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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND State to require healthcare workers to be vaccinated All healthcare workers in New York will be required to get the COVID vaccine, with the first dose being received no later than Monday, Sept. 27. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the changeTuesday, Aug. 17. It applies to hospital workers as well as long-term care facilities such as nursing homes. There will be limited exceptions for either religious or medical reasons. Bassett Healthcare CEO Tommy Ibrahim stressed in an email the importance of getting the vaccine to hospital staff. “I understand that we all have very personal feelings and opinions regarding vaccination. But during a public health crisis of this scale, we must consider more than just ourselves as individuals. This is about doing the right thing for our patients and community,” Ibrahim said. INSIDE ►FALL PREP: College officials talk about back-to-school rules as they prepare for the fall semester. Page A3. ►BASSETT AWARDS: Kuhn, Riesenfeld given two of network’s highest honors. Page A3. ►LAKE TAKE: Editorial gives praise to groups that keep Otsego Lake clean. Page A4. ►FIELD OF DREAMS: Pathfinder Village residents get major-league instruction at Doubleday Field on Sunday. Page A7: ►LONG WAITS: 2020 Hall of Fame inductees Larry Walker and Ted Simmons both waited a long time for their honors. Page A7. ►ARTSY HOMECOMING: CSO leader combined writing with love of area arts. Page A9. Follow Breaking News On
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Next governor, Hochul, draws praise locally By KEVIN LIMITI Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor-in-waiting, has made a favorable impression on Otsego County officials the past few years. Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig said Hochul had visited Oneonta at least a half a dozen times. “She has been very supportive of Oneonta’s effort to revitalize and restore our economy,” Herzig said. “I think she’s a true friend of Oneonta. I hope to get her to visit Oneonta in the near future.” Common Councilmember Len Carson, a Republican who is running for mayor this year, also had positive things to say about Hochul, who is a Democrat. “I’m looking forward to seeing someone representing New York state that’s from Upstate. It would be nice to see the type of leadership she’s going to bring,” Carson said. “I’m very hopeful that Upstate New York will finally have a friendly ear to our concerns, rather than NYC being the one that gets the attention.” Hochul has also visited Cooperstown several times, including for a tourism symposium a year ago, where she met with Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh. “She certainly knows Upstate far more than any other governor,” Tillapaugh said. “For the first time in the history of the village there are four women on the village board and we are all thrilled that we will have a female governor.” Tillapaugh touted Hochul’s credentials in serving local town government and on the congressional level. “She has a wealth of experience
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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hachul speaks at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Aug. 10. 2020, during a tourism symposium in Cooperstown. A year later, she is preparing to become New York’s first female governor.
but she’s a good listener. She goes around the state and listens to the concerns of local constituents,” Tillapaugh said. “I think these are all critical components. I don’t think she’s going to be dictatorial in any way.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday, Aug. 10, in the wake of an independent report
that said he sexually harassed as many as 11 women while in office, and he and his staff retaliated against a whistle blower. A Buffalo native and Syracuse University graduate, Hochul was an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She served as a member of her town board and as Erie County Clerk. She was elected to
Congress during a special election in 2011 and won a primary to become Cuomo’s second in command in 2014. Hochul recently sought to distance herself from Cuomo, saying they were not close and in the past few days, she intends to promote a harrassment-free workplace.
Helios Care named as finalist for major award By GREG KLEIN Oneonta’s Helios Care is a top 25 finalist for a prestigious award for innovative palliative care. The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge, sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care, is a “national competition to catalyze the spread of skills, ideas and solutions that will improve health care delivery for all people living with a serious illness,” according to its website. “We are absolutely honored to be included with Mount Sinai and Indiana University and all the other prestigious groups,” said Helios CEO/President Dan Ayers. “I think we are the smallest group on the list by far. There is one from Kentucky. Obviously, they cover a rural area, but we are smaller.” Ayers said the recognition feels particularly special because a lot of it
is for programs Helios has already put in place. “We are unusual among our peers,” he said. “Some of them are on the list for what they plan to do. Ayers We are on there for what we have done.” Foremost among the accomplishments, he said, was reducing acute care needs 70% among patients, and redirecting health care and end-oflife issues so they were taken care of earlier and without the need for too-late or just-in-time emergency services. Ayers said the change in services provided by the group parallel its 2019 name change from Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative Care.
At funding levels of health care and human services departments, more emphasis was being put on encouraging long-term solutions for health care for the aging. With baby boomers becoming senior citizens, there is a known wave of older people coming that are better served in their homes and with their families for as long as possible, he said. “I tell people in our business, ‘you have to find the wave and ride it before it gives out and then you need to find the next wave,’” Ayers said. The shift has allowed the group and its employees to focus on helping people live in comfort longer, Ayers said. “Now it has become a more thoughtful and delicate decision, that people can prepare for on their own,” he said. “It has become a pragmatic decision rather than a knee-jerk decision.”
According to the challenge, the programs are judged on how they: • Improve communication skills and/or pain and symptom management skills among all specialists treating CHF, COPD and cancer; • Improve systematic access to specialist-level palliative care; • Implement a population health approach to identify and address patients with serious illness and unmet needs. Gold, silver and bronze winners will be announced in October, but Ayers said being on such a prestigious list is already a win for a small organization in the Catskills. “I could not be prouder of our staff,” he said. “We had to explain to them, ‘this is not hospice. We are providing a different service now. They adjusted and they have responded wonderfully. “Helios Care has innovation in its DNA,” he said.
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Union College in Schnectady recently announced its Spring 2021 Dean’s List. Included on the list are Nathaniel Kuhlmann of Oneonta and Margaret Schuermann of Cooperstown. Purchase College announced that more than 1,400 students were named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester. Students who have earned this academic honor have maintained a gradepoint average of 3.5 or higher and taken a minimum of 12 credits. Included were local students Lydia Williams of Cooperstown, Christian Alexander of Cooperstown and Chloe LaTourette of Oneonta. Peter Weil of Cooperstown was named to the Dean’s List at Bates College for the winter semester ending in May 2021. The distinction is earned by students whose grade point average is 3.88 or higher.
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Love history? Looking for like-minded coworkers who share an interest in learning an demonstrating 19th century, trades, crafts and skills? The Farmers’ Museum is looking for Museum Interpreters to provide scholarly-based, creative interpretations of rural life, history, trades, crafts and environment of the 19th century, with special emphasis on Central New York. Museum Interpreters must have excellent communication skills and be comfortable making presentations in front of large and small diverse groups of museum visitors. Holiday and weekend work may be required. This is a seasonal position from April through October.
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Colleges preparing to avoid repeat of August 2020 outbreak By KEVIN LIMITI ONEONTA — In light of the disastrous SUNY Oneonta outbreak of COVID at the start of the fall 2020 semester, both local colleges are increasing measures to avoid a repeat this month. SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College told The Freeman’s Journal this week that various restrictions to ensure the safety of both the students and the community will be in place as students move in and go through the fall 2021 semester. Richard Lee, provost and vice-president for Academic Affairs at SUNY Oneonta, as well as the co-chair of the COVID response team, said the school is constantly learning and adapting to the situation with COVID. “We have to be more adaptable,” Lee said, in order to “make sure that we can commit to students.” Some of the restrictions include masking being required in all buildings, including classrooms and labs, as well as all students being required to be pre-screened before arriving on campus. Students have to be approved with a green
check mark before they can enter campus. “Although we can’t predict the future, we’ve learned from the past,” Lee said. “I don’t think anyone wants to be masked but I think it’s a small price for us being together. Of course, nobody is thrilled about it.” According to Lee, 81% of residential or students going to in-person classes are partially or fully vaccinated, 84% of those staying in dorms are fully or partially vaccinated and 77% of off-campus students are fully or partially vaccinated. The students that are not vaccinated must have a COVID test every week. Karen McGrath, senior vice-president of Hartwick College, similarly said the college was implementing measures to curb COVID, including requiring students to produce negative COVID tests. “That’s our first line of defense,” McGrath said. McGrath said students and professors will be required to have the vaccine, whether they are residential or commuter. However, she said there would be some exceptions for religious or
medical reasons. Masks indoors will also be enforced “because of our current conditions in Otsego County,” McGrath said. “There’s always going to be some person who doesn’t listen to science, but we follow the science,” McGrath said. “We want to return to normalcy as soon as possible.” McGrath said that Hartwick College was providing ways for students to get to vaccine clinics, including providing transportation for them . “I really think our students appreciate that,” McGrath said. Although some students were disappointed they would still have to wear masks even though they were vaccinated, she said the students as a group have shown they prefer in-person learning with precautions to the pandemic alternatives. Hartwick College will have athletics, clubs and in-person classes, “that’s what our students are craving.” “We’re doing everything we can to keep our campus community safe as well as the greater Oneonta community,” McGrath said.
Kuhn, Riesenfeld win Bassett awards Award of Excellence goes to longtime Cherry Valley director STAFF REPORT Bassett Healthcare Network announced last week that Maureen Kuhn is the 2021 recipient of the Bassett Medical Center’s Advanced Practice Clinical Award of Excellence. Kuhn, a nurse practitioner and the medical director of Cherry Valley Health Center, was honored as “an exceptional caregiver who uses all resources at her disposal to meet patient needs, as a gifted leader and a trusted guide for other leaders, and as an inspiring teacher raising up tomorrow’s caregivers,” according to a media release from Bassett. “To get this award from peers I’ve worked with is a great honor,” Kuhn said in the release. “I have particularly enjoyed teaching nurse practitioner students for more than 35 years. I came here as a precept student working with Dr. Pollack, Debbie Dickenson, and George Case. When I returned later to work full-time I committed myself to giving back. I’ve always had a nurse practitioner student since.” Kuhn’s nominators consider her an excep-
tional community member as well. “She has established a deep, abiding connection with the Cherry Valley community,” one commenter said. “She is their provider, their friend, their counselor. She is Kuhn a part of the community in a way that few practitioners can begin to emulate.” “You get what you give,” Kuhn said. “Anytime you make an investment in an organization, you get something back. Committing yourself to a community enhances your practice. It’s a blessing taking care of three, four, or five generations of a family and knowing that history. I’ve attended my patients’ weddings, funerals, graduation parties, and those sorts of things. “The last 38 years have been a good ride,” she continued. “This award is a great capstone as I look ahead to retirement.”
Cooperstown physician wins Walter Franck Award STAFF REPORT Bassett Healthcare Network announced last week that Erik Riesenfeld is the 2021 recipient of the Walter A. Franck Physician Excellence Award. Riesenfeld is the medical director of respiratory therapy at Bassett Medical Center. Physicians are nominated for the Franck Award as a recognition for demonstrating “extraordinary service to patients, students, colleagues and the community – traits that emulate the career of retired Bassett rheumatologist Walter A. Franck.” Network physicians vote to choose the final recipient. Riesenfeld’s extraordinary leadership during the COVID-19 crisis resulted in his award, the release said. “On behalf of the entire BMC critical care team, Dr. Riesenfeld deserves the Walter A. Franck Award for his unwavering commitment to outstanding patient care,” said one colleague in the written nomination. “This recognition is very humbling,” Riesenfeld said. “I feel like I am receiving it on behalf of others – leaders who rebuilt the hospital to accommodate as many patients as possible, nurses who risked their lives to
stay at their patients’ bedsides, respiratory therapists who made rounds day and night to save lives, and the environmental services staff who cleaned and sterilized. Everybody made a remarkable effort for our patients.” Riesenfeld In addition to working with respiratory therapists in critical care, Riesenfeld was a co-investigator in Bassett’s clinical trials of various possible COVID-19 therapies. “The pandemic suddenly accelerated the pace of the medical field,” Riesenfeld said. “We have to quickly adapt to follow the scientific evidence. Our understanding and our strategies evolved week-to-week. That was exciting.” “This has been a hard time – you can’t come out of it feeling great,” he continued. “A lot of people have suffered and died. It was truly horrible. But on the other hand, I’m very proud of what we did. “We rose to the occasion and served our community.”
Summer in Spring Park
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An unidentified couple dances as Double Chase, Matt and Thelma play Wednesday, Aug. 11, at Spring Park in Richfield Springs. The Greater Richfield Chamber of Commerce has been sponsoring music in the park all summer. The performances continue Wednesdays through August, including Jon Lieber playing Wednesday, Aug. 25. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. Bring a chair, blanket and dancing shoes. Go to www.richfieldspringschamber.org/ for more information.
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Missions possible
On its editorial page over the past few weeks, The Freeman’s Journal has commented on, among other important issues, the fog-like haze that was smoke from the western wildfires that fell on the lake and village, leaving the air heavily dangerous for long periods of time, and the latest COVID surge that is gnawing, for the most part, on our unvaccinated and younger residents — children — as well as causing new concern among our older population. None of this was any good and all of it is sad and, no doubt to some, depressing. However, for us here in Otsego County, this distant, remote upstate almost-forgotten (or, perhaps, not yet discovered) place, there is a special glimmer; something that can bring a smile; something to lighten our load and keep us on a happier track. Otsego Lake. Nine miles of clear, deep water that laps endlessly on steep tree-lined shores and often reflects the changing sky and clouds and forest, the lake is a home to myriad fish and feathered wildlife, a reservoir for the village of Cooperstown and a summer and winter playground for boaters, tubers, swimmers, sailors, rowers, paddlers, divers, fishermen and water, and snow-skiers. Glaciercreated during the last great Ice Age, and spring-fed as well as stream-fed, this superb natural resource is the headwaters of the Susquehanna River. In the past it has played a variety of roles in the Leatherstocking novels of James Fenimore Cooper, who called his – and our – beautiful lake The Glimmerglass. Otsego Lake is spectacular, welcoming tourists and residents alike, because it is still pure, healthy and vibrant. It still beckons; its waters are cool and reflective, its waves gentle and lush. Unlike many lakes in this state and country that are becoming threatened by a variety of pollutants, Otsego’s sustained beauty and growing health, despite its share of milfoil and zebra mussels, are the result of the anticipation and labors of a number of not-for-profit organizations that have been established during the latter part of the last century. The first step, even before that, was made by Edward Clark in the 1890s, when he bought land on the eastern shore to preserve its pristine nature. That land remains pristine. The Otsego County Conservation Association, from 1968, is dedicated to promoting the appreciation and sustainable use of Otsego County’s natural resources through research, education, advocacy, planning and resource management and practice. Otsego 2000, founded in 1981, protects the environment, agricultural, scenic, cultural and historic resources of the Otsego Lake region and northern Otsego County. The Otsego Lake Association educates, advocates and participates in protecting the health, beauty and well-being of the lake with the implementation of the Otsego Lake Watershed Management Plan and by supporting automated monitoring buoy, buffer strips and no-wake buoys. The Otsego Land Trust, established by Otsego 2000 in 1987, conserves our natural heritage of woodlands, farmlands, and waters that sustain rural communities, promote public health, support wildlife diversity and inspire human spirit. The Scriven Foundation supports these not-for-profits, giving them access to high-quality advice and professional development. “This effort is important because these programs and services touch every aspect of our communities,” said Jane Forbes Clark, president. “We want them to be able to do their absolute best in achieving their individual missions.” SUNY’s Biological Field Station provides living libraries, scientific information and outdoor laboratories for students, researchers, and the general public interested in the further understanding of the environment, and supports the Otsego Lake Watershed Management Plan. We thank them all for their monumental efforts. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY
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My concerns grow about COVID’s return I love Otsego County. My love for our area was the foundation of my 34 year service as State Senator. That certainly didn’t change with my retirement in January. If anything, living here without duties in Albany has only solidified my connection to my neighbors and friends. As COVID-19 continues on, that love fills me with urgent concern. As you may remember, COVID-19 is a very personal issue for me. My wife, Cindy, and I first tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus in late March of 2020 We were concerned, but also relieved to be diagnosed with “mild” cases. I expected a short hospital stay followed by a quiet quarantine. That plan was interrupted. Within a week, I was on a ventilator in a medically-induced coma in the ICU. I have no memory of that period of four days in the midst of my infection. But I have vivid memories of the weeks that followed. I struggled through a slow, painful and exhausting recovery process, while Cindy, along with our family, friends, neighbors and colleagues, bore the weight of concern for my condition. I am profoundly grateful to God, my medical team, and the support of countless friends and area residents for getting me through it and that I do
not wish this disease on anybody. Given my experience, I was quite relieved when the vaccines became available at the end of last year. I followed the development of the vaccines and knew they were effective and created through a transparent and rigorous process. I, along with everyone in my family, got a vaccine as soon as we could. My relief grew as our COVID19 rates dropped and things started to open up again. I want to see our economy humming again. I want our kids to be able to fully participate in in-person studies, activities and sports. I want to see visitors coming to our area museums, concerts and games. Oneonta, Cooperstown and Otsego County have so much to offer to others. The longer the pandemic drags out, the more I miss sharing the place I love with everyone. But it seems like this plan, too, is being interrupted. The more contagious Delta variant is sending our positivity rates climbing again, bringing back county mask guidelines, and having a fresh impact on public activities. What the Delta variant demonstrates about pandemics is just as concerning. Variants arise through mutations as a virus reproduces. Letting infections
continue unchecked opens the door for even more variants—perhaps variants that are more contagious, more deadly, or more resistant to our first vaccines. This is why I strongly encourage you to get vaccinated if you haven’t already. I know that there are a lot of reasons why you may not have gotten a vaccine yet. For some, it has been difficult to get to vaccination centers or distribution points. Thankfully, Bassett Healthcare Network, for whom I work as a consultant, now has vaccines available in all of their primary care offices. You can contact your provider and get a vaccine on your next visit. I urge you to make an appointment today. If you have been avoiding a COVID19 vaccine because of concerns, I urge you to talk through your decision with your doctor. The vaccine greatly protects you and your family against the serious sort of infection that I had. It offers the double benefits of increased safety and peace of mind. Our area is strong, my friends. We can overcome this pandemic together. Our success so far is tenuous, but not lost. Vaccines are our best hope of a full return to normal. James Seward represented Otsego County as a State Senator for 34 years. He is a Milford resident.
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Bunker lived life like it was an adventure Donald Hill was the first kid I met in Richfield. His family lived in an apartment in back of my aunt’s house on Lake Street. It was in late August of 1950 and my dad had brought me and my cousin Leo up from Brooklyn for a stay in the country. Donald and Leo were about 12- or 13-years old and I was a sevenyear old kid who insisted on tagging along wherever they went. We had some great adventures. At the dump we collected junk, scores of two-cent deposit bottles and loads of free pumpkins that were there for the picking. Donald had an old gray bearded dog, Rump, who followed us everywhere. One afternoon, we walked down to the lake where Donald had access to a dried out flat bottom boat and we rowed out to the island. My hefty cousin Leo hogged the oars until Donald discreetly grabbed onto some tall weeds we were moving through and stopped the boat, making my
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cousin think we ran aground. Leo kept rowing hard but we weren’t getting anywhere. “Let me have a go at it,” Donald suggested. He was much smaller than my cousin. “Okay,” Leo said exhausted. Later, he was puzzled when the
boat, powered by a guy half his size, easily glided out of the weeds. The explanation was a secret I shared with Donald. It was the first of a hundred pranks that I saw executed by this little rascal with a big sense of humor. Of course, at that time I was too young to hang around with Donald, so one morning, he took me over to meet his cousin Paul O’Connor, a meeting that jump-started a life long friendship. I didn’t see much of Donald during my mid teens when I came to live in town. He was away at college studying forestry, which he managed to afford by having found a valuable Pony Express stamp in an abandoned house. Later he served in the army in Korea. One day he came home and naturally we wound up down at the dump shooting rats that scurried past the headlights of his 53 Ford. He was now known as Bunker, a handle he picked up when kids in See SKETCHES, Page A5
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Wetlands upgrade may be key to water improvements The Biological Field Station, since its founding in 1967, has nurtured the good health of our beautiful lakes, streams and river in myriad ways. There have been constant challenges: invasive species, new technologies, effects of climate change, and changes in land use to name a few. In 2018 the BFS and the United States Geological Survey completed a study to evaluate “emerging contaminants” in the Otsego Lake and the Susquehanna River. There are virtually thousands of these compounds, mostly man made but some naturally occurring. As measuring devices have become increasingly sensitive over the past decades, there has been new recognition of these compounds as microcontaminants in water worldwide. The 2018 study showed minimal contamination in Otsego Lake. In the Susquehanna River, however, the drainage from the Village’s Waste Water Treatment Plant contained numerous contaminants. The substances found in the lake were trace amounts of metformin, (a commonly used diabetes drug) and two pesticides, atrazine and metolachlor. Although the amounts measured
were orders of magnitude below the thresholds known to be harmful to human health or the environment, clearly it would best for none of this to be present in our waters. And it should be noted that traditional toxicology is inadequate to deal with relatively newly recognized concepts such as endocrine disruption and epigenetics. For this study, the USGS provided sophisticated panels for detection of approximately 100 representative pharmaceuticals and 100 representative pesticides/herbicides. It would be exorbitantly expensive to repeat panels like this routinely. However, the BFS has obtained an alternative technology: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). This provides less sensitive detection, and of only one compound at a time, but at a much lower cost. The BSF staff is gaining experience with this device, using systems to detect atrazine, (a known carcinogen), glyphosate, (a widely used pesticide whose environmental impact may be broad but not well understood) and natural and synthetic estrogens. The estrogens not only feminize male fish and reduce fertility, but disrupt numerous other elements of growth
and development. If there is a bluegreen algae bloom this summer, this device will be useful to assay the toxins generated by these blooms. As with any new technology, there is a steep learning curve before achievement of consistent and reliable data. But this device does open a new avenue of investigation. Regarding the inadequacy of the WWTP to clear emerging contaminants, this is not unexpected, as WWTPs are designed to remove nutrients and traditional human pathogens. Interestingly, the wetlands located between the WWTP and the Susquehanna River are somewhat more effective, despite the fact that they were designed as a wildlife refuge, not a water purification area. Their effectiveness could be enhanced by altering the depth and dwell time there of the waste stream. Such changes would require a cooperative effort among the responsible state and local agencies. An upgrade of the wetlands, compared to the costly and energy consumptive alternative technologies for removing microcontaminants from water, would be highly desirable. Antoinette Kuzminski, M.D., is a member of Sustainable Otsego.
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Regarding the affair with the British Ship Little Belt – We are sorry to hear, upon authority which we cannot doubt, that the article purporting to be Captain Bingham’s official letter to Admiral Sawyer, giving an account of the affair between the President frigate and the Little Belt, is a shameful forgery, fabricated by some young men at New York, in a fit of wantonness. It would be difficult to speak in terms of appropriate reprobation of a transaction so unwarrantable. It has already been productive of no little mischief by irritating the feelings of the public, and may yet be followed by consequences still more serious. August 17, 1811
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The party opposed to the Democracy, having failed of success under every cognomen they assumed, such as Federalists, National Republicans, Peoples-men, No-PartyParty, Tariff-men, Anti-masons, and last of all Whigs, have resorted to a new expedient to get up an interest favorable to the design of elevating themselves to power. Knowing that the working men, meaning those who live by habitual labor at the mechanic trades and by the cultivation of Mother Earth, are mostly democrats in principle, they now attempt by appeals to these exclusive interests, representing them as being aggrieved and wronged by legislative and judicial action, to array a new party, in the hope by this artifice to estrange so many from the republican family, as, jointly with the remnants of the forces of the old disbanded corps, may effect a revolution in the state government, and thus array New York in hostility to the national administration. August 22, 1836
From the Gannett New York Editorial Board: As we began the week, 48 of our 62 counties were experiencing the highest levels of community spread. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that New Yorkers — even vaccinated New Yorkers — wear masks indoors to combat the rapid escalation of spread. Eighteen counties, reaching from the suburbs around New York City north toward Albany and its Capital District suburbs, are demonstrating the highest rate of transmission. Alarm bells are sounding. The delta variant of COVID-19 is threatening the unvaccinated with breakneck speed. School districts across New York are now in a scramble to take COVID-19 precautions weeks before classroom doors will open. Boards of education and school district administrators face groups of angry, mask-wary parents opposed to CDC guidelines issued in
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A public meeting at which the Cooperstown Area Master Plan will be outlined in detail will be held in the cafeteria of the elementary school, Wednesday evening, August 30, at 8 o’clock. Blair Associates of Providence, Rhode Island, has been developing the plan for the past 15 months under a contract entered into by the village with funds raised entirely by public subscription. The plan encompasses the entire village of Cooperstown, plus portions of the towns of Otsego, Middlefield and Springfield, with approximately a half mile of Otsego Lake. It defines the problems, shortrange and long-range. August 23, 1961
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This Saturday, August 23, dog owners can take advantage of a free dog-dipping program offered at the Cooperstown Agway store on Railroad Avenue from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. A quick dip rids dogs of annoying ticks, fleas and lice. Agway provides the dip. You dip the dog yourself. Store owner Niles Curtis asks that all dogs be on leashes and recommends that you bring a towel for drying your pet off after the dip. August 20, 1986
It’s imperative that incoming Gov. Kathy Hochul immediately take the lead in spearheading the state’s efforts. • First, leaders in the state Department of Health should answer calls from their colleagues in the Department of Education and school districts across the state. New York needs mandatory mask mandates to protect students, teachers and staff. • Second, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker needs to emerge from the shadows to lead county health officials in a coordinated response to the skyrocketing rates of transmission. • Third, the full force of the state’s pandemic response capabilities must retrench around continuing to vaccinate vulnerable populations and the vaccine-resistant. • Our leaders in Albany must redouble their efforts to address the growing COVID-19 crisis. New Yorkers will tolerate no less. We demand leadership — now.
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Mr. Mellor’s recent opinion piece suggested we are well on our way to meeting state energy goals with wind and solar. Mellor looks at cost and feasibility, but the issues are more complex than he suggests. When solar panels are in full sun — and if the electricity they produce is consumed during that time — the cost of solar is relatively cheap. That’s To Destroy Flies – To one pint of milk add a quarter of true. However, solar power is intera pound of raw sugar and two ounces of ground pepper. mittent. Over the course of a year, a Simmer them together eight or ten minutes, and place it solar farm in the northeast generates about in shallow dishes. The flies attack it readily and are just 14% of the energy that it could soon suffocated. By this method kitchens may be kept clear if the sun shone 24X7X365. That of flies all summer, without the danger attending poison. means we must build six or seven The Mohawk Valley Band, at present on a visit to this times more solar capacity to produce village, have afforded many of our citizens the pleasure of the same amount of energy as a baselistening to some excellent music. load gas or nuclear power plant. But August 23, 1861 that’s not all. The intermittency of solar generation challenges the health of our electric grid. Getting useful energy when it’s needed with solar The Kellogg family centennial occurred on Wednesday requires battery storage—lots of it. of last week on the old homestead established in 1786 by Wind has a somewhat better capacity Ezekiel Kellogg in Pierstown. It was an event of much factor (29% onshore), but it requires interest, not alone to the members of the family and their storage, too. Furthermore, the relaconnections, but to many friends and neighbors. We think tively random nature of intermittent it is the first event of the kind which has occurred in Otsego generation means that anything less County. Descendants were present from several states. than an infinite-sized battery — big August 21, 1886 enough to carry months of summer sunshine through a New York winter — may not be enough. Consequently, Through the prompt and efficient work of the manageeven with storage in the mix, interment, a petty thief, who had been operating at the O-temittent renewables require ‘firm’ sa-ga Hotel, has been arrested and is now locked up in the generators of electricity as back-up county jail. His name is Joe Donnelly, and he has been a to ensure reliability. To move elecbellboy at the hotel during the present season. He seemed tricity around from wind and solar to have a mania for sneaking into the rooms of the guests installations distributed across the during their absence and taking away jewelry and small state will require lots more transmistrinkets. He has confessed and returned most of the stolen sion infrastructure, too. property. Once all expenses for solar and August 23, 1911 wind are tallied — overbuild and curtailment, transmission, storage, and backup generation — the cost picture changes significantly. Because different generating sources have dissimilar performance characteristics, comparisons involving the Levelized Cost of Electricity are usually poor indicators of the true value of those resources within an energy portfolio. To understand levelized cost, readers might read the discussion by the Energy Information Administration (www. eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf) or Energy for Humanity (www.energyforhumanity. August 19, 1936
late July that advised K-12 students to wear masks. Instead of a united approach to combatting the threats the delta variant clearly poses to unvaccinated populations of schoolchildren, our school districts seem likely to create a patchwork of masking policies that could expose students, teachers and staff to considerable risk. “Do I envision that will become a problem? Yeah, I do,” said Jay Worona, general counsel of the state School Boards Association. “We’re not scientists,” he said. “We’re educators.” Frustration is not limited to educators. The state Department of Education has asked its colleagues in the Department of Health to step forward into the breach. “There is an urgent need for timely advice and supervision flowing from the state Department of Health to local and school officials as they navigate these uncertain times,” state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa said.
org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ EFH-Nuclear-Fact-Sheet.pdf). Mellor cites the New York Independent System Operator in his commentary. However, he fails to discuss NYISO’s estimates of how much wind, solar, storage, and backup generation the state would actually need. According to NYISO’s recent Phase 2 Climate Change and Resiliency Study, to meet the CLCPA goal of carbon-free electricity by 2040 with a plan that focuses on renewables, New York would have to install 21,000 MW of offshore wind — more than twice what has been proposed by former Gov. Cuomo. We would also need 35,000 megawatts of onshore wind. This corresponds to a new 5-MW turbine being built every single day for the next 20 years. This would occupy millions of acres of our upstate farmland and forest. But there’s more. We would need an enormous amount of grid-connected solar — hundreds of square miles of it — to generate the 40,000 MW that NYISO says would be needed. That’s the equivalent of plastering an area the size of Binghamton with a solid sheet of glass and metal each and every year for two decades. For behind-the-meter solar, we would need to install about as many solar panels each year as currently sit on New York rooftops. As for storage, NYISO says we would need 15,600 MW x 8 hours, or 125 GWh. That corresponds to a hundred facilities equal in size to the Moss Landing plant in California — the largest battery in the world. Maybe we could use pumped hydro, but that would require a dozen facilities like Blenheim-Gilboa. Should we really be constructing dams, flooding forests, and building transmission lines throughout the Catskills and Adirondacks? Mellor correctly states that the most effective intermittent generation should be located near transmission corridors. But he fails to mention Cuomo’s 2020 gift to industry: accelerated siting legislation that fast-tracks massive industrial solar and wind projects. The new law allows corporations to bulldoze farms and forests; it sidelines
local zoning and public input, even as it skirts proper environmental review. Remember when the Sierra Club used to care about protecting nature? Perhaps destroying nature in the name of “energy sprawl” doesn’t matter. To their credit, a number of towns and bird conservation groups are taking the state to court. Sadly, even if we agreed to sacrifice upstate New York and somehow built the absurd amount of wind, solar, storage, and transmission infrastructure described above, it would not be enough. As determined by NYISO, the state would still need to build and maintain 32,000 MW of dispatchable carbon-free generation from ‘firm’ resources yet to be determined. That’s 8,000 MW more than the total capacity of all the fossil-fuel power plants in the state. Mellor seems to believe that we should just start building whatever solar and wind we can, because we’ll have time to deal with the pesky details of making things work later. However, as confirmed in the most recent U.N. report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we have no more time. Despite all of its investments in wind and solar, after closing its San Onofre nuclear plant in 2012, California has barely managed to offset lost carbon-free power as it relies on electricity from fossil fuels, in-state and imported, to make sure that the lights don’t go out. The barriers to powering a grid with low-energy-density, intermittent renewables become increasingly formidable as more of it is deployed. If New York foolishly shutters nuclear power the fast-ramping dispatchable energy that NYISO says we need will be lots more fracked gas. Perhaps the state is already planning on this: there are several thousand megawatts of new or repowered gas plants in the queue. Engineering principles, not failed experiments, should guide our energy policy. The sensible thing would be to shut down fossil-fuel power plants, not carbon-free nuclear. Dennis Higgins Otsego
Hill charged into life and took it on his terms no matter what SKETCHES/from Page A4 school learned about the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was already favoring an arm that was arthritic and partially paralyzed due to a car accident. Some years later, we started deer hunting together out of Paul O’Connor’s camp. Bunker would come down from Saranac Lake with his son and we’d hunt the area around Panther Mountain. He was a great raconteur. One summer afternoon, we sat in his cousin Edna’s kitchen as he smoked and told tale after tale that had us rolling on the floor. There was the story about the pony he bought for his kids and, for lack of better transportation, squeezed it into the back seat of his sedan to bring home. And the time he bought and stuffed three piglets into a burlap bag only to have them get loose in the brand new company car and the pigs literally running across the ceiling of the automobile leaving a foul trail.
All this time he was plagued by the arthritic arm that was because of the auto accident that almost took his life but you’d never know it by his sense of humor. One hunting evening at Paul’s camp someone brought over a dead skunk and left it on the porch. There was no apparent damage to the animal and no smell. Bunk had heard that skunk oil was a good treatment for arthritis, so he hung the animal from a rafter and began to skin it out. A little while later I had retreated to my bedroom with the door shut tight when I heard him say, “Whoops.” Then this terrible stink invaded the camp. It was the first time I ever heard Paul get angry at Bunker. Donald didn’t live life, he assaulted life and not just figuratively. There were real battles. One time in a brawl at the Grange, he swung at a guy with a fist full of quarters that resulted in everyone having juke-box money. Bunker’s final battle was his toughest. The enemy that invaded
his body was relentless. Soon he began to lose the fight. He had a lot to leave behind: a wife, two sisters, children, grandchildren, stories and paintings. He liked to make pictures of animals and nature. He painted scenes from the seasons on a cross cut saw. Thanks to his wife Jane, he had his paints and brushes on hand next to him till the end. He wrote and illustrated two books. One was called “237 Reasons You Know You’re Getting Old.” One of my favorite reasons in the book was, “You know you’re getting old when you attend a cock fight in hopes of coming home with a free dead chicken.” They say Heaven is a different place for different people. Maybe there’s no smoking up there. At McGrath’s Funeral Parlor, I thought of slipping Bunker a White Owl. There would probably be guards at the gate but surely, he’d be the one to humorously blow smoke across enemy lines.
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Michael A. Bettiol, 64, of Binghamton, NY, and originally from Oneonta, N.Y., passed away peacefully at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City, N.Y., on Sunday, August 8, 2021, due to unexpected complications from a very courageous, 5year battle with metastatic colon cancer. Mike was born in Sidney, N.Y., on June 6, 1957, moving to Oneonta at an early age. He graduated from Oneonta High School, Class of 1975. He worked at Custom Electronics and Medi-Coach in Oneonta before starting his dream job as a locomotive engineer with several northeast railroads. Mike had a lifelong love of railroads, and was a founding member of the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society in 1982, and served in several positions, including the organization’s second president. Mike was also a local repre-
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sentative to the National tive outlook on life, regardRailway Historical Society, less of the challenges it and served in presented him. He several posts at the approached every national level. He challenge with a traveled extensively can do attitude his across America, entire life. He had a most notably with wonderful sense of good friends Millie humor, and always & Bruce Hodges, found something in pursuit of new to smile or laugh railroad adventures, about no matter and was an avid how dire his health Michael A. photographer of all issues got. Bettiol things railroad. Mike is survived Mike was an avid reader, by his Mother, Annaliese, loved gardening and cooking, Marietta, Ga.; sister and enjoyed eating at Binghamton brother-in-law, Karen & area restaurants, following Mark Galvin, Marietta, Ga.; the American Space Program, brother David, Montgomery, and watching news on televi- Tex.; brother Danny, College sion. He loved texting friends Station, Tex.; Uncle and and family breaking news as Aunt, Walter and Violet it happened. He had grand Bettiol, Otego, N.Y.; his plans to open a commercial omnipresent Aunt, Dorothy hydroponic farming opera- Forster, Milford, N.Y.; Aunt, tion, which was sidelined Betty Bettiol, Oneonta, due to his health issues. He N.Y.; Aunt Francis Forster, retired to the Binghamton Cooperstown, N.Y.; eight area due to health reasons. nieces and nephews; and Mike was a dreamer, and good friend and constant had an extraordinarily posi- companion, Bruce Hodges,
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who headed up a team of caregivers and supporters during his illness. He is predeceased by his father, Arthur, who passed away in December, 2020, as well as both sets of grandparents, and very good friend Millie Hodges. Calling hours for Mike were Tuesday, August 17, at Bookhout Funeral Home, 357 Main St., Oneonta, N.Y. Funeral Services were Wednesday, August 18, at 11 am at Bookhout Funeral Home, with Rev. Judith Thistle, officiating. Committal services followed in Oneonta Plains Cemetery, Oneida St., Oneonta. Many thanks to Dr. Rahul Seth and the entire oncology team at SUNY Upstate Medical University Cancer Center in Syracuse, N.Y., for their extraordinary care and compassion. They gave Mike several years of additional life which he enjoyed in relatively good health, as well as the Wilson Memorial Hospital ICU staff in Johnson City, N.Y., who valiantly tried to save his life after he had a major medical emergency on August 5, 2021. Mike loved flowers of any type, but would also wish to have donations made in his memory to the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society, PO Box 681, Oneonta, N.Y., which he worked so hard to get off the ground during the 1980s. To light a candle or send onlinecondolences,visitwww. bookhoutfuneralhome.com Arrangements are by the Bookhout Funeral Home, Oneonta.
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Pathfinder residents get major-league instruction By GREG KLEIN COOPERSTOWN — About 75 residents of Pathfinder Village got to play on their own field of dreams Sunday, Aug. 15, as they received instruction from former major league players at Doubleday Field. “This is just unbelievable,” said Pathfinder President/CEO Paul Landers. “There’s a lot of happy faces here today, a lot of lifetime memories,” said former MLB player and manager Clint Hurdle, who is an advisor for Baseball Miracles. The event took form over the summer as Baseball Miracles, a nonprofit group dedicated to bringing baseball to “underserved communities around the world,” contacted the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and asked if it would be possible to hold an event in Cooperstown. According to Hall officials, they connected Hurdle and Baseball Miracles with Pathfinder, the Edmeston home for children and adults with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities, as well as local doctor Joseph Dutkowsky, a Cooperstown surgeon who specializes “in the care of children disabled from cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Down syndrome and other afflictions,” according to a New York Times feature. Sunday, Dutkowsky, local officials and clergy, and Pathfinder officials and helpers looked on as the adult residents rotated through six stations and a photo tent for about 90 minutes of thrills. Helping them were former players David Palmer, Tom Carroll, Dave LaPointe, Dickie Noles and Gary Holle, as well as Hurdle, who played for the Royals, Reds, Mets, Cardinals and Mets, again, and
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Above: Sunday’s event featured six former MLB players and about 75 residents of Pathfinder Village in Edmeston. Below: Former Montreal pitcher David Palmer and a group of Pathfinder residents and employees cheer on an unidentified resident at a skills clinic Sunday, Aug. 15, at Cooperstown’s Doubleday Field.
managed Colorado for nearly a decade and Pittsburgh for most of another decade, until 2019. “We have a lot of people here that most people don’t give a second thought,” Dutkowsky said, “but here they are playing with the elites. You’ve got a guy on this field today who threw a no-hitter in David Palmer for the Expos. You’ve got three guys with World Series rings, including Tom Carroll, who got his ring throwing to Johnny Bench. You’ve got a guy like Clint Hurdle who managed two major league teams. And they are all here today volunteering their time, teaching and making memories. It doesn’t get any better than this.” Dutkowsky, who also works with Columbia University in New York City, said he had already been aware of Baseball Miracles before the Hall made the connections this year. He said he always thought about bringing the group here once he saw a similar program with the ballet. “I said, ‘I live in Cooperstown, See BASEBALL, Page A8
Hall expects 38 returning inductees for 2021 ceremony STAFF REPORT Thirty-eight Hall of Fame members are expected to return Wednesday, Sept. 8, to celebrate the induction of the Hall of Fame Class of 2020, according to a media release from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Musuem on Monday, Aug. 6. The class of 2020, which includes the late Marvin Miller along with Derek Jeter, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker, will be inducted at 1:30 p.m. at the Clark Sports Center in the town of Middlefield. The 2021 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will air live on MLB Network,
which has televised the event every year since its launch in 2009. Jeter, Simmons and Walker will speak at the Induction Ceremony, with former Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Don Fehr speaking about Miller. As of Aug. 16, the Hall of Fame members expected to return to Cooperstown to honor the Class of 2020 include: Johnny Bench; Bert Blyleven; Wade Boggs; George Brett; Rod Carew; Orlando Cepeda; Dennis Eckersley; Rollie Fingers; Pat Gillick; Goose Gossage; Ken Griffey Jr.; Rickey Henderson; Trevor Hoffman; Reggie Jackson; Fergie Jenkins; Barry
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Simmons, Walker took long routes to Cooperstown Colorado slugger becomes first Rockies Hall of Famer
St. Louis, Milwaukee catcher fell off writers’ ballot quickly By CHARLIE VASCELLARO
By CHARLIE VASCELLARO Almost 30 years after the Colorado Rockies joined the major leagues as an expansion team in 1993, former Rockies outfielder Larry Walker is the first member of the franchise to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Walker spent 10 of his 17 big-league seasons in a Colorado uniform and his plaque will be the first in the Hall of Fame gallery to feature a Rockies cap. His name is all over the franchise’s leader board in career offensive categories and his 1997 NL MVP remains one of the highlights of the team’s history. Walker bashed a career-high and National League leading 49 home runs in 1997, with a .366 batting average and 130 RBI, and also led the league with a .452 on-base percentage, a .720 slugging percentage, 409 total bases, and a 1.172 OPS (on base + slugging percentage), becoming the first player to record a .700 slugging percentage with more than 30 stolen bases in the same season. Walker led the NL in hitting with the Rockies three times: at .363 in 1998, .379 in 1999, and .350 in 2001. His streak of three consecutive seasons (1997-1999) with a batting average
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higher than .360 marked the first time it had been accomplished in more than 30 years (Hall of Famer Al “Bucketfoot” Simmons was the last to turn the trick, 1929-1931). Making his major league debut with another expansion team, the Montreal
Expos in 1989, Walker is only the second native born Canadian enshrined in the Hall of Fame, joining countryman pitcher Ferguson Jenkins (1991). In the strike shortened season of 1994, Walker led the NL with 44 See WALKER, Page A8
One of 19 catchers elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame, Ted Simmons belatedly joins his contemporaries: Johnny Bench (1967 to 1983, inducted 1989); Carlton Fisk (1969 to 1993, inducted 2000); and Gary Carter (1974 to 1992, inducted 2003), all of whom played in a golden age for the position. Largely overlooked by the voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America in his first year of eligibility in 1994 Simmons received just 3.7% of the requisite 5% in order to remain on the ballot. Simmons spent a generation in candidacy purgatory until his name was included on the Modern Era Committee ballot for the first time in 2018, falling one vote shy of the 12 needed to gain the 75% necessary for election. The third time proved to be a charm for Simmons who received 13 votes on the 2019 ballot, joined by long time MLBPA (union) Executive Director Marvin Miller. “Waiting it out is horrible, but when it comes, it’s Niagara Falls. The weight is lifted. It’s complete and total relief,” said Simmons upon hearing of his election in December of 2019. The 2019/2020 Modern ERA Committee of 16 included Simmons’ former teammate Robin Yount and rival competitors George Brett, Rod Carew, Dennis Eckersley, Eddie Murray and Ozzie Smith. The cancellation of the Hall’s 2020 Induction because of the coronavirus pandemic postponed Miller and Simmons induction, along with BBWAA selections Derek Jeter and Larry Walker. All four will be officially enshrined when the ceremony returns to the grounds of the Clark Sports Center in the town of Middlefield at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 8. While Simmons accomplishments as a player may have See SIMMONS, Page A8
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Baseball Miracles, Hall of Fame, Pathfinder present unforgettable day for residents BASEBALL/from Page A7 New York. If they can do this with the New York City Ballet, why can’t we do it with baseball?’” The Hall already partners with Pathfinder on an annual golf fundraiser Labor Day Weekend that includes an annual visit by a Hall of Fame player to Pathfinder Village for a tour and kickball game with the residents. Multiple people agreed Sunday that Doubleday was like a kickball game times six. “We will talk about this for years,” said Monica Clark, a developmental assistant at Pathfinder. “We have a Hall of Famer come for our golf tournament every year and they still talk about that. Now they have this to talk about forever, until the next thing happens.” Baseball Miracles provided the Pathfinder residents with their own baseball caps and jerseys. The jerseys not only had the Baseball Miracles logo on them, but they said Cooperstown across the front and had the residents’ last names on the back. The trip to the photo station will lead to baseball cards of their own for each resident, too. For the Hall, once the connection was made, it was more an event to enjoy than direct, a stark change from normal induction-season activities. However, watching the joyful faces Sunday, Hall of Fame Vice President of Communications and Education Jon Shestakofsky said the event made him think of the essence of baseball. “From my perspective, this event embodies the possibility of baseball to do good and bring people together,” he said, “regardless of where they are from or what their situation is. Baseball has a way of bringing people together and that is what we celebrate at the Hall of Fame.” The residents’ abilities varied but many of them impressed their instructors. Sometimes verbally and sometimes through expression, they said they enjoyed the day, too. Greg Klein/The Freeeman’s Journal “I love Baseball Miracles,” said one resident. “They are a Pathfinder Village CEO Paul Landers throws grounders to residents as former Cincinatti Reds pitcher great team.” Tom Carroll looks on Sunday, Aug 15, at Cooperstown’s Doubleday Field. Go to www.baseballmiracles.com for more information.
Walker becomes a Colorado first in Hall WALKER/from Page A7 doubles, hitting 19 home runs with 86 RBI, a .322 batting average and a .981 OPS in 103 games. Walker was granted free agency at the end of the season and signed a four-year $22.5 million contract with the Colorado Rockies, the largest deal reached by anyone after the strike. A five time All-Star, seven-time Gold Glove Award winner and three-time Silver Slugger, Walker’s .565 career slugging percentage ranks 12th all-time and he is one of 19 hitters to compile a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage and .500 slugging percentage with at least 5,000 plate appearances. Walker was elected to the Hall in his 10th and final appearance on the BBWAA ballot receiving 76.6% of the 75% required for election. His entrance to the Hall may have been delayed by the perceived advantage of compiling the lion’s share of his career statistics in Denver and Coors Field’s hitterfriendly atmosphere but his road slash line (.278/.370/.495, batting, slugging and OPS) has been achieved by only 24 other players in MLB history, 18 of whom are enshrined in
the Hall of Fame. In his 17-year career Walker compiled 383 home runs, 1,131 RBI, 2,160 hits, a .313 batting average, a .400 on-base percentage, a .565 slugging percentage and a .965 OPS. Among Hall of Famers, his career statistics most closely resemble those of Duke Snider and compare favorably with Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Mize and Vladimir Guerrero. Some may see Walker’s election as a vindication of players/batters who have achieved their greatest success at Coors Field, it’s a question Walker has been asked to field on numerous occasions and one which he also addressed in a conference call after learning of his election: “It’s just a conversation that really could probably never end … when you’re brining up players in their home and road split,” he said. “And I think it’s definitely a big help especially in the here and now with Todd Helton and the Hall of Fame and down the road maybe with Nolan Arenado, you know guys that have spent the bulk of their time there. … But like I said, I did really, really well there and I’m grateful I did really, really well there because it probably helps getting to where I’m at right now.”
Simmons caught in a golden era for catchers, joins the elite in Cooperstown SIMMONS/from Page A7 been unacknowledged by the voting members of the BBWAA, the compilation of his batting statistics portray a different story. Simmons was one of most consistent hitters among catchers during his or any era: His .285 batting average is approximately 20 points higher than Fisk (.269) Bench (.267) and Carter (.262). Simmons’s 1,389 RBI (runs batted in) place him second behind only Hall of Famer Yogi Berra (1,430) among catchers. During his 21-year career, Simmons drove in more runs than the aforementioned trio, as well as modern-day mashers Mike Piazza and Ivan Rodriguez. His 2,472 hits and 483 doubles are second only to Rodriguez (2,844 and 572) at the position. His 1,771 games played as a catcher ranks 17th all-time. Simmons is best remembered as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals, making his major league debut in 1968. He was the team’s starting catcher for the duration of the 1970s and was traded to the American League’s Milwaukee Brewers in 1981, where he remained for five seasons. In 1982, Simmons became one of six catchers to hit home runs in back-to-back World Series games, as the
Brewers lost in seven games to his former Cardinals. He spent the final three years of his career with the Atlanta Braves as a backup catcher, first baseman and third baseman from 1986 to 1988. An eight-time All-Star, Simmons was voted the National League’s starting catcher with the Cardinals in 1978 and the American League starter as a member of the Brewers in 1983. He was named to the NL All-Star reserves roster in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979 and 1981. Most of the time Simmons was backup to Bench and/or Carter on the NL All-Star teams and while he may have toiled in their shadows, upon his election to the Hall Bench tweeted his appreciation for Simmons ultimate inclusion to baseball’s most elite fraternity. Bench tweeted Dec. 8, 2019: “The definition of a catcher, tough and durable. He stood above others with clutch hitting for power & average. I couldn’t be happier! Proud to have him join us in Cooperstown. Welcome to the @baseballhall Ted Simmons!”
HOF gets gift of Maris’ Yankee jersey STAFF REPORT The 1961 baseball season, which found Americans riveted to the great “MarisMantle” home run race, will be celebrated upon its 60th anniversary with the donation of a Roger Maris Yankees jersey from that season. A Yankees home jersey worn by Maris during the 1961 regular season is now a part of the Hall of Fame collection, thanks to author and former MLB executive Andy Strasberg. Maris’ No. 9 Yankees jersey was donated by Strasberg, who will be featured in a Hall of Fame Virtual Author Series program Aug. 18. Strasberg’s “My 1961” was published earlier this year and recounts his journey as a 13-year-old fan following Maris’ pursuit of the record.
The jersey is on exhibit on the Hall’s second floor, in the timeline display dedicated to the 1950s and 1960s Yankees dynasty. “The greatest summer of my youth happened in 1961,” Strasberg said in a media release. “For decades I have treasured this Maris Yankee pinstriped jersey. But now, on the 60th anniversary of that memorable baseball season, with the approval of the Maris family, it’s time to share it with fans who visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.” The Yankees went on to win the 1961 World Series in five games, capping a season where New York won 109 regular season contests and set a new American League standard with 240 home runs. Maris was named the league’s Most Valuable Player after totaling 141 RBI to go with his record-setting 61 home runs.
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Miller’s homecoming takes surprising turn with CSO By PHOEBE SMITH Oneonta native Cassandra Miller said she never imagined leading the Catskill Symphony Orchestra when she returned home two years ago, but now that she has officially been upgraded from interim to full-time executive director, she is excited about upcoming plans. Miller, who had been in an interim role since March, spoke with The Freeman’s Journal not long after she shed the tag in July. “(I hope to) bring my background and be able to open up the organization to new audiences,” she said. Miller graduated from Boston University in 2006 with a degree in journalism. She completed abroad teaching opportunities in the Czech Republic and Italy, then lived in New York Contributed City, where she was employed as a reporter for lifestyle, arts and Cassandra Miller does publicity with the cast of ‘One Night in Miami’ at the Baltimore Center Stage, where she was the entertainment at a local magazine. Throughout her 20s, Miller worked public relations manager of the professional theater and in journalism, writing for The managed publicity for the East Coast premiere of the play, Washington Post and The Daily which is now a 2021 Golden Globe-winning film.
Star, among others. Additionally, Miller has spent much of her professional career in Baltimore, where she developed a specialty in arts and tourism. She worked as the content and publications manager for “Visit Baltimore,” as well as the public relations manager for “Baltimore Center Stage,” where she helped turn “One Night in Miami” into an award-winning film. At BCS, Miller said she utilized her practice as a journalist and employed her passion for the arts to successfully market exhibits, events and productions to record breaking audience numbers. However, Miller decided to return home during the summer of 2019, unsure of her next move. She began working at Brewery Ommegang and enjoyed their music concerts. That August, Miller was hired by SUNY Oneonta as a visiting lecturer of communications. She also served as the marketing and communications manager at the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howe’s
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Oneonta enjoys ‘Free Comic Book Day’ with prizes, appearances By KEVIN LIMITI ONEONTA — Free Comic Book Day has been a tradition for 20 years and Secret Comix Cave continues to honor it through its annual gathering. Walking into the Secret Comix Cave is like walking through a dark and dingy dungeon. There is a dimly lit hallway where a cardboard cutout of a superhero greets guests. Once inside, the amount of comics, figurines, manga and more is enough to make any geek so inclined to seek out the secret cave happy. Free Comic Book Day is traditionally held on the first Saturday of May, but because of the pandemic, the date was postponed to Saturday, Aug. 14. At the store, two artists were invited to showcase their work and attract fans. Mike Travaag said he had never showcased his art before but was invited by store owner Gary Bedenham to set up a table for his art,
Greg Capullo. “This is my first show,” Travaag said. “I do this just for fun. It’s a hobby.” Matt Flint from Syracuse said he takes a lot of inspiration from cyberpunk, including creating a character who is an “anything-goes cat girl.” “I love cyberpunk, I like steam punk, I like the aesthetics to both,” Flint said. He said the coloring of cyberpunk stories was particularly pleasing to him. “Everything I learned I was self taught,” Flint said, who had learned to draw digitally on his own when his art teacher gave him a copy of Photoshop, and said it was the future. “I thank her every day for Kevin Limiti/The Freeman’s Journa; this,” Flint said. “She knew where I was heading. She Matt Flint draws a character Saturday, Aug. 14, during a ‘Free Comic Book knew before I knew.” Day’ event in Oneonta. At the store, a deal offered which included detailed Travaag, who works at he takes inspiration from anyone who spent $20 a drawings of Spawn, the Cleinman Performance other artists who were chance to spin a wheel for hell raiser creation of Todd Partners, said the reason his extremely detail oriented, a free gift, which included McFarlane. art is so detailed is because including McFarlane and a duck dressed as various
characters or candy or a comic grab bag. One patron said he was only there to pick up a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure set. There was also a raffle which gave everybody who came in the chance to win a giant hardcover Stan Lee book and a Marvel 80th anniversary postcard book. Since it was Free Comic Book Day, anybody could pick up comic titles, including Batman, Spiderman and Star Wars. Bedenham, in between cashing out various people, remarked on the success of Free Comic Book Day. “Everybody is shopping,” he said. “I am very busy.” Jason Slocum, who was helping out Bedenham, said the day was a great tradition. “It’s a good way to introduce people into (comic books),” said Slocum, who works at Charlotte Valley Central School. “It’s a good way to get young kids into reading.”
B Side to reopen for live music, with Nashville singer, Sheehan, on Sept. 5 By PATRICK DEWEY After being closed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the B Side Ballroom in Oneonta’s Clinton Plaza will offer live music again starting at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 5. The first show will be by acoustic singer-songwriter Trae Sheehan. Sheehan is touring in support of his new album “Hello from the End of the World,” which will be released Aug. 27. “It’s very much a look into my mind,” Sheehan said. The music has some melancholy to it alongside a sense of optimism, in his opinion. The single “Sleeveless Hearts,” which premiered
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last month and will be on the album, is a song Sheehan said he is excited about. “It’s about finding your own groove when you don’t fit in,” he said. Sheehan said one of the goals for the album is to remind listeners that even when it feels like the world is ending, there is always something to believe in and Contributed hope for. Sheehan said the corona- Trae Sheehan will appear at B Side Ballroom Sept. 5. virus pandemic had an impact on the making of this album. He said rediscovering the number seven on the roots He said like many people, he environment where he first charts. In 2020, his album, began reflecting on his life began songwriting, whether from the and what he wanted to try to it was a West Virginia back “Postcards road or a morning view of Country,” was featured in improve on. Based in Nashville, the Appalachian Mountains, publications such as Glide Magazine, the Bluegrass Sheehan grew up on an inspired him. According to a press Situation and American alpaca farm in West Virginia and returned there during release, in 2019, Sheehan’s Songwriter. Sheehan said he first the coronavirus pandemic. album “Arizona” reached
considered a music career after high school. Along with coming from a creative, musical family, he said singer-songwriter music by the Eagles, James Taylor, and others was a big inspiration. Although he also grew up on classic rock, Sheehan said, “Every time I would go to write a rock ‘n’ roll tune, singer-songwriter music just came out of me. “I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and there is beauty in all of it” Sheehan continued. This will be Sheehan’s first tour since February 2020 and he said he’s looking forward to hitting the road again. He said he finds touring most fulfilling. Sheehan said even the
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The haunted mansion exudes an atmosphere that is unlike any other in Otsego County By KEVIN LIMITI Hyde Hall brings to mind Shirley Jackson’s famous opening for the Haunting of Hill House. Only in this case, the house stood for more than 200 years and will probably stand for 200 more. Hyde Hall is something of an anomaly. It’s a relic of the past, which does not exist anymore and was unusual even for the time, at least in Otsego County. The breathtaking scenery surrounding Hyde Hall is enough to warrant a visit. At the top, where the house stands, you can look down at Otsego Lake and see all the way to Cooperstown. The limestone house has a cold, intimidating demeanor, which is why it is a surprise the interior of the house feels warmer and much more decorative. Marketing Manager John Aborn describes it as an oyster with a pearl inside. Aborn said many visitors to Hyde Hall are surprised when they first enter the building, which was built in the 19th century by Henry Clarke, an Englishman who married Ann Low Cary Cooper, the widow of the elder
brother of James Fenimore Cooper. “They’re always surprised how stern the house is on the outside,” Aborn said. The land around Hyde Hall is 120,000 acres, while the house itself is 22,000 square feet. The property has been well maintained throughout the years, thanks to the efforts of Hyde Hall, Inc., formerly known as Friends of Hyde Hall. Fenimore Art Museum loans Hyde Hall four portraits each summer. When entering Hyde Hall, the music from Ma’alwyck plays a somber, classical tune that sets a Victorian atmosphere for the rest of the visit. Recent events have taken advantage of the recording, with musicians playing the songs heard during the Clarke era. The portraits on the inside of the house are plentiful and the only interior lighting comes from either the natural sunlight through the windows or lamps. Most of the house is available to be toured with few areas being roped off, including some areas that are being renovated. But with all the old fashioned portraits and dark atmosphere, it’s no surprise there have See HYDE, Page B4
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The mirrors in Hyde Hall were often opposite each other to refract light and to create an illusion of endless reflection.
Hyde Hall offers history in a way not usually found in Otsego HALL/from Page B3 been numerous ghost sightings and even a Ghost Hunters episode filmed at Hyde Hall. “This house has had ghost stories attached pretty much (since) when George Clarke, the builder, died,” Aborn said. The question of the supernatural has always been debatable, but the one thing that is hard to argue against is the history Hyde Hall emits. The house lives and breathes history, being one-of-a-kind in the Otsego County area. Mirrors that are opposite each other in the sitting room reflect back and forth until you can see an endless cascade of mirror images that grow ever darker than the furthest one looks. The mirrors also have the ability to refract light coming from the windows and chandelier. It was considered fashionable back in the day to have mirrors arranged in this way. Clarke kept detailed receipts, which are able to provide a vast historical insight into what things they bought and how daily life was during his era. “I can tell what pickles he would buy,” Aborn said. “As historians, it’s almost cheating to have that much information.” The house is built around a courtyard, which has open windows, letting in light from outside. In the west of the house is an area that was used by the staff. In the kitchen, there is a very old menu which contained meals such as Halibut steaks, creamed sweetbreads, queen of pudding, roast veal and other unusual ingredients.
In the formal dining room, where the Clarkes would host their parties, there are vapor lamps, which were something of a novelty at the time. They burn clean and smell of turpentine, which makes sense because the fuel is part alcohol, part turpentine. But because of this lamp, the Clarkes were able to host parties long after most people would be going to bed because, back then, candles were quite expensive, Aborn said. The formal dining room hosts a painting of Jane Cooper Worthington, known as “Janie,” whose portrait used to reside at a private residence in Cooperstown. Worthington died, and when her husband remarried, he tried to take her painting down and, as the story goes, there were screams and moans heard throughout the house until the painting was put back up, where it remained for 150 years. “We have inherited a haunted painting,” Aborn said. Aborn said he loves working at Hyde Hall. “I love history, especially our region’s history,” he said. “It’s a great way to understanding how everything fits today. You need that reference.” In addition to tours that run every day by appointment, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., between May 31 and Oct. 31, Hyde Hall also hosts musical events on its front lawn. At 6 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 21, there will be a performance by folk duet Robin and Linda Williams which will include food and drinks from Brewery Ommegang. There will also be a Get Lit event featuring historic lighting and cocktails on Saturday, Sept. 11, and ghost tours all throughout October.
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Larissa Ryan Business Manager The Fly Creek Cider Mill You love flowers blooming and you’ve had a blooming onion, now get ready for a blooming apple. This delicious treat is one of the many snacks to be had at the Fly Creek Cider Mill and it is a great way to curb your hunger with a healthy treat. It’s an apple cut into slices in a bowl with warm caramel, nuts and a cherry. A tasty treat for before or after you walk around the mill, pick out something from the shop (it’s huge!) visit and feed the geese, or try out the many games available for the children. The Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek 607-547-9692 Tara Barnwell Publisher Cooperstown Diner If you blink while driving down Main Street Cooperstown, you may miss The Cooperstown Diner! The diner is a quaint, tiny, fantastic gem! You must start with the mac ’n cheese triangles. These perfectly fried little triangles of cheese are delicious. They also have the biggest burgers I have ever been served! Get the platter with curly fries and you won’t eat for days after. The tuna melts are grilled to perfection and go well with huge fried onion rings. Did I mention they serve breakfast all day long? I can’t find anything not to love about the diner, make it part of your Cooperstown experience. Cooperstown Diner 136½ Main St. Cooperstown 607-282-4367
Greg Klein Editor Foo Chow Restaurant On the hunt for new-to-us restaurants, we took a recommendation to try the Chinese place in Richfield Springs. I had the Wor Shu Duck, which is sometimes known as Cantonese Pressed Duck. It was tasty, but I also liked everything else we ordered that night, including chicken and spare rib dishes. The restaurant is set up for take-out and they seem to have COVID-proofed it as well. It is also in a beautiful old building on Main Street in a section of Richfield Springs that looks like it is ripped from a Hallmark Channel movie. Foo Chow Restaurant 137 W. Main St Richfield Springs 315-858-9988 Kevin Limiti Reporter Latte Lounge Since moving to Oneonta, the Latte Lounge has been my staple for coffee and reading, especially since the Green Toad Bookstore is next door. I tried the crispy chicken sandwich for the first time recently and must say the food is also good. I have also heard about the bagel chips that come with sandwiches and I cannot wait to try them, This is the type of place where everybody from town seems to hang out and I highly recommend coming by if you haven’t already. Latte Lounge 196 Main St., Oneonta 607-432-6244
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THE DOG CHARMER by Tom Shelby
Training a dog not to run out on the highway Hey there! How do you break a 10-month-old puppy from crossing the highway? Scared dog mom, here, Lisa Hi Lisa, Great question. I’m big on what I call “auto stops.” Dog’s walking next to you, no leash. When you get to the curb you don’t break stride, just cross the street like it’s still sidewalk, but Bowser stops dead at the curb and doesn’t cross till he hears your release, even if you’ve crossed the street. Bowser doesn’t enter the street until he hears you say “OK.” That’s what I say, “OK.” My son says “free,” which is smarter, because I’ve experienced saying ok in conversation with a friend when my dog who was heeling, and she stopped heeling the moment she heard me exclaim “OK.” That is a lot less likely to happen with the word free. My first dog as an adult was a pharaoh hound named CheetaAnn. Initially, we lived in Whitestone, Queens and Cheets and I would jog from the Throgs Neck Bridge to Fort Totten every morning. Cheets, a sighthound who was real fast, came to a screaming stop at every curb
until she heard my release. Here’s what I did, for all my dogs. Cheets is walking next to me on a loose leash and when we get to the curb I give the leash a slight jerk backwards as I say “uh, uh” the exact moment she starts to step off the curb into the street. I may have to do this several times until she stops automatically at the curb, even as I continue into the street. Timed correctly with a smart, sensitive dog, you
might be amazed at how quickly the dog “gets it” and stops automatically at every curb, especially if intermittent treats accompany the praise when she catches up to you after she’s released. The same lesson applies to car doors and the front door to my house. They do not leave through the open door until they hear “OK.” However, Lisa, I gather from your question that crossing streets in suburbia is not your issue, but rather
Golf Tournament to benefit theater STAFF REPORT There will be a golf tournament Sunday, Sept. 19, to benefit the Friends of the Oneonta Theatre in the nonprofit organization’s efforts to reopen the historic theater as a performance venue. The fundraiser will begin at 1 p.m. at the Oneonta Country Club, with 18 holes of golf. There will be a shotgun start, a putting contest, a chipping contest and prizes for closest pin and closest line. Players can buy mulligans for purchase. The afternoon will also feature a 50/50 raffle, silent auction items, a cash bar and a barbecue at the 19th hole.
Sponsorship levels begin at $100 for each hole sponsor and rise through $2,000 for lead sponsors. The fee for each player is $75, including the barbecue. Golfers who do not have a foursome are welcomed. For more information, contact event organizer Elaine Bresee at 607-434-1930. Bresee, who is on the group’s Board of Directors, said, “This is one of our main fundraisers. We appreciate the support. We will have a beautiful theater for all to enjoy.” Go to www.OneontaTheatre.org and Friends of the Oneonta Theatre on Facebook for more information.
that your house is near the highway and your 10-month old is off leash a lot. In that case, I might suggest you install an invisible fence to contain puppy. Lisa, in my lifetime of training I have never told someone to get an e-collar, read the instructions and use it. When necessary, I’ve said get an e-collar and don’t even open the box until I get there. Then, depending on the sensitivity of the dog and the intensity of the behavior
needed to be altered, I decide between tone, vibe, stim and intensity. A tone may stop the off-leash pug from nibbling on duck poop, but is useless stopping the off-leash predatory lab from going after the skunk or porcupine. By the time I hand the owner the e-collar, it’s for follow up when necessary. I’ve already trained the dog to the e-collar. So, Lisa, if you want to go the e-collar route I’d suggest you get a pro to get you through the first lesson. When puppy gets within 10 feet of the highway, puppy hears tone (or feels vibration) as a warning, and if continues toward highway feels electric stim. There’s more to it, and it will require constant vigilance with the e-collar at the ready. Will your 10-month old want to chase the deer on the other side of the highway? My suggestion, have the invisible fence installed, it includes training and is safest for an off-leash puppy. Good luck, The Dog Charmer Tom Shelby, a Cooperstown author, will be answering pet owners questions on training their dogs. E-mail your questions to dogsrshelby@msn.com.
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games with a “National Title Elimination Chopping” game. There will also be crafters, a car show, vendors, food, tractor displays and much more. At the field, 2 Genesee St. in Cherry Valley. For info: in OtsegO COunty cwatbeau@gmail.com. CHICKEN DINNER – From 4:30 to 6 p.m. Take-out Brooks chicken dinner: a half chicken, coleslaw, baked potato and a roll. Cost is $12/dinner. Preorders by Wednesday encouraged. At First Baptist Church of Cooperstown, 21 Elm St. in Cooperstown. Contact baptistcooperstown@gmail.com with name, number, quantity. CONVERSATION – From 7 to 8 p.m. Discuss with library and fellow community members about access and quality of internet in Springfield Community. RSVP required. At the Springfield Library, 129 County Rte 29A in Springfield Center. Call 315-858-5802. FIRE PIT FRIDAYS – Fom 7 to 10 p.m. Enjoy a fun night around the fire with friends, drinks and music. This week features music from the Grateful Dead, as performed by Without a Net. At Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Rte 33 in Middlefield. Call 607-280-2900. CONCERT – At 7:30 p.m. Concert staging of new opera “Libba: Here This Day,” telling life story of Blues legend Libba Cotten, who grew up in the segregated south, played the banjo and won a Grammy at age 91. Free admission. At the Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St. in Franklin. Call 607-829-3700. CONCERT – At 8 p.m. Premier performance of “All of Us,” featuring four characters from a dystopian world sharing stories on four separate stages for a roving audience. Each represents a hyperbolized aspect of today’s social struggles. Cost is $5. At Rexmere Park, 159 W. Main St. in Stamford.
OUTDOOR GAMES – From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. See Friday listing. PADDLE & PULL – From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Help remove water chestnut & European frog bit from Silver Lake. Only OCCA watercraft allowed. Masks, social distancing required. Bring water, sunscreen, hat and dress to get wet and dirty. Instruction on where to meet provided upon registration. At Silver Lake in Pittsfield. Call 607-547-4488. TRAIN ROBBERY – 2 p.m. Get in the spirit of the Old West with a fun train ride, getting stopped unexpectedly for some Wild West action. Features gun fights and explosions, fun for the whole family. Refreshments available. Cost is $22/adult. Cooperstown Charlotte Valley Railroad, departing from the Milford Depot in Milford. Call 607-432-2429. LIFESKILLS – From 4 to 6 p.m. Teens are invited to learn to cook with Lynn. Reservations are required. Presented by
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AUTHOR SERIES – At 2 p.m. Join award-winning writer Ralph Wimbish to discuss his latest book “Heroes: Stories of Sports, Courage and Class,” a collection of stories from 40 years in sports journalism, Free, registration for Zoom required. Presented by The Baseball Hall of Fame. Call 607-547-7200. VACCINE CLINIC – From 2 to 4 p.m. The Dept. of Health is offering free vaccines to people age 12 and older. Get vaccinated and be entered to win a $50 gift card from Brooks BBQ. At Schenevus Central School, 159 Main St. in Schenevus. Call 800-227-7388. ILLUSIONIST – At 6 p.m., Leon Etienne will perform jaw-dropping illusions, magic tricks, which have earned him a spot on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and “America’s Got Talent.” Live at the Lake Front Park in Cooperstown. Visit facebook.com/VillageLib raryofCooperstown/.
►Friday, August 20 LEMONADE – At 10 a.m. Kindergarteners and families are invited to enjoy a glass of lemonade to celebrate the start of the school year and sign the kids up for their first library card. At the Village Library, 22 Main St. in Cooperstown. Call 607-547-8344. BOOK CLUB – At 1 p.m. Discuss the book “This Tender Land” by William Kent Krueger. At the Springfield Library, 129 County Rte 29A in Springfield Center. Call 315-858-5802. EXHIBIT TOUR – At 2 p.m. Visit Haudenosaunee cultural center and reproduction Mohawk bark house & original Seneca log house for interactive exploration with a museum teacher. Meet at the kiosk. At the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1400. OUTDOOR GAMES – From 3 to 9 p.m. Lumberjack’s & Lumberjill’s headline the
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The Oneonta Teen Center. At 50 Dietz St. in Oneonta. Call 607 441 3999 for more information. ANNUAL BBQ – 4:30 p.m. Take-out Chicken BBQ to support the Grange Hall Improvement Fund. 1/2 a
chicken, coleslaw, macaroni salad, cupcake, corn on the cob, more. Take-out only, exact change appreciated. Cost, $12/dinner. Pierstown Grange, 137 Wedderspoon Hollow Rd., Cooperstown. 607-264-3069
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