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Crosswalk Dangerous, Victim Feared By LIBBY CUDMORE
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n Tuesday, Feb. 3, a letter from Daniel Heath was read to Common Council raising concerns about the intersection of Chestnut and Main: Both pedestri-
Mayor Asks DOT To Examine Fatal Site ans and drivers get a green light at the same time. “I’ve been close to being hit several times,” he wrote. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, Heath was struck and killed by a car at that
same crosswalk. The day after Heath’s death, Mayor Gary Herzig wrote the state DOT regional traffic engineer, Tony Signorelli, advising him the victim “had voiced his concerns to elected
officials on several occasions” and City Hall had contacted DOT about it. He asked that Signorelli study the intersection and determine whether design or operational changes are necessary to achieve “greater safety Please See CROSSWALK, B7
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In her pink fairy costume, Avalon Jones, 3, was a hit on during Main Street’s Halloween trick-or-treating Saturday, Oct. 31/MORE
INCUMBENTS GO Stammel In, Quackenbush Out • Marietta In, Hulse Out • Kennedy In, Lentz Out
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ayor Gary Herzig has named an ad hoc committee to review the city charter, chaired by former mayor John Nader. The committee was announced at the Tuesday, Nov. 3, Common Council meeting. Other committee members are former Mayor David Brenner, former acting mayor Russ Southard, outcoming Council members Maureen Hennessy and Chip Holmes, incoming Council member Melissa Nicosia and an additional member to be named later. SALON CITED: The Tanning Bed in Oneonta is among 13 salons in three counties cited for faulty equipment in a Tuesday, Nov. 3, press release from Govearnor Cuomo’s Office. WINGS ON WAY: The Buffalo Wild Wings franchise on Southside is scheduled to open Monday, Nov. 16.
THE WINNERS ARE...
By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN
In key contested races only ► For Common Council t was a night of surprises and upsets, with voters Ward I: Paul Van der Sommen ousting incumbents and embracing newcomers Ward 4: Jeff Back OR Michelle in three key seats on the Otsego County Board of Osterhoudt Representatives. Ward 5: Dana Marie Levinson • In the Town of Oneonta’s District 4, Democrat OR Madolyn Palmer Andrew Stammel, a Town Board member, ousted first► For County Board term county Rep. Janet Hurley QuackDistrict 2: Jim Powers enbush, 562-527. District 4: Andrew Stammel District 5: Meg Kennedy • In the Hartwick-Milford-New District 8: Andrew Marietta Lisbon District 5 – it contains the most District 9: Keith McCarty weighted votes of any seat – a newDistrict 10: Dan Wilber comer, Meg Kennedy, defeated incumDistrict 11: Gary Koutnik bent Ed Lentz, 782-539. District 12: Craig Gelbsman • And in the Cooperstown-Town of ► town supervisor Otsego District 8, Democrat Andrew Hartwick: Robert O’Brien Marietta defeated a rising GOP star, Laurens: Patricia Brockway county Rep. Rick Hulse, by 515-429. Marietta Milford: Robert Moore Elsewhere, things were pretty much Richfield: Paul Palumbo as expected, as two veteran Republicans, Jim Pow► town boards ers, Town of Butternuts, and Keith McCarty, in the Hartwick (2): Quinton Hasak, Richfield-Springfield district, turned back challengers. Janet Gage Additional, unchallenged Republicans David Bliss Otsego (2): Bennett Sandler, in Middlefield-Roseboom-Cherry Valley and Len CarJoe Potrikus Laurens (2): Mary Bordinger, son in Oneonta walked into seats vacated by DemoRonald Moxley crats. Middlefield (2): Joseph Harris, Rounding out the rising GOP fortunes, Dan Wilber, Ray Holohan a town justice, beat Democrat Russ Bachman to keep Richfield (2): Fred Eckler, Kane retiring Betty Ann Schwerd’s Edmeston-Burlington Seamon. seat in the Republican column. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Springfield (2): Dale Schultz, Bill While Republicans took body blows with Hulse’s When it became clear Democrat Andrew Stammel Freeland and Quackenbush’s losses, the GOP emerges with has won the county board’s District 4 seat, he was CHECK BOARD OF ELECTIONS greater control of the 14-member legislative body. surrounding by hugging supporters in Oneonta’s www.otsego.county.com/depts/ Please See ELECTIONS, A7 Autumn Cafe. boe/results.htm
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Surrounded by his signature giraffes, Al Cleinman peruses his first book, “A Different Perspective.”
The Wisdom Of Al Cleinman
Lessons Of Business Shared
COUNCIL TO MEET: The SUNY Oneonta College Council meets Nov. 10 at 4:30 p.m. in Le Café at the Morris Conference Center.
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MILESTONE: Eye On ere’s one example. The Weather columnist Early on, Al Cleinman discovDavidw Mattice is beginning ered he’s not good with interruphis 33rd year as a National tions. He needs to concentrate. So, years Weather Service observer. ago now, he stopped taking unscheduled For his October data, SEE A6 phone calls. His very able assistant,
Patricia Chase, smoothly arranges his appointments and calls. “A further benefit of this methodology,” Cleinman shares in “A Different Perspective,” his new book, “is that our firm has moved from one that was highly reactive (I need to solve this problem now) to highly proactive (what can we do Please See CLEINMAN, B7
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his year’s OCCA annual Dinner Benefit will honor former OCCA president Martha Clarvoe of Hartwick and Ben Guenther of Five Star Subaru, Oneonta, 5:30-9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the Holiday Inn Southside. Clarvoe will receive the OCCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award; Guenther, the Community Partner Award. Clarvoe has been active in local environmental issues since the 1980s and an OCCA Board member from
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2000-15. She served as board president and was also special projects manager, a full-time role she filled on a volunteer basis. She pioneered agricultural plastics recycling, leading
WRITERS IN SPOTLIGHT: Fiction writer and English Professor Jake Wolff, and poet and Lecturer Emily Vogel were to read works at the New American Writing Fest, sponsored by Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta, Wednesday,
to development of Cornell University’s Recycling Agricultural Plastics Program. She was an organizer of Bike to Work Day and among those responsible for collecting the data that led to OCCA’s gas lease map for the county. She was instrumental in the state’s burn-barrel legislation and was honored in 2010 with the EPA Environmental Quality Award, and by Keep Mohawk Valley Beautiful earlier this year. Guenther, Five Star
Subaru co-owner, is a dependable promoter of environmental events and initiatives, including Earth Festival, since 2010. Ben has also worked with OCCA to promote Bike to Work Day, OCCA’s Oktoberfest and the Otsego Lakes Festival, as well as burn barrel education. This year, with his daughter Jessica, Ben assisted OCCA in the development of public service announcements to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species.
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UNHOLY HAPPENIN’S Clare Capra as Medusa and her sister Sophia, a black cat, at Oneonta’s Halloween Parade Saturday, Oct. 31.
Ivan House, brother Elias and mom Kwan, Oneonta, trick-ortreat across Muller Plaza Halloween afternoon dressed as Tetris, a vending machine and a pirate.
Sarah Hunter, Gavin Smith, Sapphira Koerner, Tara Smith and Caroline Bagby dance to Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon” at the Oneonta Teen Center’s annual Halloween dance Friday, Oct. 29.
Oneonta brothers Tabor and Risdon Reed dressed as “the ghost with the most,” Beetlejuice and the pumpkin king Jack Skellington.
Gialina Plautz shows off the impressive wingspan of her eagle costume. Spooky loves company! These scary faces of Halloween are John Moore, Aiden Gelbsman, Aiden Duggen, Anya Sloth, Abbie Platt, Cassandra Daum, Ella Fiani, Kathleen HowardKelley, Anna Norlande, Avery Morse and Sadie Baskin.
Leading the Valleyview Elementary school’s Viking-themed float are Juliana Fauth, Jack Fauth, Gavin Sawyer, Kara Piefer and Georgia Sawyer with the school banner.
Oneonta’s Jessica Phillips, Mandy Francisco and Justin Onge get ready to head out after the parade.
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EDITORIAL
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Republicans Romped. Now, What Are They Going To Do?
nteresting outcome from the Tuesday, Nov. 3, General Elections of 2015 in Otsego County. In a county that twice supported Barack Obama for president, the Republican Party appears to be back on the ascendancy, at least outside the two main population centers, Oneonta and Cooperstown. Republicans romped, in the countryside anyhow. The Grand Old Party increased its edge on the 14-member Otsego County Board of Representatives from eight to 10, and its weighted voting from 4,146 to 4,600. Conversely, the Democratic edge, from pretty much even-steven a decade ago, slipped from six to four, and its weighted votes from 2,081 to 1,627. 1,627 out of a total 6,227. Wow! • The big surprise to come out of the Hartwick hills was Meg Kennedy. Running as a Republican, she is the daughter of the Conser-
WHAT DOES MEG KENNEDY THINK? Editor’s Note: Here are insights into Meg Kennedy’s thinking from her submission to this newspaper’s online Voters’ Guide.
►IN TWO OR THREE SENTENCES, EXPLAIN YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT. I believe in limited government. Those holding office are working for the people who elected them and have a responsibility to represent their interests as efficiently and as economically as possible. ►WHAT ARE THE THREE MAJOR ISSUES THE OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES FACES, AND HOW WOULD YOU ADDRESS THEM? 1. Budget. I will work to identify areas where greater efficiency could reduce spending. 2. Economic Development. I will bring a knowledge of agriculture & small business experience to the board and work to increase opportunities in these areas. 3. Bed Tax Distribution. I will work to implement the distribution of bed tax funds on a permanent basis. ►WHAT QUALITIES/EXPERIENCE DO YOU HAVE THAT MAKES YOU THE BETTER CHOICE IN THIS RACE My years of representing and coordinating the concerns of the widely varied farmers market members have proven my ability to stand up for my positions and advocate effectively for the people whom I represent vative Party’s county chairman, Paul Kennedy. She defeated county Rep. Ed Lentz, the New Lisbon Democratic, 782-539, or 60
percent to 40 percent, the largest margin of any of the county races. It is further surprising because Lentz is an eminently
able and level-headed guy. With his background as a Fortune 100 executive and member of a top law firm, it seemed like much good was yet to come from his public service. That said, there’s nothing the matter with Kennedy. By all accounts, she’s from a closely knit family. She’s educated (Cornell), active in the family business and managing farmers’ markets, and involved in public life, serving on the Hartwick Planning Board and the Zoning Commission. And she’s relatively young – there’s not enough of that, although with the two Democrats, just-40 Andrew Marietta and 30-something Andrew Stammel, that equation is shifting in the right direction. • So what happened? For one, a couple of Democrats lost interest. Beth Rosenthal moved to Albany, and Middlefield Town Supervisor Dave Bliss stepped in unopposed. Same in Oneonta, where
Democrat Linda Rowinski got discouraged and Republican Len Carson, just-retired from the OFD and pursuing an electronic-billboard venture, DC Marketing, walked right in. The GOP warhorses – former chair Jim Powers and longtime and effective Highway Committee chair Keith McCarty – brushed off challenges. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, picked his successor, Maryland Town Supervisor Peter Oberacker; no sweat. In the Town of Burlington, Town Justice Dan Wilber stepped up, defeating the former acting county Treasurer Russ Bachman for retiring Betty Ann Schwerd’s seat. All in all, it came together. Were the nasty postcards that kept showing up in our mailboxes part of the attraction? Let’s hope not. In fact, when they were aggressively called out – by Stammel and Marietta – their effectiveness seemed
to be quickly gone aglimmer. • While county Republicans are to be congratulated, they certainly didn’t earn this larger majority on the merits. The $9.2 million gap that appeared in the prospective 2016 budget deserved to be a majority-buster, coming as it did after the sale of Otsego Manor and the promise of a $5 million surplus. The Republicans’ “us vs. them” message got under Democrats’ skin. Maybe that’s part of party’s problem. The tension between newcomers and longtimers is a reality, with one side getting an edge and then that other, depending on the issue de jour. In any event, the Republicans have shown they can organize a campaign; (there’s luck involved, too.) It’s likely they’ll never have this wide a majority again. Let’s hope they prove they can make it work for an improved common good.
DOUG DAVIS OTHER VOICES
At 72, Ending Professional Baseball Career With Dignity – At Doubleday Field
Editor’s Note: Doug Davis, now of Windham, Maine, pitched for the Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Chicago Cubs during his Major League career. COOPERSTOWN
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n Sunday, Oct. 11, on Doubleday Field, I played my last baseball game. For years I’d wanted to play a game on Doubleday, but for insurance reasons or unavailability it never happened. I’d been coming up for years to see friends I played for or with, inducted into the hall, and learned to love this town. It is Baseball Heaven. Last year, I invited a friend of mine, who had never been here, to come up with his wife and share a fall weekend with us in your town. We came up Columbus Day weekend, and enjoyed the Cooperstown experience. On Saturday morning, my
Doug Davis, while playing for the Milwaukee Brewers.
wife Deb was walking our puppy when she spotted a group of guys in their late 50s, early 60s loading their cars with baseball equipment, and they began to talk. The subject got around to me and my buddy Gary, as she filled them in on my background. She asked if they ever needed players, and the fella told her that he would tell the manager about us, and he’d call us later that evening. I was shocked, we got
the call from Jack Galante. He is their manager. Jack had been coming up to Cooperstown for years to play ball. We met for about 15 minutes and he told me that he would love to have us join him next Columbus Day weekend 2015. At my age I’d pretty much given up at ever fulfilling this dream, and here it was for the taking. I actually got as nervous as a schoolboy, it had been almost 14 years since I had played, and I didn’t want to look like a fool, so I began going to the gym and strengthening my arm for my one last chance. We got up here to Cooperstown on Friday, Oct. 9, and met some of the guys. We played a game in Milford on Saturday and I got a chance to feel a bit more at ease. I played first base, and hit the ball hard every time up, but the challenge would come the next day when I toed the mound on Doubleday. I got up early on Sunday, pulled up my stirrups and put on my uniform.
Former Major Leaguer Doug Davis, now 72, pitches what he accepts may be his last game Sunday, Oct. 11, at Doubleday Field, fulfilling a lifelong dream.
Father Time is mean man, he steals your abilities, talents and even your looks, but he’ll leave you just enough to think you still can still recapture the past. But on this day, I will push him aside. He will not take this opportunity from me, not on this day, not on America’s ballfield. Today I am 20-years-old, I will feel the sun on my
wrinkled old face, and the grass under my feet, and I will prevail in spite of the odds. Jack asked me to warm up down the left-field line, and in jest I asked my catcher if they had moved home plate back 10 feet. It felt that way. When the game started, I almost felt reborn. I took the mound and I got the side out
in order. When I got to the dugout I asked the guys not to speak with me because I was pitching a perfect game, they all laughed. In the second and third innings there were a few errors behind me, and a few hits, as my pitch count went to around 70. As I completed the fourth inning, I knew that I could only go one more inning, and I asked Jack to get someone warmed up. I walked back to the mound in the fifth and reality hit me. I was throwing the final pitches in the final game of my life. I got the first two batters out on three pitches, and I didn’t want to throw to the next batter, because he could be my last. I asked the ump if I could have a minute and he said sure. I walked to the back of the mound and took in this beautiful historic field, one final time. I yelled over to Deb, “Well, this is it.” What I worked so hard for, what I had dreamed would hapPlease See DAVIS, A6
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Newspaper Failed To Cover Forum To the Editor: On Oct. 21, the Pierstown Grange held a “meet the candidates night.” Candidates for Town and County positions representing the Town of Otsego (the larger “half” of Cooperstown) were invited to the Pierstown Grange on County Route 28, as was your newspaper. All the local candidates shared their ideas, in this public forum, about serving. Those in attendance were informed and appreciative. Unfortunately, The Freeman’s Journal didn’t assign anyone to this cover this event and declined to use a story submitted by a stringer in
spite of the fact that the story was based on quotes that could have easily been fact-checked. How can a business call itself a newspaper when it doesn’t serve the public interest by reporting the contest of ideas central to local elections? Are our elections not newsworthy? I wonder if we will now be subjected to a pious editorial excoriating the electorate for their poor turnout on Nov. 3. Thank you to all the candidates for offering to serve and for explaining the rationales for their candidacies. PAUL H. LORD Pierstown Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Marine Corps
Thanks For Recognizing Bob Eklund To the Editor: Our sincere thanks to you for your paper’s excellent piece on Bob Eklund’s participation in the We Are Seneca Lake movement. Hopefully, after reading about this ongoing fight to protect Seneca Lake, more people in Otsego County will be inspired to engage. Bob’s leadership role in Josh Fox’s Solutions Project promoting sustainable energy is equally important. Without exception, those of us who played a part in the almost-seven-year fight to ban fracking in New York State are now quick to acknowledge the unanticipated benefit of our participation in this lengthy fight, in that we were able to connect with so many like-minded, kindred spirits in our region whom we might
not have otherwise had the pleasure of meeting. We were reminded of this “plus side” of our fight against the fossil fuel industry as we stood outside the Watkins Glen courthouse surrounded by scores of other kindred spirits – many of whom had previously been arrested and/or incarcerated as the result of their role in the WASL protests. Although, at the same time, we recognize how the fracking issue divided neighbors and family members and created disharmony in communities not only here in Otsego County but also throughout New York State. Thanks once again for all you do! MAUREEN DILL Butternuts
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History
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
There were eleven graduates from the Oneonta Normal at its first commencement exercises in July last. F.H. Lane, the valedictorian of the class, is now principal of the academy and high school at Babylon, L.I., a institution employing many teachers and taking high rank among the schools of Suffolk County. U.G. Welch of Edmeston, the only graduate from this county, is principal of the graded school at Hartwick. Howard Roosa entered the freshman class at Princeton in September. E.J. Barnes entered Brown University. Miss Alice King has a position as teacher in the New York Normal College. Miss Frances C. Bell is teaching at Johnstown, Fulton County. Miss Alice Brigden and Miss Grace Whittaker are with Professor Lane at Babylon. Miss Carrie Brigden has a good position in the Union School at her home in Moravia. Miss Eleanor Baldwin is teaching in New Jersey. One member of the class remains at Oneonta, Miss Elizabeth Hull is now the Critic in the primary department of the Normal. November 1890
40 Years Ago
30 Years Ago
More than half of jail inmates convicted of violent crimes had been drinking before committing the offenses according to a government study. A report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics also shows that more than half of convicted jail inmates who admitted they had been drinking said they felt “pretty drunk” or “very drunk” just before committing the crimes for which they were convicted. Altogether, 54 percent of 32,112 people convicted of violent crimes had been drinking, the survey said. For all crimes, including non-violent offenses, burglary, public disorder, and so forth, 48 percent of the convicted inmates had been using alcohol before committing the offense. Nearly seven out of ten people convicted of manslaughter – 68 percent – had been drinking before the offense, while 62 percent of those convicted of assault had been drinking. The survey also found that 49 percent of those convicted of murder or attempted murder had been drinking. The findings were based on personal interviews with a random sample of 5,785 jail inmates convicted of crimes in some 400 jails and prisons around the country. November 1985
100 Years Ago
The voters of the State of New York have defeated by a large majority the proposal to grant suffrage to women. However, whoever believed that with the closing of the polls on Tuesday the suffrage battle in the State of New York, or elsewhere in the east was to come definitely to a close, has been storing up for himself reasons for disappointment. In fact, it was not the general belief of the suffrage agitators in this state that they would win out, though possibly they may have cherished a hope. But now that the ballots are counted and the suffrage leaders are in political parlance “snowed under,” there does not seem the least inclination to remain beneath the ice blanket. Instead they are already organizing for further campaigns, and there is to be no cessation of the conflict. November 1915
80 Years Ago
Approximately 254 messages, exclusive of tests, have been sent over the police radio system since it was installed at headquarters in the municipal building in August, Chief of Police Frank N. Horton reported yesterday in his annual report to the Board of Public Safety. “Last year, in my annual report, I recommended that a two-way radio system be installed, as it would be of real advantage to this department,” Chief Horton said. The two-way radio was installed but it did not work out satisfactorily and the board saw fit to replace it with the present one-way system which Chief Horton believes has more than proven its worth in the amount of service it has given in the short time it has been in operation. A permanent license has been granted by the Federal Communications Commission. Chief Horton lists 210 arrests for the fiscal year ending October 31. Eighteen persons were charged with felonies; 192 with misdemean-
smoke pouring from the house as he passed by on his way to work at 6:20 a.m. He stopped at police headquarters to give the alarm. November 1955
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Four members of the Hartwick College Outing Club got lost in a cave Wednesday night and two of them suffered early signs of hypothermia. Peter Blue, resident manager of Pine Lake Environmental Center led a group of three students into the cave near Clarksville, just outside Albany around 7 p.m. On the way back out of the cave, Blue and Lisa Baker, 18, began to suffer chills and fatigue and Blue also realized they had chosen the wrong path. Blue said November 1975 they decided that Wil Vandervoort, 19, and Gail Huntress, ors and 305 infractions of city traffic laws were issued. 18, would leave to get help and, having found their way Patrolmen discovered 6,996 windows and 403 doors open out, emergency rescue workers were summoned to the in the business sections. More than 800 street lights were scene to assist Blue and Baker. reported out. Twenty-two automobiles were stolen but November 1995 recovered. Seven persons were reported missing and two suicides were investigated. November 1935 President Bush’s job approval has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency amid worries about the Iraq war, a fumbled U.S. Supreme Court nomination, the indictment of Swift action by city police early yesterday morning a White House aide and uncertainties about another. A new saved two persons from possible asphyxiation and prompt Associated Press poll found Bush’s approval rating was at work by firemen prevented what might have been a disas37 percent, compared with 39 percent a month ago. About trous blaze at 19 Tilton Avenue. Patrolman Carl Delberta, 59 percent of those surveyed said they disapproved. The one-time ranking welterweight boxing contender, braved intensity of the disapproval is the strongest to date with 42 dense billowing smoke to awaken an elderly woman and a percent saying they “strongly disapprove.” roomer. Saved were Mrs. C.R. Brand and Sidney “Chip” November 2005 Winston, a bus driver for Adirondack Trailways. The blaze was reported by Gordon Packer, 36 Otsego Street, who saw
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A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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What About The Downsides Of More Jobs?
To the Editor: This is in response to “MV 500 Plan Condemns Otsego County To LowWage, Seasonal Jobs,” the editorial in your editions of Oct. 15-16. “Condemns”? Oh come on – be creative. Seasonal jobs are much needed by a segment of the people trying to catch up financially and by students who have the summers to try and gather money together for fall. As to “low wages,” what do you think causes low wages? It is not just about industrial growth. The concepts run much deeper. One example is the concept that the person who has the idea is worth much more then the person who makes the idea real. An idea is useless unless someone makes it real. Or another thought is that the person who manages is more important and worth more than the people who do the work. No, I am not talking about socialism, but about balance and reality
Pro Ballplayer Retires In Style At Doubleday DAVIS/From A4 pen, happened, and in a few minutes would be over. One pitch, the batter grounds out to second and my baseball life had ended in a grand and wonderful fashion. As I walked toward the dugout, all of the guys came out and formed a line. Guys who were strangers 48 hours before, today were friends. They had found out from someone in my group that this was my swan song, and I got hugs and congratulations from all of them. There were even a few guys on the other team standing and applauding. I was a mess. I ran over to Deb and grabbed her. She said, “I’m so proud of you” and that put me over the top. I ran around the back of the building and cried like a baby. There is crying in baseball. This was never about Winning or losing, ERAs or batting average, it was about this love I’ve always had for this game. It was somehow, at the age of 72, ending it with dignity. I left everything in me on the ballfield, I was drained both emotionally and physically. I am so grateful for this opportunity Cooperstown was responsible for. I am just one of the millions of stories connected to baseball and this town. One of the millions who loved and played this game.
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as created by a non-self-centered mind. “Economic development”? To hear people talk, you would think the only way to economic growth is through big industrial jobs. I find this idea of large manufacturing as a solution to economic needs as rather an antiquated concept. But what about the strain on the infrastructure, the air quality, and the effect on the natural surroundings? And then there is the stress on the physical body of the workers. The repetitive nature of manufacturing jobs is not a positive thing. Sure the workers make more money in the beginning but then they spend it on medical expenses from problems developed over the years on the job. The workers will also have to spend their money for taxes increase so the manufacturers get the roads, water, etc. that they need. Whining about not getting enough money for manufacturing, to miss out on the “technological race”? You
would think that is the only way of growth. And who said life was about constant growth, anyway? Some years I would just be happy with a steady course! Think outside the box. Take a step back and see what you have here. It is not just about how much money people can make doing manufacturing; so a few people can get super rich, while the workers get sickness from exposure to chemicals and problems from repetitive motions running machine or sitting on assemble line. Then cast off in their old age. It should be about the quality of life as well. Raise the quality of what you have, not increase your power to buy and accumulate more “stuff”. What kind of “mecca” does Otsego County really want to be? …and this government aid. Where do you think that money came from? R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest
Criticism Unfounded; Town Fiscally Sound To the Editor: I read with interest the letter from Sheila Ross in your last edition claiming the current Town Board and its supervisor do not focus on the fiduciary responsibilities for the Town of Otsego. She later claims that there are “increased levels of spending and taxation.” Nothing could be farther from the truth. Both last year’s and this current budget show a decrease in spending and lower taxes. The Town passed a recent comptroller’s audit with flying colors with only one accounting change regarding the use of sales tax revenue. Our sales tax helps keep our taxes low. The Town has stayed below all tax caps and the tax freeze and decreased overall spending. The Town is debtfree, has two healthy special savings accounts – one for highway equipment and one for capital expenses such as buildings. The board and I pay
careful attention to each and every invoice that passes through this office. If the invoice paperwork is in order, it is paid and mailed within two days after approval at the Town Board’s regular monthly meeting. This paperwork must be correct as mandated by the comptroller’s office, so sometimes a particular invoice is held out to correct the submitter’s oversight. Sometimes I correct it for them, and sometimes I ask the submitter to do it. The Town is not a business, but we are business-like. The Town completed a needed revaluation to re-establish property tax fairness again after the drop in property values in 2007+. And yes, I made a decision not to deal with the old highway building in the middle of a serious recession. Buildings are not cheap. However, we continue to place money in the capital expense saving account, and if I were running again, that build-
ing would be on the 2016 agenda. I agree with Sheila that my having to summon law enforcement to gain control at a Town Board workshop on electric rates was unfortunate. I did what I had to do, and I certainly did not start nor expect a confrontation. And although Joe Potrikus came in with and sat with the young man, he did nothing to help the situation. Regarding Sheila’s charge or “secretive electronic communication,” I understand that municipal e-mail is difficult to figure out. No, we can’t discuss situations in depth then not talk about it at the meeting. We can’t be online at the same time. But we do not do that. We do use e-mail for reviewing draft minutes, setting meetings, and passing information on. This spring, we have been continually responding to Freedom of Information Act requests from Joe Potrikus who,
Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, provides monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.
octobeR 2015 Highest Temperature................................................76°F (Oct. 12) Lowest Temperature.................................................21°F (Oct. 19) Average Maximum Temperature..........................................56.8°F Average Minimum Temperature...........................................36.3°F Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................46.6°F Precipitation Total.....................................................................3.34″ Most Precipitation in One Day.................................1.53” (Oct. 28) Thunderstorms.........................................................0 (14 in 2015) Snow..............................................................Trace (65.4” in 2015) Most Snow in One Day.......................................Trace (Oct. 18-19) YTD Precipitation....................................................................38.17” Number of Days at or below zero F................................................0 (23 days in 2015) Number of Days at or below 32°F..............11 (125 days in 2015) Comments: October temperatures did an about face from the near-record-setting warmth we enjoyed in September. Our mean temperature was 46.6 degrees, which is 3.3 degrees below average. In September we saw the sun twice as much as usual! That’s a major weather happening for this part of the country! October evened things out when we saw it half as much as normal. Go figure. September was very dry until we got soaked with over 2 inches of rain on the 29th. That brought us to just slightly above normal for the month. October was DAVID almost a carbon copy when over an inch and MATTICE a half of liquid sunshine drenched us on the 28th, and that also took us just above the normal mark for the month. Spooky! We saw just a trace of snow; normal is only 0.2 inches, no big deal. Year to date snowfall is 65.4 inches, which is 9 inches ahead for the year. And the 38.17 inches of precipitation received in 2015 is 5.35 inches above normal. Even though it is dark much earlier now, there is still plenty of fun things to see and do here in the Oneonta/Cooperstown area. Check out the Happenin’ Otsego calendar for activities that look fun and interesting to you. Make sure to take some time to call, visit or write to a veteran or someone who is currently serving our great country in the military. They most assuredly will appreciate it and we owe them so much, please thank them for their service. As we move closer to Thanksgiving and look forward to gathering together with loved ones and friends, make sure to take some time to count your blessings, we all have many of them. Have fun, be careful as you travel, and make sure you Keep Your Eye On The Weather!
along with Sheila, thinks we are doing something illegal. We are not. The law Sheila is referring to as passed “in secrecy and arrogance” was passed through complete Town Board discussion openly at two regular meetings in front of Joe and another planning board member, and done in response to stop the attempt to re-zone an area on Route 26 by precedent. Time was of the essence and the schedule was not chosen
by the Town Board. The property in question abuts a Joe Potrikus small business property, and would have directly benefitted him. This board and I accomplished a lot in spite of continued harassment by a couple of Planning Board members. In the end, the people need an ethical person to represent them, not a perfect person. ANNE GEDDES-ATWELL Supervisor Town of Otsego
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Hulse, Lentz, Quackenbush To Leave Board ELECTIONS/From A1 Republicans had predominated 8-6 on the county board; that margin increases to 10-4. Weighted voted dramatizes the shift even more: Republicans had 4,146 weighted votes; come Jan. 1, they will have 4,600. Victorious Paul Van der Sommen, right, celebrates Democrats saw their 2,081 at his Oneonta Tennis Club with, from right, Gary votes winnowed to a mere Schmidt, John Ryland and son Kevin. 1,627 out of a total 6,227. Still, if elation mattered, the Democrats romped Tuesday evening, Nov. 3, as results came in. all very positive, especially By LIBBY CUDMORE At the Autumn Café, the to see as an Independent.” party faithful drew their And things were almost collective breaths. Stammel ne vote could as tight in the Fifth Ward, had just stepped outside to as Dana Levinson was change everything in the Fourth Ward. ahead of incumbent Mado- take a call. Returning, he said, “We have numbers.” That’s what separates Milyn Palmer by a mere five Former Oneonta Mayor chelle Osterhoudt (D) and votes, 87-92. “I’m excited, Jeff Back (I), 92-91, with 11 I’m nervous, but I’m hope- John Nader was in charge of writing the numbers on votes for Republican Laura ful,” she said. the white board as Stammel Dohner. “It’s a nail-biter!” In the First Ward, Paul read them aloud: “Stammel, Van Der Sommen was said Osterhoudt. “I don’t 562; Quackenbush...527.” think I’ll be able to sleep the clear winner against The room was loud with tonight.” incumbent Maureen Hencheers, and Stammel hugged Absentee ballots still nessy, 190-94. “I’m over his friends each in turn. “I need to be counted and are the moon,” he said, from a due within eight days of party at his Oneonta Tennis feel so supported,” he said. “We’ve done really good the election, the results of Club. work, and it’s great that which could sway the seat He attributed his win to the residents saw that. I’m to either candidate. “It’s constituent’s disapproval shaky! I’m just so excited.” amazing that we had a ward of the way City Manager “It was a tough hill to with three candidates,” Martin Murphy was ousted. climb,” said Richard Abbate, said Beck. “These votes, “I’m in favor of the City no matter who they go to, Manager if he has a chance the county Democratic chair from Cooperstown. “But I show a great turnout. It’s to do his work,” he said.
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State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, congratulates county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-12, on winning a second term as the party faithful gathered at the senator’s campaign office on Dietz Street, Oneonta. In the background are county board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and her husband Bob.
think our message got out.” Stammel, an Oneonta Town Board member, attributed his success to a strong door-to-door campaign. “We talked to people about the issues,” he said. “Rich Murphy” – the former county board vice chair – made a lot of calls, and I knocked
on a lot of doors.” Similar elation replaced nail-biting in District 8, after a broken machine at the St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake’ polling station in Cooperstown made it a late night for Marietta and Hulse as ballots were counted by hand.
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Marietta, the regional director of NYCON, the New York Council on Non-Profits, was just getting out of a strategic planning meeting for RiverArts in Hastingson-Hudson when he got the news: he had won, 515-429, after a contentious race. “I’m excited,” he said by phone just after 11 p.m. “…We had a lot of challenges facing us. But people have seen what I’ve done with the Cooperstown Chamber, with the school board. I’m committed to seeing projects through, and the voters saw that.” His biggest issue is board transparency, something he also advocated for on the school board. “So many of the board members don’t communicate with their districts,” he said. “Constituents have to work to find out what’s going on, and I want to bring that communication from the board back to my district.” He also credited his refusal to run a negative campaign with his win. “For me, it was always about the issues,” he said. “The board was in turmoil, and we need a change. I can be the better representative that Cooperstown and Otsego need.” In Oneonta’s 12th District, Republican incumbent Craig Gelbsman once again beat Democrat Amy HornbergHeilveil, this time by a greater margin, 167-130. Though there was a party at state Sen. Jim Seward’s Oneonta office, Gelbsman was at home with his family when the numbers came in. “People know my message is good and that I’m working hard,” he said. “I think they want to see continued growth, and I will continue to do what I need to do.”
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Midshipman Talevi after joining the Navy.
THE BEGINNING Bruno Talevi, seen here with wife Vera, was a radioman during such major World War II battles as the invasion of Okinawa, but while waiting to be drafted he inadvertently found himself with a frontrow seat on the founding of what became the CIA.
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s a radioman in the Navy during World War II, Bruno Talevi was in the center of great events. “Troops would call in for assistance, and we would make sure the information would get to the right place,” said Talevi, whose radio bank was aboard the USS Ancon, which was stationed off shore in April 1945 as the Allies launched the largest amphibious assault of the war in the Pacific. “The island of Okinawa was a real
A colonel, OSS founder “Wild Bill” Donovan was promoted to major general when it became clear he had to tell brigadier generals what to do, Talevi said.
surprise for us. Before, the Japs would come out and fight us,” said the former Oneonta accountant who retired a quarter-century ago to a home on Otsego Lake’s shores. “This time, they waited for us in fortified positions on land. We were surprised by that.” But looking back over a distance of 70 years, Talevi, a 17-year-old graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School – “a real city school, a rough school” – while waiting to join the Navy in 1942, found himself in the midst of perhaps an even more epochal event: the founding of what would become the CIA. World War II had broken out, but young Bruno was too young to enPlease See TALEVI, B3
Daughter Burnishes Dad’s Heroic Image Paparteys Couldn’t Swim, But Did On D-Day By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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Lori Paparteys shows off dad Steve’s World War II medals and other memorabilia.
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DAD/From B1 sequent exhibit at The Fenimore Art Museum. But somehow he made it onto the beach, only to see his friend Danny Knapp, a Laurens native, killed two days later by German troops. “He didn’t talk much about the war itself, but he wanted us to remember Danny,” she said. “He made sure I never forgot him.” Though her father died when she was 13, Lori, now
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Star for still lives. In heroism. addition to And he his painting once reportand walledly “told papering General business, he George Patalso barton off,” tended at the during the Klipnockie general’s on Broad visit to the Street, which base. “My fell victim mom told to Urban me that Renewal in one,” she the 1970s. said. “I He died in don’t know 1993 at age the validity 80, and Lori of that, but made it her the story mission to goes that continue to he shouted learn more expletives about his at him from service. “So the crowd, Lori and her dad visiting many veterand no one the Statue of Liberty. ans of that ever found era will just out who it was.” say, ‘We did what we had to He served until the end do’,” she said. of the war in 1944, when he She got a tattoo of his returned to Oneonta. After Infantry’s shoulder sleeve the death of his first wife, insignia, and often wears his Marguerite, in 1969, he dogtags or his “Ike” jacket. married Lori’s mother, Con- “I bought a hat with the 1st stance, and built the home Infantry insignia on it that I on Neahwa Park, where she wear whenever I go back-
packing,” she said. “And I always take a little American flag with me.” But a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in June 1973 destroyed his records, so although she has the originals, she often uses online databases and eBay to track down additional information. “I bought a bunch of newsreels,” she said. “When you watch these guys training, it really puts you right there. I can see what my dad went through, and I always ask, ‘How on earth did he get off that beach’?” She wanted to make sure other people knew he was a hero too, hence her participation in Wentworth Erickson’s exhibit, which was launched with a reception and celebration Oct. 9 at The Farmers’ Museum’s Louis C. Jones Center. “I didn’t tell my mom I was doing it, and her birthday was right around the time of the reception, so she was so surprised,” she said. “My father will always be my number one hero.”
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Talevi and a comrade practice on a battery during World War II.
Editor’s Note: Throughout World War II, Bruno Talevi kept a diary. Here is a excerpt during the battle for Okinawa.
During the attack now and then some planes would break through to the transport area and thus be right over our Yontan Airfield (on Okinawa). This time they did not drop bombs on May 24, 45 the field – instead, sevever a night has eral planes tried to land on passed without Yontan. some air attack One managed to land – except if the weather was Bruno Talevi’s WWII diary wheels up – this plane had bad. The raids are usually about 10 soldiers in it loaded down with desmall – ranging from 10-15 planes. Last molition charges with which to destroy any night, however, we had an attack consisting planes. They destroyed 15 of our planes. of about 175 planes, of which 90 were shot After landing – a little battle was raging on down. the runway. It was noticed that the enemy air fleets 22 Japanese were contained on the consisted of some of Japan’s best planes. It runway. This was one of their numerous was the usual that they send in as suicides. suicidal attempts – only in a different way. Last night they really pulled a fast one.
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Talevi could tell from the particular respect with which they were treated – passed daily through One Fifth Avenue. They would meet with the interviewers; the stenographers would then type up the transcripts. Daily, thick packets of information were sent down to Washington, D.C. “I realized these people were giving up valuable information,” said Talevi. Some of the refugees donated clothing to the cause – for verisimilitude, U.S. spies were sent into Europe wearing clothes made in the countries they were infiltrating. A year passed and Talevi’s draft notice arrived, so he had to bid farewell to his friends at One Fifth Avenue, underwent training in Newport and the University of Wisconsin, was assigned to Camp Shoemaker, Calif., and soon found himself in the Pacific. Between battles, his unit was bivouacked in The Philippines. Okinawa took a massive toll on the Allied invaders – 14,000 killed and 82,000 casualties of all sorts – one reason President Truman decided to use the Atom Bomb. The war ended that Aug. 15, and six months later Talevi returned home to 107th Street. There, “I saw this young lady, who was a kid when I left, and now was a beautiful woman” – his future wife, Vera, said Bruno, who had been friendly with her brother and family. “I fell head over heels in love.” (The couple would marry a year later.) Home for three months, he stopped at a hospital for a sinus treatment and an orderly told him the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act – the G.I. Bill – had just passed: “You can go to college for free.” Soon, Talevi was enrolled at St. John’s, studying accounting. During the early years of their marriage, the Talevis would visit her brother in Oneonta, where he was confined for treatment of TB at the Homer B. Folks Hospital on West Street. The couple discovered “we liked the town; we wanted to live in the country.” So in the early 1950s, the Talevis made Oneonta their home. The accountant hung out his shingle and 30 prosperous years followed, during which the couple also raised two sons – Robert, now a physicist in the Hudson Valley, and Steven, a lawyer in Roanoke, Va. Occasionally, the Talevis would have lunch with a Dr. Erlich, Bruno’s former boss at the Survey of Foreign Experts, but that eventually lapsed. The OSS kept going strong, however, transitioning into the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II as leadership moved from “Wild Bill” Donovan to Allen Dulles. Today, the ad hoc offices Bruno Talevi visited on his 1942 rounds have grown into an agency with more than 20,000 employees, an annual budget of $15 billion and tentacles around the world.
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HOLIDAY BLOOD DRIVE -- 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Red Cross Blood Drive. Help eliminate holiday shortages! All blood types needed, esp. O negative, B negative, A negative and AB. Main St. Baptist Church, Briggs Hall, 333 Main St., Oneonta. Info, 1-800RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767), redcrossblood.org HOLIDAY BLOOD DRIVE -- 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Red Cross Blood Drive. Help eliminate holiday shortages! All blood types needed, esp. O negative, B negative, A negative and AB. First Congregational Church, Bridge and Main streets, Sidney. Info, 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-7332767), redcrossblood.org SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE — 9 a.m. Troop 1254 invites Cooperstown residents to place returnable bottles & cans on visible curb or porch steps. Benefits troop activities. Special pickups, Bruce at (607) 267-6730. GLIMMERGLASS FILM DAYS - (through Nov. 9). Annual festival at various Cooperstown venues offering films, talks, walks, parties, local food & drink, guest speakers, guest filmmakers, more. Theme: “Sacred Places.” Hosted by Otsego 2000. Tickets, full schedule at www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org ARC OTSEGO RUN/WALK 10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Arc Otsego Hot Cocoa 5k Run & 1k Walk, Run & Roll. Benefits Arc Otsego’s Helping Hands Fund, which assists those with developmental disabilities and their families. Participate or volunteer. Info, www.arcotsego.org HD OPERA BROADCAST -- 11 a.m. special presentation by Glimmerglass Opera Guild; Noon live HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, of Wagner’s “Tannhauser.” Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.
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GLIMMERGLASS FILM DAYS -- (through Nov. 9). 4th day of annual festival at various Cooperstown venues offering films, talks, walks, parties, guest speakers, more. Theme: “Sacred Places.” Hosted by Otsego 2000. Info, full schedule at www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org SOUP! -- 11 a.m.-2 p.m., “Second Sunday Soup,” serving homemade hot soup every 2nd Sunday of month. All welcome, donations appreciated. At the Polly House (next to the Fire House), Schuyler Lake. CHARACTER TOUR -- 1 p.m. Tour the museum with Samuel F.B. Morse ($2 plus admission.) Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Register at (607) 547-1461; Info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org THEATER -- 2 p.m. Hartwick College Theater Arts presents “I Hate This (a play without the baby).” Free. Lab Theatre, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, theatre@hartwick.edu
State University of New York, Blodgett Rd., Oneonta. Info, 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-7332767), redcrossblood.org INTERNATIONAL NIGHT -- 6-8 p.m. Oneonta High School modern languages department hosts a public “International Market.” Free. Celebrate diversity through food tastings, live music, dance, more. Over 20 countries represented. 130 East St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 434-5666. WOODSIDE HALL TALK - 6:30 p.m. “The Return of the American Chestnut to the Eastern Forest & NY”,” presented by Allen Nichols, president of the American Chestnut Foundation. Free; all welcome., reception following. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, reservations, Deborah Ziegler, (607) 373-7817. WWII PROGRAM -- 7 p.m. Join special edition of Nights at the Round Table honoring the WWII generation, with guest Bruno Talevi. Also discussion of the book “Traces,” by Grace Kull. Free. Main reading room, Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org
Monday, November 9
GLIMMERGLASS FILM DAYS -- (through Nov. 9). Final day of annual festival at various Cooperstown venues offering films, talks, walks, parties, local food & drink, guest speakers, guest filmmakers, more. Theme: “Sacred Places.” Hosted by Otsego 2000. Info, full schedule at www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org
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FAMILY WORKSHOPS -- 9:30 a.m.-noon Nov. 12 & 19, or 6-8 p.m. Nov. 12 & 19.) Choice of morning or evening 2-day workshops on “Loving Discipline.” Free. Childcare, refreshments & limited transportation help provided. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call Family Service Association to register at (607) 432-2870. HOLIDAY BLOOD DRIVE -10 a.m.-3 p.m. Red Cross Blood
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Friday, November 13
HOLIDAY BAZAAR -- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Joyful traditions Bazaar. (Also Sat. Nov. 14.) Lunch available both days. Benefits restoration of the Major’s Inn of Gilbertsville. Info, (607)
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IN MEMORIAM Geraldine Kassler, 86; Singing A Joy To Professor’s Wife Daniel Heath, 76; Crash Victim EAST MEREDITH – Geraldine Janet (Dockery) Kassler, 86, who lived in East Meredith for more than two decades while her husband taught at SUNY Oneonta, passed away peacefully in the home of her family. On March 28, 1929, Gerri was born in Detroit, Mich.. Her parents, Pauline and Emmitt Dockery, moved the family to Crutchfield, Ky., where her father worked for the railroad. She met the man who would be her husband, Edward G. Kassler, in New York City. It was there that they began their 64 years of marriage and started raising a family before moving to Carbondale, Pa., and then to East Meredith. Later in life, she lived in Homestead, Fla., and Temple, Texas. A gifted singer, she received a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music at the age of 16. Although she performed at the Metropolitan Opera as a student, and was proud of having entertained the troops during World War II as part of the USO, it was singing dur-
ing church services that brought her lifelong happiness. Gerri was a constant and active member of Geraldine her church, teachKassler ing Sunday School Classes at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, formerly located in Davenport Center, and helping in the soup kitchen at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Homestead. She continued to give of herself to the community by volunteering at the tourist center in Homestead, as well. Over the course of her life, her great love of travel would lead her to many places. This included trips to the Dakotas to explore the Native American culture that comprised part of her own heritage, on a special voyage to the Holy Land for her 40th Wedding Anniversary and on a second honeymoon throughout the Southwest. As well as enjoying one of her favorite places in
Michigan, Mackinaw Island. Due to her passion to better understand the history of the United States, she visited countless sites of Civil War Battles and – shortly before she passed – she was able to fulfill her dream of visiting The Alamo. She was also known to be an outstanding cook, weaving the Hungarian cuisine she learned to prepare from Ed’s mother with the southern traditions of her youth. Most importantly, she would never allow family nor guest to leave her home hungry. Gerri is survived by her children, Geri McCulley (John Paradis) of Oneonta, Joseph Kassler (Dotty) of Tonawanda, Gail Stone (Keith) of Temple, Texas, Lori Holstein (Greg) of Evergreen, Colo. and Celeste Kassler of Moscow, Idaho. Her grandchildren are Erin McCulley-Davis, Sean McCulley, Katy Kassler, Christopher Cunningham, Christy Kassler, Chase Stone, Jason Plaskon and a great grandson, Emmett Kassler. She is also survived by her sister, Barbara Anderud, as well as a wealth of family in Michi-
Joseph S. Penksa, 72; Retired Wall Street Trader ONEONTA – Joseph S. Penksa, 72, a retired Wall Street trader, passed away on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 at the Chestnut Park Nursing Home. Joseph was born on March 7, 1943, in Yonkers, the son of the late Joseph S. and Frances (Dedek) Penksa. Joseph was a graduate of Worcester Central
School and he earned his bachelor’s from Hartwick College and master’s from New York University. He was an investment trader for various financial and investment firms on Wall Street in NYC. His hobbies were stock market trading and investments. There will be no services or calling hours and he will be interred in the Maple
Grove Cemetery in Worcester. The family gratefully declines flowers and requests those who wish to remember Joseph with a memorial gift consider the Hartwick College Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 4020 Oneonta, New York 13820. Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.
Walter A. VanDeusen, 70; Avid Bowler, Golfer ONEONTA – Walter A. VanDeusen, 70, a Hartwick College retiree and avid bowler and golfer, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, at Fox Hospital. He was born on Sept. 26, 1945, in Oneonta, the son of Walter M. and Shirley (Adair) VanDeusen. A life-long area resident, Walter was employed for 35 years as a maintenance worker for Hartwick.
He participated in several bowling leagues. He accomplished a 300 point game as well as a three game total of 802, in which he was recognized for the achievement by the ABC. He also enjoyed golf with great enthusiasm. He is survived by one son, Joseph R. VanDeusen of Oneonta; five grandchildren; one brother, Charles VanDeusen of Oneonta; and
several cousins. A funeral service was held Tuesday, Nov 2 at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home with, Rev. Stephen Fournier officiating. Burial will take place at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home of Oneonta.
gan and the many friends she considered to be part of her family. She was preceded in death by her daughter Deanna Kassler on Nov. 30, 2007, her husband Edward G. Kassler, a SUNY Oneonta professor emeriti, on March 7, 2011, as well as four sisters and two brothers. Calling hours will be 7-9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, at the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta. The mass will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 7, at St Mary’s Catholic Church, Oneonta. Burial services immediately to follow at East Meredith Cemetery. As Gerri adored being surrounded by and growing beautiful flowers, they are most welcome. For those wishing to make a donation in her name, she was a supporter of and so admired the Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675. Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.
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ONEONTA – Daniel Heath, 76, an Army veteran and representative on the Nader Towers Tenant Association, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. He was born July 31, 1939, son of the late William Olin and Edith (Wilber) Heath. Dan served in the Army from 1964 to 1966. He worked as a car salesman for Cater Lincoln Mercury Sales in Yorkville for many years.
He was a 26-year member of the New Hartford American Legion and VFW. Dan was also an active representative for the Nader Towers Tenant Association in Oneonta. He is survived by a sister, Beatrice Allen; brother, Fred Heath; many nieces and nephews. Services will be private at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are entrusted to C.H. Landers Funeral Chapel, Sidney.
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Herzig Asks DOT To Study Crosswalk Where Pedestrian Died CROSSWALK/From A1 for our pedestrians who use this busy intersection.” “It’s very sad that someone lost their life there,” said Herzig. Since Main and Chestnut area considered state roads, the DOT must make any changes, he said. Heath, 76, was crossing Chestnut Street from Simply Thai toward the Bassett office building while Brian Federov, 34, eastbound, was turning left off Main in his 2005 Pontiac. As described by police, the car bumped Heath, who fell onto the hood, then backwards onto the pavement, hitting his head. At first, Heath’s injuries weren’t considered serious, but, taken to Bassett Hospital, he suffered inter-cranial hemorrhaging, and died that evening. Fedorov was ticketed for failing to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk; no further charges are contemplated. “The officers said he was very remorseful,” said OPD Lt. Douglas Brenner. “He didn’t mean to hurt anyone.” Federov told investigators a car with blinking four-way lights had stopped in front of him while turning right. “Federov
was turning left, wasn’t sure why the other car had stopped, and then started to go forward,” said Brenner. “It was raining heavily, he was focused on the other car, and he told us he just didn’t see the pedestrian.” And although it’s the first fatal traffic accident in the city in recent memory, Brenner says that intersection has been problematic for years. “Since 2012, we’ve gone to 17 motor vehicle accidents at that intersection,” he said. “In some, the view was obstructed, in others, it was driver inattention and failure to yield. The lanes are screwy and the lights are confusing. The turn lane from Main to Chestnut is very wide.” The crosswalk gives pedestrians 22 seconds to cross from Bassett to Simply Thai, but during that time, drivers turning right off Main Street still have the light. “People have said that it’s not enough time,” said Brenner. “If we could count near-misses, maybe we would be able to make a difference at that intersection.” While awaiting DOT action, Brenner advises drivers and pedestrians to increase their awareness of traffic and pedestrians. “Slow down and be alert,” he said. “It’s a tough intersection.”
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Standing in front of Simply Thai, OPD Lt. Douglas Brenner shows the length of the sidewalk crossing to the Bassett office building on the other corner. A 75-year-old man was struck by a car there Wednesday, Oct. 28, and later died.
Cleinman Puts 3 Decades In Business Into 156 Pages Of Advice CLEINMAN/From A1 to change the system to avoid a problem).” Resisting interruptions “forces me and my team to be more proactive.” Raised in Gilbertsville, Cleinman has been in and around the optometry business since he was 16, when he began selling eyeglass frames by phone for a neighbor, Dr. Bill Lusk. In 1979, he founded CoOptics of America (at age 23), a national buying group for optometrists. In 1989, formed Cleinman Performance Partners, which advises independent optometry practices nationwide. A spinoff – “the wisdomsharing biz,” he called it in an interview – has been the fascinating Cleinman Performance Network, where top practitioners, in groups of 10, share what’s worked
and counsel each other on what might work better. Some 200 professionals are currently participating. Reading “A Different Perspective,” it becomes clear that, for more than three decades now – the author is in his 50s – Cleinman has been running an experiment in business, testing, tinkering, discarding, enhancing, to come up with what works best. Although he’s written “literally hundreds of articles and papers, plans and reports,” this is his first book, and there’s a business insight on almost every one of the 156 pages, dividing into 25 short chapters with titles ranging from “Managing Your Ego” to “Delivering the WOW!” to “An Equation for Abundance.” A favorite: “Better To Copy Genius Than Invent
Mediocrity.” When Cleinman’s father Max, a grocer in Gilbertsville, passed away, the son inherited a carved giraffe, which he kept on his desk as a hanger for his telephone headset. After a few years, it dawned on him the animal was much more than that. “A giraffe has its head in the clouds” – a visionary – “and its feet on the ground” – a practical visionary, he said. Today, Cleinman has dozens of giraffes, big and small, in his Main Street offices (across from the post office), and giraffe imagery appears on the cover of “A Different Perspective,” its chapter headings, and, when you think about it, characterizes the content, too. And the giraffe metaphor organizes “Perspective,” too, where advice ranges
from the practical – “save, even if it’s only $10 a week; always live beneath your means” – to the broadgauged: Quoting former 3M President William McKnight, “Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative; (and we need) people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.” While “A Different Perspective” has advice for businesspeople generally, Cleinman intends it for a target audience. As he speaks to optometrists across the country – he does continuously – the book will be available for purchase, and proceeds will be donated to the PACs of that state’s optometrist society. “It’s designed to assist the profession, to give back to the profession that has been so good to me,” the author said.
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two-time Oscar nominee Al Reinert), and the festival’s accompanying Saturday bird walk led by the OtsegoDelaware Audubon Society, are part of this year’s annual festival Nov. 5-9, celebrating “Sacred Spaces” close to home, and around the world. “We all have favorite spots, whether it’s because of their history, their environmental significance or because they were handed down to us, and we need to respect and honor those places for the next generations,” she said. “It’s a topic that opens all sorts of discussion possibilities.” The festival, now in its third year, has become a destination, drawing soldout crowds for last year’s “Water” themed event.
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Payments to qualified buyer are for a 2015 GMC Sierra EXTENDED 4WD w/3SA with an MSRP of $42,465. 39 monthly payments total $11,661. Current Lessees of 1999 or newer non-GM vehicles must show proof of ownership. Take delivery by 11-30-2015. Not available with other offers. Tax, title, license, dealer fees and optional equipment extra. $0 security deposit due at signing. Mileage charge of $0.25/mile over 32,500 miles. See Dealer for details
$2,639 due at signing for Current Lessees of 1999 or newer non-GM vehicles (after all offers).
PER MONTH
$299
$3,139
Ultra Low-Mileage Lease for Qualified Lessees
2015 GMC SIERRA EXTENDED 4WD W/3SA
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MUST BE A CURRENT LESSEE OF A 1999 MODEL YEAR OR NEWER NON-GM VEHICLE. Payments to qualified lessee are for a 2015 Encore 1SB with an MSRP of $24,990. 24 monthly payments total $4,200. No security deposit required. Tax, title and fees extra. Take delivery by 11/30/15. Mileage charge of $.25/mile over 20,000 miles. See Dealer for details.
PER MONTH
24
$175
$450 /mo
$716
$513
$340
/mo
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SILVER, 1743A, 65K, $22,812 ...................
/mo
$319
$344
$387
ROOF, WHITE, 1919A, 66K, $27,597.......
$409 $431 $438 $442
$451 $461 $488
/mo
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NAV, ROOF, TAN, 1539A, 17K, $55,599.......
2015 TAHOE LTZ
RED, 731984, 25K, $45,826 ...................
$818
$667
/mo
/mo
2013 CHEVY SILVERADO K3500 CREW DUALLY DIESEL LT
BLACK, 1826A, 27K, $34,190 ...................
2013 SILVERADO K2500HD EXT LT Z71
RED, 1276A, 30K, $32,395 ...................
2013 SILVERADO CREW LT
V6, 731970, 10K, $31,767 ...................
$446 2014 CHEVY SILVERADO DOUBLE CAB
V6, LTHR, NAV, WHITE, 731990, 11K, $31,495 ...................
2014 GMC TERRAIN SLT AWD
LTHR, SILVER, 1693A, 25K, $31,204 ...................
2013 GMC SIERRA CREW SLE
BLACK, 1875A, 41K, $30,927 ...................
2012 CHEVY SILVERADO 2500HD EXT LT
AWD, SILVER, 731977, 21K, $30,449 ...................
2015 CHEVY TRAVERSE 2LT
1558A, 25K, $29,073 ...........................
2012 CHEVY SILVERADO EXT LT
2012 TRAVERSE LT AWD
$375
BLACK, 732009, 59K, $26,805 ...................
2011 SIERRA 1500 CREW SLE
1788A, 65K, $24,839 ...........................
PARTS & SERVICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 8am-5pm, Sat. 8am-1pm. SALES DEPT. HOURS: Mon.-Thurs. 8am-8pm, Fri. 8am-6pm, Sat. 8am-5pm. FAC. #4390001
Pre-Owned Vehicles: Payments based on $2500 down or trade equity plus sales tax, title and fees. Pre-Owned financing 2011 and newer 3.49% for 72 months, 2010 3.79% for 66 mos, 2009 3.79% for 60 mos, 2008 4.49% for 48 mos, 2007 4.99% for 48 mos.
1920A, 10K, $23,202 ...........................
2012 CHEVY SILVERADO V6 LWB WT
/mo
$312
2011 GMC ACADIA SLT
/mo
$309
/mo
$293 2012 GMC SIERRA REG CAB SWB V8 WT
Z71, LTHR, BLACK, 1814A, 34K, $21,493.......
/mo
$291 2012 SILVERADO EXT LT
BLACK, 1880A, 45K, $21,421 ...................
/mo
$265
2014 EQUINOX LT AWD
5 SPD, BLUE, 1410A, 59K, $19,700 ...................
/mo
/mo
/mo
$260
2011 CHEVY COLORADO EXT LT
V6, 1488C, 57K, $19,417 ...................
2012 SIERRA K1500 REG CAB LWB
/mo
$241
2012 EQUINOX LT AWD BLUE, 1720A, 66K, $18,162 ...................
/mo
$222
GOLD, 1874A, 65K, $16,925 ...................
2012 EQUINOX LS AWD
/mo
/mo
/mo
$241
CERTIFIED TRUCKS
SILVER, 732039, 12K, $18,192 ...................
2014 CHEVY MALIBU LS
BLACK, 732005A, 15K, $22,567 ...................
/mo
/mo
$193
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$207 2013 MALIBU LT 430930A, 18K, $17,195... $226
SNRF, SILVER, 732023, 34K, $15,896 .....
2014 IMPALA LT
BLUE, 1714A, 29K, $14,995 ...................
2014 CHEVY CRUZE LS
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/mo
$158
$153 $190 2011 CRUZE LT 1775A, 26K, $14,977....... $192
WHITE, 732030, 33K, $14,799 ...................
2013 IMPALA LT
6 SPD, BLACK, 1976A, 59K, $12,711.......
2013 CRUZE ECO
5 SPD, 732038, 46K, $12,395 ...................
2012 CRUZE LS
CERTIFIED CARS
/mo
/mo
$360
BLACK, LTHR, ROOF, 1723A, 60K, $18,276.......
2008 GMC CANYON CREW SLT
$237
5.3 V8, W/T, WHITE, 1844A, 82K, $17,887.......
2011 SILVERADO REG CAB SWB
TRUCKS
PLATINUM, 732029, 4K, $48,947 .....................
2014 CADILLAC XTS VSPORT
NAV, ROOF, 1848A, 28K, $35,785 ...................
2013 CADILLAC XTS PREMIUM AWD
959A, 39K, $24,616.........
2012 CADILLAC CTS AWD LUXURY
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