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eports of anti-gay, antiimmigrant and antiMuslim occurrences nationwide since the Nov. 8 presidential election have prompted the Village Board to declare: Not here.
At its December meeting on Thursday the 22nd, the Village Board adopted a resolution titled, “Condemning the Use of Violence, BigSternberg otry and Hateful Rhetoric.” The vote was unanimous,
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with Trustee Lou Allstadt absent. “It wasn’t on my part a reaction to the election,” said Trustee Richard Sternberg, who Please See BIGOTRY, A2
As New Year Dawns, Rare County Murder Oneonta Police Officers Lindsay Rumenapp and Edmund Donley, a new OPD officer from Cooperstown, enter 229 Main St., where the body of Mark J. Morrison, 52, was found dead on New Year’s morning.
Suspect Phones Oneonta Police, Reports On Body In Apartment By LIBBY CUDMORE
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t 3:27 a.m. on New Year’s Day, a call from Southside Oneonta came into the Otsego County 911 Center. “I’ve done something bad and I don’t want to run,” the caller, who identified himself as Joshua Underwood, 25, told the dispatcher. Oneonta Police were quickly dispatched to the scene, and at 3:44 a.m. Sgt. Eric Berger, with several officers in tow, pulled up at the Mirabito on Route 23, where the call had originated. Underwood “stepped out of the building and dropped to his knees with his hands in the air,” said Lt. Doug Brenner. “He said he believed he had killed his friend and he wanted to turn himself in.”
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With National Uncertainty, Bassett Sticking With Strategy Of Growth By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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assett Healthcare’s latest possible linkage – with Oneida Healthcare, after a two-
year study – is part of the Cooperstown-based network’s strategy of growth through “adding partners.” “It’s our top strategic issue moving forward,” said Bassett President/CEO Vance Brown. Please See BASSETT, A5
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The suspect was taken to the station, where he made “spontaneous utterances” – “I think I killed my friend” – before being formally
interviewed by detectives, Brenner said. Meanwhile, officers were dispatched to 229 Main St. – the former Java Island building – where they found Mark J. Morrison, 52, dead in his bed. He had been bludgeoned multiple times with a bodybuilding weight, police said. “We classified the homicide as ‘domestic related’ because we believe they had a Please See DEATH, a3
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Sen. Jim Seward. “In some states, people even rent out their bathrooms if they live near a stadium or busy downtown.” Such innovation was posed at Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s annual State of the State Breakfast Tuesday, Jan. 3. Alongside Seward on the dais were Please See BREAKFAST, A5
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State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, was sworn for his 16th term as in the state Senate by state Supreme Court Judge Michael V. Coccoma of Cooperstown Sunday afternoon, Jan. 1, at Foothills in Oneonta. He represents the 51st District, which includes Otsego County. Holding the Bible is the senator’s wife, Cindy. Randy Mowers was also sworn in for his first term to the Oneonta Town Board.
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neonta’s new acting police chief, Doug Brenner, got eight years of early experience in the Village Police Department. Brenner had graduated from SUNY Morrisville in the 1980s and worked three years as a correctional officer at the Otsego County Jail and in the sheriff’s department’s road patrol. When he was looking to join a municipal force in 1990, his father, David Brenner, was then Oneonta mayor, so he joined the Cooperstown force instead. In 1998, his father decided not to run again, and the son moved to the police department in his hometown
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of Oneonta. He was promoted to OPD sergeant in 2007 and lieutenant in 2012. He was named acting chief Tuesday, Jan. 3, by Common Council, succeeding Dennis Nayor, who joined the state Association of Chiefs of Police.
Cooperstown Decries Bigotry BIGOTRY/From A1 proposed the resolution. “It was the reaction to a couple of friends, who happened to be gay, who were honestly afraid of what’s going to happen to them in the future, whether their marriage would still be recognized.� He continued: “There are Muslims in our community. There are gay people in our community. There are people who are other minorities. I could see how people could be concerned.� Sternberg first raised the idea at the trustees’ November meeting. Fellow Trustee Cindy Falk offered to work on a draft, which was brought back to the Village Board on the 22nd for action. As it happened, Tom Heitz, representing Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian Church, attended that meeting with a similar resolution in hand, developed by the church’s Board of Sessions. In the public comment section at the beginning of the meeting, Heitz suggested the trustees adopt something similar. “We did not propose to tell the village what to say,� said Heitz. “We essentially said: The village needs to take a stand on this.� “That was highly coincidental,� said Sternberg, a retired Bassett physician. “We had our own statement
ready. I thanked Tom for his input and for being there that day.� The page-long resolution that was adopted declares Cooperstown “home to people of diverse backgrounds, from communities of diverse beliefs and cultures, including immigrants and native-born citizens.� It “denounces in the strongest terms the increase of hate speech, intimidations, violence and hate crimes targeted against immigrants, refugees, people of diverse racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with impairments and those who are LGBTQ.� Mayor Jeff Katz likened the statement to the one the Village Board adopted in December 2014 on Climate Change. The latest resolution “is a fairly straightforward statement,� he said. “We believe the spirit of the community is an accepting, non-hostile place.� As did Sternberg, Katz, who chairs a largely Democratic board, said the statement was not intended to be leveled against Presidentelect Donald Trump, but rather some of the activities that erupted after his election. However, he added, ““You can’t divorce the politics totally from it: We’re a political entity.�
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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
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es, sure: New York State is losing people, Upstate in particular. The Empire Center report of a few days ago showed the state losing 191,367 folks in the year ending July 1 – 846,669 over six years. Is that really a surprise to anyone in the room at the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s State of the State Breakfast Tuesday, Jan. 3, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Hall. And yet the report was mentioned a half-dozen times by the state representatives and the 100 community leaders in the room. If Upstate’s population were rising: Now, THAT would be news. • Here’s another piece of non-news. For a century, the Empire State once had it all: Factories, farms, mines, steel mills, railroads and canals. Today, the decline is evident all around us, but what’s happened in the past is past. What’s happening to turn it around is what matters, and what we can and should be proud of as the New Year dawns.
Five years ago this coming March 15, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Seward, convened his first “Seward Summit” on economic development at The Otesaga, and many of the people at the State of the State Breakfast were there – we’ve come on this journey together. At the second “Seward Summit” in November 2013, all of us knew what needed to be done: designate a “single point of contact” for economic development and start building “shovel ready sites.” By luck, the county IDA, soon rechristened Otsego Now, was able to recruit Sandy Mathes, the most successful economic developer in Upstate, who – our luck – had been caught in political crossfire in his home county of Greene. • All the people at the breakfast know all this. This is being repeated now because the Otsego Now juggernaut has been hindered by the county Board of Representatives under Kathy Clark, R-Otego, its chair, has been at odds with Otsego Now.
By the time you read this, Ms. Clark may have been reelected chair for another year. Or, at the reorganizational meeting Wednesday, Jan. 4, she may have been replaced, most likely by county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, a strong supporter of what the “Seward Summits” taught us. Regardless, the county – Clark should do it, or be made to do so by the other reps; Carson will do it – needs to join all the people of good will at that breakfast and get back in the economic-development game, reinvest the $250,000 a year it used to and appoint Otsego Now board members who will unite behind an effort that, despite sniping, has yielded $17 million in state grants in the past year alone. • Shakespeare has Cassius saying it in “Julius Caesar,” “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Aren’t we tired of being underlings? Let’s be no more. That should be every Otsego Countians’ New Year’s resolution.
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he Village Board passed a pre-Christmas resolution declaring Cooperstown “home to people of diverse backgrounds, from communities of diverse beliefs and cultures, including immigrants and native-born citizens.” The intent is admirable: Let’s be nice to one another. But the reality, as documented in Census 2010, shows the opposite. Cooperstown – Otsego County, for that matter – is anything but diverse. According to the Census, 94 percent of the village’s population was “white alone”; 4.2 percent was “Asian alone,” and the remaining 1.8 percent was divided among diverse minorities. That includes one “Native American alone” and seven “blacks or African Americans alone.” For now, Cooperstown is home to just a handful of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and cultures, native-born or not. Whether that matters or not depends on individual viewpoints, but passing a resolution won’t make it so. Here’s a New Year’s resolution: Let’s be nice to one another, whoever we may be.
Village Board Declares Cooperstown To Be A Welcoming Place Editor’s note: On Thursday, Dec. 22, on its last meeting of the year, the Cooperstown Village Board passed this resolution declaring the community as a welcoming home to diversity. The vote was unanimous; Lou Allstadt was absent.
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ESOLUTION to condemn the use of violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric: Whereas Cooperstown is home to people of diverse backgrounds, from communities of diverse beliefs and cultures, including immigrants and native-born citizens; Whereas Cooperstown, as a tourist
destination and home to a major medical facility, seeks to welcome people from throughout our region, nation, and world; Whereas hateful and intolerant acts against others are contrary to the values of acceptance, openness, and fellowship with those of all faiths, beliefs, cultures, and backgrounds; Whereas hate crimes and hate speech affect individual victims physically and emotionally and also impact their families, communities, and the entire group whose identity, culture, or beliefs were the motivation for hateful acts and rhetoric;
Now, therefore, be it resolved, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown (1) Condemns the use of violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric; (2) Steadfastly confirms its dedication to the rights and dignity of all people; (3) Denounces in the strongest terms the increase of hate speech, intimidations, violence, and hate crimes targeted against immigrants, refugees, people of diverse racial, ethnic, religious, and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with
impairments, and those who are LGBTQ; (4) Recognizes that people of every background – irrespective of race, religious belief, national origin, language, gender identification, or impairment – have made countless positive contributions to our community; (5) Declares that the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Cooperstown should be protected and preserved; (6) Reaffirms the inalienable right of everyone in Cooperstown to live without fear and intimidation; (7) Acknowledges that the Constitutions of the United States and State of New York fully support this resolution.
DOUGLAS M. DELONG, M.D. OTHER VOICES
Let Our Elected Representatives Know: Climate Change Matters To Us Editor’s Note: Dr. Douglas Delong is chief, Division of Internal Medicine, at Bassett Hospital, and chair of the American College of Physicians’ Board of Governors.
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limate change is real, it is largely caused by human activity, and it is happening now. Although I am not a climate scientist, I am a physician with a strong background in the scientific method and evidenced-based decision making. The evidence is overwhelming as to the relentless warming of the planet and climate scientists are essentially unani-
mous in support of the proposition that the burning of fossil fuels by humans is the primary cause. Each of the last several years, including 2016, has Dr. Douglas been successively M. Delong the hottest year on record. This is causing fundamental shifts in the complex interactions with our environment and our health and it is happening right now. Given that the incoming administration, based upon statements
by the President-elect and by the selection of the individuals to fill relevant cabinet posts, would appear to at a minimum be unenthusiastic regarding the global effort to mitigate climate change, it is important that each of us inform both ourselves and our elected leadership about the threat of what is this existential public health crisis. Climate change can affect your health in many ways, including heat-related conditions, breathing problems, unsafe water supply, disease spread by insects, shortages of food and water, and even mental health issues. These are
neither theoretical nor trivial. They are happening now and are affecting all of us to one degree or another. One sees in the news almost daily about extreme weather events. It is now routine throughout the world to have warnings of extreme heat which primarily affect children, the elderly, individuals of low socioeconomic status, and those with a previous history of heat stroke. Extreme heat, by overwhelming the thermoregulatory mechanism of the body, can cause dehydration, heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and occasionally death. In 2003, more than 70,000
deaths were attributed to a heat wave in Europe. It is also common to read of severe air pollution alerts, particularly in large urban areas in regions where coal power plants are in operation. Beijing is currently in a month-long smog alert. Air pollution is both toxic to normal lungs and makes asthma and COPD much worse. Pollen season has lengthened in North America due to higher temperatures. In 2012, the World Health Organization noted 7 million deaths worldwide due to ambient and indoor air pollution. Please See DELONG, A5
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Renewable Energy, Later. For Now, It’s Natural Gas To the Editor: Once again some recent Letters to the Editor ran the table on the evils of gas development (it’s-the-endof-the-world) and Constitution Pipeline (it’s-the-endof-the-world-only-closer). The writers don’t believe gas will be our bridge fuel to the future. Sorry to disappoint, folks, but gas is bridging the future and doing so right now. The Energy Information Agency (EIA) reports total U.S. energy production – as measured in BTUs – has gone up 22 percent since 1996. Natural gas now accounts for about a third of those BTUs. Gas heats over
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To The Editor: We were driving back from a birthday party 100 million homes in the Monday, Dec. 19, and the U.S. Last spring gas surroads were a bit slippery so I passed coal as the primary wanted to slow down. I was fuel used in electric generagoing to pull over so the car tion. behind me could pass. Then In replacing oil and coal I realized there is no place for heating and electric gen- to pull over, as there are eration, gas has cleaned our trenches on the side of the air, lowering particulates, road. The car behind me will sulfur and nitrous oxides in have to endure! our cities while bringing the A little while later a car in national CO2 emissions to front of me started to slow a 25-year low. Yes, the use down. I put on my brakes to of natural gas brought CO2 slow down and started slidemissions down while total ing. My only choice was to energy use, including gas, point my car into the oppoexpanded. site traffic lane. If I pointed For all its vaunted conmy car to the side of the cern for climate change, road, I would end up on my Europe’s focus on renewside in a trench. Costly! ables hasn’t produced anyWho is responsible for the Please See DOWNEY, A5 ill-conceived roads in this
county? This whole concept of trenches on the side of the road is nothing but a safety hazard. I talked to one retired public works man and he said he was told: ”Dig ’em wide and dig ’em deep.” Really, this is the best they can come up with in this day and age? A road should be designed for the safety of the travelers. That is one of the primary needs of roadways. The roads need to be designed so they are safe for cars, trucks, bicycles and pedestrians. As a taxpayer I am demanding my money’s worth – it’s time they do a quality job, if they want their pay and benefits! After all they are working for us… R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
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Arms of the United States were in evidence in the windows. Coleman’s seven-piece orchestra played and just before midnight taps were sounded and Lester G. “Red” Bursey led the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” January 7, 1942
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Supervisor Alton G. Dunn, Jr., of Cooperstown, has been named temporary chairman of the new Mental Health Board in Otsego County. The nine-member board was appointed last Friday by Ambrose C. Green of Middlefield, retiring Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Creation of the board also requires approval of the Oneonta Common Council through adoption of a local law. Formation of the board could lead to a mental health program for residents of Otsego County. The initial step toward such a program – naming a Mental Health Board – came after considerable public pressure on the Board of Supervisors. It was a victory for the Otsego County Mental Health Association, a citizens group headed by Mrs. Bruno Larsen of Cooperstown. January 4, 1967
175 YEARS AGO
The editor tenders his readers the compliments of the Festive Season, with the hope that all may go well with them throughout the year upon which we have just entered. Rumor, with her thousand tongues, has magnified the cases of congestive fever which have existed within our village borders during the last few weeks into a malignant typhus. True, there have been and still are, some cases of sickness, but there has been only one death, and it is believed that case arose from neglect in not regarding the advice of the physician in the incipient stage of the disease. All the cases now pending are, with a single exception, considered hopeful, if not beyond the reach of danger; and, as to contagion, there is no ground whatever on which to base such a supposition. January 3, 1842 7
100 YEARS AGO
In Our Town – Employees of the Iroquois Farm of F. Ambrose Clark and their families to the number of nearly 200 dined at the big Iroquois barn last Tuesday night. There was a most sumptuous repast after which Bronner’s orchestra furnished music for dancing until midnight. In order that none might be prevented from attending, the office was fitted up as a nursery and here the babes, one of them only three weeks old, were tenderly cared for while their parents dined. Negotiations are underway for the removal in the spring of the Western Union Telegraph office from its present location
25 YEARS AGO
Editorial: It is a bit disturbing to see a quaint, picturesque little village like Cooperstown turn so ugly in the winter. A colleague put it best one recent morning after entering the office. As he took off his coat he said with a note of exasperation in his voice, “That Cooperstown Main Street is a disgrace.” Disgrace is the proper word. The streets and sidewalks of Cooperstown are covered with mud and ice. While the mud is sloppy, the ice-covered pavement is dangerous. There are some areas in the village where ice skates January 7, 1892 would be preferable to any other kind of footwear. Perhaps it would be wise to require people to keep the area in front to the Reisman block. Miss Helen M. Davison, who has been of their property clear of ice. Those ignoring this responsibility should be given a stiff fine. the efficient local manager for 40 years, will be retired. January 8, 1992 January 3, 1917
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Over 380 Cooperstonians saw the dawning of the New Year at the annual New Year’s Eve dance at the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium Wednesday night of last week. The main dance floor was transformed into a bower of beauty with the artistic use of eight large lighted Christmas trees, holiday greens, red balloons, silver stars and green and orange crepe paper streamers. Suspended from the ceiling in the center of the room was a large revolving silver ball on one side of which was Old Father Time and on the other Happy New Year. Spotlights played on this feature throughout the evening. Large “V’s” for Victory of the
10 YEARS AGO
The owners of the former Alex & Ika restaurant in Cherry Valley, described by Frommer’s 2004 Guide as “tiny and unassuming while turning out some of the most amazing flavor combinations,” and rating it “one of the ten best restaurants in New York State,” appeared at a Zoning Board of Appeals preliminary hearing in Cooperstown on Tuesday, January 2, seeking permission for a restaurant on the first floor at 149 Main Street. Alex and Ika Webster, there with their two children received a good offer for the building in Cherry Valley. January 5, 2007
Let Our Elected Representatives Know: Climate Change Matters To Us DELONG/From A4 We take our water supply for granted, but flooding caused by the increase in severe storms and salt water infiltration caused by rising sea levels can put this at risk. Our own local systems have been at risk with hurricanes and flooding in the recent past. This could cause outbreaks of diarrheal diseases and even cholera. Shifting climate patterns from California to sub-Sahara Africa are altering the amount of rainfall such
that both food and water security are at risk. At least some of the migrant crisis in Europe coming from North Africa and the Middle East is driven by drought and falling food production. Climate change is allowing for the spread of insect borne diseases as their habitat range expands. Although the recent Zika epidemic has been controlled there is no doubt that it will be back with the mosquito season. The southeastern US states as
Renewable Energy, Later. For Now, It’s Natural Gas DOWNEY/From A4 thing near the results accomplished of market-based, hydraulically fractured natural gas in the U.S.A. Retail electricity in Europe costs three to four times the rates found in the U.S.A. The costs are so high that’s there’s a whole class of people in Germany labeled the “energy poor.” They can’t afford to pay their electric bills. Industrial rates, controlled by the government, encourages crony capitalism. Favorite companies get favored rates. The environmental results? Germany’s CO2 emissions are still going up. While high-cost renewable energy gets priority use in the European system, “brown” coal generators are the primary back-up and must always remain fired up and on line to serve when renewables fail to meet load demands. After 16 years of “energiewende” policy and hundreds of billions of euros spent, Germany still only gets only 20 percent of its energy from wind and solar. Our Governor wants to bring the European plan to New York. It’s outlined in his “Reforming the Energy Vision” (REV) strategy. Take a spare evening to thumb through its 57 pages. It’s written in the style of a timeshare brochure and the business model is strictly “bait and switch,” with a dash of threecard monte. To meet his “50 by 30” goals (50 percent renewable energy by 2030), the Governor dances through a thicket of government agencies, public and private entities, financial mechanisms, and on-the-fly strategies, trying to turn lead into gold. The “lead” is the wholesale price of New York wind and solar energy. For a preview, consider the
well as travelers to the Caribbean now have to contend with dengue fever and chikungunyua infection. Closer to home the spread of Lyme disease, carried by the Ixodes scapularis tick, continues its progression from its coastal habitats so that it is longer an exotic illness in our region. I have only scratched the surface as to how climate change is affecting our health. As a parent and grandparent I have major concerns as to how future generations will be affected. Change
is already “baked into” the environment and we need to take immediate and significant steps to both mitigate and reverse climate change. This is the greatest public health threat to ever face humanity, and it is truly critical that at this potential tipping point in time that our leadership at all levels take the science seriously and act in a responsible fashion. At the local level, the Village of Cooperstown has taken a major step by divesting from fossil fuels. In
Washington D.C., the new administration appears to be going in the opposite direction with the nominations as currently proposed for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and even the State Department. I urge each of you to make it clear to our elected representatives at all levels that climate change is real, that it is affecting all of us today, and that it is their critical role to act now in dealing with this literally existential issue.
Seward, Mayors See Benefits From Airbnb, Uber
BREAKFAST/From A1 Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, Long Island Solar Farm at Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz and three Brookhaven, New York’s sole of the four assemblymen representing utility-grade solar power plant. parts of Otsego County – Bill Magee, It sold its electricity to the Long Clifford Crouch and Pete Lopez. Island Power Authority in 2015 “We want to create a community that for 26.2 cents per kWh. The attracts young people,” said Herzig. “They “gold” is New York’s 3.7 cents don’t take taxis, they take Uber. They per kWh average cost of whole- don’t stay in hotels, they use Airbnb.” sale electricity in New York for “I see ridesharing as very positive for 2015. Upstate,” said Seward. Previously, he With a spread like this, the had sponsored a bill to bring ridesharing basic numbers won’t work. companies, including Uber and Lyft, to The alchemy to achieve “50 the state, but the bill was not picked up by by 30” can’t be done with curthe Assembly. rent technology. If the past tells “Uber would be a boon to our area,” us anything, it won’t be done added Katz. “Tourists could use it from with vague promises of “effioutside the village if they didn’t want to ciencies to the system.” Ecopark downtown, or a driver could pick nomically, it shouldn’t be done up five people and bring them to work at with the upheaval in costs to Bassett, at The Otesaga.” the taxpayer and the ratepayer. The biggest issue, Katz said, is that It won’t be done on time with the Uber app wouldn’t work in parts of the inevitable legal road blocks the county that currently don’t have cell it will encounter. Hopefully, phone service or Internet access. voter outrage won’t allow it And Airbnb, where homeowners can when they learn that they have rent out bedrooms, apartments and houses a new taxing agency, the Public Service Commission, for whom they didn’t vote. In the meantime, our Governor has built a legal moat around BASSETT/From A1 the state to keep a powerful (pun Brown was interviewed Tuesday, Jan. 3, intended) engine of economic after Bassett announced to employgrowth beyond the walls. That ees a few days before that it had engine is affordable, flexible, achieved a memorandum of underscalable, cleaner natural gas. standing that could bring Oneida HealthUpstaters need gas for heat and care, with its 101-bed acute-care hospital, gas to power a resurgence of into the Bassett system as “a full member” industry in the territories beyond at the study’s end. the Tappan Zee Bridge. Size allows Bassett – and its partners – So what purpose does the to share fixed costs and efficiencies, thus governor’s strategy serve? Clireducing expenses for everyone. With mate change? Climate change, reimbursements dropping and expected to manmade or otherwise, seems continue to do so, finding savings will be to be better off when we switch ever more essential, the CEO said. “Like electric generation from coal to any other enterprise, you want to see apnatural gas than when we spend propriate returns,” he said. billions to force a technology The two-year study will show Oneida before its time. how Bassett’s case-management methods Renewable energy? In its and other practices can more efficiently time. Natural gas? NOW! deliver quality medical care, said Brown, DICK DOWNEY who succeeded Bill Streck 2½ years Otego ago. He had been chief medical officer at
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Senator Seward speaks at State of the State Breakfast. In the foreground are Mayors Katz and Herzig. to weekend guests, has already faced some scrutiny in Cooperstown when it was discovered that homeowners were listing properties that hadn’t met the same safety standards as bricks and mortar B&B. “We want to assure safety for the guests and fair competition for the tourism industry,” said Lopez. “We want to make sure people aren’t staying in firetraps or punishing those who have committed their livelihood to tourism.” But it has helped some local businesses
reach the kind of visitors who do use the app. “We have seen local bed and breakfasts listing their rooms on AirBnB, and that’s legal under our definition of tourist accommodations,” said Katz. “It’s the wave of the future,” said Seward. “We don’t want to kill it, but we want New York State to take full advantage in the right way.” It was just one more piece in the continuing quest to make Otsego County a more viable player in Upstate’s economy. Currently underway are plans on how to best spend the $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative purse, which, combined with the $5 million in Regional Economic Development Funding, has set “Oneonta is now on the map,” said Herzig. “Albany knows where we are.” And in Cooperstown, a busy tourist season, as well as state funding, has helped the village to continue to grow. “There were years when we didn’t do paving projects,” said Katz. “But because of Paid Parking, we’re able to commit $200,000 annually to street paving, and we’re planning a major rebuild of Pioneer Street.”
CEO: To Achieve Efficiencies, Savings, Bassett Must Grow MaineHealth, based in Portland. Oneida was a sensible next step since Bassett is already operating a clinic there, and is collaborating with the nearby Turning Stone Casino. Bassett’s eight-county system Vance Brown has already brought five hospitals – Oneonta’s Fox, O’Connor in Delhi, Cobleskill Regional Hospital, Little Falls Hospital and Tri-Town in Sidney – into its fold, as well as nursing homes, adult daycare centers and rehab services. Whereas in the past, hospitals joining the Bassett system sometimes had board members on the system’s Board of Trustees, Brown said trustees are now being chosen for their expertise in, say, banking, finance, insurance, medical equipment or
quality control. “We want people who are global thinkers,” he said. The goal remains what it has been, the CEO said: “A sustainable, high-quality medical system to serve the people of greater Cooperstown, and the greater region.” To continue the strategy of growth it has been pursuing and understands makes particular sense because of the “tremendous uncertainly” following the Nov. 8 presidential election. The Republican Congress has announced it plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but it’s unclear what will replace it. “Our strategy is to not make any radical changes until we better understand the external environment,” said Brown. “I think it’s better to stick to our knitting until we can better understand the rest of the world.”
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By LIBBY CUDMORE was played like Monopoly, where n 1981, all of players could buy Oneonta was for Brooks House of sale. Bar-B-Q, Benson “The National Realty, Konstanty Jaycees organizaSports and other tion offered the local businesses as Wheeler Dealer investments. “Do fundraiser,” said you have what it former Jaycee Tom takes to take over Austin. “We had your town?” the Helen Rees to go around and game invites. remembers dad sell all the prop“I remember Jim Konstanty erty squares to local buying a square. one of the Jaycees businesses.” coming into our The “Game of Oneonta” store and selling us a square,”
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WINTER BREAK: This week’s Cabin Fever Series features the movie, “Suffragette” (2015), featuring Meryl Streep as Emily Pankhurst, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, at the Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown.
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TUBING THRILLS: Beginning Saturday, Jan. 7, snowtubing is offered 11 a.m.-4 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday though Feb. 19 at Glimmerglass State Park. No admission to enter park; $5 for all-day use of a tube. 1527 County Highway 31, Cooperstown. DANCE AWAY BLUES: Live bands featured. “The Forevers,” 9 p.m. Friday, Jan 6, at B-side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza Drive, Oneonta. “Midnight Monocle & Whiskey,” 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, at Timber Creek Saloon & Restaurant, 2957 State Highway 23, West Oneonta. CONTRADANCE KICK-OFF: Traverse, featuring Liz Brown on flute, Carol Mandigo on guitar, and Bernd Neumann on fiddle will launch The Otsego Dance Society’s Contradance season 7:30-10:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, at Cooperstown Presbyterian Church, Church and Pioneer. LOOKING AHEAD: MLK Day celebrations are 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at Red Door Church, Walling and Main, sponsored by Oneonta NAACP, and 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown, Pioneer and Church.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP – 9 a.m.-Noon Interactive workshop for all ages to practice making public presentations. Registration deadline 1/4. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown Info, Patti Zelmer, (607) 547-2536 Ext. 225 or email psz2@cornell.edu. or visit http://cceschoharie-otsego. org/events/2015/12/31/4-hpublic-presentations-workshopotsego-county SNOW TUBING – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Park will provide snow tube with $5 tubing fee. No charge to enter park. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 County Highway 31, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.thisiscooperstown.com/events/snowtubing-glimmerglass-state-park OPERA – 12:55 p.m. “Nabucco.” The Met streaming live in HD. Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Cost $18/seniors, $20/adults, 10/students. Season pass $200. Box Office: (607) 431-2080, http://foothillspac. org/index.php/shows/metropolitan-opera-in-hd/ THEATER – 1 p.m. Auditions are open for the Orpheus Theater’s production of “Steel Magnolias.” The Rowe House, 31 Maple St., Oneonta. Info, http:// www.orpheustheatre.org/ ART WORKSHOP – 1 p.m. Digital Artist/Instructor teaches artists the technical skills to submit fine works of art in a digital format. Oneonta Storage, 16 E. End Ave., Oneonta. Info, http://www.canoneonta. org/event/digital-formattingworkshop/?instance_id=695 COOKING CLINIC – 2-5 p.m. 4-H youth learn to interpret recipes, food & kitchen safety, and to make fun, healthy food. Fee $8. Registration deadline 1/4. Gilbertsville Baptist Church, Commercial St., Gilbertsville. Info, Patti Zelmer, (607)547-2536 ext. 225, psz2@cornell.edu. or visit http://cceschoharie-otsego. org/events/2015/01/10/4-hcooking-clinic WOMEN’S SELF DEFENSE CLASS – 5:30 p.m. Oneonta Jiu Jitsu Academy, 5366 Main St., Oneonta. Info, https://www. facebook.com/selfdefenseforwomenojja/
Sunday, January 8
SNOW TUBING – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Park will provide snow tube with $5 tubing fee. No charge to enter park. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 County Highway 31, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.thisiscooperstown.com/events/snowtubing-glimmerglass-state-park SOUP! – 11 a.m.-2 p.m., “Second Sunday Soup,” serving homemade hot soup every 2nd Sunday of month. Takeout available. All welcome, donations appreciated. At the Polly House (next to the Fire House), Schuyler Lake. PLAY BINGO – 6 p.m. 9 rounds, free to play. Beer tokens and merchandise for prizes. Roots Brewing Company, 175 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www. rootsbeeroneonta.com
Monday, January 9
REGISTRATION DEADLINE – Last day to register for Cornell Cooperative Extension Poultry Workshop. Info, http:// cceschoharie-otsego.org/ events/2017/01/14/4-h-poultry101-workshop POTTERY CLASS – 9 a.m.Noon “Centering the Potter and the Clay” Through March 13. Cost $220. The Smithy Clay Studio, 1 Otsego Court, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. smithyarts.org/clay-studio 3-D PRINTING – 3:30-7:30 p.m. Open hours. Open play. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ OPEN REHEARSAL – 4:306:30 p.m. Little Delaware Youth Ensemble invites the community, parents, musicians, and prospective musicians and their parents to this rehearsal of this string based orchestra. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://www. ldye.org/ OPEN PLAY – 5-8 p.m. Play Star Wars: Imperial Assault. Serenity Hobbies, 254 Main St.,
Oneonta. Info, http://serenityhobbies.com/ DRAWING GROUP – 7-9 p.m. Come practice drawing with a live model. $10 donation. To attend call the Cooperstown Art Association, (607)547-9777
Tuesday, January 10
HISTORY LUNCHEON – 11:30 a.m. Fly Creek Area Historical Society Luncheon, at Fly Creek Methodist Church. 811 Cty. Rd. 2 KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar SCHOOL RECEPTION – 5:30-7 p.m. The Cooperstown Central School invites parents and community members to welcome the new Superintendent of schools, Dr. William Crankshaw. Cooperstown Central School Cafeteria, 39 Linden Ave, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. cooperstowncs.org/ PTA MEETING – 7-8 p.m. Cooperstown Elementary School Library Media Center, 21 Walnut St., Cooperstown. Info, http:// www.cooperstowncs.org/elementary-school/
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CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar DISCUSSION GROUP – 35 p.m. Discussion of Current Events. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar MEDITATION – 5:30 p.m. Workshop in Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http:// www.greenearthoneonta.com/
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around his Maryland neighborhood. “Having Emily involved was the best part,” he said. “It was a little nerve-racking!” she said. “But when my friends saw the video, they were really impressed.” And they weren’t the only ones. Taylor put the video up on YouTube and acclaim quickly followed. Marty Peters, former producer of the Goo Goo Dolls and a member of the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, reviewed it for Recording magazine, and MyFord, the official online magazine for Ford enthusiasts, profiled Taylor, his car and his song for their December issue. “I don’t know how they found my song,” said Taylor. “But you always hope for something like this to come along.” Taylor, who records at home in what he calls Rubycat Studios, is hoping to put together an album and bring together a band to start playing outside of the studio. “There are a lot of great musicians around here,” he said. “I’ve been doing acoustic sets here and there, but I’d love to get a band together, open for a band at Ommegang.” He’s completing his second demo CD, titled “50.” His first demo, “Chips and Bruises,” also had a hometown flavor, with the song “Flowers in the Field” about murderess Eva Coo. And Lincoln is learning the hands-on of maintaining her new ride, which she will get when she graduates from nursing school. “She’s done maintenance on it in bits and pieces,” said Taylor. “It’s good to be able to hand it over, keep it in the family.
1980s Oneonta Board Game A Bonanza For City Jaycees GAME/From B1 John Brooks said, ‘I want Boardwalk’!” recalled Austin, who spearheaded the project for the club. “It was the most expensive property; I think they ranged from $50-$500 a square.” The game starts in a corner labeled “Wilber Neahwa Park,” where you roll the dice and move your piece down the board. You can lose turns by landing on Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta, the next corner. At the third corner, you may have to pay big bucks for housing. Fourth corner: It’s tax time at City Hall, presided over by Mayor James Lettis. Like Monopoly, you get money at the outset. Land on a participating business on squares between the corners, you can buy it – then charge rent. You can also invest your money in “commodities” – eggs, wheat, beef, diamonds, zinc, strawberries, even peppermint. Roll the dice and you win or lose, depending on the commodity – but be careful: you might be audited by the IRS. It was the Jaycees’ largest fundraiser, netting between $5-6,000 to help fund service projects. “Downtown had just gone through Urban Renewal, and this game was part of bringing interest back to Main Street,” said Rees. “Everyone likes a local touch.” The website BoardGameGeek.com, which archives vintage and modern board games, has listings for other local Wheeler Dealer sets, including The Game of Saratoga Springs, Little Rock, Ark., and Naperville, Ill.
And a few copies of the Game of Oneonta still may be found throughout Otsego County. Rees has one, and the Greater Oneonta Historical Society has several in its archives. A recent listing on eBay.com had one for $50. “It’s the only game we have, and I thought it was just a cool game we had in the cabinet,” said Sarah Livingston, Huntington Library’s adult services librarian, who has an unopened game donated to the library’s archives in the 1990s. “But it’s a fun snapshot of the past, especially the businesses that aren’t here anymore.” Local (but long-gone) favorite stores include Love of Pete (collectibles) and Where’s The Beef are featured, as well as Harold’s Army/Navy and Banta’s office supply. “When people think of history, they think much older,” said Livingston. “A lot of people don’t think of the ’80s as history, so we don’t have a lot of items from that time period in our collections.” But several of the establishments remain in business today, including Brooks and Benson, Medical Coaches and the Black Oak Tavern. “I’d say at least a third of the businesses on there are still around,” said Austin. And the names of the Jaycees are listed on the board as “Noble Subjects of the Realm,” among them William Bookhout, Keith Bachman, Tom Bailey, Ed Craig, Jon Hansen, Richard Rothermel, David Davidson and Ralph Griffiths. “It was fun,” said Austin. “And it would be neat to see someone develop a new version.”
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Robert W. Moyer, 84; Wilber Bank CEO For 25 Years, Civic Leader Editor’s Note: This is Bob Moyer’s full obituary, which was completed Friday, Dec. 30. ONEONTA – Robert William “Bob” Moyer, 84, the president and CEO of Wilber National Bank for a quarter of a century, passed away Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, just two days after he celebrated his 84th birthday. The only child of Mabel and Clayton Moyer, Bob was born Dec. 21, 1932 in Glens Falls.
Bob studied Aeronautical Engineering at RPI, and then joined the US Air Force in 1952 and became a Master Navigator, serving from 1952-57, deployed to a base in Dreux. Bob returned to college in 1958 as a business major at SUNY Albany, and then to RPI for a MS in Management Engineering. In 1960 he met and married the love of his life, Joan Marie Fallon, while both were working on graduate degrees and Joan was teaching.
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As life would have it, weeks after the birth of their first child, President Kennedy called up the Air Force Robert Moyer Reserve and Air National Guard units for 11 months, and in October 1961 Bob reported to active duty. Bob’s love of flying stayed with him through his retirement in 1976 as a Lt. Colonel with over 5,000 miles as a Master Navigator. Bob was transferred to Oneonta in January of 1965
Franklin R. Scanlon, 82; On Fair Board WESTVILLE – Franklin R. Scanlon, 82, a plumber and carpenter by trade and Milford Rotarian who served on the Otsego County Fair Board, passed away Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, at Alpine Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Little Falls. Born in Manlius, on Feb. 2, 1934, he was the son of the late Charles P. and Ruby M. Fields, Scanlon. Frank was a graduate of Wilbur H. Lynch High School in Amsterdam. He was a self-employed carpentry and plumbing contractor. Frank was a former member of the Westville Methodist Church, Milford Rotary, Milford Little League and served on the Otsego County Fair Board. He was a seventh-degree member of the National Grange No. 540 in Westville. Frank enjoyed watching antique tractor pulls, going to tractor shows as well as antique engine shows. He enjoyed working with wood for his career and as a hobby. He is survived by one daughter, Barbara Renwick and husband, Tom of Schenevus; four sons, Rexford Scanlon and wife, Susan of Taberg, Robert Scanlon of Cooperstown, Charles Scanlon and wife, Toni of Buhl, Idaho, and Roger Scanlon and wife, Sharon of Schenevus; 14 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great- great-grandchild. Frank was predeceased by a brother, Walter Scanlon of Tully; and two daughters, Carolyn Scanlon of Minnesota and Sue Ann Scanlon of Oneonta. Cremation will take place at Park View Crematorium in Schenectady and final inurnment will take place this spring in Westville Cemetery in Westville. Arrangements are by the Riley Mortuary, Inc. 110 Division St., Amsterdam.
and his community and banking career took off. In 1970 Bob joined Wilber National Bank as an Administrative VP and Senior Trust Officer. In 1973, he was named President and CEO. He served as CEO of both Wilber National Bank and the Wilber Corporation for 25 years. The American Banking Association dedicated an entire ad campaign to Wilber Bank, with the heading “Being a Good Neighbor is Good Banking.” In 1982 Bob was elected President of the New York Bankers Association and in 1985 Director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
In 2010, he and Joan were named Mr. and Mrs. Oneonta by the Future for Oneonta Foundation. Bob’s community and state involvement included board membership for Hartwick College, Otsego County Chamber, Otsego County Development Corp, Otschodela Council of Boy Scouts, NYS Business Development Corp, Executive Service Corp of Otsego and Delaware Counties America Banking Association, New York State Banking Association, IBM’s Community Bank Advisory Council, NYS Federal Reserve, Fox Hospital, St. Mary’s Parish
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Finance Committee, and Oneonta Rotary. He is survived by his children, Terri Moyer, Kathy Moyer Dragon, and Scott Moyer, daughter-in-law Ginny Moyer; and grandchildren Matthew and Luke Moyer. He was predeceased by his wife, Joan, in 2014. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta on July 8 at 10 am, and celebrations of Bob’s life will take place July 8 and 9th in Oneonta and Cooperstown. Arrangements are entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.
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