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SUNY Oneonta’s 8th President To Be Installed ►PRESIDENT MORRIS will be inaugurated in a public ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at the SUNY Oneonta Alumni Field House.

By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA

hat a year it has been for Barbara Jean Morris. SUNY Oneonta president, who will be officially inaugurated Saturday, Oct. 5, re-envisioned the school’s Mission Statement to 13 words. (“We nurture a community where students grow intellectually, thrive socially and Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal live purposefully”. President Morris describes an She created an Office of Instituelegant invitation that reflects tional Research to begin collecting her Native American heritage.

campus data, working to reduce barriers to graduation, and strengthening adviser/student relationships. She’s taught students some of her favorite recipes and instituted a campus-wide cookie bake-off. Earlier this summer, she scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, using skills she attributed to her new life in the City of the Hills. “I had a loop that included this campus and the

Hartwick College stairs,” she said. “It’s quite a workout!” Of her inauguration as the college’s eighth president – she took office July 1, 2018 – she says, “This is a chance for the campus to come together and make sure that students, alumni and the community are welcomed to celebrate with us. “It’s not about me. It’s about us.” Morris had a hand in designing the elaborate invitation, a fold-out card with a feather – with eight divisions for the eighth president – inside a circle, an homage to her Native American heritage. Please See PRESIDENT, A7

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Nathan Calore, 10, accompanied by mom Brianna, digs into macaroni and cheese at Cooperstown’s eighth Community Block Party/MORE PHOTOS, A3

CCS Will Unveil $5M In Projects At Public Forum

JILL’S ASSAILANT ATTACKED HER TOO, SHE TELLS RALLY

FINALLY, Her Story Told

am a victim who has a voice, and I have to share my story.” ONEONTA She told her story at the “Justice for Gillian” COOPERSTOWN illian Gibbons’ rally Saturday, Sept. 28 in voice was silenced Muller Plaza, standing at public forum was when David Dart the podium beside Gillian’s planned on $5 sister, Jennifer million in capitol Kirkpatrick, to enprojects in the Cooperstown courage everyone Central School District at 6 to write to the state p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, in Parole Board and the high school cafeteria. ask them to deny Most of the work is repairs Dart’s parole this and upgrades to existing November. facilities. “If he gets out, For details after meeting, he will rape, he will visit kill again,” said Senator Seward addresses www. OTSEGO.com Kirkpatrick, who rally he sponsored with Jill’s organized the rally sister Jennifer Kirkpatrick. with state Sen. Jim ON OTSEGO.com Seward, R-Milford. stabbed her 42 times in the “Help us keep him ►an ilion driver allegedly Oneonta Municipal Parkbehind bars,” said Miller fell asleep at the wheel early ing Garage on Sept. 12, Dutcher. “Please help us be Tuesday, Oct. 1, striking two 1984. that voice for Gillian.” parked cars at the traffic signal But Jennifer Miller One evening in 1984, in Milford. Dutcher intends to use hers Dart came to Miller ►INVESTOR TOM LAGAN of Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Dutcher’s parents’ house in Cooperstown has surrendered to keep Dart in prison. Jennifer Miller Dutcher says Jill Gibbons’ “I am a survivor of Portlandville and asked to federal authorities to begin serving a sentence involving David Dart,” she said. “I Please see JILL, A7 assailant attacked her as a teenager. By LIBBY CUDMORE

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misuse of funds from the estate of two Capital District philanthropists. ►a tar truck owned by Webster Asphalt Inc. of Oneonta caught fire on Sunday, Sept. 29, on Calder Road, Town of Otsego. There were no injuries or tickets issued. ►The 4-H HOMESTEADERS of Hartwick Seminary retrieved a swarm of bees that had invaded the walls of the Susquehanna SPCA. ►CONGRESSMAN Delgado has scheduled a Town Hall meeting for 6-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Community Center, 2 Genesee St., Cherry Valley.

Candidate Eager For Election Day Palevsky Hopes New Majority Will Revisit Restrictive Zoning Regimen By JIM KEVLIN RICHFIELD SPRINGS

he action now moved to Nov. 5, Election Day. Monday, Sept. 30, after two somewhat acrimonious hours of discussion, the Richfield Town Board, 3-2, approved a new zoning code that bans wind turbines and Please See RICHFIELD, A7

Mom Fears CCS Might Bar Twins By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

he mother of two 7-year-olds was fearful as this edition went to MOTHER press Tuesday CONCERNED evening, Oct. 1, that one of her sons would be barred from Cooperstown Elementary School the following morning, even though she believed both Perrault boys are vac►UPDATES on cinated in acsituation will cordance with a appear on ALLOTSEGO.COM new state law. That morning, she had received an email from CCS Superintendent of Schools Bill Crankshaw directing her to remove her children Please See VACCINES, A7

Retiring, Child Advocate May Have Assisted 3,000 Children By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

or 23 years, Carmela Mone, founder of the Children’s Law Office of Otsego County, has been the advocate for Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal youngsters who may not have anyone else in their Richfield supervisor candidate corner. Nick Palevsky looks forward to “I had a 4-year-old old Election Day.

boy whose mom had filed petitions to stop visits with the father, but I couldn’t get her to bring the kid in,” she said. “I sent our social worker, Karen Geasey, to see the kid at school, and she told me he was in dire straits – non-verbal, neglected.” She contacted the county Department of Social Services, which declined to Please See 3,000, A7

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Retired general Tony German, a Republican candidate for NY-19, listens to Traci Lanner, director, Tom Golisano Center for Autism at Springbrook, describe the services students receive at Springbrook during a tour with Lanner and Jeff Edelstein, right, Director of the GEMS School on Tuesday, Oct. 1.

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lexis Clark, Richfield Springs, was one of seven area students who Passed Through the Pillars at SUNY Oneonta to mark the start of their freshman year. Clark is majoring in Childhood Education (1-6). Also at SUNY Oneonta: • Nicole Connolly, Richfield Springs, Early Childhood/ Childhood Education (B-6) • Gabrielle Bush, Hartwick, Biology • Zachary Brown, Fly Creek, Digital and Studio Art

•M olly Feulner, Cherry Valley, Digital and Studio Art • Kalyna Rogers, Richfield Springs, Music Industry • Amanda Snyder, Fly Creek, Psychology

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Joseph Siracusa, vice president/operations, was honored for 30 years’ service to The Fenimore Art Museum; Museum teacher William O’Thuse ABBY ADMITTED: for 15 years and five others for 10 years: Mary O’Brien, security & safety Abby VanBuren, Cherry Val- guard; Sarah Wilcox, development data analyst & grants manager; Martin ley, is attending St. Lawrence McLean, groundskeeper, and James Smith, custodian. In photo, standing, University as member of the from left, are McLean, O’Brien, Jane Forbes Clark, Wilcox, President/CEO Paul D’Ambrosio, Senior Director of HR/Accounting Barbara Fischer, and Class of 2023. Director of Education John Ferguson. Seated, from left, are O’Thuse and HULTS AT SCHOOL: Siracusa. Not in attendance: James Smith, custodian.

Alexis Hults, Schenevus, is attending Buffalo State as a full-time, first year student..

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Registration 9 am Workforce Summit/ Lunch/Networking 9:30 am - 3:00 pm SUNY Oneonta Otsego Grill, Morris Hall We invite Educators, Students, Workforce & Economic Developers, Community Leaders, Human Resource Specialists, Employes & Industry Partners to come together to improve the overall quality of our region’s workforce. Morning Agenda 9 am to 11:15 am Opening remarks from Dr. Barbara Jean Morris, Pres. SUNY Oneonta and James Seward, NY State Senator Future of Workforce Development; Madhuri Konunareddi, Dir. of Workforce Development, Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo State of the Workforce; Christian Harris, NYS Dept. of Labor SUNY Oneonta Entrepreneurship Club; Dr. Wade Thomas, Dean, School of Economics and Al Rubin, Otsego County Chamber Board Chair Panel Discussion: Sidney Central School District and Raymond Corp. The Knowledge Worker; Alan Cleinman, Cleinman Performance Partners For the remainder of the program, go to Otsegocc.com

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ulia Perdue, the costume designer for the Glimmerglass Opera and a longtime volunteer, has been named the Cooperstown Food Pantry’s new executive director.

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made walking in here a lot easier,” she said hours into her first day, Oct. 1, as the organization’s executive director. Originally from Gilford, Conn., Perdue earned a Design and Technical Theater degree at Syracuse University, where she also became involved in the campus’ Baptist Ministry. After earning her degree in 2008, Perdue did costumer design and backstage work for theaters in Connecticut and NYC. Perdue is married to Rev. Joseph Perdue, Pastor First Baptist Church, Cooperstown.

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Karen Katz, the Village of Cooperstown’s former first lady, goes in search of goodies Sunday afternoon, Sept. 29, at the eighth annual Community Harvest Dinner, where Main Street is closed between Fair and River streets and citizens bring casseroles and desserts to share with their neighbors. Organizer Rebecca Weil said Cooperstown inspired similar community pot lucks in Oneonta and, for the first time ths year, Delhi.

ENJOYING Dolores Wharton, left, and Elma Del Rosario each recognized a kindred spirit in the other: Both were wearing MIT gear. (In the background is Dolores’ husband, retired SUNY chancellor Clifton R. Wharton Jr.)

Harvest’s BOUNTY

As always, Elizabeth Dunn’s smile lit up Main Street on her arrival with cousin Nancy Dunn.

Members of the Oneonta Lions Club pause for a toast at their Octoberfest Hops For Sight fundraiser at Deer Haven Campground on Saturday. From left are Keith Bundy, Kevin Kurkowski, Terry Morley, Tm Murray, Dennis Hume, Vice President Jeff Powell, and President Nicole Camarata. Above, Jim Gage, Delhi, who is legally blind, serves a glass of his Coke Bottle Glasses porter from Blind Guy Brewery to Nancy Salmon, South New Berlin. Pride cometh before fall Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Atonement Lutheran Church block party in Oneonta, for the Rev. Paul Messner, who is also pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hartwick Seminary. One moment, in left photo, he was scoffing at pitchers attempting to drop him into the dunking booth ... the next moment, he was dunked!

A brunch to raise money for breast cancer research drew Paul Scheele and Susan Hughson who are checking in with Carla Balnis at the Oneonta Vets’ Club Saturday, Sept. 28. At left, bassist Rich Mullin, Oneonta, and drummer Rob LiFari, Unadilla, round out the Bill Farrish Trio.

Runners at the Corn Maze 5K in the Fly Creek Valley to benefit the Cooperstown Food Bank, pose before the starting gun went off Saturday, Sept. 28. See if you can spot these runners: Oneonta’s Chuck Hollister, Kallie DuPuis and Kelly Hart of the Inn at Fly Creek, Bassett urologist Dr. John Raymond, Dr. Colette Tangel, Jordan and Stacie Whiteney, (hint: he’s the tallest runner.) At left, a family that runs together... Laurel Wilsey, running with hubby Frank, pins the tag on son Lowell, 15.

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Perspectives

THURSDAY, October 3, 2019

A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL EDITORIAL

Is Congressman Risking His Reelection Over Impeachment?

ithin minutes of Antonio Delgado proclaiming his support for impeaching Donald Trump on Monday, Sept. 23, the National Republican Campaign Committee declared it is the freshman 19th District congressman’s “political death sentence.” It’s out of character, for sure. On issues to date, Delgado’s played it safe, focusing legislative efforts on agriculture, broadband and healthcare, knowing, regardless, little legislation sent from the Democratic House of Representatives to

he first responsibility of the President of the United States is to keep our country safe, but it has become clear that our president has placed his personal interests above the national security of our nation. The President has admitted to soliciting the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival. In doing so, the President used the power of the presidency to pressure a foreign government to help him win an election. This, by itself, is an impeachable offense. And yet, even more troubling is the fact that prior to this conversation, the President instructed his administration to withhold military aid that Ukraine needed to fend off Russian aggression. Having taken an oath of office before God and my fellow citizens to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, I can only conclude that Congress move forward with articles of impeachment.” Rep. ANTONIO DELGADO, D-19 announcing he supports an inquiry into impeaching President Clinton

the Republican U.S. Senate is going anywhere. He’s played it just right in what Otsego County’s Republican Chairman Vince Casale calls “a textbook definition of a swing district.”

What did he have to gain by coming out for impeachment? The 19th District voters who supported impeachment –Democrats and some centrists, mostly – had nowhere

to go except Delgado. Sensible centrism made sense for an out-of-district candidate in his vulnerable freshman year: build cred, firm up the base incrementally. That’s out the window now.

THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT

THE VIEW FROM FLY CREEK

Revisiting Clinton Playbook

hink back to the days of the Clinton Presidency and the words “I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman.” Stains on her dress would seem to indicate otherwise – but it was her fault because she was a woman. Then Hillary runs for the presidency and she and the DNC hire a foreign agent to work with the Russians to dig up dirt on her opponent – Donald Trump. After losing the election, they claimed the President colluded with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election – in other words, they tried to blame the new MIKE President for doing exactly what ZAGATA they had done – attempt to impact the election outcome. When folks started to look at the origin of the fake dossier, the Clinton playbook kicked into action – blame someone else and deflect attention away from you. • Guess what, my fellow readers – former Vice President Joe Biden may be using that same play – deflect attention away from your perceived or real wrongdoing by attacking someone else. The person being attacked is, and this should be no surprise, President Trump. You see, the former vice president is on record that he used his position to threaten the Ukrainian government with withholding $1 billion in loan guarantees if that government didn’t fire the prosecutor who was investigating corruption of the leadership of Burisma Holdings – a very large gas company owned by a Ukrainian official. His son, Hunter, was placed on the board

“My impression is this is a pure moral, ethical stand,” said Richard Sternberg, Cooperstown, the Democratic strategist and his party’s Town of Otsego chairman. “Having identi-

fied any political risks, he’s basically making a courageous stand.” Still, risky. • A look back on Election Night 2018 is illuminating, and shows vulnerability. Delgado beat incumbent Republican John Faso handily by an 11.3 percent margin (147,873-132,873), but given the four-way race – remember the Green Party’s Steve Greenfield and independent Diane Neal, the “Law & Order SVU” actress? – he garnered less than a majority (48.6 Please See EDITORIAL, A5

of that company and paid $50,000 per month to do something – exactly what no one seems to really know. This was happening at the very same time Joe was serving as the Obama pointperson on the Ukrainian government assigned to root out corruption. That’s a no-no and “Joe” bragged to his colleagues about having done it by stating, “I said: ‘We’re leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Mr. Biden recounted at a 2018 event sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. “Well, … he got fired.” • Whether or not his threat was the actual cause for the prosecutor being fired and whether or not his son was the target of the investigation, we’ll likely never know. What we do know is that if it looks like a skunk and smells like a skunk, it likely is a skunk. To deflect attention from even the perception of wrong-doing, the former vice president went on the attack, accusing President Trump of an abuse of power for allegedly asking the new Ukrainian minister to investigate if there was any wrongdoing with regards to The Biden Affair. It is no surprise the media jumped at the chance, bolstered by cries of “fowl” by the Democrats, to attack the president. However, before choosing sides on this, let’s dig a little deeper. There were at least a dozen people listening in on that phone call. Our president may be a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of them. Please See ZAGATA, A6

Reconsidering Impeachment

his writer was happy to see the Dem- tives – arguably the most democratically ocrats initiate a formal investigation representative body in the federal governinto impeaching President Trump. ment – loses confidence in the president, Impeachment is a legitimate Constitutional for whatever reason, then a simple majority mechanism to address pressing issues of (218 votes) can initiate formal impeachconduct in office, something we ment, to be resolved by a vote of desperately need. the Senate. Elections are our normal What really matters is not the mechanism for sorting out reasons for impeachment – vital as political differences, but there they may be – but the fact that those is no way in the long periods reasons be credible enough to perbetween elections to resolve suade a majority of Representatives serious tensions like those we to act on them. An impeachment have now. In the meantime, we proceeding, if allowed to unfold, get an endless stream of experts, would replace the endless speculapanelists, commentators and tions and distorting propaganda ADRIAN pundits, pontificating on radio, of the media with a public process KUZMINSKI television and the internet, with in which arguments and evidence little or no reality check on their would be presented in a systemopinions. atic fashion, and a final decision would be Even worse, the fierce partisan views rendered by duly elected members of the they articulate are absorbed by the rest of us Senate, one way or the other. and recycled as opinion in the echo-chambers The impeachment process may be our of our own social networks. This is a recipe best hope of resolving our current politifor mindless, inconclusive debate, in which cal divide. In fact, we might do well to put each side self-righteously digs in its heels. more faith in impeachment than in elections The Founders, we’re usually told, saw to sort out deeply polarized issues. Elections impeachment as a last resort, confined remain essential, but suffer from corruption by campaign donors, PACs, gerrymanderto “high crimes and misdemeanors.” But maybe it’s time to broaden our ing, media propaganda and narrow party understanding of it. interests. Instead of seeing impeachment as a rare In recent decades they seem, sadly, to and arcane ritual, we might think of it more have exacerbated rather than relieved like a vote of no-confidence similar to what controversial issues. we see in parliamentary systems. Even in However, impeachment differs signifithose countries it’s hardly an everyday cantly from a vote of no-confidence in that occurrence, but it is routine enough to provide the former necessarily involves some degree a way to resolve contentious political disof criminality, whereas the latter can be putes in a timely way, something we lack. about honest policy differences as well as Please See KUZMINSKI, A6 If a majority of the House of Representa-

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in which Trump could have violated the law is by soliciting material campaign aid from a foreign government, which expressly violates the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. ►Bribery The second area of potential legal liability for Trump relates to his request that Zelensky do him a “favor” right after mentioning

how the US “does a lot for Ukraine,” and more importantly, after Zelensky raised the issue of US military aid right before Trump requested he investigate Biden. ►Misappropriation Third, Cotter said, if Trump “in fact used government funds for his own gain, then there is a very strong argument that there is a theft of taxpayer money, or mis-

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dent committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” as outlined in Article II, Section 4 of the US constitution. …In all, former prosecutors told Insider, there are at least four areas where Trump could face legal jeopardy. ►Illegally soliciting campaign help from a foreign government The most obvious way

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’ve just spent an hour upstairs in, so far, a fruitless search. The search was for an object about as round as a half dollar, and it weighs not much more. Olive drab, its metal case has a cracked glass face. Inside it, a needle trembles on a center post. The needle, as it has for over a century, points true north. You can’t fool that needle by turning the case so that the printed face below it doesn’t match correct directions. That compass needle knows what it is supposed to do. Of course it does, and the needle has been turning to true north, no matter how many times the case is turned.

It’s behaved that way for over 100 years. The compass belonged to my mother, herself dead now a halfcentury. She first used it on Girl Scout hikes when she was 10. JIM That skinny little ATWELL girl must have been enchanted by the compass – seen something in it that echoed a core value in herself. It was fidelity. Throughout her 67 years of life, that little girl would always first

appropriation, taking place.” ►Conspiracy Last, if Giuliani, Barr, and other officials were involved in Trump’s efforts, as the complaint alleges, that would raise questions about a potential criminal conspiracy. This was excerpted from “4 Laws Trump May Have Broken” on www. businessinsider.com

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determine the right direction, and then unswervingly point herself towards it. Please See ATWELL, A6

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

200 YEARS AGO

Ed. Note: October 4, 1819, a Monday, marks the first appearance in Cooperstown two centuries ago of the newspaper still known as “Freeman’s Journal.” John Prentiss the editor introduced the publication to the community as follows: “After a lapse of more than a year, we resume our editorial labors, and at a time, too, inauspicious to an extensive circulation of newspapers, because the pecuniary pressure upon the country is so great as to require a general retrenchment in expenditures. Having incurred great expense in procuring an entire new apparatus, and being resolved to devote our whole time in the business, we rest with confidence upon the liberality of a generous public for patronage in an undertaking encompassed with many difficulties, arduous in its very nature, and highly responsible in its consequences.” October 4, 1819

175 YEARS AGO

A Whig Movement Against Foreigners – The Vicksburg Constitutionalist, a paper which displays the names of Clay and Frelinghuysen from its masthead, comes out boldly in favor of shutting out foreigners from the privileges of citizenship until they should have resided among us 21 years. “Let one and all unite in petitioning the very next Congress on this subject. Have the laws altered. Let the term of probation be 21 years and let no foreigner have a foothold in the country without he brings with him irrefutable, conclusive, decisive evidence, beyond a doubt, of his good character at home. We are not at all bound to admit into our country the vile outpourings of any land. We must not suffer the convicts, the criminals, the paupers, the traitors, of three quarters of the world to be shoveled in among us. If we have any immigrants at all, let us have the good and virtuous, and no others. We have enough now, in all conscience. October 7, 1844

150 YEARS AGO

The names of school teachers from the Town of Otsego attending a training institute includes the following: Adelbert Gates, Edwin Bowen, S.B. Bliss, S.I. Haynes, Albert Van Horne, C.F. Brewer, Geo. Temple, Amanda Sitts, Jennie Palmer, Martha Ball, Mary Ball, Lovina House, Ella Lake, Mary Kelley, Mary Hubbell, Hattie Gould, Maggie Russell, Cornelia Hecox, Hattie Williams, Sarah Byrnell, Jennie Byrnell, Lucretia Potter, Ellen Brower. October 1, 1869

100 YEARS AGO

The Aviators to Go – News comes that the U.S. Aviation Hospital here is likely to break up during the next ten days.

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75 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from a Republic Steel advertisement titled “Boys, I’ll tell you what Free Enterprise really is” “It’s a lot of little things – and some mighty big things too. But, in a nutshell, it’s our right to live our own lives, run our own farms and our own businesses in our own way – without needless interference. “It’s our right to criticize the government, bawl out the umpire, belong to the Grange, or make a speech on the public square. It’s our right to travel when and where we choose – to work or not as we please. It offers opportunity to anyone who wants it. It rewards thrift, hard work and ingenuity. It thrives on competition and raises our standard of living. It encourages invention, stimulates research and promotes progress. Yet in spite of all this, some folks would like to change our American way of doing things – and rebuild our whole country under a new and different system. If they had their way, Tom here, wouldn’t own this store. Ed’s farm would belong to the state and Ed would be told how to run it and what to raise. Jim would be working for a state-owned factory with his job and wages frozen. Frankly, I don’t like the name Free Enterprise because it’s the most American thing we have. It really is America. Let’s keep it.” October 4, 1944

50 YEARS AGO

In Cooperstown – Michael S. Jastremski, son of Dr. and Mrs. Michael M. Jastremski of this village, who graduated cum laude from Hartwick College in June, is attending upstate Medical Center at Syracuse. He and his wife Karen October 4, 1894 and daughter Kimberly Ann are residing in Syracuse. Waldo C.M. Johnston, director of the Marine Historical Association at Mystic Seaport, Conn. Will be the guest speaker at the Wednesday, October 8 meeting of the WomHad this step been decided upon four months ago it would en’s Club of Cooperstown to be held in the club rooms of be generally agreed that the aviators and their business the Village Library building. His talk will be titled “The would be generally missed in Cooperstown. Perhaps a few Role of the Outdoor Museum in a Changing Culture” using frank statements will not be out of place. The presence of Mystic Seaport as an example. the hospital here was, like any other military affair, a disOctober 1, 1969 tinct novelty at first. But, like everything else military, the novelty wears off. When the hospital was filled to capacity and there were a number of patients and medical ofThe Cooperstown High School Science Department will ficers who took an interest in Cooperstown, and its affairs, welcome students, parents and community members to a Scithey were exceedingly welcome. But when the personnel ence Department Open House on Thursday, October 27. The lagged, interest lagged. And there is little doubt but what a evening will begin with informal tours of the two McIntosh large number of the patients attempted to have things “their Computer Centers. The Earth Science Computer Center, under own way.” This of course worked to the detriment of the the direction of Dr. Frances Hess, is located in Room 102. The hospital in the village. But, the long and short of it is that McLab, under the direction of Mr. Thomas Good, is located in Cooperstown is growing a little weary of the continual pres- Room 100. Students in grades 9 to 12 will be on hand to demence of free and easy soldiers who toil not and spin little, onstrate many of the applications used in the sciences for data and do not add materially to the citizenship of the village. collection, graphing, word processing, drawing and publishing. October 7, 1919 October 5, 1994

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LETTERS

‘Tribal’ In Bad Odor Today, But Native American Tribes’ Lives Full Of Balance To the Editor: I read Jim Atwell’s Front Porch Perspective, “The Originating Sin,” with great dismay. Although I share his disgust with the ignorancelaced factionalism that dominates the airwaves, I find his use of the word tribalism to be misinformed and highly offensive, to such an extent that I feel compelled to respond. I agree that as Americans our education in what he calls tribalism starts early.

Hong Kong Revolt Affirms Free Speech To the Editor: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but taking away Freedom of Speech will hurt me. One of many examples: Hong Kong. GERRY WELCH Cooperstown

There is no doubt that it those who don’t … What just a bit shortsighted and poisons both the public and should we call this mess? inaccurate. Factionalism of private spheres. And there “Increasingly, the word the level and to the degree is certainly abundant proof, ‘tribalism’ is the trendy that currently plagues us answer. But it’s the wrong which he accurately presented, is not “humans’ original of its weaving through answer. sociological sin,” but historical and contemporary “… I’ve come to believe Western culture’s “original times. But calling it tribalism that the word ‘tribal’ is sociological sin.” is harmful to actual tribal being used as political So, what are our original people who, yes, still exist, shorthand today in a way traits? Humans could never especially in some of the that is downright destructive have survived as solitary counties and towns named … let’s use ‘tribal’ as a animals, so what wiring fafor them (Oneonta, Otsego, means of truly seeing cilitated our group success? Cutting-edge science reveals etc.) where this newspaper Native communities.” circulates. What does he mean? To that our primal wiring is for Courtesy Tioga Point Museum, Athens, Pa. Misuse of the word is get it, we first have to free sharing, empathy, compasThe longhouse was the centerpiece of Central akin to naming teams such ourselves of Atwell’s idea sion and equity (see Frans New York’s Iroquois tribes. racial slurs as “red skin.” that “early in our species’ de Waal’s Ted Talk), and What’s more, it’s inaccurate. are experiencing a … media George Washington once history, this trait embedded this informs tribal cultures. environment that thrives on called ‘faction,’ in which the itself in our developing Consider the Northwest Fight/freeze/flight, grounded default mode for millions is brain, probably parking Area Foundation’s informa- … us-versus-them messagin fear, is an emergency to hunker down with those tive article, “Toward Native ing. We’re indulging in an right next to the fight-orsystem that is not meant to extreme version of what who agree with us and vilify flight impulse.” That’s Truth … and Away from Please See CASE, A6 Mainstream Misuse of the Word Tribal.” Kevin Walker, president & CEO, states “what’s being labeled ‘tribal’ is better unreally want to reply, “Sat on the sidecliff in 2016, were expressing caution EDITORIAL/From A4 derstood as factional”: lines of history, Sonny.” in the form of the “differential nonpercent) of the total vote. “We in the United States Casale presented an alternate sceresponse bias.” – “If partisans on one We forget: Ulster County, a Demonario to Sternberg’s: “He’s scared of side of a political question respond to cratic stronghold in the swing 19th, the left of center” – in Ulster County, a survey more readily than partisans won the election for him. The Delif anywhere. “If he’s not with them, on the other side, … the results in gado lead there – it makes sense the they will threaten him with a primary.” your poll won’t match the real-world congressman then established his dis• opinion trict office in Kingston – was 19,052. Leading up to presstime this week, “... Instead, the poll will be skewed Districtwide, he only won by 15,000. Delgado will hardly have And he only won four of 11 counties it appeared it may be, where goeth the by how willing some people are to the time or energy to focus polls, so goeth the presidency. respond to a survey.” in the 19th: Otsego and Schoharie, on universal economic On Saturday the 28th, an NPR• both squeakers, the Dutchess portion issues. Instead we all will PBS NewsHour-Marist poll found Given how sure-footed Antonio just comfortably, plus Ulster. be treated to the usual 49 percent of Americans favored Delgado was in dispatching six DemoNot a landslide. Reelection isn’t a slogans and propaganda. impeachment – up 10 percent from cratic primary challengers last year, sure thing. Cooperstown’s newspaper April, when the Mueller Report was then grinding down Faso, it’s interest• and local elites should urge first released; 46 percent said impeaching to see him bet all on this impeachUntil the Sept. 23 announcement, resignation before primaries Delgado had played it cool. It’s hard ment was unnecessary. ment thing. It’s a plunge. begin next year. Trump out By the next day, a CBS poll found Delgado’s next local Town Hall to think of any controversial stance on of office, there will be time 55 percent favored impeachment, to meeting is 6-7 p.m. this Saturday, anything. to study failures and master Oct 5, in the Cherry Valley Commu45 percent saying it wasn’t warranted. Maybe he simply got carried away non-partisan support for Building, building… (Monday the nity Center, 2 Genesee St. Go and ask by the Democratic fever that swept reforms, such as the end 30th, Republican Senate Majority him about it. the House of Representatives over of private money in camLeader Mitch McConnell said there On impeachment overall, waiting the weekend of Sept. 21-22, after the paigns, and the end of all WILL be a trial in the Senate if the for the outcome of the 2020 presidenUkraine-gate surfaced. anti-American ideologies House sends up articles of impeachtial election – it’ll be here before we Think 40 years ahead. A young and nationalism. ment. Hmmm.) know it – would have been a better lad is sitting on his grandfather’s lap, GERALD WEINBERGER “What did you do in Congress, But FiveThirtyEight, and pollsters way to tamp down acrimony. But Cooperstown Granpa?” Would grey-haired Delgado who led the New York Times over a that’s not to be.

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Get Rid Of Trump, Then Turn To Solving Nation’s Problems To the Editor: Local Republicans should start petitions urging President Trump to resign. Senate Republicans will not convict him. Impeachment per se will not get rid of Trump, who obviously enjoys all the attention. Vice President Mike Pence is hardly a good Republican candidate because of sexual bigotry, but can be an improvement over Trump, who lost the popular election by 10 million votes. If Trump does not resign: incumbent Republicans or challengers to weak Democrats such as Congressman

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ATWELL/From A4 And then she would hold herself faithful to it. As I write this, I glance across the room and above my desk. There hangs a grand picture of that skinny little girl, though at age 18. She looks calmly back at me from under the lacy brim of a hat as wide as a barrel lid. Oh, stylish! But nothing shallow about the steady eyes and quiet smile. This young lady still knew whom she is, where she is heading. It was, and always would be, true north. And still somewhere in her possession was her Girl Scout compass! I’m sure it had become a talisman, a symbol that never ceased to speak to her. It may have been tucked away in her handkerchief drawer, but I’m betting she called it up in imagination

at any time of deep decision. As she surely did when saying yes to Pop’s proposal. The two had been working side by side as tellers in Annapolis’ State Capital Bank. Mr. Thompson, the gruff manager, knew he had two pleasant employees in them and noticed that customers gravitated toward their windows. “These two are comers,” he thought to himself. “They’ll be moving up here.” But the two had developed plans of their own. They’d sensed a deep set of shared values that soon begot deep love as well. And, just as the Great Depression came crashing down, they threw caution to the wind, got married, and soon had a first child, my brother. No second child for six years, till the one Pop always called

KUZMINSKI: Impeachment Ought To Be More Available KUZMINSKI/From A4 crimes. The Constitution states that federal officials, including the president, “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Misdemeanors, in the English Common Law tradition, are low rather than high crimes, but crimes nevertheless. Unlike the other crimes of which he is accused – collusion with foreign governments to subvert American elections, obstruction of justice, emoluments, tax evasion – Trump’s environmental policies arguably qualify as an even greater crime: a crime against humanity. He has denied the climate change crisis and systematically and purposely obstructed all attempts to remedy it. Crimes against humanity were first articulated at the Nuremburg Trials, where they were defined as systematic harmful actions taken by organized forces against a general population. These include, it is important to note, not only the atrocities we usually think of, but other high crimes such as political repression, racial discrimination, and religious persecution. In the face of overwhelming evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are accelerating global warming and putting millions of people at risk for property and life, the deliberate insistence by the Trump Administration on fossil fuels at the expense of renewables not only exacerbates the threat; it needlessly puts the planet, and therefore

in the courts, Juliana v. United States, seeks to establish a clean environment as a fundamental right. If upheld, it would give powerful support to impeachment for harmful environmental practices like Trump’s energy policy. “Crimes against humanity” sounds ominous, but the penalty under impeachment is simply removal from office. A disgrace, to be sure, but perhaps sufficient for the purpose. Further personal punishment risks resentment and backlash and is likely to deepen rather than moderate our political polarization. Future generations in particular are being willfully deprived, by people in power who should know better, of any opportunity for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s a taking of the highest order, if not (yet) an atrocity. Trumpian climate policy ought to be recognized for the criminal enterprise against humanity that it is. Adrian Kuzminski, retired Hartwick College philosophy professor and Sustainable Otsego moderator, lives in Fly Creek.

need doing, and it’s time the Democrats work with the president on things like infrastructure, the drug epidemic, violent crime and illegal immigration. Enough is enough. Beyond that, however, I am ticked off that our media and politicians assume the American public is that gullible. Let’s be sure we do our homework before going on the attack or agreeing with the media – and that applies whether it’s a Democrat or Republican that’s being accused.

Mike Zagata, DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and a former environmental executive for Fortune 500 companies, lives in West Davenport.

play while this nice lady and I visit.” I would sit on the landing near the top, just out of sight, and wonder at the sound of the visitor downstairs sobbing on my mother’s shoulder. Mother’s calm voice would be comforting her, but not quelling the sobs. She knew they needed to come. There were other, more direct ways she sought out true north. She took food to the ill, visited the elderly and housebound. And even as she herself aged, she kept on doing physical tasks that were now beyond doing by enfeebled relatives. Now as grown man, I tried to discourage this work, but she smiled and said, “Now, you go on, boy!” and would not be turned away from true north.

On the hot July day she died, she had spent the morning mowing grass for a hospitalized spinster great aunt. Then she’d been up and down a stepladder, taking down living room curtains long overdue for washing. They were down in our cellar, soaking in the stationary tub. And so that dear woman lived out her life. My father put the Girl Scout compass into the safe deposit box where, for 10 years, it undoubtedly kept true to its mission, even in the silent, total darkness. And when I surely find it again, I know exactly where its needle will point, as Mother’s life did. True north. Jim Atwell, Quaker minister and retired college administrator, observes Cooperstown from his Delaware Street front porch.

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CASE/From A5 be the basis of culture. But some cultures humanity, in serious and – and Atwell is correct that these have potentially fatal danger. become dominant – have opted into them Depriving current and as a default system. Anyone who has studied the influence future generations of a viable future, which is what of the Iroquois Confederacy’s’ Great Law Trump’s climate policies are of Peace on the U.S. Constitution is aware doing, would seem to quality that tribes are the source of representaas a crime against humanity. tive democracy. Like many tribes, they practice—now, not past tense – a council His climate policies are approach to decision making in which arguably more harmful to everyone has a voice and Elders humanity than any of the mediate between multiple perspectives other accusations he faces. (Rogers & Case). This is what youth activist Today Elders like Oren Lyons Greta Thunberg and many (Onondaga), in his role at the U.N., and places like Standing Rock, where people others are beginning to of all ages, ethnicities, races and so on point out. An Oregon case currently gathered to protect The Waters for future

ZAGATA: There Are Things That Need Doing; Impeachment A Bar ZAGATA/From A4 Do we really think he would ask a foreign leader to investigate a political opponent with that many people listening in – especially after being dragged through a two-year investigation over alleged “collusion”? A few days after the feeding frenzy in Washington, we’re learning the “whistle-blower” didn’t actually have first-hand information – he wasn’t on the call. Could it possibly be this person has an axe to grind – maybe an agenda involving starting yet another investigation to distract both the Congress and the president from working on behalf of the American people? As a taxpayer, I’m fed up with the waste of time and money. There are things that

“Our surprise baby.” Me. That phrase long ago convinced me that I was the product of mischance, of passion that overwhelmed prudence. “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” said the two of them. And, bless their passion , they brought me to be. Of course, Mother had to quit work then, cutting their joint income and her activities. But the change in no way turned her away from “seeking true north,” identifying, in any given situation, the apt and just, and aiming for it. This approach became obvious to all Mother interacted, whether neighbors, friends, members of church or social groups. Women especially sensed her as a gifted confidant. “Jimmy, you head upstairs and

generations, demonstrate that our primal wiring is still alive and well in today’s tribal cultures. Standing Rock is based on the understanding that Water is a living entity that travels globally and connects us all. It affects everyone’s lives, not just any one faction. Some tribes call this kind of understanding the Original Instructions. These instructions are shaped by philosophical principles such as the web of interconnectivity, not just among human tribes, but with animals, plants, air, earth, and water (Case & Craig). Walker explains: “Native values, such as stewardship of the earth and thinking seven generations ahead, contain precisely the wisdom and insight that can lead all of us into a sustainable future. That is Native truth as I have come to understand it. It’s a

far cry from the ‘tribalism’ described in the political media every day.” In sum: actual tribal principles are exactly the opposite of factionalism. The stakes are high, and misuse of the word “tribal” obscures people whose solutions that we sorely need. By using the word “tribalism,” Mr. Atwell is inadvertently creating division between Western and tribal peoples. He should consider changing his vocabulary, if only out of respect for his neighbors. Thank you for listening. MENOUKHA ROBIN CASE Saratoga Springs Ms. Case is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at SUNY’s Empire State College

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Public Invited To Saturday’s Inauguration Of New SUNY Oneonta President PRESIDENT/From A1 “The circle symbolizes balance and harmony,” she said. “And the feather is a dedication to my father, Bobby Morris. He was Cherokee and Comanche.” Her father died in his sleep in 2010 while camping at the base of California’s Mount Whitney. “The first people who responded came from the Paiute Nation, and they told my mother ‘He must have been special – a Red Tail hawk left feathers, and they do not leave them lightly.”

But the planned celebrations are not just confined to receptions. Morris organized two on-campus service events: a food drive to benefit both the SUNY Oneonta food pantry and local food banks, as well as a toiletries drive through “SUNY Has Your Back,” a statewide program which asks colleges to put together backpacks of necessities for the victims of domestic violence. “Food insecurity and domestic violence are important issues to me,” she said. “There are moments in my

Mother Fears CCS Will Bar Son In Vaccination Dispute VACCINES/From A1 from school for failing to be fully vaccinated. Amanda Perrault, a Hartwick College graduate who works at Bassett Healthcare and lives in the Town of Hartwick, said she has a religious objection to using vaccines developed from aborted fetal tissue. (The Immunization Action Coalition reports that two cell lines from two legally aborted fetuses in the 1960s are the basis of vaccines for varicella, rubella, hepatitis A and other ailments.) However, since the state Legislature removed the religious exemption in June, the two children have been undergoing the vaccination regimen, and are due for their final injections Oct. 16. “As far as I understand it,” she said, “it’s affected a lot of families statewide.” Meanwhile, tests (titers) as recently as Monday, Sept. 30, showed Perrault’s two children are free of any of the feared diseases, and she believes that she is in compliance with all associated provisions of the state Public Health Law. The email from Crankshaw included “as it was explained to me,” which caused the mother to believe that the superintendent may not understand that her children are compliant

and in the process of becoming fully compliant. Later in the day, she said she met with the elementary principal, Ann Meccariello, and school nurse Kim Stahl and explained that one of her boys is on a schedule of shots that will be complete Oct. 16. A vaccination was administered faultily to her second son, she continued, and cannot be administered again for a set period of time. Perrault said she recognizes the need for vaccines, and while in high school at Mount Markham participated on a mission to Bolivia to vaccinate children against measles. But raised a Catholic and now a Christian, she withheld vaccinations heretofore because of her religious beliefs. With her husband Cory fighting cancer and tending babies at home, she has no daycare option if the children can’t go to school, she said. Reached later Tuesday, Crankshaw said “the general approach is to be compassionate and understanding, but we certainly need to defer to state law and the advice of our medical professionals” – he cited Dr. Phil Haevner, the district medical director, in his email to Perrault – “and our attorneys as well.”

Palevsky Anticipating Nov. 5 RICHFIELD/From A1 defines most of the town as agricultural/residential. Voting aye were three opponents of the Monticello Hills Wind Farm, Larry Frigault, Rex Seamon and Kane Seamon. Voting nay were Supervisor Paul Palumbo, who isn’t running again, and Fred Eckler. All was as expected. In remarks before the vote, Palumbo mentioned a figure, “35 days,” the time until the Nov. 5 election, questioning why Frigault and the two Seamons were in “a race to the finish.” He added, “I think we all know the intent.” Richfield is a Republican town, and Nov. 5 the GOP ticket – former supervisor Nick Palevsky, who is running for the job again, and Ed Bello Jr., who beat Kane Seamon in the Republican primary June – are expected to emerge victorious. That would shift the balance of power on the town board against the comp plan and zoning code, which emerged from a three-year process where, some say, the antiturbine Protect Richfield organization seized control. With another 3-2 vote, Palevsky and Bello, along with Eckler, could set in motion a new revision of the comp plan and code to make them less restrictive. Frigault and Rex Seamon would find themselves in the minority.

At a public hearing on the code Monday the 23rd, Palevsky presented petitions he said represented owners of 30 percent of the land in the town. If that was the case, it would have required “super-majority” approval of the zoning code, four votes instead of three. The zoning code would have been rejected. But Monday the 30th, Town Attorney Michelle Kennedy reported she had spent the week in the county clerk’s office in Cooperstown, reviewing deeds of all the signators. In five categories, she concluded the signatures were invalid. In some cases, signators did not own the property. In others, where land was held in “tenancy in common,” not all owners had signed, she said. (Palevsky later contended some of the non-signing owners are dead.) Where LLCs were involved, no board resolutions were presented. She pared down 3,800 acres Palevsky said were represented in the petitions to about 2,200, and the town board ruled the petitions invalid. The morning, Palevsky took issue with the word “overturn” to refer to what a board he controlled might do. “Revisit is a better term,” he said.’ He said he is also reviewing Kennedy’s “sufficiency test” for errors.

life where I was poor, where I was on welfare. Those challenges are real.” So far, the food bank initiative has collected 1,556 pounds of food. Among those speaking at her inauguration is one of her former University of Redlands political science students, Congressman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. “It’s amazing when you see your students do well for themselves out in the world,” she said. In Year One, she has just scratched the surface.

“We’re working on our strategic plan,” she said. “We need to ask ourselves what it means to offer a relevant educational experience that educates the whole student.” Part of that includes the Office of Institutional Research beginning to assess not only what students need in terms of facilities and services, but also what the workforce – regional and national – is looking for. “It’s about what we need today, but also what we need for the future,” she said. “We need to be looking at how

Retiring, Child Advocate May At ‘Rally For Jill,’ Sister Have Assisted 3,000 Children “She has very good insights,” 3,000/From A1 she said. “Sometimes we’ll talk file a neglect case, so shes about our cases.” opened one herself. “I tried to Though the office was support the mother,” she said. previously known as the Law “But in the end, the child went into foster care, and it saved his Guardian of Otsego County, the title has changed to better life.” reflect what they do. “People He was soon adopted, and thought we were given guardnow when she sees him, he’s thriving, talking and doing well ianship of the children,” she said. “That’s never been what in school. “He wouldn’t be if we do here.” our office hadn’t intervened,” She exclushe said. sively represents Now, after children, from taking more a day old in the than 4,000 hospital to 18, or cases to court, up to 21 if they representing are in foster care. more than 3,000 “We represent in children, Mone custody, visitais retiring to tion, abuse and join her husband neglect, juvenile Louis in delinquency or a Flagstaff, Ariz. Carmella Mone is child in need of “I’m very supervision,” lucky,” she said. retired Monday, she said. “I have the best Sept. 30, after 23 Though she clients. I’ll miss years representing found much these kids, they Otsego County of her job make me laugh.” children in court. rewarding, much She got her of the struggle came from lack law degree from Albany Law, but didn’t learn about children’s of resources. “It’s difficult to find services,” she said. law until 1987, working for a “There aren’t enough services firm in Schenectady. “I saw for child’s mental health or inthat one of their attorneys was patient drug rehab facilities.” assigned to cases with kids,” And with many of her cases she said. “I told him I was being children in custody interested, and he let me take battles, the parents themselves on one of the cases.” sometimes don’t realize the Soon, it became the entirety damage they’re doing to the of her caseload. “By then, it kids. “If I had a magic wand, I was all I wanted to do,” she would show parents what their said. fighting does to their children,” She opened the Children’s she said. “They believe they Law office on Oct. 28, 1998. “The state has lawyers who can love their kids, but they’re destroying them. I try to get do children’s law everywhere, them to agree so that they don’t but there are relatively few have to fight in court.” offices,” she said. “There She also advocates for are more children who need children to help their parents attorneys than there are learn to be a stronger family attorneys who are trained to do unit. “I had two very small the work.” children who were developHer daughter, Meghan mentally delayed and their Cirelli, also works for the firm, parents didn’t know how to as does Sarah Callen, another care for them,” she said. “We attorney. “It’s a group effort,” were able to get them into she said. Springbrook as day students Her other daughter, and teach the parents some Rosemarie, is a mental health special needs care.” counselor in Burlington, Vt.

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of Gillian’s JILL/From A1 murder. if he could “To this day talk to her. I remember “He was kind opening that car of a loner,” door and seeing she said. “His one of the most grandparents horrific crime asked us to scenes in my include him.” law enforceShe went ment career,” outside with the letter read. him, but he “I would ask dragged her that you trust into the alley my assessment between two that David Dart houses and began to HOMETOWN ONEONTA is a savage and assault her. & The Freeman’s Journal brutal killer that perpetrated “He had a Former OPD Chief knife to my Joseph Redmond reads such violence and rage that he throat,” she a letter from the first should never be said. “He officer at the scene of trusted to prey threatened to Jill’s slaying. At right kill me, and I is Jennifer Kirkpatrick, on an innocent victim again.” begged for my Jill’s sister. “It was life.” people like you who were She managed to escape instrumental in solving and get back home, where Gillian’s murder,” said her parents called the police. Redmond. “Now, I urge all of Dart was sentenced to juvenile you to get your family, your detention. “I was able to get friends involved in making away with my life, but he sure he never walks among free took emotional, physical and spiritual things away from me.” society again.” Seward handed out flyers Though her parents asked with the information on how that he get counseling as part to write to the parole board, of his sentence, they later as well as how to support his learned that he denied all of bill to extend the time between it. And because his record parole hearings from two years was sealed, during his trial for to five. Gillian’s murder, the jury was “David Dart is right where not able to see his prior violent he belongs,” said Seward. conviction. “Locked up behind bars. Why “He’s been terrorizing should he and other violent people since he was an adolescriminals have a right to a cent,” said Kirkpatrick. parole hearing every two “I wasn’t his only victim,” years?” she said. “He attacked other Kirkpatrick and her family girls, but their parents wouldn’t will tell Gillian’s story before let them speak out. And he a member of the parole board didn’t get the counseling that on Friday, Oct. 4. Letters to could have turned the tide. the board are due by the end Maybe if he had, if we had of October in order to be read known, Gillian would still be ahead of Dart’s November with us today.” hearing. Retired Oneonta Police “If he gets out, he will do Chief Joseph Redmond, a this again,” said Kirkpatrick. sergeant at the time, read a “It could be your daughter, letter from former Deputy your sister, anybody.” Sheriff Sean Ralph, who was the first on the scene

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MLS#123228 $129,900 43.2 Acres Private, stream, views. Hunt, swim, ski, subdivide. Row to Canadarago Lake. Call George (Rod) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)

MLS#121011 $379,900 Great B & B, 1850 Farmhouse, 14 acres, 3,300 sq ft, 7 BRs, 4 baths, apartment, breakfast, dining and sun rooms, office, porch, patio, pool. Call George (Rod) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)

MLS#121800 $309,000 Investment Opportunity in the Heart of Cooperstown Private parking lot, new roof, upstairs storage area. Call Melissa Klein @ 518-547-5933 (cell)

MLS#120677 $127,000 Sportsman’s Dream Enjoy hunting and camping on 85 acres of wooded corner lot w/scenic views, including a portion of open tillable fields. Call Erin Mousa @ 607-435-1285 (cell)

MLS#114624 $59,900 1982 double-wide w/3 BRs, 2 baths and 1½ story, 2-car MLS#122259 $250,000 garage. New heating system, updated electrical, new Great Opportunity Setting! walls and ceiling in 1 –BR.Gorgeous New ceiling in master5-BR, bath. 3Call bath, split-level home. Covered deck, 2 sheds. Sharon P. Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell) Call Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)

MLS#121224 $165,000 Location, Curb Appeal, Good Rental Investment opportunity! Large home w/2 BRs, 2 baths upstairs, 2-3 BRs,1 bath downstairs. Separate utilities. Call Stephen Colwell @ 607-435-6542 (cell)

MLS#120877 $149,000 On a Quiet Dead End Road 6-BR home offers 1,812 sq ft on 5 acres w/landscaped gardens and pond in Kortright. Call Ron Guichard at 845-676-3600 (office)

MLS#122204 $90,000 House on 38+ Acres Recreational land. House needs some work. Close to Oneonta and Cooperstown. Call Melissa Klein @ 518-705-9849 (cell)

MLS#122670 $179,000 Possible Farmette Views in all directions. 3 BRs, built in 1854 w/dairy barn on 7 acres. 3-bay garage, plus steel carport, concrete RV pad. Call David Mattice @ 607-434-1647 (cell)

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MLS#123525 $195,000 Old World Charm Home Nestled in the heart of Oneonta is this 4,731 sq ft historic home. 3-car detached garage, patio, perennials, water features. Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)

MLS#123046 $259,000 Tucked Away on Nearly 3 Acres w/views of Red Creek Valley, this charming custom-built contemporary Cape offers first-floor living just 2 miles from Cooperstown Village. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

MLS#123249 $865,000 Incredible Property! 223 acres. Home features top craftsmanship, 6,300 sq ft, guest house, pole barn, 3+ car garage, cabin. Spacious 4 BR, 2spring-fed bath housepond, is closehunting to I-88. Large Call Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell) backyard, workshop/garage, small shed. Make your appointment today. Priced to go this week! Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598

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MLS#123102 $145,000 Seclusion, Privacy, Nature 3-BR, 2 bath ranch has full basement on 6.63 acres in Maryland. 2-car plus garage w/electric. Call Frank Woodcock @ 607-435-1389 (cell)

MLS#121381 $174,900 Huge Price Reduction, Lower Interest Rate! Opportunity to own this home built in 2006 w/2,052 sq ft, 4 BRs, 3 baths, on 5 acres in Butternuts. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

MLS#123385 $175,000 Home Sweet Home Home is 15 years old, has 2,240 sq ft, radiant heat, 2-car garage. 5.3 park-like acres w/trails, stream. Outside Afton. Call David Mattice @ 607-434-1647 (cell)

MLS#121459 $278,900 108’ Lakefront Furnished, stone fireplace, cathedral ceiling, enclosed porch, views of lake, 2-stall garage, boat dock. Call George (Rod) Sluyter 315-520-6512 (cell)

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This 2006 home is in the Oneonta School District on 3+ acres. This 3-4 BR home offers 3½ baths, bamboo flooring, kitchen w/island, granite counters, new SS appliances, spacious formal DR, whole-house AC, finished lower level w/large family room plus second versatile room. 2-car garage w/work bench, rear deck w/nice views, mature landscaping, garden area, more!

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hen Louise Clark Hulse was born, there wasn’t even a Bassett Hospital. “I was born at the Thanksgiving Home,” she said. “This was long before Bassett.” Born Sept. 21, 1917, (the hospital was opened in June 1922) Louise just turned 102 at Cooperstown Center. She was an only child. “My grandfather

(Michael Hanlon) was the mayor of Cooperstown for quite a while,” she said. “He owned three hotels. One uncle owned a printing press, another owned a shoe store.” According to her son Rick Hulse Sr., Hanlon was mayor when The Otesaga was dedicated in 1909. Her uncle, John Clark, helped build St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church, the former Church & Scott pharPlease See HULSE, B3

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im Bryden is not fazed by the fact he is the first man to be the featured quilter for The Major’s Inn Foundation’s annual ►IF YOU GO: quilt show – the 25th anniversary one, no 25th annual Silver Jubilee less. Quilt Show, “If they want to put Major’s Inn, up with me that’s their Gilbertsville, decision,” the 81-year10-5, Fridayold Sidney Center Saturday, Oct. resident said. 4-5; 11-4. About 20 of Bryden’s Featured quilts will be displayed, Quilter, Jim mostly in a room excluBryden, $5. sively for his work, Lunch available, $7. Info along with 300 others 783-2780. quilts at The Major’s Inn Silver Jubilee show this weekend. And 44 quilters whose work was displayed in the first show Please See BRYDEN, B3

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With 18 years experience, Jim Bryden, is this year’s featured quilter at The Major’s Inn Silver Jubilee Quilt Show. The Bargello style quilt behind him uses strips of fabric sewn together to create the appearance of movement.

Wine-Makers Cork Bottle On 15 Years At Bear Pond

Mark and Brenda Lebo have been Otsego County’s leading vintners for almost 15 years.

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hen Mark and Brenda Lebo put Bear Pond Winery up for auction last month, patrons and friends were puzzled. “Putting it up for auction caused confusion,” Mark said. “People thought we were getting OTSEGO.people divorced or were in foreclosure.

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But that’s not the case. The wine Vintners business is great, but it’s time for us to try something new.” Bear Pond Winery on Route 28, Otsego County’s largest, has thrived since the Lebos bought it on a whim 15 years ago. It has averaged 36,000 bottles of wine in sales annually, 13,000 wine Please See LEBOS, B3

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ace up your running shoes, the best day in Oneonta is here again as the annual Pit Run takes off from Neahwa Park. Whether you run the 5K, brave the 10K or cross the finish line in the kid’s Fun Run, you’ll be honoring the memory of fallen Trooper Ricky J. “Pit” Parisian. 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. LIBBY Info www.pitrun.org. CUDMORE • Proud OHS alumni return home to celebrate 20 years of the Oneonta Alumni Association. Wall of Distinction and Athletic Hall of Fame awards, cookouts, a homecoming football game and a reunion bash! Friday-Saturday, Oct. 5-6, Oneonta. Schedule www.oneontahighalumni.org. • Ghost Hunters, Children of the Corn and more will haunt the annual Sci-fi Horror Festival at Foothills! Costume contests, vendors, performances and more. $6. 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Info sci-fihorrorfest.com. • It’s an evening of spooky music as The Musicians of Ma’alwyck perform at Hyde Hall, including the world premier of Hyde Sextet of Max Caplan, inspired by the Hall’s haunted history. Cost, $20/person. 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-5098. • The witching season is upon us and the HAUNT-ington Library is hosting a Halloween Movie Marathon with “Frankenstein,” “Dracula” “Psycho” and more. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info (607) 432-1980.

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RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Find variety of clothing, toys, household items, more. First Presbyterian Church, Pioneer St., Cooperstown 607-547-8401. Y HISTORY – 1 - 4 p.m. Share stories, photos, memories about the Y. Help preserve its long history. Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-0010. AWANA – 6 - 7:30 p.m. Religious education for children ages kindergarten through 5th grade with stories, games, more. Main Street Baptist Church, 333 Main St.,

Oneonta. 607-432-5712. HISTORY DISCUSSION – 6:30 p.m. Historian discusses new book ‘Don Troiani’s Campaign to Saratoga – 1777’ featuring new art, unpublished eyewitness accounts, lead-up to the campaign. Registration required, $10 admission. Allen House, Fulton-Montgomery Community College, 2805 NY-67, Johnstown. 518-774-5669. STAMP CLUB – 7 p.m. All invited to Leatherstocking Stamp Club Meeting titled ‘What Do You Have?’ Members will share expertise, resources to identify stamps, answer questions. Tilla-

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paugh Home, 28 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. 607-547- 5646. MUSICAL – 7 - 10 p.m. ‘Curie Me Away’ tells story of Madame Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her work in physical chemistry. Cost, $5/person. A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. 607436-2011.

►Friday, October 4 RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.4 p.m. See Thursday listing for First Presbyterian Church. RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m. 4 p.m. Find household items, clothing, books, furniture, collectibles, more. Christ Church Parish Hall, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. 607-5479555. RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Find wide variety of items for sale at Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4636 St. Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. 607293-7980. RESOURCE FAIR – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Seniors/caregivers learn about local resources available. Represented are Bassett Gender Wellness, NY Connects, First Community Care, many others. Clinic building, Bassett Hospital, River St., Cooperstown. 607547-6691. QUILT SHOW – 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Celebrate 25th year of annual quilt show at Silver Jubilee. Features 300+ quilts from artists across the country with featured quilter Jim Bryden. Lunch available. Admission, $5/person. The Major’s Inn, 12 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. 607-783-2780. Y HISTORY – 1 - 4 p.m. See Thursday listing. SCI-FI & HORROR FEST – 3 p.m. Join fans of the strange & horrific. Features authors, vendors, speakers, activities, more. Cost, $6/person. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 7 p.m. 4”x4” miniature show features works by artists of all ages. Free, open to public. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-9777. HYDE & SHRIEK – 6 p.m. Tour sites where ghostly manifestations have been reported identified by the Ghost Hunters Halloween special. Cost, $20/person. Reservations required. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. 607-547-5098. FILM – 6:30 p.m. Presenting “Men In Black International.” Cost, $3/person. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta. FILM – 6:30 p.m. Visit exhibit ‘Duane Michals: The Portraitist’ then enjoy film, starting at 7, connected to exhibit with introduction. This week “Cabaret” with Joel Grey & Liza Minnelli (Rated PG). Cost, $7/nonmember. Fenimore Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400. MORE CALENDAR, Pg. 4

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Hulse Family Celebrates Matriarch’s Memories of Cooperstown, Oneonta HULSE/From B1 macy (the three-story brick building where Yastrzemski Sports is today), and 183 Main St., where District Attorney John Muehl has his offices today. During World War I, the family moved to Church Street, Oneonta, when Louise was still a young girl. “My uncle owned a restaurant on Chestnut Street, and we’d go there to eat every night,” she said. “But sometimes I wished I could eat at home like the other kids!” She grew up swimming in Oneonta’s Wilber Park – there was a pond where the pool is now – and going to the circus on the Sixth Ward Booster Club fields. “The circus parade would go right past our house,” she said. But tensions could run

Flanking Mrs. Hulse are sons Chris, left, and Rick. Behind, from left are Chris’ wife Pat, family friend Janet Hotaling and Rick’s wife Donna.

high at times. “The Ku Klux Klan used to burn crosses up in the hills,” she said. “And when Al Smith ran for president – he was the first Catholic to do so – my mother put his picture in the window, and someone threw a brick into our living room.” She attended St. Mary’s School, graduated from Oneonta High School in 1935, and got her undergraduate

degree from Hartwick College in 1939. “It was $8 a (credit) hour when I went there,” she said. “I drove there every day, but in the winter, sometimes it would take me three tries to get up that hill.” She went on for a master’s in French from Syracuse University, and taught in Bellport, Long Island, where she met her husband, Richmond. The couple was married in 1944. A pharmacist, he was assigned to Hawaii, testing medicines, during World War II, and she took a job in Morris, nearer her family. “It was a very religious community there, and one day, I wanted to teach the French club a card game,” she said. “One of the teachers walked past, saw me and ran

in, saying ‘Do you want to be run out of town on a rail? They don’t play cards here.’” After Dick returned from Hawaii, they moved back to Long Island, where she raised their family. Their son Rick, born in 1947, is the father of the former county representative Rick Hulse Jr. of Fly Creek. They also had another son, Chris, 70 and a daughter, Pam, 69. “I would bring them to Oneonta in the summer,” she said. “They learned to play tennis and swim in Wilber Park – they had the pool then!” Louise and Dick retired to Cooperstown in 1978. “He moved here because of the golf course,” she said. “All he wanted to do was golf. I wasn’t very good, but I loved the game. I played until I was 89.” They frequented

Glimmerglass Opera from the beginning, and were members of the Cooperstown Country Club. “I love that now golf is a sport that everybody plays,” she said. “It’s no longer just for people with money.” Dick passed away in 2001 at age 88, and although Louise maintained the family home after his passing, last October she moved to Cooperstown Center. Rick dines with her every day at noon, and Chris and Pam are also frequent guests. In 2017, her three children, nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren celebrated her 100th birthday at Pam’s house in Cooperstown, and last weekend, the children joined her for her 102nd. “They gave me cookies and a beautiful cake,” she said. “They treat me very nicely here.”

Quilt Show Honors Rare Male In Hobby Buying Winery, Couple Had To Learn It All BRYDEN/From B1 in 1994, then called “Butternut Valley Quilts, will have quilts exhibited in the 25th one. “All of our quilters at the first show were from Butternuts,” said Diana Heeman, a founder of the quilt show and a long-time foundation volunteer. “But now we have some quilters from far away – Virginia and Maryland.” Heeman had attended a quilt show in McIntosh, Fla., in the 1990s, and when she returned to Butternuts, she shared her impressions of the show with Cece Rowe, now the foundation’s director. They agreed a quilt show would work well at The Major’s Inn and be a way to raise funds for the inn’s restoration, which has been ongoing since Alan Cleinman, Cleinman Performance Partners’ in Oneonta, began the foundation in 1980. “We had about 240 quilters in the first show, all from our community,” said Heeman. “It exceeded our expectations.”

About 75 volunteers work to put on the show, which includes hanging and labeling the quilts, making the lunches for the event’s visitors on all three days, and breaking the exhibit down afterward. Rowe curates the exhibit, with her cousin and neighbor Pat Cleinman as her righthand assistant. “I’m fussy and meticulous,” Rowe said. “I want each piece to stand on its own and not outshine or be outshined by another one.” “We’ve kept this a non-juried show,” said Heeman. “We want everyone to feel their quilts are worthy of being shown.” “Many of the girls at our show are featured in magazines and have won awards at the state and local level,” Heeman said. “They’re very involved with their communities. They make lap quilts for patients in nursing homes and hospitals and raffle them off. It is Bryden’s first time exhibiting his quilts at The Major’s Inn event, but they have been displayed in about 25 shows since his foray into quilting 18 years ago. His

style – vivid colors often in geometrical patterns on a black background because he wants “people to open their eyes and see it” – has attracted attention locally. “I just go along with whatever it is, what people want,” said Bryden. Bryden began quilting the year he retired from his profession as a stone quarry cutter, in 2001. “Doing stonework was getting too rough for me to do in the winter, so I decided to draw my Social Security and live at home that winter,” he recounted. “But a week of being a couch potato didn’t go over very well.” He asked his wife, Joan, a lifelong quilter, if she would teach him to quilt. Under her tutelage, Bryden cut 6-inch squares and stitched them together, then used an “inside-out” method that does not require using binding for making the quilt. “If I can do it, anyone can do it,” Bryden said. The funds raised from the show will go toward renovation of The Major’s Inn.

LEBOS/From B1 tastings, 15,000 visitors. The Lebos have yet to decide their next move. They have never shied from adventure, from when they met in Galena, Alaska, in 1994 and moved to Chicago for Mark’s job with Sherwin-Williams, which transferred them here in 2002. “And then my job left me in 2004,” Mark said. He had always wanted to own and run a business, and in 2005 Bear Pond Winery, founded by Hank and Joan Nicols of Cooperstown in 2000, was up for sale. Although neither he nor Brenda had a background in wine, they bought the business on its one-acre lot. “We learned the wine business after buying it,” said Mark. “We hit the ground running, reading a lot about making wine and markets while running the winery.” To keep costs down and the business running smoothly, Lebos kept the Bear Pond name and used the winery’s original inventory and equipment. “We bottled, corked and labeled 36,000 bottles by hand and printed out the labels,” said Mark. “I bought an automated bottle filler and had someone else print the labels after that.” The couple also kept the contracts with the New York grape growers and pressers. “People have this idea that the winery has a vineyard and you’re growing the grapes, then

stomping them with your feet,” said Mark. “But most wineries don’t do that. “We get the grapes pressed to specification, so we get the juice the way we want it. Then, we ferment it, age it, and blend it for the finished product.” Mark embraced winemaking, developing over 30 variations, from dry and sweet for reds, whites and rosés. “I went a little nuts,” he admitted. He has also experimented with different dining venues, menus, and the food and nonfood items sold in the winery’s store, keeping what works and discarding what doesn’t. He first set up a log trailer, a “pre-food truck,” which was open from late spring to early fall. Five years ago, he sold the trailer and built an indoor restaurant, so people could dine at the winery all year round. Tourists and locals flock to Bear Pond mostly for the wine tastings, especially the “flights,” which offer six wines of the customer’s choice to taste. Up to 20 people could taste wines at the U-bar shaped wooden counter at the front or seated in the café or outside. The Bear Pond Winery now sits on a five-acre lot with a new 3,000-square foot warehouse and a 1,500-square foot three-bedroom house. The Lebos have not had takers for Bear Pond yet, but Mark said, “interested parties are entertaining” purchasing it. “We’re looking forward to our next adventure,” he said. “We like change.”

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PLANETARIUM – 7 - 8 p.m. Public night features multimedia experience presented by SUNY Oneonta faculty, students. Free, tickets required. A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. 607436-2011. ►Saturday, Oct. 5 CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Oneonta Concert Association CLEAN SWEEP – 8 a.m. - 2 in OtsegO COunty presents classical works, p.m. Hartwick residents safely original arrangements by dispose of everything from Brandon Ridenour, trumpeter, green waste to electronics. with pianist Peter Dugan. Call for full list/limitations. Tickets, $25/person. 1st Hartwick Town Hall, 103 Town United Methodist Church, Dr., Hartwick. 607-293-8123. 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m. 607-433-7252. 11 a.m. Find clothing, houseTHEATER – 7:30 p.m. hold items, toys, etc. All you Theatrical performance “The can get in a bag for one low Wolves” about the lives of 9 price. Presbyterian Church,

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Pioneer St., Cooperstown. 607-547-8151. RUMMAGE SALE – 9 - 11 a.m. See Friday listing for Christ Church Parish Hall. OPEN HOUSE – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. High School students and their families visit college to learn about extracurriculars, dorms, more. Hartwick College, Oneonta. 888HARTWICK. SCREENING – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Mobile screening coach offers free mammograms, pap tests to women 40+ without insurance or with high deductibles. Get screened then enjoy cider mills ‘Big Squeeze’ event featuring cider pressing, tours, more. Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. 888-345-0225. RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m. - Noon. See Friday listing for Evangelical Lutheran Church.

COMMUNITY DAY – 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Residents of Otsego County are invited to experience old/new exhibits with free admission. Baseball Hall of Fame, Farmers’ Museum, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. FUNGUS WALK – 10 a.m. Learn to identify different types of fungus with mycologist Sally Reymers. Cost, $5/non-member. Rogers Environmental Education Center, 2721 St. Hwy. 80, Sherburne. 607-674-4733. MOVIE MARATHON – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Get in the spirit of Halloween with a movie marathon including Frankenstein, Dracula, Psycho, more. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980. QUILT SHOW – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Celebrate 25th year of

OPEN HOUSE – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society to learn about organization, watch hawks/other birds. Franklin Mt., 52 Grange Hall Rd. Spur, Oneonta. 607-397-3815. WORKSHOP – 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Design, make, decorate bird mask with artist/tutor Caroline Fay. Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society Sanctuary, Franklin Mt., 52 Grange Hall Rd. Spur, Oneonta. 607-397-3815. PRESIDENT – 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join campus for installation of Barbara Jean Morris as SUNY Oneonta’s 7th president. Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. MORE CALENDAR, Pg. 5

“All Creatures Great & Small” Mass Sun. October 6th, 1 p.m In The Great Hall

Enter From Elm Street This service will be going to the dogs (cats, rats, snakes, etc.). Pets are invited to this service - and their people can come, too! A blessing of the animals will be part of the service. All are welcome. Bring your dogs on a leash, and other pets in their crates or carriers to enjoy this special service.

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the annual quilt show at Silver Jubilee. See Friday Listing. SUPPORT GROUP – 10 a.m. - Noon. Family, friends, & people with multiple sclerosis are invited. Sunshine Room, Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call Phil Young 607435-3653. WOODSMEN’s FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Fall festival features demonstrations of crosscut sawing, ax throwing, other lumberjack skills by students from SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill. Vendors, activities, information, music, more. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. 607-278-5744.

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Legal nOtice Notice of LLC formation of Oneonta Tennis Center, LLC. A NY Limited Liability Company. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/18/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy to: Oneonta Tennis Center, 32 Rose Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose 6LegalNov.7 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of 19 ROSE PLACE, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/2/17. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Kehoe & Merzig, P.C., 8-12 Dietz St., Ste. 202, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalNov.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: JKO Mobile Enterprise LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secre-

tary of State on 09/05/2019. Office location: Otsego County SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2058 County Highway 49 Edmeston, NY 13335. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalNov.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Golden Brook Farm LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State on 09/13/19. Principal Business and Office Location: 253 Briar Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail process to 253 Briar Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalOct.24 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of C&C Empire Estates LLC filed with the SSNY on 09/12/19. Office: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 446 County Highway 26, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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Purpose: Any lawful. 6LegalOct.24 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 391 Gifford Hill Rd, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/30/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 874 Wilber Notice of Formation of C Moore Enterprises LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/9/2019. County: Otsego. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to 1073 State Hwy 205, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalNov.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: BLUESTONE TREE FARM LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 9/23/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

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against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4611 Calatrava Ave, Sebring, FL 33872. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalOct.31 Legal nOtice NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 5% of the bid total, must accompany each bid. NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-notices. The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/ const-planholder.

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contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award. Please call (518)457-2124 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting. Region 09: New York State Department of Transportation 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY, 13901 D264079, PIN 9WW019, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, Tioga Cos., Emergency Standby Where and When Project Throughout Region 9, Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $375,000.00), Goals: MBE: 12.00%, WBE: 18.00% 2LegalOct.3 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Golden Brook Farm LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State on 09/13/19. Principal Business and Office Location: 253 Briar Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the

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LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail process to 253 Briar Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalOct.24 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of C&C Empire Estates LLC filed with the SSNY on 09/12/19. Office: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 446 County Highway 26, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any lawful. 6LegalOct.24 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 391 Gifford Hill Rd, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/30/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 874 Wilber Lake Rd, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalOct.17 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of VUVOI LLC.

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cess against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: 564 Gay Brook Road, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalOct.10 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of SHELLEYFIELD REALTY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 11/13/18. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it to: The LLC, 438 Mansfield Avenue, Levittown, NY, 11756. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act. 6LegalOct.3 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of MT321 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/9/19. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 283 County Hwy 57, Cherry Valley, NY 13320. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalOct.3

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Free admission. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-226-4181. MUSIC JAM – 3 - 10 p.m. Play it forward to benefit OHS Alumni Association Musicians Award. Free admission. Oneonta American Legion, 279 Chestnut St., Oneonta. CELEBRATION OF LIFE – 3 5 p.m. Exhibit features award winning naturalist artist Gail Bunting, who passed away November 2018. Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. 607829-5055. OPENING RECEPTION – 5 - 8 p.m. Celebrate exhibit by Flora Hogman (child survivor of WWII), James Bohary, Laura Provo-Parker. Music by Kathy Shimberg. Showing thru 10/20. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-4322070. ANNIVERSARY – 5 - 7 p.m. Artisans Guild celebrates 20 years. Refreshments, live music, meet the artists. Artisans Guild, 148 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-1080. FUNDRAISER – 5 - 9 p.m. “Williams Road Band & Company All Star Country Revue.” Support music, arts in CNY. Cost, $25/person. Earlville Opera House, 18 E. Main St., Earlville. 315-691-3550. TOWN HALL – 6 - 7 p.m. Meet Rep. Antonio Delgado to get questions answered, discuss ideas, more. Community Center, 2 Genesee St., Cherry Valley. 607-376-0091. HYDE & SHRIEK – 6 p.m. Tour places where ghostly manifestations have been reported. See Friday Listing. FILM – 6:30 p.m. “Men In Black International.” See Friday Listing. CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Enjoy concert by Backtrack A Capella Vocals. Performing variety of songs from Motown to classical to originals. Walton Theater, 30 Gardiner Pl., Walton. 607-865-6688. THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Theatrical performance “The Wolves.” See Friday Listing. FIREWORKS – 8:30 p.m. Celebrate new SUNY O presiden Barbara Jean Morris. Parking Log, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta.

►Sunday, October 6 PIT RUN – 10:45 a.m. Run or walk 6.2 miles through scenic Oneonta, passing through SUNY Oneonta campus, ending at Neahwa Park. Also includes 5k race, 2 mile stroll, or kids fun run. In memory of Ricky J. “Pit” Parisian NYS Police Investigator killed in Line of Duty. Start at Main Street Bridge, Oneonta. 607432-8068.

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Graham Humes, 86, Cherry Valley; ‘Dean Of Investment Banking’ In Pa. CHERRY VALLEY – Graham Humes, 86, once referred to as the “dean of investment banking in Philadelphia,” died on Sept. 26, in Cherry Valley. He served as a board member of Hyde Hall mansion, the National Historic Landmark, and was a retired board member of Brunschwig & Fils, the George M. Leader Family Corp. and emeritus board member of the Committee

of Seventy in Philadelphia. Graham and his wife, Elizabeth Hershey Humes, raised six children, which he considered the most important accomplishment of his life. Graham was born in 1932, in Williamsport, Pa., to Judge Samuel H. and Mrs. Elenor G. Humes. He graduated from Williams College (1954), started a family with his first wife, Elizabeth Dill Humes (d.),

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served in the Army, then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School (1958). During Graham his Humes years as an investment banker at Butcher & Singer, GirardMellon Bank and Legg Mason, he also managed three Pennsylvania Legislative District campaigns. From 1993 to 1995, Graham and Beth lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was general director of CARESBAC. He loved landscaping projects and created a lasting wildlife habitat. In addition to his wife, Beth, Graham is survived by daughters Meg Bartlo, Katie Humes, Liz Humes, Lisa Heinrich, their spouses, brothers Samuel Humes (Lynne) and James Humes (Dianne), nieces and nephews. Graham and Beth’s sons, Malcolm and John, predeceased him. Papa G adored his nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A service was held Tuesday, Oct. 1, at Grace Episcopal Church, Cherry Valley. ln lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hyde Hall. Arrangements were entrusted to Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

Kenneth A. Carson Sr., 74, Hartwick; Retired As CCS Transportation Director

HARTWICK – Kenneth Alan Carson Sr., 74, or “Bucky” as most called him, who retired in 1999 as transportation director after 34 years in the Cooperstown Central School District, passed away on Sept. 21, 2019, with his family by his side in Shelby, N.C. The son of Kenneth S. Carson and Ruth M. Gray (Allen), he was born in Cooperstown, on Oct. 27, 1944. In addition to his tenure

at CCS, Bucky gave decades of service with the Hartwick Fire Department Co. No. 2, as well as his work Kenneth as a 911 Carson dispatcher. He is survived by his wife, Marta; his three children and their families, Tami, Kenneth

Jr. and Stephen; stepson Jason; sisters Madeline Socci and Christine Gray; his numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and friends. He was predeceased by Florence, his wife of 48 years; his brother Theodore; and stepson Mathew Francis. A memorial service was held Saturday, Sept. 28, at Council Rock Park on Lake Street, Cooperstown.

Mea Grace Stoecklin, 8, Laurens; Born With Sanfillipo, Genetic Syndrome LAURENS – Mea Grace Stoecklin, 8, passed away at home on Sept. 24, 2019, peacefully in her sleep. She was born Dec. 29, 2010, in Cooperstown. Mea was born with Sanfilippo, a genetic syndrome. Mea is survived by her parents, Brooke S. Stoecklin and Nathan M. Hitchcock; a half-sister, Allie Lauria; grandparents, Jim and Jill Stoecklin, Beth Kilts, Donald Hitchcock and Kelly Clark; great-grandparents, John L. Smith and Rocco

and Louise Lauria; aunts and uncles, Morgan Stoecklin, Ryan Hitchcock, Jenna Muir, Erik Lauria, Cody Burghart; her caregiver, Traci O’Dennell; many cousins, extended family members and friends. She was predeceased by her great-grandparents, Polly Smith, Felipe and Jacqueline Balbuena, Thomas and Regina Stoecklin; uncle, Roger Smith; and a dear friend, Kay-Lynn Parkers. A funeral was held

Monday, Sept. 30, at the United Methodist Church in Milford, with the Rev. Sylvia Barrett officiating. Mea Grace Stoecklin Interment was in the the Davenport Cemetery Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.

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