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Nursing Home Acts On Complaints Heather Power, formerly with Bassett, is new food service director as Cooperstown Center seeks to respond to residents’ complaints.

More Fruit, More Choices On Center’s Menu

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resh produce has returned to Cooperstown Center.

“Every day, we have fresh fruit available with at least one meal,” said

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Josey Maroney of McDonough has joined Otsego 2000 as Cooperstown Farmers’ Market manager, succeeding Shannon Kirch/

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And we always stock fresh fruit in the neighborhood kitchens for people to snack on.”

Following complaints about the quality of food expressed June 5 to The Freeman’s Journal by the Residents Council, as well as allegations that Please See FOOD, A7

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administrator Jeff Emhoff. “We’ve had peaches, strawberries, cantaloupe, watermelon and pineapple.

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ith Village Hall preparing to do a management plan for street trees, a “pleasant stroll around Cooperstown” is planned for 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 20, to learn about trees and their role in communitiy life.

Meet at Pioneer Park.

Trustee Cindy Falk and OCCA Program Director Jeff O’Handley will lead the tour.

ALOMAR DUE: Hall of Famer Robert Alomar and Roberto Clemente’s brother will be in town for Hall of Fame Community Day Saturday, Sept. 29, appearing at a special “Voices of the Game” program at 2 p.m.

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Inside The Farmers’ Museum’s one-room Filer’s Corners Schoolhouse, originally in the Town of Butternuts, Joelle Lachance, Fly Creek, brought 19th century readin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmetic to life for some of the 3,000 visitors drawn to the 40th anniversary Harvest Festival Sept. 15-16. Sunny weather ensured an a bove-average turnout at the autumn staple.

Artspace Focus Groups Scheduled For October

SWAN IN WINGS: The Otsego County Democratic Committee is planning to consider Aimee Swan of Oneonta for chair when it reBy LIBBY CUDMORE organizes at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, in Cooperstown Village Hall. She would suc- ONEONTA ceed Kim Muller, the former Oneonta mayor. oon, Oneonta may join New Orleans, WHICH FILMS? The Memphis and Glimmerglass Film Days, Honolulu as an Artspace Nov. 8-12 this year, is due to venue. release its schedule later this In October, the Minneapolis non-profit will hold three week. For details, check days of focus groups to assess whether Oneonta would be a good fit to build one of its acclaimed affordable combinedwww.

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“We want to get a sense of whether artists are looking for this type of facility,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “We also Please See ARTSPACE, A7

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Focus Execs’ Guilty Plea Historic, AG Office Says

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ll texting and no play make for anxious and clumsy kids, Cherry Valley’s Ricardo Sierra told Otsego County’s third TEDx Talk.

Sierra, who operates the Hawk Circle Wilderness Education camp, presented “Nature Deficit Disorder,” the one local in six TEDx Please See TEDX, A3

t may not be over yet.

Republican voters in the Thursday, Sept.

13, primary chose incumbent Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr., 1,700, over Bob Fernandez, 1,316, who already has the Democratic line in the Nov. 6 general election.

But is the margin of less than 400 votes decisive?

“This result says that Richard Devlin is popular among those Republicans most likely to vote in the primary” – the party faithful, said Cooperstown Trustee Richard Sternberg, the Democratic organizer. “But it does also suggest a Please See DEVLIN, A7

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Focus Otsego executives Joseph Zupnik and Daniel Herman’s Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal guilty plea is the first Focus executive Joseph time the state Attor- Zupnik, left, and Dan Herman ney General’s office exit Otsego Town Court. has convicted a nursnursing homes have a soling-home owner for resident emn obligation to ensure that abuse. residents are appropriately “Owners and operators of Please See FOCUS, A7

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osey Maroney, new manager of the Cooperstown Farmers Market, touts her position as a return to food. “I was an Americorps member in 2010,” she said. “I worked for Central NY Bounty, a local food project, doing outreach and marketing.”

A graduate of SUNY Delhi and SUNY Oswego, she previously worked for the Rural Health Network of South Central New York as an administrative assistant, helping rural residents access health care, transportation and food.

Her first day was Saturday, Sept. 15. “I met a lot of people and learned a lot!” she said.

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very year for the last decade, Fred Lemister, owner of Rudy’s Liquors, uses his window to honor the 343 first responders and the 3,000 victims of the 9/11 attacks.

“It’s a very special exhibit for me personally,” said Lemister, a 49-year veteran of the Cooperstown Fire Department. “When everyone was running out of that fiery inferno, these brave guys and gals were running in.

It’s very rare, I think, to find such a commitment to service as shown by those men and women. This window is a testament to the sacrifices that they made.”

On display are 30 patches

card for one man, George William Morrell.

“He’s the only non-firefighter displayed in this window,” said Lemister.

Morrell was the brother of village resident Cathy Raddatz, and worked as an investment counselor at Cantor Fitzgerald in the upper floors of the north tower.

Morrell was one of 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees lost that morning, and his sister, Cathy, has placed Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal American flags on the lawns Fred Lemister has honored the fallen of Sept. 11, 2001 every year in the window of Rudy’s Liquors. of the Catholic, Methodist and Episcopal churches in from departments who physically, but emotionally, Cooperstown every year lost responders, flanked it is one of the hardest things since to commemorate her all around by newspaper Lemister has to do. brother. covers, pictures, hats, and a “I do a lot of different Raddatz donated her large American flag featurwindow displays at this brother’s prayer card to ing the names of all 343 store, but none like this Lemister earlier this year, first responders who were one,” he said. “I can’t even asking him to display the killed. It may not seem like look at this display without card in his 9/11 memorial. a difficult display to set up choking up.”

“It’s a brotherhood; it’s a And amidst all of the fraternity,” he said. “I may memorabilia recognizing not know them, but they’re first responders, sits a prayer still my brothers.”

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“We have problems when our children are disconnected from the natural world,” Sierra said as he paced a red circle in the middle of SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich stage on Friday, Sept. 14.

This was the third local TEDx Talk in Oneonta, an offshoot of the worldwide, Seattle-based enterprise that shares ideas technology, education and design. TED’s theme is “ideas worth spreading.”

Organized locally by Dan Buttermann, the Oneonta school board member and, most recently, Assembly candidate, the main sponsors were Hartwick College, SUNY Oneonta and NYCM. “There are physical problems, children are not able to navigate. I have seen them trip over the smallest rock while they are walking along a level path.”

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“We practice problem solving, and we use those skills to create higher goals.”

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THURSDAY, september 20, 2018

EDITORIAL

MISTAKES WERE MADE. WHO MADE THEM?

Left On Recliner, Patient Lacked ‘Safe, Adequate Treatment, Care’

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t’s pretty clear to everyone by now that the sale of Otsego Manor in Jan. 27, 2014, was a mistake.

That was punctuated with numerous exclamation marks Wednesday, Sept. 12, when Focus CEO Joseph Zupnik and his chief financial executive, Daniel Herman, pleaded guilty before Otsego Town Justice Gary Kuch in the Fly Creek courtroom.

Under a plea agreement, Zupnik and Herman admitted to only one of the eight counts against them, one involving patient M.P., left in a chair for 41 hours over Labor Day Weekend 2016. The specifics, as detailed by the Attorney General’s Office, appear at right.

More serious, in that death resulted, may have been the count involving Robert Banta, former

Editor’s Note: Here’s how the state Attorney General’s Office detailed two Focus executives’ offenses in running Otsego Manor.

longtime county Soil & Water Conservation District chairman, so admired that the district’s headquarters on Route 33 is named in his honor. Admitted to Focus, he fell twice the first night there, and died at Bassett Hospital a few days later.

Some may wish the penalties were harsher – avoiding jail time by their guilty pleas, Zupnik and Herman will be sentenced Oct. 10 to a term of community service, plus fines and expulsion from administering nursing homes that get federal Medicaid funding. Further, these criminal convictions should Robert Banta, right, with have nursing home owners who family,including daughter are inclined to cut corners to think Kathryn Reinhardt, second again. from left, who wrote the Still, should the responsibility for Letter to the Editor published the Focus fiasco – the widely below.

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he Attorney General’s felony complaint charged that Zupnik, Herman, and CCRN endangered a 94 yearold resident, M.P., alleging that she was left in a recliner in the common living room area of the nursing home for approximately 41 hours from May 28, 2016 at approximately 1:00 p.m. until May 30, 2016 at approximately 6:30 a.m. Staff left Resident M.P. in the recliner and failed to provide timely, consistent, safe, adequate, and appropriate services, treatment, and care.

Furthermore, the resident’s care plan and medical record indicated that Resident M.P. required a two-person. Hoyer

lift to move the resident; turning and repositioning to avoid development of pressure sores; incontinence checks every two hours by staff and neurological checks due to a recent.fall.

Despite this, multiple Certified.

Nurse Aides (CNAs) did not provide care pursuant to Resident M.P.’s care plan, including incontinence care and turning and repositioning.

The CNAs did not provide food or drink or other required assistance with activities of daily living, or attempt to administer medications. The nursing staff did not conduct ordered neurological checks, but instead made false entries in Resident M.P.’s medical records that such checks were performed.

Four Focus employees were previously prosecuted and convicted for their roles in Resident M.P.’s neglect.

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An Anguished Daughter Cries Out: How Could This Have Happened?

To the Editor: I am the eldest daughter of the late Robert L. Banta. I am writing in regards to the Focus nursing home, their negligence and disregard for patient care and human life.

In June 2015, my father was admitted to Focus after seven weeks of rehab. During admission, the staff was made aware that he was a fall risk.

Nonetheless, he was placed in a bed with no side rails, no bed alarm, or nurse call button. Within hours of his arrival he fell from the bed, hitting his head on the concrete floor.

Sometime later, he was discovered and

just placed back in bed, again with no regard for his safety. Within hours he again fell out of bed, once again hitting his head, and once again was just put back in bed!

It was not until the next AFTERNOON when he was found unresponsive that he was taken to the hospital and I was informed. He spent the next five days in great pain before dying.

Prior to being admitted to Focus he was in good health looking forward to going home at some point.

I did file a wrongful-death lawsuit against Focus. The proceedings dragged on for 2½ years while their corporate at-

torneys manipulated the judicial system, artfully dodging court dates, allowing the owners ample time to move assets and ultimately sell the facility.

While I, on behalf of his estate, was awarded a judgment, it is apparent that there will be no compensation ... as they had planned. The assets of Focus seem to have vaporized!

Recently, three of the principals of the Focus corporation were indicted on several criminal charges, including the wrongful death of my father.

So far, however, two were found guilty but only of one charge: misdemeanor en-

dangering the welfare of an incapacitated person. Charges relating to my father were dismissed.

Dismissed?? How can such a miscarriage of justice happen? Death was dismissed! How can two men, who appear to me to have no moral ethics whatsoever, get away with this?? Equally as alarming to me is that, as I read in the paper, the case was administrated by a magistrate.

I’m sure the defendants’ attorneys got a chuckle out of that.

KATHRYN REINHARDT Bluffton, S.C.

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tsego County needs a ties. As climate change accelernew direction for energy ates, those supply lines become and economic developless reliable. ment. An important step to that We read, almost daily, of one end was taken last week when disaster after another regionthe county board’s Intergovally, nationally, and internationernmental Affairs Committee ally: mega-hurricanes, severe endorsed the idea of setting up droughts, enormous wildfires, an energy and economic develmelting polar ice, mass extincopment task force. tions, etc.

ADRIAN Kudos to them! A countyNo place is immune from KUZMINSKI wide task force would give us climate change, not even two things we don’t have now: Otsego County. Nonetheless, long-term economic planning and our quiet corner of the planet a wide range of interests and expertise looks more and more like a refuge comsystematically participating in local deci- pared to many in other places, and that sion-making. may be our greatest asset.

We’re increasingly recognizing how In fact, climate change may have some vulnerable we are. We depend on long advantages for us: milder winters, a lonsupply lines for food, energy and necessiPlease See KUZMINSKI, A5

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Fenimore Library: From ‘Collection Of Junk’ To Quality Repository Of Important Research Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of the keynote delivered Saturday, Sept.

15, by Wayne Wright, retired director of The Fenimore Research Library, on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the fieldstone building, next to The Fenimore Museum.

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his organization was founded as the New York State Historical Association in 1899 and part of its purpose was to collect books, manuscripts, maps, and other library materials.

In 1910, its first untrained librarian said the library was “practically a collection of junk.” Over the years that assessment has changed as the library became more purposeful about its collecting.

Eventually it became what has been called “one of the Empire State’s most

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important research institutions.”

It started in Glens Falls; went to Ticonderoga in 1926 when our first headquarters was there at Hancock House. I think it became a real library during that time when it had its first permanent home.

In 1939, the institution was transferred to Cooperstown and the library collection was in the Village Building

downtown. In 1945, the library was transferred to Fenimore House when the association moved there.

The library was in rooms on the second floor. The manuscripts had their own room, but parts of the collection were housed in various places - upstairs over the Print Shop, various barns and outbuildings, and even a refurbished coal bin at Fenimore (I hope it was a clean coal bin.) Book conservation work was done in the basement of Bump Tavern at The Farmers’ Museum.

As the library grew into a remarkable research collection, it needed its own building. Paul DuBois, librarian at the time, said: “Truly adequate and appropriate quarters that made possible for the first time the centralization Please See 50th, A6

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

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Agricultural Exhibitions – His Excellency Governor Clinton intends commencing his agricultural tour about September 21st in consequence of a special invitation by several agricultural societies. After meeting the Canal Commissioners at Utica he will proceed immediately to Jefferson County to attend their cattle show and fair on the 28th and 29th September at Watertown; thence he will return to Utica Fair; thence to Otsego Fair at Cooperstown, the 6th and 7th October; thence to Cayuga County at Auburn, the 20th of October. The result, we have no doubt, will stimulate efforts in every part of the state in 1819. We are also informed the premiums will be very liberal, and the preparations to excel, very spirited. In Otsego, the exhibition, it is said, will surpass anything of the kind which has yet been seen in America.

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Deaf & Dumb – A friend of ours sometime since handed us a scrap of an old newspaper, nearly worn out, from which with difficulty we extract the following sketch of an examination held at the Deaf and Dumb Institution in London, of the children in their knowledge of the divine truth: “A little boy was asked in writing, ‘Who made the world?’

He took the chalk, and wrote underneath the question – ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.’ The clergyman then inquired in a similar manner, ‘Why did Jesus Christ come into the world?’ A smile of gratitude rested on the countenance of the little fellow as he wrote, ‘This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.’ A third was then proposed evidently intended to call his most powerful feelings into exercise. ‘Why were you deaf and dumb, when I can hear and speak?’ ‘Never,’ said an eyewitness, ‘shall I forget the look of resignation which sat on his countenance as he took up the chalk and wrote: ‘Even so Father, for it seemed good in thy sight.’ ” September 25, 1843

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Naturalization – Any alien may become a citizen of the United States by declaring on oath or affirmation before the State Courts of competent jurisdiction, two years before his admission, that it is his bona fide intention to become a citizen of the United States. To become such citizen he must have resided within the United States five years at least, and one year at least in the State or Territory where

Otsego Manor Demise Not In Our Stars, But Ourselves EDITORIAL/From A4 recognized deterioration of care for some of our county’s most vulnerable citizens – be left at that?

• Retired banker Bill Dornburgh, a member of the county Health Facilities Corp. set up by the county Board of Representatives to shelter itself from attempts to block Otsego Manor’s sale, recalls telling Zupnik that the sale price – $18.5 million – was too high, that Focus could never cover its investment.

Dornburgh voted nay on the sale to Focus. So Zupnik did two other members of the Health Facilities Corp.

– Dr. Don Pollock, the retired Bassett physician, and Carol Kirkey, whose husband Terry passed away at what was still Otsego Manor in February 2013.

But the four others voted aye: county Reps. Kay Stuligross, Democrat, and Don Lindberg, Republican; Kim Muller, former Oneonta mayor and, until the end of this month, chair of the county Democratic Party; and Oneonta contractor Rick Eastman. They are certainly public-spirited citizens to take on a thankless job at no remuneration; nonetheless, they must take some responsibility for what turned out to be the wrong decision, predictably so. Dornburgh was right.

Was there simply no corporation or institution in our vast United States of America capable of effectively administering our county nursing home?

• On May 15, 2013, the county representatives voted unanimously for the creation of the Health Facilities Corp., which allowed them to wash their hands of the 4-

3 vote to sell Otsego Manor to Focus the following Jan. 27. Shouldn’t those men and women bear some responsibility for the eventual outcome, too?

Most of the county reps then have now moved on; the two most directly involved, Stuligross to retirement near Philadelphia, and Lindberg to election as Worcester town supervisor.

Likewise, Republicans Jim Powers, Pauline Koren and the late Betty Ann Schwerd have left the board, as have Democrats Rich Murphy, since passed away, and Beth RosenHerman thal, John Kosmer and Linda Rowinski.

Three remain in office today: Republicans Ed Frazier and Kathy Clark, and Democrat Gary Koutnik.

It’s been noted here before that the very nature of the Otsego County Board of Representatives – 14 members, elected by a couple of hundred people from individual districts, yet making decisions for all of us – shelters individual reps from accountability.

You can snub your nose at the 60,636 of us as long as you keep the few hundred neighbors in your camp.

The decision to sell the Manor affected all of us; yet no one – except, thankfully, Zupnik and Herman – have paid any price. This is one reason why a county executive is being considered: to centralize accountability, and thus, responsibility – blame AND credit.

Now, that barely exists.

Still, Frazier, Clark and Koutnik are up for reelection next year. If the electoral process is working at all in Otsego County, they should be challenged, and the challenger should ask: Who lost Otsego Manor?

100 YEARS AGO

75 YEARS AGO

Mrs. Elihu Russell Houghton announces the opening of the Knox School on September 29. This will be the Knox School’s thirty-second year and the twenty-third year in Cooperstown. The number of students enrolled is much larger than last year and a majority of the girls are from the State of New York. Other states represented are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Ohio, California, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. There is one girl from England, one from South America and one from Aruba.

September 22, 1943 September 24, 1918

the court is held where he may be admitted to such citizenship. The declaration of intention to become a citizen may be made before a Clerk of a Court of competent jurisdiction to the same effect as if made before a Court. A minor under the age of 21 years who shall have resided in the United States, and after he arrives at the age of 21 years, be admitted as a citizen without having made the declaration of his intention to become so, two years prior to such admission.

An alien of the age of 21 years and upward, who enlisted in the armies of the United States, either the regular or the volunteer forces, and has been honorably discharged, may be admitted to become a citizen on proof of his residence of one year within the United States previous to his application to become a citizen, and without a declaration of his intention to become such citizen.

September 18, 1868

125 YEARS AGO

Local: Miss Emma L. Russell goes to Utica on Monday next, where she will pursue her musical studies at the Conservatory of Music. Miss Russell has been the efficient organist at the Presbyterian Church in this village for several years past, and also presided at the piano in the Sunday school rooms. She is also a member of the Ladies’ orchestra.

Mrs. Bunn and her son Charles went to New York on Monday. The latter, who has decided natural talent for drawing is to enter the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for instruction in drafting in mechanical engineering.

September 21, 1893

50 YEARS AGO

The widow of a Bell System Data Communications Training Program (DCTP) graduate killed last year in the crash of a Mohawk Airlines jet in Blossburg, Pennsylvania, has been awarded $240,000 in damages in her lawsuit against Mohawk and the manufacturer of the plane. Circuit Judge Harold G. Ward approved the out-of-court settlement last week in Chicago for Mrs. Patricia Remick, a mother of three from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her husband, Ronald J. Remick, 27, was one of 34 passengers killed in the crash June 23, 1967. Five other Bell System employees who had graduated with Mr. Remick from the DCTP earlier that day in Cooperstown were also killed. All six were traveling to new assignments within te Bell System after completing the course which is based at the Otesaga Hotel here.

September 18, 1968

25 YEARS AGO

Dr. William J. Tramposch, President of the New York State Historical Association and The Farmers’ Museum, that Marianne Bez has been named the new Director of Development and Public Affairs of the museums. Bez, who recently served as Assistant Director of Fund Development at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, assumed her new duties this week. Her responsibilities will include fund-raising for museum programs and overseeing the organization’s public affairs and membership efforts. Bez is a 1982 alumnus of the Cooperstown Graduate Program in History Museum Studies. Bez takes an active interest in the Cooperstown community and has served on the board for the Cooperstown Concert Series and the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce.

September 22, 1993

Energy Future Beckons, But Isn’t Here Yet Editor’s Note: David Rowley of West Oneonta, retired Edmestown Central superintendent of schools and former Oneonta City Schools’ interim superintendent, made similar points Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Oneonta Town Board meeting.

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believe the debate over the insufficient capacity of NYSEG to supply natural gas during the peak demand of winter and both natural gas and electricity for business expansion, has a pragmatic solution. However, a constructive and respectful dialogue is necessary.

The scientific evidence that there is a direct correlation between man-made carbon emissions and global warming is compelling. Without question we need to transition to renewable energy sources, and four years ago we made a family commitment to that effect when we contracted with Revolution Solar to install a 4.4 kW PV Grid Tied System using a Single Axis Tracker.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that two-thirds of all new

electrical-generating capacity will come from solar, wind and hydroelectric. It is a fact that the cost per megawatt hour of electricity is OTHER significantly lower VOICES using solar panels or wind turbines when compared to natural gas. Renewables are here and their growth is unstoppable.

However, it is also true that solar is an intermittent source of electrical DAVID production for the ROWLEY grid and that the greatest obstacle to utilizing solar powered electricity is our ability to store it for later use.

Our solar panels are non-producing from dusk to dawn and productivity is greatly reduced on overcast days.

Electricity storage technology is advancing and billions of dollars have been invested in lithium ion battery

research.

Lithium Nickel Cobalt Manganese Oxide batteries (Green Car Report, 7/27/18), particularly the NCM 811, are very promising as is sodium-ion technology. Supercapacitors or UltraCapacitors are currently being used by both GM and Toyota. Research is also being conducted in merging Supercapacitors and batteries to create Hybrid Batteries.

Yet, the transition from a technological breakthrough to commercial production is a costly and long-term process. The fact is that battery-powered cars still have range limitations that make them an inadequate mass replacement for gasoline powered vehicles.

On a larger scale, there are successful projects that store solar-powered electricity using molten salt technology, hydrogen energy storage (Germany), pump storage reservoirs for hydroelectric, etc.

The Babcock Ranch development in Florida will be the first solar-powered Please See ROWLEY, A6

KUZMINSKI: Broadband Is Future Of Local Economy KUZMINSKI/From A4 ger growing season, plenty of water.

We may be more resilient as well – thanks to a lower population density – than overdeveloped areas, including coastal cities in the South and drought-prone regions in the West, which now bear much of the brunt of climate change.

We need an economic plan that builds on sustainable assets, not on unsustainable liabilities.

Our sustainable assets include, above all, an uncrowded, serene, clean, safe, attractive and relatively stable environment – something increasingly rare in a world of accelerating climate change.

We have an underutilized rural base, including agriculture, forestry and the potential of value-added products. Farming has not recovered from the deathblow to the dairy industry, it’s true, but if local boutique and organic farmers had more financial support and better distribution

systems, they could be more competitive and develop new local products.

We have a high-quality health care system, and we often forget it is our major industry. Even so, it has yet to realize its full potential as a magnet for medical and nursing care.

Bassett Healthcare, as an integrated medical system, provides a superior level of care that could be coupled with additional facilities for assisted living. An aging population will demand it, and we could supply it.

We have, in Oneonta, institutions of higher learning that could be further developed and better folded into the community. Curriculum innovation and more partnerships between the colleges and local institutions and businesses – after the model of the Hartwick College nursing program – could make it possible for more students to stay on in our communities after graduation, as we see in other college and university towns.

Tourism has become the main interface between Otsego county and the world. Our cultural attractions – events, concerts, festivals, galleries, and museums – could be expanded even further. But tourism works only insofar as the powerful symbiosis between our cultural assets and the historical aura and natural beauty of the area is maintained.

Tourism needs to be kept proportional and diversified, so as not to overwhelm the fabric of local life.

And, perhaps most important of all, we have a steady in-migration of people looking for second homes, or retirement living, or the opportunity to conduct internet-related businesses and raise families in a new setting, away from the urban madness.

These new immigrants are attracted by the natural assets they find here, as well as good schools, good healthcare, a lively cultural scene, and a vibrant civic life worth being a part of.

They want sustainability, which we can offer, in contrast to the increasingly unsustainable systems they’re looking to escape.

If I were to make an optimistic prediction about the future of our communities in response to the growing ecological and economic crises, I would look to a synthesis of high-tech internet with a rural, family-oriented lifestyle.

Such a synthesis would realize participation in the global economy with the virtues of small town and country living.

If this is to be our future, if these are the people we want to attract, then we need universal broadband to sustain the economy, as well as renewable energy to preserve a clean and beautiful local environment.

That’s where our investments ought to be going.

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

THURSDAY-Friday, september 20-21, 2018

A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

From ‘Collection Of Junk’ To Quality Repository Of Important Research 50th/From A4 of the collections were not a reality until the Association opened its new library to the public September 1968.”

That is exactly 50 years ago this month. A dedication was the following year in July 1969.

The impetus for creating such a building was brought about when the institution began the sponsorship of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, in cooperation with SUNY Oneonta. Students in the program received a master’s degree in history-museum training and American Folk Culture and later in Art Conservation.

The graduate program needed an academic library, so this building was built.

Its look had to complement the stone Fenimore House, so the New York architectural firm, Moore & Hutchins, designed this handsome stone building.

The building had a catalog office where book processing could be done, a state-of-the-art media room for use by the graduate program, a classroom for CGP, a conference room and director’s office for the organization, a microfilm room for microfilming newspapers, a book conservation lab, an archives room downstairs for large manuscript collections, a Special Collections reading room,

The 1968 library was built of fieldstone that matches the adjacent Fenimore Museum.

and a temperature and humidity controlled rare book and manuscript room.

When I was an undergraduate student at SUNY Oneonta in 1968 majoring in English, I came to visit this library to use a folklore periodical that contained an article on Washington Irving’s use of German folk tales. While here, I was impressed at such a wonderful library.

I remember wondering, “Who knew that such an impressive collection was in our community?” We still have that problem of people not knowing we’re here although I think the efforts made over the years have helped us to be better known.

I remember noticing how neat the shelves were and how much space there was on each shelf. I didn’t realize that the building had just been erected and was made big enough so there was plenty of room for growth.

I had no idea that I would be spending my 40-year career at this library and that I would one day head it up.

When I came here 10 years later, this time with a library science degree, I found that some of the space had been eaten up as the collection developed and grew. Space was filling up in the subject areas where we collect and space still existed in areas where we don’t collect.

By the 1990s, as space in areas such as American art, agriculture and local history was gone, we solved the problem by shifting the books so that the space where it wasn’t needed was moved to where it was. During the rest of my career, we created needed space by shifting books around.

“A new building needs aging,” Dubois said in 1968. Spotless and gleaming surfaces attract attention at first, but something less sterile is needed before affection can replace mere admiration.” Over the years I think we provided that “less sterile” look and helped the library to gain the affection it has from its customers.

At my first visit in 1968, I remember CGP students in the lobby chatting together (it was set up as more of a lounge for them then.) I remember thinking, “This seems to be their building and I don’t belong here.”

Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal

Following his keynote, Wayne Wright, left, shares memories with other librarians who served at the Research Library, including Bruce MacLeish, center, and another former director, Wendell Tripp, lower right. At right is Christine Milliman, current director of museum and library collections.

Every year when I did orientation for the CGP students, I told them about my first visit and added, “Remember, this isn’t just your library, it is the library for everyone and we want everyone to feel at home here.”

And I found that people do feel at home here. It may be the collections that bring people here at first, but it is the service, the friendly staff, the special individual help and attention given to each researcher and the interest shown in their topics that keep them coming back.

After the library came to

Fenimore, the organization really got down to business in creating a quality collection. During the next 30 years or so, four librarians/ library directors transformed it into an important research collection.

Mary Cunningham worked at building up our most significant collecting areas. She was also the editor of New York History and director of School Services.

From 1948 to 1855, James Taylor Dunn, the first professionally trained librarian, devoted his energies to the development of the library. Dorothy Barck, who had been librarian at

the New York Historical Society, was an outstanding reference librarian. She worked hard at building the collection and making the materials findable to the public.

Wendell Tripp, editor of New York History, as library director brought a historian’s expertise to the collecting of library materials. Wendell’s knowledge of historical sources was invaluable to the building of the collection.

Wendell was the one who hired me here and I appreciate Wendell’s giving me my start in what became a rewarding 40-year career.

ROWLEY: Tech Breakthrough To Commercial Production Long Trip ROWLEY/From A5 city as the result of Florida Power & Light constructing a 450-acre solar farm – it has 330,000 solar panels - to supply electricity to 15,000 homes and small businesses.

A $15 million investment created a 10-megawatt electrical storage capacity to boost the system on cloudy days, but for a maximum of only four hours. From dusk to dawn and on rainy days, a natural-gas-fired generating plant provides electricity.

I agree with Lou Allstadt that

Otsego Now and the large energy users have been wise to meet to find a practical interim solution as per our natural gas supply.

He is also correct in pointing out that large centralized heating systems, such as the one utilized at SUNY Oneonta, are incredibly costly and complicated to retrofit.

The State University has invested millions in energy conservation by incorporating LEED Standards in both new construction and renovations of existing buildings.

Adrian Kuzminski’s suggestion that individuals can have an

impact by converting to renewable-based heating systems, such as geothermal, is also worth considering. Both air source heat pumps (ASHPs) and ground source geothermal heat pumps (GSHPs) have practical application in Otsego County. ASHPs, which require a much lower initial investment to install than GSHPs, are also less efficient in the coldest winter months.

Because the State University uses natural-gas equivalent to that used by 1,292 homes, it will take considerable time and thousands

of dollars of home owners’ money to have an impact. Ironically, even this solution is untenable because NYSEG does not have the capability to supply the additional electricity required to power these heat pumps.

We have an energy problem today and it is severely hampering our economic-development opportunities. We are losing jobs and people.

The Bassett Health Network has seen a significant increase in the percentage of patients covered by Medicaid and Medicare (Otsego’s

aging population) and a decrease in the percentage of patients covered by private insurance. This results in a net drop in revenue.

We need good jobs with benefits that provide disposable income.

We need a timely interim solution to our energy shortages that will allow business expansions by providing a reliable supply of natural gas and electricity.

A number of proposals are being discussed and, unfortunately, a great deal of misinformation is being perpetuated. We need rational dialogue.

LETTERS

Brave Citizens Fought Fracking, Won’t Accept Fracked Gas Use To the Editor: Those who lack vision may claim that the only way to create jobs is to bring in more fossil fuels. We now know that this is false. It is also a choice this community has already made. We rejected fracking for our towns, our county, and our state.

We refuse to now hang our future on fracked gas from Pennsylvania, delivered by tractor trailers.

Mr. Zakrevsky may not have been here when our brave citizens organized, wrote, marched and voted to ban fracking. He may not have been here when we celebrated the statewide ban won in 2014. We are not a cowardly group. We will not now accept fracked gas trucked through our rural roads and into our towns as our panacea.

There are alternatives and we know it. The fact that our county and state governments have not bothered to develop a plan based on renewable energy, does not mean we will let them return to fracked gas as a solution. They must do better than this.

The truth is that our state government has been deceiving us.

Albany celebrated the fracking ban as if they invented it, while hiding in plain sight the fact that the New York Energy Plan is built on a foundation of fracked gas imported from elsewhere.

Did our government and our IDA believe we wouldn’t notice? Do they think the argument that fracking will continue somewhere will make us capitulate to a fracked gas future trucked in on our local roads?

We are built of stronger and smarter stuff.

You might notice that the “businesses” which Mr. Zakrevsky hints might be brought into our county if only fracked gas can be provided are in fact never identified. The truth is that the IDA application

Zakrevsky submitted listed “0” as the number of jobs which will be created if the de-compressors are built in Oneonta.

Also, Mr. Zakrevsky admits that the entire cost for the expansion will be borne by ratepayers … that means you, the residents of Otsego County. We will pay for our own demise. Is this meant as a comfort or a joke?

Moreover, Mr. Zakrevsky admits that the costs have escalated from $1 million, to $5 million, to $15 million. In fact, the IDA grant application states the price tag is now $17.5 million. Mr. Zakrevsky admitted at the Oneonta Town Board meeting that these estimates are in his view “ridiculous” and unreliable.

Why then does he submit a grant proposal based on them? Our ratepayers are not meant to be a cash cow for NYSEG. How is this a rational plan to create jobs or supply gas to a few customers who switch to oil an average of five days each winter?

We agree that we need an energy plan for our region, and an economic development plan. The fact that this has stalled is the fault of our governments, not our people. Let’s work together to develop a plan that will serve our community rather than destroy it.

The jobs we create together will be based on renewable energy and will be consistent with our comprehensive plans and local laws to protect our natural resources, neighborhoods, farms, and communities. We have already said no to a future built on fracking. Delivery of fracked gas by tractor trailer will not be our path forward. We must find another way.

NICOLE A. DILLINGHAM, J.D. Springfield Center Board President, Otsego 2000

Mysterious Money Helped Pay For Fight Against Fracking, And Now Against Jobs To the Editor: Kudos to former DEC Commissioner Mike Zagata (column, Sept.13-14 editions) for noting that if pipelines had been built in Otsego County, there would be no need for CNG trucks. The trucks would have been priced out of the market. End of tipover problem. Pipelines don’t tip.

Here’s reality: Most economies seek the lowest-priced energy possible. Abundant, versatile, scalable natural gas is cheap, therefore in demand.

Without the government’s thumb on the scales, current renewable technology can’t compete.

The elites in the radical environmental movement realized this and took measures to reverse the laws of economics.

They would impede gas development, and in so doing, promote renewables and . . . make money.

The anti-gas “environmentalists,” funded and orchestrated by “beyond-rich” family foundations, stirred up fear of drilling.

(THE WATER! THE WATER!).

This morphed into, “We’re-killing-the-planet. (THE AIR! THE CO2!) which, in turn, shifted into the “Keep-it-in-the-ground” movement.

To do this they stopped the pipeline buildout from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale, the biggest gas play this side of Dubai. That meant no pipelines in New York. No pipelines in New England. For this you can thank Andrew Cuomo and the New England Democrat governors who would rather have their citizens pay premium prices for LNG shipped from Siberia rather than buy cheap domestic gas from Pennsylvania.

As Mr. Zagata points out, this 10-year campaign didn’t run on bake sales and 50/50 raffles. It takes real money, hired hands, political clout (did I mention money?) and organization. The “beyond-rich” family foundations funded the lawyers, the lobbyists, the “research,” the bloggers, the forums, the writers hidden behind shell organizations, the news outlets, the newspapers, the magazines, the movies (even a travelling theatre troupe), and a small army of street activists who self-referenced each other to create an “environmental” echo chamber.

As Mr. Zagata points out, it’s not cheap to rent the Foothills theater in Oneonta. However, forget about finding the real funder.

A few years ago, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) offered the citizens of Morris two Columbia Law School grads and a community organizer to implement a town drilling moratorium. Finding the source of the original dollars funding these “volunteers” would be like playing “Where’s Waldo?” Did the original dollars come from the $17 billion Soros Foundation or the Rockefeller Brothers (more billions) or maybe the Heinz Foundation or from Tom Steyer?

The original dollar is so washed in a laundromat of interfoundational money transfers that is impossible to trace to its first source. And these foundations are tax-free “charities.”

The Big Boys play in the Big Swamp.

And how does this affect us in Otsego County? Well, the “keepit-in-the-ground” crowd has succeeded in stopping pipeline

construction in New York. Piped gas for heating and cooking in Montrose, Pa., sells at a 25 percent discount to propane.

That means if your propane bill is $3,000 per year, you could be saving $750 annually if there was a Constitution transmission pipeline with a Leatherstocking distribution line in Otsego County.

In the context of jobs. a regional agri-business currently saves $10,000 per month buying CNG off the gas trucks. That entrepreneur isn’t using the money to drink Mai Tais on the beach in Saint Lucia. He’s creating two more positions to grow his business. That’s two less families packing the U-Haul to move to Tennessee. With piped gas he’d be hiring even more.

The irony is the Energy Information Agency (EIA) reports U.S. CO2 emissions are down to 1992 levels in spite of a growing population and a growing economy. They attribute this mainly to low-cost natural gas replacing coal in electric generation. Talk about an inconvenient truth; you’ll never find this in the climate change hoopla.

So there you have it. Lowcost gas is road-blocked to pave the way for costly renewables.

The same people who created the road block are complaining about the effects of the road block. But Andrew Cuomo and the elites have a plan for you. You WILL buy renewable energy! It’s been ordained. New Yorkers will pay more. California prices sooner; German prices later.

Buy a U-Haul franchise.

People will be moving.

DICK DOWNEY Otego

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, september 20-21, 2018

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7

Devlin Wins; Fernandez Still Threat DEVLIN/From A1

very lively campaign and election this fall.”

The 3,033 ballots cast represents 24 percent of the 12,729 registered Republicans in the county.

It also showed a higher interest in the hard-fought race: only 21 percent turned out in 2012, the last time Devlin ran.

There were three write-ins: two for former county rep. Len Carson; one for Oneonta attorney Otto Rothermel.

“I was happy with the results,” said Devlin. “I think there has been a lot of negativity and lot of untruths circulating from this race, so it was good to see a positive result. We’ll build on that momentum moving forward into the general election.”

The county GOP chair, Vince Casale, echoed that: “The result proved what we felt all along in that people feel safe living and working in Otsego County with Sheriff Devlin.”

Fernandez, who lost the GOP County Committee’s backing Devlin in March, said “this is what we anticipated … It would have been nice to win, but like I said, its all part of the strategy,

and I think we’re in a really good position right now.”

While Fernandez didn’t win, the results show that Republican voters are divided. If Democrats and independents voting Nov. 6 tilt toward Fernandez, anything can happen.

“We’re still going out and talking with people, listening to and understanding their concerns, so that I can effectively serve them as county sheriff,” Fernandez said, “…and we’re going to reach out to more people where we didn’t do so well.”

Devlin said his day-to-day focus has to be running the sheriff’s department, “to ensure the residents of Otsego County stay safe. So we’ll continue campaigning on the side, while still focusing on the current duties of the sheriff’s office.”

Still, he said his campaign in the next six weeks will aim to convince undecided voters that he is the best candidate.

“I think they need to look at my record and the past 12 years that I’ve been sheriff, and I think they need to ask themselves if they feel safe in Otsego County,” said Devlin.

►OTSEGO COUNTY V. STATE RESULTS

COUNTY

►SHERIFF Richard J. Devlin Jr.* 1,700 (56.24%) Bob Fernandez 1,316 (43.53)

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►GOVERNOR Cynthia Nixon* Andrew Cuomo**

1,592 (51.59%) 1,485 (48.12%)

507,692 (33.5) 963,165 (64.3)

►LT. GOVERNOR Kathy Hochul*/** Jumaane Williams

1,608 (55.4%) 1,291 (44.5%)

720,655 (48.2) 635,751 (42.5)

2,031 (66.85%) 565 (18.6%)

356 (11.72%) 84 (2.76%)

441,640 (29.5) 356,781 (23.8) 578,552 (38.7) 48,639 (3.25)

1,097 (50.7%) 1,062 (49.1%)

3,406 (58.6) 2,229 (38.4)

362 (81.9%) 78 (17.65%)

5,547 (70.5) 2,202 (28)

►ATTORNEY GENERAL Zephyr Teachout* Sean Patrick Maloney Letitia James** Leecia Eve

►ASSEMBLY (121st) Bill Magee*/** Dan Buttermann

►ASSEMBLY (122nd) Cliff Crouch*/** Nick Libous

OVERALL

* Local winner ** Overall winner

In the Thursday, Sept. 13, statewide primary election, Otsego County Republicans chose the party’s endorsed sheriff’s nominee, incumbent Richard J. Devlin Jr. Democrats chose Cynthia Nixon over Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who won statewide. And they picked local favorite Zephyr Teachout for attorney general; Letitia James won statewide. Many of the winners must still vie in the Nov. 6, general election.

Plea Historic, But Families Question Focus Deal

FOCUS/From A1 cared for,” Attorney General Barbara Underwood said in a statement after the verdict. “My office will hold accountable all nursing home owners, operators and administrators who disregard their obligation to provide sufficient staffing and adequate care to the vulnerable residents.”

On Wednesday, Sept. 12, Zupnik and Herman had plead to a single count of endangering the welfare of “M.P.,” the 94-year-old resident left unattended for 41 hours over Memorial Day Weekend 2016.

“I hope other owners and operators can learn from this experience – if you treat a nursing home like a business, you’re going to be making people more vulnerable, said Bill Hayes, secretary of the nursing home’s Family Council.

Initially charged with eight counts – three relating to Robert Banta, who died after falling out of bed twice; two for M.P., and three counts of Willful Violation of

Health Laws – the two executives pleaded on Wednesday, Sept. 12 in Otsego Town Court to just a single count of endangering M.P. They will face $1 million in repayments to the state’s Medicaid office, community service and possible exclusion from going back into the nursing home business for five years, according to a press release by the Attorney General’s office.

They will not, however, face jail time.

Kathryn Reinhardt, Banta’s daughter, felt “numb” when she heard of the plea deal.

“I was outraged that they could get away with it,” she said. “But I saw it with my court case. It just makes me jaded towards justice.”

On Dec. 15, 2016, Reinhardt was awarded a settlement in the wrongful death of her father on June 24, 2015, who died after he twice fell out of a bed with no railings or nurse call button, despite having

been admitted to Focus after hip replacement surgery and with a history of falls.

To date, she has received no money from Focus. “I believe they have no intention of paying,” she said. “If they can get out of the other charges, why shouldn’t they be able to get out of this?”

“I don’t think it was justice done for the residents who were incontinent and not changed on time or whose dietary needs were not met, or the employees who lost their jobs or took cuts,” said Bill Dornburgh. “It would seem the Attorney General had plenty of evidence, but they copped out.”

Dornburgh served on the Health Facilities Corp., set up by the county Board of Representatives to sell Otsego Manor and voted nay on the Focus sale.

The corporation, CCRN Operator, LLC, was also charged with the eight felonies and will appear in Otsego County Supreme Court at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 24.

Artspace Team Plans Focus Groups Oct. 23-25 ARTSPACE/From A1

need to see if we have the community support, resources and suitable locations.”

Using $25,000 in DRI Technical Assistant funds, as well as funding from SUNY Oneonta, Artspace facilitators will convene the meetings Monday-Thursday, Oct. 23-25 at Foothills.

“This is a preliminary feasibility study,” said Wendy Holmes, Artspace senior vice president. “We want to look at a project concept, tour some sites, look at the artists and creative market, local leadership, funding sources and whether the project aligns

with community goals. We’re learning more about what the community needs and wants.”

Colleen Brannan, SUNY Oneonta President Barbara Jean Morris’ executive assistant, is managing the study, and has divided focus groups into artists and art organizations, funding and financing, civic leadership, and the business sector.

“I’ve been gathering names since the spring,” said Brannan. “I had people calling me, and now I’ve got more than 150 contacts. People are approaching me with ideas.”

In addition to the focus groups, a community meet-

ing is planned on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 24, to get public feedback on the project. “We want anyone and everyone to offer their input,” she said. “This is an exciting opportunity to engage with all kinds of artists and see if there’s a way to bring them downtown.”

Several sites for the project have been pitched, including the former Oneonta Sales, the Westcott Lot and Market Street projects, the Ford Block and Otsego Iron and Steel.

“We welcome any suggestions for existing sites,” said Herzig. “We’re going in with an open mind.”

Friday, September 21 4 to 8 pm

FOOD/From A1 Cooperstown Center ran out of food on at least two occasions, Emhoff said he’s been overhauling food services at the nursing and rehabilitation facility.

“We have a Dining Committee that meets once a month so that we can hear concerns and plan holiday meals or special menu items,” he said. “But there were enough concerns that I realized we needed to meet every week.”

Chief among those concerns was a lack of fresh produce, starch-heavy meals, fewer snacks available in the neighborhood kitchens and the poor quality of food served, especially the meat. “These people are our customers,” said Emhoff.

“We need to listen to them.”

He promoted Heather Power, a veteran of retail food service and, most recently, patient service manager at Bassett Hospital, to Center’s food service director. “One of the big changes was a brand new menu,” Power said. “We meet every Monday and talk about what they would like to see on the menu.”

She also hired new staff and trained the old staff on the dietary needs of the 175 residents, many with dietary restrictions or special food needs, including thickened liquids or pureed food. “Our people spent time with the dieticians and took tests so we know they understood what these diets meant,” she said. “It has really helped.”

In addition to fresh fruit, among the recommended changes was adding soup to the menu.

“We try to offer a fresh-made soup every day,” said Emhoff.

“We had gazpacho, and some people hadn’t had it before, but we like the idea that we could introduce something to someone who is 80 and has never had it.

They might like it!”

Several starch-heavy casseroles and pasta dishes were removed from the menu rotation, and the use of canned vegetables was reduced. “We made ratatouille, and all the vegetables were fresh, not

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And when there are complaints, Power said she works with the staff to make sure it doesn’t happen again. “We got a complaint that the chicken we served was dry,” she said. “So I followed up, and next time we make it, we’ll make sure it’s not dry.”

So far, Emhoff said, the response to the changes has been good. “The food is getting better,” said resident Mark Pettengill, Resident Council president. “They’ve changed everything quite a bit.”

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The menu features two alternate items with lunch and supper, as well as cold cereal available at breakfast. “Half the time, that item is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,” said Pettengill. “And if you don’t like it, oh well.”

Though Emhoff said the broken coffee and ice machines have been fixed, Pettengill said that staff need to stay up-totask on keeping the machines properly stocked.

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By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

A “Oneonta Photographers” curator Wayne Wright was able to provide his grandparents George and Laura Wright’s wedding portrait by L.L. Curtis.

George Wright’s head and his grandson’s are similarly shaped. Grandmother Laura has a look of intelligent surprise you sometimes recognize talking to Wayne today.

His be-pearled Aunt Alberta in graduation gown – by The Warnken Studio – reflected the latest trend of the 1930s: She looks at the camera at an angle, and a smile – as opposed to the dour visage common in older formal portraits – causes her eyes to light up.

The personal surfaced later.

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s Wayne Wright prepared “Oneonta Photographers, 1850-1930,” it became personal.

His grandparents’ wedding portrait, it turns out, was taken by Leslie L. Curtis, one of eight photographers who came to the fore as the exhibit – the opening reception was Saturday, Sept.

15, at the Oneonta History Center at Main and Dietz – came into focus.

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refugees coming into Europe,” said artist Christine Heller. “I couldn’t stop thinking about them. Who are they? Will they have what they need? And the only way to deal with that feeling, for me, was to start drawing.”

Now, six of those sketches hang above the sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church on Pioneer Street.

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Heller’s Banners Stir Conscience Photographers Of Yore Bring Old Oneonta Back To Life HELLER/From B1 “I saw the mural Christine did at SUNY Oneonta in January 2016 and started talking with her about doing something in the sanctuary,” said Rev. Elsie Rhodes, the pastor. “The arts speak deeply to the soul.

How can we help people who walk into this space to reflect on and ponder the profound realities of the day?”

The church has reached out to help the Mohawk Valley Refugee Center and is seeking to educate people locally about what’s been going on in Utica for almost 40 years. The 15,000 refugees who began arriving there in 1979 “have contributed to the economic revitalization and the cultural impact of the area,” said Will Walker, the CGP faculty member who is on the church’s session. “For decades, we have welcomed people into our community, and now Trump is making that nearly impossible.”

Said Rhodes, “When you think about the manger scene, it’s immigrants, foreigners, refugees gathered there. This is a sanctuary, a place of healing and wholeness.”

Heller’s sketches were done with fillable markers on 10- by 4-foot translucent scrim, a strong, coarse fabric. The six portraits were selected from “50 or 60” that she had done for the SUNY Oneonta show.

“To me, these represent the universal mother, child and father,” she said. “I just had a feel-

ing about them. That little boy, where is he now? It’s been three years. I feel for them whenever I sit down to draw. I have to push my emotions away to work.”

Though she had initially planned to do small sketches for the chapel, the church committee suggested the banners.

And once the church committee approved the project, she got to work in her studio.

“I would take a picture of the original drawing, project it onto the wall and draw the lines in a quick sketch,” she said. “I started with charcoal, but I needed to be able to roll the banners up, and charcoal would smear.”

She used a fillable marker, but it wasn’t giving her the look she wanted. “Every project has a crisis point,” she said. “But I realized that when the tip dries out, you can dry-brush in the shadows. It was a breakthrough!”

The banners took five weeks to complete, and the church’s intern, James Matson, documented the process for a short film. “When I took the banners out of my studio, I missed them,” said Heller.

The banners were installed June 7, and a celebration will be held on Sunday, Sept. 28, including readings, music and poetry.

The banners will come down Sunday, Oct. 7, after an ecumenical service for World Communion Sunday. “When I come into worship, I am reminded and held accountable by these witnesses,” said Rhodes.

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►ONEONTA PHOTOGRAPHERS HONORED 1850s – WASHINGTON G. SMITH, raised in West Burlington, later a partner in the locally famous Smith & Telfer studio, based in Cooperstown, would drive a horse-drawn “travelling Daguerrean carriage,” complete with studio, to Oneonta for seven years in the 1850s. The Daguerreotypes would not change in time, he would advertise, and – for $1 – they could be preserved in a Smith of Smith Morocco case. & Telfer fame.

1874 – William Mereness opened a photographic gallery in the new McCrum & Saunders Building at Broad and Main. As competition grew, he introduced cartes de visite ($1 per dozen) cabinet cards ($2.50 per dozen) and stereo opticon slides of local scenes.

1888 – William Van Woert, raised on a farm beyond Pony Farm on the Otego Road, bought a studio in the Ford Block, above today’s Key Bank, built to provide the best possible light for portraits. He innovated with the oval portrait to highlight his customers.

1890 – Perry Young began doing a lot of work for the Normal School, the teachers’ college that developed into SUNY Oneonta.

1893 – Howard N. Smith, a Middlefield native, took over Van Woert’s studio in the Ford Block. He featured “view photography”, including a bird’s-eye four-negative view of Oneonta displayed in this exhibit. He also introduced flash illumination of his subjects.

1894 – Leslie L. Curtis opened a studio at 269 Main St., near today’s Shops At Ford & Main, and offered several options for portraits, and aggressively promoted his offerings in advertising that features coupons and prizes. T.H. Fitch took over from Curtis in 1910, using scenic backdrops strategically placed to highlight his portrait subjects.

1922 – William Warnken opened a studio at 170 Main, where Clinton Plaza is today. Captured glimpses of personality, with smiling subjects replacing dour visages of past.

Most prominent city photographer for 35 years; hundreds of prints, negatives obtained by Greater Oneonta Historical Society in 2006.

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EXHIBIT/From B1 When “Oneonta Photographers” was being discussed, Wright simply volunteered to compile a list of photographers from the society’s extensive collection of city directories in a glass-paned bookcase.

That made sense, retired Fenimore (former NYSHA) Research Library director Wayne had been organizing the GOHS’ research library on the recently completed second floor of 185 Main St. He came up with 45.

“At first, we thought: Wouldn’t it be nice to include today’s photographers, too,” said GOHS Executive Director Bob Brzozowski, “and Carleton Watkins, who was a great photographer” – of California’s Gold Rush – “but didn’t do any photography here.

Stephen Joseph, whose panoramic photos of Oneonta in the past quarter-century, was another prospect, Brzozowski said.

But there were just too many.

In the end, Wayne – he realized his role had grown into exhibit curator – pared the 45 down to 13, and focused on eight.

Examples of some important early photographers were hard to find: for instance, from Samuel Beach, Oneonta’s “first known photographer,” who had a daguerreotype studio in 1850 in what was then a village.

Daguerreotypes, invented

by Louis Daguerre in 1840 in Paris, used a primitive “camera obscura” to capture likenesses on a silver plate.

That within a decade Beach, then 63, was creating them in pre-railroad Otsego County

suggests how popular they were and how “very quickly” the technology spread, Wright said.

Soon, Washington G. Smith, later of the locally famous Smith & Telford firm, was driving down from Cooperstown in a “travelling Daguerrean carriage,” complete with studio to capture Oneontans’ images on site.

Between 1855 and 1865, ambrotypes – they captured a positive image on first cloth, then paper, so were less expensive than silver plates – became popular here and in the U.S. generally.

With the arrival of the glass plate, then glass plate negatives, then negatives around the turn of the 20th century, the technology Americans used until the arrival of the iPhone in 2008 was in place.

For instance, in 2006, negatives and prints from The Warnken Studio, which operated from 1922 to 1957, was contributed to the GOHS. “We do have lots of photographs,” said Brzozowski. “The ones from Warnken and (Kenneth) Lockridge, we’ve been limiting access because they are so extensive – in the tens of thousands. Some of these images are duplicate, triplicate or multiple ones of graduates from senior high school.”

With the help of interns, the society’s railroad photos – Oneonta, with its giant roundhouse, was a D&H center for 100 years – has been organized, and eventually will be digitized and available through www. oneontahistory.org, “but that’s an enormous job,” said the executive director.

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OBITUARIES

Karl Dykstra, 57; Built Homes Throughout Cooperstown Area

COOPERSTOWN – Karl Dykstra, a local contractor who built many fine homes in the Cooperstown area, passed away Monday afternoon, Sept. 10, 2018, at Bassett Hospital. He was 57.

Born July 28, 1961, in Suffern, he was one of six children of Fred and Fernande “Nonnie” (Deligny) Dykstra.

Karl was a strong and loving husband and father.

He made family gatherings memorable with his wonderful sense of humor and antics. Karl’s hobbies included fishing, camping and golf.

He enjoyed skiing with his

children in winter and evenings on his boat with family in the summer.

In March 1977, his Karl father and Dykstra mother moved the family from Campbell Hall to Otsego Hills Farm in Pierstown. Karl worked on the farm with his siblings until graduating from Cooperstown Central School with the Class of 1979.

From there he went to

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Complete On-premise Custom Carving and Lettering Facility 11 Genesee Street, Cherry Valley•607-264-8201 www.cvmemorials.com

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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work for Bundy Concrete. In 1984, Karl and his brother Fred started Dykstra Construction with their father and mother, and through the years were responsible for many of the beautiful homes in the Cooperstown area.

Karl’s creativity and care is woven into every home he built.

On Nov. 19, 1988, Karl married Catherine “Kitty” Coleman at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church. They enjoyed 30 years of marriage and were blessed with four children: Karl Dykstra, Jr. and his fiancée, Becky, William Dykstra and his fiancée, Hilari, Julie Dykstra and Elizabeth Dykstra.

He is also survived by his mother, Nonnie Dykstra; two brothers and sisters-inlaw, Fred and Dolores Dykstra, Jr., and Eric and Maureen Dykstra; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Joanne and Bruce Osterhoudt, Jeanine and Jason Harter and Jerilynn and Bruce Bachanas; many nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins; his mother and father-in-law, Cathy and Bill Coleman; and his wife’s siblings, Susie Coleman and Donna and Bobby Clifford.

He was predeceased by his father, Fred Dykstra, who died Dec. 4, 2014.

A funeral was held Friday, Sept. 14 at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home with Deacon Randy Velez officiating.

Burial will be private in Lakewood Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers please send donations to the Cooperstown Emergency Squad, PO Box 322, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Heller & Skinner

Funeral Home

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51 Dietz Street oneonta, nY 607-432-1511 www.lhpfuneralhome.com

155 Main Street Worcester, nY 607-397-9711 www.hellerskinnerfh.com

Proud to be family-owned John & Kathleen (Heller) Pietrobono

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Harold Berry, Jr., 76; Westville Operated Stonework Business WESTVILLE – Harold John Berry, Jr., whose business in Westville sold bluestone, fieldstone and other stone products, died Wednesday afternoon, Sept.

12, 2018, in his office at the stone yard. He was 76.

Born Oct. 16, 1941, at Montclair Community Hospital in Montclair, N.J., Harold was the son of Harold John and Helen (Pontus) Berry, living first in West Orange and later in Wayne, N.J. After graduating from Wayne Valley High School, Harold enlisted in the Army and served his country with Battery B, 7th Guided Missile Training Battalion. He later served in the Army National Guard of New Jersey until February 1965.

In the 1960s he and his brother, William, owned and operated Berry Brothers, a trucking company in Wayne, N.J. At that time Harold also built stock cars and raced them at Middletown.

He married Connie Kaist in Totowa, N.J., on Nov. 22, 1967.

In 1972, they moved to

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the Cooperstown area, and Harold opened H.J. Berry & Daughters Bulldozing, doing mostly farm work such as land clearing, ponds and diversion ditches.

In the late 1980s, he began selling locally sourced bluestone and fieldstone, in addition to top soil, stone dust, mulch, slate and granite cobbles. He also created custom-made stone tables, benches, trees, bird baths and other stone items, doing business as H.J. Berry & Daughters Stone Co., later H.J. Berry Stone Company LLC.

Harold will be greatly missed, especially in Westville, where he could always be counted on to help his neighbors. Never needing to be asked, Harold just showed up when he saw a need.

Harold is survived by his wife, Connie K. Berry of Westville; daughters Dawn Bruns (Chris Bruns) of Haleiwa, Hawaii, and Tammy Henn (Jeffery Carter) of Niagara Falls, and granddaughters, Kaitlyn Fern and Isabella Sage.

In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his brother, William.

Family and friends may call from 4-7 p.m. Friday, Sep. 21 at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, 82 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages you to plant a little “stone garden,” as a way to honor Harold and beautify the world.

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

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AllOTSEGO.classifieds ITEMS FOR SALE HUGE Moving Sale Sat-Sun 10/6-7, 8 am - 4 pm Household item, linens, hand/power tools, etc. copper cookware, pewter & silver serving pieces, China & lots more. 379 Roscoe Jones Rd., Middlefield. Rain or shine. No early birds 3Class.Oct.5 HOMES FOR RENT COOPERSTOWN-House for Rent fully furnished; exceptional condition. 5-BR, 4-bath, $795/mo + util.

Available 10/1/2018 to 5/1/2019 Please call: 315867-3931 or 518-568-2776 3Class.Sept.28 Rentals! Cooperstown Area, spacious 1 BR 1 BA cottage ($1,500/mo) and a 4-BR, 2-BA ($1,600/mo); both have laundry, permit pets, A/C, 15 min. to Cooperstown and much more. Rob Lee, Benson Agency 607-434-5177 TFN Cooperstown. Large lovely 2-story village house, 3

bdrm, 2.5 bath, hardwood floors, spacious kitchen, family room. Private yard, walk to all. $1,900/mo.

Lease to purchase possible.

Call 315-415-8400.

3Class.Sept.28 PUPPIES Toy maltese poodle yorkie mix. 8 weeks, first shots, wormed. Male & Female. $250 315-775-7585 3Class.Sept.21 APARTMENT FOR RENT Nicely Furnished 1+ BR apartment on ground floor, living room, smaller bedroom with pull out sofa, full bath, eat-in kitchen. Laun-

dry facilities in basement.

Nice porch. Just a skip from Bassett Hospital and Main Street. $1300. per month for a couple or single includes heat, electric, cable and Wi-Fi. Pets and larger family negotiable. First and last month’s rent, year’s lease. Call Ashley-Connor Realty 607-547-4045.

TFN City of Oneonta 1 BR, 1 office, LR, bath, full kitchen, garage. Immediate occupancy. $650/mo, heat & electric not included. 1 mo security. 631-3531324 3Class.Oct.5 Cooperstown, 4 bdrm, 2

bath, very close to hospital in historic carriage house. Skylights, hardwood floors. No pets, smoking. $1050+utilities.

Call 941-445-7744.

3Class.Sept.28 Whitehill Cottage Fully furnished 2 bedroom upstairs apartment. Livingroom, stocked kitchen, bathroom. 5 miles from Cooperstown. Plus Garage. $800/month+utilities.

Single person only.

Year round rental.

607-547-0916 3Class.Sept.21 Center City Oneonta!

Remodeled one bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. $725

per month, includes heat and hot water. NO Pets!

References and current credit check required.

Contact Betsy or Becky at Benson Agency Real Estate, 607-432-4391.

TFN Studio Apartment, Furnished and move in ready.

Located in the Village of Cooperstown. Convenient to Bassett Hospital and just about everything else. Heat included. $750/month.

Available September 1st.

Contact Rob Lee (Benson Real Estate) at 607-4345177 or Steve at 201-8746887.

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Early Notice and Public Review of a Proposed Activity in a 100-Year Floodplain To: All interested Agencies Groups and Individuals This is to give notice that New York State Homes & Community Renewal (NYSHCR), in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C, has determined that the property of following proposed action, which is to receive HOME funds under Title II of the CranstonGonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA) of 1990, is wholly located in the 100year floodplain.

Cherry Valley Community Facilities Corporation (CVCFC) proposes to convert a wing of the former Cherry Valley Central School building in the village of Cherry Valley into 10 affordable rental housing units for senior citizens aged 65 or above whose income is 80% of area median income (AMI) or less; two units will be reserved for residents whose incomes are at 50% AMI or less. The wing being converted was previously rehabilitated 12 years ago to be used as the Cherry Valley daycare facility. This wing has been vacant for approximately two years; however, it is in good condition.

The building to be converted is located entirely in the Special Flood Hazard Area (Zone A), as indicated on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) Community Panel Number 36077C0220E, dated March 21, 2017. This map is attached to this document. Areas designated as a SFHA are those subject to inundation by the 1 percent annual chance flood (e.g., a 100-year flood), also known as the base flood.

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First, people who may be affected by activities in floodplains and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Commenters are encouraged to offer alternative sites outside of the floodplain, alternative methods to serve the same project purpose, and methods to minimize and mitigate impacts.

Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information and request for public comment about floodplains can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks and impacts associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas.

Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in floodplains, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk.

Written comments must be received

by NYSHCR at the following address on or before October 5, 2018: Environmental Analysis Unit, NYS Homes & Community Renewal, 38-40 State Street, Albany, New York, 12207, (518) 486-3379, Attention Heather Spitzberg, Esq., Director. Comments may also be submitted via email at heather.spitzberg@nyshcr.org.

A full description of the project may also be reviewed Monday through Friday from 9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. at the Otsego Rural Housing Association, 709 CO HWY 33 Cooperstown, NY 13320 (Timothy Peters) or by Emailing: heather. spitzberg@nyshcr. org.

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Notice of Formation of Cherry Valley

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Brewing Company, LLC

lawful activity.

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Articles of Organization of this Limited Liability Company (LLC) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 12, 2018.

The LLC maintains its office in Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served to Cherry Valley Brewing Company, LLC, 201 Main Street, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Purpose: for any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be formed under the law.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Dudman Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 September 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street, Suite 11, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: DRI 5, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 30 August 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street, Suite 11, New York, 13820.

Purpose: any

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Name of the LLC: CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN PROPERTIES LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NYS Sec. of State on 06/20/18.

Office location is Otsego County.

SSNYS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNYS shall mail process to The LLC, P. O. Box 93 (3 Bronner St.), Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Silly Goat Creative LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 08/02/2018.

Cty: Otsego.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Richard Robinson, 540 St. Hwy 165, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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Notice of Formation of BP FISHER PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/20/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 213 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BLACK MOOSE LAND HOLDINGS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of

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State (SSNY) 8/27/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 359 Delaware County Hwy 11, Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SARANNIKA, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/31/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 1 HAWKINS ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/31/18.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 20 Moreland Road, Suite 3, Hauppauge, NY 11788.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Shultis Family LLC Filed 8/30/18 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 20 Lewis Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalOct.18

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Notice of Formation of Eleventeen Properties LLC

Name: COWBOY ENTERPRISES LLC.

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Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 19 July 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 1304, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of

Filed 4/23/18.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 122 Mt. Vista Dr Apt. 2, Oneonta, NY 13820. Registered Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: General.

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CANADARAGO LAKE COTTAGE, LLC

Articles of Organization Filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 08/28/18.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Michael Trosset, PO Box 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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Notice of Formation of The Farmers Mechanic LLC Articles of Organization of this Limited Liability Company (LLC) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 14, 2018.

The LLC maintains its office in Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served to The Farmers Mechanic LLC, 3792 Co Hwy 33, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Purpose: for any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be formed under the law.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability

Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

Princ. office of LLC: 8203 State Hwy. 28, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of YOUNG LAKE HOUSE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

Princ. office of LLC: 4192 State Hwy. 20, Richfield Springs, NY 13439.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of

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Formation of Scoreboard Classics LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/26/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 43 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of KKM Associates LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w SSNY on 7/09/18.

Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for process & shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6 Normal Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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Notice of Formation of Upstate Property Makeovers, LLC with SSNY on 8/16/18.

Office: Otsego.

SSNY desg as agent for process&shall mail to: Po Box 69, Albany, NY, 12201.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: OSBORNE FAMILY REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 8, 2018.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 7937 U.S. Highway 20, Sharon Springs,

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NY 13459.

Purpose: to engage in any and all business for which LLCs may be formed under the New York LLC law.

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Notice of Formation of JENNISON FUELS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/1/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 183 Crumb Hill Rd., West Winfield, NY 13491.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Fierson Enterprise LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/08/2018.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 204 Emmons hill Road, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BILL CLAUDY CONTRACTING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/07/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

Princ. office of LLC: P.O. Box 239, Hartwick, NY 13348. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Bill Claudy at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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THURSDAY-Friday, September 20-21, 2018

►HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO COUNTY FROM Pg. 2

►Friday, Sept. 21

GAME SHOW – 8 - 9 p.m.

Have fun at The Free Money Game Show. Game like Minute to Win It, Jeopardy combined.

Cost, $3/public. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta.

►Sat. Sept. 22

FAMILY WEEKEND – 8 a.m.

- 9:30 p.m. Fun weekend for families of SUNY Oneonta students featuring craft fair, legacy family reception, hands on arts, crafts, art, science exhibits, sports, presentations, more.

SUNY Oneonta. 607-436-3500.

CLEAN-UP – 8 - 11 a.m. Volunteers clean litter from 2-mile stretch of Rt. 80, Cooperstown/ Springfield. Bags, gloves, safety equipment provided. Open to ages 12+. Pre-registration preferred. Meet at Mohican Farm, 7207 St. Rt. 80, Cooperstown.

607-547-4488.

FILM FESTIVAL – 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Celebrate baseball in film.

See Friday Listing.

KITE FESTIVAL – 9 a.m. Bring kids to build kite, Old School Gym, Genesee St. Then enjoy festival featuring Rev Riders Team Performances, Fighter Kite Battles, More on 10 a.m.

- 5 p.m. Campbell Road, Cherry Valley. 607-264-3080.

QUILT SHOW – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Catskill Mountain Quilters Hall of Fame show features quilters from across Catskill Mountains. Includes raffle quilt, door prizes, raffle of theme baskets, children’s activities.

Admission, $3. Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd., Roxbury. 607-326-7908.

GARLIC FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Local growers of Susquehanna Valley sell this years garlic harvest. Many varieties. Includes food, music, demonstrations, products, more. Wood Bull Antiques, 3920 St. Hwy. 28, Milford. Email mvvargha@gmail.com.

DECORATE THE LIBRARY

– 10:30 a.m. - Noon. Help get library into fall spirit. Stuff a scarecrow, paint pumpkins, make a leaf garland. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs.

315-858-0230.

BLOCK PARTY – 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Benefit for Family Resource Network features hot dogs, vendors, children’s activities, dunk Pastor Paul. Noon - 12:30 p.m. Atonement Lutheran Church parking lot, 1 Center St., Oneonta. 607-432-6852.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS – 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Community walk to fight suicide. Includes food, lifekeeper memory quilt, activities, dove/balloon release. Register 9 a.m. Start at Oneonta Moose Lodge, 87 1/2 W. Broadway, Oneonta.

607-435-3112.

FALL PUMPKINS – 11 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Have fun, pick your perfect pumpkins, catapult demonstration, more. Cullen Pumpkin Farm, 587 Cullen

Road, Richfield Springs. 315867-3878.

CELEBRATION – Noon. Honor West Oneonta Fire Department. Features bounce house for kids, games, food, more.

West Oneonta Baptist Church, 2845 Co. Rt. 8, West Oneonta.

607-432-1310.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT – 12:30 p.m. “Hamilton’s Final Act: Enemies and Allies” with Doug Ambrose, professor of history at Hamilton College.

Cost, $30/non-member. Study Center, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547–1510.

ADOPTION EVENT – 1 - 4 p.m. Meet adoptable animals from Susquehanna Animal Shelter, take home a new best friend. Family Engagement Center, Springbrook, 105 Campus Dr., Oneonta. 607547-8111.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 3:30 p.m. Join writers, improve your craft. Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607432-1980.

RAPTORS PROGRAM – 3 p.m. Meet variety of birds of prey in interactive program with naturalist Cindy Page. Free, open to all. SUNY Oneonta, College Camp, 119 Hoffman Road, Oneonta. 607-436-3455.

FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Incredibles 2” See Friday Listing.

COFFEE HOUSE – 7 - 9 p.m.

Music in range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome.

Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church. Church Rd., Schuyler Lake. 315-858-2575.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. World renowned pianist, Aima LabraMakk, returns with pieces by Hayden, Beethoven, others. Anderson Theater, Hartwick College, Oneonta. E-mail paiged@ hartwick.edu

►Sunday, Sept. 23

KITE FESTIVAL – 7 - 11 a.m.

Close Cherry Valley kite festival with Pancake Breakfast. Cherry Valley Firehouse. 11 Railroad Ave., Cherry Valley. 607-2643080.

BENEFIT 5K/MILE – 9 a.m.

Run/walk in Mindful Mile & Fight Hunger 5K to benefit the Riverside Back Pack Program, weekend meal assistance program for Oneonta school children. Registration from 88:45 a.m. Cost day-of, $25 for 5K, $15 for Mile. Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. 607436-3337.

ANNIVERSARY – 10 a.m.

Laurens Presbyterian Church celebrates 175 years with traditional 1840’s service followed

by luncheon, fellowship time.

Laurens Presbyterian Church, 3 Main St., Laurens. 607-4323738.

COMMUNITY DINNER – 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Bring a dish to pass, enjoy a meal with neighbors. Bring tableware, chair (in case we run out). All welcome. Destination Oneonta, 2 Dietz St., Oneonta. 607-4322941.

TOURNAMENT – 12:30 p.m.

10th annual Golf Tournament, Milford Education Foundation, 1st place wins $200 cash prize. Followed by dinner featuring Brook’s BBQ. Entry fee, $60. Ouleout Golf Course, 13501 NY-357, Franklin. Register 607-286-7721 ext. 8408.

DOG TRAINING – 1 - 3 p.m.

Opening 4H dog program features orientation, brief instruction, opportunity to learn what 4H offers to trainers, pooches.

Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown.

607- 547-2536 ext. 225.

OPERA – 4 p.m. Listen to excepts from “Skater,” composed

by Maestro Charles Schneider, Glimmerglass Festival Cofounder, depicting the journeys of famous sibling skating pair the Jelineks from their escape from Czechoslovakia to competitive skating. Followed by dinner. Cost, $68/adult. The Horned Dorset, 2000 NY-8, Leonardsville. 315-855-7898.

MEMORIAL FUNDRAISER – 6 - 8 p.m. Celebrate the life of Dr. Gahleb with wife Jill, Susquehanna Animal Shelter.

Cost, $100/person includes 2 drinks, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction. RSVP by 9/20. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607547-8111 ext. 101.

All OTSEGO. opportunities

Hartwick College’s Office of Academic Affairs is seeking a

Body Repair Technician Wanted:

Must have tools of trade, use appropriate tools to remove, repair or replace damaged parts. Be flexible in the type of repairs needed, painting skills are a plus, detail oriented, keep work area clean and organized. Contact: 607-638-5729

Heritage at tHe Plains at ParisH Homestead CaPital senior living Community

Come work with us and get a rewarding experience working with seniors!

Immediate Openings

Activities Coordinator: Assist in the planning,

directing, and implementing our diversified program of activities for the residents in our memory care community. Must enjoy working with seniors. Prefer Associates Degree in Recreation or related field or one year experience in the activities field involving seniors. Valid driver’s license required. Computer & music ability a plus.

Some evenings and weekends.

Resident Care Aide: Full time shifts available 2nd and 3rd.

Dining Aide/Servers: Part-time positions

Please apply in person at 163 Heritage Circle Oneonta, NY 13820 EOE

Join Our Team of Dedicated and Caring Professionals Assistant Teacher Bus Driver Early Head Start Caregiver I Center Associate Classroom Teacher Home-Based Family Partner Children’s Center Associate Building Healthy Families Assessment Worker Building Healthy Families Support Worker OFO is a family-oriented organization offering competetive wages, excellent benefits & opportunities for professional growth. For an application, submission instructions, benefit package summary & descriptions of all employment openings, visit

www.ofoinc.org

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