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The state Education Department announced scores for all district on Wednesday, Aug. 8.

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2 SHIPWRECKS: Videos of two recently discovered shipwrecks will be shown and discussed at the Otsego Lake Association’s annual meeting 8:30-11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 17, at historic Camp Minnetoska, 759 East Lake Road. Members, nonmembers welcome.

RELAY RALLIES: The 2013 Cooperstown/Otsego County Relay For Life cochairs Teri Sammis and Carla Eckler announced the final tally of $118,158, a record.

QUARTER-CENTURY: The Otsego Land Trust’s 25th annual meeting, the “Healthy Lands & Clean Waters Picnic & Silent Auction Fundraiser,” is 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at Brookwood Point.

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Bruce Shipman and wife Janice, of South Columbia, celebrated their 25th anniversary Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the most appropriate place in town: The Otesaga’s Hawkeye Grill. He is a direct descendant of Nathaniel Shipman, immortalized by James Fenimore Cooper as Hawkeye in “The Last of The Mohicans.”

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The Rev. Paul Hunter, foreground, was ordained earlier this month into the family business: the Episcopal church. The new curate at Christ Church, Cooperstown, follows in the footsteps of his father, the Rev. Ken Hunter, rector, St. James Church, Oneonta, (standing in pulpit).

From the inset baby photo, you can see Father Paul happened on his vocation at an early age.

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assett Healthcare has launched a $1.5 million fund drive to create a Women’s Imaging Center, equipped The Freeman’s Journal with the latest Dr. Caridad Fuertes outlines mammography and plans at the Friday, Aug. 16, cancer-detection Friends of Bassett’s Presiequipment. dent’s Forum.

Dr. Bill Streck, Friends of Bassett PresiBassett president/CEO, dent’s Forum at The Oteannounced the drive at a Please See GOAL, A7

Calling To Episcopal Clergy All In Family For Oneonta Rector, Cooperstown Deacon ike Father, like … well, Father.

The Rev. Paul Hunter, ordained at Christ Episcopal Church, Cooperstown, Sunday, July 21, is now serving there as parish deacon. He is the son of the Rev. Kenneth Hunter, rector at St. James Episcopal Church, Oneonta, for the past six years.

By JIM KEVLIN

he tourism industry, with specific experience and expertise, is best suited to direct Otsego County’s tourism promotion program.

The county’s tourism leaders planned to present that thesis to the county Board of Representatives Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday, Aug. 14.

“The county board,

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Industry May Get Flexibility, While County Saves Money

“When I was ordained, I told my mother-in-law she’d have to call me ‘Father’,” said Father Ken. “She believed me!”

“I just call him ‘dad’,” said Father Paul.

Whether it was a calling or in his blood, the son might have known from an early age that the priesthood was his destiny.

“I have a picture of him dressed up as a priest,” said Kenneth. “He was probably about 3 or 4 years old. Of course, he also Please See FATHERS, B6

Local Team Pursuing ‘Dream’ Revives Memory Of ’01 Effort

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sk any kid what their best baseball experience is,” said Dale Petroskey.

“They’ll tell you it was the Dreams Park.”

While president of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Petroskey put together the 2001 Dreams Park team, the Cooperstown All-Stars.

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The Maskots gear up for Dream’s Park play.

“We’d had a great season, 22-2, playing teams around Please See BALL, A7

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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Cooperstown artist Mary Nolan poses in front of the work that won the $500 Fenimore Award Saturday at The Fenimore Art Museum’s sixth annual juried art festival Art by the Lake on Saturday, Aug, 10.

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SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski, center, and her husband Bill Davis pass on good wishes to county Economic Developer Carolyn Lewis, Cooperstown, who is leaving the job after seven years, (12 in all with the county office.)

A reception in Lewis’ honor was held Friday, Aug. 9, at the county EC-DEV office in Oneonta.

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Without Collaboration, Southside Water District’s A Non-Starter

t’s all about “intermunicipal collaboration,” Deputy Secretary of State Dede Scozzafava told the then-fledgling GO-EDC during an April 2011 visit to Oneonta. Hearing that, GO-EDC sparkplug Albert Colone drew the logical conclusion: The state will support win-win scenarios vs. going it alone.

And that’s as it should be.

Divide $1 million among the state’s 10,521 cities, towns, village and specialassessment districts, and each receives $95.05, dinner for two; 10,521’s enough to dilute many millions.

How much better to share resources, to use expensive, under-utilized utilities - water, sewerage, parks, you name it – to the maximum, than to build 10,521 independent city states, little moated Taj Mahals, that are patently unaffordable.

So how disappointing was it when it looked like the stars of collaboration were aligning on a water district for Southside Oneonta, only to see them scattered again.

• When this newspaper went to press last week, the Town of Oneonta appeared ready to embrace a $90,000 loan offered by the City of Oneonta so that the water district, using surplus city water from an untapped well in Catella Park, could move forward.

Absent that water district, Southside develop-

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Without collaboration, is the proposed water district on Oneonta’s Southside the right project for $9 million in prospective state loans? Is is likely the state will approve a go-it-alone undertaking?

ment is at an end. The state Department of Health had expressed reluctance to approve any more wells there.

With water, Lowe’s Home Improvement could add two restaurants on its Route 23 site. Target could move ahead on a local store. The sales tax generated would help not only the Town of Oneonta, but the city and the cash-strapped County of Otsego. The construction and resulting stores would create jobs.

The town would garner additional property taxes.

Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood asked to address the city’s Common Council on the topic Tuesday, Aug. 6 (and did). The county Board of Reps planned to (and did) endorse the collaboration the following

morning.

• Instead of collaboration on a brighter future, the stars blinked out. Instead of asking City Hall to supply municipal water to the Southside, Wood, yes, asked for the loan, but to allow the town to go its own way in building a whole new system based in Fortin Park, Emmons. Thanks for the money – and so long!

The next day, Wood approached the county IDA, again asking for the money so the town could go it alone. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the county board chair, was rightly miffed that Wood, after accepting county support for collaboration, turned his back on it.

“I feel we look like fools,” she said.

The IDA board meets Thursday, Aug. 15, to discuss Wood’s request. Obviously, it should reject the loan. It’s a dead-end.

Further, the state Environmental Facilities Corp., which has so far resisted approving the town’s $9 million financing application for the Southside water district, should reject the financing outright until “intermunicipal collaboration” is evidenced.

The Mohawk Valley Economic Development Commission, as it already seems inclined to do, should reject any go-it-alone municipal ventures, not just the Town of Oneonta’s, which is also seeking state money for a narrow-purpose sewer plant on the West End, but generally. No moated Taj

Mahals!

• Given what’s happened, perhaps the whole Southside water district needs to be put on hold and thought through anew.

For one thing, the water district only makes sense if Lowe’s and Target follow through on their plans. You may have already heard talk that Dick’s Sporting Goods and Petco aren’t hitting their sales targets. If so, then sales taxes may not be forthcoming, and a water district won’t pay off.

Two, at some times of day and some times of year – for instance, the Christmas season we’ll soon be entering – Route 23 is already clogged. For the next few years at least, the state DOT has shelved its plan for

extensive improvements.

Absent that, more construction will only make a bad situation worse.

A clean-sheet look may favor a more compact water district, aimed at serving commercial clients. Practically speaking, are the single homeowners in the proposed larger district, who have good well water now, really going to vote to spend an extra $800 a year in debt service, plus water usage fees? Unlikely.

Bigger picture, is the water district devised by the town for the town’s benefit the best use for $9 million in state infrastructure money?

A smart-growth perspective would suggest otherwise.

Might $9 million be better spent redeveloping the old D&H yards or perhaps on downtown? Will the water district, as constituted, simply fuel sprawl?

The IDA’s interim director, Doug Gulotty, is due to report back Sept. 1 on a plan to privatize the county’s Economic Development Office. It just makes sense to wait until the new structure is in place; figuring out the optimum footprint and maximum benefit of a Southside water district would be an excellent first task for the new economic developer.

The Town of Oneonta’s turnabout is sorely disappointing. But perhaps the siren song of collaboration has blinded too many to unanswered questions and flaws in the water-district plan.

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Is Beer, Booze Gambling Bad For All?

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ever wrong! It’s apparently laudable for her and friends to drink, drink, drink, as well as frequent casinos.

But contemptible for us, the hoi-polloi.

From her B&B website.

“Marie is certified by the German Wine Academy, a Chevalier of the International Burgundian Wine Society, the Chevaliers du Tastevin, and president of L’ordine Della Vite Italian Wine Society.”

As president/curator of L’ordine Della Vite, Lusins has promoted wine-tastings and wine dinners since 2003. Since 2012, events have been held at the Cooperstown Country Club; Illium Café, Troy; Farmhouse Restaurant, Emmons; Toscana Restaurant;

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To the Editor: Marie Lusins’ letter assailing Upstate “beer, booze and gambling” again demonstrates her snobbish hypocrisy. Back in 2009, Lusins organized a fight against an “unsightly and unneeded” cell tower in her backyard. She lost that battle, but continues to lobby in favor of unsightly, unwanted, dangerous drilling rigs – presumably out of her sight, on other people’s land.

Now she rails against the economic benefits of Upstate breweries, distilleries and casinos. To her, gas is so obviously the solution to Upstate economic woes.

Thinking her a tee-totaling, anti-gambling advocate, I did my homework. Was I

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Lusins also accomplished a rare double-hypocritical back flip on July 26th, 2012, by promoting and attending the L’ordine Della Vite “Gala” at Turning Stone Casino’s Club 21. Gambling and alcohol! Oh my!

I enjoy a beer, glass of wine, or gin and tonic. I’ve played bridge for pennya-point. I have no problem with Lusins’ personal pleasures.

But when she applies her double standards to us I think of the duplicitous, selfrighteous Captain Renault in “Casablanca” who loudly exclaims, “I’m shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on in here,” as he pockets his winnings.

LARRY BENNETT Brewery Ommegang

To Bring Hall Of Fame Visitors Back, Businesspeople Should Be Consulted To the Editor: What happened to our businesses on Main Street? Last week I sat with the president and owner of Cooperstown Dreams Park; he wanted to know how I felt about how Dreams Park brings the business into our village.

I told him I appreciated the great park and all the business it brings in the area. I told him how I was in business for 10 years before he arrived, and that our business was much better during those times then it is now.

In 1989, the Baseball Hall of Fame was well on its way to bringing 300,000 visitors per year into Cooperstown. There were no major businesses on Route 28 south. At TJ’s we would feed 600-700 people per day in the summer months.

Once the hotels were built and they gave breakfast away, our business shrank. As the Hall Of Fame lost almost 70,000 visitors a year, we continue to lose more business on Main Street.

You could probably estimate that Dreams Park accounts for 20,000 people to the Cooperstown area per year. With this num-

ber of visitors figured into the 235,000 visitors, we are still short 70,000 people. There are now six or seven major restaurants on Route 28 that were never there before.

So my answer to Dreams Park is: Thank you for developing your Dreams Park field here but the king of the hill is still the Baseball Hall Of Fame.

The Baseball Hall Of Fame has to bring its attendance back to where it was in the early 1990s.

I think it would help if some of the business community were able to be involved in making decisions that would add to the attendance. This group could change from year to year to provide different opinions.

Bringing back the Old Timers Committee would help to insure that a year like this one will never happen again. We need to have live Inductees to help bring their fans to the village.

Every year I hear the merchants saying we need to do this or we need to do that.

Most of the comments make sense. We don’t know the politics at the Hall Of Fame but for sure some of it needs to change.

TED HARGROVE Cooperstown

Respect President’s Office, Yes. But Every Officeholder?

To the Editor: In response to last week’s letter from my friend Richard Abbate, I agree that a dart game with the President’s picture is uncalled for and should not have taken place.

But where was his concern and outrage when the novel “Checkpoint” was written in 2004 about the assassination of George W. Bush and the movie “Death of a President” was released in 2006, again about the assassination of our sitting President George W. Bush?

I believe both of these are far more

serious than a dart throwing game at the Morris Fair!

He said in his letter, “no matter what, you respect the President.”

Sorry Richard, I will always respect the Office of the President but I do not respect the man that currently occupies that position. He is destroying the country that both you and I love and I’m afraid it will never be the same for my children and grandchildren.

I also respect the position of Senate leader, but Harry Reid will never garner my respect, especially after

insinuating that the only reason that I may disagree with the President is because he is African American – what a disgusting remark.

Then there’s the office of Mayor, should I respect Bob Filnor and Anthony Weiner also? I’m sure there are people that would like to throw darts in their direction but not at their picture. All of these positions deserve respect but people must earn it … these people have not!

JOHN IRVIN Cumming, Ga.

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

200 YEARS AGO

Ran Away – From the subscriber on the night of the 30th, Henry Yagers, an indented apprentice about 17 years old, very large of his age, about five feet eight or ten inches high, thick set, his hair short and naturally curled. Any person who will return the said apprentice to the subscriber in the Town of Burlington, in the County of Otsego, or secure him in any Gaol and give information to the Subscriber, so that he may be found, shall be handsomely rewarded.

All persons are forbid harboring said apprentice, under the penalty of the law, and are warned against trusting him on my account. Eliphaz Alexander, July 31, 1813.

August 14, 1813

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Bank the money received at the fair held in the parish house recently, the discovery was made that one of the five dollar bills in the pile was a fake. A casual glance at the bill would disclose nothing unusual, but under the keen eye of the banker its “queerness” was easily detected. Close examination showed that that the figures “5” and “V” had been taken from five dollar bills and pasted over the figure “1” on a one dollar bill. The work is so crude that it seems as if it must have been done by a child. The person who passed the bill may have considered it a prank, but in reality it is a very grave violation of the counterfeit laws.

August 13, 1913

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A Cure for Summer Complaint – Blackberry Syrup: We are indebted to a friend for the following receipt for making Blackberry Syrup. This Syrup is said to be almost a specific for the summer complaint. In 1832 it was successful in more than one case of cholera. The fruit is now in market, and now is the proper time to make it. To two quarts of juice of blackberries, add one pound loaf sugar; one-half ounce nutmeg; one-half ounce cinnamon, pulverized; one-quarter ounce cloves; one-quarter ounce allspice. Boil all together for a short time, and when cold, add a pint of fourth proof brandy. You will save many bitter tears. From a teaspoonful to a wine glass according to the age of the patients till relieved, is to be given.

August 13, 1838

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Editor’s Note: As the Civil War proceeded some Northerners argued that the armed resistance of many Southern rebels was predicated not on the emancipation of slaves but rather on the fear that along with emancipation the former slaves (who outnumbered their masters) would exercise their freedom as citizens to vote and hence control the governments of southern states where whites were in the minority. The following passage articulates this concern: “Their desperate valor is in resistance to the force which they are told comes from the North to free the Negroes and reduce the whole laboring, landless people of the South to one caste – the whites and the enfranchised blacks being put on the same level and having an equal share in the control of the Government. It is against this avowed purpose of conquering for the slaves, not emancipation, but a participation in the right of suffrage as a means of maintain it, and commanding an access to all association with the white race in that sovereignty, they have hitherto held, and assert the right to hold exclusively and forever over this continent,

Mrs. Thomas M. Waller, a member of the Advisory Council to the New York State Conservation Department will speak at Fenimore House, Wednesday, August 14, at 8 p.m. During the past five years Mrs. Waller has spoken on conservation to Garden Clubs and other organizations in 29 states. The first half of Mrs. Waller’s talk will be devoted to the dangers of environmental pollution. In the second half, she will discuss Rachel Carson’s views as presented in her recent book “Silent Spring,” which has alarmed readers with its grim prediction of death and desolation.

August 14, 1963

25 YEARS AGO

The ideas brought forth at last week’s Otsego 2000 conference have brought ideas and issues first delineated by auAugust 24, 1938 thor James Fenimore Cooper back to life. According to his great-great-grandson, Henry S.F. Cooper, James Fenimore’s that the non-slaveholders enlist under the banners of Jeff Leatherstocking Tales are arguably a major source of Davis and pour out their blood like water.”

August 14, 1863 today’s environmental movement. That movement received considerable impetus at the Otsego 2000 meeting in the Cooperstown High School Auditorium.

August 17, 1988 Tramps are filling up the rural districts in some sections of the country, making considerable trouble. They are beginning to put in an appearance here, and Otsego County Brian Henrici, of Boy Scout Troop 1254 in Cooperstown, will see hundreds of them before the first of October. Many will receive his Eagle Scout Award on Sunday, August 17 of them belong to the criminal class. One day last week a at 1 p.m. at Bear Pond Winery in Milford. Henrici is the couple of them drove a man off Point Judith into the lake son of Peter and Judi Henrici of Cooperstown. Henrici, a and stole his provisions. It is no longer safe for women and CCS graduate will attend Western New England College for children to visit such points unattended. It is presumed that the Village Trustees will employ a watch to be on duty until general business studies this fall. “When I first came to the troop it was very well respected. There were eight seniors after hop picking is over.

August 17, 1888 and I respected them and wanted to grow up like them by becoming an Eagle Scout. These days, scouting is not taken as seriously as it once was, but through scouting, I’ve seen When Mrs. Frank B. Shipman, the Treasurer of the Parish some things I never would have seen otherwise.”

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Cooperstown Scores Above State Mean In First Round Of ‘Common Core’ Tests

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English languagEarts & MathEMatics assEssMEnts

Tourism Leaders Propose Privatizing County Effort

TOURISM/From A1 of the funds that are colCOOPERSTOWN lected and still report to the Grade 3 ELA 303 310 301 300 county on how the money is Grade 3 Math 291 308 294 300 CS students in spent.”

Grades 3-8 scored Grade 4 ELA 301 315 297 299 Miles is part of a steerabove the state Grade 4 Math 299 314 297 300 ing committee that met with mean in English and math Grade 5 ELA 300 305 298 300 county Tourism Director in all categories of the new Deb Taylor Tuesday, July Grade 5 Math 290 320 301 300 Common Core tests. The 30, and identified a ministate Education Department Grade 6 ELA 303 316 298 299 mum of $80,000 in benefits announced scores for all disGrade 6 Math 293 308 293 300 and efficiencies the county trict on Wednesday, Aug. 8.

Grade 7 ELA 299 310 296 299 would save through privati“We’re pleased with zation.

Grade 7 Math 293 304 295 300 that,” said Lynn Strang, the Other committee memGrade 8 ELA 301 300 295 299 new executive principal. bers included Ken Meifert, “This is a guide to look at Grade 8 Math 304 295 291 300 representing the Hall of our current practices and Fame and the Cooperstown offer ways for students to be chart by Kathleen peters/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Chart by Kathleen Peters/The Freeman’s Journal Chamber; Paul Lawrence, more successful.”

Courtyard by Marriot, Oneonta scores hovered Strang agreed. “It’s unvention is key. “Waiting for Oneonta; Bob Holt, Best within a point or two above derstanding what they’re test results is not something Western, Hartwick Semior below the state mean supposed to do with that top-notch teachers do,” said nary; Carol Blazina, Footscores. “Our kids haven’t content. It’s solving multiYelich. “They’re constantly hills Performing Arts Center, regressed, their teachers ple problems in a question.” assessing student readiness. Oneonta; Bill Michaels, Fly haven’t stopped teaching One of the difficulties We’ve got to work with our Creek Cider Mill, and Todd well,” said Oneonta superof the test, Strang said, is kids, not wait around.”

Kenyon, The Farmers’ and intendent Joseph Yelich. that the math portion of the Individual attention is Fenimore Art museums.

“These scores represent the curriculum was not phased key, said Yelich, but not just County Rep. Betty Anne first marks on a new chart.” in well. “Our teachers were for students who are strugSchwerd, R-Edmeston, who The tests utilize critistill aligning students to gling. “If a student isn’t chairs the IGA committee, cal thinking skills – for the 2005 curriculum and performing, we’ll help them said she is “very optimistic” instance, a student might state assessment,” she said. catch up,” he said. “If a tourism-office privatization have to read a text and then “They learn fractions in fifth student is on top, we’ll help will go through. answer a multiple-choice grade. Now, for the fifth advance them with enrich“They need to demonquestion about something grade assessment, they’re ment activities. If we pay strate they have a board of inferred, rather than diexpected to have mastered attention to student needs, directors that is diverse, rectly stated, in the text. fractions, so teachers are the test results will follow.” including people from the “It’s more about utilizing trying to go back in and fill “Down the road, you’re northern and southern ends information than retaining the gap.” going to see some real of the county,” said Schwit,” said Nick Savin, ONC But both Yelich and growth,” said Strang. “It’s a erd. “And you need large BOCES superintendent.

Strang agree on this – interpositive thing for students.” players as well as smaller “It’s not just content,” ones.” She believed the proposal due to come before FOR UPDATES THROUGHOUT WEEK, CHECK www.

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If, as she anticipated, the committee approved the concept Wednesday, it would go to the board’s Administration Committee on the 21st. If approved there, the full board would vote on the concept at its September meeting on the 11th.

That would allow plenty of time to put an allocation in the 2014 county budget, and Schwerd said she would propose 40 percent of Bed Tax revenues, which might be a bit of an increase from the $400,000 allocated this year.

Even if moving the salaries is simply cost-shifting, county benefits amount to 72 percent of salaries, a significant savings in itself, Schwerd said.

Taylor said she foresees “a leaner, meaner tourism program if it’s overseen by tourism professionals and stakeholders in the industry.”

In addition to the county’s $400,000, state allocations to the tourism office have ranged from zero in 2010 to $59,000 this year, which Taylor anticipates would be continued next year under the private option.

Currently, “partners” contribute $70,000 a year to the effort, which she anticipates

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The new tourism office would be reorganized as a non-profit 501c6. “This is nothing uncommon,” she said. “Statewide, government is getting out of the tourism business.”

Privatization would also allow the local tourism office to join the state Convention & Visitors Bureau.

“That has the huge advantage of sitting us at the same table with Saratoga and Lake Placid,” Taylor said.

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Maskots At Dreams Park Awaken Happy Memories For 2001Team BALL/From A1 the area, and thought ‘let’s try playing at Dreams Park’,” he said.

A second team, the Cooperstown Maskots, followed the same dream, are playing seven games at Dreams Park during the week that ends Friday, Aug. 16.

The team from 2001 included Phil Pohl, now Oakland A’s minor league catcher; Petroskey’s son Frank; Florida International University quarterback Wesley Carroll and the late Chris Gentile, ace CCS ten-

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“It was the perfect baseball summer,” said Phil.

“All you want to do is play baseball with your buddies, and that’s what we did.”

For the Cooperstown boys of summer 2001, play-

ing teams from all over the country was an eye-opening experience. “You don’t realize how good baseball can be until you play some of the best teams,” said coach Bruce Pohl. “Our boys saw that they were good, but not as good as they could be.”

“It showed all of us what was out there,” said Frank Petroskey. “A lot of us based our future goals off that week. The guys on the team did a lot they might not have pursued.”

Frank went on to receive a Division One baseball scholarship to the University

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Phil played at Clemson and, as a sophomore, played in the 2012 College World Series in Omaha, Neb. “That’s the ultimate goal for college baseball,” he said.

Phil was drafted this season by the Stockton Ports, a farm team of the Oakland A’s, where he’s been playing as a catcher. “I’ve been a catcher since the days of Dreams Park!” he said.

Though their homes and families were only a few minutes drive away, Frank said they not only played together, but ate and bunked together too. “We didn’t leave Dreams Park the entire week!” he said.

“It was a great bonding experience,” said Petroskey.

“It’s a growing experience for us as coaches,” added Pohl. “On the field, we see them for two or three hours, but for a lot of them, it’s the first time a lot of them have been away from mom and dad. We no longer see them as aggressive athletes, but as normal boys,

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Mammography Upgrade Focus Of Fund Drive GOAL/From A1 saga Friday, Aug 9. “We need money for this project and we need it by the end of next year. Can I be any more clear?” Streck said, soliciting a laugh from the friendly crowd.

Specifically, the money will be used to help cover the cost of: • 2D full-field digital mammography equipment • 3D (Tomosynthesis) digital mammography equipment for better cancer detection • Ultrasound equipment dedicated for breast imaging • Stereotactic biopsy equipment to help diagnosis breast lesions “Early detection is critical to giving women the best opportunity for beating many forms of cancer,” Reneé Scialdo Shevat, Herkimer, Friends of Bassett president, told the gathering. The fundraising campaign “will allow Bassett to bring in the latest technology and redesign the space to provide an overall better patient experience.”

Dr. Caridad Fuertes, radiologist, said much of the equipment in the existing 20-year-old unit is reaching “the end of its useful life” and the “sophisticated equipment” being sought is much needed.

In a slide show, she also depicted how the new unit will provide a smoother patient flow, and do so in a more aesthetically pleasing atmosphere.

The goal is to complete the fund drive and renovations in time to open the new clinic in December 2014.

Gifts may be made to Friends of Bassett, 1 Atwell Road, Cooperstown NY 13326. For more information, call 547-3928, e-mail friends.office@bassett.org, and visit www.friendsofbassett.org

Licensed Teaching Assistant: Full-time, 10-month position. Starting salary based on the Service Unit Contract. Will assist in instructional programs; implement classroom-wide behavioral supports and individual behavior intervention plans, as directed by the teacher, and related work as required.

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Two-thirds of the land has been cleared and fenced, w/white board fencing on the road. Property is buffered by state forest and a land preserve making it a unique and private location within the Cooperstown school district. Mini ranch, sportsman’s paradise, peace and tranquility all are found within this special spot. We would like to take you for a visit; please call today!

Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $185,000 For reliable, honest answers to any of your real estate questions, Don Olin Realty at 607.547.5622 or visit our website www.donolinrealty.com

For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Broker – 547-5105 Tim Donahue, Associate Broker – 293-8874 Cathy Raddatz, Sales Associate – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie, Sales Associate – 547-4141 Carol Hall, Sales Associate – 544-4144 Michael Welch, Sales Associate – 547-8502

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37 Chestnut st., Cooperstown • phone: 607-547-5622 • Fax: 607-547-5653

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Make yourself at Home on our website http://www.donolinrealty.com for listings and information on unique and interesting properties. We'll bring you Home!