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Lady Ostapeck poses with Ellen Elizabeth,the subject of an exhibit of never-before-seen photos during a reception and book-signing Friday, Nov. 1, at Foothills in Oneonta. Formerly of Fly Creek and Nader Towers, Lady is now at a retirement home in Herkimer.
County Voters Affirm Bipartisan Status Quo
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tatewide, voters approved a change in the state Constituion to allow seven non-Indian casinos to be built Upstate, 642,001-477,177, or 57 percent to 43 percent. But Otsego County said otherwise, voting 409-275, or 60 percent to 40 percent, against expanding gambling. BUMP IN ROAD: In the hotly contested race for Town of Otsego highway superintendent, it was Republican John Schallert, 494; Democrat Mark diLorenzo, 375, and independent Bryan Pernat, 302. LIVE FROM FOOTHILLS!
State Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, has partnered with SUNY Oneonta on a live broadcast/webcast of his second “Economic Development Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills. The webcast will allow students in county schools to watch the event in real time. BAT FOR BISHOP: St. Mary’s pastor, Father John Rosson, planned to present Bishop Hubbard with an engraved Cooperstown Bat Co. bat when the retiring prelate visits the village Friday, Nov. 8/DETAILS, A3
Allstadt, Northrup Say Too Little Gas Underground Here By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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here will be no hydrofracking in Otsego County. Period. “It’s just not going to happen,” said Lou Allstadt, the The Freeman’s Journal former Mobil Lou Allstadt, right, executive vice and Chip Northrup president and, say there’s too previously, little gas to frack vice president here. of exploration & production, who was converted to the anti-fracking cause on moving to Cooperstown fulltime five years ago. He and Chip Northrup, the Texas oilman and former ARCO planning manager, have reached the same conclusion. And they – along with geologist Brian Brock, Franklin, and retired IBM systems Please See FRACKING, A7
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In a gesture of bipartisanship, county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, stopped by Democratic campaign headquarters to greet colleagues at the end of what state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, termed “a great night for Republicans.”
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epublicans kept control and appeared to increase their strength of the Otsego County Board of Representatives on Tuesday, Nov. 5, posting a net gain of two seats for a 9-5 majority in what state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, termed “a great night for Republicans.” “It says people agree with what we’ve been doing in the two years I’ve been chair,” said Kathy Clark, District #3 Please See VOTE, A7
Treasurer’s Tally Settles Questions
Rick Hulse, Jr., was all smiles on taking the Town of Otsego’s county Board seat.
an Crowell, Middlefield, was reelected county treasurer Tuesday, Nov. 5, despite questions about his absence during the first half of this year to undergo special operations train- Crowell’s ing as a military smile said reservist. it all. It was a landslide, with Crowell defeating Cooperstown Village Treasurer Ed Keator of West Oneonta, 6,731-4,017.
Check WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM for • Video of Jerry Acton presenting data • Lou Allstadt’s PowerPoint slides • Blogger Peter Mantius’ at-scene report
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ames Fenimore Cooper IV, 86, great-great-grandson of the novelist, passed away Thursday, Oct. 31, at his home in Lafayette, La., surrounded by his family. In addition to being a fifth-generation descendant of James Fenimore Cooper of “Last of the Mohicans” fame, he was a sixth-generation descendant of William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown and of The Freeman’s Journal. Please See COOPER, A7
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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 2013 OPEN HOUSE LAUNCHES SERENITY FITNESS Valerie Hitt, proprietor of the new Serenity Fitness at 21 Railroad Ave., shows Cindy Ammon of Walton through the new spa during an open house Friday, Nov. 1. The facility features an aqua-massage machine.
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ickie Richtsmeier, Springfield Center, is new president of the Otsego Lake Association, replacing Wayne Bunn, who becomes a director at large. Scottie Baker, Fly Creek, is vice president. Emily Davidson is new student director and new secretary. The current board includes Paul Lord, Pati Grady, Carl Good, Martin Tillapaugh, David Sanford, and Joseph When the Oneonta Teen Center contingent halted Zarzynski. Tim Pokorny is in front of the reviewing stand at Muller Plaza the current Webmaster. during Oneonta’s Halloween Parade Thursday, Oct. There are two existing 31, onlookers were in for a surprise. During the vacancies for Directors - one pause, Teen Center director Ian Austin popped the from the Town of Springfield question to Libby Cudmore: Will you marry me? and one from the Town of The answer was a delighted yes, and Ian placed Middlefield. Anyone interan engagement ring he had designed himself on ested may send an e-mail his bride-to-be’s finger. Ian is also photograto otsegolakeassociation@ pher for The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown otsegolakeassociation.org. Oneonta, and Libby is our reporter. The OLA also announced plans for the first Otsego MEBUST EXCELS: Erik HONOR SOCIETY: Megan Haggerty of Lake Association Boat Mebust of Cooperstown, a Cooperstown has been initi- Parade on the theme, “We freshman this fall at SUNY Geneseo, has been named to ated into Lambda Pi Eta, the Love Our Lake,” planned for the college’s honors program nationally recognized honor 6 p.m. Friday, July 4. Next summer’s annual memberas an Edgar Fellow. He was society for undergraduship meeting will be Saturone of CCS’ top five scholars ate students in the field of communications, at Endicott day, Aug. 9. in the Class of 2013. College in Beverly, Mass.
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ooperstown’s Rich McCaffery will share the Otsego County Conservation Association’s “Conservationist of the Year.” The award will be presented at the OCCA’s annual dinner Monday, Nov. 18, at The Depot restaurant in Oneonta; 6 p.m. cocktail hour and auction, 7 p.m. dinner. OCCA President Vicki Lentz praised the winners for “their dedication and behind-the-scenes contribu-
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Hutchison, a retired Hartwick College professor, is longtime chair of the city’s Environmental Board. McCaffery is a volunteer for numerous causes. The dinner will also feature a presentation by Jan Myers of Solarize New York/Solarize Madison and a silent auction. Tickets are $35 a person. Choice of prime rib, chicken marsala or eggplant spinach parmesan. Preregistration required at 5474488.
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ishop Howard J. Hubbard of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, which includes Otsego County, turned 75 on Thursday, Oct. 31, and under Vatican policy must submit his resignation to Pope Francis. The atmosphere was bittersweet at the chancery. The diocesan spokesman, Ken Goldfarb, said the bishop’s colleagues were wishing him a happy birthday, at the same time knowing that his career was coming to an end. Pope Francis does not have to accept Hubbard’s resignation, but the accepted practice would be to do so, Goldfarb said. Bishop Hubbard is both the longest-serving Catholic bishop in the U.S. – it is 36 years since his 1977 ap-
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pointment – and the longestserving in Albany diocesan history, Goldfarb said. “It’s pretty special to have a native son serve as bishop here” – Hubbard was raised in Troy – “and to serve as bishop here for his entire career,” said Goldfarb.
The letter of resignation will go to Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio (the equivalent of ambassador to the U.S.) in Washington D.C., who will forward it to Rome. Bishop Hubbard would continue to serve until his replacement is named, said Goldfarb, which could be a while. In the Diocese of Hartford, where the most recent appointment occurred, the process took a year. As it happens, the bishop is due in Otsego County on Friday, Nov. 8, where is will confirm 17 young parishioners at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church in Cooperstown.
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Perspectives
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013
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Goodbye, Fracking. Let’s Shift Focus To Rebuilding County
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f Sustainable Otsego’s Adrian Kuzminski is Otsego County’s chief strategist of anti-fracking, then Lou Allstadt is the foremost statesman, one who holds sway well beyond our localities. That he and Chip Northrup, equally eloquent, expert and energetic in the anti-fracking cause, have concluded fracking will not occur in Otsego County, settles the question once and for all. It’s time to move on. In declaring to a packed forum Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Cornell’s Hollister Hall, that there is simply insufficient gas beyond a strip along the New York-Pennsylvania border to be profitably brought to market, they raised another specter: Upstate is in danger of becoming the dumping ground of fracking’s radioactive offal. That is manageable: All Otsego County towns should follow Middlefield’s lead – and that of seven
other local towns, plus the City of Oneonta – in adopting bans to ensure that doesn’t happen. • That Allstadt and Northrup’s declaration coincides with the Tuesday, Nov. 5, election that seems to have solidified the Republican majority on the county Board of Representatives is propitious. The chairman of the Board of Representatives, Kathy Clark of Otego, romped, defeating her Democratic challenger Stu Anderson, 771 to 423. That Anderson switched from Republican to Democrat so he could run against Clark on natural-gas alone signals the arrival of Fracking Fatigue. This editorial was written late on Election Night, so these results are unofficial. But it appears that Republicans Janet Hurley Quackenbush in the Town of Oneonta, Rick Hulse Jr. in the Town of Otsego and Craig Gelbsman in
City of Oneonta’s Wards 3 and 4 had claimed three county board seats from Democrats, giving the GOP a commanding majority. As leader of the rout, it can be hoped that Clark will be acclaimed into another term as chair, and that she will dance with the ones who brought her – Democratic reps Linda Rowinski and Kay Stuligross, the other two legs of a troika that achieved two years of bipartisan amity. It should also be a point of pride that three exceptional Democrats – county Treasurer Dan Crowell, incumbent county Rep. Beth Rosenthal of Roseboom, and newcomer Ed Lentz of Garrattsville – won their races. Otsego County’s electorate embraces merit. We’re in a good place to get back to the work of mending the local manifestations of decades of Upstate decline. Very exciting. • The anti-fracking fervor had an unintended consequence. It got the county’s businesspeople, community leaders and individ-
ual citizens reflecting on Otsego County’s very real challenges. To wit, a half-century of decline is sapping our community vitality. Our young people should move away, they should experiment and experience the broader world. But when they choose to return, we need career options that offer a more-than-even chance at success, even prosperity. Same goes for young people who stay. The same for newcomers of all ages. The same for all of us. We need to build on our base, encouraging growth in existing enterprises, the way Don and Wendy Feinberg’s dream has grown into a Brewery Ommegang with national ambitions. The way Graham Labs, begun in a garage in Hobart, has become a vital part of multi-national Covidien. The way Custom Electronics spun off Ioxus, the futuristic ultracapacitormaker. And Chobani, wow. We need to optimize the impacts of our local colleges, supporting SUNY Oneonta as it embraces Governor Cuomo’s Start
Up NY initiative and Hartwick College as it considers a craft food and beer curriculum to provide expertise to a growing sector. As state Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, seems to be intending to do in his second economicdevelopment summit Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills, we need to look for ways to participate in the nanotechnology boom happening in Utica, and look beyond our borders, region and even state to identify enterprises that would thrive here. • Yes, it’s time to set anti-fracking aside. Instead of glumly contemplating the future, bemoaning the roasting of our planet as inevitable, let’s accept that renewable energy will revolutionize our world, freeing us from enslavement to fossil fuels, although not right this minute. With that expectation, let’s set about solving today’s problems today, to creating a local society of opportunity, inclusion and achievement.
LETTERS
Adieu, Beloved Cooperstown. We’ll Be Back To the Editor: The time is nearing when we must leave our beloved Cooperstown for the dunes of Long Island for what I call “winter hibernation.” Our six grandkids, honestly, sometimes not-so-grand, down there create a link which just can’t be ignored. Knowing I’ll strike-out, I still try to reason with my wife Louise (a far more reasonable person than I) pleading my case to stay. I point out that the grandkids are here spring, summer and fall, that they have no problem coming often (too often?) alone sans parents, and that I often “help them pack” after so many days each time. She predictably replies that such cannot be the case when their school lives are well underway, coupled with our own holiday commitments. Lost cause. Yet the contrast which we’ve witnessed over the course of all these years (try 41) leads me to this long-overdue writing and some unsolicited advice. Don’t ever take Cooperstown and all it encompasses for granted. With all its faults and shortcomings, defined as such by others but of course only the product of the mortals whom we
all most certainly are, is a very special place which exceeds the power of all superlatives – at least within my vocabulary. I often comment to Louise that the place is right out of the pages of Thornton Wilder amd “Our Town.” The camaraderie, caring and sincere manner which pervades every corner of the place is obvious every single day. From Carol Brier and Naomi Grigoli at the bank, to Chris and Matt Grady at Stagecoach, to Vinnie Russo, Ron Jex, Jeff Haggerty and so many, many others (sorry for the omissions), the characters of “Our Town” never cease to project who they are and what Cooperstown is all about. When we return to the ant hill I call Long Island (sorry Long Islanders), it takes a while, longer each year, for me to readjust to the pressure of too many people living in one place. Yet, in the whole scheme of things, I am exposed to the relativity of what we have for eight months of the year. The quality of life that Cooperstown and its people underscore are what it’s all about and we must never take that for granted. Here’s to spring for so many reasons!! KEN KAVANAGH
Fracking Boom Would Be Illusory, Facts Show sylvania with the largest number of drilled wells: 1,142 active well sites, compared to the next highest county with 808. The drilling “boom” began there in 2007. Unemployment peaked in Bradford County in the recession year of 2009, at 10.8 percent, and did certainly decline thereafter. But nearly half (over 46 percent) of the gas-related drilling jobs went to persons coming in from the Southwest, and unemployment now, with the exception of 2009 and the first 3 months of 2010, R
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To the Editor: I would be glad to discuss the economics of fracking with reference to a specific county in Pennsylvania, as Mr. Downey suggests. The sources of the data are: DEC data from Jan. 1, 2012, to June 30, 2012; The Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2012-July 2013; Stateimpact Pennsylvania (see npr. org); and the Network for Public Health Law (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), drawing on data from the EPA. Let us look at Bradford County, the county in Penn-
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is as high or higher than at any time since 1993. While household incomes have increased 15.7 percent since 2000, this is lower than the State average rate of increase of 22.89 percent, and lower than the national average of 19.17 percent. Revenues apparently did not do much for the local school systems, which are ranked as being lower than average qualitatively in the State. Bradford can hardly be said to have prospered. The crime rate rose by 40 percent as persons from the outside with no vested or ongoing relationship to the community, came in. This costs money. The influx did – briefly – increase revenues from sales taxes – but these workers are leaving now. The largest operator, Chesapeake Appalachia, laid off 800 employees in 2013 nationwide. Impact fees, being tied to the price of natural gas, are declining also. And Chesapeake is facing a class action suit for unpaid royalties and practices such as charging landowners for transportation costs of the gas. Which brings us to costs related to infrastructure: Mr. Downey tells us that Chesapeake spent $92 million on road improvement. Please See LETTER, B2
KIM JASTREMSKI & DONNA SELL OTHER VOICES
Libraries Need Dependable Funding Editor’s Note: Kim Jastremski is president of the Village Library of Cooperstown’s Board of Trustees, and Donna Sell, pesident of the Hartwick Library Board of Trustees
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t the last CCS board meeting, we introduced the Cooperstown and Hartwick library boards’ plan for establishing a different funding stream for the two public libraries located within the school district. This plan removes the responsibility of support from the municipalities by going to the voters directly, as recommended by the state Department of Education. This change is being proposed to provide funding support for both libraries that is more stable, achieves better funding equity in the service areas, and will maintain library service in an era of funding reduction from both the state and local municipal budgets. There are many reasons both Hartwick and Cooperstown libraries seek more secure funding. From the Hartwick perspective, the Kinney Memorial Public Library is completely funded by the Town of Hartwick. This way of financing a library is considered “insecure” because town boards are routinely pressured to increase budget items like road repair, fire departments, and so forth, all of which are important,
but which imperil “softer” expenses like libraries. The same challenges Hartwick faces are of course also true for the Village Library of Cooperstown, although the situation there is complicated by the fact that we have three municipalities in our chartered service area contributing to our budget (the towns of Middlefield and Otsego, and the Village of Cooperstown), but not in a very equitable way. The Village of Cooperstown contributes the lion’s share of our operating budget, plus the building at 22 Main St., utilities, and treasurer and clerical services. This is an unsustainable funding situation, as the Village has made clear. Our solution is to follow the state Department of Education’s recommendation and take it to the voters, who we hope will agree with us that the libraries provide necessary services they would like to see continue. In addition to books, ebooks, and mixed media, a public library provides vital services to all members of a community, regardless of age or socioeconomic status. We provide valuable programming for children and adults alike, free use of computers and internet access, and – perhaps most importantly – the library is that “third place” that every one of us needs sometimes. It is neither home nor work, but a place to go when you need
a place to be. The library is the heart of a community, and we want to maintain our current level of services at both libraries. After working out our budgets for the coming years, the Cooperstown and Hartwick Libraries will file a petition with the School Board in order to place a separate resolution for library funding on the May 2014 school ballot. This resolution will be separate from school budget resolutions. Although it is early for us to give concrete numbers regarding the expected tax effect, based on our previous budgets, we anticipate the annual tax levy to be pennies per thousand dollars of assessed property value. Additionally, the line item for the library will be removed from the municipal budgets, so theoretically there could be some tax relief in that area, as well. This, of course, is at the discretion of your elected officials. Over the coming months we will hold open houses to continue to share our plans with the public. This is an exciting time for both libraries, which marks an opportunity not only to stabilize our funding stream, but also to explore our partnership with the school system and with each other. We hope to bring the community at large together around what is inarguably a special and indispensable place – our public library.
Smokeout 10 Years Old: Is It Time To Quit? To the Editor: Every year, we have the Great American Smokeout in November. What makes this year different? Well, it is the 10th anniversary of the Clean Indoor Air Act. Since New York went tobacco free in 2003, the state Bureau of Tobacco Control has stepped up efforts • to encourage smokers to contact the New York Smoker’s Quit-line • to create tobacco free parks, playgrounds and entryways for area businesses. • to convince stores to cover up tobacco ads and displays in retail stores. Such displays entice teens to start smoking. • to convince pharmacies to support a resolution of the Pharmacists Society of the
State of New York (PSSNY) to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies. To celebrate the smokeout we have invited a special guest. Peggy Keigley, MS, is the director of the Smoking Cessation Center at Seton Health Center in Albany. She is a former smoker who went on to coauthor the “Butt Stops Here” smoking cessation program, which she will discuss at noon Thursday, Nov. 7, in Bassett Hospital’s Fieldstone Building in Cooperstown. Smokers are welcome. The program is being adopted this year at Bassett Hospital. MARCIA KOZUBEK Otsego County’s Rural Three For Tobacco Free Communities
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5
BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Notice – On Sunday, the 14th inst. the Rev. Nathaniel Stacy, will deliver a discourse upon Universal Salvation, at the School House near the Cotton Factory, in Hartwick, at which place he will preach on the second Sunday of each month for the year to come (extraordinary cases excepted) November 6, 1813. November 6, 1813
10 YEARS AGO
since Friday last, he having guessed the nearest to the number of figs in the basket in the Mulkins’ Store window for four weeks past. There were 3,657 figs in the basket and Mr. Pope guessed 3,600. Every customer who purchased a pound of Calarabs was entitled to a guess and the estimates ranged from 500 to 100,000. November 5, 1913
75 YEARS AGO
175 YEARS AGO
Ultimate dissolution of the solar system – The idea of the ultimate dissolution of the solar system, has usually been felt as painful and forcibly resisted by philosophers. When Newton saw no end to the deranging effect of the common planetary perturbations, he called for the special interference of the Almighty to avert the catastrophe; and great was the rejoicing when that recent analysis described a memorable power of conservation in our system’s constituent phenomena; but, after all, why should it be painful? Absolute permanence is visible nowhere around us; and the fact of change merely intimates that in the exhaustless womb of the future un-evolved wonders are in store. The phenomena referred to would simply point to the close of one mighty cycle in the history of the solar orb – the passing of arrangements which have fulfilled their objects that they might be transformed into new. November 12, 1838
150 YEARS AGO
Edward B. Crandal, Esq., for many years an active business man and politician in this county, died at his residence in Cooperstown on Friday last, in the 74th year of his age. Mr. C. came to this village in 1806 and was apprenticed to Mr. Phinney to learn the printing business. In 1817 he commenced the publication of the Watch Tower, and continued to print it until 1831. In 1824 he was appointed by the Legislature of the State one of the Electors of President and Vice President of the U.S. and in 1826 he was elected County Clerk, which office he held for three years. For many years he held the office of Justice of the Peace. In all those public positions, and in the social and domestic circles, Mr. Crandal was esteemed for his integrity and worth. He was buried with Masonic honors on Sunday last. November 6, 1863
125 YEARS AGO
The result of the election in this county is a surprise to both parties. While a few well-informed Democrats hoped to carry it by a small majority for Cleveland, it was the expectation of most of them that it would go Republican
The Cooperstown high school gridiron season ended Friday afternoon when the Redskins fell to a powerful Oneonta high school eleven, 21 to 13. The traditional game between the two schools was played before a throng of 2,500 at the new Webb Island field. Trailing throughout the contest, and after Oneonta scored its last touchdown with less than two minutes remaining, the Redskins scored two touchdowns, the first drive starting with an aerial heave from star back Walt Eggleston to Jim Callahan. Bob Dodge then took the handoff on a reverse, smashed off right tackle and took it to the Oneonta twelve before going out of bounds. Two plays later Eggleston scored when Dodge passed to Callahan who lateraled to Eggleston. Eggleston dropkicked the extra point. The Redskins then recovered an Oneonta fumble and scored on a 35-yard pass from Eggleston to Callahan who took it in from the five. November 9, 1938 November 7, 2003 by one to three hundred. No one looked for a Republican majority of over 800. The causes which have combined to produce this result are recognized by all. It is most largely due to the immense amount of money at the disposal of the Republicans, and the use made of it in controlling the floating vote. Of State and Congress district funds, they must have had from $25,000 to $30,000. The money put up in the interest of Mr. Wilber was largely used for the benefit of the whole Republican ticket. When paying from $10 to $25 for votes, this could easily be done. It was the amount such visitors were looking for, and caring little in turn what they did for it. November 9, 1888
100 YEARS AGO
Local – Some mysterious individual seems to have a mania for traversing the streets at night, disturbing the inhabitants of the village by running up on the doorsteps and leaving handbills and tracts attacking the Roman Catholic Church in general and the pope in particular. If these reformers have anything important to say, we would suggest that they hire a hall, or come around in the daylight. Linn Pope of Toddsville has been feasting on Calarab figs
50 YEARS AGO
Paul S. Kerr, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. announced the appointment of Ken Smith as Director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. He covered baseball for the Hartford Courant while attending Trinity College and later became office boy for the New York Evening Mail. Smith has been with the New York Mirror since 1931 and covered major league baseball for 38 years. He helped to count ballots in the first election for Hall of Fame members in 1936 and attended the dedication of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1939. November 6, 1963
25 YEARS AGO
Jennie Bailey Elliott celebrated her 100th birthday at Woodside Hall October 21. Mrs. Elliott was born on October 21, 1888 in Massena, the daughter of Frank and Anna Miller Bailey. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1910, majoring in music. For many years, she taught lessons and played the church organ. She married Carl Elliott and lived in Massena until she was 94 before joining her daughter Jane Brayden in Cooperstown. November 9, 1988
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Republican Hulse Topples Kosmer, But Democrats Rosenthal, Lentz Victorious VOTE/From A1 Republican and the board’s current chairwoman. “We’ve dealt with some thorny issues that have been around for awhile – The Manor, a big one, the exit from MOSA and the completion of the microwave system for emergency broadcasts.” Clark asked about the board’s bipartisanship during her tenure, referred to the current 7-7 split and said, “We’ve had to look for what unites us and not for what divides us.” In at least one of the races, the numbers were so close that absentee ballots ultimately could determine the winner. If the initial tallies stand, however, Republicans increase their weighted votes from 3,529 to 4118, while Democratic votes dove from 2,638 to 2,049. However, in a signal that she may continue her bipartisan approach of the past two years, Clark made a brief appearance at the Democratic election gathering in The Red Caboose on Oneonta’s Main Street, a gesture that county Democratic Chairman Richard Abbate noted in his address to the crowd. “Thanks for coming Kathy,” Abbate said to applause. Only half of the 14 the seats on the board were contested, and these were the unofficial results in those races: • District 2 (Butternuts,
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Retiring county Rep. Rich Murphy, D-Town of Oneonta, mans the tally board at Democratic headquaters in The Red Caboose, Oneonta. At left is county Chair Richard Abbate, Cooperstown.
Morris, Pittsfield): Republican incumbent James P. Powers of South New Berlin fought off a challenge by Democrat Teresa Winchester, 729 to 636. Winchester also challenged Powers two years ago and lost by 100 votes. Powers also had the Conservative and Independence lines, while Winchester also had the Working Families line. • District 3 (Laurens, Otego): Clark, of Otego, the board’s current chairwoman, coasted to victory, 771 to 425, over Democratic/Sustainable Otsego candidate Stuart E. Anderson. • District 4 (Town of Oneonta): Councilwoman Janet Hurley Quackenbush, a Republican, defeated Democrat Daniel Buttermann, 267 to 216, for the seat currently occupied by Democrat Richard Murphy,
who is retiring. Buttermann also ran on the Citizen Oneonta line, while Hurley Quackenbush had the Conservative and Independence lines. “Tonight, I’m very excited and very pleased that the voters have confidence in me,” Hurley Quackenbush said. She said she was going to need a few days of rest after going door to door in the district. “I’m going to rest my calf muscles,” she said. • District 5 (Hartwick, Milford, New Lisbon): Former county Democratic Chairman and current New Lisbon Town Board member Edward T. Lentz defeated Republican Jamie Waters, 327 to 240, for the seat being vacated by Republican Pauline Koren. • District 7 (Cherry
Valley, Middlefield, Roseboom): Incumbent Democrat Beth Rosenthal of Cherry Valley fended off a challenge from Republican William Glockler of Middlefield, 525-482. Rosenthal also had the Sustainable Otsego line, while Glockler, a vocal gun-control opponent, also ran on the Independence and Conservative lines. • District 8 (Otsego): Rick Hulse Jr., a Republican investment banker from Fly Creek who also ran on the Conservative and Independence lines unseated incumbent Democrat John Kosmer, also of Fly Creek, 589 to 556. Kosmer also ran on the Sustainable Otsego line. “I was very impressed with the number of people who turned out,” Hulse said. • District 12 (Oneonta Wards 3 and 4): Republican Craig Gelbsman defeated Democrat Amy Hornburg Heilveil, 137 to 132, with at least nine absentee ballots uncounted. The seat currently is occupied by Democrat Catherine M. Rothenberger, who is retiring. Republicans who ran unopposed were District 1 (Unadilla) incumbent Edwin Frazier Jr.; District 6 (Decatur, Maryland, Westford, Worcester) incumbent Donald L. Lindberg of Worcester; District 9 (Richfield, Springfield) incumbent Keith O. McCarty of East Springfield, and District 10 (Burlington, Edmeston, Exeter, Plainfield) incum-
District 13 (Oneonta Wards 5 and 6) incumbent Linda Rowinski of Oneonta, and District 14 (Oneonta Wards 7 and 8) incumbent Katherine Stuligross of Oneonta. The board operates under a weighted voting system, first used in 2006 to address population differences among the districts. It distributes 6,167 votes among the districts based on population. District 5, which includes Hartwick, Milford and New Lisbon, has the most votes at 626, while District 11, which includes Oneonta Wards 1 and 2, has the fewest, at 285. Thus, the District 5 representative has more than double the voting power of the District 11 representative. Under this system, a measure must obtain 3,084 votes to gain a simple majority, 4,112 for a two-thirds majority and 4,626 for a three-fourths majority.
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Leading Local Anti-Frackers Declare There’s Too Little Gas To Drill Here FRACKING/From A1 engineer Jerry Acton of Berkshire, Tioga County – detailed their findings Wednesday, Oct. 28, to 200 people who packed Cornell’s Hollister Hall. Anthony Ingraffea, the professor who is researching the potency of methane as a greenhouse gas, emceed. In his summation, Allstadt told the SRO gathering a drilling boom in Central New York is “highly unlikely.” Intensive drilling is “possible near the P-A border,” but “unlikely to be widespread.” Test wells are “very likely” in the Southern Tier; some may also be drilled elsewhere Upstate, but will not be successful, he said. “We’re in the epicenter of the hype,” Northrup said of the fracking debate that has roiled the county for five years now. In a follow-up interview with him and Allstadt Monday, Nov. 4, back home in Cooperstown, he added, “As Lou just pointed out, nobody in the industry ever believed it.” However, there remains an issue of grave concern, Allstadt said: With disposal sites filling up or
Chip Northrup identfied this as a key chart he used in his presentation.
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nical people are not skeptical, Northrup said, “The disconnect is with their PR people. They are fighting a rear-guard action, with all the hype they’ve been spreading for years.” “The ones who don’t want to hear it the most are the landowner groups,” he continued. “They are the most vitriolic about it.” But anti-frackers who have been energetically fighting something that now, it seems, isn’t going to happen were also resistant, Northrup and Allstadt said. Anti-frackers have argued that if the price of natural gas were to rise, interest in Otsego County’s possibilities would revive. But, Northrup said, “Zero times $10 is still zero.” The session was held at Cornell, considered a neutral setting, and sponsored by organizations who were considered neutral, such at the local League of Women Voters and the university itself. The men hope to duplicate the presentation in New York City and, also, in Otsego County, possibly at Foothills or one of the colleges. They are currently seeking similarly neutral sponsors.
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(7732) Superbly kept 3-BR expanded Cape Cod has center-hall layout w/hardwood floors, 6-panel doors, gracious LR w/fireplace, formal DR. Custom kitchen w/cherry cabinets and eating area features large windows and skylights. Patio, deck, finished basement, garage, large private yard. On the only boulevard in town. Hubbell’s Exclusive–$395,000
(7765) Perfect home for an owner occupied investment! This 5 BR, 5 bath historic home in Cooperstown features remodeled kitchens, new hardwood floors, knotty pine built-ins. Large sunroom leads to a deck surrounded by perennials. Utilities are separate. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive–$299,000
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Only one family has owned this centrally located village Cape Cod style home since it was built in 1949. The house has a large living room with fireplace, dining room and large kitchen. Off of the kitchen is a glass enclosed sun porch with doors to the large backyard. Four bedrooms with two on the first floor and two on the second. A large open area on the second floor provides space for a variety of activities. There is a bath on each floor. The basement is partially finished and could easily be developed into more usable home space. The one car garage is oversized and allows for safe and easy access in all types of weather. No more shoveling out the car before you have to leave! A quick walk to the elementary school and the Sports Center. Bassett Healthcare and grocery stores are within walking distance, several blocks away. This house is in totally convenient location. Call for an appointment to visit and be the second owner of this Cooperstown Village Home! Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $279,000
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(7797) Home features 5 BRs and 3 baths, on 3+ acres. LR w/beamed cathedral ceiling and fireplace, formal DR, guest suite, den, master suite w/walk-in closets and access to deck. Custom kitchen w/island, soapstone countertop. Wide plank floors, radiant heat. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive–$740,000
MLS#83636 - Custom-built beauty, w/3 BR, 3 baths, 3 floors of living space. Open floorplan w/loft and cathedral ceilings. Light-filled kitchen and LR. Gourmet kitchen w/tile floor, SS appliances and granite countertop. Master BR suite w/master bath. $299,000 Call Kristi J. Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)
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Locally owned and operated Single and multi-family homes Commercial property and land VIEWS,VIEWS, VIEWS! Home has 4 BRs, 2 baths, sunroom w/woodstove, indoor BBQ grill in the downstairs kitchen, 12 X 10 wine cellar and wood burning fireplace. Upstairs has an additional kitchen with loft, bright LR, fireplace, spacious deck off the front with magnificent views. Property has a 1/2 acre pond with open fields and woods. Gazebo, stone patio all with a view. Two story garage or workshop with office, heat, electric and concrete floor. $399,000 MLS#91160
MLS#86051 - Panoramic views and privacy with this custom 3 BR, 3 bath new energy-efficient home. Offered w/10 acres but more acreage available. $295,000 Call Michelle A. Curran @ 518-469-5603 (cell)
MLS#90328 - 3 BR, 2 bath home, off the beaten path, in great condition. Over 11 acres, including 4 outbuildings,and a barn. 3 options of heating this home, oil, wood or electric. $229,099 Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)
MLS#90753 - Remodeled 2 BR, 1 bath home on 21.49+/- acres. Converted garage w/workshop and storage room w/concrete flr, electric, heat, telephone and water. Smaller storage bldg w/electric, stocked pond, meadow, woods and trails. $115,000 Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683
MLS#89932 - 2 bedroom 1 bath Quaint Cottage! Country living, new roof, new kitchen. $69,900 Call Gabriella Vasta @ 607-267-1792 (cell)
MLS#87014 - Well-maintained historic 4+ apartment building. Perfect to live in one unit and let your tenants pay your mortgage. $179,000 Call Michelle A. Curran @ 518- 469-5603
MLS#89246 - Professionally restored post-and-beam 3 BR, 2 ½ bath home on 16.11 acres w/breathtaking views. Beamed ceilings and pine floors in great room, country kitchen, studio, family room, library/den. 1700+ sq ft workshop, pole barn w/ 2 horse stalls, stocked pond, orchard, pasture and woods. $399,900 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603 (cell)
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BETWEEN COOPERSTOWN AND ONEONTA!! Spacious 4+Bedroom House with ACREAGE, PRIVACY AND VIEWS Is On Your Wish List Your Search Is Over! This house has all you could be wishing for and more. And then there are the outbuildings. Home features include large living room with fireplace open to dining room and kitchen. Dining room has a french door that leads to a deck/balcony with gorgeous views of the mountains. First floor has 2 bedrooms and 2 full baths. Lower level features a nice family/rec room, 2 more bedrooms a full bath plus another room for a den, office or another bedroom if needed. With the floorplan as it is this house lends itself to being made into a possible 2-family or DREAMS PARK rental. Bottom floor could be totally separated with a separate entrance and another driveway is possible off the current driveway on the right hand side of the house. Upper garage could be 4-car and is well insulated, has heat, water and large windows. Lower garage has 1 car plus room for animals or storage. All of this for $264,900. MLS#90119
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Pennsylvania Fracking Boom Illusory
LETTER/From A4 He does not tell us how much they should have paid, however. And are we to understand that it is acceptable to cause damage if, after the fact, you are obliged to pay for it? Impact on infrastructure also of course includes problems with traffic, noise, air pollution and other factors which are not compensable. With regard to real-estate values, house value growth rate in Bradford County is much lower than the
State average rate of 70.62 percent and the national rate of 50.42 percent. There was certainly a marked increase in the cost of low-cost housing in Bradford and, if Mr. Downey objects to national or state comparisons on my part, he should certainly not be comparing Bradford County to Oneonta in a speculative manner. With regard to tourism: Mr. Downey implies that tourism has not been hurt by fracking in the Finger Lakes region. That is because the
Finger Lakes region has not been fracked: Drilling there to date involves vertical drilling only. There is active local opposition to fracking, both because of concerns about the negative impact on water quality and agriculture and the potential impact on tourism. Completely absent from Mr. Downey’s accounting are the costs, some established and some incalculable because they impact the future, of environmental damages from air pollution, leaking holding tanks, depletion of water and land resources, habitat destruction, the injection of toxic
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chemicals into shale and their migration into wells and aquifers, and the repeatedly documented violations of even the inadequately established and policed drilling codes. An EPA report in 2011 unequivocally linked fracking fluid contaminants to underground water pollution, and wastewater byproducts reach the Susquehanna. Chesapeake has had 3,331 violations with regard to its 6,391 wells since 2009. They have paid only $4.9 million in fines. What happens on anyone’s land has consequences far beyond the immediate landowner. Compulsory integration, which is the law
in New York State, means that gas may be extracted without compensation from land where 60 percent of adjacent landowners have signed leases. Increased seismic activity, sink holes, and contaminated air, land and water affect us all. And whatever the apparent immediate increase in job creation associated with natural gas drilling, the average well life is 8 years, creating a boom-bust cycle similar to over-building in the speculative housing market. In 2013, Bradford County was the only county in Pennsylvania to show an increase in the unemployment rate. MARY ANNE WHELAN Cooperstown
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OBITUARIES Carl Roemer, 99; Helped Buy Grange For Society FLY CREEK – Carl Roemer, 99, of Fly Creek, who was active in the success of the Fly Creek Historical Society, went to his final rest late Thursday afternoon, October 31, 2013, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown. He was born Jan. 16, 1914, in Long Island City in Queens County, a son of Minnie (Scharfenberger) and Johann Roemer. Raised on Long Island, Carl graduated with the Class of 1927 from East Islip High School. A veteran of World War II, Carl entered the Navy in August 1943, and served his country in the Pacific Theater with the 11th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as the Seabees. He was honorably discharged on Nov. 18, 1945, as motor machinist’s mate, second class. A skilled machinist, Carl worked, from the time he graduated high school until his retirement, as a tool and die maker in the machine trade on Long Island. He retired from Maxson, a missile guidance systems manufacturer, in Great River. Carl was first married to the former Anna Marie Meinke in a ceremony in August 1947 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Islip, Long Island. Retiring to Fly Creek in 1968, Carl and Anna enjoyed camping and traveling extensively throughout the United States. Anna passed away on April 27, 1993. Carl later met Inge Bondiek Otten, and they were united in marriage on Aug. 2, 1998, at the Sand Hill United Methodist Church in Unadilla. They traveled together throughout their 15-year marriage, making several trips to Europe and along the Eastern Seaboard. In 1999, Carl, along with Jim Wolff, was instrumental in purchasing the former Fly Creek Grange Hall , thereby providing a permanent home for the Fly Creek Historical Society. In 2006, Carl and Inge further extended their devotion to the organization by providing half the needed funds for a new roof. His generosity extended to other local organizations, includ-
WEST ONEONTA – Mary Stucin, age 100, who farmed with her husing numerous donations to Bassett Healthcare Network band in the Fly Creek Valley for decades, passed away and the Fly Creek United Sunday, Nov. 3, at her home Methodist Church. in West Oneonta. In addition to his Inge She was the daughter of Otten Roemer of Fly Creek, the late Frank and Gertrude survivors include step-chilKorosec (Knapp) and the dren, grandchildren and wife of the late John Stucin. great grandchildren. The Stucins owned a family The funeral was Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at the Connell, farm in Fly Creek Valley unDow & Deysenroth Funeral til 1974, when they retired to West Oneonta. Home, with Rev. William Mary emigrated from Allen, pastor of the First Slovenia when she was 13 Christian Church of Otego, and grew up on her parents’ officiating. farm in Schuyler Lake. Her He was buried next to married life with John on Anna in the Fly Creek Valley Cemetery, with military the farm was a balancing act of raising children, farmhonors accorded by meming, cooking and hosting bers of the Cooperstown Veterans Club and the Navy legendary family gatherings. She was multitasking Funeral Honor Guard. Memorial donations may before anyone invented the term when she was able to be made to the Fly Creek feed family and guests while Volunteer Fire Company, being a full-time partner in Box 218, Fly Creek, NY running the farm. 13337. She carried on her SloArrangements are envenian heritage by enjoying trusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.
local social gatherings with the Slovenian National Benefit Society and the Farmers’ Independent Benevolent Mary Society at Stucin the Cornfield Hall in Fly Creek. She made delicious strudel, poticia and other traditional Slovenian foods. She visited and kept in touch with cousins Minka and Lojska in Slovenia. Even in her retirement, she had huge flower and vegetable gardens and felt great joy in feeding family, friends or giving away bushels of vegetables. She was a mother to many and easily made connections with friends young and old with her giving spirit. Her greatest delight was to feed and nourish loved ones with her delicious meals. She gave from her heart, freely and often. A devout Catholic, she was first a member
of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church in Cooperstown and later at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta. She is survived by her daughter Mary Ann Hartmann (Joseph) of West Oneonta, her son John Stucin of Fly Creek, her daughter Joan Saboda (Karl) of Troy; six devoted grandchildren, Sarah Hartmann of Brooklyn, Peter Hartmann of New York City, Douglas Stucin and Jamie Stucin of North Augusta, S.C., Brian Saboda (Lauren) of Guilderland and Kevin Saboda of Buffalo; sister Sophie Smith of Gansevoort; sister-in-law Jeanette Korosec of West Winfield and brother-in-law Frank Struckle of Cresco, Pa., and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by three sisters, Jennie McCarthy, Anna Kerzick
and Elsie Struckle and brother Frank Korosec. Visitation will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, St. Mary’s in Oneonta, immediately followed by the funeral mass at 1 p.m. with Rev. David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at the convenience of the family at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Cooperstown. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birchwood Drive Oneonta, NY 13820; St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820; Farmers’ Independent Benevolent Society (The Cornfield) c/o Deborah Green 224 Bissell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Arrangements are with the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.
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Julia Bruce, 92, Supported CAA BURLINGTON FLATS – Julia Bruce, 92, formerly of Burlington Flats, died early Monday morning, Nov. 4, 2013, at Bassett Hospital. She was born Oct. 29, 1921, near Altoona, Pa., a daughter of Austrian immigrants Anton and Agnes (Sernel) Oblak. On Oct. 6, 1946, Julia and Gerald were united in marriage in a ceremony at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church, Cooperstown. Julia later worked in the dietary department at Hartwick College and in cleaning services at SUNY Oneonta. She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, John F. and Irene Bruce of Port Crane; two daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia A. and Stanley Bunal of Bristol, Vt., and Kathleen and Candeloria Seoane of Rome; three grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at St. Mary’s in Cooperstown, with the Rev. John P. Rosson, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.
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