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Gabriella Bilodeau, 8, of Utica and mom Josetta sort through pumpkins. Cooptoberfest The Freeman’s Journal celebrants Among those conseemed gratulating Allen Rufto be from fles, Key Bank’s new throughout Cooperstown branch the region. manager, at a Thursday, Oct. 8, reception, was his cousin, Dan Root, of Hughson & Benson, which recently opened a Cooperstown office. Both were raised in Edmeston.

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he District Attorney’s Office confirmed it is investigating whether a member of the Cooperstown Police Department shoplifted baseball cards from downtown merchants this summer. If charges are filed, it will probably happen next week, according to District Attorney John B. Muehl. The suspect resigned Thursday, Oct. 8, according to Chief Mike Covert. ON PANEL: Presumably due to renewed interest in Pete Rose, Cooperstown Mayor (and baseball writer) Jeff Katz appeared on a “Sports and Gambling” panel Saturday, Oct. 10, at the University of Rochester during Homecoming Weekend. NO REDSKINS: On Sunday, Oct. 11, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that outlaws public schools in the Sunshine State from using “Redskins” at their teams’ nickname, effective Jan. 1, 2017.

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FUN IN THE FALL

his year, Cooperstown Police Chief Michael Covert has already been to two funerals for Chief Covert young friends who died of heroin overdoses. “This isn’t a party drug,” he said. “This will kill you.” Desperate for answers to the growing heroin problem, which recently led to two arrests Friday, Sept. 25 after a 17-year-old male overdosed in their Pioneer Street apartment, Covert took to Facebook in the hope he might find an answer. And he did. Covert came across the page for the Please See HEROIN, A6

No Public Option Sunny Skies Bring Throngs To Cooptoberfest Among Proposals For Brookwood Cooperstown on Tap, and beBy LIBBY CUDMORE

tween three and four thousand for the family events on Main COOPERSTOWN Street. The restaurants were packed and the stores were ice weather, bouncy busy. The community really castles, good beer rallied behind the event, and – what more could we couldn’t have asked for Cooperstown ask for? better weather!” “Cooptoberfest was one of Though Hazzard declined the biggest fundraisers we’ve to say precisely how much the operated,” said Matt Hazzard, event raised, on Tuesday, Oct. Cooperstown Chamber of Pals Sierra Williams, 9, and Brian- 13, he gave a $4,000 check to na Riley, 5, both of Cooperstown, the Cooperstown Rotary Club. Commerce executive director. “We had 1,000 people for show off their new looks. Please See FEST, A7

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METHODIST MINISTER TO RETIRE

The Rev. Bill Delia has told his Cooperstown United Methodist Congregation he plans to retire next summer.

It’s Time, Pastor Delia Tells His Flock By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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ou wouldn’t know it by his sunny demeanor, but shortly after arriving as pastor of Cooperstown Methodist Church two years ago July 1, the Rev. Bill

Delia suffered a “cardiac incident.” The next year, he overcame a prostate challenge. A few months ago, he slipped on stairs at a conference in Syracuse and injured a hip and a knee. Can you blame him if he thought Someone was trying to tell him something? So a week ago Sunday, Pastor Bill advised Please See DELIA, A3

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usan Malota, 1989 Cooperstown High School graduate and daughter of Cooperstown Diner owners Janet and Earl Hayford, was profiled in the “Family Favorites” section of the April/May issue of St. Augustine Social. “I teach Infant Swim Resource classes and the editor of St. Augustine Social had just had a baby,” said Susan. “She was really impressed by the program, and so she picked us to interview.” Susan and her husband, Photo from St. Augustine Social Michael, were photographed

with their four kids, Zoe, 9, Alexis, 20, Hailey, 17 and Mikie, 12, answering questions like “On a rainy day you’ll find us...” (“cuddle up and watch movies with popcorn and M&Ms sprinkled on top”) and “Favorite Restaurant” (We are Italian, so we love Carrabbas...”). “The editor was looking for an average family,” said Susan. A graduate of Berkeley College in Manhattan, Susan and Michael were married in New York City before her “snowbird” parents suggested she moved to St. Augustine.

Michael works for Chrysler/Dodge of Orange Park, and Susan has been an Infant Swim instructor for eight years, working as a coordinator for the program for 11 years before that. “Drowning is the number one cause of infant death in

18 states,” she said. “And in all the others, it’s the number two cause of death. We teach children self-rescue, how to turn themselves over if they do find themselves in water. The whole purpose is safety.”

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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Jeff Weinell, right, has opened the William J. Weinell Agency, providing a full range of insurance products through Farmers Insurance, at 21 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown. Joining him is Insurance Professional Randy Forsythe. Weinell, a Sherburne resident, will continue to teach in SUNY Oneonta’s Department of Economics & Business, where he has also developed a volunteer tax-preparer service. Forsythe, a Cooperstown native and Oneonta resident, received a tech degree at Delta Community College in Mississippi.

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his congregation he will retire at the end of next June, at the end of the United Methodists’ administrative year, when new pastoral assignments are made. “I’ll be 68 when I retire,” he said. Over the course of Delia’s career – 30 years of it was spent working for the American Red Cross in its Albany region; the past 10 as a Methodist pastor, eight in Broadalbin and Edinburg – he had observed people who stay on the job too long: No one benefits. “I have high standards,” he reflected in his stained-glass-windowed office the other day. “I don’t feel I can continue keeping to that standard. It’s a sign I should step down.” A Connecticut native, Delia received his undergraduate degree from Sonoma (Calif.) State University in 1970, then entered Hartford Seminary in his natal state. But studying fulltime, counseling heroin addicts fulltime and serving as a youth minister on weekends was too much, hence his career shift. But he always felt the tug of the ministry, and returned to Andover Newton Seminary in Boston so, on retiring from the Red Cross, he had an M.A. in hand and was ready for his second career. Cooperstown has been “a great community” for Bill and his wife Regina, and he’s had “a wonderful congregation to work with.” At one point, five members were undergoing chemotherapy at the same time. “I was so im-

pressed to see how people pulled together behind them in time of adversity. It was a spiritual experience” that made him wonder how people can survive without that kind of support. “It’s been a very uplifting experience for me,” he said. A Cooperstown Rotarian, when he’s called upon to deliver the invocation, his remarks are always brief – and there’s a nugget for fellow Rotarians to take back in to the world with them. He’s tried to do the same with his Sunday sermons. A recent cycle dealt with Job, and lessons for dealing with adversity. At the request of members of his congregation, he assembled a cycle of recent sermons on “faithful and flawed” King David into a booklet. Looking ahead, the Delias plan to retire to a condo they own in the Capitol District, near their daughter, Jennifer Randio, Balston Spa. Their son Michael – he and his wife have provided the Delias’ first grandchild – moved to Florida last year, so the pastor expects to spend some time down there as well. As William Delia, he has published two inspirational novels, “Home to the Mountains: A Fawn at Christmas,” and “Healing River,” and plans to do more writing, particularly a book on theology. As he heads out into a fresh future, he draws some assurance from his favorite Bible verse, Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.” Things have a way of working out.

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Perspectives

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EDITORIAL

MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego To Low-Wage, Seasonal Jobs

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tsego County has clusion in the biggest thing been dealt out of to happen in our neighborthe Utica-Marcy hood in a half-century. STEM and nanotechnology More important – and boom in the MV500 apundoubtedly more producplication submitted to the tive – is to develop a vision, state Monday, Oct. 5, a huge a concept, of how Otsego disappointment to County can serve anyone who cares Utica-Marcy’s o review the about economic STEM and nanoMV500 apdevelopment technology needs plication for locally. in an essential $500 million in That can’t way. We need economic develstand. to put ourselves opment funding, MV500 is a in the picture, to follow link at six-county team WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM show how we can – Otsego is one contribute. of the counties • represented – pulled toOf the $230 million in gether over the summer to spending specified in the prepare the application for MV500 application, only a half-billion dollars from about $500,000 – 1/5 of 1 Governor Cuomo’s Upstate percent – is earmarked for Development Fund. Otsego County. And the application that That’s miniscule, even if went in, in competition you accept – as we should with six of the state’s other – that the lion’s share of economic-development dis- the half-billion, if received, tricts, is a very exciting one should be spent bolster– for Utica’s Oneida County ing Utica-Marcy’s exciting – but it falls very short for STEM and nano initiatives. Otsego. Worse for us is that none Otsego County gets noth- of the three projects outing STEM or nano-related, lined for Otsego County by only the promise of someMV500 is STEM- or nanothing peripheral – a possible related at all. commerce park on the HerThere’s $300,000 for malt kimer-Otsego line, north of and barley processing at the Richfield Springs, if, when Hager Hops/Northern Eagle and somehow, if at all. Beverage brewery and disThe county leadership tribution center; $120,000 – state Sen. Jim Seward, for Klugo Redevelopment’s R-Milford, the Otsego Now second downtown Oneonta board, county Board Chair rehab (Stevens Hardware, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and next to the former Bresee’s); her team – needs to vigorand $110,000 for a pastaously insist on Otsego’s inproduction plant at the B&B

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Alicia Dicks, Utica, co-chair of the MV500 effort, briefs a local audience Sept. 14 in the Hall of Fame’s Bullpen Theater. From right are Otsego County’s advocates in the effort, Hall VP Ken Meifert, Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz and Otsego Now President Sandy Mathes.

Ranch on Bedbug Hill near Fly Creek. This is not to talk down those local projects. But they are not the main event. They are incrementally positive, but not transformative. The STEM and nanotechnology boom, when we plug into it – as we must – will make all the difference in a county that lost 300 jobs from August 2014 to August 2015 alone and where public-school enrollments are plummeting. • Again let it be said that the MV500 application, on the whole, is hugely impressive, promising a rebirth of the once-mighty Mohawk Valley industrial corridor, now sadly reduced. UticaMarcy should be thrilled. The bulk of the prospective investment, $200 mil-

lion, would be used for site and infrastructure development for ams, an Austrian wafer maker for semiconductors, on a 428-acre site. The whole project ($3 billion in public and private investment) is expected to create 1,000 direct and 500 indirect supply-chain jobs. Another $3 million in the MV500 document is aimed at AGT Services, which repairs and rebuilds power generators for the international market, near Amsterdam; $1.2 million for PAR Technology of Boulder, Colo., to move its headquarters to New Hartford; $12 million toward Indium Corp., another semi-conductor supplier; $2.9 million to support a test center for military equipment at the former Griffiss AFB. There’s $6 million for an

Innovation Accelerator Center at SUNY Poly in Marcy; $1.1 million for SUNY Poly to train the nano workforce, and $3 million for an Advance Manufacturing Institute at, not SUNY Oneonta, but Mohawk Valley Community College. The project focus is as it should be. STEM and nano have revived the Hudson Valley from Wappingers Falls to Saratoga Springs. The Buffalo Billion initiative is seeking a similar rebirth in Western New York. Let’s get with it, Otsego. • For now, the application’s in. The Utica-Marcy locus is sensible, the most likely way to win the half-billion for the Mohawk Valley Economic Development region. But, for Otsego, that has to be just the beginning, and a most unsatisfactory one. The county’s representatives on MV500 are Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, Hall of Fame Vice President Ken Meifert, and Otsego Now President Sandy Mathes, the county’s economic developer, an able trio. When you think about it, though, both Katz and Meifert are tourism focused. Of the three, only Mathes has a manufacturing focus. Perhaps that should be changed, not to eliminate anyone, but to add two more – people like Otsego Now board chair Bob Hanft, a

scrapper like Country Club Auto proprietor Tom Armao, perhaps even Seward himself – to develop and deliver the county’s pitch. Asked about the MV500 application, Mathes pointed out that Oneida County has invested consistently over decades in the infrastructure modern commerce and manufacturing needs. Only now – if the Town of Oneonta Planning Board Monday, Oct. 19, gives its blessing to the Pony Farm lot – will Otsego Now have the first “shovel ready site” it has been seeking. Being rebuffed by MV500 also underscores it’s well past time to heal the rift between the county board and Otsego Now and create a unified county economicdevelopment strategy. Clark needs to take the lead. County Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, needs to stop her intransigence on this issue, and be a peacemaker. It’s a bipartisan failure. Also, SUNY Oneonta must be part of any solution: What must it do to become a mecca for STEM- and nanobound students? There’s no reason it should be pushed off the stage by Mohawk Valley Community College. What can we do that’s essential to STEM and nano development? Let’s figure it out; let’s do it; let’s reclaim our rightful seat at the MV500 table.

LETTERS THE REV. JIM WHEELER THOUGHTS FROM BEYOND

Don’t Hurry The End, But Don’t Fear It Editor’s Note: As he was contemplating his mortality, the Rev. Jim Wheeler of Oneonta, an Assembly of God national evangelist, set down his thoughts on paper, which his wife Sharon provided for publication. He passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 30.

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s I write this, I am looking at my imminent death as I am diagnosed with fourth-stage terminal cancer and only months to live. By the time someone might be reading this, it may be days or already over with. I want to say thanks to the churches, the pastors, the adult communities, the activities directors so

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gracious to have us, the individuals who have given me the privilege to share Jesus. I have Rev. Jim been blessed Wheeler to be credentialed to the preaching of the gospel since 1977 and blessed to see hundred, even thousands ministered to in the many places and meetings God has let us bring in over 60 cities, several states and two nations. I thank my family that let me share Jesus. Some have accepted the message and been saved. Some others may yet do so. Life has brought me a

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wonderful family, friendships and so many blessings. Why write about heaven knowing this might be my last column? Because there is so much to look forward to beyond this temporal life and while I still have breath left in me, I want to remind others that God has a glorious eternal home awaiting those who will choose to turn their lives over to Christ. Nothing I’ve ever done in this brief life has been as important as when I accepted Christ’s offer of salvation through faith in Him. The Apostle John gave us a glimpse of heaven and what awaits God’s people there. He writes about what God has shown him regarding the destiny of those who reject Christ in this life: “Their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Be awed by the sampling of what God has shared about heaven. The Bible says, “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.” When we look up into a star-studded night and take in all that can be seen just with the naked eye, it is almost too grand to take it all in as we gaze into the depths, width, and expanse of the physical universe. And what of the further depths of our universe as seen through the Hubble telescope! Yet what God has in store for us is so much greater than what we now see. The Bible says, “Eye has Please See BEYOND, A6

As He Does In Town, Andrew Stammel Would Bring Fresh Thinking To County To the Editor: Andrew Stammel is offering to serve the Town of Oneonta as our Otsego County representative. He will bring to that body all of the attributes which made him an effective Town Board member. Andrew is an incisive, independent thinker who works across party lines to get things done. He has demonstrated his willingness to step out in front and take a firm, reasoned position on key issues. He is soft-spoken and low key in his presentations, which tends to mask sharp analytical skills and his ability to get to the heart of matters. We need representatives who are willing to take a public and early stand on those broad issues which affect both town and county residents. I could cite many

examples from Andrew’s time on the town board, such as his leadership role in opposing fracking and the town/city merger. But, from a personal standpoint, I most appreciated his outspoken opposition to a misguided attempt to build a 30-acre mobile home site on Hemlock Road, a proposal which was totally incompatible with the neighborhood. If elected as Otsego County representative, Andrew Stammel will be able to continue his phiEditor’s Note: Local elections are Tuesday, Nov. 3. Political letters are welcome through the edition of Oct. 29.

losophy of being fiscally responsible, proactive and taking the long-range view with respect to economic development and quality of life issues. This philosophy will stand his constituents in good stead when dealing with major County issues such as the need for strategic planning and investment in the town and county infrastructure as well as county board reform. The Town of Oneonta needs representation by individuals such as Andrew who bring to the table fresh, thoughtful and reasoned proposals and who can work across party lines to implement them. I urge the voters to support his candidacy for Otsego County representative. GEORGE C. BROWN Oneonta

Katz Backs Sternberg At Town, Marietta At County To the Editor: I met Richard Sternberg a few years ago. At that time he was a surgeon at Bassett and new to the community. The first thing he said to me was, “How can I help?” Shortly after that conversation, I appointed Richard to the Village of Cooperstown Planning Board. Now retired, Richard is a Rotarian and an important member of the Planning Board. Richard’s attention to the law, fairness and proper process makes him incredibly valuable and I have no doubt that these qualities will serve us all well if he is elected to the Town of Otsego Board.

I’ve known Andy Marietta much longer and have encountered him in so many ways. Andy is involved in every aspect of community life. He has served as president of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, as a leader on the school board and as an owner of village properties that are rented to year-‘round residents. In that regard, Andy puts his money where his mouth is, sacrificing the short-term profits of renting to tourists to ensure the health of our community by bringing in families that add to school enrollment, have a place to live 12 months a year and, with

roots planted, often buy homes here. In addition, Andy’s work as regional manager at NYCON (New York State Council of Nonprofits) has brought him into contact with so many important community organizations in need of guidance and help. Andy’s honesty, integrity, reliability, consistency and community commitment are unimpeachable and matched by very few. He would be an ideal county representative. Please vote for both Richard Sternberg and Andy Marietta this November. JEFF KATZ Mayor Village of Cooperstown

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EYE ON THE WEATHER

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

75 YEARS AGO

175 YEARS AGO

The Liberty Tree – Animated by a patriotic feeling very nearly assimilated so that which impelled our revolutionary sires to wage war with the tyranny and oppression of Britain, the Democratic citizens of the Village and neighborhood, on Wednesday the 7th instant, planted a Liberty Tree in front of Lewis’ Eagle Tavern, 125 feet in height. When it had been well set, the “Star-Spangled Banner” was flung out from its top, and then were heard the shouts of the participants of the patriotic enterprise; cheers succeeded cheers until twelve rounds swelled upon the breeze. October 13, 1840

125 YEARS AGO

For The Ladies – There are some among us that are not content to rule their own affairs, but they must have a hand in ruling the affairs of everyone else – the outgoing and the incoming of all within their radius – the dress, the acquaintance, the reading, the conversation, the whole conduct of the life of others – as far as they can. These women rule their houses, they rule their husbands, they rule their neighborhoods, but they have never learned to rule their own spirits. Early in life these women succeed in bringing their husbands into subjection or in alienating their affections; or else they bring into the household an element and atmosphere of perpetual strife. October 17, 1890

100 YEARS AGO

If Cooperstown does not return a majority favoring the amendment to the constitution giving the women of New York State the vote on November 2nd, it will not be because the Cooperstown Equal Suffrage Club has not been earnestly working for that end. A mass meeting to be held in Vil-

25 YEARS AGO

SEPTEMBER 2015

The League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area will celebrate its 20th anniversary at a party on October 24, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Parish house on Fair Street, Cooperstown. League members, friends, and members of the community will reminisce about the past and celebrate the future. Past Presidents will speak and a group of League singers, directed by Katie Boardman, will entertain. Newly appointed Middle School Principal David Pearlman will be honored at a reception sponsored by the Cooperstown Central School ParOctober 16, 1940 ent-Teacher Organization on Tuesday, lage Hall on Tuesday evening, October October 23. All district residents are 26th is to be the climax of the caminvited to attend the reception to meet paign. At this meeting suffragists Dr. Pearlman and welcome him to the Anna Shaw, Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe community at 7 p.m. in the Middle/ of Tacoma, Washington, and ConHigh School cafeteria. gressman F.W. Mondell of Wyoming October 17, 1990 will make addresses explaining why women should vote in New York State. October 13, 1915 Mike Newell, a retired English teacher who resides in Hartwick, responded to the August 29 Katrina Items of Interest in Cooperstown Hurricane disaster as a member of the – Dr. H.W. Backus of Hartwick was Allegheny and Green Mountain Forest presented with his 50-year Masonic Service Team. Newell’s team, which membership pin and a certificate from is ordinarily called into action to fight Grand Lodge at the annual roll call vegetation fires in national parks and night for Otsego Lodge 138, F&AM forest properties, was mobilized by of Cooperstown, held October 5 at the the Federal Emergency Management Masonic Temple. Hartwick V. ChrisAssociation (FEMA) to load food and tiansen of Fly Creek was awarded his water onto helicopters distributing sup25-year pin and a certificate. G. Reed plies to residents and relief workers in Sill, who was master of the lodge at devastated communities in Louisiana, the time of Dr. Backus’ affiliation with Mississippi, and Alabama. For nearly the organization in 1927, made the two weeks, the team worked round presentation and Chester W. Ingalls, the clock at an airport facility near master of the organization 25 years ago Slidell, Louisiana to accomplish the presented the award. About 60 persons mission. During that period, Secretary attended the meeting. A delicious dinof Defense Donald Rumsfeld stopped ner prepared by the OES preceded the in Slidell briefly. Newell was later meeting. mobilized again for duties in the wake October 13, 1965 of Hurricane Rita. October 14, 2005

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Highest Temperature...............................................89°F (Sept. 8) Lowest Temperature.................................38°F (Sept. 22 and 23) Average Maximum Temperature..........................................75.1°F Average Minimum Temperature...........................................51.0°F Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................63.1°F Precipitation Total.....................................................................3.60″ Most Precipitation in One Day...............................2.04” (Sept. 29) Thunderstorms........................................................0 (14 for 2015) Snow..............................................................................................0” (65.4” for 2015; 90.1“ for 2014-15 winter) Most Snow in One Day..................................................................0” YTD Precipitation....................................................................34.83” Number of Days at or below zero F................................................0 (23 for 2015; 23 for 2014-15 winter ) Number of Days at or below 32°F.......................0 (114 for 2015) Comments: What a Month! If you like heat, sunny days, and dry weather, you had to love September 2015. We saw the sun twice as much as normal, temperatures that averaged nearly 4° warmer than average, only 6 days of measurable precipitation, and our hottest day of the summer this past month! The month ended up being 0.35 inches above normal, but don’t let the statistics fool you. We didn’t see a drop of rain from August 29-Sept. 10 and from Sept. 14-28, we had only 0.30 of an inch of pre- DAVID cipitation during a shower overnight on Sept. 20! Of the 30 days in September it rained only MATTICE during 6 of them! It gave us some great weather to play outside but for our good friends the farmers, it was not fun. I didn’t see or hear of any frost during the month but I’ve seen more corn harvested this September than I can remember. The dryness made the corn and soy beans look like they were hit by a killer frost. The area saw over 2 inches of rain on the 29th, that’s why we finished the month about normal for rainfall. By the way, we had only a brief thundershower in August and not one in September, that is really rare! Oh yeah, September was only the second month this year that had temperatures above average. Our year to date precipitation stands at 34.83 inches which is 5.09 inches above normal. The autumn leaves seem to be a bit dull and behind schedule for the first full week of October, but we have some great days coming this week. Let’s hope mother nature turns the brightness and sharpness of the red, yellow, and orange up a notch. Regardless, this is the most beautiful time of the year in central New York! Please get outside and enjoy it. If you are looking for things to do, look on the Happenin’ Otsego calendar for all of the great activities that the Fall brings to our area. October is off to a much chillier start, but more about that next month. So until then, have a great time and Keep Your Eye On The Weather!

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help kicking the habit. The paraphernalia will be logged and the person will then be transported by police to a local hospital, where there will be help with filling out insurance paperwork. Then an “Angel” – a trained volunteer recovery specialist – will travel with the person to the rehab, whether it’s Upstate or halfway across the United States. “Our goal is to get someone from the police station into recovery in 24 hours,” said Covert. After the stay in rehab is complete, the Angel will continue to check in with the patient, transport them to meetings and assist with continued recovery. But there Official portrait Gloucester, Mass., Police chief are guidelines Leonard Campanello has devised a to qualify for program to get instant help to adthe PAARI dicts that want it. program. They cannot be under investigation or it began over the summer. have three or more arrests, “My goal is to get this program in place,” said Covert. and they cannot be trying to elude arrests. “We’ll help “And my measure of success will be if this helps just those people too, but not through this program,” he one or 100 people recover said. “We will enforce arfrom opiate addiction.” rests, but we do want people Covert called Oneonta to know that we’re trying to Police Lt. Douglas Brenner, get them help.” who, as it happened, had And the addict has to just been at a presentation come in willingly. “We in Broome County on the don’t want parents dragging same program. “Two can in their kid and saying, ‘You work better than one,” said need to fix this’,” he said. Brenner. “There’s been a “The addict has to want to real rise in opiate addicget clean.” tion, but it’s not unique to Covert and Brenner have Oneonta, or even to upstate New York. It’s nationwide.” been meeting with members of the Opiate Task Force Under the PAARI proand LEAF, Inc., of Oneonta, gram, an addict would be to coordinate relief efforts, able to come into the police including recruiting volunstation and tell the officer on duty that he or she needs teers for the Angel program

Rev. Jim Wheeler’s Final Message BEYOND/From A4 not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.” Some believe that in our eternal state we might travel His glorious universe. Being a Star Trek fan, I would love that to be true. On a more serious note, I’m sure that whatever God does have in store for us will be wonderful beyond our imagination. Heaven can be yours if you will put your trust in Christ, and call upon Him to save you from your sins. In a time in which many hearts are turning cold and away from God, Christ patiently and lovingly reaches out to a lost and sinful world. Death for the believer is but a step out of this world and into eternity. In this life, like so many others, I too have wrestled with the disease called cancer that has been determined to try to get the best of me and rob me of life. But cancer has never owned me. I have cancer, but cancer does not have me. Let it never be said of me that I lost a great battle to cancer. When my time comes, it will be God’s perfect timing and He alone will take me home on His terms, not on

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and keeping an up-to-date list of open beds in recovery centers. “We all have a common goal,” said Covert. “Keep people from killing themselves with opioids.” Covert and the others are also working to get Naloxone kits, used to reverse the effects of a heroin overdose,

which are available without a prescription in area pharmacies. “I’d like for families of people with heroin addictions to be able to go in and get one of these kits, which would also include a brochure and a DVD explaining how to use it and a list of resources,” he said. “And we

would also like to provide a place here at the police station for families to come in and seek counseling.” “Families go through horrible things when someone they love becomes an addict,” he continued. “A lot of times, they don’t want to ‘let the skeleton out of the closet,’ but I want them

to know they’re not alone. This affects everyone from all races, ages, classes and nationalities.” Covert hopes to have the program up and running by the end of 2015. “If we can get one addict to come in, to have that hope through their paranoia, we’ll count that as a success.”

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Cooptoberfest Hailed As Worthy Pumpkinfest Successor FEST/From A1 The remaining proceeds were divided between the event’s other organizers, the Cooperstown Chamber and TownSquare Media. The fall festival Saturday, Oct. 10, replaced last year’s Cooperstown Field Days, itself a re-tooling of Pumpkinfest, which ran from 2004 to 2013. “It had run its course,” said Hazzard. “We wanted to put a little adrenaline back into the fall fun festival.” Last year, the Field Days were beset by cold weather and confusion. “People were surprised it was on Main Street,” said Hazzard. “The name threw them off;

it wasn’t a traditional field days.” This year, the event was divided up into two parts: the family-friendly Cooptoberfest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., followed by the adults-only Cooperstown on Tap, which featured tastings of 100 beers and ciders from around the state. Presented by TownSquare Media, it’s part of Townsquare’s nationwide “America on Tap” program, which focuses on craft brews and ciders. In the morning, kids climbed over fire trucks and watched Chee-Chee the Clown do magic and make balloon animals. Though the inflatables had a $5 fee, the majority of the downtown

events were free of charge. “There were pony rides in the park and a dog kissing booth that benefitted the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, there were soccer balls to kick and craft tables,” said Hazzard. “And the inflatables had a wristband, so you could bounce all day for $5.” The cornhole event, where beanbag-like bags of corn are tossed, drew the big daytime crowds, bringing in teams from near and far. “It was such a hit last year that we brought it back,” said Hazzard. “Tyler and Brian Kiddle, the team that won their weight in Ommegang beer had come from Kirkville just for that

event.” And in the evening, the lines stretched half a block in front of the Cooperstown General Store to buy general admission tickets, which came with a souvenir glass and samples of 100 beers and ciders from around the state. “TownSquare Media said that, of all the America on Tap events that they’ve run, Cooperstown was the best behaved!” said Hazzard. “We’re not a college town, it’s an older crowd.” “It was a really well organized event,” said Police Chief Mike Covert. “They had taxis and designated drivers ready to get people home safe. I think the high

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Lizz Sullivan, Cooperstown, gets to know Orion (dressed as a bumble bee) at the Susquehanna SPCA’s Cooptoberfest booth. Jessica Roberts, Maryland, records the moment.

ticket prices helped cut out the riff-raff.” And already, they’ve begun brainstorming next year’s event. “People

Proposals Lack Public Options For Brookwood BROOKWOOD/From A1 received by the 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, deadline, Otsego Land Trust Board Chair Harry Levine said there “are no public uses involved.” That means the SUNY Biological Field Station, reportedly considering a bid for the lakeside land, did not follow through. Both the Village of Cooperstown and Town of Otsego considered seeking the property for a public park, but backed away. At this time, Levine declined to offer any additional particulars; for instance, whether condos are involved, or just single owners. However, “once we get further along with the discussion, we’ll be able to identify more precisely what we’re talking about,” he said. A Land Trust press release issued Tuesday, Oct. 13, said a committee, chaired by Board Member Joe Homburger – it met the Friday before to begin its assessment – would “thoroughly vet” all the proposals. “We were looking for a broad-stroke expression of interest,” Levine said of the RFP process. “We still have a lot of work to do with such things as how do we divide the property up specifically, what are the terms of the conservation easement for protection of the property, how do we deal with shared access?” The idea of the RFP was to sell the northern 11 acres to finance development of the southern 11 acres for passive recreational use, including a kayak launch. Federal grants have been received to move that forward. However, Levine said there is no rush to complete any transaction, but to make sure whatever happens is in harmony with the Land Trust’s land-protection mission. “I know the community is anxious for a resolution as is OLT,” Homburger said in the press release. “But, this is an important decision, and we need to make the best decision for protecting Brookwood Point. So we have to move carefully through our due diligence.” The Land Trust plans to keep the community posted on progress and major developments as the process proceeds, it said. The Land Trust assumed control of Brookwood in 2010 when it and the Cook Foundation merged.

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MLS#100853 $289,900 218’ Private Lake Frontage Year-round home has new metal roof, family room, DR, LR w/fireplace, views. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6521 (cell) Virtual tour: www.Canadaragohomes2.com

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MLS#101572 $80,000 Newer metal roof, vinyl windows, septic, hot water heater. Close to Oneonta, Cooperstown. Milford schools. Additional acreage available w/riverfront access! Call Robin Jorgensen @ 646-510-4943 (cell)

MLS#100068 $249,500 Great Location!Beautiful Home! Big Income! Near golf course, opera, boat launch, beach on Otsego Lake. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6521 (cell) Virtual tour: www.Leatherstockinghomes3.com

MLS#102562 4 Division Street, Richfield Springs Investors take notice! 2-family home, separate utilities, fully rented w/excellent rental history. The hard work is done. Call or text Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)

MLS#96275 $149,900 63-Acre Waterfront Farm ½ mile of Susquehanna River frontage. Seller is NYS Licensed RE salesperson. Call Thomas Spychalski @ 607-434-7719 (cell) Virtual tour: www.HouseViewNY.com

MLS#102278 $224,000 Eco-Friendly Home Solar and wind power, totally renovated, insulated, open floorplan. Beautiful gardens, fruit trees, trails, 9 +/- acres. A must-see! Call Donna A Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)

MLS#102014 $84,500 Wow! Offered at an unbelievable price! Comes w/2-car garage, double lot, private driveway. Small town, close to downtown! Under an hour to Albany. Call Carin E. Eaton @ 607-267-5541 (cell)

MLS# 99011 $374,000 Income Property Nets $30K/year. 75’ lake frontage, year-round home, two 2-BR cabins, game room. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6521 (cell) Virtual tour: www.canadaragohomes.com

MLS# 100693 $34,900 Rushing Trout Stream! Super private! Super price! 4 acres, Oneonta Schools. Won’t last! Call Erin Moussa @ 607-435-1285 Virtual tour: www. NYLandFind.com

MLS# 99111 $99,900 40 Acres Sacrifice! Borders State land. Stream, level land. Seller is licensed NYS real estate salesperson. Call Thomas Spychalski @ 607-434-771 Virtual tour: www.HouseFindNY.com

MLS#100692 $495,000 Lake House Sacrifice Appraised for $800+K. Beautiful lakefront, immaculate grounds, luxury. Call Erin Moussa @ 607-435-1285 (cell) Virtual tour: www. NYdwell.com

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MLS#96838 $157,000 Cozy-3 BR home on 12.76 acres w/views that will take your breath away. Looking for a hunting escape close to Cooperstown? Look no further! Call Carin E. Eaton @ 607-267-5541 (cell)

MLS #99706 $398,000 Circa 1880 modernized farmhouse, barn, workshop, garage, apartment, 32 acres, views, ponds. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6521 (cell) Virtual tour: www.rodshousetour2.com

MLS#102333 $248,000 As Rare As It Gets! Historic stone house was built in 1789. 3 BRs, 2 baths. Massive luxury renovations. Call Erin Moussa @ 607-435-1285 (cell) Virtual tour: www.NYHousefind.com

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MLS#101786 $179,000 52-Acre Retreat w/pond, 2-story garage, endless Cooperstown Village home. Seller pays closingto costs ATV trails. Beautifully renovated and priced sell!(up to w/acceptable Call$3,000 Leanne McCormackoffer). @ 607-287-8965 (cell)

Cedar-sided chalet offers 3 BRs w/master BR and private ½bath. Open floorplan: Wood-Mode kitchen is open to dining area and bright LR w/ vaulted ceilings, wood-burning fireplace, loft. Large finished basement w/wet bar is bright w/sliding glass doors leading to beautiful yard and pond. Oversized 2-story, 2-car garage, huge wrap-around deck, beautiful magnolia tree, apple tree, weeping willow on over 1½ acres. Close to shopping and I-88. Could be a nice rental. MLS#102711 $149,500

Cooperstown Schools! Privately tucked back off the road overlooking the valley is this custom-built, 4-BR, 2-bath Cape w/very functional floorplan. Downstairs features front LR, family room lined w/windows, open eat-in kitchen w/newer appliances, laundry/mud room, first-floor BR, plus the master suite. Upstairs is a large full bath, 2 large BRs w/plenty of closet space. Full basement w/workshop could easily be finished. Schedule your private showing right away! MLS#102578 $224,900

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her artistic side. “She was getting bored with just doing braille,” she said. “I had a student who would use his brailler to draw, so I looked around to see if I could find some patterns.” She found instructions from the Perkins Institute for the Blind that used braille letters and signs to make patterns. A Julianna has begun coloring her braille-art creations. sailboat, for example, would use a repeating pattern of “Space, Dots 4-5-6 and Change Line” her right, she can see colors and a fifth-grader at Cherry Valfor the sail, then spelling “ED” about 2 feet away, but not in ley-Springfield Central School, four times to make the boat. great detail,” said her mother. began learning to read braille “It’s good for her speed, the “Marissa has almost no vision in pre-kindergarten. “If you strength of her writing and for in her left eye, but more vision can’t see, how can you read?” learning contractions,” said in her right eye, so if she wears she said. “That’s why there’s Sharon. glasses, she can see almost braille.” Julianna took to the patterns 20/20.” But it was her teacher, Sharon Please See BRAILLE, B2 As a result, Julianna, now Turner, Oneonta, who inspired

‘OTELLO’ IN HD: Live from the Met, HD broadcast of Verdi’s opera “Otello.” 12:55 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. foothillspac.org GRANGE-AID: The Fredenberg Brothers serve up a folky blues concert, to benefit the Pierstown Grange. 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17. Refreshments, silent auction, more. $12 suggested donation. 137 Wedderspoon Hollow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 264-3069. HONORING CHUCK: Area author and DJ and Chuck D’Imperio is honored for promoting local history, at a public reception, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18. Free; all welcome. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org

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raises money for the Vision Research ROPARD Foundation, she set up a booth, selling pictures and braille thank-you cards with hearts on the front. “I sold all of them!” she said. The fundraiser continues this year with a soup cookoff and basket raffle from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Tryon Inn in Cherry Valley, with all proceeds going to the foundation. She has a stack of drawings to color, ranging from a bunny to a house to an American flag. “I don’t put glass in the frame so that you can touch the art,” she said. “That’s what it’s for!”

CHURCH DINNER -- Three settings: 4:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Takeouts at 4 p.m. Annual Harvest Dinner fundraiser. All-you-can-eat turkey, mashed potatoes, sides, homemade pie, beverage. $12 adults; $5 ages 5-12; under age 5 free. Tickets at door. Elm Park Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. CHURCH DINNER -- 4:30-7 p.m. Takeouts available. Annual Chicken ‘n’ Biscuit dinner, with all fixin’s, to benefit the organ fund. $9.50 adults; $5.50 ages 5-12; under 5 free. Parish Hall, 4636 State Hwy. 28, Hartwick Seminary.

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BLACKSMITHING WEEKEND: 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. (Also Oct. 18). Learn all about this fiery art, from master smiths. Free with museum admission. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org STAMP & POSTCARD SHOW/SALE -- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Leatherstocking & Tri-County Stamp Club annual event. Free

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PUMPKIN PATCH TRAIN — 1 p.m. (Also Oct. 12). Last Pumpkin Patch train of season. A pumpkin for each child included. About 2 hours. Adults $19; seniors $18; ages 3-12 $16; under 3 free. Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Depot, 136 E. Main St., Milford. Reservations, (607) 432-2429 or www.lrhs.com HARTWICK HARVEST FEST -- 2-8 p.m. Food, entertainment, games, produce, farm animals, pumpkin chuckin’, cake walk, songs, more. 3:30 p.m. Irish Dance at Huskey Field; 4-7 p.m. spaghetti dinner at Hartwick Fire Hall; 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. craft show at Community Center; 6:30 p.m. movie at Community Center, more. Hartwick Ball Field (“Huskey Field”), Wells Ave., Hartwick. Info, (607) 293-3009. HISTORY HONOR -- 2-4 p.m. Public reception to honor area author and DJ and Chuck D’Imperio, who will receive Oneonta’s Albert E. Morris

Award, for promoting local history. Free; all welcome. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org CONCERT -- 3 p.m. Singer/ songwriter/actress/writer/ satirist Nellie McKay. Tickets $11-$28. West Kortright Centre, 49 W. Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith. Info, www.westkc.org OMMEGANG BIRTHDAY -- 4-9 p.m. Ommegang Brewery turns 18, with a public “Un-Birthday” bash. Free, with donations welcome for Arc Otsego. Games, music, magic, fire throwing, art show, food. 656 County Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, www. ommegang.com WOMEN’s CLUB DINNER -- 5-7 p.m. Chicken & biscuit dinner, hosted by South Valley Women’s Club. By donation; last dinner of year. 72 Kirshman Hill Rd., South Valley Community Hall, South Valley. MORE CALENDAR, B5

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When the process is complete, the plumb, gabled stone home, a Federal form that contains transitional and Greek Revival elements, and 60 surrounding acres will be the only National Register property in the Town of Winfield, within eyesight of Otsego County’s northernmost corner, (and Monticello Hills wind farm, if it is eventually built.) “I would encourage other people to do this,” Novitski said, sipping coffee on the house’s screen porch that, on the slope of the ridge that divides the Mohawk and Susquehanna watersheds, looks out on unspoiled fields. “This is not difficult. In fact, it was a lot of fun.” It was a learning experience, too. Novitski discovered New York State conducted an agricultural

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Sunday, October 18

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SCOUT DINNER -- 5-7 p.m. Cooperstown Troop 1254 spaghetti dinner fundraiser. Meatballs, sides, beverage. All welcome. Vet’s Club, Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 2676730. AUTHOR VISIT -- 7:30 p.m. -- SUNY Oneonta Red Dragon Reading Series presents M.T.

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Community Bank, N.A. is seeking friendly, dependable, motivated individuals with exceptional communication skills and smiling faces to join our Bank Happy Team. Teller - Milford This full-time Teller position is located in Milford NY. Major responsibilities include providing exceptional customer service, handling cash accurately, meeting customers’ financial needs, and promoting bank products and services. Qualifications for this position include a high school diploma or equivalent, excellent communication skills, accuracy, and basic math skills. Prior cash handling and customer service preferred. Substitute Courier This substitute Courier position is based out of our Oneonta Main Street location. Major responsibilities include transporting interoffice mail and stock supplies between branches in a company vehicle. The person selected will be required to learn multiple routes and will be expected to be on call as needed to fill in. Other than the training period, hours will be limited to call in times only. Qualifications for this position include an excellent driving record and driving skills, ability to read and interpret a map, as well as excellent communication skills. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. If you are interest in applying, please complete an application available from the Careers page at www.communitybankna.com, sbmit online or print out the form and send it to:

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OBITUARIES

Elaine Beck Schaeffer, 62; Worked At NYC Interior Design Firm COOPERSTOWN – Elaine Beck Schaeffer, 62, an interior decorator and volunteer for NYSHA, passed away suddenly at Bassett Hospital on Thursday Oct. 8, 2015. Elaine was the loving wife of Charles and beloved mother of Scott and Elyssa. Born in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of Kenneth and Phyllis Beck. Elaine spent her early formative years with her family in Nice, France. She was educated at Abington Friends, a Quaker school in Pennsylvania, from which she cultivated a lifelong respect for individuals and emphasis on equality, simplicity and integrity.

During high school she spent a year abroad in Braunschweig, West Germany. Elaine attended Wagner College, graduating with a B.A. in German literature. She spent her junior year studying in Bregenz, Austria, where, among other interests, she took up skiing in the Alps. After college, Elaine worked for the interior fabric and design firm Brunschwig & Fils in New York City as the production coordinator, during which she traveled to and worked with mills and showrooms throughout Europe and the U.S. Elaine was dedicated to the arts from a young age, studying piano

and singing with a religious choir, including on European tours. She studied drawing at the Arts Students League in New York City and maintained a passion for exploring art museums in the U.S. and while traveling in Europe for work and visiting her children during their studies abroad. Elaine loved cooking and excelled at baking her famous carrot cake and unparalleled apple pie. Her smile would light up a room and could clear dark clouds from a rainy day. She volunteered for years at the Susquehanna Animal Shelter Better Exchange Thrift Shop and most recently worked for NYSHA at The Fenimore

Art and Farmers’ Museums in Cooperstown. Elaine enjoyed any opportunity to work on her gardening, spend time with her friends, cats and now departed chessie, Tessa, and work on crossword puzzles (always written in ink pen, never pencil) among many other activities. A closet historian and member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Elaine was also a member of the Captain Cook Society and enjoyed reading about the adventures and discoveries of her ancestor James Cook, among other explorers. A caring and dedicated mother

and wife, Elaine was very loved and will be missed more than words can convey. In addition to her husband and children, Elaine is survived by extended family members and friends who will miss her dearly. A funeral was planned at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home. A private burial service will be held Friday, Oct. 16. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations in Elaine’s name be made to the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Arrangements are with Connell, Dow & Deysenroth.

Nancy Kiser Feola, 66; Cancer Fighter Had Had 30-Year Career With County Attorneys

MILFORD – Nancy Feola (nee Kiser) of Milford, 66, who retired from a 30-year career with the Otsego County Attorney’s Office, lost her gallant 19month struggle with cancer Monday evening Oct. 5, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. Born April 1, 1949, she was the oldest daughter among six children of Arthur Sr. and Helen (Platt) Kiser. She attended the oneroom Westville School from 1954 to 1961, then attended and graduated from Milford Central School, Class of 1967. She earned AAS degree in Secretarial Science in 1970 from Herkimer County Community College. A life-long Milford/ Cooperstown resident, she lived with her husband at their State Highway 166 residence. She retired from the county attorney’s office in May 2012. It was there that she met and fell in love with Joe Feola, a man she referred to as her “sweet and wonderful fellow.” They were good friends for over 30 years and constant companions for the last 12. They were married

Debra Emerick, 64: Survived By Brother In Cooperstown

ONEONTA – Word has been received that Debra Emerick, 64, a member of the Oneonta High School class of 1968, passed away unexpectedly in Durango, Colo, on Dec. 18, 2014. Debra is Debra survived Emerick by her brother, Jerry Emerick of Cooperstown and sister, Bonnie Miller, of Durango, Colo. She cherished her nephews, Tyler Miller and Cody Emerick, and niece, Leah Emerick-Anderson and could not have loved them more if they were her own children. Graveside services for Debra will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, in Plains Cemetery, Oneonta, followed by a noon memorial service at Word of Faith Church, Route 7, Maryland.

Aug, 8, 2014, at the gazebo at Otsego Manor by the Rev. Douglas Deer, then-pastor of First Baptist Church in Cooperstown. Joe introduced her to the Vintage Sports Car Club of America, and the couple worked as “corner workers” at many club hill climbs in New Hampshire and Vermont. Nancy was an avid Oneonta Yankee fan. Her hobbies included creating and tending her flower garden, attending local events, feeding, loving and caring for any and all animals and birds that visited her many feeders, as well as making the best apple pies in the world. Her loving, caring and nurturing nature will be missed by many. In addition to her husband and her three kitties, Little One, Tikers and Trouble, she is survived by her father, Arthur Kiser Sr. of Milford;

two sisters, Teresa Kiser of Milford and Sue Georgia of Walla Walla, Wash.; three brothers, Art Kiser, Jr. of Milford, Timmy Kiser of Milford, and Richard Kiser of Vestal, and a special nephew, Alex Lubbers of Virginia. She was predeceased by her mother, Helen Kiser. A funeral was held Monday, Oct. 12 at First Baptist Church, Elm Street, with former Pastor Deer and current lay pastor Dick Sliter officiating. Burial was in the Westville Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church, 19 Elm St., Cooperstown, NY 13326 or to the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 St. Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service.

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Wednesday, October 21

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Elm Park Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Saturday, October 24

LIBRARY PROGRAM -- 10:30 a.m. Family program, “Tell and Draw Stories and Holiday Crafts,� Free, all welcome. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. STATE PARK HIKE -- Noon. 4.5 mile hike through Robert Riddell State Park, hosted by OCCA.

Friday, October 23

RUMMAGE SALE -- Noon-5 p.m. (also bag sale Oct. 24 9 a.m.-noon). Hosted by Fly Creek Methodist women. Bake sale Friday only. Fly Creek Methodist Church, Fly Creek. GHOST TOURS: 5:30-8 p.m., every half hour. (Also Oct. 24). “Things That Go Bump in the Nightâ€? Ghost Tours, with dramatic readings of Poe tales and a sĂŠance (for ages 12 & over). Ghost tours $10, under age 3 free; sĂŠance $10 ($7.50 students, seniors & and NYSHA members). The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Call to reserve, (607) 547-1461. ORPHEUS MYSTERY DINNER -- 7 p.m. Join the Mad Hatter for his interactive “Mad Hatter Murder Mysteryâ€? dinner. Fundraiser for Orpheus Theatre. Hors d’oeuvres and buffet dinner included. Cash bar. Adults $20; seniors & students $15. The Elks Club, 84 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Reservations, www.orpheustheatre.org CHARITY FUNDRAISER -- 7 p.m., with 6 p.m. preview. “Make It Bake It Sew It Grow Itâ€? fundraiser for local charities, hosted by Oneonta and Sidney-based chapters of Beta Sigma Phi women. All welcome; all items handmade.

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MOBILE LIBRARY — 9:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tuesdays & Thursdays monthly. Four-county Library Cybermobile visits Oneonta, Schenevus, Westford, South Valley & Middlefield, on Thursdays Oct. 22, Nov. 19 & Dec. 17. Info, (607) 723-8236. FAMILY WORKSHOP -- 9:30 a.m.-noon (also Oct. 29). Or 6-8 p.m. Oct. 21 & 28). Choice of dates for two-day workshop “Kids in the Middle,� focusing on childrearing needs of single parents, caregivers, and separated parents. Free. Register with Family Service Association of Oneonta at (607) 432-2870.

4-hour hike; bring water and snacks. Meet at the Pine Lake Campus of Hartwick College on Charlotte Creek Road in Davenport. Register at (607) 282-4087. CHURCH DINNER – 4:30 –7:30 p.m. - Oktoberfest buffet all-you-can-eat dinner, featuring German Beer Garden Menu. Tickets at the door: Adults $10; ages 5-12 $5. St. Mary’s Church Parish Hall, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, Donna Ge-

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Cooperstown On Tap, the evening part of Saturday, Oct. 10’s first Cooptoberfest, had beer aficionados line Main Street for half a block in each direction in front of the Baseball Hall of Fame to sample 100 beers, organized by TownSquare Media’s “America on Tap” subsidiary.

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Legal notice Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on November 05, 2015 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 Bid Express (www.bidx.com). A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Transportation for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, representing 25% 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/constnotices 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. Amendment may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list. NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification. Contact Maria Tamarkin (518) 457-8403. Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where sub-contracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportu-

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nities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to, D/W/ MBEs. The Contractor must comply with the Regulation relative to non-discrimination in federally-assisted programs of the USDOT 49 CFR 21. Please call (518) 457-3583 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting. Reg. 09, Jack Williams, Regional Director, 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 D263037, PIN 9806.00, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan & Tioga Cos., Standby Emergency Contract Throughout Region 9., Bid Deposit $75,000.00., NO PLANS. Goals: MBE/WBE 12 - 18% 2LegalOct15 Legal notice Notice of Formation of APPROVED TOWING, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on October 2, 2015. 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 River Street, Oneonta, New York, 13820. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalNov19 Legal notice Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending for beer, wine and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Con-

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trol Law at 4918 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326, Otsego County, for on site consumption. GIBBY ENTERPRISES LLC 2LegalOct22 Legal notice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS

Index #: 975/2014 Filed: 9/16/15 Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Plaintiff, -againstDaniel Crowell, as Administrator for the estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene, his/her respective heirsat-law, next-ofkin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Richard Greene, Jr., as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene, Stephen Greene, as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene, Michael Greene, as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene, Christopher Greene, as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene, Patricia Greene a/k/a Patricia Stewart, as

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heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): 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 attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. 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. 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 a 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. Dated: Bay Shore, New York June 30, 2015 FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISS & GORDON, LLP BY: Pamela Flink Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01057324-FOO TO: Daniel Crowell, Otsego County Treasurer, as Administrator of The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene 197 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 Richard Greene, Jr., as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene 652 Silver St. Ilion, NY 13357 Stephen Greene, as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene 281 Gardnersville Rd Cobleskill, NY 12043 Michael Greene, as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene 159 Stoddard Rd Lakeside, CT 06758 Christopher Greene, as heir to The Estate of Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene 2463 Warm Spring Way Odenton, MD 21113 and/or 1804 Lower Forty Ln. Hampstead, MD 21074 Patricia Greene a/k/a Patricia Stewart, as heir to The Estate of

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Friday, October 30

HEALTH/SPIRITUAL FAIR -- 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (also Oct. 31). Holistic Health & Spiritual Wellness Fair. Healers, vendors, workshops, food. Tickets, $8 one day; $10 two days. Atrium, Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. foothillspac.org COOPERSTOWN PUMPKIN GLOW -- 6 p.m. Annual community Halloween display. Cooperstown Art Association seeks your pumpkins for the annual Cooperstown Pumpkin Glow. Bring carved pumpkins with candle inside, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. to CAA, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9777 or

www.cooperstownart.com

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HEALTH/SPIRITUAL FAIR: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (also Oct. 31). Holistic Health & Spiritual Wellness Fair. Healers, vendors, workshops, food. Tickets, $8 one day; $10 two days. Atrium, Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. foothillspac.org ONEONTA HALLOWEEN PARADE -- 7 p.m. Line up at 6:15 p.m. at Elm and Walnut Streets; costumes encouraged. Parade, with OHS bands, proceeds down Main St., to Chestnut. Refreshments in city parking garage after. Trick or Treat at participating

down town businesses in afternoon. New this year: public invited to bring nonperishable food donations to replace discontinued Holiday Train effort. United Way Volunteers to have shopping carts along Main St. to collect goods. Main St., Oneonta. COOPERSTOWN HALLOWEEN PARADE -- 5 p.m. Meet at Cooper Park, for annual costume parade down Main Street. CSS High School band leads parade, ending at Chamber of Commerce. Cider and treats at parade’s end from Fly Creek Cider Mill and Leatherstocking Credit Union. Free admission to Baseball HOF & trick or treat for children in costumes and their adults,

starting at 3 p.m. Afternoon trick or treating at participating businesses. Main St., Cooperstown.

Saturday, November 7

SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE — 9 a.m. Troop 1254 invites Cooperstown residents to place returnable bottles & cans on visible curb or porch steps. Benefits troop activities. Special pickups, Bruce at (607) 267-6730. HD OPERA BROADCAST -- 12:55 p.m. Live from the Met, HD broadcast of Wagner’s opera “Tannhauser.” Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.foothillspac.org

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Richard Greene a/k/a Richard John Greene a/k/a Dick Greene 3990 Nebo Ave Ogden, UT 84414 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 451 Seventh Street, SW Washington, DC 20410 New York State Department of Taxation and Finance WA Harriman State Campus, Bldg 9 Albany, NY 12227 4LegalOct29 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Nina’s Italian Grill, LLC. Arts. Of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on July 15, 2015. Office Location: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process: Robert A. Gouldin, Esq., 93 Main Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: any lawful activities. 6LegalNov5 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION of Field Excavating, LLC Arts. of Org filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/3/2015. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be

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served. SSNY shall mail process to: 658 Pleasant Valley Road, Milford, NY 13820 / Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalOct30 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) The name of the LLC is The Commons Camps LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on September 18, 2015. The purpose for which the LLC has been formed is to engage in any lawful act or activity. The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is to be located is Otsego. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 24 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. 6LegalOct30 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: YIPPEE! REIKI LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 25 August 2015.

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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 57 Grove St, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalOct30 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: ROD’S ELECTRIC & PLUMBING LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 25 August 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 1412 ST Hwy 165, Cherry Valley, NY 13320. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalOct30 Legal notice The William J. Weinell Agency LLC Articles of organization filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on Sept. 9, 2015. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY

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seig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The William J. Weinell Agency, LLC. 21 Railroad Ave Suite 2-1, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any legal purpose. 6LegalOct23 Legal notice WOODCHIPS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 09/08/2015. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 359 Delaware County Hwy 11, Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalOct22 Legal notice Notice of LLC Formation: Gaits of Glory LLC. Articles of Organization filed w/ Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/21/2015. Office in Otsego County NY. The designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served shall be mailed to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Suite 202, Brooklyn NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose and agricultural operations. 6LegalOct16