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Recordbreaking Month Coldest, Cloudy, Snowy By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA
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Cooperstown hotelier Bob Holt was impressed by the former president’s graciousness on meeting him at a Nashville convention in 1999.
‘LIVE BIRTHS’ DECLINE The Freeman’s Journal
No one can say Cooperstown’s Frank Wilsey isn’t light on his feet, as he dances in to a second-place finish Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Ugly Sweater 4K/MORE PHOTOS, B8
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evelopers of a fourstory Hampton Inn south of the Dollar General in Hartwick Seminary plan to depend on the Cooperstown Fire Department’s ladder truck in the event of a fire, Skyline Hospitality engineer Rudy Zola told the Hartwick Planning Board Tuesday, Dec. 4. The planning board set a public hearing on the project for 7 p.m., Jan. 8, at the town hall in Hartwick hamlet. For more details, visit
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GET YOUR TREE: The Cooperstown Lions Club’s annual Christmas Tree Sale is underway 5-6:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, 9-5 Saturday, and 11-5 Sunday across from the Chestnut Street fire house. 10 CABINS DUE: The required public hearing on plans for 10 cabins on Bush Road on Christian Hill, Town of Hartwick, proposed by Jason Tabor of Tabor Rentals, was held Tuesday, Dec. 4, by the town Planning Board. Neighbor Wendy Weeks
CCS Still Dipping, Data Say is the Cherry Valley-Springfield school districts, which anticipates 16 more seniors a neonta High dozen years from now. School’s Class of “Unfortunately, this year’s 2031 will overall decrease is have 41 more part of a declin►FOR A PDF students than the ing trend we’ve of the ONC Class of 2019, seen over the past BOCES projecaccording to ONC decade,” said tions for its BOCES annual Nick Savin, ONC nine school dis- BOCES superinprojections based tricts in Otsego on “live births” tendent. County, visit data. Reviewing But in the Savin’s data at last AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown week’s Oneonta Central School City Schools District, with a 22-student board meeting, Superintendrop over that period, and dent Joe Yelich welcomed all but one of the other ONC the prospective 2 percent BOCES district in Otsego growth in student populaCounty, “live births” show a tion. continuing decline. “We know neighboring The one other exception Please See ESTIMATE, A7
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Case Fought In D.C. Puts Otsego 2000 In Big Time By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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he attorneys general of New York, five other states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief Monday, Dec. 3, supporting
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s Ronald Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush came to the 1985 Hall of Fame Game, then-Assemblyman Tony Casale and his son Peter were sitting with him in the box behind home plate. Then-Congressman Sherwood Boehlert had organized the gathering, and U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was there, along with rising star Jim Seward, then the county’s youngest GOP chairman, businessmen and political bankroller Walter Rich, and Hall of Fame executives Howard Talbot and Ed Stack. “He signed a baseball for my son, then handed it to the guy next to him to sign it,” Casale, who now lives in Cooperstown, recalled. “It was Ted Williams.”\ Please See PRESIDENT, A6
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SUNY ‘Monster’ In Otsego Lake Gives BFS Warning Of Warming By JIM KEVLIN FIVE MILE POINT
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LOCALS Always Time For Tea At Annual Methodist Fete
Holohan Ties Mark, Named to All-Star State Soccer Team
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Delaney Holohan, in orange, has been named to the the 2018 New York All State Girls Soccer Team.
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Seven little reindeer – Treble Trouble members – Kayla Buttermann, Joanna Ferrara, Taryn Brockway, Charlotte Adelmann, Marta Dangca, Kaylee Ferrara and Malena Buttermann, performed as part of “Noel! A Celebration of Carols,” the Catskill Choral Society’s show on Friday, Nov 30 at the Cooperstown High School. At right, director Cynthia Donaldson directs with brio.
BENTON ENDORSED: MacGuire Benton, running for a one-year term on the Cooperstown Village Board, was endorsed by former state Senate candidate Joyce St. George, who called him “Someone who can focus on problems and not politics, and who seeks answers without adversity.”
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George H.W. Bush Life Is An Example Of Simple Courtesy To Us All
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hen he was first running for U.S. senator from Vermont in 1974, Patrick Leahy, now eminent ranking Democrat and erstwhile chairman of the Judiciary Committee, used to joke, “Washington D.C. you can’t get there from here.” Whatever way you look at it, it’s a long way from here to the corridors of power and vice versa.
But it’s boys from cities and towns much like Oneonta and Cooperstown all over the nation who get elected president of the United States more often than not. On Presidents’ Day for a decade
now, this newspaper has celebrated points of inspiration and guidance American presidents can provide to those of us back home. • George Washington, Yorktown behind him, restlessly awaiting the Peace of Paris and the dissolution of the Continental Army, rode out to Upstate New York and the battlefields he’d heard about, but never visited, Saratoga, Oriskany,
and the site of Clinton’s Dam, the start of the descent on Oquaga. Steely resolve, strength, a man of action. • The pioneering spirit of James Garfield’s kin. The father of the future Civil War general and president passed through Worcester en route to Ohio, falling in love with the future president’s mother, pining behind his distant plow,
returning to claim her. Determination and forbearance. • Martin van Buren, and the local hubbub caused by his local visit to Cooperstown in 1849. John Prentiss, the editor of The Freeman’s Journal, Hometown Oneonta’s sister newspaper, was on the greeting committee, meeting him at Pierstown when Please See EDITORIAL, A5
How Sequoias Were Saved Offers Lesson On Forest Fires Editor’s Note: Among his many credentials, Mike Zagata is currently director of organization development at the New York State Forest Owners Association.
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he fires burning in California are indeed tragic, but their severity could have been averted. If politicians and environMIKE mentalists had ZAGATA bothered to research the ecology of the brushlands and forests in California, they would have discovered that they are fire dominated – in other words, they rely on being burned on a regular basis to be rejuvenated. The Giant Sequoias are the classic example. For decades preservationists put
Last month’s forest fires in Woolsey Creek, Calif., posted on Facebook.
out naturally ignited fires in the Sequoia-dominated forest. Over time, scientists observed a decline in the number of young Sequoia
trees as they were being replaced by true firs (Abies) and Douglas fir. Why was this happening?
It turns out that the Giant Sequoia cones need the heat from fire to release the seeds within them. Suppressing fire based upon
emotion rather than science had, as it usually does, unintended consequences. Allowing controlled fire following this discovery saved the Sequoias. With that lesson under their belt, one would have expected two outcomes: First, policies would emerge based on the recognition that the brush and forests in question had burned on a regular basis for thousands of years – fire is part of their ecological make-up. Recognizing that, politicians and environmentalists might then have moved to implement a management strategy that incorporated regular, controlled burns to reduce the build-up of fuel from dying vegetation and shed limbs. If that had been done, the fires we’re watching burn today would not have been so spectacular because there would have been far less fuel for them to consume. Please See ZAGATA, A5
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means nothing. Let us also consider work taken away from positions and farmed out. Example: the annual property auction. Used to be handled by the treasurer, and values set by the treasurer and head of Real Property. Now it is not, it is contracted out. Thus, these two heads in essence received a raise as duties were taken away. Also, in this instance, the residents of the county incurred a new cost. I will be sending this on to other printed media, the clerk of the board with a request that it be read into the minutes, and to each county representative ED KEATOR Laurens
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To the Editor: The raises for M&C, as I have seen, you are in favor of. I am not. Consider these are your job duties and that of your employees are identical to all the other newspapers in the state. Do you as editor have the exact same duties as other papers editors, i.e., The Daily News, The New York Post, etc. I have interviewed in some of these Counties in New York and the treasurer position is not even the same in them all. Until the county Board of Representatives does a full evaluation – and I mean a full evaluation so that they are comparing apples to apples – their study
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‘VOAD’ Can Shoulder Challenge Of Mass Migration To the Editor: A humanitarian response to the so-called Border Crisis is possible. As one who has worked in disaster services since 1990, and whose strength I’ve been told is in planning and logistics, I have viewed the border crisis through the lens of a “disaster response” mechanism that has been in place in our country for more than 30 years’ time – back when the government took measures to abdicate their responsibility and began recruiting nonprofits (both secular and religious) to take on the response role previously managed by government agencies. There are in place across our nation very large mobile feeding vans; there are trained caseworkers; there is a computerized network into which case files may be logged from mobile communications equipment; there are even groups responsible for child care, clothing, personal hygiene products, etc.
– and on and on. Among the groups traditionally participating are American Red Cross, The Salvation Army, Southern Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholic Charities,
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able to locate our Christmas decorations with which we will be able to decorate our condo. We did purchase a new larger artificial Christmas tree as we feared the CATHERINE one we brought LAKE from Cooperstown ELLSWORTH would be lost in our living room with its cathedral ceiling. Of course, the bigger tree now means that we shall have to have a family “Decorate the Tree” party as we
cannot possibly hope to get any ornaments on the top third of the new tree. It is always something. But we are quite happy that we now feel we can take time away from unpacking and sorting to catch up on our reading. And to that end we have just finished perusing the Mount Vernon City Schools newsletter from the fall of 2018. We were particularly taken with an article in it entitled “Kindness on the Move.” It seems that one of the middle school teachers decided it would help her students, many of whom have never been out of the State of Ohio, to learn about the geography of the Please See COLUMN, A5
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library
200 YEARS AGO
A letter from Mr. Bailey, son of General Bailey of New York, details the particulars of the seizure of the ship Chauncey (in which Mr. Bailey went out for his health) and the imprisonment of the officers, passengers and crew, by officers of the Portuguese Government. The vessel was seized by an armed force, after her papers had been examined by the proper officers, the ship plundered of many articles, the American ensign struck, the crew taken on a 74, and Mr. B. and several others thrown into a damp and loathsome dungeon, where in all probability they would have continued, but for the spirited-conduct of our consul, Mr. Sumpter, who secured their release, as well as that of the ship. The consul declared to the government, his determination to quit the country, unless proper satisfaction was made for the insult given to our flag. The pretense for this conduct was a suspicion that Chauncey was a pirate. November 30, 1818
175 YEARS AGO
duty overseas, it is learned that Sergeant John W. Stiles of the Cooperstown detachment of Company G, who fell in action on August 18 is buried just over the Belgian border in the little town of Abeele, about ten miles west by south of Ypres. The Cooperstown Union and High School closes this Wednesday for the Thanksgiving Day vacation. School will open Monday instead of Tuesday thus making up one day of the enforced suspension of recitations during the influenza epidemic. The Christmas vacation will also be shortened, probably being but one week instead of two as heretofore. Harry Crouch, who has been acting as assistant Scout Master of Troop No. 1, Cooperstown Boy Scouts of America, received notification from the Scout headquarters last Wednesday that he had been officially appointed and registered as scout master of the troop in the place of C.P. Hood, who recently moved from Cooperstown. November 27, 1918 November 30, 1993
The Board of Supervisors of this County resolved to appoint but one County Superintendent of Common Schools, and conferred the situation upon Samuel G. Grant of Worcester to the exclusion of Lewis R. Palmer, of this village (Cooperstown), who had officiated in that capacity during the last two years with acknowledged ability and greatly to the advantage of the Common School interest, receiving from Col. Young, State Superintendent, the highest commendations of faithful service and ability in the discharge Of the laborious duties devolving upon him. To say the least of it, this act of the Board is not consonant with the intelligent public opinion. November 27, 1843
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25 YEARS AGO
A New School House – One of the best in the county has just been completed by the public-spirited people of the Bowerstown District in Middlefield. They voted an appropriation of $1,500, enough of which remains to grade the grounds and set out trees, &c. Last Saturday evening, in company with Mr. Ruggles, we attended the opening of the new building. We learned that the Trustees have engaged a first-class teacher to whom they pay good wages. They are determined to have one of the best district schools in the county. Mr. Leonard Hubbard is the Trustee of the district
and was also the builder of the new schoolhouse. November 27, 1868
125 YEARS AGO
Smart Business Women – A man’s success in the business world may depend very largely on the extent to which he takes his wife into his confidence, and consults with her upon all matters of serious importance. Two heads are better than one almost every time, and if the husband would only acknowledge that there are a few things about which his wife knows more than he can possibly know, he would in many cases be the gainer. Nothing is so tiresome as this know-it-all air which many husbands assume before their wives. In keeping his counsels to himself he violates a sacred trust, for he took her as his life’s helpmate, and he has no right to degrade the dignity of her office. He does not lower himself by seeking her advice, or, when the facts of the case warrant it, by admitting her superiority in her own sphere of knowledge and usefulness. November 30, 1893
100 YEARS AGO
From information contained in a letter from his comrades and from a Y.M.C.A. Secretary recently returned from
75 YEARS AGO
A fine group of historical objects has been presented to the New York State Historical Association by Mrs. F.M. Turnbull of Cooperstown. Mrs. Turnbull is the daughter of the late John L. McNamee. Her grandfather was Lawrence McNamee, pioneer merchant in Cooperstown. Mrs. Turnbull’s donation includes a silver snuff box, once the property of her grandmother, Mrs. Edward Fay, daguerreotypes of Mr. and Mrs. John L. McNamee taken about 1850, a silk purse owned by Mrs. McNamee, a silk and steel purse owned by Mrs. William E. Cory of Cooperstown, a stereopticon view of several members of the McNamee family and the wedding certificate of Mr. and Mrs. John McNamee. December 1, 1943
50 YEARS AGO
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has put on display the glove St. Louis Cardinal Bob Gibson wore when he scored his record feat of striking out 17 Detroit Tigers in the first game of the 1968 World Series on October 3. Gibson’s gracious gift was delivered directly to Cooperstown by George Harrison and Bill Adsit who saw the game. November 27, 1968
From Mount Vernon, Ohio, The Power Of Positive-Writing-On-Rocks COLUMN/From A4 country with a rather intriguing project regarding “kindness” rocks. • Two slogans, “Courage Is Stronger Than Fear” and “Hate Is Never the Answer,” were painted on rocks along with an explanation explaining the project, as well as an email address to which the rock finders could respond. The rocks were then given to family and friends of the class who were planning trips outside of Ohio and could thus leave the rocks in various spots around the country. Interestingly enough, the first response to finding such a rock came from New York City where a
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Rocks like this are showing up across the U.S., thanks to students from Mount Vernon (Ohio) Middle School.
rock had been left at the World Trade Center Memorial. It was
found, interestingly enough, by a couple who had just moved from somewhere in Ohio to NYC. In their email message, the couple wrote, “We were moved to find your message of joy and peace. Let us continue to love and understand one another, and strive to build a better future together.” And while the rock return emails are trickling in rather slowly, we do hope that as the rocks are found, and moved to a new location, that the MVMS class will continue to receive emails from around the country. We must say that we found their project to be most inspiring and salute them for their having undertaken it. We also trust that the goal of
From ‘41’, Simple Advice On How To Live • EDITORIAL/From A4 The impetus for these reflections, of course, is the his carriage came down Otsego Lake’s west side. passing of George Herbert Walker Bush on Saturday, After a party in his honor at Woodside Hall – VilDec. 1, at his home in Houston. “41’s” last words lage Historian Hugh MacDougall believes it was were to his son, “43”: “I love Lakelands – he got lost on you.” the way back to town. Just Criticized, subsequent folks. events showed a wisdom • George W. Bush, a unrecognized at the time: bit of a ne’er do well, his Foremost, pulling back U.S. hard-drinking days behind troops from Baghdad in 1990 him, wandering through the that certainly could have Hall distractedly in the late taken the city. After 9/11, in 1980s, no doubt reflecting a second invasion, the nation on his impending purchase learned: You take it, you own of the Texas Rangers, it. We’re still trying to disenunknowing he’d be in the tangle ourselves 17 years later. Oval Office a dozen years But the accolades and later. Renewal. reflections have poured in • during the past few days, even As interesting are their locally, are more simple. He hosts here. visited here on three Hall of George Fairchild was Fame Induction Weekends, born in Oneonta in 1886, and local people have also son of a poor farmer, and surfaced who met him over rose to ownership of the the years. Oneonta Herald, then six Foremost among their terms in Congress, when memories are small acts of he hosted two presidents, courtesy, taking the time to Theodore Roosevelt and thank Assemblyman Tony William Howard Taft, at his Casale for helping his presimansion at Main and Grand dential campaign in a typed Avenue. He later was the Presidential Portrait Gallery note that contained personal first chairman of IBM. George H.W. Bush touches about their meetings. Owen D. Young, farm A note of thanks to Ted Spenboy from Van Hornesville cer, retired curator, who led him on a tour through the who rose from back-breaking toil through Hall of Fame. A signed menu, an autograph on hotel St. Lawrence University to General Electric’s stationery. presidency. On the cover of Time, a frontrunner Kind words. Appreciation. Even at the heights, he for the presidency in 1931, he invited Gov. Franklin was characterized by simple acts of consideration. Roosevelt to speak at the first commencement of the Every president is inspiring by the ability to school that bears Young’s name. Ruefully, Young achieve the nation’s highest office. But George H.W. observed FDR overtaking him the following year Bush offered an example of the power of courtesy. and winning election to the White House. Not a bad example, and one we can – and would do Achievement, as well as disappointment – and well – to follow in our own lives. overcoming it – are the American story.
learning more about the geography of our country will also be met. • And while we seem to have gotten into a bit of a routine when it comes to penning items for The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Onoenta, which we hope are enjoyed by the paper’s readers, we do not seem to have been so fortunate in other areas. While parts of our days have settled into a rather reasonable routine, we find ourselves at loose ends from time to time. For example, we panicked when we discovered our Spectrum bill had not been taken out of our checking account. We could not figure out what
was going on until we called only to discover that Spectrum in Ohio does not electronically pay bills from a checking account. Instead, they charge it to a credit card. And sure enough, when the next credit card statement arrived, there was the monthly charge from Spectrum. Now, if we can just remember how things work out here, we will be in good shape. At least, we hope that will be the case. PLEASE NOTE: Comments on this column may be mailed to 125 Colonial Woods Drive, Mount Vernon, OH 43050, telephone to 740-993-0603 or e-mailed to cellsworth47@icloud.com.
Forest Management Saved Sequoia; Can It Also Quell California’s Fires? ZAGATA/From A4 They would be rejuvenating, not devastating, fires. Nature does not have to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement before taking action, nor can she be sued by a well-intentioned but ill-informed environmental group. Inaction by man due to a bureaucratic maze, rather than action, has led to far greater environmental destruction and the release of enormous amounts of CO2 and particulates into the atmosphere – all in a state where the governor pontificates on the man-induced causes of climate change – than would have been the case if the professional foresters had been allowed to do their job. • Second, California would benefit from what we have learned in the East regarding policies that encouraged people to build in the flood plain. Early on, the federal government, in an attempt to enable low-income families to purchase cheap land and build a home, subsidized low-cost flood insurance. After a few major floods, the government abandoned this approach and significantly increased the cost of flood insurance. And banks made it near-impossible to get a loan to build in the floodplain. Why did they do this? Quite simply, because encouraging people to build in the floodplain
- that by definition will flood at repeated intervals - was found to be foolhardy and dangerous. Do you see the parallel between building in the floodplain and building in an area that will repeatedly be subjected to fire – and then not taking the steps to reduce the severity of that fire when it comes? • It is tragic that people are losing their homes and even more tragic that people are losing their lives. However, the biggest tragedy of all may lie in the fact that no one is being held accountable for tragedies that didn’t need to happen. They could, and should, have been averted. The mayor of one of the towns destroyed in the most recent fires has already vowed to rebuild. If that takes place, it may well be another tragedy waiting to happen. The governor, after decades of fires, stated that from now on the state is going to listen to the science – so long as the science concludes that climate change is the culprit. That’s not how science works. You are supposed to conduct the research to determine the likely cause and then let the chips fall where they may. Mike Zagata, DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and former environmental executive in Fortune 500 companies, lives in West Davenport.
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Local People Whom Met Him Remember President Bush Fondly
Lawrence River), and he PRESIDENT/From A1 signed the menu to her. It’s The baseball signed by still hanging in our house.” a political immortal and The Sewards were invited a baseball one is among to Reagan’s inauguration, Peter’s treasured artifacts. Later that night, there was and the future senator spoke with the future president a fundraiser for Boehlert, there as well. “I was very and Seward, who has now fond of served as the him,” county’s state Seward senator for the said. “He past 32 years, was a great was tasked with example introducing and model him. for anyone “I asked in public someone what service. He I should say,” was certainhe said. “And ly one of my they said, ‘All role models. you have to say “What is ‘Ladies and bush Gentlemen, the brought to Vice President the presiof the United dency and States’.” Former Assemblyman the country Bush, the 41st Casale has a framed was integpresident who note from the rity, strong served from president in his moral 1989-93, died Cooperstown office. values and Nov. 30 at age respect,” 94. said Casale. “He brought a Prior to Bush’s term lot of civility to politics and as Ronald Reagan’s vice government. We haven’t president, Seward had met seen the likes of that for a him on the campaign trail. long, long time.” “There was a statewide During 41’s presidency, meeting of all the county Casale and wife Theresa chairs, and he was there,” were invited to the White said Seward. “Cindy and I House a couple of times, had dinner with him (at the and the assemblyman would Thousand Islands Club on be at receptions when the Wellesley Island in the St.
Even out of office, he continued his famous graciousness. In 1999, The American Hotel & Lodging Association chose Bob Holt, manager at Cooperstown’s Railroad Inn, as one of its Most Valuable Volunteers, and the former president was keynote speaker at the AHLA’s Nashville convention. Prior to the dinner, a private meeting was held, and Holt got to speak with the former president. “We chatted about Cooperstown, and he said, ‘Oh, what about that Nolan Ryan.’ And he told me, ‘I gotta get to Cooperstown this summer’,” said Holt. Holt gave him his business card, and although he didn’t get to Ryan’s induction that summer, he was there in 2003 for Gary Carter’s Hall of Fame induction, and in 2007, for Cal Ripkin Jr.’s. “I showed him and his Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal grandson around and showed Used to meeting VIPs, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, left, and retired him all the things we had Hall of Fame Curator Ted Spencer nonetheless held on to souvenirs associrelating to Texas,” said Ted ated with President George H.W. Bush. Seward, a signed menu from the Spencer, former Hall of Thousand Islands Club; Spencer, a thank-you note received after he gave Fame curator. “He was a the former president a tour in 2003. really down-to-earth guy, he president visited Upstate, nebunkport, Maine, where the bitter campaign, Bush began was very interested in what we had to show him.” including one evening in Bushes summered too. a tradition that continues Spencer still has the Schenectady. “Everyone wanted to until this day. thank-you note Bush sent, Also attending that evening get in ‘the room’. A lot “You will be our presiwritten in pencil on his perwas Dr. Laman Bruner, state of people got to see him. dent when you read this sonal stationery. Assembly chaplain who had Only Reverend Bruner got note,” a hand-written oneCasale summed up: “He a standing summer preacha private interview.” The page letter stated. “...Your ing assignment in Kenpresident had his priorities success now is our country’s agreed that respect for the Office of the President success. I am rooting straight, Casale concluded. means respect for the counDefeated by Democrat hard for you. Good luck try. We need more of that Bill Clinton in a sometime – George.” respect and civility today.”
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Sidney Federal Credit Union Names New President/CEO
James H. Reynolds Sidney, NY - Sidney Federal Credit Union’s Board of Directors has named James H. Reynolds as its new President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1st, 2019. Reynolds is a Central New York native with a deep-rooted passion for the credit union mission of member service. Jim has been directly involved with credit unions since 1996. He has represented Empire Federal Credit Union as Business Development Account Executive as well as Director of Sales. When employed with Empower Federal Credit Union (with assets of $1.7 Billion serving over 180,000 members) Jim held the title of VP of Communications and most recently the position of Senior VP of Operations/COO. He has a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA. “The Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Jim Reynolds to Sidney Federal Credit Union. We are highly confident in Jim’s ability to lead our organization forward based on his demonstrated leadership skills and experience as well as his extensive knowledge of the credit union industry as a whole” Scott McLean, sfcu BOD Chairman stated. Jim has served his community in the following capacity; Leadership Greater Syracuse, Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, Ronald McDonald House Charities of CNY Board Member, Enable Volunteer, Access CNY Board Member, Access CNY Community Relations and Development Committee, Access CNY Strategic Initiatives Committee, Access CNY ADVANS Committee, Perry Springs Fish Hatchery Volunteer, Empower FCU Annual Donations and Sponsorships Committee, Empower FCU United Way of CNY Fundraising Committee, and Empower FCU Employee Community Days. He has also coached various levels of lacrosse from modified through college. Reynolds and his wife Kathy have two teenage children. He enjoys the outdoors, hunting, fishing, art, sports and time spent with family and friends. Reynolds stated, “I am excited to relocate to the Sidney area, support the community and continue the longstanding success of Sidney Federal Credit Union and my predecessor President/CEO Jim Doig, who is retiring after 22 years as the credit union’s leader”. The field of membership of sfcu spans into 13 counties and is at $488,387,773 in assets, which serves 48,000 members.
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George H.W. Bush: Integrity, Honesty, Empathy To the Editor: The passing of George Herbert Walker Bush is sadly most noteworthy in its current relativity to the current situation at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. George Bush was total class. Integrity, honesty and empathy framed not only his character but his manner of governing. His modesty eclipsed the history of his war record which, to the dismay of his campaign chairmen, he never capitalized upon
in any political vein. Indeed the fact that as a fighter pilot in World War II he was shot down and rescued at sea is still unknown to many. Presently in this White House there is not even a shadow of the man we witnessed in George Bush. Nevertheless, in two years one might say “hope springs eternal.” Kenneth J. Kavanagh Cooperstown
U.S. Has Ability To Respond To Humanitarian Crises
DILL/From A4 nism. This mechanism is replicated at state, regional and county levels. Our government’s failure to respond appropriately and its use of violence and military forces to meet this humanitarian crisis are disgraceful – actions that will stain our country’s history for some time to come! We need prayers and the support of the American people for these refugees. When I read in this morning’s news that “safe” tear gas had been used, lyrics from one of Neil Young’s old protest songs came to mind: “We have a kinder, gentler machine
gun hand.” My personal attempts to reach out to leadership at some of the national humanitarian organizations have been met with pretty much the same response: that they are unable to become involved in “political matters.” The leaders of our government have chosen to paint this mass migration with a brush dipped in “fear” and “racism.” The use of the US military to spray mothers and children with tear gas should never be tolerated! MAUREEN DILL Morris
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Otsego 2000 Lawsuit Aims To Force FERC To Back Off Strategy in 2016 to enlarge AMICUS/From A1 a compression staday, Dec. 2. An hour later she tion in Brookman learned the national Sierra Club Corners, Town of organization also filed another Minden, Herkimer amicus brief in Otsego 2000’s County. support. Because the project, Otsego 2000 had filed its appeal since completed and Monday, Nov. 26, before with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Dillingham expanded, was 10 miles from Cherry Valley, one step below the U.S. Supreme Otsego 2000 believes the operation Court. would have an impact on northern FERC is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. At issue Otsego County. In the May 18 action, FERC is a May 18 FERC board decision denying Otsego 2000’s petition for commissioners, 3-2, ruled that, in denying Otsego 2000’s apa rehearing of Dominion Transpeal, they do not have to consider mission’s New Market Project, “upstream� and “downstream� which had received the go-ahead
greenhouse gas emissions. Upstream would be at the well-head; downstream, the businesses and homeowners who would eventually use the gas. “At a time of surging concern for climate change and growing scientific evidence of its causes, FERC’s announcement of a new ‘policy’ to refuse to even consider GHG emission impacts, in defiance of existing law, must be rejected,� Dillingham said. The May decision split along party lines, with the two Democrats, Cheryl LaFleur and Richard Glick, voting nay, and the Republicans, then-chair Robert McIntyre,
‘Monster’ Enlisted To Protect Otsego Lake MONSTER/From A1 had done so for 55 hours “and multiple days� this year, reported SUNY Oneonta Assistant Biology Professor Kiyoko Yokota, who is overseeing the research. That matters because “cyanobacteria� begins proliferating at 23-24 degrees Celsius. As nearby as Skaneateles and Cayuga lakes, such “blue bacteria� has created algae blooms, which are poisonous and have even been linked to ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. The CLMB was purchased by SUNY’s Biological Field Station in 2017, part of a $193,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. This was the first year – the second taking readings every 15 minutes and transmitting them back to the BFS just north of Cooperstown – that comparisons could be made. Another SUNY biology professor, Paul Lord, who heads the BFS’ diving team, calls the CLMB “the monster buoy,� and he led eight divers, including longtime Otsego Lake Association President Wayne Bunn, and three tenders, including Dr. Yokota, on the retrieval expedition. It took four hours, and at one point Lord was 165 feet below the surface, detaching
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The “monster buoy� is in storage for the winter.
sensors. “Hazardous algae blooms are all over the news,� he said. “So far, Otsego Lake appears to be spared. Clear water lakes suffer from these blooms; we have been really lucky.� Yokota, he said, is working with a “suite� of researchers nationally and internationally – the acronym is GLEON – “looking for 12-months-ayear patterns, and lake mixing, and runoff to understand what might be kicking off hazardous algae blooms.� Lord’s team left the CLMB in the water as long as possible, but with nighttime temperatures dropping into
the teens this week, figured it was time to bring it in. GLEON stands for the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network, which with the help of CLMBs is looking for trends in lake health and degradation around the world. (Yokota was able to attend its annual conference last year at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz; this year, it is in Australia.) “You start to eat an apple a day. You feel great. Your health is better,� she said. “But you can’t say it’s really the apple, or because you were exercising a little more. If you have experiments with 300 people, and everything else is limited, you can actually see apples made this difference.� Already, algae blooms are common in lakes in warmer climates. With climate change, “northern lakes can be expected to have similar effects when northern lakes heat up,� she said. Led by Cooperstown’s Watershed Advisory Committee, there’s already a pretty good septic-system testing process in place, she said, but research of the type underway can also help advise communities whether lake-circling sewerage is necessary.
November Coldest, Snowiest, Cloudiest
DISMAL/From A1 90-degree day in July as a record. “That would like suffering 107-degree day on that same date,� he said. “That’s how much the record was shattered by.� And at the headwaters of Schenevus Creek in East Worcester, the official temperatures got as low as 14 and 15 degrees below zero. “A lot of winters we never see zero or below,� he said. “And this is only November.� According to Mattice, the first three days of the month were in the 60s – 62, 62, 61 – significantly above normal. “It made what followed worse,� he said. “We never get into the 40s after Nov. 8.� And if it seemed there was a little less sun than usual, you weren’t wrong. “We only had four days in entire month,� he said. “One that was totally clear all day long. Three others were partly sunny days, and the rest were dark, dank, dismal and dreary.� The jet stream moved to the south, which let a high-pressure system off the arctic “hunker all over us,� he said. “It just did not move.�
During November, there were 5.13 inches of precipitation, rainfall and snow equivalent. The frozen part of it added up to 19.5 inches of snow. “That was enough to make it the second snowiest November on record,�
he said. Normally by now, 36.24 inches of precipitation would have fallen; this year, 51.14 did. That’s 14.9 inches above normal. Normal for entire year is 39.36 inches.
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Robert Powelson and the new chair, Neil Chatterjee, voting aye. The FERC board’s decision not to take GHG into account was “a policy change,� but by embedding the policy change in a decision, the FERC board sought to circumvent public-comment requirements in the federal Administrative Procedures Act, said Otsego 2000 Executive Director Ellen Pope. So when FERC acted on that appeal in May, there was only “one party to it� – Otsego 2000 – so only Otsego 2000 had standing to appeal to the D.C. Circuit. “We’re the only ones who can challenge it,� Pope continued, “al-
Oneonta Schools Up; CCS To Drop ESTIMATE/From A1 school districts smaller than ours are having double-digit losses, which really hurts them,� Yelich said. “We will take even a modest increase.� He later reported an additional seven students are waiting to be placed in Oneonta schools. Savin usually released his “live births� report at this time of year. This year, he tabulated the number of births in the individual school districts in 2013. Those youngsters will enter first grade next fall and graduate 12 years hence. He then compares that number to the number of seniors in the Class of 2019 to estimate whether school districts are trending up or down. As in the past, Savin emphasizes the projections will only play out if nothing happens. If a large manufacturer moves into a school district, or a flood strikes a population center, reality can either outstrip or fall short of the projections. In Cooperstown, the report has 72 seniors graduating next June, but only 50 first graders entering in the fall, a 30 percent decline. Laurens, Milford, Morris, and Worcester school
districts are projected to lose eight, 19, 11, and 10 students, respectively, down from the 2019 graduating classes of 33, 43, 33, and 30, respectively. “The number of students fluctuates throughout the school year, sometimes every day,� Savin explained, “so we collect data from the school districts on that first Wednesday in October so we can have a baseline.� Savin looks at three figures in determining increases or decreases in school districts’ enrollment: the numbers of live births, four year-olds, and high school seniors. If the number of live births or 4-year-olds is higher than the number of high school seniors for an academic year, that school district will likely have a higher number. For example, Oneonta Thinking of Remodeling? Think of Refinancing!
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has 112 high school seniors who will graduate in June 2019 and saw 153 live births in 2013. That means the graduating class in 2025 is projected to have 41 more seniors than it does now. The number of students in a school district can impact the amount of aid the state will distribute to it in early 2019. Oneonta City Schools could receive additional aid if it posts an increase in its student population because the state will recognize the district needs a corresponding increase in resources to serve those additional students. Yelich could not specify a reason for OCSD’s slight growth except to say, “Oneonta offers a place of stability. If parents move here to work for the two colleges or Bassett, we are likely to have their children as students for a number of years.�
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Gallery and Studios across West Lake Road from Glimmerglass Opera. “We immediately liked them and set aside space for them,” said Allstadt. “His photos were popular. We bought some ourselves. I remember Jane Clark being attracted to them.” In 2004, Duncan got his big break: He proposed a book to accompany a photo exhibit of his work being planned at The Fenimore Art Museum. Jane Forbes Clark liked the idea. The exhibit opened May 18 of that year, and his first photo book, named after the Jim Kevlin/ OTSEGO.life exhibit, “Otsego Lake: Past Photographer Richard Duncan arrives back in Cooperstown and Present,” was published Friday, Nov. 30, with full page proofs of the second edition in time for the Christmas of “Cooperstown,” now at a Boston bindery, ready for Please See BOOK, B3 pre-Christmas delivery to The Fenimore Museum.
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AUCTION – 2 p.m. CNY Beef producer tele-auction. Opportunity to purchase fall feeder calves. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. 607-5472536 ext. 226.
VISIT SANTA – 3 - 6 p.m. Visit, take pictures with Santa, Mrs. Claus. Santa’s Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. 607-547-9983. LADIES NIGHT – 5 - 9 p.m. Features mini-makeovers, massages, snacks, refreshments for free. Make a
purchase, 10% of proceeds donated to local charity of shopper’s choice. Beekman 1802, 187 Main St., Sharon Springs. 888-801-1802. HOUSE & HOME EXHIBIT – 5 p.m. 2D, 3D work derived from dwellings. Works by many artists. Community
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Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-2070. EXHIBIT RECEPTION – 5 p.m. Open annual Juried Art Show: Art of New York. Features works in stoneware, photography, oil, acrylic, pastel. Jurors, artists in attendance. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-6732314 ext. 110. FUNDRAISER – 6 p.m. Cat Yoga with Lisa Brown and Susquehanna SPCA. All proceeds to SQSPCA. Suggested donation, $10. Bring your own mat. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. 607547-9371. HOLIDAY PARADE – 6 p.m. Parade of Lights. Sharon Springs Chamber of Commerce. 518-860-5513. FILM SCREENING – 6:30 & 9 p.m. Showing “Smallfoot.” Cost, $3. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta. THEATER – 7 - 10 p.m. Decker Ballet School presents “The Nutcracker” as performed by The Fokine Ballet Company. Tickets available. Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta. 607-432-6290. FILM SERIES – 7 p.m. Discrimination Matters presents “Rent” followed by open discussion. Free, open to public. Light snacks. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta.
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CONTRADANCE – 7:30 p.m. Fun social dance with music by Ms. Marty & Her Smokin’ Good Band. Peter Stix will call. Arrive at 7:15 for introduction to steps. Admission, $8/adult. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. 607-547-8164. HOLIDAY REVUE – 7:30 p.m. 2nd annual revue features music, cash bar, light hors d’oeuvres, more presented by Klinkhart Hall. Ticket’s, $40/person. Limited seating. Stone House, 123 Pavilion Ave., Sharon Springs. 518-284-2067. THEATER – 8 p.m. Catskill Community Players present Southern Fried, Yuletide comedy “Christmas Belles.” Tickets, $18. Wieting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester. 607433-2089.
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HOLIDAY BREAKFAST – 8 a.m. - Noon. Parent Teacher Association holds holiday pancake breakfast and marketplace. Cafeteria, Cooperstown Elementary School. 607-547-8181. ORNAMENTS – 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Bring the kids to make paper ornaments. Cooperstown Farmers Market, Pioneer St. Cooperstown. 607-547-6195. HOLIDAY CELEBRATION – 9 a.m. Enjoy 8th annual pancake breakfast with all the trimmings. Cost, $10/ adult. Van Alstyne Homestead & Museum, 42 Moyer St., Canajoharie. HOLIDAY BAZAAR – 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Support local vendors, get Christmas shopping done, find your next book at Scholastic Book Fair. Oneonta Christian Academy, 158 River St., Oneonta. 607-432-0383. SEWING CLINIC – 9 a.m. - Noon. Beginners workshop teaches ages 8+ about parts of sewing machine, practice sewing, safety rules, make star for holiday gift or decoration, more. Cost, $3/person for materials. Bring sewing machine if you have one. Space limited, registration required. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. 607-547-2536. OPEN HOUSE – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Annual holiday event features door prizes, refreshments at A Rose is a Rose, 17 Main St., Cherry Valley. 607264-3100. MUSEUM CHRISTMAS – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Celebrate Christmas at the Fort with Colonial Christmas music, book fair featuring local authors, holiday shopping, free tours. Free admission. Fort Plain Museum, 389 Canal St., Fort Plain. 518-774-5669. MORE CALENDAR, Pg. 4
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High-End Brodock Press Turns 2nd ‘Cooperstown’ Into Reality BOOK/From B1 gift-giving season that year. It was met with enough enthusiasm that, two years later, The Fenimore published Duncan’s second book, “Cooperstown,” which updated venerable NYSHA Director Louis C. Jones’ 1948 book of the same name and added 266 photos, most of them Richard’s. In 2008 came “Otsego County: Its Towns and Treasures.” While all three books are steady sellers, “Cooperstown” was the biggest hit. Earlier this year, “we sold out the first edition, and people were clamoring for it all summer,” said Paul D’Ambrosio, The Fenimore’s president and the book’s editor-in-chief. So again, D’Ambrosio and Duncan paid a visit to Jane Clark, and she agreed again to underwrite another 5,000-copy edition, now due at the museum’s gift shop by Dec. 14, again just in
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time for Christmas. But it’s an edition with a difference. “There’s so much to tap into in the past 10 years,” said D’Ambrosio. “It needed an update. Not an overhaul, but an update.” Among other things, downtown Cooperstown has undergone extensive upgrades. There’s a new Clark Sports Center. The opera is now the Glimmerglass Festival. And the Baseball Hall of Fame had another decade of the National Game to record. The Bassett Hospital chapter was rewritten, given the new material discovered by Dr. John Davis’ “Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown:
Duncan and Pre-Press Manager Ted Knaul examine six folded pages; 27 such packets are stacked together in a 162-page “signature.” The signatures are being bound this week in Boston. Hone Kim operates the folder in the background.
200 Years of Healthcare in Rural America.” Duncan said he replaced 30 photos in the 162 pages. Last week, Richard, always the perfectionist, spent four days at highend Brodock Press, whose clients include Pfizer, J.P. Morgan and other national accounts, plus many Upstate colleges, including – just recently – Syracuse, alma mater of Bryan Brodock, a member of the family that has owned it for three generations. These customers are particular. Bryan reported one account recently reprinting a 40,000 run after finding a typo – the client’s error, not the printer’s – on page 43 of a booklet. The editing complete – Jane Clark personally selected some of the final photos – the edition went to Nadeau Design in Ilion and, flats complete, to Brodock. Duncan was there from 8 a.m to 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 26; 8 a.m. Wednesday to 3 a.m. the following morning, sleeping on a leather couch in the Adirondack Room lounge at the company’s Court Street headquarters. Then 8 to 8 on Thursday and, finally, Friday morning, arriving back in Cooperstown early afternoon with a full-size set of proofs. In a print shop that looks more like the command deck of the Starship Enterprise than the building-shaking pressroom in “The Post,” Ted Knaul, pre-press manager and 35-year employee, shep-
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herded “Cooperstown” through pre-press and onto the seven-color Heidelberg. (There’s also an eight-color Kormori.) Anyone familiar with four-color newspaper printing would ask, why seven? Part of the answer is in the text of the new book: a fifthcolor ink – a rich almostblack brown – is used for captions, warming up the reading experience. Duncan and a pal from Pressman Scott Kuney cranks up the eight-page Nadeau, now retired, were Heidelberg press, and “Cooperstown” is on its way. present throughout the process. You can just do very stacked high with “signaDone, but their lives are minor adjustments after the tures” – perfectly cut books just beginning. printing plates are burned, ready for binding. Monday, “The book is immortal,” Knaul said, since correcting Dec. 2, those signatures said Paul D’Ambrosio. one image can distort another. were at Superior Bindery “Lou Jones wrote it in the Still, Richard added, with in suburban Boston, being late ’40s. The early chapters a little tweak it’s possible sewn, bound and covered read so beautifully. In all, it’s to enrich an image very with glossy slipjackets, been through seven editions. slightly, but perceptibly. ready to be shipped back to There’s a constant demand The result was pallets Cooperstown. for it. It never dies.”
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SANTA VISIT – 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Visit Santa, bring a letter, get pictures with old St. Nick. Santa’s Cottage, Muller Plaza, Oneonta. 607-432-2941. POP-UP SHOP – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Find books, unique gifts, quilts by local artisans, more. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass St. Prk. Road, Springfield. 607-547-5098. CHRISTMAS MOVIE – 10 - 11:30 a.m. Kids watch clas-
sic film “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.” Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-8580230. VICTORIAN HOLIDAY – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Celebrate holidays in Victorian style. Main St., Sharon Springs. 518-8605513. OPEN HOUSES – 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Annual Christmas event features door prizes, goodies, relaxed shopping, unique gifts, more at Cherry Valley businesses. Main St.,
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6-7, 2018 Cherry Valley. 607-264-3100. HOLIDAY MARKET – 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Festive exhibition of 30+ artists work selected for gift giving. Enjoy refreshments, meet artists. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley. 607264-9530. CARD CRAFTING – 10 a.m. - Noon. Make cards that light & pop up. Materials provided. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980. HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE – 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Find refreshments, prizes, local products, decorations, unique gift items, visit with Santa from 1-3, more. Free, Open to
public. Cherry Valley Museum, 49 Main St., Cherry Valley. 607-264-3303. OPEN HOUSE – Noon - 3 p.m. Event features ornament/card making, auction, reading of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,” more. Earlville Opera House, 18 E. Main St., Earlville. 315-691-3550. THEATER – 1 - 3 p.m. Decker Ballet School presents “The Nutcracker.” See Friday Listing. DAR MEETING – 1 p.m. Chapter meeting of DAR. All members, prospective members, HODARS, guests invited to attend. Masonic Temple, 322 Main St., Oneonta. MORE CALENDAR, Pg. 5
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Ellen Armstrong Kanarek, 69; Sister Of Cooperstown Pastor
PRINCETON, N.J. – Ellen Armstrong Kanarek, 69, sister of the Rev. Elsie Rhodes, Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian Church pastor, died from complications of pneumonia on Thanksgiving night, Nov. 22, 2018, at Princeton Medical Center. Ellen was born in Princeton on March 24, 1949, and was a longtime resident. She was a 1966 graduate of Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, where she excelled academically, teaching herself
Greek as an independent study, and was a leader in the highly regarded GFS traveling choir. At Wellesley College, Ellen majored in French, minored in German, and was named a Durant Scholar, graduating with honors in 1970. She received her Ph.D. in Education, specializing in Institutional Research, at the University of Michigan in 1978, where she was a professional monograph editor and statistics consultant, and was recognized with the Burke
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Aaron Hinsdale Scholar award. Between college and graduate school, Ellen Ellen served as Armstrong registrar, Kanarek and then assistant dean for Undergraduate Students at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, where she also sang in one of their choirs. Later, she became the alto soloist at Trinity Episcopal Church and then All Saints Episcopal Church, both in Princeton. Most recently, Ellen was a member of Trinity United Church of War-
ren, N.J., where she directed the Bell Choir. In 1989, Ellen accepted a position at Applied Educational Research, Inc. (AER) in Princeton, advanced to vice president in 1995, and continued in that role to the present, leading institutional research projects for secondary school systems, colleges, and universities nationwide. Her best-known annual research project in the higher education community was the Admitted Students Questionnaire (ASQ) on behalf of the College Board, to which hundreds of colleges and universities subscribed, where she polled tens of thousands of students to explore the reasons why they selected their college to attend.
Ever a volunteer, Ellen was a frequent facilitator, track chair, convener, presenter and author, led member outreach efforts, and Chair of the millennium Forum conference in 19992000. Ellen also was very active in the regional North East Association for Institutional Research (NEAIR) where she served as President. She is is survived by her father, the Rev. Dr. Richard Stoll Armstrong; husband Michael Allan Kanarek; her son Derek Decker Kanarek, his wife Rebecca Shell Kanarek, and their children Charlie, Will, and Elliott; her son Dr. Graham Childs “Gray” Kanarek, his wife Marnie Kanarek, and their children Gabriel and Julian;
her son Orion Fire “Ryan” Kanarek; her siblings Andrew Childs Armstrong and his wife Caroline Armstrong, William Harwood “Woody” Armstrong and his wife Christine Armstrong, and the Rev. Elsie Armstrong Rhodes and her husband Thomas Rhodes; and a large extended family of loving nephews, nieces and cousins. She was predeceased by her mother, Margaret Childs Armstrong, and brother, Richard Stoll Armstrong, Jr., Burial will be private. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29 at All Saints Church, 16 All Saints Road, Princeton NJ. Arrangements are entrusted to the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Bernard Suskind, 97; Holocaust Survivor Has Family Locally ATLANTIC BEACH– Holocaust survivor Bernard Suskind, 97, of Atlantic Beach, Long Island, died on Nov. 26, 2018, at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre. Among his survivors he leaves a daughter, Linda Suskind Kosmer, in Fly Creek. Born in Fuerstenau, Germany, Bernard was arrested on Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10, 1938, and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp along with his father. They were fortunate to be freed after a month. Due to the efforts of the Swedish government, he went to Sweden, where he
spent a year working before he continued to the U.S. and enlisted in the Army. He then fought as a GI on the German front. During the war, when he was back on leave, he met his wife in Brooklyn, where his parents and sister lived. After the war, he started a business, Bellmore Steel, which remains in operation today and is run by his son Glenn. In recent decades, Bernard went back to Germany many times, as he was befriended by a German history teacher, Berndt Kruse, who invited him to talk to students and residents about his experiences.
He became an honored citizen, or “Ehrenburger,” in his hometown. It inspired him to write his book Bernard in German Suskind and English, (Portrait called “We by Gunther Spoonhauser) Were Fair Game.” He also spoke to Cooperstown High School students while his granddaughter, Linda’s daughter Alyssa, was a student there. Bernard and his wife, Charlotte, enjoyed boating and traveling and spending
time with his family. He brought his children and all of his grandchildren to his hometown to meet his friends and see the place he lived so that they would understand more fully the importance of his personal history and the history of the Jews in Germany. In addition to his daughter, Linda, and her husband, John Kosmer, he is survived by son Glenn, of Lido Beach; six grandchildren, Alyssa, Stephanie, Jaqueline, Katherine, Brian and Stephen, and three greatgrandchildren, Charlotte, Luke and Ben. He is predeceased by his wife, Charlotte.
Lloyd C. McMurdy, 91; Agway Information-Technology Pioneer COOPERSTOWN – Lloyd Charles McMurdy, retired Agway Petroleum information technology manager, passed away Nov. 27, 2018, from metastatic multiple myeloma following a couple years at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing. He was born Jan. 22, 1927, to Lillie Roth McMurdy and Ollie McMurdy. In his youth he was active in 4H and sports, and graduated the top of his Class in 1944 from Jefferson Central School. In late 1944, he was
stricken with polio, which affected the use of his right arm. With all the challenges he faced, he coped with a smile and never felt disabled. In 1949, he graduated from Cornell University. He joined GLF – which became Agway – in the accounting department and began pioneering their largeframe computer system. He worked as the information technology manager for Agway Petroleum, retiring after 45 years to enjoy spending time with his family. On Oct. 29, 1955, Lloyd
married Mary Sue Hedman. He was most noted as a gentleman. He was also a great provider, wonderful husband and father and loving grandfather. Lloyd is survived by his daughters, Marjorie Anne McMurdy Struckle (David) and Cheryl Lee Kane (John); grandchildren Melissa Struckle and Danielle and Jeffery Kane; a sister, Lillie McMurdy Koenig; a brother-in-law, Edward Hedman; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, and a brother,
Roy Arthur McMurdy A funeral was held Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home with the Rev. Betsy Jay, Bassett Hospital chaplain, officiating. Burial was in the White Chapel Memory Gardens in Dewitt. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Louis Busch Hager Cancer Center Fund, 1 Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.
Rosemary Hall Mulvey, 81; Lifetime Resident Of Town Of Burlington
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BURLINGTON – Rosemary Hall Mulvey, 81, who worked in the Burlington Green General Store before joining Edmeston Central and then county government, passed away Monday
Nov. 26, 2018 in Clifton Park, where one of her daughters lives. Rosemary was born on June 19, 1937, in the Town of Burlington, the daughter of the late Fred and Mary Adams. She married Edwin (Ted) Hall in June of 1956 in Burlington, where they lived and raised their family. She was pre-deceased by her husband Edwin (Ted) Hall in May 1990. In May 2000, she married Thomas Mulvey, who passed away in May 2016. She is survived by her daughters Karen Boynton and her husband Chris of Clifton Park, and Connie Head and her husband Rob of Burlington Flats. She is also survived by two grandchildren Emily Head and
Bryan Head. Rosemary was a lifetime resident of the area and a graduate of Edmeston Central School. She worked at various jobs, including tending to the Burlington Green General Store, teacher’s aide at Edmeston Central School, and many years as a social service examiner for Otsego County. She retired in 1994 to help with her grandchildren. Rosemary enjoyed gardening, traveling, sewing and attended the Burlington Green Baptist Church. She was also an active member of the Burlington Busy Bees for many years, where she enjoyed quilting with good friends and food. A funeral was held Friday, Nov. 30 at the Delker
& Terry Funeral Home with Pastor Barry Davis officiating. Spring interment Rosemary will be in Mulvey Burlington Green Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 State Highway 28 Cooperstown, NY 13326, or the Edmeston Emergency Squad, PO Box 111, Edmeston, NY 13335 in loving memory of Rosemary. Arrangements are entrusted to the Delker and Terry Funeral Home.
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51 Gingerbread Chefs Compete At Jubilee JUBILEE/From B1 the SUNY Delhi Culinary Department team again took top honors for its Christmas house, a topsy-turvy creation with stained-glass windows and a team of gingerbread horses pulling a sleigh full of presents, despite a series of cookie crumbles. “I decapitated Dad!” said Chef Julee Miller. “We had to put him back together this morning.” SUNY Delhi took home first prize in the Adult Group category. “They’re always so elaborate,” said judge Geoff Doyle. “They even had sugar-based stained glass.” Next door, a team from the Amish Barn Co. turned a favorite holiday pastime into gingerbread art. “We were having a hard time with the theme of Holiday Fun,” said Kirsten Riker. “Then we realized that we all have fun watching ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’.” Riker, with co-workers David Kropp, Oneonta Christian Academy principal puts the Gingerbread George Forte and Samantha Community Church in place under scrutiny of Tina Winstead, the Huntington Dufresne, not only recreLibrary director. ated the Griswold’s famous guin family, made white and “The ‘Christmas in RockSour Patch Kids ice-skating well-lit home – complete snowy by 16 pounds of sugefeller Plaza’ was such a on a pond made of highwith Cousin Eddie’s RV and ar in both royal frosting and great idea,” said judge Jim fructose corn syrup, which some burnt Christmas décor fondant. “LEAF’s theme Maloney. hardens when left out. – but they built a gingerthis year is ‘Here Comes the “That’s Oneonta’s They also entered a bread TV screen around it Sun’, so we asked ourselves Christmas Tree,” said David beach-bound Santa Claus, to complete the “viewing” where there was lots of sun Kropp, academy principal. a penguin farm – complete experience. “We worked on at the holidays – the South “Every year, the sixth and with gummy penguins – and it at work, so we would put Pole, where penguins live!” seventh grade kids go to a gingerbread church, using the movie on in the backLEAF took third place in New York City, so they melted Jolly Ranchers to ground and play it over and the Adult Group category. wanted to do that.” make stained-glass winover,” she said. “It was a real stand-out,” The piece also features dows. The team took second said Doyle. “It was very place in the Adult Group creative.” category. And the Oneonta ChrisLEAF Executive Director tian Academy swept the Julie Dostal entered an igloo Youth Group category, inhabited by a happy pentaking all four prize slots.
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Roll-Up bathing suits, and I should have toasted the marshmallow snowmen to give them a tan!” And though he didn’t take home a prize, Cameron Bowne built a 4-foot-tall gingerbread man titled “Trust in the Cane” that drew plenty of attention when he carried it into Foothills on Friday night. “He wasn’t originally going to have a cane,” he said. “But he started leaning, so we added it for support.”
The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta are joining with The Salvation Army to make a joyful Christmas for area families through the Angel Tree Program. This tradition dates back to 1921 with the creation of The Freeman’s Journal Christmas Fund by Editor & Publisher, Rowan D. Spraker Sr., as a way for neighbors to help others enjoy a happy holiday. This is the 97th year of this community tradition. The Salvation Army has gathered the Christmas wish lists, grouped by family.
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“We’ve been working on them for awhile,” he said. “I’m just glad they’re done!” Santa on vacation was a recurring theme. “We always think of Christmas in Upstate, where there’s snow,” said Doyle. “It never occurred to do Santa on the beach!” “This was my son Eli’s vision,” said Van Zandt. “I made Fruit Roll-Up towels and Rice Krispie trees – I could have made Fruit
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Lots of ladies leaping! Bella Babbitt, Avery Burnsworth, Arianna Anderson, Ashley Harrington, Morris, Bryn Quackenbush, all of Oneonta, and Olivia Boecke, Otego, and other members of the Stanley Wade dance troupe perform for the record-setting crowds gathered around Muller Plaza for the Santa Parade on Saturday, Dec. 1.
He’s here! After all the dancers, music, floats and merriment, Santa Claus rode into town in his horse-drawn sleigh, driven by Lauren Waite. Jolly Old Saint Nick will be in Muller Plaza on Thursday, Dec. 6 to help light the city’s Christmas tree and hear children’s wishes.
What’s a parade without music? Randy Miratello and the Hop City Hellcats got the whole crowd dancing as they played from the back of a pick-up truck. Declan Artale Oneonta, has the best seat in the house on top of his father Thomas’ shoulders as he awaits Santa’s arrival.
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Benjamin Kelly of Otego, right, his sister, Anoel Kelly of Cooperstown (in a notso-ugly number) and their friend David Chase are poised to begin the Ugly Sweater 4K.
Esperance’s Mark Stephenson crosses the finish line in Lakefront Park, winning the 4K in 24:57. Cooperstown’s Frank Wilsey was second, and Bill Slentz, Sherburne, third.
You might think Glen Linsenbart of Hartwick would have nothing to brag about, but he – like the 60 or so runners in the annual Ugly Sweater 4K run and walk in Cooperstown – were proud of their plumage.
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