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Resident Fine With Pipeline As Neighbor By LIBBY CUDMORE LAURENS
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Election Turmoil Strikes CCS
Facebook Post Brings Counter-Posts, Rally In School Parking Lot
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few hours after President-elect Donald Trump delivered his acceptance speak, “Dale Henry Karen” posted on “Celebrate Cooperstown” Facebook page that she had seen “a boy in the parking lot, in the back of a pick-up truck, waving a baseball bat and an American flag.” “This kid … is displaying what he was taught and told is OK.
A dozen CCS students wave the Stars & Stripes in an afterschool rally Thursday, Nov. 10, after a parent driving her children to school equated a similar demonstration the day before with terrorism.
It’s not,” she continued. “It’s a threat to the safety and well-being of other students. Of other citizens. Emotional terror is real.” A heated online debate immediately began. “Isn’t this Cooperstown? Home of Baseball?” posted Cira Schmidt. “So if there was a baseball bat & a flag being waved my first thought would most likely not be bullying Please See RALLY, A6
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Each year, the New York Council on Problem Gambling holds an art contest for the youth of the State of New York. This year the young people were asked to help correct the myths about gambling through their art. Otsego County youth took the top three prizes! Here are the 3 winning posters.
The three winners, left to right: Krysteena Race, Massimo Avanzato, Cassondra Garufi
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A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016
EDITORIAL
For Now, Natural Gas Needed Here; Judges May Provide It
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ounty Rep. Craig Gelbsman, ROneonta, issued a stirring call for natural gas Nov. 2 as the county Board of Representatives debated whether to send a letter asking Governor Cuomo to get behind the Constitution Pipeline. Noting that key Oneonta institutions are on “interruptible” power – during cold snaps, Fox Hospital, SUNY Oneonta and like entities have to switch to more expensive fuel oil – and that Amphenol built its new 700-job in Sidney plant on the promise of natural gas, Gelbsman declared, “We need natural gas. We definitely need that pipeline.” He knows it personally: His family’s First Choice Cleaners, which employs 27 people, is on the interruptible list. “I’ve looked at solar,” he told his colleagues. “It’s not viable for us right now.” And yet, when the roll was called, Gelbsman voted against the letter to the
governor. Politics! The measure nonetheless passed, 8-5, (3,672 ayes to 2,022 nays under the weighted voting system). The draft, crafted by county Rep. Jim Powers and Ed Frazier, was signed and sent to the state’s top executive. • Coming off the national upset election, we shouldn’t be shocked, shocked to discover politics is alive in deciding the fate of the $683 million, 124-mile pipeline project. Politics is the basis of our system of government. And Gelbsman’s vote was a canny one: His Center City Oneonta district, close by the local colleges, is thick with anti-pipeline foes, and he narrowly won two hotly contested elections for his county board seat. Andrew Cuomo got the same message Gelbsman did when Zephyr Teachout, partly on an anti-fracking campaign, won 39 Upstate counties in the November
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He voted contrarily, but county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, spoke compellingly on the need for natural gas at the county board’s Nov. 2 meeting.
2014 Democratic gubernatorial primary. The next month – December 2014 – Cuomo’s health chief announced the fracking ban. Politics! But not always. While Gelbsman voted “nay” on the Powers-Frazier letter, county Rep. Kay Stuligross, representing a similar Oneonta constituency, bit the bullet and voted “aye.” She opposes fracking, she
said, but added: “We have a shortage of energy ... People of Otsego County need access to gas.” The Constitution, if built, would skirt along the county’s southern border, and both the communities of Otego and Unadilla have petitioned the PSC to plug into the “open access” pipeline. The City of Oneonta hasn’t, but Mayor Gary Herzig
recognizes the need: “While I am in favor of renewables, in the interim gas is needed to support our economic-development plans.” “I am in favor of the pipeline,” he said. • In the larger context, the Constitution Pipeline – or fast-tracking the NYSEG line expansion, or breaking its monopoly and giving it to Mirabito’s Leatherstocking Gas Corp., or dusting off a plan to supply the county from the Tennessee line along Route 20 – is a local necessity, as least for the time being. Otherwise, we can anticipate the slow, sucking sound of our young people moving south of the state border will only get louder. It may be, however, that the legal process will overtake the political one. At 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, lawyers for the state and for the Constitution were scheduled to appear before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit in New York City to present arguments for and against overruling the DEC’s decision not to issue water-quality permits the project required. Appointed judges will likely have the final say, and Amphenol, Fox, SUNY-O and the rest of our institutions may be served by natural gas, at least until renewables – or another technology – catch up. Mayor Herzig had it exactly right: We’re all in favor of renewables. But we can’t afford to lose a generation while the technology catches up with the need. • (Still, other steps must be taken: The impact of burning gas can be minimized. Obama Administration regulations issued in May require tighter control of leakages at the well-head. Lost gas is lost profit. A pro-business Trump Administration, you might hope, would recognize that and stay that course.)
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When Former Addicts Leave Prison, Their Lives Are In Particular Danger
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ery effective Harm Reduction Programs are being run in the jails that do things like teach inmates of the dangers they face and how to protect themselves.
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am writing this in response to the recent death of an overdose victim in Otsego County. My purpose is to publicly address the concern of many for the need of services that are being denied us. I was an inmate in the Otsego County Correctional Facility more times than I’d care to admit and believe me when I tell you that well over half of the inmates in there are incarcerated due to a substance abuse problem. Either they came in on a drug charge or a crime associated to the acquisition of drugs. While incarcerated these inmates receive very little in the ways of “treatment.” They are there for punishment. Obviously, we can’t give all criminals a nice comfy rehab for their crimes, but
there is much we could be doing that in my opinion is the duty of any caregiver. Many of these inmates are going to use again as soon as they are released and can get their hands on their drug. The environment of jail weighs heavy on addicts, and they crave a familiar coping mechanism to deal with the ordeal they have just experienced. THIS IS A STATISTICAL FACT. I have seen it. I have lived it. When addicts have been incarcerated for an extended period of time they experience
a drop in tolerance, meaning they can no longer handle the level of drugs they could before entering jail. Then, if and when addicts use similar doses to what they were used to, an overdose becomes a frightening probability. When drug-addicted inmates are released from jail, their lives are on the line, period. More so now than ever before due to the additives being put in heroin nowadays that are the likely cause in the severely increased overdose rate. To many, this is common knowledge. In other counties in New York State, very effective Harm Reduction Programs are being run in the jails that do things like teach inmates of the dangers they face and how to protect themselves. They offer information on how to use and obtain Narcan Kits – opioid overdose prevention nasal spray. They give education and information about Vivitrol, a monthly shot that gives the addict an opiate blocker
in their system that will prevent the “high” and render their use ineffective. And believe it or not... in some cases these things are made available to the inmates PRIOR to release. For years now there have been inmates released from the Otsego County Jail who have overdosed within the first 48 hours. We have known of this danger for some time. I say we do all we can to advocate for these services. Most important, I ask that the powers that be acknowledge this need and allow services to be made available. Just imagine if Matthew came home with a Narcan kit or even a Vivitrol shot coursing through his veins – he might be alive right now and his poor family might not be heartbroken. Please, I’ve been advocating for this for well over a year and so have many others. Don’t let a lack of services turn a misdemeanor into a death sentence.
LETTERS
Expert Opinion, Advice Mixed On Future Performance Of Fossil-Fuel Stocks To the Editor: I read with interest Cooperstown Village Trustee Lou Allstadt’s response to my article regarding
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plan. I thought some of his points merited a response from me. It was refreshing to see Mr. Allstadt lay out a fiduciary argument for the board’s decision (notwithstanding it was selective and omitted material elements
3 Questions Asked About ‘Food Hub’ To the Editor: About the Market Street hub, no news articles have mentioned: 1. Who will own the complex... food hub, butcher place, commercial kitchen, and apartments? 2. Will the complex be taxable? If so, to what extent? Payment in lieu of taxes? 3. How many longterm , good-paying jobs will be created by this complex? Maybe you could fill in the blanks if you have the information. BILL SHUE Oneonta
of a fiduciary analysis), although I am still a little confused regarding his implication that the SPYX ETF, which is 11 months old, has a 5-year track record. However, it is fairly obvious that this was an “after the fact” fiduciary analysis prepared by Mr. Allstadt after my article was published and was not prepared before the board acted. Obviously, if there is a written legal analysis and objective In-
vestment Memorandum that the board reviewed before it acted, I am sure the public would be interested to see it. Mr. Allstadt also correctly notes that this divestment relates to a relatively small portion of the retirement fund. However, social divestment is a slippery slope and, without strict fiduciary guidelines in place, the personal causes of other board members could find there way into investment
decisions – i.e, possibly a board member wants to divest from the defense and munitions industry, another gambling and casinos, another alcohol, etc. Do we really want that? Mr. Allstadt also seemed to oddly interpret my statements supporting diversification in the retirement fund portfolio, as well board members avoiding acting as stock pickers and trying Please See RUSSELL, A6
If The Shoe Were On The Other Foot... To the Editor: What’s up with the disgraceful and un-American reaction by the Democratic Party to the victory won, fair and square, by Trump!!!??? Even though the victory is valid, the Democrats have responded with hatred, intolerance, riots and destruction of private property, the very things these hypocrites preach being against. It’s very apparent now that the only acceptable outcome to a presidential election is for their side. As I remember, after Obama won there were no states (California) threatening to secede from the U.S., no riots, no protests and
no destruction of private property. There were no “mourning rooms” for college students and no days off given by professors to “mourn” the loss. There were no threats by “movie stars,” “Hollywood elites” and singers to leave the U.S.A. if Obama won. Undermining the U.S. democracy through riots, violence and destruction of private property is not the answer. As you have requested responses to your newspapers’ choice of presidential candidate please post mine. MATTHEW P. LACEY Exton, Pa.
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Elopement – Whereas my wife Phoebe has eloped from my bed and board without any just cause or provocation – These are therefore to inform all persons whom it may concern, that I am resolved to prosecute with the utmost rigor of the law every person who may harbor her; and will pay no debts of her contracting after this date. Alpheus Hill, Cherry Valley, November 18, 1816. Three Cents Reward – Ran away from the subscriber on Friday the 15th inst. an indented apprentice girl, named Adelina Hoag, about 15 years of age; whoever will return said apprentice to the subscriber shall receive the above reward and no charges. All persons are strictly forbid harboring or trusting her on penalty of the law, as no debts she may contract will be paid by me after this date. John A. Conkhite, November 16, 1816. November 21, 1816
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125 YEARS AGO
Gone are the days of the dandy sailing frigate, of the great three-deckers with line over line of frowning ports, tier on tier of black-mouthed cannon, the tall tapering masts and heavenward soaring pile on pile of snow-white canvas; gone are the days of cutlass and boarding pike, of the close fighting, hand to hand, yard-arm to yard-arm, gun muzzle to gun muzzle, of the rush of boarders from sinking hull to enemy’s deck; gone are the days of glorious Old Ironsides, of the Bonhomme Richard, the Victory and the saucy Arethusa. One modern cruiser could destroy a whole fleet of “wooden walls.” And what strange monsters are these that have replaced them! What grim shapes these iron floating fortresses of modern times, these things that glide almost noiselessly over the waves, pouring out volumes of black smoke from their great chimneys, churning a wake of streaky milky white with the huge blades of their powerful propellers, moving with the speed almost of a railway train irresistibly onward against wind and tide, monsters of the sea such as the wildest fancy of mythology never imagined. November 19, 1891
175 YEARS AGO
Advertisement – New Music. H. & E. Phinney have enlarged their assortment of Music for the Piano Forte and voice, and now offer songs, waltzes, rondos, airs with variations, quadrilles and cotillions, marches, duets, instruction books, juvenile pieces, &c., &c. The stock now includes about 1,000 pieces, carefully selected, a large portion of which are for learners. A discount is made to teachers. The Social Choir, Glee Books, Odeo &c. containing selections of music arranged for several voices; also scientific musical works on hand. The Sacred Lyre, Harding’s new singing book for choirs, the Manhattan Collection &c. Also Buel’s Juvenile Instructor, or Teacher’s Guide. Music teachers and amateurs are invited to examine these works, which will be sold at the lowest prices. November 15, 1841
150 YEARS AGO
We are informed that parties willfully violate the law for the preservation of bass in Otsego Lake. Who will be the first to enter complaints? As these fish, thus unlawfully
of important business. A full and prompt attendance is requested. (Ed. Note: This was a meeting of Republican Party members) November 17, 1866
100 YEARS AGO
November 16, 1966 caught, are sent abroad for profit, it is for the interest of all in this vicinity, who have any desire to feast on bass in lawful season, to see that the law is enforced, let who will be the aggressors. The Union League will meet at its room over the Republican Office on Friday, November 16, at 7 o’clock for the transaction
With a safe margin of at least six more votes than he needs in the Electoral College, the title of President Wilson to a second term is absolutely clear. The Democratic president on Tuesday last carried 29 states with 276 electoral votes, and Mr. Hughes 17 states with 243 electoral votes. The 12 of Minnesota are still in the balance. The President and his opponent Mr. Hughes, polled in the aggregate 16,704,114 votes, the largest number ever recorded in the history of the country. Of these President Wilson received 8,653,713 and Mr. Hughes 8,160, 401. November 15, 1916
75 YEARS AGO
The very gratifying sum of $1,017.63, has been contributed to date to the United China Relief Fund. Of this amount, $512.63 was received through the China Relief Week sponsored by the Protestant and Roman Catholic Women’s Church Councils, with Mrs. George M. McKenzie in charge. The children in the village who participated in the street collection last week turned in $86.13. Roy Dickison captured first prize for collecting $5.41. November 19, 1941
25 YEARS AGO
One bad bounce, one bad pass, one bad kick can mean the difference between winning and losing a soccer game. It was one tremendous shot that kept the Cooperstown Redskins from reaching the New York State Class C championship game. With 1:55 remaining, Cliff Paige pounded home a 20-yard shot to give Red Creek a 1-0 semifinal victory over Section III champion Cooperstown. “They are veteran soccer players and they’ve seen other teams get beat this way,” Cooperstown coach Frank Miosek said. “They may not like it, but they understand it. It’s the law of soccer.” November 20, 1991
10 YEARS AGO
Peter Matsuo, 37, who was raised in Cooperstown, has sold his Troy-based company, AdInterax, to Yahoo! for an undisclosed sum. He was the company’s president, CEO and founder. He will now spend two years with Yahoo! in California as part of the deal. Peter is the son of Stephanie Christensen and Dr. Hoshiro Matsuo. Peter was a member of the CCS Class of 1988, although he transferred to Oneonta high school for his final semester. At SUNY Albany Peter graduated with a summa cum laude degree in physics, and won the math prize. A Ph.D. in Physics, Peter first developed a video game “Hot Prize” before founding AdInterax, a program that simplifies the creation and placing of ads on web sites. November 17, 2006
LETTERS
In Electing Andrew Jackson – And Donald Trump – Voters Rejected Elitism To the Editor: I don’t like the term “un-American.” I am old enough to remember the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings of the 1950s, which are a black mark on our history. There is something that is truly un-American – and that is elitism. A basic tenet of our country’s founding was the belief that all men – and subsequently all women
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– are created equal. Elitists believe that their status, ancestry, or wealth elevates their authority. Elitism is
not leadership because, in a free society, leadership must be earned. Donald Trump won in Otsego County and he won our presidential election. More than anything else, this was a rebellion against elites. Those who voted for Trump did not do so to endorse his many flaws. They voted to repudiate the influence of media, academic, and – particularly – political
elites. Whether it was a broken immigration system, an Affordable Health Care Act that is anything but, or an energy policy that prioritizes dirty and dangerous foreign oil over clean and safe North American production, the elites’ positions and laws did not resonate with the voters. Individuals voted their “gut,” without the influence
With Tools Like Commuter Tax, Cities Must Reclaim Destinies To the Editor: Want to really drive commerce throughout the Upstate New York? Then we all need to concentrate resources and energy on strengthening our small and medium sized cities. Yes, our cities. Want to give CFA and
Unused Tickets = Wasted Votes To the Editor: I work at the food pantry one afternoon a week, and six days before Election Day a man came in with a donation of 100 tickets for the Rotary post-voting breakfast for our clients. I offered them to the six people who came in on my shift, but was only able to give away two. One woman said she hadn’t registered. Two weren’t going to vote because they didn’t like either candidate. One had limited transportation and was going to vote but didn’t think she could get to the breakfast. I counted the left-over tickets after Election Day: 36. Sometimes an unused ticket is a very sad thing. MARY ANNE WHELAN Cooperstown
other state funds a better chance of working? Then it’s even more important to concentrate those resources on our Upstate cities. Want to see regional prosperity? It’s through creating and sustaining many more good-paying jobs in our cities, thereby stabilizing a shrinking population and in growing all allied tax receipts. Townships throughout Upstate are likely to fight such an effort. In fact, they
see their city centers as the enemy. So, cities need to assert their inherent strength and power to produce new revenues to reduce in-city tax rates, balance budgets and to underwrite infrastructure expansion. There are few ways in which cities can gain those new financial resources; substantial new annual revenues. Consolidation is one way, but if your town is anything like the one strangling the
city in which I reside, forget about it. That requires smart leadership and towns are lacking in that department. Then there’s annexation and, where city’s have a concentration of good-paying jobs, perhaps a commuter income tax. Any way you slice it, cities can no longer count on others to support them, so they need to take control of their own destiny. ALBERT COLONE Oneonta
of a traditional campaign “ground game” or marketing program. I can count on one hand the total number of Trump yard signs I saw in our area. The only historic parallel I see is that of Andrew Jackson’s election of 1828. The elites were horrified at the rough Tennessean who took over the White House in 1829. And they were horrified at his supporters who
trashed that house following his inauguration. The media, academic and political elites missed all the signs of the election upheaval. None of us know what the results of this shock will be, but I am hopeful that this unscripted outcome can work. We will see if there is collective wisdom in the people – or not. JIM HOWARTH Cooperstown
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Memo Contained No Criticism Of Village Treasurer To the Editor:
I would like to clarify my position and words in last week’s Freeman’s Journal article, “Trustees Write Up Village Treasurer/Memo Put in File After Fossil-Fuel Dustup,” on Village Treasurer Derek Bloomfield and the memo. It is possible that I may have misconstrued the nuances of The Freeman’s Journal inquiry to me, then given my reply, which made it appear that I was unaware of the administrative memo. I was always aware of the contents of a memo that clarified the board’s decision to move forward with divestiture of fossil fuel stock, a move that I supported.
The misunderstanding may be that I may have thought the question was about Derek’s professional opinion on the wisdom of the village’s divestiture of fossil fuel stocks and his right to share his position with the board. This is not the case. There was no mention in the memo of, or criticism of, Derek’s professional opinion on the wisdom of the village’s divestiture of fossil-fuel stocks. I thought it was a fair and reasonable statement that he made, in offering his view to not divest, at the board meeting. The board chose to move toward divestiture in its ongoing policy of moving toward supporting clean
energy, thus, the administrative memo. Regarding the wisdom of using fossil fuels in the past, hindsight is 20/20. I doubt that if someone said, in the 18th century, that the fires of the industrial revolution needed to be put out because it was hurting the environment, that it would have gained much traction. Personnel matters are not for public discussion, by law and for the protection of personnel. I have liked Derek since the day he applied for the position of Village treasurer. We could not believe how lucky we were when he took the job. JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown Trustee
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Supermoon 2016, the largest moon of 21st century so far, shines down on the lighthouse at the end of Fair Street. The moon was closest to the earth at 6:22 a.m. Eastern Standard Time Monday, Nov. 14. Both the earth and the earth are in elliptical orbits; thus the distance between the two orbs varies. The last time the moon and earth were this close together was in 1948; the next time, in 2034.
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Even With Gas Pipeline, Hell Hollow Just Fine PIPELINE/From A1 “The only time it was an inconvenience was when we wanted to put our own lines for water and gas underneath the pipeline – we had to wait for them to come out and inspect it,” he said. The pipeline runs down the northeast ridge of Holbrook’s 68 acres, 4 feet underground. “They didn’t have all the regulations when they put it in,” he said. “Now I think they bury them deeper.” And once a year, LP Gas mows the grass and cleans the line. “One time, they mowed it when it was wet and when they turned the mower, it tore up the ground,” he said. “But they fixed it up and paid us $500.” A second line of natural gas was installed on Holbrook’s property on Baker Hill in Oneonta, and he was paid $1 “a rod” when the company installed it. “My brother lives right down the road, and he can tap right into the line for his house,” he said. “That gas goes to West Oneonta and Oneonta.” Holbrook has been a proponent of the Constitution Pipeline, speaking at several meetings about his experience.
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Laurens’ Bob Holbrook has co-existed with a natural-gas pipeline on his Hell Hollow Road property for a half-century now, and so far, so good. At the county board meeting where a letter urging Governor Cuomo to change his mind and favor the Constitution Pipeline, both advocates and opponents spoke. “How many years have we been using natural gas without problems?” he said during a tour of his property a few days later. “The argument is that it ruins lands and wildlife, but big forests, they block the sun and there’s no undergrowth
for wildlife to get food. There isn’t the damage people are saying there will be.” He had sold two parcels of his land to the gas companies for fracking, even going so far as to let them clear land for a well. But the 2014 moratorium on gas drilling in New York State sent the gas company packing, leaving only a pile of brush and a single flag marking where the well would be. (It is now
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“It wasn’t about parties,” RALLY/From A1 said Virgil. “It was about being or terrorism.” an American, about coming “Grow up and accept the together. I’m satisfied he was outcome,” wrote Sal Cerbone. doing it for the right reasons.” “Liberalism is a disease.” When the dust had settled, “Love it or hate it, the results all parties seemed satisfied. cannot be changed,” Melissa “We need to have a time Ann Crippen posted. “But we after the election where we don’t have to remain divided.” can shake hands and see what Karen did not return a mesthe future holds for all of us,” sage seeking additional comsaid Walker. “I think that it’s ment on the situation, but did post a reply on her social media important now that the election is over for people to be unified, account. “My intent and purrather than be Republican or pose was and is to understand Democratic.” where our country’s anger is “We all live under the same coming from. People are afraid flag,” wrote “Dale Henry of their neighbor.” Karen.” “I am proud not only CCS senior Bobby Walker, to say and know the National founder of the Otsego County Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance Young Republicans, reported, but also the alma mater song “I drove by that morning. And for my kid’s school. Every I did not see a baseball bat.” word. With respect and dignity So the next day, Thursday, for all.” Nov. 10, Walker organized a Walker does not have any rally in the school’s parking plans for additional demonstralot. “I told my friends to wear tions. red, white and blue to school Since the election, there have and to bring flags,” he said. been riots in major cities and “I wanted us to be united as a reports of ethnic and social tenwhole behind the flag. We’ve sions nationally. been through great depressions Locally, hundreds of SUNY and world wars united behind Oneonta students rallied Friday that flag.” afternoon, Nov. 11, wearing After school, 15-20 students “Love Trumps Hate” T-shirts gathered in the back of two pickup trucks to wave flags and and changing, “We reject our president.” cheer. As parents picking up But other than the CCS flag their children, many honked rally and the SUNY protest, their horns in support of the county Sheriff Richard J. Devgroup. lin Jr. report nothing out of the Interim Superintendent ordinary. of Schools Mike Virgil said “We’re decent people here,” he spoke to Walker when he he said. “We don’t expect to see learned of the rally and was tions regarding his publicly satisfied the student’s intentions anything like what you have in disclosed personal information, were good. the big cities.” I would recommend he keep it strictly private in the future. Thankfully, I am not a village employee who could be “written up” for “inapproSpringfield Center priately” questioning a village trustee. DAVID RUSSELL Cooperstown thought there is insufficient shale gas under Otsego County to make fracking profitable here.) “I thought that would be my retirement,” he said. “But now I’m still working seven days a week with my construction company.” He and his son Ceylon plan use the cleared land to raise beef cattle. “We could have been prosperous here,” he lamented. “But they killed it. And they killed it for themselves.” But the damage he does see isn’t from the gas lines – it’s from the Marcy South power line. “The power company paid me $9,000, but that doesn’t even begin to cover the damage,” he said. “I can’t use this land and we in the county don’t even get to use this electricity.” At the bottom of his hill, felled trees were left in Harrison Brook. The bank was gutted, eroding every time there’s a storm. “They built these power lines and they left it like this,” he said. “The DEC fined them, but the power company still didn’t clean it up. You want to see damage? There’s the damage.”
Expert Advice Mixed On Future Of Fossil-Fuel Stocks RUSSELL/From A4 to predict the stock market in the future, as me stating I see fossil fuels as a “safe investment.” Obviously, Mr Allstadt was using me as a “straw man” to launch into a professorial lecture supporting fossil-fuel divestment. However, once again he only LETTER cited sources supportive of his cause. If he was being intellectually honest and objective, he would cite the many credible sources on the other side of his argument and then rationally refute them. For instance, he cites in detail an article by former state First Deputy Comptroller Tom Sanzillo (more to come on him later) citing dire predictions for ExxonMobil. Fair enough, but Mr. Allstadt could have also noted that, according to the Wall Street Journal, of the 27 financial analysts that cover ExxonMobil, seven rank it as a “buy” or “outperform,” seven rank it as a “sell,” and 13 rank it as a “hold.” If we eliminate the buy/outperform and sell recommendations, we are left with the 13 hold (i.e, do not divest) recommendations that he could have discussed and attempted to refute in order to make his case more persuasive. It was also somewhat humorous to see Mr. Allstadt put me in his “employee” category during my tenure in a previous administration in the state Comptroller’s office, and cite the fossil-fuel expertise of his fellow senior executive Tom Sanzillo, first deputy comptroller for Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who was responsible for management of the state Common Retirement Fund. It is interesting, however, to note that when Mr. Sanzillo was in the actual position of a fiduciary (and not at a not-forprofit “think tank”) where he could have acted on fossil-fuel divestment, he never proposed or sought to do so (nor has the Common Retirement Fund or any other major public pension fund since). So using Mr Allstadt’s terminology, when he could have “sucked it up” and acted, Mr. Sanzillo consciously decided not to. It is also curious that Mr.
Allstadt would actively tout Mr Sanzillo’s management of the Common Retirement Fund. During Mr. Sanzillo’s tenure the Common Retirement Fund was embroiled in a major “pay to play” scandal which led to Mr. Sanzillo’s immediate boss – State Comptroller Hevesi – and the Chief Investment Officer of the Common Retirement Fund who directly reported to Mr. Sanzillo – David Loglisci – being convicted of felony corruption charges. Mr. Sanzillo was never charged in the scandal but abruptly resigned amidst press reports that investigators were highly critical of his management of the Common Retirement Fund. It seems fossil-fuel divestment, like politics, sometimes creates strange bedfellows. Finally, Mr. Allstadt cited as “inappropriate” my statement that his financial adviser might have recommended that Mr.
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Over 9,000 Calls, Lemister Lived Through Evolution Of EMT Field 9,000/From A1 best we could at it. It was the example of those 10 men – Joe Carentz, still active, is the sole survivor – that won over Lemister, just home from Holy Cross two years before and taking over his family’s restaurant, Sherrie’s, in the red block next to the fire hall. “You couldn’t ask for a more professional, dedicated
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group of men,” Lemister recalled. “They inspired devotion. They made you want to join by their example. I said, I want to be part of that.” And so, in March 1971, young Fred – with Dunn alongside – departed on his first call to Fly Creek, where an elderly gentleman had suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow and lay dead outside his mobile home, his face in a pool of blood. “It just totally overwhelmed me,” said Lemister. He and his mentor sat down inside the trailer. “Dunnie, I just can’t do Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal this,” said the young recruit. Fred Lemister with wife Karen, whom he calls Dunn “applied verbal first “the unsung hero of this story.” aid to me,” said Fred. In the end, he stayed: “I so respected The first training, conducted make it worse.” The idea was the man; I was not about to by Kay Tarbox, Hartwick, to carry patients as quickly and desert him.” was the American Red Cross smoothly as possible – in the As it happened, Fred Lemis- Advanced First Aid Course. 1970 Cadillac Superior ambuter got in on the ground floor The emphasis was splinting, lance – to the Bassett ER. of a quickly evolving sector. hemorrhage control and “don’t As important as first aid was
human relations. “By your controlled presence, by your controlled demeanor,” eye-toeye contact, reassurance, PMA (“positive mental attitude”), the idea was to relax the patient to the degree possible. “Patients don’t care how much you know,” was one mantra, “until they know how much you care.” Things quickly began to change. As the national Interstate system moved toward completion, U.S. Department of Transportation officials were increasingly troubled by the erratic treatment injured drivers received when injured on the nation’s new highways. “In some places,” said Lemister, “they received very good care. Sometimes, the undertaker showed up.” (In many communities in those days, hearses were the only local vehicles capable of carrying people prone.) The federal government funded the first EMT (emergency medical technician) courses, which were administered by the states. With the addition of AED – auto external defibrillators – volunteers, for the first time, began treating people in ambulance en route to hospitals. Fred took that course in 1978 from Sally Wright, Gilbertsville. Today, EMTs like Lemister administer IVs and intubation, treat cardiac arrest, and handle all manner of invasive treatments. “It came in mandates,” the veteran remembers, “as the states learned we could handle more and more in the field … We can bring the ER to the patient, instead of the patient to the ER.” One recent, unhappy development: For years, Lemister recounted, it was rare to treat cardiac arrest for anyone under 60. Now, with heroin overdoses, half of those suffering cardiac arrests are in their 20s and 30s. Along the way, Lemister qualified to train EMTs himself. (On attending Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., he had intended to be a teacher.) Cooperstown mainstay that he is, Fred Lemister was actually born in New York City, to Andrew John and Evelyn Lemister. His father worked for A&P – the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., innovator in
the supermarket concept – and he was assigned to manage the Cooperstown store. As Fred – Andrew Frederick; his son is also Andrew John – began to grow up, the parents decided to settle here to provide stability to their only child. First, they opened a grocery store, where Alex’s Bistro is now. Then, they bought Sherrie’s, for decades a mainstay eatery “at the light.” Because it was next to the fire house, the father would frequently be the first firefighter to respond, and the son remembers often seeing him at the fire scene, hose in hand, still wearing his white apron. At Holy Cross, Fred met his future bride: Karen was a student from Auburn, Mass., a Worcester suburb. The couple raised two children locally. Today, both are in Florida: Kimberly Knapp and her husband, in Oviedo, near Orlando, and Andy and his wife near Jacksonville. Both couples have provided two grandchildren, including Andy’s twins. Fred’s dad passed away in 1966 while the son was at college, and he returned home to help his mother run Sherrie’s. After closing the restaurant, the Lemisters bought Rudy’s Liquor Store on Main Street, which they continue to operate. As Fred remembers it, there was never any question that he would join Fire Company #1. “I don’t remember being asked,” he said. “It was just assumed.” Volunteerism, he remembers, was taken for granted in small towns like Cooperstown in those days – not necessarily at the fire department, but at local churches, or the library. The message was reinforced at Holy Cross, where a Jesuit mentor told him, “You have the gift of life; you are expected to give something back.” As Fred looks back over 47 years since he joined the fire company (45 since joining the EMS), the woman who was sitting next to him at the banquet the other night comes to mind, and recalled decades of interrupted Thanksgiving dinners, nights theater tickets went unused, family plans set aside. “She’s put up with this for 45 years,” he said. “She is really the unsung hero of this story.”
Landmark May Be Arts Center LEIBER/From A1 classes here, modern and hearth cooking!” A crew from Redpoint Builders this week began cleaning out 53 Pioneer St., the famously crooked house previously owned by The Smithy Art Gallery, in hopes of bringing it back to life. “It was a gallery at one time, then a living space for artists-in-residence,” said Leiber. “Then it was just storage.” Along with fellow Smithy board member Ryan Miosek, he formed the 53 Pioneer Foundation and purchased the building from the Smithy last year. They began soliciting donations and looking for grants, hoping to reach out into the community for volunteer hours and assistance. “We even want the community’s input on what to name the center,” he said. According to CGP student Peyton Tracy, who put together a history of the building, 53 Pioneer was built in 1826 by William Wilson and Richard Cooley, supposedly from fieldstone from the ruins of a building formerly owned by William Cooper. The two were merchant-tailors and used the building as both their residence and their shop. “It’s a lot of detective work,” said Leiber. “That’s what makes it so exciting!” Among his favorite finds was a closet that he believes used to be a dumbwaiter.
“There’s crown moulding in here: Why would someone put crown moulding in a closet?” he asked. “And the flooring in the room above, it’s laid differently; the fireplace doesn’t take up the whole length of the hearth. That room used to be the kitchen.” One of the first step in the repairs is removal of the porch. “Water has been getting behind the wall for years; then it freezes and expands,” he said. The corner footing at the bottom of the “pit” has also been exposed to the elements, causing the raising and lowering of the building that has left it crooked. “There is no squaring this building,” he said. “A lot of the earlier renovations worked with it being crooked, so, for instance, the windows have these great frames that work with that.” But starting Monday, Nov. 14, an engineer will begin removing the front left wall to assess the construction and the damage. “We’re going to go from bottom to top,” he said. After that, they’ll return to the village’s Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board to show what can be done. “It’s impossible to tell before we do this exploration.” Leiber believes the project will be finished in three years. “It’s not so much a gallery as a place where people can come together,” he said.
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A rare new Otsego County barn – uniquely, it will be operated by robots – rises around Brad Osborne, a visionary young farmer who is partnering with his father and uncle in the Osborne Family Farm on Route 20, Cherry Valley.
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very day, you can find Brad Osborne, his Uncle John and other family members milking 51 registered Holsteins in the morning, and again in the afternoon. By this summer, they
will have 120 cows, and are anticipating their workload will drop. That’s because the double workload – and then some – will be taken on by two Lely “Astronaut” A4 robots, the first milking robots in Otsego County. “It’s not common,” Brad, 27, who returned to the family farm after Please See ROBOTS, B2
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n Cemetery Hill Road, a quarter-mile north of the city line in the Town of Oneonta, Matt Centofante saw the future. “We had 340 acres of land just sitting there,” he said. “My wife Teresa was doing some reading, and she suggested we start growing hops.” Centofante, CEO of Jett Industries, which builds water and wastewater plants, including the Gilboa Dam crest gates and systems in Guilderland, East Fishkill and Harriman, began to do his
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research. “I’ve thought about it for a while,” he said. “It’s a big change, but hops are a great cash crop, and with the Farm Brewery Act, there’s a lot of potential here.” On moving from Westchester County in 1985 and bringing Jett to Colliersville, the Centofantes had bought the property on Evening Inn Road, where they kept horses. Hops was a whole new thing. Matt partnered with Adam Dulkis, a former dairy farmer from Maryland, to help manage the operation. “My dad Please See HOPS, B3
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Lely’s Albany-Area Distributorship Made Robot Available Locally ROBOTS/From B1 graduating from Cornell in 2011, said of robotics’ arrival down on the farm. “But it’s going to be.” He returned to the dairy farm in the county’s northeast corner that his family – uncle John, dad and mom Bruce and Dale, and grandparents Clayton (who passed away in 2009) and Anna – had owned since 1991. If you’ve driven on Route 20 lately, you may have noticed an unusual sight on the north side of the highway less than a mile east of The Tepee: A barn under construction. It’s the outgrowth of five years of planning, planning that accelerated two years ago when the family allowed Brad to start buying in to the opera-
tion. (“They wanted to make sure I was staying,” the young man says.) His plans were also delayed by an absence of technical and product support, a gap filled when Lely opened an Albany distributorship, putting it under the wing of Paul Gobin, who operated the Vermont dealership out of Enosburg Falls for 15 years. Gobin leased a building in Albany for a year, then built a distributorship in Greenwich, right next to Farm Credit East’s office and a farm equipment dealership. As of last week, Lely had sold 50 Astronauts in eastern New York State and the Berkshires, in addition to the 70 operating in Vermont. The Osbornes are his first Otsego
County customer, but the Lely distributor will be demonstrating the equipment next September at the state Farm Show in Syracuse, and anticipates more. Brad’s interest in moving to automation goes back to his Cornell days, when he and his fellow students were taken around to dairy farms using the latest technology. Particularly captivating was Hemdale Farm in Seneca Castle, operated by classmate Clayton Hemminger’s family, where 19 robots are milking 1,200 cows. In looking to the future, Brad – along with his sister Erika, a veterinary student at Ohio State – is continuing a family-farming tradition. His family operated one of the last two dairy farms in
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Westchester County, in the Granite Springs section of Somers, selling it a quartercentury ago in the face of suburban encroachment. Uncle John moved up fulltime. His brother and sister-inlaw remained in Westchester weekdays – both taught at The Harvey School in Katonah, where Brad and Erika were both schooled – and commuted back and forth on weekends. Granddad Clayton continued as Somers town supervisor after the farm was sold, but frequently was up here helping out as well. The family farmers were always forward-looking, Brad recounts, using best practices to grow and strengthen their registered herd, so the move into robotics isn’t out of character. Walking past the current tie-stall barn, he points out it is hemmed in by Route 20 on one side and a rise on the other – no room to expand. At the top of the rise, a 36,000-
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“We’re going to increase our herd from 50 to 120 cows without missing a beat,” Brad predicted, walking past concrete being poured by Art Bass Concrete of Poland. D & J Construction, St. Johnsville, is erecting the structure. Tim Winslow of Richfield Springs is electrician on the job. The key to the free-flow system is training (beginning in June), by enticing the Holsteins to do for themselves what Holsteins do. When ready to be milked, cows will walk at their own initiative along the corridors to one of the two robots (located on the barn’s east side), enticed into place by food pellets. Milked, they are thirsty and hungry, so they will walk back through the center corridor, stopping at one of two water troughs there, dine at the silage bin on the barn’s west side, then return to their berths. “They will milk all day and through the night” – on average, 2.7 times a day, Brad said. The farmer purposely chose the free-flow system – the other option is guided-flow – on seeing it work in the Hemmingers’ operation. “It was a more relaxed environment,” he reported. “They had the quietest barns I’ve ever been in.” “It’s more like nature,” said Gobin, and extends lactation from two to three years, improving the milking life of a cow by 50 percent. Each cow wears a collar that is read by the robots, which records how much milk each is producing and the milk’s quality, and can adjust the pellets for optimal nutrition and productivity. Gobin said Lely organizes open houses at farms that adopt its equipment, and he expects the Osbornes will be hosting one next fall, once everything is running smoothly. Pausing from milking in the existing barn, Brad’s Uncle John observed he and his brother “can continue doing it this way for another 10 years.” Nodding to his nephew, he added, “but he can’t.”
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HOPS/From B1 had a dairy farm, so I have a background in heavy equipment and farming,” Dulkis said. The result is “one of the best-designed hops fields I have ever seen,” said George Allen, Northern Eagle Beverage president. “It’s definitely designed to be a profitable hops business.” Every other hopyard in the county has wire strung manually between wooden poles; the hop “bines” – vines – grow up strings attached to the high wires by hand. This one is a completely metal system, and automatic. A pulley system attached to the metal poles allows Centofante and Dulkis to lower the wires to the ground, where bines can be easily attached. In the spring, the two prune and “train” each plant to wrap clockwise around the bines. “We put carabiners” – clips used by mountain climbers – on each of the bines so that when we cut them, we just slide them right over,” said Dulkis. “It’s easier to harvest them that way.” “Metal poles are popular out west,” said Allen.
“They’re much more efficient, and much safer.” Last year, Centofante and Dulkis planted two acres in July and two in August. This year, they harvested “a few hundred pounds” from the four acres of established plants, and added eight additional acres. “It takes about three years before you can really maximize the plants,” said Centofante. “Right now, we’ve got 12,000 plants total.” The goal is to add six acres a year until reaching 40 acres. The Hager Hops yard at Pierstown, at 20 acres, is now the largest in the state. New York State hops retail at $14-$16 a pound, and for a 50-barrel batch of beer up to 45 pounds of hops could be used. “Right now, we’ve got six varieties,” said Centofante. “We’re growing Newport, Fuggle, Cascade, Chinook, Willamette and Nugget hops.” “In the future, we’ll put in more varieties, especially citrus hops,” added Dulkis. “The plan is to add six acres a year. Start small and grow.” Centofante also built a barn to process the hops, including harvesting, drying
and storage, with pelletizing being done at the new Northern Eagle Beverage plant in West Oneonta. This year’s crop was given away as samples, to Brewery Ommegang and to friends who home brew. And he’s also sent samples to the Hartwick Center for Craft Food and Beverage for testing. “It’s a good program,” said Centofante. “It’s easy to do it right here. Before, you’d have to send it away for weeks.” And although he admitted that New York State “can’t compete” with the longer growing seasons out west, he hopes that more growers will help bring hops back to upstate New York. “It used to be huge here,” he said. Centofante intends to leave the forested parts of his property untouched, he’s already looking towards the western hillside for expansion. “We have to get water and electric out there,” he said. “But I like building, and we can do the infrastructure, get the water and electric out there.” And one day, he said, he hopes to be able to retire to his farm. “It’s a long waiting game,” he said. “But you have to either be all in or all out.”
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SEMINAR – 8-10 a.m. “Business Ownership in Box-Franchise for Entrepreneurial Success.” $35, registration required. Otsego Co. Chamber of Commerce session at Northern Eagle Beverage conference room, 41 Browne St., Oneonta. Info, registration, Kelly Decker, (607) 432-4500, Ext. 207, kelly@otsegocc.com, otsegocc.com HOLIDAY DISPLAY OPENS – Noon-3 p.m. Bresee’s Santa, model train layouts, and other traditional holiday displays. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607)432-0960 or http://www.oneontahistory.org/ GINGERBREAD CONTEST – 3-6 p.m. Gingerbread Jubilee accepting gingerbread house contest and exhibit entries. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2941, destinationoneonta.org. STEAMQUEST – 3:30-5 p.m. Tinker and learn STEAM after school. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http:// hmloneonta.org/steamquest/ OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD – 4-7 p.m. Pack a shoebox with items that will bring joy to children as they are delivered around the world. Collection point Main St. Baptist Church, corner Main and Maple sts., Oneonta. Info/ideas @smaritanspurse.org or email msbc@msbchurch.org or call (607)432-5712. ALSO SATURDAY, SUNDAY, 9:30-1. FUNDRAISER – 4:30-7 p.m. Brooks Barbecue Chicken Dinner & Homemade Pie Sale. Proceeds benefit the church’s Global Mission
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Outreach. Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, (607)547-9555. THANKSGIVING FEAST – 5 p.m. Bring a dish to pass around followed by game night. Club Odyssey, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, https:// www.facebook.com/ClubOdysseyOneonta/ ART PARTY – 6 p.m. Make and decorate ceramic bowls for CANO’s 2017 Chili Bowl Fundraiser. Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, https://carriagehouseartstudio.com/chilibowl/ PRESENTATION – 7:30 p.m. Dr. Allison Oakes, American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project, presents on the return of the American Chestnut. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta.Free and open to the public. Includes refreshments. Info, info@doas.us
Saturday, November 19
“ANNIE” BREAKFAST – 8-10 a.m. Join Annie, Daddy Warbucks, and Miss Hannigan for breakfast. Applebees, 5006 St. Rte. 23, Oneonta. Info, tickets, (607) 4321800. “WIZARD OF OZ” BREAKFAST – 9 a.m. Join Dorothy, The Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West for breakfast. Applebees, 5006 St. Rte. 23, Oneonta. Info, Tickets, (607) 432-1800 or www.
orpheustheatre.org/wizard-of-ozbreakfast.html CRAFT SHOW – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fox Hospital Auxiliary Holiday Craft Show. Over 100 crafters and artists, unique gifts for all on you list. Door prize drawings, basket raffle. Also Sun. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fox Care Center, 1 Foxcare Dr., Oneonta. ALSO SUNDAY. PAINTING CONTEST – 10 a.m. 3rd annual winter windowland painting contest. Enter, vote, or spectate. Main St., Richfield Springs, Info, www.richfieldspringschamber.org/ WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Create Holiday cards for friends and family at the Middlefield Printing Press, Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.farmersmuseum. org/workshop 3D DESIGN – 10:30 a.m. Design a snowflake and have it printed on the 3D printers. $.50 material fee per snowflake. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http:// hmloneonta.org/3d-printing/ STORYBOOK HOLIDAY PARADE – 11 a.m. 2 Dietz Street, Oneonta. Info, destinationoneonta.org or call 607-432-2941 GINGERBREAD CONTEST – Noon-3 p.m. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. (607)432-2941, destinationoneonta.org ONEONTA SANTA – 12:30-3
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St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. FARMER’S MARKET/CRAFTSHOW – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Focus Otsego lobby, 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Rd., Cooperstown. HOMECOMING EVENT – 10 a.m. Church service followed by presentation by Susan Deer on 2015 Africa trip. Dinner served at noon. first Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. CHRISTMAS AUCTION – Noon-5 p.m. Annual benefit. West Oneonta Fire Department, 2865 County Highway 8, West Oneonta. Info, https://www.facebook.com/WestOneonta-Fire-DepartmentInc297069920712/ COMIC EVENT – 1-3 p.m. Ladies only comic day.Secret Comix Day, 3200 Plaza (453 Chestnut st.), Oneonta. Info, https://www.facebook.com/secretcomixcave/ SANTA’S COTTAGE –2 p.m. Decorating Party. Help Cooperstown Committee decorate Santa’s cottage and village lampposts for the holidays. All decorations provided; please bring wire cutters, gloves, and ladders, if available. Meet in Pioneer Park. To reserve a pole, email Meg Kiernan, megk@ oecblue.com HYMN SING – 2 p.m. “A Good Old Fashioned Hymn Sing,” accompaniment provided by Ron Johnson on 1868 pipe organ. Free, all welcome. Refreshments served. Greater Milford Historical Association, Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center, 81 N. Main St., Milford.Info, (607) 286-7512. FILM SERIES –2 p.m. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1952). Fenimore Art Museum auditorium, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info,
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it? Hunt Union Waterfront, 108 Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta. Info, activities@oneonta.edu, (607) 436-3730. OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD – 9-11 a.m. Pack a shoebox with items that will bring joy to children as they are delivered around the world. Collection point Main St. Baptist Church, corner Main and Maple sts., Oneonta. Info/ideas @smaritanspurse.org or email msbc@msbchurch.org or call (607) 432-5712. GLOBAL MOVEMENT FESTIVAL – 6:45 p.m. Promoting cross-cultural understanding, tolerance, and global connectedness through the education and presentation of music, dance, poetry, art, food, and culture. Suggested $3 donation benefits Ninash Foundation. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, https://www.facebook.com/globalmovementfestival/
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ING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 20th day of October, 2016, at Cooperstown, New York. Section 300.00 Block: 3 Lot: 65.01 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Oneonta, County of Otsego, New York and is more fully described as follows: BEGINNING at a maple tree on the north bounds of Southside Drive, which point is 243.80 feet +/- west of the property line dividing the lands of Galasso and Sutch; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive N 76° 31” W a distance of 137.76 feet to a point; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive N 69° 28’ W a distance of 65.04 feet to a point; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive a distance of 0.89 feet to a point; thence, N 42° 40” E a distance of 124 feet to a point; thence S. 74° 08’ E a distance of 203.76 feet to a point; thence, S 42° 40’ W a distance of 125 feet to the point and place of beginning. Subject to easement, covenants, and restriction of record. These premises are also known as 419 Southside Drive A/K/A 420 Southside Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820. WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR 2017 TENTATIVE OTSEGO COUNTY BUDGET
Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on December 01, 2016 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau,
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 Monday, November 28, 2016 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, 2017. All interested persons will be heard. The location is accessible to persons with mobility impairment.
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FURTHER NOTICE is hereby given that copies of the 2017 Tentative Otsego County Budget and the County’s Exemption Report will be available 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. 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 Chairman thereof respectively are hereby specified as follows: Members of the Board of Representatives $10,500 Chair of the Board of Representatives $19,834 Dated: November 17, 2016 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York
and will be publicly opened and read. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using Bid Express (www.bidx. com). A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Transportation for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid. NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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ally single operation contracts, where sub-contracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to, D/W/MBEs. The Contractor must comply with the Regulation relative to non-discrimination in federally-assisted programs of the USDOT 49 CFR 21. Please call (518) 457-3583 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting. Reg. 09, Jack Williams, Regional Director, 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 D263299, PIN 9307.11, F.A. Proj. Z2409307-113, Otsego Co., Bridge Replacement of NY Rte 7 over Norfolk Southern Railway in the Town of Worcester., Bid Deposit $400,000.00. Goals: DBE 8% 2LegalNov.17 Legal notice
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Notice of organization of Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law.
Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via email you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot.ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/const-planholder.
1. The name of the limited liability company is Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC.
Amendment may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list. NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification. Contact Maria Tamarkin (518) 457-8403. Contracts with 0% Goals are gener-
2. Articles of Organization of Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC were filed with the New York Secretary of State on September 15, 2016. 3. The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Otsego County. 4. The street address of the principal business location of the limited liability company is P.O. Box 94, Worcester, NY 12197. 5. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited
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liability company served upon him or her is Michael F. TenEyck, P.O. Box 94, Worcester, NY 12197.
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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: VALLEY VIEW FARM GUESTHOUSE LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 4 October 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3897 St Hwy 205, Hartwick, NY 13348. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalDec23 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is River 709, LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on June 6, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is P.O. Box 654, Milford, New York. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalNov24 Legal notice ACKOWLEDGEMENT
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THIRD: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: Andrea Culligan 5681 State Highway 7 Oneonta, NY 13820 I certify that I have read the above statements, I am authorized to sign these Articles of Organization, that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and that y signature typed below constitutes my signature. Andrea Culligan, President (signature) Andrea Culligan, ORGANIZER 5681 State Highway 7 Oneonta, NY 13820 Filed by: Andrea Culligan 5681 State Highway 7 Oneonta, NY 13820 6LegalNov25 Legal notice Notice of formation of Otsego Bounty, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/8/16. Office in Otsego County. United States Corporation Agent, Inc. has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General. 6LegalNov18
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HOMES FOR RENT MULTI FAMILY FOR SALE OR RENT: Available immediately 3 Bed/1 Bath Kitchen/Dining, Liv, Sun Porch, 1 Car Garage, Back Yard Borders Creek $750./Mo. Plus Utilities Available late October 2 Bed/1 Bath $650./Mo. Plus Utilities. Edmeston. Contact Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-2672683. FOR RENT 3 Bed, 2 Bath Cooperstown 1 Mile from Village. $1,000. plus utilities. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-2672683 for more info. Available April, Spacious 3 or 4 BR, 2 Bath, Kitchen w/Island, Den, LivRm w/ Fireplace, Dining & FamRm w/Pellet Stove, Enclosed Porch, Garage, 15 Acres, Located 3 Miles From Cooperstown. $1500. Mo. + utilities. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ (607) 267-2683 (cell)
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY TURN-KEY BUSINESS FOR SALE! Thriving Downtown Oneonta Eatery seeks new business owner/operator. Smart interior renovations and updates coupled with a rare 2nd to none outdoor seating area venue makes your operation run at the heart of center city Oneonta. For more Info Contact Rodger Moran at Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC 607-287-1559.
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17-18, 2016
Celebrate the Spirit of Christmas
FAMILY #1 (This is a young couple who really have nothing for their first child due 11/28) Girl, newborn, size 3m: Diapers, blankets, warm clothing, Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse FAMILY #2 Girl, age 3, size 3t: Needs Winter Snowsuit, would like Baby Doll w/Stroller, Learning Toys Boy, age 2, size 2t: Needs Winter Snowsuit, would like Trucks, Building Blocks, Paw Patrol FAMILY #3 Girl, age 2, size 5t: Paw Patrol, Dolls, Musical Toys Boy, age 8, size 7/8: Blaze Toys, Play Dough Girl, age 12, size 10/12: Twin Comforter Set, Joy Doll Girl, age 6, size 6x: Twin Comforter Set, Play Kitchen Boy, age 3, size 5t: Blaze Toys, Hot Wheels FAMILY #5 Boy, age 12, size 14/16: Bike, Race Cars Girl, age 9, size 7/8: Minions, Shopkins, Barbies, Musical Things Boy, age 5, size 5/6: Race Track, Legos, Cars Girl, age 20m, size 24m: Baby Legos, Baby Doll w/Stroller, Riding Toy FAMILY #6 Girl, age 2, size 4t: Doc McStuffin, Baby Doll, Riding Toy Boy, age 3m, size 6m: Walker, Teething Toys, Rattles FAMILY #7 Girl, age 10, size L/Lg: 18” Doll With Clothes, Girl Legos, Art Set, Littlest Pet Shop
FAMILY #8 Girl, age 8, size 14: Girl, age 8, size 14: Boy, age 13, size M/L: Boy, age 7, size 6: FAMILY #9 Boy, age 8, size 10: Girl, age 5, size 7: Boy, age 2, size 4t: Girl, age 10m, size 6/9m: Girl, age 10m, size 6/9m: FAMILY #10 Girl, age 14, size W/L: Girl, age 12, size W/M: Girl, age 12, size W/L: Girl, age 9, size 10: FAMILY #11 Boy, age 5, size 5/6: Girl, age 4, size 4/5t: Boy, age 1, size 24m: FAMILY #12 Girl, age 11, size 10/12: Girl, age 10, size 10/12: Boy, age 8, size 8/10: Boy, age 2, size 3t:
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4 The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta are joining with The Salvation Army to make a joyful Christmas for area families through the Angel Tree Program. 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 95th year of this community tradition. The Salvation Army has gathered the Christmas wish lists, grouped by family. Help Santa, be an angel!
Gifts should be both new and unwrapped (price tags removed please), and received no later than December 14 (to allow the elves time for wrapping and loading). Gifts may be dropped off at the offices of The Freeman’s Journal, 21 Railroad Avenue, Cooperstown, or at the Salvation Army Chapel, 25 River Street, Oneonta. Questions? Call Santa’s elf Larissa at 607-547-6103, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or e-mail ads@allotsego.com.