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First Cooperstown Team To Play At Dreams Park

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Terry “Blue Moon” Bliss in Maine, near the end of his AT trek.

Ex-Planner Terry Bliss’s AT Trek Over

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ive months, 12 states and 2,181 miles later, retired Otsego County planning director Terry “Blue Moon” Bliss finished his “lifelong dream” of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail on Tuesday, July 30, two days short of planned.

Bliss, who retired last summer, started on March 1 on Springer Mountain in Georgia and finished Mount Katahdin in Maine, returning home July 31.

Bliss detailed the journey with weekly updates on www.terrybliss.com PAID OFF: The initial cost of the 13 paid-parking machines on Main and Pioneer streets, $103,840, has been paid for in a little more than two months, Trustee Cindy Falk, Streets & Building Committee chair, announced.

THEY’RE TOPS: J.D. Power, the global marketing services company, has ranked New York Central Mutual, Edmeston, “Highest in Customer Satisfaction among Auto Insurers in New York” in its just-released 2013 U.S. Auto Insurance Study.

EAT, HELP: CCS’ senior class is planning an all-youcan eat pasta dinner 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at Christ Church’s hall, 69 Fair St. The night before the Hall of Fame’s BASE race, the feast is open to runners and the public.

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Maskot’s team members shows excitement for their tournament at Cooperstown Dreams Park, beginning Friday, Aug. 9.

From left are William Friedman, Josh Martin, Kyle Santello, Jesse Furnari, Ben Tafuro, Erik Deysenroth, Sam Bonderoff, Luke Ough , Jordan Carpenter, Derek Lyon, Nicholas Santello, Brendan Lohan and Jack Lambert.

$850 Per Boy Raised To Enter Tournament Play In Hartwick Seminary

By LIBBY CUDMORE HARTWICK SEMINARY

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ny night of the week in the summer, Maskots is packed with baseball teams from

all over the country. With Dreams Park only a few yards across Route 28 from Sal and Abbe Furnari’s restaurant, the couple realized their son Jesse – and other Cooperstown boys – should have a chance to play inside those gates instead of driving past them.

From Humble Beginnings, Another Ommegang Smash

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hat started as a “Renaissancetype” festival with just over a 1,000 revellers at Brewery Ommegang has tripled in size in five years, turning into the highlight

“Our boys see these other boys in their uniforms, playing on this beautiful field – and now they get to play,” said Gabrielle Tafuro, whose son, Ben, will be playing on the Cooperstown Dreams Park team, for the first time anyone can remember, starting Friday, Aug. 9.

“I watched my son grow and thought it would be fun for him to go to Dreams Park,” said Furnari. “I gathered kids together to talk about it and got their parents involved.”

It was a year-long process of Please See TEAM, A3

Fairy Spring 75th Was Hilda’s Night

of the brewery’s busy and expanding summer season.

The “Belgium Comes to Cooperstown” festival sold out all 2,700 tickets for the fifth year in a row.

“It was one of our most popular since 2008’s ‘The Big Lebrewski’,” said Tara Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Aitchison, events and retail Hilda Wilcox reads her poem, “Fairy manager.

Spring, where time forget how to Please See BCTC, A6 read the face of the clock...”

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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efore Hilda Wilcox came to Cooperstown, she was involved in the late-’60s effort to give parents more of a say in how New York City schools were run.

No luck.

So she was a bit disheartened by the ability of citizens to change The System when she arrived in Cooperstown in the summer of 1969.

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LOCALS AMES HONORED: Bethany Ames of Richfield Springs is on the Dean’s List for the spring semester at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa. she is a sophomore communication disorders major.

$3,000 AWARD: Andrew Spencer, Cherry Valley, has received a $3,000 merit scholarship to attend SUNY Oswego this fall as a freshman.

THREE ACHIEVE: Charles Kieler and Charles Taylor, both of Cooperstown, and Emily Ackerman, Milford, were named to the RPI Dean’s list for the Spring 2013 semester.

STRONG MEN VIE FOR CLARK SPORTS CENTER TITLE

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Cooperstown’s strongman Josh Klosheim shows his stuff at the Hercules Hold, where contestants hold weighted pillars for as long as they can, in one of the grueling events at the Clark Sports Center’s Vis Vires Outdoor Strongman Competition on Saturday, Aug. 3. Participants came from as far away as Syracuse and Long Island to show their strength.

Caroga Lake Museum Shows Barbara Michaels’ Works

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As a young woman, she attended the Albright Art School at the University of Buffalo, receiving a BFA. Locally, she exhibited at the Munson William Proctor

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of team member Brendan. “They’ll be competing against teams from all over.”

“It would be cool to meet a team from Hawaii,” said player Sam Bonderoff, Cooperstown. “They come here from so far away.”

“They’re going to be great competition,” added teammate Jack Lambert, Cooperstown.

If they’re on a winning streak, they’ll go into the tournament. But win or lose, they’ll be forever enshrined in the Youth Baseball Hall of Fame.

With just a few days left before their Dreams Park debut, the Maskots team has been playing twice a day on the Hartwick field, morning and night, even when the clouds overhead grow dark and rain threatens. “There’s going to be some unhappy people if they don’t get to play all six games because of weather,” Furnari said.

“It’s such a unique opportunity,” said Tufaro.

“It’s like “Field of Dreams.”

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said Furnari. “We’re really grateful.”

The Maskots team will play a guaranteed six games against teams from all over the country. “Teams from California and Texas, they have warm weather, they can play all year round,” said John Lohan, father

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Perspectives

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JULIE DOSTAL GUEST EDITORIAL

A Tale Of Two Communities: Which One Would You Choose?

Editor’s Note: Julie Dostal, executive director of LEAF (Leatherstocking Education on Alcoholism/ Addictions Foundation), provided these reflections on recent contrasting events in Oneonta and Cooperstown.

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t was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Two cities, two large venue events, and two very different outcomes.

This column is not written to cast aspersions, but to be illustrative of how policy decisions (written and unwritten) related to the use of alcohol and illicit drugs can make a significant impact on the community, its residents and its merchants. As communities we have choices, and choices have consequences.

The Oneonta City Council made a decision to support two community organizations in creating a full day-into-evening event on the Fourth of July, complete with a 5K obstacle challenge, a music festival with multiple bands, invited vendors, and fireworks. The City Council committed city resources, including fire,

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It was a study in contrasts between the good, clean fun at Oneonta’s Tuff eNuff family race the Fourth of July In Oneonta, left, and the morning after the Furthur concert in Cooperstown, right, a week later.

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They also made a decision to support the organizations in their mission to provide alcohol-free, family friendly events knowing that they would draw large crowds to Oneonta; crowds that were very happy to bring their wallets with them.

The result of this event was a downtown area full of nearly 15,000 happy, festive people who were still happy and festive after the show, and who went home or back to their hotel rooms without

incident. The park and the downtown area were left as clean as they found it when they arrived. There were no alcohol- or drug-related injuries. The only reported arrests were two open-container violations where the individuals were actually stopped by the police before they entered the park. And not surprisingly, the organizers reported no inquiries or complaints about the absence of alcohol.

Within the same month, the Village of Cooperstown

Board of Trustees made a decision to host Furthur, a band created by former members of the Grateful Dead. Grateful Dead devotees come with their own culture, sense of community and shared love for music.

They also come with a significant minority of people who use the concerts as an opportunity to use excessive amounts of alcohol and illicit drugs.

“It was a great concert,” is the phrase heard by the majority of nearly 10,000

who were in attendance.

The quality of music and the show was superlative.

However, the overall results for Cooperstown were mixed, at best. The police contingent, consisting of seven officers, was left to do crowd control and some minor enforcement. There were 10 arrests and 10 admissions to the hospital’s emergency department (some related to alcohol or illicit drug overdose).

Shakedown Street vendors sold clothing, food, jewelry

and other wares without a permit. The morning after the event, concert-goers and vendors were sleeping on the streets of Cooperstown; some hung-over, some simply not paying for a night’s stay at a local hotel.

The area was littered with garbage. Used syringes were reportedly found on Doubleday Field.

Two cities, two decisions, two outcomes. Large crowds can and do come together in a peaceful, festive manor without incident.

An alcohol-fueled crowd behaves differently than a sober crowd. Local communities can choose what they want from their events.

Fun, vibrant, headlinecatching, revenue-generating events that do not have significant quality of life issues are the norm when alcohol is taken out the equation. Policy decisions related to alcohol and illicit drugs, when enforced, do make a difference. Here’s hoping that this particular tale of two communities will become a history lesson that is referred to as future events and festival are planned.

LETTERS

Question Occupant, But Show Respect To President’s Office

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disagree with his politics, or even don’t like the color of his tie; no matter what, you respect the President.

The behavior of some of us in this respect has become unconscionable.

I don’t have a problem if someone disagrees with the President. The country was built on factions and debate in order to reach a consensus. It’s our responsibility as citizens to question our leaders.

I think as parents and citizens we must teach our children that whoever holds this sacred position we must show the office respect.

Much of the politics we have today is strident and polarized and mean spirited; the fundamental problem, of course, is we do not show respect to those who are involved.

RICHARD D. ABBATE Cooperstown Otsego County Democratic chairman

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To the Editor: I can recall with fond memories of growing up and being taught the importance of the office of President of the United States, and how our men and woman died protecting our right to choose the President.

I was saddened when I read the article pertaining to an amusement game at the Morris fair where a dart game was created with the President’s picture, giving children an opportunity to throw darts at the President.

This President has suffered a level of disrespect unparalleled, and as a nation we seem to be headed, not forward, but backwards.

He is the chief executive of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the military and the face of our nation abroad, and he deserves the respect of all our citizens. It doesn’t matter if you dislike him as a person,

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Hall Of Fame’s 75th Offers Big Opportunity To the Editor: Another Induction weekend has passed us by in Cooperstown and, listening to many, especially Main Street, the feedback has been on the negative side. A lack of living inductee is blamed by many, and there is no question it had an impact.

Rather than dwell on the cause or what has already occurred, we should instead be looking to the future.

Next year offers a tremendous opportunity for Cooperstown with the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary. The Hall of Fame has already announced some exciting developments tied to this milestone, but this celebration can be expanded on by our community and local businesses.

I point to Saratoga Springs and this year’s 150th anniversary of the Saratoga Race Course. Like Cooperstown, Saratoga depends on a strong tourism season, and the race track is a driving force in bringing these visitors and revenues to their region.

What we can learn from Saratoga’s anniversary is the efforts in leveraging this event and ensuring the greatest impact.

In leading up to 150th anniversary, Saratoga implemented a planning committee that brought a variety of people and organizations to the table to discuss how to build this occurrence into a memorable experience for the community and visitors and a revenue generator for area attractions and busi-

nesses.

Take a look at www.saratoga150. com/, and you can easily see the potential Saratoga’s efforts offer for Cooperstown and the Hall’s 75th anniversary next year.

As August begins, it’s more important than ever to get our efforts underway to make the most of the cultural treasure we have in Cooperstown.

If Main Street, our regional attractions and businesses, village government, our community and even our School can participate, even in the simplest way, we can all truly expect to benefit.

ANDREW MARIETTA Cooperstown

Beer, Booze, Gambling No Formula For County’s Future To the Editor: We have new a new career path in the Southern Tier: It’s the Beer, Booze and Gambling Trail.

We already have breweries in Schoharie and Otsego, and a few micro-distilleries are on the horizon. Yes, I know gaming and gambling can attract tourists and provide jobs, but is that how we want to be known in the region?

There will be jobs, but most hospitality jobs are not particularly high paying or full time. Has anyone scrutinized the long-term impacts

this has on a region? Do the jobs stick? How many lives are impacted by irresponsible self-indulgence? While booze and bets are part of the region’s new economy, our farmers and landowners are patiently waiting to realize income from a sure thing, natural gas.

Our Pennsylvania neighbors know it’s not a game.

In the past three years – as New Yorkers sat back waiting – the natural gas industry created more than 150,000 new hires (nearly 75 percent of them were Pennsylvania residents).

The overall economy of Williamsport, Pa., grew 7.8 percent. All residents and businesses benefit from this stronger economy, through lower utility bills, stable local budgets (schools, libraries and other community services are intact and improved). And – most importantly – the land and water is environmentally safe. Recent articles around the state and the country have documented that.

The Marcellus Shale has the potential to provide a quarter of America’s natural gas within the next seven

years. Energy costs will be lower, thousands of U.S. jobs will be created, and dependence on energy from unstable foreign governments will be lessened. In New York, our economy will prosper just like Pennsylvania’s. Family farms will be saved. New Yorkers will stay here with good jobs. Our water, land, and air will still be safe.

That’s a sure thing you can take to the bank.

ANNA MARIE LUSINS Business Manager Hometown Energy Group Oneonta

Let County Reps Know You Care About Cooperative Extension To the Editor: A number of trends have combined to create an expanding role for the Cornell Cooperative Extension, making it an increasingly important 21st century asset to our local expanding agricultural economy. If you agree, it is time to help Extension by contacting your Otsego County Board Representative to support its continued funding.

Agriculture is once again on the rise in New York State. On Feb. 22, the Times Union reported that for the first time active farms held steady in 2012 and did not

decline as they have in previous years.

On July 22, NPR reported that New York State “cut the licensing fee to open a small distillery dramatically - from $65,000 to just $1,000.” New distilleries are looking for local grains to create custom tastes that distinguish them from other spirits on the market.

On Nov. 7, 2011, the New York Times reported the burgeoning beer district is seeking local hops for the same reason - to create distinctive flavors.

The yogurt district has increased our area’s need for

class II milk from our dairy producers. On June 26, the Wall Street Journal reported that the yogurt district has “...helped alleviate a milk glut that devastated the industry in 2009...”

On June 27, the Cornell Chronicle reported Wegman’s Food Markets and Cornell University have teamed up to foster specialty and artisan cheese making.

Cooperative Extension is active in providing expertise in all these areas as well as farm-to-market local food connections and 4H programs that instill pride in our next generation of farm-

ers with the Junior Livestock program and academics with the Robotics program.

As the Otsego County Board’s representative member of the Cooperative Extension Board, I successfully advocated for incorporating fundraising and increased awareness of its programs because Otsego County decreased funding last year due to a tight budget. Don’t let this happen again this year to an organization that is vital for the growth of Otsego County agriculture.

JOHN KOSMER Fly Creek County Rep, District 8

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

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

200 YEARS AGO

Elopement – This may certify that my wife Sophia has run away from me for the truly honorable purpose of not going to Ohio & her friends have been so friendly, or rather devilish, as to advise her to quit me; and have kept her, and the children where I could not find them for some months.

This is therefore to forbid all persons trusting or harboring her at their peril. Henry Hubbell, Otsego, August 3, 1813.

August 7, 1813

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75 YEARS AGO

Whitehall Post #9 of Whitehall is the new American Legion Junior Base Ball champ of New York State. It beat out Staten Island here yesterday afternoon 1 to 0, before an over-flow crowd of 1,200, which braved the sweltering heat to witness one of the finest games ever staged at Doubleday Field. This is the second year in a row that the semi-final and final games of the New York State Legion Junior tourney have been held here. A great deal of credit for this should go to the members of Clark F. Simmons Post, No. 579, of Cooperstown who have arranged for the entire program and underwritten the expenses of the play-offs.

August 10, 1938

175 YEARS AGO

To the Ladies – The ladies of Otsego County and its vicinity are respectfully informed that I have just received the first number of “The Ladies’ Magazine of Fashion,� as published by Mssrs. Saguers & Scott, 62 Liberty Street, New York. The first number contains two line engraved plates on copper; the first plate contains two ladies in miniature size, representing the fashions as published in Paris for the month of May 1838; the second has different subjects, such as collars, head-dresses, &c, &c. Ladies wishing to subscribe for this periodical will please forward their name and residence, either to me or the publishers, enclosing a remittance of three dollars, which will receive due attention.

W. S. Fritts.

August 1838

50 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown Youth Commission is nearing its goal of $5,000 for rehabilitation of the Youth Center, in the Village Hall at 22 Main Street. The youth group, which has pledged a $1,000 toward the total, set up special parking areas for the Hall of Fame baseball game on Monday. With the cooperation of Victory Market, the Mitchell Moving Company and the Cooperstown Central Schools, the group spent the day parking out-of-town cars under the direction of Paul Lambert. Volunteers included Timothy McDonough, Frank Demaree, William Rath, Don Troeger, John Mitchell, Timothy Weir, Ed Pugliese, Tom Millea, Pat Taugher, Michele Van Dyke, and Ann Demaree.

August 7, 1963

150 YEARS AGO

Riotous – On Saturday night last a party of seven or eight persons – who had doubtless “imbibed� rather freely – went to the house of the Sheriff and threw a number of large stones against the doors to the great alarm of his family.

The Sheriff procured the assistance of some neighbors and went in pursuit of the rioters. They were arrested. Two were bound over to appear before the next Grand Jury to answer to a serious charge. The fact that Sheriff Mather has had occasion to arrest some of these persons on a previous occasion, in the proper discharge of his duty as a public officer, may have been the inciting cause of this assault.

August 7, 1863

125 YEARS AGO

More Light! That is the loud call heard on all sides just now in this village. It is not for more street burners, but more light from those already in position. For some reason

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they are not giving more than half the light they did when the electric system first went into operation. What is the cause of this? Has a change been made in the lamp apparatus? Has the little lamp wire been made shorter? Why do the street lamps give even less light than those in the stores? These are the questions frequently asked, and the dissatisfaction is quite general. The village now pays $900 for lighting its streets, and with the exception of Main Street the service is not more satisfactory than it was when gas was used.

August 10, 1888

Long-time Rotary Club member and Cooperstown resident Michael Jerome has been selected to lead a team of visitors on an exchange trip to Mali, Ghana, Togo and Benin in the spring of 2004. The trip is sponsored by Rotary District 7170 as part of a Group Study Exchange program of The Rotary Foundation as a means to promote international understanding and goodwill through personal contact.

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150 Fans Raise Toast To Fairy Spring VIP Beer Fest Tickets Sell Out In 5 Minutes HILDA/From A1 as a sociologist, and Hilda, reading The Freeman’s Journal in New York City to acclimate herself to her new community, had learned about Fairy Spring.

But when she took her three young children – Ann, then 8; Clay, 5, and Toby, 3 – to the village park for a dip, she discovered, to her dismay, a “park closed” sign guarding the entry.

“I was horrified,” she said Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal the other day. “I had my eye Cooperstown’s Kristin Karasek, left, raises a toast to Fairy Spring on its 75th birthday celebraon definitely entering the tion. With her is niece Gwen Taylor. lake through Fairy Spring, so it was a terrible blow.” she organized a square Glimmerglass’ shores to The reason, she learned, dance in Lakefront Park. celebrate the village park’s was that an ancient care“We didn’t raise much 75th anniversary. taker had drilled a hole so money,” but Doug Walrath, Tim Iversen’s CCS jazz he could peek into the girls’ was sufficiently inspired he band played. Friends of dressing room. “They were declared he would find the the Parks’ Susie Knight, the going to abolish sin,” Hilda money. event’s organizer, led the recalled.

He did and the park regathering in a champagne Reenergized by the new opened. Hilda’s conclusion, toast. And Hilda was precrusade, Hilda arranged which she still affirms these sented with the original oil a clean-up day at Fairy decades later: “Small compainting created by MaySpring, and a picture of munities may be the best Britt Joyce for the occasion. prominent citizens, cleanhope for democracy.”

(Prints will be sold as a ing tools in hands, appeared That faith, and Hilda’s Friends fundraiser.) on the front page of this dedication to Fairy Spring, In her remarks, Hilda newspaper. was celebrated Sunday, praised Bobby Busse, “faithTo help raise the $2,000 Aug. 4, when 150-some ful jack-of-all-trades,” who needed to support the park, wellwishers gathered on helped maintain the park for 44 years.”

She read a poem written for the occasion and dedicated to Busse, “Fairy Spring, where time forgets how to read the face of the clock.”

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BCTC/From A1 This year’s theme was based around the ’90s TV hit show “Seinfeld,” featuring such food from the show as Elaine’s favorite “big salad” and the Costanza’s marble rye (from the episode “The Rye”).

Volunteers wore a T-shirts with an image of Jerry Seinfeld’s “puffy shirt” printed on the front. “It had ‘BCTC Volunteer: ‘Cause I Don’t Want to Be a Pirate!’ written on the back,” said Aitchison.

“For everyone working at the event, it was a favorite.”

Previous years themes have included “Planet of the Ales” and “Spinal Tap: Bringing it to 11.”

In the 2,700 tickets were 700 VIP tickets, which sold out on the Internet in less than a minute. “We don’t want people to have to wait in line,” Aitchison explained.

“Once you start adding too many people, it’s difficult to keep everyone comfortable.”

The VIPs were invited to a six-course dinner on Friday, Aug 2. The other 2,000 tickets were divided into two categories: tickets with camping passes and day passes.

The event was also the crowning of the 2013 Hops Chef Cosmo Goss, of Publican Quality Meats in Chicago, who tempted tasters with his hopped pancetta tesa and tuna with pine nuts, dill, crème fraîche and lemon paired with Hennepin. “I was so busy that I didn’t even get to try any,” lamented Allison Capozza, publicity manager.

Goss will receive a 12month contract with Saveur magazine, as well as come back to Ommegang to showcase at special dinners and events.

Another novelty this year: Canvasses were set up on easels and fest-goers were invited to paint Ommegangrelated scenes. The winning canvas – a glass of Duvel with a goldfish in it – was painted by Cooperstown artist Susan Jones Kenyon.

And they’re already beginning to think about next year’s event. “We have a few beers and think of hilarious things to make people laugh,” said Aitchison.

“It’s a chance to eat great food and drink good beer,” she added. “And throw a big old party in upstate New York.”

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal

Sarah Allen, visiting from Boston, takes a panoramic video of the thousands of attendees at BCTC – Belgium Comes To Cooperstown – Saturday, Aug. 3, at Brewery Ommegang.

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2 Oneontas May Collaborate On Southside Water System

By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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he city and town of Oneonta may be about to embark on a long-awaited major collaboration.

As of presstime, it looked like the sister municipalities would be working together to create a water district in Southside Oneonta, the town’s commercial strip along Route 23.

The state Health Department has expressed reluctance to approve any more private wells there, holding up restaurant development anticipated on two parcels around Lowe’s Home Improvement.

Lately, it’s been circulating that Target is also interested in putting up an outlet along the route where a Dick’s Sporting Goods, Petco and TJ Maxx have opened on the Southside

Mall property in recent months.

In an interview Monday, Aug. 5, Town Supervisor Bob Wood said water district construction would cost

$9 million, with financing through the state Environmental Facility Corp.

The EFC “scored� the town project at 130, just short of the mark for funding; but intermunicipal collaboration would add 10 points, helping ensure the project’s financing, Wood said.

Mayor Dick Miller said, pending approval by Common Council and the city’s Board of Public Service, the city would provide $90,000

to the town project, money that would be paid back from revenue generated by the new district. “I’m very, very positive about it,� said

Miller, who has sought citytown collaborations.

The Appalachian Regional Commission will also help fund the project.

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL B-7

Joan McCaffrey, Jon Joseph Dangl, 57; Bassett Communications Engineer Loved Air Shows 89; Daughter BURLINGTON – Jon Jon enjoyed attending Wayne Owings Dangl and senroth Funeral Home in Ronald Fralick officiating.

Dangl, 57, a former air shows and flying radio Danielle Rosner of Calif., Cooperstown on Friday, Arrangements are entrustSurvives Here Joseph communications engineer controlled planes with his James Stoller Dangl and Su- Aug. 23, from 1-2 p.m. A ed to thee Connell, Dow &

COOPERSTOWN – Joan Mary McCaffrey, 89, a native of Ireland who made Cooperstown her home for nearly a decade, passed away early Saturday morning, Aug. 3, 2013, at Otsego Manor.

Born May 3, 1924, in Galway, Ireland, she was a daughter of John Joseph and Mabel (Boylan) Glynn.

Raised and educated in Ireland, she eventually married James McCaffrey in 1955 and soon after they emigrated to the United States and raised their family.

Joan is survived by one daughter, Ann M. Marsala and her husband, Joseph, of Cooperstown; two sons, Peter McCaffrey of Manhattan and John McCaffrey and his wife, Kathy, of Clayton, North Carolina; and three granddaughters, Gianna and Erin Marsala and Kayla McCaffrey.

She was preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1966, and all of her siblings.

A memorial service will be offered at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown, with Deacon Randy Velez officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

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for Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, died Monday, July 29, 2013.

Born Oct. 14, 1955, in Dayton, Ohio, he was a son of the late James Alan and Joan Carol (Smith) Dangl.

For twenty-three years he was employed as a Communications Engineer for Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, retiring in October 2011.

sons. He also had a love for dogs, and had a soft spot for his current pet, George.

Jon was a member of emergency squads in Fly Creek, Schuyler Lake and Hartwick.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley Jean M. Dangl of Springfield Center; his four children, Jon Benjamin Dangl and his wife, April, of Burlington, Vt., Nicholas

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He played a key role in founding and supporting the Cooperstown Foundation

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Spacious, well maintained, 5 BR, 3 bath home features large yard and garage.

Kitchen w/breakfast bar and tile floor is open to LR and DR w/fireplace and hardwood floors. BR and full bath on first floor, master BR w/full bath upstairs.

Large deck, new roof in 2011. Finished basement has woodstove for additional heat. Large outdoor storage shed could be used for a shop or to store a boat, car or any other toys you may have… $189,900 MLS #90673

MLS#88491 - 4 BR, 3 bath renovated home w/studio, garage, easy access I-88 (exit 19) Albany/Oneonta.

Only $199,000 Cell/Text Eric Lein @ 607-483-1236

fax 607.432.7580 www.oneontarealty.com Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner Cricket Keto, Lic. Assoc. Broker John Mitchell, Lic. Assoc. Broker Stephen Baker, Lic. Assoc. Broker Peter D. Clark, Consultant

1830 post-and-beam 5 BR Colonial is set on almost 3 level acres. This classic 3,300 sq ft home includes a great old barn, a charming outbuilding, stone patio, mature trees and perennial gardens. The kitchen/family room w/open-beam ceiling overlooks the private fenced backyard. The house features stately LR and DRs, original wide plank floors. Oneonta School District. You will love the old house feel and certainly enjoy your modern kitchen and baths. The best of both in this impressive home! $199,000 MLS#90056

Overlooking Otsego Lake Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $199,000 This ranch house offers 3 BRs, 2½ baths, lovely kitchen, LR and studio apt in the basement.

Large deck w/lake view, storage building and outdoor brick fireplace. The house has deeded lake access and rights to the Springfield public landing boat launch and beach.

HUBBELL’S REAL ESTATE 607-547-5740•607-547-6000 (fax) 157 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326

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Village Ranch Home

Cooperstown ClassiC

Village Charm in a Duplex

(7765) Perfect home for an owneroccupied investment. This 5 BR, 5 bath historic home in the heart of Cooperstown features remodeled kitchens, new hardwood floors, large sunroom, spacious deck surrounded by perennial gardens. All utilities are separate. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$299,000

Cooperstown Village home

(7732) Superbly kept 3 BR expanded Cape Cod. Center hall layout with hardwood floors, 6-panel doors, gracious LR w/fireplace, formal DR, custom kitchen w/cherry cabinets, eating area, large windows and skylights. Patio, deck, finished basement, garage, large private yard.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$395,000

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(7726) Very special 2-bedroom tasteful tempter near sports center and schools. Highlights in this welcoming residence include den, eat-in kitchen, and 3-season porch. Large yard which borders Village Park.

Hard-to-resist appeal!

Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive—$135,000

Nirvana!

Private retreat on 110 acres with landscaped lawns, ponds and rolling hills, 3 BR, 2 bath log home and 4 BR, 2 bath cottage.

Many possibilities just minutes away from Cooperstown. $450,000 MLS#89598 607-431-2540 • www.prufoxproperties.com

Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $175,000 This perfect retirement, starter or seasonal home features 2 large BRs; 1½ baths; fully equipped kitchen w/cherry floor, new appliances; LR; laundry; full basement; attached garage; private rear deck. Walking distance to bus and grocery store. Easy low maintenance village home.

Classic Colonial

Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $269,900 Move-in condition house offers 4+ BRs, 2 full baths, LR, DR, updated kitchen w/tile floor, pantry, library/TV room, hardwood floors, full basement, 2-car attached garage. Close to schools, grocery store, hospital and athletic facility. Put your creative stamp on this home.

For reliable, honest answers to any of your real estate questions, Don Olin Realty at 607.547.5622 or visit our website www.donlinrealty.com For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Broker – 547-5105 Tim Donahue, Associate Broker – 293-8874 Cathy Raddatz, Sales Associate – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie, Sales Associate – 547-4141 Carol Hall, Sales Associate – 544-4144 Michael Welch, Sales Associate – 547-8502

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