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Volume 204, No. 50

COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

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Jordanville Wind Project Revisited

Katherine Cooper Cary, 92; Among Direct Descendants Of Cooperstown’s Founder

New England Developer Proposing 160 Mini Turbines, Just 2 Silos Tall

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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he mini-windmills are coming! The miniwindmills are coming!

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Leo Club President Aidan Macaluso, right, and Vice President Liam Dolan drop off gifts at The Freeman’s Journal offices for the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree. The club adopted Family #1. Gifts accepted until Friday, Dec. 14.

Ommegang Aids Brewery Hit By Storm COOPERSTOWN

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rewery Ommegang, using Barrier Brewing Co.’s recipe, is making 400 barrels of India Pale Ale, with proceeds to help the Long Island company recover from Hurricane Sandy’s damage. Barrier Brewing, in Oceanside, 20 miles west of Manhattan, requires $100,000 in repairs to its plant, which had been open only four months when the storm hit. “It was natural to offer a helping hand and foster the communal spirit of the industry,” said Simon Thorpe, Ommegang president/CEO. ON LAM: At press time, six renegade cows, among 11 reported missing since Nov. 25 from Dan Byler’s Town of Richfield farm, were still on the loose.

Drivers have been reporting narrow misses on local roads, but only five of the bovines wandered home.

EARLIER MEETINGS: The CCS board will be meeting at 5:30 p.m. (instead of 7) on Wednesdays Dec. 19, Jan. 16 and Feb. 6.

Maybe, that is.

Bob Patton, a representative from FloDesign Wind Turbine of Waltham, Mass., was conferring with people between here and Jordanville in the past few days on a 100-150 turbine farm along

the ridge where Community Energy/Iberdrola’s plan for 68 turbines was blocked by a judge in 2008.

The difference is: Those turbines were 400-feet tall; these are 160-feet tall, and Please See WIND, A8

Katherine Lemoine Fenimore Cooper Cary, 92, a direct descendant of both William Cooper, the founder of Cooperstown (and The Freeman’s Journal), and his son James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist who made Otsego Lake famous, died at her home in New York City Tuesday, Dec. 4/FULL OBITUARY, B6

Chamber Seeks Inputs On Paid-Parking Issue

BY CANDLES’ GLOW

Szarpa: Members Seem To Favor It, Offer Suggestions

By JIM KEVLIN

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he Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce has been soliciting its members’ views on paid parking proposed for downtown Cooperstown, and “99 percent” of the comPat Szarpa ments received are favorable, according to Executive Director Pat Szarpa.

“Right now,” said Szarpa, “things are looking very favorable toward passing this.”

The Village Board has set a public Please See PARKING, A9

Bassett Medical Records Taken To A New Level

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West Winfield carolers at The Farmers’ Museum’s Candlelight Evening Saturday, Dec. 8, are, at left, grandmom Barbara Taylor, daughter Karen Livingston and her daughter Katie.

At right are mom Candy Gates and her two children, Cassandra and Kevin/MORE PHOTOS, A3

By JIM KEVLIN

Cooperstown’s Don Murphy snaps a photo of son Keenan, about to embark on the Empire State Carousel.

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OWs – workstations on wheels – are rolling through Bassett Hospital’s halls after a futuristic medical records’ system was activated in the wee hours of Saturday, Dec. 8.

For the first time, with a few strokes of the keyboard, doctors and nurses, at bedside or in the hall outside, can Pleases See WOW, A9

Carolers perform on the upstairs porch of the Bump Tavern.

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Hartwick, New Lisbon Win Grants For Historic Surveys

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he Preservation League of New York State has awarded a $3,300 grant to the Town of Hartwick to help complete its application to put the 175-building Hartwick hamlet on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

A Preserve New York project already found a strong concentration of early 19th to early 20th century homes, churches and commercial buildings on Routes 205 and 11.

The league also awarded a second grant

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of $3,000 for the Town of New Lisbon to complete a comprehensive reconnaissance survey of “cultural resources,” including farmsteads, Gilbert Lake State Park, and a range of building types in the hamlets New Lisbon and Garrattsville will be examined.

The survey will also look at resurgent local prodcuts, from beer to cheese and maple syrup.

Cooperstown consultant Jessie Ravage is doing both projects.

SSPCA RESIDENTS TAKE A STAR TURN Three dogs from the Susquehanna SPCA – Banjo, Dakota Maxwell and Pierre – will be performing in the Fokine Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, and 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich Theater.

Audience members may then apply to adopt them. Elizabeth Brantley, Jenny Burch and Aolani McCarthy get to know their castmate.

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During an Otsego Land Trust cleanup day, Tom Gott of Edmeston and Dan Heinman of Cherry Valley help load debris onto a barge to help clean Deowongo Island.

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work crew from the Otsego Land Trust, which bought Deowongo Island in Canadarago Lake in September, teamed up with Tom Gott’s Tom’s Mobile Home Repair, Edmeston, earlier this month to remove 40 yards of debris from the island, including a trailer.

Dan Heinrich of Green Builders, Cherry Valley, also helped.

Gott and his crew borrowed a boat from a friend to ferry people and equipment back and forth.

“I’ve never worked on a project quite like this before,” said Gott, “but we got it done and the island looks great,” Gott continued.

At Thanksgiving Home, Folks Tune Up For Christmas Season

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Begin with your choice of a traditional Caesar or delicious House Green Salad. Next choose from our savory Roast Duck or Roast Sirloin with Wild Mushroom Sauce. All entrées will include appropriate side dishes. Complete your Hawkeye holiday feast with festive Strawberry Trifle or freshly baked Apple Pie for dessert. All for only $18.95 per person.

Of course The Hawkeye Grill’s delicious regular menu is always available. Located off The Otesaga’s Lower Level overlooking Lake Otsego, you may reach The Hawkeye Grill through the Lower Level entrance off The Hotel guest parking area. Casual attire is always welcome.

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e have decked the halls of the Home with garland, the greenhouses delivered a magnificent wreath for the door and the largest poinsettias we’ve ever seen, with pristine white cyclamen to accent the tables. The piano has been tuned and carols are being sung. Frank Miller and Mike Walrath strung thousands of white lights on the outdoor trees so they light the entrance to Cooperstown at dusk.

• Deanna Gable, Sheila Jones, Darcey Schilling, and Sue Walker went shopping for our adopted Christmas family.

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We thank the Sweet Adelines for a masterful performance with exceptional harmony, lively songs, cute antics, and some opportunities to sing along! Terry Gorman and Nancy Iversen joined their mom, Janet Gorman to enjoy the performance. Myra, Tim, and Oliver Searles enjoyed the night with their mother, Carrie Jane Watkins.

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THANKSGIVING HOME NOTES The following night we enjoyed the Small Town Big Band. We hosted more guests, including Veronica Seaver, who attended with Fannie Navarra, and Nancy Iversen and son Chris who returned for more fun.

• In recent weeks we said farewell to two wonderful residents, Dr. Art Laidlaw and Pat DeBaun. Art was 97 years young, a true gentleman, always with a kind word and wonderful sense of humor. He was a beloved pediatrician to many in Cooperstown. Pat DeBaun was a vibrant, lively, kind woman whose sense of humor and joy of life permeated the room. Pat was known for her love of family, friends, and gardening. Pat’s daughters, Laura and Ellie sent a rose to each resident and a basket of flowers and plants to the employees. The flowers have been planted in the Indoor garden, in Pat’s memory.

WINS DRESS: CCS Senior Abby Wilcox won the HORN OF PLENTY: The Rainbow’s End “New York’s Cooperstown Elementary Next Top Prom Designer” School students and faculty contest. The design for her donated 502 pounds of food gold dress with black paisley to the Opportunities for design was sent to China Otsego Holiday Food Basket to be produced as an actual Program dress.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012

BY THE LIGHT OF THOUSANDS OF SILVERY CANDLES

Little Alexandra Von Tsurikov, Cooperstown, appears a little mystified as she contemplates the Empire State Carousel. She is in mom Anna’s arms.

Angels all, Ellie Cooper, left, chats with Dr. Derek Cooper and his daughter, Julie, after performing in Christ Church’s living Nativity at the Candlelight Evening.

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The Catskill Chamber Singers perform at The Farmers’ Museum Cornwallville Church, one of a number of chorale groups to do so during the traditional Candlelight Evening, held this year on a balmy Saturday, Dec. 8. The singers are, from left, Jean Fleck, Leah Bridgers, Sarah Patterson, Emily Kirsch, Peg Twasutyn, Anne Dewell and Tracy Verma.

By candlelight – just like olden times – Hartwick’s Paula Vatovec examines samples in the print shop.

The Rev. Douglas Deer leads the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown’s choir in song on the green in front of the Bump Tavern.

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EDITORIAL

Talking, Strategizing, Prioritizing Can Keep Arts Initiatives Alive

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veryone’s a hero in a rising market and, let’s face it, there hasn’t been a rising market in a while, nationally or locally. So there’s fallout.

Our Otsego-Delaware market – commonly called a region, it’s actually a Greater Oneonta market, with Cooperstown as a separate pod – has been cushioned to a degree by the big institutions: Bassett Healthcare, the colleges, lately Springbrook and Chobani, New York Central Mutual and tourism – baseball, museum and eco-tourism. Historically, businesspeople will tell you, we’re late to a recession and late coming out.

So a run of closings this fall that began with downtown Oneonta’s always vigorous Sport Tech and was dramatized in recent days with Oneonta Theatre owner Tom Cormier announcing he will close the 600-seat venue at year’s end (plus, The Oneonta Teen Center’s pending demise) shouldn’t be a surprise.

With uncertainty from the “fiscal cliff” and debtceiling brinksmanship, it’s

• The painful benefit of economic downturns is that they thin out the less strong amid the stronger – economic Darwinism, if you will.

Flaws, papered over by general prosperity, become evident. The wheels fall off the one-horse shays, to further mix related metaphors.

The Oneonta Theatre is a case in point. Cormier bought the 1897 former opera house in 2009 because the numbers worked: Rents from six apartments and three storefronts covered the HOMETOWN ONEONTA $250,000 investment. He Drue Quackenbush, leased the theater to FOTOT center, gave the crowd (Friends of The Oneonta a preview of Orpheus Theatre) for a song; if it Theatre’s “Pocahontas” worked, fine. Then he met at The Oneonta’s OpenJon Weiss, a New York City ing July 31, 2010. rock promoter then living likely more will follow. in Franklin, and the two got On Cooperstown’s Pioexcited about recreating neer Street, there are five Warsaw at Polish National, empty buildings on either a similar Brooklyn venue. side of the Smithy Pioneer As with any undertakGallery, and one across the ing, challenges arose. The street; at Main and Chestnut, partners learned it costs Vintage Sweets closed the $4,500 month to heat the other week. In a commuspace in the winter. Staff is nity that’s a national – even expensive, so an effort was international – icon, this is made to enlist volunteers. unusual.

And there was competi-

tion: Foothills Performing Arts Center’s new $8 million main theater was faltering then, but it’s stable and growing now; SUNY Oneonta Campus Activities Director Bill Harcleroad’s vigorous programming for college students continues to this day, and multiple other initiatives, from the Cooperstown Concert Series’ sold-out performances to the West Kortright Center, chipped away at the audience. And Ommegang, which has discovered concerts’ drawing power.

Even so, Cormier, in announcing the closing, called The Oneonta Theatre a break-even operation. As a successful businessman – he has the regional Dish Network franchise and installs high-end security systems in New Yorkers’ weekend homes in Delaware County – Cormier concluded the break-even effort was simply taking too much of his valuable time.

This may be for the general good. Half of the $390,000 in grants that City Hall diverted to The Oneonta would have built

the acoustical shell that the Catskill Symphony Orchestra requires before embracing Foothills as its home.

(That money may now be forthcoming from another source, further assuring Foothills will prosper, even if The Oneonta can’t.)

Meanwhile, The Oneonta has a new roof; the historic building is secure for now.

FOTOT is reactivated, although it would be wise to set modest goals – a movie here, a play there – rather than a full-bore effort the market can’t bear. Cormier has put the building on the market for $1.35 million, so while the numbers may have worked as $250,000, they may not work at the higher level. This may take a while to sort out.

• More worrisome than Sport Tech, The Oneonta or Pioneer Street is an underlying issue. Joe Booan, the former Cooperstown mayor who is a top-ranking ONC BOCES executive, mentioned it in conversation the other day: When he returned to his natal county from Virginia in 1999,

there were 13,000 pupils in the BOCES schools. Today, there are 8,900 – a 24 percent drop in a little over a decade. That’s our seed corn.

Still, what opportunities we have! With SUNYs Oneonta, Delhi and Cobleskill, Hartwick College and the Cooperstown Graduate Program, there are 12,000 young people studying in the neighborhood, with 3,000 newly minted graduates going forth annually. This is raw material – smart, hip, plugged into the future – a resource that, yes, can be captured to refuel the region. SUNY Oneonta allowed its Center for Economic & Community Development to lapse, and that’s fine: But, with the “SUNY Works” being talked up statewide, what’s the local replacement effort going to be?

In speaking to the Cooperstown Rotary the other week, the county’s able treasurer, Dan Crowell, was asked what, in the face of cutbacks, county government is doing to invest in Please See EDITORIAL, A7

LETTERS

No One’s Talking To Mayor, Trustees On Paid Parking To the Editor: I read with some amazement the article, “Main St. Paid Parking On Cusp Of Approval,” in the Dec. 6 edition of this paper. A comment by the mayor, stating “to be honest, I’ve heard zero” reaction to a proposal to institute parking fees on Main and Pioneer streets, caught my greatest attention.

I can think of few instances that more clearly highlights how he, and his board, are out of touch with the community in which they live.

I have owned a retail store on Main Street since 1972. I cater to the year ‘round local shopper. I am here in January as well as July. I have yet to have one customer speak positively of the proposal to create paid parking.

What is more disturbing is the comment by most that they will not pay to shop downtown. They will simply

take their business out of town, to The Commons or Oneonta.

I invite the mayor, or any of the board, to spend an afternoon or evening in my shop and sample the sentiment expressed by my customers. This would surely pop the bubble the mayor and board seem to be living in.

I have heard from supporters of paid parking that it will only be a little more than three months (Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend). After that, they say, business on Main Street will return to normal, with the village reaping a rich harvest from the tourist.

The problem with that argument is you do not turn business on and off like a faucet. Once a shopping pattern is changed, it is extremely difficult to get lost business back. Does the village plan to compensate downtown mer-

chants for lost revenue and therefore a reduction in the value of their business and property which houses them?

Probably not!

With the last election, most downtown merchants were resigned to the fact that paid parking, an obsession for the mayor, would come.

What I find most audacious is the attitude that we are all in lock step behind our Pied Piper mayor. This is simply bogus.

Lack of vocal opposition is more a result of pragmatism and practicality rather than conviction. I see this as yet another part of the grand design for the village, like silencing the “toxic” noon siren. What comes next?

A. FRED LEMISTER Merchant and Native Son

Proposed Fracking Regulations An Argument To Ban Fracking To the Editor: New York’s proposed fracking regulations are out and they are so bad that they are an excellent argument for prohibiting fracking. The public can now comment, either on the DEC’s website or by snail mail to the DEC.

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1. There are no setbacks for a shale gas well from property lines. Meaning a gas well can be drilled immediately next to your property.

2. There are no setbacks for shale gas wells for school yards, parks, factories, offices, marinas, golf courses, clinics, shopping centers, warehouses, etc.

3. A loophole would allow horizontal wells to be drilled under any state lake (Otsego), river or large stream.

4. The same loophole would allow shale gas wells to be drilled under state

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Friendship Survived Congressional Race To the Editor: Recently in “Bound Volumes – 175 Years Ago,” you printed a story about John Prentiss being elected to Congress. There is more to the story.

Prentiss, publisher of The Freeman’s Journal, lived at what is now 16 Main St. He and his long-time neighbor and friend, William Holt Averill, a prominent lawyer and banker, ran against one another in the election of 1837.

The early returns had Averill ahead. Crowds, including Prentiss, gathered in front of Averill’s home at 18 Main St., where he passed out drinks as people celebrated.

As returns from outlying areas came in, Prentiss took the lead and the crowd, along with Averill, moved a few feet to Prentiss’ door, where he resumed serving drinks and the party continued.

The two men remained friends for the rest of their lives.

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parks and forests.

5. The setback from a water well is only 500 feet.

This would ensure that many New York wells will be gassed.

6. The division that issues drilling permits, Mineral Resources, is also responsible for environmental oversight. The fox guards the hen house.

7. New York is now the only shale state with no state tax on oil or gas production; the state derives no direct revenue from gas production.

8. The regulations fail to Please See LETTER, A7

The Freeman’s Journal

When the 1837 Congressional returns showed victory shifting from neighbors William Averill to John B. Prentiss, the celebration shifted from 18 Main St., left, to 16 Main St.

Lack Of Growth Means That Services Must Go 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 fourth appears below. We welcome these articles, and welcome any ensuing debate. To participate, e-mail Letters to the Editor to jimk@allotsego.com

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s we discussed in our last article, an economy needs to have three sectors to be in balance: the public sector,

the retail sector and the manufacturing sector. All three need to work together for the economy to prosper.

If one segment is expected

to carry the entire economy, problems are likely to arise.

Each sector provides a particular benefit, while requiring specific needs to be successful. Over the years, this area has been very fortunate to have a growing public sector economy.

The region has become very dependent upon the healthcare industry, the education community and various

government agencies that have provided good-paying jobs, along with very good benefits.

In the past the public sector has help to isolate the area from economic swings, but this growth has resulted in an unbalanced economy.

The public sector provides “services” for a community. These services Please See VOICES, A6

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

200 YEARS AGO

Indians – The Ontario Messenger states, on the authority of E. Granger, Esq., Indian Agent, that neither our government nor any officer connected with it, has ever authorized the employment of Indians in the present war. The instructions from the War Department to Judge Granger are explicit. With a view to keep them from going over to the enemy, the agents were authorized as a last resource to embody as few of them as possible and report them to General Smyth who would order them to be supplied with rations. But this was solely to keep them easy.

December 12, 1812

175 YEARS AGO

It is with feelings of saddened regret that we announce to our readers the death of the Hon. James O. Morse, first Judge of Otsego County Courts, at Little Falls, Herkimer County, on the morning of December 4th, aged 49 years.

He had been in attendance at the Montgomery County Circuit at Fonda, where he was violently seized with an affection of the brain. He was immediately removed to the residence of his daughter at Little Falls, where he received all the aid which medical skill and filial attention could bestow; but his disease baffled all human power. His name, his influence, his character and exertions, all were identified with and devoted to, the progress of society. To a clear and vigorous intellect, he brought the aids of indefatigable industry and indomitable perseverance. In his private relations he was beloved and esteemed by all; in his public stations respected and honored.

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Fire! How startling the cry in our streets ever since the succession of fires which last spring desolated our Village.

Perhaps most of our citizens are now resting under the belief that the local authorities are better prepared than then for battling the dreadful element, in the event of another fire. If so, let them be undeceived, and learn that their safety lies in their own carefulness. True, the citizens of the village, in public meeting assembled, passed a resolution calling on the Trustees to make the necessary appropriations for securing a better and surer supply of water, and all necessary fire apparatus. But nothing has been done. There is not a good and complete organization of the Fire Department.

There is not a good supply of water. There is no hook and ladder company, axe company, nor hose company. The

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parcels post is a system by which the government agrees to carry, at a nominal cost, parcels not weighing in excess of eleven pounds, or in excess length of 72 inches, and the contents of which are not such as defined as first, second, or third-class matter. This means that the U.S. is taking away from the express companies their business in packages up to eleven pounds in weight, and doing so to benefit the people at a greatly reduced cost. The housewife can telephone out to the farmer and order an eleven-pound ham and the delivery of it will cost only 15 cents.

December 11, 1912

75 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown high school basketball team won its first Schohanna League game of the season on Saturday night of last week at the expense of Cobleskill at the latter place by a score of 33 to 19. It was the first win of the season for the Burseymen who started the year by playing seasoned teams like Canajoharie and Albany Academy December 13, 2002 where they met defeat in both contests. The local defense held up very well considering the fact that it was only the engines are in good order, but would be of little use in case third contest the Orange and Black had played under the of a large fire. new rules, namely the elimination of the center jump except December 12, 1862 at the beginning of the game and the second half.

December 15, 1937

125 YEARS AGO

Robert Parshall, a farm laborer in Pierstown, sustained quite severe injuries one day last week, under singular circumstances. He was engaged in removing old apple trees for a neighbor, and had just dug and cut around one preparatory to pulling it over, and rather unwisely, as he afterward found out, ascended the tree to attach a rope for that purpose. He had no sooner reached the desired height, than the tree, without the aid of a rope, came crashing down. Between the frozen ground and the tree, Mr. Parshall sustained a broken cheek bone and several ugly cuts about the face, which required a number of stitches to hasten recovery.

He was attended by Dr. Babbitt. Even as old a man as Mr. Parshall is, we believe he has learned a lesson that he will not forget, and that is, to fasten a rope to the tree he wishes to remove, just before digging and chopping around it.

December 16, 1887

100 YEARS AGO

The parcels post system which goes into effect January 1, 1913, may eventually prove to be a great step toward the reduction of the high cost of living and will certainly prove useful in connecting the farmer with the city buyer. The

50 YEARS AGO

Dr. James Bordley III, director of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital foresees a continuing rise in the cost of hospital operations despite efforts of administrators to seek out cost-cutting methods through better regional hospital planning and the elimination of duplicate facilities in small geographic areas. For example, in 1953 the cost of staffing the Bassett Hospital operating room was $22,000; last year it was $49,000.

December 12, 1962

25 YEARS AGO

“Fashion Fantasy Alive” was the title of a winter clothing style show produced by junior troop 381 of the Girl Scouts of America and presented to an audience numbering nearly 50 at the First Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown last Saturday afternoon. Some 25 children and adults participated as models and extras in the event. Acting as the Mistress of Ceremonies was local textile designer Sandra Hall. Both men’s and women’s fashions were featured.

December 11, 1987

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012

When Taxes, Fees Get Out Of Hand, Business, Schools, Government Services Decline VOICES/From A4 include education, health care, public safety and infrastructure like roads and other government services.

These services are paid for through taxes such as state and federal income tax, corporate tax, school tax, town, city and county property tax, state and county sales tax, highway tax, truck mileage tax and various other taxes.

There are also many fees, including the purchase of lottery and Powerball tickets that we pay to support the public sector.

These taxes and fees are paid by you and me as citizens and by the retail and manufacturing businesses, as the “public sector” is generally exempt from paying any taxes or fees. This works well if an economy is in balance, but if the public sector’s tax exemptions aren’t offset by a growing population and growth in the retail and manufacturing sectors, the tax base doesn’t keep pace with the cost of public services.

When this happens, the

residents and other businesses suffer as their cost to support the public sector increase disproportionately and they become less competitive. The area also suffers because it will not attract new business or encourage population growth needed to meet the ever-increasing cost of the services provided by the public sector.

A closer look at our education system reveals these very symptoms. According to a recent article in a local newspaper, about 9 percent of New York’s schools face the very real possibility of becoming insolvent – broke.

This situation forces us to ask how this could happen.

Our local schools are partially funded by property taxes and we have a shrinking property-tax base. State aid also helps fund the cost of operating our schools.

Those state dollars come from taxes and fees (lottery tickets) imposed upon you and me and our state’s businesses. The state’s budget, like ours, is facing a huge

deficit, due in part to the tem (TRS). As the returns economic downturn. That on the investments that are means state aid dollars are used to fund these programs shrinking. have fallen off, our costs On top of that the state have risen tremendously puts strings on the dollars over the last four years it gives our community. without a corresponding Those strings are called increase in State aid. As a “mandates” and school result, schools are forced to administrators generally cut positions and programs refer to them as “unfunded to balance budgets. mandates.” They are called The most costly mandates unfunded for three reasons. are in the area of special First, there may not be an education services, primarincrease in state aid to cover ily the result of federal reguthe cost of implementing lations (originally IDEA or them. Second, there may Individual with Disabilities not be an annual increase in Education Act) that have state aid to cover the ongobeen liberalized further by ing cost of implementing New York State. The reguthem. Third, the state aid lations are very prescripmay be cut but the unfunded tive and expenditures per mandate remains. student, although laudable, The problem with mancan be very high. Special dates has grown signifieducation is the perfect cantly in the last four years, example of a decades long, because the public schools mandated program that has have seen stagnant or renever been fully funded by duced funding as costs have either the Federal or State skyrocketed. For example, governments and, consewe are mandated (required), quently, the burden falls on

by New York State, to pay the local taxpayer. into the Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) and the LETTERS Teachers’ Retirement Sys-

If we examine our healthcare industry, we find that our hospitals are facing the same financial woes. They rely heavily upon reimbursement from private health insurers and federal reimbursement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Just like with state mandates in education, the insurers impose mandates on the health-care industry.

Remember that old adage – “he who pays the fiddler gets to call the tune”? As Congress debates how to avoid the fiscal cliff, two things are clear: Obamacare is here and will be costly to implement, and Medicare and Medicaid will be subject to reform.

Close examination of our local budgets reveals that the discussions aren’t about how to grow them by adding new revenue. We are eager to pass moratoria on potential new business that could help add new revenue while facing a reduction in

our police force and quality of education. If the trend continues our firefighters will be next.

As mentioned earlier, our area economy has become overly dependent on the “public sector.” The City of Oneonta’s tax base is over 50 percent tax exempt. This means the other 50 percent pay the entire tax burden needed to fund our schools, public safety and infrastructure needs. As a result we face overly high taxes for those being taxed.

Higher taxes mean higher costs of doing business, which discourage further development, hamper the attraction of new business, both small and large, and increase the cost to live here. The end result is that companies leave, people’s net or disposable incomes decline, properties tend go into disrepair, more properties become delinquent on taxes and the area goes into decline.

Vibrant Public Sector Requires Vibrant Private One

To the Editor: I commend your newspaper for publishing the series of articles on economic sustainability, as proposed by Citizen Voices.

The obvious truth is that our public sectors cannot continue growing salaries, pensions and benefits, or even maintain their existing expense base, without a vibrant private sector which pays taxes. Something has to give.

The simpleton’s solution is to raise taxes, which is to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Just look at your phone bill. It is little wonder that consumers are giving up land line phones in favor of cell phones.

While it grieves me to hear of people losing their jobs (Dave Polley at the Office for the Aging immediately comes to mind), we must either increase sources of taxable income or reduce expenses. (The unfunded mandates imposed by the state and the burden of Medicaid on Otsego Manor is a problem of a different dimension.)

I am in favor of whatever will increase a viable private sector, be that drilling, pipelines, windmills or biofuels. To do nothing is to fail and failure is not an option.

WILLIAM DORNBURGH Cooperstown

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012

The Freeman’s Journal A-7

DEC Draft Regulations Out, Provide Little Help To Public LETTER/From A4 address gas pipelines, gas compressor stations or gas processing plants.

9. There are no regulations for where seismic tests can be conducted – with dynamite – anywhere in the state.

10. Toxic fracking fluids are not subject to public disclosure; they can sicken you but you cannot LETTERS find out what they are.

The regulation’s lack of protections for people, buildings, livestock or the environment are a textbook argument for prohibiting shale gas industrialization.

If your town has not already banned fracking it should do so post haste because the DEC protects nobody with these regulations but the frackers.

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With Cooperation, Limited Resources Go Farther EDITORIAL/From A4 the future. Nothing was the answer. He said there isn’t a spare $90,000 right now to invest in Town of Oneonta efforts to created a water district on Southside, even though sales-tax revenues from Lowe’s plans to double its footprint would have covered that in a couple EDITORIAL of years.

Rather than county involvement, it could be argued a city-town joint water venture is preferable; still, county-government thinking has to shift from cutting to investing – in the Economic Development Office, in the Tourism Office, in opportunities that arise. We already have the second- or third-lowest county taxes in the state; we can’t cut our way to prosperity, and there’s no need to.

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Let’s not cry, Argentina, for Sport Tech, The Oneonta Theatre or Vintage Sweets. It is what it is. Let’s look at our assets and pursue our opportunities, but let’s try to do it together, as a community, establishing priorities and strategies.

For instance, at Cooperstown’s Smithy Pioneer Gallery, director Danielle Newell has proposed a Cinema Center, a neat idea. But instead of competing for scarce resources, would it make sense to partner with, say, Foothills, on, maybe, the Foothills North Cinema Center.

Instead of buying a building, perhaps it could get going in the Hall of Fame’s Grandstand Theater, or The Fenimore Art Museum’s neat auditorium, or CCS Sterling Auditorium – that’s how Glimmerglass Opera started.

Likewise, should Foothills, the West Kortright Center, the Smithy, Ricky Calleo’s Cherry Valley classical concerts, SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick, and all the others, collaborate on promotions, scheduling, finding talent, back-office costs? Could Ommegang, dark as a concert venue in the winter, organize a winter concert at Foothills?

Oneonta’s Mayor Dick Miller did pull together an Arts Summit soon after he took office in 2010. At least that got the conversation going. But it’s time for Step Two, expanding that conversation through the two-county Greater Oneonta region.

As we await the eventual economic rebound, talent doesn’t have to be stifled. Talking – then strategizing, prioritizing, sharing – will make sure it isn’t.

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These smaller towers are “only about twice the height of a good-sized grain silo,� Patton wrote of the “wholly new approach� in an e-mail to Ellen Pope, Otsego 2000 executive director. “As a result, the immediate benefit is a significantly reduced visual impact, and of course no blinking red lights as the turbines are below the FAA height limits.

“Additional benefits include quiet operation, limited shadow flicker and ice throw, and we believe they will prove to be both bird and bat friendly,� said Patton, who followed up in person.

Harry Levine, who sat in on the meeting with Pope, alerted members of the Advocates for Springfield, which he chairs, of the new development. “Both Ellen and I said ... we were all united in our opposition to Iberdrola.

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This property is located in the Cooperstown School District. This handsome 11 room home is in move-in condition and includes: MAIN LEVEL: A spacious kitchen with breakfast area, surrounded on 3 sides with floor-to-ceiling windows, cathedral ceiling, and French doors to an adjoining flagstone terrace. Kitchen cabinetry is by Crystal, Corian countertops, tile floor. The sunken living room features 10 ft. ceilings, 4 sets of French doors to two flagstone terraces, floor-to-ceiling cabinets and bookcases. Completing the picture is a handsome Rumford fireplace (propane conversion) built into a raised paneled enclosure with window seats. The family room is complete with built-in bookcases and cherry floors. A pretty powder room completes the first level. SECOND LEVEL:There are four bedrooms on the second level. The master suite includes private dressing room and spacious master bath with whirlpool tub overlooking the lake. Laundry room is located on the second level. There is an additional full bath on this level. THIRD LEVEL: This level features two spacious rooms and a full bath. These rooms can be utilized in a number of ways‌..current owners are using one as a sewing room and the other as a workout/exercise room. There is a full basement and an attached two-car garage. DETACHED BUILDINGS: A “winterizedâ€? playhouse with full bath. Two-stall parking garage with loft and attached heated workshop. IMPROVEMENTS: Andersen Windows, New roof, A whole house generator, Rinnai hot water system, New industrial furnace, Walking/running trails through the property overlooking the lake. This distinguished home, on 83 acres overlooking Otsego Lake, is truly one-of-a-kind. This property is being offered EXCLUSIVELY by Lamb Realty and can be seen by appointment only. Priced to Sell at $895,000. call 607-547-8145 to schedule your private appointment.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-9

WOW Takes Bassett Data To Next Level WOW/From A1 instantly check a patient’s record, including diagnoses, treatments and prescriptions.

Chief Network Nursing Officer Connie Jastremski said WOW “puts everyone involved in the care of a patient on the same page with up-to-date, real time information,” which results in “better patient care and the best possible outcomes.”

The Epic system is the most widely used in the U.S. today, said Dr. Gretchen Hodgdon, who chaired the implementation committee. “We know they aren’t going away,” she said. “We know they are wellpositioned to respond to any of the changes the government might implement.”

Without WOW, “I literally go to five different places in the hospital to collect data before I even walk into the patient’s room,” said Hodgdon. “With (Epic), all of the information is at my fingertips, and that means more time with patients.”

This is Bassett’s second generation of EMR; the first, from Vanderbilt, was futuristic for the time when it was rolled out in 2008.

Beginning in February, the system will go live in Bassett Healthcare Network affiliate hospitals, They are in Oneonta, Little

Falls, Cobleskill, Delhi and Sidney.

Since with Bassett’s “employed physician model, most of the doctors for 50 miles around work for the health network, and that allows a quick implementation of the unified medical record, Hodgdon said.

Epic, chosen after visit to four sites where different EMRs were in use, promotes “evidence-based medicine,” she continued. On signing in, “the doctor or P-A is reminded of things that have proven to improve outcomes.”

Further, “If I ordered a medication that was already ordered on a patient, it would say, ‘This is a duplicate order: Do you want to continue?’”

Soon, patients will be given their updated medical records, including instructions on medications and regimens to follow, when they leave the hospital.

When the switch was thrown at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, “immediately orders began to be put it,” according to Hodgdon. Specially trained supervisors are on duty 24-7 to address any issues that may arise, and are meeting every day to review how things are going.

“There’s a lot of excitement,” said the physician, “a lot of aha! moments.”

Visitors Expect To Pay For Parking, Need To Know Rules, Szarpa Says

PARKING/From A1 hearing for 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, on a proposed law to implement paid parking on Main between River and Pine, and on Pioneer between Elm and Lake.

The idea is to charge $2 an hour, in 15-minute increments, for up to two hours of parking. Drivers can then re-up for another two hours in the same spot. The system would only be in effect from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Trustee Cindy Falk, who chairs the Streets & Buildings Committee, anticipates the system will generate $250,000 a year, which could be dedicated to street repair.

That prompted Szarpa to send out an e-blast to Chamber members on Friday, Dec. 7, asking for input:

“We want to be prepared to give a response based on how our members think and feel.”

Tuesday, Mike Otis Dec. 11, as this edition was going to press, Szarpa said most of the comments received were “very articulate, very well expressed.”

One view was that tourists expect to pay for parking and want to do so, but poor signage and a complicated system results in “that sick feeling” at the end of the day when they return to their car and find a $35 ticket.

As Chamber director, Szarpa said, she gets the resulting complaints in calls

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and letters from aggrieved visitors. She wants it to be otherwise: “We want people to come back. We want people to feel good about things. Everyone benefits when there’s a successful summer season here.”

That speaks to the need for education, so tourists are familiar with the village’s parking options and aren’t unpleasantly surprised – certainly good signage, perhaps a map detailing what’s what.

A second concern is what responsibilities should Chamber staffers manning the kiosk in Pioneer Park expect to shoulder after Village Hall closes at 4 p.m.

“Who do we send people to if they are trying to put money into the machines and they don’t work?”

Szarpa asked. “Ultimately, the kiosk becomes the place everybody comes to.”

Szarpa met Tuesday afternoon with Chamber President Mike Otis, and the two agreed they will both attend the public hearing and present the findings.

In the meantime, said Otis, the survey results – they were still coming in – will be discussed with the Chamber’s executive committee and communicated to the board of directors.

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4914 St. Hwy. 28, CooperStown 607-547-5933 75 Market Street, oneonta 607-433-1020

MLS#85182 - Village Victorian beauty is totally renovated.

Would make a GREAT rental! Off-street parking. $159,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061

MLS#86051 - Cherry Valley w/panoramic views and privacy 3 BR, 3 bath, new energy-efficient home. Offered w/10 acres but more acreage available. $295,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603

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MLS#86367 - Charming late 1800s farmhouse and 3 barns on 79 acres overlooking the Otsdawa Valley! 2 ponds, pastures, fields, and a hen house! $289,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061

MLS# 86056 - Quality-built ranch features 3 BRs, 2 baths, and attached garage on 11 acres w/apple orchard and creek. Wood-burning fireplace, master BR suite, spacious rooms, dry basement, deck, spacious backyard. $169,900 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068 New Listing! MLS#87021 – Cooperstown Village. Fully furnished 3 BR, 3 bath. Off-street parking, 1-car garage. $245,000 Call or text Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506

MLS#85252 - Private setting for this rustic log cabin featuring a spacious open floorplan and ¾ wrap-around deck, pool, walk-out basement. Additional land available.

Priced right at $147,500 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

MLS#84359 - Charming 2-family home convenient to Cooperstown and Albany. Downstairs–1 BR, upstairs–2 BR. Live in 1 unit and rent the other. Owner motivated. $80,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603

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MLS#86955 - 3 BR, 1.5 bath home close to Goodyear Lake.

Double lot. Some remodeling has been done.

Family room and rear enclosed porch. $99,900 Call Frank 607-435-1389

MLS#85862 - Situated on 1 acre, close to Oneonta. 4 BR, 1 ½ baths. New replacement windows, fairly new roof, LR, DR, den/office. House has been under renovation, still work to be completed. Barn, pavillion and garage w/3 doors, enclosed back porch, back and side deck. $159,900 Call Linda Wheeler @ 607-434-2125

MLS#82653 - 3 BR, 1 bath home on 1.36 acres. New appliances: range, refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave, washer/dryer. New paint, new carpet, new septic system. $53,000 Call Frank 607-435-1389

MLS#84128 – Immaculate, well maintained and freshly painted home is walking distance to downtown shopping.

4 BR, DR, LR, kitchen, 2 baths, den and sunporch.

Laminated wood floors, some carpeting. Once was a 2-family and could easily be renovated back. $169,500 Call Linda Wheeler @ 607-434-2125

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MLS#82700 - 3 BR, 2 bath ranch on 1 ½ private acres. Great yard surrounded by woods, just 15 minutes to Oneonta.

Hardwood floors, modern kitchen, large DR, large master BR suite. Full, finishable basement. Motivated sellers. $128,500 Call Tom @ 607-435-2068

MLS#87103 - Charming 2-story home w/3 BR, 1 ½ baths.

Close to Cooperstown and Cooperstown schools. $79,000 Call Frank @ 607-435-1389

MLS#87096 - Move-in ready cedar-sided Cape on over 8 acres, Cooperstown Schools. Open floorplan w/kitchen, full bath and 2 BR on 1st floor. Spacious master BR w/skylight and cathedral ceiling. Full 2nd floor bath, and 4th BR. Family rm, office, 5th BR and laundry rm, deck, pool. $259,000 Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026

MLS#84612 – Close to Oneonta and Delhi, this secluded location is convenient to schools, hospitals and shopping.

Situated on 10.8 acres, this home is move-in condition. $229,000 Call Adam Karns 607-244-9633

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MLS#84136 – Minutes from Oneonta, 3 BR, 2 bath ranch w/a full, finishable, DRY basement and 2-car garage on quiet dead-end street. Lots of new: windows, appliances, furnace, water htr, UV water filtration. Master BR suite is an efficiency apt but could easily be converted back. $129,900 Call Tom @ 607-435-2068

MLS#85578 – Location, seclusion and views make this solid comtemporary build in the Cooperstown area ideal for working, living, and playing. Within minutes of the Dreams Park, Otsego Lake and Baseball Hall of Fame. $239,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

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MLS#87273 - 1830 renovated Greek Revival–3 BR, 3 ½ bath on 3 acres w/pond and landscaping. Gourmet kitchen w/custom cabinetry in kitchen, formal DR, office and partially finished basement. Energy efficient. $349,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603

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Charming 4 bedroom Victorian on the hill, overlooking Oneonta. Huge lot to do gardening, orchard, vineyard, whatever strikes your fancy. Spacious, breezy, light and open floor plan will interest you. Semi- private setting, no one will know you are there.

New roof, freshly painted, and other improvements round out this treasure. $126,500. MLS#85169

oneontarealty.com GREAT INVESTMENT PROPERTY or owner-occupied 2-family home has been well maintained.

Two enclosed porches, paved driveway, backyard. Close to elementary school and parks. $105,000 MLS #83581

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Separate utilities, remodeled apt downstairs w/french doors and large BR. Wrap-around porch and 2-car garage. $129,000 MLS #86210

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Complete financials available to qualified buyers. $269,900 MLS# 86451 and 86464.

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31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)

otsego Lake caLm on 37 acres engaging Farmhouse on 25 acres (7434) Explore the extras in this 6BR/2BA residence set in a quaint hamlet on 25 acres 8 miles from Cooperstown. Terrific home enhanced by original millwork, country eat-in kitchen, woodstove, 2 new furnaces.

Spacious layout, den, replacement windows, plank flooring. Large wrap-around front porch, large 2 story barn, pole barn. PLUS a 1 BR cottage, completely remodeled. It deserves a prize for real quality. Richfield Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $199,900

cooPerstown viLLage circa 1850

(7570) Outstanding lake views!

Secluded Family Compound includes two 2-unit Log homes. Open floorplans w/tile flooring, dining area, french door views. Cozy bookcased library.

40’ lake-view decks. new Hickory cabinet Kitchen, knotty pine paneling, 73’ of lake frontage.

Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $999,000

Cooperstown Village Circa 1850 (7110) Historic 4BR/3+BA Greek Revival home replete with French doors to gracious living room, family room with fireplace and built-in bookcases. Hardwood flooring, main-level master bedroom, Eat-in Kitchen w/ cherry cabinets & bay window. Two-car garage, picket fencing. It’s distinctive & delightful!

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $259,000

Private 100 acres

otsego Lake cottage

(7122) A real tempter w/ 50’ of private lake frontage with sweeping views. You will love the charm of this unusual, 2-bedroom Cottage. Ideal features include bright & open layout, woodstove, and storage shed. Some new windows, knotty pine paneling, gas heat.

Large lake view deck. New septic. Parking for 3-4 cars. Well-maintained. Priced lower than assessment. Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive. $195,000

(7104) Incredible valley views on a private road. Trails throughout, fantastic hunting, small pond. Adjacent to County forest. Old farmhouse needs work. Solar powered 35x10 getaway, open floorplan,1 BR. Possible owner financing. 8 miles from Cooperstown.

Hubbell’s Exclusive $189,000

otsego Lake Lot in cooPerstown

(7407) Choice building site with excellent lake views and w/ lake access and beach are directly in front of property. Level lot, easy to build on.

Hubbell’s Exclusive $295,000

country ranch on 1.5 acres

(7046) Relax in the comfort of this 3-bedroom residence sited on 1.50 acres. Enticing home offering knotty pine Eat-in kitchen, Living room with hardwood flooring. Convenient Breezeway. Garage with overhead storage.

Near “Dreams Park”. Happy haven for a discerning buyer! Milford Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive $109,000

216 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 • Tel: 607-547-8551/Fax: 607-547-1029 www.johnmitchellrealestate.com • info@johnmitchellrealestate.com

New to the market Custom raNCh!

2200 square foot 1972 custom ranch home with 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths and an attached garage. One bedroom is currently a home office and the garage has been converted to a shop/exercise room with patio doors, The property is located in the foothills of the Catskill mountains in central New York, with sweeping views of the mountains and valley.

The home is very private, yet close to Cooperstown, Oneonta and Albany, Interstate 88 and only 3 hrs from the GWB. The front room has a gas fireplace and 10, six ft windows that provide exceptional views. The wood floors are a mix of oak, pine, ash and bamboo. Multiple windows fill the home with light and views of the raised garden beds and edible plantings. $194,000. MLS#87015 Dave LaDuke Broker 435-2405; Mike Winslow Broker 435-0183; Tony Gambino 516-384-0095; Mike Swatling 435-6454; Joe Valette 437-5745; Laura Coleman 437-4881; John LaDuke 267-8617