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Unadilla’s Mrs. Claus Says Goodbye Cleaning out her mom’s apartment, Dawn Spinola found her dad’s Santa suit.

Stories Of Service To Community Live On In Her Family’s Memory

By LIBBY CUDMORE UNADILLA

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oing through her mom Mary Bunt’s things, her daughter found a box filled with Christmas ornaments she had bought on moving to an

apartment in 2014 after the death of her husband, Fred.

“They were all Santas,” said daughter Dawn Spinola. “That tells me she really missed my dad.”

Mrs. Bunt, 69, died Saturday, Dec. 8. She and her late husband had been Unadilla’s Santa and Mrs. Please See SANTAS, A3

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Va. Educator New Provost At Hartwick

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artwick College announced Dr. William J. Ehmann will be its next provost and vice president of academic affairs – the top academic officer.

He succeeds Dr. Michael G. Tannenbaum, who is retiring. Ehman, who starts July 1, has the same title at Marymount University outside Washington D.C..

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Director Penny Marshall last visited the Hall of Fame in 2002. She passed away Monday, Dec. 17.

‘League Of Our Own’ Director Dies At Age 75 COOPERSTOWN

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ilm Director Penny Marshall, 75, who was inspired by a 1988 Hall of Fame exhibit to create the hit movie, “A League of Our Own,” died Monday, Dec. 17, at her home in the Hollywood Hills.

The film reintroduced Americans to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, forgotten after it dissolved when male pro players returned from World War II. More at

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SHORTEST DAY: Cooperstown’s faith community, including Buddhists and adherents of Judaism, will participate in a Longest Night Service at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at First Baptist Church, Cooperstown.

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►PHOENIX MILL residents were jolted awake at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, when an SUV knocked down a telephone pole and hit a parked car. ►BASSETT’S ROLL-BAR program has saved at least 10 lives and $4 million, researchers find. ►ATTEMPTED-MURDER charges were filed against an Oneonta man for allegedly trying to strangle a woman. She also had bruises and bite marks, police said. ►CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, fueled by the Internet, is spreading, a CCS community forum was told.

NO CFA FOR GAS Governor Made Final Decision, Zakrevsky Says

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$3.5 million grant application for a gas decompression station at Oneonta’s Pony Farm Commerce Park is so critical to economic development regionally, Governor Cuomo was called and asked to decide its fate.

“But the governor has a policy of limiting natural gas,” and wouldn’t support it, Zakrevsky said Jody Zakrevsky, Otsego Now president, who learned no money was forthcoming in the CFA grants Lt. Gov. Kathy HoPlease See GRANTS, A7

Scrooge was all over the county last weekend.

Top, Mike Henrici plays the famous grouch in “A Christmas Carol” at The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown; Sharon RankinsBurd is the Ghost of Christmas Past. At left, Casey Thomas plays him in “A Christmas Carol: The Musical,” for Orpheus Theater at SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich Theater.

Maxson Won’t Run Again For Village Board Sternberg, Dewey, Benton In

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In Searing Experience, 11 Counsel 693 In Family Detention In Texas

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wo-term Village Trustee Bruce Maxson, the county’s public defender, has told Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch he will not run again in the March 19 election.

But the Democrats aim to run a full slate.

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By KYLE S. MACKIE COOPERSTOWN

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ull eyes of sick, exhausted children. A young mother breastfeeding her one-

year-old daughter in a cold interview room. A woman waiting in a crowded visitation trailer in hopes that her turn might be next.

These are the images from the country’s largest immigration detention facility for families that 11 Cooperstown residents trav-

eled to during the last week of November to aid asylum seekers currently being held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

The work was grueling: 13-hour days with few or no breaks, Please See BORDER, A7

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Bassett Gives Trooper Community Hero Award

Cooperstown Squad Collects Food For Christmas Drive The DiLorenzo family – daughter Tara, dad Mark, mom Diana and son Lincoln – Sofia Liz Alessi, 4, Alicia Lasher and Eric Pierce were on hand to help the Cooperstown Emergency Squad fill the ambulance parked in the Price Chopper parking lot with food for the Cooperstown Food Bank on Saturday, Dec. 15.

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State Police Lt. Michael Garrett was presented with the Community Hero Award from Bassett Hospital Friday, Dec. 7, for saving a heart-attack victim Nov. 2 in Richfield Springs. With him are, from left, Jonathan Flyte, vice president/Facilities Planning; Jessica Schatzel, executive assistant; Jeanne Payne, network director of Emergency Services; Matthew Kleinmaier, M.D.; Robert Gollhofer, network VP of Operational Excellence; Garrett; Brinton Mueller, network program director of Emergency Preparedness; Patricia Conklin, assistant nurse manager; Harold Southworth, network director of Public Safety; AJ Zuk, manager of Security Operations; Samantha Belden, nurse manager, and Krista Cotton, administrative support specialist.

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n Nov. 2, State Police Lt. Michael Garrett responded to a call for help at the Richfield Springs post office, where a 70-year-old woman had collapsed and was in cardiac arrest.

“When the call came in and I heard the age of the victim, it was about the same age as my mother, and I hoped to be able to help in some way,” said Garrett.

“I arrived on the scene with another trooper and my training kicked in.

“Fortunately, a few civilians on the scene took quick action and initiated CPR moments before my arrival.

I grabbed the trauma bag from the trooper’s vehicle, assessed the condition of the victim and began use of the automated external defibrillator (AED).”

Use of the AED succeeded in restarting the patient’s heart and she was rushed to Bassett Hospital where the team in the emergency department took over.

“Lieutenant Garrett’s quick use of the AED on Nov. 2 was life-saving for

this patient,” says Dr. Matthew Kleinmaier, senior attending physician in the emergency department.

“Our partnership with first responders is critically important; they are first on the scene to help people experiencing a medical emergency in the field and a vital link in patient care.”

Bassett presented Garrett with a Community Hero Award for “dedication and service to a community through quick action in the deployment of AED usage to save the life of a resident in the community.”

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Fred was a Cooperstown native; Mary was from Unadilla. They married on May 29, 1971, in Hartwick, and moved to Unadilla to raise their family.

“Christmas was always a big deal for our family,” said their daughter Dawn. “They took it really seriously. My brother Joseph and I were always trying to catch Santa, and they went so far as to put reindeer bells on the door.

They’d jingle them and we’d run back to bed.”

In 1987, a car crash left Fred badly injured, with burns on over 40 percent of his body. Mary was with him in the ICU at Albany Med for a month.

But Dawn said the accident changed her father’s outlook on life. “He really wanted to put smiles on people’s faces,” she said.

Mary worked at Jamesway in Sidney, and when store management asked him to play Santa one Christmas, he jumped at the chance.

And soon, he was playing Santa at Philadelphia Sales and K-Mart in Sidney, and the state Veterans’ Home in Oxford.

But he became best known for being Unadilla’s Santa Claus, and he brought Mary along to be his Mrs. Claus.

“She was a mom to everybody,” said Dawn. “Kids would get very nervous sometimes when they got on Santa’s lap, and they would speak really quietly. She could relay what they said to him.”

Working at Jamesway, Mary was also up on all the latest toys the kids would ask

Two weeks before Christmas, Mary Bunt rejoined her husband Fred.

for, so she could help them tell Santa what they really wanted. “She was his eyes and ears,” she said.

And although sometimes it took awhile, Santa always made those wishes come true.

“One of my friends asked him for a pony every year,” she said. “And these days, she runs a horse farm!”

In a recollection he wrote for his family, he detailed a child who came in with items circled in a toy catalogue, demanding all of them because he had been good.

But he also wrote about a girl who sat on his lap and asked for “…the war to stop and for soldiers to come home.”

Photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus were free with a donation of a food item to the local food pantry, and kids got a small stuffed bear as a souvenir.

The Unadilla Chamber of Commerce always paid them, but Fred and Mary never took the money. “They always gave it to a charity or to someone who needed it

more,” said Dawn. “My dad always said that if there came a time where he needed to keep the money, he was hanging up the suit.”

Their grandchildren would also come to see Santa, without knowing who was behind the beard. “We lived with them at the time, so we’d have to send the kids upstairs while we got them dressed and out of the house,” she said.

When she took her nephew Aaron to see Santa, he quickly recognized the voices as Nanny and Poppy. “They were great at explaining how Santa couldn’t be everywhere, so this was how Poppy helped,” she said.

Unadilla honored them with the Good Neighbor Award in 2009, and Fred and Mary stepped down as Santa and Mrs. Claus after Christmas 2010.

In October 2011, at age 64, Fred passed away following a battle with lung cancer, just five months after he and Mary celebrated their 40th anniversary.

“She never played Mrs. Claus again after that,” said Dawn.

In cleaning her mother’s apartment, Dawn also found her father’s Santa Claus suit, photos and flyers, a small stuffed bear that they used to give out to kids who came to see Santa and the copper cookie cutters she used to make Christmas cookies and salt dough ornaments, first with her kids, then with her eight grandchildren.

“It’s hard to lose her right before Christmas,” said Dawn as she left her mother’s house Monday night. “But I like to think that Mr. and Mrs Claus are together again.”

And that’s when the snow began to fall.

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Perspectives

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2017

A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL EDITORIAL

This Christmas, Things Better Then Ever – Really!

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andel’s “Messiah,” performed every other year by the Voices of Cooperstown at Christ Church – on Saturday, December 15, this was one of those happy years – brings to front of mind the inevitable light and darkness that is part of everyone’s life.

Amid the wailing and gnashing of teeth that has characterized American life since Nov. 8, 2016 – “dumpster fire” has just been added to Merriam Webster – a whole area of scholarship has come to the fore, compiling the facts that prove: The world is actually becoming a better place.

Here are some of the points Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor and author of “Enlightenment Now,” made in a TED Talk last April:

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he people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, and they that Dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”

from Handel’s “Messiah”

• For most of human history, life expectancy was around 30 years old worldwide. Today, it is more than 70 years old; and in most developed parts of the world, it’s over 80.

• Just 250 years ago, a third of children in the world’s richest

nd she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

“Madonna & Child.

And the angel Zurbaran, 1768 said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

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countries did not live to see their fifth birthday. Today, less than 6 percent of children in the world’s poorest countries die before they reach age 5.

• Today, less than 10 percent of the world subsists in extreme poverty, but 200 years ago, 90 percent did.

• Over the last century, we’ve become 96 percent less likely to die in car accidents, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, and 89 percent less likely to die from a natural disaster.

In the world’s poorest countries, Bill Gates told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week, the number of children who die each year has been halved since 1990, and is on

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e take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.

Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon 115 West Ninety Fifth Street Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external

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light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies.

You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real?

Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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than good news, which is usually gradual … Battles, bombings, accidents, murders, storms, floods, scandals and disasters of all kinds tend to dominate the news.”

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Editor’s Note: The New York Sun’s Francis Pharcellus Church penned this famous response to 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon in 1897.

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On The 12 Days Of Christmas – Since 1984!

hen we were first asked if we might not pen a column about our many Christmases

Amanda E. Willsey Larissa Ryan in Cooperstown, we were somewhat at

Business Manager Office Manager/Circulation a loss as to just what we might write.

Thom Rhodes Ian Austin After all, we tend to think that Christ Advertising Consultant Photographer mas in Cooperstown is not unlike Christmas anywhere else in the county.

Kathleen Peters • Graphics & Production To put it bluntly, it is a season of frenzied activity of sending Christmas

Judith Bartow Tom Heitz cards, shopping, decorating the house,

Billing Consultant wrapping presents, getting ready for IN MEMORIAM: Mary Joan Kevlin, Co-Publisher, 2006-17 Santa’s visit, attending Christmas Eve church services, opening the presents and overeating.

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In a piece in the Wall Street Journal the other week, Matt Ridley, author of “The Rational Optimist,” explained humanity’s funk: “Bad news is more sudden

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The Voices of Coopers town receives a standing ovation at the end of the Saturday, Dec. 15, performance of Handel’s “Messiah” at Christ Church.

normal part of the Christmas celebration, namely writing – each year from 1984 through 2017 – a Cooperstown Carol.

Those who religiously read CATHERINE them, will no LAKE doubt recall that ELLSWORTH each carol dealt with the various issues faced each year by the community. It all started in 1984 when we, the she-we we hasten to note, wrote: On the 12th day of Christmas, we’d like to send you...

Twelve busloads of tourists, Eleven parking places, Ten more opinions, Nine dogs running loose, Eight pigeons roosting, Seven bed and breakfasts, Six full-time policemen, Five more potholes, Four new firewomen, Three school budgets, Two gymnasium sites, And a sandwich board for your sidewalk.

• And while through the years the topics were wide ranging, there were several issues which first appeared in 1984 and continued to pop up in each and every succeeding carol. For Please See COLUMN, A5

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

200 YEARS AGO

The gale of Sunday extended the whole length of the Atlantic coast and caused incalculable damage. In the Hudson, several sloops were driven ashore, and some sunk.

One, belong to Newburgh, was completely wrecked. Another received serious damage and lost her deck-load of pork valued at $3,000. A sloop was sunk at Fishkill dock and a Poughkeepsie packet lost a deck-load of hogs and other produce. The gale or storm which was so severe at New York and Philadelphia on the night of the fifth inst. was experienced with almost equal severity at Boston, Baltimore, and every other port we have since heard from.

December 21, 1818

100 YEARS AGO

175 YEARS AGO

Col. Prentiss – Allow us to acknowledge through the Journal, the receipt of a Box directed to your care, containing a variety of books and Pamphlets for the use and benefit of the inmates of the County Poor House from the benevolent ladies of the Village of Cherry Valley. We have most cheerfully attended to the requirement of the philanthropic donors, by depositing the same in the School Room at the Poor House and have, with the advice of Mr. Stillman, the Keeper, appointed Stephen Manchester, one of the inmates, Librarian, and adopted such rules and bylaws as were deemed necessary for practical purposes. In view of this thoughtful liberality by a portion of the gentler sex, how cheering it must be to those unfortunate beings for whose use the books were intended to realize the fact that they are not forgotten in their condition of adversity by others who are blessed with prosperity, and that, in thus ministering to

This Christmas, Do Rejoice EDITORIAL/From A4 Even people who say they prefer good news showed – in an eye-tracking study at McGill University in 2014 – that their eyes wander first to “negative news content.”

Ridley ended his essay with a term he invented, “turningpoint-itis,” captured 200 years ago by Macaulay, “On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?”

Think of the advancements since.

OK, OK, OK, Global Warming is daunting. But so was the polio pandemic of 100 years ago this year; so was the Cold War. Why shouldn’t scientific advances continue, perhaps with a Manhattan Project to control greenhouse

gases?

OK, OK, the current President of the United States isn’t everybody’s favorite guy, but there’s no reason to believe, if defeated in 2020, there won’t be an orderly transition of power, as there has been every four years since Washington’s sedate departure on March 4, 1787.

This is not to be a Pollyanna. Still, even with the heroin epidemic: News reports are beginning to surface that overdose deaths are tailing off after rising for a decade.

Listening to the Voices’ “Messiah,” an amazing jewel of Western Civilization, it is hard not to be awe struck at the wonders of the world around us – certainly manifest in our beauteous Otsego County.

Hallelujah, indeed!

vacuity of mind for the alleviation of sorrow, they are not only essentially bettered in their poor estate, but consoled with the reflection that poverty is not deemed to be a crime. J.S. Sprague, J. Bennett, A.L. Head, Superintendents of the Poor, Otsego County Poor House, December, 2019.

December 18, 1843

150 YEARS AGO

ration. His first vote was cast for Andrew Jackson for President and he remained a Democrat all of his life, never failing to vote until last month. Years ago Mr. Becker filled the offices of Village Trustee and Assessor for several terms, and always with an eye single to the interests of the village.

He was not a member of any church, but possessed the sterling integrity and worth which should distinguish those who are.

December 21, 1893

125 YEARS AGO

With winter still a week away officially, Cooperstown was hit by its second heavy snow storm of the season on Sunday when an official 8.8 inches were reported. The storm created dangerous driving conditions throughout Otsego County, but most main and secondary roads were kept open by snow removal crews. Accompanied by high winds, the snow piled into drifts some as much as six feet high. Continuing high winds throughout Sunday night forced Cherry Valley and Springfield Central Schools to close on Monday. The weather bureau reports that so far this season a total of 26 inches of snow has fallen in the village.

December 18, 1968

The monument erected by the citizens of Cherry Valley in memory of the men who lost their lives in the late war is completed and was raised up Saturday, December 1, inst. It is located near the center and in the busiest part of the village. It is 24 feet high, 6 feet square at the base, and surmounted by a large spread Eagle. Inscribed on the monument are the names of 38 young men who went from that town and who died in actual service while in line of duty, together with the names of the regiments to which they were attached. The material is white Rutland marble and was built by Mr. Alex R. Sherman of Cherry Valley.

December 18, 1868

50 YEARS AGO

Mr. Peter Becker, the oldest male resident of Cooperstown, died in the house where he had resided for over 60 years. He was 88 years old on August 29 last. Mr. Becker was a native of Rensselaer County and he came to Otsego with his father in 1823.

His grandfather was a native of Holland.

In 1833 he was married to Mary Carr of Hartwick, seven years his junior, who survives. Mr. Becker was a stone mason by trade and he built the Court House and Jail December 18, 1918 taken down a few years ago and also several other buildings still standing on the corpo-

25 YEARS AGO

Three weeks into the boys’ basketball campaign, Coach Dick White’s squad is tied with Little Falls for the lead in the east division of the Center State Conference. Each squad carries a 4-1 conference record. In spite of a 35-point scoring performance by Seth Schaeffer, the Redskins sustained their first defeat of the season Tuesday, December 14 at Little Falls, yielding in overtime 75-72 to the Mounties.

December 21, 1993

Covering Cooperstown News: All 12 Days Of It COLUMN/From A4 example, in 2003 we wrote: On the 12th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

Twelve parking places, Eleven tour buses, Ten different opinions, Nine baseball card stores, Eight bed and breakfasts, Seven gift shops, Six snow days, sort of, Five NIMBYs, Four abreast on the sidewalks, Three construction projects, Two Hall of Fame weekends, And controversy every single day.

• Of course, we did not always strictly stick to the issues of Cooperstown. In 1999 we wrote about all the people, including the he-we, that the Cooperstown lost that year. It was, we thought, a most sad year for the community.

And in 2000, the issues we covered were not local, but rather national in scope, when we wrote: On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...

12 days of indecision 11 different lawyers 10 newscasters 9 Supreme Court judges 8 different opinions 7 oral arguments 6 legal briefs 5 hanging chads 4 cable channels 3 ballot recounts 2 Supreme Court cases And an election that seemed would never end.

• We must admit that we truly enjoyed writing all the Cooperstown carols. We also much admit that we have long wished that someone would have suggested that there be a

Christmas concert featuring our carols. But alas, we suspect that is not to be. However, we always enjoyed it, when Father French, late rector of Christ Episcopal Church, would call us and proceed to sing the current carol to us over the telephone. Such memories are indeed most special, as is Cooperstown.

And so, in keeping with the season, we would like to wish everyone the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years.

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THE DEBATE ABOUT NATURAL GAS

1. Today, Renewables Can’t Go It Alone

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e all share a concern about our environment and what forms of energy to use in order to maintain our lifestyle and position in the global economy.

Fossil fuels are non-renewable and thus the day will come when they are gone. Energy companies know this and realize that, in order to remain viable, they must look for renewable alternatives.

However, there isn’t a magic switch we can turn on to allow us to go from a dependence on fossil fuels to MIKE relying solely on renewables. We need a bridge to get ZAGATA

2. Insufficient Affordable Fuel Accelerates County’s Decline

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recent article in a local paper stated “there is no energy crisis” and that it’s OK for the hospital and SUNY to be forced to switch from gas to fuel oil – even though fuel oil isn’t as environmentally friendly as natural gas.

That would seem to indicate that there are people in our community so opposed to natural gas they would opt for polluting the environment over using a cleaner burning fuel – natural gas. WOW! Our area is at a crossroads with regards to our future.

We can choose a road where we don’t have the energy, in the form of natural gas and three-phase power, needed to attract new business and thus continue the downhill trend we are on.

At present, 57 percent of the city’s property is off the tax rolls, and thus residents are paying double what they should be for the same level of service. People are leaving the state, and Upstate home values have dropped as a result.

That further reduces tax revenue and, as a result, taxes for those who remain must go up to cover the lost revenue. That description fits that of Appalachia.

The other road would lead us to an abundance of the energy alternatives needed to grow our economy, increase our tax base and thus reduce the tax burden on local families, enable our children to remain in the area while protecting, possible even enhancing, our environment and quality of life. The decision as to which road should be followed rests with all, not just a vocal

minority, of our citizens, and must be made prior to developing an “energy plan” or that plan may take us down the wrong road.

For whatever reason, there is a clear bias by some of our residents against natural gas, which is one of the “fossil fuels”, i.e. natural gas, coal and oil for heating and used to make gasoline, diesel fuel and kerosene. That bias doesn’t seem as strong with regards to the other fossil fuels. People drive their gasoline-fueled cars to meetings to protest against fossil fuels, especially natural gas, and they do that on heavily salted roads to improve their safety. They fought against fracking to protect our groundwater yet don’t blink an eye when millions of tons of salt that ends up in our surface- and groundwater are spread by the town, county, state and private contractors. Is this selective approach to protecting the environment deliberate or ignorance driven?

To those opposed to the responsible production and safe delivery of gas, consider eliminating all the plastic products – manufactured from ethane, a byproduct of natural gas – used in daily life. That means no more cell phones, cosmetics, life-sustaining medications, home heating from natural gas and propane, and all steel, glass and numerous other products like our cars and tires. These things, which make our lives safer and more convenient, are a mere fraction of the goods made possible through natural gas.

us to that point, and natural gas is that bridge.

At this point in time, renewables do not work unless they have baseload fuels like natural gas to back them up. Renewable electricity, with its own environmental issues, accounts for a very small percentage of the ravenous appetite we have for electricity here in the Empire State.

However, without baseload fuels like natural gas to keep our power on 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, our upcoming holiday season and the winter months ahead would be cold and dark!

3. Emissions Are At 25-Year Low, While Safety Measures Working

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t is increasingly difficult to separate the “wheat from the chaff” when it comes to natural gas and the amount that “leaks” into the atmosphere. While there is an issue relating to methane releases from older “historic” and low-production wells that were plugged and abandoned according to the regulations in place at the time, the new unconventional or horizontal development industry is highly compliant and incented to capture every single molecule of gas produced.

As the price of natural gas has dropped, there is an even greater economic incentive to capture and sell ALL of the gas produced. Those of us who have a 401(k), 403(b), state, federal or other form of retirement plan have a vested interest in making sure this is true because those plans include mutual funds consisting of energy stocks.

As “owners,” we don’t want those companies wasting money by allowing gas to escape and thus not be sold to a customer.

Yes, some gas still escapes, but to what consequence? In neighboring Pennsylvania, a close examination of the state’s Department of Environmental Protection data from natural gas and oil systems shows methane emissions dropped from 2009 to 2013 by 65 percent despite production growth of 977 percent.

On safety, an American Gas Foundation report found that the pipeline industry spends roughly $22 billion a year on safety measures.

It seems that investment is paying off – U.S. Department of Transportation data shows pipelines have a 99.9 percent

safety record. That’s unheard of across any other industry or transportation mode.

About 60,000 people die annually and hundreds of thousands are maimed on our highways, but we don’t stop driving. Had it not been for opposition to the Constitution pipeline, the gas now being transported through our community by truck could have used a safer method – a pipeline. A recent study from the Frasier Institute concluded that pipelines are 4.5 times safer than other comparable means of energy transportation.

Yes, there have been a few accidents with the CNG trucks, but thousands of trucks have made the trip and there have not been any fatalities or explosions.

Their safety system has worked.

What about environmental quality? We know pipelines are safe, we know natural gas can be produced safely, but what about the air we breathe? Thanks to the recent shift to natural gas for power generation, our air quality is drastically better than just a few decades ago. Sometimes we hear the “either or” argument – it’s either jobs and economic growth or clean water and fresh air.

That’s simply not true; we can and are experiencing simultaneous economic and environmental progress, as a quick look at the statistics will show. According to Environmental Protection Agency data, U.S. carbon emissions are at a 25-year low, and emissions from six key, asthmacausing pollutants dropped 73% since 1990. A key driver of these reductions is the increased use of clean-burning natural gas.

Might Municipal Microgrid Lead Way To Energy Future?

To the Editor: Gosh, there’s been a lot of talk about the limitations on energy in our part of Upstate New York.

There are all LETTER kinds of committees studying the issue and there have even been active proposals already put forth, most notably the IDA-led natural-gas compression station idea.

That idea seems to be running headlong into opposition from any number of advocacy groups, organizations and even municipal governments. So, where do we go from here?”

How about establishing a Greater Oneonta Municipal Microgrid System that produced heat and electricity dedicated for use by our industrial sector and perhaps our large energy users, fueled by bio-mass, solar, wind and backed-up by natural gas.

Who could be against it?

Put the generation plant in a central location within the 270-acre former D&H railyards, then extend access services to the Oneonta Business Park area, the Lower River Street area businesses around Corning Life Sciences, to Lutz Feed, to lower

Ceperley Avenue operations and, indeed, prospective new businesses to be located in the railyard itself.

Who could be against it?

Let’s move forward to put a working plan together, then interview professional developers who could refine, design and prepare a funding strategy.

This state-of-the-art, 21st-century energy-producing concept, one powered primarily with renewable energy sources, including bio-mass, hilltop wind, on site ground and rooftop solar would be seen as a model for others to follow!

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Lacking Answers, Let’s Not Dig Area Into Deeper Hole

To the Editor: withstanding.

Last week’s editorial, Does that mean rethinking “Can Open-minded People growth? Yes, it does. BigCreate Center of Energy ger is not always better, and Excellence,” purports to be more of the same will only an appeal for sensible energy ensure more LETTER of the same planning. Yet by mischaracterizing the task, your climate impacts. newspapers paint a distorted The application of solar picture of action needed to and geothermal technology make forward progress.

by Sidney Federal Credit Its author writes that the Unit is a useful example of issue amounts to, “How soon responsible development. can renewables do it all,” But if we are to tackle our casting the debate as two share of the climate crisis, it warring factions: Ostensibly cannot be a token drop in a sea of business-as-usual. It must reasonable folks who see the need for a mix of energy be the new norm. Moreover, sources, and strident enviretrofitting existing structures, ronmentalists who expect all conservation and combusof our energy to come from tion-free sources of power and renewables – a category to heat will have to be pursued which you presumptively with no less vigor if forward assigns Otsego 2000. progress is to be made.

As an engineer who has A particularly self-serving advised Otsego 2000 on excuse for inaction is that technical issues for several impacts don’t matter. Recityears, I acknowledge that ing a litany of energy-intense there are real challenges endeavors, the editorial conassociated with intermittent cludes that whatever we do forms of renewable energy. will have a “less-than-negliIt also goes without saying gible impact” on the global that change does not happen problem. “Blessedly, we are overnight. simply too small,” it declares Still, the science is abunwhile aspiring for our region dantly clear that preventing to grow with more gas. climate catastrophe requires Needless to say, the world that we significantly cut is big enough that any comgreenhouse gas emissions, munity, large or small, might starting now. One way or claim that its individual imanother, that means sharply pact is of little consequence. reducing our dependence That will be of no consoon fossil fuels and shifting lation to those that bear to sources of energy that do the harm of our collective not dump vast amounts of failure – a sum of individual carbon into the air. failures. Likewise, there can Having said this, whether be no denial that there is sufthat comprehensive transfering in our region. Howformation can occur entirely ever, if we are unwilling to with renewables or how change – while living in a soon renewables can “do it society that does not face the all” are not questions that same magnitude of abject either the Otsego County poverty, overpopulation, and Chamber of Commerce or a political unrest as other parts county board energy comof the globe – how can we mittee must answer to set expect others to? our region on a better path.

Your editorial correctly Whether 100 percent of our observes that we need to reenergy needs can be met think the role of all forms of with renewables in two deenergy and that doing so recade, three decades, or ever, quires leadership on a larger one thing is perfectly clear: stage. Yet in wispily musing We will not make forward that “it is likely the soluprogress by going backtion to global warming has wards – that is, by burning not even been contemplated more fossil fuels tomorrow yet,” its author invokes blind than today. faith to suggest that our No matter how Otsego children will invent ways of County chooses to grow its undoing the damage we creeconomy, the growth we em- ate, no matter how severe. brace must allow our region Not having all the answers to reduce its dependence does not excuse digging a on fossil fuels. That won’t deeper hole. Burning more happen if a decompressor fossil fuels today while station is built in Oneonta hoping to use less sometime so that 25 percent more down the road denies the natural gas can be hauled in existential threat of climate on tractor-trailers from the catastrophe and blatantly fracking fields of Pennsylabandons the obligation we have to our children. If vania. Nor will it happen if local pipelines are expanded. we care about their future, Any committee claiming we need to change course climate leadership while and take steps that move us accepting such a future will forward, not back. have failed, proclamations of KEITH SHUE “energy excellence” notCherry Valley

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2018

Team Survives ‘Dilley Crud,’ Helps 693 Prepare For Asylum Hearings BORDER/From A1 processing a seemingly endless amount of paperwork, and hearing one horrific story after the next from women and children fleeing violence and abuse in Central America. But the volunteers said their experience was nothing compared to what the women they met have survived – or the conditions they continue to endure.

“I can tell you as a mental health professional and a human being that what is going on there is a human rights violation,” said Kristen Jastremski, a Bassett Hospital social worker and co-leader of the Dilley group. “It is incredibly cruel. It is re-traumatization of people who have been so traumatized we can’t even conceptualize what these women and children have been through.”

The South Texas Family Residential Center is a 50acre complex about 75 miles southwest of San Antonio.

It’s surrounded by a chainlink fence and guarded by airport-style security, which the volunteers had to pass through each morning when they arrived at 7 a.m. The center was built during President Barack Obama’s second term, and it can hold a maximum of 2,400 women and children. Men are detained at separate facilities.

When she and Rhodes sent out an email call for participants, the spots filled up almost immediately.

One was claimed by Jeannine Webster, who co-led the trip. She is an instructor of developmental reading and writing at SUNY Oneonta and the founder of Positive Action Cooperstown.

“In another lifetime, I could imagine standing next to these women on a soccer field on a Saturday morning,” said Webster, of the mothers she helped prepare for their credible fear interviews. That interview is a critical step in the complicated legal process of seeking asylum in the U.S., Kyle S. Mackie photo for HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal especially for immigrants already in detention. If they The local team just back from Texas includes, front row, from left, Andy can’t prove that they meet Hurysz, Jeannine Webster and Van Ramsey; back row, from left, Kristen Jastremski, Dwynn Golden, Margaret McGown, Rev. Elsie Rhodes, Robert the definition of a refugee Nelson and Barbara Luhmann. as per the Immigration and Nationality Act, they will be About 1,900 people were tary” facility, according to and support the trip, which held at Dilley while the the claim. was made possible as part of deported.

The volunteers were Cooperstown group was When the first of the the Dilley Pro Bono Projtrained on how to coach onsite, and the center made Cooperstown volunteers ect. The project is a joint women ahead of their international headlines while got sick while the group initiative of the American views.

Then they listened to they were there. On Nov. was still in Texas (most of Immigration Council and their stories, communicating 28, a 21-year-old mother them now have), a guard the American Immigration with the help of Spanishnamed Yazmin Juárez filed remarked that he had gotten Lawyers Association. speaking translators listena $60 million legal claim the “Dilley crud.”

Faith Gay, a part-time ing in by phone.

A note on against the U.S. government Jastremski and other Cooperstown resident, Webster’s volunteer handfor the wrongful death of volunteers spoke to the con- raised the idea of organizing her toddler, Mariee, who gregation at Cooperstown’s a local volunteer group to go book reminded her of the five categories of persecudied six weeks after they First Presbyterian Church to Dilley last summer. Gay tion the U.S. recognizes as were released from Dilley. less than 24 hours after is a lawyer based in New Juárez alleged that Mariee returning home on Dec. 2.

York City and co-founder of grounds for asylum: race, religion, nationality, memreceived inadequate medical The church, led by Rev. Elthe American Immigration bership in a particular social care at the “unsafe, unsanisie Rhodes, helped organize Representation Project.

group and political opinion.

Together, the group processed 693 detainees, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, during their week in Dilley.

Other women they worked with came from Colombia, Mexico and Nicaragua.

“They have come in swimming across the river, and through the ports of entry,” wrote volunteer Margaret McGown, an attorney, in a Facebook post from Dilley.

“The stories of the gang violence in their communities, along with the witnessing of murders and threats of death to themselves and their families, including their children, makes us realize how blessed we have been in our lives.”

Dwynn Golden, Annie Halvorsen, Andy Hurysz, Barbara Luhmann, Katharine Muir, Robert Nelson, Van Ramsey and Susan Weil completed the group. Now back at home, they continue to recover physically and emotionally. It was clear from the raw report they shared on the first Sunday in December which category of their afflictions will take longer to heal.

“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Hurysz told the congregation, voice breaking.

Most of the congregation wept with him.

Zakrevsky: Cuomo Sank $3.5M Grant Sternberg, Dewey, Benton Seek Trustee Seats GRANTS/From A1 chul announced at 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 18, at The Egg, the Empire State Plaza’s auditorium.

However, Hochul declared that, in addition to $60 million in grants for specific projects, the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council (MVREDC), which includes Otsego County, would receive a $20 million bonus for a job well done.

Some of that money may be available to help Otsego Now partner with NYSEG on the decompression station, which will cost $17 million total and bring power to the gas-strapped region.

Zakrevsky was due to participate in a conference call with Empire State Development officials Wednesday, Dec. 19, after this edition went to press, to discuss options moving forward.

While the decompression application was rejected, Otsego County entities did receive 16 grants totalling $3.9 million.

The largest, $950,000, went to Ruby Lake Glass, an affiliate of Andela Products, the glass recycler in Richfield Springs.

The City of Oneonta received $200,000 for microenterprise assistance to start-

up businesses, $631,000 for Upper Reservoir Improvements, plus $420,000 to begin upgrading Huntington Memorial Library’s park.

The Village of Cooperstown received $269,500 to replace the leaky skylights in the ballroom at 22 Main, and $22,500 for a walking pier at Lakefront Park.

The headline, however, was the decompression station, and Nicole Dillingham, president of Otsego 2000, the Cooperstownbased environmental group, hailed Cuomo’s decision as “the right result. The grant was poorly written, poorly considered. It was submitted without any transparency. The city and town (of Oneonta) didn’t know about it. No environmental review was done.”

She concluded, “Maybe the IDA (Otego Now) will learn a lesson.”

But Mike Zagata of West Davenport, DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and a member of Citizen Voices, the local pro-business group, said, “Every time we say no to something that would maintain the status quo, we take a step backwards. We’re not talking about growing with that decompression project, we’re talking about status

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He concluded, “When is the real majority going to start speaking. That’s the question.”

Zakrevsky said increasing availability of natural gas in the region is so important that the MVREDC, based in Utica, and its Binghamton-based counterpart, the Southern Tier REDC, each submitted $1.75 million applications. Together, that added up to the $3.5 million needed to bring NYSEG to the table.

The project received a top-priority ranking from each REDC, and its executives met last week with Hochul and Empire State Development President Howard Zemsky to emphasize its critical important, Zakrevsky said.

They convinced Hochul to appeal to Cuomo to give it the green light; she did, but he wouldn’t, the Otsego Now CEO said.

In a related development, after 40 anti-gas advocates confronted the Oneonta Town Board meeting Wednesday, Dec. 12, board members voted unanimously against the decompression station.

“That reflects the commitment of the community to grow in a different direction,” said Dillingham, “not just with fossil fuels but with other forms of energy … This shows that we need a real community discussion about where our future lies.”

The county board’s “incubator group” that is putting together an energy task force – county Reps. Meg Kennedy and Michele Farwell, Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood, Oneonta City Engineer Greg Mattice, and OCCA Director Leslie Orzetti “deserves a chance to do its work,” Dillingham said.

But Zakrevsky said, “if you read the motion, (the town board) voted not to support the application because they were not consulted, not that they were against the project. I don’t know how to read that.”

ELECTIONS/From A1 MacGuire Benton, a 2016 CCS grad and founder of the Otsego County Young Democrats, is seeking to run for a one-year term vacated when Tillapaugh was elected mayor last year.

Incumbents Richard Sternberg and Jeanne Dewey, appointed to Tillapaugh’s unfinished term for one year, said they plan to seek threeyear terms.

The three will seek nominations from a Democratic caucus, which can be convened up to Jan. 29.

The Village Republican chairman, Vince Casale, said while no candidates have yet surfaced, he is assessing GOP opportunities, given the three open seats.

Benton, a SUNY Oneonta student, is Democratic County Committee vice chairman and was a field organizer in the Brian Flynn for Congress campaign.

Dewey, an appointee running for elective office for the first time, chaired the Village Parks Board and said she hopes to continue in that

capacity. She also hopes to continue on the Economic Sustainability committee, looking for ways to make downtown Maxson more vibrant with a wider range of businesses.

She has gone through “a big learning curve. I have a lot left to learn and I’ve enjoyed working with a great group of people.”

Sternberg, a retired physician, is chair of the village Democratic Committee, which he helped revive.

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In addition to Sternberg and Benton, the committee consists of Jim Dean and Melinda Hardin, and Dewey and Liz Callahan will be joining them.

In addition to the party caucuses, independents can submit petitions to run for office between Tuesday, Feb. 5 and Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, according to Village Administrator Teri Barown, who oversees village elections.

Potential candidates must receive 50 signatures to create their own political party and be on the ballot, she said.

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made solely by Nora’s Candy Shop in Rome, the New York one. “We’re the only place around here that has them,” said Lori Fink, Tin Bin Alley.

“We also carry ribbon candy, peppermint pigs and all the other traditional Christ-

mas candies you can’t find anywhere else.” ($21.95, Tin Bin Alley, 114 Main St., Cooperstown) There’s nothing better than curling up on a cold day with a good book, and at the Green Toad, you can pick up Booker Prize Winner George Saunders’ latest short story, “Fox 8” – perfect for a stocking stuffer – or his wife Paula Saunders’ debut novel, “The Distance Home,” with signed copies available.

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But for Nichole Conklin, it’s a Christmas wish come true. “We never had a family picture taken when I was growing up,” she said. “This is our first Christmas all together, and it was important that we have a nice picture.”

“We wanted to do one at Thanksgiving, but it didn’t work out,” said her boyfriend, John Rundblad Jr. “And then Nicole told me about the Giving Tree.”

And thanks to For-Do and the Turning Point, the family – including Nichole’s daughter Mia – now have new, matching outfits for their first annual Christmas portrait.

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t’s your last chance to see Santa before the Jolly Old Elf heads out to deliver presents to all the good children. In Oneonta, Santa will be at his Muller Plaza home 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22. Santa will be at the Southside Mall 9 a.m.-Noon on Monday, Dec. 24, and 1-4 p.m. at his cottage in Pioneer Park, Cooperstown.

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• And there’s more music as the Catskill Brass performs a seasonal concert to help support church renovations. 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 307 Main St., Franklin. 607-829-6404.

• If you need support during the holidays, “The Longest Night” service offers support to all in an ecumenical service. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. (607) 547-9371.

• Mrs. Claus teaches kids a fun craft while parents finish their shopping. $10 for single child, $5 each additional child. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2-4 p.m Sunday, Dec. 23.

Community Room, Southside Mall, Oneonta. Info, www.theartfulspirits. com • Christmas is about community and the Friends of Christmas want to invite everyone to a free holiday meal. Dine in with your neighbors; delivery available to sick/homebound. 12:30-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. (607) 432-4102.

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First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-4102.

VISIT SANTA – 3 - 6 p.m.

Visit and take pictures with Santa & Mrs. Claus. Santa’s Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. 607-547-9983.

CELEBRATION – 3 - 5 p.m.

Celebrate an old-fashioned Christmas with games, fun, a special visitor. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs.

315-858-0230.

THURSDAY-Friday, DECEMBER 20-21, 2018 SANTA VISIT – 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Visit Santa, bring a letter, get pictures with Old St. Nick.

Santa’s Cottage, Muller Plaza, Oneonta. 607-432-2941.

FUNDRAISER – 6 p.m.

Cat Yoga with Lisa Brown and Susquehanna SPCA. All proceeds to Susquehanna SPCA. Suggested donation, $10. Bring your own mat, be prepared to meet adoptable kitties. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown.

607-547-9371.

Saturday, December 22,

SANTA VISIT – 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Visit Santa, bring a letter, get pictures with Old St. Nick.

Santa’s Cottage, Muller Plaza, Oneonta. 607-432-2941.

SANTA VISIT – 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Bring the kids to see

Santa while you shop. Southside Mall Oneonta. 607-4324401.

CRAFT CAMP – 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Kids can do a fun craft with Mrs. Claus while parents finish their shopping. $10 for single child, $5 each additional child. Community Room, Southside Mall, Oneonta.

CHRISTMAS DINNER – 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. Free Holiday meal prepared by The Friends of Christmas, Saturdays Bread, local churches with food donated by local businesses, individuals.

Delivery available to sick/ homebound. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-4324102.

VISIT SANTA – 1 - 5 p.m.

Visit & Take pictures with Santa & Mrs. Claus. Santa’s

Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. 607-547-9983.

TREE LIGHTING – 4:30 - 6 p.m. Inaugural ceremony with Otego Mayor Ernie Kroll followed by Christmas tree lighting at the library, then caroling. Bring non-perishable food for Otego Food Bank.

Begins at Otego Firehouse, 5 River St., Otego. 607-9886661.

HOMETOWN CHRISTMAS – 6 p.m. Celebrate the season with the Catskill Brass.

Donations to support interior restoration. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 307 Main St., Franklin. 607-829-6404.

COFFEE HOUSE – 7 - 9 p.m.

Music in a range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church. Church

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You’ll Find Gifts Galore GIFTS/From B1 giver and the receiver.” ($17 and $27, Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St, Oneonta) And what goes better with a good book than a delicious cup of coffee! At Stagecoach Coffee, beans are roasted right on site for the freshest cup of coffee in the county. “Our house blend is the most popular,” said manager Jeanmarie Marullo. “But people have really enjoyed our Organic Guatemalan Huehuetenango,” (pronounced “Way Way Tenango”). Buy it by the pound, or let them build a gift box with a mug and some fresh-baked cookies.

(Stagecoach Coffee, 31 Pioneer St #2, Cooperstown) For the person who savors a cup of tea, Tay Teas are hand-blended by Nini Ordoubadi, a third-generation Persian tea blender, in her Delhi shop. But you can save yourself a trip over the mountains by picking some up at the Green Earth in Oneonta. “Each jar tells the story of how she formulated the teas,” said Adam Riva, assistant manager. Among the most popular are the Coffee Lovers – “It tastes convincingly like coffee,” said Riva – and Marry Me Again, made with laven-

der and violets. Each jar makes 45 cups. ($18, The Green Earth, 4 Market St, Oneonta) It can be hard to remember what spring looks like during our long snowy winters, but a bright Leaf Print by Teri Stratford will brighten your wall – and your day! “I lay out real leaves on an illustration board, scan them, touch them up and sell prints,” said Stratford. Get one on a mug, a card to send to a friend, or framed to hang. ($20-$120, The Artisan’s Guild, 148 Main St #2, Oneonta) Orchids have a reputation for being delicate, but even the blackest thumb will be able to take care of a Ceramic Orchid by Diana Hall, one of a dozen of the newest members of the Cooperstown Art Association. “We have a great variety of work,” said Janet Erway, executive director.

“If you take the time to look closely, there’s something for everyone here.” ($95$125, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.)

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grance perfumes. Each rollerball is an exact replica of the most popular fragrance of each decade, 1910-1960, ranging from spicy to floral to fruity. “They’re great stocking stuffers and they

last forever,” said proprietor Elizabeth Raphelson.

“I’ve had mine for a year and a half.” ($25, Underground Attic, 273 Main St, Oneonta.)

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Everything is made right in the area.” ($10-$149, Cooper Country Crafts, 2 Doubleday Court, Cooperstown.)

Bring a little of downtown Oneonta home to your mantle with a miniature façade of some of Oneonta’s most famous buildings, including the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, Old City Hall and the Swart Wilcox House. Each is handmade by

artist Jack Ewan. ($5-$7, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St, Oneonta) It only takes a moment to learn, but it could take a lifetime to master The Game Of Space. Lay out your board and place your magnets and try to get rid of yours before your opponent does, but be careful – if two stick together on your turn, you have to take them both. “It only takes five minutes to play, and it’s quick and simple to clean up,” said shopkeeper Lou Marchionda. ($24 Riverwood, 88 Main St, Cooperstown) Happy shopping!

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company

MDFARMEQ, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/12/18.

Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 807 County Highway 35, P.O. Box 155, Maryland, NY 12116.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF LAW NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of Representatives of the County of Otsego at a meeting thereof held on the 14th day of December, 2018, duly adopted a Local Law, which is subject to permissive referendum, entitled: A Local Law establishing the salaries of Director of Real Property Tax Service II, Personnel Officer, Director of Public Health, Commissioner of Social Services Group I, Commissioner of Elections (DEM), County Treasurer, County Clerk, Superintendent of Highways, Public Defender, Board of Representatives, Chair of the Board of Representatives, Clerk of the Board, and County Attorney for the year 2019.

The intent of this local law is to establish salaries for 2019 for the respective Managerial/Confidential and Elected officials shown above.

The full text of this Local Law is available for inspection in the Clerk of the Board’s Office in the County Office Building, Cooperstown, New York during regular business hours.

Dated: December 14, 2018

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Name: OSTERHOUDT MECHANICAL LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 December 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5940 St Hwy 7, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of formation of Friends of the Trans Adirondack Route, LLC. Article of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) 5/21/13.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

Purpose of LLC: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Street address of Principal Business location is 246 Southside Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.

County of Principle Business is Otsego.

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Notice of formation of Sugarhouse Farms Limited Liability Company in Otsego County.

Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on December 4, 2018, NS is designated as agent upon whom process may be served, NS shall mail service of process (SOP) to 3 Michael Drive, Schenectady, NY 12303.

The purpose of Sugarhouse Farms LLC is to operate as a corporation legally and lawfully in the State of New York.

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Notice of formation of B.C.E. HOME SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/12/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 304 Main St., Schoharie, NY 12157, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of The Parish Paper, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/1/2018.

Office Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 41 Ford Ave., Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) HUNT’S REAL ESTATE PROPERTIES LLC The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on October 29, 2018.

OFFICE LOCATION: Otsego County.

The Secretary of state is designated as Agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 297 Shaw Brook rd, South New Berlin, NY 13843.

PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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BIRTHDAY – 11 a.m.

- Noon. Celebrate birth of Jesus a little early. Includes cake, treats after worship.

First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. 607-5479371.

VISIT SANTA – 1 - 4 p.m.

Visit, take pictures with Santa, Mrs. Claus. Santa’s Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. 607-5479983.

CRAFT CAMP – 2 - 4 p.m. Kids craft with Mrs. Claus while parents finish

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CHRISTMAS POTLUCK – 6:30 p.m. Bring dish to pass, table service.

Followed by candlelight service. United Methodist Church, 2878 St. Hwy. 28, Portlandville.

Monday, December 24

CHRISTMAS EVE SANTA VISIT – 9 a.m. Noon. Kids visit Santa while you shop. Southside Mall Oneonta. 607-432-4401.

CRAFT CAMP – 10 a.m.

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2018.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it to: The LLC, 45-75 159th St., Flushing, NY, 11358.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: SUMMIT GROVE BUILDERS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 13 November 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 8211 St Hwy 80, Springfield Center, NY 13468.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: ANTHONY WAHL PROPERTY LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 1 November 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 568 St Hwy 166, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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their shopping. See Saturday Listing.

VISIT SANTA – 1 - 4 p.m.

Visit, take pictures with Santa, Mrs. Claus. Santa’s Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. 607-5479983.

SIT N’ KNIT – 1 - 2 p.m.

Work on knit, hand-stitch project. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315858-0230.

CHRISTMAS EVE – 4 p.m. Christmas pageant with holy Eucharist. Musical prelude, carol sing at 9:30.

Service, Eucharist at 10.

Christ Church Episcopal, 46 River St., Cooperstown.

607-547-9555.

CHRISTMAS EVE – 4 p.m. Annual pageant fol-

lowed at 10 p.m. by candlelight worship, communion “When Midnight Meets Morning” with Rev. Elsie Rhodes. All welcome. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown.

607-547-8401.

CHRISTMAS EVE – 4:30, 7:30, 11 p.m. Candlelight & Communion service.

Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-6552.

CHRISTMAS EVE – 5 p.m. Celebration with Family Eucharist, followed by Service of Carols at 10:30 p.m., Festive Choral Eucharist at 11 p.m. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. 607432-1458.

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The purpose of the business of the Company is any lawful business purpose.

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ROSEMARIE CHESLA; PAMELA CHESLA, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; CRYSTAL (SURNAME UNKNOWN), AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK;

appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

Name: ANTHONY WAHL REAL ESTATE LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 27 November 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 568 St Hwy 166, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of Craft 174 LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/20/18.

Off. loc.: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: 174 Underwood Dr., Otego, NY 13825.

Purp.: any lawful purp.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the limited liability company is: DMT Holdings I, LLC (the “Company”).

The date of filing of the Articles of Organization of the Company with the Secretary of State was July 30, 2018.

The county in which the principal place of business of the Company shall be located is Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company, to Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP, Attn: Ronald L. Greene, Esq., 80 Exchange Street, Suite 700, Bing-

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Notice of formation of LAYLA RENTALS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on: 11/5/18.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it to: The LLC, 109 Sunset Dr., Apt 2, Oneonta, NY 13820.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act.

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Notice of formation of 31 Pioneer Street, LLC Filed 11/20/18 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 31 Pioneer Street Suite 3, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalJan.17 Legal nOtice

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX NO. 1023/2014 REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC

Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

DANIEL CROWELL, OTSEGO COUNTY TREASURER, AS ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; RONALD CHESLA, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF ROSEMARIE CHESLA; CHRISTOPHER CHESLA, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF

Defendants.

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 79 SOLAR BLUFF WORCESTER, NY 12197

To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $165,000.00 and interest, recorded on June 11, 2007, at Liber 1524 Page 661, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 79 SOLAR BLUFF WORCESTER, NY 12197.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the

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summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: Matthew Ingber, Esq. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalJan.3 Legal nOtice

Notice of Formation of Professional Service Limited Liability Company (PLLC) Name: Leatherstocking Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and NP in Acute Care Services PLLC; d/b/a: Leatherstocking Anesthesia and Acute Care. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 21, 2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

The SSNY has been designated as the agent of the PLLC upon whom processes against the PLLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the PLLC, 225 Bristol Road Hartwick, NY 13348. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of David Benjamin LLC Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/8/18. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 165 W. End Ave, Apt 17D, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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At FOR-DO, Getting Christmas Presents A Novelty FOR-DO/From B1 used to adopt a family at Christmas from the trees at Hannaford,” she said.

“This year, I thought, what if members of the Turning Point gave and took gift tags?”

Twenty-two members, as well as board members and community organizations, filled out and took tags. Many asked for winter Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.com coats, gloves, hats and “Santa is my man,” says Doris Frimpong, as she boots. “One person took unpacks a present of Reebok longjohns. a tag from someone who

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needed new boots,” she said. “They came back with Timberlands, and then took another tag.”

One couple used a tag to ask for gifts for their kids.

“Someone wanted gaming headsets for their boys, another wanted a little plastic food truck,” said Berrios. “We had a lot of requests for arts and crafts kits, too, and to write ‘From Santa’ on the tag.”

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something nice for yourself and tell me about it in a card’,” said Berrios.

“Someone else wrote that what they wished for was to be at peace.”

Members could also take tags and bring gifts. “It’s a nice thing to offer to give back to our members, but to also let them give back,” said Berrios. “We had someone we knew was struggling, but she took a tag.

We told her she didn’t have to, but she told us it was important, and she brought back a gift.”

Conklin asked for new dress clothes for her family – a shirt for John, and dresses for her and Mia. “We came to get tags, but then they asked what we wanted,” said Rundblad.

“And then they made it happen.”

On Friday, Dec. 14, For-Do brought in a Santa Claus to help give out the gifts. “I have to check my naughty list,” he told Doris Frimpong, a member and a volunteer. “Naughty, naughty, nice … Doris!

You’re on the nice list!”

He gave her two boxes; a long winter coat and a set of long johns, as requested.

“Oh Santa, you’re so sweet,” she said. “I needed a new coat; now that I’m off the drugs, I’m not a size small anymore. You know how cold Oneonta gets.”

And even though Heather Countryman put a tag on the tree the day before Santa

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came, she still got a gift – gloves, a scarf and hat set, body wash and a horse calendar. “I love horses,” she said. “It’s so nice to feel like someone cares about us.”

Conklin and Rundblad took two tags and bought gifts for another member’s children. “Mia helped pick out some art supplies,” she said. “She really got into it.”

“Giving makes you feel so good,” said Countryman.

The Giving Tree is just one piece of the Turning Point’s plans to support their members through Christmas and New Year’s. “The holidays can be tough for someone in recovery,” said Berrios. “It can be a trigger for people who are newly sober to be around people who are drinking or using, and there’s a high relapse rate around the holidays.”

Additionally, she said, many people may no longer be connected to their families. “People burn a lot of bridges when they’re actively using or drinking,” she said. “So having someplace where they are safe and wanted is very important.”

For those who may not have someplace to go, the Turning Point will host a free Christmas Day dinner at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 25, at its Elm Street location. The dinner is open to anyone.

“This is a place where you can come to feel good,” said Berrios. “The recovery community is a family.”

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OBITUARIES

Jane Ann F. Casey, 92; Volunteer, DAR Member, Native Daughter

COOPERSTOWN – Jane Ann Feeck Casey, of Cooperstown, died peacefully early in the morning of Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, surrounded by her loving family at her home of 58 years.

Born June 30, 1926, at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City, Jane Ann was the daughter of W. Douglas Feeck and Ida Elizabeth Cotton Feeck.

She lived in Binghamton, graduating from Binghamton Central High School in 1946. In a time when few women sought higher

education, she received the degree of Associates in Science from Endicott College in 1948.

Returning to her home in Binghamton she volunteered at the Well Baby Clinic, the Christopher Columbus School, was a member of the Junior League and sang in its chorus, advised teenage girls at the YWCA and was the head of the Junior Altar Guild, training young women to serve at Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church.

Jane Ann married John E. Casey of Hudson Falls

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on April 26, 1958, at St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church in Binghamton. She and John moved to Cooperstown after their marriage and began their wonderful life together.

Jane Ann continued her volunteerism, leading a Brownie and Girl Scout Troop, assisted students at Cooperstown Elementary School with reading, and volunteered at Bassett Hospital. She was a 60year member of the Otsego Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as Regent and Chaplain.

Jane Ann was also a 60-year

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Casey-Wagemaker and grandchildren Emily, Sarah, Andrew and Catharine of Niskayuna; a son, George and his wife, Dorothea Casey and grandson Michael of Greenwich; and cousins Harold Brayman (Marita) of Naples, Fla., Walter Brayman and George Osborne (Jeanne).

Friends are invited to pay their respects to the Casey family at Jane Ann’s beloved home at 3 Elm St., Cooperstown, 4-7 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 21.

The Office of the Burial of the Dead with Holy Eucharist (Rite I) will be offered at 1 p.m. Saturday,

Dec. 22, at Christ Church, Cooperstown, with the Rev. Dane E. Boston, rector, officiating. The Committal Service and inurnment will follow at the Ecumenical Columbarium in the churchyard at Christ Church. A reception will follow.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Otsego Chapter NSDAR in care of Nanette Root, Treasurer, 151 Lippitt Development Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326, or Christ Church, 69 Fair Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Cynthia M. Grant, 54, New Berlin; Loved Crocheting For Her Grandchildren NEW BERLIN – Cynthia “Cindy” M. Grant, 54, of New Berlin, passed away peacefully surrounded by loving family at Albany Medical Center on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018.

Cindy was born on Dec. 30, 1963 in Oneonta, to Steve & Grace Simmons.

Cindy was a lifelong resident of the Edmeston and New Berlin areas, graduating from Edmeston Central School in 1983. She later attended the Utica School of Commerce completing her paralegal studies.

Cindy married the love of her life, Larry “Scott” Grant on July 6, 2002. She enjoyed hunting, fishing, and camping. She also

loved to craft. Whether it be crocheting blankets for the grandkids, making quilts for family members, or mending clothes for the loved ones, she loved crafting.

She is survived by her husband Scott, of New Berlin, and her parents Steve & Grace Simmons of Burlington Flats. She also leaves behind her loving siblings, Michael (Pam) Simmons of Burlington Flats and their boys Justin, Adam, and Christopher, Deborah Clark of New Berlin, and her son Travis, Kathy Mumbulo of Burlington Flats, and her daughter Ashley, and Steve (Christina) Simmons of Texas, and their children David, Nicholas, Matthew,

Elizabeth, and Benjamin.

Also surviving Cindy are her children and her most precious grandchildren, Dennis (Brittany) Grosfent of Brookfield, and their children, Aaliyah, Jace, and Nathan, and Sharalynn Grosfent of New Berlin, and her children Camryn, Connor, and Nolan Edgett.

Also close to her heart were her “in-laws” Charles Grant of Florida, and his sons Chucky and Michael, Robert (Linda) Grant of New Berlin, and their children Chrissy and Frankie, Donald (Tammy) Grant of Pittsfield, and their boys Thomas, Jake, and Andrew, and Martin (Amy) Grant of Pittsfield, and their children Alicia, Colin, and

Brynn.

She is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, great nieces Cynthia and nephGrant ews.

A funeral was held Tuesday, Dec. 18 at the Delker and Terry Funeral Home with Mark Piedmont officiating. Interment was at the New Berlin Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Friends of Bassett in Cindy’s memory.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Delker and Terry Funeral Home.

Richard Kroll, 78; Richfield Man Worked On Apollo 11 RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Richard J. Kroll, 78, who returned home to Richfield Springs after working on the Apollo 11 moon landing with Northrup Grumman, passed away Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, in his home on Route 25.

Dick was born on May 7, 1940, on the family farm in Cullen, a son of the late Frank J. and Eleanor Janiec Kroll.

He was raised and educated in Richfield Springs, graduating from Richfield Springs High School with the Class of 1959. He attended Indiana Institute of Technology, obtaining a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He began his career working with the design of airplanes, most notably the F-15 fighter jet.

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member of Christ Church, Episcopal, serving as a member of the Altar Guild for many years.

Jane In 2008 she Ann became a Casey member of the Native Daughters of Cooperstown, something of which she was very proud.

Jane Ann was predeceased by her parents, her husband of 48 years, John, and daughter Ann. She is survived by her daughter-in-law, Dana

He then joined Northrup Grumman where he worked on the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) Project that is associated with all Apollo mission lunar landings. The LEM transported the crew from lunar orbit to the moon and back to orbit, with the most notable mission being Apollo 11, where the U.S. achieved the first landing on the moon.

After starting his own family, Dick had a successful career working for the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy as a secure hospital TA, from which he ultimately retired.

He was a member of Knights of Columbus Council No. 1508, Richfield Springs. Having a strong belief in God, he was a devout Catholic and an active

member of the Church of St. Services for Mr. Kroll Joseph the Worker in West will take place this spring.

Winfield.

Funeral arrangements are He loved anything to do with the J. Seaton McGrath with aeronautics and in his Funeral Home, 40 West spare time enjoyed building James St., Richfield Springs. model airplanes and being Expressions of sympathy a war history buff studying may be made in his memory, military battles and aircraft. with donations to St. Joseph He was a devoted father the Worker Church of to his children and survivWest Winfield or Richfield ing him are two sons, Eric J. Springs.

Kroll, of Richfield Springs Arrangements are enand Richard G. Kroll and his trusted to J. Seaton McGrath wife, Melonie, of Kirkville; Funeral Home. two daughters, Diana F. Kroll, of Utica and Karen Gienau and her husband, Timothy, of Pawcatuck, Conn.; seven grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins.

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Arrangements are entrust- Becky at Benson Agency Real Estate, 607-432-4391. ed to the Delker and Terry TFN Funeral Home.

Anne L. Weiss, 81, Burlington Flats; 40-Year Employee Of Otsego Mutual BURLINGTON FLATS – Anne L. Weiss, 81, a 40year employee of Otsego Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in Burlington Flats, passed away unexpectedly at her home on Friday Dec. 14, 2018.

Anne was born on Feb. 4, 1937 in Burlington Flats, the daughter of the late Lowell F. and Helen E Nichols Mayne.

Anne was a lifetime resident of the area, graduating from Edmeston Central School before graduating

from the Utica School of Commerce. She spent the next 40 years working for the Otsego Mutual, until her retirement in 1997.

Anne married Richard Weiss on Aug. 31, 1969, and they spent almost 50 years of marriage on the family farm in Burlington Flats.

She is survived by her husband Richard of Burlington Flats, a sister Dawn Hull of Burlington Flats, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

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Monday, December 24

PUBLIC SPEAKING – 5:30 p.m. Practice public speaking with the toastmasters. All welcome. The White House Building, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1466.

CHRISTMAS EVE – 6 p.m.

Live nativity scene followed by 7 p.m. Candlelight Service.

Refreshments following the service. Main Street Baptist Church, 333 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-5712.

CHRISTMAS SERVICE – 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Traditional Christmas Service with Rev. Craig Schwalenberg. Followed

by Candlelight service at 9.

Unitarian Univeralist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-432-3491.

FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing with live model.

Poses chosen by consensus.

Cost $12/class. The Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-4358718.

CHRISTMAS EVE – 7 p.m.

Candlelight Service with The Red Door Church, 2 Walling Ave., Oneonta. 607-4327520.

CANDLELIGHT SERVICE – 7 - 8 p.m. Celebrate Christmas Eve with candles, carols, Christmas message. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. 607-547-9371.

NICOTINE ANONYMOUS

– 7 p.m. For those who desire to live nicotine-free. Front Meeting Room, St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. 845-332-7803 or visit nicotine-anonymous.org CHRISTMAS EVE – 7 p.m.

Contemporary family service with Childrens’ pageant followed by Christmas Tea. Candlelight service with choirs and holy communion at 10. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-4102.

CHRISTMAS VIGIL – 7:30 p.m. Solemnity of Christmas with Mass for the Vigil. Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. 607432-3920.

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CHRISTMAS – 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Christmas mass.

Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. 607432-3920.

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library. 607-547-8344.

Wednesday, December 26

LEGO CHALLENGE – 10 a.m. Bring the kids over dur-

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ing holiday break to build structures with LEGOs. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

DISCUSSION GROUP – 3 - 5 p.m. Discuss current events. Cooperstown Village Library. Call 607-547-8344.

CHESS MEETING – 6 - 11 p.m. Weekly meeting welcomes players of all levels. No fees. Cafeteria, College Union, SUNY Oneonta. Call Dom at 607-484-7240.

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December 27

PUBLIC SPEAKING – 6:15 p.m. Practice public speaking with the Toastmasters.

The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Visit oneonta. toastmastersclubs.org GAME NIGHT – 6:30 - 10 p.m. Play ongoing fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons.

Newcomers welcome. Free, Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury. 607-326-7908.

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Our church invites you to join us in the worship and fellowship of Jesus Christ. The door is always open.

Our Schedule for Christmas is:

Christmas Eve December 24, 2018

Family Eucharist - 5 pm Service of Carols - 10:30 pm Festival Choral Eucharist - 11 pm

First United Methodist Church

Christmas Day

Join us Christmas Eve

December 25, 2018

Holy Eucharist - 10 am

Join us here at St. James’ Church as we celebrate the Coming of the Christ Child

St. James Episcopal Church

305 Main Street, Oneonta • 607-432-1458 www.stjamesoneonta.org • Like us on facebook

Saint Mary’s Catholic Church

39 Walnut Street, Oneonta 607-432-3920 · www.stmarysoneonta.org

Come and join us at Saint Mary’s Catholic Community for Christmas – the Birth of God We are looking forward to worshipping with you.

The Solemnity of Christmas Monday, 24 December 2018 Mass for the Vigil – 7:30 pm

66 Chestnut Street, Oneonta

607-432-4102 • firstumc-oneonta.org

7 pm Contemporary Family Service with Children’s Pageant 8 pm Christmas Tea 10 pm Candlelight Service with Choirs and Holy Communion A Reconciling Congregation · Wheelchair Accessible · All are welcome

Rev. Marti Swirds-Horrell, Pastor

The “Red Door” Church (First United Presbyterian) Welcomes You Join us for Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 7 pm - Monday, December 24 Main Street and Walling Avenue, Oneonta (across from Friendly’s) • Church Office: 607-432-7520 The Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Walton-Leavitt

Sunday, 30 December 2018 Mass during the Day – 10:30 am

elmparkumconeonta.org (607) 432-6552

Join us for

Christmas Eve Candlelight & Communion Services at 4:30 pm, 7:30 pm & 11 pm

Main Street BaptiSt ChurCh invites you to a

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown At Elm & Pioneer Streets

The Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God Tuesday, 1 January 2019 Mass during the Day - 10:00 am

Cooperstown 607-547-8401

4th Sunday of Advent Sunday, December 23

Christ ChurCh, EpisCopal

46 River Street, Cooperstown 607-547-9555 · www.christchurchcooperstown.org The Rev’d Dane E. Boston, Rector

Christmas Eve – Monday, December 24 4 pm Christmas Pageant and Holy Eucharist 9:30 pm Musical Prelude and Carol Sing 10 pm Candle Service and Holy Eucharist

Check out our new website at www.stmarysoneonta.org and go to your APP Store to find the Saint Mary’s Church App.

401 Chestnut St., Oneonta

refreshments will be served following the service. all are welcome!

For more information, visit www.msbchurch.org or call 607-432-5712.

The Feast of the Holy Family Saturday, 29 December 2018 Mass during the Vigil – 5:00 pm

Sunday, 6 January 2019 Mass during the Day – 10:30 am

Elm Park United Methodist Church

at the corner of Main and Maple Streets in Oneonta at 7 pm with a Live nativity at 6 pm

Tuesday, 25 December 2018 Mass during the Day – 8:30 am and 10:30 am

The Solemnity of the Epiphany Saturday, 5 January 2019 Mass for the Vigil – 5:00 pm

“For unto us a child is born...”

Christmas Day – tuesday, December 25 10 am Holy Eucharist

Join us! All are welcome!

10 am - Worship “Draw Near to One Another” The Rev. Elsie A. Rhodes, preaching

Christmas Eve

Monday, December 24

4 pm - Worship w/Annual Christmas Pageant

10 pm - Candlelight Worship with Celebration of Communion “When Midnight Meets the Morning” The Rev. Elsie A. Rhodes, preaching

Beautiful musical offerings by the Chancel Choir

All are Welcome!

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Thursday, December 27

PUBLIC SPEAKING – 6:15 p.m. Practice public speaking with the toastmasters.

The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Visit oneonta.

THURSDAY-Friday, DECEMBER 20-21, 2018 toastmastersclubs.org GAME NIGHT – 6:30 - 10 p.m. Play ongoing fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons.

Newcomers welcome. Free, Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury. 607-326-7908.

State of the State Breakfast Wednesday, January 2, 2019 8:00 am Breakfast 8:30 am - 10 am Program SUNY Oneonta • Morris Hall • Otsego Grille Join us to learn more about the State of Otsego County in this informative breakfast meeting!

Discussion Panelists

Friday, December 28

BUILD-A-THON – 10 a.m.

Bring the kid to build something with Magnatiles. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314.

BLOOD DRIVE – 1 - 6 p.m. Main Dining Room, Cooperstown Center, 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Road, Cooperstown. 607-544-2672.

FUNDRAISER – 6 p.m.

Cat Yoga with Lisa Brown and Susquehanna SPCA. All proceeds to Susquehanna SPCA. Suggested donation,

$10. Bring your own mat, Meet adoptable kitties. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. 607-547-9371.

FUNDRAISER – 6 - 10 p.m. Celebrate end of 2018 with Superheroes in Ripped Jeans at ‘Cat tails & Cocktails’ event. Semi formal wear encouraged, award presented to best dressed. Tickets, $30 found at Underground Attic, Peter Clarks Student Rentals, My Father’s Place. Covers admission, 2 drinks, hors d’oeuvres, raffle ticket. My Father’s Place, 5690 St. Hwy. 7, Oneonta. 607-441-3227.

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Saturday, December 29

CELEBRATION – 11 a.m.

- Noon. Celebrate a New Year with games, themed crafts, a ‘toast’ at Noon. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs.

315-858-0230.

Monday, December 31

FROSTBITE 5K – 1 p.m.

Run through scenic Oneonta this New Year’s Eve. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-432-0010 ext.

205.

CELEBRATION – 6 p.m.

- Midnight. Fireworks at 10.

Ring out 2018 with pizza party before parade down Main St., performances by Alex Torres and his Latin orchestra. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Visit firstnightoneonta.com FIGURE DRAWING – 6:30 - 9 p.m. Non-instructional drawing with live model.

Poses chosen by consensus.

Cost $12/class. The Carriage House Art Studio, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. 607-435-8718.

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The Business Council of New York will present 2019 NYS Legislative Priorities and Challenges Reservations $25 per person ($35 for non-members)

Public welcome to attend.

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EOE

December 19, 2018 1:30pm-4:00pm

Village of Cooperstown Building 22 Main St. Cooperstown, NY 13226

Advertising sAles rep The Cobleskill Times-Journal seeks a motivated, self-starting and organized person to sell advertising in Schoharie and surrounding counties. This person will call on established accounts and actively seek new accounts.

The successful candidate must: • Have good communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Be persuasive, confident, pleasant and outgoing.

• Be able to build and maintain relationships with clients.

• Work under pressure and meet weekly deadlines.

The person will receive a base pay plus commission. We pay mileage and also offer benefits including paid vacation, health insurance and 401K. Candidates should submit a cover letter with resumé to the Times-Journal, Attn: Bruce Tryon, sales manager, PO Box 339, Cobleskill, NY 12043. Or email to Mr. Tryon, tjournalads@yahoo.com. No phone calls, please.