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DOLORES WHARTON’S ‘MULTICULTURED LIFE’

From Harlem Aristocracy To Nation’s Heights By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

L Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch holds her (and husband Gary Kuch’s) first grandchild, a girl, born Monday, April 12, to daughter Dr. Rachel Kuch-Cecconi, and her husband John.

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ee Brathwaite, a rising executive as NYTel evolved into Verizon, found himself in a tough transition – from operations to sales. “It was the most challenging transition of my career,” said Brathwaite, now CEO of Apex Construction, a Harlem-based company building commercial and multiple-unit residential structures and a board member for the Golub Company, which operates Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Price Chopper. Dolores Wharton with a copy of “A Multicultured Among other things, in sales, his salary Life,” available Sept. 1 on amazon.com.

►“A Multicultured Life” by Dolores Wharton will be available Sept. 1 on amazon. com and MSUpress.org ►EDITORIAL: “With Determination, Discipline, Whartons Led The Way”/A4 ►EXCERPT: “Ekofisk Trip Builds Camaraderie On Phillips Petroleum Board”/A4

and his team’s paychecks depended on results. He discovered communications skills – sharpened at Dolores Wharton’s Fund for Corporate Initiatives (FCI) through interactions with other young execs and captains of industry – enabled him to pull his team together, to develop a rapport with clients, and to close deals. By the end of the second year, his team Please See MEMOIR, A3

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2019 ANNUAL SUMMER SOIREE he public will be briefed on prospective 5:45 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22, at The Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown changes in the zoning code that will allow more multi-family housing Today, Festival Fans in the village at 6 p.m. Are Model Citizens Monday, Aug. 19, at the fire hall on Chestnut Street, By LIBBY CUDMORE Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk announced. The potential changes were oodstock, baby. set in motion by the 2016 “Meg called update of the village’s me one day Comprehensive Master Plan. and asked if I wanted to Elizabeth go to this concert,” said Reynolds, Oneonta, Cooperstown Village ON OTSEGO.com scales the Attorney Martin Tillapaugh. climbing That concert? The famous wall in ►A south carolina man was Woodstock festival, held the Clark struck by a car and killed on Aug. 15-18, 1969, on Max Sports Route 8 near Unadilla MotorYasgur’s dairy farm in By JENNIFER HILL Center’s cross. The driver faces a DWI Bethel Woods, 50 years ago lobby, a charge. popular ►ACCUSED OF MISHANDLING the this week. COOPERSTOWN “Woodstock was one of feature. estate of Albany-area philanPlease See FESTIVAL, A11 thropists, Cooperstown invesane Moyer has been tor Tom Lagan, 61, pleaded exercising at the Clark guilty in federal court. He will Sports Center for 70 be sentenced at a later date. ►87-acre rose hILL, Town of years, which may explain Otsego, was sold to the Otsego why she is Land Trust by the county board CLARK still going after a parliamentary maneustrong at 99. SPORTS ver that skirted the board’s She is committee system. CENTER one of 36 ► ADOPT A CAt at half-price at Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal NBT BANK’S nonagenarBy LIBBY CUDMORE Susquehanna SPCA, which QUALITY OF ian members with more than 100 felines is LIFE AWARD – after 90, at capacity. COOPERSTOWN member►a richfield town board or get your company’s IT needs candidate isn’t living in the ship’s free By LIBBY CUDMORE uring one of his taken care of. town, the county Board of ISD TECH – and they may best exemclinics in Chicago, Elections has ruled. It’s also a steward of the plify why Otsego County BANK OF Grassroots Baseball ►ROUTE 205 THROUGH Hartwick ONEONTA environment. Chamber of Commerce chose COOPERSTOWN’S co-founder Jeff Idelson got to hamlet will be named for “Since 2011, we’ve recycled the Clark Sports Center for ENVIRONMENTAL see first-hand how baseball a local Marine who died in nformation Systems more than 84,000 pounds of its Quality of Life Award to STEWARDSHIP Vietnam. can change a life. Divisions Inc. isn’t just the electronic waste,” said Roxana be presented at its Summer AWARD “We were at the Union place to get a new computer Please See ISD, A7 Soiree Thursday, League Boys & Girls Club in Please See CLARK, A8 Chicago and Goose Please See IDELSON, A11 For reservations, call Otsego County Chamber, (607) 432-4500 • $100 per person

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Wife’s ‘Multicultured Life’ Joins Husband’s ‘Privilege & Prejudice’ office. No problem was too small not to appeal to MSU’s charismatic first lady: A mother called: “My daughter hasn’t written in a month.” Three, moving to Albany, she and her husband decided to create a duplex in the South Tower of the former D&H station – now SUNY headquarters – into the president’s official residence, with a view of the Hudson River on one side and Rockefeller’s Empire State Plaza on another. It was a move that won both praise and criticism. Again, her outreach, including expanding the luncheons for 67 college presidents’ wives to include their husbands, guests and top speakers during the annual conference at The Otesaga, helped smooth internal relations. There are dozens of such anecdotes in the book. Retirement in Cooperstown – summering in Cooperstown, wintering at United Nations Plaza in New York City – yields a chapter of particular local interest, with mentions ranging from Jane Forbes Clark to Melissa Manikas, now owner of Cooperstown’s State Farm agency, who helped Dolores’ husband with his research, her hairdresser Kim Potts, and many others. “As newcomers to the community, we delighted in exploring Cooperstown,” she writes. “…We found classic colonial architecture still conspicuous, with slender white church steeples that peek above rows of wood-framed

houses … with broad porches and closely trimmed lawns.” She served on the Glimmerglass Opera board, convincing Phillips Petroleum to underwrite an NPR broadcast of Mozart’s “Il Re Pastore.” He served on Bassett, NYSHA and the Clark Foundation boards. She is 92, he is shortly

turning 93, they offered during the interview – Team Wharton’s been in place for 67 years. That love match has inspired many, said Lee Brathwaite. “On the professional level, they are examples I have always attempted to live up to,” he continued. “On a personal level, they’ve been successful in their marriage. My wife and I strive

to emulate their example. We love them dearly.” He ended with a remark that – having read both her “Multiculture” and his “Privilege” – might be echoed by hundreds of associates from KL to East Lansing to Albany to Washington to Cooperstown. “I can’t thank them enough for what they’ve done for me.”

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MEMOIR/From A1 was routinely winning his corporation’s sales awards. “It was the best experience of my career,” said Brathwaite. As it happens, Wharton – she and husband Clifton R. Wharton Jr., the former SUNY chancellor, have owned a home above Otsego Lake for three decades – considers FCI as the pinnacle of her wide range of achievements. Chapter 10 in her memoir, “A Multicultured Life,” available Sept. 1 through Michigan State University Press and amazon.com, is her favorite, she said in an interview in anticipation of its publication. Thinking about it, FCI represents the full blossoming Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s of all her experiences: Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA • She was born into black Dolores and her high husband, Clifton R. society in Wharton, Jr., with Harlem copies of their respec– her tive autobiographies, father’s complementary prosperous accounts of the life family ran a they lived together. top funeral home there; leadership,” said Dolores Wharton in an interview. one of her The FCI had three parts. mother’s One, a summer intern program ancestors that included jobs at such Brathwaite served in Albany-area enterprises as the South Ford, Key Bank and the Carolina Legislature during Reconstruction – and raised, in Times Union, with training part, in Danbury, Conn., where at the Carey Institute in Rensselaerville. she suffered through her first Two, the Young Executive racial snubs. Program, featuring VIPs, • She was introduced to her training and discussion at the husband in the Harvard Yard Aspen Institute in Virginia. by a cousin at Radcliffe. After Three, an alumni arm, a he graduated, on the verge of network of young executives departing for the University of Chicago’s Ph.D. program, they who could advise and support each other as they rose in their married in Marian Anderson’s professions. studio in Connecticut. In addition to Brathwaite, • The couple worked who became vice president/ shoulder to shoulder – “we were a team,” says her husband regional operations in 24 years – as he was posted to Malaysia at Verizon and still serves on by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Golub Company board, alumni included former Xerox served as Michigan State CEO Ursula Burns. University president, then The nominees were “high SUNY chancellor in the 1970s potential people,” said the and ’80s, modernized TIAA author’s husband. “It was CREF as its CEO and served not giving them money. It as deputy secretary of state in was giving them a set of the Clinton Administration. experiences.” “The experiDolores ences Clif had Wharton was professionally first inspired to opened up new try her hand at worlds to us,” autobiography she said. in 1993 by • Along the Bob Perrin, way, compaformer MSU nies began to vice president widen their and aide to perspectives by her husband recruiting blacks in the State and women to Department. their boards, she “Dolores, you was recruited ought to write to be a director it up,” he said. of Phillips “It’s good Petroleum, story.” Gannett board Kellogg, When the member Dolores Gannett and Wharton holds a copy couple retired several other of USA Today in front and bought major compaof SUNY headquarters an aerie high nies, where above Otsego in Albany; the South she focused HOMETOWN Lake, her Tower was their on inclusive husband began hiring, but also home while he was his memoir. chancellor. brought the “One autobiogfresh perspective raphy at a time is enough,” she of a heretofore outsider. Her said. After his “Privilege & husband helped break the ice Prejudice” came out in 2015, by joining the spouses’ activishe returned to her writing, ties at conferences – he being often waking in the wee hours the only male spouse. to sit at her desk. “I had • All of this experience memories,” she found, “fond flowered, she believes, in memories of these years.” her creating the Fund for Three vignettes. Corporate Initiatives while One, her early education SUNY’s first lady, where she at New York City’s progrestapped her corporate contacts sive Little Red School House to introduce young minority, women and even non-minority emphasized arts, which led to her interest in the emerging art scene in newly independent Malaysia. “It was especially flattering when a curator from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art sought my counsel when stopping over in Kuala Lumpur,” she wrote. In 1971, that grew into her first book, “Contemporary Artist of Malaysia: A Biographic Survey,” a standard for years. Two, as Michigan The Whartons are welcome by State’s first lady, she 77,533 fans in MSU Spartan stood by her husband’s side before howling Stadium on Nov. 1, 1969. crowds of Vietnam protesters, and one men to businesspeople, time in place of her exhausted government officials and husband, who was determine academics at the top of their not to close the campus. “Will game. Dozens, the invited you accept me in his place leaders ranged Bill Clinton’s pal and adviser Vernon Jordan, tonight?” The crowd roared its approval. She reached out to Commerce Secretary to faculty wives and female Juanita Kreps, legendary pianist Bobby Short and Union students, even spending oneweek stints as guest-in-resiCarbide CEO Bob Kennedy. dence at women’s dorms; one FCI participants “had a result was personalizing her chance to interact with top

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2nd Book, ‘A MulticulturED Life,’ Emphasizes Lesson

With Determination, Discipline, Whartons Led The Way

he quote, at right, is Dolores Wharton’s earliest memory, recounted in “A Multicultured Life,” an engaging, irresistible memoir of not quite a century of American life, as she – in tandem with husband Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., the former SUNY chancellor (and much more) – moved from the nation’s black aristocracy to the heights of the American mainstream – in academe, industry and government. Theirs is a soaring life story, of hard work, discipline, determination – and achievement. • Her husband was son of the first black U.S. ambas-

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here are no Caucasians present, though it would be difficult to distinguish them from many of those mingling in the mix of multihued wedding guests. Without exception, the guests are dressed fashionably, with stylish attire and stunning jewelry. The men are doctors, lawyers and undertakers; the women are school teachers and social workers ... (The) waitstaff make their way through the crowd, bearing silver trays laden with chicken and crab croquettes, creamed sweetbreads on toast points, and slices of Virginia ham rolled with water cress – to accompany the Champagne punch served in crystal cups. Such is the life of many accomplished upper-middle-class Negroes along the Eastern Seaboard in the 1920s and 1930s.” DOLORES WHARTON, in “A Multicultured Life”

sador (to Norway, 1961-64). He was a Harvard grad with a University of Chicago Ph.D., a Rockefeller envoy to South America and Malaysia, Michigan

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’round), where he’s served on Bassett’s and other key community boards. He recounted his astonishing career in a 2015 memoir, “Privilege & Prejudice,” a

title that encompasses all the opportunities and obstacles to overcome. Now, Dolores follows up with “A Multicultured Life,” which will be avail-

able Sept. 1 through the Michigan State University Press (MSUpress.org) and amazon.com. (Give yourself a treat: Buy it.) “We were a team,” Dr. Wharton said in an interview at the couple’s aerie high above Otsego Lake, and Mrs. Wharton concurred. And yes, “Multicultured” and “Privilege” are stories of two loving companions overcoming life’s professional and personal challenges together, including the passing at age 49 of their oldest son, Clifton III. Beyond that, at a time when women were just breaking into the American power structure, Mrs. Wharton, Please See EDITORIAL, A5

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olice, firefighters, lives every day. Therefore, and emergency first it is extremely disheartenresponders are vital ing that there are members to public safety. The brave of communities harassing men and women these officers with who work in these water and at times fields put the lives even assaulting of others first and them. Law enforceoften risk their ment in our state own well-being. deserves better. I am appalled by “This bill will recent incidents establish menacing in New York City a police officer or of individuals peace officer in the hurling buckets of second degree as STATE SEN. water at on-duty a class E felony. JIM SEWARD police officers. Sadly, the times Video of these have changed in abuses has spread on the such a way where legislaInternet, certain to trigger tion like this is necessary. copycat offenses. Nonetheless, we must adThis type of disrespect dress issues like this to stop toward our uniformed the rise in disrespect and police officers cannot cultural normalcy of assaultbe permitted to escalate ing the brave police officers further. To help thwart who protect and serve us.” this behavior, I have joined This is not the first time with my Senate Republican legislation of this nature has colleagues in co-sponsoring been considered in Albany. legislation that would make In both 2017 and 2018, this type of harassment a I helped pass the “Comclass E felony. munity Heroes Protection The new legislation Act” in the Senate. The bill (S.6641) reads in part: “The (S.1114/A.2962) would have men and women who serve designated crimes that and protect our communities Please See SEWARD, A5 as police officers risk their

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James C. Kevlin Editor & Publisher

A 1990 trip to a Phillips Petroleum drilling platform in Ekofisk, a huge North Sea oil field, built camaraderie between old-line board members and “interlopers” such as Dolores Wharton, the oil giant’s first woman and black director.

Ekofisk Trip Builds Camaraderie On Phillips Petroleum Board Editor’s Note: Dolores Wharton of Cooperstown and NYC, the SUNY system’s former First Lady, was the first black woman, as well as the first black, on a number of Fortune 500 boards. In her new memoir, “A Multicultural Life,” she describes Phillips Petroleum directors’ 1990 camaraderie-building trip to a North Sea oil rig, which helped “the old guard (adjust) to us interlopers.”

sense of camaraderie evolved during a field trip undertaken by the entire (Phillips Petroleum) board and company officers to Ekofisk, the gigantic oil drilling platform 20 miles off the coast of Norway. That trip – the full board’s first-ever excursion to the platform – was at my request and to fulfill my desire to experience an actual drilling platform located in the North Sea. Discovered in 1969, Ekofisk oil field was so huge that, at its peak, its oil and gas output amounted to more than a third of Phillips’ total energy production. Our party, arriving from

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droned for two hours brought us over the vast North Sea. We had left the coast of Norway 200 miles behind, with no land in sight and only a thin, flat line where gray sky met gray-green water. Below us, the sea churned and wind gusts whipped up waves flecked with foam. In the distance, the Ekofisk flame flared as a lonely torch against the darkening clouds. The fire was burn-off of excess gas that for me served as light signaling the presence of human life (not to mention the landing dock) ahead. Upon approach, the helicopter circled to give us a close-up view of In a mandatory wet suit, Phillips the $7 billion facility. The Ekofisk Petroleum board member Dolores complex comprises some 25 drilling Wharton prepares to board a 20and production platforms. The passenger helicopter headed for the Ekofisk, the North Sea oil rig. complex structure spun out for what seemed like miles on the sea’s serTo her left is CEO Bill Couce. pentine surface, its open-air catwalks different parts of the United States, forming a vast steel latticework like a gathered in London. From there, one web of giant Tinkertoys. of the company’s ocean-crossing Pipes ran in a maze-like tangle planes took us to Stavanger, Norway, from the platforms to the concrete where a 20-passenger helicopter that Please See EKOFISK, A6

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’m at a loss to find a good simile for my Cooperstown newspaper career. It’s been a bit like a ping-pong game, but played like a flow of molasses. OK, forget figures of speech: Way back in the early ’90s, when I first moved north from Maryland, the redoubtable Lidie Mackie retired from her weekly Freeman’s Journal column about Fly Creek. She urged me to take on the job. I had no hope of matching Lidie’s style. It was clear, factual, but sometimes carried a sly irony. For example: “Adolina Berger is just back from a week in Virginia, where her sister is losing ground to tuberculosis.” Then,

in the very next sentence, “Addy has not been looking well herself.” As I say, I could never match that well-honed subtlety! Of course people love to see their name in print, JIM but I imagine they ATWELL tried to keep on the right side of Lidie, too. Anyway, I found myself writing for The Freeman’s Journal, a newspaper with a proud history that extended into the early 19th century. But I wasn’t

Columnist Lidie Mackie passed the mantle to Jim Atwell in the 1990s.

long in recognizing that it was now a paper in trouble. Back then, the owner-editor was a man without principle or scruple, and he was Please See ATWELL, A6

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200 YEARS AGO

Agricultural Notice – A meeting of the Agricultural Society of the County of Otsego, will be held at the house of Joseph Munn in Cooperstown, on Thursday, the 26th day of August, inst., for the purpose of organizing the Society, agreeably to the Legislature of this state. Robert Campbell, Rec. Sec. Cooperstown, August 12, 1819. Welch Indians – It seems that a Society in the State of New York has sent out persons to ascend the Missouri in search of Welch Indians. A Mr. Stoddart collected some years ago and embodied in his sketches of Louisiana, many loose reports and disjointed rumors on this subject. He seemed to give credit to the belief of their existence. Since his time, however, the country supposed to be the place of their residence, and in fact every part of the country in which they could reside, has been explored. There is no exception from the confines of Mexico to the Arctic Circle. No such people as “Welch Indians” have been found. August 16, 1819

175 YEARS AGO

Competition is the life of business. This saying is illustrated in the fact, that the post-coaches between this place and Fort Plain and Canajoharie now make their trips in about three hours. In several instances, Mr. Willoughby has run through in two and one-half hours, affording us the Albany and New York mails by 3 o’clock p.m. Thanks for his diligence. August 9, 1844

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Advertisement: “Cooper House, Cooperstown, New York” The Spacious and Elegant building, formerly known as the “Cooperstown Seminary,” having been altered, improved and adapted to hotel purposes during the past three months, at the expense of over $30,000, was opened for the reception of guests on June 25. The building will be found complete with all the modern improvements, and the situation and attractions of Cooperstown are second to no summer resort in the country. Within about four hours from Albany by railroad and thirteen miles distant from Richfield Springs, and 20 miles from Sharon, amid hill, lake and valley scenery unsurpassed in beauty, and surrounded by the historic and classic associations made famous by the pen of Cooper, it is believed that few points in the country afford equal inducements to the tourist, or to those seeking a rural home during the summer. August 13, 1869

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The “Cuban Giants” always draw well, when playing against the Cooperstown Athletics. Monday last was no exception to the rule. There was a large audience to witness the game. With one man for two days previous on the sick list, and a substitute playing for another, it did not look promising for the home team – but the manner in which they opened the game gave their friends confidence. On the second inning it was a tie. Then the Athletics surged six ahead, after which the Giants closed up the gap steadily, leaving the Athletics the victors at the end by two runs, 16 to 14. It was an exciting game – some fine playing – though marked with a number of errors on both sides. (Ed. Note: Baseball in the early 1890s was played without the aid of gloves for fielding and errors were more common as a result) August 16, 1894

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Leonard and Delmar Hutchings, the former 13 years old, and the latter 15 years old, were sentenced yesterday to a term in the Rochester Industrial School by Justice of the Peace Vanderwerker after they had been accused and admitted breaking into the home of Mrs. Stone Benedict on Main and River streets, and robbing the house of various petty articles. The conviction is part of the program of District Attorney Adrian A. Pierson to break up a number of so-called “boy gangs” about the village who have been committing various depredations from time to time. August 20, 1919

Want To Live Without Fossil Fuels? Where Would You Like To Start?

bacon probably came from hogs grown in Iowa. • The point is, we rely on farmers to grow the foods we eat and they rely on fossil fuels (gasoline and diesel) to run their farm equipment; to produce the fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides they use to maximize production; and to dry their corn once it is harvested. Following the daily collection of the eggs, butchering of the hogs or mechanical harvesting of the tomatoes (takes more fossil fuel to haul the mechanical pickers), they are processed, stored and then transported by truck to distribution centers where they are then trucked to the stores where you purchase them. All of that happens without you being aware of it – but it nonetheless happens. If you ban the use of fossil fuels, those processes won’t happen nearly as efficiently

as they do now. That means you will either be forced to

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The Coleman Family reunion was held on Saturday, August 9, at the Forest of the Dozen Dads in Middlefield. Those attending included Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Taugher and family of Cooperstown, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reich and family of Bardonia, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Garbera of Richfield Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Coleman, Sr. and family of Odenton, Maryland, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Schultz III and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Coleman, Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Coleman, Jr. and family, all of Cooperstown. Four generations were in attendance including Mrs. Charles A. Coleman, Sr., her daughter, Mrs. Stuart P. Taugher, her granddaughter Mrs. Jackson Schultz III, and great-granddaughter, Miss Amy Schultz. August 13, 1969

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Vittoria “Vicci” Demarest, 90, Cooperstown, an early and ardent supporter of the Glimmerglass Opera, died Friday after a brief illness. Ms. Demarest was a graduate of the Knox School in Cooperstown. She attended Skidmore College for two years and graduated from the Traphagen School of Design in New York City. Ms. Demarest was the daughter of the well-known sculptor, Victor Salvatore, and the former Ellen Ryerson, whose father, Arthur Ryerson, died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. After a marriage to the late William Demarest, she lived in Guilford, Connecticut for many years. In 1973 she returned to Cooperstown and served on the board of the Glimmerglass Opera and other local organizations. August 14, 2009

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THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT

o you really want to stop using fossil fuels? Your immediate answer may be a resounding “yes.” However, that could change your life in a way you hadn’t anticipated. That’s because so many of us grew up in cities and have no real tie to the land or to how the things we rely upon in our daily MIKE lives come from or ZAGATA how they are made. Do eggs, tomatoes and bacon come from the grocery store? That may be where you purchase them, but that’s not where they originate. They are grown on farms, often located thousands of miles from the store where you purchased them. When you purchase a tomato during the winter, it likely was grown in California. The eggs you buy likely were hatched by chickens residing in huge poultry farms in the South that were fed with grains from the Midwest. The

Miss Helen E. Fry describes her work serving U.S. soldiers in the front-line combat area in Italy with the Red Cross. “We work in two teams, driving our own three-quarter ton trucks. We start out in the morning loaded down with from 2,000 to 4,000 donuts, coffee, sugar, canned milk, Victrola, accordion, guitar, cards, writing paper, etc. A schedule is made out a day in advance, so that at each outfit we go to the fellows are waiting for us with their canteen cups. We serve the coffee and donuts first, and then sit around and talk with the fellows while they eat, play the Victrola, dance, or get someone to play one of the instruments we have along. We make anywhere from four to seven or eight stops a day like this.” August 16, 1944

do without fresh produce and meats, or, if you’re financially able to, you’ll pay more for them. • Do you rely on a prescription medicine to help you maintain your quality of life? If you do, the chances are high that medicine was produced using one of the variations of natural gas. Do you use oil in your automobile? If so, that’s one variation of a fossil fuel. Better yet, do you use synthetic oil in your car? If so, it was made using natural gas – a fossil fuel. Are you aware that many of the parts, including bumpers and body panels, in your car are made with a form of plastic? You guessed it - plastics are made with fossil fuels. What about the steel used in your car? It was manufactured using natural gas or coal in the smelting process. What about the tires on your car? You guessed it – each of them contains about two gallons of petroleum. Are the clothes you wear Please See ZAGATA, A6

SEWARD/From A4 specifically target police, firefighters, and other emergency service workers as hate crimes. The legislation was inspired by the many brave men and women in uniform who have lost their lives, were injured or targeted simply because of their jobs as protectors of the community. The legislation would classify all crimes against first responders, such as law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes. These offenses are designated as hate crimes only if they are intentionally aimed at first responders based on the profile of their career. In current law, when a person is convicted of a hate crime and the specified offense is a misdemeanor or a class C, D or E felony, the hate crime shall be deemed to be one category higher than the specified offense or one category higher than the offense level applicable to the defendant`s conviction. Police officers and first responders are not included in the current definition of a hate crime. Professionals and volunteers who wear a uniform and serve the public have earned our utmost respect and are true lifesavers. The recent surge in attacks on

our first responders is sad and disturbing. It is imperative that we stand shoulder to shoulder with these brave men and women and provide any safeguards possible. Unfortunately, the Assembly never voted on the bill in either 2017 or 2018. This year, with Democrats in charge of the Senate, the bill was not even allowed out of committee for Senate consideration. As I have said previously, the Albany pendulum has swung toward criminals and away from crime victims and law enforcement. Along with blocking the “Community Heroes Protection Act”, the Democrats in charge in Albany also prevented several other bills, known as the “Victims’ Justice Agenda” from reaching the Senate floor for a vote. The comprehensive legislative package would reform the parole system to keep violent criminals behind bars without parole and ease the parole process for suffering victims, families and the public. Moving forward I will continue to stand up for crime victims along with those who enforce our laws and keep our communities safe and secure. Senator Seward, R-Milford, represents a district that includes Otsego and eight other counties.

The Wharton Team’s Counter Narrative Gives Hope In Contentious Era

EDITORIAL/From A4 in her own right, had already arrived. • While in Kuala Lumpur in the 1960s, she discovered the fledgling field of modern Malaysian art (and introduced artists there to New York City’s avant garde). At Michigan State in the 1970s, she stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her husband before howling crowds of Vietnam protesters, but also expanded his office’s influence through her warm courtesy and considerateness.

In the 1980s and ’90s, she served as the first woman and first black woman on boards of directors of some of our most venerable corporations – from oil to utilities to Gannett during the creation of USA Today. And – the source of her most satisfaction today – was using those contacts to create The Fund for Corporate Initiatives, preparing promising minority and women executives for top jobs “through intellectual and provocative interaction with stimulating professionals, instilling notable self-

confidence as they moved up the corporate ladder.” She retired FCI at the turn of the century, recognizing that by then many, many individual companies had embraced and adopted its visionary model. • Through all this, yes, the Whartons encountered prejudice. Most memorable, perhaps, was in “Privilege & Prejudice,” where young Clifton, raised overseas, had never encountered segregation. Until, that is, back home to attend Boston

Latin, he and an aunt, on a visit to relatives in Virginia, were ordered into a blackonly car when the train crossed the Mason-Dixon line. As Dolores grew up in Danbury, Conn., the snubs were more subtle but hurtful nonetheless. In both books, though, the Whartons mention but don’t dwell on these. Experiencing life at the top, making friends and getting things done predominate. The small-minded pettiness they encounter shrinks in the face of accomplishment. •

While immersed in the reading of “A Multicultured Life,” Joe Biden uttered his latest gaffe, “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” equating race and poverty. Of course, the Whartons’ books present a dramatic counter-narrative, his and now hers: from her first memory of black prosperity, to a chance introduction to her husband in the Harvard Yard, to their wedding, hosted by Marian Anderson in her Connecticut studio, and to all that followed. The lives they lived, the

heights they reached, the good they achieved, are examples for all Americans – whites certainly, but blacks more urgently. “It’s not to say there’s not a problem,” said the former SUNY chancellor. “But that” – poverty, and its grinding cruelty – “is not the only experience of the blacks.” In an accusatory era rife with bitter argumentation – about race and much more – let’s keep believing, locally and nationally: The American Dream, while not a guarantee, can live. The Whartons’ triumphant lives prove it.

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A Black And A Woman, Dolores Wharton Brought Novel Outlook To Phillips Board areas serving the men round the clock. “Pretty good food,” said one of the men I was talking with. “Better be!” said another. The workers were all men whose time on the platform consisted of three shifts of 14 days each before returning to shore. The required working day included 12 hours actually on the job. I was concerned about the amount of time the men had to endure the sometimes brutal oceanic environment. But then these specialists,

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Idelson’s ‘Grassroots’ Inspires Other Ways To Win Youngsters To the Editor (and baseball fans everywhere): Kudos to former Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson for co-founding Grassroots Baseball, an effort to connect young kids to what at one time was our National Pastime. When my generation was growing up, we would race home after school to catch the World Series at about the third inning, creating fond, lifelong memories. My kids didn’t have that opportunity. For too long, all MLB playoff and World Series games start past Little Leaguer bedtimes. As usual in our country, the almighty dollar runs the show. On another note, I read the other day of MLB’s plans to have the White Sox and the Yankees play A REGULAR SEASON GAME at the corn field in Iowa where “Field of Dreams” was filmed. I hope it’s a day game. The Yankees and Red Sox played TWO REGULAR SEASON GAMES in London earlier this year and there are plans for games in Williamsport, Pa., and Omaha, Neb. I think it’s wonderful that MLB is taking the initiative to reconnect people to baseball. Once upon a time for more than 50 years, two Major League teams played AN EXHIBITION GAME every year on Doubleday Field to celebrate the induction of baseball’s greatest players into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Commissioner Manfred, would you care to comment about any of this? KEVIN GRADY Cooperstown

AOC’s Family Lived In U.S. Since 1898, How About That? no problem with this based on the way he comments on it. Before he implies that they are immigrants by failing to correct the president’s comments, and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’ family has been American since 1898 at least one generation and probably two before the Trumps, he should be aware that Donald Trump has claimed that his father was an immigrant. (By the way, he wasn’t, but the president’s grandfather was.) He then takes the liberty of loosely translating the president’s words. He is very loose with his “translation.” I myself have a great deal of problems with “The Squad” and have found myself opposed to almost all their proposals but the president having similar problems does not give him the right to deprecate our wonderful country. RICHARD STERNBERG Cooperstown

From “A Multicultured Life”

Phillips Petroleum Vice President Bob Sear declared: “I think I found her.” Dolores Wharton, seen here with the rest of the Phillips board of directors, explained: “That is, the two-fer who would meet the requirement for a black and a woman board director,” ending a suit against the company.

ible hydraulic jacks. By 1989, the enormous job had been completed, and we directors went out

to inspect what 3 million man-hours and $425 million had produced. I was deeply impressed and couldn’t help

but wonder how any normal human beings had the courage and desire to pursue such dangerous work.

ZAGATA: Oil Gives Comforts We Depend On

ZAGATA/From A5 made with synthetic fibers? The likely answer is “yes”, and fossil fuels are used in their manufacture. There are about 6,000 products we use in our daily lives that are petroleumbased. On average, every day each of us uses about three and one-half gallons of oil and 250 cubic feet of natural gas. Some of the other petroleum-based products we use include: dentures and denture adhesive, lipstick, toothpaste and toothbrushes, artificial limbs, shampoo, soft contact lenses, paint, cell phones, televisions, CD and DVD players and discs, eye glasses, detergents, cameras, solar panels and their internals, tennis

rackets, credit cards, waxes, asphalt, chewing gum, vitamin capsules, roofing shingles and paper, skis, heart valves, refrigerators, antihistamines, golf balls, rugs made with synthetic fibers, panty hose, insect repellents, fishing rods and shaving cream. • As you can see from the discussion above, the things we rely upon in our daily lives originate with some variation of a fossil fuel. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be working towards finding substitutes that will allow us to maintain our quality of life AND improve the quality of our environment. We should be doing that on a regular basis.

However, we also need to be intellectually honest with regards to what those realistic solutions are. We can’t afford to chart a course that will take us away from what we know works without assurance that the “substitute” (renewable energy sources) will work as promised. I bring this up because we are now starting to get valid data from solar and wind farms that are actually operational. We know the wind farms along Route 20 in Madison County have been non-operational for about a year while waiting for parts. We know the solar farm in Broome County that promised to deliver between 4 and 5.2 megawatts (enough to

power 3,200 to 4,000 homes) is actually producing 6.1 million kilowatts (about onetenth of what was promised), or about enough to power 567 homes. In other words, reality was about one-seventh of what was promised and thus the cost of that power went up dramatically. If those numbers hold true across the State, we’re in for a significant energy shortage if the Governor’s energy plan is fully implemented. As I’ve said before, please don’t drink the Kool-Aid until you know what’s in it. Mike Zagata, a DEC commissioner during the Pataki Administration and environmental executive for Fortune 500 Companies, lives in West Davenport.

ATWELL: Front Porch Is Front-Row Seat On World ATWELL/From A4 driving The Journal into the ground. Which he did, and then fled the area, leaving behind dark clouds of unpaid bills and ill will. But, thank goodness, The Freeman’s Journal soon came into ethical and professional hands and was restored to life. In the meantime, however, my journalistic career seemed over. (To use that ping-pong figure, I’d served low and over the net – only to have the ball burned back at me, past any chance of recovery.) • But no! Not the last breath! (Hard to kill a entity that’s been deepening its roots since 1808.) The Freeman’s Journal arose, renewed itself, and carries on, even unto today. Huzzah! And I’m delighted to be back with it, to visit with you every two weeks. And what are we going to talk about? Well, if you’ve followed my columns at all across the last quarter-century, you know that mine’s a meandering mind. It finds interest and often delight in almost

anything. That’s surely not going to change, not at 81. My imagined perspective will be, not from Fly Creek, but from Anne’s and my front porch at 24 Delaware St. As I’ve told you, I love to sit out there, especially in in late afternoons, greeting school kids heading home and people out being walked by their dogs. The Journal’s editor is often among them (he lives just down the street), and so is our mayor, whose home is just around the corner. And so is Tony Scalici, who’s served this village in so many ways, especially on the school board. Tony’s eyes are failing badly, but not his inner vision. At my urging he’s shared with me some of his writing – and it’s splendid. Not only is he a vivid storyteller, but Tony has a rare gift: he intuits how sound and meaning can be fit together to rise, in his writing, to the truly poetic. And he’s shared the work with me, mind you, right on my front porch! I hope he’ll let me quote some of it to you?

• Well, as you see, as long as I have the porch as vantage point, I won’t lack things to pass on. Including, of course, the comments on the hundreds that pass the house on the way to Induction Ceremony. They’re mostly family groups, laughing and happy, hauling backpacks and coolers and folding chairs. Kids dance and chant, “Almost there? Almost there?” And at our house, I can shout back, “You bet! Hang on!” (Well, they still have a bit more than half a mile, but why say that?) The mood of that same crowd a few hours later is very different. They look battered, beaten as the Little Corporal’s troops retreating from Moscow. Kids are sullen, parents snappish, and very few are now hauling chairs. What, wonders the old dude on the porch, happens to all those abandoned chairs? Jim Atwell, Quaker minister and retired college administrator, lives in Cooperstown.

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To the Editor, I have a problem with Mike Zagata’s latest opinion piece. In it he quotes Donald Trump’s tweet, “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democratic congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken crime infested places from which they came? Then come back and show us how it is done.” Well, I have a real problem with the president disparaging the United States. Three out of the four members of “The Squad” were born in the United States. In spite of the current national dichotomy I think it is despicable for the president to declare our country “totally broken” and “crime infested” but I assume Mr. Zagata has

recruited from all around the world and carefully trained, had one essential trait in common: the toughness to withstand those oft-times brutal conditions. A calm sea during our visit allowed a few off-duty workers to sit on the edge of the platform, as relaxed as tourists fishing in the Florida Keys. The principal reason for the trip was to see repairs to the platform’s weakening sea floor. Toward the end of 1984, Phillips had discovered that the seabed beneath Ekofisk was settling, apparently due to the tremendous extraction of oil and gas. Consequently, the platforms had dropped closer to sea level than when first built. To restore the margin of safety between the decks and the water, Phillips had devised a method for raising the platform by using giant floating and semi-submers-

EKOFISK/From A4 storage tank. Multiple glass-enclosed engineering rooms with color-coded flashing lights of “Star Wars” intensity announced ongoing operations. Vertiginous stilts served as both support and anchor, their bases sunk 70 meters into the muddy sea floor. I was mesmerized by the enormity of the platform operation. At any given time, about 1,500 riggers and crew called Ekofisk home. In hotel-like quarters were numerous boxlike dining

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ISD Responsibility Toward Recycling Wins Company Chamber Recognition ISD/From A1 Hurlburt, who, with Ron Ranc II, founded the company in 1989. “And we do it for free.” It was this commitment to the environment that earned ISD Tech the Environmental Stewardship Award from the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, to be presented at its annual Summer Soirée on Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Clark Sports Center. “We live in a beautiful area,” said Hurlburt. “You don’t want to drive down country roads and see old computers just dumped out there.” In 2015, the state mandated that electronics could no longer be disposed of in landfills or through curbside Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal trash pick-up. Bins full of discarded computer equipment to be But ISD was recycling recycled bear witness to the company’s sense of even before that, partnering responsibility, says partner Roxana Hurlburt.

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with EWaste+ in Syracuse. Recycling electronic waste keeps toxic chemicals contained in computers, including lead, mercury and cadmium, from leaking into soil and groundwater. “We live in a disposable society,” said Hurlburt. “It’s cheaper to buy a new printer than to fix one. It used to be you could give the computer to your little brother or the church, but they’re outdated by the time you finish with them.”

Computer towers, laptops and printers can all be recycled, free of charge, through ISD. Monitors can be recycled for a small fee. “We had an older man come in with what I’m pretty sure was his first computer!” she said. “We get some really ancient stuff.” On the most recent haul, the bins provided by EWaste+ were filled to capacity. “We had stuff on the floor,” she said. “They couldn’t even take it all.”

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And ISD’s commitment to computer security doesn’t end when the computer no longer works. “We destroy the hard drives before we recycle them,” she said. “We want to prevent anyone’s information from getting out there.” Some of that destruction involves technology, sometimes good old-fashioned strength. “Sometimes, the techs will come out and smash it with a hammer,” she said. ISD also partners with Opportunities for Otsego to become a drop-off point for cell-phone recycling. Hurlburt herself proposed ISD for the Chamber award. “I saw the guidelines and I thought, ‘This is exactly what we do!’ We want to get it out there in the community that we offer this service – and it’s free.” In addition to the recycling, ISD is active promoting local not-forprofits in the community, organizations like Family Service Association and the Oneonta YMCA. “We pick a Website of the Month and do a display in the kiosk at the Southside Mall,” she said. “It helps everybody.” Hurlburt has also been president of the Foothills board, and serves on the Hospice boards. “It’s always been important for us to give back,” she said. Drop-offs can be done any time during open hours, but Hurlburt advised that anyone with a large load to recycle call ahead first, (607) 432-7090. “We pride ourselves on our customer service,” she said. “When you deal locally, you have to. It’s our name, they’re our customers and we take care of them.”

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‘Luckiest People’ Have Access To Clark CLARK/From A1 Aug. 22 – for the first time, at the Clark. Funded by the Clark Foundation from its inception in 1891 to its renovation and expansion completed in 2017, the Clark Sports Center has, in the Chamber’s words, Jane Moyer “significantly contributed to the quality of life in this area by providing amazing programs and opportunities for the local population to attain a healthier lifestyle.” But for Moyer and the multiple generations of families, the Clark is part of family and community life, a place that has shaped lives, futures and connections between villagers and

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people living throughout the county. “That was the place to take my children to from when they were young,” Moyer said. “They always had classes and programs my children could be in. It was always a family place.” Back in the 1940s, when Moyer, her husband Ward, and her five children first joined, it was called the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium and was located downtown in what today is the Hall of Fame administration building. “We went to the bowling alleys,” she said. “My son Jim, he was age 7 or 8, would set up the bowling pins for his father after he knocked them down. There were no machines to do that back then.” The Moyer children went to ACC after school every day, playing in the competitive basketball leagues and taking swimming lessons. After all Moyer’s kids were in school, she began taking swimming classes, which turned into a lifelong healthy habit. “That was the place where everyone went to, where everything happened,” she said. “I remember going to the Christmas dance every year and having a wonderful time.” Moyer also admires the Clark’s customer service. For instance, when the pool was closed for a year during the 2016-17 renovation and expansion, Moyer

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told Director Val Paige she worried about not swimming, because “swimming keeps me alive.” Paige fixed the problem: “We made arrangements with Fox Care in Oneonta for our members to use their pool … “We paid their fees, and people could keep working out during construction.” The center also gives free membership to pupils eligible for free or reduced lunches, and helps low-tomoderate income families pay for memberships. “Anyone who wants to become a member can become one,” Paige said.” That approach is why Paige – a 42-year employee – and other staff members stay there so long. For instance, Assistant Athletics Director Scott Whiteman. He grew up in Cherry Valley and has worked at the center for almost 20 years; he was in Paige’s swim classes from age 7 to 11. “I was raised at Clark

Sports Center,” he said. “It was the only place that had basketball in the area. Kids from everywhere came to the sports center. Some of my best friends today are ones who came in from other towns.” In summers, “we take our equipment and instructors out to places, such as Cherry Valley, Edmeston, Unatego and Worcester, and hold weeklong camps for the kids,” he said. “In Worcester, our basketball camp is $40 for a week, but the Booster Club there pays $20 of it, so the families only pay $20 for it.” Whiteman, Paige and other staff all used the same word in describing the Clark Sports Center – “luckiest.” “Anyone out of town who happens to visit the Center says, ‘You all are the luckiest people in the world to have this place,’” said Whiteman. “And I’m the luckiest person to be able to work here, teaching kids and seeing people throughout the years.”

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947 CO HWY 33 LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 7 August 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 947 Co Hwy 33, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalSept.19 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HOME NUISANCE SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/2/2019. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 130 Perkins Rd., West Edmeston, NY 13485. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalSept.12 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of Base Camp Construction, LLC, a Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) with offices located in Otsego County, for the purpose of any lawful act or activity under the Limited Liability Company Law. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on July 3, 2019. SSNY is the agent designated to receive service of process on behalf of the LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of such service of process to Michael

Privitera Properties, LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on May, 23, 2019. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Privitera Properties, LLC, 3949 West Oneonta, NY 13861. Purpose: Any lawful acts or activities. 6LegalSept.12 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of SafetyHealth First LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/31/19. 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 Michael Gildea, 60 Brunlar Court, Apartment 47, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalSept.12 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DIPASQUA AIR LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/18/2019. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 500 Crumb Hill Rd., Winfield, NY 13491, which is also the principal

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deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; BENJAMIN TURITS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GARY R. TURITS; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF GARY R. TURITS any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; JEANNE MARIE LEAR; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; LEHMAN BROTHERS BANK, FSB, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SUPPLEMENTAL

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SUMMONS “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the abovenamed Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $328,000.00 and interest, recorded on July 9, 2007, at Liber 1527 Page 311, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 699 COUNTY ROUTE 46 A/K/A 699 COUNTY HWY 46 ONEONTA, NY 13820.

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The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. 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 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 the mortgage company will not stop the 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. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: CHETNA RAMCHANDANI, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalAug.15

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Joan E. Fluke, 80; In Later Years, Coloradan Traveled Extensively

HARTWICK – Joan (Joanie) Elizabeth (Thompson) Fluke, 80, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in her home in Hartwick, where she lived with her daughter Karen and family. She was born on Feb. 18, 1939, in Leesville, La., to Cecil Eugene and Edith May Thompson. She moved to Lamar, Colo., in her early years. She attended and graduated from Lamar

High School in 1957, then attended Lamar Community College. It was in Lamar while Joan was a car-hop at the local A&W drive-in that she met her future husband, and love of her life, Richard Fluke from Eads, Colo. When he asked her on their first date, Joan said, “ I can’t go out with a perfect stranger.” Dickie replied, “I’m in luck because I’m not perfect”, and this was

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the beginning of a lifelong romance. They married five months later on Jan. 18, 1958, in Eads, and lived there for 10 years. They started their family and Joan elected to devote her time to being an amazing loving mother and homemaker. They had two girls, Diane in 1962, Karen in 1966. In 1968 they moved back to Lamar, where Joan was a Girl Scout leader and Square Dance Set mother and enjoyed playing the organ with Dick singing by her side. After the children were older, Joan began working at Sears part-time, joined a bowling league, played volleyball and competitive tennis, judged gymnastics, and became passionate about organic gardening. Joan was an avid reader, sharp-witted, enjoyed writ-

ing children’s stories, and brilliant with crossword puzzles. She was a beautiful seamstress and later dis- Joan Fluke covered that she was a talented sketch artist. She lived in Lamar until a few years after her husband died in December 1990. After the loss of Dick, Joan busied herself with volunteering with the children’s reading program at Washington Elementary and later learned bridge, joined a bridge club, and learned to play the bells with the group at the local Methodist Church. She began traveling with friends and family throughout Colorado, to New York, Toronto, Louisiana,

California and Oregon. She moved to Hartwick, New York in 2004 to live with her youngest daughter Karen and family. During these years, she helped with her grandchildren, planned and developed a beautiful organic vegetable garden, helped tend to the chickens, goats, and other variety of farm animals, helped with various fundraisers, and traveled to Quebec and Ontario, Maine, Florida and the Virgin Islands, and throughout the northern East Coast. Joan is remembered most for being a thoughtful, kind, and sweet soul with an unconditional loving heart. Joan is survived by her daughter Diane Freed of Colorado Springs, Colo., as well as daughter Karen Fluke-Agostino and her husband Rico Agostino of Hartwick; grandchildren

Randy Gotovich and Angela Washburn of Colorado Springs, and Gracie, Ben, Maya and Huey Agostino of Hartwick; great-grandchildren Dylan and Brinley Washburn of Colorado Springs; Sister Nellie Bauer of Aurora, Colo.; several nieces and nephews and son-in-law Jerry Gotovich of Colorado Springs. In addition to her husband and parents, she was predeceased by brothers Sherman Thompson in 1963, and Cecil ‘Tom’ (Sunny) Thompson in 2015. The Celebration Of Life will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at All Souls Unitarian Church, 730 N. Tejon St. Colorado Springs, Co, 80903; officiated by Revered Nori Rost. Memorial donation may be made to Catskill Area Hospice.

Rev. George Goodwin, 84; Pastor Ran Popular ‘Tent Meeting’

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EAST WORCESTER – The Rev. Dr. George I. Goodwin, Jr. (aka “Rev”), 84, whose annual “Tent Meetings” in Pennsylvania drew hundreds of participants, died Aug. 1, 2019. Dr. Goodwin was born on March 4, 1935, in Newburgh, the son of the late Rev. George Goodwin Sr., and Emma B. (Jones) Rev. Dr. Goodwin. George Dr. Good- Goodwin win was a graduate of Hancock Central School, Class of 1954. He furthered his education at SUNY Fredonia, The University of Vermont, Johnson State Teachers College in Vermont, and Kassel Conservatory of Music in Germany. Dr. Goodwin served seven years in the Army Security Agency in the European and Far East Theaters. George lived in Japan for two years while serving and he and his wife Janet enjoyed two years together in Kassel Germany during his service. Returning to the U.S., he received his bachelor’s degree from Berean Christian College in Kansas City, Kans., a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry Degrees from Berean Graduate School of Divinity in San Francisco. Dr. Goodwin served in churches in the New York and Troy Conferences of the United Methodist Church, three churches near Westford, Vt., The United Methodist Church of Treadwell, The Second Baptist Church of Worcester. and Gilchrist United Presbyterian Church of Doonan’s Corners, Delaware County, retiring in 2008. For 30 years he held a “Tent Meeting” at the Nittany Antique Machinery Association Fall gathering at Centre Hall, Pa. The tent meeting began with a congregation of 60 and within four years the congregation had grown into the hundreds.

He was predeceased by his parents; a brother, Harold, and four sisters, Rilla Mae Goodwin of Newburgh, Sally Borst of Longmont, Colo., Diane Marendo of Cold Springs, and Carolyn Sayre of Woodland, Calif.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years, Janet (Mack), and their four sons, George III and Richard of East Worcester, Stephen and wife, Justine (Naples) of Leland, N.C.; Paul and wife, Sherri (Beerse) of Manakin

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Yesterday’s Festgoers Today’s Leading Citizens

FESTIVAL/From A1 the most important cultural and music moments in history,” said Greg Harris, president of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. “It was the pivotal time when young people were questioning their place in the world, and they came together with others feeling the same way in this massive gathering.” The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s “Woodstock at 50” exhibit opened earlier this summer, featuring neverbefore-seen color film footage, photos and artifacts from the “Summer of Love.” “We have 16 mm footage that Hamilton Biggar shot behind the scenes,” said Harris, who received his master’s from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, then worked at the Baseball Hall for a period. Also on display is John Sebastian’s suit, photos by Jim Marshall and Jimmy Hendrix’s guitar strap from when he played “The Star Spangled Banner” – the guitar is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the “Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll” exhibit, on through Oct. 1. The exhibit was co-curated by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “We have people come through our pop-up booth and tell us their stories of being there,” he said. “It had a massive impact on so many peoples’ lives.” From Cooperstown, Meg and Martin – now married – drove down with their friend Scottie Robinson, abandoning his dad’s car four miles from the venue to walk to the concert. “We got there on the second day,

Cooperstown Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh and wife Meg recently returned to a very different scene from the mob and the music of 50 years ago.

and even though we had money for tickets, the fence was already knocked over, so we just walked right in,” he said. Among the legendary acts they saw were Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, John Sebastian, Santana, Canned Heat, Sly and the Family Stone and Janis Joplin. “Janis just had such a massive energy,” he said. “You just lay there in the field, soaking it all in.” Meg had brought food, but they soon found themselves feeding more than just the three of them. “If you took out an orange, people just swarmed you, asking if they could

have a piece,” he said. “They hadn’t eaten in two days! So you might get one bite.” They left Sunday morning, and a week later discovered they were pictured in the centerfold of Time Magazine’s reportage of the festival. “We’re in the lower left,” he said. “It’s clearly us.” Jim Howarth, a vice president at Delaware Otsego, the late Walter Rich’s railroad and a SUNY Oneonta student at the time of Woodstock, was also there. “I saw it on the news, and a friend and I just looked at each other and said, ‘Let’s go.’” Their motorcycles allowed them to go where cars couldn’t – and also get out. “The next morning, I ran into a reporter who offered me $25 to drive him out so he could file his story,” he said. “He took my picture and I drove him to the nearest town, and then the next day, I was on the front cover of the Washington Star!” But others, like Oneonta’s Mayor Gary Herzig, weren’t so lucky. “My friend and I bought four tickets, for us and for our girlfriends,” he said. “I think they were $14.95, but that was a lot of money then.” They drove up after work on Friday in Herzig’s 1963 Oldsmobile F85, but when they hit the Monticello exit off 17, traffic had come to a complete stop. “The road was completely shut down,” he said. “It was pouring rain and our radiator was overheating. The only thing we could do was set up the tent and camp on the side of the road.”

Kids Responding To Jeff Idelson’s ‘Grassroots’ Effort IDELSON/From A1 Gossage was playing catch with a young boy,” he said. “This kid had never put a glove on, and afterwards, his older brother came over and told Goose that his little brother was going to go out for the summer team. He found a connection, he built his self-esteem and he selfselected to continue to play baseball.” Idelson, retired Baseball Hall of Fame president, teamed up with photographer Jean Fruth to document and spread the joy of amateur baseball with their Grassroots Baseball project. “Jean was the traveling photographer for the Hall of Fame, and whenever she shot a Major League game for us, she would peel off and cover a Little League game as well,” he said. “I was intrigued by her passion

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for the amateur game.” “I was my son Simon’s Little League coach, so I would shoot the games and send photos to the local paper,” said Fruth. “The editor called me and

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asked if I would shoot high school college and football, and then a friend got me involved in shooting the Oakland A’s. But my passion was always shooting sandlots in New Mexico or old men playing stickball in New York City.” Fruth’s photographs were published in her book, “Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin,” on sale at the Baseball Hall of Fame. “I was giving thought to doing something more after I retired,” said Idelson. “The more we talked about it, the more we realized we wanted to give back through amateur baseball.” Fruth came up with the idea of stopping in towns along Route 66. “It’s Americana, it’s all these long-forgotten towns that might not have access to the game,”

said Idelson. They travel in an RV to each stop, working with little league teams, American Legion teams, ball clubs and other charities to teach kids about the sport. “The coaches love knowing that people are seeing what they do,” he said. “So many of these leagues are driven by volunteers, and we want to celebrate those too.” And joining them at each stop is a Hall of Famer or baseball Legend – including Gossage, Ozzie Smith, Johnny Bench and Jim Thome – to talk about their experience on the smalltown field and to play a game of catch with the kids. “They’re real words of inspiration,” said Idelson. “They tell them, ‘I came from a town like this, I made a career and so can you.’”

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MLS#121571 $100,000 Land In Decatur – Possible Owner Finacing Mostly wooded 86-acre parcel w/stream. Close to East Worcester Rod & Gun Club. Call Melissa Klein @ 518-705-9849 (cell)

MLS#122696 $199,000 Village Victorian Extraordinaire 2,500 sq ft home plus 2-story chestnut barn, private backyard, covered porch, swimming pool w/deck. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

MLS#120942 $242,000 Turn-Key Convenience Store w/Gas Station Selling below current appraised value. Contains 4-BR, 2-bath apartment! Rent or live there. Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)

MLS#114624 $59,900 MLS#118224 $639,000 1982 double-wide w/3 BRs, 2 baths and 1½ story, 2-car Owner Possible! Perfection! Custom garage.Financing New heating system, updated electrical, new log home. w/fireplace, waterfalls, walls andGreat ceilingroom in 1 BR. New ceiling in masterstream, bath. bridge, pond,P.deck. hiking on 53 acres. Call Sharon TeatorHunting, @ 607-267-2681 (cell) Call David K. Mattice @ 607-434-1647 (cell)

MLS#114969 $69,900 Prime Building Lot on Canadarago Lake Almost 2 acres. Views and deeded access/ dock. Approved septic. Electric on property. Call Melissa Klein @ 518-705-9849 (cell)

MLS#120779 $79,900 Country Living in Mohawk Valley 20 minutes to Cooperstown. Brook, covered screened porch. 5 BRs, garage, barn. New roof, furnace and windows. Call George (Rod) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)

221 Main Street, Andes 845-676-3600

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! Call Katherine Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

MLS#121459 $278,900 A-frame Cottage 108’ of gently sloping frontage. 3-season enclosed porch w/views of the lake. Large 2-car detached garage and boat dock. Call George (Rod) Sluyter 315-520-6512 (cell)

MLS#122649 $400,000 Log-Sided Home on 10 Acres Home consists of 1920 sq. ft. of living space. Owner built with care. Private lot w/trails. Perfect for outdoorsman. Call Tom Tillapaugh @ 607-434-9392 (cell)

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MLS#122807 $139,000 Majestic Victorian Home Meticulously restored, move-in-condition home w/1,768 sq ft, 4 BRs, 2 baths. Private enclosed back yard. Call Tom Tillapaugh @ 607-434-9392 (cell)

MLS#119489 $115,000 Great Location! Just steps to Fox Hospital. Well maintained 4-BR home has a good rental history. COC valid until 2022. Also a great residence. Call David Mattice @ 607-434-1647 (cell)

MLS#120689 $98,000 Fantastic Value! Home w/14+ acres in Delhi. Farmhouse w/4 BRs, 2½ baths. Home needs some repairs. rehabis loan, selling as is. SpaciousCash 4 BR,buyer 2 bathorhouse close to I-88. Large Call Carol workshop/garage, Olsen @ 605-434-7436 backyard, small(cell) shed. Make your appointment today. Priced to go this week! Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598

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MLS#104145 $185,000 Views of Otsego Lake from This Property! Walk to Main Street, Cooperstown and Bassett Hospital. Call Donna Schulz@ 607-267-6330 (cell)

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75 Market Street Oneonta 607-433-1020

MLS#121000 $210,000 Stunning Views, Privacy Deeded Lake rights. Near Wilbur State Park. 3-BR log home on 5 acres. 3-car garage w/workshop, deck, views. Newer roof. Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)

MLS#122114 $279,995 Canadarago Lake Home Year-round, low maintenance home w/2-stall garage. Gently sloping lot w/easy water access. Call Rodney Campbell @ 315-868-0148 (cell)

MLS#119984 $299,000 Turn-Key Restaurant 15 minutes to Cooperstown. Amish-built in 2004, comes w/over $70,000 high-end equipment. On a main thoroughfare, easy parking. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

MLS#122259 $250,000 Great Opportunity – Gorgeous Setting! Splitlevel home w/5 BRs, 3 baths. Covered deck, 2 sheds. Call Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)

Locally owned and operated Single and multi-family homes Commercial property and land

99 Main Street, Oneonta office 607.441.7312 fax 607.432.7580 www.oneontarealty.com Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner

Commercial Opportunity, or a Place to Build Your New Home! 3.5 acre plot is visible from State Hwy 23 on Southside Drive. Old house and barn currently on the property. Tree line surrounds the property for privacy if you wanted to build a home. Lots of choices here. Definitely a great commercial opportunity. Minutes to Oneonta and Interstate 88. MLS#122729 $80,000

Cricket Keto, Licensed Assoc. Broker Peter D. Clark, Consultant

A Hidden Treasure! Sweet, central city of Oneonta location! Home was built in mid-1930s w/no expense spared. Present owners have painstakingly renovated it, while keeping its character intact. Great Susquehanna Valley and Catskill Mountain views. Front deck w/pergola, wooded terraced yard, perennial beds, stone walls and walkways. Hardwood floors, 2 fireplaces, exposed beam ceilings. Totally renovated kitchen w/granite and stainless, 3 renovated full baths, built-ins, great closet space. Lower level offers complete in-law suite or use the second kitchen yourself! Totally flexible space. This home will knock your socks off! MLS#122801 $249,000

propErty dEtails —38 acres

157 Main Street,Cooperstown 607-547-5740

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Country Victorian Nestled in a wooded clearing on 38 acres,

Your Private Refuge

(8647) Well kept, 3-BR, 3-bath, contemporary home on 7.33 acres. Great room, vaulted ceilings, skylights, finished walk-out basement w/kitchen. Open floor plan, loft, bamboo flooring, main-level master BR, modern kitchen w/quartz countertop. 2-car garage, patio, deck overlooking pond. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$289,000

29-acre Estate

(8579) Executive ranch w/5BRs, 3+ baths, first-floor living. Cherry floors, French doors, wrap-around deck, 7-zone heat, central air. Custom kitchen w/fireplaced sitting area. Master suite, guest suite. Second floor w/game room, office. 3-car garage. Private setting w/29+ acres. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive—$875,000

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this charming country home has lots of room. The home has been well cared for; redesign and restoration is all done. Large dairy barn w/new roof; corn crib w/electric. Private rear patio w/screened room. The kitchen is creative combination of old and new, open to family room w/fireplace. Mudroom off kitchen has ¾ bath, laundry area. 10' ceilings on first floor, 9' ceilings on second. Grand front entry, front and back staircases. A new family is needed to love this home!

Exclusively offered at $479,000

Don Olin

REALTY, INC

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intErior FEaturEs —2,833 sq ft —4 BRs; 2 full baths —Entry foyer; LR, DR —Master BR w/walk-in closet —Open kitchen w/granite counter, all appliances —Hardwood and ceramic tile flooring —Media room, great room, library —Laundry; first-floor bath —1 fireplace —Full basement —Unfinished lower level w/walk-out Bilco doors

37 Chestnut street · Cooperstown · 607-547-5622 · 607-547-5653 (fax) parking is never a problem! For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Real Estate Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Real Estate Associate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Real Estate Associate Broker – 547-5557 Donald DuBois, Real Estate Associate Broker – 547-5105

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