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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, August 22, 2019

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Dr. Ted Peters, son Dr. James and daughter Melissa Barry and her husband Peter, chat with Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch at the dedication of the $9.1 million water-treatment plant expansion in honor of the longtime sewer and water board chair/MORE ON A4

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Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Anthony P. German and wife Diana in the home they built in the hills around Oneonta a decade ago. He was relaxed and upbeat in a Sunday, Aug. 18, interview.

fter 36 years in the New York State National Guard, retiring Feb. 2 at adjutant general, the top commander, Tony German’s career was driven by a set of values: Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.

That’s the code of the U.S. Air Force, he explained.

“I’m not going to change now,” he said

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►OTSEGO COUNTY CONGRESSMEN • WILLIAM COOPER, Cooperstown, 1795-97, 1799-1801, Federalist, land speculator, founded Cooperstown, Freeman’s Journal • JOHN PRENTISS, Cooperstown, 1837-41, Democrat, Freeman’s Journal editor/publisher • DAVID WILBER, Milford/Oneonta, 1873-75, 187981, 1887-90, Republican, made fortune in hops, lumber, farming.

• DAVID F. WILBER, Milford/Oneonta, 1895-99, Republican, congressman’s son, hops, banking • GEORGE FAIRCHILD, Oneonta, 1907-19, Republican, Oneonta Herald owner, 1st IBM chairman

Sunday, Aug. 18, in an interview at his Cemetery Hill home as he contemplated his latest chal-

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Oneonta Film Fest To Hail Philo Vance’s Rediscovery

Philo Vance movies featured top Hollywood stars.

hIKERS Mary Anne Whelan, the retired Bassett doctor, center, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 1961, perhaps one of the first women to do so.

That’s 1,525 at SUNY and 425 at Hartwick.

But arriving students are already looking beyond settling in.

For instance, as part of their orientation this year, SUNY Oneonta students have to learn to think fast.

“Fast O,” that is.

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man were returning ►A FARM-ANIMAL BAN in the here Wednesday, Village of Cherry Valley was unanimously adopted by the Aug. 21, arriving the same Village Board. Romeo’s owner day at SUNY Oneonta and fears, when his horse dies, he Hartwick College. can’t be replaced. ►BASSETT DORMitories are possible under the Village of Cooperstown’s propose zoning amendments. The news surfaced at an informational meeting two dozen residents attended.

By LIBBY CUDMORE ►ONEONTA’S ’49ER Collis Huntington gained vast wealth in the California Gold Rush, and ONEONTA sent a lot of that money home. ► ‘OUR TOWN,’ Thornton his fall, the forgotten deWilder’s classic play, will be tective will come home. performed Wednesdays and “We’re setting up a Fridays at The Fenimore Museum’s lakeside amphitheatre Philo Vance film series,” said through the end of August.

Rev. Kenneth Hunter, rector, St. ►THE HEAD NURSE for years James Episcopal Church, who at Bassett’s ICU, Margery N. found many Philo Vance films Armstrong, has died. are available on amazon.com.

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hen Mary Anne Whelan was spending a summer in Tanzania, Africa, her friends came up with a wild idea.

Why not scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest?

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“There was a superstition that the Gods would be displeased if a woman climbed the mountain,” she said. “I guess they weren’t, because we did!”

Whelan, the retired Bassett physician, in 1961 was among the first women to climb the peak.

In recent weeks, Kilimanjaro has been in the news as, via Twitter, local people could follow the Please See WHELAN, A9

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Tracy Helgeson Takes Top Prize At Art By Lake COOPERSTOWN

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racy Helgeson, Cooperstown, took the Fenimore Award for best in show at the annual Art by the Lake juried invitational on Saturday, Aug. 17 on the lawn of the Fenimore Art Museum.

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General German, Reporting For Duty

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f Adjutant Gen. (ret.) Anthony P. German is elected congressman from New York State’s 19th District, you can bet we will be the only district represented by someone who has an iceberg named after him.

(As commander of the state’s Air National Guard, his pilots collaborated with the National Science Foundation’s Antarctica Program.)

Also, he would be the first Otsego Countian to represent us in over a century, since Republican George W. Fairchild, 1907-1919, Oneonta Herald publisher and, later, first chairman of the fledgling IBM board of directors. (As congressman, he hosted Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Taft at his mansion, now Oneonta’s Masonic Temple. Cool.)

Before him, a Republican father-son

General German in the Antarctic, where an iceberg is named in his honor.

hops-growing and banking combination – two David Wilbers, also from Oneonta by way of Milford – served

To the Editor: Your newspaper did us all a great favor with its coverage of Dolores Wharton’s autobiography, which serves as a fine complement to her husband’s book. You have helped put the Whartons in their proper historical context – they were pillars in the advancement of The Freeman’s Journal minority meritocracy in the United States, moreso than any The Whartons of ballplayer in the Hall of Fame. Cooperstown.

Because, while Jackie Robinson proved that a black man could play in the Major Leagues, the Whartons proved minorities could rise to the top in the real-world major leagues of commerce, international relations, finance, government and the arts. And, in so doing, they paved the way for the advancement of the next generation of minority leaders – Barack Obama, Julián Castro and Kamala Harris.

The Whartons may well be the best President and First Lady that the United States never had.

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Editor’s Note: The guest of honor at the Friday, Aug. 16, groundbreaking on the Village of Cooperstown’s $9.1 million water treatment plant project was Ted Peters, retired Bassett Hospital researcher and longtime chair of the village’s sewer and water boards. A plaque honoring him will be placed on the expanded building.

Here are Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch’s words of tribute.

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Applauding Ted Peters, who took time out from a demanding Bassett Hospital research regimen to serve and chair, for years, the Village of Cooperstown water and sewer boards, are, from left, his daughter Melissa Barry, state Sen. Jim Seward, and Village Trustees Richard Sternberg and Cindy Falk.

recruited to Bassett Hospital in 1955 – at a time when there were only 16 senior professional staff at Bassett.

He worked as a research biochemist from 1955 until 1988, when he quote “retired” to emeritus status.

But if you think that meant he slowed down much, you are wrong.

He continued to assist in the clinical laboratory at Bassett into his ’90s, reading electrophoretic patterns of blood plasma proteins.

Through his work, he identified and named a genetic albumin variant – it is known as “Albumin Cooperstown.”

A submarine radar officer in World War II and in the

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Come on.

Let’s try to put this in some sort of perspective.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified about 1,000 “hate groups” in the country. But say each has 250 members – a stretch for such organizations as, for instance, Truth in Textbooks in Boerne, Texas.

That’s 250,000 people. A lot, but just 0.1 percent of the 250 million adult Americans.

That’s a drop in the bucket compared to, say, the number of high school students who lovingly volunteer on community projects.

Shucks, there are 2.3 million Boy Scouts.

Yes, a nut with an AK47 can’t be ignored.

How is New York going to define itself? By hate, or ♥?.

As $9.1M Project Begins, Village Thanks Ted Peters

any volunteers have contributed their time in service to our community. But certainly none has reached the pinnacle of community service of today’s honoree To the Editor: able to swallow my pride – Dr. Through much trial and and be fair to my critics is Theodore error, I have learned how to be open and objective “Ted” to express my opinions in enough to read or listen to Peters, Jr. a respectful, honest and both sides of an issue and Not MAYOR productive way instead of not just my side. only TILLAPAUGH being unfair with the people A one-sided viewpoint, has the who have different opinions even if it’s true, doesn’t Village of Cooperstown than I do. It wasn’t easy for give people an opportunity benefited from his comme to learn that valuable life to think for themselves and munity service, but we lesson because when you’re they end up letting other have also benefited from so sure you’re right about people think for them. his incredible professional something, you feel entitled I have also learned knowledge. How many to be the final authority on through my own personal communities of our size can the subject. failures that letting my boast having a renowned One of the ways I’ve been Please See HEWLETT, A6 biochemist guiding their water and sewer decisions?

One of the reasons we were N U DE FO D R able to make our 1969 plant function for so long was due Cooperstown’s Newspaper For 211 Years to his expertise.

The Village of Cooperstown was fortunate James C. Kevlin indeed when Dr. Peters was Editor & Publisher

ll this talk about hate. Maybe it’s different in a rural enclave like Otsego County, but how often in the course of a week or month or year do any of us come face to face with something we can define as “hate.”

Yet Governor Cuomo, last Thursday, Aug. 21, in announcing our state will be the first in the nation to enact a “Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act” (see excerpt below), used the word “hate” 22 times.

Yes, you might suspect the whole idea is part of some hidden agenda, since nobody knows what our governor’s ambitions are.

But he used the word “attack” 13 times, and words with the letters “t-e-r-r-o-r” 17 times.

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off and on for several terms in the second half of the 19th century.

And, of course, William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown (and The Freeman’s Journal, Hometown Oneonta’s sister publication), served two terms as a Federalist, in 1795-97 and 1799-1801.

It’s past time to get our political mojo back.

• That said, German, who filed papers Wednesday, Aug. 14, with the state Board of Elections, has his work cut out for him in challenging the freshman Democrat, Antonio Delgado.

To start, two other Republicans – a Woodstock contractor and an intriguing fashion designer who just moved back from St. Louis to her native Please See EDITORIAL, A5

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Korean War, you won’t be surprised to learn he was first in his submarine officers’ class in 1945.

When Admiral Ronald Boxall visited our community in May to speak to the Rotary Club, of which Ted is the longest-serving member, Ted was unable to make the meeting. But when I shared his biography with Admiral Boxall – the Admiral assured me that no matter how busy he would be that day, he would make time to visit this incredible naval veteran who so gallantly served his country.

In fact, the admiral said it was an honor to sit and chat with Dr. Ted.

After that World War II service, Ted completed his Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Harvard in just three years. He held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has more than 125 publications to his credit as well as a definitive book on albumin.

We are blessed that he found time in his extremely distinguished career to volunteer with the village. For nearly 40 years he served on the Sewer Board and the Water Board – decades of service as chair of those boards.

ALBANY ON THE MARCH

With Domestic Terrorism Act, State Leads Nation Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Governor Cuomo’s Thursday, Aug. 14, speech to the New York City Bar Association, where he proposed the nation’s first Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act.

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e must begin by recognizing the crisis for what it is because you will never solve a problem in life you are unwilling to admit, and today New York State acknowledges the ugly truth: that we have an enemy within, an American cancer, where one cell in the body politic attacks the other cells in the body.

It spreads in the hidden corners of

the internet, and from the highest positions in the land, and it infects sick and hate-filled hearts. This new violent epidemic is hate fueled American on American terrorism.

We still treat GOVERNOR terrorism as an CUOMO act committed by foreigners. It is.

But that is only part of it. It is now a two-front war on terrorism. It is fed by hate, but hate from abroad and hate

right here at home: white supremacists, anti-Semites, anti-LGBTQ, white nationalists. These are Americans committing mass hate crimes against other Americans and it should be recognized for what it is: domestic terrorism. American citizens who are radicalized – not by a foreign ideology but rather radicalized by hate for other Americans – but that is still terrorism.

Today, our people are three times more likely to suffer a terrorist attack launched by an American than one launched by a foreigner. Now this is not just repulsive. This is not just Please See CUOMO, A8

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

200 YEARS AGO

Advertisement in the Otsego Herald: The undersigned intends, about the First of September next, to commence the publication of a paper in this village, under the above title. It will be printed upon an entire new type, and in size correspond with any interior paper in the State. J.H. Prentiss, Cooperstown, August 23, 1819. (Ed. Note: Thus was announced in the Otsego Herald, the beginning of this newspaper 200 years ago and still known as the “Freeman’s Journal.”

August 23, 1819

175 YEARS AGO

Political Poetry – “Freemen! Cheer the Hickory Tree. In storms its boughs have sheltered thee. O’er Freedom’s soil its branches wave; T’was planted on the Lion’s grave.”

We learn from those who were present on the occasion that the Democratic gathering at Oneonta on Saturday, August 17, numbered from 4,000 to 6,000 persons, and was animated with enthusiasm in support of the nominees of the Democratic Convention and the Doctrine of Popular Rights and Privileges. It was a strong demonstration of public feeling on the political questions at issue before the country August 26, 1844

150 YEARS AGO

The Report of the seventy-fourth Anniversary of the Otsego Baptist Association gives the following statistics: Churches comprising the Association, 19; Ministers ordained, 14; Licentiate, 1; Additions during past year, 79; Losses, 96; Present number of church members, 1,325. In 1864, with 18 churches, the membership was 1,523. In 1852 with 17 churches the membership was 1,382. There is shown to be a considerable falling off in the aggregate number, notwithstanding fair additions to many of the churches. They lose largely by emigration to the cities and to the west. There needs to be a lifting up out of old ruts, worn deep many years ago. If our Baptist friends will permit, we will point out a weakening element in these Associations.

It is the presence of Agents from all leading Societies of the Denomination for the purpose of preaching “begging sermons” to the most liberal members of the churches – taking up nearly all the time in “presenting the cause” which they are paid to advocate, and taking up collections or soliciting subscriptions. The time is so much taken up

by Society Agents, not enough attention is paid to the weak and destitute churches. Of about $2,767 reported by the Treasurer as received during the past year, only $80 was for “destitute churches.” A decided reform in these particulars is needed.

August 20, 1869

125 YEARS AGO

The “Players” – The second of what we may hope will become a series of annual entertainments was given by the “Players” last Thursday evening in Village Hall. Two pieces were presented. The first was a translation from the French entitled “Comedy and Tragedy.” The characters in this were taken by Misses Marion and France Gregory, Dr. Sill and Mr. R.S. Hooker. Something of the life of an actress at home was shown, and her conflicting feelings toward a young admirer whom, at his father’s request, she tries to get rid of, and ends by falling in love with, were credibly delineated. The second piece was the farce “”Poor Pillicoddy.” The characters were played by Mrs. Emily and Alice Gregory, Miss Bessie Patterson, Mr. Wolcott and Mr. S. Patterson. The various comical incidents of the play were cleverly set forth, and continually amused the audience. After the performance light refreshments were served, and an informal dance followed. Many invitations had been issued and about 300 people were present.

August 23, 1894

100 YEARS AGO

Baseball – A team composed of Cooperstown business men and diamond old-timers defeated a team of employees of the Arthur H. Crist Co. Thursday evening by a score of 14 to 1. Champlin and Ames were the battery for the businessmen. Entrances to the ball park are through Dr. Dewar’s Lane on Susquehanna Avenue and from Elm Street

Stars, Stripes Already Symbolizes Hope, Freedom, Equality, Justice To the Editor: I get tired of all these special interest groups whining for attention. Basically, the Pride Flag is a symbol of whom you want to “embrace” and the freedom to do such and be loved LETTER and accepted.

The design of the flag is not very creative. That flag design is used to represent the Inca Empire, the indigenous in Peru and Bolivia. The design is used around the world for many different things.

For me, rainbow belongs to everyone, it is about nature.

When you put up one flag for a special interest group then you must put a flag up for other groups. A heterosexual flag must go up. How about a flag for swingers? And don’t forget the people who don’t care.

Let’s put up a flag for Arabs … let them feel accepted too.

A flag every foot down Main Street covering everything to show acceptance for all people and not just a specific group. Isn’t that a Christian thing to do?

All these different groups take the attention away from the real problem: the need for kindness, compassion and acceptance for all.

Don’t get lost in special interest groups’ demands.

We are a ragtag group of people.

We are indigenous people who have lost almost everything and are struggling to regain a sense of purpose and belonging. We are slaves who have been dragged here kicking and screaming from our own homes who are now trying to build a new life.

We are neighbors across the borders who have come here to seek a better way of life to live a life without fear. We are refugees from around the world gathering here in what is supposed to be a land of opportunity, hope and quality of life.

America is the melting pot of all kinds of people from all places.

It is time to focus on our common desire of quality of life for all the residents in America. We need to focus on the big picture, which is that we all deserve a decent quality of life and not have to live under the tyranny of corporations or power-hungry government people.

We are “Americans”: it’s time we all practice compassion, kindness and acceptance of our fellow man and women.. and whatever.

Flags are a symbol of countries.

We only need one flag. It’s time to make it mean what it symbolizes; hope, freedom, and equality and justice for all.

R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forrest

opposite the Baptist Church and between the Crist Co. and the First National Bank.

Milford and Delhi are playing a game of baseball on Doubleday Park, this village, this Wednesday.

August 27, 1919

10 YEARS AGO

75 YEARS AGO

Under perfect weather conditions Sunday afternoon, a throng of 2,000 attended the third in the series of five Victory Sings on the lawn of the Otesaga Hotel overlooking Otsego Lake, participated in the chorus singing under the leadership of Dr. Elmer A. Tidmarsh of Schenectady, and were presented with a thoughtful review of the war and stirring picture of the situation as it appears today by Paul Schubert the well-known American author and radio commentator. It was the largest attendance yet this summer by several hundred.

August 23, 1944

50 YEARS AGO

The second annual stamp show sponsored by the Leatherstocking Stamp Club will be held at the Community House, 63 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week. According to Mrs. Mary Pangborn, secretary-treasurer of the club, and coordinator of the stamp show, this year’s event promises to be a marked improvement over the show held last year, in time open to the public, variety of exhibits on display, and coverage of Philatelic material. To date, nearly 100 frames of stamps have been registered. A movie “Postman of the Skies” at 2 p.m. will show how mail is delivered by helicopter in the City of Chicago.

August 20, 1969

25 YEARS AGO

More than 120 teams, made up of 500 ironmen and women, participated in the rain-soaked and shortened 12th Annual Glimmerglass Triathlon Sunday at Glimmerglass State Park. Several hundred spectators dared the driving rain to watch the three event race, which was originally scheduled to include a 6.4 mile run, a 27-

August 21, 2009 mile bicycle race and five mile canoe race.

However, 2 to 3 foot swells on Otsego Lake along with reports of thunderstorms in the area, forced race officials to cancel the canoeing. The final results were tabulated from the standings of teams and individuals after the bicycle race. The fastest overall time was posted by the team of Steve Simpson, Jim Benkos, Gary Place and Mark Micotello who covered the course in 1:35:17.

Jim Mattingly posted the fastest individual time finishing in 1:53:18. Among women, Joan Butler and Shelly Kempton took team honors (2:00:13) and Kelly O’Brien was the lone Iron Woman (2:32:04).

August 24, 1994

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he other day I My friend went a step was chatting further. He contrasted with a long-time the village trustees’ local business man in unanimous support of Cooperstown who occaflying the Pride flag sionally reads this colwith local protests umn. He brought up the against the display and recent decision of the sale of the Confederate Village of Cooperstown flag – a debate which to officially fly the Gay has been carried on in ADRIAN Pride flag on Village this newspaper.

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Those who feel upset He expressed discomabout the Confederate fort with at least some aspects of flag, he suggested, are being heard gay lifestyle, and clearly felt that and respected, if not necessarily the village action did not represent agreed with, while the lingering him and, by implication, others discomforts he and others feel who shared his reaction. about gay pride and other social An isolated reaction, some movements are somehow, in his might think. Isn’t being gay now view, not up for discussion. an accepted part of public life?

• Yes, it is, but not everyone underIt’s since been reported that stands it in the same way. the village has decided to “study There are still a lot of people what flags to fly.” That presupunsettled about minority chalposes that the village is open to lenges to traditional cultural flying any number of flags reprenorms, and distressed by what senting any number of issues. they see as political correctness In a polarized society like ours, being foisted on society. It’s not this is asking for trouble, as a always clear, they say, where the recent editorial in this newspaper resolution of long-standing injus- pointed out. The reason is that all tice ends, and where resentment government institutions, includand ideological fervor take over. ing the Village of Cooperstown,

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A hot-air balloon passes the flagpole at Main and Pioneer during this year’s Clinton Regatta.

Jimare unique is that they represent not just some of us, but all of us. Indeed, that is their obligation.

If our government starts picking and choosing among group flags, it runs the risk of playing a Please See KUZMINSKI, A8

EDITORIAL: 2 Candidates Debates The Issues? Interesting Campaign Possible EDITORIAL/From A4 Poughkeepsie – have filed. A larger question mark, German said in an interview, is last year’s gubernatorial candidate, Mark Molinaro, who plans to run once this year’s reelection as Dutchess county executive is behind him.

Further, politics is so much more freeform than the military, with its chains of command and protocols, (although, flexibility must have been the order of the day for German in deploying troops when Hurricane Irene hit Schoharie and southern Delaware counties in 2011, and when Hurricane Sandy hit Long Island and NYC the next year.)

Further, German isn’t what you might imagine a general to be. He’s an engaging guy, youthful, full of energy, easy to talk to. You’ll like him. Going

up the ranks from navigator to commander of all 16,000 of New York’s troops, he had to connect with people from privates to the commander-in-chief. He’ll be fine on the stump.

He reached out for advice to the 19th’s two former Republican congressman, Army Col. (ret.) Chris Gibson and John Faso, and reports getting a warm welcome. Gibson opened the door for German to hire his former campaign manager and other key staffers.

However, German said, before he can expect his predecessors’ endorsements, he has to prove he can raise the money, which is why he filed papers 14 months out. (By this time last cycle, six Democrats were running against Faso. By Election Day, Faso had raised $4.5 million; Delgado, $9 million.)

Money’s important, sure, but

German’s got a ready-made base, not just among current and former Guardsmen and women, but in veteran posts throughout the 19th.

Locally, Len Carson, a longtime commander of the Oneonta Vets Club (and currently Common Council candidate), is one of his early supporters.

That brought to mind a secret former Oneonta mayor Sam Nader (who turned 100 in July) shared regarding his successful 1960 mayoral race: The HR office at Amphenol, where he was purchasing director, provided addresses of 1,000 co-workers living in Oneonta. Bingo! Victory.

• Perhaps the largest obstacle to German’s victory is his opponent.

Delgado is smart, likewise engaging, hardworking and present, visiting Otsego County – through

a Town Hall, and individual visits – numerous times since his election last November.

He’s on the right committees – Ag and Small Business among them.

He’s stayed out of the Impeachment debate – if and when has been his stance, but not yet. He praises the 19th District voters, 96 percent white, for supporting a black candidate, and has reached out to the whole constituency, Democrat, Republican and independent.

And, when everyone’s talking about racism, hatred, misogyny, yadda, yadda (see accompanying editorial), he’s talking about Love.

Love – that’s a hard issue to beat.

German seems suited by temperament to chart a similar middle course. When an Albany Times Union reporter asked him about Delgado’s earlier hip-hop career, the general replied, “Everyone was

a young man at one time. That says nothing about where you are today.” Nice!

• OK. Here’s a win-win scenario.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand becomes Bernie Sanders’ runningmate, Delgado is appointed to succeed her, and German slides into the 19th seat in November 2020.

A U.S. senator and congressman who know how to get from West Oneonta to Portlandville?

And know the difference between Otsego, Otego, Oswego and Owego? That sounds like heaven.

Short of that, we can look forward to two engaging, energetic candidates debating the issues from the Hudson River to Unadilla Creek. Short-term, that means getting Tony German on the ticket – when his website is launched in the next few days, donate.

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Students Due At 2 Colleges On Same Day COLLEGES/From A1 “The ‘Fast O’ is the athletic logo,” said Kim MacLeod, SUNY Oneonta associate director of communications. “Students in shirts with the ‘Fast O’ colors – white, red and black – will run out in the afternoon during the picnic and create a human ‘Fast O’.”

The picnic, part of SUNY’s Founders’ Day celebration on Thursday, Sept 4, celebrates the start of the college’s 130th anniversary year.

At Hartwick, the student body will be looking forward to the True Blue Weekend, its largest alumni-engagement event of the year, which is being moved up to mid-September instead of early October, three weeks earlier than usual. “It just worked out that the home game was happening earlier,” said David Lubell, Hartwick College’s media manager.

True Blue Weekend will begin on Thursday, Sept. 19 with the Hawk Night Fever Pep Rally, featuring the mascot, Swoop the Hawk, and kicks off the weekend in the Lambros Arena. The weekend will also include the Athletic Hall of Fame induction and the alumni weekend, as well as a memorial gathering.

And with her first year as SUNY president under her belt, Dr. Barbara Jean Morris will be officially inaugurated as president of the college on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Two special programs will honor Dr. Morris’ inauguration with subjects that Macleod called “near and dear to Dr. Morris’ heart” – feeding the hungry and surviving domestic violence.

The first, a nonperishable food drive, will invite students to donate canned foods at various locations on campus, with 60 percent of the collection going to Oneonta-area food pantries and 40 percent to the campus food pantry in Hunt Union.

The second program is part of a SUNY-wide Got Your Back initiative, which is creating comfort kits for victims and survivors of violence while learning methods of better preventing and responding to violence.

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Margery Norris Armstrong, 85; Chief Bassett ICU Nurse MILFORD – Margery Norris Armstrong, R.N., 85, who served for many years as head nurse of Bassett Hospital’s ICU, passed away peacefully Monday morning, Aug. 12, 2019, at her beloved home on Arnold Lake.

Margery was born on November 25, 1933, in Carbondale, Pa., to William Melville Norris and Amy née Quinlan Norris of Wales, U.K., but spent most of her youth growing up in Oneonta.

Marge and her siblings were an adventurous group, easily recognized around town by their fiery red hair.

She displayed an interest in science and math at an early age and was the first girl in her high school to take chemistry and physics.

She began volunteering at Fox Hospital at age 14 and started working as an intern at Bassett Hospital

in 1952 while a to the ASU nursing student and officially at Hartwick retired in 1994 College. but continued After to work almost receiving her full time at the bachelor’s hospital on a per degree, Marge diem basis until joined the 2001.

Bassett staff full While at time in 1955 and Bassett, Marge became head was known for Margery nurse of Center being a fierce Norris Two working advocate for Armstrong with the medical her patients and team that pioneered the use for the nurses who worked of bone marrow transplants in her unit. When not at to treat leukemia. the hospital, Marge could Marge left Bassett in frequently be found visiting 1963 to work nights at others, whether it was the Thanksgiving Nursing to help them manage Home so that she could be difficult health problems, home during the day to take encouraging them when care of her newborn twins. they were recovering, or She returned to Bassett in simply to stop by to see 1968 and became head nurse how they were doing. of the Intensive Care Unit Marge married Robert (ICU) shortly after it opened K. Armstrong on Dec. 8, in the new hospital building. 1962, in Oneonta. After Marge later transferred living in Cooperstown

for two years, the family became the first to stay year-’round at Arnold Lake, where they have lived ever since.

She is survived by her twin children, Norris A. Armstrong and wife Shu-Mei Chang, and Kathleen A. Armstrong; two grandchildren, Cassie F.L. Armstrong and Alex Y.C. Armstrong; a sister, Kathleen Knafelz; a brother, David Norris and wife, Carol; a sister-in-law, Jana Norris; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert K. Armstrong, on April 22, 1987, and a brother, Edward A. “Ted” Norris, who died July 13, 2014.

There will be a celebration of her life in the summer of 2020 at Arnold Lake.

Arrangements are with Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Mildred Wolny, 92; Owned Cherry Valley’s Friendly Store Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

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CHERRY VALLEY – Mildred Wolny, 92, who operated the Friendly Corner Store here for 12 years, passed away on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, at Palatine Nursing Home.

Born in Brooklyn, in 1927, Mildred spent her early life with her family in Queens. She graduated from Newtown High School studying business and interned at Tiffany’s in Manhattan. She

attended Barbizon School of Modeling and also modeled jewelry while at Tiffany’s.

In 1945 she married Walter Wolny.

In the 1960s she was a secretary for Republic Aviation in Farmingdale.

In 1971, Mildred and Walter moved to Cherry Valley and operated Your Friendly Corner Store for 12 years.

She is survived by her sister, Dorothy

Baillie of Cherry Valley; daughters, Diane Wolny (Stephen Griffin) of Kansas, Sue Wolny of Roseboom and Gale Wolny (Wayne Graham) of Roseboom; and grandchildren, Christopher Fargnoli (Robin Fargnoli) of Florida, Kathleen Hurney of California and Alex Fargnoli of Kansas.

A funeral was held Sunday, Aug, 18 at her home in Cherry Valley.

Dennis C. Mang, 69; Worked At Remington, Bassett, Arc Otsego RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Dennis C. Mang, 69, of Richfield Springs, passed away unexpectedly on Friday Aug. 9, 2019, in Cooperstown.

Dennis was born on Jan. 2, 1950 in Cooperstown, the son of the late Charles F. and Elsie Mae Cardarelli Mang. A lifetime resident of the area, Dennis attended Richfield Springs Central School before serving in the Air Force from 1969 to 1973.

Dennis was employed with CP, Remington Arms, Bassett Hospital, Sitrin Home and Arc Otsego.

He enjoyed attending farm shows, and loved John Deere tractors. He most enjoyed family gatherings, and going to camp.

He is survived by a daughter Erika (John)

Swalgin, and grandson Nathan Swalgin, Kyle Tilbe, whom he thought of as a son, sisters Jean (Lee) Congdon, Barb (Richard) Strignano, a brother Allan (Sue Maldonato) Mang, and several nieces, nephews,

cousins, aunts and uncles.

In addition to his parents, he was pre-deceased by a sister Phyllis, daughter Tonya, and a nephew Travis Mang.

Funeral services were held Thursday, Aug. 15, with Pastor Andy Johnson of

the Second Baptist Church of Edmeston officiating.

Committal services with military honors were in the Springfield Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Delker and Terry Funeral Home.

Saint James Episcopal Church Some Places of Worship in Otsego County For info, call Thom at 607-547-6103.

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Church and Pioneer Streets, Cooperstown Sundays 10 am 607-547-8401

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St. Mary’s Catholic Church 31 Elm Street Cooperstown Saturdays 4:30 pm Sundays 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 am

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KUZMINSKI: Don’t Enshrine Beliefs; Don’t Prohibit Them. The Result: Freedom KUZMINSKI/From A5 zero-sum game of boosting some groups over others, of choosing what will be seen as winners over losers, of the righteous over the sinful, and so deepening our polarization.

Flags, other than the American flag, represent only a piece of the whole, and not the whole itself. They inevitably divide us into opposing groups. The Confederate flag, perhaps the most divisive of all, nonetheless represents the history of an important part of this country, and has value if

only as a sobering reminder of slavery, our worst failure as a nation.

• With all that in mind, the only flag that seems appropriate for any government entity to fly would be the American flag – the unique symbol of all of us, and of the common citizenship we share equally without distinction. (The only flags otherwise representing all of us are the New York State flag, for instance, and possibly the POW/MIA flag since the military is an arm of

our government.)

Only a government flag which stands for all of us – the American flag above all – can claim to represent all of us. Such a flag stands in for the sum of all the other specific group flags we can imagine, to the Pride flag, to the U.N. flag, and even the Confederate flag. Maybe there’s an environmental flag somewhere, or a Women’s Rights flag, or a Black Lives Matter flag.

Let them all fly freely, but not by official government sanction. To insist that govern-

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Confederate Flag Dishonors Our Ancestors To the Editor: My great-grandfather, Malachi Kraham, an Irish IMMIGRANT, came to this country in 1859. He settled in Otsego County and shortly after arriving, like many other young men from Otsego County, he joined the New York Militia during the Civil War. He served in the Union Army, under the American flag to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.

Eventually, he came back to Cooperstown, to his young

bride, raised a family, ran a business, became fire chief of the Neptune Company and mayor of Cooperstown. He was one of the lucky ones.

Many of his comrades were not so fortunate and died valiantly in a noble cause.

I find it particularly repulsive to see Confederate flags being prominently displayed and sold at the Otsego County Fair and along the highways and byways of our beautiful county. (Don’t bore me with the “free speech” argument.

Everyone knows what is really being “telegraphed”.) The Confederate flag represents sedition against the United States, i.e. seeking the violent overthrow of the government.

This is about decency. This putrid symbol of oppression and division mocks the sacrifice of Otsego County’s brave young soldiers. To fly or otherwise display this treasonous symbol dishonors our ancestors.

CONSUELO KRAHAM VELEZ Cooperstown

It’s Takes A Method To Handle Disagreements HEWLETT/From A4 critics speak their mind rather than silencing them actually increases the value and validity of my own viewpoint.

I have accepted that I may need more education and guidance, even constructive criticism, about the things I believe and write about. But can the public, including my critics, admit that as well?

If you or I cannot swallow our pride about

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Bobnick Enterprises II LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/8/2019.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Stan Bobnick, 754 County Highway 24, Richfield Springs, NY 13439 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NATE LULL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/6/2019.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Nate Lull, LLC, PO Box 185, Gilbertsville, NY 13776 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Tafel Dairy Farm LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State (SSNY) on 4/25/2019.

Official Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1342 County Highway 10, Laurens, NY 13796.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF J. Gorman Fine Jewelry,LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/24/2019.

Office Location: Otsego SSNY Desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 7571 State Highway 80, Cooperstown NY 13326.

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something we believe, something we’re very passionate about, then the least we can do is read and listen to both sides of the story, whatever that story may be, before we jump to conclusions about our critics.

Then we can at least know the reasons for their views and help them.

JASON HEWLETT Oneonta

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NOTICE AT&T proposes to construct a 199’ lattice tower at 760 County Hwy 11, Laurens, NY (20191345). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, September 12, 2019 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 5% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-notices.

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ment at any level endorse the claims and values of one or another group, no matter how righteous and virtuous they may actually be, is a recipe for division at best, and backlash at worst.

• But isn’t government the place where we’re supposed to settle our issues? Yes it is, and it’s true that our elected representatives can’t help but bring their individual passions and prejudices to the table. That’s how diversity is supposed to work.

But their job is – or ought to be – to have enough respect for their opponents to preserve the neutrality of the political space they have to share, and not try to redefine it in their image.

A guide here may be the

of such movements to freely express their own views, and fly their flags freely.

• The political space that is separated from religion (or belief, or opinion) is open to all by virtue of its being a neutral space of mutual respect.

Making sure that no beliefs are enshrined in law, and yet that none are prohibited in practice, paradoxically guarantees the freedom of belief.

Preserving such a space for exercising freedom has been the genius of American politics. Let’s keep it that way.

Adrian Kuzminski, retired Hartwick College philosophy professor and Sustainable Otsego moderator, lives in Fly Creek.

CUOMO: In Troubled Times, NY Takes Lead

CUOMO/From A4 immoral. This is not just antiAmerican. It is illegal. And we must confront it by enacting a new law to fit the crime. That is why today I propose that New York State pass a national precedent, a Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act for any person who kills in a mass attack on the basis of race, religion, creed, or sexual orientation.

The penalty should be the same as it is for other terrorism crimes, up to life without parole, because these are hate crimes on steroids. They are mass hate crimes and they are terrorism. And the punishment should fit the crime, period. In the state of New York, it will.

Now, as we address the cancer of hate we must also address the instrumentality of the hate, and

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Amendments may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification.

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Office location: Otsego County.

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that is the syringe that injects the cancer in the American body. That is guns. Guns in the wrong hands and guns that are extraordinarily dangerous.

Now the federal government is not impotent on this issue. It is politically paralyzed.

The federal government can and has tackled this issue before. In 1934, to combat gangsterism President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed legislation to regulate machine guns and sawed off shotguns. In 1968, in the wake of the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King the federal government passed legislation banning mail order gun sales. In 1994, the Clinton administration enacted a 10-year ban on assault weapons and it instituted the first system

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Here in New York, we saw what was going to happen. We saw the violent future in the bloodshed of the Sandy Hook massacre. That was six years ago and we acted. We passed the SAFE Act. …My friends, we know that New York State is at her best when she leads the nation through troubled times, and we do it by reminding Americans what America really means. We lead by example, by what we do – by passing the best gun law in the nation and now by proposing a new terrorism law to combat our new American terrorists. It is going to be the first law of its kind in the nation.

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Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/18/2019.

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Office location: Otsego County.

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Office location: Ostego.

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6 Months Into Retirement, General German Appears Eager To Open Next Chapter 19TH/From A1 congressman. If he faces a GOP primary and wins next June, he’ll face the Democratic freshman, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado on Nov. 3, 2020.

For now, Delgado, who has only been in office 10 months, is staying out of the fray. A statement from his office said he will continue to focus on “health care costs, expand rural broadband and support family farmers and veterans … (He) will continue to serve with accessibility, accountability and transparency.”

For German, as in any military assignment, the outcome is not assured.

On deciding to run for Congress, he contacted the Republican chairmen in the 11-county 19th District. “They

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were very excited about my bio,” said German. That was the upside. The downside is “nobody knows me.”

He met with the two most recent Republican incumbents: Chris Gibson, an Army colonel who served Otsego County in Congress from 2011 to 2017, and John Faso, former state Senate minority leader and 2006 gubernatorial candidate (against Democrat Eliot Spitzer), who lost to Delgado last November after a single term.

Both were encouraging, he said. Gibson told him, “Read my book.” Published in October 2017, “Rally Point” is subtitled: “Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream.”

Gibson also connected German with his former

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Before he can expect them to declare they’re backing him, “I’ve got to prove I can get support.” And that, said German, means monetary support. Last year, Faso raised $4.6 million in his reelection campaign; Delgado raised $9 million.

For that reason, German said, he filed his papers with the state Board of Elections Wednesday, Aug. 14, 14 months before Election Day. He’s got to get started.

Two other Republicans have General German’s already filed – Michael Roth, a official portrait before Woodstock contractor, and Ola his Feb. 2 retirement.

Hawatmeh, a fashion designer the accounting firm of Dale in St. Louis who recently Gardiner, Oneonta. moved back to her native Eager to become a pilot, Poughkeepsie. At this time he joined the Air Force as a in the last election cycle, six Democrats, including Delgado, navigator and spent the next had surfaced to challenge Faso. six years in active duty, mostly in North Carolina. “We need The candidate is also aware accountants,” he would later that Marc Molinaro, who ran explain, “but the Air Force was for governor last year and a lot more fun.” is now seeking reelection as In 1987, he shifted from Dutchess county executive, is the regular Air Force to the also considering a challenge state’s Air National Guard to Delgado.

The candidate, 60, was born 139th Tactical Airlift Squadron at Stratton ANGB, outside in Germany, where his father Schenectady. was stationed in the Army, By 2010, he was brigadier grew up in Roxbury, Delaware general and New York ANG County, received degrees chief of staff. In 2015, he was from SUNY Cobleskill and a major general in charge of SUNY ONeonta, and joined

the state’s Air National Guard.

A year later Governor Cuomo appointed him adjutant general, the state’s top military office.

Along the way, he underwent training at the Naval War College, MIT and Harvard, much of it in leadership skills.

His biggest political challenge came in 2013, when the National Defense Authorization Act cut all the ANG’s C-130s, which would have ended the collaboration with the National Science Foundation’s Antarctica Program, survey flights into the Arctic, and search-and-rescue missions off Long Island.

As ANG executive officer, he lobbied the state’s Congressional delegation, and succeeded in stemming the cuts.

The Niagara Falls unit alone would have been cut from 1,000 airmen to zero, with a $100 million impact on the community. “It would have been a big hit for New York State,” German said.

His approach to problemsolving? “There are 1,000 things we can disagree on.

What are the things we can agree on?”

As his responsibilities grew in Albany, the German family moved to Schoharie to be closer to Stratton ANGB, but moved back to Oneonta, where he and Diana built a ranch home on the hills

Bassett Doctor Hiked Up Film Fest Reviving Philo Vance while on a two-year recovery A1 Kilimanjaro Peak In 1961, PHILO/From from a cocaine addiction. following the film are planned His previous novel, “A Man Tuesday evenings, Oct. 15, 22 Promise” (1916), was also One Of 1st Women There andIt’s29.an extension of a movie ofwritten, in part, at the home,

WHELAN/From A1 trek to the top by SUNY Oneonta’s new president, Barbara Jean Morris. She reached the peak Friday, July 26.

Coincidentally, a CCS junior Will Weldon, son of Jeanette and Bill Weldon of Cooperstown, had reached the summit 10 days before with a Moondance Adventures group.

“The summer after I graduated college,” said Whelan, “I didn’t know what to do with myself. So I learned some Swahili and went to teach school in Tanzania.”

While there, she roomed with a woman named Sally Woodman and, with a group of friends, they decided to spend a weekend hiking the peaks. “It was there!” she said. “None of us really had any hiking experience except for Nile Albright; he was very athletic and had been an Olympic contender in barrel jumping on ice skates.”

The group hired guides and porters, and a cook for a shilling a day. “We didn’t have any equipment, just good walking shoes and jeans,” she said.

She kept a journal for the trip, which she then typed up and sent to her parents with photos. “We set up the mountain in petrol,” she wrote on Tuesday, Aug. 15. “The jeep burned out the transmission, and there was much pushing and digging trying to get it out.”

They first climbed Mawenzi, the companion peak to Kilimanjaro, at 16,893 feet, before heading up to the big mountain’s Uhuru Peak, 19,341 feet. “It was three days up and two down,” she said. “A very long, very uphill walk.”

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Since then, she noted, climate change has shrunk the mountain peak from 19,341 to 19,318 feet when it was measured in 2014.

As they neared the summit of Kilimanjaro, altitude sickness set in. “We were staying in the Kobo Hut, and Sally got up in the middle of the night and gave everybody aspirin,” she said. “I had the worst headache.”

At 1 a.m. on Aug. 19, they got up to set out for the summit to see the sunrise. “It was so cold, we donned all possible clothing,” she said. “The last part is all shale, so we were sliding everywhere. It was miserable at 19,000 feet.”

Some in the group got altitude sickness and had to stop. Phyllis, another girl in the group, hurt her ankle and had to turn back. “I foolishly eat chocolate and feel disinclined to go on,” she wrote. “I doze in a sunny niche, waiting.”

But when the hikers finally made it to the top to watch the sunrise, it was all worth it. “We had a good time,” Mary Anne said. “I went to sign the book, but Sally had already put my name in it.”

She snapped a photo of Sally at the summit, and Sally took one of her, but when she went to get them developed, the negatives were accidentally destroyed in processing.

But while in Tanzania, the future doctor also went on safari. “It was great to see herds of zebras and giraffes,” she said. “We stayed in Mombasa one night, and though the rooms were 10 shillings” – roughly $1.25 – “we gave them a case of beer and they let us stay for free!”

group, “Tea and Murder,” he hosts every Wednesday at the church, where viewers have an English tea and watch a classic detective film. “They’re nice, polite murders,” he said. “Miss Marple, Poirot, Nero Wolfe – and then someone mentioned S.S. Van Dyne. I didn’t know the name, but when I looked him up, I said, ‘That’s Philo Vance’!”

As S.S. Van Dyne, Willard Huntington Wright – one of Oneonta’s Huntingtons – may have written the first Philo Vance novel, “The Benson Murder Case,” in the home of his maiden aunts, Bertha and Julia Wright, at 31 River St.,

and the town, Greenwood, is modeled on Oneonta.

“The Benson Murder Case” was a best-seller, and he wrote 11 more Philo Vance novels, culminating in “The Winter Murder Case” in 1939, published shortly after his death at 50.

After reading the articles on Van Dyne in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, Hunter approached Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, about screening some of the dozen Philo Vance movies, several with screenplays written by Van Dyne.

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Interviewed there, he was upbeat, open, relaxed, in shorts and open sandals, seemingly eager to get started.

The couple’s youngest child, Becca, 21, graduated from SUNY Oneonta this past May, is planning to marry, and the young couple aim to spend a year in New Zealand.

The couple’s three sons, Josh, now 32, Ben, 29, and Zach, 24, all followed their father into the Armed Service.

They have two grandchildren.

For now, he expects his campaign to focus on three issues: One, health care. “Everyone can agree we need health care, and it needs to be affordable,” he said. “Republican, Democrat, independent – we’ve all failed. (But), it’s an issue that can be solved.”

Two, border security, immigration, but it’s also drug smuggling, sex trafficking and more, he said. “People have to come here legally,” he said, and it’s not a challenge that can’t be met. “I’ve been to all seven continents, 60 countries.

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