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Clark’s Husband Sheriff Prospect?

Devlin: She Should Recuse Self In Investigation Of My Son

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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t seems county board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, may be playing two roles in the investigation of county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr.

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Jillian Lifgren cheers for brother Noah, but fan spirit wasn’t enough Saturday, March 11, as Moravia defeated the CCS Hawkeyes’ basketball team, 66-59, in the regional finals in Binghamton, a step short of this weekend’s state tournament.

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he state Board of Regents Monday, March 13, approved a name change of the New York State Historical Association to Fenimore Art Museum, effective immediately.

“Most people know us as such, and this name accurately reflects out collections and the visitor experience we offer,” said Paul D’Ambrosio, Fenimore president/CEO. ON THE STUMP: With village elections noon-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 21, ndependent challenger John Sansevere tilted with incumbent Trustees Lou Allstadt and Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch at a LWV forum Monday, March 11. Details at

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►One, an inquisitor, participating in the March 9 meeting of the county board’s Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee, which is investigating whether the sheriff’s son, Sgt. Ros Devlin, received special treatment following a “workplace violence incident” Jan. 9 at the county jail. ►Two, as spouse to the man who

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A dozen fire departments responded to the blaze, which gutted the village’s last active church.

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may be a challenger to Devlin in the 2018 sheriff’s election, Bob Fernandez, Clark’s husband and a recently retired state trooper.

Asked about the talk in political circles, Richard Abbate, chairman of the Democratic County Committee, said he The Freeman’s Journal was approached two times in recent Kathy Clark and Plesae See INQUIRY, A2 Bob Fernandez.

Lisa Bunch, Delaware Street, Cooperstown, shovels her walk Tuesday morning, March 14.

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We Survived ‘Storm Of Century’ In Milford’s Ashes, Signs Of Hope

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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ith 31.6 inches of snow as of 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, Oneonta’s National Weather Observer David Mattice declared “Winter Storm Stella” the “Storm of the Century.”

“We haven’t had a storm of this

By LIBBY CUDMORE magnitude since Christmas 2002,” said Mattice. “That day, we had MILFORD 31.4 inches.”

By noon Tuesday, March 14, tanding in the burned-out Otsego County was completely remains of the United Methblanketed, prompting the county odist Church, Rev. Sylvia Board of Representatives to deTHE BIGGEST, A3 Barrett saw a symbol of hope.

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“The cross was melted to the altar,” she said. “As I was trying to pull it free, I looked up and the sun was coming through the stainedglass image of Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane. Everything around me was black, but there was this shining moment.”

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Clark’s Role In Probe Unclear After Husband’s Possible Run For Sheriff Surfaces INQUIRY/From A1 months by Democrats sounding him out on whether the committee would cross-endorse Fernandez, a Republican, in next year’s race.

Abbate said he didn’t know of the Democrats who approached him were actually doing so at Clark or Fernandez’ request, but “if that’s the case, she should recuse herself� from the Devlin investigation.

A contact to Clark and Fernandez went unanswered.

Devlin, though, answered “absolutely,� when asked if Clark should remove herself from the investigation, which is being conducted by a fiveperson committee chaired by Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, the board’s vice chairman. “That explains a lot of things, I guess I would say,� he said when briefed on the new information.

Frazier, RUnadilla, and county board Chair Clark at the first committee meeting on investigating Sheriff Devlin.

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“The chair and I don’t get along,� the sheriff said. “In five years of working together there’s been no conversation.

Her opinion is she probably can do better than I can. This sheds a whole new light on things.�

The revelation of a possible political agenda is the latest twist in two weeks of revelations since the county

board, summoned March 1 into executive session by Clark, emerged to vote 14-0 to authorize an investigation of Devlin.

Since, the Public Safety Committee has issued two subpoenas – on the 6th and on the 10th, but Frazier said the sheriff did not fully respond to either. In particular, the lawmaker was concerned about a report quoting the sheriff ac-

knowledging he had not turned over five videotapes.

Following the latest subpoena, Devlin said the scope of the request – personnel files of several individuals going back seven years – involved copying hundreds of pages of documents and simply couldn’t be done by the Monday afternoon deadline. Even Frazier said, “In all fairness, it seemed like a lot to provide in a short amount of time.�

Meanwhile, District Attorney John Muehl reported receiving the state police investigatory report into what happened at the jail. The D.A. affirmed what Devlin had said – that it had been complete and no charges brought – but said the charge being considered – “terroristic threats� – in his view, “did not fit� the facts. “There was an allegation that Sergeant Devlin said something to a co-worker that

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If Devlin doesn’t comply with the subpoena to his satisfaction, Frazier said, the county will ask a state Supreme Court judge to direct the sheriff to do so. (Since County Attorney Ellen Coccoma is wife of the Supreme Court judge in Cooperstown, Frazier said the case would probably have to be heard in Delaware or Schoharie counties.)

Frazier has expressed an interest in bringing in an outside investigator, but said he wants to review the personnel files to determine if that’s warranted.

For his part, Devlin said he believes any investigation should be conducted by the state Commission of Correction, and a Commission spokesman, Justin Mason, agreed.

Mason called the Commission “the proper entity to conduct an investigation into the treatment of inmates in jails in New York State.� Currently, he said, the Commission is reviewing 16 “reportable incidents� at the jail in 2016 and four in 2017. “No determinations have been made as to whether any of these incidents rise to the level of an investigation,� he said.

Meanwhile, Frazier and his committee members – all except Craig Gelbsman, ROneonta, who did not respond to a voicemail, were contacted – were surprised to learn Clark’s husband might be running for sheriff, and said they

were not inclined to act on that information right now.

Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, said whether Clark should recuse herself “is an interesting question.� However, she said, the 2018 election is “too far away to add together. I think she’s doing what she should be doing.�

Dan Wilber, R-Town of Burlington, asked, “Has her husband considered running for sheriff? Or have other people raised his name without his control? Unless Fernandez signs on, it’s just talk. At this point, as far as I’m concerned, Kathy’s just doing her job.�

In small communities awkward situations can arise. For instance, Wilber said, his wife is a 911 dispatcher, as is the sheriff’s wife, Laurie, and the two women are “very friendly ‌ It’s difficult for me, but I’m still going to do my job.â€?

Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield, said this was the first he’d heard about the chairman’s husband, and would withhold comment until he knows more.

Likewise, Frazier said “this is the first I’ve heard of it.�

Clark attended the March 9 Public Safety Committee, but the chairman said, “I’ve tried to keep her as far away from it as possible.�

He reemphasized that his interest is finding the facts, and noted matters were coming to “a fork in the road.� If the personnel files show no favoritism in discipline at the jail, the investigation is over.

Otherwise, “we pursue it.�

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CHURCH/From A1 The Milford church – the last remaining in the village – burned Sunday night, after a fire started in the kitchen. “We haven’t determined what started the fire, but it is not considered suspicious,” said Milford Fire Capt. Damon West. “The last fire we had like this was when the corner store burned in 2001, and that was an eighth of the size of this fire.”

The first call came into Otsego County Thom Rhodes/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal 911 at around 7 p.m., and the church had been busy all day. Rev. Sylvia’s family Flames shoot from the back of the Phinney 1808 was in town, and she had preached on B&B Monday, March 13.

Psalm 121 – “He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep” – with special music and a sermon from Rev. Everett Bassett, the district superintendent.

“At 5:45, I stood in the doorway before I went out to dinner with my family,” said Barrett. “My daughter took a picture, and my son had done a sketch of the church help me. I was just grabbing

By LIBBY CUDMORE that he gave to me.” whatever I could.”

State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, is Fire crews arrived on the church treasurer, and he and wife Cindy scene just after 7:30 a.m., but COOPERSTOWN live across the street. They were at the by then, the back of the house scene Sunday evening. was ablaze. “Next thing I hortly after returning “At 3:30, the woman in charge of the know, there were flames comfrom the fire at the Milfood pantry was over there, and at 4:30, ing out of the back window,” ford United Methodist Jim went over to get some paperwork out Church, Cooperstown firefight- Vrooman said. “It was chaos.” of his mailbox,” said Mrs. Seward. “At The fire was contained ers were dispatched again to a 7:10, I looked out the window and it was within an hour, and later that fire Monday, March 13, in the hazy. Jim just thought it was snowing, but evening, Vrooman was able to former Phinney 1808 House go into the home to retrieve his when we looked again, we saw an orange B&B on Elm Street. glow out the back.”

“I went into the kitchen, and cell phone, clothing and other At first, she said, she thought the former items. there was this black sheet comTillapaugh Funeral Home was on fire.

Attorney Bob Birch offered ing at me,” said homeowner But she quickly realized that it was their one of is apartments to house Jim Vrooman, a real estate church. “I had just started collecting things the family, and the Vroomans agent with Keller Williams. “I for the rummage sale,” she said, pointing are still working to determine started screaming ‘Get out, get to the bell-tower window where Oneonta whether the damage is repairout!’ to my wife and daughter firefighters were trying to douse the upstairs. It seemed like an hour able. Friends and co-workers flames. “That’s the window to the room filled the fridge for the family, went by before I saw them where everything was stored.” as well as donated clothes and coming down the hall.”

The neighbors had called in the fire at 7 Vrooman, wife Charlene and items for them to use. p.m., and 14 fire crews, including Oneonta “We just don’t know at this daughter Emily, escaped uninand Cooperstown, gave mutual aid, with point,” he said.

“It’s been very jured. “I started going back in six companies on standby. stressful, but the community to try and get things out,” he The back portion was more easily has been very supportive.” said. “The garbage man came extinguished, although both floors were by and he ran into the house to

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Mattice: Yes, It Was ‘Storm Of Century’

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clare a State of Emergency. So did Mayors Gary Herzig and Jeff Katz in their jurisdictions.

“I went out with my snowblower at 11:30 a.m. and did my sidewalk,” said Oneonta’s Herzig. “Two hours later, it looked like there was another 8 inches out there. I haven’t been back out since.”

“I’ve got my crack team of Katzes’ on shoveling,” said Cooperstown’s Katz. “Karen’s been out there, Robby’s been out there, Joey’s gone out. I’ve been inside.”

Though Oneonta and Cooperstown closed their streets before noon, all county roads were formally closed at 1 p.m. for all but emergency vehicles. All three levels of Oneonta’s municipal parking garage were full as cars were ordered off the streets, and towing stopped at 11 a.m., according to Acting Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner.

“Stay home and put on a movie,” advised Brenner. “We don’t want people to risk their lives out there.”

During the Otsego County 911 center had fielded more than 100 calls for motor vehicle accidents, cars off the road or stranded motorists.

“The calls keep coming,” said 911 Center Director Rob O’Brien. “The roads are in very poor shape, and we are experiencing extreme difficulty getting law enforcement and tow agencies to where they need to be.”

All 62 New York counties were put under a State of Emergency by Governor Cuomo. New York City braced, but the storm blew 50 miles west, blanketing Upstate.

“If folks choose to ignore the State of Emergency and travel ban and they encounter an issue, it could be some time before we’re able to get to them,” said O’Brien.

According to Mattice, the previous record for snowfall on March 14 was in 1980,

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Aaron Macken shovels waist-high snow late Tuesday afternoon, March 14.

when 11.3 inches fell. “We’ve crushed that,” he said. “There were 16.5 inches by noon.”

In 2007, Otsego County got 26.8 inches of snow on Valentine’s Day, and on Christmas in 2009, 23.4 inches. “This is ‘Pi Day’ – 3.14 – so it keeps with the holiday snowstorm tradition,” he joked.

Winter Storm Stella was caused by a variety of condi-

tions. “You have a nor’easter coming up the coast and a storm coming east from the north midwest,” Mattice said.

“The low-pressure vortex is moving counter-clockwise over the Atlantic, pumping moisture into the air. It’s a perfect storm.”

And with temperatures hovering around 20 degrees, the snowfall is lighter. “It’s very dry, so you won’t break your back shoveling,” said Mattice.

“But it’s easier to blow around, which makes it worse for visibility. Winds have to be 35 miles per hour to be considered a blizzard, and we’re getting pretty close.”

Schools and both colleges, the Huntington Library and City Hall also announced closures, and the scheduled public hearing on the proposed Town of Oneonta volunteer fire department was postponed until April 11. Although some stores in the Southside Mall had opened, at noon, the mall was formally closed.

Despite the unofficial creed of the Post Office – “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” post offices across the county were shuttered.

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The Rev. Sylvia Barrett on the charred altar of Milford United Methodist Church the morning after the fire. gutted. But the fire in the tower was difficult to reach. “The wind carried it into the roof and the bell tower,” said West. “We couldn’t get access. All we could do was soak it and let it burn itself out.”

Though Capt. Brad Smith, Oneonta Fire Department, had stated he was concerned the bell tower might collapse, it remained intact.

Portable ponds were set up on Main Street, with tankers going between the Jahnke farm pond and the creek outside of town to refill. And 300,000 gallons of village water were used, prompting Deputy Mayor Brian Pokorny to issue a “conserve water” order Monday night.

With temperatures hovering around 10 degrees, ice buildup quickly became a problem. “Some of these guys had 2 inches of ice on their gear and their trucks,” said West. “We opened up our fire station so they could go warm up and come back out.

Jackie’s diner, the Corner Store, Gabrielle’s, the Elm Inn and the Salvation Army set up tables with hot coffee, bottled water and sandwiches to feed the crews,

who were on the scene until 5 a.m. “The community was really great,” said West.

West considers the building a total loss, and with it, the food pantry, the free clothing donation and a popular event space.

“The Cultural Center has offered to host the food bank,” said Lori Solensten, who called 911 when she saw the fire from an event at the historical society. “It will still be open the same hours, 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Saturdays.”

From 3-6 p.m. on Friday, March 17, Solensten will be on hand at the Cultural Center for people to bring non-perishable food items to refill the food pantry. Monetary donations are also welcome, she said, to help rebuild shelving.

“The building is gone, but the church isn’t,” said Sandy Andrews, a member who watched the fire from Barrett’s porch.

Barrett managed to salvage a hymnal and a Bible, the pages iced and covered in ash, as well as a cross, a few candlesticks, the collection plate and a statue of an angel.

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Ensure Unassailable Investigation Of Sheriff’s Office

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here is no one tougher and more fair-minded on the Otsego County Board of Representatives than Vice Chairman Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, who is chairing the Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee that is investigating whether disciplinary measures have been consistent at the county jail.

The core of the matter – whether Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr.’s son, Sgt. Ros Devlin, was properly disciplined after a “violent incident report” was filed in January by a fellow correctional officer – was made public by Frazier’s committee Thursday, March 9, and properly so.

In accepting this burden, bestowed upon him by a 14-0 vote of his colleagues at their March 1 meeting, Frazier said with typical frankness that this is new terrain for him: A respected contractor in the county’s southwest corner, overseeing a legalistic investigation of a public official has simply not been among his responsibilities or experience to date.

Likewise, County Attorney Ellen Coccoma, who along with the county’s labor lawyer, Matt Ryan

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of Albany, is advising the investigation, also said she was unclear how this is going to play out; it this is terra incognita for her as well.

There’s nothing the matter with that – in fact, that called-for frankness is reassuring. How many of our 60,000 Otsego County neighbors have the expertise to investigate the sheriff’s son, and the sheriff’s treatment of his son, not only in the latest incident but one in 2016 and another in 2010?

In acknowledging as much, Frazier suggested the committee may choose to recruit an investigator to help them through the legal maze. That makes eminent sense.

• To date, the sheriff has been served three subpoenas for records. He says he has been responsive; Frazier says, not completely.

The sheriff asked the

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state police to investigate the matter, and the troopers found no reason to proceed. District Attorney John Muehl agrees, but said that is because the charge – whether or not a “terroristic threat” was uttered – simply didn’t fit the facts of the case at hand.

Further, the sheriff asked two other county sheriffs to review the facts and advise

him. But would that advice have any legal standing?

And how objective would such colleagues be?

Objectivity is also a problem on the county board side. There are those among the seven new county reps who took office Jan. 1, 2015, who will tell you that, whatever the merits, they were surprised by the ill will between veteran reps and the sheriff.

Likewise, it’s now surfaced that Bob Fernandez, husband of county Board Chair Kathy Clark, ROtego, has been mentioned as a possible candidate for county sheriff in 2018. A recently retired state trooper, he may very well be an

excellent prospect for the job. But, then, should Clark be sitting in on the Public Safety Committee’s deliberations?

• If the Public Safety Committee missteps legally, that will open the way for the appeal of any outcome by the sheriff, his son and a range of additional players. That would certainly muddy any final resolution, and the public deserves a clear answer to the troubling questions raised.

The Public Safety Committee should do no more right now. Instead, it should identify the proper investigative entity to come in and settle the issue.

It’s High Time To Revive County’s Board Of Ethics

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omeone was saying the other day that there are 14 instances of questionable nepotism in Otsego County government, where employees are working for parents or aunts and uncles.

Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr.’s situation with his son, and county board Chair Kathy Clark’s involvement with investigating Devlin while her husband is considering running for sheriff appear to illuminate hidden agendas in pursuit of what should be the people’s business.

Maria Ajello’s situation – she lost her house at a tax sale to a county employee

who had worked for the Treasurer’s Office – likewise should cause people to scratch their heads. Onondaga and other counties bar employees from participating in tax sales. It keeps everything above board.

Mystifyingly, the county board created a Board of Ethics in 1990 to deal with just these sorts of awkward questions, but never activated or populated it.

It light of the current situations that have arisen, it’s time to make clear that county government is for the county’s citizens, not a dispenser of jobs, benefits and inside knowledge to an inner circle.

Who might that be?

Perhaps the state Commission of Correction, which oversees county jails.

Perhaps an arm of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office. Perhaps a special investigator from Governor Cuomo’s office would be optimum.

Was the sheriff’s son treated as any other correctional officer at the Otsego County Jail? Or did he receive special treatment, and did that put his colleagues and the jail population at risk?

The point is, everybody – the county board, the sheriff, his son, the deputies, the taxpaying public, those being held in the county jail and their families outside – has a stake in getting those questions as fairly and as speedily answered as can be done thoroughly and authoritatively.

That’s what everyone should want now, and Frazier and his committee – Craig Gelbsman and Kay Stuligross of Oneonta, Keith McCarty, East Springfield, and Dan Wilber, Town of Burlington – have, if not the specific experience, the integrity and determination to make sure that happens.

OTHER VOICES

For Oneonta’s Major Employers To Thrive, Revitalize Downtown Editor’s Note: The City of Oneonta’s four top employers collaborated on this message: The DRI will jumpstart future prosperity.

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s the largest employers in Oneonta and members of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative local planning committee, we write to express our support for the DRI proposal.

The projects outlined in the current proposal will make Oneonta a destination for new visitors, and create an even more

vibrant and attractive downtown in which people may gather, shop, dine and reside.

We support the proposal and look forward the state’s support for these projects.

We also believe it is important to challenge the recent argument that there is an oversupply of rental housing in Oneonta.

The landlords who have been most vocal in opposing the DRI because of the supposed glut of rental housing rent primarily to college students.

While there may well be an oversupply of student rentals, as large employers we know that there is a pronounced shortage of

rental units for non-students. Every year we collectively hire more than 300 new professional staff, many of whom relocate to Oneonta from other areas.

Although these new employees would often prefer to live downtown, they consistently report a great deal of difficulty finding suitable one- or two-bedroom apartments for rent in the city.

The lack of appropriate, reasonably priced housing is a barrier to attracting and retaining a young and mid-career professional workforce to Oneonta. The modest number of new apartments included in the

DRI proposal will help make the city a more attractive place for newcomers to live, work and do business, and having more professionals reside in the downtown area will further support our local economy.

MARGARET DRUGOVICH President, Hartwick College JEFF JOYNER President, Fox Hospital PATRICIA KENNEDY, CEO, Springbrook NANCY KLENIEWSKI President, SUNY Oneonta

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The bill substitutes REFUNDABLE tax credits for immediate Federal funding through the exchanges. That assumes that persons whose family premiums would be, say, $10,000, have that amount to pay out before receiving a tax credit for it.

Since there is no scaling for

income, the already affluent are disproportionately benefitted.

The bill would end Medicaid Federal funding as we know it, and return Medicaid money to the states – capped at what they receive now. This block granting shifts costs to individuals (since the money is currently used in New York to reduce property taxes), counties (which would lose $595 million annually) and states (in NYS, an estimated 3.7 BILLION).

Faso/Trump says the principal drivers of the National Debt are “Entitlement Programs,” which should therefore be cut. “Entitlement” sounds very negative, does it not? Well, Social Security and Medicare (as well as Medicaid) are “Entitlement” programs. Prepare to deal with cuts. Call Faso’s office at 202-225-5614 and ask his advice. If you can get through.

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The federal funding for Medicaid expansion, which reduced the number of persons uninsured in Otsego County from 15 to 6 per cent between 2013 and 2016, will be eradicated in four years at the latest. According to Mr. Faso, Medicaid expansion beneficiaries

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‘County Poorhouse’? Better, ‘County Farm’

arlier this week, we found ourselves at Focus Otsego to help make St. Patrick’s Day favors for the residents there. We pondered how far such facilities have come since the days of the county poorhouse, which was located about where the current county jail is today.

This long-gone facility predated The Meadows, the former county nursing home in the Town of Middlefield. And The Meadows, of course, predated the current facility, Focus Otsego, formerly known as Otsego Manor.

Such pondering on our part led us to do some online research about the county poorhouse. In doing so we came across a history of Otsego County, written CATHERINE in 1878 by Duane LAKE Hamilton Hurd, ELLSWORTH which covered in “Chapter XVII, Eleemosynary Institutions,” both the “Otsego County poor-house” and “The

Orphanage Home of the Holy Savior.”

Thus we were correct that the official name for the facility was the Otsego County Poorhouse.

Nonetheless, we remember quite well that our late husband, who had actually as a child visited the place with his father, called it the County Farm. He also referred to a similar facility on Route 5 as the Herkimer County Farm. In fact, we have two baskets that were, according to family history, made by an older gentleman who lived in the Herkimer County Please See COLUMN, A6

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

200 YEARS AGO

Advertisement – An Apprentice Girl absconded from the Subscriber, on the 15th inst. She was 13 years of age – six cents, but no charges will be given to any person who will return her to me. All persons are forbid harboring her or trusting her on my account. David L. Sayre, Milford, March 17, 1817.

Advertisement – The Notes and Accounts of E. Bivens & Co. are in the hands of the Subscriber; if not soon paid, they will be handed to an authorized collector. Geo. Pomeroy.

Cooperstown, March 17, 1817 – The Subscriber, also, has many small accounts of his own, which will be disposed of in the same way.

March 20, 1817

25 YEARS AGO

treat me with contempt,” the old potato said. “I never have been quite exempt from chilling fear and dread. When hasty hands have fondled o’er and pared me to the quick, and then tossed out the backyard door the peelings awful thick.

I say they used to do that same, abuse me like a witch, until just recent I became one of the idle rich. They used to call me ‘Murphy’ or ‘Spud’ and meaner things no doubt.

They used to jab me with a thud upon the oil can spout.

They’d push me back with vile disdain and call for bread and cheese. They’ve often left me in the rain to rot and scab and freeze. But since my ship came into port, you ought to see’em – gee – come every day to count and sort and today up to me. They used to put me in the dark piled high in wretched pens. They used to boil me in my bark and feed me to the hens. And then, I think it was the worst, of all indignities, they’d feed me to (nor cook me first) a wormy dog with fleas. But since I’ve come into my own, I pass no humble door. I greet none who lack proper tone, nor mingle with the poor.”

March 14, 1917

175 YEARS AGO

Publisher’s Notice – The practice has obtained in this office of persons getting duplicates of the paper without accounting for them, and in other instances of papers being taken and mailed by persons who are not subscribers and do not offer to pay for them. This procedure must be corrected.

The newspaper business is an expensive one, requiring large outlays and much labor. It is pursued for a living, and therefore ought to be suitably rewarded. The paper is printed to sell, and will hereafter be sold to non-subscribers at six cents single, or 25 cents for six copies. Those who do not choose to purchase, cannot have them any longer without leave or license.

March 14, 1842

150 YEARS AGO

The Charter Election held in this Village on Tuesday last was rather a spiritless affair – our Republican friends not deeming it worthwhile to make an organized effort to elect a ticket of their own. Under the amended Charter, two Trustees of the six comprising the Board are elected each year. The following officers were chosen on Tuesday: Trustees – Samuel K. Thompson, David A. Avery; Clerk and Treasurer: Chas. R. Burch; Assessors: Rensselaer Waterman, Peter Becker, Ransom Spafard; Constable and Collector: Jerman Snyder; Wood Measurer: Oliver J. Walradt; Pound Master: Atlin Adams.

March 15, 1867

125 YEARS AGO

Mission Work – The ladies of the Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown take pleasure in submitting the following report of their work for the year ending March 1, 1892: Scholarship at the Home Industrial School for “Mountain Whites” at Asheville, N.C.: $75.00;

0nce upon a time...

75 YEARS AGO

Excerpts from a letter from Perry R. Hotaling, in military training at Camp Walters in northeast Texas. “The climate is quite flat and a there is a lot of sand. The climate is lousy.

Last Friday we sweltered, yesterday we froze, last night it rained, today the sun is shining but it is quite cold. We live in two story wooden barracks situated around a holMarch 18, 1992 low quadrangle. We are in the 54th Battalion. We are quite crowded. So many men have colds that starting tonight we Carpeting a teacher’s room at the same: $25.00; Furnishing have to put our shelter halves up between us. Our company the “Cooperstown Memorial Room” in the new school for has fellows from about each state in the Union. They are a “Freedmen” at Barkerville, West Virginia: $25.00; One-half nice bunch of fellows” scholarship at the same: $25.00; Mrs. E.S. Willard, MisMarch 18, 1942 sionary to the Indians at Juneau, Alaska: $25.00; Subscription to musical instrument for Indian School at Sisseton Agency, Dakota: $15.00; General Fund of the Women’s Cooperstown Central School gained the semi-finals of Executive Committee for work not guaranteed by special the Section III NYSPHSAA basketball tournament before pledge: $47.50; Mrs. Mary Pierce, late teacher at Indian being knocked out by a strong Ilion quintet at Utica. In Schools, Cattaraugus Reservation, New York: $5.00; Part the second round game the Redskins overcame a stubborn payment of rent of Bible Institute building, Tokio, Jaopan: Little Falls High School team, 61 to 52. But Ilion defeated $100.00; Presbyterial tax for contingent fund: $6.25; BalCooperstown 85 to 66 at Mohawk Valley Community ance in treasury: $83.71. Boxes of clothing, bedding etc.

College. Ilion, leading 38 to 31 at halftime went into a valued at $143.00. Grand total: $575.40. In submitting this full-court press at the outset of the second half and busted report. The ladies desire to acknowledge the generous response from the public at the time of their Fair, last August. the game wide open, forcing Cooperstown into numerous turnovers. At the end of the third period the Golden BombMrs. H.L. Hinman, Treasurer.

March 17, 1892 ers led 61 to 45. Chuck Coleman led Cooperstown with 26 points. The five Ilion starters were all in double figures with Don Albin leading the way with 20 points.

March 15, 1967 (Ed. Note: A scarcity of potatoes in Europe due to WW1 created a new market for New York farmers, hence the following poem titled “The Proud Potato”) “They used to

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A Special Thanks From Everyman Editor’s Note: A reader discovered this missive in a snowdrift on Main Street, Cooperstown, and brought it into the newspaper office.

To the Cooperstown Boys Basketball Team.

Thank you for the memories.

It was a great season. You provided fun and great entertainment for your entire town over the last four months.

It was because of you that townspeople like us made more friends, had more laughs and received more memories this winter.

The ending wasn’t the way you wanted it to be, nor was it what we wanted. But, you gave us well over 20 wins to enjoy.

And steals, and assists, and rebounds, and DUNKS! More important, you showed us heart, smiles, friendship and respect to each other, and to us onlookers. You’ve been very visible positive examples for our children to follow and to make us parents smile with pride. Thanks for the memories. We won’t forget the season. Let’s go COOP! NATTY BUMPPO

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COLUMN/From A4 facility. It is our understanding that he made and sold the baskets so he would not be buried in the potter’s field.

We really have no idea why such facilities were referred to in different ways. Perhaps it was thought that calling them “farms” instead of “poorhouses” sounded better. If anyone has any thoughts on the original county poorhouse, or county farm, depending on one’s point of view, we would appreciate hearing them.

We really have no idea why these facilities were referred to in different ways.

Perhaps it was thought that referring to them as a “farms” instead of a “poorhouses” sounded better.

• Many a year, during the winter months, we have chosen a selection of books to read which all dealt with the same general topic. This year we decided it was time to read all the books that had languished on our coffee table for years. Granted, we had glanced at them over the years, but we had not really read them all. And we were fairly certain they covered a wide range of topics. However, we must admit that did not quite prove to be the case.

Granted there were a number which easily fell into the Cooperstown cat-

egory. These included “The Story of Cooperstown,” “Around Cooperstown in Vintage Postcards,” “A Mile of Memories,” and “Cooperstown,” as well as “The Ladies of Hyde Hall,” which we thought was close enough to qualify.

The rest of the books we thought were not really of Cooperstown.

Nonetheless, we discovered that “Hometown U.S.A.” made note of Cooperstown when it was written in the introduction that “...an even larger collection of glass negatives taken in Cooperstown, New York, by Arthur ‘Putt’ Telfer, was rescued from destruction by the New York State Historical Association.” Additionally, we note that at least a dozen Telfer pictures of Cooperstown, including our favorite picture of the 1907 centennial celebration, are found in the book. So there was a Cooperstown connection.

Two other books, “Discover America,” “The Smithsonian Book of the National Parks,” and “The Upper Mohawk County, An Illustrated History of Greater Utica,” would not seem to fall into the Cooperstown classification. Yet we note that our long-time neighbor, Fred Rath, wrote the forward for the Discover America book while Cooperstown native, Douglas M. Preston, researched the pictures for the Utica book. Thus, we added them to our Cooperstown related

books.

And that left us with just one more book from our coffee table, namely “Lancaster, A Pictorial History.” And try as we might, we simply could not make a book about Lancaster, England, be part of our Cooperstown collection. And while we greatly enjoyed all the books, we now wonder if we need to get new books for our coffee table. Isn’t there some rule that says no one should ever actually read books qualifying for coffee table status?

• In closing, we note that the Village of Cooperstown’s election for two Board of Trustees seats will be noon-9 p.m. next Tuesday, March 21, at the fire hall on Chestnut Street. We encourage all registered voters in the village to take this opportunity to participate in choosing who should be representing all of us living here in the village.

PLEASE NOTE: Comments regarding this column may be made by mail to 105 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326, by telephone at 607-547-8124 or by e-mail at cellsworth1@stny.rr.com.

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MARY LUSINS omputers EUGENE A. and bookBETTIOL JR. cases for DISTINGUISHED kids, a new town CITIZEN park, a food bank – when Marie Lusins calls, you know there’s a good idea on the line.

“I’ve done so many projects,” she said. “I get focused. I learned how to ask from Gene Bettiol Jr.; he would call me up and say ‘Marie, have you got a minute?’”

Marie Lusins’ latest success: Full bookAnd now, Lusins is being honored as the cases to 100 Head Start children.

Otsego County Chamber’s Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr. Distinguished Citizen Tuesday, March 28, at the Spring Dinner.

“I’m so proud of this award,” she said.

“To me, this award says that we are a community of dreamers.”

Born Anne Marie Bistany in Yonkers, she studied advertising at the NY Phoenix School of Design in Manhattan, and honed her skills as a children’s illustrator, and in sculpture and medical illustration.

In 1967, she married Dr. John Lusins, a high school friend, and moved to Oneonta in 1982 when John joined Fox Hospital as attending neurologist. She quickly got involved in the community.

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“We had a A&D man come to us TRANSPORT quite intoxicated and insisting he SERVICES needed to go to NBT BANK Toronto,” said DISTINGUISHED Rubin. “The BUSINESS driver brought him to our offices, and he kept insisting that he had to go to Toronto. So we made sure our driver had all the papers he needed and he took him. But he was mad when he sobered up and had to come all the way back to Oneonta Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life to get his car!”

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In the next few days, Oneonta’s Eastman Associates will demolish benefactor Bob Cook’s

former home at Brookwood, and a driveway widening, improved signage, an ADA accessible trails and other improvements will be prepared for a “grand reopening,” noon-5 p.m. Saturday, May 20.

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Friday in the atrium: Yard Sale and The Horseshoe Lounge Playboys. Beginning noon Saturday: C’est Bon in the atrium and, in the Bettiol Theater, The Honey Smugglers, The North and South Dakotas, Driftwood and headliners The Gibson Brothers at 8 p.m. Detailed band schedule www.eventbrite.com TOP O’ THE CABBAGE: Corned beef and cabbage fetes abound this St. Patrick’s Day. Get your fill Friday, March 17, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Oneonta Vets Club; 5-7 p.m. at the Hartwick Seminary Fire Department; 5-6:30 p.m. in the Life Fellowship Hall at Gilbertsville Baptist Church; and, in Cooperstown, 4-7 p.m. with a performance by Irish step dancers at St. Mary’s Parish Center and 5:30-9 p.m. at the Otesaga’s Irish-themed three-course meal in the Hawkeye Grill.

KLEZMER CONCERT: The Big Galute ensemble band performs Jewish music from five continents and six centuries with selections from the Balkans, Turkey and the U.S. at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 18, Anderson Theater, Hartwick College.

SENIOR MYSTERY: Cooperstown seniors present adaptation of the children’s book, “Miss Nelson is Missing,” about a class of third graders whose teacher goes missing. When replaced by the strict Miss Violet, they’re off to discover Miss Nelson’s fate. 7 p.m.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 16-18, Cooperstown High School auditorium.

WARM AND WOOLLY: Cozy up to the Day of Wool at the Cooperstown Farmer’s Market, Saturday, March 18.

Learn about fibers grown here. Join a knitting circle, spinning and weaving demonstrations, meet an Angora rabbit.

Live music by the Durey Creek Bluegrass Band.

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hen Debra Marcus’ mother, Peggy Schiffman-Marcus, taught SUNY Oneonta’s “Marriage and Family” course in the 1950s, it was illegal to tell the students about reproductive health.

“You could be prosecuted and go to jail under obscenity laws,” said Marcus, now the CEO of Family Planning of South Central New York.

“So she and the college’s doctor, a woman, pulled the shades down and locked the door, and taught these girls medically accurate information about birth control.”

It was in this spirit that Marcus was inspired to take up the fight for women’s reproductive rights, and now, Family Planning of South Central New York will be honored with the “Quality of Life” award at the annual Otsego County Chamber of Commerce “Celebration of Business” on March 28.

“I was an assistant attorney general in Manhattan and was on maternity leave to visit my parents,” she said. “I saw the ad seeking an executive director at

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Planned Parenthood, and I thought, ‘I can do that!’”

That was 26 years ago, and ever since then she’s been committed to the cause. “People think we just give birth control to teenagers,” she said, “But we serve all the way up to people in their 60s.”

The family planning agency started in 1972 at Fox Hospital, serving patients in Otsego, Broome and Chenango counties.

“Our founders saw we Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life Inspired by her mother, who taught “Marriage and Family” at SUNY Oneonta had high infant mortality in the 1950s, Deb Marcus, director of Family Planning of South Central New rates, and there was a large number of women who had York, has spent a career in women’s health. no access to pre-natal care,” 2013, the agency continued first family planning agency insurance. Turns out she had she said. to offer the same range of to become a member of cancer, and we were able to The agency opened clinservices, still licensed by the the Vaccines for Children get her into treatment that ics in Norwich, Sidney and state Health Department, but program with the Gardasil day. We saved her life.”

Walton, and in the 1980s now as Family Planning of vaccine, which prevents Seventy percent of papartnered with the Planned South Central New York. cervical cancer. tients have incomes below Parenthood in Binghamton, “There’s so much misunAnd it offers these ser150 percent of the poverty which had opened its doors derstanding and ignorance vices to people regardless level, and the agency’s open in 1941. “Contraception about what reproductive of insurance or financial at lunch, on weekends and wasn’t legal unless you health includes,” Marcus situations. in the evenings to make sure were married, so students said. “It includes annual “We had a woman in her all have access to services. had a wedding ring they exams, access to contracep- 60s come in because she had “Poverty complicates everywould pass around,” she tion, pregnancy testing, been bleeding for awhile,” thing,” she said. “When our said.

STD counseling, education, said Marcus.

“Someone told patients can get to us, we’ll Though they disaffiliated and HIV testing.” her that we would see her be here.” with Planned Parenthood in Family Planning was the even though she didn’t have The agency also offers

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translation services in 60 languages and is open to transgender clients. “We want to make sure there are no barriers to service,” she said. “We can even sign people up for the Affordable Care Act right here so they can get insurance.”

And its even found a way to respond to the opioid crisis. “We just started offering rapid Hepatitis-C testing,” Marcus said. “It’s spread through needles, and we see it as our obligation as members of the community.”

But the director says the best tool in healthcare is education. “We were just awarded a five-year, $150,000 grant to expand our education offerings,” she said. “We’re in school districts, colleges, faith communities and afterschool programs.”

Because to Marcus, access to healthcare is a quality-of -life issue. “We don’t want women and men in situations where they think, ‘I can’t afford healthcare,’” she said. “Wellness and prevention are entry points for populations that are the hardest to reach and at the highest risk. We want to keep them healthy, and we believe we’ve enhanced their quality of life.”

Marie Lusins Has Been Dynamo In Her Adopted Hometown Of Oneonta LUSINS/From B1 She served 20 years on the Town of Oneonta Board, 19892009, with a focus on parks and playgrounds. “Fortin Park was an airport at the time, and Elsie and Al Fortin didn’t want to sell it to developers,” she said. “I was on the parks board, so we turned it into a park, with ice skating, a baseball diamond and a canoe access.”

She also founded and coordinated SHARE Otsego, to bring healthy foods to low-income

families. “I would help drive to The Bronx once a month to load 28,000 pounds of food onto a truck,” she said. “Baked goods, cheese, turkeys, venison – we really added Lusins so much food to the local food banks.”

An Oneonta Rotarian, she honed her fundraising skills to support the club’s polio and mea-

sles vaccinations and mosquito net projects in India and Ghana, even administering some of the vaccines herself. She’s served on the board of the Fox Hospital Foundation and the Oneonta Free Clinic.

Her latest undertaking with Tenfold Plus, a group of determined local women, which – with the Oneonta Job Corps’ help – built personalized bookcases, filled with books collected from the community, for 100 Head Start students. “We collected 5,000 books,” she said. “If a child can’t read, they’ll never be able

to achieve. Literacy is the most fundamental of all skills.”

But it was her family that inspired her most. Her daughter Noelle was diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 8, and as her condition deteriorated, Lusins stepped up. She was president of the Otsego County ARC, lobbying the state Senate and its Quality Care Committee.

John died in April 2001, and Noelle died that September. “I used to love doing my artwork,” she said. “But after Noelle got sick, I was never able to go back

to it.”

She has four other children, Gillian, Carl, John and Matthew, as well as seven grandchildren – Alex, Catherine, Isabella, Vivian, Mia, Lucas and Calvin.

And with her children grown, she has turned her family home into a bed and breakfast, Flying Changes. “It’s always a work in progress,” she said.

“You never do these things by yourself,” she said. “We’ve always been a community that gives back.”

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A&D’s Rubin, Freed Partners In Entrepreneurism For 20 Years A&D/From B1 A&D Transportation Services is this year’s Otsego County Chamber of Commerce /NBT Bank Distinguished Business of the Year Award, to be presented Tuesday, March 28, at the annual Spring Dinner. “It’s overwhelming, exciting and humbling all at once!” said Rubin. “We are all about keeping money in local businesses and giving back.

Our roots are here, and we have a community-minded attitude.”

Rubin and Freed met at SUNY Oneonta as students, and the young entrepreneurs in 1994 began identifying unmet needs among their fellow students. “We started a food delivery service called The World is Yours,” he said. “You would call in an order at any restaurant in Oneonta, and we would go get it for you.”

Soon, they had 12 drivers for their weekend delivery service. “We were walking home late one night, and I said, ‘We should start a taxi service!’” said Freed.

The partners started with two cars in 1996, and by 1998 had 23 vehicles, including buses and passenger vans, giving rides to whoever needed them.”

Today, that fleet has grown to 127 taxis, nonemergency medical-transport and wheelchair-ac-

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cessible vans and courier service across 12 counties.

“We thought about going into rickshaws, but it’s a little hilly around here,” joked Freed.

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“We’ve taken people’s pets to the vet for them,” said Rubin. “We’re not just a taxi company. We’re open to all opportunities to serve our customers.”

“It’s about proper coverage,” added Freed. “Anyone can call a taxi, but if you don’t show up – what then? It’s about reliability, availability and customer

service.”

They’ve taken pets to the vet. They’ve driven cross-country for customers afraid of flying. Last year, a woman gave birth in the

back of one of their cabs in Herkimer, and they’ve been known the help out law enforcement asking if they’ve seen anything suspicious while out driving.

They’ll even brave severe weather when no other cars are on the road. “The way we look at it is, if we took you there, we have to get you back,” said Freed.

“Our staff always goes the extra mile for a customer,” said Rubin.

And A&D continues to improve. The fleet is constantly being upgraded, with most recent advancement Red Route, an Uberlike taxi app, developed by Cornell students, that allows riders to hail a cab from their phones. “We’re always focused on moving ahead,” said Rubin. “There’s a lot of great tech out there.”

But they continue to focus on serving the people in their community. “We sponsor any team or club that comes to us,” said Rubin. “We do meals, gifts and services for Opportunities for Otsego. If an ‘ask’ comes across our desk, we’ll usually do it.”

They recently donated $1,200 worth of ride vouchers to the United Way, to be distributed to people in need of transportation. “This is what we like to do,” said Rubin, “It’s about creating solutions. It’s fun for us.”

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In 30 Years, Land Trust Protects 11,000 Acres TRUST/From B1 executive director Peter Hujik – and Brookwood reinvention are dramatic, the Land Trust’s less dramatic day-to-day mission – protecting open land and scenic vistas through collaborating with landowners on conservation easements – continues apace.

The Land Trust’s goal of 10,000 acres by 2010 was Harry surpassed, Levine and more than 11,000 acres are now OTSEGO.life protected, not just in Otsego Eastman Associates will begin the demolition of Bob Cook’s former imposCounty, but in adjacent ing home as Brookwood Point heads toward a May 20 “grand reopening” as areas of Delaware, Herkimer a major feature of the Otsego Land Trust’s Blueway Project. and Schoharie counties.

Just 30 years ago, there historic preservationist Kent voluntarily surrender certain mains of a historic cranberry was none of this.

Barwick of Cherry Valley, development rights. There bog developed by pioneers And that quietly and a collaborator with Jackie are tax benefits, but the tool from eastern Massachusetts. painstakingly achieved Onassis on saving New also allows people to preLin Vincent, later a coaccomplishment will be cel- York City’s Grand Central serve properties they love in owner of The Freeman’s ebrated Tuesday, March 29, Terminal, the late George B. perpetuity.

Journal, was an early at the Otsego County Cham- Snell, the Herkimer native Early home runs inpresident, as well as Snell ber of Commerce’s annual and New York City lawyer, cluded protection of the and Peterson, who was sucspring dinner on the theme, and Earle Peterson, retired farm surrounding Dorothy ceeded 11 years ago now by “Sustainable Success.” The hospital administrator from Campbell’s Leatherstocking Harry Levine, a Long-Island Otsego Land Trust will New Jersey, began planning Falls, featured in James raised Yale grad whose receive the chamber’s first Fenimore Cooper’s novels, career – after an MBA from to incorporate the organizaEnvironmental Stewardship tion. the University of Chicago off the Pierstown Road.

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The conservation easeAnd Peterson’s fields, forest and eight years in banking The honored organization ment, a land trust’s key and ponds in the Town of – involved development dates back to 1987-88, when tool, allows landowners to Burlington, including the re- projects in New York City and the Princeton area.

He is a 50-year visitor to Congratulations to Otsego County Cooperstown, since meeting his future wife, Ellen Feury, when he was at New Haven and she a student at Connecticut College for Women in New London. The couple has two grown children.

While in New Jersey, he became involved in the then-fledgling Delaware & Raritan Land Conservancy – today it has 15 fulltime staff members – and so was a natural recruit for the Otsego Land Trust in 2001 when the Levines began 4 Market St., Oneonta • 607-432-6600 • greenearthoneonta.com spending half of each week at their home here.

Levine puts the mission simply, “All we’re doing is reflecting the values of the community.”

But success had bred complexity, particularly in the area of staffing, which has grown from an executive director – now vacant, that job is about to be filled – to also include a stewardship manager (Marcie Foster), a development and finance manager (Sara Scheeren), and a land protection project manager (Ethan Rubenstein).

Given that, once a year, the Land Trust must inspect each of the 103 properties with land easements, more staff was a necessity.

And the work continues apace. On Feb. 21, it was announced the Cunningham-Wardwell family have protected 33 acres of lakeside, woods and fields around Mouse’s Hall, Town of Springfield.

Tara Sumner, one of 36 great-grandchildren of Henry and Florence Wardwell, expressed a sentiment most participants must feel: “This land links generations of our family, and we wanted to protect both that idea as well as the land, forever.”

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It was truly an honor for CJ to serve your wonderful community as Superintendent of Schools. His memory is indelibly etched in all of our hearts forever.

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Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: Cooperstown Escape Rooms, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 73 Main St. 2nd Floor, Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of TUMBLE HILL FARM, LLC A Limited Liability Company.

Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on March 3, 2017. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as the 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: Tumble Hill Farm, LLC of 197 Algerine Hill Road, East Worcester, New York 12064.

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WhatCannaDo LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State on January 27, 2017.

The office location within New York is in Otsego County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to c/o THE LLC, PO Box 108, Gilbertsville, New York 13776.

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FORMATION of LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Marlinspike Operations, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the N.Y. Secretary of State on February 22, 2017.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State is the designated agent of the LLC, upon whom processes may be served.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No. 2016248 Date Filed: 4/21/2016 SUMMONS Premises being foreclosed: 3-5 Canadarago Street Richfield Springs, NY 13439 ACTION TO FORECLOSE MORTGAGE ON PROPERTY SITUATED IN OTSEGO COUNTY Santander Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff, -againstSilvio V. Villavicencio, Rosa J. Villavicencio, Seamus Enterprises, LLC “JOHN DOE “ through and including “JOHN DOE#25”, the defendants last named in quotation marks being intended to designate tenants or occupants in possession of the herein described premises or portions thereof, if any there be, said names being fictitious, their true name being unknown to plaintiff,

Defendant(s).

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of the Summons exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days

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after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. In case of your failure to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in this Complaint.

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, Otsego County dated Feb. 2, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office.

THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a mortgage recorded on the 22nd day of October, 2008, in Book 1586, mortgage page 1077, covering premises k/a 3-5 Canadarago Street, Richfiels Springs, NY 13439 a/k/a Section 25.5, Block 3, Lot 29.

Plaintiff designates OTSEGO County as the place for trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

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 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: March 29, 2016 Carle Place, New York Pranali Datta, Esq. Stein, Wiener Roth, L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO NS0153, LLC, Plaintiff, -againstJILLIAN BOS A/K/A JILLIAN E. BOS; LINDA SCHUERMANN; JOSEPH A. GALATI, JR.; UNKNOWN HEIRSAT-LAW OF THE ESTATE OF CARMEN GALATI, 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, AND INTEREST IN AND TO THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT; GEORGE GALATI; JOSEPH A. GALATI, III; DOMENICA SCOLES, Defendants.

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Mortgaged Premises 165 Wileytown Road Hartwick, New York 13348 Section: 128.00 Block: 2 Lot: 14.00 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 165 Wileytown Road, Hartwick, New York 13348 To the Above Named Defendant(s): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30)

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days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

tion is from a debt collector in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

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THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Mortgage to secure $140,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on May 23, 2007 in Book 1522, Page 915 Document Number 2007-00055188, covering premises known as 165 Wileytown Road, Hartwick, New York 13348. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial.

Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is located.

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 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. This Communica-

FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 85 Broad Street, Suite 501 New York, New York 10004 T: (212) 471-5100 F: (212) 471-5150 Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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BAILE PROPERTIES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on February 10, 2017.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Oteego 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, 273 Southside Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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

6LegalApr6 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: Cooperstown Beaver Valley Campground LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 January 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 704, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: Cooperstown Baseball Camp

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LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 January 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 704, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Advisornet Property & Casualty, LLC .

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF

Filed: 12/1/16 .

Office: Otsego Co. Formed in WI: 4/24/08.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1121 N 7th St PO Box 289, Sheobygan, WI 53082.

Foreign add: 1121 N 7th St, Sheobygan, WI 53701.

Arts. of Org. filed with Wi Dept Of Financial Institutions Secy Lon E Roberts, 201 W Washington Ave # 500, Madison, WI 53703.

Purpose: General.

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Arts of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on February 15, 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 404, Cooperstown, New York 13326.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of DIAMOND CONCRETE & DEVELOPMENT LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/2017.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 173 West Hill Road, Hartwick, New York 13348.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr6 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Balance By Day LLC. Articles of Formation was filed with the NY secretary of state on February 13, 2017. The office of this LLC is to be located in Otsego County.

The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. The NY Secretary of State may mail copy of any process to the LLC at 25 grand St apt#2 Oneonta NY 13820. The purpose of the is to abide by all lawful acts and activities.

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Avery-Burdick Stable,LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 2/10/17 Office LOC: Otsego, CTY. SSNY desig. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1078 County Hwy 6, Otego NY 13825 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 4038 Seton Ave, Bronx, NY 10466. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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CJMFD Enterprises LLC Art. of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 01/20/2017, Office in Otsego Co. NY, SSNY desig agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 14 Chester Street, Oneonta, New York 13820 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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75 Chestnut Street Property Group, LLC.

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Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16

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4504 Hoxie LLC.

Vista Hermosa Street, LLC.

Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4038 Seton Ave, Bronx, NY 10466.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 4230 White Plains Rd LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4038 Seton Ave, Bronx, NY 10466.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 40 Oneonta LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York

Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln., Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16 Legal notice

2128 County Highway 22 Property Group, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln., Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16 Legal notice

5438 State Highway 28 Property Group, LLC. Filed 1/13/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Locust Ln., Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalMar16

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, march 16-17, 2017

Friday, March 17 ST. PATRICK’S DAY

PARTY & BENEFIT – 11 a.m.Midnight. St. Patty’s day dinner to benefit the Milford Food Pantry – corned beef and cabbage, Reuben sandwiches, fish fry, more.

Stoddard Mountain Boys, 7 p.m.

No Charge. Bring donations to Food Pantry to recover what was lost in this week’s fire. The Elm Inn, 104 E. Main St., Milford. Info, (607)2869525 ST. PATTY’S DINNER – 11 a.m.

-7 p.m. Corned Beef & Cabbage, $8. Take-out available. Oneonta Vets Club. Info, https://www. facebook.com/OneontaVetsClub/ or call 432-0494 MUSICAL WORKSHOP – 3 p.m.

Students, public invited to workshop led by the Big Galute Jewish ensemble. Anderson Theater, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, http://www.biggalute.com/ or call the Hartwick College department of music @ (607)431-4800 ST. PATTY’S DINNER – 4-7 p.m. Corned Beef and Cabbage, performance by Irish Step Dancers.

St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, (607)4374626 or email andreaskruger68@ gmail.com CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE DINNER – 5-7 p.m. Includes potatoes and carrots. $10. To benefit Scout Troop 1254’s trip to the Grand Canyon. Take out available. Hartwick Seminary Fire Department, 4877 Rt. 28 Cooperstown. 

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO ST. PATTY’S DAY DINNER – 56:30 p.m. Corn beef, cabbage, etc.

Take-out available 4:30-5. Free will offerings. Life Fellowship Hall, Gilbertsville Baptist Church. Info, call (607)783-2993 or email bralbag@ gmail.com ST. PATTY’S DAY DINNER – 5:30-9 p.m. Corned beef, etc. $16.95/person. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.otesaga.com/ or call 607-544-2524 AMERICANA FESTIVAL – 7-10 p.m. Bluegrass music festival.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http:// foothillspac.org/ SENIOR PLAY – 7-9 p.m. “Miss Nelson is Missing.” Admission, $10 adults, $5 student/senior citizens. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, http://www. cooperstowncs.org/

Saturday, March 18

SEWING DAY – 10 a.m. Come sew feminine hygiene supplies for poverty stricken girls. Bring your kits, sewing machines, donation for supplies. Unadilla First Presbyterian Church, 156 Main St., Unadilla.

Info, visit https://www.daysforgirls. org/ or email oneontany@daysforgirls.org or call (607) 643-8209.

MUSICAL MADNESS – 10 a.m.Noon. Musical discovery event for kids ages 2-8. Instrument petting zoo, music technology, crafts, a dance room, and Orff instruments.

2nd floor Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta.

Info, visit https://www.facebook. com/OneontaWorldofLearning/ or email worldoflearning@live.com NOT SO FROZEN TOE RACE – 10:30 a.m. Held in all weather.

Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. $20. Info, Race Director Doug McCoy (607) 547-2800, ext. 111,

http://www.clarksportscenter.com/ events/frozen-toes-race-series/ WORLD OF WOOL – 11 a.m.

Learn about local wool and its journey to clothing. Includes community knitting circle, spinning & weaving demonstrations, live music. Meet local Angora rabbit.

Cooperstown Farmers Market. Info, https://www.facebook.com/CooperstownFarmersMarket/ HOT MEAL PROGRAM – 11 a.m.-1 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Info, http://www.firstumc-oneonta. org/ DRAWING WORKSHOP – 1-4 p.m. Begin “Journey into Drawing” with Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego counties.

Materials free. All skill levels. Registration preferred. Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www. friendsofrecoverydo.org/events WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m.

Poet, speed writer, novelist, or short story writer. Practice in NaNoWriMo format at your pace.

Led by Jen Donohue. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta. org/hml-writers-group/ FOR-DO BOOK CLUB – 4-7 p.m.

Group reading followed by discussion. Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo.org/events MUSIC FESTIVAL – 7-10 p.m.

Bluegrass Americana music festival featured Gibson Brothers. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://foothillspac.org/ DANCE SERIES – 7 p.m. Fight cabin fever with Kilometer Davis. $5. Must be over 21. Red Shed Brewery, 817 Butter Bowl Rd., Cherry Valley. Info, http://www. redshedbrewingcompany.com/ TRIVIA NIGHT – 7 p.m. Jeopardy

style game for all ages. Theme: Cooperstown. Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, 5798 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/ programs/special_events SENIOR PLAY – 7-9 p.m. “Miss Nelson is Missing.” Details, see Friday entry.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. The Big Galute Jewish ensemble band performs at Anderson Theater, Hartwick College. Info, http://www. biggalute.com/ or call the Hartwick College department of music @ (607) 431-4800.

Sunday, March 19

SUGARING-OFF SUNDAY – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Offers historical and contemporary maple sugaring demonstrations with a pancake breakfast and fun activities for kids. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown.

Info, http://www.farmersmuseum. org/sos CCAL MEETING – 1-4 p.m. The Center for Continuing Adult Learning spring meeting; presentors will describe their upcoming courses.

Members and those interested in membership are invited to attend.

Otsego Grill, Morris Hall Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Info, Alice Cannistra (607)432-2287 or the CCal office (607)441-7370 or email ccaloneonta@stny.rr.com PROGRAM – 3 p.m. “Otsego County Hops – Our History, Our Future” with Al Bullard and Ian Porto.

Village meeting room, Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, Sunday programs page, villagelibraryofcooperstown.org.

FILM – 7 p.m. Showing environmental film “Before the Flood” staring Leonardo Di Caprio as he travels the world to explore the effects of climate change. First United Presbyterian Church 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, http://cooperstownchamber.org/calendar-ofevents/#!event/2017/3/19/-quotbefore-the-flood-quot-flim-showing

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Monday thru Saturday 7 am to 8 pm • Sunday 7 am to 7 pm www.morey’sfamilyrestaurant.com

Red Carpet & Social Hour (CASH BAR) 5:30-7:00PM TICKETS: $30 PER PERSON ADMISSION & FREE HORS D’OEUVRES

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