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68 Years Later, She Returns To Scene Of Triumph Mrs. Moffat Champ, Now Honorary Chair, At National Horse Show

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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n 1946, 16-year-old Elaine Moore and her trainer’s horse, Power Plant, stood in the center of the ring at Madison Square

Garden to receive the Maclay Trophy at the National Horse Show.

And on Sunday, Nov. 2, 68 years later, she had the honor of presenting that same award to 17-year-old Tori Colvin as honorary chair of that same National Horseshow, now held in Lexington,

Ky. “I remembered seeing all the socialites at that show, the women in their evening gowns, the men in white tie handing out the trophies,” she said. “And that’s the kind of thing I got to do this time!”

Now Elaine Moffat, Please See TROPHY, A3

2014 CFA GRANTS (Round 4) VILLAGE OF COOPERSTOWN The Freeman’s Journal

Earl Wilkinson, Edmeston, keeps the bonfire on the Green stoked during The Farmers’ Museum Candlelight Evening Saturday, Dec. 11. He is on the museum’s maintenance staff.

Weather Helps Set Candlelight Evening Record COOPERSTOWN

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ome 2,659 people walked through The Farmers’ Museum gate for the Candlelight Evening Saturday, Dec. 11, more than double last year.

NYSHA officials were crediting the relatively balmy weather: Low 30s and no wind.

In 2013, the gate was 1,024, in 2012, it was 1,925, and in 2011, it was 2,135.

BUOYS GOING: The Otsego Lake scuba diving team will replace the no-wake zone buoys at Springfield Landing and Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park with spar buoys Saturday, Dec. 20.

LAND TRUST TOPS: Otsego Land Trust has been named to the Land Trust Alliance National Land Trust Excellence Program, one of 70 land trusts from over 1,900 nationwide so designated.

SENIORS SOUGHT: The county Office on Aging is seeking nominees for its annual volunteerism awards. For nomination forms, call 547-4232.

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► Springbrook, community residence renovations, $400,000 ► Ag Microenterprise Program, to help 10 farmers, $200,000 ► Oneonta’s D&H Rail Yards, development plan, $47,500 ► Oneonta Entertainment District, market study, $19,000 TOTAL FOR STATE: $709.2 MILLION TOTAL FOR MOHAWK VALLEY REGION: $59.6 MILLION (8.4% OF NY TOTAL) TOTAL FOR OTSEGO COUNTY: $3.27 MILLION (5% OF MVREDC TOTAL) FOR COMPLETE LOCAL LIST, GO TO

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Elaine Moore Moffat presented the Mclay Trophy Nov. 2 in Lexington, Ky. Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal

State Funds Village Plan Katz Says $58,000 Assures Comp Plan Update, Strategy Completion

UGLY Comes To Cooperstown The fastest female, Melissa Swislosky, Mount Upton, finishes the Ugly Sweater 5K in 27:24; Oneonta’s Kyle Breier took top honors at 25:41.

Below is Team Ugly, from left, Don and Cathy Raddatz, Nancy Potter, Anne Webster and Jim Hill, all of Cooperstown.

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$58,000 CFA grant announced Thursday, Dec. 11, assures the Village of Cooperstown can update its comprehensive master plan and craft a strategy for a prosperous future, Mayor Jeff Katz said in an interview.

“We’re going to come out of this not only with a master plan, but with useful financial statistics and marketing information we can use to bring in appropriPlease See GRANT, B4

Glimmerglass Plans National Campaign On 40th Anniversary

By LIBBY CUDMORE Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal

87 Runners, Walkers, Plus Sweaters, Vie For Ugliest

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t was a wooly and wild weekend in Cooperstown. Things got pretty ugly for a bit, but everyone still had a great time.

Some 90 runners and walkers, plus spectators aplenty, attended the belated Rockin’ Around Cooperstown Ugly Sweater Run Saturday, Dec. 13, bringing out their Santa Snuggies, reindeer sweatshirts and sweaters bedecked with bows, jinPlease See UGLY, B4

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ith the Glimmerglass Festival’s 40th Anniversary arriving, Joan Desens, director of institutional advancement, and June Dzialo, marketing director, want to make sure everyone is invited to the party.

“We want to support the community that has supported us,” said Desens.

The Festival was one of the relatively few local entities to receive one of Governor Cuomo’s economPlease See 40TH, B4

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ithin a month of his graduation from Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pa., Rev. Matthew Stromberg was serving as a curate at the Christ Episcopal Church.

“When we came up here, we just fell in love with the town,” he said. “So my wife” – April – “and I prayed on it, and we felt like this was the place God was calling us to.”

So on Saturday, Dec. 6, Rev. Stromberg was ordained as an Episcopal priest by the Most Rev. William Love, retired bishop of Albany. “It’s very exciting for us,” said Father Mark Michael, rector.

“We haven’t had a full-time curate living in Cooperstown since the mid-‘80s.”

Stromberg fills the position left vacant by Father Paul Hunter, an Oneonta native who was serving part-time before accepting a position at Albany’s Cathedral of All Saints earlier this year.

On Sunday morning, Dec. 7, Stromberg celebrated his first Eucharist and gave an individual blessing to all in attendance. “It’s a tradition for a new priest’s first day,” said Michael.

“It was exciting to finally be able to celebrate the Eucharist,” said Stromberg. “Hopefully one day, I’ll be able to do it as well as Father Mark.”

Stromberg, who lives in Cooperstown with his wife and their children, Helen and Isaac, also writes about theology and faith at www.thepropertyofjesus. blogspot.com

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Father Matthew Stromberg, left, was ordained Sunday, Dec. 2, at Christ Episcopal Church by the Most Rev. William Love, retired bishop.

icholas Nicoletta and his wife, Christina, will be the honorees at “A Pink Tie Affair,” the Bassett Health Network’s 2014 New Year’s Eve Gala at The Otesaga.

Retiring at year’s end, Nicoletta has been Bassett’s corporate vice president and chief financial officer for 27 years and on the staff for 39 years.

Tickets are nearly gone for the popular event, now in its 21st year, which will benefit Bassett’s $1.5 million fundraising campaign to update equipment and renovate Bassett Hospital’s

Women’s Imaging Center.

The gala takes place from 6:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 31. The evening features cocktails and hors d’œuvres, a live auction with Dr. Donald Raddatz as auctioneer, a dinner buffet, open bars, a midnight champagne toast and fireworks.

Lynn Johnson, Bassett Medical Center’s director of radiology, is chairing this year’s gala committee.

The evening’s entertainment will feature the live band Chaser from New York City, an eight-piece band.

This year’s auction items include a one-week stay in a private villa at the Marriott Kaua’i Beach Club, Hawaii.

First Baptist Church Elm Street, Cooperstown

Rev. Robert Turner, Interim Pastor

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Sunday, December 21 10 am Service, Sermon: “Let It Be”

CHRISTMAS EVE CANDLELIGHT

7 pm Sermon: “Good News of Great Joy”

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United Methodist Church

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services

Wednesday, December 24

7 pm Candlelight Worship with Children’s Christmas Pageant 11 pm Candlelight Worship with Holy Communion

All Are Welcome!

Cooperstown UMC 66 Chestnut Street Cooperstown, NY Rev. Bill Delia, Pastor

First Presbyterian 25 Church Street Cooperstown 607-547-8401

Sunday, December 21

10 am Worship “The Story Is in Your Flesh”

Christmas Eve

Wednesday, December 24 4:45 pm - Carol Sing

5 pm - Candlelight Worship with Christmas Pageant

10 pm - Candlelight Worship with Communion - “Holdfast”

The Rev. Elsie Armstrong Rhodes, Pastor

Otsego County Lutheran Parish

The Reverend Paul Messner, STS Sandra Shear, Associate in Ministry Atonement, Oneonta • 1 Center Street, Oneonta Evangelical, Hartwick Seminary State Hwy 28, 4 miles south of Cooperstown St. Matthew, 125 Main Street, Laurens St. John, 2546 State Rte 80, West Burlington

Christmas Eve: December 24 Holy Communion and Candlelighting 6 pm St. Matthew • 6 pm St. John 8 pm Evangelical • 10 pm Atonement

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

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

Christmas Eve December 24 3-5 pm

Christmas Day: December 25, Holy Communion

Living Nativity (at 22 Elm Street)

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First Sunday of Christmas: December 28

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Commemoration of the Holy Innocents Lessons and Carols - 8:30 am St. Matthew Holy Communion - 9 am St. John Service of the Word - 10:30 am Atonement Holy Communion - 10:45 am Evangelical

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Service and Carols

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Second Sunday of Christmas: January 4

Festival Choral Eucharist

Holy Communion - 8:30 am St. Matthew Lessons and Carols - 9:30 am (new time) Evangelical Holy Communion - 10:30 am Atonement Service of the Word - 11 am (new time) St. John

Feast of the Epiphany: Tuesday, January 6

at Evangelical Potluck Supper (bring dish to pass + table service) - 6 pm Worship with Holy Communion - 7 pm Dessert and Gift Exchange - 7:30 pm

First Sunday After the Epiphany (The Baptism of Our Lord): January 11

Holy Communion and Affirmation of Baptism at All Services

Christmas Day

December 25 - 10 am Holy Eucharist

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St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church “Our Lady of the Lake”

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

Christmas Eve Pageant and Family Eucharist – 4 pm Christmas Eve Choral Concert – 9:30 pm Festival Eucharist – 10 pm Christmas Day Eucharist – 9 am Christmas Lessons and Carols December 28 – 8 and 10 am Epiphany Eucharist – January 6 at 5:30 pm

Cooperstown

December 18

Advent/Christmas Confessions 6:30 pm

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

Christmas Vigil Mass 6:30 pm Christmas Midnight 9:00 pm (Candlelight)

Mass 8:30 am & 10:30 am

December 25

December 24 Christmas Eve Mass 4:00 pm

Please join us in our celebrations!

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1946 Trophy Winner Invited Back As National Horse Show Honorary Chair TROPHY/From A1 who owned and operated Cooperstown Stables on Beaver Meadow Road with her husband, John, into the late 1990s, says her selection as honorary chair was a surprise. “Jane Clark invited me to dinner with Mason Phelps, (former Olympic equestrian and past president of the ASPCA National Horse Show.) It was delightful to see him, but I didn’t know they were checking me out.” she said.

“After dinner, he invited me to be the chair.”

Moffat, 84, began riding in 1940 at the Boulder Brook Club in Scarsdale.

“My mother thought I was a hopeless nerd,” she said.

“I was skinny and nearsighted, and she had to do something!”

When word got out that a new stable, Secor Farms, opened, she transferred there. “The War was on, 

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Elaine Moore, now Elaine Moffat, poses with Power Plant in Madison Square Garden after winning the Maclay Trophy at the National Horse Show.

so I had to take a bus to the train, then another bus to get to the farm,” she said.

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by Gordon Wright, who became one of the most influential trainers in history. “He put me on some creepy old saddle horse and sent me out into the ring,” she said. “I rode this stupid thing for 10 minutes and went back up to him and said, ‘I’ve had enough.’ He made me go back, and every time I complained, he added half an hour. His theory

was that you had to ride every weird school horse he had, but by 1946, when the war was over, we got some better horses.”

Wright was married to Moffat’s mother, briefly, and among her equestrian classmates was Nancy McGinnis, now the wife of former secretary of state Henry Kissinger. “Her brother Bristol took me to my first dance,” she said. “She was a very friendly, delightful person.”

In 1941, at age 11, Moffat took sixth place in the Maclay finals at the National Horse Show. To participate in the competition, she had to qualify and win the Maclay at a local show, and won it every year at Lawrence Horse Farms in 1943-46. “There was no National Horse Show with the war on, so when I won the trophy, they were trying to do three years of shows in one.”

But when the show started back up in 1946, it was her last chance to win the trophy at the National Horse Show – at the time, only riders under age 16

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were eligible.

She had to ride Power Plant around the ring once, then down through the middle, with fences on each line – but the fences were 3’6”, considerably taller than the fences she had practiced on.

“Those 6 inches make a big difference to the horse!”

But Power Plant handled the fences beautifully, and she took home the coveted trophy. “I was nervous, but we knew what we were doing,” she said.

Though her mother did not want her to ride professionally, she trained for the 1952 Olympics at a time when female riders were not allowed to jump fences, but didn’t qualify for the team. She also authored the book “Winning Your Spurs,” published by Little Brown & Company in 1954.

“I’ve had people asking me to publish another edition,” she said.

In 1959, she and her husband John Moffat opened Cooperstown Stables, giving lessons and breeding horses. “I remember Jane Clark riding in our horse show, with her beautiful

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braids and bows,” she said.

And though she had stopped showing professionally, Moffat began riding again in 1992 at age 64, taking second place in the Classic at a competition in Wellington, Fla. “People were astounded,” she said.

“But I told Mason that I

wanted to ride again, and he got me all set up.”

And though she has since sold all of her horses, she savored her chance to get back in the ring in Kentucky. “It was like coming home,” she said. “It was a fabulous show.”

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Perspectives

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014

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Fresh, Brainy Town Board Needs Issue: Create Greater Oneonta

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ay you were elected to the Oneonta Town Board, determined to prevent fracking from happening in the town.

Then, you discover, there’s no natural gas under the town.

Now what? You’re bright, energetic. You get along well with your equally brainy and motivated colleagues, who find themselves in the same quandary.

That came to mind Monday evening, Dec. 15, at the discussion on town-city collaboration organized by Albert Colone and Bill Shue’s GO-EDC in the Oneonta Middle School cafeteria.

Common Council representation was spotty, although Mayor Russ Southard and Council members Bob Brzozowski and Madolyn O. Palmer were there, (plus City Manager Martin Murphy, Fire Chief Pat Pidgeon, Finance Director Meg Hungerford and other City Hall staffers.)

But the town board members – plus Town Supervisor Bob Wood, who played the evening’s central role – were there in force: David Jones, the first anti-fracker elected to the board, three years ago now, and freshmen Patty Jacob, Andrew Stammel and Trish Riddell

The Oneonta Town Board – clockwise from upper left, David Jones, Patty Jacob, Trish Riddell Kent and Andrew Stammell – should focus their energies on creating a Greater Oneonta.

Kent.

They were curious, attentive and, as evident in their back-and-forth after the meeting, having lots of fun working together.

This group, you quickly conclude, is a juggernaut in search of a target. (Hold that thought.)

• Supervisor Wood was his usual restrained, diplomatic and cannily obscure self, but he’s been a reluctant passenger for too long on the locomotive Colone and Shue are

trying to stoke anew.

As the presentations – on a town-city water and sewer district; on O-STAR, a combined sports, tourism and recreation agency, and on actual consolidation of the two municipalities into a Greater Oneonta – underscored, unity offers too many benefits to ignore (or, in Wood’s case, to parry.)

Bottom line: Greater Oneonta might save as much as $500,000 if it unified services, and might receive $2 million, $3 million, or even more in salestax revenues than if the two municipalities became one.

One stumbling block has been the tax rate of the combined entity, down in the city, up in the town. But Shue reported, per a law passed in 2011, that can be negotiated in the consolidation agreement so that rural areas with few services pay less than urbanized neighborhoods.

Another stumbling block, allegedly, is that it would cost less for the town to build a whole new plant and distribution system to supply water to the Southside than it would for the city to run a pipe across Lettis Highway to Route 23. But consultant Fred Krone of GEMS (Grants and Essen-

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Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood was the personality in the room at GO-EDC’s forum on “collaboration, cooperation and consolidation,” but has the issue passed him by?

tial Management Services, Utica) said that the USDA and other agencies, so sold are they on consolidation, would help offset any inequity, so (former) town ratepayers wouldn’t be subsidizing (former) city ones.

With state and federal governments so eager to reduce New York State’s 4,200 taxing jurisdictions, Krone said, any consolidation “rings a whole lot of bells with lots of agencies.”

• And yet, Governor Cuomo’s CFA system, supposedly bottom-up and rational, gave another $600,000 toward the town’s

go-it-alone Emmons-based water system. Go figure.

Not only is the Emmons plan dumb growth – promoting sprawl and allowing businesses to hopscotch from the Town of Oneonta/ County of Otsego into the Town of Davenport/County of Delaware – the grant flies in the face of state policy, which is supposed to support “collaboration, cooperation and consolidation,” a phrase much-heard Monday night.

Politics – someone’s pulling the strings – not rationality, is at play here, with potentially devastating effects for everybody a gen-

eration hence, if not sooner.

(Also, given the otherwise relatively paltry CFA grants announced in the last few days, this ill-considered project is draining the well for everyone else.)

Forget fracking. Here’s a real issue for the brainy Oneonta Town Board to tackle, with Wood or without: How to achieve “collaboration, cooperation and,” finally, “consolidation” of the two Oneontas.

What does success look like? A prosperous, wellfunded Greater Oneonta, with a flourishing downtown and tidy neighborhoods, adding needed infrastructure, prudently and consistently, from the center out, rather than willy-nilly.

Oneonta Town Board members – Jones, Jacob, Stammel, Riddell Kent – don’t take our word for it. You’re fresh to the issue.

Drill down. Understand it.

Come to your own conclusions.

We may be wrong, but likely – very likely – you’ll embrace smart growth and work toward the greater benefit of Greater Oneonta, which – with 6,000 people working in the city and living outside it – will benefit everyone in the City of the Hills’ orbit.

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Letter To Governor: Science, Economics Don’t Support Allowing Fracking In NY Editor’s Note: Governor Cuomo revealed Monday, Dec. 15, on WCNY TV’s “Capitol Pressroom” that a fracking decision may be forthcoming by the end of the month, prompting this letter signs by 140 members of Elected Officials to Protect New York, including 25 from Otsego County, to send this letter to the governor the following day.

been made public.

New information that is publicly available includes new concerns about direct and collateral damage from fracking, and anecdotal evidence has become empirical data. Currently the independent group Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy has cataloged more than 400 peer reviewed studies on fracking and its related activities, nearly all demonstrating harm.

The body of evidence on health impacts is significant and growing, including links to: • high levels of ozone; • a range of dangerous toxins in high concentrations in ambient air near fracking infrastructure, including formaldehyde and the carcinogen benzene; and • numerous water and air pollutants (including carcinogenic radon) that pose a

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direct threat to human and animal health.

The list of environmental issues goes on, with significant impacts across the country, including: • Anecdotal accounts of fouled wells became 248

confirmed of cases of water contamination, ultimately acknowledged by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

• Other states have also suffered surface and groundwater contamination;

to Ohio’s injection wells, to New York landfills, or spreading it on roads (illegally, or under a “beneficial use determination”) is environmentally irresponsible and completely unsustainable.

A great deal of attention has been given to potential economic benefits of fracking, but time has confirmed much of the initial skepticism over promised jobs and overstated economic benefits.

• In Pennsylvania, only a fraction of the promised jobs materialized; many of them temporary and filled by out of state workers.

• Royalty payments have fallen far short of what many landowners were promised due to “creative business restructuring” by drillers.

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and explosions, leaks, spills, and blowouts are common.

• More data and studies reveal that well casing and integrity failures are endemic problems without a solution – meaning that a significant percentage of wells will leak gas and chemicals into groundwater and the atmosphere.

• Early concerns about seismic impacts and earthquakes, associated not just with injection wells - but with fracking itself – have been confirmed.

• Climate change has made extreme weather events and flooding more common, a disaster when combined with fracking sites.

• One of the biggest unresolved issues is how to responsibly handle the enormous quantities of toxic wastewater created along with radioactive drilling wastes. Sending this waste

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Search For ‘Unclaimed Funds’ Ends In Disappointment To the Editor: If you received the giant postcard from state Sen. Jim Seward’s office stating you may have “New York State Unclaimed Funds waiting for you! …There’s never any charges to search or file for unclaimed funds.” Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it.

I was surfing the Internet a while back and decided to look into that site. I put in the names of my mother and stepfather and, sure enough, their names came up saying that there were funds available.

To make a long story short I contacted my brother, since I had turned executorship over to him. He was the one that had to fill out the forms. We ended up going to the county seat and spending around $70 to get the forms needed. Also there was the money I spent in gas driving over to Sherburne and back a couple times.

The government would not tell us

how much money was there until we bought and sent in the forms. I also sent a copy of my birth certificate, which it cost me $20 or $30 plus a three-month wait.

As we were getting the forms together we discovered my mother’s lawyer had never closed the estate.

How is it the government did not required him to do this? He is now dead, so we would have to pay another lawyer to close the estate. There goes another $300 plus? So we sent in the paperwork we had.

They sent us a request for more documentation! At the time they told us there was a grand total of around $90! So we told him we did not want to pursue this matter any more. It was costing more money for form of proof than what we would get back. What’s the point?

So we requested a return of our documents. They have refused to

return the documentation that we paid for. The documents belong to us as we paid for them. If they had any intelligence they would copy or check off receiving the documents and return the originals.

To me, it seems the whole affair was just another way for the government to get more money from us by having us purchase all these forms and documents from the government. If the documents where already part of government why did we have to purchase them again? Couldn’t they have just looked them up?

Another example of government incompetency and their lack of understanding that they are public servant we pay their salary, they are not supposed to make life harder for us.

R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

BOUND VOLUMES

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

200 YEARS AGO

The Fast – When God visits a people with any calamities or afflictions, reason and scripture imperiously demand of that people, a forsaking of their sins, and a turning to the Lord. This is the means which God hath appointed them to use, and which he hath promised to regard in mercy.

Impressed with a sense of the afflicted state of our country, the President (James Madison) issued a Proclamation appointing the second Thursday of January next, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer; Therefore, let all those who wish well to Zion, or who have the dearest interests of their country at heart, comply with this proclamation.

December 15, 1814

125 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

Douglas K. Walrath, 32, of Cooperstown, was named Monday night by the Board of Trustees to succeed Newton E.D. Gilmore as Village Clerk and Treasurer when the latter retires after 23 years on the job next June 1. Mr. Walrath will join the village staff on February 1 to undergo a four-month training program under Mr. Gilmore’s direction. Mr. Walrath, a village native, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas O. Walrath of this village. He graduated from Cooperstown Central School and from Ithaca College. He is a veteran of the Korean War, receiving a Purple Heart.

December 16, 1964

25 YEARS AGO

175 YEARS AGO

What is a Loco Foco? A democrat, a benevolent, kindhearted, honest man – a lover of the human race – one who is happy where others are happy – who despises all aristocracy, all tyranny over the minds of men – one who respects the industrious poor man as much as he does the rich man, (and more, if he be more honest) – one in favor of having the workman paid when he has earned his money – against such shaving banks as favor the rich and withhold favors from the poor – in favor of men being honest; enterprising in taking a wife if one chooses, and rearing the children in the way they should go, in the path of honor and duty. Such is a genuine loco foco.

December 23, 1839

150 YEARS AGO

Summary of News – The beautiful brick mansion erected during the past season on Chestnut Street, by D.A. Avery, Esq., should be among the things recorded in our local department. It is a commodious dwelling, in semi-cottage style, designed by Mr. L.M. Bolles, who also does the carpenter’s work. Mr. George B. Wood is the mason. The handsome building, which for substantial beauty rather takes the lead of any residence on the corporation, shows their skill as architect and mechanic.

December 16, 1864

75 YEARS AGO

December 20, 1889

Letter from S. Klaus to R.D. Spraker, Mayor of Cooperstown dated Labrador, December 16, 1939: “Dear Sprake: Glad to be in your town again this year. Just hopped over here from Labrador; natives all peaceful and quiet.

Beats all, the more that folks get civilized, the less they know about governing themselves; all the time inventin’ things to blow up one another with. Anan. Came to Rum Hill and camped out in Uncle Phil’s shack. My reindeer Blitzen had a romance up there last year with a wild one and some of the team got skeered at the ski jumpers over thother side of the hill and the autymobiles. Hear that Romano is trying to get somebody to dress up in some red pants and whiskers and imitate me. I do not approve of them phony Santa Clauses.

Tell the kids to be good chillun and I’ll be seein’ ‘em. Yrs. Trooly, S.Klaus. Postscript: Glasses broke, so can’t spell very good. Hafta C. Kay while I am here.”

December 20, 1939

Eight months after plans were first presented for a proposed Pizza Hut for 53 Walnut Street, the Village Planning Board unanimously rejected the site development plans.

Village Planning Board member Michael Jerome moved for the rejection of the plans, offered by Fugate Enterprises of Wichita, Kansas, based on a number of elements covered under the village zoning ordinance. “The proposed use, a high-volume restaurant, will adversely affect the safety and welfare of the general public,” Jerome’s motion read in part, “and is not in the best interest of the neighborhood which is residential.”

December 20, 1989

10 YEARS AGO

Jeffrey Idelson, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s vice-president of communications and education, was named the 2004 winner of the Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence by Major League Baseball on Friday, December 10, at the Anaheim Marriott during professional baseball’s annual winter meetings.

December 17, 2004

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140 Leaders Say: Don’t Frack FRACKING/From A4 mented, among them: rising violent crime, traffic fatalities, enormous amounts of heavy truck traffic, and strain on volunteer first responders.

• Financial institutions and insurance companies have identified threats to mortgages and home insurance, potentially undermining municipal tax bases.

As we have noted before, New York State’s review of the economics of fracking is not only inadequate, but one-sided, reporting inflated potential benefits and neglecting entirely to analyze negative municipal or economic impacts.

Any review of the evidence on fracking that is truly based on science, rather than politics, must also include a hard look at the contribution of this industry to climate change.

New research since 2012 gives reason to expect that fracking accelerates climate change. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, 86 times worse than carbon dioxide for the first 20 years it is in the atmosphere. Fugitive emissions of methane occur as part of the fracking process, along the pipelines, and in distribution lines under city streets. As we know that time is running out to stop the disastrous upward trend of global warming, an acknowledgement of fracking’s contribution to

climate change should factor into your decision. You have made laudable initiatives to promote renewable energy, the right path forward for New York.

Allowing fracking now would clearly roll back that crucial good work.

Hundreds of health professionals, scientists, and numerous medical societies have reviewed the science, and based on that review, have asked for a firm moratorium of at least three to five years.

We strongly “second” this motion and believe anything less would be negligent.

Our call today for a firm, extended moratorium is in line with our original 2012 request to you. We need to know the real impacts to public health, the cumulative environmental impacts, and the true costs versus the benefits to our local economies. These questions, among others, remain unanswered. Furthermore, new, critical scientific studies are underway or planned; an extended moratorium allows the time for these answers to come forth.

Governor Cuomo, we acknowledge and appreciate the restraint and caution you have shown thus far.

Given your vow to protect the water and ensure the health of all New Yorkers, a longer term moratorium is the right path to take.

Letter Misleads On State Of Town Of Otsego Affairs To the Editor: As supervisor, I wish to clarify some points in Sheila Ross’ letter of Nov. 21 implying the Town of Otsego awarded raises LETTERS to many at the expense of the highway workers.

The only raise awarded in the new budget was a costof-living 1.5 percent raise to the town clerk, whose office hours are 16 but who is on call when outside her regular hours. She attends many meetings and covers for other workers who do not have many office hours.

The highway workers’ annual raise is in the three-

year union contract signed in early 2014 with the workers’ full agreement. In the contract, the startup hourly rate is raised from $12.50 to $13.11 per hour and there is an annual 30 cent an hour increase for each of the next three years. They are the only employees at the town who can receive benefits.

I personally both like and respect all the Town of Otsego highway employees.

They are good, decent men and their job is important to the Town.

The town and village courts consolidated in March 2014 with extra work and hours, especially

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parking tickets. A part timer is scheduled to be involved during the summer.

Before consolidation, the court clerk worked 10 hours per week part time for the town and full time for the village. After consolidation, she works 30 hours per week and her income rose in the town because of that.

That is not a raise!

The assessor was hired mid-contract to fill a vacated position by the former assessor. His salary is unchanged from that sevenyear contract. He works both in and out of the office as well and being willing to step up and complete the town’s 2015 reval.

ANNE GEDDES-ATWELL Otsego Town Supervisor

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HOMES FOR RENT Oneonta 2 Bdrm, 1 1/2 bath townhouse for rent. Furnished or unfurnished. No Pets.

References and credit check required. $950 month + security. Call Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC at 607-432-4391.

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Two bedroom, two bath, LR, DR, one car garage, W&D hook-up, Rt.31, furnished, $850. per mo plus utilities, plowing, lawn care & garbage removal. No pets. References required. Call Patti at (607) 547-4045.

TFN Fly Creek 3 or 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Fireplace, Sun Porch, Patio, Garage, Yard & Woods, $1500. plus utilities 607267-2683 Kathy Fistrowicz Broker Associate RealtyUSA Cooperstown TFN For Rent, Center Village Home.

3 BR, 2 baths, den, modern kitchen, laundry, DR, breakfast room, 1 car garage. Excellent Location. $1400. per month plus utilities, snow & garbage removal, lawn care. Lease.

References required. One dog ok. No cats allowed. Call Ashley-Connor Realty 607-547-4045. TFN

APARTMENTS FOR RENT Cooperstown 2 bedroom, first floor, edge of village $950.00 with heat and electric included. Lease. No pets. Dave LaDuke, John Mitchell Real Estate, (607) 547-8551.

TFN Village Studio Apartment available. Walking distance to hospital. Ideal for one or two persons. Heat, electric, snow removal and lawn care included. Cooking facilites. Long or short term. $700/Month.

Contact: Robert K. Lee Benson Agency 607-434-5177

MLS#97784 Minden $299,000 Here is a wonderful opportunity to own this tastefully updated Colonial on over 50+ acres w/mountain views for miles. 3 BRs, 3 baths. Updated galley-style kitchen overlooks rear sunroom and in-ground pool w/Trex decking.

Spacious LR w/brick gas fireplace, large DR. Master BR features walk-in closet and private bath. Plenty of storage space in the full walk-out basement and 2-car garage.

Cherry Valley/Springfield schools.

Dave LaDuke, Broker 607-435-2405

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Village Treasure Exclusively Offered at $225,000

Village of Cooperstown home is close to downtown, and within a block of Bassett Medical Center. This is a great opportunity for family living with a very nice backyard, mature plantings and entertaining space on the back patio. The house is in need of cosmetic updating, and the price reflects this.

PrOPErTy DETails —Home built in 1840 —.25 acres —Village water and sewer —Mature gardens inTEriOr FEaTurEs —1,798 sq ft —3 BRs —2 full baths

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ExTEriOr FEaTurEs —2 stories —Frame construction —Vinyl siding —Open front porch, side porch —Attached 1-car garage —Attached garden greenhouse —Asphalt shingle roof

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For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Real Estate Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5105

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MLS#97634 $45,000 Owner Says Sell! 2,000+ sq ft raised ranch sits on almost 6 acres, lots of privacy, near Cooperstown and Oneonta. REA Co-op electric. Won’t last long!

Call Mark Frank @ 607-267-6612 (cell)

MLS#96160 $275,000 Across the Street from Dreams Park! Mint 1.4 acres. As rental, solid 8% R/R for the 13 weeks.

Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.rodshousetour.com

MLS#97018 $249,900 2.3+ acre lawn, lake access right next door. 2-3 BRs, 2 baths, LR w/wood-burning fireplace, family room w/ pellet stove, garage/workshop. Move in immediately.

Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)

MLS#93207 $249,000 Remarkable Buying Opportunity! 1927 Tudor revival with over $186k in recent renovations! Like new w/old-world craftsman sophistication.

Call Tom Spychalski @ 607-434-7719 (cell)

MLS#93004 $224,900 Selling Under Value! 25-acre horse farm w/large Morton barn in Morris. 3-BR, 2-bath ranch, arenas.

Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.morrishorsefarm.com

MLS#95904 $629,000 Center-hall Colonial features LR w/fireplace, DR w/original cupboards. Downstairs: 2 BRs, 2 baths.

Upstairs: 4 BRs, 3 baths. Pond, horse barn, 2 cottages.

Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)

MLS#97402 $395,000 Rare Cooperstown Area Land! Owner Must Liquidate! 138 acres selling below market!

Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.cooperstownland.com

$69,000 In Mountain View Park, well maintained single-wide w/Florida room, 3 BRs, 2 baths, central air, double lot.

Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/725738

MLS#96570 $239,900 Investment Potential! Positive Cash Flow!

Pristine Lakefront Home! 4-BR, 2-bath home is completely renovated and furnished.

Call William Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)

MLS#96011 $395,000 10 Minutes to Cooperstown! New in 2007, 3+ acres, 4 BRs, 3½ baths, finished basement, AC. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.leatherstockinghomes2.com

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MLS#96275 $149,900 63 acres - ½ mile of prime, buildable, frontage on the Susquehanna River in the rapidly developing corridor between Cooperstown and Oneonta! Priced to move.

Call Thomas Spychalski @ 607-434-7719 (cell)

MLS#93729 $111,500 Across from Hartwick College in Oneonta 3-BR, 2-bath home w/hardwood floors, deck.

Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/712437

! ld MLS#97070 $107,900 $25k in Renovations! New hardwood flooring, windows, wiring, insulation, barn, frost-free hydrant, water, electric. 10.69 acres.

Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

MLS#88473 $26,000 Waiting for Your Dream Home! Two sloping acres.

Open with 212’ of road frontage. Minutes from Cooperstown and Richfield Springs.

Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

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MLS#97712 $115,000 4-BR, 2½ bath home sits on 6.2 mostly wooded acres.

Open floorplan, 2 outbuildings, front and back decks w/ramps. Includes rental lot for a single-wide mobile.

Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)

Move Right In! Beautiful Victorian home in center city Oneonta w/hardwood flooring, natural woodwork, crown molding, high ceilings, pocket door, formal LR, DR, family room, 4-5 BRs, 2 full baths. Master BR has walk-in closet w/hardwood flooring under the carpet. Laundry on the second floor. First floor BR w/bath or use as office. Enclosed second floor porch, detached 1-car garage, paved driveway. Newer roof and furnace. Dry basement. Walking distance to downtown, parks, bus route. Easy access to I-88. $234,900 MLS#97781

MLS#95942 53 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown Beautiful 3BR, 3 bath home in Cooperstown.

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MLS#97672 $29,900 Exceptional Value! Desirable Location! Babbling brook and 10 wooded acres are just a short drive from the NYS Thruway. Priced to sell immediately.

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MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS#95274 $124,900 Charming Otsego County farmhouse w/large barn!

Spacious BR, 2 bath house is close to I-88.onLarge 4+ BRs, 24baths, 2-story home w/pond 13+ backyard, workshop/garage, small shed. Make your acres.

Great restoration potential! appointment today. Priced to go this week!(cell) Call William Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598

MLS#92555 213 Cemetery Road, Bainbridge Lovely country home, 3 BRs, 2 baths, 8.5 acres.

Just sold by Donna Anderson!

MLS#95584 $209,900 Investment Opportunity! Could be owneroccupied. 3-unit, multi-family w/COC, many Cooperstown Villagedetails. home.Ample Seller pays closingparking. costs (up upgrades, original off-street to w/acceptable Call$3,000 William Vagliardo @offer).

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014

The kids are Dannah, 2, Delilah, 7, Donald, 7, and Dahlia, 6, of Oneonta’s Levinson family, waiting for a ride on one of Don Decker’s horsedrawn wagons. Mom Dana holds Dannah, and next to them is dad Rich. Shouldn’t you change your name, he was asked. “I’m Daddy,” he replied.

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Gail Buel sings with and directs carolers from Community Baptist Chapel, Toddsville, one of several groups, from the Catskill Choral Society to A Coopella, that performed at the Candlelight Evening.

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VENING Donald Decker’s draft horses from Laurens were among four teams kept busy hauling wagons packed with Candlelight Evening enthusiasts around The Farmers’ Museum into the night Saturday, Dec. 13. The 2,659 who attended the annual Christmas highlight set a recent record. The weather stayed relatively mild, with temperatures in the 30s and little wind.

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...and there she was, Whitney Fink playing the flute from the Bump Tavern balcony.

Mom Lori Fink, Cherry Valley, center, her mom Sue, Cooperstown, right, and their friend Diane Gamble, Cooperstown, listen to Lori’s daughter Whitney perform on the balcony of the Bump Tavern.

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Legal notice Notice of formation of 204 BISSELL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/01/2014. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 3rd St., Manhasset, New York 11030.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalJan22 Legal notice Notice of Formation of 199 BISSELL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/01/2014. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 3rd St., Manhasset, New York 11030.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalJan22 Legal notice Notice of formation of 187 BISSELL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretarty of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/01/2014. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 3rd St., Manhasset, New York 11030.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalJan22 Legal notice Notice of formation of WINDY WILLOW CABINS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on December 12, 2014. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 374 Wheat Road, Mount Vision, New York, 13810.

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

6LegalJan22 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: SPRINGFIELD TRUCK AND TRACTOR LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary

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of State (SSNY) was 10 December 2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 62 Old Country Rd, Melville, NY 11747. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalJan22 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: Dudley Property Management, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 Novemeber 2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street, Suite 11, New York, 13820. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalJan8 Legal notice Butternut Valley Golf, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/30/14. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to Steven J. Reed, Esq. Gregory & Reed, LLC, 2 Sylvan Way Ste 303, Parsippany, NY 07054. Purpose: General.

6legJan8 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Coop Diamonds IP Holdings LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/2014 Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 3rd St., Manhasset, New York 11030.

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6LegalJan1 Legal notice Finding Truth Legal Nurse Consultants, LLC Articles of Organization filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/17/2014. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY design Agent of LLC upon whom Process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 218

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6LegalJan1 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: BD SPRINGFIELD PROPERTIES LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 6 November 2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 62 Old Country Rd, Melville, NY 11747. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegaDec25 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Name: DRI 2, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 10 November 2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Market Street, Suite 11, New York, 13820. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalDec18 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: Oneonta Jiu Jitsu Academy, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 10/03/2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 130 Taylor Road, Morris, New York, 13808. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalDec18 Legal notice SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE

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INDEX NO. 20130157 BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. JEANNETTE YODICE, AND ALL THE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, ASSIGNEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS, NEXT OF KIN, DlSTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, ASSIGNEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ANY OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, AND ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE OR UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, EXCEPT AS HEREIN STATED, AURELlA OSBORN FOX MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING THROUGH THE IRS, JOHN DOE (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, person or corporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the property described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.), Defendant(s).

of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Otsego. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. Dated this 10th day of November, 2014, Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s), 25 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 25, Amherst, NY 14228 TO: JEANNETTE YODICE, Defendant(s) In this Action. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 20th day of October, 2014 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, in the City of Cooperstown. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Jeannette Yodice dated the 25th day of October, 2007 to secure the sum of $100,000.00, and recorded at Book 1538 of Mortgages at Page 1064 in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk on the 14th day of November, 2007; Said mortgage was duly assigned by an Assignment executed September 2, 2011, and recorded on December 1, 2011, in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk at Instrument No. 2011-5575; The property in question is described as follows: 133 OLD SOUTHSIDE DRIVE, ONEONTA, NY 13820 SEE FOLLOWING LEGAL DESCRIPTION ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oneonta, County of Otsego, State of New York, bounded and described as follows: LYING on the Northerly side of the highway leading from the Old Benedict Blacksmith shop up the Northerly side of the Susquehanna River to and past the premises of John Youngman, and it lies between said highway and the river flat meadow land of said John Youngman and begins for the boundary of the same at a stake

and stones at or near the Southwest corner of the said meadow land, at or near the foot of the hill, and also near the roadway leading from the highway aforesaid to said meadowland; RUNNING THENCE on a Southerly course up the hill along the land of D.C. White to the Northerly side of the highway; THENCE Easterly along said highway to the Westerly line or Southwest corner of the house lot sold by said Horace Sessions to John Hackett; THENCE on a Northerly course down the hill along said line of said Hackett house lot and the Westerly line of land lastly deeded by said Horace Sessions of Christian Gonzer to the Southerly line of the meadowland; THENCE Westerly along said line of the meadowland to the place of BEGINNING. EXCEPTING from the above-described premises and the lands heretofore conveyed by Jesse C. Shepard & Luella B. Shepard to Leland S. Benedict by warranty deed dated August 11, 1948 and recorded August 12, 1948 in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office in Liber 435 of Deeds at Page 196.

MORTGAGED PREMISES: 133 Old Southside Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820 SECTION 300.14, BLOCK 1, LOT 20.00 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: 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(s) within twenty 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 case

HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and

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non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877226-5697) or the Foreclosure Relief Hotline 1-800269-0990 or visit the department’s website at WWW. DFS.NY.GOV. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed.

State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. §1303 NOTICE 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 has filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this 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. DATED: November 10, 2014 Gross Polowy, LLC, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s)

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25 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 25 Amherst, NY 14228. The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 300810 4LegalDec18 Legal notice OTSEGO INDEX NO.: 206/12 FILED: 10/29/14 -SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Plaintiff Designates OTSEGO County as the place of trial based upon the location of the premises herein described having tax map Section 20, Block 2, Lot 12 West Winfield, NY, County of Otsego.

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2005-NC3 ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Plaintiff, against- SHERRY KNECHT, MARLIN KNECHT, if living and if he be dead, his respective heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise any right, title or interest in and to the real property described in the complaint herein, and, MARY IMOGENE BASSETT HOSPITAL, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s). 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

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is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); 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 YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered against you 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 your mortgage company will not stop this 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 To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, a Justice of the Supreme Court, State of New York, dated August 29, 2012 and filed with the Otsego County Clerk on September 18, 2012, together with the supporting papers thereon, as extended by subsequent orders. This is an action to foreclosure a mortgage held by Plaintiff on the premises known as Section 20, Block 2, Lot 12, West Winfield, NY, County of OTSEGO, as described in the complaint on file and commonly known as 237 FROST HILL ROAD, West Winfield, NY 13491. Dated: Syosset, New York October 20, 2014 Peter T. Roach & Associates, P.C. attorney for Plaintiff 125 Michael Drive, Suite 105, Syosset, NY 11791 516-9383100 P#1120364 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18/2014 4LegalDec18

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