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wanting to see “their doctor,” staff pleaded with administration to tell the public what’s going on.

COOPERSTOWN The result was a letter f Bassett Hospital were a Bassett patients received in the restaurant, they’d call it a past week from Dr. Douglas soft opening.

Delong, division chief of GenBut, over the past year, a Dr. Delong eral Internal Medicine and the “team-based approach” to Prime Care Clinic, “to explain medical care at the 2,400-employee how our delivery of primary care is Cooperstown medical center generevolving, with the goal of better meetated so much blowback from patients Please See TEAMS, A6

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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, delivered news that a $2 million state grant will help the Village of Cooperstown repair its half-century-old sewage treatment plant on the Susquehanna.

In addition to $2 million from Assemblyman Bill Magee, R-Nelson, Mayor Jeff Katz said if a $3.5 million state Environmental Facilities Corp. grant is received this spring, the work can be done with no increase in village sewer rates/RELATED

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them to the situation.

In September, following the controversy in Flint, Mich., the state Health Department ordered all school districts to test their water systems for lead.

“The testing came back Dec. 1 and we immediately took action to shut off affected areas,” said Virgil.

“We sent home a notice and put it on our website.”

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Inspired by the Divine Mercy movement, Carl Wenner erected a “Jesus I Trust You” sign board on his Route 28 property in Fly Creek.

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ne foggy evening in October, a young woman was driving home down Route 28 to Cooperstown. It was getting late. She was tired. It was hard to see the road. Her husband was

asleep in the passenger seat.

Suddenly, there was glowing vision through the mist, of a kindly man, 30-ish, with red hair and a beard. Underneath the image was a legend, “Jesus, I trust in you.”

“I knew then I was going to get home OK,” she said. “That everything was going to be alright.”

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hey may be on opposite sides of the political fence, but MacGuire Benton and Bobby Walker aren’t going to let red and blue get in the way of their friendship.

Benton chairs the county’s Young Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Democrats; Walker, the Young Repub- Democrat MacGuire Benton and licans.

Republican Bobby Walker ham it “You can talk about these things and up – they’re really friends. not hate each other,” said Walker, a CCS senior who hopes to attend SUNY arguing politics,” said Benton, a CazeAlbany next year. “Politics don’t have novia College freshman. “I was super politically ignorant two years ago, but to have an effect on your friendship.” as the race for the White House started, “Back in high school, we had EngPlease See PALS, A6 lish class together, but we bonded over

After 22 Years, New Year’s Gala Goes

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fter 22 years – 17 at The Otesaga – the Friends of Bassett’s annual New Year’s Eve Gala

is no more.

“We’re ready for a change,” said Sheila LeMaster, the Friends’ special events manager. “Earlier in the year, we met with focus groups, and the feedback was that we needed something fresh.”

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atrick Claudy and Kassandra Lent were engaged on DecemCOOPERSTOWN ber 16, 2016 underneath the Rockefeller Center Christooperstown Library Director David Kent is recovermas tree. ing after a car accident left him briefly hospitalized.

Patrick’s parents are According to police reports, at approximately 2 Bill and Trudy Claudy, p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, Kent was riding Hartwick and Kassandra’s his bike the intersection of Susquehanna parents are Lisa Lent of and Beaver towards the Clark Sports Hartwick and Brian Lent Center when he failed to come to a stop of Otego. His mother is the and struck a car in the process of turning.

Chief Executive Director of He fell off his bike and struck his head, the Plains at Parish Homeand was transported by ambulance to stead The Hartwick Historical Society’s awards for Bassett Hospital, where he was briefly Patrick works for New Community Christmas Decorations went to, from hospitalized with a concussion.

York Central Mutual as a left, Barbara Potter, Kinney Memorial librarian; No tickets were issued, and he has security analyst and KasKent Sarah Saxer, Caren Kelsey and Patrick MacGregor. since returned to work at the library. sandra works at Bassett Missing is Stephanie Horth.

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WHEN VILLAGE EYES ARE SMILING

After 22 Years, New Year’s Gala Goes

GALA/From A1 The Otesaga gala was one of the Friends biggest annual fundraisers. In 2015, it raised nearly $130,000 to support the education of nurses throughout the Bassett Healthcare Network.

In the early years, it was at the old Bassett Clinic, but has been at the resort hotel since 1998.

“The time of year was one of the biggest challenges we were facing,” said LeMaster.

“People are traveling, they’re with family, and it was difficult for some of our staff and volunteers who wanted to have a presence there.”

LeMaster also believes it made it difficult for sponsors and guests from outside of the area to offer support.

But for those who still want to dance the night away, fear not. The Otesaga will still host its annual New Year’s Eve party, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal usually concurrent with the Bassett Gala,

When you show up with a $2 million check, people start smiling, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, proved yet again Tuesday, Dec.20. when he announced in Village Hall that Cooperstown would be receiving that sizeable grant to help fund renovations of the waste-water treatment plant on the Susquehanna. Mayor Jeff Katz added that, if a $3.5 million state Environmental Facilities Corp. grant shows up in the spring, the job may be done with no increase in sewer rates. From left are Trustee Cindy Falk, Plant Operator John Cankar, Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, Mayor Katz, Senator Seward, Trustees Richard Sternberg, Lou Allstadt and Jim Dean, Delaware Engineering principal John Brust, Public Works Superintendent Brian Clancy, and Trustee Bruce Maxson.

in the Hawkeye Grille. “It’s a more casual affair, but a festive, easy-going evening,” said Jim Miles, Otesaga general manager.

“We’ve also got a wedding going on in The Glimmerglass Room, so we’re rockin’ and rollin’!”

And The Friends has moved the gala to Feb. 11, with a Valentine’s Day theme. “One of the things we heard a lot of was that there was nothing to do in February,” she said.

“This falls right between the Super Bowl, the Winter Carnival and winter vacation.”

And the event itself is changing with the times. “We want to get rid of the stuffy atmosphere and rigorous schedule,” said LeMaster. “We want it to be fluid and fun.”

New to that gala will be “dinner stations” open all night, rather than a buffet-style, where diners wait for their assigned table to be called. “This way, you can dance, get some food and then go back to dancing,” she said.

Lead Found In CCS Taps, Quarantines LEAD/From A1 lion, 2 ppb about the state health standard. “The level that schools had to be tested at is higher than in municipalities,” said Virgil.

In all, 260 sources across the elementary and the middle/high school were tested.

“Some of the affected areas weren’t accessible by staff or students,” he said.

“Outdoor spigots, a sink in the boiler room, showers. I don’t think anyone is going to drink water out of those.”

Virgil believes that the faucets, not the pipes, are the culprit. “We had one sink that had a faucet and a drinking fountain,” he said. “The fountain tested fine, but the faucet had lead.

That tells us that it’s not the pipes.”

Another source might

be the solder itself. “The pipes and the faucets might be lead-free, but the solder used to weld them together might have lead in it,” he said.

The school will start by replacing all the faucets and the drinking fountain, then re-test in the spring.

In the meantime, students are given bottled drinking water in the cafeteria free of charge.

In the Oneonta City School District, four faucets have been closed off in the former Center Street School after lead was found in the water.

“Two faucets in the old library have been taken out of service, and one of them had a water fountain on it,” said Superintendent Joseph Yelich. “Another faucet in

the lavatory tested positive for lead.”

Of the five schools buildings tested for lead in Oneonta, only Center Street’s results have come back. “We’re hoping to get the other results soon,” he said. “When we get a full report, we can start looking at remediation in the five big-consuming schools.”

The offending fixtures will all be replaced and the water re-tested. “If it still comes back as positive, we’ll check the piping,” he said.

At Schenevus Central, four drinking fountains and five faucets have been taken out of service. In one kitchen sprayer, a test draw in September found 1200 ppb.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2016

EDITORIAL

World Still Imperfect – But Wonderful. Merry Christmas

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ovies catch it. “Conan the Barbarian,” “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” when evil strides the earth, and people cry out for a savior, (not always forthcoming in Hollywood’s versions).

In civic life though, we Americans have been living as if progress is inevitable. We’ve now learned, it isn’t guaranteed.

We’re finishing up a troubling campaign year – it dramatized how the American people have lost faith in the American establishment – with an untried president in the wings. What the future Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal holds is unclear, for optimists and Soprano Joelle Lachance, left, and tenor Quinn Bernneger, pessimists alike. far right, made “Messiah” particularly special this season.

Which made the Voices of Cooperstown’s performance of treat – soprano Joelle Lachance tear came to many an eye in the Handel’s “Messiah” the other eve- of Fly Creek and tenor Quinn full church pews. Then, the dark ning at Christ Episcopal Church Bernegger of Cooperstown – com- bass solo, “For behold, a darkness – the sole such performance in municated that the beauty and shall cover the earth.”

Otsego County this year – even promise of art here will extend The Nativity story and what folmore poignant and evocative than well past our mortal spans. lowed is, of course, a celebratory usual. (Mostly a Cooperstown one, and the 50-voice chorus soon • crowd, the Rev. Cynthia Waltoncaptured it. “For unto us a child “The Messiah” itself, of course, Leavitt and other Oneontans spoke is born.” The Christmas message: is all darkness and light, and beto the countywide draw.)

“Glory to God, peace on earth, gan with Quinn’s deft and confiThe very performance of two good will toward men.” And the dent “Comfort ye, my people” – a solo parts by local singers, a rare

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the tune of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ No heaven or religion, no countries or borders or parochial loyalties of any kind.” And we wonder at our national malaise.

And yet, the faithful and nonfaithful alike emerged energized from the other evening’s “Messiah” into freezing spray outside, reinforced against challenges to come.

It’s not common to speak of it these days, but centuries of Western Culture – yes music, and art, philosophy and religion, democratic traditions, the scientific method and its discoveries; heavens, even the freedoms enabled by thriving capitalism – have created a powerful foundation to meet whatever lies ahead.

This Christmas, who doesn’t hope our president will grow into the world’s most challenging office, and succeed in rebuilding a self-confident, visionary and prospering republic? Regardless, our nation will survive and, to a greater and lesser degree, thrive.

With thanks to Joelle and Quinn, that is our Christmas hope.

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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.

And the angel 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.

elevating “His yoke is easy and His burthen is light.”

Joelle’s “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion,” was simply thrilling – disciplined, precise, and what bearing. She held the audience enthralled then and in her solos that followed.

This is the Christmas season, of course, but showmanship requires “Messiah” performances to jump ahead to Easter and the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the happiest ending of all: “And he shall reign forever and ever.” All stood, as all have since George II at the London premiere in 1743.

Conan vanquishes. Darth Vader dies. If Handel wrote it, Harry Potter would have cast out the Dementors.

• Pastor Paul Messner – he ministers to Lutherans across Otsego County from Oneonta’s Church of the Atonement – has observed, “The fastest growing religion in the United States today is ‘none.’”

The New York Times’ conservative columnist, Ross Douthat, rather shockingly set the degradation of modern American life “to

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‘Little Child’ Leads Us Back To Creator “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them…”

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ut Mommy, we didn’t sing yet!” Three-year-old Paxton Hazzard was unhappy.

He had just heard me say that because the weather was so snowy/sleety/cold this past Sunday, the 18th, our parish’s traditional Christmas caroling at area nursing homes had been cancelled.

Paxton had learned his Jesus birthday song, “Away in a Manger,” at Sunday School at Evangelical Lutheran, Hartwick Seminary. He had sung it the previous week at Focus, and was ready to belt it out again. He knows Christmas is coming, and he knows that church people sing about Jesus!

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God Is With Us

Jesus, His Only Son

ut what if it’s true?

What if the strange story behind all the warm-fuzzies and holly-jollies of the Christmas season really is true?

What if the same God who made the heavens and the earth and all that dwell in them really did choose to be born on earth, in a real place, at a real moment in history? What if he really did live and die like an ordinary human being? What if his life and death have changed everything? What if it’s true?

We wish each other joy and peace at this time of year. But those aren’t ge-

neric, bland wishes.

The joy and peace of this season flow from the singular announcement that God has intervened in human history. God is with us in our hopes and in our fears, in our happiness and in our sorrow, in our living and in our dying. The birth of Jesus Christ is God’s great declaration of his love for the whole world – and of his love for you! The story we tell on Dec. 25 is a true story. And it changes everything.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards all people!”

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ave you ever wondered why it is that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ the way we do? The celebration of His birth is a worldwide event. Celebrated by many who do not even believe in Jesus.

Yes, we celebrate the birthdays of others such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. But we do not celebrate their birth on those days, we celebrate their lives. But with Jesus we celebrate His actual birth.

What is it that makes Jesus’ very birth worth celebrating? It is because God

the Son, the creator of all we see, took on human flesh and entered into His creation and He did so as a baby some 2000 years ago.

Why? The answer is simple. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

– John 3:16.

The answer is love. I pray for your Christmas to be filled with the love of God as seen in the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May each of you have a Merry Christmas and blessed New Year.

the Rev. Craig Schwalenberg Minister, Unitarian Universalist Society

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facing West Street. Strings of white lights are added. Soon Chrismons (Christ monograms) will be placed.

The tree greets all who come up the street, sitting under the church’s large lit wooden cross.

All around the earth, millions of Christians are engaged in similar activities this season, to welcome that “little child” who comes from the heart of God in order to lead us back to our Creator. Others also may do such things, but we Christians do them with a unique motivation: to give honor to the One who is Immanu-el – God with us! Our holy-day activities are all “under the cross” of Jesus, who lived, died and rose to bring us new life.

In a world which continues to be overfilled with violence, bitterness, despair and death, we use hearts and hands and voices to witness to Isaiah’s vision of peace and hope! Blessed Christ-mass!

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tableful of wrapped presents, clothing, bed linens and food boxes, for some area families to arrive. Church members have donated the items and those whose economic situation is “under the weather” are reached out to, so that a generous celebration may come to their homes and children.

Jonah Hecker moves ceramic figures of the Holy Family one window closer to the wooden stable at the front of the sanctuary at St. John Lutheran, West Burlington.

Other Nativity figures have been appropriately placed around the sanctuary but are not moving yet, Jonah knows, because the baby has not yet been born. Each week in Advent, Mary, Joseph and the donkey get a little closer to their destination.

Len Pudelka, Eli England and SUNY Oneonta student Matt Strauss set up a tree in front of the large window at Atonement Lutheran, Oneonta,

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Child, Prophet, Savior, King Unites Us All

he Christmas holiday celebrates the story of a woman of a persecuted religious class giving birth to a child she is told will be a prophet, a savior, a king.

The powers in charge, when they hear of this birth, go on a terrible killing spree, trying to protect their dominion. The family becomes refugees in their own land.

When the baby, Jesus, grows up; he becomes a rebel and a radical, a leader and a teacher. He teaches civil disobedience and defies the leaders of both church and empire for the good of all.

Jesus becomes a community organizer and religious leader, issuing in a new way of peace, love, acceptance, and forgiveness.

This is why we celebrate his birth,

whether or not we are Christian.

Because the message remains as important now as it was then. That which divides us is solely a creation of humans; the love of the divine recognizes us all as family.

Resistance in the face of oppression, love in response to hatred, hope in the face of fear – these are central to the celebration of Christmas.

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LETTERS

Natural Gas Depletes Environment For Future Generations

To the Editor: one: Think of our environgas use are alarming levels asleep on this issue for the This is written in rement as a bank account we of methane leakage at every past five years. sponse to last week’s wish to leave our children stage of production to end No one disputes the editorial, “Winning Idea for and future generations. To use – cooking the planet, need for jobs, for energy, Democrats – Natural Gas the extent that we use and and not in some future time or the welcome boosterism for Amphenol.” The piece promote fossil fuels, we are – it’s happening now. consistently found in The presents the “relevant” idea draining that account.

Would not efforts to Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta. But for of gas for Amphenol and a The hard findings of reduce our reliance on foshen I was a boy, pro-Constitution Pipeline climate science and sil fuels be a prime example – how can we have Bishop Fulton stance against the “pure” the requirements for example of “thinking a regional hub in Oneonta Sheen of the 1950s ideas of “saving the planet,” healthy flora and globally and acting promoting our wonderful Emmy Award “Life Is Worth trying to mitigate climate fauna on this planet locally?” The grass- agriculture and craft brewerLiving” program came to our change, and caring about don’t change with roots of the Demoies if we move inexorably parish. We were thrilled! what happens in Minden one’s political afcratic party has been on to pushing dirty energy Each altar boy had the – “wherever that is.” filiation. Increasing speaking – loudly – methane – that jeopardizes bishop’s undivided attention The complex dilemma levels of sickening – for the past few not only our atmosphere for a few minutes. He hum- presented by our need for particulate matter in years, and it is decid- but public and agricultural bly asked about our likes in energy, the expediency of our air, plus more edly not a chorus health? school, sports fracked gas, the necessity and more ground promoting fossil fuels It turns out that crops and other and challenges of much level ozone, benzene, or their infrastructure. aren’t too keen on groundthings, mak- needed deployment of reformaldehyde, sulfur and That’s why I stomped level ozone, and the other ing us feel newables, and the reality of nitrogen oxides – some of out of the meeting of the toxins that are unfortunately like we were climate change made worse the hundreds of toxic comlocal Democratic party. a huge part of gas producthe VIP’s! by fossil fuels cannot be ex- pounds released during gas It astounded me that this tion and transport. It has A dear pressed in the “purity versus exploration and transport committee didn’t seem never, ever been a matter parishioner relevance” dichotomy this - don’t promote human, ani- to get that. The eventual of “clean natural gas” – a recently gave piece presents. mal, or agricultural health. straw-poll 20-2 vote against false characterization – as Bishop Sheen me an old promoting the Constitution It’s more complicated Just the opposite: All of this stand only looks at the Christmas than that, but to understand that is jeopardized in the Pipeline shows me the good smaller amount of carbon Inspirations book Bishop complex issues, sometimes short and long term. And folks serving on this county dioxide produced, as comSheen authored decades ago. a metaphor serves. Try this overarching it all from shale committee haven’t been pared with coal, when it’s In one meditation the bishop observed, “Only by being little do we discover anything big.”

He explained: to a little To the Editor sible that the only explanation falls to manner. child, adults seem huge and It was somewhat stunning to read, in a decrease in the number of locals who Add to this the fact that when the beanstalks scrape the stars. last week’s paper, the headline “’Park- have vowed that as long as paid parkstreet is parked full, it is nearly always The bishop continued, ing Crisis’ Over, Trustee Declares.” In ing is in effect in the village they will impossible to see if traffic is coming “There’s a close relation just over two years, since September take their business elsewhere? when exiting a driveway. As a result, between physical littleness, 2014, when it was announced that the It is also interesting that, when the residents are left facing a real which is childhood, and men- village had a huge issue with parking, discussing parking within the village, public safety hazard almost every time tal littleness, which is humil- it seems the village thinks it has the is- very little attention is ever given to the they leave home. ity. We cannot always be sue of parking within the village under parking problems residents deal with Granted, the village now allows children, but we can always control. on a regular basis. Although the vilresidents to paint the curb yellow 2 have the vision of children, This is somewhat puzzling as it does lage has over the years limited parking feet on either side of a driveway. And which is another way of say- not seem a single parking space has to two hours on a number of residenwhile this might keep drivers from ing we can be humble.” been added. In fact, parking spaces tial streets, the village seems to fall parking over the driveway, it does As I remembered that long have been eliminated for loading short when it comes to enforcing that little when it comes to improving the ago encounter with the good zones and employee parking. Nor has parking time limit year around. lack of visibility issue. bishop, I realized he showed it been announced that there has been Consequently, many residents basiUntil the village takes a serious me the answer to his own a steep decline in visitors to the vilcally live, at least Monday through look at the parking issues throughout meditation’s question: lage.

Friday, on a parking lot for employees the village, and not just those in the “How then can man disConsequently, it is somewhat of various business enterprises in the business district, it would seem, when cover God at Christmastime? confusing when it is announced by village. In many cases, these on-street it comes to parking, that it is a bit By making himself little, he the village that parking is now under parking lots do not have designated premature to declare “mission accomwill discover something big; control. One has to wonder just what parking spaces. Thus, it is not uncom- plished.” by being humble, he will find has happened in the past two years to mon to have cars parked in such a way CATHERINE LAKE ELLSWORTH the infinite God in the form Cooperstown bring about such a change. Is it posthat driveways are blocked in some of a Child.”

Christ Story: In Humility Is Wisdom

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Cooperstown ‘Parking Crisis’ Over? But Nothing Has Changed

burned. This completely ignores the methane leakage and its consequences, the millions of gallons of formerly good water poisoned per gas well, and the scores of toxic compounds and lung killing particulate matter that issue forth daily from compressor stations and other gas infrastructure.

A 126-mile pipeline is going to have some compressor stations – count on that.

The Constitution Pipeline, besides seizing private property for corporate gain, comes with all the toxic and methane baggage that affects all of us. That must be considered – not just Please See HUNTSMAN, A6

‘Winter’ For ‘Christmas’?

Bah, Humbug To the Editor: Years ago as residents of Cooperstown, my wife and I enjoyed many a “Christmas Concert” at the HS. As part of a Christian community, your paper chronicles in this week’s pages, as it should, no less than six “Christmas”-related happenings in and around town.

I take to task the NEAbrainwashed teachers and administration, who in spite of all that the season implies and stands for, continue in their politically correct nonsense of calling the event a Winter Concert. Get real !

I’ll wager that this is one of the thousand reasons why Trump won in Cooperstown.

BOB O’CON Tarpon Springs, Fla.

BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

It was said by an eminent philosopher long ago, that blaze was an ignited vapor. It was however reserved for the modern chemists to determine that that vapor was a gas or air of an inflammable property; that it was incapable of being set on fire like other combustible bodies; and that the presence and cooperation of oxygenous or pure air was necessary to ignite the vapor. The existence of flame or blaze, wherever it may be, is accompanied by the extrication of heat and light. In the greater part of natural bodies there are two materials capable of supporting fire, the volatile part forming flame, and called hydrogen; and the fixed part, forming the red brand and denominated carbone.

December 19, 1816

175 YEARS AGO

The Temperance Cause seems to have fastened itself upon the minds of the people throughout our whole country, and, as a consequence, “Washington Associations” are being formed and great numbers are flocking to the standard of Temperance and enrolling their names on the Total Abstinence Pledge. Here, in our own midst, within the last six weeks, four hundred and fifty names, embracing all classes in society, have been registered in support of Sobriety and Good Order, and the effect is apparent to the observation of every one. May the work continue to progress until every school district in our land shall experience its salutary influence as the community now feel them, producing new energies to industry and diffusing its blessings into the laps of the poor as well as the rich. Cheerfulness has driven away despondency and many a sorrowful heart has been made glad with joy.

December 20, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

An Exhibition consisting of Declamations, Charades, Dialogues, Tableaux, and Vocal and Instrumental Music, will be given in Turner’s Hall by the young people of Fly Creek, on Wednesday and Friday evenings, December 26 and 28, with an entire change of program the last evening.

Admission 25 cents.

Valuable Horses – Mr. George Clarke, of Hyde, Springfield, has recently added to his stock of valuable horses four colts of the Hamiltonian blood at a cost of $6,000.

One is four years old by Rysdyk’s Hamiltonian, dam by Abdallah; one two years old, by Hamiltonian Jr., dam by Black Bashaw; another same age, by Volunteer, dam by Black Bashaw; the fourth, one year old, by Volunteer, dam

by American Starr. Otsego is becoming famous for its fine horses, and justly so.

December 21, 1866

50 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

In our Town – Clarence A. Battle, the obliging colored janitor-porter at the main office of the Southern New York Railway, has left the job and gone to Ilion to assist in manufacturing munitions for the European war. But, you wouldn’t know it, for another, one Gus Battle, brother of Clarence has taken the job here, and they are as near alike both in appearance and action as two ebony keys on a piano.

If Flora, who has a cousin Ruth in Albany, will call at the post office, she will receive a Christmas message. Ruth neglected to supply the necessary address.

December 20, 1916

75 YEARS AGO

“Everyone that came from around Cooperstown is okay.”

This is the welcome word brought by a letter written by Robert W. Cook to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Cook in this village from Hickam Field Hawaii. The letter was written December 11 and mailed December 12 by air mail following the Japanese attack of December 7. It was received here December 21. Mr. Cook is a First Class Private attached to the Headquarters Squadron at Hickam Field.

For over 15 years the Girl Scouts of Cooperstown have been training for citizenship with special emphasis on those techniques now stressed so strongly in our National Defense Program – health and safety, conservation and thrift, recreational resources, especially out-of-doors, and community service. Long before this threat to our democratic way of life, under volunteer leadership, the Cooperstown Girl December 21, 1966 Scouts have studied home health, home nursing, first aid, child care, the preparation of food, sewing and knitting.

December 24, 1941 Excerpts from a letter from the Superintendent of the orphanage: “The two young girls who introduced poisonous Paris green into the milk at the orphanage had never Concern over saving lives overshadowed the issue of received decided moral teaching. They appeared after a unpredictable costs as the Otsego County Board of Repretime to be making good progress in the right direction. We sentatives voted to go through with plans to install a 911 were much encouraged about both. It was believed that emergency telephone system throughout the county. To pay within a few months both could leave the orphanage for for the system, a local law will impose a 35 cent per line good homes. But, as they themselves have confessed, they surcharge on telephone customers to pay for costs associbecame tired of orphanage life. The children under our ated with an enhanced 911 system. care are as a rule contented and happy. Such was not the December 25, 1991 case with these two young girls. They wished to have their own way in everything. Self-indulgence was their object.

It is a motive which has brought ruin to many grown men If you are driving along County Route 26 in the Fly and women. The same evil impulse led those young girls Creek Valley and spot a bison or two, don’t be surprised. to commit a fearful crime. They are now suffering a just “Yes, it’s true,” said Troy Brisard, who owns and operates punishment as prisoners in a Reformatory at a distance. It Honey Joe Farm with his wife Cam and their four children is our earnest prayer that the penitence they professed on – Emily, Sophia, Abigail, and Mason. “We were moving leaving us may become so far deepened and strengthened as them from their holding pen when they escaped out the side to affect their whole future lives.” of the fence.”

December 24, 1891 December 22, 2006

125 YEARS AGO

25 YEARS AGO

10 YEARS AGO

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Year After Soft Opening, Bassett Alerts Patients To Team Approach TEAMS/From A1 ing the needs of our patients.

“We have adopted a teambased approach to patient care,” the letter continued.

“One that brings together physicians (including physicians in training), advanced practice clinicians, such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners, as well as support staff to be your care team.”

“To be quite frank,” Delong said in a followup interview Tuesday, Dec. 20, “the real impetus of the letter itself was to try to explain to patients why it’s so difficult to get in to see ‘their doctor.’ Our staff fields a lot of phone calls and … some conversations don’t go very well if (patients) can’t see their doctor when they want to.”

Given a national shortage

of general practitioners, he said, the team approach is “how we see the best way going forward so patients can get the care they need in a timely fashion.”

A typical team, according to his letter, includes doctors and residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, RNs, LPNs, office assistants, secretaries and social workers.

“My patients have been asking me about the letter, too,” Delong said. “And I point out to them we’ve been doing it for more than a year. It’s nothing new.

“When I see someone who’s healthy, or needs a minor adjustment in their treatment, I will ask their permission to be seen by one of our advance practice technicians … Everyone needs to work at ‘the top of their license.’ When you

have limited resources, everyone has to do the job that they’re best matched for.”

But, he said, “No one has abandoned a single patient.

Every patient still has the same doctor. But every patient has a team to help care for that patient.”

For now, other hospitals in the eight-county system, like Fox in Oneonta, may have different approaches, but given that a lot of care is being centralized at

Bassett Hospital, patients from across the county and beyond are routinely treated at the Cooperstown mothership.

What’s happening here is part of a national challenge, and Delong, who is chair of the American College of Physicians’ Board of Governors, forwarded a 2013 ACP report laying out teambuilding principles.

Before the noontime interview, he had been

involved in the treatment of 10 patients that morning.

He had touched bases with each of the patients, then handed off treatment to a resident working with him.

With specialties in not just internal medicine but geriatrics, Delong pointed out that, while he can be called to treat a 25-year-old with a sore throat, his special knowledge might better be used on an 85-year-old patient with a number of

Dominion’s Expansion Plans Means ‘Fracking’s Here’

monster running 24-7. And HUNTSMAN/From A5 the purpose of that buildout? expediency for AmpheSelling the gas to the highnol. And consider the est bidder - apparent in the irony inherent in the fact intersecting Iroquis pipeline that the devastating floodadvertised plans to send gas ing in 2011, prompting the north to Canada. $20 million state assist to So why care about “wherAmphenol, was a manifestaever that is” Minden? It tion of climate instability may be a few miles north of – made worse by fossil our local political boundfuels, especially methane aries, but it’s not that far – that Amphenol wants away: and it could be you, more of.

Dominion’s “New Market me, our children, grandchildren, our animals, farm Project,” another corporate fields, and streams, that grab, will turn a little used into things we both feel could be affected. compressor station in the passionately about,” he said. town of Minden, just to the When my friend Suzy “So we’ll stop talking for a Winkler, on learning of north of the Otsego County day or so and recollect.”

Dominion’s expansion plans line, into a toxin belching “We never let it get personal,” said Benton. “We never dig. That’s the most important part. We just have to agree to disagree.”

Inspired over the petition drive, next May Benton may run for a seat on the CCS board. And he hopes to expand his Young Democrats Jim BenJamin throughout Otsego County.

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in 2014, declared “fracking’s here,” she was right.

Compressor stations are part of the whole chain.

Working for clean water and air, reducing our use of fossil fuels and promoting renewables could not be more relevant. As our envi-

ronment goes, so goes our health, and ultimately our economy. If policymakers and citizens on both sides of the political aisle understood this, what a gift that would be.

JULIE HUNTSMAN, DVM Fly Creek

Christmas X

Young Republican, Democrat Friends Away From The Fray PALS/From A1 I got interested.”

Friends despite their separate allegiances, the said they talk almost daily about politics.

And the two made common cause at the Wednesday, Dec. 14, presenting a 1,000signature petition stating the Cooperstown Central school board has mishandled providing pay and benefits to a secretary fighting cancer.

Walker got an earlier start.

“I was the only 12 year old who didn’t complain when his dad put on the news at night,” he said in a joint interview Friday, Dec. 17, at Stagecoach Coffee.

Benton was drawn to the Democratic Party by its stance on education, the environment and healthcare.

“When everyone is educated and healthy, society as a whole works better,” he said.

“I’m an advocate for equality, and we need to have an open conversation about the rise of the alt-right. These are things we can accomplish.”

Walker, meanwhile, is focused on security and the economy. “Our first policy needs to put American people before other nations,” he said. “I think we need to be fiscally responsible and very capitalistic.”

But there are things they both agree on. “I’m not 100 percent Republican and he’s not 100 percent Democrat,” said Walker. “We think that we can honor good ideas and bridge the gap between the two parties.”

“I agree with closing the north and south borders,” said Benton. “We would love to help, but our sole job is to protect the American people.”

“Without the protection of a strong foreign policy, we won’t able to protect our rights or have a stance on other issues,” said Walker.

And LGBTQ rights are another area where the two meet. “I feel like Donald Trump has reached out on gay rights,” said Walker.

The secret to their enduring friendship, Walker said, is to know when to stop.

“There are times we’ll get

chronic ailments.

There are many reasons for a shortage of general practitioners, from a longtime cap on the number of that can be trained at any one time, to long challenging days and pay issues relative to specialists, he said.

“This is not a Cooperstown problem,” he said. “This is not a Bassett problem. This is not a New York problem. It is a national problem.”

Oh! Why leave the Christ out of Christmas?

Why substitute X for his name?

There is naught else on earth or in Heaven Can ever make Christmas the same.

Be it thoughtless, hate or indifference By the fault I grieve and offend; When I leave the Christ out of Christmas I’m slighting my very best friend.

When I leave the Christ out of Christmas In vain is my holiday mirth.

For the Christ, God’s gift to His children Is the Christ who brought Christmas to earth.

God forgive me the thoughtless omission, I would not that Christ should depart.

Not only the Christ at the Yuletide, But all of the year in my heart. author unknown

Christ is the Reason for the Season.

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AllOTSEGO.homes Greetings of the Season What is Christmas?

It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.

It is a fervent wish that every cup overflows with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

From all of us at Ashley-Connor Realty, wishing you peace and good will this holiday season

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At this time of year we reflect on our lives and the blessings we have received over the years. Our thoughts turn gratefully to those who have made our progress possible. In this spirit, we say thank you for your patronage and for allowing us to be of service to you.

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May you enjoy a joyful holiday season and a prosperous and healthy New Year.

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Elm Park United Methodist Church

Nun’s Vision Now Inspired On Route 28

401 Chestnut Street, Oneonta Join us for

Christmas Eve Candlelight & Communion Services

at 4:30 pm, 7:30 pm & 11 pm & Christmas Day at 10:30 am

“for unto us a child is born”

First Baptist Church of Cooperstown 21 Elm St., Cooperstown | 607-547-9371 The Rev. Joseph Perdue, Pastor Like us on facebook @ctownfirstbaptist

ChRiStmaS EvE SERviCE

Candlelight Carols and Lessons Saturday, December 24, 7 pm ChRiStmaS moRning WoRShiP

Sunday, December 25, 10 am

First United Methodist Church 66 Chestnut Street, Oneonta

607-432-4102 • firstumc-oneonta.org

Join us Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

7 pm Family Service & Pageant 8 pm Christmas Tea 10 pm Candlelight Service with Choirs and Communion 10 am Christmas Day Worship A Reconciling Congregation · Wheelchair Accessible · All are welcome

Rev. Teressa Sivers, Pastor

Candlelight Service of Worship and Holy Communion December 24 at 11 pm Sunday Morning Worship December 25 at 10:30 am

Service of Las Posadas A special family Christmas Eve Service

December 24 at 7 pm A traditional Latin American celebration commemorating the nine months when Mary carried the infant Jesus in her womb and the Holy Family was searching for a welcoming place.

Featuring a “A Service of Lessons and Carols” based on an Anglican tradition that has been celebrated annually since 1930 at King’s College Cambridge, England.

In a religion that was born in a barn, an open door goes without saying.

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, 2016

Family Eucharist - 3 pm Service of Carols - 10:30 pm Festival Choral Eucharist - 11 pm

Christmas Day December 25, 2016

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

United Methodist Church of Cooperstown

66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown 607-547-9540 Rev. Thomas LeBeau, Pastor

In SpIrItual preparatIon for the feaSt of ChrIStmaS

mass Schedule for the Solemnity of Christmas Christmas EvE

25 Church Street, Cooperstown 607-547-8401

Come join us

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24

4:45 pm - Carol Sing 5 pm - Candlelight Worship with Christmas Pageant 10 pm - Candlelight Worship with Celebration of Communion “This Wondrous Gift” The Rev. Elsie A. Rhodes, preaching

Beautiful musical offerings at the 10 pm service by the Chancel Choir

Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25 10 am - Singing of Chrismas Carols, Special gifts for the children The Rev. Richard S. Armstrong, guest preaching

Christ Church, Episcopal 46 River Street, Cooperstown www.christchurchcooperstown.org

Saturday, December 24, 7:30 pm

ChRiStmaS EvE Saturday, December 24 Family service with Carols, Christmas pageant, Communion - 4 pm

Christmas Day

Candlelight Service with Carols, Choir, Communion - 10 pm

Sunday, December 25, 8:30 am and 10:30 am First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown

VISION/From A1 mer of 2015, when one of Carl Wenner’s sisters – he is the youngest of 12 children – invited him to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Worcester, where the Rev. Michael Gaitley from the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass., was speaking.

Father Gaitley has written a number of books on Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who reported receiving visions throughout the early 1930s. He was in Otsego County to share her “Divine Mercy” message: In effect, God will forgive anyone who repents and asks for forgiveness.

In 1934, Sister Faustina, she has since been canonized as St. Faustina, asked a painter in Vilnius, Eugene Kazimierowski, to depict the image of Christ as she remembered it. He did eight renderings before she was satisfied.

That Vilnius canvas is the image on Route 28.

Gaitley “told his conversion story, which was a very impressive one,” Wenner, the former Otsego Town Board member, said in an interview. “I’m not a great preacher,” he said to himself on leaving St. Joseph’s.

“But I can put up one of those images.”

Back home, he downloaded the Vilnius canvas from www. shopmercy.org, the National Shrine’s online store, and ordered a 4-by-8-foot image – the size of a standard piece of plywood – from Vistaprint at www.vistaprint.com.

He built a stand for the print, the one you see on the west side of Route 28. It includes an overhang that he expects will help extend the life of the image, otherwise expected to fade in a year.

Wenner was raised on a farm in Port Jefferson, L.I. His father bought 96 acres in Fly Creek where the son lives today and the family moved up when Carl was in high school; he completed his final three years at CCS. After some years working for Shell, he returned here in 2003. He generally attends St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” in Cooperstown or St. Joseph the Worker in Richfield Springs, and was open to St. Faustina’s message.

“People stop me from church: ‘Is that you?’” said Wenner. “I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback.”

Please note that this schedule is different from the ordinary Sunday schedule.

the Solemnity of mary, the mother of God the eighth Day of Christmas NEw yEar’s EvE

Saturday, December 31, 5:00 pm

NEw yEar’s Day

Sunday, January 1, 10:30 am

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ChRiStmaS Day Sunday, December 25 Service with Carols, Communion - 9 am fEaSt of thE Epiphany friday, January 6 Family service with Carols, Communion 5:30 pm in the Chapel

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wenty-six years ago, John Hayen and his son, Chris, started hanging Christmas lights with a lofty goal – have more lights than Chevy Chase’s Clark Griswold, protagonist of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989).

“I’ve seen that movie 141 times,” Hayen

said. “We started with 3,000 lights the first year, and every year, we added more. I like to call myself ‘an illuminologist’.”

This year, that goal has been reached. “In the movie, he has 25,000 on his house,” he said. “We have 25,300!”

The house, beaming bright on Tilly Avenue on Oneonta’s west end, has become a local attraction, drawing visitors daily for a 4 p.m.midnight light show. “It’s a destination,” he said. “I put candy canes in the mailbox for people to take. The kids just come and stare, Please See LIGHTS, B3

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For Otsego Kids, STEM Toys Rock This Year ones we can hardly keep in stock.”

At Riverwood, the hottest toy is the award-winning Geckobot, a build-ithristmas is coming back to the real yourself hydraulic gecko kit. “It’s got world. suction cups, so it can walk up walls “People when you’re done,” he said. are looking to get “We put this out on the shelves, their kids off their and it’s just gone.” electronic devices,” The kit features six different said Todd Gibbons, models, each with their own foowner with dad cus on suction, air pressure and Rick of Riverwood mechanical physics. “People on Main Street, are just flipping out about this,” Cooperstown. said Gibbons. “The STEM “STEM and science Thames & Kosmos’ Geck- focus is great. We’ve got a lot kits are the big focus obot is a favorite at Coo- of science kits, but Geckobot is this year. We’ve got perstown’s Riverwood. the favorite.”

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CHRIST’S FAMILY: Traditional Latin American Service of Las Posadas, commemorating the months that Mary was pregnant with Jesus and the family searched for a welcoming place, is at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24, at Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., followed at 11 p.m. by candlelit worship and Holy Communion.

LIVING NATIVITY: Reenactors and live animals recreate the birth of Jesus at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24, at Main Street Baptist Church, 333 Main St., Oneonta.

GAME NIGHT: 5-10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23. It’s board game night for all your family and friends at Serenity Hobbies, 254 Main St., Oneonta.

TRY KARAOKE: 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23.

Sing a-long to popular songs with DJ Donna at the Empire House, 136 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville.

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or the 29th year, come spend Christmas Eve with friends and community members at this free Friends of Christmas dinner at 12:30-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24, at First United Methodist Church, Oneonta. To volunteer time or baked goods, call Ann Steen at 432-1283. To have a meal delivered or transportation to the dinner, call Cindy Korbs at 267-0539 or Nancy Fodero at 435-7188.

TOAST NEW YEAR’S: 1:30-3 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 27. Use software and a 3-D printer to create your own New Year’s glasses. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Zoob Builderz from Poof-Slinky Inc. are flying off Monkey Barrel’s shelves in Oneonta.

At Monkey Barrel Toys in the Shops at Ford & Main, in downtown Oneonta, Please See TOYS, B5

Anti-War Film: 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28. Join the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta for Spalding Gray’s “Swimming to Cambodia” on filming “The Killing Fields” there.

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CHRISTMAS DINNER DONATIONS – 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations of food to the Friends of Christmas Dinner should be dropped off at First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Accepting baked pies, fruit breads, Christmas cookies, fresh fruit, apple and cranberry juice. Volunteers needed as cooks, drivers, servers and cleaning. Info, Ann Steen (607) 432-1283, Kelly Ahlqvist, (607) 432-1871.

SOUTHSIDE MALL SANTA – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Southside Mall, 5006 State Hwy. 23, Oneonta.

COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 1-4 p.m. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ ONEONTA SANTA – 4-6 p.m.

Muller Plaza, Main St., Oneonta.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT – 5-10 p.m. Bring family and friends to board game night. Serenity Hobbies, 254 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, http://serenityhobbies.com/ KARAOKE – 8 p.m. With DJ Donna. Empire House 136 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. Info, https://www.facebook.com/theempirehouse

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CHRISTMAS EVE HANUKKAH BEGINS AT SUNDOWN COOP FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine.

Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org CHRISTMAS DINNER – 12:302:30 p.m. Annual Friends of Christmas dinner. First United

Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, Ann Steen 432-1283, Kelly Ahlqvist 4321871 COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 1-4 p.m.Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, https:// cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 3 p.m. Family Eucharist. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.stjamesoneonta.org or call (607)4321458 CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 4

p.m. Family Service with Carols, a Pageant, and Communion.

Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Info, www. christchurchcooperstown.org CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 4:45 p.m. Carol Sing followed by candlelight worship and pageant. First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, https://www. facebook.com/First-Presbyterian-Church-Cooperstown-NY42793051908/, (607)547-8401.

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 6:45 p.m. Includes Living

Nativity scene. Main St. Baptist Church, 333 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, http://msbchurch.org/ or call 607-432-5712 CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 7 p.m. Family Service with children’s pageant followed by Christmas tea and candlelight service at 10 p.m.. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, firstumconeonta.org CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 7 p.m. Service of Las Posadas. United Methodist Church of Cooperstown, 66 Chestnut St.,

Cooperstown. Info, call (607)5479540.

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 7 p.m. Candlelight Carols & Lessons with Rev. Joseph Perdue, Pastor. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, https://www. facebook.com/ctownfirstbaptist/, (607)547-9371 CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 7 p.m. First United Presbyterian Church, 2 Walling Ave., Oneonta.

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The lights start going up Oct. 1. “When my wife Sue and I are watching football games, we assemble the trees and re-string any decorations that need new lights,” he said. “It takes over 70 hours to hang everything, and I don’t want to do it in bad weather.”

Now that Chris – and his daughters, Amber and Jarrin – are grown, his 9-year-old neighbor, Liam Casey, helps out. “He comes over after school and hands me the next set of lights, the zip ties,” he said. “We’ve been friends since he was born.”

“I like to look out my window before bed and see all the lights,” said Liam. “I always see something new every time I look.”

New this year is the “Christmas Tree Lot” on the side of the house. “It looks like something out of a Hallmark movie,” he said.

“There are three 4-foot trees and one 8-foot one, with a total of 400 lights.”

He jots down notes on legal pads, including where each piece went and ideas for future projects. “Next year we’re going to expand the Christmas Tree Lot,” he said. “I want to add four more trees, maybe a 10-foot one.”

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But he doesn’t just keep Christmas on his property.

“I have a whole wardrobe of ugly Christmas sweaters,” he said. “I put them on and go to the store, and people ask if they can get their picture with me!”

In the days leading up to Christmas, he has a personal tradition. “I go to the mall and I walk around in my Christmas sweater, saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to everyone,” he said. “I’m a firm believer in Santa, in the spirit of Christmas. I want to make people happy.”

And this Thanksgiving, Chris was home to put the final lights on the house to make it to that 25,300 goal.

“Father and son together,” he said. “Just like the first time.”

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He’s also switching to LED lights. “Our electric bill used to be $950 a month,” he said. “A few years ago, I made an investment in LED lights, and every year, I buy more, always right after Christmas, when they’re 50 percent off. Last year, we got our bill down to $300, that’s how much of a difference they made.”

Inside the house is a Christmas paradise too. The porcelain Christmas Village spans the back wall, the 45 buildings divided up into neighborhoods. “There’s the business district with the WalMart,” said Sue. “There’s the football stadium and the Packers house.”

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BY THE LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Reg. 02, Nicolas Choubah, Regional Director, 207 Genesee Street, Utica, NY 13501 D263389, PIN DRC4.15, Albany, Broome, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Sullivan, Tioga, Ulster, Warren & Washington Cos., Upstate East Debris Removal Contract, Regions 1, 2, 7, 9 and Northern Counties of Region 8, Columbia and Ulster., Bid Deposit $750,000.00., NO PLANS. Goals: MBE/WBE 3 / 7% 2LegalDec.22 Legal notice

Notice of Formation of PREMIUM MFG, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on November 30, 2016. 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 him/her to: The LLC, 5 Parish Avenue, Oneonta, NY 13825. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of Cooperstown Cruise Company, LLC. Articles of organization filed with the SSNY on 12/5/16. Office location Otsego County. SSNY has been designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon her is 6761 State Highway 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326, which is

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also the principal business address of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: GREENWOOD HIDEAWAY LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 21 November 2016. 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 3814 St Hwy 205, Hartwick, NY 13348. 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: WILLIS MONIE BOOKS LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 21 November 2016. 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 PO Box 487, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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REVOLUTION SOLUTIONS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/29/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 24 South Main St., Milford, NY 13807. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BODY BY STACY NY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on November 18,

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2016. 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 him/her to: The LLC, 5514 State Highway 7, Oneonta, NY 13820. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is Leatherstocking Development, LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on November 23, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 313 Brunner Road, Cooperstown, New York 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalJan.5 Legal notice

Notice of Formation Feil Collision Works LLC: Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 11117/2016.

OfILoc. Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC on whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 107 Strong Hill Rd, Westford, NY 13488.

Purpose: all lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY UNDER

1. The name of the limited liability company (“LLC”) is Sandy Cove Lake House, LLC. 2. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is November 15, 2016.

3. The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is located is Otsego.

4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: PO Box 677, Downsville, NY 13755.

5. The character or purpose of the business of the LLC is any purpose allowed by law.

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Notice of Formation of FLANAGAN SPORTSMAN ASSOCIATION, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on October 27, 2016. 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 him/her to: the LLC, 9657 Evans Street, Philadelphia, PA 19115.

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

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: BOW & BRIDLE LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 14 November 2016. 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 PO Box 1320, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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THURSDAY-Friday, DECEMBER 22-23, 2016

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STEM Toys Top Sellers This Year, Riverwood, Monkey Barrel Report TOYS/From B1 Kristian House is a big fan of the Zoob Builderz, a ball-and-socket building toy. “They’re like LEGO sets, except you can build and pose and move them,” he said.

“I’m a big science geek, so this is so cool.”

The kits come in two forms – a basic building set and a “challenge” kit. “The challenge set will have cards telling you to build,

for example, a catapult that will throw a ball through a hoop,” said House. “But it won’t give you the instructions on how to do it. You have to design it yourself.”

“These sorts of toys are the next step after LEGO,” said Gibbons.

“We call them remote-control LEGO kits.”

And there’s even a science twist on family game night. “I really like Dr. Eureka,” said House. “It’s

a logic puzzle; you pour the 24 balls from each of the 12 test tubes into the pattern to match on the card. Some are complicated, others are easy.”

But the player can’t just take the balls out – they have to be poured from one test tube to another. The game can be played by all ages, either alone or with up to three other people.

Gibbons’ favorite new game is

Slapzi, so much so that visitors to Riverwood are often challenged to try it out on the front counter.

“We joke that 80 percent of the population likes this game,” he said. “It’s like a family-friendly Cards Against Humanity.”

Each player gets five cards with a picture printed on each side, and the dealer sets down a clue card – “not sold in a hardware store,” for example – and the first person

to slap down a corresponding answer wins the round. First person to get rid of all five cards wins, and it can be played by up to eight people.

“It’s a great party game,” said Gibbons.

“I like games that require imaginative thought,” said House.

“Rather than just a dice to move pieces around.”

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CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 7:30 p.m. The Catholic Community of St. Mary, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Info, stmarysoneonta. org or call (607) 432-3920.

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 9:30 p.m. Pre-service concert followed by candlelight service with carols, choir, and communion.. Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Info, www.christchurchcooperstown. org CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 10 p.m. Candlelight worship with Rev. Elsie A. Rhodes, Pastor. First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, https://www. facebook.com/First-Presbyterian-Church-Cooperstown-NY42793051908/, call (607)5478401.

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 10:30 p.m. Service of Carols followed by Festival of Choral Eucharist. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, www.stjamesoneonta.org or call (607)432-1458 CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE – 11 p.m. Candlelight service.

United Methodist Church of Cooperstown, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, call (607)5479540.

Sunday, December 25 CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS SERVICE – 8:30 a.m. The Catholic Community of St. Mary, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta.

Info, stmarysoneonta.org or call (607)432-3920 CHRISTMAS SERVICE – 9 a.m.

Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Info, www. christchurchcooperstown.org CHRISTMAS SERVICE – 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.stjamesoneonta.org or call (607)4321458 CHRISTMAS SERVICE – 10 a.m. First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, https:// www.facebook.com/ctownfirstbaptist/ or call (607) 547-9371.

CHRISTMAS SERVICE – 10:30 a.m. United Methodist Church of Cooperstown, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607)5479540.

CHRISTMAS SERVICE – 10:30 a.m. The Catholic Community of St. Mary, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta.

Info, stmarysoneonta.org, (607) 432-3920.

YU-GI-OH TOURNAMENT – Noon-4 p.m. Serenity Hobbies, 254 Main St., Oneonta. Info, http://serenityhobbies.com/ GAMING EVENT – 1-4 p.m.

Pokemon Juniors League.

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Monday, December 26,

OPEN GAMING – 2-8 p.m.

Play war games, free. Includes Age of Sigmar, W40K, Kill Teams, Arena Rex, Gorechosen. Serenity Hobbies, 254 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, http://serenityhobbies.com/ OPEN PLAY – 5-8 p.m. Play Star Wars: Imperial Assault.

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Tuesday, December 27

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar 3-D PRINTING – 1:30-3 p.m.

Make New Year Glasses in this workshop Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St, Oneonta.

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php#outing-schedule LIFEGAURD CLASS – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Recertification class.

Members $132, public $185.

Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. http://www.oneontaymca.org/ 3-D PRINTING – 1:30-3 p.m.

Make an appointment to scan yourself. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

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No charge. RSVP requested. Info @ uuso@uuso.org, (607) 4323491.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT – 5-10 p.m. Bring family and friends to board game night. Serenity Hobbies, 254 Main St., Oneonta.

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Wednesday, December 28

CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar LIFEGAURD CLASS – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Recertification class.

Members $132, public $185.

Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. http://www.oneontaymca.org/ DISCUSSION GROUP – 35 p.m. Discussion of current events. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar SCRABBLE CLUB – 5-7:45 p.m. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ FILM SERIES – 5:45 p.m.

“Swimming to Cambodia.”

Includes a vegetarian meal and childcare. No charge. RSVP requested. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info @ uuso@uuso.org, (607)432-3491.

YARN CLUB – 6:30 p.m. For knitters and crocheters to learn and share skills and to work on winter projects. Registration preferred. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/adult-programs/

Thursday, December 29

ROPES COURSE TRIP – 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Students must have CSC and shuttle waiver on file.

Sign up at Clark Sports Center front desk. See website for height limitations. Wonderworks, Destiny USA, 9090 Destiny USA Dr., Syracuse. Info, http://www. clarksportscenter.com/adventure/schedule-and-rules/index.

Join us to learn more about the State of Otsego County in this informative breakfast meeting!

Discussion Panelists

Reservations $25 per person ($35 for non-members) Public welcome to attend.

RSVP by Friday, December 30 to Chamber President & CEO, Barbara Ann Heegan at info@otsegocc.com, or call 607-432-4500 ext 207.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2016

OBITUARIES Robert E. Covert, 85; Retired Officer Was Police Chief’s Dad HARTWICK – Robert Ellis Covert, 85, a retired police officer and father of Cooperstown Police Chief Michael K. Covert, passed away Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at his home on West Hill, after suffering from Alzheimer’s for 10 years.

He was born Sept. 19, 1931, at Hackensack Hospital in Hackensack, N.J., a son of Ellis Anderson

and Edna May (Ockenholt) Covert.

After graduating from high school, Bob joined the Navy on Feb. 4, 1949. He served during the Cold War as a diesel mechanic on submarines based in New London, Conn. On Jan. 30, 1953, he received his honorable discharge.

On Sept. 22, 1956, he married Ruth Ann Schilling

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Loretta G. Buell, 84, Richfield Springs

RICHFIELD SPRINGS Exeter United Methodist – Loretta Georgianna Buell, Church. They were married 84, passed away Wednesday for 53 years until his passing in Wyckoff, N.J. evening Dec. 14, 2016, in on Aug. 18, 2004.

Throughout his life Bob Bassett Hospital, with her She is survived by five worked as a garbage man, a family by her side. sons, Clifford Buell and his motor vehicle inspector for She is mother-in-law of wife Susan Lamb of Albany, the State of New Jersey and Anna Buell, longtime presiGa., Daniel Buell and his as a police officer for the dent of the Otsego County wife Anna of New Berlin, Borough of Oakland, N.J., Historical Association.

Randall Buell and his wife retiring as a lieutenant in the Loretta was born on Oct. Laurie of West Winfield, 1980s.

14, 1932, in Cooperstown, Christopher Buell of RochHe spent the rest of his daughter of the late Florester, Timothy Buell and his life living in Hartwick. ence and Mabel Goodrich wife Kristine of Prescott, Bob was active with the Kinney. She was raised Ariz., one daughter Peggy Hartwick American Legion in Schuyler Lake and was and her husband Donald OlPost No. 1567, helped form a graduate of Richfield dick Jr. of Richfield Springs, and was an active member Springs High School. a brother, Richard Kinney with his wife, Ruth, of the On Oct. 22, 1950, she was and his wife Mary of Mount Wanderers and Reminiscunited in marriage to Elmer Vision, 17 grandchildren ers car clubs, and served as “Bud” Buell in the West and 11 great grandchildren, a member of the Hartwick Town Planning Board.

He loved his family, friends and pets, and enGreat looks! Visit the joyed life with his wife on the West Hill Toy Farm.

He really loved all his toys, especially his toy trucks and cars that were his passions.

For years Bob was known as the “Hershey Kiss Man,” handing out Hershey Kisses to women everywhere he went. He will be greatly missed.

In addition to Chief Covert, he is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Kathleen and Jon Sammis of Petersham, Mass.; three granddaughters, Colleen Witter and husband, Jason, of West Winfield, Dana Conte and husband, Nathan, of Hartwick, and Lisa Covert and companion, Jason Rashkow of Westford; one great-grandson, Joseph Conte; one great-granddaughter, Kathryn Conte; a sister, Natalie Keene of Suffern; a brother-in-law, William Schilling and companion, Marilyn Dougherty of Hartwick; several nieces and nephews; and his care provider, Deborah Wengert.

He was predeceased by his wife of 58 years, Ruth Covert, who died Dec. 7, 2014; and two sisters, Mary Catherine Brangen and Jean Lois La Chaunce.

A celebration of his life picnic and service will be held May 20, 2017, at home.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial gift to Hartwick Emergency Squad, P.O. Box 208, Hartwick, NY 13348 or Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

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

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many nieces, nephews and cousins and her cherished feline buddy “Rosie”.

Besides her parents and husband Bud she was preceded in death by a brother, Clifford Kinney and a sister, Alberta Bibik.

The funeral was held Sunday, Dec. 18 at the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home, Richfield Springs with The Rev. Sharon Rankin-Burd, Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church pastor, officiating. Interment will be later next spring in Schuyler Lake Cemetery.

Arrangements are with J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home.

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