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Mall Banishes Grinch

Holiday spirits inspired Southside Mall manager Luisa Montanti to let retail staffers spend Thanksgiving with family.

Except Anchors, All Stores Closed Thanksgiving

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uisa Montanti, manager of the Southside Mall, wasn’t sure what to expect when she announced the mall will be closed on Thanksgiving.

County Plans Budget Airing Next Monday COOPERSTOWN

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he public hearing on the proposed 2017 Otsego County budget will be at 6 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 28, at the County Office Building.

The hearing will follow a 3 p.m. work session by the full county Board of Representatives.

The $1.6 million budget includes a $11.4 million local tax levy, up 0.4 percent from this year. Taxes are expected to be stable.

ONE TO GO: As of Tuesday, Nov. 22, Cooperstown veteran EMT Fred Lemister had returned from Florida and answered one more emergency call, making him just one short of the 9,000 response mark.

QUINN RETURNS: Quinn Bernegger, the CCS grad now singing with the Binghamton area Tri-City Opera, has been chosen as lead tenor when the Voices of Cooperstown sings Handel’s “Messiah� on Dec. 17.

VISIT MUSEUMS: Admission is free at The Farmers’ and Fenimore the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving Day.

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Allie Nagelschmidt of Cooperstown didn’t let her shorter legs be out-danced by more senior members of the O’Donnell-Kelly School of Irish Dance, Hartwick, at Oneonta’s Santa Parade Saturday, Nov. 19.

“I saw that the Mall of America wasn’t going to be open on Thanksgiving,� she said. “And I thought, ‘If they can close, why can’t we take that stance?’�

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90 Grieving Progressives Meet, Chart Future

By JIM KEVLIN

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ack from three days campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Florida, a distressed Melinda Hardin, the Democratic activist, began inviting local “progressives� she knows to a campaign post mortem at her Main Street Hardin home. “The rule is, if you get 30 percent of the people you’ve invited you’re doing well,� said Hardin. “That’s not what happened.�

As more and more people said yes – 20, and 40, and 50 – and many of those asked to invite friends, she realized her and husband Lou Allstadt’s home couldn’t accommodate the crowd. “When it got as big as it got,� Hardin said, “I got worried.�

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Despite driving snow, Bassett doctor Zach Huston decorates the Cooperstown United Methodist Church’s lamppost at Main and Chestnut Sunday, Nov. 20. Again, the Cooperstown Community Christmas Committee marshalled enough volunteers to adorn the downtown from the courthouse to Village Hall. Wife Emily, Marge Dennen and Dianne Feury assisted/MORE PHOTOS, A3

17 County Non-Profits In ‘NY Gives Day’

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Day� on Tuesday, Nov. 29, is the new destination for holiday shoppers. “There are other days for shopping,� said Susan Kurkowski, United Way of Otsego-Delaware Counties executive director. “This is a way Please See GIVE, A3

Red Sox’ Manny Ramirez One Of 4 Newcomers Among HoF Candidates COOPERSTOWN

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he Red Sox standout Manny Ramirez is among four new contenders among 19 candidates on the 2017 Hall of Fame ballot that is being mailed this week to more than 400 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

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At Gonzaga, Coach Waller Again Leads Soccer Team To Top Title

cott Waller, CCS Class of ’93, coached Washington D.C.’s Gonzaga College High School varsity soccer team to victory in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Championship by beating arch-rival DeMatha 1-0.

This is the first time Gonzaga has taken the coveted title since 2012.

Waller, son of former Cooperstown mayor Carol and Bill Waller, played four years of soccer at Cooperstown and then starred at Castleton College. He is the chair Coach Scott Waller, in grey, coached Gonzaga Colof the Mathematics lege High School soccer, to a 1-0 victory over rivals Department at Gonzaga, DeMatha in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conferan all-boys Jesuit school, ence Championship. and has been the varsity consecutive WCAC Championships, in soccer coach since 2004.

2009, the Gonzaga Eagles Varsity Soccer In 2007, he was recognized as the WashTeam was rated #4 in the nation in the Adiington Post’s All-Met Coach of the Year das NSCCA Soccer Poll. after leading the Eagles to Back to Back The Washington Post has rated the team WCAC Championships. #1 In the WCAC and #1 in the region.

After nine straight playoff seasons and, for the first time in history, winning four

Greis Gomez Carrion Weds Josh P. Pearlman Downstate COOPERSTOWN

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ancy Potter and David Pearlman of Cooperstown, and Edilma Carrion of Bogota, Colombia, announce the marriage of their children, Greis Gomez Carrion and Joshua Potter Pearlman, of Larchmont.

The couple was married in the Mamaroneck United Methodist Church, Mamaroneck, where Josh’s parents were married in 1985, and the reception was held at the Larchmont Shore Club.

The bride was escorted by her mother and the groom’s grandfather, the Rev. Edwin A. Potter, who assisted in officiating the ceremony.

Nidia Gomez, the bride’s sister, served as maid of honor; her bridesmaids were Karen Galeas, Jenifer Chavez, Patricia Dalarme Kennedy, Audrey Williamson and Molly Pearlman.

Mr. Pearlman’s best man was Louis Sleiman and the groomsmen were John Katsimatidis, William de Wolff, Kevin Silberman, Ryan Huggins and Luke Terrell.

Following a honeymoon in Paris, the newlyweds live in lower Manhattan.

Ms. Gomez is employed by GfK as a media research associate and Mr. Pearlman

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Pearlman

works for Emigrant Bank as a risk analyst.

She is a graduate of Universidad de San Buenaventura in Bogota and the Berkley College in White Plains. The groom graduated from New York University in 2013.

GIBSON NAMED NEWEST LION

Brian Gibson, left, was accepted as a member of the Cooperstown Lions Club by Membership Chair Patrick Franck, sponsored by Paul Weber. The club, which raises money for many Cooperstown endeavors meets the first and third Wednesdays, September through June, 6:30 p.m. at the Tunnicliff Inn.

Fly Creek’s Knight Elected To SUNY Foundation Board

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eggie Knight, ’74, of Fly Creek has been elected to the College at Oneonta Foundation board of directors for his second four-year term.

Dr. Knight is the vice president of medical affairs of Fox Hospital.

Also elected was Bill Vining,’81, of Laurens, a professor and chair of the SUNY Oneonta Chemistry and Biochemistry Department.

Additionally elected to the board was Jerry Bermingham ’83 of Mamaroneck, (reelected for a second term) and new members Dean Davis ’84, of Naples, Fla., and Burton Relethford ’09, of Medford.

TOP CAMPGROUND: The Cooperstown KOA has earned the prestigious 2017 KOA President’s and Founder’s Awards from Kampgrounds of America Inc. The KOA Founder’s Award is given to those KOA campgrounds that attained the very highest scores in both customer service and the KOA Quality Review.

The awards were presented Wednesday, Nov. 16 at KOA’s Annual International Convention in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2016 No, Rich McCaffery is not flying, Mary-Poppins-like, over Cooperstown’s rooftops.

He’s on a ladder, decorating lamp posts Sunday, Nov. 20, for the 4Cs, the Cooperstown Community Christmas Committee.

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CHRISTMAS TRADITION

Sisters Avni Patel, 5, and Arya Patel, 8, offered brownies to passersby as their parents help decorate a nearby lamp post.

Otsego Town Supervisor Meg Kiernan, veteran of many a 4Cs undertaking, directs Dianne Feury to the lamp post she and other members of the Cooperstown Methodist Church are decorating. In the background, Bob Satriano and Mary Margaret Kuhn discuss decorations for Santa’s Cottage in Pioneer Park.

Non-Profits Trying Out ‘NY Gives Day’ Project

GIVING/From A1 shopping,” said Susan Kurkowski, United Way of Otsego-Delaware Counties executive director. “This is a way to give back to your community.”

An extension of the national “Giving Tuesday” idea, NY Gives is the brainchild of the state Council of Non-Profits and the United Way, aimed at bringing attention to local non-profits.

“There are 640 non-profits registered across the state,” she said.

Kurkowski helped connect more than 15 local non-profits to the site, where donors can give gifts during the 24hour window without having to any fees. “It’s a very easy way to donate,” she said.

“Times are changing, and with social media, it’s making it easier to spread the word and raise these donations.”

Locally, the Greater Oneonta Historical Society is taking part. “We’re giving people options to donate to either the General Fund, which funds programs, our shop and awards, the 150th Year Fund or the Building Fund,” said Beth Steele, a GOHS board member and Hartwick College’s director of advancement communications. “We want to be openminded and connect with donor interests.”

Orpheus Theatre is also on the list, with donations going towards musical theatre workshops for children and teens, the youth theatre troupe and the annual performances.

Hartwick College was one of the first local entities

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ocal non-profits participating in “NY Gives Day” are: ►Greater Oneonta Historical Society ►Destination Oneonta ►Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Inc. ►Oneonta Family YMCA ►Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Oswego Counties ►Orpheus Theatre, Inc. ►United Way of Delaware and Otsego Counties ►Family Resource Network ►Ten Fold Plus ►Oneonta World of Learning (OWL) ►Bright Hill Press Inc. ►Hanford Mills Museum ►Jail Ministry of Otsego County ►Susquehanna Animal Shelter DONATE AT www.nygivesday.org

to get involved in Giving Tuesday, three years ago, using it to encourage donors to increase participation. “Now we use it to shine a light on alumni who are active in non-profits,” said Steele.

“It’s our way of thanking them.”

And after Susquehanna Animal Shelter took in 36 cats found in a deteriorating home in West Oneonta, donations are needed more than ever. “We have almost 100 cats and 22 dogs,” said the shelter’s Becca Daly. “We’ve been given donations of food, litter and garbage bags, but all of these animals need medical care, and donations are hugely helpful in paying those bills.”

Perspectives

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2016

EDITORIAL

This Thanksgiving, Reflect On National Challenges Overcome

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ere’s something to worry about.

You and 101 others – 40 of you Pilgrims – sail across the rough Atlantic on the 100-footlong Mayflower. Wintering on board, 56 of your fellow passengers die. In April, the ship sails back to England, leaving you and the other survivors amid strangers in an unknown land.

By luck, your small colony encounters Samoset, an Englishspeaking Pawtuxet, who helps you form an alliance with the local Wampanoags, who help you plant crops.

You work, you pray and, that fall, “by the goodness of God,” your fellow Pilgrim, Edward Winslow, writes back to friends in England, “we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”

That was a highpoint, of course.

Privations aplenty, fallings out with the natives and subsequent wars, and other challenges follow.

Yet, despite your many human failings and those of your fellow settlers, foundations of what today is the world’s oldest democracy are laid; freedom of belief and conscience in particular.

(By the way, 150 years later, with the Iroquois quelled during the American Revolution, your descendants flooded out of over-populated New England into Otsego County.)

• Sure, Donald Trump’s election was a surprise. But it’s too early to really tell how awful he may be – or not.

There can be some reassurance in President Reagan’s second term, where seasoned people around him kept the Ship of State on a steady course despite his advancing Alzheimer’s.

Most worrisome about the new president is whether his offhanded attitude toward nuclear armaments in the campaign will continue into the Trump Administration, or whether the awesome responsibility for the future of mankind will fully take hold.

Short of the world’s destruction, all things shall pass.

• The gathering of 85 (mostly) Democrats in Cooperstown over the weekend sounded like a bit of a communal therapy session, but the goal – to figure out what to do now, after losing the White House

Richfield Springs’ 19th century artist Ellen Clapsaddle popularized Thanksgiving as a celebration of plenty.

and both houses of Congress – is a practical one.

Interviewed later, the Democratic county chair, Richard Abbate, made it concrete: Anyone interested in changing the system should get involved in the system.

He suggested people looking to do

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retrospect, a predictable result.

• In Casale’s view, the current administration is going to work out just fine for New York State.

He predicts “a lot of movement” in the next month, as New Yorkers – after all, the bulk of the new president’s circle is New Yorkers – move into influential positions in the administration.

Even moreso with New York’s U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer moving into the Senate minority leader slot. (A canny cat, he is already developing a list of issues where Democrats and the president are more likely to be aligned than the president and the Republicans, the Times reported the other day.)

The point is, all is not lost, and the future very well may be bright.

A couple of years ago, a researcher reviewing Fly Creek Valley Cemetery records noticed a spike in mid-winter suicides one year in the 18-teens. It turns out a poor harvest followed by a bitter winter and zero safety net caused desperate farm couples to simply give up.

By contrast, fellow Pilgrims, things are pretty good. Happy Thanksgiving!

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something attend the Wednesday, Nov. 30, county committee meeting and plan to run for office.

His first goal, he said, is to make a dent in the county Board of Representatives, where just four Democrats now serve to the Republicans’ 10. That would begin creating a “bench” of prospects for a Congressional run and beyond – the paucity of Democrats in statehouses, governors’ offices and Congress has been widely noted.

Abbate’s counterpart, GOP county chair Vince Casale, said reverses nationally and locally reflect Democrats’ inability to talk to “regular people.” He’s got a point.

Nationally, commentary in recent days has focused on the failure of “identity politics” to go the distance. When you think about it, the Democrats had an audacious idea: assemble a majority from minorities, from Latinos, blacks, Asian and Muslim Americans, the LGBT community, college-educated women. Forget the traditional base: White working- and middleclass Americans who still constitute 70 percent of the electorate.

The Democrats forgot the first Clinton’s campaign mantra – “it’s the economy, stupid” – with, in

Jennie Brownscombe’s “The First Thanksgiving” captures the traditional view of the holiday.

‘By The Goodness Of God, We Are Far From Want’ Editor’s Note: Pilgrim Edward Winslow’s eyewitness account of the First Thanksgiving was recounted in a letter to a friend in England.

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ur harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gath-

ered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week.

“At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, and many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days

we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others.

“And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”

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grew up in a small town in Rhode Island and am the youngest of seven children. I have five brothers and one sister. I am convinced that growing up with five older brothers caused me to form broad shoulders and thick skin, qualities that have become assets in my life today.

Before I was born, my father left my mother with all seven children in what must have been an impossible situation for me to imagine even to this day. She only had a high school education at the time, and it became

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Drug-free for six years, Rebekah Smith tells how, as a teenager, unused drugs in medicine cabinets trapped her in a cycle that was hard to break.

quite clear that if she was going to be able to keep her family together she would need to go to college and get an education.

When I think about her going to school fulltime and raising seven children I am awe-inspired and confused

at the same time about how she was able to manage under such pressure.

I have one child and am a full-time student working parttime, and certain days I feel that all my managing could fall around my feet. So I can’t even imagine doing it with seven children.

With that being said, she completed her college education and raised all us children with a registered nursing license. I guess perseverance, dedication and hard work are engrained in my makeup, set by the example of my mother.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2016

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

200 YEARS AGO

Suicide – On Tuesday evening last, James Brownell, living near the Susquehanna Factory, in Hartwick, put a period to his life by hanging himself. From the report of the Coroner’s Inquest it appears that he had for several weeks previous to his death been in a state of derangement. He was about 50 years of age, and has left a large family.

Thanksgiving – The Northern Associated Presbytery of the State of New York, have agreed to observe the last Thursday in November annually, as a Day of Thanksgiving.

They have therefore notified the churches under their care, that Thursday, the 28th inst. will be observed as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God, for the mercies of the past year; and they have requested the general congregations connected with said churches to join with them in the sacred duties of said day.

November 28, 1816

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75 YEARS AGO

Mothers of the members of the 1941 Cooperstown High School football squad were hostesses at the seventeenth annual football banquet at the Woman’s club rooms on Tuesday last week. While the dinner was in progress, the members of the squad voted by ballot for next year’s captain and elected Bruce Clark to that place of honor. Principal Ralph W. Perry presided as toastmaster and introduced the speakers. Brief talks were made by Frank C. Carpenter, a member of the Board of Education, Jack Blanchard, comanager with Ralph Wells, Alfred Roes, who has enlisted in the Marines and will soon be leaving for duty, Winsor Simmons, quarterback, Peggy Coleman for the cheerleaders, co-captains Glenn Weir and Martin Moakler, and Lester G. Bursey, coach. Next season Cooperstown will play in a new league of schools that also includes Sherburne, Hancock, Oxford, Greene, Walton and Delhi.

November 26, 1941

175 YEARS AGO

A Dreadful Case of Drunkeness – On Sunday morning October 24, Mr. George Vanduyne of Pequannec Township, Morris County New Jersey, aged about 30 years, was found lying on the fire in his own house literally roasted to death. On Saturday evening he purchased a quart of whiskey as usual “to keep Sunday,” and during the night whilst intoxicated, flogged his wife. On Sunday morning he plied the bottle again, and his wife fearing another flagellation during his intoxication, took her only child and went to a neighbor’s a few rods distant leaving him sitting in a chair by the fire. Sometime after, an unusual smoke was discovered pouring from Vanduyne’s chimney. Mr. T. and some of the neighbors went to the house and discovered him lying in the fire lifeless, with his breast, bowels and body so burned that it was with difficulty he could be removed.

November 22, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

We regret to learn that Rev. Mr. Synnott of Christ Church, Cooperstown, has resigned his charge, to take place on the first of February. Mr. S. has held this position for the past eight years, and has won the respect and good will of our citizens of all denominations. The regret expressed by the people of his own church at the severance of this connection, extends to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances whose cordial good wishes will accompany him to any field of labor to which he may be called.

By agreement and consent, all places of business in Cooperstown will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. No back door trade!

November 24, 1866

125 YEARS AGO

Thanksgiving – There is in the human race a trace of

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Another Local GI Praised In Letter From Normandy To the Editor: from his wounds following When I read “In Time the ambush on the bridge of Remembrance,” about near Ferey’s home. the letter the Though apolHughes famogizing for his ily of Oneonta English, Ferey’s received from reply could Normandy not have been thanking them more clear. for William When Thierry Hughes’ contriFerey sees “this bution during famous bridge the D-Day … where he invasion, I was (our father) was amazed. Ironibadly wounded cally, our fam… close to ily received a where I’m livsimilar letter of ing, I’ll have a gratitude from The 101st Airborne’s thought about Thierry Ferey John Eyers, in back- your beloved from Norman- ground, in a photo father. The so taken with his unit dy, France. important thing during World War II. Our late that your father father, John didn’t know Eyers, was also in the 101st was that our people were Airborne during the mission. free and it’s the most imporWe sent Ferey a long letter tant thing in life.”

Dad wrote to his parents in PAM EYERS TRICKETT Chicago while recovering Cooperstown

Seward: Thank You, And Trust Me To Keep Bringing ‘Wins’ To Home To the Editor: I want to take this opportunity to thank the voters of the 51st District for their overwhelming support on Election Day. I was gratified by the well wishes I received on the campaign trail, and extremely pleased with the results. The voters have bestowed a sacred trust in me, and I won’t let them down.

During the campaign, I focused on my experience and also my vision for the future. There have been a number of wins for our region in recent years, but there is more to be done.

Broad-based economic-development incentives, tax

relief, more help for our local schools, an end to costly mandates and unneeded regulations on our local governments and small businesses, and a continued emphasis on the deadly heroin epidemic are just a few of the items on my agenda for the coming year.

I look forward to continuing the many partnerships developed over the years, as well as fostering new ones, to ensure that the needs, values, and views of those who live and work in the 51st Senate District are well represented in Albany.

JIM SEWARD Milford State Senator, 51st District

necessary funds for the class. A dance will be held with music by Bronner’s orchestra.

November 22, 1916

50 YEARS AGO

Cooperstown Central School District will not build a new 825-pupil Junior-Senior High School for nothing, but it will cost the district less to build and maintain a new school building than to continue the use of the present Junior-Senior High School facilities, Supervising Principal N.J. Sterling told an audience of more than 200 persons who attended an open meeting at the high school last week.

A special district referendum on a bond issue to finance the school project will be held Tuesday, December 13. The November 20, 1991 total cost of the project is estimated at $2,575,000. The new building is to be built south of the Elementary building on conscious dependence. No matter how stout a man may be, Walnut Street. nor how sufficient in himself he may appear to others, he November 23, 1966 always seeks for outside aid, and selects some object upon which to lean, in the pursuit of whatever he may consider to be the true end of his being. This universal sense of The new Daisy Girl Scout Troop 491 held its first investidependence is one of the irrefutable arguments in proof ture ceremony on November 13 at the Cooperstown Elof the existence of a personal Deity. The consciousness of ementary School. The thirteen Kindergarten girls received dependence and the sense of need must precede all devout official Daisy membership pins from their troop leader, thanksgiving. Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

November 26, 1891 Kim Jastremski. The members of the troop are Emilie Perez, Lilly McEncrow, Kaitlin King, Emma Johnson, Josie Hovis, Delaney Holohan, Susan Edelstein, Kate Trosset, Amanda Snyder, Sierra Sillaro, Molly Selover, Kaitlin CurIn Our Town – The local basketball season will open tis and Katie Boyle.

Friday evening when the Cooperstown high school aggreJane Forbes Clark has received Governor Pataki’s 2006 gation will meet with the quintet representing the Oneonta Parks and Preservation Award for her role in preserving High School. The contest will be played in the Village Hall. and improving the scenic, historic and cultural resources of The local team will line up as follows: D. Johnson and Cooperstown and the Otsego Lake area. The governor cited Bliss, guards; Wilson and Flynn, forwards; Mulkins, center. her for leadership roles in several local organizations.

All lovers of this sport are urged to be present. The Junior November 24, 2006 class will have a candy stand in the hall to aid in securing

10 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

Work Together, 2 Students Tell CCS Vigil CCS senior Bobby Walker, founder of the Otsego County Young Republicans, addresses a post-election Community Vigil Friday, Nov. 18, at the school’s flagpole Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal

‘I Know What It’s Like To Be On Losing Side: It’s Not Fun’ Editor’s Note: CCS students Bobby Walker and Natalie Schieber, delivering remarks prepared by her classmate Josie Hovis, addressed a post-election Community Vigil organized by Middle/ High School Principal Donna Lucy Friday, Nov. 18, a the Cooperstown Central School flagpole.

By BOBBY WALKER

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ast night I watched a short video on BBC that I believe is a perfect illustration how truly lucky we are.

In this video, a reporter is attempting to interview an independent candidate for election in China. As he walked up to the door, 20 or so men, presumably operatives of the Commu-

nist government, blocked his way.

When the candidate tried to open the door to shout the interview over the men, they slammed the door in her face. Then, when she tried yelling out the window, they placed a large piece of foam over the window.

More men began to show up. They put their hands over the lenses of the BBC cameras and began to assault the reporter, telling him to get lost.

That story gave me the chills. I could not imagine living in an environment like that.

Remember that we are extremely lucky to live in the most free and democratic nation in the world. Remember that the world looks to us for guidance and how we act after an election sets a precedent for democracy all over the globe.

To my fellow Republicans I say this: We won. Celebration and joy is natural and expected. DO NOT confuse mockery and insults with these.

Be respectful and remember, it could have easily been the other way around.

To my Democratic compatriots I say: You lost. But, you fought hard, and with fiery passion in your hearts.

I know what it’s like to be on the losing side both in 2012 and the gubernatorial race in 2014. It’s not fun.

In the end we are ALL one nation.

We are ALL Americans under one American flag. In the words of President Obama, “We are not two different teams, we are one team playing an intramural scrimmage.”

The scrimmage is over, and it’s time for the team to get back together to take part in the betterment of our beloved country.

‘We Need To Build Up ... Not Tear Down’

By JOSIE HOVIS

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very single one of us has been hurt in our lifetime.

Every single one of us has been unhappy with the outcome of an election.

Every single one of us has said or done something out of anger, fear, or hate that we have regretted.

We can’t control who hurts us or who wins an election, but we can control how we react.

Our country has already endured a Civil War, and this planet has already seen two World Wars.

The last thing this earth needs is more suffering. Suffering that we can choose to either inflict or prevent.

Do we all have the same views on all issues? No, of course not. But we all believe that everyone in this country is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We have to build each other up, not tear each other down. We have to provide constructive criticism that leads to positive change instead of violently attacking each other’s ideas.

We need to have the ability to respectfully disagree with each other and not let our differences get in the way of achieving social progress.

Natalie Schieber reads remarks prepared by classmate Josie Hovis.

We need to be able to unite under the American flag and support each other when we need it.

We need to love one another.

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Many Examples Point To Fundamental Change In Fossil-Fuel Industry ALLSTADT/From A4 full S&P500 index. Over the past one, three, five, and 10-year periods, the FFIUS Index outperformed the full S&P500 Index. This index prompted some of the Cooperstown village trustees’ early questions about fossil fuels to our adviser, but there was no ETF-type investment vehicle available that would allow investors to buy the FFIUS index without incurring very high fees. Nevertheless, the FFIUS index does demonstrate that fossil fuels have been a drag on the returns of the full S&P500 for some time.

Second, Mr. Russell implies that I concocted a report after the fact. The description of the deliberative process that resulted in selling the S&P500 and buying the S&P 500 excluding fossil fuels was a summary of discussions at various village committee and board meetings beginning in early 2015 and culminating in discussions at August, September and October 2016 meetings of the Economic Development & Sustainability Committee, the Finance Committee and the Board of Trustees. All of the trustees and the mayor have confirmed that my description was accurate.

Furthermore, during my tenure on the board of trustees, I can recall no other decision amounting to approximately $10,000 that has received this much attention. The trustees did their job.

Lastly, I agree with the editor’s headline. Experts do disagree on the

budgets that will further add to the long-term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;…

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future performance of fossil fuels.

There are essentially two camps. One says the fossil-fuel industry is just in another down cycle, and all will be well when oil and gas prices recover.

The other says that there are fundamental changes underway that will make it difficult for fossil fuels to fully recover.

Mr. Russell seems to prefer the “just another cycle” approach. He presents reports in the Wall Street Journal on buy or hold recommendations by stock market analysts. Most of these analyst reports are for shortterm actions, speculating which way an individual stock’s price will move near term. When stock price moves far enough in one direction, those same analysts reverse their advice.

Such reports help speculators move their money from one stock to another. They are hardly relevant to long-term investments of pension funds that will be needed many years

in the future.

There are a number of signs that pressure is building to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and those pressures are not limited to tree-hugging environmentalists. For example, here are excerpts from a resolution proposed to the House of Representatives in September of 2015 by Representative Chris Gibson and co-sponsored by Representative Richard Hanna (both of whom represent districts covered by this newspaper) and 13 other Republican representatives: “…Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

In 2015, CitiCorp’s Global Perspectives and Solutions Unit came out with a lengthy report entitled “ENERGY DARWINISM II: Why a Low-Carbon Future Doesn’t Have to Cost the Earth.” The report concludes that the the cost of addressing climate change by reducing fossil fuel use and improving energy efficiency will be less than the cost of dealing with flooding of coastal cities, droughts, population displacement and other costs that are likely if action is not taken to address climate change. “Given that all things being equal cleaner air has to be preferable to pollution, a very strong “Why would you not?” argument begins to develop.”

Very recently, the chief financial officer of Shell made news by stating,

“We’ve long been of the opinion that demand will peak before supply. And that peak may be somewhere between five and 15 years hence, and it will be driven by efficiency and substitution, more than offsetting the new demand for transport.” Until now, it was steadily increasing demand that drove this industry’s profitability and stock prices. Here is a senior person inside the industry saying that demand growth for the key transportation fuel sector will soon peak because of efficiencies and substitution of alternative fuels.

The foregoing are just a few examples of that would have been unheard of only a few years ago.

There are many more examples that point toward fundamental changes in the fossil-fuel industry. There are also examples of large fund and institutional investment directors guiding their investment managers away from fossil fuels. Should the Village stand by and watch while large funds and foundations divest? These examples, combined with the weakened financial condition of most fossil fuel companies, which I covered two weeks ago, make the outlook for a cyclical type recovery very doubtful.

If Mr. Russell wishes to continue this exchange, I am happy to oblige.

Or, we could perhaps give the readers a break and try to convince one another over a cup of coffee.

LOU ALLSTADT Cooperstown

Leaving Unused Pills In Household Medicine Cabinets Put Teens In Harm’s Way PILLS/From A4 individuals I do not know talking about how my life fell dangerously off track? I think for most of us, life has a funny way of unfolding in ways we never could have imagined, sometimes in good ways and sometimes in terrible ways.

When I was 16 years old, my world and how I viewed it collapsed. My second oldest brother Lance, who was a pharmaceutical student in his last semester of college at the University of Rhode Island, was found deceased in his bed by my third oldest brother. This devastated my family on every level, as I’m sure you can all imagine or perhaps have seen in your own lives when death comes suddenly and swiftly.

It was not long after the passing of Lance that my mother chose to move back to Upstate New York, a place she had lived for many years before I was born and felt that we could start re-building our lives here.

Big life changes like this happen every day, I suppose, in teenagers’ lives all of the time, but it was my responses to such transitions that are the cause for the alarm. At 16 years old, I found myself in a place where I knew no one, in a new school, full of grief and with a very small amount of coping skills that did no justice to the amount of pain I was in during at the time.

I guess it is no surprise that I was seeking some kind of outlet, maybe a little relief from the pressure and uncertainty of the world around me. I had been exposed to low-level street drugs (if there is even such a thing) in Rhode Island by some of my older peers around me and quickly realized that the escape I was so desperately seeking could be found in unguarded left-over medication in medicine cabinets.

Most of the time this action went unnoticed and left me to be in a situation with large quantities of medications that can have deadly consequences if mixed together.

In light of these circumstances, it really is a miracle that I am standing here today alive and able to tell the story. I have seen many individuals be

in this same situation as I was and not live to tell the tale.

So, while my fellow peers were busying themselves with college applications and job opportunities that would come after graduation, I was starting down a path that turned out to be one of the darkest times in my life. It was this point in my life that the escalation of my drug use took root and set me on a path that I would not be able to walk out of for another eight years.

I think it is safe to say that there is not one person in this room who is unaware of the consequences of addiction. If you have not experienced it first hand, then perhaps you have seen it in your daughters and sons, aunts and uncles, siblings or parents.

The addict is not someone that lives out there far away from us, or a myth. They are real people, sometimes liv-

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Addiction is a real thing happening all around the country in small and big cities alike, and most of us have conceded that this social issue will not be eradicated over night, but instead it will take perseverance and dedication like the

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While 90 Grieve, GOP County Chair Says They Should Accept Election Outcome STRATEGY/From A1 Presbyterian church hall at Pioneer and Church, and when mourning voters from Cooperstown, Oneonta, Otsego County and beyond showed up at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, they numbered almost 90 and filled the sizeable room.

While the gathering was mostly Democrats, “there were registered Republicans invited,” said Hardin, whose husband, a village trustee, was endorsed by both parties. “I doubt if there were any Trump supporters present.”

She characterized the gathering as “a meeting of people who are concerned that some of the issues they

hold really dear are going to go down the tube – like climate change, environmental regulations, women’s rights in general, and women’s health in particular.

“With attacks on LGBT people and Muslims, people are concerned, of course,” she said.

Injecting order into a discussion among 90 people, attendees were asked to discuss issues of concern, possible solutions, and next steps with other people at their tables. One spokesman for each table then reported conclusions to the general meeting.

The meeting included prominent Cooperstown Democrats like former

Bassett CEO Bill Streck However, and his wife Karen, VilOneonta’s lage Trustees Jim Dean Deb Marcus, and Richard Sternberg, executive and, from as far away as director Binghamton, Mary Clark of Family representing Citizen Action Planning of of the Southern Tier, which the Southern promotes affordable health- Deb Marcus Tier, said care and responsive governthe gatherment. ing was not a party meetThat list suggests it was ing: “It was a meeting of a gathering of “elites,” said progressive individuals and Hardin. “This was not, by organizations. Too often, any stretch of the imagiactivists, individuals and nation, for the elites. A organizations get in silos. range of people shared their It’s so important that we act ideas.” together to be effective.”

Dean and Sternberg are Saying she agrees with also Democratic County “think globally, act locally,” Committee members, as was she added, “We can make attendee Tim Gibson from real change on the local levthe Town of Oneonta. el. We can be much more

effective. We can do much more than simply contribute to national organizations.”

Added Karen Katz, Cooperstown’s first lady, “It was excellent to come together after the election and to be able to be able to talk about our concerns about how to move forward.” She cited racism and Civil Rights in general as her particular concerns, “and, I think, moving backwards rather than moving forward.”

For his part, Democrat County Chair Richard Abbate, Cooperstown, who did not attend, said “it’s good that people want to vent, talking about the election and about change.”

He encouraged attendees from the Hardin meeting to come to the county committee meeting at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Cooperstown Village Hall.

“I’m looking toward

a majority on the county board,” said Abbate, where the balance is now 10 Republicans, 10 Democrats.

“I think that’s the first thing we should accomplish.”

For his part, Abbate’s Republican counterpart, Vince Casale, also of Cooperstown, called the gathering “a bit of an overreaction. What do we do now? What we do now is very simple: We accept the results of the election. We accept who the president is.

And we respect the office of the president.”

As the spokespeople reported in, the concerns and ideas were recorded, Hardin said, totaling 20 flip-chart sheets of concerns and ideas. She and her co-hostess, Jennifer Brose of Milford, will “synthesize concerns and possible action steps,” and e-mail the results to attendees.

Montanti: Shopping Public Backs Staffers Getting Thanksgiving Off DAY OFF/From A1 ple had seen the post, and the comments were unanimously positive. “People were happy to have families stay home,” she said. “They said it was the right direction to go in.”

Last year, the mall was opened at 6 p.m. for shoppers to get ahead of Black Friday deals. In 2013, the mall offered a “midnight madness” event, opening at 6 p.m. and staying open all night.

“It’s a big change,” she said. “But in speaking with our customers, many of them said that they don’t like it when stores are open on Thanksgiving.”

Previously, Montanti had closed the mall in 2014, and noticed that it didn’t cut into sales as much as retailers had feared.

“A lot of Black Friday shoppers go out of town,”

she said. “We have a great selection locally, but there are places we can’t compete with. And if it’s not going to make that big of a difference, we’d rather see these people home with their families.”

It’s a trend that’s catching on nationwide, with more than 50 nationwide retailers opting to give their employees the day off. TJ Maxx, one of the mall’s flagship stores, has never been opened during the Thanksgiving hours.

And although the mall and TJ Maxx will be closed, J.C. Penney and Dick’s Sporting Goods, which have their own outside entrances, will be open, starting at 3 p.m.

Dick’s will close at 2 a.m.

Friday morning and re-open when the mall opens at 6 a.m. Friday, Nov. 25, and J.C. Penney will remain open until 9 p.m. Friday.

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ANTA arrives on his horse-drawn sleigh at his Christmas Cottage in Pioneer Park, Cooperstown, 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25 in residence through Dec. 24. Come enjoy hot chocolate, refreshments and music with Santa and Mrs. Claus! Main St., Cooperstown.

ADORN-A-DOOR: Cooperstown Art Association’s 15th annual Adorn-A-Door Wreath Festival Saturday, Nov. 26, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. This annual tradition showcases local talent and generosity in silent auction of decorated wreaths – traditional, artistic, there’s no limitation on theme. Free admission, second floor ballroom, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9777, cooperstownart.com

As these photos Tom Salo provided show, lead bullets, left, explode on impact, and eagles feeding on carrion suffer from lead poisoning. Slightly more expensive copper bullets, right, don’t.

hemlock or in a ravine or on a rock face.”

Three more days, and the solar-powered battery in Maxine’s pack failed.

“It means the bird is dead, on its back, and not getting any light,” said Salo. “We had a real bad feeling about her fate.”

A 100-hour search followed, including a team of Hartwick College students,

tionist of the Year at the Otsego County Conservation Association’s annual meeting at Templeton Hall, Cooperstown, had an inkling of what happened.

Maxine’s last signal was from the Town of Hancock, Delaware County, where, just several days before, a number of wild Eurasian Please See SALO, B3

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OCCA Conservationist of the Year Tom Salo holds Maxine, the day in 2014 she became the first golden eagle equipped locally with a GPS device. Nine days later, the device failed. A wide search in the Town of Hancock, source of the last transmission, failed to find her remaims, but Salo is pretty sure he knows what happened.

‘100 Nights’ Soul Singer Finds Final Rest Here Sharon Jones Fought Pancreatic Cancer At Bassett Hospital had been unsuccessful in installing Christmas cheer in any way, she remSHARON SPRINGS edied that for all of those watching from around the s Christmas draws world.” near, Beekman Jones, 60, the soul singer Boy Brent Ridge, who rose to fame with co-owner of The Beekman her band The Dap-Kings, 1802 Mercantile here, knows died Saturday, Nov. 19, at there’ll be something missing Bassett Hospital, where this season. she was being treated for Jones belts one “For the past several years, out at Ommegang pancreatic cancer. when we’ve done our 24 hour last May. She was the subject of live YouTube stream from the the Barbara Kopple’s docustore, Sharon Jones came on for the mentary “Miss Sharon Jones,” which last hour to chat and sing Christmas opened the Glimmerglass Film Days carols,” he wrote in an email. “If we Please See JONES, B5

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SAFE Act Fueled Hunters’ Suspicions, Making Shift To Non-Lead Bullets Harder Sell SALO/From B1 boars had escaped from a game farm, and were shot by a USDA retrieval team with lead-based ammunition.

The carcasses – filled with lead shot – would have been a tasty treat for scavenging golden eagles, who feast, absorb the lead, become disoriented and die.

Salo knows his raptors, becoming entranced when, age 12, his parents took him on a picnic to Harriman State Park near the family’s Pearl River home and several hundred hawks flew over, migrating south from their summer homes in Canada’s Maritime Provinces.

After a year at SUNY Potsdam, he took up the trade of skilled machinist and met-

alworker, working in Binghamton and living in southern Cortland County. In the early 1980s, his parents bought a retirement home in the rural Town of Burlington, which came with an option on the farm next door.

He and wife Jo – the two had known each other since high school in Rockland County – came up in 1982 to take a look, and they bit.

Finding the neighborhood a bit too rural, the parents moved into Oneonta in the mid-‘80s. By then, the younger couple had bought the adjoining land and built a house.

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the Salos’ two children, Jessica and Kris, were attending Edmeston Central School.

(Jessica is now a geography professor at Northern Colorado State; Kris married a French national and they are raising two children in France, where he imports 1950s’ diner-era U.S. memorabilia, very collectible in France right now.)

Tom got involved in the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society, working with Andy Mason of Jefferson to found the Franklin Mountain Hawkwatch & Sanctuary, overlooking Oneonta. The beauty and strength of golden eagles, in particular, capture Salo’s interest.

In 2014, Salo, the DEC, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and a number of academics began outfitting golden eagles with solar-powered GPS units that report back every 15 minutes.

Since, from the PC in the sunny front room of his rural home, Salo’s been able to see the data points, one by one, chart a huge flyway from – in Marie’s case (more on her later) – the strait into Hudson Bay near Ivujivik, the

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northern tip of Quebec, down the St. Lawrence and across Otsego and Delaware counties to northern Pennsylvania.

On this long migration, eagles often pause, perhaps to feed in a leisurely fashion on a deer’s lead-filled entrails left behind by a hunter.

That’s why researchers, as early as 1985, had found elevated lead levels in golden, as well as bald, eagles.

The result: permanent brain damage. “It makes it so they can’t function, they can’t scavenge, they can’t hunt,” said Salo. And so they die.

At the beginning of this year, the DOAS began imple-

menting a $20,000 grant from the American Eagle Foundation (underwritten by the Dollywood theme park in Tennessee) to convince hunters to shift to non-lead ammo.

(OCCA is administering the grant.)

Lead-filled bullets explode on impact, scattering the poisonous metal throughout a carcass, Salo explained.

Copper bullets remain intact.

Only 5 percent of hunters use non-lead ammunition.

To help shift public opinion, Salo’s working group contracted with Joe Stillman, the Oneonta videographer, who is prepared a short video

to show how lead is damaging the iconic birds.

Salo and two other DOAS volunteers, Mike and Peg DiBenedetto, are doing radio interviews, and speaking to hunter groups and, last month, at a conference at SUNY Cobleskill.

But it’s been a hard sell, Tom said. The New York SAFE Act, passed by the state Legislature in the days following the Sandy Hook massacre, has made Upstate hunters suspicious: Is this about eagles? Or is there a hidden agenda? To regulate ammunition, and then prohibit it?

Curiously, or perhaps not so curiously, the data points on Tom Salo’s computer screen make the relationship between birdwatcher and bird more personal, more intimate.

He speaks fondly of Marie, and worried when she paused along the Northway – a highrisk neighborhood – for several days over the summer.

“She’s like an adolescent daughter engaging in highrisk behavior,” he said.

And then there was Greg, who Tom tracked daily for 15 months – March 2014 to June 2015 – between New Lisbon and Labrador before his signal suddenly stopped along the St. Lawrence.

Then word came from Quebec: feeding on bait, Greg had been snapped in a bear trap.

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THANKSGIVING AT THE FARM – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Learn about 1840s Thanksgiving traditions.

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Also Sunday. See heritage breed turkeys, shop for the holidays at Todd’s General Store, pose for a tintype photo (see website for details, photo reservations). The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, farmersmuseum.org/Thanksgiving-at-the-Farm THANKSGIVING BOOK SALE – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 30% for books in 6 local bookshops. Hobart Book Village, Main St., St. Rte. 10, Hobart. Info, http://www. hobartbookvillage.com/ BOOK SIGNING – 1-4 p.m. Local mystery/thriller author Adam Cornell signing his latest book “Hollow Pointe.” Mysteries and More, 688 Main St., Hobart. Info, http://www.hobartbookvillage. com/mysteries--more.html SANTA TRAIN – 2-4:30 p.m.

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Afternoon train ride with Santaand Mrs. Claus and their helpers with holiday music, goodies and refreshments. Dress warmly.

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SANTA’S ARRIVAL – 5:30 p.m. Santa arrives on his horse- drawn sleigh at his Christmas Cottage in Pioneer Park, Cooperstown, in residence through Dec. 24. Come enjoy hot

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Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com ONEONTA SANTA – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

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CHURCH – 5 p.m. Pr. Paul Messner leads informal afternoon service at Atonement Lutheran Church, 1 Center St.,

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Oneonta Teen Center, 4 Academy St., Oneonta.

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WASSAIL WEEKEND – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Demonstration on how to make Wassail, the traditional holiday dring. Savory spices blended with sweet cider at The Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, 1800-505-6455, flycreekcidermill. com MORE CALENDAR, B5

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Notice of Formation Feil Collision Works LLC: Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 11117/2016.

OfILoc. Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC on whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 107 Strong Hill Rd, Westford, NY 13488.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY UNDER NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW 1. The name of the limited liability company (“LLC”) is Sandy Cove Lake House, LLC. 2. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is November 15, 2016.

3. The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is located is Otsego.

4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of formation of FLANAGAN SPORTSMAN ASSOCIATION, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on October 27, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: the LLC, 9657 Evans Street, Philadelphia, PA 19115.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: BOW & BRIDLE LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 14 November 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 PO Box 1320, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive a distance of 0.89 feet to a point;

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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

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.

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

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THANKSGIVING BOOK SALE – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 30% for books in 6 local bookshops. Hobart Book Village, Main St., St. Rte. 10, Hobart. Info, http://www. hobartbookvillage.com/ COOPERSTOWN SANTA – Noon-2 p.m. Santa photos with pets. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 2-4 p.m.Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown.Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ GARDEN CLUB – 3:30-5:30 p.m. The Memorial Room of the Richfield Springs Village Library will be decorated for the holidays with theme “Memories of Christmas’ Past.” Includes Live entertainment & free refreshments. Info, 457-5648

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CONCERT – 9 p.m. Rudy Currance. Hunt Union Waterfront, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta.

Info, activities@oneonta.edu, (607)436-3730 3D DESIGN – 6 p.m. Create your own holiday-themed cookie cutter. Optional 3D printing.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/3d-printing/ CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE – 7 p.m. Abner Doubleday RoundTable to meet. Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center, St. Hwy. 28, Milford.

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3D DESIGN – 1:30 p.m. Create your own holiday themed cookie cutter. Optional 3D printing. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St, Oneonta. http:// hmloneonta.org/3d-printing/ PRESENTATION – 2 p.m.

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was sick, many didn’t know how sick she was. “I’m undergoing chemo, and she would ask me how I was doing,” said Daou. “It was so Sharon, and so sweet.”

But last week, when members of the Dap-Kings came in to order boxes of cookies and muffins, Daou knew something was wrong. “I got nervous,” he said. “But you always hope for a miracle.”

Holken was by Jones’ bedside when she passed away. “I was holding her hand,” she said.

A memorial in New York City is planned for a later date. “We’ve lost her, but we can just pick up a record and hear her again,” said Daou.

“She will become as indelible a part of our holiday memories as hanging ornaments on the tree,” said Ridge.

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“I only met her a few times, but I was a huge fan,” said Drew Taylor, who is redeveloping Klinkhart Hall, the former theater and movie house in downtown Sharon Spring. “I watched all her videos, and she was a master class in performance.”

Though she used Sharon Springs as her “home off the road,” she did perform locally, including a sold-out show in May with Lake Street Dive at Brewery Ommegang.

“Being here was her time to relax, but she did love to play the piano at my house,” said Holken. “My cat, Big-Guy, jumped up on the keyboard with her!”

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OBITUARIES Linda Lieb, 56, Dies In Florida COOPERSTOWN – Linda Margret Lieb, raised in Coopertown, passed away suddenly in Largo, Fla. on Nov. 14, 2016.

Born on March 2, 1960, she is predeceased by her sister Eva Lieb and her father Heinz Lieb.

Linda was a graduate of Cooperstown Central School and University of Michigan, where she receives a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics.

She is survived by her sister Heidi Lieb of Miami Beach and her mother, Lore

(Lieb) Leal of Dunnellon, Fla., and numerous relatives in Germany.

There will no calling hours or funeral. She Linda Lieb will be laid to rest in Hartwick Cemetery, beside her father and sister.

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Rev. John A. Blackman Jr., 84; Edmeston Leader For 52 Years EDMESTON – The Rev. John A. Blackman, Jr., the award-winning and community-minded pastor emeritus of the Second Baptist Church, Edmeston, passed away Nov. 20, 2016.

He was born Aug. 31, 1932 in Rockland, Maine, to John A. Blackman and Olive Kalloch Blackman. He graduated from Rockland High School, Gordon College in Boston, and Gordon Divinity School, Wenham, Mass.

He married Dorothy Loyte in June 1955.

John served the First Baptist Church of Oswegatchie, in the North Country, from June 1958 to January 1964, where he was ordained into the ministry. He then was called to the Second Baptist Church, and served from February 1964 to September 1994.

He was a member of the Edmeston Volunteer Fire Department, an advanced EMT on the emergency squad and a substitute teacher at Edmeston Central

Maureen Gallagher, Math Professor At Hartwick College ONEONTA – Maureen Agnes Gallagher, 63, 22-year Hartwick College mathematics professor and a life-long Oneonta resident, died on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, after an extended illness.

She was born May 10, 1953, at Fox Hospital, the daughter of Maureen John J. and Gallagher Catherine M. Gallagher.

She graduated from Oneonta High School with honors in 1971, received a bachelor’s in mathematics from William Smith College in 1975 and a master’s in mathematics from SUNY Oneonta.

Maureen is survived by her mother, Catherine M. Gallagher of Oneonta; her brother, Dr. John W. Gallagher and his wife, Barbara, of Plattsburgh; and her sister, Jean E. and her husband, Robert B. Hobkirk, of Oneonta; nieces and nephews Sean M. (Paula) Gallagher of Baltimore, Md., Catherine L. Hobkirk (Andrew Hathaway) of Oneonta, Cara J. (Kenneth) Mussaw of Otego, and Robert W. (Ashu) Hobkirk of Phoenix, Ariz.

She was predeceased by her father, John J. Gallagher, in 2000 and her nephew, Patrick J. Gallagher, in 2012.

A funeral mass was given Monday, Nov. 21, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made in Maureen’s name to Oneonta Dollars for Scholars, PO Box 1083, Oneonta, NY 13820 Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley and Pietrobono Funeral Home.

School.

He founded the first senior citizens’ group in Edmeston, originally called The EverRev. John A. greens.

Blackman, Jr. He and New York Central Mutual’s Van Ness Robinson made possible the first of Bassett Healthcare’s off-site clinics. They also established the hamlet’s low-income housing complex, West Hill Terrace.

John was a long-time member of the Edmeston Rotary Club and served one year as president. He was honored to be chosen as a Paul Harris Fellow. The club also proclaimed Oct. 24, 1998 as John Blackman Day for “making a difference.”

He received the Dewitt Clinton Masonic Award for community service and was the Grange’s Citizen of

the Year. He was chosen to be Edmeston’s representative at the Otsego County’s Bicentennial celebration.

John was the state American Baptist Convention’s nominee for the Rosa B. Hall Award for the outstanding rural pastor.

He was a director of the Edmeston Free Library Board for 34 years, vice president for several. He was also on the Board of Directors of the Otsego Mutual Insurance Co. For many years, patients at Bassett Hospital were only ministered to by local clergy, then John and other committee members hired the hospital’s first chaplain.

In the summer of 1973 he made a pastoral exchange with the Edenbridge Baptist Church in England. In his later years of ministry the ABCNY asked him to mentor a group of new pastors in several associations.

John is survived by his wife of 61 years, Dorothy, and his children, David Blackman, Edmeston, Deb-

orah DeForest, Norwich, and Karen Blackman, New Berlin as well as daughterin-law Ruth Blackman and son-in-law Michael Shuman.

He was predeceased by his daughter Kathy Shuman, of Beaver Meadow.

Also left are grandchildren, Christina Staples, Rachel Blackman, Jordan Blackman, Chazzman Felker, Riley DeForest, Mitchell Felker, Michelle Blackman and three great-grandsons Alex Staples, Jackson Staples and Adam Blackman. He also leaves many nephews and nieces in the state of Maine.

There will be a graveside service with no formal calling hours. The family has been blessed to have the love and concern of friends for 52 years and each member knows of that sympathy now. All are grateful for that support.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Houk Johnston Terry Funeral Home of Edmeston.

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Thursday, December 1

ELEMENTARY WINTER CONCERT – Time TBD. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave,, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.cooperstowncs.org/ UGLY SWEATER CONTEST – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. McLaughlin’s 150 Main St., Oneonta.

ONEONTA TREE LIGHTING – 58 p.m. Muller Plaza, Oneonta.

ONEONTA SANTA – 5-8 p.m.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

SCHOOL PLAY – 7 p.m. 7/8th

grade. Milford Central School, 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, web. milfordcentral.org

Friday, December 2

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR – 9 a.m.4 p.m. Includes Christmas tree trimmings, knitted and crocheted items, holiday decorations, a white elephant sale, bake sale, and a lunceon. Elm Park Church,

401 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-6552.

INDIAN CRAFT SALE– 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free Trade crafts and fashions from India with book signing by Dr. Ashok Malhotra.

The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta.

PHOTOGRAPHY – 4-5:30 p.m.

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OPENING RECEPTION – 4:307:30 p.m. Return o fthe ‘Taj Garage: Finery & More from India and Nepal.” One weekend only. Free admission. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-5327, email leartgarage@ gmail.com, or visit https://www. facebook.com/TheArtGarageCooperstown/ NEW EXHIBIT – 5-7 p.m. Art by Marcus Villagran. The Dunderberg Gallery, 118 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. Info, Carol Ralbag (607) 783-2156 or (607) 7832897.

ART – 5-8 p.m. Holiday Gift show. Main View Gallery, 73 Main St., Oneonta. canoneonta. org/event/opening-receptionmain-view-gallery-holiday-giftshow/ ARTISAN SALE – 5-9 p.m.

Holiday shopping event featuring the work of local artisans. The Empire House, 136 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. The Stone House Emporium, 128 Marion Ave, Gilberstville. Gilbertsville Valueway, 3 Commercial St., Gilbertsville.

Info, Carol Ralbag (607)7832156 or (607) 783-2897.

FESTIVAL OF TREES – 6:308:30 p.m. Family night. Take a wagon to see the holiday light displays, see Santa and his elves. Decorate trees with ornaments for wildlife, and watch holiday movies. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Co. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. friendsofglimmerglass.com/ HOLIDAY HOUSE TOUR – 7-9 p.m. Annual “Dressed for the Holidays” tour featuring 5 historic Gilberstville homes. Tickets, $10.

Purchase at Gilbertsville Library, 19 Commercial St., Gilbertsville.

Info, Library, (607)783-2832 CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m. Music by Men in Black, caller Peter Blue. Otsego Dance Society at Presbyterian Church,

corner Church and Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Suggested donation $8 adults, $4 students and teenagers, free 12 and under.

Info, (607) 965-8232, (607) 5478164, www.otsegodancesociety. blogsport.com COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 3-6 p.m.Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown.Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/

Saturday, December 3

PTA HOLIDAY BREAKFAST/MARKET – 8 a.m.-noon.

Cooperstown Elementary School, 21 Walnut St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www.cooperstowncs.org/ WEAVERS STUDIO – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 20th annual Thistle Hill Weavers open studio and showroom. Mill tours, refreshments, holiday cheer, gifts. Thistle Hill Weavers, 143 Baxter Rd., Cherry Valley (between Cherry Valley and Sharon Springs). Also Sunday.

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Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-4 p.m. featuring quality, handmade crafts by local and regional crafters. Free admission. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy..

ART EXHIBIT – 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Return of the ‘Taj Garage: Finery & More from India and Nepal.”

One weekend only. Free admission. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-5327, email leartgarage@gmail.com, or visit https:// www.facebook.com/TheArtGarageCooperstown/ COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 10-11 a.m. Story time with Mrs. Claus. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown.

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