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In The Farmers’ Museum print shop, Michaela Lachance, Fly Creek, holds up a flyer printed on site especially for Hopsego, a celebration of all things hops-related Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Cooperstown campus.

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the Town of Hartwick. “I think there are a lot of things going on that we just don’t know about. This is very combustible gas in these tanks, and if the trucks are catching fire, that’s really frightening.”

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ELCOME BACK, COLLEGE STUDENTS! In recognition of her Cherokee roots, SUNY Oneonta’s new president traced the infamous “Trail of Tears” on her drive here from Colorado.

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verything’s in place to begin work on Cooperstown’s sole teven Rundblad Jr., traffic-light intersection and 34, accused of steal- other downtown upgrades as ing a cash register of the day after Labor Day from Sal’s Pizzeria on Main Weekend, Monday, Sept. 3.

Street, was arraigned in Town Before then, the Village of Otsego Court on Sunday Board is inviting the pubafternoon, Aug. 19, less than lic to a briefing at 7 p.m.

12 hours after the crime Wednesday, Aug. 29, at the allegedly occurred. fire hall on Chestnut Street.

Court documents allege The work will continue until Rundblad entered the pizze- the snow falls, then completria’s back door at around 2:13 ed in the spring, according to a.m. and took the machine, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh. containing $365.

This phase of downtown He was arrested by Village Please See BRIEFING, A11 Police later that morning.

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day, July 9, but the public is only now finding out about it after a citizen filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request.

“It’s just unbelievable to me to think that we’re not being told everything with these accidents,” said JoAnn Gardner, who lives on Route 205 in

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SUNY President To ‘Future Proof’ College Barbara Jean Morris Anticipates Confronting Amazon, Google, Online Challenges Locally

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SENATOR VISITS: U.S. LAURENS Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, tsego County is one D-NY, was at a reception at step closer to walking Brookwood Gardens over the on sunshine. weekend. No further details “I tried to go solar on my were available. own house a few years ago,” said Solstice spokesperson SON ARRIVES: Taylor Andrew Alayza. “I went to Jones, Chipper Jones’ wife, Solar City, and five minutes deliveredb baby Cooper Aug. 9. She had been due to in they told me my roof was deliver Induction Weekend. too flat.”

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A still-untenured professor at the University of Redlands, near San Bernadino, Calif., she was nonetheless elevated to poly-sci department chair, overseeing a cadre of argumentative and independent males, tenured to boot.

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Oneonta’s new president suggested.

It was a success. Among themselves, the professors and their new chair were able to sort out their various responsibilities so that all courses were covered.

Soon, professors were hosting Please See SUNY, A7

FRESHMAN ENROLLMENT UP TO 450

Hartwick Celebrates Legacy With Arrival Of 225th Class

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hen the Hartwick College freshmen takes their first stroll down Founders’ Way, they will be fulfilling a vision that started almost two and a

quarter centuries ago.

“This is the class that will graduate in 2022, the year the college celebrates its 225th anniversary,” said Karen McGrath, vice president for enrollment and student experience. “We were really intrigued by that, and wanted to celebrate this class.”

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Hartwick Vice President Karen McGrath poses at the new Founders’ Way, where the college’s 225th class will inaugurate a new tradition with a Sunday, Aug. 26 march.

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Lions, BFS, Sailing Club Clean Up Susquehanna

With Music, Ice Cream, $10,000 gift, Fairy Springs Celebrates 80 Years

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Village Trustee Jeanne Dewey, who also chairs the parks commission, gets a big scoop of ice cream from Nancy Herman as part of the 80th anniversary celebration of Fairy Springs on Friday, Aug.17. The event also included the presentation of a $10,000 check, to the village from the Friends of the Parks, to help supplement the costs of the multiple improvements made in Fairy Springs Park.

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Butch Weir, Cooperstown, Matt Chisdock and Doug Perry, members of the Otsego Sailing Club, haul an old 50-gallon drum aboard the Otsego Sailing Club work barge with help from the SUNY Biological Field Station volunteer dive team members Sarah Coney and Pat McCormack during a river clean-up behind Bassett Hospital on Saturday, Aug. 18.

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Wayfair carpet, 30 tires and a baby carriage.

No, it wasn’t a lawn sale. All this – and more! – was pulled out of the Susquehanna River by volunteers on Saturday, Aug. 18.

Working from the lake to the Mill Street bridge, volunteers from the Lions Club, the Otsego Sailing Club and divers from the Biological Field Station spent the day pulling debris, large and small, from bottom of the river.

Volunteer Chip Northrup said that it was likely the first time that section of the river – extending behind Bassett Hospital – had been cleaned.

Michael Jerome, Cooperstown, carries an old pot retrieved from the bottom of the river to a trailer that took the refuse to the dump.

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Land Trust Gala Will Honor Board Member Harry Levine

he Otsego will benefit the OLT Land Trust “Blueway Trail” will honor Stewardship Fund in “Volunteers cleaned debris out of honor of Harry. the Susquehanna for the first time in board member Harry Levine for 18 years The “Blueway recorded history, meaning probably of service during Trail” is a string of ever,” he joked. their annual Gala seven properties Working on small wooden barges owned and managed provided by the Otsego Sailing Club, Cocktail Party on Sunday, Sept.

2, at by the Otsego Land divers from the field station made Levine Brookwood Point.

Trust. All provide multiple trips to the bottom of the As part of his 18 free public access, river to retrieve the garbage ranging years of service, Levine has quiet recreation, and educafrom discarded bottles to 50 gallon been board chair for the past tional opportunities. drums.

Tickets can be purchased According to Northrup, additional 12 years. Additionally, the gala will also celebrate 30 by visiting OLT’s office items found were “…a rather nice at 101 Main Street, fishing rod and reel, dozens of apoth- years of land protection.

The Gala Cocktail Party Cooperstown between 9am ecary bottles, cinder blocks…Price will feature live local music -5pm, mailing a check to Chopper shopping cart, what appears to either be Jimmy Hoffa’s left by Joe Siracusa, complimen- OLT c/o Otsego Land Trust, PO Box 173, Cooperstown, femur or that of a deer, a whaling ship tary cocktails, and locally NY 13326, calling 607-547anchor, and a Pete Rose Hall of Fame sourced hors d’oeuvres and appetizers.

2366, ext. 108, or emailing T-shirt.”

Admission is $100 per becky@otsegolandtrust.org.

The trash retrieved from the bottom person, and ticket sales of the lake was taken to the dump.

Waller-Donovan Family Welcomes Charles William

Big sister Kate Donovan holds her new brother, Charles William, as father Jason feeds him.

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ristin Waller-Donovan and her husband, Jason, welcomed their son, Charles William Donovan, on Tuesday, Aug. 14.

Kristin is the daughter of former Cooperstown Mayor Carol Bateman Waller and her husband Bill. Bill was in attendance at the birth in San Diego, Calif.

Charles William – or Liam as he will be called – was 7 pounds 14 ounces.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 23-24, 2018

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Roadwork Can Mean Life, Death

Kay Stuligross signs in at the DOT hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2008, at Oneonta High School on safety improvement on the Southside.

The Good News: Oneonta, Cooperstown Projects Moving Forward

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f DOT engineer Peter Larson thought it was going to be a ho-hum hearing that Dec. 15, 2008, at Oneonta High School, Kay Stuligross quickly advised him otherwise.

“My husband was killed right there,” the former county representative told Larson, pointing to a spot

where Lettis Highway enters Southside, in front of McDonald’s.

Stuligross’ husband, Jack, a retired Hartwick College economics professor, had been riding his bike when it was struck by a car there on Oct. 2, 2007, just 14 months before.

He died of his injuries.

Just being there, Kay Stuligross

underscored: road improvements are matters of life and death. That’s often lost in the excruciating process of state and federal permitting.

Despite her testimony, the Southside roadwork – Project 9120.43 – was never done, as federal money dried up following the Great RecesPlease See EDITORIAL, A5

From Hometown Oneonta archives, 2008

ON THE RECORD

‘Make America Great Again’ Vs. ‘America Was Never That Great’ Editor’s Note: Governor Cuomo’s America “was never that great” comment Wednesday, Aug; 15, in New York City, set off a joust with President Trump, with the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Marc Molinaro, adding his contribution. Here’s the sequence of what happened. ►Governor Cuomo, Aug. 15 in New York City, while announcing funding to combat sex trafficking, said: “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great. We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged. We will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women … is gone.” ►Here’s what the president tweeted that afternoon: “Can you believe this is the Governor of the Highest Taxed State in the U.S., Andrew Cuomo, having a total meltdown!”

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Governor Cuomo sets off firestorm Wednesday, Aug. 15: “America was never that great.”

►Later that day, the governor tweeted this response: “What you say would be ‘great again’ would not be great at all...

We will not go back to discrimina-

tion, segregation, sexism, isolationism, racism or the KKK. “Like NY’s motto says: Excelsior – Ever Upward (not backward)”

►The next day, the governor’s press office issued this statement: “Jessica Proud, spokesperson for the Republican Party said, ‘America is and always has been

the greatest.’ She should talk to President Trump who says make America great again – which obviously means he doesn’t think it is great now.

“Governor Cuomo disagrees with the President. The Governor believes America is great and that her full greatness will be fully realized when every man, woman, and child has full equality.

America has not yet reached its maximum potential.

“When the President speaks about making America great again – going back in time – he ignores the pain so many endured and that we suffered from slavery, discrimination, segregation, sexism and marginalized women’s contributions. The Governor believes that when everyone is fully included and everyone is contributing to their maximum potential, that is when America will achieve maximum greatness.” ►And Friday, Aug. 17, at 4:44 Please See GREAT, A6

LETTERS

Housefire Underscores: If You’re Smoking, Quit

‘Anti-Everything’ People Control Debate

To the Editor: Smoke-free housing policies can save the lives of humans and pets. On Aug. 14, a fire caused by a lit cigarette torched a home on Ford Avenue in the City of Oneonta resulting in the unfortunate, but preventable death of the homeowner’s dog. Whether living in a single dwelling or multi-unit housing, there are real benefits in adopting and practicing smoke-free behaviors.

More and more housing owners and managers are protecting their tenants, staff

and investments by adopting smoke-free policies for their properties. Smoke-free housing policies reduce fire risks and may decrease insurance premiums, lower maintenance costs, improve value retention, make units easier to rent or sell, and lessen tenant conflicts due The Freeman’s Journal to secondhand smoke.

A dog died in the Aug. Smoke-free policies are le- 14 housefire at 89 Ford gal, non-discriminatory and Ave., Oneonta. easy to adopt.

The current adult smoking Tobacco use is the leadrate in Otsego County is ing cause of preventable 19.7 percent as compared death and illnesses in New York State and in the world. to the New York State rate of 14.2 percent. Smokefree housing policies are certainly one way to help UNDE FO address the county’s tobacco D R use problem.

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To the Editor: Your newspapers dedicated significant column inches on last week’s editorial pages towards the limitations of local energy.

Contained in the multiple opinion pieces was an overriding theme that Oneonta/ Otsego area people are opposed to expanded natural gas services.

But I believe it’s deeper than that. I think the antinatural gas elements are really hiding behind a phony cover for anti-economic

To the Editor: Bravo to John Rowley for organizing volunteers to clean up the Susquehanna River from the Mill Street bridge north.

Last Saturday, Aug. 18, members of the Cooperstown Lions Club and concerned residents using OCCA canoes, other personal craft and barges from the Otsego Sailing Club and the Biological Field Station were

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assisted by volunteer divers from the BFS. Over 30 tires, several 50-gallon drums, countless bottles and cans plus other debris were removed from the river and transported to the county transfer station.

Thank you and congratulations to all involved on a job well done!

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locally to drive economic and cultural progress, it will require a trusting collaboration of local public leaders (city, county, town) to actively endorse immediate, unbridled actions towards bringing new 21st Century good-paying jobs to the area.

Otherwise the area will continue to be asleep in reverse, wagged by a small, but vocal group of “anti-everything” people!

ALBERT COLONE Oneonta

To Those Who Cleaned Susquehanna, Congratulations

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progress, anti-change and anti-population growth; keeping things just the way they are.

And it’s working: The Otsego population is virtually the same as it was during the Civil War. We live in a depressed Upper Catskill, economically deprived historic preserve. A wise “old” local philosopher has, in his frustration, often uttered, “We have the Oneonta we want.”

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In 36 Years, Never A Dull Moment

s of this month, we have lived in Cooperstown for 36 years.

During this time we have managed to stick our nose into any number of undertakings. We have worked with a vast number of people on various projects. And we have been known to express our opinion on issues we find of importance to the community.

In fact, we must say that just thinking about all of our various endeavors makes us wonder how on earth we ever had the energy to undertake it all.

• When we first arrived in Cooperstown we joined The League of Women

Voters, The Women’s Club of Cooperstown and the MIBH Auxiliary. Later we took on the Fenimore Quilt Club, the Kingfisher Investment Group and the CATHERINE Literary DiscusLAKE sion Group.

ELLSWORTH Plus, we participated in activities such as the Episcopal Church Women as well as St. Margaret’s Guild at Christ Church.

We think over the years we served these organizations as board member, secretary, treasurer, vice president, president, facilitator and general factotum.

To say that we managed to keep ourselves busy is no doubt an understatement. Consequently, we have always had trouble understanding those occasional people who often lamented to us that there is nothing to do in Cooperstown. We suspect they simply did not search long enough or hard enough to find something to do.

Our interest in the Cooperstown Central School started out with the we Please See COLUMN, A5

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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

Excerpts regarding Advice for the Education of Children: “The education of youth is an important consideration. This will be admitted by every man of common discernment. Perhaps, no one object, in its various consequences, claims more of the attention of parents or guardians, than the right and proper education of their children. A mistake in this case is rectified with much difficulty. But what course shall parents pursue in this case? In the first place, never employ a teacher whose qualifications you are ignorant of. Let your first inquiry be – is he a moral man? Is his deportment exemplary?

Are his manners and conversation worthy of the imitation of your children? I do not say that it is absolutely necessary that he should be a professor of religion – but I say it is indispensable that he should reverence religion, and inculcate its principles. If he is an infidel, reject him at once, and suffer him never to have the management of your offspring.”

August 24, 1818

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125 YEARS AGO

The Union School, Cooperstown, was first opened in October, 1869, with an attendance of over 200 scholars. Mr. H.G. Howe was the Principal. Miss M.K. Gaylord, Preceptress, and Miss Martha A. Ball, assistant. For a period of about 24 years until the close of the recent term, Miss Ball has continued to be identified with this school in which our village has always felt a justifiable pride – as one of its leading, faithful and successful teachers, most of the time giving instruction in the higher English branches and in literature. There are hundreds of pupils who have received most of their education in our Union School who will always hold her in most appreciative and kind remembrance. Miss Ball, after this long service, has resigned her position in the school, and will now enjoy a wellearned rest from exacting mental labor.

August 24, 1893

175 YEARS AGO

What is Homeopathy? It is the new system of the practice of Medicine by the administration of minute doses, without deranging the general organization of the patient. The medicines, which embrace all those of the shops, as well as many medicinal plants, have been tried upon the physicians themselves, and their effects or symptoms particularly recorded, published and never refuted. They neither purge, puke, bleed nor blister, nor in any way derange the general organization, so that if the patient recovers, his strength is merely diminished by the disease and not by any violent operation of medicine.

August 28, 1843

100 YEARS AGO

150 YEARS AGO

A game of Base Ball was played last Saturday between the United Club of Laurens and the Union Club of Toddsville which resulted in the following score: United 120 Union 14.

The Automatic Clothes Washer and Boiler – We have been shown this new and wonderful improvement for sav-

August 21, 1968 ing of labor in washing. We are forced to acknowledge that it excels all the devices for this purpose that has ever before been invented. Its operation is purely philosophical and self-acting, and does away with all the hard labor of washing, and all the wear of the clothes. Washing day will no longer

In 36 Years, Never Bored COLUMN/From A4 we’s interest in serving on the school board, something he did for 15 years. We tend to think that during that time CCS was his second home.

And while we served on the school board for about a year, we found ourselves much happier simply attending school board meetings to glean what we could about the direction being taken by of our local educational institution.

Of course, each year we did our best to understand the proposed CCS budget.

Unfortunately, we never have figured out how the school budget continued to grow while student population continued to drop.

Naturally over the years we also got involved with the Village of Cooperstown.

We, the he-we and the she-we, served as co-chairs for the year-long Village of Cooperstown’s 1986 Bicentennial Celebration. It was quite an undertaking to say the least. And while we enjoyed participating in all the various events we suspect our son was somewhat less enthusiastic. In fact, we would tend to think to this day his eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “bicentennial.”

• We also served on the village’s parking committee which we readily admit was perhaps a most thankless job. While we were a member, the committee managed to get the trolley system up and running. However, the committee was much less successful in its attempt to get a parking structure built in Cooperstown. The outcry against such a proposal was unbelievable. And so the plans were dropped, much to the detriment, we think, of the village’s ever continuing parking issues.

be a terror to housewives. We are informed that Messrs Browning & Hooker have the agency for this place, and will give families an opportunity to test the boiler for themselves before purchasing.

August 28, 1868

We, the he-we and the she-we, also took on the roles of Santa and Mrs. Claus, holding forth in Santa’s cottage in Pioneer Park.

To say that it was an interesting undertaking doesn’t cover it. However, doing the Santa gig did give us a lot to write about. And we do think our readers seemed to enjoy reading about all our Santa experiences.

• Of course our time in Cooperstown was greatly enriched with our many experiences with various local theater groups.

We, the he-we and the she-we, started out doing some plays at both the Peppermill and TJ’s. Then we added to our theater activities Little People’s Theater, where we did plays with children from the fourth through the eighth grades.

Later we took on doing CCS senior plays.

And while we always enjoyed working with the students, we did not always enjoy the fact that the he-we always managed to cast every student who tried out for a play. And that meant that we, the she-we, had to produce a costume for every cast member, something which could prove to be somewhat overwhelming when there were upwards of 50 people in the cast.

Over time, we also worked with the Leatherstocking Theater Company and even spent two years at Hartwick College, designing and building costumes for their productions.

As we look back over our years in Cooperstown we have to say there was never a dull moment. Of course, there were always many, many hectic moments, all of which we will treasure as we make our move to Ohio where we fully intend to do absolutely nothing.

All those desirous of enrolling in the School of Information which will be held in Cooperstown on September 4 and 5 are asked to register their names with the Secretary at the rooms as soon as possible.

A nominal fee of $1.00 will be charged registrants. The public is invited to attend the lecture on September 4. It is hoped there will be a good attendance as the instructions given will be most beneficial. Twelve Red Cross chapters in the territory surrounding Cooperstown have been invited to send members. The Home Service section of the Red Cross was organized with just one purpose – to see that all families of soldiers and sailors are maintained in comfort and peace of mind while the men are in service.

August 21, 1918

75 YEARS AGO

The Fourth Victory Sing at the Otesaga Hotel Sunday afternoon brought the largest attendance and a program that has not

been surpassed in interest. The number from Cooperstown was augmented by many coming from greater distances and the crowd swelled to nearly 1,200. One group of young people rode their bicycles all the way from Lawyersville, a distance of some forty miles. Songs from the previous World War predominated. But several songs that have become popular since the outbreak of the present struggle were heard for the first time at a Victory Sing. Among these was “Comin’ in on A Wing and a Prayer.” “Over There” is the favorite from the former World War. August 25, 1943

25 YEARS AGO

The Susquehanna SPCA’s Sizzlin’ Summer Weekend wrapped up on August 15 with the “Dog Days” Pet Show. Among the top winners in the more than 20 competition classes were: “Best Singer” – Katy Lynch’s Midge; “1st Place for Longest Tail” – Natalie Frank’s Daisy; “Shortest Tail” – Betty Anne Sheats’ Kenmore; “Best Handling” Karen Pashley’s Tandy; “Longest Ears” – Myriah Zeien-Tarantelli with Rolly; “Closest to the Ground” – Margaret Ramsay’s Muttsie; “Best Smile” and “Best Hat” – Maria Petito’s Petie; “Best Small Dog” Tom Norton’ Augie; “Best Peanut Butter Eating” –Nancy George’s Cassius; “Best Trick” – George Sierigk’s GiGi; and “Best Catcher” – Phyllis Britcher’s Pippy.

August 25, 1993

10 YEARS AGO

Over the summer of 2008, the Cooperstown Police Department’s parking officers handed out 1,526 tickets at $35 each according to village Police Chief Diana Nicols. “A new world record for parking tickets,” she added. That’s a 45 percent increase from 1,055 the year before. Paid parking revenues are $45,306, Police Committee Chair and Trustee Lynn Mebust reported. “If you add in parking fines, that’s another twenty thousand dollars” she said.

But, there was another wrinkle, Mebust said.

There has been an increase in the number of people pleading not guilty which is causing a backlog in the Village Court. Some of the cases may not be heard for months.

August 22, 2008

Let’s Take Control Of Our Energy Future

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ecently, nearly 100 people crowded the Oneonta Town Hall to respond to a report by Otsego Now head, Jody Zakrevsky, about the controversial gas decompression station proposed for Oneonta.

The backlash was overwhelming. A long series of speakers unanimously condemned the project and demanded instead a full-scale effort to transition to renewables as soon as possible.

As the speakers pointed out, a myriad of solutions exist to the problem of inadequate natural-gas supply affecting some institutions and busi-

nesses in Oneonta.

We heard about retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency, replacing gas and oil furnaces with heat exchange systems, and developing local renewable ADRIAN energy sources, KUZMINSKI including solar and wind.

This isn’t pie in the sky. The Otsego County Conservation Association, for

instance, is currently supporting a NYSERDA-funded program, Heat Smart Otsego, to promote the financial and environmental benefits of currently available non-fossil fuel technologies.

Check it out.

The speakers also made clear the gravity of this issue.

We’re not just talking about inconvenience, higher costs, or limits to local economic development. We’re talking about a global crisis increasingly affecting us all.

The inability of our local comPlease See KUZMINSKI, A6

Long-Awaited Roadwork Will Make Oneonta, Cooperstown Safer EDITORIAL//From A4 sion that had begun just a couple of months before the OHS hearing.

That speaks to the complacency that sets in on road projects, as well as the competition among needy municipalities.

• Nonetheless, the past few days has brought good news on two projects, long on the books and long debated.

One, in Oneonta, the city and town jointly applied Thursday, Aug. 16, for $8.7 million in state funds to beautify Lettis Highway, add a sidewalk there, and build a sidewalk on Southside Oneonta from Lowe’s to the east to Home Depot to the west.

Two, in Cooperstown, for a redesigned traffic-light setup at Chestnut and Main, the village’s only traffic signal. The Village Board, that same Aug. 16, let a $1.9 million contract to Upstate Companies LLC, an Mount Upton firm, to do the work, beginning the Monday that Labor Day Weekend ends.

• In Oneonta – if the grant comes through; perhaps by January, Mayor Gary Herzig hopes – the sidewalks could finally address the major concern underscored by Jack Stuligross’ death.

As important, perhaps moreso, would be construction of a sidewalk on one side of the whole length of Lettis Highway, the four-lane that connects Main Street with the Southside strip.

Many Oneontans who work in the big box stores must now walk precariously along Lettis’ shoulder to their jobs, a long-ongoing danger that now

Mom Marcia Doyle of LaGrangeville, Dutchess County, crosses the expanse of Chestnut Street, Cooperstown, with son Patrick and daughter Devyn. Inset is Lettis Highway, Oneonta, as it is today.

Street – more new benches and the like.

Foremost, though, it will “bump out” the sidewalk in front of Mel’s 22, narrowing Chestnut Street there, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh said. “Walk/ Don’t Walk” signs will clearly guide pedestrians at all four crossings.

For years, anyone trying to cross The Freeman’s Journal that intersection on foot – but particumay come to an end, Herzig hopes. larly tourists, some 500,000 a year Right now, Lettis Highway – at – don’t know what to do. Drivers I-88’s Exit 15, the main entryway to passing through can see the apprehenthe city – makes a poor first impression on their faces. sion to the generally charming City of • the Hills. Some of the city’s money Both of these projects are longwould be used for less stark lighting awaited: Oneonta’s, a decade and (that would illuminate the roadway more; Cooperstown, five years, since AND the sidewalk). And it would cre- the original TEP application was subate a landscaped green median strip, a mitted. welcoming replacement for the Jersey As the work begins – in Oneonta barriers and asphalt. by next summer, it can only be hoped • – let’s keep Jack Stuligross in mind.

Some of the Cooperstown grant – a What happened to him didn’t have TEP, for the USDOT’s Transportato happen. Let’s do what we can to ention Enhancement Program – will be sure it doesn’t again to someone else. used for further beautification of Main

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KUZMINSKI: County Board Should Seek Energy Self-Determination KUZMINSKI/From A5 munity to do its part in getting us off fossil fuels is symptomatic of a larger political failure which is dangerous to our future. We have mostly relied on someone else to deal with this problem, usually in Albany or Washington.

They haven’t done the job, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to, at least not unless they’re prodded from below.

Yes, our community continues to be divided over energy policy. The editorial in last week’s edition of this paper characterized speakers at the town of Oneonta meeting as “anti-gas true believers.”

There were a couple of strident speakers, as with any large group, but nearly all were thoughtful people pointing out the very real and harmful consequences of using more gas.

Mike Zagata in last week’s paper also misinforms the public by talking

about “clean-burning natural gas,” when in fact there’s no such thing. The combustion of natural gas unavoidably produces CO2, a polluting greenhouse gas. Zagata admits as much by worrying if plant growth will absorb the extra CO2.

Even worse, he ignores the seepage of methane from wells, pipes and compressors, which adds another, more potent greenhouse gas to the mix, making natural gas as bad as any other fossil fuel.

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal By contrast, Zakrevsky, Otsego Now President Jody Zakrevsky details to his credit, bemoaned his decompressor-station plans to the Oneonta Town fate at the Town of Oneonta Board and 100 audience members Aug. 9. meeting, confessing to the capable parties interested in an effective mechanism for crowd his own confusion developing a local energy combining their resources and lack of expertise. He plan. Currently we have and talents to develop a plan was hired to promote local groups too often confined for all of us. economic development, he In my last column I mento their respective silos noted, not to make energy – elected officials, economic tioned the Tompkins County policy. He’s exactly right.

He and Otsego Now are not development people, the lo- Energy Roadmap (Google cal business community, the it!) as a precedent for what qualified to make energy colleges, the hospitals, the should happen here. That policy and should not be environmentalists, etc. initiative began in 2010 as tasked with that burden.

Each of them is workpart of a Tompkins County What was painfully obviing on their piece of the Energy Strategy for 2020. ous at the meeting was the It was first developed as a elephant. What’s lacking is lack of coordination among

project by Cornell graduate students.

In 2014, a steering committee was formed composed of individuals “who represent the breadth of experience, interest and perspectives within the community regarding our energy future.” The draft Energy Roadmap was then presented to numerous community groups and has since become the focus of Tompkins county energy policy.

This Energy Roadmap doesn’t rely on hiring expensive outside consultants, who are often ignorant of local circumstances; nor does it narrow options by handing authority to a single, unprepared agency. Instead it utilizes the expertise already found in a variety of existing organizations and individuals.

We may not have Cornell University, but we have SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. We have Otsego 2000, OCCA, Citizen Voices, chambers of

commerce, the Land Trust, Farm Bureau and Sustainable Otsego, and others. We have individual engineers and scientists and retired executives who’ve worked for multi-national corporations.

We have the talent.

Let me suggest, again, that the Otsego County Board of Representatives, in a bi-partisan spirit, is the logical authority to establish an Otsego Energy Task Force. A large, diverse umbrella group is far more likely to develop a comprehensive, viable energy strategy that gets it right, and to do justice to the needs of the community as a whole.

The point is to get key people in the same room and tackle the problem. It’s up to the County Board to make this happen. The time is NOW. Adrian Kuzminski, a retired Hartwick philosophy professor and Sustainable Otsego moderator, lives in Fly Creek.

LETTERS

‘Knee-Jerk’ Editorial On ‘Anti-Gas True Believers’ Pits Neighbor, Neighbor To the Editor: Last week’s editorial touting that a “Sensible Plan” for gas expansion in Oneonta had been proposed was clearly written by someone who never read that plan.

Submitted by Otsego Now’s executive director, Jody Zakrevsky, the plan seeks $3.5 million in CFA funding to build a decompressor station in Oneonta, to allow delivery of natural gas by bomb truck, for injection into a pipeline at Oneonta’s industrial park. As anyone who read the application would know, the Zakrevsky application is neither a plan nor sensible.

Crucial data, even mundane facts such as who the “applicant” is, are misstated. Throughout the document Zakrevsky states the applicant is the IDA known as Otsego Now. However, Zakrevsky claims the applicant has “900 full-time equivalent employees in New York”. That would be roughly 898 more employees than Otsego Now employs.

Zakrevsky is clearly referring to NYSEG as the applicant. This is telling. NYSEG is a subsidiary of AVANGRID, an affiliate of Iberdrola, SA, a Spanish energy company doing business in New York State. NYSEG does not need Otsgeo Now to submit grant applications on its behalf.

Due to the confusion about who the applicant is, funding for the project is also inexcusably muddled. The application requires the applicant to certify that it will contribute 10 percent cash equity of the $17.5 million project cost Is Otsego Now, as the Applicant, planning to contribute $1.75 million to this endeavor?

From what source? This should be highly relevant to the Otsego Now Board if they read the application.

The application also reveals that NYSEG is demanding that Otsego Now invest at least 20 percent of the estimated project cost of $17.5 million, which is $3.5 million.

The grant application is, therefore, intended to cover NYSEG’s con-

struction costs, rather than meet the usual purposes of a CFA grant.

Perhaps for this reason, Otsego Now does not even attempt to provide the usual support for a CFA grant. Among other omissions, the “net job creation” numbers are missing. In answer to how many net new jobs will be created over five years, Zakrevsky answers “0”. He also provides no answer for how many employees will be employed at the project locations; no answer is also provided for the types of new jobs which can be expected cumulatively over 5 years. For a grant proposal intended to create new jobs, this is a highly dubious strategy.

The application is similarly internally inconsistent concerning where the project will be located. An address in Oneonta is given, but elsewhere as many as 7 locations are claimed, between Chenango and Otsego counties.

Significantly, there is no explanation as to what will be constructed at each location, what Otsego

Now’s role in developing these facilities will be, and how they will specifically benefit Otsego County.

Perhaps the most egregious aspect of Zakrevsky’s application is the suggestion that it will provide environmental benefits by abating the need for a handful of customers to switch to “dirty” oil several days each winter. He makes no mention of the GHGs which will be emitted through the extraction, including fracking, gathering, compression, transportation, decompression, and eventual combustion of the gas to be trucked in. This is a serious oversight. It is common sense that any claim of GHG reduction as a project benefit, must be weighed against the additional GHGs which will be emitted if the project is constructed. If Zakrevsky had done his homework, he would know that when total GHG emissions – including methane leakage – are considered, fracked gas offers no climate benefit over fuel oil.

Free-Market Alternative To Obamacare Is Necessary To the Editor: Re Richard Sternberg’s LTE (Aug. 9-10 editions) headlined, “Yes, We Need Jobs Here, But Faso’s HealthCare Stance Will Only Reduce Jobs.”

His letter faults Congressman Faso’s vote against Obamacare’s (ACA’s) individual mandate. Mr. Sternberg feels this vote was a job-killer. He’s wrong on both the national and local level.

The 2,000-plus pages of the ACA (“You have to pass it in order to read it.” – Nancy Pelosi) were cobbed together by the Democrats and passed on a straight party-line vote. Republicans were not invited to participate in the ACA’s creation. The Democrats own this monster. And they own its failure.

And fail it did. Remember these lines? “You can keep your doctor.

You can keep your plan. The ACA will reduce costs.” How did those promises work out?

The individual mandate went to the Supreme Court, resulting in a convoluted decision. The young opted for penalties rather than insurance. State exchanges failed. Insurance companies consolidated; many exited the

market. Competition collapsed – one third of the counties in the USA have only one health-insurance provider.

Premiums sky-rocketed to painful levels.

The ACA was a major factor in the anemic 2.1 percent GDP yearly growth in the Obama years, a rate well below historical averages. Democrats declared this decline in productivity as “the new normal.” Employers capped employment in order to avoid insurance mandates. Employees learned to live with the 29-hour work week.

The 30th-hour triggered “full time” employment with its own set of obligations. With less work and less hope, adult children moved back home to make ends meet, spawning a national punchline – “living in Mom and Dad’s basement.”

As a school board member, I’ve watched insurance rates rise in double digits every year. Premiums were paid at the expense of jobs and programs, no matter how hard we searched for new consortiums or tried to reduce benefits. The competition for the school’s dollar was (and still is) lim-

Democratic Party Has Answer To Constitutional Challenge To the Editor: The United States of America is now experiencing possibly the most serious threat to our Constitutional Republic in its 242 years of existence.

The Democratic Party is at the forefront of efforts to save our Republic and preserve our Constitution, freedom of the press, rules of law, freedom of speech, fairness, justice and equality for all.

The Otsego County Democratic Committee (OCDC) is our local branch of the National Democratic Party.

As a veteran and a proud member of the OCDC, I invite everyone to join with us to continue to support our nation that is built upon the ideal of responsible selfgovernment.

The OCDC is having its annual dinner and gathering at the SUNY Oneonta Hunt Union Ballroom on Sept. 8.

Everyone is welcome to attend. It is expected to be our largest gathering.

More information can be found at OtsegoDemocrats. com.

JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown

ited.

John Faso favors a competitive, openly free-market healthcare system.

Government control inevitably results in higher costs and, as expenses balloon, poorer quality health-care. Problems of the uninsured can and should be addressed within the free market system.

Allowing interstate competition, autonomous health savings accounts, targeted catastrophic plans with high deductibles for the young, and innovative financial support instead of government control, our health-care system can thrive.

Congressman Faso favors solutions, not a patch-job to a system that not only patently doesn’t work but drives costs higher. Mr. Delgado, his Democrat opponent, will follow the dictates of his party, i.e. Nancy Pelosi.

Two Point One GDP, anyone?

Fewer jobs, higher health care costs, return to a system that that was crumbling before our eyes.

We can do better!

DICK DOWNEY Otego

The application also wrongly states that OCCA supports the project and in press reports Zakrevsky claimed that Lou Allstadt does too. Both OCCA and Mr. Allstadt deny that this is the case. No one could support the application as written. The application is wrong substantively, as well as being incomplete.

Your newspaper pits neighbor against neighbor, suggesting any opposition to this questionable plan is a knee-jerk reaction by “anti-gas true believers.” Yet, a rush to judgment that all gas, at any cost, in any location, is better than alternatives is not constructive for our community. Otsego Now should not be allowed to act simply as a vehicle to secure CFA funding to be handed over to NYSEG, the true beneficiary of this application. We should expect more from Otsego Now. NICOLE A. DILLINGHAM, J.D. Board President Otsego 2000

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ISSUE & DEBATE: Was America Never Great ?

GREAT/From A4 a.m., Trump responded again: “How does a politician, Cuomo, known for pushing people and businesses out of his state, not to mention having the highest taxes in the U.S., survive making the statement, WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT? Which section of the sentence is worse? ►Which brought this statement from Cuomo

The Molinaro campaign is vending an alternative to the MAGA hat – price: $17.76.

later that day: “The expression I used

the other day was inartful, so I want to be very clear,” Cuomo said. “Of course, America is great and of course America has always been great. No one questions that.

“As you know, my family is evidence of American greatness. My grandparents came to this country as poor immigrants and their son became governor and his son became governor.

That’s never been a question.” ►Meanwhile, Marc Molinaro, the Republican challenging Cuomo in the

Nov. 6 election, weighed in with this statement, which he incorporated into a petition on his homepage, www.marinoforny.com, to send to the governor.

“America, with its imperfections, has always been great. Our people, our principals and our promise have been a beacon light to the world for 242 years and counting.” ►The Molinaro website is also selling a baseball cap inscribed, “America Was Never That Great, Cuomo 2020.” The price: $17.76

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New President Aims To Adapt SUNY Oneonta To Meet 21st Century Challenges SUNY/From A1 faculty meetings in their homes, and they were much more congenial affairs.

Calling themselves the “old boys club,” they nonetheless made her a member – and gave her a cigar.

She has a photo of herself and the gang, smoking their cheroots.

“We had the same values – and the same ends,” the 50-something academic explained during an interview at her new home on West Street, formerly that of the Homer Folks TB Hospital director.

If that beginning seemed unpromising, so does the rest of her story.

Of her four grandparents, only one grandmother graduated from elementary school.

While lacking a college degree, her father, Bobby Don, who moved the family from Texas to San Diego when his daughter – one of two – was a baby, nonetheless rose to the rank of

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lieutenant colonel in the Reserves and National Guard.

There are three ways to enter the power elite, he communicated to his daughter: Politics, the corporate world and the military.

Barbara Jean Morris found a fourth: academe.

Accepted to the first class of women at West Point but deterred by the requirement she spend a year in prep school, she turned her sights to the Ivy League.

But learning of her focus on Princeton, her father was unimpressed. “Do they have a football team?” he asked. “San Diego State has a darn good football team, and you can stay at home and work.”

She did, then fell in love and married young, studying alongside her husband for their bachelor’s degrees.

When that marriage ended, the mother of three – at one point, she was running a catering business, too – managed to complete her master of arts and doctorate in political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

With her family helping to care for the kids, she got her first job at Redlands, a 90-mile commute from her San Diego base, and was on her way.

From department chair, she soon became associate dean, then dean of the 2,400-student, 110-year-old campus in Greater L.A. that prides itself on diversity and “transformational mentorship.”

“I don’t always plan,” said Morris. “I keep the windows open and develop along the way. And take advantage of opportunities.”

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Over 16 years, her onehour, 15-minute commute had grown to three hours, “each way.” Her children in or heading to college, she began to look for the next opportunity, joining Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., as provost.

Provost – chief academic officer, in her case with a title of vice president – is usually a jumping-off point for president, but she was happy simply thriving at an institution “aligned with my values.”

Part Cherokee and Comanche, she oversaw the academic aspirations of a student body from “170 American tribes and Native Alaskan village,” as well as

Compared to Colorado, which she said has “no commitment to higher education” – it has a plan to end all state funding of college within 10 years – she was particularly attracted to New York State’s support for education at all levels.

Long story short, the SUNY Trustees announced Jan. 23 Barbara Jean Morris would succeed Nancy Kleniewski in the Netzger Administration Building’s fourth-floor corner office on July 1.

She has spent her first few weeks on a “listening tour,” and is still digesting the findings. At 7 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 26, the new president plans to “pass through the Pillars” – a SUNY Oneonta tradition – with incoming freshmen.

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A provost “serves at the pleasure of the president,” though, and her boss, Dene Thomas was retiring. (At Oneonta, Jim Mackin has been filling in since Maria Thompson left in 2015 for a college presidency in Baltimore, and Morris plans to fill that position in the next year.)

The SUNY Oneonta job showed up in her email, and she deleted it. At the annual Millennium Leadership Conference for university executives, however, she ran into SUNY Fredonia President Ginny Horvath. At another conference, she met departing SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher.

Impressed by them and what they told her, she fished the application out of her “Deleted” file.

A rigorous, but exhilarating, process followed. “It felt like a tractor beam,” she said. “Every time they asked for more work, I did it.”

A highpoint was the “airport interview,” with applicants flown in to Albany International to meet prospective colleagues from Oneonta, among them the College Council’s Joe Bernier and Human Ecology Professor Theresa Russo, (the former Cooperstown Central school board president).

SUNY Oneonta President Barbara Jean Morris and an example of Southwestern art she brought from Colorado.

Classes begin Monday, Aug. 27, and that Friday, Aug. 31, Morris will deliver her first address to the annual faculty breakfast at 8 a.m. in the Hunt Union Ballroom.

Certainly, she will continue to pursue diversity issues, but “the goal is always the students” – 68 percent are women; 32 percent men – “ensuring their success and being a role model,” she said.

Looking ahead, the new president said she’s particularly interested in “future proofing” the institution, given that bricks-and-mortar colleges are under competitive pressure from virtual ones, and Amazon and Google both looking to get into the field.

“We don’t want to become just another strip mall with empty retail space,” she said.

At Fort Lewis, traditional classroom training was paired with certification programs, ensuring that graduates would be able to move into well-paying careers. That’s a model she’d like to look at here.

She hopes SUNY Oneonta can play a role in stemming Upstate’s outmigration challenge, acting “not just as an employer.

Can we be a catalyst so you can live, learn and stay?”

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Hartwick Sought ‘Connected,’ ‘Engaged’ Students In Building 225th Class HARTWICK, From A1 Hartwick College was founded in 1797 as the Hartwick Seminary through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, the German-born Lutheran minister called to lead mission congregations along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers in 1746.

After famously feuding over land claims with Cooperstown’s founder William Cooper, he died before his dream of opening a seminary came true, the college – then the first Lutheran seminary in America – was founded in 1797.

On a 1927 initiative of the Oneonta Chamber of Commerce called for a community initiative to bring Hartwick to the city. A public fund drive exceeded a $20,000 fundraising goal in 16 days, and 115 acres on Oyaron Hill were donated for the campus, which opened in 1928.

“In anticipation of this important milestone, last year I charged a planning group of students, faculty and administrators to develop a plan that would help

assure even greater levels of student success,” said Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich. “The planning process, called ‘Hartwick 225: Students First,’ had two objectives. The first objective was to expand our revenue base to better support the financial need of our students, and their engagement in our transformational educational program.”

The plan included plans to create new undergraduate

and graduate program offerings, maximizing enrollment, focusing on career preparation and increasing the number of international students.

The plan resonated with high school seniors, and enrollment for this fall increased considerably, up to 450 from 387 last year. “Last year was a firestorm with the Excelsior program,” said McGrath.

“We’ve recovered from that.”

In seeking students for this class, Hartwick looked for those with a background in service to their communities. “If I had to describe this class in two words, they would be ‘engaging’ and ‘connected’,” she said. “They are volunteers, athletes, travelers, musicians…this is a very interesting class.”

The class will all sign a “Class of 2022” banner, which will be placed in the college’s archives until graduation. “It bookends their time here,” she said.

“And it records this year in history as a celebration of this class.”

The orientation week Founders’ Walk along the walkway was established

along the top of the hill, past Bresee Hall at 7 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 26, is new to this class, debuted to alumni during last year’s “True Blue” weekend.

Each student will light a blue candle to carry along the walk as President Drugovich talks about the college and Founders’ Way. “They’ll reach the pergola just as the sun sets over that amazing view of the valley,” said McGrath. “It’s a wonderful way to begin their journey.”

The Founders’ Walk honors not just Hartwick himself, but the city and town of Oneonta. “Our roots are connected to the community,” she said. “Founders’ Way is a wonderful reflection of town and gown relations.”

They’ll also sign the “Matriculation Book” – a black leather volume – during a ceremony on Wednesday, Aug. 22 in the Yager Museum. Later that night, Drugovich will show them the Hartwick Bell, which won’t ring until graduation, when the class rings their own replica bells alongside it.

The matriculation book – a 1970s tradition that

Drugovich revived – is also brought out again at graduation, during the “Senior Dinner” at President Drugovich’s home before graduation.

“You watch students pore over the pages, looking for their names,” said McGrath.

She believes more activities to celebrate the class of 2022 – and the college – are forthcoming as the anniversary draws nearer. At the 200th anniversary in 1997, a book of photographs and college history was produced.

“The next four years will be an exciting time at Hartwick as we build toward even greater student success through implementation of the Hartwick 225: Students First,” said Drugovich. “This is a great time to be a member of this community, and we are delighted that our newest students will be here with us to celebrate Hartwick’s past, and its future.

“These students will come here and change the face of Hartwick College,” she said. “They’ll leave their own legacy at a time when they’re celebrating this historic moment.”

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Few Knew That XNG Truck Caught Fire July 9 In Town Of Oneonta XNG/From A1 Gardner obtained reports equipment failure started a fire in the rig’s wheel assembly at 3:45 p.m. that day as it passed Country Club Road in the Town of Oneonta, heading south.

“A failure in the tractor wheel assembly caused a fire to ignite in the front passenger side wheel,” the report reads. “The fire caused damage to front passenger side wheel assembly

and undercarriage. Unit and trailer towed from the scene.”

City Fire Chief Patrick Pidgeon said Tuesday, Aug. 21, that he sent out two engines and seven firefighters on the call; on arriving, they observed a state trooper who happened on the scene, Anthony T. Casimano, using a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze.

Firefighters then doused the wheel with water to

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While the fire – it occurred two days before a northbound XNG rig toppled off Route 28 south of Schuyler Lake on July 11 – was minor, the news it happened at all was greeted with surprise by Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham.

“I just don’t understand how nobody in the community knew about this.

That is very alarming,” said Dillingham, who has argued the 80 rigs going back and forth daily between Northeast Pennsylvania fracking fields and the Iroquois pipeline near Little Falls are a danger. Her organization believes they XNG rigs should be kept on four-lane highways.

“If this company is not notifying emergency services on our road, then it is a very serious issue,” she said. “If they claim that the trailer did not sustain damage, how do we know that’s

This is the kind of truck that has been plying back and forth on Routes 205, 80 and 28 since the “virtual pipeline” began in February 2017.

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true? I mean, what basis do we have to trust them when they have had so many incidents over the past year?”

Otsego County 911 Director Rob O’Brien said Casimano, not the driver or XNG, placed the 911 call.

“It wasn’t a 911 emergency call,” O’Brien said. “I believe the call was generated by a trooper passing the accident scene who responded to the issue.”

Even though the rig was heading in the direction of Northeast Pennsylvania, it

doesn’t mean it wasn’t carrying natural gas, according to Bill Huston, director of the Stop the Bomb Trucks Coalition. “The question about how much gas when unloaded is very complex,” said Huston. “I estimate that when ‘unloaded,’ one of these vehicles still has between 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of gas.”

According to Huston’s blog, which is updated regularly with new information, there have been six total incidents in Otsego County

involving XNG trucks, with the first occurring when a truck ran off the road and rolled over into a ditch in the Town of Otsego on Sept. 9, 2017.

Asked for reaction on Monday, Aug. 20, XNG spokesman Jon Pierce issued the following statement: “On July 9, an XNG trailer travelling north of Oneonta experienced a wheel seal leak that resulted in minor combustion. The driver stopped the vehicle and the combustion was extinguished. Police and fire were promptly notified, but no action was required.

“The tractor was taken to a local repair shop to replace the tire and seal. The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles declined an accident report (form MV-104) as the total cost of repair was less than $1,000 and no other parties were involved. The tractor was repaired and operational within 48 hours.”

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Pamela J. Stewart, 62, Hartwick; Residential Aide At Local Institutions HARTWICK – Pamela J. Stewart, 62, a residential aide at The Meadows, Arc and Springbook, passed away peacefully Tuesday night, Aug. 14, 2018, with family by her side at her home on Buchanan Drive in Hartwick following a courageous battle with cancer.

She was born July 2, 1956, in New Berlin, a daughter of Franklin Jay and Wanda L. (McLean) Stewart. After graduating from Cooperstown Central School with the Class of 1974, she attended college.

For many years she served as a residential aide at The Meadows, the Arc Otsego in Hartwick, and Springbrook in Oneonta. At one time she also worked for a cabinet maker in Virginia, a job she truly enjoyed.

She had a love for hunting and fishing, and was an avid fan of the New England Patriots.

Pamela is survived by her children, Alicia Poole and husband, Luke of Hartwick, John Franklin Field and his significant other, Christina Jones of Davenport

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and Sean Patrick Field and his significant other, Julie Young, along with her two children, Kalynn and Kinsley, of Michigan; seven grandchildren, Dante and Andrew Wellman, Ian and Claire Poole, and Aiden, Jace and Gabriel Field; two sisters, Jodi L. Bottita and husband, Jack of Hartwick and their children, Jack, Roxanne and Chris, and Lori K. Stewart and wife, Melissa Cook of Rensselaer, and Lori’s son Sam Stewart.

She was predeceased by her mother, Wanda L. Stewart, her father, Franklin Jay Stewart; a daughter, EmmaLeigh Frances Stewart; and her brother, Willard Wayne Stewart.

A Memorial Service will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, August 25, at the Hartwick Christian Church, with the Rev. Laverne H. Saxer, pastor officiating.

Immediately following the service, Pamela’s family will receive friends in the church hall for a time of refreshment and fellowship.

Expressions of sympathy in the form of memorial gifts may be made to the Hartwick Rod and Gun Club, PO Box 251, Hartwick, NY 13348.

Arrangements are under the care and guidance of the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

Charles Briscoll, 87; Ran S+S Liquors In Southside Mall ONEONTA – Charles “Chuck” Briscoll, Air Force veteran and partner in the former S+S Liquors in Southside Mall, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, following a lengthy illness.

He was born on Aug. 25, 1934, in Oneonta, the son of George and Bertha (Merness) Briscoll.

He is survived by his loving wife, Sandra of Oneonta; his daughter, Sharon Wilsey O’Donnell and son-in-law, Billy O’Donnell of East Meredith; his granddaughter, Elissa Wilsey of Chicago, Ill.; his son, David Briscoll; twin grandsons, Alexander and Nicholas Briscoll of Orlando, Fla.; and his sister, Ruth Martin of Milford.

A funeral mass was held Monday, Aug. 20, at St. Mary’s Church, Oneonta.

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Ferris was born in Davenport Ferris leaves behind his son, on July 3, 1921, the son of Fred Duane F. Banner (Marge); A. and Madge (Loucks) Bangrandchildren, Wendy Chase, ner. Shortly after he was born, Tracy Ross (David), Deanna he moved to the Banner family Gray (Chris), and Star Banner; dairy farm, where he spent the great grandchildren, Matthew, E. Ferris rest of his days working the Dylan and Kaylee Ross, Cody and Banner family farm with this brother Connor Gray, and Mason Hannan; Carl and then eventually his son Duane. son-in-law Fred Maloof; sister-in-law He graduated from Milford Central Shirley Udder Banner; as well as many School in 1940. He married Gladys Cornell nieces, nephews, and great nieces and on Sept. 28, 1946. nephews.

Ferris devoted his life to maintaining He was predeceased by his parents; the upkeep and pristine appearance of the his wife Gladys; his daughter, Janet BanBanner family farm, even after it had been ner Maloof, and his siblings, Carl Banner, sold in 1992. He was a livestock dealer Betty Banner Monser, and Marjorie Banner and part-owner of the Milford Commission VanBuren.

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A graveside service will take place priFamily was extremely important to him vately at the convenience of the family in and he doted over his two children, four Milford Cemetery. grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-11

Developer To Begin Building Community Solar Farm In Laurens Next Week SOLAR/From A1 starting construction of a 13-acre community solar farm on Pool Brook Road here, giving homeowners – including renters – access to cost-effective and environmentally friendly solar energy.

“Eighty percent of the population nationwide cannot install solar panels because of cost, their roof is too old or their roof doesn’t face the right way,” said Alayza.

Delaware River Solar is building the project in partnership with Solstice on a former hay farm. “It’s one of the larger projects we’ve worked on,” he said. “We will be able to serve 400 customers.”

The goal is to install 7,920 panels, 345 watts each. On a sunny day in July, the panels will be able to generate as much as 402,000 kWh, while generating 136,000 kWh in winter months.

With the average household paying $120 a month for electricity, Solstice promises 10 percent savings every month for subscribers, with credits carrying over from the high months to the low.

“Community solar projects, in a centralized location, produce electricity on behalf of the subscribers and sends it to NYSEG,” said Alayza. “The customer gets those credits on their electric bill.”

In 2017, Otsego County

built a solar farm off County Route 11, at the other end of the Town of Laurens, and is using the electricity to like county buildings.

Contracts for customers are year-to-year, as opposed to the long-term contracts solar companies usually are.

“Traditional community solar projects ask people to sign a 30 year contract,” he said. “Can you imagine being in your 40s, a homeowner, and having to commit to something until your 70s? We want to give

consumers peace of mind, whether it’s for five years or 30 years. We don’t want people to feel shackled.”

And because the credits are applied to the customer’s bill, customers who rent or may move are eligible to apply. “There are no upfront costs or cancellation fees.”

According to Cindy Menges, a spokesperson for Delaware River Solar, the project will bring approximately $300,000 in additional revenue for the town and create 37 full-time

construction jobs during the installation phase.

Delaware has built such projects in the towns of Delaware, Parma and two in Baldwin, and has 30 projects planned for the future.

But these panels are expected to last as long as 40 years, after which time the panels could, if the developer chooses, be taken down, recycled and the land returned to flat use for farming or development. “It’s a way of protecting the land,” said Alayza.

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Town Supervisor Bob Wood, a former fire commissioner himself, said, as he understands it, the commissioners could dissolve that evening by a 3-2 vote.

With chair Johna Peachin and commissioners Fred Volpe and Ron Peters supporting that idea, there appears to be the necessary majority, Wood said. Commissioners Michelle Catan

Briefing Planned On Roadwork BRIEFING/From A1 upgrades – how to spend a $1.2 million federal Transportation Enhancement Program (TEP) grant – has been in the offing for five years.

The trustees award let a $1.9 million bid Wednesday, Aug. 16, to Upstate Companies LLC, Mount Upton, and held a “pre-construction” meeting Tuesday, Aug. 21.

A sticking point in the planning was the idea of removing the hanging traffic signal at Main and Chestnut and replacement it with numerous poles with arms and hanging lights. In the final plan, the hanging light remains, and more modest “walk/don’t walk” signs.

Other particulars include: • New sidewalks on portions of Pioneer Street and Main Street.

• Upgrading crosswalks

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• New trash cans and recycling bins.

• Better lighting on Pioneer Street in the business district • Replanting of trees that have been lost over the years, and adding plants to the rain gardens.

• Bike racks and new matching benches • A drinking fountain and bike-repair station At the briefing, Upstate, engineers Barton & Loguidice and the state Department of Transportation will make presentations and answer questions.

and Al Rubin favor negotiating a new contract with the city, he said.

From a service standpoint, while the independent fire district would dissolve, a “fire protection district” would continue to exist and the town board would then assume negotiations with City Hall.

Wood said he and three of the four town board members – Pat Jacob was away on vacation – attended the fire commissioners’ meeting Aug. 14 to urge the body to reach a deal with the

city and continue the current arrangement, but were rebuffed.

While the end to the fire district would not endanger the area it currently serves – Southside and the East and West ends beyond the city line – there are some issues, Wood said.

Wood said both he and Herzig, his city counterpart, were taken by surprise about the dissolution decision.

But, he continued, “this is their issue and their responsibility. It’s not my place to tell them what to do.”

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MLS#114251 $429,000 91-acre equestrian facility offers 23 box stalls, indoor riding arena, 4-BR newer home, 3-BR apartment, large pond, plus lots more.

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MLS#117113 $89,900 Tremendous Value! Great home w/4 BRs, 1 bath, huge enclosed front porch, shed, 2-story barn w/gardening room, upper lawn, patio, large field.

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MLS#112548 $299,000 Established, turn-key B&B/cafe w/5,000± sq ft, new covered deck roof. Equipment/fixtures/furniture stay.

Great investment w/development possibilities.

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MLS#105054 $80,000 Lake Rights, Amazing View! 3.5 acres overlooking Canadarago Lake w/lake access, dock. Buy now and enjoy the summer, don’t let this opportunity pass!

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MLS#116387 $244,900 4 separate parcels, 16 rental units. The 16 units generate income of $105,000 annually, w/net income in 2017 of $36,000+. Owner can hold mortgage.

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MLS #115419 $244,900 Year-round Home! 2.3 acres, secluded! Granite, kitchen isle, 2 porches, radiant heat, foam insulation, hot water on-demand, Hardie Board. 3 BRs, 2 baths.

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MLS#116730 $250,000 Turn-key restaurant on 1.23 acres has prime commercial location on Route 28 corridor between Cooperstown and Dreams Park!

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MLS#116158 $562,000 Gorgeous Otsego Lake Home Make this your home away from home, or year-round living.

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Adjoining State land! Charming farmhouse w/149.14 acres on beautiful County Hwy 33 in Cooperstown.

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Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

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This Weekend’s There’s Plenty Goin’ On Down On The Farm

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t’s getting on towards harvest time and the farmers of Otsego County want to show you what they do best! From fish to bees to corn and cattle and more, Family Farm Days offers you a chance to visit a series of Upstate farms. Bring a cooler and take home some delicious, farm-fresh goodies! 10 a.m.-

4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, download a farm guide at www.cceschoharie-otsego. org/agriculture/familyfarmday.

• While you’re out on the farm, don’t forget to stock up on savory garlic too!

Dancing Veggie Farm is hosting its annual garlic festival. Stock seeds and get

recipes too! 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 2526, Dancing Veggie Farm, 246 Ainslie Rd., Richfield Springs. Info, (315) 8581095.

• What’s a farm without a loyal sheepdog? Even if you can’t bring a Good Boy (or girl!) home with you, you can still enjoy the fluffy fun

of the annual Leatherstockthis weekend, the Oneonta ing Sheepdog Trials, with Concert Band will perform handlers showing off skills some of his famous marches with their dogs to try and – and plenty others – in herd sheep. $5. 8 a.m.-4 Huntington Park. Bring a p.m. Saturday-Sunlawn chair or blanket things day, Aug, 25-26, and enjoy an afterOpen field, Beaver to do! noon of music.

Meadow Road, 3 p.m. Sunday, Cooperstown. Info, Aug. 26, Huntington hinmanhollowdogs@ Park, Oneonta. Info, yahoo.com (607) 432-0960.

• • You can even The Star Theater see antique tracin Cherry Valley will tors and engines host a screening of that date back to the LIBBY the award-winning CUDMORE early 1900s at the documentary “BeFly Creek Cider mill, coming Who I Was,” part of the Fly Creek about a boy who is discovCommunity Days. Lawn ered to be the reincarnation sales, food and more of a revered monk and the throughout the village. 10 journey that follows. 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26. Info, 25, Fly Creek Cider Mill, (607) 264-3080.

288 Goose St., Fly Creek. ►ON THE COVER (607) 547-9692.

• Hanford Mills’ Executive Director Liz Callahan There was a time when shows off the water wheel John Philip Sousa played that powers the operation at the Oneonta Theater, and

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Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

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local museums abound here

At Hanford Mills, Early Technology Entrances Visitors

Cheers!

Visit one of our fabulous breweries and have a taste of New York!

607-286-9330 110 River Street, Milford 4 miles from Cooperstown 20 minutes from Oneonta Member of the Cooperstown Beverage Trail

BOTH LOCATIONS offer daily tastings, free tours, team parties, and group events!

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518-223-0372 1043 US Rte 9, Queensbury Member of the Adirondack Craft Beverage Trail ½ mile from Six Flags Great Escape

Hanford Mills’ Val Crilly shows off a wooden butter-tub lid, a product that allowed the water-powered complex in East Meredith to thrive for more than a century.

um executive director. “But with the local dairy business, they sold a lot of covers for butter tubs, because farmEAST MEREDITH ers found it was easier to transport butter and cheese to market, rather like your covers and I don’t than milk.” care to change,” wrote While The Fenimore Art Museum R.H. Sloan, Walton, in a in Cooperstown, with exhibits like letter to the Hanford Family dated this year’s “Thomas Cole & The Gar1896, regarding their wooden lids den of Eden,” built around a Hudson for butter tubs.

River School master►TAKE A WALK ON In another letter, piece, is foremost in an order was placed its field, a number of THE WATER SIDE for 50 of the buttersmaller institutions can •HANFORD MILLS MUSEUM tub covers, 10 cents enhance a history-lover’s Original water-driven mill apiece. “They had complex, East Meredith. 10 visit to the Coopershoped to make a name a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays town region. for themselves in First among those through Sundays, plus Lahandle manufacturing, bor day. (607) 278-5744 is the Hanford Mills for brooms and such,” Museum, 20 miles other local museums, said Liz Callahan, Please See see list pg. 8 Hanford Mills MuseMUSEUMS, Pg. 5

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Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

From A Casual Patio Lunch To Dining On Pork Mignon

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t says a lot about a business, let alone a restaurant, that has long-term employees.

At Pioneer Patio, I believe there isn’t anyone who works there with less than eight years. They care about the place and it shows. Very rare!

If you haven’t been for

awhile, drop on by! They have built an outdoor seating patio on the top level, delightful on a nice day. It took me a while to decide what to have – the menu offers lots of apps, wings, great burgers and sandwiches for lunch. The dinner menu has everything from seafood to steak to schnitzel,

something for whatever kind of mood you’re in!

I was there for lunch and I had the grilled chicken breast with bacon and Swiss. The chicken was grilled to perfection, so tasty and moist; it was served on a soft grilled Kaiser roll topped with fresh tasty tomatoes and lettuce. The

fries were tasty and hot, just and while theirs is as tender as fries should be. On my and delicious as any, it’s the next visit I plan on either pork mignon, with applehaving the Monte Crisco or smoked bacon and vanilla the Reuben – someone had sweet potatoes that always those at the table next to catch my eye. It’s served me and they looked with fresh vegFINE DINING, etables, but more fabulous.

If you want fresh FUN DINING than that, it’s the food served with a cobbled apples on Staff Picks the side that set this smile, duck down the alley! (Pioneer dish apart. And their Patio Restaurant, 46 Pioneer mashed potatoes – red skins Street, Cooperstown. on – are creamy perfection.

607-544-1076) They also serve lunch and TARA BARNWELL are famous for their lobster General Manager rolls – the ultimate summer treat! alk to any local and With intimate seating they will tell you – think your closest friends, about a dinner they not a class reunion – and a had at The Farmhouse at cozy atmosphere, you’ll cerEmmons – prom night, an tainly want to settle in and anniversary, an engagement savor your meal. There’s or a family reunion, a night no rush. Enjoy. (The Farmout with special friends. But house at Emmons, Rt 7, no matter what the occasion, Across from Price Chopper, they’ll likely tell you that it Oneonta. 607-432-7374) was one of the most deliLIBBY CUDMORE cious meals you can find in Managing Editor Oneonta.

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Water-Driven Mill Complex Thrives As Window On Past MUSEUMS, From Pg. 3 from Cooperstown and 10 from Oneonta, now celebrating its 45th anniversary.

“The mill operated from 1840s to 1968,” said Callahan.

An operating mill site since 1846, it grew into “a rural industrial complex that included a sawmill, gristmill, feed mill, woodworking shop and hardware store,” powered by steam and gasoline engines, and the electrical generating waters of Kortright Creek.

Closed in 1967, the complex was bought by a local farmer, Ken Kelso, who reopened it later that year as an attraction. Local newspapers dubbed it “Delaware’s

Water-powered Hanford Mills in its 19th century heyday, left, and in its restored state today, below.

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hese buildings had to be ... accurate to the 1900s heyday.”

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Disneyland,” but Kelso alone was unable to get the mill to the museum quality he sought, and in the early ’70s, enlisted locals to help him turn it into a non-profit.

“The first few years were all restoration,” said Callahan. “These buildings had to be brought up to operational standards and accurate to the 1900s heyday.”

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Hanford Mills Museum photos

It’s never too early to start planning for college…

Schedule a tour at 888-Hartwick or Hartwick.edu/visit

B-6 Summer Dreams

Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

How About A Soda Jerks’ Shake, Or ‘Daddy’s Subs?

PICKS/From Pg. 4 nce a common sight in every corner drug store, the old-fashioned soda fountain is an iconic delicacy that has gone by the wayside to make way for fancy new soda dispensers. But believe it or not, the charm of the classic 1950s soda fountain hasn’t fully disappeared.

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cious meal and a cream soda to bring back the memories, you don’t need to look any further than Soda Jerks in Oneonta to get your fix of ’50s nostalgia.

While the food is delicious and reasonably priced, the old-fashioned soda fountain is the main attraction.

Where else can you get a classic raspberry soda with a scoop of vanilla ice cream,

whipped cream and a cherry on top? In today’s era of instantaneous self-serve soda fountains, there is something sweet, pun intended, in seeing someone take the time to mix the flavored syrup with the carbonated water right in front of you.

That extra element of human craftsmanship is something that makes all the

difference. And Soda Jerks in Oneonta is one of the few places left where that human element is still appreciated.

(Soda Jerks, 458 Chestnut St, Oneonta. 607-267-4792.)

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he neighborhood deli is slowly vanishing, but at Daddy Al’s General Store it is alive and well. A popular lunchtime stop for working men and women who want a good quality fill-up at very reasonable prices, this Veteran-owned establishment has been serving Amish meats and bulk food items to Oneonta since 1997.

If you are looking for one of (if not THE) biggest sandwich in town, try the Daddy Al’s Sub. Served on a whole loaf of Italian bread about the size of your leg, this monster of a sandwich starts with three meats and two cheeses and can feed a normal person for two days.

Their deli serves a wide selection of John F. Martin meats including my personal favorite; the buffalo chicken or peppered turkey.

Looking for something else? How about a two-

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“Daddy” Al shows off one of his subs, the toast of Oneontans.

pound bag of Bavarian Cream filling? A sack of gummy eggs? Gluten freeflour? Or maybe just some milk in a glass bottle? They have it all and more! Looking to stock Dad’s cabinets?

They’ve got pickled eggs, spicy mustards, peanut brittle, sweet potato chips, birch beer and homemade peanut butter.

Their selection of licorice pipes, nickel candy, bubblegum cigars, wax lips, and candy buttons are sure to intrigue the youngster in your life.(Daddy Al’s General Store. 387 Chestnut St. Oneonta 607-432-0652) IAN AUSTIN Staff Photographer

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Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

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MUSICA, MAESTRO?

Famed ZZ Top Will Rock At Hospice Benefit

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an Ayers, Catskill Hospice CEO, is ready to boogie.

“The cowboy hat and boots are not that far back in the closet,” he said. “And I started growing a beard in honor of ZZ Top!” The “Tush” rockers – Dusty Hill, Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard – will headline the Upstate Food Truck Festival, a new event that combines Hospice’s annual Epicurean Festival and the Celebrity Party fundraiser, on Saturday, Aug. 25.

“We saw that attendance to the Epicurean Festival was starting to decline,” said Ayers. “We were looking to spice things up, and when the opportunity came up to add a major headliner like

ZZ Top, we realized that rather than splitting our resources, we should focus on one event.”

ZZ Top is best known for classic blues-rock anthems like “Legs” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Doubleback” from 1990s “Back To The Future Part III” – the band also appeared in the film – formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, and Frank Beard’s iconic furry drum set is on permanent display in the museum.

Four-time world barbeque champion and NYT best-sellCatskill Area ing cookbook author Myron Hospice CEO Mixon will judge a barbeque Dan Ayres cook-off and give a demonshows off the stration of the techniques that beard that made him “the winningest he has been man in barbeque.” growing in There will be samples of anticipation craft beer and cider availof ZZ Top’s able, as well as a variety of concert in regional food trucks.

Oneonta

The annual Catskill Area Hospice benefit starts at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, in Oneonta’s Sixth Ward Field, with ZZ Top taking the stage at 8:30 p.m.

labor day weekend

September 1 & 2 · 10 am to 5 pm · Cooperstown ArtiSAnS, CrAfterS, food, MuSiC & More Go to www.cooperstownfestival.info for more info or call 607-547-9983

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The Wieting Theatre 168 Main St., Worcester, NY

Fri. & Sat. @ 7 pm • Sunday @ 2pm Tickets only $5 adults, Children $3 Only 20 min from Cooperstown & Oneonta!

High-quality Digital presentations in a family friendly historic building! www.wietingtheatre.com

Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

Real Hanford Mills Became Real Museum, But Societies Capture Past Around County MUSEUM/From Pg. 5 The museum, chartered by the State of New York, opened in 1973 and, much like The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, Hanford Mills operates as a living history museum, with demonstrations and interpretations of the 1926 overshot water wheel, saw-mill equipment, even harvesting ice for year-’round use, packed in sawdust.

“This is one of the few surviving examples of the types of mills that existed in these rural areas,” said Callahan, who also chairs the Historical & Architectural Review Board in Cooperstown, where she lives.

“They were significant to the growth and development of these small towns.”

At their peak in the early 1900s, the Hanfords operated the sawmill, a grist mill to make animal feed, and a woodshop to make the tub covers, shingles and other small items that might be used on the farm.

Originally operated by water wheel, the complex was converted to steam in 1886, then went back to a water wheel in the 1920s, with supplemental gas engines.

But Hanford Mills isn’t the only place to witness

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IROQUOIS INDIAN FESTIVAL September 1 & 2 10am - 5pm Iroquois Indian Museum

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here’s no shortage of local history museums around the Cooperstown Region. Here’s a sampling, history buffs.

• The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 State Highway 80, Cooperstown. (607) 547-1450.

•S wart-Wilcox House, Wilcox Avenue, Oneonta.

(607) 287-7011.

• E dmeston Museum, 1 North St, Edmeston.

(607) 293-6635.

• F ly Creek Historical Society, 210 Cemetery Rd, Fly Creek. (607) 547-1275.

•U nadilla Historical Association, 131 Main Street (Masonic Temple), Unadilla. (607) 547-4200 •R ichfield Springs Historic Association and Museum, 134 West Main Street, Richfield Springs. (315) 858-0027.

• Cherry Valley Museum, 49 Main St, Cherry Valley.

(607) 264-3303.

•G reater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St, Oneonta. (607) 432-0960 •H artwick Historical Society, 3140 Co Rd 11, Hartwick.

(607) 293-6600.

history in the area. There are 13 local historical societies, and seven have small museums dedicated to preserving the local past, according to Deb Mackenzie, the Edmeston Museum’s new executive director (and president of OCHA, the Otsego County Historical Association).

“Being able to see and touch these artifacts makes history real,” said Mackenzie. “We have a collection of farm tools from the 1800s-1870s, and it makes it clear to students the hard-

ship and work that went into farming. It amazes folks.”

Back in East Meredith, the curators are finding there’s still demand for Hanford Mills’ historical products.

“Gene Marra of the Cooperstown Distillery needed block ice for an event he was hosting during Induction Weekend,” said Callahan. “We still had had some in our icehouse, left over from the Ice Harvest, and he came up and took a truck load.”

WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS: Exclusive Iroquois Art Market Dancers from Six Nations Family activity area Wildlife rehabilitator & animals Archeology demonstrations Iroquois storytelling Delectable traditional foods

(518) 296-8949 324 Caverns Road iroquoismuseum.org Howes Cave, NY 12092

Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

Summer Dreams B-9

local authors, local readings

3 Authors Seek To Come To Grips With Challenges Of Being Women

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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or Christian Beachemin, her first book, “Let My legacy Be Love” came to her by surprise.

“It was not the book I set out to write,” she said. “I like to tell stories of my life to share positive takeaways and lessons learned.”

But the more she shared with her neighbor, Carlene Nolan, she realized that there was something more.

“We uncovered the bigger

►IF YOU GO: Book readings of Christian Beachemin and Carlene Nolan’s “Let My Legacy Be Love” and Vivian Peters’ “Oops! Tales from a Sexpert”, 10:20 a.m.-noon Tuesday, Aug. 23, Clark Sports Center. ►Also, Peters reads “Oops!” 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, Green Toad Books, Oneonta.

story,” said Nolan. “Lots of childhood trauma leads to adult troubles. We went through tears and anger to get to the heart of the story.”

Beachemin and Nolan will be reading with Vivian

Houseware y e l l s Va 66 Willet Street | Fort Plain | 518-603-8091 Monday - Friday 8 am to 5 pm | Saturday 8 am to 2 pm

Peters, author of “Oops!

Tales from a Sexpert” 10:30 a.m.-noon Thursday, Aug. 23, at the Clark Sports Center. Both books are available on Amazon, but books purchased at the event are eligible for a 20 percent discount.

A former educator with Planned Parenthood, Peters was inspired to write the book from conversations she had with students and young people. “There are particularly high rates of pregnancy among people in their teens and early 20s, people in poverty and without formal education and people of color,” she said.

“But it doesn’t have to be that way. So many problems could be prevented if we could impact the unintended pregnancy role.”

Auhors Carlene Nolan, left, Christian Beachemin, center, and Vivian Peters are planning readings of their books on women in the next few days.

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According to Peters, children born to teen parents are more likely to drop out of school and become teen parents themselves. “It perpetuates a cycle of poverty,” she said. “But if we can reach one kid and get her to blow out 20 candles without a pregnancy, we have opened countless doors.”

The book was released in April, and she said she has received positive feedback.

“The roots are spreading deep,” she said. “When we have serious conversations about sex, we can help people.”

Additionally, Peters will be reading 2 p.m. Saturday, Please See BOOKS, Pg. 12

Come sing with us.

Love to sing? C

CHORAL SOCIETY will hold auditions Thursday, August 30 between 4 and 6:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main Street, Oneonta for our Winter concert, Messe de Minuit by Charpentier in a concert titled Noël led by G. Roberts Kolb. All voices are welcome and tenors and basses are always needed. Sight reading not required. Rehearsals are Thursday evenings from 7 to 9:30 pm at Unitarian Universalist Society in Oneonta.

ATSKILL

To schedule an audition, please phone 607 431-6060, option 2 Bringing the hills alive with music for over four decades. lOCAllY MADE, HAND-CRAFTED QUIlTS, BENCHES, CHESTS AND MORE! RARE HARD-TO-FIND ITEMS!

B-10 Summer Dreams

Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

►HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO COUNTY ►Friday, August 24

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer, brewing, hops, followed by tour of hop yard, house.

The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

MAKERSPACE – 3:30 p.m.

Makers all ages create, learn, experiment. Materials provided. Inspire creative thinking, problem-solving. Crochet, coding, more. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoha-

rie. 518-673-2314.

FINE CRAFTS – 5 - 7 p.m.

Opening reception for Fine Crafts Invitational exhibit “Made in New York: Earth, Wind & Sky,” joint Miniature Show inspired by Thomas Cole. Displayed thru 9/21.

Cooperstown Art Association.

607-547-9777.

HOLIDAY MARKET – 5 - 7 p.m. Taj Garage comes early.

Artist Steve Clorfeine, poet, world traveler, teacher, more,

presents items from Nepal, India. Handcrafted items like silk, sculptures, paintings, dolls, more. Find wedding, holiday gifts. Show continues thru 8/26. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. 607-547-5327.

FIREPIT FRIDAY – 6 - 9 p.m. Enjoy cold beers, roaring bonfire, live music by Ryan Matter. Catch a trolley from Doubleday Field to/from Brewery Ommegang, Cooper-

Come Join Us as We Begin Our Sixth Year!

Open HOUSe & RegiStRatiOn: Saturday, august 25 Classes include Ballet, tap, Jazz , Contemporary, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Stretch and Conditioning!

RegistRation schedule:

- Free Jillian’s Dance Arts t-shirt for all.

- Free mini classes throughout the day.

- All paid registrants will be entered into a drawing for a show costume. Four winning names will be drawn at 5 pm!

Last names beginning A-M: 9:30 am to Noon Last names beginning N-Z: 1 pm to 4 pm

Phone: 607-432-2812 | jilliansdancearts@gmail.com Elks Club, 84-86 Chestnut Street, Oneonta www.jilliansdancearts.com

Classes begin Monday, September 17

Otsego Land Trust Gala Cocktail Party

Sunday, September 2 | 4:30-7:30 pm Brookwood Point 6000 State Rte 80 | Cooperstown

· Live music by Join us at beautiful Brookwood Point to Joe Siracusa celebrate 30 years of land protection, · Complimentary honor Harry Levine, and support the cocktails “Blueway Trail” Stewardship Fund. · Locally sourced Admission: $100 | For more info hors d’oeuvres or to buy tickets: OtsegoLandTrust.org and appetizers 607-547-2366 | becky@otsegolandtrust.org

stown. 607-544-1800.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Oceans 8.”

Cost, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

THEATER – 7 p.m. Production of Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.” Cost, $15/ adult. Amphitheater, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

607-547-1400.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m.

Showing “Doubt, A Parable”

by John Patrick Shanley, Directed by Julie Kline. A powerful drama depicting when Bronx School Principal takes matters into own hands when she suspects Father Flyn of improper relations with male student. Free admission.

Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607829-3700.

HYPNOTIST – 9 p.m.

Famous performer Sailesh presents live show taking audience on journey with hypnosis, improv, music, interactivity. Fun evening for all. Cost, $3. Ballroom, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta. .

MUSIC – 9 p.m. - Midnight.

Teresa Broadwell Quartet performs jazz, swing with finest musicians out there. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-9931.

►Saturday, August 25

COMMUNITY SALE – All Day. Browse yard sales around town. Pick up map at Fly Creek General store.

Includes all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at Fly Creek Fire House, White Elephant sale at United Methodist

dAnCing Veggie FARm’s 20th AnnuAL

Garlic Harvest Celebration August 25 And 26 10 Am to 6 pm Biodynamic garlic seedstock and growing tips garlicky Food samples Follow signs from Fly Creek and Richfield springs Allen Lake Road to Ainslie Road 315-858-1095

Church, then lunch, snacks, drinks with FCAHS at The Grange on Cemetery Rd. Town of Fly Creek.

DOG TRIAL – 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Leatherstocking Sheepdog Trials feature handlers showing off skills with their dog to heard sheep. Pairs from Canada to Maryland.

Cost, $5. Open field, Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown.

E-mail hinmanhollowdogs@ yahoo.com CARS & COFFEE – 9 - 11 a.m. Join gearheads for relaxed display of multi-brand, multi-period cars. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. 607-547-9692.

GARLIC HARVEST – 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Get delicious, biodynamic garlic for the kitchen, seed stock to grow your own, or sample delicious recipes. Follow signs from Fly Creek, Richfield Springs to Dancing Veggies Farm 246 Ainslie Road, Richfield Springs.

315-858-1095.

ANTIQUE ENGINE SHOW – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Single-cylinder gas engine enthusiasts show antiques from early 1900s. Stop by for engines, food, community lawn sales, more. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek.

607-547-9692.

FARM DAY – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Visit family farms around Otsego County. Explore fish farming, beekeeping, maple syruping, more. Find guide at www.familyfarmday.org EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Final day “Oneonta’s Own: The State Militia & the National Guard in Oneonta, 1812-2003.” Free. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-0960.

ART WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.

- 1 p.m. Create caricatures of someone, something with teacher Gary Mayer. Cost, $45, materials included, registration required. Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury. 607-3267908.

SHOWTALK – 10:30 a.m.

Jeanine Tesori, Tazewell Thompson discuss inspiration behind new opera premiering this season, share excerpts from work-in-progress. Cost, $25/adult. The Otesaga, Cooperstown.

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Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

Summer Dreams B-11

►HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO COUNTY FROM Pg. 10

►Saturday, August 25

NETWORKING – 11 a.m.

- 1 p.m. Mingle, enjoy refreshments with other Mom entrepreneurs in community.

Hosted by SFCU. Dress casual, children welcome. RSVP preferred, space limited.

Noah’s World, 144 Round House Road, Oneonta. 607432-7529.

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer, brewing, hops. See Friday Listing.

THEATER – Noon. “A Case For Eviction” follow struggle of Frank, Dora to evict temporary resident from their guest room. Leatherstocking Stage, The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

FOOD TRUCK FEST – 1 - 8:30 p.m. Celebrate Food Trucks of Upstate New York.

Features food trucks, live music, vendors, tastings of wine, craft beer, ciders, food, more. Live performance by ZZ Top! beginning 8:30. 6th Ward Booster Club Field, 7 Scrambling Ave., Oneonta.

CHARACTER TOUR – 1 - 2 p.m. Tour museum through eyes of featured artists themselves. Tour led by Thomas Cole as portrayed by Templeton Player. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1400.

VIGNETTES – 2 p.m.

Guided tour showcasing three site-specific performances by Templeton Players on struggle for Women’s Rights. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

BOOK SIGNING– 3 p.m.

Dar Williams signs her book “What I Found In A Thousand Towns,” presents on travels through small town America.

Followed by concert at 7 p.m.

Cost, $10-$52 for concert Earlville Opera House, 18 E. Main St., Earlville. 315-6913550 THEATER – 3 & 7:30 p.m.

Showing “Doubt, A Parable”

by John Patrick Shanley, See Friday Listing.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Oceans 8.”

See Friday Listing.

COFFEE HOUSE – 7 - 9 p.m.

Range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church. Church Rd., Schuyler Lake. 315-858-2575.

CONCERT – 7 p.m. Sidney Community Band plays popular music, show tunes. Free.

3 Chenango Rd, Edmeston.

607-965-8377.

COMEDY – 9 p.m. Performance by Anthony Jamal Bean, aka “Chico,” of Wild n’ Out fame. Cost, $3. Ballroom, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta.

MUSIC – 9 p.m. Dance to amazing songs from big band, early rock n’ roll, country, Latin, Motown, more with DJ John Thompson. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Call 607-5479931.

►Sunday, August 26

DOG TRIAL – 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Leatherstocking Sheepdog Trials feature handlers showing off skills with dog to herd sheep. Pairs from Canada to Maryland. Cost, $5. Open field, Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown.

E-mail hinmanhollowdogs@ yahoo.com GARLIC HARVEST – 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Get delicious, biodynamic garlic. See Friday Listing.

ANTIQUE ENGINE SHOW – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Single-cylinder gas engine enthusiasts show antiques. See Saturday

Listing.

HOPPY TOURS – 11 a.m.

Brief history, discussion of beer, brewing, hops. See Friday Listing.

THEATER – Noon. See “Box and Cox Trunk Show” features best performers in region.

Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

SUNDAY BRUNCH – Noon - 2:30 p.m. Enjoy omelettes made to order, carving stations, waffles, more. Cost, $34.95/person. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-547-9931.

GARDEN HACKS – 1 - 2 p.m. Learn tried, tested gardening tips. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1450.

SUNDAY SERIES – 1 - 3 p.m. Antique Appraisal Clinic with Tim Northup, Al Bullard, Kevin Herrick, Mary Ann Flewelling. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta.

FILM SCREENING – 1, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Oceans 8.”

See Friday Listing.

ANTI-RENT WAR – 2 p.m. Enjoy performances by Templeton Players depicting Anti-Rent Movement. Included with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450.

CONCERT – 3 p.m. Oneonta Concert Band performs Standards such as “The March King,” John Philip Sousa, others. Bring chair, blanket. Donate to save nearby Oneonta Theater where Sousa played.

Huntington Park, Oneonta.

607-432-0960.

DINNER CONCERT – 4 p.m.

“America’s Musical Ambassadors” Timothy Perry, Margaret “Pej” Rietz celebrate 25 years musical collaboration in program “ClarinArts: Moods, Meditative to Manic” featur-

ing selection from classical to gypsy, swing, tango, Caribbean. Dinner to follow. Cost, $68/person. The Horned Dorset, 2000 St. Rt. 8, Leonardsville. 315-855-7898.

THEATER – 5 p.m. Final performance “Doubt, A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley, See Friday Listing.

FILM SCREENING – 7:30 p.m. Showing “Becoming Who I Was” award-winning documentary about boy who’s discovered to be reincarnation of revered monk, journey that follows. Star Theater, 44 Main St., Cherry Valley. 607264-3080.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Hear Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” performed by returning favorite Joseph Lin. Tickets, $25/adult. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 877-666-7421.

►Monday, August 27

RESEARCH RESOURCES – 4 p.m. Digital Services 4CLS Librarian, Brian Lee, presents program about genealogy resources ancestry.com, others. Discusses DNA results, what to do with them. Free, all invited. Donations accepted.

Springfield Library, 129 Co. Road 29A, Springfield Center.

607-264-3375.

PUBLIC SPEAKING – 5:30 p.m. Practice public speaking with Toastmasters. All welcome. The White House Building, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1466 FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing, live model. Poses chosen by consensus. Cost $12/class. Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-435-8718.

►Tuesday, August 28 ART ROCKS – 11 a.m.

Young artists learn tech-

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Coffee House saturday August 25 7 to 9 pm

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niques, explore works in museum’s collection. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

RECOVERY FORUM – 11:30 a.m. Eligible Medicaid enrolees learn support systems, healthcare options, meet providers to achieve recovery goals. Community Room, Southside Mall, Oneonta.

607-433-2343.

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-8344.

CONCERT – 7 p.m. Fritz Henry, solo singer, guitar offers fun, interactive music for all ages. Lakefront Park, Cooperstown. 607-547-5256.

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open mic— sign up to perform.

B-12 Summer Dreams

Thursday-Friday, August 23-24, 2018

►HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO COUNTY

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Dreams The first leaves have dropped…

Fall is just around the corner!

Join us in Autumn Dreams, where we say goodbye to Summer Dreams and begin to welcome the Fall!

Advertise your Fall Happenings and reach the most people in Otsego County. Harvest Festivals, Art Shows, Craft Shows, Antique Shows, Fall Sales…

LET OUR READERS, YOUR CUSTOMERS, KNOW WHAT YOUR BUSINESS IS DOING THIS FALL! CALL 607-547-6103 TO ADVERTISE.

ADOPTION EVENT – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Meet furry friends from Susquehanna Animal Shelter, Delaware Valley Humane Society, others.

FoxCare Center, 1 Fox Care Dr., Oneonta. 607-547-8111.

AFTERNOON ART – 3 - 4 p.m. Children aged 4-8 paint self-portraits inspired by folk art collection. Cost, $5/child.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

DISCUSSION GROUP – 3 - 5 p.m. Discuss current events.

Cooperstown Village Library.

607-547-8344.

WRITERS GROUP – 5 p.m.

Discuss current writing projects, get inspired, have fun.

Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

MUSIC – 5 - 9 p.m. Cooperstown Community Band performs patriotic marches, Broadway show tunes, jazz, themes, more. Free, open to public. East Lawn, The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607547-9931.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5:30 - 7 p.m. Community Exhibition - Folk Art by Janet and Charlie Munro. On show

thru 9/30. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1400.

READING – 5:30 - 7 p.m.

Kids bring favorite book and read aloud to an adult. Canajoharie Library, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

LEARN MINECRAFT – 6 - 7:30 p.m. Parents/adults with children interested in minecraft learn about game.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

607-547-1980.

CHESS NIGHT – 6 - 11 p.m.

Weekly meeting welcomes players of all levels. No fees.

Cafeteria, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta. Call Dom at 607484-7240.

THEATER – 7 - 9 p.m.

Production of Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.” Cost, $15/ adult. Amphitheater, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

607-547-1400.

POETRY – 8 p.m. Big O’ Poetry Slam season opens with Rebecca “Butterfly” Vaughns, author, recording artist and producer/director. Free, open to public. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-3013.

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Peters also knew Nolan, and introduced her to Beachemin, starting a friendship between the two women.

“Our books are so different, but they’re both modeling the potential impact of these powerful dialogues,” said Peters. “It’s never too late to have these dialogues.”

“These adverse childhood experiences link to divorces, addiction and teen pregnancy,” said Beachemin.

While the incidents in her book were based on true stories Peters encountered during her time with Planned Parenthood, she took care to change identifying details to protect the privacy of the people she encountered.

But with many of the

stories based on her life, Beachemin was worried about hurting people she loved. “I didn’t want to make anyone look bad,” she said.

“I started to have second thoughts, but then I had that difficult conversation with my dad. He asked a lot of questions, but at the end, he said ‘This book could help a lot of people’ and gave me his blessing.

Beachemin’s book, which came out June 30, also includes daily practices and a workbook section so readers can chronicle their own journey.

“I started to get emails from women thanking me and sharing their stories,” she said. “One woman was able to confront her brother, and another said I helped her process what happened to her.”