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She always celebrates Halloween, but that bird! – she outdid herself this year.

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hen the Rev. Joseph Perdue arrives on the first Sunday in Advent (Nov. 27), all of Cooperstown’s five pulpits will be filled for the first time in more than two years.

The new pastor of First Baptist Church succeeds the Rev. Douglas Deer, who retired in 2014.

In the past two months, the Rev. Tom LeBeau filled the vacancy at Cooperstown Methodist Church, and Father Dane Boston became Christ Episcopal rector.

MORE DETAILS, A2 LIBRARY READY: The Friends of the Village Library are planning a 3 p.m. tea Sunday, Nov. 6, to celebrate the completion of library renovations. Public welcome.

VETS BREAKFAST: County Treasurer (and Army Reserve Capt.) Dan Crowell is guest speaker at Schenevus Central School’s annual Veterans Day breakfast 10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Nov. 9.

FALL BACK: Daylight Savings Time arrives at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6.

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Cooperstown and Oneonta, so locals and visitors with laptops can connect with the Internet anywhere in the downtowns. “That’s one Sandy suggested at the last minute,” said Otsego Now

board chair Devin Morgan, referring to O-N President Sandy Mathes. “These seem very popular right now.”

Two is $13,000 to allow continued expansion of Toonie Moonie Organics Inc., a natural marshmallow fluff maker that moved from Oneonta to Fly Creek last spring.

A third is $125,000 for continued repairs to Village Hall. Mayor Jeff Katz said Please See CFA, B7

A fourth CFA on the MVREDC’s “priority list” is $3 million for the Susquehanna Regional Food & Beverage Hub in Oneonta, centerpiece of the “Finger Lakes of Beer” envisioned in Otsego County.

Halloween Fun Abounds ON Main street Future MLB stars Miles Nelen, 8, left, and Brody Murdock, 7, lead off Cooperstown’s Halloween Parade Monday, Oct. 31, from Cooper Park up Main Street to the firehouse.

Behind Miles is pal Gunter Weldon; behind Brody, Matthew Perrino/ MORE PHOTOS, A3

By JASON BIRKELBACH COOPERSTOWN

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hen Jeff Katz first attended a World Series game in Cleveland, in 1995, Progressive Field was still named Jacobs Field.

Katz wasn’t Mayor Katz posted the mayor of selfie from anything, and Cleveland. his only ties to Major League Baseball were his Cubs season tickets and the fervor with which he enjoyed the sport.

The Cooperstown mayor has returned to Cleveland for the 2016 World Series, the Please See KATZ, B7

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36 West Oneonta Cats Test Shelter’s Finances

By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN HARTWICK SEMINARY

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ne cat is missing an eye. Many have sores, all have worms, some have feline leukemia.

But Stacie Haynes,

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Susquehanna Animal Shelter executive director, believes all 36 cats rescued from a West Oneont home Thursday, Oct. 27, are expected to survive.

Dr. Joan Puritz had alerted the shelter director here on Oct. 14 of what might be Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal termed a hoarding situation. Neighbor Frank Preston will miss “She told me, ‘The the shade, but at least the tree Please See CATS, A3 won’t fall on his house.

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t may not be as rowdy as a rock concert, but as far as Chris Harder, owner of Binghamton’s Priority One Security is concerned, guarding Graig and Angie Eichler’s Norway spruce is as crucial a job as any.

“Everyone likes their property to be safe and secure,” said Harder, standing guard outside the 72 Country Club Road home.

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After 2 Years, Baptist Church Names Minister, Floridian With Experience In New York City COOPERSTOWN

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wo years after the retirement of Rev. Doug Deer, First Baptist Church has voted to bring Rev. Joseph Perdue to the pulpit.

“He’s young and can bring a lot of new ideas,” said Cindy Falk, the village trustee and Baptist Church board member. “He can serve the current congregation, but also reach out to young people with a message that’s relevant and inspiring to them.”

A Florida native, Perdue comes to Cooperstown from the Metro Baptist Church and Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries in New York City, where he was active with feeding ministries and other social justice issues.

Perdue felt called to vocational ministry in his teens, and went on two mission trips as a young man.

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“I went on a concentration in Biblical mission trips interpretation from Baptist to Toronto Theological Seminary in and served Richmond, Va. His master’s people my thesis focused on humor and age who the role of counter-narratives in the book of Jonah. lived in the streets, had to panhandle Following Deer’s retirePerdue or work as ment, the church was served prostitutes for two years by interim to survive,” he wrote in his pastors; for the past 12 statement to the church. “I months, by Cooperstown’s saw how homeless individu- Richard Sliter. als are treated and how frusOn Sunday, Oct. 30, trating the cycle of extreme Perdue preached at the First poverty is.”

Presbyterian Church as a In addition to feeding “neutral pulpit” and that afministries, he organized a ternoon, the Baptist Church rooftop farm and assisted board voted to install him as low-income individuals with their new minister. tax preparation, registering Falk says she hopes Reilly Mooney, Cooperstown, was ready to thwomp and stomp as a sumo to vote and finding health he’ll start Nov. 27, the first insurance.

Sunday of Advent. “It would wrestler in the Clark Sports Center’s annual Coop Loop Halloween Run. The Halloween-themed 5 and 10K attracts runners from all over the coun“The Gospel is not some- be a good way to welcome try. Mom Lisa is behind her. Cooperstown’s Tom Knight led the race the thing one can only believe,” in the Christmas season,” whole way and took first in the 5K, and Oneonta’s Tom Slicer took first he said. “It’s something she said. “We’re all very place in the10K. that must be lived on a daily excited.” basis.”

Perdue has a bachelor’s in Biblical Studies from the COOPERSTOWN At Cooperstown, she transformed During their two-year fellowship, Baptist College of Florida, the learning space and curriculum of Empire State Fellows both teach and and a master of divinity with ooperstown Elementary Librar- the library and secured over $10,000 in learn, by bringing diverse and modian Sita Fey has been named local grants to integrate technology. ern perspectives into the governing to the 2016-2018 class of the Sita was named the 2014 Rotary process, and through participation in presitgious Empire State Fellows as a Outstanding Educator of the Year for education and professional developmember of the Executive Chamber.

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While playing the clarinet in the CCS Marching Band, Margie Knight wore a costume with a message: It consisted of 400 plastic bags, the number an average American uses over the course of a single year.

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36 West Oneonta Cats Test Shelter’s Finances CATS/From A1 woman is dying and when she dies, her boyfriend is concerned he won’t be able to take care of the cats’,” said Haynes. “She said there were at least 30 cats.

“I didn’t hear anything for a week, so I figured someone must be helping him with the cats.”

But in that time, Diana Charles, 78, had passed away, and on Oct. 27, alerted

by Puritz, troopers entered the house.

West Oneonta volunteers and two shelter staffers, vet tech Sara Haddad and Terra Butler, donned HAZMATlike Tyvek suits and breathing masks and entered the house, where they found feces and garbage “inches deep” on the floor, and maggots in the cages where the cats were being held.

“Diana thought she was helping these cats,” said Andrew Capra, who bought the house at a tax auction in 2013. “There had to be 10,000 cat food cans around the house, 30-pound bags of cat food. They would feed these cats before they fed themselves.

“It just got too much for them.”

Capra contacted adult protective services several times to alert them to conditions in the home but, to his knowledge, no one ever visited the house. He had known Charles and her boyfriend, identified as E.J. Schulp, for years, and was reluctant to force them out: They had nowhere to go.

“The outside of the house was filthy, I could tell they were in distress,” he said.

“No one ever came to help them.”

At the Hartwick Seminary shelter, Haynes’ staff had prepared the ISO – the isolation building for 15 cats, “but we had no idea the scope of the problem,” she said. “And they just kept coming out with cat after

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By the end of Thursday night, 13 cats were in the Isolation room. On Friday, 15 more were added. In all, 36 cats were admitted to the shelter.

Dr. Puritz, the Oneonta vet, and Dr. Julie Huntsman of Fly Creek came in on Sunday to give medical care, but all they could do was make the cats comfortable.

“All the cats are facing respiratory problems, they all have worms,” said Haynes.

“They have to be spayed and neutered. The first day, I wrote a check for $1,800 in medications.”

Capra donated $1,500 to the shelter to help with the cats expenses, and also helped Schlup find a hotel room. “I called 911, but they didn’t have any place they could put him,” he said. “I had $140 in my wallet, and I gave it to him. I couldn’t turn my back on him.”

Schulp is currently being assisted by the county Department of Social Services after the code office declared the home “uninhabitable.”

Monday morning, the West Oneonta Fire Department arrived with donations.

The volunteers had collected funds over the weekend for cat litter, pet food, paper towels, gloves and other necessities. “It’s incredible,” she said. “They are volunteers themselves, but they stepped up to help other volunteers.”

Perspectives

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016

EDITORIALS

It’s The Parking, Stupid, As Prospective First Man Might Tell Us

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illage Trustee Cindy Falk declared two years ago now that parking is a “crisis” in Cooperstown: Residents and visitors simply can’t park where they need to when they need to. The local economy – the village’s future – suffers.

Community leaders, parking is like nitroglycerine: Handle with care; you never know when it will explode.

The City of Oneonta hasn’t been immune to bad, hastily made parking decisions either. Under Mayor Miller’s administration, instituting long-term, paid-parking on the lower floor of the downtown parking deck emptied it almost completely for months.

Parking – cost and convenience – is a pacing horse for downtown prosperity. If people – shoppers, diners or residents – conclude parking is a burden, they’ll simply go elsewhere. Then, it’s particularly hard to get them back.

• This is in the context of a very promising development in the way the City of Oneonta’s $10 million DRI (Downtown Re-

Oneonta’s proposed Susquehanna Regional Food & Beverage Hub has three floors of housing on top.

vitalization Initiative) is rethinking projects: Housing is a component in every one.

First out of the gate is the $3 million Susquehanna Regional Food & Beverage Hub, endorsed in the Mohawk Valley REDC, now before the Cuomo Administration for a final decision. The top three stories of the six-story building will be housing.

Same with the parking-deck redo: The proposal adds shops, a transportation center

and, yes, a range of housing options atop the structure.

And, yes, we can say that Millennials would rather walk than drive, but – as one car seat and then another become part of their lives – they may appreciate anew the convenience of Henry Ford’s “faster horse.”

Any way you look at it, parking will be essential to any downtown’s success.

Again, if price and availability become issues in people’s minds, you can build it and they won’t come.

• Despite all the debate about parking in Cooperstown, the Village Board sometimes has a tin ear, evident again at the October board meeting, where trustees created six more dedicated parking spaces downtown for village employees to park, 6 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Mayor Jeff Katz observed that state law empowers municipalities to create parking for public workers, and that he tells citizens the village is under no obligation to guarantee parking to the public at large.

Wait. Parking is not a good or an evil. It is a strategy in a successful downtown.

You would think Cooperstown’s Main Street is trendy and high-end; the opposite is true. The rents are relatively low and apartments occupied by people who work in the restaurants and other downtown venues.

The recently updated Comprehensive Master Plan calls for attracting businesses downtown so employees can shop there.

Well, Village Hall, by rationing parking, has already forced 2,400-employee Bassett Hospital to build parking lots outside the village.

If we open our eyes, we see plenty of employees. But they are bused in, bused out, with no opportunity to patronize the downtown establishments.

There are enough hassles in daily life; people are going to avoid the ones they can. If parking is a headache, then going elsewhere is the aspirin. Southside gets it; Oneonta mustn’t forget it; Cooperstown must accept it before its downtown can flourish beyond The Hundred Days.

DAVID RUSSELL OTHER VOICES

Base Pension-Fund Decisions On Unbiased, Impartial Expertise Editor’s Note: David Russell, a Cooperstown resident, was formerly assistant counsel for state Comptroller H, Carl McCall, the sole trustee of the state’s Common Retirement Fund, and has been a long-time manager of alternative investment programs, including social “impact” programs, for public pension plans, endowments and foundations.

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t the Cooperstown village trustees meeting Monday, Oct. 24, the trustees unanimously voted to divest fossil fuel stocks from the $140,000 equity investment of the defined benefit retirement plan for village fire-

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fighters and emergency responders (the pension fund). Although this pension totals $900,000, it is likely that the majority of the remaining $760,000 of investments are held in shorter-term

securities such as bonds and other fixed income investments largely unrelated to fossil fuel companies.

It is not clear, at least to this writer, the totality of research data or investment/legal advice the trustees received or reviewed in arriving at this decision; as a result, the following discussion is almost exclusively based on the information provided in this newspaper subsequent to the Oct. 24 meeting. Further, the following discussion is not meant in any way to diminish the hard and honest work the village trustees perform on a week-in and week-out basis.

The village trustees, when making decisions on behalf of the pen-

sion fund, are not merely acting as elected officials in a representative local government where the voters can vote the trustees out in the next election if they don’t like the political or policy positions the trustees take. Rather, when acting as trustees of a defined benefit retirement plan, the trustees, in the same manner as the state Common Retirement Fund and the New York City pension funds, are subject to strict fiduciary duties.

Those fiduciary duties are twofold: • The trustees need to perform their duties with the care, skill, prudence and diligence that a “prudent person” acting in a like

capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims, and • The trustees must act solely in the interests of the members of the retirement plan (Regulation 85. state Insurance Department).

Put in layman’s terms, when making investment decisions the trustees must act in a manner consistent with how a prudent trustee of other pension funds, especially smaller ones, would conduct themselves. That includes reviewing the amount of research and unbiased analysis an impartial trustee would review in arriving at Please See RUSSELL, A6

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Zephyr Teachout Independent, Courageous To the Editor:

Perhaps the greatest mystery of American politics in the 21st century is how Congress can have an approval rating that dips into the single digits while on average more than 90 percent of incumbents win re-election. This is not to say that the presidency is irrelevant, but Congress is the most powerful branch – it writes the laws and holds the purse strings – and it is utterly unaccountable for reasons that are

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widely misunderstood.

That’s why we need to find independent, courageous candidates willing to take back Congress and work for issues important to us all.

In the 19th District Zephyr Teachout is that candidate for change.

Zephyr has worked tirelessly for environmental issues, campaign finance reform, overturning citizens united and she will be a champion for the 19th congressional district.

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to stand up and fight to get things accomplished in Washington. I urge everyone to come out and support Zephyr on Election Day. Additionally, in the 121st Assembly District, please cast your vote for Assemblyman Bill Magee, a friend to this county and everyone in the 121st A-D. Bill has worked tirelessly for this district for many years.

He is well respected with his colleagues in Albany, and has the experience and working relationships with both sides of the aisle to get this district the resources needed, and get the job done. Bill deserves our support on Election Day. Thank you.

RICHARD D. ABBATE Otsego County Democratic chairman Cooperstown

We Need Reform; Democrat Agrees To the Editor: With all due respect, you got it wrong with your endorsement of John Faso for the 19th Congressional seat.

Our democracy is in desperate need of reform. We need a fresh voice in Washington who will address the issues of Citizens United, ethics and campaign finance reform and we need someone who is not beholden to the monied and special interests and corporations.

There is a revolving door Please See DURKIN, A5

Mailers Dishonest, Grossly Misleading To the Editor: Local voters are being inundated with mail from my opponent Zephyr Teachout.

Unfortunately, these mailers are filled with dishonest or grossly misleading information about my character and record.

For example, Ms. Teachout and her allies continue to intentionally mislead voters about my service in the Assembly. I voted 97 percent of the time and when not there I was usually at an official meeting or hearing elsewhere in the state. I don’t apologize for missing approximately 100 votes when my wife was being operated on for cancer. Fortunately, she made a full recovery. Teachout knows these facts but shamefully repeats her distortions.

Ms. Teachout also inexplicably attacks me for opposing the initial DEC-EPA plan to dredge the Hudson River. In fact, as former Gov. George Pataki has noted, there was legitimate concern at the time that

clam-shell dredging would have serious short-term consequences for communities downriver. When it was clear that new technology would eliminate the risk, I supported the improved Hudson dredging.

I am proud that my neighbor and friend Chris Gibson has strongly endorsed my candidacy as his replacement in Congress. Along with my wife Mary Frances, I’ve lived, worked and raised a family here for over 33 years. I’ve crafted budgets that cut spending and taxes and fought to lower your property taxes. I’ve worked with Democrats and Republicans to get these things done, and I know how to deliver results for you.

My hope is to serve the people of our district in Congress and advance solutions to our problems. On Nov.. 8, I humbly ask you to hire me for the job.

JOHN FASO Candidate, 19th Congressional District

Candidate NYC Resident, Then She Wasn’t To the Editor: During her run for governor in 2014, Zephyr Teachout was required to prove in a court of law that she was a legal resident of Brooklyn. That’s right, the woman running for New York’s 19th District had to prove under oath that she lived in a borough of New York City just a short time ago. And now she’s trying to take our Congressional seat.

Voters of the 19th Congressional district are used to this sort of thing. For far too long, NYC folks have utilized our beautiful home as a weekend play-

ground. They like to enjoy our quaint, charming small towns Friday night through Sunday afternoon, then they demand it all stays the same so they can experience it again next weekend. If you’ve spent your life, or really any time in Upstate New York, you know this is far too often the case.

So now, with all of liberal California and NYC backing her, Teachout is trying to claim she’s a resident of the 19th so she can be our representative. What a false notion. This was never a choice because Teachout isn’t from here and wasn’t raised here. She’s lived

here for the few months she’s needed to. It’s not her home.

Part of the reason Chris Gibson was such a profound leader of New York’s 19th district is because he is a son of Upstate NY; he has an intimate understanding our communities, our issues and our way of life because he has lived and breathed it.

He knows us. He gets us.

You cannot buy or lie your way to this sort of knowledge. It’s only earned, and Teachout has done nothing to earn it here.

You’d be hard pressed to find anybody with more Please See MOSS, A5

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

200 YEARS AGO

Foreign News Summary – Accounts from Naples announce a new eruption of Vesuvius in August. Two dreadful and distinct torrents of lava issued from the crater and poured down the sides of the mountain.

A celebrated foxhound, the property of R. Cowan, huntsman to the Carlisle barriers, has reared three cub foxes, taken when three days old. They were brought up in the kennel of Henry Oliphant, Esq., of Broad-field House; and, surprising to relate, accompany the hounds in the chase, and are as fierce against their own species as their canine associates.

Vaccination (for Small Pox) – Dr. Scott has vaccinated 40,000 persons on the coast of Coromandel (southeast India) and the operations had complete success with the patients. The Negroes alone present some anomalies, which are attributed to the constitution of their skin. It has been necessary with them to repeat vaccination five times.

Doctor Zachinelli of Padua has published an essay “On the Reasons why people use the right hand in preference to the left.” He will not allow custom or imitation to be the cause; but affirms that the left arm cannot be in violent and continued motion without causing pain to the left side because there is the seat of the heart and of the arterial system. Nature herself, therefore, compels man to make use of the right hand.

November 7, 1816

175 YEARS AGO

Advertisement – Stray Cow. Came into my enclosure on the 20th inst. a Black Cow. The owner can have her by paying charges, proving progeny, and taking her away. Ziba Burch, Otsego, October 30, 1841.

Advertisement – Lost! Lost! A black cloak was lost on Monday evening last on the main road a mile south of this village.

Whoever may have found said cloak and will return the same to this office will confer a great favor on the owner and shall be amply rewarded for the same. (Ed. Note: The lost cloak belonged to John H. Prentiss, editor of The Freeman’s Journal) November 1, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

On the Eve of the Election of 1866: The main issue to be determined in this political contest is whether the pledges made by the Administration of Mr. Lincoln and by the Republican Party at the commencement of the late Civil War, and reiterated at various times during its progress, that the Union should be restored in all its relations as soon as peace should be conquered, or whether the division and discord should be kept up? Shall loyal Representatives be admitted to seats in Congress, or shall they be longer excluded? On this all-important question, the people of the great Empire State are to decide on Tuesday next.

November 2, 1866

100 YEARS AGO

Sol Block left his home in Oak River Estates Wednesday morning to take his son Richard to Cooperstown Elementary School. On the way his car passed over a pile of hay which had spilled from a rig onto Route 28 near Grasslands Farm. This seemingly inconsequential occurrence led to the near destruction of his car by fire.

A large quantity of hay became lodged under the car when the vehicle hit it and the exhaust system apparently set it afire. It blazed away unknown to the driver and his young son as they drove a mile and a half to the schoolhouse. As Mr. Block approached the elementary school he noticed the smoke for the first time. Both Blocks abandoned the vehicle. The Cooperstown Fire Department was called to extinguish the fire. The car was severely damaged.

November 2, 1966

125 YEARS AGO

Local – Trustee William H. Stocking lost one of his team of horses on Tuesday last.

While driving over the Main Street railroad crossing the horse began to tremble and soon fell to the ground dead. Mr. Stocking thinks the horse was frightened to death from hearing the exhaust steam from the locomotive.

Mr. Detrick, the organist and musical director at the Baptist Church has organized a choir of ten singers for that society. Christ church now has a choir composed of about sixteen boys and four older singers. They gave a choral service on Sunday last.

November 5, 1891

25 YEARS AGO

State law now mandates that many professionals, including those in the fields of dentistry, dental hygiene, medicine, optometry, podiatry, psychology, and registered nursing must complete a two-hour course in child abuse training before the start of their next registration period. These professionals must present documentation showing completion of the training when they initially apply for a position or when they renew their license, registration or limited permit. The two-hour training sessions are offered regularly by William D. Hayes, a clinical social worker at Bassett Hospital.

November 6, 1991

75 YEARS AGO

It will be China Relief Week in Cooperstown from November 10-15. This effort is being sponsored by the Roman Catholic and Protestant Councils of Church Women of Cooperstown. The headquarters will be the Fireside Bookstore where a tea room and bazaar will be open throughout the week. A variety of teas and Chinese wares, books and Chinese musical records will be on sale. Tea and almond cakes will be served for ten cents. Each cup of tea sold will provide food for two days for a Chinese refugee. The students of Cooperstown School are entering competitions for the best refugee costume for street soliciting

50 YEARS AGO

10 YEARS AGO November 1, 1916 (open to children under 12 years); for the best poster on Chinese Relief, these to be exhibited in different stores, and for the largest amount solicited after school hours and on Saturday.

November 5, 1941

In a letter to the editor, Sam Wilcox writes (in part): “I oppose our government’s use of war as the strategy to resolve conflict between us and an ill-defined enemy in the Near East. I oppose our government’s widening the chasm between Muslims and the rest of the world. This chasm must be bridged by real diplomacy, not by continuing military threats. If not, the enmity will continue and will lead to more tragic events like 9/11.”

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Mayor Herzig: Seward, Magee Are There For Oneonta, County To the Editor:

Please join me in voting to re-elect Assemblyman Bill Magee and Senator Jim Seward on Nov. 8.

The City of Oneonta and the County of Otsego are very fortunate to be represented in Albany by a bi-partisan team that works hard for the people of this area every day.

When Oneonta needed to replace a 30-yearold fire truck, this past year, Assemblyman Ma-

gee and Senator Seward joined forces to help us.

Bill Magee rarely waits to be asked. He regularly reaches out to ask us what he can do to help. His support for local agriculture will be vital as Oneonta’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative aims to create a hub for growers and producers of local foods and beverages.

Jim Seward, recognizing the cost of providing public safety to 7,000 college students, fought to bring SUNY Impact Aid to Oneonta – without

Former GOP Chair, Current Democrat Agree: Keep Electing Roads Chiefs To the Editor: The Otsego Town Board wants to adopt a local law so that they, the town board, can appoint the town highway superintendent. This could be a person from any town, not just the Town of Otsego.

All the town board members voted for it except Joe Potrikus – he voted no.

For this to happen it has to be on the ballot for all the voters to vote “yes,” you want the town board to appoint the town highway superintendent, or “no,” you want the voters to have an election for who the voters want as your town highway superintendent.

YOU WILL FIND THIS PROPOSAL ON THE BACK OF YOUR BALLOT SO, DO NOT

FORGET TO VOTE AND MARK “YES” OR “NO.” I do not know of any other towns that have an appointed town highway superintendent and am not sure why this board wants to change the law to appoint the town highway superintendent.

Not many people attend town board meetings. The papers as a rule do not attend the meetings, so you decide what you would like to see for the Town of Otsego.

Vote on Nov. 8. It is your right to vote .

SHEILA ROSS Fly Creek Editor’s Note: Sheila Ross is former chair of the Otsego County Republican Committee.

• To the Editor: As the chairman of the Otsego County Democratic Committee, this is a difficult letter for me to write.

Most who know me; whether you agree or disagree with my political style, know that I do not like to interject my opinion after our elected officials have voted on an issue. As this pertains to a Democratic Majority Board, it makes it even more difficult.

I would like to comment on the town of Otsego ballot choice regarding our Highway Superintendent being appointed instead of an elected position. Although, I know all the current board members and respect their abilities and trust their com-

mitment to this town and residents, I need to disagree with their vote on the appointment of a Superintendent.

My position understanding the nature of politics, it will become a political plum as the years pass, with the Superintendent’s coming and going as the board’s dynamics change over the years.

This will take a very important position out of the voter’s hands.

My vote is for the residents not the board to interview and decide. I urge my fellow residents to leave the decision in the voter’s hands and vote No on this issue.

Richard Abbate Otsego County Democratic Chair-

which, Oneonta would be forced to reduce the size of our Police Department.

Bill Magee and Jim Seward have worked hard for the people of Oneonta and Otsego County.

Regardless of party affiliation, they both deserve our votes.

GARY HERZIG Mayor City of Oneonta

Trump Is A Damaged Child In Man’s Body – Vote For Hillary To the Editor: In my opinion, Donald Trump is an emotionally and psychologically damaged person, a very dangerous person, and a lethal threat to the civilized world.

He is a damaged child suffering in a man’s body. An empty shell of a human being who craves and needs constant attention and adoration. He cares for no one and nothing except himself, money, power and adulation.

He has no moral core and lives only for self avoidance, praise, revenge, deception and destruction of people he deems beneath him, and/or he sees as his enemy (which includes just about everyone).

He is using all of the mostly well-meaning people who support him only to get elected. He really sees them as poor white trash to be discarded like garbage when he has no more need for them.

He has no real policies on anything as he will say anything he thinks is well intentioned, but naive supporters want to hear. He has no intention of being an honest leader for anyone except himself.

Everything is always, and only, about Donald Trump. Everything else is a monstrous lie.

Donald Trump is a frightening void. He is a maniacal whirlpool who will suck as much of civilization to its end as he can manage before his own destruction (which is what he really wants).

The average person is not skilled

in recognizing sociopaths and psychopaths when confronted by one. They are more forgiving (and confused) by this type of person who is very skilled in the art of deceit and that is why Donald Trump has gotten as far as he has in plain sight.

This election is not about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

This election is about whether or not Donald Trump gets the opportunity to try to destroy democracy, and possibly the world as we know it, on his way to destroying himself.

Adolph Hitler, with the same authoritarian personality traits (and other similar damage), was a joke when he started out. No one took him seriously. Hitler told the impoverished German people that he was going to save Germany all by himself. Sixty million dead people later, he died by a self-inflicted gunshot to his head, in a concrete bunker, under a completely destroyed Germany.

Do not underestimate the true dangerous deceitful intentions, and the violent destructive capabilities, of Donald Trump.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your own future, your own family, the future of your country, and the future of our friends around the world.

Vote for the only sane choice for president that we have.

Vote for Hillary Clinton.

JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown

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MOSS/From A4 of that intimate knowledge than her opponent, John Faso. Faso is a tremendous leader, a man that New York State should have elected governor in 2006. Congressman Gibson understands the commitment and dedication John Faso has made to this district over the 30 years he has lived here and raised a beautiful family.

This campaign has been messy, but the utter hypocrisy on the Democrat side is what irks me most. Teachout complains about corruption and outside spending, but only in public. Teachout has as much outside money coming in to support her candidacy as anyone in this state. Donations are pouring in from liberal regions across the country, areas that have never heard of NY19 and don’t care about it or its people. They only care about propping up an outsider to take the district and continue to push their own policies and values.

This will never be the right course for NY19 and its people. For districts to thrive in a representative democracy, they need leaders that actually represent them. Zephyr Teachout does not and that’s why we need to make sure she never leads us.

OWEN MOSS Oneonta Native

Zephyr For Reform DURKIN/From A4 for politicians – from elected official to lobbyist – that needs to be stopped. John Faso is in the middle of it.

Zephyr, who has written the book on corruption, literally, will represent everyone, not just the ones with the fattest check books. I will finally feel as if I have a voice in Washington.

On Nov. 8 I will proudly cast my ballot for Zephyr Teachout.

PHILIP DURKIN Cherry Valley

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Divestment Requires Unbiased Research, Investments Of Similar Yields

RUSSELL/From A4 his/her decision, and if the trustee does not have the skill to make a certain financial decision, to rely on the advice of an expert. In addition, the trustees must act solely in the best interests of the beneficiaries – in this case the firefighters and emergency responders.

This means the trustees are to be focused on the best risk-adjusted returns available to the pension fund, free from any conflicts of interest or political beliefs/statements.

When interpreting the above fiduciary requirements, many New York pension funds, including the state Common Retirement Fund, look to ERISA (the federal statute applicable to private pension funds) for guidance. More specifically to the issue at hand here, the federal Department of Labor (which enforces ERISA) has stated in Interpretive Bulletin 2008-1 that in the case of social divestment, the plan fiduciaries have the burden of showing that the money is diverted from a socially targeted investment (in Cooperstown’s case fossil fuels) to an investment with the same or superior risk-adjusted returns, and that the new investment satisfies fiduciary duties associated with prudent diversification.

Over the past 20 years, major public pension funds have indeed decided to divest from certain industries for social and investment related reasons.

The two largest divestitures have come in tobacco and firearms. During the mid to late 1990s, I was assistant counsel in the Office of state Comptroller Carl McCall, and in such capacity acted as managing attorney of the then $120 billion state Common Retirement Fund.

During the analysis and decision to divest from tobacco, investment staff and independent outside advisers poured over data and projections to determine if there was a reasonable case to be made that, strictly from an investment perspective, it was prudent to divest from tobacco stocks.

Given the plethora of litigation around the industry at the time, the decision to divest, while debatable on either side, was a prudent decision based on unbiased research and reliance on the advice of the comptroller’s internal and external investment staff. In hindsight, the decision ultimately cost the Common Retirement Fund returns, as the Dow Jones U.S. Tobacco Index has increased nearly 800 percent in value since 2000.

However, the process in arriving at the decision was critical to fulfillment of the Comptroller’s fiduciary duty.

Similar decisions and analysis have surrounded the firearms industry over the past four years since the Sandy Hook tragedy, with large public pension funds such as California Teachers (CALSTERS), California Public Employees (CALPERS) and New York City employees, police and fire divesting in firearms manufacturers. Again, these decisions followed in-depth analysis by investment staff and outside advisers of the long-term return prospects of gun manufacturers, which is critical from a fiduciary perspective.

Incidentally, similar to the tobacco divestment, the investment returns (although on a shorter horizon) related to divestment from firearms have so far largely not yielded enhanced investment returns for pension beneficiaries. For example, the stock of the two largest publicly traded firearms manufacturers, Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger, has increased in the past four years approximately 500 percent and

100 percent, respectively.

Taking all the above into account we now look at the limited information available (at least to this writer) surrounding the village trustees decision to divest from fossil fuel stocks in the pension fund.

The decision was most certainly a socially driven investment, as if it was purely investment related it would be fiducially incumbent on the trustees to fully analyze every component in the S&P 500 index (SPY) and make a sector-by-sector risk/return adjusted decision on whether fossil fuels were the right sector to divest from or if other components in the index were more appropriate for divestment. Clearly this was not done nor should we want or expect the trustees to be in the stock-picking business. As such, this is certainly a socially driven divestment and should be analyzed consistent with the trustees’ fiduciary and “sole benefit to beneficiaries” obligations and the Department of Labor’s non-controlling guidelines.

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It is not clear if the trustees analyzed this decision to divest with the care, skill and diligence of a prudent person, i.e., it is not entirely known what objective research, analysis and advice the trustees relied on in arriving at its decision. The trustees appear to have relied heavily on Trustee Allstadt’s opinion as a retired oil executive and his obvious personal beliefs and investment conclusions against fossil fuels (they represent a “great threat to humanity,” and anyone who owns fossil fuel stocks is eventually going to “drive off an [investment] cliff”).

The only substantive research item mentioned in the local press is a September 2015 statement cited by Mr. Allstadt given by the President of the Bank of England that trouble is coming to the fossil-fuel industry. A closer reading of that statement indicates that the president was saying that if each country adopted the International Panel on Climate Change estimate of a carbon budget that would limit global temperatures to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, there could be a large impact on the energy industry. While this is a laudable goal, it is

highly questionable at best that this is a realistic expectation in the foreseeable future and shouldn’t on its own be used to formulate an investment decision to divest from fossil fuels.

In addition, there is plenty of research that indicates that divestment from fossil fuels can damage pension fund returns. A recent study

by Professor Hendrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University’s Carey School of Business found that the costs associated with divesting from energy firms could be substantial. Over the next 20 years, the study estimates, a typical large institution could lose as much as $7 billion by deliberately excluding fossil fuel investments from its portfolio.

A similar analysis by Caltech economist Bradford Cornell found that the endowments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and New York University would lose a total of $195 million for each year that they remain divested (Forbes, July 2016).

This is not to say that any particular piece of research is controlling or correct on the issue, but it is incumbent on the Trustees to appropriately and objectively analyze all reasonably available data on both sides of the issue. It is worth noting that no major public pension funds, with large investment staffs and independent outside advisors, have yet to divest from fossil fuels.

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When analyzing if the trustees’ social fossil-fuel divestment and subsequent reinvest satisfies the Department of Labor’s guidelines that the new social investment has equal or superior returns to the old investment and provides appropriate diversification, it is important to look at the SPY index (the current index the Thinking of Remodeling?

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pension fund is invested in) and the SPYX index (the index the trustees are transferring to and which does not include fossil fuel stocks).

The SPY index, which includes fossil fuel stocks, is 24 years old, has $195 billion of assets and has over a million shares traded daily. During 2016 year to date, according to Bloomberg, the returns have been 5.87 percent, even though it includes fossil fuel stocks that have experienced a volatile year. SPYX, which the trustees are transferring the pension fund assets into, was only formed in December 2015, has $107 million of assets, and has a daily trading volume of under 1,000 shares.

More importantly, recognizing SPYX excludes fossil-fuel stocks and is by definition less diversified, its returns, again according to Bloomberg, are 4.93 percent 2016 year to date, approximately 16 percent below the pension plan’s current stock index investment, SPY. It is thus subject to debate if the trustees have fulfilled their fiduciary duty by moving the pension fund’s assets to a nonfossil fuel stock index (SPYX) with no long-term track record or history and which has received, on a relative basis, very limited investor capital support. Further, it has not shown to date that its returns are equal or superior to the existing fossil fuel stock populated index (SPY).

Finally, when making any of the above decisions the trustees, made up to this writer’s knowledge of mostly non-financial professionals, should also give significant weight to the opinion of its financial related staff, in this case Village Treasurer Derek Bloomfield. His opinion, citing guidelines promulgated for Certified Financial Analysts, was that a well diversified

portfolio, including fossil fuel stocks, is the most stable and social investing (especially with a very small fund) should be avoided except in one’s own personal portfolio.

Mr. Allstadt discounted this position and stated his viewpoint that the fossil fuel industry was in decline and that, incidentally, his financial planner had advised him and other ExxonMobil oil executives to divest from fossil-fuel stocks, which he had done. This writer suspects that Mr. Allstadt’s financial planner was rightly advising the oil executives to diversify their portfolio away from an over-concentration in ExxonMobil stock (much as Treasurer Bloomfield recommended diversification for the pension fund) and that as a good financial planner he also advised Mr. Allstadt and the other executives to sell down their ExxonMobil holdings before the Federal effective capital gains rate went from 15 percent to 23.8 percent in 2013.

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At the end of the day, as previously discussed, the trustees did not take Treasurer Bloomfield’s advice and voted to move the pension fund equity assets to the non-fossilfuel stock index. Mr. Allstadt explained the Trustees knew that Treasurer Bloomfield was uncomfortable with the decision, but he was just an “employee” and that it was a board decision and “that’s the time when everybody has to suck it up.”

This last statement is eerily similar to Nancy Pelosi’s famous statement that the U.S. House of Representatives needed to just approve Obamacare so everyone could then read what was in it. Let’s all hope that when the Firefighters and Emergency Responders Pension Fund returns are “read” in the future, we as taxpayers are not paying higher tax “premiums” to fund their well-deserved retirement benefits.

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POLITICAL LETTERS

Let The People Elect Their Public Officials To the Editor: Here we go again.

The Otsego Town Board has asked us to vote on an important issue for which the proper details have not been worked out.

The board wants to appoint a highway superintendent for which the job description, responsibilities and duties have not yet been written.

Town Colleague Vouches Stolzer Can Serve Town To the Editor: Over the course of the past year, I have had the privilege of serving as a council member on the Oneonta Town Board with Michael Stolzer. Michael is a long-time Oneonta resident and local business owner and his business acumen is a valuable addition to the town board.

He is also very supportive to the vibrant arts community in our town, utilizing his gallery to showcase local talent. His integrity and commitment to the people of his community make him an ideal board member. Despite our differing political affiliations, this board works together respectfully to address issues affecting our community.

Michael has proved himself to be a hard-working, engaged member of the town board. His enthusiasm for public service is boundless and he is always willing to go the extra mile for his constituents. His mission to protect the environment and promote our business community has been steadfast and clear.

I support his effort to continue his work as town board member. Please vote for Michael Stolzer on Nov. 8.

PATRICIA JACOB Town Board Member Oneonta

Furthermore, the salary has not yet been determined other than it will probably be double the cost to the taxpayers.

Most, if not all the highway works are against this chance.

Until we have all the facts, I urge a “no” vote on this referendum and leave the people’s ability to elect our officials in our hands.

JOHN PHILLIPS Fly Creek

As Appointee, Stolzer Showed He Can Keep Town On Track To the Editor, This letter is written in strong support of Michael Stolzer’s election to the Oneonta Town Board because he has demonstrated a strong commitment and ability to continue the town’s progress of the past several years.

Three years ago, the town board was occupied by a majority that repeatedly ignored the will of the people as expressed in the Zogby town survey. Tensions and tempers rose and Town Hall was filled with passionate residents, yet the town board continued to resist common-sense reform, particularly a ban on fracking.

That year, Patty Jacob and I had the honor of being voted into office by an overwhelming 57 percent of voters who wanted for change.

Over the following three years, the new town board dismantled the ingrained ways of the “good ol’ boy network” and delivered bipartisan reform, including a ban on fracking, a Wilber Lake protection district preserving the town and city’s primary drinking water source, a taxpayer protecting road use law, and the largest investment in town infrastructure in decades.

This was all achieved while promoting continued residential and business

development throughout the town and without new tax burdens on residents.

Michael Stolzer was active promoting these reforms prior to his appointment to the town board and, since then, his engagement and achievements have only increased.

Michael is a decadeslong Oneonta resident and owns two local businesses, investing in the future of our area. He agrees with town residents who know that it’s possible to encourage responsible economic development while also protecting our environment and quality of life.

His opponent was absent throughout all of the abovereforms and now runs on a platform of bringing “balance” to the town board. In reality, the board is now perfectly balanced between two Republicans, two Democrats, and one independent.

I urge you not to vote to restore the old regressive majority that prioritized the well-connected businessmen and special interests over the will of the people.

Let’s not go back to those dark days. Vote for Michael Stolzer who has been and will continue to be the voice of everyday common sense town residents.

ANDREW STAMMEL County Representative Town Of Oneonta

His 12-Year Partner Steps Up For Stolzer To the Editor: I have known Michael for 13 years and I feel very blessed that he has been my partner for all this time.

Anyone who knows Michael well, knows what an extraordinary guy he is. Why? Because he cares deeply about everyone and everything he puts his attention on. He is a self starter and created a successful business from scratch as a result of his vision, hard work and determination.

As such, he is a strong supporter of “keeping it local” and supporting our area businesses.

Michael is also passionate about art so when he opened up his business office on Main Street in Oneonta, he had the space to create a gallery where he not only shows his own work but promotes local artist’s work (at no expense to the artist) for much of the year.

When there was a vacancy last January on the Oneonta Town Board, Michael was asked if he would be willing to fill it to replace Andrew Stammel.

After much consideration he agreed. This was not something that Michael sought out. This is something that he was asked to do.

Michael has been serving on the board for the past 10 months and he enjoys it: the hard work, the connection with residents and businesses but most importantly, he’s excited about continuing to solve problems and promote projects that the people of Oneonta actually want. He is fully aligned with the established goals from our town survey. He has been

working diligently to promote access to solar energy for businesses; an issue he feels is critically important for energy independence.

The state programs he is promoting should actually save people money, create jobs and reduce greenhouse gases: a no-brainer.

He has worked with town board members to promote economic development making it easier for small businesses to get a foothold and compete with big chain stores.

Michael has also been very concerned about projects involving tree-clearing that have encroached on neighboring residents and their sense of privacy. There have been some heartbreaking instances, including on our road of Southside Drive, where residents returned home one day to find the woods behind their houses had been clear-cut; exposing their properties to Southside businesses. Michael has not only sought out affected residents but pushed for a larger buffer zone for all new commercial projects.

A person’s record speaks volumes and Michael’s record in just 10 short months reflects caring, commitment, and dedication to our community. I feel safer knowing he’s there, I feel encouraged knowing he’s there, and I trust him completely.

He would be grateful to receive your support so he can effectively keep doing what he has been doing all along: protecting what we already have and creating change which benefits us all.

RACHEL SOPER Town of Oneonta

Officials Park, Taxpayers Walk To the Editor: I am appalled to see that the Village Board is reserving parking places for village employees. Village employees are public servants, paid by tax dollars, and should not be accorded privileges that are not given to the taxpayers who pay their salaries. No other employers in the village have reserved parking spaces granted by the Village Board. This is shameful!

MARGARET E. McGOWN Cooperstown

Public Also Helped Pick 1st Manager To the Editor: I just wanted to bring to your attention that the caption from your online post on Oct. 18, 2016, “Donovan, Cleinman Join Search For City Manager,” incorrectly states “for the first time, the search committee will include community members.”

The error was repeated on the front page of the Oct. 21 Hometown Oneonta.

Just for the record, the first search for a city manager in 2012 included community members. A Sept. 14, 2012, Hometown Oneonta article about the hiring of our first city manager reported, “chosen from 50 candidates in a nationwide search, (Mike) Long had to convince not just common council, but a gathering of department heads and a panel of leading citizens that he was best.”

You would be correct if you stated that Common Council did not form a committee that included community members for the second city manager search.

CHIP HOLMES Oneonta

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From the top of 189 Main St., the former Oneonta Hotel, Keith Bundy, who retired to a different Oneonta than he grew up in, looks toward what was formerly the top of Broad Street, now blockaded by Muller Plaza and the Clarion Hotel.

Reconnect Main, Market Again, Downtown Revitalizers Advised parents also ran Drago’s Italian Grocery down on Carbon Street, so we’d go up to buy fruit from him.”

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, Marc Wouters, the Stantec consultant tasked with helping bring the “Authentic Oneonta” vision to life, advised the city’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative steering committee: Karyl Sage’s husRe-open the band and brother“conversation” in-law worked in between Mara Market Street mainstay, Oneonta ket and Main streets. To Ford.

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ONEONTA new suit, groceries, a car, a nice dinner out – before urban renewal, you could get it all between Market, Main and connecting streets.

“Market Street had a lot of businesses,” said Tony Drago, long-retired Oneonta High School athletic director. “There was the Spaulding Bakery, and the wholesale fruit market Diz Lamonica’s family owned. My

“Urban Renewal was a heartbreak for us natives,” says Tony Drago, holding up a book of old-time Oneonta photos.

bright back businesses, housing and visitors, carve up the 1,000-foot-long “Superblock” of on the north side of Main

created by Urban Renewal.

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have fun,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re struggling with drugs and alcohol or if it’s the furthest thing from their mind.

Everyone is welcome.”

The party is open 5-9 p.m. at the Turning Point on Elm Street, where FOR-DO, The Friends of Recovery Delaware-Otsego, has its offices. “The first weekend we were open, we had 45 people for an open mic night,” said Alsheimer. “All but two of them were college students.”

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5:30 p.m. silent auction bidding begins; live auction 7 p.m. with guest auctioneer Chuck D’Imperio. Hundreds of interesting items antiques, art, jewelry, wines, gift certificates, event tickets, a Charles Hartley painting, tools from the collection of Ralph Morley, a week in Mytle Beach, and season passes to the 2017 Oneonta Outlaws! Free admission, drinks and snacks for sale. Elks Club, 84-86 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, to donate, Jane Backman (431-9509), Loraine Tyler (4332452), Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

(607) 432-0960, info@OneontaHistory.org CONCERT: The Oneonta Concert Association presents Narek Arutyunian, clarinet and Yunh-Chin Zhou, piano with concert opening by Little Delaware Youth Ensemble, Friday Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. at The First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Tickets $25; student $6. At door or The Green Toad Bookstore, The Eighth Note.

Info, tickets, (607) 433-7252, OneontaConcertAssociation.org VETERANS CONCERTS: Celebrate veterans this weekend at two Oneonta Concerts Sunday, Nov. 6. – at 3 p.m. St. Mary’s Parish Hall, 38 Walnut St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 437-0152 and, following, with a 4 p.m. “Tribute to Veterans” at Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://foothillspac.org/index. php/shows/veterans-day-tribute/ CRAFTS, CRAFTS, & CRAFTS: Tis the season for crafts and stocking stuffing!

Take in the Southside Mall’s Annual Craft & Vendor Fair, Saturday, Nov. 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday Nov. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Or the Milford Central School Craft Fair, Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Milford Central School Gym, 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, web.milfordcentral.org; And the Latino Community Bazaar Saturday, with art, music and activities at the First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., sponsored by CCS’ Spanish classes.

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SEMINAR – 3 p.m. “Axioms or Experiments:? Pedagogical Debates on the Teaching of Geometry in 20th Century Denmark.”

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ART EXHIBIT – 5-7 p.m. “Earth Shattering” opens. Complements Glimmerglass Film Days theme “Against the Odds.” The Smithy, 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

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Info, (607) 432-2070 admin@ canoneonta.org AUCTION – 5:30 p.m. Greater Oneonta Historical Society Annual Benefit Auction. Elks Club, 84-86 Chestnut St, Oneonta.

Info, to donate Jane Backman (431-9509), Loraine Tyler (4332452), Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta. (607) 4320960, info@OneontaHistory.org ST. FRANCIS FILM – 7 p.m.

“Francis in Brooklyn” (2015). St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta, Info, (607) 432-1458.

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Oneonta Concert Association presents Narek Arutyunian, clarinet and Yunh-Chin Zhou, piano. Concert opening by Little Delaware Youth Ensemble. Tickets $25; student $6. At door or The Green Toad Bookstore, The Eighth Note. Info, tickets, (607) 433-7252, OneontaConcertAssociation.org

SQUARE DANCE – 7:3010 p.m. Harvest Dance-Pie Night. Ray Taylor will call, Elma Taylor will Cue. Admission $5.

Cooperstown Elementary School, 21 Walnut St, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 264-8128 or (607) 5478665 THEATER – 8 p.m. Hartwick College Theatre Arts Dept. presents “Underneath the Lintle” by Glen Berger and performed by Taylor Morin. Free and open to public. Lab Theatre, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College, 1 Hartwick Dr, Oneonta. Registration suggested, (theatre@hartwick.edu, (607) 431-4227 CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m.

Music by Fancy That!, with caller Bob Nicholson. Otsego Dance Society at Presbyterian Church, corner of Church and Pioneer sts., Cooperstown Suggested donation $8 adults, $4 students and teenagers, free for 12 and under. Info, (607) 965-8232, (607) 547-8164, www.otsegodancesociety.blogsport.com

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Before 1973 and Urban Renewal, east-west Main and Market were connected by north-south Broad, South Main and Chestnut streets, plus Hamilton Street, an alley (where the Westcott Parking Lot is now).

“Broad Street used to be a really lively place,” said Keith Bundy, another Oneontan of long memory who retired to his home city. “It connected Market to Main, so all the railroad workers would walk up through there, stop off and have a drink. There were a lot of bars.”

It wasn’t uncommon to see an elephant or a camel strolling up Broad Street. “The circus animals would come in by train and they’d walk them up to Main Street,” said Drago.

The YMCA was one of the major anchors of Broad Street. “That’s where all the teens would go to hang out,” said Bundy.

But it occasionally caused some problems for those who wanted to enjoy a night out. “Tony and I used to go to the Silver Grill for clams,” said Marcella Drago. “But I was a teacher, so we couldn’t be seen in a bar. We used to duck down in the booth when the kids passed by to go to the Y!” Klipnockies was another notorious bar, where many of Oneonta’s young men had their first drink. But there was shopping to be done too, from clothes at Schatzky’s to games and music at Royal Oneonta Amusements.

“We bought our first dinette set at Bern Furniture,” said Karyl Sage, whose husband worked in the old commerce district.

Even Hamilton Street, which connected Main and South Main, enhanced the north-south connection.

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wicz. “It was a real rat-trap, it was in a basement, and everyone smoked. But afterwards, you would walk through the Hamilton Street alley to get back to South Main.”

And South Main was a destination for anyone hungry for a plate of Molinari’s famous spaghetti. “It was as famous then as Brooks Chicken or Foti’s bread is now,” said Sage. “The Rex was also there, and that was a very popular restaurant.”

Molinari’s was so popular that it caught the eye of Red Sox third baseman Frank Malzone, who owned it for a time. “If you hit a triple in an Oneonta home game, they would give you a free steak,” he once told the Boston Globe. “I got a lot of free steaks back then!”

And at the corner of Market and Chestnut, where the Susquehanna Regional Food & Beverages Hub is planned, was the Oneonta Sales Co.,

also known as Oneonta Ford, where Sage’s husband, Robert, worked with his brother, Charles.

“Across from the Oneonta Sales Company, there was an old hotel, and the Greyhound station bus station across from it,” said Sage. “The single guys would all hang out there and try to meet the college girls coming off the bus!”

There was even a small prototype of the Municipal Parking Garage on Market Street. “Mr. Angelotti used to rent a garage for people who worked down there to put their cars in,” said Sage.

“My husband parked his car there.”

And although housing to the downtown is one of Mayor Gary Herzig’s priorities, Bundy says it’s a new one for that area. “There may have been apartments above a store for the family to live in, but you didn’t see a lot of residential space down there.”

FOR-DO/From B1 The program is funded through OASAS, the state Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Services.

“LEAF did a survey and found that the most prevalent ways our youth get into drugs is because they don’t see any alternate activities,” he said. “OASAS was looking for programming for community centers, and we applied. Out of an overwhelming number of proposals, we were one of the six they funded.”

The funding will also help pay for social activities outside the center, including movie nights, bowling parties, and even a van to help transport people to the events. “There’s a population here who aren’t interested in indulging in drugs and alcohol,” he said. “Everyone knows someone who encourages other people to go to parties and get drunk or use drugs, so the mentality here is that it gives people who don’t have something else to do, rather than just sit in their dorm room all night.”

As the program continues to grow, Alsheimer says, he wants to host life-skills workshops, including basic car maintenance and financial skills. “We want to empower these young adults with leadership roles.”

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gling with drug and alcohol abuse, so we thought she would be able to let students know about what we’re doing,” he said. “We’ve also reached out to Hartwick College.”

And for those 12-17, the proposal also included funding for monthly “Teen Clubhouses” throughout the county, partnering with the Family Resource Network.

“We want to have food, games, a chance to mix and mingle, but also turn the activity into a conversation about relevant life topics” he said. “For instance, if we were playing a basketball game, we could talk about recovery being a team effort, how you set goals to win.”

The monthly centers are being tested in Oneonta, Unadilla and Richfield Springs, with a goal of expanding to seven pop-up centers in Otsego County by 2018.

“We wanted to reach out to at-risk kids, to educate them before they started using drugs,” he said. “The more opportunities we have to go into rural areas and provide activities, the better.”

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NOTICE TO THE VOTERS OF OTSEGO COUNTY Offices, Candidates, Propositions and Polling Places for the General Election on Tuesday November 8, 2016 Polls will be open in all districts of Otsego County 6AM to 9PM *********** FEDERAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS FOR HILLARY CLINTON/TIM KAINE (DEM, WOR, WEP) William J Clinton, 15 Old House Ln, Chappaqua Andrew M Cuomo, 4 Bittersweet Ln, Mt Kisco Kathy C Huchul, 405 Gulf Landing, Buffalo Thomas P D-Napoli, 100 Great Neck Rd, Great Neck Eric T Schneiderman, 645 West End Ave, #8F, New York Carl E Heastie, 4064 Hill Ave, Bronx Andrea StewartCousins, 293 N Broadway, #32, Yonkers Bill de Blasio, 442 11th St, Brooklyn Letitia A James, 296 Layfayette Ave, Brooklyn Scott M Stringer, 155 West 71st St, New York Melissa Mark-Viverito, 211 E 111th St, New York Byron W Brown, 14 Blaine Ave, Buffalo Christine C Quinn, 263 Ninth Ave, #3A, New York Basil A Smikle Jr, 596 Edgecombe Ave, #2C, New York Melissa Sklarz, 3069 Hobart St, #4K, Woodside Mario F Cilento, 424 Greenbush Rd, Blauvelt Rhonda Weingarten, 26 Ocan Pkwy, East Hampton George K Gresham, 1313 E 233rd St, Bronx Daniel F Donohue, 10 Longview Dr, Clifton Park Stuart H Appelbaum, 405 E 82nd St, #5H, New York Gary S LaBarbera, 2938 Cambridge Rd, Wantagh Lovely A Warren, 93 Woodman Park, Rochester Stephanie A Miner, 102 Woodside Dr, Syracuse Katherine M Sheehan, 71 Marsdale St, Albany Anastasia M Somoza, 790 11th Ave, #14B, New York Sandra Ung, 146-40 Beech Ave, Flushing Ruben Diaz Jr, 820 Boynton Ave, #6D, Bronx Hazel L Ingram, 520 Grant Ave, Brooklyn Rachel D Gold, 271 Union St, Brooklyn FOR DONALD J TRUMP/ MICHAEL R PENCE (REP, CON) Adrian H Anderson, 10 West St,

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Pawling John Burnett, 8 West 130th St, #2R, New York Guy T Parisi, 720 Milton Rd, #J1, Rye Edward F Cox, 100 Seafield Ln, Westhampton Beach Thomas V Dadey Jr, 15 North Pebble Hill Rd, Dewitt John J Flanagan, 4 Cayuga Ave, East Northport Brian M Kolb, 128 Kennedy St, Canandaigua Charles P Joyce, 4165 Grandview Ave, Wellsville Peter Kalikow, 11 Edgewood Ln, Purchase Sandra King, 1549 Friend Rd, Penn Yan Nicholas A Langworthy, 10 Colonial Rd, Amherst John Jay LaValle, 96 Meadow Ponds Circle, Miller Place Gary J Lavine, 6808 Holliston Circle, Fayetteville Stephen Louro, 2 Hunters Way, Nissequogue Adele Malpass, 275 Central Park West, #9B, New York Susan E McNeil, 2010 Co Hwy 107, Amsterdam Joseph N Mondello, 31 Laurel Cove Rd, Oyster Bay Cove Edward F Morgan, 3132 Hulberton Rd, Holley Carl P Paladino, 282 Potters Rd, Buffalo William Reilich, 462 Melwood Dr, Rochester Todd Rouse, 99 Will New Blvd, Canastota Jennifer Saul Rich, 1120 Fifth Ave, 4th Floor, New York Raymond Scollin, 353 Kiwassa Rd, Saranac Lake Meilin Tan, 58-17 134th St, Flushing Donald J Trump Jr, 425 East 58th St, #12CD, New York Gerard Kassar, 7521 Tenth Ave, Brooklyn Shaun Marie Levine, 325 Parkview Dr, Schenectady Howard Lim Jr, 83 Valley Terr, Rye Brook Rodney J Strange, 386 Raecrest Circle, Elmira FOR JILL STEIN/ AJAMU BARAKA (GRE) Cassie Wilson, 363 Huntington Ave, Buffalo Eric Jones, 365 Potomac Ave, Buffalo Nancy Morelle, 115 Fairway Dr, New Hartford Daniella Liebling, 269 Twelfth St, Apt 1, Brooklyn Joshua Feintuch, 647 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn Michael D mperor, 344 80th St, Apt 5, Brooklyn Craig A Seeman, 70 Wyckoff St, #3, Brooklyn Jennifer R White, 167 Eagle St, #4, Brooklyn James C Lane, 269 Twelfth St, Apt 1, Brooklyn Marianne Schwab, 259 Jefferson St, Brooklyn Rochelle Dorfman, 134 New York Ave, Freeport James R Brown III, 560 Long Beach Rd, Apt 2, Island Park

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Christine S Schmidt, 481 Archer St, Freeport Gail B Brown, 560 Long Beach Rd, Apt 2, Island Park Julia Willebrand, 255 West 84th St, New York Joanne Landy, 2785 Broadway, New York Claudia Flanagan, 271 East Tenth St, New York Martha Kessler, 216 East Tenth St, New York Christopher Archer, 2611 Frederick Douglass Blvd, #5G, New York James McCabe, 453 East 78th St, New York Gil Obler, 765 Amsterdam Ave, New York John Baldwin, 223 East 28th St, New York Howie Hawkins, 410 West Beard Ave, Syracuse Mary House, 341 Tennyson Ave, Syracuse Frank Cetera, 717 Otisco St, Syracuse Darin Robbins, 78 Sterling St, Corning Peter Lavenia, 1301 Greenwich Dr, Albany Theresa Portelli, 9 Pitch Pine Rd, Albany Delbert Gregory, 210 Robert Gardens North, Apt 8, Queensbury

Joanne Foresta, 102 Ludlow St, Saratoga Springs Avarham Gvili, 220 Hyland Blvd, Staten Island

FOR GARY JOHNSON/BILL WELD (IND) Frank M MacKay, 15 Birch Rd, Rocky Point Kristin A MacKay, 15 Birch Rd, Rocky Point William Bogardt, 160 Archer Ave, Copiague Robert G Pilnick, 12 Sherwood Dr, Huntington Thomas S Connolly Jr, 19 Dobert Ct, Wynantskill Paul Caputo, 1019 Rose Ave, Schenectady Valerie Caputo, 1019 Rose Ave, Schenectady Stephen P Corryn, 162 Furlong Rd, Rochester Joseph L Baruth Sr, 3915 West Rd, Constableville Lee A Kolesnikoff, 50 Jamison Dr, Clifton Park Thomas R Hatfield, 75 Crystal Dr, Dryden Teresa Bogardt, 160 Archer Ave, Copiague Thomas A Connolly, 19 Dobert Ct, Wynantskill Dennis R Zack, 255 Van Wyck Lake Rd, Fishkill Susan L McGuire, 128 Seaman Rd, Stormville Richard Belando, 8 Circle Dr, Farmingdale Maryellen Beladano, 8 Circle Dr, Farmingdale Debra Burns, 217 Maple Rd, Syracuse Michael Amo, 16 Summit Ave, Cherry Valley Niki Lee Rowe, 16 Summit Ave, Cherry Valley John B MacKay, 15 Birch Rd, Rocky Point Scott R Major, 163 East Woodside Ave, Patchogue Robert J Bogardt, 26 Lawrence Ln, Bay Shore Anna C Bogardt, 26 Lawrence Ln, Bay Shore Barbara Pilnick, 12 Sherwood Dr, Huntington Edward G Miller, 102 Ludlow St, Saratoga Springs

FOR GARY JOHNSON/BILL WELD (LBT) Mark N Axinn, 338 E 78th St, New York Jeffrey T Russell, 55 Via Da Vinci, Clifton Park Richard A Cooper, 111 Cherry Valley Ave, #310, Garden City Roger J Cooper, 25 Wood Ave, Albertson Pamela Connolly Tangredi, 229 14th St, West Babylon John Clifton, 168-32 127th Ave, #9D, Jamaica Steven G T Becker, 418 Helendale Rd, Rochester Shawna L Cole, 1 Ely Park Blvd, #E4, Binghamton Hesham El-Meligy, 80 Richmond Hill Rd, #5D, Staten Island Mark E Glogowski, 1498 Lake Rd, Hamlin Andrew Martin Kolstee, 35 Fairfield Ave, Jamestown William P McMillen, 94 Cherry Ave, Delmar Gary S Popkin, 849 President St, Brooklyn Andrew Rogers, 14 Sable Court West, East Amherst Robert N Power III, 68 Laight St, #1B, New York Alton Yee, 101 Clark St, Brooklyn Robert E Schuon Jr, 397 Grand Blvd, Deer Park Brian Waddell.

112 East 90th St, #4B, New York Christian Padgett, 560 North Erie Ave, Lindenhurst Kevin Wilson, 1053 Atlantic Ave, Rochester Erik Bell, 36 Oschawa Ave, West Seneca Harold W Barnett Jr, 30 Garden Rd, Pelham Manor Arthur Rosen, 155 Vincent Dr, East Meadow Edward Garrett, 7008 Erie Rd, #21B, Derby Shawn Hannon, 933 Meadowbrook Dr, Syracuse Matthew Mahler, 259 Commack Rd, Mastic Beach Charles Millar, 124 Arlington Rd, Utica Mark Potwora, 209 Grandview Terr, Batavia James Rosenbeck, 13 Lewis Ave, Batavia US SENATOR Charles E Schumer, 9 Prospect Part West, Brooklyn (DEM, WOR, IND) Wendy Long, 1170 Fifth Ave, 2A, New York (REP, CON, REF) Robin Laverne Wilson, 995 Jefferson Ave, #4, Brooklyn (GRE) Alex Merced, 1504 Ocean Ave, #1J, Brooklyn (LBT) REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS (19TH DIST) Zephyr Teachout, 10 Honey Ln, Dover Plains (DEM, WOR) John J Faso, 14 Sylvester St, PO Box 474, Kinderhook (REP, CON, IND, REF)

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STATE STATE SENATOR (51ST DIST) Jermaine BagnallGraham, 6 East St South, PO Box 956, Sherburne (DEM, WEP) James L Seward, 80 N Main St, PO Box 43, Milford (REP, CON, IND, REF) MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY (101ST DIST) Arlene G Feldmeier, 532 E Gansevoort St, Little Falls (DEM, WOR) Brian D Miller, 9195 Red Hill Rd, New Hartford (REP, IND) Maria E Kelso, PO Box 98, Davenport Center (CON, REF) MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY (102ND DIST) Peter D Lopez, 153 Spring St, PO Box 295, Schoharie (REP, CON, IND, REF) MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY (121ST DIST) Bill Magee, 3400 St Rte 20 E, Cazenovia (DEM, IND) John J Salka, 9733 Keith Rd, West Edmeston (REP, CON, REF) MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY (122ND DIST) Clifford W Crouch, 171 Oak Tree Ln, Bainbridge (REP) CHERRY VALLEY TOWN JUSTICE no candidates EDMESTON COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) Christine Stanton, 1957 State Highway 80, Edmeston (DEM) Jeremy Hoag, 1480 Co Hwy 20, Edmeston (REP) EXETER COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) no candidates HARTWICK TOWN JUSTICE Mark L diLorenxo, 742 Co Hwy 59, Cooperstown (DEM) Glenn Schilling 3079 Co Hwy 11, Hartwick (REP) MARYLAND COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) no candidates MILFORD COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) no candidates MORRIS TOWN JUSTICE Joseph W Tyson, 399 Pittsley Rd, South New Berlin (DEM) Peter J McCann, 145 Main St, Morris (REP) ONEONTA COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) Michael Stolzer, 142 Southside Dr, Oneonta (DEM, CVI) Randal I Mowers, 1728 County Highway 48, Oneonta (REP) OTEGO COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) no candidates OTSEGO TOWN PROPOSITION NUMBER ONE Shall there be approved and adopted in the Town of Otsego, a Local Law entitled, “A LOCAL LAW PROVIDING FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE ELECT-

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ED POSITION OF HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT AND THE CREATION OF THE APPOINTED POSITION OF HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE TOWN OF OTSEGO,” as approved by the Town Board of the Town of Otsego, to change the Town Highway Superintendent from an elected position appointed by the Town Board, effective January 1, 2018.

PITTSFIELD CLERK/ COLLECTOR (UNEXPIRED TERM) Connie Lewis, 175 Ouleout Rd, New Berlin (DEM) PLAINFIELD TOWN JUSTICE David Trevvett, 125 County Highway 18A, West Winfield (DEM, REP) RICHFIELD TOWN JUSTICE Michael L Marmet, 491 Richfield Hill Rd, Richfield Springs (DEM, RJU) COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) Herman Hopper, 21 Hyde St, Richfield Springs (DEM) Rex A Seamon, 1096 County Highway 25, Richfield Springs (REP, CON) Robert Joseph Woodrow, 180 Butternut Rd, Richfield Springs (IND) UNADILLA ASSESSOR (UNEXPIRED TERM) no candidates WORCESTER COUNCILMAN (UNEXPIRED TERM) Donald Zaengle, 14 Chase St, Worcester (REP) ******* POLLING PLACES BURLINGTON Municipal Building, 6011 St Hwy 51, Burlington Flats BUTTERNUTS Municipal Building, 1234 St Hwy 51, Gilbertsville CHERRY VALLEY Community Center, 2 Genesee St, Cherry Valley DECATUR Decatur Town Barn, 104 Co Hwy 37, Worcester EDMESTON Municipal Building, 2 West St, Edmeston EXETER Town Garage/ Office, 7411 St Hwy 28, Schuyler Lake HARTWICK Town Office Building, 103 Town Dr, Hartwick LAURENS Town Hall, 37 Brook St, Laurens MARYLAND Firehouse, 40 Main St, Schenevus MIDDLEFIELD Town Hall, 3717 Co Hwy 35, Cooperstown MILFORD Town Hall, 2859 St Hwy 28, Portlandville MORRIS Townhouse, 118 Main St, Morris NEW LISBON Town Hall, 908 Co Hwy 16, Garrettsville ONEONTA 1,3,4 Town Hall, 3966 St Hwy 23, West Oneonta

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ONEONTA 2 FoxCare Center, One Foxcare Dr, Oneonta OTEGO Municipal Building, 3526 St Hwy 7, Otego OTSEGO 1,2 St Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St, Cooperstown OTSEGO 3 Town Building, 811 Co Hwy 26, Fly Creek PITTSFIELD Town Hall, 175 St Hwy 80, New Berlin PLAINFIELD Courthouse, 133 Co Hwy 18A, West Winfield RICHFIELD Town Hall, 18 E James St, Richfield Springs ROSEBOOM Roseboom Town Barn, 126 Co Hwy 50, Cherry Valley SPRINGFIELD Community Center, 129 Co Hwy 29A, Springfield Center UNADILLA Town Hall, 1648 St Hwy 7, Unadilla WESTFORD Town Hall, 1812 Co Hwy 34, Westford WORCESTER Worcester Central School, 198 Main St, Worcester CITY OF ONEONTA Foothills Perf. Arts Center, 24 Market St, Oneonta Otsego County Board of Elections 140 Co Hwy 33W, Ste 2 Cooperstown, NY 13326 607-547-4247 or 4325 www.otsegocounty. com/depts/boe Legal notice

Notice of organization of Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. 1. The name of the limited liability company is Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC.

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Notice of Conversion of a NY Limited Liability Company.

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

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

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

The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalNov24

2. Articles of Organization of Ten Eyck Enterprises, LLC were filed with the New York Secretary of State on September 15, 2016.

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

Culligan Masonry Construction LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law

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

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

6. The limited liability company is organized to carry on all lawful activities.

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ACKOWLEDGEMENT COPY ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF

FIRST: The name of the limited liability company is: Culligan Masonry Construction LLC SECOND: The county, within this state, in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is OTSEGO. THIRD: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the liumited liability company served upon him or her is: Andrea Culligan 5681 State Highway 7 Oneonta, NY 13820 I certify that I have read the above statements, I am authorized to sign

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these Articles of Organization, that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and that y signature typed below constitutes my signature.

Andrea Culligan, President (signature) Andrea Culligan, ORGANIZER 5681 State Highway 7 Oneonta, NY 13820 Filed by: Andrea Culligan 5681 State Highway 7 Oneonta, NY 13820 6LegalNov25 Legal notice Notice of formation of Otsego Bounty, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/8/16.

Office in Otsego County. United States Corporation Agent, Inc. has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General.

6LegalNov18 Legal notice Notice of Formation of 1. JENNY BUD LLC 2. Articles of organization filed 9/19/2016 3. Located Otsego County 172 Sunset Ridge Rd. Cooperstown NY 13326 4. Purpose is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalNov10 LegaL notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SHEPHANNESEN PROPERTIES, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on September 21, 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 1144, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalNov3 Legal notice Notice of formation of ARTRA Development, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on July 20, 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, 20 Main Street, Worcester, NY 12197. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3-4, 2016

Saturday, November 5

FOOD & FARMING CONFERENCE – 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. The Farmers’ Museum Conference on Food & Farming 2016: Climate Change & Its Impact on Farming in Central New York. Info, http://www.farmersmuseum. org/food-farm.

WORKSHOP – 9 a.m. Introduction to blacksmithing for absolute beginners. Field Blacksmith Shop, Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Members: $75 Non-members: $95.

Advanced Registration required.

Info, (607)547-1461.

WORKSHOP – 10 a.m., Learn to bake traditional holiday breads and cakes in the brick bake oven. Lippitt Farmstead, Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Members $50, non-members $60, juniors (1216) $40. Advance registration required. Info, (607) 547-1461.

CRAFT FAIR – 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Milford Central School Gym, 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, web. milfordcentral.org WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. Letterpress Printing in the Middlefield Printing Office, Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Members, $40, non-members $50, juniors (12-16) $30. Info, (607) 547-1461.

EXHIBITION – 10 a.m.4 p.m.Final day for exhibits “Oneonta & Aviation History” and “183 Main Street: 150 Years of History.” Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info: (607)432-0960 or http://www. oneontahistory.org/ WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. Learn to make Fragrant Waters and Es-

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Members $40, non-members $50 juniors (12-16) $30. Creamery Classroom, Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-1461.

LATINO COMMUNITY BAZAAR – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Everyone welcome. Offering arts, music, and activities presented by CCS Spanish classes to encourage familiarity with the Spanish language and Hispanic Culture.

Everyone is encouraged to participate by bringing an item reflecting your family immigration or migration story. Donations benefit the Children’s Home in Azacualpa, Honduras. Info, william.walker@oneonta.edu or (607)547-2586.

ART DROP OFF – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Cooperstown Art Association Holiday Show and Sale drop off day. Info, (607) 547-9777.

WORKSHOP – 1 p.m. Learn

with traditional methods. Members $75, non-members $95, juniors (12-16) $75. Field Blacksmith Shop, Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Advance registration required. Info, (607) 547-1461.

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

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/hml-writers-group/ SOCK HOP AND SILENT AUCTION – 5 p.m. Bid for gift certificates, gift baskets, and donations from local merchants.

Dancing and contests begin @ 6. Auction closes @7:30. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607)432-4102

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GALA – 6:30 p.m. A.O. Fox Hospital 26th annual gala. 1920s soiree @ The Fox Speakeasy. Market style dining, open bar, benefit wine pull 6:30-8:30 p.m. Music

by Blues Maneuver and The Honey Taps. Guests encouraged to dress the era. $150 per person. The Fox care Center, One Fox Care Dr., Oneonta. Info, reservations: (607)431-5472, foxgala@aofmh.org. : BUMPER JACKSONS – 7 p.m. $11-$29. Old-time Swing, Bluegrass, 7 Hot Jazz. West Kortright Centre, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith. Info, (607)278-5454.

THEATER – 8 p.m. Hartwick College Theatre Arts Dept. presents “Underneath the Lintle” by Glen Berger and performed by Taylor Morin. Free and open to public. Lab Theatre, Bresee hall,

Hartwick College, 1 Hartwick Dr., Oneonta. Registration suggested, (theatre@hartwick.edu, (607)431-4227.

Sunday, November 6 FALL BACK!

DAYLIGHT SAVING ENDS – 2 a.m. Set clocks back one hour.

THEATER – 2 p.m. Hartwick College Theatre Arts Dept. presents “Underneath the Lintle” by Glen Berger and performed by Taylor Morin. Free and open to public. Lab Theatre, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College, 1 Hartwick Dr., Oneonta. Registration suggested, theatre@hartwick.edu, (607) 431-4227.

VETERANS CONCERT – 3 p.m. St. Mary’s Parish Hall, 38 Walnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 437-0152 CONCERT – 4 p.m. A tribute to veterans. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://foothillspac.org/index.php/shows/veterans-day-tribute/

Monday, November 7

COMEDY – 9 p.m. Show with Andy Erikson Hunt Union Waterfront, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, activities@ oneonta.edu, (607)436-3730

Tuesday, November 8 ELECTION DAY!

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 p.m. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

NATURE HIKE – 10 a.m. Free hike of Clark Tower Property.

Open to public. Lasts approximately 2 hours. Bring water and a snack. Meet at Beaver Meadow Rd., Just South of Co. Rd. 52.

Wednesday, November 9

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FLU VACCINATIONS – 8:30 a.m.-noon. No appointment necessary. Bassett Medical Center, Clinic Building, Second Floor - Primary Care, 1 Atwell Rd., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-7973 TOURISM ROUNDTABLE– 8:30-10 a.m. Professionals invited to open participatory tourism marketing roundtable with tourism leaders. Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Coffee and bagels served. Info, reservations, Barbara Heegan baheegan@otsegocc.com, (607)432-4500 ext. 207.

CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR –

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10:30-11:30 a.m. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

DISCUSSION GROUP – 3-5 p.m. People discussing current events. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, villagelibraryofcooperstown.org SUNY THEATER – 8 p.m.

Theater department production of “The Good Person of Szechwan.”

Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.edu/academics/theatre/

Thursday, November 10

“COOP EATS” RESTAURANT WEEKEND – 11/10-13 Participating offer off Prix-Fixe dinner menu in addition to regular menus. Join us in exploring Cooperstown’s finest restaurants.

Info, cooperstownchamber.org HISTORY LUNCHEON – 11:30 a.m. Fly Creek Area Historical Society Luncheon, at Fly Creek Methodist Church. 811 Cty. Rd. 26, Fly Creek.

BLOOD DRIVE – 2-6 p.m. In the gym, Oneonta Family YMCA, 20-26, Ford Ave., Oneonta.

MINECRAFT – 3-4 p.m. Open hours in childrens area. First come first serve. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/minecraft/ FILM SERIES – 5:15-7:30 p.m.

“Miss Sharon Jones.” Presented

by Oscar winning director, Barbara Kopple. Otesaga Resort Hotel, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents. Through Nov. 13.

MIND BODY SPIRIT –6 p.m.

Mind Body Spirit Collective meeting. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

TOASTMASTERS MEETING – 6-7 p.m. Improve speaking and leadership skills and have fun in supportive Toastmasters club.

Green Earth Natural Foods, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http:// oneonta.toastmastersclubs.org MUSIC AT THE MANSION – 6:30-8 p.m. Community Arts Council of Oneonta (CANO), Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2070, admin@canoneonta.org HARVEST PORK DINNER – 6:30 p.m. Roast pork, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, applesauce, vegetables, salad, rolls, apple deserts. Suggested donation $8. Benefits food pantries in northern Otsego County, southern Herkimer County. Bring place setting. Parish Hall, 112 Public Landing Rd., Springfield Center.

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APARTMENTS FOR RENT Townhouse for rent Five Mile Point, Cooperstown, fully furnished. 2 br/2.5 ba; 2 terraces with lake views. Fireplace, modern kitchen, lake access (boat slip avail), 24 hr sec., $1600/mo plus utilities, 12 mo. lease min. 607-433-1260.

After Oct. 31 212-874-6090.

3ClassNov.11 Apartments: Cooperstown 2 bedroom parking no pets/smoking $950 heat/elec. included. Lease /references; First/ last/ security. Call Dave LaDuke, 435-2405 or 5478551.

Hartwick Studio. All new, $475 plus utilities. Call Dave LaDuke, 435-2405 or 5478551.

One Bedroom. First floor, 575 plus. No pets/smoking.

References. First/last/security. Lots of parking. Call Dave LaDuke, 435-2405 or 547-8551.

Nicely Furnished Two Bedroom, 2nd floor apt. Located off I -88, Exit 16 and approx.

1 mile east of Price Chopper Plaza. $950 per month includes electric.MLS#107485.

Call Benson Agency Real Estate at 607-432-4391.

HOMES FOR RENT MULTI FAMILY FOR SALE OR RENT: Available immediately 3 Bed/1 Bath Kitchen/Dining, Liv, Sun Porch, 1-Car Garage, Back Yard Borders Creek $750./Mo. Plus Utilities Available late October 2 Bed/1 Bath $650./Mo. Plus Utilities.

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OBITUARIES Brian Richard Jacobson, 59; Cooperstown Native Dies In Arizona COOPERSTOWN – Brian Richard Jacobson, 59, a businessman and 1976 CCS graduate who was related to several well-known Cooperstown families, passed away on Saturday Oct. 15, 2016.

Brian was born on March 28, 1957, at Bassett Hospital, a son of Richard (Dick) M. Jacobson and Joan Worrall White, former Cooperstown business owners of the Smart Shop, Village Squire and Lofty’s Night Club.

Since 1991, Brian made

his home in Phoenix, Ariz., where he was a business owner and partner of Lasting Impressions Window & Door as well as Stagecoach Locksmiths.

He was known for his positive attitude, smile, leadership skills and generous spirit. He was a trustee and active member of the Elks Lodge #2148 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Growing up, he loved the outdoors, skiing at Mount Otsego, spending time on Otsego Lake, golfing, riding motorbikes, NASCAR and

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camping. He especially loved music and attending concerts – everything from Bruce Springsteen to Waylon Jennings. A true animal lover he cherished his pets; dogs Zabin, Cory, Jake & Bear and cats Kit-Kat, Don King & Spooky.

Survivors include his wife, Strawberry C. Jacobson of Scottsdale; his son Max A. R. Jacobson of Phoenix; his father Richard M. Jacobson (Susan) of DelMar, Calif.; his Aunt Jean W. Johnson of Cooperstown; his siblings, Ann T. Mithoefer (Michael) of Sullivan’s Island, S.C., Robin J. Torrence (Rod) of Cooperstown and Mark A. Jacobson (Renee) of Scottsdale.

He is further survived by his cousins, Debbie J. Mullet (John), Timothy R. Johnson (Vicki) and Meghan King (Rob); 11 nieces and nephews, and many great nieces and nephews whom he loved dearly.

In addition to his grandparents, he was preceded in death by his mother, Joan Worrall White of Cooperstown, who died on June 29, 2014.

A memorial service and celebration of life will be held in June of 2017 in Cooperstown. The family kindly requests in lieu of flowers that contributions in Brian’s memory be made to Susquehanna SPCA, 4841 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 or Elks Lodge #2148, 6398 East Oak Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85257.

Rites Saturday For Rosemarie Koenig; Passed Away Oct. 7 COOPERSTOWN – A memorial service to celebrate the life of Rosemarie Koenig will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hartwick Seminary, with the Rev. Paul R. Messner, pastor, officiating. A reception will follow the service.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4636 State Highway 28, Hartwick Seminary, NY 13326 or Christ Church, 69 Fair Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 or Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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Robert J. Shirm, 65; Pennsylvania Worked At MOSA, Hall Of Fame

MILFORD – Robert Joseph Shirm, 65, who worked for MOSA and, more recently, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, passed away unexpectedly Monday evening, All Hallows Eve, Oct. 31, 2016, while communing with nature in the woods near his home.

He was born Oct. 9, 1951, in Williamsport, Pa., a son of the late Ralph and Mary (Roman) Shirm, and was raised and educated in Montoursville.

After graduating from high school, he worked as a security guard and met his future wife, Kathleen Finnegan, near his family’s home. On June 5, 1976, Bob and Kathy were married in Geneva, and spent their first three months together on an extended honeymoon driving cross country in a converted Volkswagen van.

They first settled in California where Bob was

employed as nurseryman.

Eventually they made their way back to New York State and resided on Eggleston Hill in Milford.

In 2007, they moved to their current home on Cold Springs Lane.

While living in Otsego County, Bob worked at MOSA’s Southern Transfer Station and most recently worked in the Hall of Fame’s maintenance department, retiring in 2013.

Bob loved the outdoors, and especially enjoyed long walks in the woods scouting for firewood. Equally, he loved spending time with his family. He also enjoyed just being home and watching football and hockey on TV. Bob was an avid reader – with a special fondness for science fiction novels – and as a fervent supporter and frequent visitor of the Milford Free Library, where he recently became a member of the advisory board.

Bob will be greatly missed by his loving wife of 40 years, Kathy, of Milford; their three children, Ian R. Shirm of Milford, Alison S. Cole and husband Richard of Gilbertsville, and Mackenzie Shirm of Monroe; four grandchildren, Deidre, Indigo and Jasper Cole and Ava Rose Shirm; and one sister, Joann Shirm of Montoursville, Pa. In addition to his parents, Bob was predeceased by an infant son, James Allen Shirm, who died in 1991.

Calling hours are 4-6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, Cooperstown.

The funeral mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at St. Mary’s’ “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church in Cooperstown, with Father John P. Rosson, pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Index.

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Oneonta Spruce Chosen $3 Million, 6-Story ‘Food Hub’ May Rise In ’17 For Rockefeller Center CFA/From A1 board that an Indianapolis Morgan: Mathes’ Contract Agreed Upon

SPRUCE/From A1 “We’re here to make sure nothing happens to the tree.”

Monday afternoon, Oct. 31, Brady Littlefield, VP of the event coordinators Rubenstein in New York City announced that the Eichers’ towering spruce had been selected as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. “It’s a gorgeous tree,” said Littlefield.

“We’re so excited!” said Angie, SUNY Oneonta Greek Life adviser and a YMCA fitness instructor.

Littlefield advised her not to give full interviews until a later date. (Graig’s mom is Janice Eichler, retired manager of Wilber Bank’s Cooperstown offices.)

Following the announcement, security was dispatched to the scene, where gawkers flocked to catch one last glimpse of the now-famous spruce. “We usually handle concerts and events, never a tree!” said Harder.

“But it’s important work.”

And they’ll be on guard, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until Nov. 10, when a team arrives to cut the tree and take it to New York City, where it will arrive Nov. 12.

“We’ll miss the shade,” said neighbor Frank Preston. “But it’s OK. The tree always swayed in storms; we were worried sometimes it would topple over onto somebody’s house.”

Harder, who also provides security for Hillside Commons, will use off-duty Oneonta police officers at

the Eichlers’ home. “We like to keep our people local,” he said.

To be selected as the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, an evergreen must be at least 75 feet tall and 45 feet around. Interested parties must submit a photo, ideally with people or a house for scale, and family stories about the tree, through the Rockefeller Center’s website. The winning tree is then donated by the family, rather than sold to Rockefeller Center.

Last year’s tree, a 78-foot Norway spruce from Gardiner, in Ulster County, was chosen from the backyard of Albert Asendorf.

And on Wednesday, Nov. 30, the Eichlers will be on hand as the tree is lit with more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights and topped with a Swarovski star, as part of NBC’s yearly “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

It will remain on display until Jan. 7, 2017 and afterwards, it will be milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity projects.

“It’s the most famous tree in the world,” said Mayor Gary Herzig, who plans to see the tree when he visits his daughter, Sasha, in Brooklyn, for the holidays.

“And millions of people are going to hear that it’s coming from Oneonta. That lets people know that Oneonta is a beautiful place to visit – or even come live.”

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that money would come from a state program for community centers, “solidifying the place.” He noted that plans for a larger elevator proved too expensive, but the current one can be replaced with a more dependable apparatus in the existing shaft.

The fourth might be the most significant of all: $3 million for the Susquehanna Regional Food & Beverage Hub in Oneonta where, if funded, construction on a six-floor, 10,000-square-foot building could begin by fall 2017.

CFA stands for comprehensive funding application, the vehicle to obtain state economic-development grants.

“Our regional council has done a good job of prioritizing projects within the various strategies we are trying to promote,” said Michael Reese, who succeeded Ken Tompkins in September as Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development

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new three-year contract that extends Otsego Now President Sandy Mathes’ contract, as is, for another three years is due to be approved Thursday, Nov. 17, according to Cooperstown attorney Devin Morgan, the organization’s board chair.

He called final approval “just a ritual,” after Mathes and the board agreed on the terms at the October meeting on the 27th. Details were to be finalized when Otsego Now’s Governance Committee meets on Thursday, Nov. 3.

The contract remains at 20 hours a week, although it’s generally understood that Mathes has been devoting much more than that.

“Sandy has been an inavaluable asset to the county,” said Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz. “If these are the terms that keep him here, then that’s great. We need him to be our point person.”

Council director. “Obviously, agri-business and craft brewing and food-related processing are all priorities for this region.”

The “food hub,” in part, is envisioned as a “gateway” to a “Finger Lakes of Beer,” part of Governor Cuomo’s concept of craft brewery growing to match the Finger Lakes wine industry. In Otsego County,

such a “gateway” would point visitors to Ommegang, Cooperstown Brewing, Red Shed and other breweries emerging around the county seat.

According to the application, Mathes has found “private sector support” for the project, a prerequisite for receiving the state funding. Last spring, he had reported to the Otsego Now

developer was intrigued in Oneonta; since then, Morgan said, interest has been shown by several Upstate developers as well.

According to the application, the six-story building’s first floor will contain a 20-barrel brewery, a threebarrel training brewery, a “craft beer exchange” and a 6,500-square-foot commercial kitchen available to entrepreneurs developing local food products.

The second floor will house a grocery store to serve the downtown, plus a walkway across Chestnut Street to the municipal deck.

Hartwick College’s Center for Craft Food & Beverage, which has 83 food and brewery clients contracted with the center for testing to achieve product consistency, will fill the third floor.

The top three floors will be “mixed-income housing, allowing a mix of demographics the opportunity to live downtown.”

‘Go Cubs Go’ Emotional Moment For Longtime Chicago Fan KATZ/From A1 ninth, but this time Katz has felt a deeper connection than in years past.

“This year’s been really special for a lot of reasons – the Chicago part, of course,” Katz said. “One is that through my role as mayor of Cooperstown, through ‘Split Season’” – his second book – “I’ve met a lot of writers and a lot of baseball people.

“There’s a lot of people I know who I didn’t know a few years ago – and that kind of adds to it.”

He watched Games One, Two and Six (which ended after this edition’s deadline) from the upper deck in Cleveland and has tickets for Games Seven. After the first two games, he drove six hours to Chicago, his former home, where he had fieldlevel seats for Games Three and Five.

This World Series’ has “been great,” Katz said.

“I’ve always followed both teams, so I feel kind of connected to both of them, but being in Chicago for game three, their first series game there in 71 years, was incredibly cool.”

He saw his first series in 1995 when he attended every game played in Cleveland. He went back to Cleveland for the 1997 series, and was in Cleveland again this year. He’s seen every World Series game played at Progressive Field.

In 1998, when the Yankees played the Padres, Katz went to The Bronx for two games, and in 1999, he returned to The Bronx and also ventured to Atlanta for the Yankees’ series against the Braves. Katz saw the Yankees again in 2001 in Phoenix.

“I think the best thing I’ve seen on the field is Luis Gonzalez’s hit to beat the Yankees in ’01,” Katz said.

He went to Philadelphia in 2008, and after becoming mayor of Cooperstown, he has seen the 2014, 2015, and now the 2016 World Series.

“This one particularly hits an important spot for

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me,” Katz said. “We lived in Chicago for 16 years before we moved to Cooperstown, and I had season tickets for nine of those years.”

In those nine years, Katz saw hundreds of games at Wrigley. But when Katz arrived for Game Three for Wrigley’s first World Series game in ’71, he saw a stadium different from the one that for years housed losing ball clubs.

“It’s a madhouse there,” Katz said. “It’s really hard to just walk to your seat, go to the bathroom. It’s really just crammed with people.

It has a very different feel

physically from other sold out games I’ve been to.”

The Cubs lost Game Three, and Katz missed Game Four, but he was back for Game Five, the Cubs’ only win at Wrigley and the game Katz says was the best of the series. After the win, the fans lingered in the stands and sang “Go Cubs Go,” which Katz said “is the best moment.”

“Emotionally, there’s nothing to compare it to,” he said. “I’ve spent a lot of years at that park, watching teams that really weren’t heading anywhere. For long time Cubs fan there’s a real

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Katz grew up in New York and on Long Island as a Mets fan, until the team traded away Tom Seaver to the Reds in 1971. His love for the game stayed and followed him to Chicago, where he followed the Cubs, though never officially becoming a fan.

After graduating college, Katz would see nearly 50 games a year. Until he moved to Cooperstown.

“The funny thing is nothing has killed my attendance at Major League games more than living in Cooperstown,” Katz said.

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Theater department production of “The Good Person of Szechwan.”

Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.edu/academics/theatre/

Friday, November 11 VETERAN’S DAY

SEMINAR – 8-10 a.m. “Business Planning.” Registration required. Cost: $35. Otsego Co. Chamber of Commerce session meets at Northern Eagle Beverages conference room, 41 Browne St., Oneonta. Kelly Decker, (607) 432-4500, Ext. 207, kelly@otsegocc.com, otsegocc.com HOLIDAY BAZAAR – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Includes lunch and new Children’s Ornament Build $5.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3-4, 2016 2393 or (607) 783-2967 FILM SERIES – 10 a.m.-noon.

“Saving Mes Aynak.” Hannah Bloch, NPR editor and Time correspondent, will be at the Forum following the film. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

Through Nov. 13.

HOLIDAY MARKET AND CRAFT SHOW – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunnycrest Orchards Cidermill Gift Shop, 7869 NY-10, Sharon Springs.

FILM SERIES – Noon-1:45 p.m. “ Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life.” The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents. Through Nov. 13 FILM SERIES – 2-4 p.m. “Requiem for the American Dream.”

Presented by director Perter Hutchison. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown.

Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/ films-events. Through Nov. 13.

STEAMQUEST – 3:30-5 p,.m.

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

Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ steamquest/ FILM SERIES – 4:15-6 p.m.

“How to Change the World.”

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

Through Nov. 13.

HOLIDAY ART SHOW & SALE – 5-7 p.m. Holiday gift giving themed exhibit opening. All pieces by member artists. Village Hall, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, www.cooperstownart.com or (607) 547-9777.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. “Into the Woods.” High school musical.

Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, cooperstowncs.org FILM SERIES – 8:30-10 p.m.

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HOLIDAY SHOW RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. Opening reception Holiday Show & Sale. One-ofa-Kind Gifts by Local & Regional Artists. Through Dec. 23.

Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com PLANETARIUM – 7-8 p.m. Sky Talk: Life Cycles of Stars, and video “Secret Lives of Stars” SUNY Oneonta Planetarium, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Reservations required. Seats free. Info, oneonta.edu/planetarium/publicshow.asp SUNY THEATER – 8 p.m.

Theater department production of “The Good Person of Szechwan.”

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Saturday, November 12

CHINESE AUCTION – 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Milford Central School District 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, web.milfordcentral.org COOP FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Bounty of seasonal fruits and veggies, local meats, fresh fowl, eggs, cheese, yogurt, honey, maple syrup, sweet treats.

Handmade goods. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine.

Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org HOLIDAY BAZAAR – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Includes lunch and new Children’s Ornament Build $5.

The Major’s Inn, 12 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville, Info, (607) 783-2393 or (607) 783-2967 FILM SERIES – 10 a.m.-noon.

“The Anthropologist.” Presented by director/producer Seth Kramer.Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents. Through Nov. 13.

FILM SERIES – 10 a.m.-noon.

“Rango.” Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/filmsevents. Through Nov. 13..

NSDAR MEETING – 1 p.m.

Will celebrate veterans and their families. Meeting begins with program focusing on the Leatherstocking Honor Flight.

RSVP by Nov. 7, jwestcott@stny. rr.com or (607)965-6419 FILM SERIES – 1-3 p.m.

“The Messenger.”Presented by ornithologist Bill Evans. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

Through Nov. 13.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m.

Bring works to read aloud, for critique, or just write something new while you’re there. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/hml-writers-group/ SUNY THEATER – 2 p.m. Theater department production of “The Good Person of Szechwan.”

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Film SERIES – 3:15-5:30 p.m. “ The Birth of Sake.” Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

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

SYMPHONY – 7:30 p.m.

Catskill Symphony presents Concert II: Featuring Tenor Jon Frederic West performing Wagner and Vaughan Williams. Symphony also performs Brahms Symphony No. 2. Tickets $30, free admission for veterans, children and the adults who bring them. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta.

Info, tickets, (607) 436-2670, www.catskillsymphony.net THEATER – 7:30 p.m. High school musical, “Into the Woods.”

Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, cooperstowncs.org FILM SERIES – 7:30-8:45 p.m. “Black Maria Film Festival, Selections of Shorts.” Presented by director of the Black Maria Film Festival Jane Steuerwalk Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, glimmerglassfilmdays.org/films-events.

Through Nov. 13.