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Cooperstown Ford Changing Hands Smith Cooperstown, the local Ford dealership, will be in new hands by mid-April.

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he tradition of family ownership will continue at Cooperstown’s Smith Ford.

It was announced Tuesday, March 20, that Kevin and Fran Harris of 2 Chestnut St., Cooperstown, will purchase the

Cooperstown institution from the family of brothers H. William (Bill) Smith and Edward C. (Ed) Smith.

The closing date will be on or around April 16, at which time Kevin and Fran Harris will become the sole owners of the dealership. The business will be called Please See FORD, A7

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Tara DiLorenzo and Sasha Dudek of the Kelly-O’Donnell School of Irish Dancing show their stuff at the annual St. Patrick’s Day corned beef and cabbage dinner Saturday, March 17, at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” in Cooperstown.

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ance M. Brown, president/CEO of the Bassett Healthcare Network for almost four years, has decided to step down, effective April 20, it was announced Monday, Dr. Brown March 19.

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ounty Clerk Kathy Sinnott-Gardner has endorsed Republican Mark Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, to run for governor against Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

Since he announced last week he will formally enter the race April 2, endorsements have been pouring in from Republican lawmakers and county boards across the state in favor of his candidacy.

The election is Nov. 6.

PETITIONS OPEN: Petitions to become a member of the Cooperstown Central School District Board of Education are now available in the District Clerk’s Office. Currently there are three, three-year positions to be filled. For more information, contact the Office of the District Clerk, 607-547-5364.

SPRING HERE: Spring arrived at 12:15 p.m.

Tuesday, March 20, but you wouldn’t know it by the below-freezing predictions.

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Replacing Chicagoan Jeff Katz, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch has spent most of her life in Cooperstown.

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Tillapaugh, Born, Raised Here, Democrats Halt To Become 2nd Woman Mayor GOP Challenge read this book many times in your

By JIM KEVLIN life,” the woman told her students.

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he two Democratic incumbents on the Village Board, Cindy Falk and Jim Dean, emphatically turned back a challenge from the one Republican, Fred Schneider, in today’s village elections.

Falk led trustee balloting with 218 votes, followed by Dean with 178.

Schneider garnered 75. The three were competing for two open seats.

Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who was unopposed for mayor, garnered 230 votes.

The new mayor and trustees will be sworn in Monday, April 2, and assume their responsibilities.

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oung Ellen Tillapaugh was entranced.

At the front of her Cooperstown High School English class, favorite teacher Ruth Yule was holding a dog-eared copy of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” annotated throughout in the distinguished mentor’s hand.

She had read it and made notations as a college student, then as a married woman, then as the mother of three children. “You will

Tolstoy’s“War and Peace” too.

This inspired Ellen and a circle of her friends to approach their teacher, who agreed to lead a reading group on Russian literature.

Soon, the teacher had arranged a field trip to Jordanville’s Holy Trinity Monastery, the center of the Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S. Stopping for a sandwich, Mrs. Yule lit a cigarette. “Do any of you smoke?” she asked the agog girls.

“Oh no,” she answered herself, “you’re all too young to have developed any vices.”

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Pupils Told, Don’t Make Any Threats

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ith 10 threats made against high schools in Otsego and Delaware counties since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the message from the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office is: Think before you speak.

“We’ve begun having deputies come in to schools to talk with students about freedom of speech,” said Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. “They Please See THREATS, B5

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Alex, Barbara Shields Renew Vows

‘Rigor, Relevance, Relationships’ Important, But Safety Takes Over

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Renewing their vows after 40 years of marriage, Alex and Barbara Shields received the blessing from Father Dane Boston, rector, Christ Episcopal Church, Cooperstown, during mass on Sunday, March 18. The husband is a retired county representative from Richfield Springs, representing the towns of Richfield and Springfield. His wife, a retired teacher, was a longtime member of the Republican County Committee. After mass, the Shieldses hosted a reception in the parish hall that included a performance

by Irish stepdancers, plus a traditional corned beef and cabbage lunch.

YOUNG AUTHORS BRAVE WINTER STORM TO WRITE Alexis Fahey, Richfield Springs, left and Natalie Davis, Cherry Valley, braved the winter storm to attend the Pen in Hand Young Writer’s Conference in Little Falls March 2-3, where they attended workshops and readings taught by professional authors.

ooperstown’s superintendent of schools spoke, as expected, on the need for “rigor” for CCS to excel at the Friends of the Village Library Sunday Series the other day.

But when the floor was opened for questions, several of the 30 attendees shifted Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal the conversation back to the CCS Superintendent Bill Crankshaw addresses priority educational issue of 30 attendees at the Friends of the Village Library the day: Safety in schools.

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Citizen Hilda Wilcox, expel only one student.

Another questioner then Pine Boulevard, noted that Expulsions are rare, asked about Bassett HospiNick Cruz, the suspect in he said, but his answer tal’s in-school health clinics: the 17-death Parkland, Fla., Could they provide referrals appeared to be: There is no school shooting had been monitoring such younger for troubled students that expelled. people after the fact. might need more attention.

How many students have Crankshaw said Bassett He did say that, reacting you expelled, she asked to concerns about troubled is unable to provide such Crankshaw, and are they youth, the CCS Board of referrals and that CCS is not being monitored?

Education recently made a depending on it to do so.

The superintendent, who Parent Ashley Cooper half-time social-worker joined CCS from the Remposition fulltime to deal added that, since Parkland, sen district at the beginning with such concerns. her children are afraid. of 2017, said he has had to ON LIST: Olivia Preston, Schenevus, has earned a Colgate University Dean’s Award with honors. A junior, she is majoring in molecular biology.

TWO LAUDED: Macklin T. Brigham, Cherry Valley and Sarah-Jane Morosko, Cooperstown, were both named to the Fall 2017 Dean’s List at St. Lawrence University. Brigham, a junior, is majoring in performance and communication arts and Morosko, a senior, is majoring in biology.

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Assuming Mayoralty, Ellen Tillapaugh Sure Decision To Move Back Was ‘Totally’ Right MAYOR/From A1 Mrs. Yule soon invited Simon Acoutin, retired Clark Gym director, to speak to the girls. During the Russian Revolution he had been a Cossack, fighting with the White Russians combating the Communists – the Reds.

One of the girls asked: Have you seen “Nicholas and Alexandra”?

She was referring to the Oscar-winning movie then in local cinemas.

Misunderstanding, Acoutin replied, “I met them twice.”

“It was small,” Ellen said of her hometown, where she has lived all but a few years of her life, “but it was very cosmopolitan.”

Monday, April 2, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, a village trustee since 2011 (and deputy mayor to retiring Mayor Jeff Katz much of that time), will take the helm of that cosmopolitan community, her home except for four years at Skidmore and two in Ohio.

Unopposed in the Tuesday, March 20, village elections, she is only the second woman to hold that post after Carol Bateman Waller, Mohican Flowers proprietor, who completed four two-year terms in 2010.

A child of the 1950s, the new mayor was the daughter of George G. and Marge Tillapaugh, proprietors of Tillapaugh Funeral Service, then in Cooperstown and Milford. Her grandfather, Revo – the youngest of his generation and something of a surprise, family lore has it his name was “over” in reverse – ran five funeral parlors, including ones in Schenevus, Worcester and Stamford.

Ellen was the youngest of three children of George and Marge Tillapaugh – the eldest is Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh and the middle one David, the home-building contractor. They were raised on the second and third floors of the funeral parlor at 28 Pioneer St. An early memory: Watching The Freeman’s Journal, where Pioneer Park is today, burn from the window of her brother’s third-floor bedroom. Her dad was a fireman and her mom was in the auxiliary, and firefighters were in and out of

the house all night long for coffee and sandwiches.

As Ellen remembers it, living locally was easy then. “My best friends all lived just a few blocks away,” she recalled in an interview.

“Summers, I said goodbye to my mother in the morning, went out the door and didn’t come home until dinner.”

“The town was our playground,” she said.

She thought of her dad as a funeral director, of course, but as much as the owner of Otsego Aviation, and flight – into and out of the airstrip, then on the Cooperstown Sportsmen’s Club property just past the transfer station – was as much a part of her girlhood.

One high school memory – she graduated in 1973 – was Title IX, or the lack of it before 1972.

Her brothers played organized sports while she watched from the bleachers. Girls played soccer, but their matches weren’t even called games, but “play dates.”

At college, fire struck again, this time at 4 a.m. at Skidmore’s Wilmarth dorm, where the handle came off the casement window and she tried to escape. Her future husband, Gary Kuch, found her on the ground, face covered with soot and bruises.

Back in Cooperstown, her parents heard about the fire on the radio: 100 students had fled, and one had died. They called repeatedly, only to be rebuffed by

Young Ellen with brothers Martin, left, and David in the 1960s.

campus security.

The experience brought the two college students closer together, and after their 1977 graduation Gary, a future Cooperstown High School principal, became a school psychologist in Fort Plain. (Retired as Worcester Central superintendent, he is now Clark Foundation Scholarship Program director and a town justice.)

Inspired by Cooperstown’s Sheldon and Caroline Keck, the pioneering art conservationists who were family friends of the Tillapaugh family, Ellen had gone into conservation, and soon was By the mid-1980s, Ellen Tillapaugh and Gary Kuch were recruited to a regional art center in happily settled in their Beaver Street home with daughters Tiffin, Ohio.

Maggie, left, and Rachel.

The couple maintained a longpleted in 1988.

Soon appointed deputy mayor, distance relationship. They fondly “Excuse me,” daughter Magfilling in when Katz was out of remember walking through the gie, then just a little girl, declared town, she chaired Public Safety, Oberlin College campus, which one evening, attesting to how busy Parks and Finance at the same hosted a music conservatory. her mommy could be. “I have to time.

“There’s jazz, there’s baroque put my high heels on and go to a “We have a lot on the fire,” she – and you can walk right in there,” meeting!”

Said Ellen with a laugh, said, explaining why she ran for she recalled.

“I don’t remember putting on high mayor when Katz decided to step After her Mellon Foundation felheels!” down.

If he hadn’t, “I would have lowship expired, she returned home She joined the Rotary Club soon been glad to continue as trustee.” and the couple married, buying after women were admitted in Job One now is the pending the home on Beaver Street where 1988, rising to president in 1995, $7.5 million reconstruction of the they still live. Soon, two daughters second to Catherine Black.

(Her ’60s-era sewage treatment plant joined them. (Now grown and father was Rotary president 38 on the Susquehanna, and of the married, Maggie, the eldest, is a years earlier, and her husband fol$2.5 million TEP, the federally nurse practitioner in Pawtucket, funded Transportation EnhanceR.I.; Rachel, a psychiatrist in Syra- lowed 18 years later.)

When she was approached in ment Program that will upgrade cuse.)

2010 to run for trustee, she resistthe Main and Chestnut intersection “I love being in Cooperstown,” ed.

“I’m not a political animal,” and further enhance the downtown, said the incoming mayor. “We she said.

But she ran, and was beginning this fall. totally made the right decision to part of the Democratic sweep that Beyond that, the new mayor come back here and raise our famfollowed, when she and Dr. Walter would like to see improvements to ily.”

Franck were elected, and Trustees Doubleday Field in advance of its Ellen established a studio over Jeff Katz and Jim Dean returned 1919 centennial – and suggested the garage and placed a brass to their seats.

The next year, Katz something may be forthcoming. plaque on the door, Tillapaugh became mayor and Cindy Falk was And how about a pier extending Art Conservation, conserving elected trustee. out into Otsego Lake from Lake“anything on paper.” Of the many Her willingness to participate front Park? contracts over the years, she is gave paid parking legitimacy, Katz The years in her hometown has most fascinated by one involving recalled to the caucus that nomiled her to conclude that small-town telegrams from the Carpathia that nated her in January.

Prior to that, living exposes people to a greater Titanic survivors sent to anxious he said, opponents had painted it as range of other people than living families on shore. an out-of-towner initiative led by a in a city. Looking back to the Fly The decades since were filled guy from Chicago.

Creek Philharmonic, she noted you with an active civic life, from Fueled by $400,000 a year would find a brain surgeon singing the Girls Scouts and the League in new funds from on-street next to a landscaper there. of Women Voters to FOMA, paid parking, the Village Board “It makes you realize we’re all Cooperstown Central’s Friends of launched what’s been seven years contributing members,” she said, Music and Art. She was president of street repair, downtown upadding, “You get out of the of Friends of the Parks when the grades and renovations to 22 Main, community what you put into it. first park master plan was comthe historic Village Hall.

It isn’t a them, it’s a we.”

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EDITORIALS

Putting Armed Police In Schools Necessary

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local deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School panicked and fled Wednesday, Feb. 14, when an armed student, expelled, returned to extract vengeance in 17 slayings.

But the other day, Tuesday, March 20, the concept of a “school resource officer” worked, and St. Mary’s County Deputy Blaine Gaskill shot and killed a rampaging gunman at Great Mills High School in Maryland.

Two students were critically injured, but nothing like the Parkland carnage.

That underscores the importance of comprehensive legislation now pend-

ing in Albany, already passed by the state Senate and championed by our senator, Jim Seward, R-Milford.

It contains many provisions, but most important are those enabling professional Gaskill police to act as “school resource officers,” protecting our schoolchildren as Gaskill did in Maryland.

The bill, being reviewed in the state budget process and awaiting Assembly action, should be approved.

It’s regrettable that the legislation has to be proposed, and regrettable that it must be endorsed by the public and made law, but that seems to be the nation we live in, at least for now.

With a third of Otsego County’s households armed, six murders occurring within the county line last year alone, and multiple local threats leading to arrests since Parkland, let’s not kid ourselves: It could happen here.

Certainly, more comprehensive gun controls may be enacted who knows when, but if a gunman shows up at local schools, someone must be there to stop him – now, or as soon as possible.

‘Heroin-Friendly Oneonta?’

Simply A Bad Idea. Drop It

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eroin is not our friend.

In an otherwise excellent State of the City speech, Mayor Gary Herzig renewed his call to make Oneonta a “Recovery Friendly Community.”

As noted here when this bad idea first surfaced, fair Oneonta has many sterling qualities it could embrace and promote, including City of the Hills.

Research being done for the Comprehensive Plan update has found people like its walkability and sustainable ethos, both promotable.

But to drive down Main Street and see banners on lightpoles on an addictionfriendly theme. Please.

Instead, beef up enforcement, education and treatment so some day we may proudly proclaim again: “Heroin Free!”

MAYOR GARY HERZIG 2018 STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS

Conversations, Planning, $10 Million Starting To Gel: In Action Editor’s Note: Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig delivered his second State of the City speech Tuesday, March 20, at Common Council.

Here is an excerpt.

problem. Left unchecked, it will threaten our quality of life and the lives of our family members, neighbors and co-workers. ►While we all love our college students, the behaviors of a few are disruptive to our neighborhoods and to our downtown. ►And our infrastructure – roads, water mains, and wastewater systems - is in need of significant and costly upgrades.

We have already created some real plans. And now, we need to

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e can certainly overcome our challenges.

And we all know what those challenges are: ►Good jobs are way too few. ►Quality affordable housing is in very short supply. ►Opioid addiction is a serious

tap that positive energy and build on them by working together.

In our Downtown Revitalization plan, I described Oneonta as a “City at the Tipping Point.” After 50 years of economic stagnation, we are now beginning to see the light.

We have real plans and we have some real resources. Our plans are ambitious, we will need to work together, and we will need to tap that positive energy if we are to succeed. So let’s get to work.

Much of our energy this year will go into downtown revitalization. To the envy of communities across New York State, we are the winners of a $10 million Downtown Revitalization competition.

We have an exciting plan to beautify and to strengthen our historic downtown.

This year, our DRI Plan will begin to produce results. In the coming days, we will be asking our downtown business and property owners to apply for the

more than $2.5 million available to spruce up building facades and storefronts, create new signage, and develop vacant upper floors into year-round quality market rate housing. We will also help by providing design guidelines.

We are now interviewing candidates to develop an exciting and innovative marketing initiative. It will be designed to get the word out on who we are with the goal of attracting new visitors, new busiPlease See HERZIG, A6

LETTERS

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most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.”

Urge Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to make up his or her mind to oppose Ms. Haspel’s appointment to be the next CIA Director. ►Email Sen. Chuck Schumer at: https://www. schumer.senate.gov/contact/email-chuck; or call his Washington, D.C. office at: 202-224-6542 ►Email Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand at https://www. gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/email-me; or call her Washington, D.C. office at: 202-224-4451 Irene Morrissey Margaret Green Marty Van Lenten Becker on behalf of Grey Matters Social Justice Group First United Methodist Church, Oneonta

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To the Editor: As United States citizens of faith, we strongly oppose President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to be the next CIA director.

A career CIA employee, Ms. Haspel played an instrumental role in the CIA’s Bush-era torture program.

Ms. Haspel headed a secret interrogation site where torture took place and then a few years later, while in a different job at CIA headquarters, helped to destroy videotapes of the interrogations at that prison.

Ms. Haspel’s actions are unacceptable in a just and moral nation! They put our military personnel in harm’s way. We encourage everyone to contact New York’s U.S. senators and urge them to evaluate this nomination within the context of the words of political theorist Hannah Arendt: “The sad truth is that

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James C. Kevlin Editor & Publisher

Don’t Use Parkland Victims To Score Political Points To the Editor: What happened at Cooperstown Central School on March 14 was a disgrace. What was called a moment of silence was turned into a political protest.

It is extremely disrespectful to the victims of the shooting to use them as props to spread your political agenda.

It is also disrespectful to the victims to simply walk out of school just so you can skip class, without being aware of the situation.

Why is this school encouraging leaving class? The answer is that Cooperstown Central wanted to spread their political agenda, which they have done for a very long time.

I cannot sit back and allow the administration of my school to politicize the murder of innocent children.

I am only upset at students who went outside just to skip class, and the ones talking about gun control during the observance.

Students who actually were trying to support the victims of the Parkland shooting were given a false sense by the school that they were observing a moment of silence.

However, the media was there taking pictures and those pictures are being used to promote gun control. Here is an excerpt from an article on www.

AllOTSEGO.com: “At Cooperstown, nearly 100 students walked out in front of the building and read the biographies of the 17 dead aloud. There were also opportunities for students to write to the victims’ families or their local

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Cooperstown Central seniors Emily Manzer and Mary Iversen, and junior Nicole Lionetti, left to right, console each other as they honor the 17 lives lost in Parkland, Fla., at a “walk-in” Wednesday, March 14, at the school.

representatives to express their feelings on gun violence.”

Despite the fact that at least half of the students were just skipping class, the media has already used the number 100 to push for gun control. It also mentions that opportunities were given to contact local representatives.

Are you serious, Cooperstown?

Contacting representatives about gun laws during an observance of multiple deaths? It couldn’t get much more

disrespectful.

If students want to contact politicians, good, but not during school, and not during a moment of silence.

Whether you are for gun control or against it, it is hard to deny that what Cooperstown did today was wrong.

Shame on you Cooperstown school administration.

RYAN PALMATIER Student Cooperstown Central High School

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And the second was an application form for their “Fine Arts on the Lawn.”

And while we do not plan to enter anything in either event, we were greatly cheered when we received CATHERINE the mailings as they LAKE lead us to think that ELLSWORTH summer will arrive sometime.

• Two weeks ago now, there were several items in the paper that we

found to be somewhat puzzling. The first, “Luxury Rentals Planned,” noted that progress is being made on turning the upper floors of what is currently referred to as the Key Bank building into apartments. In fact, the apartments are scheduled to be ready to rent by the end of the year.

Of course, one of the biggest drawbacks to the apartments will be, what else, a parking problem. However, it seems that the owner already has a potential plan, namely to provide underground parking for the tenants.

We must say this is not a solution we ever recall hearing before. And it Please See COLUMN, A5

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

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

200 YEARS AGO

Philadelphia, March 11 – At a Court of Quarter Sessions, held by Judge John Ross, at Doylestown, for the County of Bucks, a person was convicted of Eaves Dropping, an offense thus described by Judge Blackstone: “Eaves Droppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house to hearken after discourse and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nuisance and presentable at the court, or indictable at the sessions, and punishable by fine and finding sureties for their good behavior.” He was sentenced to pay a fine of $20, to give security himself and one surety, each in the sum of $100, and to keep the peace for one year.

March 23, 1818

10 YEARS AGO

reasons as are human beings, but all dogs can serve in the K-9 Home Guards, with commissions and uniforms.

James M. Austin, of No. 250 Park Avenue, New York City, Chairman of the War Dog Fund of Dogs for Defense, Inc., has appointed Mrs. Harold W. Shafer the official recruiting director for Cooperstown and has commissioned her bulldog, Seaman “Spuddy” Shafer, as Dog Recruiting Officer for our community where there are 600 licensed dogs of all kinds from mutts to thoroughbreds. You may enlist female dogs in any of the women’s divisions of the armed forces.

Mrs. Shafer has a supply of enlistment blanks. If you are interested, phone her at 549 or 701, or visit her home at No. 3 Elm Street.

March 24, 1943

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175 YEARS AGO

The earth is now covered with a depth of three and a half feet of snow upon a level and the roads are full of impassable drifts, so that mail travel or any other is out of the question for a day or two.

The steamer Great Western arrived at New York on Saturday the 11th of March from Liverpool, bringing two millions and a half in specie (coin or bullion). The disasters at sea by the late gales on the English coast present a frightful catalogue as not less than 500 persons have been buried in the great deep.

March 20, 1843

150 YEARS AGO

Spring! The first Sunday of March was a bitter, cold day with the thermometer registering 20 degrees below zero.

The second Sunday was cold and stormy with snow banks almost as high as ever before seen in this county. By the third Sunday those banks had mostly disappeared except in certain localities. The brooks were overflowing with rushing waters and the welcome notes of the robin were heard. Two days later on March 19, came the warmest March day we have had in 15 years – the thermometer being 70 degrees at noon!

Today, scarcely a patch of snow remains. The grass is ready to sprout! It is Happy Spring Time! With all nature let Man rejoice and forget the winter of his past life.

March 20, 1868

125 YEARS AGO

Morris & King is a new firm in Cooperstown whose place of business is in the second story of the brick building at the corner of Main and Chestnut streets. They engage to do all kinds of plumbing and steam fitting, including the placing of steam heaters into homes. George Morris and John H. King are both known as industrious and reliable young men, and they are bound to succeed.

March 23, 1893

March 21, 2008

100 YEARS AGO

Affirming perhaps the rumor circulated about Cooperstown during the last few days to the effect that the property of the late Adolphus Busch, including the Uncas Lodge property on Otsego Lake had been confiscated by the United States Government as enemy alien property, comes the following dispatch from St. Louis: “The one-eighth interest in the estate of the late Adolphus Busch, wealthy brewer, owned by his widow who but recently left Germany after a visit of many months, has been placed in charge of a depository named by A. Mitchell Palmer, custodian of enemy alien property. When last heard from Mrs. Busch was in Switzerland and it is believed she will reach the United States shortly. Trustees of the Busch estate said today that upon her return an attempt will be made to regain her possessions. Mrs. Busch made a tax return in 1916 of $1,630,650.”

March 20, 1918

75 YEARS AGO

Army or Navy Ranks Await Your Dog – Your valiant efforts to get into a uniform yourself may have been thwarted by age, disability, occupation, or something else, but you can still have a uniform in your home if you own a dog.

Many dogs are barred from the fighting fronts for the same

Jose Simonet, general attorney for the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice, addressed the Otsego County Legal Secretaries Association at its March meeting at the Cooperstown Elementary School. Although some 170,000 immigrants are said to be admitted to the United States each year, the figure is actually higher than that due to the fact that mother and father, sisters and brothers of U.S. citizens who enter the country on a waiver are not included in that figure, Mr. Simonet said. Entrance to the country on a waiver is almost immediate provided the entrance requirements are complied with.

Mr. Simonet remarked that the United States is perhaps the only country in the world where a citizen may move from town to town without registering with the police department in each town. This applies whether or not a person has a criminal record.

March 20, 1968

25 YEARS AGO

Fifth graders in Cooperstown recently completed a biography book project where they studied a hero, wrote a book report and then dressed as the hero for an oral report. Some of those heroes were Liz Bowers as Clara Barton, Moira Dwyer as Saint Francis of Assisi, Billy Bennett as Thomas Edison, George Raddatz as Thomas Jefferson, Will MacMillan as Franklin Roosevelt, Lisa Brassaw as Margaret Thatcher, Sally Tedesco as Harriet Tubman, Mark Rickard as Chief Joseph Brant, Cecile Ferrando as Lou Gehrig, Kate Arnold as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jen Ayer as George Washington, Nick Galbraith as Mark Twain, Mike Henrici as Babe Ruth, Kristin Phillips as Sacajewea and teacher Matt Doheny as Teddy Roosevelt.

March 24, 1993

Lack Of Rentals Threatens County Future

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t’s become evident over reation), and then often sits the last few years that empty the rest of the year. the Cooperstown area is As a result, long-term rentexperiencing a severe als – essential to any stable housing crisis. Understandcommunity – have become ably, seasonal rentals have increasingly rare. proved ever more tempting Bassett employees, for to local property owners. instance, can no longer find affordable permanent The Freeman’s Journal It’s now possible, over the 12to 14-week rentals in or near Fear not: Summer is coming to the second-mostsummer season, to Cooperstown. popular small town in the U.S. make significantly Their average commore money from mute is over 20 short-term rentmiles, plus a shuttle “We know you’re out COLUMN/From A4 als than a normal, bus from the parkthere, and we want to makes us really have to year-‘round rental ing lot to work. celebrate you. That’s why wonder just what the path would bring in.

The attractiveParker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal we polled 1,000 Americans of Willow Brook from The new tourness of short-term Is Perry Ferrara’s plan to develop apartments to determine their favorite Doubleday Field to Lake ist wave has been rentals/vacation in the Key Bank building a step toward solving medium and small towns Street might be.

ADRIAN a real boost to homes also affects shortage in year-’round rental housing? to visit in the U.S. We We seem to recall, in the economy, and KUZMINSKI the broader housing tions, were able to blend expanded. The farms were reviewed all the nominaour early days of visiting short-term rentals market, as homes in.

Tourism supplemented, mostly gone, but jobs in tions and pinpointed the Cooperstown, that one of are here to stay. are increasingly but did not distort, the local these expanding areas kept most frequently mentioned the highlights of June was We should be grateful. But bought not as permanent economy. the local economy stable. the flooding of the basement cities, towns, and villages to we’ve reached the point residences, but for seasonal The dairy industry went Both the agricultural and provide you with America’s of the Key Bank as a where a seasonal, transient use. into decline, to be sure, healthcare industries are favorite places to visit.” result of Willow Brook population is pushing fullThe Village of Coopersespecially after the herd permanent, year-’round We found having discovoverflowing. Since then, time renters out of the hous- town has a long history as a buyout in 1987, but healtheconomies. Those who work ered the parameters of the we do believe Willow ing market. summer resort, going back care picked up the slack. in them live here fulltime, poll greatly helped explain Brook has been put into It’s not just about the well into the 19th century.

A period of dramatic raise their children here, and why Cooperstown came some sort of pipe.

Dreams Park. Cooperstown The relatively small oldexpansion began as healthspend their money here. in second. Interestingly But it would indeed be also has the Glimmerglass time summer crowd, cluscare nationally and locally These are the people enough, we also found it interesting to know just opera, the museums and oth- tered around Otsego Lake, developed new procedures, who support local schools, interesting that we have where that pipe is and how er summer attractions, such did not overwhelm what technologies, and support churches, civic organizaactually been to eight of the it might affect the concept as concerts at Ommegang. was still a healthy, agriculsystems. Bassett Hospital tions and volunteer services.

25 places mentioned. And of underground parking.

The increase in vacation turally based, year-‘round morphed into Bassett HeathFor them, Cooperstown and some of them, we must say, • homes in the area has the economy. care, which became Otsego surrounding towns aren’t left us wondering just how The second item of same effect.

Even The Farmers’ County’s largest employer. just places to visit. They are they made the list. interest was a little blurb More and more housing Museum, Fenimore House Long-term care facilireal communities inspiring • on the front page that read: stock is used for a relatively and Baseball Hall of Fame, ties and social services also sentiment and loyalty.

And while we have “SECOND TO ONE: A short time (for profit or rec- in their original incarnapoll by Expedia determined managed to respond to two Cooperstown is American’s recent items in the paper, second-favorite destination, we must admit that each LETTERS week, when we read the second only to Cape Cod.” paper, we find ourselves How, we wondered, could wanting to respond to either that possibly be true. We a letter to the editor or an found it so very amazing opinion piece. that we had to go online issues that cannot pass the will vote in any way necesHowever, we fully realize, To the Editor: and see if we could find With all due respect, one House due to Republican sary to maintain his seat, as we would have to actually more information about can’t help but wonder what intransigence, and where long as the Speaker of the read the article in question, this bemusing piece of alternative universe you party leaders provide him a House tells him it’s OK. and not just rely on the information. inhabit where Rep. John pass to vote in a manner that This is not leadership, headline, in order to pen a Online we found the Faso can be considered a will burnish his “moderate” and it’s not what the people following information about cogent reply. “sensible centrist” (editorial, credentials because they of the 19th CD need repreIt is not unlike the fact the poll: Hanna, who were willing to fear the Blue Wave building senting us in Congress.

March 16-17, 2018). that we never seem to make “Oh, smaller towns and buck party orthodoxy on is- in Trump’s wake.

Perhaps in Texas, or We are fortunate to have a it to any number of events cities, how we love you. sues that were important to Idaho, but certainly not in Hopefully people of large field of Democratic You offer us an escape from which we really think would them, such as the environour region of central New the 19th CD won’t be as candidates, most of whom the buzz of traffic, buildings be most interesting to attend. ment and women’s health.

York, where we have been easily duped as The Freeoffer us a stark alternative to No doubt it all means we that block out the sunset, Mr. Faso, by contrast has privileged to have been man’s Journal/Hometown Mr. Faso’s brand of politics need to do either a better and hectic, high-speed attibeen a profile in political represented by true centrist Oneonta, and will recognize as usual. tudes. And don’t even get us job of organizing our life expediency, offering seemRepublicans such as SherMr. Faso for what he is – a MICHAEL STEIN started on your killer charm or spend less of it with our ingly “moderate” votes on wood Boehlert and Richard political opportunist who Cooperstown nose in a book. and good looks.

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Herzig Calls For Better, Safe Housing Options For All Income Levels

HERZIG/From A4 nesses, and new residents to the City of Oneonta. We will ask for and need everyone’s ideas to help generate the message. This coming year, we will also design and install an attractive new downtown directory and welcoming signs. Downtown Oneonta will become better than ever.

We will need to come together to develop an exciting re-design of Market Street – turning it into a unique and inviting center for entertainment, innovation, the arts and recreation.

We will create better downtown housing opportunities for all income levels and we will explore the potential for artist’s lofts, live/work spaces, and co-working spaces all designed to support entrepreneurism.

We will work with the Friends of the Oneonta Theater to explore the feasibility of restoring Oneonta’s grand historic showplace – and will do so in the spirit of partnership with the Foothills Performing Arts Center with the goal of each finding their niche in Oneonta’s vibrant world of the performing arts.

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As we build toward the future, we must recognize that our greatest assets include our two excellent colleges – SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick. They bring us entrepreneurism, art, music, culture, energy, diversity, knowledge, jobs and of course, money.

For too long, our colleges have been segregated from the rest of our community.

Right now, a visitor can drive through downtown without ever knowing that we are home to these two campuses and this will change. We will give our students more reasons to be downtown than just partying and drinking.

Both of our college presidents were active members of our DRI Planning Committee and both are fully committed to making this happen. Our fates are tied together. The success of our city depends upon the success of our colleges and the success of our colleges depends upon the success of our city.

Hartwick College, already a leader in the testing and analysis of barley, malt, hops and craft beverages, will work closely with us in establishing Oneonta as a regional

center for research, learning and marketing in the fastgrowing industry of sustainable foods.

SUNY Oneonta, in conjunction with our local artists and art organizations will join us in partnership with ArtSpace and New York State in exploring the feasibility of downtown artists’ lofts, live/ work spaces, shared studio spaces and galleries. The arts have been, and will continue to be, a vital part of life in Oneonta.

• Our focus on downtown is important as both employers and employees look for communities with vibrant downtowns. But we must simultaneously focus on job creation.

For this reason, we are working in close partnership with the Otsego County IDA on an Environmental Impact Study, the first step toward the creation of a center for industry and transportation right here within the City of Oneonta - a unique opportunity to bring good jobs to Oneonta on the same location that drove the Oneonta economy 100 years ago.

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To Thrive, County Needs Year-’round Homes KUZMINSKI/From A5 But as year-‘round rentals disappear, it becomes harder and harder for people like this to be permanent residents in such communities.

How can we avoid this?

When Bassett Hospital first confronted the problem of finding housing for employees in a small village, it built the Fernleigh complex across the river for physicians in training. What is needed now is a similar complex for hospital support staff.

More generally, developing apartments above downtown storefronts would help relieve the housing crisis.

Nearby Richfield Springs has buildings ready for redevelopment. The City of Oneonta recently received a $10 million grant from New York State precisely for this purpose. Why not Cooperstown?

Perry Ferrara’s plan to develop apartments in the Key Bank building is a step in this direction. And, more fundamentally, everything should be done to promote year‘round as well as seasonal economic activity.

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Our Council has made our parks and Muller Plaza smoke and tobacco free; adopted a plan to become a Clean Energy Community, and is passing legislation that will hold both landlords and tenants more accountable for disruptive and unsafe behaviors.

We have successfully created 60 new units of high quality affordable housing for Oneonta families and senior citizens.

Working with our Board of Public Service, we are making it clear that unsafe housing will not be tolerated.

• Of course, getting things done all begins with people.

First our Council members – they have demonstrated a shared understanding that they work for the good of the citizens of this city. We are fortunate to have them and to them, I want to say, “Thank You”.

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George Korthauer as our third city manager. George brings a wealth of experience and a “roll up his sleeves and get to work” attitude. This guy knows more about nuts and bolts, equipment, pipes and flanges than I will ever know and we are lucky to have him here.

Working together, we are accomplishing a smooth transition to a new Mayor/ Council/City Manager form of government.

Don’t be fooled however, as such a transition is not without its challenges. Both staff and elected officials have needed to adjust to new roles and new levels and styles of communications.

As elected officials, we must be careful not to micromanage. At the same time, our elected officials must be sufficiently informed and engaged to enable them to establish priorities, plans, and policies.

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Airport Commissioners, the promise of our airport as a driver of economic activity is being re-activated. I want to say thank you to Ed May, Len Carson, Greg Forte, and now Les Grummons. And, of course, we lost the airport’s best friend this year – Dennis Finn.

Yes, these plans are ambitious, but they are also realistic if we work together.

• This past year, we have built the foundation.

Thanks to the discipline of our Common Council and staff, working together they have achieved a balanced budget while adhering to the state tax cap. An important accomplishment owed in no small part to dedication of Meg Hungerford and Katie Bottger, who worked tirelessly to find a way to actually reduce our health insurance costs.

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Kevin, Fran Harris Buying Cooperstown Ford Dealership FORD/From A1 Royal Ford of Cooperstown, and will do business as Kevin’s Royal Automotive Ford.

“This sale represents the continuity of values, service and a commitment to employees and customers that Smith-Cooperstown has embodied for almost 100 years,” said Patsy Smith of Cooperstown and Norwich, Bill’s wife.

Kevin Harris agreed, adding, “We look forward to continuing the relationships of the many loyal Smith Ford owners and employ-

ees. We intend on keeping the entire Smith staff and intend on growing the base of satisfied customers through improved and expanded services and vehicle inventory availability.”

Harris and his extended family have owned numerous businesses in Upstate New York over the past 75-plus years, at one point including a chain of 18 supermarkets in Binghamton, Vestal, Endicott, and all through the Southern Tier.

The Harris family entered the automotive business in 1968 with the founding

of Royal Ford in Owego, and Kevin joined the family business in 1976, after college. Since then, he and other family members built the business into 26 franchises, in eight locations throughout the Upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania, employing more than 200 people.

In 2007, Kevin and Fran became sole proprietors of two dealerships, Royal Ford Inc. and Royal Chrysler Motors Inc. in Owego. Two of their three sons, Jason and Ryan, help manage the Owego locations and will assist their father at times in managing the Cooperstown location.

By combining the Cooperstown and Owego dealerships resources, Kevin’s Royal Automotive will be able to offer access to more than 1,000 cars, vans, SUVs and trucks, including new and like-new Chryslers, Dodges, Jeeps, Rams and, of course, Fords.

In addition, Kevin’s Royal Automotive will offer repair service, collision service and parts availability for Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Ford, and

Kevin and Fran Harris will be the new owners of Smith Ford in mid-April.

will double the Ford stores parts inventory available in Cooperstown.

Kevin and Fran have owned a home in Cooperstown for the past 18 years, and have lived here fulltime for the past four.

During that time, they have actively supported many community organizations, and they intend on continuing doing so into the future, especially now being part of the local business community.

The Smith family has operated local auto dealerships for almost a century since Harry W. Smith Sr., born

in Minneapolis in 1893, arrived in Richfield Springs in 1911 to live with his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Edward Baker.

Harry Smith started out owning a service station for travelers on the famed Cherry Valley Turnpike, which he operated until 1926, when he was awarded the Ford dealer franchise for Northern Otsego County.

All of Smith Sr.’s children soon followed him into the business.

Bill, the eldest, worked for the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit before buying his Smith-Norwich dealership in 1949. He expanded the dealership in 1967, and operated it until its sale in 2003. He also built and sold Nordic Ford in Burlington, Vt., and was a partner in Smith-Cooperstown.

He passed away in 2016.

Robert F. Smith (Bobby) followed his father into the Smith-Ford dealership in Richfield Springs, operating it until 1975. Sister Rosebelle Smith Broeffle worked at the Richfield Springs dealership in its early days, as did sister Shirlee Smith McCabe.

Ed Smith, who passed away in 2017, owned the majority stake in SmithCooperstown, which he opened with his father in 1957. Patsy Smith and Norma Onyan are the remaining principals.

Harry Smith’s youngest son, James D. Smith (Jim), ran the Leasing and Rental Department at the Norwich dealership until its sale in 2003.

“For every Smith-owned location, core values existed and were paramount: integrity, excellence in service, and a commitment to the community,” said Patsy Smith, adding, “Kevin Harris’ experiences and training share much with core values of the Smith-Cooperstown; both families are steeped in small business creation, management and ownership.”

“We plan to operate the former Smith Ford in the same time-honored traditions,” said Kevin Harris, “with the same loyal employees, while making some improvements to the facilities, services and vehicle and parts inventories.”

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Brown, who came here from Maine Health, where he was chief medical officer, in 2014, said his decision to

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Among the accomplishments during Brown’s time as CEO are the full integration of Fox Hospital and its practitioners into the network, adoption of a single electronic-healthrecord platform across the network, and the continued development of strategic relationships with healthcare partners such as Oneida Healthcare and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.

Streck served as Bassett’s president/ CEO from 1984 to 2014. At HASNY, he has worked the Dr. Streck last three years with hospitals and health systems across the state on emerging models of care, population health initiatives, risk management strategies, and physician relationships.

In November, Bassett’s board announced Brown’s duties would be split. He would continue as president/ CEO of the network, and a separate president/CEO would be sought to oversee day-to-day operations at the Cooperstown hospital.

Dr. William LeCates was named interim hospital president.

One of Streck’s responsibilities back at Bassett will be to develop a “long-term leadership strategy,” today’s announcement said.

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SUNY Oneonta is part of a seven-college pilot program that received $82,000 in emergencyassistance funding designed

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n conjunction with the “Urban Redevelopment: Oneonta’s Downtown in the ’60s and ’70s,” exhibit, Hartwick College prof. Carli Ficano, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, and SUNY-O pres. Nancy Kleniewski will discuss trends on Urban Renewal policy and the impacts on downtown Oneonta, both past and present.

2 p.m. Sunday, March 25, Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0960.

PRIDE DAY: Workshops, resources and more to empower and educate diverse LGBTQ families and allies.

9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Holiday Inn, 5206 St., Hwy. 23, Oneonta. Call 607-777-3717.

BUNNY TRAIL: The Easter Bunny arrives at Foothills for a pancake breakfast, egg hunt, crafts and more.

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Sunday, March 25, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-431-2080.

THEATER: The Mask and Hammer Theater Club present “Doubt: A Parable,” which follows a nun questioning the guilt or innocence of a priest. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 22 - 24, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 25, Hamblin Theater, SUNY Oneonta.

Call 607-436-3456.

BUTTERFLY GARDEN: Children learn to plan, plant a butterfly garden.

Includes indoor seed starting with butterfly games, seed games, activities, and crafts. Admission, $5/child.

10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24, Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta.

Call 607-431-8543.

HOME REMEDIES: Learn to stock your medicine cabinet with homemade remedies from all natural products. Registration required. 10 a.m. - 2p.m. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-547-1450.

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WOMEN’S HISTORY – Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch discussion on “#MeToo Movement” continues the “Focus on Women’s Experiences in Academia, Politics and History.” Farrington Room, Dewar Union, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Call 607-431-4428.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Mask and Hammer Theater club present “Doubt: A Parable.”

Hamblin Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-3456.

SQUARE DANCE – 7:30 10 p.m. Celebrate St. Patrick’s day with the Doubleday Dancers of Cooperstown.

Admission, $5. Cooperstown Elementary School. Call 607547-8665.

Saturday, March 24

LGBTQ FAMILY FUN – 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Day of learning, sharing, empowerment for diverse LGBTQ families and allies. Holiday Inn, 5206 St., Hwy. 23, Oneonta. Call 607777-3717.

BUTTERFLY GARDEN – 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Children learn to plan, plant a butterfly garden.

Includes indoor seed start-

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 22-23, 2018 ing with butterfly games, seed games, activities, and crafts. Admission, $5/child.

Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta.

Call 607-431-8543.

HOME SHOW – 10 a.m.

- 9 p.m. Look for ideas and meet vendors for your spring home improvement projects.

Southside Mall, Oneonta. Call 607-432-4401.

MARCH – 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Oneonta High School conducts a sister march to the Washington D.C. March For Our Lives against gun violence. Begins at Oneonta High School and concludes in Mueller Plaza, Oneonta.

WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Learn to stock your medicine cabinet with homemade remedies from all natural products. Learn about the properties of plants from the backyard and the spice rack. Registration required.

The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471450.

WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Introductory class for people interested in learning the art of Blacksmithing. For participants age 14+. Cost, $100/ non-members. The Farmers

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SCIENCE SATURDAY – 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Children’s morning story hour, learn about electrons at the Electricity Alive demonstration at 11:30, learn about microscopic life at 1, & tap your sense of wonder at the planetarium matinee show at 2. Free, registration required.

A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-2011.

DRAGON DATES –Noon 3 p.m. Youth enjoy board/ card/video games and a baked potato bar with many toppings to choose from.

Family Resource Network, 46 Oneida St., Oneonta. Call 604-432-0001.

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OPERA – 12:55 Presenting the encore presentation of Donzetti’s “L’elisir D’Amore” streaming live in HD from The Metropolitan Opera House.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607431-2080.

WRITERS GROUP – 1:303:30 p.m. Join other writers to help improve your craft.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Call 607-432-1980.

FAMILY GAMES – 3:30 p.m. Bring the family for your favorite table, card, and board games. Bring your own or use the cafes. The Meeting Place, 187 Main St., Suite A, Unadilla. Call 607-765-7386.

COFFEE HOUSE –7 - 9 p.m. (and every 4th Sat. of month).

Music in a range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church.

Church Rd., Schuyler Lake.

THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Mask and Hammer Theater club present “Doubt: A Parable.”

See Friday Listing.

CONCERT SERIES –7:30 p.m. Enjoy the lush harmonies and non-conformist songs of The Railsplitters as they demonstrate the merging of diverse musical influences with traditional Appalachian music. The Otesaga, Cooperstown.

Call 607-547-1812.

Sunday, March 25

SUGARING OFF SUNDAY – 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Features contemporary and historic maple sugaring demonstrations, activities for the kids, more. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Call 607-5471450.

BUTTERFLY GARDEN – Noon - 4 p.m. Children learn to plan, plant a butterfly garden. Includes indoor seed starting with activities, and crafts. Admission, $5/child.

Oneonta World of Learning, 167 Youngs Rd., Oneonta.

Call 607-431-8543.

THEATER – 2 p.m. Mask and Hammer Theater club present “Doubt: A Parable.”

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RENEWAL DISCUSSION – 2 p.m. Panel discusses trends of urban renewal policy, past and present, locally and nationally, with Hartwick College prof. Carli Ficano, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, SUNY president Nancy Kleniewski.

Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607432-0960.

YOUTH PROGRAM – 2:30 p.m. Learn to distinguish between real archaeological discoveries, and pseudo-scientific hoaxes.

Cooperstown Village Library.

Call 607-547-8344.

Monday, March 26

LEGOS – 3 - 4 p.m. The Library LEGO collection is available for children to build with.

Cooperstown Village Library.

Call 607-547-8344.

ARTS & CRAFTS – 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Teens create, have fun, socialize with friends in a safe environment. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-0001.

Holy Week Services First united methodist church 66 chestnut Street, Oneonta 607-432-4102

Good Friday March 30, 2018 12-7 PM

A Reconciling Congregation · Wheelchair Accessible Welcoming LGBT · All are welcome Rev. Teressa Sivers, Pastor Palm SunDaY – march 25 10 am and 5 pm - Worship maunDY ThurSDaY – march 29 7 pm - Worship GOOD FrIDaY – march 30 12:10 pm - Meditation with Word & Music 7 pm - Stations of the Cross EaSTEr SunDaY – aPrIl 1 8 am - Sunrise Service 9 am - Easter Brunch 10 am - Resurrection Service with Communion

Visit us online at www.firstumconeonta.org

The “Red Door” Church (First United Presbyterian)

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Palm Sunday: 10 am Maundy Thursday: 7 pm Easter Breakfast: 8:30 to 9:15 am Easter Sunday Service: 10 am Main Street & Walling Avenue, Oneonta (across from Friendly’s Restaurant) Church Office: 607-432-7520 The Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Walton-Leavitt

ST. MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY 39 Walnut Street, Oneonta (Corner of Walnut and Elm streets) www.saintmarysoneonta.org · 607-432-3920 Like us on facebook

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord - 25 March

Saturday Vigil: 5 pm Sunday Morning: 10:30 am - Saint Mary, Oneonta

Tuesday of Holy Week - 27 March 7 pm - Communal Penance Service

The Sacred Paschal Triduum Holy Thursday, 29 March

6 pm - Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper 11 pm - Night Prayer

Holy week

Good Friday, 30 March

Wednesday, March 28: Spy Wednesday

8:30 am - Morning Prayer Noon - Midday Prayer 1 to 3 pm - Individual Confessions 4 pm - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion and Death 7 pm - Night Prayer in the style of Taize

5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist in St Agnes Chapel 7:30 p.m. Tenebrae in St Agnes Chapel

Thursday, March 29: Maundy Thursday 7:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist with Stripping of the Altar in the Church 9 p.m. to midnight Vigil in St Agnes Chapel

Holy Saturday, 31 March

Friday, March 30: Good Friday

8:30am - Morning Prayer Noon - Midday Prayer and Blessing of Easter Foods

Noon to 3 p.m. The Three Hours’ Devotion in the Church (Prayers, readings, hymns, meditations on the Seven Last Words. Worshippers may come and go during the service.)

5:30 p.m. The Stations of the Cross in St Agnes Chapel 7:30 p.m. The Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday

The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night 9 pm - The Liturgies of Fire, Word, Baptism, and Eucharist

Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord 1 April

8:30 am & 10:30 am Eucharistic Liturgy and Renewal of Baptismal Promises

Parking is available behind the Church off Elm Street.

Please call ahead for handicapped accessibility: 607-432-3920.

CHRIST CHURCH ePISCoPAl 46 River street Cooperstown 607-547-9555

christchurchcooperstown.org The Rev’d Dane E. Boston Rector Mr. Christian J. Broughton, Music Director

The Feast of the Resurrection: EastER saturday, March 31: Easter Eve 7:30 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter with the Lighting of the New Fire at the Lychgate

sunday, april 1: Easter Sunday 6:30 a.m. Ecumenical Sunrise Service at Lakefront Park 8:00 a.m. Festal Holy Eucharist with Choir in the Church 10:00 a.m. Festal Holy Eucharist with Choir in the Church

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From February through April – depending on when Lent falls – not just churches, but restaurants and civic group turn on the fryers to serve the abstaining – or just the hungry.

“We serve 200 people a week,” said John Nitto, who, along with the Knights of Columbus has hosted the Friday Night Fish Fry at the Oneonta church.

“It gets people together,” said Mickiewicz. “Most churches have something, even a simple soup supper, during the season, but the Knights of Columbus have been doing this long before I got here.”

At St. Mary’s, $10 will get a slab of fried haddock – or baked, if you prefer – cole slaw, a baked potato or fries, rolls and a slice of cake.

“The fish fry at St. Mary’s can’t be beat!” said D’Imperio. “The best ones are always put on by local organizations.”

“We can come here to eat and don’t have to clean up!” said Kathy Varrelli, a parishioner who brought her family by for dinner

the other night.

The St. Mary’s fish fry has been held every Lenten season for the last 14 years. “We wanted to do something for the community,” said Nitto.

“It’s not like a restaurant, you can come in, sit and talk with old friends, meet new ones. We use nice ingredients and it’s a friendly atmosphere.”

“I was born to fry,” joked Dennis Valente, St. Mary’s fry-master.

“The secret is to not overcook the fish, and to make the fish tender and the fries crisp.”

A few years ago, the baked-fish option was added; this year, New England clam chowder.

“We used to do the baked fish on a George Foreman Grill,” said Louise Nitto, who welcomes diners every week at the front table.

“There’s no place else you’ll get a meal like this.”

But move quickly – the last one is Friday, March 23. “People may not worship at St. Mary’s, but they’re always welcome to come out,” said Mickiewicz.

Even if you’re not abstaining, just looking for a good meal, you can still pull up a seat at the table.

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Paul Cerosaletti, Davenport Center, has been involved with the St. Mary’s fish fry since 2001. “This is what drew me into the Knights of Columbus in the first place!” he said.

He is seen here serving his family; from left: daughter Angela, wife Amy, daughter Theresa and sons Daniel and Chris.

fried fish year ’round, but run a special on Fridays – buy five dinners, get the sixth free.

Cooperstown restaurants like Doubleday Café and Council Rock Brewery also offer Friday fish fries.

“When I came here 15 years

ago, there weren’t that many around,” said Mel’s owner Brian Wrubleski, who was then director of Bassett Hospital food services.

“We used to do them as fundraisers at the American Legion for the girl’s field hockey team, and people seemed to like them.”

Holy Week Services St. John’s Episcopal Church 98 West Main Street · Richfield Springs www.stjohnsrichfield.org · 315-858-1121 Join us as we remember Christ’s journey to Jerusalem and the cross, His death, and His Resurrection for our salvation.

Sunday, March 25 · Palm Sunday 8:30 am · Procession of palms with service of Holy Communion Thursday, March 29 · Maundy Thursday 5 p.m. · Service with Holy Communion March 30 · Good Friday Noon · Meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ.

Meditations from Richfield area clergy.

5 p.m. · Good Friday service with Holy Communion Sunday, April 1 · Easter Sunday 8:30 a.m. · Festival Easter Sunday Service with Holy Communion We will also be celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord through an Easter Vigil at Christ Church, 300 N. Main Street, Herkimer, at 7:30 p.m., on Saturday, March 31.

EastEr sunday sErvicEs Portlandville united Methodist church state Hwy 28, Portlandville Early service 7:30 am Easter Breakfast 8:15 am Morning service 9:15 am

Milford united Methodist church 133 Main street, Milford Morning service 10:45 am Enjoy special music and refreshments following the service

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March 25

Palm Sunday

Sunday of the Passion Distribution of Palms 8 am Eucharist 10 am Sung Holy Eucharist

March 28

Holy Wednesday 7:30 pm – Tenebrae

March 29

Maundy Thursday If you’re not quite sure, we have the answer you’ve been seeking.

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5:45 pm – Prayer Walk 7 pm – Holy Communion

March 30

Good Friday Noon – Good Friday Worship

April 1

Easter Sunday

8 am Eucharist 10 am Solemn Festival Eucharist

First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown 25 Church Street

607-547-8401

PaSSion/Palm Sunday

~ March 25 at 10 am ~ Peter Craig preaching: “The Kingdom and the Power and the Glory” Special Youth Drama

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ECumEniCal Good Friday

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EaSTEr Sunday

~ April 1 at 6:30 am ~ Ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service at Lake Front Park

10 am SanCtuary The Rev. Julie Sheetz, preaching “Easter Fools”

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He uses Ommegang’s Hennepin beer in his batter and hand-cuts his fries, and serves the whole thing up with homemade tartar sauce.

But wherever you go, around here “we all take the Friday night fish fry for granted,” said D’Imperio.

Who Ya Gonna Call? SUNY Now Offers Emergency Help bills. Students unable to get HELP/From B1 assistance from the commitner Family Foundation and tee are directed to additional the Heckscher Foundaresources on- and off-camtion for Children. “When pus, Chambers said. they heard the examples of “It’s allowing us to meet student need that we gave the needs of more students,” them, we were persuasive,” he said. “We’re able to see said Adamo. “It’s important what they need.” to know that, at times, this Before getting the fundis what the ‘office of student development experiences’ is ing, SUNY Oneonta tried to working with students.”

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Chambers, vice president for Student Devel- meet students’ emergency needs one by one. “If a stuopment. “We’ve had students who lost their supplies dent came and said they lost their books, we might try to in a fire, one who needed help fixing a car and another work with the booksellers to replace them,” said Chamwho needed warm winter bers. “But we didn’t have clothing.” the kind of resources to be Students must apply online, and their applications able to help with rent or car repairs.” are forwarded to a commitAnd now that the funds tee. Chambers said the committee aims to have answers are available, students have learned where to come; an to students within 72 hours of filling out the application. individual can ask for help a number of times, but can’t The SUNY Impact receive more than $2,000 a Foundation administers the year. program, collects data and While the newest, it’s just studies the effects of the one way SUNY Oneonta emergency funding.

Students cannot use funds helps students struggling to pay credit-card debt, legal beyond the classroom. “We have a thrift store where bills, tuition, books or cable we can send students who might need clothes, and several mini-pantries and meal scholarships on campus to help students with food insecurities,” said Chambers.

“We want to be aware of all the ills plaguing our student resources.”

The other state campuses Elm Park United participating in the pilot Methodist Church program are SUNY Albany, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta the University at Buffalo, 607-432-6552 Buffalo State, Cayuga Comelmparkumconeonta.org munity College, Dutchess Community College and Palm Sunday, SUNY Orange in MiddleMarch 25, 10:30 am town.

And Adamo says alumni Distribution of Palms are taking notice and donating to the fund. “It’s another Maundy Thursday Thursday. March 29, 6 pm example of how philanthropy through gifts and grants Sacrificial Meal/Drama will make a difference in the lives of students,” he said.

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Laurens Camarda Richard J Jr 240.15-2-51.02 Res 0.51A 106 Co Hwy 11A Laurens Hartwell Gary S 208.00-1-13.00 Res 0.67A 124 Angel Rd O’Neill Brain T 208.03-1-19.00 Res 0.62A 2360 St Hwy 205 Garlick Margaret F 223.00-1-13.00 Res 4.92A 241 Crow Hill Rd Moxley Daniel J 224.00-1-17.02 Res 0.63A 416 Pool Brook Rd Sims Donna 238.00-2-63.01 Res 20.37A 2774 St Hwy 23 Weeks Joseph 239.00-1-34.01 Res 1.84A 411 New Rd KPM Industries Inc. 240.00-2-19.03 Res 47.50A 988 Co Hwy 11 Dower Michele M 240.00-2-34.00 Res 0.71A 1611 St Hwy 205 Vargas Joseph 240.00-2-44.31 Res 5.59A 1505 St Hwy 205 Vargas Joseph 240.00-2-44.32 Res 5.59A St Hwy 205 Everts James T 241.00-1-18.03 Res 3.58A Mather Rd Ehlert Carl David II 255.00-2-37.02 Res 69.90A 594 Hathaway Rd Wong Robert 257.00-1-13.03 Res 2.41A Airport* Rd Scheer Jeffrey S 273.00-1-19.00 Res 12.37A Fox Rd Puylara John 273.00-1-2.00 Res 3.19A 342 Crawford Rd Turrell Richard L 273.00-1-33.00 Res 2.99A 185 Co Hwy 11 Turrell Richard 274.00-1-25.01 Res 235.68A Co Hwy 11 Maryland Three G Development LLC 198.00-2-12.02 Res 1.20A 800 Smokey Ave Jaquish Glenn 198.00-2-21.03 Res 25.68A 117 Waterman Rd Stampfl Frank Jr 212.00-1-5.00 Res 0.79A 659 Axtell Rd Seltzer Karen 214.00-1-23.01 Res 34.89A 394 Gohan Rd O’Dell Jennifer A 230.00-1-26.00 Res 0.77A 8113 St Hwy 7 Goss Henry 230.19-1-33.00 Res 0.60A 77 Main St 91 Main Street, LLC 230.19-1-37.00 Res 0.12A 91 Main St Goss Henry 230.19-2-87.00 Res 0.19A 116 Main St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-9.01 Res 0.50A 174 Main St Jackson Arthur L 245.10-1-42.00 Res 0.19A 149 Loft Rd Hendrickson Roy Sr 246.00-1-28.00 Res 1.83A 779 Co Hwy 41 Ware Rosemary 247.00-1-19.00 Res 1.63A 668 Center Rd Desantis Michael 261.00-1-77.00 Res 32.04A Bush Hill* Rd VanZandt Clifton 262.00-2-14.00 Res 6.55A 128 Bush Hill Rd Lambert Ann Marie 263.00-1-7.01 Res 111.23A 164 Dragoo Rd Humphreys Robert L Jr 278.00-2-32.00

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Middlefield Kiesow Linda 102.00-1-8.01 Res 38.55A Roseboom Hill Rd Jodko George 116.00-1-15.00 Res 6.81A 1991 Co Hwy 33 Augur Charles 117.00-1-11.00 Res 0.17A St Hwy 166* Augur Raymond C 117.00-1-24.02 Res 3.11A 2529 St Hwy 166 Wolfert Adele 117.00-1-27.61 Res 26.67A 2422 St Hwy 166 Olsen Edward O 117.00-1-4.00 Res 26.77A Hubbell Hollow Rd Campbell Alan W 118.00-1-2.03 Res 1.00A 2672 St Hwy 166 G&S Zizzi Associates LLC 133.00-1-1.01 Res 29.12A Moore Rd G&S Zizzi Associates LLC 133.00-1-1.03 Res 21.00A Moore Rd G&S Zizzi Associates LLC 133.00-1-1.04 Res 28.50A Moore Rd G&S Zizzi Associates LLC 133.00-1-1.05 Res 16.30A St Hwy 166 G&S Zizzi Associates LLC 133.00-1-1.06 Res 9.98A Moore Rd G&S Zizzi Associates LLC 133.00-1-1.07 Res 10.70A 205 Moore Rd Kanzler John 133.03-1-52.00 Res 0.34A 3653 Co Hwy 35 DiLorenzo Mark 146.00-3-33.00 Res 1.08A 1238 Co Hwy 33 Gaynor Grant R 178.00-2-1.11 Res 7.58A Co Hwy 33* Knoblauch Charles A Sr 179.00-1-4.03 Res 30.86A 152 Fred Ottaway Rd O’Neill James P 179.00-1-9.02 Res 5.45A Pottery Ln Goralczyk Andrzei 86.01-1-24.00 Res 0.17A 3156 Co Hwy 33 Milford Scianablo Richard 195.17-1-14.00 Res 0.95A 140 E Main St Milford Griloi John 193.00-2-12.222 Res 1.71A Bliss Gulf Rd Kolka Robert S 194.00-2-11.213 Res 17.55A 3985 St Hwy 28 Munro David A. 195.00-3-6.00 Res 0.02A St Hwy 166 Petronis Gerald T 210.00-1-10.00 Res 0.57A 3697 St Hwy 28 Waters Fred C 210.00-1-30.01 Res 7.94A 405 Tansey Hill Rd Stampfl Frank 211.00-1-12.00 Res 3.68A Appletree* Rd Stampfl Frank 211.00-1-13.00 Res 10.77A Axtell Rd Buttignol Family Holding 227.00-1-3.01 Res 135.48A Co Hwy 44 Buttignol Family Holding 227.00-1-4.01 Res 135.48A 590 Co Hwy 44 Cotten Edward 243.00-1-31.02 Res 3.00A 955 Co Hwy 35 Calabro & Hill Properties 243.17-1-35.00 Res 0.87A Bob Wilson Rd Lunn William H III 259.12-1-25.00 Res 3.87A 121 Lull Rd Morris Fagergren, Kayla A. 221.13-1-29.00 Res 0.29A 8 West St Hull Todd E

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Oneonta Volpe Virginia R.C. 275.00-1-2.01 Res 34.57A 625 West St Turrell Richard L 286.00-2-20.00 Res 29.48A Co Hwy 8 Cyzeski David 287.09-1-85.01 Res 7.84A 3996 St Hwy 23 Clark David J. 287.15-1-15.00 Res 0.22A 258 Winney Hill Rd Gaisford Frank 287.15-1-28.03 Res 0.04A Caprice Rd Marlatt Carol 287.19-1-37.00 Res 0.14A 13 Blanchard Ave McLean Jessica 287.19-4-42.00 Res 0.27A 3 Canal St Watson Tyrone E 288.00-2-76.00 Res 1.06A East* St Mulholland Muriel H 288.09-1-20.00 Res 0.27A 238 West St Polley Robert 289.00-1-89.01 Res 37.49A 130 Riverstone Rd RBFD, Inc 299.07-2-68.00 Res 0.06A 1 Harrison Ave Lony, LLC 300.00-3-87.01 Res 3.15A St Hwy 23* Ross Ella Mae 300.14-1-19.00

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First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Threats, Police Tell Students PUPILS/From A1 discuss their rights and what they are allowed to say, and what they aren’t allowed to say.”

“Before the shootings in Florida, people weren’t really taking these threats as seriously,” said sheriff’s Deputy Jim Cox. “A lot of that has to do with students saying something, and now they have to think before they speak.”

Many students assumed the First Amendment allows them to say what they want, said Cox, who so far has been dispatched to Laurens and Cherry Valley central schools. “I’ve been explaining to the kids that your freedom of speech only covers you so far. If you’re committing a crime like making a terroristic threat, you’re not covered under the First Amendment,” he said.

Not only might students be watching what they say, they are more likely to report a classmate saying something potentially problematic.

“People are starting to pay more attention to what others are saying,” said Troop C Commander William McEvoy of the state police. “I would say

His office made the arrest and issued the student a juvenile appearance ticket for making a terroristic threat. “It’s not a decision that is made lightly, especially involving a young child, but in that instance, we had to err on the side of caution.”

While most law enforcement officers don’t want to arrest students for making off-handed remarks, they warn that students can very easily end up in trouble if they make threatening comments.

“Even if a threat isn’t credible, it is still a violation of the law,” said McEvoy.

“We don’t want young people to make mistakes that are going to follow them for Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal the rest of their lives.”

Maya Rouggly, Dandre Thomas and Raven Sunderland, from left, join McEvoy urges all two dozen students outside Oneonta High School Wednesday, March 14, students to think carefully to hold signs and protest gun violence as part of the National Walkout Day about posting on social in support of the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in media sites as well. “Once Parkland, Fla. it’s on social media, it’s after the Florida school Charlotte Valley Central Charlotte Valley 8-year-old there forever.” shooting, there was definite- School, where he is a was arrested on March 5 Going forward, Devlin is ly some hyper-vigilance in student. after reports he talked about considering addressing an people reporting threats.”

And on Sunday, Feb, 18, burning down the school. assembly beyond what Cox Two arrests were made Aiden M. O’Day, 21, Otego, “It’s the same decisionis doing. No date has been immediately following the was arrested by state police making process behind any set for such a program, but Parkland shooting. for an utterance against investigation. We had to Devlin hopes he can work On Friday, Feb. 16, Franklin Central School. determine if there was any with area high schools to state police arrested a But concerns were raised credible threat,” said warn students about the 15-year-old from Davenport about the credibility of Delaware County Sheriff consequences of their after he allegedly threatened potential threats after a Craig DuMond. comments.

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suant to Article 11, IN REM, Title 3, as amended by Chapter 602 of the Laws of 1993, Chapter 532 of the Laws of 1994, Chapter 579 of the Laws of 1995, and Chapter 358 of the Laws of 2000. Pursuant to the above Article 11, on November 1, or within two days thereof, a list of the 2017 delinquent taxes will be recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office. The recording of this list will create a “Notice of Pendency” against each parcel.

An additional $5.00 recording fee will be added at the time of payment.

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Allen Ruffles Otsego County Treasurer 1LegalMar.22

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Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of NY Goat Yoga, LLC Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Department of State: March 13th, 2018 Office of the LLC: Otsego County The New York Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. The Secretary of State may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: Sharon Boustani, 366 Coye Brook Road, South New Berlin, New York 13843 Purpose of the LLC: any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.26 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of RED ONION FARM, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/16/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 83, Fly Creek, NY 13337, which is also the principal business location.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SWATLING BROTHERS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/16/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 83, Fly Creek, NY 13337, which is also the principal business location.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of HH Wellington LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/4/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Jack Howell, 64 East Elm Street, Unit 4, Chicago, IL 60611. Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.19 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of Frog Hollow Apartments, LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 03/08/2018.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 523, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.19 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of 4M Enterprise, LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 03/08/2018.

Office in Otsego

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Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 523, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose:Any Lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.19 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of DECCANA HOSTING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/31/18.

Office: Otsego County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o The Law Office of Joel S. Charleston, 11 Pearl Street, North Woodmere, NY 11581.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalApr.5 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of MOUNTAINVIEW MOBILE HOME PARK II LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/23/18.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to PO Box 1455, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business location: 122 Mountain Vista Dr., Oneonta, NY 13820.

6LegalApr.5 Legal nOtice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Plaintiff designates OTSEGO as the place of trial situs of the real property SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises:

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6 BRONK STREET ONEONTA, NY 13820 District: Section: 299.8 Block: 1 Lot: 12 INDEX NO. 2017468 REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., Plaintiff, vs.

MICHELLE KALB, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLYANNE D. ROCK; MICHAEL KALB, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLYANNE D. ROCK; ANMARI LINARDI, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLYANNE D. ROCK; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; FRANK LINARDI, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLYANNE D. ROCK if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real

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property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States

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of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $172,500.00 and interest, recorded on February 28, 2013, at Instrument number 2013-1059, of the Public Records of OTSEGO County, New York, covering premises known as 6 BRONK STREET ONEONTA, NY 13820. 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

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COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: December 28, 2017 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: IRINA DULARIDZE, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 4LegalMar.22 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY UNDER NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW 1. The name of the limited liability company (“LLC”) is 525 Main Street, LLC. 2. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is February 21, 2018.

3. The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is located is Otsego.

4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: 697 Winney Hill Road, Oneonta, NY 13820.

5. The character or purpose of the business of the LLC is any purpose allowed by law.

6LegalApr.5 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of Three Ivy Court, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) 02/05/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 3 Ivy

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Court, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.22 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of DEG Holding, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) 02/05/2018.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 3 Ivy Court, Oneonta, NY 13820.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalMar.22 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Buhrstone, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/18.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY desig. Agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 134 Allison Rd, Fly Creek, NY 13337.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr.5 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of HARTWICK HIGHLANDS CAMPGROUND, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/2017.

Office location, County of Otsego.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 131 Burke Hill Rd., Milford, NY 13807.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018

OBITUARIES Ellery Bostwick, 70; Dairy Farmer, Fireman, Town Justice

Randy Bullis, 61, Hartwick; Lifelong Resident Worked For Dreams Park, Manor HARTWICK – Randy C Bullis, 61, of Hartwick, a lifelong Otsego County resident, passed away unexpectedly March 9, 2018 at his home.

He was born on Aug. 1, 1956, in Oneonta, son of the late Clayton and Bessie (Houck) Bullis. He graduated from Franklin Central School.

Randy worked over the years for the City of Oneonta, The Meadows and Otsego Manor before retiring. In recent summers, he worked at Cooperstown Dreams Park.

For many years, he played softballs with friends, most recently with The Renegades, and he took great pride in doing this. He was also an avid bowler, bowling on several teams during the winter months.

Randy is survived by his companion of 26 years Lori Fox; his two children,

Mellisa Bullis and Randy (RJ) Bullis Jr.; his brother Barry (Diane) Bullis; sisters Ruth Anne Martin, Shirley (Gordon) Oliver and Penny Klinegardener; along with many nieces, nephews and cousins. He is also survived

by Lori’s children; Amanda Duke, Samantha Fox and Martin Fox, her four grandchildren, who he loved as his own, Ryan, Alex, Emma and Onna.

He was predeceased by an infant brother Gene Bullis and sisters June Anderson, Joyce Bullis and Caroline Finch.

Per Randy’s wishes there will be no funeral or calling hours. In lieu of flowers please donate to your favorite charity in Randy’s memory.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Johnston Funeral Home, Morris.

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

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

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

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

MILFORD – Ellery F. Bostwick, 70, a dairy farmer, 39-year volunteer firefighter and town justice, passed away March 16, 2018, at Bassett Hospital in the presence of his family.

He was born May 16, 1947, in Oneonta, the son of Ellery M. and Dorothy (Quick) Bostwick.

Ellery graduated from Oneonta High School, Class of 1968. He married Linda Hinkley Aug. 4, 1968, in Cooperstown Junction Methodist Church.

Ellery worked and loved being as a dairy farmer, with his family for Dutcher’s and gong to their Amusement, school events.

Cooperstown He is survived Fenimore by his wife, Linda Museum, and Bostwick; his most recently children, Jeremy Cooperstown Bostwick, Jennifer Central School.

(Bob) Hughes, and Ellery He was a volJoel Bostwick and Bostwick unteer for Milford fiancée, Shelley Fire Department for 39 Stocking; grandchildren, years, and a Milford Town Brandon Bostwick, ConJustice for many years. Elnor Scott Morris, Danny lery enjoyed camping, fishHughes, Connor Hughes, ing, working in his garage Kelsey Hughes, Addy

Lawson and Christian Lawson; siblings, Elaine Eager and Charles Bostwick; and many nieces and nephews.

A Remembrance will be 2-5 p.m., Saturday, March 24, at the Milford Fire Department, 64 South Main St., Milford Donations may be made to the Milford Fire Department, PO Box 359, Milford, NY 13807.

Arrangements are entrusted with Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.

Betty Mumbolo, 88; Nurse’s Aide Active In 4H, Girl, Cub Scouts EDMESTON — Elizabeth G. “Betty” Mumbulo, 88, of Edmeston, a nurse’s aide and home-care nurse for many years, passed away Friday March 16, 2018, surrounded by her loving family.

Betty was born in Newark, between Syracuse and Rochester, on March 13, 1930, and was the daughter of the late Archibald and Zora Welch Caulder.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband William on Oct. 15, 2011.

Betty graduated from Edmeston Central School Class of 1948, and attended nurse’s training in Newark.

She married the love of her life, William on Dec. 25, 1949, and raised a family on their dairy farm on New Berlin Road.

She was a nurse’s aide for many years at Chase Nursing Home, and also spent time as a private duty home-care nurse. Betty also worked in the shoe factory in New Berlin, Kraft, and Beeline Apparel in Edmeston.

Betty was proud of her Avon, Tupperware, and Stanley Home Products business’, as well as her Wharton Valley Grange membership, and leadership in the 4-H, Girl and Cub Scouts. She also raised dogs for Guiding Eye, and participated in Otsego County Foster care program sharing her home with children in need.

Betty truly enjoyed the

time spent with her many friends. She and Bill fondly remembered coffee, tea, board games, card games, and the laughs that came along with it. The memories will be cherished by all.

She was a member of the Second Baptist Church of Edmeston for many years.

She is survived by her children, David (Rosemary) Mumbulo, Barton, Dennis (Donna) Mumbulo of Edmeston, Gordon Mumbulo of Sidney, Marcia (David) Crandall of Edmeston, and Marvin (Maryann) Mumbulo of Maryland, grandchildren Jessica, Jason (Tina),

Ian (Jocelyn), Susan (Junior), James, Andy, Michelle (Carl), Gordon (Patience), Brian, Judy, Amanda (Jeff), Andrea (Mike), Alicia (Jim), Raushanna (Mason), and Marissa. Also surviving are many great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.

Calling hours will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at the Delker & Terry Funeral Home 30 South St., Edmeston. Funeral services will be 10:45 a.m. Friday, March 23, at the Burlington Flats Baptist Church with Jeff McLallen officiating.

A reception will follow the services at the church.

Interment will be in Edmeston Union Cemetery in the spring.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be Elizabeth made to Mumbulo the Edmeston Emergency Squad or the charity of your choice in memory of Betty.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Delker and Terry Funeral Home.

MeMories to Cherish every life has a story. everyone deserves a final appreciation.

For this reason, obituaries have always been published at no cost in Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal and www.AllOtsegO.com.

Be sure to remind your funeral director to provide obituary information to our newspapers, along with your favorite photo of your loved one.

Or submit the information yourself, either directly to info@AllOtsegO.com, or by filling out a special form at www.AllOtsegO.com/loved-ones/

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THURSDAY-Friday, MARCH 22-23, 2018

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Shannon Harkenreader, Oneonta, hams it up in the photo booth with Abott Bowles.

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Cooperstown’s Jack Foutch, 10, takes to the dance floor with mom Heather, during the annual Shamrock Swing mother-son dance at the Foothills Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 16.

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357 Main Street, Oneonta 607-432-8600 For children ages 0 to 11 Bring your own Easter baskets and cameras to take photos with the Easter Bunny!

Saturday, March 24 | 7 to 9 pm at the Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church Church Street, Schuyler Lake Open mic sign up to perform.

Saturday, March 24

EASTER PICTURES – 11 a.m. Bring the kids for pictures with the Easter Bunny.

Cost, $8. Southside Mall, Oneonta. Call 607-432-4401.

SATURDAY VIGIL – 5 p.m.

Vigil. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Community, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-3920.

Sunday, March 25

PALM SUNDAY – 8 a.m.

Eucharist. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1458 or visit www.stjamesoneonta. org.

PALM SUNDAY – 8:30 a.m.

Procession of Palms with service of Holy Communion. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 98 W. Main St., Richfield Springs.

Call 315-858-1121.

PALM SUNDAY – 10 a.m.

Sung Holy Eucharist. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta.

Call 607-432-1458.

PALM SUNDAY – 10 a.m. & 5 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-4102.

PALM SUNDAY – 10 a.m.

The Red Door Church, 2 Walling St., Oneonta. Call 607432-7520.

BREAKFAST – 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Enjoy a pancake breakfast with the Easter Bunny featuring a free egg hunt, crafts, and photo opportunities with the Easter Bunny.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607431-2080.

PALM SUNDAY – 10:30 a.m. Distribution of Palms.

Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-6552.

EASTER PICTURES – 11 a.m. See Saturday Listing.

Wednesday, March 28

SPY WEDNESDAY – 5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist in St. Agnes Chapel. Christ Church Episcopal, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5479555 or visit www.christ-

churchcooperstown.org SPY WEDNESDAY – 7:30 p.m. Tenebrae in St. Agnes Chapel. Christ Church Episcopal, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5479555.

Thursday, March 29

MAUNDY THURSDAY – 8:30 a.m. Service with Holy Communion. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 98 W. Main St., Richfield Springs. Call 315858-1121.

PRAYER WALK – 5:45 p.m.

St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-1458.

MAUNDY THURSDAY – 6 p.m. Sacrificial Meal/Drama.

Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-6552.

HOLY THURSDAY – 6 p.m.

Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Night Prayer starts at 11 p.m. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Community, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Call 607432-3920.

MAUNDY THURSDAY – 7 a.m. Holy Communion. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Call 607432-1458.

MAUNDY THURSDAY – 7 p.m. The Red Door Church, 2 Walling St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-7520.

MAUNDY THURSDAY – 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call 607-432-4102.

MAUNDY THURSDAY – 7:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist with stripping of the altar. Christ Church Episcopal, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Call 607547-9555.

MAUNDY THURSDAY – 9 p.m. - Midnight. Vigil in St. Agnes Chapel. Christ Church Episcopal, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Call 607-5479555.

Friday, March 30

EASTER PICTURES – 11 a.m.

- 3 p.m. Bring the kids for pictures with the Easter Bunny.

Cost, $8. Southside Mall.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, march 22-23, 2018

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The Watershed Agricultural Council, a non profit organization working to protect the NYC Watershed while supporting farm and forest land uses, is seeking individuals for the following positions:

Watershed Agricultural Program Interns

2018 Glimmer Globe Theatre Auditions Fenimore Art Museum’s 2018 theatre season begins with auditions scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, April 3 and 4, from 5 pm to 8:30 pm in the Fenimore Auditorium.

Productions this year include William Shakespeare’s Othello and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Actors will receive a paid stipend.

The Cooperstown Country Club is a tennis and beach club located on Late Otsego in Cooperstown. We are a private club with more than 250 members and families who enjoy the summer at our clubhouse, beach, waterfront programs, tennis, restaurant, bar, and snack bar. We look forward to matching your skills to one of a variety of positions currently available for the summer: • -JGFHVBSET • Snack Bar .BOBHFS • Sailing InstructorT • 4OBDL #BS $PPLT • 3FTUBVSBOU )PTUFTT • Bartenders • 3FTUBVSBOU 4FSWFST *Shifts and wages vary per position

To Apply

Please send cover letter and resume to: Amy Faulkner Watershed Agricultural Council 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856 or via e-mail afaulkner@nycwatershed.org

For further information or to apply please email to Veronica Pokorny at inGo@cooperstowncc.com or call at 607-

To sign up for an audition slot, or for more info about the audition process, contact Mike Tamburrino at m.tamburrino@fenimoreart.org or 607-547-1453.

Join Our Team of Dedicated and Caring Professionals Groundskeeper

Residential Associate

Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers’ Museum have a year-round, full-time position to maintain assigned grounds by using powered landscaping and snow removal equipment. Candidate must be a steady, reliable worker; have a valid driver’s license; have sufficient strength and manual dexterity to operate power equipment; be able to lift up to 75 pounds occasionally; be able to stand, crouch and climb to use ladders and perform various types of manual labor; be willing and able to work outdoors yearround and work overtime as needed. Preferred candidate has basic construction and carpentry knowledge for small to moderate repair jobs.

Children’s Center Associate Home-Based Family Partner Early Head Start Caregiver I Center-Based Family Partner Assistant Teacher Classroom Teacher Center Associate Bus Driver Housing Director

For an application or more information, visit www.FarmersMuseum.org, email j.zinger@fenimoreart.org, or call Human Re-sources at (607) 547-1462

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OFO is a family-oriented organization offering competetive wages, excellent benefits & opportunities for professional growth. For an application, submission instructions, benefit package summary & descriptions of all employment openings, visit

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The Watershed Agricultural Council is seeking 6 Interns/Temporary employees to perform various duties as part of a Watershed Agricultural Program (WAP) serving farms within the NYC Watershed. 4 of the positions will be Nutrient Management soil samplers who will perform the duties of soil sampling and data collection, 1 position will be a WAP Planning Intern who will perform the duties of soil sampling, data collection and whole farm planning, and 1 position will be a WAP Ag/Field intern who will assist WAP staff with the design and implementation of BMP’s. These are 10 week summer positions that pay $13.00 per hour.

Must have dependable vehicle, insurance and a valid N.Y.S. driver’s license. Will be reimbursed for mileage incurred on the job. E.O.E. Please specify which position you are interested in on your resume. Deadline March 30, 2018.

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Graphic Designer must have experience working in InDesign and Photoshop. Basic design skills, creativity and the ability to work under deadline a must.

E-mail jimk@allotsego.com with resumĂŠ and cover letter.

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