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Newsstand Price $1 “Daddy Al’s” Christmas tree is headed to Rockefeller Center Thursday, Nov. 12.

Hello, Rockefeller Center!

2nd Oneonta Fir In 4 Years Heads For Big Apple

By LIBBY CUDMORE WEST ONEONTA

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The second barn fire in three days struck this structure on Tuesday, Nov. 10 on Hoke Road,

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upervisor Bob Wood doesn’t want to brag, but there really is something special about the Town of Oneonta.

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SUNY vs. COVID II Oberacker To Go, But Now What?

Filling Vacancy Quickly May Require Consensus

second barn fire in three days broke out in Fly Creek just after

By JIM KEVLIN noon on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

According to Rob O’Brien, Otsego County 911 coordiCOOPERSTOWN nator, the fire was originally reported as a garage fire at eter Oberacker, 399 Hoke Road, but when elected state senator firefighters from Fly Creek on Nov. 3, will be arrived, they found a fully leaving the Otsego County involved barn.

Board No injuries were reported, Dec. 31 at and the fire was out just the latest before 2:30 p.m., with and is no cause yet determined. blocked by Mutual aid was provided the county

by Cooperstown, Hartwick, board’s Hartwick Seminary, Schuyler Rules of Lake and Richfield.

Order from voting on his FULL COVID STORIES ON Oberacker successor.

Absent bipartisanship, that creates a OTSEGO.com deadlock.

There are 6,228 “weighted ►oneonta vet’s club marks votes” distributed among the Veterans Day at Neahwa 14 county reps, and without Park with socially distanced Oberacker’s 534 votes, the ceremony. ►Cooperstown village clerk Republicans don’t have the 3,115-vote majority to fill his Jenna Utter assumes duties seat unilaterally. alongside Deputy Clerk Pat Windsor.

Democrats control 2,807 ►Dog park near-complete in weighted votes, also insuffiMilford’s Wilber Park; opening cient to fill the seat. ceremony Thursday, Nov. 14.

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►Bud garretson, 92 Cherry Valley dairyman, pilot, dies. ►oneonta farmers’ market inside Foothills for winter. ►taylor hollist, 84, dies; helped build Latter-Day Saints church. ►sign arises in front of Milford Church. ►Oneonta girl scout paints Fox Helipad for Silver Award.

“From my understanding, it’s the first time they’ve selected two trees from one community,” said Wood. “The rumor is they wanted it four years ago, but it wasn’t quite big enough.”

With preparations underway to wrap and cut the 75-foot-tall fire on “Daddy Al” Dick’s Route 23 property, Oneonta is now home to Please See TREE, A7

OTSEGO CHAMBER AWARD HONORS:

34 Years Of Service

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By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA MILFORD

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few weeks ago, the young mother of a newborn died – suddenly, before she and the baby’s dad could follow through on their intent to wed.

AlSTATE SEN. ready JIM SEWARD stricken, EUGENE A. the young BETTIOL JR. father disDISTINGUISHED covered CITIZEN he had no legal claim on the little boy.

This is the kind of story state Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, will tell you when asked about the most satisfying part of his 34 years in office: constituent service, helping the people of his 51st District.

Alerted to the dilemma, the senator’s staff sprang into action.

Saturday, Nov. 7, his daughter Lauren had just relayed a message: “Thank your father. I Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal have my son in my arms.”

A safe social distance from the camera, Sen. Jim Please See SEWARD, B3 and Cindy Seward pose on their back porch.

Raging Blaze Levels Antiques-Filled Barn The blaze quickly leveled the Wood Bull Antiques storage barn.

Low-Density Plan Will Let Students Back

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hear “multiple” explosions.

“There were propane tanks and boxes of fireworks stored inside,” he said. “No one was hurt, thank God.” The fire, which destroyed Wood Bull Antiques owner Kip Coburn’s barn on Please See FIRE, A7

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or the last two weeks, SUNY Oneonta Interim President Dennis Craig Craig has been listening – to staff, to community members, to students.

“We have identified that 50 percent of the students desire on-campus courses,” he said in an address sent to the campus community on Monday, Nov. 9.

As such, Craig plans to re-open the campus as a “low-density” model, with approximately 900 of the Please See PLAN, A6

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ith 46 cases of COVID-19 already identified in November, Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health director, has a warning for residents: If you have symptoms, stay home.

“We’re getting lax in Please See COVID, A6

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Kimberly Winsor, right, and Sarah Cummings, Oneonta, attach chain-link fencing to the posts along the new dog run in Milford’s Wilber Park. The $3,500 project, sponsored by the Milford Rotary Club, was accomplished, in part with a grant, and will be the first public dog park in the county, although other communities, including Oneonta, are considering similar facilities. There will be a ribbon-cutting to formally open the park at 4 p.m.

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ulie George, Scranton, Pa, is now the owner of Ann Stewart’s spinning wheel, sold by the Cooperstown Graduate Program to fund the scholarship established in Ann’s name by her mother, Ruth.

According to Cathy Raddatz, Coordinator of Alumni Affairs for the CGP, the spinning wheel was made

by Norm Hall, and is “one of the most sought-after treasures in the fiber world!”

This particular wheel, a single treadle wheel, dates to 1988 yet is crafted in the style of colonial linen wheels, Raddatz noted.

“A gorgeous transparent stain finish lets the true workmanship and the mortise and tenon joints shine through,” she said.

Anna Stratton, a second year student, did the research to find George, who purchased the wheel for $3,200.

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This tradition dates back to 1921 with the creation of The Freeman’s Journal Christmas Fund by Editor & Publisher, Rowan D. Spraker Sr., as a way for neighbors to help others enjoy a happy holiday. This is the 99th year of this community tradition.

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he said. Rule 6 of the board’s Rules of Order calls for a replacement to be made within 30 days of a resignation, Bliss said, adding he’s not sure if that’s a guideline or has the force of law.

Despite having seven county reps to the Republicans’ five (plus one Conservative, Meg Kennedy of Hartwick, Milford and New Lisbon), the Democrats – four from the City of Oneonta’s smaller districts – only control 2,807 votes, well short of a majority.

The first forum on the issue will be the county board’s Administration Committee, which will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 19.

Kennedy, who chairs Admin, said she likes Casale’s proposal. “I hope people would be agreeable.

I hope the county board as a whole could respectfully agree to the local people’s choice.”

In the 2019 county board election, Oberacker was unopposed, and garnered 884 votes, vs. 11 write-ins.

In 2017, when challenged

by Democrat Chad McEvoy, Westford, Oberacker chalked up a 1,007-701 victory.

According to the Rules of Order, the Republican and Democratic county committees may each recommend a replacement to Oberacker, but county board members and, presumably others, can do so as well.

Casale said he will convene a meeting of the 8-9 District 6 committee members shortly. Oliver said the Democratic Committee also will meet on the 19th.

“I don’t think there’s any reason to let the people of that district go without representation,” Casale said.

“Why not do it sooner rather than later?”

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VACANCY/From A1 County Board chair David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, anticipates things may fall into place.

“There will be a couple of candidates brought forth by the committees,” he said. “A couple of people have reached out to me. Pete has someone he’s likely to recommend. I would take his recommendation highly, just as we did when Senator Seward recommended Pete.”

Since Republicans dominate in Oberacker’s District 6 (Schenevus, Worcester, Westford and Decatur), the GOP town committees there should propose his successor, in the view of county Republican Chairman Vince Casale.

“The people of that district overwhelmingly elected a Republican to represent them,” said Casale. “I don’t see any reason why the board wouldn’t work together to replace the representative in the will of the voters.”

The county Democratic chairman, Clark Oliver, who is also county rep from District 11, Oneonta’s East End, said the county board rarely makes decisions on strictly party lines, and he hopes it follows that precedent here.

“What I’m hopeful for is that we will agree to appoint a candidate with some sort of bipartisan support,” he said. “If there seems to be a clear path forward, I assume somebody will break the tie.”

Meanwhile, “In the planning process, it would seem Republicans would want to bring Democrats into the discussion.”

Asked about a Dec. 2 decision, Bliss replied, “That’s possible.”

It would depend when Oberacker decides to resign,

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A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL EDITORIAL

LET’S TURN BACK DANGEROUS ALBANY TIDE

►KEY RACES/Otsego County Results

‘United Upstate Caucus’ Is Future, Sweeping ‘Red Wave’ Underscores I

f you’ve lived a while, how often have you heard predictions about the extinction of one party by the other?

After Richard Nixon’s rout of George McGovern in 1972 and Ronald Reagan’s two terms, the Democrats. After Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection and Barack Obama in 2008, Republicans.

Only one Democrat was elected president

UNITED UPSTATE CAUCUS? Assemblypeople who could form the bi-partisan core are, from left, Otsego County’s Salka, Norwich’s Angelino, Utica’s Buttenschon, Syracuse’s Magnarelli, New Hartford’s Miller and Schoharie’s Tague.

between the end of the Civil War and Woodrow Wilson, 47 years later.

Only one Republican

between FDR’s and Nixon’s election, 36 years later.

Their pro-slavery

LETTERS

Gun Deaths? What About DWIs, 9/11?

To the Editor: Whenever I decide to comment on something, I first gather the facts. That, however, doesn’t seem the practice of many people in the area.

First, the League of Women Voters commented on the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary Movement. Then it was Mary Ann Whelan and others.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and they can speak or write their thoughts. The Freedom of Speech is guaranteed in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. You see, I don’t

stance before the Civil War ruined the Democrats. Insensitivity to suffering following the

Crash of 1929 ruined the Republicans.

Hubris nemesis – today’s pride leadeth to tomorrow’s fall.

• Congratulations to local supporters of the Biden-Harris ticket, some who were seen (and heard) in front of their homes at 11:45 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, hammering on pots and pans to celebrate achievPlease See CAUCUS, A5

PRESIDENT • Joseph R. Biden (D) 9,138; 40.80 percent • Donald J. Trump (R) 12,682; 56.62 percent NY SUPREME COURT/6th District • Elizabeth A. Garry (D) 8,528; 38.70 percent • Brian D. Burns (R) 13,479; 61.17 percent CONGRESS/19th District • Antonio Delgado (D) 10,129; 47.70 percent • Kyle Van De Water (R) 9,461; 44.55 percent STATE SENATOR/51st District • Jim Barber (D) 8,366; 38.73 percent • Peter Oberacker (R) 13,110; 60.69 percent STATE ASSEMBLY/101st District • Chad J. McEvoy (D) 907; 35.58 percent • Brian D. Miller (R) 1,588; 62.30 percent STATE ASSEMBLY/102nd District • Betsy Kraat (D) 531; 28.15 percent • Christopher Tague (R) 1,354; 71.79 percent STATE ASSEMBLY/121st District • Dan Buttermann (D) 5,733; 40.95 percent • John J. Salka (R) 7,879; 56.27 percent STATE ASSEMBLY/122nd District • Richard O. Shaw (D) 837; 29.43 percent • Joe G. Angelino (R) 2,006; 70.53 percent COUNTY JUDGE • Michael F. Getman (R) 16,347; 99.28 percent • Write-in 118; 0.72 percent

First, Control COVID-19 At the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Del., Joe Biden delivers his first remarks Saturday evening, Nov. 7, after his Electoral College tally passed 270 votes earlier in the day.

The Trump campaign is challenging the outcome.

just pick and choose the rights that I like. I value and support all of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

At the October county board meeting, I was asked by the leaders of the 2AS movement to submit their 3,295 petition signatures and read a statement. The members of the group were unable to do it in person because of COVID-19. If they could have been there, over 300 2AS members would have been standing in front of the County Office Building to show support Please See BROCKWAY, A8

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for future generations, the application of science, attention to facts, efforts to slow climate change, attention to air and water quality, advancements in clean energy, rigid adherence to the rights of all citizens, effective measures to combat bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and hate speech, and improvements in global unity.

In addition, we can expect advancement in sciencebased effects to overcome COVID-19 – a benefit for our global society.

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To the Editor: Presidential election results show the popular vote exceeds 145 million (75+ to 70+). The candidate with 75+ pledged to unite America, which will require the cooperation of the 70+.

That’s what unity means.

To bring America together again and to achieve unity guided by law and order will require the support and partnership of both political parties.

With the Presidential change on Jan. 20, 2021, we can anticipate options that favor greater security

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From YouTube

Many Battles Envisioned For Biden Presidency Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Joe Biden’s speech to the nation Saturday, Nov. 7, after his votes in the Electoral College surpassed the 270 majority earlier in the day.

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ow that the campaign is over – what is the people’s will?

What is our mandate?

I believe it is this: Americans have called on us to marshal the forces of decency and the forces of fairness. To marshal the forces of science and the forces of hope in the great battles of our time.

The battle to control the virus.

The battle to build prosperity.

The battle to secure your family’s health care.

The battle to achieve racial justice and root out systemic racism in this country.

The battle to save the climate.

Tara Barnwell

Managing Editor

Larissa Ryan Business Manager

Kathleen Peters Graphics & Production

Elizabeth Cooper Correspondent

Ian Austin Photographer

Ivan Potocnik Web Architect

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The battle to restore decency, defend democracy and give everybody in this country a fair shot.

Our work begins with getting COVID under control. We cannot repair the economy, restore our vitality, or relish life’s most precious moments – hugging a grandchild, birthdays, weddings, graduations,

all the moments that matter most to us – until we get this virus under control.

On Monday, I will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advisers to help take the BidenHarris COVID plan and convert it into an action blueprint that starts on January 20th, 2021. That plan will be built on a bedrock of science. It will be constructed out of compassion, empathy and concern. I will spare no effort – or commitment – to turn this pandemic around.

I ran as a proud Democrat. I will now be an American president. I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me – as those who did.

Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end – here and now.

The refusal of Democrats and Republicans to cooperate with one another is not due to some mysterious force Please See BIDEN, A8

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e cannot repair the economy, restore our vitality, or relish life’s most precious moments – hugging a grandchild, birthdays, weddings, graduations, all the moments that matter most to us – until we get this virus under control.

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n Veterans Day, Americans should pause and reflect on the sacrifices made by our veterans. Whether combat veterans or Cold War veterans, all who served need to be given proper praise for a job well done.

Our veterans have faced hardships that a non-veteran could never fully understand. Some have faced death in defending our nation’s freedom.

Veterans possess the core American values of loyalty, duty, respect, honor, selfless service, personal courage and integrity.

We need to teach our children the true meaning of Veterans Day and the

best way to do so is for adults to set a good example. We must keep the torch of memory alive and never forget the sacrifices of our veterans. The youth of today need to learn about the JIM heroes of yesterday.

SEWARD Veterans deserve to know that we appreciate their service. We must let our veterans know that we truly believe America is better because of their sacrifices. Take the time to thank

a veteran, not just on Veterans Day, but any time you meet a veteran.

I have consistently worked to protect the rights and benefits of our brave service men and women who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms and keep our families safe.

In recent years, I have focused on programs and laws that will help veterans find employment following their service to our country. Several laws to reduce taxes for veterans and improve healthcare have also been enacted.

Recently, it was my great honor to dedicate a portion of a state highway in my senate district in memory of Please See SEWARD, A8

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

200 YEARS AGO

We are indebted to the politeness of Mr. Luca, the Deputy Marshal authorized to take the Census of this County, for the following statement of the population of this Village (Cooperstown): 371 Free White Males; 387 Free White Females; 1 Male Slave; 2 Female Slaves; 6 Free Colored Males; 16 Free Colored Females; Total population 783.

Female Fashion: The Weatherfield Grass Bonnet, which obtained a premium at the Hartford Fair, has been sent to New York, where it was examined by a great number of merchants and others who are well acquainted with and engaged in the sale of Leghorn Bonnets, who pronounced it equal if not superior to the finest imported Leghorns. It is said that the sale of Leghorn Bonnets in the City of New York alone amounts to not less than half a million of dollars.

November 13, 1820

75 YEARS AGO

State Health Department Advice on the Common Cold: The general impression that a common “cold in the head” is an unavoidable though harmless condition that can be safely ignored by the sufferer so far as care and treatment are concerned is somewhat upset by a recent statement issued by the New York State Department of Health: “In the opinion of public health officials, common colds are as infectious as influenza and are not infrequently the starting point for pneumonia. They can be guarded against by avoiding excessive fatigue and by protecting the body from direct drafts, dampness, sudden chilling and other conditions that lower bodily resistance especially in the throat and nose.

November 10, 1920

175 YEARS AGO

Coroner’s Inquest – Mr. Abner Graves, Jr., one of the Coroners of this county, on the sixth of November, held an inquest in Milford on the body of Alvina Wager, aged about 45 years, who was found dead in her bedroom with a black silk handkerchief tied round her neck, and hitched to a hook in a joist about four inches from the partition wall, with her back against the wall, one foot resting on the foot of the bed, and the other hanging over it. She had been deranged nine or ten years. Verdict: Insanity.

Opium Eating in England – We have rarely met with more painful details than are furnished in a late report of The Health of Towns Commission in England. It appears that the use of opiates is becoming formidably frequent among the manufacturing population, not only by adults, but more dreadful still, that opium is commonly given to children.

November 15, 1845

150 YEARS AGO

The Union School – A spare hour of Monday was devoted to a visit to the Union School. Professor Wight and his five capable Assistants have about all they can attend to in looking after their 290 scholars, even with the most systematic management that can be introduced. Indeed, in two of the four departments there are more scholars than seats, and another room and teacher are needed. The mistake made in yielding to the opposition urged against the building of the new schoolhouse at a time when the project was being discussed and voted on, so far as to allow a reduction in its size from the original plan, is now acknowledged.

The school house is too small for the purpose to which it is devoted, unless a convenient room to accommodate about

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irst the good news. possible to ensure that he is Joe Biden has anonly a one-term president nounced his plan for and therefore don’t expect dealing with the COVID-19 any cooperation from him in crisis. It will include a coor- fighting the pandemic.

Two, Biden doesn’t take dinated national plan of attack and he will over for almost be ready on Day 1, 70 days and the Jan. 20, 2021 to imTrump Adminisplement it. He has tration shows no already announced signs of making his pandemic transiany changes that tion team. could affect the Now the bad acceleration of the news. disease.

One, Mitch McToday (Sunday, Connell has said the RICHARD Nov. 8) there were same thing about over 120,000 new STERNBERG Biden that he said cases nationally about President with over 1,000 Obama in 2008, that he will new deaths. The estimate oppose him in every way is that if nothing is done to

100 YEARS AGO

November 14, 1945 60 small scholars can be finished in the basement.

Water Company – A large portion of the village is unsupplied with drinking water, and families and neighborhoods are put to no little inconvenience in consequence.

One of our village physicians states that cases of sickness are traceable to use of river water upon which the Water Co. have been compelled to draw to supply a part of the village during the prolonged drought. This evil should be remedied at the earliest possible period.

November 3, 1870

125 YEARS AGO

Police Notes: Thursday night of last week Office Post arrested “Hank” Breese and Wm. McGhay, who for some time past had been sleeping off their sprees in the apparatus room of the Fireman’s Building. Justice Leonard gave McGhay 30 days in jail and Breese 15 days. Charles Best of Schoharie was also arrested on a charge of public intoxication and given 30 days in jail.

A Filthy Habit – The Public Spitting Nuisance. It is sickening to an observer to see how general is this reprehensible practice – how thoughtless even well-dressed men become of the rights of other people to decency and comfort in this respect. It is bad enough to spit upon the sidewalks, but that is less bad than using the floors of buildings and public conveyances as spittoons. If people must spit in the streets, let them use the roadways and gutters, not the sidewalks.

(Ed. Note: This concern was linked to a rising popularity of chewing tobacco products, mainly among men).

November 14, 1895

LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

A New Hope change the trajectory of the disease in the U.S. then by the end of January, we could easily double the number of deaths seen so far.

In his acceptance speech Saturday night, Nov. 7., President-elect Biden said that he would name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advisers to convert his plan into an action-plan blueprint that would start on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day. His task force is to be led

by former Surgeon General Dr. Vitek Murthy (who was fired by President Trump with two years left on his term) and former FDA administrator Dr. David Kessler.

Biden swore to empower scientists at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to help set national guidelines, to invest in vaccine research, and to function as one nation, meaning having a national rather than 50 individual state plans.

EDITORIAL: Upstate Has More Voters Than NYC CAUCUS/From A4 ing 270 electoral votes.

The nation has spoken – for now, and narrowly.

It isn’t astonishing that President Trump’s divisiveness led to his loss; and that the Blue Wave turned out to be a ripple, and challenger Joe Biden achieved such a narrow victory.

What is astonishing is the wide support for Republican candidates in centrist, moderate Otsego County.

Every local winner was Republican, from Assemblyman John Salka and Peter Oberacker, elected to state Senate, to every candidate on the ballot, except Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19. Energetic and conciliatory, even he only narrowly beat Republican Kyle Van De Water, who, from what we can tell, only visited Otsego County twice during the campaign.

• The single issue that stood out amid all the verbiage was worries about the state’s bail reform. It, in effect, was the dismantling of the justice system as we know it by the Democratic majority in Albany – state senators, assemblypeople and Governor Cuomo.

Here’s a sampling of local fallout.

• Just hours after the state legislative majority folded bail reform into the 2019 state budget vote – thus avoiding the usual public hearings and, sometimes, compromise – a local man was arrested in the morning for stealing a truck. Freed without bail, he stole another truck that evening.

• A downtown merchant called OPD about a customer shoplifting.

The police apprehended the man, then freed him as required. He was back shoplifting that afternoon.

• Following the rash of car break-ins

in Oneonta this fall, it surfaced that one of the suspects, apprehended in September, had been arrested four times since Aug. 31 for similar petty thievery.

• Then, Oct. 19, when the first two trials since COVID-19 struck in March were scheduled to start in Otsego County Court, neither defendant showed up, District Attorney John Muehl reported in dismay – but not surprise. Charged with crack-cocaine violations, they were wandering, bail-free, amid our children, our families and our community at large.

That just scratches the surface.

• Among all of this fall’s candidates, only the scrappy Salka, the Republican freshman who represents Otsego County’s three largest communities – Oneonta, Cooperstown and Richfield Springs – took the initiative in saying it loud and clear: Bail reform is lousy law.

The blatant injustices that needed correcting were mostly at New York City’s Rikers Island prison, not statewide.

He introduced a bill to repeal the reform. And candidate Oberacker, now elected successor to state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, joined him, declaring that on Day One – Jan. 1, 2021 – he will introduce companion legislation to Salka’s bill in the upper house.

Salka’s winning tally rose from 6,582 in 2018 to 7,879 on Nov. 3, an 8-percent increase, garnering him 56 percent of the Otsego County vote, compared to 41 percent for his incounty opponent. Oberacker’s margin was 61 percent to his opponent’s 39 percent.

Indeed: A Red Wave.

Bail reform is not the only bad law

to come out of Albany. The Farm Bill, with its extension of overtime provisions to agriculture, will shutter innumerable farms if imposed, both Oberacker and his Democratic opponent, Jim Barber, agreed. The natural-gas prohibition. Issuing drivers’ licenses to undocumented residents. And there’s much more coming.

• This election, the split was RepublicanDemocrat. Truly, though, the divide isn’t partisan; it’s geographical.

New York City, with 3.2 million Democrats, is lost to the GOP for now; there are only 459,008 registered Republicans there.. It’s a long way back.

Upstate it’s a different story, with its 2.9 million Democrats and 2.3 million Republicans. That’s 5.2 million votes a United Upstate caucus could tap to end the city’s predations north of Yonkers, and even send a Unity candidate to the Governor’s Mansion.

With one million people leaving our Empire State in the past decade – more than from any other state – this is essential to our future.

Salka gets it. He enlisted Assemblywoman Marianne Buttenschon, the Utica Democrat, in his bail-reform repeal drive. He intends to reach out to Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, DSyracuse, as well.

The county’s other Republican assemblymen – incumbents Chris Tague and Brian Miller; newcomer Joe Angelino, the former Norwich police chief, all elected – should team up with Salka in reaching across the aisle to other prospects for the United Upstate caucus, as should freshman Oberacker in the Upper House.

This could be the start of something big.

50 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from a Letter to the Editor: “In last week’s paper, Cooperstown was quoted as “one of nine happy towns in the United States” as picked by a national magazine. In recent controversy is the proposed NorthSouth Expressway, which, if some local groups have their way, will pass somewhere fairly close to Cooperstown.

Those who favor this route feel it will bring added tourists, development and economy to Cooperstown. Is this new expressway – four lanes of concrete and steel – going to add to the benefits we have here already? I doubt it.”

Regina McShane November 11, 1970

25 YEARS AGO

Bassett Researchers are investigating what could prove to be a treatment for patients with Type 1 (Juvenile) diabetes.

Led by Dr. Eugene Holowachuk, Bassett researchers recently received a $100,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International to conduct a two-year study of what could possibly lead to a treatment for Type 1 diabetes.

November 12, 1995

10 YEARS AGO

As drilling for natural gas in Otsego County gains momentum, a coalition of anti-hydrofracking environmentalists has sent a plea to the County Board of Representatives to temporarily block gas drilling. “Gas drilling with hydraulic fracturing is starting and the county is not prepared to protect its citizens,” states a letter from the group.

November 11, 2010 Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D. and adviser to Biden, said, “You’re going to have rigorous evaluation and constant refinement” of policies and strategies. There will be strict guidelines for slowing community spread.

The new administration said they would work with each governor to make mask wearing in public mandatory in their states. Current research says mask wearing alone could have saved over 100,000 Americans so far.

They plan to seriously ramp up testing. They plan to hire thousands of public health workers. They will help people to get health insurance.

They would strengthen the Affordable Care Act and immediately reopen the Market Place, something Trump has refused to do. They would create a caregiving workforce and develop resources to help health care workers with their own needs.

Most important: They would choose science over fiction.

So, Joe Biden has a very commonsensical plan for dealing with the crisis but he can’t do anything about it until Jan. 20. And then he will need the cooperation of McConnell and the governors to carry it out.

The fact that if an aggressive program is carried out then the economy can more thoroughly reopen quicker does not seem to register with a lot of politicians.

And, if it does, it takes a back seat to winning future elections.

Divided government works great for the stock market and investors, at least that’s what I’ve been told and I have read. But a government that doesn’t function without a unified intent and purpose has a grave disadvantage in going to war, whether against another nation or a submicroscopic virus.

Richard Sternberg, retired Bassett Hospital orthopedic surgeon, is providing his professional perspective weekly during the COVID-19 threat.

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Big 2020 Loser: Identity Politics

t wasn’t clear by Wednesday afternoon who had won the White House, but one bad idea was soundly defeated on Tuesday: identity politics.

The concept that the country should be divided into aggrieved categories based on race, national origin or sex – now a core tenet of the Democratic Party – lost from coast to coast.

It lost in Miami-Dade County, Fla., where CubanAmericans delivered votes for President Trump. We don’t know the final margin, but some polls going into the election had the president leading among CubanAmerican voters by a margin as wide as 38 points.

Identity politics also lost in Osceola County, near Orlando, where Mr. Trump appears to have done better than expected among Puerto

Rican voters.

Identity politics lost in South Texas: Zapata County, 95 percent Mexican-American, went for Hillary Clinton by 33 points in 2016 – but Mr. Trump won with 52.5 percent this time. Throughout the Rio Grande Valley, President Trump did better in 2020 than in 2016.

Identity politics even took it on the chin in California: Voters defeated an attempt to revoke Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that bans the use of race, national origin or sex by state universities and other agencies. The left has spent almost a quartercentury trying to reverse that decision, but its latest attempt lost handily.

MIKE GONZALEZ Wall Street Journal Thursday, Nov. 6

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To be a “dual-modality,” campus, 20 percent of courses need to be delivered both online and in-person, up from 7 percent.

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And although students will have to wear masks on campus, he said the staff is working to offer “a robust mix” of events, lectures and activities to provide students with social opportunities on campus, rather than restrict students to their rooms when not in class.

Still, there will be a “zero tolerance” policy in place for infractions, such as the off-campus party that caused the outbreak in September, he said.

“The students I have spoken to take that to heart,”

said Mayor Gary Herzig.

“This is an issue that requires every one of us to look out for each other.”

Craig also hosted students in his “office hours,” where he fielded questions from RA’s requesting single rooms Malatras during the pandemic – a demand during the threatened strike this fall – as well as increased access to mental health services.

“Not having a spring break will be a real obstacle for us,” one student told him. “We need that week to take the stress out of our lives.”

Malatras said campuses

can build in a “reading day” as a way to help students decompress while remaining on campus.

But the return of students is a welcome one, said Herzig. “Students are a big part of our community, both economically and culturally,” he said.

“Reopening the college will improve the economic crisis that businesses and taxpayers are experiencing.”

He has also reinstituted bus service to the campus for the students who remained on campus for the fall semester.

“Our transportation director has been meeting with the student association,” he said. “We want to provide students with the transportation they need without facilitating late-night parties.”

COVID/From A1 thinking that COVID is a possibility,” she said. “You get people thinking it’s the same runny nose they get every fall, and three days later, you lose your sense of taste and test positive for COVID. But you’ve been spreading it that whole time.”

The 17 cases last week were traced to three residential and nursing homes – including a cluster of 10 cases at a residential home in Oneonta.

“The employees had mild symptoms that, in other times, they wouldn’t bat an eye at,” she said. “But then they went into work and infected the staff and residents.”

Some of those infected were high-risk, but currently, Bond noted, there have been no hospitalizations.

The tough part, she said, is finding testing, with waits up to a week for results from testing at Bassett drive-thru clinics.

“It’s a challenge,” said Bond. “And it’s not just us, it’s the whole state. Health departments and health care workers are stretched, and they just don’t have the capacity to increase testing.

I don’t know what the answer is.”

CVS in Cooperstown offers limited rapid-testing, as well as standard COVID testing, promising results

in 2-3 days. Patients are asked to fill out an online checklist of symptoms to see if they qualify to make an appointment, with priority given to those who live or work in “high-risk” areas, including healthcare, prisons or residential homes, or who have been recommended for testing by a doctor.

WellNow, on Oneonta’s Southside, also offers COVID testing, including the rapid testing and antibody tests, by appointment only.

“We need to remember not to go to work if you have symptoms,” she said.

“Especially if you work in a sensitive setting. Go get tested.”

In the last four weeks, Oct. 11 to Nov. 10, there have been 172 cases and one death following a hospitalization, with another hospitalized patient recovered and

released.

At Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta, cases seem to be going back down, with only 11 reported total between the two colleges since last week. In all, the Hartwick College outbreak, traced to Red’s Ale House over the weekend of Oct. 16-17, infected 35 students over three weeks.

When students return home for Thanksgiving break, they will not return for the remainder of the semester, and finish with remote learning.

But Bond believes that even with students gone, the risks are still there.

“Everyone is seeing an increase,” she said. “People are inside more. No one’s to blame, but we have to figure out that this virus is different for everybody.”

“It’s not going away,” she said.

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“We’re very honored to have been selected twice,” said Wood.

In 2016, Angie and Graig Eichler’s 96-foot-tall spruce on Country Club Road was selected after Rockefeller Center’s head gardener noticed it from Franklin Mountain en route to look at trees in Delaware County.

The Eichlers’ tree was Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA Fire departments from Hartwick Seminary to Richfield Springs were called at 9:01 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, Rockefeller Center’s second to a fire on Christian Hill. By 10:30 p.m., there was only debris. biggest ever.

“We just have better weather than anyplace else,” said Wood. “That’s why we grow the best trees.”

State police have issued when he moved to the area when I got there, the whole The fire also torched a FIRE/From A1 an alert of traffic delays from New York City 40 side was on fire.” second, smaller building, Christian Hill, Town of years ago.

The barn itself was which Coburn said he used and lane closures through Otsego, on Friday, Nov. 6, “We would go back and packed full of antiques, as a tool shop, and a chicken Thursday, Nov. 12, on Route was called in by a neighbor 23 here as the tree is cut forth to the flea market in adding fuel to the blaze. coop, but all five chickens at 9:01 p.m., with trucks down and prepared for the “There was some natural escaped unharmed. The arriving on scene 10 minutes SoHo, then go to yard sales journey to the Big Apple. up here,” Coburn said. wood furniture in there house on the property was later. The fire was “fully According to police, the He and his wife Judith and a lot of spare chairs,” not harmed. involved,” according to area in the 3800 block of lived there for a time before said Coburn. “I’m a bit of The fire is still under Vuolo.

Route 23, north of Route 8 giving the house to his a packrat when it comes to investigation, but is not “It quickly spread to two collecting.” currently considered suspi- “may be experiencing higher trailers in the barn,” he said. daughter, who since the than normal volume this COVID-19 outbreak moved Also inside were two cious. “We think a light “We got it under control in back from Rhode Island. camping trailers and several might have gotten knocked week.” an hour, but we were there Thursday, 7 - 9 a.m., the antique cars, all of which over in the chicken coop,” until 1 a.m. We couldn’t get She has since moved, and northbound lane will be was not at the house when were destroyed in the blaze. said Vuolo. to the second floor.” closed, and both lanes will Mutual aid was the fire broke out.

“It was fast-moving and The barn was Wood Bull be closed after 11 a.m. as the hot,” said Vuolo. “There “I don’t know how the provided at the scene by Antiques’ original storage tree is loaded for the journey. fire started,” he said. “But were a lot of artifacts.”

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The star itself is new, designed in 2018 by renowned architect Daniel Liebeskind.

According to WGRZ, Buffalo, the tree will be lit during a televised ceremony on Friday, Dec. 4, which will feature musical performances and guests, hosted by Al Roker of “The Today Show” COVID guidelines for viewing the tree lighting live have not yet been released.

Last year’s tree, a 77-foottall Norway Spruce, came from Florida, in Orange County. The majority of the trees have come from New York, but some have come from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Connecticut.` The tree will remain up through the first week of the new year. Trees are donated to Rockefeller Center, and when they are taken down, they are donated to Habitat For Humanity to become lumber.

And Wood said that there could be more possibilities for future famous Christmas trees.

“I’ll be looking for more big trees as I drive around this winter,” he said.

THURSDAY, November 12, 2020

A-8 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA LETTERS

Don’t Impinge Upon Gun-Using Traditions

To the Editor: To express my support of the Second Amendment, I joined the 2AS group here in Otsego County when it was first organized. For far too long, the New York State government has passed more and more insane gun controls without seeming to care at all that they may be unconstitutional infringements to my right to keep and bear arms.

I also am sick of the insulting name-calling pro-gun control people use to label us.

There is nothing unreasonable to champion the Second Amendment as written and nor is it unreasonable to call into question certain gun control laws.

I have grown up in a household that enjoyed hunting and target shooting.

The same with many of my friends and neighbors.

We are not “gun nuts” and I

don’t know of anyone who is.

In fact, I can’t see any of my friends or family even wanting to be around people who don’t respect their firearms. But that doesn’t mean it’s OK for the government to place one obscure restriction after another.

I want to see a future where my kids can enjoy hunting and target shooting as I did growing up. It has been a tradition that I fear might be stripped away.

There is talk every week on passing more infringing gun control laws throughout New York. We cannot stand for this anymore. I’m tired of it and it’s time for freedom to fight back.

Having the freedom of self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

CHRISTIAN BRASHER Richfield Springs

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BROCKWAY/From A4 for the movement. It should be noted: At that time I did not present the resolution.

I find it amusing and ironic that everyone has decided without reading it what it actually says. They say, “it’s unconstitutional,” “disrespectful,” “undermining law enforcement,” and “against our oath of office.” Unlike Nancy Pelosi, who said you have to vote on it to know what’s in it, you have to read their resolution to know what’s in it.

They have no idea.

The resolution was later submitted to members of the Public Safety Committee and forwarded to Ellen Coccoma, the county’s attorney. She will check over its legality before it goes back to committee and eventually to the full board for a vote.

These same people who oppose the 2AS movement were elated that the Village of Cooperstown was made a sanctuary haven for illegal immigrants. That movement also forbids law enforcement to come in and enforce the law.

Gosh – oppose law-abiding citizens of the county, but welcome and protect those who have broken federal law.

Mary Ann, you stated that 25 children a week die from gun-related deaths.

I suppose that includes the war zones of South Chicago, Baltimore and New York City. That’s 1,300 questionable gun-related deaths a year. In 2019, 70,980 people died of opioids. We don’t blame you because you were a doctor and may have prescribed some of these drugs during your career.

You say that gun crime is down during the NRA convention. That makes me laugh. According to John Hopkins University, better than 220,000 and upwards to 440,000 deaths occur annually due to doctors’ malpractice. It seems the odds are far batter being a member of the NRA than

going to the hospital.

In 2019, 30 people a day were killed by drunk drivers, yet we don’t blame the Ford or the Chevy. We were told not to judge all Muslims because of the few terrorists who attacked America and killed over 2,996 people and injured another 6,000 people in the Twin Towers, United Flight 93 and the Pentagon.

What’s the difference?

Whelan quoted the second and third words of the Second Amendment – “well regulated.” She forgot the fourth – “militia.” She also forgot to mention the last statement – “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

That’s all they want.

RICK BROCKWAY West Laurens (Brockway is county representative from District 3)

SEWARD: Veterans’ Day, Remember Son Of County

SEWARD/From A4 Marine Corps Sergeant John Kempe Winslow. Sergeant Winslow was a life-long resident of Hartwick and a decorated Marine Sergeant who served two tours of duty in Vietnam.

Sergeant Winslow was wounded during his first tour in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart for his heroic service. For many, that may have marked the end of their days in uniform, but not John. After several months recovering in a New York hospital, he was ready to continue his service to country. Sergeant Winslow returned to Vietnam for a second tour and was killed in action in July of 1969.

Now it is my honor to pay tribute to another local man who gave his life in service to our country.

Every year, the state senate enshrines New York’s prominent veterans in the state Senate Veterans’ Hall of Fame.

The hall of fame honors outstanding

veterans from the Empire State who have distinguished themselves both in military and civilian life.

This year’s honoree from the 51st Senate District is Cpl. Michael Corporal L. Mayne of Burlington Flats. Michael proudly Mayne served in the Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, a unit of the 25th Infantry Division based at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

Corporal Mayne tragically lost his life, along with two other American soldiers and a translator on Feb. 23, 2009, in Balad, Iraq when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire.

Prior to his service to his country, Michael had already left an indelible

mark on his hometown that will last for generations to come.

On Memorial Day 2003, he unveiled a very special Eagle Scout project in memorial park in his hometown – flagpoles for each branch of the military.

To this day, flags representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines and the United States continue to wave.

A memorial to Michael has since been installed underneath the flags he so proudly conceived and built.

You can read more about Corporal Mayne and the rest of the hall of fame inductees on-line, at https://www. nysenate.gov/honoring-our-veterans.

While generations apart, both Sergeant Winslow and Corporal Mayne displayed great courage and valor in service to our nation. They are both true American heroes.

Senator Seward has represented Otsego County in Albany for 34 years.

BIDEN: Unity, Like Disunity, Is A Choice We Can Make BIDEN/From A4 beyond our control. It’s a decision.

It’s a choice we make.

And if we can decide not to cooperate, then we can decide to cooperate. And I believe that this is part of the mandate from the American people. They want us to cooperate.

That’s the choice I’ll make. And I call on the Congress – Democrats and Republicans alike – to make that choice with me.

The American story is about the slow, yet steady widening of opportunity. Make no mistake: Too many dreams have been deferred for too long. We must make the promise of the country real for everybody – no matter their race, their ethnicity, their faith, their identity, or their disability.

America has always been shaped by inflection points – by moments in time where we’ve made hard decisions

about who we are and what we want to be. Lincoln in 1860 – coming to save the Union. FDR in 1932 – promising a beleaguered country a New Deal. JFK in 1960 – pledging a New Frontier. And 12 years ago when Barack Obama made history and told us: “Yes, we can.”

We stand again at an inflection point. We have the opportunity to defeat despair and to build a nation of prosperity and purpose. We can do it.

I know we can. I’ve long talked about the battle for the soul of America. We must restore the soul of America.

Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail.

Tonight, the whole world is watching America. I believe at our best America is a beacon for the globe. And we lead not by the example of our power, but by

the power of our example.

I’ve always believed we can define America in one word: possibilities.

That in America everyone should be given the opportunity to go as far as their dreams and God-given ability will take them.

You see, I believe in the possibility of this country. We’re always looking ahead. Ahead to an America that’s freer and more just. Ahead to an America that creates jobs with dignity and respect.

Ahead to an America that cures diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Ahead to an America that never leaves anyone behind. Ahead to an America that never gives up, never gives in.

This is a great nation. And we are a good people. This is the United States of America. And there has never been anything we haven’t been able to do when we’ve done it together.

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From COVID, New Opportunity BEST BETS in Otsego County

made the future look particularly bright for Custom Electronics and its President/CEO Michael ONEONTA Pentaris.

Then coronavirus arrived, and verything was going great. most TV and movie production A year ago, in collaboration came to a standstill. But Pentaris’ with BriteShot, a TV and Custom Electronics didn’t, instead movie-industry pivoting to the new challenge. lighting Today, the collaboration with CUSTOM company in BriteShot is about to launch ELECTRONICS New York AirAffair, a product that uses City, Custom lithium-ion batteries to power NBT BANK DISTINan apparatus that can scrub any GUISHED BUSINESS Electronics was packaging enclosed space – from a movie set OF THE YEAR its stand-alone to a restaurant to an office – clean lithium-ion of the COVID-19 virus. battery packs to illuminate “Blue This year’s Otsego County Jim Kevlin/ OTSEGO.business Chamber of Commerce awards, Bloods,” “Law & Order” and other Custom Electronics President/CEO Mike Pentaris hit TV shows. due to be delivered via Zoom inspects a power pack for an aeration system aimed The product, called The Luminator, at making workplaces and restaurants safer.

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By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA Pathfinder Produce team members Brandy M., Andrew H. and Eric M. prepared to pack a Mobile Market truck.

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or Pathfinder Village CEO Paul Landers, the “secret sauce” in Pathfinder Produce boxes isn’t the recipes, or even the fresh produce.

PATHFINDER It’s the notes the workers tuck inside.

PRODUCE & “Each delivery MOBILE MARKET comes with a ‘feelEXCELLUS BLUE good card’ that our individuals make,” CROSS BLUE SHIELD BREAKTHROUGH BUSI- said Hannah Baulch, ADS coordinator.

NESS OF THE YEAR “And it makes them feel good to write them.”

“I always get voicemails from people telling us those notes make their day,” said Landers.

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“We ANNUAL SMALL could BUSINESS OF be like a THE YEAR Hallmark movie,” she said. “I had such a blast doing the scarecrows with the college students. Why couldn’t we have people downtown decorating light poles or making snow sculptures?”

A Main Street staple for more than a decade, Theresa’s Emporium has been named the Key Bank, NA 21st Annual Small Business of the Year by the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce.

Cyzeski, who worked as a teacher’s aide at Cooperstown Central School for 19 years, started her shop at West End Archery, at 435 Chestnut St., then owned by her husband, David. “He was out of the Please See THERESA’S, B4

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In her previous location, Theresa Cyzeski considered opening a separate toy store. On Bresee’s ground floor, she had room for it.

Be A “Friend of the Award” sponsor ($150) • Get your logo on all publicity/Website/Facebook Call Kathryn Dailey (607) 432-4500; email kathryn@otsegocc.com, or send payment to Otsego County Chamber, Box 18, Oneonta NY 13820

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tiny kitchen playset, quilts, a boat tour around Goodyear Lake or a silver serving set are all up for auction to help raise money for The Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Noon, Sunday, Nov. 15, ends 5 p.m. Nov. 21. Sneak a peek LIBBY and make your bid CUDMORE at www.32auctions. com/GOHSBenefit Auction • Whether you’re craving a hearty sandwich, Italian or something else, your favorite restaurants will offer special two- and three-course meals for “Restaurant Week,” presented by the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce. Starts Saturday, Nov. 14, www.otsegocc.com • SUNY Oneonta professor Dr. George Hovis presents a discussion of Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad” as part of the Friends of the Village Library’s weekly series. 3 - 4 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 15, Cooperstown Village Library. (607) 547-8344.

• Just because it’s almost winter doesn’t mean you can’t start thinking about your spring garden!

Betsy Busche of Spongetta’s Garden, West Winfield, leads a webinar on growing a cutting flower garden. 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, www.facebook. com/CCEOtsegoMG/ • Enjoy poetry and a reading from author Alice Lichtenstein in a presentation by Bright Hill Press.

7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, www. facebook.com/brighthp/.

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projected from curved PENTARIS/From B1 surfaces. An initial Thursday, Nov. 12, are dedicustomer is the Museum cated to “The Entrepreneurial of Mormon History Spirit,” and Custom Electronics in Utah, which finds is receiving NBT Bank’s the display helpful Distinguished Business of the Year in leading visitors Award. through timelines, to the Pentaris, a Horatio Alger figure, University of Nebraska, exemplifies that spirit. Raised where a display helps in poverty in Lacarna, Cyprus, capture the movement of he received a scholarship to the a football pass.

American Academy there, and Custom Electronics later won a scholarship to Brescia continues to serve its College in Owensboro, Ky. original purpose when There he met his future wife, Peter S. Dokuchitz, engiTherese, and followed her back neer and former assemto her native Binghamton, where blyman from Oneonta, he earned a SUNY Binghamton founded the company in MBA, and joined Graham Labs 1964: Making machine in Hobart. (The Pentarises raised parts that can no longer five children in Oneonta.) be bought off the shelf.

After participating in But the plant on Graham’s stabilization and sale to Browne Street also Mallinckrodt, he stayed through manufactures high-tech its absorption by Tyco, then joined products on behalf of Custom Electronics, and by 2009 was president of the company and Jim Kevlin/ OTSEGO.business Brite Spot, GridEdge BriteShot’s Roy McDonald shows the and similar companies. of a start-up, Ioxus.

AirAffairs video to Pentaris.

Ideas are one thing, but The company’s shift in prime “manufacturing is expenfocus from The Luminator isn’t the solar or wind systems into the sive,” said Pentaris. only product Custom Electronics regular grid. Based in Westford, Custom Electronics’ assembly had added to its portfolio in a Mass., its production is being done lines help bridge the gap between time of challenge. They are at the West Oneonta plant. the idea and the sale, and splits the partnering with: • BeTerrific Tech, whose profits with its partner companies.

• GridEdge, whose product For instance, last year Custom monitors the inflow of power from product allows images to be

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Electronics was creating solartreated to ultra-violet lights that power lithium-battery packages kills viruses that made it through that, for the first time, would bring the filter. electricity to remote villages in Finally, the air moving out back Mexico. into the room is treated so that it Once coronavirus arrived, will interact and kill any particles contacts in the Mexican governstill in the room. ment stopped calling back. So Futuristic. Entrepreneurial.

Custom Electronics in now in “You have to adjust,” said similar conversations with the Pentaris. “Markets are dynamic. government of Australia.

Things change. I can change.”

By the way, all 85 employees have stayed on the job throughout the uncertainty of the last eight months. No layoffs.

Friday, Nov. 6, Pentaris was hosting two BriteShot co-founders, Roy McDonald, vice president/product development, and Irene Conrad, rentals and sales manager.

During the interview, AirAffair’s McDonald and Conrad returned from the company’s Winney Hill site, where they were producing a demonstration video of the new product.

First, he explained, air entering the AirAffairs apparatus runs through a Here’s an image of the AirAffairs MERV-rated filter, fine apparatus from a video filmed enough to remove viruses last week at Custom Electronics’ and smaller bacteria. Then, in Winney Hill site. the machine’s chamber, it is

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As Senate Career Ends, Seward Looks Back, Forward SEWARD/From A1 Seward was being interviewed – in the open air on his back porch in Milford, appropriately masked and socially distanced – on learning he’s receiving this year’s Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award.

The award, from the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, was due to be presented, via Zoom, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, from the back lawn of The Otesaga.

He remembers the younger Bettiol’s effectiveness in promoting the former National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, and Foothills Performing Arts Center. “He loved Oneonta and our area,” Seward said.

And he remembers Bettiol’s father, Gene Bettiol Sr., the developer of Southside Oneonta, as “a father figure. That makes it extra special.”

Retiring at year’s end, the Bettiol Award – plus the Community Leadership Award, due Friday, Dec. 4, from the Boys Scout’s Leatherstocking Council, and no doubt more honors to come – has the senator, 69, who successfully fought both cancer and COVID-19 in the past year, thinking about the past – and the future.

Raised in the Cliff section of Goodyear Lake with a brother and two sisters, both their parents, Wes and Vivian, were involved in community life – he as a town assessor, she as tax collector.

Attending Valley View Elementary on Oneonta, “I was interested in what was going on in the world,” an interest encouraged by teachers John Clapp in fifth grade and Alice Edwards in sixth. And, at OHS, by

In 1986, Jim Seward, left photo, is sworn in for his first of what would be 17 terms in the state Senate. With him are wife Cindy and their children, Ryan and Lauren. In right photo, County Judge Brian Burns swears in the senator on Jan. 1, 2019, for his final term. New family members include the Sewards’ granddaughters Nora and Vivian, and Ryan’s wife Kelly.

future principal Bud Pirone.

As a teenager, the young Jim Seward began identifying role models: Clifford Seward (no relation), who as Milford town supervisor also served on the county board; and with Milford then-mayor June Hotaling.

He entered Hartwick College in 1969. With unrest about the Vietnam War all around him, “I gravitated toward the idea: You ought to have a seat at the table to get things done.”

The opportunity soon arose: In 1970, the Otsego County Republican Committee backed him for state Assembly against a sitting Republican, Harold Luther of Dolgeville. In the GOP primary, Seward lost, 45-55 percent.

Many successful political careers begin with a loss.

“I got that out of the way,” he said. But he learned public-contact skills, and the importance of knowing people, of building a network of supporters.

He graduated in 1973 and married Cindy Milavec – the two had met as teen-

agers, while Jim, organizing Methodist youth groups, set up one in Schenevus – and two children, Ryan and Lauren, would follow.

Soon, he was working for Assemblyman Peter Dokuchitz of Oneonta, then state Sen. Charles Cook of Delhi and, by his mid-30s, for Senator Steve Riford of Auburn.

These were exciting years for the young couple.

In 1976, Seward was a convention delegate for President Gerald Ford, and the Sewards found themselves at a reception in the East Wing of the White House, sipping champagne.

(Ask Cindy Seward about the phone call in Milford from a mellifluous-voiced man who turned out to be candidate Ronald Reagan.)

As a legislative aide, the future senator also learned the lesson of constituent service. People don’t call up their senator or assemblyman lightly, he said, “people call legislative offices as a last resort.”

Then, unexpectedly in 1986, Riford announced his retirement. “You don’t

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plot or plan too much in the business,” Seward said.

“You never know when opportunity will arise.”

After a hard-fought three-way primary, Seward dispatched the Democrat that November, entering the ornate state Capitol in Albany 34 years ago, as of this coming Jan. 1, 2021.

Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson, the Binghamton Republican, tested the newcomer, soon naming him chairman of the Energy & Telecommunications Committee.

“It’s something you can sink your teeth into,” said the leader.

“I could get my teeth knocked out as well,” the young legislator said to himself.

In thanks, Seward also came up with the idea of calling I-88 the “Sen. Warren M. Anderson Expressway.” The leader had championed the Binghamton-to-Albany four-lane, which wags nicknamed “Anderson’s Driveway,” (even though, Seward said, Anderson

usually flew back and forth to the state capital.)

A subsequent majority leader, Joe Bruno, picked Seward to join thenAssemblyman (now Congressman) Paul Tonko in co-chairing the first-ever conference committee on a stymied Power for Jobs bill.

The bill passed, making low-cost energy available for Upstate job growth.

In the early years, most of the complaints Seward received came from senior citizens struggling to pay skyrocketing school taxes.

In response, he crafted STAR – the school tax relief program – giving the elderly a break on school taxes. “I remember getting a letter from a senior citizen,” he said, “saying, ‘The only reason I can afford to stay in my home is the STAR program’.”

Now, complainants are mostly asking for broad band.

In the last decade, Seward’s been particularly focused on bringing state funds here for economic development. When he convened his first “Seward

Summit” on March 11, 2011, the county had received just $140,000 in such funding that year.

Since, “we’ve been bringing in millions.”

While he’s pleased with the county’s economic diversity – the colleges, the hospitals, tourism – he’s worried about the million New Yorkers who have outmigrated from the Empire State in the past decade.

“We need to come to terms with that,” he said.

Looking back, the senator finds some satisfaction in having been able to serve the county where he was born, raised, was educated and launched his career, assembling a lifetime worth of friends along the way.

“There are multiple counties in my district,” he said of the 51st. “But there’s something special about my home county.”

Retiring, he plans to complete his recuperation. But, he said, “there’s a role for me in moving our county and our region forward,” and he’s already looking at options.

Stay tuned.

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In Former Bresee’s, Theresa’s Emporium Found Home, Opportunity THERESA’S/From B1 house in the evenings and the kids” – daughters Bridgette and Kelly – “were out of the house. I didn’t just want to stay home all alone.”

There was an empty room at the range, and a friend suggested she set up shop inside. “I’ve always loved retail,” she said. “I had been a cashier at Fay’s and Grand Union. I love chatting with customers and making them happy and comfortable.”

She began selling gifts and home goods, but quickly outgrew the space.

For a while she had a space at the Southside Mall, then in Price Chopper Plaza, and at two separate storefronts

on Main Street before becoming the ground floor retail anchor of Klugo’s Parkview Place in the former Bresee’s Department Store.

“I grew up when Main Street was vibrant,” she said. “Those are some of my fondest memories, and I want to offer that to the next generation.”

The larger store allowed her to expand her offerings to include apparel and more toys. “We had looked into opening a separate toy store,” she said. “But when we moved here, we had room for it.”

It’s been especially popular this year, she said, as parents are homeschooling their children in

the COVID-19 pandemic.

“They’re really looking into educational toys,” she said.

And in 2010, her friend Kathy Greenblatt joined her, having just retired as a teacher’s aide at the former St. Mary’s School.

“I buy what I like,” she said. “I really love the fair-trade gourds from Peru, and the glass bulbs from Washington. They’re made with ash from Mount St. Helen’s, and they’re virtually unbreakable.”

“It’s not the usual kind of shopping, where you come in and you know what you want,” said Cyzeski. “It’s an adventure. You don’t know Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.business what you are going to find.” Theresa and Kathy Greenblatt, who works with her at Theresa’s Emporium, In addition to running show off the store’s offerings.

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the store, Cyzeski and Greenblatt are active in the downtown community, including hosting a mini petting-zoo during the annual Christmas tree lighting, hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for the people who live in the apartments above her store, and putting together sidewalk sales as part of

the “Survive, Then Thrive” events downtown.

“Those Saturdays this summer felt more like the old days than anything I’ve felt in years,” said Cyzeski.

“We need to keep doing things like that.”

With COVID-19 still a concern for many shoppers, she had to stop offering fresh-baked goods at the

counter in the store’s rightfront window.

But new this year will be online shopping, as well as private shopping parties, featuring games, snacks and discounts for the host and guests.

“Main Street is a community thing,” she said. “It gives people pride in where they live.”

Pathfinder Produce and the Mobile Market a micro-business of Pathfinder Village, Inc Breakthrough Business Award

Custom Electronics Distinguished Business of the Year

Senator James Seward Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr. Distinguished Citizen

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IN hONOR Of OUR AWARD WINNERS, WE KICK Of RESTAURANT WEEK AS A CELEBRATION!

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Key Bank Small Business of the Year

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Pathfinder Produce, Mobile Market Serves Many PATHFINDER/From B1 residents, one of the greatest qualities they have to share is joy.”

Pathfinder Produce and The Mobile Market, a micro-business of Pathfinder Village, Inc., has received the Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Breakthrough Business of the Year from the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce.

“It’s a business with a mission,” said Landers.

“Our primary goal is always to find employment opportunity for our folks, but this isn’t just a job. They’re serving their community, and they feel that every time they do this work.”

The produce delivery service started three years ago, when Pathfinder Village realized there was a need in the area – a “food desert” – for fresh produce.

“We hijacked the concept

that healthy food delivery services like Blue Apron or Hello Fresh pioneered,” said Landers. “But we brought a feel-good quality to it.”

Every week, five employees – all Pathfinder Village residents – sort and pack 120 bags of produce for one, two or three people in a household – and deliver them, Tuesday through Friday, to low-income families, free of charge.

“We wanted to reach families who just don’t cook, but instead buy frozen food or go through the drive-thru,” said Landers.

Baulch said as many as 300 people a week eat the fresh produce delivered to their door.

“It’s about improving rural health outcomes,” she said. “To have something like this that’s accessible, where we can go out and get people these fruits and

vegetables, we can help them improve their health.”

And for the Pathfinder residents packing the food, it helps them too. “They improve their social skills, fine motor skills, and they learn about their own health,” she said.

“They’re impacting people in their community.”

Though much of the produce is ordered from Sodexo, the food-service company, Pathfinder Village does run several greenhouses, growing and harvesting lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and more.

“It takes a lot of time to harvest, and moreso now with COVID,” said Baulch.

“But it’s great for the residents.”

Landers knew that food without education would go to waste, and every week “Chef Eric,” as he’s known around the Village, researches and creates new

recipes to pack with the produce so that families can try different ways of preparing their food.

“He found a role for himself, a pride and purpose,” said Landers.

Others, like Andrew, make short work of packing bags for deliver. “He’ll pack at least 50 bags,” said Baulch. “He loves going into the cooler, following the list and packing it all carefully so the soft items are on the top.”

“They are always ready to come into work,” said Landers. “You never have to drag them!”

Pathfinder Produce/ADS staff members Cheryl Winton and Hanah Baulch provide one of the market’s signature produce-packed “Feel Good” boxes to a local family during a recent community distribution event.

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Senator James Seward Custom Electronics Pathfinder Produce/Mobile Market Theresa’s Emporium

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SENATOR JAMES SEWARD

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Legal nOtice AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY COURT, OTSEGO COUNTY AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INDEX NO. 2018-949 In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens by Proceeding in Rem pursuant to Article Eleven of the Real Property Tax Law by Otsego County

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 8th day of September, 2020, the Otsego County Treasurer, hereinafter the Enforcing Officer of Otsego County, hereinafter the “Tax District “, pursuant to law filed with the Otsego County Clerk an AMENDED PETITION AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE (“Amended Petition”) against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. Such Amended Petition pertains to the following parcels: Cert# Street Tax map# Owner name City of Oneonta 24 50 Elm St 288.18-4-33 Avery Anne -Louise 26 3-5 Walling Ave 288.18-6-23 KMA Management Group, Inc 32 19 Fonda Ave 299.12-3-47 DeAndrea James P 41 4 Telford St 299.8-2-40 Davis Robert James; Davis Gail L 42 242 Chestnut St 299.8-2-49 Christiance James A; Christiance Debra L 72 14 Reynolds St 300.8-1-34 Ogborn Lorraine R 73 40 River St 300.9-1-30 Sobers Richard C Town of Burlington 88 212 Deminco Rd 111.00-1-4.00 Russell David 102 111 Munson Rd 64.00-1-7.00 Fitch Clifford; Fitch Patricia 103 Norton Rd 78.00-1-14.03 Wright Richard W 104 223 Arnold Rd 78.00-1-43.01 Wright Richard W 110 223 Arnold Rd 93.00-1-35.01 Wright Richard W; Wright Karen 111 Arnold Rd 93.00-1-36.00 Wright Richard W Village of Gilbertsville 120 58 Sylvan St 282.10-1-43.00 Cropper Patrick L Town of Butternuts 125 156 St Hwy 23 234.00-2-17.00 Beardsley Edward M, II; Lester Andrea M 127 106 St Hwy 23 234.00-2-4.00 Fitch Robert 134 208 Nelson Rd 251.00-1-48.00 The Estate of Edward M Steiger 150 679 Oregon Rd 281.00-1-18.00 Lowe John A Village of Cherry Valley 179

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83 Montgomery St 58.10-1-19.00 Crandall Mark W; Crandall Kathleen D 180 Montgomery St 58.10-1-20.00 Crandall Mark W; Crandall Kathleen D Town of Cherry Valley 189 3282 Co Hwy 31 18.03-1-8.00 Fitch Robert 199 1572 Co Hwy 54 45.00-1-16.00 Cabarrus Jean; Knoblauch Edward A Jr; Knoblauch Mary Katherine 205 Co Hwy 34A 59.00-1-17.03 The Estate of John K Martin; MilowMartin Vera Town of Decatur 226 438 Reservoir Rd 153.00-1-20.02 Kenlein Kenneth 228 612 Babcock Hill Rd 167.00-2-9.04 Banhart Kristin A 229 Babcock Hill Rd 167.00-2-9.05 Banhart Kristin A Town of Edmeston 17-320 4318 Co Hwy 18 122.04-1-18.00 Chriss A Antonakas; Hall Crystal 264 4239 Co Hwy 18 122.04-1-47.00 Johnson Jeremy J 271 12 Burdick Ave 124.06-1-36.01 The Estate of Biff E Pylinski 282 2259 Co Hwy 20 62.00-1-15.05 Jaggers Helen R 283 2125 Co Hwy 20 62.00-1-24.00 Jaggers Helen R 284 Co Hwy 19 63.00-2-2.04 Talbot Albert C; Talbot Barbara; The Estate of Sandra Presley; Capparelli Judith; Maine Jack; Maine David 285 470 Ballaster Rd 63.00-2-3.00 Talbot Albert C; Talbot Barbara; The Estate of Sandra Presley; Capparelli Judith; Maine Jack; Maine David Town of Exeter 307 Co Hwy 22 49.00-1-12.06 The Estate of Earl Duncan Sr; Duncan Zachary 309 218 Co Hwy 22 49.00-1-4.12 The Estate of Earl Duncan Sr; Duncan Zachary Town of Hartwick 377 242 Lippitt Rd 161.00-1-10.01 The Estate of Ross James B 379 Maples Rd 161.00-1-3.00 Johnston Charles K; Johnston Michael D; Johnston Frank M; Johnston Brian C; Johnston Steven R 383 4659 St Hwy 28 162.00-1-33.01 Blue Spruce Mountain, LLC 387 2401 Co Hwy 11 176.00-1-35.00 Schiff Dino 397 4473 St Hwy 28 178.00-1-51.01 Chandler Christopher; Chandler Connie M 402 Co Hwy 45 194.00-1-16.01 Kolka Robert S 403 St Hwy 28 194.00-1-19.04 Kolka Robert S 404 St Hwy 28 194.00-1-4.10 Kukenberger Cynthia M; Kolka Robert S Village of Laurens 405 13 Brook St 240.15-2-11.00 The Estate of Pauline Carr

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406 8 Brook St 240.15-2-16.00 Cimko Amanda Jean P 407 5 Craft St 240.15-2-4.00 The Estate of William E Yoder 409 54 Main St 240.15-2-63.00 The Estate of William E Brooks Jr

Resources Ltd 786 Backus Rd 158.00-1-11.00 Butternut Valley Environmental Resources Ltd 787 705 Lena Rd 158.00-1-12.02 Condon David J 794 Bardin Rd 173.00-1-49.00 Greaves Jesse R 795 Parker Rd 173.00-1-51.02 Greaves Jesse R 801 114 Welcome Rd N 174.00-1-6.00 The Estate of Geraldine R Yoder 810 3389 St Hwy 51 189.00-1-59.01 Annex Exteriors Inc 820 418 Wheat Rd 190.00-1-9.04 Bradley Jennifer Lee 823 397 Co Hwy 15 191.00-1-14.01 Mehta Malti

Town of Laurens 416 183 Co Hwy 11B 208.01-1-18.00 O’Neill Brian T 417 107 Old Co Rt 11B 208.01-1-29.00 O’Neill Brian T 419 413 Russell Hill Rd 222.00-2-12.02 Menchini Leonard A 421 222 Larchwood Ln 222.00-2-12.09 Elisenberg Geir 437 2774 St Hwy 23 238.00-2-63.01 Sims Donna 440 362 New Rd 240.00-1-49.03 Buttice Jayne A; Buttice Nicholas J 446 Balantic Hill Rd 240.00-2-23.04 Joslin Dwight L Jr 454 Hathaway Rd 255.00-2-39.00 The Estate of Carl Ehlert 455 Hathaway Rd 255.00-2-40.00 The Estate of Henry F Ehlert Town of Maryland 483 800 Smokey Ave 198.00-2-12.02 Three G Developers LLC 491 404 Co Hwy 34 213.00-1-29.00 Smith Christina; Ritton Brian 492 176 Norton Rd 213.00-1-5.05 Carotenuto Brando Francesco 519 53 Race St 230.19-2-41.00 Murphy Patricia A 530 107 Dog Hill Rd 245.09-1-5.00 The Estate of Byam Esther Town of Middlefield 572 178 Fish Rd 100.00-1-6.03 The Estate of Ida M Yager Town of Milford 656 3985 St Hwy 28 194.00-2-11.213 Kolka Robert S 685 S Hwy 28 243.00-1-10.02 Sci Carmine M; Sci Gloria T 699 323 Co Hwy 35 260.00-1-11.00 Kropp Dennis; Kropp Amy 707 Maple Dr 260.13-1-38.00 Wells David J; Kleinfelder Ronald J 726 6467 St Hwy 7 277.00-1-67.00 Schrom Justin R; Peeters Jolene L Village of Morris 736 22 Hargrave St 221.18-1-16.00 Etzl George J; Etzl Sarah S Town of Morris 742 St Hwy 51 204.00-2-13.04 Reynolds Randall C 753 2009 St Hwy 23 221.00-1-57.00 Schacht Robert 755 St Hwy 23 221.00-1-73.00 The Estate of Mary Louise Boynton 761 205 Butternut Ridge Rd 222.00-3-13.00 Dickinson Philip L Town of New Lisbon 780 497 Backus Rd 142.00-2-26.01 Butternut Valley Environmental

Town of Oneonta 846 East St 275.00-1-28.00 Kropp Dennis; Kropp Amy 850 Sunset Dr 287.15-1-28.02 Blake Matthew 860 St Hwy 7 289.00-1-6.01 Rotolo Anthony 865 101 Browne St 299.00-1-4.01 Otsar Corp 869 422 Chestnut St 299.07-1-36.00 The Estate of Carl A Canis; Canis Eleanor J 876 81 Oneida St 299.10-1-43.01 Pushkar Stephen Village of Otego 904 301 Main St 317.19-1-23.00 Adkins Virginia 905 307 Main St 317.19-1-24.01 Spataro Barbara Angelika Town of Otego 914 Sarrah Ct 272.00-1-37.05 Glorioso Darin V; Tice Brad 932 1866 Co Hwy 8 285.00-1-17.00 Schwed Karl R; Schwed Emma L 935 347 Upper Green St 285.00-1-34.04 Perry Samuel H Jr; Perry Jody A 940 104 Sutlif Rd 286.00-1-35.62 Wilcox Delbert C; Wilcox Kimberly R 954 Burdick Hill Rd 307.00-1-7.02 Samuels Ray V; Samuels Emma E Amaro 965 Beilby Rd 318.00-1-20.08 Penafiel Realty Corporation 973 2630 St Hwy 7 324.00-1-47.02 Hill Anthony A; The Estate of Laurel J Hill Village of Cooperstown, Town of Otsego 986 92 Main St 115.18-3-39.00 Andrews Phillip 994 99 Main St 131.06-2-48.00 American Baseball Experience Inc 995 103 Main St 131.06-2-7.00 103 Main Street Cooperstown Corp Town of Otsego 1012 170 Cemetery Rd 114.09-1-8.00 Chandler Estates LLC; Connie Chandler M 1013 322 Co Hwy 26 130.00-2-24.00 Carrella George R 1033 Tripp Hill Rd 83.00-1-12.43 Clark Nancy L 1039 Co Hwy 28

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84.00-1-15.12 Reiss Howard K; Reiss Doris S 1046 Bed Bug Hill Rd 97.00-1-52.00 Byard John S Town of Pittsfield 1065 394 Ramey Rd 156.00-1-18.01 Curtis John M; Curtis Sharlene P 1070 121 Burski Rd 156.00-1-38.02 Etzl George; Etzl Sarah 1074 657 Co Hwy 17 156.00-1-52.13 Fallon Ethan D; Fallon Tammy 1077 395 Bentley Rd 156.00-1-57.00 Hyman Vanessa 1078 370 Ramey Rd 156.00-1-9.00 Curtis John M; Curtis Sharlene P 1080 3344 Co Hwy 18 170.00-1-31.00 Blake Matthew 1096 119 Jennison Rd 172.00-1-30.02 The Estate of Carl Terwilliger; Terwilliger Brenda 1097 Co Hwy 49 172.00-1-30.03 Etzl George J; Uhle Sarah 1098 1309 Co Hwy 49 172.00-1-31.00 Etzl George J; Uhle Sarah 1114 147 Young Rd 187.00-1-41.01 Tooley Kathy J 1122 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-1.224 Papasidero Jeffrey D 1123 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-1.226 Papasidero Jeffrey D 1124 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-1.25 Etzl George J 1125 Co Hwy 18 202.00-1-9.02 Thornton Shawn; Thornton Karin Town of Plainfield 1141 137 Co Hwy 19 33.00-1-12.00 Jaggers Helen 1147 Talbot Rd 34.00-1-12.23 Lan’Did Corporation 1152 Hughes Rd 48.00-1-3.07 Masel Patricia A; Erickson Frederick L; Nazginov Roma; Harter Brigette; White Eric 1153 210 Hughes Rd 48.00-1-3.08 Masel Patricia A; Erickson Frederick L; Harter Brigette; White Eric 1156 562 Crumb Hill Rd 9.00-1-1.02 Holmes Philip Village of Richfield Springs 1161 18 Prospect St 13.20-2-48.00 Osterhoudt Charles M 1162 5 Union St 13.20-2-51.00 Abrams Barry E 1165 28 River St 13.20-3-58.00 28 River Street Richfield Springs NY Land Trust 1166 28 River St 13.20-3-59.00 28 River Street Richfield Springs NY Land Trust 1169 5 Sylvan St 14.17-1-28.00 Gibson Cosby 1181 Canadarago St 25.05-3-44.00 Villavicencio Silvio 1182 10 Canadarago St 25.05-3-53.00 Garner Robert E; Garner Jesse L; Garner Elizabeth Jane Town of Richfield 1187 190 Mower Rd 12.00-1-19.02 Fuller William J; Fuller Shawn M 1192

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2941 US Hwy 20 13.00-1-16.02 Vickerson James V Jr 1200 8443 St Hwy 28 24.00-1-11.02 The Estate of Charles E Roberts; The Estate of Betty M Roberts 1216 8162 St Hwy 28 38.25-1-7.01 The Estate of Thomas Davenport; Barstein Mindy 1219 2489 US Hwy 20 4.00-1-19.00 Goodspeed Kimberly A Town of Roseboom 1233 Middlefield Rd 118.00-2-12.11 Turkish Deport Corp 1234 872 Middlefield Rd 118.00-2-9.00 Edwards Earl 1239 200 Adair Rd 120.00-1-14.00 Giammarino Lucio 1248 Morton Rd 88.00-1-36.00 Rodriguez Angel Manuel Town of Springfield 1258 7667 St Hwy 80 41.06-1-27.00 Macaluso Joseph; Corso-Macaluso Glynis 1259 St Hwy 80 41.06-1-57.00 Macaluso Joseph; Corso-Macaluso Glynis 1263 217 Continental Rd 42.00-1-2.04 Stocking Billy; Stocking Cheryl 1267 1004 Co Hwy 29 6.00-1-24.23 Ruppert James F Village of Unadilla 1270 34 Ontio Ter 334.14-1-37.00 US Bank NA as Trustee of American Homeowner Preservation Trust Series 2015A+ 1271 22 Prospect St 334.14-1-75.00 Macek Nicholas 1273 19 Prospect St 334.14-1-79.00 The Estate of Walter L Campbell The Estate of Lucille C Campbell 1276 Maple Ave 334.15-1-38.00 Rudolph Richard 1279 95 Martin Brook St 334.15-1-70.01 Luna Carlos V; Luna Esperanza 1287 5 Walnut St 334.19-2-35.00 Makeplace Amanda Town of Unadilla 1325 685 Lockwood Hill Rd 320.00-1-31.00 The Estate of Willie PE Bowman 1346 116 Pitcher Ln 324.03-1-4.02 Clow Shawn A; Clow Patrice M 1359 Co Hwy 3 329.00-1-22.00 The Estate of Richard Ingrassia 1361 420 Co Hwy 3 329.00-1-37.22 Martini Ryan J 1362 560 Co Hwy 3 329.00-1-45.00 Fallon Susan L; The Estate of Lena M Harvey 1370 130 Ledgewood Acres Dr 330.00-1-4.07 Schusteritsch Edward A 1376 St Hwy 7 330.03-1-86.00 Unadilla ShamRock Village LLC 1390 342 Co Hwy 1 332.00-1-83.21 Kipps Hill Road Corp.

1398 1676 St Hwy 7 334.00-1-47.00 Unadilla Shamrock Village, LLC 1407 459 St Hwy 7 336.02-1-45.00

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Hunt WIlliam A Jr 1409 420 St Hwy 7 336.02-1-64.02 Olson Edward D 1411 St Hwy 7 337.00-1-37.01 Fallon Cherie N; Fallon James 1414 St Hwy 7 337.00-1-62.00 Fallon Cherie N; Fallon James Town of Westford 1419 176 Stong Hill Rd 150.00-1-33.02 Duncan Derek Lee; Fagergren Kayla 1425 674 Co Hwy 36 166.00-1-46.00 Regg Frances A 1430 Middlefield Rd 166.01-1-20.00 Parsons William H 1434 1764 Co Hwy 34 166.01-1-33.00 Langan James W 1435 1109 Co Hwy 36 166.01-1-35.00 Quinn Heidi 1436 Co Hwy 34 166.01-1-4.00 Ives Darin M; Ives Charity S 1437 1799 Co Hwy 34 166.01-1-9.00 Ives Darin M; Ives Charity S 1445 750 Up Country Rd 182.00-1-18.02 Fraser Matthew J. 1448 Hickory Hill Rd 196.00-2-2.13 The Estate of Daniel Hoag 1450 376 Badeau Hill Rd 197.00-1-23.02 Bolton Larry M; Bolton Evelyn C Town of Worcester 1452 226 Alvord Rd 169.00-2-33.00 Hayden Vincent 1453 232 Co Hwy 36 183.00-3-4.00 Makely John H 1468 86 Main St 185.13-1-33.00 Suydam Brian T 1470 3 Maple St E 185.13-1-46.00 Keever Kenneth W; Keever Tammy 1482 10 Fairlawn Ave 199.18-1-22.00 McLean Jestina 1483 179 Main St 199.18-1-40.00 Biczo Ann Marie; The Estate of Kalman Biczo 1485 192 Main St 199.18-3-21.01 Bruce George A; Bruce Virginia A 1486 252 Main St 199.18-3-39.00 Hartt Anthony M; Hartt Janet A 1498 410 Roe Rd 201.00-1-29.00 The Estate of Fredereick R Pflug 1501 215 Tuscan Rd 214.00-2-8.00 Milavec Jeffrey R 1519 302 Boughton Rd 233.00-1-37.21 DeRuscio Joseph J Jr; Ciancetta David; Sobieski David; The Estate of Leon Sobieski Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such Amended Petition are hereby notified that the filing of such Amended Petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Nature of proceeding: This proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such Amended Petition.

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ment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail POB 440, Otego, NY 13825.

Purp.: any lawful.

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Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such Amended Petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such Amended Petition has been filed in the Office of the Otsego County Treasurer and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified as the last day for redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption.

Such payment shall be made to Allen Ruffles, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 18th day of December, 2020.

Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such Amended Petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the Attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure.

Such answer must be filed in the Office of the County Clerk and served upon the Attorney for the Tax District on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption.

Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such Amended Petition and a judgement in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Enforcing Officer: Allen Ruffles Otsego County Treasurer Attorney for Tax District: Phillips Lytle LLP Richard M. Beers, Jr., Esq. 28 East Main St, Ste 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 (585) 238-2000 3LegalNov.12 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of J. Talbot Property Maintenance LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/24/20.

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Legal nOtice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR 2021 OTSEGO COUNTY TENTATIVE BUDGET NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of Representatives of the County of Otsego will meet at the Otsego County Courthouse, second floor Courtroom, located in the Village of Cooperstown, New York, on Thursday, November 19th at 6 p.m. for the purpose of holding a public hearing on the Tentative Budget of the County of Otsego for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2021. Pursuant to the Governor’s Executive Order, the maximum capacity for the hearing in the courtroom will be 50 individuals.

The location is accessible to persons with mobility impairment.

The public hearing will be streamed via Facebook Live on the official Otsego County Facebook page:https://www. facebook.com/ Otsego-County-NY102347451408765/ In response to the COVID-19 emergency, you will be screened upon building entry, masks will be required to be worn at all times and social distancing will be observed.

Written comments can be mailed to the Otsego County Clerk of the Board, atn. Carol McGovern, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown NY 13326 or comments can be emailed to comments@otsegocounty.com and will be accepted until 7 p.m. on November 19th.

FURTHER NOTICE is hereby given that copies of the 2021 Otsego County Tentative Budget and the County’s Exemption Report will be available after November 15th at the offices of the Clerk of the Board of Representatives and the County Treasurer located in the County Office Building in the Village of Cooperstown, New York, where they may be inspected or procured by any interested persons during regular business hours by appointment only.

The tentative budget may also be viewed on the County website.

Pursuant to Section 359 of the County Law the maximum salary that may be fixed and payable during the fiscal year to members of the Board of Representatives and to the Board Chair thereof respectively are hereby specified as follows: Members of the Board of Representatives $13,415 Chair of the Board of Representatives $23,891 Dated: November 12, 2020

Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalNov.12 Continued Pg. B7

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OBITUARIES Dirck Dey Harrison, 93; Volunteered On Ski Patrol QUEENSBURY – Dirck Dey Harrison, 93, a retired business executive who was raised in Cooperstown and, an avid skier all his life, volunteered on the Mount Otsego Ski Patrol, passed away on Monday,

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Nov. 2, 2020, in Granville, Washington County. He lived in Queensbury.

He was born March 10, 1927, in New York City, the son of the late Dr. Francis F. and Carlotta (Creevey) Harrison; his family moved to Cooperstown the following year. He graduated from Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass., in 1944 and attended Yale through his sophomore year, when he joined the Navy, serving 1945-46 before returning and graduating from Yale in 1948. In 1964, he did a year at Harvard Business

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From Pg. BX Legal nOtice NOTICE OF VILLAGE ELECTION VILLAGE OF COOPERSTOWN Please take notice that the next Village Election of officers for the Village of Cooperstown will be held on Tuesday, March 16, 2021.

The following offices will become vacant at the end of the current official year (March 31, 2021) and are to be filled at the Village Election on March 16, 2021, for the terms noted next to each office: Village Trustee (2 positions) – each position a 3 year term

Absentee ballot applications are available in the Village Clerk’s Office, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, New York during regular business hours 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, beginning November 16, 2020.

Teri L. Barown, RMC Village Clerk/ Administrator Village of Cooperstown 22 Main Street, PO Box 346 Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 547-2411 (phone) (607) 547-5487 (fax) vcooperstown@stny. rr.com (email) Dated: October 29, 2020 1LegalNov.12 Legal nOtice NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, December 03, 2020 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

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www.bidx.com. A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 5% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and Related Statutes, as amended, issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all who respond to a written Department solicitation, request for proposal or invitation for bid that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability/handicap and income status in consideration for an award.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot.ny.gov/ doing-business/opportunities/const-notices. The 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.

Amendments may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification. Contact Robert Kitchen (518)4572124.

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where subcontracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to D/W/MBEs. The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federallyassisted programs

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New York (SSNY) is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC 501 Main Street Otego, NY 13825 6LegalDec.10 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF D’amico & Jahnke, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/15/2020.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 9 South Main Street Oneonta NY 13820.

Purpose: any lawful 6LegalDec.10 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Mandr Brothers LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/28/2020.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 41 Stewart Ave Apt B Roscoe NY 12776.

Purpose: any lawful 6LegalDec.10 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name CASCADILLA CREEK 1, LLC, Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/16/20.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Cascadilla Creek 1, LLC 6 Country Club Rd, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date.

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EDCB ENTERPRISES, LLC,

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Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/16/20.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: EDCB Enterprises, LLC 6 Country Club Rd, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/21/2020.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated for services of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr #100 Sacramento, CA 95833.

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Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC)

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Name: SPRINGFIELD CONVENIENCE CORNER LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 October 2020. 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 4964 US Hwy 20, Springfield Center, NY 13468.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Oaks Creek Property Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on 9/25/2020.

Office: Otsego County.

United States Corporation Agents, Inc., has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and mailed to: 7014 13th Ave. suite #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: any lawful purpose 6LegalDec.3 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A NY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The Olde Guard, LLC Articles of Organization filing date with the Department of State (SSNY) September 14, 2020.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 3522 County Highway 11, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws 6LegalDec.3 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Winding Trails

Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 8 October 2020.

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 196 Lefferts Ave, Floor 2, Brooklyn, NY 11225.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalNov.26 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of CAIRNGORM BOTHIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/26/2020.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to PO Box 11, Gilbertsville, NY 13776.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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his way up to vice president of production before the company was sold to Chase Bag Co. in 1967. He remained with Chase until retiring in 1989 as assistant manager.

Dirck spent his winter weekends on the ski slopes enjoying one of his true passions. He started skiing at the age of 7 and continued until the age of 80. During these years, he volunteered on Mount Otsego Ski Patrol and Hickory Hill Ski Patrol.

He also served on Hickory Hill Board of Directors from 1959 to 1970 and held the position of president for the year of 1965.

In addition to his parents, Dirck was predeceased by his wife, Joyce.

Dirck is survived by his sisters, Barbara Mulhern of Cooperstown and Anne Harrison of Honeoye Falls; his children, Gwyn (Tom) Chappell of Greensboro, North Carolina, Bradford Harrison of Glens Falls, Andrew (Cathy) Harrison of Northfield, Massachusetts and Matthew (Mary) Harrison of Queensbury; his six grandchildren, , his two great-grandchildren, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Singleton Sullivan Potter Funeral Home.

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Notice of Formation of Saddlebag Lake, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/13/2020.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 343 Main Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalNov.26 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of COOPERSTOWN HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/07/20.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalNov.19 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Bethany Lake House LTPS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/10/2020.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, at 50 North Clark Avenue, Somerville, NJ 08876.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Formation of Cooperstown Creamery LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/12/20.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, PO Box 1224, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalNov.12 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 23 OTSEGO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/29/20.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 34-18 Northern Boulevard, Suite 319, Long Island City, NY 11101.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalNov.12 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company CLEARVIEW OF HARTWICK PROPERTIES LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 29 September 2020.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 253, Hartwick, NY 13348.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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