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Selig’s and Atlanta Braves President John Schuerholz’ selections by the Today’s Game Era Committee were announced Sunday, Dec. 4, at the MLB’s Winter Meetings in National Harbor, Md. Players in the Class of 2017 will be announced Wednesday, Jan. 18.

CFAS EXPECTED: Mayor Jeff Katz will be at The Egg in Albany Thursday, Jan. 8, to learn Governor Cuomo has included funding for Village Hall renovations among this year’s successful Consolidated Funding Applications for economic development money.

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After 5 Months On Lam, Missing Cat Back Home Sabrina is back in the arms of Randy and Joanne Fritz after months at large.

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“She’s happy to be home,” said Randy. “She’s a very good cat.”

The Fritzes reported the other day that Sabrina was Please See CAT, A3

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County Wealth Manager Talks At U.N. Forum U.N./From A1 a panel, “The Business Case for Women’s Leadership in Public Institutions,” at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York City.

“Imagine how honored I am,” Morgan McReynolds said when reached by telephone in New York.

The panel was part of an afternoon of presentations and discussions organized by the U.N. Initiative on Global Gender Equality and NYU’s Women’s Initiative.

McReynolds appeared on the panel with Marika Morris from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, author of “Women’s Leadership Matters,” a study of women leaders in Canadian government, and Kwellin Ellingrud, a partner in McKinsey & Co., the national consulting firm.

The panel was preceded by remarks from U.N. ambassadors and envoys from Canada, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, as well Randi Davis, director of the U.N. Development Programme’s gender team.

“What we’re doing this evening is to try to bring experience from the private sector to public institutions,” Pelle Lutkin, a U.N. policy specialist, explained earlier in the day. “In particular, what are the positive outcomes of having women leaders in public institutions.”

For her part, McReynolds, who was interviewed by the afternoon’s organizers before her selection, said she believes Morgan Stanley’s research seeking to determine how gender equity impacts the bottom line was of particular interest.

“They’ve discovered, or learned in their analytics, that companies with women at the top tend to be less volatile,” she said. “… Women tend to plan.

They tend to seek advisers.

They tend to have less confidence.” On the other hand, the research is finding men are more willing to take risks.

Still, questions remain. For instance, when McReynolds went through Morgan Stanley’s training 30 years ago, half the class was women, but only 16 percent of women were among the “survivors”; that proportion has remained consistent until today, she said.

“I’m the only representative from the corporate world,” she said. “And I don’t think they knew that I would have, essentially, academic research to support my statements.”

After 5 Months, Cat Back Home CAT/From A1 found Oct. 26 in the backyard of Sharon Emerson’s house near the Farmhouse Restaurant in Emmons, nearly two miles from where she went missing.

On May 12, Fritz was taking 3-year old Sabrina and another cat to the vet’s. “I set down her carrier, and it came apart,” he said. “She went scrambling up Cemetery Hill Road, and that was the last we saw of her.”

He placed an ad in this paper and hung fliers around the area, warning people that she was missing, but very shy and shouldn’t be approached.

Several calls came in spotting the wandering feline, but Fritz was unsuccessful in tracking her down.

But on Sept. 11, Emerson called to say she had seen Sabrina in her backyard. “I just happened to look out the window and see her sitting in my yard,” said Emerson. “I had cut out her picture, and I recognized her pattern. I called to her, but she took off through the fence.”

She called Randy Fritz, who came over and set a Save-AHeart trap twice, catching only two skunks.

Emerson didn’t give up, putting out food daily, and she finally spotted Sabrina running by the fence.”

Randy found a small trail under the fence, and put out the trap. Later that afternoon, he went back. “And there she was in the trap!” he said.

During her time in the wild, Sabrina lost just over 2 pounds and lost part of her tail, which had been broken when she was a stray kitten. She was also treated for worms, and has since recovered from her injuries.

“She’s not really a lap cat, but she’s stayed indoors since she came home,” he said.

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EDITORIAL

Winning Idea For Democrats: Natural Gas For Amphenol

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hink globally, act locally,” sounds great, but the global agenda doesn’t always match the local one, nor must it. A case in point is the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth going on locally since the Nov. 8 election of Donald Trump.

Saturday, Nov. 19, post-election, Melinda Hardin of Cooperstown brought together what she described as “people who are concerned that some of the issues they hold really dear are going to go down the tube – like climate change, environmental regulations, women’s rights in general, and women’s health in particular.”

The outcome, seconded by Democratic County chair Richard Abbate of Cooperstown, was: Rebuild the party from the ground up – town-board seat by town-board seat, then win a county Board of Representatives’ majority, then reclaim the 19th District Congressional seat from John Faso.

That idea packed the county Democratic committee meeting Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Cooperstown Village Hall. But any fresh direction was quickly shattered by the anti-gas orthodoxy.

According to Abbate, the question was asked: Should local Democrats write a letter to the governor either supporting, or opposing, the county board letter asking Cuomo to allow the 123mile Constitution Pipeline to go forward?

The discussion became so heated that former Otsego Town Board member Julie Huntsman declared,

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Democrat County Chair Richard Abbate Wednesday, Nov. 30. packed the room with party faithful from Oneonta, Cooperstown and beyond. But an effort to rethink the issue of natural gas exploded any suggestion of new approaches.

if Democrats retreat on opposition to natural gas, she would leave the party, and she stormed out of the room, Abbate said. In a straw poll, committee members then supported, 20-2, to continue opposition to the Constitution Pipeline.

• That’s global thinking.

Locally, however, the burning question is: Can enough natural gas be found to ensure the future of Amphenol’s plant in Sidney? It contains the region’s last 700 mid-

dle-class-supporting manufacturing jobs, jobs that have underlaid Oneonta’s economy for a century.

(Unsympathetic, Stop the Pipeline leaders say: Get tourism jobs.)

Instead, the local Democrats’ best minds have been energetically fighting, not just the Constitution, but the compressor station on a pipeline proposed through Minden, wherever that is. That intellectual energy would be better used relieving local pain: too few good jobs and subsequent outmigration.

Constitution gas would supply the East Coast and be shipped overseas. But there’s a less-global alternative that would save Amphenol: simply expand NYSEG’s 37-mile line from Norwich to Sidney, then dead-end it at Oneonta, where major institutions like Fox and SUNY Oneonta are being forced to burn more expensive fuel oil every time there’s a cold snap.

The global threat from natural gas is leakage at the well heads in places like North Dakota, not a

state-of-the-art line from Norwich to Oneonta.

The NYSEG gas is needed now, but the project isn’t due to start for 5-10 years. If Democrats talk Cuomo into fast-tracking it – or turning the franchise over to someone like Mirabito’s Leatherstocking Gas Corp. – they would be local heroes, maybe electable, even in Unadilla. And any impact on global warming overall is negligible.

You’re welcome.

• Another old saw needs a fresh look: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Sure. In a democracy, though, the small group’s ideas must connect with a large group of citizens.

The Trumpistas recognized “economic insecurity” as the issue of the year; and that small group beat the Republican and Democratic establishments.

So local Democrats have a choice. Do they want to win town offices, seize a majority on the county board, reclaim the Congressional seat? Or do they want to save the world? The choice: purity or relevance.

For now, ensure Amphenol’s future. Then go out into the countryside and talk to people. There are burning issues that would revive the party locally. It just isn’t a compressor station in Minden.

NEXT WEEK: A winning idea for Republicans.

LETTERS

Lesson To Learn: How Rhetoric Trumps Reason To the Editor, Tom Morgan makes several excellent points in last week’s editions, how discontented voters were with the “establishment” and frustrated by a dysfunctional government. A year ago I was also fed up with incumbents, regardless which side of the aisle they were on, and promised to vote for new blood. Of course that’s only half of the problem. If only our representatives considered more of our future and less of their own.

Did the election provide teachers with an opportunity to have students think through contemporary topics in civics class? Darn right, and Tom’s helpful list of questions provides a meaningful approach. And

I would add, the school psychologists should also get into the mix because there is much to consider from that perspective, too.

When you get right down to it, voters didn’t vote for Trump, they voted against Clinton. Granted, both candidates had their faults, and voters were left to decide which of the lesser evils to choose. Surprisingly, they went with the one who has absolutely no track record, believing he could do what he said he would do even without explanation for how – no evidence – just promises. The psychology of this alone is worth consideration.

Ask yourself why. I did by asking several “Trumpers” what they liked Please See FLEISHER, A6

THE TRUMP CHALLENGE

Resist New President’s Excesses, While Addressing Real Grievances To the Editor: Many community members are stunned and confused by the election. How could this have happened? How could a brash, vulgar, and politically inexperienced real estate developer who has made misogynistic and racist comments be elected president of the United States?

Some historical background might be useful.

Since the 1970s, economic policy in the United States has increasingly favored the rich at the expense of the middle and lower classes. By the 1990s, both Republicans and Democrats were solidly behind what came to be known as globalization, a series of trade agreements backed up by deregulation, tax breaks and corporate subsidies at home. A flood of jobs went overseas, and a relatively small group – the notorious one percent – became ultra-rich.

Chair Bullish On Young Democrat

To the Editor: We are very fortunate to have MacGuire Benton stepping up to chair the Otsego County Young Democrats. I A larger group of clients, executives, pro- am sure the new chairman fessionals, consultants, developers, techni- will continue the success of cians and specialists also did very well by the past two chairpersons, adapting to the new economy, especially in Aidan Macaluso and Maria its still-expanding health, tech and internet Noto, in attracting young sectors. But as traditional jobs migrated men and women into the overseas or were automated, the Democratic Party. one-time vast American middle MacGuire is a proven class dependent on manufacturing leader who has shown the imploded. Small businesses were willingness and understandalso hit hard as big-box retailers ing of the issues, and the and internet companies offering desire to lead his fellow cheap imports wiped out many students, and bring all sides mom-and-pop operations. together on important issues Many of the dispossessed were facing our community. I am white Americans rooted in tradilooking forward to worktional values. At the same time, a movement ing with him and the Young for social justice for minorities ignored the Democrats in fighting for problems of the dispossessed and even ridi- the issues facing our county, culed (“rednecks,” “yahoos”) their cultural state and country. values.

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Imagining Smalltown Life, Long Ago From Far Away

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uring my mother’s last illness – she’d already had one mastectomy – my sisters Janet and Gita and I would get home from school and lie on her bed. Our parents’ room was a cool, air-conditioned refuge from the tropics outside, and she would read to us out loud from whatever she was reading.

Michener’s “Hawaii,” for one, although she skipped over the spicy parts, and Conrad Richter’s trilogy, “The Awakening Land” – “The Trees,” “The Fields” and “The Town.”

Maybe it was in “The Town” – or was it a dream, as so many memories of decades ago are turning out to be?

– where the mother raised turkeys, hoping to add to the family income at Thanksgiving. When it came, the price was so low she decided not to sell the

Rita Thabault marries Jim Kevlin, her “cute Irish boy.”

birds. Soon, the kids were swapping turkey sandwiches in their lunch buckets for anything else.

Living overseas, turkey was a oncea-year treat, delicious and rare. Imagine, turkey sandwiches every day?

Heaven, we kids would think.

Mom was raised in Winooski, Vt., one of 11 children of the French-Canadian doctor, and so much sounded heavenly from half the globe away.

During the Depression, her little brother Wilfrid coming home barefoot from grammar school: He had given away his shoes to a classmate. Or serious Paul, later an Augustinian, balancing on a rail with a box of clams he was bringing home for the family’s dinner, only to spill it all on the tracks. Oh, my, we kids would think, and laugh hilariously.

Or, the day after school let out, Mémère moving the four brothers and Please See 100TH, A5

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

200 YEARS AGO

Saving Banks promise to afford important advantages to the laboring population of our cities, by exciting a laudable ambition, promoting industry and economy, and by ensuring to them a safe and profitable application of their surplus earnings. An institution of this kind has just been established in New York, of which thirty of the most respectable citizens have been appointed directors, who serve without fee or reward. Deposits of one dollar, or any number of dollars, may be made in the bank; and, for all sums under $50, the depositor will receive five percent interest; and six percent for all sums over fifty dollars.

The depositor may draw out his money at pleasure; and is to be furnished with a book, in which the deposits and drafts are to be entered at the bank when they are made. The deposits, with such exceptions as may be wanted for immediate use, are to be vested in some productive stock. All accounts are to be balanced annually on the first of January.

December 12, 1816

175 YEARS AGO

Temperance Hotels – Temperance people will prefer Temperance Hotels to those which abound with intoxicating liquors and their effects. It may well be thought strange that in a village the size of Cooperstown, and among an unusually large proportion of public houses which are in most instances well kept, there is not one conducted on temperance principles. The inhabitants of Cooperstown who have seldom occasion to visit these Hotels, can hardly conceive the soul-sickening scenes which the writer has frequently noticed in the “bar-rooms” – the array of “choice liquors” in the most inviting forms – the numbers of young men , some of them of highly respectable families – the invitations to drink, too frequently accepted – and those in the more advanced stages whose bloated faces tell of ruined health and their wretched appearance, of ruined fortune.

These are everyday scenes in the bar-rooms.

December 13, 1841

100TH/From A4 seven sisters down to the camp on Malletts Bay for the summer – swimming, fishing, dreaming until the day before school started again. Pépère would drive the buckboard down from town every evening, but – with emergencies common – never stayed the night.

She never saw her father in anything but a shirt, tie and three-piece suit.

An undergrad at UVM, Mom and sister Lucille would walk home through snow drifts in the late afternoon. Seeing their father driving down the hill toward them from Mary Fletcher, they would wave their arms furiously. But, preoccupied, he would always drive right by.

Her stories of smalltown life, the American ideal imagined from far away, eventually brought me to Otsego County, to The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, fulfilling a lifelong dream – how wonderful! – of owning a newspaper in a country town.

Mom intended to teach and, after graduating in 1939, got a job in a tworoom school – near Bellows Falls, I think. She didn’t enjoy maintaining discipline, and after one semester moved in with sister Bea and her husband Ran in New York City, joining Hoffman-LaRoche as a lab chemist in Clifton, N.J. After The War, she met a “cute Irish boy,” she wrote home to her parents. They married in 1949.

Janet followed, then me, then Gita in 1955 in Mexico City – by then, my father was working overseas for

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100 YEARS AGO

about 11 o’clock, ten hours later, when Barbara Albertson and Dana Trewin, students of the Knox School in this village chanced upon the wrecked car as they were about to visit Council Rock, famed stone landmark of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales.

December 10, 1941

The Temperance Meeting held at Bowne Hall on Friday evening last, was well attended. Nearly all the seats were occupied, and perhaps two-thirds of them by men.

This was a noticeable and cheering fact, indicating the interest felt by all classes in the movement. F.A. Lee, Esq. presided. The address by Rev. Mr. McHarg, occupying over an hour in its delivery, was listened to with marked attention. The subject was a hackneyed one, but was so ably treated that all felt interested and instructed. It was just such an address as was calculated to make a lasting impression, even on a large class who do not care to become members of a temperance society, or to make any public pledge of abstinence. The evil of drunkenness, the danger of tippling, the injurious effects of intoxicating drinks, were urged home on the attention of the audience with kindly earnestness and there was no caviling on the part of any; the truth and force of fact and argument were not disputed.

December 7, 1866

50 YEARS AGO

Qualified residents of the Cooperstown Central School District will go to the polls next Tuesday to vote on a $2,575,000 bond issue, proceeds from which would be used to construct a new Junior-Senior High School south of the present Elementary School on Walnut Street. The new JuniorSenior High building with a rated capacity of 825 pupils, would replace the present 58year-old structure on Chestnut Street.

December 7, 1966

25 YEARS AGO

Henry Nicols, the 18-year-old Cooperstown man who has AIDS, met with President Bush in the White House and was recognized on Capitol Hill for his efforts to educate people about the disease. Nicols, along with his sister and brother-in-law, met the President on December 2 for about twenty minutes to discuss the disease and its victims. Later in the day, Nicols was the keynote speaker at the FBI’s Conference on AIDS. December 11, 1991

125 YEARS AGO

Attempt to Poison – On Friday morning last, one of the women in charge of the orphanage discovered Paris Green in the milk that was to be used at breakfast. Dr. Bassett, one of the trustees of the institution, was at once notified, and he made an investigation which revealed these facts: Two of the older girls, aged about 13 years, planned and executed this diabolical scheme, it being mainly directed against one of the ladies in charge, and without any real provocation – all the children being subject to the same discipline and rules. The poison had been used on potato vines in the summer and what was not needed was stored in an outbuilding to which these girls obtained access. They are of rather a low order of intellect, and could scarcely have fully comprehended the enormity of their crime.

December 10, 1891

December 6, 1916

75 YEARS AGO

Cecil Hall Edwards, aged 36, of Cooperstown plunged to his death shortly after 1 o’clock on Wednesday morning of last week, when the Ford sedan he was driving dived over the stone masonry approach to Council Rock erected by the Lake and Valley Garden Club at the foot of River Street. The death car ended its journey in the water of Otsego Lake. Although the accident happened early Wednesday morning it was not discovered until

10 YEARS AGO

The Freeman’s Journal Christmas Fund Appeal includes this listing for a Santa Claus adoption: Family No. 4 – This family lost many personal items in the June flood.

Mom and Dad could both use clothing.

Mom wears 7/9 pants and a medium/large shirt. Dad wears pants 36/34 and size XL shirts. Both parents are back to work but are behind in bills so the holidays will be tough.

Their daughter, age 3, wears a size 4T and shoe size 8. She needs winter boots and gloves and loves “My Little Pony” items.

December 8, 2006

Imagining Smalltown Life, Long Ago From Far Away Colgate Palmolive.

Later, her brothers and sisters would always tell us, “Rita was our favorite.”

She was fun. She was kind.

She was loving. We kids could understand that.

During years in the Far East, she would let families living in huts down the street get water from our outside faucets, and a line of Tamil women would form daily. She volunteered at an orphanage for Chinese girls, and one year hosted a Christmas party. When the girls left, they cried, and mom cried into the evening, so heartbroken Pop forbid her from doing it again.

(Husbands could do that sort of thing in those days.)

The ex-pat community was social, and she and Pop would be out several nights a week. I remember her in tight, Thai silk dresses, stiletto heels, heading out for an evening, Pop looking very smart in his tailored suits. Today, Chanel No. 5 still brings her memory vividly back.

She came home starved from her first nine-course Chinese banquet; the only utensils were chopsticks.

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sisters’ plastic dolls and, chopsticks in hand, was moving the little arms and legs from here to there, and there to here.

The trouble started young, with a cataract operation in the early 1960s; she was hospitalized for a week, her head held immobile between two cinderblocks while her eye recovered. Then, glasses with Coke-bottle lenses.

Then, the prosthesis, which she made out to be a bit of a joke to us kids, bouncing it like a beanbag.

When cancer returned, Pop asked for a temporary assignment back in New York City, so Mom would be near family in those final months. It was denied, he resigned and we all headed back to Jersey, starting school at Our Lady of the Valley that September. She died on Nov. 11, 1965.

There was an open casket. In our minds, my sisters and I understood she was gone. But hearts deceive.

Years later, in a dream, I was walking on a sidewalk in London and there she was, vivid as ever, on the other side. She looked at me calmly, kindly, then continued on her way. “Mom,” I called out, “Mom,” and ran after her as she turned and walked into an Underground station, looking at me as she descended, step by step. I plummeted down the stairs behind her, only to be greeted by a locked iron

gate. Shaking it, I cried, “Mom, Mom.” Waking up, I knew it was over.

But was it? Decades have passed now, a half-century and more. Still, as people who have lost parents, or spouses, or children know – eventually, everyone does – life is never the same, and the memories and pain, suppressed, are always there, waiting to be evoked by a vagrant occurrence.

After Thanksgiving,

sitting in the dark on the red-eye back from San Francisco – M.J. and I, celebrating with both sons, John and Joe, and with our first grandchild, John and Meg’s Kyla, were thinking ahead, not back – came the jolt: Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, would be Rita Thabault Kevlin’s 100th birthday.

Happy birthday, Mom. Of course, I’ll never forget you.

Jim Kevlin is editor and publisher of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal.

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KUZMINSKI/From A4 classes also lost their political voice. The major political parties were captured by the ultra-rich who were increasingly able to buy political influence through campaign contributions, lobbying, revolvingdoor jobs, think tanks, political committees and media consolidation. Labor unions, the old bastion of political clout for wageearners, were busted. Politicians less and less represented their constituents; instead they more and more served the interests of their big-money contributors, without whose support they would not likely be reelected.

In spite of complaints about money in politics and related abuses, many people, especially those on the winning side of globalization and the new economy, were happy enough with the status quo and assumed that “democracy” as they understood it was still working. They were blinded-sided on Election Day. Trump represents something entirely new in American politics: A demagogue rich enough to do an end run around the corporate-government oligarchy so painstakingly constructed by the globalists. He handily defeated both the Republican and Democratic party establishments and the donor class funding them by appealing directly to the dispossessed voters. The usual vetting process for national politicians was thrown out the window.

As usual, the ultra-rich – from George Soros on the left to the Koch brothers on the right and the big corporations in between – continued to operate behind the scenes, supporting some candidates and blocking others, while pushing their political agendas. Instead of funding a politician

to do his bidding, Trump broke the mold by running himself. He is not likely to be the last ultra-rich oligarchic to do so.

The unprecedented nature of Trump’s victory has created enormous uncertainty.

Much of that uncertainty has been filled with fear. What will this man do? He is not beholden to the powers that be as were his predecessors. He is limited only by the structural constraints of government embodied in constitutional procedures, and by the kind of people he can mobilize to help him govern. His erratic and offensive comments – his often daily tweeting – charge up his base, but drive his opponents crazy.

Some liberals and moderate conservatives continue to see Trump as “unfit to be president,” indeed as evil incarnate, another Hitler. They are willing, it seems, to subvert the system in order to stop him, whether it’s Jill Stein’s recount efforts or the attempt to get electors not to vote for Trump. Some folks say that the Constitution is dead and that we’re in a state of war. But going after Trump at any cost may be the best way to get the worse result. Any attempt to take away his election victory at this point would almost certainly destroy what’s left of our political system.

What is important here is who will be the first to break the rules, or trash the Constitution. Trump has broken the rules of civility, to be sure, but not yet the rule of law.

When the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lincoln didn’t go after them preemptively. He knew that would destroy the rule of law. He waited for them to be the first to cross the line – which they did when they fired on Fort Sumter. Trump’s critics today, like it or not, should exercise

the same restraint, but they must also be ready to seize the moral and legal high ground.

In the meantime, vigilance is the order of the day. If Trump advances destructive policies – trashing climate agreements, reintroducing torture, rolling back women’s and minority rights, promoting a police state, to name a few – they must be vigorously resisted.

But resistance to even the worst of his policies may well be futile if Trump’s opponents do not take into account the legitimate grievances of his supporters, and move to address them. The inequities spawned by globalization and the new economy desperately need to be mitigated, something Trump isn’t likely to do.

Wealth and resources must be more equitably shared. A publicly owned banking system offering low-interest personal and business loans could provide much needed capital for the middle classes; a minimum guaranteed income, free college tuition, and universal Medicare would balance the loss of jobs. And genuine democratic accountability must be restored to the political system. This means restructuring the political system on the basis of local democracy, with representatives accountable to grassroots communities instead of the wealthy donor class.

Although Bernie Sanders came closest to this approach in his campaign, in this writer’s opinion, this is not simply a Democratic or Republican agenda. Building on these concepts remains the best available guide in the uncertain times into which we are entering.

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Yet never once did he say how.

His knowledge (actually ignorance) of the governmental functions he will now oversee is far beyond comprehension (i.e. – “I know more than the generals”). His criticisms are without solutions; just promises: “Believe me.” And to my amazement, they did.

He denies overwhelming scientific evidence, turns his

back on women and finds support from people who think Sandy Hook was staged and the moonwalk never happened.

Is anyone paying attention?

He appeals to a variety of odd bedfellows. The wealthy who believe he will protect their interests and get government out of their lives, rednecks who like his loose tongue, racists who feel superior to minorities, anti-Semites who hate the Jews they envy, xenophobes who are afraid of the unfamiliar, bigots who trust no one except Trump, and those who think we should

avoid paying taxes. Sure there are respectable people who voted for him – or was it that they simply didn’t vote for her.

“Anyone but Clinton” was the mantra from many.

His supporters totally overlooked his attitude toward freedom of speech, freedom of religion, women’s rights, LGBT, minorities and civility.

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Look at history – it’s always easier to stir discontent than to muster support. People who complain do so louder, with more emotion, with more passion, more volume, even when they don’t have the slightest shred of facts to support their bias.

I would suggest the press should totally ignore Trump – not a word. Not his name in print, his photograph, no headlines, not even a cartoon. That would drive this megalomaniac nuts and his true colors would be shown.

So yes, Tom, I agree. Teachers could use this election as an instructional tool, but not to determine how and why Trump won, but rather to emphasize the need for civility in our society and the value of a democratic system. And, the psychologists would have a field day pointing out how easily the masses can be persuaded to make unfortunate decisions and how rhetoric can trump reason.

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Oneonta Schools To Grow, Cooperstown’s To Shrink, ‘Live Births’ Data Predicts DATA/From A1 and Fox Hospital.

BOCES-district wide, there are 2,621 high school students enrolled this school year, and only 2,338 “live births” of students who will be freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors 12 years from now, an 11 percent drop.

But there are 507 students at OHS this school year, and 584 “live births” to fill the classes 12 years from now.

That’s the 15 percent.

“That’s not an unreasonable prediction,” said Oneonta Superintendent of School Joseph Yelich, who said, looking at data beyond “live births,” the reality may surpass Savin’s estimate.

“We’re looking at classes that rise over 140 students 100 percent of the time for the next five years,” Yelich said.

Savin said he has been using the “live births” data annually since moving into BOCES’ top job eight years ago from the Cherry Valley Central superintendent, and continues doing it because his member superintendents find it helpful.

Every year, he’s charted declines – except in Oneonta and CV-S, his former district – in all ONC BOCES districts, which includes nine of Otsego County’s 12 districts.

(Unatego, GilbertsvilleMount Upton and Richfield Springs are in other BOCES.) “We are flat,” Savin said of this year’s figures, but there is some fair news: “We are still losing, but the decline is flattening.”

At Cooperstown Central, the “life births” projection is bleak: There are 297 students in the high school today; “live births” only add up to 197 students 12 years from now. That’s the 34 percent drop.

“We look at it every year,” said Theresa Russo,

Cooperstown Central school board president. “We’ve been anticipating that. We don’t panic, but we certainly look at it.”

While, as in many local districts, enrollment has been trending down, the CCS board has found “live births” data – a snapshot – doesn’t always bear out, Russo said.

“We do have more moving in and out of the district because of Bassett,” she continued. “Sometimes, we had something like 36 live births, but we ended up with a class of 15 more than that.”

Still, declining enrollment is always on school board members’ minds as they look ahead. “It’s the issue of rural schools,” Russo said. “That why we’ve had discussions about regionalization and things like that.

But no one wants to lose their elementary school, because it’s what makes the community.”

Shortterm, the challenge is one of management, as class size fluctuates. This year, for instance, the CCS freshman class (84) is the biggest; the smallest class is second grade (55), and the administration adjusts accordingly. For instance, fourth grade was dropped from four to three sections this year; third grade was raised from two sections to three.

Teachers have recognized they need to be flexible, and the flexibility allows the school districts to ensure job security, she said.

At for Yelich, he’s adjusting for challenges of growth.

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First Lady Connie Herzig snapped this image of Oneonta Mayor Gary at the base of the tree just after it was lit at 9 p.m.

Oneontans chartering a bus to Rockefeller Plaza included, from left, Linda Rae-Nichols, Ted and Darren Gaisford, Todd Foreman, Emmy Gaisford (with sign), Sue Gillette, June Sheehan, Tracy Gaisford, Greg Krikorian and daughters, Bridget and Claire, and Brian Gillette.

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a few weeks ago,” said Darren Gaisford, who, along with his mother Emilie and a busload of friends and neighbors, made the trek to Rockefeller Center Wednesday, Nov. 30, to watch “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin (SNL’S Donald Trump) and “Saturday Night Live” performer Kate McKinnon (Hillary Clinton) light up the Eichler family’s 94-foot-tall tree.

“The best part has been watching people take pictures with the tree,” said

Angie Eichler, who for years had watched the Norway spruce grow in her Oneonta yard. “One couple got engaged, right underneath our tree!”

“I can’t believe that big tree used to be in Graig and Angie’s little yard!” said Oneontan Deb Wolfanger.

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Cookiepalooza: 1-3 p.m., Dec. 11.

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Holiday Market Place: 4-6 p.m., Dec. 12. Opening reception of popup ceramic shop, Smith Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, featuring visiting ceramicists.

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From their spot on 5th Avenue, Heidi Hofbauer-Buzzy and daughter Michaela watched the famous Saks 5th Avenue light show.

“These windows are unbelievable!” said Heidi.

On the scene, singer Tori Kelly kicked off the night with a spirited rendition of “Santa Claus is Coming To Town,” and the show continued with live performances by Sarah McLaughlin, Neil Diamond, the Penatonix and the Harlem Gospel Choir.

“These brave people and performers are braving the rain to be

here tonight!” said NBC Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb, to huge applause.

Several of the performances, including Josh Groban, Tony Bennett, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, The Rockettes and Jordan Smith, were taped ahead of time. But TV crews worked diligently to recreate the sets on the small stage in the concourse, so that when cameras panned over the audience, the stage would match.

There was even a short video about the tree, detailing its journey from the Eichlers’ yard at 72 Country Club Road all the way to 30 Rockefeller Plaza. “It’s leaving

country life for the big city,” said the narrator.

The Eichlers were treated like royalty, with dinner at the legendary Del Frisco’s steakhouse and plenty of entertainment before the ceremony. “Angie and Ava went to see the Rockettes,” said Graig.

“Mike Bagliardo and I went up to the observation deck at the Top of the Rock.”

It had been drizzling all evening, but around 8:15 p.m. the pouring rain began. It didn’t dampen the Christmas spirit.

“They’re drowning our tree!” joked Linda Rae-Nichols of Oneonta.

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utes. At 9 p.m., there was a drumroll, some flashbulbs from the tree, and then McKinnon, Baldwin (with his 3-year-old daughter Carmen on his hip) and Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed the button to light up the tree. “That was worth standing in the rain for,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “It made Oneonta proud.”

At home, 75 people gathered at the Foothills Performing Arts Center to watch the show. “It was a really nice event,” said Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood, who was there. “It was an entertaining show, and the tree looked great.”

The Eichlers’ Norway spruce tree was discovered by Master

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On Thursday, Nov. 10, 200 people gathered to watch the tree cut down and loaded onto a flatbed truck. It arrived in New York City on the 12th and was strung with five miles of LED lights by Bill Kramer, brother-in-law of Oneonta Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney.

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COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 3-6 p.m. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown.

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FILM SCREENING – 6:30 p.m.

“The Accountant” starring Ben Affleck. Admission, $3. Also 9 p.m. Red Dragon Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3730 or email huinfo@oneonta.edu THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Orpheus Theater presents the “Wizard of Oz.” Part of the ‘Orpheus Ascending’ fundraising and volunteering campaign. Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine

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COOP FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine.

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ONEONTA SANTA – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Muller Plaza, Main St., Oneonta.

WASSAIL WEEKEND – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Demonstration on how to make Wassail, the traditional holiday drink. Savory spices blended with sweet cider at The Fly Creek Cider Mill, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info, 1-800505-6455, flycreekcidermill.com DAR MEETING – 10 a.m.

Daughters of the American Revolution meeting with speaker Audrey Murray, Co-Director of the Cooperstown Food Bank. Christ Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 46 River St., Cooperstown.

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

CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Victorian themed holiday festival. Includes events throughout da: a clown show, “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” and “Mistletoe Moustache” humorous operetta. The Roseboro, Main St, Sharon Springs. Info, http://sha-

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Section 300.00 Block: 3 Lot: 65.01 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Oneonta, County of Otsego, New York and is more fully described as follows: BEGINNING at a maple tree on the north bounds of Southside Drive, which point is 243.80 feet +/- west of the property line dividing the lands of Galasso and Sutch; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive N 76° 31” W a distance of 137.76 feet to a point; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive N 69° 28’ W a distance of 65.04 feet to a point; thence, along the bounds of Southside Drive a distance of 0.89 feet to a point; thence, N 42° 40” E a distance of 124 feet to a point; thence S. 74° 08’ E a distance of 203.76 feet to a point; thence, S 42° 40’ W a distance of 125 feet to the point and place of beginning.

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Saturday, December 10

SANTA TRAIN – 2-4:30 p.m.

Afternoon train ride with Santa and Mrs. Claus and their helpers with holiday music, goodies and refreshments. Tickets $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 for children (3-12), under 3 free.

Weekends through Dec. 17., reservations required, seating limited. Boarding Milford Depot, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429.

OPERA – 12:55 p.m. “L’Amour de Loin.” The Met streaming live in HD. Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Cost $18/seniors, $20/adults, 10/students. Season pass $200. Box Office: (607) 431-2080, http://foothillspac. org/index.php/shows/metropolitan-opera-in-hd/ COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 15 p.m. (See Friday listing for details) THEATER – 2 p.m. Orpheus Theater presents the “Wizard of Oz.” (See Friday listing for details) CANDLELIGHT EVENING – 3-7 p.m. Participate in a beloved holiday tradition. The museum is decorated with greenery and candles with wagon rides, a

dramatic reading of “A Christmas Carol”, arts & crafts for the kids, visits with Saint Nicholas, complimentary wassail, a bonfire on the Tavern Green, and Caroling by the Catskill Chamber Singers.

The Farmers Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org/CandlelightEvening LASAGNA DINNER – 4-7 p.m.

Presented by Franklin Central School Senior Class. $8 per adult, $5 per child. School Auditorium, 26 Institute St., Franklin.

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COOKIEPALOOZA – 1-3 p.m.

Mix and match as many cookies as you want to support the Hartwick Fire Department and EMS. $5 for a dozen cookies.

Hartwick Community Center, 450 Cty. Rd. 11, Hartwick. Info, Caren Kelsey, (607)293-7530 YULETIDE CELEBRATION – 1-4 p.m. Hunt for the Yule log and then settle in for an afternoon of arts and crafts for the whole family. SUNY Oneonta College Camp, off upper East St., Oneonta. one mile from intersection of Bugbee Rd. and East St., Oneonta. Info, 436-3455 COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 1-4 p.m. (See Friday listing for details) FILM SCREENING – 1 p.m.

“The Accountant” starring Ben Affleck. (See Friday listing for details) FILM SERIES –2 p.m. “The Little Princess” (1939). Fenimore Art Museum auditorium, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/films THEATER – 2 p.m. Orpheus Theater presents the “Wizard of Oz.” (See Friday listing for details) SANTA TRAIN – 2-4:30 p.m.

Milford (See Saturday listing for details).

CONCERT – 3 p.m. “Christmas in the Catskills: Songs of the Season” the winter concert of the Catskill Chamber Singers.

Unitarian Universalist Church, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, Emma Kirsch (607)433-0999, or visit http://www.catskillchambersingers.com/ DAVES FLICK PICK’S – 5-7 p.m. Presents “Spotlight” 2015 Academy award winner for best picture depicting the Boston Globes investigation of the Catholic Church. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St.,

Cooperstown, Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar FILM SERIES –6:30 p.m.

“Indie Lens Pop-up Film Screening: Meet the Patels.” Fenimore Art Museum auditorium, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/films

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HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE – 4-6 p.m. Opening reception showcasing The Smithy Clay Studio Artists & Visiting Ceramicists.

Exhibit thru 12/23. The Smithy, 1 Otsego Court, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8671 or visit http:// www.smithyarts.org/

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Tuesday, December 13,

FCAHS LUNCHEON – 11:30 a.m. Fly Creek Methodist Church, 811 Co Rd 26, Fly Creek. Info, http://www.fcahs.org/ KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar SANTA’S SECRETS – 2 p.m.

Learn the Secrets of Santa’s Cooperstown Cottage with Santa. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607)5470600.

COOKIES & COLORING – 67:30 p.m. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St, Oneonta.

Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ PTA MEETING – 7-8 p.m.

Elementary Library Media Center, 21 Walnut St, Cooperstown.

Info, http://www.cooperstowncs. org/elementary-school/ HIGH SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT – 7:30-9 p.m.. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, http://www.cooperstowncs.org/

Wednesday, December 14

Chenango Arts Council located in Norwich, NY, seeks a Decentralization (New York State Council of the Arts NYSCA- DEC) Coordinator responsible for the management of the DEC Program in relation to all NYSCA guidelines and application forms. This position reports to the Executive Director and includes: implementing DEC tri-county outreach, marketing and legislative notifications, applicant seminars, technical assistance, panel facilitation, annual county cultural plan, final reports, and fulfillment of NYSCA procedural and guideline requirements.

Salary commensurate to experience. To apply email: alecia.oneill@chenangoarts.org.

Please place DEC GRANTS POSITION in the subject line.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT The Chenango Arts Council located in Norwich, NY, seeks an Administrative Assistant to provide support for the Executive Director, Administrative Staff, and the Board of Trustees. Qualified applicant will have: successful experience in a professional office environment with similar job responsibilities; excellent organizational ability; effective verbal and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to use PC office applications, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, etc.; knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Office and Google apps; valid driver’s license and availability of personal vehicle to accommodate occasional errands, weekly trips to bank, and monthly trip to post office bulk mail facility; and, availability to work occasional evening and weekend special events.

Salary commensurate with experience. To apply: email: alecia.oneill@chenangoarts.org. Place ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT in subject line.

SECOND SHIFT MaNuFaCTurINg EquIpMENT TECHNICIaN

CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown.

Do you want to work for a World Class Artist Materials Manufacturer? We are behind the quality reputation of our products and we support the artists who use them.

We depend on each other. Through collaboration and creative application of our specialized talents, we have created an environment with room for the ideas of others. Regardless of functional differences, our eyes are always on the same goal: operational excellence, innovation, and creativity. These are the reasons for our success and growth.

We are hiring for this position in early 2017: Preferred placement for the new hire will be late January/early February of 2017

Join Our Team of Dedicated and Caring Professionals

WIC Nutritionist/ Breastfeeding Coordinator Housing Intake Coordinator Residential Associate (works at OFO shelters) OFO is a family-oriented organization offering competetive wages, excellent benefits & opportunities for professional growth. For an application, submission i nstructions, benefit package summary & descriptions of all employment openings, visit

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DESCrIpTION: The Second-Shift Manufacturing Equipment Technician will monitor, troubleshoot, and repair production equipment, as well as perform and maintain a preventative maintenance program for the production equipment. Incumbent will maintain the critical spares program, the production equipment repair histories, and the library of production equipment and catalogs. The Manufacturing Equipment Technician will also support the efforts of the Operations team in updating production processes and shop floor layout for continuous improvement, and will also represent the needs of equipment engineering on project teams and serve as a go-to person to answer questions and provide consulting advice to other project teams.

Second shift schedule: M-Th: 3:15-1:45am

EDuCaTION rEquIrED: 2-year Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Technology EXpErIENCE DESIrED: 1-3 Years Independent mechanical or electrical repair in a manufacturing environment with experience in running a preventative maintenance program and participating on capital project teams. qualified candidates are invited to submit their application and resumes in confidence through our online application process: www.goldenpaints.com/company_jobs Questions about this and any other career opportunity with GOLDEN can be made to Bill Berthel, HR Director Golden Artist Colors, Inc. 188 Bell Road, New Berlin, NY 13411 or email to bberthel@goldenpaints.com please visit us on the web at www.goldenpaints.com

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City Manager

Oneonta’s next City Manager has an opportunity to work with a dedicated governing body, a talented management team, and an engaged citizenry.

The City Manager is the Chief Administrative Officer, is hired by the Mayor and Common Council members, and is responsible for the overall day-to-day operations. Legislative power of the City of Oneonta is vested in the Common Council. The Mayor, who is elected to a fouryear term, presides over the Council. The eight councilmembers, who serve four-year terms, represent the ward in which they reside.

Oneonta’s total FY2016 budget is $21,517,480, with a general fund budget of $15,421,050.

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The City of Oneonta also has a rolling five-year capital plan.

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Requirements for the position are a master’s degree in public administration and at least three years’ successful experience in a responsible executive position in government administration, or any equivalent training or combination of experience and training in municipal government. Preferred qualifications include an ICMA-CM, experience in a council-manager government, strong financial management, and a track record of success with grants, intergovernmental relations, economic revitalization, and business and civic engagement.

Experience in a college town is preferred but not required.

Residency is required by the charter for all officers, including the City Manager. The charter also allows the Council to waive this, if desired.

*Includes New Year’s Eve

The expected hiring range is $105,000 – 115,000, depending on qualifications, with an excellent benefit package.

Applications will be accepted electronically by The Novak Consulting Group. Apply online at thenovakconsultinggroup.com/jobs and submit just one document (Word or PDF) that includes a cover

letter, resume with salary history, and list of 3-5 professional references. Open until filled with first review of applications January 6, 2017.

Questions should be directed to Catherine Tuck Parrish at apply@thenovakconsultinggroup.com or 513-221-0500.

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OBITUARIES

John R. Wilcox, 81; Retired From NYCM

FLY CREEK – John R. Wilcox, 81, who retired from NYCM after a lifetime in the insurance business, died Dec. 3, 2016, at Bassett Hospital.

Formerly of Westford and Worcester, he was born April 15, 1935; the son of John E. and Dorothy A. (Thomas) Wilcox at Cooperstown.

He attended school in Schenevus and Worcester and was a graduate of Worcester Central.

In October 1958 he married Dawn Hillis at Worcester.

Prior to joining New York Central Mutual in Edmeston, John was employed at Met Life and Cooperstown Insurance Agency.

He enjoyed his family, hunting, fishing, woodworking and time at the Worcenevus camp.

He is survived by his wife, daughter Cheri Pomeroy, son Mark (Sarah) Wil-

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cox, grandchildren Steffaney and Nathaniel Wilcox, Alicia Pomeroy, brother-in-law William Dormandy and several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, sister Allie M. and brother-in-law Werner Stickel and sister Irene Dormandy.

Services will be private at the convenience of the family.

Burial will be in the Maple Grove Cemetery at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to the Worcester Fire Department or Worcester Emergency Squad, of which John was a former member.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Heller & Skinner Funeral Home, Worcester.

Leland Collins, 92; Ran Family Farm

Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home 14 Grand Street, Oneonta • 607-432-6821 www.grummonsfuneralhome.com

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JORDANVILLE – Leland Daniel Collins, 92, retired farmer, passed away on Wednesday Nov. 30, 2016, in Ocala, Fla. He was born on Oct. 19, 1924, in Little Falls, one of 11 children born to Leland Collins Harold L. Sr. and Hattie Mae Hoffman Collins. A lifelong area resident, he was a graduate of VanHornesville Central School, Class of 1944. On Nov. 8, 1958, he married Elizabeth Hazel Seamon. Together they ran their family farm in Jordanville and raised four children.

Lee was a family man who loved his siblings. They were referred to as the Magnificent Eleven.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Liz; a son, Daniel Collins and his wife Cathy of Jordanville; three daughter, Roxanne Collins and her companion William Stalnaker of Ocala, Fla., Sandy Augstein-Collins and wife Joanne of Niskayuna, and Dena Collins and companion Mike Tylee of Canajoharie; a brother, Robert Collins and his wife Brittie; three sisters, Marion Fleckenstein, Dorothea Chace, Ella Light and her husband Alfred; nine grandchildren, great-grandson Paul Martin Collins, several nieces, nephews and cousins and many friends.

Beside his parents he was preceded in death by three brothers, Chester, Harold Jr., and James Collins, three sisters, Kathleen Suits, Cecelia Davey and Vicky Ingles.

The funeral service was held Wednesday, Dec. 7 with Rev. Ann Zimmerman, pastor, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Herkimer, officiating. Interment was in the Highland Rural Cemetery, Jordanville.

Arrangements are entrusted to the J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home.

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