921 season.

Originally slated to open just prior to the beginning of the ill-fated 2020 MLB season, “Starting Nine,” is the Hall’s first post-pandemic exhibit, celebrating its re-grand opening in conjunction with the current baseball season and provides visitors with a new way to rekindle their affection to the game and their favorite teams.

My personal “Starting Nine” would include some of my favorite objects in the Hall of Fame’s collection relative to my favorite team, the New York Mets. The first item would be the glove worn/used by Tommie Agee when he made two of the most celebrated catches in World Series history in Game Three of the 1969 World Series between the Mets and Baltimore Orioles. And when I clicked on the Mets Starting Nine lineup card, there it was right at the top of the list: I can certainly remember that Agee’s famous glove has long been included in the museum’s “Autumn Glory” exhibit chronicling post-season and World Series history. It would be an easy item for me to find and a great place to start on my own New York Mets Starting Nine scavenger hunt.

Other classic memorabilia from See NINE, Page A11

Stepp named player of year; Seamon named CSC MVP STAFF REPORT Unatego’s Dana Stepp was named the Class C girls soccer Player of the Year by the New York State Sports Writers Association on Friday, June 18.

The New York State Girls Soccer All-State selections also included several local Section IV players.

The local players honored were: Soccer Class C First Team: Hannah Johnson, Oneonta; Anika Buzzy, Oneonta.

Class C First Team: Meghan Perry, Unatego.

Second Team: Morgan Perry, Unatego.

Class D First Team: Angie Competiello, Schenevus; Emma Ough, Edmeston.

The Center State Conference announced its 2021 spring softball All-Stars on Sunday, June 27.

Hawkeye sophomore third base/ pitcher Dani Seamon won the Most Valuable Player award for Division II, which the Hawkeyes won en route to the Section III Class C title game.

The Cooperstown players honored were: Softball First Team: Seamon, Katie Crippen, Marley Lippitt, Abby Miller.

Honorable Mention: Ellie Hotaling, Jeana Geertgens, Anna Lambert.

The Midstate Conference announced its 2021 spring softball All-Stars on Wednesday, June 23.

The Unatego players honored were: Softball First Team: Madison Couperthwait.

Second Team: Haleigh Burton, Kaitlyn Fortin, Alexa Lucia.

Honorable Mention: Jenna Faulkner.

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The Center State Conference named Cooperstown sophomore Dani Seamon as its softball Most Valuable Player for Division II.

Leatherstocking Golf Club to offer summer programs for kids, couples STAFF REPORT The Otesaga’s Leatherstocking Golf Course is offering two summer programs, one for kids and one for couples.

The Leathertocking Golf Club Little Swingers Golf Program is to provide a foundation of skills, etiquette and knowledge for a lifetime of enjoyment of the game for players age 7 or 8.

The cost is $200 per player and includes four team practice sessions, two mini putt-putt

matches, two on-course experience and one individual half hour golf lesson, which must be made by appointment.

The program is separate from the PGA Junior League.

Practices will be scheduled Saturdays.

The practice schedule is: Saturday, July 10, July 17, July 31 and Aug. 7.

Meet at the north end of the driving range.

Team matches will be held Sunday, July 11 (putt-putt cham-

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All team matches will meet at the Leatherstocking Golf Shop.

Tee times will start around 6 p.m., each week.

Parents are welcome and encouraged to come watch their junior golfers play.

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Fridays to feature couples play

Starting Friday, July 2, the Leatherstocking Golf Course will allow couple’s play. The program will continue through Friday, Aug. 27.

There will be no play Friday, Aug. 6.

Play begins at 5 p.m. each Friday.

Sign up as a couple by calling the pro shop, which will then assign pairings. There will be fun

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Divorce nights will be held Friday, July 16, and Friday, Aug. 13. Players will be required to play a “Chapman Scotch alternate shot” with their spouses.

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Cherry Valley-Springfield graduates line up Saturday, June 26.

By GREG KLEIN Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School said congratulations and farewell to 32 students Saturday, June 26, in a ceremony under a big tent on the school’s athletic field.

Valedictorian Mia Horvath told her classmates to strive to be individuals. She said they were each one of just 7.8 billion people and should reach beyond their small-town roots.

Horvath quoted Walt Whitman’s “Songs of Myself” which said, “I am large. I contain multitudes.”

She told the graduates to look at the bigger picture, to take in different viewpoints and to try to contain the multitudes themselves.

Salutatorian Jaelyn Jaquay gave a speech that her

father, CVSCS coach and teacher Jordan Jaquay, could be proud of, borrowing from his habit of quoting his favorite coach and athlete, Jim Valvano and Michael Jordan.

“Failure and rejection are only the first step to success,” she quoted Valvano as saying.

Jaquay told her classmates to turn never from a negative to a positive word, saying they should: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.

The guest speaker was elementary school teacher Ozzie Avinaut. He told the graduates that accomplishments mean so much more when they have someone to share them with.

“Whatever success your future holds, it is so much better if you make it about a who and not about a what,” he said.

Superintendent T.J. Climenhaga opened the event, the 33rd graduation since Cherry Valley and Springfield combined schools, and one which included her daughter, Zoe. Climenhaga said the class of 2021 was full of strong individuals. “This is an outstanding quality,” she said. “It will benefit you as you move on.”

Climenhaga told the graduates to make sure they reached out to thank the people who supported them on their journey to graduation, “to let the supporters know how much you appreciate them.”

Wildcat celebration Milford Central School graduated 24 students Friday, June 25, on the school’s athletic field. Right: Ali Henderson and Adrianna Greiner throw candy in the post-graduation parade. Bottom: Valedictorian Hailey Maison shows off her diploma.

Bottom right: Jacob Reynolds steps forward to receive his diploma.

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High school sweethearts Ellie Hotaling and Alex Hascup walk down the aisle to their graduation cememony Sunday, June 27, at the Fenimore Art Museum.

Caroline Whitaker fist bumps Cooperstown Central School Board of Education President Tim Hayes as Superintendent Sarah Spross looks on.

Grace Agostino hugs her dad, Rico Agostino, after graduating Sunday.

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Above: Al Rubin and teammate Theo Basdekis play a match in Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s first pickleball tounament, which was held Saturday, June 26, in Oneonta’s Wilber Park. Left: Kim Back, left, and Sue Lentz hold the trophy for winning the women’s division.

Hall’s ‘Starting Nine’ features artifacts from every MLB team’s history NINE/from Page A7 teams that are local favorites include: Boston Red Sox Pedro Martínez, All-Star Game Jersey: Wearing this jersey as the American League’s starting pitcher, Boston’s Martínez struck out five of the six batters he faced in the 1999 All-Star Game at Boston’s Fenway Park. The performance helped the AL to a 4-1 victory and earned Martínez the game’s MVP. Chicago Cubs Ben Zobrist, World Series Second Base Bag: In Game Seven of the 2016 World Series, Chicago’s Zobrist doubled in the 10th inning, reaching this

second-base bag and drive in the tie-breaking run. The left fielder led the Cubs with 10 hits against the Indians and was ultimately named the Series MVP for his heroic efforts.

New York Mets Mike Piazza, Post 9/11 Jersey: Piazza wore this Mets jersey on Sept. 21, 2001, in the first major league game in New York City after the attacks of 9/11. With his club trailing the visiting Braves in the bottom of the eighth, 2-1, Piazza’s dramatictwo-run homer lifted the Mets to an emotional 3-2 victory.

Philadelphia Phillies Roy Halladay’s Perfect Game Baseball: This baseball comes

from Philadelphia pitcher Halladay’s spectacular performance on May 29, 2010, at Florida’s Sun Life Stadium. With his 1-0, perfect-game victory over the Marlins, Halladay joined Jim Bunning as the only Phillies moundsmen to retire all 27 batters they faced in a game.

New York Yankees Derek Jeter’s World Series Jersey: Rookie shortstop Derek wore this home jersey during the 1996 World Series, the first of five World Championships captured by the Yankees during Jeter’s 20-year career with the club.

Go to www.baseballhall.org to discover your “Starting Nine.”

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Derek Jeter’s World Series jersey from 1996 is among the Hall’s Yankee artifacts.

HALL/from Page A7 Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence, given annually to an industry executive who excels in promoting the game. A bilingual Spanish-speaker, he has overseen baseball media relations efforts across the world, including in Mexico, China, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic, and has also served as a venue press chief at three iterations of the World Baseball Classic, most recently in South Korea. Over an eight-year period through 2019, Rawitch helped organize fundraising auctions during MLB’s Winter Meetings that have raised more than $1.6 million for various charitable causes.

Rawitch attended Indiana University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in sports marketing and management with a minor in business. During his time with Arizona, he taught strategic sports communications at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

In the Phoenix community, Rawitch has served on the board of directors for the Greater Phoenix Chamber, the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Arizona-Mexico Commission and the Phoenix Sister Cities Commission, while also sitting on the Arizona State University’s Sports Business Advisory Board.

He and his wife, Erin, are the parents of two children, Emily and Braden.

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DA mulls vacating Borggreen plea deal following Robinson murder conviction

By KEVIN LIMITI COOPERSTOWN — Now that the trial of Dylan Robinson has ended in conviction, Otsego County District Attorney John Muehl said he is considering restarting the process against Robinson’s accomplice, Alexander Borggreen, for refusing to testify against Robinson despite making a plea deal.

Muehl said he was satisfied with the conviction, which the jury returned Wednesday, June 23, although he said he was surprised they didn’t

convict Robinson of arson.

Robinson was convicted of second degree murder in the Oct. 10, 2019, shooting death of his father, Kenneth Robinson, as well as robbery in the third degree and first degree burglary.

“You have a 15-year-old who killed his father. Nobody takes pleasure in putting a 15-year-old in prison,” Muehl said, calling what Robinson did a “pretty violent crime.”

Muehl said he anticipates a harsh sentence because of the nature of the crime.

Muehl said he hasn’t made

a decision on what is going to happen to Borggreen.

“I can make a motion to vacate his plea and his sentence and start over again. I haven’t decided what I’m going to do,” Muehl said. “But once again, we’re dealing with a 17-year-old. They don’t make the greatest decisions, and in reality, him not testifying, other than the fact that he could’ve established for certain for the jury that Dylan Robinson was the one who shot Kenneth Robinson, was almost as good as him testifying.”

The defense attorney for Robinson, Thomas Hegeman, said that the trial “was a tough case.”

“The bottom line is we were offered a plea bargain, my client didn’t like it so we went to trial,” Hegeman said.

The plea deal would’ve been for murder one, with a sentence of 22 to life.

Muehl said the crime was unusual in Otsego. “The last young person I had killed his parents when he was Kevin Limiti/The Freeman’s Journal 19,” he said. “In my career Dylan Robinson listens to the verdict during his I’ve never had anything like trial Wednesday, June 23. this with a 15-year-old.”

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Brooklyn artist Angel Garcia, left, and a helper work on a mural in Cooperstown’s Pioneer Park on Sunday, June 27.

According to the Fenimore Art Musuem, Garcia is painting the mural to weave “together representations of the culture and history of Cooperstown, the presence of the area’s Native American people and the current Keith Haring exhibition at Fenimore Art Museum,” which is on view through Sept. 6.

Garcia’s mural should be done this weekend.

COOPERSTOWN – Stephen James Pawlowski, 45, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, June 19, 2021.

He was born February 4, 1976, in Mount Kisco, the youngest of six children of Walter and Roberta (Stiles) Pawlowski. He attended school in Somers, until the 9th grade, when he and his family moved to Mooresville, N.C. After graduating from Iredell High School, he attended North Carolina State University and graduated with a degree in forestry. He later attended Binghamton University where he received a degree in nursing, and then graduated from the University of Scranton where he completed the nurse anesthesia program.

Since moving to Cooperstown in 2011, Stephen has worked as a certified registered

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Kevin, John and Since 2010 Robert Pawlowski Stephen had been and Cathy Hogan serving his country and their families. in the US Army A memorial Reserves as a service will be captain. held at 5 p.m.

In the past year Saturday, June 26, Stephen J. he had become 2021, at The First Pawlowski an active member Presbyterian Church of the First Presbyterian in Cooperstown, with the Church of Cooperstown Rev. Faith Gay, pastor and enjoyed helping others. officiating. Immediately He will be remembered for following the service there being driven to succeed in will be a time to visit on the all he did, his attention to church lawn. detail and for being great For those who wish to with children. honor Stephen’s life with a Stephen is survived donation, please consider by his wife, Anne, and their three sons, Jeconiah, Haakon, and Mathias. He is further survived by his parents, Walter and Roberta Pawlowski of Mooresville,

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• Learn about the social View the decorated boats dances of the Iroquois at the annual Independence nations with the Haudenoday Boat Parade presented saunee Dancers, a group by the Otsego Lake Assofrom the Syracuse area ciation. This year’s theme is known for their pride in ‘Here Comes the Sun’ from their traditions. Dance will the song by the Beatles. include presentation by Line up is at 3 p.m., Saturtroupe leader Sherri Waterday, July 3, at Three Mile man-Hopper who has travLarissa Ryan Point and will proceed down elled internationally as an the west side of the lake to artist and cultural speaker.

Lakefront Park. Visit otsegolakeasso- Throughout the day, 10 a.m. to 4 ciation.org for information. p.m., Saturday, July 3. At Iroquois • Indian Museum, 324 Caverns Road in Oneonta Independence Day Howes Cave. festivities begin with the Main Street Parade, which starts at Foothills Performing Arts Center and procedes ►ON THE COVER along Main Street to Neahwa Park.

‘Kouros’ by Tomas Sakoulas on Essential workers are invited to the Cherry Valley Sculpture Trail participate. At 1 p.m.

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‘The Whole Earth Cabinet’ by the Dora P. Manny Collective in West Winfield is an interactive piece where visitors can take and leave gifts for other visitors.

Art on the Trail

Cherry Valley Artworks event brings sculpture to community; opening to be held Friday, July 2

By KEVIN LIMITI CHERRY VALLEY – The biennial Cherry Valley Sculpture Trail will open with a viewing and launch party scheduled for Friday, July 2.

Jane Sapinsky, executive director of Cherry Valley Artworks, said this year’s sculpture trail stands out because of the “beautiful pieces” and said that it is a “COVID-friendly activity.”

There are 24 sculptures, ranging from small ones to half-ton sized.

One piece, by Shiro Shinohara of Westmoreland, was more than 1,000 pounds and had to be delivered by crane. It’s called the “Baku Nightmare Buster.”

Other pieces on display include “Whole Earth Cabinet,” which was created by the Dora P. Manny Collective in West Winfield.

The idea behind the cabinet, according to Sapinsky, is “give a little, take a little.” Visitors can take things from the cabinet while leaving something else behind.

“We thought it was a good community activity,” Sapinsky said.

Sapinsky said what separates the 2021 trail from the others is the level of skill involved in sculptures.

“Everything is very high quality,” Sapinsky said.

One of the artists, Tomas Sakoulas, is originally from Greece. He has been taking three-dimensional ancient Greek sculptures and flattening them into two-dimensional sculptures.

“It’s a wonderful exhibition in Cherry Valley,” Sakoulas said. He said that his sculptures were large enough to need a crane to transport them.

One of his sculptures is “Hygeia,” which he describes as “a large projection of an ancient Greek statue.”

“I have a system of creating flat spaces,” Sakoulas said, and that he considers his work an “esoteric exploration of what would these images look like if I did two-D of three-D sculptures.”

His other sculpture being displayed is “Kouros,” It is a take on ancient classical sculpture from the B.C. era, Sakoulas said.

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‘Baku Nightmare Buster’ by Shiro Shinohara of Westmoreland weighs more than 1,000 pounds.

Trail replaces Kite Festival for’21, deemed more COVID-friendly event TRAIL/from Page B3 “I find classical antiquity worth investigating for the timeless stories,” Sakoulas said.

As an artist, Sakoulas said his work is “continuing the trend of reacting to classical antiquity.”

One of the more timely sculptures that will be displayed is by Molly Welch Whyte, who is displaying a 24-foot table called “Table for Four,” which is meant to convey the changes in life because of the coronavirus pandemic and the slow return to normalcy happening at this moment.

The wood was built from white pine that her father, Butch Welch, felled on her property in Roseboom, and was then milled into lumber.

Whyte said the table is meant to “comment on the alleviation of what we’ve experienced last year.

“It’s also a symbol of getting back together again,” Whyte said. “They’re going to use the table as a real table and have people gather round. Honestly, I was just

wondering what was appropriate for the sculpture trail.

It just seemed like an easy symbol.”

The reason behind the table being 24 feet and called “Table for Four” is to represent the six-feet of distance that was common with COVID guidelines.

Whyte said she found it appropriate that her art was being used to express something about recent events, particularly as it related to COVID. “Art always responds to any events, current or historic,” Whyte said.

An outdoor reception will be taking place at the Cherry Valley Museum garden at 6 p.m., Friday, July 2, with music and refreshments.

The sculptures will be displayed until Oct. 8.

Sapinsky said the trail was canceled last year because of the pandemic and this year should have been the year for the CVA’s over destination event, the Cherry Valley Kite Festival. However, the trail was deemed more COVID-friendly as a 2021 activity.

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Staff Picks

Our best bets for local dining

Delicious salad, ice cream at the Guernsey, locally sourced food

Larissa Ryan Business Manager Upstate Bar & Grill Conveniently located just outside of Cooperstown on State Route 28, the Upstate Bar & Grill is an excellent restaurant offering American-style dining.

It’s also a great place to catch a sports game on the televisions throughout the restaurant and bar area.

The food offerings include steak, salmon and everything in between.

I recently ordered the Cobb salad and enjoyed its toppings of bacon, corn, egg, avocado and honey mustard.

The egg, corn and bacon made for a rich blend of flavor and texture that I will definitely be ordering again.

Upstate Bar & Grill 5418 State Route 28 Cooperstown www.upstatebarandgrill.com 607-282-4225 Tara Barnwell Publisher Golden Guernsey Ice Cream The Golden Guernsey in Oneonta is so much summertime fun!

Like eating dessert first, here you have to start with the fries! They are fried to golden perfection. Get them loaded with bacon and cheese sauce.

I tried a hotdog that I’d never had before, the Texas hot, with raw onions, homemade Texas chili and mustard. Great combination!

The ice cream selection is about the best around. They have the best hard ice cream that has bits of coconut in it, but my favorite is still the brownie with vanilla ice cream, then smothered in hot fudge sauce. You can’t go wrong with that!

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Greg Klein Editor Richfield Springs Community Food Cooperative I wanted to wait until after his primary election was over to say I got to visit the Richfield Springs Community Food Cooperative and I am so impressed with what Dan Sullivan had put together.

Sullivan moved Upstate to buy a farm decades ago and Otsego County has been better for it ever since. His venture at 140 Main Street in one of the quaintest parts of the village, is a storefront for local foods and a showcase for local farmers.

You can get pretty much anything grown locally, at the RSCFC. I remember marveling at the shelf of locally grown spices, thinking I have to come back with a proper list. You can get proteins, dairy, fresh fruits and vegetables and lots of jams and local honey.

There’s prepared food, too, with specials based on the season. Watching the RSCFC Facebook page, I sometimes wish I was closer at lunchtime! Plus there are t-shirts and artwork for sale, along with books from local authors or about local history.

As I said, the Richfield Springs Community Food Cooperative really blew me away and I wish every small town had something so special. If you love locally sourced food and are anywhere near the northern part of the county, you should make the trip to Richfield Springs and stop in at the food cooperative.

Richfield Springs Community Food Cooperative 140 Main Street, Richfield Springs www.rscommunityfood.org 315-858-7023

Kevin Limiti Reporter Danny’s Market I keep eating the “oh, yeah” from Danny’s on Main Street in Cooperstown and I continue to love it. It’s a roast beef sandwich with

cheese, sautéed peppers and onions, with an awesome garlic pesto dressing. This sandwich is top quality. I’m not someone that usually likes peppers but it meshes really well with their sandwich overall. They also have great Reubens.

Danny’s overall is just one of the best delis I’ve been to.

Highly recommended.

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PICKS/from Page B5 Kathleen Peters Graphic Designer Red Shed Brewery Red Shed Brewery in the Send items town calendar of Middlefield is a New York State Farm Brewery, meaning they use at least 60% beer ingredients and hops grown in the state.

The food truck, just outside Send calendar items the bar, makes all the food onsite, also using local ingredients.

One of the best parts of eating here is that you can sit inside if the weather is uncooperative. They also have a large outdoor beer garden with plenty of seating, some under tents, some with Adirondack chairs and small tables out in the field, and great views all around.

Even better, you can bring your dog! (This is true only if they are well behaved dogs, unlike my two.)

Better still, they have live music out there sometimes.

The husband is not a fan of outdoor dining, so we

sat inside, which is equally pleasant. He had the shed burger, which is a local grass-fed beef burger with cheese and shed toAmerican info@allotsego.com sauce; and a Bent Nail Black Lager.

I had the Jack’s BBQ, a grilled chicken breast with Jessica’s Red BBQ Sauce, cheddar and onion tobacon, info@allotsego.com rings; and a Weathervane Farmhouse Ale. The food menu is not all that large, but there is enough variety that you should be able to find something to suit your taste.

There are a few vegetarian choices, and a mac ’n’ cheese that sounds fantastic, made with golden ale gouda cheese.

The beer menu is all that large, and there are some local wines and hard ciders as well, even Adirondack sodas, if you’re not a drinker.

Red Shed Brewery 709 County Route 33 Middlefield www.redshedbrewing.com 607-731-6454

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FUNDRAISER – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Support a local Grange.

Come out for a White Elephant Sale, bake sale, and raffle. All proceeds to Grange Building Fund. Pierstown Grange Hall, 137 Wedderspoon Hollow Rd., Cooperstown. 607-437-4656.

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All essential workers are eligible to sign up for a prize drawing sponsored by Five Star Subaru and Cleinman Performance Partners!

Also, don’t miss the pre-festival country concert in Neahwa Park at 7:30 on Friday, July 2 featuring the Michael Christopher Band!

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors!

Five Star Subaru, Anonymous Foundation, Nellie and Robert Gipson, Anonymous Foundation, Dewar Foundation, The City of Oneonta, Corning Incorporated Foundation, LEAF, Inc., Stewarts Shops, The Eggleston Foundation, Gates Helms Hawn, Future of Oneonta Foundation, Oneonta Osteopathy, New York Central Mutual, Sidney Federal Credit Union, Delaware Bank of Delhi, Delaware Engineering, Benson Agency Real Estate, Cleinman Performance Partners, Bank of Cooperstown, Tom Morgan and Erna McReynolds, Bassett Healthcare Network, The Hampton Inn, The Daily Star, Townsquare Media and Iron String Press

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