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CCS Superintendent’s Focus: Students

FOCUS, UNION TALKING ABOUT STAFFING LEVEL

Bill Crankshaw Turned Around Remsen Finances, Community Relations, Reading Skills Bill Crankshaw and CCS School Board President Theresa Russo sign the new superintendent’s contract.

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here was trouble in Remsen city when Bill Crankshaw arrived in

2013.

Its school district was one of only in the state operating on contingency budgets after Remsen Central voters twice

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Fly Creek’s Mike Ainslie got a jump on the spooky season to come Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 8-9, at The Farmers’ Museum Tractor Fest.

The grim reaper tractor will be an addition to Ainslie’s graveyardthemed display he’s been developing at his Goose Road home for 30 years now.

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rejected the school board’s spending plan.

The superintendent and principal had left. The only administrator was an interim superintendent. “Are you still sure you want this job?” she asked the recruit.

“It was my first time being superintendent,” Crankshaw said in an interview the day after accepting the Please See CCS, A3

‘I Stand With Amy,’ 100 Declare, Rising

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WINS FETTERMAN: Mike Perrino, longtime youth football coach at the Clark Sports Center, has won the 2016 Fetterman Award/DETAILS, A2 ON THE RIVER: Bob Bassett, president of the CHB Youth Foundation in Owego, departed by canoe from Council Rock Monday, Oct. 10, en route to Chesapeake Bay. His journey is to benefit the Alzheimer’s Foundation. Details at

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Traveling Exhibit Goal: Teaching From Tragedy

Candidates Forum Due At SUNY-O tate Senate and Assembly candidates will meet at a forum at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center.

Incumbent Republican Jim Seward and Democrat Jermain Bagnall-Graham are running for the 51st Senate seat. Incumbent Democrat Bill Magee and Republican John Salka are seeking the local Assembly seat.

The evening is co-sponsored by the Cooperstown and Oneonta chapters, League of Women Voters.

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ocus Otsego and its workers’ union have announced a “joint effort” to address staffing shortages at the facility.

The plan includes higher wages, a scale to recognize experience, incentives for new employees and training aimed at maximizing quality care.

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my Stock would have turned 50 Tuesday, Oct. Amy Stock 11, 2016.

“Instead of celebrating, I’m dedicating a Stop DWI Memorial,” said her sister, Eileen Anania. “And tomorrow I’ll go to the cemetery with bright yellow mums.”

Amy’s family gathered at the county Emergency Services garage at The Meadows to unveil the Stop DWI Amy Stock Memorial Please See AMY, A3

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A sometimes tearful Eileen Anania of Cooperstown introduces the Amy Stock Memorial, a teaching tool featuring the car her sister was driving when it was hit by a drunk driver, to 100 well-wishers at a dedication Tuesday, Oct. 11, at The Meadows.

Weinermobile’s Visit Brings Back Memories

Trump’s Revelation No Surprise To One Who Covered Him As NYC Reporter, Mathisen Saw Presidential Candidates Close Up

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tephanie Hazzard is many things – Baseball Hall of Fame director of education, a mom to 3-year-old Paxton and wife to Matt Hazzard, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce executive director.

But before that, she was a Hot Dogger.

“I read an article about the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile when I was in graduate school at Elmira The Weinermobile attended (former College,” she said. “My boss said I should apply. driver) Stephanie and Matt Hazzard’s Please See OSCAR, C1 wedding.

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he afternoon before, veteran New York City radio reporter Don Mathisen, now living in Oneonta, was recounting his experiences covering both presidential candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

As a reporter for WCNY, the city’s largest NPR station, then Bloomberg News and, finally, Fox, he covered leading New York politicos for decades, and described Clinton as testy, chilly with local reporters, and Please See MATHISEN, A6

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LOCALS

Annual Baseball Game To Be Played In Honor Of Brian ‘Brooks’ McArdle COOPERSTOWN

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ooperstown Central School’s annual Baseball Alumni Game will be dedicated this year to

Brian “Brooks” McArdle, CCC ‘79, who died last April.

Brian battled Cystic Fibrosis for more than 50 years, but was active in both baseball and wrestling.

The game is scheduled for 10 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 15 on Doubleday Field.

For more information, contact Matt Hazzard, (607) 227-9497 or matthazzard@cooperstownchamber.org

Mike Perrino, CYB Coach, Wins This Year’s Fetterman thing to do,” he said. “He inspired me.”

Perrino went on to play COOPERSTOWN football for CW Post Long Island University, where he hen the phone first graduated in 1991. “I had rang, Mike Perrino really been missing footthought his ball,” he said. “Then Cooperstown Youth Bill Senif asked if Football team was in I wanted to coach trouble. “They called with him at the Clark me down to the Clark Sports Center.”

Sports Center and That was in 2001, said they needed to and he’s served as talk to me,” he said. president of the “I thought ‘Oh no, Cooperstown Youth Perrino what did these kids Football League since get into?’ I thought 2004. He also coached something was amiss.” varsity football at CCS. But instead, Clark Direc“What fills my soul here tor Val Paige had only good is seeing the smiles of the news – he was named this kids,” he said. “At the end year’s recipient of the annual of the season, it doesn’t matFetterman Award. “I was ter if you win or lose; when speechless,” he said. “They they look up at you and got me!” smile, it’s so rewarding” Perrino, first senior vice And in 15 years, he’s president, product managebeen able to see the impact ment, at NYCM Insurance in he’s had on kids, just as Edmeston, will be honored Coach Johnson had an imat a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. pact on him all those years Tuesday, Oct. 18, at The ago. “We won a championOtesaga. ship in 2002,” he said. “And Growing up in Riverhead a couple years ago, I started on Long Island, his football getting invited to their coach, Mr. Johnson, was a graduation parties!” mentor to him. “I was in the His oldest son, Michael, front yard playing with my 19, played football for the brothers and he drove by,” Clark Sports Center and he said. “He asked my parCCS and now plays rugby ents if I could join the team, for SUNY Geneseo. His but they didn’t even have a youngest son, Matthew, 8, way to get me to the park.” is currently on his team.

Coach Johnson picked He also has two daughters, him up for practice every Megan, 16, and Danielle, day in the back of his pickup 17. He is married to Colleen truck. “It gave me somePerrino.

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Cooperstown Native Seeks Funds To Fight Niece’s Lymphoma Battle

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This past year, Davia played for the Schalmont state championship varsity soccer team.

avia Jansenski, 14, niece of CCS graduate JoElle Bellantoni Jasenski (who is daughter of Toddsville’s Jean Finch) has been diagnosed with nonHodgkin Lymphoma.

A benefit to assist her family with expenses will be held Sunday, Oct. 23, at Mallozzi’s, 1930 Curry Road in Schenectady.

Finch and JoElle’s step-dad, John, are making “Cooperstown Baskets” to be auctioned at the fundraiser.

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Amy Stock Traveling Memorial to Discourage DWI Statewide

AMY/From A1 Trailer, a multi-media exhibit designed to warn people of the fatal consequences of drinking and driving.

Stock, 48, was killed on July 19, 2015, when Kadeem Fowler, 22, drove at 75 mph through a stop sign on an Albany street and crashed into her car. Fowler had .27 blood-alcohol level, nearly three times the legal limit. He is serving a 8- to 24-year prison term.

Inside the trailer that has

been converted into the Amy Stock Memorial, the mangled car is visible behind glass, surrounded by photos and news stories.

A video on two TV screens shows crash footage, TV coverage, and even plays the last voice mail Amy left for a family member. As the video played, several audience members wept quietly.

“I don’t know how anyone could look at this trailer and not think twice about driv-

ing under the influence,” said county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “Even as a seasoned law enforcement veteran, it still has an impact on me every time I see it.”

After the crash, her family gathered at her apartment to process her death, and decided to use the car as a teaching tool.

“I did what anyone would do – I got on Google,” said Anania. “I saw a trailer for a woman that was killed in

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Texas, and I thought we could do something like this with Amy’s car. People said it would be hard, but you know what would have been harder?

Sending her car to the junkyard.”

“Destiny implies a future with something great in it,” said Amy’s brother, Tom Stock. “When we were going through Amy’s things, we found a folder from a SADD assembly when she was in high school in the ’80s. She organized the speakers; education and advocacy are in her blood.

I give you Amy’s destiny.”

The trailer was sponsored

by New York Central Mutual and built by Medical Coaches.

“It was a labor of love for my company,” said owner Len Marsh. “We still had other projects in the plant, but my guys would take a few hours

Amy.” Edmeston’s Prolifiq sign company created the graphic wrap-around.

NYCM created the #IStandWithAmy hashtag for social media, and Stock encouraged everyone who talks about their experience with the trailer to utilize the hashtag. “I stand The Freeman’s Journal with Amy Stock,” he said.

Sheriff Devlin comforts “Who do you stand with?”

Amy’s parents.

“I stand with Amy Stock,” here, a few hours there to work said Eileen, rising to her feet.

And soon, everyone in the on this.” room was standing and repeatAuto service tech students ing, “I stand with Amy Stock.” at ONC BOCES preserved The trailer will make its the car for the display. “I was debut on Thursday, Oct. 13 so proud of these kids,” said at Teen Safety Day at the Director Joe Booan. “They reVeterans Memorial Arena in alized it could have been their downtown Binghamton, and mother, sister, aunt or even 77 teens are expected to see them. They took great care it. “I have never met Amy,” of the vehicle, they covered it said Devlin. “But through this every night out of respect for project, I feel like I know her.”

New Superintendent’s Focus: Students CCS/From A1 Cooperstown Central superintendent’s job Wednesday, Oct. 5. “I had no idea I was getting into. I said: ‘Absolutely.’”

As he looks forward to reporting for duty at CCS Jan. 1, he was able to say of his Remsen tenure, “I’m proud of the shape I’m leaving the district in – a very healthy financial situation. And we offer the same as schools three times our size.”

In explaining what happened, he used the term “strategic planning” several times: In other words, setting priorities, deciding what’s most important and doing it first.

At Remsen Central – it’s 20 miles north of Utica – that meant, first, tackling finances, and by the end of the 2013-14 year a reserve fund had been reestablished.

He discovered that the community – its poverty rate was 51.3 percent at the time, more than double the state’s 20 percent – thought it was paying teachers too much, hence the nay votes. Crankshaw’s answer was “building relationships in the community.”

He recruited the teachers to that task, as well. “The union leadership at Remsen totally gets it – the big picture,” he said.

As finances and community relations firmed up, the new superintendent focused on curriculum, what students are taught.

Using “data and real facts,” the new superintendent discovered that reading skills were poor. From his background as an elementary principal, Crankshaw believed “the elementary school is the foundation of learning. We knew that writing was deficient, so we brought in a writing program,” The Lucy Calkins’ “Units of Study for Writing” from Columbia Teachers College.

In short order, the district English Language Arts scores went up 50 percent. Since reading comprehension is basic to all learning, he said, math scores soon followed.

Today, “we’re a reading intensive school,” he said.

Crankshaw was born and raised in Johnstown, graduating from Johnstown High School.

He received his B.A. in music – he plays and saxophone and sings – at Ithaca College in 1989. After a year teaching at Fort Plain, he returned to his alma mater, where he taught high school music for 13 years.

While there, he was influenced by a fellow music teacher, Kathy Dougherty, in particular her focus: Every decision was built around the good of the student. He moved to Canajoharie Central in 2003 as Dougherty was promoted to elementary principal at Glebe Street Elementary in Johnstown.

When she moved on as Northville in 2006, he succeeded her as Glebe principal.

When she was promoted to superintendent in 2010, he succeeded her at Northville. “I remember her in cabinet meetings,” he said. “She would always bring the conversation back the students. That was her hallmark.”

Meanwhile, he obtained a master’s in music at The College of St. Rose in 1995, a leadership certificate from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2006, and a Ph.D. from The Sage Colleges in 2011.

Next year, CCS is planning to renovate the high school’s southern wing, in part, to better teach STEM skills – science, technology, engineering and math.

CCS School Board President Theresa Russo said Crankshaw’s STEM success – the recently hired high school principal, Donna Lucy, was also nationally recognized in this area – was among the reasons he was hired.

The new superintendent sees STEM – plus an A for arts, STEAM – as preparing students with “21st century skills – making it real.”

“We will want to look at the curriculum first,” he said.

“And we will want to look at the relevance of the curriculum courses in terms what the kids actually need to be successful in college and their careers.”

Crankshaw told the school board after the unanimous vote to hire him that his only disappointment was he couldn’t start right away.

For now, “there’s a lot to wrap up here,” he said from Remsen. In the three months before his start date, he continued, “I intend to read all the plans, all the financials, look into the building projects, get to know the board and build contacts in the community.”

Perspectives

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EDITORIALS

Hartwick, Wahl Show: Opportunity Around Us

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nthony Wahl’s story brings George “It’s A Wonder Life” Bailey’s to mind.

Anthony studied finance in hopes of working on Wall Street, only to graduate in 2008 as the Great Recession began.

Unable to get a job, he returned to Wahl to Wahl, his father’s used-car business and auto graveyard in the Town of Middlefield.

Again preparing to depart, his dad died, and Anthony needed Wahl to Wahl revenues to support his mother.

So he stayed, computerized, and today is selling car parts to customers in all 50 states and around the world.

• As Wahl was getting traction, Hartwick College happened on an opportunity of its

own, the Center for Craft Food & Beverage, designed to provide lab testing that breweries and local food producers need to achieve consistency as they grow, but can’t afford to do on their own.

The idea grew out of the interaction between Alex Sessions, an intern at Ommegang, and the brewery’s Scott Britton, and the customer base has grown from one to 53 in the past year.

• Sure, Upstate has down-slid in the past half-century, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities, and the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce is at its best when it ferrets out and recognizes these success stories around us and celebrates them, as it plans to do Thursday,

Oct. 20, at The Otesaga. Plan to go. It’s a fun night.

• This all brings to mind Temple University president Russell Conwell’s “Field of Diamonds” speech, much celebrated in the 19th century, on a world traveler seeking his fortune, only to find a field of diamonds in his backyard at home.

State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, made what Hartwick is doing sound pretty simple, calling it “a classic example of identifying an unmet need and filling it.

That’s exactly what they did.”

And it’s exactly right: Let find needs, fill them and prosper.

It applies perfectly to what Anthony Wahl did, too.

Donald Trump’s Crudities Evoke Alternative Vision

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hy did Donald Trump’s crudities sadden? A reader reminded us of an alternative vision, in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”: Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Life is hard enough. Let us support our beloveds.

ISSUE & DEBATE PRO: Constitution Pipeline Can Create Jobs, Save Amphenol Editor’s Note: This is the draft of a letter asking Governor Cuomo to put his support behind completion of the Constitution Pipeline.

The draft was not completed in time to be considered by the Otsego County Board of Representatives at its October meeting on the 4th.

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ear Governor Cuomo: Recently, an editorial written by Tom Vilsack, the U.S Secretary of Agriculture appeared in a local newspaper. He wrote the following, “We know when rural communities do well, America does well.

Rural America provides us with the food we eat, the water we drink, and the energy we use … That’s why it’s good news that in all corners of rural America we’re seeing real, positive change take hold for the first time in the years since the Great Recession.”

Unfortunately this does not apply to Otsego County.

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County Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, briefs colleagues on status of letter asking Governor Cuomo to open the way for the Constitution Pipeline.

Opiate addiction and overdose, alcohol abuse and DWI, domestic violence and child abuse are at epidemic proportions here. Poverty is the illness. Good jobs are the cure. To this end Otsego County and its neighbors need the Constitution Pipeline. This pipeline has the potential to provide natural

gas to industry and business as well as local municipalities and individual homes.

Where will the gas go if the Constitution Pipeline is not built? It will go by pipeline to Louisiana and Mexico. In Louisiana it will be converted to liquid and sent overseas. In Mexico it will supply cheap clean

energy for new industries and jobs there.

Following two devastating floods, Amphenol rebuilt in Sidney, N.Y. The promise of a natural gas pipeline was calculated into their building plans. Other industries which might locate here won’t make the same miscalculation. Potential new jobs won’t materialize. Older established jobs will leave.

Rural America, specifically the Marcellus Shale, provides the natural gas.

Rural America should benefit. Please reconsider the many benefits the Constitution Pipeline could provide to our area, and direct the Department of Environmental Conservation to work constructively with the natural gas industry for the pipeline’s completion.

Sincerely, JAMES POWERS R-Butternuts EDWIN FRAZIER R-Unadilla

ANTI: Save Jobs? Blocking Pipeline Will Save Humanity To the Editor: Otsego Country Representatives Powers and Frazier ignore the “costs” of oil and gas infrastructure build-out, both in terms of the public health threat to those living along the route (and especially near the compressor stations required to keep the gas flowing where benzene and other volatile organic chemicals are vented to the atmosphere, or leak into the atmosphere, posing an imminent health risk to those down-wind), and the cost of adding many tons of natural gas to the atmosphere on an annual basis, which will speed-up climate change (methane is about 85 times more potent at trapping solar radiation than is CO2).

Simply put, THEY DON’T CARE! Republicans are nihilistic and display a depraved indifference to protecting public health and safety, and the environment, and they cannot grasp

how close our addiction to fossil fuels has put us to self-annihilation. The analogy of where we are at today is: driving in a thick fog towards a cliff with the pedal to the metal.

If constructed, the Constitution Pipeline will transport 650 million cubic feet of gas per day. Dr. Howarth at Cornell calculates a leakage rate up to 12 percent, meaning the Constitution could leak methane at the rate of 78 million cubic feet per day, or 28.5 billion cubic feet per year (around 806,042 metric tons per year), with an annual “social cost” of about $2.5 billion dollars per year. The “real cost” of constructing this pipeline far outweighs the economic benefits of this proposed project.

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LETTERS

Create European-Style, Cobblestoned Plaza Over Asphalted Doubleday Parking Lot To the Editor: Doubleday parking lot is a major eyesore in the Village of Cooperstown. Building a parking garage there and inviting in more traffic would only make things worse and preclude better uses. Our village trustees

Mary Joan Kevlin Associate Publisher

Tara Barnwell Advertising Director Thom Rhodes Advertising Consultant Larissa Ryan Office Manager

pean-style piazza paved with cobblestones (not asphalt), a fountain in the center, maybe including the Sandlot Kid, with cafes and shops around the periphery, and Doubleday Field at the head. Include some space for public performances and events. Open access to Willow Creek. Figure out how to ensure continued access to current business. Limited

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vehicular access can be allowed for deliveries, dropoffs and pickups, etc., as it is in most European squares.

What about the current parking spaces which would be lost? Automobiles aren’t going away. If a parking garage must be built, a better location would be behind the General Store, where a small parking lot already exists off Church street.

A multi-floor garage there could be nestled in, and accommodate a fair number of cars without visually impacting the village.

Spaces might be reserved in the summer for people with village parking permits.

Main Street could be made one-way, going east from the traffic light, and angled parking could be reintroduced on both sides (as it

used to be), further compensating for parking lost in Doubleday.

Pie in the sky? Maybe.

But it’s one way to think about creating a pedestrian public space in the village, eliminating an eyesore, and addressing the parking issue, all at the same time.

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surely would not go down that road, despite a consultant’s recommendation.

Nonetheless the problem of Doubleday lot remains.

Consider this approach: ban cars and convert the whole space into a public square, let’s say a Euro-

Professor: ‘Rigged Elections’ Pioneered Here Editor’s Note: Chip Northrup of Cooperstown sent along a link to Politico’s “If Trump Disputes the Election,” by Ohio State professor Edward Foley.

This excerpt tells of Otsego County’s involvement in the first “rigged election.”

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not the United States. And for that, we can blame the electoral system set up at this country’s birth, when the Founding Fathers made two crucial – and mistaken – assumptions.

First, they thought they could prevent political “factions” from coalescing into two stable and antagonistic

political parties that might find themselves directly at odds over an election and its results.

Second, the Founders were unfamiliar with chief executive elections; the British king had appointed most colonial governors, so the Founders only had experience with disputes over elections to the British parliament or their own colonial legislatures.

Because a fight over a single legislative seat was Please See RIGGED, A6

The Cooperstown ballots, which William Cooper kept in his store, came under dispute in the Clinton-Jay race.

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

Public Meeting – At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors and other citizens of the County of Otsego held at the Court House in Cooperstown, on Friday evening, October 4, 1816, for the purpose of expressing their opinion of the Law of Congress granting an extra compensation to its members – whereof John McKellup was Chairman and Major Elihu Phinney, Secretary, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, that the late law of Congress, commonly called the Salary Bill, would, under any circumstances, be pernicious in its principle and consequences – of evil tendency to the community, repugnant to the spirit of our government, and diametrically opposite to that system of economy which the United States as a nation ought to pursue. Resolved, that under the present pressure of the times, necessarily consequent upon our late national struggle, it is peculiarly absurd and flagrantly unjust for the representatives of the people to fleece their constituents, without any ostensible or conceivable object but their own gain. Resolved, that it is the duty of a representative to serve the people, and not himself. Resolved, that Ambrose L. Jordan, Samuel Starkweather, John Russell, Robert Campbell, and John H. Prentiss be appointed a Committee to draw up and circulate in this county a respectful petition to Congress, praying a speedy repeal of the Salary Bill.

October 10, 1816

175 YEARS AGO

Cause of Crime – The frequency of atrocious crimes at the present moment occasions a natural alarm in the public mind.

How is it that brutal crimes, murders, rapes, have suddenly become so common? What has happened to make men more ferocious and cruel than usual? We can point to a cause which no man in making an answer to this question ought to overlook. We have

150 YEARS AGO

Miss Jennie Parker of this village left town on Friday last to fill an engagement as teacher of the freedmen. She goes out under the auspices of the Freedman’s National Relief Association and represents this town – in connection with another town or two, we believe – which by a series of social gatherings, festivals, &c., last winter, securely nearly or quite the amount necessary to employ a teacher. Miss Palmer is to be absent a year and her destination is Newbern, North Carolina. She has the hearty wishes of all her friends for her success.

October 12, 1866

125 YEARS AGO

October 12, 1966 no sort of hesitation ascribing a great part of this increase of brutality and ferocity to the mode in which a certain party carried on the late Presidential election. Let any candid man revolve in his mind the proceedings of that party. Let him consider that associations of young men were formed with the approbation of their seniors, for the purpose of nightly carousing and shouting at the log cabins. Noise, pageantry, processions and drinking were relied upon to produce a state of physical exaltation, from which it was hoped the patients would not recover unless they gave in their votes.

October 11, 1841

Your clear choice!

Local – The Niles place on Lake Street, adjoining the Graves property, has been sold through P.H. Potter’s Agency to Edward S. Clark for $1,500 – a very liberal price, as real estate is now selling here. But, the property is worth more to him as it is to anyone else, as his father had already purchased the Graves property, which runs in behind the Niles lot and down to the lake.

Boat-builder A.H. Gazley has the keel of George Coburn’s new steamer, the “Mabel Coburn” in position, and with fair weather for outdoor work, it is expected the job will be well underway before winter sets in. The boat will be 62 feet in length.

The Gymnasium in the village is one of the best-equipped and most pleasantly arranged of any in the state. In a climate that for about five months of the year debars the majority of people from much outdoor exercise, it is calculated to be of special benefit to those who can avail themselves of its privileges.

October 15, 1891

100 YEARS AGO

About four o’clock Wednesday afternoon the large and modern barns of E.O. Rogers, located north of and near the trolley crossing at the station in Hartwick, were discovered to be on fire. The flames had gained such headway

before the firemen had water upon the buildings that they were destroyed with much of the contents, although all the livestock and the wagons and harness were gotten out. It is believed they could not be replaced for $5,000.

Mr. Rogers was absent in Cooperstown with his motor car, so that was saved.

October 11, 1916

75 YEARS AGO

Plays Full Part in National Defense – Contributing her part to national defense is Bess Segis Sensation 1711631, a purebred Holstein cow owned by McLaury Brothers of Portlandville. She produced 10,093 quarts of milk this past year and 712.4 pounds of butterfat. If all the nation’s dairy cows equaled this Holstein, there would be an abundance of milk, butter and cheese for the United States, Great Britain and other needy countries. Sensation was milked four times daily, and her production for the entire period was supervised by Cornell University and the Holstein-Friesian Association of America.

October 15, 1941

25 YEARS AGO

A cast and crew of about 150 people is expected in Cooperstown at the end of October to shoot scenes for the Columbia Pictures Film “A League of Their Own.” Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna star in the film, directed by Penny Marshall about the Women’s Baseball League of the 1940s.

The Village Trustees have leased Doubleday Field, its parking lot and surrounding streets over a two-day period for $5,000.

October 16, 1991

10 YEARS AGO

At precisely 11 a.m., Friday, October 6, Rebecca Weil, Co-President of The Friends of the Village Library pushed the send button on her Gateway laptop and a new era began. Her message to the other “friends” – “The wireless is working!!! I am typing this e-mail to you while sitting in the library with my laptop! Hoorah!”

October 13, 2006

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AVERETT: Survival As Species Requires Action Now

AVERETT/From A4 (like Benzene), including nitrogen oxides (NOx) and radon 222 and lead, this translates to hundreds of children with respiratory illnesses, dozens of lost babies or infants born with deformities, scores of cases of cancer, and endocrine disorders added to potential damage from pipeline leaks, explosions and floods. That’s a “real cost” that New Yorkers will have to pay to subsidize the Constitution Pipeline, if constructed.

Furthermore, building out more oil and gas infrastructure (in New York and elsewhere) is going to increase global warming over the short-term, which will cost the nation far more (orders of magnitude more... like in the trillions of dollars) than the loss of productivity (calculated to be in the billions of dollars...) implied by NOT allowing this (and all the other pipelines) to be built. The cost of Superstorm Sandy alone to New York State was around $42 billion, and this was a

single event.

Ignoring climate change in favor of creating more pipelines, compressor stations and oil refineries is NOT an option for the U.S. any longer, and our very survival as a country and for our species depends on taking drastic action now instead of pretending that a few jobs created by Industry are a reason to continue down this path of madness.

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Trump’s Loutish Remarks Rigged Elections Started Here? party thought Cooper and his A4 No Surprise This Reporter RIGGED/From cronies had tampered with the relatively inconsequential,

the Founders decided to leave “I was shocked!” declared MATHISEN/From A1 claims of fraud in congressional the reporter, who concluded, manipulative. and state legislative elections “He’s a blowhard. Is he a good up to those respective chambers His stories depicted Trump businessman? I don’t know. I to resolve. as a bully. And he told how know that he likes once, when the They also, regrettably, ashimself.” real-estate mogul sumed that Congress could While he is was cooling his handle disputes in presidential supporting Hillheels in the ornate elections, and state legislatures ary Clinton for City Council in gubernatorial elections. president, his chambers, the two Were they ever caught by personal experi– the only ones surprise! As early as 1792, two ence bolsters her opposing political parties alin the balcony reputation for – spent several ready had formed: the Federaldistance and un- ists and the Jeffersonians … hours together, trustworthiness. where Trump The first major allegations of After she was vote rigging after the adoption recounted, often elected to the U.S. of the Constitution were in New in great detail, his Senate in 2000, sexual conquests.

York, where the Federalists had Mathisen – he had convinced John Jay to run for Little could covered Daniel Mathisen know governor in an effort to unseat Patrick Moynihan the Jeffersonian incumbent, how even more and Al D’Amato George Clinton. relevant what he before her, and had to say would …The gubernatorial election Chuck Schumer be within 24 was exceptionally close, and it Mathisen at his since – found her turned on disputed ballots from hours, when Don- microphone. very controlling ald Trump’s “lockCooperstown, which was then with the press, heightening er room conversations” about controlled by (Cooperstown groping women – “when you’re security, requiring everyone to founder) William Cooper himshow IDs, and often passing a star, they let you do it” – in self, an ardent Federalist. them through metal detectors. a leaked 2005 videotape with Naturally, the Jeffersonian While reporters often apBilly “Access Hollywood” proached the other senators Bush became public, shocked the nation and put his campaign before press conference to chat and joke, “Hillary would never in dire circumstances. do that.”

In a follow-up interview When she held a rare press Tuesday, Oct. 11, Mathisen, conference, she played to the who retired to Oneonta to be national networks, ignoring the near a daughter and grandson, local press. “She planted shills said he was not surprised at all in the audience” who would by the revelations. cheer. “Yay, Hillary, yay!,” a “He talked about his sexual tactic not done since Al Smith. conquests like teenage boys “People say she’s charming,” would in a locker room. That’s Mathisen concluded. “Maybe the way he was,” said the radio she is. I never saw it.” reporter, who currently is host of a weekly civic-affairs program on WIOX-FM Roxbury.

“I don’t know if he used the words he used in the videos that came out, but that’s the way he talked about women, yes.”

The week before, Mathisen had first recounted how, after a press conference in the penthouse of the Chase Manhattan Bank on Fifth Avenue, Trump, with a pretty 20-something on his arm, had confronted city Parks Commissioner Henry Stern in the elevator, insisting ASHLEY CONNOR he name a plant – a power city parks commissioners possess 29 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown · 607-547-4045 – after his girlfriend.

Patricia Bensen-Ashley – Licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner Stern rejected the request outright, and soon Trump was screaming in Stern’s face, as his embarrassed date pleaded with him to drop it. “There’s nothing subtle about his negotiating style,” Mathisen observed drily.

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ballots from his town …

The issue was that Cooper had kept the ballot boxes in a store he owned, before having one of his Federalist flunkies deliver the ballots to New York’s secretary of state. The Federalists, however, argued that the seals on Cooperstown’s ballot boxes had remained intact, so the ballots inside could not have been altered.

What really made the Federalists livid, however, was the institution created to decide the dispute over the Cooperstown ballots: a “canvassing committee” set up by the state legislature, which the Jeffersonians controlled.

The 12-member committee was stacked with nine Jeffersonians and only three Federalists. On a party-line vote, the committee disqualified the disputed ballots, citing the potential for fraud even if none actually had occurred.

The Federalists felt the rigged committee had robbed Jay and them of a victory that

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Hartwick Craft Food Center Aims To Revive Ag Economy Craft Food Center Director Aaron McLeod, lab technician Meghan Douglas and student intern Abby Lipp pause from their labors.

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Wahl To Wahl Ships To 50 States, World

Celil Refik Jaya, 2012 Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition winner, is featured at this weekend’s guitar festival at SUNY Oneonta.

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he 16th annual Upstate New York Classical Guitar Festival features regional and world class performers, master classes, student ensembles and more, Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 15-16. Celil Refik Jaya, Sat. 7:30 p.m. recital ticket $20. $15, two-day all-events pass, society members $35, others $40, includes Sunday’s 1 p.m.

Collegiate Honors Recital; 3 p.m. Rifenbark Memorial Recital with Dr. Ken Meyer of SU. SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Center, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 8658775, www.cgsuny.org FILM CYCLE: Glimmerglass Film Days offers “Rising from the Ashes,” story of first Rwandan national cycling team, many genocide survivors, 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY 80, Cooperstown. Tickets @ glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events. Companion 24mile bike rides around Otsego Lake offered

by ORCA, 9:15-11:30 a.m. $5 registration, from the Clark Sports Center, Susquehanna Avenue, Cooperstown.

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quarter-century after Andrew Wahl put a few junkers in a field off Route 166, son Anthony has

built Wahl to Wahl Auto into THE place to buy car parts.

“My father started with a few junk cars on his father’s lawn, across the street,” said Anthony. “He was just sell-

ing parts to friends, and his dad told him he had to move them.”

That was 1991. Today, “we’ve got 1,500 vehicles on 23 acres,” said the son.

“We’re a full-service salvage yard, and we sell used cars. We ship parts to all 50 states and overseas.

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PAST CHAMBER/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS HONOREES

Barnyard Swing (2015) • Lutz Feed (2014) • Five Star Subaru (2013) • Benson Agency Real Estate (2012) • Gruver Zweifel & Scott, LLP (2011) • Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal (2010) • James Jordan Associates, Architects (2009) • The Shipping Room (2008) • ISD (2007) • Eastman Associates (2006) • H.W. Naylor Co. (2005) • Gordon B. Roberts Agency (2004) Cooperstown Bat Co. (2003) • Ultimate Broadcasting (2002) • Sport Tech (2001) • Fly Creek Cider Mill (2000)

PAST CHAMBER/Excellus BREAKTHROUGH AWARD HONOREES

Northern Eagle Hop Pelletizing (2015) • Fox Hospital & John Remillard (2014) • Brooks BBQ (2013) • Green Earth (2012) Cleinman Performance Partners (2011) • Green Toad Bookstore (2010) • Ioxus (2009) • Cooperstown Cookie (2008) GrafiQa Creative Services (now Vibrant Creative) (2007) • T.S. Pink Corp. (2006)

LITTLE LIBRARY OPENS: Little Free Library, small, front yard book exchanges found in 70 countries, opens 42-44 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Library stewards Andrew, Melissa, Caroline and Charlotte Marietta. Sunday, October 16, 1-2:30 p.m. Local author book raffle, book-themed games, refreshments. Come as your favorite book character! Info, facebook.com/CooperstownLittleFreeLibrary PHILATELISTS: The Leatherstocking & Tri County stamp clubs co-sponsor a stamp and postcard show, sale at Holiday Inn/Southside in Oneonta, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 15. Statewide dealers; free stamps to collectors under 16. Experienced and beginning collectors welcome.

PUMPKIN TRAIN: 1 p.m. Fun and games for the whole family. One pumpkin per child included in ticket price. Adults $20, Seniors $19, Kids (3-12) $17, under 3 Free. Train Depot, Cooperstown and Charlotte Railroad, 136 East Main St., Milford.

Info, (607) 432-2429, lrhs@lrhs.com.

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PARTS/From B1 “We’re the largest auto recyclers in Otsego County.”

That growth and expansion will be celebrated Thursday, Oct. 20, when Wahl to Wahl is honored as 2016 Small Business of the Year at an Otsego Chamber of Commerce banquet at The Otesaga.

Though Anthony was raised by his mother, he came to work for his father during college. “I wasn’t into cars as a kid,” he said. “I wanted to work on Wall Street, doing investments.”

After four years in the Navy aboard an aircraft carrier in Japan, Andrew got his associates in business at Broome Community College and a B.A. in economics with a minor in business and finance. “I graduated in 2008” – at the start of the Great Recession – “and it was not a good time to go work on Wall Street, so I thought I would help my dad’s company until I could find a job I wanted.”

But in 2011, Andrew died suddenly, and Anthony had a choice to make – sell the business or take it over. “I had really started to like the business,” he said. “And I’ve been running it ever since.”

He immediately set to improving how the business was run. “Dad was old school,” the son said. “If someone called and asked for a part, he would go out in the yard to look for it and call them back. Now we inventory everything as soon as it comes in.”

Anthony computerized, set up a Website and began accepting credit cards. “Now people can see what we have and call up to order it,” he said.

Wahl to Wahl doesn’t do online ordering, but it’s part of a commitment to customer service. “A lot of times, people don’t exactly know what they’re looking for,” he said. “They call the part the wrong name or get the model year wrong, or they need the passenger side but ask for the driver’s side.

We take steps to make sure they’re getting the exact right part they need.”

Three-quarters of the parts go to auto body shops; the remaining 25 percent to individual purchasers.

He tripled the number of employees, from three to nine, and is in the process of organizing, cleaning and expanding the lot. “Before, we might have three Corollas, but they’d be in three different spots,” he said. “Now we’ve got all the Volkswagens together, all the Subarus, all the GMs all together. It’s taken us five years, and we’re

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not finished yet!”

And, he said, he upgraded the quality of used cars for sale. “We want people to buy good cars from us, not just cheap ones,” he said. “We’ve even got a 2016 BMW on the lot right now!”

Jalopies are still a piece of the business, which is the go-to dealer for the Demolition Derby crowd, sponsoring and building cars for the Otsego County Fair. “I won Best Stock Car last year,” Wahl said. “Dad always sponsored a car, and now, we’ve got employees participating too! Derby guys buy a lot of used car parts; it’s a natural fit.

Wahl to Wahl also sponsors two race cars, one on the I-88 Speedway at Afton and one at the Five Mile Point Speedway in Kirkwood, south of Binghamton.

Anthony’s girlfriend, Meredith Rider, is a nurse at Bassett Hospital. His step-daughter, Carmen, a third-grader, is already showing some interest in perhaps taking over the family business.

“We love going to the derby together,” he said. “She comes here every day after school, so sometimes I show her the cars and the parts as they come in.”

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McLeod said to himself; he knew “Scott was very interested the service didn’t exist anywhere. in more collaboration with the “I want to be part of it.” college,” recalled Mary Ellen, a Since the wiry, high-energy biology professor now doing origiman arrived a year ago July on nal research into links between the campus overlooking the Susquehanna River, the Center for microbes, hops health and beer spoilage. Alex alerted his dad, Craft Food & Beverage has come Stan Sessions, another Hartwick a long way toward proving it is biology professor, indeed a promising and science students idea for the college began to do some and agriculture. initial testing for the When McLeod brewery. got here, he Separately, had one cusHartwick Presitomer: Brewery dent Margaret L. Ommegang.

Drugovich, inThe other day, trigued by GoverMaggie Arthurs, nor Cuomo’s CFAs Hartwick direc– comprehensive tor of corporate, funding applicafoundations and tions, the entry government relapoint to state fundtions, received his ing – and the call latest report: That for higher education one customer has to get involved in grown to 53. economic developThat success Center Director Aaron ment, asked Arthurs – of an idea that’s McLeod has a bookbarely a half-decase-full of examples of to explore what the college might do. cade old – and products from customShe sent a what it promises ers the center serves. blanket e-mail to for the future, has the Hartwick faculty, soliciting won Hartwick College’s entrepreneurial venture the Otsego County ideas, and Stan Sessions replied, suggesting students could play Chamber of Commerce’s 11th annual Breakthrough Award, to a greater role in quality-control testing for the craft-beer industry be presented Thursday, Oct. 20, recently singled out for attention at the 17th annual Small Business Banquet at The Otesaga. (In May, in Cuomo’s Farm Brewery Act of Hartwick College was also named 2012. (In return for eased regulations and more opportunities, the Otsego Now’s “Partner of the act requires that 90 percent of Year.”) licensed breweries’ raw materials State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, called the center initiative “a to be New-York grown by 2022.)

In April 2013 and again that classic example of identifying an May, Drugovich and Arthurs conunmet need and filling it. That’s vened two on-campus meetings exactly what they did.”

– in Dewar Union’s Eaton Lounge Said McLeod, “We have an opportunity to transform the sluggish and Bresee Hall’s comfortable lobby – each attended by about a Upstate agricultural economy.” dozen representatives of breweries Like penicillin in the petri dish, and wineries, grain growers and the original idea of the Center natural-food farmers. for Craft Food & Beverage was “They saw a need for testing, stumbled upon, at least somewhat. a need for help with marketing, a One element may be traced back to 2011, when Alex Sessions, need for business plans,” said Arthurs. “People were immediately a Hartwick biology student, obexcited about it – because it makes tained a Brewery Ommegang insense.” ternship under Scott Britton, then By this time, a steering commitquality & regulatory compliance tee had formed, chaired by Susan manager, now in R&D at Duvel Young, the chemist. It included

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Arthurs, biologists Mary Ellen and Carli Ficano, and chemist Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad.

The year before, the Empire State Development Corp. expanded CFA eligibility to include colleges, and the committee applied in August 2013 for a $60,000 planning grant, which – with Seward’s support – it received that December.

In August 2014, the program received another $125,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission. And by January 2016, when Seward brought in another $250,000 grant – “this one’s on me,” he quipped – the center was nearing $1 million in federal, state and private encouragement.

Since arriving a year ago July, McLeod said, he’s faced some nervous moments – “You wonder, are the walls going to be up in time for the opening?” But “once we launched” – in the basement of the Johnstone Science Center in January – “and we saw the great response from industry … It’s been very rewarding for me.”

Brewers need regular testing to ensure the alcohol level is what’s

advertised. Malt houses – there are already eight in the state – test for starch and coloration. Hops are tested for moisture level and bitter acids.

“Brewing is just one giant biochemical feat,” McLeod observed.

While beer is the center’s foundation sector now, he sees opportunity across agriculture. As they grow, artisanal bakers will need grains they can depend on.

Distillers need to be sure they are getting high-quality wheat and rye.

Cideries are just now taking off..

Chobani doesn’t need the center; it’s big enough to do its own tests on-site, said Ellen. But the tests require expensive equipment; for instance, costly AAA (atomic absorption spectroscopy) instruments that use light to determine chemical content.

Only big companies can afford that; through the center, many producers can share the cost.

More central to Hartwick’s central mission, “It’s also proved a huge benefit to our students in on-the-job training, doing realworld testing right on campus,” said Ellen. “It’s a phenomenal

opportunity.”

Already, the benefits are clear.

Recent grad Matt Plunkett is working in his field at Shmaltz Brewing in Clifton Park. Meghan Douglas is McLeod’s first fulltime employee.

Six science students are running tests parttime in the Johnstone lab, and two business students are developing and implementing the center’s social media strategy.

If how and where the center will grow isn’t completely clear, McLeod – and Drugovich – see an ever-more-solid future for the entrepreneurial enterprise. Meanwhile, the college and trustees’ commitment is strong, the president said.

“When I met with our new students this year, I told them the story of the Wright Brothers,” she recounted. “And I told them how it took the Wright Brothers over seven years to create a plane that could lift one human being off the ground for one minute.

“You’ve got to dedicate yourself to the idea over time,” she said.

“That’s how something happens.”

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Zambrzycki, a business major, also found his career calling through his internship at the state Small Business Development Center. “I saw the call for an internship and realized that I had to start focusing on what I was going to do after college,” he said.

He became interested in financial projections, helping businesses to see what they need to survive and thrive, as well as research into regulations. “It’s the stuff most people wouldn’t think about when they decide they want to start a business,” he said.

He worked on the business plan for J&D’s Wagon Wheel on Main Street, as well a bakery in Deposit.

“Every day it’s different,” he said. “One day, you could be helping someone get a loan to open a pizza place, the next day, someone with an excavating company.”

After graduation, Manesis plans to continue her law enforcement studies at Herkimer Community College. “I’m really interested in joining the state police,” she said. “But everyone I’ve talked to said I should get my paramedic certification first.”

And Zambrzycki hopes to go into banking, as well as possibly starting his own small business. “I want to invent something,” he said.

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In 1972, George was appointed superintendent of highways to succeed Francis S. Olin, and served in that position until his retirement in 1994.

On May 25, 1957, George married the former Shirley E. Moore in a ceremony at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Oneonta.

A Native Son of Cooperstown, George was an honorary member of the state Superintendents Association and the Town Highway Superintendents Association. He was a Life Member and Past Post Commander of the Sgt. Walter P. Eggleston Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7128 in Cooperstown and was also a member of the Hugick Purcell American Legion Post No. 616 in Richfield Springs. For eight years he served on the Town of Otsego Board, with six years as Deputy Supervisor, and was a 42 year member of the Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company and served as Secretary for 23 years.

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ALUMNI BASEBALL – 10 a.m.

Cooperstown Central School Alumni Baseball game dedicated to Brian “Brooks” McArdle, CCS ‘79, who battled Cystic Fibrosis for more than 50 years, while competing in wrestling and baseball. Doubleday field, 1 Doubleday Ct., Cooperstown.

Info, Matt Hazzard (607)2279497, mhazzard@cooperstownchamber.org.

STAMPS & POSTCARDS – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Leatherstocking & Tri County stamp clubs stamp and postcard show and sale Statewide dealers in attendance. Free stamps given to all juniors under age 16. Experienced and beginning collectors welcome. Holiday Inn, 5206 State Hwy 23, Oneonta. Info, Ellen Tillapaugh, (607) 5475646, kuchtill@gmail.com HALLOWEEN PARTY – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Last Cruise-In of Season with music, fun, and costume contest. Dobler’s Brewery & Tavern, St. Hwy. 205, just north of Laurens. Info, 432-2134.

ART SHOW – 1-4 p.m.

Featuring Bill Carter and Celia McShane. Springfield Community Center, 129 Cty. Hwy. 29A, Springfield Center. Info, Maureen Culbert (607) 264-3375.

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PUMPKIN PATCH TRAIN – 1 p.m. Fun and games for the whole family. One pumpkin per child included in ticket price.

Adults $20, Seniors $19, Kids (3-12) $17, under 3 free. Train Depot, Cooperstown and Charlotte Railroad, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 432-2429, lrhs@lrhs.com OPEN STUDIO – 1-5 p.m. Artists Dave and Ann Kiehm share their work. 1020 Cty. Hwy. 46, Oneonta.

3-D PRINTING – 1 p.m. Design your jack-o-lantern with Tinkercard. Registration required.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/3d-printing/ WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m. Bring works to read aloud, for critique, or just write something new while you’re there.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info: http://hmloneonta.org/hml-writers-group/ RECOVERY EVENT – 4-7 p.m.

Celebrating Unity in Recovery.

Waterfront Cafe, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy, Oneonta. Info, Kyle Smallin (607)267-4435 psoutreachfordo@outlook.com GHOSTS! – 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30 p.m. Candlelight Ghost Tours visits all places in mansion where ghostly manifestations have been reported over 150 years, including those identified

by Ghosthunters! Fri. and Sat., through Oct. $20 per person, reservations required. Hyde Hall National Landmark Historic Site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5475098, www.hydehall.org COMMUNITY DANCE – 7 p.m. Small Town Big Band to play at Pierstown Grange Hall, 137 Wedderspoon Hollow Rd., Cooperstown. Donations appreciated. Info, (607) 547-1347 GUITAR FESTIVAL – 7:30 p.m. Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York Classical Guitar Fall Festival. Celil Refik Jaya, recital ticket $20. Two-day all events pass, classical guitar society members $35, nonmembers $40. Also Sun (Dr. Ken Meyer and Collegiate Honors Recital). SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Center, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 865-8775, www.cgsuny.org MUSIC – 7:30 p.m. Guild of Glimmerglass Festival presents “An Evening of Music” featuring local stars Dr. Burce Harris, pianist, with Amanda Brin, violin, Jonathan Brin, violincello, John Cannon, organist, Christ Church, Soprano Joelle LaChance and pianist Will Kelly performing Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn, Handel and Bernstein. Tickets

$30 adults, $15 for those under 18. Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River St., Cooperstown.

Info, tickets, (607) 547-2255.

THEATER – 8 p.m. “Stop Kiss” a two-act drama by Diana Son. Tickets $5. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Center, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy, Oneonta. Info, http://oneonta.universitytickets. com/user_pages/event_listings. asp

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BIKE RIDE – 9:15-11:30 a.m. Ride around the lake with Otsego Regional Cycling Advocates (ORCA). Companion event to 2 p.m. film, “Rising from the Ashes,” recounting story of Rwanda’s first national cycling team. Meet 9:15 a.m. at Clark Sports Center, 124 Cty. Rd. 52, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events/ related-event-rising-from-theashes-ride DOUBLEDAY DOG WALK – 11 a.m. Come, walk, play!

Participants walk dogs around perimeter of Doubleday Field, Cooperstown to live music;

vendors, raising funds for Susquehanna Animal Shelter.

Raise $100, receive T-shirt; bandana for your dog. Adoptable cats, dogs will be available to meet. Info, pledge sheets, (607) 547-8111, thesas.org.

GUITAR FESTIVAL – 1 p.m.

Collegiate Honors Recital, 3 p.m.

Carolyn Rifenbark Memorial Recital, Dr. Ken Meyer (Syracuse University). Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York Classical Guitar Fall Festival. General admission $15. Two-day all events pass, classical guitar society members $35, non-members $40. SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Center, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 865-8775, www.cgsuny.org LITTLE LIBRARY – 1-2:30 p.m.

A Little Free Library arrives rain or shine and open to the public.

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Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Tickets: glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events ONEONTA HISTORY – 2 p.m.

Dr. Alan Donovan invites you to share your stories of Oneonta’s aviation history. “Kitchen Table Conversation” to be available online. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, OneontaHistory.org, (607)432-0960.

FILM SERIES – 2 p.m.

“The Amazing Mr. X” (1948).

Fenimore Auditorium, Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/films THEATER – 2 p.m. “Stop Kiss” a two-act drama by Diana Son. Tickets $5. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Center, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine pkwy, Oneonta. Info, http://oneonta.universitytickets. com/user_pages/event_listings. asp PROGRAM – 3 p.m. “Policing Cooperstown” with Chief Michael Covert. Friends of the Village Library Lecture Series.

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Ryan Warner, Oxford, got plenty of attention as he painted a giant owl at his vendor booth near Pioneer Park.

Melissa Schuermann, Cooperstown, flys through the bounce house obstacle course near Tin Bin Alley.

COOPTOBER(FUN)FEST

Under the eye of George Macaluse, Cooperstown, Lucas Clements, Hartwick takes the final swing at a piñata Saturday, Oct. 8, during the third annual Cooptoberfest, followed in the evening by a beer fest, Cooperstown On Tap. It was slightly overcast, but 5,000 people filled Cooperstown’s Main Street nonetheless, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Matt Hazzard estimated. “Cooptoberfest has truly been embraced by the entire community and is the result of the hard work and dedication of many people,” Hazzard e-mailed members. Save the date for 2017 – Oct. 7!

Adam Tilbe, Edmeston, lines up his shot during Cooptoberfest’s Corn Hole Tournament. Behind him are Sam Stillings, Sussex, Lary Majchrzak, Maryland, and Will Cronen, New Jersey.

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“Let’s Go!” insists Miles Patenaude, Springfield Center, riding with his sister Juliette, Springfield Center.

At left, Terra Butler, Oneonta, of the Susquehanna Valley Animal Shelter, shows off Misha, a 3-yearold pit bull mix available adoption.

From 1,200 Aspirants, She Was One Of 12 Chosen To Drive American Icon OSCAR/From A1 I knew about the Weinermobile, but I had never seen it driving around before.”

From June 2007 to May 2008, Stephanie drove the iconic vehicle from North Carolina to Maine, and Kansas to Ohio. “It’s their marketing, so I did a lot of morning radio and TV appearances, including ‘Pardon the Interruption’ on ESPN,” she said.

“We did 4-5 events a week, from parades to grocery-store ribbon cuttings.”

There are six Weinermobiles on the road year‘round, all driven by college graduates recruited through the company’s Hot Dogger program. “I had a phone

interview first, then they flew me out to their Madison, Wisc., for a suit-and-tie interview,” she said. “There were 1,200 applicants that year, and I was one of 12 selected.”

The Weinermobile started in 1936 and has been on the road ever since. The modern Weinermobile features a GPS, a sky painted on the ceiling, captain’s chairs and horn that plays the legendary “I Wish a Was an Oscar Meyer Weiner” in 21 different genres, from rap to Bossa Nova.

But being a Hot Dogger isn’t just about driving. It’s about spreading joy and goodwill. “It was the best year of my life,” she said.

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For Stephanie Hazzard, the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile’s visit to Cooperstown was a trip down memory lane.

“Everyone is always happy to see you. You give out the Weinerwhistles and stickers,

you play little games with people.”

During one stop at a chil-

dren’s hospital outside of Pittsburg, she met a family whose son, Jonathan, 9, was recovering from ailments that, until recently, had left him unable to eat protein.

“He’d had a liver transplant, but he was afraid to eat protein,” she said.

“We gave him a ride in the Weinermobile and gave him his first bit of hot dog!”

Jonathan is now 18, and Stephanie still keeps in touch with his family. “It’s one of my favorite memories,” she said.

She was also invited to drive in the Fourth of July parade in Eastport, Maine.

“That was my favorite event that we did,” she said.

“There was just so much joy

there.”

But once a Hot Dogger, always a Hot Dogger. “Matt and I drove the Weinermobile as our wedding limo when we got married in 2010,” she said.

“Hot Dogger alumni have that option, and a lot of them take it.”

It was a surprise for most of her wedding guests, except for the fellow Hot Doggers who were invited as guests.

And she inspired Matt to invite the Weinermobile to the Cooptoberfest. “I told him that I couldn’t guarantee it, but he put in a request and they said yes,” she said.

“It was a great event for it to be at,” she said.

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NOTICE TO THE VOTERS OF OTSEGO COUNTY

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 20160133

Extended Office Hours for Local Registration ************* The Otsego County Board of Elections will have extended office hours for Local Registration on the following dates: Thursday, October 13th 9AM7PM Saturday, October 15th 2PM-9PM Voters may also register at anytime during normal office hours which are Monday-Friday, 9AM-5PM Otsego County Board of Elections 140 Co Hwy 33 Cooperstown, NY 13326 607-547-4247 or 4325 www.otsegocounty. com 1LegalOct13 Legal notice

Notice of formation of Otsego Bounty, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/8/16.

Office in Otsego County. United States Corporation Agent, Inc. has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General.

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Notice of Formation of 1. JENNY BUD LLC 2. Articles of organization filed 9/19/2016 3. Located Otsego County 172 Sunset Ridge Rd. Cooperstown NY 13326 4. Purpose is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF OTSEGO KEYBANK NATIONAL A SSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -vsTHE HEIRS AT LARGE OF RAYNA I. KNORR FLETCHER A/K/A RAYNA I. KNORR A/K/A RAYNA KNORR, deceased, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; ROBERTA L. CROSS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants.

Mortgaged Premises: 41 MONTGOMERY STREET, CHERRY VALLEY, NY 13320 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the

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State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.

AUGUST 18, 2016 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Section: 58.09 Block: 1 Lot: 16.00

feet, more or less, across the lands now or formerly of Earl W. Snyder; to an iron pipe driven in the grounds;

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. That this action is being amended to include ROBERTA L. CROSS, as possible heirs to the estate of RAYNA I. KNORR FLETCHER A/K/A RAYNA I. KNORR A/K/A RAYNA KNORR, deceased.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises.

Dated:

NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of OTSEGO, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein.

TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action.

To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. MICHAEL V. COCCOMA, a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 and filed along with the supporting papers in the OTSEGO County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage.

ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, together with all the buildings erected thereon, situate in the Village of Cherry Valley, County of Otsego and State of New York, bounded and described as follows; BEGINNING at the Westerly end of the Northerly edge of the Northerly sidewalk of Montgomery Street and running THENCE S. 55 deg. 40’ W., 61 feet, more or less, along the Northerly side of Montgomery Street, being a line parallel to, and 23 feet from the center line of the pavement of Montgomery Street, THENCE N. 44 deg. 43’ W., 144

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THENCE N. 48 deg. 12’ E., 61 feet, more or less, across the lands now or formerly of Earl W. Snyder, to a wood pin set in a stone wall where this line intersects the Westerly boundary of lands now or formerly of Loretta McCaulay; THENCE S. 44 deg. 18’ E., 152 feet, more or less, along the Westerly boundary of lands now or formerly of Loretta McCaulay and Lee Wentworth, to the point or place of beginning.

Premises known as 41 MONTGOMERY STREET, CHERRY VALLEY, NY 13320 4LegalOct28 LegaL notice

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SHEPHANNESEN PROPERTIES,LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on September 21, 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 1144, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of formation of ARTRA Development, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with th NY Secretary of State on July 20, 2016. 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 him/her to: The LLC, 20 Main Street, Worcester, NY 12197. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Conversion of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: WILLIAM T. RYAN & ASSOCIATES LLC. Certificate of Conversion filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 25 September 2015. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 74, Cherry Valley, NY 13320. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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NOAH RENTALS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/16/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Noah Rentals, LLC, PO Box 404, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

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BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, Defendants. ________________ ________________ ________________

To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

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YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 12th day of August, 2016, at Cooperstown, New York.

Tax I.D. No. 327.00-1-16.00 All that tract or pared of land situate in the Town of Unadilla, County of Otsego, and State of New York bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the centerline of County Route 2 at its intersection with an east line of property conveyed to Onolee H. Jones by deed recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office in Liber 648 of Deeds, at page 946; said point of beginning being easterly, 0.3 miles, measured along said centerline, from its intersection with the centerline of County Route 1; THENCE North 7 degrees 11 minutes 30 seconds East, 756.16 feet along said Jones east line to its intersection with the south line of property now or formerly owned

by Douglas A. Luscomb & Juel S. Luscomb; THENCE South 82 degrees 26 minutes 00 seconds East 201.56 feet along the last mentioned property line to its intersection with the west line of property now or formerly owned by

THENCE South 7 degrees 28 minutes 00 seconds West, 942.00 feet along the last mentioned property line to its intersection with the centerline of a creek; THENCE South 58 degrees 17 minutes 00 seconds West, 120.00 feet along said centerline of stream to its intersection with an east line of the first mentioned Jones property; THENCE North 7 degrees 11 minutes 30 seconds East, 259.70 feet along said property line to its intersection with the centerline of County Route 2; THENCE North 81 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds West, 103.69 feet along said centerline of road to the point of BEGINNING. Subject to easement, covenants, and restriction of record.

These premises are also known as 167 County Hwy 2 A/K/A 167 Rd Hwy 2 A/K/A County Route #2, Unadilla A/K/A Mount Upton A/K/A T/O Unadilla, NY 13809.

WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, NY 14614 4LegalOct13 Legal notice Notice of formation of ENCK ENTERPRISES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on August 18, 2016. 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 him/her to: The LLC, 8590 State Highway 23, Oneonta, NY 13825. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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