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Caboose, where Otsego County Democrats had gathered Election Night to watch the returns.

“The mood was high until then,” said restaurateur Tim Masterjohn. “All the usual suspects were here, the place was packed.”

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ssemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, brought news Friday, Nov. 6, that $2 million in state aid will be coming to Cooperstown for a mandated upgrade to the wastewater treatment plant south of the village.

At Magee’s announcement in Village Hall, Mayor Jeff Katz noted that, with another grant expected from state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and Sewer Fund surplus, the $7.5 million project may be completed without an increase in sewer rates.

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wo days after Village Treasurer Derek Bloomfield expressed a contrary view to the Village Board on whether to divest fossil-fuel stocks, a memo was placed in his file advising him to move forward with dispatch in carrying out the trustees’ will.

While the trustees themselves declined to provide

too much detail, saying personnel matters are confidential, the news – as typically happens in Bloomfield small towns – was becoming common knowledge in recent days.

Contacted Tuesday, Nov. 8, Mayor Jeff Katz declined to even confirm the memo’s existence, declaring, “No Please See DUSTUP/A3

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DIRECTOR SOUGHT: The Otsego Land Trust is looking for a new executive director after Jon Winter, in the job less than a year, resigned, citing family reasons.

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But as Donald Trump edged up his lead, the mood became despondent, and by 11 p.m., only a few remained gathered around the bar, finishing their drinks as CNN called North Carolina.

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“In college, I had a professor who said we only had a certain amount of time on this earth, but that we were charged with giving as much to the community as we could,” he said. “That stuck with me.”

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After Dustup Over Fossil-Fuel Divestiture, Memo Put In Treasurer’s File DUSTUP/From A1 one’s punished for opinions – ever.�

Divestiture of $140,000 in the firefighters’ and emergency squad retirement fund was proposed by Trustee Lou Allstadt at the October Village Board meeting on the 24th, and Katz invited Bloomfield to repeat opinions he had expressed to the Finance & Personnel Committee the previous Thursday.

Citing guidelines for CFAs (chartered financial analysts), Bloomfield advised that fully diversified portfolios, including fossil-fuel stocks, are the most stable. “Social investment should be done with one’s own money,� he added, and expressed the opinion that fossil fuels have done more to raise mankind out of poverty than any development through the ages.

Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president, objected, stating fossil fuels “have created a great threat to humanity.� Later, he pointed out Bloomfield is a village employee and, once the trustees make a decision – it was unanimous – “that’s the time when everybody has to suck it up.�

According to people who have seen the two-page memo, it is dated Oct. 26, two days after the trustees’ meeting. The first page discusses how Bloomfield needs to undergo certain training that had been recommended. A paragraph on the second page emphasizes that the treasurer must now move forward with fossil-fuel divestiture with dispatch.

The memo is unsigned, according to people who saw it, but an all-caps line at the end notes it is from “THE MAYOR AND VILLAGE TRUSTEES.�

That said, at least two of the trustees – Richard Sternberg and Jim Dean – expressed surprise, even astonishment, on being told on the 8th of the memo’s existence. (All trustees except Bruce Maxson, who didn’t return a telephone message, were contacted for this article.) “I can’t believe that’s what happened,� said Sternberg, a freshman elected to his first term in March. “I never heard a word about it,� said Dean, a veteran trustee, adding, “I really can’t talk about personnel anyway.� He continued,

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“I believe he (Bloomfield) was justified to say what he said. I thought he had every right to say what he said.�

The decision may have been made in the Finance & Personnel Committee – Katz, Allstadt and Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, the chair – which would explain why all the trustees weren’t in the loop.

Asked if she, as newly appointed village manager – the first since the 1990s – and thus Bloomfield’s boss, had initiated the memo, Teri Barown said, “The board makes personnel decisions,� and declined to discuss the matter further.

In an interview, Allstadt said Barown drafted the memo at trustees’ direction. “I’m not going to comment because I’m not sure what went into the file,� he said, adding that he considered the matter closed. “What I will say is I have been discussing things with Derek on a normal-type basis since then.�

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There was no immediate followthrough on divestiture, he said, adding, “I’m not sure that had anything to do with (the memo).�

Divestiture has now occurred, he said.

Trustee Cindy Falk said she is not authorized to discuss any matters raised “in executive session� with the press. Asked if she had attended such an executive session, she said, “I’m not going to discuss personnel with the press.�

Tillapaugh responded similarly.

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Since his appointment, the monthly financial reports to the trustees have been streamlined and adjustments made that increased the yield of the village’s portfolio, eliciting frequent praise from trustees at their monthly meetings.

Cooperstown’s village charter doesn’t define the responsibilities of treasurer. However, state law says the treasurer is the village’s chief fiscal officer, having “custody of all moneys belonging to the village,� suggesting Bloomfield is required by law to express opinions on how local taxpayers’ money is being used.

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Correct Mistake: Remove Memo From Village Treasurer’s File

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he light (efficiency and effectiveness) and dark (heavy-handedness, let’s call it) so characteristic of the Cooperstown Village Board, were both evident in two happenings of recent days.

First, on Friday, Nov. 4, Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, came to 22 Main to announce a $2 million grant toward the estimated $7.5 million upgrade of the village’s half-century-old plant near the source of the Susquehanna River.

In praising Magee – yes, he was facing reelection four days hence, but $2 million is $2 million – Mayor Jeff Katz also said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, had pledged to seek out enough that, with reserves, the whole job can be done with

no hike in village sewer rates.

This didn’t just happen.

Katz has compellingly promoted the village’s case – as high-profile mecca of the National Game; as surrounded by great Glimmerglass, icon of American environmentalism; as an engine of regional economic development – as worthy of special attention.

Also, as source of the Susquehanna, every clarified drop of water that leaves Cooperstown is a blessing to Goodyear Lake, Oneonta fishermen on the Main Street bridge, and hundreds of communities and millions of people between here and muchbeloved, much-challenged Chesapeake Bay.

Well done!

• And then, the heavy hand.

Election Day, it was learned that Teri Barown, the new village administrator, at the behest of an uncertain number of the seven Village Board members – maybe just three – had put a memo in the personnel file of Village Treasurer Derek Bloomfield.

That happened just two days after he publicly offered an opinion at odds with what would be a unanimous Village Board vote to divest the firefighters’ and emergency-squad pension fund of fossil-fuel stocks.

Although the memo isn’t public and most of the players aren’t going on the record about it, it seems at the very least it advised

Bloomfield to get with the fossil-fuel-divestiture program, and pronto.

Wait a minute.

First, it was Mayor Katz, who knew Bloomfield’s opinion, who asked him to express it at the October Village Board meeting.

Then, to blame him for it after the fact … How fair is that? (For his part, Katz said, “no one’s punished for opinions – never.”)

Second, as the village’s chief fiscal officer, Bloomfield’s responsible for how all the money is spent. It would be reprehensible for him not to express his opinion, asked or not: It’s his

duty. With a memo in his file, can we expect similar frankness going forward?

Third, it’s the taxpayers, not the trustees, who pay Bloomfield’s salary. Should the trustees be discouraging the treasurer from stating his views and thus instructing the people who pay his salary?

Fourth, since hiring Bloomfield a year ago, trustees have frequently expressed delight at how he’s adjusted the village’s portfolio, increased yield and streamlined and clarified the monthly financial reports. Is this how to reward success?

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Further astonishing is that at least two of the trustees – Richard Sternberg and Jim Dean – didn’t know Bloomfield had been disciplined.

Certainly, if a key member of the Village Hall’s administration is to be put on notice, the full board needs to have a say.

OK, the Bloomfield episode was a mistake. Correct it.

The whole Village Board should take up the issue at its November meeting on the 21st (a week early, due to the Thanksgiving holiday) and review the matter in toto.

For the good of honest communication, to foster mutual respect and in the interest of un-cowed advice – from all professionals in the village administration.

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Investors, Cooperstown Included, Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change Editor’s Note: The Cooperstown Village Board voted Oct. 26 to shift $140,000 in its firefighters’ and emergency squad retirement fund away from fossil-fuel stocks on the advice of Trustee Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president.

That prompted an analysis by attorney David Russell, a former pension-fund counsel in the state Comptroller’s Office. This is Mr. Allstadt’s response to Mr. Russell.

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Lou Allstadt on his swearing in as a Cooperstown village trustee.

Cooperstown’s LOSAP retirement fund. ► What is LOSAP? LOSAP is the Length Of Ser-

vice Award Program that provides retirement benefits to firefighters and emergency responders based each individual’s activity level each year. It is a great way to recognize the contributions of these unpaid volunteers and encourage new volunteers to join.

The program is relatively new.

It was started with an initial contribution from the village with additional amounts contributed each year as determined by an actuary based on the amount already in the program and the projected retirement payouts over future years.

Those annual contributions will continue for many years and the payouts will stretch out over many years. The latest contribution of

about $65,669 brings the total fund to a little over $900,000.

Investment of the fund’s assets is administered by RBC Wealth Management (part of the Royal Bank of Canada), which has an office that specializes on administering LOSAP for a large number of municipalities in New York State.

The administrator oversees the distribution of retirement checks and the day-to-day management of investments under guidelines provided from time to time by the village board of trustees.

The Village Board’s finance committee reviews the status of the LOSAP each month and the board of trustees again reviews the status at its monthly meeting.

LOSAP is also audited. Village committee and board meetings are open to the public and the investment account statements are public information. ► How is plan administered?

From time to time the finance committee has called in the administrator to discuss the investment mix as well as the fees charged by individual funds. For example, a series of meetings and conference calls early in 2016 resulted in shifting both fixed income (bond) investments and equity (stock) investments from high cost mutual funds into exchange traded funds (ETFs) with similar returns but with low fees – a significant Please See ALLSTADT, A6

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$700,000 Aims To Ensure Village Hall Continues To Benefit Citizens At Large To the Editor: Since the incorporation of the Village of Cooperstown on April 3, 1807, municipal offices have had several locations throughout the village. That list includes the courthouse, which was often used for village meetings and activities, and early postcards label it “City Hall.”

The former Cooperstown Fire Hall, which was known as the Village Hall, formally opened on Jan. 18, 1889, and was used for many

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statement” to that effect acknowledged on the tablet at the right of the front door, but users of the building also emblazoned their name “Village Club and Library” across the frieze which currently uses two fewer words to identify the “Village Hall.”

In September 1945, the office of the Village Clerk and Treasurer (Newton Gilmore) moved from the Village Hall on Chestnut Street into 22 Main St. The location of that office within the building has changed over the years, but a municipal office presence has been in place for over 70 years at 22 Main St. No other building has housed a municipal presence for a longer period of

The 1889 Village Hall on Chestnut Street was razed in the 1960s.

time. Moreover, 22 Main St. has served as a village community building, housing the Village Library and numerous non-profits, including, from 1951 on, the Cooperstown Art Association.

When 22 Main Street was given to the Village of Cooperstown in 1932, it was the Village Board of

Trustees which officially accepted the gift. It is the Village Board’s responsibility to care for and maintain the building. Unfortunately, years of neglect and deferred maintenance have led to the need for major repairs to the village’s building.

The current Board of Trustees takes its responsibility for stewardship of the

Village Hall very seriously.

In the past five years, the trustees have budgeted and overseen more than $700,000 in repairs to this important edifice. Many of those repairs are very visible, such as repairs to the front porch, steps and main door, while other improvements to the roof, chimney, electrical, heat system, etc,. are not visible.

Whether the repairs are visible or not, they are all intrinsic to ensuring that our community’s Village Hall continues to be a benefit to the “citizens of the Village of Cooperstown.”

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community functions and activities as well as housing municipal offices for a period of time, before it was torn down in 1972.

The building at 22 Main St. was constructed in 1898 and initially used as a YMCA, library and museum for village residents . In November 1932, the building was given by Robert Sterling Clark to the Village of Cooperstown and formally accepted by the Village Board of Trustees.

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

200 YEARS AGO

Monument – We hear that the patriotic citizens of Buffalo and its vicinity in Niagara County have resolved to erect a monument at Buffalo to commemorate the names, exploits and services of officers slain on the Niagara frontier, during the late war. As it is intended to record the age, birthplace &c. of officers in the list of inscriptions, gentlemen in different parts of the Union will render a service to the grateful work, by stating such particulars of their fallen friends as they know, and forwarding them by letter to Major Camp, late U.S. Quartermaster, at Buffalo, New York.

Deaf and Dumb – A meeting has lately been held in the City of New York, at which General Stevens was Chairman, and the Rev. Dr. Romeyn, Secretary, to take into consideration the subject of “forming an Institution in that city for teaching the Deaf and Dumb,” and a committee appointed to prepare the outlines of a plan for the said Institution, and to call a general meeting of the citizens to whom the same is to be submitted.

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Adultery – Charles H. Newton has been sentenced to the state prison two years for adultery. For a year he had maintained gross criminal intercourse with a woman named Wentworth, a most abandoned creature, in the bosom of his own family; and, in order to gratify her, his lawful wife had been dethroned from her station in the family, and driven into the garret to sleep with her children, while he and his paramour occupied the best room in the house. Here was the aggravation of the case – It constituted a case of domestic turpitude, which demanded the severest admonition of the law. When the prisoner’s wife heard his sentence she shrunk down upon her chair as if a thunderbolt had riven her. He took it more coolly.

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are no “others” than free persons. Therefore, the states that had Slavery propose, in fixing their share of power in the government in the future, to count every Negro, not as three-fifths of a man, but as a whole man, and then to vote for him as being unfit to vote for himself!

November 10, 1866

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The number of professional students and resident graduates now attending Harvard College amounts to 541 inclusive of 15 divinity students, 167 law students, 61 scientific students, 301 medical students, and 8 resident graduates. There are 419 undergraduates inclusive of 94 seniors, 80 juniors, 120 sophomores, and 125 freshmen making a total of 961 students.

The U.S. Constitution as it is framed bases representation in Congress upon free persons and upon three-fifths of all others.

Slavery has ceased to exist, and now there

Treatment of Drunkards – Drunkenness is a crime. We cannot admit that drunkenness is a disease of the mental and moral faculties as well as of the body. Drunkenness is not a disease in the usual meaning of that word. In a figurative sense, we speak of “a diseased mind” – and all transgressions of law spring from this tendency to evil in man’s moral nature. But the expression is altogether figurative. The outbreaks of the will into open acts of wrongdoing are not diseases but sins, for which the man is responsible. There is no such disease as dipsomania which attacks a man given to sobriety and without his consent transforms him into a brute. We have held this position and defended it for half a century.

November 12, 1891

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In Our Town – Now that the sewer system has been laid it is time that the property owners on Main Street begin to make preparations to connect with it. Up to the present time no one has done so. Before the matter of paving Main Street can be taken up it is necessary for the property owners to get busy.

The weather of the past few weeks has been ideal for this work. The trustees have passed a resolution that all property owners must make new connections with the water mains with lead pipes on Main Street and connect with the sewer before the road is paved.

November 8, 1916

50 YEARS AGO

Retired Air Force Major-General Dale O. Smith told members of the Cooperstown Rotary Club last Tuesday that America’s capacity to resist military aggression is being weakened by what he termed civilian control of its military resources. Speaking at the Hotel Otesaga General Smith said this country is scared to death of the possibility of a nuclear war developing and this has led to the present stalemate in Vietnam as it did in Korea 15 years ago.

November 9, 1966

25 YEARS AGO

“I’ve been waiting four years to get to this place. It feels great to come out a winner,” Cooperstown’s Brendan Miosek said while walking off the Carrier Dome field after Ilan Levy’s first-half goal proved to be the winner for an unprecedented Section III championship on November 4.

Cooperstown Coach Frank Miosek said, “I feel very proud. “Experience was a major difference,” Brendan Miosek said. Miosek is one of ten seniors on the Redskins’ 20-1 soccer team.

November 13, 1991

10 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from remarks made by Governor-Elect Elliot Spitzer: “Eight years ago, when I had the great fortune to be elected as your Attorney-General, I pledged to bring new values and new energy to the office I held. On this evening, I make that same pledge of a new beginning for the State of New York.”

November 10, 2006

LETTER

Don’t Count On Insurers To Insure Us WEISSMAN/From A4 the coming year. It should be understood, however, that such premium increases, and many in substantial amounts, are the result of a voluntary enrollment system in which many younger and healthy lives elect not to enroll, or even withdraw from coverage.

For the ACA to work effectively, these insurance pools must have broad participation among the young and old, and the healthy and the unhealthy. That is the nature of a stable and predictable health insurance system.

Now, I will say that, from personal and professional experience as an insurance actuary, I know how insurance companies operate. Let me cite a personal experience.

A few years ago, a friend needed an operation, and his total hospital expenses for a six-day confinement came to about $50,000, excluding the surgeon’s fees. The insurance company, under his employer-sponsored group medical plan, didn’t want to pay exactly one-half of these expenses and only paid the hospital $25,000.

Its position was that only $25,000 of these charges were reasonable, and that this medical plan did not pay for “unreasonable” expenses.

It wanted him to appeal to the hospital to accept only $25,000, which it wouldn’t do.

He appealed to his former employer to have the insurance company reverse its decision, which he said was “unreasonable,” and pay all the charges. It did, and he didn’t have to pay the hospital anything.

I think it’s ridiculous to believe you can trust private insurers to pay claims properly, since it’s profit that motivates them. The country needs a non-profit health insurance system.

MARTIN J. WEISSMAN Oneonta

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Investors, Cooperstown Included, Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change ALLSTADT/From A4 ongoing reduction in costs to the village. That resulted in a widely diversified portfolio including large and medium sized U.S. and international equities as well as a range of U.S. and international bonds.

About two years ago, questions on investments in fossil fuels arose in the finance committee, the economic development and sustainability committee and the full Board of Trustees. Part of the concern was the environmental impact of fossil fuels and part was the growing perception of financial vulnerability among the fossil fuel companies. The administrator was asked to research and discuss alternatives with the finance committee.

At that time, there was no cost-effective way to divest and maintain a widely diversified portfolio, so no action was taken. Later, it became possible to invest in the individual business sectors of the S&P 500, so you can now buy all of the sectors except energy. This was discussed briefly but not pursued because it would rule out all energy, not just fossil fuels, and because it would result in higher transaction fees to buy the ten non-energy sectors.

More recently, it became possible to buy the S&P 500 ex fossil fuel as a single ETF. This fund tracks all of the S&P 500 companies except those that have fossil fuel reserves. Both indexes are calculated and published by S&P Dow Jones. The SEP500 ex fossil fuel index was initiated in December 2011, around the time when many investors started looking for a way to reduce exposure to fossil fuels. Since the initiation of the index, the S&P500 ex fossil fuels index has had higher annualized returns and higher risk adjusted annual returns than the full S&P 500 index. Details can be found at the following link (click methodology). https://us.spindices.com/ indices/equity/sp-500-fossilfuel-free-index ►What Fiduciary Responsibilities Apply to Investments?

The U.S. Department of Labor has published interpretive bulletins to help fiduciaries in considering what they call economically targeted investments (ETIs) that involve environmental, social or governance (ESG) considerations.

The most recent interpretive bulletin IB 2015-1 was issued on Oct. 26, 2015 replacing the previous bulletin from 2008.

The 2015 bulletin covers the issue raised by Mr. Russell.

Here is the most relevant portion: “The Department believes that in the seven years since its publication, IB 2008-01 has unduly discouraged fiduciaries from considering ETIs and ESG factors. In particular, the Department is concerned that the 2008 guidance may be dissuading fiduciaries from “(1) pursuing investment strategies that consider environmental, social, and governance factors, even where they are used solely to evaluate the economic benefits of investments and identify economically superior investments, and “(2) investing in ETIs even where economically equivalent. Some fiduciaries believe the 2008 guidance sets a higher but unclear standard of compliance for fiduciaries when they are considering ESG factors or ETI investments.”

An important purpose of this Interpretive Bulletin is to clarify that plan fiduciaries should appropriately consider factors that potentially influence risk and return. Environmental, social and governance issues may have a direct relationship to the economic value of the plan’s investment. In these instances, such issues are not merely collateral considerations or tiebreakers, but rather are proper components of the fiduciary’s primary analysis of the economic merits of competing investment choices.

Similarly, if a fiduciary prudently determines that an investment is appropriate

based solely on economic considerations, including those that may derive from environmental, social and governance factors, the fiduciary may make the investment without regard to any collateral benefits the investment may also promote.

Fiduciaries need not treat commercially reasonable investments as inherently suspect or in need of special scrutiny merely because they take into consideration environmental, social, or other such factors. When a fiduciary prudently concludes that such an investment is justified based solely on the economic merits of the investment, there is no need to evaluate collateral goals as tie-breakers.” https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/10/26/2015-27146/ interpretive-bulletin-relatingto-the-fiduciary-standard-under-erisa-in-considering-economically This Department of Labor’s interpretive bulletin (above URL) makes it perfectly clear that the Board of Trustees’ decision is consistent with its fiduciary responsibilities.

Also, to put this in perspective, the change affects only the large capitalization equities portion of the $900,000 LOSAP portfolio. It has no impact on our bond investments that make up more than half of the portfolio, or on other classes of domestic and international equity investments. The change will be phased in over one year, a common method to average the price over time. The net effect after one year will be that approximately $10,000 (1.1 percent of the total) will be moved out of companies that have fossil fuel reserves and into all of the non-fossil fuel companies that make up the rest of the S&P 500.

The LOSAP investments will remain a widely diversified portfolio.

On the other hand, I completely agree with Mr. Russell

that investments for LOSAP should not be judged by the same criteria used in personal investing. For example, I would not support a LOSAP investment in renewable energy because of the present small size of the companies and the volatility of their results, even though I personally own a number of mutual funds and ETFs that are concentrated in various aspects of renewable energy. ►Fossil Fuel Investment Risks Mr. Russell’s comments imply that he thinks fossil fuels are a safe investment. I am afraid that he is ignoring a number of serious warnings.

Possibly the most relevant warning for our situation comes from Tom Sanzillo, who like Mr. Russell, used to work in the state Comptroller’s Office. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Sanzillo was the first deputy comptroller for the State of New York.

Among his responsibilities was the supervision of a $150 billion globally invested public pension fund, with significant fossil-fuel holdings. This was probably a better vantage point to judge fossil fuels’ investment than Mr. Russell had during his earlier stay in the Comptroller’s Office. In a recent report for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, “Red Flags on ExxonMobil: Core Financials Show a Company in Decline,” Mr. Sanzillo wrote: “The oil industry, led by ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, once provided its investors with outsize returns. This is no longer the case. Today annual cash distributions to investors are less than half of the annual average payout for the last decade. ExxonMobil’s future is one of diminished prospects.

“The principal drivers of oil industry profitability have eroded in recent years, and investors – institutional inves-

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“Fiduciaries for institutional funds have a choice to make. They can ignore the downside and weak outlook of fossil fuels and thwart the world-wide search for alternatives (which is what happened when coal markets began to turn five years ago). Or they can act responsibly, directing their money managers and professional staff to construct investment plans that are increasingly fossil free.”

A few months earlier in July, Mr. Sanzillo and I participated in a press conference and webinar introducing an extensively documented report, “Unconventional Risks: THE GROWING UNCERTAINTY OF OIL INVESTMENTS.” That report lays out the dismal financial results of the major oil companies – reduced profits, reduced cash flow, decreased investments, increased borrowings, decreased bond ratings, decreased share buybacks, decreased dividends. All of which are exacerbated by low energy prices, as well as gradually increasing competition from renewable energy and energy conservation, reduced access to low cost reserves in most of the world, and increasing measures to address climate change. http://www.asyousow.org/ ays_report/unconventionalrisks-the-growing-uncertainty-of-oil-investments/ There are a number of other reports that warn investors of problems now and in the future for the fossil fuel industries. Citing all of them would take far too much space and would be fairly repetitious. One of the most succinct is a recent report from Black Rock, the largest asset management company

in the world ($5 trillion under management). Excerpts from the report’s summary are quoted below.

“Adapting portfolios to climate change: Implications and strategies for all investors” Summary • We start by detailing how climate change presents market risks and opportunities through four channels: 1) physical: more frequent and severe weather events over the long term; 2) technological: advances in energy storage, electric vehicles (EVs) or energy efficiency undermining existing business models; 3) regulatory: tightening emissions and energy efficiency standards, and changing subsidies and taxes; 4) social: changing consumer preferences and pressure groups advocating divestment of fossil fuel assets.

• These factors can play out immediately (often the regulatory variety), in the medium term as economies transition to a lower-carbon world (often technological), and in the long run (often physical).

Investor time horizons differ as well – and may require different approaches. The longer an asset owner’s time horizon, the more climate-related risks compound. Yet even shortterm investors can be affected by regulatory and policy developments, the effect of rapid technological change or an extreme weather event.

• We then show how all asset owners can – and should – take advantage of a growing array of climate-related investment tools and strategies to manage risk, to seek excess returns or improve their market exposure…

Investors can no longer ignore climate change. Some may question the science behind it, but all are faced with a swelling tide of climate-related regulations and technological disruption. Drawing on

the insights of Black Rock’s investment professionals, we detail how investors can mitigate climate risks, exploit opportunities or have a positive impact. Climate-aware investing is possible without compromising on traditional goals of maximizing investment returns, we conclude.

We then reflect on steps that stakeholders in the climate debate are considering, including the use of carbon pricing as a cost-effective way to reduce emissions.

Our overall conclusion: We believe all investors should incorporate climate changeawareness into their investment processes.” (emphasis added) https://www.blackrock.com/ investing/literature/whitepaper/bii-climate-change-2016us.pdf ►Conclusion In my view, the trustees would be remiss in their fiduciary responsibilities not to consider reports like these and many others in evaluating investment decisions in the LOSAP portfolio.

• ►A Few Minor Points of Clarification Mr. Kevlin is notorious among readers of this paper for not getting things exactly right. There is no S&P 475. It is a figment of Mr. Kevlin’s imagination. The ETF in question is the S&P500 excluding fossil fuels, whose symbol is SPYX. There is no 360.org, it is 350.org. And, apparently, a report in The Freeman’s Journal provided some erroneous background information about my investment and tax adviser to Mr. Russell, leading Mr. Russell to incorrectly, and I believe inwwappropriately, speculate on tax motivations for my selling ExxonMobil stock.

Also, I have no idea what advice my adviser might have given to my former colleagues. She (not he) would never disclose such information.

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It’s Seward’s Election Night, As Senator’s Allies Take Key Races

ELECTIONS/From A1 Clinton, 12,284 (53 percent) to 9,285 (40 percent), from Unadilla to Cherry Valley.

What’s more, DNC darling Zephyr Teachout had lost the 19th Congressional District to Republican Seward Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal stalwart John Celebrating Assemblyman Bill Magee’s announcement of a $2 million grant Faso, the toward $7.5 million in upgrades required in the Village of Cooperstown’s former Assembly minority waste-water treatment plant are, from left, John Brust, principal, Delaware leader.

Engineering; Scott Folts, plant operator; Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh As expected, longtime Kuch, Magee, Mayor Jeff Katz; Jonathan Flyte, Bassett Hospital vice presistate Sen. Jim Seward, dent/facilities, and Andy Bergfjord, chairman, village Board of Sewer ComR-Milford, overwhelmed missioners.

Democrat Jermaine OTSEGO COUNTY TALLIES Bagnall-Graham of Sherburne, 16,991 (76 percent) to PRESIDENT 5,489 (24.41 perDonald Trump 12,284 (52.72%) cent).

Hillary Clinton 9,285 (39.85%) Even in the towns U.S. SENATE of Oneonta and Chuck Schumer 12,702 (57.9%) Richfield, RepubWendy Long 8,916 (40.14%) licans won town board seats.

CONGRESS The one local John Faso 12,653 (56.94%) Democrat vicZephyr Teachout 9,548 (42.97%) tory (not counting U.S. Sen. Chuck STATE SENATE Schumer, D-NY, a Jim Seward 16,991 (75.55%) Jermaine Bagnall-Graham bi-partisan favorite), 5,489 (24.41%) Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, ASSEMBLY constituted a victory Bill Magee 7,901 (53.51%) for Seward: The John Salka 6,858 (46.44%) two men collaborate in the DemocraticONEONTA TOWN BOARD dominated House Randal Mowers 1,235 (57.82%) and RepublicanMike Stolzer 900 (42.13%) dominate Senate, respectively to move RICHFIELD TOWN BOARD Rex Seamon 460 (50.72%) legislation through.

Bob Woodrow 309 (34.07%) But the reflecHerman Hopper 137 (15.1%) tions were national at the Red Caboose.

OTSEGO ROADS CHIEF “We went into the Ayes 685 (43.2%) night with a very Nays 899 (56.7%) high probability we would control the By contrast, the mood Senate and elect a democrataround the corner at ic president,” said Michael Seward’s Dietz Street camHalpin, the SUNY Oneonta paign office was jovial. history professor. “But it’s “I’m humbled and thrilled no longer a happy mood.” by the outpouring of sup“It was a good night, but port,” the senator said.

“I’ve with pockets of grimness,” known John Faso for a long said bartender Jamie Ormtime, and we’re going to istn. make a great team, me in In Cooperstown, DemoAlbany and him in D.C.” cratic county chair Richard Voter turnout in Oneonta Abbate expressed disapwas larger than usual, with pointment, particularly at lines starting at Foothills at the Teachout defeat. “We 5:30 a.m. and steady traffic had an incredible candidate throughout the day. in Zephyr Teachout,” he At the Cooperstown said.

Nonetheless, he was con- Rotary Club’s traditional Election Day pancake feast ciliatory: “We’ll give Faso a chance to do the work that at the Vets’ Club, 300 meals had been served by early the people have voted him afternoon, a record pace. in to do…and in two years By day’s end, however, that if he is not accomplishing topped out at 500, below things that are important to the 650 record, according to 19th congressional district, organizer Ben Novellano. we’ll try to find a candidate Countywide, 23,527 balto replace him.” lots were cast.

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Barkeep Jamie Ormiston, front, and proprietor Tim Masterjohn watch results trickle in Election Night at Oneonta’s Red Caboose, where Democrats had gathered for what they expected to be a celebration. As a Donald Trump victory began to emerge by mid-evening, the crowd thinned.

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LEMISTER/From A1 ing 9,000 calls in his career during Jane Forbes Clark’s annual appreciation dinner police and firefighters, a tradition she inherited from her father, Stephen C. Clark Jr. “We want to thank our first responders for everything they do,” she said. “And, in the course of welcoming them all, I noted that Fred was four calls short of 9,000.

That’s how active he is!”

On average, Lemister said, he goes along on 200 of the squad’s 800 calls a year.

“Some days I’m going to two or three calls,” he said.

“Then we’ll go a few days without a single one. In the winter months, there aren’t as many calls as we get in the summer season.”

Lemister joined the EMS squad in 1971, one year after it started. He had been a member of the volunteer fire department since 1969.

“Back then, it wasn’t a matter of if you were going to join the fire department, it was when,” he said. “I joined right after I got out college. My dad was the

foreman of Company #1, my mom was in the Ladies’ Auxiliary. Service was just something you did.”

It’s not uncommon for a member of the EMS squad to respond to 1,000 calls in a career. “A few have made 2,000, and Bev Hargrove and Bonnie Kaido made 4,500 responses each,” said Alison Phillips, a fire department stalwart. “But that’s half of the responses Fred made.”

Though Lemister doesn’t keep track of his calls, the EMS squad does. “A few years ago, I was sitting in church – St. Thomas, over in Cherry Valley – and the priest holds up the newspaper on the altar,” he said.

“And there’s a big headline about my 7,000th call!”

He stated that he has no plans to retire from the department in the near future.

“This is quite amazing,” said Phillips. “No one has ever come close to this number, and it’s unlikely anyone ever will again. It’s nothing short of a miracle.”

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This Veterans Day, D-Day veteran Bill Hughes’ family received an appreciative letter from a Normandy man reflecting on the June 6, 1944, invasion, and word from the Pentagon that he had earned a Bronze Star for valor, but its arrival had been delayed 70 years by a paperwork snafu.

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As at Cooperstown’s Doughboy Monument in 2015, flags will be retired through incineration – the tradition – at ceremonies on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month across the county and nation this Friday, Veterans Day.

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By LIBBY CUDMORE home of Bill’s widow Peggy – Rennie’s mom – alerting ONEONTA her that her husband had earned a Bronze Star for month ago, Renvalor. Due to a paperwork nie (Hughes) mix-up, he’d never received Brown opened it. her mailbox to find a letJust before midnight June ter, postmarked Normandy, 5, 1944, young Hughes was France. She didn’t know in the 101st Airborne – “The what to think. “I thought it Screaming Eagle” – that was one of those letters askparachuted behind enemy ing for money,” she said. lines ahead of the next But inside was a picture of morning’s D-Day invasion. her late father, Sgt. William “My family lived in Hughes, then 22, along with The letter contained this area in 1944,” Thierry a photo of a stained glass a photo of a stained- Ferey wrote. The 101st’s window and a note. story from that day “is our glass window in Sainte-Mère-Église Coincidentally, “just family’s history. I’m 52 before,” another missive had honoring the 101st.

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Local Talent To Shine At Glimmerglass Film Days festival circuit, I recognized Cooperstown and Sharon Springs right away!” said COOPERSTOWN Peggy Parsons, Film Days organizer. “We’ve been trying ew this to figure out a way to bring it to IF YOU year Cooperstown for a while.”

GO: For all at the And on Friday, Nov. 11, Glimmerglass fourth annual Oneonta native Peter Hutchison Film Days Glimmerglass will present his film, “Requiem offerings, see Film Days – two For An American Dream,” a PAGE B2 films with local collection of interviews about ties. activist Noam Chomsky on rise Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple’s of inequality in America.

“Miss Sharon Jones!” opens “Last year the closest film to Oneonta native Peter Hutchison directed one film, left, home was set in the Hudson the festival on Thursday, Nov. featured at Glimmerglass Film Days, and “Miss Sharon 10. “When I first saw it on the Please See FILMS, B3

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rmistice remembrances of cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918: Locally, 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11 at the Doughboy Memorial, Pine Boulevard, Cooperstown, and at Veterans Memorial Walkway, Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

ALSO HONORING VETS: Enjoy a Friday, Nov. 11, pancake breakfast, 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. seatings, at Plains At Parish Homestead, or a buffet dinner thanking our veterans 4 p.m. at Focus Otsego, 128 Phoenix Mills Crossroad, Cooperstown. (RSVP, 544-2600). Saturday, Nov. 12, DAR meetings welcome veterans: Otsego DAR Chapter at 10 a.m. brunch (guest speaker Jack Hensen) with Cooperstown Veteran’s Club members at 60 Main St.; Oneonta DAR at Masonic Temple with veterans and their families at 1 p.m., beginning with a program on the Leatherstocking Honor Flight, 322 Main St., Oneonta.

CATSKILL SYMPHONY presents Concert II: Featuring Tenor Jon Frederic West performing Wagner and Vaughan Williams and Brahms Symphony No. 2, Saturday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom. 6:30 p.m., Maestro Chuck Schneider, conductor, shares expertise in discussion in Waterfront Grill.

Tickets $30, free admission for veterans, children and the adults who bring them.

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Out Of Blue, 2 Testimonials To WWII Vet Arrive them navigate in the dark” VET/From B1 – an episode made famous years old and I’m free. I in “The Longest Day,” the know I wouldn’t be here 1962 movie epic based on today if your father hadn’t Cornelius Ryan’s best-seller. come.”

“You would click once,” “Dad never talked about she recounted, “and if you his military service,” said didn’t hear back, Bill Hughes’ you would shoot. son Joe, the If you heard OHS athletic twice, you could director and move towards former History it. They were all teacher. “It’s over the French been a project countryside, for me, in my clicking like retirement, crazy!” to learn more Ferey’s family about his serwas so grateful vice in World for the 101st War II.” Bill Hughes as a Airborne’s misThe next young GI. sion – keeping morning the road to the – D-Day, Ferey wrote, several soldiers came Normandy beaches blocked so the Nazis couldn’t attack to the house and asked the invading GIs – they kept where they were. “They a picture of the company in landed in our apple ortheir home. chard,” he wrote. “Capt.

Ferey has tracked down Bill Paty put a map on my 23 families of Bill Hughes’ grandma’s table and our comrades so far, sending house wasn’t on it.” them each a letter of thanks “It was so foggy that and a photograph of their night that the planes got loved one. lost,” said Peggy. “They “He must have found me had these clickers to help

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the war broke out.

He was injured in Normandy, receiving a Purple Heart, but recovered enough to serve in Operation Market Garden in Holland and later, the Battle of the Bulge, where he lost his right leg to mortar fire.

Joe Hughes has a Feb. 2, 1944, letter to his grandmother, Janet Hughes, signed simply, “Bill’s buddy, Ray,” reporting, “In Holland, Billy and I lay sideby-side together when we were wounded. We’re very lucky, Mrs. Hughes, to have him as a buddy. We’re glad to hear he’s coming home, but sorry he’s coming home with wounds.”

With a prosthetic leg, Bill Hughes returned to Oneonta and went to Hartwick College on the GI Bill. “He was in classes with a few other soldiers, and they would write down the answers and put them in his leg!” said Peggy. “The teacher caught onto that pretty quickly.”

He went on to a long career at Oneonta Ford, and passed away in 2000 at age 77.

“This is the most we’ve ever talked about Dad’s military career,” said son Joe. “But in my research, the motto I’ve come across is, ‘Those who saw the most say the least.’ He lived by that code.”

“I once tried to get him to talk to the kids about his military career,” said Peggy.

“He said he couldn’t talk about it, that it was too painful.”

But in the letter Rennie received, a second picture was enclosed – a stainedglass window featuring pictures of paratroopers, from the Sainte-Mère-Église church in Normandy. “They called them Angels of God,” said Peggy.

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The Major’s Inn, 12 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville, Info, (607) 7832393 or (607) 783-2967 FILM SERIES – 10 a.m.-noon.

“Saving Mes Aynak.” Hannah Bloch, NPR editor and Time correspondent, speaks at forum following film. Glimmerglas Film Festival at Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents.

HOLIDAY MARKET AND CRAFT SHOW – 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sunnycrest Orchards Cidermill Gift Shop, 7869 NY-10, Sharon Springs.

FILM SERIES – Noon-1:45 p.m. “ Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life.” A “Taste of Persia” Lunch by The Empire House available before and during.

Glimmerglass Film Festival at The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

Through Nov. 13 OPEN SKATE – Noon-5 p.m.

Veteran’d Day Skate-n-Dance Parties and Laser Tag, $6. Interskate 88, 5185 NY-23, Oneonta. Info, http://www.interskate88.com/ or call (607)432-0366 FILM SERIES – 2-4 p.m. “Requiem for the American Dream.”

Presented by director Perter Hutchison. Glimmerglass Film Festival at Fenimore Art Museum, , Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

STEAMQUEST – 3:30-5 p,.m.

Tinker and learn STEAM after school. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ steamquest/ VETERAN’S DAY DINNER – 4 p.m. Buffet dinner tanking our Veterans. Focus Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 128 Phoenix Mills Crossroad, Cooperstown.

Info, reservations, (607) 5442600 FILM SERIES – 4:15-6 p.m.

“How to Change the World.”

Glimmerglass Film Festival at Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

HOLIDAY SHOW RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. Opening reception Holiday Show & Sale. One-of-akind gifts by local and regional artists. Sale through Dec. 23.

Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com CCS MUSICAL: 7 p.m.

Cooperstown High Thespians present Tony Award-winning “Into the Woods,” a journey through Grimm’s Fairy Tales via a Stephen Sondheim classic. 7 p.m. Thurs.Sat. Nov. 10-12 and 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, Nov. 13. CCS Jr/Sr High Auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Tickets, $10 adults, $6 children, free to senior citizens who live in the school district (obtain tickets at the high school between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.)

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THEATER – 8 p.m. Cardboard Alley Players production of Jennifer Haley’s “The Nether.” Through Nov. 12. Tickets $5. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College FILM SERIES – 8:30-10 p.m.

“Heart of a Dog.” Glimmerglass Film Festival at Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

PLANETARIUM – 7-8 p.m. Sky Talk: Life Cycles of Stars, and video “Secret Lives of Stars” SUNY Oneonta Planetarium, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Reservations required. Seats free. Info, oneonta.edu/planetarium/publicshow.asp SUNY THEATER – 8 p.m.

Theater department production of “The Good Person of Szechwan.” Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.edu/academics/theatre/

Saturday, November 12

CHINESE AUCTION – 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Milford Central School District, 42 W. Main St., Milford.

Info, web.milfordcentral.org COOP FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Bounty of seasonal fruits and veggies, local meats, fresh fowl, eggs, cheese, yogurt, honey, maple syrup, sweet treats. Handmade goods.

Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine. Info, (607) 5476195, www.otsego2000.org MS SUPPORT GROUP – 10

a.m.-noon. Program focuses on alternative, all natural, scientifically proven supplement with 9 patients. will invove a Skype converstion with guest speaker, Justine Winnicki, critical care nurse with MS from Rochester. Elm Park United Methodis Church, 401 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info, Phil Young (607) 433-1169 or Mona Sen (718) 637-3518.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Includes lunch and new children’s ornament build $5.

The Major’s Inn, 12 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville, Info, (607) 7832393 or (607) 783-2967 FILM SERIES – 10 a.m.-noon.

“The Anthropologist.” Presented by director/producer Seth Kramer. Glimmerglass Film Fest, Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

BRUNCH – 10 a.m. Otsego Chapter DAR meeting with Vet’s club members. Guest speaker Jack Hensen. Bring Donation of warm socks.

Cooperstown Veterans Club, 60 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, sclarsen229@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/otsegoDAR/ FILM SERIES – 10 a.m.-noon.

“Rango.” Glimmerglass Film Festival at Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents.

SPAGHETTI DINNER – 11 a.m. Includes Chinese auction.

Benefit to help cover medical expenses of Vietnam Vet Jim Croft.

Info, Tammy or Bob Croft, (607)

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NSDAR MEETING – 1 p.m.

Will celebrate veterans and their families. Meeting begins with program on the Leatherstocking Honor Flight. Masonic Temple, 322 Main St., Oneonta. RSVP by Nov. 7, 607) 965-6419, jwestcott@stny.rr.com FILM SERIES – 1-3 p.m.

“The Messenger.” Presented by ornithologist Bill Evans.

Glimmerglass Film Festival, Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m. Bring works to read aloud, for critique, or just write something new while you’re there.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/hml-writers-group/ SUNY THEATER – 2 p.m. Theater department production of “The Good Person of Szechwan.”

Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., 108 Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta. Info, oneonta.edu/academics/theatre/ FILM SERIES – 3:15-5:30 p.m. “ The Birth of Sake.”

Glimmerglass Film Festival at Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

HARVEST DINNER – 4:30-7 p.m. Turkey, trimming, homemade pie. Adults $10, children $5. Take-out too. United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Building is handicapped accessible. Info, (607) 547-9540, (607) 547-2532.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on December 01, 2016 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 WOLF RD, 1ST FLOOR, SUITE 1CM, ALBANY, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using Bid Express (www. bidx.com).

A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Transportation for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/ opportunities/constnotices Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot.ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-planholder.

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Name: VALLEY VIEW FARM GUESTHOUSE LLC. Certificate of Conversion filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 4 October 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3897 St Hwy 205, Hartwick, NY 13348. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of organization of Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. 1. The name of the limited liability company is Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC. 2. Articles of Organization of Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC were filed with the New York Secretary of State on September 15, 2016.

3. The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Otsego County.

4. The street address of the principal business location of the limited liability company is P.O. Box 94, Worcester, NY 12197.

5. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is Michael F. TenEyck, P.O. Box 94, Worcester, NY 12197.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is River 709, LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on June 6, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is P.O. Box 654, Milford, New York.

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PRE-CONCERT TALK – 6:30 p.m. Maestro Charles Schneider shares his expertise prior to 7:30 p.m. symphony performance.

Hunt Union Waterfront Grille, SUNY Oneonta.

SYMPHONY – 7:30 p.m.

Catskill Symphony presents Concert II: Featuring Tenor Jon Frederic West performing Wagner and Vaughan Williams.

Symphony also performs Brahms Symphony No. 2. Tickets $30, free admission for veterans, children and the adults who bring them. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, (607) 436-2670, www.catskillsymphony.net CCS MUSICAL – 7 p.m.

Cooperstown High Thespians present Tony Award-winning “Into the Woods,” a journey through Grimm’s Fairy Tales via a Stephen Sondheim classic. 7 p.m.

Also 2 p.m. matinee, Sun., Nov. 13. CCS Jr/Sr High Auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

Tickets, $10 adults, $6 children, free to senior citizens who live in the school district (obtain tickets at the high school between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.)

Saturday, November 12

FILM SERIES – 7:30-8:45 p.m. “Black Maria Film Festival, Selections of Shorts.” Presented by director of the Black Maria Film Festival Jane Steuerwalk.

Glimmerglass Film Festival at Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Final performace of Cardboard Alley Players production of Jennifer Haley’s “The Nether.” Tickets $5. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta.

FILM SERIES – 9:15-10:45 p.m. ” RAMS.” Glimmerglass Film Festival at Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents.

Sunday, November 13

FILM SERIES – 9:30 a.m.noon. Brunch and Discussion with Peter Rutkoff, “The Language You Cry In.” Glimmerglass FIlm Festival at Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/ films-events.

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Fourth Glimmerglass Festival Highlights Local Filmmakers FILMS/From B1 Valley,” said Parsons, who is also director of the National Gallery of Art’s Film Program (and a CGP graduate).

“Miss Jones!,” which follows the R&B singer as she tours with her band, the Dap-Kings, while battling pancreatic cancer, has been a hit on the festival circuit.

Both Jones and Kopple, who won Oscars for “Harlan County USA” in 1976 and “American Dream” in 1991, will both be in attendance.

“Barbara has such a big personality,” said Parsons.

“She’s very nice, very approachable.”

Hutchison spent the early part of his career playing in the alt-rock band Subduing Mara alongside Wayne Carrington, owner of the B-Side Ballroom. “I’ve always been involved in activism,” he said. “After we stopped touring, I moved to New York and started working in film, then started making my own films.”

The Noam Chomsky film grew out of those changing priorities. “I remember hearing him lecture when I was in college about how inequality was the biggest threat to democracy,” said Hutchison. “And when I was talking to him for this film, I reminded him of that quote. He commented, in very stark terms, that he could have never imagined how out of control it’s gotten.”

While the first Glimmerglass Film Days focused on environmental

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issues, this year’s festival, the fourth, reflects an expanded reach.

“This year’s theme is ‘Against The Odds’,” said Parsons. “With Peter’s film, it’s not so much that it’s about the challenges the subject faces, but it’s his point of view on corporate politics, how the rich call the shots. Chomsky is such a challenging figure, and this film is about getting his ideas out there.”

But there are still some slivers of the environmental themes to be seen. “She lives in Brooklyn, but she moved to a friend’s house in Sharon Springs while she was undergoing her cancer treatments at Bassett Hospital,” said Parsons.

“She came up here because the environment was clean and quiet.”

Ornithologist Bill Evans will present “The Messenger,” about threats to songbirds, and Suzanne Crocker’s “All The Time In The World” focuses on her family’s nine months living in a remote Yukon cabin without running water, electricity or clocks.

In all, 16 films will be shown. “It’s grown every year,” said Parsons. “And with the long weekend, we’ve had more time to work with.”

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FILM SERIES – 9:30 a.m.noon. Brunch and Discussion with Peter Rutkoff, “The Language You Cry In.” Glimmerglass FIlm Festival at Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/ films-events.

SOUP! – 11 a.m.-2 p.m., “Second Sunday Soup,” serving homemade hot soup every 2nd Sunday of month. Takeout available. All welcome, donations appreciated. At the Polly House (next to the Fire House), Schuyler Lake.

FILM SERIES – 12:30-2:45 p.m. “Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente.)”

Glimmerglass Film Festival at The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

CCS MUSICAL: 2 p.m. matinee. Cooperstown High Thespians present Tony Award-winning “Into the Woods,” a journey through Grimm’s Fairy Tales via a Stephen Sondheim classic. 7 p.m. CCS Jr/Sr High Auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

Tickets, $10 adults, $6 children, free to senior citizens who live in the school district (obtain tickets at the high school between 11

a.m. and 2 p.m.)

CONCERT – 2 p.m. Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://catskillwinds.com/ FILM SERIES – 3-5 p.m. “All the Time in the World.” Presented by filmmaker Suzanne Crocker. Glimmerglass Film Festival at Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents.

FILM SERIES – 5:30-7:30 p.m.

“The Babushkas of Chernobyl.”

Glimmerglass Film Festival at Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

Monday, November 14

ARCHAEOLOGY HIKE – 10 a.m.-noon. Explore Thayer and Rum Hill Homesteads with archaeologist David P. Staley.

Directions, follow signs to the gate on Thurston Hill Rd./Vibbard Rd., Richfield Springs. Info, www. facebook.com/OtsegoLandTrust/ BOOK GROUP – 1:45-2:45

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LONG TERM CARE COORDINATOR Responsible for overseeing information and assistance provided to consumers that access long term care services. Emphasis on exploring all community-based alternatives to institutional type services with specific emphasis on self-determination, personal responsibility and cost efficiency. Range of services will cover all segments of population and include constant and effective contact with hospitals, nursing facilities, adult homes, certified home health agencies, advocacy organizations, County departments. May make field service visits, responsible for all office supervision. Works under supervision of Director of Office for Aging.

Application/job description available at www.otsegocountyemployment.com.

Last date to file: 11/22/16. EOE

OtsegO Land trust seeking executive director

Expanding from 28 years in Cooperstown into adjoining counties, Otsego Land Trust is actively protecting woodlands, farmlands and waters that sustain rural communities, promote public health, support wildlife diversity and inspire the human spirit.

Our dedicated full-time staff of four and our active board are seeking an energetic leader who is passionate about land conservation, experienced in running a professional team, and capable of growing the organization.

Preference to those with proven fund-raising experience. For a full job description, visit otsegolandtrust.org/images/EDPosition.pdf Interested applicants can submit a cover letter, resumé and three relevant professional references by December 2, 2016 to

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Senior Social Welfare Examiner $29,436 - $34,711

Looking for an experienced worker who can assume responsibility for supervision of a group of workers establishing financial eligibility for the various programs administered by the local social services district. LDTF: 11/21/16

For applications and minimum qualifications, visit the Otsego County Personnel Office, 183 Main Street Cooperstown, or our web page at www.otsegocountyemployment.com. EOE

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The Oneonta Municipal Civil Service Commission announces an open-competitive exam for Custodian for the City of Oneonta on December 10, 2016. Application deadline is November 30, 2016. Applications and announcements are available at the Personnel Office, 258 Main St. or for download at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel

Full Time Math Instructor. Provide training in algebra and geometry curriculum. Bachelor’s Degree and one year teaching experience preferred. Must be New York State Teacher Certified.

Substitute Instructor. Serves in the absence of the regular Academic & Trade Instructor. Prefer an Associates or Bachelor’s degree. $12.75 per hour.

Full Time Data Integrity & Quality Assurance Clerk. Establishes and maintains files for recording student/employees education and training progress, pay status, travel, clothing allowance, attendance reports and other required information. M-F. Starts at $13.00.

Full Time Safety/Transportation. Must be able to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License, Class B with passenger endorsement within three months of hire. Minimum $12.00, NY Security Certified $12.75, CDL $13.00, both Certified and CDL Driver $13.25 per hour.

Full Time/Part Time Temporary Fire Safety Officer. Periodic rounds on center to support center fire system. $11.25 per hour.

Full Time/On Call Residential Dormitory Advisor. Second and Third Shift. Minimum $12.00 per hour.

Full Time Residential Dormitory Supervisor. Makes work assignments, supervises residential Dormitory advisors and evaluates their performance. Ensures that accountability is maintained.

Full Time Maintenance Specialist. Performs routine maintenance and repair. Two years of related work experience needed.

Full Time Food Service Assistant. Work and replenishes serving lines, sets up salad bar for lunch and dinner meals, assists in dish room as needed. Starts at $10.50 per hour.

Part Time/On Call Recreation Specialist. Assists in planning, coordinating and conducting the overall recreation program. Organize, supervise student activities. Must be able to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License, Class B with passenger endorsement within three months of hire. Starts at $12.50 per hour.

Must have a High School Diploma or equivalent and a valid NYS Driver License with an acceptable driving record. Benefits offered for full time positions. For more information check out our website at http://oneonta.jobcorps.gov/jobs.aspx. Oneonta Job Corps performs criminal background checks and pre-employment drug screens and any offer of employment is contingent on the results of the background checks and screening. If interested, apply to Human Resources, 21 Homer Folks Avenue, Oneonta, NY 13820 or email your resume to eastwood.christina@jobcorps.org.

ETR/Oneonta Job Corps is an Equal Opportunity Employer and reiterates its policy of equal opportunity for all qualified individuals without distinction or discrimination because of race, color, religion, marital status, political affiliation or belief, sex, age, national origin or veteran status.

For more information check out our website at http://oneonta.jobcorps.gov/jobs.aspx Oneonta Job Corps performs criminal background checks and pre-employment drug screens and any offer of employment is contingent on the results of the background checks and screening. If interested, apply to Human Resources, 21 Homer Folks Avenue, Oneonta, N.Y. or email your resume to eastwood.christina@jobcorps.org.

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OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD – 4-6 p.m. Pack a shoebox with items that will bring joy to children as they are delivered around the world. Collection point at Main St. Baptist Church, corner of Main and Maple sts., Oneonta. Info/ideas @smaritanspurse.org or email msbc@ msbchurch.org or call (607)4325712.

READING CIRCLE – 6:30-8 p.m. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in New York State. Discussing “Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York” by Marge Piercy. 5838 NY80, Cooperstown. For info email hartj35@oneonta.edu or call (607) 547-2586.

GARDEN CLUB – 7 p.m. Ideas for Holiday arrangements will be presented by Gary Burman and Bob Opalecky, formerly of Gary’s Flowers. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St, Oneonta.

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Substitution of an Associate’s Degree in similar field of study and at least two years relevant field experience will be considered. Additional requirements further detailed in position description available at www.nycwatershed.org. Salary: mid $40,000s. To apply: Send cover letter and resume to Amy Faulkner, Watershed Agricultural Council, 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856; or e-mail afaulkner@ nycwatershed.org. EOE. Review of applications will begin December 1, 2016.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2016

OBITUARIES

Michael Nicolais, 91; Clark Estates’ Former President COOPERSTOWN – Michael Nicolais, 91, former president of The Clark Estates and a director of the Baseball Hall of Fame and The Fenimore Art Museum, passed away peacefully Nov. 7, after a short battle with cancer.

As recently as six months ago, he was still indulging in his daily activities, walking a mile and a half to his health club, doing a modest workout, having breakfast with friends and then hopping on

the subway to go the office where he remained an active financial manager. He Michael loved the Nicolai financial markets and he loved New York City, where he was born and spent a large part of his life.

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He attended Curtis High School and was enshrined in that school’s Hall of Fame for his long list of career and life accomplishments.

He served for 33 months in the Army Infantry during World War II and returned home before he turned 21 years old. He fought on the German front line including in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded both a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

Upon returning from serving his country, he attended Wagner College earning a BS

degree in accounting, magna cum laude in three years.

Shortly after graduating, he joined The Clark Estates, a renowned family office where he worked for the next 42 years, the last 23 years as its president. He was an excellent value investor who also, from time to time, would dip his toe into the world of venture capital. He was well known on Wall Street and served on many public and private company boards of directors.

During this time, and as part of his relationship with the Clark family, he served

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for many years as a director of the Baseball Hall of Fame and of the Fenimore House, a museum dedicated to James Fenimore Cooper, the great American writer. He and his wife Margaret were significant contributors to Pathfinder Village, where the library is named after them.

Upon “retiring” from The Clark Estates at the age of 65, he immediately launched his second career as a money manager including working with and for Phil Carret, one of the legendary investors in Wall Street history and at Wall Street Access, in partnership with his beloved Linda and Sonia, literally up until his death.

Mike and Margaret moved to Chatham, N.J., to raise their children. They also had a lake home in Green Pond, N.J., and loved both communities very much. Mike was a long time member of Baltusrol Golf Club and was recognized as the oldest volunteer this summer during the PGA Championship at his club.

As a true New Yorker, however, shortly after becoming empty nesters, they moved back to New York City to the Upper East Side where they have lived ever since. Mike loved to walk

the city streets and ride the buses and subways. As the son of immigrants, he never forgot where he came from and treated all human beings he encountered as equals, from public company CEO’s to the doormen in his building to the tourist on the street looking for directions in the big city.

His most remarkable quality was his love of people and his acceptance of all. He changed with the times and had a very open mind about different lifestyles. He was inquisitive and interested in others. He and Margaret were deeply in love and a great example of how marriages are supposed to work – lots of debate and disagreement followed by compromise and a hug.

He will be missed by family and friends alike, on Wall Street and in Chatham and Cooperstown and Green Pond, but he will always be remembered as a loving and devoted husband, son, brother, father and friend and as a true gentleman.

Two of the great loves of his life were the town and greater community of Cooperstown, and his alma mater, Wagner College. Due to the time and financial resources he and Margaret devoted to Wagner, they were each awarded honorary doctorates. Both the president’s house at Wagner and the business school there are named for Mike and Margaret, Nicolais House and The Nicolais School of Business respectively.

He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Margaret Christie Nicolais, daughters Lisa Nicolais Miller and her husband Robert, Joan Ellen Nicolais and her husband Anthony Cicatiello, Susan Nicolais Weaver and her husband Robert, and by his son, Michael Robert Nicolais and his wife Jane. He is also survived by his younger brother, Mario A. Nicolais and his wife Rosemarie and by his sister-in-law, Susan Nicolais.

Mike had 10 grandchildren, Christopher, Hilary, Alastair, Stephen, Olivia, Robert, Matthew, two Michaels and Charles. He also had a multitude of grand nephews and nieces who he considered as his own grandchildren and loved them as such.

His father, Antonio, and his mother Luigina Toglia, were both immigrants from Calitri, Italy, and watched in wonder as their three sons achieved the American Dream. Mike is pre-deceased by his older brother Gaetano.

Calling hours will be 6 - 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, at the William A. Bradley & Son Funeral Home, 345 Main Street in Chatham, NJ. A memorial service will take place at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12 Baltusrol Golf Club, 201 Shunpike Road, Springfield, NJ. For those who would like to make a contribution in Mike’s name, please direct your gift to the Scholarship Fund of the Nicolais School of Business at Wagner College located at The Office of Institutional Advancement, One Campus Road, Staten Island, New York 10301.

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More County Reps Expected To Sign Pro-Pipeline Petition PIPELINE/From A1 tatives who drafted it, Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, and Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, said that, after the board voted at its November meeting on the 2nd to send the letter, they wanted to give any of their colleagues a chance to sign it if they wished.

At last week’s meeting, Powers again linked poverty and societal decline: “I can guarantee you: Always with poverty, you have drug abuse.

Good jobs are one way to offset the ills of poverty.”

Frazier emphasized the need for natural gas if 700job Amphenol is to continue prospering in Sidney. “The conversation (about energy) has always been either/or,” he said. “I don’t think it should be. Natural gas today is cheap, affordable – that should be part of our plan.”

However, one opponent of the motion, Andrew Stammell, D-Town of Oneonta, called the letter “magical thinking.” And Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego, said it is “reactionary rather than strategic. I don’t think this gets us to the end goal.”

The county board voted once before, in 2013, in favor of the Constitution Pipeline – then, for “Alternate M” through the southern end of

initial public meetings, one at Unatego Central School.

The Unatego District – it is next to Sidney and includes Frazier’s Unatego and county board Chair Kathy Clark’s Otego – has many residents employed at Amphenol.

The initial SWOT analysis, conducted by Laberge Consulting, Albany, identified gas as an “opportunity,” said Dick Downey, Otego, of the local pro-gas landowners association. But when Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Laberge’s planners returned She opposes frackfor a follow-up, no mention ing, county Rep. Kay was made of natural gas. “I Stuligross, D-Oneonta, $ erupted,” said Downey. told her colleagues, but On Sept. 30, Laberge VP this is something else: Ben Snyden and Planning Southern Otsego County Services Manager Nicole needs natural gas.

Allen met with county board members to identify the most Otsego County and $3 million important ways to enhance the county’s future. Powa year in property taxes it ers observed that none of the would bring. The Constituideas would happen without tion developers rejected that cheap gas from the Constituoption. tion Pipeline. “Here we are Since, the reps have been 60 miles from there, and we officially silent, even after can’t get the cheapest energy April 16, when the state Department of Environmental around,” he said.

He proposed the letter to Conservation (DEC) denied the governor, and Frazier water-quality permits the said, “I’ll help.” project needed.

The letter was introduced at the county board’s October The catalyst for renewed meeting and circulated for a debate was the county’s strategic-planning process, begun month before the vote on the 2nd. last November with four In addition to Powers, Frazier and Clark, voting “aye” were Meg Kennedy, RHartwick; Keith McCarty, REast Springfield; Dan Wilber, R-Burlington, Len Carson, R-Oneonta, and – the single Democrat – Kay Stuligross of Oneonta.

She opposed fracking, she said, but this is different: “There are no energy sources without problems. We have a shortage of energy (in southern Otsego County). I’m supporting this because people in Otsego County should have access to gas.”

In addition to Stammell and Marietta, voting “nay” were Dave Bliss, R-Middlefield/Cooperstown, and Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta.

Although Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, spoke eloquently about the need for natural gas at his 27-employee company, First Choice Cleaners, he also voted nay.

The 8-5 vote, with Peter Oberacker, R-Maryland, absent, translated into a weighted vote of 3,672 ayes to 2,022 nays.

“Clearly, the Constitution Pipeline and the available supply it would bring to the Oneonta area is by far the number-one option,” said Sandy Mathes, president of Otsego Now, the local single point of contact for economic development. “It’s the most cost-effective. It would provide the best economic stimulus we could hope for.”

With NYSEG providing insufficient gas through its line from Norwich on an “interruptible” basis – in cold snaps, SUNY Oneonta, Fox Hospital and other major customers must switch to more expensive oil – LP (manufactured liquid propane that must be trucked in) is being considered as the only alternative.

“We’re very supportive of renewables,” said Mathes.

“But it can’t be the sole source of energy to drive the economy.”

Bob Neid, a leader of Schoharie-based Stop the Pipeline, dismissed the Otsego board’s letter: “I assume the people they represent are opposed to this pipeline. It appears to be a dead issue to me.”

Still, the DEC decision is facing a court challenge, with oral arguments due to be heard on Nov. 16 before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second District in New York City.

“We’re optimistic the court will announce its decision as early as the spring of 2017,” said Chris Stockton, Constitution spokesman.

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