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Volume 204, No. 49

COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

CGP Grad Harris Named Rock, Roll HoF President Baseball Hall Veteran Moved To Cleveland, Kept Fly Creek Home thropy, was promoted to the top job effective Jan. 1, it was announced on COOPERSTOWN Monday, Dec. 3.

“Being hired for this ooperstown’s – Cooperstown had a lot museum commu- to do with it,” said Harris nity is brimming in an interview. “The with excitement things I learned at after learning the graduate proone of its own, gram and the Hall Greg Hall, has of Fame, they’ve been elevated made me who I to president am today.” & CEO of the The Rock Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall’s announceHall of Fame ment called him in Cleveland, “a driving force Ohio. behind growing Gregory Greg Harris the Museum’s S. Harris, 47, philanthropic suprecruited away from the port and a key figure in National Baseball Hall of fundraising, planning and Fame in 2008 to become execution of the successthe Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall’s ful 2012 Hall of Fame vice president of philanPlease See HALL, A8

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Kids can ride the former Bresee’s Rudolph – shown off here by Cherry Branch Gallery director Kristen Henderson – this season in Cherry Valley. Santa’s reindeer was bought

by Cherry Valley’s Greg Noonan at an auction of the department store furnishings.

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Hall of Fame ballot that includes Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens has been mailed to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, who will chose next summer’s inductees.

Also in recent days, the BWAA awarded the J.G. Taylor Spink baseball-writing award to Paul Hagen of the Philadelphia Daily News. And the Pre-Integration Era Committee named umpire Hank O’Day, Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and 19th Century catcher Deacon White to the Hall.

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Emma Grover and Natalie Fountain sing a karaoke “Jingle Bells.”

Main St. Paid Parking On Cusp Of Approval Fees Would Raise $250,000 For Street Repair

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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aving received “zero” feedback, Mayor Jeff Katz said the Village Board, after a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 20, may very well approve downtown paid parking that very same evening.

“To be honest, I’ve heard zero,” he said of GET INVOLVED: The reaction to a proposal Town of Otsego is seeking to institute parking fees volunteers to serve on the on Main and Pioneer Zoning Board of Appeals and streets, and dedicate the the Planning Board. Call anticipated maximum 547-5631. $250,000 in annual revenues to street repair.

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“The response mostly has been from people who have been pro paid parking in the past.”

Given the Great Recession, and given Lamont Engineering’s study that estimates the village must spend $900,000 a year annually for the next 40 years to put streets in top repair, Katz is being told it’s “even more needed now,” said the mayor.

Trustee Cindy Falk, who chairs the Streets & Buildings Committee, echoed Katz: “The reaction I’ve gotten is generally about the details.

There haven’t been a lot of people who – perhaps Please See FEES, A8

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CCS Elementary phys-ed director Connie Herzig empties a sack of stuffed toys on the gym floor at the PTO’s Holiday Fair & Breakfast Saturday, Dec. 1, and was soon surrounded by stuffed-toy fans/MORE HOLIDAY PHOTOS, A3

Christmas creativity was evident at the activity table, with, above, from left, Fiona McGoldrick, Lydia Williams and Sara Fountain creating holiday images. At left, Gwen Baldo helps granddaughter Evelyn, 4.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

LOCALS Fly Creek Cider Mill Featured On ‘Small Town Big Deal’ TV Show FLY CREEK

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he Fly Creek Cider Mill is once again ready for a close-up.

At 9:30 a.m. Thursday,

Dec. 13, the historic mill and its famous cider will be featured on RFD-TV’s “Small Town Big Deal” with host Rodney Miller.

The segment was filmed

during peak cider season in late September, with the host participating in cider making. The crew filmed the entire process from start to finish and interviewed

GIFTS for one and all!

The merry shops of the Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers’ Museum are open ‘til Christmas Eve. Hours: Daily 10am-4pm (Fenimore shop closed Mondays)

owners Bill and Brenda Michaels, as well as visitors who happened to stop by the mill that day.

Exective producer Roger Mahr, who grew up in Canajoharie and still owns a farm there, recommended the cider mill for a segment.

Mahr and Miller created “Small Town Big Deal” to showcase real slices of rural Americana for viewers who may be unfamiliar with country living.

“We are really proud to be featured by this national broadcast,” says Bill Michaels. “Hopefully this episode will entice more people to visit us. We are now at peak gift-basket production and this exposure might push us over the top for the holiday season.

Timing couldn’t have been better!”

In 2005, the Fly Creek Cider Mill was featured on “MARTHA” with Martha Stewart, a segment still broadcast at the store.

“Small Town Big Deal”

Bill Michaels, left, owner of the Fly Creek Cider Mill, poses with Rodney Miller and the crew of “Small Town Big Deal.” The episode premiers Thursday, Dec. 13 on RFT-TV. airs locally on Time War231. For more information ner’s Channel 794, Direct on the series, visit www.

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Cameran Clint , 8, left, and Kailey Barnes, 6, both of Cherry Valley, share their Christmas wishes with Santa at the Cherry Valley Museum Saturday, Dec. 1, during Cherry Valley’s annual Holiday Open House.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

LOCALS AT SUNY ONEONTA,

NEW BEGINNINGS

New Cookbook Shows Off Bounty At Farmers’ Markets

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SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski wishes honorees well.

Faculty and staff singing SUNY Oneonta’s alma mater include Human Ecology Professor Theresa Russo of Cooperstown and others.

5 December Graduates From Cooperstown Area

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ive students from the Cooperstown area were among SUNY Oneonta’s December grads, honored in Dewar Arena Sunday, Dec. 2:

Cherry Valley – Jennifer L. Bowen, Sarah Jeanine Hovick, Celia RebeccaVanDerwerker Cooperstown – Kaitlin S. Cring, Landry Michele Rubino

supplied many of the images in the book, including several works of Hudson River School painters like Asher Brown Durand.

“It’s an agrarian history with a product,” Taylor said. “If we didn’t have our agricultural heritage, we

ust in time for Christmas feasts, CNY Fresh, a collaborative of farmers’ markets, presents its first cookbook, “From Field to Table: A Harvest of Otsego County Recipes.”

“It’s really a labor of love,” said county Tourism Director Deb Taylor, who edited the book. “It ties tourism and agriculture together.”

The book includes recipes from Origins Cafe, Stagecoach Coffee, Templeton Hall and the Fly Creek Cider Mill, all organized by season.

“It’s about using what’s most available,” Taylor said.

The Freeman’s Journal “We want people to The “From Field to Table” shop at their local cookbook is now available at Cooperstown and Oneonta farmer’s markets.” farmers’ markets.

In addition to abundant local goods wouldn’t have this beautiful – Painted Goat cheese, area.” rhubarb, butternut squash In trying out every recipe and, of course, apples – the in the book, Taylor admitted book also calls for a few she learned a few things too. ingredients many don’t “Most importantly, make know are so readily availJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal able. “They do sell rabbit two lists,” she said. “One SUNY Oneonta grad Landry Michele at the Coopestown Farmers’ for the farmers’ market, one Rubino of Cooperstown poses for Market, so we have Stone & for the grocery store.” photos with cousins Hailey and JenThe book will be sold Thistle Farms Hasenpfeffer nifer Maison of Mount Vision after the – a rabbit casserole,” said at both Cooperstown and college’s December Candidate Recog- Taylor.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

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EDITORIAL

Revive 2-Party System For Cooperstown’s Greater Good

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aid parking in Cooperstown’s downtown, a burning issue when it was proposed in 2008, is due to be approved – without a whimper, it now seems – by the Village Board Monday, Dec. 20, after a 7 p.m. public hearing.

But don’t blame Mayor Jeff Katz and his all-Democrat Village Board. For a while now, village Democrats have been upfront in expressing support for paid parking, saying it will generate $250,000 a year to be dedicated to street repair.

Blame the Republicans, who took their ball and went home.

Last January, Mayor Joe Booan declined to run again, and the Republicans failed to field a slate.

Since, it’s been murmured that the local Republicans are expecting the all-Democrat board to fall on its face, then the GOP will step in and pick up the pieces.

• It could be a long wait. For now, the single-party Village Board can point to a number of successes, some of them quite futuristic.

When a neighboring landowner asked the village to shift Three Mile Point’s electrical service off his land, the Parks Board, chaired by veteran Trustee Lynne Mebust, proposed taking the park off the

760 people voted in the 2010 mayoral election, compared to 170 in uncontested 2012 one.

grid. Solar panels are being installed now, and that’s expected to be achieved by year’s end.

That’s thinking.

Katz has been laying the groundwork with our new congressman, Chris Gibson, for funds to pay for a much-needed upgrade at venerable Doubleday Field. And receipt of a $3,000 grant from the state’s Preservation League will allow planning to proceed on some exciting ideas for 22 Main.

And the all-one-party board has demonstrated content-rich debate is nonetheless possible. For instance, the noon whistle was silenced, but by a 4-3 vote after much discussion. Likewise, the trustees, again after vigorous discussion, decided not to publicly oppose the county board’s support of “Alternate M,” which would route the Constitution Pipeline along I-88, creating

shortterm jobs and longterm tax revenues.

• That said, the Village Board is not a Village Board for all, but a caucus – a club, if you will. Shortterm, that’s tolerable, and things can get done with dispatch; longterm, such exclusivity is not good for the community.

You occasionally hear people yearning for the days of the Unity Ticket. First, that was a long time ago: Mayoral candidates Gerald Clark and Bill Zoeller broke the 55-year “tradition” in 1978, 35 years ago – almost two generations.

Second, as few as 17 people were voting in village elections during those happy days. Say what you will, but 760 people cast ballots in the 2010 Booan-Katz mayoral contest. That’s community vigor. In 2012, with no contest, only 170 people bothered to vote.

Bad trend.

Particularly now that the village workforce is largely unionized – most of the discussion about contracts is exempt from the state’s Open Meetings Law – an independent voice is essential in those closed conversations.

• Lately, you’ve even heard local Republicans say there’s no place

in a village like Cooperstown for partisan politics. To a point, who doesn’t agree? There are no GOP potholes and Democratic lightposts. But there are stale perspectives and fresh ones, and one-party rule tends toward stale.

Some Republicans may feel the GOP resurgence that began with Eric Hage’s election to the Village Board in 2007 fizzled, but that’s not so. While some political missteps – proposing a merger of village police and the sheriff’s department, foremost – led to electoral failure, much good came of Hage’s insistence that village finances must make sense.

He questioned why budget balances were swinging wildly month to month – as much as $400,000 – with no explanation forthcoming. The push by Hage and young Turks who joined him eventually led to Ed Keator, former deputy county treasurer and a capable professional, becoming village treasurer.

What a difference. Today, trustees get a monthly assurance the numbers are in synch and, this spring, new accounting software – replacing a DOS-based program everyone insisted was state mandated – is due.

• Besides, there are worse things

than losing. Katz lost big, then came back two years later to win the mayoralty, a lifelong dream.

There’s no greater thrill than suffering setbacks, then overcoming them. It makes eventual success that much sweeter.

So if you’ve considered running for Village Board, three positions are up for election next March.

Approach the Republican leadership, (or, for that matter, the Democratic one). And if the current GOP leadership is disheartened, those leaders should recruit successors. It’s OK to get tired, but pass the torch.

Village Democrats are lucky to have a happy warrior at the helm: Richie Abbate, who rebounded from a Village Board loss and is now also county Democratic chair.

Maybe it’s time for local Republicans to revisit Bill Waller, himself a happy warrior during his years as GOP chair. Rebounding from a health challenge, he may be ready again to lead the charge.

The point is, democracy isn’t a dirty word, and the life blood of democracy is politics. If you don’t think so, you might plan a winter sojourn in Uzbeki-beki-beki-bekistan-stan or somesuch in order to reconnect with the American miracle of participatory government, a miracle we too little appreciate.

‘CITIZEN VOICES’ SPEAK

Let Facts Decide Debate Over Burning Gas, Coal Editor’s Note: Citizen Voices, the business group headed

by Oneonta businessmen Bob Harlem and Tom Armao, is preparing a series of articles to be published over the next several weeks addressing challenges to the local economy.

The third appears below. We welcome these articles, and welcome any ensuing debate. To participate, e-mail Letters to the Editor to jimk@allotsego.com

JOHN ERARDI OTHER VOICES

Baseball Is All About The Hall

Editor’s Note: John Erardi of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is one of the Baseball Writers of America who vote on the Hall of Fame ballot, mailed out Wednesday, Nov. 28.

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get that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were Hall of Famers before they ever started juicing.

I also get that if steroids were he issues that face basis for making a decision around in the ’30s and ’40s that Ted us as a community that is likely to work.

Williams would have taken them. I are complicated. For Last week an article apexample, there is not total peared stating that methane heard, in person, his most recent biographer, the wonderful Leigh Montville, agreement about whether or is 25 to 100 times worse say in Cincinnati a few years ago that not the area needs ecothan carbon dioxide as a nomic growth to continue greenhouse gas. The gener- if steroids were around, the literally Splendid Splinter – desperate to put on to provide the services, i.e. ally accepted number is 22 weight and get stronger but reduced education, security, roads, to 25 times – not 100. The to drinking tons of vanilla milkshakes etc., that we have come to article went on to state that – would have partaken. expect. because of this, natural gas I’m on record as saying that if a pill Even if we could all agree is “dirtier” than coal when could make me write like Hemingway, that we need economic burned to generate electricI might take it. (Of course, talk about growth, recent articles in the ity. noticing a change.) local media strongly suggest Our high school chemBut it wasn’t/isn’t available, and we that we could not agree on istry clearly taught us that what kinds of growth would when natural gas or methane didn’t. Sometimes, one is cursed by be acceptable. burns it produces carbon di- ones times. I don’t doubt Bonds and Difference of opinion is oxide and water. That is not Clemens might have been motivated as American as motherhood true of coal as coal contains more by pride, jealousy and by keeping up with the Joneses than by greed. and apple pie. However, several nasty combustion accompanying that right to byproducts – the reason that But any players who injected or used holds one’s own opinion coal-fired plants are heavily the clear or the cream knew what they there is a commensurate regulated and often have to were doing – even it wasn’t (at the responsibility to be honest. install electrostatic precipi- time) a substance banned by Baseball.

As for Billy Ripken saying, “The If there is no integrity in the tators, scrubbers and Hall just doesn’t mean as much to the process then people have no Please See VOICES, A6 young players,” I get that he wasn’t denigrating the Hall. He was just trying to explain the young players’ mindsets, and I appreciate him doing that.

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Barry Larkin contemplates his then-imminent admission into the Hall of Plaques during a visit to 25 Main St. last May.

year-old can’t see Cooperstown over the piles of cash.

In other words: Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax may have all played for their legacy at a much younger age because their legacy contributed to their ability to earn money after the game. Guys today don’t have to worry about that.

More “in other words”: So why should these young players be deterred from giving themselves every opportunity to secure their financial futures, even if it means cheating?

To which I say, “Fine. Go for it.”

But you don’t get the girl, too. Not this girl, anyway.

If all this makes me a “grumpy old sportswriter,” as I heard the pejorative applied the other day on a national sports-talk show, then guilty as charged there, too.

The one thing that matters to me is what the fans think of the Hall of Fame. I believe I already know what they think about steroids in the game:

It doesn’t bother many of them. But I’m convinced most don’t want steroids in the Hall.

I wrote it last year when Barry Larkin was enshrined: Until you walk through the double doors at 25 Main St., you think it is the fans who are passing through.

After you are inside, you realize it is the players who are passing through.

They are like a formation of soldiers passing by a reviewing stand.

People always ask me: “What should I see when I visit the Hall of Fame?” I always say the same thing: Go to the Hall of Fame gallery on a Saturday in the summer when it is full of fans. And listen.

It is the quietest place I have ever heard. It is holy ground. Don’t listen to me. Listen to the fans.

As long as that silence persists, I will feel as I do.

I have your vote, fans.

And Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will never get it.

Sporting News Odds-Makers: Jack Morris Most Likely Inductee

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he Detroit Tigers’ Jack Morris, whose forkball, in particular, garnered him more wins in the 1980s than any other right-handed pitcher, is the MLB retiree on the National Baseball Hall of Fame 2013 ballot with the best chance of selection.

That’s according to the Sportings News’ “Linemakers,” who gave Morris a 1/5 chance of being selected by the Baseball Writers of America to stand on the podium at

Cooperstown next July.

Retired Major Leaguers with steroids-tainted records were given little chance of selection.

Mark McGwire’s odds, for instance, were 500-1, and lowest of anyone on the ballot, and Sammy Sosa, 200-1. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens’ odds are 40/1.

The ballot was mailed out Wednesday, Nov. 28; The Baseball Writers’ vote will be anJack Morris nounced in early January.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

BOUND VOLUMES

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

200 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from an address to soldiers by Brigadier Alexander Smyth, Commanding at Buffalo: “The time is at hand when you will cross the stream of the Niagara, to conquer Canada, and to secure the peace of the American frontier.

You will enter a country that is to be one of the United States. You will arrive among a people who are to become your fellow citizens. It is not against them that we come to make war – it is against the government which holds them as vassals. You will make this war as little as possible distressful to the Canadian people. If they are peaceable, they are to be secure in their persons; and in their property, as far as our imperious necessities will allow. Private plundering is absolutely forbidden. Any soldier who quits his rank, to plunder on the field of battle, will be punished in the most exemplary manner. But your just rights as soldiers will be maintained. Whatever is booty by the usages of war, you shall have. All horses belonging to artillery and cavalry; all wagons and teams in public service will be sold for the benefit of the captors – 200 dollars for each horse drawing light artillery and $40 for the arms and spoils of each savage warrior killed. Public stores will be secured for the service of the United States. The government will, with justice, pay you the value.”

December 5, 1812

175 YEARS AGO

Editor’s Note: John Holmes Prentiss, editor and owner of The Freeman’s Journal, was elected to service in the U.S. House of Representatives in November, 1837. Thus, William Lusk Crandal became Editor Pro Tem. Crandal’s first edition of The Freeman’s Journal includes this passage: “Democrats are not conservatives or loco focos. The federalists would in all kindness, give republicans new names; but they will decline the proffered service. The name of Democrat is good enough for them. It has worn well – has never been tarnished, and will be cherished by all who are not recreant to the true faith.”

December 4, 1837

150 YEARS AGO

The President (Abraham Lincoln) informs us that our relations with Europe are no worse than might be expected; still, they are not as satisfactory as is desirable. He does not allude to the French mediation scheme. The free Negroes are not willing to go to the countries willing to receive them; while other countries, rather to the President’s surprise, refuse to welcome them. So he does not exactly know what to do about it. A postponement of the subject until after the war would meet the approval of the people. The President urges at great length and with much earnestness,

25 YEARS AGO

innocents were taken in out of the storm to the tune of 31 to 22 in favor of the visitors. The game was very rough, and fouls of all kinds received but scant notice; and, as a result, there were many bruises and lacerations, and one severe injury. Carson of Oneonta had the misfortune to fracture his arm near the elbow. At Thanksgiving Hospital, Dr. Dewar reduced the fracture and made him as comfortable as possible. The referees of the game were Mssrs. Rouse and Fitzel. A goodly attendance witnessed the contest, which was followed by dancing.

December 4, 1912

75 YEARS AGO

A crowd estimated at over a thousand people gathered at the Liberty Pole on Main Street Monday night to witness the opening event of Cooperstown’s greater holiday season. The complete success of the opening night was made possible through the enterprise of local businessmen. In keeping with the religious and historic significance of the occasion, sixty children from the Fly Creek School presented the pageant of the Nativity depicting the Babe of Bethlehem in a manger, while carols were sung. Little Miss Phyllis Swartout, age eleven, recited the Bible story of 22 verses from memory. Miss Norma Steere, costumed as Santa Claus and driving a trained Billy goat hitched to a red December 4, 1987 sleigh, led the procession to the huge delight of scores of little boys and girls. the general emancipation of the slaves in States where coDecember 8, 1937 operation can be secured, and the colonization of such free colored persons as may desire to leave the country.

December 5, 1862 The honor roll of the Cooperstown Central School for the past marking period has been issued. Among students named in grades 7 through 12 are: William Adsit, Gail The George Clarke Estate – At the sale which took place Ainslie, Mark Armstrong, Howard Aufmuth, James Ausby the Sheriff at this place on Friday last, the Hyde Hall tin, David Baldinger, Constance Bliss, Sandra Bliss, Mary property, embracing about 600 acres of land was bid off Brayden, Jacqueline Bridger, Wayne Bunn, Alton Dunn,

by James Bunyan and E.F. Beadle at $16,750. Mrs. Alfred Gerald Ellsworth, Ellen Feury, Lynn Green, Jr., Diane Corning Clark bought the large house and lot south-east corner of Main and River streets for $4,150, and the Cooper Hanson, Dianne Kull, Anne Mook, Judith Pernat, David Rath, Gretchen Sahler, Kent St. John, Thomas Troeger, and Grounds, on which stood “The Hall,” with a small lot on Robert Winne.

Church Street, for $7,350. The “Skeleton Hotel” property December 5, 1962 was struck off to George Van Horn at the low figure of $2,750. The “Reservoir Lot” on River Street, comprising about three acres of land, was bought by E.F. Beadle for “Reality Check,” an anti-tobacco youth program, has $825. During the lifetime of the late Edward Clark and J.H. launched a statewide program to combat tobacco use in Story, the village property of George Clarke, including the Hollywood films. The project, “Tobacco and Hollywood: old fairgrounds, could have been sold for about $100,000.

December 9, 1887 Headed for a Breakup,” is designed to educate teens about the portrayal of smoking and tobacco product placement in movies, and to challenge producers to eliminate smoking in movies.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

Let Facts Decide Gas Vs. Coal Debate

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It’s easy to see how the writer might have been confused as a New York-based foundation paid for a study that indeed said that gas was dirtier than coal. Remember that old saying “He who pays the fiddler gets to call the tune”? Even the Natural Resources Defense Council weighed in to oppose those

findings.

However, some damage to the integrity of the decision-making process was done. Some people who honestly were looking for the facts upon which to make a science-based decision were confused. Shame on those who perpetrated that fraud upon an unsuspecting citizenry!

We have also read that gas drilling and transportation result in the release of

large quantities of natural gas or methane. Natural gas is a commodity that energy companies sell to customers.

Any gas that is lost reduces that company’s revenue.

If you were in that business would you knowingly allow your product to be lost before it reaches your customers? Instead you would take steps to reduce those fugitive emissions and thus increase your profit.

However, each of us does contribute to the release of

methane to the atmosphere because we send our trash to landfills. During the process of decomposition our trash produces methane and until recently that gas was, and in some case still is, vented to the atmosphere.

Some companies, like Johnson & Johnson, have located a manufacturing facility adjacent to such a landfill to capture that source of cheap energy.

There is another consequence, or for that matter an unintended consequence, that can happen when misin-

formation is used to make public-policy decisions.

NYSEG once operated the Jennison Generating Plant in Bainbridge. The plant actually burned waste tires for part of its fuel. NYSEG charged $1 per tire thus reducing its fuel cost.

DEC tested the waste stream and it met every criterion they threw at it – at the high temperatures used to burn the tires as fuel they burned clean. Still, in spite of those findings, those who perceived the plant as being “dirty” persisted. Eventu-

ally the plant closed.

The next question that comes to mind is, “What happened to all the waste tires?” They started showing up in tire dumps across the state. DEC closed one such disposal facility adjacent to the Hudson River thought to have one million used tires.

Instead of shouting and spreading scientifically unsound information, let’s seek to use the best information in pursuit of the best decisions. We really can’t afford to do otherwise.

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“This is the eighth year this person has done this,” said Deb Wolfanger, CSO manager. “It’s allowed hundreds of kids to enjoy the symphony.”

The anonymous donation covers the cost of tickets for any number of students and up to two adults, per order, or any unaccompanied high school or college student, for any of the five concerts of the season.

The next concert, Beethoven’s “Triple Concerto,” is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.

In the 2011-12 season, 198 children and their chap-

erones were able to attend a CSO performance, a number this benefactor hopes to see increase.

“The response has been incredibly positive,” said Wolfanger. “Many of the families have written personal thank-you notes to the donor, which we pass on to the individual.”

In a statement, the donor said he (or she, the CSO manager doesn’t know which) wanted to bring his own children to the symphony, but couldn’t afford it.

“Now that I am able to,” the donor said, “I want to make it possible for families to attend concerts together and for children to be exposed to the richness and wonder of live orchestral music.”

“You simply cannot put a value on experiencing live classical music,” said Wolfanger. “It is priceless.”

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CGP Alum, Former Baseball Hall Exec Harris To Lead Rock, Roll HoF HALL/From A1 Fame Induction” of such groups as The Comets, the Beastie Boys and The Small Faces.

Locally, everyone is seconding that emotion.

“We knew he was going to be a leader,” said Gretchen Sorin, director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, where Harris was awarded a master’s in 1993. “People

think that museums are just full of really old stuff, but rock and roll is the story of the Baby Boomers – and we’re thrilled that Greg is going to tell those stories.”

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family home for Greg, wife Deirdre, daughter Alex, now 14, and son Jack, 12. “He rebuilt the whole thing,” said Kerstin Green, who worked with Deirdre at her in-home nursery school, the Rose Garden. “He’s always impressed people with how hard he worked.”

In 1994, he joined the Baseball Hall of Fame as the manager of the gift shop.

A Phillies fan – the Bucks County, Pa., native was a Temple grad – he was dismayed by the lack of Phillies merchandise, and took it upon himself to make special orders for other fans.

He advanced quickly, moving to curate the Hall of Fame Library’s broadcast collection. Working for HoF then-president Dale Petrosky, he was vice presi-

dent of development when he was recruited away by the Cleveland museum.

During his 14 years at the Baseball Hall, Harris maintained close ties with the CGP, said Sorin. “He mentored students and got them jobs at the museum,” she said. “That’s a really special thing to be able to mentor the next generation.”

But music had always been one of his biggest passions since he and a Temple classmate, J.C. Webster, started the Philadelphia Record Exchange, a record store Webster is still operating.

The Harrises still bring their children to Otsego County every summer. “It wouldn’t be summer without the kids swimming in The Lake,” said Greg.

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“He was always very enterprising,” remembered Cathy Raddatz, CGP alumni affairs coordinator.

“He was a versatile employee,” said Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson. “He came out of the (CGP) understanding the importance of preserving history. He really helped advance and elevate the institution.”

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aside annually, is moving things in the right direction, said Falk.

Under the plan, which the streets’ chair refined and outlined in a memo to her fellow trustees earlier this month, on-street parking – on Main from River to Pine, and Pioneer from Lake to Church – would be in effect 9 a.m.-6 p.m. seven days a week from the Saturday before Memorial Day through Labor Day Weekend.

Tickets, sold via Pay & Display machines like those already used in the Doubleday Field lot, would charge $2 per hour, paid – by credit card or cash – in 15-minute increments, for up to two hours.

After two hours, visitors who needed more time to complete touring the Baseball Hall of Fame or shopping downtown would be able to buy another two hours in the same spot. After four hours, the car would have to be moved.

To ease the burden on locals, the memo suggests creating more 15-minute spots for the convenience of people making short trips, and to exempt those and handicapped spaces from fees.

Separately, the village is seeking the state Legislature’s approval to issue parking permits that would allow residents to park in front of their homes, but the Falk memo suggests that such permits not be valid in

paid-parking areas.

In the interview – from a conference in Philadelphia, where Falk, a Cooperstown Graduate Program professor, was delivering a lecture – the trustee said a fully occupied space would generate $1,500; fully occupied, the 170 spaces would generate the quarter-million.

“If the village was solely interested in generating revenue,” she said, “we would allow someone to buy the full nine hours. The fact of the matter is we have to balance revenue with turnover.

We don’t want Main Street to be a parking lot.”

The national occupancy standard is 60 percent, which would generate about $160,000. But, she continued, the amount of summertime traffic here suggests Cooperstown could do somewhat better.

Said Falk of the upcoming hearing, “I assume there are people who want to comment. Now’s the time to do that. I assume some of the concerns will involve resident parking, and how it effects merchants, who have a big stake in this as well.”

While the idea is to raise revenue, she said, it should be done in “such a way that, one, we don’t have a detrimental effect on the vibrancy of our downtown.

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Years Later, Bresee’s Health Bar Lives On Celebrated In Collier’s, Oneonta Waitress Muriel Ross Worked There 35 Years, Turns 95 Known for her bright red lipstick and big rhinestone earrings, she quickly beefore the Yellow came one of the most wellDeli, before the Auknown faces in Oneonta aftumn Cafe, there was ter she appeared in the Nov. Bresee’s Health Bar. “On 12, 1948, issue of Collier’s Thursday nights you could magazine. A photograph hardly walk down Main of her in her blue uniform Street,” said Muriel Ross, dress accompanied the one of the last living Health article “We’re Tellin’ You, Bar waitresses, who turned Macy’s!” listing Bresee’s as 95 on Nov. 21. “On my one of the biggest competitors to the famous chain. “You could buy anything you wanted there,” she said. “And we were the first place in Oneonta to have an escalator.”

Dinner was $1.50 and a blackand-white sundae – vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream and marshmallows – was 15 cents. “We had This image, from a 1948 issue of Collier’s magazine, reported ‘The Bucket,’ eight scoops of ice cream on Muriel Ross’ prowess beand all kinds of tophind the counter a Bresee’s pings for a dollar.

Health Bar. Took four or five busiest days, I could serve people to eat it, but I had 300 people at my counter.” one guy come to my counter Recently widowed in and order it for himself. I 1948, Muriel got the job that don’t know how he did it, October after Fred Bresee, but he ate the whole thing!” just home from the Army She had her regulars, a and unhappy with the way coffee club of businesshis restaurant was being men who used to tease her. run, fired the entire staff. “I “They picked on me somewas working at Candyland, thing terrible, but I gave and I told my two sons, Bill it right back,” she said. “I and Bob, to meet me after had a couple from England school,” she said. “I took who I had waited on once them by the hand to meet come back and ask one of with Fred, and I told him, the Bresee’s if I still worked ‘I got two boys to bring up there.” alone, and I got two willing And she had plenty of hands’.” fans too. “Kids like me He told her that he couldn’t wait to go to the couldn’t hire her while she Health Bar and see what was still working elsewhere, kind of earrings she was so she left her sons with wearing,” said Kathleen him and put in her notice at Shearer, who helped Muriel Candyland. celebrate her 95th birthday She stayed at Bresee’s for with the “Golden Guernsey 35 years.

Gals.”

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She kept her customers entertained with her witty banter and sense of humor.

“I had all sorts of gadgets,” she said. “If someone asked for a half a cup of coffee, I had a half-cup I would put it in,” she said. “And I had a cup that wouldn’t come off the saucer.”

She was so well-liked, Bresee’s declared Sept. 30 “Muriel Ross Day” and took an ad out in the paper proclaiming it such. “They wanted to give me a big party, but I declined,” she said.

Muriel retired in 1978. “I stayed home for two weeks, cleaned the house, then I told my husband Anthony that I had to do something.”

She started volunteering at Fox Hospital and the nursing home where, 34 years later, she still helps with the bloodmobile, restocks the book cart and the waiting-room magazines, and, true to her famous waitress roots, helps in the kitchen with special dinners and events.

At 95, she still wears her bright red lipstick, colorful blouses and rhinestone earrings. She meets monthly with the Golden Guernsey Gals, and recently got back into country line dancing, which she had to stop two years ago because of a hip replacement. “The nurse told me that it was the end

of my dancing,” she said. “I told her, ‘it most certainly is not!’”

And she still sees some of her old customers. “I was walking in Virginia Beach and Nick Lambros’ daughter called out my name!” she said. “No matter where I Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA go, I see people I know.”

Muriel Ross, 95, reviews the 1948 Collier’s “I really worked hard,” article that celebrated her as Bresee’s Health Bar she said. “But I had a lot of waitress par excellence. fun doing it too.”

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