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he county IDA Thursday, Dec. 4, approved Middleburgh Telephone Co. as its partner in a $30 million project to spread high-speed Internet throughout Otsego County. The private company is one of four prospective partners in the undertaking, the others being county government, the IDA, and Otsego Electric Coop in Hartwick. More details at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM WE’RE ON MARS: The Mars rover Curiosity has named outcropping on the mysterious planet “Cooperstown.” image at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM STILL UGLY: Icy weather caused the delay of the Rockin’ Around Coopertown Ugly Sweater Run. But it’s been rescheduled for 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, from Santa’s Cottage in Pioneer Park. Registration at 10. WINNING CREATION: Jennifer Zachow, Burlington Flats, won second in the adult category at the Destination Oneonta Gingerbread Contest for “The Frozen Ice Castle.”
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English Carpet Expert Finds Gold At Hyde Hall David Luckham examines Hyde Hall’s diningroom drapes, assisted by Jon Maney, center, and David Hunt.
Clues Found To Recreate Mansion’s Original Floor Coverings said, examining a length of carpet that Executive Director Jon Maney and his Hyde Hall team had recovHYDE BAY ered from the drawing room. “An Axminster loom is capable of weavithin fifteen minutes of arriving multiple colors, but this one only ing at Hyde Hall, David Luckhas five.” ham may have solved one of “Is there a possibility that this is a Axminster the house’s oldest mysteries. reproduction of the carpet used in carpet “This is a classic Wilton pattern,” he remnant. Please See CARPET, A3 Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal BY LIBBY CUDMORE
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Clues Discovered To Hyde Hall’s Original Carpeting pets, Maney received CARPET/From A1 a $50,000 grant from the drawing room?” the Gipsom Family in asked Maney. Unadilla, and is seeking “I see no reason why continued support from not!” replied Luckham. the friends of Hyde Hall Luckham, a textile in the community. “We researcher and founder believe that by giving of the Living Looms people the chance to add project, came over from to the Gipson family London, England, to funds, the entire project examine the carpets and will have a more broad drapes Maney recovered foundation of support,” from the house. said Maney. “We have “One doesn’t get to worked hard over the see places like this too past few years to estaboften,” said Luckham as lish Hyde Hall’s value to he fingered a piece of the people in our area, and drawing room’s goldwe are seeing increased fringed drapes. “Stulevels of support because dents nowadays do it on of it.” the box, but the point is A photograph of Hyde Hall’s front room shows elaborate Currently, Rabbit to see how it felt. If you furniture and luxurious carpeting, which Maney hopes to Goody of Thistle Hill don’t go, you don’t get a recreate. Weavers, Cherry Valley, sense of the grandeur of covering, possibly where the green is creating a damask Venetian runner the home.” silk swatch came from, and the gold for the hall and main staircase. “That In the dining room, a fragment of drapes in the collection are believed kind of damask hasn’t been woven in a Brussels carpet remains, as do the to have come from the drawing room years,” said David Hunt of the Verworsted wool damask drapes with windows. It is believed that Clarke mont Custom Rug Company, who will the “Interwoven Globe” pattern, as brought the drapes and carpets from be installing the new carpets with his well as two gold trimmed tuffetts – or his Albany townhouse to the estate wife, Charlene. “pouffes,” as Luckham described them when he began to live at Hyde Hall The new carpets, like the originals, and two matching bolster pillows from full-time. will be made in England. “We want to the sofa. “We’re hoping to absolutely George Clarke, who built the mancopy and reproduce the carpet for the sion on Hyde Bay in the 18-teens, kept go with English makers using English designs to ensure authenticity,” said dining room,” said Maney. meticulous records, including receipts Maney. But the color and pattern of the for the dining room décor, but none He hopes to have the drawing room carpet in the drawing room remained a of the records contain any informacarpet installed by May 2015, when mystery. “We think it was either buff, tion about what may have been in the the mansion opens for the season. “At gold and blue or green,” Maney said. drawing room. “We found a green scrap of green In the Axminster reproduction of the Hyde Hall, we want to create the most authentic experience possible,” said silk in a sofa we were having reuporiginal carpet, perhaps Clarke sought Maney. “It’s about creating an underholstered, but we didn’t know what it to honor his father’s conservative went to.” tastes. “George carefully designed ev- standing with real depth. This isn’t Disneyland. This is an experience Tack holes found on the drawing ery aspect of this house,” said Maney. people can’t get anywhere else.” room chairs also suggested an earlier To research and recreate the car-
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he future of hospitals is murky, certainly to the general public (and general newspapers), perhaps even to the experts at One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, who are paid to think about it and react to their best estimations. It doesn’t take a fevered imagination, however, to conclude that Bassett Hospital and its presence in Otsego County – Oneonta’s Fox included – won’t be the same 10 years from now as it is today. Earlier this year, an email from Dr. Vance Brown, Bassett’s new president/ CEO, suggested it might make sense to shift pediatrics and some other specialties from Cooperstown to Oneonta. Then, earlier this month, the hospital announced it is moving 40 tech-support jobs into a downtown Utica office building, and plans to shift 125 in all over the next five years. That’s the equivalent of a 125-job plant closing. Bassett has been saying its strategic plan is seven years old, largely not implemented because of the
impact it would have had on its Cooperstown neighborhood. And a new one is not yet ready. The lack of such a plan, it seems, isn’t preventing action. • At the end of September, Bassett’s Cooperstown neighbors filled the Village Board meeting with bodies and strong objections to a proposed “hospital zone,” fearful such a designation would simplify approval of any hospital projects. In particular, fears were voiced that a “dormitory” is planned for the 20 students here part of the year through the Bassett-Columbia Presbyterian medical school, which aims to train physicians interested in practicing in rural settings. A few weeks later, Jane Forbes Clark, who chairs the Bassett trustees’ facilities committee, Dr. Brown, and Jonathan Flyte, vice president/facilities planning, convened a meeting in the hospital’s Clark Auditorium to hear neighbors’ concerns, and such sensible, doable ideas as replacing gasoline-run shuttle buses with
low collaboration with local colleges – SUNY/IT, Utica College and USC, presumably – to ensure Bassett can hire the needed tech-support personnel. We have a SUNY campus, Hartwick College and a USC branch. Why didn’t those conversations happen here? And parking! Frequently, patients can’t find it around the Cooperstown hospital. And 200 spaces for employee parking were recently moved from behind the The Freeman’s Journal Clark Sports Center, where The Bassett cupola has been part of the an expansion is planned, to Cooperstown landscape for almost a century. Gary Enck’s former Corquieter, cleaner electric ones ever housing situation is vette dealership in Hartwick were discussed. The neigh- optimum for med students, bors were praiseful. who may practice here after Seminary; for nurses and technicians commuting from Such positive outreach graduation, is what they Schoharie or Ilion, that adds should be welcomed by should get.) 20 minutes at each day’s all. But the concerns of • beginning and end. If parkneighbors – a couple of The Village of ing can’t work for patients dozen households, comCooperstown spent 18 or staff, something’s got to pared to 24,000 countywide months studying what be– shouldn’t stifle the larger came the controversial “hos- give. Please, build a deck. The late Oneonta Mayor question: pital zone” proposal, but Dick Miller, who, among Are Cooperstown and officials involved say they other things, had served Otsego County doing have little idea of Bassett’s on a hospital board in the enough to create optimum vision for the future. That’s Rochester area, believed the circumstances wherein a getting the horse-drawn amsuccessful healthcare system Bassett system, headquarbulance before the horse. of the future will need to tered locally, can continue to In explaining the Utica serve a population of 1.2 thrive? initiative, it was noted that million. Bassett’s eight (While we’re at it, whatthe new location would alcounties comprise about half
that. And there’s the more populous Mohawk Valley, waiting, waiting. • This is clear: Bassett, the county’s largest employer, its convenient and well-regarded healthcare services are among the county’s signature assets, is exploring options beyond Cooperstown and Otsego County. Perhaps it should. Perhaps it must. But we should expect our community leaders, in Cooperstown, Oneonta and Otsego County, to be fully up to speed on the pressures Bassett is facing, and doing what they can – whatever they can – to ensure the healthcare system’s presence here is as robust as possible for as long as possible. Mayor Katz, Mayor Southard, county board Chair Kathy Clark – find out how we can achieve that. Dr. Brown, bring the community into this critical conversation. At this point, let’s not ask what Bassett can do for us, but what we can do for Bassett.
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is the focus on building a network to provide service to end users, both residents and businesses. This distinction is critical to the financial viability of the network and maximizes use of the strengths that each of the local potential partners brings to the partnership. From a technical perspective, the study recommends building a $30 million hybrid network consisting of a fixed wireless network, serving nearly 10,800 locations, connected to a 330mile fiber optic backbone network. The fiber optic backbone network will also be constructed to serve approximately 9,000 “Fiber to the Premise” (FTTx) locations. The fiber network will pass through 13 village centers, which will enable the project to offer Main Street businesses and community centers access to highspeed fiber connections. The total number of unserved and underserved locations capable of receiving high-speed data and voice service at a minimum speed of 10 MB down and 1 MB up (10/1 service) is approximately 84 percent of the total unserved/underserved locations in Otsego County, and approximately 90 percent of the entirety of Otsego County. To upgrade locations without 10/1 service, a combination of larger Please See BROADBAND, A6
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Republicans and Democrats, have all stood with us and supported our needs. As mayor of Cooperstown, I applaud those representatives who voted for redistribution of a portion of the bed tax. The village does not, and cannot, run simply as a small village of less than 2,000 residents. As host to hundreds of thousands of visitors who flock to Cooperstown to see the Baseball Hall of Fame, Fenimore Art Museum, Farmers’ Museum and the Glimmerglass Festival (as well as Cooperstown Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary and Cooperstown All-Star Village in Oneonta), the village has to provide a level of infrastructure and services that go far beyond our own residents’ needs. While the county happily collects sales and bed tax money that we provide, it returns nothing to us in roads, public safety and other services that we handle on our own through a full-time Please See KATZ, A6
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To the Editor: In the county budget vote of Wednesday, Dec. 3, a bipartisan group of Ed Lentz, Beth Rosenthal, Gary Koutnik, Linda Rowinski, Kay Stuligross, Craig Gelbsman and Janet Quackenbush voted to return $150,000 in bed tax revenues to the municipalities that generate it. They recognized, unlike our own Town of Otsego/ Village of Cooperstown representative Rick Hulse, that the town and city of Oneonta, Town of Hartwick and Village of Cooperstown bear a disproportionate burden of tourism costs. At the same time, those townships and municipalities account for 78.2 percent of the $1.4 million of the bed-tax revenue paid to Otsego County. Representative Hulse is the first county representative since I’ve worked to procure bed-tax money for Cooperstown who has publicly rejected us. Nancy Iversen, James Johnson, John Kosmer, Sam Dubben and Beth Rosenthal,
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Now everyone is waiting to see whether Governor Cuomo will allow hydrofracking in New York State.
Cuomo is brilliant at both political strategy and fundraising (about $45 million for the last campaign) but he is caught up in a huge pincer movement between those who hate the idea of potentially polluting our water and further despoiling our air and those who want to make a buck from fracking. My hero, legendary folk singer Pete Seeger, put it to Cuomo this way: “Your father was perhaps the best governor New York State ever had. And if you take the money that they want to give you for going along
with fracking and injuring people for generations to come, you will go down as perhaps the worst.” Those were pretty powerful words and I suspect they left Cuomo reeling. Fracking puts Cuomo between a rock and a hard place. He doesn’t know what to do. As a result of this predicament, the governor’s top people were almost certainly told to stall. So first, the commissioner in charge of environmental conservation studied the problem to death, then Please See FRACKING, A6
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200 YEARS AGO
A new Post-Office has been established at Oaks’ Creek, four and one-half miles west of this village on the Great Western Turnpike – John F. Fairchild, Post-Master. December 8, 1814
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Runaway Apprentices – It is very rare, indeed, to find a lad who has been apprenticed to learn a trade, but who breaks his obligation, and absconds from his master, becoming a useful member of society – while, on the contrary, those who have been faithful apprentices, most generally become honorable and independent men. Above all things you should cherish truth, which is the parent of sound principles. When truth is violated by youth or age, it is in vain to look for honesty in the individual. The agreement an apprentice makes is both morally and legally binding. Nothing should induce him to break his part of the agreement, and the laws are sufficiently strong to afford him just protection. If a youth will cancel this, the first contract which he makes as a member of society, how is it to be expected that he will ever keep one? Much of the misery of this world – the idleness, the dissipation, the vagrancy of young men, may be traced to this one cause. They lose their own self-esteem – their natural pride – and too often become reprobates. December 9, 1839
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Smith Adsit of this village, one of the oldest of the old-time journeymen shoemakers, died on Tuesday, aged 75 years. He had for a long time been out of health. Many will remember Mr. Adsit as former sexton of the Presbyterian Church. December 13, 1889
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We must get together. The civilization of American communities has developed to such a degree that each person becomes a cogwheel. No person who calls Cooperstown his home can
Historical Association and printed in Cooperstown by The Freeman’s Journal Company. Time Capsule II will be buried next to the original Westinghouse Time Capsule which was buried in 1938. The article, which appeared in the April 1964 issue of “New York History” is titled “A White House Luncheon, June 17, 1963,” and consists of a talk by President John F. Kennedy, and a response by Dr. Julian P. Boyd, editor of “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.” Both capsules are scheduled to be opened in the year 6939 A.D. December 9, 1964
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December 9, 1864 truthfully say that he lives independently of its civilization. Granting the truth of this statement, then each citizen is obliged to do his or her something for Cooperstown. That something may be embodied in personal work along lines which will lead toward cleaner or better citizenship or in making the village a more beautiful place to live. The fact that you and I are more or less dependent on this community for the dollars with which we buy not only our daily bread, but the luxuries of life, we should purchase those things within the community – in other words trade at home. Floyd S. Barlow. December 9, 1914
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An article recently published in the journal “New York History” is among the material to be buried in Westinghouse Time Capsule II at the New York World’s Fair next October. The journal is published by the New York State
The Otsego County Board of Representatives passed the much-debated Occupancy Tax, familiarly known as the “Bed Tax” in an 11-3 vote following a 90-minute public hearing. “We’re at the beginning of a win/win situation,” Doris Holdorf, executive director of the Otsego County Tourism Bureau, said Friday. To alleviate the tourist crunch in Cooperstown, funds will be used for refuse cans, picnic tables, and park benches as an effort to provide better services for tourists. December 13, 1989
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The Otesaga Hotel will be transformed into a swinging nightclub next month, when the hotel and Jane Forbes Clark present “Murder in Swingland: A Murder Mystery Musical” to benefit the Cooperstown Fire Department. “I think it’s going to be a blast,” said John Irvin, general manager of the Otesaga, “and the best thing about the whole thing is we’re making zero profit on it. Everything above the cost of putting it on is going to be donated to the Ambulance Replacement Fund for the Fire Department.” “Sometimes when you’re trying to raise money for organizations it’s nicer to have a personal touch,” Clark commented. December 10, 2004
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County’s Avarice Takes All, Not Just What I Owe To the Editor: I read your editorial (of Nov. 27-28) and it brought tears to my eyes. You have a clear understanding of my agony to redeem my home. LETTERS For 51 days before the auction I tried without success to keep the house OUT of the auction and pay what I owed. My pleas did fall on deaf ears and cold hearts. Mr. Crowell had full discretion to remove any property from the auction but, alas, he chose not to. He didn’t want to “disappoint” any potential buyer by removing any properties out
of the catalogue. That’s the best he could do? To make matters worse, a co-worker (who once worked in the treasurer’s office and still has close ties) bid on my home and is now waiting, as I am, for the outcome. Imagine working 50 feet away from someone who can’t wait to evict you. I pray to keep my home, while they want to add it to their “farming operation.” The avarice of the county to take everything I have rather than what I owe them is something that most of the citizens may not be aware of. So
many people think I would get the balance after taxes were satisfied. You stated it correctly....the county keeps it all. Everything. Thank you, sir, for your insight and kindness. Perhaps the board will be merciful and I will have peace again. I was at the Dec. 3 board meeting asking again to pay what I owe them. Perhaps a Christmas Miracle! We have to change this redemption policy and allow individuals to keep their homes. MARIA AJELLO Town of Richfield
County Should Seek Bed-Tax Hike, But In The Meantime... KATZ/From A4 police force, streets department, water and sewer plants and so on. Cooperstown would welcome financial support of any kind and, had Representative Hulse voted yes, we would have gotten funds.
His vote was the deciding one. In the last few years, much talk has revolved around economic development for Otsego County and bolstering the infrastructure of those activities that draw people to the county. Tour-
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ism was clearly identified as one of our strengths and potential growth areas. Ideally, the county would pursue an increase in the bed tax, in line with counties like Monroe, Albany and Onondaga, and redistribute that additional money directly back to the municipalities that generate it for their infrastructure needs. Until that is accomplished, short-term help through a return of some bed tax to the municipalities that create it is the right thing to do. I hope Rick Hulse succeeds in his publicly stated
goal to create a processdriven, sustainable, longterm bed-tax-distribution plan. However, he could have easily voted for a short-term return of bed tax money to his district, while still pursuing a longterm plan. The two are not mutually exclusive. He said he supported bed tax for Cooperstown, but voted against it. One doesn’t deserve credit for saying yes when voting no. JEFF KATZ Mayor Village of Cooperstown
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FRACKING/From A1 transferred the ball to the health commissioner who eventually resigned and went elsewhere. It’s tough to be a medical professional of first rank and have to carry a governor’s political water. Many people speculated that once Cuomo got through the election he would call for a modified fracking plan for New York, whereby localities that voted to allow fracking would be allowed to “Drill baby drill” under strict supervision. They suspected that the Solomon-like Cuomo would attempt to cut the baby in half. Once the
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cork was removed, however, the genie would be out of the bottle and fracking would become a reality in the Empire State. But not so fast – there are some intervening political realities. Cuomo has lost many voters on the left wing of the Democratic Party. Having styled himself as a social progressive and a pro-business fiscal conservative, the governor is getting beaten up by the more progressive members of his party. Fracking is no exception. A recent Pew poll showed that fracking is getting more and more unpopular among Democrats. So now the rock and the hard place are even closer together. After all, Cuomo got a million fewer votes in the last election than he got the time before. Many of those lost votes were those of angry Democrats who just stayed home. Since Cuomo is much smarter than I am, he’s got to understand that by accepting the money and not taking Pete Seeger’s advice against advancing fracking, he will lose even more of his natural voters.
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Affordable well maintained 3 BR, 2 bath Fly Creek home is ready for new owners, or could be a Dreams Park rental. Comfortable 1-floor living and handicap access. 2-car detached garage w/plenty of storage! Minutes from Cooperstown and Bassett Hospital.
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Located 2 miles from the village. Master suite in its own wing of the house. Open kitchen/living/dining area. Large family room/den in basement. Large studio off of detached 3-car garage with electric and heat. There is no wasted space in this home!
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Directed by Donna I. Decker, Ballet by Irine Fokine Friday, December 19, 7 pm Saturday, December 20, 1 and 7 pm Goodrich Theater, State University College at Oneonta
$20 general, $15 students/seniors Tickets available: Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta The Eighth Note Music Store, Oneonta Augur’s Corner Bookstore, Cooperstown Rachel’s Framing and Fine Art, Delhi Tickets also available through Decker School of Ballet /FBC 607-432-6290 or deckerschool of ballet.org FBC accepts MasterCard and Visa Cameo appearances by members of the Susquehanna SCPA
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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11-12, 2014
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Sunday, Dec. 14th from 3 to 5 pm Featuring performers Gerry Falco, Steve Fabrizio
Christmas Is a Time for Giving! The Salvation Army is desperately in need of toys for boys and girls, ages 5 to 12. Some SuggeStionS Arts and crafts · games nail polish · make-up · Jewelry Sleds · Basketballs · Footballs LEGOs · Frozen toys Monster High dolls · Barbies Baby dolls · Doc McStuffins Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
and Friends singing all your favorites! Jack Stahl at the piano! Big Chuck from WDOS radio! Collecting non-perishables for the St. James Food Pantry! Refreshments will be served! We will have an open apartment if you would like to take a look!
This will be a great holiday event! 9 St. James’ Place, Oneonta
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Please drop off new unwrapped toys to the Salvation Army, 25 River Street, oneonta, by monday, December 15. or you can Adopt a Family (see the ad on page A5). We greatly appreciate your assistance!
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Pipeline Aims To Hire 1,300 As Job OK’d PIPELINE/From A1 Stockton, Constitution spokesman, in an interview this week. Work will begin simultaneously at five points along the route, with one base camp in the Oneonta area. The plan is to complete the $700 million project by the end of 2015, he said. FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) voted Tuesday, Dec. 2, to issue a “certificate of public convenience and necessity,” allowing the Constitution to go forward with plans to link fracked natural gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to Schoharie County, where it would connect with the Iroquois and Tennessee pipelines, serving New York City and Boston respectively. The certificate was “conditional,” but that is being interpreted in different ways. Stockton said the conditions are to ensure environment precautions are met, which the company intends to do. Opponents of the pipeline see the conditions as precluding action by the Constitution until they are met. Acting on its interpretation, however, the company immediately mailed out letters to landowners along the route, advising them to accept, by Thursday, Dec. 11, its offers for the easements necessary to build and maintain the pipeline. “Constitution would like to reach an agreement with you and strongly prefers to avoid litigation,” the letter reads. “However, if you do not accept this final offer and execute the documents enclosed … we will proceed to initiate suit under the Natural Gas Act.” Opponents, through the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, have sent a letter asking state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate what they see as an attempt to intimidate landowners who are holding out. Meanwhile, Stockton said, the company – “on our dime” – has agreed to install “taps” at four point to allow access to the natural gas. One is at Sidney, to serve the new Amphenol plant. But Unadilla, Otego and Delhi also have agreements with the Leatherstocking Gas Co., a Corning affiliate, to receive gas for community use.
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POT/From A1 busts, including nearly 13 pounds seized Friday, Nov. 28 in a mobile home on Pegg Road in Morris. In that case, Michael Deluca and Sallie Lewis Jacoby were arrested and charged with criminal possession of marijuana. “That’s the largest bust this year,” said Devlin. “It was way more than for personal use. There’s a big difference between getting caught with a joint and having 13 pounds.” Four days earlier, Richard Patalona, owner of Let it Grow nursery in Cherry Valley, was arrested for possessing four and a quarter pounds of marijuana and $11,000. “We’ll seize cash if we believe it’s directly attributed to a drug operation,” Devlin said. And on Tuesday, Dec. 2, James Chicorelli, Morris, was arrested for possessing nearly seven pounds of freshly cut and dried marijuana, deputies reported. The marijuana has to be dried and weighed before a decision can be made on the level of charge to be filed. Afterwards, the marijuana disposed of by incineration. In all, the three busts totaled 25 pounds and $112,000 in street value. In Otsego County, an eighth of an ounce will sell for $35, an ounce for $280, according to Senior Investigator Mike Ten Eyck, the department spokesman.
A-8 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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MLS#95631 $229,900 Money Maker! 3-unit in South Kortright. Owneroccupied, weekend landlord or investment property. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour://www.realestateshows.com/732300
MLS#97034 $145,000 Country Roads! 2-BR home w/3 additional rooms in basement that could be BRs, and full bath on lower level. LR w/fireplace, Florida room w/hot tub. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)
MLS#95763 $220,000 4-BR, 2½ bath home on 2.2 park-like acres. Newer kitchen and baths. REA electric. Also 2-BR, 2-bath mobile w/attached garage! 8 more acres available. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS#97599 $139,000 Too many upgrades! 3 BR, 2 bath farmhouse sits on Spacious 4 BR,of2fenced bath house closeroof, to I-88. Large nearly 1 acre land.isNew floors, paint. backyard, small(cell) shed. Make your Call Adamworkshop/garage, Karns @ 607-244-9633 appointment today. Priced to go this week! Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/745530 Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598
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MLS#96160 $275,000 Across the Street from Dreams Park! Mint 1.4 acres. As rental, solid 8% R/R for the 13 weeks. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.rodshousetour.com
MLS#96011 $395,000 10 Minutes to Cooperstown! New in 2007, 3+ acres, 4 BRs, 3½ baths, finished basement, AC. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.leatherstockinghomes2.com
MLS#93358 $85,000 Davenport – What a great deal! Call or text Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)
MLS#97606 $119,000 Quaint 3 BR, 1½ bath home in Oneonta’s east end features fenced yard, deck, nicely finished inside. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/745532
MLS#95592 $35,000 The house is neat as a pin, in move-in condition. It has 2 full baths up and downstairs, new windows, updated electric, furnace and storage outbuilding. Call Anthony Aragoni @ 607-434-2111 (cell)
MLS#94744 $19,000 A picturesque land that slopes a bit with trees that offer privacy. It was surveyed and is ready for your new home. Call Anthony Aragoni @ 607-434-2111 (cell) MLS#93370 $144,900 NewLisbon 80 acres of open fields w/duck pond. Build your dream home or use it for hunting. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
MLS#94278 $499,000 Cooperstown/Pierstown – Newer custom-built home on 22 acres. 4 BRs, 3 baths, one owner. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
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MLS#97018 $249,900 2.3+ acre lawn, lake access right next door. 2-3 BRs, 2 baths, LR w/wood-burning fireplace, family room w/ pellet stove, garage/workshop. Move in immediately. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)
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MLS#96682 $289,900 Fly Creek Victorian 3 BRs, 2½ baths. Extensive restoration includes wiring, plumbing, insulation and cherry cabinetry. Hardwood floors, tin ceilings. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#91997 $59,000 Make this property your own! 4-BR, 1-bath home has gorgeous wide-plank hardwood floors! New on -demand water heater and high-efficiency furnace. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell)
MLS#96032 $250,000 2004-built ranch w/3,264+/- sq ft, 4 BRs, 2½ baths, full finished lower level, 2-car garage, 2.46 +/- acres, pond, Cooperstown Schools. $100k below assessment! Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#97004 $169,000 Charming Hobby Farm! Renovated 3 BR, 2 bath home on 6.72 acres w/fenced pastures, barn, 2-car garage w/workshop, small cabin w/FP, 2 ponds. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#95413 $79,900 Best Buy on Canadarago Lake! Family affordable! Cozy 3-season cottage w/2 BRs, 1 bath. Great getaway Cooperstown Village fun. home. Seller pays closing costs (up for all your summer to w/acceptable Call$3,000 Pamela V. Andela @offer). 315-717-1907 (cell)
MLS#96514 $369,000 Cooperstown Village Home 4 BRs, 3 baths, 3 floors, new appliances, garage. Warm and move-in ready. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
MLS#95206 $169,000 Come take a look at this 4 BR, 2 bath home with great yard and fruit trees. Call or text Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)
MLS#97070 $107,900 $25k in Renovations! New hardwood flooring, windows, wiring, insulation, barn, frost-free hydrant, water, electric. 10.69 acres. Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)
MLS#96404 $104,900 Unadilla – New furnace only 3 years old , the roof is 2 years old, new dry well last year. 3 BRs, 2 baths, finished basement, garage. Call or text Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)
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Can’t beat the location! Great building lot in Delaware County, but in the Oneonta School district. Minutes to downtown, Southside Mall, shopping and restaurants. There are 2 ponds that can be enjoyed by the property owners in the development along with a pavilion. This piece of heaven has mountain views with a park-like setting! Nice, affordable building lot! $13,000 MLS#94064
location. Close to I-88 and only minutes to town. Spacious LR with fireplace and 3 BRs total with 2 of the BRs being suites with full baths. Full basement offers loads of room for expansion. Home has a new roof, 1-car garage and sits on a large lot. Call to schedule your viewing!
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$148,500 MLS#96921
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