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►SEWAGE LEAKED into the Susquehanna River from a trunk line in the Village of Cooperstown’s system, but no public water supplies were tainted, according to DPW Superintendent Hotaling. ►A PUBLIC HEARING will be held in early January on the proposal to place a T-Mobile cell-phone tower on the roof of 103 Main St., the Key Bank building. ►KEVIN PERRY’S murder of his parents just before Christmas 2017 is the subject of a new in-depth report by the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin.
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Stacie Haynes poses with members of her Susquehanna SPCA team – and cats up for adoption. Others, from left, are Arlene Nygren, Goodyear Lake, Becca Daly, Oneonta, Darla Youngs, Hartwick, Betty Steele, Hartwick, Patty Johnson, Richfield Springs, Sue Leonard, Cherry Valley, Allison Hungerford, Mount Vision, Sara Haddad, Bainbridge, and Tania Puglia, Cherry Valley.
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he dorms were closed that holiday break, but Daniel Webster’s women’s basketball team had games to play, so the Nashua, N.H., college rented an off-campus townhouse for the players, and provided a food stipend. When Coach Cori Hughes got the expense
vouchers, she called senior captain Stacie Haynes into her office. “Some of the sophomores had gone out and gotten groceries,” Haynes remembered. “And the receipt had cigarettes on it.” Instead of reimbursement, Coach Hughes parceled out a series of sprints, not just for the second-years, but for everyone, and sent the team captain out to impose
the penalty. “I had to run sprints with the whole team,” Haynes said. Only the sophomores had erred, but the whole team was punished. But instead of resenting what happened, Stacie, who a decade later reveres Cori Hughes as one of her many mentors, took it as a lesson in leadership. “We’re a team. We own this. All of us,” said Haynes, who now leads a team of loyal staff and volunteers as director of the Susquehanna SPCA, and whose leadership, drive and can-do approach won her selection as Citizen of Please See CITIZEN, A4
County’s Heroin Epidemic Waning, Experts Say By LIBBY CUDMORE
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hen LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal heard the news, she could hardly believe it. “Terry Knapp, the coroner, told me that he has seen a 90-percent drop in heroin deaths over three years,” she said.
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“For the first time since 1993, we are starting to see a decrease in heroin usage.” Three years after Dostal (The General), along with County Judge Brian Burns (The Oracle), District Attorney John Muehl (The Enforcer) and Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert (The Samaritan) were named Citizens of the Year for “Fighting Please See HEROIN, A3
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LOCALS Slaters Double Floral Budget To Decorate Christ Church Carol Waller, right, and Peg Odell prepare arrangements for the end of every other pew on the main aisle of Christ Episcopal Church on Sunday, Dec. 23. The church’s flower budget was doubled this year by a contribution from Eric and Patricia Slater, who also brought white pine cut from trees behind their home.
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he Film Society of Cooperstown returns to the Village Hall’s ballroom, 22 Main St., with “All the President’s Men” at 7 p.m. Jan. 16. Supported by the Friends of the Village Library, this season’s schedule was curated by Bill Francis, researcher and writer at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and Jeff Katz, former Mayor of Cooperstown and author. Started by Joey Katz in early 2018, Film Society presented an eclectic series of movies, some familiar, some under the radar, during the winter months. “When I heard Joey was Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal leaving the area, I asked Jeff WASSON ON LIST: Maya if we should keep Film SociWasson, Fly Creek, has ety going,” said Francis. “It been named to the Fall 2018 would have been a shame to Dean’s List at Elmira Colsee it end after one year.” lege. Francis and Katz have created a six film series,
two movies per month, with some guest speakers. All movies will be shown in the Ballroom at Village Hall. Here’s the schedule: Jan. 16, All the President’s Men (1976), with an after film discussion led by Will Walker, associate producer of history, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta Jan. 30, Duck Soup (1933), with Buster Keaton Feb. 13 – There Will Be Blood (2007) Feb. 20 – Moonrise Kingdom (2012), with special guest, co-producer Molly Cooper March 6 – The Killers (1946) March 20 – The Last Picture Show (1971) For more information, check out The Film Society of Cooperstown page on Facebook, email FilmSocietyCooperstown@gmail. com.
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The biggest reason for the decline, said Burns, is that all agencies involved in the crisis – prevention, law enforcement and healthcare – came together to fight it, creating the countywide Opioid Task Force in 2015. “One of the big causes was that no one talked about it,” said Burns. “So we created partnerships. It wasn’t just a criminal-justice matter, it was a public health crisis. So we started treating it as one.” Education was a key component, said Dostal. “We’ve given presentations to parents, professionals, medical providers and schools,” she. “We have actively engaged with lawmakers on policy decisions, because we’ve found that when you lower access to the drug, fewer people use it.” But education just wasn’t for potential users. “The pharmaceutical industry had doctors convinced that these pills weren’t addictive,” said Muehl. “But they were, and when people got cut off, they switched to heroin. “Now,” he said, “doctors are more careful about prescribing them, they prescribe fewer of them and for shorter amounts of time.” “Seventy percent of the people who showed up for heroin in my drug court was because they had run out of meds and they turned to the street,” said Burns. “The number of people who have come in because they got addicted through legal prescriptions has gone down significantly.” Additionally, the availability of Narcan – which helps bring users back from an overdose – has brought the death toll way down. “I have peers who got into recovery after they were brought back from an overdose and they tell their story,” said Dostal. “That used to never happen.” Bassett has also started co-prescribing Narcan to
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patients who are managing chronic pain with doctor-prescribed opioids to minimize accidental overdoses. “This shows that these drugs are serious,” said Dostal. “An overdose could happen, so it’s important to have the antidote close by as a bit of a reality check.” Treatment is also easier to get, thanks to changes in insurance that require companies to cover treatment. “It used to be that you had to fail in an out-patient program before you could go to an inpatient clinic,” said Dostal. “But failing with opioids was often fatal.” And though heroin arrests and usage is declining, the usage of cocaine and methamphetamines – and the manufacturing of the latter – are starting to rise. While dangerous and illegal, cocaine doesn’t kill the way heroin does, Muehl said, and meth users generally aren’t selling their product. “Users form a meth co-op and use what they cook,” he said. The decline of heroin also means the decline of what Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner calls “ancillary crime.” “When people are addicted to heroin, they commit a lot of smaller crimes,” he said. “Breaking into cars, breaking into houses. With fewer people addicted, we’ve seen those crimes decline.” And now, said Burns, it’s about helping those in recovery move forward with their lives. Earlier in December, Burns had a young Oneonta man graduate from his drug court. “He told me, ‘I woke up and I was 28-years-old, I haven’t achieved anything and I’m facing a felony charge for distribution,’ he said. “He used to be a leader, well-respected on his sports teams, and we’re thrilled to have him back in the community.” So thrilled, Burns said, that he reached out to Karen Brown, SUNY Oneonta’s admissions director. According to Burns, she has offered to give informal admissions counseling to anyone who graduates drug court. “A few years ago, we didn’t even know help was needed,” he said. “Now, people in this community are willing to do whatever they can to help.” But Dostal said there is still work to be done. “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. “But the tunnel is very long.”
Friday, December 28
BUILD-A-THON – 10 a.m. Children can build something with Magnatiles this holiday break. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. 518-673-2314. BLOOD DRIVE – 1 - 6 p.m. Donate blood, save a life. Main Dining Room, Cooperstown Center, 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Road, Cooperstown. 607-5442672. 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. FUNDRAISER – 6 - 10 p.m. Celebrate the end of 2018 with Superheroes in Ripped Jean 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.
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. 607-4320010 ext. 205. SIT N’ KNIT – 1 - 2 p.m. Work on knitting or hand-stitching project. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-0230. CELEBRATION – 6 p.m. Midnight. Free admission! 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. 607-4358718.
Tuesday, January 1
SWEARINGS-IN – 1 p.m., State Sen. Jim Seward, Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr., new coroners, 1 p.m., Foothills Atrium, South Market Street, Oneonta. SWEARING-IN/WEDDING – 5 p.m., Assembly Chris Tague (Cherry Valley, Roseboom, Decatur,Worcester) and Dana Buzon, SUNY Cobleskill Bouck Ballroom.
Wednesday, January 2
STATE OF STATE BREAKFAST – 8 a.m. Local state legislators discuss upcoming session, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta, sponsored by Otsego County Chamber, $25 per person, reservations due by Friday, Dec. 28, by calling 432-4500, ext. 104. 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.
Friday, January 4
FILM SERIES – 7 p.m. Discrimination Matters film series presents “Loving,” about the story of Richard and Mildred Loving. Open discussion to follow. Free, open to public. Light snacks available, or bring your own. Waterfront Room, Hunt College Union, SUNY Oneonta. https://oneonta. campuslabs.com/engage/ event/2747307 CONTRADANCE – 7:30 p.m. Fun social dance featuring music by Eleemosynary, Casey Mullaney calling. Arrive at 7:15 for introduction to steps. Admission, $8/ adult. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. 607547-8164
Saturday, January 5
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Stacie Haynes Latest ‘Citizen’ To Win Everyone’s Appreciation
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n early 2015, when the credentials of Hometown Oneonta/ The Freeman’s Journal “20 Under 40” honorees were published in this newspaper, Stacie Haynes – one of the 20 – called to say how impressed she was by everyone’s accomplishments. “I’m not worthy,” she said. It was explained to her that an independent panel of community leaders from Oneonta and Cooperstown had convened, reviewed nominations from the public, and chosen the 20 as among the most promising young people in Otsego County. The newspaper’s editors hadn’t made the selection and, under the guidelines, had no standing to add or remove anyone. This year, though, Stacie Haynes, now executive director of the Susquehanna SPCA, more than proved the “20 Under 40” judges’ confidence. • Again and again, through no effort at publicity on her part, Haynes appeared in the pages
of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal. The most dramatic instances came on April 14, when 103 starving farm animals were discovered near Garrattsville, and Oct. 3, when a Milford woman surrendered 53 Lhasa Apsos. But the year was peppered with animalcruelty crises. In each instance, Haynes and her team of volunteers leaped into action, finding medical care and shelter for dogs in need, and cats and pigs and donkeys – you name it. Even a parakeet. What was most astonishing was Stacie’s demeanor through all this, relaxed, in-control, even cheerful. If, as Conan Doyle had it, “My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built” – then Stacie’s mind is built for the task at hand. • Which, of course, prompts ruminations about all of this newspaper’s Citizens of the Year, who have been named annually since
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2006, when Cherry Valley Town Supervisor Tom Garretson jousted with windmills and won. So many of those citizens were
happy warriors, taking on tasks others would find daunting, even forbidding, and bringing them to successful completion. In 2007, Cooperstown’s thenmayor, Carol B. Waller, was the Citizen for the village’s successful hosting of Cal Ripken Jr.’s Induction, the largest on record. That photo of the diminutive lady grabbing a broom and sweeping up trash on Main Street is iconic of what all “The Citizens” do. Margaret L. Drugovich, 2016 Citizen, steered Hartwick College through the difficult Great Recession and emerged victorious, obtaining funding for $66 million in construction and long-delayed renovations. Pastor Sylvia Barrett, 2017 Citizen, is rebuilding her Milford Methodist Church from the ashes of a raging fire, as witnessed by anyone driving along that stretch of Route 28 lately. State Sen. Jim Seward, 2013 Citizen, is rising above the Republican’s loss of the state Senate on Nov. 6, emerging as ranking
minority member of the powerful Finance Committee. You can’t keep a good person down. • Of course, Stacie Haynes biggest challenge is just beginning: In 2019, Susquehanna SPCA is seeking to raise $2 million for a 21st-century animal shelter to replace a worn and never-optimum decades-old campus. With everyone’s help, the fund drive will succeed, and a large part will be due to Stacie. SPCA Board President Gaylord Dillingham described her as “indefatigable ... She works incredibly hard, and she always does it with a smile on her face.” That tribute could apply to most of the two-dozen Citizens of the Year to date (that includes the dozen Citizens of 2011: the whole City of Oneonta Charter Commission). We’re lucky to have them among us. Thanks to you all, and to the many among us not yet recognized on our pages, but revered by their neighbors.
‘She Works Incredibly Hard ... With A Smile On Her Face’ the daily give and take of CITIZEN/From A1 the Year for 2018 by Home- surrenders and adoptions, which have doubled since town Oneonta, The FreeHaynes became executive man’s Journal and www. director at the end of 2015. AllOTSEGO.com. “She is indefatigable,” Stacie Haynes’ mettle was tested this year in particular said Gaylord Dillingham, by two of the largest animal- Susquehanna SPCA board president. “It can be a cruelty cases in the history seven-day job. Whatever of the Hartwick Seminary facility with Otsego-county- the issue, she’s there. She works incredwide reach: ibly hard, and • On April she always 14, 103 starvdoes it with a ing animals smile on her – pigs, donface.” keys, chickens “There and tightly aren’t many caged dogs, leaders who including Pyrunderstand enees – were the concept removed from of needing a farm near help,” said Garrattsville. The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA Stacie Haynes with Barbara Carr, Stacie Haynes meets one of her charges on the day of her appointment in • On Oct. Misty, who engendered Erie County 2, 53 ailing October 2015. With her are Susquehanna SPCA Vice President Kathy ClarkSPCA execu- son, past president Bill Elsey, and incoming president Gaylord Dillingham. Lhasa Apsos her love of animals. tive director were surrenpublic administration in joins Arc “spends a day in and a consultant to the local and Gary Haynes, soon dered by a Milford woman, moved back to their na2007 at Suffolk University the wheelchair. It gives you shelter. “…Stacie is like the largest single influx on tive Downsville, Delaware in Boston. That added polithe right perspective from this giant sponge who wants record in the shelter’s 100County. Stacie’s younger tics to her enthusiasms. The the first day. It was a life to know more and more, and year history. brothers, Danny, now 34 campus was right behind the lesson.” better and better. Then there were the cats and a basketball coach at Massachusetts’ statehouse In 2008 she joined “Not only is she a good in a West Oneonta hoarding a Maine prep school, and on Beacon Hill, and she’d Delaware County Hospital leader now, she’s going to situation, dogs abandoned Dusty, now 32 and a driller walk back the forth to class in Walton in “fund developbe a greater leader all her in Oneonta, pigs found in New York City, rounded through protests. ment,” experience that will life because of the way she neglected at the end of a out the family. Master’s in hand, Patches be helpful in the year ahead looks for information. It’s dirt road in Laurens, and Stacie quickly became brought her home – that as the $2 million “Shelter very impressive,” Carr said. two chained and emaciated close to granddad Art was her mother’s Bluetick Us” campaign for a new Stacie was born in Virginhounds in the Town of PittsShaver – “a Shaver of Coonhound/Bassett mix, “a shelter proceeds to compleia, but her parents, Nancy field woods, not to mention Shavertown,” a hamlet now nasty dog,” “a garbage dog” tion; the plan is to open the submerged in New York – “my mother tried to give doors in May 2020. City’s Pepacton Reservoir. her away a couple of times,” One highpoint of her year N U D ED FO R He introduced her to her said Stacie. Of course, she there: A colleague set up a first dog, Misty, a Collieloved Patches nonetheless, blind date for her with Luke Otsego County’s Newspaper For 210 Years Sheltie mix, an elder sister’s and “I wanted to be home Spencer, an estimator with perfect “therapy dog” when for her when she moved on Jet Industries (now Kiewitt dealing with two “wild, to Doggie Heaven.” Corp.) in Colliersville, exJames C. Kevlin crazy” younger brothers. The enthusiasm Stacie plaining – as Stacie declares Editor & Publisher The little girl thought displays today is evident as with her disarming frank“Misty was my dog,” only she talks about her career ness – “He’s a weirdo, you Tara Barnwell realizing when the loving before joining the SPCA, are a weirdo. You ought to Advertising Director & General Manager little doggy died at age beginning in 2007 with Arc meet.” 15 that she really was her of Delaware County, and its It worked out. The Libby Cudmore grandfather’s dog. None“vantage point” orientation. two married and are rais Managing Editor theless, Misty cemented Day One, everyone who ing a family – so far, two Stacie’s growing love of Amanda E. Willsey Larissa Ryan animals. Business Manager Office Manager/Circulation Going through Downsville Central School, Stacie Thom Rhodes Ian Austin was immersed in sports Advertising Consultant Photographer – soccer, basketball, softKathleen Peters • Graphics & Production ball; her senior year, she added track. “It was my Judith Bartow Tom Heitz life,” she said. Billing Consultant Considering college, “I IN MEMORIAM: Mary Joan Kevlin, Co-Publisher, 2006-17 wanted to play soccer,” and got the chance to do so at Daniel Webster. Her major OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER FOR was a second thought: sports Otsego County • Village of Milford • Town of Middlefield Cooperstown Central School District management, which has served her well. “It’s really Subscriptions Rates: Otsego County, $48 a year. All other areas, $65 a year. 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daughters, Meadow, 4, and Eleanor, 15 months – in his hometown of Westford. (Ellie is named after Stacie’s current dog.) A six-year stint followed at DCMO BOCES in Norwich, organizing enrichment programs like the Regional Scripps Howard Spelling Bee and Odyssey of the Mind. There, another mentor, Kerrie Johnston, now a Sidney Central assistant superintendent, entered her life. “She is just so levelheaded and intelligent in every move she makes,” said Stacie. She remembers an early example: One year, somehow the usual souvenir T-shirts hadn’t been ordered for an off-site BOCES program and the host teacher “was upset, yelling and making a scene.” Johnston was unflappable. “We hear you, we understand you. This is really good feedback,” Johnston advised the angry woman consolingly. Said Stacie, “She totally de-escalated a situation that was out of control. I’ve used that experience a lot in my life.” Kerrie also pushed Stacie to grow, enrolling her in 2013 in the county chamber’s Otsego Leadership program. “I made so many friends and contacts,” she said, among them Fly Creek Cider Mill proprietor Bill Michaels and Meg Kiernan, now the Otsego town supervisor. “These people really helped me.” That led to Stacie organizing the annual Cider Run fundraiser at the Cider Mill, which now benefits the shelter annually, this year to the tune of $8,000. In 2014, as Haynes moved to ONC BOCES’ CROP program – commuting to Norwich, she had been dropping off baby Meadow at daycare at 7 a.m. and not picking her up until 5:30 – she was also selected by an independent panel as one of this newspaper’s “20 Under 40” honorees, and was celebrated with 19 co-honorees in February 2015 at a reception at Springbrook. Later that year, shaken by the shootings at Sandy Hook, she ran for the Schenevus school board and was elected; the interim superPlease See CITIZEN, A5
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New Method of Making Butter – Put the cream intended for butter into a strong linen cloth, tie it up with a string, dig a hole in the earth 15 inches deep, and let the bottom of it be sufficiently capacious to allow the cream in the linen cloth to lie about four inches deep all over it. Put another cloth around that which contains the cream to keep the dirt from it. When deposited in the hole, cover it up with earth but do not tread it down and let it remain 24 or 26 hours. Then take it out and pour the cream, which will now be very thick, into a bowl or other vessel and stir it well from five to ten minutes with a wooden spoon or ladle when the butter will be completely formed, and may be taken out and washed as usual. The advantages of making butter in this way are as follows. 1. The cream yields a larger quantity of butter, or an addition of about one pound in ten. 2. In hot weather the butter is obtained without a tedious process and is free from the rancid taste that long and hot-churned butter generally possesses; 3. A very small stock of cream may be operated upon equally as well as a larger quantity. December 28, 1818
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See to the Schools: As it is impossible for children to learn much in a school room where their toes are freezing or their eyes are smoked in tears, it is the interest of every man who consults his own pockets as well as the comfort of his children, to pay some personal attention to the condition of the school house, as well as to the capacity and character of the teacher. There are School Superintendents, to be sure, in the towns and counties, but that should not prevent you from doing your duty. If all is right – if the schools are what they should be (and but very few of them are that) then you should visit them, to show your sense of the fidelity of the teachers and superintendents. And, if all is not right, how can you justify yourself in the sight of God or man for neglecting what is necessary in training up the immortal minds of children for their destiny in time and eternity. So, whether the schools are right or wrong, you should personally see to them. December 25, 1843
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injuries received in playing football have been reported this season in the United States, while the less serious casualties have been innumerable. December 28, 1893
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Cooperstown’s last livery business will soon be no more. On January 3, L.M. Barnum, for many years the proprietor of Barnum’s Livery will dispose of his horses and equipment at public auction at the Hartson stables where he has been located for several years. The property has been purchased by J. Harry Cook who will remove the Cook Auto and Supply store there and also open up a garage and December 29, 1943 machine shop. It was not many years ago that Cooperstown boasted of three livery stables. But the rise of the automobile industry has gradually reduced them until only one remained. Fifteen years ago on summer afternoons the summer visitors kept the livery men busy, the delightful drives about Cooperstown and vicinity being taken behind a span Real Estate – We learn from F.A. Lee, Esq. that over of horses. $100,000 in value of village property has recently changed December 25, 1918 hands through his Agency, a large proportion of which has been purchased by H.F. Phinney, Esq., a native of this place and to which his early attachments still cling. These purchases include the McNamee farm and the Winslow Christmas came early – just a week ahead of schedule property on the corner of Main and Chestnut streets. We – for a 78-year-old Fly Creek widow, Mrs. Jean Splitare assured that Mr. P. has no desire to monopolize and no stone, who won $50,000 last Wednesday in the New York eagerness for speculation, but entertains the plan of improv- State Lottery for November. Mrs. Splitstone’s number was ing and developing his property here in such a manner as called for the second prize in the Grand Tier of the lotto contribute largely and permanently to benefit his native tery Wednesday morning. But, it was several hours before village. authorities could catch up with her to notify her. Top prize December 25, 1868 in the lottery is $100,000. The word finally reached Mrs. Splitstone by telephone at her home in Fly Creek about 3 p.m. The Otsego County Sheriff’s office kept calling me from Cooperstown but I wasn’t home, she said. “Finally, It is said we are to have one or two football clubs in this village. It may interest the promoters that under the head of they reached my neighbor David Baker, who operates the Old Schoolhouse Furniture Store in 28, 1993Fly Creek,” “football casualties” the London Lancet records 109 cases she continued. Baker had no idea how much she had in which injuries sufficiently serious to necessitate hospiwon, but told her to call lottery headquarters in Albany. tal treatment occurred in football games played in Great Mrs. Splitstone bought her ticket at the Victory Market in Britain in 892. Five of these cases resulted in death, and a number of those who survive were crippled for life by frac- Cooperstown. December 25, 1968 ture of limbs or injuries to the spine. Five or six deaths from
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Haynes Faces Biggest Challenge: $2M Fund Drive CITIZEN/From A4 intendent was Mike Virgil, another mentor. About that time, SPCA began a search for a new executive director, and Shannon Stockdale, an Oneonta friend, suggested Stacie. “I immediately said yes,” Haynes remembered, even though the salary and benefits were less than at BOCES. “If you’d asked me when I was 10-years-old, I would have said that was the job I wanted. Also, president of the United States.” As she arrived at her job in the low-slung buildings at 4841 Route 28 in Hartwick Seminary with a vision, shaped by Kerrie Johnston and her BOCES experience: “I wanted us to run like a professional organization. You can’t achieve that overnight.” First, Stacie focused on maintenance, cleaning up the buildings, eradicating as much of the mold as possible. She sought to put a more friendly face on the operation. It used to take four days to adopt, now people can leave with an animal on the first visit. That follows National Humane Society guidelines, based on reasoning that 23 hours a day in a kennel is a less-than-optimum situation. Weekly, students visit from Springbrook, Arc Otsego and Pathfinder Village, as well as Boy and Girl Scouts. Some perform specific tasks, others just want
Stacie Haynes holds daughter Meadow, now 4, and husband Luke Spencer holds daughter Eleanor, now 15 months, at Ellie’s baptism. The dog-loving mom named her youngest daughter after her current pet, a 12-year-old retriever mix.
to pet cats, which is fine. “The more cats get used to people, the more they feel loved, the more likely they are to be adopted,” said the director. While it’s an animal shelter, “what we do here also impacts people,” Stacie said. She tells the story about a young man who broke into tears in the lobby. He was dropping off two dogs that his grandparents could no longer care for, and he was prohibited from having pets in his apartment. “He left here feeling much better,” she said. She also welcomed the arrival of Barbara Carr, a top consultant who spends a few days a month locally, and recently got Stacie onto the board of the influential New
York State Animal Protection Federation. Generally urban-focus, the APF would benefit from someone with a more rural orientation, Stacie reasons. While the “Shelter Us” fund drive is job one, it’s not the only forward-thinking initiative: She’s approached District Attorney John Muehl and county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., and they are enthusiastic about collaborating on an Animal Cruelty Task Force to approach the challenges systematically. All this has been possible through a forward-looking board, she said. When she
arrived, most of her board members were brand new, “so no one’s clinging to the past.” All of this feeds her enthusiasm. At the end of a challenging, even grueling year, she says, “It’s a dream job. You get to meet the best people on earth, people who love animals and want to take care of animals.” Yes, animal cruelty is a problem. “But for every one or two people who are cruel to animals, there are 50 people who want to help.” To end where we began, Stacie’s team-captain support for her cigarette-smoking Daniel Webster teammates is just half the story: Her senior year, she was caught with beer in her dorm room, a training violation. As her punishment, mentor Cori Hughes ordered her team captain to attend an alcohol-counseling class. “I was really upset,” Stacie remembers. “I let my coach down. I let my team down.” When she went to the class, though, the teammates she’d run sprints with showed up in a show of solidarity, respect and affection. As Stacie Haynes is proving again at the Susquehanna SPCA, if the leader is there for her team, the team is there for their leader.
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NOTICE is hereby given that Otsego County has established an annual 30 day period during which landowners can submit proposals to include viable agricultural land within certified agricultural districts outside of the eight year review period. NOTICE is further given that said annual 30 day period in Otsego County begins January 1 of each year and closes 30 days thereafter. NOTICE is further given that during this 30 day review period any landowner may submit proposals of viable agricultural land to be included into a certified agricultural district by filing requests with the Clerk of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, said requests to include the agricultural district into which the land is proposed to be included, a description of the land and the tax map identification number(s). NOTICE is further given that at the termination of the 30 day period all proposals will be submitted to the Otsego County Ag-
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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 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
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NEW YORK; 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 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. 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 foreclo-
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sure 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 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. 6LegalJan.17 Legal nOtice 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. 6LegalJan17
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Ralph J. Veenema, M.D., 97; NYC Physician Retired Here
COOPERSTOWN – Ralph James Veenema, M.D., 97, former chief of urologic oncology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, passed away Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, at Covenant Village, Cromwell, Conn. Dr. Veenema and his wife retired to Cooperstown in 1997. Born Dec. 13, 1921, in Prospect Park, N.J., he was the son of Ralph and Sadie (Van Dyke) Veenema. In 1942, he received a B.A. degree from Calvin College in Michigan. It was while he was attending college that he met his wife, Henriette (Henis) E. Van der Molen. They were married Sept. 19, 1944, in Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1945, Dr. Veenema received his MD from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. In 1946, he was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps
and served at Army hospitals in Alexandria, La., and Jackson, Miss. After receiving his honorable discharge in 1948, he joined the staff at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. At the time of his retirement in 1987, he was urology surgical attending at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and was professor emeritus of urology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Veenema is survived by two daughters and sonsin-law, Shirley Ann and Jim Sheldon of Boston, and Lois Ruth and Bill Byrne of Traverse City, Mich.; two sons and daughters-in-law, Ralph J. Veenema Jr. and Janet of Rocky Hill, Conn. and Kenneth R. Veenema, MD and Tener of Baltimore, Md.; 13 grandchildren; eight greatgrandchildren; one brother, Melvin Veenema, of Grand Rapids, MI; and nieces and
Elizabeth B. O’Brien, 91; Waitress At Popular Spots COOPERSTOWN – Elizabeth “Betty” O’Brien, 91, a Native Daughter and waitress at many well-known restaurants, from The Red Sleigh to Hickory Grove, passed away surrounded by her family Thursday morning, Dec. 20, 2018, at Bassett Hospital. Betty is survived by two daughters, Barbara A. Dickison and her partner, Roo Jorges of Cooperstown, and Deborah Gentry and husband, Robert of Wilmington, Del.; one son, Robert W. “Bill” O’Brien, Jr. and wife, Jeanne of Richfield Springs; nine grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-grandchildren; five sisters, Hilda Pomeroy
of Fulton, Mildred “Millie” Jennings of Cooperstown, Cora Petrucco of Cortland, Wanda Laymon of Toddsville and Lois Smith of Toddsville; and many, many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Bob O’Brien and son-in-law, William S. Dickison; three sisters, Gladys Welch, Wilma Higgins Dyer and Evelyn Gray; and four brothers, Chester, Herman, Frederick and David. A graveside service will be held this coming Spring in Hartwick Seminary Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.
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MLS#118958 $59,900 A Silver Lining Opportunity awaits the motivated investor. 2,500 sq ft, village conveniences, water and sewer, zoned commercial or residential. Delhi location. Call Ron Guichard @ 845-0676-3600 (office)
MLS#116301 $465,000 Prime Commercial Location! 3 Properties Bundled! Gifford’s Sporting Goods Store (and 3-4 BRs over the store) and 2 multi-family houses. All zoned mixed use. Highly traveled intersection. Call/text Erin Moussa 607-435-1285 (cell)
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MLS#116949 $159,500 Lovely country ranch home w/large 3-season porch and 2-car garage. Well maintained house sits on 3 manicured acres, plus 2-acre building lot. Call Stephen Colwell @ 607-435-6542 (cell)
MLS#119170 $164,900 Beautiful Cape Cod Home Built in 2003 on almost 3 acres w/3 BRs, 1 bath, stunning kitchen w/granite counters, hickory cabinets, hardwood floors. Call Carol Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)
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MLS#118994 $425,000 Magnificent Log Home on 90 Acres ! 4 BRs, 2 full baths, 2 kitchens, large pond, indoor pool! Great hunting and hiking! Prime location near Cooperstown and Oneonta. Call David K. Mattice @ 607-434-1647 (cell)
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MLS#115617 $138,000 Prime Location 4-BR, 1½-bath Oneonta home w/many upgrades including roof in 2010. Borders Wilber Park’s upper level. Call David K. Mattice @ 607-434-1647 (cell)
MLS#117614 $349,000 Fabulous 3-story Colonial 3,884 sq ft on 6+ acres. 3 FPs in paneled cherry library, formal LR, master suite,1st-floor laundry, 2-car attached garage. Call Katherine Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#119271 $59,900 Beautiful Setting Nestled in the Catskills hamlet of Bloomville. Views of valley and river below. 3-BR, 2-bath home at an affordable price. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell)
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Brand New Everything! Completely remodeled home on just under 14 acres in a beautiful country setting. Incredible views, large pond, covered front porch, garage, huge new wrap-around deck. First floor offers grand entry, large LR, family room w/woodstove, formal DR, large eat-in kitchen w/granite counters, SS appliances, large updated full bath, laundry room/mudroom. Upstairs features 3 large BRs, updated full bath, amazing master suite w/huge private full bath, Jacuzzi tub, and massive walk-in closet! Top this off with new construction, poured concrete foundation, new well pump (2017), new electrical (2017) , new hot water heater (2017) , and new furnace (2017). Rare opportunity! Don’t hesitate! MLS#119346 $349,900
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WEEK 2 A few moments after this swearing-in, county Rep. David Bliss, RCooperstown/ Town of Middlefield, was elected chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, ending the heavy handed sixyear tenure of Kathy Clark, R-Otego.
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Three pensive Lhasa Apsos, a breed that guards palaces and monasteries in Nepal, look out from kennels at the Susquehanna SPCA on Tuesday, Oct. 2. They were among 53 of the little dogs rescued from a Milford home, the largest seizure in the animal shelter’s history. The cache of doggies was discovered after an Otsego County sheriff’s deputy was called to the scene the day before to resolve a neighborhood dispute. Within a week, all the adorable pups had been adopted by families from across Central New York.
WEEK 29
Former Schuyler Lake fire chief Bob Hugick, the officer in charge at the scene, stands in the depression where an XNG rig carrying compressed natural gas flipped off Route 28 just south of Schuyler Lake on July 11. The crash, the fourth involving XNG trucks since the Bostonbased company started its “virtual pipeline” between Pennsylvania’s fracking fields and the Iroquois pipeline near Little Falls in February 2017, prompted calls by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and others for the company to rethink its strategy. By October, XNG had reduced number of trucks crossing the county daily from 80-90 to a handful, shifting the traffic to straighter, wider Route 8 in Chenango County.
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Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado is swamped by thrilled fans like Ginger Heitz, Cooperstown, and Kat Chiba, right, Cherry Valley, when he dropped by the Cherry Valley Kite Festival Sept. 22. At that point, Delgado had already defeated six other candidates in the June 26 Democratic primary, and would go on to defeat the incumbent U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, in the Nov. 6 general election, despite – or because of – attack ads built around the Rhodes Scholar’s and Harvard Law School grad’s short career as a rap artist in Los Angeles a decade earlier. In the background is Phil Durkin, Roseboom, the former county rep.
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EDITIONS OF JAN 25-26: Pastor Sylvia Barrett shakes hands with convicted arsonist Gerald Althiser after he was sentenced for setting the March 12, 2017, blaze that destroyed the Milford United Methodist Church.
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EDITIONS OF JAN. 4-5: Mike Inserra, aka Mike the Juggler, Oneonta, tosses his pins while the First Night Sun Spirit looks on during New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Foothills Performing Arts Center.
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EDITIONS OF JAN 18-19: Katie and Robert Duncan, daughter and son-inlaw of “Big Chuck” D’Imperio, gave birth to their daughter Tessa just days after having to hide in a shelter in Hawaii after what turned out to be a false threat of incoming missiles.
EDITIONS OF FEB 1-2: Tossing his head, Captain Max shows a champion’s spirit while owner Donna Wilson looks on admiringly. Along with Royal Rex, the pair of Rolling Meadow Clydesdales, Town of Richfield, had racked up a serious slate of awards, including Max being named Reserve All American.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The dates on the captions represent the editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal in which they were published.
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WEEK 6 EDITIONS OF FEB. 8-9: Wearing his official Fédération Internationale de Ski uniform, Milford’s Douglas Hall holds up his official credential that opened doors for him when he arrived in Seoul, South Korea, a few days to ensure consistent conditions for women’s ski events at the Yongpyong Alpine Center during the Winter Olympics.
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EDITIONS OF FEB. 22-23: Exhilarated Reporter Parker Fish and Anna Giangregorio emerge from icy waters at the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump, which raised a record $128,000 for local recipients. Parker wrote a first-person account of the experience.
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EDITIONS OF 15-16: Lacey Perry and friends Kelsey Jacha and Brynnlee Burr, ride a huge inflatable duck, one of the highlights of the Cooperstown Winter Carnival’s Blizzard of Family Fun in Lakefront Park.
EDITIONS OF MARCH 1-2: Gretchen Sorin, director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, spoke to a packed room at First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown, about her thesis on “The Green Book,” a guide for black travelers during the Jim Crow era before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 integrated all public facilities. The book is the basis of a documentary, “Driving While Black,” that famed filmmaker Ken Burns’ brother Rick is directing, to be broadcast on PBS next year. In November, Sorin and Burns again packed a hall, this time The Fenimore Museum auditorium, for a Q&A and initial screening of the film.
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EDITIONS OF MARCH 8-9: Tentrr Director of Manufacturing Jim Hanley shows off a “glamping” suite being produced by a 22-worker assembly line in Oneonta’s Pony Farm Industrial Park. The operation closed for the winter, but is expected to reopen when camping weather returns in the sprlng.
EDITIONS OF MARCH 22-23: With the March elections, Cooperstown native Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, a veteran village trustee, was elevated to mayor of Cooperstown, succeeding Chicagoan Jeff Katz, who retired after six years at the helm, 13 on the Village Board.
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EDITIONS OF MARCH 1516: Will the real Craig Van Cott please stand up? Aided with masks and a Sergeant Pepper costume, the Unalam president won the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s Guest Conductor Contest Saturday, March 10, helping raise a record $42,991 at the annual fundraiser.
EDITIONS OF MARCH 29-30: Toby Green, Milford, drew 40 bullet holes in his sign to show how quickly an AR-15 could kill innocent people as part of the March For Our Lives walk on Saturday, March 24, in Oneonta that sought to raise consciousness about gun violence after the Feb. 14 killing of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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EDITIONS OF APRIL 12-13: Buzz Hesse points out a projectile made of Macungie jasper from Pennsylvania that suggests the range of early hunter-gatherers documented in his Hesse’s Archaeological Museum, just opened on his Otego property. Hesse, a trained archaeologist, collected many of the artifacts over a decades-long career as an auctioneer.
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EDITIONS OF APRIL 5-6: Vincent Diglia, Unadilla, a veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, shows off his two largest LEGO models: The Super Star Destroyer and the Millenium Falcon during a show at the Southside Mall, Oneonta. He credits building LEGO kits with helping him recover from injuries sustained during combat.
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EDITIONS OF APRIL 26-27: After 45 years of conducting for Oneonta-based Catskill Symphony Orchestra, Chuck Schneider, Frankfort, retired Saturday, April 28. But never one to stay still, he plans to write a symphony of his own and has continued to play in the area. In an interview, he recounted recruiting Dustin Hoffman as a guest performer at an early concert in the 1970s.
EDITIONS OF MAY 10-11: Betty Bettiol receives a proclamation from state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, honoring her late husband Gene Bettiol Sr., who was named Otsego County Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen of 2018 at a Thursday, May 3, banquet at Foothills.
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WEEK 18 EDITIONS OF MAY 3-4: Cutting the ribbon Friday, April 27, on Farm Credit East’s new offices in the Town of Springfield are, from left, Greg Doyle; Executive VP & Regional Manager Gary Bradley; state Ag & Markets Commissioner Richard Ball; Farm Credit East CEO Bill Lipinski; Board Vice Chair Laurie Griffen; Senior VP Craig Pollock; VP Robert Yukewecz; Country Living Director David Pugh, and Paul Vandenburgh. Doyle and Vandenburgh are the longest-serving local employees. The company, which provides banking services to farmers, combined its Cobleskill and Sangerfield offices on Otesgo Lake’s shores, bring 40 white-collar jobs to the county.
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EDITIONS OF MAY 17-18: Four tiny bobcat kittens were found by Marcy Birch, owner of Barnyard Swing (and Cooperstown Central school board president), in one of the outbuildings on her mini-golf course in Hartwick Seminary. When the mother didn’t come back, a wildlife rehabilitatior took the kittens in to raise and release them. But don’t be fooled by their cute faces – they will grow into deadly predators and will take a chicken or two right out of your backyard.
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EDITIONS OF MAY 24-25: Hartwick College Geology Professor and proud papa Dr. David Griffing places the ceremonial undergraduate hood around the shoulders of his daughter, Rachel Griffing. Student Senate president, she delivered the greetings at the beginning of the Saturday, May 19, commencement. She’s a business and poli-sci major.
WEEK 24
EDITIONS OF JUNE 7-8: Busch Beer made sure that Joe Gray’s family knew that all he wanted for Father’s Day was a beer, turning Cherry Valley into a tribute and surprising him with banners and posters plastered downtown. A commercial was also filmed as part of a national campaign.
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EDITIONS OF MAY 31-JUNE 1: Emcee and past Cooperstown Veterans’ Club commander Doug Walker introduces, from left, Jim Tallman, Beth Kane, who delivered a tribute to her father, killed in WWII; Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, and Dr. Paul Russo, the keynoter, participants at the village’s Memorial Day ceremonies Monday, May 28, at the Soldiers & Sailors Monument.
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EDITIONS OF JUNE 14-15: Court filings charging Focus, the former county nursing home Otsego Manor, with failing to provide sufficient staffing to care for residents revealed that 91-year-old “R.B.”, a man who died after sustaining a head injury after falling out of a bed without supports, was Robert Banta, revered long-time chair of the Otsego County Soil & Water Conservation District. Focus’ top two executive, CEO Josephy Zupnik and COO Daniel Herman pleaded guilty Sept. 12 to related criminal charges, and were sentenced to community service. At right, Banta poses with wife Shirley and family on 50th anniversary.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF SUNY ONEONTA IN 2018! Philanthropy at SUNY Oneonta YEAR IN REVIEW
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SUNY Oneonta is thriving. Through a combination of traditional classroom and applied learning experiences, our students are gaining knowledge and skills that stand the test of time and serve our graduates throughout their lifetime. Year after year, the generosity of local alumni, volunteers, businesses, and non-profit organizations enhances our student-centered learning community.
Simply put, our student’s lives would not be as great without you. Thank you.
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VISION STATEMENT: The State University College at Oneonta Foundation will provide a $100 million endowment supporting affordable access to high quality academic experiences for students at SUNY Oneonta. Alumni and friends will be engaged through the Foundation to identify and promote programs that enhance our students’ college experiences and long-term goals.
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EDITIONS OF JUNE 21-22: As tens of thousands of departing undergraduates have done before her, SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski passed through the pillars of Old Main for a final time as president on Friday, June 22 after a 10-year tenure marked by a student focus and a leap in the college’s endowment to over $50 million, the largest among SUNY’s consolidated colleges. She retired to Rhode Island.
EDITIONS OF JUNE 28-29: CCS Senior Class Adviser Nick Marcantonio heads for shelter during a graduation downpour Sunday, June 24, on the back lawn of The Fenimore Museum. All local high school graduations were held that weekend, mostly inside.
WEEK 27
EDITIONS OF JULY 5-6: SUNY Oneonta’s new president, Barbara Jean Morris, was introduced to the City of the Hills as grand marshal of the Hometown Fourth of July Parade. An educator from Colorado, she began work on Monday, July 2.
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WEEK 28
EDITIONS OF JULY 12-13: Mark Petengill, third from left, Centers Healthcare’s Resident Council president, details the challenges of Saturday, June 30, where for the second time in two weeks Centers ran out of food to serve the residents. The Council detailed poor food quality, lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, and even instances where residents who were asleep at mealtimes were later denied their meals. Centers responded by hiring and training new staff and creating a Dining Council to improve meal quality.
WEEK 30
EDITIONS OF JULY 26-27: Twins Andrew and Aiden sit on mom Jamie Durkin’s comforting lap in happier times. On Sunday, July 22, the body of Andrew, 3, was recovered from the Susquehanna River after – due to confusion, as the boys were similarly dressed – he wandered from his family and accidentally drowned near Goodyear Lake.
WEEK 31
EDITIONS OF AUG. 2-3: Pastor Sylvia Barrett, center, joins congregants, from left, Tom and Lola Rathbone, Erica and Laura Eggleston, Milford Mayor Brian Pokorny, architect Jim Hunt, the Rev. Tom LeBeau, Cooperstown Methodist, and Annika Murray, breaking ground on a new church to replace the one that burned March 12, 2017.
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WEEK 33 EDITIONS OF AUG. 1617: Phyllis O’Sullivan, daughter of Brooks’ BBQ founders Frances and Griffin Brooks, was still smiling on passing her 60th anniversary waitressing at Brooks’ House of BBQ in Oneonta, which was founded in 1961. “You have to smile, be friendly and communicate with your customers,” she advised.
EDITIONS OF AUG. 9-10: County Attorney Ellen Coccoma, left, briefs former Oneonta mayor Kim Muller, first chair of the first Otsego County Ethics Board at its first meeting Tuesday, Aug. 7, at Otsego Chamber offices. Muller resigned in November, but has recommended people willing to succeed her to county Board chairman David Bliss, so an appointment may be pending Jan. 2.
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EDITIONS OF AUG. 23-24: Hartwick Vice President Karen McGrath poses at the new Founders’ Way, where the college’s incoming 225th class inaugurated a new tradition with a Sunday, Aug. 26 march on its arrival on Oyaron Hill. Founders’ Way is a centerpiece of $66 million in renovations engineered by President Margaret L. Drugovich and aimed at creating a more pedestrian-friendly campus.
EDITIONS OF AUG. 30-31: While in the Navy, Oneonta’s Dave Rees was part of the efforts to find future Sen. John McCain, a Navy pilot shot down over North Vietnam. He later befriended McCain at a conference and the two kept in touch for years. On McCain’s death, he holds a portrait given him by the senator’s wife, Helen.
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EDITIONS OF SEPT. 13-14: Almost magically, Cooperstown’s Cathy Raddatz’s hand was drawn to one of the plaster hands on “You Heal,� a painting artist Judy Stiner-Grin describes as an instinctive reaction to 9/11. Raddatz brother, George Morell, a Cantor Fitzgerald investment counselor, died when the Twin Towers collapsed 17 years ago.
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EDITIONS OF SEPT. 27-28: Unable to fill her evening shift, Cooperstown Diner Manager Cindy Bissell closed at 2 p.m. for three weeks. A dearth of labor generally was highlighted the following month at an Otsego Chamber Workforce Summit, where Oneonta consultant Al Cleinman urged reinventing the county as a “knowledge economy.�
WEEK 41 EDITIONS OF OCT. 11-12: Eric Michelitsch, Bob Scanlon, Rob Lishansky, Deb Parisian, Sid Parisian and Mike Butler stand beneath the newly installed, permanent arches in Oneonta’s Neahwa Park – inspired by the Unalam basketball hoop that fallen state trooper Ricky Parisian never got to install in his home – that mark the Pit Run’s finish line.
EDITIONS OF SEPT. 6-7: AgZeit’s Jim Dutcher believes his 20,000square-feet of plantings in Union-Endicott High School can produce the equivalent of 170 acres of standard crop lands inside the former Otego Elementary School. The novel undertaking bested two senior-citizen-housing proposals and one from The Kildonan School, Dutchess County, to transform the mission-style building into a school for students with dyslexia.
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EDITIONS OF OCT. 1819: The Cooperstown Bat Co. made it into the MLB this year, as both Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez and Houston Astro second-baseman José Altuve hit homeruns with the local bats in the run-up to the World Series. Sox left-fielder Steve Pearce was also photographed using a Cooperstown Bat. With his bat, Vazquez hit a single his first time up in Game Four of the World Series Saturday, Oct. 27, helping the Sox win the championship. Here, Tim Haney, who owns the company with wife Connie, lovingly examines one of the bats he has been developing since buying the company from Don and Sharon Oberriter in 2008.
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EDITIONS OF OCT. 25-26: Bob Orlando, owner of gutted 4703 Route 28, Hartwick Seminary, hugs Yipsie. He said his tenant, Rodney Abrams, went back into the burning home the night of Saturday, Oct. 20, to save the little dog. After an outpouring of support through Cooperstown’s Angel Network, Orlando and the Abrams family were reunited in a home in Toddsville, which they are renting together until they can find a permanent home.
EDITION OF NOV. 1-2: Atty. Andy Puritz and Nancy Couch recite the Kaddish as mourners from across Otsego County filled Oneonta’s Temple Beth El to reflect on the slayings of 11 people killed by a white supremacist during services at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct 27 in Pittsburgh.
EDITION OF NOV. 8-9: State Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, congratulates Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. for turning back a strong challenge from retired state trooper Bob Fernandez, husband of county Rep. Kathy Clark. Fernandez refused to concede, but a canvass a few days later confirmed Devlin’s victory. Seward also won, and handily, but Republicans lost control of the state Senate.
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WEEK 47 EDITIONS OF NOV. 15-16: Carleigh Bettiol, left, wows a local crowd that attended the new Broadway hit, “Cher,” Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Neil Simon Theater in New York City. While attending the show with Carleigh’s grandmother, Betty Bettiol, and others, state Sen. Jim Seward’s wife, Cindy, who snapped this photo, realized that the woman sitting in front of her was none other than Cher herself.
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WEEK 50 EDITION OF DEC. 6-7: Former mayor John Nader accepts a plaque from Mayor Gary Herzig on behalf of his father, former mayor Sam Nader, inset, after Oneonta Common Council unanimously voted to rename the Oneonta Municipal Airport as The Albert S. Nader Regional Airport on Tuesday, Dec. 4. In the 1960s, the elder Nader steadfastly pushed for and achieved a modern airport for the City of the Hills, despite a local newspaper labeling it “Nader’s Folly.” Built, it provided daily passenger service to New York City for 26 years. Sam Nader, now 99 and unable to attend the ceremony, watch the ceremony, streamed on Facebook, from his River Street home.
EDITION OF NOV. 29-30: Michael Tracy holds up a feast in the “tasting nook” of Elena’s Michael Catering, which he founded to honor his Oneonta partner and entrepreneur Elena Doyle’s local legacy as a famed chef – that’s her jacket on the left. Elena passed away in April.
EDITIONS OF NOV. 22-23: In a scoop of international proportions, this newspaper was first to report that an FBI analysis of a Fabergé frame and locket on display at the Russian History Museum at Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, contained locks of hair that, once and for all, proved that remains found in the Ural Mountains in 1979 were indubitably those of Tsar Nicolas and Tsarina Alexandra, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
EDITIONS OF DEC. 13–14: SUNY Oneonta senior Juliet Morin, shows off her model of the Kennewick Man, the first to be modeled with Native features. Previously, the early American, discovered in the Northwest, was depicted as Caucasian or with Japanese-like features.
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EDITIONS OF DEC. 20-21: Cleaning out her mom’s apartment, Dawn Spinola found her dad’s Santa suit. Her parents, Mary and Fred Bunt, portrayed the Clauses in Unadilla for more than 20 years, receiving the Unadilla Chamber of Commerce’s Good Neighbor Award in 2009.
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