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decades-old tradition will cease when the Oneonta Veterans’ Club closes its doors on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 4, in a counter-protest to NFL players who “took a knee.” “We want to honor our flag and our country,” said manager Wayne Gregory. “When those players took a knee, we voted to no longer show football games at the club.” The governing body of the Oneonta club – made up of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, DAV, VVA, Legion Auxiliaries, Sons of the Legion and Legion Riders – voted in mid-October to cease showing professional football games at the club, following the ongoing national debate about players declining to Please See PROTEST, A7

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Cooperstown’s Audrey Dutcher, assistant principal violist, plays St. Paul’s Suite for String Orchestra in C Major by Gustav Holst Sunday, Jan. 28, at the Little Delaware Youth Ensemble’s concert at Hartwick College’s Anderson Theater.

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elieving he lacked a candidate for Cooperstown mayor, Republican Village Chairman Vince Casale, no less, had made a motion to give GOP support to the Democratic candidate and crossendorse Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. Then Jonathan L. Becker spoke up. An attorney living in the village since 2013, Becker said he recently bought a house on Beaver Street just as village trustees approved a tourist-accommodation law limiting how much he and wife Meredith, a Bassett

nderson Lee, 27, of Cooperstown, the Bassett Hospital nurse arrested for allegedly placing cameras in an employees-only bathroom, remains in the Otsego County Jail after being charged with 28 counts of unlawful Lee surveillance. He was arrested Thursday, By LIBBY CUDMORE Jan. 25, for 12 counts of unlawful surveillance, second degree, a Class E felony. On MILFORD Friday, two more victims, unday, Jan. 21, when Lola both female, were found to Rathbone looked at the signhave been filmed. Orders of up sheet for the new Senior protection were issued for Meal Site at the Milford United all 14 victims. He remains jailed on $100,000 cash bail.

For that reason, he told 10 Republicans caucusing Tuesday, Jan. 30, in the Village Board chambers at 22 Main, he wanted the GOP nomination for mayor. He added, “There are other things that have niggled at me over the years.” Casale had already proposed a “unity ticket,” with double-endorsement for Tillapaugh, but he beat a strategic retreat. Bill Waller, First Man during former mayor Carol Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal B. Waller’s administration, Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, left, won the had made the motion for Democratic nomination for mayor of Cooperstown Tillapaugh, but he withdrew Monday, Jan. 29, and almost won the GOP nomiit and put Becker’s name in nation the following evening, until attorney Jonacontention. than L. Becker, right, asked for and received it. The gathering then voted for the newcomers, with nurse, can rent their home to “I just think that’s weird,” only one abstention: Repubgenerate income during the he said, “and a bizarre takPlease See SURPRISE, A7 summer months. ing.”

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Methodist Church, there were only four names. But Wednesday, Jan. 24, all 40 seats at the tables were full. “We thought it would be received well by the community,” said Tamie MacDonald, Otsego County Office

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wo eminent observers of public life, locally and nationally, are www. OTSEGO.com joining the editorial pages of Hometown Oneonta, The ROPERS ROMP: CoopFreeman’s Journal and www. erstown Elementary’s Red AllOTSEGO.com. Hot Ropers will perform at Mike Zagata, Gov. George halftime at the SUNY CoPataki’s DEC commissioner bleskill home game vs. Penn and a top environmental State Berks Saturday, Feb. 3. executive for Fortune 500 The game starts at 1 p.m. companies, and Adrian Kuzminski, the philosopher, author and founder of Sus-

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County Office Now Serves 7,700 Elderly Diners Monthly for the Aging director. “This is a three-month pilot program, so if we want to keep it going, it’s up to you to bring family and friends.” While the diners enjoyed roast pork, spinach and sweet potatoes, Doug Hallberg played piano, and

state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, gave a brief talk at the conclusion of the meal. “When Pastor Sylvia Barrett called me, I accepted,” he said. “I’m qualified by age, and I love roast pork!” With that successful launch, Milford’s becomes the seventh senior Please See MEALS, A7

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ecily Ellis, 7, Oneonta, was among volunteers helping to read ticket numbers at the annual Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump Chinese Auction on Jan. 28. But she’s more than just a volunteer. Cecily is one of this year’s 11 recipients Please See CECILY, A2

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Award will be awarded to a deserving Cooperstown he CCS Class of 1994 senior who most embodies is seeking appliChristina’s characteristics: EDMESTON cants for The Chrismoral character, leadership, tina Wayman Selan Award. motivation, and sportsmanathfinder Village’s Christina Wayman Selan ship. Chief Executive Ofwas an integral member of Last year’s award winficer Paul C. Landthe Class of 1994 who lost ner, Megan Lohan, received ers was recently named to her nine-year battle with a $500 award during the the Board of Directors for Hodgkin’s Disease on April Cooperstown High School 3, 2007. Together for Alumni Banquet in June. Christina lived a life Choice. Any person wishing to full of love for her famIt’s a nacontribute to this scholarship ily, friends, sports, and tional coalican do so by making checks traveling. She was unfailtion of service payable to: Cooperstown ingly kind and considerate to Central School District providers, everyone she met. Christina families and – Christina Wayman Selan had such enthusiasm for life Award Fund and mailed to concerned and for others that one could Mrs. Amy Kukenberger, citizens who Landers not help but to be touched are advocatTreasurer, CCS, 39 Linden by her generosity. Christina Ave., Cooperstown, NY ing solutions for the growing shortage of Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal was an involved athlete who 13326. led by example, always givhousing and vocational opMore than 100 Democrats gathered Sunday, Jan. 28 in the ballroom at Applications for the Cooperstown’s Village Hall to hear Brian Flynn, one of six candidates ing her best. Academically, portunities for individuals scholarship will be made Christina was an honors with intellectual and develop- seeking to run against U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-19, make his case. All six available to seniors in the candidates have been invited to speak, and Pat Ryan and David Clegg have student both in high school mental disabilities Cooperstown Guidance Ofdone so to date. Antonio Delgado will appear at 3 p.m. March 11, Gareth Mr. Landers has over three Rhodes on March 25, and Jeff Beals on March 18. Here, Flynn chats with and in college. She will be fice. most remembered for her decades of leadership experi- Adrian Kuzminski, Cooperstown. The Democratic primary will be held HE REENLISTS: Sergeant sincerity, sense of humor ence in the developmental June 26. First Class John Carpenter and kindness to others. The disabilities field. from West Edmeston, a “I believe in choice for TWO ON TOP: Two member of the State families, freedom for indiCOOPERSTOWN joring in history and women, gender and area students were named National Guard, has viduals with disabilities, and sexuality studies at Gettysburg to the Fall 2017 Dean’s List reenlisted to continue service sustainable service delivery hristina Noto, New Lisbon, has Last year, she studied in Morocco as part at the College of St. Rose: with the Joint Force Headmodels. This is why I joined just returned from the fall semester of the “Women’s Rights and Islam in MoKatelynn Bond, Richfield quarters, according to Major Together for Choice,” said abroad in the Republic of Serbia. rocco” trip through Gettysburg’s Center for Springs, and Elizabeth Olm- General Anthony P. German, Landers. A 2015 graduate of CCS. Noto is maPublic Service. stead, Hartwick. the Adjutant General.

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“No one case is exactly like the other,” Cecily’s mother, Heather Ellis, explained. “In many cases, it affects multiple bones, so we’re lucky that it is only her left clavicle that is affected.” Between hospital visits, procedures and expensive medication, medical bills have begun to weigh down the Ellis family. When first approached for the 2017 jump, though, the family declined to be named a recipient. “We just felt like there were other people who could use the money more than we could,” said Jonathan. Jeff Allen, Milford, a family friend who works with Jonathan at Five Star Subaru, was involved with the jump every year, and made sure that the Ellises would be part of the 2018 jump. “He basically told us that we didn’t have a choice,” said Jonathan. “It’s truly incredible,” said Heather. “The outpouring of support that we have received from the community is just remarkable.” “Just having that cushion will be extremely helpful to

us going forward,” he said. Even so, the family won’t be keeping all of the funds raised for themselves. “We’d like to donate a portion back toward research for CRMO,” said Heather. Simply diagnosing her disease was one of the most difficult parts for Cecily. Going through two open bone biopsies, six MRIs and countless X-rays, Cecily has already spent her fair share of time in the hospital. “The poor girl has been poked with more needles in two years than I have in a lifetime,” her mother said. “It’s gotten to the point where she doesn’t tell us if she’s in pain anymore, because she knows that if she does, it just means more needles.” Cecily is prescribed Humira, administered through a shot every other week. The shot, which is often painful and leaves the little girl feeling very sick, is the only treatment that works for her. “It’s really the only known treatment at this time,” Heather remarked. The disease, which leaves

Cecily’s collarbone enlarged and very frail, has taken a toll on her daily activities. “She stopped being able to do all of the things that she liked,” said her dad. “She loved gymnastics, and now that has become too painful for her.” With such a fragile bone, Cecily was put on a strict nocontact-sports restriction. But she is still determined to live life to the fullest despite her disease. “She’s learned how to do one hand cart-wheels really well,” joked Jonathan. He plans to take the plunge himself. “This is my first time jumping!” he said. “I’m excited. I love stuff like this.” Despite everything that the Ellis family has been through in the past two years, they are committed to staying strong through the fight against CRMO. “It has definitely helped us grow together as a family,” said Heather. “We definitely had ups and downs, especially when we didn’t know what was going on. But as long as we can get Cecily to a point where she is comfortable, that is all that matters to us.”

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ere are the other ailing children who will benefit from proceeds of the 2018 Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump on Feb. 17. DECLAN CLARK – Declan is a 9-month-old baby whose pituitary gland and optic nerves never fully developed. As a result, Declan was diagnosed with Hypopituitarism, hypothyroidism, and optic nerve hypoplasia. This has caused Declan to lose all vision. DONNA MITCHELL – Donna Mitchell, Oneonta, was diagnosed with Multiple Focal Cortical Dysplasia Brain Disorder. This disorder has led to multiple seizures for Donna, progressively getting more severe as time goes on. Donna now lives through seizures on an almost daily basis, and has gone through multiple surgeries, and many different medications in an attempt to limit her seizures. FYNN MUNRO – Fynn Munro, Norwich, was a healthy 11-year-old boy who loved sports and playing outside. In 2016, Fynn tragically fractured 3 of his vertebrae after jumping off a picnic table and landing head first in the snow. Fynn lost all movement below his shoulders and is now bound to a wheelchair, which New York State is refusing to pay for. HENRY POST – Henry was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at the age of 11, and has struggled through multiple treatments ever since. Every four months, Henry and his family travel to Boston Children’s Hospital where he meets with a team of GI, hematology, surgical and immunology doctors. Henry recently underwent a surgical procedure in hopes that he will be able to achieve remission with the right combination of medications. KATERINA MISIEWICZ – 8-year-old Katerina Misiewicz was born with intractable epilepsy,

hydrocephalus, and cerebral palsy. LAURA MAE YODER – Laura Mae was diagnosed with infantile spasms after suffering from her first seizure at just one day old. She is a student at Cherry Valley-Springfield, where she receives OT, OC, and mission and speech therapy. LEVI VANECHAUTE – 6-year-old Levi VanEchaute was born with a Hemangioma behind his right eye. This non-cancerous growth of blood vessels caused severe pain for Levi, which him and his family dealt with for six years. Eventually, Levi’s pain became so severe that the decision was made to remove his right eye. Levi recently received his prosthetic eye, but will still require a few more procedures to get a better fit for his new eye. MACKENZIE COTTON – 16-year-old Mackenzie Cotton, Sidney, was born 10 weeks prematurely. weighing only 1 lb, 6 oz when she was born. With degenerative hearing loss, it is becoming harder and harder for Mackenzie to hear, and a recent visit concluded that she would need a second cochlear implant on her left ear. TJ PETRY – TJ Petry, Margaretville, was 9 when he was diagnosed with Standard Risk Medullablastoma on March 7, 2017. A day after being diagnosed, TJ underwent an 18-hour surgery to remove the tumor on his brain. Between a seven-month radiation treatment, and a year of chemotherapy which is still currently in progress. VINCENZO CAMPBELL – Vincenzo was only 23-months-old when he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. It has become very difficult to regulate Vincenzo’s glucose levels, which has had a negative effect on his immune system. His family has been in and out of the ER with various illnesses, as well as his high blood sugar levels.

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10 am - 2 pm | Farmers’ Market – Pioneer Alley 10 a.m.-noon | The Science of Art – Farmers’ 11 am - 2 pm | Soup R’ Chili Luncheon – First Museum. Science-based projects for kids. Baptist Church , 21 Elm St. $8; $4 for kids 10:30 am Registration | 11:30 am Start – 46th 4:30 - 7 pm | Ignite the Night! – Festival opener, Pioneer Park. Welcome by Mayor Jeff Annual Bob Smullens 5k/10k Run – Cooper Katz, Lions President Jim Donley. SUNY Delhi Park. Pre-register at itsyourrace.com. $20 per person, $50 for family ice-sculpting demonstration. Hot cider. 11 am - 2 pm | Soup’R Chili Luncheon 4:30 - 6:30 pm | Brooks Chicken BBQ Dinner First Baptist Church, 21 Elm. $8; $4 for kids. Benefit for Susquehanna Animal Shelter, Christ Episcopal Parish Hall, 69 Fair St. $10. 11 am - 4 pm | The 2018 Fenimore Quilt Club Show – Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main. 6 pm | Winter Carnival Bowling Tournament Club members will demonstrate skills. Clark Sports Center. One adult/one child teams. $3 members; $6 non-members. Regis- 1 pm | Cooperstown Candlelight Ghost Tour ter at 607-547-2800, ext. 108. 607-547-8070 to register. 6:45 - 9 pm | Cabin Fever Family Movie Night 1 - 4 pm | A Blizzard of Family Fun! – Lakefront Disney’s “Brave”, 22 Main St. Park, family-friendly outdoor activities, from roasting marshmallow, tube rides, to Jax Wax 7 pm | Cooperstown Candlelight Ghost Tour demos, more. Pioneer Park, reservations at 607-547-8070. 7 - 9 pm | It’s Trivia Time! – Hawkeye Bar & Grille 2:30 pm | Wagon Ride w/Hill City Snow Queen 4 - 5:30 pm | Children’s Trivia & Hot Chocolate 9 pm | Grace & Grit – Country/rock band, Bar plus games for kids. Tunnicliff Inn, Upstate Grill, Route 28; must be 21. 34 Pioneer St. Saturday, February 10 4 - 5 pm | Whiskey 101 Barrel Sampling of 8 - 11:30 am | Lions Club Pancake Breakfast soon-to-be-released products and mini-tour. Cooperstown Vets’ Club, 60 Main St. Cooperstown Distillery, 11 Railroad Ave. Adults $9, 6-12 $5, under 5 free 6 pm | Fireworks over Otsego Lake 9 am | Winter Carnival Bowling Tournament 6:30 - 11 pm | Bassett Health Care’s Annual Clark Sports Center. One adult/one child Valentine’s Soiree – The Otesaga. Tickets $150 teams. $3 members; $6 non-members. in advance. Proceeds going toward Register at 607-547-2800, ext. 108 new operating room. 9 am - 5 pm | Winter Book Sale – Village Board 6:30 - 8:30 pm | Movie Night “Cool Runnings” room, 22 Main St. 8 - 10 pm | Lip Sync Showcase – Farmers’ 9 am - Noon | Cooperstown Fire Department Market, Pioneer Alley. Flux Capacitor, Heroes – Put out “real” fire, tour fire trucks, Cooperstown’s premier 80s band. $5 admission. demonstrations. Lip sync sign-up: cooplipsync@gmail.com.

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As Does Nation, Otsego County Needs (Sensible) Immigration

ome readers may remember that AllOTSEGO.life feature story from March 2012 (inset) about Ken Fruehstorfer and Maryellen Driscoll, and the darling photos of their children, Alis and Xavier, then 7 and 4. The Driscolls – smart, ambitious, dedicated, hardworking – run 100-percent-organic Free Bird Farm, north of Canajoharie, but were well-known around here through their involvement with an early CSA, a community-supported agricultural cooperative that de-

livered fresh foods and vegetables weekly to Otsego County families. The couple, who had met in the Boston area – she is daughter of John Driscoll, for years eminent editor of the Boston Globe – had scouted New England and the Mid-Atlantic states for a farm, and settled on the Mohawk Valley because, as Ken explained it, there was an intact agricultural infrastructure – tractor-repair shops, feed mills, etc. – lacking elsewhere. The one shortfall was labor, for

THE Editor’s Note: In anticipation of the 51st annual Winter Carnival, Mrs. Emily Huston’s third-graders at Cooperstown Elementary contributed these poems in tribute and anticipation.

the back-breaking work of harvesting vegetables – robust garlic, but also lettuce and other offerings. Ken and Maryellen had advertised around the region, but could find no one – no one – with the experience or desire to do that work. In 2011, they participated in a federal guest-worker program, flying a crew into Albany International Airport April 1 that headed home the week before Thanksgiving. At first, Maryellen, who had been a Latin-American Studies Please See EDITORIAL, A5

The federal temporaryworkers’ program helped make the Fruehstorfer-Driscoll family’s Free Bird Farm near Canajoharie viable.

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WINTER CARNIVAL MUSE Snow Frostbitten, freezing Snowball-fight, construct, sled Friends play all day Lovely William Conklin

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Flakes Wet, round Twirl, float, twinkle Makes me feel excited Snowy Miranda R. Stiles

Hockey Tricky, hard Skating, hitting, controlling Hockey is my favorite winter Sport Haakon Pawlowski

Hockey Jostle, Nudge Sprinting, Skating, Scoring Hockey is very frigid Skating Sawyer McManus Skate Awesome, entertaining Swirling, falling, halting Scared of falling down Icy Margaret Gentles

Hockey Aggressive, hard Shoving, racing, bolting Winter sport for all Game Dylan T. Craig

Family Exciting, cheerful Helpful, amazing, beautiful Sledding when we’re home Superb Leah Phillips

Snow Angel Cold, messy Lay, wiggle, stand People in the snow Snowy Joey Desanno

Races Scary, frozen Running, trotting, pivoting For a special surprise Mushing Oliver Horvath Globes Crystals, glinted Shake, watch, repeat, Glimmering metallic colors Flurries Sadie Osterberg The Freeman’s Journal

The Geertjens family demonstrates some of the fun that awaits at the 51st Cooperstown Winter Carnival upcoming Feb. 9-11.

Kids Disco Energetic, booming Glide, pose, feel

Move to the beat Dance Nora Craig Family Sweet, kind Cuddling, reading, relaxing Family is your life Relatives Kohlee Lepetich Yeti Enormous, muscular Roaring, yelling, destructing Terrifying to think about Creature Daniel Brostek Cookies Sweet, crunchy Making, baking, eating Awesome in the tummy Clumpy Keya Sharma Snow Fight Rough, hard Making, throwing, running I feel really excited Frigid Landon Seamon

LETTERS

More Trickle-Down Economics? History Proves It Doesn’t Work

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tory, Democrats have acted similarly. The 500-page, $1.45 trillion tax giveaway primarily to the privileged 1 percent and multinational corporations was rammed through

To the Editor: Republican luminaries such as Susan Collins, Lindsay Graham, Bob Corker and others took part in one of the most unprincipled and unethical acts ever perpetrated on us by those whom we elected to represent our best interests. I mentioned they are Republicans only because they are the culprits this time. Looking back through our recent his-

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in the middle of the night, with handwritten amendments and without discussion, debate or bipartisan input. The meager improvements that may accrue to the middle class are temporary and will expire after 7-10 years. The benefits to the rich are permanent. Despite the Republicans having majorities in both houses of Congress and a sitting president, they had to go to extraordinary lengths to pass this white elephant. First, they had to resurrect the great economic myth of trickle-down economics. It states that if very rich individuals and corporations

are given even more money by cutting their taxes, they will do the right thing and pass the benefit on to those whose income comes from wages, i.e. their employees. What the trickle-downers don’t tell you is that the rich have alternative uses for their share of this windfall. They could buy back some of their companies’ publicly traded stock so that the value of what remains in the market would increase and their stockholders would become even richer. Or they could take the windfall and give it to their stockholders directly as an increase to dividends.

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To the Editor: I don’t know Perry Ferrara from Perry Mason (ask your mom or gran) but if he proposed building a new hotel in downtown San Antonio that was architecturally appropriate, they’d not only give him a variance of another floor, but a 10-gallon hat and a new pair of boots. Any building that fits into the fabric of Main Street – as built – enlivens the village, provides year-‘round accommodations, and does not compete with Vinny Russo is OK by me. CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown

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Even if they decided to expand their businesses, why would they pay the highest wage rates in the world and build facilities here, when they could pay far lower wages overseas? Ask yourself this question: If you were very rich and dependent on successful investments for your wealth, what would you do? Even with this facade of “voodoo economics,” the Republican “leadership” could not get a majority from its own members to vote for this perversion of the democratic process. So, they added “sweeteners,” Please See VELÉZ, A6

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Extracting Fun From Winter Doldrums

e must say we are stunned at how quickly the dreaded month of January seems to have flown by. And, given the weather with which we have been presented of late, we are most grateful that January has come to an end. Not only does it shorten the remaining winter season, it also means there are several fundraising dinners on the horizon which will support some worthwhile undertakings. The first is a fundraising Brooks BBQ chicken dinner to benefit the Susquehanna Animal Shelter. It will be 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, at the Christ Church Parish House

at 69 Fair St. in Cooperstown. The dinner will feature half of a Brooks chicken, baked potato, salad, rolls, butter and dessert. $10 per person. Take-out dinners available. We CATHERINE understand there LAKE will also be a 50/50 ELLSWORTH raffle and a silent auction. Tickets for both the dinner and the raffle may be purchased at the Susquehanna Animal Shelter or at Church & Scott’s.

And the second fundraising food event will be the annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, also at the Christ Church Parish House, 4:30 - 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13. $8 for adults and $4 for children. Proceeds from the supper will benefit Christ Church’s outreach global mission program. • When we first read about the new book, “Tales From the Tunnicliff Inn,” by long time Cooperstonian Bill Waller, we knew we needed to add it to our collection of Cooperstown publications. Fortunately, we were able to procure a copy of the book, Please See COLUMN, A6

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

200 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from the New York State Governor’s Annual Message to the Legislature: “The fund appropriated to common schools consists of about one million of dollars and eighty thousand acres of land. The income for distribution this year is sixty thousand dollars. The flourishing condition of our higher seminaries of education is a pleasing demonstration of the increasing progress of mental improvement, and a powerful incentive to liberal dispensations of public patronage. Funds to the amount of 750,000 dollars have been granted to the three colleges and about 100,000 dollars to the 38 incorporated academies. The colleges of physicians and surgeons are eminently deserving of public consideration. The appropriations to medical education do not exceed $60,000, a sum by no means commensurate with the importance of the object. Every well-educated Physician becomes not only a conservator of health, but a missionary of science. Wherever he establishes himself, he will convey and communicate useful knowledge. February 2, 1818

175 YEARS AGO

Advertisements: Sheriff’s Notice – The undersigned in connection with his official duties, gives notice that he will set apart Wednesday of each week, to be at his residence in this village, so that persons having business with him may be sure of seeing him on that day. Amos Winsor, Cooperstown. Myers German Rheumatic Salve – This Salve for rheumatic complaints, spinal afflictions, weak back, and breast and corns on the toes, has never found its rival in America. Sold by Roof and Babcock, Cooperstown. February 6, 1843

150 YEARS AGO

Young Men’s Association – At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee it was voted to allow each member the liberty of issuing to a minor of his own selection, a ticket entitling him to the privileges of the Reading Room, to be held subject to the rules and regulations of the society. This is a forward step which we are happy to record. It will bring under good influences four or five score youth of this Village by affording them a pleasant place in which to spend a portion of their evenings. And, it is to be hoped, that it may also induce a number of gentlemen not now members of the Association to become so. What father would not give $5 for the privileges accorded its members. Blank minors’

25 YEARS AGO

lector of internal revenue in the district in which you live. If married and your net income was $2,000 or more, you must file a return with the collector. Returns must be in the hands of the collectors not later than March 1, 1918. February 6, 1918

75 YEARS AGO

February 3, 1993 tickets may be procured of Mr. Phinney or Mr. Brown. February 7, 1868

125 YEARS AGO

Local – Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, Rector of Trinity Church, New York City has ordered from the Meneely Company a bell to be placed in the Episcopal Church at Cooperstown, as a memorial of his father, General John A. Dix. Dr. Dix spent most of last summer in this village and then signified to a few friends his willingness to make this gift. The present bell in Christ Church is rather a small one, and not of good tone. Our village banks are doing what they conveniently can do to give their customers and the public a clean paper currency. They lay aside the dirty and torn notes and as soon as $1,000 is accumulated, it is sent off to the city. February 2, 1893

100 YEARS AGO

How to Figure the Income Tax – Have you filed your income tax return? The first thing to be understood is that the income tax applies only to your income for the calendar year 1917. The War Revenue Act of 1917 provides for a normal rate of tax of 2 percent on net incomes of unmarried persons in excess of $1,000 and upon incomes of married persons or heads of families in excess of $2,000. If you are unmarried and your income for 1917 was $1,000 or more you must get a tax blank, fill it out and file it with the col-

The most dangerous farm implement is the axe. The animal causing the most injuries to farmers is the horse. The vehicle causing the largest number of injuries is not the auto, it is the wagon. And, most accidents on the farms are due to falls. These are the findings revealed in a study and analysis of farm accident cases admitted to the Mary McClellan Hospital at Cambridge, New York, made by Dr. Kenneth Creevey from 1920 to 1940. The Cambridge study is similar to a study conducted by Dr. John W. Powers at Cooperstown. With tractors, the common cause of injury is tipping over. The axe accounted for 33 out of 44 tool-related injuries. The farmers’ greatest hazard is falling. Nearly one-fourth of the serious injuries were caused by falls and more than half of the deaths. Cows or calve-related injuries are second to horses. Of 19 injuries attributed to wagons, the majority were caused by falling with or without the complication of being run over. February 3, 1943

50 YEARS AGO

Dr. Bruce Buckley, professor of American Folk Culture at the Cooperstown Graduate Center, reported to members of the Cooperstown Rotary Club on the progress made by the Center and gave them a look into the future of the program there. The Center offers Masters of Arts degrees in History Museum Operation and in American Folk Culture. February 7, 1968

10 YEARS AGO

After this summer’s Hall of Fame Game on Monday, June 16 between the Chicago Cubs and the San Diego Padres, there will be no more major league exhibition games at Doubleday Field. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Tursday, January 29 that Major League Baseball had decided to do what it has wanted to do for years – scratch Cooperstown off of the exhibition game schedule. “It’s certainly disappointing news,” said Mark Kingsley, Inn at Cooperstown proprietor, and Chamber of Commerce President. But, it does provide opportunities.” February 1, 2008

The State Of The Forest Editor’s Note: Mike Zagata of West Davenport, former DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and environmental officer for Fortune 500 companies, this week begins a column that will appear semi-weekly in the Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal.

as our goal of preserving our forests worked and, if so, has it been good for the wildlife that depend on them? Let’s take a look via a series of articles over the next few weeks. In pre-white settlement times Native Americans realized the best hunting was in areas recovering from fire because there was food at ground level within reach of deer and other food sources. That food was in the form of green vegetation and fruits that responded when the canopy was removed and allowed sunlight to reach the

forest floor. It’s important to remember that as it will crop up again in this series. White settlers brought farming skills with them MIKE from Europe ZAGATA and thus began clearing the forests to plant crops and graze cattle and sheep. They no longer had to rely solely on their hunting skills for food. • If you look at photos of the Oneonta area from the early 1900s, you will be shocked. There were no trees left standing and sheep were grazing the hilltops. Fortunately at this latitude, if the land is left alone, the forests will return on their own and that’s what

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Consensus: Housing Needed To the Editor, In the Jan. 25-26 editions of your newspapers, there is a letter to the editor by William Dornburgh regarding affordable housing. In his opening paragraph Mr. Dornburgh states, “The powers that be in Cooperstown (our duly elected trustees and the Clark interests) are ignoring...the lack of affordable housing.” Where does Mr. Dornburgh get his information. He certainly never tried to speak to me and from his comments I suspect that he hasn’t spoken to my fellow trustees or “the Clark interests.” If he had he would be aware that affordable housing is a concern of all of us and, based on Miss Clark’s comments at the Monday, Jan. 21, Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Fenimore Art Museum, one of hers also. The board members have all discussed it repeatedly. Additionally all of us are very available to talk to the citizens of

the village to discuss this and pretty much any other issue. The solution to singlefamily housing will have to be principally in the area around the village. There is no public land available in the village for a project. We can encourage private owners and landlords to convert and modernize current housing including that which is on the upper stories of commercial buildings on Main Street. There is a tax abatement program for the increase of value obtained by doing so. We have discussed the need with our counterparts outside the village. We constantly look for solutions to our lack of parking. I am disappointed by people who criticize those who volunteer to try to make this place better, who snipe but never come forward with their issues or ideas. RICHARD J. STERNBERG, M.D. Trustee, Village Of Cooperstown

happened. The pendulum swung from a “manifest destiny” conquer-all mentality to one of a conservation (wise-use) ethic and eventually to one of “preservation.” Today’s biggest threats to our forests as we know them and the wildlife that depend on them may not be fragmentation and insects/ disease. Instead they might be much more insidious – ageing and deer. The ageing results from forest succession – a process whereby short, shade-intolerant plants are replaced by taller, more shade-tolerant ones. For example, if you don’t mow your lawn for a year or so “weeds” will begin to replace the grass. Soon those weeds will consist of plants with woody stems like blackberry and they will shade out the grass – could be a good thing as you won’t have to mow it and burn those nasty fossil fuels in

the lawnmower! Over time, your lawn would become occupied by trees, the seeds of which couldn’t grow in the shade of the adult trees that produced them (shade intolerant). They too would be replaced albeit by trees that produce seeds that can germinate and prosper in the shade of the adult trees. These trees would be called “shade tolerant” and thus could, unless cut, blown down or burned, perpetuate themselves, unless something drastic happened, forever. • That might sound wonderful, but what about the wildlife species that lived in those younger, shade intolerant stages? They would literally be evicted from their homes or habitat. We can’t rely on nature to blow or burn the forests on a predictable schedule, so we rely upon man via logging to turn back the clock and create young forests. However, due to misperception

about clear-cuts on the part of the public and the fact that not all trees have equal commercial value, the logging has, over generations, removed the high-value trees and left the lower value ones. This has created a problem for both the landowner and wildlife because without some form of government incentive or new market for that wood, the landowner can’t afford to cut the lower value trees. Biomass for fuel may just be such a market, as evidenced by Colgate University’s use of wood to heat their facility and meet their goal of reducing Carbon from fossil fuels. About 43 species of migratory songbirds, rabbits, ruffed grouse and other wildlife stand to benefit by converting some of the mature forests to “younger” stage forests, i.e. grassland and brush.

Sensible Immigration Reform Needed, Even Here EDITORIAL/From A4 major at Stanford, was conflicted, but her concerns eased on learning that, after the drug trade, guest workers were the second-largest contributor to that Central American country’s economy. “It’s an effective way of stabilizing the economy,” she said. Sounds like a win, win. • For a couple of summers, the McDonald’s in Hartwick Seminary was efficiently staffed by teams of young women from Taiwan. And last summer, The Otesaga faced a staffing shortfall. (Anyone locally interested in the hospitality field should keep the eminent resort hotel on Otsego Lake in mind as next summer approaches.) To solve it, the hotel recruited waiters and cleaning staff from the Balkans and Jamaica, an expensive undertaking, particularly since it also required finding temporary housing. While these jobs are low- and middle-end, the majority of physicians in Bassett Oncology Center come from Third World countries, led by the cheerful Dr. Anush Patel, widely praised and well-liked by patients and staff. Of course, SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College benefits from foreign students – about 1.6 percent of the enrollment, or 80 of 6,000 – who pay a higher tuition. And two of the five deans recruited during President Nancy Kleniewski’s bold and much-needed reorganization in 2013 were raised and

partially trained overseas. Low-end, middle-end and high-end. The county’s dependency on immigration, as well as foreign visitors, prompted the Cooperstown Village Board to flirt last spring with ideas that appeared to be edging toward “Sanctuary Village” status, although trustees beat a quick retreat when the blowback began. All we need is an ICE raid in the middle of the 100-day tourist season, the trustees had reasoned. The point is, the national debate that led to a shutdown in the federal government – key player: our own senior U.S. senator, Chuck Schumer – isn’t just theoretical here. • Let’s say it: The argument that most Americans are anti-immigrant is a canard. Quite the opposite. Most Americans’ families arrived on these shores within two, three – certainly four – generations. To cite just one example, from Dr. Joseph Lamanna’s history, the grandfathers of many eminent Oneonta families arrived in the 19-teens to work in the railyards, living in boxcars for the first several months until they’d set aside enough to rent apartments and bring their families up from Carbondale, Pa. Americans understand immigrants’ aspirations. While we can open our eyes and look around us, on this as most topic we are reluctant to dip our toe into the water of a national debate. Against expectations,

though, both the New York Times and Washington Post concluded the Democrats should hold their noses and make a deal: a piece of The Wall in exchange for a path to citizenship for so-called Dreamers, children of illegal aliens, a number that’s grown from an estimated 700,000 to 1.8 million in recent days. At base, there is no right of entry per se, but the nation, as does The Otesaga, needs immigrants. While diversity in itself doesn’t have to be a goal, one benefit of the success of immigrants from around the world – 150 years ago as today – would be the rich cultural diversity we take for granted but didn’t have to be. E pluribus unum, indeed. What’s lacking in that simple swap is what most Americans, here as elsewhere, want and should expect: A well-regulated immigration system that admits enough people to meet the nation’s needs – including Bassett’s for doctors and Fair Bird Farm’s for field workers. Or we’ll find ourselves with another DACA dilemma in 20 years. Certainly, who can blame Senator Schumer for seeking a political advantage; he’s got President Trump in a bit of a box. Promisingly, the solution would have to come from the center; ideologues on either side won’t bend. But, after a decade of posturing and inaction, there may finally be an opportunity for the nation to extract maximum potential from immigration, and provide the same opportunity for new arrivals that brought our ancestors here.

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Zagata, Kuzminski To Write Semi-Weekly Newspaper Columns ISSUES/From A1 The first column, by Zagata, is published in this edition. “With the current national ferment, and its many local implications, I’m delighted and honored that two eminent citizens have agreed to share their reflections and conclusions with our readers,” said Jim Kevlin, editor & publisher of Iron String Press, the publishing company. “With Mike’s corporate experience, and Adrian’s academic credentials, we can anticipate fresh perspectives – sometimes contrary ones – on key issues of the day,” he continued. “In particular, both men share love and concern for our environment, although they won’t always agree on the best

way to protect and preserve the world around us.” Zagata, an Oneonta native now living in West Davenport, received his bachelor’s from SUNY Oneonta, master’s from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from Iowa State. He taught at the high school and university level, and worked at a national level for The Wildlife Society and as Audubon’s director of federal relations before joining Tenneco, where he rose to director of environmental health & safety. He joined Transco Energy as EH&S vice president, then worked for Level 3 Communications and NRG Energy. Joining the Pataki Administration, he administered the 4,000-

How To While Away Winter COLUMN/From A4 which we note is available online at Amazon.com. And we must say we found it to be most interesting. Based on photographs that can be found at the Tunnicliff Inn on Pioneer Street, Bill has crafted a most creative book of short stories which are short on fact, but long on fiction. We must say we found the concept of writing fictional stories based on real photographs to be very intriguing. Obviously, it would make for an excellent creative writing project, something which Bill has so well demonstrated with his book. We also think this is a book which would be an excellent selection for the reading list of any book club. We thank Bill for penning his most recent literary endeavor. Not only are we are most pleased to have it as part of our “Cooperstown” collection, it also was a very good way to while away a bit of January. • We also have spent some time in January trying to organize photographs of our two granddaughters, so that we can corral the pictures into two photo albums we received for Christmas. Unfortunately, as we proceeded with the task, we quickly realized we have way more pictures of our first granddaughter, Abby, than we do of our second granddaughter, Marin. So, before we can get the two albums organized we have come to the conclusion that we need to print a few more pictures of Marin. And when doing so, we hope to be able to find pictures of Marin in which she is not wearing the same outfits seen in the pictures we have of Abby. We must say that this entire project has brought home one of the complaints that our younger sister, Ellen, has long voiced: namely, that while we may have liked the clothes we wore as a youngster, she was

much less enthusiastic about them. In particular, she hated my most favorite red, white and blue plaid dress which featured dropped waist with a pleated skirt. Of course, when we wore it, it was in fashion which was not the case seven years later. • And finally, when we opened a recent message which arrived on our computer, we were quite surprised to discover a picture of a handwritten restaurant bill. As we read the bill, we fully understood the comment, “Spelling was not the server’s strong point,” which accompanied the picture. According to the bill, the drinks ordered for the meal were an “unsweat iced tea w/lemon” and a “sweat tea.” We must say the “Gyro special w/Fetta and olives” and the “Lamb kebob platter,” which were also on the bill, sounded much more appetizing than did the drinks.

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FTE state Department of Environmental Conservation and its $300 million operating budget. He chaired the state Environmental Facilities Corp. board, the Environmental Board and 22 other boards. Since leaving government, he has served as president of the Ruffed Grouse Society. Locally, he has been active in Citizen Voices. He recently published “A Journey Toward Environmental Stewardship.” He was inducted into the state Outdoorsman’s Hall of Fame and, last fall, his name was added to Oneonta High School’s alumni “Wall of Distinction.” Kuzminski, born in Pennsylvania, raised in Rochester and now

living in Fly Creek, received a B.A. from Amherst. After a year as a Fulbright Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, he completed his Ph.D. in European intellectual history at the University of Rochester. He taught history at the University of Hawaii for a decade, taught philosophy at Hartwick College, and served as a research scholar in philosophy at Hartwick until his retirement in 2013. Throughout, he has been active in numerous causes and organizations, from Science for Peace, the state and national Green Party to Otsego 2000. He was a founder of Sustainable Otsego in 2007, served as moderator, and developed a well-populated listserv

that alerts citizens to quickly react when environmental challenges arise. That, and raising early concerns about fracking, won him designation as this newspaper’s “Citizen of the Year” in 2010. The author of numerous articles and op-eds, Kuzminski has had four books published, ranging from “The Soul” (1994) to “The Ecology of Money: Debt, Growth and Sustainability” (2013). He developed a specialty in the Greek skeptic, Pyrrho of Elis, and as recently as last November was invited to deliver a lecture at the University of Hamburg, “The Evident and Non-Evident: Buddhism through the Lens of Pyrrhonism.”

Know The Truth, And Let It Guide You At Ballot Box VELEZ/From A4 special legislative deals with individual members to enhance their chances of being reelected. With all the fakery and double dealing done, all but one Republican checked moral and ethical values at the door, ignored the good of those who elected them, drank the party’s Kool-Aid and voted in lockstep. This may seem like yesterday’s news in the fastpaced world where Dodgy Donald has raised duplicity to an art form. Nevertheless, some questions remain to be answered if we are to understand the truth behind all this. Why did they do it? Why did the deficit “hawks” turn a blind eye to a $1.45 trillion addition to the national debt? Why did they pass this gigantic bill that affects everyone without waiting for a Congressional Budget Office score of its economic impact? Why did it have

to be passed on a Saturday morning at 2 a.m.? Susan Collins, Lindsay Graham and many others have publicly admitted that the wealthy Republican donors insisted that this bill pass or they would no longer finance the Republican party. To put it another way, the senators and congresspersons have secured their place on the political gravy train at our expense. Their donors are now their owners and we no longer matter until the first Tuesday in November of every year. Election Day is the one time each year when we the people gain the upper hand over those who live in the Washington political bubble. In the last analysis, none of these vested interests can cast a single vote. Only we the people can vote and we need to take this power more seriously. We need to be armed with the truth about the candidates and their positions on the issues that are important

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County Serves 7,700 Meals To Elderly Monthly MEALS/From A1 dining center in the county, offering a hot, balanced meal to anyone 60 or older for a suggested donation of $3.50. But more than a hot meal, it’s a chance for seniors to get out and socialize. “We’re always looking for opportunities to engage our seniors to prevent isolation,” said MacDonald. “Especially in the winter. Some of them play cards or bingo, others have music and entertainment.” “My friends brought us,” said Shirley Gomiller, Milford. “We like to get together a few times a week.” “The socialization factor is huge,” said Shannon Davis, the county’s dietician. “It’s such a benefit to eat with other people. It’s something they can count on, and they know they won’t be turned away if they can’t pay.” The meals are cooked daily in a central kitchen in the county jail complex near the Meadows, and designed

But they’re also designed with senior tastes in mind. “Chicken and biscuits are a favorite, same with Yankee Pot Roast and meatloaf” said Davis. “They’re comfort foods.” “Sometimes people assume the food won’t be good, but it’s delicious!” said Coy. “We roast all our own beef and pork, we slice it here.” “The seniors will tell us what they want, and we take that into account as much as we can,” said MacDonald. “Some of them want liver and onions, but others will not show up for that!” And there’s always dessert – fresh baked cookies, brownies or even a warm apple crisp. On average, the dining sites serve 1,200 meals a month, with 15-30 diners at each site. In addition to the hot meal sites, the Office for the Aging also offers home delivery services of a week’s worth

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County Dietician Shannon Davis shows off trays of goodies prepared daily for seven senior citizen meal sites operated around the county, plus athome deliveries to shut-ins.

around strict dietary guidelines. “We strive to provide wholesome, well-balanced meals for our seniors,” said Davis. “For so many of our seniors, it’s the only hot meal they have all day.” Every meal include protein, a vegetable and a starch,

are low-sodium and include plenty of vitamin A and C to meet state nutrition guidelines. “Some of our foods, like our instant mashed potatoes, are even enhanced with Vitamin C,” said Terri Coy, senior meals program manager.

Republicans Field Full Slate Against 3 Sitting Democrats SURPRISE/From A1 can Glenn Falk, husband of Democratic Village Trustee Cindy Falk, who the evening before had received the nod to run for another three-year turn. The surprises weren’t over. Saying the business community is underrepresented on the Village Board, Casale then nominated candidates for the two three-year trustee positions in contention in the March 20 village election: • Fred Schneider, owner with wife Robin of the Land-

mark Inn and a member of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Board, and • Art Boden, arguably one of the village’s most beloved personalities, the former New York Pizza manager who has received an outpouring of support for his seemingly successful fight against cancer. Casale called him “Cooperstown’s host.” The two will challenge incumbent Democrats Falk and James Dean, elected six and seven years ago respectively and participants in retiring

Democratic incumbent Village Trustees Cindy Falk and Jim Dean, left, are being challenged in the March 20 Cooperstown elections by Fred Schneider and, right, Art Boden.

Mayor Jeff Katz’s activist administration. “We’re prepared to run a vigorous campaign,” Casale declared. Twenty-four hours before, the Democrats were in a triumphant mood.

Instead of 10, there were four or five dozen of the party faithful gathered in the ballroom two stories above where the GOP met, and with round after round of applause Tillapaugh, Katz’s deputy mayor, was nominated by

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Fenimore Art Museum is seeking enthusiastic, friendly and outgoing people to join our team of part-time Museum Docents to provide scheduled guided tours of exhibits HOMETOWN ONEONTA and/or Museum Interpreters for Otsego: A Meeting Place, our Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) village, including a replica Mohawk Bark House and an authentic 1790’s Seneca Log House. Qualifications for both positions include: High School Diploma or above; comfortable speaking with the public, including children and adults; friendly and energetic; an interest in art and Native American culture; reliable transportation. To apply contact Human Resources at 607-547-1466 or email j.zinger@fenimoreart.org. EOE.

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of meals to 240 homebound seniors, each proportioned and frozen, with milk, bread and orange juice. Total, the county office is providing 1,700 meals monthly at the sites, and 6,500 at homes, for a total of 7,700. “When we make the hot meals, we make enough to package and freeze to make the delivery meals,” said MacDonald. “It’s not a TV dinner,” added Davis. Previously, the dinners

were delivered daily, but when the county board decided that was too expensive, the switch was made to weekly delivery of frozen dinners, rather than scrap the program altogether. And for those who take the frozen dinners, a well-check call is made so that they too don’t feel isolated. At Milford, Barrett hopes to make the site permanent, and include entertainment, games or talks for the dining seniors. “We want to make it more social,” she said.

acclamation to succeed him. Katz, who nominated her, credited her decision to run for trustee six years ago as legitimizing the controversial on-street paid-parking decision, which critics had cast as a decision by newcomers opposed by natives. “No one’s more native than Ellen,” Katz said. In her remarks, Tillapaugh said she and her husband, Gary Kuch, the town justice and Clark Scholarship Program director, returned to Cooperstown 33 years ago. “This is where we decided to raise our family,” she said.

She said mayor is the highest office she aspires to, and seeking it “is a matter of serving my community.” Interviewed briefly after the caucus, Becker said he was raised in Latham, outside Albany, and graduated from the University of Miami. After a decade in the tech field in New York City, he obtained a law degree from Rutgers. Working as a public aid lawyer in St. Lawrence County, he met his future wife, who lived in Colton. When she moved to Bassett five years ago, he followed her.

Vets Mount Counter-Protest PROTEST/From A1 stand during “The Star-Spangled Banner” to protest police brutality. Gregory said, to his knowledge, this is the first time the club has declined to host its Super Bowl party. In Cooperstown, the Veterans’ Club will still show the game, according to past commander Doug Walker. “The teams that are playing aren’t kneeling,” he said. The club will open at noon on Sunday. The Cooperstown club was among the first in the state to cease showing NFL games, with an 8-0 vote by its board in early October. The Oneonta club followed suit in November, though the Richfield Springs post continued showing NFL games. “This is an individual post decision,” Joe Davis, national VFW spokesman, said at the time. “We’ve stated that it is disrespectful to the flag and the anthem, but we haven’t

officially endorsed any boycotts.” Though the Oneonta club had considered breaking the boycott to air the Patriots/ Eagles game, Gregory, as manager, ultimately made the decision to close the club for the day. “We want to stick to our guns,” he said. “It wouldn’t look right otherwise, and our members are all for it.” Gregory, the manager for the last seven years and a long-time member, said the club has always hosted a party on Super Bowl Sunday. “It’s a big day for us,” he said. “Normally we make quite a bit of money, but we’re going to take a hit.” He expects club members who do want to watch the game will go elsewhere, or view at home. “We’re vets,” he said. “If you won’t stand for our national anthem, our county and our flag, that’s why we are doing this.”

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RICHFIELD rom a rough beginning, a champion was born. When Captain Max, a 2-year-old Clydesdale, arrived at Donna and Robert Wilson’s Rolling Meadows farm on Hyder Road, he was so tall and gangly he couldn’t stand up on his own to nurse from his mother, Nala. “We had to come in every two hours to lift e up,” said Donna. just him “He had swelling on fell the back of his leg in love with them. from an infection in his umbilical cord, They’re gentle and he had a hernia. giants.” We almost lost him.” DONNA WILSON But in early JanuRichfield horse trainer ary, Max was named Reserve All American by the Clydesdale Breeders’ Association, meaning he’s one of the top three examples of the breed. His partner, Royal Rex, 3, given an Honorable Mention. “Just being nominated is an honor, but to place anywhere in the top three is prestigious for the horse and the owner,” said Bob. “The horse is considered one of the top 3 in the Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life country and further helps raise awareness of Tossing his head, Captain Max shows a champion’s spirit while Donna Please See CLYDESDALES, B3 Wilson looks on admiringly.

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t isn’t Super Bowl Sunday without a heaping handmade bowl of Oneonta’s tastiest chili at the annual CANO Chili Bowl cook-off. Cost, $25/bowl. Noon 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb.4, CANO, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Call 607-432-2070. CONCERT: The Apollo Music Club presents a concert performance of LinManuel Miranda’s hit musical “In The Heights.” 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2; 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta. BIKE RACE: The Fatty Bumpo Fat Tire race featuring fun races for fat tire bikes in all classes. Race fee, $20/rider, $30/rider to ride all classes. 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb 3, Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-2800 ext. 111. CELEBRATE ICE: Participate in a traditional ice harvest using tools from the 19th century. Includes ice-carving demos, hot soup buffet, horse-drawn sleigh ride and more. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Call 607-278-5744. PLAY READING: The NEXT! playreading series continues with “Helen of Troy” by local playwright Katherine Ambrosio. Free. 4 - 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Info 607-547-1400. OLD ONEONTA: Exhibition on “Urban Redevelopment: Oneonta’s Downtown in the ’60s and ’70s.” Includes the city’s past plans and a photo essay of downtown Oneonta in 1973. Free, open to the public. 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0960. AUTHOR TALK: Dana Spiotta, awardwinning novelist, speaks at the Sunday Afternoon Program. Free, open to the public. 3 - 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb 4, Cooperstown Village Library. Call 607-547-8344.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, february 1-2, 2018 Call 607-547-8344. SQUARE DANCE – 7:30 - 10 p.m. Celebrate the Valentine season with the Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown. Ray Taylor calls, Elma Taylor cues. Admission $5. Cooperstown Elementary School. Call 607-547-8665. CONTRADANCE – 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Dance to the tunes of Erik House, fiddler from East Springfield whose repertoire focuses on Old Time and Quebecois tunes. Caller is Peter Blue. Arrive at 7:15 for a beginners introduction to the steps. Suggested donation, $8/adult. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Call 607-965-8232. CONCERT – 8:30 p.m. Musical performance of “In The Heights” with music & lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

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BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m. Have clean, returnable bottles and cans on or visible from the curb in Cooperstown. Call Bruce at 607-267-6730 for info or concerns. BIKE RACE – 10 a.m. The Fatty Bumpo Fat Tire race featuring fun races for bikes with fat tires for all classes. Race fee, $20/rider, $30/rider to ride all classes. The Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-2800 ext. 111. CHILDRENS CRAFTS – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Bring a child to the library for make n’ take crafts. Includes light refreshments. Learn what the library has to offer. Cooperstown

Village Library. Call 607-5478344. ICE HARVEST FESTIVAL – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Participate in a traditional ice harvest using tools from the 19th century. Includes ice carving demos, hot soup buffet, horse-drawn sleigh rides, local vendors, an a snowman village. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Call 607278-5744 or e-mail info@ hanfordmills.org. CROCKPOT CONTEST – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free to enter, open to the public. Includes 50/50 raffle, bake sale, Chinese auction. Vets Club, 13 Lake St, Richfield Springs. Call 315-858-2708. LIFE COACHING – 1 p.m. Embrace life by taking the

driver’s seat and follow through on your goals. Learn strategies, tools for everyday use to ensure you succeed in life. Free presentation. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 518-637-6878. WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft. Hosted by published author, Jennifer Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1980. CONCERT – 2 p.m. Musical performance of “In The Heights” with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta. MORE CALENDAR B4

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New Building Says: Welcome To Oneonta WELCOME/From B1 The $5.4 million building â€“ the ribbon-cutting was Jan. 17 â€“ will serve as the entry point for prospective students and their families. â€œOur old space was in Alumni Hall, and we made it work, but people are more able to find us here,â€? said Brown. Prospective students â€“ ranging from sophomores and juniors taking a tour with their high schools to accepted seniors bringing their family to campus for orientation â€“ will make the Welcome Center their first stop. Guests will walk into the glass-walled atrium and look out over the spectacular view of campus before being welcomed into the multi-purpose room, where as many as 80 people can sit to watch

a presentation. â€œWe purposefully used stackable chairs in this room so we could use it for a variety of things,â€? Brown said. â€œA donor dinner, a reception for the president, we could even use the patio space when the weather is nice.â€? The staff lounge features a catering space, as well as a large-screen TV, which can also be used for Skype calls. â€œTheir faces are huge!â€? she said. The admissions offices and the mailroom are upstairs. â€œThatâ€™s where the magic happens,â€? said the admissions director. â€œWhere dreams come true.â€? There is also space for campus tour guides to put their backpacks and jackets. â€œWe never had anything like that in Alumni Hall, so they would just leave their backpacks everywhere,â€? she said.

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how to ride him, but heâ€™s very gentle.â€? Donna found horses are like potato chips â€“ â€œyou canâ€™t have just one!â€? Another rescue, Jake, came in as a partner for Mr. Bear, and boarding was expensive. â€œIt cost more than our mortgage,â€? she said. â€œRobert is a chemical engineer, and he was doing a lot of work in Syracuse and Albany, so we bought the farm up here in 2008.â€? In total, Wilsons now have 10 horses, including Patrick, a recently acquired rescue. â€œHis owners died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their trailer at the World Clydesdale Show in Madison, Wisc.,â€? she said. Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life â€œHe was in New Jersey for Royal Rex looks with curiosity over Donna Wilsonâ€™s shoulder as she a while, then the couple that shows him the ribbons that are giving him and Captain Max, the third best owned him got a divorce. Clydesdale in the country, a national ranking. He was at a rescue in New Jersey, and thatâ€™s where we and I were coming back into town to see what was bought me a horse, it would found him.â€? from an afternoon on the going on,â€? she said. â€œThe help,â€? she said. â€œI hadnâ€™t Though horses are herd East End of Long Island and Budweiser Clydesdales been riding since I was a animals, Patrick is still agthere was a parade holdwere there, and we just fell little girl, on my auntâ€™s farm gressive around the others. ing up traffic, so we pulled in love with them. Theyâ€™re in Pennsylvania.â€? â€œWe had to get him gelded gentle giants.â€? They found Mr. Bear, a as soon as we got him,â€? she Recently retired from a Clydesdale destined for the said. â€œBut he still has some career in nursing, Donna slaughterhouse, and rescued stallion in him.â€? was getting bored with him from a farm in State They mostly travel to the housekeeping and gardenCollege, Pa. â€œHe was green, Midwest for shows. â€œThey ing. â€œRobert thought if he so it took us a year to learn

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NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $330,000.00 and interest, recorded on June 8, 2009 in Liber 1577 at Page 203, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 6242 STATE HIGHWAY 28, FLY CREEK, NY 13326. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND

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Paulette Pugliese, 94, Cooperstown; 70-Year Seamstress, Native Daughter COOPERSTOWN – Paulette (Paula) Pugliese, 94, a seamstress who came to Cooperstown as a war bride, died Sunday morning, Jan. 28, 2018, at Woodside Hall, surrounded by her family. She was born on Dec. 8, 1923, in Tréves, Germany, under the French Embassy, the daughter of Capt. Alphonse and Raphaëlle Bonnet. She was the third of five children. She married Angelo J. Pugliese on Jan. 19, 1946, at St. Augustine Church in Algiers, Algeria. Paula was a seamstress for more than seven decades. She also owned The Paula Shop, a women’s clothier for 13 years and worked in the Cooperstown Central School cafeteria for 25 years. She knew everyone in Cooperstown and everyone knew her. Paula was a member and communicant of St. Mary’s

“Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church in Cooperstown. She was a member of the Red Paulette Cross, Pugliese Cooperstown Women’s Club, VFW Auxiliary, St. Mary’s Bereavement Organization and Native Daughters of Cooperstown. Paula especially enjoyed her home and her family. She also enjoyed sewing, knitting, watching high school and college basketball, the New York Yankees and the Cooperstown community. Paula is survived by her daughter Rose (Bill Dorsman) of Saratoga Springs and son Ralph (Susan Pug-

liese) of White Lake, Mich. Paula has five grandchildren, Todd (Melinda) Murdock, Hartwick, Scott (Mary Beth) Murdock, Hartwick, Craig (Jenise Dorsman), Yorba Linda, Calif., Garrett (Alicia Dorsman), Poughkeepsie, and Brent (Kasey) Murdock, Hartwick. She has 10 great grand-children. Paula was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Angelo J. Pugliese on Feb. 10, 2001, and her daughter Mary on April 28, 2003. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy in the form of memorial gifts may be made to Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Tillapaugh Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

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RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Ronald J. Pavlus, 71, of Division Street, Richfield Springs, Vietnam veteran and retired Jordanville postmaster, passed away Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. He was born on Oct. 28, 1946, in Cooperstown, son of the late John and Anna (Devan) Pavlus. Mr. Pavlus was a veteran of the Vietnam War, serving with the Army from Aug. 1964-March 1967. On July 5, 1969, he married former Sandra (Fullerton) Hoage. A Postal Service employee for 30 years, he retired from the Jordanville post. He is survived by his wife Sandra; sons, Brian Pavlus, Tupper Lake, and Ronald J. Pavlus Jr., and his wife, April, of Madison; daughters Diana Armstrong and her husband, John, Richfield Springs, Lisa Fassett and her husband, Dale, Hartwick and Jeannette Pavlus, Richfield Springs; brothers, Richard Pavlus, Jordanville and John Pavlus and his wife, Suri, Bronx; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Grave side services will be held at the convenience of the family in the spring in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Little Falls.. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the ChapmanMoser Funeral Home Inc. Little Falls.

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Margaret ‘Lodi’ Frank, 86; Nurse; Survived By Family In Cooperstown

COOPERSTOWN – Margaret Lois Burroughs Frank, “Lodi” passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, three days before her 87th birthday, at the Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury, Vt., with loving family by her side. She lived in Cooperstown for a period, where survivors include daughter Jeanne Dewey and her family. Lodi was born on Jan. 14, 1931, in Rochester, to Robert and Margaret Burroughs, the second of three daughters. When she was only 4, her older sister, Roberta, died of influenza, which affected Lodi’s heart deeply and helped set the course for a lifetime of serving others, full of sharing her love, kindness and compassion with everyone she touched. She attended elementary and middle school in Rochester, but then moved with her family several times throughout her high school years, living in Schenectedy, Marblehead, Mass., Washington D.C., and Richland, Wash. After high school graduation she returned to Rochester to attend the U of R School of Nursing.

Her Cooperstown, and then to first Middlebury, to be closer to nursing family. job after Lodi loved music (both gradulistening and singing), ation reading, traveling, and was at beach-combing, but her Strong greatest joy was in sharing Memothese things with friends rial Hos- and family. She delighted Margaret pital, in her role of mother, and Frank where then grandmother. Lodi was she met her love, Dona warm and nurturing soul, ald Frank. Lodi and Don and always made sure her were married in 1955, in friends and family knew Rochester. They spent their they were loved. first year of married life in Besides her parents, Lodi Burlington, Vt., where Lodi was predeceased by her husworked as a public health band, Donald Frank. and her nurse, a job she loved and sister Roberta Burroughs. frequently reminisced about. She is survived by her The couple returned to three children, Elizabeth Rochester in 1959, where Frank, David Frank and they settled and raised their Jeanne Dewey (John); as family. Lodi felt very rooted well as four grandchildren, in Rochester, and cherished Olivia Frank, Josh Frank her strong community of (Sierra), Sarah Dewey and friends and neighbors. She Patrick Dewey; and one had an abiding faith in God, great-granddaughter, Delilah and was a lifelong member Frank. She is also survived of Lake Avenue Baptist by her sister, Liz Miley and Church. Throughout her family; as well as many 86 years LABC remained beloved cousins, nieces, central to Lodi’s life. nephews, and friends. When Don passed away A celebration of Lodi’s in 2006, Lodi remained life will be held in Rochester in Rochester until 2015 in the spring. Details will be when she moved first to forthcoming.

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