The Freeman's Journal 08-26-21

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Volume 213, No. 34

COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND Labor Day event to honor Harris, Doubleday The village of Cooperstown and Friends of Doubleday Field will hold a special dedication at 1 p.m., Monday, Sept. 6, at Doubleday Field.

A bench will be dedicated to Joe Harris, a Cooperstown Central School graduate who worked at the field for the village for 33 years. Harris, who was the Middlefield Town Supervisor at the time of his death in May, loved Doubleday and took pride in his care of the field.

The event will also celebrate the 101th anniversary of the field and the 100th anniversary of the first game played there, which took place between teams from Cooperstown and Milford on Sept. 6, 1921. Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh and other officials will speak at the event, which will be followed by a CCS alumni baseball game.

INSIDE ►NEW SPECIALIST: Danielle Crocco brings marketing background to Otsego. Page A2. ►BillBOARD BROUHAHA: Mayoral candidate Len Carson criticized for anti-vaccine billboards. Page A3. ►Fire ASSIsTANT: City hires new fire chief, prepares for college semester. Page A3. ►THE CAPTAIN: Derek Jeter’s Induction has been long awaited. Page A7: ►InDUCTION PROJECTION: Baseball columnist Charlie Vascellaro looks into the Hall of Fame crystal ball. Page A7. ►MUSIC SEASON: Catskill Symphony Orchestra to host fall concerts. Page A9. ►BLUES MILESTONE: Syndicated radio program from Oneonta reaches its 1,000th show.

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Accidents along 205 causing concern

By KEVIN LIMITI State Route 205 in the town of Oneonta has had two fatal accidents in the past two months and is considered by many to be a dangerous road for bicyclists and pedestrians.

The road stretches past the Cooperstown All Star Village, where there is a lot of pedestrian traffic going across the road to the baseball field and is a high traffic area.

The latest fatal accident on Route 205 occurred on Sunday, Aug. 15, near Country Club Road. No arrests have been made yet.

Another accident occurred on Saturday, July 3, involving a hitand-run driver, which led to the arrest of a Mount Vision man.

Michael Goodspeed, 32, was charged with second degree vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident.

The accident caused the death of bicyclist Michael Vargas, 37.

Marty Patton, president of Cooperstown All Star Village, said he doesn’t believe the accidents have anything to do with the baseball park, but the Department of Transportation

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The confluence of a busy State Route 205 and pedestrians around Cooperstown All-Star Village in the town of Oneonta has led to concerns about traffic safety.

should make some changes in order to make that road safer.

“I think what they should do is

lower the speed limit,” Patton said.

He said he spoke to a DOT investigator about lowering the limit down

to 30 from 35 and installing a blinking yellow light to the crosswalk.

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Ren Fair farewell leaves visitors with sadness

By KEVIN LIMITI After 12 years, a tradition is ending with the close of the Medieval Renaissance Fair in Montgomery County, just over the Otsego County border.

The fair took place Saturday, Aug. 21 and Sunday, Aug. 22.

The Medieval Renaissance Fair at the Windfall Dutch Barn is like walking through a time portal that contained pirates, knights, bagpipers and kings and queens, all frolicking around.

There were archery games and ax throwing as well as musical performances from the Paddy Nappers, Bailey and Quinn, the Happy Haegs and more in the wooden barn.

Vendors were selling their wares and there were psychics willing to sell astrology maps or tell a person’s fortune. Food was provided by the Tyron Inn. However, this may be the last renaissance fair at the Windfall Dutch Barn.

“It’s been a great 12 years,” said Gary Barrett, who is a board member of the Windfall Dutch Barn and organizes the medieval fair. “It’s been really fun.”

Barrett said although the pirate crew, the Paddy Nappers, is interested in taking over the operation, nothing is official. He said the event is ending because the group needs more help running it.

The event started as something the board members held privately,

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Linda and Chuck Matthews celebrate their wedding in pirate regalia Saturday, Aug. 21.

once a month at the house, which they held as close to the full moon as possible.

“We needed something to bring to the barn, so another board member asked ‘why don’t you do what you do at the house at the barn?’” Barrett said.

Barrett said he wished they could

continue but they didn’t think they were going to be able to by themselves anymore. “If only we weren’t getting so old and we had a younger crew,” he added.

Meanwhile, a wedding took place on Aug. 21 with members of the crew getting married aboard the pirate ship. Dressed in pirate regalia,

Linda and Chuck Matthews maintained character as they talked about sailing the high seas as a newly married couple.

“We will be pirating till we can’t anymore,” Matthews said. “We might spend the next week shipwrecked at our house on purpose.”

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Carolina native, Crocco, Residents fear more tragedies on Route 205 Dembinska said. “Additionally, they changed the ‘Y’ from Page A1 begins job as marketing ROAD/Continued “At the end of the day, we don’t have any control over how intersection into a ‘T’ intersection at State Route 23.”

Scott Cook, public information officer for the DOT, said they conduct traffic,” Patton said. there were a lot of pedestrian safety projects on Route 205.

Robert Keiham, DOT investigator who spoke with Patton, consultant According to data from the DMV, there were 116 accidents said he doesn’t have the ability to lower the speed limit at

By KEVIN LIMITI The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta have hired a new marketing consultant.

Danielle Crocco, originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, is beginning a new chapter with the region’s oldest paper, hoping to utilize her skills to serve her community.

“I’m super stoked to be with this awesome team,” Crocco said. “I like Danielle working with people and I get to explore Crocco the town and be out there.”

Crocco, the youngest of three siblings, said she considers herself a foodie and enjoys pilates and watching documentaries on Netflix.

Crocco said she has rented an apartment in Oneonta and is excited to see what the city and Otsego County has to offer.

She also said she is surprised by the summer weather, including the chilly mornings and afternoons when temperatures are in the 70s. “I’ve heard the summers here are like the winters I am used to in North Carolina,” she said.

“My wardrobe will definitely change!”

Tara Barnwell, publisher of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, said she is happy to have Crocco onboard.

“Danielle is full of energy, has a great personality and our businesses and customers in Otsego County will enjoy working with her on their advertising and total marketing needs, whether in print, on www.allotsego.com, or digitally,” she said.

Route 205.

State Route 205 has very little lighting and oftentimes no shoulder for much of its stretch.

Catlin Ogden of Laurens said she drives on Route 205 on an almost daily basis and she isn’t surprised that there are so many accidents on that road.

“I’ve grown concerned over the years over the safety of the road, because a lot of people live over that stretch who need to walk their bike over to Dollar General, because it’s the closest place to get groceries,” Ogden said. “There are serious speeding problems on that road with no shoulder.”

Ogden said the danger of people going to Dollar General was brought up to the town of Laurens planning commission, but they said they weren’t able to do anything about it.

“It can be very dangerous,” Ogden said. “There have also been motorcycle accidents and other problems there.”

Agnieszka Dembinska, public relations officer for New York State Troopers, said from talking to troopers who patrol the area, the road has improved over the years.

“The shoulder is wide and there is a traffic light,”

at Route 205 in the town of Oneonta between 2016 and 2020, including 23 with injuries.

One part of the document said crashes were below the state average in the area near Route 23, where Cooperstown All Star Village is, but had slightly increased in the last five years, possibly because of high traffic volume increases.

The crash rate near the intersection of Route 7 and Interstate 88 is above the state average.

Facebook users shared their anecdotes about driving on Route 205.

“Last night, I was headed to Oneonta and witnessed pedestrians crossing at the baseball field almost get hit,” Patty Bowen-Durham posted on the AllOtsego.com Facebook page in response to the hit-and-run article on Aug.17. “They were dressed in dark clothing and never pressed the crossing button. … There is no lighting there.”

Other posters asked why there wasn’t a pedestrian bridge between the two parking lots across Route 205.

“Only a matter of time before something bad happens here,” Nick Sinstack posted.

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Carson criticized at Common Council for anti-vaccine billboards

By KEVIN LIMITI ONEONTA — Len Carson, the Fifth Ward Common Council member and Republican mayoral candidate, received some heat at the council’s meeting Tuesday, Aug. 17, for approving billboard ads through his company, DC Marketing that presented false information about coronavirus vaccines.

Jennifer Hill spoke at the meeting at City Hall, saying the ads were dangerous and strongly condemning Carson for his role in putting them up.

“It’s unconscionable that a member of the council, and one who wants to lead the city, would spread false information,” Hill said.

“Mr. Carson did not come across as someone who would want to do that. I don’t know what changed.”

Hill said it was only through vaccines that businesses were able to be reopened and that children would be able to attend classes in person.

“You seem to want kids to go back to remote learning,” Hill continued, saying the spread of the Delta variant of COVID was largely because of unvaccinated adults, calling what was on the billboard “garbage.”

“Mr. Carson, how dare you endanger the children and good people of this city,” Hill said. “You’re screaming fire in a crowded theater. I think you should reconsider your run for mayor and your position on the city council.”

In addition, there were also five letters read in the correspondence session of the meeting, which all criticized Carson similarly for spreading disinformation and possibly either discouraging individuals from visiting Oneonta or encouraging unvaccinated visitors.

One letter said the billboards “go directly

against those goals” of increasing safety through vaccines. Another said the billboards were based on “non-fact-based science” and asked “why would a leader in our community want to publish” the ads.

The strongest indictment of all said the billboard ads were “not only unethical but also deadly.”

Carson did not respond to these criticisms during the council meeting.

Mayor Gary Herzig said he spoke to Carson and the anti-vaccine ads had “run their course.”

In a conversation with AllOtsego afterward, Carson said the ads didn’t reflect his views on the subject and when he researched the ads, “didn’t find fault with the information. I think the best part of America is that we’re entitled to our opinions,” Carson said. “These people expressed their opinions tonight.”

He went on to say he didn’t think any mayor had ever made everyone happy, including the sitting mayor, Gary Herzig.

“Public safety has been a major part of my life. I spent 26 years in the City of Oneonta Fire Department,” said Carson, who touted his efforts to make sure no city employees were laid off when the pandemic hit. “To try and correlate between ‘I don’t care about the public’ and ‘that I wish to do harm to citizens of Oneonta’ is just an incorrect statement.”

“There have been ads that I have not agreed with personally, but have allowed to (be) used on the digital billboard platform because it matches in line with freedom of speech,” Carson said. “When I looked at the ad I didn’t see anything illegal.”

The ads were placed by Defending the Republic PAC, a group led by Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for former President Donald Trump.

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Billboards near Lowe’s in the town of Oneonta mid-month featured messages from an anti-vaccination group Defending the Republic PAC. The billboards are owned by DC Marketing, a company owned by Oneonta mayoral candidate Len Carson and his wife.

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Newly appointed Asst. Fire Chief Timothy Foster, right, shakes hands with Fire Chief Brian Knapp while Mayor Gary Herzig looks on.

In other business: city hires new assistant fire chief; prepares for college semester

By KEVIN LIMITI

ONEONTA — The Common Council approved the new Asst. Fire Chief, Timothy Foster to a round of applause Tuesday, Aug. 17, after some discussion about tabling the potential appointment until the situation with the COVID Delta variant became more clear.

The council was briefed on the situation with the coronavirus variant, a mutation that is steadily causing higher rates of infection, City Health Officer Diane Georgeson said, while fully vaccinated adults can acquire and transmit the virus but it is spreading much more quickly in places with lower vaccination rates.

Otsego County has a 56% total vaccination rate, which is close to the national average but lower than the state average. Georgeson said the public was receiving “different messages” about the vaccines, including some saying the vaccines are dangerous.

However, Georgeson said only 36 total cases from vaccines have resulted in deaths and it is overwhelmingly safe and effective.

“This is certainly not where we wanted to be at this time and not where we expected to be at this time,” Mayor Gary Herzig said.

Herzig said the most effective way to combat the virus was by getting vaccinated and that having low vaccination rates “buys time” for the virus to continue to mutate.

SUNY Oneonta Chief of Staff Danielle McMullen spoke about the college’s plans for the fall semester, which included having

a vaccine clinic on campus at the Student Health Center on Wednesdays and Fridays.

McMullen also talked about plans to have a public health reporting group, which would include Heidi Bond from the Otsego County Department of Health as well as Hartwick College and others, to talk about what they are seeing in the community.

Herzig said last semester was a “tremendous success” but this coming one could be more challenging with the relaxing of COVID restrictions.

The Community Advisory Board document, which was in the process of being reviewed by a committee, was completed with the final report being given out to the council within a week. A public hearing is expected in the first week of September.

Other items approved by the Common Council include: ● An agreement, authorized by the mayor, for transit services from Oneonta to Sidney on Oneonta Express Route 6; ● The removal of “No Parking, Anytime” signs from Tilton Avenue and Grove Street; ● Mayoral appointments to the Public Arts Commission, Planning Commission and Environmental Board; ● The purchase of an ambulance for an estimated $328,000, of a Volvo loader for an estimated $132,260 and of a tractor with snow blower for an estimated $125,000; ● The purchase of a pipeline CCTV camera van for an estimated $25,000.

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Perspectives

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Charge!

Summer has come and almost gone here in Cooperstown, and there have been more people visiting us than in 2020. The streets are abuzz with eager baseball fans, casually swinging their newly made bats, avid bike riders waxing eloquently about their explorations of the hills and valleys of Otsego, and lake lovers fresh from a full day on and in the water. The shop owners, lodgings and restaurants have seen an uplift in sales from 2020, and the village has begun to feel a return to post-COVID life.

That was then; now, alas, we are in the throes of returning to that COVID life, as the Delta surge runs through us.

If we are lucky though, this, too, shall pass.

Another interesting note is the increase around town of electric vehicles, both locally owned and from afar. The parking lot of the Otesaga is a good place to find them, as are Doubleday parking lot and, until this week, the Dreams Park and the trolley lots. Sleek, somewhat new and multi-colored, the out-of-towners have brought their owners here for a tour of the Hall of Fame, a week at the Dreams Park, some good productions at Glimmerglass, a round of golf, some lake fishing and a visit to the Fenimore Art Museum and Hyde Hall, and they have come from as far away as New York City and Washington, traveling over routes laid out in their respective maps that display the whereabouts of recharging stations along the way.

There are three types of chargers available to EV owners.

Level 1 is simply a plug-in, 120-volt AC charger that works just like a household plug. This one, which comes with the car itself, takes more than 20 hours to fully charge an exhausted battery back up to 249 miles. Level 2 chargers are also AC operated and are recommended for your EV’s home garage. Charging in a 240-volt outlet takes around 11 hours for 249 miles – i.e. overnight.

The charger for Level 3, a Supercharger, is currently for Teslas only (though Elon Musk insists it will be available for all EVs by the end of 2021) and is recommended for pit stops on long road trips, not for daily charging. It will charge up to 200 miles in 15 minutes.

So, what is an EV to do in Cooperstown, when it has arrived without a fully charged battery? New York City is 200 miles away; Washington, D.C. 360; and Boston 240.

Getting here from the latter two is a full-battery operation, and New York City is almost as much. The village has four Level 2 charging stations: two are in Doubleday Field parking lot; one at The Inn at Cooperstown; and one at Glen Avenue Suites. The Glen Avenue Suites station is for their guests only. The Inn at Cooperstown also has a Tesla destination charger, unique to that car. That makes five, with only four available to the public.

Alas, Cooperstown has no Supercharging stations for their visiting battery-exhausted Teslas (and soon, other EVs as well). The nearest Supercharging station is in Oneonta, and there are some in Utica and Albany. But, of course, one’s EV must have enough battery left to get to those places.

Is this enough for a village that survives on tourism?

Chances are, no. By volume, the EV market is expected to reach 233.9 million units by 2027, with a 21.7% CAGR (compound annual growth rate). This growth is attributed mainly to government subsidies and support, environmental concerns, increasing fuel prices, decreasing battery prices, developing charging infrastructure and the introduction of light commercial electric vehicles (Ford’s F150 Lightning will be out in 2022).

The village, and Oneonta as well, must consider additional charging stations. The government has approved $7.5 billion in EV infrastructure funding towards such stations. Restaurants are good places, as are short-term parking lots and hotels. To combat the fear of fully charged EVs staying too long at the stations while their owners gaze at baseballs or relax on the lake, there is now an idle fee, wherein the EV is charged quite heftily for any overtime. Efficiency is booming. Let’s have some chargers.

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Smoke-free lives are more crucial than ever The excitement of a new school year is buzzing around us, along with anxiety about new challenges posed by the more transmissible Delta coronavirus variant. This means public health will continue to be a critical issue nationwide and in our region as we begin welcoming our college students back into our communities and our youth back to school.

Reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke and aerosols emitting from e-cigarette use is a critical — but often overlooked — step toward making our lungs healthier and reducing the likelihood of catching the coronavirus and having severe COVID-19 symptoms.

Tobacco use affects every organ of the body, including the immune system.

It is why people who smoke are at high risk of getting coronavirus and developing severe cases.

While the rate of smoking in New York has decreased significantly over the past 20 years, many rural counties continue to have high smoking rates.

Based on the newly released 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data, Otsego County’s smoking rate is 16.5%, above the state’s average of 12.8%. This high smoking rate and the current increase in COVID cases in Otsego county means reducing tobacco use now is

imperative.

Since 99% of adult smokers started before age 26, a key to reducing tobacco use and improving public health is preventing youth from ever starting. While youth use of cigarettes has significantly decreased, a less understood, but significant threat to our local youths’ health has been the explosion of e-cigarette use. In 2018, 36.7% of high school seniors in New York indicated use of e-cigarettes.

E-cigarette use became so prominent that in 2020 the U.S. Surgeon declared vaping among youth an epidemic.

Reducing youth’s use of all forms of tobacco is essential to reducing tobacco-related illnesses and deaths.

To help prevent middle- and highschool youth in Otsego County from starting tobacco use, Tobacco Free Communities: Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie offers a Reality Check program for youth ages 13–18 to join.

RC youth become leaders in their communities, developing events and activities that educate their peers and communities on the tobacco industry’s manipulative and deceptive marketing tactics used to hook new generations on their products. They meet with their state legislators to apprise them of their work, network with RC youth statewide, receive service credits for their volunteer hours, and can win

awards for their leadership.

TFC-DOS also works with local colleges who wish to adopt a tobacco-free campus policy. More than 500 college campuses in New York have become smoke- or tobacco-free. Consider some of the important benefits of making campuses tobacco-free: • Reduces exposure to secondhand smoke which is classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a Class A carcinogen, the same as asbestos; • Creates an environment that supports a tobacco-free lifestyle, encouraging current smokers to quit and preventing youth from starting what is often a lifelong addiction; • Reduces staff time spent on maintenance, including picking up cigarette butts and e-cigarette waste; Youth and community members can partner with TFC-DOS to improve Otsego County’s public health and build support for the tobacco-free norm.

Contact Smoke Free Communities, Chris Bradley at Christopher.

Bradley@sphp.com for more information about the Reality Check youth program, and Jennifer Hill at JenniferHill003@sphp.com for more information on creating tobacco-free college campuses.

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Swimming with the manatees leads to ideas Homosassa Springs is one of the stops we always make when visiting Florida. It has great fishing, though I only catch and release, because Alice doesn’t like to cook while on vacation. Luckily, there are some great restaurants that, especially for this year, had open, outdoor accommodations. Motorboats, paddle boards and kayaks are readily available for rent if you want to swim with the manatees, which is one of the attractions for which the place is famous.

It’s thrilling to be able to get into the water with these elephantlike gentle giants and actually be able to pet them. Alice and I rent a kayak for exercise and economy but we haven’t gotten the coordination with the paddles down pat and often wind up splashing each other — deliberately. Good thing the water in the Homosassa River is a constant 70 degrees year-round. Also, getting back into the kayak after a See SKETCHES, Page A5

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A manatee swims underwater in Homosassa Springs, in Florida.

RICHARD DEROSA U P O N H AW T H O R N H I L L

Quite a week on hill, on road, in air It has been quite a week. Some of it up on the hill, a few days in Maine to pick up our grandson Grant from camp, then a round-trip flight to Oregon to deliver him safely home.

The week started with my sitting down in the barn, a tray on my lap into which I was shaving off oregano leaves from stems that had been drying for several weeks. I remember thinking, strange as it might seem to some, ‘how could life be any better?’

Oregano is the spice I use far more than any other on those rare occasions when I cook, there was something pleasantly thought-provoking, while sitting enshrouded in a comforting cloud of oregano vapors. I guess a guy gets his thoughtful moments as best he can, even in the oddest of places.

Although the barn, where several bunches of parsley swing from nails on the roof rafters, soon to be followed by the last of this year’s red onion crop, has become a redoubt of sorts where I often rest after working in the gardens. Some days, it is a quiet place to snatch a quick snooze. On others,

it functions as an alternate “room of my own,” despite having a spacious study, where just sitting quietly seems to salve the soul. A kind of soft power wash of the soul!

The next day, buoyed by my aromatic oregano memories, we headed for Maine to pick up our grandson. We opted to spend the night in Albany, since our first flight of three departed very early in the a,m. When talking to our son, Tim, earlier in the week I said I looked forward to spending time with Grant, albeit on a plane. In my head, since we would either be in the air or wandering about terminals for several hours, we would have lots of time to chat. My son suggested I stop being delusional, since for the first time in four weeks he would have his “devices.” Well, he was partly right.

He did revisit his electronic pals for lengthy spates of time, but we did chat quite a bit. We talked about the activities he enjoyed the most and how much he looked forward to returning next summer. One thing he emphasized looking forward to most was

being in his own room again, which he did with a vengeance.

The next day, he barely surfaced, an extravagance not allowed by his father the next day, since we were to take granddad on a promised mountain bike ride. Both of my boys are experienced mountain bikers. The idea of an initiatory bike ride was my idea. This from someone who bought a hybrid bike at least three years ago, rode it for no more than 20 minutes the day he bought it, and has not been on it since. Until moving it down to the barn, it hung upside down from the garage ceiling functioning most often as a drying rack for sweaty gardening and gym workout clothes.

About that long-awaited mountain bike ride. It started easily enough.

After getting to the parking lot and unloading the bikes, I pedaled around the lot to enliven my long-dormant biking legs and balance. All seemed well. My son had picked the easiest of all the trails – flat, few bumps, a root or two here and there. However, he See HAWTHORN, Page A5

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Taking chances with other people’s lives is evil Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

210 YEARS AGO

The Great Western Canal – To save expense in the execution of this great national work, Mr. Fulton has invented a machine for digging or removing earth by means of horses, or a steam engine. A steam engine of eight horses’ power, and rendered portable, will do the work of 150 men. The wages of 150 men may be estimated at 120 dollars a day – four men can attend the steam engine 12 hours whose wages will be $6.

Two cords of wood at a cost of $2 bring the total to $8. This gives an economy of $112 a day, or for 300 days which the machine would work in a year, the saving in expense would be $32,000 – and five of these machines which would cost about $30,000, would economize about $168,000 a year.

August 24, 1811

160 YEARS AGO

Cavalry Wanted – Capt. H.W. Lyon, of New York, is recruiting a company in this county for the Ira Harris Cavalry.

Recruiting offices – Tryon House, Cherry Valley and Otsego Hotel, Cooperstown. The pay in this arm of the service is $15 a month for privates. Horses and all equipments furnished by the Government.

August 30, 1861

135 YEARS AGO

Stop me if you’ve heard this one.

Man walks into a bar talking to the other people at the bar. He has a few drinks, gets somewhat inebriated and then announces “Oh, by the way, I have COVID-19. What are you gonna do about it?”

Several days later everybody who was at the bar tests positive for coronavirus and they start to have secondary positives in their families and among their friends.

Right now, this is a rumor, for which I have no hard evidence. The story changes about where and how the man got infected and where he went to drink to spread it. Perhaps it’s apocryphal. I’m not sure if I heard it second-hand, third-hand or fourthhand, and I’m not going to speculate on whether it’s true or not and what businesses may be affected.

This is what many of our nightmares have been about and why some of us wanted all the restrictions we’ve tried to have in our community. It’s bad enough when somebody who legitimately thinks they are not at risk to spread the disease spreads it,

either because they’re vaccinated and don’t realize they can still get it or they’ve taken all reasonable precautions such as masking. However, when somebody arrogantly exposes other people to a disease, this is a disaster, especially since that person is probably not just exposing the three people in the store but other people in the community. Then those people are exposing others, and so on. I wouldn’t be surprised if an incident like this ended up causing at least one significant disability or death. Maybe a child will get it and end up with long-time syndrome.

Maybe somebody will bring it home to an elderly relative and they will have severe respiratory problems and die. This is no longer theoretical if the information I received is true; and it is a real possibility.

Being the liberal that people purport me to be, I should be understanding and realize this is a confused person who drinks to excess and doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions. Actually being somebody who is pretty much

dead center politically and sometimes swayed by conservative arguments (especially when it comes to spending issues), I find myself not really wanting to give this person any benefit of the doubt.

If this deed was done intentionally to prove a point, I feel hanging a man by his thumbs is a reasonable punishment. If anybody gets very sick, disabled or dies, he should be hanged by his cajones. I really have completely run out of patience with people who casually put other people at risk or expect healthcare professionals to bail them out if they happen to get sick.

At one hospital, the medical staff, including the nurses and the middle of all providers, basically held a mock strike. Yes, of course people were left behind to take care of the sick patients, but they made the point and it was shown on national television.

Let’s not let that happen here.

Get with the program people, get vaccinated. Wear your mask. If you don’t … stay home.

LEtters

Glimmerglass ensures customer satisfaction despite snafu

  Among Cooperstown’s many pleasant and picturesque drives, none are moreso than the one of nine miles to Hartwick Village. Every turn of the road, each direction, has its new landscape and diversified scenery. For three miles the road follows the Susquehanna, and then turns over the hill to the west, then through a cool, shady gulch abounding on every side in its picturesqueness, the eye-catching glimpses of farm houses along the hill side, and a profusion of shade that renders the whole ride delightful. Two copses of woods add much to the pleasure and beauty of the drive. Just as you emerge from the last one the valley of the Otego lays spread out beneath the hill and one of the prettiest views of the village of Hartwick is obtained. The village is surrounded by high hills, which are broken only by water courses.

August 28, 1886

110 YEARS AGO

I’ve been visiting your area and going to the opera for more than 20 years. This year it was Friday, Aug. 12, and we were leaving from Rochester and anticipating Mozart’s “Magic Flute” at The Glimmerglass Festival.

I rejoiced that I had remembered to look on the back of my calendar for the envelope holding the tickets I had ordered about a month before.

WHAT A SHOCK! No such luck … the envelope was empty, and I was

full of dread! All I could think of was having to climb back into the car and start back on Route 28 toward home.

We decided to go anyway and see how we could work this out. While I feared for the worst, within a split second it was clear that I was wrong; Francesca Zambello and her staff had thought of everything for people like me who had no ticket.

The staff quickly directed me to the parking spot for arrivals with incomplete orders and then on to the

ticket kiosk. Staff people standing in the arc of the little wooden shelters all had lists, much like the first but more up to date. I was issued a ticket and was able to enjoy another fine performance at the opera!

This experience was seamless, they had thought of everything for their patrons to make the experience enjoyable. Thank you ... Festival for your fine work, on and off stage!

Frances Marx Rochester

Vaccines are safe, effective and helping us get back to life

My 12-year-old daughter just got formation campaigns have failed to During the year 1912 there will be no less than 210,000 the COVID-19 vaccine. As soon guide our children. I see children motor cars built. Sixty percent of these will be for utility as the guidelines changed to make willing to do their part to help end purposes. The average price will be about $1,000. A greatly 12-year-olds eligible, she declared this horrific virus. They have done increased number of cars will sell at $1,000 or less, with a     that she wanted the vaccine on her virtual school, missed birthday substantial increase in the higher priced cars. Six percent of birthday. So, we made it a family parties, and distanced themselves the cars built will be used by physicians, contractors, salesmen excursion, just as though she were from friends and grandparents, and and others for utility purposes, for the need of a motor car in getting her ears pierced, and now they are tired of all of it. almost every grade of business life is now apparent. There she’s protected.

These 12-year-olds have sacrificed will be a great increase in motor trucks. The farmers are She is not the only 12-yearand put the good of the community buying cars and will continue to buy cars in greater quantiold I know who has stepped up to above themselves. They are an example ties than ever before, because their use is profitable and they take that shot.

Most of her eligible to celebrate.

I am proud of my make a far better living condition in the agricultural districts.  friends have stepped up as well. Our daughter, her friends, and their The same is true for bicycles for there are more bicycles in so-called leaders with their misin- schools, which are taking every action farming communities than in the cities. The great need of automobiles is cheaper and better ones.

August 30, 1911

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possible to ensure safe environments for learning. They can’t vote yet, but their declarations and actions show courage and leadership beyond their years. Let’s stop pushing our schools to get rid of safety procedures.

Instead, let’s listen to our kids, mask up, and protect our community.

Please get the vaccine if you can, and talk to your children about it. It is safe and effective, and the Pfizer version now is FDA-approved.

Dan Buttermann Oneonta

Swimming with the alligators brings a different emotion

85 YEARS AGO

Cooperstown’s new post office building was dedicated with fitting ceremony on Saturday evening. A great crowd occupied all the seats which filled  the street in front of   the new structure from curb to curb and hundreds stood throughout. It was estimated that 2,000 people were present.

Large numbers also took the opportunity to inspect the interior of the building. The speaker of the occasion was Acting Postmaster General William W. Howes of South Dakota.

August 19, 1936

60 YEARS AGO

SKETCHES/Continued from Page A4 swim with the manatees is kind of tricky.

Unfortunately, swimming where the manatees hang    out is the best place to backstroke in the area and the only “approved” access is by way of a power boat or a lengthy paddle. There’s a bridge that crosses over the river and enables us to see people swimming, with or without the waterborne mammals, but for some reason there was no easy access to the water. Always looking for a way around obstacles, I parked the car in a questionable spot just over the bridge and we walked back to see if we could enter the water from where the bridge meets the shore. Unfortunately the embankment was very steep but I observed a kid in a bathing suit agilely descending the steep drop to the water.

“I could do that,” I said to my wife. “But I don’t know about you with that rigid ski ankle.”

She had broken it on Hunter Mountain many years before and it later gave her so much trouble it had to be fused, which eliminated flexibility. “I could never climb down there,” Alice surmised.

“I don’t know about that,” I said.

“What are you talking about?”

“With the right equipment I could have you down there in a jiffy.”

“I’m not interested.”

“Don’t you like to swim?” I was excited, because if we could get down past the rocks, we’d have access to the best swimming in the area. To reinforce my plan, I observed some people swimming just under the bridge – in the 70-degree water.

A week later at Howards, a tremendous local flea

market, I had a mental list of what I’d need to get Alice down to the river, water shoes for the rough concrete, aheavy I’d tie around a guard rail next to the rope that road, a small ladder to place against the rock wall at the bottom and a couple of tubes to rest in after having a good swim. As luck would have it, I found them all and we drove back to the bridge to practice the descent. The equipment worked like a charm enabling a now surefooted Alice to get to the water. The next day we’d be “short-cut swimming” in the Homosassa River.

To get to the bridge from our motel it’s about a mile trip down a road thickly boarded by palms and other swampy tropical growth. A few hundred yards before the river, I spotted an alligator sashaying across the road. It was about three feet long. I looked over at Alice who luckily was texting on her smart phone. We parked the car, gathered the equipment and headed for the abutment.

The descent to the water went as smoothly as it did the day before but this time, wearing our bathing suits, we launched the tubes and sat in them while hand paddling up stream. Then I eased into the water and swam for about fifty yards elated by the feat of gaining access to the river. When I looked back Alice was still sitting on her tube. “What’s the matter?” I called.

“We came here to swim with the manatees,” Alice said.

“That’s right” I said looking for one of the giants.

“I saw that alligator crossing the road.”

“He was just a little alligator.” I said, surprised she had seen it.

“I think I’ll stay on my tube.”

“It’s not puncture-proof,” I warned.

“Neither am I!”

Hitting the biking trail with a thud and a cloud of dust August 30, 1961

35 YEARS AGO

The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital has announced the appointment of Ms. M. Patricia Brown as a certified nurse midwife in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Ms. Brown’s appointment will enable the hospital to expand the breadth of services available to obstetrical patients. These services currently include a fully equipped birthing suite and family-centered maternity care. Ms. Brown will work closely with the physicians, functioning as part of the overall team offering a broad range of services encompassing the total childbirth experience.

August 27, 1986

HAWTHORN/Continued from Page A4 never mentioned having to pass between narrowly separated trees, some no more and a foot or two apart – or so it seemed. On the first pass through I slowed, balanced myself through with one foot on terra firma, and made it.

About 50 yards down the trail, my son urging me to focus ahead and not slow down, I approached a very narrow space between two junipers. Not sure what happened, but I panicked, hit the brakes midway through, bike and old man hitting the moon dust trail with a thud.

Unfortunately, my son had been following me closely enough that he could not stop in time. So down he went as well. After dusting off and inspecting my body for wounds — a few minor ones, I had the strangest sensation. For the first time in my 77-plus years I felt old.

Fortunately, that feeling has passed and I have been

reminded by several friends it could have happened to anyone, experienced or not, of any age. Still, the feeling, however ephemeral, bites a bit. Got my gumption back shortly, so the ride back to the lot went more smoothly.

In the early hours of the next morning, I boarded the first of three flights for the trip back home. The first leg arrived in Salt Lake City with minutes to spare until getting the connecting flight. Several of us scampered through the terminal, arriving within seconds of departure.

I texted my son and grandson I had made it notwithstanding the wounds inflicted the day before.

As I write, I look forward to being in the barn shortly hanging red onions, tying up more bunches of oregano and parsley, and gathering up my wits for the next bike ride. It may be a while.

I suspect that would be Gabby’s advice were she here.

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Clara F. Waring

Ella M. Burns, 89

March 3, 1921 – January 28, 2021

ONEONTA – A graveside service will be held for Clara F. Waring and her brother, Russell Hotaling at 11 a.m., Friday, August 27, 2021 at the Milford Cemetery, with the Rev. Joel Shue, officiating. Clara is survived by her sons, Russell D. Black, Jr (Patricia) and Allen F. Black Sr. (Donna), and their families.

Donations may be sent to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are with Oneonta’s only family-owned funeral home, Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono at 51 Dietz Street. www.lhpfuneralhome.com.

November 21, 1931 – August 19, 2021 Ella M. Burns, age 89 of Oneonta, passed away August 19, 2021 at A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital.

Ella was born November 21, 1931 in Herkimer, N.Y., the daughter of Frederick Gilbert and Ida May (Farley) and adopted parents Earl V. and Mary B. Tuttle.

Ella was a sweet, kind soul who enjoyed bowling, square dancing, sewing, walking and most of all,

spending time with her family.

Ella enjoyed a career later in life working at Sidney Federal Credit Union.

She was a long-time active member of the Southside Wesleyan Church.

Ella is predeceased by the love of her life husband, Edward G. Burns, son Steven E. Burns, great grandson Lucian Morse, very special niece, Irene

Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

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

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

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home 14 Grand Street, Oneonta • 607-432-6821 www.grummonsfuneralhome.com

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Comments related to the effectiveness of administration of the CDBG project will also be received at this time. The hearing is being conducted pursuant to Section 570.486, Subpart I of the CFR and in compliance with the requirements of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended.

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She is survived by her sons, Ella M. Randy Burns E. Burns (Denise Brown), Edward G. Burns, Jr. (Joan Van Curen), Thomas J. Burns (Connie Gardner), daughter Julie A. Minerosa, 10 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

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February 16, 1925 - February 23, 2021 ONEONTA – A graveside service with military honors will be held for Russell Hotaling, as well as his sister, Clara Waring, at 11 a.m. Friday, August 27, 2021 at the Milford Cemetery, with the Rev. Joel Shue, officiating. Russell is survived by his nieces and nephews.

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Jeter provides Induction with a headline attraction

By CHARLIE VASCELLARO A long time ago in what seems like a galaxy far, far away … way back in the pre-coronavirus era, January of 2020 the New York Yankees all-time greatest shortstop Derek Jeter was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, garnering 396 of 397 votes.

Jeter fell one vote shy of joining teammate Mariano Rivera as just the second unanimous selection in Hall of Fame voting history. Rivera was named on all 425 of the ballots cast in the 2019 election.

Jeter made his major league debut May 29, 1995, six days after Rivera made his first appearance, heralding an era that saw the Yankees reach the post-season for the first time in 14 years. The Yankees were eliminated by the Seattle Mariners in the 1995 ALDS but, propelled by Jeter’s Rookie of the Year performance, returned to the post-season in 1996 and won the World Series for the first time in 18 years.

Rivera finished third in 1996 Cy Young voting posting an 8-3 record with a 2.09 ERA and 130 strikeMilo Stewart/National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Associated Press outs in 107 innings in his first full Left: Derek Jeter, the former infielder and captain for the New York Yankees, takes questions with Larry Walker at their season as the team’s set-up man announcement media conference in January 2020. Right: Jeter and his favorite sign. in the bullpen. The pair is eternally linked on Yankees modern leader with 3,465 hits; he surpassed Jeter’s entrance to the Hall but still Yankees fans relish in mentioning published photo(s) of Jeter “dynasty” teams of the late 1990s Lou Gehrig’s mark of 2,721 in 2009. constitutes back-to-back inductions the team’s unparalleled 26 World reaching up and tapping a sign and early 2000s. As Yankees their His 2,674 games played as shortstop of New York Yankees for the first Series championship. The team is containing a Joe DiMaggio quote entire careers, they would win 13 are a record for the position and he time since early Yankees owner also the most widely represented in reading: “I want to thank the Good American League East division never played another position in the Jacob Rupert and modern era the Hall’s plaque gallery. Jeter is the Lord for making me a Yankee,” Joe titles, seven AL pennants and five field, even after Alex Rodriguez, a manager Joe Torre were inducted latest in a lineage of Yankees Hall DiMaggio, 1941. It was a ritual World Series, including three in-a- seven-time All-Star and two-time in 2013 and 2014. Arguably this of Famers; there are 28 Bronzed Jeter practiced on his way from row from 1998-2000.

Gold Glover at the position, joined is much bigger. About 55,000 fans Bronx Bombers enshrined in the clubhouse to the dugout before Jeter made the first of 14 All-Star the Yankees in 2004. turned out in 2019 to see Rivera and Cooperstown, three more than the every Yankees home game and he Game appearances in 1998 and won The cancellation of the 2020 a strong class inducted. Nobody 25 members of the New York/San later admitted to taking the sign his first of five Gold Glove Awards Induction ceremony because of can predict what Jeter with a one- Francisco Giants. after the team’s last home game at in 2004. He is the Yankees all-time the pandemic may have postponed year delay will draw.

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Ortiz tops list of eligible candidates on 2022 Hall of Fame ballot With a hopeful return to normalcy and an eye on the 2022 Hall of Fame Induction, there is a possibility for another first ballot inductee and an outside chance for the inclusion of a controversial last chance carry over candidate.

Considering the strength of the returning field of nominees and newly eligible candidates, the prospect also exists that no one will be elected to the Hall for the second year in-a-row.

Now that Edgar Martinez has opened the Hall of Fame’s doorway to designated hitters with his election in 2019, the strongest candidate on the ballot is first timer David Ortiz, arguably the most productive DH in

history. Whether he is elected this year, it’s likely Ortiz will eventually gain admittance and be delivering his acceptance speech on the field at the Clark Sports Center in Middlefield sometime in the not-too-distant future.

I spoke with long time Baseball Writers’ Association of America voting member Barry M. Bloom Sr., writer at Sportico, (National Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot Is Tough For Starting Pitchers), who said he would probably not be voting for Ortiz while fellow steroid era suspects like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa have failed to gain admittance and will be appearing on the ballot for the final time.

However, I still think there is a pretty good chance Ortiz will be a first ballot inductee.

While Ortiz has not received as much scrutiny as some of the others and never tested positive for steroids, he was named in 2003 on a list of players suspected of using performance enhancing drugs that were not classified as steroids and were permissible under MLB rules at the time.

Ranked 17th among career leaders in home runs at 541, Ortiz is sandwiched between Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt at 548 and Mickey Mantle with 536.

With the exception of suspected and/or confirmed steroid users Barry Bonds (762), Sammy Sosa

(609), Mark McGwire (583) Rafael Palmiero (569) and Manny Ramirez (555), the rest of the eight in front or Ortiz, excluding active slugger Albert Pujols, are already in the Hall of Fame.

The eight players following Ortiz on the career home run list including Jimmie Foxx (534), Wille McCovey (521), Frank Thomas, (521), Ted Williams (521), Ernie Banks (512), Eddie Mathews (512), and Mel Ott (511), and are all also enshrined in the Hall.

Ortiz helped deliver the Boston Red Sox to the promised land in 2004 with the team’s first World Series victory in 86 years. He was also a member of Boston’s World

Series championship teams in 2007, 2008 and 2013. He led the AL with 56 home runs in 2006 and three times in RBI in 2005, 2006 and the final year of his 20year career in 2016. His 1,785 RBI rank 23rd all-time.

Joining Ortiz on the 2022 ballot will be a notably more notorious steroid culprit, Alex Rodriguez, one of baseball’s all-time leading sluggers from 1994-2016, who was suspended for the entire 2014 for violating major league baseball’s antidoping rules.

Rodriguez 696 home runs rank 4th on the all-time list. He was a three-time American League MVP (2003, 2005, 2007) and 14-time See BALLOT, Page A8

Softball champs

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The adult co-ed softball team Otsego Media, representing an Oneonta production company, beat the Tradesmen to win the Division B championship softball game at Mandy’s Bar and Grill in Laurens on Friday, Aug. 13.

Left: Kevin More catches during the title game.

Right: The team celebrates the win with 3-year-old Piper Rowe. In the front row from left are Kevin More, Alysa Blassetti Sprague, Sara Sprague, Heather Wheeler, Korey Rowe and Piper Rowe with the trophy. In the back row from left are Joe Haley (no shirt), Lauren Greenblatt, Jason Doi, Lindsey Zimmerman, Theresa Lawton, Cory Hunter, Harry Thayer, Alex Scorzafava, Billy Sprague, Bruce Brown and Chris Wheeler.

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Emrys C. Odell of Cooperstown was named to second honors on the Clark University dean’s list. This selection marks outstanding academic achievement during the Spring 2021 semester.

Students must have a GPA of 3.8 or above for first honors or a GPA between 3.50 and 3.79 for second honors.

Justin Brown, of Edmeston is among more than 1,100 Canisius College students named to the spring 2021 Dean’s List or Merit List.

Cazenovia College recognizes students for their academic achievement during the Spring 2021 semester. Those named to the

Dean’s List have achieved a 3.5 or better grade point average. Area students on the list during the spring include, Airelle Jacquette of New Berlin; Meghan Marsh of West Edmeston; Eliya Pickwick of Mount Vision; and Amanda Pressly of Cherry Valley.

Rochester Institute of Technology conferred more than 4,000 degrees in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Included in the graduation class of 2021 were local students Cassandra Snyder of Cherry Valley; Liam Dobbins of Unadilla; Jaser Iniguez of Mount Vision; Virginia Aswad of Cooperstown; Kaleb Kronimus of Schenevus; Kara Aufmuth of Maryland; and Adam Kruh of Maryland

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Aubuchon Hardware and Superior Plus Propane teamed up to raise money for two charities serving local children in Richfield Springs.

John Mazza of Aubuchon’s is shown handing a check to Len Pickens, Richfield Youth Sports president, while Thomas Tryon of Superior Plus is shown handing one to Angella Lynch, vice president of the Richfield Springs Community Center while T. Mazza hold signs for the charities. Raffle tickets were sold in May, with the drawing held and prizes awarded after the annual Memorial weekend barbecue held at the Aubuchon store.

The groups also thanked the Aubuchon Foundation of the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts, which donated an additional $6,890 to Richfield Youth Sports for its own local multi-sports event center project, which is projected to begin soon.

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Hanna Quigley competes in the women’s half buck Saturday, Aug. 21, in the Cherry Valley Outdoor Games.

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Exercise coach Gretchen Raddatz leads campers in exercise, as part of a Rotary gift to local organizations. The Rotary Club of Cooperstown gave $3,000 in donations in July to four local groups, including the Cooperstown Food Pantry, the Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation, the Susquehanna SPCA, and .resourceMe for scholarships for Kids Korner summer camps hosted by the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown.

The event, which has traditionally been held Father’s Day weekend, returned to Alden Field for the fifth time in six years taking a break in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Ortiz leads 2022 Induction field, but controversial candidates loom BALLOT/from Page A7 All-Star and led the AL in home runs five times (20012003, 2005, 2007). Based on the BBWAA’s voting history regarding Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, McGwire, Palmiero and company, it is unlikely that Rodriguez will merit strong consideration.

Leading the list of steroid era suspects in their final year on the ballot, Bonds and Clemens both received more than 60% of the required 75% needed for election finishing second and third on the 2021 ballot behind mercurial and controversial pitcher Curt Shilling who may have blabbed his way out of election after coming as close to being elected in his nine years on the ballot with 71.1%.

Echoing the sentiment of Marvin Miller, former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association and 2020 Modern Era selection and posthumous 2021 inductee, Shilling asked that his name be removed from the ballot in his final year of candidacy: “I will not participate in the final year of voting. I am requesting to be removed from the ballot. I’ll defer to the veterans committee and men whose opinions actually matter and who are in a position to actually judge a player,” Schilling wrote in a letter addressed to the Hall of Fame. “I don’t think I’m a Hall of Famer as I’ve often stated but if former players think I am then I’ll accept that with honor.”

The Hall rejected his request, but while Shilling’s name will still appear on the ballot his words have only served to further alienate him

from the voting members of the BBWAA. Bloom for one expressed that if Shilling doesn’t want his vote, he won’t get it.

Of course, the possibility still exists that Ortiz and Shilling, 2004 champs together, may still share the stage with Bonds and Clemens at the 2022

induction.

Of course, we don’t even know who will show up for this year’s induction, let alone what 2022 will bring. We aren’t doing too well predicting this COVID thing either. So, us baseball lovers will just have to wait and see.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021

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CSO season to focus spotlight on different orchestra sections

By PATRICK DEWEY The Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s new season will begin Saturday, Oct. 23, with a performance at the Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta.

In addition to being the CSO’s first performance since before the coronavirus pandemic began, the October date will also mark the first CSO performance with new Music Director Maciej Zoltowski.

The October concert will feature the string section performing works

by Mozart, Bartok and Grieg.

The second CSO concert will take place Saturday, Nov. 20, at Foothills. The concert will feature the wind section performing a variety of works by Mozart, Strauss, and Dvorak.

Zoltowski said several different considerations played into the decision to spotlight the two main sections of the orchestra in their own distinct shows. He said focusing by major section limits the number of performers onstage at one time, thereby limiting health risk as

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The Catskill Symphony Orchestra will stage its first concert since before the coronavirus pandemic, with a show Saturday, Oct 23, at Foothills in Oneonta.

coronavirus concerns continue.

However, this choice is as much artistic as practical. Zoltowski said playing in smaller sections gives each musician more responsibility and, in turn, pleasure and fulfillment. Zoltowski said wind sections are not frequently seen or spotlighted, typically remaining near the back of the orchestra, so this

gives CSO the opportunity to spotlight the wind section as well.

In March, the annual Cabaret fundraiser will showcase renowned jazz vocalist and America’s Got Talent Golden Buzzer winner Mandy Harvey, who was originally scheduled to perform at the March 2020 Cabaret, and got postponed because of the pandemic.

“Harvey is a prodigy in my opinion,” Zoltowski said.

The season finale, titled American Heritage, will take place in May 2022.

The performance will feature works by American composers, including Amy Beach and George W Chadwick. It will also spotlight the work of Florence Price, a Black American whose “Violin Concerto No. 1” was among manuscripts discovered in 2009, according to CSO officials.

Zoltowski said the goal for the finale is to present the finest American orchestral works.

“It is important for every country to be aware of their heritage,” Zoltowski continued.

Zoltowski began his study of music at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. There, he decided to pursue both musical composition and conducting. Upon graduation from the Chopin Academy in 1997, Zoltowski studied at Wiepersdorf, an educational and arts center near Berlin, Germany. In Germany, he wrote two musical compositions.

He has conducted orchestral performances at London’s Palladium, the Acropolis in Athens, and in Paris, among many others.

CSO Executive Director Cassandra Miller said Oneonta is the second smallest U.S. city to have a professional symphony orchestra.

Founded in 1953, the CSO became a professional union orchestra in 1974.

“Artistic organizations such as the CSO add to the cultural richness of this area, making it a great place to live and work,” Miller said.

Earlier this month, the CSO learned it was awarded two grants, totaling $20,000, by the New York State Council on the Arts. These will support the CSO’s two fall concerts.

“Only a small number of organizations received both grants and we are very proud and appreciate the support,” Miller said. She added that the grants help keep ticket prices relatively low.

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Radio program from Oneonta, Blue Light Central, celebrates 1,000 episodes

By PATRICK DEWEY For the past several years since leaving the local airwaves, Mark Drnek’s blues radio show Blue Light Central has been chugging along happily on the Pacifica Radio Network, a radio company providing syndicated content for non-commercial and public radio stations across the country. Now, Drnek is celebrating 1,000 Blue Light Central shows he has produced and aired.

Drnek, who is also the Eighth Ward Common Council member and mayoral candidate, said he is marking the occasion by partnering with Randy Miritello, local musician and owner of Oneonta’s Crystal Palace

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The “Live from the Crystal Palace” features will air on BLC about every six weeks, according to Drnek.

Blue Light Central began in the summer of 1997, when Drnek was working at WZOZ Oneonta as a news anchor.

“I had always been a fan of blues and music derived from blues so had always wanted to host a blues show,” Drnek said. Around December 1997, BLC moved to WSRK, where it remained an Oneonta radio fixture for many years.

After a time, Drnek received an invitation from

Pacifica to be among its syndicated hosts. He said the ability to record shows rather than being live on air was appealing. Drnek also said he had been hosting BLC live on air at Delaware County non-commercial radio station WIOX. The drive to WIOX was an hour each way for Drnek, making Pacifica, with its ability to allow hosts to record where and when they want to, sound all the more promising.

Drnek said in the radio industry, syndication can be a fulfilling experience for the host. “It’s very nice knowing that what you are doing is having an impact on people across the country,” Drnek said.

He also said it is important

to be aware of the culture of each community where you are heard. For example, Drnek said if you’re heard in Chicago and from upstate New York, you don’t want to seem more of an expert on Chicago blues than your Chicago-based listeners.

Drnek incorporates the train analogy into his shows because he said each show is like “a train of thought.”

“One song suggests another because of rhythm or lyrics and that continues all hour-long,” Drnek said.

Representatives from radio stations offering Blue Light Central have much respect for Drnek.

“You can tell Mark puts a lot of time and thought into every playlist,” said

Davyne Dial, general manager at 103.7 WPVM in Asheville, N.C. KOWS, a non-commercial radio station in California, carries BLC as well. Station Program Director Don Campau called Drnek “a bastion of creativity and curation.”

Drnek said the Live from

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Oneonta residents can catch BLC at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays on Hartwick college’s WRHO 89.7 FM. Playlists from each show, as well as streams and downloadable forms of BLC, are available at bluelightcentral.com.

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Artisans and other festivals fall into autumn

Events such as Fall Fling, Arts on the Lawn will showcase Otsego County’s shoulder season

By KEVIN LIMITI The summer is winding down and with the change in season comes colored foliage, Labor Day, Halloween and fall hikes up the scenic mountains in the Catskills and Adirondacks.

The taste of apple cider, the increasingly crisper days and the feeling of waking up in autumn with a hot cup of coffee is something anybody can look forward to, especially now with all sorts of activities vying for the attention of Otsego County locals and visitors alike.

One of these events is the Cooperstown Artisan Festival put on by the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. It will be at the Otsego County courthouse at 197 Main St. in Cooperstown during Labor Day weekend, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 4, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 5.

Like most events, last year’s artisan festival was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tara Burke, executive director of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, said she is happy to stage the event in 2021.

“We’re excited about our vendor lineup this year,” Burke said, who

mentioned more than 50 vendors would be coming including the Adirondack Balsam, Bill’s Woodworking, Daisy Hollow Farm, Happy Dogs Ceramics, Viking Woodworks, Weathertop Farm and more.

Burke said the festival gives vendors “a chance to showcase their work because it’s beautiful.

“We get a number of local artists and regional artists,” Burke said.

“We’re excited to have them.”

In addition to the artists and vendors, there will be live music and onsite food, including The Green Cow, and food trucks with treats, such as coffee bombs.

“This show’s been around for a long time,” Burke said. The Artistans Festival used to be called the Cooperstown Arts and Crafts Show, which had been an annual tradition since the early 1900s. However, they changed the name to the Artisans Festival, and this is the fourth year the Chamber of Commerce has been running it.

“This is our event. It’s all us,” Burke said, and she said she expects a big turnout this year. “Labor Day weekend is really busy,” Burke said.

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Fall events include harvest festivals, Fall Fling and a tractor festival FALL/ from Page B3 One of the interesting things about the Artisans Festival is the Fine Arts on the Lawn, put on by the Cooperstown Arts Association, will be held at the same time on Labor Day weekend.

Burke said she encourages people to go to and from both events.

Fine Arts on the Lawn is a two-day festival, which includes front lawn exhibitions by local and regional artists. There is a $10 fee to set up original art on the front porch of the Cooperstown Arts Association and a $110 fee to set up original works on the lawn, which are 10' x 10' spaces for tents. There will be music and artist demos, admission is free.

Other events include The Farmers’ Museum’s twin festivals, the Harvest Festival and Tractor Fest, which have been running for 43 and nine years, respectively.

The Harvest Festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 18, and Sunday, Sept. 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tractor Fest, which is intended to teach people about tractors and how farming technology has grown and changed throughout the years, will run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10.

The Farmer’s Museum will also be sponsoring “Things That Go Bump in the Night” ghost tours, which will run Thursdays and Fridays, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Oct. 15, to Oct. 30. The ghost tour is inspired by the classic collection of folk tales written by Louis C. Jones and is recommended for ages 10 and up.

In that same vein, there will be an off-off-Broadway production of the Haunting of Hill House, an adaption of the Shirley Jackson novel Friday, Oct. 1 to Tuesday, Oct. 10, at the Foothills Performing Arts Center.

The Rotary Club will be sponsoring the first ever

Fall Fling at 5 p.m. on Oct. providing tips on growing 9, which has the purpose of as well as demonstrations, bringing people together for music and entertainment, all a day of music, food and different types of food which local vendors. include garlic, and talks on the Fall Fling will feature benefits and history of garlic. local pumpkins and hot cider.

Hyde Hall will be having a “Coming out of over a year of dinner fundraiser and concert lockdowns and quarantines, event, which is meant to we are fortunate to be able provide the experience of to gather (safely and outside) the Clarke family who used to celebrate our commu- to live in the mansion. Music nity and local businesses,” from the Ma’alwyck will the wearecooperstown.com provide an alluring atmowebsite said. sphere that will take visiRed Shed Brewery will be tors back through time. celebrating Oktoberfest from There will ghost tours at the Friday, Sept. 24, to Sunday, mansion throughout October Sept. 26. including evening candleFor those inclined to light tours. cooking and eating, the Oneonta is also having garlic festival is an event some fall events for that is, fittingly, all about Labor Day weekend. The garlic. Supported by the Destination Oneonta Harvest Susquehanna Valley Garlic Party, takes place from 12 Growers Assocation and the p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Friends of the Garlic Festival, Oct. 16 featuring autumn- Karla Andela, a local potter, works at the Contributed.

Artisans it takes place in Milford at themed activities, games and Festival in 2019.

Wood Bull Antiques on State vendors with more details to Route 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 be announced. p.m., Saturday, Sept. 18. This For more information year will be the 20th anniver- about all the events, go to sary of the festival, which cooperstownartisansfestival.

Kaplan2104-B&BFreeman3.73_qr 8/23/21 11:07 AM Page 1 will feature garlic growers org or call 607-547-9983.

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FRIENDS OF ONEONTA THEATRE GOLF TOURNAMENT Join us for our golf tournament fundraiser Sunday, September 19 • 1:00 pm Oneonta Country Club to benefit the Friends of the Oneonta Theatre. Help us reopen the historic theater as a performance venue. $75 per player!

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Thursday, August 19, 2021

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Staff Picks Our best bets for local dining

Jive Café, Cooper’s Barn Feel Good Smoothie Bar, more Larissa Ryan Business Manager The Jive Café If you’re passing through Hartwick Seminary and need something to eat, try stopping by the Jive Café.

It’s a cute little café that offers breakfast and lunch, including traditional omelets and salads. I grabbed their Cobb Salad with eggs, bacon and a tasty honey mustard sauce. I particularly enjoyed mixing the flavor of the greens with the warm savory bacon and the refreshing hardboiled eggs. It’s a worthwhile stop if you are just passing through or getting supplies from the grocery store right next door.

The Jive Café, 12 Commons Dr., Hartwick Seminary 607-547-4471 Tara Barnwell Publisher Cooper’s Barn Although we reviewed Cooper’s Barn for their wonderful ice cream at the beginning of the summer, they have since added food to their repertoire. Not just a couple of items, but a full menu of apps, burgers and sandwiches, salads and barbecue. They now have beer and wine, too.

The “Food Shack Menu” is hard to choose from. We started with the chips and homemade salsa; they make it every day and it’s so fresh.

Then I had the 1/3 lb. cheeseburger (with Havarti cheese), lettuce, tomato and onion.

I had heard about their cheeseburgers and it exceeded its reputation!

My husband got the pulled pork platter, a traditional charcoal-smoked barbecue that was delicious. He had the homemade mac ’n cheese as a side, it was so rich and

cheesy. They even make homemade cornbread. Top it all off with their fabulous ice cream and you’ll be ready for a nap!

Cooper’s Barn 4833 State Route 28, Hartwick Seminary 607-282-4365 Kathleen Peters Graphic Designer Cooley’s Stone House Tavern Even though it sits in the heart of downtown Cooperstown, you might feel like you walked into your favorite hometown hangout when you enter Cooley’s.

There is a large bar in the center, booths around the sides, six TVs, and some classic rock music playing just loud enough that you can hear it and still have a conversation.

Cooley’s offers a typical pub menu with burgers, sandwiches, and wings. Husband and I were both quite satisfied with our dinners, and especially happy with the speedy and pleasant service.

He had the Jersey Burger which came with American cheese, Taylor Ham, fried egg, and fries.

I had Cooley’s Cuban, a grilled sandwich on ciabatta bread with pulled pork, smoked ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and honey mustard.

Mine came with the homemade potato chips, which were even better than the French fries, in my humble opinion.

Even though I had to come back into work afterward, I had a perfect pint of Guinness to wash down the Cuban.

Don’t tell anyone!

Cooley’s 49 Pioneer St. Cooperstown 607-544-1311

Danielle Crocco Marketing Consultant Feel Good Smoothie Bar and Café Having to stick to certain dietary restrictions is hard, especially when it’s more than one thing you have to worry about. I was nervous about moving to a new state and being able to find food not only within my dietary needs but that was also delicious. I was so happy when I found Feel Good Smoothie Bar and Café.

They are a health food restaurant with delicious vegan and gluten-free options and the owners are the sweetest!

The falafel wrap can be on a gluten-free wrap and is out of this world. I have tried many Immune Boost juices and theirs is the best out there!

The fruit medley smoothie is also refreshing, especially on a hot summer day.

Feel Good Smoothie Bar 49 Clinton Plaza Oneonta 607-386-4079 Kevin Limiti Reporter Sal’s Pizzeria I know there is a pizza divide in Cooperstown and one of the contenders for the crown is Sal’s Pizzeria on Main Street.

Popular with tourists and locals alike, this pizza tastes different enough to distinguish itself from its rival, New York Pizzeria.

The bacon, cheddar, ranch pizza is very good. They use a garlic oil base, which is perfect for this kind of specialty slice. I recommend checking it out and making a decision on the best pizza in Cooperstown for yourself.

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Thursday, August 26, 2021

B-6 Summer Dreams

THE DOG CHARMER

Owner worries because rescue dog does not play

Hi Tom, I recently adopted a rescue dog who is very well behaved, affectionate, listens and responds well and has learned a few new tricks, but has two issues: she does not know how to play, and she wants to be outdoors all the time. If you try to play ball she will watch the ball go past her but not chase it. She doesn’t seem to know how to play with any toys. She never picks up a stick, never carries anything in her mouth, and won’t play tug or squeak her toys, although she uses one stuffed animal as a pillow in her bed.

At the dog park she loves to run with the other dogs but has no interest in retrieving whatever they are chasing. She loves to be outdoors but when she is inside she just lies on her bed looking sad or nudges us to go out for another walk.

How can I help her have more fun?

Ellen Dear Ellen, Affectionate, well behaved, with no accidents ain’t bad when I consider that half of my 800 appointments a year were for real “problem” dogs. But I get where you’re coming from, Ellen. You’re obviously a dog lover and sensitive to your dog’s lack of enthusiasm for play in life.

She seems depressed and it’s depressing you.

Assuming that it’s not something medical, it seems clear that her perhaps deprived upbringing did not include any of the usual play antics of most dogs.

You haven’t said how long you’ve actually had him because I’ve seen adopted dogs take more than two months until they became comfortable and trusting enough to relax and “come out” and start being themselves with play. My own poodle, Paula Jean, hardly wagged her tail for two months after I adopted her at age two.

So forget about the stick and the ball and try this. Let her know you have a treat size piece of meat in your hand and tell her to sit and stay. If necessary have someone hold her on a leash as you back up, acting a little silly to keep her attention.

Then, with her seeing you do it, bend down and place the meat behind a chair leg, or whatever. Then go back to her and with great enthusiasm tell her “Go Find!” as you release her.

If necessary, take her there on the leash, but don’t show her where it is, let her find it. She will.

With success building on success you’ll be able to tell her to stay, step into a nearby room, hide the little piece of meat, come back and tell her, “Go Find!” She’ll love the game.

I trained two of my dogs to find missing people, and when my kids were young and had friends over that was their favorite game. Hide and seek with the kids hiding and the dog seeking.

Ellen, very important, success building on success, with her finding the meat treat before she loses interest because it’s taking too long to find. Good luck and thank you for being an adopter.

Tom Shelby Cooperstown author Tom Shelby will answer any pet owner’s questions on training dogs.

Email your questions to dogsrshelby@msn.com.

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NY STATE FAIR – From 7 a.m. At the Oneonta Country Club, to 10 p.m. A 13-day showcase 9 Country Club Dr. in Oneonta. of agriculture, entertainment, For info: 607-432-4500.

BUTTERFLY GARDEN – At education and technology.

COunty p.m. Girl Scouts celebrate At the Great New York State in6OtsegO Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair completion and opening of Blvd. in Syracuse. For info: their Flowers with Wings 315-487-7711 or visit nysfair. Butterfly Garden. There will be seed packets and info for ny.gov.

HOME SCHOOLING – At 1:30 people to take home to start p.m. Join the library to learn their own gardens. The space about resources available to serves as an educational, parents home schooling their fun space where children children, or just how to support can learn about pollinators your child’s education. Learn and their parents can relax. about Britannica, School, It is also listed as a Monarch Gale Elementary and much Waystation on the migration more. At the Village Library of route. At the Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd. in Cooperstown.

AUTHOR SERIES – At 2 p.m. Oneonta.

FIRE PIT FRIDAYS – From 7 Join talk with former major league infielder Greg Pryor, to 10 p.m. Get out and enjoy a whose book “The Day the fun night around the fire with Yankees Made Me Shave,” friends, drinks and music. explores the turbulent history This week features music of the major leagues of the from the Psychedelic Groove ’60s. Free, registration for Circus, performed by the Zoom required. Presented by Glass Pony band. At Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Route The Baseball Hall of Fame.

SCHENEVUS HISTORY – At 33, in Middlefield. For info: 6:30 p.m. Join the Town of 607-280-2900.

THEATER – At 7:30 p.m.

Maryland Historical Society to learn the history of the Written and performed by Schenevus Bank. When was Evan Zes, “Rent Control” is a it founded? Was it robbed? comedy featuring 25 characWhere was it? Masking and ters portraying a wild but true social distancing will be story of an artist who lucks into enforced. At the VFW, 16 Main a rent-controlled apartment in St. in Schenevus. For info: NYC and makes money off it until the plan hilariously back607-435-5849.

WORD THURSDAY – At 7 fires. Free admission. At the p.m. Enjoy open mic by local Franklin Stage Company, 25 writers followed by readings Institute St. in Franklin. For by “Seeing Things” chapbook info: 607-829-3700. poets Lynne Kemen and Julene Waffle. Presented by Bright Hill ►Saturday, Aug. 28 Press, in Treadwell. For info: GARAGE SALE DAY – All 607-829-5055.

Day. Stop in for the village wide Annual Fly Creek Community ►Friday, Aug. 27 Day Garage Sale. Includes DEADLINE – Last Day to refreshments for sale starting register for TEDx Oneonta (if at 8 a.m. and lunch of hot available). Visit tedxoneonta. dogs, burgers, salad, more, served at the Historical Society. com for info.

GOLF CLASSIC – At 1 p.m. Maps can be found at the Fly Join the Otsego Chamber of Creek General Store, 6212 Commerce for the 35th Annual state Route 28 in Fly Creek.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST Golf Classic to support the Chamber’s efforts to help the – From 7:30 to 11 a.m. or local community thrive. Sign until sold out. Drop in for deliup for golf tournament at 1 cious breakfast of pancakes,

real maple syrup, scrambled eggs, sausage, applesauce, more to support the Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company. Cost, $10/adult. Masks required if unvaccinated. At the Fly Creek Firehouse, 832 county Route 26 in Fly Creek. For info: 607-547-5469.

BLOOD DRIVE – From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the Burlington Flats Baptist Church, 101 Arnold Rd. in Burlington Flats. For info: 800-733-2767.

BOOK SIGNING – From noon to 4 p.m. Explore the history of New York’s underground cave network with author/explorer Dana Cudmore in his new book, “Underground Empires: Two Centuries of Exploration, Adventure & Enterprise in New York’s Cave Country.” Book launch will include a power point presentation, book signing and free tours to the original entrance to Howes Cave next door. Free admission, portion of book sales that day will benefit the museum. At Cave House Museum of Mining and Geology, 139 Blowing Rock Rd. in Howes Cave.

SAUSAGE & BREW FESTIVAL – From 3 to 9 p.m.

Hobart Rotary Club presents festival of specialty sausages, made by local farms with the freshest ingredients, and wash it down with NYS craft beer and cider. Other fun includes live music, horseshoe games, square dancing and more. At 101 Maple Ave. in Hobart. For info: facebook. com/HobartRotaryClub/.

LIFESKILLS – From 4 to 6 p.m. Teens are invited to learn to cook with Lynn. Menu posted to Facebook. Seating is limited, reservations are required. Presented by The Oneonta Teen Center. At 50 Dietz St. in Oneonta. For info: 607 441 3999.

MOVIE NIGHT – At 7 p.m.

Join the Richfield Springs Library and the community center for a showing of “Flora and Ulysses.” At the Richfield Springs Community Center, 6 Ann St. in Richfield Springs.

For info: 315-858-0230.

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