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COVID Crackdown New Law Mandates Masks ‘Tip Line’ Part Of Oneonta In Downtown Cooperstown Arsenal As Students Return By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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nn at Cooperstown proprietor Marc Kingsley started things off with a pointed critique of Cooperstown’s proposed maskmandate law.
“You are focusing only on mask wearing and an absolutely obscene fine,” he declared at the Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing in a steamy third-floor ballroom at Village Hall. “Instead, why aren’t we focusing on the positives, what we’re already doing. But the die was cast. At meetPlease See MASKS, A9
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ith 7,000 SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students ready to come back to school at the end of this month, Mayor
Gary Herzig is taking no chances when it comes to the community’s health and safety. “We’re working on a ‘tip line’ dedicated to COVID health concerns,” he said. “It’s not just for students, it’s for anyone with a public health concern.” Please See RETURN, A7
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COOPERSTOWN REFINES REOPENING PLAN
Mistakenly, Cuomo Puts CCS On Tardy List By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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believe it when he saw CCS on Governor Cuomo’s list of 107 schools that had not yet sent in their reopening plan. “Professionally, I’m offended,” he said. “There was a flaw in
the submission process, and no school wants to be publicly shamed for a mistake.” According to Crankshaw, the school board, after filing for an extension on its reopening Crankshaw plan, submitted the plan
to the state Education Department Thursday, Aug. 6, one day before the Friday deadline. However, he said, CCS missed that it was also supposed to submit the plan to the state Please See CCS, A2
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CCS/From A1 Department of Health, and since rectified the mistake. “We are not in danger of not reopening,” he said. “But this just shows how little regard Cuomo gives to public education.” On Friday, Aug. 7, Cuomo announced all schools in the state are cleared to open, but stopped short of demanding a reopening, leaving the final decisions to the district. Under their submitted plan, students in each grade will be divided up into two “cohorts,” which will attend classes on campus two alternating days a week – Cohort A will attend Mondays and Wednesdays, Cohort B will attend Tuesdays and Thursdays – as well as every other Friday. On the days they are not in class, students will use online curriculum, including pre-recorded lessons, projects related to in-person lessons and independent practice. With concerns about connectivity in the more rural areas of the district, the school has ordered Wifi “hot spots” for students who have cell-phone service but no Internet access, and will also set up a socially distanced common area for students who wish to do their online learning on campus. “We’ll have a 20- by 40-foot tent with a heater for cooler days,” said Crankshaw. “It will be monitored, and students can
do their work in there.” Students will be required to wear masks on campus. “That’s non-negotiable,” he said. Crankshaw said the school is still working on a formal procedure to deal with any students who may begin exhibiting COVID symptoms during the day, including ordering testing and contact tracing. That plan will be in place before the start of the school year, he said. Though elementary students were supposed to start returning to classrooms Sept. 21 – with online curriculum for two weeks following the planned start date of Sept. 9 – Crankshaw said the current thinking is to have all students return at the same time. In Oneonta, schools will not open for in-person classes until Oct. 6, Superintendent Thomas Brindley announced last week. Instead, all learning will continue to take place remotely. “We knew Cuomo would make some sort of decision, but because it’s been left to the districts, nothing has changed for us,” he said. Similar to Cooperstown, Oneonta has reached out to families that do not have Internet access to figure out the best way to help.
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L Over the decades, Butch and Mary Welch have been partners in many restorations in Cooperstown and, now, Middlefield hamlet.
ooking around the 1810 threshing barn Butch and Mary Welch acquired last year, Jon Edgington shakes his head. “This is a piece of history, which dates long back before us,” said Edgington, partner in the Simple Integrity contracting firm who, in past years, helped relocate threatened historic barns to The Farmers’ Museum.
Mary Welch inspects the site on Whiteman Road, Town of Middlefield.
He cites the Book of Ruth, 1,000 years old, and her rendezvous with Boaz on the threshing room floor. And
2,000-year-old Deuteronomy 2, ““You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Please See BARN, A7
LOCAL HISTORIAN UNEARTHED SUSAN B. ANTHONY VISIT
Yesteryear’s Ideal Of Womanhood Bring Groans Today By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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a Sunday, Aug. 9, talk at the Swart-Wilcox House, “Susan B. Anthony.”
Stuart’s talk on Anthony – she also spoke in 1894 in Oneonta – came two weeks before the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment, which on Aug. 26, 1920, gave women the right to vote. One of the pivotal leaders in the suffragette movement, Anthony gave a speech in Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian Church on Feb. 9, 1885, a meeting Please See ANTHONY, A7
Art Show Online, Poems, Fairy Tales, And Birdwatching
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t may not be held by the lake this year, but the annual Art by the Lake exhibit will celebrate the beauty of Otsego Lake as it goes virtual. View and purchase artworks, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite! Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 15-16. The Fenimore Art Museum online, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/ • If you’ve ever wondered about the birds outside your window, the DelawareOtsego Audubon society has the answers to all your LIBBY questions. Learn the basics CUDMORE of birding as your new hobby! 7 - 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, Free, open to public. Visit www. doas.us/event/beginning-bird-photographychat-part-1-your-camera-and-accessories/. • Bright Hill Press presents a reading by poets Richard Newman (Words for What Those Men Have Done, 2017) and Margot Farrington (The Blue Canoe of Longing, 2019). 7 - 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, www. facebook.com/brighthp/ for info. • The Templeton Players present ‘An Evening of Fairytales and Fables’, an online theater experience. Friday, Aug. 14, www. facebook.com/fenimoreartmuseum/ • The Glimmerglass Festival hosts a discussion of treatment of the incarcerated with activist, minister Helen Prejean and Teresa A. Miller. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. www.glimmerglass.org/events/ town-hall-prejean-miller/. • And be sure to join Father Ken Hunter, Bob Brzozowski and myself for a three-part talk about S.S. Van Dine, who created his dandy sleuth Philo Vance on River Street. 1 - 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, The SwartWilcox House, Oneonta.
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et’s give credit where set aside New York State’s it’s due. 2-percent property tax cap – In our May 29 yes, something that’s bound edition, County to be unpopular Rep. Clark Oliver with a majority of Oneonta was of voters. tweaked in this (As County space, along Attorney Ellen Cocwith his fellow coma explained, Democrats who the idea isn’t to voted against necessarily go 59 layoffs withbeyond the cap but, out offering an if forced to do so, to Oliver alternative. avoid penalties that They ducked a would be imposed hard decision, thus losing unless the cap is lifted in credibility with their coladvance.) leagues, it was argued. The county board’s lead• er, Chairman David Bliss, Last Wednesday, Aug. 5, R-Cooperstown/Town of the county board was Middlefield, as appropriate, considering a measure to put the measure on the table,
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but it required a second. Who stepped forward? One of the county board’s junior members, Clark Oliver, District 11 (Oneonta Wards 1 and 2). He explained, “If we don’t raise property taxes, we’ll just have to think about cutting crucial services.” • The board as a whole will now have to act on the tax-
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cap question at its September meeting on the 2nd. Oliver’s decision to provide the second is in line with his arguments against the layoffs: That people being laid off will be hurt, and also citizens at large who require county services. In this space, we support the layoffs as necessary, but – as always – we respect – in fact, welcome – people’s opinions to think otherwise. Last week, Clark Oliver stepped up and made a tough decision that was in line with his previously expressed opinions. Guts and consistency. Not bad for a freshman – or a veteran, for that matter.
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o much for the power of the press. Two weeks in this space, we praised state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, for keeping his constituents apprised when he was stricken by the coronarivus shortly after Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency last March. “The senator’s job is to get out there, to keep in touch with his constituents, to respond to their needs,” the editorial said. “His staff’s quick response allowed people who had
shaken his hand in the previous two weeks to ensure they were safe. Thank you, Senator Seward.” • Seward’s response was contrasted with a similar case in the Town of Springfield, which couldn’t have been handled differently. There, the town assessor had gone into quarantine after the Fourth of July, and the town supervisor, the town Planning Board chairman, and the town tax collector feared they may Please See EDITORIAL, A5
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Should Village Require Mask-Wearing On Main? Editor’s Note: Is it desireable for the Village of Cooperstown to mandate mask-wearing in the Business District? By Monday, Aug. 10, when the trustees approved such a law, they had received 33 letters favoring the mandate; only four against it. Here are two perspectives, from Judith Greenberg, Bassett doctor, and Marc Kingsley, proprietor, Inn at Cooperstown. a main driver of COVID spread, according to epidemiologists cited by the New York Times. Rather than again curtailing tourism in the village, mitigating the negative effects of travel by requiring masks where social distancing canPRO not be maintained, appears reasonable. Besides, it is already a state Department of Health regulation. Enforcement is the key. We have a local police force, the sheriff’s department and state police available if there Please See GREENBERG, A6
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and an over-reaction by the Village Board. And while I commend the village for thinking about the safety and well being of everyone, the statistics show we have very low case and death rates, so I don’t CON know why you feel we need yet another law. Depending on which news article on websites you read, Otsego County has 109 or 116 confirmed cases and either six or four deaths. Please See KINGSLEY, A6
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n schools, today is the deadline to look at the infection rates and make a determination. By our infection rates, all school districts can open everywhere in the state. Every region is below the threshold that we established which is just great news. Let me say it this way: You look at our infection rate; we are probably in the best situation in the country right now - as incredible as that is. If anyone can open schools, we can open schools. That’s true for every region in the state. Period. …Again, we’re going to watch the infection rate between now and the day that schools open. If there is a spike in the infection rate, if there’s a matter of concern in the infection rate, then we can revisit it. But for planning purposes, they can reopen. They then go to Step 2, right, which is the local school district has to come up with a plan and they have to deal with their parents and teachers, which is going
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to be a more complicated issue than I think many of them fully appreciate. I have been deluged with calls from parents and teachers, and there’s a significant level of anxiety and concern. And I’ve said a number of times, these school districts have to be talking to the parents and talking to the teachers, because if the teachers don’t come back, then you can’t really open the schools. If the parents don’t send their students, then you’re not really opening the schools. So, to facilitate that, I want the school districts to do three things: • One, I know where the bulk of the questions are coming from: remote learning and the equity in the remote learning process. We’ve learned from the experiences we’ve had during
COVID that remote learning can be quite unequal given the demographics and given the circumstances. So, I’m going to ask the school districts to post their remote learning plan on how they’re going to do remote learning, to the extent they are, if they are, in their district. • Two, there have been a lot of questions about testing. Most of the plans will say a student comes in – temperature check – and if the student has a temperature they have to be tested. What does that mean? How is the student tested? Where is the student tested? If there are 20 students who have a temperature on Day One, how do you get those students tested? Where do you get them tested? What happens in the interim? Teachers also want to know how a teacher can get a test and how would that be done. • Third are the questions around contact-tracing in the schools. So, if a student tests positive in a class: So the student came in, the student had a fever, the student then got tested. What is the contact tracing for that positive? Do you test the class? If the student goes to a number of classes, how do you do it? And how will the school do contact-tracing for the school?
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packet from Baltimore, Md., down the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, Va. That account was interrupted abruptly (and painfully) by my plummeting headfirst down the four steps from our home’s back deck to the asphalt driveway. Instinctively, I led with my right hand and so mangled my right wrist – compound fracture, protruding bone, etc.
I was knocked cold. Fast forward through blessed assistance by kind friends and neighbors, a rush trip by first responders to the hospital, two surgeries installing plates and screws that will henceforth devil any metal detectors I step near. Anne Geddes-Atwell But, more to the Luckily l missed all that point, that wrecked because the next thing to wrist also had another contact the asphalt after my effect. It put me right out hand was my forehead. Please See ATWELL, A6
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Cholera Morbus, or Bowel Complaint, is prevalent in this vicinity, and we feel it our duty to remind the reader, that the following simple remedy for this has been highly recommended: Pour a teaspoon full of brandy on a Cork thoroughly burnt and powdered, and mix it well with loaf sugar and a little nutmeg or pepper-mint, and water. In conversation with a respectable Physician, a few days since, upon the subject of this Complaint, he remarked that in a severe case he used the following remedy with success: Take two glasses of sweet oil – two glasses of West-India Molasses – two glasses West-India Rum – simmer them well together over a fire till it becomes the thickness of honey, so that the oil may not separate from the rest. While on the fire keep it well stirred, and when taken off continue the same till it is cool. Then, the patient, if a grown person, should take a spoon-full once an hour till he finds the disease abating – then once in two hours, or as the judgment may suggest, until cured. Children to take in it like manner in proportion to their ages. August 14, 1820
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Audubon’s Plates – We are happy to learn that the plates of Mr. Audubon’s great ornithological work, which were damaged by the great fire in New York, have not received so much injury as first supposed. They have been placed in the hands of an engraver whose opinion is that they can be restored at a comparatively trifling cost. State Fair – We know that much is in preparation at Utica connected with the State Fair on the sixteenth of September. The citizens feel proud of the location of the Fair, and are emulous of giving character to the Jubilee. We have no doubt the exhibition of animals, etc., will surpass that of any preceding year, and be effective for good upon the state at large. If nothing oc-
curs to prevent, we intend to be a looker-on at the time and hope to see Otsego County numerously represented upon the occasion. August 11, 1845
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The Hop Crop – Hop picking will commence about August 22. Where the hop is doing well, it will be best to give it time to fully mature. During the past week the weather has continued favorable, with the exception of one or two damp and hot days and the growers generally render encouraging reports. There are no lice of any consequences, and the yield promises to average at least 400 pounds to the acre. There are many well-cultivated yards in this county which are expected to yield from 500 to 800 pounds to the acre; others worn out or poorly cultivated will drop down to from 100 to 300 pounds. We feel confident that the hop growers of New York will harvest ten millions of pounds of hops. August 11, 1870
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Hartwick Seminary – On Wednesday morning at about 2 a.m., Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Hutton were aroused from their sleep by the cries and shrieks of their near neighbors, Professor Kistler and family, added to which was the fearful squawking of chickens. Upon examination it was found that some of the professor’s choice fowls were missing. The neighborhood was aroused and some of the people in a body visited the camp of local tramps situated on the banks of the Susquehanna River about one-half mile distant, but could not find the chickens nor the thieves. Fred Windsor reports having lost some fowls during the same night. The tramps are nearly as great a nuisance here as the grasshoppers. August 15, 1895
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The following letter has been addressed to the President and Board of Trustees
of the Village of Cooperstown by the Cooperstown Bar Association: “Resolved – That in the opinion of this Association it is for the best interests of the Village of Cooperstown that the motorcycle traffic officer now employed be instructed that no motorist be arrested unless he or she is driving at a rate exceeding 20 miles per hour, or in a careless or reckless manner.” They also state: The current limit of fifteen miles per hour is very slow and it is with great difficulty that many machines can be reduced to that speed on a down grade on a paved street. August 11, 1920
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In Cooperstown – At a recent meeting of the Vestry of Christ Church Mr. Stephen C. Clark was elected a member to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late John H. King. Mr. and Mrs. Paul A Clark of Fly Creek have received the sad news that their son, Bruce L. Clark, is missing on a routine training flight from the Naval Air Station, Edenton, N.C., since July 31. Efforts to locate him and his plane have failed. Cooperstown awaits calmly but with intense interest hoping for news that Japan has accepted the conditions upon which the allied powers are willing to end the war. An erroneous report of Japan’s acceptance circulated by United Press and carried by radio networks was received here but promptly denied as hundreds of Cooperstown people and visitors were at the Victory Sing on the grounds of the Otesaga Hotel. August 15, 1945
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion posts of Cooperstown will host a celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. Tim Walker, Chairman of the Parade Committee and a 14-year veteran of the Marine Corps and Navy announced that the parade will
August 12, 1970 be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 9. A party will follow at the Vet’s Club. “I’m a student of military history,” Walker said. “One night, I thought of something I could do to honor my father who was a WWII veteran in the Pacific. He died of cancer. This is something that I can do to honor his memory and the memory of his comrades.” August 1995
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Anne Hyde Clarke Logan, 86, one of the last descendants of George Hyde Clarke to live in Hyde Hall, died peacefully August 5 at Bassett Hospital after a brief illness. She was 86. August 2010
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
Mandatory Masks Downtown Only? Why Not Everywhere?
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he below is a letter I received (along with the rest of the Cooperstown Village Board) from a constituent and my response. • To the Members of the Village Board: As you deliberate on proposed Local Law 7, we respectfully request you discuss the following points so your intent and purpose is clearly understood by all concerned. If the purpose of this proposal is “to protect the public health, safety and welfare of Village residents,” why is it limited to only a portion of two streets? Even a casual observer can see there is relatively little activity on Main Street these days. Currently the most congested areas of the village are on Fish Road and the block of Fair Street near the boat launch. There is also considerable foot
traffic on the northernmost block of Pioneer Street, where only one side of the street has a sidewalk which is much narrower than Main Street. Moreover, there is very little mask-wearing and social-distancing in Lakefront Park and the walkway connecting Pioneer Street and Fish Road does not allow for distancing. In other areas of the village there is a great deal of activity near the hospital and clinic; the grocery store and pharmacy; the gas stations and other commercial areas. Why are they not included? With respect to enforcement, the Board should seriously reconsider the maximum fine of $1,000 for a first offense. ... Do you have the personnel and expertise to enforce this one? During the current pandemic, the wearing of a mask or face covering is a sensible thing to do. Government regulations should be sensible as well.
everywhere in Key West and other municipalities. I would have never thought that this could be passed, especially since there are areas in the village with very low concentrations of pedestrians with easy ability to The Freeman’s Journal Dave Hubbard, Afton, exits Otsego Lake at social distance. But with your Fish Road Sunday, Aug. 9, after catching 14 pounds of fish in the Susquehanna Bass help and support, Club’s annual derby. Lake stewards report this could hapwashing 1,800 boats entering the lake this pen. Thank you summer, compared to 600 last year. for support of this idea. I will Thank you for your consideration. present it. • By the way, I don’t know when Here is my response: you are on Main Street, but there Your point is well taken about is a high percentage of people not the law being extended to all other wearing masks, AND NOT areas in the village, just like it is
EDITORIAL: Public Information Should Be EDITORIAL/From A4 have been infected, according to the minutes of the July town board meeting. The issue was discussed at the July 13 Springfield Town Board meeting, and Town Clerk Jeannette Armstrong had included the discussion that had occurred in open meeting in the monthly minutes she sends out. Happily, it turned out the town officials had been together at July 2, two days before the Fourth of July event, so “all clear” was declared. • Since town officials come into constant contact with their constituents, doesn’t it make sense – ala Senator Seward – to let the public know they may have been infected? The town officials didn’t see it that way, and have
now acted to ensure if any of them get sick in the future, they can keep a lid on it. At its Aug. 10 monthly meeting, the town board voted that its minutes “will no longer be available to anyone,” Armstrong reports. “If anybody wants them, they will have to file a FOIL” – a Freedom of Information Law request – “to get them,” which – if the town board challenges the request – can be an extended process. She continued, “The board voted that my draft minutes are never to be sent to anyone again, even though they are supposed to be available to the public within two weeks of a meeting,” according to the state Association of Towns. • So there you have it.
Springfield citizens might be wise to avoid their elected officials. If they are infected, nobody will ever know. A call to Town Supervisor Bill Freeland to discuss the development wasn’t answered. In Armstrong’s opinion, it’s part of a piece, remarking, “I really feel badly for the people of the town, because they have no idea what’s happening yet they still have to pay taxes.” For our part, the idea was to alert Town of Springfield to information they probably should have had. And besides, it was part of the public record. Well, at least it used to be. This is a matter the citizens might want to take up with their elected officials. If there’s anything we can do to help, let us know.
PUTTING THEM ON WHEN PASSING OR NEAR OTHER PEOPLE. In fact, these people aren’t carrying masks and if they have masks, they are not visible. In a pocket or purse, they cannot quickly be whipped on. I wouldn’t dare walk Main Street. By the way, there are already laws in place to punish lack of a mask if not socially-distancing or not wearing one indoors at a public place, under the governor’s state of emergency. These should be enforced. As you point out, the Village is putting in place a maximum penalty of $1,000. As you know, the individual’s penalty is imposed set by the presiding judge and at $1,000 is half of the state maximum penalty of $2,000 for violating similar laws. I would think that maybe the initial fine for someone would be on the order of $100, as it is in Key West, and would Please See STERNBERG, A6
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STERNBERG: Imperfect, Needed STERNBERG/From A5 escalate with repeat or recalcitrant offenders. I agree that more citations should be given for other offenses. Once the public was aware of this, their behavior would change. It doesn’t take many for a village with as good a communication system as Cooperstown has for word to get out. There are also other laws that violating could cause death, like speeding, driving while intoxicated, and not stopping at STOP signs or red lights. During a pandemic wearing a mask IS the sensible thing to do. If only everyone did when in the presence of other
members of the public, we would have this thing beat in eight weeks, according to the head of the CDC. Please read the article in the latest Weekend Wall Street Journal, page C1, “The True Face of Freedom Wears a Mask.” Unfortunately, there are, to use a word favored by my family, ice holes, who don’t give a darn about your life and mine, and both of us are high-risk individuals. Even the Republican President of the United States requires everyone around him to wear masks and get tested daily, albeit to protect himself. Wearing a mask is not just sensible it is a life and death issue.
ATWELL: Ill, Married, But Separated By COVID-19 ATWELL/From A4 of column writing for the duration. Over the next weeks, I had lots of time to weigh accommodations to the problem. But something far more urgent quickly took over my every thought. My dear Anne, who’d been fighting metastatic breast cancer for several years, was suddenly losing ground. That devilish disease, having wrecked several secondary systems, now found its way to her brain. And when I was hauled to the hospital after my fall, my Anne was already there, losing ground precipitously. By the time my surgeries were complete, it was plain that all that could be offered to Anne was palliative care. And so, on the same day and in the same vehicle, she and I were moved to
Cooperstown Convalescent Center – I for rehabilitation of my hand, she to be given every comfort possible for as long as she lived. And it was then that the pandemic came home to our marriage. The Center was under strict quarantine, and newcomers had to be in separate quarters from all others, and from one another, for the first two weeks after arrival. This policy may sound draconian, but it has spared the Convalescent Center from having cases of coronavirus entering the Center to spread among residents. Think of the county-wide horror stories of convalescent centers devastated by the virus. At our Center, there have been no cases. None.
For Anne and me, though, the policy meant that my dying wife and I, though in rooms only 70 feet apart, could not see, much less kiss or even touch one another. Marital relations for us were phone calls several times a day, the best we could do. But no one could have shown us more empathy than the staff who tended us. A nurse, standing behind my chair would squeeze both my shoulders. “Your dear Annie asked me to bring this hug to you.” Her love, delivered secondhand. Bless such caregivers! There’s more to tell. I’ll wait till next time. Jim Atwell, the Quaker minister, author and retired college administrator, now resides at Woodside Hall.
KINGSLEY: BENNETT: Children At Risk total 60 million people. A5 We Overreach BENNETT/From If the U.S. rate of 500 over if, when, and how K-12 KINGSLEY./Frmo A4 ...Yes, we want everyone to be safe and we don’t want cases or deaths to start increasing again. There are several ways to contract COVID-19 with droplets being the leading cause. One can also contract COVID19 by touching contaminated surfaces. Wearing a mask is a great idea, but so is cleaning and disinfecting surfaces. As a lodging property, we enforce wearing a mask, social distancing and, additionally, we increased the cleaning/disinfecting of high-touch points, use of hand sanitizer, and initiated several other protocols for guest and employee safety. If the village really cared about the safety and well-being of everyone, it would address contracting COVID-19 by contacting a high-touch point on Main Street and mitigate that. As I see it, you are only focusing on mask wearing and an absolutely obscene fine if caught not wearing one. What about contracting COVID-19 by contact. I want to hear how you’re going to mitigate the possible transmission when people touch the crosswalk buttons, trash receptacle handles, paid-parking kiosks, benches up and down Main Street, the tables and chairs in Pioneer Park, TV screen at the help kiosk in Pioneer Park. I see tens if not hundreds of people touching them on a daily basis, so how are you going to ensure they are cleaned and disinfected? Who do we fine or hold responsible for not keeping those items cleaned? I mean as a business we are required to do that! In closing, I do not agree with this law. There is already a law in place for this. We are just one of several tourist destinations in the state and approving this law and fine structure is a huge negative for Cooperstown and will drive away guests (local and tourists) and further hurt many local businesses which have already been hit hard. Instead, why aren’t we focusing on positives, what the village and businesses are already doing to help keep the locals and visiting guests safe?
reopening should happen. And since it’s America, we get to try anything we can think of. But are we thinking first of missed education, or of schools sitting empty, or of the difficulty and compromise in distance schooling? Of parents overwhelmed by trying to be teachers as well as parents? • Assessing the actual risk to the children should be first on our minds, as well as risks to teachers, aides, assistants, staff, bus drivers, and cleaning crews. I’ve read many different ways to approach the reopening, but the one thing they have in common is that students, faculty, and staff will be placed in situations where they will have daily exposure to the virus. No amount of planning, or wishing, or praying can make that go away. Last year 56 million students attended elementary, middle, and high schools across the U.S. The 56 million, along with the 4 million teachers and staff,
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deaths per million continues, we could expect 30,000 deaths among this group – and potentially more deaths among non-teaching husbands and wives, as well as parents and grandparents. But let’s agree children are less susceptible to COVID-19 and cut that number in half, to 15,000 deaths. Since there are about 13,000 U.S. school districts that’s an average of a little over one child per district. Of course, poorer districts with poorer families will face much higher risks. But nobody can expect an absence of risk. • That’s the price we have to be willing to pay if we reopen too soon. On average, one child or teacher per school district will die. To me, reopening too soon means before this pandemic is crushed, which is not near. Larry Bennett, retired Brewery Ommegang creative director who is active in local causes, lives in East Merideth.
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BARN/From A3 In 2012, the Welches, who have been upgrading buildings on Cooperstown’s Railroad Avenue and elsewhere for decades, moved into a historic house at the corner of Whiteman and Rezen roads in the Middlefield hamlet, which they’d been renovating since 1994. Last year, when the neighboring Jorgensen family was selling off land on Whiteman Road, the Welches picked up a 3-acre parcel that wraps around their corner property. It included what had been a dairy barn for perhaps a century and a half; but Edgington could read into the building’s history. He points to the “swing beam” that runs the width of the structure. In the early 19th Century, oxen were tethered to such beams and, marching in a circle, ground wheat into grain and chaff, he said. The swing beam allowed the barns to be open at each side, and wagons loaded with grain to come in one side and out the other. Thicker in the middle than at the end, the beam allowed wagons to turn around inside. The barns were also positioned to catch the prevailing wind, which then blew the chaff out the door, according to Gib Vincent, Cooperstown, the historic preser-
vationist and former NYSHA president. Early farmers who settled in Otsego County aimed to make their living growing grain, but found it was hard to transport it to market. (Farmers living near the Erie Canal, which opened in the 1820s, were luckier.) To handle the surplus, distilleries sprang up – more than a dozen in the Town of Hartwick alone, Vincent said – to turn grain into whiskey. By the 1840s, local farmers had turned to dairy, and cheese factories sprang up, converting the milk to cheese and butter. When railroads arrived after the Civil War, local farmers began shipping fresh milk directly to urban centers. The Welches bought the barn last August, and “Dad worked on it every day for seven months,” said daughter Molly Whyte, who had stopped by with the Welches’ latest granddaughter for a visit. Butch filled two dumpsters as he emptied the building. He jacked up one section 21 inches, then realized he needed help from a team like Edgington’s. For instance, “there was a big dip in the middle of the roof line,” Mary said. The repairs – two weeks in, the team anticipated another two weeks on site – included prepping and installing a 26-
foot hemlock from an Amish carpenter to brace the floor. New posts have been cut and, jigsawpuzzle like, pieced together to firm up existing posts. Norm Farwell, one of Simple Integrity’s seasoned carpenters, described the antique tools needed for the job, lining up a mortise chisel, slick and adze. An antique “log buggy,” found in the barn, is being used to transport wood to the construction site. Farwell pointed out how oak “trunnel pins,” are driven into the beams; they then swell and hold the structure together, a technique developed in wooden shipbuilding of yesteryear. When the Simple Integrity team is done, Butch will side the building and begin the finish work. The Welches aren’t sure what they’ll do with the building; perhaps sell it to a family that might want to turn it into a home. For now, they’re admiring the transformation happening before their eyes, and the original craftsmanship that went into the building. “Bottom line,” said Butch, “I’ve built a lot of stuff in my time.” From working on the barn, “I have a great deal of respect for the people who have gone before.”
in bars and restaurants, and RETURN/From A1 large groups downtown not The phone line will go wearing masks,” he said. directly to the Oneonta Police Bars and restaurants are Department, and reports can be already limited in capacity made anonymously. under state regulations, but “When that phone rings, whoever is there knows that it’s among the proposals the Control Room is looking at a public health emergency,” he is limiting Oneonta said. “The person won’t Public Transit runs in have to fill out a report, the evening to only the and action can be taken “essentials.” immediately.” “We don’t want to Herzig is in the facilitate or encourage process of forming two nightlife,” said Herzig. working groups, one for “We are all forgoing each college, to keep dining in restaurants or on top of students and having a few drinks at a city residents’ COVID Herzig bar. Crowded buses are concerns. “We want not something we want to monitor how we’re to see, and we don’t want so doing,” he said. “If we run into many people coming downtown problems, we come up with a that it gets overcrowded.” solution.” There is also concern about Called the “SUNY Control house parties, which is where Room” and modeled on the Mohawk Valley Regional Control the tip line comes in. “Enforcement will fall to the Room that Herzig serves on, Oneonta Police Department,” SUNY students, faculty and he said. city Officials will meet virtuIf a bar is found to be out ally once a week to discuss of compliance, police can ask onand off-campus concerns. In 1856, The Freeman’s patrons to leave in order to A second group will be Journal published an excerpt bring the numbers into compliformed at Hartwick College, from a speech titled “For ance. However, if the overthough Herzig stresses that The Ladies” that he gave crowding is “extreme,” police most Hartwick students live at the Otesgia Society of are allowed to close the bar on campus, as distinct from Cooperstown Seminary, for the night and call in SUNY. which Stuart read during the the state Liquor Authority the “The colleges did a great presentation, eliciting groans next day, which may pull the job on their safety plans,” from the audience on the liquor license. the mayor said. “If we don’t Swart-Wilcox front lawn: Herzig is also working “It will not be your mission, have the same expectations of with student associations to the students downtown, why young ladies, to engage in determine what bus routes and should they go through all the the rough employments of times and needs for essentials trouble? The virus doesn’t care men – to mingle with our – shopping, the library and if you’re on campus or off.” rough sex in depositing votes night classes – and which can The ultimate issue, he said, in the ballot box – to sit in the be limited. hall of legislation – to wrangle is monitoring the number of However, he said, if there COVID cases, but there will be in debate – to declaim at the is no increase in cases, the ongoing discussions of compliforum – to ascend to the Control Room can begin to ance with state regulations. pulpit – to plow the earth – relax restrictions, such as “The big concerns are house to navigate the ocean or to adding additional bus routes. parties, over-crowding fight our battles.”
Swart-Wilcox Crowd Groaned At Yesteryear’s Attitudes ANTHONY/From A3 that had never been noted in any Anthony biography before Stuart’s discovery. “I was looking at information other historians had missed,” she said. A call to the Ann Gordon librarian at Rutgers University, which had recently published a 16-volume work on Anthony’s life, confirmed Stuart’s suspicions that the visit had been overlooked. “She told me it was on page such-and-such, but when I looked, it wasn’t there,” said Stuart. “She responded, ‘You’re right, it’s not.’” According to Stuart, Cooperstown was the first stop in a tour across Upstate New York that also included Schenectady and Troy in hopes of starting county chapters of the women’s rights movement. Following the meeting at the church, she reportedly went to the courthouse, then on the corner of Main and Pioneer where the Cooperstown Beverage Exchange now stands, and gave a second speech. Though no reporting of the meeting survives, a satirical report by “Uxorius” appeared in the following week’s edition
of The Freeman’s Journal. “The beneficial effects of the convention were once apparent,” he wrote. “Men, who had always been careless and indifferent upon the subject of domestic duties, went home singing ‘Bye-o-baby bunting, Mama’s gone a’hunting’ and other similar airs, in anticipation, I suppose, of the time when they should be attending to matters adapted to their capacities at home, while they’re wives, having ascended to their appropriate spheres, should be displaying their graces in legislative halls.” On Feb. 13, four days after the Otsego County appearance, she spoke in Albany, and that speech, which Stuart says was
likely similar to what she gave in Cooperstown, was documented in the Albany Argus. “A man tailor receives $4 to $10 for making a coat; a woman from $2 to $4; a male cook from twelve to twenty shilling per day, while a female, equally skillful, is fortunate to receive as much per week,” she was reported as saying. When Reverend Bush – a distant relative of the Presidents George and George W. – took over the Presbyterian Church pulpit in 1856, he was horrified Anthony had been allowed to speak on the church’s property. “He was not in favor of women’s rights,” Stuart said.
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Arnold Lake, LLC . Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/03/20. Office location: Otsego County. Walt Frazier designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Walt Frazier shall mail process to the LLC at 273 Southside Drive, Oneonta N.Y. 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity 6LegalSept.10 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: HOTEL PRATT LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 17 June 2020. Office location:
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John and Suzanne Rudy, foreground, and 20-some attendees at the Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing on the Village of Cooperstown’s mask-mandate, recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Thomas Daniel Chenel, Sr., 69; Worked For Highway Department RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Thomas Daniel Chenel, Sr., age 69, who worked for the Town of Richfield Highway Department, passed away unexpectedly on Friday morning July 24, 2020 at his home. A lifelong Richfield Springs resident he was a graduate of Richfield Springs High School. Upon graduation from high school, he enlisted in the US Army where he served with the Military Police at Fort Hood, TX. He was honorably discharged on March 2nd 1973, attaining the rank of Private First Class. He then furthered his education, graduating from Herkimer County Community College. On November 29, 1997 he was united in marriage to Mary Jo Huxtable in Richfield Springs. Mr. Chenel worked as a heavy equipment operator with various construction companies as well as seven years with the Town of Richfield Highway Department and ten years with the New York State Department of Transportation in Richfield Springs. He
retired in 2013. Tom was a member of the Richfield Springs American Legion Post # 616 and the Richfield Springs Fireman’s Benevolent Association. In his leisure time he was a real outdoorsman, from the time he was a young boy he loved to hunt, fish, trap and play golf. When he was at home, he was an avid crossword puzzle solver. To all of us who knew him, he was happiest when he was surrounded by his many friends and family, especially his cherished grandchildren. He will be sadly missed. Tom was predeceased by his father, Roland A. Chenel, Jr., his mother, Elizabeth (Sharpe) Bingham
CHERRY VALLEY - William G. Young, “Bill,” 78, a lifelong farmer, passed away at his home in Cherry Valley, on July 26, 2020. Bill was born on May 11, 1942, in Springfield, to Edwin F. Young and Vera
M.(Galusha) Young. On Oct. 29, 1966, Bill was united in marriage to Sara J. Marino, in Fly Creek. Together they raised four children and were married for 38 years. Bill worked at various
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and his step-father Howard Bingham. Surviving are his devoted wife of 22 years Mary Jo, three sons and their wives, Thomas and Leslie Chenelof Richfield Springs, Tyler and Lauren Chenel, Michael and Karen Chenel all of Voorheesville, two stepsons, Donald Bruce Jr. and his wife Lisa of Syracuse, William Bruce and his wife Laurie of Orlando, two stepdaughters, Bridget Roy and her husband John of Brookline, NH, Molly Johnson of Mohawk, a sister, Jeanne Goldsmith of Watervliet, fourteen grandchildren, several nieces, nephews, cousins and his most cherished canine companion Bailey. Due to COVID - 19 restrictions we will postpone a Celebration of Life until further notice. Expressions of sympathy may be made with memorial donations to the HugickPurcell, Shepardson American Legion Post # 616, PO Box 547, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Arrangements are entrusted to the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home, Richfield Springs.
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farms throughout Otsego County. In 1978, Bill and family moved to Statesville, North Carolina. He proudly worked as a manager for James Brothers Dairy Corp. In 1985, he and his family returned to Otsego County to continue working at area farms, including Yerdon Brothers Dairy Farms. In 2010, Bill was reunited with childhood sweetheart, Carol Jean Key of Pierstown. He is survived by Carol; former wife, Sara J. Young; their children, daughter, Michele L. (Jody) Morgan and their children Katie, Hannah, and Jake of Tully, son, Mark A.(Mariko) Young and their daughter, Natalie Young of Olympia, Wash. and son, Matthew J. Young and his daughter, Megan (Mead) of Rome; brother, Richard (Joan) Young of Milesburg, Penn; sister, Joyce (Jerry) Haney of Hartwick; brother, David (Ann) of Richfield Springs; and numerous cousins, nephews, nieces and many close friends. Bill is predeceased by his parents, Edwin and Vera Young; son, Michael W. Young; sisters, Shirley (John) Stergas and Charlotte (Ronald) Talbot; and brothers, Donald “Butch” and Randy. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.
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Unanimously, Trustees OK Mask Mandate MASKS/From A1 ing’s end, the trustees voted unanimously for “Proposed Local Law 7: Requiring use of face masks and face coverings.” The law will go into effect, perhaps, by the weekend: All that is required is for the ordinance to be filed with the New York Secretary of State’s office. Then, people must wear masks on Main between Fair and Pine Boulevard, and on Pioneer between Lake and Church, or face a fine up to $1,000. Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch began the 5 p.m. hearing reviewing an unusually large numbers of letters and emails received prior to a public hearing: There was 33 missives in favor (representing 38 people), and only four against. In Cooperstown, the proletters included some heavy hitters. Hall of Fame President Tim Mead and Board Chairman Jane Forbes Clark wrote: “We strongly endorse
this recommended policy … It is incumbent upon the leadership of this community, and the residency of this village, to institute and follow safety policies protecting each of us and our guests.” Bassett Hospital President Kingsley Bill LeCates wrote: “I applaud your efforts to improve mask use and raise awareness of the risks of COVID-19 infection within the village.” Eight residents spoke. Jan Howard, who owns Cooperstown Classics with husband Todd, said she walks her dog late at night and early in the morning and runs into no one. “Do I have to wear a mask at midnight?” she asked. Tillapaugh said officers will use their judgment. Robert Nelson, Fair Street,
said, “I don’t know how, with the size of the police department we have, how this this going to be enforced.” He said there are no officers on duty after 5 p.m. Doubleday Café co-proprietor Barbara Boulanger said, “I don’t think it’s right for someone who doesn’t know the village to be fined $1,000.” It should be $35, “like a traffic ticket.” The mayor said enforcement is not going to be “gotcha. It’s going to be an educational process.” “You cannot be too careful,” said retired Bassett COO Bertine McKenna. “I’d like to commend you.” Others favoring the law included businesspeople like Marge Landers, White House Inn proprietor; John Rudy of the Baseball B&B, and Neil Weiller of Muskrat Hill. Inputs over, Trustee Richard Stern made the motion; MacGuire Benton seconded it and, after brief remarks, all seven board members cast aye votes.
GOP Committee To Fill Burns’ Vacancy JUDGES/From A1 their interest in filling Burns’ seat. “At this point, I don’t expect anyone else to jump in,” said County GOP Chairman Vince Casale. • And the 75-member county Republican Committee is scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, in The Otesaga ballroom to interview the candidates and select a new county judge, who will run unopposed on the Nov. 3 ballot. The six candidates are attorneys Richard Brown, Jill Ghaleb, Mike Getman, Will Green, Susan Lettis and Michael E. Trosset. The succession of judges, because they are elected every 10 years, usually allows candidates more time to line up. “This is unique,” said Casale. When the county committee meets Sunday, it first will address routine business – for instance, supporting GOP Elections Committee Lori Lehenbauer of Worcester for another term. (Virtual connections will be available to members uneasy about attending in person.) The six candidates will gather in the hotel’s Oak Room, and the committee will call them in one by one to be interviewed. Whomever the committee chooses at afternoon’s end will become judge, Casale said. In 2008, when Coccoma, then county judge, ran for Supreme Court, there was
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ere are the six Otsego County lawyers who will be at the Sunday, Aug. 16, Republican County Committee meeting at The Otesaga, making their cases to succeed County Judge Brian D. Burns: • Richard Brown, Oneonta, named support magistrate for Otsego and Delaware counties in 2007. A former law clerk for Burns, he is a 1987 SUNY Oneonta graduate, receiving his law degree in 1992 from Touro Law School on Long Island. • Michael Getman, Oneonta’s city prosecutor and an assistant district attorney. A graduate of Colgate University, he received his law degree in 1986 from Nova Southeastern School of Law. In 1991, he joined the firm of his father, City Judge Frank Getman, who passed away in 2009. • Jill Ghaleb, Cooperstown, who was appointed by Gov. David Paterson in 2008 to fill an interim county court vacancy. She is a graduate of Utica College with a law degree from the New York Law School and 30 years experience. • Will Green, Hartwick, an assistant district attorney and partner in the Green & Green firm, Cooperstown. A Skidmore graduate, he received his law degree from Western New England School of Law. • Susan Lettis, a Cooperstown native now residing in Oneonta, associate attorney, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Appellate Division, Third Department. A Syracuse University graduate, she received her law degree in 2012 from Vermont Law School. • Michael E. Trosset, currently county public defender and principal in the Trosset Law Group, Fly Creek, graduated from Georgetown University and received his law degree from Syracuse University. For the results of Sunday’s committee meeting, visit
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plenty of time for the county committees to line up the contest between Republican John Lambert and thenDemocrat Jill Ghaleb, who had been appointed to the Coccoma vacancy by thenGov. David Paterson. This time, when Coccoma announced his retirement in
June, Burns was in place to run for reelection to what would have been his third term on the county bench. Because of Burns’ popularity, the Democrats hadn’t fielded a challenger. It’s too late now, so that turns this fall’s judicial election into a Republican coronation.
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STAYCATION/From A1 lands to promote in-state tourism as an increasing number of states – currently 33 – are on the travel advisory list. “It’s always a joy to come back to Cooperstown,” she said. “I had breakfast at what must be the world’s smallest diner, and I realized that this is the place where you come to feel young again, where you can renew your spirits.” Representatives from the Glimmerglass Festival, the Farmers’ and Fenimore museums, Brewery Ommegang and the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce were on hand for the event, as was Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. “What hasn’t been cancelled is our natural beauty,” Hochul said. “Recreation is soaring, the boat launch has seen their traffic triple, and the economic benefits of the outdoors can
continue.” After more than 100 days of closure, both the Hall and the museums opened with new cleaning protocols, social distancing and mask requirements. And Tim Mead, Hall of Fame president, said some of the newly implemented measurements will benefit the Hall going forward. “Timed ticketing has been great, and we’ve done a lot of external outreach to our memberships,” he said. “We will all grow from this.” David Neil, Ommegang’s hospitality director, said the brewery switched to canning more beer after restaurant businesses dried up, reducing the need to buy kegs. “The majority of our business was in kegs,” he said. “But now, we’re canning more than we ever had; we completely changed our whole production.”
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