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Forums May Build ‘Single Point Of Contact’ IDA board chair Bob Hanft at the IGA committee. At right is IDA COO Elizabeth Horvath and, left, county Planning Director Karen Sullivan.

IDA, County, Chambers Discuss New Collaboration

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hree forums for small-business owners – in a month or so – are being planned, with a goal of achieving Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal what’s been an elusive “single point of

contact” for economic development in Otsego County.

“We want to outreach to people in the trenches,” Bob Hanft, county Industrial Development Agency chair, told the county board’s Intergovernmental (IGA) Committee – its responsibilities include economic development – at a meeting Please See FORUMS, B4

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Retired Fly Creek Cider Mill proprietor Charlie Michaels operates a turn-of-the-century apple parer at mill’s Ciderfest Sunday, Oct. 12.

County Closes Deal, Transfers Otsego Manor INDEX

‘Grassy Apron’ Posed For Doubleday Entry LAKEFRONT PARK

Visions Also Floated For Railroad Avenue, Lakefront Park, More

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he shift that punched out at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Otsego Manor worked for the County of Otsego.

The shift that punched in works for Focus Ventures, a private operator of nursing homes, based in Airmont, Rockland County, that now owns the county nursing home.

The deal was supposed to be done last week, said county Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, but took longer than expected.

Kurt Apthorpe remains Manor director.

ZEPHYR BACK: Zephyr Teachout, who beat Governor Cuomo in Otsego and 29 other Upstate counties in the September Democratic party, will sign copies of her book, “Corruption in America,” at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at the Green Toad Bookstore.

HELPING KIDS: Tired Iron of Butternut Valley, an antique farm equipment club, presented a check for $3,410 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Saturday, Oct. 10, at The Farmers’ Museum TractorFest.

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Cooperstown’s Design Charrette envisions a “grassy apron” leading to Doubleday Field, an “iconic’ 3-4 story building at Railroad and Main, with senior citizen housing behind, and an expanded walkway and pier at Lakefront Park. More details at coopplan.wordpress.com

Rock Hall’s Greg Harris Blending Old Stars, New

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hen Greg Harris, ’93, was a Cooperstown Graduate Program “first year,” he may not have known that what he did in his free time would be as important to his career as what he did in the Please See HARRIS, B5

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Rock Hall president Greg Harris, ’93, shares a laugh with Jim Havener, ’83, at the CGP Alumni Reception Saturday, Oct. 11.

“grassy apron” leading fans from Main Street to the doors of Doubleday Field, where asphalt is now.

A extended walkway along Lakefront Park’s waterfront, and a pier extending 100 feet into James Fenimore Cooper’s Glimmerglass.

An “iconic Jim Kevlin/Freeman’s Journal building” in the Delaware Otsego Site senior citizen housing in an optimum way, Corp. parking lot, facing east, says Otsego 2000’s Ellen luring tourists up Pope. At left is Ommegang’s Larry Bennett.

Main Street.

These were some of the concepts Elan Planning Founding Principal Lisa Nagle sketched out for 50 returnees Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the CCS Please See VISIONS, B5

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overnor Cuomo was expected to announce Wednesday or Thursday, Oct. 15 or 16, who will benefit from the latest round of CFA economic-development grants. The Village of Cooperstown is seeking funds for 22 Main renovations and to complete its Community Visioning initiative. For updates, check WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

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‘Glimmerglass’ New Novel By Cooperstown’s Marly Youmans COOPERSTOWN

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ith critics calling her a “writer of rare ability,” Marly Youmans’ latest novel, “Glimmerglass,” is receiving rave reviews.

Set in the Village of Cooper Patent, painter Cynthia Sorrel finds herself chasYoumans ing a creature she believes to be the Muse deeper and deeper into a labyrinth of dreams and mystery.

Publisher’s Weekly called it “an appealing blend of myth, mystery and magic.”

Author Jeffrey Beam described her as “One of the biggest secrets of contemporary American fiction.”

The novel was published in September by Mercer University Press.

“Glimmerglass” is Youmans’ 12th book. In 2012, her novel “Death at White Camilla Orphanage” was nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Literature.

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Winners of the Clark Sport Center’s coveted Fetterman Award over the past 20 years gathered Wednesday, Oct. 8, to welcome Mark Rathbun, center, retired teacher, coach and former CCS board president, to the roster. Left to right are Bruce Andrews, Paul Lambert, Pat Hazzard, Frank Miosek, Ed Hazzard, Sharky Nagelschmidt, Jerry Townsend, Ted Spencer, Mark Rathbun, Dave Bliss, Dave Adsit, Jack Vineyard, Bob Snyder, Don Howard, Brenda Wedderspoon-Gray, Brenda Jaeger, and Ted Kantorowski.

Clark Sports Center board chairman Jane Forbes Clark presented Rathbun with the award.

DAR Chapters To Recognize ‘Real Daughter’ Of Revolutionary Soldier

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he Oneonta and Cooperstown chapters of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) will make the grave of one of the few “Real Daughters” at 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 18, in Cherry Valley Cemetery.

Anna Clark Morse (18131898) was the daughter of Revolutionary War soldier

Jerome Clark (1756-1850) from Connecticut. He served at Bunker Hill, the siege of Boston, the Battle of White Plains, and was wounded on privateer Nancy. He also helped to demolish the statue of George III on Bowling Green in New York City.

After his first wife died, he moved to Cooperstown

where he eventually remarried in 1809 and they had a daughter, Anna. She grew up in the Cooperstown and Cherry Valley area, married Oliver Andrew Morse of Cherry Valley in 1839, and had three children.

Anna was 77 years in 1890 when the DAR was formed. She joined, making her a “Real Daughter,” ing brat ar Cele 4th ye4 2 1 our 990-20 1

as her father had actually been a Revolutionary War soldier. Since the war had been fought over 100 years before the DAR was formed, this was a rather rare situation.

Anna was an active member of the Cherry Valley DAR (which has since disbanded) until her death in 1898 at the age of 85. She

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was chapter Regent and even traveled to Washington, DC to attend the DAR convention the year before her death. She is buried in the Cherry Valley Cemetery along with her family.

After her grave is marked, there will be a luncheon at the First Presbyterian Church put on by the Cherry Valley Historical Association & Museum.

Following the grave marking and the luncheon, there will be a special house tour of the historic Morse House on Montgomery St. This is the house where Anna and her husband Oliver Andrew Morse lived, where he grew up, and where he and several Hamilton College friends formed the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society in 1833.

The day’s events are open to the public. The price of the luncheon and tour is $20, to benefit the Cherry Valley Historical Association for their building fund.

TWO AT SLU: Two Otsego County students are freshmen at St. Lawrence University this fall: Elena J. Brzozowski of Oneonta and Sarah-Jane Morosko of Cooperstown.

GLOVA RE-UPS: Sgt. Alexander Glova, Richfield Springs, has reenlisted to continue service with the 827th Engineer Company, New York Army National Guard.

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WEEKEND UNDER THE FOLIAGE Sweater weather is here and Richard Aikens, left, Oneonta, is ready to keep Oneonta warm! Here, Clara Stewart, Delhi, and Mirriam Hathaway, Oneonta look over the warm wares at the Southside Mall Craft Show on Saturday, Oct. 11.

And they’re off! Amy Yacobucci is out in front of the Cupola 5K race on Saturday, Oct. 11 at the Clark Sports Center Cupola winner Mike Hamilton, Oneonta, pledges before the start of the race.

He finished the 5K with a time of 16:56:05

Katrina Van Zandt, Oneonta, had her table of bottle lights for sale at Southside.

Can’t have Cider Fest without apples, and here, Cider Mill volunteers Charlie Michaels and Jim Brophy, both of Fly Creek, use paring machines from the early 1900’s ...and then the apples are sliced by Henry Michaels, Cooperstown, who hands a freshly-cut fruit to Anna and Joe Robinson of North Carolina.

Lines wrapped around the Fly Creek Cider Mill SaturdaySunday, Oct. 11-12.

Bill Coleman of Cooperstown, left, examines a 1924 Ford tractor belonging to Fred Zimmerman, Davenport Center (who was delighted to tell visitor’s about it’s local history on the Miller Farm in Wells Bridge) at the Farmers’ Museum Tractorfest.

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Fingers Crossed. Forums May Achieve ‘Single Point Of Contact’

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tsego County has never done economic development – and never will, county Treasurer Dan Crowell told the 2014 Otsego Leadership class when it convened last April at the Cooperstown Graduate Program.

Economic development requires risk-taking, Crowell said, and the county Board of Representatives simply has been unwilling to risk taxpayer money. He couldn’t imagine the reps ever will. That’s prudent; they shouldn’t.

So what had been called the county Economic Development Office, Crowell continued, was instead a grant-seeking entity, passing through funds mostly to eligible existing businesses.

The “single point of contact” concept that came out of last November’s “Seward Summit” was an exciting alternative to a concept that, per Crowell, could never work. Regrettably, both the county Board of Representatives and Otsego County Chamber declined to follow through.

• That’s why a meeting of the minds last Thursday, Oct. 9, was such a relief, and important for achieving a viable economic future for Otsego County: i.e., our neighbors and their families who live off the local economy, not just pensioners from elsewhere.

It broke the deadlock.

Last Thursday, representatives of the county, of the chambers of commerce and of the IDA (the quasi-pri-

not taxes. It identified two prospective sites for shovelready status (in Oneonta and Richfield Springs).

The piece that proved elusive was the “single point of contact.” Now, with the chambers and the county IGA Committee aboard, it looks like that’s going to happen, too.

Unity makes sense: Out of the single office and shared resources at 189 Main, the traditional IDA handles projects of $1 million and up; the county component does small-business loans and programs, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal and community developIDA board Chair Bob Hanft, left, outlines a proposal to the county board’s Intergovernmental Affairs ment; and the chambers, Committee to bring the IDA, county board and chambers of commerce together in a “single point of tapping their members, procontact” for economic development. Others are, from left, IDA COO Elizabeth Horvath, IDA Presivide guidance and support. dent Sandy Mathes, county Rep. Beth Rosenthal, D-Roseboom, Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, and Craig We’ve learned what to Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, committee clerk Jenna Utter, and county Rep. Rick Hulse, R-Otsego. Also do.

We know what to do. present were county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, IGA chair Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, We’re more than half-way county Planning Director Karen Sullivan and Otsego Chamber President/CEO Barbara Ann Heegan. there. Now we’re going to vate county Industrial Desuppliers). It may be loans Crowell’s formulation – will where. do it. (private or public). never go anywhere.

• velopment Agency) agreed Much credit for the posiOnce what will help Balking at a $250,000 If ye know these things, on a program to, despite a tive turn of events is due small-businesses thrive IDA funding request a few happy are ye who do them. few bumps in the road this to Gelbsman and Hulse, is specified, the IDA will months ago, the IGA comThat’s not us talking, that’s year, make “single point of for coming around. To put together the pieces mittee (not to be confused The Good Book (John contact” business recruitIDA chair Bob Hanft, who and make an appropriate with the IDA) pulled out of 13:17), divinely inspired. ment a reality. was supremely convincproposal to the county’s the “single point of contact” Dick Sheehy, one of the In the next few weeks ing at last week’s meeting.

Intergovermental Affairs concept that came out of the nation’s foremost busi– time is of the essence, To state Sen. Jim Seward, Committee (IGA), for vetsecond “Seward Summit” ness recruiters, told the because the county board R-Milford, for continuing ting before approval by the last November at Foothills. last “Seward Summit” two is putting together its 2015 to nudge things in the right full county board.

First, it reduced the things are necessary for suc- direction. To Barbara Ann budget – the three entities County Reps. Craig county Economic Develop- cessful economic developwill convene three “forums” Heegan, Otsego Chamber Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, ment Office to a part-time ment: One, “shovel ready for chamber members, president, for bringing her and Rick Hulse, R-Otsego, receptionist answering the sites.” Two, a “single point 500 members to the table. mostly small-business characterized this approach phone in the large, empty of contact” – if a company owners, who will be led (IDA COO Elizabeth Horas “crawl, walk, run.”

But former county ec-dev office comes calling, it knows through a structured discusvath said the Cooperstown in Oneonta’s City Hall.

THE number to call. sion to determine what help, Gelbsman made the goal Chamber is participating, plain: “We want a one-stop Then, a few weeks ago, the The IDA embraced the specifically, they need and too.) shop.”

IGA committee rechristened Sheehy prescription. It hired want. Stay tuned for parTo a lot of other people • the county planning office Sandy Mathes, the former ticulars, coming soon.

– you know who you are, What Gelbsman and the Department of Planning, Greene County economic What they need may and thank you – who, in a Hulse are doing is sensiSolid Waste & (oh, yes, by developer, one of the state’s county that has less jobs be advice (on grants or bly backing away from an the way) Economic Develbest. It committed $3 state programs). It may be today than a quarter century alternative that was going opment. million of its own money referrals (to accountants or ago, are keeping the torch nowhere and – given Dan That wasn’t going any– private funds, from fees, lawyers, to contractors or of hope alive.

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health care services in Central New York. In general, hospitals that train medical professionals provide superior patient care.

Bassett is a “teaching hospital” associated with Columbia University’s medical school, ranked eighth best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The proposed zoning law endorses, without reservation, Bassett’s use of property in the institutional zone for educational purposes. Young doctors trained in Cooperstown are more likely to stay in our area, providing high quality medical care for years to come. This is certainly in our interest.

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sion of convenient, off-street parking for both patients and visitors. The assurance of convenient parking improves Bassett’s appeal to patients driving long distances from all over Central New York to Cooperstown for treatment. These patients generate the income that the hospital needs to offer a full range of healthcare services in Cooperstown. It would be impossible otherwise. Improved on-site parking might also ease traffic congestion on neighboring residential streets.

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the proposed zone are 26 properties; all but one are Bassett’s. The zone’s boundaries are defined almost entirely (90 percent) by village streets and the Susquehanna River.

A special institutional zone makes logical sense. The current zoning law carves out areas in the village where businesses are encouraged to engage in commerce.

The question arises: Why does the law consider Bassett, a non-profit institution and the largest employer in Otsego County, unworthy of similar treatment?

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The village zoning law lays out parameters for land use in the village. To an outsider like me (I moved to Cooperstown in 2006), the current law contains a glaring oversight. It fails to grant Bassett Hospital the unequivocal right to provide medical services within the village.

By necessity, the hospital uses numerous properties in Cooperstown. These are located in at least four zoning districts, two residential (R-1A & R-2), a “Coordinated Development Dis-

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Number, Please? Taylor Heating’s Was Simply 7 Editor’s Note: Cathe Ellsworth is revisiting “Where Nature Smiles” columns she and her husband Gerry wrote for years in The Freeman’s Journal. This one is from 1986.

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n response to a telephone article written by Jane Johngren’s which appeared in The Freeman’s Journal we thought we should respond. After all, we well remember that day when Cooperstown got dial phones.

We remember wondering what it would be like to make a call without the operator’s saying, “Number, please.” We also wondered if we could remember all those new strange long numbers. Our pre-dial phone number was 949 and our across the

street neighbors, the Sprakers, had the phone number 44. We confess that we do not remember any other pre-dial numbers. Are there any pre-dial telephone books extant?

Before a pre-dail telephone directory could come to light, Doug Preston of New Hartford recalled that some business (which one?) in the village had the phone number 7. When Marian Rathbun of Toddsville was kind enough to let us know we could see her 1960-61 telephone directory which lists Cooperstown’s pre-dial numbers,

we learned that W.L. Taylor & Son had the number 7. Of course, Taylor’s is very much still with us, but many of the businesses listed in the directory are now gone.

Many area residents have a favorite “operator” story from the pre-dial era. Ours is that of Katie Tennant Sanford, of Susquehanna Avenue, who recalls that she really never learned the phone numbers of her grandmothers – Mrs. Florence B. Tennant and Mrs. Gladys Nevil, both of whom lived in the village. When Katie identified herself and asked the operator for her grandmother, the operator would always reply, “Which one?” Only in Cooperstown!

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

200 YEARS AGO

The following is a brief outline of the terms proposed by the British ministers to our commissioners as a basis of negotiation, and was communicated by the President of the United States to both houses of Congress, by a special message on October 10th: 1. A new boundary line to be established, giving them the whole dominion of the lakes, and part of the Province of Maine. 2. The independence of the Indians to be guaranteed and both parties prohibited from purchasing lands within their territory. 3. We are not to erect any fortifications on the frontier, and to abandon those already erected. 4. The right of search to be permanently settled in their favor. 5. They will permit us to fish, but not cure our fish, on the banks of Newfoundland.

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5. Don’t become separated from your hunting party, especially if some members are less experienced. 6. Don’t fire your gun unless you are certain of your quarry. Persons who are involved in hunting accidents causing death or injury to others must have their license revoked for one to ten years.

October 18, 1939

50 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown Village Library Board voted last Thursday afternoon at a business meeting to become a member of the Four-County Library System, the member libraries of which are located in Otsego, Delaware, Broome and Chenango counties. Marcus A. Wright of Binghamton, director of the organization, met with the board and gave a presentation about the system which was established in June 1960 with 29 charter libraries. Mr. Wright stated that the Four-County Library System was formed to help improve local systems by the use of more books, etc. In no way do they come in and tell the local library how to run the operation.

October 14, 1964

175 YEARS AGO

Among the 134 letters remaining in the Post Office at Cooperstown are those addressed to: Edward B. Augur, Martha Adsit, Sally Ashley, Platt Adams, Miss Abigail Cunningham, Cyrenus Clark, Miss Jane E. Clark, John Cockett, John Head, Eugene Hawley, Miss Mary Ann Ingalls, L. Jones, John Kenyon, Benj. Nott, Truman Pier, Geo. Pomeroy, David Reed, Wm. Simonson, Joseph Spencer, Miss Huldah Shepard, Rev. F.T. Tiffany, Mrs. Lucy Van Horne, Miss Abigail Williams and Joseph Young.

October 14, 1839

150 YEARS AGO

Ladies at the County Fair – Our attention was first directed to the Domestic Manufactures. The Ladies deserve much praise, for their department has become an attractive feature of the Exhibition. There was a good display of quilts. There were 12 entries. A beautiful silk patchwork quilt, containing 3,000 pieces, by Mrs. James F. Smith of Richfield Springs, was much admired as a work which had required no little time and skill to complete; another by Miss Amanda Belknap was very much admired, being so neatly arranged and finely shaded; and one of superior workmanship by Miss Julia Luther, attracted much attention.

October 14, 1864

100 YEARS AGO

It was “Teddy” sure enough, who drove into town in a powerful Packard Tuesday afternoon to address a meeting in the interests of his Bull Moose Party. And the whole crowd was here to greet him. They filled the Village Hall to more than its capacity. To all outward appearances he was the same Roosevelt, but his speaking lacked much of his old-time vigor, due to the fevers contracted in his South

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October 18, 1889 American explorations, from which he has not yet fully recovered.

The death of George Edwin Coburn at his home on Pioneer Street at an early hour Sunday morning removed a man whose name had been connected with navigation on Otsego Lake for many years. Mr. Coburn had been in ill health for some time and had suffered several paralytic shocks. Mr. Coburn was born in Otsego County on January 27, 1845 and came to Cooperstown to reside with his parents, Thomas J. and Ann Coburn when a young man. Before coming to this village he was employed by the late George Clarke at Springfield. For over 40 years, Mr. Coburn was engaged in operating stage lines from the head of the lake to Richfield Springs and steam boats on Otsego Lake.

October 14, 1914

75 YEARS AGO

A warning to New York’s 600,000 sportsmen was voiced

by Conservation Commissioner Lithgow Osborne. “If everyone who plans to engage in hunting this fall will observe a few common sense rules, I am sure that the number of hunting accidents will be kept to a minimum.” 1. Don’t crawl through brush or fences and drag your gun after you.

2. Don’t carry a loaded gun in your car. There is a law against it. 3. Don’t forget your safety catch. 4. Don’t leave your gun loaded in your home where children can get at it.

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The Cook Foundation recently announced that it has received conservation easements from Patten of New York Corporation and Glimmerglen Hills. Bob Cook, president of the foundation, said conservation easements are designed to protect open spaces, scenic views and ecologically significant lands. “A conservation easement is a legal agreement between a property owner and the holder of an easement and governs the current and future owners’ treatment of the property short of outright ownership,” Cook explained. The easements involve two archaeological sites overlooking Canadarago Lake in the Town of Otsego. “I believe these are the first conservation easements to be created in northern Otsego County,” Cook said.

October 18, 1989

10 YEARS AGO

Every so often, Richard DiMaggio develops a craving for a really good hot dog. So, after watching a PBS special featuring regional hot dogs, he started dreaming again about opening his own restaurant and making specialty sandwiches. That was two years ago. Now, DiMaggio’s is slated to open March 1 in the perfect spot, just a mustard bottle squirt away from the entrance to the Cooperstown Dreams Park on State Highway 28. Chicago-style hotdogs will be featured at DiMaggio’s, dressed with yellow mustard, sweet green relish, chopped onions, tomato and celery seeds.

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Historic Town Like Cooperstown Needs Locally Focused Museum To the Editor: As the community digests the finding of the recent Design Charrette, we hope that part of the wish list that evolves will include something that Fly Creek, Cherry Valley, Milford, Richfield Springs, Sharon Springs , Springfield Center, Harpursfield and Middlefield all have that Cooperstown doesn’t have – a museum! Not a baseball museum or a state Historical Museum, treasures to be sure – we have those, but a Cooperstown museum!

We were inspired to suggest this after an old friend and customer at the “Grove” stopped by

and brought two scrapbooks that she wanted to share with us. They were fantastic, filled with stories, clippings, pictures compiled over decades from her years at their Five Mile camp. She was a librarian and has put these scrapbooks together with love and care.

She wanted us to take out some pictures of the “Grove” but we felt they should stay totally together.

But then the question was, where would they end up? Where could they be shared by the entire community? At the present time, nowhere.

That got us thinking where will future generations read the old

columns written by Hugh MacDougall. Jim Atwell (I did not say “old” Jim Atwell) , the He-She We-She’s, Hawthorne Hill, Rita Ferrandino, Mary Pangborn, The Badger, and of course – What did MK say she heard AL and JL telling about BC at the ST on Saturday? These columns have to be saved along with pictures that span our 200-plus years and, more importantly, DISPLAYED – year round! Thank you, NYSHA, for your periodic photography (don’t miss the current one). There are probably thousands of pictures and artifacts in the archives at NYSHA waiting to see the day

Greater Oneonta, Collaborate On Regional Water To the Editor: I’m glad to see the ongoing debate over the proposed Southside Water idea. Sharing differences of opinions is a healthy thing. I picked up on the two pro-project letters in your newspapers submitted by Oneonta Town Board members Patricia Jacob and Andrew Stammel.

Please indulge me to make a couple of observations to the positions taken, those of Mrs. Jacob surrounding water safety and Mr. Stammel’s stance on infrastructure development.

Jacob made broad arguments that the new $8.8 million system was needed to address deficient water-quality standards, citing severe contamination issues since 1999. I would hope those sub-standard conditions were mitigated as they occurred and reported, and that water out there is no longer polluted and currently safe to drink.

Right, Mrs. Jacob? I suspect the Southside sewer system, added after those early citations, had something to do with improving Southside water quality.

That sewer extension runs from the Holiday Inn on Route 23 and extends along the Southside to a pump station near the Home Depot, where it crosses the Susquehanna River to be linked into the city’s main sewer trunk line that traverses the city’s Sixth Ward and ultimately finds its way to the city’s wastewater

treatment plant off I-88’s Exit 13.

I mention this because it demonstrates the best in collaborative, inter-municipal problem solving.

Mrs. Jacob, the town should be deploying the same inter-municipal model in expanding water services to the Southside. A combined town/city initiative would be in a much stronger position to attract even more state and federal funding for the Southside water idea.

As that singular vocal city resident opposed to the town’s “go it alone” Southside water idea, I can assure you, Mr. Stammel, that I’m not alone. In fact, I’ve spoken to many town residents who share my view that there’s a better way and have even gone so far as to call the current plan a “stupid idea.” And on the “right kind of jobs” statement, as a town board member who represents a town where the median household income is at least 15K below state and national averages, you should be out front in advocacy for creating those “right kinds of jobs” for Oneonta.

You must have also noticed the ever-increasing

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Gibson’s Flag-Waving Unconvincing To the Editor: I am a veteran and I love my country, but waving the flag does not do it for me.

There are many reasons to vote for a congressional candidate. That he has lived here a long time, that he served in the military and is a good old boy are not good reasons.

Our incumbent 19th District congressman is running a negative campaign that is mean-spirited, disrespectful, misleading and xenophobic.

The incumbent has a very poor record on environmental issues, voting to support the environment only one out of every three times.

He marches lock step with his party caucus in opposing the president at every turn and has helped to waste

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time, money and energy by supporting the government shutdown and the lawsuit against the President.

The incumbent is an ineffectual “good old boy” in the pocket of corporate interests who promises more Washington divisiveness and has even signed the Koch pledge to vote against climate-change legislation.

I will be supporting Sean Eldridge for Congress. He has fresh ideas about jobs and the economy. Sean is independent and will not accept corporate PAC contributions. He will not be in the pocket of big donors.

Sean is in favor of protecting the environment and

supports renewable energy.

He supports local farmers and raising the minimum wage to $10 and has promised to protect and not to cut Medicare and Social Security.

To me the choice is simple. We can support the dysfunctional divisive Congress owned by corporate interests that we currently have, or we can vote to change it all.

I will be voting for Sean Eldridge for Congress. I hope that you will join me.

Sean Eldridge can bring about real change and hope to our congressional district.

HENRY J. NICOLS Cooperstown

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niversary of Winter Carnival – just two years away! All those old Winter Carnival movie reels are stored somewhere, no doubt with the tow rope from Mount Otsego!

Let’s give our history the light of day!

Maybe this would be an ideal place for Director Gretchen Sorin and adjunct Professor Katie B to drop some of their eager new students into the deep end of the “ Cooperstown Museum Pool”!

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Thought I was reading our Omaha World Herald newspaper instead of The Freeman’s Journal as you made note of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Elan’s Lisa Nagle visiting, while your other article, “CGP 50-Year Gift To Community,” made note of Sarah DaCorta from Omaha.

Lightning struck twice!

deterioration in the town’s neighborhoods and the empty store fronts even on the Southside.

Mr. Stammel, we live in Appalachia. In your town’s own Zogby survey, over 70 percent of respondents wanted to see more economic development and it’s only those “right kinds of jobs” that can turn things around and save the Oneontas.

So if your water petition succeeds in November, carry on and good luck! If it fails, don’t lose heart: The decision may open-up new opportunities to plan and develop a better project, refashioned from a smart inter-municipal regional water arrangement in combination with the City.

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of light. And how many other scrapbook and memorabilia, some no doubt dating back to the 1800s, are sitting in closets waiting to be shared by locals and visitors alike?

So as the village begins its next visioning, let’s put some thought into starting a museum drive – how about the old Smith Ford/Fritch Museum building, the Augur building or one of our older homes? It would be a fitting tribute to our rich and diverse past.

And a great way to engage CGP on their 50th anniversary and kick off one of Cooperstown’s most cherished traditions – the 50th an-

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014

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Institutional Zone Gives Bassett Basis To Plan Future In Cooperstown

BLABEY/From A4 expenses, thus slowing the overall growth rate in health care costs.

As consumers of health care, we should all support this. The proposal provides Bassett flexibility to either add to, or reconfigure, its current facilities, leading to improved energy efficiency, func-

tionality and employee productivity.

What about the impact on neighbors? The institutional zone imposes the same setback restriction from village streets as exists in the village’s R-2 and R-3 residential districts, i.e., new construction may be no closer than

20 feet from any village street.

It binds realistic building height limits to the same height-to-front yard setback ratio that exists in residential districts. In laymen’s terms, the higher the building, the further removed from the street it must be.

Furthermore, the creation of

Democrats, Republicans, Independents Work For Town Of Oneonta’s Benefit To the Editor: I would like to thank the members of my community for their overwhelming support in the recent primary election. I have worked hard for many years before my appointment to the Oneonta Town Board to help make our environmental protections a reality. I passed the petition for, and helped work towards, the moratorium, as the townspeople realized that no benefit is worth the destruction of our precious land and water.

After my appointment to the board, I had the honor to join in the unanimous vote for the ban on hydraulic fracturing and its related dangers.

I have stood for what I believe is right, what the residents of this town have shown they want, and I will

continue to do so.

As town residents themselves, this board is overwhelmingly supportive of a healthy business community, vital to the continued prosperity of this area. As do my fellow board members, I heartily support the Southside water district as an example of intelligent, well-planned growth and will continue to work with the community in this regard.

I feel concern for the water quality of the Southside residents and businesses, and hope they will carefully consider the facts and make an informed decision.

The current board members bring with them a wonderful variety of life experiences and work together collaboratively to get work done for the town.

Democrat, Republican, independent, we all deeply feel the responsibility to fulfill with integrity the obligations of this office. I am honored to be part of the thoughtful conversations that take place during our working groups and meetings that enable us to be effective board members.

I am truly enjoying getting work done for the town, and knowing the concerns of the residents as I meet them going door to door. For me, it’s not about politics, it is about getting work done! I will always strive to do what is best for this community that I love, and would ask for the privilege to continue to do so.

PATRICIA RIDDELL KENT Oneonta Town Board Member

the zone will not exempt Bassett properties from oversight by the Historical Preservation & Architectural Review Board and from compliance with all public safety and environmental protection laws and regulations.

The trustees should approve this change in the law. The future

prosperity of our village and the academic excellence of our public schools depend upon the reliable, year-around contribution to the entire community that Bassett Hospital makes.

RICHARD BLABEY Cooperstown

Many People Make Soccer League Possible To the Editor: On Saturday mornings in Cooperstown, Cherry Valley, Edmeston and West Winfield, young boys and girls of the Cooperstown Soccer Club gather to learn and play the game of soccer. More than 500 participants are involved each year in the fall and spring educational recreation leagues hosted by each town, with the addition of travel teams for several age groups offered in the spring.

The Cooperstown Soccer Club strives to teach children to love the game of soccer and essential life skills, like teamwork and sportsmanship, while emphasizing the importance of physical fitness in a way that is both fun, and fair, for everyone who participates.

Our collective effort is only made possible by the tremendous support we receive from so many individuals and organizations in each town. We are grateful that our club helps bring our local communities together this way, and we wish to thank everyone for their contributions.

Coaches, players, parents, and everyone else on the sidelines: Thank you. To the Clark Sports Center, Pathfinder Village, and Community Centers in Cherry Valley and West Winfield, where our games are played: Thank you. To the Varsity Boys & Girls Soccer teams, Coach Miosek and Coach Pindar, for providing a day of instruction, and more importantly for being role models for our young players to look up to: Thank

you. To anyone else who has donated time, equipment, or financial support: Thank you.

A very special “thank you� to these businesses that sponsored a team for fall 2014: McManus Engineering Group, Murdock Construction, Stagecoach Coffee, Rathbun Renovations, Nicoletta’s Italian Cafe, Gable Chiropractic, Krazy Tom’s Sleep Shop, Antique Cast Iron LLC, NBT-Mang Insurance, Epic Landscaping, McCarthy Building Co., Danny’s Market, Cooperstown Holsteins, Rifanburg’s Lawn & Landscape, The Tepee, Watercress Farm and Greenhouse, Astrocom Electronics, Wittstein & Lassiter Sports Medicine, Ingalls Blueberry Farm, Coyote Cafe’, NYCM, Smith-Cooperstown, Inc., NYS&W Railroad, Crazy Cupz, Cherry Valley Dressings and Marinades, The Water Bottle, Knotty by Nature, Principal Financial Group, Bocca Osteria, Cherry Valley Tinsel Co, Realty USA, Brooks Karate, Lake Chalet, and Marsh Construction.

Thank you also to these individuals who sponsored teams: Ryan Miosek, Melissa Tarasiewicz, Austin Bruno, John Hodgson, Matt Spencer, and Kim and Joe Gray.

Please remember to support the many local individuals and businesses that support the things in your community that you enjoy.

See you on the pitch.

MATT GRADY, President CHAD WELCH, Vice President Cooperstown Soccer Club

When People Connected People With People NUMBER/From A4 Thinking about Cooperstown’s pre-dial telephone numbers prompted us to ask if anyone remember Tel-aWeather? What was it and by whom was it operated?

The answer was that Tela-Weather, Cooperstown’s weather-by-telephone service, was originated and operated by Harold Hollis. One could call to hear a recorded up-to-the-minute local forecast given by Harold or his late wife, Virginia.

One could also learn if CCS was to have a snow day by listening to Tel-a-Weather.

There were even commercials for area businesses before and after the forecast.

Residents also received Tela-Weather lucky numbers.

Each day a lucky number was given along with the weather. If one’s lucky number was given, one was eligible for valuable prizes.

As an additional note, when we moved back here in 1982, one still had to give one’s number to the operator when making a long distance call. The she-we, who grew up in Michigan never having had to deal with an operator when making a telephone call, found it rather disconcerting to have the operator break into the telephone call asking for the number from which the call was being made.

Of course, history wasn’t always presented purely for information. From time to time, we would use a bit

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of Cooperstown history to illustrate what we perceived as a pressing village issue.

For example, in the column of April 9, 1986, we wrote: “In closing, in these particularly stressful times in the area of village finance, we pass on to those concerned with formulating a village budget for the next fiscal year a practice of William Cooper’s which appears to have been unique for the time and a real boon to the economic growth of the new village. Cooper allowed the settlers here to pay for their land on the installment plan. Now, this hardly seems new to us in these days of monthly payments, but in Cooper’s day such an idea was certainly revolutionary. Cooper also allowed the settlers to make these installment payments with community service or with goods instead of cash.�

We hope, those who now guide the affairs of Cooper’s village will remember the good Judge’s practice as

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31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)

Just Reduced!—New to the market, this darling 3-BR cottage is being offered as a 3-season property. Lake rights at Hickory Grove Point as well as at Springfield Public Landing, the house is in a country setting w/lake views from the deck. Completely redone, it offers an LR w/vaulted ceiling and woodstove, new kitchen w/dining area and door to the deck, 3 BRs and a full bath. Most furnishings remain. There is also a shop/storage building, perennials, nice yard space, stone-walled pathway, and the feeling of being in a quiet place. Great getaway or possible rental.

Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty NOW $145,000 Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com For APPoiNtmeNt: Patricia Bensen-Ashley, Broker, 607-437-1149

Jack Foster, Sales Agent, 607-547-5304 • Donna Skinner, Associate Broker, 607-547-8288 Christopher Patterson, Sales Agent, 518-774-8175

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