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ONEONTA’S MAYOR, BASEBALL OWNER TURNS 100

Sam Nader’s Century

By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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am Nader’s life is one great story after another.

Here’s a favorite one, about playing golf at the Oneonta Country Club Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal with Hall of Famers Bobby Doerr and “American Ninja Warrior” the legendary Ted Williams, and the club Anthony Eardley, champion at the time.

Oneonta, shows fan Sam played one of the best 18 holes of Gavin Tandle a scale his life. model he made of the “Bobby had a 76 – 3 under par,” Nader, entire course during a who will turn 100 on July 8, recalled the viewing party at Footother day. “I was 4 over par. We took them hills on Monday, July for 10 bucks.”

1/FULL STORY, A3 Ted Williams was so incensed, he broke five clubs – a golf club set – over his knee.

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ith concerns heightened by plans for The Grove apartments at 10 Chestnut St., the Planning Board has scheduled a discussion on the village’s updated Master Plan for 4:30 p.m Thursday, July 11.

A Housing Committee seeking to implement the update, chaired by Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, has been meeting twice-monthly for a year.

One of the key recommendations is to identify opportunities for more housing to better serve the whole population.

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(The Red Sox legend was working for Shakespeare, the quality golf-club maker, so he made good.)

With a laugh, Sam continued: Every time he would see Bobby Doerr at a Hall of Fame event in Cooperstown, the former Oneonta mayor and owner of the Oneonta Yankees would say, “Let’s go up to see Ted and see if he remembers.”

• Sitting in the living room at 95 River St., the ranch house where he’s lived for many, many decades and where he and wife Alice raised their three children – SUNY Farmingdale president and former mayor John, and daughters Suzanne Longo of Pennsylvania and Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Alice O’Connor of Georgia – he spun George Steinbrenner, on leaving baseball, wrote Sam off yarn after yarn.

Nader, “They say, ‘All good things must come to an Please See NADER, A14 end.’ That will never apply to our friendship, I pray.”

THE WORLD AWAITS OUR GRADUATES Cooperstown Central School graduate Taylor Keane hugs mom Jane at the end of the Sunday, June 30, commencement on the back lawn of The Fenimore Museum.

Inside, see five pages of graduation news, Pages A9A13

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►THREE MEN WERE INDICTED in Otsego County Court on charges that they kidnapped and forced a woman to withdraw $300 from an ATM in May. Frankie Liberata-Garcie, 24, Erick Tavares, 33 and James Semidey, 26, all of the Bronx, face felony charges for robbery and kidnapping. ► FOX HOSPITAL FOUNDATION’s 20th Annual Golf Classic at the Oneonta Country Club on June 24 raised more than $50,000 toward a new ultrasound machine in the Department of Surgical Services.

‘Green Light’ Bill Is Facing Clerks’ Anger

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ONEONTA DRI’S FIRST BIG PROJECT

66 Apartments In 4 Stories

By JENNIFER HILL & JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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y next summer, Oneonta could see the first major fruits of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative as a 66-unit, four-story Artspace-like complex breaks ground on Dietz Street.

“I’m very excited about this,” Mayor Gary Herzig said of what’s being called the Lofts On Dietz. “If all goes as planned, it could start transforming downtown Oneonta.”

Meeting Tuesday, July 2, Common Council voted to make Parkview Development & Construction, Inc. the “preferred developer” of the mixed-used building – 40 artists’ lofts Please See LOFTS, A7

y press time, no word had been received from President Trump’s regional representation on whether the Justice Department will go to court to stop New York State’s “Green Light” law from going into effect Dec. 14.

The “Green Light” law would require the state’s county clerks who operate state Department of Motor Vehicle offices locally to issue driver’s licenses to what some people call undocumented residents and other call illegal aliens.

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Many Intrigued, But No One’s Snapped Up 3-Wheeler So Far

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hen Shirley and Douglas Bennett got back to their car after shopping one afternoon, they saw a little boy and his father waiting for them in the parking lot.

“The father told me that his son didn’t want to leave until he saw us wind up the car!” said Shirley.

Alas, the wind-up key on top of the Bennett’s threewheeled Snyder is just for show, but now, the “mouse car,” as locals know it, is for sale.

“When my husband Please see NOVELTY, A7

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THURSDAY, July 4, 2019

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LOCALS Berman New President Of Cooperstown Rotary

CCS Graduate Among 8 Lauded At SUNY Delhi

Historical Signs Enshrine Church’s Role In History

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amuel Suhoke, Cooperstown, was one of eight local students to graduate from SUNY Delhi this spring, earning an associate’s degree in Integrated Energy Systems during the Spring 2019 commencement on Saturday, May 18.

Also graduated are: • Nicholas Arnecke, Edmeston, bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management.

• Nikayla Bourne, Richfield Springs, associate’s degree in Nursing.

• Raven Brown, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Edmeston, earned an associOn Tuesday, July 2, Gene Berman presided at his first meeting as president ate’s degree in Nursing. of the Cooperstown Rotary Club at the weekly meeting at The Otesaga.

• Joshua Cormier, With him are, from left, Treasurer Patrick Kinley, Vice President Helmut Burlington Flats, associate’s Michelitsch, next year’s president Richard Sternberg, Berman, Secretary degree in Mechatronics Margaret Savoie and outgoing president Vicki Gates. Since retiring to Design.

Cooperstown, Berman and wife Judy Greenberg have been active in • Timothy Donahue, community life; he is currently chairing the village Planning Board.

Hartwick, associate’s degree in Residential Construction.

BONDEROFF WINS: • Neil Palmatier, Samuel Bonderoff, a CCS Hartwick, associate’s degree graduate, has been named in Computer Information as the recipient of the 2019 Systems.

Catherine Black Scholar• Jacqueline Slentz, ONEONTA trator at Fox, Emhof ship from the Cooperstown Edmeston, associate’s degree will oversee strategic Rotary. in Nursing. eff Emhof, a planning initiatives veteran nursing and operations of CURPIER A GRAD: home administhe 130-bed skilled Krista Lynn Curpier, trator at Focus Otsego nursing facility Cooperstown, graduated and the Cooperstown connected to the from Hartwick College Center, as well as hospital, including during their commencement Emhoff Chase Memorial nursing, rehabilitaexercises in May. in New Berlin, is tion, nutrition, and the new administrator at environmental services.

M.A. FOR BURCH: Fox Nursing Home, it was Gary Smith, who has been Matthew C. Burch, announced today. vice president of long-term Cooperstown, earned a MasA licensed nursing home care and operations at Fox ter of Arts in InterAmerican administrator in New York Nursing Home for more than Studies at Bielefeld UniverState for more than 11 years, 33 years, has transitioned sity in Bielefeld, Germany. he comes to Fox from the into a new role as vice presiCooperstown Center, where dent of hospital operations. NOTO NAMED: Christina the facility received state “I am very excited to Noto, Cooperstown, has been recognition for improvewelcome Jeff to the Fox named to the Gettysburg ments over the past two Family,” says Smith. “His College Dean’s Honor List years, the press release said. passion to improve the lives for the Spring 2019 semester.

His interest in the field of our senior population goes back to age 8, when he – while engaging with staff ROBINSON LAUDED: began volunteering at Chase to help us attain that goal Jill Robinson, Cooperstown, Memorial Nursing Home – will continue to drive graduated from Wesley & Rehabilitation in New forward the quality of care Theological Seminary, Berlin, where mother was a for those residing at Fox Washington D.C. with a hairdresser for the residents. Nursing Home.”

Master of Arts in Theology.

“I learned as a child to love Emhof earned a BA older people,” he says. “I in Biochemistry from knew deep down I would Colgate University and an always work with that MS in Nutrition/Nutrition population.”

Education from SUNY As nursing home adminis- Buffalo.

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First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown unveiled two state historic markers, one commemorating a celebration of the July 4, 1827, freeing of the slaves in New York State; the other a speech by Susan B. Anthony on site in 1855, on Sunday, June 30. The committee that worked on the project included Will Walker, Katie Boardman, both professors at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Students, and Tom Heitz, Town of Otsego co-historian. Posing this morning after the event are, from left, Walker (and daughter Eleanor), Boardman, the Rev. Elsie Rhodes, pastor; Heitz and the Rev. LaDana Clark, an associate at the church.

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County’s ‘Ninja Warrior’ Over 1st Hurdle In National Competition

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nthony Eardley wants kids to know that even ninjas make mistakes.

With a miniature platform of his entire “American Ninja Warrior” course – Eardley studied welding as a student in Oneonta – he showed kids who gathered at the Foothills Performing Arts Center to watch his run on the Baltimore course exactly where he plunged into the pool below, felled by the dastardly “Crank It Up.” “I show the kids that making a mistake isn’t a big deal,” said Eardley. “I want them to know, they should try something out and not be afraid of making a mistake But that fall didn’t cost him, and now Eardley, who placed 22nd out of 99 competitors, will have another chance to run the course as he competes for a trip to Las Vegas and a chance at $1 million.

“It was my first time watching the episode, too,” said Eardley, who was at the Foothills’ screening.

The party wasn’t just to celebrate Anthony’s success. The Eardleys were also raising money for purchasing and refurbishing used sports equipment and clothing, which they plan to give to families and individuals who can’t afford to buy them.

“The price of doing a sport shouldn’t discourage anyone to try it out,” Anthony said. “I want all kids, all people, young and old, to have opportunities to do them.”

It was why he posed with kids for pictures, getting them to flex their biceps with him, and signed autographs for them.

Michael Tandle, who played Stallion football with Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Anthony in high school, Oneonta’s own “American Ninja Warrior” ran the course in Baltimore, said when Anthony began placing 22nd out of 99 other Ninjas. He will now compete for a chance to doing Ninja courses just two take on the Las Vegas course and a shot at the $1 million prize. years ago, “the glass slipper “Shrinking Platforms,” a of the course, Anthony ping,” Anthony said at a had found the foot.” series of increasingly-smaller missed the last obstacle, a commercial break. “And I “He’s perfect for platforms that sink as the horizontal bar with about a thought, ‘Well, here I go.’”

“America Ninja Warrior,” competitor crosses, rotating 10-foot angled drop from If Anthony makes it to Michael said. “My dad “Hazard Cones” and the the bar he was clinging to ANW’s national finals in called him the jack rabbit Las Vegas, he will face a night’s deadliest obstacle, above and plunged into the – you couldn’t catch “Dangerous Curves,” where pool of water below, the four-stage “course with him in football. And he he had to use his hands to Foothills audience groaned, up to 23 obstacles,” four has the personality for it climb across a series of thinking he was out of more than in the Baltimore – he becomes friends with wooden bars. contention. course. everyone.”

Though he cleared most “I felt my hands slipTo take home a grand The course opened with

prize of $1 million, he will have to complete all four stages, “including the final 75-foot rope climb, according to the show’s website. “If no competitor finishes all four stages, the ninja that advances the farthest (and the fastest) on the course, also known as the ‘last ninja standing,’ will take home $100,000.”

For Anthony, making it on to “American Ninja Warrior” has fulfilled his dream, whether he goes on to Las Vegas or not.

“To be able to say you’re part of this, you’re now friends with people you saw compete on ‘American Ninja Warriors,’ it’s been the most amazing moment of my life,” he said. “I’m grateful for the doors it’s opening up for me and for my community.”

Anthony will be in Oneonta’s July 4 parade, and for those who want to meet him, visit his family’s tent in Neahwa Park Noon – 4 p.m. Thursday July 4.

The Eardleys will also have a collection of refurbished athletic gear and gently used clothing equipment to give away to families who need them.

Clerk Fight Green ‘Law,’ Seeking President’s Help CLERKS/From A1 Saratoga County Clerk Craig Hayner wrote the first letter to Trump last week, asking the president to direct the Justice Department to intervene. Within two or three days, 35 county clerks in all, including Otsego County’s Kathy Sinnott Gardner, had written similar letters.

All but one were Republicans, Hayner said in an interview. The sole Democrat was the Oneida County clerk, Sandy DePerno.

According to Sinnot Gardner, the president of the state County Clerks Association, Judith Hunter of Steuben County has summoned members to a meeting July 8 in Syracuse.

The local clerk said she plans to attend, and will say more about the issue after that.

Hayner’s letter to Trump said that, while other states have similar laws allowing undocumented or illegal residents to get driver’s licenses, none have gone as

far as the bill passed by the Democratic state Legislature this year and signed by Governor Cuomo.

It prohibits the state’s county clerks from sharing any driver’s-license information with federal immigration authorities. Since county clerks take oaths to administer both the state and U.S. Constitutions, Hayner believes the new law is requiring clerks to break one law or the other.

Sinnot Garner agrees, but has another concern.

The state DMV installed “customer facing devices” in county DMV offices a few months ago, where driver’s-license applicants are required to check a box indicating if they have registered to vote or not.

If someone checks the “no” box, his or her material is sent automatically to the county Board of Elections, which registers them, the Otsego clerk said, without knowing if they are citizens.

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Perspectives

THURSDAY, July 4, 2019

A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL EDITORIAL

In Sam Nader’s Story, American Dream Lives S am Nader has that rare gift: When you talk to him, you feel there’s no one other than you he’d rather be talking to.

That, of course, is only one of the secrets of his success – there are many facets to his personality and accomplishment. Part of the rest of the secret is the City of Oneonta itself.

• In the years before World War II,

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it was an exciting vital place, with locomotives streaming in and out of the largest roundhouse in the world, the streets busy, people working, even in the Depression to a great degree – the railroads had to move.

In the Sixth Ward, new arrivals – Italians, Russians, Poles, Lebanese like the Naders – were becoming Americans, celebrating America, adding their strains of culture, and family

life, and religion, and food – all of it – to a changing nation.

After Pearl Harbor, virtually every able-bodied young man went to war and they returned – the ordeal behind them – to the city they called home, loved like a home can only be loved.

And then, they prospered amid the admiration of their grateful fellow citizens.

For decades, Oneonta was a city of

out-sized men, soldiers, citizens and friends, the sons of the war and often their fathers.

Bombardier Sid Levine, businessman, philanthropist and Sam Nader’s partner in the Oneonta Yankees, comes to mind. B-24 pilot Lloyd Baker, the revered OHS athletic director and principal.

The cheerful Tony Mongillo, Navy Please See EDITORIAL, A5

PARTING WORDS from RYAN BURR

To Succeed, Push Through The Pain Of Life Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Valedictorian Ryan P. Burr’s speech to the Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School Class of 2019 at the Saturday, June 29, commencement.

the season and knew that it would require lots of hard work and dedication, or at least more than I was giving.

I began thinking about my goals of making it to the state meet and competing at the state level, the long-term picture … I fought through the pain n 2016, I had a major run-in with of lactic acid burning in my muscles self-discipline that changed my life and worked my way right up next to and made me the person I am today.

Mr. Flint.

Most of you know by now that I am He was shocked to see me up with a runner and, oftentimes, classmates him. So was I, because in that moment and peers ask me: “Why do you run so I was not concerned about how much much?” or “I don’t understand how you longer I had to run or the destination run that long?” or even the burning sensation in my And the answer to that is simple. muscles. I was focused on the reward Through self discipline, I have come to at the end of the run, the strength I love the sport. would gain and how this workout During one workout in particular, would improve my running condition. we were running for 50 minutes at an …From that point on I began seeing elevated pace. For me, the first halflong-distance running as a mental sport hour was quite easy; however, as time just as much as, if not more than, a went on, I began to wear down. physical sport.

I began trailing behind Coach Flint, …Acts of self-discipline are not and despite his best efforts to persuade always as prevalent as the anecdote me to push through the pain and finish I shared. They can be something as the workout strong, I fell further and simple as dieting, consistently going to further behind the pace.

The Freeman’s Journal the gym, reading that one extra chapter As I was giving up on the run, someRyan Burr, Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School valedictorian, learned on a or even finding the drive to wake up thing clicked in my head. I thought Please See BURR, A5 about all the success that was to come in cross-country training run to push through the pain life can bring.

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To the Editor: The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta editions of June 13-14, 2019, published a letter written by Zachary Aldridge headlined, “Article complicit in suffering of Native

Americans”. This letter was in reference to Jim Kevlin’s May 23 article regarding the Sullivan/Clinton expedition of 1779-80, and Mr. Aldridge’s was a narrow, one-sided view of the expedition.

Keep in mind that the Fort Stanwix Treaty Line, established in 1768 between Native Americans and Great Britain, formed a boundary that demarked the westernmost edge of what was later to become the United States

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Editor’s Note: As recounted here, life – and death – in the former frontier where we live could be brutal, and is reflected in this letter. Please proceed with that understanding.

For 211 Years

in 1783 when the signing of the Treaty of Paris separated the Colonies from Great Britain.

The Stanwix treaty, which allowed colonists’ settlement eastward of the treaty line, was not honored by the Native Americans. In fact, the Iroquois nations – excepting only the Oneidas – along with Butler’s Rangers and some British Tories, wreaked untold havoc on the early colonial settlers of this region who by virtue of the treaty had been authorized to settle here.

Numerous Iroquois raids upon those early settlers - in violation of the Stanwix treaty - resulted in innumer-

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he Cherry Valley massacre “culminated in Gen. George Washington establishing the Sullivan/Clinton Expedition to end these atrocities.”

To the Editor: To implement the Village of Cooperstown Housing Committee’s recommendations, the Village might start by being a bit more receptive to the demolition of derelict buildings for new development.

Since the village can’t grow outwards, it must grow upwards via infill redevelopment. able deaths and great devThe density of the astation to individuals, their village’s building stock has farms and fledgling commuprobably decreased slightly nities as documented in the from its peak – as evidenced accounts of the Wyoming by archival photographs Valley Massacre and, later, the Cherry Valley Massacre of hotels that burned and larger buildings that were of 1778 in what Please See HESSE, A5 torn down and replaced by

lower density structures such as the CVS building on Main, the under-utilized TJ’s building, or the abandoned car dealership on Chestnut.

New construction should be compatible with the neighborhood and historic context of the village, but the determining factor should be whether the proposed redevelopment is better than what’s there now – which in many cases is junk.

Disallowing redevelopment guarantees the decline and underuse of derelict buildings, to no good end.

CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown

A Front Porch Perspective

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Question Planners Should Ask: Is It Better Than What’s There?

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What A Woman! What A Country! aybe it’s a part of “old-timers’ disease,” as the

at a dinner party. Poor Anne!

She’s heard all the tales by now and must sigh somepun has it. times resignedly. Bless her I mean repeating myself. patient spirit.

My poor wife puts up with a I really try not to repeat lot of it – and it’s partially the myself – at least (Anne fault of my columns. In them excepted) before the same I’ve recorded lots of my life’s audience. But I’m going to last 25 years, most of them do it now, deliberately. I’m spent in Anne’s great company. JIM going to retell a story I told ATWELL And further, I’ve you, over a hundred columns also drawn into them life recago. There’s good reason for ollections from 20, 40 and 60 doing it. For, in these times, years ago. the story has a new, special resonance.

I’ve shaped all those stories pretty I hope you’ll agree: tightly, and that makes them easy for At a meeting of the Fly Creek Area me to recall, easy to spin out across Historical Society, Dick Smith of someone’s coffee table or over dessert Albany came back home here to speak

Kate Smith with Babe Ruth

about the early history of recorded sound. A fine informal lecturer, Dick talked about everything from the mechanics of the first talking machines to fierce warfare among early recording companies.

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THURSDAY, July 4, 2019

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

200 YEARS AGO

Cooperstown – On Wednesday last, Benjamin P. Day, only son of Mr. Israel Day, of this village, aged 5 years, was unfortunately drowned, by falling out of a boat, on the lake.

He with two other boys, entered the boat, probably for the purpose of paddling around the shore, but being driven out by the wind, in their exertions to regain the shore, he fell overboard. His body was taken out in about twenty minutes after he sunk. But every effort to resuscitate him proved unavailing. His remains were interred on Thursday.

July 5, 1819

and that will perish with the people whose blood grows annually thinner and paler as their prairies receive the “white man’s footprint” as their rivers ripple to the dip of his oars, as their forests fall at the hurling of his axe, and who will themselves be but a tradition and a memory in the lapse of a century or so.

July 5, 1894

25 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

The seven-passenger Packard touring car belonging to L.H. Spencer of Otsego Hall was somewhat damaged in a collision Tuesday afternoon at the corner of Lake and Chestnut streets with a Pierce-Arrow car driven according to witnesses, by Mrs. George Hyde-Clark of Hyde Hall, when the latter car turned on the wrong side into Lake Street while Mr. Spencer was about to turn on the right side in coming into Chestnut Street. Eye witnesses declared that the woman driver of the northbound car did not blow her horn at the corner, and instead of going to the right of the iron traffic cop, cut into the left, meeting the Spencer car almost head-on. The Spencer car was thrown over to the side of the street, but remained upright. The PierceArrow, it was declared, did not stop after the accident, but put on increased speed after turning into Lake Street.

Persons who saw the accident testify to the identity of the driver. Shortly after the accident Constable Charles T. Cooke was preparing a warrant for the arrest of the driver of the Pierce-Arrow car.

July 2, 1919

175 YEARS AGO

Otsego in Her Strength – Ten Thousand Warriors in the Field – The Otsegonians to Their Fellow Democrats Greeting. The Fourth of July, 1844, will ever be cherished by the Democrats of Otsego as the proud day in their Calendar.

There never was such a gathering, Whig or Democratic within her borders. The number in attendance from nearly every town in the county, is variously estimated. It is pretty well ascertained that there were at least 2,000 vehicles of different descriptions, some carrying as many as 30, and others 24, 18, 12 &c. and none less than two, within the village limits by 12 o’clock. We set down the number at 10,000 at a moderate calculation. There was a single gun at daybreak, and a national salute at sunrise, with the ringing of bells. From an early hour in the morning, the democrats began to pour into the village from all quarters, and by 12 noon the principal streets were literally alive with a moving mass. A nine-pounder on an eminence announced the approach of the several delegations from the towns, as they came in sight – and there was an escort in readiness to go out and accompany them to the place of general gathering – Lewis’s Eagle Tavern, where they were cheered as they came up. Among the interesting incidents of the day was the presentation of a beautiful banner, the handy work of some democratic young ladies of the village to Engine Company No. 2. There was a presentation address by Miss Wilson and a reply on behalf of the Company by Mr. Chas.

A. Bowne.

July 8, 1844

150 YEARS AGO

Our Old People – There are living upon this corporation 54 persons, 27 men and 27 women who are 70 years of age, or upwards, possibly a few more, whose names we have not on the list before us. The venerable Mrs. Bowers celebrated her 91st birthday in April. There are three other ladies who are 80 or more; one gentleman of 82, another 85, another 89. The average age of these 54 persons is full 74 years.

The present population of the Village of Cooperstown is about 1,700.

July 2, 1869

75 YEARS AGO

Miss Susan P. Clarke, a pilot in the Army Ferry Command and daughter of George Hyde Clarke and Mrs. S. Beach Cooke, was killed Tuesday morning in an airplane July 5, 1994 crash at Columbia, South Carolina. She was 25 years old.

Miss Clarke was graduated from Cooperstown High School and attended schools in New York and Italy. She became a licensed pilot three years ago and joined the Ferry Command last year.

(Edited excerpts) Within the last decade public interJuly 5, 1944 est in the North American Indians has undergone a revival induced in part by the assiduous application of ethnologists and archaeologists to Indian subjects and who direct their The sports editor of the North Penn Reporter rode the attentions to the investigation and study of this probably railroad coach from Lansdale, Pennsylvania to St. Louis an most romantic and poetic people the world has ever known.

April night in 1943. The next afternoon he was up to his The day is well- nigh dead for the purity of ceremonial rites ears in galleys and batting averages at The Sporting News and folklore amongst their many hundred nations. Civiliin St. Louis. That was animated Clifford Kachline – always zation and intermarriage are adulterating those exclusive with his nose buried in baseball facts and losing no time tribal ordinances that for many centuries have been the about it. He is the new Historian of the National Baseball stronghold of a most conservative race.

Hall of Fame, it was announced today by Hall President With the exception of Finland, the country is unknown that possesses such wealth of folklore as America. There are Paul S. Kerr. The 47-year-old editor, writer and statistician succeeds Lee Allen who died in May. mines of unchronicled legends and superstitions, each colJuly 2, 1969 ored by tribal distinctions, that scholars will never unearth,

125 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

LETTERS

Energy Task Force Goal: To Avoid Us Vs. Them To the Editor: Your June 20-21 editorial on the Otsego County Energy Taskforce ends with the sentence: “We’re all in this together.” We on the Taskforce Leadership Committee couldn’t agree more.

But the editorial’s main assertion that the business community has been shut out of the process is not based on fact and includes inaccuracies and unhelpful hypotheticals that need to be corrected.

Chief among these is the statement that the Economic Development subcommittee does not contain anyone from the business community. This is not true.

We took considerable care to make sure that all of the subcommittees had members from the private sector contributing as members or advisors.

To imply that the CEO’s of the Otsego County Chamber and Otsego’s IDA are not able to represent the interests of the business community is somewhat remarkable since that is precisely their job.

We ARE all in this together – with the purpose of

creating a practical actionable plan to address the current and future energy needs of Otsego County.

This is our stated purpose, and the mission we adopted is to “address the needs of the community to become energy secure and resilient while making long-term progress in improving the health of citizens, economic growth and environmental sustainability.”

Because perspectives differ widely, we have gone to great lengths to avoid “us versus them” divisions. In the interests of the county and our taskforce, we hope you will cover our ongoing work accurately and in good faith.

The impulse to “read tea leaves” or to proclaim the plan as “DOA” before it’s written only serves to magnify the divisions that we endeavor to mend.

MEG KENNEDY MICHELE FARWELL BOB WOOD LESLIE ORZETTI GREG MATTICE The Otsego County Energy Taskforce Leadership Committee

Upstate Massacres Convinced Washington To Retaliate HESSE/From A4 is now Otsego County. As noted by Capt. Benjamin Warren, American colonial officer, and witnessed by him at Cherry Valley, “the mutilation and scalped bodies”… “of men, women and children, corpses with their heads crushed” … “charred bodies remains” … “a shocking sight of savagery and brutality” were acts perpetrated upon the colonists by the Iroquois at Cherry Valley. Some 46 people were killed and nearly 200 others were left homeless.

This massacre, led by Little Beard of the Senecas, Capt. Walter Butler of Butler’s Rangers, and Joseph Brant of the Mohawks, culminated in Gen. George Washington establishing the Sullivan/Clinton Expedition to end these atrocities.

Another noted illustration of the extent of the savagery of the Iroquois toward the Americans is an account chronicled in William L. Stone’s “Border Wars of the American Revolution,” Vol. II, published in 1843 regarding the capture of Lieutenant Boyd of the Rifle Corps of the Sullivan/Clinton force, along with eight other men.

Capt. Walter Butler delivered Boyd “to Little Beard and his clan, the most

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This obelisk outside of Cherry Valley memorializes the deaths of the Rev. Samual Dunlop and family in the 1778 massacre.

ferocious of the Seneca tribe. …

Having been denuded, Boyd was tied to a sapling, where the Indians first practised upon the steadiness of his nerves by hurling their tomahawks apparently at his head, but so as to strike the trunk of the sapling as near to his head as possible without hitting it; …

His nails were pulled out, his nose cut off, and one of his eyes plucked out.

His tongue was also cut out, and he was stabbed in various places. …

His sufferings were terminated by striking his head from his body.”

This took place on the 13th of September 1778. Eight other individuals were included in the capture, and all eventually were killed, including Honyerry, an Oneida Indian, who was “hacked to pieces”.

To conclude, we should look at as many facts about issues as we can and try to be open-minded.

Several years ago, I wrote an article for inclusion in the Otsego County Tourism booklet. In that article I referred to Joseph Brant as a famous person. I guess I was naïve as I received several calls rebuffing me and stating that I surely must have meant that Brant was infamous. Well, I guess it showed a lack of open-mindedness on the parts of all parties.

I must admit that based on the prowess of Joseph Brant, I still think of him as a remarkable individual, despite his alliance with the Crown. We all need to be more retrospective. Great people have existed on both sides of the fence whether we agree or not with the side of the fence they have chosen to be on.

BUZZ HESSE Otego

Valedictorian: First, Control Yourself. Then, Control The World BURR/From A4 in the morning rather than hitting “snooze” a dozen times. …Graduates: In whichever career path you decide to take, there will always be hardships and decisions to

face. When given the opportunity, you fight the mental battle to improve your life and to not give in to the pains and struggles, because those are how we grow. … “In the words of Will Smith,

‘You cannot win the war against the world if you can’t win the war against your own mind.’”

Today we are conquerors of high school, tomorrow we will be conquerors of the world.

Sam Nader’s Story Is Gift To City Of Oneonta, To Reflect On, Revere EDITORIAL/From A4 radio man on an aircraft carrier, who recorded his hometown’s history in pen for the rest of his life.

Gordie Roberts, another B-24 pilot who returned home to dominate the insurance field; to the end (in 2010) he seemed to be everywhere.

Everyone knew these men, admired them and – even more unusual, liked them. Even loved them.

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Time’s taken its toll. Today, two of the titans remain.

Tony Drago, 98, who returned from WWII to become Oneonta’s winningest coach, his OHS basketball team’s 1959-60 undefeated season still to be surpassed.

The other is Sam Nader, Drago’s friend of 85 years, who is turning 100 years old on Monday, July 8.

In everything he did, Sam Nader succeeded. At Bendix (now Amphenol), he was a counselor

and mentor to many young Oneontans as he rose through the ranks to director of purchasing.

In love, the son of immigrants wooed a descendant of Oneonta’s first families, and their wedding at Colliscroft, the Greek revival mansion named for Collis Huntington, who from Oneonta became one of California’s Big Four, signaled the jointure of River and Walnut streets.

If not everyone got it, Sam’s elevation to mayor, despite being rebuffed by the then-dominant

Republican Party, completed the inclusion of the “Lower Deck” immigrant families into the mainstream of Oneonta life.

Then in his baseball successes – he transformed Damaschke Field into Yankee Stadium North for a quarter-century – Oneonta got to know the National Pastime’s heroes, and the heroes Oneonta – simply cemented a legacy.

• Sam Nader will be honored in various ways in the days ahead, with a proclamation from

Mayor Gary Herzig, “Sam Nader Day” in Damaschke Field, beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 13 – and much more.

When the celebrations pass, Sam Nader’s story will still be a gift to Oneonta and surrounding communities: That despite the current cynicism all around us, Sam Nader’s grit, hard work, humor, love of family and community was rewarded with success.

In Sam Nader’s story, the American Dream lives.

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Kate Smith’s Prowess Captured Local Audience ATWELL/From A4 Dick illustrated his talk with machines and recordings from his own collection. Some of his recordings are 100 years old – the age of the Grange Hall in which we’d gathered. We sat in the old building, listening to a thin voice that had been shouted into a pasteboard cone a century before. The singer was long dead, all but forgotten. Maybe that’s why his reedy voice moved us. We leaned forward to hear it.

But we were to be moved still more. For among Dick’s last selections was something that brought lumps to throats of all of us who’d been alive during World War II. Record technology had advanced greatly by the ’40s; and now a rich, full voice, backed by a full orchestra, filled the old room.

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Badgerface Beauty Supply, LLC Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 06/11/2019 Office location: County of Otsego Purpose: Any and all lawful activities Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: 120-122 Marion Avenue, LLC Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 06/11/2019 Office location: County of Otsego Purpose: Any and all lawful activities Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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SUMMONS, NOTICE AND BRIEF STATEMENT OF NATURE OF ACTION CONSUMER CREDIT TRANSACTION SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No. EF2018-817 KEYBANK, N.A., Plaintiff,

That voice, and the song it sang, swept us back 60 years. Then, the song was almost a second national anthem. The woman who made it so, said Dick, once sang it 60 times in a single weekend—during a marathon war-bond drive.

And that voice! Who’d heard its match for blending force with vibrant human warmth? It belonged to a large woman with a soul to match her size. When she sang that song, she made it embody national confidence, optimism, strength.

The song was “God Bless America.” The singer, of course, was Kate Smith. When she sang that anthem, she was our Mother Courage. Why, it was as if the Statue of Liberty had burst into song.

That night at the Grange Hall,

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-againstDANIEL BROOKS; ANTOINETTE BROOKSSHIPE; JAMES M. BROOKS; WILLIAM E. BROOKS, III; UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM E. BROOKS, JR., DECEASED, AND ANY OF HIS, HER, OR ANY OF THEIR RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST; et al.

Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANT(S): DANIEL BROOKS and UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM E. BROOKS, JR., DECEASED, AND ANY OF HIS, HER, OR ANY OF THEIR RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. Trial is desired in the County of Otsego.

The basis of venue designated above is that the real property, which is the subject matter of this action, is located in the County of Otsego, New York.

NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS

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FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully.

Summons and Complaint You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

Sources of Information and Assistance The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-800342-3736 or visit the Department’s

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the audience didn’t just listen to Kate. It sang along, softly, voices were full of memories, and a kind of reverence. At the end of the last stanza, we let our voices slowly descend the final three notes – mi, re, doh: “home sweet home.”

Kate’s voice didn’t drop; we knew it wouldn’t. Through our own quiet voices, we heard hers rocket up an octave on “sweet,” pause for an instant. Then, on “home,” her voice burst above us like a fireworks chrysanthemum shell. It spangled the dark sky, hung there.

“What a song!” we said to ourselves. “What a woman! What a country!”

Jim Atwell, a Quaker minister and retired college administrator, lives in Cooperstown.

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website at www. dfs.ny.gov.

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS, YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law. Foreclosure rescue scams Be careful of people who approach you with offers to save your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about an y such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed.

State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on May 28, 2019 in Cooperstown, New York and to be duly entered in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office, in Cooperstown, New York. The Nature of this action pertains to a note and mortgage held

by Plaintiff on real property owned by the above named defendants as specified in the complaint filed in this action.

The above named defendants have failed to comply with the terms and provisions of the said mortgage and said instruments

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secured by said mortgage, by f ailing and omitting to pay the balance due and owing and the Plaintiff has commenced a foreclosure action.

Plaintiff is seeking a judgment foreclosing its mortgage against the real property and premises which situates in the Village and Town of Laurens, County of Otsego and State of New York and is commonly known as 54 Main Street, Laurens, New York 13796 and all other relief as to the Court may seem just and equitable.

DATED: June 20, 2019 SCHILLER, KNAPP, LEFKOWITZ & HERTZEL, LLP BY: WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiff 950 New Loudon Road Latham, New York 12110 Telephone: (518) 786-9069 64151 4LegalJul.18 Legal nOtice

Notice of Formation of Cooperstown Maple Works, LLC, a NY limited liability company (LLC). Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State (NYSS) on 05/21/19.

Office: Otsego County.

NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

NYSS shall mail process to: 361 Sibley Gulf Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company 1. The name of the LLC is Bronson Construction, LLC. 2. The date of filing the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is 05/07/2019 3. The county within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is located is Otsego County 4. The Secretary of the State of New York is hereby des-

To the Editor: At the Cooperstown Village Board meeting Monday, June 24, many residents voiced concern regarding a proposed project to build a 12-unit apartment building at 10 Chestnut St. A core complaint LETTER was that this highdensity residential project was too massive and not compatible with their neighborhood.

The proposed planned development contains two properties.

Construction is only being proposed for the larger of the two. It is 50 feet wide and 280 feet deep.

Currently, two structures having a combined footprint of 8,730 square feet are located on this parcel of 14,000 square feet. So,

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ignated as an agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is Po Box 708 Richfield Springs, NY 13439 5. The character of purpose of the business of the LLC is any purpose allowed by law 6LegalJul.25 Legal nOtice

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Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: LEANSolutions LLC.

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Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 28 May 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 584 Co Hwy 22, Burlington Flats, NY 13315.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company

Notice of Formation of Matsis Realty I, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/20/2019.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 69 Harrington Ave Lindenhurst NY 11757.

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Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/17/19.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Joel S. Charleston, 11 Pearl Street, Valley Stream, NY 11581.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: PRISTINE ACRES LLC. Certificate of Conversion filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 3 June 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 793 County Highway 10, Laurens, NY 13796.

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over 62 percent of its area is built upon.

These buildings are to be demolished and in their place an apartment building having a footprint of 6,084 square feet is being proposed. This will cover 43 percent of the lot.

Therefore, the area covered by buildings will be reduced by almost 20 percent.

Viewed from Chestnut Street, the structure to be removed is 48 feet wide. The proposed apartment will be 26 feet wide. That is more than a 50-percent reduction.

The proposed apartment will be two stories high, but so are the adjacent homes.

RICHARD BLABEY Cooperstown

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NOTICE OF App. for Auth.

(LLC) DMZ Planners LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/29/19.

LLC formed in NJ on 11/17/17.

Office Location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process c/o Donna M. Zalecky, 208 Carlton Ave., Haddon Twp., NJ 08108, registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: All lawful purposes.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 404, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Name: DON BURTON EXCAVATING LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 15 May 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 775 Upcounty Rd, Worcester, NY 12197.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Liability Company Name: HARRIS LANDSCAPES & CONTRACTING LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 13 May 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 296 Hoose Rd, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: COOPERSTOWN HYDE PARK ESTATES LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 20 May 2019.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4868 St Rt 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of Wingspan Property and equipment LLC Article of organization was submitted 3/5/2019.

Office located in Otsego county.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and SSNY shall mail process to 311 42nd and Broad New Berlin NY 13411.

Purpose: All lawful purposes.

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Project May Bring 40 Artists’ Into 4-Story ‘Lofts On Dietz’ To Oneonta

In this artist’s rendering by the Kearney family’s Parkview Development, the Lofts On Dietz would rise across the street from the Lizard Lick luncheonette.

Herzig said he began Please See LOFTS, A7 talking with the Kearneys and 26 middle-income a year ago when he learned apartments – to be built on of their development part of the Dietz Parking projects they had done in Lot. Poughkeepsie and Peekskill.

The developer, a father “Both projects and son team from the are thriving [and] Hudson Valley, Ken became fully occuand Sean Kearney, pied as soon as they will go into more opened,” he added. detail at Council’s Both have had an July 16 meeting. The immediate impact next day, they will go on the surrounding before the Planning downtown neighborCommission.

If the Dietz Street Herzig hood – more people on the street, more project is ultimately approved and implemented, businesses opening.”

Last September, the mayor it would become the sent a ten-person delegation first development to use of Oneonta developers, Downtown Revitalization Council members, and Initiative (DRI) funds, business owners to tour which Herzig said would the Kearneys’ $28 million “partially” pay for it.

The city’s Comprehensive development, Lofts on Main, in Peekskill and came Master Plan envisions back raving about it. downtown as an arts’ hub “We looked at three and sees a need for more apartments there,” said Bob housing. The Dietz Street project, Herzig said, “checks Brzozowski, a member of the group. “They had all the boxes.”

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14-16-foot ceilings, with one all-glass wall looking over Main Street. It was a breathtaking view.”

Brzozowski said they also looked at one building’s commercial space, with some of it designated for an art gallery specially for exhibiting the works of the artists renting the apartments.

Herzig said the Dietz Street building will likely be a mixed-use building as well, with commercial space on the first floor “to bring downtown development to retail.” One possible occupant of the commercial space would be “academic programming” from either SUNY or Hartwick or both to occupy some of the space.

“We’re in conversations about it,” said Herzig. “The city has wanted the colleges to have a downtown presence for years and years.” He said it would connect the colleges more closely to the city.

Oneonta residents will have a clearer idea in two weeks of what the Kearneys have in mind. They are scheduled to brief Common Council July 16 on their plans and will appear before the Planning Commission to begin site plan review the next day Herzig cautioned that the Common Council’s vote, which authorizes the mayor to enter a nonbinding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the developer is “a preliminary step.”

“There are still many steps ahead of us,” Mayor Gary Herzig said. “But the MOU starts the process.”

Plus, the Minneapolisbased Artspace national non-profit did a feasibility study and found its concept would work here. However, City Hall decided to seek a private developer, which means the building will be on the tax rolls.

Shirley Bennett is selling an unusual threewheeler, on display on Route 28, Milford.

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Many Intrigued, But No One’s Snapped Up 3-Wheeler So Far NOVELTY/From A1 found it online in 2012, it only had three miles on it,” she said. “It’s the only one in New York state.”

A modified trike, the Snyder comes from China – their small size makes them very popular in Asia – and requires a motorcycle or trike license to operate it.

Even with a three-gallon fuel tank, the Snyder can get up to 65 miles per gallon.

“When we registered it, they told us we had to wear helmets when we were in it,” she said. “Your head would rub against the ceiling! I said that ‘we’ll wear motorcycle helmets when motorcyclists wear seat belts’.”

The car gets 50-55 miles per hour, and in nice weather, Douglas drove it to his job at Amphenol,

and also to car shows. “He won a prize for most unique vehicle,” she said.

The wooden butterfly key was something Douglas added, as well as a horn that played several tunes.

“It really is the most fun,” she said. “People will whip out their cameras and take pictures when they see it.”

And it drew plenty of attention. “One time we were stopped by police coming back from Binghamton,” she said.

“They just wanted to look at it!”

Douglas died last September, and now, Shirley wants the car to have a new owner. It has less than 4,000 miles on it, has never been driven in winter and is selling for $5,000.

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MLS#119496 $745,000 Country Estate in Fly Creek 5,700 sq ft. Ground floor, full-sized swimming pool, private sauna, bath changing area. Barn w/2-3 horse stalls. Guest house w/2 BRs, workshop. Tennis court, pond. Much more.

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MLS#114624 $59,900 MLS#120257 $469,000 1982 double-wide w/3 BRs, 2 baths and 1½ story, 2-car Ready Sell!heating Presently realizing $2,500/wk a garage.toNew system, updated electrical,asnew baseball rental w/Cooperstown Lodging.

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MLS#116366 $489,000 Stellar Lake View Custom-built home w/3 parcels of nearly 12 acres w/4-acre building parcel across this gorgeous hilltop soaring above Canadarago Lake!

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MLS#118994 $399,000 Magnificent Log Home on 90 Acres! 4 BRs, 2 baths, 2 kitchens, large pond, indoor pool! Great hunting, hiking! Near Cooperstown and Oneonta.

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MLS#121343 $29,650 Gilbertsville-Mt. Upton School Area 3 BRs, 1½ baths, 1,700-sq-ft home on .95 acre. Carriage barn, paved driveway. Newer furnace. Requires much TLC. Call Frank Woodcock @ 607-435-1389 (cell)

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MLS#117678 $269,000 Spectacular Country Offering 55 surveyed acres w/2,700 sq ft, built in 2003. Easy 1-floor living, finished walk-out basement. Landscaped.

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MLS#120582 $650,000 Priced Below Appraised Value True working farm in the Butternut Valley. 160 of the 181 acres are fenced and mostly tillable. Barns w/water, electric.

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Beautiful Victorian Sits nicely on 1+ acre just minutes from downtown Oneonta.

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Attention Horse Lovers! Check out this Colonial home on nearly 40 private acres in the Oneonta School District. 2-story horse barn w/4 paddocks, 2-story chicken coop w/small pen, larger 8’-tall fenced area, greenhouse. 3 ponds some w/koi, painted turtles, bass. Fruit trees, flowering trees, evergreens. Trails throughout.

2-tiered large deck w/grapevines, bluestone/paver patio, stone walls, in-ground pool w/landscaping, waterfall. 3-BR (could be 4) home has many updates.

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Jack Lambert, captain of the state champion Hawkeyes basketball team, accepts his diploma from school board President Marcie Birch. He expects to play basketball this fall at the Division III University of Scranton.

Proud mom Leslie Friedman poses with son William, one of the Class of 2019 four top scholars, and daughter Renee, a top CCS scholar four years ago who last month graduated from Harvard, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.

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Carson Guzy, an Eagle Scout, received a Presidential Volunteer Service Award from Donald J. Trump and will be added to the president’s Points of Light list.

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This year’s top scholars of the Cooperstown Central School Class of 2019 deliver their valedictories at Commencement Exercises Sunday, June 30, on the back lawn of The Fenimore Art Museum. From left are William Friedman, Kai Wasson, Genevieve Landry and Josie Hovis, who noted her grandfather, Michael Hovis, had spoken from a similar podium as 1964 valedictorian. Seated behind them are, from left, Supt. of Schools Bill Crankshaw, school board President Marcie Birch, and outgoing and incoming high school principals, Jim Brophy and Kristin Butler.

►Cooperstown Central School • Class of’19 Baileigh Louette Behan Samuel R. Bonderoff Kathryn Grace Rose Boyle Kayce M. Boyles +Zachary Martin Brown* Ryan Arthur Burns Jordan B. Carpenter +Ewan Lloyd Chapman ~+Quincey Layne Chase* Thomas J. Clarkson Aimee L. Cook Hayden Jackson Croft +Kaitlin Nicole Curtis* Surya Grace Daniel Ryan Davidson Erik Neil Deysenroth +William Zoel Friedman* +Jesse James Furnari* ~+Delilah Sue Griger* Carson J. Guzy +Addison S. Harmon Max Hinrichs Delaney Kate Holohan +Josephine M.J. Hovis* Richmond Matthew Hulse Adam C. Ilgin Brittney Taylor Janitz Isaiah W. Johnson Sheena Lynn Johnson Sheena Lynn Kaczor Taylor R. Keane +John P. Lambert* +Genevieve Lyra Landry* Noah Brewster Lifgren Nicole Marie Lionetti Brendan John Lohan

+Abigail Grace Makofske* Katharine X. Martin Vernon Mendez +Kyle Thomas Meyer* Nathaniel G.L. Miller Jonathan Andrew Nicholson ~+John Floyd Odell* Catherine Zwissler Owens Tiffany Pagillo Sarah Elizabeth Parr Anushree Raj Rani Patel Emilie Marie Perez ~+Juliet C. Ratliff* Michael B. Rudloff Calvin B. Sandler +Kyle Patrick Santello* Hailey Rosemarie Seamon +Sierra Harley Sillaro* Santiago Sky-Shrewsberry Amanda Kate Snyder Harold J. Stilson Morgan Taylor Stockdale ~+Johnathan A. Stone* +Benjamin Tafuro* +Katherine H.Trosset* +Lauren Sue Vibbard* Sheon Wakefield Timothy C. Walker Hailee Ward ~+Kai Adam Wasson* Andrew Wellman DeAndra I. Weygand Natalie Yaun +Honors *National Honor Society ~Technical Honor Society

Eighth-grader Margaret Raffo adds the sounds of the flute to the National Anthem, played as the CCS commencement exercises began.

With winds gusting, High School Principal Jim Brophy stops Class President Delilah Sue Griger’s prepared remarks from blowing away.

Kirstin Butler, who will succeed Brophy July 1, collaborated with him in reading scholarship winners.

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Cherry ValleySpringfield Central School At Cherry ValleySpringfield Central School’s 2019 Commencement Saturday, June 29, salutatorian Hailey Erway was flanked by classmates, from left, Tucker Yager, Justin Riavez, Ryan Lewis and Jessica Lundy.

Valedictorian Ryan Burr hugs a wellwisher in the reception line after graduation. This year, the CV-S graduation was in the school gym, but Supt. of Schools Therijo Climenhaga said next year it will be back at Glimmerglass Opera.

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►cherry valley-springfield central school Class of ’19

Ryan P. Burr *** Alexander S Cronkhite~ Natalie Nicole Davis Matthew Jacob Dawson ~ Hailey Sykora Erway ~ Joshua Forbes Makayla Gwinn ** Allison Ann Hoke Maxx A. Hubbell Ian Jason Johnson Kristopher A. Keator Nicholas Jerome LaRosa~ Ryan Robert Lewis Jessica Marie Lundy ~ Dylan Anthony Maaser Michael J. McCallion Cody McGovern Justin T. Riavez

Julian Rivera ** Tyler J. Richards ~ Zoe Elizabeth Smith Anthony VanDerKrake Barry S. Webster Jr. ** Dylan Webster Tyler Woods Tucker Reilley Yager Noah M. Young *** Regents Diploma, advanced designation, honors ** Regents, advanced designation * Regents, honors # Certified technical endorsement ~ CDOS

Natalie Davis kisses wellwisher Matthew Santoro, 7 months, attending with mom Gabby.

Grads Ian Johnson, right, and Noah Young lead the recessional at the end of commencement exercises.

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Milford Central School

Class President Amanda Clark addresses the Class of 2019 at Milford Central School’s commencement Friday, June 28, on the soccer field.

Superintendent of Schools Mark Place presents an engraved clock to Susan Ward, who is retiring from the school board after 18 years, many of them as president.

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School Board member Ken Stanford present a diploma to son Connor.

Valedictorian Rylee Velasco hugs Milford Rotary Club President Lola Rathbone on receiving the club’s scholarship for best exemplifying Rotary’s motto, “Service Above Self.

Garrett Mertz presents a bouquet to Meg Subik, his instructor at Bassett Hospital’s New Visions program, where he spent his senior year.

He is pursuing a medical career.

►MILFORD Central School Class of 2019

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José Aburto Taylor J. Ballard Jenna Banks Savannah Jean Beckley Charlotte Isabelle Bernhardt Nicholas Bosc Anthony J. Brienza-Hoffman Andrew Christopher Brown Gwendolyn May Calchi Arturo David Garcia Castillo Amanda Clark Sean M. Clark Neil Andrew Cotton Karissa DeMaroney Reilly C. Francisco Alexander J. Gutierrez Cian Hall Kaitlyn Hart Summer Jade Karasiewicz Sean P. Kenyon Logan Kilts Jaeden T. Kirby Kaylee L. Kiser Katelyn B. Konnick Haley Ann Lang Destine L. Marshall James Robert Mason III Garrett R. Mertz Rebecca L. Miller Micah J. Morgan Allyson H. Morrison Steven W. Pickwick Hunter S. Robinson Connor MacNaught Stanford Rylee J. Velasco James F. Virtell Abigail M. Waters Andrew J. White Wyatt Wilkens Wynn Williams Quincey Woodrow Jeremiah Worden

Her classmates elected Taylor Ballard class speaker, and what stories she told: From moose in her backyard during a year in Fairbanks, Alaska, to organizing resistance to a shortshorts prohibition, and convincing Supt. Place and high school Principal Teresa Glavin to loosen restrictions.

Show the world your Sassy, Grads!

Salutatorian Morgan Abare, who studied at SUNY Cobleskill her senior year, tells her classmates her Christian beliefs will guide her life.

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THURSDAY, July 4, 2019

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Richfield Springs Central School

Walker Dorie, right, is highlighted in a beloved commencement tradition at Richfield Springs Central School: A slide show that highlights the graduating class’s 13-year academic experiences. All 29 graduates were similarly highlighted Saturday, June 29.

Valedictorian Jacob Calta listens to praise from high school Principal Joseph D’Apice, who introduced the Valedictory.

Next to Calta is Salutatorian Mashayla Davis.

►richfield springs Central School Class of 2019

Aaron James Bond Emily Bond ∆ Kennadi Elizabeth Butler Jacob E. H. Calta ◊• Nicole Marie Connolly ∆ Mashayla Nichole Davis ◊• Courtney L. Duncan Devin M. Foster Darien A. Gavalo ◊• Alicia Marie Gee Krystal L. Goodsill Brooke Marie Green Megan Lynn Green Markus Hammont Bretten House Viktor Wyatt Larkin Trenton McLean Sierra Nichole Nassimos Kari Marie Oakley Jedediah Panko Alicia René Pomeroy ∆ Carlie Nicole Sapara Rodney Eric Seamon Gabrielle Marie Shipman ∆ Jacquelynn Renée Thomson ◊ Jenna Louise Ubner ∆ Keith John Thomas Widger Mattewos Woldemichael Amy Younes ∆Advanced Regents ◊Advanced Regents, honors •Mastery in Math

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Alicia Marie Gee listens tearfully as commencement ceremonies, always emotional, ensued.

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THE SAM NADER CENTURY: ONEONTA ICON TURNS 100

In Early Years, Learning To Love Sixth Ward, Busy Oneonta NADER/From A1 Albert “Sam” Nader was born ►Of his boyhood in the immion July 8, 1919, to Elias and grant-filled “Lower Deck” – Rose Nader, recent immigrants Lebanese like his family, Italians, from Lebanon, who brought Poles, Russians. the baby home to 90 “They were all West Broadway in the my pals.”

Sixth Ward’s polyglot ►Of learning neighborhood. life’s lessons early Their apartment at St. Mary’s, going house, six apartments off to World War per floor, was popularly II, joining Bendix called “The Beehive.” (now Amphenol), By the time Sam reached where he spent high school, however, his career, rising the parents had put aside to director of enough to by their own purchasing. home at 107 River St. ►Of marriage: Growing up in the in be-pillared Depression, “we didn’t Colliscroft, to Alice know we were poor” A gaunt Sam in House, daughter of Army uniform.

– everyone was in the a prominent physi- He was a machinesame boat. But he cian and descengunner in the Battle remembers his dad, who dant of Eliakim worked for the D&H, of the Bulge.

Ford, the first coming home with a president of the railroad tie under each Village of Oneonta, and key player arm, to be chopped up for firein bringing the railroad here. The wood. That, and coal picked up union breached the social divide along the tracks, kept the growing between River Street and Walnut Nader family – two sons and four Street. daughters – warm.

“I was very fortunate,” he said the other day. “I had the best rowing up, heritage anyone could have.” His Sam gave all parents, “they couldn’t read or of my brothers write in any language. They and sisters our first jobs, worked, literally, like slaves. They insisted the kids get an education.” working the concession They, with the help of older stand. At the end of a busy brother Nate, also taught him night, he’d always give us right from wrong. money to go to Friendly’s • and get a big ice cream When young Sam, instructed sundae. But one of the by an errant cousin on shoplifting – pick up two jackknives, then just things we had to do was pay for one, he remembered – paint the bleachers because Nate found out. he wanted them to look nice When he got home, dad Elias for George Steinbrenner. had the boy kneel on a rail tie in But not just the tops, you front of a hot stove, reciting the had to paint underneath Lord’s Prayer in Lebanese and English. When he flagged, his too! We always made my father smacked him with a brother TJ do that part.” razor strop.

VINCE FOTI The discipline stuck. “I never Retired SUNY Oneonta VP stole anything again,” the nearcentenarian recalled. ►Of politics: Spurned by the A high-school freshman, dominant Republicans after three Sam told his Latin teacher, Mrs. terms as alderman, he formed the Stewart, he couldn’t stay after Good Government Party and, then school to sharpen his language endorsed by the Democrats, won skills – he had to chop wood at the mayoralty. He would open home. the modern Oneonta Municipal Brother Nate, then a senior, and Airport – now the Sam Nader who did most of the wood chopMunicipal Airport, 30 years ping at home, found that out, too. of daily passenger service to Yes, Sam did spend THAT LaGuardia followed – launch evening chopping that railroad Urban Renewal, and learn which tie, while Nate sat by in an levers to push to bring federal easy chair. The next day, Mrs. aid here.

Stewart lectured the class on “prevarication.”

“I never forgot that,” said Sam. “She became the best teacher I ever had. I took In 1995, at Don Mattingly Day in Yankee Stadium, when Yankee owner George Steinbrenner called Sam Nader onto the field to be introduced before packed stands. It’s one of Sam’s four years of treasured photos.

Latin. I passed He wistfully recalls Jack’s editor asked.

A rarity these days, Bendix every Regents Restaurant, the Wagon Wheel, the “Gene Ward,” the soldier had a heart, he remembers. His because nearby pool hall, The Klipnockie, replied, a reference to a famed brother, Nate, was a supervisor of of her.”

The Royal, Henderson and Harris New York Daily news columnist. inspections.

“He insisted, if you • men’s stores, the jewelers, the That was partly true: “I caddied work for the company, you’ve got He grew up department stores – “Oneonta was for him at the country club.” to give them 50 minutes” (out of in downtown Hired, Sam wrote sports in 60 per hour), the younger brother Oneonta’s heyday, the shopping center for the whole area,” he said.

Texas and then at Fort Lewis, remembers. and remembers John, 8 years old and himself a future Asked about World War II – Washington, before heading back A young management trainee, Main Street’s mayor, looks on as dad Sam Nader is he was 21 when Pearl Harbor to Oneonta.

As for Gene Ward, Don Jones, just out of Cornell, sworn in as mayor of Oneonta in 1960 for packed sidewalks was bombed – he paused, in “I brought him here, back home, was impressed.

Years later, Nate on Thursdays, pay his first term. thought.

A machine gunner with for one of my sports banquets,” came down with diabetes, had to day for the D&H’s the 28th Infantry Division, he he said. take time off weekly for dialysis. ►Of baseball, bringing the workers. Saturday night was fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

• His future had to be decided by Yankees franchise to Oneonta’s lively, too.

“I remember how cold it was,” At that point, Sam had two the Bendix board, then in South Damaschke Field (1969-93).

Saturdays his dad would give years of college – one at Hartwick, Bend, Ind. Many of the great team’s greats, him 15 cents to take in the cowboy he said. Another pause. “Bad memories,” he said. the second at Bates College in By then, Don Jones had risen from Mickey Mantle to George serials at The Palace movie house, Back stateside awaiting Maine – but returned to Bendix to that corporate board and Steinbrenner, got to know the City where Community Bank is now discharge, he volunteered to write (Scintilla), where he had been when Nate’s case came before it, of the Hills – and Sam– over the – a dime for the movie, a nickel sports for the newspaper at Camp working when the war broke out, declared, “As long as Nate Nader years. for a bag of candy kisses, that Swift Baron in Texas. and recalls the ensuing 43 years Please See NADER, A15 • would last him all week.

“Who’d you ever work for?” the there fondly.

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Happy Birthday Sam!

Happy Birthday Sam! In recognition of all you have done for the people of this city, July 8, 2019 is hereby proclaimed as Sam Nader Day in the City of Oneonta!

Thank you, Sam. Enjoy your day!

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THE SAM NADER CENTURY: ONEONTA ICON TURNS 100

Sam Nader with some of his favorite people: Bobby Kennedy, left, then U.S. senator from New York; Joe DiMaggio, the backyard at 95 River St. Is that a cup of Sanka on the side table? And George Steinbrenner at Damaschke Field, with Oneonta’s namesake hills in the background.

After Army Ordeal, Mastering Bendix, Politics And Baseball NADER/From A14 is alive, he will be on the Bendix payroll.”

Sam’s other Bendix memory – “I remember it vividly” – was flying to New Haven on a corporate airplane. Returning, a snowstorm had closed Oneonta’s airport. And Sidney’s.

“Gene, you got me up here,” he told the pilot. “It’s up to you to get me down … Finally, we crashed into a cornfield outside Cortland.”

• Back home, he’d paid his dues on Common Council, and wanted to run for the top job in 1960, “but the GOP didn’t want me,” he said.

poster-size photo of him waving to the cheering crowd has a place of honor in Nader’s basement, which is decorated with photos of his political and baseball successes.

• So now, on to 100, and a summing up.

Sam’s wife, Alice, was killed in a car crash 29 years ago while the couple was driving to Florida, and

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e spent years together in Florida, and because of his relationship with Buck Showalter (the former manager of the Oneonta Yankees) he was always able to get us tickets to the Yankees spring training games. We would have lunch and spend time with some of the old players. We all shared in Sam’s wealth.”

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“They said they couldn’t get me over the railroad tracks.”

“I had good friends, all over,” he remembered. About 1,000 people in Oneonta worked for Bendix, and the company’s dataprocessing office gave Sam a list of the names. “That didn’t hurt,” he said.

Election Day, Sam drove around the Sixth Ward, flashing “V” for victory. “Russians, Poles, Italians,

Mayor Sam and wife Alice, who together eased the Sixth Ward immigrants into Oneonta’s mainstream, with children John, Suzanne and Alice.

they all rallied around me,” he remembered. “I carried this ward” – the Sixth – “by a large, large margin.”

He beat the Republican nominee, attorney John Dunn, by 17 votes, then handily defeated a former mayor, Roger Hughes, who challenged him in 1964 on the belief that candidates should not run unopposed.

• As Democratic mayor in a traditionally Republican city, Sam drew national attention, meeting his all-time favorite politician, Bobby Kennedy – “a real man” – three times. “He had honesty and realism,” explained Nader.

“He was very concerned about people.”

Running for U.S. Senate from New York in 1964, a dinner was hosted locally at the Armory.

“Why isn’t your mother on the podium?” Ethel Kennedy asked Sam. She pointed out that John Burns of Binghamton, then Democratic state chairman, had his mother next to him.

“Nobody invited her,” Sam replied.

“Well, I’m inviting her,” said Ethel. For his mom Rose, it was the thrill of a lifetime, the son remembers.

• And then there were the famous ballplayers, including Joe DiMaggio.

“Would you like coffee?” Alice Nader asked the famous Yankee when he stopped by 95 River.

“Do you have Sanka?” he replied.

“Sure,” said Sam, and he hustled son John off to the corner store to get a jar.

He and DiMaggio stopped by

to see Al Farone, the lawyer and Sixth Ward VIP, who took Sam aside: “Do you think Joe would go to my house and see my sister?

She’s devoted to him.”

Sam took the Yankee to the Farones’ back door. Ida answered and was thrilled, “she hugged him and all.” Later though, “she gave me heck for not bringing him to the front door,” Sam recalled.

Through his years operating the Oneonta Yankees, Nader got to know many New York Yankees well – Whitey Ford, Yogi, Reggie. About the controversial owner George Steinbrenner, he’s emphatic: Steinbrenner should be in the Hall of Fame. “In my book, he’s a fine man,” he said.

When Don Mattingly Day was held at Yankee Stadium, Steinbrenner invited VIPs onto the field, and Sam was second. A

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hen I decided to run for Mayor, I went to Sam’s house because I wanted him to be one of the first people I told. His response was, ‘Gary, I will vote for you.’ Then he told me, ‘I want you to remember – politics is not a dirty word. It’s how we get things done in this country. I carry that insight with me.”

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she immediately comes to mind.

“My wife has to get the credit for raising the kids – I was too busy working, politicking, with baseball,” he said, “and one of the things I’m proudest about is my children’s success.”

“They’ve been very good to me,” he added.

Advice?

“Make sure you have good parents. Don’t be afraid of hard work. And” – as baseball allowed him to be – “be around young people.”

“I’m proud to have so many good friends in such a great city,” he said. “The Lord’s been very good to me.”

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THURSDAY, July 4, 2019

OBITUARIES

Frederick S. Veseley, 92; Former Farmer Tended Cooperstown Museums HARTWICK – Frederick S. Vesely, Sr., 92, former buildings and grounds superintendent at The Fenimore House and The Farmers’ Museum, passed away Friday, June 28, 2019, at Fox Nursing Home.

He lived in the Town of Burlington.

He was born Feb. 24, 1927, in New Windsor, one of 10 children of Andrew and Matilda (Gaydos) Vesely. In his youth, Fred

attended a one-room schoolhouse in Little Britain.

At the age of 16, he left school and went to work for Crowley’s Dairy Company.

On Aug. 15, 1948, he married Jeanne M. Oles in Newburgh.

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in 1976, he retired from farming and went to work at The Farmers’ Museum and The Fenimore House, where he was in charge of buildings and grounds.

After Jeanne passed away on Dec. 10, 1987, Fred married Doris Grant on May 27, 1989, in a ceremony at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta. Doris passed away on Aug. 16, 2010.

For many years, Fred was a communicant of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown.

Fred is survived by his

two sons, Frederick “Rick” S. Vesely, Jr. and wife, Roberta, of Hartwick, and Michael “Mike” L. Vesely, Sr. Frederick Veseley and wife, Coleen, of Springfield Center; 10 grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; and one great-great-grandson; one sister-in-law, Joyce Vesely, of Walden; a brother-in-law, Robert Ferris, Sr. of Vails

Gate; and many nieces and nephews.

He is further survived by one stepson, Robert Blais, and wife Linda, and a step daughter-inlaw, Sherri Blais, all of Bethel; one step-daughter, Linda Citro Gorton and husband, Forrest, of Jeffersonville; eight step grandchildren; and 12 step great-grandchildren.

He was predeceased by his first wife, Jeanne M. Vesely, his second wife, Doris Blais Vesely; a step son, Jay Blais; and all his siblings.

The Liturgy of Christian Burial was held Tuesday, July 2, at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church, with Fr. David Wm. Mickiewicz, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta, presiding.Burial was in Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown.

Memorial donations may be made to Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, 297 River Street Service Road, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Elizabeth M. TerBush, 87; Native Daughter Loved Skiing ONEONTA – Elizabeth (Betty) TerBush, a skiing enthusiastic and office manager for many years at the former Gruber & Scott CPA firm, Oneonta, passed away on June 20, 2019 while surrounded by family at Fox Nursing Home.

Betty was born Aug. 3, 1931, in Cooperstown, to Howard and Jane Simons Michaels.

She graduated from CCS in 1949 and attended Cazenovia Junior College.

On June 3, 1951, Betty married Sheldon (Terby) TerBush Jr. They enjoyed 60 years of faithful devotion and lovingly raised three children, Sheldon Craig, Ellen Jane, and David Charles.

Thomas Blau, 87; Retired County Probation Chief SCHUYLER LAKE – Thomas Blau Jr., 87, retired director of the Otsego County Department of Probation, died peacefully at home on June 25, 2019.

He was born in Union City, N.J., on Aug. 13, 1931, to Thomas Sr. and Anna Blau.

Tom is survived by his three children, son Thomas III and wife Patricia; daughter Jennifer and husband Daniel Landers, and daughter Deborah and husband Todd Justine; grandchildren Thomas IV (Samantha), Erin (Clayton), Kristen (Ben), Ryan, John Chapman V (Savanna), Madison Landers and Savanah (Ruben), and great-grandchildren Ella and Claudia Blau, Landon and Skyler Chapman, Silas and Mia. Services will be private.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home.

As a family, they enjoyed skiing each winter at Mount Otsego (Pierstown) and at Scotch Valley for many years. She was an active member of the Oneonta Garden Club and an honorary member of the Oneonta Business Women’s Club as well as the Native Daughters of Cooperstown.

In 1959, Betty began her career as a secretary to Llewellen Rogers who had started a CPA firm, and continued as the office manager as it grew, retiring

after 34 years from Gruver & Scott CPAs. She is survived by her children: Son Craig TerBush (Connie), granddaughters Rebecca Kohn (Dan), and great-granddaughters Hannah and Olivia, and Renae Scott (Ryan), great-grandsons Alexander and Lincoln; daughter Ellen Schmitt (Peter), granddaughters Kristen Lindner (Ned), Nicole Schmitt-Burdick (Michael), and Jennifer Leksander, and great granddaughter

Gretchen Leksander; and son David TerBush (Sue), grandson Tage and granddaughter Teegan. Also, brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Barbara Michaels and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Betty was predeceased by her husband Terby in 2012.

A Celebration of Life will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, in the Laurens Presbyterian Church.

Arrangements were entrusted to Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

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