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“We don’t know where (two) employees picked it up, but they gave it to a family member, who also works at Bassett,” she said.

The three cases are part of a five-day spike that saw an additional 18 cases throughout the county, nine at SUNY Oneonta, one at Hartwick College and seven Please See COVID, A3

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hree of the latest five cases of COVID-19 reported were Bassett Hospital employees, according to Heidi Bond, county public health director.

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IBRAHIM: In Unity, Strength

Bassett CEO Knitting Big Network Together

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n his three months as CEO/president, Dr. Tommy Ibrahim is increasingly impressed by Bassett Healthcare Network’s local significance.

“In our service area, we’re it,” he said in an interview Monday, Sept. 28. “We have an obligation to serve the people in it.”

In the past two months, he has announced 10 members of his Executive Leadership Team, including Fox Hospital President Jeff Joyner as Please See BASSETT, A3 The Farmers’ Museum blacksmith John Patterson has moved his forge out to the Village Green, where visitors have a 360-degree view as he makes bottle openers and mantle hooks.

For Sheriff, Son’s Probe Not Yet Over Sheriff Asks D.A.: Find Evidence Not Returned

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he County of Otsego’s ncumbent Democrat investigation into Sheriff MacGuire Benton turned Richard J. Devlin Jr.’s back Republican correctional officer son ended when challenger Mary-Margaret Ros Devlin resigned from his father’s Robbins, 343-308, in a runoff department. election for Village Board But to the sheriff, Tuesday, Sept. 29. it isn’t over.

Benton said Robbins’ chalTuesday, Sept. 29, lenge “will make me a better the sheriff announced trustee.” Robbins praised the a DVD from the people of the village and the investigation is misssupport she received. ing, and he’s asked The runoff was set in District Attorney John motion by a tied vote on Muehl to investigate Devlin Sept. 15, with both candithe matter. dates winning 272 ballots.

In an interview, the sheriff said, For more details, visit separately, he’s also asking the county to amend the final report into www.AllOTSEGO.com his son’s case to remove material implicating his son which the father FULL COVID STORIES ON said is inaccurate.

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The Freeman’s Journal Mac Benton receives a hug from challenger Mary-Margaret Robbins after holding on to his Village Board seat in the Tuesday, Sept. 29, runoff election.

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ome late October, there will be no parade of ghosts and goblins haunting Cooperstown and Oneonta.

The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce won’t be seeking a parade permit, Chamber Executive Tara Burke told Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch.

“But many businesses are going to continue giving out candy, as Please See PARADES, B4

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Museum Opts For Safer, Longer Event

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very so often, Farmers’ Museum interpreter Deb Anderson will see someone sneaking a ride on the closed Deb Bittenbender poses Empire State Carousel.

It’s not a ghost or a straggler – it’s with scarecrow daredevil daredevil Sam Patch, one of The Sam Patch.

Farmers’ Museum’s scarecrows, atop Bucky Beaver, the first of the carousel’s hand-carved animals.

Sam was created by the museum’s staff, part of the museum’s Celebration of Autumn, underway through Sunday, Oct. 11, in place of the usual single-weekend Harvest Fest.

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BRENNER: OD’S RISES AS OPD CAN’T HOLD THEM, HELP THEM

Repeated Offenders Have Oneonta On Edge

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or Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner, the recent slate of thefts from unlocked cars are more than just petty crimes.

They’re a stress on the Oneonta com-

munity as a whole.

“These aren’t huge larcenies, but they create a more hyper-sensitive community,” he said. “You have to remember to lock your car, your house, you might be more sensitive to when your dog barks.”

On Sept. 18, Oneonta Police arrested Keegan Allen, 22, a homeless man, following a report that someone had been rifling Please See HOMELESS, B4

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t a time of heightened concern about voting and related procedures, Cooperstown’s Tony Casale, the former state Assemblyman, has been appointed to the vacancy on the fourmember state Board of Elections.

Governor Cuomo made the appointment yesterday on the recommendation of state Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy.

The board has two co-chairs, recommended to the governor by the legislative leaders; the other two are recommended by the state party chairs. The board must consist of two Republicans and two Democrats.

“I have no preconceived notions,” Casale said. “I want to make sure the electoral process in this state is fair and above board Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal

Jake Bennett and Ryan Strong, Epic Landscaping, Fly Creek, were busy transforming a key intersection in Cooperstown on Friday, Sept. 25, transforming the new parking lot at the renovated NY Pizzeria at Chestnut, Elm and Delaware streets into a min-Eden. Drive by and take a look!

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ith popcorn, sweet treats and an extended slate of films, the Glimmerglass Film Days is coming to a living room near you.

The full slate of films – themed “A Road Less Traveled” – is expected in the coming days, but the festival, which has been scheduled for November 5 - 11, was extended a week to give viewers more time to watch the films

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In the Assembly, he said, he served on the Election Law Committee for 17 years, including participating in the decision to move from lever voting machines to the electronic scanners used today.

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Ibrahim Reorganization Moves Forward In announcing Joyner’s promotion Sept. 2, BASSETT/From A1 Ibrahim also announced the recruitment of his chief operation officer, the lead implementer. technology chief at Integris, Michael Thompson, And Ibrahim further sees the possibilities as vice president/systems improvement. of the concept he implemented at Integris, Thompson’s task is to create “a uniform the nine-hospital Oklahoma network where cadence by which we manage our organizahe was executive vice president and chief tion, an accountability structure to help physician executive, to manage the Bassett create a level of transparency in network as a single network, to measurements.” “integrate” operations.

With that information in hand, the “If we were to standardize,” he leadership team’s role is to act on the said, “we would free up a ton of relative strengths revealed in those opportunities and value.” findings, “to be as good as we can be.”

Take HR. While completing the Leadership The five Bassett Network Team, work has begun on a five-year hospitals have human resources strategic plan to make Bassett “the departments with different polibest place to work and practice,” cies, different pay scales, different Ibrahim said. The plan will also look procedures and benefit plans. at making the network “consumerSo the hospitals find themselves and patient-centered.” competing against each other, with Ibrahim In addition to key administrators, people leaving one Bassett facility the Leadership Team includes such physito take a job at another. cians as Dr. Nicholas Hellenthal, the chief of Reorganizing HR to achieve consistency across the network “is the first step to creating surgery, who has been given the additional responsibility of chief medical great relationships with employees,” he said, officer at Bassett Hospital. which results in “the ability to retain great And Dr. Henry Weil as chief academic staff.” officer, looking for innovations in the the The HR idea is one example of his strategy Columbia-Bassett Medical School program, of reorganizing the Bassett Network, from which brings medical students to Cooperstown a collection of hierarchical institutions – as part of their training. president, vice president, department heads Given Bassett’s widespread footprint, the – to a horizontal one.

In a horizontal one, people will be organized new CEO’s team will also be looking at access to service, in particular obstacles to access. by specialty – with uniformity across the net“Our capabilities outweigh what we’re work, not just in HR but in medical specialties, doing today,” he said, particularly given with Bassett’s best becoming available across all facilities, from O’Connor Hospital in Delhi Bassett’s doctors, whom he termed “incredible clinicians.” to Bassett Health Center Oneida, 67 miles apart.

“We can be a best player,” he said, “and Uniformity, standardization, “you can extrapolate that to multiple functions,” he said. an international player.”

Bond Reports 3 Cases At Bassett

Oneonta Control Room, a town-gown overCOVID/From A1 sight group, met again Monday, Sept. 28, in Milford, Otsego, Edmeston and New and focused on the campus reopening for the Lisbon. spring semester.

According to hospital spokesman Karen “We want to give students a voice so we Huxtable-Hooker, the hospital was made can prevent what happened in the rest of the aware of the incident last Friday, Sept. 25. fall semester and, hopefully, when students Working with the state and county return in the spring,” said Mayor Gary Herzig.

Departments of Health, testing and contact Colleen Brannan, SUNY Oneonta tracing, the third case was President Barbara Jean Morris’ chief identified. of staff, said she had met by Zoom “It appears that the employees with students to brainstorm how to contracted COVID-19 outside of encourage social distancing and work,” Huxtable wrote in an email. mask-wearing among their peers.

As of Tuesday, Sept. 29, 80 Student Emma Sarnacki recomBassett employees have been mended the college offer more tested, with no additional positives socially distanced activities on outside of the reported three. In campus, such as trivia nights and addition, Bassett has postponed lecture series. some elective procedures as an “We’re fundamentally social creaadded precaution while the contact Bond tures,” she said. “It’s going to happen tracing and follow-up testing one way or the other, so if it’s on continue.

“These latest cases of the coronavirus serve campus, it can be in spaces where it’s safe.”

However, there was concern raised that as a reminder to all of us to continue to follow students were attempting to make their own the well-established precautionary measures to protect against COVID-19 and help prevent rules about gatherings, such as making friends show proof of negative tests ahead of large the spread of this virus,” wrote Huxtable. gatherings.

The SUNY Oneonta students, who were “You can be negative today but get it tested off-campus, are all isolating. One tomorrow,” warned Dr. Diane Georgeson, student is in quarantine on campus, awaiting city health director. “None of the laws give test results. you permission to not wear a mask or social “We will still see cases at SUNY for the distance.” whole semester, unfortunately,” Bond said.

“Students are not alone in trying to figure “The nature of that age group is that they want to gather and they don’t want to social distance. this out,” Herzig said. “My friends are going through the same challenges too. Who is in It makes it difficult to stop the spread.” my pod? How many people can I safely fit in However, she noted, four of the nine SUNY students had recovered, with tests reported late. my backyard? It’s challenging for all of us to figure out.”

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A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL EDITORIAL

‘Year Of The Cooperstownian’

The front page of the March 17, 2011, Freeman’s Journal shows trustees, from left, Jeff Katz, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Walter Franck at a victory party hosted by village Democratic thenchairman Richard Abbate.

Behind Tillapaugh is her husband, Gary Kuch.

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irst, congratulations to Democrat Mac Benton and Republican Mary-Margaret Robbins for a hard-fought campaign for Cooperstown Village Board.

Mac won, but both he and Mary-Margaret showed a lot of class – he in victory; she in defeat – after the Tuesday, Sept. 29, tallying showed he garnered 343 votes to her 308.

He said her strong challenge will “make me a better trustee.” She praised the people of Cooperstown, those who supported her and those who were active in supporting Mac, as representative of the community’s spirit.

• In looking back over past Cooperstown Election Nights, that

the Cooperstown Village Board, which will now continue.

That picture in that front page’s upper left shows Jacob Miller dancing with mom Nancy at the 2011 Cooperstown Cotillion at The Otesaga, where Cooperstown 13-year-olds annually show off newly gained ballroom dancing skills.

Since, Jacob graduated from CCS, graduated from Harvard, and is now an The Freeman’s Journal assistant coach with the University of Cooperstown’s Village Hall has Georgia’s football team. been under one-party control for That’s how long it’s been since nine years.

Democrats and Republicans balance Freeman’s Journal front page from each other on the Village Board.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 – at right That year, Democrats Ellen Tilla– showed up. It signaled the start of paugh Kuch, now mayor, was elected nine years of Democratic domination of Please See EDITORIAL, A5

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Don’t Treat Law-Abiding Citizens, Criminals Same

To the Editor: I was born and raised in Otsego County. My whole family are hunters, and therefore we all own firearms. My siblings and myself were taught at a young age and learned how to use them properly. I am a gun owner and hunter now.

It is our Constitutional right to own and bear arms.

I have taken safety courses that are required to hunt and also obtain my pistol permit. I wish to be as self-sufficient as possible, whether that means feed myself or protect myself if I absolutely must.

An airman during World War II, Jim Andrecheck of South Columbia thought his life was coming to an end 75 years ago.

Instead, he and wife Mary celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary earlier this month.

There are many women who feel the same way as I do about firearms.

Especially when it comes to self-protection.

According the NRA: “In July 2020, ‘A Girl & A Gun’ conducted a survey of more than 6,000 members to specifically focus on women’s reasons and interests. Results showed that 43 percent of women joined AG&AG to practice self-defense skills, and 92 percent were in the process of obtaining or already had acquired their concealed or open carry permits.

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primarily partisan grandstanding, but declaring the county itself some sort of special jurisdiction would, at best, make the board look a bit foolish.

My company has several patents that teach correct lead on moving targets and two patents on using Augmented Reality headsets on real moving targets for the military.

I invented these shooting systems while learning to shoot skeet at the Cooperstown skeet range. In Otsego County, New York. Without the benefit or need of a “sanctuary” for myself or my gun, thanks very much.

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To the Editor: Dear county board members, I am writing to oppose the proposed “gun sanctuary” initiative as being an illconceived abuse of the county’s legislative powers, a pointless political stunt and frankly, a bit silly.

The United States is, by law, a “gun owner’s sanctuary.” The State of New York has jurisdiction over local gun laws, and no county, town, village or city can pass gun laws that would not be redundant to the state or conflict with state law without the state’s consent.

Passing a “feel good” resolution in support of gun rights is one thing, if

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Surviving 50 WWII Bombing Missions, Airman’s Enjoyed Years Of Tranquillity SOUTH COLUMBIA

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orld War II veteran Jim Andrecheck, who lives just north of Richfield Springs, recently fell and broke his hip.

He’s almost 99 years old and I thought the injury would end his and his wife Mary’s independent life style.

• Up until a year and a half ago, Jim was driving a pickup and tending his own vegetable garden. Miraculously, his hip has TERRY mended and the BERKSON two (Mary will be 100 next week, on Oct. 6) are back in their home again with much assistance from their son Tim, who like his father was in the Air Force, but during the Vietnam era.

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Tim’s cousin, Patty Lewis, a retired nurse practitioner, was there to help out at the time I was visiting. Also,

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Airman Andrecheck in his WWII flight gear.

Candy, a healthcare worker, stops at the house five days a week.

During recovery at a rehabilitation facility, Jim said the physical therapy he was getting wasn’t aggressive enough.

So, unlike the choice he made some 75 years ago, to stay in the air with his crippled B24 bomber, he bailed out of “recovery” and headed for home, which is why he feigned dissatisfaction and where he really wanted to be.

Obviously, you can’t keep down a survivor of more than 50 bombing missions, missions where many men and air ships were lost.

Andrecheck was a flight engineer but his diminutive size made him a perfect fit for the seat of a ball-turret gunner, so the 22-year-old filled that position as well.

Over Steyr, Austria, the German antiaircraft was very heavy. In a short time six of the seven planes in Jim’s squadron were knocked down. An Please See BERKSON, A6

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Fear Of Swimming

wimming. I was a kid who wanted to learn to swim.

It really started when I won a week at Bible camp by reciting enough verses. Just being there was scary enough. I was afraid to sleep in my bunk at night. Homesick.

Had all of the wrong clothes. All of the other kids had fancy clothes. My bathing suit was the only store bought thing I had and it didn’t fit. It was a hand-me-down from our neighbor.

• My week at camp seemed to get worse, scarier every day. After our morning calisthenics, we put on our

bathing suits, huddled in our towels for the frigid march to the lake.

Most everyone could swim to the dock. Not me. I came from a family of non-swimERNA MORGAN mers. Mom was too scared to put McREYNOLDS her face in water.

Watching me shiver, a cabin mate decided to push me in — way over my head.

I sputtered, swallowed water till the guard pulled me out.

I was afraid, but I wanted to swim.

Never again – no more being trapped in dark terror, I said to myself.

But it did happen again at friends’ ponds.

More than one time I climbed onto rafts with my friends. They jumped off. I fell into murky, reedy water way over my head. Not sure why I didn’t drown.

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200 YEARS AGO

Monument to General Jackson – The City Council of New Orleans passed a resolution for the appropriation of the sum of 50,000 dollars to defray the expense of erecting an equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson, in the public square in front of the Cathedral church. It is intended that the statue shall be executed by Canova, the Roman sculptor, the most celebrated artist of the age and that it shall be commenced and finished as soon as circumstances will permit. We congratulate our countrymen and the citizens of Louisiana particularly, on the adoption of this liberal and public-spirited measure. It would be opprobrious that this wealthy city saved by the valor and skill of Jackson from plunder and devastation, should not contain within its limits a single memorial of the gratitude of her citizens.

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100 YEARS AGO

October 8 at 4:30 p.m. The subject of the first lecture will be “The Atomic Bomb. Dr. Halvor N. Christensen, formerly on the staff of the Biological Chemistry Department at Harvard University and now biochemist at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, will deliver this lecture.

October 3, 1945

50 YEARS AGO

Mr. and Mrs. Birger Larssen, a Swedish couple, in this country for three weeks to attend a marine insurance conference in San Francisco, stopped off in Cooperstown for two days last week to visit Per Larssen, their son who is spending the year here as a Rotary International Exchange student. Per Larssen is being hosted by Dr. and Mrs. W.H. Barns and family at their home on Pioneer Street.

The Larssens called their visit in Cooperstown “the high spot of their visit to this country.” Back in Jonkoping Sweden, the Larssens are hosts to Wilbur H. Hill, a Minneapolis boy, also on Rotary International Exchange.

Regarding Cooperstown Per Larssen says “It’s just like a town taken out of a fairy tale.”

October 7, 1970

175 YEARS AGO

Missions to Slaves – From a report of the Methodist | Convention lately held in Charleston, South Carolina it appears that besides the attention paid by traveling and local preachers to the Negroes in their regular ministrations, there are between 80 and 90 missionaries to them, who have under their charges over 18,000 church members and 100,000 attendants on their services. Over 1,000 Negroes are in connection with the Methodist Church in Texas. The South Carolina Conference has 16 missions to the Negroes; Georgia Conference 12; Tennessee 5; Alabama 7; North Carolina 2; Virginia 2. The catechizing of the children and youth is a prominent part of their labor. Dr. Caper’s catechism, prepared expressly for the purpose, is extensively used. The expense of those missions is over $11,000 annually.

October 6, 1845

150 YEARS AGO

Lost September 27 on the road leading from Westville to Schuyler’s Lake, a Black Satchel, considerably worn, containing two pairs of pants, one farmer’s frock, one pair overshoes, and other articles too numerous to mention.

Also, on September 6, on the road leading from Cooperstown to Westville by way of Enoch Reynolds, a heavy black lace veil. If anyone that will give information where the above may be found. Or return the same to Murdock & Bros., Cooperstown, they will be liberally rewarded. October 4, 1870. A.B. Cornish.

October 6, 1870

125 YEARS AGO

Christ Church was presented last Sunday, by J.F. Brower of Brooklyn, a long-time visitor here, with a beautiful brass Processional Cross, a memorial to his mother. The staff bears the inscription “To Him Crucified and in loving memory of Jeanette Catherine Brower, Died May 28, 1874, Christ Church, Cooperstown, N.Y., St. Michael and All Angels Day, 1895. The cross is borne before the vested choir, of which Mr. Brower has been for some time an honorary member.

25 YEARS AGO

With Otsego County’s long-term care facility running deficits as high as $400,000 per year, an Otsego County appointed Review Committee has announced to the full Board of Representatives a proposal to privatize the Meadows.

The proposal would allow private firms to bid for the operation of the facility in Phoenix Mills which is now solely the responsibility of the county. There are no plans to close The Meadows and it could take months before the county even prepares an RFP for sending out to private health care organizations. “The Review Committee was appointed because of the physical condition of The Meadows,” John Nader, a County Representative said. “It was primarily the result of our being keenly aware that it was in poor condition and is an aging facility. Many of the residents are four to a room. Of course, we were also aware of the deficit.”

October 6, 1920 The report anticipates closing the Meadows down, but not before another structure is built at another location.

Marshall McDonald, the fish commissioner at Washington, October 1, 1995 has ordered 100,000 lake trout to be placed in Otsego Lake.

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Anticipating a lean January and February, the Hunger Task Force of Otsego County, is planning an Open House on Sunday, October 17, at 17 of Otsego County’s food pantries. “The open house is to collect non-perishable foods, but part of this effort is to educate people as well,” said Ellen St. John, co-director of the Cooperstown Food Bank. Audrey Murray, St. John’s co-director, will be at the Food Bank located in the basement of the Cooperstown Presbyterian Church to discuss the goals of the food pantry program which is part of a regional and national network.

Concerns for food pantry collections were raised when food drives in recent years conducted by postal workers in the spring and fall were cut back to just spring.

October 7, 2010

The Cooperstown Redskins smashed their way by sheer power to a 7-6 victory over a favored Scotia eleven in the latter city’s rain-soaked gridiron. The contest was played in a heavy downpour throughout the entire first half, and a steady drizzle the last half. Members and positions of the Cooperstown high school team are Canker RE; Jones RT; Shevalier RG; D. Welsh C; Murdock LG; Micklavzina LT; Andrews LE; Lynch QB; Clark RH; Coleman LH; R. Welsh FB. The first of several popular lectures on the methods and accomplishments of science planned by the staff of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital will be held Monday,

THE VIEW FROM ALBANY

Trouble At Nursing Homes

ursing home policies in New York State have been under the microscope throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and a number of significant concerns remain.

Back in July, after months of silence and inaction, Democrats finally heeded the call to hold legislative hearings.

Unfortunately, the Senate Investigations Committee refused to issue even a single subpoena to compel documents and testimony from the Cuomo Administration or state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker.

JIM • SEWARD While Commissioner Zucker took part in one hearing, he failed to answer a number of questions and did not provide accurate facts and figures regarding the number of nursing home residents who passed away during the pandemic. The commissioner avoided a second hearing entirely.

The lack of transparency is appalling and, certainly, not what grieving families deserve.

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One major concern the commissioner was questioned on during the hearing centered on nursing-home visitation policies. Loved ones and facility staff who testified at the hearings discussed the negative and severe physical and mental health impacts the lack of visitation was having on residents. The testimony was heartbreaking in many instances.

For months, all visits to nursing homes were prohibited. Then in July, limited visitations were finally allowed as long as a number of conditions were met.

• Unfortunately, the extremely stringent guidelines still made it nearly impossible for family members to visit their loved ones, continuing the isolation for many.

Finally, after repeated pleas, the guidelines were updated on Sept. 15. However, there are still major roadblocks in place.

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Q&A WITH MIKE HENRICI

This Year, How Do I Vote?

Editor’s Note: With changes in voting procedures resulting from this year’s coronavirus threat, Maureen Murray and Aviva Schneider of the League of Women Voters, Cooperstown chapter, interview Michael Henrici, Democratic election commission at the county Board of Elections, to help clarify the options.

Q: What should voters know about registration?

The deadline to register is Oct. 9. To check to be sure you’re registered, go to www. voteotsego.com. You can also go to that website if you’re not registered for everything you need to register. Or you can call (607) 547-4247 to get a registration form mailed to you.

Q: Do you expect difficulties this fall?

We are doing OK, though strapped for funding. The number of absentee ballots is large, so that should help. We expect more voters to come for early voting. Even though we rarely have trouble with lines at polling places, the 6-foot distance may

cause the lines to be physically longer.

But the number of Election Day voters is expected to be smaller due to absentee and early voting.

Q: What do you want voters to know about early voting?

That’s an important question this year.

Voters who have always gone to their polling place might prefer to vote early.

Early voting will be Oct 24 to Nov. 1 at the Meadows Office Complex, 140 County Highway 33W, Cooperstown.

On weekends, when few are at the building, there will be signage and a greeter at the door to direct people who are unfamiliar with the building.

(Note: for times, go to www.voteotsego.org) Q: What should voters know about using absentee ballots to ensure their votes are counted?

The most common errors for absentee voters are not signing the envelope and not sending it in on time. Absentee ballots that are not properly completed are not thrown out. The voter is contacted and sent an affiPlease See LEAGUE, B5

EDITORIAL: Improve Voter-Village Dialogue, Challenge Suggests EDITORIAL/Frm A4 to the Village Board, along with newcomers Walter Franck and Jim Dean. Trustee Jeff Katz was reelected to the board. After a year of Democrats bedeviling the only Republican on the board, Mayor Joe Booan, Katz was elected mayor.

• Those have been nine years of huge accomplishment for the Village of Cooperstown, fueled by the enactment of on-street paid parking, which generate $400,000 in new money a year for village government.

A decaying downtown has been fully repaired – sewerage replaced, streets and sidewalks redone, new street lamps, benches and

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n a tiny village of 1,800 people, should voters, many of retirement age, have to wait in in the rain for a halfhour to vote? Certainly, no.

And yet that was the case Tuesday, Sept. 29, as voters lined up to exercise their franchise at the Cooperstown fire hall on Chestnut Street.

It may have been turnout, given the high interest in breaking the tie in the Mary-Margaret Robbins/Mac Benton race for village trustee. It may have been the necessary inconvenience of social distancing.

Still, the space wasn’t big enough. The village should explore alternatives – maybe St. Mary’s Church Hall, maybe the high school auditorium, maybe wherever.

It shouldn’t happen again. $4,000 trash receptacles (they can be locked during the Parade of Legends each Induction Weekend) installed.

Pioneer Park at Main and

Pioneer has a brick surface, a slightly elevated bandstand, water cooler, bike racks, new furniture.

The $5.5 million redo of Doubleday Field and the

parking lot, completed this summer, is world class, appropriate for the world-class attraction. If you haven’t visited it yet, do yourself a favor: Make the drive to Cooperstown on one of the remaining fall weekends.

Among many, credit goes in particular to the harddriving, determined Chicagoan Jeff Katz, mayor for six years, and such committed trustees as Tillapaugh, Cindy Falk, Lou Allstadt and several others.

Now Mayor Tillapaugh is an able successor to Katz, smart, steady, disciplined, an elegant ambassador for “America’s Most Perfect Village.”

There’s much that these people – and Cooperstown’s

citizens at large – can reflect on with pride.

• While the Democratic bloc remains in control, it can only be learned that something was learned from this hard-fought campaign.

In the long ago League of Women Voters’ forum in this year’s race – March 7; the March 18 election was delayed until a couple of weeks ago by the COVID19 threat – Robbins suggested the “Year of Cooperstownians,” 12 months when the Village Board focuses on making Cooperstown a more pleasant place to live.

Two incidents led to Mary-Margaret Robbins’ candidacy.

• One, the Village Board,

without consulting, sought to impose diagonal parking on lower Pioneer Street, unaware or uncaring that cars entering and exiting would shine their brights into neighbors living rooms, plus adding congestion to the neighborhood.

• Two, one of those infuriating blinking stop signs was installed at Lake and Fair streets, blinking all night long into a neighbor’s bedroom.

Despite the outcome of Tuesday’s vote, the Democrate bloc should take Robbins’ advice to heart.

The Village Board has a lot of ideas, but has it asked citizens lately, what do you want us to do next?

It might be instructive.

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ERNA: Jump In, The Water (Turns Out To Be) Great

ERNA/From A4 gram, I put on another ugly swimsuit.

Worse still, since I was 11 and embarrassed. Chubby size 16 that year. Wearing a hand-me down. Budding breasts made that clingy suit even worse. But I walked a mile from my house every day.

Joined the others at the local swimming hole in the creek just outside the village.

Finally, I thought.

But it wasn’t to be. A gangly man and a chubby woman were in charge. They got us in the creek. Had us put our faces in the water. Stretch out on our stomachs in the dead man’s float. But then, a few seconds later, they shouted “buddy up.” I became an expert at buddying up. Could lie on my stomach in water without touching. After a whole summer.

• I still wanted to learn to swim, though.

In Wellington, they had a pool. I joined.

The water smelled like Clorox and was

hot. I tried to do it. Still, after a year all I could do was the dead man’s float. Had buddying up in my kit bag. Just in case.

Before I could learn to swim I moved.

First to my new TV/radio job. Then six months across the Pacific, America and finally London.

In London, after a lot of “temping,” I got a permanent job. On my way to work I passed the Drury Lane baths (swimming pool) every day.

After my near-drownings, I was terrified of water over my head. But I knew I could do it. Day after day I practiced widths at the shallow end. First the dead man’s float; then I added kicking.

Next I tried the doggy paddle. Widths.

But I got really good at widths and thought: I should move on to lengths.

The first time was a disaster. I doggy paddled and paddled but suddenly the bottom of pool fell away. No way I could touch it. Or doggy paddle over the terri-

BERKSON/From A4 engine on Jim’s plane was failing and the fuselage was riddled with holes.

The pilot ordered the crew to bail out, but they held fast to the crippled ship as smoke rose from their demolished target.

Fortunately, they made it back to the base, skid landing on one nose wheel and one big wheel.

Bullets and flak had made the bomber look like a ravaged bee’s nest.

• Not long after the Steyr bombing, Jim’s crew was recommended for a Distinguished Flying Cross, our nation’s highest award for extraordinary aerial achievement, but

the paperwork fell through the cracks and despite efforts by several individuals in and out of the military, the deserved medal has not been awarded.

Nine years ago Jim traveled to West Point where he and 50 other men received the French Medal of Honor for participating in the bombing of Germanoccupied France in preparation for the landing at Normandy.

Andrecheck was looking forward to his 99th birthday on Sept. 26, while getting around with the use of a walker.

With some hard work he optimistically expects to eventually graduate to a cane, but he’s worried about the tremendous

fying water. Shaking inside, struggling to float, kick, somehow made it back.

Days, weeks, months passed until I could make it to the far end.

The saga continued. I beat my fear.

Swam an hour every day for years.

• At a dinner party years later, a friend asked about how I learned to swim. I got to the buddying up, dead man’s float part.

Suddenly, my husband asked if the teacher was really tall and wore glasses?

It was my husband. First time we met.

Years later I learned that without knowing it when we first met — he taught me what I needed to know to beat my fear.

Taught me how to do it.

Erna Morgan McReynolds, raised in Gilbertsville, is retired managing director/ financial adviser at Morgan Stanley’s Oneonta Office, and an inductee in the Barron’s magazine National Adviser Hall of Fame. She lives in Franklin.

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medical bills he’s incurred and is hoping that a government whose country he helped to defend will come to his aid.

On Labor Day, Jim and Mary celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary.

I’m hoping Jim recovers enough to once again pick cherries off my trees to take home to Mary who he says, “makes the best cherry pies in the world.”

Terry Berkson, who has an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College, lives on a farm outside Richfield Springs.

His articles have appeared in New York magazine, the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine, Automobile and other publications.

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COVID-19, Now Smoke – Let’s Try A Better Way To the Editor: Did you notice the sky was grayish the other day? They say it is smoke from the West Coast fires. That shows us just how interconnected we all are. The virus should have enlightened you to that fact.

It seems nature is not going to stop there. It seems nature is going to pummel us until we realize we are part of, not separate from nature.

Everything is interconnected.

It made me stop and think about all the farming that’s done in the West Coast. They supply us, during the winter, with vegetables.

I heard one of the rice farmers on the West Coast say that all his people have evacuated and there is no way to produce rice crackers anymore.

Think about all your produce that comes from the West Coast. Now what are you gonna do if none of that is available during the winter? Are you going to live on venison for the whole winter?

So I decided I was going to make myself a small cold frame. A little wood, some clear plastic sheeting, and some conduit. How hard can that be?

I’m going to try a small one first. I should be able to have lettuce and spinach among other vegetables during the winter. There is a book I’m reading called: “Four-Season Harvest,” by Elliot Coleman.

I should get a lot of answers from the book.

Now I am thinking why is it that the powers to be in the county are trying to bring back industry into the county, and use up our natural resources, then they leave.

That is what they usually do.

After we have made a lot of changes to accommodate them.

Why not make Otsego County organic. Support greenhouse farming in order to have a longer growing season. New York City would be a lucrative market while protecting our county and creating jobs.

There is really nothing more important than food....water and air also helpful.

Times are changing fast and nature is getting hostile, we had better be ready. There will be no going back to the way it was. We must creatively rethink our relationship with nature.

R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forrest

Thousands Signed 2AS Petition KLINE/From A4 “This complemented the NSSF survey data that 25 percent of first-time buyers had already taken some form of firearms-safety course and 63 percent inquired about taking a firearms safety course in the near future.”

When I took my pistolpermit course, there were many women present who were interested in being able to conceal and carry for that exact reason. In my opinion, it would be a huge advantage if more women would own a firearm.

Did you know? One in four women age 18 and older in the U.S. have been the victim of severe physical violence in their lifetimes. This is absolutely mind-blowing and uncalled for. I have been in

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scary situations where I felt so unsafe that I had to get an order of protection, and even still he broke that. I will not fear for my life and safety again, because if it means life or death I will protect myself.

I understand people’s concern about gun laws, but people such as myself who own guns are not the people causing the turmoil. The criminals do not go through legal ways to obtain their firearms.

The Governor is adding to the Safe Act, and I can promise this will not help in the ways some people think.

The people who are causing the mass shootings and whatnot are different than us hunters and country folk. We follow the laws and go through the proper procedures to buy and own a firearm. Firearms are a way of life for us, not to mention our Second Amendment Right!

I am very pleased to be part of the Otsego County 2AS Grassroots Organization.

We collected thousands of signatures from many 2AS supporters in Otsego County who wish to show the state representatives that we would like them to make a stand for our right.

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Sweet Fruit Helps Preserve Gartung Family’s Heritage

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or your family, a trip to Willy’s Farm & Cider Mill may be a fun afternoon outing.

Sean and Rebecca Lynch carry apples for pressing.

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►IF YOU GO: Willy’s Cider Mill, 349 Badeau Hill Road, Schenevus, noon - 5 Fridays; 9 - 5 Saturdays; 11 - 5 Sundays through Nov. 8. Cider pressings by appointment, (607) 638-9449.

For the Gartung family, it’s a way to keep the family’s legacy alive.

With their parents, William and Mary, the 12 Gartung siblings moved to the Westford dairy farm from Long Island in 1960. And when the parents Diana Gartung Brady, back, and Theresa Gartung Clements, foreground, prep the press. retired, seven of the dozen bought the farm to keep it in worried that the barn might that first year, also sold mums, the family. have to be torn down. Instead, pumpkins and homemade “This was the farm we the rest of the family came treats, including Mary’s homegrew up on,” explained Laura up with a solution to raise the made apple pie, all out of the Gomez, one of the seven. funds to stabilize it and to pay dairy barn.

“We all worked on it with the taxes.

“When we were kids, one of our parents.”

Together, the family bought the things we would do every The father died in 1994, an apple-cider roller press and, Please See APPLES, B3

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Colman’s Spirit Of Public Service Lives In County Brothers Orlo, left, and David Burch, and their wives Cindy and Sharon, examine the Colman family marker in Richfield Springs’ Lakeview Cemetery.

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here may be no “Colmans” around here, but there’s plenty of Colman kin: Burches, Osterhoudts, Ainslies and Blisses, among others.

“It’s an honor to have somebody at that level in our government related to me,” said Orlo C. Burch Jr. of Hartwick, who called after reading OTSEGO.life last week’s article about

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Sid Parisian prepares to start runners in the 2019 annual “Pit” Run at Main and River streets.

This year’s event will be virtual over the whole month of October.

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ace Day is every day in October as the Pit Run goes virtual. Run a 5K, 10K or, new this year, the 100K challenge in honor of state trooper Ricky J. “Pit” Parisian. Thursday, Oct. 1. www.pitrun.org.

• “This Too Shall Light” singer Amy Helm performs a drive-in concert at the West Kortright Center. Park your car and turn on the radio or sit outside and hear her sing! $60/2-person car. 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3,West Kortright Center, East Meredith.

Tickets, www.westkc.org • It’s dinosaurs downtown with a free drive-in screening of Jurassic Park.

6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, Foothills Performing LIBBY Arts Center Parking Lot, Oneonta. (607) 353-7143. CUDMORE • It’s not too early to get spooky as Hyde Hall begins their ghost tours throughout the historic mansion. 6 - 7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 3 - 4, Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown, (607) 547-5098, www.hydehall.org/ • If you read all your books while sheltering in place, now you can buy a whole bag of new ones for just $5!

10 a.m. – noon, Friday – Sunday, Oct. 2 - 4, Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown.

Info (607) 544-1418 • Take a Zoom tour through ‘Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints’ with Ann Cannon, Assistant Curator of American Art, then discuss what you saw. 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3, www.fenimoreart museum.org

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►Thursday, October 1 “PIT” RUN – Virtual run in memory of state trooper Ricky J. ‘Pit’ Parisian. Run a 5K, 10K, or 100K (new this year).

Visit http://www.pitrun.org/.

DEADLINE – Last day for families to apply to partner with Habitat for Humanity of Otsego County. Call 607-432-4874.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY – 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Volunteers aged 14+ are invited to aid in the construction of 2 houses for families in need.

Come for a few hours or the whole day, no special skill required. Masks required.

McFarland Rd., Oneonta.

607-432-7874.

RABIES CLINIC – 9 - Noon.

Free rabies vaccination for cats, dogs, ferrets.

Scheduling for 30-minute intervals to follow social distancing. First come, first serve. Susquehanna SPCA, Rt. 28, Cooperstown. 607547-4230.

BUSINESS WORKSHOP – 1 p.m. Kick off Smart Business Otsego Fall Seminar series with ‘Access To Capital’ workshop featuring small business advisor Michelle Catan, panel of specialists in financing for small business-

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Presented by Otsego County Chamber of Commerce. 607432-4500.

FIELD TRIP – 2 p.m. Learn about colorful life of ‘Mudcat Grant: Baseball’s Magical Man’ and the first black American League pitcher to win 20 games in a season.

Free, registration required.

Presented by the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown.

607-547-7200 or visit baseballhall.org/events/ for info.

REOPENING – 2 - 5 p.m.

Teen Center reopens (again) for regular programing.

Masks, COVID screening required. Oneonta Teen Center, 4 Academy St., Oneonta. 607441-3999.

VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 p.m.

Zoom meeting featuring

walk through of exhibit ‘Pete Souza: Two Presidents, One Photographer’ with photographer Kevin Gray featuring in-depth discussion and Q&A session. Free, registration required. Suggested donation $5. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400.

29th Annual Regional Juried Art Show’ thru 10/30, ‘The Luck of the Draw Exhibit & Fundraiser’ thru 10/17, & ‘Leatherstocking Brush & Palette Club Fine Arts Exhibition’ thru 10/30. Cooperstown Art Association. 607-547-9777.

what’s fun in OtsegO COunty _________ ►Friday, October 2

LIT LATTES – 10 a.m.

Discuss literature, get book recommendations, hear from guest speakers, much more from the Huntington Memorial Library. Visit www. facebook.com/hmloneonta/ in OtsegO COunty to join the discussion.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS – 11 a.m. 3 art exhibits open, no receptions planned. Stop by to enjoy ‘Essential Art: The

►Saturday, October 3 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY – 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. See Thursday, Oct. 1..

VOTER REGISTRATION – 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. League of Women Voters hosts drives to register residents to vote.

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market. 607-547-4247; Hartwick Fire House, 4877 St. Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. 607-547-4247 ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Find

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THURSDAY, October 1, 2020 locally produced food, crafts, more. Please wash hands frequently, maintain social distancing. Preorder and pickup is available. Muller Plaza, Main St, Oneonta. Info, www. oneontafarmersmarket.com POP-UP EXHIBIT – 9 a.m.

- Noon. View Jim Mayne’s Collection of Axes and Hatchets featuring the objects and various photos. Free admission.

Edmeston Museum, 1 North St., Edmeston.

COOPERSTOWN FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Find food, crafts and more by local growers, artisans.

All patrons are requested to wash hands before entering, maintain social distance. Preorder and pickup available.

101 Main St., Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown. Rain or shine.

Info, www.facebook.com/CooperstownFarmersMarket/ BAG SALE – 10 a.m. Noon. Purchase a bag and fill it with used books to support your village library. Cost, $5.

Cooperstown Village Library.

607-544-1418 MUSIC ON MAIN – 1 - 3 p.m. Enjoy a live performance

by Central NY saxophone quintet, Saxalicious. Pioneer Park, Main St., Cooperstown.

ENGINE EXHIBIT – 1 - 4 p.m. Stop by the cider mill to

view Cooperstown Steam Engine Association display.

Also find delicious homemade apple pie, baked goods, crafts, garlic, pumpkins, much more. Masks and social distancing required.

Willy’s Farm & Cider Mill, 349 Badeau Hill Rd., Schenevus. Schedule visit at 607-638-9449.

VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 p.m.

Zoom meeting featuring walk-through of exhibit ‘Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints’ with Assistant Curator of American Art Ann Cannon featuring in-depth discussion and Q&A session. Free, registration required. Suggested donation $5. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1400.

DRIVE IN CONCERT – 3 p.m. Listen to live Amy Helm concert over car-radio, boombox, or any other FM device.

Sandwiches available for preorder from Brushland Eating House. Mask, social distancing, preregistration required.

Cost, $60/2-person car. West Kortright Center, East Meredith. 607-278-5454.

DRIVE-IN MOVIES – 6 p.m.

Come out for a fun outdoor movie experience. This week showing ‘Jurassic Park.’

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MUSEUM/From A1 Harvest Fest predictably draws, “we wanted to spread it out over three weeks,” said Anderson. “We have food trucks and music, a hay maze, and the staff made scarecrows for visitors to vote for their favorites.”

Because the buildings in the 19th Century country villages are too small to allow for social distancing,

the interpreters have moved their demonstrations outdoors or into larger indoor spaces.

In the main barn, pharmacist Eben Williams, usually in Thrall’s Pharmacy, has set up shop in the corner, complete with his bowl of medical leeches and dried herbs harvested from the garden. In the former children’s “grow patch,” exhibit, printer Mark Simonson has set up – not

the Washington Press that once printed The Freeman’s Journal – but a smaller portable press.

“It’s a little sad not having people in their buildings,” said Anderson. “But the buildings are still open and people can look inside.”

It’s also forced some of the craftsmen to learn a few more tricks of the trade.

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In 1889, the commission was elevated to cabinet status, and Colman served as first U.S. Department of Agriculture commissioner for three weeks before Benjamin Harrison succeeded Cleveland.

It’s a bit of a mystery why Norman left home, but Orlo’s brother David, also of Hartwick, isn’t surprised at all. “A lot of people were moving about then,” he said, as the Midwest opened to settlers in the decades before the Civil War. The impetus for public service remains strong in the Burch family. Orlo and David’s father, Orlo Sr., was president of the Hartwick school board before it was absorbed into the Cooperstown Central District.

Orlo Jr. ran for Otsego town supervisor in the aughts, losing to Meg Kiernan, who then appointed him to the town board to fill out a one-year vacancy. (He jokes that he lost by 11 votes, and had 11 “Burch for Town Supervisor” pens left over.

If only he had handed them out.)

Plus, the Burch brothers’ sister, Carole Donahue, who passed away in 2012, was Hartwick town supervisor for 18 years in the 1980s and 1990s.

“I’ve always had a sense you need to do volunteer work with organizations and community groups,” said Orlo Jr. “You have a community responsibility.

Somebody has to do it.”

While researching family history can be elevating, there can be tragedies, too.

For instance, Norman’s nephew, Norman J. Fake, “a most excellent and most promising young man” and an Agriculture Commission chemist while his uncle was commissioner, drowned in the Potomac River at age 20.

On a more positive note, one of Norman Colman’s daughters was the State of Maine’s First Lady.

The Burch family is also related to Antoine Dutot, who fled the slave revolt in Haiti and founded the town of Dutotsburg, Pa., now called Delaware Water Gap. Dutot’s homestead is preserved, and a museum there marks his contribution.

And one of the Liberty ships, designed and built en masse during World War II to quickly replace British cargo ships sunk by German U-boats in the North Atlantic, was commissioned the Norman J. Colman.

He was in good company.

Another Liberty ship, also built by Permanente Metals Corp., Richmond, Calif., was named for William Allen White, editorpublisher of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette who penned the famous 1896 editorial, “What’s The Matter With Kansas.”

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blacksmith’s shop, so seeing the color of the metal is difficult,” said John Patterson, village blacksmith. “I’ve been doing it long enough to figure it out, but in the shop, you never had the wind putting out your fire!”

His portable forge is set up on the Village Green, where he makes bottle openers and mantle hooks. “We had someone who wanted to buy one of his mantle hooks,” said Anderson. “He had to say, ‘We have to wait for it to cool off!’”

And though hands-on activities are minimized, kids can still pet the goats, sheep and oxen in the farm. “We’ve got plenty of hand sanitizer around for them to use afterwards,” she said. “We want to give people as much of the experience as we can.”

Frequently touched surfaces are sanitized throughout the day, masks are required and social distancing is enforced.

“We want people to feel like they’re safe here, that they can bring their family,” said Anderson. “And we find that people come and they spend all day here, because the kids can run around, they can pet the animals and they don’t have to worry about being too close to other people.”

While the Celebration of Autumn is an open event, the popular “Bump in the Night” ghost-story weekends – starting at 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday night, Oct. 16 - 31 – will be by reservation only, with tours every half-hour in order to clean between shows.

The Candlelight Evening on Dec. 12 will also be held as a tour, rather than an open-grounds event.

“It feels like you have the whole place to yourself,” she said. “But then you look around, and there’s a lot of other people here.”

COLMAN/From B3 the first U.S. secretary of agricultural and a Richfield Springs native.

In various articles that have appeared over the years, and in the Wikipedia entry, Norman is referred to as both “Colman” and “Coleman,” and it was noted that there are plenty of “Colemans” in Otsego County today, but few “Colmans.”

Yes – and no, said Orlo Burch.

Burch’s grandmother, Grace, married a Conover, but she was the daughter of Arthur J. Colman, born in 1862, and granddaughter of Lester M. Colman, born in 1828, who was the great Norman’s brother, according to a family tree assembled

by Orlo’s wife Cindy.

And what a tree. It shows family connections to the Ainslies of Ainslie Road, Town of Richfield, and the late Homer Osterhoudt, a mason on Baseball Hall of Fame construction in the 1930s, who then attended all Inductions but three before his death in 2018.

That same Arthur Colman, Orlo’s great-grandfather and Norman’s nephew, married a Jeanette Bliss, thus connecting the famous man to David Bliss, who, as current chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, is the highest ranking in-county elected official.

The first Colman in Otsego County was a Samuel Colman, born in Massachusetts in 1768.

He moved to Connecticut, married an Abigail Dole (in the Newtown area), and in the 1780s loaded up an oxcart and headed to Otsego County. The couple built a log cabin in the neighborhood of Allen’s Lake.

Samuel’s son Hamilton, Norman’s father, worked on the family farm. Born in 1804, Hamilton had two sons, the famous Norman and Lester, and two daughters, Sophie (who married John Fake) and Cornelia “Harriet”, (who married a Catlin.)

Even back then, the family had some stature: Hamilton was county commissioner of deeds in the 1830s, and served several years at Richfield town supervisor in the 1850s.

By then, Norman, born in 1827, had long departed for the Midwest, obtaining a law degree in 1850 in St. Louis and joining the Floyd County (Ind.) Seminary in Greenville, Ind., the following year.

Norman returned to St. Louis, practiced law, served in the Civil War, founded the Colman’s Rural World newspaper, whose support of Land Grant Colleges and, in particularly, Agricultural Field Stations, caused President Grover Cleveland to name him U.S. agricultural commissioner in 1885.

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“Most everything in here is made by one of us,” said Theresa.

Today, Willy’s Farm also carries Palatine Cheese, as well as local maple syrup and Beak & Skiff cider – in case you didn’t bring any apples to press your own.

And word about the goodies on the hill quickly spread – promotions included

car cruise-ins and other free family entertainment.

“You can come here and spend all day and not spend a dime,” said Laura. “We want this to be someplace families can come and not have to spend a lot of money.”

Although hay rides are on pause due to COVID-19, the haunted walks through the corn maze are scheduled 7 - 8:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 23-24.

Mother Mary passed away in 2010, but every year, on Columbus Day weekend, the kids give away free donuts and cider to celebrate her birthday.

The family is starting to see old friends return as well.

“One gentleman used to come here every year with his granddaughter,” said Theresa.

“She just went to college, and he came here by himself – she told him not to miss it, even though she wasn’t there.”

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driving a tractor at the Schenevus Fireman’s Carnival parade. The farm became a field-trip destination. Still, Theresa says, “We’re the best-kept secret in the county.”

The press was upgraded and, with a six-bushel minimum, can make several gallons of fresh cider while you wait. “The best cider comes from a combination of apples,” said Theresa.

“We always say, don’t put in anything that doesn’t taste good to you!”

She recommends a mix of Empire, Cortland and Gala apples. “We had someone do a run of straight Cortlands, and that was good too!” she said.

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“Our customers were wonderful,” added Laura.

“We’d only managed to fix half the roof, so you could see daylight through the other half!”

But the Gartungs achieved their goal, making enough that first year to pay their taxes and repair that roof.

Since then, the family’s expanded retail offerings to include tin-punch decorations, photography, quilting, paintings and handmade fall and Christmas decorations. Plus corn, gourds and pumpkins, all grown on the farm.

They introduced the now-famous “Emma Bars,” made with cream cheese and chocolate on a butter crust. “Someone called them ‘edible sin,’” said Laura.

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Chief: Revolving Door On Petty Crime Has Oneonta On Edge

HOMELESS/From A1 through cars on Hudson Street. Allen was located near the scene and, according to police, allegedly admitted to going through the cars.

And it wasn’t the first time.

According to Brenner, Allen also was arrested on July 31 for criminal possession of a controlled substance, on Aug. 12 for taking items from a vehicle, and on Aug. 20 for shoplifting, and was issued an appearance ticket for each.

“It’s sad,” said Brenner.

“The base problem is substance abuse, and we can’t get him the help he needs.”

Under bail reform, bail

cannot be set for such misdemeanors, even as they stack up, freeing the suspect to continue breaking the law.

“It’s a destructive cycle,” said Brenner. “Previously, a judge would have the discretion to look at him after his third time being arrested and say, ‘What’s really going on here?’

“He could send him to jail, where he might have access to services for mental health and substance abuse. A lot of time, jail is their first connection to things like medication or counseling, but it’s hard to help them find help without pushing them in.”

Allen was charged with

petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a controlled substance after he was allegedly found with a small amount of marijuana and prescription pills taken from one of the cars.

Once again, he was ticketed and released.

The same week, police also arrested Eric Meade, 26, after an investigation revealed that he had allegedly stolen a checkbook from a car and used it to forge a check.

Meade was also arrested

by State Police for a similar crime in the Town of Oneonta after he allegedly went through unlocked cars,

stealing change. Like Allen, he was issued a ticket and released.

Brenner said that since August, there have been 26 instances of items taken from unlocked cars in the city.

“These are always crimes of opportunity,” he said. “Most of these guys are struggling with issues of mental illness or substance abuse.”

In addition to the rise in break-ins, Brenner said that, since March, police have seen a vast increase in heroin overdoses – so many, he said, that they had to order another box of Narcan.

“Last year we had one or two,” he said. “Since March,

we’ve had 13. It’s sad, but it’s not unique. This is a national trend. It might be difficult for people to get quality services when they can’t meet in person.”

“We’ve seen a lot of people trying to connect to resources and care,” said Kyle LeFevre, Peer Services Coordinator, Friends of Recovery of DelawareOtsego. “It’s difficult, but not impossible.”

Telehealth – offering counseling by phone or video chat – has also helped connect people with resources who might not feel comfortable attending an in-person meeting.

“There’s always someone out there who is going to need help,” he said.

Brenner said that police are trained to offer connections to mental health and substance abuse services when applicable.

“Most of the time, when we bring these guys in, they’re either suffering from the effects or they’re just coming off of them,” he said.

“We can tell the court to refer them to services and try to help them, but sentencing could be weeks away – how many more break-ins can be done in that time? How many more substances can be abused?”

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PARADES/From A1 they have for the last decade,” the mayor said.

For a second year in a row, Oneonta won’t have a parade either, said Mayor Gary Herzig.

In Cooperstown, Burke did advise Tillapaugh “about half” of the Village’s 20 businesses replied to say they would still be offering wrapped candy during the annual trick-or-treat event on Saturday, Oct. 31.

Village Trustee Joe Membrino, however, discouraged the idea. “I am very strongly recommending against trick-or-treating,” he said. “The idea of sending people into stores for candy is frivolous.”

Tillapaugh said that they couldn’t tell businesses or homeowners “what to do,” but said instead that the Village would work with the Chamber to create guidelines for a safe event.

“We want to issue strong recommendations that everyone wear face coverings and only travel in family groups,” she said. “This way, we can provide those who want to participate a way to do it safely.”

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SHERIFF/From A1 The sheriff also said he’s been told the DVD ended up in the hands of someone outside the county.

“That raises the question of where it is, and can the county assure that it is secure and accounted for,” Devlin said.

The case against Ros – that he made threats against fellow officers, and to cause a disturbance at Oneonta and Milford schools – surfaced in the spring of 2017 and was settled by his resignation the following year.

According to County Attorney Ellen Coccoma, who was involved in the investigation, the Public Safety Committee “determined that they had returned everything.

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wrapped candy out on the front porch, or standing near the sidewalk to give out candy – masked, of course – in order to minimize travel to houses and closed spaces, such as porches.

“The last few years, we’ve been blessed with wonderful Halloween nights,” said Trustee Cindy Falk. “People can stand outside with candy.”

In Oneonta, Herzig said, “It’s a shame.

Last year we had to cancel it because of wind and rain.”

This year’s parade fell victim to COVID19, but the city, along with Destination Oneonta and Common Council member Mark Drnek, eighth ward, who recently spearheaded the successful eight-week downtown dining event, are working to put together guidelines for families who still wish to participate in trick-or-treating both downtown and in the neighborhoods.

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We have no reason to keep it,” “Everything we received has been returned,” said Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, who chaired the PSLA in 2017.

“We have no reason not to return the originals.”

County Board Chair David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, said he suggested to Devlin that, if the evidence couldn’t be found, to bring the matter to Muehl.

Muehl did indicate that he has plans to investigate the situation.

The final report of his son’s case, Devlin said in the interview, “included an incident that did not occur,” he said.

“I asked them to correct it and put an amendment in the full report, which they did not do.”

The report said Inv. William Henn was present at an interview where one of Ros’ coworkers reported being “frightened about statements made by Ros Devlin at the jail, but feared retaliation.”

Henn wasn’t present at the interview, the sheriff said, and disputed the report of Undersheriff’s Allison’s participation as well.

“I was hoping the board would resolve these issues,” said Devlin. “But they didn’t.”

Ros resigned in December 2018, shortly after his father was re-elected as Sheriff.

“In my office, we have to account for every piece of evidence,” said Devlin.

“If they can’t account for it, why can’t they?”

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THURSDAY, October 1, 2020

OBITUARIES Peggy Scrimgeour, 93; Librarian Trained Dogs COOPERSTOWN – Margaret P. “Peggy” Scrimgeour, 93, a long-time librarian in Queens and an avid dog trainer who later moved to Cooperstown, passed away Monday afternoon, September 21, 2020, at Bassett Hospital.

Born February 17, 1927, in Manhattan, Peggy was a daughter of George E.B. Scrimgeour and Williamina C. née Penman Scrimgeour, both of whom had immigrated to the United States from Scotland.

She attended and graduated from several institutions of higher learning, including the University of Edinburgh

in Scotland and The City College of New York, and received her master’s degree in Library Science.

For 25 years she served as a librarian in the Queens Borough Public Library throughout Queens. In 1998, she moved to Cooperstown and settled into her home on Walnut Street.

Peggy loved learning new things and enjoyed using her laptop to keep in touch with old friends and to Google the amazing “encyclopedia” of information on the internet.

But her lifelong passion was for animals. She cared for animals of all kinds, but especially loved dogs: her

favorite, German shepherds.

While in Queens, she was an active member of the Suffolk Obedience Training Club. After moving to Cooperstown, she joined the Del-Otse-Nango Kennel Club and continued competing in obedience and stewarding.

Peggy is survived by her cousin, Barbara W. Duffy of Cooperstown; her two German shepherds, Daisy and Skye; cousins in Scotland and Australia; and many friends in the Cooperstown area and beyond.

She was predeceased by her mother, Mina Scrimgeour, who died when Peggy was quite

young and was buried in Scotland; her father, Ernie Scrimgeour, who died May 16, 1990; and her sister, Nancy Scrimgeour who died February 17, 1992.

A celebration of life was held Saturday, September 26. Peggy will be laid to rest with her father and sister in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla.

As a way to remember and honor Peggy’s life, please consider a memorial donation to German Shepherd Rescue of NY, PO Box 242, Delmar, NY 12054 .

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

Yvonne Chandler-Colby, 54; Former Fly Creek Firefighter

FLY CREEK – Yvonne Megan Chandler-Colby, 54, of Fly Creek, died Sept.

25, 2020, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., after an extended struggle against cancer and heart failure, while being transported via ambulance to Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Born Yvonne Megan Chandler on Feb. 2, 1966, at Bassett Hospital, she was a daughter of George Henry and Nancy (Hunt)

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Chandler and was baptized Episcopal at Christ Church in Cooperstown. Raised in Fly Creek, she graduated from Cooperstown Central School, Class of 1984. She married Dean Robert Colby Aug. 31, 1991, in Fly Creek.

Yvonne studied psychology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Oneonta, Class of 1989. After graduation, she moved to Queens with her husband, where she continued to study Criminal Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice while simultaneously serving as a probation officer for four years at Queens County Courts.

Months after the birth of her first child, Richard Aaron Colby, in 1994, she and her husband moved to Fly Creek. Yvonne took on the responsibility of educating both her children,

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

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Richard and Julianne Elizabeth Colby (1996), teaching them both for the entirety of Yvonne their first Chandlerthrough Colby 12th-grade educations.

The profound education she provided for her children is evidenced by them both graduating summa cum laude from Hartwick College, 2014 and 2016 respectively.

Yvonne volunteered her time for the community simultaneously serving as a Class A firefighter, Emergency Medical Technician, treasurer, and secretary of the Fly Creek Fire Department/District from 1994 to 2005.

She accomplished all of this despite battles, which she won, against Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, 1984, and metastatic breast cancer, 2007. She further showed great endurance living with chronic heart failure, undergoing open heart surgery twice, 2014 and 2020, and living with a host of other complications from her cancer treatments.

Yvonne is survived by her husband of 29 years, Dean Colby, and their children,

Richard Colby and Julianne Colby, all of Fly Creek; her parents, George and Nancy Chandler of Fly Creek; a brother, Christopher Chandler and fiancé, Connie of West Edmeston; a sister, Melissa Gwilt and husband, Paul of Oneida and their children, Katlynn, Kristen, Sean, and Matthew.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Carrie Anne Chandler, who died Sept. 30, 1993.

Calling hours will be offered noon-1:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, 82 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. It is respectfully requested that all attending please wear a face covering, observe proper social distancing, and be prepared to wait to enter the funeral home.

A private graveside service will follow at the Chandler Family Plot in the Fly Creek Valley Cemetery with the Rev. Dane E. Boston, Christ Church rector, officiating.

In lieu of flowers, Yvonne’s family asks that you consider a donation to defray the cost of funeral expenses at GoFundMe. com, “In Loving Memory of Yvonne Chandler-Colby” Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Michele Winslow, 60; Known as “Micki” RICHFIELD SPRINGS - Michele “Micki” Kim Winslow, 60, who once served on the Columbia zoning board, died Sept. 26, 2020.

Michele was born on Nov. 25, 1959, in Cooperstown, daughter of Grant M. and Joan M. Sullivan Seamon.

A lifelong Richfield Springs resident, she graduated from Richfield Springs High School with the Class of 1977.

On Nov. 4, 1978, she was united in marriage to Larry E. Winslow in the Richfield Springs Bible Church.

For 35 years she worked as office manager for the Winslow & Son LLC building construction business.

Michele had a strong belief in God and was a member of the Richfield Christian Women’s Club.

She at one time was a member of the Town of

Columbia Zoning Board.

Surviving are her devoted husband of 42 years, Larry; parents, Michele Winslow Grant M. Seamon and Joan M. Seamon, both of Richfield Springs; children, Michael L. Winslow, Ella L. Venette and her husband, Vic Jr., all of Richfield Springs, Timothy A. Winslow and his wife, Cassidy of Mohawk and Joni M. LaBarge and her husband, Jeromie of Mohawk; three sisters, Deborah Bartlett and her husband, Dave of Mohawk, Jodi Phillips and her husband, Les “Bucky” of Ilion, Tami Kucerak and her husband, Mike of Herkimer; eight grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by a brother, Mark Seamon, in 1980.

Calling hours for Michele will be from 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1, at Richfield Springs Bible Church. A funeral service will follow at the church at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2, with Pastor Rick Kinney officiating. Interment will be in the Dutch Reformed Cemetery, town of Columbia.

In lieu of flowers, kindly consider memorials to Hospice and Palliative Care.

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LEAGUE/From A5 davit for affirming that the ballot belonged to the voter.

The last day to mail an absentee ballot is Election Day. The absentee ballot may be sent through the mail stream or dropped off at any polling place or at the Board of Elections.

Voters should allow 15 days to get their absentee application in this year.

Q: Regarding postage, will mail-in ballots have return postage-paid envelopes?

No, voters will have to place a stamp, as usual.

Q: Do voters who bring absentee ballots to polling places on Election Day have to wait in line, or can they just walk in and drop off their completed ballot?

Voters will be able to drop off ballots at the polls without waiting in line.

Q: Can someone show up at BOE with an application for absentee ballot and get it right then, fill it in and deliver it (in one visit)?

Since Sept. 18, ballots are on hand. If a person selects on the application “deliver to me in person,” then yes, the voter can complete the ballot and submit it all in one visit.

Q: How will the absentee ballots be counted?

In New York State, absentee ballots are always counted after the election.

The state Board of Elections must check throughout the state to confirm that the ballot should be counted.

A person who has voted absentee may vote in person on Election Day as well.

The in-person vote supersedes the absentee ballot.

They are counted by hand currently, which takes a few days, but we are looking at getting a scanner.

In addition, every household is getting a mailer, with polling place, dates and times for early and election day voting, as well as application directions for absentee voting.

Q: Have there ever been cases of voter fraud in Otsego County?

We don’t see fraud here.

More common are mistakes.

For example, a husband or wife signs the other one’s envelope. Or people with Power of Attorney sign the envelope, which they cannot do.

Q: What about barriers for disabled voters?

We believe we have all the tools and assists for anyone

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• 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Oct. 26, 28, 30 • Noon-8 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday, Oct. 27, 29 • • Handicap Accessible • Plenty of Parking • Public Transportation, via Otsego Express with a disability to vote. The state Board of Elections has also made registering to vote accessible to all voters by offering multiple methods for completing a Voter Registration Form. Voters with special needs may also apply for an accessible absentee ballot using the Accessible Absentee Ballot Application with Instructions.

Q: Your website indicates one polling place change in our county due to COVID. Are these now confirmed or might there be more changes?

We feel pretty solid about what is on the website now.

A Fox medical facility in Oneonta is no longer available because of COVID and has been replaced with another polling location. If any additional polling places are changed, we will send mailers to all households in the district, as well as publishing the changes.

Q: Please refresh us on affidavit ballots so we can inform our membership and the public.

An affidavit is for persons who haven’t kept their records up to date; for example, if a person moved but didn’t inform the Board of Elections. We will give the person a ballot and the eligibility of the voter will be evaluated before the ballot is counted.

Q: Do you need more poll workers?

We are well staffed.

Otsego County poll worker training sessions have had to turn people away. Interested people can only serve as poll workers in their own county.

• Questions, email LWVCooperstownArea@ gmail.com.

SEWARD: Families Complain Of Changing Rules On Access SEWARD/From A5 facilities that have been without COVID-19 for at last 14 days. That is down from the previous rule of 28 days, a benchmark that most facilities in the state were unable to reach.

The Department of Health boasted that the new rule would open limited visitation to about 500 of the state’s over 600 facilities.

However, here’s the rub, the new guidelines include a major hurdle – in implementing the new guidance, the state also added a new layer of rules, prohibiting those under 18 from visiting and requiring visitors to have a negative COVID-19 test result within seven days of their visit even if the visit is to be safely distanced outdoors.

The testing requirement is particularly onerous for loved ones; as a result, times across the state vary significantly, with many New Yorkers currently waiting 10 days or more to receive their test results.

Immediately upon the release of the new guidelines, family members began contacting my office, pointing out the problematic fine print.

Tests can be difficult to come by, there are many individuals who cannot afford them, and results take time to receive.

Many family members, who previously met with nursing home residents

outdoors, were forced to cancel upcoming visits due to the new guidelines.

• The health and well-being of nursing home residents must be a top priority.

However, we need to formulate a procedure that will allow safe visitations to occur.

We also know that a negative test from a week ago, or even a day ago, does not ensure protection for the residents or staff of a facility.

There is a rapid test available that can instantly alert a visitor and nursing home staff to a COVID-positive result in a matter of minutes.

Access to this test for nursing home visitors would be a game changer. By utilizing the 15-minute test currently approved by the FDA, a visitor could be checked upon arrival to a nursing home and know almost immediately if it is safe to enter.

One person who wrote me put it this way: “Nursing home visits are essential for the elderly. They are at the end of their lives.”

The Department of Health needs to step up and provide nursing homes with the rapid tests so that visitors can safely visit their loved ones while adhering to the new mandates.

Senator Seward, who has represented Otsego County in the state Senate for 35 years, lives in Milford.

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