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Senator Vows, ‘We Will Get Ready’ had brought 250 economic-development pros, businesspeople and elected officials to his second “Economic Development Sumne of the nation’s only half-dozen top mit” Thursday, Nov. 14, was undeterred. He executives who find sites for expandchallenged Sheehy, “You can bring a coming companies was dismissive of pany any time and we will be ready. We will Otsego County’s prospective for economic get ready.” development as of today. “I’m glad I wasn’t Casting his eyes toward the audience, here with a client – because you’d be off the he expanded the challenge to the crowd in list,” said Dick Sheehy, manager/site selecFoothills’ main theater: “The time is now for HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal Otsego County to seize the opportunities ... tion for CH2Mhill, the international consultSenator Seward, left, characterized site-selector The bottom line: It’s time to move forward.” ing firm. But state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who Dick Sheehy’s downbeat view of local economPlease See SEWARD, A7 By JIM KEVLIN

O Intent members of the “Seward Summit” audience included, from front, Otsego Chamber President/CEO Barbara Ann Heegan, Apple Converting President Troy Turley, and investor Bob Hanft, Cooperstown, past president, Hartwick College Board of Trustees.

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ic-development prospects as a call to action.

‘Seward Summit’ SHOWS What Future MIGHT HOLD As soon at Governor Cuomo announced the $4.4 billion, 6,000-job G450C project north of Utica, work began immediately on this 700,000square-foot building, SUNY IT President Robert Geer reported.

Editor’s Note: Here are top take-aways reported by business and civic leaders who attended state Sen. Jim Seward’s “Economic Development Summit,” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills Performing Arts Center.

wo keys: 1. We need to be a “wired” county, with high-quality broadband lines throughout, if we are to be competitive, and 2. The tax-free economic zone model for colleges is an opportunity for Oneonta. Bill Streck President/CEO Bassett Healthcare Network • t was the most momentum on job creation I’ve seen in 30 years. The follow-up is the key. Tom Armao By JIM KEVLIN Partner County Club Auto Group • store may hire a reat session; very worker. A cominformative; Senapany may build a tor Seward does factory. New York State a great job of organizing these things and I delayed a business trip to attend. It was worthwhile, as what I learned there improved our strategy for expanding Ioxus in Oneonta. Mark McGough President, Ioxus

SUNY IT President Geer Preparation Includes Shovel-Ready Sites, Reports On $4.4 Billion Top County Economic Developers Assert ike Manikowski, Investment In 6,900 Jobs the Ontario

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has built an “eco-system” where nanotechnology – the applied science of miniaturizing to the molecular level – can live, breath and, most important, grow. “Travel anywhere in the world, and people understand what New York has done,” SUNY IT interim President Robert Geer told 250 intent businesspeople and elected officials gathered in Foothills’ main theater Thursday, Nov. 14, for the Please See SUNY IT President Geer reGEER, A6 ports on $4.4 million project.

County economic developer, told of building a 200-mile fiber-optic highway around his Rochesterarea demesne, ensuring any prospective employer has all the Internet access that might be needed. Kevin McLaughlin told how his Broome County IDA has accumulated sufficient real estate in its industrial parks – now full; new land is being sought – so it is completely funded privately through rents and leases, independent of county coffers, and thus able to react flexibly. Steve Hyde, president/ CEO of the Genesee County

Senator Seward drew a laugh when he cautioned economic developers from other counties not to poach on Otsego prospectives. Seated from left are Genesee’s Steve Hyde, Ontario’s Mike Manikowski, Broome’s Steve McLaughlin, and Brian McMahon, the state’s top development executive.

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Dave Hutchison, retired Hartwick College professor and chairman of the City of Oneonta Environmental Board, and Rich McCaffery, Cooperstown, volunteer in many causes, were named Conservationists of the Year by the Otsego County Conservation Association Monday, Nov. 18, at the OCCA’s annual meeting at The Depot Restaurant, Oneonta. Front row, from left, are Darla Youngs, OCCA executive director, and Vicky Lentz, OCCA president. In the back row are, from left, Lou Allstadt, Cooperstown, (2012 co-honoree); Hutchison; Ed Lentz, Garrattsville, (2007 honoree), and McCaffery.

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roceeds from the 2013 Bassett New Year’s Eve Gala, “Queen of Hearts,” will benefit the Bassett Heart Care Institute, now marking its 10th year. The New Year’s Eve benefit, hosted by the Friends of Bassett Healthcare Network, will be 7:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. at The Otesaga, culminating in a champagne toast and fireworks. Gala chairs are Dr. John Kelley, division chief, cardiac surgery and Dr. Patrick McNulty, division chief, cardiology. Tom Morgan, syndicated columnist and formerly with The Morgan McReynolds Group in Oneonta, will be honored guest. He and wife Erna played leading roles in JOIN BOARD: The Town Board of the Town of Otsego is looking for volunteers to serve on the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Planning Board, according to Supervisor Anne Geddes-Atwell. Those interested please send a letter of interest with all of your contact information to the Town Clerk, PO Box 183, Fly Creek, NY 13337 or call 547-5631 and leave a message.

fundraising for the Heart Care Institute a decade ago. The Silent Auction will feature such offerings at a 10-day stay in a home in England (donated by David Redding) or a week in a luxury penthouse duplex in Lisbon, (donated by Dr. Christopher and Lady Juliet Morgan Tadgell). Reservations are $200 per person. Black tie is optional and valet parking is available. Info, call the Friends Office, 547-3928, or check www.friendsofbassett.org. The Otesaga offers a special overnight rate; call (800) 348-6222.

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The confirmation at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church Friday, Nov. 8, brought together three generations of Cooperstown Central School quarterbacks: Joseph D. Booan, Sr., CCS ’61, now living in Roanoke, Va.; his son, Joseph D. Booan, Jr., CCS ’82, ONC BOCES director of student services and former village mayor, and Carmen Joseph (the middle name is for his grandfather) Booan, current quarterback of the CCS Hawkeyes. “For the record,” said Joe Booan Jr., “I had more passing yards than my father. (He’ll love reading that.)”

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he best way to say “Happy Birthday” to the Baseball Hall of Fame is to sing “Take Me Out To the Ball Game.” And the best way to sing that is with the Boston Pops playing behind you. “They’re the greatest house

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Father John P. Rosson blesses 700 pounds of potatoes St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” parish planned to donate to the Cooperstown and Hartwick food banks Wednesday, Nov. 20. With him are committee members, from left, Don Dubois, Doreen Potrikus and Donna Gerard.

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ttendance set a record at CCS’s production of “Les Miserables” Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 14-17, in Sterling Auditorium. More than 2,000 attended during the four-day run. Except for Thursday, all performances were sold out. The musical was directors Sammy and Barbara Bayes’ last show. The husband had a career on Broadway. HUNTER KILLED: Charles Bruce, 52, of Franklin Square on Long Island, was shot in the chest and died while hunting at 10:20 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, off Steve Braun Road in Westford. ARTS GRANTS: NYSCA grants up to $5,000 ($99,400 in all) are available for 2014 to arts groups in Otsego and two other counties. Deadline to apply is Dec. 11. Details at www. chenangoarts.org WINNING WORK: The Central New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has recognized SWBR Architects, Rochester, for the design of The School at Springbrook.

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band in baseball,” said Jeff Idelson, Hall of Fame president. With a star-studded concert, a commemorative coin and the descendents of Babe Ruth coming to the party, the Baseball Hall of Fame will celebrate its 75th anniversary in style. Kicking off the celebration is the Hall of Fame

Classic weekend, May 23-25, featuring a parade, golf tournament, the BASE race, youth programs and a chance to visit with baseball legends in town for the game. Though the 2013 weekend was wet and dreary, the Hall of Fame turned itself into a “living history exhibit,” giving visitors a

chance to mingle with classic players. “We made the most of a rainy weekend,” he said. The descendents of Babe Ruth will be on hand to help the Hall of Fame celebrate their birthday the weekend of June 12-14, joining in reflecting on the opening of the hall in 1939. The weekend will feature other

Holiday S how S ignals Season A Coopella was a hit at the Cooperstown Art Association’s opening of its Holiday Show Friday, Nov. 15. From left are Ron Bishop, Peter Howard, Celeste John, Tom Chase, Scottie Baker, Judy Steiner Grin, Maryanne Dietz, Deb Dalton, Jim Dalton and Chris Kjolhede.

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ith Black Friday coming up quick and dark, you don’t have to get up early or stand in a long chilly line outside. Instead, you can just get up and take a stroll down Main Street. “We don’t have Black Friday in Cooperstown,” RiverThe Freeman’s Journal wood proprietor Rick Kathryn Busse Gibbon will tell you. shows off the Gibbon, like many Alex & Ani jewother shop owners, elry line at The is looking forward to Silver Fox. Small Business Saturday on Nov. 23, a national shopping trend that’s been gaining Please See FRIDAY, A8

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Memorial For RSCS Teacher Who Died In Fire Is Planned

Adeline Spencer, 9 months, on the back of mom Gillian, was a hit at her first Holiday Show. Behind her is Ann Marnell, visiting from Huntsville, Va.

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special guests and programs, to be announced. And Idelson is already looking forward to a starstudded Hall of Fame weekend July 25-28, with Atlanta Braves pitchers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, Houston Astros baseman, catcher and outfielder Craig Biggio and catcher Mike Piazza all on the Baseball Writers Association of Please See HALL, A8

STEM subjects. That’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics, building blocks for careers in the $1.5 billion expansion of SUNY IT – 40 miles up the road – that Governor Cuomo announced in October. “We want our students to keep pace,” said school Superintendent C.J. Hebert in an

interview on the upcoming bond issue, which will be voted on 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the high school. In deciding to pursue a bond issue, the CCS board considered the state’s 71.8 percent building-aid ratio: The local share of the $6.6 million is just $207,655, Hebert said. Please See BONDS, A8

memorial service is planned at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, for Mary Weingates, the RSCS science teacher who died in a fire last Saturday morning at her Walnut Street home. A neighbor called 911 to report the fire at 42 Chestnut, and Assistant Fire Chief Doug Brooks discovered the home in flames when he arrived at the scene. The blaze was extinguished by 11 a.m. County Emergency Services and the state Department of Fire Prevention and Control are investigating the cause of the fire, but it is believed to be accidental. Grief counselors were available at the school during the week. The service will be in the school gym/FULL OBITUARY, B9

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he valuable observations and information provided by outside experts can help move Otsego County forward. Now we need to roll up our sleeves, combine this sage advice with our own creative ideas, and work collectively to implement a strategic plan that will yield future economic success.” State Sen. JAMES L. SEWARD, Milford Host, Second Otsego County “Economic Development Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta

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Stars Are Aligned To Do Economic Development Right

ometimes the stars align. Thursday, Nov. 14, while 250 business and local government leaders were listening to exciting possibilities for Otsego County’s future at the second “Seward Summit” at Foothills in Oneonta, county Treasurer Dan Crowell was back in Cooperstown, putting the finishing touches on his 2014 proposed county budget. When he and son Paul – can you believe, that lad Dan used to hoist around everywhere on a backpack is now a strapping 6? – stopped by the office with a copy that afternoon, there was good news indeed. Instead of the $2 million deficit anticipated in the first rounds, Crowell had discovered that state requirements – mandates, if you will – on pension and Medicare contributions have leveled out. Overall, the county budget climbs to $125 million. But the tax levy, the part we locals have to worry about, will go up just 0.14 percent. That’s one-14th of one per-

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cent, practically nothing. • Meanwhile, at Foothills, we were learning counties that succeed in economic development have focused efforts, guided by strategic plans and led by strong, savvy and visionary executives.

As Lou Allstadt pointed out after the session, fracking wasn’t mentioned once. It was all about high-tech, about plugging into the state’s nanotechnology “eco-system” that, flourishing in the Hudson Valley, has expanded to the Utica area in the past few months with the $4.4 billion, 6,900job initiative at SUNY IT at Marcy, just 37 miles from Cooperstown. The school superintendents in the audience, Oneonta’s Joe Yelich, Cooperstown’s C.J. Hebert, Milford’s Peter Livshin and others who have been singing the STEM song for a half-decade, must have been saying “yes!” to themselves. So must have SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski: One of her first initiatives five years ago was forming a STEM council to prepare elementary students for the college’s growing science, technology, engineering and math curriculum. Sometimes the stars align. •

GOOD NEWS: To review Crowell’s proposed county budget, go to Friday, Nov. 15, entries at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

Sometimes the stars don’t align. As of today, it’s uncertain where the county’s existing economic-development entities are going – the county Economic Development Office, post-Carolyn Lewis, the county IDA and the Otsego County Development Corp. For a while, it looked like they’d also been captured by the excitement that has been growing since state Sen. Jim Seward’s first “Economic Development Summit” at The Otesaga in March 2012. Lately it’s been hard to read. The current idea is to actually increase the number of positions dedicated to economic development, two paid for by the county, another two by the IDA and a fifth, still undefined, that might be focused on the kinds of goals raised at the second “Seward Summit..”

Can we afford the $120,000+/- prospective salary? If there was any doubt, the City of Oneonta alone is spending that much for a city manager who has more than proven his value in a year in office. In reality, if we don’t spend what it costs to play, we’re dealing ourselves out of the game. No doubt those are the conversations that Seward is now having, and everyone can only wish him well. • For the good news is, we have the capacity to align those stars. The second summit delivered the message that, only with a strong executive, who can push through “shovel-ready sites,” then reach out to energetic peers in growing nanotech and other areas of opportunity, can we get in the game. It’s a national game, even an international one. Seward is meeting with key players right now to come up with the necessary structure by Jan. 1, when the new county budget takes effect. The county board

chair, Kathy Clark, in her “take-away” inputs from the summit, has signaled she’s aboard. Now, Crowell has shown us we can indeed afford to do what needs to be done: The tax rate is stable, and the Double-M albatrosses – The Manor and MOSA – will be off our necks in the next few months. We can afford to do what we ought to do. Let’s align the stars. Let’s find and hire that strong executive. (Sandy Mathes, the former Green County economic developers, has been advising Seward and others in recent months; if he’s agreeable, grab him, at least short term, to put the pieces in place. He knows what to do.) Let’s make the county office, IDA and OCDC handmaidens to the main impetus. This isn’t theoretical. It’s about successful lives, about prosperous families, about thriving businesses. Let’s act now. Or lose the momentum for a generation.

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t seems clear that our local approach is fragmented and underresourced. The contrast with the approach of the other areas from which we heard is stark. We have been falling further behind and the pace of that will only accelerate. I am hopeful that Senator Seward will be able to lead us to reverse our previous and current direction. Otherwise we are greatly penalizing those who will follow us. Dick Miller Mayor City of Oneonta • believe this community has the collective will, collaborative

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spirit and the assets to take meaningful steps forward in economic development. Hartwick College remains a committed partner to the Greater Oneonta Community, and looks for ways to strengthen our contribution to Oneonta/Cooperstown’s economic well-being. Jim Broschart Vice President, Institutional Advancement Hartwick College • t was a very informative morning, providing solid guidance on how to move forward. As Dick Miller noted in his speech, the present and future health of Otsego County is grounded in the health of Oneonta and Cooperstown. Building

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up these two municipalities to the standards that outside companies are seeking is of primary importance. As Dick Sheehy said, we need solid infrastructure and quality of life to attract businesses. We’ve got the latter. If the county is serious about its economic future, then they will provide the financial aid that Oneonta and Cooperstown need to create the former. Jeff Katz Mayor Village of Cooperstown • UNY Oneonta supports Senator Seward in making sure economic growth is at the top of the list of our region’s priorities. We look forward to partnering with the business community, elected officials and development agencies to build a stronger Otsego County. Nancy Kleniewski President SUNY Oneonta

Turn-Key Sites, Incentives Needed

n order to realize the promise of tomorrow we need to get our act together today.Without key players stepping up to the plate and embracing a well-coordinated, team effort to nurture our current businesses, encourage expansion and provide a singular point of contact for prospective businesses we will continue to fall short. To even be a blip on the radar screen, we must be able to offer”turn-key” sites, with incentive packages to mitigate the deleterious effects of the onerous NY state tax and regulatory climate, and provide a work force that has the requisite industry skills. None of these challenges is insurmountable. The time to stand up and deliver is now! I am confident that a county that touts agriculture amongst its assets should not only be able to sow the seeds of economic development but also to cultivate those seeds and yield a bountiful harvest. I look forward to taking on this challenge during the coming year. KATHY CLARK Otego Chair, Otsego County Board of Representatives • he timing and information of the Summit was perfect. The county is primed for respon-

sible economic development. But we must, one, update our current website with fresh information on site

selection and, two – most critical – identify sites and organize all appropriate components of land, zoning, permits and logistics at one clear point of delivery to get on their radar. Carol Blazina President, Foothills Performing Arts Center Oneonta • am very encouraged by the progress we have made so far and commend Senator Seward on bringing the group together. This area has a lot to offer, both from a resources standpoint and a quality of life standpoint. Working together we can further define our goals and continue to grow our local economy to ensure that our young people have outstanding employment opportunities. Ken Meifert President, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce

Clean Water, Ag,Tourism, Lifestyle Among County’s Existing Advantages

enator Seward found a constructive way to avoid another gripe session and instead brought in several Upstate New York experts in economic development who told us what has worked elsewhere in New York State and around the world, and they gave us some straight talk about our assets and our weaknesses. ►The main opportunities that I heard from the experts are: • Using our clean water and agricultural base to move up the addedvalue chain for agricultural products. (yogurt, hops, beer, etc) • Building on the tourism base. • Using our lifestyle advantages to attract more people who work from

home. (a growing segment of the national workforce). ► Secondary opportunities: • Data centers (not many jobs but construction investment and property taxes). • Medical devices and equipment using nearby nano tech. ► Weaknesses are: • Lack of one-stop shopping for any business seeking to locate here or expand here. • Lack of broadband. (Need fiber optics with multiple carriers to be competitive). • Lack of shovel-ready sites (needed for small manufacturing and job creation, even if we never get the 100 job factories that we were told

are unlikely to come here). • Universities need to be closer aligned with development needs right here so we don’t export our best young people. • Universities need to cooperate across SUNY campuses. ►Neutral: • We are not in the high-tech corridor but close enough for some people to commute. May attract a few related businesses. • Little mention of our rail or I-88 access except to say shovel ready sites need to be close to them. LOU ALLSTADT Retired Executive VP, Mobil Oil Village Trustee, Cooperstown

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

Domestic Manufactures – It is with singular pleasure we learn that a complete digest of the returns of the U.S. Marshals regarding the manufactures of the United States &c. has been prepared at the Treasury Department, to be laid before Congress at its next season. The grand aggregate value of these manufactures is upwards of one hundred and seventy millions of dollars though the account excludes flour of all kinds, pot and pearl ashes and some other articles, of which the cost of the original material still constitutes the chief value of the manufactured commodity. November 20, 1813

150 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from a report from the 121st New York State Vols.: The 121st Regiment has again met the enemy – this time with the most gratifying results. We broke camp near Warrenton, Virginia, at daybreak on the 7th inst., and marched with the rest of the corps to within about one mile of Rappahannock Station, at which point the enemy were in considerable force entrenched on both sides of the river. . November 20, 1863

125 YEARS AGO

A committee previously appointed to make a thorough examination of the edifice, reported to the Baptist Church and Society on Thursday evening of last week, that it was their unanimous opinion, sustained by that of a competent builder, that it was inexpedient to attempt the thorough repair and enlargement of the present building; that it would cost fully half what it would to build a new structure and still it would not be what is desired. November 23, 1888

100 YEARS AGO

The inconvenience to which many residents of Cooperstown were put by the discontinuance of the gas service this fall bids fair to be overcome by the use of electricity for fuel purposes. The Colliers Light, Heat & Power Company makes the an-

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nouncement that Cooperstown people may have electricity installed for fuel purposes upon terms that will make its use fully as economical as gas. The company plans to furnish at cost all stoves and apparatus, and will have a demonstrator here soon. November 19, 1913

75 YEARS AGO

Regulation of outboard motorboats on Otsego Lake is requested in a petition stating in part that the operation of speed boats “has become an intolerable nuisance to the residents along the south shore of Otsego Lake and those further inland including surgical patients in the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. November 23, 1938

50 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown Central School Board of Education has announced plans to construct a six-classroom addition plus shower and locker room facilities at its elementary school on Walnut Street. The board has sign Myron A. Jordan, Richfield Springs architect to draw preliminary plans for the addition. Application has also been made to the State Education Department for approval and for state aid which could amount to 68 percent of the estimated $275,000 cost and bond issue interest. November 20, 1963

25 YEARS AGO

Cooperstown’s Friends of the Parks group has received two major grants for improvements at Three Mile Point Park with added funds for work three other village park sites. The Clark Foundation granted $25,000, and a matching grant of $37,750 will come from the NYS Office of Parks. November 23, 1988

10 YEARS AGO

A baseball bat used by New York Yankee slugger Hedeki Matsui was displayed recently by Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey to 33 members of the Japanese media. November 21, 2003

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The OTSEGO Newspapers — The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta — are joining with The Salvation Army to make a joyful Christmas for area families through its 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 week marks the 91st year of this community tradition, partnering this year with The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army has gathered Christmas wish lists on this Christmas tree, grouped by family. Embrace one individual or an entire family, every gift is appreciated. Shop by yourself or with friends and colleagues. The more the merrier! Gifts should be both new and unwrapped (price tags removed please), and received no later than December 11 (to allow the elves time for wrapping and loading). Gifts may be dropped of 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, MJ Kevlin, at 607-547-6103, or e-mail ads@allotsego.com (Monday-Friday, 9 am to 5 pm)

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21-22, 2013

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County At Center Of Fishkill-Malta-Marcy Nano Triangle GEER/From A1 second “Seward Summit,” state Sen. Jim Seward’s effort to awake Otsego County to the real economic-development opportunities out there. First, New York State harnessed the SUNY system to the task. Second, it created the “world class infrastructure,” the wired buildings and white rooms that high-high-tech requires. Third came “15 years of continuing partnering and investing,” Geer said. Now comes the payoff. In September, Governor Cuomo announced a $4.4 billion partnership, G450C – the Global 450 Consortium – that will expand the nanotechnology boom from the Hudson Valley west to SUNY IT in Marcy, north of Utica. The state’s share is a relative small $400 million. The G450C partners include Intel, IBM, Samsung and Global Foundries, the latter which has invested $6.6 billion in Malta, south of Saratoga, and hired

Steve Dimeo, president/CEO, Mohawk Valley EDGE, has seen his strategy come to fruition with G450C. Brian Rooney, former of the Center for Economic Growth, Albany, listens to Dimeo’s remarks.

12,000 people; IBM is doing similarly in Fishkill, near Poughkeepsie, investing $2.5 billion. (Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller and other Summit-goers observed that Otsego County is right in the middle of the FishkillMalta-Marcy triangle.)

G450C is building a three-phased 700,000square-foot Computer Chip Commercialization Center (CCCC) on Geer’s campus. The goal: “transforming next-generation wafer technology to next-generation system technology.” In other words, bringing the science to market. Construction began immediately on what will be a quarter-millionsquare-foot complex, Geer said. The centerpiece will be a 56,000-square-foot, two-level “ballroom-style cleanroom” that Geer called “unique in the U.S.” The state’s nanotechnology miracle didn’t just happen: It was envisioned in the latter years of Mario Cuomo’s administration, progressed during Republican George Pataki’s, and is now coming into full flower under the second Cuomo, according to discussion at the summit. One model for what is happening Upstate is Singapore, the island state of

5.4 million people, which is flourishing after decades of “sustainable strategic investment,” said Geer. Similarly, Germany invests 10 percent of its GDP in education and funds German “Fraunhofer Institutes” dedicated to cutting-edge research. “There’s a pattern here,” said Geer. “No one has to hit us over the head with this. It’s a model that works.” Nanotechnology is not a race to the bottom, as so much economic development seems to be, but taking the cream off the top. Every Ph.D. on the job at Marcy will require 14 support workers – ranging from high-paid engineers and managers, to wirers and installers, to the guy pushing a mop. And all levels of education, from high school, to a two-year technical degree, to extensive study in the nation’s best universities. And at wide salary ranges, from the $30s to $120s.

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SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski confers with SUNY IT Interim President Robert Geer as the morning’s program ended. With them are Colleen Brannan, senior assistant to Kleniewski, and Ross Goodman, an assistant vice president at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering in Albany.

In the typical development of an industry, Geer went on, there’s a “valley of death” between the initial research and bringing products to market – this is the gap G450C – and the nano “ecosystem” – is designed to fill. Plus, the SUNY IT effort will “not

only grow business. It’s a college campus. We can train people,” he said. Not everybody gets it, which will work to New York’s advantage. While the state has been ramping up its investment, the U.S. investment in basic research has continued to decline.

Experts: Develop Strategy Plan, Fund It, Implement. It Required Risk, But Calculated Risk PANELS/From A1 want to be an economic-development engine, you have to take some calculated risks,” he said. A key to success, said Hyde – a point that was repeated by many throughout the morning – was “shovel-ready sites. We had these great assets” – Genesee County is about the size of Otsego – “we didn’t have any shovel-ready sites.” Brian McMahon, Empire State Development Corp. executive director, who moderated that panel, on an “Action Agenda” for economic development in Otsego County, gave a four-point plan of attack: One, promoted BRAE, business retention and expansion; two, encourage startups; three, attract new investment and jobs Thinking of Remodeling? Think of Refinancing!

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within a regional context, and four, support small business. “Culture eats strategy for lunch every day of the week,” said McMahon, and it has to be a culture where the stakeholders – like the businesspeople and elected officials listening at the second “Seward Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills – can adapt and compromise to achieve goals. “Structure should enable function,” said the state’s top job seeker, as the county struggles with how to restructure its Economic Development Office, its IDA and the Otsego County Economic Development Corp. Foremost, he continued, “the good ones have an understanding of what they want to do.”

McMahon’s panel, consisting of county economic developers, was followed by one of regional economic developers, including Steve DiMeo, president/CEO of Mohawk Valley Edge, which helped land G450C at SUNY IT. David Rooney, who was an early administrator of the Albany area’s Center for Economic Growth, recalled how, in the 1980s, the first step was to “improve the gateways,” including upgrading the thensleepy airport and marketing the potential of the Capital Region’s 27 colleges and universities. “Who would assign value to our region when we went out to market?” Rooney said the early developers asked themselves.

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Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller trades conclusions with Rooney, left, and Dimeo. In foreground, Ken Tompkins, right, Mohawk Valley Economic Development Council director, chats with Duncan Davie, aide to Senator Seward. In the background is Apple Converting President Troy Turley.

Part of the Cooperstown contingent, Mayor Jeff Katz, left, and Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, center, grill Dick Sheehy, the national site-selection executive who said Otsego County simply doesn’t “make the list.”

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SEWARD/From A1 Interviewed after the summit ended, the senator said he plans to meet with small groups of key business and political leaders over the next few weeks to come up with the best economic-development structure for success, as recommended by Sheehy and other speakers. “We’ve got a lot of work to do,” said Seward. “It’s not going to end here today.” Seward’s second summit followed 20 months of economic-development ferment set in motion by his first summit, in March 2012 at The Otesaga. That summit – many of the key players who attended had never met each other, the senator observed – focused local attention on CFAs (Consolidated Funding Applications), the key tool localities must use to extract development funds from the Cuomo Administration. While the first round of CFA awards, announced last December, was disappointing overall, the Village of Cooperstown won longsought funding for a Main Street sidewalk project. But the county scored big in a round of CDBG funding this fall, with funding to renovate to major buildings in downtown Oneonta and a Brooks’ House of BBQ bottling-plant expansion, among other projects. The second summit came in the midst of discussion about reorganizing and repositioning the county’s economic-development effort that followed the resignation of long-time Economic Developer Carolyn Lewis. It came as pro-environment Sustainable Otsego candidates suffered at the polls Nov. 5, and in the midst of agitation for more private-sector development by two Oneonta-based business groups: Citizen Voices, which was among the summit sponsors, and GO-EDC, a study group that is focused on reviving the city’s former D&H yards and spurring hops and microbrewery development. In putting together the second summit, Seward sought the help of Sandy Mathes, who achieved signature success during a dozen years as Green County economic developer. Earlier this year, the county had sought Mathes’ advice on what to do in Lewis’ wake. After opening remarks by former IDA interim director Doug Gulotty, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller and Kathy Clark, the county board chair recently reelected by a landslide, SUNY IT President Robert Geer described the $4.4 billion nanotechnology development expected to bring 6,900 new, well-paying jobs

to the Utica area. new plant, a list of a dozen And Ken Tompkins, prospective sites is develdirector, Mohawk Valley oped, then reduced to three Regional Development or four. If a community wants Council, which includes new development, “just Otsego, reviewed CFA don’t get kicked off that progress and strategy. list,” he said. Right now, The audience was a Otsego County would be. Who’s Who in county leadNew York is disadvanership, ranging from Bassett taged by all the “cities and President/CEO Bill Streck towns and hamlets,” comand SUNY Oneonta Presipared to the large, single dent Nancy Kleniewski, governmental entities in the to Cooperstown Village western U.S. “When my Mayor Jeff Katz, accompaclients are looking for sites, nied by Village Trustee Lou (governmental subdivisions) Allstadt, the retired Mobil don’t matter at all,” he said. executive vice president, to Localities can overcome key Kathy Clark allies on such fragmentation by havthe county board like Linda ing a single point of contact Rowinski and Kay Stuligwhen a company comes ross of Oneonta. calling. “I need to know Businesspeople included who to call,” said Sheehy. Mark McGough, Ioxus Otsego County is not alone president, Springbrook in lacking that; he’s called Executive Director Patricia communities seeking to Kennedy, Hall of Fame vice place $20 million projects president Ken Meifert, who that would have created 100 is also new president of jobs, “and I don’t get a call the Cooperstown Chamber of back.” Commerce. And many more. “The best economic After Tompkins, panels development group in the of the top county economic world is Singapore,” he developers and top regional continued. “It’s a country. economic developers shared I know who to call in Sinsuccess stories leading up gapore.” Singapore is 200 to the piece de resistance, square miles, Otsego 1,015 the presentation by Sheehy, square miles. “Get ready. who had arrived in the Be ready,” Sheehy said. county early the day before, Not only does Otsego which he spent visiting County lack that person, he prospective sites and talkcontinued, it lacks “shoveling with local leaders, an ready sites,” fully permitted estimated 100 or more. locations where companies Otsego County needs can begin construction to take a hard-eyed look almost immediately. at itself if it is to succeed But all was not gloomy. in economic development, Foremost, Otsego County Sheehy said. “Take your has clean water, which old eyes off and put your more and more is lacking new eyes on,” he declared. elsewhere. Water, he said, When site selectors like is particularly important himself are approached by to data centers, the switchCOB 74182 Commercial Loan Ada— Size A:board 9.25”w of x6”h, BW a client looking to build modern communi-

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Informational Meeting Dec. 3 on $6.6 M Bond Issue BONDS/From A3 Material prepared in advance of an informational session on the bond issue at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the high school cafeteria, said the local share will increase the tax bill by $2.43 a month on a home assessed for $150,000. The existing workshop encompasses a “very large space” that included a woodshop, metal shop and darkroom, said Hebert – almost 5,000 square feet. “As student course requirements have changed, we have downsized that

area.” The renovated space will include a 1,200square-foot workshop, and it will be used for the one required eighthgrade course and related high-school electives, C.J. Hebert as well as for building sets for plays. The janitorial department will also use it. The rest of the space will include three music practice areas – students

currently practice in the hall of the band room – and an art-storage space, as well as the tech lab and workroom. The money will also be used for energy-efficiency initiatives, including replacing the old boilers with propane-powered high-efficiency ones, Hebert said. LED lighting will also be installed in the auditorium, the gym and outdoors. The rest of the bond issue will The Freeman’s Journal expand parking, rebuilding a bus loop, Following Idelson’s announcement of the Hall’s 75th birthday party, the ribbon was cut on “Picsidewalk replacement, more secure exterior doors and other maintenance. turing America’s Pastime,” a new photo exhibit.

Cooperstown Merchants Banking On ‘Small Business Saturday’ FRIDAY/From A3 ground as an alternative to crowded big box retailers. “You can’t get this kind of merchandise at the mall,” said Kathryn Busse, coowner of Silver Fox Gifts and Christmas Around the Corner with hubby Rich. “People want that smalltown feel.” At Ellsworth & Sill, the free layaway and new line of Laurel Burch socks and bags have already been drawing in shoppers, even from out of town. “Ladies come in for lunch, then they do their shopping,” said

Marti Jex. Despite a mild fall, warmth is a big seller, with fleece-lined leggings and fluffy scarves among the more popular purchases. But she’s surprised, she said, at the popularity of the tiny purses she keeps on her counter. “I keep ordering them and people keep buying them,” she said. “You can store anything from jelly beans to contact lenses in them.” At Silver Fox, the annual Cooperstown Christmas ornament is already sold out, but the Busses are hop-

ing the “positive energy” of Alex & Ani jewelry will bring in some shoppers. “We’ve been trying to get that line for years,” she said. “Word’s gotten out that we have it.” Christine’s is getting in on the Black Friday fun for its first Christmas season, opening at 8 a.m. with 50 percent off jewelry, Donna Sharp bags and 20 percent off alpaca products. “We’re starting gift baskets too,” said employee Justine Johnson. “You pick out a pair of alpaca hiker socks, goat milk soap and a

candle.” It wouldn’t be Christmas without sweets, and Tin Bin Alley has some surprising ones. “We make a beer fudge with Ommegang’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Take the Black Stout,” said owner Ian Porto. “And Turkey Joints – they’ve been made in Rome since 1919, and they’re a sugar-coated ‘bone’ candy covered in milk chocolate and crushed nuts.” “We grew up shopping here as kids,” he added. “And each year, we keep adding to it.”

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MLS#87273 - 3 BR, 3 bath historic Greek Revival professionally renovated w/modern amenities. 3 acres w/ pond. Energy-efficient and luxurious. $325,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603 MLS#91049 - A mix of fields, pastures, and woodland on 171+ acres w/2 stocked ponds, ATV trails and 8-person heated and insulated tree stand. 3 BR ranch w/wrap-around deck, addition w/great room w/vaulted ceiling, open floorplan and all new appliances. New roof, semi-finished basement, central AC, 2-car/2-story carriage barn w/back porch. $699,500 Call Thomas Platt @ 607-435-2068 (cell)

MLS#90728 – Cute affordable! 1-floor living, 2 bedrooms, 1 full handicapped-accessible bath. Don’t pay rent when you can own a home at this price!! $63,000 Call Carol A Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)

MLS#90737 - Beautifully maintained inside and out! Home features 3 BRs and 1 bath. Freshly painted rooms. Hardwood floors throughout. Newly installed energy-efficient wood-burning fireplace insert. Easy commute to Oneonta , Norwich and Chobani. $74,000 Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)

MLS#86051 - Panoramic views and privacy with this custom 3 BR, 3 bath, energy-efficient new home. Offered w/10 acres but more acreage available. $295,000 Call Michelle A. Curran @ 518-469-5603 (cell)

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Edward J. Kroll, 83; Professional Golfer Set Leatherstocking Golf Course Record

COOPERSTOWN – Edward J. Kroll, 83, professional golfer and pro at the Leatherstocking Golf Club, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 at his home. Ed was born in New Hartford, in 1930, the fourth son and last of nine children to Jacob and Mary Krol. Ed attended and graduated from New Hartford Central High School in 1949. He was a four letter athlete who played baseball, basketball, football and golf. He also was chosen to represent Central New York in the New York State High

School Golf Championship Tournament in 1948. Ed started his golf career Edward Kroll caddying at the Yahnundasis Golf Club at age 9. He was 15 when he won the First Annual Utica Junior Amateur Championship title. He won the city junior title again at age 17. When he was 18, he took the top spot in the Utica

Amateur Championship, and won this title again the following year at age 19. Ed turned professional in 1950, serving his PGA apprenticeship under William Grygiel, Sr. at Drumlins C.C. in Syracuse. In 1952 he went to Cooperstown as assistant to then head golf professional, Len Raynor. In August of that same year Ed was named head golf professional of the then named Cooperstown Country Club. Ed continued to work for the Leatherstocking Corporation as head golf profes-

sional until his retirement in 1993. He married his wife Michaline, (Micky), in 1951 Ed was a lifetime member of the Professional Golfers Association of America for 58 years, earning his Class A title in 1955. In 1955, he won the Utica ObserverDispatch Open. He won several Utica Jenny Open Pro-Am titles with his longtime amateur partner, Dr. Walter Knych. He was the winner of the first annual Otesaga Open Invitational, three time winner of the Lakeshore Open in

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He started a junior program and coached the Cooperstown high school golf team for many years. He was a member of the Cooperstown Lions Club and was instrumental in starting its annual Christmas tree sale which still continues today. For many years he was the host golf professional for the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction weekend Golf Classic and Pro-Am. Ed’s most cherished accomplishment was as the founder and host of the Cooperstown Senior Open and Pro-Am to benefit Pathfinder Village, which he started in 1981. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, his daughters Louise Anne of Cooperstown, Kathryn of Oneonta, Nancy of Schenectady, his grandson Marcus Anthony Delgado III, also of Oneonta and several nieces and nephews. In accordance with Ed’s wishes, there will be no services. Arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.

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